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Teachers institute,

Teachers Institute viii be held the High school
Building az Peru, La Sale county, III. commencing Mon
day August 'th, ss ami closing Friday, August 18th.
Prof W. b. Powell, Superintendent Of the Aurora schools
and supt Joseph Carter o! Peru will give their full time
the work of instruction, and spare effort the
session both pleasant and profitable.
Glasses will be formed IN all the branches required for
frst grade certificate The school studies and
methods Of teaching will receive careful attention.
general exercise each day will be conducted by Professor
Powell and others good reference library
yenences for study will he accessible TO teashers.
Special classes, IL desired by sufficient number can
formed FOR the study Of birds plants the review Of
Latin, German or algebra.
few Tree lectures appropriate topics will be given by
able speakers.
Tuition for the term Il three weeks $50 for shorter
time. 81 per week. Board BE- obtained At moderate
For further Information address supt Joseph Car
ter. Perm, Or T. WILLIAMS,
County Superintendent Schools
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The Telephone.

More offices! more offices!
Oh give us further pap!
More offices! more offices!
Whatever else may hap.
More oilices more offices.
Congress, give us more!
More Offices more offices,
Make offices galore!
More offices! more offices!
GIVE ev'ry man piece!
More offices. more offices!
We've found the golden fleece.
S,.,,js, TojI,,uUI
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Nem anbertts cments.

('HAsSE 20 NLF.fS, Master in Chancery AttOr
y ncy and Counselor at Law, once in Gedncys Block
northeast corner Of court house square Rooms and l.
tawa, Illinois. junlUe2
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The most curious thing about it all is the per-
sistence with which the Republican tells its limo.
cent and contiding readers that the temperance
people did not decide at Marseilles on going into
politics this fall. The tale is repeated almost
weekly, as one temperance leader after another
through the FREE TRADER and other papers de.
MES its truth in the plainest terms; and this too
in spite of the plainly visible fact that temper
ance men throughout the county are forming
prohibition political clubs. The Republican is
telling its party to play ostrich-hide its eyes in
the sand; yet that doesn't seem to stop the on.
ward march of the prohibition party Why not
give up, be honest and tell your readers about it?
You can't hide it from them.
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An official canvass was made on Wednesday Of
the vote Of the county on Supreme Judgeship
taken on Monday last. The returns from Bruce
and Utica townships were Jound to be informal
in some important details, although the tally
sheets clearly gave the result 1t became neces.
sary for the returning board to throw out
these towns; but the supervisors were tele-
graphed, and on Thursday both sets Of judges
came to the county seat and Strengthened things
out. W. II. Pilchor, Of Streator gave as his
reason for the informalities in his returns that
circus was in town on the day of the election
and that the clerks O. were anxious to 20 and
witness the performances! His apology was ac-
cepted! Up in Adams township on Monday one
vote was cast for DR.. A. Blood for Judge Of the
Supreme Court, the only scattering vote report.
ed in La Sale county. In Richland every vote
cast was for Craig-thirty four.
The official figures are as follows:
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The only thing in the line of amusements this
week was Batcheller & Doris circus on Tuesday.
The day being pleasant a large crowd Of people
was in attendance, the town being full of peO-
pie from morning until night. The circus was
about the average show of that kind, though
hardly SO good as that Of their predecessors,
Sells Bros. The main attraction was the 1.-TWO
headed woman"-like the war news. important
If true" no doubt it is, for the physicians tell
us there is but one body for two heads and
shoulders and two sets OF lower limbs.
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Nv wife been aboring under chronic Affection ncud
catsrrh for twelve and has been treated for the
OF that time without material beuet until she
applied the office o: Mrs DR. Keck in Peoria last fall
She had spoken loud word for nearly five months
having lost her voice while under other treatment
threatened with paralysis her entire left side being very
tered her lungs In serious condition, and her health fail
ing rapidly Her hands and feet were always cold showing
very poor circulation and condition of the blood.
About October 1880 she applied at the office Of Mrs DR.
KeCk in Peoria, advice and treatment whNh she con-
tinued faithfully home until the middle Of December
She made several visits TO Mrs Dr. KeCks office In Peoria
cines and improved very much. Her voice still gone
however, and still doubling took wife to several ply
sicans OF emincnce for examination and opinion They
agreed with Mrs Ksck to what the trouble Some
OF them said there IN very little hope, while others said
there none tfOr recovery.
So Mrs Watson with Mrs kcck and remained at the
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hibiton ideas are weeded out Of the party-to
support whom they please SO long as they
do not support republican fanatics; vote Tor
democrats until they have purified their party.
And 1t insists the Germans generally with whom
1t is acquainted do propose to do this sort OF
thing during the coming campaign, and show
the republicans that they are not to be made
voters to elect republicans to Office only to FUR.
dish sitters to squat down on them" when In
office.
Verify, the lot of the republican central com.
mittee of this county "is not happy one'
What with the Red RibbOners on one side, dis
satisfied because the party talk temperance but
practice it not-enough; and the Germans on
the other side, dissatisfied because the party
is throwing sop to the temperance Cerperus, it
is no wonder the chairman loses his head, gets
mad, and threatens dire destruction to the Her.
oil. 1t will be long pole that will knock the
perSimmons into their cap this fall.
*.*
1t is not often that the graduating address or
essay of high school lad or miss is remembered
over Sunday. The delicious commonplaces, the
great wealth of learning, the gigantean research,
the flood of Tupperian wisdem, concentrated
into n five minute address, repeated II or 10
times during "A single evening is usually too, too
much for the average audience to remember,
much less digest The man who dimes on pound
cake and tops off with dessert Of plumb-pud-
ding with brandy sauce, and slakes his thirst
with extra dry at $500 bottle, is most like
ly to have headache if not nausea. 1t is
much so with graduating essays. But one young
gentleman on last Friday evening in Ottawa
quite varied this bill of fare by dish of solid
meat with curry sauce 1t was entitled
'Rocks Ahead" and outlined what appeared to
the speaker to be some of the dangers that
threatened the life of our great and glorious re-
public.
Among other Clocks was the rock of for
eign immigration the influx of foreigners the
average capital of ship load of whom he in
sisted was 10 cents Very naturally our people
of foreign descent were not amused thereby.
Rather, they were decidedly indignant. True it
came from lad, and was not entitled to much
weight but they insist the lad has men behind
nina father, II county office holder under the
republican dispensation and the school officers.
We are inclined to think our friends much eXag-
gerate the importance of this juvenile produe-
ton, in which he was evidently given full lber-
ty to express his rather commonplace opinions
without reference to the opinion of his elders.
While it is easy to see that the address would
create, and has created, hard feeling yet we be-
leve both the school, its managers and, in
deed, the lads father were entirely without re-
spOnsibility for the lads expressed opinions
which boy can gather from score of ante.
bellum books in half days reading.
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The ID. NJ. Osborne Il CO.'S Com
bined Irvine Binder.

The ID. VI. Osborne & Co.'S Combined Wire and Irvine
Binder has been greatly improved the machine
OF las. year. We vOuCh for IL being perfect Irvine
Binder for 1852 and to woN equally well in wire IN
Irvine. The following telegram from the southwest cN-
plains Itself:
Waco, TEXAS. April 9th. 1852
ID. NJ. OSBORNE Il Co, Auburn, y. y: Af;cr working
several of SefBIndng Iarvcters three days just
they came from the factory In heavy and barley
say nDqMaliteiiy. IT Is ALL RIGHT. WE Do Not FIND
ONE DEFECT ID. 81. OSBORNE.
Thankful for past ivor pledge our honest and faifhf
braRte OF US for sort OF the e class o Farm Imp
May ~ lSS9.-tf
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Farmers Wives.

II il an evident fact that farmers
wives are afflicted with many diseases
which are the result of OverwOfk. They
are constantly on one ceaseless routine
of toll from daylight at morning until
late at night. NOchange, no Relation,
no rest. Farmers should note thisfact,
and be fOrewarned before it is too late.
IL is astonishing what an amount of
labor the wives of farmers prefOrm.
MANY of them get up and have break
fast ready before their husbands are
out of bed. Then it is work, work, work,
until near midnight, their minds during
the time being constantly occupied
with their duties and with thinking
of how the food is to be supplied, when
the washing and ironing Is to be done,
when time can be spared TO scrub the
floor, how the children are to clothed
and kept tidy. and innumerable other
things not necessary to mention, all of
which combine To OverwOrk and break
down the strongest woman IN the land.
In no case it is safe to be continuously
thinking upon any one thing, aud in
cases where the brain has been weaken
ed by TO great a strain upon it, thereby,
producing insanity, epilepsy, vertigo,
MYSTERIES, female weakness, general
debility, and multitude of other dis
eases, the remedy is Rest and few
bottles Of DIR. S. A. Richmond & Co.'s
Samaritan Nervine. 1t acts directly
upon the nervous centres and invigor-
ates and strengthens the whole system.
Many ladies have refrained from using
samaritan Nervine on account OF an
existing prejudice against advertised
medicines. Let us ask a question ::
Are you prejudiced against sewing ma
chimes because you have seen them adj
vertised. or can you doubt the inge-
nuity and skill required in theic inven-
ton Again, would you refuse to i'll
sure your house because the company
advertised that it had paid millions of
dollars i'm losses and yet had a capital
of several, millions left ? Do such adj
vertisments shake your confidence and
create prejudice Then why refuse 10
credit the testimony of those who have
found Samaritan Nervine to be all that
/ is claimed for it i'm overcoming those
ailments peculiar TO your sex The fol
lowing statement speaks for itself:
FAIRFIELD, LENAwEE Co., Mich, I
April %, 1881. {
DIR. Richmond-Dear Sir: This is to
certify that my wife had fits for thirty
five years. They would last her for
about one hour and sometimes longer.
/ happened to hear of your medicine,
and sent for some of il. She had no
more fits after she took the first dose.
she is now permanently cured, and
her health Is a great deal better than
ii has been for twenty years or more.
You are entirely at liberty to use her
picture and this testimonial i'm any
manner which you please, and may
sign my Name to it. We owe you this
much at least FIR what you have done
for her. Yours truly,
| HENRY CLARK
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How Some People Enjoy the
Opera.

A young lady at the opera In
Washington the other night, sitting in
front of a young spooney and girl in
a Gainsborough hat, having enjoyed a
delicious treat, narrates the following
scene, more realistic than any make
believe business on the stage:
The girl: "Oh!I wrote such a
long letter home to-day seven pages
He: "What seven"
She: eyes; and the postman didn't
come. and i opened it and wrote seven
more"
He: 81 wish you'd write me a
letter"
She: (tenderly): "Why, what
could l writer"
He: "You needn't write but three
words"
She: "Three words? What can
they he ?"
lie: Three nice little words
She: "Oh, my! Amt YOU stranger?
This knocks the young man out of
time for minute, and during that
period the music had a chance. But
he comes up again smiling, a little
disfgured. but still in the ring.
He: "Oh. you know"
She: NO, indeed / don't"
He: "Well, I'll tell YOU some other
time"
The chorus comes down toward the
footlights with unmistakable intent to
howl, and during the preliminary nd
ding the observation-disclosures GU
rious enough young girl says, with
a sweetly-shrinking timidity:
Cant you tell me while they're
singing ?"
Then a fiendish veil from the chO-
rus breaks off shorter than could pos
sibly be anticipated. and his vote is
heard with startling distinctness:
81 love you. Couldn't you write
that"
"Oh, my! yes, and ever so much
more"
And then the tenor clutches the
prima donna by the back hair and
yells bloody murder into her RICH I
eyebrow, and the young man and the
Young woman lean so hard on the
arm of the orchestra chair that her
vaccination mark bushes like an
aurora borealis.
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HOUSTONIA.

Fred Wilson is building new gro
Gerry.
Three new buildings in course OF
erection.
-Lockett 4 Vandyke are doing No.
business.
-Metcalf Smith has opened an agricul
tural ware house.
-Boyles d Higgins are fitting up their
stable for the season.
Fred Wilson, the worthy postmaster,
has added to his stock.
nc. Dorsey has a fine stock Of
goods, and is selling. toe.
-Longden Bros. are making prepare
tions to handle much grain this year.
Smith Il Calhoun, blacksmiths, keep
merry their part of the town, hammering
solid iron and doing solid business.
We would not Intentionally leave out
P Washington, grocery dealer and gen.
tlemen in every sense OF the word who
reads the BAZOO.
DR. T. A. Smith, the Young and pop
ular physician, takes the lead. The doc
tor needs a comforter, the anchor Of his
affections to make him happy.
-Houstonia should have a shoemaker,
as there is not one in the town. Some
live man could make money in this busi-
Ness. A Touring mill is also needed.
The "Hon." Saml Lockney. ex-coun-
Gilman, has at this time very heavy land
case ON his hands, involving many millions
of dollars Mr.. LOckney is the principal
lawyer of this section.
-Houstonia, like all other towns, in
which we find ourselves sometimes. has a
town fool who talks and drinks more than
anything else. OF what earthly service
such beings are We give it up.
Stephens Bros druggists, are the best
of fellows, who are ever ready to put up
dose of physic or down a hearty cathartlc.
There is good catch i'm this house for
some buxom lass of beauty and fortune.
Dave Jenkins, the tonsorial artist,
who wakes the moustache and oils the
hair of the Houstonia "masher," is con-
templating ordering a new stock OF oils
and wakes with the latest agricultural
Irvine binders that crop the hair so close.
Step up gents and get moved"
Saturday next, Metcalf Smith, who
has purchased four gang plows of q. IL.
Wilson, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, will have a
test OF its merits in a field belonging to
James Strole, on Heath creek, three and
one-half miles southeast of HOustOnia.
Those gentlemen in Sedalia who have an
interest in the building of factory for
the manufacture of this pillow are earnestly
requested to be present at this trial. Mr..
Smith will meet the parties at the depot
with conveyances.
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BROWNSVILLE.
-Business fair.

business falr.
building lively.
Geo. Persinger's stable soon will be.
N. G. Nelson's harness shop looks
we'll.
w. A. Freeberg's new barber shop is
the boss.
A. G. Russell's livery stable is rebuilt
i'm good shape.
Old town has not been rebuilt as yet,
but every store is occupied.
-Chas. Buckner has commenced his
new residence, which will be daisy.
Mr.. Birchfeld will commence harvest
ing Tomorrow, the first We have heard Of
B. w. Robinson moved back in his
old stand His store is much larger
now.
&C. A. Creamer, proprietor OF the Nc
Allister Springs hotel, accompanied 10y his
vile, was passenger south to Sedaila last
night.
The Olympic hall is about rebuilt,
and i'm its original shape. Miss Harris
occupies one of the stores and b. /. Bel
laney on the corner.
d. l.. Stanley was arrested for drunk
enness Saturday, in this city. The good
people Of this burg are getting tired OF his
periodical spells OF intoxication
The City hotel would have been ready
for occupancy now, but Mr.. Ritchey l.
waiting on the city fathers To know If
Marshall street will he made an alley or
not.
The rubbish has been cleaned up on
Wilson, Kelley and Rembert's lots. They
are waiting on brick, which are being
burnt now. The stores will be hundred
feet long.
w. H. Revis, the present mayor of
Brownsville, was the first male child born
in rhis city, also the FIRST mayor the city
ever had He is considered first rate
man in everything.
Walter d Kinnis, of the Sweet Springs
hotel, have secure! string band that
would do credit to play to king. Over a
hundred visitors rusticated al the springs
last week. Salt baths are all the go.
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Henry Clay and Nine. DeStael.

In looking over some family papers
the other day, Gen. James Grant Will
son came upon the following unpub-
lished sketch, written for lady in
March, 1929, by Henry Clay, and
sent to the New York Tribune:
You desire, dear Madam, some
line of friendly remembrance. What
shall l say? You have asked me to
record something of the celebrated
Madam de Stael. She was the most
extraordinary woman of this or any
other age. blending the philosophy of
our sex with the imagination of yours.
She seems to have beenbestowed ON our
race to vindicate the equal claim of
the female mind to intellectual excel
lence. 1 knew this remarkable
woman in Paris. / first met her at a
ball given on the occasion of the
peace of Client at the banker HOttin-
guer's. "Ah! Mr.. Clay" she said,
"the English have been much in
censed against you. l have been
lately pleading your cause al LOnuOn.
Do you know they contemplated at
one time sending the duke of yelling
ton to command their armies against
you?' / told her l was aware of the
exertion of her eloquence in our be-
half, and thanked her for it. l added
that wished the British government
had sent the duke. "Why?" she In
quired with much surprise. ''Be-
cause, madam, had we beaten the
duke we should have gained immortal
honor, whilst we should have lost
none had We been defeated by the
conqueror of Napoleon. / next saw
DeStael at her own house, where she
introduced me to the duke of Well
ington, and related to him the above
conversation. He remarked with
much apparent feeling and grace,
that he should have placed a most
noble feather in his cap had he beaten
so gallant people as the Americans.
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The Way Bridget Looked at It.

Hne way Bridget Looked at It.
Eyes. that's the spot. You can see
what beautiful aesthetic splash it is"
and she knelt softly.
ooh, how TRANQUILITY delicious. So
so-purplish-plumbing in color, with
such a languid tendency to spread"
answered her friend.
"Yes, that just delineates it: and
what breadth Of expressiou-it is
positively genius"
81 think, num-" said the scrub
lady, ''you moight get it out with
gall I've herd
Heard. not heerd, Bridgetina. and
as to that splash on the carpet, no
money would tempt me to have it
erased. Why, that is where dear
Mr.. Oscar Wilde upset his inkstand
when he kindly permitted us to en-
terrain him on his recent tour. He is
the apostle of beauty, Bsidgetina."
Faith thin, if he was the Apostle
Peter, he shouldn't sphoile me foine
carpet like that" retorted the lady
from Galway.
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FROM CLINTON.

j. S. Landers came up from Osceola
Saturday.
Prof. Dave Webb, of Sedalia, is in the
city visiting j. Z. Jennings.
DIR. J. P. Gray is in the city, and spent
SUNDAY with friends.
Friday Geo. Lingle, G. d. Dorman and
{. A. Blatt erected and put in opera ton a
telephone line between the railroad depot
and the Allen house. To-day they ex-
pect TO connect some five or six other
offices.
The people of Clinton will be enter
tanned Tuesday evening, at the city hall,
by DR.. Arnold, Americas greatest reader
and singer, supported by Miss Ida Pagin.
His wonderfully funny man assisted by
the talented Young lady, gave an entertain
ment at the hall list week, add all present
were highly entertained, and await their
return Tuesday evening.
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A New Era.

The true secret of happiness is perfect
health. which enables the individual to en-
JOY life, and attain competency and con-
tentment. The martyr to dyspepsia, In
continual misery, is without hope in the
pursuit of business or pleasure. and real
ICES that existence yields only failure. But
a new era has come, and good health is
assured, with positive relief from the ills
of digestion and torpid liver, by the use OF
DIR. Acker's Dyspepsia Tablets. They
are very nice, try them. Only % and so
cents, in:.bandsome boxes. For sale by
Bard l. Miller.
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Important to Know?

That in all throat, chest and lung troub-
les-colds, whooping-coughs, asthma, con-
sumption. etc-even a single dose Of DIR.
Acker's English Remedy will relieve the
worst symptoms OF distress it is pleasant
to take, may be given to theyoungest child
and guarantees cure in every case. Trial
bottles only 10 cents. Regular sizes 30 cts.
and 81. For sale by Bard q Miller.
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pleased me much, and l took great
pleasure in recalling TO Mr.. Beecher
the exact spot where / was introduced
on that memorable occasion"
Three hundred dollars year,
the reporter suggested, 'is very
small salary on which to support two
people"
HOUSEKEEPING IN TWO ROOMS.
Eyes. il was small and We had to
economic. When We had to leave
the rooms in our clearinghouse be.
cause a member of the family was
coming home / had hard time to
find any others within our means.
Mr.. Beecher was at Cincinnati attend.
ing the synod. If We could get four
rooms, l thought, We could 60 to
housekeeping. When found what
the prices were / concluded that three
rooms would do, but no three could be
found within our means, and | finally
rented two over a store. They were
the dirtiest rooms l ever saw, and the
walls and floor were covered with TO-
bacco-juice, but knew that good no:
soapsuds and willing hand could
make them fit to live in. took the
next boat to Cincinnati and found Mr..
Beecher at his fathers. You can't
keep house in two rooms, he said with
some surprise. told him that We
had no other place to 60 to and that
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Perfect Sight.

As thousands can testify, there is MOTH
ing so much to be desired as perfect sight,
and perfect sight can only be obtained by
using perfect spectacles. &c. TAYLOR, our
home opticiaD, exercises greatskill and pa
thence in fitting those needing spsctacies,
with care and comfort to the wearer.
l2-Ildtfl
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FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver COM
plant, YOU have a printed guarantee on
every bottle of Shilohs Vitilizer. II never
fails TO cure. For sale bv all druggists.
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DELAY ia DANGEROUS.

Don't wait any longer, but send by first
mail and purchase ticket in Common
wealth Distribution Co. Drawing June
30th. Tickets only 81, halves 81. Remit
to X. VI. BOardman, Louisville, Nv.