Semi=weekly graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1895-1902, 1895-11-02
WE ARE NOR Z SOBER
MISS Fffs 5ssffes Noes ssEzsss WILL ADD SAYS THE
World IS MORE TEMPERATE.

Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard, the
temperance evangelist, landed from the
American line steamship New York the
other day OVERLOOKING with the milk Of
human kindness and more than eyer
convinced that the world is getting
soberer she presided over the great in
ternational temperance convention in
London, at which petition for the
suppression Of the whisky traffic was
shown signed by 7.500,o geo persons.
The fact that she was called to the chair
she regards as great compliment to
America She thinks that it Will tend
to promote the Observation-Disclosures be-
tween the two countries if Lady Henry
Somerset presides over the next temper
anee congress i'll this country.
II am here to attend the twenty sec
ond annual convention of tho W. G. T.
| u. at Baltimore Oct is, she said 81
am proceeding direct to Castillo, N Y,
where friend of mine has sani-
tarium, aud [ shall go into retirement at
once with my stenographers and think
up what am going to say. For 20
years / used to write all day ON trains,
and then make speeches at night, and it
wore me out. The stenographer is a
grand invention, though fear it tends
to make me lazy
Il tThere never WAS 50 much tcetotal
sentiment in England as there is today.
The custom of emitting wine from the
dinner table is growing One of the
things that helps temperance is the BIZ
| cycle [ ana bicycle enthusiast, and
after three years hard work have at
last induced Lady Henry Somerset to
ride wheel The bicycle is spelling
tine business Of the saloons and of the
low variety theaters.
1.-The effect of this is that Eng isll
women are gaining iii health and
strength. Ifelt like Lilliputian among
those magnificent well built creatures.
There is finer caste in outdoor sports
than ever before The fashionable game
III England now is croquet. It super
seeded tennis and golf this summer. We
had very hot weather, and it was too
warm for those games. @
Lady Henry Somerset, the great
English temperance leader, had arranged
to 90 to India this winter, and I was to
accompany her, but her daughter is go
ing to marry the Duke of ST Adams
soon, and events like that upset peoples
plans Weshall not visit India separate
~. IN reform as we'll rs i'll machine
politics you have to have strong combi-
nations.
India you would think, needs little
temperance agitation rs the Hindoos
are supposed to abhor alcoholic drinks.
But the Englishmen III India simply
swim in liquor, and the Anglo-Indian
colony has gone to seed toa certain ex-
tent This condition Of decentralization
/ is affecting the natives more or less. We
want to get groups Of women together
who Will disseminate temperance ideas,
and we want tho physiological effects OF
i alcohol taught in the Indian schools.
Most people have IN idea that France
i is not good fieldfor temperance work,
but we are already reaping fruit there
The French have begun to classify
drinks, and those of an alcoholic nature,
like absinth, they call poison drinks A
campaign OF education is going TO be
waged among theln 1t is no use to tell
i the peopleof one country what the great
men of another country say They want
to hear from their great men, and
French psychologists are to be induced
! towrite and teach the deleterious effects
Of alcohol. :"
Miss Willard is very anxious to see
more amicabIe relations between Eng.
land and america She said thar She re-.
i GREETED exceedingly the bad blood that
had been engendered in the two coIih-
tries over the yacht race, and she asked
anxinusly after the latest news. as to.
challenges. She had the English theory
that perhaps the Defender Won because
She is made largely If aluminium. and
She spoke of outside Weight" and 9th
er deep technicalities
While thinking over the relationship
between the countries Sept u, while
in London, Miss Willard attention was
attracted by tho little English flag car
ried by some of the omnibuses. She
sat down and wrote poem.
Here is the poem:
THE FLAG on THE OMNIBUS.
The eyes that follow thee, old nag, are fond.
A western heart leaps up tiny folds 20 greet:
A Saxon's eyes confess the sacred bond,
AS England's standard hutters down the
street.
With its red for love, and its white for law,
And its blue for the hope that our fathers saw
OF larger liberty.
Thou art the mo Their flag of destiny
Our banner Of the spangled star is there
Cromwell was sire of Washington. and we
Claim the same cross that blazons thy ensign.
With its red for love, etc.
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