The Press., 1896-02-13

dl1l Ouly Ludb SttlOOIl-kCclJGL lIldU S to blame, it's them who know better, and won't do nothing at all against it." Miss DuntOn answered vindictively.
 Mrs. Corball drew herself up little stiff1y. Her husband was good man, and deacon in the church, and Becky Dunton knew it.
 The three women walked on silentlyu un- til one noted the red lantern that swung over the sidewalk in front of Miss DuntOns little home.
 "You see," that lady exclaimed, tits one of the towns danger signals, and Jack Dwight that's got the seeing of the side walks put it there, for that there board that's nearest the ditch was a bit risky, and I've tore it up, so as to put new one in tomorrow.
 'The sidewalk weren't really give out, and told Jack that if anybody walked over it with any caution he needn't have no fear of falling, and the ground weren't so far that any able-bodied man need be afraid if he did fall; it wasn't going to break no bones."
 "'But, says Jack, 'tain't question of able-bodied men, That ditch is there and If Tom Patton would attempt to go over that sidewalk as it is with his lame leg, he'd be sure to fall, and the town cOrpOr- | ations in duty bound to see to the safety of the weakest of its citizeens, so I've got to make new walk, and l cant say but what it's right if they'd only carry it 8 l little farther. But Mrs. Hall, now, was l just as weak as Tom Patton only in an- other particular, and it seems to me like her brain and will was just as weak as Toms leg, and if a saloons just as sure to be her fall don't see why the town corporations shouldn't have a good right to remove it as they did that board. :" 1 Becky isn't much more than all idiot said Deacon Condall, when his wife spoke of the matter that evening, "and in pOli- I tics most women are. IL only goes tO | show how women would vote if you once let them get at it. They aint got policy enought, and you can never make them see when a thing. is feasible aud when It | is not. They ain't conciliatory neither, and they'd better stick to the moral and aeligious side oi the temperance question, and let us men manage the rest" ! s'1That's just what told Becky" Mrs. 1 Condall remarked obediently.
 Protest adopted by the Women's Chris
 tian Temperance Union of Stafford
 To Ae Commissioners of T'o1I0nd County, State Of C07a11ect6cUt::-
 l Whereas, Mrs. Margaret Bowler has applied to your honorable body for the
 right to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors at the Crystal Lake hotel, and Whereas, Under chapter two hundred
 and eighteen (CCXVIID of the Public Acts of the state of Connecticut for 1895,
 Gin those parts of license town where it
 is apparent that the party applying for it (licenSe) is seeking to obtain patronage
 from an adjoining no license town, in such
 cases persons in the adjoining town shall have the right to r0mOnStrate against the 1 granting of such license, and the county commissioners hearing such complaint. shall give the same consideration to such remonstrance, as if made by persons re- siding in the town where such licens" is asked fOr," and
 | Whereas, This hotel in the past has
 sought the patronage of the people in tn"
 borough of Stafford Springs, by adv"r- tisements in The Press, by distribution
 of handbiIls on the streets and in our homes, and by the running of a cOnNsy-
 ance from the borough to the Crystal
 Lake on Saturday evening, and Whereas. We deem the place more
 harmful to the purity and morals Of our young people than if located where our
 cognizance would serve as slight re-
 strictiOn, and
 Whereas, We believe the sale of liquor
 to be an evil unmixed with any good, and
 that those who form the habit of drink
 ing are taking their first steps in down.
 ward course, which opens to them all forms of vice and impurity, and which , inevitably destroys those God given ir- } stincts which uplift character, and which
 make better homes, better communities, more industrious, intelligent and wtlI-to . do citizens, and which are our only ,f". 3 guard as state or nation,
 } Therefore, we, the Woman's Christian
 Temperance Union of Stafford Springs
 Conn.,, remembering that we ale each il a sense our brothers keeper, and that W, must each give an account of our re~pom a sibility before the bar of God, who has
 declared of those who shall offend one e these little ones, Git were better for hin that a millstone were hanged about his 8 neck, and that he were drowned in drptl f of the sea-" in the name of our homes \ our youth, and their future, we respect fully and most earnestly entreat you t' l refuse the granting of said license to th' @ proprietors or managers of the Cry sta a Lake hotel.
 signed, GEoRGIENA A. WAsHBURN, Pres. MARTHA A. NICHOLS, Sec, e Stafford Springs Conn.,, Feb. 3, 1896. THE IDEAL PANACEA.-James L. Fran
 cis, Alderman, Chicago, says "I r"garC
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