Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-04-25
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
EDITED BY JoNEsBoRo W. @. t. U.
1t isn't all in bringing up,
Let folks say what they will +;
Neglect will dim a silver cup,
1t will be silver still.

are interested are cordially invited 10
attend.
The last regular Mothers Meeting
was held in Temperance Hall, Thurs
day afternoon, MARCHES The meeting
was conducted by Mrs. ]. B. Simpson,
and was a very interesting one, and as
are all these meetings in our judgment,
a very beneficial n to those attending
it. The subject for this meeting was
The Rights OF Children. Several excel
lent readings were given, and some ap-
plopriate remarks made on this subject
concerning the tender little ones who
are to be cared for, and mentally, NOR
ally and physically developed as near
ly perfectly as possible.
ANOTHER LIQUOR TRAGEDY.
Into an elegant st. Louis home, a few
days ago, came the owner of the man
sion to %perpetrate a horrible tragedy.
Possessed of II large income, a faithful
wife and a loving child, there were
within his reach many of the elements
of social and domestic happiness. On
this occasion the man was crazed with
drink; his wife, hearing his sleigh bells
supposed he had come to take her out
for a drive aud sent the servant to the
door to inquire whether she was to
come. He met the servant with a
curse, staggered up stairs, and in a
drunken frenzy twice shot his wife and
then sent a bullet through the head of
his little two year old boy, who had
come to greet his father, and had twined
loving little arms about the crazy mans
neck. This tragic incident is but one
out of hundreds like it which are tax
ing place annually all over the n
Its horrible features can be matched
every day, taking the country atlarge.
The traffic in liquors is the source and
fountain of these murderous crimes.
Surely the reports made in the press
concerning these atrocities ought to
prompt all good citizens to resol We to
exert some positive, earnest, courageous
influence toward the destruction of sa
loon rule in our loni. And if good
citizens ought to thus resolve, much
more should all christian people deter
mine to smite the iniquitous traffic at
every opportunity until it bites the
dust.-Central Christian Advocate.
WHERE ARE OUR MEN?
An interesting article on the deca
dence Of man appears in the North
American Review for March, by Sara
Grand, author of that unique book,
THE Heavenly Twins" She asks:
"Where are our menu Where is the
chivalry, the truth and affection, the
earnest purpose, the plain living, high
thinking and noble self sacrifice that
made a man? We look in vain among
the bulk of our writers ever for appre-
citation of these qualities. With the
younger men all that is usually cult.
waited is that fippant smartness which
is synonymous of cheapness. There is
such a want of wit among them, too,
such a lack of variety, such monotony
OF t~hreadbare subjects worked to DEATH
Their comic papers subsist upon repe-
titions of those three venerable iests,
the mother in law, somebody drunk
and an edifying deception successfully
practised by an unfaithful husband or
wife. AS they have nothing true, 80
they have nothing new to give us, no
thing either to expand the heart OF
move us to happy mirth. They are
sadly deficient in imagination too;
that old fallacy to which they cling,
that because an evil thing has always
been therefore it must always continue,
is as much the result of want of imagi-
nation as of the mans trick of evading
the responsibility of seeing right done
in any matter that does not immedi-
ately affect his personal comfort. But
there is n thing younger men are
specially good at, and taau is giving
their opinion /; this they do to catch
others admiration until they verify be-
lieve it to be worth something"
MAN AND WOMAN EQUAL.
WASHINGTON, April 1~6.-Judge Jere
M. Wilson, whose eloquent pleas for
the advancement of women in the
closing speech for Madaline Pollard,
gained for him a fine bouquet of La
France roses from Miss Mary Desha,
sister of Colonel Breckinridge's late
wife, Mrs. Dan Waugh, Miss Nettie L.
White, Miss Louise Lowell and others,
has sent the following letter of &C.
acknowledgement.
"1712 STREET, April 10, 1894.
my Dear Miss White: I beg that
you will receive and communicate to
the "twenty eight women" mentioned
in your note my thank ks for the flowers;
and l beg you also to assure them that
looking back over a long professional
career oon to close, there is nothing
in it all that will bamore gratifying to
me than TO have it said; if it can be
said, that l have contributed to the
advancement of women and the estab-
lishment of moral and social code
that will visit upon the offending man
the same measure of condemnation
that Il twists upon the offending ome
$50 far as | have the names of these
kind ladies, | have addressed to them
notes of acknowledgment, which l
hand you herewith, and which | beg
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