Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-03-02
COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. c. t. U

"hOoO h'A tA0NNA1 VI ~ AOdl
work of rum is, no doubt, a true pic
ture of what the author has seen, es-
pecially in his saloon ridden city. And
this same devil so graphically portray
ed is a pet of the church in whisky pol
itics. But read his words.
WHISKY.
o, thou hydra headed demon! o, thou pois-
oned wine of hell!
Lost are they who drink thy waters! Who
can all thy horrors tell?
Thou art worse than war and battlewith their
thousand fields of blood.
Thou art worse than plague and famine,
worse than tempest, flame and Hood.
Thou hast filled the world with paupers, peo-
pied all its prison walls,
Bringing woe to humble cottage-shame to
princely palace halls.
Thou dost nourish crime and raplne-thou
dost aid the murderer's thrust,
Thou dost kindle purest bosoms with the
flames of hellish lust.
Thou dost dim the shining luster of a spot
less, honored name,
Thou dost steep the fairest natures deep in
quilts enduring shame.
AS the brightest flowers perish meath the
Upas' deadly shade,
So the hearts each pure emotion withers
where thy and Is laid.
Love n faith and hope and honor die in
thy relentless grasp
Chastity's bright robe is soiled in thy base
and loathsome clasp.
Thou dost reign the prince of sorrow and
thy power never wanes.
All the world bewails the bondage of thy
thy cruel, calling chains.
JAMES GARDNER.
The Philadelphia Record is authority
for the statement that lat several bar
rooms in the fashionable part of the
city 1t is now possible to get morphia
cocktails" Medical authorities assure
us that dreadful as is the whisky habit,
the opium habit is incomparably worse,
both from the greater moral degrade.
ton which it entails and from the
greater difficulty of breaking the habit
We had thought that the saloon cou d
hardly be worse, but this new device
OF the devil shortens fearfully the road
between the saloon and the bottomless
pit.
The average young woman Of today
feels her importance in the world and
has little time for either dawdling or
grumbling the hours do not drag with
laggard feet, but fly all too swiftly for
the projects conceived by her busy
brain. The dainty, pallid, wasp waist
ed young lady who could not walk and
could not work, and did not like to
have the sun shine on her for fear OF
spelling her delicate complexion, and
could not endure the wet or cold, is
fast passing away, sinking languidly
and gracefully into an early grave. She
was the product of false notions of lie
and happiness. Her mother was over
worked, and her limited education pro-
vided no escape from the narrow rou-
tine of cares and duties incident to pi-
oneer life. With increasing means the
mother planned to have the daughters
burdens lighter, but there was as yet
nothing to take the place of the domes-
tic duties which kept the mother busy,
and the daughter grew up idle and list
less, and for the most part worthless.
However there was here and there one
who was adventurous enough to leave
the beaten track and try experiments.
The descendants of the pilgrims were
just the one to establish new customs
and ordain new standards, and the re-
suit evoked the remark from that witty
Frenchman, best known as Max O'Rell,
he could be born again and have
his way about it he would be an Amer
lean woman. Wide awake, energetic,
independent, full of good cheer and
good sense, the American girl is at
once the envy and the horror of the old
With the usual tendency of
movements to go to extremes before
a balance, there seems Just
now to be a tendency among young
to shun matrimony and home
cares, and perhaps it is not altogether
that there should be a
pause in the matrimonial business
while we inquire a little further into
the causes of the numerous mistakes
which have raised the question on
many lips, rs marriage a failure 2"
This editor is satisfied that marriage is
a divine institution, and that the home
is a blessed'privilege as well as an i'm
perative necessity, and she believes that
intellectual, healthy, independent
woman of today is capable of making
best and happiest home the world
has ever known. She is asking a great
deal of the nan who shall help her to
the ideal home, but if he gives
It he wilknot be sorry, and future gen.
erations shall rise up to bless the pro-
women of the nineteenth CEN
Jury.
An English physician says that every
nan who comes to the front in his pro-
in London is marked by one
characteristic, viz: That the more
busy he gets, the less in the shape OF
he takes, and his excuse is II
I'M very sorry, but | a not take it
md do my work."
Hoods Cures.
In saving that Hoods Sarsaparilla