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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-04-30

flour, Sl.25 per sack: Fancy flour, 80
cents per sack; chop, 20 cents per 100
pounds; bran, 20 cents per 100 pounds.
Telephone orders from Whitaker's res
taurant.
At the meeting of the city council
the Mayor appointed w. II. Evans,
street commissioner vice L. NJ. Sawyer
resigned, and Melvin Riggs, assistant
city marshal. The matter of extend
ing the city limits was brought up but
no definite action was taken. The
probabilities are that very little, if any,
objection will be made to the scheme.
The REGIsTERi under obligations
to- John Hart, Ed. Lewis. Walt. Nc
Mel, Bob Reimert and Morris Rodman
for an elegant serenade. with which we
were favored last Thursday night. The
boys make splendid music, considering
the short time they have been practic-
ing and we hope they will hang together
until we have as good string band as
we have cornet.
We will furnish your home with beautiful
wares,
Sofas. lounges and upholstered chairs;
Suits for the parlor, French veneered or plain
And others enameled with beautiful grain;
Mattress and spring or pretty book case,
Or nice plate mirror to show well your face;
Wash stands and tables, cribs and cOmmodes,
And tn incest as yet of business odes;
Childre as carriages. wagons and toys
To please the girls and likewise the boys.
All Of these goods and car loads Of others,
May be had cheap for cash at Patterson Brothers
The Leaguers retire from this last
round with the courts with q black
eye. Every one of the injunction suits
has been decided against them and
they have been sentenced to pay the
costs ard damages in various amounts.
OF course all the cases will be appealed,
but before this can be done, bonds must
be given, and the owners of the land
can very gracefullyawait the final de-
cision.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Pertinent Questions.

Have you answered all the letters
written you relative to the work in
your midst?
Have you answered the questions
in these letters with the documents
before you? Or did you trust to
your memory to include them all ?
Have you adopted the Responsive
Readings2
Do you take the Union Signal
and the FREEMAN in your Union ?
Do your new members sign the
total abstinence pledge?
Do you collect your "dues?"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

promptly report it, and there will
be such a busting of business
among our workers. as will open
the eyes of those Who smile at our
puny efforts to f.uild q wall about
our homes that. will resist the at
tacks of the liquor hosts. With
Tobias they now say, IF so much
as fox brush it with its tail, it
will fall"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Whats in a Names

That is the question that is now
confronting us. Of six letters that
lay upon our table the other day,
no two bore the same superscrlp-
ton. The Postmaster, like Betsy
Prigg, "don't believe there amt no
such person"-and wouldn't pay a
post office order, the other day, till
he wrote back to Wheeling to find
out if the order really was to the
person named Within" and sure
enough 1t aOasnt.
We thought that matter settled
20 years ago, when on November
morn we promised to honor and
"obey" the Editor in chief of this
paper, and he rather insists that
loyalty and etiquette are on the
side of that mornings VOW, and
his own initials.
But how about those dear women
who do not and can not call the
formal Mrs. II. H." and to whom
we could no more sign a letter,
yours, Truly, Mrs. L. H." than if
writing to our own dear faith :
er. To him and to them we are
Jane" of the christening, and not
the new name of the wedding
morn.
Here they are all in row. Now
come help us choose and settle this
perplexing question for the benefit
of the Postm aster and ourself;
"Mrs. Jane. A."-Jane C."-'Jane
S.'-"Jane H."-"Jane R."-"Jen-
nie"and Mrs. l. H." When editors,
compositors and correspondents
decide, we shall be easy if not hap
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

heart, that Gods blessing may rest
upon the message.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs. M. J. PORTER,
State Supt. of Literature.
We would make an additional
suggestion TO each Union in the
interest of the State Department
of Literature.
Let each local Superintendent
solicit subscription of ten cents
per member and forward one-half
of that amount to Mrs. M. ]. Por-
ter, of New Cumberland, for the
State Department and retain
the other half for her local work.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Life7s See.SaW.

This is what one good woman
wrote us in a private letter. There
is meat in it for all of us; so we
give it:
"Do you know l wish all our
workers would feel that they are IN
the work for the works sake ana
not for themselves; then there
would be fewer to say "If this Is
not so, or that is not thus, I'm
DONE" When a child, always dlo
dislike those girls who were con.
tinually saying "Well then l wont
play" So to-day, let those VINO
must have things SO and SO, anu
can't do anything if they are nov
thus, slip out; the Lord will take
care of his own work. Somehow
never could think | was tng
mighty one on the righteous emu e
of the see saw of life, and that II !
chose to jump off, the whole tnlnf7
would fly up into empty space; !
notice it's the one who thinks tnas'
and who jumps off that gets nul ot
I tell you Pm too thankful to ggtt
a little room for my unworthy :eL
on that end to be in haste to gi''
it up"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Literature Department.

To Local Superintendents of Litera.
DEAR SISTERS:
suggest the following plan to
each local Superintendent of
Literature.
Place boxes-such as cigar boxes
in places easy of access; the
Mayors Office, Postofice, Reading
Room, Rail Road Station; in
mills, manufactures or any large
works: always (of course) asking
permission.
Another good way is to get mer-
chants who are interested in our
work, to put leafet in each pack
age he sends out.
| think this last plan excellent.
If our ladies are willing to go to
a little trouble, they can give tea
party or sociab.e occasionally and
raise the money needed for our
work.
Gather the Temperance and reli-
gious papers from those in the
community that are willing to give
them and distribute them where
none are taken.
Supply the waiting room of your
hotels with the latest of these
journals. Use tact and judgment
in the selection of your tracts and
papers.
Don't send a High License"
tract to Prohibitioni.t, nor
beer leaf1et to devoted Christian
woman. And follow each leafet and
paper with an uplifting of the
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Maiden and Tlnkersyllle Bands OF
Hope.

DEAR FREEMAN:
Maiden ia glad to see signs of q
gsowth of public sentiment against
the custom of attacking, under the
guise CT hospitality, the good reso-
lutions with which we'll disposed
young men are inclined to begin
the new year.
1t is good thing for good society
to set its face against the
temptations and perils of what is
known as moderate or respectable
drinking. The trouble about this
sort of drinking, is that one never
knows at what point it may not
graduate into the most disgusting
and tyrannical and ruinous of
habits.
We desire the FREEMAN to pub
lish the fact that Maiden is lend
ing hand in the great reformation,
and that our "Band of Hope" start
ed short time ago has now eighty
members and too much praise can
not be given the children for their
recitations, in the entertainment
recently given before a large and
attentive audience. Good order
and well deserved applause was a
genuine test of the appreciation of
Miss Hattie Carter's drill of the
little ones.
Do not fail to make mention of
the Tinkersyille "BAnd of Hope"
which has fallen in line with a
membership of over one hundred,
and is in fine working order, from
whom you may hear in short
time. May God bless all efforts in
the cause of Temperance.
Yours Respectfully,
G. S. ABBOTT,
President Band of Hope.
JOEL S. RUFFNER, Sec.
NorE.-We beg pardon for detain-
ing the above glad news and cheer.
In the confusion of busy work and
much matter, this letter that
should have appeared much soon
er, was mislaid and overlooked till
now.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
WEDNESDAY, FEB. "a, 1886
Not Answering Letters.

Miss Fowler says: my next ar
ticle for the FREEMAN will be on
"Auswering Letters"
We will not infringe on her sub
ject, but will discourse on one that
we are vastly more exercised about,
"NoT ANSWERING LETTERS"
Will some one invent or suggest
a plan, whereby we may impress
upon our friends the Importance
nay the imperative necessity of their
promptly answering all letters, If
the work is to be pushed as they
and we desire IL? You would
scarcely credit US If we should tell
YOU the number of letters we write
that fail to bring response. You
would be still mors surprised if we
should mention the names OF many
of the Gelinquonts.
We are willing to make all due
allowance, and then there is much
occasion for encouragement.
What would you think, friend $,
if the statement should be mad e
that hundreds of women all over
West Virginia were writing the
President for information and aid
in w. c. T. U. matters and she
rarely responded to letter?
Are her obligations in that di-
rection more binding than yours :?
If so, by what law
We earnestly ask you to remem-
Der that you can only regulate the
actions Of one aUomdn, and let each
woman make certain that she
throws no hlndrances in the way
of the progress of the Temperance
work in her locality.
There are good women we could
name who would doubtless feel
hurt If we should tell them that
because of their failure to respond,
the way is closed for the present to
our work in their midst.
See TO it in the future that if
only postal card is sent in reply !,
no letter from any Temperan ce
yorker remains one day without a
reply.
The complaint comes to your
President from every Department,
Il have written to the Unions rel
alive to my work, but receive no
replies"
If the matter is one that cannot
have immediate attention, courtesy
demands brief acknowledgement
of the letter, and statement of
that fact. When action is taken,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Our Grafton Letter.
DEAR FREEMAN !:

DEAR FREEMAN:
I will send you line or two to
let you know what we are doing.
[ suppose you think we are not
doing anything here for Temper
arce, but you are mistaken. We
are in working order, even if we
don't report to the FREEMAN regu-
larly,
We meet every Thursday after
noon at the home of our President,
and sometimes we have a goodly
number present and have good and
profitable meetings. We have sent
for the Readings" spoken of in
the FREEMAN, for our Union. We
like the Union Signal and have it
circulated among the members.
And now we need more FREEMANs
in our Unions, although nearly all
the members take it.
The Y. w. c. T. U. are doing an
active work here. Our Union sent
for Temperance books such as
Catechisms, Temperance Songsters,
&C., for the purpose of organizing
Bands of Hope,
A Lodge of 1. o. G. T. was organ
lied here about one month ago,
with the majority of its officers
members of our W. G. T. U. Thus
we go hand in hand in all Temper
ance work. We have about "a good
and active members, enough to
"hold the fort" or "storm castle"
whenever it is necessary. | will
close, hoping to hear something
from Cor. Secy soon.
Yours in Temperance work,
Mrs. B. F. MERCHANT,
Rec. Sec'y.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

II the t9rrlOle Calamity which
came to that little town among the
mountains touched the heart.
strings of any of those who sat be-.
fore me and gathered about me at.
ter my lecture on that December
evening, and by this latter means
lost the train and were obliged to
wait till the wee sma' hours before
another came to take them to thar
homes. / trust the FREEMAN will
convey TO some Of them, at least
my sympathy.
HAPPY IN NEW CUMBERLAND.
In Mrs. Porter, of New Cumber-
land, l saw again my old teacher
who more than any other outside
my own family helped in shaping
my life, and each time as looked
at my hostess l could but put up a
prayer that she might be just such
another helper to some young lives:
and when | saw the young gentle.
men who acted as ushers, wearing
the white ribbon, | noted that nv
prayer was already being answered.
IN wELLsBURG CLOVER.
At my home in Wellsburg, I
was Gin clover" with all those bows
and the lovely daughter of my host
and hostess. Even the dog q here
confess to a liking came to bid
me welcome.
1t was wintry without, cold and
muddy, but within, before the
CRATE burning with natural gas, it
was so home-like that | felt sorry
when the hour came to go to the
schools and bid farewell to the in.
mates of that old Virginia man.
sion.
But time would fail me were
to tell of all the kind friends met.
Like "Glory McQuirk" l congratu-
lated myself that there were so
many good times and l acas IN EN-,
No-NoT ANY HARD TIMES.
But you ask, Were there no hard
times and were you not IN them,
too? No, not any hard times. To
travel any number of miles, meet
strangers, talk and visit, attend an
afternoon meeting, and speak in
the evening, and perhaps talk to
the children, was aoork;' but then
l went for work and there were no
real disagreeables. Christ said,
Gall these ye shall have NTH per.
secutions." If, then, there were no
prosecutions, one ough. to be able
to stand against even disagreeable
things; but of these there were
none. Only a cold, the lot Of all
mortals, came to disturb me, and
that nearly broke up the meeting
at New Cumberland, causing me
to beat hasty retreat in the midst
of the peroration.
Once more l thank you, one and
all, for your kindly consideration
and many courtesies.
WEST VIRGINIA TO BE SHAKEN.
l congratulate the W. Z. L. U.
upon it's success, and believe the
day is not far distant when West
Virginia will be shaken from CEN
tire. to circumference by this Tenn.
perance agitation. Everywhere |
went I found firm friends OF
the cause, men and women both,
who are not interested from selfish
motives, but who are willing to DO
anything, to suffer anything, that
the cause may be advanced.
May God add his blessing to ev-
cry effort, and speed the day when
Prohibition shall be the watch
word of every earnest heart in your
goodly State.
Sincerely yours,
CAROLINE B. BUELL..
New York City, Feb, 10, 1856
SFn5c Snn Cow
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Vest Vsrqimaa W. O. T. U.

PresMent-Mrs. l. H JOHNSON, ParKers-
burg, " Va.
Vics President-Mi Lucy Shaw, Parkers-
Rec Sec-Mrs. Isaiah Warren, wheeling.
co.. Sec.-Miss Emma A. Fowler, $50 MALL
Treas.-Mrs. Henry Hubbard, Wheeling.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF DEPARTMENTS.
literature-Miss Lucy Shaw, Parkersburg
Eysngelistic-Mrs M. M. Love, GRAFTON.
Young Ladies' Work-Miss Bette Devol,
Farkersburg. u, xu.o,
CoIumb ia. -, c,-,
Railroad Work-Mrs. Emily Chambers,
Martlnsburg ,,. 600,
Prison Work-Miss Amanda List, 22ol
Chapine st., Wheeling. W,
Sabbath School Work-Miss Emma row :
Ter sa6 Main st., Wheeling.
Legislature-Mrs. Gen. l. ID. Duval, Wells-
Influencing the Press-Mrs. EllenThomp-
son, Keyser. . u
scientific Observation-Disclosures. Isaiah war =
Hygiene and Heredity-Mrs. M. l.. Chal-
f.nL, Jane Lew. 1.,,
Unfermented Wine-Mrs. r. l.. Kendall
Parkersburg. ., Gill;
glover Missions-Miss Flora b. Siler,
Berkeley Springs. N,,,o
WORK among Colored People-Mrs. Isaiah
Warren, Wheeling. s,,
VEST VA. FREEMAN and Union signal
Mrs G. d. Merrick, Parkersburg, W. va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

To Local Superintende1ts of Litera
tltre.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Man hides the flaws in his own
character by criticising that Of his
neighbor.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Read Mrs. Buell's excellent letter.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
National Womoan's Christian Temper
once Union.

president-MIss FRANCES e. WILLARD, OF
Gar. sec,-Mrs. c. B. Buell., So Bible House,
Y. wahr,ao. 20
VIENNA, O. NJ NJ a..ue,s
Teeas'-Hiss Esther Pugh, 1854 Walnut
s., CHM, ,xs OCT
Southern Sec.-Mrs. @. H, Mcleod, 2o'
Mosher st., Baltic, Md.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

W. G. t. U. continued on seventh page
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
tUttttGN.

ONE THOUSAND Belgian women, robed
in black. arrived in Brussels Monday
from CharlerOi, and presented petition
for amnesty for the men convicted of
rioting last March.
The Colonial Exhibition iii London
has been closed. The total number of
visitors was $3.50, ,749, and the avcrge dai
ly attendance was 81, $40.
WAED, the London socialist who was
arrested while speaking in Trafalgar
square on Lord Mayors day, has been
! fined 10 shillings for disturbing the
peace.
TUE prime minister of France has ask
ed AN appropriation of $1,000 for Il state
funeral for Paul Bert, and suggested a
pension for his wife.
ARCHER, the English jockey, owes his
arrangement and suicide to weakness
caused by the system adopted to reduce
his weight. IL is now said that he had
property worth E250,0OO.
FRED Archer, the phenomenal English
jockey while suffering from typhoid few
er at Newmarket, shot and killed him
self with ii revolver. He was in his
thirtieth year, had won 1900 races and
was worth 100000.
DISASTROUS floods have occurred through
out the south of France. Much damage
has already been done, and the washouts
along the railroad have compelled the
complete suspension of travel.
EMrERoE William has consented that on
Jan. !, the s0th anniversary of his admis
sion to the army, II collection to be made
to enable n committee to present to as
many of his past and present soldiers
IA possible souvenirs of his long military
career.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

MRs. DRUsE, of Warren, New York, has
been sentenced to die on the gallow4, De
cember 20, for the murder of her husband
and burning his body.
In n fight of twelve rounds at Mul-
braugh Station, Kentucky, in the pres
enco Of II large train-load of sporting
characters, Tommy Warren defeated Pat
O'Lcary.
Colonel Il. G. INGERsoLL has agreed to
argue the case of the convicted anarchists
of Chicago before the Illinois supreme
court. Leonard SWEET has also been re
tanned.
In the circuit court ut Cincinnati the
suit brought by the government against
the Bell Telephone company was de
cided in favor of the latter, the bill being
dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
ALEXANDER GoLDENsoN an art student
i'll San Francisco, killed Mamie Kelly on
the street with n revolver. She was in
love with him, and his excuse is that he
had grown tired of her. The murdered
girl was only 10 years of age,
HARRY RrpAR, of Elmira, n. Y. who
stood high in society, has been arrested
for completely in the theft of 1000
worth of diamonds from the wife of K.
ID. Blair during recent birthday party.
He has confessed.
Tux residence of Bcr jamin S. WHEELER,
III Eagle street, Cleveland. was on Friday
night entered by robbers, who kicked the
old man into iusensibility and choked his
aged wife to death. Patrick Graves has
been arrested for the crime, and Mr..
| WHEELER Identifies HIM.
TUoMAs ORMsBy, who knew the heir of
the Tichborno estates in England, visited
Il court room IN Brooklyn. and failed to
identify Charles Curtis, the discharged
soldier, who claims to be Sir Roger Itch
borne, or Arthur Ortou, recently released
from British prison for pcrsonating the
heir.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
man was killed and four others were bad

man was killed and four others were bad
y injured.
By the explosion of boiler in brick
yard at nanbar, Pennsylvania, woman
was killed and a mar was seriously in
jured.
FIRE on Staten island, caused by &
Kerosene lamp, destroyed dyeing estab
lishment at West New Brighton valued at
100000.
AT hotel in Winfield, Kansas, Lillian
Quinn killed Frank Z. Lockwood, under
stood to Sc her seducer, and fatally shot
herself in the head.
An explosion of natural gas wrecked
the residence of Reuben Baker at Lat.
robe, Pa, Thursday forenoon, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
A FIRE in W. f. Mclaughlin d Cos tea
coffee and spice warehouse, on South
Water street, Chicago, at noon to-day
caused considerable loss and damage by
flames and water, but all the loss is cover
ed by insurance.
9THE barn of George Condor, near
Logansport, Ind, was burned Tuesday
night. Five head of horses, 700 bushels
of wheat, 400 bushels of corn, and all his
farming implements were consumed.
Loss $4,000, with no insurance.
+. ZIRKLE, wealthy marble contractor
died suddenly Monday at Joliet, Ill. His
alleged will contains clauses that his de-
mise be kept secret, that there be no
funeral, and that no person save his wife
and daughter be permitted to view the
remains,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
OYERWORkING THE BRAIN.
Brain Workers Should Have Il Large Reserve
ofEnergy-EXh
YOUTHS Companion

1Ohtt Companion.
Our article is suggested by one in The
Lancet on The Wear and Tear OF Lon
don Life" and we shall appropriate some
of its thoughts. Brain work, even in its
highest forms, involves purely physical
acts as truly as does that OF the muscles
of the stomach. Excessive thought
means crebral hyperemia as inevitably
as excess IN the use of a gastric stimu-
liant means active congestion of the
mucous membranes of the stomach. and
just as habitual use of too irritating food
and drink may induce passive congestion
IN the intervals, or the sequel of active
congestion of the gastric organ, so may
too persistent and excessive brain work
tend to the production of a chronic en-
gorgement of the vessels of the enceph-
alOn' (the brain), with whatever the
physical fact involves or entails"
A perfect similarity of law governs the
development of disorders Of brain and
body. Now, as some have inherited a
weak muscular system, and others a
feeble digestion, so still others, perhaps
in some respects brilliant, have con
genital inability for considerable or
prolonged brain work, and are almost
sure TO be injured by a continued strain
more than in England, that brain workers
should have large reserve of energy.
and capacity for producing force almost
indefinitely to meet the demands Of ex-
ceptional exigencles. In our country
many enter the professions who are ma
turally equal to routine work, bat are
wholly unequal to strains of competition
and to the multiplied and varied demands
which so characterize our times. They
constantly and perilously strike the limits
of their congenital capacity.
1t Is equally so in mercantile. Not q
few, who are equal to a small business.
find out that they are not equal to a
large one only after both physical and
financial failure. 1t is only less SO in
many other forms of business. Thou
sands attempt more than they are equal
to, the continual pressure of which results
in nervous exhaustion. Somewhat akin
TO these are teachers IL our common
schools. Tie early stages ot every pro-
fession and business make peculiar de-
mRnds on the nervous force. And vet
thousands enter the teaching profession
who do not intend 10 remain in it. They
stay Just long enough to oyerwork, and
to be injured, IN many cases for life. So
also, our political system constantly
brings forward new men who must fit
themselves for new and difficult duties
at an immense cost TO the brain The
physical condition OF some OF our public
men is simply a prominent illustration of
i this fact