The Ottawa free trader. [volume], November 26, 1887, Image 5

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The Local Lounger.
TO BUFFALO BILL.
Thou long of hair, of stalwart form,
Those true, unerring arms can throw
And bit the bounding buffalo
And quickly make it very warm
For him. 0 thou of bloody scenes,
Who clashed In battle's rudest shock
With the wild Indians of New Yock,
And grizzly bears or Hew Orleans.
Who scalped the Sioux on Boston's plains,
And through wild Cincinnati's woods
And Philadelphia's solitudes
Lifted the covering from their brains.
Btlll let the Brooklyn river flow,
The wild Ohio ocean beat;
Still let the shaggy bison fleet
Tread Pittsburgh's forests to and fro;
But though begirt by London scenes
Shalt ne'er return to wander more
Through the waste wilds of Baltimore
Or the deep woods or JNew Orleans.
Yankee Blade.
It is quite a common sight to see persons
putting coin in their mouths especially
women, while putting on a glove or while
opening a purse with the gloves on their
hands. It may be entertaining therefore to
. remember that Chinamen have the habit
of using their ears In lieu of of coin purses
for the Btorage of ten cent pieces, carrying
often as many as half a dozen in their aural
appendages at a time. Another curious
custom Is that of putting silver and gold
coins in the mouths of the dead, which af
terwards fall Into the hands of the coolies
who scrape the bones of the disinterred
bodies, and through them pass Into general
circulation. It is said that a $50 gold slug
was found In the mouth of a Chinese body
disinterred in an American Chinese Cem
etery recently, while It Is a frequent occur
rence to find S3 and $10 pieces. Of course It
Is not necessary under the circumstances to
say that the practice of putting coins In the
mouth Is not cleanly, if not to say unsafe
especially when it Is not known whether
the Chinaman ever cleaned his ears or
whether the deceased died of leprosy
small-pox, or something else as bad.
Noticing that? It Is the custom In the
offices of great journals to get down under-
neath the private life of men who have be,
come prominent In social and public life
and find that; they began life at $1.50 a
day, we have at last cnrae to the conclusion
that such a state of affairs Is the essential
foundation of greatness. You fellows that
are enjoying life at $3 and ?3 a day may as
well give up'all,idea of being president or
a judge at a "hoss" race. Your star has
set.
We hope that the recent report of the
discovery of another national gas well at
Mendota may prove to be unfounded. Not
that we wish to see the possibilities of
llendota's progress retarded, but because
we are an intense friend of Hon. E. S,
Biowne. Nick Cummiags had to leave
for Streator, where there is no natural gas
and we fear for Browne with a throbbing
fear of despair.
We notice with an extreme degree of
helplessness that Mrs. Sachs, the St. Louis
. woman who threw the pancake Into Mrs.
Cleveland's lap, Is posing as an attraction at
a dime museum at $500 per month. This
opens to the women of our broad, free land
a new and attractive field Into which their
yearning souls may rest in soft, dreamy
bliss. Now let somebody expectorate on
Mr. Cleveland's boots, pull Mrs. Cs hair
or appropriate the toothpick used by him
on inauguration day. If any one has tas'e
in this direction, let him cultivate it. It is
worth $500 per month, or possibly $300.
The camel backed bridge,
That o'er the "canawl"
On La Balle St. hath stood
Full many a squall ;
The boards and the timbers,
That through the long night,
Of our childhood and youth,
Have witnessed free lights;
The "blud," hair and flesh,
On the spikes and the nails,
That for many a year,
Have echoed their wails ;
All these things must go,
From the wind and the storm,
No man will find refuge.
Or anything else that he can lay his
hands on around that bridge until the
weather grows wonderfully and fearfully
warm.
The Georgia minstrel show on Tuesday
evening proves that we still have the 'min
strel" dance and minstrel joke. That well
known figure seen at all mlnstral shows
the man whose hair has grown thin on the
top of his head, with a grey frings around
the bare spot, was there, just as Punk pict
ured him lately, laughing with delight as
he recognized one of the side splitters of
youth. At the same time he wondered, what
has become of the old merry makers ? Billy
Rice Is still on the road with Sweatnam,
lUce & Co.. said to be the same old Billy
he was years ago, only he has lost his old
"hoochee-koochee" which, years ago, never
failed to convulse an audience when he
accompanied It with that familiar grimace.
His old tis-a vis on the end, Billy Mann
ing, long since died of consumption. Then
there waa Birch, Wambold and Backus, a
famous trio, and Cal Wagner, Billy Arllng
ton, Ben Cotton, Sam Sharpley, Luke
Schoolcraft, Kelly, Leon, Duprez and Bene
let, Newcomb, Eersands and a score of
others who graced the semi-circle of the
days before negro mlnstrely became aa
indifferent variety show and a winter's job
for contortionists. One wonders what has
become of them. Ben Cotton has retired
having, perhaps, at last worn out "Uncle
Tom" and Is keeping saloon In San Fran
cisco. Billy Arlington when last heard of
was giving banjo monologues in Kansas
school houses. Some others are dead or
dying. Others have tumbled Into obscurity.
Bat the wind blows through the whiskers
of their ancient jokes and a rising genera
tion thinks It Is seeing and hearing the
"negro minstrels" of lta fathers, but It Is
not. l ne way is long, me aay is coiu auu
the once popular minstrel Is Infirm and old
he has gone. The sleight-of-hand man,
contortionist and the hamfatter from the
variety stage have profaned the name of
minstrelsy, ana the aarkey or tne planta
tion has ambled off the stage never to return
Narrow Eacap.
At about half past nine o'clock on Mon
day eveulBg the fast freight on the Rock
Island, and an extra on the C. B. & Q. road
came together at the crossing on Webster
street, with the result of smashing two
freight cars of the Rock Island and the Q
engine, Old Dolly, Into smithereens.
There were two trains on the Rock Island
track and when the first one pulled out and
crossed the crossing, Gus. Splnck, the
engineer of the Q train, who had just
taken water, supposing that the crossing
was clear, paid no attention to it, and forged
ahead at a good rate of speed. When he
had proceeded so far that the momentum
attained could not be checked, he saw the
headlight of the Rock Island freight cars
on the track, and a moment later crashed
Into Its fifth car. As soon as his' engine
struck It parted from the tender and rolled
down the embankment, while the car
struck and slid over the top of It, and
telescoped the cab. Gus. had a very
narrow escape from death, for had the
tender followed the engine he would now
be In spirit land. Goods and apples, the
freight of the two smashed cars, were
scattered around In great confusion, the
tracks were bent and broken and tratllc was
retarded for several hours. It was, In fact
not until noon, that the wreck was cleared
away.
The Hock Island folks blame the ()
and the (J people blame the Rock Island
'1 was ever thus.
From Waltham.
Waltham, Nov. 25, 1887. Did you re
turn thanks?
Chas. Lowd a verv energetic book agent
of Mendota, was In town Tuesday.
Clinton Candee started for Chicago l ues-
day morning where he has accepted a
lucrative position In a hardware store, we
wish him success and wish he will soon be
one of the firm.
Nlss Hattie Bennett came home Wed
desday evening form Ottawa, to partake of
a Thanksgiving dinner witn ner motner.
Arrived at Joseph Llnzer's on Tuesday
a boy.
School In district No. 7, Dimmlck Is
closedcause, scarlet fever.
Eddie Grove, Bon of township treasures
Samuel Groves, came home from Knox
college Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving.
lie will return Monday.
A. O. Esmond entertained his coulsn
Miss Reed, of Grand Ridge, last week.
Miss Ella Brobst has returned after a two
months sojourn In JolieL
Mr. and Mrs. Henrv Sargent. Sr. are
visiting their sen Charles in Iowa.
The following teachers can be found
teaching the young " shoots " with great
credit, in mat. jno. 7, miss ueiagneau;
No. 8, John Cartwright; No. 9, Miss Lillls;
No. 5, Miss Carlin ; No. il, Backwell dist ;
No. 4. James Warrick.
Mrs. A. Loslar accompanied by nertnree
children, Olive, Ell and Mattle.ol ueneseo,
came up this week to enjoy a few days
recreation at the old homestead on the
banks of the Pecumsaugen, also to attend
the wedding of her son William,
The Nuptial Noose, on last Wednesday
evening In the Baptist church precisely at
forty minutes past eight o'ciock. jhiss
Susie Condee and Mr. Willie Croslar were
united In the hole bonds of wedlock. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Charles
iioaz. lhe bride was attended by Miss
Annie Crosier and the groom by his cousin
Samuel Brown, of lola, Kansas. After
the ceremony their numerous friends ex
Uncled to the feliclous couple their sincere
good wishes.
Our energetic commissioners have just
completed the repairing of Road-Cart A v.,
making It one ef the finest drives In the
town tor our petlt-malters.
A literary is being projected by some of
our talented young people who we hope
will spare no pains to make it a glor
ious success If they have to obtain
speakers from "Dan to Beershabe." We
think, "ere the robins nest again" that it
will be a grout relief from lile's burdens to
listen to the young Demostaeneses dis
course the most dillieult questions political
and matrimonial. u and 1
The new apparatus for converting crude
petroleum Into gas for melting glass in the
window glass works here, was thoroughly
tested last Tuesday and worked abmlrably.
Its use will dispense with coal for melting
purposes, and eventually dispense with the
famed Seemen's process, as it Is cheaper
and makes the clearest glass ever known.
According to the Legal Adviser, which is
standard authority on all township ques
tions, commissioners of highways have no
right to charge more than fl.au per day
when working upon the highway even
when driving their own teams, and It
further says that "there Is no law authoriz
ing commissioners 01 nigbways to employ
their own teams in working on the road."
Nor, can they "pay themselves out of the
road and bridge money."
Yesterday at 2:30 p. m., at the Rock
island depot, a brakesman named W. A.
McKeever, son of Ira McKeever, of Mar-
sellles, while coupling cars had his right
hand badly crushed between the bumpers.
At first It was thought the arm would have
to be amputated, but Dr. Dyer decided that
the hand could be saved. He dressed the
Injured member and the wounded man
returned to Marseilles.
Two crooks, registered aa C. II. Mandell
and Frank B. Smith, went through the
Warner House at Mendota the other night
and got away with a considerable boodle,
among which were a suit of clothes and
an overcoat They claim to be dentists.
One of them, Mend ell, Is a Swede, tall and
light complected, while the other man was
of slender statue, and dark.
Al. Malerhoeffer. our bit? town rlork. Is
engaged In taking the census of Ottawa
township to ascertain whether or not we
are emiuea 10 anotner supervisor.
Note We were In error about G. L.
Thompson's given name, Thos. G. stands
tor Gilbert and not George.
A child of James Ilemanlcks, of Streator,
was burned to death In his flaming dwell
ing on Monday afternoon.
Amboy has raised $2,600 to experiment
in boring for oil. coal. gas. or whatever the
drill will bring up.
With Privilege
of Return.
There's another reason than
yesterday's for not hawking
clothing prices to you with
your egg at breakfast, your
coffee at lunch, your muffins
and steak at dinner.
Take it home to yourself.
Does anybody go into a
store, put down $10 or $20,
and say: "Give me a Suit (or
Overcoat) for that money?"
Of course, they don't. First
the goods, next the money.
Fair prices come in at the
right time. But, it's after
quality and style have been
examined. You have some
thing to size them up with
then.
Let us make you acquaint
ed with our make of cloth
ing. We'll risk pleasing you
in the prices.
We don't ask you to like
the prices till you like the
clothing. We arc going to
have your trade by making
both to your liking.
Fiske & Beem,
712 & 714 La Salle St.,
Ottawa, 111.
Call a halt on high prices
for tailoring to order. Ours
arc reasonable, for work and
goods of the finest.
WE OPEN
SATURDAY
A NEW LOT OF
Among which aro
Heavy Fur Shawls
AT
$3.00.
And Anything You Want in
Better Ones.
ALSO A LOT OF
New Dress Goods
AND THE
Best Scarlet Underwear
For 81 per Garment
In the Country,
For both ladies and gents.
IV. II. HULL & CO.
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IMPORTANT!
I WILL MAKE
-V2ST"Z" STYLE
Aud tlie Dent Satin Klnluli, for
$2.50 PER DOZ.
SUPERIOR LIFE-SIZE
PHOTO-CRAYONS,
Klegnnlly Framed,
For $10.00,
Or One Dozen Cabinets and Pho
to-Crayon for 12.00.
This Offer is Goal Until Jan, 1, 1888.
Iterneinber, It tuke Hum to finish
tli IB work properly.
IV. S. WHEELER.
Did You Say
You wanted a Bag of Flour? If
so, let us induce you to make a
trial. Purchase from our im
mense stock as follows:
Silver Cloud, per cwt,
Hungarian,
$2.50
2.30
2.10
2.40
2.40
O Oft
2.30
3.00
3.00
Criterion,
White Rose, -
Champion,
Gold Dust,
Perfection,
Geneva Belle,
Golden Crescent,
Victor Mill Buckwheat,
per
sack,
1.00
Granulated Corn Meal,
per
sack,
20
In lots from 3 to 5 cwt. spe
cial prices will be made.
Respectfully,
J. V. UeDULLEN.
ADVERTISERS r:
otMrf ,fio with to examine
pip', o obtain MtimatM
on advertising (pace whan in Chicago, will find it on fil at
Cabinet
Photographs
rroiLORD&TIIOUAS.
Ell WL
In the most fashionable colorings and mixtures. We hare a
large assortment, and name a special price
for a lot just In stock of
4 cents
It is worth, and is selling elsewhere, at (50 to 75 cents.
Every One is Invited to Get a Sample and
Make their Own Comparisons.
Bear in mind this is not a few pieces of "off colors," but is a
full lino of elegant new goods.
McCABE
801, 803 and 805 La Salle
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Ground at a
Just think of
You have never had
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and the
DAYTON ROLLER WILLS.
Are the FIRST to inaugurate this GRAND MO.i EM EXT FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL!!
Bring us GOOD WHEAT and we will GUARANTEE you FIRST
CLASS FLOUR, and a yield of from 35 to 40 lbs. per bushel.
Small Grists of Wheat or Corn can he left at our Head
quarters in Ottawa, (2d door north of P. O.,) and will be
sent to mill, ground and returned free of charge. Farmers south
of 111. river will find this a rare opportunity for having their
wheat tested, and save a four-miles drive to our mill.
Hoping to see you all at our Mill in Dayton or Headquarters In
Ottawa, we remain, Yours respectfully,
Dayton, 111., August 0, 1887.
Look Here!
Watches,
Diamonds,
Jewelry,
AND 8ILVKKWAUK
Of all di't:rltliim, wiling cheupcr limn
ever be fore at
R. H. TRASH'S,
ALSO A Kl'LL LINE OK
Pocket and Table Cutlery,
GOLD AND SILVER HEADED CANES,
Bilk Uiiibr.-liuM.
Celebrated Leroy W. FalrrhlM'a Child Peim, Fenclla.
Ac. Opera (Uamca, Clock, htiectaclea. and many new
aud novel design, lu liold and l'lald Jewelry,
Bnectarlea netcntlncally adlimted with our Patent Dl
opine Eye-Metre, aud a iwrfcct fit guaranteed lu every
case
CALL AT
705 La Salle Street, Opposite Armory Block,
And yon will fret the Best Hargalna.
u.,rt,uy. H.H.THASK.
ROBERTS BROS,
Have removed to their
new quarters,
West of i Court Hoose,
And have an elegantly Otted up atore and
LUNCH ROOM,
Where they will he plewaed to aee all their old Ctu turn
er, ana ui.ujr new oucw.
In their new uuartera the are better than trtt be
fore prepared lu aenre the public
Oct 10.l7.-4niM'
HO 13 K UTS UKO&
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Street, opposite the Post Office.
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Boiler Mi 11!!
it, Farmers II
the opportunity before,
GREEN BROS.
EAT
JEWELRY
-AJLSTID
SILVERWARE.
RELIABLE GOODS,
Lowest Market Price.
3D. HESS,
West of the Court House.
ISSS.
Harper's Klagazins.
ILLUSTRATED.
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llmiiKlit ami iituveiiieiii In eery ! in m 11 1 of l!le,
lleluV other uttriu'thni. it will eniituln. ilur h: tlio
ruining yi'iir, IiiihiHuii! mtle!e. tierlh riiwrn'r .
on the Ort'Ht Went; artlelm on Ainerienn mnl fue pn
ImlUKtry; lieuutlfully IIKixtrnti d peia on Sr..t'i.:ii',
Norway, riwIIerlHiul, Albu rn, and the Wi t Iiiiln;
new noveln hy William IIi.a k and W. I'. IImum.ls;
novelette, each complete in a tingle nun t r, ty
IlKNtr Jamhk, I.aki alio IIiahv ami Amki.ix Itiv.;
ahort utorlea hy Mix Woouion and other r'.punr wri
te m; ami llliiKtriited puenuf tixrUI artlnh-nd 'I'er
ary Interest. The Kdltorlal Department are eomluet
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ArrcaT: Hi.xmT Hilmio, Ki teuton.
Clerk Probate Court. La Balle Co., III. ooYJt-Jay