Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-09-26
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. G. T. U.
A COMMON LOT.

l hear a wall on the midnight,
The burden of child bed pain;
Released, the child and the mother
Lapse into silence again.
I hear the prayers of the mother
Ascending for the boy she bore,
While her other children wonder
What blessings are still in store.
l see her nurture and follow,
With love that is half divine,
The boy and his restless struggle
Her vision can not define.
l hear a moan on the midnight,
The ache of a thousand tears,
The heart of the mother is breaking
With disappointed years.
The boy laughs out with the reckless,
But his feet are on her life.
l see from the tangle of birthright
This matricidal strife.
/ hear the wall of the orphans,
The neighbors wonder apart,
But the boy, he knows-and the angels
she died of a broken heart.
Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer.
CHAUTAUoUA TEMPERANCE CHIMES.
Dear Union Signal-Temperance is a
keynote frequently struck on the
Chautauqua scale, and scarcely a key
can be sounded in the gamut of the
Assembly's rich and varied program
that is not tuned to the ear of the white
ribboner. When Hon. Carroll D.
Wright-that eminent statistician,
whose Investigations and yearly reports
form the United States Bureau of La
Dor are read and pondered the world
around-said that "the greater part of
the misery and poverty in this and
other countries is due to the use Of in
toxicating liquors." he sounded the
prevailing chord in the anthem of re.
form. His irrepressible strain has in.
toned many q devotional service at
Chautauqua this season, sounding in
many social, scientific and philanthro.
pic topics, and eliminating in the
splendid address of Hon. Anthony
Comstock, the beloved of the good and
hated Of the evil. Said this undaunted
opponent of intemperance and impur-
ity:
l an proud to put myself by the side
of the Wet. U. that was organized at
Chautauqua. In the art gallery at the
Centennial Exhibition in 1875 there
was a masterpiece of art which repre-
sented q woman, a Bible character,
standing in sackcloth spread upon the
rocks; before her were sever gallows,
upon which hung the dead bodies Of
Saul's seven dead sons. This brave
heroine stood there sword in hand,
with q look of determination in her
face, keeping back the beasts and birds
of prey from devouring those dead
bodies, and encircling ove their heads
were v~ultures, condors and other birds
of prey. This picture wal typical of
the w. G. T. U. and the New York So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice, with
this difference This stood for the
dead. We stand for the living.
His earnest appeal that no Christian
man go into partnership with the rum
business brought responsive applause.
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON'S VOW.
After Mr.. Wilson's first election to
the United States Senate he gave his
friends a dinner at q noted Bost On no.
tel. The table was set without one
wine glass upon it. "Where are the
glassesp" asked several of the guests,
loud enough to remind their host that
they did not like sitting down to a
wineless dinner.
"Gentlemen," said Mr.. Wilson, ris.
ing and speaking with a great deal of
feeling, "you know my friendship for
you and my obligations to you. Great
As they are, they are not great enough
to make me forget the rock from
whence I was hewn and the pit from
whence I was dug Some Of you know
the course of i%ntemperance over
Swallowed my youth. That l might
escape l fled from my early surround
ings. For what I am I am indebted
under God to my temperance VOW and
adherence to it. Call for what you
want to eat, and if this hotel can pro.
vide 1t, it shall be forthcoming; but
wines and liquors can not come to this
table with my consent, because l will
not spread in the path of another the
nar from which I escaped"
Three rousing cheers showed the
brave Senator that men admire the
man who has the courage of his con
victions The Stuart Democrat.
Home and Abroad.