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nen,ly worthy of public confidence and sup
port, 1t. would behoove me,-if | could by
An humble eifort--to contribute to its exche-
quer, that its usefulness might be increased
and lis christian influence extended. would
like to sec with my own eyes, the class OF
voters who elected TO Office such refined gen.
tlemen and distinguished statesmen as John
A. Logan ard Dick Oglesby. The most ap'
propria,e place to meet this class of voters rs
well and the most enthusiastic hackers OF
Mr Grant, would, | take it, be at a horse race.
The attractions offered are Of such q refined
nature, that they attest the high official source
from which the invitation must have emsna
ted and were it not for foolish Southern
pride which I cannot discard, might per.
suade me to attend. But could not relish
the idea of going north, to take by the hand
the grey haired parents, whose only support
in their declining years was anoble son, now
resting in Southern grave by acts Of mine,
nor to stand up and tell the manned veteran
now fine are the arts Of peace; how beauti.
rul the blessings OF honest industry. This Is
more than could do-and respectfully de.
cline your courteous invitation.
JEFFERsoN DAVIS.
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have no hesitation In saying that the
proper thing to do is to go to sleep immedi
ately Tor at least very SOON after the meal O
the day. All animals always 90 TO sleep, i
they are not disturbed, after eating. This Il
especially Noticeable In dogs; and the grea
John Hunter showed by al experiment tha
digestion went on during sleep more than
when the animal was awake and going about
This is his experiment: He took two dogs
and gave them both the same quantity of foot
One fthem was allowed to go to Sleep the
other was taken out hunting. AT the end OF
three or four hours he killed both of these
dogs, The food in the stomach Of the dog
which had been asleep was quite digested; IN
that of the one which had been hunting the
food was not dlgested at all
This fact, think, shows the ACCESSIBILITY OF
going to sleep Immediately after eating. This
when | see old gentlemen nodding over their
wine. Nature says to them: "Go 10 bed.''
They will not go to bed but still nature will
not allow her law TO be broken so she sends
them to sleep in their chairs. People, there
fore, who feel sleepy after dinner, ought to
dine late, and 20 straight to bed when a
sleepy feeling comes over them
Most good folks, however, do the worst pos.
sible thing imaginable; they retire altogether
into the drawing.rOom, and then, to make
matters worse, they drink tea and coffee
Now regard tea and coffee, when taken al
night, TO be poison to certain constitutions.
1t is very well in the morRing but it is very
bad at night. The reason why tea and coffee
should not be taken at night is that one con-
tains an alkaloid called theme, and the other
contains an alkalord called caffeine. These
two alkalolds, taken into the system, stmu
late the brain and do not allow it to go 10
rest. speak of this from experience. If
take, though,lessly, acup Of tea or coffee after
Ave O'Clock in the evening, going to bed
about eleven, / cannot 30 TO sleep, the aka.
loid will wake me up in about an hour or
two. Sleeplessness therefore, is caused by
tea or coffee, though strange to say that tea
and coffee sctuslly sends some people into
sound slumber Land and Water
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| Wheeler, Of the St Charles Leader, says he had
rather row boat on Sunday than preach an or
thodox sermon.--KendaN Record And undoubt
edly the st. Charles folks would rather have him
--Erchange,
Gas between cucumber and watermelon,
says Western editor, give us brandy and
water"
The Couriey-Jomnal says there is something
OF the sneak in every man" Why is it that some
people will always persist in Judging Others BY
themselves!
Why editors should be selected as objects OF
special solicitude and song We know hot Ou'
certain II is that at the camp meeting grounds
/ on Friday last, several of the brothers and SIS
tiers earnestly sang the following ditty:
There's Lingle and Water, we know 'cm well,
| THEY'VE got to work to keep from hell;
They've got to pray, both night and day,
\ II they want to get in the narrow way
4 Sunday Leader.
The last verse, equally touching, the Leddrr
omits
AThe blind lead the blind" for McGinley'' a
The sign is plain to the "wayiaring reader;
| And now let's sing to high old pitch,
For Mckinley and Ellis are both in the ditch,
Lafayette Courier.
| A Council Bluffs doctor hangs out single
announcing DIR. II. o. Greene, Nedico Rlectri
CO." Oh, no. ho ho!-Hdckeye.
Bessie Turner Is to be married soon, and the
man who get. her will be lucky man IT, when
an early train has to be caught and he wants
cup OF coffee before starting he can succeed in
waking Bc.sie up in time to attend to 1t.
Little Gene Pyatt, when his little sister came,
said TO q visitor" All you have to do to get
baby, is to have sick headache and send for DR..
Fisher."-INinois Sentinel.
A Peoria man on his death bed, said: "Begod'
nothing short OF linen shroud and mahogany
coffin will do for me. I'm old per.mm mons, am,
school for any patry e. per week. They offer
her 81 %, and II she refuses they nail the door
up and put up a sign of moo skue hear.
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GUNNER Fruits,

A very mistaken idea has found lodge.
ment in the minds OF many, otherwise sensi
BILE pcrsons, to wit, that summer comp Aints
the generic term under which the disorders
peculiar to the season are known, are caused
mainly by the use OF fruit and that the wise
and safe plan is to prohibit its use.
This method, which neglects to take ad.
vantage Of one of the most beneficial provis.
ions for mans use, comfort, and we'll being,
is detrimental not only to enjoyment but 10
permanent health. The term "anti.scorbutic'
expresses the value Of fruits as food and the
estimation in which they are held by those
who understand their relation to human
wants.
When FRAT does harm, 1t is because it is
eaten at improper times, in improper quaint
ties, or before i. is ripened and ft for the hu-
man stomach. Fruit ought not to be eaten
between meals any more than any other food.
| 1t may be taken as q lunch, however, with
very great benefit, or as preparation for Il
meal, that 10, before breakfast or dinner
Perhaps the very best time in the day for eat
| ing fruit is before or with the breakfast. A
distinguished physician has said that if his
patients would make practice of eating q
couple of Messins oranges before breakfast,
from February till June, his practice would be
gone. From June, which brings US the ever
welcome STRAWBERRIES, until November tnere
is constant succession Of fresh fruits which
are pleasure TO the eye and a delight to the
mind. The proof Of their healthfulness lies
IN the fact that the more people make it a
part of their regular daily food, taking the
place in part of meat, and wholly of pastries
during the summer months, the better and
finer more cheerful and more uniformly well
they are the less fever aud thirst do they eX-
perience, the less Ice water and other violent
reactionary fluids are they obliged TO drink,
aud the less are they subject to changes and
fluctuations of the system and OF temperature.
The principal difficulty with US is that we
do not eat enough Of fruit; that we kill its
finer qualities with sugar; that we drown
them in cream. We need the medicinal &C
lion OF the pure fruit acids in our system.
We need cooling, corrective influence, and
should accept it ~ one Of the bes, gifts OF
Providence.
The waste Of fruit is crime, hardly to be
pardoned when so many need it-are dying
Tor want of it. A fruit mission would be Of
tar greater value than the flower mission,
beneficial as that is, for fruit is life giving,
and supplements the beautiful and thought
inspiring Give us fruit and it will makc Of
lite perpetual summer.-Hedrh and Home
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LONGEVITY OF SNAHs.-An English paper,
giving some evidence regarding The tenacity
with which the snail hangs on TO life, relates
that a lady, having collected some with pref.
uly marked shells, wished to preserve ti,en
She therefore subjected them 10 couple OF
boiiing-water baths. and left them on Q shelf
ia simmer house 10 dry. The next morn.
ing, TO her surprise and dismay. she found
the srails crawling about the place, and some
of the hungrier ones feeding upon the paste
meant 10 be used ia cementing the shells
together. The tcnderhearied lady was so
distressed at her unwilling cruelty that she
sat down and had good cry" ending with
resolve never TO attempt snaILboiling again.
In l714 an Irish collector stated before the
Royal Society that certain white snaIls that
had been confined in the cabinet for at least
IL years, poked their heads out Of their shells
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The state, were wined and dined. dsttered and d
feted, and by their final choice forcibly recall
the story Of the girl who was sent into the
hazel thicket to cut the strsightest' switch she
could find as an emblem Of what her choice
of a husband would be She inspected the
nice, straight sprouts in their turn, and after
wandering around until tired with the search
returned to the starting point and cut crook.
ed switch at last. The commissioners will
have some hard questions 10 answer.-Pir-
OiDil Eq.ettf
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HONOR TO OUR WORK MEN

Whom SHALL wo can our heroes'
To whom our praises singy
The pampered child OF fortune,
The titled lord or king!
They live by others labor
Take all and nothing give;
The noblcst type Of manhood
Are those who work 70 live.
Then honor to eur worknen,
Our hardy sons OF toll
The heroes Of the workshop
And monsrchs 0! the soil.
Who spans the earth with iron
And resrs the palace dome!
Who creates for the rich man
The comforts VI n home;
1t is the patient toiler!
All honor ~ him then;
The true wealth OF tie pation
Is In her working men.
For many barren ages
Earth hid her treasures deep.
And all her giant force.
Seemed bound as in a sleep;
Then Laber's "anvil chorus "
Broke on the startled air,
And 10! the earth in rapture
Laid all her riches bare.
IT'S toll that over nature
Gives man his proud control,
And purifes and hallows
The temple Of his sovl.
II scatters foul diseases,
With all the ghastly trainsi
Puts iron in the muscle
Aud crystal in the brain.
The Grand, Almighty Builder,
Who fashioned out the earth,
Hath stamped His seal u honor
On Labor from her birth.
In every angel flower
That blossoms from the sod,
Behold the master touches
The haLdiwork of God,
Then honor to cur worlmen,
The hardy sons OF toll
The heroes OF the workshVp
And mensrchs Of the soil.
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The feeble minded commissioners did

The feeble miRded commissioners did
themselves much credit p by their choice of
a location for the fool school" The ins,itu.
ton isl be located at Lincoln, and Lincoln
Is located ncar-Hear, well il is no, down In
Drinks atlas map, but We have every assur
ance that j, is located in Illinois. ltiscy.
lremely well watercd, this year, and when !,
don't rain they get water for the mere cost of
digging, with an unlimited supply ofcoal-
10y shipping !, from other points
The commissioners phiSnderei all over
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The Man-Fish,

The greatest physical feat of the century
was performed Wednesday night, when Cap
tain-why are the swimmers of the age all
Captains Matthew Webb swan the English
Channel from Dover TO Calais, 21h miles.
He started from the chalky cliffs Of Dover
Wednesday afternoon with strong stroke OF
twenty to the minute. He seems 10 have
maintained this stroke for nearly the whole
distance. Stimulants were administered to
him lavlshly. lie began at $50 p. N. with
beef.tea and ale. At s the dose was beef.tea
and beer. This kept him all right until
o'clock IN the morning, when the moon rose,
and he celebrated the event with drink of
brandy and tea. Coffee was tried for a
change at 3 O'Clock. This failed to be Of ser.
vice. He seemed exhausted, and the trainer,
who accompanied Hun in a small steamer,
WIS about to spring 10 his help when he raj.
he'd and swan on. In an hour he took coffee
and brandy Thenceforvard he drank brandy
straight every twenty minutes, SO that he may
be said to have been brandi)e IS the best
swimmer IN the world when he stepped on
Calais sands. King Alcohol kept him adoat
while he was in danger Of death from too
much water. His feat can scarcely be con-
sidered firstclass illustration for temper.
ance lecturer. But it is a marvel. 1t mus,
have required muscles Of iron and sinews Of
steel. The swimmer had to meet cross-cur.
rent, chopping seas, winds, and tides. There
is no more diEcult strait 10 cross in the
world 1t is said that the tide carried him
four miles out of his way. If so, he must
have swan over 25 miles. While there were
boats near him all the while, he seems to
have not left the water for second between
the cliffs of England and the slop,ng shores
of France. \ sklff, and afterwards a steam
boat, was kept to the windward of him, and
he was thus partly saved the necessity Of
buffeting with very rough weather. The
only other help he received was the admins
tration Of alcoholic drinks and the stimulus
of cheers from the spectators. Upon landing
he was taken to hotel, put to bed, and rub
bed down. He was soon TRANQUILITY sleeping
and the doctors entertain no fears OF any Sc
rlOus results.
This far excels any previous feat In nata
ton. As the college song has il,
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Lcander SWAN the Hellespoat
For To meet his dear,

and Lord Byron and Lieut.. Eckenhead imi
tated him in 1910. The preservation of the
latters name IN the Encyclopedias is strik.
ing proof OF the fact that man is known by
the company he keeps. The Hellespont
however, at the point where these three cross.
ed it, rs only 2,4O0 feet wide. The two points
of Abydos md Sestos run oat into the strait
and make II strait Indeed. Leaader, Byron
and Eckenhead swan less than half aile
the webfootcd Webb has swan % miles
When Caesar tried to "buffet the waves with
lusty arms" he cried out, "Help me, Cassius
or | siBk!r and was weak as "sick girl
before he had gone any distance at all. Thus
saith the veraCious' Shakespeare. Horatius-
whose last name, the plebeian one of GOGGLES
is usually suppressed by kindly history and
fabe-swam the Yellow Tiber after the "a
nous fight for the bridge, but though
All Rome sent forth rapturous cry,
And cen the ranks OF Tuscany
Could scarce forbear to cheer
the swim amounted to but little. The Tlber
is but narrow ditch, and its current, usually
sluggish, never moves with half the velocity
OF channel tide. Boy;on, who converted
himself into a canoe and let the wind blow
him across the Channel, did nothing in com.
parisOn to Webb's feat. lie not only had a
score of helps denied the latter, but he took
two hours longer in crossing the narrow sea.
Webb Is ahead We see no immediate prac-
teal benefit to be derived from his success.
The average man, though good swimmer,
would probably prefer to cross the Channel
in dry steamer than a wet skin, with bran.
dy-and-water served hot and together, instead
of taking the brandy inside and the water
outside, with such an overplus OF ,he latter
But the deed was a feat of physical siren 9Th
and pluck without a parallel-C1icdgo Fri.
bune.
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ONO. btnd tor cIrCUIAr knu HnlVIe'
Address y. WOkTHlNGTON,T Toledo.
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nR. g. HARD, Physician and Sturgeon, over o.
~ ll9 Main street, Metropolitan Block, Ottawa, inCs
Lime It'll ISL.
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CREAM OUR EXCHANGES.

An exchange chronicles the marriage OF
Miss Bsckup to Mr.. Nader from which 1t ap
pears he hss got his back-up and she has go
madden, and VIC suppose they will grow little
madden still
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II Y, (iHIGGS, Druggist, Bookseller and Sta
T.. TONER Ottawa Ill. Second store In Nattngersboe6,
south side OF Court House Square.
M ISNEUSSL, German Druggist and Apothe
MI cary wholesale and reta) Main street, ottawa III
Importer Of Drugs Chemicals, French Cogniac Brandes
Wines, SC.
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DR. seh.ncL.. stamd.rd Remedic.

The sta dlrJ remedies for all diseases OF
the lungs are sCBENck's PCLMoNiC
SYRUP. >CHESCK's SEA WEED Ton c. and
SCHENCk's MASDRAKt PILLS, and. II aiken
before the lungs are destroyed speedy
cure Is effected.
10 these three medicines DR.. J. H.
Schtnck, of Philadelphia, owes his unriva-
led success in the treatment of pulmonary
diseases.
The Pu'monic Syrup ripans the morbid
matter In the lung; natu throws 1t III by
an easy expectora ion, or when the phlegn
or matter l. iipe slight cough will throw
II of, the patient has rect and tie lungs
BERN 10 heal.
To enable thu Pulmouic Syrup 10 do this,
Schenck'- Mandrake Pills aud Sche OK :
sea Weed Tonic must be fr, ely used to
cleanse the stomach AMI liver. schrDck's
Man rake Pills act on the liver, removing
III oh tructions. relax the gall bladder, the
bile Eta Is freely, and the liver is soon
| relieved.
; henck's Sea weed Tonic is gentle
stimuant and sltcratiNe e; the alkai OF which
! 1t l. compost, mixes with the food nh 4
prevents souring. II assists the diges ion
by toning up the Stomgch 10 healthy con-
ditlon. 80 that the f,od and tn lungs heal.
and the patient will surely get wen il care
l. taken g. prevent fresh cold.
All who wish o. consult DIR. Schenck,
either pei sonllly or by letter, can do 50 a,
bis principal office, corner OF SIXTH and
ARCH SIS Phi adclpba, every Mond,y.
Schenck's medicines are sold BY oil drug
gifts throughout the country. 3.2.2m.
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CHR Bulletin.
PARAGRAPHS.

=
A Minnesota Judge, In pronouncing
the death sentence, tendcrly observed:
"It guilty, you richly deserve the fate that
awaits you; If innocent, ii will be graf
iflcation for you to feel that you were
hanged without such crime on your
conscience; In either case you will be de-
livcred from world of care"
lis not Kaiser Wilhelm's prohibition
of the expectation OF horses from his do
minion suggestive ofa desire for a more
stable governmental New York Com
mercial Airc,fiscr. That may be his
name object, hut it can not be determined
that he has assumed hoss-tile attitude
Aibary drg,H.
--Apropos OF the Tyndsll-Darwin
theories comes in one Of Gen. Schenck's
latest stories that lac told to the wife of
. British Cabinet officer, who assured
him that England made America all that
she is." Pardon, madam" said the
Generals; "you remind me OF an answer
of the Ohio lad in his teens, who. attend
ing SUNDAY school for the first time, was
asked by his teacher, who made you;'
Made me!' Yea why God made me
about so long (holding his hands about
ten inches apart, but I growcd the
| r,sf "
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SheriTs Sale.

by virtue, Of an Execution to me directed by
1.-The Clerk of the Circuit Court OF Alexander
County, ia the state Of Illinois, in favor of Al
irei u. SaliOrl, assignee Of Alexander II Irwin
and against John III Brown, have levied up-
ON the following described property, in the
County OF Alexander and state oil Illinois, to-
Wit MI the right title and interest of -aid John
III Brown in and TO the Northwest quarter OF
the southwest quarter of section thirty-un. Ciu
IN Township fifteen u5) South, and in Range
on. ~ west ofthe third y NJ ,ll-o blocks num-
bered one ~ two ~ three (D, four "a live
o. six tG seven ~ aud eight (sl in the town oi
Unity IN satd county and state, IA the property
OF said John II Brown, which | shalt oiicr al
| Public sal. NJ the Soutuwest door If the Court
| House, in the I ity Of Cairo, in tho County o
| NleNalder and state OF Illinoi, on the ioiirtl
| am day Of March, 4. ID ls15, AT the hour o
eleven O'Clock, a. VI for cash, to satisfy said
Execution. ALEX II IRWIN
sheriff OF Alexander County, Illinois.
Cairo, HIS, February sth. 1870
In pursuance OF the foregoing notice of sale.
this day Oncrsi the real estate therein described
for sale, and there being no bidders the sale was
therefore adjourned until the 10Th day OF March
instant, at the same place and time.
ALIEN. II IRWIN, Sheriff.
Cairo Ills March ith, 1876.
42-3-5-ilt-w3t
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