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WILKINS' COLUMN. By Samuxll Wilkin. don't know ny.btter. When a man Ret too much dust In hU eye And trimly refuses to advertise, It'a not that he'a atlnjry, or ugly, or mean, Not that he's too bashful to have himself seen, It'a not that he has any reason himself To drive away busluess and bury his pelf; It's 'cause he dou't know any better. . ONLV WIND. A Windbag said to Itself one day: 'Now I will be frisky, and Unlit, and j;ay, And I'll make men think I'm firm and sound, Just 'cause I am noisy, and blc, and round; And I'll make them think I'm a thlug of brains With moral feelings, and lofty alms; . But know I'm only wind." So the Windbag went, and It blew Its horn, And the world thought there was a genius born, And it looked so substantial, and big, and grund, That loudest praised It could command, And an it was flourishing, day by day, Men thought It was souud and had come to stay, Whereas, It was only wind. It blew its own trumpet long and loud, Till It gained the respect of the vulgar crowd, And It placed Its boom on the upper shelf, And it bragged, and boasted, aud spread iUelf , And laid all good at Its own front door, As it pranced along with a rush and a roar; But tho roar was only wind. Ami tl.n Wlndbae smiled us It onward sped, Aud it chuckled and laughed as It boomed ahead, And it said, "What fools these mortuls be To bow aud take off their hats to me; But you bet I holler for number one, Ar t! thev think I'm a terrible Fee Faw Fum; Hut there's nothing to me but wind." There's a maxim that came from some fairy elf, "Give a calf enough rope and he'll hung him self." So the Windbag went, as fie cyclones go, With a terrible bluster, and howl, und blow, Till there came some sudden though slight mishups. And the Windbag fell In a great collapse, And they saw It was only wind. i 8. 'Tis thus with a puper ritfht here in town, In a darksoni" cellar, a long wuy down ; Aud It makes a thunder' as big und loud As the vacuum caused by a parting cloud. I guess if they'd raise It up to the light They would find that the vaniunin there all right, But the thunder Is only wind. . TEE-HEE. I'm a beautiful, charming young girl, Teehee, And my teeth are the whitest of pearl, Teehee, And my eyes are as bright As the stars in the night, And I'm spry in the waltz's swift whirl, Tee-hee. I've been out without ma once or twice, Tee-hee, I was awfully prim aud precise, Tee-hee; Perhaps you don't know, But I went with a beau, And I think it was awfully uice, Tee-hee. J didu't know just what to do, Teehee, It all was so funny and new, Tee-hee ; I felt giddy aud gay, And had nothing to say, So I giggld the whole evening through, Tee-hee. And so every young man that I see, Tee-hee, I imagine he's looking at me, Tee bee. 'Twas so funny, you know, To go out with a beau, And to tliiuk he was talking to me, Teehee. HOUSE CLEANING. Pursuant to last week's threat, the Times is house cleaning. The sanctum sanctorum is being besmirched with soap. There was more soap on one of the front windows when "we" called than the Timet has seen of "soap" for three weeks. The pap.r was off the walls, the chair was off its legs, the edi tor was off on a toot, the city editor was off his base, the devil was turned loose with a scrub-brush and a kettle of lye, and the whole ranch looked like a vat of paper pulp that had been struck by a tornado. ner that it landed upside down on my down east friend's bran-new lavender pants. That same young man jumped about half way across the store and exclaimed, "Uelemm. ikmhih!" and looked up just in time to be recogniied and addressed by two of our lady friends, who had been in the ice cream par. lor in tbe rear of tbe store, and whom we had not seen until that moment. . There we stood, a picture for an artist the two young ladies, with their faces expressing the most abject astonishment, staring at us, the girl behind the counter soared half to death, I with a glass of soda in my hand, weeping copiously, and my poor eastern friend as red as a lobster, with the ice cream all over his lavender pants, and himself completely covered with oonfusion, embar rassment and chocolate soda water. . TUC UOUN FIEND. Gently comoth tie harmonius toot of the brass horn from over by Bowman's Art Gal ery. Some fiend, in numan lorm, stations himself in an open, upper window some where along, and proceeds to play cat calls and yeowls, and Fiji hornpipes on some old brass fish-horn. The aforesaid fiend thereby injures the health of the city, frightens th children, excites men's angry passions, and doesn't create a sound any nearer to music than a gold circlet from a first-class jewele resembles the Tammaay ring that used to run New York polities x is luo son tm m W OTTAWA MAKKfcTS. Ottawa, In., May 0, 1887 FLOUR AND rilP. via,;. Mina-fiUvar Cloud, patent, cwt. t? Hungarian Crl'erluD VMX'riZi Patent, cwt......... Kaneaa Winter, f rwi. fcUuneaoU Spring W Ueat, retail tttd. Bran, cwt BtuiH. .... Curn Meal, percwl.... Cum anil Oata, ground Wheat, buita Rv, SO Corn, new, aliulled, 70 l tati, Mill Timothy Bead, bush.. Potatoea, buh Hutter, Kwta. d Hay, ton Cattle on foot, cowa, ;UU a a Cattle on Iiko, im Fat calvna. live weight, 1UU Bheep. U It. Uvelioga,inwa.. TALLOW, lliuaa amu salt. Lara, . Talluw, In oil bbU, per t Tallow, looee, per a Hlili-a, green, per B . Illilea, cured, per a. Calf Deacon Flint Hldea Dry Halt MII.N'S VIKWS. Geo. C. Mlln on the Interstate Commerce Hill.--0,000 per Annum to his Coniiuny."MHn'a Compli ments to Ye Noble 1 Initiators. 1 ICE CREAM SODA. One of the saddest audjnost embarrassing positions I was ever a witness to was in Kalamazoo last summer. They used to dish up very excellent ice cream soda at the "Candy Kitchen," and they were enterpris lng enough to have a rather pretty girl to attend to the soda fountain. I had just formed the acquaintance of a newcomer at K. a young gentleman from the effete east, and he was a rather airy youth. He was a nost excellent fellow, and his eccentricities were not assumed, but he was peculiar. He was very fine looking, wore gold eye glasses, dressed pretty well, and went in the best society. He was from tbe east, you know, and he never pronounced an r, you know, and he was cultured, and polite and refined, and everybody liked bim. Well, one day I met this gent on the street, and he asked me to step in and have some soda. Now, even in my days of grammar school practice, 1 never could decline "soda ;" so we went in He drew one of the stools up close to the marble counter and sat down. He had on a pair of bran new lavender pants and a pleas ant, downeast smile, and he remarked, "Chocolate and ice cream," and beamed be nienlv upon "Rosy" behind the counter "Rosy" got one glass ready and shoved it toward me as the party being treated, and then drew another glass and shoved it across the slircerv marble counter in such a man In response to the request of the Fbik Trader hustler, Mr. Miln signified his wil lingness to talk to us on any subject whatso ever except the pulpit. "My business is the stage," said Mr. Miln "I can talk about that, but I don't know any thing about the pulpit. I'm through with it.' "You left the pulpit for the stage, did you no!?" "No, sir; I left the pulpit because I was through with it, and then, being out of any '.ii si n ess I entered this nrofession. I have been on the stnge four years and a half. don't know as there is anything else in par tioular. Oh, yes! I can tell you what think of the Interstate Commerce Bill. That b'llis eh 5 "i:3it nuisance and the greatest l j that my profession lias to enuure." Is it the bill itself, or is it the railroads' application of it?" "Well, I suppose it's the latter; but it doesn't make much difference whether it be the muscles of the leg or their effect on the foot that causes a kick. If you feel the toe of the boot parting your coat tails, you kaow it's there, and the result is the same whether the foot had anything to do with the will ef the act or not. That interstate commerce bill is a piece of the greatest stupidity. It aims at the protection of the weak classes from the railroad favers granted to wealth and to rich corporations, and that's all right; but when they take away from a wholesale patronage the reduced prices that wholesale trade is always entitled io, then they do an act of colossal stupidity and injustice. Those men who passed that bill had better go back home like Cincinnatus, and stay there. "You regard it, then, as a mere fool job, and not as an intentional injustice?' "Intentional!'' said Mr. Miln warming up Intentional. No; they didn't know any hpttpp Rut thev did it iust the same. If I go out in the street and fire off a gun and kill somebody, would the authorities ask whether I intended to or not? Why, my dear hoy, just listen: There are about 75,000 people in this country who are engaged in the show business. These, with those de pendant upon them, make about 250v0O0 people depeuding upon the stage for their bread and butter. This law has made a dif ference to me of $500 in a month. That is $15,000 a year. Now you put $0,000 extra expense onto a company and it is enough to turn a fair success into a flat failure, or a good thing into a bare living. There are 14 members in my troupe. There are many troupes on the road to whom this law makes difference of more than $G,00, because they have larger numbers in their compan ies. Mine is perhaps a fair average. There are, I should say, some 300 or 400 compan ies on the road who are affected as greatly or more greatly than I am. The rest are Bmaller. Now you can see that a difference of one cent a mile and charge for extra bag gage will cripple or break .a large number of these troupes. Many have already gone under, and in less than a year fully half of this 250,000 people who depend on the stage for bread will be without visible sup port. Now, I say that bill is most atrocious, and the men who passed it are most damna bly stupid, and criminally so." "l)o you say that for publication, Mr. Miln?" "I say it for any use you want to put it to it's tkie. When a congressman deesn t know any more than to pass his vote on a bill without knowing what the result will be, he'd better go home and stay there. I tell you," said Mr. Miln with warmth, "I tell you that if those fellows down at Washington would spend less time in giving wine sup- pers and toadying to foreign titles, and would spend a little more time studying the great, problems of the country, there would be fewer such fool laws as the interstate commerce bill." Ml 4 M "iS m 4 m H 14 t w. 10 8 l SOU iro a 8( S 10 4 SO 4 W W 4 3 OU 4 00 4 73 10 . s a sh : w . 7 4 S M 10 The French Coach Stallion, TACHEAU, ...... . - .1 s . W III nilltr vnr irwiq ui iom mm ii liev. 4 ill lit northwest of iHUw; from W.0MUf From Moo- uooik until Tliumdny noona at llioiiian roimrijr a. 7 Tliuradav afternoon until Haturdajr iiioriiln at Muir a. no the old Dudley farm, uillea aouih and one mile writ of Prairie Centre. In Wallham lownalilp; from Saliirdar iKMint until Monday inurnlnm at owner; lalileH inllef norlbweat t I'tlca and I tutlea eaat of AC HIE Ar ta three yeart old tlila aprtng. a Mark re In eolor. and welglia vary near il Willi uoud. nund bone, and beautiful, heavy black mane and tail. Thl la a very pnunUlnii young hone, and about a well biedaau horae In Utialle county: aud Miave no reaaonto believe that be will not make a very per fif : lock netter. Faruiern will be umob bene nU-dlKj eelnir tbtt home before hreedlnK eUewher. Thuh.-To liitiire. li, payable when raarea are known to be with foal. Tlioae partlim with inaree or movliiii tlieni out of the couniy without my ronaent will be held reaimnalble for insurance, fare will lie taken to preveut accident, but 1 will not be reauunal ble for any ttmt may occur inaj7 rroprivlor. Start tliQ Trado PARASOLS, JL - .Y 'J !...-' 'J, I.'.oJ 'mi i era it mfcrltfet. fnitn 1 lie Kriuo pnna iun wum - - - - wtretiouM privet to price pi( for odd iW for fgtl. NOTICE. Notice la hereby given that the County Hoard of La Salle county, Illinois, will meet In iieclul nnalou at the Court lloune In Ottawa, In aald county, at 2 o'clock H. M., on Tuesday, the lOtb day ot May, a. p. MI. P. F1N1.KW Clerk. Commencing Monday A. M.,and during the week, we name tne toiiowmg prices: Good Quality Black Satin, Colored or Black LInln?,SHk lace trimmed, with black or natural wood handles, at The Best $5 Parasol In tho Market in Fine Satin, Sun set Linings, Heavy Silk Lace Trimmed, at UVUUULa U Ckcever's Mock. MIIS. LOTTIE CLARK OSMAN TEACIIEH OF DRAMATIC ART. Address tlroii(;li V. O. or call at resldenee, West Side, Ottawa, III. At home from 3 to 0 Fridays MONEYTOLOAN On Farm Property. B. F. LINCOLN. Special Election. Notice la hereby Ktven. that a aperlal election will be held In the town of Ottawa, in tbe county of U Salle aud state of Illinois, at Arthur Lockwood's oltlce, on the -Jlst day f May, l. ISSI, for the purpose of elect Imi one .Instlee of the Peace to Oil a vacancy enisling In that oltlce In suld town, which election will be open at eluht o'clock III tl tuornlnu and continue open until 7 o'cliK'k in the afternoon of Unit day. Dated at Ottawa, this lid diiy of May. a. n. 18ST. AL. MAIEUHOKKK, Town Clerk. For Sale or Rent. rOLi.owa Lands in La Salle County, PTf.lFV J.C L'll'll l'tllV Kb nwii :U. K. .1; also eh a ii SJ. 8. r'or sale at MO per acre; part cash In hand, balance tostut pur. lowers. will rent tor c ash at tfU a year for each SO a.ires, psya hie Nov. 1st ot ea'Mi year, iiiiu is uimcnniu n n vein of coal. Auiireaa j. v . sin nun n i, io. -n.i.ii-imh Ave.. Kt. Joseph, Mo ; or, OKuKUb A. t'KAW U on the premise. apr.Mw Estrayefl or Stolon I.UNAli HhTHi KM KNT. Estate or I KliWABO Miiban. Iiki kaskii. Notice is nereoy Klvrn to all iM'rsons inleri'slcd in said estate, that the iiudenuiriifd, Ailmlinstralor. with the will anneteil, of the estate ot said Edward Morali, deceased, will appear . . ....... .1... .....i.tru i.f 1 uinl iH'i.ireine niisiniiuiiHiiiiriimiiii ... ........ state of Illinois, at the County Court flouse, in Ottawa ... -..I.l ..n Vl...iluv Ilk., -joil, ilm nf .lime. a. I, iw;, for the piiro of fendcrlmc an aeeount of bis proccfillmrs In I lie ailiiilniiirattou of said estate for the final settlement, lialcd a. ...tawa, this UI. VVl aVlM.U.V. a..... u.. Dl- iiui uui Ailtiiinlhirkititr C U rk i'nil'mle Court' ta tfiille Co., III. nmy7-iw a D....11 Tia.-V lt.tL Iirlvinir llftrril fl Vl'lifH old. Wltll small star In foridiead, and a little stlfT In shoulders, caused by cheat founder. The tinder will lie rewarded by reluriuiiK tins norse jo aioi-h &. miui i.. 111., or wm. Jamison, i iica, in. ui.,),-. ALESMEM WAAltl'. l.OOU lissm, a I'aifeiH i Rst terms, stock and specialties in tin IHIPIIICHS, rill" n uu, . -. 1,1. AUSTIN BHAW. N I'KSKKYM AX 119-2111 ItiM-liester, . x. lEO-O-S WVAMK)'1TK EC.GS. ii per ettlmr if blppedj an uu ur nuiircrs iv. c or. . : i r.o If called for. : (IO., Ottawa. III. marri-lnio M. L. NEWELL. M ASTKIiS SAI.K.-MATK oV ILLINOIS, Cor NT Y ok La S i I.I. -. l.t stllf ( ourttt . ir i utti t ... l..ft- L'.i.-I.M tkll.l h'riallaf lltMlit-kfc 111 III' Ill-all 1 ' Ii....- -- ('liriMltUl U MIIHT. inrir urai ihi uh, iw. 1'uhlie notice Is hereby niven. that In pursuance of a decretal order entt red In the above entitled cause. In said court on the 80th day of April, a. ii. ISHi. 1. Imncan Mrltoniiall. Master In Cbam-erv for said I ourt, onTuesilay. the ;th dav of June. 1H.S at ten o clock III the foreiiisinof said dav. shall sell al public aiiclloii. to the hlithi st and best bidder, provided the bid uu the hereinafter described premises shall Is' equal to at least twii-llliriis 01 uie niunn"ii .u, i.. .... ...... the commissioners apmilnteil by said Lireult Court, at the front dir of the f'ost Olllce In the vllbme of Dana, In said county, the followinn clescrllieci real estate, sun ated In the county of La Salle and stale of Illinois, to wll n.. . i...,..l t.u .nlla...l (iiinrter nf seetllin twell 1 IC eiisi linn "I mi n.M.i.w.-. - - t, live i iB i. In township twenty nlne tail north, of riimte two ci) east ol the third tSd) principal lucrldlau . ( .. U..O.. .(.I. ,.f IlllllflfS 111 t lie I'OUIII V Ol WP.inmmx.vu. Tkrms.- t'ash 111 hand on the day of sale, or, at the election of the purchaser, one-third of the purchase money on the day of sale, one-third In one. year, and the balance 111 two veats. The said deferred paymcnta to hear Interest at the rale or seven imt cent. ier an num, payable annually, and be secured by Hole aud moriKwe on me pn-mim-" Oltawa, Illinois, Mav th, 18h7. ii mavl-lw ilTVI'AKi l, lllll'i; Al Tt Master In Chancery for said Circuit Court. (FOR) $1.48 :;3ii A Excellent Plain Black Silk Parasol at 9SctS Ai 1iva ft full linA nf Plain Parasols. Fancy Parasols, Lined or Cnlined, Trimmed with Lace, Covered with Lace, Fancy Handlcf, Plain Handles, Sun Shades Silk Umbrellas. i ovon tlihi!? to protect vou from sunshine or rain. It will nay you to look over this stock on Monday, or as early In the week as possible, as there is always a nrsi rnoire. L. S. McCABE & CO., Ottawa, Ills. 801, 803 and 805 La Salle Street, opposite the Post Office. Tho Decro Tho Decro and Bufford Plows Are the STANDARD of EXCELELN'CE aud have NO EQL'Al and Buford Cultivators SATISFY THE MOST CKIT1CA The Doero Lover Harrow Tho Union and Keystone Planters m. r V i . a I 1 t la I a fcal IS THE BEST ON EARTH. AND CHKCK IIOWKIW are t.e KINO and Ol'EEN. SOLID MERIT did It. 'Vc HI LLKNOE ('OMPA RI. Are tbe KIM. "l,Ir;i,HTy KSTAIiLISIlKI. VEKEECTION WAKRAN TED. We want Kunuerj lu every Township to huve them. The Bonanza Force Drop Planter, The WONDER of the AGE! No more CUOOKE rn iiftvA iho Rest Low Priced Seeder W w ON THE MAR MARKET The Acme and Keystone Pulverizing Harrows 1 ALL GOODS GUARANTEED, AND WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD BY ANY ONE. WILLIAMS & TUCKER, Postollteo l!lock, OTTAWA, ILL. Canton Tricycle Plow, Canton Sulky Plow, Farmer s riena rianter, Great Western Seeders, Balance Frame Cultivator, Rose Disk Harrow, And an endless assortment of Walking Plows, Spring Cultivators, Harrows, Drills, Cheek uowers, ac., GO TO REED & COS. Every .A.rtiole Warranted. AGENTS FOR J. I. CASE F. M. CO.'S Engines, Vibrators, Horse Powers and Saw Mills. 1). 31. OSBORNE & CO.'S Steel Frame Harvesters and Hinders, Mowers and Hay Hakes. The Light Running White Sewing .Machine. Will pay the highest price for Timothy and Clover Seed. IREED &G CO. (IFOIFL) Carriages, Buggies, Road Carts, GO TO All Vehicles Guaranteed as Represented And rices as Low as First-Class Work can be sold for. You Have Heard of the "Garland " "Climax r ast ivian ucoks; WE HAVE THEM, WITH MANY OTHERS. A convention of the Dayton Township Sunday School will be held at Dayton, Sun day May 14. There will be a cake Bale this afternoon al the Congregational church. A special towtr electioa will be hel 1 May 21st, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of A. B. Smith, justice of the peace. DAYTON C Roller MUl, LOOK HERE, FARMERS! Do you want to have your wheat ground into Fine White Flour, as srood as anv Flour you can huy I o - ... . . . Do yon want to get a good yield of IlITE Hour anu am, or M A k your liran anu snorts; Tf so. co to the above Mill, which is now fitted up with tne latest Improved Roller .Machinery, and the proprietors have spared no expense In putting the Mill into shape for doing FIRST CLASS WORK. Rring along your Wheat, and we will make you a first clas straight grade of Pure Roller Flour. Vours respectfully, CREEN BROS. Liayton, III., April -0th, l'-hT. sonsrs liir k '-resent mairy items of inierest : "Little Yankee' VOth- er Sulky Plows, "Leader" and Other Planters, The "North-Western" Seeders, "King & Hamilton" Gophers, "King & Hamilton" Wagons, Budlong Pulverisers. mm imssr mi wt. Best Assort nient of Planters Check Hower", Ilnrrows. c , in the market; all at LOW THICKS. IAHLET & JORDAN. fnlsKPl m WANUFACTURCD B TC GRAND DETOUR PLOW CO. DIXON, ILLINOIS. Pn'l Ii ilinvl from tt. hrn likf !kin p! iw. II. uk M Irol. Ik. t-tl..in IO tht H iH Tun lrft.M wh.n w -ri. Hu tin l.n.l.i.l.. will lurn uar .ithOT ral. wnli. .ui raiiliik lli. pliw out if Ui fn-uud. Pl-jw u lu ftvot Ism If tn Mid tu wwl m foil . in nl ami rrr hnli r rt t n n: whuh uallwt kll titm ii...iur. anl .rrr.. m fum-w vf uu lofin wi.Hb. fbw .nil- w.nchl of Ui pow it .arriAi lh wbwlt, thrrw h m ll infl - no IftuiUnl nwun-DU tKiiU'u. lu 4raA It Ite lM.t iHiMibl. Cut lo awl with U or It Inch kiloaii, aD.1 ih Iwa m turn bi'r..., T. frwnt rw ilalu th Arh. ntmt u.i Uwm lh plow arf coolMr. Th. mil It trr !! lk pl" U me lr raamia It-. rrr mhl whfc h will turn tu rifhl or left, or laa It riKl thai II ima tw bkkl tiji lauu. The "Little Yankee" la a New Departure tn Rldir Plowa. It ii Built on the Moat Approved Prinoiplea. It eombinea all tha Deaired dualitiea. Ithaaauwl Beam Wlipcla and Axle. It la Light, Simple aiut Compact. It la Not "Uoree KUUer. CADIUIANISiUAl- FOR IHH7 WHI be arnt HtHlTO Al.l. ho TiU for it It ia a i lESSSZvL ColorrU I'la and telb ..Ubotr, tiiu Ur MT i: tltllKA. VUM and M.OWMt Mill HA nl AUTC Tbofouahbretl TM. K aod BULBS. PLANTS,, r";, t raiu. wiutu uuu" ,vM - . n ATLEE BURPEE & CO. iw tfttrnm. r. - . . ama.MMia - f W I" fflAI I R fiMINT YOUa bUUUt run uc uui.um II V." 1.1-l.iMt .-t-arv. Ilrl. I.ara i(-a IUI i ':'.;.,,. H-u-s. mvtvt ., U i",,iu,r,i.i.. .itrntit U f.ir. Di.ci.uul lull- r -' 1 mi - - w