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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
irtesian Wells.

The Chicago 7ribunes Texas correspondent
gives the following account of the artesian
wells Of Fort Worth
There are twenty-one now in this city, four
teen of which are flowing from 100 to 900
barrels Of water per day-which is conveyed
to all parts of the city in water-tanks and
wagons, and delivered at 10 cents per barrel
to customers. One peculiarly about this wa
ter, it neither stagnates nor becomes lnspld
even IN the warmest weather, but retains Its
purity no matter how long 1t may be lei,
standing: so thoroughly is it filtered through
the pure white sand that not particle OF I'm
purity remains. 1t washes even better than
raln.water, if possible and leaves the skin sot
and clear. 1t opens the pores, and lets of i'm
purities in the system through their natural
channels, so that typhoid today has ceased tc
exist among those who constantly use the wa
ter Many of the old ailments and complaints
common to the people here have in measure
disappeared; and this artesian water Is unani
mously recommended by the "medicine-men'
who have analysed it as q restorative OF tht
enfeebled and sick to health. When tea /:
made from 1t, if it Uhe tea is impure or bogu:
stuff, with which the market IS flooded, i
makes it beautiful clear red, and remind!
one in ITS color OF the old sassatras, and looks
very palatabe and enticlng; but, as soon a.
tasted it is found to have no flavor at ALL anC
is in fact lnsipid; but pure genuine tea IS no
affected. The temperature of this water is Z
degrees Fair, and is not affected by the ex
tremes OF heat or cold where 1t flows from
wells Our winter Cistcrn and best well waite
! is from Gj to GS degrees Fair.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
From the Louisville Courier.Jcu

From the Louisville CourerJournh'
Concerning the new southern industriai sch
saton, the Clement attachment, tne A''an'"
CORES pondent of the Philadelphia Tunes says
"The mills are very simple 1t Is simply
the connection of GIN with Spihule ny
means Of carding cylinders. In the "ld sys-
tenn the fibre is chopped and torn from 'hc
seed by nghtninglke saws and thea lhro"h
all tangled and torn into the lint plie, theh
uaCkcd INTO bales taken 10 the factories, pick
ed out and troggled again and then carried m
TO roll, and spun. In The ncw process the gun
moves slower, pulls the fibre from the SEGA IN
i. stead OF tearing or cutting IT. transfers H.
carefully to a cardlng cylinder instead "I
throwing it into the lint pile, ana SPINS IL a.
once instead Of packing it, COMPRISING IT ana
Iuckiag il cut again. In the process OF con
yer;ing seed cotton into thread, no less than four
machines used IN the old process are chmina-
ted in the new process, and u profit OF nearly
two cents IA pound is gained. This Is an cnor-
nous margin of profit 1t is proved also that
by the superior gins used in the Clement mn
eight per cent. more oi lint Is taken from the
seed than 10y the old rims. This eight per
cent has heretofore been wasted. From the
Int to the thread there is another five per cent
of wa3tagc saved. The Juror over these mills
is wonderful They drive cut ali thoughts OF
politics II Is estimated that over one hundred
Will be put 10 WORK III georgia WIlhLH thC
next year. \ prominent cotton factory man
predicted to me that the time would come
when the old factories would scatter their
spindlcs among these plantation mills and
supply their place with looms to weave the
warns sent in from the farms The profits OF
these mills are large percentage. The SIN
mills in operation average from thirty to sixty
per cent \ mill that costs $1,000 has made
| 81 500 clear IN one year, and it will do better
next year A double mall that cost $4,000 Is
making from S. to $40 a day and Is safe for
$4,000 year They are simple, snug little
structures looking like the ordinary country
grlst mills. 4 slX-horsc power will run one
Of them. Several northern capitalists have
visited the mills ana several companies are
beng formed to put them up
The beauty of this process (Which is the in,
vcntion of Memphis man is, that bale OF
cotton thus treated is worth 500 against the
| hfty-dollar value Of the old ginned bale and
the whole cotton crop thus treated Will be
worth S500,000000 to the South instead OF
| half that amount.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
Treading in the Wine-Press.

In tue VINEYARDS near Us the girls mounted
on ladders and clipped the rich punches, drop
ping them into baskets. The way these girls
DISPLAYED their brown ankles might shock
people on Your side of the water, But bless
YOU there Is no evil in the eye here. with In
dustriOus workers. one day Is enough to clear
an average vineyard. When the grapes are
all gathered in, they are carefully picked from
the stems for the pressing. This last process
is the same primitive simple operation that
was performed by the patriarch Noah. The
grapes are thrown into an enormous vat, where
the Juice is trampcd out of them by the bare
feet OF the peasants At this stage Of the vim
tage YOU may see hundreds of the young la
dies of the city OF Perugia coming forth In
groups in the early morning, beamlng with
pleasant mystery and excitement Your ordl-
nary tourist, whose only intelligence and IN
structiye pabulum is gathered from guide
books has not the remuteSt conception OF their
object lie may think they are OUT for an
early constitutional. But early constitutions
are not the rage with Italian ladies. Shall /
tell YOU the secret Of all that mystery and eX-
cItenent: They are OF to the country to tread
IN the wine. expresses. Ii is a novel holiday Tor
them. besides being a most salutary exercise
Even prim old dowagers are known to wade
in and Danish the rheumatism by hall day
exercise in the wine press Apart from the
Ihealihful exercise of trsmpling the new must
acts as a bath to the limbs, while the uprising
fumes are considered eminently stomachic
After the treadlng performance these ladies
wash themselves in hot wine, taking moder-
ate detection internally for the stonachs sake
The effect Is pleasant and rejuyenatlng, and Is
especially noticeable in the vim with winch
they participate in the dance which Is the usu
al sequel To treading in the inepress.-Sdn
| Francisco Chronicle, Italidn Letter.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10

A meeting Of cane. growers was held fort
night ago in st. Louis, The RepuJlicdH thus
sums up the result OF the meeting:
The samples of sugar and syrup, made by
farmers, exhibited at the meeting were Ger.
tainly creditabe rs a beginning. The sugar
was llshtbrown and OF even color and
though not as coarse grained rs new Louisiana
sugar, had "A fine flavor, and will answer all
the purposes of ordinary raw sugar 1t was
stated that the Objectionable tinenesS at grain
can be easily overcome, as, in the evaporation,
the CRYSTALS can be made large or small at
pleasure. The syrup was dark-colored, but
free from the raw, green taste urged against
sorghum syrup "A few years ago, and quite as
palatable as the average Louisiana molasscs
There were reports of successful syrup and
isugar.making from Missouri, Illinois, Iowa,
Minnesota Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Wlscon
sin, Utah, Texas and New York, the product
varying 100 to 200 gallons sprup per acre
One of the delegates Mr., Leonard from Iowa,
| planted one acre OF the red-t0p variety and cut
from 1t % l.2 tons of cane which yielded 26O
gallons of dense syrup, equal 10 1900 pounds
of sugar. 1t seems that ordinary Indian corn
possesses nearly as much saCCharine us sor.
ghum Experiments showed that when
planted in drills three and half feet apart
and cut when i'll tassel 1t yielded 10 to 10
pounds of sugar To the square rod, which Is
at the rate of 1900 to 24O0 pounds per acre.
1t was estimated that good merchanIable raw
sugar can be made at II cost of - cents a
pound. These AIRED very important facts, for
they seem to reveal the practicability of every
farmer making his own sugar and syrup and
some to sell with very little trouble. The
cane is easily cultivated, and the only process
in sugar-makIng that requires care and cX-
periencc is the boiling and cooperating. But
Inf the business comes IL be general, rs 1t
promises TO, necessity will lead 10 the estab-
| iishment of ncighborhood sugarhouscs, at
which the juice boiled down to semrsyrup
condition can be sold and converted INTO SUI
gar. The whole subject Is yet in u crude
state, and it will require continued expert
ments in the selection and cutting Of cane,
and in the manufacturing process To reduce 1t
to periection but the facts already known
entite the matter To the earnest attention OF
agricultural colleges and the favor of the
! legislatures.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10

Under date Nov Il, a correspondent writes
from Wiltshire to the London Standard: "FOr
forty years | have particularly noticed the sea
son for wheat plenty, and | cannot remember
one so favorable for the anticipation of boun'
uful crop next harvest as the present, because
the soil has been so thoroughly cooled down
by the incessant rain and cool atmosphere thai
the seed will be much longer than usual IN
coming up, which is always most favorable
sign, more especially if we should have dry
March and May"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10

The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Co
has declared Its usual 2ll5 per cent quarterly
dividend, payable Feb l. The earnings OF
this road during the first week in December
increased $4,000, and during the second
$4,000.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10
4 New Kind of Watch Cae.

New because only within the last few years that mas
.eep and brought within the reach OF every one
old in principle because first invention was made ana
the first patent taken nearly twenty years ago. and
made a that time and since are nearly A. GOOD
as new Read the following which is only case OF many
hundreds Your jeweler can tell of similar ones;
MANSFIELD, Pa, May 18th, lsS.
have customer who has carried Of Boees faunt
Cases fifteen and knew two years before he got H.
and it now appears good for ten years longer.
r. T. OLNEY. Jewcler.
Remember Jas Besss is the only Patent Case made OF
two plates Of solid gold outside and one insdc cover
ing every part exposed sight The great aVan
tsye OF these solid plates elecrogdng apparent to
every one the only patent Case with when he
Is given a written warrant,
see tbs, you get the guarantee with each case ask your
Jeuesr for illustrated Catalogue.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10

CHINA y * COOK. Attorneys Mt Law. once.
VI Rooms and ArmOry Woods) Block, Ottawa, Iii
unls decS
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NJ II. SIOLONE. Attorney and Counselor al
VA. Law. NOfs Block, La saG street, Ottawa, Ills.
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II r. TRAIN or, Attorney at Law. ONCE over
~. Osnau lapcmans Book store OTTAWA, Ill. declS
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~ NIoDOuCi IL, Successor TO Cameron II Nc
~. DuUgulD Attorney and Counselor at Law. Office In
Glover a Cooks Bloch, Ottawa Ill. Also United states
Commissioner dec2'16
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VI bush y III IL, Attorney AT Law Ottawa, H.
w VIII practice IN any of the courts IN this state
paid collections ConNcyNnces carefully
male ana abstracts prepared with care, &c Notary public
,icc west OF Court House. jamie
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EFORCiE Nj. LEI "A MD, Attorney and ConA.
" Law. and solicitor In fhsncOry once IN lhe
Opcra House Blcck Ia sale ST. rn0Nacc. maylSl6
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EDWIN 2. LELAND HIRAM T. GILBERT
| Ella y - * CrlIIISlGk'r. Attorneys al Law.
IL OiiCe In Opera House Block, ottawa. Ill Junl4,'9
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p Y 8 C A N 8

J. G. uATHRwAY. GEoReE T. VANCE
nRsS. ii a TIL tw Ar * V "A y Ck, Phya
~ clans Surgeons Ottawa III. OHics southwest cor
ner OF Main Ia Sale streets Dr. Hsthsways RESIDENCE
east river, school house DR. Vaa9e VIII be
fouud In office, day and night. janll
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u +. LINCOLN, Attorney at law Office oveI
ID. No 10 La sale street, west side II the Court Hoas2
Ottawa III. JuySiiS .
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rEORCiH. -. FL 4DtEDG H., Attorney at Law
VI ONCE in Opera uOusc Block Ottawa, III april
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professional UarDs.
a r o n " e Y 8 4.

CHARLR- II, BhUsH. LOhESIp LKLASD JR
DRII SH * LEI ~ y -, Attorneys at law -
ID Posi- ONCE Block, Ottawa, Illinois. jsnS.9
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nR. II. NJ. NIcARTiiUFt, OTTAWA, H. once
IL in the Opera House Block open from o'clock N.
u o'clock Residence Benton street, south OF III
nois kycnup jan22~76
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mr. II. CA NIPFIELD, Physician and Sur
~ geon. Opera Hosse Block, Ottawa, N. marV
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DR. NJ. IENDr.R Homeopathic Physician, OF
~ tawa H. Offers his services TO the friends OF the ~
pahic system ottawa in all branches of his prohss
sion Particular attention give. he treatment OF women
and children Office in Glover Cooks Block. feol6
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-01-10

The Chicago Tri6une's Texas correspondent
gives the following account OF the artesian
wells of Fort Worth:
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19
American Olive Oil.

We notice in the Mining and Scien-
tifc Press formula for making olive
oil on small scale, as produced III Cali
fornia, comparing this with description
in the Pharnidceutische Hdndels6taH
of the manufacture of olive oil In south.
ern France. In California they grind
the olives before pressure. This appears
to be an error; they should be crushed
between two stones turning against each
other vertically. We can quite under
stand that crushing leads to quite differ
ent results from grinding In cider-pro-
ducing counties in England apples are
prepared for cider in the same manner as
the French prepare their olives, by grind
ing them under revolving stones. Cider
thus prepared will keep for years, and
improves with age, some say, on account
of an essential oil pressed from the ap-
ple pips. In America cider is made
from crushed or chopped apples, and
possesses neither the flavor or the keep
ing properties Of that produced in Devon
shire or Herefordshire, England. There
is another point which may be important
on the "Rhone.' The oil, when filtered
is stored in stone vessels. On the Pacih'
/ they use tin cases.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19
A TODSy Turyy Tree.

To gather crop of apples from the
roots instead of the limbs Of tree would
seem to encourage hope OF the possible
in gathering "grapes of thorns or figs of
thistle" yet John Meiners, of the town
of Wauwatosa, is the owner Of an apple
tree the roots of which now present evi-
dences of an abundant yield this season.
While driving into the gentleman's
premises, off Grand Avenue, yesterday,
in company with Engineer Teller, the
attention of reporter for the Sentinel
was attracted by novel sight at the first
turn in the carriage way. There inside
the residence enclosure, on level with
the top OF the fence pickets, is circle of
the greenest of leaves, about thirty-six
feet i'll diameter and as flat as a floor
"Thats rare sight, replied Teller,
when the reporter questioned him in re-
gard TO it, 81 am of the opinion that it
is the only tree of the kind in this or any
other country
"a tree?" queried the reporter.
"Yes that is an apple tree. Twelve
years ago Mr.. Meiners planted several as
an experiment, and that is the only speci-
men he cared to keep He uprooted sew
eral saplings, cut them foot or two
above the roots, and replanted them by
sticking the cut end in the ground and
making the roots serve as branches.
Nature seemed to humor the distiller's
whim. The saplings took root and the
roots above grew as limbs. The trunks
are stunted by this process, as you will
observe. Meiners found that the low
limbs covered too large an area and was
obliged to reduce the number Of his
| trees.
An odd sight presented itself when the
reporter stopped to view the shady side
of the large flat of foliage and fruit Mr..
Meiners' children had built circular ia
bic about the trunk and placed their toys
upon it. The distance from the ground
to the limbs shooting ont at right angles
with that trunk is about four feet. The
limbs are now proppcd up at their outer
extremes to keep them from swapping
under the weight of fruit they bear. Mr..
Meiners takes pride in exhibiting this
rare tree to all visitors to his grounds and
it certainly is deserving of the attention
OF the curious in such matters Nil.
Wdukee Sentinel.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19
The Making Of Memories.

These present days, which we are in.
clined to think SO vaguely modern, will
be the "good old times" when tie
young people whom we daily meet shall
be men and women; it is our fashions
of dress and speech which they will re.
member for their quaintness and ours
is not only the possibility but the abso-
lutte certainty of being made the repre-
sentative, in years to come, in some
ones mind, of the spirit and character
of time that is past. We know how
unwittingly men and women used to i'm
press and influence u.s. Instead, there
fore, of passing these memories lightly
by, or thinking that they are wholly a
thing of private Importance and con-
cern, we should make them constant
reminder of our own duty in the line Of
influence. We can never tell the long
and ever multiplying mischief which we
may work by some wickedness or care
lessness of speech or action--something
forgotten by us as soon as done, but
treasured up in little heart as pos
session for lifetime. And, on the
other hand. we should be far more anx
ious to multiply our wise words and our
kindly acts, If we realized more fully
how long they may survive in places
where we never think of looking for
them. The memory OF q single kindly
deed, or word, or look, quickly forgotten
by us, may be the one thing by which
some person shall longest remember us,
and by which he shall be chiefly in
tluenced, 50 far as any act Of ours is con-
cerned.
The making Of memories is not q
thing in which we are responsible to
childhood alone. SO long as the mental
faculties endure, of all those persons
with whom we have to do, they are
treasuring up permanent records of the
whole course of our words and ways.
Neither our good deeds nor our bad
ones die with their performance, nor
does their effect end with us. What
right have we, in great things or small,
to curse mems years to come by adding
to their burden the memory of our
wicked act or our hateful or improper
word? We are responsible for the mem
ores winch men, WOMEN anu clllluren
have of us and our belongings; and this
responsibility includes not only the non
performance Of bad deeds, but the do
ing of good ones. Day by day and min
ute by minute We are making memories
which can never change hereafter. Ii
there anything more bitter than the
thought that our own evil memories Of
ourselves are, through our fault, shared
by others? And is there anything
sweeter than the thought that the treas.
ured remembrance of kind acts and fiji
words is lasting memorial of ourselves,
which we can increase every day of oul
lives How we are to be remembered
is question whose answer-at least sc
far as the rest of our lives are concerned
is in our own hand.-Samday Times
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19
Stone Mountain.

Dark, grim and uncompromising Stone
Mountain stands, IL, 600 feet above far
reaching fields of pink and white cotton
blooms and yellowing grain that smiles
at our genial Southern sun. Bleak and
barren you would call it in mid-winte1
with its clumps of ghastly- armed trees,
interspersed now and then with cedars;
n Jingle with icicles, or an occasional
bright green holly with frosted berries,
all clinging helplessl ly to its bold pcrpcn-
dicular sides. You would call it desolate
if you had never seen it when enchanted;
when covered with ice the mountain
spirits burn their mystic fires, that rising
up meet an answering sun CLEAN, and
the whole mountain side is one blaze of
Jewels on q silver background.
"Far of the dim and misty morn
Began TO quicken to the sum-
When my friend and | equipped in sub
stantial shoes, palm leaf fans and silver
mounted seven-shooter, should danger
befall set merrily out.
We reached the top at length and stood
looking around us, as utterly alone as the
eagles that build their eerie nests on its
concave north side Far away to the
right Kennesaw Mountain lifted its dim
| blue head, and to the northwest the lofty
peaks of the Blue Ridge pointed heaven
ward.
"Fdciis descensus Auerni," Virgi
! tells us, but the descent to the "Devil'
Cross Roads" we found exceedingly diff
cult, but by means of impromptu alpen
stalks and sliding down points where We
could not keep our footing we reached OF
the east side small cave. STOPPING We
crawled in; it wideneG and deepenec
into fissure in the once solid granite ex
tending more than q hundred feet il
depth and width. At its widest point i
is crossed at right angles by another iis
sure of like proportion. 1t was damp
dark and dungeon-like, and though tn,
walls were of white granite we preferred
craw-fishing to remaining so near TIN
Devils Cross Roads"
We ran, slipped and crawled down th'
remainder of the eastern side, where dry
pine straw facilitated the sliding move
ment and rendered dangerous our rather
reckless running Taking the Whit
beaten road around the picturesque, ut
terly barren north side, the guide pointed
out the different points of interest. Tha
shelving rock, towering so many hundred
feet above us, is called Lovers Leap
Tradition has it that the pale faces, IL
trying to capture red skin, Powantona
mo, 80 hemmed him up that either cap
tivity or death OH the rocks below wa
open TO him, and he loved his liberty 81
well that he leaped from that ledge, AM
his freed spirit continued its way on tn
trail to the happy hunting ground.
We reached home in the dewy after
glow of an amber sunset, with woefull
worn Shoes, and seven-shooter minu
never q cartridge. e.--Stone Aountai
(Ga.) Letter.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-08-19

cost of raising tobacco in Buncombe and
adjoining counties is about six cents per
pound.
A STATE officer is preparing a table
showing the financial condition OF every
county in South Carolina. So far twenty
five counties have reported, and their
aggregate Indebtedness, bonded and
floating, amounts to 81, 1877, 435.G5. In
cluded in these twenty-five counties are
the counties of Horny, Laurens, Lexing-
ton and Anderson, not one OF which can
be said to owe dollar.
LITTLE Rock Ga.ctte, The colored
people who recently prayed for rain are
nowpetitioningfora "let up Whilethe
colored people of our section prayed for
rain at nightly prayer-meetinSs, those Of
another neighborhood prayed for sun
shine. The minister of the wet district
sent the following note to the dry: "You
folks oughter be ashamed OF yourselves.
This cross-cut prayin' is enough to get
he Lord 80 bothered that he don't know
what to do. "
Two NOTED colored preachers APP
peared, by invitation, in n church al
Montgomery OH Sunday, each having
prepared to deliver an elaborate sermon
Neither would yield the other prece.
dence, and the result was they finally
had regular "knock-down and drag
ont fight" over the matter. The congre
CATION looked on in partial wonder ant
amusement, and let the two preacher
fight each other until they were exhausted
Then the congregation dispersed and left
the two combatants alone. They were
tried before magistrate the next day
and held in bonds of $500 each to keep
the peace.