Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-06-02
COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. t. U
MRS. KATE B. SIMPSON, Superintendent
of Press Work.

be held here all through the summer
months. All women interested in the
cause are invited to be with us.
From Superintendent Of Sunday
school work: We have much dear sis
tiers to cheer and encourage us in the
success attending the issue of the Tenn
perance Sunday School Lesson. The
great demand for the lesson for January
18th gladdened the heart of our National
Superintendent Miss Lucie Kimbal)
and all of us who have labored, prayed,
and watched. The lesson prepared for
May 22nd was both attractive and in
teresting, the leading thought was the
manliness of Goodness, a grand lesson
to teach our boys. The total c%ircula-
ton of this and the largest yet secured
was IL, 900. May Gods blessing accom-
pany each copy, not only those sent
out by our own local Union, but all
over our land.
Yours for the rescue of childhood,
NJ. w. DossER.
Local Supt. of Sunday School work.
A FEW FACTS ABOUT SMOKING.
The amount spent in our United
States annually for tobacco is 5000, 000,-
900. In the city of Chicago $24, 900 are
spent daily for cigars alone. Think of
it at Z per cent. compound interest. If
you use n cents worth of tobacco a
day for thirty years, it will cost you
1914; at 5cents a day forthe same time,
it will cost you 81, 1923; at 80 cents, it
will costyou 81, 2S9, and loss and waste
of money is small compared to the dis
ease it brings. 1t stops growth, and
causes ill developed bodiesif used before
growth has stopped. 1t delays diges-
ton, causes nervousness, trembling of
the hands, indecision loss of energy,
and of will power. 1t causes loss of
appetite, help on ancer of the stomach
and throat. 1t lessons vitality, wounds
heal less rapidly among smokers than
among non-smokers. 1t wastes time
and energy. 1t leads to drinking. 1t
deadens thought. No slave to the weed
ever graduated at the head of his class
at Harvard.
AT Yale University the students of
each class are ranked in four grades,
according to their scholarship. An in
quiry recently instituted developed
some interesting facts as to the relation
of the tobacco habit of low grading. OF
the forty students holding the first
rank, but ten used tobacco, while twenty
two out of twenty-six in the fourth or
lowest rank, used the weed.
LADY soMERsET's WORK IN ENGLAND.
At Lady Somerset's reception in st.
James Hall, London, a few days ago,
two of the speakers had the bad taste
to criticise American methods, inveigh
against woman's ballot, and warn the
British women against harm to them
selves in case they should follow in the
wake of their Yankee sisters. After all
had been said that occurred to these
welcoming" brethren, Lady Henry
came forward, and, in a speech of an
hour piled together the facts about the
genesis, history and methods of the w,
G. T. u, closing her address with the
words: ''If to have done this is to have
made a failure, Heaven send the British
women a meteoric shower of failures
like unto it," The two conventions
presided over by Lady Henry since hel
return to England, have been marked
by greater progress than the womani
cause has ever known in England. By
a two thirds vote the Woman Suffrage
plank has been framed into the plat
form of the British Women's Temper
ance Association. Their work has beer
systematized into departments ant
county societies. A School of Methods
has been arranged for, a weekly paper
under the editorship of Lady Henry
herself, is to be begun at once. Thirty
philanthorpic societies, not temperance
responded to her call for q conference
out of which has grown a branch of tn,
Worlds w. G. T. u, and in the cam
paign just before them the white rib
boners of England will stand solidly
for Sunday closing and the direct vetC
on the drinking traffic. Miss Heller
Hood, corresponding secretary of tn,
Illinois w. G. 7. u, and Mrs. Mary C
Woody, president of the w. G. 7. U.
of North Carolina, participated in thu
convention as fraternal delegates.
A good many years ago an Indiar
Chief came into a little Temperance,
meeting. He listened with great at
tention to the programme. Then tn,
chairman asked if he would not max,
a speech. His earnest words mad,
everyone think seriously of the Indial
side of the whisky question: 81 hav,
been a temperance men for thirty sever
years, and have worked much anon,
my W people to ave them from beinl
d%runkards. My people like this strong
drink. When America was discovered
the white men found Indians here. NJ,
people were a mighty people and thi
land was theirs. They did not know
then about this cursed drink. Som,
white men brought the Bible and laugh
the Indians their religion. They wer'
glad. Other white men brought whisky
They drank it with my people. TIL,