Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-09

Methodist Churchill
If there Is q noble purpose to be 40
complished, a great work to be done
put a big ought in it, make the con.
ditions sufficiently hard aud you will
find women at the head of it working
with a zeal that knows no rest till the
thing is through with.
In spite of the furnace blast that
licked cd all life out Of tho air. IN spite
OF a biezsn sky and whitening wind, o
band OF self-sacriicing spirits gathered
at Mrs. Gross on Wednesday and
Thursday and expiated half at least of
all their sins by quilting that quilt for
the national temperance hospital In
Chicago. Modesty forbids the mention
of names, or who 1T was that with self
forgetful zeal cheered and encouraged
the others by stimulating Rotations
and select readings. When the energies
began to flag ice cold lemonade was
passed, With a--spoon in it.
The pattern of the quilt is that known
to the initiated as the basket design"
and it is a consollug reflection that
when some poor fellow perhaps lies
under it yainiy signing for what seems
in his deluded imagination sthe one
thing needful' he may turn his specu-
llative eyes toward those baskets and
secure infinite entertainment in trying
to hotanize the Remarkable H. wcrs
therein.
The hotel men, liquor dealers, and
fashionable society in general at
Newport aud Nuiragansets Pier are all
torn up over the present "dry" CON
ditiops at these popular watering places.
Prohibition is prohibiting so eifectually
that many find themselves III the sad
case Of the Moor, with their Occupation
gone" aud are trying to turn an honest
penny by vending lemonade aud ginger
pop. 1t begins to look as if the day
were dawning when indulgence in in
toxicating beverages will be in bad
FORM" in which case drinking, even
among the fashionable, will be dis.
reputable, and the drunkard despised.
EXCERPTS.
Mrs. s. w. Sheldon, from her lar
home in the east remembers the old
Yankton temperance union, OF which she
was SO long q devoted member, and
sends the following excerpts for our w.
CT. q. column:
.Of the worst foes that women have
ever had to contend with, wine stands
ut The head. The appetite Tor strong
drink In men, has spoiled the lives OF
more Women-rnined more hopes for
them, scattered more fortunes Tor them,
brought to them more shame, sorrow
and hardship-than any other evil that
lives. Inc country numbers tens OF
thousands-nay, hundred OF thousands
OF women who are widows to-day, and
sit in hopeless weeds, because their hus.
bands bad been slain by strong drink.7
"Ihtes hundreds OF thousands of
homes scattered all over the land, in
which women live lives uf torture, going
through all changes OF suffering that
lie between the extremes of fear and
despair, because those whom they love,
love wine better than they do the wom-
an they have worn TO love. There are
women by the thousand who dread to
hear ut the door the step that once
thrilled them with pleasure; that step has
learned to reel under the influence of
the seductive poison. There are women
grooming with pain, while we write these
words, from bruises and brutalitles in
Hicted by husbands made mad by drink
There can be no exaggeration in any
statement made in regard to this mat
Eser, because no human imagination can
create anything worse than the truth,
and no pen Is capable of portrayipg the
truth. The sorrow of q wife with a
dfnnken husband, or a mother with a
drunken tou, are as near the real cation
OF III II as can be reached. in this world
at least. The shame the indignation,
the sorrow. the sense of disgrace for
herself and her children, the poverty
and not ~unfrequently the beggary-the
tear and the fact of violence, the linger-
ing, life-long struggle and despair of
countless women with drunken hus-
bands, are enough to make all women
curse wine, and engage nnltedly to OPP.
pose it every where as the worst enemy
W tu6ll S6A. lH-H.g.' E.rga.H
Prohibition Is worth TO us as O firm at
2ea5s4Sl0,Q00 o year in the general
regularity of the men at their work.
Whtta1, 1,atnm Dc Co., employing 1900
mea IN Metr glass Jact9raes at Ms1usiie,
y.
Most of the leading manufacturers
have made strictly temperate habits an
indispensable pre- requisite to employ
ment, and the least departure therefrom
a sufficient pretext for immediate dis
missal.....W What our legislatures permit,
that, great manufacturing and in
dustrial institutions, in order to protect
themselves from ruin, are compelled to
positively prohibit.-A. M.. Collins,
Md.
Men who are hard at work, whose
frames are exhausted by their toll, who
feel within them the natural WEAKNESS !
and lassitude that labor produces, and
who are then shown. something which
will give them o temporary relief; who
know that, for at any rate a short time,
they may have something like real pleas
ure, though 1t be but Of q vicious kind
men who are worn and weary, and taken |
as it were at their weakest moment is |
1t just to thrust in their faces this temp
tation, which in their own consciences |
they know they ought not to approach?
-Dr. Temple, Bishop of Eater.
1t is too clear that the rapid extension
OF this system of saloon drinking ia