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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-01

stick TO first principles, these leaders
are all good Democrats and would de-
pio-e division Of the party a. much as
any other patriots and are ready 70
trust the people with all social and
moral questions without an appeal to any
political organization.
\ backward glance into the progress
OF the English people from the day when
might was might, to the day when the
executive power ceased TO be the Judi
cial, from the time when the idea of the
divine right Of kings gave place TO the
conviction that a government should
want men above traditions, down TO our
own day when English monarchy Is but
& popular courtesy, reveals the fact that
rof Popui .r0l del was the utterance of
experience. No less do recent events
prove the sensitiyeness Of the American
system to delicate tests, ride-its shrink
ing from "centralization Sin the third
term question: and in the astonishing
obliteration Of party lines in last year
election before the danger of party in
permanent power. 1t is the trustwor-
thiness Of this reflex action of educated
popular intelligence that gives Us faith
in Prohibition and in the perpetuation
Of Government of a people, by peo-
pie for a people.
Why may not the position of the Pro-
hibition party be 50 evident that even
The cry Politics" may cease Democ
racv cannot afford to become divided
here with the sickcning alternative of
ignorance and vice and failure, once
more dominating the intelligence, the
integrity and the honest effort of the
people. Perhaps some ask why may not
Prohibition purify the political atmos-
phere? 1t can never do it by mingling
with it, because in politics men leave
the cause and argue on party grounds
for either side, to the prejudice OF every
consideration other than personal. Every
day we see the spectacle of good men
in the heat of political conflict, drawn
into pitiabie 'eTror that Is the anguish
of their own nobleness" 1t is the aim
Of temperance workers to persuade men
10 look at the temperance cause not from
any vantage ground, political or other
wise-save from a heartfelt conviction
that mans manhood bids him link
hands with it in the preservation of his
own moral worth, in maintainance Of
national integrity, in the security Of the
purity and bliss of his home. And
mixing of motives will degrade the
cause, and dull mems ears to the still
small voice" that so marvelously is lur-
ing them, from ocean to ocean, for
righteousness sake-to put an end to the
curse that like a loathsome leprosy has
crept over body and soul in every rela-
tion which human beings bear to each
other
This is but a "word to the wise"
" Against stupidity" says Schiller, the
gods themselves are powerless.'
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Bertha Won HiIiern.

An illustrated article on American
artists in the New York Sunday Hofta
contains the following concerning well
known Boston artists: 'One OF the
most remarkable women who labor at
the easel in the United States IS Miss
Bertha Won Hillern. Miss Won Hlilern
has lived life of romance such as
would be better in place in anoyel than
a biographical sketch. Ten years ago
when the pedestrian mania had reached
such height in this city that women
had begun to contest for the prize OF
endurance rs well as men, sturdy lt-
tie Austrian woman appeared IN the
arena and won the championship sew
en-davs' record for herself Her ap-
pearance on the track occasioned a
perfect Juror. and when she took her
training in Central park she was al
ways guarded by strong squad OF
feminine supporters. From this city
she went TO Boston. where she made
an equal hit She had repeatedly an
uounced that as soon as she had saved
sufficient money she proposed to retire
and study painting She carried out
her purpose in Boston by entering the
studio of William Hunt, one of whose
favorite pupils she became. Miss Won
Hillern is landscape painter of much
ability, and has been eminently success
ful in depicting the grander phases OF
American forest scenery, of which she
is especially fond. lnseparably asso-
ciated with the name of Bertha Won
Hillern is that of her sister artist and
companion, Maria j. c. Beckett Miss
Beckett is an American, of an old Cath
olic family. with long record OF use
fulness and eminenee in society and the
church. She is woman Of extraordl
nary quickness of perception and Keen
ness OF intellect, and counts among hel
friends the most eminent French ano
American artists of the generation. Sh'
had travelled. lived in France and Italy
and studied art there before she enter
ed the famous studio OF NiLilam Hunt
in Boston. There she met Miss VOL
Hillern, and discovered IN her a con
GENIAL soul. Since then the ladies hav'
lived and worked together. spending
their winters in New York and Boston
in which latter city they hold sort Q
aristoeratic salon weekly. and theI
summers in a studio among the forest
of VIRGINIA. Their studio at Strasbur.
il one OF the wonders of the Old DO
minion. Miss Beckett. ike Miss yol
Hillern. is landscape painter, with
fine feeling for the poetry OF nature
and leaning toward the grave AM
quiet color common to all pupils OF tn
great Boston master. The sobriety
her art is by no means reelected IN ne
social qualities, for she il one OF tn
most brilliant and widely-instruefe'
conversatiopalist in the western con
GnenEr'
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Ny Boy.

In Norwich, Connecticut, many years
ago, / spoke to a large audience in a
railroad station. | knew whom | had in
my audience, and said, Ladies and gen.
tlemen, Mrs Falkener, who lives a little
esting incidents with regard to her son.
+" Ny boy, she said, was drunkard.
He signed the pledge. He said Mother,
| will go away from home. | will not
stay in the midst of temptation, but
will keep this pledge
"He went away, but she continued TO
hear good news from him. By and by,
after he had been gone little over two
years, letter reached home to say,
Mother, l am coming home to spend
Thanksgiving with yon.'
MY boy is coming home to spend
Thanksgiving! Well, his poor old mother
will get dinner for him worthy of New
England; and if there is but one guest
il shall be famous dinner
And he came by stage into the town
which stopped at the door of Solomon
Parsons' tavern. The stage passed on
1t was Just after dark Some young
men were in the bar.
'.Hullo, Fred, How are you. Whai
viii you have to drink
Nothing.
Not on Thanksgiving Come, tase {
little
mo, I'd rather not. I've come home
to see my mother. She hardly expect.
me tonight. / thought Id wait til
dark. and 90 in and surprise the ole
LADY
..By and by, solomon Parsons, WHIT
Was leaning his elbow on his counter
looked at him, and said:
sFred Falkener, if | were six foo
tall and brtad in proportion rs you are
I'd 90 to the woods and hang myself
But I'm not afraid
oh. yes you are-ha ha. hal say
boys, there's a great big fellow afraid o
j glass Of liquor. suppose he's afrais
Iof his mother.
This young msn, with all the strengtl
III mind u keep the nledge, WIS weal
when fhes jeered and jeked hir. The,
handed him the liquor and dared hiu
To drink ii.
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-PRssENT ARMs p
AZ -ssDEPENpENCE EcEo.

Original
Oh, fathers vino fired wars torch a. Con.
cord.
oh, heroes who fous ht at Bunker HuI
Ye are not dead IN your place of resting,
But IN your deeds We are living stIl
As light Of the nations natal morning
Bars eastern skies with its opal hue.
Freak your bonds of sleep, oh. nations
fathers,
And form in line for grand review.
Come forth. oh, sons, from your grounds Of
camping,
Ye are sleeping deep. hut living still
BeReath your tauts on the deld Of shiloh,
Or in blvousc At Malven Hill
Take arms again. oh, We tired sleepers.
Form lines in your varhle gear arrayei;
March down through the years 10 later
comers.
To pass IN review IN peace parade.
From ont the shaie of thy hiding scabbari
Leap forth, oh, sword, with blood!ess
blade;
Let thy flashing poinl go shining skyvard.
And fall in shutting accoladc
Thrill your every thread. oh, star-Aceked
banner
Pour forth from vour iron lips oh. cannon,
The rose-red breath o. d mighty laugh.
Oh, brazsn thr9at- of Ioud-brayiu- busIaS,
Send forth vour notes ot the gladlest kev.
Til the golden air Is thrilled with music.
And stirred TO lie by Your paacs-born
glse.
Cleave The air, Oh, flies. with shriller shriek-
ing
Than warIike wall at the nations tirta.
Peat drums 30 the time of joyful marches.
That Ia, ha. hs, with mellow mirth
Oh bells that swing in the Iolty stceples.
By the sun-kissei agu of peace high
crowned
spill out as ye sway your molten music.
TIL We belt the land with a zone of sound
FAN flags, for to-day the white peace angel.
Full plumed stands waiting vour dro1p-
ing signs
Beat heart, with the roll of hisa saluting,
Flash arms presented along the lines!
Rsach out your hands, oh, m,u and broth
cH,
Let your ciasping fingers intertwine,
| Till your lives are linked in bonds of union.
From washed gull 20 the northern
line
Roar guns again with peace evangel.
Blend gray Of smoke with blue OF the SKY.
As the blue and gray were wrought and
bleudad
When wars red horror had passes, ms by.
Peal forth again your notes. oh bueles
With sounds Of peace like a rhythmic rune.
Salute with your songs the Nations morn
ing
That never shall know an afternoon
Ben d. House
INDIANAPOLIs. July /.
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Prohibition Meeting IN Shubuta.

The meeting was organized June %,
by the election of l.. +. Hall as Chair
man, with A. Trotter and J. +. Rain
water as secretaries. 1t was ordered
that a committee of five be appointed
on resolutions.
The following were appointed as com
mittee; W. II. Patton, ID. w. HeideI-
berg, G. b. Parker. A. F. Hand, and j.
E. Wilburn. While waiting for report
Of committee, Rev. J. NJ. Phillips, A.
rrotter, and l. +. Hall, addressed the
meeting.
The following resolutions were report
ed by the committee, and adopted:
Res0lred, lst, That this Convention
appoint ten delegates to the State Pro
hibition Convention, which meets at
Jackson on July 1st.
End, That the prohibitory law of
Clark county, enacted by the last Legis-
lature. has been productive of incaleu-
liable good to the people of the county.
That drunkenness has been almost en-
tirely banished from our midst, and
thousands of dollars are kept in the
pockets of the people.
3D. That it is the sense of this Con-
vention, that the present Prohibition
law. should remain intact, until its
repeal should be demanded by major
ity Of the registered voters of the county.
That our delegates to the State COnven-
ton. be instructed to ask thas the State
Convention shall demand, of the exist
ing parties, the passage of law of local
option by counties, said law not to in-
terfere with the restrictive features of
any present law, but merely to provide
that the citizens of the county shall
have the right to hold special election
with no other issue before them, than that
of "license or no license and if decided
for no license, it shall be unlawful TO
issue license, till the popular vote Is
reversed.
9Th. That we are opposed to running
an independent Prohibition candidate
for the Legislature, or any other State
or county Office.
9th, That the Wayne County Advo-
cato. The jackson CLARION, Sword and
| Shield" our Prohibition organ, and
our county papers, be requested to pub
| lish the proceedings of this meeting.
The following delegates were appoint
ed to attend the State Convention: w.
H. Patton, ]. Wesley Smith col, NJ. W
Buckley, L. ]. 5. Bell col. John W.
CASTOR, William Brunson, +. Millige
Pugh col, Geo B. Parker. J. L. Slay
and ]. F. Rainwater. Ordered that l.
f. Hall be added TO the list of delegates
Ordered that an executive committee OF
five be appointed
The following members were appoint
ed: ID. w. Heidelberg, w. II. Patton
NJ. w. Buckley, w. W. Shoemaker and
Geo. b. Parker.
The meeting then adjourned.
L. f. HALE, Chairman.
A.TRoTTER, J. E. RAINwATLR, Sec Us
The above was furnished by Mr.. w
I'll. Patton, of Shubuta. whose kindl,
mention of this department is very graf
| ifying to the Editor Temperance De
partment.
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The clown Has Had His par.

1T is q sad fact, m0urnfully said a
veteran circus manager. "but it is be-
yond dispute that the days Of the joke
cracking and song-siuging clown are
over. He expired when the double
circus-ring came into vogue. In his
place the horse-play or pantomimic
Grimaldi arose"
"How did the double ring kill the
witty (?) clown?' asked a reporter for
the NaU and Erprcss.
The vast audience could not hear
him. The miles of canvas, the amphi-
theatre, filed with 10000 people, made
the great lung power necessary to be
heard an utter impossibiiity. The
large railroad travelling circuses have
nothing bat pantomimic clowns. Ia
the small shows whore actors are few
and something must be done to fill in
the time for the acrobats q whatever
they may be to rest, before they appear
in some other daring feats under other
dazzling names. the sOng-singing. pun
ming clown is used. But he is fast 90
ing out for other reasons. The news
papers and almanacs contain nearly
all the jokes and puns. aud to repeat
them over and over again becomes
monOtonous and tires even those who
do not read. Then to supplant this,
borse-play was invented
'What do you mean by horse-play?'
Broad humor, For instance, the
clown sticks needle in a chair and
the ringmaster innocently sits down on
it. He gets up in a hurry. This kind
Of fun tickles the audience. They see
It and understand the point made, but
il is not so with a pun or joke. ] was
a clown before ! became proprietor and
| know all the inside tricks Of the pro-
flesh. When | travelled in the small
towns of S, 900 and 10, O,CO1 inhabitants /
always managed to pump some garru-
lous man in the town before tho per
fOrmance, 50 as to get off A local gag.
This always pleased the audience. and
occasionally caused a little row if the
gag was at the expense Of some fel-
low in the audience Then | would
sing a song and hear all the little boys
in the streets singing it afterwards
There was some glory in that. But
now the clown must be a frst-class
tumblcr and a good pantomimist to
succeed. He sinks his individuality
with some ten or fifteen others. who
come out caparisoned in caps and bells
The lines are drawn and the old order
giyeth way TO the new. Grimaldi's
mask has more fun ia it than Dan
Rice's double entendre Jokes. Sic
transit gloria mundL ~ \. bal.
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An Untruthful Drummer.

The Alexandria Town Talk, of June
-. says A citizen of Sparta, Bienville
parish, writes US that whisky drummer
has been making statements in that
parish calculated to injure the citizens
of Rapides parish abroad The drum
mer, it seems, stated that prohibition in
this parish had been the cause of his
selling more whisky in Ranides than
ever before. This drummer, who travels
for a Louisville whisky house, for the
sake of a few paltry dollars, not only
desires to ruin his fellow-men by selling
them whisky, to make them beasts, but
actually has fallen even lower, and tells
falsehoods, to try and keep other parishes
from following the good example of this
parish and voting whisky out.
The editor of this paper positively
asserts, and if necessary could bring
hundreds of our best citizens to likewise
testify, that not one barrel of whisky Is
now sold in this parish where twenty
five were sold before the local option
law went into effect. And further, that
not one barrel of whisky Is now drunk
in Rapides parish where ten were drunk
when whisky was sold in this parish.
The good thing about all this is that a
drunken man is now a curiosity here,
whereas a few years ago the parish was
filled with drunken men, white and
black.
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Prohibition in Mississippi.
Bx MRS. II. .. KELLs.

The Prohibition party Of this State
announces itself rs moving for Local
Option by Counties" This they expect
to secure by asking law authorizing the
Board of Supervisors of each county
upon a petition Of number Of citizens
specified in the act, TO hold an election
at the expense of the petitioners, fol
the people Of each county to decide fol
themselves the question of license or nc
license. The Prohibitionists also dis
claim all intention 10 meddle with poll
tics.
one of Maehiavelli's maxims was
ssOften go back to first principles; be
cause ssEvery form of government \
us snaIlv framed in the outset, on tls
principles which belong to It's best cond,
fions; and all departures are unnatural
and therefore dangerous. II il to tl'
interest Of the cause of temperance, ans
eoually to The political Interests q
Mississippi that the Prohibitionist
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-01
In a Terrible Pickle.

Several manageable young men OF
Rochester, n H, are in a terrible pickle
They have heretofore given as reason
for not marrying that they could not
afford the luxury. About a month age
several marriageable young ladies put
their heads together and prepared a
document proving conclusiyely that
families of from two to six ithey pro
vided for the future. you see), can live
we'll on - a week Having disposed OF
rents, fuel and provisions, these artless
girls turned their attention to clothing,
and the document aforesaid states that
the woman who cannot dress stylishly
and save money on $50 year is not
worth the marrying. Then these girl'
made copies of the original and sent
one to each of the eligible young men
Chicago Herald.
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Communication With Prohibitionisrs
Throughout the State.

The editor Of this department would
ike to have furnished 10 him the name
and post Office Of some prominent pro-
hIbliionist IN each county in the State.
Ills object Is 70 correspond with such
ProhibtiOnists 50 as 10 keep the friends
OF the cause posted with reliable infor-
nation as TO what is being done. Itwoald
facilitate matters, if, upon reading this
call. some person in each county, would
send brief, but accurate account Of the
history Of prohibition in his county
within the last year or 80. State how
many temperance organizations there
are, how many meetings have been heid,
whether any towns or districts have
voted upon prohibition. and with what
results; whether the sentiment seems
to be growing, and all items which would
help to make up correct and reliable
presentation Of the cause thr0ugh0u. the
state
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-01
1 Baltimore Man.

Baltimore has a recluse in the per
son Of William II. Israel. once mem
Der OF a prominent couveyancer's
firm, who lives in the family mansion
alone. For fifteen years he has allowed
no one to visit him but his lawyer and
a colored man, who every day brings
him loaf of bread and a pitcher of
water. The handsome furniture Of
the house IS going to decay and is COW
cred with dust. No clothing covers
Israels person save an old tattercd
blanket around his shoulders. few
rags dangling about his loins. and an
old hat-ali As old as his hermitage.
To make up tor the deficiency of cloth-
ing. nature has stepped in and provided
an abundant growth of hair, which
covers his entire body His hair and
beard are long aud uakelnpt. reaching
fully to his waist, while his finger nails
are as long as tire fingers themselves.
Israel is believed to he worth a hand
some fortune.
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was s'aI t-e>l ol Tie ron ot drum Ihink-
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w nat Jackson
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ahral,sm raneoln.. pox-rtr

IL Arnold's --Ane>doses 81 Lincoln Early
Life We have an account of Lincoin's ar
rival. IN ISL. at Springfield. where the
lawyer who lent him law books had offered
him premiership. He rode. an old
friend tells Us, into town on borrowea /
horse, without earthly y goods beyond pair
of saddle bags. two or three law books and
some clothing in the bags. He came into
any store. set his saddle bags on the counter,
md said: Speed. tell me what the furnit-re
for a single bedroom win cost took
my pencil, figured it mp. and found IL
would cot ST Lincoln replied: It Is
eilear eaoagh. but want to say that.
cheap as ii is / have not tAe money
10 pay. But Il yd0H credit me until
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-01
A Very Curious Old Book.

The most curious book in the world
is one that is neither written nor print
ted. Every letter of the text is cut into
the leaf and as the alternative leaves are
of blue paper, it is as easily read as the
best pint. The labor required and the
patience necessary to cut each letter
may be imagined. The work is so per
feet that it seems as though done by
machinery. but every character wa.
made by hard. The book is entitled
"The Passion Of Christ" 1t Is very
old volume, and was a curiosity as long
ago as the year 1910. At this time il
belongs to the family Of the Prince de
Ligue, and is kept at museum in
France
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Apple Cheese

Pare and quarter quantity of ap-
pies stew them with little water.a good
deal Of sugar, the juice and grated rind
of lemon, a few cloves, or a stick oi
cinnamon. When quite soft, sift
through hair-7icye; and to one quart
Of the strained apple add half package
vt geIatiue, dissolved in water. Mix
we'll pour into a mould, and when set
turn it out and serve with a boiled Gus
Jafd poured around IT, Sweeten and
aavOr it well, on account Of the insip
idity Of the gelatine.