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Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18
AS to Long PaStOrates.

From the Lewiston Journal.
Long pastorates are eminently de-
sirable, If the pastors do not get into
intellectual ruts. The advantages Sc
cured by long and happy acquaint-
ance and friendship are eminent, III
moral and religious work. To get the
hang Of the school house takes time;
but to get the hang Of O. parish is a
greater feat. But some men get hung
up in both before they get the hang OF
either, and their tenure Of office needs
to be short because it cannot other
wise be sweet.
One reason why pastorates are now
shorter than they used to be lies in
the intense demands made on the
clergy by an intense age. The people
ask a great deal, emotionally, also.
The pastor is the man for almost all
occasions where speeches are in re-
quest, and what with parochial work
and the calls OF sorrow and OF death
which it is his peculiar function to
meet, ii the pastor is both brainy and
hearty. he has abundant opportunity
to tax both Grain and heart to the
utmost. Ii he keeps abreast the SYM
pathy as we'll as the intellectual life OF
his day, his passionate will be long, if
to these energies he adds tact and
depth Of Christian character.
But the clergy are men, and we re-
quire that they be better and wiser
than any Of us is able to get to be, on
the score that he who leads must be
further along and higher up than he
who follows. Hence, in the way of
long pastorates stand both the weak
ness OF the pews and the imperfection
OF the pulpit. Time was when to be
in white neckcloth was to be in author.
ity. The clergy of the lang syne, by
virtue OF their Office were authenticate
ed. The children fled to cover and
laughter SHE'D into immaculate sobri.
ETY. as the parson lifted thedoorknock-
or. He refrigerated the very chair in
which he sat. Had hesmiled his paro.
chial dicky would have made punitive
inclslons in his throat. These eccIesi-
astical bigwigs helped the pastoral
relationship to fxedness, with arti-
fees which ecclesiastical councils have
not yet allowed wholly to fall into in
nocuous desuetude, but which now
are tar less potent. In these things
such progress has been made that now
it is the people Of the congregation
who in almost all cases are really SELF
governing.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18
The Physical Differences.

Now, can any one seriously argue
that, on the physical side, divergence
of pursuits and habits isnot indicated
for the sexes? The common sense of
mankind has long ago answered the
question. and even our female reform
ers, I believe, admit that blowing and
driving cattle, soldering and sailoring
are not appropriate to women, nor
feeding and rocking children, nursing
the sick, and keeping house, to men.
Not that women have not so much
physical strength and energy in their
own kind as men in theirs, but that
energy appears to have a different
scope. Men would find the common
tasks OF women desperately fatiguing
and irksome; man, for instance,
would certainly not cultivate manly
strength and energy as a child's nurse;
yet the nurse exercises q great deal Of
strength. carrying and nursing g heavy
child. The ignoring OF this differentiar
ton OF physical energy in the two sexes
is always the note of barbarism or
degradation among mankind. Where
you find women put to tasks which do
not suit with their physical constitu-
ton and functions-a practice always
evidenced by premature decrepitude-
there you have a people low in the
scale OF humanity. Now, human ma
ture being all of a piece, it is but rea~
sonable to think that. "a divergence as
between the sexes in pursuits and
habits, which is strongly indicated,
and admittedly wise on one side of it,
is likely to be wise on the other. The
energy of women, as it differs in kind
and in scope from that OF men in
physical matters, so differs in moral
and intellectual matters. No doubt it is
otso easy to discriminate between the
intellectual and moral powers of men
and women as between their bodily
powers; but there is a real difference
throughout their being, and it ought
to be las at present it practically is)
recognized in the scope Of their action
as members of the Commonwealth
The Nineteenth Century. :.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18
New Y0rk's Lady LAWYER.

New York Herald.
Miss Kate stoneman, who waa
recently admitted by special act of
the Legislature, approved by the Gov
ernor, to the bar of New York State,
IS about thirty-tive years old and is
a member of a family we'll known in
the Western part OF the State. One
OF her brothers is Governor Stone
man, of California; another is Judge
Stoneman OF Iowa, and one OF her
sisters is the wife OF Judge Williams,
OF Buffalo. She is q leading member
OF the faculty OF the State Normal
School, Being law copyist, she has
copied for the printer many of the de-
clsions OF the Court OF Appeals. For
three years she was regularly articled
in the law office of ohm r. McDonoueh,
at Albany. She has always taken
interest in the condition of women,
and was six years Secretary Of the
Woman Suffrage Society Of Albany
county. She was the first woman in
Albany to cast vote under the law
allowing her sex to vote at school
elections. She has made public
addresses and is a member OF the
choir of St. Peters Episcopal church
at Albany. In appt arance she is
tall and we'll proportional, of light
complexion, with dark brown hair
and eyes.
The story Of her struggle to have
the door Of the bar opened to lawyers
in petticoats is interesting. She pass
ed a creditahle examination before
the committee appointed by the
General Term, and report was
made in her favor, aut the Court de-
cllned a short time ago to take the
responsibility of allowing woman to
practice. So she applied to the Leg
islature. The bill had been introduce
ed three months before by Assembly,
man Platt of Steuben, and was slum-
erlng quietly. All alone Miss Stone
man canvassed the Assembly men with
the result of having the bill passsd.
Two days later it was passed by the
Senate. Accompanied by Mayor
Thatcher, OF Albany, and Assembly,
man Platt, she went to the Govern
or and had it signed; then to the
Secretary Of State and made him
promise to have certified COPY in
the Supreme Court at 10 o'clock
the next morning. Then she was adj
mitted to the bar as stated.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18
The Romance of a Model.
New York journal.

New York Journal.
"One OF the most remarkable Incl.
dents happened to an artist friend o.
mine who has since moved to Boston,"
said prominent painter. He had
just opened a studio on Fourteenth
street and not knowing the ropes very
we'll advertised for model. They
came in shoals from all quarters OF
the city-old, young, and Indifferent
but none Of them seemed suited for the
figure he had in view.
Gone day when he was getting about
tired out hunting around for a subject
young woman dressed entirely in
black applied to him for work. She
said she had never posed before, but
was very destitute and would gladly
work for most anything to support
her little girl.
There was something about her face
that pleased him, so he engaged her on
the spot, though not half believing he
story she told him. But he grew in
terested in her case any way, and de-
cided on making use of her services.
'"The subject OF the picture was
night and represented q female figure
with black draperies reclining on the
moon with stars on either hand. The
picture was completed and was a fine
piece OF work. It hung in Broad
way dealers store for several weeks
and then sold for 81, 800 to an Eng
lishman. The purchaser came around
to see the artist a few days later to
give him an order for a companion
picture to represent morning.
He remarked casually that the first
work interested him strangely, mas
much as the face reminded him strong
w OF a friend he had known some
years ago. He asked the artist if the
face was taken from life, and being as
sn,ed that it was, and getting the adj
dress OF the model, set out to find her.
"Well. the upshot of the matter was
the purchaser of the picture turned
out to be none other than her hus'
band, who had deserted her in South
America some years ago, and who, re-
penting OF his desertion, had been
hunting high and low for her severa
wears. 1 think this story is good
enough for novel," said the artist,
as he lit fresh cigarette. "Somefacts
in the lives OF our best Artists would
make excellent pictures"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18
While London has but one docto

While London has but one doctor
to 5000 inhabitants, Vienna has one
for every / 500, and it's practitioners
must put up with smaller fees. Sir
Spencer Wells is cited as having re.
ceived many times $4,000 or 500
900 for q single operation. In Paris,
DR.. Pean lis mentioned as having q
professional income Of STAT, OOO. ana
br. Koberle, of Strasburg, is stated to
have received a fee Of 500, OOOtor at
tending q Spanish princess.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18

Harvard College celebratesits 25Oth
anniversary on the 7th OF next Novem.
her with appropriate ceremonies, IN
which James Russell Lowell and the
o }. and state officers will be IN.
.vited to take part. i.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18

lieve there has been murder among
them. They are Christianized, but if
they were always as good as they are
now they didn't need to be-"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18

After hard dashes of rain coarse
gold is oftentimes picked up in the
streets of Shasta, Cal. .. 49, 49,
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-18

Over one million trees were planted
in Nebraska on Arbor day.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Cincinnati Sunday Riot.

A game of base ball in Cincin-
natl last Sunday came very near
resulting in a serious riot. The
class OF people who spend their
Sabbaths in witnessing base ball
games and other such amusements
are just the ones from whom riot
GUS conduct may naturally be
expected. The plea that Sunday
amusements are necessary tor
workingmen is arrant nonsense.
Such amusements are nothing
but drunken debauches which
leave the workingman in a worse
condition, mentally, morally and
physically, than he was before
Such things are carried on simply
for the money there is in them
and not for anybody's welfare.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
NAMES.
Cut out the We mortal and
Circulate 1t.

We give above the memorial to
the Legislature, as signed by the
State Teachers Association at
Mountain Lake Park.
1t is very much desired that ev-
cry teacher in West Virginia shall
have an opportunity to sign this
memorial.
Any teachers or friends OF the
cause, seeing this item, and hav-
ing received none of the blanks,
are earnestly requested to cut out
the above memorial, paste it on a
sheet of paper, and proceed to get
signatures of West Virginia teach
ers, anywhere and everywhere,
and after getting all names you
can, send to Mrs. !. H. Duval
Wellsburg, W. Va, as above d.
rected.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
A Ray of Hope.

A two-days' trial in the police
court has opened the eyes of some
of our slumbering citizens, and
they are now thoroughly awake to
the Importance of investigating a
little further.-JoNrnal.
There are none so blind as they
that will not see. And surely we
may discover a ray of hope when
our officials who have so long re-
fused to see are getting their eyes
opened to the abominable and
most intolerabIe iniquities OF our
saloon-cursed community.
Everybody in our midst who has
cared to look and consider, has
known that the lower end of town
is full of fostering volcanoes of vice
and crime, and this little eruption
at this theatre den of infamy has
surprised none but those who have
refused to see.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

Over 200 Massachusetts, Republi-
can Temperance men have just
held a Convention and resolved on
a homeopathic treatment to tone
up the debilitated party. They
recommend Temperance pellets in
very temperate doses, resolving
against saloon rule, and recon-
mending that the party declare in
favor of the submission of the ques-
ton of Prohibition to vote of the
people.
We are glad to see this wholesome
desire to restore the ''G. O. P" to its
former vigor, but the medicine
comes too late. The day is past,
for homeopathic treatement. The
disease has gone too far. Nothing
less than double allopathic doses
of undiluted Prohibition will now
avail.
AS for the Democratic party; it
is chronic case, with no seeming
desire to get better. | would as
lief be sick as well, and hopes to
live forever on its anti-"sumptua-
~" pabulum and toddy.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Mason County Fair.

We have received from Mr.. J s.
Spencer, the Secretary of the Ma.
son County Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association a neat
pamphlet containing the rules of
the Society and the Premium list
for the coming Fair, to be held at
Point Pleasant, Aug. 427, inclu-
sive.
We are glad to see that the Soci-
ETY. forbids the sale of liquor on the
grounds, but sorry to see premiums
offered for wines. Why shou. ID the
Society encourage the manufacture
of an article of which it is obliged
to prohibit the sale, in the interest
of public order?
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
NAMES.
Signing the Memorial.

On the morning of the last days
session of the West Va. Education
al Association, at Mt. Lake Park,
last week, the State President of
the W. c. T. U. being present, was
invited to present the above Memo
rial, which she did in two-min-
utes talk, asking the cooperation
of the teachers of the State in Sc
curing Temperance Instruction
in our schools, a matter in which
the mothers of West Virginia were
especially interested.
The measure met with hearty
and prompt response. On motion
a committee of three was appointed
and directed to proceed at once to
canvass the body for signatures to
the Memorial, the committee to
present the paper first to the Off
GERS of the Association for their Off
cial signatures.
In a few minutes nearly hun
dred names were signed, among
whom President Turner, of the
University, B. S. Morgan, President
of the Association and State Supt.
of Schools, Prof. F. H. Crago, Sec'y
of the Association, Prof. T. G. Mil
Ter, of Fairmont, Treasurer, Prof. A.
L. Purinton, Supt. Parkersburg
Schools, Prof. T, E. Hodges, Supt.
Morgantown Schools, Prof. U. S.
Fleming, Supt. Grafton Schools,
Prof Anderson, Supt. Wheeling
Schools; Prof. a. L. Wade, and SO
on through the list of leading edu-
Gators of the State.
We could hear of no teacher re-
fusing to sign.
The Memorial with the sigma
lures was forwarded to Mrs. I, Fl.
Duval, Supt. Scientific Temperance
Instruction, w. G. T. u, at Wells
burg, while blank memorials were
taken by teachers and conductors
of County Institutes yet to be held,
to be circulated tor signatures
among the teachers in the several
counties.
SEND FOR BLANK MEMORIALS,
1t is especially desired that
teachers throughout the State will
send at once for blanks where they
have not been received, and help
on the cause by securing sigma
lures. A postal card to either Mrs.
I. II. Duval, Wellsburg, or to the
Freeman Office, will secure at once
as many blanks as desired, post
paid, with all needed instructions,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Brain Culture, West Virginfa's
Special Industry.

President Turner in presenting
the claims of the University at the
State Teachers Association at
Mountain Lake Park, paid glow
ing tribute to West Virginia boys
and the future Of the State. He
said, our true wealth lies not ia
our minerals, timber and oils.
These can all be bought up by
outside capital and carted out of
the State. Our real wealth is in
our rich, exhaustless brain soil.
We have the best soil, the best
climate, the best atmosphere on
the continent for making brains.
Go where you will, you find West
Virginia brains at work. In this
work of brain and heart culture
the University is being conducted
distinctly as a Christian insti-
tution-No other grounds are safe
for the students or for the State
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Unconditional Surrender.

The whisky power in Iowa is
very near the point of uncondition-
al surrender. They looked to the
last Legislature for comfort and got
nothing but amendments to secure
the better enforcement Of the
Prohibition law. They have gone
into the courts and found them
selves baffled at every point.
Even the Democratic party which
used to do their bidding almost
without question, dares offer
them nothing but County Local
Option, with a minimum license
of $500 where the majority are in
favor of it. The empire Of King
Alcohol has lost the province OF
Iowa forever.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Warming to Boys!
DON'T PLAY AROUND RAIL.
ROAD TRACKS OR CARS.

For long time the officers of the
G. w. & B, R. R. Co. have been
greatly annoyed by thoughtless
boys jumping on locomotives and
cars in the freight yards and else
where, at the risk of danger to
themselves, and possibly involving
the company in claims for damages.
The statutes of the State express
ly declare that "any person who
climbs, jumps, steps, or stands upon
or clings, or in any way attaches
himself to any locomotive, engine,
or car upon any part of the track OF
a railroad, unless lawfully. or by
permission of the r. R. officers,
shall be fined therefor not more
than twenty-five dollars"
The r. R. Co., having exhausted
all efforts, other than legal pro.
ceedings, to stop this dangerous
practice, without success, deter.
mined to try what virtue there
might be in the law.
A beginning was made at Blan.
chester, and several boys were ar
rested and fined, and others are lia-
BILE to be arrested atany time. The
same course will be pursued at Gin.
Chillicothe, Greenfield,
Harmar, Athens, and all other sta
tions on the G. w. & B., unless the
boys heed the warning and stop vi
the laws of the State.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Geo. w. Balm at Mt. Lake Park.

There is to be rare feasting at
Mt. Lake Park, the last four days
of July, during the W. G. T. U. In
ter-State Conference.
On Thursday July 20, afternoon
and evening, the silver-tongued
Geo. W. Balm, of Kentucky, will
deliver addresses.
Mrs. G. B. Buell., of New York,
now of Chicago, will preside and
condnct TIE Conference. Among
the other distinguished speakers
and Temperance leaders on the
elaborate program for addresses,
are Hon. G. w. Atkinson, of
Wheeling, Miss Esther pugh, of
Ohio, Mrs. Mary Woody, President
North Carolina W. G. 7. u, Rev.
J. W. Carter, of Parkersburg, Mr..
John L. Thomas, of Cumberland,
Maryland, Mrs. S. H. Tudor, Mrs
S. II. Martin, and Mrs. S. II. Man
ny, of Baltimore, the everywhere
known Jennie Smith, and SO on,
with full program throughout the
four days. Look for full program
in next FREEMAN.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Freeman Contents.
". G. T. U. Pave.

". @. T. U. Page.
A Wise Criticism-On the w. c. T. q. Dis.
cussion Mt Wellsburg.
ILLINOIS CHEER, by Mrs. q. IL. Read, SUI
perintendent Press Department, Illinois W.
q. T. u.
Georgia w. q. T. U. Convention.
North Carolina Convention.
Work in Maryland.
Good Meeting in New Jersey.
GRACE CoTTAGE.-Go there and rest.
Other Outside Pages:
Organize Organize! j. U. Myers, of Mason
county.
Who are Non Partisan? by John Banner,
OF Ohio.
Our Dayton Letter, DR.. Warner
Things that are Settled, DR.. Talmage.
The Effects of the Rum Traffic. Toledo
Blade.
Good Templar Rally at Harrisville.
Welcome Signs In Utah.
A Good Illustration.
intelligencer's Lack of Intelligence
U. B. Ministerial Institute.
County Teachers.
suppose" &C., &C,
Outside pages are chock full, but the best
OF all are the calls for County Conven-
lions.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
L. q. q. II.

MISUNDERSTANDING, July
3rd, was grand, good day for the
Good Templars of Richie county.
An account of the meeting will be
found on an inside page. 1t was
in for last weeks FREEMAN, but in
the editors absence was by mis-
take allowed to be crowded over
with other matter.
STATE LEcTURER.-Last week
we noticed the fact that Mr..
Thomas had been called home by
sickness in his family. We have no
late news from him, but hope he
may soon be at the front again.
Mr.. John L. Thomas succeeded
in organizing lodge of I. O. G, T,
of 38 members at this place during
his visit here, also on Wednesday
night he organized lodge of
twenty members at Palestine.
We can not make full report in
the Times this week but will in
our next issue Elizabeth Times.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Sample UOpy.

A blue x on this item emphasizes
the fact that this copy Of the FREE
MAN comes to you as special
messenger, inviting you to sub
scribe. If you are a friend to the
cause, show your friendship by
inviting its advocates to your home.
Please examine the FREEMAN care
fully. Send one dollar for a year,
or at least, send at once, 13 two
cent stamps and have it 3 months
On trial. Address
The FREEMAN,
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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14
Sc BY this Craft We Have
Our Wealth."

1t is the duty of the Gospel min.
istry to stand for right and against
wrong, under any and all circum.
stances.
AS long as there was no attempt
made to put an end to the drink
traffic, ministers could go to any
length whatever in their denuncia-
ton of the evils of intemperance,
and meet with nothing but COM
mendation; but as soon as some
practical measure is put in motion
to wipe these evils out of existence,
the tune is suddenly changed. 1t
is discovered all at once that this
is question with which preach
ers cannot grapple without bring
ing discredit and dishonor upon
their holy calling.
1t might be supposed that the
men who make this discovery are
consumed with burning zeal for
the welfare of the Church at all
times, but we are sorry to observe
that they are not.
The Church may dabble in any
other dirty pool, but the pool Of
politics, without attracting their
attention at all. 1t is only when
it comes down from its sacred mis-
sion of saving souls, to engage in
the work of closing up the pitfalls
in which souls are lost, that the
anxieties of these self-constituted
conservators Of ministerial sanctity
are aroused.
If such men could read the signs
of the times, they would see that
the time for such nonsense has
passed. There are very few who
do not thoroughly understand its
motive and bestow upon it the
contempt which it deserves. If
there is any class of people in the
world who can engage in any hon
orable means for the destruction of
vice and the promotion of morali-
ty, with greater propriety than the
ministers of the Gospel, we should
like to have that class pointed out.
The root of the objection to minis
ters engaging in any active work
to promote reform, was summed up
very frankly in few words, over
1900 years ago: "By this craft we
have our wealth"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

The report on w. G. T. U. page,
of the Institute at Bell Air, Md,
comes q little late, but it is 80
good our friends will heartily well
come it. We do wish our
Maryland friends would send US
more of their good things.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-07-14

We are sorry to see the Ohio
River Railroad going into the Sun
day Excursion business.
We are very sure the quiet farm
ers and other peaceable people
along the road will not give this
Sabbath desecration innovation a
hearty welcome.