Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1885-09-19

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their pinched faces, where they toiled
day after day for . miserable pittance.
while their fathers, many of whom made
good wages, squandered their earnings
in the saloons. Now there are happier
homes and brighter faces IS the rising
generation trip gsyly to school, free
from the ban OF q parents sin. Pro-
hibition is particularly blessing to the
laboring classes, who are generally the
best patrons OF the bar room. The
rich man, however, drink the1most and
generally keeps Q private tiger in his
cellar. This class are liberal supporters
of the slug train" the only means OF
procuring whisky. The soda water men
furnish . great variety of temperance
drinks, besider, the:city is literally sup
piled with drinking fountains. with
water cool and sparkling from an ar
tesian we'll over eighteen hundred feet
deep.
The success Of prohibition has had an
influence most potent for good in other
localities. The county of which Rome
is the county seat recently went dry by
you are in Rome-ring (chestnut)i 1t
the Northern people do not deal with
the Temperance question more success
fully by dissolving the unholy alliance
of prohibition and politics, they will
have to look to the land Of Dixie for
example. 1t is to be hoped that the
time is near at hand when men with
honest intentions will no longer have
their best efforts for the public veal
prove abortive because of the machina-
lions of some persuasive voiced political
Nestor. The political "she" must GO
A popularity of the article of drink
dispensed by the wine-rooms of Atlanta
is its tendency to procrastination. 1t
delays drunk, and delays in this case
are hazardous to q mans reputation.
For instance, you tank up with wine or
''ageries" on Friday and think you are
feeling pretty we'll, thank you. and on
Sunday attend church in company with
your best girl or go out to take dinner
with your mother law, and your sin
is liable to find you out, and so, like
wise, are your neighbors.
Among the poted Atlantians, and
fearless advocate of temperance and
enemy of home dissertation, is Rev. j.
b. Hawthorne, d. D.. pastor of the
First Baptist Church. He is q man
who would attract attention in any as
sembly-tall and commanding, black
hair but slightly tiDged with gray, which
falls to his shoulders; piercing black
eyes that betoken the restlessness of the
soul within, a perfectly smooth face. and
you have q mental picture of the man
who by his giant intellect ~anflag-
eing energy has accomplished wonders
for the prohibition work. His INJECT
i've has not been spariDg, his fiery ut
terances on the prohibition stump most
denunciatory. and by this antagonism
the whisky ring has been grievously
offended, and loses no opportunity to
assail him. He is just now defending
himself from the charge of plagiarism
appropriating from DR.. Strong's book,
Our Country also from Guthrie,
Cook and Sam Jones. He promises to
parison with which the destruction of
the fifty Jerusalem sinners upon whom
the tower of Sloan fell is unworthy of
mention-a reproduction, as it were. OF
the old Bible scene of Hannah dangling
from the gallows he had erected for
Mordecai. The doctors ability is un-
questioned. In DR.. Hawthorne, Augusta
Eraus Wilson is said to have found her
Cor ,sssa ess wei snSs Z sae sgs 1lss7tzy'
ana erudition IA one ,goria Of fan
found so many readers thirty S9 e0i.loa
The anti prohibitionists have rece6Ss
csfled meeting for the purpose of petit
tiouing for an election in November, ii
: which they propose t. carry the city TO
!, whisky or forever give up the fight. The
prohibitionists, feeling that it is well Il
let we'll enough alone, are inclined t,
, evade the issue, though they have n,
fears as to the ultimate result.
Another brainy man who has fallel
| from his high pedestal of usefulness
! DR.. Armstrong, once rector OF the Epis
+ copal church of this city. This errati
, character bears a striking resemblance
4 to j. Wilkes Booth, even to the limp Q
> the left foot, and this fact led to his be
a ing placed under arrest at Cincinnati
: tNenty- three years ago when The coun
S try was shocked by the assassination O
D Abraham Lincoln, and the assassin wa
3 still at large. By the way. he was ar
rested in the same city few years sine
tor an alleged attempt to paint tn
town, and after long, tedious trial wa
convicted and stripped of his priestl
. vestments, since which he seems to hav
drifted into desuetude.
! A noted literary character is Joe
Chandler Harris, better known to tn,
: word as Uncle 81, who is especiall
!, famous as delineator of negro dialect
I Then there is Henry w. Grady, VIII
t woke up one morning last winter, afte
: making a tolerable after dinner speech
: and found himself suddenly grow
e famous. Mr.. Grady has been indus
J, triously kicking himself for want o
| penetration to see through the littl
Joke of the New York Herald, nom
mating him for the vice-presidency
: However. his willingness to serve hi
, bleeding country in that capacity is un
e questioned were the times propitiou
1 L. "a Il
: son and Dixon's line, aud they dec
y didedly are not, Judging from repor,
o from G.. A. r. circles 1t seems strang
e that Grady, the man who rose to th
e irridescent bubble and with bon
!. bastioal gush introduced JEFF d.
/ Wis with the remark that it was th
r gladdest April morn since Christ wa
e born" on his appearance here over tw
r years ago, should now. as one of th
e leading lights of the coming Piedmor
g Exposition, where the Presidentii
on1 e. ha 70,