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life TUESDAY, June 1*<D W. C. T. V. DEPARTMENT. CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MISSISSIPPI W. C T U._ Mrs. LCTIE C. LCCKIE. Editor. HOLI.T SPRINGS, MISS. PLEDGE. 1 hereby solemnly premise. God hei.pino me, to abstain from all Distilled. Fermented and Man liquors. Including Wine, Beer and Cider, and to employ all projier means to discourage the use of.and traflk In the same. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. President—Mrs. I, S. Mount, Greenville. Corresponding Secretary-Mrs. Nellie \i pent Somerville, Greenville. Recording Secretary Miss Ai.k f. Shannon. Vicksburg. Assistant Recording Secretary—Miss M. L Montgomery. Starkvllle. Treasurer -Mrs. E. W. Pentecost, Columbus. State Evangelists — Mrs. Mary McGee Sneli- Mrs. M. E. Ervin, Columbus; Mrs. Mattie G. Nelson. Clinton. Superintendent of Juvenile Work and llemo rest Medal Contests—Miss Anna Simonton, Shannon. Superintendent of Young Women's Work Miss Belle Kearney. Flora. Associate Superintendent — Miss Kep.Ei i a Carr a dine, Fayette. FROM MISS BELLE KEARNEY. An Interesting Report of Her Visit lo Starkville. Columbus, Miss., May 21, '04. Editor Mississippi laiob-r: Three days have been spent most de lightfully recently in Starkville. The Cumberland Presbyterian church open ed its doors cordially Saturday night. I was greeted by a good audience and gladdened by the beautiful floral deco rations that had been made in honor of the occasion aud by the splendid music rendered. Sunday night nearly every minister in town “gave way" to my services aud I spoke in the Metho dist church to an immense audience. I hail hoped to be allowed the privi lege, while in Starkville, of addressing tiie students at the A. and M. College, in a body, as I bad been invited to do at Millsaps College, the University at Oxford, and other institutions of learn ing in this State and others. North and South, but (Jen. Lee objected; on the ground, as 1 was informed by reliable authority, that the college was under Democratic regime and it was not de sirable to have Prohibition party poli tics introduced. The General has yet .to learn that the Mississippi \V. (’. T. U. is a non-part izan society, and its representatives, however wedded to the Prohibition party individually, would hardly be so indiscreet as to broach a subject that was calculated to create dissension and bring down the wrath of trustees on the president < and professors of a State college. As it was impossible for me to reach ,the students in the chapel, I was in vited to go out to the college Sunday afternoon and address the V. M. C. A., which I gladly did. The invitation came from the members of the Asso ciation. Between 75 and 100 students assembled in the pretty little hall at the hour appointed. I spoke to them earnestly and at the close of my ad dress I called for signatures to the to tal abstinence pledge. The invitation was responded to enthusiastically— the aisles were crowded with noble young men who were anxious to de clare themselves for the right. In a few moments 54 had signed the pledge agatnst the use of alcoholic beverages in any form and 47 took the anti-to bacco pledge. This work iu the colleges of our land is most hopeful. Nothing could with stand a great army of young men with Clear orams, sieauy nerves uuu intrep id spirits, with hearts aflame with holy zeal beating in time to “a national idea” for justice and righteousness. The A. and M. college is an honor to Mississippi. The buildings are hand some, the grounds extensive, the facul ty capable, the dormitory filled with earnest boys determined to make men of themselves. Everything was in per fect order all the departments run ning smoothly under admirable man agement. The whole prosperous aud progressive, with a bright future be fore aud a splendid record behind. It was a pleasure to meet my old teacher, Prof. W. H. Magruder, now occupying the chair of English. I am so glad that labor is being dignified in the South that the sons of Mississip pi are being taught that a sun burnt face and work-stained hands are pa tents of nobility; that the mechanic’s beuch, the plow aud anvil, are as hon orable as law or mediciue, banking or the board of trade. A Y. was organized in Starkville with 15 regular members. Our devot Iworker, Miss Madge Montgomery, ft no stone unturned” to make my wit fruitful of good works. Let us that the seed sown will blossom into consetrated lives among the young men aud women there. Belle Kearney. We have presented this week two ar ticles that ought to rejoice aud refresh the hearts of all temperance workers, liefer to the grand meeting set for j June on Staten Island, where so many thousands will congregate aud plan for our work all over the land, and the other item of so much interest is fouud iu the very utrotiy aud positive declara tions of that great body, the General Conference of the Methodist Church, South, in favor of Prohibition. Year after year our church conventions of the different denominations are put ting themselves on record as temper ance bodies, and they seem to be grow ing stronger and stronger; but what we need is all the tentiuient along that line can be felt, and then we need the vote* of Christian men, to carry out this sentiment. Not till then will * we realize what prohibition of the li qnor traffic means. it 3 Subscription Blank. 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Brookhaven, Miss. _— TKMl'KBAXCK i oi.k> to mkkt. June Will WII»M A «.rcal Ai.ti-S;,l«mi» t'()I! \ €*II t loll. Anything like such a gathering as will crowd Staten Island in the week beginning June 15 next, has probably not yet been seen in this country. It is a convocation representing over J. 000,000 persons, all pledged to temper ance. while the delegates include men and women known all over the world. Thus the participators, to name but a few, are Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul. MaiCen. O.O. Howard, Uni ted States army, Oeu. Neal Dow, Dr. C. 11. Parkhurst. Terence V. Powderly, United States Senator William P. Frye. Bishop John H. Vincent and others whose names are household words. Thousands of persons take part, and every temperance organization in this country, Canada and Mexico, is to be represented. Tlie American Temper ance Union is preparing a program of exorcises, with the co-operation of the National Temperance Society, the In dependent Order of flood Templars, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Suuday Observance Society, the Sous of Temperance and some dozen other orders with membership well into the hundred thousands. It is hardly possible, therefore, that any temperance assemblage yet held can vie in magnitude and importance with this coming one. The presiding officer is to be Maj. Cen. Oliver O. Howard. The call will give the University Temple at Prohi bition Park, Staten Island, as the meet iug place, while, as Secretary Joseph A. Bogardus of the committee of ar rangements puts it, the object of the congress will be two fold. I' irst, to recognize the providence of (lod in the long me aiici nmmiuiu tauum iui peranee of Gen. Neal Dow (who will be a delegate), and. secondly, to review fully and faithfully the entire field of battle; to compare, in frank and friend ly discussion, the conflicting views held by the different divisions of the tem perance host; to come as nearly as pos sible to an agreement, so that there may bo less waste of strength in dis putations with one another, and that our blows against the liquor evil may be far more united and effective; to unite upon a carefully prepared ad dress to the people of the United States and Canada, which will aim to set forth precisely the grounds of our opposition to the saloou, and the rea son its overthrow should be striven for; to take such steps as may be necessary to place the teaching of temperance hygiene in the public schools through out the country on the basis of a fixed study the laws making its teachings mandatory; to plan for the systematic education of the masses in temperance statistics, facts, arguments, principles, and to take whatever other steps may seem best to the delegates. Here, it is evident, will be enough to crowd many days' meetings. The first business after Gen. Howard has taken tne cnair oil rue muii uuik u 11 •>< will be formal organization, as the con gress is to be strictly a representative body, each organization to be entitled to one voting delegate to each twenty members. There will be at least sixty delegates from Canada alone, dozens from California, twelve from Mexico and heavy complements of representa tives from all the States and Territor ies. Only the duly elected delegates having certified credentials may vote. The co-operation of all temperance bodies on a new basis will be one of the chief points of interest to such representatives as Charles A. Everett, of the Sons of Temperance, to Arch bishop John Ireland and others who wish action in unity. There will be a considerable delegation from the Ohio temperance societies to this end, and ex-Gov. John P. St. John heads a body of workers with the same object in vid^v. An evidence of the strength of this feeling is the co-operatiou of per sons so noted as Mrs. W. A. Manning, President of St. Patrick's Ladies'Catli olic T. A. Society; Albert E. Whortou, chief justice of Kansas; Hon. George E. Foster, Canadian minister of finance; Frances E. Willard, Bishop Cyrus I). Foss, Edward Everett Hale. Another portion of the delegates, such as Dr. Parkhurst of New York, Theodore L.. Cuyler of Brooklyn, Bisli op John II. Vincent of Chautauqua, N. Y.. and (len. Howard, are more inter ested in the a postdate of the press. The adjournment of the congress is lived for the "ith, tint tlie more ardu ous work of realizing the ideals it em bodies will not be completed until many days thereafter. The railroads have siguitied their in tention of granting reduced rates to delegates and the New York Hotels have arranged to make special terms which must be effected through Com mittee Secretary Joseph A. liogard us. who is president of the American Tern peranci Union. All delegates, super fluous to say, will be treated exactly alike in the matter of privileges. This gathering it should be remem bered, is not a political prohibition body. Its spirit is anti saloon. There are, naturally, very noted Prohibition party men in the movement, including J. 1J. Cranfill and Mr. Ilidwell. besides chairmen of Prohibition party com mittees from the several States. Nev ertheless there will be no action taken that does not imply entire harmony. The great outcome of the congress is designed to be the practical welding together of all temperance societies in the work of alcoholic repression. It is believed that so vast, so repre sentative and so powerful a temper ance convocation will not assemble again in this nineteenth century. Mem pit is Com mercial. i In Prohibition Maine there is not a distillery, nor has there been since I8T1I; not a brewery, nor has there been since 1870. (live us Prohibition in the other States with the same results and I the public safety will not lie endan gered from liquor. And we will have ; the same results from Prohibition eve rywhere if you will put behind the law a Prohibition party pledged to its en forcement, and we will have such a party as soon as men have the courage to vote their convictions on this ques tion. Is there any reason why the ministry should not attack this evil from the pulpit and teach the duty of Christian citizenship? Is a sin com mitted at the ballot box any less a sin? Should not the whole gospel of God be fearlessly declared? Selected. You may cram every church chock full of prayers that never reach the ballot-box and they will bo as worth less in lighting public evils as in a bat tle where guns carry no bullets. Judging from the zeal with which so many churchmen support whisky par ; ties, it must be that these voters be lieve the saloon to be one of God’s ap pointed soul saving institutions. The ! 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