The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-05-15

surance on our part as a prick to their
Judgment, our ereaking is not the reflex
action OF a diseased liver. We are sound
and healthy in the chest however rnnch We
may be stricken with cynanthropy Of the
head.
'The devil is let louse'' is a saying that
has a pretty broad application in Woods.
town OF a Saturday night. What are we
coming to in THESE latter days is now the
question. Is right 10 be forever Oh The
seatfold and wrong forever Oh the throne?
An artist painted Miltou's devil black as
best expressive Of his character, and as
black is symbolic Of a great deal that is
deVilish bad 10 these parts. we think the
artist made no mistake in the selection Of
color. A few Saturday nights ago d half
dozen OF the sable SONS OF the torrid zone
we're seen staggering along our public
streets. They soon became charged with
beer and cider, aud then they set out To
paint the town vermillloD. Seldom has
IL been our lot to hear such hyena yelis
from human brutes, or to Witness SUCH dis
graceful exhibitions. The officers on duty
scented game TO fill the lookup. This
soon provoked a declaration of war. Africa
pitting itself against Ireland, reinforced by
Uncle Sam. The conflict was waged with
rocks and clubs and destiny vent up and
down in the scales, but at the end hog
| and hominy" prevailed. When the smoke
of battle cleared a.ay Africa took to the
woods and ireland sought a physician.
Ohly last week there was war again in the
air. The passer by on our streets might
have seen officers of the law armed it'll
gun and pistol and supported by civilian
adjurcts. That doughty Hawkshaw
detective Carney was in command. This
massing of forces and flourish of firearms
was not to wage war on the land of the
C8sars to settle the question in dispute in
International treaty. Ihe ultimate purpose
OF all tbs parade was to arrest {. lasciyious
Moor; or expressed in a more vulgar term
to capture a coon" After a bloodless
hunt for half a dag a %skirmishiag par.y
bagged the game while detective Carney
explored a swamp and plodded in mud ia
another quarter, he having been led off the
scent by a fact In natural history thai
coons frequent the trysting place of frogs.
When landed into town, this son of Ham
WAS as much of q curiosity to the small
boy and his bigger kindred, as was the
"Egress" to the mob in Barnnm's Hip
podrome. Scarcely Lad the excitement
of this bloodless hunt died away and the
town settled back into its inertia when a
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placed in the hands OF Marshall Hewitt.
This warrant authorized the arrest of
another ',called chile because he had a
hankeiiug for corn. This purloiner of the
goods and chattels OF other men ran amuek
of the officer of the law on Saturday night
aud as landed il goal. But before the bars
of the Jail could be swung shut Africa was
on deck ia force. Another fight ensued
between mob rule and the law and in which
petticoats took a hand. Now tina thief
runs at large to feed on corn. How long
must we submit to this defiance oil legal
authority? These exhibitions of mob force
is anarchy unclaimed. The American Gag
screamed 4 while < when Rudisi bur-
nished the pluu.es OF the Roman eagle
aud howled against Uncle Sam because
New Orleans played the devil with his pet
Mifia; aud that old bird is going to scream
again il there isn't a stop to these assaults
on legal authority. We throw our as q
pointer 10 these thugs this suggestion:
You stop this hellment, and that pretty
soon, or there is going TO be a demand for
tombstCn mes.
Fire. fire, fire, vas the cry that woke us
out Of dreams a lew nights ago. Half be-
9ildercd, hall dazed by the doleful wall,
We lea.ed out vi bed and assured ourselves
we weIe not on fire. We then made sur
vey from our window aud 10 our amaze
ment aud horror We saw the devil of the
flames holding high carnival in d wooden
structure in The centre Of the town, known
h%ereabouts as Fort Hemlock.' Another
| proyidenti4l escape was the general senii-
nent expressed aheu the flames were
STAYED. Aud so it was. The rain of the
morning and the stiffness of the air were
tile pruVlGentiai agenciss, combined with
the heroic Efforts Of cur citizens, that
saved the most yaiuabie portion of The
town. Had the ire occurred the night
before or the night after, 10 human tffsft
coaid have saved thousands Of dollars
worth Of property with the appliances at
hand. This tire, although fortunate IN its
termination, was another warning of emf
uent danger aud another argument for
efficient lire protection. And set we have
gecks arouud town owning property who
still eroak Of taxes ard use the fortunate
control of this fire as an argument in their
favor. 1t really seems as though nothing
short of a resurrection clang of the old
bell in tue church beifry aud a rampage Of
the flames that in the end will leave them
homeless and in ashes, will arouse them
to a sense Of their folly. II il well enough
to reason of providence, but it is the fool
only who reasons that providence is al
ways going to make it a special concern to
curb the forces in nature and work mira
cles to the saving Of property. The wise
in the affairs of this world take it as a
maxim, The gods help those who help
themselves" and act accordingly. MANS
extremity is Gods opportunity" When
we have done the best We can to protect
ourselves in cur property, then, and then