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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
Unshod Farm Horses.

Several years ago articles favOring this
practice appeared IN your paper, and the
writer was induced thereby with some doubts
and many fears 1t must be confessed, to try
the experiment. II has been 80 satisfactory
that he will never have his horses shod again
except for special purposes, on ice or snow
The following taken from an eastern journal
confirms the view. Shoelng farm horses is
not only an injury to them and the farmer
might Just as we'll have iron shoes nailed &c
his own feet for all the good they are TO q
horse. A correspondent states that he was IN
duced to pull the shoes Oft working horse
some years ago, and adds:
81 turned him out to grass for about a
month and then put HIM to work, lightly al
first and | must confess, with fear and
trembling; bat after trial was 80 pleased
with the result that took the shoes Oft my
other two horses and have worked them with
out shoes ever since, now about three years
find them TO work better, more suretooted
and far less liable to lameness than when shod
and I am we'll satisfied that horses feet as
nature made them are all sufficient tor ordl
nary work, and, believe, tor extraordinary
work After my long experience should
now as soon think Of going to farrler my
self to be shod as to send my horses for thai
purpose!
"What surprised me most was that one OF
my horses was continually falling lame and
we never could discover the cause, but since
she has been worked without shoes she has
never shown the least symptom of lamenes:
and never stumbled, which she did very much
when shod, from which infer that the pairing
of the soes when shOeing made her feet very
tender and was the cause of all the trouble
Our roads are rough hilly ana stony, mucl
more so than the average roads, so that my
success cannot be attributed to superiority IL
this respect.
Euuestrians would find it far safer to ust
horses without shoes, as the sole becomes Sc
hard as to be non-sensltive to small stones anc
the ANIMALS are thus far less liable to stumble
To prevent the hoofs from chipping the toe:
should be kept slightly rounded by coarse
file, such as IS used by farrlers, and as the fee
should always be looked to when the horse Ii
groomed, the time required to do this is very
trtling-C0r. Prairie Farmer.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
Banks.

Exchange on Chicago and New York
And all the principal cities east ana
BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Exchange England. Ireland. Scotland and all In
porant peins Continental Europe drawn 10 sui
purchasers
u. s. Revenue Siam ps Of oh demon Nations con
stanty on hand and for SALE
United States Bonds, Local Securities, Gold ant
Silver bought and sold
Banking hours from "a. NJ. to4P.M.
Jan. IL, 1873 G. l. LINDLEY. Assist. Cashier.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
Humor OF the Tariff.

Sunset Cox said in recent speech on the
present tariff: THE little girl cannot play
with her doll, nor the boy whiz his top, nor
the mother wash her offspring with SOAP ex.
cept at an expense of from onethird to one
half their cost for the domestic privilege. II
the mother gives her child castor OIL she
pours down 14S per cent. ad valorem; II the
child does not enjoy the dose, there Is 20
per cent. bowl as the recipient OF the contents
of its tender stomach. And though she wash
it with inter and take to it much soap, yet the
inioulty is marked before me-, saith the Lord
for the soap is taxed 40 per centum! God help
the child If she wraps the little dear In a
plain bleached cotton night shirt, Is has
nightmare of 81 cents per square yard spe
citic; when the child awakens in the morning
fretfui, she combs its little head at 30 cents al
vaorem; if she would amuse II she rolls II
over on a Brussels carpet at 30 cents pei
square yard, or gives it confectionery made OF
refined sugar at cents pound tax, and "a
per cent. ad valorem; If 1t tears its little pan
ties the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr
Kelly sews them up with spool thread taxed
at three.fourths of its value. Why, if she used
a single to bring the little 'toddling wee
thing to its senses, as the honorable gentle
man can recall, the cost would he enhanced
ct the rate of II per cent. taxation. II the
youngster has patriotic inclination on the
4th of July, his fire.crackers are taxed as a
patriotic luxury at 81 extra a box, and the
bunting which furnishes the flag, though but
90 cents pound, costs 121 per cent. extra
while the band plays on instruments taxed at
80 cents. She takes him to the menagerie 10
study natural history. There is the zebra
symbolic of mixed ad valorem and specific
and the stately giraffe, high protection; the
royal tiger and unicorn OF holy writ at go per
cent. And the procession of elephants! True
Jumbo, for the purposes not to be mentioned,
is excluded by the affidavit of consistent
pro,ectlonist; but the big chain that holds
his huge legs binds the monster in protective
CHAINS
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24

A good article that has achieved success, and
attained world wide reputation by its true mer-
its and wonderful results, is always initiated.
Such is tie case with DR.. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Already
unprncipled parties are endeavoring to delude
an unsuspecting public, by offering Limitations
of this most fortunate discovery. Do not be de-
ceived, but insist on having the true remedy
and take no other. For sale by E. Y. Griggs,
Ottawa W
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
HOUSEHOLD AND FARM.

The practice of thinning potato vines to Two
stalks IN the hill, when they exceed that mum.
ber has been annual with correspondent OF
the american Cultirdtor, and his father before
him tor fifty years. This is done at hoeing
time, the surerfuous (weakesD stalks being
treated as weeds The effect is, as may he
supposed, an increase of large, handsome tu'
bers. The object of cutting seed to single
eyes IS IN part to prevent overcoming and
competition of stalks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
Rucklen's Arnica Salve.

The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises,
sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter,
chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin
eruptions, and positively cures piles. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money re-
funded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by g..
Gehring.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
BA1chELDER'S
Ventilated Egg Case.
Patented February Is, 1881.
Indispensable to Merchants, Ship.
DerS and Producers.

The outside frame Of this contains 1--WE trays hcl:
in place by fasteners In cut These trays are con
In reversible halves. The above cut shows ont
whole tray Allied ready 10 be placed in each egg Tts
Its cardboard socket In such manner M to he rcad
counted Canded transferred from tray TO tray or cast
to case without rehandling.
For cold storage this Will store GO Dozen with rack
receive the half trays, hence this II the cheapes
storage case manufactured saving largely In space go
The of holding the end prevents Oscia
ton adding breakagc and adds greatly to their fresh
when carried long IN storage.
Size Of 30 dozen No. cases 25xl2SlI weighs ~ pounds
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24

PRICES IN CHICAGO.
shippers No l. 80 doz Case, with fers complete Is cents
Cnrdhnard Filprs for renling DCents
Is per cent discount on lots Of 100 cases.
BatChedes Egg Tester testing dozen AZ once saves "a
buyers many times It's each season. Price. t3UJ.
Iy special arrangements made by the manufacturers O
this case most Railroads will receive thela Ms fourth class
freight .
The Is dozen case made especially for Farmers use sent
10 any address By express without mailing with iu dec
runs setting up receipt of ~ cents Every Farmer
and consumer should have OF these cases II VIII save
s cost every month Agents wanted In every county Ad
dress, AUTHORITARIAN
81 South Water St, Chicago.
On ordering mention this paper.) lan2S6mos
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
Decline of Man,

Nervous Weakness, Dyspepsia, !mpoteney,
Sexual Debility, cured by WELLS Health Re-
newer" 81. Depot, ". Kneussl.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24

ton to their line, regarded it tavorably, and
concluded to aid it, but on learning that the
charter gave the control of its revenues into
the hands of the state, they suddenly reversed
their decision, and abandoned the project
Not one dollar could be raised east of Chicago,
and once more failure stared these friends
of railroad enterprise in the face, but they
went before the legislature again, aud urged
the demands of the country Tor increased rail-
road facilities, and the charter was, without
formidable opposition, amended to read:
THE board of directors shall have full power
TO establish such rates of toll for the convey
ance of persons and property upon the same,
as they shall from time 10 time by their laws
determine, and to levy and collect the same
for the use OF said company. The width Of
track, the transportation of persons and pro-
perry, and all other matters and things sha
be IN conformity to such rules and regulations
as the said board OF directors shall from time
to time determine
| The amended charter being satisfactory to
those of whom aid was sought in the East,
they at once proceeded TO give the infant enter.
prise such material aid as insured Its success,
and gave to the people of that part of the atate
one of the best railroads 10 be found IN Amerl-
ca today more thoroughly understood, or
more deliberate contract was never entered
into between mortal men than was this one,
between the people of the state of Illinois OF
the one part and these individuals OF the
other.
Nothing was more evident than the utter
failure of the enterprise and its abandonment,
but for the aid secured by virtue Of the solemn
promise referred to on the part OF the state.
Here these individuals said to the state, I'VE
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-06-24
PIMPLES.

will mail (free) the recipe for simple Negetab BILE
Balm that will remove Tan, E'reclS les. PIN pies
and iotche leaving the skin soft clear and beautiful;
also Instructions for producing nxurisnt growth Of hair
bald head smooth face Address, inclosng &c STAN p
Bon Nandelf * Co, u Barclay ST.. n. Y.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19

A perpleXing question often arises
under the patent laws: Suppose
workman in the employ of some large
establishment inventS valuable i'm
provement in the machinery or pro-
cesses does the patent belong to him
or his employers? They always say
that they were paying him for his time,
and are entitled to whatever he ac-
complishes. He argues that inventing
is a matter quite outside the duties for
which he was hired. For example, a
plow manufacturing company in In
diana employed superintendent
Of their business, and he, during
his engagement, took out a patent
for improvements he made in the
plows they were selling. They sued
him, claiming that lie should transfer
the patent to them, for they said they
were led to engage him by his assur-
once that he had large experience in
making and selling plows and devising
Improvements, and that he would de
vote his time and services to manufac-
turing and perfecting their plows;
also, that theimprOvementt that he had
patented was made partly by aid of
suggestions from other employees and
with employees belonging to the COM
pany. The judge said that these facts
were not enough to make out their
case. Persons are not deprived of the
right to the inventions they make while
in the service of others, unless they
have been hired and paid to exercise
their inventive faculties for their EN-.
ployers. A contract for the time,
labor and skill of the employe in man,
ufacturing and selling does not give
the employer the right to an improve
ment which the employe invents. If
in this case the superintendent was ma
terially aided by suggestions from
other persons, he was not sole inventor,
and perhaps his coadjutors were en-
titled to share in the patent, but the
fact would not give the employer a
right to it.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
HEALTH HINTS.

The remedy for overwork is rest.
AS far as one violates law he wastes
power.
Good nutritive vigor is the founda-
ton of good health.
Men and women insult God by
abusing their bodies.
Hundreds of women die annually for
want of change of labor or change of
scene.
Rapid consumption of the vital
forces means early decay and prema-
ture death.
TO cure stammering DR.. Foote's
Health Monthly advises the stammerer
to read aloud one hour every other day
with the teeth closed.
If people will live twice as fast as
they ought, if they will perform as
much labor in one day as ought to be
done in two, nothing will save them
from the natural consequence, which is
to die twice as soon as they otherwise
would.
Farmhouses may be. and ought to
be, better located than city residences.
Low sites, where the house drains are
sluggish, the fogs frequent, the air
stagnant, and the ef1luvia from the out
buildings confined, should always be
avoided. Next in Importance to loca-
ton is cleanliness in the surroundings
of the farmhouse
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
WISE WORDS.

Be silent and safe; silence never
betrays you
Every man desires to live long but
no man would be old.
The man who never excites envy
never excites admiration.
Present evils always seem greater
than those that never come.
Some men cannot stand prosperity.
Others never get chance to try.
An evil-speaker differs from an
.evil-doer only in the want of oppor
tunity.
Never let your zeal outrun your
charity; the former is but human, the
latter is divine.
Those days are lost in which we do
no good. Those worse than lost in
which we do evil.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it
not, for it will not spare you; it is
your murderer and the murderer OF
the whole world Use it, therefore, as
a murderer should be used; kill it be-
fore it kills you.
The conditions of success are these:
First, work; second, concentration;
third, fitness. Labor is the genius
which changes the ugliness of the
world into beauty; that turns the
greatest curse into a blessing.
Nothing is so contagious as enthu-
siasm it is the real allegory of the
lutte of Orpheus; it moves stones; 1T
charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the
genius of sincerity, and truth accom-
plishes no victories without it.
Kind words are bright flowers of
earthly existence: use them, and
especially around the fireside circle.
They are the jewels beyond price, and
| powerful to heal the wounded heart
and make the weighed-down spirit
! glad.
When misfortunes happen to such
as dissent from us in matters Of
religion, we call them judgments I;
when to those of our own sect, we call
them trials when to persons neither
way distinguished, we are content to
attribute them to the settled course of
| things,
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
The Worlds Population.

Drs. Benin and Wagner have re-
Gently issued new edition of their
well-known collection of statistics
ode Bevolkerung der Erde." 1t is
just two years since the former edition
was issued, and during the interval
nearly all the leading countries of the
world have been numbering their peo-
pie. To such an extent has this been
the case that the editors of the work
have virtually had to recast it.
The "Bevolkerung processes to
survey the area and population of all
the countries of the world with their
subdivisions. In the present issue the
population of China is discussed in
detail. The conclusion is that it has
been greatly over-estimated, and in
stead of population of 34,500,000
(including Corea) as given in last
issue, they reduce it now to 379,50O,00
The population of Africa is still set
down at 200,000000, although with
hesitation. Meanwhile DR.. Rohlfs
maintains that an estimate of 100000
600 is quite enough for that continent.
A census has been taken, since the
issue of the last edition, in Greece,
Denmark, the United States, Finland,
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Aus
tria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Great Britain
and dependencies, France and Italy.
Where the complete results have not
been obtainable. the authors of the
"Bevolkerung" have secured the pre-
liminary figures. According, therefore,
to the latest data, the following are
the areas and populations of the vari-
Gus continents, with the number of in
habitants per kilometer. ( A kilometer
is about fiYe-eighths of mile):
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
How to Become a Contortionist.

The st. Louis Chronicle says Jesse,
one of the three "Les Encaoyables
brothers, now playing at Pope's with
the Kiralfys, was interrogated last
night as to the system of training
through which man must go in order
to do first-class contortion act. The
reader will no doubt be surprised to
hear that no rubbing of the joints with
buzzard's grease or sleeping between
oiled blankets is necessary, and that
genuine ease and proficiency can
be acquired only by long practice.
Mr.. Jesse, who is now in his
twenty-eighth year, has had twenty
two years practice, having been
apprenticed to John Wilson, we'll
known circus man of California, at the
age of six years. AT the time he began
to learn he was only an ordinary boy,
not at all remarkable either for strength
or agility. When the four years Of the
apprenticeship had expired he was pro-
nounced fair contortionist and offered
good salary by Wilson. At this
time he was able to do "easy kicking"
and by continuing the exercise has been
able to acquire astonishing powers.
The contortionist, he says, is never al
lowed to do any heavy lifting or jump
ing, because such exercise contracts and
stiffens the joints.
"To be able to tickle your ear with
your toe," said he, "you have only to
take about two hours practice daily
for four or five years, and it is best to
begin early" The boy who begins to
learn is put through every exercise
that will make the joints timber with
out creating muscle. One of the first
things he is made to do is to take the
foot in hand, lift it up, and pull the
leg toward the body. When this has
been done daily for ten years he be-
comes fair contortionist, and to sue
ceed after the business is learned a
man must keep sober. Whisky and
beer stiffen the joints. 1t is also
held to be bad idea to eat pea
nuts and other indigestible food. In
the. third act of the "Black Crook, "
where the three performers named
appear, most of what is done is called
"easy kicking g"-that is, kicking over
heads. Hard kicking" consists in
throwing the leg along the back, and
otherwise putting the joints to an I'M
natural strain. While the gyrations
and contortions of this act are fairly be-
wildering to the spectator, they are not
difficult to the actors, though the
work is very exhausting in its nature
The ease and grace which characterize
their movements are the result Of years
Of training, and cannot be acquired in
a short time with the aid of any balm
or ointment known.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
VOL. XII.
Keep the Beacon Light in Trim.

"Do your lights, sir, never go out r' l said
To the keeper of Calais light;
"Do you never forget to trim your lamps,
My friend, for single night P'
Never rl-Impossible !" cried the man;
"For to me would be all the shame;'
And his bright eyes flashed as he looked aloft
AT the steady lambent flame.
If L should neglect my duty, ma'am,
Weeks hence would go forth the cry
"A keeper at Calais forgot his trust,
And crew went down to diep
"It seems sometimes as if the eyes
Of the world we're fixed on me-
AS the myriad stars of the armament
Look down on the cruel sea.
so I'll never forget to light my lamp,
That ito radiance far and wide
May warn poor jack of the hidden rocks
That lurk meath the restless tide"
thought, as l went my homeward way,
Oh! would we were all as true
And faithful in trimming the beacon lights
Of home, as we journey through.
All then we should never never hear
The voice of the drowning shout:
We looked for the sign of the tower of
home,
We looked but the light was outr'
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
An Extra Pocket.

Three or four days ago a Detroit
clothier sold young man pair of
pants without having to brag up the
goods or lie about what they cost in
New York, and the incident might
never have been recalled had not the
buyer entered the store again yester-
day.
81 bought this pair of pants of you
the other day." he began.
"Yes, sir"
81 am not quite satisfied with 'em."
"What's the trouble?"
"Why, there are two hind pockets" :"
,"Wen?"
"Well, l always carry my tobacco box
in my hind pocket. If there is only
one 1 don't lose any time feeling on
the wrong side. If there are two I'm
never sure which one the box is in,
and have to let go the plow-handles
with both hands at once. l want the
extra one taken out"
1t is a solemn fact that the young
man sat down in a dark corner and
waited three-quarters of an hour fol
the tailor to knock the two hind
pockets into one.--Detroit Free Press