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Morning and Day of Reform from Washington, Kansas • 3

Morning and Day of Reform from Washington, Kansas • 3

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THE M015NINO AND DAY OF KEFOIW. SA VE TUB CHILDREN. l'LUOK AN It I'llAYEU. from hell to heaven. Do you see it, gentle- little higher and cover the old hay-maker up!" Harvey said, as he dipped up a handful of water to wet his head.

ting. I believe true happiness ofteuer looks out of the window of an humhle homo than through the opera-glass of the gilded box of a theater. I find Nero growling on a throne. I find Paul singing In a dungeon. I find King Ahah goiii to bed at noon through melancholy, while nearby IsNahotb, content Just then, however, a lishbit at Harvey's lneni1 Look at that crowd at the workhouse, at the prison, at the treudruiU, at the lunatic asylum, and down in the graveyard, 'and then look at these bright and lawny faces, and remember they were once like these; and now I.

vey we agreed to dig a "tornado hole" before unother summer a cellar out of doors, to be covered "over with planks and turf, with a trap-door to drop into it by. AVe dug the hole it is all ready and when we see another black balloon coining, we are going to cut and run for it. An lltiwin lUnj in Youth's CumiMnion. hook; then another look iny bait, and 1 hauled a big fellow In. Then the lisli seemed to all There wa'n't liiiy use freltliiK, An' 1 (ol.

I oliiuliiih so, Km el' ill' couldn't Imlil on thliiKS, We'd just '''in '1'liciu were lulu hi folks that'll suuVr Almiir with Hit' rest ul' im, An' II didn't seem Id Iim worth our while Tn make such a ilrellli) fuss. To lie Hurt', the barn was 'most empty. An' corn uii' pel-Inters wii'w, An' licit much ol iinylliiiiK plenty an cheap Hill wilt er im' apple suss; Hill then US I told llhltdlllll II miir HUH til III'IULII. "Six years ago the citizens'1 league was organized in to prevent the selling of liquor 'to minors. When they began their work, they were horrilled to discover that from i'UiOi) to boys and girls were annually passing through the saloons of the city, in great numbers, from the saloons to its police court, its Uridewell, and back again, perennially recruiting its army of drunkards and other 'Nor were all the minor wake up at once.

We caught five in less than three minutes, and the spot grew so exciting ed in the possession of a vineyard. Hainan Prime Minister of Persia, frets) himself almost to death because a poor Jew will not that we forgot how fearfully hot it was. lint suddenly wo became conscious of some (Temperance 13oilcD Domi. go with trembling, and 1 ask what hellish potion has transmuted fair children into beings like thatV Something has done it. tJod has done it.

Oh, no! (iod "It is not My will that one of them should perish." Then I ask, hat has been the cause of this horrible transmutations' I speak to them as thing unusual; a strange sensation which tip his hat, and Ahithnphel, one of the great r'or llcsh an' blood couldn't, slim' II; an' lies lawyers of Uiblo times, through fear of came from the air, ami of an unnatural still Itkl 114 II II1IIU lllll Olllll dying, hangs himself. The wealthiest man bootblacks, the children of topers, and young vagabonds, generally. Mr. Andrew I'axton, ness. Tbo air seemed dead and oppressively lmavy; it fairly bore us down, and the effect Tiik lioer Kurileri fellows vojo us thoy brny Mkv.

R. E. Hai.r Hilvoeales that lieenseil Ihjiior lealers be reiiiireil to wear a uniform. THE Fourth of July this year will be celebrated in the agent of the league, examined closely in they hustle at the workhouse door lor a night's lodging. "How is it you are here?" forty years ago in New York, when congratulated over his large estate, replied; "Ah, you don't know the trouble I have in taking care of it." liyron declared in his last every county of lowu as a Jubilee it's the drink that has done it." I go to the man as he comes off the treadmill-! to parentage and habits and the alarming fact came to the surface that in every five" found in saloons, they had been attendants of some Sunday school of DmtiNO Mr.

Murphy's temperance work in Scotland neoiilu Hiu licit llie total abatlneiieu pleilKO. did do ho, and I said, "How came y'oti that bo had never seen more than twelve happy days in his life. I do not believe he was such that it seemed as if my head would burst. At any rate, my head felt very strangely. "This is queer weather," Harvey said, drawing up bis lines and looking around; and when he spoke I noticed, and so did he, that his voice sounded strange; "Let us pull back to the landing-place," I said, for I thought possibly mi earthquake or John II.

Uounil has irone to Denver to lecture there here?" said he, "I was once a scholar MrM'axton found that boys espe had seen twelve minutes of thorough satis for the lb-Hi time, and he will speml three nionl lis oil the Pacillc coiihI. in vour school, but the has done cially, and some girls of families of means, it." i faction. Napoleon I. said: "I turn with disgust from the cowardice and selllshness At the clone of his third week In Ohlemro. Francis education, good morals, and often of high 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 had prevailed uiioii fi.iM) to bikii the total ab Christian profession', were more constant pat stinence pludtfo.

1 speak to the poor outcast on the street, as I did the other night, and "how came you at of man. 1 hold life a horror, death a repose. Tiik ice is a man niuned Ice In the nenltentiarvof AVhat I have suffered tho last twenty days is- something of that kind was at hand. rons of beer gardens than were the children nf low and largely so because they this terrible work?" The tears stole down West Virginia. He froze on to somebody else's beyond human comprehension." While on the "l'es, let's do that," replied we her young face, a bright and bonny face; as were kept in pocket money by their unsus llntlaws! vf you'd only hoerd linn, Al liny hour of tlic nliflil, A-tiraviii' "lit lli'il closet there, Tivould have made you crn.y ipiilc.

I piilchcd tli" kin-UN of those trousers Willi cloth llinl whh iiowuyH thill, Hut II seemed an cf lliti pieces wore out As fiiHl as 1 set 'fin in, To mi' Hiiid iiiliflily llttlo (II llm thorny way wo troil. llni al IftiMt dozen limes lny lli'lalkcil il over with liod. lliiwii im liiH knees In that closet The most of his Mine was passed, r'niObndiiili knew lmw to piny Much better than liow to fust, Hut I am Unit way cnntnlry That el' IiIiiks don't jest riiflil, 1 led like rolliii' my sleeves up liii(li An' irellin' reiuly to llifht. An' tin; RimitH I slew Hint winter 1 ain't li-iiin' to talk iilmul An' I didn't oven complain to (lod. TliiniKli 1 tliluk llml lie round it out, With the point of a cambric needle I ill ii tho wolf from I he floor.

Kin' I knew that we needn't starve todealli Or lie lazy because were poor; An' (Ihiuiinli lie wonileii'il, An' kept me patolilu' his knees, An' thoiiKlit it Btiaiijji' liow the meal held -out. An' strung-cr we didn't freeze, Hut 1 said to nivsclf In whispers: "Unit knows where His (fill descends; An' 'lisn't iilways Hint ttiilh Kits down As tar tin the linifer ends." An' I wouldn't have no one reckon My (Hiailiuh a shirk, fur some, you know, have the gill to pray, An' others the. (fill to work, Harper's Weekly, The Fiiloon-kcepers have resolved to "linni? togeth she said, sir, the drink has done And er. That Is riKiit. They have caused a large number of persons to hamf separately.

other hand, to show how one may be happy under tho most disadvantageous circumstances, just after the Ocean Monarch had been wrecked in the Knglish channel, a both took to the oars. AVe had pulled no more than a dozen strokes when a strange noise -like nothing I can describe a sort of murmuring caused us both to look round up pecting parents. The last annual report of the league shows that through its labors there has been a large diminution in the then came the sad story a story that might he written in blood. She said, "My father is I.tOtJim men who are so certain nrohibitioii can a wesieyan Memoiii.st local preacher and a never prohibit iiiIkIiI consent to try It for the sake of lilllliiliuliliK the tenijierance people. freqiienlatiou of drinking places by minors, steamer was cruising along in the darkness, although the evil yet retains terrible proper class leader.

(She told me where be wtis.) I was brought up a teetotaler. I went out to a Uass'b irrcat brewery in KiikIiiiiiI includes six acres the river. And there, all up in the north and west was tho strangest, wildest sight I ever saw. when the captain heard a song, a sweet song. of beer barrels; and it is estimated that the beer from It is to be regretted that other cities coming over the water, and he bore down It Nils up, each year, ubout six acres of jfi'iivo-yani.

Sunday-school holiday and they took us into have not imitated Chicago in the formation of toward that voice and found it was a Chris Tho clouds were not black, but they seemed Tiikiie Is a nresenliiueut that a ireneral nolitlcal a public house." gentlemen, when will citizens' leagues; all boys and girls, every tian on a plank of the wrecked steamer, sing revolution Is near at hand, and with it will fall the rule and power of John Itarleycoru. IMonitor you that where there is drink to be swirling round, streaming up with frightful swiftness toward the zenith! It was just where, need protection as well as the boys and girls of Hut where we were, not a breath of Of course "prohibition don't urohlbit." That Is there is iilways danger. I wish every one here could have Seen that tear-bathed face and that quivering lip as the child said to ing the tune of St. Martin's: Jesus, lover of my soul, me ti Thy liiisina lly. While In liillows near me roll, illie I Im U'iiiiet still ia liifi li.

why the whisky men and whisky iiaiiers like it so air was stirring. 1. Have you noticed how hard they arc working Insecure it' Lllelt'ast Hecord. "It's a tornado I There's a cyclone com The heart right toward (iod and man we me; "We went into the public house and they gave me something to drink, I don't Tho United Stales Brewers Association have order ing!" Harvey exclaimed. "We must get are happy.

The heart wrong toward (iod ashore." know what, but," she said, "1 was insensi "Ours to work as well as pray t'leariuic thorny wI-oiiks away; IMtiekink" up the weeds of sin, J.i llinir heaven's warm sunshine ill." JJnnD of Dope. and man, we are unhappy. ble. I don't know what happened, and then Almost before the words were spoken, I ed a poll of the brewers and their employees, with a view to political orKiiui.ation. 1iquor has koiio Into politics, and the tcmpcrauco people have concluded to go ill too.

Ih'nt it about time to try liiRli lieenso on polygamy? How would the "Ohio idee" of (Traded license do? Say $utnj for two wives, 1,000 for live, and tor marryiuK a female seminary or more. (LEO 1UUA I (I- IIREA KINO. in the morning, 1 went home and we bad caught sight of something out through the C'hevis, of Kentucky, and Jieauchamp, of family prayer. 1 knelt down ith the rest of trees, above the landing place, that fairly made my hair rise. It was black as ink, Through the adoption of the local-option the children and while father Avas praying I Ohio, are working up Tennessee.

They are a strong team. law by eighty-seven of the 138 counties of felt that I waa staining them all. 1 said I AN ADDRESS. ilY ltKV. tlAltliKTT.

There was a beautiful picture published at the close (if tlit) American centennial. The picture was full of bonny, bright faces -a wonderful variety, and a variety beeau.se Georgia, over half lie state has lieen trans annottell 1-will "leave them. They three or four hundred feet high, and looked like an immense balloon painted black. With the lower end just touching the ground. We formed into temperance territory.

Among Harry White, the irrepressible (i, W. shall never hear of me' again, and lied from tho devices resorted to by the thirsty residents both dropped our oars and grasped the side of A whisky paper bewails the fact that tho moon is uninhabitable, from which we Infer that some saloon keeper has been up thul-e looking for a location. If not, it is about the only place they hav'ut prospected. "SthaipTino at a H-nat and swallowliurn camel." An apt Illustration of it is in the aetof the New Vork Icirisltiirc, which recently prohibited lie sale of oleo- i nuurarine, but refused to touch the saloons. The Baltimore llnntist thinks "It would be a icood of Ohio, has been quite Hick with erysipelas, but hopes to be in the field again soon.

of liquoiless districts was that of that having The drink hasdone it." Dragging her down in her beauty, as well as the young man in his strength. And'so the answer the boat for we saw, whatever it was, it created by the Almighty, for 'od never re whisky sent to them from other places O. would be on us in another minute! lieats himself. Kvery child is tin original, and Mrs. M.

L. AVells, I'd' Indiana, is campaign Jugs needed for this trallic came to be if that in lost there never is and never will be The strange murmuring sound had increas in such demand that the earthenware works conies in horrible "'The drink has done it," "The drink has-done it," "The drink has done it." Nothing but drink could ing iu West Virginia. She speaks at the Put-man county 4tb of July celebration. another to take that child's place. And there tlihiK if some speakers would in trill with Tennyson's Hoi of the brook, may come and inen limy ro, hut I im nil It irives the audience some Idea of the state, which bad been dying of innni- ed to a horrible roaring, and above it we heard loud crashes like thunder-claps! It struck thev were in their wonderful variety, and I of what they have la store." tion, had a rush ot husiimss, and -to, out) such have done it.

a-ejul across the bottom, "We tire going to tin the oil-nut trees by the boat-landing, and ou-nut uus im, uo.ii-i.iiiiiing, mm Willard attended three state conven Here is a bouse and the drainage is bad. A jiext centennial." None of the grown up peo jugs passed IhroiHl the express com- Arrimeon Mr. Carlisle was elected speaker of the everv leaf and small limb seemed to (1 nnoff house of representatives by the help of the whisky pailies' hands Since January 1. Till! temper- 1 riiuf. and seJins to be their most obedient vassal, he is 1 Ihn.n ml IP i.li mill l.L.lj- Sff.kl.St I 1.,.

14' .,,..1 if sucked into the tions during the week beginning June 15, poisonous gas' exudes. It steals through all iile will be there, but some of these ill hi them, as vast, black, globe. West Virginia, Ohio and Missouri. said to be a total abstainer himself, and his wife sets she same example that Mrs. Huycs did al ance jK'opltt made the point that under the the house.

You-hear your friends talking there, 1 bey were going to the next eeiilen Not leaves and branches alone; the great United States laws dealers could only sell at about" it. The drainage, is bad, One child jiial, and that is true of the children around whirling, roaring sphere gathered up every Mrs. 'Mary A. Woodbridge the Indefatigable their place of business, and that a sale O. Mn.

HeciioKON Bays In the Sword and Trowel that 'supertieinl l-clitfiou will always lie fashionable be-. sickens. Another dies. The father says us to-day they are going to be the fathers thing in its course! Iu that moment of its president of the Ohio W. V.

editor mid mothers, the future legislators, the sweeping down upon us, I saw fence-rails, cause it docs not require sell-denial. A man may lie outwardly religious, and yet be private tippler, but he cannot be a true Christian at that rale. of Antaulim nt lit mid has been seriously did not come within the meaning of the law. To satisfy themselves I. Myers of Savannah, appealed for a decision to "This is a serious thing.

I am losing my children. What is the Sorht'body says, the drainage wants looking future church members, the future ministers, cart-wheels, calves, hoards, green-corn, pigs ill. AVe trust that by tills time she is conva Rome of the best artillery work done in the temper The future is within our grasp, if we are only ance warfare -has Deen by anon harrar, ol West tons of hay, and lots of sheep, all whirled round and round together, a hundred feet up after. There is a poisonous gas in the house," lescent, for the is a general that can illy be spared wine enough to seize it. the Internal Revenue Commission at Washington, and have just received a reply to the minister Abbey, lie quotes the distiiiKUislicdstates-iinin, C'obden, as saylntf that the temperance ri-loi ni is at tho foundation of all reforms.

Nonsense," says the old man. "Doison, in Somebody old mo this week of a man work in the air! And on each side of it a shower fleet that the temperance people are right. deed! Slow poison! I have lived in the of all these things, living and dead, was rain Hon Tnof.kkhi.i. wnnts ltepublicans to stopslliurlnir Miss Jennie I luty, who is never ojf duty house lifty years, and my grandfather was a ingin connection witlt the Hand of Hope, and a friend said to him, "Why do you spend voiir time in tulking to lot of children? mud at each other. As long as so small a ereatiireas ed down like hail.

except through illness, has been dangerously JUoman'o JUorh. Hob will keep on sliiiRintr mud al the Most II lull he hundred when he died, and he lived here, AVhen the lower end of this horrible mael cannot e.H-et. other human atoms to forego the sick at her home iu Cleveland. Miss Willard Why not talk to the adults who can under pleasure in naving usny ill eavn oilier. tcincinnall News-Journal.

strom touched the river, the water rose up and you say it is poison, indeed. No, but I'll tell you what I'll do. I will have the house requested the prayers of the National W. C. in Texas devotes to the stand youT' And the young fellow drew a white stream into the black, dusty mass, I.ahs Oi.sen Smith the ureal "brandy klinr" of IV fot' her recovery A liaptisl sister laird's cause all the Sunday.

eggs laid by her hens on new papered." let they He says. himself up and said, "I ant talking to the With It shrill, hissing noise, like the tearing Sweden, has been converted, unil I will (rive up liquor 'to use I ho m-lliiiK. I iiiiiii, il in in-Mi-i, in- bj I will get them some new Ire gel i ladies and gentlemen of the next generation. of a thousand pieces of cloth. All this iu a Moliii'TJ; Finch was elected (irand Worthy money I havcimincd in dcmornli.iiiu and poisoning the in'imle in umlobui'.

as far as possible, the mischief them new clothes, and yet the children sicken Yes, what yon make the children, the future moment; and then it struck us that whiz t'liiitl iit tin nnmi'il fliinu'mii nt Miss Fanny Kverett, aged eighty-two, has that unwittingly 1 created." and die. ue will get them a rnnv i o- zing, roaring whirlwind of dirtgrass, fence- been postmistress of West Foxborough, A sai.oon-KKKI'KIi. named Von llori-n. u-ot a uni of will he. Neglect the children, and there will he dishonor, take euro of the children and train them up in temperance and Christianity, iii hi rn-i? Mi-itrri ill lllviu, U1IU lljcy I1UVC i.

posts, corn, dust and water! And up we went for tweiilytive years. a. ihii i iniv'iviii lie il iiwwt-i iiiiut-j his deserts iu this city Inst week lor sellinx' liquor to liovs. Ho was lined f.UHL and unless naid. to work it, mid yet the children sicken and die.

lie into the dark! The boat, with us in it, was Mr, l-luili's dii-eotioii that will make the dry out the amount In the House of Correction, lie iniirht to have (folic to Jail thirty daysou each chai'KC, says, "1 cannot understand this." fsomeliody and there is a future before our country that whirled out of the water into the swirling air Mrs. of Chicago, has lieen appointed matron of the county jail, on the bones (pinko. In a. ion ion, as i lie law allows. it.

inctnro ficws. says, "Is there not an Jigent, a material agent no imagination can conceive. Therefore, he- liL-A lunff 1 i uii-if't ttiie. recommendation of the Woman's Club. it work? is there not a iwiisonous gas iu the cause of the importance of the children, a tt I onk oi ine iiitfii-ioucu mves in inicjufo, a puiee cession Of heavy thumps illlil blows, as I Citing where thieves anil prostitutes of both scai'S t'ouu-re- AV, N.

Denny of Viiieeniies suggests u-aie ill uirirc milliners, huh sum willed reaus "Oh!" he says, "I have done every rejoice that there is such an organization as to the gunwale; then I was dimly conscious in the MmMW-Jnmnm that a monument to "Choice family liquors our specialty." Tlicslirii inav Mrs. liarlier, a lady of l'lacerville, Idaho thing." "No, you have not." AVhat have I ho correct ciidukIi, only the word Hellers is spelled of being whirled over and over in the air; and territory, works twelve hours a day in a hy this to protect them from the dangers to which they are excised. I speak of danger wiiinx. Itievei not done?" "You have -not removed the our dear 'Auretta Hoy be erected, "not a monument of stone, but an orphan asylum then, for a time, I knew nothing more alaiut It Is remarkable Hint hitrli liienseis not thnutrhl of cause. Keniove the cause and the effect will draulic claim in order to supiMirt an invalid husband, and waits upon him besides.

It is to the children; ami I ask you is there any it. cease. I do not object to your' new paper, utterance that arouses the interest and emo The next I did know though I hardly knew mn tor ai'viioinf inn: we cannoi )irnliid-it." exii-il the saloon bllMiuess. It works to a i-liiiriu there, we are told, but its most entlisiastie Cln-intiau friends never think of niiniyiuu: It to uiiythinir else. asserted that the time a man siends in tak for the homeless children, victims of intemperance und let it culled the "Auretta Iloyt Orphan It is a beautiful idea, and Indiana ought to act upon it.

tion of any human being as the the declara that for a while it was raining softly on me; your new clothes, your new governess (I hope you treated the old one ell), I do not object ing a drink and lighting Ids pipe she spends National American. I heard drops pattering on leaves, then a making comforts for her sick provider. How A RKi.iniot'H pxclianirw says: "Aiiionir the regula tion that a child is in dangers Nothing will arouse a crowd like that. I was down at Mull the other day; the street was busy; it terrible sense of pain and diz.iness came upon is this for poor, weak, protected woman to a prayer-meeting, but I say So long as you keep the destructive agent in your yon will have the destruction. the tions of a newly formed church of the Zulus, in Soiiili Africa is the following: 'No member of this church shall Im' permitted to drink the Iwhile man's or me.

I could bear iny heart flutter; my whole Miss Aila 'Archer, our AV. C. T. IT. presi near the time of the departure of a train; l.efore her departure for Kuropei this sum- I lxnly felt prickly, as one's arm will when by native beer, nor touch it nil ins (ioon lor detatch a few mcmlicrs.

of I'ableqnahj Mrs. Stapler, president of the Cherokee "nation, and Mrs. llartels, pres destructive agent and 'your iJiildreti? "nre unfortunate bridge that opens across the mer, Mrs. K. L.

Stewart, of New ork, fol- chance he hits hits the end of an elbow. I roin that church and sem from that church and send them as missionaries to saved." this country. lowed the example of Miss Wolf and Mr. felt chilled, too; and it seemed as if months ident' of the Deleware nation, will be among rstreetwas likely soon to lie Hung up, and nii-iless the intending passengers got speedily Need I make the John Hull At tiik session of the prohibition home protection Astor, and generously deposited S.j.ootl in the passed, while I still lay in that painful half- our Indian delegates to the National AV. V.

has the house, and the destructive agent is party, in 1'lulHdclphia. on the -d platlnrm was adopted rcconuiic mUnir, principally, the suppression tinted States Trust Company to used by conscious condition. At last I liccauie fully across they would miss the train. Cabs and a sorts of conveyances were hurrying past. T.

U-atSl. Louis, and A. Ivey, and Comel-ious ISoudiuot will come as fraternal dele ilcohol, and lie" says, "We'wilJ have better the Children's Aid Society in building a lodg- conscious, and roused up. I was cold and in i.f maidenly there was a cry "the ing-1 se for homeless Iwys. This is the great pain, and for awhile I could not move of the liiiior trallic and compulsory education.

An ainendiuetit favorable to asserting the political rights of women was voted down by a decided majority, and the report of llie minority committee, in favorof sullranfo outriKliti carried by -Hi to id, amid (rreat applause. houses." It tloes not do, be has got the alcohol there. He says, "AA'e will have belter gates. These gentlemen are both prominent my arms." it -was dark, and raining gently, iu the councils of the Cherokee nation. stopped.

They forgot there was such a thi.ntf il they forgot there was fifth of these house. thus endowed by kind friends of this charity. ichers," but the alcohol is there. "We will ftdt the rain on my face, and heard it on the Tiik llanifor Commercial has been trylnir to (ret up have prayer -meetings," lint the alcohol will Jennie Smith, the 11. II.

Kvangelist, savs: The names of two women were in the lists broken-down corn, iu the midst of which I lay. I was wet through, and covered with mud and another little boom niriiinst the amendment by ouoi-iuir several well known antl-prohiliitinn men of llaii- do its deadly work. I say, "John l'-ull, re The way has opened in our railroad orklie- such a thing iC possibility ol missing it and whys' A iV' waif, 'running he- hind a gentleman's Cuvriage, had missed his footing, and his little utm was caught in the move the cause and the effect will ifur as opposed lo it. Is ut tins IIiiuk annul played out? Kor lousiness sake where do we cxtcct to Hud dirt. such men exceiit as opposed to us.

nicy nave lieen How is this to be done? yond expectations. We have entered and held meetings on railroad grounds where two long time passed before I could get up; ttu-htinu- primitiition tor a lifetime and now thei.1 There are two things we can do: first to opinions airaiiist the amendment are referred to, as and minister merchant lorgot and then I kept tumbling over the corn which spike, years ago they told us such things could never lliouvn luey were oi uny importance, ji 100 nun. of delegates to the Methodist general conference at Hiiladolphia one from Kansas and one from tittle Hock. These ladies were alternates for lay delegates, ami though they were not seen iu the law-making Isnly of the Methodist church, yet the fact of their erection us alternates even, records the advance persuade John Hull to banish the drink from his house. Then there is another thiug, and lay snarled and prostrate all about.

I wander-1 indiast accord. lie. AVherever we go there are calls for tern A CITV marshal was shot dead In Dakota last month that is to go to the children and ask them not perance work. This Is the leading tpieslion ed around iu the dark amongst the corn, for I know not how long; but at last I got out of the hv a liiiior dealer n'sisliiiK an attempt to close his to touch the tlrink. That is what we are the day everywhere.

We expect to have at innliiiKiit. Lawlessness ami recklessness are M'comiuir more and more prominent characteristics doing, and if the fhililieu never touch the to a rail fence, which I followed our convention at Mountain Lake Park, lie tlruik they will never die drunkards, till I came to the river. Here I sat ginning July li-llh. ol the liiiuor trallic and this Is a (food sitfii in a bad situation. The decent, men irot out of the tralllr) sometime airo.

The gcnii-dcccnt cnplo followiil 1 1n-ill. The class rcinniuhiir in the business can not have maiiv friends, and ill lie disposed of by ami by as a nusiance. I'I'lie ij i ol sentiment mi to the woman's osition in ii church which still refuses to give authori.a tion to the general acceptance of their ''gifts, graces and usefulness." A MM TEMI'EllANCE. ing very faint and in great pain, and did not The' women of the nation will lie pained to move again till it licgan to grow light. 1 I.

T. savs that he always drank then discovered that I was on the opposite hear of the death of Mrs. L. It. (arret the TllKliK are n.littt saloons in Chicairo, or one to every wine tit dinner up to 1847, and that he was INI of our lH'iiple.

The money siieut lor lhiior In this side of the river from home, and at a place mainspring of the Massachusetts T. proud of his wine cellar ami the quality of more than a mile below where we had been U. work. She gave the liest of her life to The Xew Haven (('dim,) AVtci says of Mrs. Dr.

AV. II. II. Murray, who recently ltegan the practice of medicine in that city: "Dr. his Illinois, lie denounced drunkenness.

and favored the temperance cause to such an ex fishing. Xot far from where I sat, there was its work, and "whatsoever her hand found to city last year was Thorn were is.lmil arrested lor drunkenness last year, one-hall ol all the arrests made. There were, H.iNai ijrlH and women arrested in Over tl.niiu of the arrests wen below lie Hire of St. Think of this, ye women who sit here In vour cushion, under the soft irlow of these many lip-hts, and listeuiuir to our sweet music. a tent that he got the Uev- Dr.

Chapin to go to I Isiat; and after a time, I mustered strength Murray's success here in her chosen profes iridgeport and deliver a temperance lecture, enough to paddle across the river in it tin He was fortunate iu the selection of his sub llecelli pieriiiou uy iii-i. do she ilid it with her might." At her request Mi's, Livermore, her friend of years, preached her funeral sermon. "I want you," She said," "because you loved ine." In the beautiful laird where the workers rest forev that side the road ran along the bank, and sion is proving great. In surgery, to which she has devoted herself especially, she has jierformcd several dangerous operations iu a ject, hiking uv the moderate drinking phase getting into it, I staggered ou toward home the question. "Then," says Mr.

Hamum, fitiKKI.nr. loumled under strict temperance principles, has lieen a success from the hour of its I realized for the lust tune the bad example feeling the worst that I ever felt in my safe manner. She is ofvery pleasing address, was sitting, ami when I went home that phintiiiK. No liijilor can lie olitained in the town, unless sold by drutofiot on a physician's certiflcnlc. Should iinv land holder violate the provisions of the life.

kindly in her maimer, and has al reiuly made night was worried that I could scarcely er nn ire1' we shall all lie gathered by and by. I had not gone far wh.ui I saw a man with cliiiisc coin Hincd in thu deed, it works a forfeiture to many warm friends in Xew Haven." Atlri sleep. The next morning I had my coach man knock tho necks off all the champagne oii'lack Murray, her former husband, is keep his ownership. Willi a population oi llie nun has no paupers, city Jail, police mairislrale or poor imiiai, lint thev do have three iiewsnaners. sir everything for the time save that a child was in danger.

And when a fire is raging round a building, what is it that kindles the enthusiasm of till the crowd ami make heroes everylxidy? The cry, "There's a child in the house," and in a moment every brave and true man feels, "I will lay down my life, hut the child shall be saved. (Jentlemen, the children of our country are in danger. Oh! would that I could say words that would make every one in this audience understand me. The children of our country are in danger. lo you doubt it? Then 1 ask you for a moment to look at those ho were children with us the children of the present generation.

Where are theyV Were they in no dangers' Turn over the tablets of your memory. Ask for your old companions. Where are they? (lo and look in the graveyard; turn over the green turf. Find the ciillin lid, and there in hundreds, in thousands, aye, in tens of thousands of instances yon will find out that those who were hoys and girls when we were did not live out half their days. What do yon read there? "Died, aged 22;" "I lied, aged "Died, aged 21." The days of our years are threescore and ten, hut they did not live so long; they are gone.

Iit-t us look for some more of them. (Jo to that workhouse. There is a surging crowd waiting for relief. They were lxiys and girls at bright and promising as any of us. Jik at their faces.

Jjonk at the dull and passionless look they law, and at the rags they carry. They were once bright and promising children, but there they meat the workhouse door. And turn across to the prison. There is the revolving treadmill. Miserable In a letter to the Hloomiugtnn convene hollies I had iu my cellar, some live or six a horse and wagon coming toward me; and I soon recognized one of our neighliors, Mr.

(ioldby. AA'beu he saw me he seemed aston ing a restaurant in Montreal, l'roin this coin churches and a school house which cost uvi-r tiiiu Miss AVillard hasthistosayon the woman o.en. That was the end of my drinking. parison one would lie led to siipixise that the A wonderful change has lieen wrought in the suffrage question: "Weaker vessel hal lxmme the lest man of ished. I "Tub drunken man is an Increasinir nuisance.

He- ist thirty live years, and to-day a man who the two. i in iimoKivn. l.int-uirc ne rrieu --urc. Hut let us rcmcml)cr tlini in sntnt fetale Harry l-incoln: heat length exclaimed, 4hhI frihtfui ianie. in a N.

v.t'itv theatre favors the temperance cause does so on the iu it v.ui fir vnnr irlnwl he was an aniermaii ami iiiiermpittiinciM-rioniiHiice principle that there can lx no tcmjicrate and territories the vote of women cither directly er 'by signature' -actually reloses the doors of the sahxiu. and let Hi hv no means I lontr enouu-h to Kct and tiiarciicn on 10 ine CAUU1IT VI' IN A CYCLONE. use oi intoxicating iniuoi s. a man must no I nnun unul tlil To'inLI 1n uiiro lie is ulwuvs I'liifaired In ouarreis in which I i.i.uui apuwn. In wi'Nti-mi i-ilv.

Inst, imiiilli. Ink either a total abstainer or a drinking man HICH 11 Was yet. liolilliy llirueu HIS Ikilh-d Ins Is-st friend. We all have other liusluess It was Saturday, when there was no school, ignore the fact that the home must lie enfranchised before our army can win. There and his standing in the community is in ac lint 'f Nn nm 111 mil iiruiiKt-ii linn, or uiu horse round in the road and said, '-(iet iu places where he is inamilacted." IThe C'haiiluailian.

cordance with his standing on this all-inior-tant question. The people of this country and Harvey and myself were fishing iu the Illinois river. We not lieen here, quick! It will lie the gladdest morning XIiviir lllTix. of 'lloston. n'fufws to Issue liii- realize the grand change in public sentiment there ever was at your house!" fore, I onee more earnestly register my conviction us 1 have tdcudily dune lor eight years past, that our platform should plainly declare for woman's ballot as another name for pro hiliiliiiu.

the two ltciiig twin brother and sis- listiiug for some weeks, an, went preiared to ii. Oih.iuik lo dcHlci-s in that city. The deciinns of since the tune when Mr. Haruum desisted the supreme court of the state, rendered in Ocloli-r inii. la lu-hind Mavor Martin, lly the Massachusetts "Why, my dear Imv, lie said, Htler I was from the use of wine, and much of this have a good time.

AVe were in a row-lxiat which ltelonged to Harvey's brother, and we ill, ''the folks are about eraV, at VOlir house! statue, all licences lor the saleol intoiicatinir Ihiuors I An .1. nill.l 111., imtll. Jt t.e splendid of the has iudissolublv example renowned showman They think you were drowned yesterday af-1 -ihat the litvnmf shall not keep public bar." linked." had started out almot three o'clock in the afternoon. llesides our fi.shiug-rods and a tcmooii. Harvey was picked up, just over the Kvery saliMiinst in nosion lo-nny can ik- i-onvii-iei oi kecpnm a public liar every salisin is oli-iml.

The saloonMs are tliemsi-lvcs appealinir DRUNKENNESS CVUEIK pound of lierf linit. each of us had taken a river from where you had la-en fishing, with im Hiiitivnu' courl uiraiust Mavor Martin, and the TALMAOE II A 1'EOPLE "i i a broken aim. Close la-side him was a dead! inalUT is one of the moid complicated in Iiccumi biscuit ami a pocket full of pears to eat on the A simple cure fur drunkenness was recent calf, and about two hundred feet of wire I stopiN-d one day on liroadway, at the way. It was a very warm afternoon; we were aware of that liefore setting out. Hut ly proclaimed by a gentleman at a reformatory-institution.

'Jle said: "I overcame the Win a man takes hold of a hot poker alwaya fence. AVe hunted till dark for you.and gave head of AVall street at the foot of Trinity nntiop that he has inclination to hold on. It ia livareceuie given me lv old Dr. Jut with toot wiosky. let istin nurns.

nm church tn.H'C who seemed to be the happiest yon up for lost iu the river. The tornado's dime no end of damage, hut your folks won't we thought there would be a breeze on the river, and we said could take a lialh in the Held, one of those good old physicians who do ami i old vhysicians who do mankind w-eina lo inina-inai lilpm-ara wnrw than the wars inside. This Is a want of judir- QYiUi their looks tage with a neighlriiig I called on him he said: 't-the happiest i-enpte w. not have a perce ini-iil. The but ixiker only liiinisllie hand; the nut hkkv lionm the IhhIv.

the lirain. the In-wl. the care for that were hot those ho shade of the elms if the sun was too hot. druggist, ben went down into AVall street, for they had on rollicking our boat, we paddled down to a "Now that you have the moral courage, I'll nnwli-a, the liiaiihooil and the sonl. The poker only a sew the kand: hot whisky makes ibe You should have seen that man drive.

He Hoe tiled in a Imrrv to see liow phiil mv folk I hok man ascar, a blotch. Ine poker burn ran im weuicu in nurry in see now gi.m mj oiki in a tivimr If are In poker. IK- to take bold of tuber, aive us the would lie. And to tell the truth, they were lieinl some half a mile In-low, and there, in the deep ater, threw out our hooks. Hut it was wanner than we hail thought, ami no breeze came.

At last it really seemed as if the sun chanirc. tell you the tonic which have used with ft- their brows the anxiety of the dollar they ex-fect among niy friends for twenty I jltcte(1 tll Ilor IP wllrt CMnf. fMlt exiiccted, of entirse, some nasty medu'ine 4 stuff: but no: be pre rild an tH-ange everv of morning a half hour liefore breakfast. "Take the anxiety of the dollar they li.nl lost; nor that, and you will neither want liquor nor the people who swept by in splendid car-niedieiiie." I have done so regularly, and tw work! IMik at those men in their yellow tf1rijil'd dress. They were once bright, lan-ny boys.

And go down your street to-night, and (her you will find the outcast, and you draw up your skirts lest the touch should lie dilution. Vet even she was once (he Imhiiiv girl. Once a mother Messed her. a father prayed for her. They wee all as bright as any of us, hut now look at that sulking mass.

I'ii til re their faces if you can. and tlieu (tun loiliul and look at these ihiblivii behind; and I tuning from one to another is like turning rather rejoiced to see me. In my mother sheil some tears over her loy, ucome hack Tiik first" Hepubliean campaign document would lwke us. There was a lelt of rather to life," as she said. I have never known un has reached our titbit.

It is marked, "sam ple copy, Jiirnul, published weekly. til then, that they cared so much alxuit me at dark, misty clouds aw ay up hi the northwest, but they did not kel the sun from reaching have found that liquor lues become repulsive. I tiiflll I llM llill. 1.1.1 IW.t-4.IM III All fllfit jl'Ver. home.

Tla-re are a million voters who will not us. It was a week Wore I Went out of the 1 lie laste or orange is in the saliva of my 1 tongue, and it would be as well to mix water! crowd, judging from the countenances, was and oil as nun with iu taMe, 1 tlie woman ho t- -at the appit) stand knit- And tho next lime I saw liar-1 have the wl pulled over th this jear. 'I wish some of tlxise clouds would rise a house again.

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