Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-08-18

o'ue ihiS Wuoie WoFk. Let this course be
taken in any community, and if every
rum seller and rum-driuker is not reform.
ed or driven from that community in six
months, | will yield the whole question.
and acknowledge l am gravely ignorant of
human nature.
well, says a married temperance wo-
man, L admit 1t is nearly so, but what
can / do 2 What can you do Has not
woman the power to reform her own So
cial customs And are not zlo,5 a wo-
man will tell you what YOU can do
You can stop your opposition to Women's
Temperance Societies. You can ioiu
with others and form such society for
your neighborhood You can help get up
meetings of the society, and attend them
yourself, and have yoar daughter attend
where the esubject shall be so presented that
every female present shall be ashamed to
go home and give any sort of countenance
direct or indirect, for the Huuor traffic -
You can help raise a fund TO pay for Tenn
perance tracts 10 becirculated ia the neigh.
borhood- And above all, you can regu-
late your own social example By true TEN
perance Principles. In this wayyou may
very soon change the public sentiment
and social custom Of your neiehbor.
hood aud, after that, your daughters
would no more be seen walking with an
antl-temperancc man, than they would be
seen with thief or robber
"Oh | can'5 take this course for il
would be out of Hty sphere" Then it will
be ~ your sphere to have your sons drunk
ards aud your daughters the wives of
drunkards 1t will be IN your sphere to
see blasphemy, rowdyism poverty, wretch.
edness aud crime of your ueighborhood
continue And when Gods law shall
thunder in your ears, hy did you not
prevent this wckedness and misery you
can have the very couSoling reflection that
1t would have been 01st of your sphere to
do it
The subject grows upon my hands, but
! have made this communication too long
already. | viii close by saying that, the
neglect Of duty on the part of woman. will
never excuse man for neglecting TO put
forth his efforts in this cause; neither
will the neglect of man excuse the indif-
ference of woman Both have duty to
perform, for both are responsible for the
continuance of the abominabIe traffic In Ii
quor. Man can do it away by euacting a
Maine Law and womaG can do it awav
by bringing her social influence to bear
upon 1T for believe this influence as
powerful! as Maine Law | greatly re-
joiee at the efforts that are making for n
stringent prohibitory law. aud for thor
ough Social Reform on the subject and
with these two forces in full action. what
is there in liquors dark catalogue that
cannot be swept away
Fe,ll1eof Raitrouds- The Prairie Far
mer, IN speaking of railways, says that the
eastern railroads which enter Chicago.
have added ten to twenty-five per cent. to
every ''usable article with four legs" and
every other salable substance that ami
mails produce They have also given a
cash value to many other things, which,
though they might be used to a local ex-
tent, could not be sold If animals have
become of more value, of course the grass
aud grain that they eat have increased in
price, as well as the land they grow on.
All parties reap the benefit The COM
pany prospers by the carriage Of men. pro-
duce, merchandise the farmer BY the en-
hauccd value of his produce; the mer-
chant and professional man, by the increase
of facilities, conveneuces and the general
growth and remuneration Of business.
4 Col1ssaz .Satug An interesting
discovery in the valley Of the Nile has
brought to light another of the stupeu-
dous monuments of ancient Egypt IL
is huge statue, and is supposed to lie
the owner of the gigantic fist in the Brit
ish Museum EE pe,Lc Heyclll,<Hz the
biggest Of the Ninevito bulls would an
pear a kitten by the side Of this monster
He was met with while boring the strata
IN pursuance Of Mr. Horners inquiry into
the growth and formation of the banks of
the Nile
Lstcrestimy Letter-Among the letters
which were read at the Portsmouth IN.
II celebration on the 4th ut, from in
vited guests, was Que from a Revolutions
~ veteran, ninety three years of age, IN
which he says - Portsmouth was the on
ly city, and New Hampshire the only
State, during the war of our Revolution,
that the enemy did not possess foot of
land IN. We captured their army before
they could pass our line
L A friend Of ours says that he nev-
or attempted to make but one speech to
a woman, and then did not succeed II
was beautiful moonlight night and he
caught her hand aud dropped upon bis
knees He ouly saw 4 streak of calico as
she went over the bars lie did not see
her again for a fortnight, aud then fel-
low was feeding her with molasses candy
aud ginger cake at a circus
IL A French insectiverous mathema
ticiau, states that a bug be is acquainted
with, produces nine generations in a sea
son, and be remembers pair that in one
summer were the happy ancestors Of 55O,-
as. 900 600 600 descendants What, he
asks. would become of US, were it not for
swallows each one of which consumes
900 bugs a day
Eacla1ld und -Amc, ica In the late
debate on the ballot, Lord John Russell
would not concede the ballot, if at all,
unless every ma1 in the country should
have a vote > and Mr.. Golden would not