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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27

If you WANT handsome Calen-
dar fer 1886. get Hoods Household
Calendar. You may sesech for days,
but you will not get one more
artistic, mere beautifGd, or more
convenient than that Issued by the
proprietors .ef Hoods Sarsparilla.
1t is a perfect gem, and in every
respect is the ideal Calendar. Ask
for it at your druggists, and if you
don't get it there, send six cents
for one copy, or ten cents for two,
to G. 1. Hood & Co, Lowell, Mass.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
COMSUM PTION,

which is ScrofuIouS Disease of tho
Lungs, Is promptly and certainly arrested
and cured by this God-given remedy, IL taken
From its wonderful power over this terribly
fatal disease when first Offering this now cell
ebrated remedy to the public, DR. PIERCE
sumption Curc,s but abandoned that name
as too limited for n medicine which. from its
wonderful combination of tonic, or strengthen
ing alteratye or piood,s,eansalmg annoo9ns
not only as remedy for consumption of the
lungs, but for all
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
WEST VIRGINIA FREEMAN
Home Folks.
Never Make Friends with the
Drink.

Ycu1l, need your wits about you, boys,
On life's great battle-piatn;
You'll need a sure and steady arm,
clear and active BRAIN
For if you falter in your aim
There's always thss TO dread:
lfyou should fail to hit the mark,
You may get hit instead.
go never make friends with the drink, my
boys,
All that's worth having in life it destroys
Death turks behind les alluring Joys:
So never make friends with the drizk, my
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
ONE OF A 1000.
PROHIBiTlONiSTS, PREPARE

To answer ali DIRECTORS, procure and study
Finch's "People vs.. Liquor Traffic" 285 pps.,
LOO in cloth; so cents In paper. "Hand
Book of Prohibition" 1884, 100 pps., 1885-l92
pps. in cloth, 90 cts, 25 cts in paper. "Our
Appeal to Caesar" SPACE tract, 30 cts per
hundred. Frost's Workers Manual" 80
pages, single copy, 10 cts, per hundred, $500.
Send to A. J. JUTKINs, 81 Washington
H., Chicago, uls,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27

an iron mill, and in addressing the
jury the Coroner said: "Schentle-
men, I hef no personal interest in
mis- case. l hef been approached
needer by der manufacturers nor
der dec ceased"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
E}sl1s1l ~
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from q common BlOtch, or Eruption,
"Tcver-sOres," Scaly or Rough Skin,
in short, all diseases caused by bad blood are
conquered by this powerful, purifying, and
invigorating medicine. Great Eating VI.
GERS rapidly heal under its benign influence.
Especially has 1t manifested its potency in
curing. letter, Rose Rash, Boils, Car.
and SSxelings, Hig-Joint Di:ease,
White Swelltngs, Goitrc. or Thick
Neck, and Enlarged Glands. Send ten
cents In stamps for a large treatise, with col
ored plates, on Skin Diseases, or the same
amount for treatise on Scrotuous Affections.
"THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.0
Thoroughly cleanse il by using DIR. Pierce'g
G OIden Medical Discovery, and good
digestion, a fair skin, buoyant spfr.
its, vital strength, and soundhess OF
constitution, will be established.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
FACT AND FUN COLUMN.
Picked up by the Freeman.

0Io, Vi WuuLu uodIAy t,OOO are W.
men. Of the county Superindents
13 are women.
A merry voice, a smiling face, a
habit of praising the world rather
than of blaming it, makes any one
acceptable,
A one-legged man in Los Angel
es was arrested for being disorder
ly and kicking in door. He non
plused the court by asking his &C.
cuser with which leg he perpetra-
ted the offense.
He that sympathizes in all the
happiness of others enjoys the sa-
fest happiness; and he that is warn
ed by the folly of others has attain
ed the soundest wisdom.
Lessps declares that he will live
to sail through the Panama Canal.
Never say die" is his motto.
At Lake Nyassa, Africa, a strong
young man can be bought for 40
yards of white cotton cloth, a young
mother for SO yards. And old man
can be had for four yards.
Barnum has purchased the ell
ephant Alice, widow of the lately
deceased Jumbo, and will bring
her to America as soon as she can
get her trunk packed.
4 Roman Catholic bishop recent
ly said at is not the English laws,
the land laws, or the landlords
law &; it is the drink traffic that is
the curse of ireland.
Dropping a hot chestnut down a
fellows back inside his clothes
may still he very funny, but it is
an old joke, So thought West
ern cowbow, who shot barber for
practicing it.
A New York fra is competing
with a London house for the job
Of constructing an organ with near
ly ten thousand pipes, and costing
100000. Church building naw-a-
days mainly consists of the cree
ton of big organ with some sort
Of a shed in front for the shelter of
the worshipers.
1t is strange coincidence that
in Christian America the fashion
Of cutting women's hair on a level
with the eyebrows is precisely the
fashion of the women of the canni-
bal Feejee Observation-Disclosures
Witness.
Col. Fizzletop was under the pain
fGl necessity Of administering a
severe castigatien to his son John
n7. After he had completed his
lebors he said sternly to the suffer
ing victim;
"Now tell nae why l punished
you?
That's it," sobbed Johnny, "you
nearly pounded the life out of me,
and now you don't even know why
you did it."-fsaas Siftiags.
IF we expect to be happy we
must be busy; it is better to hunt
up hornets nest, and fight that,
than to be out o. a job; no5idle man
ever was happy, and but few idle
men are innocent long.
Gold can be beaten 1900 times
thinner than prir ting paper. One
ounce will cover 146 square feet.
A cubic inch, ct $18 per ounce, is
worth $210.
The attendance at the interna-
tional Exhibition in New York
in 1853, was 100000; Paris 1855,
4 $50, 469; London, 1862, GIL, 100 ;
Paris, 1867, 100000; Vienna, 1878
7,254,667; Philadelphia, 1876, 1O,-
100000; Paris, 1873, 100000
Said an exasperated Texas faith
er at tie dinner table: "YoU chill
dren t9rn up your nose at every
thing Ga the table. When L was
boy Twas glad to get enough dry
bread to eat" Il say, Pa, YOU are
having E much better time of it
now you are living with Us, amt
you ?" remarked little Tommy.
"How Goes it happea that there
are SO macy old maids among the
school hers 2" asked reporter
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27

W. =. Lincott, Niles, Ohio, had serofuia for
thirty years, and"Dr. Lindsey's Blood Scar
cher" cured him. Isn'tit w nderfule
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27

6 Lots in Hutchinson's Grove
for sale by W. F. ATrKIssoN.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
PARTIAL sp1SPECTUS
WIDE awake
FOR 1886.
Fall Prospectus Sent on Application

mother. whose five children have read
WIDE AWAKE from Its first number To its
latest. writes: al like the magazine because
it is full of Impulses. Another thing-when
lay II down feel as IL had been walking
on breezy hill-tops."
ns-SIX ILLUSTRATED SERIALS. va
/. A Midshipman at Large
IL. The Cruise OF the Casabianca.
Every boy who sailed in fancy the late ex-
citing races OF the Puritan and the Genesta,
and all lovers of sea stories, win enjoy these
two stories of Newport and Ocean Yachting,
by Charles Remington Talbot.
III. A Girl and A Jewell.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford in this de-
licious White Mountain Romance, contrib
utes her first serial TO n young folks maya
Kline.
". Dilly and the Captain.
V. Peggy, aud Her Family.
Margaret Sidney writes these two anus
ing Adventure Serials for Little Folks.
Thirty-six Illustrations each.
vi. A Six Months story (tite to be an
nounced), by Charles Esbert Craddock, au-
thor OF Down the Ravine,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
Some Speciol a t&cIes

L'Enfant Terrible Turk. by Hon, S. SCoX,
{. Is. Minister to Turkey.
The Princess Pocahontas in England. By
Mrs. Raymond Blathwayte. IluSti att ons
Include portrait from painting never be-
fore engraved.
Autographs and Autograph Hunters. BY
Nora Perry. Racy and amusing.
A Grand Peace-Meet. BY WIN + Hooper.
An imposing Indian Ceremony; with
may pictures by the author
A Sixteenth Century School-Boy, BY APP
pieton Morgan. The life OF II lad In
Shakespeare's time.
Ny First Buffalo Hunt. By Gen. John q.
Fremont.
Through the Heart OF Paris By Fran T.
Merrill. A pen and pencil record OF a
trip down the Seine.
The Dumb-B Betty Lamp. By Henry Bacon.
Hitherto untold incidents in come elton
with Floyd Ireson's Ride"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
ROYAL GIRLS AND ROYAL COURTS,

BY Mrs John Sherwood. This series, es-
pecially brilliant and Instructive, Will begin
In the Christmas number and run thrsugh
the year. :
A CYCLE OF CHILDREN.
BY Elbridge $. Brooks. Illustrations by
Howard Pyle. Twelve histori cal stories cell
ebrating twelve popular holidays. The first
six are:
Master sandy's Christmas Snspdragon.
December, 1911.
Mistress Margery's New Years Pin Money.
January, 1900.
Mr. Pepy's Valentine. FEBRUARY, 1860.
The Last of the Geraldines. March, 1885.
Diceon and the Wise Fools OF Gotham.
April, 1915.
The Lady Octavia's Garland. May, lS4.
STORIES OF AMERICAN WARS.
Thrilling incidents In our various Ameri-
can warfares. The first six are.
The Light OF Key Biscayne.
Joel Jackson's smack.
Revolutionary Turnout.
How Daniel ABBOTT Outwitted the Indians
In the Turtle Crawl.
The Boy soldiers OF Cherry Valley.
IN PERIL.
romantic dozen OF adventures, but all
strictly true, The first six are;
Saved by Kite. Taz Taz.
In n Mica Nine The Life Trial.
The Varmint that Runs on the "Helgh-Ho''
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-01-27
Fire. Place Stories.

This article will be n notable feature OF the
Christmas number. The rich illustrations
in olude glimpses OF holland Assyria, Persia
PAINTINGS In clay modelled expressly for
WIDE AWAKE, and reproduced by special
process es, in three tones.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24

that he and Lee had become good friends
and that Lee knew of his engagement at
the time that letter came. And then knew
that | had done Lee injustice; and
can't tell now just how it all came about
but aren't we happy papa"
DR.. Mills was present and he offered his
congratulations to the host
''By the by" he said "this would almost
do for scene in one of our novels, you
know. Only there doesn't seem to be any
chance for relenting and FORGIVENESS on the
part of the stern parent The pleasant lit
tie affair, is quite in accordance with your
wishes, believe
''Emphatically So" responded Joel, with
dignity.
But after the guests had gone, Mr.. Parks
spent an hour int the privacy of his own
room in deep reflection. There was surely
no one to blame in this matter he admitted
himself, and Annie had good husband, no
doubt On the whole he need have no deep
regrets on that score. But he mourned for
the fate of his scheme. He critically re-
viewed his work. and he thought he saw
some points that were capable of improve
ment.
AS he unused he mechanically took up his
newspaper and his eye almost unconsciously
fell upon the advertisement Yes he
thought that he could do better if he were
to have the opportunity again. He almost
wished that he could make a second trial
Wife, said he to Mrs. Parks, as that lady
entered the room, "What should you think
of the idea of adopting a-healthy, female
-child.-BOStOn Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
"Father's Old Boots Are There"

Many picture of moving pathos ap
pears in the dark gallery of drunken
ness. We have seen but few more
touching ones than this from the pen
of Mrs. NJ. A. Kidder. She describes.
little Benny, the son of a drunken
father, sitting in room with his
mother and little sister By looking
at this sad and thoughtful face che.
would have taken him to be ten years
of age, yet he was but six. No won~
der. For four years this almost baby
had been used to seeing a drunken
father 90 in and out of the cottage.
He scarcely remembers any thing from
him but cruelty and abuse. But now
he is dead! The green sod has lain on.
his grave a week or so, but the terrible
effects of his conduct were not buried
with him. The poor children would
start with shudder at every uncertain
step on the walk outside, and at every
hesitating hand upon the latch. On
the day mentioned Benny mother was
getting dinner. "Will my little son
go to the wood-shed, and get mother %.
few sticks to finish boiling the keetle?''
81 don't like to go to the wood-shed,
mamma"
"Why, my little son?''
Because there is pair of fathers.
old boots out there. and l don't like to
see them"
"Why do you mind the old boots.
Benny, any more than the old coat
and hat up-stairsp"
Because" said Benny, tears filing
his blue eyes, ''they look as if they
wanted to kick me-"
Oh the dreadful after-inhuence of q,
drunken father to innocent children!
what an awful memory to bear
through life!-RichmOasd Christian DID,
7,OcHie
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
TEMPERANCE REFORM.

The Attitude of the Catholic Church and
the knights of Labor-A Bright Out
look.
We now have the full text of the de-
crees of the Roman Catholic Council at
Baltimore, with respect to the sale and
use of alcoholic stimulants as bever-
ages; and the utterance ofgthat power
full church in behalf of Temperance re-
form is clear and decided.
The Bishops deplore the use of intox-.
icating drinks as ''pestiferous evil, ,"
and great obstacle to the spread of re-
ligioni applaud the total abstinence.
practiced by individuals; recognize and
commend to the paternal care of all
priests the Temperance societies formed
within the church; warn the faithful
against the liquor business as surround
ed by serious dangers and occasions of
SIM" although not unlawful in it.
| self" and counsel them, 'if they can"
to "choose a more honorable way of
making living"
These are brave words, for great
numbers of liquor dealers are Roman
Catholics and many of them are lib
eral contributors for the support of the
church which indirectly casts re-.
proach on their business.by speaking of
it as less honorable than others. The
Bishops, too, go counter to the prevail
ing desire of the dealers when they adj
monish them to "keep their saloons,
closed on Sunday"
The Roman Catholic Church is there
fore firmly planted on the side of Tenn
perance reform, for which it is capable
of doing more than has been done by
all the other agencies engaged in the
work since the Temperance agitation
began half century ago. Its power is
consolidated, and its dominion is exer--
! cised over the consciences of millions;
of our people, and they the portion Of
the community who can do most by
their precept and example to revolu--
tionize public opinion and practice with
regard to drinking.
The Knights of Labor are also work.
ing in very effective way in behalf Of
Temperance. Their leaders know that
drink is their worst enemy, for what,
they are trying to bring about can only
be accomplished by sober men; and
therefore they refuse to admit liquor
dealers into the order, or in any way to-
| lend their countenance to the liquor
traffic. Rum would soon turn the
Knights nlto a raging mob and bring
! down on them the condemnation of So
ciety and the church. Their success,
as Mr.. Powderly tells them, depends,
on their patience and control; and to
exhibit those virtues they must sed-
ulously refrain from the abuse of al
cohol.
The outlook for Temperance reform,
accordingly, is brighter now than it has,
been at any past period. Those who
are best able to make the movement
successful have taken hold of its direc--
| tion.-M Y. San.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
TEMPERANCE.
LAMENT OF A DRUNKARD.

AS SUNG BY THE LATE JOHN B. COUGH.
(Air-Long Long Ago.
Where are the friends that to me were so
dear?
Long, long ago-long ago.
Where are the hopes that my heart used to
cheer?
Long, long ago-long ago
Friends that L loved, in the grave are laid
low:
Hopes that cherished are fed from me now
! am degraded, for Rum was my foe,
Long, long ago-long ago.
Sadly my wife bowed her beautiful head,
Long long ago-long ago.
Oh, how l wept when knew she was deadt
Long, long ago-long ago.
She was an angel, my love and my guide;
Vainly to save me from ruin she tried;
Poor broken hearti it was well that she died,
Long, long ago-long ago
Let me look back on the days of my youth
Long. long ago-long ago.
l was no stranger to virtue and truth
Long, long ago-long ago.
oh, for the hopes that were pure as the day
Oh, for the loves that were purer than they!
oh, for the hours that | squandered away!
Long, long ago-long ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
FRENCH GAMBLING.
The Growth and Development of the Per-
nicious Habit in Paris.

The Growth and Development of the Per-
nicious Habit in Paris.
Gambling in France has passed
through various stages in the last two
generations. When rouge-et-noir was
abolished at Frascati and at the hipots
in the Palais Royal, an era of private
play succeeded in Paris, which most of
the novelists of the time have described.
The plucking of pigeons was per-
formed in boarding houses, where
there were always a few Colonies
and Majors at the table, and in boudoirs
inhabited by hospitable ladies, who
were singularly lucky if they took a
hand at lansquenet or vingt-et-un.
Then there were the parties in the
particular cabinets" of restaurants,
where the younger gentlemen present
would begin by pouring champagne
out of the window, and end by inditing
l. 0. U. s. At all times, believe,
there is plenty of this sort of card
playing in the centers of the civilized
world, but in Paris it flourished most
especially throughout the old Flush"
days OF the Cafe Anglals and the
Maison dor, and was one of the chief
amusements of "gilded'' people during
the recent empire. ''Plunging" was
the order of the day, and lansquenet
was the game at which most of this
''plunging" was done. The latter time
honored pastime -lansquenet-wa
finally dethroned by baccarat some
twenty years ago, and with the great
vogue of baccarat the birth of the gam
ling clubs seems to coincide. The clubs
of Paris, previous to the baccarat age,
were all of them just such places as those
known under the same name in London.
When in 1860 orthereabout man said
"Je vais au cercle," he meant that he
was about to repair to fine suite of
rooms in the best part of the town, sit
down in choice company to an artistic
dinner, and perhaps, in the course of
the evening take hand at bouillotte or
rubicon or whist Rarel y in that day
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
An Incident Which Proves That Appear
ances Are Sometimes Deceiving.

ances Are Sometimes Deceiving.
I knew he was an agent for some-
thing as soon as he opened the gate,
and when he knocked at the door 1
opened it quickly and said:
''No sir, l don't want any patent win
dow fasteners or reversible button
hooks or flexible mosquito bars or coal
sifters; my wood-shed is full of them and
l have also full line of Wilson's Can
Opener and Car Coupling Combined, so
you will please vamoose."
But" he answered, ''that's not
what | came in for; do you know"
Eyes, know that | don't need any
gilt-edged stove hooks or indestructible
lamp chimneys or balm for the COM
plexion, or remedy for chapped hands,
or any thing else, save the quiet and
rest of the grave. And moreover, if
you insist upon selling me any thing,
there will be a sickening calamity
here
'Let me tell you that"
"Not by any means; / am aware
that Prof. Windpump's Eyeglasses are
better than any other, but my yard is
full of them; have about three thou
sand patent smoothing irons, and the
cellar is heaped with mosquito bars; if
you will take the advice of one who
wishes to avoid bloodshed, you will
climb the fence with astonishing rapid
ity."
"Your hose is"
Eyes, / know it is; it always has
been; it is now provided with Smith $
burglar alarm, is insured in four com
panies and has every thing necessary
in it except something to eat. You
can't tell me any thing about my house
that l don't know, and in the mean
time you will find more salubrious
climate on the other side of the fence"
"Well, l guess I'll go; | merely
stopped in to tell you that your house
is on fire"
AS | sat in the ashes of my residence
that evening and pondered on the thus
ness of the That, the conviction grad
ually forced itself upon me that | was
bigger fool than nature intended me
to be.-St. Louis Whip.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
Public Opinion of the Saloon.

Except among men who drink, there
is no good word said of the saloon. 1t is
held in contempt by all good citizens
condemned as nuisance and given
over to popular hatred and destruction.
Its sign and open door, the bottles that
sparkle in its windows, the rattle of its,
glasses, and especially the drunkarG
who staggers from its bar, are each
and all esteemed blemishes to the COM
munity that tolerates them. Among
the best citizens in all neighborhoods,.
no matter what their opinion may be,
as to the use OF intoxicants in the ali
stract, there is the common dislike of
the saloon, and belief that it is nui-
sance which civilization should put
away. In many places this opinion is
so strong that the drinking houses are
not permitted to exist, and it is the
growth of this sentiment and its grad
ual local application that is the imme-
date hope of the Temperance cause
United Presbyterian.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24
HOW TO GET RICH.


To you want to make money, you say, and
And you've tried every way and you haven't
Is the right one that leads to pile in the
Well, your case is not SO uncommon, my
friendl
And you say you've sold goods and made
trades of each kind;
Had hand in the market" a chip in the
Sold cigars down in Georgia, bananas in
Well, I've heard others talk in similar
strain.
And you thought you'd strike out in the
world and just trust
TO your genius and luck, and you felt that
you must
Soon outdo. your two brothers, who toiled
with their tools!
Well, my friend, believe those two brothers
Men like Stewart, and such, we're your mod
els, you said?
And you thought you might follow where
others had led?
You say luck was their capital, hazard their
game?
Well I've often found other chaps thinking
the same!
And you dabbled in law, won case, caught
Till you saw something better that promised
to please
More your taste, which, you limited, inclines
That's just like you young men of many fine
parts.
Then a sketch which your friends all pro-
nounced "quite a HIT
Was rejected-(the editor, eh, had ftp
And you then turned reporter at fifteen a
week?
declare, it is queer, how like others you
speak.
what's that? Did you say: Hes foolish
who thinks
He can eer make chain without joining the
links"
And you know that you've failed to ICON
nect?" Well, now you
Arc beginning to speak in way that's quite
newt"
So you're now most convinced, even prone
to believe
That there's much in ambition that's apt to
deceive,
just ask my advice?
My young friend, here's my hand! You
wont have to ask twice.
For know it is hard for young man to
stick
Through long years to task, when his
minds working quick,
And is pointing to riches that seem within
And know that its harder to act than to
preach;
But there's one thing that's sure: if you want
to get rich,
You must ride on track that's without any
switch
And keep on without changing or jumping
the track
If you don't you are sure to be soon on your
back.
-BrOOklyll EdqIe.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24

The Hartley distillery was a 81 cess
in making drunkards. Besides those
who lived near by, no one can estimate
the number that became drunkards
from using the whisky furnished for
hotels, stores and groceries from this
distillery. M. Az.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-04-24

MANKIND are disposed to bear evils
while they are sufferable, and the fact
that they are now so thoroughly agi-
tating the means to rid themselves of
the liquor traffic and its resultant evils,
is proof that they think them very
nearly uncomfortable. -XVIh Amend
menk.