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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Save Ny Boy.

The cry of "Solid South" has lit
tie terror for the w. c. T. u, who
know nothing but "a solid coun-
try against the liquor traffic" The
twenty-five or thirty Southern del
egates who sat with US in Conven-
ton, whose hearts are as our hearts,
whose hands are firmly and low
ingly grasped in ours, are as ear
nest Prohibitionists as any. We
have no other "Shibboleth" than
the natural expression of a moth
er's heart-"Save my boy"-and
this like the love that prompts it,
is the same in all lands Union
SIGNAL. .
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Report OF Sunday School Work at
National Convention.

In the report of Sunday School
Work, by Miss L. E. F. Kimball,
National Superintendent. at the
st. Louis Convention, we find the
following:
"West Virginia, Miss Emma A:
Fowler, Superintendent, put itself
on record at its State Sunday
School Convention. in May, by
passing unanimously one of the
best and strongest resolutions |
have ever read, heartily endorsing
the efforts of the w. G. T. U. and
earnestly petitioning for quarterly
Temperance lessons. Miss Fowler
has written all the Unions, urging
the appointment of local Superin-
tendents, and has sent out 200 of
my eight-page circular. She has
also secured many names to petit
tions." st...
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26

theories, for the home is but the
effiorescence of woman's nature I'M
der the nurture of Christ's gospel.
She came into the college and hu-
manized it, into literature and hal,
lowed it, into the business world
and ennobled it. She will come
into government and purify it, in
to politics and cleanse that Stygl-
an pool as the waters OF Marah
were cleansed, for woman WILL
make home-like every place she
enters, and she will enter every
place on this round earth. Any
custom, traffic or party on which
Christian woman cannot look with
favor is irrevocably doomed. Its
welcome of her presence and her
power, is to be the final test OF Its
fitness to survive. All Gospel civ
ilization is radiant with the dem
onstration OF this truth.
at is not good for man to be
alone" The most vivid object les
son on history's page is the fact
that his deterioration is in exact
proportion to his isolation from the
home of woman's pure compan-
ionship." Miss Wizards Annual
Address.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Items OfInterest.

Miss Phoebe Cozzen's father has
been appointed United States Mar
shall for Missouri, and newspapers
report that Miss Phoebe has been
appointed Deputy U. S, Marshal,
and will assist her father as Secre-,
tary. If this be true, she is the only
woman in the land representing
National authority, and we have
no fear but what she will make it
respected.
One of the women jurors of
Washington territory asked the
Judge and each member of the iu-
ry with which she served, to write
in her album. The following is the
response Of one of them, Mrs. G..
E. Bowman. of Seattle;
"The talk about a woman's sphere
AS though it had a limit;
There's not place on earth or Heaven,
There's not a task to mankind given
There's not a blessing or woe,
There's not a whispered yes or no,
There's not life or death or birth,
There's not feathers weight of worth,
Without a woman in it.''
Journal.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Pennsylvania. the Banner State.

A letter from Mrs. Ellen M. Wat
son, Corresponding Secretary for
the State of Pennsylvania has the
following Thanksgiving news:
pennsylvania is the Banner
State this year. We had very suc-
cessful Convention in Harrisburg
in October, and reported 18I new
Unions, so new Bands Of Hope, IA
new county organizations, and we
doubled our paying membership.
We will have our Minutes printed
this winter and | will send you
copy. All good wishes.
Yours truly,
ELLEN M. WATSON.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26

gramme, would have been to place
the business meeting before the
visit to the distillery.
However the fact that the Ban
quet is to be given by the W. c. T.
U. shows the growing sentiment
Of the Press against social drink
ing. We are glad the precedent
established by the Parkersburg
Union has been followed up by
the Union at Martinsburg.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Press Banquet by the w. C. T. U.
We clip the following from the
Martinsburg Independent:

We clip the following from the
Martinsburg Independent:
Tuesday morning at 9 a. m.
business meeting and address of
welcome by P. A. Rohrbaugh, ESQ.
In the afternoon the visitors under
the escort of the Mayor, will visit
all points of interest in the town,
water works, machine shops, distil-
cry, etc. Tuesday night business
meeting. Wednesday morning, an
excursion to the barracks and In
dian school at Carlisle, Pa, stop.
ping at Hagerstown in returning.
Wednesday night, banquet, under
the auspices of the W. C. T. u, in
their hall. Address on behalf w.
G. T. U. Association, by B. Hughes,
Esq. Tickets to the banquet will
be sold to persons not connected
with the press, for the benefit of
the w. G. T. U. Thursday excur-
sion will start for Luray, Roanoke,
and points further south"
We would suggest, that wise r
arrangement of the above pro-
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Bear Ye One AnOther's Burdens

Never since the thunder of the
first gun at Fort Sumpter fired
the patriotic pulse to fever heat,
has there been such need of infin-
tie patience and Christ-like charity
as the present hour demands.
There are hearts sore from disap
point, and hearts made bitter by
defeat; to such, argument, no mat
ter how logical, is irritating and
out of place.
This very bitterness is born of
loyalty that is the glory of our
nationality. And is not so much
loyalty to party, as the excitement
of the hour would indicate, as 10y
atty to the best interests of our gov
eminent, wrought out through
fundamentally of parties.
The past has proven that parties
come and parties go; but the gov
eminent goes on and God reigns
and rules. Let patient forbearance
and Christian courtesy character
ize speech and act, that when the
reaction comes there will be no
root of bitterness springing up to
divide those whose aims are one,
though their methods differ.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26

We are glad to see in a number
of our exchanges local notices like
the following;
w. G. T. 1.-THE Women's Chri-
tian Temperance Union will have
"a public meeting at the Methodist
church next Tuesday, at 7 o'clock
Pm. Rev. Cillins Denny and 9TH
ers are expected to address the
meeting. Everybol y is respectful
ly invited to attend.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
West Virginia W. G. T. U.

President-MIss a. TAYLOR, Wheeling, W.
Vice President-Mrs. M. M. Love, Grafton.
Rec. Sec.-Mrs. K. f. Nine, Keyser.
Cor Sec.-Miss Emma A. Fowler, 95l Main
g., Wheeling. ..,.
Treas.-Mrs G. F. Scott, Parkersburg.
sUPERINTENDENTs OF DEPARTMENTS.
Observation-Disclosures. Geo. Parsons, Keyser.
Eyanpelistic-Mrs. M. M. Love, Grafton.
Young Ladies' Work-Miss Carrie Scoheld
wheeling.
juvenile Work-Mrs. D. B. Purinton, Nor
Railroad Work-Mrs. Emily Chambers,
Martinsburg. LE.. .o
, Prison Work-Miss Amanda List, 2Nl
Chapline st., Wheeling.
Sabbath School Work-Miss Emma Fow-
Ter ISL Main st., Wheeling.
Legislature-Mrs. Gen. l. II. Duval, Wells
burg. r,,
son, Grafton. Wv
Scientific Instruction--Mr Isaiah War
III Hygiene and Heredity-Mrs. M. L. Chal-
FAINT Jane Lew.
Unfermented Wine-Mrs. r. l.. Kendall,
Parkersburg.
Flower Missions-Mrs. W P..Willey, Nor
State and County Fairs-Mrs. j. P. Grego-
ry, Huntington.
Work among Colored People
WEST VA. FREEMAN and Union signal
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
The Daily Times, Charlesto

The Daily Times, Charleston,
announces a meeting for the Union
of that city. To be sure an acoun t
of these several Unions, would be
more interesting; but as the effor t
to secure these detailed reports has
SO far been unsuccessful, we are
under obligationslto the press, for
news of their continued labor of
love.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
WESTVIRGINIAFREEM
w. c. T. q. DEPARTMENT.
"FoR GoD AND HOME AND NATIVE
LAND"
National WonsGn's Christian Temper
Gnce Union.
Edited by Mrs.. /. Fl. Johnson.

President-MIss FRANCES E. WILLARD, of
Evanston, Ill. -. --l.s..
Cor. Sec.-Mrs. G. B. Buell., So Bible House,
NY t... -
VIENNA, o.
Asst. Rec. Sec.-Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens,
Stroudwater, Me.
Treas.-Miss Esther Pugh, 1854 Walnut
st., CHM.
Southern Sec.-Mrs. G. II, Mcleod, 287
MoSher st., Balto., Md. .'
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26

Virginia..
Isindependenta lways,and always readyto
speak for the Right and the People{ (Iives
the Local and General News, secular and re-
ligious-and advocates the cause of Temper
ance under all circumstances. Send for snec.
linen copy free. Address,
FREEMAN, Parkershurg, ". Wa.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
Miss Wizards Golden Words.

"For the world is slowly making
the immense discovery that not
what woman does but what she is
makes home possible creation.
1t is the Lords ark and does not
need steadying; it will survive the
wreck of systems and the crash of
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26

The FREEMAN should be found
in the home Of every W.,
G. T. U. family in West Virginia,
and every family should be a part
of the w, G. T. U. Subscribe for
the FREEMAN and join a Union.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-11-26
CARDS.

rs Beautiful Visiting Cards no aliko IN
30 Beautiful Chrome Cards, Ice; Is Mo It's
THE CICERONE PRINTING H0Tsp
Stone Cliff W W.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
EnsIIage for Pigs in Winter.

A correspondent asks about the safety
of feeding ensilage to pigs in winter.
He says there seem to be various Opin-
ions upon it, some regarding IL as dam
gerous.
We suppose good, sound grass ensil-
age to be Just as safe as pasturing on
grass. We should hear little of the
diseases of the pig if it were regularly
fed grass or other succulent, bulky,
tibrous food.
Green, succulcnt clover, preserved in
silO and fed to pigs in winter would be
of the greatest value in pig feeling;
and its greatest value would be in pro
noting health and a steady, uniform
growth. These, with warm pen, or
pen kept at sixty degrees. would enable
as good growth to be made in winter
as in summer. Such 4 system would
save many millions now thrown away
in food, given to what are called ''store
pigs" Pigs, generally, make such al
most impeFCeptihle growth in winter,
that the food is little better than thrown
away. Corn ensilage might be fed to
pigs in winter, especially the sweet va
rieties, but the greater amount of
woody fiber in corn renders it less
adapted to this purpose than clover.
The pig is Il grass-eating animal, the
same as the horse, but its stomach
is small, and can not utilize large
amount of innutTitiOus food, such as ru-
minants manage easily. 1t is, there
fore, iudicious to feed pigs only the most
succulent and tender of fbrous plants,
and clover exactly meets this require
ment We have found clover. Gu: just
before poisoning, and nicely cured,
softened by boiling water in winter, to
be good pig food, and to keep them in
tine health Clover, being very nitro
genOus helps to balance a corn diet.
Orchard grass and clover, cut when
the orchard grass is tender, would make
excellent eusilage for pigs in winter,
and some two or three crops of this
could be cut in a season. ANY of the
grasses, when in tender, succulent con-
ditiOn, will make good cnsilage. One
great advantage of this green food in
winter viii be the safety of strong grain
feeding, the pigs making as rapid prog
ess as in summer, if in warm quarters.
The feeding of this succulent ensilage
to pigs will also render it absolutely
necessary that they should be in warm
pens, for such sappy food can not be
fed in the open air or in pens that
freeze, for in that case, the food would
be frozen. So if this system should ever
come into use, it will bring warm feed
ing pens with it National Lice Stock
Journal,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
A Prose Poem,

Softly the moon shed its silvery ligh:
upon the evening air.
The difference between a goose and
the moon is that the goose sheds feath-
ers. This is less romantic, probably,
but good goose feathers are worth
seventy cents a pound more or less.
They stood beneath the silent stars,
Arthur and Evangeline; not the goose
and the moon. She in the glory of
young womanhOod, and he in a fifty
dollar suit of clothes.
II is astonishing what trust tailors
put in manhood.
'.Oh, Arthur" she sighed, .'Iet us flee
from this place; from the wrath of an
angry father and the torturing taunts
of a mercenary mother"
At this season, she should have said
''let us musquitO from this place. etc -
but a young woman in love can't tell a
flee from a mosquito, and we must not
censure too severely.
"Ah, Evangeline, would that it-were
possible"
"But it is possible, Arthur. We can
fly beyond the sea, the deep blue sea,
which lies between us and happiness,
and beneath the sunny skies of Italy in
the dolce far nieDte of that lotus land,
we may build about US a beautiful
JdldCes WuOSG 4OuuNldllOn snail DC love,
and whose superstructure shalt be the
perfection of earthly bliss.
The girl had spent all her chewing
gum money on ten-cent novels, and all
her time playing Pauline in an amateur
dramatic club.
''Ah, darling, the picture you paint is
too lovely for realization" he walled.
Of course he knew she painted. ANY
fellow can tell that when he gets close
to a girl.
why, loveP On, Arthur, why?''
Because, dearest" he agonized
clear down to the knees of his pants,
II haven't money enough to buy
tickets across the briny, and the walk
ing on that road calls for gum shoes,
which L am also unable to put up col
laterals for during the present de-
pressed condition of trade :
BE trade she shrieked, and they
parted forever.-Herchaut Traveller.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
Care Of Farm Dressing.

Within the past twenty or thirty
years great change has taken place in
the matter of farm dressing. In former
years barns were so built that all the
eXcrementitIOu5 matter was thrown out
OF windows behind the cattle and left
there for months, exposed to sun and
rain. OF course it lost much of its vel
ne. The aggregate waste was enor-
nous. When barn cellars were intro
duced great change took place. All
the dressing was kept under cover and
no longer exposed to loss by weather.
In addition to the barn cellar the plan
of using muck was recommended and
widely adOpted-using it as an absorb
ent for the liquid which before had
been wholly wasted. All this was in
the right direction; but all farmers did
not adopt the new method, and have
not yet. Even many who have barn
cellars are very careless and neglectful
in regard to supplying muck, loan,
sand, or other substance, to absorb the
liquids, and so still much goes to waste.
We have seen many farms where the
acres look lean and hungry, and yet
where the owner allows much valuable
matter to go to waste that would help
improve them. We have also seen farms
where proper economy is used, and ev-
y
riching the soil is carefully saved
Such are known as thrifty farmers,
and their farms always make a good
showing. If one has muck handy and
a light soil upon which to put the
dressing, then it would be better to use
muck. If one has a heavy, stiff soil on
which to use the dressing, and can read
lily get sand to use as an absorbent,
then it would be better to use that sub
stance. Nothing leaves the dressing in
better condition for use than sand.
Loan is an excellent thing to use for
this purpose, and can be applied on al
most any soil TO advantage. While we
should prefer to use the substances
named above, there are others that are
often used that are certainly better than
none. One farmer who keeps a fine
herd of cows and makes butter for
market, uses sawdust, for the double
purpose of keeping everything clean and
peat and for absorbing all liquids. In
this case all solid excrement is removed
as soon as dropped. A large amount
of excellent dressing is thus made on
the farm. The sawdust costs nothing
but the carting. Some use spent tan.
We have seen shavings used for the
same purpose, but they are not very
good. We advise in the strongest terms
the use of some substance to absorb the
liquids of the cattle and to be used in
the pig-pen, so as to increase the dress
inc for the farm. When dressing is
carried out into heaps in the field the
heaps should always be covered. 1t
seems strange that any one should fail
to accept and practice that which it is
so evidently for their interest, but such
is still the case in no small degree
C0ngregGtiOnoIist.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
Get Up and Dust.

Cleanliness, is certainly next to
Goodness" but the model housekceper
who dwells on the crowded thorough
fare of a city, or near a dry, dusty
county road, if she bear this fact de-
voutly in mind, can find but little rest
through the summer season. ''Why fly
in the face of PrOVidence?'' 1 said to a
friend, who. rag in hand, was carefully
going over her best room for the third
time that day. because l must!' she
answered, with forlorn smile. as she
sadly wiped a speck from a choice bit
of rare china
It's hard TO have to pack away the
thousand and one pretty tTifes that
make room look home-like, but if
their care is too wearing, the sooner we
dispense with them the better. Some
people are certainly born busters ard
enjoy going over a room thoroughly,
leaving everything as neat as n pin,
but to the majority of workers busting
is a painful pleasure. Give an in
experienced Bridget a feather buster.
and You arm her with a sure weapon
of destruction. A damp cloth is for
almost all purposes to be preferred to
any other buster, rs otherwise the fine
particles are flung into the air only to
rest again ION the spot where they
originally fell. "
There is n best way to do every thing,
and those families that are rich in girls
but have not the wherewithal to send
them to Vessar to gain "A thorough dis
cipline. can at least train them at home
in an art which re uires ability,
patience and long suffering. -E'drH
Etetd a11d F5reside.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

The San Francisco Chronicle vouch-
es for the truth of the statement that
one mans labor on four acres of foot
hill land planted to fruit brought ST.
200 clear last year.
People now wish more lean pork.
and the skilled swine-growers should
recognize this desire and act according
ly. The more high-priced pork they
can sell the more profit they will real
ize.-1roy Times.
Lights should not be left burning
in the sleeping-roOms of children at
night. The optic nerves, Instead of the
perfect rest which they need, are slim
ulated and the brain and the rest of the
nervous system suffer -Erchange
To make a cough strip put five
cents worth of pine pitch into a pint of
water; let it simmer until the water is
well impregnated with the flavor. Dip
out the gum which remains undissolved,
and add honey enough to sweeten and
bottle it up. Dose, a teaspoOnful four
or five times day, &C cording to the
severity of the cough. This will afford
speedy rel ef.-SGn Francisco Chronicle
One of the most difficult things to
cure for fodder is the green corn-stalk.
Great quantities Of good winter feed
GAAO O4SOA AOSD ~ OoA4g 4iOotB ana tAAC
american CatltsUator suggests as rem
edy drying the stalks on platform of
rails or loose boards, laid so as TO allow
a current of air under the stack, with q
column of barrels built up through the
middle to give additional ventilation.
The Minnesota Farmer says that
State can boast of seventy-five cream
cries, twelve common cheese factories,
thirty Swiss cheese factories and ten
limburger cheese factories. These es-
adjustments, it is estimated, run each
on an average, the milk from 1,00)
cows, or an aggregate of $50, 900 COWS,
the total number of COWS in the State
being given at 1000
Fig Pudding: Three-quarters of a
pound of grated bread, half pound of
best figs, six ounces of suet, six ounces
of moist sugar, a teaspoonful of milk
and a little nutmeg grated. The figs
and suet must be chopped very fine.
Mix the bread and suet first, then the
figs, sugar and nutmegs, one egg beaten
well, and lastly the milk. Boil in
mold four hours. To be eaten with
sweet sauce. Boston Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
ElectriFying Animals.

The latest application of electricity
is an invention made in tie interest of
CONTAINERS. which consists of an APP
paratus of great power, shaped like a
stick, about three feet and half in
length. NJ, Rauspach, the inventor, is
a lion-tamer himself, who has been "a
good deal worried during a long and
Successful profe siOnal career. He has
already experimental with it upon the
denizens of the cages in his menaoerie.
and relates the df erent effects upon
the brutes. Three of h s lions receiv-
ing the shock Immediately showed
signs of the greatest terror. hey
were seized with trembling and growled
tit.ullY. The tiger was more quickly
subdued, became stupefed and crouched
in corner of the cage. Bruin was
more refractory to electricity, which
seemed scarcely to affect him. He
would orOwl and show his teeth, anG
was subdued after repeated discharges
The most astonishing e ects, however,
were perceptible in the boa constructor.
On receiving the discharge, the speci-
men from Cayenne, nearly twenty feet
in length, became at once paralyzed
and remained motionless for six hours
afterward. When he recovered, he
showed signs of numbness. -PaH Mail
GGyet.e.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-10-16
FAITHFULNESS.

Ralph Warner and Joe Curtis were
next door neighbOrs. The doors were
not very near, for both lived on farms,
and the two houses were the eighth of
a mile apart. The farm on which
Ralph lived was a large and rich one,
but Ralph was not rich. He was only
a poor orphan boy, who worked for Mr..
Harris, the owner of the farm. Joe
Curtis was an orphan, too. The farm
on which he worked was owned by Mrs.
Douglas, widow lady. 1t was small
one, so small that sometimes this boy
was all the help she had.
One night Ralph asked Mr.. Harris if
he might 60 10 the river with Joe.
Have you done all the chores?"
asked the farmer.
Eyes, sir
Now Mr.. Harris knew that if Ralph
said so it was so. and he granted his
request at once.
Ralph found Joe bringing in the
wood for the next morning.
Joe" he said, evil you ask Mrs.
Douglas if you can go to the river with
me?"
Joe gave very ready assent. lie
assured Mrs. Douglas that the chores
were all done, and received her per-
mission to go with Ralph.
Knowing something of Joe's habits,
Ralph said, just as they reached the
gate, Are you sure the chores are all
done?''
Eyes, believe so, was Joe's care
less answer.
''The barn doors are open. Doesn't
Mrs. Douglas expect you to shut them
at night?"
''It doesn't make bit of difference,
and she won't see them, for they are
out Of sight from the house"
Il should shut them, if l were in
your place" said Ralph; and then. the
barn reminding him Of eggs, he asked:
Have you brought in the eggs, to-
dayP"
mo, forgot to look. But the hens
don't lay every dav, so Mrs. Douglas
won t think anything about IT,.
Lets see if we can find any, before
we 90 to the river" said Ralph. Il
like 70 hunt for eggs
They went. and soon found several.
Ralph, not satisfied with this, contin-