Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-07-26
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
SALOONS MUST 40.

In the heart Of Buffalo there stands
n magnificent building, which the
population do %innocently style q music
hall. Everybody comes here of an
evening to sit around little tables and
listen TO a first class orchestra. Here
went with q friend. One sight of the
evening was a horror. The little trag-
edy played itself out at a neighboring
table where two very young men and
two very young women were sitting.
1t did not strike me until far into the
evening that the young reprobates
were making the girls drunk. They
gave them red wine, and then white,
and the voices rose slightly with the
maiden's cheeks tlushes. | watched,
and the youths drank till their speech
thickened and their eyeballs grew
watery. 1t was sickening to see, be-
canse | knew what was going to hap
pen. My friend eyed the group and
said: Maybe they are children of re-
spectacle parents. l hardly think
though, they'd be allowed out without
any better escort than these boys, and
yet the place is one where everyone
comes, asyou see. Whatever they were,
they got intolerably drunk. There in
that lovely hall, surrounded by the
best of Buffalo society. One could do
nothing except invoke the judgement
of heaven on the two boys, themselves
half sick with liquor. At the close of
the performance the quieter maiden
laughed vacantly and protested she
could not keep her feet. The four
linked arms, and staggering, went out
into the street drunk, gentlemen and
ladies, as Davies swine, drunk as lords.
They disappeared down a side avenue,
but l could hear their laughter long
after they were out of sight, and they
were all four, children of 10 and II.
Then, ~recanting previous opinions, l
became a prohibitionist. Better it is
that a man should 60 without his beer
in public places and content himself
with ranting at the narrow mindedness
of the majority than to bring tempta-
ton to the lips of young fools such as
the four / had seen. l understand
now why the preachers rage against
drink. / have said: ''There is no
harm in it taken moderately and yet
my own demand for beer helped direct.
ly to send those two girls reeling down
the dark street-God alone knows to
what end.
Here is, in briefest terms, the tenn
perance creed of the G. T. A. U.
"There is a little public house
That every n can close,
And that's the little public house
That's just beneath the nose"
THE OTHER SIDE.
zone half the world knows not how
the other half lives"
We are so busy organizing the forces
Of a better ci Utilization that we are apt
to lose sight of the individual in the
mass. AS a corrective we have de-
cided to give some individual cases
that have come to our knowledge. We
hope they will be carefully read and
%pondered with the thought that they
Arn NJ nnnnnnnn no fhn I,,.N Il. tIA
street or the smoke of the air of our
large cities. ''Tis true It's pity, and
pity tbs it's true.n
Says Mrs. B. my husband is very
sick and the railroad has killed my
COW. l used to sell the milk to help
support the family. l have been to
the railroad company. but here is a let
ter in which they say they are very
sorry but they can not do anything for
me.n
u is a poor mechanic whom illness
and loss of work brought TO the verge
of despair. 2, with his wife and
children, live in a couple of rooms
furnished with a few articles bought
by them on the installment plan. The
payment was overdue. u. was ill in
in bed and the furniture dealer would
wait no longer. He took away the
kitchen stove the only one they had
and their m bed. In the midst of all
this distress another baby came upon
the scene.
Martin III. was threatened with arrest
by G. who charged him with a most
heinous assault upon his little daugh-
ter. For two and one half years G..
kept Martin in his house under the
threat of criminal prosecution and
Martin paid all his wages to him. The
youth was starved by the man, who
gave him no new clothes. When NJ.
said he was going to leave, G. threat
ened to have him arrested on the false
charge. He placed a paper before NJ.
which he signed. 1t vas a promise to
be G's slave for life and to pay him all
his wages in consideration of not be-
ing prosecuted. Investigation proved
that the accusation was false and kind
friends came to Martins rescue, SO
that he is a slave on longer.
NJ. was the wife of q drupkard who
came home at night, took the money
she had earned during the day at the
washtub, beat her and made her home
hideous. She submitted to this two or
three times a week for years, rather
than break up her family.
l.. is q girl twelve wears old. employ-