davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
West Virginia. W. G. T. U.

President--M j. A. JOHNSON, Parkers-
burg, W. Va. ,.,-...
Vice 5,resident-Miss Lucy Shaw, Parkers-
burg. w., I1rhooHno
Cor. oec.-MisS Emma A. Fowler, 936 Main
St, Wheeling. ,r.,.,..,l, ,,1l,oo1ir,
Treas--Mrs. Henry Hubbard, Wheeling
SUPERINTENDENT OF DEPARTMENTS.
literature Mrs. M. j. Porter, New Gum =
berland. ro,.,
az -upeIislic Mrs. NJ. M. Love, Grafton.
Young Ladies' Work ,
InVeHlle work Miss Ida Taylor, Ravens J.
"Raiiroad Work Mrs. Emily Chambers,
MartInsburg. ,;a. 900,
Prison work Miss Amanda List, 22Ol
Chap inc ST, Wheeling. m.
Sabbath school WOrk-MlSS Emma row
Ter g{6 Main St. Wheeling.
Legislative Mis-. Gen. l. ii. DuYal, weiss
burg A., r,,,, Tho,o,
son, Keyser. ,4l VIZ
ren, Wheeling ~, c,,oI
Hvgiene and Heredity-Mrs. M. l.. Chal-
FAINT, Jane Lew, ,,,,
Unfermented Wine-Mrs, r. L. Kendall,
Flower Mission Miss Flora B. Siler,
STATE and County Fairs-Mrs. e. F. Nine,
keyser. NJ, Teoiob
Warren, Wheeling, r,
Mrs c. ID. Merrick, Parkeraburg, W. va
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
MOUNTAIN LAkE PARK
AND
w. c. t. e. Interstate Confer.
ence and Training School.

Mrs. G. B. Buell., PresidenJ of Mt.
Lake Park Conference of w. G. T.
.. workers, says to your humble
servant and Secretary, II want you
to write up MT, Lake for the
FREEMAN"
With all proper sympathy for
your readers, [ am obliged to obey
the orders of my superior officer,
and insist that this article must
be read and pondered, and in due
season trunks must be packed and
the aforesaid readers HE them
selves away to the W. G. 7. U. Con,
ference.
If | were to tell you all the ad.
vantages Of a visit to Mountain
Lake, you would fancy I was agent
for some patent medicine.
will say few things whereof
know. you want pure air, love
ly walks and drives and a perfectly
re8JuI time, Mountain Lake is the
place to find them.
OF course | shall not dare ven
ture to refer to the meeting of the
G. l.. S. G. in August. Unjust talk
of the charms of our own w. G. T
U. Conference.
When | tell you we are to have
two of "Col. Geo. W. Bain's' best
speeches, you will see that l have
somewhat to say that is worth
saying,
Then to those who were at the
Conference last year, 1 will give
great pleasure when l announce
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
National Temperance Hospital,

The following invitation, duly
received, is gotten up in regulation
reception style and explains itself:
eve cordially invite you to attend
49, thg opening and dedication Of
Tho Nail Temperance Hospital,
3411 Cottage Grove Ave,
Az ? NJ, Tuesday, May 4, 1886,
Addresses will be delivered by
Frances E. Willard, Pres't Charles
Blanchard, DR.. Sarah Hackett
Stevenson, Rev. Frank
Bristol, and others.
BOARD OF TRusTEEs.-Mrs, E. K
PeteIs. Mrs. l.. M. Plumb, Mrs,
MARY B. Willard, Mrs, F. B. Hobbs
and Dr.. Mary W eeks Burnett"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
the help so good and true a Chris

the help SO good and true a Chris.
tian lady can render.
Resolued, That our best desires
and love follow her to her new
abode, where we hope she NAV
have strength and courage to assist
in the good work of the W. C. T,
U. of that place to which we heart.
lily commend her, hoping she NAV
meet with the hearty welcome Of
the Union.
Resolved, That copy of these
resolutions be sent to the Freeman
for publication.
Respectfully submitted.
MRS. M. E. WOODRUFF.
Vice President.
MRS. OLIVIA BURT, Sec'y.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
w. C. T. U. In the Rhode Island
Conflict.

The Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union was foremost in the
management of the campaign. A
noted temperance worker said: Il
have been through three amend,
ment campaigns and am convinced
no company of women ever demon
strated better executive ability IN
comprehensive plans or minute ar
rangement of details than these
With only three weeks from the
time of submission to the final
vote, they succeeded in most thor
ough canvass of the State and car
ried literature and sent speakers
into every part Of it," The enthu-
siasm Of the people was equal to
that manifested in Ohio, Iowa, or
Kansas. Boston Traveller.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
Mountain Lake Park Prospectus.

"A beautifully oAeCuteu MOuHtdl LII
Lake Park Prospectus contains
the following Calendar for the
SEASON OF 1888.
Teachers Association of West
Virginia, July 6-8.
Evangelical Meeting of Friends,
July 1919.
Interstate Conference of the W.
G. T. u, July 1881.
Summer Art School, July 1, and
Aug. 81.
Training Glass for kindergarten
Teachers, July IL, Aug, 81,
Summer School of Elocution,
July II, Aug. 81.
Sunday School Assembly, Aug.
3-17.
Mt. Lake Park Photographic
Club, Aug, 4,
Summer School of Amateur Pho
Biography, Aug. 800.
Surely here is programme for
the season sufficient to suit all
who may be seeking profit, pleas
ure or rest.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12

We wish all our Unions would
realize the great good their mem
bers would get by reading each
week the w. C. 7, U. news in the
FREEMAN. Measures should be ia
ken at once TO canvass the member
ship, and put the FREEMAN into
every family, if not for year, for
8 moaths on trial--only Is cents.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12

Miss Susie Pollock, Superinten-
dent Of Froeole Institute and Kin
dergarten, Washington, D. c., will
make tour through West Virgin
ia in June, and will be present at
our State Convention.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12

President-MISs FRANCES E. WILLARD OF
Cor, Sec'-Alrs. q. Buell., So Bible House,
re. Sec.-Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, Ra-
VIENNA, ". A., n. NJ S+avans
Stroudwdter, Nc. -, ,oe,< walnut
st, Ctnn, ~ III Norood oo7
Mosher st, Baltimore.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12

that they are to have the pleasure
of hearing Rev. J. W. Carter, OF
parkersburg, Hon. G. w. Atkinson,
of Wheeling, and others of those
who SO pleasantly entertained and
instructed the Conference last year.
AS training school for w. c. T.
U. workers, Mt, Lake Conference is
invaluable.
l think l can truthfully say that
more knowledge can be gained of
practical methods of work by at
tending one of these training
schools than would be gained in a
whole year at home.
This Training School or Confer
ence of W.. G. T. U. workers will
be held the last four days of July,
when we are sure those who met
there last year will be glad to greet
as their President this year, Mrs. G.
B. Buell..
GRACE COTTAGE.
Miss Jennie Smiths Cottage has
always been headquarters for W.
G. T, U. women, and it certainly is
place where the weary workers
can find rest.
FAITH COTTAGE.
This year our Quaker sister, Sa-
rah Harris, will open her new cot
tage, just next Jennie Smiths, and
we hope to see them both grounded
with guests from all parts of the
land. SECRETARY.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12

lieve me of the grave charges made
in your columns of untruthfulness,
| am for the faithful enforcement
OF law,
Mrs. JANE A. JOHNSON,
Pres. State w. G. T. u, w. Va.
THE EDITORS REPLY.
MouNDsvILLE, W. Va, 3d., '86.
Mrs. J. 4. Johnson, Parkersburg,
". Va:
Your communication of the Both
ult is received. No satisfactory
correction of your grave charges
against the officials of Marshall
county has yet appeared IN the
FREEMAN. Those charges were
made before our intimation of in
consistency and insincerity' on
your part, and we deem it proper
that the first correction or explain
alton, as you may be pleased to
call it, should appear in its COL
umns. We are perfectly willing
and ready to set you right before
our readers. To misrepresent any
one is farthest from our desire.
But would it not be well to pub
lish your communication in the
FREEMAN, and let your readers
know that the Marshall county Of
fcials are not the hypocrites you
once thought them? That done,
we are ready to publish your ex-
PLANTATION. A waiting your pleas
ure, | am
Very Respectfully,
JNo. W, BURCHINAL.
CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER.
And now to conclude the whole
matter, and show that the correc-
ton and amende honorable had been
duly made through the columns of
the FREEMAN, we reproduce here
the following extracts from the is
sues of April 18th and21st, respect
lively. This first from our own
letter to the W. G. T. U. depart
ment, written while at Mounds
Vile
"The effort to close the saloons in
Moundsyille, is genuine. The Pros
ecuting Attorney (Mr Meighen),
is in earnest, and Mr.. Thatcher,
who is City Sergeant, will do his
duty, fearlessly."
And this from the editorial col
umns, issue of April 21st;
"The Marshall Herald charges
our w. G. I. U. editor with saying
one thing in the FREEMAN and the
contrary at meeting in Mounds
vile.
There was no contradiction, but
word of explanation is proper.
When in the FREEMAN she re-
PEELED the ReraJd's unjust attack
on the Moundsville W. G. I, u,
she spoke Of the seeming 'compro-
mise with the saloons of Marshall
county, stating her opinions, as
based on information received. AT
ter writing this, she was on the
ground, and becoming satisfied of
the good faith of the officials, SO
stated publicly, and apologized to
the officers. This was the how of
it,"
Let US have peace.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
The Case Summed up.
The Marshall Herald Refuses to Hear
and Render Justice.

attack by the Marshall Herald, up
on the Womans' Christian Tenn
perance Union of Moundsville,
charging the women with making
the Temperance work an excuse
for "booming" the interests of the
Third Party, laying the blame of a
failure to organize Good Templar's
lodge at their door, and complain
ing that they did not aid the Court
in the prosecution Of the Marshall
liquor dealers for violations of law.
News came to US that a large
number of witnesses in attendance
upon Court, ready to testify against
saloon keepers, before the Grand
Jury, then sitting, were dismissed
by the Court, and the Grand Jury
directed to consider no liquor cases,
and that this action was based on
the promise of the liquor sellers to
quit the business; and from other
information deemed reliable, the
matter looked to US very much
like one of the usual compromises
so common with this class of per-
sistent criminals.
The tenor of our remarks refer
red to, were in harmony with this
condition of affairs. Going to
Moundsville a few days later, we
were satisfied that the officials were
acting in good faith, and so stated
publicly; explaining personally,
to Mr.. Meighen, Prosecuting At
torney, the circumstances under
which the editorial was written,
that it had already gone to press,
and would appear in the next
weeks FREEMAN.
In subsequent issues, the Herald,
referring to this public statement,
and the editorial in the W. G. T.
U. department of the FREEMAN,
charged US with inconsistency, in
sincerity, and even worse.
The following correspondence
explains itself, and we believe
shows somewhat of the animus of
both parties to the correspondence:
Desiring to set ourselves right
before the HeraId's readers, we sent
the following letter to the editor,
which he declined to publish, but
returned to US with the reply as
given below:
LETTER AND REPLY.
PARKERsBURG, W. Va, April 80, 'S6.
Editor Herald:
DEAR SIR On my return from
my work in the State, [ find IL
your last two issues, charges of
inconsistency and insincerity
against myself, In language neither
courteous nor professional.
An explanation is due both Mr..
Meighen and myself, and with your
permission, | make it through your
columns, where the charges were
brought.
The editorial eliciting so much
comment, was written in reply to
the Herald's charge of insincerity
and dereliction of duty on the part
of the Moundsville Union, and
was based upon information that [
considered reliable.
The matter for the W. G. I. U.
department of the FREEMAN was
sent to the printer March 30th, on
the evening of my departure from
home, and went to press the day be-
fore my visit to MoundsviIIe.
Finding the violatorS of law
were being prosecuted in good
faith, | made the 'amende honor
able publicly, and privately ex.
planned to Mr.. Meighen that the
editorial criticizing his course, had
already gone to press, but that a
correction would follow.
The correction was promptly for
warded, and appeared in the W. c.
7. U. department Of the next is
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12

Miss Jennie Smith will soon
hold a ten days "Convocation," IN
the Fourth Street NJ. e. Church,
Wheeling,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1886-05-12
WEDNESDAY, MAY Y, 1886.

Good letters from Berkeley
Springs, Keyser and Others Of our
wide-awake Unions, coming too
late, will appear next week.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
LOVES CREED.

Repents Not II though the wide world may part
Ne from you, Love, it cannot blot the past.
The happy past, shrined deep within my heart,
When round me your dear arms were knitted
fast
The glutton. though swine, was in the right
Who said, Not heaven itself can take from ne
The dinners | have eaten Dearly bought
NY Joys, but mine through oil eternity.
The love wherewith love is mine Away
A crown Of thorns and roses. my friend!
Which must wear through many weary day
NY heart will be the richer at the end.
Hove my love, and love, though you prove false
You have been true. Who knoweth what may
be,
Lives meet and part, like dancers in the waltz
Although you kill me, you have lived for me-
Though you should cast me out TO droop and pine,
Warm on your bosom many an hour lay;
That which had, my king, will still be mine
When all have shall fail and pass away
I would buy pleasure like a brave mans child,
And cry, To-day is mine. Tho die is thrown,
Here to my arms, dear love; my chains are filed,
Tomorrow may take counsel for his own.
Helen" in Chicago Times.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
ADVICE TO MEDICAL STUDENTS.
Hygienic Rules Which All College-Attend-
ing Young Men Ought to Heed.

Most medical students do 10 reading during
tho summer and thus make the winters work
all the more difficult. Such idlencss during
vacation is, in many cases, essential to health,
owing to The student having become tagged
out by injudiciously hard work during the
winter But such results can be avoided in
most cases by the adoption of a regular plan
and method of studying such as the writer is
about to describe.
Dcducting eight hours, which we will con-
slider the average requirement for sleep, we
have sixteen hours to be consumed in the
days requirements, medical and otherwise
OF these sixteen hours let lis allot one hour 10
toilet poscs-dressing, retiring and closet;
two and half hours to mcals-three quarters
Of an hour each for breakfast and lunch, and
one hour for dinner Including the post pran-
dial cigar or cigarette; an hour ana a half
to exercise; one hour to unavoidable waste;
this leaves ten hours for study. Thus: Sleep,
8 hours meals, breakfast, q lunch, "a din
ner, /; exercise, g; toilet purposes, l. UNI
avoidahle waste. l; study, 10 Total, a
hours.
The time allotted to study embraces the
hours spent in attending lectures, clinics, reel
tations or quizzes and in reading 1t will be
noticed that 10 allowance has been made for
time consumed in going TO and from college;
this should be considered rs exercise, and the
student does well who selects n boarding
house distant about fifteen minutes from col
lege, and forms the habit of walking briskly
in coming and going; to hard student
such exercise is the most beneficial, since
it is severe enough without being fatigu-
ing But the medical student must have
recreation just as more fortunate beings; he
should devote one entire day each week to
recreation or rest without any medical
thoughts, and also one evening during the
week-proferably about the middle; but this
evening cannot be fixed upon any particular
day, and had better be taken when the stu
dent feels in need of it. There always occur
to every one periods when the mind refuses to
act sufficiently for careful reading; when
such time appears, let the student give up
the attempt and spend the evening at the
theatre or in company of friends at some
other sort of amusement. Charles III.
May in New York Medical Journal.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
CHURCH NOTES.

n n stated that Msthcdist missionaries
have made 10000 converts in Sierra Leone,
Africa.
Sunday, Nov z, viii be specially observed
Is day Of prayer for foreign missions
throughout the world.
DR.. William Dean, after service for fifty
years as missionary in China, has just re-
turned to Portland, Me.
The annual meeting of the board of educa-
ton Of the Methodist Episcopal church VIII
be held in New York on Wednesday, Nov III.
Methodist leaders are discussing the advi-
sability of holding convention OF Metho-
dists from all parts OF the world, IN this
country in 1891.
E1-Secretary of War Robert Lincoln has
offered to give the new Episcopal church.
known as "Lincoln Memorial" in Chicago,
large and elegant Bible presented TO his
father during bis presidency OF the United
States.
The Joint anniversaries of the Sunday
School union and of the Tract Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal church, will be held
in st. Louis, Mo-, Nov. 1921. Bishop Bow
man, president Of the societies, will preside,
and several distinguished clergymen and lay
men will take part in the exercises.
Three years ago there were no German
Congregational churches in any Of The large
cities of the west. Now there are churches in
St Louis, Chicago Omaha and promising
mission in Kansas City Thirteen German
Congregational churches have been organ
lied in Dakota, and in the scandinavian de
partment more than twenty missionaries are
at work.
There are no less than thirty-six different
missionary societies represented in India,
writes the editor Of The Star OF India, to
The Independent, besides ten or more pri-
ate missions. All branches Of the church
are represented Europe and America, Great
Britain, the continent, the United States and
Canada. According to the statistical sum
mary for 1885 there were l37,54 commune
cants representing the fruits of these missions.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
MAHONEISM.

1t should be impressed on tne people
of Virginia that Malone had nothing to
do with the recent disasters to the Democ-
racy in several congressional districts.
The moment that the Federal patronage
was cut from under him Malone lost the
whole vitality of his rule. The recent
contests were entirely local.
The apathy of the Democrats was ow-
ing to the emasculation of the party by a
pronunciamento that no ofliceholder
could be an active politician and that the
officeseeker would do well to show him
self an old fogy to obtain recognition.
The position of the Democracy in Vir-
ginia was negative.
The Legislature had fled panic-stricken
from the debt question when they were
expected to settle it. And the idea then
and now with the alleged representatives
of the party is that no man could be
elected who favored debt settlement.
The people who advance this idea are so
ignorant as not to know that the Repub-
lican party, if called to square fight in
this State, would be obliged to go for a
debt settlement and against reputation.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
JOURNALS AND JOURNALISTS.

Labouchere, the editor of The London
Truth, is IS years Of age. He has plenty Of
money, edits for amusement, and smokes
cigarettes iDcessantly
John r. Mclean, the editor of Tho Cincin-
natl Enquirer, is fitting up his new house in
Washington in great style, and intends to
have in it the finest private library in the
city. He is now in New York looking up art
matters with view of purchasing.
a London correspondent once asked the
proprietor of The Telegraph, which has the
largest circulation in London, why his paper
had no American correspondent, but relied
solely on Reuters dispatches. He replied:
my dear sir, there is so little interest in
American affairs here that if for the next six
months we should throw away every bit Of
Reuters American matter but the market re-
ports am sure we should never once during
that time receive . complaint from q sub
VTibea."
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
COLLEGE NOTES.
Harvard has nine more students this yeal
than last

Harvard has nine more students this year
than last.
There are twenty more students at Bow
doin than there were last year.
Professor Gray, of Harvard, has contrib
uted over 100 plants to the conservatory Of
Vassar, which ID now being filed.
An intercollegiate press association has
been formed by Harvard, Princeton and
Yale, whereby the daily papers Of these col
leges are to have Geographic news on sports
and matters of general interest.
Senator Allison, Of Iowa, and Justin Nc
Carthy will lecture to the Yale students on
the currency question. The students at Yale
all recognize the need of a greater circulat-
ing medium, says The New York World
The preliminary catalogues OF Yale col
lege show that there are representatives from
thirty-sx states and territories and eight
foreign countries among the students. Con
necticut sends 236, the largest number from
any state.
Professor Dwight, Yale's new president, Is
rapidly getting a reputation for witty and
humorous speech making, and if he keeps on
at the present rate it won't be long before
New York will be trying to import him for
a place beside Chauncey NJ. DeFew and
Horace Porter.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
THE DEMOCRATIC ROOSTER.
The Republican Losses.

If the Republican roosters in the offices
of our esteemed contemporaries who be-
long to that party would take lucid in
terval and contemplate the losses on their
side, they would "roost lower" and crow
less loudly over Democratic set-backs.
The fact is that if the elections show
apathy and discomfort among the Demo
cratic voters, they do not indicate any
restoration of popular confidence in the
Republican party. There are as many
Democratic voters in the country as there
were two years ago. A considerable
number of them did not vote. That is
bad enough, but it is all. In not single
district or State is the Republican gain
due to an increase of the Republican
vote.
AS further matter of fact the Repub
licans have almost lost control of the
Senate. The detection of Riddleberger,
of which there were many symptoms last
winter, and the independence of Van
Wyck would, with the probable gains of
the Democrat. in California, Indiana, and
New Jersey, destroy the Republican SUI
premacy in the upper house.-N T.
World
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-09
MISSIONARIES BURNED.
The Slave Trade in Africa.

The New York Herald publishes an ac-
count of the burning of Christian mission
aries in Central Africa. The Arabs en-
courage wars between the African chiefs
in order to buy the captives taken and
sell them into slavery.
When the missionaries preached the
brotherhood of man it meant sooner or
later the extinction of this slave trade.
The missionaries must, therefore, be ex'
terminated, or land piracy given up.
When Mtesa was succeeded by Mwanga
the Arabs poisoned his mind and appealed
to his avarice. He became the savage and
relentless tool of his masters. He cheated
the missionaries and Christian converts,
lied to them, and ended by burning scores
of them alive. Suffering and death were
borne with that heroism of which the
history of the Church, Catholic and
Protestant, furnishes so many instances,
but those who are left are on the verge
ofsdespair.
The religious people of America cannot
hear this plea for help without doing
something and doing ii at once.