The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1871-06-17


or lover waiting-he should be seen within six
days or six months. The letter you were ex.
| pectlng would come soon. Yoa were to 90 on a
! journey which would have happy ending; you
were to be a ''long-lived livyer;" the girls would
one day walk on their own carpets, the BOYS win
fortunes; always blue-eyed girl near you, who
was your friend before your face and your enemy
oshlnd your back, who would say to some dark.
eyed boy one word for you and two words for
herself; or black-eyed boy sat distant" who
would say to blue.eyed girl two words for him.
SET and one for you-"beware Of him, beware ~
1 on were either to have one girl and one boy,
or TWO boys and one girl, or two girls and one
| ooy or Two boys and two girls, and though YOU
begged ever so hard the oracle could not be al.
tered ;-Mercury, Venus, jupiter, Mars, may
you be blessed in all your adongs and YOUR
ajonfheying-, ana live long and prosper. and not
forget the poor gypsy that gave you good luck
DID we believe 1T? "Ah, ladies aud gentle
men, you II ust put your faith in what you pays
your money Tor" said the gypsy aud pumped
her Drown arms into the suds again. II hardly
seemed IKE real gypsy camp with those ele.
CANT state-rOoms, those wash-tubs and iron
"gTids. They say you don t even have to watch
your stables o nights with these modern gypsies
Ii was only gre t trolic. Aud besides, nova
day., ~ all the world knows.
Apollo, from his shrine,
v,,, Can no more dlvile,
WIN hollow shrek the steep Of Delphos leaving.
Inspires Tie paeeyed priest from the prophetic CELL
Perhaps none of Us believed word of it.
But she told me one thing awful queer" said
Bes-, looking solean; 81 wonder how she
knew" think we all heard something under
the trees there that We didn't mention when we
gave IN our experiences and a strange thrill
runs through your arm when gypsy clinches
your fingers in her firm hand and, leaning gazes
into the palm as if she saw your life there as in
mirror. Perhaps the old superstitions do not
go Oh forever"
Roses AND THEIR ESEMlEs.-Hardly have
thir soft, cri:nson-tutted buds unrolled than the
rtvage begins. You bend lovingly over your
PCT Giant OF Btutes' or "General cque No.
neau," aud st,rt aghast. Why are the leaves
twisted thus strangely over the coming buds,
and cemented together as by wiry glue? The
experienced know well the cause, and applying
finger and thumb artistically, give a pinch
Aha! q black and green head wriggles INTO view
he Is there, "Thalaba the Destroyer" that slug
whom, in defiance # Mr.. Warner, we pronounce
The "sldd~-t" Of the year
Tx ~ promprrUic--he j. 81 retire lime
E.ry o.r. uu-' It 10 Iad~e4 g.. ., a. 5n,t
"orm. Iure Lum,n vision =. ,c.- the deli.
cate unfolding bad, be has rged himself with
essence Of bloom, and the bud i. an empty she'll
We pinch aud pinch with stern determination,
REGARDLESS If cpId Chill, down our -pine.-and
sill he creeping creature deties US and the har-
vet OF beauty Is ,uatched from our grasp
l. there then u, remedy Ye>. Let others
pirate OF tobacco wtshe. aud .?h4ie-Jil s1.l, Ou-
sp'!l i, cogchei in two IN sie words. They are
~ hite Hel!ebJ.e'
This blessed dust-worth is weight IN gold
may % had at moderate price az any ckemist's
salute IT. IL Is not the r1se--but Il comes near
to being SO, for il saves the rose.
Dissolved il water proportion, & halipouud
to a haIt.barreD and applied with syringe, i.
coats each leaf with faint gray sediment. Over
thi-, while wet, little dry powder should be
dredgei. The slug, taking, as is hi, wont, an
strly constitutional on top of the leaves absorbs
this refreshing aiiment, and is found at p. n
swollen, black, aud dead as Pharaoh Very ear
ly rlseTs may even even enjoy the delight OF ap-
plying the dose directly to the spine OF tue inya-
der, and watching the effect,
few d.ys-and our heel is or the neck OF the
enemy. And then. m then how the fresh leaves
laugh and twinkle how the cups of cream and
fire aud snow unfold, and with what watts of
sweetness do they recompen.e the hand that
brought deliverance Conqaerors and conquer
ed, we bow before the spell of beauty. nd iu-
scribe upon our ovih which," as the
Bao Ballad remarks, ais pretty. though I don't
know what 1t means the name OF the herb
which tempted far Juliet 20 her death. but 20
our rescued favortes has been a word of healing
Remember: W5.e Hadejore.