Middletown transcript., 1895-11-16

E3k$XdR ne CENTURY. Agooo
&E%Yexa many people are
8Q28O great in spots you
know; Mrs. Dickinson is great all over;
a great soul, great body, great brain,
are united to form a great character.
In her, the qualities that are rarely
found in the same individual are uni
ted. For instance, she is great or
ganizer and she is also a poet and
novelist.
AS an educator, she has long stood in
the first rank; she has been consulted
in regard to the foundation of all great
institutions Of learning that have been
established for women in the past quar-
ter of century and she has been invi-
ted to the presidency Of most, If not
all, of them.
For some years she was the Professor
of bellies letters and English literature
in the Denver university. When she
was obliged to resign the position the
Institution was SO loath to give her up
that it made her professor emeritus and
gave her chair her own name and en-
dowed it literally. This, I think, is
the only institution in which a women's
name has been given to chair in un-
iversity. There are about 1000 stud
ents in the Denver university.
Her call t. the presidency of the
National Council of Women was a
great surprise 10 her. The position
sought her most emphatically and not
she the position. She Was the unani.
nous choice of the leaders in that
work.
A broad and deep thinker, she is gen.
arons as well as just in her judgment;
she is ready to grant to others the alb
solute religious liberty which she de-
mands for herself, Lence she holds the
respect and esteem Of the so-called lib
erals, while her position for years as a
member of and Il prominent worker in
the Methodist church makes her q
leader that vast army of evangelical
women gladly follow.
Mrs Dickinson his lovely person
ality, and as presiding officer she is
dignified and graceful in the extreme.
She has the most cordial and delightful
manners socially, and she is one of
those women whose magnetism eman.
ates from lovely unselish nature Civ
en- over to the contemplation of noble
things.
TEMPERANCE.
1t is the opinion of Miss Williad that
"men who drink liquor takes less of
it, and that more men do not drink at
all, than in any previous year." She
made this statement in her address be-
fore the Baltimore Convention Of the
Women'S Christian Temperance Union,
body, which, within very few years,
has drawn hun lreds of thousands of
women into lis membership. That the
statement is true may he inferred from
the fact the consumption of Epirituous
liquors during the past forty or fifty
years has not increa 'ed in proportion
TO the increase in the population.
President Willard affirmed that her
statement is corroborated by the testi-
mony Of railroad managers and other
large employers of labor, and by the
officers of life insurance companies, as
we'll as by plentiful statistics and by all
observers. In speaking of the several
influences that favor The lessening of
the drinking habit in the United States,
she said:
"Steam and electricity, machinery
and invention, have put level heads at
a premium. In the widening field of
athletics, alcoholic stimulation is dis
countenanced. The bicycle is the most
influential lie emperance reformer of the
age. The science, civilization, and re-
ligion of the times check the drinking
habit in our country"
Of the agencies operating in behalf
of levelheadness in this generation,
those related to our industrial organiz-
tion may put foremost. We believe
that there are not far from a million
men in the employ ment of the railroad
corF0r' ions in the United States, and a
large pr0portian of them bold places of
involving duties which
can be performed only by men of steady
An int"mperate man in any
Of these places might at any time des-
troy life ard plol elty, and the railroad
that had many such men in
Its service would inevitably be ruined. In
he other great modern industries which
is used, in factories, mills,
'oundries, printing offices, the build
ing trades, electric works, water navi
cation, and many more, in all of which
millions of men are engaged, sobriety
IN the part of all employees is essential
% the conduct of business. Upon the
elevated lines, the trolley and the horse |
,ar liues, it is essential. The clerks and
statesmen in the big stores must be al
ways sober. The drivers of carts and
carriages in the streets Of the city must |
,e sober. In every pursuit of our
lines, in all the professions, intemper-
lnce is u barrier to success. The man |
If drinking ha bits, the tippler, is pretty |
,ure to be- blacklist" wherever he goes.
Even the Whiskey Trust would not be
likely to employ workmen who drank
1ery much whiskey.
It is by taking account Of the meth
I'd under which the chief industries
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