The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-03-03
W, e. q. u. Column.

meeting given by the w. c. T. U. A
literary and musical program had been
prepared for the entertainment of the
guests, after which they were served
with ice cream and cake The silver
offerings quite replenished the treasury
Can it be that town the size OF
Rising Sun can afford to support three
places from which liquor is sold? Such
is the prospect for our town within thu
next three or four months.
The National W. G, T U. has met
with another great loss. This time the
death angel has entered the ranks a
superintendents aud removed the be.
loved head of the flower mission de-
partment. Miss Jennie Casseday OF
Louisville, Kentucky The serious
call "come up higher" came ON Wed
nesday afternoon, February s and glad
ly did this white ribbon saint" as she
has long been honestly termed, respord
1t is we'll known that Miss Casseday
has lain on her bed from a spinal diff
ficulty for more than thirty years and
that she has for the past ten years
carried on the enormous correspondence
of her very important and well system,
atized department The last two
summers she has spent at the, Rest
Cottage Home for working girls near
Louisville, enduring the agong of re-
moval although conducted in the
easiest manner possible with Trojan
foriitude. The extreme illness which
preceded her departure lasted less than
week. Her body lay in her sisters,
Mrs. +. G. Duncan's home in a silver
gray casket amid a profusion of flowers
The funeral occurred Friday morning,
February 10, from Warren Memorial
church, conducted by several city
ministers. The pail bearers were the
young men who carried her to and
from Rest Cottage.
Her investment in life was pfincely
what must her heavenly inheritance be!
The Philadelphia Record is authority
for the statement that at several bar
rooms in the fashionable part of the
city it is now possible. to get morphia
cocktails Medical authorities assure
US that dreadful as is the whlskey habit
the opium habit is incomparahly worse
both from the greater moral degradation
which it entails and from the greater
difficulty Of break ing the habit We
had thought that the saloon could hard
y be worse. but this new device of the
devil shortens fearfuIly the road be-
tween the saloon and the bottomless
pit.
The 'fruinous'' fall in the prices Of
whiskey has been unprecedented in the
history of vile decoction, which has to
our sorrow always enjo ed firm fnan
c'al basis. Whether the wreck has
been caused by the fears of Congress
sional investigation or the mismanage~
ment Of the prime builders of the COM
bine. the fact remains that whiskey has
proved itself in countless ways an Gun
stahle'' product and this is the latest
demonstration.
The Long Island Railroad Company
has Informed all its employees that the
mere fact that man drinks will be con
sidered by the company sufficient reason
for his discharge.
The division superintendent of the
Illinois Central in company with &
policeman visited the saloons and
gambling dens of Fort Dodge, Ia. and
the next morning a number of the
employes of his road who were found
to be habitues of those places were dis
charged.
1t is claimed by the Salvation Army
that theirs is the only organization Of
is size in the world that requires total
abstinence as requisite to admis-
sion. So far az We know this is true
and if any dispute let as hear Why they
do So
The Evans Dispensary law OF South
Carolina is causing much comment both
in prohibition CIRCLES and in the ranks
of "our friends, the enemy.' The
question with staunch prohibitionists is,
should We support the Law? Should We
befriend any measure which practical y
makes terms with the rum power, and
does not seek to wipe it out Of existence?
Standing as we do upon rigid no
oomDrnD,ioa' nlatform aan We consistent