Show BELLE KEARNEY miss belle deamey is a member cf an old conservative southern family she waa born on a punt aaion near vernon and nd educated in her native slate A row years were in the say society of the times but he changed social and economic conditions that follow edl the civil war led her to useful afe ahen quite youn ahe beanie a er and for six years was ranked among the educators in 1889 she was called to enter me lecture held and since haa risen to te one of the most brilliant and popular speakers the american platform her public life ha j made her anex lenslie traveler her ough canada anil and into every ami tefa iton in be united states from maine to mexico from alaska 10 florida has lectured in he largest auditoriums of io continents including royal albert hall in london and me mormon tabernacle in salt lake atty and has addressed great notional and international conventions of carl ian temperance union the christian endeavor society the comans womans suffrage and has spoken before young menn crristian Cn ristian associations church coofer anc ta s and main of the leading in the states while in washington city la IMO she addressed the committee ou military affairs of the united stales senate in the 5 ears of varied experiences that have come to miss kearny she has made a deep study of humanity and the problems of life this has caused her to be looked upon as ane of the leaders of thought in the nation A peculiar condition for an address was that when miss kearney appeared in the capital building at atlanta ga the atlanta constitution tells of it as follows miss belle kearney of mississippi the mall known lecturer addressed a joint session of the stata legislature in the hall of the house of representatives at 8 lafit night in advocacy of the enactment of a prohibition law for ahe state oi georgia the seals were all occupied miss kearney possesses a strong personality and undoubted talent as a public speaker her well modulated voice easily filled the chamber and her ut were characterized by strength of argument sentiment and great earnestness her talk contained no dull periods and was listened to clohe attention by the solons miss kearney delivered an eloquent peroration in she urged the legislature to adot prohibition miss the georgia official request of that body not prohibition however but Japari will be the subject of miss kearneas Kear lecture tuesday evening and this lecture will be illustrated with many colored views |