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MFMoRANnrM

The time fixed In the biIl-namely: twenty
ears. is unreasonable, The language OF Art
l., that labor RS " shall not be absolutely pro
hibited from coming to the United states, and
that "suspens on shall be reasonable as well
as the negotiations. Indicate that BRIEF ported
was intended. Tho total prohibition Of the inn
migration of Chinese lab0rers into the United
states for twenty years would, i'm my opinion,
be unrsasonable, and violation OF the mean
ing and intent of the treaty.
MEMORANDUM II. t..#..
The Inclusion Of skilled labor in the bill is
an addition to the words and intent of tho
treaty. II Will operate with hafshness upon
class of Chinese merchants entitled to e'lmis-
sion to the United states under the terms OF
the treaty. The shoe merchants ana cigar
merchants of China manufacture the goods
they sell Mt their places of business, and to
shut out the skilled labor they need would
practically shut them out as well, since II
would prevent them from carrying on their
business in this country. The lnundryman
who keeps his shop and has r small capital
with which TO prosecute his trade cannot, in
any Just sense be included in the class of
"laborers. and the merchant-tailor comes in
the same category.
The clauses of the bill relating to registration
and passports are a veXatiouS discrimination
against Chinese residents and immigrants,
when Art. III. provides explicitly that they shall
be entitled to all the privileges conceded to
subjects of the most favored nation. The ex-
ecution Of these provisions Of the bill will
cause irritation, and, in case of loss of the pass
port or certificate of registration, Chinese resi-
dents entitled to remain may be forcibly eX-
PEELED from the country.
MEMORANDUM ~.
If the bill becomes a law it will leave the inn
preston i'm China that its Government strange
ly misunderstood the character of the treaty,
or that Congress has violated some of its pro
visions, and this will tend to prejudice the
intelligent classes against the United states
Government and people, whom they greatly
now admire and respect.
MEMORANDUM V.
There is no provision in the bill for the tran
sit across the United States of Chinese subjects
now residing in foreign countries. Large
numbers of Chinese live in Cuba, Peru and
other countries, who cannot return bone with
out crossing the territory of the United States
or touching mt San Francisco. To deny this
ternational law and the comfy Of nations, and
if the bill becomes law it will, in this respect.
result in great hardship to many thousands of
innocent Chinese in foreign countries.
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Highly embelished dinner-cards
are no longer good form" A simple
white card with silver or gold edge and
the guests monogram in silver and gold
in one corner is considered the elegant
thing Chicago Inter ocean. at
When making molasses candy or
when boiling maple molasses there is
ALWAYS more or less danger of its run
ming over on the stove. A small lump
of butter dropped in when its bubbles
begin to rise will prevent this. M Y
Post. ..
The followingis said to be sure cure
for ring-worm: "Thymol, one to two
parts; chloroform, eight parts; olive oil,
twenty-four parts, mix. The thymol
destroys the fungus, the oil prevents ir-
ritation and rapid evaporation, while TIE
chloroform facilitates the absorption of
the active ingredient by acting on the
sebaceous glands. "-DepCer Tribune
Hot Cake; Scald one quart of corn
meal with Just enough hot water to
make a thick batter; stir in two large
spoonfuls of butter; beat this little
before mixing it with the butter so it
will rise readily; add half teaspoonful
of salt. This should be baked at least
three-quarters of an hour; butter the
tins well in which it is baked; serve
hot. This is decidedly economical, and
it is very nourishing. --Indianapolis Sen
HHel.
John Talcott, of Rome, N. Y, be.
lieves the best roots for stock are the
long orange carrot, the white, sweet
German turnip, and potatoes. The
carrots he would feed with meal or
shorts and early cut hay to dairy cows
There is something in roots thus fed
with meal, he adds, that seems to give
an animal a better appetite, and conse-
luently greater gain than where dry
food alone is used. The animal thus
fed is not as likely to cloy in its appe-
tite as when only dry food is used.
"A certain degree of moisture is nee
essary for the Matching of eggs. The
biddy which hides her nest away in some
secluded spot on the ground usually
comes out with fine brood of chickens,
while the one which had her nest made
high up from the ground in some dry
place very likely failed to hatch the
most of her eggs. Generally the hen
will hatch the most of her eggs when
her nest is placed upon the ground. II
it is not practicable to build the nest up
on the ground, it is advisable, in order
to maintain certain degree of moist
ure, to place few shovelfuls of earth in
a box and place the nest upon that.
When nests are made of straw and
placed upon the floor the air circulates
throughout the nest SO readily that the
eggs become too dry to hatch well. -
Chicago Times. "
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Selection and Sowing Of Seed.

Provident farmers not only furnish
themselves with good seed, but taking
time by the forelOck, make all needful
purchases in this line in ample time SO
that when the rush and hurry of II 9
planting season is at hand there need lie
no delay. BY good seed is meant, or
should mean, not only seed that is fire sh
and will readily terminate, but seed
is upon the quality and condition of the
seeds sown that the profits of the garden
and field most largely depend.
No farmer can afford to risk sowing
damaged or defective seed hence the
wisdom of testing seed previous to
planting it. 1t is comparatively small
matter to do this, as most readers know.
The terminating powers of wheat rye,
oats and barley may be tested by Sc wing
some seed in garden pot-saucers or other
unglazed earthen vessels set in water
and covered with moist flannel. Glover
and grass seeds may be tested in the
same way, as indeed may garden seeds.
If the seed terminates irregularly it is a
sign that old and new seeds have been
mixed. If only small per cent. germi-
mates the seed should be, of course, dis
carded. The heaviest seed, other things
being even, is best.
The seed selected, the next con sidera-
ton in the cultivation of a crop is the
condition of the soil. The temperature
and moisture of the ground have more
to do with the successes and failures
| yearly recorded than is generally acted
upon. Wheat and barley, for instance,
while they will struggle through the
ground at the extreme temperatures of
Al degrees and 100 degrees, terminate
most quickly-other conditions being
equal-at about 81 degrees. Corn does
! best at about 90 degrees, though it will
terminate at from so to 115 degrees.
The squash, bean and pea all terminate
readily at about the same temperature
as that given for corn. Clover seed oft
en- fails because sown at time of INSULT
cient moisture, while millet, for in
stance, under similar conditions of dry
uess, will secure a good catch. Ii ~
The depth of planting is anothe., inn
| portant point The size of the seed
should regulate the depth of covering.
Corn must be placed deeper, therefore,
than the small grains, and the small
grains in turn deeper than the grass
seeds. Most farmers understand this,
but all do not vary these respective
depths to suit the different soils iLto
which the seeds are placed, and yet a
moments consideration makes it appar-
ent that heavy soil which lies close to
the seed admits of slighter covering than
does a shifting sandy one. Many inter-
testing experiments have been made from
time to time to test the terminating
powers of seed under different depths OF
covering. From experiments showing
the gerpination of wheat at certain
depths in the ground it appears that
about three-fourths of the seed planted
will come up at a depth of three inches
and nearly all at from one to two inches
These and similar facts point to the i'm
| portance of planters acquanting them
selves with the requirements of the seeC
to be sown.-N. Z. World.
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-Forty-eight Italian .theaters have
been closed during the present season as
financial failures. Their managers evil
IDENTIFY undertook to introduce season
of legitimate drama. If they had en-
gagged Buffalo Bill, Tony Pastor, Paddy
Ryan and such " stars" the season
would have been gratifying success
N0,TIst9Na Herald.
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TORMENT. INDEED.

:. LIES vexations do not generally dome on ono
like storm descending the mountain or like n
Nhflwlnd; they come as the rain docs in some
sections Of the world-gently, but every doI
one Of LIES discomiorts Is nresented hcr,srrifH:
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logs and the bog Starre-
minds us ola boy'sstory
of q dog and the comet,
and which we heregive
in a short extract from
the boys letter: "Golly,
Bob, you ought 30 ha
been there last night to
a-scen tho fun. Tom
Winkins' dorg Toddlcs
was a-settin' at the gate
again ct the CONT,
when along comes old
Sykes burned rat tar
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27

denuded Of Union soldiers, made his sudden
dash into the state with 90 600 rebels, intending
to capture st. Louis, Gen. Pleasanton suddenly
blazed out IN halo of glory by hastily gath.
ering up some 5000 cavalry and pursuing,
falling upon and completely demolishing
Jackson's multitudinous rebel horde.
But when, at the end Of the war, it came to
distributing rewards to officers of the regular
army for conspicuous services by assigning
them to appropriate rank, and when the com
mittee on conduct of the war" had recon-
mended Pleasanton for the rank of Major
General in the regular army, what think you
they had the face to offer him? He was in.
suited by the offer of the rank OF Lieutenant
Coloue! Grieved and disguised, there was
no alternative for HIM but to resign, and from
that time forth this perhaps ablest and wsest
of all our generals has been obliged to subsist
on the earnings OF his own hands. Is it con-
ceivable that now in his old age congress can
do less than award HIM the simple justice
by the ingalls, bill
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27

The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Rail
way company has issued brief preliminary
statement for the fiscal year ending March
31st 1882, and in it we find some rather inter
esting figures. The gross earnings for the year
foot up $l3,2G6,643 against 81 1856, 90S for the
previous year, showing a gain OF 81 $780, 1926.
The net earnings for the year were 5000, 7SO,
with gain OF $G17,427 over the previous
year, and were equal to a dividand Of 1212 per
cent. on the capital stock, though the company
rudently laid aside handsome sum as pro-
vision against a rainy day and made divi
dcnd OF but per cent. during the year.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27

district is so largely democratic that nomi
nation is equivalent to an election. 1t is al
present represented in congress by Gen. Jas
w. Singleton, an able and good man, but who
It is intimated, IS indifferent to q reelection.
We can only say, without thought OF in
lermeddlng with the family affairs of our
democratic friends thereaway, that in view OF
the earnestness and efficiency of Mr. Archer s
support, on every proper occasion as senator
and as leading and influential citizen, of
every movement looking to the Hennepin and
the Illinois Ship Canal and the improvement
of the Illinois river, the people of all parties
IN this region entertain towards him very
strong feeling OF respect and friendship, and
would not only be greatly pleased, but would
look upon it as another strong point gained in
favor of the ultimate triumph of our ship canal
project, should Mr. Archer be sent to congress.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27

All persons having flags are requested to rails
them at half.lnast at sunrise on that day.
The business houses are requested to close
their places Of business during the memorial
services of the day.
Memorial services will be held in the various
churches of the city on Sunday, the 2Sth inst.
Solemn high mass will be held at st. COLUMBIA
Church at Z A. NJ. on Saturday, the s7th.
Masters Willie Hapeman Harry Butler, Willie
MITCHELL Freddie Widmer, Franklin Eagan, Ed
ward Nevin, James Ford, John Dryer. Julius
LEX, Harmon Jobart, Willie Mates, Emile Tim.
norman, Chettie Ruger, Freddie Barnes, Dave
Lorriaux. Willie Hull Willie Van Doren, Eddie
Hobert, Freddie Jckyll, Leonard Bathurst, Der.
tie Cowles, Charlie Reifi, Freddie Moore, Willie
Scott, Arthur Field and Robbie McMannus will
strew the flowers on the soldiers graves at the
different cemeteries and burial places. They are
requested to be at the basement of the Congre.
gational church at 1870 p. NJ. of the 30th.
MARsHAL'S AIDES.
For Ottawa Cemetery--F. NJ. Sapp, Thomas G.
Fullerton; South Ottawa Cemetery-Thomas ".
Mason; Catholic Cemetery--John Murphy; Gen.
Wallace's grave-Major I. c. Gibson; Colonel
Twins grave-Dr. r, F. Dyer
&. e. CAMPBELL, Sec'y.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27
GEN. PLEASONTON.

The recent introduction of bill In the L.
S. Senate by Senator ingalls, of Kansas to re.
tire Gen. Pleasanton as Il brIgadier Of the
regular army naturally raises the question
where and what Is general Pleasant0n now
He is no longer in the army, that we know
he to be placed upon the retired list? We
find these questions fully answered In very
able editorial in the Chicago Tribune OF Mon.
day. Our limits will not permit us to copy 1t,
but after carefully reading 1t we are quite pre-.
pared to endorse its conclusions, which are
strongly in favor of the passage of the bill pro
posed by Senator Ingalls,.
General Pleasanton Is well remembered by
those who kept run OF the events of the great
rebellion ms the chief cavalry officer of the
army of the Potomac, and though, on accoun,
of his conspicuous ability and possibly his
supposed democratic politics a constant OBJ
ject of jealousy on the part of other officers
and often on great occasions forced into the
back ground, he managed, though deprived at
the Httme of most of his command, by his
prompt decision and vigorous action, almost
in violation of orders, to save Hookers army
from total destruction at the battle of Chancel
lorville; and afterwards, at the battle OF Get
tysburg, he again became conspicuous by the
efficiency with which he handled the cavalry
and at its close by his quarrel with Gen
Meade for not allowing HIM to pursue the fly
ing rebel army which now all concede could
have been totally destroyed before it escaped
across the Potomac, had Pleasanton's advice
been adopted.
So palpable had it become that Pleasantou
was the ablest general in the army that in the
winter of 1SG3-64, when it became evident
that Meade must be displaced from the head
of the army OF the Potomac, the position wa.
by general consent assigned TO Gen. T., and
Lincoln had actually promised him the ap
pointment; but before it reached HIM, by one
of those mysterious decisions of the military
authorities at Washington which nobody wa.
ever able to understand, Gen. Grant was given
the place and Gen. Pleasanton was ostracised
to 81. LOUIS, virtually without command.
There, however, his restless nature would
not permit HIM TO be inactive, and when old
pap jackson, imagining Missouri was about
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27
High school Commencement

| The graduating exercises of the High School
will be held at the Congregational church on Fri.
day evening, June ID. There nineteen can.
ddates for the diploma-the largest class that
has ever completed the course. Exercises will
commence at S o'clock, sharp. Willis band will
furnish music.
In accordance with the custom which has been
so convenient in years past, tickets of admission
will be issued The church seats go, without
using the aisles other standing room The
intention is to accommodate all our citizens as
far as possible, giving preference only to those
who are most closely interested in the school.
The tickets will be ready for issue on Wednesday
morning, at the High School. Applications may
be made personally or by letter. Teachers of the
city, graduates and former members of the
school, the press and the clergy are all specially
invited to attend but in the pressure of other
matters incident to the close of the school year,
II Will be well to look after the matter of the
tickets. No tickets to be sent out under the
impression that somebody who has not applied
may like to attend.
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Decoration Day.

Decoration Day will be observed in Ottawa
Procession, in charge of MAORI. II. Widmer and
aides, will form at the Armory at 80 P. NJ, and
march to Washington Square, where there will
be singing by the Musical Association of ottawa,
Frank Kendall leader; an address by Rev. G. b..
Barnes; Rev. Mr.. Arnold acting Us chaplain.
| Gen. w. ii. l.. Wallace's old war-horse Prince
and the saddle and accoutrements on which the
General rode when killed will be in the process.
sion, led by William Armstrong, color sergeant
of the 18th Regt. III. VOL Infantry.
Company d. Fourth Regiment, Capt. Bancn.
ard. and Fizgerald's Band, will act as escort to
the procession; which will be composed of citl.
sens, soldiers, civic societies, etc
LADIES' COMMITTEE ON DECORATION.
Mrs c. D. Trimble, president; Mrs. W. Fl. L.
Wallace Mrs. s. s. Willis, vice presidents; as
sisted by the following ladies from the differ.
ent churches; Episcopal-Mrs. j. f. Nash, Mrs
Benedict, Miss Jennie Dudgeon Methodist
Mrs. Cheever, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs C. J. Curyea;
Baptlst-Mr Penny, Mrs. Mcpherson, Mrs. War
rem Rale Presbyterian-Mrs. Whittlesy, Mrs. X.
IC Jordan; Congregational--Mrs G. B. Barnes,
Mrs. II. L. Boltwood, Mrs. F. NJ. Sapp; st. Co.
lumba-Mrs. Thomas McDermott, Mrs. j. d.
Young, Mrs +. Wall; st. Francs-Mrs. l.. Mil
ller, Miss Katie LEX, Mrs II. J. Mates; Luther
an-Miss Formulas, Mrs. Reiti; South Ottawa
Mrs. Talbot, Miss Ella Hit; German Methodist
Mrs. Adam Claus, Mrs. Stamen.
The ladies are requested to meet at the base
ment of the Congregational church on Monday
morning, the Goth, to prepare decorations for the
monament; also on Tuesday morning, the 3Oth,
at $50 o'clock.
| A general invitation is extended to all persons
having flowers to spare y bring or send them to
the basement of the Congregational church on
Tuesday morning, the 3Oth inst.
All citizens, soldiers and civic societies are re-
quested to join IN the procession, which viii
start from the Armory building at $50 p. NJ. Of
the 30th, in charge of Major j. II. Widmer, the
marshal of the day, and his aides. The process
sion will march east on Madison street to Column
bus, north on Columbus to the public square
where the exercises of the day will be had, after
which the decoration committees and children
will be taken in carriages to the different GENE
teries and burial places and decorate the graves
of our fallen soldiers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27

Inquiry INTO the recent Doyle ease of forged
U. s. bonds has brought to light the startling
fact that the transfers OF the forged bonds have
been made from genuine government plates
and that these could only have been obtained
by COLLISION with high officials in the treasury
department at Washington. If one thousand
bonds have been thus transferred from genuine
plates why may not millions be? And where
are government and people to find protection
against the forgers?
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MCCULLOUGH AND THE CONSTITUTION

"The end Of a law is Its intention" Nc
matter how awkward or deficient law may
be IN It's wording, if its ann is clear, there car
be no difficulty about its Interpretation OF
proper application.
The Illinois constitution of 1S4S provided
that the judges of the supreme court should be
elected on the first Monday IN June. In the
proposed to readopt this provision, objection
was made by the politicians on the ground
that to separate the judicial from the general
election involved Il heavy expense and the
people would vote against the adoption Of the
new constitution on that account. During the
lengthy debate that took place on the subject,
Mr.. Ross, a member from Fulton, said There
is no provision in the old constitution that
than that Withdrawing the judiciary from the
arena Of politics, and | hope we will continue
in that line" Others declared that the people
could not expect to elect competent and i'm.
partial judges to the supreme bench through
the political machinery of caucuses and con
ventlons that were used to place before the
people candidates at the general election. SO
the provision for a separate election, to take
tics, was adopted by a vote of 81 to 26. Judge
Craig was q member OF the convention and
voted with the affirmative.
Nothing can be clearer, from this recital,
hap IN AZ thn framnrg IF IN mr. N
ton, and the people in voting tor it, meant to
withdraw our judicial elections from the
arena of politics." The gist of the law being
its intention, and the intention in This case
thus emphatically expressed, ought to be con-
sldcred as obligatory as any other plainly
worded provision of the constitution, and any
attempt to mix up our judicial elections with
party politics ought to be alike regarded as a
violation of its PLAIN provisions.
The act of the Republican party in this ju
diclal district, therefore, in making use of the
ordinary party machinery of caucuses and a
convention to put IN nomination party can
ddste for supreme judge amounts to wanton
violation of the letter and spirit of that instru-
ment, so tlagrant that 1t ought to disquallfy
Mr.. Mccullough from holding the office Of
judge If elected for being party to 1t, which
he became, not only by accepting the nomina.
tIon, but by indecently attending the conven.
ton in person and soliciting the nomination
on the sole ground which presumably can be
legitimately presented to such body-of past
party services and pledge of party fealty for
the future.
Should a man thus presented for Judicial
Office be elected? Happily the feeling among
the people is such that there is no dagger of
it, for the people will not overlook the insult
which through him has been offered to the
constitution, and they will treat him accord
ingly Public policy demands that political
parties shall not infringe tins salutary constr
tutional provision with lmpunity.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-05-27

The anti Cameron independent republicans
of Pennsylvania held large and enthusiastic
convention on Wednesday, over which Senator
Mitchell presided. Wolfe, whom the Csmcrons
thought they had bought uD, was present as n
delegate. "Glorions Tom Marshall" whom
the Cameron convention had nominated for
congressman at large, was also present, having
declined the Cameron nomination. The
convention nominated State Senator John
Stewart for Governor, Lew b, Duff tor Lieu.
tenant Governor, George Junkln of Ppilidel.
phla for supreme court judge, and William
McMichael for congressman at large.