Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-07-24
SCHOOL SUFFRAGE.

SCHOOL SUFFRAGE.
What makes the Buckeye woman say,
"Fll put this crazy quilt away
And read a little law today?
School Suffrage.
What makes the wise old school board
say,
"Our lady teachers need more pay
Wen raise their salaries right away?
School Suffrage.
What makes the superintendent say,
"This temperance drill has come to STAY
Well, let the women have their way"S
School Suffrage.
What makes the teacher prompt to saw,
'Indeed, there's nothing in the way -
or teaching temperance every dayn?
School Suffrage.
What makes the politician say,
When women vote as well as pray,
"Stand back ! they have the right of
way"?
School Suffrage.
What makes prophetic statesmen say,
%Full suffrage, at an early day,
Is surely coming woman's Wayr?
School Suffrage.
BY HANNAH A. FOSTER.
PARTICLES CRIMINIs.
Is the liquor dealer alone responsible
for the criminality involved in the
business he conducts? Is not society
criminally allied with him? Is not the
community which not only stands by
and tacitly consents to the continuance
of the liquor traffic as now carried on.
but by forms of law legalizes it and
shares its bloody revenue, criminally
responsible for the evils it inhicts?
In the case of one of the Homestead
rioters, Judge MCGEE, of Pittsburg,
said:
VI wish to say that the law makes
every mar who stands idly by, without
any effort to suppress the riot and dis
order, guilty of rioting. Such a man
is responsible for all the consequences
OF disorder and rioting, whether such
rioting results in the loss of property
or loss of life. No matter what the re.
suit, such a man is equally guilty for
such a degree of crime as the facts and
results warrant"
If the liquor traffic as now carried
forward is a crime, then, according to
the reasoning of Judge MCGEE, all who
stand idly by, without any effort to
suppress" this traffic, are guilty of the
crime of liquor selling and are respon.
sible for the evil consequences that
flow therefrom.
But the case is still worse, for society
does not simply stand idly by, witness.
Ing the horrors of the rum traffic, but
by law licenses that traffic and shares
in its proceeds.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw THE CIGAR.
1t would be a good thing if Others
would add their testimony to that of
Mr.. Depew, the we'll known orator and
railroad president. He related the fol.
lowing:
VI used to smoke twenty cigars a
day, and | continued it until | became
worn out. didn't know what was the
matter with me, and physicians that I
applied to did not mention tobacco,
l used to go to bed at two O'Clock in
the morning and wake at five or six.
l mad no appetite, and was a d~yspeptic.
II was in the habit of smoking at
my desk, and thought that 1 derived
material assistance in my work from it.
After a time | found that | couldn't do
any work without tobacco. l could
prepare a brief or argument without
tobacco, but still l was harrassed by
feeling that something was amiss, and
the result was not up to the mark.
II also found that l was incapable
OF doing any great amount of work.
My power of concentration was greatly
weakened, and l could not think we'll
without a lighted cigar in my mouth.
Now it is perfectly clear that without
this power of concentration a man is in.
capable of doing many things. 1t is
this which enables him to attend to
various multifarious affairs-to drop
one absolutely and take up another and
give it full attention.
zone day | bought a cigar and was
putting it with a feeling of pleasure
which is only possible to the devotee.
l smoked only a few inches, aud then
l took it out of my mouth and looked
at it, l said to it; My friend and
bosom companion, you have always
been dearer to me far than gold or wo.
man. To you | have been devoted, vet
you are the cause of all my ills. You
have played me false. The time has
come that we must part. 1 gazed sad.
ly and longingly at the cigar, then
threw it into the street. l had become
convinced that tobacco was running
me.
For three months thereafter I un-
derwent the most awful agony. 1 never
expect to suffer more in this world or
the next. l didn't go to any physician,
or endeavor in any way to palliate my
sufferings. Possibly a physician might
have given me something to soften the
fortunes. Neither did l break my VOW.