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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Exchange Notes.

In recent issue of the Enquirer
"Gath" devoted a column W the
novelties and excellencies Of the
splendid residence of Mr.. M. G. g.
Church, of Parkersburg.
Our neighbor, the Sentinel has
added to its large outfit a complete
bindery with new machinery. Its
complaint now is that it hasn't
room in present quarters to spread
itself.
The Pittsburgh Advocate publish
es Neal Dow's excellent article on
THE Situation" and in same issue
a most timely editorial appeal for
charity, harmony, and aggressive,
united activity among all Tenn per-
ance workers.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Revival Meetings.

The wonderful revival meetings
at st, Mary's continue with ever
increasing interest. During last
week three meetings were held
daily; morning, afternoon and eve
ming, with the church filled at
every meeting. Nearly one hun
dred persons protested conversion
up to our last reports, several days
ago.
PARKERsBURG - Meetings con.
tinue every evening at the M. E.
Church South, Baptist, United
Brethren and Protestant Metho-
dist. At all these Churches the
interest grows deeper and wider,
with additional conversions and
subjects for prayer at nearly all the
meetings. The union meeting at
101 a. NJ, at the M. E. Church
South continues to be greatly en-
joyed by the many who attend.
TYLER.-Rev. w. H. Albert re-
ports successful meeting at Fair
view, Tyler county, in which there
were twenty-eight conversions and
twenty-one accessions to the
church.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
D. COURT.


The noted thirteen-year Adams
Express, Allen case was finally set
tied in the U S. Court last week,
not by a jury but by the attorneys.
Fourteen years ago Allen of bod
bridge County sued Adams Ex-
press Company for 81, 200, claimed
to have been sent from Baltimore
to Smithton. The Company resis-
ted, charging fraud and that no
money was sent. The first trial
vas had in 1873. There were two
trials with hung juries. The third
jury found for the plaintiff.
The Company enjoined the ludg-
ment and prosecuted Allen for per-
jury.
Last week came the trial for per-
jury, resulting in another hung
jury, 5 for viction, 7 for acquit-
tai whereupon the attorneys came
together and settled the whole mat.
ter. 1t is said the costs to the Com
pany alone have been nearly S.
600.
A Grand Jury was empaneled on
Monday and has been busy at work
ever since.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
W EST VIRGINIA FIX EEMAN.
Hay For sale.

Abraham Johnson. eight miles
above Parkersburg on the Ohio
River Road, has for sale about SO
tons of good hay, and lot of sec
ond quality hay, which he will
sell cheap Will sell part or all.
This advertisement will be drop
ped as soon as hay is sold. AS the
owner is in poor health, will furn-
ish presses, and sell in stack so as
to save purchaser more than the
price for pressing.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
WE BEG PARDON.
One Exception to the Rule.

We were in error last week when
we said, that in no case had a MEM
Der been reelected to the Legisla-
ture who has voted against the sub
mission of the amendment.
We overlooked the one exception
in the case of Hon. Mr.. Gilkeson OF
Hampshire. But then the "excep-
ton proves the rule" And now
as the honorable gentleman from
Hampshire has proven the rule, We
hope he will hereforth be found on
the side of the people, voting for
submission.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Please Renew.

This extra number is sent to
short time subscribers, whose time
ended with Feb. /. We hope all
these friends will renew at once.
The FREEMAN wants to tell you
what the Temperance people are
doing, and the cause wants your
support.
Ifthis item is marked with
blue X this will be the last FREE.
MAN sent you till heard from.
Please send in your renewal at
once.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Ii. e. o. AGAIN.
Establishes a TechnOlOgicaI
School.

The Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road Company have issued a circu-
lar order from the general mana
gers office, bearing date January
10, 1885, embodying executive or
der No. 6, from Mr.. Robert Garrett,
the president, providing for tech
biological school at Mount Clare,
tor the promotion of higher
course of instruction for the ap-
prentices of the company. Messrs.
John K. Cowen, e J. D. Cross, DR..
w. I. Barnard, Bradford Durham
and Chas. Selden are directors OF
the school. There will be three
classes-apprentices, cadets and Ca
Diet officers of four, three and two
years terms each, making a ten
years course of study, of which the
company bears the expense, and
for which it expects in return ser
vice at fair salary for at leas
three years after graduation. From
the first, pay Of apprentices will be
from 20 cts. to 81 per day, cadets 81
80 S1,25, cadet officers 81 so to So.
Instructions will be given in all
departments of the service.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04

furnish the material for the lower
grades of the traffic. Nor can the
relief demanded be secured by .
limited number OF saloons. Even
one saloon in the reach Of the peo-
pie is sufficient to produce unbear-
able burdens. Of course the temp
tation WOULD not be so universal.
But that one saloon would be able
to make the most of the ira ffic. The
great majority who wanted drink
would seek it. 1t would doubtless
be in most public place, and ina
ny would be attracted to it and led
astray. Just so sure as the people
have a saloon within convenient
reach of them, will the main bur
den of the traffic remain with them.
There cannot possibly be any salts
factory relief except in the total
prohibition of the traffic in intoxi.
eating beverages. This as rule,
will check the main current of the
evil at once, and in due time the
whole of the foul stream will be
substantially dried up.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Scattering Good Seed.

Mr.. Robert j. Young, son of DR..
Loyal Young, so well known to us
all, is now can wasting the city in
the interests of the Presbyterian
Board of Publication. TIE relig-
ious literature he is circulating is
largely dndenoninational, and we
bespeak for Mr.. Young a cordial
reception on the part of all Chris
tian people, in this good work.
He will be glad to supply Chris
tiam workers Nth tracts for free
distribution.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Please Subscribe.

We send sample copies of this
issue to number of friends who
have before been short time sub
scribers. AS the FREEMAN is now
entering into another aggressive
Temperance campaign, it would
gladly have their sympathy AID
support. Please subscribe; if not for
a year, for s, 6, or even 4 months
for so cents.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Moss & Bentley.

Above is the style of the young
and enterprising firm succeeding
TO the furnishing Book and Sta
tionery business of the late firm o.
s l.. Addison & Co.
We heartily congratulate Mr.
Moss on his promotion to the head
OF this solid and successful house
and congratulate the public will
the assurance of their being served
in the future with the same ad'
commodating geniality that has al
ways made this store popular re'
sort for business.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
A Square Fight.

The whisky element throughout
the country have organized for self
protection, and there is no chance
left tor the order-loving and law
abiding citizens but to make a
square stand-u fight against the
organized hosts of hell, or submit
to all the ills which are implied in
unlimited dissipation and bacchan-
allan revelry. Irrepresiible.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Freeman Contents.

inside Pages
Foolish Excuses.
Monroe County Letter.
What We License.
Temperance Lecture by Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Among Our Exchanges. &c.
". C. T. u Page: Grafton's
Shame, Secretary's Notes, Miss
Jennie Smiths Letter, Notes. &C.,
&c.
Outside pages are first before the
readers and speak for themselves.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04

Halls Vegetable Sicillian Hair
Remover imparts fine gloss and
freshness to the hair, and is hig lly
recommended by physicians, cler-
gymen and scientists, as a prepare
ton accomplishing wonderful re-
suits. 1t is a certain remedy for
removing dandruff, making the
scalp white and clean, and restor-
ing gray hair TO its youthful color.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04

GAS the Heart is Touched, th
focketbook Flies Open. "--ThI
will be the caption of straight Oh
letter, enclosing "s15 for Prob
bition," which has just come 1
hand. Letter next week.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Mr.. f. b. TOOthaker Protests.

We have note direct from Mr..
F. B. toothaker, of Columbus, O.,
protesting against an item in last
weeks FREEMAN, whicL we took
from a city exchange. He says be
has no Consumption" and is not
seriously ill"-in fact, has not
been in better health for years. We
are are glad to make this correc-
ton, and Franks many friends
will be glad to see it.
ANOTHER PROTEST.
We have another protesting let
ter from subscriber in Richie
county, Mr.. E. w. McClain. who
claims that the FREEMAN did him
wrong in the published account of
a difficulty between himself and a
young Mr.. Palmer. He denies that
the assault was unprovoked, or
that he was at fault as represented.
Of course we knew nothing of the
matter and only published the ac-
count as it came to US.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
Restriction Won't Do.

the evils of Intemperance would
be greatly mitigated, ii not sub.
stantially cured, if the low dogger-
les could be abolished and the
number of saloons considerably re.
duced. Hence they look with ia
vor on high license" or something
like the Scott Law; or upon the
election of officers who will dis
criminate in granting license.
The idea is that the evils Of the
traffic are mainly connected with
the low, irresponsible saloons that
are patronizec by the outcast and
criminal classes of society; and
with the large number of saloons
that makes the temptation SO uni.
versa.. Hence by restricting the
traffic, and keeping it in responsible
hands, the haunts of vice may be
broken up, drunken brawls pre-
vented, and many saved from the
tenn ptation to drunkenness.
But have the people ever obtain
ed any permanent relief from such
course? We have heard from
different points that the number OF
saloons have been reduced, and
drunkenness diminished. But we
have heard of no general or sub
stantial or permanent relief. The
business may be stopped in some
communities; but it may go on
again so soon as responsible man
is able to start it. The amount of
drunkenness may be considerably
reduced, but the main curse of the
traffic is still there. A temporary
relief may be felt. but the "iniqui-
ty of the traffic" cannot long be
kept in bounds. But little good is
accomplished by high license"
except In communities where it
amounts to permanent prohibit
ton; and such communities are
likely to be very few.
Suppose any system of regula-
ton would succeed in abolishing
the low doggeries-what then :?
Would the low and criminal class
es cease to drink? Certainly not.
They would get their whisky at
the respectable CO saloons. And
the respectable whisky would
make them just as lawless and vio-
lent and vicious as any other. But
the greatest sting and curse of the
traffic are not in the viler grog-
shops Of the city or community.
1t is certainly bad enough when
the low and vicious are degraded
and ruined by strong drink. But
when the evil comes to onr respec-
table homes and lays its cruel
hands on talent and culture, and
undermines the health and NOR
atty of those who should be the
very bone and sinew of the commu-
nifty, 1T is striking at the very life
of the people. And this is the
work of the respectable (?) saloons.
The more respectable they are
made, the greater their influence,
and the more their evil works. A
man writing from Washington to
one of our religious papers some
time ago, spoke of the sad fact that
Senator Bayard's son had been TAX
en- home drunk from one of the sa-
looms Of that city; and then spoke
of the urgent necessity Of restricting
the traffic to save such as him from
ruin. AS if abolishing the baser
sort of saloons in Washington
would save Senator Bayard's son
Let all the saloons be closed, and
there would be hope. But with
only the respectable ones open, Mr..
| Rava rd'a ruip 10 oil tho poora oor
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04

Send in tbs second crop of pc
tions promptly.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04

Senator woodward returned
Wheeling last night.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04
ANOTHER PROTEST.

"More Charity and More Work"
says good Brother, sis what we
want" He sends 50 and an excel
lent letter-yours next week.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1885-02-04

Pianos and Organs for Sale
Rent by w. F. Attkisson.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26
The Souls Farewell to the Body.

So we must part forever. And aItho'
| long have beat my wings and tried to go
Free from your narrow limits, and control.
Forth into space, the true home OF the scul,
Yet now yet now that hour is drawing near
pause reluctant, finding you so dear,
All Joys await me in the Realm of God,
Must you, my comrade, uolder in the sod?
I was your captive. yet you were my slave,
Your prisoner. yet, obedience you gave
To all my earnest wishes and commands.
Now 20 the worm, l leave those willing hands
That toiled for me, or held the book read,
Those feet that trod where er l bade them
tread,
Those arms that clasped my dear ones, and the
breast
On which one loved and loving heart found
rest,
Those lips thro' which my prayers to God have
risen.
Those eyes that were the windows OF my pris-
From these, all these, Deaths Angel bids me
sever,
Dear Comrade Body, fare you well forever.
go to my inheritance: and go
With Joy that only the freed soul can know.
Yet, in my spirit -journeyings trust
| may sometimes pause near your sacred
dust
Ella wheelei Wilcox.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26
"A Joke Which Mark Twain Enjoyed

Il remember one circumstance of by
gone times with great vividness, said
Mark Twain recently to Buffalo au-
dience. Il arrived here after dark on
a February evening in 1870, with my
wife and large company of friends,
when had been husband twenty
four hours; and they put us two in
covered sleigh and drove us up and
down and every which way through
all the back streets in Buffalo, until at
last | got ashamed, and said: i asked
Mr. Slee to get me cheap boarding
house. but didn't mean that he should
stretch economy to the going outside
the state to find it. The fact was.
there was practical joke to the fore
which didn't know anything about,
and all this fooling around was to give
it time to mature. Ny father-in-law,
the late Jervis Langdon, whom many
of you will remember. had been clan
destinely spending a fair fortune upon
a house and furniture in Delaware, for
us. and had kept his secret so well that
was the only person this side of Nj
agara Falls who hadn't found it out
We reached the house at last. about 10
o'clock, and were introduced to Mrs.
johnson, the ostensible landlady. I
took glance around. and then my
opinion of Mr.. Slee's Judgment as a
provider of cheap boarding houses for
men who had to work for their living
dropped to zero. | told Mrs. johnson
that there had been an unfortunate
mistake. Mr.. Slce had evidently sup
posed l had money, whereas | only
had talent; and so, by her leave. we
would abide with her week. and then
she could keep my trunk and we would
hunt another place. Then a battalion !
of ambushed friends and relatives burst |
in on us. out of closets and from be- |
hind curtains; the property was deliv-
cred over to us, and the joke revealed. |
with much hilaritv. |
Such jokes as these are all too scarce in
a persons life. That was really ad-
joke, for that house was so
complete y equipped in every detail
even to the house servants and coach
man-that there was nothing to do but
just sit down and live in it. Well, the
house isn't ours now, but we've got the
coachman yet. All these fifteen years
he has been a living and constant re-
minder OF that pleasant jest He was
a spruce young STRIPPING then, with
MS future all before him. He showed
himself worthy of high good fortune,
md it has fallen richly to his lot-be-
Tond his most distempered dreams; he's
got wife and nine children now. l
would not discriminate; | would not
how Partially; | wish you all the same
uck'
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26
He Forgot to Ask.

A good story was told at the Scoville
House, in Waterbury, recently, during
the settlement of number of election
bets. During the Polk campaign much
interest was taken in Waterbury in the
result, and party strife ran high be-
tween Wings and Democrats. Water
bury was only little village at that
time, and it had no railway communi-
cations. 1t was also before the days of
the telegraph, and number of politi-
clans made up purse and hired Colo
mel Richard Welton, proprietor of the
New Haven stage line, to make spe-
cial trip to New Haven and get the re-
turns.
The crowd waited anxiously on the
tavern steps all through the afternoon
OF the day of Colonel Welton's trip. and
when he came in sight, with horses
smoking from their long drive. he stood
up in his wagon and called to the ex-
pectant crowd:
New 1ork's gone 5000"
''for whom? arose on every side.
The Eoionei jumped from his wagon,
hesitated 4 moment. scratched his head,
and then blurted out: well, | swan. |
forgot to ask.
The feelings of the politicians can be
better imagined than described. d.-Nev
Hdren NctcS.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

Another Ohio man has distinguished
himself, but he was not, in this instance,
running for office-but merely walking =
for fun and for fame. The man referred
to is Mr. Charles F. Lummis. humorist,
poet and journalist, recently connected
with the Chilicothe Gazette who left his
old home on the llth of September, and
Cincinnati on the following day, and ar
rived at Los Angeles, California, on Feb
ruary l, the trip occupying .43 days His
actual walking time, however, was about
one hundred and twelve days, and the dis
tance travelled, as measured by pedome,er
carried in his vest pocket, was 3,507 miles.
He stopped at St. Louis two days, at Den
yer four days, aud at San Mateo four days,
seeking information and making re-
searches Most of the time he averaged
thirty miles per day, though on one day he
made seventy-nine miles in tweuty-one
hours. His route was not on an airline
by any means, as he struck off into noun
tain or plain as curiosity or inclination
prompted.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

II had known whose face I'd see
Above the hedge beside the rose:
II had known whose voice I'd hear
Make music where the wind flower bioWs--
| had not come: had not come.
If had known his deep" 81 love-
Could make her face so fair to see;
II had known her shy And T.
Could make him stoop SO tcnderly-
/ had not come; had not come.
But what knew I? The summer breeze
Stopped not TO cry. Beware! bewareV"
The vine wrcaths dropping from the trees :.
Caught not my sleeve with soft''Take carer
And SO i came; and Sc | came.
The roses that his hands have plucked
Are sweet to me- are death to me:
Between them. as through living flames.
pass, | clutch them. crush them. seel
The bloom for her, the thorn for me.
The brooks leap up with many a song
once could sing; like them could sing.
They fail: It's like sigh among
world of joy and blossomng-
Why did l come? why did come?
The blue sky burns like altar fires
How sweet her eyes beneath her hair!
The green earth lights its fragrant pyres:
The wild birds rise and flush the air;
God looks and smiles, earth is so fair.
But ah: 'twixt me and you bright heaven
Two Blended heads pass darkling by:
And loud above the bird and brook
l hear a low Il love-" And l."
And hide my face All Godl Why? Why?
Anna Katharine Green.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

a harmless yet ghastly scarf-pin is a
mechanical skull of enameled gold with
a movable under jaw. and diamonds
set back in its hollow sockets for eyes.
The skull is worked by a current of
electricity generated by little battery
carried in the pocket, and transmitted
over wires no heavier than strands of
thread. Pressing upon button which
completes the electric circuit, the teeth
rattle. They are made in Paris and
are worth SlOO The price is rather
steep, bat the ornament has to be very
carefully and nicely adjusted, and it is
made OF platinum and the best of gold;
besides, the diamonds alone are of
some value. No cheap counterfeits
have vet been made.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26
Why He Didn't Fail.

Last spring an Indiana man started
bank in 4 town in Dakota. and about
the 1st of February having secured
deposits to the extent of $4,000, 2
notice was one morning posted on the
doors of the bank reading:
''Temporarily closed-hope to pay
the depositors in full.
The banker wanted to test the tenn
per of the public previous to big
scoop. In the course of half an hour
the doors were kicked in, the office gut
ted, the banker stepped on until he was
seventeen feet long and only two inches
thick, and the chap who held a revol-
yer TO his ear jovially remarked:
Now, then, my friend, we give you
just five minutes to unlock that safe
and count out the slugs to depositors
in full.
The depositors were paid in full, and
the banker has come East in search of
more civil people.-WaH Street Neus.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

The veteran Joseph Harrison, who has
done more hard work, in administering to
the necessities of the poor, than any other
person, has been renominated with an ac-
cent and rushl Mr. James Buford will
prove an able and efficient associate to
him in his work.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

Hannibal Hamlln tells a Lewiston
Journal reporter that he once had a
taste of newspaper work, and. on the
whole, enjoyed it. Said he: when
Horatio King (who afterward became
postmaster generaD and / bought the
JeterS0ntan at Paris, both of us were
under q years of age. | remained in
partnership with him six months, and
worked for him six months more. l
set type and helped work off the papers
on the old hand-preSS. We had to
spread the ink on with balls made of
buckskin. 1t was very laborious. |
sold out my share of the Jc6trsontan
for S4OO made pretty good specu-
lation. and the money, | know, helped
me materially in my law studies"
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

The Anglo-American Times, London,
in its issue Of February 18th, says: Those
wig have learned how to interpret the
signs abroad in America know that a re-
viyal in business is not merely going to
begin, but has commenced; is in actual
progress, and presently will become ap-
parent to the multitude who do not know
orcarefor or could not interpret the signs"
Correct Colonel Muter. ThanksI
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

The Philadelphia Bulletin ridicules the
proposition to run the Intersection Tower
in the Quaker City, fifty feet higher than
at first proposed, so that it might be higher
than the Washington monument. The
Bulletin doesn't like the Philadelphia mon
ument, any how, and evidently thinks that
the higher it goes the worse it will look
In this respect it would resemble some 9TH
er things (among them some people) who
get out of their range.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-02-26

Hereafter The North American Review
is to have a new departure, consisting of
letters from the public criticising and COM
menting upon articles that have appeared
in the review. 1t will be an interesting
deDartment