Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-12-11
AGNES SLACK HERE.
THE DISTINGUISHED SECRETARY
or THE WORLDS w. C. T. VI.
A BRIEF REST FROM HER LADORS.
She Has Made nm Extensive Tour
Of America i'm the CnuSe of Tenn
err and Powerful Lecturer.

Miss Agnes Slack, OF Ripley. near
Derby, England, who holds a prominent
place in the front rank of the advocates
of the cause Of temperance. has been
spending a couple OF days with Mrs. j.
Tyler Jobson, in this city. Miss Slack
is the honorary secretary of the Worlds
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
and of the British Woman's Temperance
Association.
The National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union Of the United States, at
It's twenty-second annual meeting. In Bal
! timore, Nd last autumn. adopted reso-
luton inviting Miss Slack to visit Amer
lea. The invitation was accepted. and
Miss Slack arrived in New York on the
steamer Paris on the Slst day Of July,
and since her arrival she has appeared In
! The interests Of the work in all parts OF
/ this country. over seven hundred people
have pledged Themselves TO temper
| ance as a result OF her individual efforts
during her short tour. which has lasted
! but little over four months, In addition
| TO which she has raised a great sum OF
| money LOT the It4ltA VI AiiN - i''~-'e~'-
! sufferers.
HER STAY IN RICHMOND.
Miss Slack arrived here last Wednesday
on a visit TO Mrs Jobson. She came
| from Jacksonville, Fla. and left yestS-
| dav afternoon for Norfolk, where she
was to deliver an address before the
! Temperance Society last night. she VIII
go from Norfolk to Washington, where
1 10 ~ CqVQral meetings. ana
will sail from New York for England on
the 18th. Miss Slack was visited yester-
dav by a number Of ladies and gentle
men who are interested In temperance
work but the object of her visit was
purely social and she left in response
10 an urgent telegram from Norfolk, TO
I continue the work, in which she Is so
deeply interested.
Miss Slack was born I'm the house IN
which she still lives with her mother
/ The old home with its big garden, at
| Ripley, in lovely Derbyshire. Is very uear
10 her Mr. Slack, her father. was lead
ing WESLEYAN. and Miss Slack prides her
| self on the fact that she was the very
first woman who spoke in John Wesley $
church.
HOW SHE BECAME INTERESTED.
Such apostles Of temperance as DR..
ers made the Stacks house their nome
whom their labors carried them into the
neighborhood: thus the little girl, with
her sister and her brother-the Well
known lawyer. Mr.. Bamford Slack-greN
mn I'm an atmosphere Of care for the good
~ others 81 can well remember" sald
Miss Slack. "how interested / was as a
child I'm the work of these men, and now
earIv I was impressed with the conyic-
~
store for any one than that OF being aple'
nv Gods assistance. TO save some people
from misery. and clear away the tempta-
tons Of drink"
During the last year Miss Slack at
tended and spoke at 152 meetings her
appoiutment as one Of the two honorary
secretaries to the British Woman's Tenn
perance Association was coincifent Win
mar as secretary to the Worlds Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union, from
neither of which does she receive any
salary whatever, though the World
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
nays a small sum for clerical help. she
Is a leading member OF the woman ;
liberal Federation. She IS also a mem
her OF the Executive Committee OF the
Central Suffrage Society. For some time
she was the only woman Poor La" Guar
dian in Derbyshlre, though there are now
the only women on a board OF seventy
seven POOR Law Guardians The board
chose her TO represent them at the recent
London conference on the English educa'
ton bill Miss Slack had the
courage recently TO introduce al
a meeting Of the Belper Board
Of Guardians Of the Poor reso
luton whereby the amount regularly
given to officers in the workhouse fol
beer will be in future appointments re-
placed by giving TO each fixed sun
which they can use in their own way
thus advancing from the old idea tina
drink Is a necessity to the position tina
total abstinence may be the preference
OF an officer of the workhouse.
THE WHITE RIBBONERs.
The first work done by Miss Slack
as secretary Of the Worlds Woman
Christian Temperance Union was Il
enlist q goodly number OF lrisnwomei
in Dublin and other parts OF Ireland
10 form local groups Of White RibDoners
eleven hundred and thirty-seven wer
enrolled during her two trips to IN
island. She took pledges ana hex
forty-two meetings
Miss Slack Is, perhaps, best known "a
q speaker on temperance and politlca
platforms She has for years taken
vivid interest in all social movements
but her experience in the prisons AM
warehouses; in all parts of the Unite'
Kingdom has helped TO make her al
out-and-out temperance reformer. IN
religious aspect of the White klbpo
movement doubly endears the work
her. for she has all her life been close
w connected with the Wesleyan branc
of the Christian Church. and for som
wears she has been a class-ieader, an
l was one OF the first women elected as
delegate to Wesleyan Methodist Us
Z trict meeting, and represented the KIP
/ lev Circuit at the Nottingham an
/ Derby District Synod in 1885.
4 Miss Slack has fallen greatly IN lo'
with America, and says that she ma
3 received so much kindness and conslde
/ ration on this, her first Visit, that 81
} win endeavor 10 return every year.
Miss Slack is a highly cultivated an
1 travelled woman, and during her te
! wears work in the cause OF temperance
She has visited India, Australia, A1rlca
] Egypt, and Belgium.
! m anUREss THE fOBACCONisTs
4 Mr.. DibreII Invited TO Attend III