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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-19
"But 1 wish it were over

a little shudder. "But L wish it were over-l
wish he knew"
avery moment Of delay" he continued,
us a new wrong to you, my pet; and surely
I am no loving husband, Jenny, If I wrong
you. What excuse have I for delay9 So
far it has been cowardicc. But I can end it
if I choose, and tomorrow night it is done.
Will your father be at homea"
II dread to say yes. l shall not dare to
face him"
"Jenny, you must not DO SO timid. You
are not alone"
"But I can hear him crying, Jenny, Jenny,
come down from your room!' with his face
like wood, and the angry stoop Of his head,
which he will lift in flames, as l saw him
once when he charged his niece Martha, who
is dead, with IN evil deed"
"This is no evil deed, my pretty"
"Did not l just now say We were honesti
In my heart l feel re are; yet what should
my conscience answer if father calls me de-
ceitfuls"
"But, you see, there are so many kinds Of
deceit. There is one kind that Injuries people
and another kind that Injuries no one. Whom
have we injured! Dearest, there is nothing
to fear
II cannot help fearing my father" she con
tinued, in q trembling voice, @for though he
is very stern, he loves me; and l dread the
thoughts his love will fill him with when he
hears that I 4 have deceived him and mother. "
1.-THE wo st Is not so bad as the dread of it,
dear"
"He is SO terribly religious"
@Ay, a Baptist; and my papa is a Tory
Churchman! And we are to be impaled on
their p%rejudices! Thank the Lord, old men
are scant of breath, and when their lungs are
empty, young men may"
"Hark! here are the coast guards"
The tramp Of men, deadened by the smoth.
ering dust of the road, fell upon their ears;
and soon q little company of dark figures,
with the moonshine kindling silver stars in
the polished points of their weapons, turned
the corner and strobe sturdily, in silence, up
the hill.
ut should be half-past eight" said Jenny.
u must be going, BERTHE. I must be going,
indeed. Goodnight; say goodnight to me,
BERTHE"
They both rose, their hands clasped.
Tomorrow night, at half-past eight,
watch for me at your window, Jenny. My
mind is resolved. I will speak to your father
first, and then tell mine the story. We shall
sleep the sweeter for il. A clear conscience
before all things, and that will come by hon.
oring ourselves"
eyes, it is right" she whispered with d
little SILVER. kiss me, and say goodnight "
He strained her in his arms, and she went
away, but slackened her pace and fled back
to him out of the moonlight. Then, slipping
from his lips, she ran across the road and
was gone.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-19
III.
C%uTHBERT's SECRET.

- LII 1
c%urHBERT's SECRET.
Utter silence falls never on q boys school.
Not even on the dormitories, wherein the
snoring of dull stomachs and mutterings Of
young slumber, and the restless sprawling of
limbs that makes the bedsteads creak and the
bed clothes slide, are sounds audible through
out the night.
But there should be peace at prayer time.
That hour is arrived, and now We certainly
find a tolerable stiffness on the benches, young
knees and fitful tendency toward laughter
Notwithstanding.
The resident ushers at the corner Of each
form, their fingers to'their eyes, stand erect.
Cuthbert kneels neal his father. A breeze
from the sea keeps the chestnut leaves at the
windows shivering, and through the twink
ling of them the faint gold-shine in the west
comes and goes, with the large stars in the
nearer sky and the growing whiteness of
moonlight on the fields.
Then to bed d~ecorously, as becomes the re-
cipients of the benediction.
As the boys file out through one door, Cuth-
bert walks out behind his father through an
other door.
Though watched on the whole by his father
more closely than he merited, seeing that he
had long ago abandoned petticoats, Cuthbert
enjoyed every evening al hour and a half of
liberty, what time the doctor, having dis.
missed his scholars to bed, withdrew to his
study to relax his mind in all ways that
pleased him after the tension of the day.
His little spell of evening holiday was
come, and as the tails of lis fathers coat
auttered through the study door, Cuthbert
Rw1,n0 dou,n hio hat mud loft tho ho,,ca
In the young moonlight, and the glimmer.
ing memories of crimson over the dark line OF
the cliff, the ocean breeze, snatching land
fragrance from the nesting crops, was sweet
as honey.
Down the broad white road Cuthbert went
swiftly, pausing once to pull a watch from
his fob
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-19
FORCED APART
By ". A RUSSELL

Axthor Of the "Wreck Of the Grosvsnor,"
"A Sailors Sweetheart" Etc.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-06-19
A word TO FARMERS!
Protect Yourselves and Your Families AGAINST
Ruin from Halt or Cyclones.

Hah business man anno afford be whhMt rrteton muhh s can 1.-THE farmer Whose crops his all
are entirely exposed he ehnnnt. tcms the rer but little hrp rechn-a nhuhAm SO Of grain
Thep rf farmer Who'll has worked hard land xlmuteie every reuuren put tina CROP the UMd which SLl
enMl ahudM suffering hnsHandh family cannot for II matter of Ew cents prmreaf afford to be without
and cyclone protection and the weltedo farmer rtdnya nnotf for he 0t miss the few cents The
Importance OF mohedon being sthelh til .my question decide btheb best and mMt scheme This M
claimed rheF Farmers Mmud Protective. A@ocmton,f phnkintnD akom-an orunntnn of farmers
themselves Membership in which lrm. hs desired protection. Mr. C. Kennedy general solicitor for the
mnMfn portion %m the IMT.s now in Devils Lake, the pHrsed explaining he ohigsf the
ofany fTmrb see Me&n. Means &Rolpr, who have bena appointed special solicitors fol the DEVILS Lake
IAN sa % district amh examine @U1s% m the scheme LAS. Last yrh his association ond an acreage over 10000 acres:
member G cents per acre.
1.-THE hnt place is mutual company, which ENSURES against losses Of crops from Al somso cyclones.
membra member frlGs 81 auEnuld dues ada an assessment ntp exceed q cents pr @eo on grow
crops during nee nme season. TcM Mdbp rMMdmh his mud relations ba chua morrmm
crops 1.-THE members te association The memteso thea association to nee a year and select Il
uT" m m mM fm M mas they may seen and. turing hE year ae.h member is assessed fora loss he
being pdo the nGsurrn The accumulated fund.- used fort the expenses of carrying on the business The
association @n% ahrel officer except its hnkkeer he other omcn. almMs' and wMntonr receiving
&C commissions on the amount of work prfmeiM du the surplus which is eft the end oa yMan ravS
xpmssk hToitI in hed depository. This sws Hem fund out of whhhl losses are paid making the
assessment lighter. every year The asocMtond Msm lot d.mt anything utd a loss 70 the hTvaIne
mdl mahGngm grain
LOCAL AGENTS WANTED BY
leans & RODGERS.
Special Solicitors of the Devils Lake Land Dirtrict.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

one of immense proportions. 1t is
said million dollars have already
been placed in the hands
of the builders and where
it will end L presume no
one is bold enough to conjecture
One distinctive feature of the house
will be the running OF passenger
trains right under its roof.
The country surrounding is not
interesting or pretty. But when
the northern tourist of February
evening can step out and feel him
self in soft balmy air, with a bril-
liant moonlight making the
dancing waters of the bay shine
with reflected light, and the light
house on the ocean beach of the Is
land throwing a broad tract of light
from island to town, he feels that
few places can excel in beauty,
dull old st. Augustine. 1t is a
summer as well as winter resort,
for the Southern people come here
for the sea air and bathing. 1t is
pronounced the coolest place in
Florida in summer. Is it strange
that with all its quiet the stranger
regrets to leave the place and with
his departure is likely to carry
away pictures no other place sup
plies? EVERETT.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Trust Sale.

Under and by virtue of a Deed OF Trust5I
made and executed by Emeline Walker a aa
William Walker to the undersigned Iru tee'
dated the 10th day of August, 1885, ana re- n
corded in Trust and Mortgage Book NO; nv
page 270 in the Office of the Clerk OF w
County Court of Wood County. made 1oT I IIle
purpose of securing to the Vulcan Machl M
Company the payment of a certain o ,siI
therein mentioned, the Undersigned VIII
on the
3rd Day of May 1886, ..
at the front door of the Court HOUSE HOUSE to to
sell at public sale the real estate conyey en
by said deed of trust, viz: a io Diver
the lower side of the Little Kanawha Hi apd
at the mouth of said River, BOUNDED aL
described as follows Beginning at a ssa NJ
on the line of laying off reserved d w rhan
2l2 feet from the line between Inc Oni
celior lot and the Elijah Spencer propeii}} IN
thence south by east so feet to sta thence
said line laying off reserved wharf, t LIZ
8 S71z W $50 feet to a stake on an e. ale aIIey
thence north with said line laying On ,Giev.
50 feet to stake on said line OF ai''
thence N 8718 $50 feet to the beginning
TERMS OF SALE.
Cash in hand on day of sale.
JNO. A. HUTCHINSON Irus'e0'
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Who will give you the LOWEST
Rates and BEST Routes.
Commissioners Notice.

Samuel Stewart, Sheriff of Wood County
and as such administrator of Jane Il. Nor
rison, deceased, Plaintiff,
O.P. Durham, w. H. Morrison, G. P. Nor.
rson, John &. Morrison, H. l.. Cokely tnes
Morrison), Margaret H. Cokely Qlee Nor
rison), and D. B. Cokely, her husband,
Keren II. Willis (,aee Morrison), and d. NJ
Willis, her husband, heirs at-law of Jane u
Morrison, deceased, Defendants,
In the Circuit Court of Wood County, West
Virginia, IN CHANCERY.
To the above named Parties, Plaintiff and
DEFENDANTS:
You will take notice that the above en-
titled cause was referred to me, one OF tne
Commissioners of said Court, at the Feb-
ruary Term, 1886, for the purpose OF taxing
proof and reporting to the Court the facts
particularly required by said degree OF refer
ence, to which you are referred for partlc-
ular statement of everything to be exam
In accordance with the order of reference
aforesaid, have fixed upon the 18th DAY OF
April, 1886, between the hours OF o'cloch
a. M, and p. NJ, of said day, at my once
471a Third street, in the city of ParkersDufs,
in the County of Wood, State of West Vlr-
ginia, to take the testimony of boIh partles
to said action, if desired and deemed neces-
sary, and will continue the same from uay
to day and time to time, if necessary, untI
all the testimony and the report OF tns
undersigned is completed as required oy sa Az
order, and this publication, and posting ny
the provisions of the decree in said cause, 10
in lieu of, and equivalent to personal ser
vice. ~
You are commanded, in the name OF the
State of West Virginia, to be and appeal
before me, in obedience to this notice, ah la
to protect your interests, in relation 10 'h0
matter before me. Ut,
Given under my hand, at my once ILLS
Goth day of March, 1886.
BARNA POWELL, Commissioners
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Dig Money in Siloc
III In the U. S. in 80, 6; in S5, 1000. ~

"The discovery of the age" Edward Ely,
Conn. 80 per cent saved by feeding Ensil-
age" Ex.-Gov. Smith, Vt. "Makes Milk,
Butter, Beef and Mutton as cheap in Winter
as Summer" Gilbert, N. Y. Prof. Manly
Miles in American Agricul turist, says, "The
Silos is a wonderful innovation which has
gone steadily on, constantly adding to the
number of its firm adherents, the use of En-
silage becoming more and more general"
WHAT to plant how to cultivate, when
w to cut, ow to build for $50, and all
about the system (the very latesD, a COM
plete guide for so cents. Mr.. Car skadon
with three years experience is an expert as
all will see by re aiding his valuable work on
Silos and Enislag'.' says the Intelligencer
Wheeling. w. Va.
REFERENCES: Hon. H. G. DAVIS.
Hon. S. B. ELKINS.
Everybody should read the book. Send
for 1t at once, and get ready for Ensilage
crop.
MONEY RETURNED if you abandon ST.
los after q trial.
Address T. r. CARSKADON,
KeySer, W. Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
FREEMAN CLUB RATES.

The FREEMAN will Club with the Nation
al Prohibition Organ and the National W. C.
7. o. Organ as follows.
The Union Signal, of Chicago, year, SITS
Inc fREEMAN, year,....-........--......... l. SO
Union Signal and FREEMAN together 225
The Voice, of New York, year,... i 90
Inc FhEEMAN, lyear.........................l so
Inc voice and FREEMAN together...... 200
Union Signal, Voice and FRBEmAN.... 800
Address, enclosing Money Order, or Regis
tered letter with money,
FREEMAN,
Parkersburg, w. Va
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Notice to Lien Holders OF
NeStOr Logan.

To all persons holding liens by judgement
or otherwise on the real estate or any part
thereof, OF Nestor Logan:
In pursuance of decree of the Circuit
Court of Wood county, West Virginia, made
in a cause therein pending, to subject the
satisfaction of the liens thereon, you are
hereby required to present all claims held
by you, and each of You, against the said
Nestor Logan, which are liens on his real
estate, or any part of it, for adjudication, to
me, at my office, Az Third street, in the
city of Parkersburg, Wood county, w. Va,
Cd or before the 5th day of May, 1886.
Given under my hand this 9TH day of
April, 1856.
BARNA POWELL, Commissioner.
j. w. VanderyOort, Plff7S Sol
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Improved Farm for Sale.

An Improved Farm of 345 acres,
adjoining the town of Cairo, on the
B. & O. R. R., Richie county, 100
acres improved, 100 acres in grass,
Is acres timber. Good Fences,
Good Barn, two Tenement Houses.
Price, s22,5O per acre.
Address or inquire of
D. MCGREGoR,
Cairo, W. Va.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Come Forward, General.

In reply to the insinuation Of
our friend of the Scottsville Courie.
we have no hesitation in saving
che editor of The Herald will vote
against the sale of liquor. Every.
body in this community knows
how he stands on this question.
Now, General, aren't You strad.
ding the fence ?--FSncastle (Kal
Herald.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

Mr.. Carskadon had been a we'll
known and influential Republican
until after Blaine's defeat and
formed a fine target for party spite.
Providence did not unite on our
party purposes at Fairmont, much
more than upon Blaine's in this
State two years ago. Rain fell all
day with gruesome effect. In the
large rink but half as many gather
ed, afternoon and evening, as would
have come had the day been fair.
Yet our audiences were good and
they listened with receptive cour-
tesy. An Ex-Governor OF the State
put his foot-or his hand-in it
once, to my amusement. l invited
any one who knew any issue
greater than Prohibition, to lift a
hand. Up came his with prompt
ness. But when 1 politely urged
him to define it he sat in resolute
silence. He had more tender treat
ment, because of his gray hairs
and age, than one younger could
command. His record and stand
ing l did not learn until afterward.
They organized the new party in
Fairmont, and raised one hundred
dollars for Prohibition literature
on the spot. Thus Marion county
leads off, and soon others will
follow. Throughout the State a
deal of quiescent feeling only waits
the hand of an organizer. 1t has
focal point in each of the towns
we visited. Particularly at Parkers-
burg and Wheeling is it eruptive
and promising. The West Vir-
ginia FREEMAN, published at the
former place, has wrought excel
lently in prohibitions behalf; and
upholding it is little group of
men like Dave D. johnson, Chair
man of the State Executive Com
mittee, who sacrifices freely that
the cause may succeed. In Wheel
ing live if not large Prohibition
club forms the center of advanced
and progressive sentiment, and
prophesies of bigger things by-and-
by. With the means to organize
thoroughly, these West Virginia
men would soon revolutionize
politics in that State. They have
social standing and character.
They deserve great help.
AS | came speeding away from
Washington, Saturday, the tele-
graph said that in Lynchburg,
Va, the local option fight had
been precipitated-I suspect by the
liquor men-and would come off
about April Is. And there was
bit of qualification in the thought,
that our long winters work south
of Mason and Dixon's line had
helped, may indeed have impelled
the forward legislative action in Vir-
ginia and Mississippi, and served
as inspiration for strong move
ment all along the line. With
Rhode Island given chance to vote
Prohibition up or down April 7,
and the Legislature of our own
Empire State conceding in caucus
the right of the people outside, Ito
amend their organic law as they
may please), it does look as if
politicians had taken alarm North,
as well as South, and were getting
ready for the flood. Does any
thinking man suppose our public
servants, heretofore suppliant be-
fore the liquor power, would sudden
ly have changed front in such d
manner but for the widespread
agitation Prohibitionists have car
ried on, and their systematic organi-
zing effort of the last two years.
* X A. A. HOPKINS.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

To things which you bear with
Impotence you should accustom
yourself, and by habit you will
bear them well.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
On the Southern Field.
Prof. 4. 4. Hopkins Closes -Four
Months Prohibition Campaign IN
Vest Virginia.
New YORK, March 16, 1886.

Last week, in West Virginia,
was the last week of my personal
service in the South. In four days
l spoke six times, and travel con-
sumed the two days beside.
Parkersburg Tuesday, Wheeling
Wednesday, Clarksburg Thursday
and Fairmont Friday, received the
plainest Prohibition party gospel |
could preach. Ably assisting at
each place was Hon. T, R. Carska-
don, of Keyser, w. Va, one of the
Bureaus strong "Volunteers," who
commands universal respect
throughout his own State and
whose utterances are broad, philo-
sophical, impressive. The one thing
which made that finale of the cam
paign pleasant was his company.
Not that found no satisfaction in
the work, or failed to meet many
true men and women whom IL be-
came good fortune to know. West
Virginia has a small multitude
who stand true and are pure souled.
With his droll Irish wit,
his thoughtful search after social
and political Inducements, his
fund of Renaissance as a Union
Southerner and loyal refugee, and
his devoted Christian spirit, Mr..
Carskadon helped me more than he
could dream, and l thank him.
The Prohibition party of West
Virginia has begun to materialize.
You can barely see its outlines yet.
They started last summer when
the State Alliance met. By reso-
luton, then adopted, that organi-
cation declared Tor separate politi-
cal efforts and elected State Party
Executive. 1t was practical mer-
gence of the non-partisan body into
body partisan, and caused fric-
ton at once. Some of the Alliance
members withdrew. They even
proposed a new non-partisan
league, and gathered for shaping it ;
but when they requested their
most influential sympathizer to
preside, he declined and gave them
good advice. They went away
undetermined and nothing came
of the bolt. At our meeting in
Wheeling this gentleman was pre-
sent and afterward was heard to
admit our positions just and our
arguments unanswerable. He has
been a leading Republican-Mar-
shall of the District-and Yields
more influence in his party than
almost any other man. While he
is not declaratively with us, his
old party fealty has light grip and
he does not antagonize the new
party faith. By his side, after our
Wheeling speech, stood a leading
Democrat of the town who met US
with hearty admissions that we
were right.
But the Repu blicans of w. Va,
fear most from our movement.
They have seen a chance to carry
the State and like their party col
leagues North, they think a new
party means Republican annihi-
lation. At Fairmont, where Marion
county was to organize, the Re-
publican paper had been viciously
assailing Mr.. Carskadon and
maliciously pursuing Capt. Frank
Burt, from the time our conven-
ton was called to the day we were
there at its holding. Capt. Burt
pushed the matter of calling it and
was therefore specially obnoxious.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

The soul is not poisoned by mere
errors of the head, but by evils of
the heart.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

If you would not cease to love
mankind, you must not cease to do
them good.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

If you have pimpies, boils, salt rheum,
rough skin, ETC., take "Dr. Lindsey's Blood
searcher" Sold by all druggists.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

Ladies' kid button shoes at SIC
at R. G. Caldwell's.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

s. M. Pollock's House and Lot
for sale by Attkisson.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07
Freeman Job Office.

When you want Billheads, Note
heads, Letterhesds, Statements, En-
velopes, Business Cards, Shipping
Tags, or job Printing of any kind
call at the FREEMAN Office.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-04-07

Lots and Houses and Lots to suit
everybody, for sale by Attkisson.