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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Mr. .1. . ATTINi:n.
JOIIS O. COMMENCES HIS CAREtR.
During the last two years John bad
worked upon this improving farm. He
wae then not physically strong, and the
heavy work of clearing an Ohio farm was
vk) great for bis Mrength, and finally be
t ld his father that "he thought himself
not fitted for the life and work of a farm
tr." The old gentleman fald "he might
lo as he thought best." Ho the young man
packed up his small personal effects in a
handkerchief and started out from his
humble log cabin home to seek his fortune
;n 1424, making 20 miles the first day, und
In due time arrived at Zmesvllle, in the
i'tickeye state, and went to woik for a Mr.
J 'rice, whose farm joined that city. He
was not contented and asked lor his wages
lor the time served, before the month was
i:p. His work had been to drive cows to
hnd frcm the pasture, lie felt lonesome,
and wanted company. He next obtained
employment at a hotel In town, which he
ii ted better, though lis cash wages were
n it princely, amounting to two dollars per
month. He warn made friends with every
ne about the hotel ; Indeed, all through his
Aft) ha has been noted for warm and kind
ly fe!lugs for every one who came In con
vict with him, and especially for such as
rvere unfortunate or suffering, and the poor
und needy have ever received his prompt i
utteutlnn, remembering his own needs
ivhen a jioor boy, and among Mrangrrs.
The boarders and guests on hearing the
rn lest story of lils life, and rinding him
m truthful and faithful In ull things, soon
oecamo attached to the black eyed and
cheerful young man, and assisted him to
tuttlclent money to unable the family, to
iiiiy the ola tarm, w here they still lived
niter his father's death. Afterwards two
the boys came :iud worked at the same
Intel, Gottlelb getting four dollars per
ju'inth.
AT SCHOOL, Til KN A Cl.KHK.
He had a natural aptitude for business
from his early boyhood, and felt the want
f education, but his means, or, rather,
want of any, had been a severe drawback,
lie went to Lancaster in 1820, hoping to
letter his condition in this rehpect, and
Mund a place r.s clerk iu a hotel, and while
iere managed to get three months school
lyp. He baw in that place the Ewln
family and the Shermans, who have lnce
come famous, one as a soldier and the
her as a statesman. Afterwards he struck
THE CHIKK lllSISKSS OK HIS 1.1F2,
: jut of merchandising, which he com-
i.ienced at the foot of the ladder. He left
Lancaster for Chillcothe, and found a
l-Uce in McCoy's btore. He worked on
faithfully and soon won the proprietor's
confidence by his scrupulmis honesty and
Mr let attention to bis duties. Soon after a
i retter oiler came from Springfield, Ohio.
He accepted It and went to that city In
March, 1827, aud became a clerk In a large
general store, with Mr. Adam Stewart, who
Lad succeeded Mr. McCoy, and opened In
that then young and thriving place. He
teinained with this gentleman till 1SI2,
when a Mr. Page set him up In a store,
turnlshlng htm with a stock of goods. He
Lad but a small education, "the street
feigns being his spelling book" as he ex
pressed It. Finally Hon. Charles Anthony,
hvu a member of Congress, who had
unserved In Mr. Nattlnger an abundance of
energy, aptitude for business and uncor
i uptihle integrity of character, offered to
furnish - Lira. ' two thousand , dollars In
money to start a new btore. Young
Nattlnger was to buy the goods, making
his own selections. This was In 1834. The
young merchaDt t'MrJy acceptfti tbls ruU mk oj)DiagB, huzol brush patcbo:,
vfivr. Uesawib It the roml to success Mnuifbs and ewamps, wblch then conMl
Ile well luH W'ttiHt more than hulf of tbe.tuteil thciaurfuce of Hard Hcralibla,-well
iu.ress or any retail dealer depends upon I mimed, fur It had been for yeara, 1o the
a careful utid judicious selection of hlsj few farmers of that clayey and Uiual re
gords. To buy well, means to sell well. trlon, u hard t-crahble f r theta 1) otitaln
Heretofore he had been hampered utid 'the hare necessaries of life. Their dally
overruled by the bad selections of goods . and ulghtly companions had been atu' ,
maile by others; now he would be free to mofijultos, fros, soitkea, h.irJs, fever,
use his own experience und judgment. He jKiverty, Lunger, thirst una ull the other
made bis way across the Alleghany Ills of a so'.l which grew ouly weeds.
mniintlri nnrtlv hv KtnL'e. now and then rtunted crasa. swamp flue, willow?, too
on foot, to Philadelphia, bought what he
wanted, returned, oulckly n ld his stock,
visited the Quaker City again, till he had
made that trip across the mountains fifty-
$u tirnt! In W-Vt he was married to Miss
Elmlra Griggs, a sister of our well known
and popular druggist, E. Y. Grigs. She
was a young and beautiful lady, accom
plished and well educated, but with her be
met the first great joy and sorrow of his
life, forlna brief time, ers than a year
after their happy nuptials, she died. The
partnership with Mr. Anthony lasted four
years, when Mr. N. sold out to the former
Then be went to the store of Mr. Ira Paige
and served partly as a clerk and a partner,
for a bhort time. Then he became engaged
with Mr. J. S. Murray, his future father-in-law,
until when, by a fire, he lost his goods.
11K CAMK WK8T, TO OTTAWA,
In I84.'i he came to this city. Previously
be had been offered every advantage to
locate at IJloomlngton, In this state. He
arrived here April 18, 184ri. He shipped
his personal effects to Cincinnati, thence
came with his gotxls by steamer to St.
Louis, and from that city up the Illinois
river to this point. He started a general
store in the building owned by "Calamity
Cooley," as he was called, In a building
where Mitchell's cigar establishment now
stands, and when the late William Keddlck
built his new brick block, the first In the
city, Mr. Nattlnger moved In, paying three
hundred dollars a year rent. In 1804 he
built his own brick store, now occupied ty
Stlefel, and stocked It with twenty thou
sand dollar's worth of goods.
He continued In the dry goods business
till 1Sj9. In 1857, the time or the memo
able panic all over the country, he was
badly crippled financially. He had over
thirty thousand dollars of debts on his
books, owed entirely by farmers. Every
one was good, but not just then able to
psy. He finally stated the case to his
creditors, who allowed him to do as he
pleased, and the result was he went on,
gradually collected In, paid out dollar for
dollar, till every one of his creditors was
ffjuured with, and in full.
JiN TUB COAL BVblNEHS.
Mr. Nattlnger had a natural predlllction
for the business of dealing in coal. It was
a cash trade and coal seldom fluctuated In
price. It was a staple article, always need
ed and always salable, and always, repre
sented a fixed value In money, no matter
what other articles might be as to price In
the markets. He took a lively Interest in
the discovery of coal Streator, aud was one
. .1 A..4 ... -.1.1 I I ... ilunal. .mil urit I jinir '
Ol U1B IirSl III I1UI III II" uriniiyiiu u..
before any railroad to "Hard Scrabble"
hud been thought of, he brought coal from
that dreary, and wholly unpromising re
gion, in wagons to Ottawa for the home
market. He also sunk a couple of shafts
south of the Illinois river, near the (Jen
tleman farm, where he found bituminous
coal of n very fair quality, in a rather
shallow vein, nnd also some genuine "can
nel coal," but not In HUlliclent quantities to
pay, especially In comparison with the
vast beds at Streator. He also opened and
made known the enormous deposits of the
clay, which abound Immediately aDout
Ottawa of far morn value to our city than
all the coal at Streator. Ha had Uith the
Ottawa clay and the Streator coal tested by
competent judges, and their verdict was to
"go ahead." The clay Interest then was
considered astlllling.asthls valuable mate
rial had not been used In making lire brick.
When the rich find of coal had been u ade.
knowu at Streator, a spectator at Chicago,
named Jesse DeCreet, Immediately set to
work to undermine Mr. Nattinger's plans
by claiming to be the owner of the mines,
and he, us operator for a Pennsylvania Iron
mine, controlled the coal market bb far as
the Vermillion variety was concerned, and
having unlimited means at his disposal,
had thlDgs pretty much his own way. It
is said that by his artistic manipulations
of the market he cleared 70,000 on Ver
million coul In a single deal. Afterwards
!)r. Streator, a wealthy eastern man, and
Cel. Plumb came here and found that Mr.
Nattlnger was the light man to consult
with reference to this coal A small party
went to "Hard Scrabble" In a carriage
under the guidance of Mr. N., and the
result so pleased the visitors that when
they returned to this city and Had a meet
ing ut the "Ottawa House," there were
preseut, Dr. Streator, Col. Plumb, J. U.
Nattlnger, William Koddlck aud some
gentlemen from Hock Island. The tlrt
question submitted was whether to organ
ize a coal mining company; an unani
mous "yes" was the resjKinse. The amount
of Btock was agreed upon, how much the
capital stock was to be we did not learn,
and next thev took a call of the meeting to
ascertain how much each person would
take. The Kock Islund gentlemen finding
their means too limited withdrew. Thus
was the original Vermillion Coal Company
organized, aud entirely through J. G. Nat
tinger's work in gettiug the coal tested and
bringing It to the notice of men having
Ihe money and brains to develop this great
coal deposit. The next step after these
preliminaries was to buy the coal land.
J. O. NATTIXOIill UL'YIMO COAL LAND.
Mr. N-, from his knowledge of the loca
tion of the coal, was very properly selected
to buy the land necessary for the proposed
enterprise, and with a carte blanche to buy
as much as he could, and ut such prics o
he thought proper to offer, he repulred to
scanty aud feeble to be even of the weep
in kltd, mere samples, knotty shrubs
just peeping above the ooze beneath. Mr.
Nattinger's plan ot buying land was unique.
Hiding up to a farmer's shanty and seeing
a forlorn, ragged and shivering pers m at
the gate or bars, if there were such evi
dences of clvll'zution, he would ask :
"Wha owns this farm !'
Farmer. "Wall, I kinder do."
N. "Want to sell it?"
Farmer. "Yas."
N. "How much an acre?"
Farmer. "Wall, thrae dollars."
N. "Done, I'll give you five dollars an
acre, 1 want the coal under it, here's ten
dollars to bind the bargain, meet me at
Ottawa on Wednesday next, sign the deeds
and get the balance, but first sign tuis
agreement for fear one of us might back
out.
The bewildered farmer would sign, and
the trade was made. He paid f ", t -tl'
or 1S or more per acre, according to cir
cumstances. Ily this expeditious mode,
he had secured all the ground he wanted,
and in a brief space of time. In this way
he nought (J" acres of J. C. Campbell's
father, which would now be worth a for
tuue. In all, he Invested 1 100,000 for the
company, paying for some land not more
than five cents, and but little at $ per acre.
No one, however, waa cheated. He frank
ly t'jld every one he wanted the land for
sake of the coal, and they knew the
coal was there, but to mine it and get It to
market, twenty miles to the nearest rail
road, of course, under such circumstances
it was worthless to the farmer, and he was
clad to get rid of it for r per acre, or
what he could obtain.
HOW THEY TRADED WITU MK. CALKINS.
Near the center of Mr. N's operations,
lived a Mr. Calkins. The capitalists, when
they went to Hard Scrabble to Inspect the
country, boarded with him, and Mrs. C.
was as attentive to their wants as her nar
row circumstances would permit. Mr. N.
also stopped at her house while buying
land. Ha wanted her farm, 80 acres.
She left the price to him. expecting 7 or
8 dollars per acre. Mr. Calkins had spent
much on the land, and It had yielded him
little but disappointment. Mr. N. prepared
the papers and drew a check tor fifteen
huudrtd dollars, end the poor family were
made happy.
TUB WHITTLE CAMKIION AKFAIlt.
A good anecdote Is remembered by Mr.
Nattlnger on which he rather got tho
bitter of M'. Dwight F. Cimerou, an
Ottawa boy now in Chicago, In a coal land
purchase. A Mr. Whipple, the station agent
at Odell, had the selling or controlling
Interest In several hundred acres of very
desirable coal land near Streator. Mr. C
having discovered that the new Vermillion
Coal Company were eagerly buying up all
the available coal land in that region, be
thought him of the Whipple tracts, and
straightway procured a swift horse and
bugzy at Ottawa, and headed for Odell. In
the meantime Mr. Nattinger had got wind
of Mr. C.'s departure, and objective point,
cud shrewdly guessed his purpose, it was
Saturday. Mr. N. took the first train for
Chicago and called at the headquarters of
the Alton road, found that he could not get
out on Sunday, no train leaving on that
day. Hut by a little maneuver he did get
a special engine to take him out in the
evening, and he arrived at Mr. Whipple's
In the night, and was shown to bed. In
the meantime .Mr. C. had arrived on Sun
day morning while Mr. W. and family
were at church. He promptly repaired
there and had Mr. Whipple summoned
out. He came, und on Mr. C.'s making
his errand known, promptly replied, "This
Is Sunday, und I do no business on the
Sabbath day," but he Invited Mr. C. home,
and gave him a lodging. Next morning to
the great surprise of Mr. C, he found Mr
Nattincer at the breakfast table. He felt
so sure that be had been outwitted and sold,
that he gulped down his breakfast in a
lump aud was soon seen, in his buggy,
jogging ff disconsolately for Ottawa, and
Mr. Nattinger go the land.
COAL AO K.N T AC.
lie closed out his dry goods store in 18T)i)
For several years he had been dealing in
coal, und now In return for his services,
they made him their sole agent ut Ottawa
He was a director In the O. O. & F. K. V
railroad company, which built a road from
Streator through Ottawa to Aurora, and
voted against the transfer of that road to
tho C. 1$. & f-l railroad company. He was
the first coal dealer in ( Htuwa and continues
the business to this day. He has lung been
au active and reliable business man, and
credit to our city. He Is a man of strong
religious belief, and u faithful member of
the Congregational church, and since 1845
Deacou. Though old and feeble, and no
longer able to tain fluently, or always con
nectedly, yet In his old place in the church
his voice rises clear and unwavering In
prayer, eloquent and earnest, a model of
thoughtful ptoty He lives comfortably in
his delightful cottaue home, cared for by
his two amiable and loving daughters, and
frequently visited by his son, E. A. Nattln
ger, of the Daily Timtn, and by his other
children. He Is veritably the patriarch of
his thick, and the lamp of hU life burns
but d'.mly. He rests In peaceful quiet af
ter so niauy years of ever bristling activity.
He sits and dreams the little remnant of
his life away, his thoughts sometimes
iD:tna rt and, at Mt.iwhon. hand
ig hopef uri.?n d Scrent'y n wr? , V
dwelling uron
oftener turning hopefully.?"' Serenity
the future; and be awaits cheerfully aud
jiatlently tor that auiumons whlcli ahall call
him to the other shore. v
I. U. AllMSTno.Nrt.
A yellowish complexion Is nt at all des
irable; to banish it, use Laxadnr, the gol
den remedy for all liver diseases. It ouly
costs fi ceuts.
Laxador Is the great stomachic remedy,
correcting all of the perverted processes of
this Important organ. Sold by all druggists.
Price only 2S cents.
THE WIDESPREAD DEMAND FOR TARIFF
REFORM.
It Is easy to see that the effect of the
President's tariff reform message to Con
Kress, as was said when it was published,
Is faither reaching than the effect that any
other public document has been since Lin
coln's emancipation proclamation. Tariff
reform clubs, public dinners, current lite
rature and even the pulpit, snow how fast
the question of revenue reform Is taking
hold upon tlie people. In a single number
of the Forum, for March, which Is a ntn
partisan review, leaning as willingly to one
side as to the other of all public questions,
there will appear not less than four articles
by distinguished writers, w ho show, every
one from a different point of view, the
necessity of a reduction of the tariff. Ex
Congressman William It. Morrison writes
on "Who is Henerlted by Protection" and
Congressman Springer on "Hindrances to
Surplus Reduction." Ileslde these, In an
an article on "Is our Social Life Threat
ened," IJishop Spaulding, of Peoria, shows
how the moral life of our country depends
on revising the policy that makes "the few
own millions and the millions own noth
ing": and President Seelye, of Amherst
College, in writing alxmt "Our Political
Prospects," shows that the party which
favors a contracted commercial policy Is
against the real American spirit Dlscus-
cussions of treasury problems, of moral
questions and of general political Interests
all lead now to the tariff, and men who
study large questions of any nature agree
that our national welfare depends on its
speedy reduction.
Many preparations professedly harmless,
prove exceedingly dangerous, out Dr. Bull's
liaby Syrup Is perfectly safe at all times.
Price 25 cents.
impure Food.
Exceeding caution should be exercised In
the purchase of a new article of food.
Many recent cases of serious Illness have
been reported trom the use of the new pat
ent foods for infants, from untested baking
Sowders and cheap flavoring extracts. The
esire for rapid wealth Induces unscrupu
lous manufacturers to place anything before
the public that will sell at a large profit,
without regard to Its useiuiness or healtn-
fulness. At present there is a great raid
upon the baking powder market, and so
manv Imrjure and adulterated articles ot
this kind have been found peddled about
the country that the authorities in several
of the states have taken the necessary ac
tion to expose them. The report of the
Ohio State rood Commission has shown
that a large number of the brands sold
here are made from alum, phosphates, or
cheap and adulterated cream of tartar.
l'he danger to the public is made ttlll
greater by the unblushing ejfrontery with
which the proprietors ot tuese impure
powders advertise them as perfect, claim
ing for them all kinds of false and Impos
sible endorsements.
The otliclal report of the Ohio State
Food Commission elves the names of a
number of these Impure powders, and the
amount of impurity and Inert matter In
each as follows :
rtn CENT. OF
N.AMK. IMH'RITIES, ETC.
Dr. Price's 12 (i
Sterling 12 (:
Pearson's 14 :!
Scioto (alum) 18.25
Forest City (alum) 24.04
Crown (alum) 25.0!
Silver Star (alum) :U88
De Land's .'52.53
1 lorxf ord 's ( phosphate) 30.4!)
Kent n (alum) 15817
Patapsco (alum) 4008
One Spoon (alum) 5808
The Impurities in the powders above
mentioned were found to consist of various
matters more or less hurtful. In Dr.
Price's powder the principle Impurities
were lime and Kochelle salts, which were
fouDd in large quantities. The Impurities
In llorslord s powder were composed of
phosphate of soda, lime etc., but none of
the "nutritrloui phosphate," without which
its manufacturers claim life cannot be sus
tained. The Impurities found In the other
powders named were principally alum and
lime.
From the report of the Commission tt Is
evident that the 1 loyal Baking Powder Is
of the highest degree of strength ana purl
ty.
The YerdrL I'nanimouM.
Vt. .S. Suit, Druggist, liippus, Ind., testi
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years experience is Mectrto Bitters.' Thous
ands of others have added their testimony
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Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
sent free. The Swift Specific Co., Drawer
8, Atlanta, Ga.
A Young Glrl'M Grief
at seeing her charms of face and form
departing, and her health imperiled bv
functional irregularities, at her critical
perhxl of life, was turned to joy and gratl
tuoe after a brief self treatment with Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It purified
and enriched her blood, give a healthy
activity to the kidney?, stomach, bowels,
and other organs, and her return to robust
health speedily followed. It Is the only
medicine for women, sold by druggists,
under a poitice guarantee from the manu
facturers, that it will give satisfaction in
every case, or money will be refunded.
This guarantee has been printed on the
bottle-wrapper, and fuithfully carried out
ior many years.
Not MoruionlMit but Celibacy to le Feared.
Of Mormonlsm as a national dancer.
much that is superficial and idle is spoken
and written. The Mormons are sober, In
dustrious and thrifty, and their acceptance
of polygamy is our only grievance against
them. But polygamy, beyond all question,
we need not fear at all. Even among the
Mormons it exists in comparatively few
instances. It is a barbarous institution,
and is held only where women are held in
the bondage of ignorance and servitude.
No man who has regard for his peace or
comfort would think of having two wives
in a country In which women have become
so intelligent and independent that the
only sure way of living happily with even
one is to be humble and obedient. Sensu
ality with us, we may be reasonably cer
tain, will not take the form of uxorlousness.
The problem which will present Itself for
solution Is not whether a man shall have
several wives, but whether he shall have
one or nono at all, and whatever the future
of Mormonlsm may be, here In the United
States It must cease to be polygamous.
JSuhop SpauUUng in the March Fvrum.
Itettcr than a Hero.
"What a coward that Major Smith Is,"
said Jones to liobmson, ''why, the very
sight of gun-powder would make him ill.
How did he ever manage to become an
officer In the army" ? "Don't say anything
against Smith," answered Robinson, "he
once saved my life." "Saved your life!
Nonsense, impossible! What do you
mean"? "1 mean that I was In the first
stages of consumption; I was losing
strength and vitality every day with the
terrible disease, when Smith advised me to
take Dr. Pierce's Golden- Medical Discov
ery. 1 havy tried nil kinds of medicines
without success, aud my physician had
given me no hoe; yet oere I am. as well j
as ever a man was. aud I owe my life to j
Smith, and to the wonderful remedy he I
recommended." '
Seven Cheap KxcursionH to the Weat .
Now is the time, and the "Great Rock
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Take advantage of the series of cheap
excursions to Kansas, Nebraska, North
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May 8 and 'Si, June and l'J.
Kate, one fare for the round trip; tickers
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lo not fan to taae advantage oi inis op-
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which has its own lines to principal points
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