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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
The Ohio ''Idea. -
The Bifurcated Puzzle.

The Ohio "Idea" has heretofore
frequently doomed up to puzzle,
perplex and harrass political and
moral scientists, and the recent
f'idea" formulated by the Legisla-
:ture on the Temperance questions
and sent out in the form of the BIZ
furcated Amendment is no ex-
ception to the school of strange
ideas that have preceded it. In
deed, this last "idea" it seems to US
is the strangest, the most cunning
ly-amalgamated or most treacher-
.ously-conglomerated "idea" of them
all. Il pleases nobody and offends
everybody. 1t comes in such
questionable shape that neither
friend nor foe can tell whether it
he fish, flesh or ,fou5-whether it be
saint or devil whether it means
this or that, or is intended to mean
anything or nothing.
The first proposition provides
for the repeal of the anti-license
.-&4use in the Constitution, and
substituting therefor the power to
tax the liquor traffic, or in other
words. provides for sharing in the
profits of the devilish business.
The second proposition also re-
meals the anti-license clause and
provides for a prohibitory clause
instead.
No provision is made for a mega
tive vote. The voter is compelled
to vote Eyes" on one or the other
or on both propositions, or not vote
at ali. This, it seems to US, woulc
nullify the whole matter, and i
looks as if the measure was pur
posely made self-destroying.
Again, it is contended by man.
that should the aggregate vote
cast for the two propositions respec
lively amount to majority of tn
votes cast at the election, the.
would be counted and made to or
crate as repeal Of the anti-licens
clause, even if neither proposition
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
The State Convention.

The Subcommittee to whom
was submitted the matter of fixing
the exact date and place for hold
ing the State Temperance Conven-
ton, have decided that the Conven
zion shall be held at CLARKS-
BURG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20,
1T II a. m, continuing probably
till Thursday afternoon.
Let the people Of the State take
notice accordingly, and let every
county be represented.
By order Of the State Temper,
ance Executive Committee.
DAVE D. JOHNSON, Chm.
GEO. G. WELDING, Sec'y.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Star Routes.

Star Routes must be long routes.
The first Star Route Trial lasted
over a hundred days and then
didn't get to any place. The Sc
cond trial of the distinguished
scamps has already been in pro-
gress more than one hundred and
fifty days, and yet they have only
come to the arguments, and as the
lawyers are on big pay from both
sides, and are expected to argue
around the world several times
apiece, the next Centennial will
probably find a panel of mummies
still sitting as jurymen in this stu
pendous aud everlasting farce.
While little sinners are being
promptly tried and punished every
day, the stealers of millions are
fighting the government year by
year with their stolen booty.
Big country, this!
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Are You i'm Arrears =!

We are preparing and will send
out soon, statements to all subscrib-
ers Oh our books, whose time for
which payment was made has ex-
pired.
Meantime we ask all who know
themselves to be in arrears, please
to remit and renew at once.
The small amount of subscrip-
ton is a very little matter to the
individual, but the aggregate
amount of these subscriptions is a
very important and absolutely nee
essary matter to the printer.
If every true friend in the Cause
in West Virginia would cheerfully
and promptly subscribe, pay and re-
new for the FREEMAN, the paper
and the cause it serves, would at
once be the healthiest and solidest
twins in the State. Won't you
have it so?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Ship Alloy! Wheeling Journal.

The Wheeling Evening your1'as
mas made its appearance. 1t IS q
six column four page daily, neat IN
appearance, newsy in material and
Republican in politics: Mr.. SEQ
field, who was associated with Gov.
Stevenson on the Parkersbury
Journal, and G. W. Atkinson, well
and fayorably known throughout
the State as literary man OF stan
ding and ability, are in the lead IN
the editorial department. Keep
her right on Prohibition, boys, and
you'll go through; if you don't
why then Wellsburg Herald.
Aye, aye, sir! The Herald is an
exp erienced and weather beaten
old political Tar and knows
where to hold to avoid Scylla and
Charybdis.
The Wheeling Journal is glad
ly welcomed visitor. With such
lively stirers-up Of the elements IN
the political pot as Messrs. 0. G.
Scofeld and G. w. Atkinson, in
editorial charge, we shall expect
the Journal always to come sailing
in sparkling with life and Sizing
hot.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Miss Taylor's Illness.

The many friends of Miss Tay-
lor, of Wheeling Female College,
and of the Temperance Cause for
which she has SO earnestly prayed
and faithfully toiled, will read
with lively interest in another
column, the words of faith and
trust and good cheer she has dlcta-
ted for the FREEMAN.
For more than two months Miss
Taylor has been suffering from ner-
vous prostration superinduced by
over-work, and we are sure her
friends will all join with us in de-
manding that she shall rest.
A few lines by her own hand &C
com panying the letter, shows the
eagerness of the anxious, chating
spirit to get to work:
II am so sorry am unable to do
anything for the Cause l love so
well-but it is all right"
We are sure the FREEMAN read
ers who love the Cause and its de-
voted workers will join importu-
nately in the prayer for Miss Tay-
lor's speedy and full recovery.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Mr.. Hawyer Declines.

Mr.. S. P. Hawver, the Greenback
nominee for Congress in the Third
District, declines the honor of max
ing the race, and so Col. Snyder
and Judge Brown will have it chip
and thigh" alone.
Our opposing exchanges mutu-
ally and unharmonieusly charge
the Republican nominee as for a
tariff for revenue only" while the
Democratic contestant is for high
tariff, and so we have another illus
tration of the folly Of harping on
the great issues" that divide the
two leading parties. The difference
is chiefly in name and spoils.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
"Straight Out

We are temperance straight out,
and don't you forget to say SO, If
you have made an assertion to the
contrary.-Tyler Independent.
We have heard drunkards of our
city insist that they were 'temper-
ance straight out while lying
straight out" on their backs in
the gutter. We have heard saloon
keepers declare they were temper
ance straight out" while stagger-
ing up for their certificates Of "mor-
al character" and license to de-
bauch, impoverish and murder our
neighbors. We have heard our
scheming politicians swear they
were Temperance straight out"
while wriggling through all man
ner of moral crookedness in league
with the saloons, to win the cleo
ton in their favor. We have heard
all this, but have yet to hear a
true Christian or Temperance man
proclaiming from the house-top,
"Pm "Temperance straight ont, and
don't you forget to sag so r.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
AMONG OUR EXCHANGES
Their Notions and Ours.

The County Court of Monroe
county, which was in session Tues
dav and Wednesday of this week
refused to grant license to retail
ardent spirits in the county of Mon
roe, Sweet Springs and Sulphur
not excepted.-Alderso Statesman.
Amen!
When a man loses his balance
where does it go?-E1.
Often into the gutter, and the
man goes with the "balance."
The Grafton Sentinel says that
Ike Johnson, of the FREEMAN, is
the most incorporate man in the
State.-ET.
If the Sentinel says so then either
"Ike Johnson" is a superlative man.
or the Sentinel tells a Superlatire
fib.
eyes, we see" -FREEMAN.
Yes, we see, that you want to
take all the credit to yourself!
"Great is Diana of the Ephesians."
Richie Democrat.
Yes, but who's DIANA who're
the "Ephesians," and who's the fell
low yelling "great?"
The FREEMAN is making it rath-
er hot for the 11-"they that did
it," Go on, Bro.-Tyler Star.
We're goin' on.
A Boston woman has just COM
pleted $4,000 mansion entirely
out of the proceeds from the sale Of
doughnuts,-C Commercial Gazette.
All right; when the people get
this little matter of Prohibition
settled in West Virginia, we're 60
ing into the doughnut business and
try for home too.
And still the movers continue to
pour into our county from different
points. Not less that 1000 families
have come into the county the past
winter and this spring.-Richie
Democrat.
Didn't you mean to say not more
than 1000?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Assassins Sentenced.


The trial of the assassins of Lord
Cavendish, in Phoenix Park, IS
still progressing with startling de-
velopements day by day. Already
several of the conspirators have
been found guilty, of whom Joe
Brady has been sentenced to hang
May IA, and Daniel Curley, four
days after, May Is.
The English authorities make
short work of assassins when they
get hold of them, quite unlike the
American manner of dallying with
this class of offenders.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
Prohibition Time Table.

We urge upon our friends inter
ested in Sunday School Institutes
and Conventions, Quarterly Meet
ings and all such meetings, the i'm
portance of so arranging, and if
necessary, changing the times, that
no friend of the Temperance cause
shall be kept from attending the
State Temperance Convention at
Clarksburg, June 20 and 81.
The Executive Committee ex-
hausted every possible source OF
information to enable them to fix
the time so as to meet the wishes
and convenience of the largest
number, and discommode the few
est and it is hoped that all friends
will bear this fact in mind.
If any appointments have al
ready been made that will conflict,
we hope such conflict will be re-
moved by change Of time, so that
no minister or temperance worker
may be denied the profit and pleas
ure of attending the Convention.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25

Mrs. Fague, editor of the Keyser
Echo, has been appointed postmls-
tress at Keyser. We are glad to
hear of this appointment, and are
sure the Keyser mails will be faith
fully looked after.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25

Mr.. H. G. Showalter, of Richie,
and Mr. Piggott of Writ, were In
the city on Monday and failed not
to call and secure the FREEMAN as
all sound lawyers ought to do.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25


point at which all true temperance
people should be most anxious and
careful.
What we had written and pro-
posed to say this week was especi-
ally in the line of urging our Ohio
friends to drop all differences and
unite in favor of the second propo-
sition and this is our mind still,
fsuch action will not endanger the
anti-license clause.
1t seems to US a matter of the
very first Importance in this terrific
struggle for life against these pow
ers of darkness and death, to hold
all vantoge ground taken, and never
yield citadel of Truth, for the
simple hope of gaining advanced
grounds. To be drawn from this
citadel and then foiled and forced
to retreat, would be calamity.
Moreover, along with this moral
politico-patent, bifurcated double
ender, non-rejectable Amendment,
comes
THE SCOTT TAX BILL,
which looks to be an ill-begotten
nondescript of the same ugly ilk
as the amendment dam Of the
whole untimely brood.
Like the Amendment, it is what
nobody asked and nobody wants.
1t has in it little license and a
little prohibition; little to please
and little to offend all parties !;
a little exaltation and little con-
demnation of the traffic; a little
legislation and a little constitu-
tion--in short, just enough of all
sorts of contradictory sundries to
insure it's early smothering under
it's own inconsistencies and dis
graceful death and burial along
with it's forerunner, the Pond Bill.
The Scott Bill repeats the Smith
Sunday Law, the only good work
of the last Legislature, as it also re-
peals the inhibition against the
selling of whisky to be drunk on
the premises, and for this double
iniquity it ought to "die the
death"
The more a conscientious man
goes into the recent Ohio legisla-
ton on the liquor questions, the
more he don't know where he is,
and we can readily see the perplex-
ity of our good friends over the riv-
er, to know just which way to
throw forward their pickets, the
soonest to find an open field and
solid fighting ground. And while
commiserating with the brave and
true spirits in Ohio, who we are
sure will allow no inch of prohibi-
ton ground to be lost, even in this
their triple perplexity, we can the
more heartily congratulate our
West Virginia Prohibitionists on
the wisdom of their policy and tao
tics that have compelled their in
sidious foe to come out of the brush
of
TRICKERY AND TREACHERY,
and fight the issue squarely in the
open field.
Meantime, let us hope for early
consultation among Ohio's ablest
leaders, and united, determined
rallying of the forces on whatever
line of defense or offense may soon
est insure a vigorous and safe ad
vance toward the final and COM
plete prohibition of this most tricky
and treacherous, impudent and in
famous foe to God and man and al.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25

Some more Baby FREEMANs lett
yet. Send for them.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1888.

ALWA YS.-H Writing as about su6scrtp-
tons, Arrays gire p. o. at Whtch you receive he
paper This aoU sare as much trouble
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-04-25

PLEASE .SJBSCRIBE.Let erery friend
.nto aUhose hands a Sample Copy of the FREE
MA a comes, take its coming as an urgent re-
guest to subscribe.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
SletS Agency.

May %, 1883.
EDITOR GAzETTE:-Hon. James Chambers
has been very sick for some time bat he
is now slowly improving and will be able
for business again in few weeks.
Mr.. Wadsworth the newly appointed
ageut has taken full charge of the agency
with the following corps of employees, viz:
L. F. Williams clerk, F. M. Carter physi-
clan, Rev. T. B. White teacher, assisted by
his wife; F. M. Stanton farmer, and Miss
Anna Chapman (Indian) seamstress. The
boarding hall for the present will be nnder
matron and Mrs. Wadswo1th superintends
the culinery department. The new admin
istration starts out under very favorable
auspices. The agent appears to be very
much at home in his new and important
position. Mr.. E. Swan, the retiring agent
has done much to build up and improve the
condition of the reservation. He was a firm
and true friend to the Indian.
This will be an important era for the res
ervation. A large and commdious boarding
hall, school house and agency building will
be put up this summer. The building will
be let by contract.
The Indians are evidently making con-
siderable progress in the arts of civilized
life and are laying off their old ways and
customs and trying to live like white people
and be somebody. The hope of the reser-
vation lies in the children and the school.
The school with the aid of the bible is the
most powerful influence for good ever
brought among the Indians. The outlook
of the reservation was never so hopeful rs
now. The new agent seems to have the
sympathy and confidence of the people.
CORRESPONDENTS.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
Departm emit ss Public Instruction
SALEM OREGON, MAY 2s, 1883

SALEM OREGON, May 29, 1883.
The State Teachers Association for 1888.
has been appointed to meet in Salem, June
26, and will continue in session June 27,
% and g. Teachers and friends of educa-
tion in all parts of the State are cordially
and earnestly invited to attend and take
part in its discussions. -
An excellent programme is being pre-
pared and will be printed for distribution
as early as possible. Superior lectures and
instruction will be given by the leading
educators and teachers of our higher in
stitutions of learning and the public schools
Arrangements have been made for reduced
rates on the principal lines of travel to all
persons attending the Association.
The proprietors of the hotels and board
ing houses in Salem will make liberal re-
duction to teachers and others in attend.
ance. E. E. McELRoY,
Supt of Public Instruction.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
Accession to the Yaauina Post

We are creditably informed that Col.
Van Cleve, editor in chief of the Yaquina
Post, having spent a great many years in
good work and well doing, concluded best
to have some assistance in editorial efforts
In order to have such help as would suit
him best, he therefore concluded to take a
young boy and train him up according to
his own notion. To find such boy was the
next important effort. Not being satisfied
to rely entirely upon his own judgment he
secured the assistance of DR.. F. A. johnson
of Newport, who arrived at Mr.. Van Cleve's
residence last Sunday morning and after
shaking the bed clothes'somewhat vigorous
ly, out rolled ''fat take In the shape of
fine large boy. He is rather young yet to
take charge of the Post, but few years will
bring him into the traces all right.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
Accidental Shooting:

A case of accidental shooting, which
probably will prove fatal, occurred at the
residence of Ben Rush at Elk Prairie,
eighteen miles west of this city, Thursday,
says the Eugene City Guard. A Mr.. Har-
per, of Brownsville, with his son, aged
about 20 years, had been down on the
Siuslaw looking at the country. Coming
back, they stopped at Mr.. Rush's for supper,
and when watering their horses at creek
one of the horses jerked back, in SOME man
ner catching the hammer Of rife carried
by the Elder Harper, discharing the same,
the ball, a 40 calibre, entering the person
of his son about three inches below the
shoulder blade near the back bone, and
coming out about one and one-half inches
above the left nipple. At last accounts the
young man was still alive, but the chances
are against his recovery. Z
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
Albany Always Ambitious.

On last Monday evening the Corvallis fire
department received the following challenge
from Albany: -
s'ALBaNY, Or, May %. 1883.
CHIEF. CORVALLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT.
s DEAR SIR:-By request of the com
Inittee of general arrangements, / herebr
challenge picked nine from the Corvallis
fire department. to play like nine of the
Albany department match game of base
ball, the same to be played in this city at
the celebration the coming 4th Of July, for
a prize not yet decided upon, but which will
probably be assilver. bat.
Please consider the above with the ''boys''
and let me know at as early date as posi-
BILE, whether or not it is accepted, and
oblige, Yours very respy, :.
G. W. WATTS, Sec. Com. !" >
Just what will be done with the challenge
is yet undetermined, but in all probabilities
it will be accepted and the silver bat or
scmesother prize, contested for at the COM
ing fourth. Many Of the members of the
Corvallis department favor contest in
various other athletic sports and without a
doubt the day will be enjoyably spent, pro-
vided they are accepted.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
GENTS LIST.
Miss Willard's Appointments.

Appointments in Washington Territory,
also east of the Cascade mountains in Ore
gon, will be after the convention, and will
be announced as soon as determined.
After completeing these engagements
Miss Willard, accompatiedby her Private
Secretary, Miss Anna Gordon, will visit
and organize in all the leading cities and
towns of Washington Territory, British
Columbia, Montana. Idaho, Utah, Wyom-
ing, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and
Manitoba. This is the tenth year since
the organization of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, and its officers purpose
to introduce the Society in every town of
ten thousand inhabitants and over, as the
best manner of signalling this epoch in
Temperance work. The Society is now or
ganized IN three thousand towns and cities
of the United States, and has seventy five
thousand members as its estimated constit-
uencyin 1883. Mrs. Lucas, the sister of
John Bright, Is President of the British
w. 9. 7. o., and Mrs d. B. Chisholm, of
Hamilton, Canada, is President of the Cana
dian We I. q. Miss Willard and. these
| are in correspondence relative to. a- stimuli
taneous movement for such an increase in
the number of local auxiiliaries as will make
this the most notable years organizing ever
known in Temperance annals.
DEAR FRIENDs:g Much as we all appre-
ciate the kindness shown TO Miss Willard
in the receptions every where rendered her
and the callers who desire to pay her their
respects, we are obliged to say that she car
! not do justice to these demands upon hel
time, and strength and justice also to her
public aoor;k. Will you, therefore, carefully
observe the following points:
1. On her arrival let her go quietly and
at once to home where she can remain
throughout her stay, not being transferred
even for one meal.
2. Let her rest between her meetings
receiving no calls, as she cannot meet ou
friends in public and in private also.
These suggestions apply in full force t
Miss Gordon, who is not well and canno
do more than help and care for Miss VIII
lard: The above is published at Miss VIII
lard's request. @ Mrs. 81. K. HINES,
/ Pres. Oregon State w. g. T. U
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
Sunday School Convention.

Pending visit to this coast, of Rev.
Robert Cowden, the secretary of the S. S.
Association of the state of Ohio, a number
of Sabbath School workers in Benton cotil-
ty are trying to complete arrangements to
have a Sabbath School convention. The
convention looks. toward the permanent or
ganization of an association for this county.
An organization of this county into per-
manent, effective, working association will
put Benton county on the same basis of pro.
gress as that occupied by Sunday School
work in any other part of the Union. 1t
will furnish a system of fintercommunication
bearing on all subjects; and it will thus show
where are the needy schools, and will put
them in the line of assistance. It will
broaden the field of every SundayvSchool
worker, it will create schools where they do
not exist and will insure the establishment
of those now in operation. It will confer
many other benefits, Of which there is here
no room for mention; but of which any one
will think, after reflection.
A committee of visitors will visit the
schools Of the county and invite the schools
to agree upon time and place tor the con-
vention. They will bear circular letter
setting forth the aims of the convention,
and asking each school to send representa-
| tion for the formation of "a programme, to
provide speakers and determine the place
for the convention. Other matters will also
be considered.
I A united effort is solicited, in all the
schools OF the county. The time has come
for such a movement.
This communication is forwarded in com
| pliance with an action of the Sunday Schoo
| of Philonath.
w. s. WALKER,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-06-01
Tunnel Work.

Work upon the approaches of the Siski-
you tunnel is to begin at once, says the
Ashland Tidings, and Mr.. Hurlburt received
orders last week to have such lumber as is
needed at the start sawed and upon the
ground as soon as possible A hundred
Chinese are expected to arrive this week to
break the ground. This tunnel will no
doubt be the last piece of work completed
on the whole extension. and it of course
behooves the company to begin upon it as
soon as possible. It is understood here that
the company will conduct the work at each
end of the tunnel until everything is ready
for the perforatfon to commence, when one
or both halves will be placed in the hands
of contractors. 1t will require more than
d year to complete the tunnel.