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The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Why do Maher Bros. sell so many ladies' and
children's shoes? Because they sell the Cass
shoe, it is the best made and everybody that has
bought them will come again. Sold only by Ma.
her Eros
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

A line of telephones is being erected for the
canal Offices from Lockport to La Sallc-a
much needed improvement.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

California pears, peaches, apples, tomatoes
plums, huckleberrles, blackbernes, &C.. &c.
cheap, at Walther's.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

The rains of the week have been more sever
to the north Of Ottawa than here; and by Thurs
day Fox river had risen several inches.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

The moonlight picnic set for Tuesday night
took place on Wedn esday at Starved Rock Some
II or IA couples were present dancing being the
order Of the evening.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Subscriptions received for al the principal
newspapers and periodicals in the United States
at Osman & Hapeman's.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
go Years.

Twenty years experience in puttiag up pre-.
scriptons. FORBES & LoRR1AUx.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

FINE STNTIoNERY.-A large assortment OF fine
stationery, regret and visiting cards St 0sman d
HapenaE's.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

The Fitzgerald Band have elected Harry Ham
mond drum major, and sent to New York for
two new Instruments cornet and trombone, OF
the Besson pattern, made at Paris.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
The celebrated Eagle Automatic Pencil for sale
at Osman II Hapeman's
The Assessment,

The abstracts of the assessment being com
pleted, few figures from the mass may be Of
interest. For example, here is the
GRAND SUMMARY.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

new stock Of fine bound books, suitable for
wedding and other present. just received at Os-
man d Hapeman's,
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Singing smarting, irritation of the urinary
passages, diseased discharges, cured by Buchu.
paiba. Druggists. Depot, Max Kneuss.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Remember, always, that the place in Ottawa
to buy d,y gooiS Of every description, including
carpets, is at LynchS.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Look! look out for something new st Walther':
on Saturday.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
LOCAL MATTERS
MASONIC.

Regular communications Of Occidental Lodge No 10 A
r. NJ, first and third Mondays Of each month Solo
kins, J; W; H. c. Nash Treas A N; % Hoffman Sec
NJ. frst and third Wednesdays Of each month, VIM. l.
Milgan, p; Samuel j. Chapman X Justus Harris, s.
Henry c. Nash, Treas A. NJ. Hoffman, Sec.
Regular Conclaves of Ottawa Commandery No. 10 K T.
second and fourth Thursdays OF each month c. d. Trim
BILE E. c.; r. NJ. Macarthur. GeneralissimO: +. H. Smith
Capt Genr; H. C. Nash, Treas. A. Hoffman. Recorder.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
OTTAWA, ILL.,, SATURDAY, JULY 16. 1884,


New invoices of goods we're received yesterday
and will be opened to-day at HULL's. Among
the lot are
Black and white ginghams very nice;
New black and white Spanish and French
laces,
New ribbons,
New collars,
And many other choice goods.
Call and see them.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

The Tile Works began shipping bGildins Tile
to Chicago this week.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
Read Our Guarantee Study Our Compass.

WE are the OLDEST ONE PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE STATE No
Salesman allowed to deviate any
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Walther went to Chicago Thursday to buy {
carload OF the finest fruits, berries and candles
Remember TO go to Walther's for it.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
Tarr,ble Loss of Life.

Millions of rats, mice, bed. bugs, reaches, lose
their lives by collision with "Rough on Rats"
Sold by druggists, 15c. Depot, Max Kneussl
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
Ice cream and ices

Ice cream and ices
For families,
For parties,
For festivals,
For dances,
For picnics,
always a No. |, at Walther's large Gdld fine Ice
creamery. Leave your orders.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

| Lemon ice and chocolate, vanilla, strawberry
and lemon ice cream, at Walthers.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Ed johnson, of Streator, was hurt on Sunday
By t..s bursting Of an emory wheel.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16
DON'T Forget IL.

We sell dry goods, and lots of them, too, no.
tions and hosiery in endless variety OF both En-
glish, German and French looms.
MAuER RROs
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Soda, mead and lemonade the best and coolest
at Wather's
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Prang's birthday cards, new and original de-
signs, at Osman Il Hapeman's.
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

Barney Warner, o! La Sale, was deposited
here for safe-keeping, charged with obtaining
goods under false pretenses. He came upon
Tue sda;
The Ottawa free trader., 1881-07-16

County Court and Clerk-walther's Block Madisoa 81
Recorder. Exchange Building. opposite Clifton.
Circuit Court and Clerk-NOrth end of Court ST., dow
stairs.
Sbe,f1 nm stoirs
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31

1t is said the beef-eater hat is re-
vived.
Plain black silks have gone out of
fashion.
There is a great rage for feather trim
mings.
Swan s-down is used as trimming for
evening dresses.
The demand for English seal-brown
plush exceeds the supply.
White surah silk has replaced white
repped silk for evening costumes.
The latest slippers are made of black
velvet, with cut-steel buckles.
Long kid gloves are worn in success
i've bars of embroidery all up the arm.
Fur" plush, used for trimming
cloaks, is as costly and handsome as fur
itself.
fashionable novelties for evening
dresses.
The long gloves that are worn without
buttons have crowded the bracelets up
above the elbow.
Costumes are made with lamberquin
effects. Cords and tassels loop up rich
brocadcs over lace llounces.
Ladies wear costumes of red-red
red boots and red silk mittens.
Tulle is again in vogue tor evening
dresses. 1t is charming for young
ladies, and is combined with white
satin.
Garlands of real violets between two
frills of white lace are worn, going down
from the neck to the waist.
Caps for evening wear are made very
Il loo ,D1,I Il
crown. They are fastened to the hair
by large-headed gold pins.
An exquisite lambrequin is made of
antique blue silk serge, embroidered
with a spray of wild roses and trimmed
with very dark blue band of plush.
French dressmakers substitute a
shirred satin yoke, pointed at the back
and in front, for the plainness of the
round waist used by American dress
makers.
Silk handkerchiefs are worn this sea-
son folded corner-wise and tied behind,
the point being either tucked into the
bosom of the dress or held by lace pin.
Terra-cotta and china plaques have
small clocks fitted in their centers with
plaster of Paris, while the borders are
painted in wreaths of flowers, vines, etc.
The prettiest shoes are made of little
bars across the feet, each bar having a
little buckle in the center Under these
bars peep forth the embroidered silken
stocking.
The prettiest love of bonnet is made
of gold-colored plush, on the top OF
which ia q snow white dove, with its
wings half-opened and one little rosy
foot in full view,
Slippers are very elaborate, and one
of the new fanciesis to have them edged
all around with row OF beads. If the
slippers are black, jet beads are used
] if white. pearl beads. .--Andresos' BazGr,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31

When we read in the press dispatch
es from London that the thermometer
(Fahrenheit) marked there from two to
five degrees above zero, we said to our
selves, THAT is not very severe. We
have had it considerably colder this
winter in New York" And so we have
by the mercury; but we have not by
feeling. Those who have passed an
exceptionally cold winter in England
will not be apt to forget it. There is
probably no city in anything like the
same latitude where one feels the cold
as in London. The extreme humidity
of the climate is one great cause, and
another is the absence generally of fur
naces and steam pipes, or of any of our
elaborate means of keeping warm.
The English think, and with justice,
that we overhead our Offices. counting
rooms and dwellings, and we think,
with equal justice, that they underheat
their p aces of business and residence.
A medium between the two would be
both comfortable and wholesome.
When our TRANSATLANTIC kinsmon expe-
rience such weather as they have had
this winter. they are willing to admit
the inadequacy of their heating appa-
IutuS. iucy sHhcf HuucH anu muT-
muringly; they declare that we
are sending them our winters to
counterbalance the many luxuries
of our expectation. The extraordinary
cold OF 1880-8l has evoked an extra.
ordinary number of growls from oui
growing cousins over the sea, and has
seriously interfered with their outdoor
pleasuring. Nor is it strange. Wher
the mercury is at thirty-two degrees in
Loudon, it seems almost as severe al
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
PUyGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The weather this winter is such that
we continually wish for change and
the moment change comes we regret
the change Detroit Free Press.
-PIety, to be effective must be
coupled with industry. A big loafer
has no right to pray . Give us this day
our daily bread" when he will not
strike lick of work to help his mother
earn it.-NelO Orleans PicdyU71e.
-. VIII ycu have your oysters seal
loped?" asked a Galveston waiter of a
green customer from the interior.
I" Have the oysters scalped? No, but
you kin scalp the butter. if you want to.
1t needs it the worst kind. ."-GGlCcSton
Neacs. ~ F,
a terrible story comes from Phila-
ielphia A young lady of that city
smeared her lips with glue and then al
lowed laggard lover to kiss her. The
old man came in at the ri ght time. They
are now engaged-Chicago Tribune.
-. Not one American woman in twen-
ty-five can walk five miles, SAYS an En-
glish physician. See here, Doc, you
Just show an American woman a street
five miles long with bonnet stores every
ten rods and see if she can't walk the
whole distance.-B0st0n Post.
To the man who works in factory
his pay day comes once a month; but
the man who works at ditching has his
spade dav oftener than that.-Mar0thOn
Lsdependem. Hoe! Hoe! Fork conscience
sake shove long this nun and don't har-
row up our feelings in this way Yasc-
cob Strauss.
Mr.. O'Raferty," said the Calves
ton Recorder, '' the witnesses all say
you kicked this gentleman and called
him all manner of vile Names -
don tknow what happened, your Honor.
Ii did that l am very sorry indade. y
''Yes you ought to regret it very
much" "I do, indade. It's only wild
me own family that l take such iber-
ties, and if have been train such an
ill-favored scoundrel as if he was a
member of me own family I'll regret it
to the last day of me life, | will. .''-Ga!-
vestO1s NeTs.
Fashion notes by the Boston Butte
IN: - Coupons are not cut by us this
this year. Railroads have long trains
and trimmed with rich dividends.
Checks are very fashionable the first
week in January. Stripes are much
worn at Sing Sing and Concord. Fig
ures are much sought after; 100000 is
very pretty one. Dots viii come in
again with the flies. Undressed kid
will be used for children's bathing suits
next summer. Birds are used for bon
nets and the bills are very large. Night
dresses with good nap are the best
Old gold is still put in stockings. Thin,
fiat pocketbooks are in style since
Christmas and New Year"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
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The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31

when the mercury is at zero here, not
only for the reasons already named, but
from the unaccustomedness OF the peo-
pie to meteoric extremes. The ther-
mometer at thirty degrees below freez-
ing, as it has been very lately, is enough
to CONCEAL the marrow in the average
Briton's bones. A good deal of the
ordinary social machinery of the bic
town on the Thames has been deranged
by the downward course of the ther-
mOmeter this season. The places OF
amusement have, as a rule, been Sc
poorly attended that not few man
ayers have lost money. Many trades
men have done, and are still doing, a
very slender business, and any number
of Englishmen who usua IL stay at home
have gone off to Southern Italy, to
Span, Algeria. Malta. Greece and
E. pit in search of the winter sunbeams
denied them in their own foggy, cloudy,
geld island. An American writes from
London that he has never passed so
dreary a winter as the present one. and
contrasts with regret the accounts he
receives of the activity and gayety OF
New York.--N \. Times.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31

The time has almost come again
when ''the little busy bugs" will open
up their summer campaign, and dispute
with the ''lords OF creation :" for pos
session of the "fruits of the earth.'
Allow me thus early to call attention to
an article, the merits OF which every
body knows, but which many dare not
use--I refer to carbolic acid. Pre-
pared as indicated, it cannot, | think,
hurt the most delicate house plants,
and it is sure to kill insect life.
My plan of preparing is as follows:
obtain crude carbolic acid; | use it in
this form because it is stronger and
better for the purpose, and costs but
very little (abOut twenty-five cents per
gallon, think). pour quantity of
this dark crude acid into a quantity of
good strong domestic soft soap; stir
well together, and allow to stand for a
few hours. l then test the compound
by mixing little of it with soft water.
If too much acid has been added, oily
particles of carbolic acid will be OBJ
served floating on the surface. This
shows that more acid has been put in
than the soap will incorporate or cut,
and more soap should be added to
balance the excess of acid. No more
definite rule can be given, as so much
depends on the strength of the soap.
Two or three tablespoonfuls of the
acid to a quart of soap may first be
tried. l prefer to make as strong
with acid as the soap will
perfectly cut. A very little prac-
tice will enable anv one to com.
pound it correctly. The refined acid
may be used when the crude is not at
hand. When prepared as above make
moderately strong suds, and apply
with syringe or sponge. In using on
very delicate plants, should any fear be
felt for the plants, they can be rinsed
off after few minutes. My first and
eminently successful use of this COM
pound was some years since, on block
of young cherry trees, some fifty thou
sand in number. The black aphis came
down like the wolf on the fold, only
they came not as single spies, but in
whole battalions. 1t soon became an
interesting question as to who was the
proprietor of this particular block of
trees myself or the "bug Ethiopian. !"
A disinterested observer of judicial
turn of mind, Judging from the general
appearance of things and the very lat
home" air assumed by the bugs, would
have said they had the best case. He
would, at least. have been compelled to
admit they had nine points of the law
| (possess ion) in their favor. | never
saw the like before. The trees were
alive with aphis. The only scarce
things on the trees were the leaves.
there being hardly enough to afford
standing room for all the dusky guests.
| However, not being u convert to the
doctrine Of squatter sovereignty, / de-
clared war, and falling to decrease the
number by ordinary means, com.
pounded soft soap and carbolic acid, and
with a single application exterminated
the enemy.-T z. s. in Gardener 4
Monthly ....i.....s.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
Gold Bonds.

What is q government gold bond?
1t is a pledge signed and sealed by
the Treasurer of the United States on
behalf OF the people of the United
States.
1t pledges the people to back their
federal government in paying the prin-
cipal and interest of every gold bond.
TO pay in gold.
Two thousand million dollars more
or less are outstanding, as national
debt, against the American people GER
tilted by gold bonds.
On this national debt the people
are taxed to pay an average interest
Of five per cent.
Five million dollars interest in gold
are a hundred millions. Twenty
times that amonnt gold interest on our
debt Of two thousand millions.
So the people are taxed yearly one
hundred millions of dollars to pay in
terest on gold bonds.
Fifty millions of souls comprise the
population of these United States.
Therefore every man, woman and
child in the United States is assessed
two dollars year to pay the interest
ON gold bonds.
Each at the plough, the loom or
the anvil, every miner, mechanic, Ia
borer-everybody in the world-male
and female is assessed two dollars
per annum to pay interest on gold
bonds.
This tax il, of course, in addition to
all tolls levied for the support of ma
tional government, State governments
town and city governments, army and
navy, Indian annuities and soldiers
pensions.
Think of this? Just reflect upon
it.
But at present we are considering
only the two dollar yearly tax on every
soul of Us to pay the interest of gold
bonds.
Where are those gold bonds?
Who receives the interest on themi
They are in the hands of less thar
two hundred thousand bond-holders
who draw incomes from them in tn,
shape of gold interest.
w. III. Vanderbilt is reputed t.
hold fifty million dollars in gold bonds
and to draw aud average interest o
one quarter million dollars in golC
from them.
So, we are advised, that 200, ,00t
persons in these United States draw
income for their support from take
of two dollars each assessed on ever,
man, woman and child of nearly fift.
millions vf people.
Fifty millions of people are assessec
to pay an income in gold interest o
s25O,000 to VIM. ii. Vanderbilt
the millionaire.
This is financial TODD enough FL
one weeks digestion. Let our read
ers "chew the cud' of it in sobe
rumination,
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
Enemies OF Spiders

The well-known naturalist. the Rev.
Fl. f. McCook, of Philadelphia, has been
talking TO the Academy of that city on
spiders, which he designated as the
most benevolent of insects. Among the
principal enemies of the spider he emu
merated many of those hymenopterous
or four winged flies, the bees, wasps,
ETC., which produce flesh eating grubs.
Large numbers of spiders are used by
these species as food. The nest of one
of these forms was exhibited, built of
clay in such manner as to resemble
the pipes of Pan. When opened, these
nests were found filed with spiders of
different species. They were all para
lyzed by the fly, but not killed, and in
this state of suspended animation they
remain until the Matching out of the
grubs, which eagerly devour them one
after the other The unfortunate cap
tives lie limp in the jaws of the grubs,
showing no sign of sensation and max
ing no resistance. Other flies, and
among these may be included the COM
mon black house fly, prey upon spiders
by destroying the cocoons or by suck
ing the contents of their eggs when
they happen to be uncovered or only
slightly protected. The eggs are also
devoured in large numbers by birds.
Some species of birds assist in prevent
ing the spread of spiders by making use
of their webs, especially the thicker
portion used in the construction of CO.
coons, to build their nests. A bird s
nest was exhibited composed of this
material in such quantity as to indicate
the destruction of great many webs.
Those hymenopterous insects which de-
posit their eggs in the cocoons of the
spiders are, however, their most de-
structive enemies. When the grubs are
Matched they attack the eggs and young
of their hosts and consume them as
food, until sufficiently developed to OBJ
tain their nourishment.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-31
Noble Traders.

1T is well known that many French
noblemen do not hesitate to sell wines
Of famous vintage, and make hand
some profit by the transaction. They
practice other methods of money-get-
ting which are not so aristocratic. There
was one Duke, q millionaire q dozen
times over, who sold his game, the poor,
thrifty man, as eagerly as though he had
been simple poacher, and retailed the
fruit of his country seat at St. Cloud
like kitchen gardener of the Plain of
Genneviliers. He also sent to market
baptized milk-he was pious man, the
noble Duke-furnished by his two COWS.
Another grand seigneur, Marquis,
drives thriving business in loaning out
silver-plate for weddings and dinner
parties in town. 1t is the family plate
which he puts to this use, and the pieces
ornamented with his coat-of-arms graces
the tables of title-worshiping common
ers. There is also a Baron who is the
I" inventor and propagator of the matri-
monial profession" Do you want
wife, not too mature, not too sentiment
tai? Address, in all confidence, any of
the branches of the house, Paris, Lon
don or Vienna. Deposit one hundred
francs or one thousand francs, accord
ing to circumstances, plus commission
of five per cent. on the lady's dot.
Once in while the house has to sue de-
inquent patrons; usually, however, the
excellent Baron gets his fee, as his
splendid chateau at St. Cloud testi-
fies. He has rivals, though, In the
persons of certain Marquises, Count
esses and Baronesses, who are trying to
draw away trade from him by cutting
under his rates; they are satisfied with
a deposit of fifty francs or even of twen-
ty-five francs, and charge commission
of only three per cent. on the dot.
Then there is a noble Countess who
leases small houses and furnishes them
for the accommodation of English and
American travellers, making a hand
some profit thereby. Note that the
Countess is very rich, and that her hus-
band gives her an allowance for her
toilet that would comfortably support
an entire family. Three of the most
elegant and distinguished ladies of
Paris, whose names are constantly re-
curing in the society news of the jour
mails, have formed company of the
most original kind, and keep shop, their
confidential agent doing duty as shop
man. They furnish the wares-noth-
ing else than their cast-off dresses and
toilet knick-knacks of which they have
become tired. 1t is said that these
ladies are doing a capital business, and
that sometimes, in the intimacy of the
boudoir, they graciously exhibit their
account books for the inspection of par
tioular friends. The book of heraldry
includes the names of many pretty
traders like these.-PdriS Letter.