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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-05
A Hint About Weeds,

In harvesting Indian corn and wheat we cut
them long before the grain-the seeds ripe
When the grain in either Is fully formed, the
stalks are cut; experience has shown that the
ripening process goes on; the stalks contain
sufficient nutriment to perfect the grams, and
it does this after the plant is cut away from
the root Indeed, the grain thus treated, often
comes to greater perfection than If the plant
were left until the seed is fully ripe. What
takes place with these crop plants, also occurs
with weeds Many weeds, if cut up while in
flower, still have nutrlment enough in their
stems and leaves, to perfect and ripen crop
OF seeds. 1t therefore happens that the mere
cutting up of weeds, and leaving them TO dry
upon the ground, does little towards their ex.
termination. The common purslane,-"puss.
ley"-for example, has remarkable vitality,
its very suCculent stems will remain alive for
weeks, and even continue to grow after they
have been deprived of the root 1t is one
thing to cut up weeds with the hoe; it Is
equally important, and it should always be
done in gardens, to gather up the weeds by
the use of the rake and carry them to brush
heap, where they will ultimately be burned
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AS Ottawa pretends to be and Is IN fact
through her unrivaled facilities, rival of
Pittsburgh IN glass making, the following in
dicatng the extent Of glass making in that
city, taken from the Glassware and Pottery
Journal, will be interesting here:
To-day there are seventy five glass factories
IN this region, twenty. four devoted to the man.
ufacture of table ware, twenty four engaged in
the manufacture of window glass eight in
which flint bottles are made, ten exclusively
engaged in the manufacture of green glass
bottles, and nine which produce Chinneys.
These factories are owned by bity-nine firms.
The capital invested in them amounts to So
0S5,000 They give employment to GAP OPP
eratlvcs and the value OF the annual product
IN 1881 was $G,S32 GS3.
The glass chimney factories may be cited
as illustrating the enterprise of our people.
The growth Of these, which was very rapid,
may be traced directly to the development of
petroleum in Pennsylvania. They furnish
employment to $50 hands, and the chief items
of consumption will give some idea of the ma
terial required to operate them. They con.
sumo annually $50 tons of pearl ash, 500 tons
of lead, GAO tons of soda ash, and 3G4O tons OF
sand All the flint glass chimneys In the
COuHIl, anu CO pei Ntht' VI 'shSi
kind of Chlmneys are made III Pittsburgh;
the aggregate number made here exceeds 40, :
100000 annually.
The factories devoted TO the manufacture OF
the finer and more elegant products Crystal
glass; give employment to 1850 hands, con.
sumo annually $500 tons of soda ash, 800 tons
OF nitrate OF soda, and $4,000 tons Of sand.
The product OF these factories Is no. surpassed
IN elegance of design or beauty IN the United
States. They are found in every city, town
and hamlet IN the country.
The extent of the window glass trade OF
Pittsburgh may be understood when ii is stat
ed that the product oil one Jear required 100000
packages or boxes each of which contained 80
feet OF glass. a quarter of million of houses
are glazed every year with Pittsburgh glass.
The product Of the bottle factories in a sid.
gle year amounted to upwards of $4,000 gross
or 10, 100000 vals and bottles. Fity.nine es-
adjustments are enumerated, manufacturing
window glass, flint or lime glass, green or
bottle glass and pressed ware. Capital invest
ed, $685., 600; hands mployed-ma!es, 4,7.5
females, III; children, both sexes, 1896;
total, 64i2, value Of product during the year,
s. S32 ,GS2; kinds of ware manufactured
pressed flint glass ware, lamps and chlmneys,
walls, bottles, demijOhns, fruit jars TASKS,
druggists ware, etc, and every description OF
glass. Also 1864 boxes window glass OF
80 feet each.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-05

Pears, whether early or late, should never
remain on the tree until they become mellow
Whenever they have made their growth they
should be gathered. 1t Is easy to tell the
proper condition by observing the case with
which the stems parts from the tree. If on
taking hold of a pear and lifting it, the stem
readily breaks away from the spur to which it
is attached, the fruit has received all the
nourlshment 1t can get from the tree, and the
sooner 1t is gathered the better. Pears are
sent TO market in crates and half in barrels
especially fine specimens are sent in shallow
boxes, only deep enough for single layer of
fruit, and each pear Is wrapped IN thin white
paper. Extra specimens of any of the stand
ard kinds, will bring enough more to pay tor
this extra care in packing. The early varle
ties mature quicker after gathering than the
later kinds, but all should reach the market in
firm, hard condition. As with all other
fruit: it will pay to carefully assert
pears. Make three lots, first and second for
market and the third tor keeping at home
for the pigs, if need be, there is positively no
sale for poor pears.-Am. AgriculturaltSt,
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HOUSEHOLD AND SiRM.

BUGs.-The Stale Entomologisi scrd- US The
following circular which no doubt will be OF
value to the farmers of this county, for whose
benefit 1t Is published:
OFFICE OF THE STATE ENToMoIOGIsT,
NORMAL, LII, July 10, 1852.
In order that the work Of this office may be
brought into immediate pracica! relation to
the largest possible number OF those Tor whose
benefit 1t Is specially intended, viz, those
whose crops are exposed to insect
injuries, the undersigned cordially and earn
estly invites direct correspondence from agri-
Culturlsts and hOIticuturists throughout the
state.
All enquiries respecting injurious insects,
and the methods Of limiting or preventing
their injuries, will be answered as promptly
as the circumstances of the case and the re-
sources of the office will permit; but all such
enquiries should be accompanied, if at all
possible. By specimens IF tie insects Themselves
These should usually be killed IN alcohol,
packed IN moist cotton IN a small box and
sent by mail, prepaid at the rate OF one cent
an ounce Caterpllars, grubs, and the like,
may be sent alive, in a tight TN box, with
enough OF their proper food to last until their
arrival.
When the facts developed by such cores
PoiuehSc arc vi Echcial interest anu value, All
abstract Of them will he sent to the local pa
per OF the vicinity OF the enquirer for publ
cation; and If the circumstances seem to call
for 1t, the State Enlomologist or some COM
petent assistant, will, if possible, visit the
locality tOr an investigation on The spot.
1t Is hoped by this means and with the in.
telhgent cooperation Of those most interested
the important facts OF economic entomology
may be brought to bear just when and where
they are most needed.
Information respecting trivial injuries Is as
much to be desired as that concerning graver
ones. That which is trivial this month or
this year may be serious next; and many in
juries which can be prevented il taken in
time are beyond control when they become so
aggravated as to cause alarm.
5. A. Forbes,
State EntOmOl0gist
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Butter IN Creamerles and DIARIES.

A reliance upon uniform quality in butter
enhances Its value and the ability TO purchase
large quantity IN one transaction is of so
much Importance to the jobber that he can
afford to pay several cents pound more than
he could If obliged to pick up the same guam
tity little IN place, and to make separate
bargain for each lot The advantages which
creamerles afford over private diaries are be-
coming more and moro appreciated, and are
steadily causing the latter to be replaced BY
associate manufacture. On these accounts ten
cents pound may be fairly set down as the
difference in commercial value of creamery
and dairy butter, the average quality Of each
being equal. The advantages OF the cream.
cries lie almost wholly in these considerations.
The high degree of perfection which has been
reached in the construction of creamerles tor
private diaries is such that the cost Of making
butter IN diaries Is reduced TO very small
figure With an apparatus that will set the
whole OF one milking ia single vessel and
separate Its cream in twelve to twenty-fOur
hours, the work is so rapidly and easily done
that 1t is query whether the cost of transport.
ing to the factory and the advantages of hav.
ing the skim milk to use on the farm do not
make full offset for all the saving of labor
in manufacturing large masses together. Ex-
perts have become SO numerous that we may
fairly anticipate finding one in every creamery,
but we cannot expect TO find skillful maker
IN every dairy. In this respect the advantage
is on the side of the Creameries in the certain.
ty of results. But with q sklllful dairyman
and well appointed dairy, there is posi-.
billty OF higher quality of butter than the
creamery can turn out.-NationaL Lire Stock
Journal
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Farm for Sale.

The South Half Of Section l. T. 81 NJ rs T. If not sold
by October LIST will be for rent For terms and full par
tculars enquire law Office OF Thomas G. Fullerton. west
siGo Court House. Ottawa H., or of Richard j. Fullerton,
on the premises. Iuy22-tf-s
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Prof. Shelton, OF the Kansas Agricultural
College, sent corn to the Michigan Agricul.
tural College which has been raised there for
three years. 1t went back to Kansas as King
Philip, II comes back well marked with dent.
He says it Is the effect of the climate, and no,
due to crossing with dent corn. DR.. Sturte.
want mentions similar case of an eight.
rowed flint corn, removed and cultivated in
Ohio, became from seven years use closely
allied to gOurd seed, being much dented, and
the number OF rows on the cob had increased
TO twelve and twenty. In Louisiana the con-
tinued cultivation OF soft gourG corn from the
West produced hard fin, corn, with a larger
cob, in twelve years. AT Lansing, Mich,
dent corn has tendency to ripen earlier and
become round at the tip of the kernel from
year to year, unless care is taken by selecting
seed which shows prominent dents in the ends
OF the kernels. In southern Ohio and Indiana
there is not that tendency FOR dent corn to
change TO flint corn--Christida at Work
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-05

The story OF Mrs. Lincoln writing when a
young girl) letter in which she expressed a
TO become the wife OF a presl-
dent, is confirmed by the production Of the
document, now in the possession OF General
Preston, OF Lexington, Ky. 1t was addressed
TO a daughter OF Governor WIckl!iie, and con
tanned playful description OF the gawkyyoung
Lincoln. to whom she was teirothcd. She
SAID But mean 10 make him President Of
the United States al the same You will see
that, as always told YOU, will yet he the
Presidents WIFE
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BanR8.

Exchange on Chicago and New Y DIRK
And all the principal cities east ana ives
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Exchange on England. Ireland Scotland and all In
porant points Continental Europe drawn in 10 suit
purchasers
u. =. Revenue Stamps of all demon sationscon
stantly on hand and for sale.
United States Bonds, Local Securities. Gold and
Silver bought and sold.
Banking hours from "a. NJ to 4P.A.
Jan. II, 1873 G.. l.. LINDLEY, Assist Cashier.
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A World Wants Proof,

The proof of the pudding is the eating there
Of" and not in chewing the string that tied thu
bag. Therefore, take DR.. Jones Red Glove
Tonic. l. cures all blood disorders, torpid liver
sick headache, cOstiveness. and all diseases o
the urinary organs. The best appetizer and toni'
known. Sold by all druggists. Fifty cents pc
bottle a.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-08-05

The Prohibition Party having no organ IN
this county, the FREE TRADER Is willing to
grant them, to n reasonable extent, a hearing
through its columns, though 1t is needless to
say, i, Is very tar from endorsing these utter.
ances, especially such as are given below.
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Apans, .for Sale, Etc.
HO f0l The Red River Valley!

", T. DICKGY. No. 10 Nico.et House Block Mnneapo
lis is prepared TO furnish you with farms in the Valley
from tree claim to 600 acres improved Call write for
All letters enclosing stamp will receive prompt
reply. Investments made W.T.. DlCKEY,
No 10 Nicollet House Block, Minneapolis, MINI.
Ami s, lSSl-ilnos
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FOR SALE.

Valuable Warehouse, Milling and Man
utactuIing Property, in Marseilles, with
water power exceeding 100 horse power.
SHERMAN LELAND,
aprl5-tf Real Estate Agent.
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were made an end Of General Wolseley
has evidently been a careful student in the
school of Won Moltke. He does not en-
ter upon campaign trusting to chance and
the opportunity of the hour. He decides
deliberately upon the plan he will follow,
and then he employs all his energies in
carrying it out, no matter what the enemy
may do to prevent him. He has shown
that his prediction as to the close of the
Egyptian war was no idle boast. He has
kept his word to the day. He has crushed
Arab completely, and he has, moreover,
effected this in the most skillful way, be.
cause with the minimum expenditure of
life. Had he assaulted the intrencbed
camp at Tel-eLkebir in broad day, it is
probable that he would have lost thousands
where he in fact only lost hundreds. His
night march was not an inspiration, how.
ever, but necessary part of his scientific
war-making. And the moral effect of this
swift victory upon the eastern world
will be very great. There is nothing the
Orientals are so soon convinced by as mil.
itary success. This event, therefore, will
assure England peace in Hindustan as well
as In Egypt, and in all probability it will
prove the death. blow to that Moham.
medan uprising the premonitions of which
have rendered Europe SO uneasy during the
past two years.
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GENERAL woLsELEY's PREDICTION Full.
FILLED

Perhaps the most remarkabl fulfillment
of prediction to be found in history has
just occurred. Two months ago General
Wolseley arranged the plan Of his Egyptian
campaign. He then predicted. first that
Arab Pasha would fight at Tel-el. K .bir /;
second, that this would be the climax of
the campaign third, that the campaign
and the war would be ended by the 18th
September. Yesterday was the 18th Sep
TENDER, and yesterday General Wolseley
telegraphed to his Government "The
''war is ended. Arab has surrendered un-
condisionally, with ten thousand men. :,
This is certainly very wonderful illustra-
ton, not of rash and blind guesswork, but
OF military prescience. combination and
genius. For it proves conclusively that
General Wolseley had so thoroughly
worked out in his own mind every possible
combination on the board that he was sure
of his ability to do what il fact he has
done, and that every step of his prepare
lions was taken with distinct and pur-
poseful motive, each movement being part
of a pre.arranged scheme, of which every
detail has been carried out. 1t has been
said that in war it is the unexpected
which happens, but that is evidently not
true of war scientifically made. 1t was
never the unexpected which happened in
the war between Germany and France, SO
far as the Germans were concerned.
They made war precisely as they might
have conducted a scientific expedi.
ton. Every contingency had been
provided for. Every conceivable event
had been made allowance for. And
the result was that their progress was like
that of ? great machine, which automatic
ally surrounded and inclased the French
armies. pressing them all in towards the
common center at Sedan, where they
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that the temptation to use poison may be
made very great, among half-civilized peo-
pie, it the drug employed be sufficiently
disguised. Thekla Popov is said to have
possessed the prescription for q poison
which like the aqua Tophana had neither
taste, color nor emell, and which could be
made to operate slowly or quickly. 1t is
fortunate that in the United States the
subsection of women has virtually ceased
to exist, and that they are in effect the
dominant race. Being thus relieved from
all sense of suppression and humiliation
they are less likely to be tempted to form
societies for the more speedy extinction of
the genus husband, and may probably be
induced to permit those humble but
useful appendages to the household
to live out their lives, unas-
sailed by any exhibitions more lethal
than the insidious and deadly dry goods
bill, and the subtle poison OF the milliner's
account. As to the condition of society in
which it is possible for wholesale husband
poisoning to flourish, attention may be
called to the somewhat remarkable circum.
stance that there do not appear to be any
Woman Suffrage organizations, or societies
of the Sorosis species, in Hungary.
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SHORT AND LONG DISTANCES

IL is pity that the anti-railrogd Jour.
nalists and speakers do not take the trou-
BILE to inform themselves concerning the
elementary principles of transportation.
If they did they would not SO often waste
their powder. Thus, for instance, we find
able editors attempting TO make capital
out OF the statement that the railroad
sometimes charges more for shorter than
for longer distances. Inasmuch as this
question has been discussed and expounded
in every railroad report ever issued in this
or any other State, it might reasonably have
been expected that journalists and politicians
would understand something about it by
this time. 1t is, however, quite apparent
that they do not. No doubt the railroads
do charge more for shorter than for longer
distances. But the reason of this consti-
tutes complete justification of the prac.
tice. Competition determines the rates
between terminal points, as rule. The
railroads are compelled to put terminal
rates at Che lowest possible figure, because
this competition exists. But stations
short of the terminal points are not affected
by the terminal mpetition, and the rates
70 and from them are what may be called
the natural rates. The actual fact, there
fore, is not that the people who travel
from and to these way stations are
unduly charged; but that the people
who travel between terminal points
obtain the benefit of terminal COM
petition. The difference is mainly
dependent upon geographical phenomena,
and it is beyond the control of railroads.
It would be absurd to say that they are
bound to adjust the rates along a whole
line by the terminal rates. They cannot be
under any obligation to give to those whose
location deprives them Of the benefits of
competition, precisely the same advantages
as are enjoyed by terminal travellers.
Dozens of Railroad Commissioners have
thoughtthat they had discovered aniDstance
of unjust discrimination in this difference
of rates between shorter and longer dis
tsnces, but all of them have been com.
PEELED in the end to recant their crude
opinions, and to acknowledge that the sys-
tenn was not unjust. In fact it is an illus
tration of that form of reasonable ard
necessary discrimination which Messrs.
Stoneman and Doyle in their report as
Railroad Commissioners admitted the ex-
istence of, and it cannot be done away
with unless the Legislature can invent
some patent method OF putting an inland
point on the same basis, as regards trans
portation facilities, with terminal city on
the seaside or by the banks of nayiga-
| hle river
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TILoEa's DEATH ssNrERcE

It seems that for some occult reason
Mr.. Tilden is once more sentenced to death
by the New York newspapers. This
event has occurred with tolerable regularity
once a year or so for the last ten years.
Why it should be thought necessary 10
kill the old gentleman off two years be.
fore the National Conventions meet again,
we do not exactly understand. No man,
however, has ever survived SO many at
tacks of softening of the brain, SO many
strokes of paralysis, so many fits of APO
plexy and palsy and epilepsy, as Mr.. TIL
den. He has been knocking double-knocks
a. Deaths door for years together, and
when he has not been occupied in diving
he has been trotting about on horseback.
or extending a generous hospitality to a
bouseful of company. In truth he is a
marvellous old gentleman, and what the
New York papers will do without him we
are Of loss TO conjecture. This time.
however, they seem determined that he
shall go, and they have almost gone go far
as TO name the day, in imitation, we pre-.
sume, OF General Wolseley.
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A Vain hsDsayuR.

The Republican stump speakers are
making desperate effort TO pull the wool
over the eyes Of the public on the Sunday
plank in their platform. But they are
obliged to confne themselves to glittering
generalities, and dare not invite analysis
of the resolution. There is in the latter
but one definite pledge. All the rest is
mere wind. This pledge commits the
party to the maintenance of the existing
Sunday laws, or similar ones. Similar
ones of course means laws precisely like
the existing ones. And inasmuch as the
existing Sunday laws are VIGOROUSLY inef-
fective and futile, it evidently follows that
the Republican party is pledged solely and
simply to the maintenance of vain and
inefficient Sunday legislation. The pre-.
amble OF the resolution is bosh. All the
talk about the poor mans rest day is I'M
connected with any guarantee or pledge.
1t is political "taffy," and nothing else.
When We look for a pledge we can find
nothing but what we have described, and
that is not worth having. Between the
Democrats and the Republicans on this
question there ia a distinction without
difference. Both are equally against the
protection of the Sunday holiday. Both
Conventions were equally afraid to risk
the displeasure OF the liquor interest. II
this is a situation which contents the al
legged advocates of temperance and civil.
lied Sunday, well and good. But if it is
sufficient for them they may as well pu.
off the preteuse that they have ever been
in earnest in their demands, and for all
the good they are likely to do they might
as well disband.
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present unable to act independently, and
Bismarck is on the side of England, while
France has committed herself to an osten.
tatiously pacific foreign policy. ALI things
considered there seems no valid reason
why MIR. Gladstone may not settle the
Egyptian question to suit himself, and GER
tainly he will not be under any sort of OBJ.
legation to admit France upon equal terms
to the next Egyptian control scheme.
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TIE WEEKLY UNION.

This morning the second part of the WEEKLY UNION
isssued. The first part appeared on Wednesday Each
contains Sc columns of matter, and nearly all of it
is reading matter and news accounts. The WEEKLY
UNION by this double issue goes out to its readers
with fresh news aud otener than is possible to the
old style OF weekly paper. II has the fullest tee-
graphic news State and coast news the most re-
liable msrkst reports the ablest editorials, the
fairest book reviews, the latest religious art scen-
tifc and fashion notes. and is the only paper that
has complete and specially edited agricultural de.
partment under the control of skilled practical
asriculturlst. The WEEKLY UNION is mailed to any
address one year, postage paid, for 50 20.