OFFICIAL ORGAN
—OP THE—
PROHIBITION UNION OP MISSISSIPPI.
CLINTON, MISS.
February 17, 1885.
Saturday,
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NOTES.
On account of heavy snow storms
in the north, many railroads have
had to stop running trains.
The only one-cent-a-mile train
to the World's Exposition started
from Charleston on the 10th.
The Cotton Convention met in the
Music Hall of the Main Building,
at the Exposition on last Tuesday.
A grand reception was tendered
Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, Vice
President elect, on his arrival in
New Orleans Saturday last.
^ ^
From the last few days proceed
ings in Congress one would natural
ly conclude that some of the mem
bers would prefer a little more noto
riety.
"Economy, Pa., has had no saloon
or liquor sold during the past fitteen
and all that time there has not
years,
been a single arrest for any cause.
Verily, prohibition prohibits crime."
-Ex.
The whisky saloons of St. Louis
take in $30,000 a day. That is a
good deal of money to pay out to sup
port a gang of able-bodied men who
prefer mixing liquors and rinsing
glasses to honest labor.—Nashville
Christain Advocate.
The stillness of the tongue of our
wise President, elect, Grover Cleave
- - land is causing the whole world to
We believe the distin
wonder.
guished gentleman intends to fill
his new position independent of all
things.
Prospects are favorable for anoth
appropriation to the World s
Exposition from Congress, and, as
the Government has invited co-ope
ration of Foreign exhibits, it should
to it that the Exposition is a
grand success.
The prospective extension of the
Natchez, Jackson & Columbus R. R.
through Meridian seems to shake up
that wideawake little city of the
Eaat. It is thought that a great
deal of Meridian trade will be cut
off by the extension of this railroad
thruogh Leake, Neshoba, Kemper
and Winston counties. Macon
wants it and is sadly in need of it.
The London World informs the
world at large that port wine is good
for gout. That is an old truth ; port
wine has almost disappeared from
the dinner tables of the prudent for
that very reason. It is good for
gout—producing it with precision
and promptitude—but it is corres
pondingly bad for the man.— N. Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
er
sea
In Jasper county, Misa., a young
left Heidelberg, in company
man
with his brother ; they were running
their horses, and he struck his head
against a tree—he lived five hours.
The doctors say, if he had not been
under the influence of liquor he
would have died in a few minutes.
He had two bottles of whisky on his
person, bought at a gallon house in
Heidelberg. The young man is of
good family and he was an affection
ate son.
The late Thomas H. Benton, who
so long in public life, and
rounded by temptations, paid the
following tribute to his mother
"When I was seven years old, my
raottier asked me not to drink, and
I then made a resolution of total ab
stinence, and that 1 have adhered to
it through all the time I owe to my
mother." Are not this mother and
worthy of imitation? Such a
policy is the hope of the nation.
sur
was
son
1 have for years been a Prohibi
tionist, but since hearing Luther
Benson, I am strengthened in my
position. He touched and tendered
heart. I will no more
ii
my yery
scorn the poor drunkard, but I will
help to save him from temptation.
I am glad I heard Benson ; he has
made me a better man.
Smith, Wesson. We have heard
dozens of men and women say as
mueh.
L. D.
5?
The editor of the New York Sun
In referring to
Bings a new >ong.
President Cleveland, he has this to
It remains to be determined
say :
what was accomplished in the elec
tion of Mr. Cleveland; and,
cultivate the spirit of hope rather
than of anxiety to see how it will
turn out. We trust that we were
we
mistaken in our former fears, as we
certainly were mistaken in the
that Mr. Cleveland could
opinion
not be elected, and if he should
make a wise, reformatory, and truly
Democratic administration, we shall
witness the fact with joy, and shall
give him such support as may be
. Mr. Cleveland
in our power,
was elected without the support of
the Sun, and we would judge that
its rays would give no light on the
subject of reformation, etc.
A Scotch boy, having injured his
leg severely, was turned over to a
local practitioner. The cure pro
gressed slowly, and the mother,
who had become very anxious, con
cluded to consult a "bone setter"
living some miles away. The latter
worked hard over the leg, and at
last "got the bone in" to the music
of the boy's lusty screams,
the setter do it well ?" asked the
cheerful old lady as the pair hied
homeward,
said the lad, "but I was na sic a fool
as to gie him the sair leg.''—Ex.
We see the same wisdom (?) mani
fested by the political parties of to
day. The liquor traffic is the
leg" they are unwilling to submit to
the people at large. In our opinion,
the time is surely and swiftly com
ing when this "sair leg" of the body
politic will be amputated.
Didn't
Yes, he did, mother,'
sair
"If Benson didn't get pay for it,
he would not come here to lecture
against whisky."—Saloon Keeper.
No, nor would you sell whisky if you
didn't get pay for it. Sane people
don't expect, nor do they want
Luther Benson, or any other man,
to leave home and wage war on the
citadels of the devil ill over this
country and have the devil's agents,
such mi yourself, pour^heirjslime on
him, for nothing. The tte<e is no
more in which you can frighten tem
perance people from their task of
digging graves for your business
burial by telling them they will
have to pay those who deliver the
funeral orations. Yes, sir, the good
sense ana logic of Luther Benson
and others is going to dynamite your
soulless, heartless and reeking busi
neas, and the temperance people are
going to furnish the silver, gold and
greenback» to keep the machines
running, till your master—the
devil—weeps over the ruins of his
last depot in this State, and surren
ders his agents to a merciful God, or
gives them room at his headquarters.
Prohibitionists' and their money
righteously spent will
Pulverize the liquor traffic.
TOO MUCH DIVIDED.
Luther Benson very earnestly
urges the importance of concert of
action in the temperance work, and
declares that success will not crown
our efforts until we organize and
learn to work together. In the
Prohibition work, the old adage ia
true, "United we stand, divided we
fall.
Mr Benson declares, since
travelling over Mississippi, what we
know to ba true, that we have
enough strength to utterly demolish
the liquor traffic in this common
wealth, if Prohibitionists will only
organize. Our trouble is, too many
men think they, singly; know better
how the campaign ought to be con
ducted than the combined members
and wisdom of the Executive Com
mittee, and because the Committee
utterly fail to see the wisdom of
their ideas, they sulk and won't do
anything.
The Executive Committee think
it is wise and important that, when
ever possible, Prohibitionists peti
tion against the granting of license
within incorporated towns and super
visors districts. Every thinking
person can see that this character of
work serves to agitate the question,
close many saloons, and cut off a
money power which, if it remains,
will be used against Prohibition. A
large amount of the money used,
yearly, to defeat Prohibition is con*
tributed to the saloon men's fund
by men who are in favor of Prohi
bition, but who will drink as long as
the temptation is kept before them.
When it is proposed to file a peti
tion against the retail shops—hell
raps—here is a man who objecta
because he thinks "the best way is j
to just make a clear sweep all over
the State and nation and close all
. ,, t , « ,
saloons at once. Just like he eats 8we
beef or kills rattlesnakes all at
once, for instance. He would not
kill one wolf that is killing the ing
sheep, but wait till he can kill all
. , ,,
the wolves in the world at once. fif
The proposition is to organize a
Prohibition club, but another man
says, "That will do no good, I am
\ ■ c c* if
net m favor of temperance orgamza
tions no how. Right at the time,
he belongs to the Masons, Knights
of Honor, Odd Fellows, church, and
has been a member of several organ- '*/
. , ... IT . , e „
ized grand juries. He has been, all
his life, a member of the Demo
cratic or Republican organization,
Still, he is unable to see the good of s
. . ■ c
organization. Such a .nan .an t
worth a hill of beans to church or
community. Watch him.
Yet another, says, "If I join I
. " ,
will have to pay out money to de
fray the expenses of the Prohibition
movement. I want, as bad as any
body, to see Prohibition succeed,
. . T , , n • I c
but I have a large family of children
to support and educate. I just
want to see the day when my little
ones can walk our streets without
being tempted by saloons. God
, rr i i. t
knows I feel uneasy when 1 think
about my little boys! This man is
paying out 850 or 8100 per year, on
insurance policies, that his wife and
little ones may not want, if he
, ,, ...... , -r, .
should die; this is right enough. But
when this man dies and his children
gets the insurance money, and spends
it in the saloon, people will say he
»topped the »Pigot but left the
bung-hole to leak. Would it not
be wise to give ten cents per week,
fathers, to stop the bung-hole ?
tir , _... _ _
W e hat e so many men
born in the objective case that it is a
source ofgreat trouble and confus
ion. The men we have mentioned
belong to the objective ease tribe,
_. .
They never suggest anything practr
cable, they prate about being in fa
vor ot "Constitutional State and Na
tional Prohibition," when the
thinking leaders of the temperance
® . ,.-ii
reform have unanimously decided
that local option by counties is the
very best policy, and those who
have accepted the wisdom of the Ex
n
ecutive Committee are the onlj per
sons doing anything for temperance.
Organize and
Pulverize the liquor business,.
I
RE
99
" A CALUMNY REFUTED,
VIEWED.
In the issue of the Southern Bap
tist, February 5, 1885, T. C. Teas
dale, D. D., one of the editors of
said paper, has an article, headed,
"A Calumny Refuted "
I am opposed to newspaper con
troversies, especially so when one of
the parties has a paper, and the
other not; but in this instance,
where the cause of prohibition, tem
perance, Christ and the good name
of the zealous, self-sacrificing Chris
tian women of Columbus, with all
other local option prohibitionists are
at stake, I can not refrain from no
ticing this piece. That justice may
be done the doctor, I will copy his
entire piece :
In the iasne of the Sword and
Shipld, published in Clinton, Mis
sissippi, of the 24th January last,
I find a paragraph which is calcula
ted to do me great injustice and seri
ously to affect the interests of the
Southern Baptist. So far as I am
concerned myself, 1 should totally
disregard the calumny; for I've been
before the public so long, and my
character is so well established all
the country that no such defa
mation could injure me. But when it
seems to be the obvious design of the
writer to injure the Southern Bap
tist, I cannot, as I should otherwise
do, treat the defamation with silent
contempt. The writer with most
studied design, as it seems to me,
leeks to injure our paper by taking
special pains to say, that I am "an
associate editor ot a religous jour
nal." Ah, "there's the rub I
am "an associate editor ofa religious
journal"—that is, of the Southern
Baptist. I defy his slanderous shaf ts
to myself, but he shall not, with
consent, stab the Southern Bap
"The head and front of my of
over
as
my
tist. _ .
fending was this, nothing more, —
that I ventured to differ with certain
zealots in the Temperance cause, in
relation to some of their measures,
which I deemed injurious to that
which I love so well. Allow
me then, kind readers, to make a
brief statement of facts, and then I
will leave you to judge for yourselves
whether 1 deserved tüe assault made
upon me by the Sword and Shield,
and what the design in making it
cause
was.
In the first place, let me say, that
I have been a Zealous advocate of
the cause of Temperance for the last
56 years—that is, during my whole
public life. Before the mother of
my assailant was probably bornj I
was engaged m earnestly advocating
the cause ot Temperance by public
lectures, and private admonition
and church action. I waaan earnest
advocate of the Washingtonian Tem
perance movement, which originated
with Hawkins in a dramshop in
Baltimore, somewhere
years 1835, and 1840, and which
8we p t hk e fi re m stubble over the
length and breadth of the land. J
have been instrumental in .reclaim
ing many drunkards, and l am to
day as warm an advocate
perance cause as ever betöre in my
fif e . l am considered by some per
haps, an extremest on the Temper
ance movement, 1 go strongly tor
State and National Prohibition and
if I could have my way, I would ban
igh a „ illtoxicatlli( ^ ors f rom the
fg,ce of the earth. The reason
which I assigned for not signing the
petition presented was, that it did
'*/ )t f°,/ ar enrt "^. 1 . to * ^
that it they would bring a petition
for gtate an(1 Nationa i Prohibition, I
would cheerfully sign all such peti
tions as many times as they might de
s j re - ^t a,s I candidly belieied
then, and still fully believe, that the
meas Ves which they proposed would
be a serious injury to the cause of
Temperance in this community, I
could not conscientiously give those
measures my sanction. Instead ot
lessening th " 8a f e of ardent spirits in
the city, I Candidly believed that
their measures, if adopted, would
greatly augment evil which they
sought to remove. I-did not know,
>t ^ how the , eading mcn of
our city fe j t on t hi 8 subject, but I
have since learned that a large num
berofsome of our most intelligent
and reputable citizens take the same
vie w of the subject as that which i
ejltertain
t0 t j ie fli n g a t one of my sons
in the Sword and Shibli», I will
simply say, that I have three sons in
business in this city, two of them are
active members ot the Baptist
(^urch— on e the superintendent of
Sunday-school and organist for
the Church; the other a teacher of an
an adult Bible class connected with
g ret gay ^ no t a member ot any
Church. He is 48 years ot age, and
is one of the best druggists ; and
has the nicest drug store in the
South. How I am to be responsible
f 0r an ,j m y motives should
be impugned on account of his bus
incss by my young assailant, I can
not divine I trust the readers of the
Southern Baptist will not tail to see
the design </ my ca i U mniator in this
assa ult, and that they will not suffer
themselves to be alienated from our
paper—"a consummation most de
voutly to be trishtd for ' probably,
by my calumniator. Let us standby
our colors and protect our paper, and
t j ie holy cause of Temperance,
against misguided zealots, in the one
case, and the designing foe of the
Southern Baptist in the other,
P TB os. C. Teasdale.
1 was in hopes that Dr. Teasdale
would apologize am! ask God to
forgive him ; but instead of doing
that, he has his feelings spread out
all around him, so that his actions
could not be criticized without get-'
ting on the Southern Baptist, and he
endeavors to impugn the editor ot.
the Sword and Shield, and preju
dice ihe minds of his readers against
that paper.
Because he is \n old man, a min
ister, well ami favorably known, an
editor of a religious paper, is no
reason why his actions should not be
criticised by the organ of the Prohi
bition party of the State. It mikes
his responsibility the greater
doctor had as well understand that
in this contest between the liquor
traffic and the home, that a man's
previous record, with his moral
suasion, will not shield him.
Those "zealots" in the temperance
cause, are a band of noble Christian
women ; members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Co
lumbus, Miss. Their measures in
closing those gate-ways to hell in
Columbus Here the same as provid
ed by the statute of our State, and
the only way it eoufiî be done, viz :
by a petition to the mayor and aider
men.
The doctor's statements of facts
are very damaging to his case, and
the judgment of all unbiassed minds
will condemn his actions,
saloon keepers all contend that they
are earnestly advocating the cause
of temperance vrhen they have
licensed saloons where men can
drink behind a screen.
The Prohibitionists have advanced
beyond the Washingtonian Temper
ance movement, and learned that
moral suasion is good for the drink
but legal suasion for the seller.
They have learned that they can
never stop the supply of drunkards,
while the licensed saloon is left to
tempt the drunkard, and manufac
ture our boys into drunkards ; hence
are now as much oi an extremist
the doctor, and we are working to
final legislation,
amendment to our State and the
United States.
The doctor gives as the reason for
not signing the petition presented,
was, "that it did not go far enough
for him.
more territory than a whisky ven
dor ; they will tell you, "if you will
prevent it being sold, manufactured
imported into the United Stages,
I will be with you.
lieve the Dr. Teasdale is so ignorant
The
The
er,
we
as
constitutional
The doctor requires no
or
I will not be
as to believe that any petition from
the corporation of Columbus could
get either State or National Prohi
bition, cois°quently he could put
these ladies oft' with that excuse, and
not work against the pecuniary In
tcrest of his unconverted son.
He then says he candidly believed
then, and still fully believes that the
measures which they proposed would
be a serious injury to the cause of
Temperance in Columbus,
withholding of license to Nathan &
Oppenheim to manufacture drunk
ards in Columbus.
Could the whisky ring have a
stronger advocate ? If the whisky
men believed that prohibition great
ly augmented the evil, they would
hail tried to bribe the colored
"i.
e.
never
preachers to help them defeat the ef
forts ot those noble women, blessed
of God.
Because a large number of,
some of intelligent and reputable
citizens take the same view, is that
any excuse for m old. old doctor of
divinity, that has been fifty six
years in the temperance cause, mak
ing public lectures, should look at
this great evil from a monied stand
point; that he should not realize the
responsibility resting upon him,
while he admits in the same paper
that the whisky ring only lacked two
names to defeat the petitioner and
if the doctor ha l signed, his influence
would certainly have secured one
more name, so the drink curse would
have l ecu driven from Columbus.
The doctor must not try to dodge
the issue by a reference to his great
age, and appeal to the sympathies of
the friends of the Southern Baptist.
I am sorry that the doctor should
justify his action in his refusal to
take his stand on the side of God
and home and native land.
W. 11. Patton.
Hon. Joel I*. Walker.
I see you are endorsing Hon.
Joel P. Walker for Governor,
learn that his name appears on
whisky petitions ; how is it, Mr.
Walker? Please answer through
the Sword and Shield.
We
Prohibitionist.
Columbus, Miss.
After Luther Benson lectured in
Columbus, some drinking men re
quested the ladies to carry around a
petiti* n to close the saloons, remove
the temptations. It was like the cr\
from Macedonia, "Come over and
help us. ' At a me ring of the W
C. T. U., they derided tW such an
appeal could not be rejected; so they
started with the petitions. After
they were under good headway, the
Cotton Exchange held a meeting and
called on the people to not sign, sta
ting that it would injure the business
interests of the city. In other
words, unless we have whisky here to
dethrone reason in these farmers
an 1 make them trade freely, we can't
make money, and ii we don't have
whisky here, so their sons can be
manufactured nto inebriates, they
will carry their cotton to another
market. * A worse stigma was never
cast upon the country peuple, and
they should boycot C* dumb us.
When the dealer and toper shall
stand before the judgment bar to
hear their sentence, "Depart, ye
cursed, to an endless hell," can the
members ot the Columbus Cotton
Exchange go free ?
Lui her Benson.
Agreeable to appointment, Lusher
Benson, the noted Indiana temper
ance advocate, lectured here Tues
day night and again last night
—both times to crowded and
delighted houses. B nson is a
wonder. His speech pours like a
torrent and sparkles from beginning
to end with eloquence, logic, wit
and the tenderest and loftiest of soul
elevating pathos. His own expe
drunkard has been of the
rienee as a
extremest and most horrible charac
ter, and his denunciation of the
liquor traffic and his feeling for the
fallen emphasized accordingly. The
sympathy of the man is God-like,
and no one who does not possess a
heart of stone can listen to his phi -
losophy of kindness without having
all of the better impulses of his na
ture stirred within him.
In this short notice we cannot un
dertake to review or even mention
the many unanswerable arguments
made by Mr. Benson why whisky
should go. To save the eouitr
from the countless evils growing out
of the traffic, he is for legal prohibi
tion first, and then total abstinence
in the home and social circle.
We are glad Benson came, and we
believe every man, woman and
child who heard him is glad and
feels the better frr his coming.—
Brook haven Leader.
No more touching compliment
could be paid than that of the child
who had overheard a conversation
at the table on the qualities of a
wife. Ci s he stooped over to kiss his
mother, he remarked, "Mamma,
when 1 get big I'm going to marry a
lady just 'xaetly like yoq.
---
A little boy, whose parents are
always moving from one house to
another, was asked recently by the
Sunday-school teacher, "Why did
the Israelites move out of Egypt?"
and promptly replied, "Because
they couldn't pay their rent."
■JP
-—H
tonfiiting in Wives.
It is equally important with teach
ing wives business methods to con
tide to them a knowledge of the hus
band s business affairs. Some men
go farther than this, and consult
their wives about their business.
Women have a quicker, sharper in
stinct than men, and reach conclu
sions instinctively, that are apt to
be right. Hence, men who consult
with their wives, often count them
selves fortunate, when they have
taken their advice. But where this
is not done, it is always wise to keep
the wife informed as to her husband's
business. There are many reasons
for this.
1. It enables her to know how to
regulate family expenses. Many
meu have been utterly ruined be
cause o the mistakeu impression of
their wives as to their business. The
supposition was encouraged that the
husband was prosperous and could
afford a certain range of outlay, and
the wife felt entirely justified in
making it. In point of fact, he was
not ai le to aflord it, and weakly con
cealed the real tacts iroiu the wife.
Thus, she innocently contributed to
his dowufa l, when, had she known
the truth, she would have aided
him to curtail expense, and so suc
ceed in business. It is rarely the
case that women are recklessly ex
travagant. Ou the contrary, they
are apt to be conservative and saving
where that is needed.
2, The wife is deeply concerned
in the sucçess of her husband. Her
Happiness and welfare depend upon
it. In such a case she evidently can
co-operate, if she intelligently un
derstands his situation. Men de
pend very largely for their success
in life on the home influence. It
cheers and sustains in the hard
struggle with difficulty, or it de
presses and discourages. And when
ihe wife knows nothing, but only
sees anxiety and care, without know
ing the reason, she is apt to partake
of the anxiety, without knowing
just how to relieve it. Home is
where the struggling business man
must get his inspiration arid cour
And the wife can only intelli
age.
gently impart it when she knows
just what the demand is.
3. The uncertainty at life and the
liability to accident are special reas
ons why the wife should know of
the husband's affairs. It may be
that slie will be compelled to sud
denly care for herself, and out of his
property or business, find an income
It she knows nothing, this is nearly
impossible,
she is prepared for emergencies.
Thus there are many and cogent
reasons why toe wife should be a
confidante in her husband's busi
It seems, indeed, strange that
With such knowledge,
ness.
there sho ild be occasion to reier to
this subject. By marriage the two
in all the essentials of inter
Their relations are close and
sacred, and their interests are iden
tical. But it is, nevertheless, true
that men in mere thoughtlessness,
fail to confide to their wives a
knowledge of their business.
impression that they
are one
est
The
reasou is an
either care little or have no apti
tude for busiuess. But this either
is not the case or should not be. If
they do not know, teach them, and
way of doing this is to inform
them of your business. By so doing
they are being prepared for emer
gencies that none can foresee, and
for which it may be important to
have them prepared.—Philadelphia
Call.
one
99
Avenge Me of Mine Advers. ry.
This was the earnest plea of a wid
ow to an unjust judge,
her case, not through the good-will
or sense of justice, but through the
mean motive of riddance. And this
is now the plea of widows, wives and
mothers to those in authority, from
all parts of our country, and contin
lly ascending day and night to the
throne ofGod. The plea, compelled
by love, and misery, and wrong, is
for righteous retribution against the
rumsellers, who are ruining their
and husbands, making orphans
of their children, driving them from
their homes to abodes ot poverty, or
For shelter to asylums, with disgrace
and misery attending, till the grave
receives them.
The great enemy of woman is the
ruinseller. There is no pity in his
heart toward her. He would sooner
make her, also, a victim, than offer
Pale faces affect not his
Outstretched, trembling
She gained
ua
sons
her relief,
heart.
hands touch not his deadened sensi
bilities. There is no place in his
bosom for helpless infancy. Prayers
avail nothing. The victims of his in
flicted curse, dragged from his den to
suffer in prison, awake no pity, only
regret at the loss of their custom.
He smothers his manhood, and re
tires to his vile privacy a beast to
watch for new victims to fill their
places. He rubs out the àcore of
loss with an oath, and with renewed
stimulus quickens his torpid brain
for sharper practice. There is no
help for women in that quarter. As
well might you ask the tiger to de
liver his prey.
Where, then, shall women find re
dress? Her right and privilege is to
ask it of judges professing to be just;
of legislators professing to fear God
and humanely regardful of man. To
them, as the guardians of the inno
cent, defenseless, the sworn officers
of justice, she has the right, before
the law and before heaven, to say,
"Avenge me of mine adversary."
He has taken from her all she holds
dear—her home, her husband, her
. He has levied on her goods
and cast her into the street. He has
son
swept the last ember of comfort from
her hearth, and converted her once
happy home into a cheerless, lonely
abjde of poverty and woe. Will
not judge and legislator redress her
wrongs? Let us not forget the
Judge above holds us accountable to
H.m. He is the widow's God, He
is the Father of the latherless; and
if we refuse justice to these, who are
by promise His special care, He will
take their wrongs into His own
hands, and woe to those whom He
finds guilty !— S. W. F., in Exchange
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LOCALS.
Mud.
And more mud.
The snow has melted and the
streets well nigh impassible.
Quite a number of our young
friends in Mississippi College and in
the town, have gone to the Exposi
tion.
The Board of Aldermen met on
Wednesday night last. It is to be
hoped they will look to the repairing
of some of our street crossings and
bridges.
We are sorry to hear that Mr.
John M. Murphey, the handsome
and talented Foreman of the Baptist
Record is sick. We hope he may
soon be able to show his .smiling
phiz at his accustomed place of hold
ing forth.
Mrs. Kern, we understand, has
taken out hotel license and will keep
a house for the accommodation of
the public. She is in the large
brick house, known as
Hall. 'Ve wish her a liberal share
of public patronage.
The second quartei of the College
and Institute closed last week. The
five months gone by have been
well put in, to judge by the number
of good reports in the College and
the examinations at the Institute.
The two schools have entered upon
another five months' hard work.
We hope they may succeed as in the
past.
Hillman
Misses Maggie Z. Webb and Rena
B. Cox have been called to take
teachers' chairs in the Central Fe
male Institute. Miss Rena is an
Alumna of 1883, and Miss Maggie of
1884. We congratulate these young
ladies on receiving such situations
from so eminent a teacher as Dr.
Hillman, and who has such a wide
range of acquaintances as he has.
Though a great compliment,we think
it not undeserved. In our opinion,
the young ladies will prove them
selves fully competent to fill the po
sitions with credit to themselves and
their Alma Mater.
8: utiment and Sen«e.
• Defer not charities till death.
Let not jest intrude upon good
manners.
The wild oats of youth change in
to the briers of manhood.
Kindness is the golden chain by
which society is held together.
A man s own safety is a god that
sometimes makes very grim com
mands.
Poverty is in want of mnch, but
avarice demands everything it has
not.
Ambition thinks no face so beauti
ful as that which looks from under a
crown.
Friendships begin with liking or
gratitude—roots that can be pulled
up. The mother love begins d<
down.
Better a wrong will than a waver
ing; better a steadfast enemy than
an uncertain friend.
For the chief source of
eeper
peace we
look higher—far above the tree tops,
the mountains and the bright sailiug
clouds—far above earth—even heav
en.
The truly beautiful and good are
those who pursue the paths of virtue
and justice for the mere love of these
attribute», and not because of the
merit that attaches to such • a lile,
or expecting to reap favors and re
wards therefrom.—Exchange.
Unfair Criticism.— "Oh, yes,"
said a fair critic, with that vivacity
of speech and manner in which the
"gentler" sex indulge when picking
a friend to pieces, "oh, yes! Henry
would be very presentable if nature
had't turned up so much of his legs
to make his feet."
An honest man's word is as good
as his bond," is a true
So is a rogue's in nine cases out of
ten.
U
inaxim.
Alice;" said one girl to another,
"I am so glad that I have no beau,
now," "Why Liz?' "Cause I can
eat as many onions as I please."
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A Melancholy Response.—
''What would you do if mamma
should die ? " asked a lady—with
whom we have the honor of an inti
mate acquaintance—of a little three
year-old girl, that we wouldn't take
a hundred dollars for. "Well,
ma'am," was the melancholy re
sponse,"! s' pose I should have to
whip myself.