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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17
"a Christians Hand With 4
Christians Heart In 1t.

What power is in good hearty
hand-shakel People are afraid of
those who give them the cold, limp
tips of their fingers to touch, but IL
good warm grasp Indicates earnest
ness and friendship, and your
heart warns toward such. Chris
tian workers don't shake hands
enough. Rumsellers, gamblers,
and all the rest of Satan's emissa-
riss know the value of hand-shak-
ing, and use it for their own profit,
and for the ruin of souls. But too
often a young man goes into Il
Church of Christ and gets only a
cold stare, when a friendly hand
shake might have attracted and
saved him. When the minister
pronounces the benediction he
doesn't mean that the congregation
should go out like Il bullet from a
gun. He doesn't mean "Scat! get
out of here! !" Bat he means Shake
hands. Be friendly Be courteous.
Be not unmindful Of strangers.
Let brotherly lore continue"
Good friends, all join the hand
shaking brigade"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17
The White House.

A Times correspondent describes
some of the Important changes re-
Gently made in the historic man
sion occupied by our Presidents.
The writer says:
"The ceilings and walls of the
main corridor, the red and blue par,
lors, and the state dinine-room have
been decorated in accordance with
designs furnished by Mr.. Lawrence,
and screen of jewelled glass, fifty
feet long, has been made at the
New York rooms to replace the old
glass doors, which formerly sepa-
rated the corridor from the large
vestibule. The walls of the CORR
dor have been tinted a pale olive,
and the large inches covered with
squares of gold leaf that give a
hammered effect. A narrow border
of India brass-work, backed with
colors and geometric designs in pale
tints and gold and silver, comprise
the frieze. The ceiling is decorat-
ed in large masses of gold and sill
yer, broken by traceries in colors,
in which the cipher "U. S. A." is
interviewer. The walls of the red
parlor have been tinted Il dull
PompeiAn red. The ceiling shows
circles Of stars in gold, silver and
copper lustres, with a border of the
national stripes, studded with
stars. A handsome mantel-piece
of cherry, with jewelled glass
screen and panels of japanese
leather, surrounds the open fire.
place, tiled with amber red and
teapot brown tiles. The furni-
ture is of ruby plush. The blue
room is fnished.in shades of rob-
in's egg blue, a deep frieze in sill
yer tracerv and lace work orna-
ments. The walls and ceiling are
finished in interlacing ovals of sill
yer, studded with dogwood bios
SONS and set with shields and Gag
les in lustres and low relief. The
furniture and curtains are of blue
silk canvass, and the carpet is an
English Administer, in deep robin s
egg blue colors. Sconces of jewell
ed glass set in lead framework are
on each side of the large mirrors,
and bear seven lights each. The
state dining room retains the same
furniture and drsperies. The walls
are pale almond, with a fringe of
golden stars, and the ceiling a dull
primrose, with bands of stars. The
green parlor is unchanged, having
been refurnished last fall. The
East Room contains a new Amin
ster carpet in almond and pale
pompadour colors, with a border of
antique blue, the ground color har-
monizing well with TIE amber
plush curtains and furniture.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17
Cold W ater.

Cold water, cold water,
Oh. that is the drink!
How strange and how foolish
That any should think
That whisky or brandy,
That dram-keepers sell,
Is good as the water
We get from the we'll.
Cold water, cold water!
We draw it to-day;
IT'S as free as the breeZes;
We drink without pay.
1t neve- makes drunkards;
It's pure as can be-
O, this is the beverage
For you and for me.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17

WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWEL
w RY, Organs and other Musical Iustru-
mentS. GEORGE CULLEN, Sd avenue
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17
CHARLESTON BUSINESS HOUSES.

FLOUR, HAY, CORN, CHOP
Il FEED, Moal and Produce generally
Wholesale and Retail. CHAMBERLAIN X
CO., Masonic Building, Capitol street.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17

II H. FERGUSON, ATTORNEY
- AT-LAW, Charleston, W. Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1883-01-17
ESTVIRGINIA FREEMAN.
THE HOME FOLKS.

H1LARITY HoLLENBAcK, Hou.ekecper
The Ketchum keystone. (Ketchum, Idaho) 1881-1884, 1883-11-17
Summons.

In The Justices Court of Vienna Precinct in
the County OF Alturas, Territory of Idaho:
James johnston, Plaintiff
Summons.
William Lii TX, Defendant
The People OF the United States, of Idaho
Territory send greeting to William Lisk, de-
fendant.
Aou are hereby summoned to appear before
me, at my office, IN Vienna Precinct, in the
county of Altuas, on the 25th day of Novep1-
ber 1888, at o'clock, ?. sI, in an action brought
against you by said plaintiff to answer tie
complaint of the above named plaintin. Salu
action is brought TO recover the balance due
said plaintiff, tO-Nvit sS7.nO. Fail not, OF judg-
mene Will be taken against you for the ssid
amount, together with costs of this suit, ii YOU
fail to appear and answer.
To the Saerif or any Constable of said coun-
~, greeting: Make legal service and due re-
turn thereof
Given under mp hand this, Goth day of Octo-
Der, 1888 f. w. SCoyIILE,
A Justice o! thePeace OF said Precinc..
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05
A CHALLENGE
The Colored Champion Of Fort Benton has
Something to Say to J. K. Waite.
Fort BENTON, Angus

FORT BENTON, August q, 1883.
Editors of the RIVER Press.
I hereby challenge J. K.Waite, cham
pion of Montana, to box me four rounds
marquis of Q%ueensbury rules three
weeks from date Of signing articles, for
5000 a side and gate money, best man to
take all. Stakeholder, referee, ETC., to
be chosen during fair week at Helena,
where my hacker will be prepared to
meet Mr.. Waite or representative and
put up forfeit, or if he hangs back my
challenge holds good for any other ex-
ponent Of the manly art in the territory.
JERRY FLOWERS.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

@x@axw@
W. y. Knight has sold his National
payk Pioneer, published at Livingston,
to Messrs. Wright & Hendry, the pub
fishers of the Daily Enterprise. The
Pioneer. will be the weekly edition OF
the Enterprise, and will now be a flrst
class paper.
Mike Lynch, accompanied by three
Bentonites, arrived from the river me-
tropolis last evening after a rather nara
trip of seventeen days. The party re-
port the upper river as very low ana are
confident that the river traffic Tor this
SEASON is nearly oyer.-Bismnrck 1Ti-
bMne, oath.
We g by the Pioneer Press that he
president and directors of the Canadian
Pacific railroad are taking a jaunt over
their road and will come as far west as
Medicine Hat and perhaps Calgary.
Wouldn't it be a good scheme to send a
deputation Of Fort Benton citizens up
there to intercept them and enlighten
the distinguished gentleman as TO the
resources of this country?
From Thursdays Daily:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lepper have re-
turned.
F. G. Roosevelt will go to Fort ASSN
aboine to-day to attend the sale OF horses
at that post. !
Who was the party that was lost on
the prairie Tuesday night? ASK Char
ley Kendall.
Chas. A. Seldom, representing Green
hood, BONN & Co., returned from Bar
ker yesterday.
n. C. Smith left for Lavina yesterday
to take charge of T. G.. Power d Bros
store at that place.
There are five inmates of the Bozeman
Jail charged with murder, one OF tneHl
under sentence OF death.
Toe Meeks has raised the money nee
essarv to redeem his mine, the Meeks,
and is happy in consequence.
The Yellowstone roundup will as
semple at Swamp creek Oh september
9th. and begin operations on the 10Th.
Fl. J. Armstrong, Grow Indian agent,
advertises for proposals to break ooo
acres at the new agency on the Little
Horn.
You can't buy Benton real estate at
any price now. The railroad exclte-
ment has made a decided change III the
market.
Bishop Brondel has arrived in Helena
and will make that city his diocesan
residence, and the church OF the Sacred
Heart will be the cathedral.
Articles of incorporation of the "a
Dorado ditch company were filed with
the county clerk yesterday by Ira Myers
and others Of the upper Teton.
Charity Hackle has removed his shoe
shop to the real of f. W. Bucksen 9
Co.'s store, where he will be pleased tt
meet his old friends and customers.
w. S. Wetzel will join the Helen;
delegation next week. Scott IS an en-
thusiastic Benton boomer and shoult
by all means be drafted into the service
Ben Swigert loaded his train again TO
Reedsfort yesterday. Wonder VIVA
Nick" is going to do with the stacks 9
goods that are being sent him at tina
point?
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

From Wednesdays Daily.
Chas. Gibson returned from the ranch
last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Meeks arrived from
Barker yesterday.
Paris Gibson left for his island ranch
Yesterday morning.
A. j. Samuels returned from a brief
visit to Sun River yesterday.
w. O. Dexter is threshing on the low
er Missouri valley and doing good work.
Mrs. John Castner has been~dangera
ously i'll the past week, but was reported
better yesterday.
If anybody can make a better mint
iulep than Charley Miller, of the Over
land bar, we would like to know who it
is.
Walter Burke, superintendent Of the
Billings line, came in yesterday. He
reports everything lively il the lower
country.
Dave Browne returns to the Sandy IN
a day or two to complete his hay coI-
tract. He has about 400 tons to cut and
haul to finish.
Dawson county stockmen have form
ed a mutual protective association, with
w. c.. Bangs as president and MI. Grlsy
as secretary and treasurer.
Dick Brennan has fitted up a shooting
gallery at his saloon on Front street,
where an opportunity is now offered all
to display their craftsmanship.
The steamer Helena is being over
hauled and repaired, and will probably
leave in a few days for Cow Island and
intermediate points.-Bisnadrck Tribune,
18th.
Quite a number Of Benton's young
people went out to the residence OF VIM
Copestick, on the Teton, last evening.
It was a surprise party, and doubtless
pleasant one.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

Sam and Foster Moale, sons OF Col.
Ed. Moale, are stopping at the Grand
Union, en- route to Assinaboine. The
c~olonel's headquarters were formerly at
Benton, and the boys have many friends
who are pleased to see them.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

= j. E. Stevens of the RIVER PRESS,
left for Helenayesterday in The interest
Of this paper He will take in the fair
next week md keep readers posted
&c to tho nraUrpsS of nyants
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

: Charley Gibson is somewhat puffed
up over the fact that he killed a white
tailed deer on Belt creek a few days ago.
While up north he brought downa-bnfs
Afalo, and is now beginning to esteem
himself a mighty hunter.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

Il. c. Power & Bro. loaded Mr.. Gau-
ser's teams yesterday with 5000 pounds
of merchandise for J. E. Burd, of Du-
puyer, the merchant Of that region.
Judging by the amount Of goods sent to
him almost weekly, Mr.. Burd must be
doing afbig business.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

J. II. Rice and Sol. Genzberger return
ed yesterday from the Sun river coun-
| try, where they spent two or three days
! this week. They visited Florence, on
| the south fork of Sun river, and are of
/ the opinion that a person will have to
~travel a good many miles in Montana to
lSfnd a more delightful country. -
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

Jere Sullivan and Jos. Hirshberg, the
commitee appointed to secure speci-
mems for the Helena exhibit, went out
to Highwood yesterday to secure some
fiae specimens Of grain and other pro-
ducts.
Ed. Flint returned yesterday from a
trip to the country in the interest Of AS
SCISSOR kennerly. He took in the Shon-
kin and Arrow creek country, and cross
ing the river at Clagett returned by way
Of Fort A ccioahoina
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

E. R. Clingan took his departure
Tuesday for a trip through Meagher
county in the interest of the RIVER
PRESS, and will probably be absent a
,aa,4 j
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

are nineteen blocks in the townsite
with twenty-eight lots to a flock, tie
dimensions of the lots being 25x15O fet.
L. n. Hazlett is the proprietor.
Dave Browne will read our special
from Fort Assinaboine with interest this
morning. He certainly has cslse to be
thankful that the loss is not %p'eater than
reported
The party that went QUITO VIM. Cope
sticks Tuesday eveningnad a delight
jul time, fifteen to tWeaty couples being
present, and dancinYWas carried on I'M
til a late hour.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

T Two teams loaded at Il. G. Power d
Bros Yesterday for Sam'l G. Burd, OF
the upper Teton.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

Messrs. w. III. Hunt, Chas. S. Spen-
Ger and G. G. Griffith, accompanied by
the Misses Kearney and Tonge, left for
the beautiful valley of Belt creek yester-
day morning to enjoy a few days fish
ing and t~he~benefits Of the country air.
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

Judge Taftan offered to wager sl ooo
the other day, and put up the money
that Fort Benton will have i've rail-
roads inside of three years. He found
no taker.
The plat Of the new town Of Choteau
(near Old Agency was filed with the
county clerk Yesterday. 1t is quite 9
pretentious docking city-on papermand
Is likely to become such IN fact. Ihefe
The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-09-05

. VIM. Morrow brought in the first oats
of the season yesterday and disposed OF
at $40.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
For Sale.

For a long time there has been in the
GAZETTE Office an over abundant supply
of type and printing material sufficient in
many things to furnish a bountiful supply
to run about two such Offices. We have
concluded to offer for sale all of our surplus
material which we do not need. Among
other things are the following: About loo
lbs. of long primer, l65 lbs. long primer
itaic, including upper and lower cases,
p lbs. of another kind of long primer,
2S lbs. bourgeois, about so lbs. BREWER upper
and lower cases and itahc, about 100 lbs
of minioh including italic and upper and
lower cases, about so fonts of job, advertis-
ing and poster type of all kinds and sizes.
Sob. of IL EN- leads and other sizes OF
leads and slugs, two or three cabinets, col.
um rules, dashes, and many other things
too Numerous to mention. ANY person
wishing to assort up or start a new, we can
furnish them many things they need on
reasonable terms. If parties desiring any
thing in the line of printing material will
drop us postal card we will take pleasure
in telling them whether we have what they
want.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
W(ccklp 4 orrallis 0aset.e.
TOW ekMBETTA LOST AN EYE.

His father, who had no provision
of the boys future celebrity, wanted
to secure HIM against military ser
vice by keeping him an Italian. I'M
mupity from soldering was brought
about accidentally. As Gambetta
was watching a knife-grinder operate
on a wheel, the blade of the knife
got detached from the handle and
few into the boys eye and blinded 1t.
lie was very much petted in conse-
ouence. and the mother was emboId-
eped by her increased tenderness to
insist upon Leon being sent to the
Petit Seminaire of Montiaucon to re
eeive classical education. He hus-
band was an enemy to higher in
struction and thought the communal
school sufficient for boy whose
destiny it was to be a provincial
grocer.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
WITH BROTHER BROWN.

We heard the story related by a
clergyman as an actual experience
and as an example of things humcr--
GUS which sometimes crops out prom
inen:ly during the serious times OF
revival meetings. It was at one OF
these gatherings that a MIR. Brown
arose and told his experience. He
had been a poor miserable sinner;
had fallen from grace time and again,
had often yield to his besetting sins
and he humbly felt that he was un-
worthy to sit with his brethren and
sisters, and that his proper place was
behind the door Later a sister
arose. She, too, had been weak and
too often stumbled by the wayside;
her faith was wavered, "and in fact, "
continued the penitent sister, with
tears in her eyes,"I feel rs though
my proper place was with Brother
Brown behind the door"
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
SIGNATURE OF TH2 csoss-EARK

The mark which persons who are
unable 10 write are required to make
instead of their signature, is in the
form of a cross, and this practice
having formerly been followed by
king and mobiles, is constantly re
ferred to as an instance of the de-
p,orable ignorance Of ancient times.
This signature is not however, in
variable proof of such ignorance.
Anciently, the use Of this mark was
not confined to illiterate persons; tor
among the Saxons, the mark of the
cross, as an attestation of the good
faith of the person signing, was re-
auired to be attached 10 the sigma
ture Of those who could write. as
well as to stand in the place Of the
signature of those who could not
write.
In those times, if a man could
write or even read, his knowledge
was considered proof positive pre-
sumtive that he Was in holy orders.
The word clericus, or clerk, was
synonymous with penman, and the
laity, or people who are not clerks,
did not feel any urgent necessity for
the use of letters,
The ancient use Of the cross was,
therefore, universal alike by those
who could not write. 1t was, in
deed, the symbol of an oath from it's
holy associations, and generally the
mark.
On this account, Charles Knight,
in his notes on the "Pictorial Shak-
speare," explains the expression Of
"God save the mark" as form of
ejaculation approaching to the char
acter of an oath.
This phrase occurs three or more
times in the play of Shakespeare, but
for a long time was left by the CON-
mentators in its obscurity.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
"wIFNEss III aAEo AND SEAL

A. Thousand years ago the masses.
the nobility, the poor and rich, were
wholly unacquainted with the mys-
teries Of the alphabet and the pen.
4 few men known as clerks, who
generally belonged to the priesthood,
monopolizad them as a special class
of artists. They taught their bust
ness on.y to their seminaries and
apprentices; aud beyond themselves
and their few pupils no one knew
how to read and write, nor was it
expected of the generality, any more
than it would be now-a-days, that
everybody should he a shoemaker or
a lawyer. Kings did not even know
how to sign their names, SO that
when they wanted to subscribe to a
written contract, law or treaty, which
some clerk had drawn up for them,
they smear their right hand with ink
and slap it down upon the rarch
ment, saying, "witness my hand" "
At later date some genius devised
the substitute of seal, which was
impressed instead of the hand. Every
gentleman had a seal with peculiar
device thereon. Hence the sacra-
mental words now in use, "Witness
my hand and SEAL" affixed to mod
ern deeds, serves u. least the purpose
of reminding us of the middle ages.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
Be Cautious.

Don't Judge a man by the clothes
he wears. God made one and the
tailor the other.
Don't judge him by his family re-
lations, for Cain belonged to good
family.
Don't judge man by his speech,
for parrot talks, but the tongue is
but an instrument of sound.
Don'trjudge man by his failure in
life, for many a man fails because he
is too honest to succeed.
Don't judge a man by the house
he lives in, for the lizard and the rat
often inhabit the grandest structures.
When a man dies they who sur
vive him ask what property he has
left behind. The angel who bends
over the dying man asks what good
deeds he has sent before him.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1883-03-23
TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
written by special correspondent
RAN

l EAN.
There are four grand kingdoms in
the universe mineral, vegetable,
animal, and spiritul. Man is an
epitome OF the universe; in his being
is both material and spiritual sub
stance blended, so as TO constitute
him the masterpiece of creation; man
is the Key Stone in the Royal Arch
that spans Gods Temple-eternity,
end connects material and spiritual
substance. To strike man out of
creation, would leave Gods works in
two parts; the Arch would not be
complete; there would be an unoccu-
pied space, blank in the high way
| of creation. God made man last,
and made him the greatest. To be
man, is the highest distinction that
! can be conferred on any order of in
| telligence In the universe of God.
| Every man should be proud of his
own being, and he is bound to pro-
tect his life and the lives Of his fel-
low men, as duty to himself and his
Creator; he has no moral right to
| knowingly put in operation a train
of circumstances whose ultimate
forces will result in his own destruc-
ton, or the destruction of his race.
God has clothed every rational min
ded man with influences that he can't
shake off; every man is his "brothers
keeper" Man sheds forth two kinds
of influences, conscious and uncon-
scious. He sees and realizes the
conscious, the unconscious goes out
and on further than he perceives or
conceives. His urconcious in
fuences are felt and borne by mn
born generations, they are conveyed
along the stream Of humanity that
is to appear on the stage of action
There are sins that are visited on
the heads OF the children, down to
the third and fourth generation.
Drunkards generally beget drunk
ards. Drunkenness very often be
comes a disease, one that incapasi--
tates its victim for self government.
There is no use for man to rare
backsson his dignity in a republican
form of government like ours, and
claim exemption from sponsibilitieS
for the evils that are established and
protected by our statuteary laws
Our laws don't originate and make
themselves, man is the originator
and maker. God holds US RESPONSE
ble for what We make as we'll as
what we use. It is no small matter
to be man and to be armed with
responsibilities that puts in motion
waves of influences that lash OH the
shores of two worlds or two states,
time and eternity. 1t ought to be-
stir every father and mother to think
ing and action when the dread
thought flashes athwart their minds
IL may possibly be setting in mo
ton @ chain of influences that will
people the grave yards and eternity
with d,esaA0rds."