The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1901-01-19

nd many happy ones to greet me-
Jill ARP in Atlanta Constitution.
All We tnat are rarn!-neuTvcu,,
And think our numbers small,
Know We that we're the strongest
The strongest of them aul
So when they laugh at you ana ask
70 what our work amounted,
Tell them: We polled the largest vote:
The vote that isn't counted!
The vote that comes from aching hearts
Where thorns and nettles grow;
That have felt love and honor die
And good intent brought low,
That have seen in the 9emon l
All they once loved and cherished,
And watched it, as by slow degrees, >,
II changed, and fought, and-pernneo!
Wherever mothers in the land
Mourn for their hayward sons,
Wherever wives shed bitter tears
For men that loved them once
Wherever even children curse
The life that God hath given,
We poll that great uneounSeo fo'e
That rises up to heaven!
And surely as the sun shall rise
On Resurrection Day, 49,. III
That vote must once outcount them oil
Whatever they may. say; L
And then in turn they'll ASK themselves
To what their work amounted,
When thew shall see the vote we poll;
The vote that God has counted!
So. We that are faint-hearted
And think our numbers small,
Know We that we're the strongest,
The strongest of them all
And when they laugh at you ana ask
To what our work amounted,
Tell them: We polled the largest yote'
The vote that Isn't counted!
Law Jan Henrick Van Bolbyns.
A Grussome Tragedy.
At the muzzie of revolver Charles A.
Smith, formerly Wabash Railroad CON
ductor, compelled patrons OF JACOB MOI
| ler's saloon, in Chicago, to listen to lee
| tnre on the evils of intemperance. Then,
pressing the weapon to his head, ne blew
| 6is brains out in the midst of those stand
ing around him. :. =, ,.e.
| Holding a glass of liquor in his LETT
hand Smith drew a revolver from ms
pocket with the other and ordered every,
one In the saloon to remain quiet ana
make no attempt to leave:
"This il to be my last drink" he said.
scy-ou NAV call it farewell if you wish.
| can YOU fellows had better quit drink
ing. Look at me. I've lost my position
with the railroad company, and every
cent I have scraped together since has
been spent for liquor:
HRemember this little lecture, men
Brace up and Leave liquor alone.
James Irwin and Peter Mes, who wer
, standinc near Smith, thought the latte
, intended to hold up the saloon and the!
~HoId ON, there!" commanded the NAL
l with the uplifted revolver.
: Smith then ordered the six men, IN
, Guiding Timothy Foley, the bartender, t
I line up in front of the bar. Ihey a,d :. g
Then the desperate man pressed Tn
!, n;stol against his head and sent bulie
Q through his skull. He. died instantly.
4 The Social Glass.
= The peace. prosperity and successful go
y eminent of the home and family are iarg
q ly due to the good example and wise coI gu,
70 eel of the upright wife and mother. In
power of her influence and the Important
% Of her right home relations and princinpis,
70 are the greatest factors in the gooa hgl
l. Against the fearful ravages OF the drir
l, cnrse, The true wife and mother incr
i. Gates the blessings of sobriety and tot
:. Abstinence, and deprecates the EVIL Inn
D ence of social and moderate drinking.
IS One of the valuable lessons which YOU
at men and women should early learn Is tn
~ the appetite for liquor works the rum
I'd those who are enslaved, and that TO,
Al abstinence brings peace ana happne
." to all who practice it.
to An earnest man consecrated to the eau
nR of temperance can rescue and renapiita
Oh MANY a poor drunkard through his time
aid and benefcent counsel.
re Many a refined and cultivated fam
he has been brought low through the drir
nix ing habits of the father.
,er Those engaged in temperance WORK
l &c oh need natter
1 % and trust.
Temperance efforts. Not the smallest
eat fort to do good is lost sight OF by the
tla | knowing Father. :,
,"9 Terrible is the influence exerted by tn
1 who stand as the servants OF God,
tile who sanction. the social custom OF WI
ar drinking. ::
drinking has been the cause OF the tai
ana many young men of great promise,
less easilv overcome through the influence
God the social glass.-Ths Weekly Bououe
hne The Crusade in Brief.
u The only saloon in New Waverly,. 1
we has been driven out by the Anti-Sal
COX League.
7ou, The law against open saloons on !
led. day il strictly enforced at Marion, l
zoo. according to o prominent liquor organ
80 The seventh annual report OF the
His .ords o' total Of slo federated soeietie
de- Rockbridge County, Virginia, Is
Co., entirely under local option, the last
And trict, Kerr creek, having recen"y y
'oiJ LIQUORS for two years.
A dispatch from Simla, India, to
Rip London Daily Mail, states that the In
ad q Government has decided to depose
rfuI Maharaiah of Bharatpur owing to his
NJ continued in.emperance.
49,: Lord Shaftesbury, writing on the n
'i Eity of temperance ASSOCIATIONS, sara
but am satisfied that, unless they exist
the should be immersed in such an ocea
for n Ilntoxication, violence and SIN as "
,ss.d make this country unbearable.
80, Perhaps no State in the Union can
iehiy 4 better record for temperance than
into issippi. In it there is not to be lou
uggy single brewery or distillery and the
distilled spirits and wholesale and
rmeo iealers in malt liquors which Uncle
Il out | ,ould find in the entire State liable 4
q va Government tax, is but 31o.
,ance nit Weren't For the Drink.
,lle0e Two ladies, the one "a lady of g
birth" who had married q milli
t~o brewer, the other the wife of W
iight. distiller, were present at recent
ut my ton and conversed together. The
some tilleress," IAN excellent lady who
enew- SPOKE apI Ias+ ios;r1 III shvness. brok
ID, IN "Ah. but then, my lady, when all
u and that might be said, where should w
,oney. Is weren't for the drink"