Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-05-01

am very glad the Woman's Chris.
tian Temperance Union is fighting the
temperance battle, but I do not think it
very creditable to us men that we leave
1t to be fought by the women. In the
cid legend st. George fought the battle
for the deliverance of the women, but
In modern life the women fight the bat
tie, and st. George sits on the fence to
see how it is going on.-Dr. Lyman
Abbott.
Fl WASTE OF RUM.
Few people realize the waste there is
in the liquor traffic to those who pur-
chase. Whatever a mans s~ustenance
he spends for drink is worse than vast
ed, worse than thrown away, because
the man spends his money for that
which not only fails to benefit him, but
does him absolute harm. The man who
spends his money for whisky as a bev.
erage would be better off IL he should
invest the money in -four, sugar or
some other perishable commodity and
take it to Crooked creek and cast it
into the stream. For then he would
only be out the amount of the purchase
and would not have the ill effect of the
poison, alcohol. He would not be Gre
ating an appetite which called for more
and more alcohol; he would not be rob-
ing his intelligence and killing his con.
science; he would not be impairing his
ability and disposition to earn more
money. Money and its equivalents is
the product of labor. Every time a
dollar is wasted that much more labor
must be performed by some one to re.
place it. The waste directly due to the
liquor evil in the United States alone
10 placed by statisticians at exceeding
twelve hundred million dollars annu.
ally. How the tariff and the currency
questions. the labor question and the
single tax question and all the ques-
tions of the political economy pale in
comparison to this enormous waste
from the products of labor.
Twelve hundred million dollars is al.
most beyond the comprehension of an
ordinary mind. Suppose we come
down to smaller figures and more min
ute details. A mnn who takes two
drinks a day is considered a moderate
drinker. Yet two ten cent drinks a day
for a year is a large waste, a terrible
waste compared to what it would do in
the way Of good to many of the unfor.
tunate and suffering of earth's people.
Monday morning the editor went to a
Macomb grocery store and had a bill
made of things two drinks a day for a
year will buy at that store, every arti-
Gle the very best:
600 pounds of -four.
twelve pound hams.
100 pounds of bacon.
30 pounds of rice.
80 pounds of good dried peaches.
cases of canned corn.
cases of lemon cling peaches.
100 pounds of granulated sugar.
100 bars of Lenox soap.
90 pounds of lard.
% pounds of coffee.
bushels of potatoes.
2pounds of Japanese tea.
/ barrel of salt.
gallons of syrup.
The Hon. Chauncey Depew is a man
whose purity of life and character have
secured for him the respect and conf.
dence of good people everywhere, and
for this reason we here give a clear cut
utterance on the pending question of
woman's franchise. He has signed the
petition in u favor and when asked
whether he had always been a friend
OF the movement, he replied as follows:
well. think I must be content to
be in the light of convert. l have seen
the error of my ways. That is, l think
that times have changed. The position
OF woman has changed. Woman her.
self is different in some respects to
what she used to be. She owns a large
amount of property upon which che Is
taxed. She has become a great indus
trial factor. She has O right to say
how she shall be taxed, and under
what laws she shall conduct her bust
ness. l think the beginning of my
change of opinion was in Wyoming a
few years ago. l was travelling thro'
the State and met a great many of the
prominent men. I asked them about
the workings of woman suffrage, and
heard nothing but praise forit 1. 1 found
out that my old ideas about all the
horrible things which would happen to
the home were unfounded. / think
that woman has a right to the suffrage,
and that giving it to her will do good
rather than harm, so when the ques.
ton was pending in New York State l
Signed the petition in its favor"
The best example Of self denying lib
erality in the Bible is recorded of wo-
man. The best example of loving ser.
vice in the Bible is recorded Of woman.
The best example of c%onquering prayer
in the Bible is recorded of woman. The
gift was a widows mite: the service
was the amounting Of Jesus with a box
of ointment; the prayer was a mothers
prayer for a daughter possessed with a
devil. Jesus never let fall such words
Of roval communicative Nc concaruino