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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13
UUanamaker's
rnILApELpH1A. Monday. Sept. ..

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The first week of the Sebtem-
Der Limited Sale has gone. 1t
has been a success.
Like a good book or musical
composition, each wise business
scheme has a motive. The mo-
tive of this sale is to make good
business better. We are asked
is business dull? Why, bless
YOU, no, August sales were
phenomenally large. We've
told you that before.
To continue the outflow o.
goods, Bargains have been
sought and brought, sometimes
from our own stocks. sometimes
from others, but brought they
have been. And trade has kept
its course with a rush and stocks
have been cleared out thor
oughly.
Remembey the Blankets
Never such a Blanket story as
that we told you last week.
Remem6e5- the Linens. The,
are now at the counters.
Remepabey the Parlor Suite
and the Bedroom Suites. None,
in them yet for rou but not TO
US.
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once hours, 600 A. NJ. to s.O0P. NJ.
Office hours for money order business, 100
A. NJ To 100 T.. NJ.
MAtIs--Glose ut 6. A and SOB A. M, 1913 and
4l3 r.. N. Arrive ut 9.39 A. M, 500 and Z 90 p M
SALEM MAiLs--Ciose at 9.l9A. NJ. and A. 40 r. M
Arrive at II IS and 4I5 p. NJ.
SHARrrowN MAILs-Closc at $50 A. NJ Arrive
at 20 A. NJ.
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our Letter BOx.
Sfafe Executive Committee.

4 meeting of the State Executive Com
mittee of the Prohibition party will b.
held in the office Of T. ]. Kennedy, 24s
Washington street, Jersey City, September
10th, at p. NJ. A full attendance isearn
estly requested.
T. w. BURGER. Chairman.
WALTER w. WINANs, See.
Bound Brook, Sept. 10, 1889.
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The following is II list OF the signers
10 the application of Samuel French.
Woodstown, for license. May term of
court, 1889:
Ewalt Richman, Philip Y. Keen,
Geo W. Barton, John Il. Hughes,
isichard Gosling, John X. Deacon,
-. Il. W addington, Daniel Keen,
John Holmes, Frank. l.. Wallace,
James ID. Lawson, John s. Redstrake,
Michael Garvey, Ernst Becker,
Nicholas Justice, Elton |. Rogers.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13

D. w. c. White and family spent Sun
day and Monday in Bridgeton.
Miss Lille Carton, of Philadelphia, is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John ii. Peterson.
Ollie, son of ID. w. c. White, has secured
a position in the dry goods store of W. w.
Robbins. Brdgeton.
Mrs. VIM. z. Flitcraft and daughter,
Edith, are spending the week at the
Bouvier Cottage, Atlantic City.
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Annual ltN. ...-....-.....$ 400
Permits granted for the use of books at
cents per week, on application to any of The
trustees.
e. S. FOaa Secrefarv
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The present owner of Yorktown Belle
values her at 100000. He has refused
$751;
Bentoneer, of the Pleasant Valley Stocl,
Farm, is entered in the 2 .33 race at Phila-
delphia Driving Park, Sept eth.
Last Saturday John Mcpherson, OF
Bridgeton, bought of d. II. Sweeten, of
jefferson, the sorrel gelding Marvin j.,
which trotted here at the Fair and took
fourth money in the $40 class. The
horses best time is 2.39ii.
Arthur w. Yarrow, of Alloway. has
traded two Santa Claus colts with ID. r..
Keen, of Aldine. this county, for his two
year-old Santa Clans stallion. Mr.. Keen
also bought of Mr. Yarrow the dam of the
two colts purchased by him.
Fannie H., owned by Clark Petit, of
the Hedgefield Stock Farm, this comfy,
carried off two large purses at the il
mington Fair last week. She easily won
the 2.45 race (purse s400) on Thursday,
and on Saturday won the minute race
(pnrse 5000, her best time being 2.51a.
Several Salem county horses were exhib-
tied at Wilmington Fair last week. Sam'l
G.. A Hen exhibited 'Indiaman' and post
mark" Clark Petit s'Belman' and "Bul-
letn;" John Gaventa BISMARCK Pleas
ant Valley Farm "Bentoneer;" Mason M.
Bennett the colt "Abdallah Ell Kader;'
and John Dawson the filly ''Nellie r."
George Meley, owner Of Lakewood
thinks that things come about rather
curiously some times. AT the races at the
Bridgeton Fair he got left in the class i'll
which he thought he had a SIRE thing of
it, and won the race on the second day in
which he did not suppose he would have a
ghost of show. However, he made more
money by it.
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Ask for Tuxedo Suiting.
That's the rich. soft, Atwood
stuff that would be cheap al
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-09-13
PILESGnovE LIBRARY AND READING Room
nI.EN sATnRDAYs From B. 90 TO q 90 p M

second story Riley's building.
Membership fees. ........
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garment. had no need OF similar
preparation.
You're the fellow that wants to lick
me, are you?'' said the teacher. open-
ing hostilities with a vicious blow at
Bills face, which the latter caught on
his massive forearm with less punish
ment to himself than to the striker.
He made a lunge at his antagonist.
II he could once get the slender form
within his powerful clutch the fight
would be practically ended. But the
teacher was too quick of foot for his
ungainly opponent. Jumping to one
side, he dealt him a blow on the side
of the face that sent Big Bill stagger-
ing, and followed up his advantage
with rapid succession of thumps and
punches. Something in the upstretch ed
hand of Bill CLEANED in the moonlight
Look out, master, he's got a knife!"
A murmur of suppressed horror ran
through the lookers-on. This capital
piece of fun might develop into a
tragedy. The girls, huddled together
by the school-house door, began to
scream. The agile master caught the
descending blows on his left arm. at
the same instant dexterously tripping
up the feet of his antagonist. who fell
like a tree to the ground. He was on
his breast. his right hand at Bills
throat and his left pinioning to the
ground Big Bits right, which it was
now seen held, not a knife, but that
only less vicious weapon. a pair OF
steel knuckles. This was something
very different from what Big Bill had
counted on.
Curse you, let me up, he muttered.
from his half-choked throat. The
teacher made no reply but held him
hard to the ground, himself painting
for breath.
Have you got enough?" he in
quired, when he could control his
voice. The only answer was a more
vigorous effort to free himself from
his victor's grasp, but the latter tight
ened his grip on Bills throat and the
pressure of his knees on his chest until
the man beneath recognized the fruit
lessness of further struggle.
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Got enough?" was the laconic in
quiry again addressed to him. Bills
head tried to nod an affirmative and
the grip was relaxed sufficiently to let
him speak.
Say you've got enough, then"
Enough" was the logged response,
and the two men rose from the ground.
The fight was finished.
Their won't be 10 more trouble in
that air school this winter" was the
conclusive observation of MIR. Jasper
StricI1lan to the little group who were
walking through the woods with him
by the light of shell-bark torch. JAS
per was a six-foot, strappin2 fellow OF
some thirty odd years, the best deer
shot in all that country. He carried
his rifle everywhere and had it now on
his shoulder. He was an admitted
Judge of human character as exhibited
in physical contests.
Yer jest right there" agreed Jack
son Lambert. Didn't he lay Big Bill
out slick enough thought"
Them city chaps" continued JAS
per, meditatively, ignoring the inter-
ruption of his companion. don't look
so powrful strong but Their almighty
pert and nimble on Their feet, and the
feller't pick 'em up thinkin' he's goin'
t han'l EN- 'thout exertion is li'ble t
git left. Their no spring chickens
when it comes to fight. I've seed
that thing tried afore."
Mr.. Jasper Stricklan's prediction
was fulfilled. The school at Monk 5
corners recognized from the outset that
it had a master. The young toughs
and DULLES who had not been witnesses
of Big Bills layout soon had authentic
information of it from disinterested
witnesses, and concluded to postpone
the exhibition of their physical proves
until Mr.. Frost's successor should APP
pear. Big Bill himself lost all interest
in the subsequent photographed con-
tests at 1.-The corners" contenting him.
self with the tanner recreation afforded
by the sundry dances. apple-parings.
cuttings and husking-bees of the
neighborhood. ISAAC HERR
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12
DESTROYING Moths with Salt.

For moths salt is the best extermin-
ator. The nuns in one of the hospital
converts have tried everything else
without success, and their experience
is valuable, as they have so much
clothing of the sick who go there, and
strangers, when dying there, often
leave quantities of clothing. etc. They
had a room full of feathers, which
were sent there for pillow making, and
they were in despair, as they could not
exterminate the moths until they were
advised to try common salt. They
sprinkled it around, and in a week or
ten days were altogether rid of the
moths. They are never troubled now.
In heavy velvet carpets sweeping them
with salt cleans and keeps them from
moths, as particles of the salt remain
in the carpets and corners. Salt is not
hurtful to any one, and has no bad
smell. Here is a little hint l add,
which, perhaps. every one does not
know: For cleaning wash-basins, baths,
ETC., use the same thing, common dry
salt. Rub little of the salt with your
fingers on the basin. Often a sort OF
scum is noticed in the basins in q
marble washstand in the bathroom;
the salt takes it of easily, and leaves
the basin shining and clean.-Philadel-
phia Press.
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Let Us Make Haste Slowly.

This is a good motto: "Festina
lente," make haste slowly" The
intensity of our American life is some
thing alarming. No wonder we have
neuralgia. dyspepsia and shattered
nerves. We are going too fast There
is haste in the workshop, in the
counting-room. at the store and at the
bank. As a consequence there Is
wholesale wasting of vital force. We
build our houses, print our newsPa-
pers and publish our books in hurry.
We eat too fast, travel too fast, think
too fast, and the result is rapid con-
sumption of life. Like horses upon
race-course. We pant and puff, and
consume our power In attempting to
outstrip our fellows. Let as make
haste slowly" To follow this motto
is to be most successful in the end
Christian Inquirer.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12

religion forty years. Inat Will NOT
save you" Stand there on your side
the balances and 1 will give you
the ADVANTAGE will let you have
all the creeds, all the church rec
ords, all the Christian conventions that
were ever held, all the communion tables
that were ever built on your side the bal
ances On the other side the balances
must put what God says must put there"
put this million pound weight on the
other side the balances: Having the
form of godliness, but denying the power
thereof. From such turn away" Weighed
and found wanting.
Still the balances are suspended Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who will be weighed? Yes;
here comes q wording. He gets into the
scales. 1 can very easily see what his
whole life is made up OF. Stocks, divi-
dends, percentages, buyer ten days."
buyer thirty days" Get in, my friend,
get into these balances and be weighed
weighed for this life and weighed for the
life to come. He gets in. / find that
the two great questions in his life
are: How cheaply can buy
these goods." and How dearly can l
sell them!" ! find he admires Heaven
because it is a land of gold and
money must be -easy." find from talk
ing with him that religion and the Sab
bath are an interruption, a vulgar inter-
ruption, and he hopes on the way to
church to drum up q new customer All
the week he has been weighing fruits,
weighing meats, weighing ice, Weighing
Goals weighing CONNECTIONS, weighiDg
worldly and perishnble commodities. not
realizing the fact that he himself has been
weighed. On your side the balances. o
worldlingl / will give you full advanta &c.
put on your side all the banking houses.
ali the store houses, ell the cargoes, all the
Insurance. companies, all the factories, all
the silver, ali the gold, ali the money
vaults, all the safe deposits-ali your
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to light one piece of his candles.
which he located on the masters
desk. standing on little platform at
one end of the room. The other piece,
which. after a considerable frying and
suffering of the loop of wick that
protrudes from the butt end, had been
induced to burn. he stuck into one of
the blocks of wood, bored half through
with an augur, which served for candle
sticks, he placed at the opposite end
of the room.
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ABILENE REFLECTOR
PUBLISHED by
REFLECTOR PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The STORY oE AELoWER.


A spotless thing enough, they said,
The drift, perchance, from foreign lands,
Washed in atop Of mighty tides
And lightly left along the sands
Was it the treasure OF some shell:
Some islanders forgotten bead!
A wave-worn polyp from the reef'
The gardener said: 1t is seed.
"Bury il" said he. lin the soil;
The earth will quicken here as there,
With vital force-so fair the seed,
The blossom must be wondrous tair"
All. woe. 10 lose the ample breath
of the salt wastes To see no more
The sacrifice OF morning burn
And blot the stars from shore to shore
All. woe. 10 go into the dark,
Was it for this, the buoyant slide
Up the steep surge, the flight of foam,
The great propulsion OF the tide:
To lose the half-developed dream
Ofunknown powers, the bursting throe
OF destinies TO be fulfilled,
And go into the dark-ah, woe!
But the mold closed above the seed
Relentlessly; and st:ll as well
All life went on: the warm winds blew;
The strong suns shone; the soft rains fell.
Whether he slept, or waited there
Unconscious, after that wild rang
Who knows? There came TO him at last
A sense as il some sweet voice sangi
Asst throughout the universe,
Each atom were obeying law
In rhythmic order. In his heart
He felt the same deep music draw.
And one sharp thrill OF tingling warmth
Divided him; as il the earth
Throbbed through him ali her stellar might
With the swift pulse Of some new birth.
Up the long spi-als Of his stems
What currents coming from afar,
What blessedness of being CLOVIS
Was he blossom or a star?
Wings like their own the great moths though
His piniOns ripping on the breeze
Did ever a kings banner stream
With such respondent stains as these!
Over what honey and what dew
His fragrant gossamers uncurled!
Forgotten be that seeds poor day,
Free, and part OF this high world!
A world Of winds, and showers aslant,
With gauzy rainbows everywhere,
Graded in silken sunshine. rocked
In skies full of delicious air!
All. happy world, where all things live
Creatures OF one great law, indeed:
Bound by strong roots, the splendid flower
Swept by great seas, the drifting seed!
Harriet Prescott Spoford, in ST. Nicholas
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ing MS l6II ley over IlC du4Ludl hOOh
so as to face the chopper, asked where
the spelling was to be.
Down t the corners" said Abe,
pausing with his axe uplifted and step
ping down from the log on which he
had been at work. ''Th' master give
t out las night, but somehOws l don't
bleeve but what lots Nv folks hain't
heerd Nv it.
well, hain't heerd Nv it, that's a
sure case" Bill admitted. Coin t
be any fun there, d you reckon?"
Shouldn't wonder. Better come
anyways. Tn more tn merrier."
BE you ms goin'?" the rider in
quired. by which collective pronoun
he meant to designate not only Abe
himself, but the entire Hinchew family
of spelling school age, from little Bob
to half grown Barb'ry and Nancy, in
the full bloom of rustic womanhood.
That's what we air." said Abe.
9Th hull gol-darned kit I'm US goin'."
The boy and the young man COM
pared notes together for few minutes
about the school at "the corners
Monks corner was the full and original
appellatiOn, but popular usage protests
effectually against superauous words
and big Bill' Brubaker concluded
that he might be interested in making
the acquaintance OF the new "citifed"
man who had come from Briggsville TO
try his luck with one of the hardest
schools in the county.
a reckon may be down." he said,
indifferently, as he jibed his heels into
the TANKS of his mare and went off at a
squirting trot with Abe shouting after
him:
BE sure'n bring can'l along with
your
The spelling was to be at ''early can
delight" and the master had seen that
good fire was left in the big stove
which stood in the middle of the room,
in shallow box filed with sand well
despatched and soaked with tobacco
juice, for the night was cold.
''WhO will open the school-house
and light up?" he had asked, and, as
usual, there were contending aspir-
ants for the honor.
81 guess l will have to let Abe do it
this time" the master had said when
the plans were all before him, and &C.
cordingly the key was given into Abe's
keeping when the girls had swept the
room and made it tidy for the evening.
But when Abe came in sight of the
school-house at a seasonable hour, with
a candle cut in the middle so as to
double its Illuminating powers by max
ing two lights in place of one, he saw
thatsome one had preceded him, for
there was light already in the room,
although the door, as he found upon
trial. was still locked.
''Who's in here?n he demanded, as
he turned the key and threw open the
door. But there was no reply. He
stood for moment on the threshold,
waiting for the intruder to reveal him
self by word or sound. but there was
utter silence within, save for the com
Portable roar of the hospitable fire in
the stove.
who's here?" Abe again demanded,
little less firmly. Come outen yer
hidin' place, Sam Peachy, know who
you air."
When this injunction had proved as
fruitless as the first, Abe shut the door
advanced into the room and proceeded
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f you goin' t the
spellin' t'ni g h t,
Bill?"
The party ad :
dressed pulled the
old mare he was
lazily riding in to-
wards the woodpile
at the side of the
road where Abe
Hinchew was chop
ping the evening
wood, and, throw
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12

The common complaint that chick
ems, or pigs, or cows, or sheep do not
pay" is really. says the American
Cultivator, a reflection on the manage
men Of their owners
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-09-12
BIG BILL.
An Episode Of Life at Monks
Corners.

Written for This Paper.l
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-13

A MENDMENT TO THE CONSTITU- =
n TION proposed to the citizens of this
Commonwealth by the General Assembly
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
for their approval or rejection mt n special
election to he held June Is, 1889. Pub
lishcd by order of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, in pursuance of Article
XVIII of the Constitution.
Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution of this Common
wealth
SECTION |. BE it resolved by the Senate
and House of Representatives or tho
Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania in Cen
eral Assembly met, That the following
amendment is proposed TO the Constitu-
ton of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
mia, in accordance with the Eighteenth
Article thereof:
AMENDMENT.
There shall be an additional article to
said Constitution to be designated as Ar
ticlc NlN, aS follows:
ARTICLE XIX.
The manufacture, sale, or keeping for
sale OF ofiutoNicating liquor, to be used as a
beverage, is hereby prohibited, and any
violation of this prohibition shall he a
misden"anor, punishable as shall be pro-
vided hy law.
The manufacture, sale, or keeping for
sale of Intoxicating liquor for other pur-
poses than as a beverage may he allowed
in such manner only as may he prescribed
by law. The General Assembly shall, al
the first session succeeding the adoption
of this article of the Constitution, enact
laws with adequate penalties for its en-
forcemcnt.
true copy Of the Joint Resolution.
CHARLES w. STONE,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-13
Stop the Hand Shaking.

The Phila. Press wants Presidential
hand.shaking stopped and says that
President Harrison will have sensible
people with him if he stops the habit.
For forty years it has lamed presi.
dents, racked their nerves and sapped
their strength. 1t does no good. The
satisfaction to each citizen is infnites.
imal. The harm done a president is
serious, Four days after q president
is inaugurated his hand is generally
so lame that he can scarcely write /;
the swelling often does not go down
for days. In Grants case the habit
brought on days of exquisite agony.
1t put General w. H. Harrison's hand
in a sling for a week. 1t enlarged
Liucoln's hand 30 that his signature
and hand writing changed.
A man is not sent to Washington to
shake hands in the White House, but
to govern there. The work needs all
his strength and poise. This senseless
habit saps both. 1t ought to stop.
The dread that a refusal to shake
hands will be held aristocratic is non.
sense. The American people are not
fools. They know what they want,
and this is not president weary with
taking the hand eff each conner, but a
man fresh for their work. Washing
ton was a small place and visitors few
when the habit began. They have
grown to thousands. A few years
hence there will be tens of thousands.
The habit must stop some time. Why
not stop it now?
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-03-13
Announcements.

RATEs.-Associate Judge, $40, County
Treasurer, Ss; County Surveyor, So; Cor
oner, 81. Bear in mind that no announce
mont will appear unless accompanied by
the cash,
ASSOCIATE JUDGE.
We are authorized to announce e. L.
JONES, of Harmony township, as a can
didate for Associate Judge, subject to Re-
publican usages.
We are authorized TO announce JOHN
IT. WHITE, of Barnett township, as q
candidate for Associate Judge, subject to
Republican usages.
We are authorized TO announce JOHN
THOMSON, of Harmony township, as a
candidate for Associate Judge, subject TO
Republican usages.
COUNTY TREASURER.
We are authorized to announce A. NJ.
DOUTT, of Tionesta Borough, as a candi-
date for County Treasurer, subject to
Republican usages.
We are authorized to announce WIN.
LAWRENCE, of Tionesta township, as a
candidate for County Treasurer, subject to
Republican usages,