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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-07-18
BROWN entW0rth.

Grows Nest" at Buzzard's Bay,
Mass, the magnificent Summer home
of Joseph Jefferson, the famous actor,
was the scene of an exceedingly pretty
wedding Saturday, the contracting
parties being his niece, Miss Hester
| Wentworth, who is also a grandniece
of the late William Warren, and Mr..
Archibald Brown. of Chicago.
1t had become known that Mrs.
Cleveland would attend the wedding
of her friend Miss Wentworth, aud all
eyes were turned on her arrival. 1t
| was nearly ten o'clock when the carr-
| age from Gray Gables drove into the
grounds containing Mrs. Cleveland,
the Fabians, the Benedicts and others.
Mrs. Cleveland was becomingly at
tired it cream mauve dress, with
cream colored lace.
After the ceremony there was a re-
ception and a wedding breakfast. Lat.
err in the afternoon there was dance
in the Jefferson boat house on Butter
milk Bay.
Among the many gifts to the bride
were diamond ring from Joseph JEFF
ferson. diamond and pearl pin from
Mrs. Jefferson, a large crystal vase in
silver settings from President and Mrs
Cleveland and a clock, with ornaments,
from Mr.. and Mrs. E. G. Benedict.
Mrs Cleveland left for Gray Gables
Immediately after lunch. Mr.. and
Mrs. Brown left on the afternoon train
for New York whence they sailed for
Germany. When it was time for the
train to reach Buzzard's Bay station
nearly all the guests were on the plat
form to bid them adieu.
The President has been unjustly
criticized by labor organizations for
his use of federal troops in Chicago
But Mr. Cleveland could not do other
wise than he has done, and the intelli-
gent worklngmen will in time appreci-
ate the conditions which compelled
him to meet violence with force. 1t is
the Presidents sworn duty to see that
the laws are executed and he cannot
ignore the law because to enforce it is
to give offence to certain class OF
men. We believe that the laboring
men have no truer friend than Mr..
Cleveland. He is a firm believer in
arbitration, as we have shown, and
the fact that he will appoint commits
sion to investigate the Chicago troubles
and to recommend a settlement, if pos
sible, proves that he is anxious to do
all that ne can for the workingmen.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-07-18
Resolutions of Respect.

AT a called meeting of the City Mission the
following resolutions were adopted:
Since it has pleased our Heavenly Father in
His infinite wisdom to take to Himself our
beloved fellow-worker Mrs. W. L. Olivier and
to lift her to Ligher, nobler life and work,
we desire to express our grateful recognition
of her faithful devotion, self-denying con-
secration, wise counsel, and helpful labor in
our City Mission for the poor. Truly her good
works, her kind sympathy and helpful minis
trations are known not only by us but by all
sick and suffering and troubled hearts in our
community.
We would therefore as an organization for
that work to which she unsparingly gave so
much of herself in labors, self-denials and
sympathy, express our deep sense of the great
loss we have suffered in the removal from our
work one who was wise III laying its plans
and faithful and helpful in carrying out its
purposes.
We shall miss her wise counsels and CO.
operation, but we trust that the influence of
her life and example will long abide with u.s.
animating us to initiate her as she followed
whose heart and hands were ever at the ser
vice of the sorrowing and helpless ones of
earth
The Charlottesville Chronicle of the 18th
says
"a man calling himself Charles Smith of
Staunton, was arrested in the southern part of
the city yesterday for drunkenness and being
a nuisance generally"
LADIES
Needing tonic, or children who want build
ing up should take
BROWNS IRON BITTERs.
It is pleasant; cures Malaria Indigestion,
Siliousness. Liver Complaints and Neuralgiss
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-07-18

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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
A Generous Fellow.

When speaking of particular drunk
ard we frequently hear such expressions
as, "Too bad; such kind hearted man;
such a whole souled, generous fellow,
etc. All such sayings are splendid ex-
ampleS of nonsense. Is it mark of gen.
erous nature in man that he takes the
money which is required to provide food
for his family and expends it to crafty
his own appetite?
Will whole souled man allow little
children TO go naked on the street, to
have their tender hearts burst with pain
at the jeers of their companions, in or
der that he may indulge his passion for
liquor drinking and be called good
fellow" by foul, filthy, rough, british,
ignoble animals having the outward ap-
pearance of men? Does kind hearted
man force his wife, whom he vowed to
love and cherish, to go forth while
hungry and ragged to try to earn suffi-
cient bread to preserve the life of her
cold, spiritless children while he humors
the demand of taste for unnatural drink?
No. The man who will do this, and ev-
cry drunkard does it, is type of the
worst species of selfshness. We have
mentioned only the worst proofs of his
want of interest in others. There are
many other greater and deeper consider
ations, all pointing to the fact that in no
worthy sense can the drunkard be called
generous, whole souled" or kind
hearted" Let us call things by their
right names.-Golden Age.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
THE RUM FIEND.
EY THE LATE NON. WILLIAM u. BAKER.

! The Rum-fiend, the Rum-fiend. he's everywhere
! With his eyes Of fire, and serpent hair
/ With poisonous fangs, and his blasting breath
! With special dispatch from the depot Death;
For the rich and the poor,
The refined and the boor
| His visits are constant, his promptness sure.
| Not always hideous in form he appears,
| And in age he seems Of different wears;
| To the youthful mothers cherishing breast,
| Like tender infant the fiend is preSt.
| Their Strength he'll gain
Till In every vein,
is difTused the poison, the death bringing pain.
| To the youthful maiden in musical tones
! He speaks, and she laughs at her mothers
groanS,
! With anguishing smiles and soft words to caj0le
He enticeS the maidenand ruins her soul.
The delusion is past,
And she an outcaSt
! He turns to another, still holding her fast.
To the greedy for gain. a merchant is he.
And his goods are aioat on every sea;
Great profits he offers, great profits lac makes,
For the price Of his wares. the souls he takes
4 merchant indeed,
For men of each creed,
Who religion neglect, in his ca;iSc will bleed.
\ statesman is he and with logical speech
His wisdom uf age viii soon Ovey-rcach,
Aud Will SHOW that the way to save the nation
Is to abolish rum by increased temptation.
Then temperance men
viii to work again.
And drive the Rum-fcnd back to his den.
\ friend 20 the poor man, he comes to his hut
And there's JOY within. and the door is Shut
He knocks is admitted, and leaves them hi,
curse,
And the poor man rides on the raupcr hearsc.
Wife, little ones,
Are hOusclesS, undone,
And through beggary's pathways their course is
soon run.
lie comes to the Preacher, from whose eloquent
lips,
The honey Of wisdom the audience sips
And he whispers little for your stomach's
sake
, But the ''ittle" grows much and driyelel
he'll make
OF that man of fame.
And he'll blast his name.
And the cause of the Christian is covered with
shame.
The Rum -iiend, the Eum-aend, OH, tempt him
no,
For great is his power and cunning his plot,
When lOycust he seems, the more dreadful is he
When he gains thee, a hlighting demon he'll he
Thy soul he will bear
To the realms Of despair,
Where the punishment is greater than moria
can bear
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22

GETTING BACK TO THE LANDMARKS
Missouri Democrats Repudiate the CIeve-
land-Sherman Financial Policy

Missouri Democrats Repudiate the CIove-
land-Sherman Financial Policy.
In the Missouri Democratic State
Convention last week there was bat
tie royal between the silver and anti
silver Democrats, the former led by
Congressman Bland and the Cleveland
sympathizers by ex-Gov Francis
Bland and the friends of silver won a
signal victory, and the following plank
in line with the old time Democratic
doctrine on finances was in corporated
in the platform by vote of 423 to 100;
We declare it to be duty enioined
upon congress by the constitution to
coin both gold and silver money for
the use of the people of the States; that
congress has no rightful power to re
fuse the coinage of either metal.
We therefore demand the free bi-
metallic coinage of both gold and sill
yer and the restoration Of the bi-met-
alic standard as it existed under our
laws for over eighty years prior to the
decentralization of the standard silver
dollar in 1873; and should it become
necessary in order to maintain the two
metals in circulation to readjuSt the
ratio, it should be determined whether
gold has risen or silver has fallen. and
whether there should be a change OF
the gold dollar or the silver dollar, OF
both, to the end that whatever ratio is
adopted the rights of both creditor and
debtor shall be preserved alike, having
in view the demands of the people fol
an adequate circulating medim.
We declare that we are not in favor
of gold recommendation or silver mo
nomctailism, but that both should bt
coined at such ratio as will maintain
the two metals in circulation.
We insist upon the Democratic doc
trine Of Jackson and Benton, that al
money issued by the authority of con
gress shall be issued and its value
maintained by the government.
That we are opposed to farming out
to national banks the right to issue
circulating notes.
That we are opposed to any further
increase in the interest bearing debt OF
the government.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
Buoyant Thoughts.

Events rightly understood interpret
the will of heaven.
The man who lays his hand to the
plow and doesn't look back is doubly
blessed.
Fear not, little flock, for it is your
Fathers good pleasure to give you the
kingdom" That is ever applicable to
men in the right.
The leaders in the coming conflict,
those who will be crowned when the vic
tory is gained, are not today sitting
astraddle of fences.
He who, in advance of the world,
grasps truth is a seer who shows 9TH
ers how to see. He carries torch that
dispels darkness which thousand suns
could not dispel.
The man who is right needn't care for
appearances. All things. for or against,
will be found in the end to have worked
toward victory. Courageous hopeful
ness is rightly his.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22

The most saddening and perhaps the
most serious of the numerous evils inflicted
by alcohol on humankind is the hereditary
transmission both of the drink crave itself
and of the pathological changes caused by
indulgence in alcohol Kerr, NJ. d.
l have no harsh word to speak of any.
The liquor traffic is the awful heritage of a
less wise, less kind and less enlightened
past. For it's existence in this gentler age
we are all more or less responsible. Let us
combine to put it away, with malice to
ward none, with charity for all. ."-Frances
Z. Willard.
If men are required to do delicate work
such as winning a match with a musket OF
rife or to undergo a race or feat of strength
the temperance man is he who is most like
ly to succeed. Indeed those not strictly alb
stainers before during the time of their
training become So Benjamin Ward Rich
ardson, NJ. d.
Then saw that, so far from alcohol being
necessity for great feats of strength, many
of the greatest athletes in the world, from
Samson downward, whose drink was only
the crystal brook, had achieved without al
cohol feats far more mighty than they could
possibly have achieved with it.-Archdea-
con F. w. Farrar.
Soldiers in peace and in war in all
climates-in heat, rain and cold-best en-
dure the hardships of their labors and disci-
plne when all kinds of Intoxicating drinks
are withdrawn from their supplies. Alco-
hol strengthens no one. 1t only dulls or
deadens the feelings of fatigue.
Bunge of Switzerland.
Liquor is at the bottom of all our pow
erty. If the tax for it were lifted, there
would not need to be man, woman or
child without bread. There cannot be
a more pitiful or contemplate sight than a
man quarreling over and bemoaning his
taxes while tickling his palate and burning
up his stomach and his substance with
glass after glass of whisky. G. Holland.
l assume that the liquor traffic is a great
sin against God and a great crime against so
ciety. 1t inf1icts more mischief upon the ma
tion and more misery upon the people than
come from all other sources of evil com
bined. 1t is great obstacle in the way of
the progress of the gospel, and while it con
tinues the coming of Christ's kingdom is
impossible.-Hon. Neal Dow.
For one really converted Christian as the
fruit of missionary labor the drinking prac-
tices of the English have made one thou
sand drunkards. This is a sad thought,
but it is the solemn truth. If the English
were driven out of India tomorrow, the
chief trace of their having been there would
be the number of drunkArds left behind. -
Archdeacon Jelrries latter 81 years spent in
Indial.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
FOR BEER DRINKERS.
A Leading Scientific Paper Tells Some Plain
Truths.

The Scientific American, one Of the
best authorities of the world, editorially
gives the following remarkable facts on
the result of beer drinking, which ought
to serve as a terrible warning to beer
drinkers generally:
1.-THE German spelling for beer is
bier The English equivalent for bier
is coffin The step from beer to the
grave is very short. For some years a
decided inclination has been apparent all
over the country to give up the use of
whisky and other strong alcoholics, u.s.
ing as substitute beer and other COM
pounds. This is evidently founded on
the idea that beer is not harmful and
contains large amount of nutriment;
also that bitters may have some medical
quality which will neutralize the alco-
hol which it conceals, etc.
"These theories are without confirma-
ton in the observation of physicians.
The use of beer is found to produce a
species of degeneration of all the organs,
profound and deceptive-fatty deposits,
diminished circulation, conditions of
congestion and perversion Of functional
activities, local infammations of both
the liver and kidneys, are constantly
present. Intellectually, a stupor, amount
ing almost to paralysis, arrests the rea-
son, changing all the higher faculties
into mere animalism, sensual, selfish,
sluggish, varied only with paroxyslns of
anger that are senseless and brutal.
''In appearance the beer drinher may
be the picture of health, but in reality
he is most incapable of resisting disease.
A slight injury, a severe cold or shock
to the body or mind will commonly pro-
woke an acute disease, ending fatally.
Compared with inebriates who use diff
ferent kinds of alcohol, he is more in
durable and more generally diseased.
The constant use of beer every day gives
the system no recuperation, but steadily
| lowers the vital forces"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
The Rum Apologist's Argument

I once had the temerity to address an
outdoor meeting in small mining town
on the temperance question. The apol-
ogist for rum was there too. He came to
scoff and did not remain to pray. He did
not agree with my presentation of the
case, and when / asked this question,
What can be said in favor of that
which drives men to madness, women to
ruin and children to want, sin and
shame?" he answered me with the only
argument at his command by hitting me
with an egg, which, however innocent
it might have appeared in repose, was
the most riotous and disorderly element
that could have been introduced at that
time. 1t broke up the meeting, and as
for newell, did not feel respectable
for over week.
The argument was conclusive, and it
was most fitting one, coming from the
quarter it did. In fact, there was no 9th
er argument that the man could use and
not get the worst of it, for who could
have the heart to resent the assault of
old age as represented in well matured
egg accurately aimed? In all my expe-
rience l never met better argument in
favor of drunkenness than was contained
in that eggshell. The thing denounced
was bad, the man who took exceptions
to my question was not good, and the
egg was villainous, but they were all al
lies. The cause of total abstinence has
advanced in that place, as in others, and
when question is propounded today it
is answered, except by the apologist for
rum, in reason and kindliness of spirit.
It. V. Powderly in Voice.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
GOOD, SOUND LOGIC.
A Leading Catholic journal Draws Strik
ing Comparison.

A Leading Catholic Journal Draws a Strik-
ing Comparison.
If a poisonous weed grows in your
garden, a weed that has been the direct
cause of the death of many in your
neighborhood, what would be your rea-
sonable course toward the weed? You
may smile at the absurd question, but
we ask it in all seriousness. Would you
tell the children to keep away from it
or to bite on it moderately? Would you
say it was one of Gods good creatures,
and that it was good for some COM
plants, and therefore the weed ought to
your own children were in constant
peril? No. Like any sensible and just
father, you would tear that weed out
and burn it up, root and branch. That
would be suppression or prohibition,
whichever term you please to apply to it.
But how do we deal with the saloon!
Plant it, protect it by law, build nice
houses around it, and with music and all
other enticements known to the devi
and his imps we invite the boys of thi:
land in and partake of the poison fount
there. Yet, if one says anything about
''prohibition," we hear on all sides the
cry of personal liberty" If the honest
people of this nation will deal with the
rum "weed" as they would any other
poisonous weed that they would find in
their garden, the saloons would be swept
into everlasting oblivion in one year. Let
US be honest and live up to our convic'
tion.-Scranton pa Index.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
NO. so.
REGULATION.
A Comparison of the Rum Trafic with
Other Evils.

An evil, known, marked, admitted
good, an evil which the sense of the en-
tire civilized world has branded as an
evil, can no more be regulated" than a
barrel of powder can be fired off by de-
grees.
Any evil that needs regulation needs
death. If it be an evil-if the world ac-
knowledges and regards it as an evil
killing is the only remedy.
What would be thought of a PROPOSE
ton to make
A law regulating adultery?
A law regulating burglary?
A law regulating arson?
A law regulating larceny
A law regulating highway robbery?
A law regulating forgery
A law regulating assault and batteryf
A law regulating wife beating, ETC.?
These crimes are not to be regulated.
They are forbidden. The law does not
say, "You may, under certain rules and
regulations, do these things" but for the
protection of society it says, "You shall
not" and when the law is broken swift
punishment is meted out to the offender
in any country where law really holds
sway.
The traffic in intoxicating liquors is a
greater crime than any of these, because
it is the parent and cause of all of them,
with pauperism, insanity, wretchedness
and everything that is included under
the general head of human misery
thrown in as makeweights. 1t is the
only traffic on earth permitted to exist
that is based upon pure selfshness, and
that lowest of all low kinds of selfish
ness, which sees suffering of the most
frightful kind unmoved, and which
makes profit out of the suffering Of
others. There is no traffic permitted to
exist so destructive of everything that is
good. 1t blights, it sears, it rots, it de-
GAYS, it destroys whatever it touches.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22

''There are serious as well as humor-
Gus suggestions in the CoXey folly
says the St Louis Post Dispatch. THE
prominence their petition gives to the
question of granting Legislative favOrs,
should have wholesome effect on
Congress. The necessity of refusing
special favors to these men should
impress the necessity of refusing
special favors to any and all citizens
in the congressional mind. If all
privileged legislation were swept
away, the CoXey movement would van
ish with host Of other worse evils"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
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Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
Wife DYING, Cattle Dead.

At the farm of Michael Hennessy, in
Gaylordsville, Conn, recently, officers
found Hennessy and his wife in bed, the
woman terribly burned and the man
drunk. Hennessy had been on spree for
10 days. About week before Hennessy,
while drunk, pushed his wife into fire
place, and she was terribly burned. He
then placed her in bed and continued
drinking. For eight days the suffering
woman was without care or food. Five
horses and seven COWS starved in the
barn.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
'Protection."

Protection for what? For copper and steel:
Protection for wool. for beef and for veal:
Protection for yarn, for dry goods and toys;
Protection for mules. but none for the boys.
Protection for tin, for hairpins and wax:
Protection Tor iron, for toothpicks and tacks;
Protection for gum, for brushes aud combs:
Protection for lace, but none for the homes.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
Soma Other Year.

Yes, your cause is just but don't urge it this
year.
This may be valid reason for not
urging a just cause, but can never be
such unless another cause of equal ur-
gency and importance is calling for a
decisive vote this year. To constantly
urge this reason for series of years can
only be done with the intention to mis-
lead or by "a blind leader of the blind"
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22
We've had enough of license laws,

EHOuSH OF HquUT 5 ldAtS.
We've turned the grindstone long enough.
'Tis time to swing our axes.
This deadly upas tree must fall.
Let strokes be long and steady.
Pull up the stumpsl Grub out the roots!
Oh, brothers, are you ready?
We've had enough of foreign chains
This demon drink to fetter.
Good bullets from the ballot box,
Well sped, will fix them better.
We've had enough of license laws,
Enough of liquors taxes.
We've turned the grindstone long enough,
'Tis time to swing our axes.
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22

tlonistS than Samuel
D. Hastings, the treas
urer of the national
Prohibition commit
tee. He is an uncom-
promising foe of the
liquor traffic and is
of the firm opinion
that the Prohibition
party should concen-
x@o s&o Gl~
Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1894-05-22

honor the man who Is ready to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to
think,
And when he has thought, be his cause strong
or weak,
VIII risk t'other half for the freedom to speak.
Caring not for what vengeance the mob has In
store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or
lower.
james Russell Lowell.