Show amm moo h N pRop DErEss she reads tho the riot act to haiar railroad managers HUNGER MAKES anarchists abraham lincoln as a temperance man W ward ard II 11 lianou writes to bats field about the great presidents views on oa the question tr trinity anity corporations buy tenements in new york fork city copyrighted by jr kilt tit ri lold ld washington city IS IA I 1 sat in a car traveling through ohio it was tho the day after the openings of congress presently an elderly matron of benevolent mien plainly dressed and without t gloves loaned leaned over the back of my seat and said are arc they going coins to help us ua do you pea any ally leslif no I 1 replied thereupon this woman weman of the people subsided and I 1 went want on reading it seemed very selfish in me not to shara my paper with one who seemed so anxious to know the doings of congress so before many y more minutes I 1 offered part of my paper to my iny unknown neighbor no thank you I 1 thought you might give me ma some information for or the moment I 1 sat down I 1 felt you had a finger in the business I 1 laughed and asked my neighbor it if she were 9 a clairvoyant 1 I dont know what you call it but I 1 have impressions things come to me and im guided dont you know we women have intuitions that ard am bound to make us its take the lead oil oh were marching on fast eighteen hundred and ninety tour four the che world seeks wisdom nore inore and more eighteen hundred and eaid ninety five tyranny Is doomed neer to revive eighteen hundred and ninety six gi gibat eat re revision virion in politics hundred and ninety seven plain t to 3 see the kingdom of ile heaven alven mg eighteen lateen hundred and ninety eight all wrong things meeting their tale fate eighteen hundred and ninety nine the world shall in the truth combine nineteen hundred oil joy to tell brings ill fit the day of israel yes indeed the gentile gentila times are almost over and the children of the house of israel will come into their kingdom read revelations and see sea how the prophecies are coming true become of us gentiles oh I 1 belong to the th children of israel and think iou i ou do youre trying to straighten out things so am L I 1 what Is your creed im outside of the churches now I 1 I 1 cant consort with hypocrites I 1 was born a quaker where T between jerusalem and jericho in palestine no ohio theres a gathering catherine in palestine and some of my friends have gone over to be ready but my place Is 13 here I 1 feel that I 1 can affo afford rd to stand outside my works here I 1 ive I 1 ve just left the bedside of a woman of the town you never saw such a grateful creature in your life ashes jjck abed said and sent for roc me because she heard I 1 preached love and charity and forgiveness of sins when I 1 kissed her she clung to nie me as though shed never let me ine and held my hand oil ohi its a amigh mighty ly work that can bo be done among such women uzi lin Is coming I 1 its IS only a few days ago I 1 read the riot act to our railroad officials dont you know theres a time tor for all things when my two boys kept coming home day after day all worn out with doing extra work never been used to I 1 was moved to speak the truth what do you yoi meant mean I 1 asked the head man what wha sort ort of economy 13 this youve instituted dasch discharging arbing faithful employees at a ruo moments ments notice and working to death who are left my boys aro are telegraph operators not brakemen youre making them do double work and ive just passe passed d two be boys sitting on oil the rails looking as it if commit suicide uI cIde youve disc discharged hargea them and they must turn tramps and my boys are doing their work and killins killing themselves empty stomachs mako make anarchists you cant afford to overwork your people to make inake a few dollars the judgment of god will be upon you it if you drive your discharged employees employee sto to desper desperation atlon I 1 had to say lt it I 1 was moved now my boys come home with joys in their faces mother the emancipation proclamation Is issued were back bach in our old places and three hundred more men are tobe to be taken on oh theres work for women in these days I 1 feel it I 1 know it by this time lime I 1 had become so interested ted in my ohio sibyl that I 1 gave gava her my card a and n d asked a s k ed h her e r name sly my she exclaimed on looking at the card I 1 tell you that Lat I 1 felt you were mixed up in public affairs I 1 help speaking to you well will well then the train stopped slopped and we parted but not before the sibyl promised to give me tidings s of strange doings in strange places in june jun when colonel ward yr lamon abraham Lincol ns old friend and biographer was an inmate of garneld I 1 wrote to him with wjk a the view of settling a mooted question as I 1 had bacri publicly denounced tor for quoting the martyr president in my address on the intemperance of prohibition colonel limon has since passed over the range and his reply to my inquiry Is iq most interesting washington D C july 4 ISM I 1 have the honor of receiving your favor of the mth ultimo and in reply I 1 have to say cay you ash my recollection of 0 A mr Lincol ns views on the questions of temp temperance crance and upon him as one of the safest temperance nion men I 1 ever knew lie ha seemed on this subject as he wis was on most others unique in profession prot easlon as well an aa in practice he was neither what michl be called a drinking dri tilting man a total abstainer nor a prohibitionist aay acquaintance commenced with him in 1617 lie ho was vas then as afterward a politician he mixed much end and veil nell with the tha people believed what the people believed to be aright right was wag right society in illinois at that early cay was crude as the country was uncultivated people there were tenacious of f their natural as well an their acquired acquired rights anil and this state of 0 I 1 things existed until lincoln left the state stat to ansome tho the duties of president at Washl the people of illinois firmly believed it was v ns one on of their inalienable rights to manufacture ut sell and drink whisky no as I 1 it was tho the bacrad right of the southern man R to rear work and wallop his own nl alger 1 and wor be unto mm hint who attempted to 0 Inter interferon fero with these rights as aa the tha bequet afterward showed when mr L and ula hia friends tried to prevent the southern man from v Y al loping hla his 1 own in the 1 I was present at several temperance delivered by mr lincoln in 1111 lots 1 I have bove now in my possession the manuscript of some rome of them tie ho made Ps as tie ike made other Pe eclips lie ile wag always ready to make a whenever called on to do BO 80 and cored anred very 1 about what subject he be addres addressed ged the people upon ne he wits was I 1 always allday happy when ao questions boron the people and always deferred Jef erred to the audiences choice of subjects I 1 many years ago aeo at danville mr L ha hapenney penned in at a temperance 0 6 the old oid washington society society I 1 think and was called upon to makr make a SPI leeb he 0 got through sh it well wc ll after antt which t he and the other m members embers of the bar who were present were invited to an all nt at theloise the hoise be ot or dr scott win aln and caka were wera handed around mrs mif if I 1 1 ine means n ny my d dear a r jm madam ab nb he e r replied e p aid f for I 1 do assure fsr 3 you with it a h humorous 1 amle s 1 1 I arn am wry very fond jbf my todd toad a play upon his wises a maiden name 1 I by no means oppose the use of wine ionly I 1 only regret that it is 13 not in more mor a universal use I 1 firmly believe it if our people were to habitually drink win v I 1 no there would be little drunkenness drunken nesa in iho country I 1 recollect his milda this remark dur I 1 ing ng the conversation which afterward became beneral general judge david davis 1 hon 1 n leonard leonad re swept sweet and otha p present e en t j coln 0 1 n rean ing in the discussion 1 l am i aci an n a postle apostle of 0 temperance only to the extent of 0 c alrig moderate mod arate indulgences and prohibiting hi excesses escen ses by all the moral influences I 1 can bring to bear i 1 hore the day may not be ba tar far distant vj n lien e rho vac wine ne instead of 0 will become our Kat lonal drink WARD H LAMON |