The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-01-10
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The January term of court draws nigh
and it is gratifying to learn that so far
there promises to be but little of a criminal
nature for its investigation. We have
been told there are but three or four per-
sons lodged in the county Jail under GRIM
inal charges. This speaks well for the
county as compared with former terms of
court. We have noticed that since the
closing of the low groggeries throughout
the county there are but few commitments
of disordeIly persons, Since the vigorous
efforts of last winter and summer to sup
press stealing, and the arrest and conyic-
ton, through the laborious efforts n
shrewd detective work of Constable Will
liam Carney, of a number of a gang of
chicken thieves that for a long time had
infested the county, we have heard but
little complaint of thieving. The farmers
of the county owe to Officer Carney and to
the court a debt of gratitude for the vigor-
GUS and strong measures adopted for their
protection. What matter of business will
Woodstown furnish for the courts atten-
ton at the coming terms Wehave noticed
in times past there is apt to be about court
time an upheaval, in which social and
moral filth is thrown upon the surface to
be got rid of through the sluices of the
law. OF late one hears a great deal of
''street law" so we presume there is some
thing in the air. 1t is probably unfortu-
nate for the world, in a legal sense, that
some of our wiseacres did not live in the
DAYS OF Coke and Blackstone. They, no
doubt, could have given those great legal
lights some valuable points i'll the ethics
of law.
We notice in the last issue of the MoNI-
TOR a communication from Ruth in
which she takes exceptions to what we
said on a former occasion about Gress.
ssRuth," we are glad you have summoned
us to an account if we have trespassed up
on ~untenable ground. First, because we
have no desire to go astray, and are glad
to know some one unknown to us has
interest enough in our well-being to warn
us of danger. Second, because your Ques-
tionings show that you think for yourself,
intelligently, intensely and conscientious
ly, and that you ave the moral courage to
defend your convictions. We wish we
knew who you are. We don't know
whether to call you Miss or Mrs.
Ruth. So you will have to excuse
our seeming brusqueness, if we call you
plain "Ruth.'' Now let us say to you,
ruth, . right here on the threshold of our
unacquainted acquaintance, We are not
gong to quarrel over our differences. How
ever much we might be inclined to an ef-
fort to defend ourseif in a controversy with
others, with a Ruth the name disarms
us. Somehow to us, all that is pure and
lovely and noble in womanly character
gathers around that name. We have read
of the fair daughters of eastern climes
whose beauty was the browning glory of
the court of the Ptclomies, of the lovely
maids of Cashmere,
commissioned from above
IL people Eden's bowers with shapes of love,
Creatures so bright, that the same lips and eyes
They wear ON earth viii serve in Paradise,
and yet to us there is no character in all
history more loveable thar the little maid
of the land Of Moab. A good many years
ago when Josiah was younger than he
is to. night, when life had for him all the
charms old romancers have clustered
around the stories of the East; when love
horoscoped the fuifllment Of his dream
down the vista of the coming years, he
knew a little Ruth. But why let memory
"lead us back
In mournfnl mockery Ger the shining track
OF our young life. and point ont every ray
OF hope and peace we've lost upon the way