The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-07-28
August Publications.
>cribner's.

>crbners.
The promise made a month ago by The pup
fishers 10 produce for August stunning mid.
summer holiday number of Scrlbner's Is fully
redeemed. Both IN point of matter and il.
lustration it is opuleht beyond any preceding
number. The illustrations accompany most
notably papers on North American Grouse,
by Chas f. Whitehead; on Canadian sports,
by DR.. Beers; Babes IN the Woods, by Mrs.
Hoyt; A Railroad in the Clouds, by Maj,
Montgomery; The Old Boston Road, by T..
S. Nadal, Strawberries, by John Burroughs;
&c. The grouse article is especially well
prepared and is quite comprehensive, not on
ly embracing our acquaintance oil the east
ern woods and mountains and the Jersey fats,
but the prairie chickens of the west, in refer.
ence to which the following pleasant picture
Will bring to mind what hundreds of our
readers have doubtless often seen with their
own eyes. 1t sIay be headed A Grouse
Dance"
One autumn day, watching for ducks while
ensconced on musk.rat house in the great
Mendoza marsh, which extends back many
miles from the Mississippi River opposite
Clinton, | noticed some objects moving on
the summit of a knoll. BY careful watching
discovered they were prairie.fowl, and,
moved by curiosity, carefully approached
them AS drew near ! discovered fifteen
prairie.towl apparently dancing minuet
They were scattered about on the short turf,
twenty yards apart, noddng their heads at
np opn,har and wDpll
out and perform the figure which in coun.
try dance is known as "cross over and back
to places" all the while utterlng soft note
of "coo-cooe, the last syallabe being much
elongated. Then would follow "salue your
partners" and "d0S dos" THIS scene Of
merrlment was sustained for half an hour ard
until shot from neighboring gun caused
the birds TO run into the tall cover of the
reeds The bright sunshine of autumn and
the conspicuous group OF native birds i'm
pressed the scene vlvidly on the spectators
mind. A neighboring farmer 10 whom the
circumstance was mentioned, sand
Yes, them same birds skye around there
mostly every day"
The other varieties of prairie grouse in
dulge In the same kind of amusement
Among so much that is pleasing in the mum.
Der nothing will give more delight both on
account of It's illustrations and simple beau.
ty, than the story of German peasant life by
Berthold Auerbach, entitled Adam and Eve at
the Agricultural FAIR. Musicians will be de.
lighted with an article by Clara Louisa Kel.
logg, who discovers strange music in the or
dinarily hideous clang OF japanese band
and those looking for shorter stories can kill
half hour very pleasantly over Smethurst
SEES, or Swart among the Buckeyes; or Moses
and Aaron.
Most of the poetry is quite choice, contrib.
utcd by such well known poets as ID. 5. Eos.
ter, Bayard Taylor, Celia Thaxter, r. II. Stod
dard, &c.
A new serial-lIis Inheriance-is com.
menced by Miss traitor, and the end of DR..
Hollands Nicholas Miniturn is promised in
October In the present chapters the philos-
opher OF the story suggests the following plan
for dealing with a question which is daily
becoming more urgent for solution-How
to Deal with Pauperism:
al would like to see every charitable or
ganization existing in this city, including my
own enterprise, swept out of existence. |
would like To see established IN their place q
single organization whose grand purpose it
is to work radical cure OF paupersm. lwould
like To see the city government, which is d.
rectly responsible for more than half the pau
perism we have, united in administration
with the chosen representatives of the beney.
olence of the city, in the working out OF this
grand cure. | would like To see the city d.
yided into districts so small that one man can
hold IN each, not only registry of every fam
ily living in il, but obtain and preserve q
knowledge of each familys circumstances
and character. would have a labcr.bureau
in every district, in connection with this local
superIntendenrs office | would have the
record of every man and woman even more
complete than any that has ever been made
by your mercantile agencies. | would have
such vagrancy rs we find illustrated by the
tramps and dead beats who swarm about the
city, sufficient crime for condemnation 10
hard labor in prisons and factories built for
that purpose. / would make beggary on the
street misdemeahor punishable by impris
onment. would have every helpless person
understand where help IN emergencies can
always be had by a representation of facts,
subject TO immediate and competent examIn.
alton. | would see the matter so arranged
that premium would be put upon the truth,
and ban upon falsehood. Temperance and
intemperance should always be considera.
tons in dealing with the poor. There is no
limit TO the benefits which such an organlza
tion as this would have the power TO inaug
urate and perpetuG;e, and, gentlemen, yerl-
ly believe that under It's intelligent and faith
full administration we could Danish beggsrs
from the streets, introduce new era of pros
perity and virtue ameng ali the suffering
poor, and save ourselves forever from the ter
ribIe pauperization that curses and almost
Kills The cities of The old -Ynrldn