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needed most of all a fuller and more 
perfect consecration to the work, and 
she prayed that they might all go 
on to a more earnest and faithful feel¬ 
ing of duty in fighting the great 
enemy. The consecration and prayer ser¬ 
vice was conducted by Miss Jennie Smith, 
the national superintendent of railroad 
work, who also addressed the audience in 
earnest and beautiful words. She had seen 
in her own work the value of a soul, whether 
it were the soul of the president of a great 
railroad corporation, or of the humblest 
toiler with the shovel or broom. In every 
line of life, the highest as well as the low 
est, there are those who can influence their 
own class. And one of these can do more 
good just there than any ten outsiders. She 
did not think there was a city they had vis¬ 
ited where every trade and industry had 
not been touched. And surely the sweet 
face of the speaker, her clear, shining eyes, 
her earnest, pleading voice were calculated 
to touch and leave a lasting remembrance 
with all within reach of her persuasive 
tones. 
“Some people,” she said “are afraid to 
enter the work from timidity; but timidity 
under certain circumstances becomes a 
crime. Some are afraid to go to work for 
fear of doing something wroDg; such should 
give the benefit of the doubt to the right 
side and start in determined to do their 
duty. The time is coming when we will all 
find it harder to answer for our sins of 
omission than for those of commission. 
What is needed is the open hand of friend¬ 
ship held out by the good people of our land, 
just as the saloon keepers hold out theirs. 
There is a great deal in the warm hand- 
grasp of friendship, and it should not all be 
left for the saloon keepers.” 
I regret that I had not opportunity to at¬ 
tend all the meetings, but when I went 
again I had the pleasure of hearing Mrs. 
Sallie F. Chapin, of Cnarleston, president 
of the South Carolina W. C.T. U. discourse 
very eloquently upon “ Temperance in the 
South.” The bright, intelligent face of 
this estimable lady, lighted by a pair of 
earnest dark eyes, and surmounted by short 
clustering curls, proved very attractive to 
the audience. Her manner is genial, her 
movements graceful, and her voice sweetly 
modulated. 
Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, of Indiana, 
spoke on “ Woman’s Ballot.” This lady, 
known as “ Mother Wallace,” has figured 
conspicuously in temperance work, as an 
earnest, prayerful worker in the good 
cause, and has accomplished much. She 
spoke interestingly for over an hour, and 
concluded by urging that women should 
be allowed to vote that they might vote 
down the accursed liquor traffic, that is en¬ 
slaving the beloved youth of our land. 
Miss Annie Gordon, the assistant national 
superintendent of juvenile work, addressed 
the audience in the evening. She is one of 
the most faithful and devoted workers in 
tha Union, and is also private secretary to 
Miss Willard. Miss Gordon’s first appear¬ 
ance as a speaker was at a tabernacle 
meeting in Boston in 1877. Since that time 
she has been steadily engaged as one of the 
foremost workers in the temperance cause. 
She often speaks in public and with accept¬ 
ance. She Is a Boston girl, clear-headed 
and quick-witted, with a fine intellectual 
face and great mental capacity. 
Miss Frances E. Willard discoursed very 
beautifully upon the consecration of the 
White Ribbon. She had never spoken 
before on just this point. She said that 
she remembered when she had argued for 
a knot of the national colors, but that bet¬ 
ter counsels had prevailed, and it was seen 
that there was nothing so simple and con¬ 
vincing as the white ribbon, the winsome 
symbol of consecration. 
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, the brainy lady 
lawyer of Iowa, made an address before 
the Woman’s National Council, on the 
oft mooted subject of “The Non-parti¬ 
san National W. C. T. U.,” which organi¬ 
zation she well and faithfully represented. 
The non partisan union was organized in 
£tUsuiuuuou£ dktUTmtfinj). 
Please mention The R. N.-Y. toour adver¬ 
tisers. 
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla, 
When she was a Child, she cried for Castorla, 
When she became Miss, she clung to Castorla, 
When ste had Children, she gave them Castorla. 
Cleveland, in January, 1889, and this was 
the first occasion on which the work of the 
union could be explained to a large repre¬ 
sentative body. She said the movement 
which first gave it life, was the great tem¬ 
perance crusade of 1874-75, and many mem¬ 
bers of this union were charter members of 
the much beloved and greatly respected 
National W. C. T U. In 1884, the ladies of 
the latter society decided to take up a 
partisan line and cast its efforts on the 
side of the party that would promise pro¬ 
hibition as one of its essentials. This had 
caused the difference between the two, the 
non partisan believing that partisan work 
was dangerous and wrong. As a result, 
after five years of struggle, (for they hated 
to leave the house they had helped to build) 
they had branched out for themselves and 
formed the non-partisan union. Mrs. 
Foster stated as the principles of the union 
that the license system is simply a system 
of legalizing the liquor evil; that local 
option is good, though limited in its field 
of usefulness; while the true and only 
remedy for the liquor evil is constitutional 
prohibition. 
Mrs. Mary T. Lathrop, representing the 
National Woman’s Christian Temperance 
Union, as a regular delegate to the coun¬ 
cil, said that when the war began and the 
men left for the field, the women left be¬ 
hind were thrust by thousands into busi¬ 
ness life. Soon they became vitally inter¬ 
ested in the matter of the liquor traffic and 
they at once met with the problem : What 
is the relation of the powers that be toward 
the legalized temptation of the drunkard ? 
The real evil is the licensing of a vicious 
traffic. No drunkard shall inherit eternal 
life, and yet we license 300,000 men to sell 
away the chances of others for eternity. 
This is made possible by the ballots of our 
land. 
Mrs. Mary L Lockwood, delegate to the 
council from the Woman’s National Pres* 
Association, read a carefully prepared 
essay on the evolution of women in litera¬ 
ture. She began with Cleopatra and 
traced the history of women in letters 
downward. She enumerated and discussed 
a number of women of all times prominent 
in art and literature, and took her hearers 
rapidly down through the ages and landed 
them in America in “ Woman’s Century.” 
Mrs. Carolyn M. Brown read a paper on 
the work of the National Protective Agency 
for Women and Children, which was organ¬ 
ized in Chicago in 1886, for the protection 
of helpless women and children. She cited 
a number of cases where the society had 
come to the rescue of women and children 
in trouble who were unable to help them¬ 
selves, and had done a good work in foster¬ 
ing a public sentiment against certain 
crimes, and in getting more stringent laws 
passed and carried into execution. 
Mrs. Estelle M. H. Merrill, of the Baston 
Globe, President of the New England 
Woman’s Press Association, gave an infor¬ 
mal talk on the outlook for women in jour¬ 
nalism, which she mentioned as a hopeful 
and cheerful one. 
“ Women’s Clubs—Sorosis ” was the sub¬ 
ject of an interesting paper read by Mrs. 
Ella Dietz Clymer, so long president of that 
famous club. She said the objects of it are 
the promotion of good fellowship among 
those of literary, artistic or musical tastes, 
and the dissemination of such facts as will 
be of value to them. “ What college life is 
to young women,” Mrs. Clymer asserted, 
“such is club life to women of maturer 
years. The club life is a sort of training 
school, preparing them for the future that 
is coming to them.” n. A. housb. 
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