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, 1888-07-22

The art of cutting ana polishing dia-
monds with their own powder was intro
duced in Europe, according to the gener-
ally received account, by Louis van
Bergen, Or Berguem, who, in Paris,
studied the handicraft, then imperfectly
practiced. He revolutionized the trade
and established a guild of diamond cut
tiers in Bruges. In 1875, nearly twenty
years after he had made the discovery,
if it was a discovery, he was entrusted
with the task of cutting three large rough
diamonds for Charles the Bold, duke of
Burgundy. For his work he received
5000 ducats. The largest was the famous
Sancy diamond, which was lost in the
battle of Gfanson. The second after
wards belonged to Pope Sixtus ". The
third, a triangular shaped stone, was set
in a ring and given to Louis XI.-New
York Mail and Express.
, 1888-07-22

ly, rather than aggressively, pious. They
are invariably temperance disciples. be-
lieving implicitly in the inspiration OF the
Maine liquor laws trainers and the ex
IRENE seventies of prohibition; but you
will always find a drop of comforting
''grog' in their cabins or ''cuddies. "
Their whole and ultimate shrine is their
humble home, and what it holds. The
husband adores his wife and children
whom he rails at with tremendous obiur-
cations, while both he and they know his
affectionate rawlings are to be regarded as
lightly as the hoarse song of the sea upon
the crags. So, mutely, blindly, irreyoca-
bly, as lovingly, they are all attached to
the home spot, be it in cove, on crag, in
hulk Of stranded vessel, or huge timbered
colonial habitation behind the headland.
Contemplating them from every side of
Their habit and nature, one comes to won
der if there may not be some subtle in
1uence not yet divulged, floating in upon
them with all the other magic OF the sea,
whose loving wand blends outer environ
ment with their inner selves until charac-
ter is permanently cast in gentlest mold.
EDGAR l.. WAKEMAN.
, 1888-07-22
various Modes of Suicide.

"Of modes of suicide, poisoning is by
far the favorite," said DIR. Hamilton.
81 looked the subject up between 1866
and 1872, and found that of over 600
suicides here in those years 212 were sui
cides by poisoning. The preference in
poisons was for arsenic, and this in its
commonest form, paris green. Women
almost always poison themselves, unedu-
Gated women using paris green, and edu-
Gated women choral or morphine. The
frequency with which paris green is used
is due simply to the ~easiness with which
it can be obtained. The laws governing
the sale of the different kinds of poison
are not half stringent enough.
'In London hanging is the popular
form of suicide, though voluntary star
walton used to be. In France people
drown themselves or die from ~suffoca-
lion by inhaling charcoal fumes. 1t is a
singular fact that of the people who
shoot themselves 70 per cent. shoot
themselves in the mouth. At least this
was the case at the time / gathered
facts about the matter. Shielding
by jumping from a great height is a
horrible way of killing ones self, but it
is often done. And l am inclined to
think that many cases of this character
which are set down as such are not in
territorial suicides, but instances in which
the morbid tendency which nearly every
one feels when at a great height to throw
ones self down, has o~verpowered the will
and the brain. 1 myself once had a ter
rible experience of this character when
ascending the mountain C~orcovado, In
the harbor of Rio Janeiro. 1t was with
difficulty that l overcame a fearful rest
lessness and impulse to throw myself
down into the blue sea, 1000 feet below
me. "A fellow physician once told me
that he had a patient who never dared to
sleep on the third or fourth floor of a
house because of his fear of yielding to
an irresistible impulse to throw himself
out of the window. New York Sun.
, 1888-07-22
IN MOONLIGHT.

The white moon fills the silent sky,
And stirring at her feet
The white floods rise and leap the shore
Bold lovers, rash and fleet.
But a swifter flood to feel her sway,
And rush in a restless tide,
Is the love that leaps from my heart in words
For her whom Iwalk beside.
The white moon slips from the silent sky,
The sea slips from the shore,
And back to my happy, silent heart
Sweeps the flood of words once more
But not till the waves have kissed the beach.
And the moon has kissed the sea,
And not until, sweetheart, / too
Have kissed-been kissed by thee.
a w II
, 1888-07-22
Notice for Publication.
United States Land Office,

UHIUGu DIaUGS Ddnu O1lCe,
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 3, 1888.
Notice is hereby given that
ebert r, Love,
Of Fort Collins, Larimer county, Colo,
has filed notice of intention to make
proof on his desert land claim No. 1865,
for the e } of sec. %, and W of sec "a,
tp 10 n, r 62 W, before register and re-
ceiver at Cheyenne, Wyo., on Monday,
the 9th day of August, 1888.
He names the following witnesses to
prove the complete irrigation and recla-
nation OF said land:
Charles A. Campbell of Cheyenne,
Laramie county, Wyoming, and Owen
Carroll, William G. Lykens and John III.
Gordon, all of Little Horse creek, Laramie
county, Wyoming.
Edgar s. Wilson, Register.
, 1888-07-22
$4,000


For a better or more pleasant remedy for
the cure OF consumption, bronchial troub-
les. cough, Group and whooping cough
than Santa Able, the California king of
consumption. Every bottle warranted.
II you would be cured of that disgusting
disease, catarrh, use California Cat-R Cure
81 a Jar, by mail $1.1O. Santa Able and
Cat-R-C ur are sold and warranted by w.
N. Hunt.
, 1888-07-22
Proposals for Completing Capitol
Building,
Office of Capitol Building Commission,
Territory of Wyoming,
Cheyenne, Wyo.. June 10, 1888.

Cheyenne, Wyo.. June 10, 1888.
Sealed proposals for the completion of
the Territorial Capitol Building at Chey-
enne, Wyoming Territory, by the addition
of the two wings thereto, the central portion
being erected. and the supplying OF all mate
rial and every class of work therefor, in ac-
cordance with the plans and specifications,
which plans and specifications may be seen
at this office, in the said capitol building,
on and after this date, will be received up
to ~ o'clock. noon, on the 25th day of
July, A. ID. 1888. Zach, bidder must de-
post with the secretary of the commission
together with his bid, a bond or certified
check in the sum of 5000, as security
that the bidder, if the contract shall be
awarded him, shall within ten days after
the award enter into contract for the com
pletion of the building as required by law,
said specifications and this notice; and a
failure to enter into such contract within
the time specified, will forfeit all claim to
said contract. The person or persons to
whom the contract shall be awarded will
be required to give bond in double the
amount OF his or their proposal, with two
or more sufficient sureties, conditioned as
required by law. Blank schedules for the
use of bidders will be furnished by the
secretary upon application. Bids must be
endorsed Proposals for Completing Cap
itol Building" and be addressed to the
secretary of the commission, Cheyenne,
Wyoming. The right to reject any and
all bids is reserved.
By order of Capitol Building Commits.
sion. i. r. BREsNAHEN,
j. G. Baird, Chairman.
Secretary,
, 1888-07-22
For fine watch repairing,
David Miller, Idelman block.


The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns, wounds. chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. Will positively cure all
kinds Of piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
w. N. Hunt, at 25 cents per box-by mail
80 cent?.
, 1888-07-22

Tho bushel measures used in England
200 years ago weighed eighteen pounds
of themselves, and any one who walked
across the floor while wheat was being
measured was liable to imprisonment
New York Graphic.
, 1888-07-22
Notice for Publication.

United States Land Office,
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 3, 1888.
Notice is hereby given that
CharIes A. Campbell
of Cheyenne, Laramie county, Wyoming,
has filed notice of intention to make proof
on his desert land claim No. l743, for the
e ! of sec % and W J OF sec 90, tip 10 n, r
62 W, before register and receiver at Chey-
enne, Wyo., on Monday, the 9th day of
August, 1888.
He names the following witnesses to
prove the complete irrigation and reclaim
alton of said land:
Thomas Rutledge, Owen Carroll, James
Carroll John III. Gordon, all of Little
Horse Greek. Laramie county. Wyoming.
Edgar S. Wilson, Register.
, 1888-07-22

Collie, diarrhea and summer complaints
are dangerous at this season of the year,
and the only way to guard against these
diseases is to have constantly on hand a
bottle Of some reliable remedy. Beggs'
Diarrhea Balsam is a positive relief in all
these disagreeable cases and is pleasant to
take, 1t will cost you only 35 cents. W.
N. Hunt druggist.
, 1888-07-22

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums, allaYs
the pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrhea. Twenty FIVE cents
n bottle
, 1888-07-22

Draper, Organ y Go. sell
20 tooth Holm gssoOrth
Hay Rake for $25; Waltz f.
II. Wood .NOUey., besf i'm
the sUOrfd, $55; Lard Oil,
20 cents per gallon; .Ma-
chine on, 90 cents per gal
Ton.
, 1888-07-22

Colorado CHrraatS and
Kaspberf-SeS TeceiUed daily
at IL. Underwood - Bros.
, 1888-07-22
Dr. Wagner co.
sPmCuAIrsra


We offer no apology for devoting so much time
diseases, believing that no condition OF human-
ity is too wretched to merit the ympathy and
long, as many are innocent sufferers. and that
the physician who devotes himself
to relieving the afiicted and saving
them rom worse than death, is no less a
p~hllanthrophist and n benefactor to his race
than the surgeon or physician who by close APP
fession. And, fortunately for humanity the day
Is dawning, when the false philanthrophy that
the lepers under the Jewish law to die uncared
Tor, mas passed away.
YOUNG EN
Who may besuffering from the effects of youth
Inl folles or indiscretions, will do well to avail
themselves OF this the greatest boon ever laid
AZ the alter OF suffering humanity. DIR. WAC
NER will guarantee to forfeit five hundred dol
lars for every case OF seminal weakness or pri-
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and fails to cure.
MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
There are many men of the age OF 30 to GO who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by a slight
smarting or burning sensation and a weaken.
ing OF the system in a manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de-
posts a ropy sediment will often be found, and
sometimes small particles of aIbumen will ap-
pear, or the color win be OF akin or milkish
nue., again changing TO n dark and turbid APP
pearance. There are many men who die of
TINS ultnculty ignorant of the cause, which In
the second stage of seminal weakness. DIR.
Wagner will guarantee a cure in all such
cases and a healthy restoration of the genlto-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Repubii-
can.
All communications should be addressed
DR.. WAGNER & co.
l4l4 Larimere street. Address, Box 27ss. Den
Yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
FISK AND BROOKS.
Speakers for the Prohibition
Campaign.

Headquarters National Prohibition
Committee, Chicago, ILL.,
EDITOR FIREMAN.
Please say to your readers that
excellent Autographs OF Fisk and
Brooks (21 by % inches) can be
obtained at national headquarters
Room so, 81 Washington st. Chica'
60, at 8, 9 and 10 cts. each, &C.
cording to quality Of paper.
Also state that a considerable
list of the most prominent speak
ers is a: the disposal of the Nation
al Committee but no detailed ap-
pointments will be made from
headquarters.
The speakers will be ''farmed
QUITO the various State committees
where in our judgment they are
most needed.
Each locality can secure these
speakers by making applications
to the respective State committees.
The great bulk of the speaking
done during the campaign will of
course be directly under the aus
pices of local and county committees
the purpose of the National Com
mittee being to place only speak
ers of national reputation.
Yours truly,
Samuel Dickie. Chairman.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
RAvENSWOOD 1. .. G. T.
Repudiates the Hinton Partisa n
Resolutions.

At q regular meeting of Ravens
wood Lodge No. 68, /. o. G. T. the
fol lowing resolution was unan-
imously adopted to-wit:
Whereas, At the institution of the
Let District Lodge in the State at
Hinton, Summers County, a reso-
luton was adopted deprecating the
tact of the existence in this Sta te
of q "Third Party" on the liquor
question, and whereas, in view
of the fact that the I. O. G. T. is an
organization claiming to be non.
partisan and non-sectsrian, there
fore,
Resolued, That we disapprove and
condemn the said resolution as be-
ing political in it's conception and
effect and calculated to subject our
order to the imputation Of incon-
sistency and hypocrisy.
Resotued, That the West Virgi-
mia Good Tsm,plar, the West Virgil.
MIA FREEMAN and all other temper
ance papers of this State be re-
quested to publish this resolution.
MAGGIE TuMLIN,
Chief Templar.
81. e. KE LILY, REQ. Sscy.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Congressional Elk ecutiye Commit
tees, Prohibition Party.

First District, D. G. Pogue, Brooke
County; s. B. Myers, Braxton
- Bailey, Gilmer; J. M. Lyon,
Harrison; ]. G. Jackson, Lewis ;
V. L. McCuskey, Marshall; J. Mel
vim Richards, Ohio.
Second District, Frank Burt of
Marion, Chairman. eve have not
the names of the other members.)
Third District: T. Swinburn, D.
G. Lovett, Kanawha Co. F.; A. Med.
Browning, Monroe; B. T. Mann,
Gresnbrier; J. z. Woodson, Sum-
mers, w. L. Ellison, Fayette.
Fourth District: Dave D. John
son, Wood Co.; J. II. Cammack,
Cabell; W. M. Weekley, Richie !;
John U. Myers, Mason K. D. w.
King, Jackson.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
HALF-FARE
Mountain Lake Park.
w. q. II. U. Conference.

The B. & o. is especially gener-
GUS to the w. C. T. U. this year in
helping to make their Inter State
Conference at Mountain Lake Park
the grandest success in its history.
Tickets will be on sale by the B. Il
o. and Branches, from all Stations
East of the Ohio River, at
One Fare For Round Trip.
From July 81 to 81, and good re-
turning till July 80. The Confer
ence will be in Session July "a,
25, 26 and 81.
Remember the attractions, Mrs.
Buell. and Silver Lake Quartet, all
four days, Mrs. Hoffman of Missouri,
General Fisk, Dickie and other
national leaders. II will be grand
big time, and don't you forget 1t.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Half Fare to the 4th.

Ticket Agents c. W. & B. R. R.
will on July Ord and 4th, sell tick
cts to all stations at one fare for
the round trip. Tickets will be
good to return until July Z, in
elusive.
The long limit will enable all
to visit friends or to take in the
Centennial Exposition at Cincin-
natl, which will be opened on July
4th, by q grand street pageant,
particulars of which will be an
nounced in q few days.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Prohibition Party
State Convention.
PaTkersburg, July 81, 1888.

PARKERsBURe, VIVA, May %, 1888.
In pursuance of the action OF
the State Executive Committee oil
the Prohibition Party of West Vir.
ginia, Mass State Convention lie
hereby called to meet in Parkers-
burg July 81, 1888, at 2 o'clock p.
M, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for State Offices, to be
voted for at the next general cleo
ton and for the transaction of any
other business that may properly
come before the body.
Let friends in every county in
the State see to it that representa-
tives are sent to this Convention.
By order of the Committee
DAVE D. JOHNSON, Chairman.
D. M. SLEETH, Secretary.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Nicholas County Accusing.

Pool W, VA. June Goth 1883.
DEAR FREEMAN:
Notwithstanding the meeting
was only announced 4 or 5 days
previous, about 200 persons met at
Nicholas G. Il. on the 18th inst and
organized a County Amendment
League, with Rev. L. J. Huffman,
President. Rousing speeches were
made by Hon. Jno. e. Peck. Rev.
R. II. Hughes, and Rev. W. R.
Chambers. A good deal of enthusi-
asm was manifested.
Success to the FREEMAN and the
Amendment.
J. G. RAMSEY
Sec. Pro. Tenn.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
n. Il. Church South Declares for
the Amendment.


The District Conference, M. E.
Church South, recently in session
at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County,
heartily adopted the following res
olution:
4th. In view Of the struggle now
pending in the State of West Vir-
ginia, in which part of this District
il situated, for the Constitutional
Prohibition of the liquor traffic, We
deem it our. duty to affirm our be-
lief in the principle of Prohibition,
and to urge cur people to give
their unqualified support as Christ
ian men and citizens, to this Of
fort to deliver q grsat State from q
crying and ruinous evil"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
THE PROHIBITION State CONVENTION
An Address by the State Executive c

To WEST VIRGINIA PRoHIB1T1oN1srs:
Your special attention directed Prohibition
State Convention be held Parkeburg Tuesday July 81 1888
We the Importance of this meeting It will be the first regu-
lar State Convention Of the party held in West Virginia Why
not make it grand success?
1884, P st. John received 939
the State Nearly 700 of these
In the other counties twenty
In 1885 the Prohibition Party banner first unured
1906 votes poed congressman 1886 the aggregate
county officers being much larger of this
in eighteen counties
In 1884 there party organization whatever In 1886 there
partial organization those counties where the the
Now, with proper effort and any development
party organization throughout the ought poll
votes for Fisk and Brooks
Nothing knde Novem-
Der next rousng, enthusiastic State Convention.
This is to be Mass Convention that there trouble
bions found county who will at sacrifice and incon
veAience attend the meeting Will them We hope
railroads. expense will
Will Pohibon who reads this lend his utmost nu
helping attendance from his county? The Democratic
party reams it's platform Of 1884, with its d Sumpuary" plank
still retained to satisfy the liquor trade The Republican National
platform silent the the whole subject
believes this question be the ung of the
hope relief from either of these old paes2 Their West V
gnia uences will just silent
tire State silent omimouy SILENT and has been months
Let action. Take the tme spend little
money to this State Convention.
Away with the idea that party action will
will do such thing The only ighten
from duty Let work with all might for the Amendment
and and the time claim for ourselves the right
conceae to others, to vote for whom please.
Republicans and Democrats choose defeat the Amendment
let them them will the responsibility But
friends the Amendment all parties do not raise this with
charity for all malice toward none let coos and
go forward
DAVE D. JOHNSON Chairman.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
SistersviIle Amendment
League.

EDITOR FREEMAN:
We have organised an Amend
ment League of twenty-three men,
bers, who seem to be enthus iastic
and ready to push the work. Our
officers are: President, H. r. Will
hanson; Vice President, Mr.. Cook
sey; Secretary, Miss Julia Will
Hanson; Treasurer, W. s. Cutler !;
Executive Committee, P. Eskey, J.
Brennan, K. D. johnson; Commit
tee on Music, Misses Kate Lowther,
Matte Stewart, Mr.. J. Cofield.
Our membership consists prinoi-
pally Of active Christian workers
and we feel much encouraged.
Yours for the Amendment,
JULIA Williamson, Sec.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04

If you don't sec THE FREEMAN
next week, remember this is 18th
Of July" The boys want an out
ing, the editor has to be absent q
week, and we may not issue on the
18th. If not, get ready to begin hot
work the week following. The
fights coming on in earnest.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Church and Pulpit.
DEAR FREEMAN:

DEAR FREEMAN:
Please announce that the Rev.
Pendleton, Baptist minister well
recommended, will preach at the
following times and places:
independence, July 7 & 8, Evans
Vile 8 & 8, Newburg 10, Rowles-
burg II, Buffalo IL, Kingwood 10,
Albrightsville IA & Is, Terra Alta
10, Hooten 16, Board meeting, Terra
Alta IL at l p. M.
J. P. SHAFER.
Rowlesburg, W. Va.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
MOUNDSVILLE CAMP FOURTH
OF JULY.
Temperance Picnic and
Love Feast.

A grand rally for the Prohibition
Amendment, on the Moundsville
Camp Ground, July 4, 1883. Able
speakers will be present. Admis.
sion to the gates, free. Reduced
railroad rates from all points. Come
one, come all.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
w. c. T. U.
Amendment Campaign LeC4S
turc Bureau.
The Home Against The Saloon.

The Speakers announced under
this heading, will come under the
auspices of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, pleading for
West Virginia Homes and the
common interests of all the People.
Let friends of the Amendment Of
all parties and classes, see to it that
there is a general and enthusiastic
rally at every meeting.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
CALL FOR
Preston County Prohibition Con-
ventiOn.

The Party Prohibitionists of
Preston County w. Va. are request
ed to meet at Fream Hall in indie.
pendence, at p. m. July 14th for
the purpose of organizing, appoint
ing a County Executive Commit
tee, choosing delegates to the State
Convention at Petersburg July
81, and for such other business as
may properly come before the Con-
vention.
SIGNED, REV. ]. FREAM,
WV. LAREw,
T. II. SHAY,
So. A. II. BOWMAN
DR.. J. P. SHAFER,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
w. G.. T. u. DAYS
MRS. M. M. SHOWS
Ice Cream ParlOrs,
MARKET STREET,
Near BAPTIST CHUR Oh.

The Petersburg w. g. r. u.
will serve Ice Cream at Headquar-
ters, Mrs. Shows Ice Cream Parlore,
every Friday Evening. Those de-
string to aid the Union in its work
for the Children and the Home.
give them y patronage.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04

Friends of the cause will see that
announcements are made in Pull
pits, in Day Schools and Sunday
Schools and that the people Of the
whole community are aroused to
give at least this one evening to the
defense of their homes against the
legalized piracies of the Saloon.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Miss Minnie Hufchfnson,
President Fourth Distrik ". O. 4. u
Rev. Il. Il. Peters,

Pastor Baptist Church, Carks6urg,
Will address the People in the
interests of the Prohibition Amend
ment, az follows:
Lumberport, PICNIC RALLY JULY........4
Webster. Tues .... m
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04
Rev. j. w. Garter,

- - &/O9A 0OAa
of Parkers6urg.
Will speak for the Homes of West
Virginia at,
Ravenswood, Monday, July................ .....2
Linden, Resns Co., Fourth u Juiy WHY, We'd.
Jackson @. H., Thursday... ......................
Rev. j. G. McFeeters OF Pa. and
Prof. Dill of Kansas,
Will address Amendment meetings,
as follows:
Holidays Cove......Mon. July.......~.......IH
North
~
EsOuey EOlut..
Elm OroNe...... ~
hucIIy ~
DeInuny ~
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-07-04

D. M. SLEETH, Secretary.