Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-06-29
TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. C. T. U.
Mrs. s. F. Chaplin leader of White


Ribbon host Of South Carolina a y
II have received numbers of letters
informing me that the day the saloons
are closed in Charlestown will be the
best days of my life." A friend ad-
vised her to give up the work, she says;
l don't belong to the "giving up sort,
and although we have many and sore
trials, is it nothing that on the LIST of
July every bar Dor in the State will
be closed-two hundred and ninety in
my own city, What but an Almighty
hand could do this, in this State? And
now, let me answer a question which
comes to me from every direction.
what do you think of your Dispen-
sary Bilp and what do others Think
l can only speak for myself.
The Prohibitionists last year made a
desperate effort to get a %prohibitory
bill through the legislature. 1t passed
the House but was side tracked in the
Senate. was 80 disappointed that l
was actually discouraged. Taking up
a book of Gospel hymns, l opened to
the n reading,
ut may not be my way,
1t may not bs the way,
But in some way or other.
The Lord will provide"
l involuntarily said, II give up my
way, oh, Lord, only send deliverance
from the curse" Since then I have
been waiting to learn Gods way.
Many who profess to be temperance
men and women stand side by side
with the bar keepers because of their
hostility to the administration by
which the bill was passed.
| have been working and praying
for thirteen years to God to close the
pitfal lis of destruction that stand open
night and day. We have petitioned
churches, Congress Legislature to help
and been refused and now I see in this
movement Gods hand 80 manifest, l
have no desire to scare up political
ambuscades" or any of the other poll
teal %bugaboos others profess to see.
We have had no exciting campaigns,
no magnetic speakers, no money has
been spent. 1t is all Gods doings, and
l love TO think it is 80.
IF HE SMOKES WON'T HAVE HIM.
II were a woman | would never
marry a man that used tobacco or
strong drink, and if m would
take position we should see one of the
greatest reformations that was ever
known, for a while at least, and how
it is that a man can love a woman and
then impose upon her by smoking or
chewing the filthy weed l can't i'm
agine.
was once asked by a brother, if in |
my travels was not acquainted with
a woman that would make him a good
wife, as he was alone, his wife having
been dead several years. AS l was
travelling one day many miles away I
called to see a sister whose husband
was dead, and the thought came to me
that the brother had asked me in re-
lation to introducing him to someone
to become his wife. In q bushes like
mannar I introduoaJ tho ,,.A4o., nr |
course questions were asked pro and
con, and all answered satisfactorily ;
but last and not least, docs he
smoke 7" Yes he is a terrible smoker.
Then it is no use saying anything
further upon the subject, my husband
smoked for the asthma and it poisoned
me, but l endured it as best I could"
But some way they compromised and
were married. For quite a long time
everything went along smoothly, but
by degrees on came the old habit,
and the sisters health began to fail.
AS was holding a meeting in the
vicinity, 3 few Of those old tobacco
users were there. While | was speak
ing the subject Of tobacco came to
me-something | seldom mention in
the desk lit is lamentabl BILE the. minis
try are 80 fearful to speak out against
this sin. Ed. but as it was impressed
upon me by the Spirit 1 freed my mind.
AS was staying with the brother and
sister above mentioned the subject
came up. spoke of the filthy habit,
and the injurious effect it had on
some persons health. l told the
brother that | would not be hired to
sleep with him for n dollar. After
wards he said, II am going to leave
of the use of tobacco the first of
March," This conversation was in the
first of the winter. ] think the next
June l called at the house, and as the
sister came to the door l said, "Why
how much better you are looking,
what is the cause ?" S~milingly she
said, Husband has left off smoking"
Then called to mind what he told
NEIL. B. SEAEY, Worlds Crisis.
ANOTHER WHISKY MURDER.
Atlanta, Ca, June 10. Governor
Northern has offered a reward of $500
each for the arrest of the two Douglas
County murderers who shot Marshal
X. Glover, May 1, about 10 O'Clock at
night near Lithia Springs, because the
latter was preparing 10 enforce liquor
law against the outlaws conducting
blind tigers" in the vicinity of Lithia
Springs. The Solicitor General wrote
Governor stating the facts and the
Governor has just offered the reward.
APAPER BY MISS WILLARD.
Mrs. Woodbridge read a paper semi
by Miss Willard on 1.-THE Woman's