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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14

and again the Is. Of July, is usually suffl
Gent, though not always. Two applica.
tons will always suffice If the carbollc acid
is added. He takes two quarts OF soft
soap, adds one gallon of water, heats till 1t
bolls, removes from the fire, and at once
stirs in pint of crude carbolic acid.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14
Postmaster Sam'l A. Hewitt.

or Monterey, Mich, delivers himself in this
wise: For colds, burns, sore throat, and
rheumatism, Thomas Eclectrc oil can not be
beaten. say keep it up 30 the standard, and
IL will satisfy the people. shall send Tor
new supply soon"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14

Vennor, in his predictions for July, does
not take any big chances. He says: "On
the whole, July will be a very warm
month. with more than an average mum
Der Of violent thunder showers. On the
10Th occurs the conjunction of Mars and
Saturn at 1919 IN the afternoon, and on
the same day Jupiter is in conjunction
with Mercury. A violent storm may I've
expected on that and probably the follow
ing day, with intense electrical manifesto
tions along the coast on the North Allan
tic Ocean"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14

Go to your druggist for Mrs, Freeman's
New National Dyes. For brightness and du-
rabilty OF color they are unequaled. Color
from to pounds. Directions in English
and German. Price. Is cents.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14

Thousands are being cured OF Catarrh
every year with Halls Catarrh Cure, that the
doctors had given up and said could not be
cured. IS cents bottle. Sold by all drug
gistS (b)
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14

used Browns Iron Btters as tonic, and
find IL to be the best blood purifier that
oy.r M ed
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-07-14

Work given out. On receipt of your adj
dress we will make an offer by which you
can earn IS to 81 evenings, at your home.
Men, women, boys or girls can do 1t. II. c..
Wilkinson & Co., 1875 and 1917 Fulton street,
New York ..t
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trelst trains CARVING passengers leave Ottawa
follows FOR Earl, $ ". for Aurora, TO- IS A.
for Strcgi0r. 8. n r. SIS ?. and 6s5 p.
MorI.ng tram mASSs close connection al Aurora TO-
a. points east AIT west.
Pul!NAa Palace SIs-pj.s Cars. c y. & q. Draw.sg
HuSir Cg-s, Ho-'og', HecairS Char Cars sud the L
=. & .. n,.r Dining Cars. D. this route An aforrg.
tiun ahou' r'Je- 30 fare slecring accommodate
ard r!sgr fSr'es As rh-s-l'v gwen Nv applying o.
EEECiNAL LOWELL
General Passenger Agent, chicago.
Tues T. Fa-TXg.
General Ma=sg-r Chicago. T. II. MARVIN.
Agent a. OtIavA.
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Intelligence Office.

The undersigned has opened an Intelligence OtiCe In
the Deano Block up stairs next door to Esq Weeks,
ON 1e. north of the Court House, Ottawa, III. Sua
tons found and help supplied 10 all applicants prompt
ly aud without fail Charges moderate.
April ~. l3Sl. G, l., CALklNS
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
Summers Leave Of the senate.
Boston Transcript.


Mr.. Hayden, late chief engineer of the
United States senate, tells the following
story of the last days of Charles Sumner;
IL never shall forget the last time that
Mr.. Sumner was in the senate. was
sitting in my usual place when ] saw him
rise, take his hat and cane both in his
right hand, as he was often accustomed
To do, and start to leave the chamber.
As he rose from his seat he put his left
hand quickly 10 his left breast, as if in
pain, and seemed to press it hard. Then
he Stood | should say, for a full minute,
casting his eyes around the entire range
of the galleries twice, as if looking for
familiar face. He then, standing there,
deliberately surveyed the whole senate,
and then started for the east door. As
he started he dropped his left hand from
his let breast. As ne reached the east
door he once more put his left hand to
his breast with a quicker motion, and
inclined his body slightly to the right.
Once more he turned, and | can see the
wonderful expression upon his face now
II turned first pale, deadly pale, then be-
came pearly gray. l should never
have known the face was that Of Mr..
Sumner. There was upon it an express
sion of pain, but deeper expression Of
agonizing sorrow. He stock few sec
onds in this position, surveyed once more
the whole senate floor, Strengthened him
self little from his partly inclining po-
sition towards the right, and darfed
through the eastern folding doors a. if
shot from cannon. He never entered
the senate chamber again. In two DAYS
he was dead. ! could not account for Mr..
Summers strange conduct and that terri
BILE expression on his face. II haunted
me. The next day learned that he was
sick, and the next that he was dead, and
1t occurred to me in moment that Mr..
Sumner, as he stood there with his hand
upon his breast, and surveyed the senate
chamber, might have had presentiment
that look was the last which he was ever
to give upon that body, and il was"
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
PULLED THE AIR BRAKE.
How n Baby Elephant stopped IN Erie
Railroad -rain.
Fimirs Advertiser


One Of the most singular, and for a
time, perplexing events known in the
annals Of railroading. occurred repeatedly
on Erie train three, which passed west
through Elmira on time yesterday morn
ing, but reached Hornellsville an hour
late. shortly after leaving Elmira the
train was brought TO a sudden stop with
with such jerk as to arouse every sleep
ing passenger from his morning slum-
bers. The engineer and conductor con-
ferred together. They found themselves
at loss to account for the pulling of the
air brakes and the stoppace of the train.
Extra train three was only twenty min
utes behind them, so they had to send
a brakeman hack TO flag and prevent a
tail collision" while they wanted to in
vestieate. Nothing could be found to in
dicate why or by whom the train had
been stopped, so she soon proceeded
west.
The engineer let the iron horse have
the reins, and the train sped away at
rapid rate 70 make up some of the lost
time. After only short run the train
was brought to a more sudden and mex
plicable halt than before. The remain
ing brakeman went back and set snoth-
er flag to warn extra train three anoth-
or short but wholly unsatisfactory inves-
tigation was held, and again the train
was fairly let loose TO run like the wind.
During the halt at Hornell. while one
Of the car inspectors was sounding the
wheels, low and behold the air-brakes
were again turned on, with that distinct
" audible and unmistahle "sizz" which
means business. Everybody had been
on the lookout, and nobody in the pas
sencer cars had touched the air-brake
ropes which run through each Of them
TO he pulled only in cases Of extreme
danger.
Here was quandery, indeed, for the
train men. A moments conference de-
cided them. Thew opened 4 sealed ex-
PRES car 20 investigate. In this car was
a hahy elephant consigned TO a Chicago
Snowman. Undis,urhed by the curious
ewes that peered in upon him, his ori-
entail hichness was still pulling avav
with his trunk at the little rope attached
to the air brakes and running along
lurpNsu tDt >lut Ni ul> Gar III CQultluU
with the others.
1t is safe to say that this is the first
case on recori in which an elephant has
stopped train Of czrs in this scientific
manner.
The trsinmen sffer their discovery,
simply removed the brake-rope from the
expreSs car, and the train was neither
stopped nor delayed again on its way 10
Buffalo.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18

firm the spectroscopic resear, hes IN re-
gard to Sirius, namely, that IL s IN
trinsically much brighter than the
sun. and miH therefore be Of higher
Temperature. Aeain, taking the meas.
ures of the position of the companion OF
Sirius. il seems that the time oi coH-
plete orbital revolution is probably near,
iv 200 wears. TaRing the paral'ax OF
Sirius as 0.22 Sec, the distance OF tne
companion from the principal star u
about fifty times the earth's distanee
from the sun; this would give the mass
of Sirius as only three and one-eighth
times that of the sun, while the amount
of its light is estimated at more than Zoo
times the light given forth by the sun.
The fact is familiar To metallurgists
that a steel which is very flexible when
cold often breaks at the blue annealing
temperature. 1t has also been generally
considered that the purer the iron is, the
less subject it becomes this defect II ap-
pears. however, that the workmen OF the
tral Mountains, who Use iron OF remarka-
BILE purity, have often observed the same
fact. 1t has also been found, on lnvesti-
cation, that the metal in Question be-
comes powdery atatemperature at a between
500 deg. and 700 deg F., or the temper
ature at which willow twigs take fire.
This phenomenon would seem to explain
large plumber of accidents-as, for ex-
ample, the breaking of tires under the
action of brakes, and the fraction OF nv
eted moulds and of machine arbors,
which become heated by friction-hith-
erto regarded as unaccountable.
The attention of the French Academy
of Sciences has recently been called to a
specimen of electric lighting wire which,
according to the various trials thus far
made of it, would appear to answer the
purpose of preventing fires. The article
consists of copper wire insulated with
asbestos and threaded through lead
pipe. Among the experiments to which
this design has been subjected are those
made at Paris by NJ. Lippmann, engineer
to the Faure Electric Accumulator Com
pany, a specimen of the conductor of this
kind of wire having been entirely vol
atilized by powerful currents, without
any effect on the leaden pipe. Thus, the
volatlization takes place in mere frac'
tion of a second, and the lead does moi
begin to duse moreover, there is the ad
ditional advantage of the asbestos acting
as good insulator for ordinary currents
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
The Struggle of the Giants.
Burlington Hawkeye.

The Early Peach came TO a place
where four roads met. He slapped his
chest with his stem and looked TO the
East and to the South.
"Bismillah :" he cried, Il am the boss
and drive the ambulance"
The little Green Apple came down the
long road from the West and heard him.
He bowed to the north and he bowed to
the West.
Il am the son of the cyclone" he
shouted, "and l travel with my own pri-
vate coroner"
by the camel of Mahomet," said the
Early Peach, Il am the friend of the
sexton, and | can knock you out in four
rounds, Marquis of Tewkesbury rules"
"Come to the wake" shrieked the lit
tie Green Apple, 'and you may call me
the harmless paw-paw Of this wilderness
if | can't double up the man who plant
ed YOU"
Then they looked down the four long
roads and waited for some one to prae-
tice on. From the East came fair
young girl from Nassar College, and up
from the South came gray-haired Afri-
can.
Take you the fair student" the Early
Peach.
Not L. said the little green apple.
Il did not come here to attempt impos-
sibilities. For nearly four years that lit
tie girl has sat AT slrreptitious midnight
lunches; she has broken up a score of
young men with her ice-cream bills, and
still she is hungry. But | will stand
aside and give you a chance at the AZ
rican."
Il am not on the suicide lay this
morning" said the Early Peach. Il
know him, and already since yester
even's sun there have reposed beneath
his untroubled vest peek and half Of
my brethren, and he j. even now fam
ished. He is known as the DESTROYER of
Satermelons. and all my tribe fear him.
Allah is great, but some things are i'm
possible"
So they let many people pass unharm-
ed. the old, the tough, the wary. and the
well-scasoned. But when the day was
far spent, coming down the long road
from the West, they saw rlddy boy,
the pride and joy of his home and the
torment Of his teacher. Whistling a
merry roundelay he came, his face as
rosy as the glowing West, his heart as
thistle down.
He was their meat.
The Early Peach and the little Green
Apple set their teeth and breathed hard
as he came near.
Now ~ they shrieked, and livid with
hate, they tiercely sprung upon him.
In two short minutes that boy had
both of them down, and as he cracked
the peach pit to get at the "goody,' he
said:
Jimmy jinks, I wisht knowed where
could find bushel of them fellers."
The Early Peach, with a dying gasp,
turned and said:
We were taken in"
With hollow groan, the little Green
Apple replied;
"Of course.
But the boy slept soundly all that
night, and came hack the next day to
look for more.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
The sun Cholera Mixture.
Chicago Herald.

Now that it has been asccrtained that
the cholera which has appeared in Egypt
is the genuine Asiatic article from which
the worst is to be feared should its march
eastward not be stayed by strict quaran-
tine regulations, cholera prescriptions are
in great demand by correspondents, who
write to the editor as if he were per-
sonal friend and the family physician.
For more than forty years what is known
as ''The sun cholera medicine" has stood
the test of experience as the best remedy
of looseness of the bowels ever yet de-
vised. AS was once vouched for by the
New York Journal of Commerce, mo
one who has this by him and takes it in
time will ever have the cholera" Even
when no cholera is anticipated it is an
excellent thing for the ordinary summer
complaints, collie, diarrh9a, dysentery
&c, and we have no hesitation in com
mending it. Here it is: Take equal
parts of tincture of cayenne, tincture Of
rhubarb, essence of peppermint, and
spirits of camphor. Mix well. Dose,
fifteen to thirty drops in wineglass Of
water according to age and violence Of
the attack. Repeat every fifteen or twen-
" minutes until relief is obtained.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
SCIENCE AND ART.

1t is claimed for the Vanderhilts that
they are real judges Of ant
A Philadelphian, VI c. d, Pearce, has
won the gold medal at the Paris Salon
this year.
Mr.. Ruskin saws English artists want
two thincs-ideas and training.
William Bradford is painting another
scene-"Under the Midnight Sun'-fsh-
ing hoais near an iceberg on the coast Of
Labrador.
4 lsrge mosaic in a fine state ofpreSer-
walton has been discovered near Sousse,
Tuuis. by French soldiers. II has been
offered to the French Ministry Of Public
Instruction and Fine Arts.
Edear Parker, the distinguished por-
tralt artist Of Boston, has completed a
portrait Of the poet Whittier, which is
considered a very remarkable Likeness
in its translation Of the inner life, of the
gentle poet. Mr.. Parker has painted the
Portraits Of sumner, Hawthorne, and
other dlstinuished men, and Mr.. Whit
tier SAYS Of his own, 1T is the picture l
hope to be remembered by"
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
SOME STRANGE STORIES.
Troy Times.


A young woman, seventeen years Of
age, eight feet ten inches high. and sull
growing is on exhibition in England
An Englishman bequeathed his two
daughters their weight in 81 bank notes.
One Of the girls received 30. and the
othere59.S4.
The wife Of ]. W. Wise OF Spurlincton
Ky, isa grandmother at 81 years OF are.
She was married at the age of fourteen.
and her daughter was married at the
same age.
A lady residing in Upper Osweco Falls,
\. V, had repeatedly asked her husband
to saw huge limb from an apple tree
that grated harshly against the house
during windstorns. The husband prom
ised and promised, but failed to act.
The other day she borrowed a saw and
mounted the tree determined to sever
the obnoxious limb. She woman fash
ion, secured seat upon the limb she
was saving and was half killed by the
fall.
Mothers love was exemplifed at
Norwich, Chenango county, a few davs
ago. The grand jury found an indict-
ment sgainst DR. JAYNE for administ er-
Ing poison with intent 70 kill or iniure
his mother, and was required to find bail
insl eco to appear for trial. His mother
feeble old lady Of seventy-snur wears.
appears in court and became surety in
the required smount
John Heuse. Of Reading Pa. was in
the south when the war broke out, and
he wrote 10 his wife that he had been
forced To Join the rebel army. No,hinc
more was heard from him. and he W.
mourned ss dead. Recently he nnturns,i
home. He SAYS that when the rrbal
army marched TO Geity-bur,h. he one
night made his escape, was recaptnr,s,l
and put on board war vessel. whe,s
ne rehialhed Tor some time and then
made his escape. He travelled westward
WAS taken prisoner by Indians. and
Was held captive Tor fifteen years. He
learned number Of Indian dialects. and
became member of tribe. lie made
his escape az last, went to France. and
returned 10 America via Cuba.
Wednesdays Times contained snrn.
singular accounts OF absent minded.
ness which, II i believed. rivalei hy
the freaks o. farmer living AZ Shut.
corners 4 he1let two miles fon Cohle.
skill. last Summer he drove 70 ,',ble.
skill. so>omranicd by his vic. L. a,
some tradiag. A az spendin. several
scnrs N ;asfi sce. he ttrove home alone
dld his "ehofss." and uVs,n coin- ,o the
house, Was pN0Yoked that his heitct lall
who was not u b seen, had made ur
preparation for supper lie failed 70 ssa
her in the house, and in 4 few rlo.neu.,
she arrived home IN a conveyance non
the village. here She had been ANXIOUS
ly awaiting for her husbands saeCar.
ance- Al another lime he rode q kor-e
10 the villaSc - have il shod. n va,
engaged unti. evening. when lac v-.lSel
home, after waiting some time FIR \ ride
His wife recaliei - his mind that hs
had zen his l,srse in the village. and l.s
returned for il.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
Dog STORIES.

In dwelling house that was burned
near North Adams, Mass, three child
rem were sleeping, their parents being
away from home, The house dog sue
ceeded in getting into the children's
roem and rescued them with great diff
Guilty, as two Of them had tainted.
As dog in South Bend. Ind, was
quietly gnawing a bone, a rat crawled
out from pnder the sidewalk on the op-
posite side of the street, and. rushing
close up TO the jaws Of the dog, made off
with the bone before The astonished dog
could recover suflicio.- to pursue it.
A Boston lady had dog which, when
II or its friend the cat wished to go into
the kitchen, stood by the door and al
lowed the cat to jump on his back. The
cat could then reach one paw over the
latch, and by pressing the other paw on
the thunhpiece was able 10 open the
door. The cat twculd then dropupon the
dogs back and ride into the Kitchen in
triumph.
Two coon dogs belonging to Tim Buck
ner, North Carolina negro, visited the
courtroom during the trial ot their mas
ter for inciting a riot, and sat by his side.
After he was sent 10 jail they took up
their station at the jail yard door. Dur
ing the entire term OF his imprisonment
these dogs did not stay a night from
their post. They relieved each other
during the day TO get food, but at night
both were constantly at the door. The
townspeople have now built q kennel
for the dogs near the jail-door, within
within sight Of buckner's window.
AT the Art Union, New Orleans. large
marine view is exhibited by Ed. {.
Lewis, Of Philadelphia-an iliumitable
sketch of sea and sky, a purplish-blu
foam-feaihered sea, and a SKY of lumin.
Gus gray.
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
LOVERS WIN A HOT RACE.
A Georgia Romeo Outwits the Enemy and
Secures His Texas Juliet.
Houston Post

SecuTes AtA"S ""'N'
Houston Post.
Mr.. W. c. Watson in the early part of
the week received telegram from one
of his two charming daughters, both OF
whom were at school in LaGrange, Ca,
stating that Alice, the younger one, was
very sick, and he must come as swiftly
as possible. Acting on this telegram he
and Mrs. Watson left by the first train.
Arriving at LaGrange he found that in
stead of being i'll Miss Alice was happy
bride. the wife of Robert Abrams, a
wealthy young man of that place. 1t
seems that the elder daughter, learning
that her sister proposed to elOpe from
the seminary, had sent the message re-
ceived.
The elopement occurred in the follow
ing manner: Young Abrams drove to
where his aflianced was, who had gotten
excused from school that day on the
plea of sickness, but was watched by her
elder sister, detailed as nurse, and ON
driving to the enclosure he waved a
handkerchief, the sign for her to GENE,
and, despite the resistance of her sister,
she walked pluckily, without her bonnet
to the buggy, got in and the two drove
toward franklin, Ala, a distance of
twenty miles, where they could procure
license and get married. To provide
against successful pursuit by the superin-
tendent of the seminary young Abrams
had hired all the horses and buggies,
giving strict orders not to allow any
body to get them without an order from
him. II was fully half an hour before
the superintendent was made acquainted
with the facts, and when he did learn
them his first move was to hire a horse
and buggy, but wherever he went horses
and buggies were engaged. He finally
had to start in pursuit on horseback, but
the two were then miles away, going
ahead. Amer they traversed ten miles
they got a fresh horse and buggy, which
had been prepared and went on with
renewed speed. In the meantime the
superintendent had nearly given ont.
They arrived AT Franklin and were mar
ried and on returning picked up the
superintendent, whom Mr.. and Mrs.
Abrams carried back home in one OF
their buggies.
The scheme was a success and the
welded pair met their parents at the
depot the next day on their arrival. 1t
was too late to make any opposition and
the family of the two had general fra
The Osceola times., 1883-08-18
Taking Care of Clothes.
Rosella Rice, in Arthur's Magazine.


If the little Dakota wife's young hus-
band gets a good wetting in his best
clothes, she must put them in shape or
show him how. Hang the coat on a
chair-back and the pantaloons over a
towel.horse. Do not hang them on pegs
or they will dry all a-twist and he will
look as if he had been distorted over a
spasm of st. Nitus' dance. 1t will not
take one long to fold the coat, turn the
collar up, double the sleeves, bring the
skirts up to the collar-the cloth folded
upon cloth--double down the back, and
leave the length suitable for packing
well. Coat sleeves should be gently, out
firmly, stretched full length, and when
the garment is to be laid away in a ward.
rode they must be doubled with the
crease at the elbow. Pantaloons must
be folded just the same as when they are
bought but at first get out the creases
from the knees. To be kept looking well
they must be occasionally dampened
with a sponge well wrung out, placed in
the same folds, wrapped in brown paper,
and laid under weight, say a trunk.
Clothes cost SO much that they should
be well cared for. We add these sug-
gestions for the benefit Of these women.
We have learned great deal about the
care of mems wear from the wife of the
poor little preacher, whom we see every
Monday morning from our window
hanging out and busting and sponging
and renovating 'his" one humble suit
of clerical, best black. In spite of her
cunning and handy touches, they begin
to wear sooty tint, but her love-anoin-
ted eyes do not detect the ravages Of
time. She, poor martyr, thinks they are
jet black, lustrous, satiny, beautiful and
consecated, every thread and every