The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-24
CREAM OF OUR EXCHANGES.

Fri, Free Love"-N Y. Maa.
That is when this cruel scandal is over.
A rough year this for the righteous. lo"ker'
Gazette.
Private PRAYER rooms are features OF the
modern house.-PhHd. Herald.
Public camp meetings on the frontier answer
the same purpose.
Not proven, but you mustn't do so again
Mr. Beecher!- Clelyldnd Herald
Tton is poor and needs presents of mind
Phila. Herald.
Colorado continues to shrek for more women
and Beecher for ess..-Rochester Democrat.
When this cruel war is ovcr-bud a bonfire
and burn your old papers to save your childrcns
morals Waterbury american.
would you like to look at these engravings"
said a sweet-faced hostess to guest who was
unable TO entertain himself. Madam, SAID he,
with steterlniqae-com9 look OF horror, Madam,
Pm not that kind Of a man Faslhlgto" H1o"'
Gle.
Beecher says he has never advocated banging
Jefferson DAVIS Gracious Heavens Is Jcu NIX
ed up in this affair too ?-LOWW Jon,hdI.
Mr. Beecher is not punstcr, but he says The
odore wonld never have been g(u)ilty if he hadn't
touched the Goldea Agc.-thicogo Post anil Naa.
Some highly magnetic lnulNluual cIoptu WIN
his friends wife, at Carlisle, Penn. last Wcdncs-
day. The distracted husband went straight to a
lawyer who advised him to do nothing about it,
as it might excite suspicion that he was trying
to levy black -mail.-Brooklyn Aygas.
There is man in Lyons to whom Susan Il.
Anthony told the whole Of Mrs. Iiltons tale
when Susan ecturcd there. 1t hoped some one
will be able to get u shot at him before he can
make statement.-R0me ScHt'"a.
John Smith once held Mr. Btechcrs horse for
five minutes, and his portrait will be in all the
picture papers next weck.-RocltcSter UcH
The warrior Of the "Golden Age" it seems, was
clad in black mail.-Ihladcphia He,dH
Mr. Bancroft declines to give any opinion about
The Bcecher scandal, but admits that he wishes he
were back in Berlin BfOOHyn irguS
johnny" Please Ma, didn't do it, Ma
Make Il statement then" -Phiia. HcdW.
Society in this city has so far recovered from the
effects of the recent shock, that parents no long
or think it necessary to sit up evenings in the
parlor with the young folks in order to preserve
the dec0rum Of Conversations roohIy@ argus.
Aver thepiTl man, is nominated for congress in
n Massachusetts, district If he doses literally al
big run win be made, but the polling places
ought to be changed.
The same might appropriately be said Of our
radical Tor PHYSICAL candidate for state senator
All the Chicago aldermen are still out Of Jail
Detroit Press.
Chicago IL seems is unable to return the com.
plment, so far as her ncighbor Detroit is con
cerned.
The CITY of Lincoln Statesman, Democratic
paper, thus says of tie fact that the Republican
party is fast getting the whisky votes of the
country:
In 1874, when We were a boy, we often heard
the song;
In i6 the locas swore twas wrong,
For the wings TO sing merry song;
But now they've hooked our songs and tunes,
And next we expect they'll hook our coons.
But now the Republican party charge the Dem
ocrats with being the whisky party, and that the
jug is the last plank in their platform, and now
they have stolen that"
Here is an obituary gem from the death'col-
umn Of the Shell Rock (Minn.) Enterprise:
On the plains Of far Iowa,
Where the Spring time grasses wave,
Fragrant brecscs now sigh low, ah
Dire above my grandma's grave.
The Chicago Times calls its reporters "plcni-
potcntiarics extraordinary"
A camp-meetng correspondent of the Chicago
Post and Mail seems 10 be much troubled in her
mind at the scarcity OF looking. glasses.
An Omaha paper advises the people not to
make such a fuss about the shooting Of one con.
stable as there are over forty candidates for the
Office
Out West here we don't get red behind the
ears and boiler: "Who paid the Woodhulrs fare
10 Europe" We are simply thankful that they
went.-Detrod Free Press.
An indictment in this county has thus far
kept the " frail sisters away, and perhaps dose
Of the same remedy might assist Detroit in keep
Ing them off.
The editor Of the Burlington Ua.) Hd,rktyc has
discovered woman who will get up at six
o'clock, kinde fire, get breakfast, rout out the
family wash the dishes and six children sew a
button on the neck Of her husbands shirt and
hunt his hat, 20 to a mission Sunday school and
teach class, attend church, rush home and have
dinner over and the things cleared away in time
for afternoon Sunday school, read the Sunday
school papers to the children, go TO church at
night, and talk on her way home about Sunday
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