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READING hv The Heads.

Intelligent readers of newspapers may
we'll be surprised To learn that there is
(among unintelligent readers) n belief
that letter postage has been reduced
from three to two cents per half-ounce.
1t seems almost incredible that persons
who can read and write should have
gained this notion merely from the
printed headings in the daily journals
But it is likely that the deluded people
who have besicged the pOstofiice clerks
with requests to exchange three-cent
stamps for two-cent stamps, under the
impression that the former are no long
er Of any use, have gained this scrap Of
news from the hasty reading of dis
play head in newspaper. There are
people who pride themselves on their
ability to pick up all the really desirable
news OF the day in this manner. They
are "too busy to read anything more
than q headline. But when it comes to
trading old stamps for new on the basis
of information acquired on the wing. as
it were, the necessity of taking little
time for the sake of accuracy is appar-
ent. IN y. Times.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24
Curious Things About Animals.

Naturalists say that q single swallow
will devour 5000 flies day.
The army worms in Lyons county, Ky.
are being destroyed by myriads of small
ants.
4 curious sea turtle was found short
time ago off the shore at Manasquan, N.
j., in sieve net by some fishermen;
the turtle has flanges instead of feet; its
weight is 1000 pounds.
A Belgian sparrow has literally built
her nest in the lions mouth, having
made her home in the jaws of the mon
umental lion surrounding the Belgie
mound on the field of Waterloo.
A short time ago, while getting out
stone in his quarry a mile south of
Kokomo. Ind, George w. Defenbough
splita massive slab ndfound embedded
in the solid rock n lizard Of light color
alive and active.
A very large coach whip snake meas
uring eight feet in length, and rs large
rs an ordinary mans leg below the
knee, visited the burrow OF q rabbit at
Madison, Fla, and took therefrom a
young one nearly half grown. The old
rabbit jumped on the snake, seized the
young rabbit, and tried to rescue it. The
snake held its head above the reach of
The old rabbit, and escaped with its
prey.
A native named Kahalc, while fishing
at Maliko, caught very small fish in
his hand. He tried tokill it by biting the
back of its head. The fish gave sud
den spring, and, escaping from his
hand, darted into his throat, entirely
closing the aperture and lodging half
way down. At first all efforts to dis
lodge it were unavailing. twas feared
that the man would choke to death. At
last, by being placed in afavorable pos
ition and making final effort, assisted
by friend, the fish was elected.
Two transfers coming to HALEY
from Vienne, New, camped near tho
timber above Boulder. Ono went out
for game, while the other was to make
bread. AS he got out the sack Of salt
cinnamon bear approached, The
teamster held out handful cfssft. The
bear licked the hand clean 'stid asked
for more. The third hatiel*sl was dis
appearing when the other teamster re-
turned, took the trace chains and some
rope and bound the bear tightly. His
bearship stood size tying with good
humor, and was placed in the wagon
and brought 70 HALEY.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24
Made Cheaply and Paid for Dearly.

To show the enormous profits made
by gas companies the following figures
have been ascertained from scientific
gentleman who has for several years
been interested in gas production:
"You will be surprised to learn. per-
haps, that the coal used by the larger
companies costs them nothing, that ia to
say, their profits are 50 large that they
entirely wipe out the origina! cost OF the
coal.
LET me give you outside figures:
One ton of coal costs. say 50, which
leaves liberal margin on the actual
figure paid for it. Add cost of convert
ing it into gas, -. This makes a total
outlay Of 81.
Now, from this ton there is given on
an average 1900 feet Of gas. which at
- % per 1000 will realize $50 20. To
this amount add the proceeds of a cal
dron OF coke usuallyi it is n caldron and
u half,) say 80, which with the value of
the tar-worth about seventy-tivc cents
brings the total receipts from one ton
of coal up to S24. Deduct from this the
cost of the ton and the labor of convert
inc it into gas. and you have total
profit of $l7. So that actually the coal
costs the gas companies merely the cost
of Inversion.
"Of course there must be an allow
ancc made for wear and tear, but ~ the
plant and other apparatus have long
ago been paid for out of past profits. |
have not included them in my calcua-
tion N Y Journal
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24
He Got Even.

A Chicago Spectator whose little cor
ners and other games had been several
times exploded by Il certain newspaper,
didn't 20 rushing around with a club to
mash somebody. He simply said to his
secretary. when he could stand it nc
longer:
James, ascertain who writes those
attacks on me in the R0aror."
1T is John Smith. sir"
Then give him sly hint tina; pork
is to 20 mp next week.
Yes. sir"
The hint was conveyed TO John Smith,
and he scraped his pockets. mortgaged
his house and drained his friends fol
cash Ia put into pork.
Then porl, tumbled. So did john
Smith. Then the stock reporter of the
Bstigcl published the fact that the stock
reporter of the Rourer had bought on q
falling market and been scooped Hence
his auimuS Hence the animus of all
future reports. Hence the handicapped
Roarer. Hence the grand bounce fot
John Smith. See?
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A Cheap Substitute For a Birthday Party.

A Cheap Substitute For a Birthday Party.
Mrs. Moses Schaumburg mentioned
to her husband that she was going TO
get up little birthday party for Isaac,
their youngest son, but Nose objected
strongly, as it wonld cost too much
money, for cake, etc.
"But," demonstrated Mrs. Schaum
burg. Il have promised dot little poy,
Isaac, makes him some fun on his
birthday"
DOT wash all right" replied Nose,
putting his finger to his nose, and wink
ing very slyly ut Mrs. Schaumburg. 81
tells You, Rebecca. how VIC makes dot
little boy Isaac much happiness mitout
any expenshes at all. You know dot
poy Isaac every nighS takes dose OF
dol vermifuge for worms, but he likes
dot vermifuge not Now l tells you val
We does NIT dot Roy Isaac to celebrate
his birthday nit On his birthday we
gives him dot vermifuge not, and den
he wash better pleashed as if he had a
barty vat cost dollar and half for cakes
and dcsc udder foolishness. \. o.
Times
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

"A large part Of the Bahama Islands
is devoted TO pineapple culture. A mill
ion and half Of fruit have been col
lected from single acre" says BOs-
ton agricultural paper. The pineapple
grows very much like our cabbages.
and produce but one fruit TO plant.
As 100000 pineapples TO the acre
would be thirty to the square yard. or
three and one-third to the square foot,
we suppose they must be a very small
kind OF pineapple that our contemporary
is speaking of. The real yield. accord
to the Florida Dispatch, i about 1000
per acre.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24
Nothing Short Of UnmistakabIe
Benefits

Nothing short Of UnmistakabIe
Benefits
Conferred upon tens Of thousands OF
sufferers could originate and maintain
the reputation which AYERS SARsA-
PARiLLA enjoys. 1t is compound OF
the best vegetable alternatives, with tho
Iodidcs of Potassium aud Iron, all
powerful, blood-making, blood-cleansing
and DEMONSTRATING and is the most
efectual of all remedies for scrofp-
lous, mercurial, or blood disorders.
Uniformly successful and certain, It
produces rapid and complete cures Of
Scrofula, Sores, Boils, Humors, Pin,7
Piles, Eruptions, Skin Diseases and alS
disorders arising from impurity Of the
blood. BY its invigorating effects 10
always relieves and often cures Liver
Complaints, Female Weaknesses anti
Irregularities, and Is a potent reneweb
Of waning vitality. For purifying tho
blood 1t has no equal. 1t tones up tho
system, restores and preserves tho
health. and imparts vigor and energy.
For forty years it has been in extensive
use, and Is to-day the most available
medicine for the suffering sick.
For sale by all druggists.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

Among the recent boiler au:5,it.cs.
says iron, was the discover, ~ 9. p!a,e
OF plate covering = space of about siN
inches square. full of fire crack. These
cracks had evidently come from defect
in the iron in the first instance. but The
boiler had been run for two years Al
from eighty to ninety pounds pressure.
aud the boiler inspectors had just pro
nounced 1t perfectly safe for ore mn
dred pounds.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24
We Want

A good agent and correspondent in every
town in the county. We viii pay GOOD
men, who send with their applications
good references, liberal commission on
all new business sent us. Young men
with little to do during the next two
months can make spending money with
hut little work. Make applications i'm
mediately. WV. OsMAN & SoN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

In response TO the advertisement OF =
Boston merchant for "saeswomen,'
but few applications were made. The
next day he advertised for ''salesladies," "
and by 8 O'clock he was obliged to hang
out n sign, positions all filled"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

\ torpid liver, n stomach out Of order, d..
gestive apparatus weak, and the brain in con.
sequence Of these disorders over sensitive 10
exertion or to any unusual circumstances,
and the formula for crank" Is complete
Ayers Pills will rouse the liver, regulate the
functions Of the stomach and bowels, the
tired brain will be relieved, and the head re
rune It's wontea level
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

Freight trains carrying passengers 'eave ottawa ~
follows: For Earl ~ 4. NJ: for Aurora luis A ~.
SOr Streator 6. % A. ". 5,lj y, ~. and tSi y. 81.
Morning train MAKES close connection ~ Aurora fcr
~ points east and west.
Pa,lylaa Palace Sleeping Cars, c p. & Z. Drawlss
Room Cars, Horizons Reclining Chair Care, and the u
r. Il o. Palace Dining Cars, by thus route. All 4aorns-
ton about rates of fare sleeping car accommodations
r,i re tables VIII b. cheetfuY gwen hv sppyingf 70
PERCIVAL LOWELL,
general Passenger ArcGt, Chicago,
Itus. !. FbsrER.
General Manager. Chicago. I. u. MARVIN.
Agent 81 0tSs-a.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

Their is rumor that Nilsson is to
marry again, = Scn". Angel dc Miranda.
whose m0tber was g0vsrncss TO Mer-
cedes. and m=dc 4 marchioness. He is
q ns;gralize,i slrrrhman.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

Nos and ~ leave and arrive .. Chicago daily (SnG-
l.y eyccpted' At iij p n. an1 1910 ". respectively
Nos. u and II run daily, iuclGding Sundays.
Nos. y and - Viii have passenger cOSCR, c~rrylsE
passengers between joliet Snd 70 sale.
Nos. y and p carry passengers hess,'eE eiSe issno
ani II Sale.
No . carries ps,s gers between OctGws and Blue -
land d. Y. Cabs. Gen' Manager.
= er JoRN <. p FEIEBILE,
Gsnl TIT A. PSs. NJ. Agent 80 ottawa
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

willcure dyspepsia, heartburn, mala-
ria, kidney disease, liver complaint,
and other wasting diseases.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

is the only Iron preparation thai
does not color the teeth, and will not
cause headache or constipation, as
other Iron preparations will.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

Ladies and all sufferers from neu-
ralgia, hystera, and kindred com
plants, will find it without an equal
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-02-24

cnriches the blood and puriies the
system; cures weakness, lack Of
energy, etc. Try j bottle.
E.ss><<zISxuyyxyyl
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25
Two Girls Worth Having.

Miss Adah Parker, a girl of Is,
lives on a cotton plantation two
miles from Monroe, La. For the
last four years she has had exclu-
sive charge of the place upon which
her widowed mother, sister and two
younger brothers reside, support
ing them all by her industry. She
is her own overseer, SUPERVISING all
work done in person, and no Draw
ny son of Ceres knows better how
to raise crop or handle labor. The
place consists of 200 acres, all in
cotton, averaging from one half to
three-quarters of bale of cotton to
the acre. Miss Parker is said to be
lovely intelligent, and as moderate
as she is energetic.-Fla. Dispatch.
Miss Lizzie Frazier, a blooming
and pretty young lady, who lives
between this city and Blue Tent,
has been engaged to take her ia
theirs moving machine over to
Getchelrs slickens ranch and cut
seven or eight acres of alfalfa.
Miss Frazier left school last year,
having obtained a good enough
book education for all practical
purposes, and since then she has
been helping her father on the
farm. She is worth a ten-acre lot of
lah-de-dah girls, and the young
man who gets her for a wife will get
something worth having Nevada,
(Col. J Transcript.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25
An Editnr's Lifa

One of the beauties and charms
of an editors life is in his dead
heading it on occasion. No enc
who has never Toasted on the sweets
of that bliss can begin to take in
the glory of its happiness. He does
500 worths of advertising for a
railroad, gets .'pass" for year,
rides $25 worth and is then looked
upon as q dead head or half.
blown dead beat. He puffs a con-
cert troupe $40 worth and gets 81
in complimentaries, and is thus
passed ''free." If the hall is
crowded he is begrudged the room
he occupies, for if his complimenta-
ries were paying tickets the troupe
would be so much in pocket. He
blows and puffs a church festival
free to any desired extent and does
the poster printing at half rates and
rarely gets ''thank you for it. 1t
goes as part of his duty as an edi-
tor. He does more work gratui-
tously for his own town and com
munity than all the rest of the pop
ulation put together, and gets
cursed for it all, while in many in
stances where a man who donates a
few dollars to Fourth of July eel
ebration base ball club, or church,
is gratefully remembered. Oh, it is
a sweet thing to be an editor. He
passes "free," you know.-EX.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25

CINE knew our danger and had hel
fears. Neither the fireman nor my
self spoke another word.
Thanks to Cod The engineer
on the express train, seeing US tear
ing down that mountain with an
eighth of mile of solid fire in
close pursuit of US, knew in a mo-
m Mt that only one thing could save
us. He whlstled for brakes, and
got his train to a stand not ten feet
away from the switch. The switch
man now answered our signal, and
we shot in ON the Shore track and
whizzed on up by the depot and
through the place like a rocket.
The burning cars followed us in, of
course, but their race was run.
They had no propeling power now,
and after chasing us for mile they
gave up the pursuit, and in three
hours there was nothing left of them
but smoking ruins
"My fireman and / were so weak
that when we brought our locomo-
tive to stop we could not get
out of the cab. The two horsem n
were unconscious in the hox-car.
The horses were ruined. And how
long do you think we were in max
ing that sixteen miles? We ran two
miles up the Lake Shore track. |
Just twelve minutes from the Sum
nit to that spot where we stopped!
plumb eighty miles an hour, not
counting the time lost getting un-
Ter Roadway and stopping beyond |
Brocton."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25
Does Farming Paw?

If nothing is made by farming
how did all the personal property
get into the world, and most of it
into the hands of people that never
produced a cents worth directly
Where do the merchants, specula-
tors, manufacturers, lawyer, &c, &C.,
get it? Gold, silver and diamonds,
iron, copper, lead, ETC., come from
the mines, but they would not be
worth a cent without meat and
bread to back them. The fact is,
the whole fabric of wealth, prospect
ty and happiness is based on meat
and bread, and these come only
from the farmer. Reverse the fool
and it will come nearer
the truth. All that is made, comes
from farming. If the farmer fails
to get the benefit of his labor, that
is his lookout, and show that there
are sharper people in the world than
the farmers,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from prac-
tice, having had placed in his hands by
an East India missionary the formula
of simple vegetable remedy for the
speedy and permanent cure of Con-
sumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma,
and all throat and lung affections, also
a positive and radical cure for nervous
debility and all nervous complaints, af-
ter having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt
it his duty to make it known to his suf-
,ering fellows. Actu .ted by this motive
and desire to relieve human suffering,
will send free of charge. to all who
desire it, this recipe, in German, French
or English, with full directions for pre-
pairing and using. Sent by mail by adj
dressing with stamp, naming this paper,
w. A. MOVES, l49 Powers Block, Roch-
ester. N. Y. aug30-eOW-1vr-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25
Happiness.

Cnntentnnncnt with ones lot is
o'?>c of the principles of happiness.
The American people are prone to
be restless and dissatisfied with
their surroundings. They are con
stantly longing for something diff
ferent, which they imagine will be
better, because it is at a distance.
They ignore the fact that happiness
originates in ones self-by being
contented with the present sur
roundings. Some imagine that if
they do not have to work they
would be happy, but the expert
ment has been tried by those who
have had the opportunity, and it
has been repeatedly demonstrated
that there is no recipe for health
and happiness like plenty of work.
The moral of this is to be content
ed with things as they come. If
the sky is cloudless and the sun
shines, and the earth is dry, it is
conditioning of things that are rem
dering one very comfortable and
capable of the greatest enjoyment.
If, on the other hand, the skies are
dark, it should be borne in mind
that those are the conditions that
are necessary to make a fertile
country, that season Of rain and
wet weather produces large quanti-
ties of grass, and both pastures and
meadows are filed with new life
j 4
series of years. Wet weather kills
and holds in check the insect world,
which in dry weather multiply so
much that they threaten the life
of crops and the fruit. Three wet
seasons add % per cent. to the pro-
ductiveness of the farm, while
three consecutive dry seasons do
much to impoverish it.-Br eeder's
Journal,
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the multitude, may have been check
ed by the discovery in these exam
pies of a truer happiness to be pur-
sued by q holier roadl
The best sermI n that can be
preached on the subject of riches
and their use is to point to these
noble lives. They are facts and
not stories. They can not be doubt
ed or denied. They lived among
US and left the truth established
concretely for the examination and
admiration of all. They have made
more glowing and striking the con-
trast between the pnre joys of bene-
ficence and the feverish excitement,
jealously, trickeries, dishonesties
and cruelties of the grasp for gain.
Many theoretic nostrums are re-
commended for diseased society,
but lives like those of Dodge and
Cooper give health wherever their
influence extends.-CentpFy Maya
zine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-10-25
Two Rich Men.

Two men have lately passed
ava from life among US whom we
should have been glad to make i'm
mortal. William E. Dodge and
Peter Cooper were conspicuous ex-
amples of men of wealth using their
wealth in promoting the wealth of
others. They, in their own man
ner of living, solved the problem of
capital and labor. If all rich men
followed their system, and found
riches to be only means of doing
go cd, all envy, jealousy and hatred
of the rich would fade from the
heats of the poor, and society
would be freed from one of its most
threatening dangers. But VIII ere
one rich man appreciates the true
use of wealth, hundred regard it
only as an instrument for luxurious
indulgence and vulgar dislay, or
for misery and meaningless hoard
ing. 1t is this false use of wealth
that loosens all the joints of society
and make our future uncertain.
The reason why the two men whom
we have named were fountains Of
BILE ssing is to be found not in de-
magogism, by which Tweed gives
coal to the poor as means to Sc
cure votes, but in a benevolence
which seeks the welfare of others
as it's end. Dodge and Cooper
sought no Office nor worldly honors.
They understood the Masters
words; sit is more blessed to give
than to receive" They had an
exquisite delight (such as the miser
or spendthrift never knew in an
economy of bcnevolence land made
it the business of their lives to min
lister to the wants of men. What
to the mass of men would be self
denial was to them the healthy out
flow of a generous spirit. To have
these streams dried up is a calami-
ty not only to those who were i'm
mediately benefited, but to the
whole city, which loses the force
of these living examples of virtue.
The great, greedy crowd of mon
ey-getters were rebuked and be-
wildered when they saw the venera-
BILE man of fourscore and ten still
planning how best to help the de-
servin poor. The weak creatures
who make up fashionable society
could not but get a glimpse of an
idea that there were higher prizes
than dog cats and yachts. And all
the paraphernalia of social distinc
ton.
Peter Cooper was the antipodal
energy to that of certain other rich
men in our community, dead and
living. The one energy came from
Heaven, the other came from a very
different place. The one infuses
health into the community; the one
poisons everything it touches.
The one energy is modest and low
ing; the other is brass browed as
satan, and stirs up the fires of hell
in the human breast.
To the youth of our city and
country the two benevolent lives t..
which we have referred have been a
useful lesson. How many of these
may have been brought over to the
practice of virtue by these honor
ed names. How many young men,
ready to start in the selfish life of