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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-11-17
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That the season for buildin
and repairing is close at hand,
any 0ite having contracts to let,
in town or country, sh0uId call
on w. x. STEWART, C0ntrac.
tor and Builder, three doors
north Of the Clifton Hotel, OF
tawa. Rates low. and perfect
satisfaction guaranteed. Con-
tracts taken for PlaStering or
Chimney Work separate from
Building Contracts. Bailding
Paper for sale cheap,
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The Paby on the Cars.

The Baby on the Cars.
There was baby on car OF The
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
road yesterday afternoon.
lt-a baby in long clothes is always
An twas loaded TO the muzzle wit.
cry. 1t was little thing, not more
than twofect long, but it had more cry
coiled up in it than You would suppose
could be slowed away in baby rs bic
rs Il town constable. What wouldn't
an auctioneer give for that baby
capacity!
We'll the train and the baby got Z
rood, even start, and for scycrl. miles
the passengers looked on with in'orcS,
in the race Almost anybody would
bet, on-hand that bGbv's steam would
run down before an ENGINES, uUt if You
knew this particular baby You would
dsdain all illegal propositions and de-
clare yourself mot Il betting cuarac-
ter which, by the way j. most
righteous declaration when you nave
no sure thing.
The poor, young mother OF this porta-
ole noise factory was crimson with ON
DarraSsmcnt. for Of course every pas
scngcr looked ut her and seemed to her
10 say: "Whv don't You shut up that
squalling bra,?'
Presently man with long flowing
beard came up the aisle, chuckcd the
baby under the chin, made q horrid
yrimacc and sjmpored, 'Da, da, da,
tUollc t. jooty.
vho b,L, v.n. r,.,ino, ps louI "a il
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In some families cleanliness is not
next to godlineSs by several blocks. A
Virginia woman named Mrs Miller.
who had been suffering from n debili-
tated spine or something OF the kind,
publishes card in which she SAYS:
AFTER taking three bottles of the Ale
viator | did n large washing. which l
had not done for three years before"
A woman who was as lazy rs that need
ed medicine 81 some kind
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a New England lady was asking her
COOK the other day about waitrc 8 she
proposed to hire, and said: MARY, is
she irlsh' mo, ma am" said Mary
shes American" what is her n,u,e
Mary Bridget o Connor, ma'am. y
why, then. Of course she's Irish,
Mary, mo, ma'am; she was born in
Lynn. 'Oh. but that makes no diff
ference, Mary; she is not an American. +"
"Weli. In faith. perhaps she amt,
ma'am. They tell me the real ones /,
red" 0''' 20
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Short Hand Reporters.

A shorthand writer has become one
OF the necessities OF modern lie, but 1t
Is great mistake to assume, as so
many people seem to do, that Journal
ISIS must first become expert in the art
II they would ever amount To anything.
, MOI one newspaper man in dozen re-
sorts to shorthand writing or is famil-
Jar with it, and ii is only on special oc-
casionS, when great detail and cxacti-
tude are required, that the trained
shorthand writer is summoned in.
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A Memphis girl was committed to
prison at the request of her parents.
Tor persistiug in running after bass
singer belonging to II colored minstrel
troupe. Jailed for fishing for black
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freight trains carrying passengers leave Ottawa az
follows: For Earl, 80 A. VI; for Aurora. lot5 A. x;
for Strrat0r, - =. o.. j.lA T. y, and 6lI p. VI.
Morning train makes close connection at Aurora Tor
Al points east md west.
PulNan Palace Sleeping Care. c r. & q. Drawis.
Room cara, Horizons Reclining Chair Cara, nnd the c.
g. e Q Pa ace Dining Cars, by this route All Aorma.
ton about rate, Of fare sleeping car accommodations
and time tables vii he Ch"ert1llv given nv annyng 80
PFRClNAL LOWELL,
General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
TUOs. !. IOTTEE. -
General Manager, Chicago. ]. II. hAhElN,
AGENT n GtTaSl
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A Mistaken Idea.

AS soon as a boy leaves school and
looks about to see what he shall do
next, he is very likely to be told by
some unwise person, "'The world owes
you a living" This probably strikes
him as being a very wise remark, and
the boy says to himself, "If it is true
that the world owes me living, then
I'm all right" He finds place, aud
goes to work manfully; but after a
time he concludes that there is no fun
in it, and he stops to consider; "If
the world owes me a living, why
should | trouble myself? Let the
world pay its debt to me-" Suddenly
he loses his place and has nothing to
do. He is surprised, and wonders
why the world does not give him his
due. ga nice bed, warm clothes, and
regular dinners are good things, and
ought to have them. The world owes
them to me, and if I don't get then
I've been cheated out of my rights"
AT one time this country was vii
derness, where no man could live, saw,
by fighting the wild beasts, Some
one chased away the bears and wolves
cut down the forests, laid out roads
built towns, and dug canals. Some
body spent vast sums of money in con
structing railroads, steamboats,, docks
lighthouses, schools, Libraries and al
the fine things you enjoy so freely
More than this, somebody pays tn
policeman, the fireman, the soldier
sailor the lighthouse-ke keeper an,
school-master,
From the day you were born you
father and mother have fed, clothed
and sheltered you, 1t has cost yor
nothing None of these great publ
works, roads, canals, towns, navie,
and armies cost you anything. Ho,
can you say the world owes you
living? Is it not you who are i
debt ? What has boy done to deserv
all this .? Not thing. 1t is you VIII
must pay-not the world.
| All boys, he was foolish creatur
who first said, THE world owes me
living. lie told very silly fabl,
| ~ WIN 'N'S nv ilJdu IL llNlIlO u
he has done some worthy deed, som
good work to make the world bette
and tairer place to live in Thos
old fellows who dug canals and lai
out towns, who built cities and invent
ed all these splendid things,-thes
telegraphs, these ships, these magnif
cent engines,-had the right idei
They worked manfully, and the worl
at last did owe them a living, an
paid it many times over. If you mea
to get out of the great debt you ow
the world, do something, go to wor
and show you are man Then, whe
You have the world you can work,
VIII gladly pay you living, and I'll
Inner and more noble your work I'll
greater will be your reward Fro,
"A Fable for Boys" By chart
Cornard, IN 80. Nicholas for May
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Gold in PennylYania.

There's countless millions of gold in
Pennsylvania, but tits not gold bearing
quartz or in gulch diggings 1t is in
the fertile fields, the rich and exhaust
less iron aud coal mines, the priceless
forests and the honest industry of our
own people. DR.. Kreitzer & Co. may
enthuse over supposed gold mines at
Myerstown, Berks county, and they
may have faith enough to invest in
quartz mills but they wont grow rich
on the production of the golden metal,
simply because it is not to be found in
Pennsylvania save in the faintest ira
ces
Gold-bearing rock is as we'll known
by scientists as is coal-bearing soil, and
the exhaustive geological examinations
which have been made from time to
time in Pennsylvania forbid the belief
that gold will ever be found here in
paying quantities. 1t has been traced
in several instances in our State, but
there is nothing to Justify the belief
that gold-mining can ever be a remu-
nerative pursuit in the belt east of the
Ohio and north of the Potomac. There
is gold in virginia--much more than in
Pennsylvania, but all the money invest
ed there for its production has found
its way to the profit and loss side of
the books. South of Virginia, gold
has been produced for more than a
century, but there, as elsewhere, the
cost has exceeded the profit.
1t is one of the wisest economies of
nature that the average cost of produc-
ton of gold is nearly two dollars for
every dollar added to the value of the
precious metal. fit were otherwise,
gold would soon cease to maintain its
supreme and fixed value If it was
sufficiently abundant to be produced
with the same general profit that the
field, the forest, the ordinary mine and
mill produce as the reward of industry,
the standard of gold value would be
destroyed and all the channels of in.
dustry would be paralyzed but even
the hundreds of millions of the prec
iols metals produced in California, Ne
vada, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, New
4
Mexico and Arizona have cost two
hundred millions for every hundred
million added to the wealth of the
world. In Nevada, where the richest
mines OF the continent have been oper-
ated, the losses exceed the profits more
than two dollars for one and the history
of the world exhibits no escape from the
inexorable law of nature that has main.
tanned the actual value of gold, in &C
cord with Its intrinsic value as the fl
nest metal, by making the cost double
the value of the production.
There's plenty of gold in Pensylva
MIA but it IS in her honest, patient in
dustry that makes the fields to blossom
and ripen, the forests to deliver theil
wealth, the mines to give up their riches
and the mills and shops TO requite tn,
laborer. All searches for gold in Penn
sylvania, other than for the products
OF industry and trade which command
it in the markets of the world, mus
simply repeat the old, old story of dis
appointment and misfortune.
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"' BLOOMSBURG Pa. FRIDAY. MAY A. 1883.

DIR. Winthrop now suddenly awoke
to his duties, and from the dream of
gain which had enthralled him after
the decease of his first wife. Again
was he sitting in his lonely room, and
gazing around in bewilderment. The
fire was going out in the grate the can.
die was wasting and fluttering upon the
table, and still, as when an hour ago he
had fallen asleep, the dismal November
rain beat against the windows. The
doctor rubbed bis eyes, looked eagerly
around him, and then fervently ejacn-
lated, "Thank heaven Ill Y...t
The next evening found DR.. Wiu-
throp guest at Rose Lawn. A week
later he was the accepted suitor of
sweet Annie Huntington, and it was
not many months before he led from
the altar happy bride
Home pictures, very different from
those seen in his dreams, greet the doc
tor now of an evening, and under the
quiet but efficient management of his
gentle wife the wrinkles have disap-
peared from his brow, the care from his
heart, and he is now prosperous and
happy man.
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Simon p. Kase has filed bill in
equity in Court of Common Pleas
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, the Danville, Hazleton and
Wilkesbarree, Jacob b. Casselberry,
Charles &. Rhodes, William Kinsey,
John w. Loeb, Isaac Eyer, James
Black aud Cyrus Hilburn. Kase, who
was largely interested in the Danville
Hazleton and Wilkesbarre Company,
declares that he was induced by Rhodes
to transfer his interest to Casselber-
ry in trust Rhodes, he says, became
responsible for the safe-keeping of his
stocks, bonds and judgments. Rhodes
and Casselberry We're enabled to con
troll the organization, and did so, he
AYERS, in the interest of the Pennsylva.
MIA Railroad. The latter corporation,
which had leased the Danville Halle
ton and Wllkesbarre, he alleges viola
ted their contract and no attempt was
made by the Danvlles directors to
hold them to strict account. The
Danville was sold out by the Sheriff
and the purchasers formed out Of the
Snnbury, Hazleton and Wilkesbarre
The purchase money, he AYERS, wa,
never actually paid The bill asks that
the sale of the Danville be declared
fraudulent and void that the defend
ants be obliged to pay him the value O.
his stock, bonds and judgments, will
interest since 1875, and that the pres
ent managers of the Sudbury, Hazletor
and Wilkesbawe Road be RESTRAINED
from making any further issue of cap
ital stock. Times. r..... .....
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An Indian on his Race.

A real "sure enough" live Indian, in
genuine Indian war paint, costume
and feathers, entertained the young
people of Christian Street M. f.
Church, Philadelphia, last week, by
his portrayal of incidents of Indian
life and edited the elders by his reci
tation of Indian wrongs and sugges-
tions for their amelioration. "Sure
Enough" is a Mohawk Indian the son
of chief and Methodist minister.
He is now o5out sixty years old and
since he was nine years of age has
been among white people. AT that
age he was taken from the Mohawk
tribe by wealthy New York state
gentleman and educated. When he
was fourteen years old his parents
were slain by the whites. AT the age
of nineteen he became an Indian mis-
sionary, for many years being employ
ed as a sub.agent by the Federal Gov
ernment in lis dealings with the
Indians. AS he delivered his lecture
in Mohawk dress he constantly re-
minded his hearers that in talking of
the Indians wrongs he was appealing
for his own people.
'The civilization of the white man."
be said, "has been the destruction of
my people, but the greatest engine of
evil has been the accursed invention of
the evil one, what the Indians term
the white mans 'firewater. ~ He
thinks the origin of the American
dates from the time and race of the
lost tribes, and some of the crews of
the ships that Solomon sent 20 Ophir
for fine gold, that never returned,
landed somewhere upon the shores of
America. This argument he thinks is
made stronger by the facts that over
seven hundred Hebrew words CORE
spond to words in the English Ian
guages of America, and that among
even those tribes that know nothing of
civilization there exists forms of free
masonry. Contrasting the natural
qualities of the Indian with those he
acquires by civilization, he says the
Indian cannot swear unless he learns
another language than his own; in
his natural state he does not steal from
his neighbor, and is friendly to the
white man. Concluding he said
"Justice has never been done my peo-
ple | ask no mercy for them; give
us only justice. You might even give
us representation in Congress. We
should surely not be greater fools than
some that are there. If we should, |
hope none Of us may ever be sent
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A Long Standing Lie Nailed.
| SENATOR WALLACE CoRRECTS AN ANCIENT
LIBEL RECENTLY REvAMPED.

TO THE EDITOR OF TIE PHILADELPHIA
EVENING TELEGRAPH: In leading edi-
torial in your paper of Thursday, April
10, the crimes of forging naturalization
papers and tax receipts, and of their
use for political purposes, are charged
upon me, as they repeatedly have been
by other newspapers
l have borne these libellous charges
in silence as long as my duty to myself
and to those who are to come after me
permits. | deny all completely with,
or responsibility for, any such action by
any one. At no time in either my pro
fessional Or political life have l ever
aided, abetted, or knowingly permitted
the crimes thus charged upon me. If
they were committed during my chair
mansbip of the democratic state COM
mittee of Pennsylvania, it was without
my knowledge and in violation of my
plainly defined policy as the head of my
party. There are yet living plenty of
witnesses who can afiirmatively prove
my innocence of these oft-repeated
falsehoods.
In being silent hitherto, have acted
on the belief that the people among
whom live were the best judges of
their truth or falsity. Since their ori-
gin in heated political campaign, by
a personal enemy, fifteen years ago, l
have been four times chosen to the
state senate, each time leading my par
tv, and three times nominated and once
elected to the United States senate. l
refer to these as evidence of the opin-
ions of the people among whom l
dwell as to my personal record.
Surely, if | were forger and po-
litical leper, as some newspapers de-
clare me, these things could not have
happened.
If the public man, whom you say
has been an ''active, able and industri
Gus legislator" remains longer silent
under these baseless charges, they will
become .crystallzed into political histo-
ry false an untounded though they be.
| Under our political system the pub
lie man has much to bear, of criticism
and injustice from the political press
but | trust that the press will not deny
to one of them who seeks to do his du
ty, as he sees it, to the people of his
native state, the publication of this em
phatic denial of long endured cal
umuy. Very respectfully yours,
WILLIAM A WALLACE.
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A Cry PouLTRY-RAlsERs' SUCCESS.
An indianapolis paper gives some as
tonishlng figures about the egg crop of
one of its citizens, in this wise: ''IIe
owns "a hens of mixed breeds, which,
under his careful management, have
laid during the four cold months, No
vember to February, 100 dozen and 9
eggs. This is more than ten eggs
each day for the flock, or an average
of almost three week for each biddy
This is certainly fine record, consid
ering the severe weather that prevailed
during most of the time. Our friend
has clean, warm, we'll ventilated quar-,
ters, and gives his fowls u variety OF
food at regular hours, Scraps OF
meat and crushed bones form part OF
their bill of fare, and gravel and lime
are literally provided, and coal oil i,
frequently applied to the perches, &c
No artificial heat is used, nor are an,
expensive methods employed in any
way Good common sense treatmen,
is adopted, and the hens respond liber
ally, as they always will under sucl
circumstances,
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Hard and Soft Water.

The hardness or softness Of a water
depends upon the amount of mineral
ingredients which it contains. These
mainly consist of carbonate and sui
phate of lime, the former giving rise
to what is called temporary hardness
ii being tor the most part removable
by continued boiling, whereby it be-
comes encrusted as chalk upon the in
side of the vessel in which the water
is boiled and the latter to permanent
hardness, because it is not thus re-
movable A very hard water is iniur-
ious for drinking purposes, because its
power as a solvent for food is impair.
ed, and because it is absorbed by the
stomach with greater difficulty than
soft water, thus giving rise to indiges-
ton or dyspepsia,
In addition to the long train of dis
tressing symptoms which are included
under the term dyspepsia, there is
strong evidence to prove that the ha.
bitual drinking of very hard water
also gives rise to goitre, disease asso-
ciated in many places with that fear
full form of idiocy known as cretinism.
In many parts of England gtitre is
found to prevail only in those districts
where the magnetism limestone for,
nation is abundant. In some districts
in switzerland the use of certain spring
waters of unusual hardness has been
followed by the production or augmen-
tation of the disease in a course of {
few days, and similar results have fire
quently been observed in India
Pref Simpson
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Three Ways of Lite.


A certain rich man being reminded
by the increasing weight of years that
he would never be any younger, and
must one day go the way of all flesh,
called about him his three sons, whom
he thus addre ,sed ....
"My children, when | die all | have
will be yours, but in addition to the
property which l shall divide among
you equally have ring in which is
set diamond of great value. This |
intend for him who after a twelve
month shall have made the greatest
advance toward success in life. Here,
take each of you one of those purses con-
tanning hundred pieces of silver, go
out into the world, and at the expira-
ton of the time prescribed return, that
| may judge which among you de-
serves the prize"
Thereupon the sons received their
fathers blessing, and, taking the pur-
ses of silver, went away. But when
year and day were passed they re-
turned and presented themselves be
fore their father, and it appeared they
had chosen widely different means of
gaining common end.
MY father" said the eldest, "with
a part of the hundred pieces of silver
thou gavest me bought a certificate
setting forth my great skill in healing
the sick. | cultivated my beard and
put on my glasses that l might appear
to be man of learning. l gave out
that | was able to cure all known dis
eases; l administered bread pills and
sweetened water to all who placed
themselves under my care, and as a
result have gained wealth to the ex-
tent of 1000 pieces of gold"
"My son. remarked the parent, we'll
pleased, "truly, thy cheek is colossal"
"My father" then said the second
youth, "with thy hundred pieces of
silver | purchased votes by which l
secured to myself a government con-
tract. engaged to transport the
mails for one thousand pieces of gold
per annum, and by exceeding prudence
of management l have garnered profits
upward of fifteen hundred pieces of
gold"
verify, thy prudence is monumen-
tal,' exclaimed the delighted father,
''but thy brother mas not yet spoken
"With one of thy pieces of silver,
o my father" began the youngest son,
81 bought some tools and became a
plumber" .....
"My son, thou pride of my heart y
cried the enraptured old man, falling
on his neck, while the happy tears
conrsed down his aged cheeks, "thou
needst say no more. Thon hast clear
ly shown that thou hast discovered the
true road to success, 1t is to thee
without question, the ring belongs,
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TnE UNKNOWN DEAD OF SEVEN
PINEs,-Some farmers, in plowing the
old battle field of Seven Pines, have
brought up large numbers OF bones of
soldiers who fell and We're buried there.
Many of the skeletons are encircled
with leather belts with the brass plates
SC. ), A" upon them. Some years
ago the bones of what were supposed
to be the Union soldiers who fell there,
abouts We're taken mp and buried in
the National Cemetery. 1t was, how
ever, IN large measure, guess work
aud the bones plowed up now are be
lieyed to include those of many Union
soldiers also No steps have beer
taken towards getting the remains to
gether and properly burying them, but
ex'Confederates are speaking of organ
lzlng measures TO this end
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