Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1895-11-13

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meeting, every Thursday.
The annual chrysanthemum show
will come off next week.
In this age flowers enter so power.
fully into our social lives that they
have become a prime factor in all
households, and consequently all that
can be learned about them is for the
general good. To advance the love of
flowers, to encourage their culture, to
endeavor to improve upon that which
we already possess and to secure infor.
nation regarding that which is lack
ing is the object of the show, and in
all these things it has been a pronounced
success.
Anything which tends to the cultiva-
ton of refined taste is a blessing to
mankind, and flowers possess this quail
~ification in the highest possible degree.
WHITE RIBBON WOMEN CLOSE THEIR Ma
TIoNAL CONVENTION AND PLAN
BIG THING FOR THE FUTURE.
The big White Ribbon Convention
which closed its sessions in Baltimore
last Wednesday Endorsed the Prohibi.
ton party in emphatic utterance, de.
clared for union of the reform forces
on the Staten Island basis, invited to
fraternal relations the temperance wo-
men among the Catholics and Hebrews,
gave the lie to the ridiculous liouor as
sertions that Mary H, Hunt is running
her department of scientific temperance
instruction for the money there is in it,
and reelected Miss Frances E. Willard
President of the National Union for the
seventeenth consecutive time.
Evidently the w. C. T. U. knows
when it has a good thing and means to
keep it.
THE W. G. 7. U. PLATFORM.
1t tool part of two days to read and
pass upon the long list of resolutions
making up the platform. This is the
platform condensed.
l. Declaration for total abstinence.
2. Recommendation of devotional ex.
ercises to State and county W. C. T. U.
conventions.
3. Recommendations of noontide
prayer meeting under w. C. T. u. aus.
pieces in every large city.
4. National governments attitude to
liquor traffic deplored and national
Prohibition recommended.
D. Union or reform forces on Staten
Island basis recommended.
q. Prohibition party indorsed.
Z. Recommendation that Prohibition
party change name to Home Protective
Party.
.. Sabbath keeping Endorsed; Atlanta
Exposition praised for closing on Sun
day.
8. Rejoice that churches are more
and more using unfermented wine.
10. Rejoice that in forty one. States
and all territories 5000, 900 children
are being educated under scientific
temperance instruction laws.
II. Denial that w. c. T. U. or Mrs.
Hunt receives compensation for indoors.
ing text books.
12. Anti-vivisection principles recon.
mended for teaching in public schools
and cruelties of bird shooting tourna.
ments denounced.
10. Warning against increased use of
chloral, bromin, and other narcotics
as remedies
ID. W. G. 7. U. work among colored
work recommended.
10. Lynchlng denounced and belief
expressed that equal suffrage will prove
a remedy.
16. Equal suffrage, with educational
qualification for both sexes.
II. Military drill among young PEG.
pie opposed as fostering spirit contrary
to Christian civilization.
Other resolutions Endorsed the Wo.
mans Temperance Publication Associ.
alton, the effort to raise money for the
temperance temple, Endorsed the Ma
tional Temperance Hospital, urged thai
women should have a voice in determ.
ming divorce laws, expressed sympathy
for suffering Armenians, urged a test
case against saloons in Prohibition
Harvey, commended the Demorest con.
tests, the American Temperance Uni
versity at Hartmann; arbitration fol
disputes between labor and capitol
recommended the fourth Sunday in
November to be observed as Temper
n Sunday, and complimented va
rious w. c. T. U. women in the differ
ent departments.
woMAN'S TROUBLES.
1t must be much better be a mar
than q woman, at least it looks that
way to me. If a man wants to go any
where he a pick up and go. Not sc
with a woman; she must have an es
cort, or she cant go; no matter how
much she would like to. And what
nan is there living that would ever &c
WANTED:-Severa trustworthy gentle.
men or ladies TO travel i'm Tennessee fol
established, reliable house. Salary $3.50 ana
expenses. Steady position. Enclose refer
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