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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
BY DIR. W. 3. PARKS.

brought to this condition in obedience to
a law that is more potent than their re-
sistance, and that they must be sheltered
and protected in the same manner as are
the insane and mental detectives. 1t Is
equally manifest that this purpose cannot
be attained by prayer or appeal to the
intellectual nature IT is only now and
then that an unfortunate is reclaimed, or
rescued, as the term is. and braces up and
voluntarily relinquishes his habit Of in
temperance The moral nature is too apt
to be atrophied, while the intellectual is
a very fiuctuating quantity. Reformation
from evil habits requires bracing at every
advance. else there will be the inevitable
backsliding and a-return TO a condition
that Is worse thanothe first. Institutional
treatment for alcoholism Is the most ra-
tional and the most successful. Removal
OF the habitue from his environment, Sc
curing the atmosphere conducive to sue
cess, with proper control and the admins
tration of the approaching orug remedies
are advantages that are offered by instl-
tutions.
The treatment OF the drink habit is too
large a subject to discuss in this place
further than TO notice that home treat
ment is markedly inferior to those achiev-
ed in institutions.
There seems to be tendency for secret
vices to seek secret cures. and this phase
of human nature is responsible for the ex-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28

drouths and severe famine. Starving men
went about looting the granaries OF their
Weather neighbOrs and the judicial au-
thorities refused to punish the thieves.
The drouth was attributed to the FOR
eign devils who chased away the rain.
Then the native Christians were persecu-
ted because they were friendly to mission
aries. All human affection disappeared in
the persecution. Daughters drove their
mothers from their doors. telling them to
go to their foreign friends as they would
be murdered IL they sheltered them.
These native Christians reminded one
OF the Christians in the time of Nero, and
Il was considered crime punishable with
death TO be treated in a foreign dispen-
sary.
The question has often been raised as
20 what the missionaries have been doing
IN China but from the reports read I'm
the senate and furnished by Senator Quay
Il seems that the native Christians out of
which such marvellous examples OF hero
&c fortitude and patriotism have developed
are now recognized to be the very best
and most remarkable people In China.
This book on the conduct OF the native
Christians in China during the Boxer war
must be remarkably attractive 20 those
who are most interested in the work.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28

In its latest issue The Atlanta Journal
Record Of Medicine comments as follows
upon the proposition Of a prominent At
lanta physician that the state should es-
tablish a sanitarium for confirmed inebri-
ates:
Dr. Willis B. Parks, of this city. in a
communication to The Atlanta Journal,
urges the establishment Of an institution
for the cure of inebriety. to be maintained
by the state. The communication receiv-
ed highly commendatory editorial COM
ment The time has passed. or is rapidly
passing, when the unfortunate alcoholic
Is regarded as a semi-criminal. and when
the blue-nose bum at the corner saloon
was looked at with no other emotion than
that of aversion and disgust. Advancing
hand in hand with science. humanitarian
ism has shown us that these unfortunates
are often the bounden slaves of trans
mitted habit, and that they are unable,
without the interposition OF a rescuing
hand to cope with a perversion which
dominates an already weakened and inefi-
cient will-power. Such are worthy objects
for state aid. Instead of regarding them
with averted head as inevitable conse-
quences of the vice of civilization, vic
tins OF voluntary assumption of an en-
shaving habit which began as pleasure
and ended IN grimmest tragedy. II is man
ifest that these wretched beings are
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28

A good deal has been said. especially
in the northern temperance newspapers
about taking off the black patch from
Georgia." as they term the passage OF the
scientific temperance instruction bill by
our last legislature. Special prominence
has been given to the passage of this law
I'm Georgia. because she was the last OF
all the states to adopt 1t. Much promi-
nence has also been given to the Woman's
Christian Temperance union and justly
so. for the movement for such law.
And now because of the fact that so
many OF the older members of the w. c.
T. L. are passing away, and also as
matter of historical value, think the
story should be told of their first efforts
In this line Of work.
find by reference to the minutes of the
early convention OF the state w. c. t.
u. of Georgia, that at its second annual
meeting held in Augusta in 1884. IAN ad-
mirable paper on scientific temperance
instruction was read by Mrs. j. c. Keys,
of Atlanta: and that at its third an
nual convention. held at Columbus, in
1885. special prominence was given to
physiological temperance instruction in
schools. a committee being appointed to
memorabilia the next legislature for a
law requiring such teaching in state and
public schools"
Just here / wish to emphasize a fact
which seems to have been overlooked, l..
e. that previous to the passage of this
law by the legislature OF 1901. many
schools in Georgia did have excellent sci
entihc temperance teaching: for all
schools in our state were not the public
SCHOOLS from which physiology was ex-
GUIDED. At every. annual meeting of the
W. c. T. u. report on temperance in
structlol in schools was made by the
state superintendent of that department,
whose duty 1t had been to correspond
with all the local unions on this subject
and collate the facts she had gathered
Just read some Of the reports OF these
superiatendents made at the earliest con-
ventions. notably those of Mrs. H. A.
Scomp, Of Oxford.
But to return to the efforts made to
influence legislature. On July %. 1885.
eight ladies of the Atlanta w. C. T. u,
viz: Mrs. ]. c. Keys, Mrs. DR.. S. NJ.
Hicks. Mrs. Z. z. Harper. Mrs. ]. d.
Dougherty, Mrs z. Bryant, and Miss
VI. H. Stokes. met the joint educational
committee of the house and senate. bring
ing with them the memorial of the state
Womans Christian. Temperance union,
asking for the enactment under state con-
troll or support the study of physiology
and hygiene with special reference to the
effects of alcohol and narcotics. This
memorial was signed by the president,
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, but Il was afterwards reconsidered and
passed by substitute simply allowing the
study of physiology to be added to the
studies already provided for public
schools. But when this went to the 5ouse,
at the adjourned term of 1887, it was also
defeated.
On November II. 1890. while the national
w. c. T. L. convention was in session
i'm Atlanta, Mrs william c. Sibley and
Mrs. Walter B. Hill. accompanied by Mrs.
SalIie F. Chaplin. of South Carolina, and
Mrs. Mary H. Hunt. of Massachusetts,
appeared at the capitol in the interests Of
the scientific instruction bill then pend
ing. Mrs. Hunt also addressed the legis-
lature. And yet the bill did not become
law.
In the summer of 1891 a committee from
the Atlanta unions, of whom 1 remember
Mrs. F. p Parks. Mrs. H. A. Austin and
Mrs. Mamie A. Robb, appeared before the
education committee of the house, but all
to no purpose. The bill must have been
smothered in the committee room.
For several years the superintendent
of this department had pleaded its claims
by letter, and had appealed in person to
teachers institutes and the State Teach
ers' association. And nobly. all the while
had the local unions exerted themselves in
circulating petitions and writing letters
Too much cannot be said of the constant
and untiring efforts of Mrs. William c.
Sibley through all the years have men
toned. and to a later date. At one time
she wrote a powerful appeal to the men,
bers of the legislature, which was publish
cd i'm pamphlet form and placed upon their
desks. She also sent up the scientific tenn
perance instruction map for their inspec-
ton, showing 1.-The black patch upon Geor-
gia'' She also wrote newspaper articles
and many personal letters upon the sub
ject
In 1892 there came to me a crushing be-
reavement. which severed for five years
my active connection with the w. G. 7. u.
During the past five years / have by no
means kept up with the details Of the
work Hence my personal recollections Of
the efforts for scientific temperance In
struction close with 1891. If 1 have mad
vertently omitted the name of any one
who was prominent in the work up to that
time. trust will be forgiven.
And now I ask that Mrs. Jennie Hart
Sibley, the present honored and efficient
president of the Georgia W. c. T. u. will
take up the history where 1 have left off.
and will give a record Of the labors Of
herself and her coadjutors in carrying on
this work to its successful elimination.
Let her write chapter two of this history,
and bequeath it to posterity and to Geor-
gia's annals.
Decatur, Ga
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
Shall Georgia Do Anything For Her haebniates1

ploitation Of divers systems and nostrums
of greater or less renown. and of which
the proprietors are influenced by no high
err motive than extracting money TO the
limit. This does OF apply to many honest
physicians who are doing excellent work
in the cure of inebriety, but they are nu-
merically vastly outstripped by the
quacks. A state institution would hamper
the freedom of quacks and quack estab-
lishments. and exercise a paternal and
beneficent influence over the weak and
unwary without the idea of imprisonment
or bearing the stigma of an insane asy-
lum. The sole objection. If it may be so
termed. to the foundation of a state insti-
tuition for inebriates, is that the majority
of drinkers are 10th to confess to the drink
habit, and would, therefore. be unlikely to
take advantage of the benefits of the in
stitution unless a certain amount of COM
pulsion were exercised. 1t would then be
left to the open and unabashed drunkards
to reap whatever Of good remained In life
in the way of possible restoration to
health and usefulness.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
TALKING IN THEIR SLEEP.

You think I'm dead"
The apple tree said
Because I have never a leaf 20 show,
Because I stoop,
And my branches droop.
And the dull. gray moses over me grow;
But I'm alive in trunk and shoot.
The buds OF next May
! fold away
But pity the withered grass at my root"
You think I'm dead"
The quick grass said.
Because have parted with stem and blade,
But under the ground
I'm safe and sound.
with the SHOWS thick blanket over me laid,
I'm alive and ready 70 shoot
Should the spring OF the year
Come dancing here.
But pity the flower without branch or root"
You think I'm dead"
soft voice said,
Because not a branch or root own.
never have died.
But close I hide
In a plumy seed that the wind has sown
Patient I wait through the long winter hours
You will see me again.
/ shall laugh at you then
Out OF the eyes OF a hundred flowers.
Edith ~. Thomas.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
HISTORY CEORGIA'S SCIENTIFIC
TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION LAW
BY MISSOURI H. STOKES.

I Mrs. William c. sibley. of Augusta. by the
vice presidents, Mrs. Walter B. Hill. of
Macon, and Mrs. DR.. Blanchard, of Co
| lumbus, and by all the other. officers, and
backed up by petitions from the local
unions. The courteous chairman of the
legislative committee, Col William j.
Northen, drew up an admirable bill, which
came before the senate on the 18th of Au-
gust, 1885, and, after being discussed a
part of two days. was defeated by a vote
of twenty-one to fourteen; notwithstand-
ing the Good Templars Of Georgia through
their representatives at the grand lodge
had asked for the passage of the bill and
so had the state temperance association,
and the state teachers association of that
year.
The objections advanced by the oppo-
nents of the measure were inability Of
most teachers in the common schools to
teach physiology; that the purchase of
the necessary textbooks would entail ad-
ditional expense upon the parents of the
pupils; and that 1t is not primary study,
and would therefore be unconstitution-
al" CThis last objection had been fore
seen, and was ably answered by state
School Commissioner Orr, who appeared
with us before the legislative committee.)
Nothing daunted by this defeat the w.
G. T. U. convention Of 1886, which met at
Macons determined to again memorabilia
the legislature for a scientific temperance
instruction law. The resolution was Of
fered by the lovely and able recording
secretary, Miss Emmie Stewart. of OK
ford. 81
In October Of that year CSs6) I, as cor
responding secretary, began to send out
a petition in the name of the people OF
Georgia. asking for the enactment of this
law. These petitions were sent to every
local union and to places where there
were no unions, and were returned numer-
ously signed, largely by voters, from ev-
cry section of the state. They contained
the signatures of eminent educators, ply
sicians and lawyers, as we'll as farmers,
mechanics and business men. The facul-
ties of Emory college. Mercer university.
Middle Georgia and West Georgia Agri-
cultural and Mechanical college and
Shorter college and esleyan Female col
lege all signed in their official capacity,
while the board of education of Augusta.
and the officers o. the Rome public
schools did the same.
The memorial was presented by Mrs.
William c. Sibley. Miss Bmmie Stewart.
Miss NJ. H. Stokes and representatives of
the local union at Atlanta, on November
26, 1886, to the joint educational committee
of the house and senate. A bill, good and
strong, was framed by Colonel c. r.
Pringle and introduced into the senate,
where 1t was defeated by a tie of 20 to 20;
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
A GREAT GROUP GONE.
BY BISHOP WARREN A. GAMBLER.

A BOUT thirty years ago there
~ was a great group of
preachers in and around
New York.
Henry Ward Beecher, Richard S.
Storrs, Charles F. Deems, and T.
Dewitt Talmage. The last of them
passed away in Washington City
few days ago. and a retrospect of
them may be useful.
No principle of classification would
justify grouping them together ex-
cept that they all appeared about
the sdme time. No men were ever
more unlike.
BY far the ablest OF them was
Henry Ward Beecher. His was CO.
lossal brain. In his day no intellect
appeared among the public men of
America superior to the mind of
Beecher. He was not a man Of
scholarship, nor one Of very accu-
rate information. There is no say
ing what he might have attained If
he had been a careful student. But
he was an orator, aiming always at
immediate effects, and generally alb
sorbed in pressing some reform. For
success in such a career his remark
able brain furnished without much
study all that was necessary. In his
earlier days he was a man of simple
faith, and in those days he was al
most irresistible. In his latter days
he seemed to believe very little, and
to have no fixed faith in anything
long at a time. His creed was in a
state of fiux. and underwent the
most frequent and rapid changes.
His pulpit power was diminished
and his pulpit utterances were often
contradictory with each other with
in the limits of a fortnight. He
rarely hit in the same place long at
a time, and his blows became inef-
fective.
Richard s. Storrs was a far differ
ent man. To the graces Of an ora
tor he added the studious habits
of the scholar, and he brought only
well-beaten OIL into the sanctu-
airy. His sermons. delivered without
notes, might have been printed as
they fell from his lips, and then
they would have been more perfect
than the carefully written pages
of most men. He was always or
thodox, and he was nver sensational.
He delivered strong. steady blows
in furtherance of fixed convictions.
Charles f. Deems was a Metho-
dist preacher, who from North Car
DINA went to New York after the
war, and became pastor of the
church OF the Strangers, where
Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt
with his southern wife worshiped.
Doctor Deems. in fact. created the
Church of the Strangers. He was
a man of evangelical faith, capti-
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28

waiting utterance and Of almost in
finite industry He was without
Beecher's genius and without the
scholarship of Storrs-a nervous,
ready speaker Of great power, new
ertheless.
DR.. Talmage was utterly unlike
any of them. He was less intellec-
tual than any Of them. He was or
thodox, but hearing or reading his
sermons you never thought of his
orthodoxy or his heteordoxy. He
treated simple common place truths
in a bright, snappy. illustrative
style, and he delivered what he had
to say Electrically. One will seek
in vain to find an original thought
or a dull line in all his thousands
of sermons, and he literally printed
thousands of discourses, for he and
the newspapers got on amazingly
we'll together. OF course there was
a sameness about his sermons.
They seemed to have been manufac-
tured products from raw materials
drawn from scrap books and "cyclo-
pedias of illustrations" They bore
no marks of either learning or pro-
found meditation. Yet they inter-
ested and profited many thousands,
and when he died the other day the
hearts of multitudes were bowed
with grief.
The work of Dr. Storrs will out
last that of all the others. Ply
mouth church is an isolated organ
ization, which seems to care for
none of Beecher's views. Since the
great preacher went away they have
had the rationalizing Lyman Abb
bolt and the orthodox Hills as their
pastors. The church seems to care
little for what is taught from its
pulpit if only the preacher talks
what he teaches in a bright and in
terestlng way. Orthodoxy is moth
ing and heterodoxy is nothing but
a pleasing sermon is all and all.
The descendants of the Wander
bits worship no more where Deems
preached, and the pastor of the "Old
Commodore" has had no successor.
When Talmage's church burnt
down there was not enough life and
zeal in the congregation to build it,
and he removed to Washington,
where he died without a pastorate,
at the last, believe.
But Storrs labored in the great
field of foreign missions. as pres
ident of the American Board, and
besides that great work he left his
work as a pastor fastened to some
thing permanent to give it enduring
force.
Herein is a great lesson; An iso-
lated ministry is an evanescent
ministry, though it be the minis
try Of the highest genius. A man
must belong to something and stand
for something If he is to amount
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-04-28
GIRLS BEING EDUCATED
AS HOUSEWIVES

It is how to do the practical. everyday
| things OF life in the most satisfactory,
! economical and harmonious way that the
girls of the Georgia Normal and Indus
trial school at Milledgeville are being
taught daily. Drudgery is eliminated from
their work. dizziness and skill being the
agents OF elimination. 7s8
Such schools as this are vital factors in
the progress and development Of women,
teaching them that their necessary work
which, uncomprehended, is apt to be only
! wearing toll may be so simplif1ed and I'M
! tangled as to become instead. a whole
some outlet for their energies. The girls
at this college are learning to unravel
this problem OF drudgery.
When they receive their diplomas they
are not useless parchment standing for
| classic learning only, but they also mark
these young women as educated house,
wives. They are fitted to assume the du-
ties OF home-keeper whether the home be
their own or some one else's. Pirate Of
woman's sphere as you will. her own Pc
culiar kingdom is and always viii be the
home. How doubly armed then is the girl
that leaves college with an education that
places her on intimate terms with the Sc
crets of housekeeping. She can reduce
her work to simple and systematic basis
that leaves her time for other thought
and employments.
The remarkable work accomplished an
the cooking department of the industrial
college under Miss Jennie. T. Ford has
been commented on in these columns be-
fore. The dressmaking department Is
equally interesting. Mrs. R. z. Park. who
visited the college recently, returned 70
Atlanta filled with enthusiasm over the
work being done in the various depart
ments of the college. In the sewing she
was especially interested. This depart
ment is under the direction of Mrs. Phil
lips. a dress-maker.
In talking of this work, Mrs Park said:
''All the pupils from the earliest classes
are taught sewing. BY the time they
reach lie higher classes they begin their
own designing. They take orders for
gowns from all parts Of the state and Ill
them. AS a result of their work last
year they realized enough money TO buy
p sewing machines. .t
Il saw four gowns ordered from differ
ent places which the girls had just made"
continued Mrs. Park. which for finish
and style would compare favorably with
ers. They were exquisite. and one OF them
/ have ever seen.
commencement costumes. Each girl is al
lowed to originate the design for her own
gown. Not only do the girls show pretty
ideas. but many Of the designs themselves
are wonderfully well executed. BY the
time these young women have completed
their course. they are skilled seamstress-
es, but more, they are practical enough
in drawing to fit them for designing for
fashion MAGAZINES"