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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-05-29

II is said that as a rule the most stupid
and useless helps 20 a farmer, or III tact to
anyone else, is that sent out by the char
liable institutions of our large cities,
children's home, etc. This may be SO as a
rule and yet we know of some OF the real
salt of the earth graduates from these
same institutions.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-05-29

If Governor Hogg, of Texas, has really
applied for an increase of salary it is quite
apparent that his hoggship has none too
many g's at the end of his name. lie
should be put way up in G.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-05-29

1t is said that la grippe seldom kills
unless all the prescribed remedies are
taken by the patient. So too. it might be
said of those who receive advice gratu-
itously given.
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Salem Co. Orphans Court,

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.
H.. S. Fogg and Chas. II. Richman. admin:s'
traitors of Joseph l.. Horuer, deceased, by di-
rection of the Surrogate of the County OF Gu,
lem, hereby give notice to the creditors OF
the said Joseph l.. Horner, deceased, 10 bring
in their debts. demands and claims against
the estate of the said decedent, under oath or
affirmation, within nine months from the
date hereof. or they will be forever barred OF
any action thereof against the said admins
traitors.
E. 8. FOGG,
CHAS. II. RICHMAS,
Dated May 8, s9l.-58-10t administrators
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The late trial OF the dynamite cruiser
yesuyius near Fortress Monroe, is another
straw to those eastern cameis humping
their back over Uncle Sans need OF an
efficient navy,
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That Deputy Marshal says an ex-
change, referring to his thickness, Spauid-
ing, sis entirely too simple and t%rastful for
this wicked world if be supposed one
deputy, and he asleep in his berth much OF
the time, would prevent such 4 vessel as
the Itata from putting to sea whenever her
commander chose to go" and so say we all.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-05-29

If not rich ourselves we can at least
advise rich men what to do with their
wealth, which TO those OF Woodstown
would be invest literally in town improve
ments and p~atropize your home industries.
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These short term. get-rlch-in- a-hurIy
schemes. we should think would succeed
when remembering that, on an average, a
fool is born every Ave minutes of the year.
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Bring Along Your Eggs.

nUR man that we strip our eggs to writes
" us that We must send more-he don't get
as many as he wants. As we keep no hens 70
lay them, we are dependent on those VINO 90
give notice that to-day tFriday) and to.moI.
row Saturday we Will pay 20cts per dozen
Il. b. HUMPHREYS co.
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DEPARTMENT. OF THE ". C. T. u.
OF WOODSToWN, N. }.

oFY1oERs OF THE SALEM COUNTY woMAN'scHRI6T
IAN TEMPERANCE UNION:
Pres, Mrs. REBECcA =. PATTERSON. Salem.
Cor. Sec, MRS. CoRNELIA WIsTAR, Salem.
Rec.Sec., MRS. o. j. CROFT, Pennsgroye.
Treas, MRS. MAGGIE CRIsPIN, Sharptown.
oFPIcERs w.. C. t, T., wooDsTowN:
President, Mrs. HENRIETTA DAVIS.
Cor. Secretary, MRS. j. w. HUMPHREYS
Recording Secretary, ELIZA p. GIBSON.
Treasurer, MRS. AMY DAVIS.
OFFICERS wv. @. T. T., wooDsTowN:
President, Mss j oR MACALTIoNER.
Vice Presidents, MISS MARTIE GAUNT, MISS
CORA WARE.
Rec. Secretary, MISS Lulu WRIGHT.
Cor. Secretary, IRENE b. SMITH.
Treasurer, Miss CORA WARE.
Time OF Injecting w. C. T. U. Thursday after
noon at 8 O'Clock.
evening at 80 O'Clock
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pure ginger, I2c; nutmegs, SC o.;
corn starch, &c; laundry starch, GLIB
cartons, ISc; good Olene soap, &c.
We are still selling good New
Orleans molasses at 2oc a gallon.
Dealers all over the country have
caught on and are quoting a 2oc
m%olasses, but all our customers,
who have tried from other sources,
tell us there is none like ours. The
kind we sell makes good cake, and
that is what the people want it for.
Ginghams are more in favor this
year than last, and deseivedly SO,
as they make a nice, sensible
dress within the reach Of every lady
in the land, as the material don't
cost much money. We have over
40 patterns, all new and good.
Prices from &c to I2Hc.
Shantong Pongees, made of fine
combed sea island cotton, which is
finished to initiate China silk. The
colors are fast and the goods very
dressy. Satines have passed from
favor; these have taken their place.
81 inches wide, I5c.
Ladies and Misses Spring Coats.
You a save from 75c to $3.50 if
we have what you want. A large
factory in Philadelphia is at our err
vice. We can obtain almost any
kind you may need if we don't hap
pen to have it in our stock.
1t would seem a fortunate move
that brought our Ladies and Chill
dren's fine shoe stock to the corner
store under the supervision of a lady.
The new department is growing
more in favor every day. We keep
almost everything needed in ladies'
and children's footwear, and are ad-
ding new stock every few days. You
can get honest, truthful service and
as good goods of us as anywhere in
the country, at prices far below other
places, when quality is in consid-
Grafton.
Canton mattings, 25cts, very
heavy, weighing over two pounds to
the yard, new and pretty patterns.
Cheaper than carpet and much nicer
for warm weather.
Step oilcloth and step carpets.
Window shades, 25c, with spring
rollers, all ready to hang up. Dado
borders at 4oc, plain shades at IS to
4oc. Best oiled shading. This is
headquarters for these kind of
goods.
Ready-made window screens with
ash frames and covered with wire.
easily adjusted to fit almost any
window, Is and 3oe. Also black
and green wire netting for doors
and windows, from 20 to "a inches
wide, at Ioc to 25c a yard. Black
is the most popular, and d~eservedly
SO, as it don't look so common as
green. Mosquito or fly netting,
best goods in all colors, ? yards
wide, at 3Sc, 4oc and 42c a piece of
8 yards.
$500 yards best printed cambrics,
elegant new patterns, &c a yard.
Standard goods and fast colors.
Hamburg edgings, founcings and
embroideries. Every need pertain
ing to a white dress or underwear.
The best selected stock in town,
and by far the best we have ever
owned. This branch is in trained
and experienced hands now.
Wall papers. This is the season
Of the year for papering. We have
just sorted up our assortment with
an addition Of $500 pieces of new
goods. White backs at Gets, gifts
| at 10 and I2cts. Good stock to
choose from. You can brighten up
your homes wonderfully by invest
ing a dollar or SO.
E. B. HUMPHREYS & co.
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NEW RESTAURANT

YNHE undersigned has opened a new res
i taurant In the building next door i0
sMOnit0r" office, Main street, ana VIII
keep at all times a full supply off. u. Mounts
celebrated Ice Cream, Fruits, Cakes, Candies
Nuts, etc. Give us q call.
5-l5 ANNIE SHEPPARD.
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Secretary Foster says that the $4,000
900 line for June pensions will be easily
passed and nobody hurt. Then somebody
les.
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Book e. Newspaper Agency

r am now agent for the following books.
i magazines and papers:
From Manager to Throne, 600 pages.
Life OF p. r. Barnum sOo pages. price q 90
Life of Gen. Sherman, " 20
indian War of lS90-gf, Z" O
Pilgrims Progress. ~
Ladies Home journal, leo
Leisure Hours, "
The MONITOR. with premium. 60
If you want any OF these send me a postal
card and l viii bring or send them to you amy
time during the year. Address,
CyP. REEVES.
4l113t Woodstown. Salem Co, NJ.
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Notice.

THEREAFTER I will buy Poultry ana
III Squads OF Monday and Thursday AZ
Weodstown from l to4P. NJ. At YORKTOWN
on Wednesday fromNl2 to 8 p. II. AT DARE
town, Dubois store. onsThurscay from ~ w.
til 2 p. NJ. Market prices paid for All kinos
of poultry.
l624tf wILBERT HICKMAN. Agent
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Plants for Sale.

CABBAGE, Tomato, Cauliiower, Beet, Egg.
" Pepper, and all other kinds Of plants IN
season. All the best varieties, grown from
reliable seed. Call and see them before puf'
chasing. ISAAC b. COLES,
Greenhouses Creamery Ave, woodstown.
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Bridge Up.

TIME Courses Landing bridge VIII be w
i on and after Monday. April 18th, uhu'
4-iO.tf BY ORDER COMMITTEE.
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TT you have throat troubles or take coio
l. easily, call on Mrs. &. b. Grier, Main street.
near Mill street, Woodstown, and hear from
her own lips what she says about MoCoro.s
vaporizing Battery. MISS fLANAGlN, Ag~
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WYE will send our specialist on the eye
w graduate from the New York school of
Optics) to
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-19
ExEcUroR's NOTICE.

Estate Of Daniel O.Brien, Deceased.
The undersigned. having been appointed cx-
ecutor of the last will and testament of Daniel
OBricn late Of the county of Rock Island, state of
Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice that he will
appear before the county court Of Rock leland
county, st the ONCE OF the clerk Of eaid court in
the city CT Rock leland. stthe Janu7ry term, on
the Fret Monday in January next, 1t which time
all persons having claims against eaid estate are
having the same adjusted. All persons indebted
10 eafd estate are requested to make immediate
payment to the underlined.
Dated this 18th day of November. A. D.. 1881.
DAVID BROWN, Executor.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-11-19
ExECUToR's NOTICE.
Estate Of John Helttman. pecea.ed.

Estate Of John Heittmsn, Deceased.
ire undersigned having been appointed exec
utrix OF the last will and testament Of John
Heiumsn, late of the county Of Rock leland, state
Of Illinois, deceased, hereby gives notice tina. she
will appear before the county court OF Rock Island
county at the once Of the clerk Of said court. in
the city OF Rock island. al the January term, on
the fret Monday in January next, at which time
all persons having elaine against said estate are
notified and requested to attend for the purpose
of having the came adjusted. All persons in
debted to raid estate are requested TO make i'm
mediate payment to the undersigned.
Dated this 18th day of November, A. d 1891.
CHARLOTTE HEITTMAN, Executrix.
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HIeNed Literally.

pap's Indaeenent.
Teacher Why do you come to Sunday
school, my little MANI
Idttie M n-Psp said he'd cut my eass
an n / didr New York Herald.
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ON LAKE LUCERNE.

oars in the picturesque but awkward
Lucerne fashion, thought had never
seen human being with such firm,
round throat and such magnificent arms.
Her face was stolid, without expression
I have never noticed Swiss woman
who had eyes with any language-but
from the power in every line of her body
one might have imagined her, if such
Imagination were easy in poor, beggar-
ridden Switzerland, Of the heroic line of
William Tell.
Last week j. and I walked from
Visp to Zer.ratt right into the heart of
the Alps, with the peak of the superb
Breithorn anu afterward the great Mat
terhorn for our days companions, and
quite as exacting as the mountains in the
demand upon our attention we found the
spectacle of the Swiss women moving.
We had seen them the week before at
the foot of the Rigi, and both there ard
in the Zermatt Valley they appeared to
be quite as efficient workmen as the men,
swinging the straight-handled scythe
that made them bend over cruelty with
slow regularity, without much ambition
in it, but with steudiness of stroke that
hardly admitted of their lifting their
eyes as we stared our curiosity frankly
in passing. A man aud a woman, of
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WHILE Ireland is becoming depopu'
lated by emigration, the remaining
residents are becoming denationalized.
Thus while the population of the island
has decreased 46S,674 in the past de-
cade, the number OF Irish immigrants
who arrived in America in the same
period is 655, ,4S2. The difference OF
nearly 100000 is not wholly due to
births, but is in large part attributable
to an influx of foreigners, most OF whom
are skilled workmen from England and
Scotland, particularly the latter, who
find employment in the ship building
industry in Belfast aad in the large
mills in Counties Tyrone, Antrim and
Derry. A system of manual training
schools to enable Irish boys and girls
to acquire these trades would 90 far to
stop emigration and promote prosper
ity. Afew years ago Irish harvesters
earned big wages in Scotland, where
they went in thousands every autumn.
Now many farmers in the central ooun-
ties of Ireland find it necessary to I'M
port haryesters from Scotland.
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COMING HOME FROM THE sTATloNs
J-is not used to having his luggage
carried by women and he looked comic
ally uncomfortable. "Come," said our
host, who for some years did business in
New York and speaks most excellent
English, "come, she will fetch every
thing"
She did; she plodded behind US, her
little. wiry, brown arms showing between
the clasps of her wide, stifly starched
white sleeves. She wore black stuff
bodice of peasant pattern, laced over a
starched white blouse; she had e white
cap on her head, and she was more in
teresting than the wild swans on the lake,
than the old water tower beside the
clear, emerald-green waters Of the River
Reuss, or than the one-franc shops with
their bargains in carved lions and salad
spoons.
When she had put the big bag on the
floor and the little bag on the table of
our room she took the pitcher to 60 for
fresh water, for she was our hosts very
efficient housemaid. She asked me this
morning if the polish on my boots was
to my satisfaction. But it is the out
door work of Swiss women that is best
worth talking about, not what they do
in houses. The condemnation of the
Continental system of the outdoor en-
ployment of women is universal in
America, where the woman who stands
over a range fire in fat kitchen iron
ing in the heat of July day shudders at
the hard lot of woman who has dog
to help her pull light cart holding
milkcan. l do not think that out of the
scores snd fifties of columns printed an-
nually upon the subject ever saw a line
in English defending the Swiss or Ger.
man practice, and yet there is some
thing wonderfully interesting and sug-
gestive in the fact that the physique OF
the women of the working classes of
whole nations is such as to make possible
the scene am now looking out upon.
A heavily laden freight barge is CON-
ing down Lake Lucerne. 1t is piled
high with bales and boxes and the
trunks of travellers. 1t is propelled by a
dozen or fifteen oarsmen, about eight of
whom are women. All stand erect IN
double line and push, each upon a long,
heavy oar. A man is "stroke" on one
side, a woman on the other. The brown
figures in their dark cotton dresses, with
kcrchiefs about their head and bare mus
cular brown wrists have nothing about
them suggestive of feminine grace, but
their sturdy vitality, though it be of
somewhat slow, clumsy order, is far less
saddening than the colorless skin, the
narrow chest, the stopped shoulder and
the thin arms of the woman shut up
all DAY IN Kitchen or snop or factory.
This morning I watched for some time
a woman in a small, clumsy boat with a
load of vegetables. Her brown dress
was turned away at the throat for the
sake of GOODNESS, and as she stood to her
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Hard Shell Crabs of the Chesapeake,

With hard crabs the Chesapeake might
easily supply the world: All thai
region is aswarm with them. The fish.
ery is inexhaustible. No attempt has
ever been made to catch them-nor soft
crabs, for that matter-save near shore,
when these interesting crustaceans choosa
to walk up out of the depths for feeding
or spawning purposes. 1t is impossible
to imagine that the crab fishery of tha
Chesapeake could ever be used up. The
Crisfeld (Md.) fishermen get all theil
crabs in the immediate neighborhood,
but should the fields now worked be ex-
hausted, unlimited supplies may be pro-
cured little further off. Hard crabs
are mostly taken on long lines buoyed OF
ytaked at the ends and baitcd at inter-
vals with tripe. Every few hours the
fishermen 20 along the lines in boats and
with hand nets gather in the crabs that
are clinging to the bats. Fifty to sixty
cents hundred is the usual price for hard
crabs paid to the fishermen. The prin-
cipal hard crabbers at Crisdeld ship their
own crabs, and are thus able to get bet.
ter prices. Hard crabs are very hardy,
and require little care in shipment. They
are simply crowded into boxes and bar
rels, without ice or moist seaweed, and
very few die. Two firms at Crisfield
make business of extracting the meat
from hard crabs and shipping it in bulk
to market. where it is chiefly used at
hotels and restaurants for salads anc
'sdeviled crabs" Preliminarily, the
crabs are boiled. From sixty to seventy.
five crabs are usually required to yield
gallon of meat, which is packed in tin
buckets and shipped with ice around it.
The crab pickers are women, as a rule,
who hold themselves in readiness when
the shippers have orders to ill. They
become wonderfully expert through prac-
tice, and are paid by the quantity Of
meat they produce. Abou: 81, 900 crabs
are utilized in this way yearly, Yielding
about 420 gallons of meat at Sl.2O q
gallon.-Me.1 York San.
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ITO BE Continued

MIR. CARL BENSON, OF Minneapolis,
was sent for forty five days to the
county Jail. His offense was q light
one, amounting only to the misappro.
priation of $4,000 of the funds of the
bank with which he was connected.
There is alarge and enterprising class
in every community which would &c
regularly into the business of misap-
preparation if it were certain that the
penalty would be no more than i'm.
prisonment for one day for each 500
stolen, and that in county jail where
there is no hard labor, and where the
convict does not lose his mustache or
wear the ignominious stripes. It is said
that there are mitigating circumstan.
ces in this case which account for the
leniency of the court. Had there been
few more of these the men would
probably have been discharged from
custody with gift of chrome.
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The noon meal, have human look, anC
when it comes to carrying mortar and
working on the roads, which, however,
one has to step out of Switzerland and
into Germany to see, it is not to be sup
posed these are idyllic tasks for either
men or women, but there's not so much
to choose between washing floors or
blankets and either, and the women who
do the outdoor work have this advan-
tage. They are splendidly, if clumsily,
strong; and would it not be fine thing
if in kindlier civilization women did
not, in gaining many privileges, give up
the most valuable bodies as good, every
whit, as their brothers?
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ter of heredity, for wood-bringlng ls
woman's work, and man would think
it beneath his dignity.
This IS the point where the thorn IN
the women's sides really pricks, the dit
ference in rank ascribcd to outdoor
tasks. which appear to the stranger ex-
actly upon an equality, but between
which a great gulf lies, marking them
out to men and women. Cutting grapes
in the grape harvest would demean a
man as much as washing dishes, while
carrying the grape baskets down the
long alleys between the rows OF vines is
eminentlv dignifd and masculine.
A man will not attempt the things
which belong to woman's outdoor Ia
bors, looking down upon them no more
and no less than docs the average man of
the Western Continent upon kitchen and
din1ng-room duties. Yet in many things
man and woman work side by side, and,
leaving wholly out Of account the rea-
sons why women do field work or the po-
sition they occupy while dong it, 1t Is a
little hard to believe that the work itself
is not more wholesome and more pleas
ant than bending over factory loom or
a sewing machine.
The harvest picnics, when the babies
lie in the shade under the trees, and men,
women and girls gather about them for
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carried in a chaise porteur by three men
and woman, and j. and I fetching
up the rear.
The young Britons masculine were full
of energy, continually outstripplng their
party; the young Britons feminine were
full of thirst, and were restrained almost
by force by their brothers from drinking
the delightful Swiss spring water, which
every Briton born confuses with glacier
water, and regards as deadly poison; the
middle aged Briton feminine was full OF
qualms and tremors, and we who bota-
nized leisurely behind them were full of
interest in the broai shouldered woman
with the brown immovable face, from
whose head the perspiration dripped, but
who never dreamed of making the fuss
about the moutain path that was made by
her animate burden.
(which would you prefer" asked,
"to have your maid novel read you to
sleep every night until you couldn't use
your feet for flesh, or be vital and Wig
orous enough to be able to carry your fat
sister,"
And then we looked again at the two
women.
The fagot-carrying is one of the
things that is always most surprising to
people who don't know that women are
not necessarily, and under all circum-
stances, the weaker vessels. A woman
will bring down from the forests upon
her head load under which man
could not stagger two rods. Their ca
pacity in this direction is perhaps mat
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Carrier Pigeon Spies.

An officer of the German army says
that several carrier pigeons have been
caught near the Russian frontier bearing
letters containing information about Ger
man military affairs, frontier fortresses,
maps, etc. These pigeons are presumed
to be in the service of the Russian Gov
ernment. Similar discoveries have been
made on the Austro- Russian frontier.
An order has accordingly been given
that all carrier pigeons found crossing
the frontiers shall be shot.-Picoyur's. +
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CHAPTER XII.
NoEL's rERIL

She spoke with wild intensity; her eyes
we're very wide. the curls were blown
about ner race ana neck, and she seemed
10 have been running hard.
sTo murder mel" exclaimed Noel.
What can you mean, Gwendoline? Who
jare coming to murder me?"
s sBoncourt and his sister, or, rather,
sthe former urged on by Madame Romeo.
willie, Lock the door first. There!
THANK heaven. he can't steal or burst in
tnpou you while I am explaining myself!
lOn, Noel! What has happened between
Ivou and that woman2 How can she have
become so suddenly fury, and against
iyou?"
SIS she so? 1 rejoice at that! For bet
Itsr to challenge her fury than her con-
I4iuusd affection after what has Glanced.
y have tound her out to be miserabiy
false and unworthy-I have spurned
and repudiated her, Gwendoline. find,
Z too, heaven be praised, that have like
wise been self-deceived-that l never
really Lowell her bit. but was only fas-
,cinated by her Lamia spell. Look on
that IT, BILE; I was writing as you entered;
i3t was letter to you. telling you every
thing. Now, let nee know Of my peril,
which already feel is averted by your
angelic presence.
Il will be as brief as possible. though I
1eeI now somewhat relieved IN knowing
that you cannot be stolen upon unswares,
: said Gwendoline, speaking with hurried
eseerness not otwithstanding. i have Just
I come running from the grounds OF JAS
mine Lodge.