The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-06-07
wHEELING TO NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Travelling with the Doctors-A Long
stop at BenWOOd-The Ancient Town oi
ShepherdstOWn and IIs Normal school


SHEPnERpsrowS, W. Va, June 4.
EdIton Inlslllseueert
Your correspondent left Wheeling ontle
evening OF the Sd with q gOodly company
Of your distinguished professionals. The
NJ. D.'s we're to have a meeting Of their
diplomdcd Swans at Martinsburg, aud We
noticed DR.. Frizzell, the patriarch Of the
fraternity in your city, with Drs. Hupp,
Hulllhen and Baird, all ell route for the
the place Of meeting. The Body makes II
a matter Of tint concern TO guard It's own
professional responsibility, and, ncrt, TO
further the advancement and diffusion Of
medical science. The first OF these objects
has required a somewhat severe use Of the
knife and CRutery, QuaCkery has had u
wide and fertile field in West Virginia,
and tho man Of all remedies and no d..
plOma has often proved an over match In
the competition for practice against the
man Of parchments and ribbons. 1t is
hard 10 beat the confident booster, who
cries:
can kinds l medicines use l.
pukeS them, bletdS them. SEeats them
u, alter all, they choose 10 ulCI
takes my leave aud lets The ~"
So the Medical Association finds large
work in guarding the entrance "a the pro.
fessional portals, and in fixing and apply
ing tho medical ethics, that must needs be
recognized 10 keep the Body respectable.
Some knOtty questions have arisen in this
department, and 1t seems harder to have
harmony as to the applications OF the
ilehicd, than Of the MoLcriG Mdicd. Pills
are prescribed with greater harmony than
precepts. The exhortation, physician
heal myself" works, nobody cares how,
when taken in n medical sense, but when
applied morally, it shows the bile worse
than mercury, and it requires the wisdom
Of many committees to fine an a%ntidote.
But the Society will worry through
these incidents Of early life, by and by
and when she knows her " through
the survival OF the littest = she will have
learning, and experience, and skill enough
to accomplish much Tor the professional
distinction and honor OF our noble young
State. Honor and success to the men who
battle and labor for the true and the good,
in whatever field Of science or learning
they may work!
There was also in company Prof. Pen.
dleton, DR.. Logan, Judge Samuels, Of Bar
louisville, and Mr.. Butcher, OF Beverly,
Regents OF the State Normal School, on
their way to SIepherdstown, to attend the
Annual Commencement OF the Branch
Normal School at that place, and to
brighten all and mingle the hope Of youth
with the wisdom age, a couple just joined
in "the holy state OF matrimony," and of
for the bridal tour OF our American East.
And with theses and others we started, but
soon we stopped, and were allowed time to
survey the beauties and discuss the viands
OF BenwoOd! 1t is a benevolent arrange.
ment OF the managers OF our great Eastern
and Western outlet, that they give us SO
much time to pause and mediate at the
outset Of u journey. Forty or fifty
minutes Of platform accommodation at
Benwood is good for the cultivation OF
patience, which the scripture assures us,
passes by some mystery OF psychologist
change into the blessedness OF hope, We
had time to ask the question, is Wheeling
u switch or a terminus? But ut length
we got of, and the motion was grand.
Darling along the narrow valleys, leaping
the streams, darting around the points,
sweeping curves, graceful as Hogarth's
lineOf beauty-with avid scream OF notice
and defiance, plunging into tunnels, out
OF this darkness and Sulphurous smoke,
emerging with a roa into the light and
freshness Of q new scene. Our engine
seemed a very Comos Iet loose amid the
wilds Of the mountains 10 revel in iollity
and fun.
There had-been Il fine rain, but the
fields 10 the right and left Of us looked
bare from the protraCted drOuth, and when
night closed in upon us we were amid 10.
kenS OF meagre meadows and short har.
vests. We closed our observations with
regrets that the farmers OF Marshall, Wet.
eel and Marion would get but poor returns
for their tolls in the fields.
About i o'clock in the morning our
valet OF the sleeper called us for Martins.
burg, and VIC got a good breakfast at the
Grand Central, where, after an hours de.
lay, we left our medical delegates to take
part in their Convention, and pursued ouI
way to Shepherdstown.
This Eastern Panhandle OF our State is,
you know, ~geologically OF the Upper Silu,
rian, and it is, in every respect, q goodly
land, fitted for al products, and especially
Tor wheat. 1t was a luxury<to look out
upon the waving harvest lields-thC
smooth, clumped and densely crowded
heads OF the ripening wheat covered the
level acres MS with a carpet OF tinted Brus.
sells, and the rich brown corn fields, rib
boned with lines Of green, looked us ii the
goddess Ceres were decking herself for d
harvest festival. From Kerneyville Ia
ShepherdstOwn, for seven miles, we rode
through such wheat fields as VIC have sci,
dom seen anywhere in our State, and this
we are told is but a sample OF all this grand
Valley Of the Potomac and Shenandoah
Thanks to him who sends the early and
the later rain and giveth increase 10 the
earth!
Shepherdstown is all old place, rich in
honorable memories OF other days, and
still full OF culture, hospitality and noble.
ness. The Hon. Alex. Boteler has n ma.
tiOnal reputation Tor honey.tOngued clio.
GuenCe, and Mr.. Henry Shepherd dispens.
es u hospitality prinCely rs that OF the old
BaIon'S, whose blood courses in his veins.
But the people are sad at the desertion by
the late Legislature OF the cherished Nor
NAL School, and the Regents could say
but little TO comfort them. 1t was cheer
ing to sec, however, that the teachers are
determined to look ION, aud keep up the
institution at their W risk. Principal
McMurran, with his accomplished assist
ants, Prof. D. D. PendletOn and Mrs. Lee,
agreed together to continue the school and
trust to the patronage OF pay-students for
their compensation. The school has done
well for the last year; nearly one hundred
were %matriCulated, and class OF eighteen
graduates received their diplomas ut the
hand OF the State Superintendent, who is
sr.cbfciO President OF the Board Of Regents.
The graduating exercises were very cred.
table 10 both teachers and pupils, and the