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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
A Touching Appeal.

The follow ing letter from a father to a
dissipated SON we republish by request.
1t was first published i'll the Covington
(kentucky) Commonwealth:
My DEAR Son: What would you think
Of yourself if you should come to our bed
side every night, and waking us up tell us
you would not allow us to sleep any more?
That is hat you are doing, and that is
why | I'm up. Your mother is nearly
worn out with turning from side to side
and with signing because you won't let
her sleep. That mother who nursed you,
in your infancy. toiled for you in your
childhood, and looked with Pride and joy
upon YOU as you were growing up to man.
hood, as She counted on tic comfort and
support you would give her in her declin-
ing years.
We read Of a most barbarous manner in
which one of the Oriental nations Furnishes
some of its criminals. 1t is by cutting the
flesh from the body in small pieces-slow-
ly cutting Oft the limbs, beginning with
the fingers and toes, one joint at a
time until the wretched victim dies.
That is just what you are doing-you are
killing your mother by inches. You have
planted many of the white hairs that are
appearing so thickly in her head before
the time. Your cruel hand is drawing the
line of sorrow on her dear face, making
her look prematurely old. You might as
we'll stick your knife in her body every
time you come near her, for your conduct
is stabbing her to the heart. You might
as well bring her coffin and force her into
it, FOR you are pressing her toward it with
very rapid steps.
Would you tread on her body if pros,
trated on the floor? And yet with migrate
ful foot You are treading On her heart and
crushing out life and joy-no, | need not
say joy, for that is a word we have long
ago ceased to see, because you have taken
it away from us. OF course, We have to
meet our friends with smiles, but they lit
tie know the bitterness within. You have
taken the roses out of your sisters path
way, anu scattered tn0fnS instead; and
from the pain they inilict scalding tears
are often seen coursing down her cheeks.
Thus you are blighting her lite as well as
ours.
And what can you promise yourself for
the future? Look at the miserable, bloated,
ragged wretches whom you meet every
day, and see in them the exact picture of
what you are coming to, and will be I'M
few years. Then in the end a drunkard's
grave and a drunkard's doom, for the BIZ
BILE says: 'No drunkard shall Inherit the
Kingdom" Where then will you be? If
not in the kingdom Of God you must be
somewh here else.
VIII not these considerations induce you
to quit at once and for all time? And may
God help you, for he can and will if you
earnestly ask it.
Ionr aflectionate but sorrow-stricken
father.
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w. C. T. u.

alcoholic drinks. In order to exist, the
smaller one of these places must sell at
least $40 worth of drinks a day.
Many of the best bars take in $125 to
$3.50 a day. At the Hoffman house, where
one has to pay fancy prices to bask in the
$500 a day.
No bar can pay It's way through the re-
ceipts for beer alone. 1t is the hard stuffthat
brings in the profit. While a saloon would
soon go to the wall if it depended on the
sale of beer alone, there are numerous
gardens, like the Atlantic, Volks and
Thesis, that thrive almost solely from the
beer receipts. In the gardens the glasses
are smaller, and twenty are sold where one
is drawn from behind the bar in a saloon.
Averaging all the bars in town, they
take in about $25 a day, or a combined to.
tai of SO, 900, 900 a year.
You can divide the consumption of
wine, liquor and beer" said well inform.
ed wholesale dealer to the Journal report
err, Unto the follow ing proportions: Wine,
81; beer, $50; distilled liquors, $780,"
Estimating from these proportions there
are expended by New Workers at the licen.
sed liquor places every year 81, 700, 900 fol
wine, SIT, 600, 900 for beer and SOL, 900, 00(
for distilled liquors.
s'Then to this continued the Joufnal!
informant, you must add at least 50, 200,
600 spent In wines, beer and liquor at the
groceries. But for ~calcula ton your rount
figure of SO, GOO, 600 is sufficient"
The wine consumed by New Workers
from cheap clarets to the best c~hampagnes
Will cost on an average $3.50 a gallon
the beer so cents a gallon and the liquo
50 a gallon. SO We consume every yea
CSC, 900 gallons OF wine, 81, 250, 900 gallons
of beer and %, 800, 600 gallons of distilled
liquors.
, Then think of the millions of dollars
that are expended to make the saloon lool
Neu York journal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
Says an exchange ofnnrs:

III, as the Southern whites now boldly
claim, the negroes are unfit to vote. they
are unfit to be counted for representation
in Congress and the electoral college.
They certainly ought not to be represented
by the enemies Of Northern interests"
All o. which is rock bottom sense and
don't depend. It the South do not really
allow the negroes there the right to vote
(and We remember hearing something to
that eifect) then the negroes should not be
counted among the number necessary to
a Congressional representation in any
given district. OF coarse not. Might last
as well count their cattle and sheep and
credit them on a basis of representation
but why can't the South learn something
OF Northern politics as they go along?
Why don't they disfranchise the factory
hands as they do up in Rhode Island. the
Prohibitionists as they do in New Jersey,
and the Chinese as they do everywhere
There would be no trouble about that, and
they could have their representation lust
the same. But looping off the negro
well, anybody ought to know better than
that.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

PAVING THE STREETS.
Reply to the pea w Need Iicen
Fees for improvements"

Come, let us reason; heed what we say;
our hands are willing, and strong to earn;
There is no price we will not pay.
Is there no gold that Will serve your turn
Save the shining gold OF the heads that rest
Soft on a gentle mothers breast?
Must they go down in the shameful dust?
How long will your votes shout back, "They
must?n
Here is our beautiful gifted son,
Kept safe till the day he is twenty-one-
The tiends may clutch him up that day;
What can we say?
We have our pay.
Pave with his blood the broad highway.
All, Heaven! can il be such things are done
unde the SUM-?
Come to the licensed dealer now:
We shall be met with II smiling bow.
He is all ready for our call;
With a wave of the Land,
Polite and bland,
Toward his framed diploma upon the wall,
He will give us mothers to understand
Our boys are his-hc has bought them all.
But l think If mother Gould have control
They would 4 yeto-day
The broad highwa
With something not so white as the soul
Ofan innocent boy ut play.
Evcn the ground
Sends up II sound
The echoing clods on the coffin lid,
Where our dead. away from our sight are hid
Not to make note of the orphans walls,
or the faces under tho widows wells
Every three minutes some man fall;
IetAou hang the license upon the walls,
No matter how we may writhe and moan
Iou will moi let our treasures alone.
There is not enough of wood or stone,
Or think you would pave the business street
With something harder than mothers heart,
That cry out under the hurrying feet
And under the heavy brewers carts;
For tho they are crushed they still must beat
In deafness mothers love, fierce and sweet.
Peace lies murdered; there is no bliss:
Fear strikes cold thro' Il baby's kiss.
Has God forgotten the world like this?
Ms l.. G. Mc Jean, in Union Signdt.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
Did lie saw II.

The following statement is imputed to
Secretary Blaine:
wine" said the Secretary, lis fire.
quehtly mentioned with favor in the
Scriptures. When our SAVIOR came upon
earth one of the first things he did to
prove lis divinity was TO turn water into
wine, and when about to take his depart
ure one of the last things he did to show
his love for his disciples was to give them
wine ad lib, and to enjoin them to drink
it often in remembrance OF him. On the
other hand, " said the secretary, ''you may
search the whole length and breadth of the
Scriptures, and you will find only OF man
who ever mentioned water. lie only ask
ed for Il single drop of water; and he was
in hell, which probably was the place for
him. e..
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Select n~ot-too-ripe grapes, and put then
into an agate preserving kettle with one
pint of water to every three quarts of fruit
and slowly bring to a scald, stirring then
occasionally. Then dip out into a cheese
cloth bag and drain over night. Strair
the expressed juice through another bag,
and add sugar to suit the taste; then bring
to a boil. skimming frequently, and seal il
heated glass cans, like fruit. This is pure,
unfermented wine, suitable for commun
ion wine. 1t is also recommended by med.
ical men as an invaluable and unstimulat-
ing tonic. Other fruit juices, for flavor.
ing and beverages, can be preserved in the
same way.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
NEW STORE UNDER THE
OPERA HOUSE.

We are having our Fall and Win
ter stock ofclothing made by two Of
the largest manufacturers in
Philadelphia, having placed our
orders in July and will open in a few
days the best assorted stock for
men, boys and children, that we
have ever yet been able to offer.
We have made calculations for low
prices and the indications are that
we shall break all our former re.
cords in the clothing line.
Come and see our stock when
it is your pleasure and convent
ence to do SO.
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1ied.

SHEETs-In Pennsgroye, August Goth, 1890
Mary, relict of David Sheets, aged 50 years.
GARRISON-At Aldine, August 18th, 1890
Anna Maria Garrison, aged ffty-siX years.
REINFRIED-In Salem, Aug. sd, Augusta
Reinfried, widow of Jacob lteinfried, aged 81
years.
BENNETT-In Salem, Aug. goth, Mary Ann
Bennett, widow OF John A. Bennett, in hel
Sjth year.
DANIS-ln Warrington, Aug. 18th, Eliza
Ewing Davis, aged 90 years.
WRIGHT In Salem, Aug. 18th, Sarah \
Wright, widow of stephen Wright, aged a
years.
S0WERS-In Elsinboro, Aug. 25th, Frank,
infant son of John and Carrie Sewers, aged A
months.
STRETCH-Near Canton, Aug. 2lst, Florence
D., daughter OF Reeves ). and Ada A. stretch,
in her 9TH VeIr.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

A working man in a Western town
where high license had been voted in and
prohibition voted out, came to a physician
saying: "Yon know, doctor, that l paid
up all my back debts to you, at the grocery,
and all around town, but the saloons are
coming and | shall go back to drink-not
because | want to; the Lord knows | want
the very opposite. But feel | shall start
in again because | have not the mora
courage TO resist, and the door is open be-
fore me-" His experience is that of mil
day,-Union Signal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

New Workers are good drinkers. They
succeed in disposing of AZ, 600, 900 gallons
of liquor, beer and wine in a single year.
The average drink is a gill. say, making
500, 900, 600 drinks.
II the big Croton reese rvoir at Forty. sec
ond street were filed with such beverages,
New Workers would empty it nearly two
and one-haif times during a year.
II the big Central park reservoir, having
a capacity Of 200, 600, 600 gallons, should
be filled with liquor, beer and wine, the
consumers in the cities OF New York and
Brooklyn and the State of New Jersey
would empty it in two years.
New Workers spend over $40, 000, 0OO
every year for liquor, beer and wine. There
are in the city 1881 places licensed to sell
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
CHANGES IN THE
BUSINESS.

The reorganization of our Wholesale Business transfers to
the Retail several thousands of cases of Dress StuHs, Linens and
other Dry Goods in excess of usual needs
The entire collection is neW-a portion is still comirp over
the ocean. Our upper floors are stored with thearriving surplus
The travelling sales organization has been given up to the
Wholesale and this stock must be sold quickly at retail.
1t gives you a great chance as the prices will be made re-
gardless of either profits or costs.
The sale is ordered to commence september Isl.
Particulars will follow in succeeding advertisements.
IonN WANAMAKER.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Above all things the average American
loves fair play. and the attempt to stab
the people through the Prohibitionists, in
denying the latter the privilege of a vote,
will be resented by the former in due time.
Mark the prediction.
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Nefes by tlse Way.

\ eHRISTIAN's TRIALS.
Does a Christian have any trials? Yes,
we believe so. and will be a better Chris
tian for having had them. Well, then,
does a Christian necessarily have to bear
the burden of trials? No, we believe not:
not if he will ask in faith God to bear
them for him-thsn instead of the trial
will come the blessing. How weak we
must appear in our Saviour's sight when
we allow ourselves to dwell dejectedly
upon the ills, the disappointmeuts of life,
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

The MONITOR readers, many of them at
least. have looked with admiration upon
the handsome structure on Chestnut street,
above 9th, Philadelphia, known as the
Drexel building, and it may interest such
to know that the price for the site was
s1l59.2 90 per foot.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

What an awful, awful crow the Bridge
ton Patriot will have to chew should j. L..
Eansyckel become the Democratic nomi-
nee for Congress from this first district.
1t will be worse than Nv regular tur-
key buzzard.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Is there any one in Salem county who
can match the follow ing:
At the recent State fair in South Caro-
lima Farmer James NJ. Bradham was
awarded a prize for being the model man
Of the State He Is seyentJ-eight years
old, has followed the plough since be was a
lad of ten and has not taken a drink of
whisky since 1887.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

The proceedings i'll the House at Wash
ington on Wednesday were diversified by
an exciting debate arising from a Vulgar
fling by Mr.. Cannon against Mr.. McAdoo,
aud by an encounter between Messrs. vii
son, of Washington, and Mr.. Beekwith, OF
New Jersey, the lie and a blow being
given.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Jay Gould is a mighty big mar and has
A mighty big income, 81, 600 per hour,
but the average committeeman at a county
fair can take him down ON style every
time.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Genuine Italian Silk Como
Blankets, at S2.25. They sell
SO fast that advertising is not
needed. We only want to eau
ton you not to mistake some
inferior American limitations for
them.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

The inscription Champagne MIST now
and then displayed in front of drug stores,
should be amended to read Champagne
Missed
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Oh, yes, Car Reed is some there's
no doubt Of that; but when the Jersey
Democrat remembers that in this peninsula
NE have a Democratic Executive, Demo
cratic Judiciary, Democratic Legislature,
and, above all, a Democratic redistiicting
bill, he will be apt to spit on his hands
and wade in, Reed or no Reed.
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married.

GAYNER-SISNlCKSON-InS Salem, on Au
gust 20, 1890, by Rev. a. Lawrence, John vii
liam GaYner and Miss Sarah Il. Siniickson
both of salem, Nd.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

l prefer a country where | don't make
bad blood by having to see one public
house to every six dwellings-which is
literally the case in many spots around us.
My gall rises at the rich brewers in par
Lament and out of it, who plant these
poison shops for the sake of their mil lion
making trade, while probably Their
families arc figuring somewhere as refined
philanthropists or devout evangelists and
ritualists. Life Of Georqe Eliot.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Pretty soon will be the time for mailing
campaign lies, both parties furnishing the
ia lis, and, for that matter, the lies too.
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UWanattakec's
PHILADELPHIA. Monday, August p, 1890.
Closed Saturdays during the
Summer at I p. M.
TWauat,taker's

Inc magnitude Oh prePaTd
ton appears in the fact that the
lines Of Furniture are almost as
full as at the beginning Of the
sale. In some articles the
variety is greater, The
Hat Racks
Sideboards and
Parlor Suits
have been arriving in force, and
we show the best assortment ii
the experience of the Trade
Sale.
Do not forget that despite
the low prices the Furniture is
all new and fine and carries our
usual guarantee.
The extraordinary August
activity continues in spite oil
heat or storm. 1t is due to the
special efforts made to present
worthy attractions. The ebb
tide of the years trade gives a
chance of mannuvres of mer-
chandise.
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DEPARTMENT 0F THE VI. c. 7. J.,
OF N. }.

OFFICERS OF THE SALEM COUNTY woMAN'S CHRIST
IAN TEMPERANCE UNION:
Pres, Mrs. REBECCA p. PATTERSON, Salem.
Cor. Sec, MRS. ii. a. CAwLEY, oodstown.
Rec. Sec, Mrs. @. j. GRoFP. P~ennsgrove.
Treas, MRS. MAGGIE CRIsPIN, Sharptown.
OFFICERS w. c. Il. u, WOODSToWN:
President, MRS. HENRIETTA DAVIS.
Cor. Secretary, Mrs. j. W. HUMPHREYS.
recording Secretary, Mrs. ANNA fLiTcRAFr.
Treasurer, Mrs. AMY DAVIS.
OFFICERS Y. ". c. T. u, WopDSToWE:
Vice Presidents, Miss ORA WARE, Miss MAR
TIE GAUNT, Mrs. WILLIAM SMITH.
cor. Secretary, Miss JENNIE DARLINGTON.
Rec. Secretary, Miss Lulu WRIGHT.
Treasurer, Miss JOE MACALTIoNER
Time ofmeeting W. c. 4. U. Thursday after
noon ut 3 O'Clock.
Time of meeting Y. w. c. II. U. Monday
evening ut 7.30 O'Clock
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

The Tax Commission met at the State
House in Trenton on Tuesday and agreed to
begin taking evidence at once. The Com
mission " ill go from town TO town, hear
ing everybody who has anything to sug-
gest about how taxes should be collected
and how assessments should be made. On
September 16 and II they will sit at Free
hold; New Brunswick on the 18th; Wood
Camden, 25 and Goth; Mt Holly, Goth;
Toms River, 30th; Cape May on October I
Atlantic City, October2 and 8.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

Ne know Of a Republican paper that
makes a practice of charging Prohibitions
lists with being dishonest. And yet it is
fact that this same Republican journalhad
To be paid $500 before it would support
Gen. Grubb.-TemperaHee Gazette.
Well, don't be foolish, Doctor, Five
hundred dollars loyalty money is small
figures down this way for the average
party newspaper. 50, geo is about the pile,
and this is paid by the people in the shape
Of laws printed by authority" legal
printing and the like. 500! why the man
must be crazy.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

News for the men hat have
been awaiting the coming ofthe
Foreign Collars and Cuffs.
They are here, thousands OF
dozens, last cases opened
yesterday.
Collars, IS cents each.
Cuffs, Is cents a pair.
Compare them with any domes-
tic article at IS and 40 cents
and you'll double your hold
ings.
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The Crop Report.

The reports received for the week end :
ing Friday. August %, indicate that the
general crop conditions in all portions of
the state continue favorable. This is
especially SO of potatoes, corn, tomatoes,
and all kinds of melons, except in the ex-
treme eastern portion of Atlantic and Ber-
gen Counties where the continued cloudy
weather has retarded the ripening of o
toes. 81 far the yield of potatoes is re-
ported to be very satisfactory, and no sign
of rot has appeared. Corn continues to do
well and at this date is very promising.
Grapes in the vicinity of Egg Harbor City
will yield one-half a crop. Those in bags
are doing nicely. The heavy rains of the
week have greatly improved the second
crop of clover and pasture lands, and have
also pat the ground in excellent condition
for the Fall blowing.
Professor Smith says that complaints
| reach him from all localities of injuries
caused by the melon louise on all kinds of
melon and pickle vines. Experiments
| show that these pests are readily controlled
, by spraying with either the kerosene emul-
| sion diluted fifteen times, or by whale oil
| soapsuds at the rate of one pound of soap
to eight gallons of water. A single spray
ing, If properly done with a iue spray
nozzle, will destroy the lice. The squash
borer is equally troublesome, some grow
ers having plowed up their fields and
others losing a large percentage of vines.
At this time the only available remedy is
cutting out the borers by cutting the stem
up and down until sound wood is reached.
If the vineis healthy it will readily recov-
er. A little fine, dry earth rubbed on the
wounded surface facilitates ~callousing.
Where vines are plowed up the infested
stalks should be gathered and destroyed,
so as to prevent the borers reaching ma
turity.. The rainfall has been above the
average in nearly all parts Of the State, e
cept in the extreme southern portion, where
up to Thursday, a v ry decided deficiency
is reported. The temperature has been
about the normal at all stations.
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WE WARRANT EVERY PAIR WE SELL

Come and see them before buving
elsewhere. The popular Bay State
boot. The best wearing cheap
boot made. Outside counters,
cable sewed, half double sole. All
sizes in mems at $50 per pair.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

So you think, Messrs. Tribune, the insin-
uation on the part of the South that the
people North will be obliged to get along
without their trade, should the force bill
become n law, a trifle mercenary, do you?
Well, it has a sort of squirting that way
sure, but What are we to say Of our some
what pecunious relative, Uncle sam, who,
for a consideration, (blood money! Is will
ing to foist upon the whole people, North
ana South, that prosperous iniquity, a
government license to sell rum, compared
with which the force bill, in its worst
aspect, IS a monumental blessing. What ?
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29
Bird Doe For Sale.
Southdowu Bucks.

1t don't pay the housewife TO spend six
months or a year cutting and sewing carpet
rags and pay IS TO scots n yard to have them
woven, when she can buy a carpet just as
good ready TO put down at 81 to 40cts. Come
in and see them. f. b. Humphreys Il Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-08-29

That the people South don't take kindly
to the proposed force bill is not to he won
dered at. At the South now at this time,
at tins very hour, even, the people there
are engaged in a hand to hand, and day by
day fight with the lower forces of civiliza-
tion, aud now comes this measure which
proposes to put the bottom rail on top, and
set back tie hands on the dial plate ofdes-
tiny.
Small wonder the plan meets with so
little favor North and South. 60, 600, 600
Of people are not easily run in the small
mould prepared by Lodge and his con
forces. Large as is this country aud pop
uloas, it is not large orropulous enough to
have set of a sort Of Poland among us.
We don't care how bad the South may
have been or is, that is a matter to be
settled in some other way; We don't pro-
pose a trough on rats treatment for the
whole country because of the sins Of the
few-pot if we know ourselves. The force
bill, as every one must know, is not only
a stab at the South but at the whole peo-
pie, and as at present designed is a crime
even against the civilization Of the age.
No, no, gentlemen, there are thunderbolts
and cyclones and whirlwi nds bottled up in
that measure and we will nom ofi it.