Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-01-29
THE LECTURE OF MRS. NICHOLS TO BE
DELIVERED NEXT WEEK.

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THE LECTURE OF MRS. NICHOLS TO BE
DELIVERED NEXT WEEK.
Chattanooga is to be honored during
the coming week by the presence Of
one of the most gifted women of this
progressive age-Mrs. Josephine R.
Nichols, a national organizer of the
w. G, T. U. work-who is following
Miss Willard in her Southern tour in
behalf of local unions. During the
Cotton States Exposition at New Or.
leans Mrs. Nichols had charge of our
work and exhibit there, and proved
so efficient that she was sent to the
Paris Exposition to superintend our de
partment, and while in that city was
the guest of President Carnot and other
state officials.
Mrs. Nichols has travelled in many
lands, studying the and GUS
toms of the people, and perfecting her
illustrations for lectures on those coun
tries, for she does not confine herself
to the subject of temperance alone.
Her illustrated lectures include Worlds
Fair views, Rome, Paris, England,
Belgium and Holland. The last two
countries named will probably be the
subject of a pay lecture next Thursday
evening in this city, but on Tuesday
next at 8 PM, she will give a free talk
in DIR. Trimble's church, to which all
women are invited.
The illustrated parts of her lecture
are always preceded by a talk on the
life and customs of the people, and
have been highly appreciated and in.
dorsed by the best people everywhere
Mrs. Nichols has traveled.-Chatta-
nooga Times.
Mrs. Nichols will be in J~onesboro in
the near future. We bespeak for her o
good audience of the best people of the
town. Such opportunities do not com
to US everyday.
THE GOSPEL OF GENTLENEss.
blessed are the merciful, for they
shall obtain mercy" The expression
is not qualified. The text does not run,
blessed are the merciful to man
kind" but blessed are the merciful,"
and mercy is as much mercy shown to
an animal as to a man. We may for
bear to injure our neighbor because
we fear that if w impose upon MIN
he will take vengeance upon us, but
we are restrained by no such selfish
scruples where animals are concerned,
since they are in our power; therefore
it is true mercy to protect them from
cruelty and consider their necessities.
BY all the laws of ~chivalry and honor
we are bound to be tender to the de-
pendent and weak, yet the earth is full
of misery inflicted needlessly on her
dumb children. 1t would seem that
all the motherhood of the world would
rise in defense of innocence and help.
less, yet women resign an animal to
the complete control of their boys and
girls, allowing it to be beaten, over
driven, loaded beyond it's strength, ter
riied and tortured through every
avenue that its nature opens to it's tor
mentors. Mothers could prevent an
incalculable amount of animal suffer
ing if they would, for many children
are cruel merely from thoughtlessness,
and if they are early taught gentleness
and f%orbearance, will never forget the
lesson. The habit of cruelty met thor.
oughly established is apt to cling, and
the man who has acquired it as a child
will all his life Cypress and hurt the
animals that come under his sway.
Animals are the only friends who
love us without regard to our beauty
or worldly advantages. They repay
uniform kindness with confidence and
affection, and if we make ourselves
their companions instead of their ty-
rants they develop a thousand intelli.
gent and interesting traits that we
would otherwise never preceive. If
1.-THE hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world, let it influence the world
to be merciful to the dumb creatures
whose lives are as much God given as
our own.
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all.
Isabella Proctor.
The notion that alcohol may do good,
because, for moment, it seems to dc
good, was well answered by a physi.
clan.
A man'had said to the doctor, "What
do you think of the influence of alco,
hol on the digestion, doctorln
II think its influence is bad,'' said
the doctor. 80.
But a little whisky taken just be
fore a meal is the only key that will
open my Appetite
II don't believe in opening thing;
with false keys" answered the other
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