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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17
Buraette and nuyine a Farm.

Robert Burdette writes to a man who
wants to own a farm but has not yet felt
that he could get enough money to secure
one:
Ny homeless friend with the chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar
in a ten-cent glass of gin, let me give you
a fact to wash it down with. You say
you have longed for the free, independent
life of farmer, but could never get mon
ey enough together to buy the farm.
But this is just where you are mistaken.
For several years you have been drinking
a good improved farm at the rate of 100
square feet at a gulp.
II you doubt this statement, figure it out
for yourself. An acre of land contains
43, $50 square feet. Estimating, for con-
venience, the land at s43. Sc per acre, you
see that it brings the land to just one mill
per square feet, one cent for ten square
feet. Now pour down that fiery dose and
imagine you are swallowing a strawberry
patch. Call in five of your friends and
have them help You gulp down a 800 foot
garden9 Get on a prolonged spree some
day, and see how long a time it requires to
swallow a pasture, big enough to feed a
COW! Put DOM that glass of gin; there's
dirt in it-100 square feet of good rich
dirt, worth S43. sc per acre.
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1ied.

~.DUELL-In Woodstown, Oct. 18th, Hannah
L., wife of Samuel Duell, aged 50 years.
son of Bernhart and Sophia Safe, in the 18th
year of his age.
ALLEN-suddeniy, in Salem. IN Oct. 10th,
Beulah Ann Allen, OF philadelphia, aged u
years.
HANN-In Alloway, on Sept. Goth, Ann J.
Ham, aged Is years, s months and six days.
DUNLAP-Near Deertield, oct. Sth, GAVIN
Dunlap, aged Il years.
sOCWEIL-In Cedaryille, Oct. 9th, sher-
rard socwell, in the nth year of his age:
WARE-In Bowentown, Oct. I1th, Tamson
f. Ware, in the I'D year of her age.
SANDERLIN.-In Alloway township, Oct
eth, John W, infant OF Joshua and Annie
sanderlin. aged 3 months.
RANSOM.-In Warrington township, Oct.
9Th, Mary Ann Ransom, widow OF William
RANSOM, aged Is years.
MOORE.9In Shiloh, Oct. s, Elmer Moore,
in the S0th year OF his age.
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Very sad story.

John b. Cough told the following:
a minister OF the Gospel told me of one
of the most thrilling incidents | have heard
in my life. A member of his congregation
came home for the first time intoxicated,
and his boy met him on the door step, clap
ping his hands and exclaiming Papa has
come home," He seized the boy by the
shoulder, swung him around, staggered,
and fell in the hall. The minister said to
me, Il spent the night in that house.
went out, barred my brow that the night
air might fall upon it and cool it. / walk
ed up and down the hall. There was the
child dead, There was a wife in strong
commissions and he asleep" A maj about
thirty years of age asleep, with a dead
Child in the house, having a blue mark up
on his m-.Ie where the corner of the mar
Bile steps had come in contact with the
head as he swung him around, and a wife
upon tie brink of the grave! "Mr.
Cough" said my friend, 81 cursed the
drink. lie told me hat | must remain
until he awoke, and | did. When he
awoke he passed his hand over his face and
exclaimed, "What is the matter?
Where am |? Where is my boy?' "You
cannot see him" STAND out of my
way. | will see my boy" To prevent
confusion | took him to the child's bed,
and as | turned down the sheet and show
ed him the corpse he uttered a wild shrek:
"Ah, my child!' That minister said
further to me: "One year after that he was
brought from a lunatic asylum to lie side
by side with his wife in the grave, and |
attended his funeral" The minister of
the Gospel who told me that fact is to-day
a drunken hostler in a stable in Boston.
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No Dram.shops in the valley,

ia sehool-house on every hilltop. and no
SELDOM in the vaIley."-Lieut-Gop Manning,
Of Iowa
When we've a school on every hill,
Nor dram-shops in the valleys,
our streets shall then with III thrill,
Nor murderers haunt our alleys;
The home at night shall dim the light
All tear of danger scorning,
For there shall be no drunken tramp
To burn it ere the morning.
No more the wife shall hide in tears.
The children pine in sorrow,
Because the want, the pain to-day
Drive hope from each tomorrow.
No more the bravest in our land,
Free-hearted, strong to labor,
Shall stain with crime his trembling hand,
Made drunken by his neighbor.
No more the cost for drunken broiis
Shall tax the patient farmer,
Nor commerce shrink amid the tolls
When dram-shops clothe in armor.
No more shall prisons, jails, display
our captive sons in ~fciters.
Because deaths drink took will away.
And made worse men their bet:ers.
Then speed the ~shout-earth, ring it out
Till every voter rallies,
And cries: "a school on every hill,
Nodram-shops in the Valleys
Oh, Iowa, thou monarch State,
Most lfterate through the nations.
When thon shall choose earth's foulest fate,
Let earth sound lamentations.
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Married.

WILSOS-RICHARDS-A the home OF the
bride, oct. nth, by Rev. c. 5. Miller, james p.
Wilson, of Hurffville, and Eva Nj. Richards,
of Lincoln.
WISER-POWLSON-At Trinity NJ. Il. par
sonage, Pennsville, Oct. 18th, by Rev. e.. l..
Hancock, Earnest Wiser, of Fftnkford, IA,
and Cassie Powlson, of Salem.
DOLBOW-YOURISON - On Oct. sth, at
Emmanuel parsonage by Rev. Il. e.. Parker,
VIM. V. Dolbow and Miss Sallie l.. Yourison,
both of Pennsgrove.
HARBESON-J EsS-At Trinity parsonage,
Pennsvilie, Sept. 9TH, by Rev. g.. +. Hancock,
George b. Harbeson and Miss Louisa jess,
both of Pennsgrove.
RIDGW AY-BORTON-Oc: 9th, at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, Muilica Hill, by
Friends ceremony, Henry kidgway and EliZ-
abeth BortOn.
STRIMPLE-CROSS-At Trinity NJ. L. par
sonage, Penpsville, Oct. I'd, by Rev. q. y.
Hancock, William X. Strimple and Miss Ida
B.. Cross, both of Pennsgrove.
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After we who are now living are dead
and gone (and it may not be so very long
after very many things Will be changed
from what they are at present. We have
no doubt that the future man will build
his home without chimneys and possibly
without wood. He will probably pay rent
for his water, light and heat, a paternal
government, or powerful stock company,
furnishing all the caloric necessary to heat
the dwellings, as they DOW do the water
and light supply. Tit telegraph and tel
ephone will be owned and operated by the
government, which may or may not be to
the advantage of the general public; the
coal mines will be government property,
ditto the various railroad lines ramifying
the country. The parcel express service
for our post offices will be practised here
as in Europe, and other European features
not so desirable, may also be introduced.
We believe. too, that rigid %sumptuary
laws will govern the coming man., and
that the great vice of liquor drinking and
cCitlbE "bH bt NASSAU NhtiS " BHPR1''r
belongs-among the list of other crimes
punishable by law. That our country,
the United States. will long exist as at
present We do not believe. The emigIa
ton of foreigners to this country too fast
for their assimilation to our iCeas of a
democracy, the thirst for territorial ex-
tension, the founding of great cities west
of the Mississippi, and the diversified and
incongruous wants Of a people spread
over SO " ide a domain, and above all, the
concentration of enormous wealth IN the
hands of a few, together with the in
trigues and plottiDgs engendered by our
system Of politics, is sure in a few gener-
or a few hundred years at most, to
disintegrate and parcel up this great
country into a number OF smaller soyeT-
eighties, as in countries that have travelled
very neal the same road we are now trav-
cling and have come to the same end TO
which We are tending.
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We have said all along and believed it,
that the Republicans dare not be enough
tor prohibition to offend the liquor vote
within their own party, but it seems they
have done this very thing in Kansas, and
driven over, for the time being at least,
tbs rum vote in their own ranks to that Of
the Democrats. This is the most convinc-
ing prohibition argument the Republicans
have ever offered, as we see it, and We adj
NIT its force and acknowledge ourself at
fault, so far as Kansas Republicans are
concerned. And while about it we might
as well say here and now that were We in
Kansas to day with the lines as at present
drawn, it would not be a very hard matter
for us to be a Republican.
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confident | will gettbrough that all right.
This same assurance being 9 most desir-
able modification to success throughout
life: and with a little more of this, no
yonng man would say, Il have not the
| opportunities, " but should rather embrace
the general and largely desirable education
al sources of knowledge obtaina6le
through the daily press-we beg to refer
you to the Public Ledger, none better from
which to obtain accurate and unbiased in
formation and cpinions-beside books OBJ
tainable upon scientific, literary, histor-
ical. and architectural subjects, Nc, as
well as upon moral and religious training;
these latter being a desirable as well as
essential branch of education in these
days, not mentioning their peaceful effects.
One more extract from this very inter-
esting letter which has us in tow, but first
we will mention the fact that nearly five
hundred students are in attendance at this
institution from whence the information
comes that, 81 vas out in the kitchen here
one day last week; it is a sight, they have
IA gasoline stove about twenty five feet
long; the frame and appearance is very
much like ours, only imagine it % It. long
and you nave an idea of what it is. The
range is immense. and the boilers in which
they cook The vegetables are SO big that
well, | wouldn't want to clean them out,
that is all, but everything in this room is
very neat and clean. Between the kitchen
and dinning-room is a long, very narrow
room, this is where the dishes are washed,
about fifteen women do this. they have
large pans, with spigots directly over
them for hot and cold water. 1t was just
after supper when we were out and they
were working there
In conclusion let us say it is not only of
the girls we lave been thinking, but out
among the hills one of our boy friends
is mounting the heights of wisdom also
in a like institution, sorry tits Rotthe same
one, for it is but natural to associate in
our mind the pleasant picture Of the
dear boys in company with the sweet
gifls-belieying. in short, in co education.
As a %'.finalei we submit this d~eclara-
ton. with its accompanying pathetic sui
position and showing of poetieal talent
regarding all article of diet, as 1t is lowed
to us across the Delaware: Il declare it
is nothing but beef. If should happen
to turn into a beef, wouldn't il be sad?'
we have beef roasted. boiled. baked and
fried,
Hash, beefsoup and dried
Very sympathetically, RUTH.
Woodstown, 10sh mo. 18th, 1890.
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The Camden County ProhIbitionists on
Monday filed their petition, in the Camden
County Clerks office, which dominates the
ticket named recently by their Conventions,
in accordance with the new ballot reform law.
The petition contains 2I2 names, and under
the provisions of the new law the State prints
the ballots and envelopes tor this party.
The farm of ChalRley Leconey, between
Moorestown and Colestown, was not sold on
Wednesday as advertised, owing TO a lack of
bidders. The farm consists of II acres ofland,
and the highest bid offered was Ssl per acre.
4 few were attracted to the scene by a morbid
curiosity to see the place where Annie LEGO
ney WAS murdered, but no one appeared de-
sirous of pnrchasing at the price Wanted.
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The Pennsgroye Record gives us notice
that We are supporting Mr.. Starr for Sem
ator as a temperance candidate We
really did not know before that we were
supporting or opposing any of the candi-
dates. We have never heard Mr.. Starr
spoken Of as a temperance man.
The Republican party in New Jersey is
pledged to the local option law, which
permits the voters Of any county in the
State TO hold an election and decide by
their votes whether or NOT they want
licensed saloons. AS Mr.. Starr is the can
didate of this party, it is safe to conclude
that. if elected, he will vote 18th them On
all party measures at least.
The position OF the Democratic party in
this State is well known to the editor of
the Record. They are not willing to trust
the license question to the peopl,, and will
not permit them to vote on this issue
if possible to prevent it. Mr.. Butcher is
the candidate Of this party and, if elected,
will as likely vote with his party as Mr..
Starr would be to vote with his.
Local option, from our view, is prohibi-
ton in spots. if a majority so will, and we
are willing TO take what We can get now
and wait for more when it comes to us.
That's our position, and if it don't suit the
Record man we can't help it.
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0Wanamaker's
same, rubber tire, 50. so.
25-inch wheel, $50.
Same, rubber tire, $ll.j0.
- inch wheel, $3.50.
Same, rubber tire, II -.

First a cotton warp Blanket.
Of course the cotton is out of
sight-hldden by the big, soft
warp of wool-but its being
there at all is what lets you get
a really good, generous 7-pound
Blanket at $3.50 the pair.
SoxS4 inches.
Another Blanket, 74xS4
inches, 70 pounds), s..
Still another little smaller,
G2xSo inches) and with coarser
wool in the filing, weighing
altogether seaen boAmas, at only
$3.50 the pair. We don't know
OF anything like its match at
even 81.
JoHN WANAMAKER.
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Since the literature of Count Tolstei has
come under the ban of our worthy Post.
master General, a great deal Of interest
has been awakened among the people in
respect to the author of tx re utter Sonata. -
A late authority says:
Count Tolstoi, the famous Russian au-
thor, was in early life a man of the world
in the fullest sense of the word. lie after
ward, while visiting among the wretched,
the degraded, the oppressed OF his country,
and beholding for the first time in all its
frightful significance what. is meant by '.the
worlds miserables," became profoundly
impressed with the omniprssence of
wretchedness throughout the Christian
world. The appalling picture of human
ity's woes, spectre-like, haunted his mind
so necessarily that his former life ofgayety
no longer held for him a charm. He re-
solved To study the life and teachings Of
Jesus, in the hope of finding therein a ray
of hope for humanity. He soon became
as profound a believer in the teachings of
the great NaZarene as he had before been
a wild and dissolute man of the world. In
accepting Christianity he did so In no half.
hearted way. Not for wealth, e%molument,
fame, or glory, not for the praise of man,
did he renounce his former life, as Is
seen in the change which Immediately came
over him. His great wealth was freely
given to the poor; he refused to live in
luxury while a single fellow toiled in rags;
therefore he donned the simplest garb and
devoted a portion of every day to manual
labor. 81 must earn by the sweat of my
brow my food and raiment," he declared,
and has, since his remuneration of the
world, lived strictly up to his resolve. His
food is the plainest, and he makes his
own shoes and caps. Literature is his re-
creation. His home is lrequented by the
needy, and hungry wayfarers are Hospitality
received and ever find an abundance of
plain food awaiting them. "Resist not
evil, but overcome evil with good" is a
part of the Counts creed.
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UWana1aaker's
rn1LAprLrnIA. Monday, Oct. 10. 1890.

We give more thought to
Children's Gloves than any
other house in this country.
Every proper kind in full
range of sizes. A quick glance
at the shelves show
For Misses and children:
4button Kid embroidered 75c
4button Kid, embroidered, 81
fbutton Kid embroidered, 81 %
ibutton Suede, embroidered, 81
6-button Mousquetaire suede, $l.25
s-button Mousquetiire suede, 81 90
B%iarritZ, 81
Ribbed top, cashmere, csc
Ribbed top, cashmere, SIC
Ribbed top, plated silk, SIZE
Fur topped, lined, dc
Fur topped, lined, 81
Fur topped, lined, Sl.25
Fur topped, lined, $3.50
Fur topped, lined, $I.75
Everything in Mittens-Angora-wooI, sax
ony, etc.
For Boys:
ibutton Kid, embroidered Fl
lbutton Pique Kid, embroidered sl25
1-button (Fownes), embroidered Sl.25
l-button Craven Tan (Fownes), Sl,25
Ibutton Cape (fownes), %
Boys Fine Cashmere, soc
Boys Scotch Wool, 25c
Boys Scotch Wool, 37l5c
Boys Scotch Wool, soc
Boys AstfdK nan, 1Jc
Boys Astrakh han, 81
ioys'lined Gloves, l button, 75c
Boys lined Gloves, / button IL so
Boys lined Gloves, fur topped, a
Boys lined Gloves, fur topped, SI.2j
Boys lined Gloves, $l.@
Same, fur topped, $l.75
Everything in Mittens. both single and
double.
This isn't a glove stock that's
fat one month and lean the
next, but a steady, year in and
year out assortment, never
changing except for the sea
sons-and for betterment.
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Annual meeting of the Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union of New Jersey will
be held in the Baptist church, Atlantic
City, n. J., Oct. 21st, 2ai, 23d, and Gath,
1890. Meeting of the Executive Commit
tee at 500 P. NJ in Baptist church on
Tuesday 21st.
Anniversary of '.Ys," Tuesday evening
at 7.30 in the same place.
Wednesday and Thursday evenings in
the Opera House.
Evening speakers, Miss NJ. 0. Waters,
MIS-. Clara c. Hoffman, Col. Balm. Every
body come.
SARAH j. c. DowNs, Prest.
NJ. B. ELLIS, Cor. Sec.
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Sixteen hundred new postofices opened
in the South last year is the best %certifi-
cate of character that people can show or
need to show. Multiplying postoffices
means the multiplication of communica-
ton with the outside world, and that
means the broadening and wi2ening of the
Southern idea. The new South is to be
the South of new ideas aud new eiyilizing
forces.
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The Methodists just now are voting On
the question of woman representation in
the church, and so far as the count is
known the result is adverse to the propo-
sition. All things considered, this is re-
markable. Women appear to have the
most interest in all eligious work. They
usually outnumber the men in the public
congregation, at the prayer meeting, class
meeting, choir meeting, and at meetings
of all kinds of a religious character. In
the b%enevolences of the church the women
excel when they have the ability to give,
and so on every line and in every depart
ment of church work. But on the ques-
ton of voting they timidly say nc, that is
a majority of them do, aud their votes this
fall, presumably, will settle the question
as to whether they have a voice in the
church government for long years to come.
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year instead Of Justice Brewer. But the
Indiana Republicans will oppose this just
as they did before, and as they were strong
enough to carry their point then they may
do SO again. Judge Gresham is also
spoken of, and some think that it would
be an excellent way for Mr.. Harrison to
remove his only Indiana rival. WESTON.
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Now tell me what rum will not do. 1t
will debase, imbrute and damn everything
is noble, bright, glorious and Godlike
in a human being. There is nothing drink
will not do that is vile. dastardly, coward
". sneaking or heliish. Why are we not
to fight until the day of our DEATH
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17

4 short time since the New York World
announced the fact that the widow OF Gen.
Fremont, the first Republican candidate
for President, was in destitute circumstan-
ces and the same morning DIR Wilfred Hall
sent a cheqne for 800 and another sent
500 to be dispatched to Mrs. Fremont.
One touch of nature makes us all akin.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17

A political philosopher says hat every
man has his price, That's all right, we
suppose, but how's he going to get it in
these Mckinley tariff times, is what We
would like to know?
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suppose Case.

Rev. A. B.. Leonard, writing to Tile
Christian Adpocate puts the following
query: Suppose that up to the present
tim there had not been established a dis
tillery, brewery or saloon in the land, and
none of the dreadful results of the rum
traffic had been realized; no drunkard had
reeled in our streets, no drink criminal
had been sentenced to penal service or
to death, no drink pauper had been sent
TO the p%oor-house, no drink maniac been
confined in the mad-house, and no family
had been disgraced or destroyed by a
drunken husband or father; and suppose
suddenly all these terrible evils should
appear, what would be the CONSERVATION
that would fill thei land, and what would
the people do? Would they not, fired with
righteous Indignation and destructive
wrath, rise and annihilate every distillery,
brewery and saloon in a single day?'
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CARPET WEAVING.
SPECIAL
NOTICE TO H0USEKEEPERS.

AS a good many of my friends
and patrons have got the idea that
have given up my weaving business
at Woodstown, wish to say to them
and the public in general that l am
still at Woodstown. where l am pre-
pared to weave all orders entrusted
to my care promptly and as cheap
as it ear be done anywhere. None
but the best material used. All
orders called for and carpets de-
livered. Drop me a postal and l
will call On you with samples.
a. LADD,
Allen Ave. Woodstown.
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Liberty enlightening the world has one
qualification as a lightning rod peddier.
She has a cheek of adamant.
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Gossamers of course, but it
isn't "of course that they're
genuine water-sheaders. We
don't meddle with trashy Cos
SamerS.
Gossamers for women, 81 50to$a0.
Gossamers for men, SO to St2.
Gossamers for children, 81. 30 to ST 80
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-10-17

1t is a sign of better days ahead that SO
much is said and written concerning tenn
perance. Time was when a paragraph on
temperance problems in the more impor-
tan dailies looked lonesome; when tenn
perance was touched most gingerly.
The whole temperance vocabulary is now
in constant use in the papers which mould
public opinion.
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OFFICERS Y. " c. T. o.. w~ooDsrowN:

OFFICERS Y. W. c. T. g., W~o0DSToWN:
President, Miss JOE MAcALTIoNER.
Vice Presidents, Miss MARTIE GAUNT, Miss
WARE.
Rec. Secretary, Miss Lulu WRIGHT.
Cor. Secretary, IRENE Il. SMITH.
Treasurer, Miss CORA WARE.
Time of meeting W. c. I. L. Thursday after
at 8 O'Clock.
Time of meeting Y. W. c. T. U. Monday
evening at 7.3G O'Clock
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Bicycles have more room
and thought. They shall have
still more of both, Look at
this
Tuner Sgfb, for icy or Girl,
at S25 7oM bell and lamb. S35
without bell or lamp was the
original price.
Little Giant, SIS; Gendron,
$40; Junior, $40. Each with
bell and lamp, and so on up to
sI35 for a high grade machine.
TeAoabeaeS.
l6-fneh wheel, 81. 90.
same, rubber tire, $40.
20inch wheel, 81. IS
Same, rubber tire, $5.75.
2iinch wheel, 81. "a.
Same, rubber tire, So 90.
2slnch wheel, 81. IS.
same, rubber tire, $40.
GDzS L0er z57crles.
20-ineh wheel, So -.
Same, rubber tire, $50.
2linch wheel, $3.50.
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Heavy weight overeoats have gone ont of
favor except tor those who lead II continuous
outdoor life. We have elegant light weight
ones rs low rs - 30, with satin facing and satin
sleeve lining. +. Il. Humphreys.