The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-04-30
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.

TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
EDITED BY THE WOaIEN'S CHRISTIAN TEN
PERANCE UNION.
OUR MOTTO: FOR GOD AND HOME AND
NATIVE LAND.
Monthly meeting, second Tuesday p.
m. at Temperance Headquarters.
Politeness is to do and say
The kindest thing In the kindest way.
Whatever in loves name is truly done
To free the bond and lift the fallen one
Ia done to Christ. Whose in deed and word
ia not against Him, labors for our Lord"
THERE'S LIFE IN THE OLD LAND YET.
shadowy shapes of the coming Spring,
Fit by in the rosy dawn;
Mystical voices softly sing
OF O. resurrection morn;
Winds and waters, and birds and bees.
In Weakening concert met,
Buds and blossoms and stars and trees,
Sing life in the old land yet
From North and southland. from east and west
Fast gathers the loyal band
Shoulder to shoulder and breast to breast
For God and for Native Land:
Sons and daughters, and old and young,
By q marvellous impulse met,
Together shall work for good" and bring
New life to the old land yet.
| General Alger, Governor of Michigan,
in his first annual message to the Legisla-
ture of that State recommended that an
amendment forever prohibiting the manu-
facture and sale Of alcoholic beverages
within the State, be submitted to the peo-
| pie.
A friend of the Saloon and enemy of the
Homes says Prohibition was first tried
in the garden of Eden and failed" The
| Voice replies "Ye s, the devil did his level
best to break it down, knowing his stock
would not be worth two cents on the dollar
| if it succeeded"
Pennsylvania Redemption may be written
of the Keystone State since the passage Of
the scientific temperance bill by an over
whelming majority-131 to 36. The
Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord,
and He moveth it whithersoever He will.
| This makes the fourteenth State whose
statute book protect the children of
the public schools, and aim at their fitness
for citizenship. Nine State Legislatures
have during the present session uttered
their voice. in regard to the matter
Especially pleasing to u.s.. is that noble
determination of yours to oppose and up
root the baneful vice Of drunkenness, and
keep far from yourselves and those united
with you, all incentive to it, for in the
words of the wise man sit goes in pleas
antly, but In the end it will bite like a
snake, and will spread about poison like a
basilisk." Therefore, with. all our heart
we desire that your example and zeal may
benefit others, in order to the destroying,
or, at least, lessening of the evils which
we understand you so properly lament and
dread.-Pope Leo XIII to Catholic Total Ab
staaence Union of america, 1888.
The friends of the W C. T. T., who
heard and enjoyed Miss Willard while
with us during the State Convention, vii
be pleased to learn that she has obtained
the consent of Mrs. M. L. Wells, daugh
ter of prominent M. E. minister. Rev
w. y. Lemon, of Va, to give three weeks
work to Virginia, in the interest of oul
cause. Miss Willard introduces her in thu
following words:
Dear friends of the w. C. Z. u:
In going out as National Organizer
Mrs. M. L. Wells, President OF Indian;
w. C. Il. u, has undertaken work fol
which her genial nature, long experienced
and fine gift of utterance have especially
prepared her. A native of Virginia, edu
Gated in one of the seminarieS of that
State, the daughter of an able minister
and wife of a lawyer true to the temper
ance cause, Mrs. Wells has had rare oppor
tunitieS for study and achievement. Shit
will build up local Unions on a firm basis
and leave good impression of our work
May she be so helped by your prayers an6
Sympathies that this shall be the best yea
of her work. With earnest wishes for TIT
success Of the sacred cause.
| am your always,
FRANCIS e. WILLARD.
She willspeak in Staunton but one night
during the first week in May. No charg'
for admission. The public are cordially
invited to attend. She has been in Missis
sippi forming a Union in every town SHIT
visited. The same success attended her il
Tennessee work, where she spent the pre-
ceding six weeks If our people fail t.
hear her, we are persuaded they will mis-
treat. Due notice will be given whel
and where.