Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-03-26
Items and Incidents Of the Temperance
Crusade.


Items and Incidents Of the Temperance
Crusade.
ABOUT 400 persons have signed the
pledge in Springfield, Ill.
AT Tiffjn, Ohio, the mems committee
are circulating a petition to the consti-
tutional convention asking that women
be allowed to vote for judicial officers
before whom questions Of the violation
OF the liquor law may come.
ADA, Ohio, has now only ono saloon
left, and the women are besieging that
establishment vigorously.
The surrender of two saloons is re-
ported at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, one
being the most popular resort in the
town.
A LARGE mass Temperance meeting
was held at Laporte, Ind, on March
10Th.
AT Madison, Wis, the temperance
question has come to standstill. The
churches generally advise praying in
secret, but not at the corners of streets
One THOUSAND women are banded
together in the temperance movement
at Adrian, Mich.
The town of Blissfeld, Mich, has
ceased to dispense the ardent, and be-
tween that place and the Ohio line east,
the temperance siroccO has made clean
sweep.
PRAYER MEETINGS are to be held in
Washington, for the furtherance of the
temperance cause.
AT the session of the Chicago Common
Council, on March Is, one hundred ladies
visited the chamber bearing a memorial
signed by 16, 600 women, in favor of the
enforcement of the Sunday saloon-clos-
ing ordinance. The memorial was read
and placed ON file, after which the Coun-
Gil very ungraciously passed an ordi-
nance permitting saloons to be kept
open on Sunday, by vote of % to IA.
Upon returning to the streets, the la.
dies, all of whom were of the highest
responsibility, and numbering among
them the wives of some of the best cit
izcns, were assailed with yells and
howls from one of thevilest crowds that
could be raked from the cutters of the
city, who pressed so closely upon the
little band that, had they not been pro-
tected by few men among the crowd,
there is little doubt but that violence
would have been offered them. Indeed,
one brute did trip one of the ladies, but
slank away before thd fist of one of the
gentlemen standing near. The mob fol-
lowed one of the ladies back to the
church, from which they started, yell
ing every moment like Comanches, and
presenting one of the most disgracefu]
scenes ever witnessed.
Maxims Of Cardinal De Retz.
Some of the most celebrated aphor.
isms ever given to the world are those
of Cardinal De Retz. As writer the
fame of De Retz rests upon the g Me
moirs," a most striking and brillian
work. But his maxims have thei
value, as the reflections which grea
and able man formed from long expe
rience and practice in great business
This was Lord Chesterfield's opinion
and he adds, They are true conclu
sions, drawn from facts, not from spec
ulation." We subjoin few of them
Weak men never yield at the prop
er time"
There are no small steps in grea
affairs
81 am persuaded that greater quail
ties are required to form a good part,
leader than to form an emperor of tn
universe and that in the order of tn
qualities which compose him, resolu
tions should walk hand in hand will
julgment-I mean heroic Judgment
the principal use of which is to distin
guish the extraordinary from the impos
si},le
Upon men of small understandin,
nothing makes SO deep an impression
us what they do not understand.
| " When fear rises to certain heigll
it produces the same effects as temerity
Fear never applies the proper remedy.
We should never play with favor
We cannot too closely embrace it whe
it is real, nor fly too far from it when
is false"
"A man who distrusts himself neve
truly confdes in any one" :,
what they cannot do themselves"
The effects of weakness are incon
ceivable, and maintain that they ar
far vaster than those of the mos
violent passions.
81 have remarked that ill-founde
; enmities are ever the most obstinate
The reason of this is clear. Asoffense
of that kind exist only in the imagini
ton, they never fail to grow and swe
l in that receptacle, too fruitful in ev
l fancies."
"To common place people the extrs
r ordinary appears possible onl y after
, has been executed"