Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-15
THE LAST, DAY.
CLOSE OF THE PROHIBITION CAMP MEETINGS
At MOUNDSYILLE.
Rev. Sam Small Makes Another Address in the
Morning-An Interesting Talk On Temperance
Institutions by Miss McClurkin-A
Monument 70 Fisk.
5000 I.L.aram 10 Ms R.alsl.r.

Special Telegram 10 the Register.
MoUNDsvIILE, W VA, July 14-Gen-
tie zephyrs whispered all day long in
the waving tops Of the trees, standing
thickly all about the camp ground at
Moundsvillc. and the stately elms and
oaks, and naples and walnuts and hicll-
ories rustled something that sounded like
a song of JOY. Overhead a sky that was
azure east a radiance over the whole, and
the little thrushes and fnches and bobo-
links chirruped and twittered blithely. Thus
passed the last day Of the prohibition camp
meeting.
One of the amusing incidents of the day
was the disgust expressed by the many Wis
itors at the Mtclligmccrs lack Of enter
prise in not giving a fair and decent report
of the important proceedings of the Sab
bath day The HtcHjgencer this morning
contained the following item:
Ills speech was only one Of sam Smalls or.
binary efforts He had the usual amount Of ad-
yocacy Of prohibition and the reasons for his
faith. lie also paid his RESPECTS to the REGISTER.
"a copy Of which he produced and read little
editorial squib about himself The REGISTER
displayed an unusual amount Of verdancy 10
notice Sans application for an advertise
mcnt.'
Verdancy is u good word, but it is pc
culiar conception of news that allows con-
temporary TO sell ten papers TO their one.
And this is just what the REGISTER has
been doing for the past ten days in the Vi
entity of MOundsville. The LtcUiJcaccr
has been the laughing stock of everybody
on the camp ground from the very meagre
and prejudiced reports of the meetings, re-
ports that have had no semblance OF news.
The TtcuicencC- says the REGISTER is blind
TO the fact that we are giving the Rev.
Sam Small big ad No one is more
aware of the very wide prominence Mr..
Small is receiving through the publication
of his sermons than the REGISTER, with the
possible exception of its large armyof read
ers. However much newspaper may dis
agree with the avOwed principles of con
venlon or gathering, il is the duty of
every journal of any consequence TO pub
lish Il fair and impartial report OF the pro-
ceedings. And in refusing to do this, the
Intcilgsncer has literally and daily ignored
1000 or 5000 good people assembled IN
sacred consideration of a conscientious
duty. But it is just this mercenary way in
which the htciiiDCnccr looks at things that
has long since given the REGISTER the as
tendency
Notwithstanding il was the last day of
the scheduled programme there We're few
preparations for departure noticeable, and
many of the residents will summer on the
scene until the close of the regular Metho-
dist camp meeting in August There
was the usual interesting vesper ser
vice and the platform meeting on Sabbath
evening To-day was what was known as Il
Better Day Circle day. II opened with
talk on Scientific Temperance InstrUc-
tions by Mrs. Jennie McClurkin. She said
it had long been u question as TO what tenn
pcrancc text books
WE'RE BEST SUITED
TO the schools. OF the four big concerns
which controlled the text books of tnis
country she stated that Barnes Il Co. were
the first to recognize the w. G. T. L., and
they finally allowed their physiologies and
hygeines TO be revised by acompctent mem
Der of the WOman's Union. The other big
firms had soon followed suit, and now they
were all only too willing and anxious to
recognize the power and influence Of the W.
c. T. L. Most of the temperance books
were revised by Mrs. Hunt. National SUI
perintendent of legislation. \ class Of text
books known a. the Path Finder series Is
now recommended by the Union. In order
that the subject Of temperance may not be
passed over without liberal notice, the books
intended for use in the primary schools
contain - pages in reference TO the mat
ter those in the grammar schools 20. and
those in the high school 80 pages. Some
thirty different books have been submitted
to the W G. T. L. During her lecture
many different and difficult questions were
pat to Mrs McClurkin, but they were all
answered readily and satisfactorily. II
was
Az INTERESTING EXERCISE,
and one that brought out many new ideas
on the matter Of teaching temperance.
The audience grew in proportions some
what as the forenoon wore on, in anticipa-
ton OF hearing more elOquence from Rev.
Sam Small Mr.. Small made his closing
address at the campmeeting at 10 30. His
remarks followed out somewhat the line
Of thought advanced in his previous lee
lures, vet they were stikingly clothed in
new language. and made eloquent and at
tractive.
In the course of his remarks lie said that
the liquor business OF the United States
was not an American institution, but it is a
foreign institution in the hands Of foreign
ers. He said that fOur-fifths of the dstil |
lers in this country. and siX-sevenths of the /
brewers, are foreign born, and nobody, /
foreigners or Americans defend the liquor |
traffic as having any elevating tendency. OF /
the four hundred women in the saloon busl- |
ness IN New ork CITY, Dut one OF luem Is /
American born In Savannah, Georgia, in /
eighty licenses which were taken out, there |
was not an American among them.
At the conclusion of his regular address |
Mr.. Small paid fitting tribute 10 the late |
Prohibition candidate, Clinton T. Fisk, /
and urged the idea of raising Il suitable |
TO his memory Considerable |
interest was taken in this project and some /
$l35 was raised in short order also small /
sum in the afternoon.
The few people present in the afternoon /
were as q handful compared to the size of .
the pavilion. yet they listened attcntiyely /
to the remarks Of Rev. II. \. Delano. OF |
Illinois. on the subject Of the Better Day |
Circle" Last evening the formal and tiral |
addresses were made, and all departed |
feeling in their inner souls that the series
Of meetings had been of great moral, physi
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