The Somerset reporter., 1891-01-22

10 the town Of HYDE Park Mass, stands
an unpre,e ti9us white cottage, chiefly
peaks and gail II, half hidden in summer
with vines, but outwardly unmarked By
anything to distinguish it as the home Of
woman of natioDsl fame except per.
haps,a agpcle over one OF the balconies,
where, on all patriotic DAYS when Mrs.
Mary II. Hunt is at home, the flag Of her
country, floating without, testifies of the
patriotism within.
But inside this little white house called
Hope Cottage from Mrs. Hunts famous
eplgram. THE Star of Hope Of the Tenn.
| perance Reform stands over the School
house, are many features which distn.
guish it. from the ordinary private dwell
Ing. L. Place OF costly furnishings aud
bric-a brsc are books and papers, papers
and BOOKS everywhere. Even the dining
room is invaded. aud from one corree 20
out the letters, lins, and supplies of liter
AZURE to local WORKERS in every part Of the
United States as W, / as in foreign lands.
In Mrs. Hunts study every inch of W. IL
space is lined with books, constituting a
well-equipped reference library on The
special science she is ENGRAVING upon the
schoC system Of the country.
The modes parlor takes FIR its share Of
the department parsphernalia he trophies
of unique aud remarkable campaigns.
Here is the pen with which President
Harrison signed the National Temperance
Education 81 La japanese and a Hawaiian
edition of the first primary textbook ever
published; am, among other mementoes,
gifts from devoted women in New York
aud PenDsy lvanla in token of their thank.
fulre5S over the passage of the temper
ance education laws Ia those great States
recent addition to the list of sovenrs
is c. II ction that has just come 81 the
way from IGdia. 1t consist, of a { olDplcte
opium smoking OUTFIT which has been
used thousands of times in the government
licensed shops of India. There is the pipe
with its SINS Il aperture for receiving the
opium, the saucer in which the drug is
prepared. the lamp, and the needle on
which tie small bit of gummy mixture is
taken up, held in the flame, ard then ap-
piled to the pipe. There is chil.ium, 8
brick-colored clay pipe, in which ganja,
mixed with tobacco, is smoked, and there
are little boxes containing specimens of
raw opium and madaB, and the -four pro-
ducts of the demoral ling Indian Temp
gar ia. bhADg, chars~ and mc JUN. In ci.e
oox is a seal bearing the English govern
ment stamp, sanctioning the sale Of these
soul ard body destroying narcotics to the
poor DIT luded natives of India.
Mr.. Maurice Gregory, associate editor
of The Banner of Asia ard The Bombay
Guardian, sends these specimens to Mrs.
Hunt, sppealng to her for help, and
writes that interest is being aroused on
the subj ct of teaching the children in the
schools the nature and effect of these suit
stances. The missionaries find the
greatest obstacle to their work In the
moral, mental and physical degradation
caused by the use of the various narcot-
les whose sale the government is pushing
for the sake of the revenue. They ale
therefore beginning 10 see in this educa-
ton hope of preventing the young from
being enticed into the formation of mar
cotic HABITS. Textbo on the topic
from the Asiatc standpoint, are already
being prepared.
Thus Il c influence going out from thst
little white cottage in HYDE Park are
reaching not only to thousands of schools
and tens of thousands of children in the
United States, but are extending to dis
iant lands, where they may yet be potent
IN saving thousands more from the blight
of narcotism-the blight that is greater
menace to human progress to-day than
plague, pestilence, and war combined.
EMMA l.. BENEDICT.