Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-11-01

poned-Her Poem on the Flag-Chal- lenged to Joint Debate on Landing. Miss Frances Elizabeth Willard, the temperance evangelist, landed from the American line steamship New York the other day overf1owing with the milk of human kindness and more than ever convinced that the world is getting soberer. She presided oyer the great in- ternational temperance convention ill London, at which a petition for the suppression of the whisky traffic was shown signed by 7,500, 900 persons. The fact that she was called to the chair she regards as a great compliment to America. She thinks that it will tend to promote the harmonious relations be- tween the two countries if Lady Henry Somerset presides over the next temper ance congress ill this country.
 II am here to attend the twenty-sec- md annual convention of the ". c. T. U. at Baltimore Oct 1S, she said. q am proceeding direct to Castillo, N. Y, where a friend of mine has a sani- tarium, and 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 q grand invention, though fear it tends to make me lazy.
 .sThere never was so much teetotal 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 bi- cycle. I am bicycle enthusiast, and after three years hard work have at last induced Lady Henry Somerset to ride q wheel The bicycle is spelling the business of the saloons and of the low variety theatefs.
 ssThe effect of this is that English women are gaining i'll health and strength. felt like Lilliputian among those mannificent. well built creatures. There is ]. iiner caste in outdoor sports than ever before The fashionable game in England now is croquet. It super seded 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 go to India this winter, and was to accompany her, but her daughter is go- ing to marry the Duke of St. A1bans soon, and events like that upset people $ plans We shall not visit India separate ly. In reform as well as i'll machine politics you have to have strong combi- nations.
 India. you would think. needs little temperance agitation, as the Hindoos are supposed to abhor alcoholic drinks. But the Englishmen i'll India simply swim in liquor, and the Anglo-Indian colony has gone to seed to 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 wantst the physiological effects of alcohol taught i'll the Indian schools. Most people have an idea that France is not good field for temperance work, & but we me already reaping fruit there. & The French have begun to classify # drinks, and those of an alcoholic nature, x like absinth, they call poison drinks. A csmpaign of education is going to be waged among them. It is no use to tell the people of one country what the great men of another country say. They want to hear from their great men, and Trench physiologists are to be induced towrite and teach the deleterious effects of alcohol ,
 Miss Willard is very anxious to see more amicable relations between Eng land and America She said that she re- Hetted exceedingly the bad blood that pad been engendered ill the two coun- fes over the yacht race. and she asked nxlously after the latest news as to Challenges. She had the English theory nat perhaps tho Defender won because ne IS made largely of aluminium, and he spoke of outside weights and oth- deep technicalities
 While thinking over the relationship e1ween the countries Sept. 21, while
 London, Miss Willard s attention was
 'racted by tho little English flag car
 ea by some of the omnibuses. She
 down and wrote poem
 Here Is the poem:
 THE FLAG ON THE OMNIBUS.
 eyes that follow thee. old flag are fond.
 western heart leaps up thy folds to greet:
 oaAons eyes confess the sacred bond,
 Agiand's standard flutters down the
 street.
 .p 1iss Ted for love, and it's white for law,
 s blue for the hope that our fathers saw
 of larger liberty.
 ~ ars the mo ther flag of destiny.
 pannef of the spangled star is there
 sr"s'l ~ os Was sire of Washington. and we
 - sne n1.. safne cross that blazons thy ensign.
 "l'h itsred for love, etc. IEAp ely flags. bright with one household glow,
 pse'ner ss' light thc highway of our God,
 Z. 'ae uesf erossof Christ to men shall show
 " s1ilpes and stars both mark the path
 he trod
 ''h their red for love, etc
 fyhs ~ march Of the nations shall be led TE ,sae ts" TWO flags, till war and tumult cease,