The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-31

! The sound OF the new spring bOol Is heard
| in the church aisle
Capital punishment is now decided to be
publishing country newspaper,
! We have come to the belief that half the
coffee used in this country is raised here.
Farmers are waiting for the weather to
moderate sufficiently to permit them to hang
up their winter suits in the corn-felds.
A medical writer says the hcalhicSt posi-
ton to lay in is with the head to the north
People who own hens should bear this fact
in mind.
A Ncw-street scholar has put on paper the
fact that he would rather be Il little girl and
obey his mother than be a dog nd obey the
moon"
A methodist clergyman in this conference
was recently so deeply impressed with the
evil OF chewing tobacco that he gave up the
habit, and took to smoking.
1t is said that several of the Moducs who
were shot in the late engagements with our
troops died before their share Of the Govern.
ment blankets and ammunition could be got
to them.
A Danbury man who has been married
thirty five wears says there is more power for
evil in a small rag carpet that has been down
six months than there Is in a twelve barrclcd
tank of whisky.
Now is the time to free cellars from decay.
cdvcgaation which has accumulated through
the winter. A little care like this will save
much illness, and tend to induce first class
shows to come to Danbury.
There is something interesting in observ.
Il iela Of
other but when two old ladies whose front
teeth are gone curl the lip of scorn, tie effect
is very depressing
A Danbury man, who is strongly opposed
to smoking, persists in riding in the smoking
car of the train on which he may be. When
any body near him lights cigar, he says to-
bacco-smoke is very offensive to him, and
that no gentleman will smoke in carload
of people, and if the body in question does
not desist our friend reports him to the con
ductor.
The most accommodating man we ever saw
was he who was Captain Of q steamship which
piled between New York and Port during the
war One day a soldier lost his cap over
board, and went to the Captain about it. The
old gentleman said it was impossible to stop
the vessel to recover it, but he kindly offered
u Itht u lllul Ou ldll "HClC IL NCllt ONCI-
board, and get il when he came back. We
saw him make the mark ourselves and we'll
remember that in all that motley crowd there
was not dry eye.
A writer says that "what the true man most
wants of wife is her companionship, sym.
pathy, courage and love" He is right. The
true man wants his wifc's companionship
when he has to get up in the night to see
what the noise is in the cellar. Her courage
is very valuable in the general neighborhood
debates over the possession of some domestic
article, and her love is absolutely indispensa,
BILE when he gets in late. But her sympathy!
Well, any one who has ever picked up the
wrong stove-lid with his bare hand can esti-
mate the value of that.
One of our residents who recently lost Il
horse called at Barnum's drug store yesterday
to solicit that dealer for small contribution
toward defraying the expense of another
horse. Barnum was not in but the unfOrtu-
nate citizen so wildly described the extent of
his loss that AL Scott, the clerk, commenced
to cry, and finally contributed quarter of a
dollar to the general fluid. This so touched the
heart of the unfortunate man that, despite his
Affections, he ordered soda water for himself
and son, and paid for it out of the quarter.
Some men would have gone to another store
with their trade.
There has been gun standing behind a
cupboard in Pine street residence for the
past eight years. 1t belonged to the occu-
pants father, and was set up there in loaded
condition. Its presence was always an eye.
sore to the occupants wife, who shared fully
with the sex their fear of firearms. So the
other day, Friday, we think, she induced her
husband to take it down and fire itoff. He had
never fired off gun that had been loaded
eight years; in fact, he never fired off a gun
1t all, so he poked it out of window and
COX aim into the garded, without the faintest
shadow of fear. His wife being afraid Of fire
arms stood behind his back and looked over
his shoulder with her eyes tight shut. He
shut his eyes too, and then he pulled the
rigger. What Immediately followed neither
appears to have any settled idea. He says he
IAN vaguely remember hearing "A noise of
some kind, and has an indistinct impression
If passing something which must have been
lis wife, as she was found between him and
he window by the neighbors who drew him
,ut of the fire place. The fact that one of his
hOulders was set back about two inches,
md that three of her teeth were imbedded in
lis scalp, seemed to indicate that in stepping
Jack from the window he had done SO alb
uptly, and this conclusion, we are glad to say, |
vas verified by both on being restored to con
CiOusness.