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Ingalls,, from whom the Democrats viii
get no @favors, will take his place.
The silver question has been practically
settled by the agreement OF the Republican
caucus committees of tho House and Senate
upon a ill and the acceptance of that bill
there is some kicking. Senator Teller has
given notice that he would oppose the bill
and has introduced a bill embodyi ing his
own ideas. but the caucus bill is DO und to
here just now, regard the bill as a victory
for that metal and will work FOR its ''pas-
sage" =
The Mckinley Tariff bill will probably
There will be no trouble about its being
passed by the House without material
amendments, but it will not fare so we'll in
the Senate. The Senate Finance Commit
deep in the subject, and will, it is said, re-
port practically Il new bill as an amend
ment to the House bill.
The Democrats of the House are very
much interested in the question of who is
to succeed the late Mr.. Randall as Mr..
Carlisle's Democratic colleague on the
Committee on Rules. Mr.. Mills Is though lit
by many to be entitled to the place, but
some say tina Mr.. Reed will not appoint
Mr.. Mills because of personal feeling, and
others that Mr.. Mills would not serve on
the committee because Mr.. Reed is chair
man of it. Several other Southern mem
bers are mentioned for the victory, includ-
ing Mr.. Crisp and Mr.. Blount. Some
think that Mr.. Holman or Mr.. Springer
will be selected. WESTON.
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UWamamaker's

PHILADELPHIA. Monday, April d, 1890.
Tie Dress goods sensation.
Fieueh shtD1s, this seasons make,
and at an average Of haT irregular
prices.
They've set the dry goods
men talking; they've set mer-
chants buying to sell again;
they've crowded some of the
longest counters in the store
with delighted customers.
Take these Mohair Brillian-
tines. Some striped or plaid
ed by dainty stripings of silk;
some rich with Jacquard fig
ures. All OF them in choice
Spring shades, and every yard
a good square 81 worth, as such
goods go. Tie Price is fifty
cents.
Then here are Striped French
Serges in all the new colorings.
Imported to sell at soc. AS
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John WANAMAKER.
Notice of Election.

Nv HEhEAS, q petlt1on has been presented
w to me signed by persons owning at least
one-tenth in value OF the taxable real estate
within the limits of the proposed Borough
hereinafter described, as the same appears
upon the Assessors duplicates; which proposed
thorough embraces AN area OF not more than
two square miles, and taxable real estate of
thousand dollars, and within the limits and
area of which reside at all times of the year a
population of not less than two hundred; and
which proposed Borough is in said petition
described as follows:
Situate in the township of Pilesgrove, in the
county of Salem and State OF New Jersey. be-
ginning at a walnut tree on the northerly side
OF the WOodstown and Mullica Hill turnpike.
near the farmhouse OF samuel b.. Pancoast.
and running thence a straight course to the
bridge over u water-course on the w oodstown
and Swedesboro turnpike, near the house of
John Quirk, formerly Smith Davis; thence a
straight course to the bridge over the same
intercourse where il crosses the WOodstown
ana Auburn road near the house lately j oseph
fetersOn's; thence a straight course to the old
Woodstown and Sharptown road ut a corner
OF the Dickinson meadow, also a corner of
EiizaDeth Cawley's meadows; thence II straight
course crossing Salem Creek and the Gods
town and Salem and Woodstown and Sharn.
town roads to the bridge over Nikomus Run,
Weodstown to Alloway; thence a straight
course TO the intersection of the Woodstown
and YORKTOWN road with the road from
town and Ailoway road; thence a straight
course to he beginning; which district is The
same now known as "The Borough of Woods.
town"
Which petition prays for the calling of a
special election to be held by tho legal voters
OF the said proposed Borough to vote for or
against the incorporation of the Inhabitants
OF The said proposed Borough into Il Borough
to be called the thorough OF Woodstownn m
der The provisions OF an act of the Legislature
OF the State of New Jersey entitled IAN Act
for the Formation and Government OF Ror.
oughs," approved March IL, 1890.
Now, therefore, ], Robert NJ. Hitcbner. one
OF the Judges of the Court OF Common PIens
OF the county of Salem ana State of New Jer.
sey, In compliance with the said petition and
by virtue OF the act of the Legislature afore-
said, do hereby call and give notice of a special
Election 10 be held by the legal voters OF the
above described proposed Borough at the
New Jersey, being within The limits of the
said proposed borough, ON Tuesday, the tbir.
teenth day OF May, eighteen hundred and
ninety, the object of said election to be to vote
Tor or against the incorporation of the pro
posed Borough above described under The
provisions OF the act of the Legislature of the
state OF New Jersey entitled IAN Act for the
formation and Government of Boroughs."
approved March IL, 1899.
Inc polls at said election will open and close
az the same time as at general elections in this
State.
In witness whereof / have hereto set nv
hahd This seventeenth day of April, eighteen
hundred and ninety.
NJ I'M 80
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9ied.

NORTON-In Upper Penn's Neck, April 25th
1890, Thomas Norton, ST., aged 81 years.
PENIS Grove, on April DOT h, 1890,
Ella, infant daughter of Thomas and Alice
Cook, aged Is months.
DOU GHERTY-In PENIS Grove, April 10Th,
1880, Emma L infant daughter of Edward
and Mary j. ~Dougherty, aged months and 2
weeks.
PATTERSON-In Penn's Grove, April 18th.
1890, Elmer c., infant OF Rev. Robert j.. and
Henriette Patterson aged 6 months.
MCALEER-In Philadelphia, April Goth, Mrs.
Mary McAleer, formerly of Salem.
FOSTER-In Salem. April 24th, Elmira A.
Foster, wife of John Foster. ST.. aged 20 years.
laughter of Joseph IL. and Sallie "A. Bell, aged
I year and 3 months.
DICKINSON-At Newport, M j. April 2lst,
Rachael Dickinson, wife of Joseph Dickinson,
aged IS years. Interlnenta at Haines' Neck.
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We should like TO hear from the hens
just now, or from some one capable of
repre- senting them. We would like to
have the truth, too. Talk of your fish
stories Why it would almost make a fish
Ashamed Of him or herself to be obliged to
stand on its dorsal end and listen to the
cock and hen stories told by some of our
featherwis Use wiseacrcs. Some OF these are
the most outrageous lies that ever greeted
the ears of mortal man. A small flock of
hens. say a dozen or so, laying from eight
to mine eggs the year through, and the
flock costing but a little over 50 or "a for
board, washing and maintenance per an
mum, are the fowl stories, with its ramiRed
variations, with which we are Piled from
time to time. Is it benny wonder that the
chicken lice and cholera are destroying our
focks by the score? Such wickedness can
not go unpublished.
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Health and pnysica, Culture.

L tlh "i' hooa ptioA
Convention of the Gloucester County W. C
I. T.. held at swedesboro, April "a, lsal, by
Mrs. May Pauline Sparks, OF Bridgeport, Stale
Supt. of 'Health."l
"Science is Gods law written on the ma
terial UNIVERSE" including our bodies.
Revelation is Gods law for the entire man,
spiritual, physical and mental, and o, how
| these laws, given us tor the moral, spirit
ual and physical nature by the same
great and good being, harmonize with
each other. Temperance science is a col
lection of the laws of God with regard to
what we may or may not eat and drink.
Dear friends, this important subject
which some choose to call Health Re
form is no lew thing under the sun, but
is simply Gods first avs viewed in the
light of the nineteenth century and is as
old as creation itself, for We find Goes
word teeming with rules and laws con-
corning the health of His elect. The first
Of all was this: These things thou mayest
freely eat, but of (another specified) thou
shalt not eat of it, for in the day thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"
Thus science and religion go hand in hand
in order to make temperance prevail, and
tenn perance to us means not only total alb
s~tinence from alcoholic drinks, but from
all things which harm us in any way and
only the proper use of good things.
Whether. therefore, we eat or drink, or
whatever we do. let it all be done to the
glory of God.
The physiological laws of our being are
lust Gods laws written i'll our bodies.
Health consists with temperance alone"
the poet says, and so we are to study what
will place our bodies in the best condi-
ions to serve God so that We may render
service to Him as perfectly as possible.
We all know how much better we can
serve Him in every way and wait on Him
without d distraction when the BODY is free
from pain and disease. FEED me with
food convenient for me-" O what a vast
difference this will make in our physical,
mental and spiritual capacity for serving
our Master and our fellOwmen: and What
privilege God gives to us when lie init
mates that we may make these bodies
bodies wholIy acceptable unto Him, and
when we cease adding individual trans
ercssions to our inherited taints we shall
gradually come Jack to a nearer likeness
to that original image in which we were
created and become more and more ac.
ceptable unto God. Then shall we see as
we have vet ouIy dimlv eamed-rep
bearing. aower-like purity and sweetness
making tles G bodies fit for the indyelline
of Christ.
But do you know there are few things
even Christians find so difficult as to deny
themselves some indulgence in food or
drink. even when they know it is not good
for them? And our women too often are
the empter at our own tables. and our
Adams eat even what thew know TO be
burtful because it is put before them.
"Will you have some pi,?n incurred the
wife of an intelligent physician at the din
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1t is impossible for the human mind to
have a conception of the speed and mo-
mentum of a cyclone. Even those in the
presence of the awful scourge are unable
to do it. The mind utterly fails to take it
in. The cyclone that visited Jefferson
vile, Indiana, lately, travelled at the rate
of Ala miles an hour. or about seven times
the speed of the fastest railroad train.
have almost had their breath taken away
by tho passage of a train making thirty
five or forty miles per hour and here is a
resistless force moving at more than ten
times that speed. The very thought is
appalling.
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Woodstowners should try and secure
lecturer of Boston. Mass. Mr.. II. has been
lecturing at Bridgeton, Salem and else
where on 1.-THE Mistakes of Moses, =" and
wherever heard has produced a powerful
impression. We would enjoy witnessing a
polemical tussle between Hastings and
Ingersoll, two of the most noted combat
ants on the opposing sides.
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Some of cur citizens oppose the new
form of municipal government for Woods
town for the reason that it is to take the
license power fIom the Judge, or Judges
rather Gas Lay Judges usually exercise a
potential influence OF the license question:
at court, and lodge it with the people.
OF course they don't say SO, not in so
many words at least, as this would be ex.
tremely impolitic and damaging to Their
cause, but it is what they are driving at.
This isn't good logic, friends, nor at all in
~consoDance with the theory, so often and
persistently advanced by the license party,
that law is here effective unless backed
by pnblic opinion.
So let's have the new charter, and then
the people themselves will be responsible
for the law as applied to the license ques-
ton, as they themselves will be the sole
%clstodians of it.
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AT the NEW STORE UNDER
THE OPERA HOUSE

At the NEW SlOKE UNDEK
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 over twenty styles
and patterns of children's 2-piece
suits at all prices from $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 see how low we
are selling them. Every pair war
ranted good quality.
E. b. HUMPHREYS.
!. Nelson Curry in charge.
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1t was ever thus. Down at Ocean
Beach, where oyster shells are plenty, they
are matchmaking the public road, while
down at Bridgeton, where thousands
upon thousands of the best road gravel
in the market can be had almost for
the asking, they pack layers of oyster
shells on the streets Ga good foot thick one
year and cart it off the next, and so Ego
on forever" like TenEyson's brook.
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marrfeI.

SCOTT-MoKINLEY-In Philadelphia,
April %, 1890, by Rev. Byron A.. Woods, Mr..
Benjamin G. Scott and Miss Catharine Il. Nc
Kinley, all of Philadelphia.
TYLER-SCULL-In Bridgeton, April 18th,
by Rev. w. D.. Stultz, Mr.. John l.. Tyler, of
Salem, and Miss Jennie cull, of Philadelphia
CUFF-PITTS-At Marlboro, April 18th, by
Rev. j. &. Bowen, Jonathan Cuff and Miss
Sarah Emma Pitts, both of Quinton.
ADAMS-GRANGER-At Marlboro, by Rev.
j. c. Bowen, April Goth, Edward Il. Adams and
Miss Mary ID. Granger, both of Quinton.
JESS-DOLBOW-At Emmanuel Parsonage.
April %, 1890, Joseph Jess, of U. +. Neck, and
Miss Sallie j. Dolbow, of Warrington.
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There seems to be a fear with some that
the recent Borough Act gives Council too
great powers to assess inc collect taxes for
public improvements, and for that reason
they question the expediency of re-incor-
poration under the new act. We will give
next week a few of the general acts and
supplements to the borough law of April
s, 1873, under which we are now incor-
porated, showing that the new law is a
summary of the acts and supplements
in force, with the additional power given
Council to determine the license fee for
public houses and places of public resort.
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The simple faith of the Friends of these
latter days is almost sublime, or would be
If it were illustrated somew here outside
this wicked world. Just imagine a dele
cation ofthese plain .!thee's" and "~thou's"
going down to Washington to protest
against the building of warsliips by the
Government. OF course they will be met
in a respectful way and be accorded a re-
spectful hearing and that will be the end
of II
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Was there such weather ever as we have
experienced say The last seven or eight
months? Never we think within the re-
collection of the ''oldest inhabitant.a The
continued mildness of the late winter has,
however. produced one crop-that of pre-
cedcnts. A continental collector goes
zach as far as the year 142l, when the
orchards blossomed in the month Of March
and the vineyards in April; to 1888. when
flower gardens were full of bloom in Janu-
airy; and to 1885, when corn was in the ear
at about this time of year, Easter. The
year 1869 was without frost or snow, he
says, and in 1909 stoy es remained I'M
lighted. In living memory are the years
1882 and '6G as the dates of years without
winters. But as one extreme follows an
other, SO it'll the weather. The mildness
of 1924 was compensated by the historic
frost of the next winter but one, and per-
sons who saw the gardens gay in January
had to cut their wine with hatchets before
they were much older. The sleeveless win
ter of 1892 Immediately followed that of
the year before when the wolves, driven
by the cold, invaded the streets Of Vienna
in search of food.
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Mems and Boys Clothing is
going more as we mean it to.
Better kinds, lower prices; the
push is for both all the time. See
the natty Sailor Suits for Boys,
or the Harris Cashmere Over
coats for Men. They stand for
all,
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The office of legislator or Governor of
the State of New Jersey would hardly be
sought for What there is in it (nnless the
perquisitcs be considered) if the pay was
up. or down rather, TO the old time stand
ard. In 1852 the pay of members Of As
sembly was fixed at four shillings per day.
and the following year it was decreed that
they should be fined five shillings per day
when absent. In 1866 the pay was re-
duced to three shillings, to be paid in
money, pork or corn. In 1856 the pay was
increased to five shillings, and Councillors
were to have six. The pay Of the Gov
ernor Was at first only fifty pounds, with
four shillings a day extra during the session
Of the Assembly.
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April is a great month other than for
putting in onion sells and making fools of
the small boy, and cuts no u%nimportant
figure in American history as per illustra-
ton: Thomas jefferson, Trainer of the
Declaration Of Independence, was born
April 2, 1913; the Battle of Lexington
took place April II, 1915; Washington was
inaugurated the first President April 80,
1910; the Rebellion was begun by the
firing on Fort Sumter April 12. 1861; Pyesi-
dent Lincoln called for $4,000 volunteers
three days later; New Orleans surrendered
April %, 1862; Lee surrendered to Grant
at Appomattox April ., 1865; President
Lincoln was assassinated April IA, 1865.
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The State of Hudson County has
''soured'' on Jersey, and had better secede
and join the troubaiours, the Allegheny
Man or the State Of New York City.
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Wonder how the strikers, street walkers,
labor pickets, and the labor agitators gen
orally, would relish a woman's strike for
less hours of work and more pay? How
would it answer just now at housekeeping
time?
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The man who has to do with the stove
pipe now should be well read mp in the
commandments, especially the fourth and
seventh.
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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 MOI
straight. We are just as 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 ones 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
lew patterns, perfect filters and ele-
CANT make-better quality than last
year prices S3.I5 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 Ioc.to I2Hc. All
kinds of Dry Goods. All kinds of
Dress Goods. Everything pertain
ing to housekeeping. Come and
see us at the corner.
Z. b. HUMPHREYS & Co.,
Woodstown, N. J.
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l2Lc each, $3.50 a dozen.
15c each, $3.50 a dozen.
25c each $2.50a dozen.

Here are two more, both for
women: (1) Plain white hem
stitched, printed border, en-
broidered corners, ten cents, (2)
Plain white, hemstitched, en-
broidered initial, ten cents.
Both are ofbwe linen. We
don't know their match outside
under IS cents.
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This is n gingham year. They have taken
the place of satteens. All The new patterns at
Humphreys.
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Heavy. j~ointless cantor mating, Will out
last all others, 80 cents a yard for the best at
Humphreys.
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An up-Jersey paper wants to know
whether it wouldn't be to the advantage of
the State to abolish the Legislature alto
gether and run the old commonwealth
with less machinery. The paper in ques-
ton don't exactly say this in so many
words, but wants to know whether New
Jersey would not be a better governed
State to-day if of the nearly $4,000 laws
that nave been placed on ITS statue book
since 1854, about IA, 900 had failed of
enactment; and says:
sThe session of 1874 and 1875 expunged
G56, while a great many more have been
disposed of by repealers, bnt there are
still some 12, 600 SD called laws on the
statue books, many Of which serve only as
snares to the unwary litigant or the Him
formed lawyer, aid are of no public use
whatever"
This is the one crying evil Of the New
Jersey Legislature. Laws are enacted,
amended and repealed every session at
such a great rate that it is absolutely i'm
possible for the people to know what is
law and what is not. In fact, the lawyers
themselves don't pretend to know half the
time.
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TWamamaket's

good or better stuff than you're
to come across in any
store at soc. Tie Price IS hoenD-
fOe cents.
These are the two price ex-
tremes-3o, IS and 4oc be,
tween. About 800 styles and
colorings all told.
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OFFICERS Y. w. G. T. IT,, wo1psTt
icn BrasiIan1S NJGS COP ~ mr.

OFFICERS Y. W. G. T. u, Wo1psToWN:
Vice Presidents, Miss CORA WARE MISS MAR
TIE GAUNT, MRS. WILLIAM SMITH.
Cor. Secretary, MISS JENNIE DARLINaToN.
Rec. Secretary, MISS Lulu WRIGHT.
Treasurer, Hiss JOE MAoALTIoNER.
Time of meeting w. c. Il. u. Thursday after
noon at 3 O'Clock.
Time of meeting Y. W. c. L. q. Monday
evening ut 80 O'Clock
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Isn't 1t about time now for Bro. Smith
to don that pocket shirt and so a fishing ?
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What we call Linen IS Linen.
Every time. And by bringing
the goods in big lots straight
from the looms to you we can
make prices as little as those OF
the halfcotton receptions the
market is overlooking with.
For instance, these old-time
Barnsley Table Linens-as
good and honest now as in your
grandmother's days-they're
the regular SIPS quality, bit
the Price rs So cents.
Or this German Table Linen,
extra heavy, free from starch or
sizing, at65 cents; we hear of
nothing at even S5c that is as
good.
We told you the other day Of
heavy Damask Sets (eloth and
napklns) at 1915 and IS. Every
word still holds good. Marvels
Of cheapness.
That's the way in every class
of Linens, from the daintiest
Handkerchief to the heaviest
Carpet Covering; qualities are
away up and prices away down.
For instance:
If these Women's Convent
Hemstitched Handkerchief
we're Numbered they'd equal
any we know of at twice the
prices:
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All the widths and styles in.
the Black Hemstitched Grena-
dimes are plenty once more
~, 2, 2H, 3, and 4 inches.
$I.75.