Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-05-04
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EDITED BY JONESBORO W. c.. 7. U
THE BEST WAY.

And people are hard to suit,
And the man who plays on the violin
Is q bore to the man with a flute,
And | myself have often thought
How very much better 'twould be,
III every one of the folks that | know
Would only agree with me.
But since they will not, then the very best
way
To make this world look bright
Is never to mind what people say,
But do what you think is rsght.
WHITE RIBBON.
These true and beautiful words wer9
spoken by Lady Henery Somerset at u
recent parlor meeting in London 81
am reminded of a conversation which
took place between DR.. Parker and
Henry Ward Beacher. One was lay
ing before the other some earnest
plans, to which was given this reply
L have your scheme now where are
your fanatics, showing that fanatics
are necessary to the carrying out of
good schems, We need care very lit
tie what names we are called, nor how
cruel are the blows leveled at us, how
sharp the stones, SO that our end is
achieved. All reformers are stoned
until they succeed. We must be con-
tent to sacrifice reputation, so that the
wrongs of our social life be redressed
the evils under which our country
droops and langulshes destroyed \
" y Those who liberated the slave
were called fanatics, were insulted and
called names, as people in all ages
have been, till aftertheir death maybe,
the grand result of their endeavors
won for them their we'll earned honor.
If we pause on our onward way to
think what people will say, hesitate
lest stones should be hurled, we shall
sink beneath the ignoble dread we
shall die and do no work, hold out no
hand to save or bless. There is a
Judge whom alone we must fear,
whose verdict alone we must esteem.
Earnestly seeking a solution to the
enigma of life, the mystery of wrong
doings, we shall trouble ourselves not
at all about such paltry considerations.
Old ideas must die new and more
powerful motives arise religion is not
a thing of creeds 1t would be well
that each should ask with regard to
questions ringing, burning in their
minds. What would be Gods view
in this matter?' Our attitude towards
our fellows is not ours to determine.
We dare not at will decide No to this
or Yes to that. "As | am so are We. g
saith the Master. To each succeeding
age Gods special message comes, and
it comes TO souls in attitude to receive
it-ready, with all sails set, to catch
the favoring breeze of God S Spirit"
ItalN NOhDS.
1t is the duty of every temperance
advocate to use plain words in showing
up the sin of the liquor traffic. The
glazing sin has been smoothed over too
long, and the twaddle about regulat.
ing the sale of intoxicants il disgust
ing to the extreme. 1t is an insult to
deceny and every principle of right to
seek to make this horrid thing respect
able, or to say a single word in its de-
Tense. We might as well seek to de
fend Satan himself and wrap about
him a garb of whiteness, and call him
an angel of heaven. We might as
well take the coiled serpent and assure
humanity that the reptile is harmless
and has the nature of a dove.
No, no, let us speak out clear and
distinctly in regard to this matter.
Let us not seek to cover the monster or
to hide his fiendish works. Let the
world see him in all his satani C hide
business. 1t is not any worse to shock
their fine sensibilities, than to have
Others stung to death or robbed of all
that makes life desirable.
Let the world comprehend fully the
nature Of the evil with which we have
to deal, and then perhaps it will not
smile SO tenderly upon it. Let it I'M
derstand that the liquor traffic is not a
thing to love and caress, or clasp to
the heart like an idol of sweetness and
purity. Let it know that the poison
of the adder, the b~lackness of the in
fernal world and the gloom of eternal
desolation are a part of itself and can
not be separated from it.
Tell these facts in plain words and in
such an earnest n that the world
will listen. Then the workers for tenn
perance will not bear anv part of the
fearful responsibility at last.-The
Issue, Mrs. M. A. Holt, New Berlin,
N. Y.
THEY WILL CLEAN THE STREETS.
The girls studying in Packer Collegi-
ate lnstiture, in Brooklyn, have taken
up the streetcleaning problem, and are
debating it with intelligence and earn
estness. But it points very decidedly
towards municipal suffrage for women
when President Backus, of the Insti-
tute, says:
The men of this city are too busy to
attend to public affairs, and we believe
the time is coming when the women
will have to see that the streets are
properly cleaned, so we are drilling
our girls to inform themselves ON the
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