The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-06-01
Temperance.

Oh ANDhENo UNIV EHSlI1 vi OCOJ-
land has opened its departments of |
theology, arts and sciences to women.
THE girls of the Mississippi State In.
dustrial Institute and College went
without their Sunday dinner in order to |
give it to fec the flood sufferers in the
recent overflow of the Tombigbee.
THE Maine Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union is pushing a work to |
secure homes for homeless children,
with Mrs. M. 7. w. Merrill of Port |
land, national superintendent of that
departm ent, at its head.
Mrs. MARY CLEMENT LEAvITT,
world around missionary of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
will return to Boston from South
America the Middle of May, and will
be ready for engagements.
THREE HUNDRED and seventy.five
out of six hundred railway corporations
in the United States prohibit the use of
intoxicating liquors by their employees.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers expelled 400 members last year
for violation of total abstinence.
THE Mansfield, Mass, Union re-
Gently presented petition for better
enforcement of the laws against liquor,
signed by 3S1 women. The city coun-
Gil voted them the free use of the town
hall for six nights in the year, and gave
5000 to the women, to be applied toward
the enforcement of law.
THE directors of the Temple have had
an offer of 81 800 per month for space
for tobacco stand in the marble cor
ridor of the rotunda. Never" said
Mrs. Carse, to the applicant; "not for
fifty thousand dollars. We are not
poor enough to permit the sale of that
vile weed in our House Beautiful" ,..
THE multitudes of women in attend
ference at Omaha are greatly disap-
pointed that Miss Willard was not there
to champion their cause. Miss Willard
does not believe in forced growth; ;
she knows that pin-feathers are bound
to become quills, and gives the confer
ence time. 1rog- x a4U ;'.E&4s
THE liquor dealers excise bill passe
the New York assembly by vote of
sixty-seven to fifty-three. 1t repeats
the civil damage act, allows night
sales, and writ of certiorari when IL
cense has been refused by cities of
10000 or more inhabitants. Every
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
in the nation should petition the gov
ernor of New York for his veto.
A BRAND of Kentucky whisky is
called "Horn of plenty" Somt body
says, " Wisely chosen, for out of it shall
come
"Plenty of poverty, plenty of pain,
Plenty of sorrow and plenty OF shame,
Plenty of broken hearts, hopes doomed and
sealed,
Plenty of graves in the potter's field"
THE bill giving women the right to
vote on granting of liquor licenses as
we'll as school questions was defeated
in the Massachusetts legislature, April
rs, by only three votes. 1t would prob
ably have passed had not the yeas and
nays been called. There was not iron
enough in the nerves of some of the
friends of the bill to go on record as op-
posed to the liquor traflic-for advo-
cacy of the women is so constructed,
thank heavenl
"THERE is nothing new under the
sun" was doubtless true in Solomon's
steady pacing day; but the splendid
whirl of the nineteenth century has
brought something "spick, span and
splinter new into the grand process.
sion of events. Two women OF
Wyoming-Mrs. Therese jenkins, ex.
superintendent of the department OF
franchise in the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and Mrs. G. W.
Carleton-have been elected delegates
(alternate) to the national republican
convention at Minneapolis, which will
nominate president. When she reaC
that in the Geographic news, woman's
first thought was of the "new heavens
and the new earth" of the promise
Her second one, however, was "a
strange route to glory through thu
typical political convention" She il
peering, en- pers pective, through the to
bacco smoke, asking reflectively " Is i
Tophet?" Her salamander raiment wa
begun, it is well to mention, as soon a
she finished her note of thanks TO tn,
republican party of Wyoming for tn,
plank in its platform welcoming womel
TO its councils, and to Colonel Richard
in particular, who made, with tremend
Gus eclat, the following speech in thu
conventions: "Gentlemen Il mean La
dies and Gentlemen): 1t remained TO
the republican party of Wyoming t,
add luster to party's record by givini
to women the right men have Away
had at the polls. To-day they are GU
equals. believe it proper, just AM
right that they should participate in on
every celebration. l have here tn
name of woman, a stanch republican
worker, who would do us honor in an,
) position of trust in which she might b
- placed-Mrs. Therese A. jenkins.
have great pleasure in nominating he
for the position as alternate to tn
, Minneapolis convention"