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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

WHILE we have SO many lakes in this
country, there Is only one that is really
Superior.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

BECAUSE a girl has no figure is no sign
sheis not a good mathematician.-St Joseph
Naws
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

CONSIDER the caterpillar-he has to hump
himself If he wishes to make any progress
Elmirs Gazette.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

We believe it is the railroad engineer who
Whistles at his worh.-Yonker's States.
man.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

Puru-"Why does the avoirdupois sys-
ten have no scrUplesi' Prof. Rodder-
because, my boy, its used to weigh coal
and iten
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

THE height OF ty%ranny-to arrest a brook
because it murmurs,-Texss Siftings.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

IT Is one Of the peculiarities Of coming
men that they don't seem to arrive.-N y.
Herald.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

THE best cough medicine IS Piso's Cure
for Consumption, Sold everywhere, PC,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

grsEEr-cAR conductors should not be *.
pected 10 accept less than the established
price fer a ride. II wouldn't be fare, Do
trait Free Press.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11
THE MARKETS.,

IF the legs are not hollow, why Is it they
get drunk SO easilyl-Ram's Horn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11

rooms are l0x1O TT. The nests can 10
reached from the halls, and the latter
can be used for sitters or breeding
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11
For Forty Fowls.

This house is suitable for 40 hens. 90
IN each room, 1t is 26x15 IT, and the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-10-11
IT HAS NO EQUAL.

ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figsis taken; it is pleasant
and refreshingto the taste, and acts
gently yetpromptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn effectually, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro.
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptab!e to the stomach, prompt in
It's action and truly beneficial In it's
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com.
mend it to all and have made Il
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs Is for sale in Doc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug.
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have It on hand will pro-
cure IL promptly for any one who
wishes to try II. Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA RIO SXRUP CO.
u. shH f~aAaolsoo. CHI.
LOUISVILLE. nv. NV rom. nv
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
w. C. T. u
The Temperance congress.

The Temperance Congress, which waste
have been held in New York in May, has
been postponed until June II and ~. The
sessions of lie congress will begin at III A.
NJ, June II in the Broadway Tabernacle at
the corner OF Thirty-fourth street and
Broadway. This congress promises to be
the most important gathering of temper
ance advocates ever held in this country,
and all temperance societies, churches,
Sunday. schools, farmers alliances, labor
clubs, or other organizations opposed to
the saloon are invited to send represent
atives. The aim of the congress will be the
discussion of the moral, religious, and
Legislative aspects of temperance reform.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
a Remarkable Document.

We have secured from the Clerk Of the
Supreme Court and print below a
copy entire OF the affirmation OF
complaint of one James d. Lawson,
who %purports to be largely inter
ested in the welfare of the borough OF
Woodstown, and upon which complaint
the stay of proceedings or injunction re-
straining our people from holding an cleo
ton on the 18Th instant was based and
issued. 1t may appear strange to The
reader that it should be dated 'Gumber-
land county, So" but as Potter & Nixon
are the attorneys for those who oppose the
reincorporation ofthe borough, ard live in
Bridgeton, and Judge Reed was in attend
ance there at the regular term of court, this
will explain the reason the paper was
issued from Bridgeton instead Of Salem.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

The knights Templar of South Jersey Will
hold their annual banquet at Millville next
Tuesday night.
Captain Jere Allen, of the schooner Ray
Nieukirk, was stricken with paralysis while
boarding his vessel ut Fairton ON Wednesday.
The Cumberland Nail and Iron Company's
works, at Bridgeton, started up Monday. The
nail mill has been idle for several weeks. The
pay roll at these works amounts to about 5000
a week.
Mrs. Adelaide Rowand, II well-known Cam
den lady and member of the Society of
Friends, on Thursday filed G petition for a
divorce from her husband, Joseph C. Rowand,
on the ground of desertion and cruel treat
ment.
The Millville and ~Bridgeton Turnpike Com :
pany recently sued Holmes Pierce for refusing
to pay toll on a muddy day, and it cost him
IS and costs of suit to save cents toll. lie got
square by compelling the company to dis
gorge $40 and costs for collecting toll on sun
day from camp-meeting visitors last summer.
A triple-tailed gold fish was brought ashore
in q net at Gloucester on Wednesday, and on
Tuesday a 2l-pound salmon was caught in the
big seine there. 1t was sent to Washington
Half million young shad were let loose in
Timber Creek by the Fish Commissioner at
Gloucester on Wednesday,.
Truckers and produce dealers who operate
the farms lying near Sea Isle City are greatly
agitated over a recent borough ordinance,
which compels them to pay licenses which
they consider altogether exorbitant, $3.50 being
required from q huckster with a two-horse
team. The measure was brought about
through the efforts of the town tradesman to
protect their interests from the various pro-
duce vendors.
A fatal railroad accident occurred Monday
night at the West Jersey crossing, at Seventh
and Walnut streets, Camden, when the Wood
bury accommodation train, leaving Camden at
| TAO, struck a car of the Camden Horse Rail
road Company, instantly killing the driver,
John c. Walls, of 939 Broadway, and injurlng
Mrs. Hester Pennington, %colored, of SIC
Darkin,. g years old, a child of Mrs. William
Darkin, of Seventh and Sycamore streets, who
was with NJ Is. Ellen Crossley OF seventh and
Mt, Vernon streets.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

Who's going to strike for the farmer, we
should like to know? Hours of labor
from twelve to fourteen, with plenty OF
rest on Sunday-that is after attending to
milking tho COWS, watering the stock,
running the hogs out of one field into an
other, separating the sheep from the goats
Of the neighbors' dogs haven't anticipated
this and lone 1t the night before, shooed
the wrong hen off the right nest and looked
after his own and the neighbors' turkeys,
dubbed the young colts into something
like good behavior, cleaned out the stables
and changed his apparel as frequent and as
long as the varying mood and odor of the
stabbed occupants made Unnecessary, threw
down hay for litter. got the wee little pig
gies into COED shape, sucked the calves,
carried in WOOD, sailed the stock, after
which he can pick up his loose duds and
prepare for church, three miles distant as
the crow flies. If that be his Sunday
work, and it is with more to follow, what
is 1t on week days? And if SO on ordinary
week days, when matters run after a rou-
tine shape, what is it in harvest and busy
times?
And the price of farm produce way, way
down. That's here the trouble comes in,
the great trouble of the farmer. They
don't receive sufficient pay for what they
raise to make the calling remuneratiye.
Just as soon, too, as any kind OF farm pro-
luce becomes profitable and easy Of Guilt
Walton just that soon the market value of
that commodity declines. Chickens are
nursed through the early spring out of the
cholera, colds. gapes and Wlatnot, and
just as they get by all these troubles down
goes the price. 1t was low enough before
but worse now. The COWS were cropped
and hayed and messed out of the winter
into spring, and now the grass covers the
hill and plain, pasture Is abundant and
milk Is only four cents per quart and
butter eighteen cents a pound. The
blue birds or some other kind of birds be-
gin to chant their roundelay, the hens
cackle and lay and lay and cackle. and,
presto eggs have dropped from eighteen
cents per dozen to fourteen cents. New
potatoes are just peering oct of the ground
and old ones down cellar have tubers
something less than a foot long, and just
as the farmer is prepared to scion them
with his horny fist down, down, down
comes the price. All me, who will strike
for the farmer2
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

A paid attorney of the Liquor Dealers
Association, probably, or at least one
closely allied to that ilk, has lately fur
nished Philadelphia papers with a mess Of
rot in the interest of the rum party of the
country. We don't know that the afore-
said Philadelphia papers are altogether re-
spousible Tor the unfair and malicious at
tempt of their correspondents to work up
an anti prohibition sentiment abroad at the
expense of the city of B~ridgeton, but don't
greatly question it. Our experience with
this GLASS of newspaper publishers (and we
have an experience with them) is that
when a little cornered, or a better figure
OF speech still, when caught in a hole,
they will do a vast amount of dirt scrap
Ing to lift themselves out, and so imagine
they not only accept such matter sent them
from Bridgeton without investigation, but
heartily welcome it.
The New York Voice, which is distrib-
uted over the country by the hundreds of
thousands copies, did a little piece of de-
teetive work lately that greatly disgruntled
somo Of these would b~c-thought respect
able journalists of Philadelphia city. This
was no less than the exposure of the price
paid them by the Liquor Dealers Assooia-
ton of Philadelphia, and others, during
the recent Pennsylvania Prohibition
Amendment campaign to wash their dirty
linen, an exposure SO humiliating and
damning that they will never, never be
able to forgive the authors of 1t. This ex-
posture, too, has soured these papers ON
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

spectors OF tho proposed election.
And depohent further saith, that lie is
at present a duly elected and qualified
member of the Council of the borough of
Woodstown and in possession of his Office
as such, and that the term for which he
was elected as a Councilman does not ex-
pire until the year one thousand eight
hundred and n~inety-two.
JAMES D. LAWSON.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and
ninety. GEO. HAMPTON,
IL. s. Notary Public in n. J.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
TUamamaker's
PHILADELPHIA. Monday, May 10, 1890
Simmer Silks.

GUNNER OllKS.
Imported Black Surahs are
scarce. They are softer to the
touch than the American and
superior in blackness. 1t is a
bit of good luck that enables us
to ask you to inspect SO pieces,
26 inch, at 81.
Black. gray, white, and cream
open-worked Surah, sometimes
miscalled hemstitched. "a
inch at $3.50. A variety OF
stripes.
Black Surah, with small en-
broidered colored figures, sew
eral varieties, 81 inches at
$3.50.
Seven colorings Black Shang-
hal Silks with fancy figures, ~
inches at 81.
Black Faille Franchise Silk,
% inches at $3.50, the SI.75
grade. These goods are of
standard and guaranteed Swiss
make, of which we have sold
great quantities, and have yet
to hear the first complaint.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

NEWARK, N. j., May 20-William New
man, a worthless character of this city,
went home drunk last night. He imme-
diately knocked his wife down and kicked
her until she was unconscious. His chill
dren prayed the brutal father to desist.
Alice, a 10-year-old daughter, while at
tempting to protect her mother from the
savage blows of the drunken brute, fell or
was pushed out of the second story Win
dow. Both of the child's legs we've broken,
and she was internally injured. She can
not live long.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
a Parasite On Trade.

The liquor traffic never created, nor will
create one dollar of actual value; it meets
no natural demand; 1t supplies no want of
the people; it is opposed to the advancing
civilization of the present century. There
are people around about US deluded into
thinking the business of the liquor traffic
has wealth-producing powers. 1t gives
employment; it contributes to the revenues
of the State.
BY a peculiar process it collects taxes;
but it retains for itself the principal part of
the tax collected from it's patrons. Youg go
into the bakery and you put down five or
ten cents on the bakers counter. You
become possesser of a loaf of bread. By
exchange you have given a dime to the
baker and got a loaf of bread. 1t is able
to Salty your wants The farmer who
raises the grain and the baker who man.
ufactured the bread received the pay. 1t
takes to itself wings and mysteriously dis
appears. Have you lost anything by the
mysterious disappearance of the loaf of
bread?
step into the saloon. and put down ten
cents on the counter to buy a glass of in
toxicating drink. The distiller, manu-
facturer and the saloon-keeper received
pay in full. ] have consented to the ex-
change. | raise the glass to my lips and
find it empty. Have l lost anything? By
a mysterious process the glass of drink
disappeared. Have l committed a shame
full waste? III | should take the beer and
throw it out in the gutter, would you say it
was a wicked shameful act? If waste the
loaf of bread, you would angrily tell me it
would feed some child. But take the glass
of grog and throw it in the gutter, and no
one rises up and rebukes the act as shame
full extravaganza. This simply substan-
tiates the general statement that the
values connected with the drink traffic are
fictitious values. Blot out every pound of
beef to nisht-would the people be poorer
1t would be a great misfortune. Blot out
of existence every drop of Intoxicating IL
quor from this entire continent, would the
people be poorer? Those who invest prop
erty in that line of business would suffer.
But the country would be Weather to-
morrow without a drop of liquor between
Boston and San Francisco.
The liquor business has an actual posi-
tive power to absorb wealth. 1.-THE saloons
were gon men would live in richer
houses; they would build homes for them
selves; they would have cultivated minds,
consuming more in their homes. Men in
every legitimate business would feel the
Impetus; there would be new life If the
saloons were abolished. One of the fruit
full sources of financial crisis is the power
of the saloon to absorb the peoples wealth.
No man spends a dollar in the saloons, but
what the dollar is lost to the people. When
the drinking man spends one dollar in the
saloon he deprives himself Of the dollars
purchase otherwise spent. All over the
land men and women are suffering for the
very articles that the manufacturers pro-
duce, because the money that should go
for these things goes into the saloon
John +. 81. John.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

There they lie-in a double
sense-three Huck Towels. all
in a row, one each from three
different houses, each one sold
under a positive assurance that
it was "all linen What is the
fact? Each one is cotton warp.
1t would surprise you to know
who sold them-it would sur
prise the sellers just as much.
They were honestly but ignorant
u sold.
Such things don't happen
here. Our Linen experts can
not he blinded with cotton. Our
old saw, Linen is Linen here"
still saws its truthful way
through shams and frauds and
keeps our Linen true to flax.
It's a tough pull, There are
people among us that argue for
union" handkerchiefs and tow
els. As yet vainly as p~ea-shoot-
er's missiles against an iron
clad. Surrender to sophistical
shams is an experience that is
yet to be-with us.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23


A good, sturdy, slightly, easy
Baby Coach for S.. That's the
one for least-as good as last
years SO Coach they say.
A remarkably good Coach
for So.75; good, strong reed bo-
dy, S-spring running gears.
Richmond Brake, silk plush up
holstery, and satin parasol.
The ~top-notch price is wher-
ever you choose to put it. Pick
the gears and body and fxings
and we'll make the Coach just
as you say.
IoIIN W.NkMAKEp
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
AT HUMPHREYS STORES

Twenty-Five years ago last month
we commenced business at the cor
ner, and our trade has gradually
and steadily grown year by year
until now it is the largest in the
county. Our reputation as mer-
chants is we'll known, and no man
has yet dared to proclaim or assert
that our business methods were not
straight. We are just IS eager to
do business now as we we're in 1866.
Although we were twenty-five years
younger then than now our chosen
occupation still has its attractions.
We will continue at the old
stand, and invite all our old friends
to continue with us and as many
new mes as may conclude to give
us a trial.
We will keep up our stock SO
far as the wants of the people seem
to demand, and in the future as in
the past try to give each of our pa
irons full and equitable value for
their money outlay.
Ladies Stockinette Coats, cut on
new patterns, perfect filters and ele-
CANT make-better quality than last
year prices 1915 to $500.
One thousand yards of standard
perfect Calicos, fast %colors, at SC.
We have not been able to get them
for a long time past.
Elegant Dress Ginghams at sac.
Outing Cloths at 1oc. to I2Hc. All
kinds of Dry Goods. All kinds Of
Dress Goods. Everything pertain
ing to housekeeping. Come and
see us at the corner.
f. B. HUMPHREYS & Co.,
Woodstown, N. J..
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
AT the NEW STORE UNDER
THE OPERA HOUSE

We have made especial prepara-
tons for this season, particularly in
Boys and Children's Clothing.
1t is not at all times convenient
for the mother to take her little
boys to the city, besides it is expen-
sive. We have owe twenty styles
and patterns Of children's apiece
suits at all prices from $3.50 to
s5.75, and there is a saving in the
price of every one-in other words
there is not a single suit but we can
and will sell you cheaper than you
can match it for in Philadelphia.
This being the case it would seem
like a waste of time and money to
go to the city for these wants. Stop
in and look through our stock.
Those in charge will take pleasure
in showing it to you. You are not
expected or importuned to buy.
We have invested thousands Of
dollars in our Spring Stock Of
Clothing for Youths and Young
Men, and can suit all both in quality
and in price.
We still take 10 per cent. off on
shoes, and will continue to do SO
until further notice. 1t makes prices
low. Stop in and sec how low we
are selling them. Every pair war
ranted good quality.
+. B. HUMPHREYS.
J. Nelson Curry in charge.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
Our sister city of Salem it is we'll known

Our sister city oil Salem IL IS wen hho"h
has been a license town for the past two
or three years, in fact for all past years
with one single year only excepted, wheh
it was without any licensed hotel or sa-
loon. At present they have two hotels
one quart PLACE and one place licensed 10
sell malt liquors. This latter place It ap-
nears was located on Walnut street, a
prominent ,horoughfare in the centre OF
the city, and the %neighbors complained to
the owner of the property and urged him
to get rid of the beer. seller and his saloon.
The owner told his tenant that he wished
him to vacate as the neighbors were con-
stantly complaining of the frequent dis
turbances which naturally generate about
such institutions. The saloonkeeper in
looking up a new location was wise enough
to conclude that when moving he would
get among his friends, or rather among
those who had signiied their friendship
by their votes and influence at the last
election for City Councilmen, consequently
he found q suitable building down on
afu street UeaT 0Tlillth. LIN III -
building was adapted to his needs, and
best Of all it was surrounded by friends OF
his business. In due time he moved and
got fixed away in his new quarters and
trade started Off quite encouragingly, but
now there is trouble in the land. These
same people who voted and whooped it up
for the license candidate at the recent cleo
ton complain that his business, or rather
those that his business attracts, are a dis
turbing element of their rest and comfort,
and they desire that he get up and get
away to another quarter, where he may be
a trouble to others, but as for them they
would rather not and will not tolerate any
such place in their midst. Now the poor
man is in a qnandary. He supposed, and
with good reason, that these people, being
80 favorable to rum and its results, would
be glad to have him among them, but IT
appears they have reached the conclusion
that he made a mistake in his calculations.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

Heliotrope Handkerchief
have plenty oflikers: they chime
in SO perfectly with some of the
favorite dress goods. Four pat
terms, heliotrope border and
centre, zoe.
Another Handkerchief new
ness is of sheer linen with hem
stitched and Mbe borders. 6
styles, I2Hc.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

You may make a church member believe
that the majority of mothers would vote
for dram-shops, but you can never make
the liquor-dealers believe it. 'The child
rem of darkness are wiser in their genera
ton than the children of light"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

Three questions to day enlist the nations
heart: tho Temperance, the labor and the
woman questions, aud these three are
really one. The solution of any one OF
these in accordance with the wishes of its
friends, would mean an incalculable uplift
to the others. Total prohibition would
make the world a new and blessed place
for women, while her acknowledgements
would DO a death blow TO the liqnortrafic.
CO. operative commonwealtbs. the final
goal of the labor agitation, would so
humanize and harmonize the world that the
drink desperation would be reduced to zero;
with the triumph of the wage-worker's
cause, women's would mount 10 victory
frances Willard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23

ut is my opinion that many clergymen
who have on their tombstone, Died in the
Lord, might have for a more appropriate
epitaph, KILLED by Tobacco. ''-Talmage.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-05-23
TWamamaker's

lust for illustration: A few
honest items in Linens-cheap,
too.
Towels.
Full bleached Huck Towels
of clean, well-spun yarns, blue
or red borders, I2H cents
each.
Extra weight Cream Huck
Towels, excellent for bath or
other common use, 22x45 inches
at IS cents each, would be
cheap at 20 cents.
Large sized, beautiful, snow
white Huck Towels, white dam
ask border, IS cents each, re-
duced to-day from 80 cents.
Damask Towels, good quail
ity, knotted fringe, seven varie-
ties of novel colored borders, at
Id cents each.
Other extra attractive prices
are like this:
% pieces German Barnsley Bleached Table
Linens, 81 inches wide, Gc n yard.
Another Importation of the "Best Double
Damask 72-inch Table Linen" So a yard.
80 dozen extra fine Double Damask lrish)
y Napkins. s5a dozen, fully one-third
under value.
% pieces fine French Sheeting, 90 inches
wide, Csc a yard.
Sheeting, 90 inches wide, s71ca yard.
800 pairs Linen Sheets, extra size; hand
hemstitched both ends 1925 a sheet.
500 Pillow Cases, made in Ireland from
Irish linen, hand hemstitched, Csc each.