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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
WESTON RESCUED AGAIN.
Temperance Mayor and Council
w EsToN Jan. p
DEAR FREEMAN.

WESTON Jan. /?
DEAR FREEMAN.
Good news gone to Canaan.
We have just elected a Temperancs
Mayor and Town council for Yves
ton, the Mayor and three memben
OF council by large majorlties
There was a tie on the fourth mem.
Der of council.
The Mayor understands his bust
ness and is not afraid, and the
council will stand by him. We
have been praying, talking and
hoping for this, and bless the Lord,
it has come. YBut the end is not
yet > "stiIl there's more to follow
Amen, and Amen yours,
B. IsoN.
Note-We rejoice with all the
good people of Weston in this vic
tory, 1t would seem that wherever
Brother Ison goes the Saloon can.
not stay.
He found it at Cameron and
drove it hence; he found it in Yves
ton, and now we have the good
news, THE SALOON MUST GO.
Let the fight go on, and let every
town and neighborhood take W
the cry tor a general and sweeping
victory in November next.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
Among our Exchanges.

What does this mean? Anti-ll'
cense municipal tickets were elect
ed in Guyandotte and Milton Bar,
louisville elected a half-and-haif
ticket. This looks like prohlbl'
ton victory. "The world DO
move" -LdustriaI World,
What does it mean? Why, 1t
means just what the FREEMAN mas
been crying aloud for seven years;
it means THE SALOON MUST GO.
We are getting ready to shake
hands, railroad style, with HUM.
ington. President Thompson was
down the road Monday making ar
rangements to introduce U.S. Far
kersburg Journal.
We accept the proffered hand Oh
Parkersburg, and assure Brother
White and his fellow citizens Oh
our distinguished consideration
Huntington Adv.
Will you let "crank" join IN
the shake? We think you mlgn'
when it is remembered that IN the
more than 200 miles run from
Wheeling to Huntington, the ne"
Railroad only passes through three
towns where saloons are tolerated
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
New e,. York ..,!.. Respond,
Miss Wizards Apn..,
New YoRK

we" foRK, i
Ny DEAR Bro. JOHNSON ="
In your y, issue last week i
Miss Wizards appeal to H. y
Unions OF West Virginia tue 70 4 y
By the Fireman." and that ~
has reached me in New Yorr ap
to encourage the White ,.
Sisters of your Mountain s n
enclose my check for sl0 gay os
quest you to send the FRFp,+,u
year to ten clergymen of Your = y
who are not now subscribers \
FREEMAN is an e1cellent nan.
prize 1t much. p'N
Yours for Prohibition
HORACE WAITE,
WHO WILL ECHO THE REspoN.,,
Now, friends, who will ecbo q.
practical and liberal respon,.
Miss Wizards plea? There :
several hundred ministers in ".
Virginia who ought to have 4
FREEMAN during this Camp,i,
year. Many of them would el,1
take and greatly enjoy it, if N
were able to subscribe. Who r
add to this fund, to supply q
need Of the Campaign We ,
convinced that money thus exr.
ded will bring larger returns
Prohibition than that used in 9
other way.
Who will thus invest $40, or
where it will preach for the Anne,
ment in the Hill Country rou
about"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
Situation Wanted.

A good composition seeks a per-
manent situation in a reliable
printing Office. Temperate; mar
ried; a number Of years experience
in country. Good references will
be given. Address, 1927 Market
Street, Petersburg, W, Va.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Hon. Horace Waters of New York
scatters his Prohibition cheer and
benediotions throughout all the
broad land. See his letter and
learn how to hasten the millennium
OF sobriety
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

When you have finished the
lively column of news from Along
the Prohibition Lines, on last page,
read R. G.. Caidwell's startling
Proclamation on the problem Of
cheap prices.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Let Rev. D. c. Babcock, of Phila-
delphia have a big audience at the
Court House next Monday even.
ing. He will ably discuss the
Amendment issue.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

The revival services at the M. E..
Church and M. E. Church South,
continue with increasing interest,
Al the latter Church, a sermon
will be preached to men only on
Thursday evening.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

We call special attention to
standards for Temperance Text
Books, ", G. T U. page, giving the
i'm portant action taken by the Ma
tional W. G. T. U. Read it in con
nection with Mrs. Duval's impor-
tant letter.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

On frat page will be found con-
densed account of the Wheeling
Amendment Mass Meetings, We
intended much fuller report Of
the able addresses, but found the
FREEMAN already full before the
report was written up.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

A number of excellent letters are
crowded over TO next issue. Be
patient brethren.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Liquor Men on the Supreme
Court Decision, inside page. See
what our friends, the enemy, think
about what Uncle Sam thinks
about their miserable business.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Good Templars should make spe-
cial effort to bring all the people to
hear one OF their eloquent leaders,
Rev. D. G. Babcock, at Court House,
Monday night.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Rally TO the Court House next
Monday evening TO hear the first
big gun of the Amendment fight.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

If you don't like the third party,
take the first, second or fourth, if
you please, but quit your pouting
and go to work for the Amend
ment.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Don't fail to note the change in
Prof. Dickie's dates, just two days
earlier for each appointment. See
exclamation.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
THE SALOON MUST GO.

If you are for the Amendment
say SO, without any ifs or butts.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Amendment, and we'll march in
solid phalanx against the Saloon.
But let this line 'change front,
and attempt to favor or oppose any
party in the field and 1t falls to
pieces at once Of its own dlscord
and the alliance is at an end for
neither the Republican, Democrat
ic nor Prohibition party men will
stay in the ranks whose batteries
and bayonets are to be turned upon
their own party.
Just at this point some OF our
Republican and Democratic friends
are making a fatal mistake. They
agree with US that the line OF bat
tie must be based on utrality so
far as the first and second parties
are concerned, but insist that it
must assume an attitude of active
hostility toward the "third party"
This position is simply
the grossest outrage on common
sense, reason and justice, and
is open treason to the cause
they profess to befriend. Where
this position is taken through
timidity and mistakenfear of in
curing the displeasure and opposi-
ton of the two leading parties, it
is unfortunate where it is taken
through motives of partisan gain,
it is wicked treason. Any attempt
to organize the Amendment forces
on a basis so unjust and treacher-
GUS will utterly fail, and if per-
sisted in can only result in precipi-
tating and intensifying the bitter
partisan conflict they seem SO
anxious to avoid.
The demand urged by prating
politicians who are opposed to the
Amendment, that the only party
favoring the measure shall disband
and retire from the field as condi-
tion of unity in its support, is as
absurd as it is treacherous, and
certainly such base proposition
should deceive none Of the faithful
veterans who have so long prayed,
toiled and sacrificed for the cause
in West Virginia. It were surely
a new and startling departure in
tactics that would invite the
enemy to our councils of war and
allow him to dictate our policy and
plans of battle.
The FREEMAN is intensely anxi-
Gus for the ratification of the
Amendment, and heartily urges the
immediate mobilization of all the
Amendment allies to win this glo-
rious boon tor West Virginia. On
the line of battle indicated the
Home forces can march to victory.
Any attempted unity of forces on
base Of hostility to the Prohibi-
ton party must inevitably result
in confusion and calamity, because
such an unrighteous alliance could
have neither the support of honest
men and women nor the blessings
of Heaven.
There is a mighty conflict just
before US. The fate OF many West
Virginia homes hangs on the re-
suit. The destiny of many souls,
for whom the legalized saloon
watches and waits, depends on how
we bear ourselves in the battle. AS
enter this conflict we must, let us
enter it prayerfully, wisely, cour-
ageously.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

PLEASE SUBSGRLBB.-Ect every friend
MO whose hands q Sample CO. Of the FREE
MAN comes, take its coming as an urgent re-
quest TO subscribe.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Meetings are held every night at
the Baptist church, with increasing
interest.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Whe n the boastful Amendment
stabber answers all of Prof. Rey-
nold's questions, on first page, let
him call for fresh installment.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

W. G. T. U. Department is un.
usually full an interesting this
week, with excellent letters by
leading workers from Wheeling,
Wellsburg and Terra Alta.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
THE TRUE LINE OF BATTLE
FOR THE ALLIED AMEND
MENT FORCES.

Whenever any great conflict is
pending, there is much skirmish-
ing and maneuvering to decide on
the most advantageous line of bat
tie for the decisive charge and
final trial Of strength, And so it
has been in the long and weary
contest for Constitutional Prohibi-
ton in West Virginia. Through
long years the Home forces have
been skirmishing, mastering re-
oruits, winning and concentrating
their allied contingents, until their
combined assaults carried the cita-
del of the Legislature and forced
the issue into the open field of pol
itics, where it must be fought out
in the clang and clamor of
general political campaign. The
strength of the Home and Saloon
forces must be tested and decided
IN an open field, and final charge
at the Ballot Box on Novem Der
next must settle the question, for
this campaign at least, whether
the Home Or the Saloon shall rule
in our rich and growing Mountain
State.
And now the vital question of
the hour, is that suggested in the
caption of this article: What is the
true line of the battle for the Home
forces? From what base line of
unity and cooperation can all the
Amendment allies move forward
upon the enemy with surest prom
Use of success in routing the Saloon
hosts at the polls, and planting the
Prohibition flag in the Citadel of
our Liberties, our State Constitu-
ton?
1t seems to US there should be no
trouble in answering this vital
question, promptly, and settling at
once upon, the one only natural,
practical and available base of OPP
erations for united and aggressive
campaign with final victorious
charge upon the common enemy.
And surely this one true line of
battle for the on-coming conflict
should be readily seen by every
Intelligent Temperance worker who
has carefully watched the rallying
of the clans, and noted the skirm-
ishing and maneuvering of friend
and foe through all these years,
and marked the counter and COM
plicated political alliances that
constantly menace the harmony
of the Home contingents.
All will at once agree that if the
Amendment is carried at the COM
ing November election, it
must be carried by the friends
Of Prohibition in all the
contending parties. And if the
Amendment is successfully advoca-
ted in the coming campaign and
carried at the election, it must be
done by the united action of these
friends on the Amendment line,
while they are 1T the Same time
pushing forward their respective
party lines and contending for the
mastery in their party conflicts.
Such being the complicated stu
alton, there is only one possible line
of battle on which the allied Home
forces can be rallied, and that is
the line based upon absolute neutral
5ty toward all the contending
parties, as such. UNITED for Amend
msent work, FREE for party aoork.
Upon this line only can the home
forces form a successful alliance,
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Please answer Prof. Reynold' $
questions, first page.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18
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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Treasurer Weeks agrees with the
W. c. T, U. in demanding the re-
peal Of internal revenue laws. See
inside page.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

The Saloon is g pestiferous nuts
ance.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

The National Prohibition Com
mittee's headquarters for the COM
ing campaign will be in Chicago
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1888-01-18

Close up the ranks.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
Americas Lucky Day.

In Europe aud the eastern part of the
world Friday is generally regarded as
an unlucky day, and those who are any
way superstitious will objcc: to COM
mence any new enterprise or to do any
thing of Importance on that day.
Strange to say, Friday has exercised the
most important and beneficial effects on
America, and may be regarded as her
lucky day. There are many citizens,
mostly those of foreign birth, who still
hbhor Friday, although it is shown that
the most important events connected
with the discovery of the New World
and the independence of the United
States all happened on Friday.
1t was on Friday, the Sd of August,
1902, that Christopher Columbus set
sail from the port of Palos on his voyage
of discovery. On Friday, the 10th of
October, of the same year, he sighted
land. On Friday, the 4th of January,
l493, he set out for Spain to announce
his glorious discovery. lie landed in
Andalusia on Friday, the 18th of March,
1893. On Friday, June 13, 1874, he
discovered the continent of America.
On Friday, March ), 1897, Henry VII,
King OF England, sent Jean Cabot on
mission which led to the decovery of
North America. Ol Friday,
November 1c, 1865, Gelcnl lez
founded st. Augustine, the
Oldest city in the United States. On
Friday November 10, 1920, the May
flower landed the Pilgrim Fathers at
Princetown. On Friday, December 81,
1920, the immigrants reached Plymouth
Rock. On Friday, Feb. %, 1872,
Washington was born. On Friday,
June Il, 1870, the battle of Bunker
Hill was fought. On Friday, October
s, 171S, Burgoyne surrendered at Sara
toga- Arnold's treason plot was dis
covered on Friday, September %, 1880.
Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown on
Friday in October, 17S1.-IChurch
Union.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
A Juror Kept Tally.

The circumstances which brought
about verdict in a case tried in a court
III Westchester, Pa, are peculiar. The
case was that of Highley against Bailey,
and the trouble was over some money
matters. Bailey represented that he had
more money than he really had, and as
the testimony was given it appeared that
Highley would lose the case. One of
the jurymen was a young man who
seemed deeply interested as the trial
proceeded. When the jury retired it
seemed almost unanimous in favor of a
verdict of acquittal for Bailey. The
young man opposed such action, and,
taking off his shoes, he began to add up,
subtract, multiply, and divide certain
figures on the soles of his shoes, where,
during the trial, he had put them down
rs given by the witnesses. On the one
shoe was the debit account, and on the
other the credit. When the young man
began to explain matters the rest of the
Jury listened attentively. The steno-
yrapher's report verified the figures, and
after few moments drliboration they
lgleed to render a verdict against Bailey.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
JOurneYing in Siberia.

Tho entranciag interest and delight
ful perils of midwintor journey
through the heart of Asiatic Russia are
described in the New York Graphic.
The tour began Late in December, owing
to the tardiness of winters icy breath,
and the route lay from Vladwostok
5000 miles across ice bound rivers and
snow bound roads to Ekaterinburg. 4
sledge, rude and clumsy, had been
packed with deerskins, sheepskins, fur
lined mittens dogskin socks, camel
hair stockings, felt boots and other req
uisites for keeping the cold out. The
tourists stretched themselves out on
these comforters, while yenshieks or
drivers curled themselves up on the
comfortless box-seat and the start was
made. The posting system of Siberia is
wonderful. All across the continent
from the Pacific to the Urals and be-
tween all important towns, at distances
varying from eight to twenty miles, are
post stations, where, on pres entation of
his pass, the traveller can demand the
use of horses to carry him one stage
of his journey. If horses are not forth
coming the Traveller canlive, board free,
at the station Until the animals come.
The road is marked out by small
tree branches and hundreds of persons
are employed at the beginning OF every
winter in thus searching out the way.
The thermometer fell lower every day
until it registered G2 degrees. Ol
waking in the morning the ice over the
eyes had to be thawed out with the fla
gers before they could be opened. Ia
this way al average of over 10 mile,
day was made. In nine weeks from
Nladwostok Ekaterin burg was reached.
1t cost Urcn, one of the travellers, his
life, the journey having sowa the seeds
of consumption which he survived only
q few months.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
The Re ult of Meri.

When anything anis a test of fifty years
among a discriminating peop e, it is prett :
good evidence that there is meri somewhere.
Few, if any, medicines have met with such
continued success and pOpu arity has
ma; ked the pr. Grcss of BRANDRETH's Pills,
which. af er trial of over fifty years, are con-
celed to be the safest and most eifectual blood
purifier, tonic an alternative eve introdu ed
TO the publ C.
That this is the result of inert, and that
BRANDRETH's PILLS perform all that is elaine
Tor them, il conclusyely prov d by the fact
that those who regard them with the greatest
favor are t4ose vino hive cd them the
longest.
BRANDRETH's PILLS are sold in every drug
ard medicine store. ether lain OF sugar.
VI ed.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
RaSSelaS Searle's Romance.

A letter from Montrose, Pa, savs:-
Rasselas Searles, who recently died in
this village, was one of the last, if not
the last, of the stage coach proprietors
and mail contractors on the old Milford
and Owego turnpike, which was the
principal thoroughfare, before the COM
pletion of the Erie and New York Cen
tral Railroads, between New York city
and 'the Lake Country" as western
New York was then called. The last
coaches were run over the route in 1852,
and Contractor Searles retired with q
large fortune. There was romance
connected with his life. He was station
ed chiefly at Milford, in Pike county,
which was n great coaching centre.
More than fifty years ago he fell in love
with young lady of that village, a
member of a wealthy and aristocra.ic
family, a member OF which is now one
of the retired millionaire merchants of
New York city, and noted patron Of
the fine arts. Young Searles' love WAS
reciprocated hy the lady, but her family
objected SO STRONGLY to a union with the
stage proprietor that She sacrificed her
self to their pride. Neither Searlcs nor
the ladv married. Forty years after he
had lett Milford he revisited the place
for the first time. The lady he had
loved as society belle was still living
In the village, handsome, stately,
white-haired woman of over GO. Searles
was gray haired man of Go. The two
old-time lovers met, renewed their troth
of forty years before, and were married.
Mrs Scarles died a few years ago.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
All Full.

New arrival Cat Washington hoteD-
81 want a room on the second floor"
Clerk-"Can't have it, SIR; the floor is
full"
n. Active me one on the third or
fourth"
Clerk-''They are full, too, sir; every
thing is full"
y. Active me cot in the dining
room or the parlor, then.
Clerk-"All full, too"
N. A-"Then l guess I will sleep
with the landlord"
Clerk Cant do it, sir. Hes full,
too: fuller than goat, and has been for
three days. - Washington Critic.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11
A Hint to Pig Raisers.

A pig makes the most growth, in pro-
portion to its size and the food con-
sumcd, in its first year. None but the
brood sows should be kept over year,
and By good feeding upon well-sclectci /
foods the others should never be win
tered over. 1t may be that pork will
fall in value in competition with cotton
seed oil and that the larger production
of meat will overrun the demand hence
cheap feeding will be necessary to sup
ply the cheaper product. But better
kind of pork will make q larger de-
mand for this really hcalthlul and
agreeable meat, and the value may not
dcpreciate. At any rate, it is clear that
swine feeders must vary the food and
grow it, too. Barley and oats, with corn
and potatoes and some mangels, will
supply all that is necessary when milk
cannot be procured in sufficient supply.
Corn must then give place to these other
crops, and in place Of lard hogs. bacon
and pork pigs will be reared with more
profit. under . more hcalthsul system of
feeding than that practiced at present.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11

Mabel. lave something to say that
think will aJtonish you" What is it,
hury" Il an going away" 80,
hlrFy' you ale always getting up some
llce surprise FOR me.
The weekly messenger., 1888-08-11

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