Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-04-21
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
MRS. II. d. KELLS.


propriate 100000 to the Columbian
Exposition provided no liquor is sold
on the grounds.
A W. c. 7. U. in Louisiana finding a
poor drunkard who has no means of
going to the Kelley Cure-has hit up
on the expedient of calling upon every
saloon Keeper in the city for sub
scription to send their victim off.
What kind of ''opathy" is that9 Not
like cures like" but it is surely JUS
tice-poetic or satanic?
North Carolina License Commission
ers i'll eleven counties have decided
that no man of good moral character
Will engage in the liquor business, and
have barred out the applicants on this
ground. A house divided against itself
cannot stand-what will the Demo
cratic party do with this awful cleav-
age in the Solid South"
1t has been stated the Woman's
Board of Managers of the Columbian
Exposition has decided against Sunday
closing of the grounds. This much
misrepresents the Board. In regular
session they have voted against Sunday
opening the last final with majority
VI ~. hC
approaches Mrs. Palmer on the sale of
liquors on the grounds. The Board
not having yet taken action on that
subject the Executive Committee de-
clined to make statement as their
utterance would not be authoritive.
Mrs. M. M. Conwell of Evanston. ILL.,.
has recently organized a semi-monthly
mass meeting of all churches in Prince
ton, eleven in number, and five
Swedish and two Lutheran. This
meeting is very enthusiastic, crowds
come flocking. One happy feature is
the commingling of organizations.
churches and languages. At late
meeting the Swedish choir sang two
songs in English, two in Swedish the
prayers one in Swedish and one in
English. The speakers were Rev. Ban
non, Lutheran, and Mrs Eugenia +.
st. John, Methodist Mrs. st. John
presented the Worlds Petition.
Lady Henry Somerset will be greet
ed on her arrival in Liverpool by
great public reception in the City Hall,
presided over by the Mayor. The
British WOman's Temperance Associa-
ton Convention, and Worlds W. C. r.
U. Conference with monster meetings
at st. James Hall are soon to follow.
Miss Hood and Miss Balgarnie are to
have extended organizing trips in
Great Britain, and will establish
Schools of Methods on the American
order. The Worlds White Ribbon, the
English edition of the Union Signal. is
to be tho first work established on her
return by the President of the British
Temperance Association.
The Temperance Temple Bonds are
selling rapidly. Massachusetts, leads
by holding S46,S00 of same, Hi
nois S27 400, New York S196OO, Penn
sylvania $4,000. Far off Scotland has
invested to the amount of $500 and
Switzerland is named in the bond" for
quite sum. Temple mite boxes are
going out at the rate of one hundred
per day, which, kept up, will net the
Temple s133,225 within the year. The
silver models, inkstands, mite boxes
and jewelry stands are selling with
surprising rapidity. The 1st of May
the W. c. t. U. moves into its own Ma
tional Headquarters, one of the hand
soonest buildings in the city noted for
its architectural splendor.
An ex-sheriff of certain parish of
Louisiana told a w. G.. Il. u. organizer
this incident that occurred during his
administration A man committed
some dreadful crime when under the
influence of strong drink and was SEN
fenced to be hung. Just before he as
cended the scaffold, he called his wife
to him and said "At every anniversary
of my death l want you to take our
boys to my grave and tell them over
and over again that their father came
to his awful end through strong drink
and warn them to shun the bottle as
they would reptile" In spite of this
terrible experience, the wife married
drunkard the second time and every
one of her sons died drunkards.
Lady Henry Somerset sailed from
New York for England April 18th on
the TeutOnic. Miss Frances e. Willard
and other friends babe the parting
guest God-speed as she moved sadly
out beyond the protection of Americas
goddess of Liberty. This kindly ma
tured English aristocrat has learned
greatly to love this newborn land of
freedom and will return next June. |
The Union Signal of April Dist, will
contain her farewell message to Ameri- |
ca. At the farewell meeting in Boston,
Mrs. Mary Livermore and Mrs. Susan
s. Fessenden presided over tremen-
dOus audience at fremont Temple. |
which represented each one an admis-
sion ticket. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
representing the New England Wo-
mans Club read an original poem,
sour Guest" A handsome rocking
chair was presented to Lady Henry
Somerset by the Massachusetts, w. G.
I. U. Lady Henry responded, among
other things saying brightly: 81 have
that all the brightest ideas
come to that brightest of women, the
president OF the National W. G. L. u,
in rocking chair, and / mean to see
what the magic of that gentle swaying
motion can do for me-"
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