Show CORRESPOND ENOR enoe 1 intemperance gow how many ar are aye ite lie claimed SALT LAKE CITY october 4 1876 editor deseret mems news through a succession of many years the writer of this has traced the effects of intemperance and has often been pained and shocked and as often desired that a remedy might be found for the evil which hala hasi ever seemed to be growing and fastening Its inordInate all ali appetite petite on men to destroy their heir usefulness and peace with famil lei fel eq and friends still there comes no permanent remedy hlen hien men bleu place high farms tariff son bon on distilled liquors liquor a often refuse to license drin houses or or gurge charge such high rates that tildy they aarein are in hopes none or but nit few will amford afford to pay establish stringent police e polle regulations and pass strict t city eity ordinances still the evil exists and grows and spreads and desolates on every hand pay by day fathers see bee their sons sinking lower in lq drunkenness and often sober sons song witness the filc sickening en spectacle of fathers fast sinking down to confirmed sots sot and both disgracing the timaly family name and winging bringing mortification and shame in the place of bf respect and honore honor they anly injure themselves many trued true people say but this id is nou not drunkard when you cross the threshold of that tha thome home where you have garnered all thel the hopes hoped and oya of reel redl reciprocal love iove where apu dalp nave liste listened hed to the prattle af pf chii chil drea area and looked with pride upon them as they developed in into ta maturity ag as you p pass dm from there 6 the tippling dens would you hut but pause pauso at the gate amo a menti ormand orrand or stand upon the corner of the street nand frad reason with yourself and look back upon the trusting wife whose form lorm fills the iho door do oy or stands walk waw wa caching watching ching and d hoping for couf your xe re turn ard and praying that your u noble nobie nature may pT prevail evall evail and induce you to retrace your steps back to the heme home of affection and connubial ial lal endearments would you but ut hesitate tateana and reason with yourself one calm morae morne moment ame how often would you turn to home bome and wife and children and dash down the damning cup forever we have seen that wife stand with you at the altar she bhe looked upon you with pride your manly form stood erect in b her er presence and her great love portrayed you as the vernim very impersonation of all nil that is dignified in man bhe she knew men called you jou intellectual and gifted and rich and paid you much homage with this she was flattered but her strong love would still have chosen you though you might bo be poor and humble she bhe placed her band hand in yours with a confidence that knew no doubt and the throb bings of the happy heart even agitated the bridal drapery that hung upon the bosom you took that trusting hand band and pledged there a vow to cherish and love her and use your great abilities fo to bring to her door con eon continued linued peace and the respect of society we saw that happy wife in lif her lier home of love and contentment for years he was her lord ind and idol and her hek early hopes would have nesi refi reached ched a full fruition but nit for the indulgence in the intoxicating cup bup we have heen again that drunkard drunkards wife in her night vigils vigil sas s in the lone ione one apartment she ehe listened for the coming step or the voice to which the heart once bounded there she bent over the thi e youthful sie sleepers pale and haggard weary greary and worn the flush of early arly hopes defatted derat ted the lamp of love still burning though sub Bub subdued dued as none but the guardian angel oi or the eye of divinity witnessed the tear as it bedewed d the cheeks of other her hen loved ones bhe was wasi the type of an an upright and n nobie noble i woman she bhe had been true to her chosen companions companion to itle alle best best jn interests 1 sot of her growing family all ati and to the instincts of her awn own hearl heart she bhe had watched with deep concern her husbands abandonment of home name his habits of intoxication his consequent unfitness unfit ness nesa for business and the wasting of his substance but she knew know the many noble endowments of his nature and hoped that time and her own kind and patient appeals to his reason and better judgment would eventually work a reform and bring him back to himself and the interests of home this was her mission and well and faithfully did she perform it it was her voice which never came to him with railing but in kindly tones that called him back from the completeness of his ruin and waywardness of his bis life lire it was the faithful form of that noble moble woman which ever stood erect before him and became the beacon light to pilot him back through the turbulent waves to the sheltering joys and sacredness of home lu in the halls balls of revelry and the saloons of drunkenness he would recall her gentle pleadings and the now deso late picture of his once happ happy y home and stung za with remorse re morse morae would vow to reform and bring back happiness a again ya n to wife and children and he d did d his noble nature at last triumphed and the patient wife wire once more happy in ois nis W smiles and constancy lu the loys joys of her children and the their thein irre retrieved reprieved fortunes felt how great was wig her reward for acting upon the instincts of reason and comm common in behse sense though the months a and u d years were long and dreary and the solitude that hung jhung around her path was oppressive and cruel this issup is buia bula a single leaf gleaned from the life ot of one noble intellectual just and pure woman and such buch tind happy results of her meek and nd patient labor but it serves to delineate the course which very many besides her have pursued with al similar milar happy results and this Is ja 0 one ae part of womans mission all over this green earth in bur contemplation what power arisen more potent than the gentle influence of woman when exerted in the thol walks of domestic lift the thirst for fame may call her chosen to the tiie defence of country and hu his yace race the clang of war inspire him to seek beek for glory on the ensanguine ed a field the tte the political arena honor him as the of party and pace lade jade upon him the chaplet of ie xe be chemay may wander in the track tessand unexplored regions to find some nook where human foot lias las never trod he maybe tossed in the bark of the storm beaten mariner inhabit the lowly cot of the peasant or sit isit upon the imperial throne neof of the monarch and in all these conditions malmay man max may delight himself but high above them all soars vf the he mighty yet gentle influence ence enee of wife mother or da daughter lighter to call him from the dizzy heights of fame or the haunts of the deb debauchee debauch auch ee back to the sheltering bowers of affection and melt away from the obdurate beart heart all pill the cold ice lee of insensibility and make him happy in thebo thedo ansola that cluster within the the sa cred of home even as the trembling dove of the patriarch noah came back from the expanse of waters to fold its weary wings and rest within the consecrated ark moral suasion must and can and Is doing doling much for the redemption of the drunkard whether its benign arguments are used by the father mother wife sister daughter brother in gentle pleadings or whether they thunder from the pulpit and the press all in their spheres can do good and put forth their mites in aid of a cause which so vitally affects families friends neighbors and nd the gr great eat moral superstructure per structure that upholds and perpetuates pet petua mites tes good society and secures happiness and peace to io communities let us not de despair that the work of regeneration is no more rapid but go steadily on and sow the seed aeed which may spring up after many days let the father not slacken his diligence when a doted upon son eon wanders away with the associates of this damning vice but seek to reclaim him with good advice and counsel and not by threats to disinherit or strike him from the 1116 pare parC parental antal intal patrimony let not the brother despise the fallen brother but encourage him hini by every manly example and seek to win him back to so sobriety by the best arguments wisdom may SU suggest agest and friendship incite let me the patient mother the ame same bame noble course she has generally gendra pursued to entice her wayward son from his ruin let ta me e philanthropist and le former enunciate against against the murce sources s which produce the great greit bulk of evil let lot cities enact laws against the retailing of liquors as much as reason will justify let lei the masses resort to petition and therein aid the enactment of laws that will jessen jesses the number of saloons and abate many of the present facilities to intoxication let all with the stable and solid men use their influence against the vending of drinks by permit of an unrestricted licence law let this moral influence be exerted in society and we cannot fail to seethe see the good good results that willston will soon follow and much of the drunkenness and misery now prevalent through almost all communities muni ties will be checked and continue to decrease with the advance of time until the divine government of the millennium shall bhail wipe the tear from every eye and the drunkards home be bo rebuilt in soberness and its inmates rejoice in its sanctity forever respectfully L 0 littlefield mutual improvement eit rit everybody livery boily busy oct 1 1870 editor deseret news Alews chester call county district school bu pe rin wishing to enhance the interest in educational matters requested the trustees and teachers of the county to meet with him to establish if agreeable a society or institute tor lor mutual improvement pro k A few teachers and trustees from bountiful cen e farming ton kaysville Kays ville and south weber responded to the call and met al at farmington aug ceail was elected chairman and J E robinson secretary of the meeting since that time they th ey have held several interesting meetings yesterday sept 30 they met pursuant to adjournment at kays ville in the brick school home housse a large and commodious buildt building 9 and a credit to the district tile the lecturers were wm win S lewis of kaysville Kays ville L H kennard of farmington and anson V call of bountiful professors lewis and kennard each gave his experience in school teaching illustrating theli their system of conducting classifications ficat ions lons ac they stated that the pilli principal cipal requisite to success it hi teaching was originality their lectures were replete with instructions prof A V vr call stated staled that he be had intended to deliver a ab short ort I 1 lecture ec tu re on astronomy but as thil tho time was far spent he would dejel delei it lt between the lectures miss thornly san ban sang 9 a song in a very credit creditable ault auit manner mannet A vote of thanks was extended to the lecturers for the able manner in iq which they had bad handled their subjects alo to prof montgomery and choir for services rendered after a few appropriate remarks frd fro from the chairman meeting w was adjourned for four weeks at farm ington at the close of lnig trig the lecturers and others were kindly entertained by prof leil lewie and his residence it appears by the spirit of afim im provement pro manifested that kayt ville is a live city 1 I could see but few drones in the hive the majority seem to be working bees quietly pursuing their vocations the grasshoppers have reached this place they also are not jilles jill idie idle es but are busily preparing for a riad next rummer summer wishing your paper the success it so richly deserves I 1 remain respectively yours JERO the centennial exhibition philadelphia 1 sept 23 1876 editor deseret news truth may be many sided and aud the facts of the cen centennial ten nial dial exposition take color from the tha observer predisposition or habits of thought the practical man cares little for the showy features of the show but finds food for reflection in the exhibition of mechanical arts anif anil the display of business enterprise in its various forms the arlis artis sees the effects in their general anti anil minute outline the agricultural let finds pleasure in agricultural hail hall the connoisseur looks up the quaint and curious collections from all quart quarters of the globe and the gourmand shows a keen appreciation of the satisfactory di made in the various restaurants all these are gratified in their varl vari ous ways but there is one individual who comes in with a joll gle gie on his face and stops nowhere long and sees everything in a ludicrous light this individual is your present correspondent he makes no apology for it however he did not come to learn he knows too much already he came simply to be amused and as he be had only a half hour to spare he had to compress matters he wandered into the door after having stopped long enough to remark to the gatekeeper who insisted on having a s silver half dollar that he had only come for a change anyhow and passed immediately into the centre of china china he discovered runs to crockery and heathen gods from the display made it appears as if it the almond eyed nation must have sent all their family jars here and the peace that now exists in jn that generally distracted country is thus accounted for the idols were and plural but as a vast field of wonders stretched before him lie he concludes not to idle away his time on them there is nothing peculiar about them anyway except that they are made of brass and are mostly if any bald headed man sees a deep significance in their a superficial u cranial condition and t heir their composition he knows best A chinese enters the lists with a bed quilt ot of white silk and red satin pillows to match competition from elderly ladies id is thus unkindly nippa nipped d in the bud on a shelf near by is a row of or mummies grinning spectators of or scenes that occur years after they had been duly sat onby on by the coroner of hong kong being also presed pressed for time he hurried away from them A merchant of tunis who has liver silver 8 and gold coins colds of all denominations and ages for sale bale stopped him with the ofner offer of a silver piece in production with the christian era which lie he offered to sell for 25 but remarking that he was for soft money he be pushed ahead entering japan the display of cabinets amazed him just the plage place for the next pre president ident Id ent le he suggested to the japanese attendant who smiled satisfactorily and replied two hundred dollars which leads one to suppose there was a misunderstanding with our antipode A japanese pebble of transparent bry crystal stal stai round as a baij bali bud aud fully eight inches in dl diameter ameter is still there as boss tweed has not return returned td yet and there is no other hueh buch keen of a good thing in shut studs to bo be found A A large three story ship attracted attention not because it appeared to benade be made to sail sall but out because it is such a fine model in odel for the body of a stage coach and is for sale on the stand where genuine turkish h balies are making up cigarettes for paging pacing customers they may have been ladies making genuine turkish cigarettes one ope gets mixed about hese these things go so I 1 LQ a bargella Nar war gella he asked the oriental beauty if that was a steam generator to which she ho replied faith I 1 dont know 1711 dil ask the bos 11 which immediately convinced him that lie he was indeed in turkey As the boss looked rather formidable with a |