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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-12-08

AS he lay out III inc sun,
But the song he heard most often
His grannys fayorite one
Was, 'Jawgc Washington,
Thomas Jefferson,
Persimmons, Henry Clay, bc
Quick, shut dc do,
Get up off dat flo,
Come hcah and mind dc baby
One night there came a fearful storm,
Almost second flood;
The river rose, torrent sWoll'n
OF beaten, yellow mud,
ID bit at its entertainments,
And Tapped them down in foam,
Till, surging through u wide creVassc,
The waves seething round their home,
They scaled the high vcranda,
They filled the parlors clear,
Til floating chairs and tables
Clashed against the chandelier
Twas then Persimmons' granny,
Stout Of arm and terror PROOF,
By means OF axe and lever,
Pried up the vcranda roof,
Bound mattresses upon 1t ....
With stoutcst cords Of rope,
Lifted out her fainting mistress,
Saying, Honey, dar is hope
YoL Jawgc Washington,
Thomas Jefferson,
Persimmons, Henry Clay, Ua
Quick on dat raft,
Don't star like calf,
But take good cab ob de baby
The frothing river lifted them
Out on its turbid tide,
And for awhile they iloated on
Together, side by side;
Till, broken by the current strong,
The frail raft snapt in two,
And Pcrsimmons saw his granny
Fast fading from his view.
The deck hands on steamboat
Heard, us they passed in haste,
4 child's voice singing In the dark
Upon the waters waste,
\ song of faith and triumph,
OF Moses and the Lord;
And throwing out coil of rope
They drew him safe on board
Full manga stranger city
Pcrsimmons wandered through,
"A-totin OBJ der baby" and
Singing songs he knew.
At length some City Father,
Objected to his plan,
Arresting as yagrant
Our valiant little man.
They carried out their purpose
pcr,immon, flowed he'd spite EN-,
SO, sloping from the statiOn-housc,
lie stole baby from the 'sylum.
2 And on that very afternoon,
As il was growing dark,
lie sang beside the fountain IN
The crowded city park
A rude camp-meeting anthem
Which he had sung before
While on his granny's fragile raft
He drifted far from shore:
SONG.
Moses smote de water, and
De sea gabe away;
De children dcy passed obcr for
De sea gabc away;
o Lord, ! feel 50 glad,
1t am always dark TO day,
So honey, don't yer be sad,
De sca'll glib away"
s lady, dressed in mourning,
Turned with sudden start,
Gave one glance ut the baby,
Then caught it to her heart;
While substantial shadow
That was walking by her side,
Seized PersinmOns by the shouldcr
And, while she shook him, cried
Yop, Jawgc Washington,
Thomas Jefferson,
Pcrsimmons, Henry Clay br
Quick, 'splain ycrsclf, chile
Stop dat ar fool smile
Whar YOU done been wild baby"
Prom 81. NjrhoioS
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-12-08
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-12-08
professional CarDs.
At o q n c Y S.

II McDOUCiAI4II,ts successor Ia Cameron & Me
~. DOugal) Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office in
Glover q Cooks Block Ottawa, III. Also United States
Commissioner. deCI'16
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13

the brain, just as one may overtax the stom
achl Now here is this girl. We will say she
is fifteen or thereabout. She is one of class
who are ambitious to learn. She digs into
her algebra and her physiology and her exsr-
cises of one sort and another every evening
and all the evening long. She must do it or
fall behind her classmates She is to all ap-
pearances well-certainly she is rosy and
bright and cheerful; but who knows how tired
her eyes and her brain and her whole stock of
senses become night after night She does
not complain she is too proud for that.
But she is overtasked-and for what ? What's
the hurry Boiling book knowledge is like
boiling biscuits and butter, potatoes and
gravy, pies and doughnuts. Boiling ones
bread and boiling ones lessons are very SINH
lar processes And, as we ask, what's the
need of it, What makes the emergency?
There is no possible need of such haste. If
this so-called education cannot be got without
this overwork it had better not be gotten at
all. Girls and boys feed themselves to over
doses of book-learning this way, from sheer
pride. They are running a race through
mathematics, composition, geometry and the
rest of their studies. The effort is not so
much to acquire knowledge as to show present
proficiency. What is crammed is not digested |
1t does not make the red blood of knowledge, |
for like undigested food in the overloaded |
stomachs, it does not assimilate. (This No |
tary is willing to seem to be talking about
he knows but precious little about,
if he can cause reformation in the direction
of what he believes to be very serious mis-
takes) These breezes which are blowing
shrill reminder into the ears of all things liv-
ing that October is passing out of his homage
into the tempers of maturity and self assertion,
oode not well for the Reno Fair We are
afraid that some people with an interest in
sleek kline and stout stations, fat pigs and
heavy feeoed rams, high stepping racers and
short horned bulls will have occasion to COM
olain of good deal too much of the Autumn
lal in their experience at the cattle show.
Fair time should have fair weather; and it
will be pity if after all these weeks and
months of absolute drouth, Fair week of all
,thers, should come in with a storm of rain
md snow. We hope the signs, now so I'M
'ropitious, may not come true; for it is not
or us of Carson, beat;fod and exalted as we
re, to wish any harm to our enthusiastic
eighbor, slightly self-glorifed and buster .
ONE tho she be, at times. Indeed, if Car ;
on may not be magnanimous, whence may =
come we yonder2
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13

S1ocKs. -The thinning out in prices at the
lower end of the Comstock was very marked
last evening, while the north end was not
phased In Justice and Alta the decline
made itself most felt. The depreciation in
the latter security in the space of week is
nearly fifty percentum. What's the matter ?
Oh, why didn't we sell!
PASSED. THRoUaH.-R- M. Graves passed
through on the train last night bound for
tide-water. Varney' Quadrille Band was
aboard, en- route to Reno for a party.
The operations in the Refinery of the Mint
are temporarily suspended for want of I'M
parted bullion
The annual meeting of the North Carson
mining Co, will be held in San Francisco on
Monday.
Several teens loaded with machinery for
mines at Bodie, left the city last evening
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13

FEMALE BRoIL.-Int the northern part of the
| city yesterday afternoon, scene was enacted
too disgusting and revolving to be related in
detail. Two characters in the form of VIC.
men, staggering under heavy load of intox.
icating drinks, engaged in pitched battle OF
the prize ring order They fought most des-
perately and tore the clothes from each other
like pair of Infatuated hellions. A number
of men @ were watching the progress of the
encounter, but did not volunteer to separate
the viragos. The womens claws would now
and then tear out a bunch of hair from the
opposing head, blood was streaming from
their faces and their language was choicer
than the choicest Billingsgate. This sanguin-
airy strife lasted some fifteen minutes, and
was only concluded by the sheer exhaustion
of the contending hosts The affair was dis
graceful in the extreme, but the greatest
shame should be attached to the men who
witnessed and made no effort to put an end
to it,
DECLINED. -Supt. Kelly sent a request to
T. H. Goodman, General Passenger and Tick
ct Agent, day or two since, asking for half
fare for teachers who wished to attend the
State Teachers Institute He received yes
ternay printed reply, respectfully declining
to grant the favor. On the side of this printed
letter, was a copy of letter of Mark Hop
kins giving his very thin reasons. We have
no room for its publication. Its contents
may be summed up in the two words 'We
won't. " Score one for the iberality of the
Central Pacific,
RECEIVED. The State Officers received yes
terday through the kindness of Mr.. Borland,
complimentary tickets to the Fair of the Ne
vada, Agricultural, Mining and Mechanical
Society, to be held at Reno next week, They
all go. They bet,
Wells, Fargo & Co. received per Southern
stage last evening, from the Indian Queen
mine, bars, valued at 81, S45 from Columbus
bar valued at 1895. Total $3.50.
The Washington Guards of Virginia will do |
their annual target shooting at Treadway's |
Park to-day.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13
EDUCATIONAL MONTHLIES.

The school law of the State of Nevada pro
vides for the procurement of an educationa
journal for each of the teachers employed in
the county public schools; also, one copy for
each member of the board of school directors.
Professor Passnore has kindly consented to
allow each teacher to make his or her own
selection of the journal desired A good op-
portunity will now be offered the teachers
to start circulating library of magazines
treating upon subjects relating to the profess
ion.-Entsrpriss.
We are sorry to say that the Enterprise is
a little off on the above. At the last session
of the Legislature the eighth session of the
section, containing duties of the County
which empowers that func-
tionary to subscribe for educational journals,
was repealed, see statues of 1877. We think
it was great mistake, but unfortunately it
is fact. Speaking of school laws we found
the following in looking up this item. Sec
ton &c, ''No trustee shall be pecuniarially
in any contract made by the Board
If Trustees of which he is a member, and any
contract made in violation of this section
hall be null and void" This quotation is
cot intended to apply to the above, but, is
imply inserted as Carson local which may
nay interest our own taxpayer,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13
THE NEW ORLEANS MINSTELS.
MATINEE AND EVENING PERFORM
ANCE.

This superb troupe will make its last ap-
pearances on the Carson stage this afternoon
and evening. A select matinee will be given
this afternoon at 2 o'clock, for the entertain
ment of ladies and children, and perform
ance at o'clock this evening, The entirety
of the programme will be new and fresh,
sparkling with refined wit and humor. New
burlesques of an unexceptionable character
will be presented; and in fact everybody
ought to go. The show is good and frst-class.
We're going.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13
SPECIAL R. r. TRAIN FOR THE REN(
FAIR.

1t will be observed by reference to notice
elsewhere appearing, that the va T. R. r.
management have made arrangements for the
accommodation. of parties living along the
line of their road, DESTROYS of attending the
Fair at Reno. The time set for the depart
ure and arrival of trains is admirably calcu-
lated to accommodate those whose business
demand their return home at night Also
the price is exceedingly reasonable. For
terms, times ETC., See the advertisement
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-13
So REWARD

WILL BE PAID TO THE PERSON
w finding Gold and Coral Breast Pin, and leaving
1t at thiS stass. ost9m
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14

is now almost universally conceded to
have been an evil to the whites, but, in
the light of the negroes condition since
freedom, occasionally hear a man say
that, while he doesn't want the institu-
tion, he believes it was good thing for
the blacks. =
The next census will give us a basis of
calculation, Ind we shall then know, or
at least be able to draw an intelligent
deduction as to the future of the race in
America. That they will not increase in
freedom az rapidly as in slavery we
already know. That is assured. The
figures of the last census are fairly start
ling in this particular, showing as they
do 80 a marked decrease in the ratio OF
increase as compared with the decade
from 1850 to 1860.
In the south, the predominating opin-
ion among the whites is that the race is
doomed, that decrease win be rapid
henceforth, and that several generations
hence negroes viii be a. scarce as Indians.
This opinion Is more prevalent in city
thsn in country, because the evidences OF
the decline are 50 marked in every
/ crowded centre.
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14

for business men to spend some part of
the summer vacation in the country and
to send their families thither for a longer
period. They can afford to pay rates for
board which leave handsome
margin, and yet bring the cost
of living little if any above what it
would cost them to live at homl; and
they go back made all over new, and pre-
pared for the winters business campaign.
Men who 60 into the boarding business
systematically and manage it prudently,
can, in our judgment, make more money
in five months than can be made by any
other business in New Hampshire. But
they must have land, and raise their own
table supplies mainly, and not receive
them daily by express from Boston. That
will never do. There can and ought to be
something fresh and luscious from the
galden on the table every day from the
first of June through the season. Two
acres of land thus cultivated, with Your
market at your own dinner table, will
afford a better profit than any twenty
five acres devoted to ordinary farming.
New Hampshire has the advantage over
every other state in this. particular. II
we are wise we shall recognize our grand
mountain and lake scenery and invigor-
ating summer air as the chiefest of our
resources, and utilize them precisely as
Pennsylvania utilizes her iron and coal
and Georgia her cotton, iron and timber
/ BY so doing we may continue TO turn our
statesmen, patriots, artizsns and teach
ers, as heretofore, the foremost in th'
land. We shall be disappointed if tn,
next decade does not at least quadruPl,
the amount of summer boarding anC
travel in New Hampshire. Meantime
if anybody eau derive any comfort from
the belief that New Hampshire IS to be-
"great manufacturing state, we have n
objection. +. II. G.
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
a Few More Left to Make
Trouble.

Speaking of the Nez Perces who es
capped at the time of the capture OF
Joseph's band, the Idaho Statesman
says:
This will leave Chief White Bird,
whose home was on the Salmon river,
where the outbreak began, and thirty
warriors, if they can eIude pursuit and
keep out of harms way to prepare for a
return to their haunts next season, and
try their hand at revenging their s!efeat.
1t will be remembered that in the first
battle between the troops under Colonel
Perry and the Indians in the White Bird
canon, the highest estimates did not give
the hestiles more than 100 warriers. and
that from this small beginning they in
creased, notwithstanding their losses to
several hundred before they took the
Lolo Ford trail for Montana. This little
band of warriers, headed by White
Bird, would form quite sufficient nu.
cleus for the gathering of the many dis.
affected Indians who are known to he
among the various tribes and bands in
northern Idaho and eastern Washington
Anything like apathy on the part of the
government or citizens would leave the
country exposed to a repetition of the
scenes of the summer. Fort Lapwell
should be kept strongly garrisoned, and
sufficient outpost maintained on Camas
prairie"
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
Three Southern Senators.

Conspicuous among the gentlemen
from the south is John B. Gordon,
of Atlanta. He was wounded eight
times in confederate battles, and
bears the mark of scar upon his cheek.
He il tall, Of commanding presence, with
straight black hair, blue eyes, and not
wholly partrician nose. His colleague,
" Ben" Hill, looks less like soldier and
more like a scholar. He IS tall and bent
in the shoulders, and wanders about with
his hands behind him in a dreamy, alb
stracted way His hair IS slightly tinged
with gray, his eyes are blue, and he Is
mach given to meditation ut dinner and
at other inoppertune times. His
speeches are good, his eyes clear in their
outlook, and the prevailing expression OF
the man, both in person and countenance,
is one of sadness. Lamar, of Mississippi,
Is a wIinkled, pallid-Iooking man, with
long, smooth, thin, black locks, and q
worried expression OF countenance. he
is remarkable for several things. First
for being a prince OF rebels, and after
wards one of the most marked If recon
structionists. He carried message from
JEFF. Davis to the czar of Russia in 1861,
that amounted to nothing whatever, and
he pronounced a eulogy upon Charles
Sumner at the time of his death, which
was among the most memorable and
eloquent tributes ever paid by q man
of the south to the antsgonistic qualities
of a northern stateman.
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
a Retreat for Inebriates.

Rev. Edward Everett Hale made an
interesting contribution to the temper
ance discussion before the state Total
Abstinence society at Boston, in plan
which he says has been more or less on
his mind for thirty years, for the colonial
ton of poor men who wish to break from
the liquor habit, but have not made
themselves liable to confinement in the
reformatory schools. Men o. means
sometimes move for time to temperance
towns and remain there till the moral
strength is restored, and Mr.. Hale's plan
is to secure this retreat for poor men by q
system of labor contracts for two or three
years, similar to the enlistment in the
army or navy. Some island, like Peni-
kese or Cuttyhuhk, in Buzzard's bay,
could be secured and cheap dwellings
built, with small allOtments of land to
each, and with large farms, shoe shops,
or other industries. The class OF men for
whom it is intended, Mr.. Hale thinks,
would Jump at the offer to be hired with
their families for two years OF three. 1t
is just what they and their wives pray
for, and with comfortable houses and
gardens, food without rum and society
without temptation, the men would, be-
ore their contracts expired, be new men
fn body and ambition, and perhaps be
able to buy their little homes and remain
in them.
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14

average of IO5 bushels to the acre. The
field was allowed to lie in clover for one
year without pasture. The large growth
of clover WIS then turned under and $50
bushels of lime to the acre applied. The
ground was then cultivated and narrowed
twice and the corn put in with planter
on the I'd and 81 of May. After the
crop was up, the cultivator was again
called into use, and afterwards, at the
proper intervals during the season, the
plows were run through it three times,
aud the corn harvested measured 2,79O
bushels of shelled corn. So much for
green manuring.
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
FARM AND HOME.
Horse reed.

Every good groom Knews that sound
oats and beans, in good proportion, and
at least year old, are the very best food
for 2 gallopiug horse-the only food in
which it is possible to get the very best
condition out of a race horse or hunter
1t also has recently become known that
horses do slow work and get fat, indeed
too fat. on maize Indian corn, which is
frequently one third cheaper than the
best oats. In the east horses are fed on
VI barley, ard it is a popular idea with
English officers who have lived in Persia
and Syria that the change of food from
barley to oats often, when imported,
produces blindness in Arabian horses.
Now, although no men understand better
or as well how 10 get blood horses into
galloping condition as the English
greOms, they do not, nor do their masters
know the reason why oats and beans are
the best food for putting muscular flesh
on horse. The agricultural chemist
steps in here, makes the matter very
plain, and shows that If YOU want pace.
Indian corn, although nOminally cheaper,
IL not cheap at all. When we feed a
bullock, sheep, or a pig lor sale, we
want to make it fat as quickly and as
cheaPly as possible; but with horse for
work the object is to give him muscle
IN common language, hard flesh. There
are times when il is profitable to make
horse fat, as, for instance, when he is
going up for sale. For this purpose an
addition of about pound and half OF
oil cake to his ordinary food has a good
effect. It is especially useful when a
horse that has been closely clipped or
singed is in low condition. 1t helps on
the change TO the new coat by making
him fat. A horse in low condition
changes his coat very closely.
When from any cause there is difficulty
IN getting a supply of the best oats, an
excellent mixture may be made of
crushed maize and beans, and the pro-
portion of two-thirds Of maize and one of
beans, which exactly afford the pEspor-
tions of fesh-forming and fat-foEning
food. Bran is very valuable food IN a
stable for reducing the infammatory
effect of oats and beans. Made into
mushes, it has a cooling and laxative eff
ect; but used in excess, and especially
dry state, it is apt to form stony Sc
cretions in the bowels of the horse.
Stones, produced from the excessive use
os bran, have been taken out of horses
after death, weighing many pounds
London Lire Stock.
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
THE GUEST.

-, ,bs great worlds rush and din,
Tbere came guest
,,.AaSTner court he entered IN,
And sat at Ies'-
e,,,v on the wild tide of affairs
S'g ghe yates were closed
.ta- me hungry host Of cares
At last rePOseu'
Then through the din doors oi the pa'''
Al ngrs Of blame,
Al an Povih PPoyish memories floating fast
HIS mothers hSlhe'
a.hi all this loud world calls the hest,
Ia TS issI III her hand, on her dear breast
To lean my head.
,.fcrv within the crowned day
mat would be Joy,
Could she but bear me far away
once more htr boy"
-. strength is weakness, after all
MAJ IN. stood confess
he SITE ,',,Gte can stlil the hearts wild call,
Non5 u1ite are blessed.
tba fee that knows no fear
sbade swept fast,
~ following angel near
That moment passed.
,se sacred silence Of the room
Bl1a15er Ba TgSn' gre within the gloom
0f her, Of heT
10 the great worlds rush and din
,,.ssitie IA blame the praise men win
are his-not rest.
~ o,,t amid the ca tbs tmm' lis
strong man standF.
frabsld in triumph aud in toi ;
b, uuseen taads-
Rat who may lift Siih subtle wand
Tba masks We wear
r.aiv know bis mothers hand
Il on his hair.
t..lv know through all lifes harms,
Tlr ugh sin alloy,
son,now, somewhe-e that mothers arms
MIL re ch her boy.
Mary CGeHtiFer AH,cS
The Hickman courier., 1877-12-14
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