AUG. 2 
THE RURAL 
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W-YORKER 
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Jfor tSHoutfit. 
OONDGOTED BY MISS FAITH RIPLEY. 
THE “LAND OF MIGHT HAVE BEEN.” 
BY C. H. W. 
‘Of all sad words of tongue or pen. 
The saddest are these : it might have been." 
t. 
All the Iouk. Iouk hours of sunshine, 
Steadfastly I do ruy part. 
Toiling over, listening never, 
To the ’pints Inga of my heart. 
Captive in the thrall of duty. 
Dare I not to heed its call, 
Murmuring only to its pleadings, 
" Patience ’till the even-fall." 
n. 
Then when with tho dusky twilight, 
Rest and silence come again, 
With a hand all trembling, eager. 
I unloose its heavy chain. 
Sutler it for one brief hour. 
Freedom, happiness to win. 
As its fluttering pinions bear it 
To the *‘ Land of Might Hava Beou !" 
ill. 
Ah! you know uot of tho Palace 
Cloud-erected in that Land ; 
Ah 1 you know not of the eonl-mate 
Waiting there with outstretched hand. 
You have never heard the greeting 
Of that voice so stiver sweet— 
You have never crossed that, portal. 
Fit alone for spirit feet. 
rv. 
Yet within those halls of splendor. 
All of earth’s immortals stand. 
Patriots, Heroes, Iloiy Martyrs, 
Bid me welcome to their band, 
Freed from every touch of sorrow 
Shrived from ovory taint of siu, 
Radiaut with God-given glory 
In the “ Land of Might Have Been.” 
■v. 
Oh, tho friends on earth long parted. 
Meeting in that blessed Land, 
Oh, the greetings of their voices, 
And the clasping of each hand. 
Every wrong and shame forgotten. 
Nothing now their souls within, 
But a love serene and holy 
In the ” Laud of Might Have Beeu.” 
VI. 
All the visions of my childhood. 
All my youth’s bright dreams of fame, 
All my manhood’s aspirations, 
There have taken form and name. 
King and Conqueror, they hail me, 
As they bid me welcome in 
Through the ever open portals 
To the “ Lund of Might Have Been." 
YU. 
But tho nearest, fairest, dearest, 
Of tho dwellers in that Land, 
Is the one who walteth ever 
At the gate, with outstretched hand. 
Lost! oh God, on earth forever. 
Lost through sorrow, lost through sin; 
But I ciaiin her mine forever, 
In the " Laud of Might Have Been." 
Yin. 
Oh, whon hand iu hand wo wander 
On that bright celestial shore. 
Heart to heart its love out-pouring. 
Doubting, feariug nevermore. 
Greater bliss no angel knoweth, 
Than my bankrupt heart can win, 
At the dusky hour of twilight, 
In the " Land of Might Have Been.” 
HOME PROTECTION.” 
An Argument for Woman’s Temperance 
Ballot. 
BY FRANCES K. WILLARD, 
PRESIDENT OV ILLINOIS W. C. T. V. 
[Through the courtesy of the Editor ot “ The 
independent,” I tun able to publish for the good la¬ 
dles who take an interest in the »« Woman’s De¬ 
partment.,” Francos E, Willard's address, delivered 
at Woodstock, Ct., on the Fourth of .July of this 
year, The address contains so much information 
and so many admirable suggestions, that 1 have 
decided to give It In full; and as it is too long to 
publish at one time, it will run through three or 
rour Issues. I ask tor tho address a careful reading. 
Even those or us who differ from Miss Willard on 
some points, will do well to attentively read what 
shehas .to say, for her words are ** words of wis¬ 
dom.” 
Yours for Temperance, Faith Ripley.j 
KING MAJORITY. 
Once more will the tune-honored declaration be 
made to-day, by a thousand Fourth or July ora¬ 
tors, that “ the Americans are a tree people.” But 
I insist that we are governed by tho most powerful 
king whose Iron rule ever determined the policy, 
molded the institutions, or controlled tire destinies 
of a great nation. 
So pervasive Is Ills influence that It penetrates 
to the most obscure and distant hamlet with the 
same readiness, and there wields the same potency 
as is In ids empire’s capital; nay [with reverence 
by n said), ho Is like Deity In that Ills actual pres¬ 
ence Is coextensive with his vast domain, our leg¬ 
islatures are his play things, our congressmen tils 
puppets, and our President is the cliUdor his latest 
adoption. We (In uot often call him by his name 
this potentate of million hands and myriad voices; 
but, to ruy thinking, nothing Is to-day so vital to 
America as that we become belter acquainted with 
our ruler. Let, me then present to your thought his 
Majestic Highness, King Majority, sovereign Ru¬ 
ler of these United States. 
KING ALCOHOL. 
Permit me now to introduce a different charac¬ 
ter, who comes to the court of King Majority as 
chief ambassador from the empire of his Satanic 
Majesty. I show you the skeleton at our patriotic 
banquet. It has a skull with straightened forehead 
and sickening smile ; hut bedecked with wreaths 
of vine, clusters of grape, and heads of golden 
grain—King Alcohol, present at court in radiant 
disguise. With a foaming beer-mug at his lips, he 
drinks the health of King Majority; and, placing 
at his feet a chest of gold labeled “ Internal Reve¬ 
nue,” he deslreth conditions of peace. 
THE QUESTION. 
Behold in these two Llgures the great, danger aud 
the ineffable hope of the Republic t How can we 
rouse tits stolid giant, King Majority ? now light 
In those sloepy eyes the tires of a holy and relent¬ 
less purpose ? 
AN ANSWER. 
How ? only by “ sweet reasonablenessonly 
by sweet persuasion; by noble examples ; only by 
honest work based upon fervent and effectual 
prayer. 
Human heads and hearts arc much alike, I re¬ 
member that the great Temperance Crusade of 
ism found me with a beer keg In my cellar, a fatal 
haziness In my opinions, and a blighting Indiffer¬ 
ence to the temperance reform upon my will. But 
how did Its intense pathos melt my heart; how 
did Its mighty logic tune the lax cords of opinion 
to concert pitch; how did its miracle of prayer 
bring thousands to their knees, crying: " Lord, 
what wouldst. thou have me to do ?” For myself, 1 
could never be the same arter that. As a woman, 
a patriot., a Christian, my heart Is nxed in death¬ 
less enmity to all that can intoxicate. The same 
Influences which so transformed one brain and 
heart are steadily at work to-day In a thousand 
quiet ways. 
The sober second thought of the Woman’s Tem¬ 
perance Crusade was organization. The voice of 
God called to them from the Ups of his prophet: 
“ Make a chalu, for tho land Is full of violence and 
the- cities of blood." And so in every town and 
village wc are forming these chains of Ughb and 
lovhig help, which we call “ Women's Christian 
Temperance Unions." Sabbath-schools are adopt¬ 
ing our plans of temperance Instruction; and 
hundreds of Juvenile societies are Inscribing on 
their banners: “ Tremble, King Alcohol l Wo 
shall grow up.” Friendly Inns and temperance 
reading-rooms are. multiplying: Gospel meetings 
conducted by women are reaching the drinking 
class in hundreds of communities; the Red and 
Blue Rlbbou Movements have attained magnificent 
proportions; and all this many-sided work Is fast 
concentrating its influence to place the ballot In 
the hand of woman. Magnificent Is the spectacle 
of these new forces now rallying to the fray. Side 
by side with the noo.ooo men whose united ener¬ 
gies are expended In makiug and selling strong 
drink, we are working day by day. While they 
brew beer we are brewing public sentiment; while 
they distill whisky we are distilling Tacts; while 
they rectify brandy we are rectifying political con¬ 
stituencies ; and ere long their fuming tide of In¬ 
toxicating liquor shall be met and driven back by 
the overwhelming flood of enlightened sentiment 
aud divinely aroused energy. 
OBJECTION.—" PROHIBITION A FAILURE,” 
To be sure, King Majority gavo prohibition to 
Maine; but " prohibition doesn’t prohibit” Inter¬ 
rupts sir sapient, whose remark furnishes a strik¬ 
ing Illustration of the power of the human mind to 
resist knowledge. Just take the spyglass of obser¬ 
vation, and behold from Klttery to Calais the 
gleaming refutation of your error. 
Less than thirty years ago they had four hundred 
open hotel bars and ten miles ot saloons. To-day 
Dr. Hamlin, or Constantinople, testifies that, com¬ 
ing home, after forty years’ absence, lie finds Ids 
native State thoroughly renovated from the liquor 
traffic. Gen. Neal Dow testifies that the law has 
absolutely driven the sale of strong drink out of all 
rural districts; and in the larger towns. Instead of 
the free, open sale of former years, It Is driven Into 
secret holes, kept by the lowest c lass or foreigners. 
Ex-Govs. Dtngley and Periiarn and Senator Blaine 
and Representative Frye declare that It Is as well 
enforced as the law against, stealing: and even sen- 
satloual Journalists have not told its that thieves 
flourish In tho Pine Tree State. Mr. Reuter, of 
Boston, President ot the National Browers’ Con¬ 
vention, held In St. Louis four weeks ago, says 
“ Formerly Maine produced nearly ten thousand 
barrels ot beer annually; but. this has fallen to 
seven barrels. In consequence ot the local en¬ 
forcement of prohibitory law." surely, this gen¬ 
tleman should be considered as good authority on 
this subject as a convict is of the strength of his 
prison-bars I 
MAINE AN EXCEPTION. 
But you say " Maine Is different from any other 
State.” Why so? Are not Its citizens of Uke pas¬ 
sions with other men ? Turn your glass upon a 
panorama of Maine as It. was In former days. See 
yonder stalwart workers in the harvest-field pay¬ 
ing vigorous addresses to the little brown jug; ob¬ 
serve its ubiquitous presence at the logging bee, 
the "raising” the wedding, and tho funeral; see it 
pass from lip to Up around the lircstde circle ; ob¬ 
serve the Gospel minister refreshing himself from 
the demijohn of his parishioner and host; and be 
Assured that within the memory or men now liv¬ 
ing these were every-day events. I have this tes¬ 
timony from the most honored residents ot Maine, 
whose recitals Involved the words “ all of which I 
saw and a part of which I was.” But, as gallant 
Neal Dow hath It, *• Maine was sown knee-deep 
with temperance literature before we reaped the 
hoiYost oi prohibition.” Let ns note the evolu¬ 
tion of tills seed-planting. T.aud-owuera found 
that two-thirds of their taxes resulted from the 
liquor traJlie (in cost ot prosecuting criminals and 
taking earn of paupers) ; so they concluded that le¬ 
galizing saloons for the sake ot the revenue was 
penny wisdom and pound foolishness. Business 
ineu discovered that the liquor irunic Is a pirate on 
the high seas of trade, because the more the grog¬ 
shop is patronized the fewer customers there are 
for flour and fuel, boots, shoes, aud clothes ; and 
so, in self-defense, they declared for prohibition. 
Church people found that fifteen times as much 
money went to tho dram-shop as to the church, 
and that the teachings ot the one more than offset 
those of the other with the young men of the 8tate. 
so they perceived they could not conscientiously 
ally themselves with the liquor traffic by their 
votes. Those interested In education learned that 
enough money was swallowed In drinks that dete¬ 
riorate the brain to furnish a schoolhouse for every 
fifty boys and girls, and to set over them teachers 
of the highest culture : and they saw It, was un¬ 
reasonable to defend the liquor traffic. In short, 
the majority came to believe that, her,ween the 
upper and nether mtU-stones of starving out sa¬ 
loons, on the one hand, and voting them out. on 
the other, they could be pounded to death; and 
they have so pounded them. The question of sell¬ 
ing as a beverage the drinks which we know by 
centuries of demonstration will so craze men that 
they will commit every crime aud show the sub¬ 
tlest cruelty to those t hey love tho best- is not to¬ 
day an open question with either party, any more 
than trial by jury or imprisonment for thert. They 
had a thirty yearn’ war before the declaration of 
this blessed peace; but wiiat are thirty years when 
crowned at last by the surrender of King Alcohol 
to King Majority?—To be continued. 
WOMANLY CLIPPINGS. 
Extract from a Paper Read By Mrs. Isabel¬ 
la Candee before the Illinois Social 
Science Convention. 
What a power tor good In any circle of society 
ts a refined, cultivated, pure and noble woman, 
i low cordially is she received, how heartily Is she 
deferred to. Almost, unconsciously the profane 
man drops his pet oaths, the. coarse and vulgar 
man endeavors to appear a gentleman, and the 
frivolous, Impertinent and rude, put aside their 
various weaknesses when in her gentle, gracious 
presence. The worst, most wicked and depraved 
men respect and honor a pure wo man. with such 
an influence over evil, why la It there la so much 
unrebuked, why Ls It that good women quietly close 
their eyes and ears to the strong undertow which 
la dragging In and destroying the fives of so many 
or our youth ? O mothers 1 sisters! wives! here la 
one of your opportunities, here is the potentiality 
of a pure, wise and courageous womanhood! open 
your eyes and see the condition of things around 
us. Society lias two codes or morals, unwritten, 
but none the less strong and binding—one for man, 
another for woman. As little children born or the 
same mother, nurtured under the same roof-tree, 
taught tho same lessons of honesty, truthfulness 
and affection, In then- early years, why is It that 
their paths are allowed to diverge as they grow 
older, and while modesty, delicacy and propriety, 
are demanded or the girl, coarseness and indeli¬ 
cacy, are winked at and opeuly excused m the 
boy? These thtngH ought not so to be—they are 
sapping the foundations of our social life, anil, to 
the mothers we must look for a remedy. A wise, 
true motherhood, enlightened and thoroughly 
trained’wlili the dignity ana prestige or equality 
before the law, can ulone reform the fast-iucreas- 
Ing evil. Tho same purity in thought, in word 
and deed, required of the sisters, should be insisted 
on from the brothers, 0 young mothers, who hold 
your bonny boys close to your hearts, rejoicing in 
their innocent prattle, and shuddering at^ihe 
thought of years to come when t hey shall go out 
from your encircling arms, see to It that they are 
as carefully taught true purity as the little daugh¬ 
ters who give promise of a perfect womanhood I 
Teach them that in the sight of God there ls no 
distinction in sin. Teach t hem wisely, reverently 
and plainly, their obligations to God and t o them¬ 
selves, and tUo beauty, strength and glory of the 
pure ami Innocent manhood! So shall wc have 
more dutirul sons, more loyal husbands, fewer 
broken hearts and blasted homes, and gray hairs 
brought down In sorrow to the grave! Alas l that 
we cannot touch our aoos that society, as well as 
God, will hold them to a strict account for profli¬ 
gacy and evil-doing. Tell mo whose fault It Is 
that the hoy or young man feels that, vice ls at a 
premium, and. virtue UtUe valued, when he per¬ 
ceives some companion well known to be •* fast,” 
because lie Is wealthy or ot fine address ana pos¬ 
sessed of pleaslug manners, or Is a member of some 
" old family,’’ cordially received by his mother and 
sisters in Ids own home? How much attention, 
think you, will he pay to the gentle warning of his 
mother against an intimacy with such a person 
“ because he Is not a good companion for a boy " 
when he sees her smile upon him in society, and 
permit his attentions to his sisters? AVhat. re¬ 
straint ls there upon the desire ot men to frequent 
gambling halls, saloons, and houses which virtu¬ 
ous women blush to name, when they know that 
from these haunts of sin and shame they can go 
direct to the drawing-rooms and parlors or " best 
society,” enjoying at the same time the dregs and 
cream of life at pleasure ? What blindness is this 
that closes our eyes to shameless folly in the man. 
and yet makes us so ready to detect It in the 
woman! 1 have known good Christian women to 
speak scornfully and angrily of those poor, lost 
sisters whose lives arc like the whirlpool, in which, 
once caught, the wrecked vessel Is carried help¬ 
lessly' around, until enguhed in the boiling vortex 
and lost iorever in the blackness ot darkness; who 
are shut out from all thoughts of happy, virtuous 
homes and little children’s holy love, and suffer In 
a bondage rrona which there is no escape this side 
the grave, and l have known these good women to 
receive with pleasant smiles and cordial welcome 
t he men who have placed a nd who keep these poor, 
lost sisters where they are, with no word of protest, 
no act to show the disapproval which they ought 
to feel. How long before we shall dare refuse to 
receiv e Into our homes or recognize elsewhere the 
man who makes Ills boast a mong ids fellows of his 
evil deeds? When we shall dare to frown upon 
this dual life of respectability aud sinfulness, of 
seeming virtue and actual vice, demand of our as¬ 
sociates that purity that they demand or us? 
When women In a body have the courage to do 
this, the fearlessness to lilt up their united voices 
in earnest protest, and the bravery to act in con¬ 
cert, we shall have a different state of affairs, and 
not until then. 
Sound Argument. 
A tobacco discussion has been going on in the 
Cleveland Herald tor some little time, and in an. 
swer to some of ihe statements made, Florence G. 
presents the following: Fannie A. A. say 3 : "Let 
our husbands chew tobacco If they wish; it’s a 
right to them just as sacred as the right of our 
jewels is toti3.” Arguments applying with equal 
force to liquor-drinking, opium eating and other 
pernicious habits, while virtually precluding all 
efforts at reformation! No man has a right to 
indulge In evil habits or set a bad example before 
bis children or neighbors; and should he do so, It 
1? the duty of the wife to labor for his reform. Men 
frequently expend is a week for cigars—a sum 
sufficient to support a small family, and. If profita¬ 
bly Invested, would amount to a handsome fortune 
In an ordinary lifetime. Still, thousands of men 
indulge In it while their families go ragged and 
hungry! " The right to chew tobacco” Is about as 
“sacred” as the right to drink liquor or gamble ; 
and It wearing jewelry should produce a sallow 
complexion, an offensive breath, discolor the teeth 
and Ups and cause an incessant How of expectora¬ 
tion, as is the case with tobacco, few ladies, I opine, 
would claim the “sacred right” to wear It. 
Joe Norris will not admit “ tobacco kUls any 
one;” his (?) grandparents used It, living to a good 
old age—though according to medical science. It 
is a deadly poison, causing various fatal diseases 
which destroy many of Its victims—while It 13 not 
certain that his grandparents would nor have lived 
longer without It as others have done. If a victim 
abstains from it a single day, he will be enervated, 
sick, out ot mind and temper, with a craving un¬ 
appeasable appetite for tobacco—a condition utter¬ 
ly Incompatible with good health. Yet similar 
arguments are constantly paraded by the victims 
to drink, opium and even arsenic, who delude 
themselves into the belief that such habits are not 
injurious, though myriads are annually destroyed 
by them. 
Another writer favors the use of tobacco because 
furnishing employment to cigar-box manufacture! 
So liquor selling gives employment to keepers of 
prisons and asylums, criminal courts, sheriffs, po¬ 
licemen, lawyers, doctors, coroners and hangmen l 
but such employment, like the manufacture of 
cigar-boxes. Instead of aiding our working classes, 
adds to their burdens and Is of doubtful utility. 
Workingmen complain ot lack of employment 
when they might, save hundreds of millions yearly 
which they unwisely squander for tobacco and In¬ 
toxicating drinks which only tend to demoralize 
and destroy them! Wives should not encourage 
such habits, but labor to suppress them. 
Florence g. 
Usefulness In the Family. 
The co-operative principle in education is no¬ 
where seen to better advantage than in the fatally, 
v The girl ls strengthened and vtvlfled by the bat and 
ball, the oars, the bow and arrow, or the skate, 33 
much as is the boy, and she needs, and her family 
need, the sparkling vivacity which only out-door 
amusements can give; but the girl who has two 
beds to make has not so much time for recreation 
as the hoy, who uses, but who makes none. The 
care of one room for each would be a happier ad¬ 
justment. At a school which I lately visited, the 
boys, under the care ot a matron, were taught to 
make their beds and to keep their rooms in order. 
They showed no Incapacity for the work. Their 
clean beds with white covers were as well made 
as though done by their sisters. Neither boots, 
stockings, jackets, shirts nor collars were on the 
floor for somebody else to pick up .—Cairo Gazette. 
CORRESPONDENTS’ CORNER. 
Dear Editor :—Will yon Inform me, through the 
columns of the Rural, what will remove the 
Heckles from my face ? a. g. d. 
Dear Rural:—W ill some of the Rural readers 
please tell me how to cure spilt hah- 7 I have tried 
cutting it off at new moon, but It does not seem to 
stop splitting. Also, what will make the halt 1 
grow thick, aud not spoil It? Sweet Sixteen. 
Miss Ripley:— lam greatly interested in your 
department of the Rural and In those productions 
written concerning study. May August’s "Methods 
of Study” I like very much, and would be pleased 
If she will tell me what books will be entertaining 
and beneflel.il to read in connection with the study 
of Roman, Grecian and English histories ? 
Tipton, la., July 3 . A Subscriber. 
Phonography.— The science of phonography, or 
short-hand, has within the past few years become 
quite a crowded profession, and it is not advisable 
for students to make a specialty of It with a view 
to profitable employment, The tenor or the press 
in this country, these days, ts to save space, and 
uot to give verbatim reports except in cases of Im¬ 
portant trials, speeches of National interest and 
other wordy events for which there Is a large pub¬ 
lic demand. In large newspaper offices, where a 
few years ago short-hand men were kept and well 
paid to be ready for emergencies, now the art is 
hardly considered, as half a dozen of any of the 
reporcorlal corps can transmit sounds to paper 
with all the accuracy and velocity that at one time 
belonged to few journalists There ls some neld 
tor experts In large commercial houses, where a 
heavy correspondence must bo dictated, and I 11 
prominent law offices and courts. These places, 
however, ore filled mostly by young men, and. If 
of a very paying character, favorites are always 
accessible to nil uji occurring vacancies. In a 
wotH, what was once regarded as a marvel ls now 
merely looked upon as an accomplishment (and a 
very useful one it is,>, and l cannot safely encour¬ 
age an Invalid lady to attempt to battle in a busi¬ 
ness that requires full vigor if compensating work 
were obtainable, T , a. a. 
