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The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24

Afew Applicationsrelievs
A thorough treatment will
cure. Agreeable to use
Price 50 cents by mail or a
druggists, Send for circular,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
Why Any 'Trapping!'

The Republican members of the
Legislature will not be trapped by
the sharp Democratic leaders into
voting against submitting the Pro-
hib,tiou amendment. Not this
year, r'nlolher year, p'raps State
Journal.
Why any trapping in the matter ?
This is very natural and pertin-
ent inquiry from The honest SOW
ereigns of the State who elect
represen tatives to the Legislature
to do the peoples will.
Why should there be any dispo-
sition TO trop any member into
voting for or against Submission ?
1t is a plain proposition to grant
the people what they have right
to ask and densGnd, and it seems
strange to the thousands of petit
TONERS that there should be any
political trapping in the matter
We are very sure that the people
are seeking no hurt or advantage
to any political party. They only
ask and insist on the right to vote
for the protection of their homes
against the saloons. Shall they
not have this privilege?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
WHAT MORE is REQUIRED
What and Wherefore!

IF Honorable Members have not
yet made up their minds to grant
the repeated petitions of the peo-
pie, pray what more can be said or
done to secure this oft-boasted boon
of the sovereign voters of tree
country? And why should any
thing more be required? Have
the people not prayed and suffered
enough? Have they not in all hui
mility waited patiently and long ?
Have they not repeatedly showered
respectful petitions upon the Leg
islature in such profusion as the
State never before knew, while no
counter-petitions are interposed
against their prayers? Have they
not in successive elections chosen
Representatives, large majority
of whom have been and are in ia
vor of submitting to them the
prayed for Amendment? And why
should minority longer refuse to
hear the cries of the people and
persist in rejecting their prayers,
and continue to battle their wishes :?
Surely there can be no longer any
doubt as to what the people want.
They want to vote on the question
which concerns them above all
other questions. Outside of the
saloons and their immediate allies,
there are hardly a dozen men in
Wood county, Democrats or Repub-
licans, who are not in favor of sub
hitting the Amendment to vote
of the people, and abiding the re-
suit. And as in Wood county, SO
all over the State. Now is the fit
time to settle the vexed question.
Let the People have it and let the
Ballot Box decide it.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
A SilO Dinner.

We have the following card
invitation, done in the finest arI
and latest style:
MR.. T. r. CARSKADON,
Presents has Compliments and re
quests the pleasure Of your
presence at an
INSPECTION OF HIS SIL0S
at his farm, Keyser, W. Va, Satuf
day, Feb. 81, 1885.
Dinner at 3 o'clock, P. NJ
We regret exceedingly that VI
must forego the pleasure of attend
ing this novel oslo" party. W
learn that large number haV
been invited, and we are sure th
SO o'clock" part OF the program
will d~a,U, if the novelty of tn
Silos should fail TO bring all tn
guests. We are sure a pleasar
and profitable time is in store Il
all who may accept the hospltallt
of Radical Hill on this occasion
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
THE FALL of KAKTOUM.
And Capture of General Gordon.

The fall of Kartoum and capture
of the brave General Gordon by the
Arab rebels in the heart of Africa,
has caused intense excitement
throughout the world, during the
week past. When the British
forces reached Kartoum where Cor
don had been defending himself
for q year, they found the city in
possession of the Arabs, and were
not able to learn whether Gordon
WAS killed or held prisoner. The
greatest activity prevails in Eng
lands military departments to re-
trieve the disaster.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
Make a Note of It,"

When you hear man talkin
against whisky and beer licens
and arguing that the sale of liouo
is a curse to a town in which il
sold, make note of it and watI
him. Those who know from q,
perience say that such men vii
take bigger dr;nk-behind ID
door, at the expense of a friend
than regular toper.-TyIer Ind.
pendent.
When you hear an editor put
ting forth such stuff as the abov
make note of it and watch him
Such ugly symptoms indicate
desperation that bodies no good
whatever of virtue, honesty an
reputation, may come between
and its selfish purposes and d
sires.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
ture elected to serve the ne,.,
the peoples goodl
True Heroisnl.

True heroism will have il.
of praise always and evervwh'
The drowning of the two colo.]
boys, at Grafton recently, vs.1
peculiarly sad affair. Thew III
skating, when Willie Rohs..1
breaking through the ice 4
friend Robert Spriggs threw oH 4
skates and overcoat, and bra
plunged into toe icy water to /
rescue. He caught Roberts =,
heroically struggled to b,,
him ashore, but the swift cur,.,
carried them both under the !.
Grafton should erect a monums,
to the memory of brave Rob-
Spriggs. Prof. U. S. Fleming Il
came near losing his life in efYo,
to save the boys.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

We have SO Judged and are banded
together for home-protection. Our
ultimate aim is not 30 much tne
restriction of the saloon as the sal
walton OF the home; not SO much
the destruction of the saloon-keeper
as the liberty of the family; not 60
much the ruin of the liquor traffic
as the building up OF the common
wealth.
There is no desire to punish the
traffickers, or to require restitution
for innumerable wrongs inflicted,
simply to stop their business IN Its
work of death and m isery, and to
turn them to other employments
where they may be useful to society
as we'll as successful in money
making.
So. on the one hand, there are
few thousand drinkers, who make
much of their rights, and insist
that they shall not be deprived of
the pleasures to be found in the
stimulating and intoxicating cup.
Button the other hand stand a
much larger number, including
nearly all the women AID children,
and the Christian people and sub
stantial citizens of the State, with
many poor helpless drunkards too,
begging that this terrible stun
bling-block be removed, that there
may be 20 tenn ptation to ruin and
wretchedness by intern perance. 1t
is right that we should hear the
PRAYER of the latter instead of the
former. We are justifable in stop
ping our ears at the selfish de-
mands of the strong, and answer
ing the cries of the weak who are
in danger. Our object is not to
take away the joys of the few, but
to restore and preserve the joys and
prosperity of the many. Let it
ever be rememb ered the Prohibi-.
tionists are not waging an often
sive warfare, but are fighting in de-
Tense of their homes and their chill
dren.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
Exchange Notes.

The Wellsburg Herald is braveIy
out again in opposition to license
the coming year. After reviewing
the saloon reign of the past year
and showing the losses sustained
and curses endured by reason Oh
license, it concludes:
''The only parties who seem "
have prospered by the business,
and their prosperity is shadowe0
by the curse that inevitably comes
sooner or later, are the men Wn'
stood behind the bars and raked ID d
the nickels that the dew
moulded"
L. Lum Smith, of Philadelphia
continues to wage perpetual reu
hot war on advertising frauds w
have received the first NUMBER
his Public Herald, which is choci
full of fraud fight There Is heal
of effective ammunition in 1t tor OH
dollar ii year.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
5000 PER CENT PROFITS
This the only Argument.

tits computed that the average
glass of whisky, which costs the
dr1nker from ten to fifteen cents,
only costs the distiller one-sixth of
a cent.
And right here is the key to the
only real and reasonable argument
against the submission of the ques-
ton of Prohibition to vote of the
people. Here are actual profits of
5000 per cent, which go into the
pockets of manufacturers, the Gov
eminent and dealers, from the dis
tillery all the way down to the mis-
cradle drunkard in the gutter.
With such enormous profits and
gains, is it any wonder that all
who share in the spoils should
unite and spend large sums of
money to save the Ubiquitous traf-
fic, by which they have their liv-
ing!
That the submission of the
Amendment will endanger the
business of the liauor-dealers, we
are ready to admit; and their uni
ted opposition to this and all other
true Temperance measures and
movements is but natural, and
their argume ut against Prohibition
is reasonable. They oppose it be-
cause it will interfere with their
money-making. All other pretend
ed arguments they may put forth
are mere shams and make-shifts to
parry the righteous attacks upon
their ruinous business.
Surely our Honorable Legislators
will want something better than
this only arqNment-this logic OF
avarice-to induce them to reject
the repeated, persistent and i'm
portuning prayers of the People!
Because glass OF whisky is sold
for sixty times its cost, is surely NO
sufficient reason why the intoler-
able curse OF the murderous Liquor
Traffic should be fastened and per.
petuated upon suffering and pro-
testing constituency, by Legisla-
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
Report FavOrably.

The committees of Doth Houses
of the Pennsylvania Legislature
have reported favorably on the
Temperance Education Bill, and
the prospect is that it will soon be-
come law, West Virginia should
not get behind in this Educational
reform,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
WEDNESDAY, FEB II. 1885
THE RESPONSIBILITY.
Why Should Any Party Assume
1t?

Among hOnest voters, as well as
among politicians, there is much
anxiety as well as speculation as
TO the probable or possible effect
the action of the Legislature on
the submission of the Amendment,
may have on the future of the po-
litical parties of the STATE.
On this matter we have no pur-
pose or desire to prophesy or specu-
late. 1t is enough to say that the
sober sense of the honest voters of
the State would regard the further
rejection of the peoples earnest
prayers as a grave responsibility
for any individual representative
or any party to assume. Indeed,
it is difficult to conceive of any
reason why any person or party
would care to assume such respon.
sibility. If the volumes of petit
tions that have been sent up
should again be spurned and the
petitioners be sent back to their
imperiled homes, empty-handed
and empty-hearted, of course it is
not in human nature that they
should feel pleasantly towards
those who bring on this, another
sad and sore disappointment. The
individual representative or the
party who is not willing to trust
the people in matter of their o,om,
in which they are intensely inter
ested, would surely have no ground
FOR complaint if the people, out of
wise precaution, should decline to
enlarge their trust in such dastrust-
eng individual or party.
But why? In all good conscience,
we ask, aohy should ana patty assume
the responsibility of battling and
defeating the will OF tle people,
who without regard to party affili-
alton, are beseeching the Legislature
to submit the Amendment to vote
of the people?
The sovereign voters are clamor-
Gus for the privilege of settling
this question for themselves, Let
them have it and Let them assume
the responsibility. The people are
the sovereigns, and sovereignty
itself should decide so grand an is
sue and bear all resultant respon-
: sibilitics
Again we ask-why should any
party assume the responsibility OF
defeating the submission of the
Amendment to a vote OF the pee
ple? In the absence OF any reason
why, we hope and trust none will
assume it.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

We hope to have good news from
the Legislature next week, for all
the fair and honest people Of the
State who believe in and value the
right Of petition.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

PLEASE SUBSCRLBE.-Let every C'iend
ss,to sohose hands a Sample Copy Of the FREE
MAN comes, take its coming as an urgent re-
quest TO subscribe.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

Read what the Press says Oh
Submission. Not a paper IN tns
State is opposing the right OF Tue
people to be heard.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

The people like to vote-theiy
have a right to vote on the AmenG'
ment. Shall they have the prlVl'
lege?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

The road-law election yesterday
was not as exciting as the NoVem
Der battle.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11
A DEFENSIVE WARFARE.


rob the whisky men of their llber-
ties and drinking men of their
pleasures. So there w"r" those
who thought the English people
were waging a war of persecution
against the House of Stuart; and
that our American forefathers
were robbing George III of his lib
critics, and overthrowing the priv
ileges of Parliament.
The conflict for Prohibition is
entirely defensive warfare. The
liquor traffic is on the offensive.
1t is making war upon the llber-
ties and happiness of the people.
Its ultimate object is to conqu er
and subjugate the country and
rule it with the iron hand of tyr
amy.
The people have long been try
ing in various ways to check its
encroachments. They have made
treaties and compromises with the
traffic, which it never pretends to
observe. But under the shelter of
law and forbearance it entrenches
itself more firmly and extends its
work of ruin and oppression. 1t is
in view of this fearful oppression
and the continued encroachments,
that the Prohibitionists are risin g
up in defense of their liberties and
their homes. That defense in
their view demands the prohibi-
tion of the traffic. 1t resists no lib
erty but that of running the lives
and homes of the people. 1t takes
away no pleasures except thos e
that are fraught with pain to the
co mmunity. The saloon-keeper
will still be entitled to all the lib
critics that others enjoy. The
drinker will still have access to all
wholesome pleasures, and the
pleasures of most of them will be
increased
In the State of West Virginia
there are about 800 saloon-k eepers.
They desire the liberty of selling
whisky in order that they may
make money easily. There are
also in the State about 10000
homes. 1t would probably be a
very small estimate to say that
one home in every ten, or $1,000 of
these homes, are direct sufferers
from the liquor traffic in this
State. All the others suffer more
or less directly. These $4,000
homes are crying to Heaven and
the people, sometimes with groans
unutterable and pains unendura-
BILE, for freedom from the curse
that robs them of happiness and
prosperity.
On the one hand we hear the
800 individuals, whose eyes stand
out with fairness, who spread
themselves like the green bay-tree,
and who have all of this worlds
goods that heart could wish, inso-
lently demanding that their liber-
ty to continue the traffic in death
and wretchedness shall not be tax
en- away from them. On the other
hand we hear these $4,000 HON es,
with their 1900 direct sufferers,
many of them with faces that are
thin and wan and weary, cramped
with hunger and poverty, and sit
ting in darkness and gloom, hum
bly, begging in piteous means, that
the accursed traffic that causes their
sorrow shall be stopped.
Can we be condemned for heark
ening to the cries of the latter
Chnnld un haarkan To tho ctron ~
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-11

ALWA vs. In so,'ftt1g as about sUbscrfp-
tons, al0ays gire p o. at ,ohtah you recetDe the
pnner. This aDiH sase as much trouble.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-05
THE NEW YEARS YARNS.
story Tsllsrs Never Swear off.
Like the Seasons, They Run on Forever
What Imagination viii Do---Some
Odd Incidents Of 0uellrg---
Scenes in Texas
Hotel.
"a, FicldOf Honor


One of the most singular features ofduel-
ing is tie fact that the lives Of the combat
ants have not unfrequently been saved oy
articles carried on the person. The lie Oh
Broderick. of California, was once saved oy
the ball of his antagonist striking MS
watch, while we have the oratorios OF Han
del because the sword of his antagonist
broke on a coat button. The lighting
lrishmen, Mentally and Harrington, once
fought, and the bullet OF one was
turned aside by the suspender buckle
of the other, while the second bus-
let lodged In a paper of gingernuts IN
the pocket of the first man. Another
Irishman fighting with Darlington had his
life preserved by a brooch which he wore,
in which the ball lodged, while Rochetori
was spared for years to abuse his political
enemies BY the accident Of having 5-tranc
piece in his vest pocket. But perhaps the
most singular result ever known IN a due
was that achieved by two French gentlemen
named Pierrot and Arlequin, who at the
word fred together, and each succeeded IN
killing the others second. "What an es-
cape. cried spectator, though the seconds
had both fallen dead. But it may be safely
affirmed that the friends Of the seconds did
not look on the matter in this accom- modal
ing way, and much trouble ensued, though
finally the whole affair was dropped and nc
further lighting resulted from so unlucky
dnel
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We& SiIgjnia UnivsIs1.

Tuition FREE 70 ~ Yosag - dMmo
Virginia 70 ~ sxteat q a. ~ sssy -
hundred population. -
Z Ful1 UnlSessGlv CeugDo
$500
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What Imagination Will Do.
Hqrfford Times,

A good joke has leaked out about the
baggagemaster on Conductor Benedict
train of the Naugatuck road. The other
day he mournfully took on at Bridgeport q
heavy casket box, and all the train hands
supposed that they had corpse for pas
senger. Some remark was made that the
box was rather light, and the baggagemaster
declared that he believed the body was
resurrected one. Soon after leaving Bridge
port this thought preyed upon him, and
Immediately his olfactory nerves were
attended in confirmation of his theory
Forthwith he opened all the doors OF the
baggage car, and at length betook himself
for refuge to the smoker, declaring that ne
could endure it no longer. Occupants OF
the mail and express compartments OF the
car also complained Of the odor. When
the train reached Winsted an undertaken
called for the box and asked permission OF
the station baggage master to leave 1t IN
the baggage-room. A mild but firm pro
test against keeping corpse in his room
over night was made. A similar appeal to
the express authorities met with prompt
refusal. The undertaken smiled q regular
business-ike smile, unscrewed the box, and
showed-a new, empty coffin.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-05
Communication.

wgrUNPEA, Ala, Sept. ., IsS4--About six years
ago became afflicted With q very diSasreeable skin
disease with large, dry sores and many crusted PIN
piles on my face, hands and shoulder. The sore on
my shoulder eat out hole nearly an inch deep, and
the Gancerous appearance OF one OF the sores near
my eye alarmed me very much. / tried all kinds
of treatment but found nothing that seemed 20 ahect
the disease. finally decided to try s. ). s. on adj
vice Of physician, ard in q short time the ScaoS
dropped from the and left my skin smooth spd
well. lconsdSr :. ). S. the NRateSt blood metiene
made, and the only thing TN vill cure the disease
with which was afflicted. 7 think my trouble was
the result Of terrible attack Of m&aria fever con-
traeted while farming in the TalaPoosa river swamp
i can BE- found al my Office In the court house Al
Wetumpka- You can refer to me.
J. L. RHODES Dep Sheriff Elmore CO., Ala.
Treatise on Blood and skin Diseases mailed tree.
Sold BY Laughlin Bros. 4 70. and Logan OBJ a.
wholesale and retail. Wheeling, W. Va
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PETROLEUM.
Bradford.

Bradford.
BRADFORD January 3.-Crude Oil-Mar
ket dull, weak and lower. National TRANSIT
and tidewater ruas Friday 62,S06 barrels;
total shipments 6S,445 barrels; charters
1859 barrels; clearances to-day 100000
barrels. National Transit certificates opened
at Isle; closed at 74lc; highest 1879; low.
est 745c.
Oil CITY.
OH CRY, January 3.-National Transi
certificates opened at 75lc, highest 754c
lowest 74Ic, closed at 74sc. Shipments
l03, SIC barrels, charters none, runs III, 246
barrels, clearances 1864, 900 barrels, sales
1916, 900 barrels. Exchange stock 81 90
bid, 81 Is asked.
Titusville.
TITusvILLE, Pa, January 3.-Opened al
7jIc; highest 75sc; lowest 74!c; closed al
74lc; shipments lO3,673 barrels; charters
none,
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FINANCE AND TRADE.

Money Ia1 Liz Per Cent-Govsrnmsnts
weaker-StocksL ower--FlourS Steady and
Higher-wheat Higher.
New YoRk, January 3.-Money easy at l
6lI per cent, closed offered at l per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 4f@6 per cent.
Sterling exchange, bankers bills steady at
1909; demand 4844,
GoyERNNESTs-Weaker.
Threes .......-.............l0l
Tours and-a-hah
Fours coupons
Pacific Skies Of 1s96.... ..............l2o
RAnwAYs-Irregular.
STATE SEcURTIEs-Firm and more &C
tive.
STocKs-The share market in the first
half hour of business was irregular but in
the main strong. Missouri Pacific, Union
Pacific and Lackawanns were especially
strong. Near p. m. there was falling off
in the vclame Of business and prices recedei
to l per cent Late in the day
there was decided pressure to
sell coal stocks, Pacific Mail and St. Paul,
under which the market dropped ] to u
per cent. At the close Pacific Mail rallied
to 55, but the market as q rule left off weak.
Speculation was adversely affected on re-
port of lower passenger rates at Chicago,
and on the falling off in east bound ship
ments. Coal shares were attacked on re-
ports that foreclosure proceedings against
the Reading had been commenced. Com
pared with last night, the closing prices are
/ to II lower, except for Canadian Pacific,
Central Pacific, Northwestern, Delaware
and Hudson, Missouri Pacific, and Omaha,
which are to Il per cent higher. Sales of
stocks for the past week are l,434,2O2
shares.
Transant;nns ts-har. 2a4 flhn shares
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choice shipping S. 2O@l 90; common to
fair "a 0J(95 90; stockers. So 00@4 90;
feeders, 81 00@4 40.
heep-Receipts. 300 head; market steady
and stronf.r; inferior to fair SO OO@3 90;
medium u good. So 00@3 %; choice
So 95@4 90; lambs 81 00@4 80.
Last Liberty.
EAST LrBERTY, January 3.-Cattle-
Nothing doing, all through consignments.
Receipts 5l3 head; shipments S55 head
Hogs-Market active. Receipts 2,le0
head; shipments 500 head; Philadephias
81 1904 so; Workers 81 1904 80.
Sheep Nothing doing; prospects fair for
next week. Receipts 200 head; shipments
none.
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, January 3.--Live Hogs
Active, firm and higher; common and
light So 65@4 90; packing and butchers
81 45@4 Is; receipts $500 head; ship
ments ] 800 head
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Monopoly,s stalking Horse.
Louigvlle C0urier-Jo1rndl

Mr.. RandalTs tour is job. It is the lay
inc of a train to confuse or divide the masses
Of the people by various false lights in order
that the solid squadron of protection,
mounted and mailed, booted and spurred,
NAV pass through the breach and ride down
the uneuuipped, undiseiplned and ill-oth-
earad raw militia, rough shod.
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raImagc rreading on Dangerous Ground.
S,,c YORK. World

There Is a possible opening for disaaec-
ton in another congregation In Brooklyn.
Brother Talmage, in direct opposition to
numerous Blaine organs, publcly declares
that ''the negro is everywhere well treated
AZ the South" and as he has just returned
from that region his information may be
taken as authentic.