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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
A FRIEND INDEED.

Hon. G.. W. Atkinson generously
arranged to divide the profits of
the recent Philip Phillips enter
tainment at Wheeling, with the
W. G. T. u, which netted our
Treasury s55,56.
Mr.. Atkinson intended the pro-
ceeds of this concert to g. to-
wards the purchase Of piano for
has Sabbath School. Of course
this "divisiom" will render that con-
sumation impossible just now, but
it makes possible some other impor-
tant work that could not have been
carried on without this timely aid.
And more than one w. G. T. U.
woman will thankfully remember
Mr.. At kinson, and not few we
trust will want to help him work
for that piano-aOhich IS going to
come. We covet hand in helping
to bring it.
1t is simple justice to say that
this is only one among the many
instances, where this staunch
friend of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union has given up
his own plans, denied himself need
ed leisure, working out of business
hours, to help carry out some plan
of W. G. 7. U. work that was likely
to fail without his aid, by goin e
down into his pocket to give need
ed and substantial assistance.
Mr.. Atkinson stands squarely by
the Womans' Christian Tenn per
ance Union, in its work for Goo
and Home and Native Land.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
A Word to the Boys.

What do you think, young
friends, of the hundreds Of thou.
sands who are trying to cheat
themselves and others into the be-
lief that alcoholic drinks are good
for them ? Are they not to be
pitied and blamed ? Do you want
to be one of these wretched men
If we are to have drunkards in the
future, some of them are to come
from the boys to whom | an
writing and I ask you again I
you want to be one of them ? No.
of course you don't!
Well, l have a plan for you that
is just as sure to save you from
such a fate as the sun is to rise to
morrow morning. 1t never failed
it never will fail ; and | think it
is worth knowing. Never touch
liquor in any form. That's the plan
and it is not only worth knowing
but it is worth putting in pra'
tice. i
l know you don't drink now, and
it seems to you as if you neVa
would. But your temptation will
come, and it probably will come ID i,
this way You will find yoursel
sometime, with a number OF com
panions, and they will have 0a
tie of wine on the table. lhE
will drink and offer it to you. lnP
will regard it as q manly practN
and very likely they will look y
on you as milksop if you dont95
dulge with them Then what WI
you do? Eth? What will you ~
Will you say, "No, no, none OF Int
stuff for me. know trick Woln
half a dozen of that ?" Or Wlll!~
take the glass with your own cun
mon sense protesting, and your cos
science making the whole drausn T.,
bitter, and feeling that you n'$i
damaged yourself, and then 60
with hot head and akulAa
soul that at once begins to m' a''
apologies for itself, and will , 5 W
doing SO during all his life pO
do not become drunkards' ~
Holland.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Wanderers Return.

Ny home is so glad, my heart is so light,
NY wandering boy has returned tonight
He is blighted and bruised 1 know by sin,
But am so glad to welcome him in.
The child of my tenderest love and care
Has broken away from the tempter's snare
Tonight my heart is o'erfowing with Joy,
l have found again my wandering boy.
My heart has been wrung with thousand
fears.
Mine eyes been drenched with the bitter.
est tears,
Like shadows that fade are my past alarms,
My boy is enelasped in his mothers arms.
The streets were not safe for my darling
child;
Where sin with its evil attractions smiled.
But his wandering feet have ceased to roam,
And tonight my hayward boy is at home.
A home with the mother that loves him best,
With the hearts that have ached with sad
unrest,
told joy,
Because we have found our wandering boy.
In that wretched man SO haggard and wild,
l only behold my returning child,
And the blisstul tears from my eyes that
start,
Are the overflow of happy heart
have trodden the streets in lonely grief,
l have sought in prayer for my sole relief
But the depths of my heart tonight are
stirred
know that the mothers prayer has been
heard.
If the mother love be so strong and great,
For her child, sin weary and desolate,
Oh, what must the love of the FATHER be,
For souls who have wandered like you and
me!
Mrs. r. E. " HARPER.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Education Means Prohibition.

In an article on Local Option in
Georgia, in late issue of The Inde-
pendent, DR.. A. G, HAYGooD, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South,
bears this important testimony to
the position of the colored people
of Atlanta at the local option ell
ection in November last:
"Before closing this article,
already longer than l wished
to make it, word must be written
about the attitude of the colored
people in Atlanta, Novem Der 25th
the day of the election in that city.
With hardly an exception the COL
ored pastors stood firmly by the
prohibitionists. But for them the
liquor men would have prevailed.
Gains, Carter, Turner and others,
were, from the beginning, in the
forefront of the fight. Many col
ored voters resisted large offers
some larger money than they may
ever expect to handle at one time.
"Let all men and women who
care for the education of the negro
in the South know this-the
strongest prohibition force among
the colored citizens came from those
who had been taught in the COL
leges for colored people in Atlanta.
Time and again since the election,
we.l-informed gentlemen in Allan
ia have said to me: These college
taught men and women stood by
u.s." This attitude was magnifi-
cent vindication of the efforts that
are being made to educate the ne.
groes in the South"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Prohibition In Iowa.
Different Ways of PUTTING Il.

PROHIBITION FAILS TO PRoH1p,,
in Iowa, in a large part of t y.
State" is the way the Eron,;n ny
puts it. Our way of putting '' !.
would be, prohibition is suc ? !.
in Iowa, in a large part of tbs
State" There are cities and lar.'
towns here and there in which ~
law against the sale of intoxieat;as
liquors is no better executed tbas
are the laws against theft (whir5
have never yet prohibited), or tb h.
laws against brothels, or again,,
profanity, or against counterfeitino
or against Sabbath breaking !.
against murder, none of which bS.
ever yet proved to be entireiT
prohibitory. The people who com.
plain that the law forbidding thu
sale of intoxicating liquors in Iowa
is not a success, are not generaIjv
those who voted for it and ars
DESTROYS of seeing it succeed bnt
those who voted against it and ara
very fearful that the example Of
Iowa will be followed by otbe,
States. There are still, no doubt
among the people of Iowa tbos
who fondly hope that the prohibi.
tory law may yet be repealed, and
they are trying to manufactur
pathy for their side of the case
by exaggerating the number Of
cases and places where the law fails /
of execution. But we do not re.
gard it as any part of the bushes.
of good men and of religious papers /
to help them. We do not propose !
to lend them the columns of the l
Journal and Messenger for that pur !
pose. They are generally people
who have but little regard for the
truth, and very many of them are
constitutionally liars, children Of
him who has been fifty denomi.
mated "the father of lies. "-Journa
and Messenger.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Our Juvenile Work.

To OUR WORKERS While our
brave w. C. T. US all over the
land mourn over the hopelessness
of reforming confirmed inebriates,
we who undertake "Juvenile
Work. have no such discourage
ment. Our motto is prevention
rather than Cure" We are forth
flying against ne enemy rather
than trying to dislodge him after
he has gained full possession. If
our work is we'll done, his recruiting
list will be smaller each year. And
how can we better defeat his ends
than by weakening his forces? We
need not expect to accomplish this
by strategem, though we be wise
as serpents and harmless as doves"
Our success depends upon earnest
systematic work. Our best theories
must be reduced to practice, There
fore appeal to every W. G. T. U.
in the State to see that it has a
juvenile organization into which
It's best energies are thrown. 1 ask
that the Superintendent of the
Bands of Hope already organized
send me their reports at once. Do
not withhold your report on &C
count Of its meagerness. I will
gladly receive the crumbs" until
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Must Vote as They Pray

The Alabama M. e. Conleil IA.
recently in session, resolved Il va rl
"While as q church we oo -. a
propose to enter into any para o1sl
or political contest, yet as tnis ~ N h.
moral question enters into 1n So &
itics of our country, it is tne w ID
den duty of all Christians W ,rss-
as they pray to take the M g soIo5,
ment from the control OF tne % sa- d
to demand that drunkarus Nd
rakes and libertines ana Va, ID
DULLES no longer make Jaws s,,ani
Christian people, but tina. +a in
sober habits and temperass0 nnbl
shall fill all positions Oh 70
honor and trust, and to requ I,arss|
rigid enforcement of all temp tlS
and prohibitory enactmensS'
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3, 1856
"Train up a Child in the Way ne
Should Co."

We spent several pleasant weeks
last summer in a home patterned
after our own heart, both in its
architectural design, and the at
mosphero within. We could but
note the subjects Of conversation as
the guests came and went,and there
was much.of this coming and going.
God, and Home and Native Land,
we're the central thoughts in this
home. The family altar, the ex-
charge of Christian experience,
and the squaring of home and state
policies to this higher level were
the themes of conversation both
with inmate and guest.
There was work to do, and there
was money TO be earned. But these
were not the end and aim of life.
The relation Of servant and mas
ter was according to Paul's instrue-
ton to the Church at Ephesus.
The living and giving were mod
died after the same Scriptural
plan.
There were rollicking, handsome
boys in this home, with ''heads of
their own; just such boys as the
Devil specially delights to capture,
because they give an air of respect
ability to bis retinue. But we can
hardly think of children trained
ap in this way going astray when
Trey are older.
When will we learn to appreciate
the laws of sowing and reaping?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
w. c. T. q. Sympathy.

In a note accompanying her COM
munication, published in another
column, Mrs. G. II. Mcleod says
81 am so grieved over that disas,
ter at Newburg l was there sew.
eral times when the W. G. T. U.
work was in its Infancy in West
Virginia, for 1 had the honor to be
amoag the pioneers. God help the
bereaved wives and mothers and
pity the little children! I read the
FREEMAN with great interest"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
The Relief Fund.
More Need than the People, Realize.

So far the receipts Of the New
burg Relief Committee have been
something over $1,000. This SUM
divided among "a helpless widows
and AZ orphans under Is years of
age, does not go very far. The
committee express their gratitude
FOR what has been done, but really
more is needed. There is real
want of clothes for children from
one year old to L. or Is. The or
phans are not comfortably clad.
Cast off garments will be very &C
ceptable to the committee. They
have endeavored by strict and sys-
iematic economy to make the mon
ey do the most good but will yet be
hampered for funds unless the peo-
pie respond more literally Wheel
ing Intelligeacer.
TO W. c. T. U. WOMEN EVERYWHERE.
DEAR SISTERS The above call
Of the Relief Committee at New
burg is a direct call to you.
Although the W, c. T. U. de-
partment known as Work among
She Miners" has not been a dis
tinctive feature of the West Vir-
ginia work, | am reminded that 1t
should have been, by this terrible
disaster which seems not to have
been wholly disconnected with the
demon of drink, which we are
specially fighting, and | hasten at
this lata hour, to say that we will
begin this work by forwarding
to Mrs. Josephine Clayton, of New
burg, President of the former Union
there, such supplies as we may be
able to collect. She will kindly re-
ceive and distribute any goods sent
to her care under the above call
shall write this week to the
Presidents OF local Unions special
request to resolve their Unions into
committee to secure and forward
the desired relief.
If there be any whose eyes this
appeal may reach, that do not be-
long to our organization, we cor
daily invite them to Join us in this
good work.
"Inasm as ye have done it
unto one of the least OF these, ye
have done it unto me-"
Yours sincerely,
JANE A. JOHNSON,
President West Va. W. G. T. U.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
West VsrqsmSa w. @. T. y.

President-Mrs. Il. II. JOHNSON, Psrk9rs-
Vice President-Miss Lucy Shaw, Parhers-
burg. - yu,,ooliro
Cor Sac-Miss Emma A. Fowler, 93S M al
Trsas.-Mrs. Henry E.1bbard, Wheeling.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CT DEPARTMENTS.
Iiterature-MissL Lucy Shaw, ParkersbuIg
EyangeIi stic-Mrs. M. III. Love, Grafton.
Young Ladies' Work-Miss Bette DeVot,
psrkeTsburg. u, Woo.
Columbia. ,.u
Prison Work-Miss Amanda List, 22Ol
Chapline St., Wheeling.
Nsahbath school Work-M1ss Emma Fow =
lar S96 Main St., Wheeling.
Legislature-Mrs. Gen. L. II. DuVal, Wells
uencing the Prsss-Mrs. EllenThomp
. SOD, Keyser. 49, ,.o,oh 1uor
Hygiene and Heredity-Mrs. Ii. l.. Chal-
FAINT, Jane Lew. uaou
Unfermented Wine-Mrs. II. L.. kenoali,
Flower Missions-Miss Flora B. Siler,
Berkeley Springs. ,Y,.,.
Siate anu county Fairs-Mrs. K. +. NIne'
work among Colored People-Mrs. Isaiah
Warren, Wheeling. c.,
WEST VA. FREEMAN and Union Signal
Mrs. c. D. Merrick, Parkersburg, viva.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Mss Jennie Smith Stlll in Nor
gantOwn.

News of the increasing interest
in Miss Jennie Smiths meetings
at Morgantown, come to US from
the papers of that city. Fifty -four
converts are reported, and 500
have been donated her. Morgan
town thoroughly appreciates our
Railroad Evangelist.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
Fro I'm "My Maryland"

DEAR REEMAN - Iuo UIdNe
words of your w. c. T. ~. editor
and State President interest me
greatly. The picture she draws of
discouraged Unions (and they are
plentiful in every State) and her
encouragement to such, to "Be of
good courage and 60 forward" re-
minds nae of a little incident from
which I drew a lesson.
In the late storm, the snow drifts
were deep and firm in this suburb
Of the city, which is my home.
One afternoon [ was interru pit
ed at my writing by loud voices in
the streets. I went to the window
and fonnd that my neighbors were
looking out from theirs, as far as |
could see. A horse and wagon had
somehow gotten wedged in the
snow, the wagon partly overturned.
The owner probably lived mile
away, but not because of this, did
the lookers-on content themselves
with brief, Indifferent glance.
They proved their sympathy
with the unfortunate driver and
half-frozen horse, by sending out all
the help they could command, hus-
bands, brothers, or sons, as the case
might be. United effort with a
will soon released the imprisoned
horse, and man and beast went on
their wav rejoicing.
| thought if when we of the W.
c. T. U. are discouraged over the
steps hedged in by sin, and the
souls in letters, because OF drink,
our sisters who look on merely and
wish US God speed, would only
come to our aid with all the in
fuence they could bring, what
difference it would make to US,
and, to the many sad victims of
drink, for whom we hope and work
and pray
Mrs. Sallie F. Chaplin, after work.
ing at Atlanta, during those days
of anxiety, went on to Chattanoo-
ga and thence to Alabama, where
she is now. x x
send you some extracts from a
letter she penned in reply to some
objections to our w. G. 7. U. &C
ton, and which are as we'll adapt
ed to other States as to South Car
Dina. They quote the law which
licenses the liquor traffic and thus
MRS, CHAPLIN REPLIES:
CLAWS are made to protect the
weak against the strong l Won
der if our legislators have forgotten
the large silent constituency of
women and children who, like the
Caryatides, have to bear nearly
all the poverty and disgrace of the
drink traffic. They are now en-
larging our Penitentiary. It
makes my heart sick, for l am
thinking of the poor distressed
families of the men who will, be-
cause of this CHASTITY traffic which
is untiringly legislated for and pro-
tected, be shut up in this tomb for
the living. They deserve it, you
say. Do their wives and little in
nocent children deserve the por-
ton that brushes them to the
earth? The sentence ought to
read: The man to the Peniten-
tiary, his family to poverty, scorn,
degradation, crime, and his young
daughters thrust out, unprotected,
upon the world
With good wishes for prosperity
to the FREEMAN, its readers and
writer's, I am friend as of old
time, GEORGIA HULsE MCLEOD,
Baltimore, Maryland.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
The Drinkers Wish.

"Oh, hoaU l aoish that cause could sue.
ceed"
This is what a ard-drinking
man in Polk county, said the other
day as he paid in dollar for pro.
hibition work. Well, it will sue
coed. No fear about that. The So
loon must go, and that before long
Our cause must and aoiU succeed
Wisconsin ProhibitionGst.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03

The beautiful poem in another
column, entitled "W anderer's Re-
turn" is by our gifted superinten-
dent of colored work, Mrs. Frances
e. w. Harper. We hope every W.
C. I. U. woman will read it and
mark or clip it for personal use.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03

you have something more substan-
tial to offer. Very truly yours,
IDA M. TAYLOR,
State Sup't of Juv. Tenn. Work,
Ravenswood. ". Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03

DR.. B. w. Richardson, of London,
Mrs. Mary B. Willard, of the Union
Signal, writes, will come to Ameri-
ca this year.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03

An Atlanta (Ga.) correspondent
of the New York World says the
prohibitionist are jubilant, pushing
their work, and preparing some
lively surprises for politicians.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03

A Y. NJ. c. A. was organized in
Morgantown at the M. E. church,
Jan. %.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03

One Freeman For Two-See our
for 1886.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-03
}. L. u. DEPARTMENT.
National Womsan's Christian Temper
ance Union.

President-M1se FRANCES e. WILLARD, OF
Eyaneton, Ill.
Cor. Sec.-Mrs. q. B. Buell., So Bible House,
Rec. Sec.-Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, Ra-
Asst Rec Sec.-Mrs. l.. M. N. Stevens,
Tress.-Miss Es.Eer Pugh, 1861 Walnut
Southern Sec.-Nrs. G. II, Mcleod, 2S7
Aosber st., BALTIC. ,Md.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-25
STA Land and WATER Co., 20 SOUTH SPRING ST. Los ANGELES CAL

spores are dormant in those who
laugh at the dreamy poet or the un-
practical mystic, but their develop
ment In the coming generations IL
certain. DR.. Maudsley, the great au-
thority on Alicnism, says that he
knows no one more likely 10 breed
insanity in his offspring that the in
tcnsely selfish man, and that an OBJ
liqne moral development II more
likely 10 pfcdetermiBe insanity in the
next generation than many forms Of
actual mental arrangement in pa
rents" The whole course Of his fea-
soning, however, goes TO prove that
II is any oncsidcd, unbalanced dcyel-
opinent Of the character that is likely
TO entail this curse, not moral de-
iormity alone. lie, Of course, would
not admit that the stern repression OF
the mythical flights Of the mind
would result in morbid growth Of the
practical understanding. But IL not
II hunger and thirst after the things Of
the unreal world Il constituent part Of
the human spirit, which must be fed
with the higher expressions OF music
and art and poetry; and IL not the
benunbing effect OF practical en-
deavor in the long run M fatal to true
mental evolution NJ II false, exagger-
ated approximation p Temple Bar.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-25

There dsy aad the ssy bfr
d pfsy e bfeezs. geats aud refreshing s psfespDs
Fseep bt bBa9rsd f sbere lsYs and rro,tsa
W great II tbs Sierra Nsofes tbs rert
ysrSggD UDvbsns and
zssat e1nsee4ipg eh2n FORTUNATE MONTE
VISTA i iss frDe hgbna 0ss ssing gs TIE bot ~iaa
pfessIlng nsug t@e the coagty All td bsat
.esio sn6 plenty.
MONTE VISTA FOR HEALTH.
II Tiers for dease ia pure, dry air. clear soft
Nss svDDy eays eDp dezh1u night, delight u
ss2sndpg goa aeonaasDos szegt aud attention, then
glsts saogid bs tie s4nitsy II TIE Word.
PRACTICAL MONTE yIsTA
Tbs so II Monte Yss very rieb sandy l0a and il places
water sxeeping he natural rainfall w0sld b
esy4bls VI growing knowA fruit IN Cshtofhis
THE MAG9IFicEgT WATER SUPPLY
u ys snfeept for times the gabs lznd ia bs
tfse yrvsaes II will be
eli tgtposes. WAJEE. gOii4 ELEVATION and Gil
be desired pe iar.s clean aDd bgbyhsyofed rsit SOL
highest degree Development u the FIf which
~ tie poraat of laloroias fruit
Aeets kAleA GRAPES hare v asDu perfection, aud
N Climate and for the early priee
aabg n the OLIVE n the most valuable products o the
ke fDrty ~ tract growing Monte Vista vii
conditions inquired by his at Elevation aud SOL for the growth
maturing II APPLEs aud PEACHKs PkUhKs and PLUME
APE01h kKtAkIhEs and the difficult Of all ff1, the
ALMOND soil elevation aud climate for the absolutely perfect
WINE GkAPK No Land rhifb poss@es all u ezaepg
which found Monte Vista elsewhere Southern
California. one p lacks climate another water, another genial
situation sBd VII combined While have named the above
For Monte Vista claim viii within years be shpp
" the markets Of San Ffaneisc0 the
FINEST CHERRIES GROWN On THE COAST.
We claim that p9ses requisite Of soil, climate aud
the growth Of PERfECT CHERRY, which IL
worth three times much as the orange i've times as much
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-25
Masonic Notice.
Los Angeles Lodge No. 1925, x. of Il

Regular moetings OF the above Lodge are helt
eyory Wednesday evening at Old Masonic Hall
Spring street Visiting brothers aro cordially In
vited 70 attend IL q. AUSTIN
m. Dictator