THE LATE SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
Woman
Suffrage a
Live Issue
r"* By the Late Susan B Anthony r
Last Half Century Has Seen
Emancipation of Woman—For-,,
mer Unjust Laws Regarding
Woman—If Married, She Could
Not Hold Property Legally—
Gradual Change of Public Opinion
—Miss Anthony’s Successful
Fight for* Married Women’s
Rights—Women Vote in Colo- '
rado.
V/
(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
(Susan B. Anthony’s name is known
sverywhere as that of one of the strong
1 sst, cleverest women of the age. It is
-'ynonymous with the marvelous evolution
in the status of woman in which from the
-arly ’4cs until her death early in the
present year she was the central figure.
The transition of the young quaker girl,
afraid of the sound of her own vbice, into
the reformer and orator is no more won
derful than the great change which have
been brought about In the condition of
women largely through her efforts.)
Half a century ago, when the agita
tion for woman suffrage was first com
menced, if the outlook for its
success had been what it is to
day, the question would long syice
have been settled, the friction of
the new regime smoothed away and
-the general public oblivious to the fact
that there ever had been a struggle to
bring all this about. The present gen
eration has not the slightest concep
tion of the conditkms which existed at
the time when the first demand was
made that the ballot should be placed
in the hand of woman. The wife who
to-day rests secure in the ownership
of the home and of all the property
which comes to her, who manages it
herself and enjoys the profits; the
•other one who, compelled to work ior
wages to support her children, col
lects and uses them according to her
judgment; the mother who, widowed
by death or divorce, rejoices in the
possession of her children; the wom
en who, in every possible vocation, are
earning a" livelihood and often a com
petence—all of these are in utter ig
norance of the efforts which were
made by the women of the past to se
cure for them these privileges.
We have now reached the point
where the antagonism against the
equal rights of women is confined al
most wholly to that of the suffrage.
In practically all other respects they
are conceded and while some states
are slow in changing their laws to con
form to the new dispensation the jus
tice of it is admitted and it will pre
vail universally in the near future, so
far as the statutes are concerned. The
battle henceforth must be for tht
franchise. The vital question thus
becomes: What is the outlook foi
the ultimate success of this last con
test?
Commencing with municipal suf
frage to widows and spinsters in 1869,
England now grants to all women, on
the same terms as to men, the full
suffrage except the parliamentary
vote. West Australia began with the
municipal ballot in 1871; South Ausr
tralia in 1880; New Zealand in 1886.
The full parliamentary suffrage was
granted to women in New Zealand in
1893; in South Australia in 1895; in
West Australia in 1900. The Isle of
Man granted the full franchise in 1883.
Every English colony has some form
of woman suff-age.
Forty-five years ago in no part, of
the United States did women possess
a shred 'of suffrage, save that in Ken
tucky widows could vote on school
matters. In 1861 Kansas gave this
privilege to all women. In 1875 school
suffrage was granted to women by
Minnesota and Michigan; in' 1876 by
Colorado; in 1878 by New Hampshire
and Oregon; in 1879 by Massac bu
setts; in 1880 by New York and Ver
mont; in 1883 by Nebraska; in 1885
by Wisconsin; in 1887 by North and
South Dakota, Arizona and New Jer
sey; in 1889 by Montana; in 1?90 by
Washington; in 1891 by Illinois; in
1893 by Connecticut; in 1894 by Ohio
In 1869 the territory of Wyoming
gave full suffrage to women and, after
21 years’ experience, the state came
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vision -'In its constitution.
Colorado tn 1893 submitted to the
voters the question' of full enfranchise
ment, and it was carried by a major
ity of G.23C.
In the territory of Utah the women
voted on all matters from 1870 to 1887,
when they-wore arbitrarily disfran
chised by act of congress. In 1895 full
suffrage was incorporated in the con
stitution which was submitted to male
voters only and received a large ma
jority. Utah therefore was admitted
as a state in January, 189G, with wom
en fully enfranchised.
In Idaho, at tne general election of
1896, a constitutional amendment giv
ing women full suffrage was submit
ted to the voters. It was indorsed
by all four of the political parties and
carried by a majority of 5,884.
In Kansas fn 1887 the- legislature
passed a bill by a vote of 25 to 13 in
the senate, and 90 to 21 in the house,
conferring the municipal franchise
upon the women of the state.
In Michigan in 1893 the legislature
by a large majority gave municipal
suffrage to women, but the law was
declared unconstitutional by the su
preme court.
In Montana in 1889 women property
owners were granted a vote on all
questions submitted to taxpayers.
This same right was incorporated in
the new constitution of Louisiana In
1898. Women can exercise this priv
ilege also In seven third-class cities
In New York.
In Iowa tbdy may vote On questions
of bonding the municipality; in Minne
sota for library trustees; in Delaware
in four towns for commissioners; in
Mississippi on several unimportant
matters. In Arkansas they have a
voice in local option.
No one who examines these statis
tics can fail to see a steady advance in
the direction of woman suffrage, with
no retrogression. In only one single
instance has the ballot been taken
away from women after it was granted
—viz., in the territory of Washington.
This was done, after its legality had
been three times declared by differ
ent legislature.'through a despotic and
most unjust decision of the supreme
court, which was in direct contradic
tion to the organic act under which
the territory was organized.
The only logioal conclusion itfust be
that the advance will continue, and
this is the more irresistible because
women themselves are developing so
rapidly in education, business ability,
organized work, self-reliance and
knowledge of public affairs. They are
also becoming large property holders
and taxpayers, and as such are de
manding a voice in questions directly
affecting their financial interests—a
claim which public sentiment is large
ly inclined to grant. The continued
policy of oui government has been to
extend the suffrage, until now all
classes of citizens are enfranchised,
with the one and only exception of
women. In natural sequence they
must be the next to receive the ballot.
As has been shown above, the line is
already broken in many places, and
the movement under headway which
must inevitably result in making ail
women—subject only to such restric
tions as apply to men—a part of the
electoral body.
“But,” the question will be asked,
“can you find any encouragement in
the defeats which the suffrage amend
ment has met when it has been voted
on in the different states?” Yes, de
cidedly.
In 1867 such an amendment received
in Kansas 9,070 affirmative and 19,857
negative votes. In 1894 it was again
submitted and received 95,302 affirma
tive and 130,139 negative votes, a very
considerable decrease in the per
centage of the opposition.
In Colorado in- 1877 the vote stood
6,612 yeas, 14,055 nays; defeated by
7,441. In 1893 it stood 35,698 yeas, 29,
461 nays; amajority of 6,237 in favor—
women were enfranchised.
In Oregon in 1884 the vote stood
11,223 yeas, 28,176 nays; opposing ma
jority, 16,953. In 1900 it stood 26,265
yeas, 28,402 nays; the opposing major
ity only 2,137.
In 1889 the vote on a suffrage
amendment in Washington was 16,527
yeas. 35,913 nays; majority against,
19,386. In 1898 the vote was 20,171
yeas, 30,497 nays; majority against re
duced to 10,326.
South Dakota in 1890 gave 22,972
votes in favor and 45,632 in opposition;
a majority against of 22,660. In 1898
It gave 19,698 in favor, 22,983 against,
the opposing majority being brought
down to 3,285.
Is there -anything discouraging in
these figures? Do they not show be
yond all question by the very great
reduction of the opposing majority at
each election the gradual melting
away of what Hon. John D. Long calls
“the glacier of bourbonism and oppres
sion?” The idea of woman suffrage
has to encounter the opposing preiii
dice and custom of the centuries
These are particularly strong in the
case of foreign men to whom the
thought of liberty and equality fo
women is a revelation which they an
not prepared to accept by their votes
The bitter hostility of those classe'
who may be described under the gen
eral -term of enemies of good govern
New IdeaLS in Gifts
'Sofa Pillows Stuffed with Balsam Fir
Always Welcome.
Sofa pillows stuffed with balsam fir
have long been in use and will ever
be a delight to the weary city dweller,
to whom their spicy, refreshing per
fume brings visions of mountains and
forests, says a writer in Harper’s Ba
zar. Less well. known, but not less
satisfactory, are cushions filled with
sweet fern and bayberry leaves. The
sweet fern should be gathered when in
full leaf, but before it has begun to
dry under the summer sun. Take only
the young bayberry leaves. The ideal
place to dry such things is in a hot,
dry attic, where the process can go on
without any of the fragrance being
wasted by the breezes. To fill a pillow
use two-thirds sweet fern to one-third
of the bayberry leaves. No perfumes
ever made by man can compare with
those which are the product of the
garden. A girl who has a* few bushes
of lavender has at her command the
material for many delightful gifts. If
she. also has lemon verbena she is in
deed fortunate, as the two combine
and improve each other quite wonder
fully. For handkerchief sachets take
equal parts of lavender and lemon ver
bena. These sachets ^nay be made as
elaborate or simple as one likes. They
may be of silk, fine lawn or even of
crepe tissue paper. Japanese paper
napkins are pretty and answer well
for this purpose.
A Weird Death.
“In om* laboratories," said a chem
ist, “we make a godd deal of cyanide
of potassium. Men who handle this
poison are too often seized with an
insane desire to eat it.
“The white and beautiful crystals
exercise on the mind a strange fasci
nation, such as snakes are said to
exercise upon small birds. Though
you know that the stuff Is deadly yon
feel a horrible longing to crush a
handful of it into your mouth.
ajways musi De counted as solid
ly against this measure. The third
line of opposition is found in the nat
ural conservatism of; even the intelli
gent and respectable classes among
*.o native born. That all these ad
verse conditions, in the brief space of
a few years, have been overcome to
the extent indicated by the above fig
ures, is as sure a guaranty as one
could ask that in a few years more,
counting upon the same ratio of de
crease, they will entirely disappear
and the majority be transferred from
the negative to the affirmative side of
this question.
Do I feel msheartenecl at the series
of defeats which this measure encoun
ters in the various state legislatures?
Not in the least. When the agitation
for equal rights first began It was al
most impossible to have the question
considered at all by legislative bodies.
However, there always has existed
among civilized men a greater, or less
sentiment of justice and chivalry to
ward women. When the latter would
present their bills for suffrage, and
also for the modification of some espe
cially unjust law, the former would be
thrown aside without debate and the
latter eventually granted as a sort of
concession. When I remember that I
myself and the small handful of wom
en who were associated with me went
up to the New York legislature, £eti
tion in hand, for ten years before we
could get a law giving married women
control of the wages they earned;
when I recollect that a little band of
women, headed by Lucy Stone and
Rev. Anna Shaw, besieged the Massa-1
chusetts legislature ten years before
they were successful in getting the
legal right for a wife to be buried in
her husband's cemetery lot; and when
I recall many other instances quite as
outrageous I am not surprised that the
yielding of the great fundamental pow
er of the suffrage has been so long
delayed.
Ai first, as has been said, legisla
tures refused any consideration what
ever of this question. Then it pro
gressed to the stage of being taken up
and made the subject of ribaldry and
abuse which seem incredible at the
present day. Now it has reached the
pfane of dignified argument and it is
seldom that any legislature rejects
such a bill -without a certain amount
of discussion. This question has oc
cupied a full day's session of the
United States congress on several oc
casions. It was debated a few years
ago for two days in a respectful man
ner in the Massachusetts house of
representatives; it has been the sub
ject of serious discussion in half a
dozen legislatures within a recent
period. At every session of the New
York legislature a wpman-suffrage bill
in some form receives careful consid
eration and seldom fails to pass either
the senate or the assembly by a large
majority. In all legislatures it is no
uncommon occurrence for the bill to
pass one house and frequently to be
defeated in the other by a bare
margin. Sometimes only a vote for a
reconsideration saves it from com
plete success; sometimes it does carry
and goes to the voters for ratification.
Eleven legislatures have thus submit
ted the question and five have taken
this action twice, with an increased
affiiimative vote, as has been shown.
Is there any other logical conclusion
to be drawn from these facts than that
this progress will continue, and that,
as public sentiment becomes more en
lightened, the justice -and the need of
womaif’s vote more evident, and wom
en themselves more importunate, one
state after another will fall into line
and grant their full enfranchisement?
Wendell Phillips used to say:
“When not only congress and the state
legislatures, but all the crossroads
schoolhouses are debating the ques
tion of slavery, I know that the cause
will succeed.” The question of wom
an suffrage has now reached this
point. There is seldom a day in the
year that I do not receive requests,
ranging from the great universities of
the country to the intermediate de
partments of the public schools, and
from clubs and societies of every de
scription, for literature and "other in
formation to be used in debates upon
this subject. The most casual reader
must observe that there is scarcely
an edition of any of the great or
small daily papers, or of the numer
ous monthly periodicals, which does
not contain articles bearing directly or
indirectly upon- this matter. This
must be regarded as an indication that
it is a live, practical Issue and one of
general interest.
These are the principal reasons, and
ad infinite number of minor ones
might be given, why its advocates find
ample encouragement in the outlook
for woman suffrage.
Curse of Indecision.
The man who is always asking ad
vice from everybody never takes it
from anybody. He is much too weak
ninded even to make up his mind as
‘o which advice suits his mind the
best, and he lives in a perpetual state
if indecision which the earnestly ex
iressed opinions of his friends and ac
uiainfances only serve to aggravate.
The end of such a man is confusion
nd disaster, which are really all that
e deserves.—London Weekly Dis
patch.
IN GUERRILLA DAYS.
The Express Messenger Tells How
He saved the Money on the Train.
0 »——
“I ran through Kentucky in 1864
and ’65, on the Kentucky Central, and
had to make some ‘short turns' in or
der to keep company money out of the
hands of the guerrillas.”
Thus spoke James G. Newland, one
of the oldest expressmen in the coun
try. He now runs between Cincinnati
and Pittsburg, over the Little Miami
and Panhandlo railroads, handling as
much cash business, I dare say, as any
through messenger in the service.
Mr. Newland was en route to ChL
cago, renewing acquaintances, and, it
was while he was stopping at the Tre
mont house, Wabash, Ind., that the
correspondent of the Chicago Inter
Ocean was introduced to the old gen
tleman, who, a little later, warming up
to the subject of his experiences on
the railroad as expressman, contin
ued:
‘‘At one time I lay in my car a
whole day at North Benson, Ky', while
the‘guerrillas on the other side of the
town and the garrison in a federal fort
on the other disputed with solid shot,
shells and, bullets for the possession of
the passenger train. The fort saved
us, and that night I packed %p all the
money anti got away over ten miles on
foot—several burned bridges prevent
ing the train’s escape—and took a
hand-car for Louisville, Ky., at the
first unbroken piece of track.
“Another time, I remember, we left.
Covington for Lexington, having ex
Postmaster General Blair among the
passengers. Old Pete Everett’s guer
rillas opened on the train from a
small dry creek bed at Lairdsburg
station. 60 miles out, and .he regular
train guard—they were on every train
in those days, as you’re doubtless
aware—had a rattling fight with them
before the guerrillas left. When 'the
show was over ex-Postmaster General
Blair picked up a baby belonging to
a young woman who got off there, and
went away, unsuspected, with the
mother, and thus undoubtedly pre
I Got Away Over Ten Miles on Foot.
vented his own capture, and the train
backed to Covington for a fresh start.
“These guerrillas were undoubtedly
a ‘tough proposition,’ ” if I do say K
myself, and, speaking off tram rob
bers,, while I was on the Galveston &
San Antonio railroad we were stopped
one night some miles out of El Paso,
Tex. Two men wearing masks crawled
over the tender, revolvers- in hands,
and ordered the engineer and fireman
to lead the way to the express car.
They did so.
“Reaching the express car, one of
the robbers threw some dynamite
against the car door, the explosion of
which knocked a hole in the car and
broke all the glass in the other doors.
The robbers called upon me and my
companion to come out. We did so,
but before obeying I put my revolver
just inside the car door.
“They searched us and ordered us
back into the car. We again obeyed,
but as one of the robbers attempted to
follow me into the car I caught up my
pistol and placing it against the rob
ber’s breast, fired, and shot him
through the heart. The rahber, while
lying writhing upon the ground, fired
twice upon me and then expired.
“The second robber and - then ex
changed shots as he attempted to
drag his comrade’s body to the engine,
intending to uncouple it from the train
and thus get away.
“While the robber was lifting the
body upon the engine I secured a
double-barreled shotgun and quickly
fifed at the surviving train robber.
He sank to the ground and then sud
denly sprang up and ran away. On
the following day his body was found
in a bush about 50 yards from the
scene of the attempted robbery. Only
one buckshot had struck the fellow,
but it had cut the artery over the
heart.
“However, the toughest time I ever
had was the express car fight in Mon
tello, Nev., in 1882. I had carried a
shotgun as express messenger on most
of the lines in Nevada, Arizona and
Idaho and other states, but,” after a
pause, “I never had as close a call as
that.
“The train got into Moutello about
one o’clock, a bright moonlight night.
The engineer stopped at a switch to
allow a freight train to go by, and
while the train was standing still the
robbers, seven in all, appeared, cov
ered the engineer, fireman, and con
ductor with revolvers, and took pos
session of the train.
“After the freight train pulled out
the robbers (entered the engine and
p illed the train down the track, and
t en began their attack ^on the ex
press car.
“They ordered me out of the car;
I refused, and during the night never
spoke to them again.
“While they were consulting as to
the best mode of attack I barricaded
the doors with the safe, boxes, etc,,
and was prepared for them. They sur
- ,'y *'
rounded the car and seven builets
crashed through the solid sides and
doors. I knew, of course, that my life
was at the mercy of luck or fate, but
never weakened. 1- look up a position
at the side of ihe car, and returned
each round of shots during all that
night. At one stage of the proceed
ings the robbers swung my car loose
from the remainder of the train and
pushed it along the track 60 yards.
They would then shoot for a time and
retire to consult, and then renew the
attack.
“Finally they determined to carry
rrood and set fire to the car, and
would doubtless have done so had not
the process exposed them too much to
my lire. At about three o’clock the
passenger train from the opposite di
rection arrived upon the scene. Some
of the attacking party immediately or
dered them to move on as rapidly as
possible. Deeming prudence the bet
ter part of valor, they at once did so,
running to the next station, where
they secured help and then returned,
arriving at Montello soon after day
light. Of course it must be remem
bered that in the meantime the at
tack on me was continued.
“During the night I was three times
shot at, one bullet striking me in the
left hand, badly damaging it; one in
the thigh, a flesh wound, and the last
one grazing my abdomen. I was. of
course, pretty sore from the hurts for
some time afterward; nevertheless, I
was glad to escape with my life.
“One of the robbers was so badly
wounded that he died an hour after
ward and was buried a mile or two
from the station by his companions
before they attempted to make good
their escape.
“Shortly after daylight came they
gave up their attempt to rob the car,
mounted their horses, and left, taking
their wounded companion with them.
“I was taken to San Francisco to
rest and recuperate, while 18 men in
all pursued the highwaymen.
“The express company offered a re
ward of $1,000 each for them, and five
of them were captured, namely:
Brown, Kelly, Walker, Delano and
Murry, and sent to prison in the city
of Carson, Nev., for a long term.
Three of them, however, have since
been pardoned by an ex-governor on
account of ‘extenuating circum
stances.' "
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LINCOLN’S ASSASSINATION.
The Long Night of “Black Friday” in
the War Telegraph Offices.
I remember che long night of Fri
day, April 14, that black day in our
country's history, when the hate and
cruelty embodied in four years of
bloody war culminated in one stroke
of madness, aimed at the life of one
who himself had only "charity for all,”
with “malice toward none,” writes
David Homer Bates, in Century. Al
though I was cn duty in the cipher
room that evening, I have no distinct
remembrance of anything that oc
curred prior to the moment when
some one rushed into the office with
blanched face, saying: “There is a
rumor below that President Lincoln
has been shot in Ford's theater.” Be
fore we could fully take in the awful
import, other rumors reached iis. hor
ror following fast upon horror; the
savage attack upon Secretary Seward,
and the frustrated efforts to reach and
kill Vice President Johnson, Secre
tary Stanton and other members of
the government. As the successive ac
counts crystallized, a fearful dread
filled our hearts, lest it Should be
found that the entire cabinet had
been murdered. An hour of this awful
suspense, and then we received word
from Maj. Eckert, who had gone
quickly to Secretary Stanton’s house
on K street, and from there with the
secretary to the house on Tenth street,
opposite the theater, to which the
president had been carried after hav
ing been shot by John Wilkes Booth.
This message merely assured us of the
present safety of Stanton, while con
firming our worst fears concerning the
president.
A relay of mounted messengers was
at once established by Maj. Eckert,
and all night long they carried bulle
tins in the handwriting of Secretary
Stanton addressed to Gen. Dix, New
York city, which were at Once given
to the press and sent over the wires
throughout the country. As these
bulletins were spelled out in the
Morse telegraph characters, our
hearts were stunned and yet seemed
to be on fire. The awfulness of the
tragedy hushed us into silence. As
the hours slowly passed hope revived
fitfully as some sentence offered faint
encouragement that the precious life
might perhaps be spared to complete
its chosen work; but at last about
7:30 a. m., April 15, the tension gave
away and we knew that our beloved
president was gone from us forever.
Of Good Fighting Stuff.
The One Hundred and Twenty-fifth
regiment of New York was recruited
at the darkest time in the history of
the civil war, when -men of business
interests and family connections re
alized that the conflict was a struggle
to the death, and that they mu3t make
sacrifices if American institutions
were to be preserved. This meant that
the personnel of the regiment was of
a high class. Such men, fighting with
all the strength of body and of heart
in the “bloody angle,” says the Troy
Times, won the field of Gettysburg.
Such men loyal to their enlistment
until the surrender at Appomattox, de
cided the issue of ’61-65. Such men de
serve the gratitude of a country which
has entered into the reward of the
brave labors of veterans many of
whose comrades sleep in soldiers’
graves or bear on their bodies the dis
abling Bears of the enemy’s shot and
shell.
His Masterpiece.
Francis Miles Finch, who died re
cently at the age of 80 years, achiev
ed in one poem, “The Blue and the
Gray,” a more certain immortality
than many poets of many volumes.
The poem appeared two years after
the close of the civil war, and appeal
ed at once to the national heart. It
comes nearer than any other thing in
American literature, except some
great prose utterances of Lincoln, to
putting Into words the best that men
were thinking in a time of boitqw and
i ty>pe.
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THE CQHVEHTIOH HAEI,
6,000.
Surely the temperance movement is
like the mustard seed of Christ’s para
ble which was the smallest of all
seeds, but grew to be a great tree.
The temperance movement was the
tiny seed in 1808 when I)r. Billy James
Clark formed the first temperance so
ciety in history at Moreau, Saratoga
county, New York., and now it has
become the great temperance tree
whose branches have spread through
out the iand and all the world to bear
their blessed fruit of reformation, and
provide the leaves of healing for the
cruel and deadly wounds which King
•Alcohol have inflicted.
Temperance as a principle was a
minus quantity a century ago and or
ganized temperance effort was a thing
unknown, but to-day we find the or
ganized forces of temperance every
where at work warning people of the
evil effects of alcoholic beverages,
seeking to alleviate the suffering
caused by drink and to rescue those
addicted to intemperance, and com
bating the evil forces which are at
work promoting the liquor interests.
In recognition of the small begin
ning and the amazing growth which
the temperance movement has made
during the past century, the temper
ance forces of the world are planning
to hold a temperance congress next
year in June at Saratoga Springs, N.
Y., not far from the place where the
first temperance society was formed
under the inspiration and leadership
of Billy Clark. Little did he realize
as he organized the first society for
the carrying on of temperance wofk
with the help of Rev. L. Armstrong,
Gardner Storr and .James Mott, that
a century was to rally to his temper
ance banner multitudes of societies
and millions of earnest followers.
Little did he and the others associated
with him realize that that quiet, in
significant meeting which was he’d
in his home at Moreau on April 30,
1808, was to provide the inspiration
for a g'reat world-wide temperance
congress, and that at his home and
at his grave there would gather mul
titudes pledged to the same work who
would there find new inspiration and
new courage for pressing the battle
against the forces of intemperance.
But such is to be the fact, and how
fitting it seems that the society which
Billy Clark organized and wjiich is
still in existence, should be in charge
of the preliminary arrangements^ for
the coming centennial celebration.
Such initial steps have already been
taken and a contract secured for the
great convention hall at Saratoga
Springs. T^his splendid auditorium
will seat 5,000 people, and there is
every likelihood that its utmost,
capacity will be taxed, and that over
flow meetings will have to be held in
the various churches of the place, the
pastors all having agreed to recom
mend to their official boards the plac
ing of their edifices, free of charge, at
the disposal of such temperance so
cieties as may fittingly occupy them.
All temperance societies, or wnat
ever name or nature, throughout the
entire world, have been most cordially
invited to participate in this unique
celebration.. Each organization so par
ticipating will be a law unto itself,
making its own program and responsi
ble for its own utterances. Upon ap
plication, there will be assigned to
each organization a day or days, as
they may elect, the great hall or some
church, as they may choose, and hotel
accommodations secured, if desired.
The various nations of the world
will be invited to send national repre
sentatives to this congress. Medical
associations and historical societies
will also be asked to fraternize in the
work. Churches of all denominations
will be Invited to participate. The
president of the United States and
the governor of New York will be in
vited to be present or to be represent
ed by some official of the American
nation and of the state government
of New York.
The history of this century of tern
The Reason Why.
After turning the music he bent
over her and murmured:
“Did you notice how my hand trem
bled, Miss Fitzpatrick?”
“Er—yes, Mr. Mannering,” she an
swered, shyly.
“And can you guess why it trem
bled?” he breathed into her-ear.
The white fingers of beautiful
Mayme Fitzpatrick fell from the keys
and lay limp in her lap, and a great
blush dyed her cheek's clear pallor.
“N—no,” she whispered.
Young Clarence Mannering looked
deep into her eyes.
“Shall I tell you?” he asked.
“Yes, if you like,” she said faintly.
There was a long pause. The youth
swallowed audibly. Then his voice,
hoarse with an emotion that did him
credit, thrilled through the silence.
“I was out with the boys last night,
and It was four o’clock this morning
before I got to bed”’
Information Wanted.
Homeless and vagrant earthquakes
ought to be taught to leave their ad
dresses When they register on the
i seismographs.—Chicago Daily News.
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V
perance reform will be divided into
five periods, of 20 years each, and
the progress of temperance senti
ment during each of these periods will
be shown by the increase in public
sentiment, the organization of tern
perance societies, the attitude of the
Christian churches, and the passage
of prohibitory laws by the various
governments. A paper will be given
by Dr. Charles Ingraham, on “The
Birth of the Temperance Reform at
Moreau,” giving a history of Dr. Billy
James Clark and the temperance so
ciety organized by him and his associ
ates. Speakers of international repu
tation will be secured for one address
each day, in the great convention hall.
In addition to these meetings, the va
rious temperance organizations will
hold separate conventions, and it is
expected that three or more different
conventions will be in session at the
same time each day.
The following organizations have al
ready consented to be represented up
on the general program committee:
The National Prohibition party; the
Inter-Collegiate Prohibition associa
tion; the National Young People’s
Christian Temperance union; the In
ternational supreme lodge of Good
Templars; the national grand lodge
of Good Templars of America; the Na
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
union; the National Medical Bociety;
New York State Historical society;
Presbyterian general assembly; Sons
of Temperance; National Young Men’s
Christian association; New York State
Woman’s Christian Temperance
union; National Educational society;
the Congregational church; Woman’s
Prohibition Club of America; New
York State Young Women’s Christian
Temperance union; Anti-Saloon
league; the Catholic church; National
Temperance society; Catholic Total
Abstinence society; Society of Friends;
National Sunday School association;
,the Methodist church; German Society
for the Study of Alcohol and Saloon
Reform; Scottish Independent Order
of Good Templars of Hungary; Young
People’s Prohibition League of Ameri
ca: National Society of Christian En
deavor.
Representatives of the Inter-Nation
al Supreme Lodge of Good Templars
and of the National Grand lodge will
be tendered a reception in the great
convention hall on Monday evening.
June 15, 1908. Saturday, June 20, will
be observed as Sunday school day, and
the County Simday School association
is arranging to take advantage of this
opportunity to secure a great demon
stration and parade of the Sunday
schools. The County W. C. T. U: will
welcome the state and national unions
on Monday and Tuesday, June 22
and 23.
It is intended to hold proper services
at the grave of Dr. Billy J. Clark,
founder of the first temperance society
in history, whose remains are buried
at Glens Falls. There will also be an
excursion, with proper exercises, to
the home of Dr. Clark, and to th6
church where Rev. L. Armstrong, whc
was associated with Dr. Clark
preached for many years.
A Centennial Congress club of about
175 members has already been foi med
Life membership in this club is ob
tained by the payment of the nominal
fee of $1.
The Right Day.
“Dick—Yes, the beautiful blonde ac
cepted me.
Jack—Accepted you? Why, six fel
lows proposed to her and she refused
them all.”
Dick—Yes; but I proposed on the
right day.
Jack—What day was that?
Dick—Friday. She couldn’t resist.
Friday is bargain day, you know.
Poor Substitutes.
Hurry and Cunning are two appren
tices ot Dispatch and Skill; but neith
er of them ever learns his master’s
} trade.
Horrible Revenge.
“I finally found a means of getting
even with Brown for disturbing my
sleep at six o’clock mornings with his
lawn mower.”
“What is it?”
“I wait till they retire for the night
then start our phonograph.”—Milwau
kee Sentinel.
Oh, Oh, Oh!
Mrs. Henpeck—Why is a husband
like dough?
Mr. Henpeck (inspirationally)—Be
cause a woman needs him.
Mrs. Henpeck—Not at all. It’s be
cause husband s hard to get oft one’s
hands.—Judge.
One of the Two.
“Brown is either making money
these day3 or else he is a good actor.”
"What makes you think so?"
"He drops money in the collection
plate at church as carelessly as a mil
lionaire.”—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Diamonds Vanish Completely.
If you should bu n your diamonds
you would not even have ashes i**ft as
a memenio. ■Afte, combustion the
diamond leaves absolutely nothing.
“And many cases are recorded of
men who were unable to resist this
awful longing—happy, prosperous and
young men found dead in the labora
tory beside a glittering white heap of
cyanide of potassium crystals. *
“Hence in many chemical works the
men are strictly forbidden to enter
the cyanide house alone.”
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Blue Eyed and Fair Skinned Indians.
One of the mysteries of Mexico is
presented by the Myea Indians, who
inhabit the Sierra Madre mountains
in the lower part of Sonora. They have
fair skins, blue eyes and light hair
and students of ethnology have al
ways been puzzled to account for
them.
There is a tradition, however, that
these Indians are the descendants of
«the crew of passengers of a Swedish
vessel wrecked on the Mexican coast
centuries before Columbus discovered
the new world, but this tradition is
i founded on nothing more substantial
than a folklore tale current among
them that their ancestors came ove
the big salt water hundreds of mope
! ago.
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