The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-06-16
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
W. C. 7. U. COLUMN.

Edited By PaIatka Union.

jr. Apalachicola, Fla.
Local Sup't-Mrs. Crutchtield, Pa
latka.
Your voiceless lips, o flowers! are
living preachers,
Each cup a pulpit, every leaf
book,
Supplying to my fancy numerous
teachers
From loneliest nook.
Were | in churchless solitudes re-
naming,
Far from all voice of teacher and
divines,
NV soul would find, in flowers of
Gods Ordaining
Priests, sermons, shrines.
Horace Smith.
WHAT THE FLOWER MISSION MEANS.
There is perhaps no one depart
ment in the w. G.. II. U. plan of
work in which the whole member.
ship can so actively unite rs they
can and do in that of the Flower
Mission.
One of Miss Wizards notable SELL
fences is, 1.-The joy of life is in doing
good according to a plan"
TO help us all to attain this joy the
National w. 9. II. U. set apart GER
tain days for special purposes, term
ing them red letter days" There
are fourteen of these days and the
we'll organized, up-to-date union is
always getting ready for special
work for next day" They begin
with January Bird, Mothers Day, and
end December %, Crusade Day
The Flower Mission Department
has taken its name from the bios
SONS of Gods creation, and by the
aid of their beauty and fragrance it
is scattering the expression of His
love into many fields of philanthropy
| ic endeavor.
From that day, nearly thirty years
ago, when II generous thought
prompted the RoXbury school teacha
er to carry flowers to those to whom
the privilege and beauty of Il home
garden were denied, until to-day the
growth of the Flower Mission work
| has been mary 9lous. The thought
of that unselfish woman was II seed
carried by the very breeze of heaven
| into the heart of a PARKWAY shut-in
in Southern State This seed fall
ing into n wonderfully fertile soil and
taking deep root there, blossOmed in
to beautiful and blessed mission of
the flowers, which was later (upOn
almost first glance ut the wonder
ful development) adopted by
Frances f Willard as department
of our organization, and this conse-
Grated invalid, Miss Casseday, ap-
pointed it's national superintendent.
To-day work is done along various
lines in nearly every State and Ter
ritory of our land and there is an ac-
tive mission in Hawaii, and while
there is yet no special department,
some flower mission work has been
accomplished in the Philippine is
lands.
The work is not confined to one
day, but all through the year the
good may go on. Much can be &C
complished for the poor, the sick, the
discouraged at Thanksgiving and
Christmas time.
"Only n little shrivelled seed
1t might be II flower or grass or weed ;
Only a box of earth on the edge
OF narrow, dusty acknowledges;
Only few scant summer showers
Only a few clear, shining hours
That was all. Yet God could make
Out of these, for a sick child's sake,
A blossom wonder as fair and sweet
AS ever broke at All angels feet"
During the last year the National
Flower Mission department distribu-
ted more than SOl ,S74 bouquets, 80,
500 growing plants, 336 ,30 text cards,
I3l8,797 pages of literature, 35,5l3
glasses of Jelly, GAIT articles of
clothing. There were made 2O7792
visits to the poor and sick besides
,705 to public institutions, while
G. $50 drives or outings were given to
the sick or to children. $l4,91S,64
were used in carrying on the good
work. AS many States send no
report and few report all work done
story; but words can never tell the
blessings these silent messengers of
Gods love brought to the sick in the
crowded tenement houses and others,
The distribution of flowers tied
with white ribbon, and with scrip
ture texts attached, is the principal
feature of the days observance.
This will be done after short
Flower Mission service which will be
the regular meeting of the w. &. II.
u. and auxiliary, June % at p. m.
at the home of Mrs. Crutchfteld
THE STATUS OF PROHIBITION LEGIS.
I LATION.
continued from last week.
TEXAS.
EIn every instance of a new cleo
ton in counties where prohibition
obtained two or more years, the vote
to continue has wonderfully increas-
ed, and fact that business men are
with us shows how the absence of
the saloon hurts GU business. Even
with the violations of the law, the
drunkenness has greatly decreased,
and the prosperity of the people
thereby increased
1--WE have over $50 prohibition
counties in the state.
1.-The railroads continue to show
forth exalted examples of prohibi-
ton. A new road, the st. Louis,
Brownsville, Mexican aud Gulf, OPP
Grating in the southwestern portion
of the state, is putting II prohibition
provision in the deeds to all lots sold
in the new towns laid out along its
lines (the new town of Kingsville is
on Mrs. Kings rancho, this woman
being the "cattle queen of the
world.")
"The Pacific and Southern express
companies have declined to receive
or deliver C. o. d. packages or liquor
| eXceDt to bona fide purchasers. The