The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-09-02

home In Evanston, Ill, on SUNDAY,
August 1, aged eighty-seven years
seven months and four days.
On Tuesday, Aug. 9th the last sad
rites for this beloved mother were held
in the Methodist Church at Evanston.
Some near relatives and friends were
invited to Rest Cottage at an earlier
hour than the service at the church,
where farewell service was held. The
body was laid in the family lot in Rose
Hill Cemetery where already repose
the remains of her husband, son and
daughter. The honorary pall-bearers
were Mrs. C. B Buell., Miss Esther
Pugh, Mrs. DR.. Kidder, Mrs, DR..
Marcy, Madam Brajdou and Mrs
Pearson of Evanston all intimate friends
of Madam Willard's.
We are sure that there are no white
ribboners who will not learn with sin
cere pleasure that Lady Henry Somer-
set has taken passage on the Cunard
steamer Etruria sailing from New York,
August 9th for Miss Frances Willard
and Miss Anna Gordon, inviting them
to be her guests at Eastnor Castle.
They will return in time for the
National Convention in Denver. COL,
Oct. 28th to Nov. Sd Miss Willard
desires US to say that she is most
tenderly grateful to that loving, loyal
host who in the loss of her nearest and
dearest one who have by prayer and
sympathy expressed in word and deed
by cable and telegram, letter and spoken
comfort and coincidence, hallowed with
heavenlier meaning than ever before
the hymn we sing so often, "Blest be
the tie that binds Union Signal.
A glance at the bar rooms Of the
great hotels Of the city will convince
the most skeptical that the saloon ol
to-day spares no pains or expense in
catering to the finer tastes of its patrons,
says; Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr. in Frank
Lesle's weekly. Men become drunkards
often under protest. Thousands Of
young men go to the devil because
there seems to be nowhere else to 90.
Suppose the ten thousand saloons in
New York were opposed by five thous-
and coffee houses on the style of the
English establishments. Suppose they
were fitted up as handsomely and
situated as we'll and filled with good
cheer, would not drinking be reduced
to minimum. I do not mean SO many
dingy stores where coffee and other
temperance drink, creams and the like
are served. l mean that they should
be fitted in handsome style as social
centres with free reading rooms, lunch
rooms, smoking rooms and assembly
rooms. In other words only suppose
we should put forth the same labor and
outlay toward saving and elevating
men as is now put forth to damn them
with alcohol. 1t would be big job
The decorations alone in fitting up oi
the bendome bar room cost about $4O,-
900. There are single paintings among
the rich treasures of art that adorn the
Hoffman House bar valued as higu al
$50 900.
have yet to hear of the every day
young man who buys keg of beer oil
whiskey, takes it up to his cheerless
room, sits down over it and drinks
merrily for the sake of drinking. The
recent censes Of the tenement house
population of New York taken by the
Board of Health shows that 1880, ,0OC
of our 100000 inhabitants live il
second and third class tenements--
that is they are homeless. Is it MOI
time that we recognize the fact tha
the saloon has built itself into the socia
structure of modern life, and that We
must seek here for one of the most i'm
portant secrets of its power?
The officers of the United State,
Internal Revenue Department have
settled their accounts for the year end
ing June Both '92 and speak "as justly
proud of the fact" that the beer tax fol-
1891 and '92 has been the largest ir
the history of Philadelphia $l,8l7 ,661.
Is, which repsents the levy on 9OS. $3.50,
500 glasses of lager beer at the rate O.
$50 glasses tor every man, woman anC
child in this city, has flowed gently ant
pleasantly down the throats of th,
thirsty denigens of the borough o
William Penn. Oragain, on the sup
position that beer is only imbibed b.
men over 81 years old the awfu
amount of 3633 glasses must be allotted
to each man. Members of the w. G
T. U. can be pardoned for shudderins
at these figures, which by the way cal
only be arrived at after an exceedingl,
;abstruse mathematical calculation. Th,
beer tax last year was $l,7ll,272, II
or SlO5, ,3S9.O5 less than this years ia,
which increase shows conclusively tina
lager is becoming more and NOR,