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Want Of Faith.

nc. VI. Forbes, the druggist, does not onc-
coed, it is not faith He has such faith IN DR..
Bosanko's Cough and LING Syrup, As a rem
cdy for coughs colds, consumption and lung
affections, that he will give a bottle free 10
each aud every one in need Of a medicine of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-23

What causes the rush at Forbes x Lor.
riaux's drug store" The free distribution OF
sample bottles of DIR. BUssnko's Cough and
Jung Syrup, the most popular remedy foI
coughs, colds, consumption and bronchitis
now on the market. Regular size 80 cents
and 81 90.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-23

Engineer Blai>dell, on the Bee Line ey-
press ran oven and killed a man about
eight miles north of Cleveland. about noon
"Wednesday. At night the same train g,.-
turning 20 Cleveland ran over and Killed
another man, who was walking en- lhy
track. The eng neer is CONSIDERED biaiI.-
iac=
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A WelI.Known Female Journals, Dies.

WASrHNGToN, Aug. la.-Mary Clemmel
(Mr>. Hudsonl died at her residence here
last nisht OF hemorrhsge of the brain.
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EINAL. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 9r

EINAI. St,TrI .FNIIINr.--ESrATg OF
l. SARAH KELLY, DECEASEu.-NutlCe Is hereby
given 10 all persons interested In said estate, that the
Undersigned ENeCutrN of the last vii and testament Of
said Sarah Kelly, deceased. viii appear before the
Probate Court of the county of Ii sale and STATE Of
Illinois, at the County Court houSe in Ottawa IN said
county Monday, the 18th day Of september D. 1884,
for the purpose of rendering account Of her prcted
ngs in the administration ut said estate for the final
settlement.
Dated AT Ottawa this 18th day Of August ISL.
MARY a. MALLAMY,
ATTEST: \. T. BARTEIS. ENecutriN.
Clerk Probate Court, la sale Co. III. auglb-lW
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For chappcd hands, face, lips and all rough
ness Of the skin, use Kaloderma. % cents
Sold by + Y. Grggs.
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legpl.
HENRY MAYO.

STATE OF ILLINOIS, la SALE CoUNTY-ss. IN
y he CbcHH court II saul cOHRtn. In Chdnce-y.
Benjamin f. Lincoln. complainant. Henry Ander-
son II a., defendants-BW fOT partition.
Public notice is hereby given that In pursuance Of
decree made and entered in the above entitled case at
the June term of said court 10 wit the 2ls day OF
July \. u. 1881, |, Edward G. Swift, Special Commits
soner appointed by said court carry into effect said
decree viii, such special commissioner Monday,
the first day of September 1884, NJ the hour % Two
o'clock In the afternoon Of said day sell az public
due 10 the highest and best bidder for cash. the
south door of the county court house In the city 0f OF
tawa, county of La Sale and state Of Illinois the follow
ing described real estate, viz: The west half y ~ the
southeast quarter 4 of Section Nine (9) In TOa nshlp
Thrtytwo (32) North. Range Three go East u the
Third t3dl Principal Meridian In the said county of La
Sale and state of Illinois.
Dated this second day OF August \. p. 1884,.
EDWARD &. SWIFT.
Special Commissioner.
HENpV al fprC nunIr v
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-08-23
Read the testimony of one of the
sufferers. David Little, Sum-
ner, Benner Co., Iowa, writes:

lam past n years of age, have had the Rheumatism
three years and eight months; lost oue-thrd Of my
weight; could not walk, but shuihed along on
crutches could not sleep; nerves shattered no
strength in my hands, wrists, knees or feet But
thanks be to God for your great discovery. The med
icine arrived Saturday night took dose Sunday
morning, felt il all over me, and kept ON with it.
Monday morning got mp and dressed myself, and
walked out into the kitchen without the aid OF crutch
cane, and wished them all happy New Year Irest
well nights, gaining in strength, and once more
enjoy life. Wish could put ATHLoPHoRos in the
hands Of every sufferer from this terrible disease,
II you cannot get ArHLoPHoRos Of your druggist,
lrIce-one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy
i from your druggist but If be hasn't IT, do not lie
persuaded to try something else, but order at once
from as directed
s!Hl0PH0R0s CO., 10 WALL ST., NEW YORK.
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The following Is interesting as showing
the small and modest beginnings of what is
now one Of the leading railroad systems in
the West 1t is taken from Chicago dali
" of 1853:
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Saving q Fugitive.

at was before the war. I was run
hing an engine on the,B. & o. In those
lays there were a good many slaves get
ing away from their masters in Vir-
yinia and making for Pennsylvania. So
.he owners dubbed together and estab-
ished a,patrol along, the B. & O. For
more than 100 miles they kept an aver
age of three men to every mile where
there vas timber, watching the track
nights With dogs and guns to catch any
slave that would attempt to cross. One
aight was running, q freight west All
Of sudden before me in the light from
my hesdlamp sawa colored man stand
ng on the track. He had heavy stick
IN his, hand and was fighting for life
with pack of dogs. Down the track
SAW three slave-hunters running to-
ward, the negro. L tell you it was
sight that made, MY blood boil. Act
ing on the impulse of the momenb shut
off steam, whisdsd down brakes, and
set up fearful whistling. also re-
leased the safeby-valve and made her
blow off steam. hoped to- brighten
the dogs, and did. They turned and
looked at the big light Of the engine,
ard some of them ran away. But the
slave was nearly as badly frightened
as the dogs. He stood motionless on
The track. To this day can. see his fig
ure as it was outlined against the dark
ness. 1t was a statue of despair. Fear
ing that we would run over him, clam
bered out to the pilot and shouted to
4 him just IN time. He reused with O.
start, jumped to one side. as 1 passed.
and called 60 him to get. on the train.
which by this time was RAINING slowly.
watched him get on, when gave her
full headOf steam. whissled off brakes,
and we sailed by the slave hunters
so fast that they could not get On.
They fired at me, but missed. Ny fire.
man carried my dinner bucket bach to
the nsgro. He devoured it like q
starving man. He must have bsen o
peculiar negro, for when my fireman
came back there wese streaks down his
coal-begrimed face. He had bean cry
ing. He said that aigger had embraced
him on the top of "a box-car. Ny bucket
was empty when ID came back, and then
tbs fireman took his back to- our pas
sNager. 1t was smptied, too. The man
was furnishing. Well, that shave got in
TO Ohio, and after an investigation my
case was laid before Mr.. Garrett. To
satisfy the ssave-owners he discharged
me, but got me a job on the Pennsylvania
Road, and paid me full. wages all the time
L was idle. Chicago Heralds "Trdin
Talk"
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gregate. IL is Just at sunset. All day
long he has been industriously filing
himself full of long, luscious worms,
and as nightfall comes his bird thought
turns to affairs more sentimental.
When he reaches the parade ground he
looks anxiously around, and if no sus-
picious noise jars on his sensitive ears
he begins with a low, Introductory
overture. Then he grows impatient
and utters loud, cultural bleatings,
clucking just before each one, Then
he struts up and down the messy bank
as if his performance gave him intense
satisfaction. Then he considers him.
self fairly introduced, and, taking wing,
rises in the air, flying up in spiral cir.
cles, each growing smaller as he
ascends. During this flight he utters u
low, sweet, cooling note. After sailing
about in series of aerial somersaults,
he swoops down to the spot of his start
ing. For hours he fools about, dis.
playing his wing performances, until at
last the female can no longer resist his
antics, and throwing coquetry, as Ham
let did the physic, to the dogs, she APP
proaches with ruffied feathers and dis.
heveled plumage. The two meet and
caress each other with every evidence
of affection and all the by-plays of love
thrown in, and locking their long bills
in each others grasp, as if too happy
for earth, they rise straight in the air
and fly far out of sight in the darkness.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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Fair Nosel whose rubies red have cost me many
a barrel
OF claret wine and white,
Who wearest in thy rich and sumptuous APP
parel
Such red and purple light
Great Nosei who looks at thee through some
huge glass at revel,
More of thy beauty thinks,
For thou resemblest not the nose of some poor
devil
Who only water drinks.
The turkey-cock doth wear resembling thee, his
wattles:
How many rich men now
Have not so rich nose2 TO paint thee, many
bottles,
And much time allow.
The glass my pencil is for thine illumination:
MY color il the wine,
With which I've painted thee more red than the
carnation,
BY drinking of the fine.
lis said IL hurts the eyes; but shall they be the
masters:
Wine is the cure for all;
Better tho windows both should suffer some
disaster
Than have the whole house fall.
From the French
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There Is an association called "Th'
Friendly Society,"" extending through
out Great Britain and this country
which the Companion can earnestly
recommend to the consideration OF III
readers. 1t numbers over $1,000 mem
bers, all of them young women from
sixteen to twenty-five years of age
from the daughter of the nobleman ant
the professional man to the poor scr
want and mill-girl.
Its object is to bridge over the gar
them together az friends; servants
of the same master.
Il he educated, refined girl gives hel
thought aad time and money to the
help OF her sister who has had harder
measure in the world than She She
helps to teach her; finds her honest
work; takes an individual interest IL
her; and thus, coming in the gentlest,
most humanizing relation into close
contact with nature, experience, and
range of thought and feeling different
from her own, is herself broadened and
softened by it, and learns the LESSOR
which Christ taught III just such meth
DDS of brotherly love.
The Friendly Society" has estab-
lished in England reading rooms foi
poor girls, boarding-houses where they
are secure and protected, courses o.
lectures, and night schools. 1t assist
them to emigrate to this country and to
Canada; when it's members of this side
receive and direct them until they have
found employment.
An instance of the good which may
be accomplished by one young person
is the effort of an educated lad near one
of our large cities to interest few me-
chanicsS gardeners, and mill-hands OF
his own age, in course Of reading
other than flash literature.
He brought them to his own house,
one coming in each week; each one
read in turn, the selection of both prose
and poetry being left to the leader. II
was no easy task to find matter which
was at once harmless and attractive.
At first Mark Twain and Burdett
were the only authors sure to sacceed.
Presently he found that any clear state.
ment of scientific fact or natural phe-
nomenon was received with keeD inter.
est, so were the tragedies of Shak.
speare, or dramatic sketches os real
people. The club adjourned for the
summer.
When it met again, the leader Bound
that the men had been trying to collect
material, reading up," in order tobear
their parts with credit. This club has
been organized now for eight years. Ii
has helped to educate all of its mem
bers, and it has served yet nobler
purpose in keeping them, at the most
critical period of their lives, out Of the
slough into which so many have fallen,
and in refining and elevating theirman-
ners, tastes, and moral natures.
So many societies are formed by the
young for mere amusement, that we are
glad 30 notice one whose end is pac-
teal good to others. The helpers will
find themselves helped, for the reflex
influence of good deed is always good.
-IO2Ltbs COmpdniO1..
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ella, then vanished, leaving her face as
pale as before.
Envious whisperings now went the
rounds among the fair ones, while sig
nificant glances sped from eye to eye.
allow can he admire that dusky
thing?" asked a faded blonde, whose
general makeup was artificial.
Indeed, L cannot imagined" replied
pug-nosed Belle Irvine, with coquet-
fish toss of her tow head.
"Some people do have such queer
tastes, remarked Kitty Frazer, exhib-
iting becoming pout.
THE amount of the matter is, Gil"
Bob Merrivale wickedly remarked,
"each and every one of these worthy
young ladies over here is inclined to
be very much offended that You do not
slyly whisper something nonsensical in
their delicate sea-shells - vulgarly
termed ears"
why, Bob Merrivalep "How dare
you?' "You bad, bad boy!" and many
similar pouting expressions followed
the daring speech.
AS the proposal was now made, and
acquiesced in by all, to repair to the
hall to hang their tasteful wreaths and
garlands, the chatter for time ceased.
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PART ".

RECONCILIATION AND MARRIAGE.
Slowly but surely, Luella Farleigh
became convalescent. She praised the
Lord from time to time that she did
not give out that night until she had
achieved her test Gilbert Ainsley had
haunted the sick-room like a shadow,
and now his happiness knew no bounds
when he was again permitted to enter
the presence of his fair betrothed.
One day as Lrella was wandering
past the library door, she heard her
own name spoken by her father, and
slightly pausing, she overheard that
which set her to thinking deeply.
The other voice belonged to Danton
Farleigh, she felt assured. And this
was what they said:
"If had had the least suspicion that
Luella would have even started for
there, L should never have put her to the
test; but when you saw by her actions
that you were frightening her go sc.
verely, you should have desisted," her
father said, reprovingly.
"But, by Jove, You put me mp to the
thing, you cannot deny that IconfesS
1 thought, perhaps, she might marry
me, or my money, rather; but beyond
that I meant no HARM"
She heard no more, as she woule
not for the world be caught eavesdrop
ping, and so moved on to her own apart
ment.
A quiet wedding took place upon the
eve of the following last day of Octo
Der. The old hall was decorated mor'
extravagantly than on the year previous
while Gilbert Ainsley aud the fai
Luella were made the happiest of TIN,
assembly, being united in wedlock.
The sparkling Kitty Frazer and TIN
nreproachable Bob Merrivale stood VI
with them. A beautiful and costl.
present was conferred on the bride, b.
Danton Merrivale, of dainty whit
cottage, such as her fancy had oftel
painted her, among q grove of ever
greens. But her fathers blessing
given freely and heartily, was the har
piest of all to Lucia on that Hallow
a'an
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HUMO9.
,---the dictionary.

| SPELLBoUND--the dictionary.
WELL backed up-the dromedary.
A SECLUDED spot--the ace up your
sleeve.
The title of Wilkie Collins last novel
is Il Say No." 1t was evidently not
written when Wilkie was asked to step
up and have something.
Money goes great ways nowadays"
observed New York bank cashier, as
he pocketed $50, 900 Of the banks funds
and set out for Canada.
"Fish ?" asked waiter of visitor at
the seaside hotel. "Wall, / Dunno
was the reply; wait till / get suthin
ter eat, and then I'll talk with yer about
goin' fishin. BOSTON Bulletin.
LITTLE EDITH has made discovery
in natural philosophy. She guesses the
flies always turn their faces to the wall
because they are ashamed of themselves
for being such horrid nuisances to
everybody.
A YOUNG lady in South Carolina be-
gan singing, and kept it up until her
two canaries sank exhausted In their
efforts to outsing her. Now, We under
killing two birds with ones tone.
"THERE is nothing very brilliant
about our Bremen dentists" said lady
to an individual who practiced the art
in Berlin, "but they are obliging. If
you wish tooth extracted with gas,
they forthwith light the chandelier"
"CAN 1 get whisky cocktail this
morning?" asked stranger a. he enter
ed Chatham street restaurants and bar
last Sunday. mo, sir; it's against the
law to sell liquor Sunday. Just take
a seat at the table. Here, waiter, bring
Kentucky breakfast for one. "-Ne,o
York sam.
THE WIDOW NAILED HIM.
HE lowed her. She knew it, She liked him.
He asked her to marry him again and again.
She refused. He grew angry. He left In pet.
He told her he wished that they never had met
She married another. She was happy. But he
Roamed the wide worl6 over on land and on sea-
He returned after long years. Her husband was
He proposed She accepted. And 30 they were
wed.
EIGHTEEN years imprisonment and
$500 fine is all it cost the editor Of El
PorUe7li'', Spanish journal, for an
article decided to be. "disrespectful to
the King of Spain" Where would
the editors of this country be if the
press were muzzled only 1.-THE as
much here? Or soy two-titbes as
much ?-Peck's Sum.
"AH, Charlie, my dear boy, whats
your hurry?" well to tell the truth,
Ned, my defalcation has been found
out, and am rather in hurry to get
away" well, come up to the club
and tell me about it, and" mo, I
really can't. have get to leave in she
morning. The Sheriff has just told
me that will be arrested i'll day or
So" well. good-by old man; write
when you have time"
"YEs," said the young man to the
Lecture Com mittee, Il want to deliver
q temperance lecture in your town."
"You don'tlook like man who has had
experience in. drinking" remarked the
Chairman. suspiciously. Have you
ever been a drunkard?" Il lectured
all through the South last winter, and
in Florida, where L saw a swamp-snake
fifty feet long, = pardon my
curiosity, SIR" interrupted the Chair
man, hastily, when do you want the
1all ?"-Graphic.
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A POsitiYist Pigeon.

The Spectator says: "The present
writer knows a pigeon Of exceedingly
eccentric disposition, not unlike the
single gentleman in Dickens Curiosity
Shop in. his habits. He. keeps seven
pigeon boxes all to himself, and perse-
cutes relentlessly any pigeons which
propose to share his dwellings with
him.. Heis as averse to the society even
of the. Gentler sex as was st. Anthony
himselfin the Egyptian deserts. Not
a pigeon will he admit within the circle
of his sway. And yetin spite of this
resolute and inveterate bachelorhood,
this eccentric pigeon is,always endeav-
oring to build nests, and looking out
for objects of an egg-like form which
he thinks it is possible 20 hatch. He will
accumulate twigs and straw now 1ere,
now there, at very great pains and
labor. He will coo sometimes to'inani-
mate objects, sometimes to captivate
BIRDS. sometimes to kitten on.a dog,
or even flower pot, with the qunintest
and p0litest antics. He will sit pa
tiently on china saucers on the mantel-
piece Of one room, while he aoeumu-
lates the materials for a nest on the top
of a closet in another room. He does
not even drive away the possible mother
of al family with more zeal than he
shows in seeking to- be good father to
some imaginary chick which Inc seems
to expect to elicit from a ring stand OF
a letter wight. So far as the present
writer can Judge, he is a. pigeon OF
strong Malthusian views, who hopes to
inaugurate a new regime which may
have the same relation to the ordinary
habits of pigeons which tho Positivis'
worship bears to the other religions o.
tina world ("
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PART III.
Only save her. oh. Lordl


With blanched cheeks and wildly
beating heart, Luella sped on her
lonely way, her heart seeming to stand
still with terror at the Jump OF a
startled rabbit or the silent careering
of bat.
"Was ever two miles so long be-
fore?"
At last she reached the gate leading
to the. home of the silent dead. Now
her heart palpitated and her limbs
trembled beneath their slight weight.
"Give me courage, oh, Lord?" she
prayed. "'Tis for Berries sake"
She passed through the gate and
tremblingly wendell her way among
the ghostly slabs and monuments to
the Mcleod tomb. She grasped the
trophy with her handkerchief. and
dropped it hurriedly into her basket
Now for home Just as she was turn
ing to fly homeward, something white
and unshspely arose from the opposite
SIDE.
With terrified shrek, to which the
apparition mockingly answered. poor
1uclla few over the ground, as though
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Good advice All ArO0nd.

Mamma-"Is is very wrong in you,
Johnny, to quarrel in this way"
Johnny (wbo has just had fight with
his brother Tom)-"Wsll, got mad
and had to 30 something
Mamma-"But you should not iSt
your temper carry y0n away in tA0t
manner. I will tell you good rule
When yen are angry always cesInt
twenty before you STRIKE
Tommy (the victor IN the recens un.
pleasantaess) -"Yes, and he'd better
count forty before he strikes a fellow
that can lick him "-BaltimOre Day.
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How WOOdc0ck Woo.

Woodcock have certain peculiarities
which endear them to the sportsmen,
az well as make them an interesting
study to men of science. Their love-
making is essentially their own. Early
in the spring the male bird. seeking a
mate, repairs to some well-known
covert where the females most do con-
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WHEN Mormon wife once renounces
the authority of her husband she is at
once deprived of all means of earning
livelihood To counteract the effects
of such a ruling it is now seriously pro-
posed to establish at Salt Lake City a
house of refuge for all the women who
may be brave enough to defy polygsmic
doctrines.
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Flowers and fruit are always fit
presents; flowers, because they are
proud assertion that ray of beauty
outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Their gay nature contrasts with the
somber countenance of ordinary ma
ture; they are like music heard out of
work-house. -BeTz.
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SOME inventive genius has produced
O machine that will daro stockings.
One by one the few remaining induce
ments for men to marry are being with
drawn, and it is not surprising that
women are casting about for new
spheres.
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JAMES SMITH, os Kosciusko, Miss,
has been married forty-seven years,
ana death has never yet visited his
household. He and his wife had twelve
children, all of whom are Marie d.
They have eighs grandchildren. The
entire family live within q radius oil
twenty-eight miles, in thirteen resi-
dancas
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The best and most important part of
. mans education is that which he
gives himself. -E. Gibbon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-11-18
VASSALBORO.

Like all towns Vassalboro shares in the
general interest attendant upon elections, al
though we see no change in the business of
the place unless it be livelier than common
at this time of year.-Improvements upon the
old Thomas Frye place, lately purchased by
J. r Day of this place, also upon the proper
ty of State Superintendent of Schools Luce
are progressing rapidly THE Fall term of Oak
Grove Seminary under the efficient manage
meut of Chas II. Jones, closed last week
The farmers of Vassalboro have large guam
titles of apples on hand for which they hope
to obtain better prices than are offered
Edwin Blackwell of Winslow, has fine
barn in process of construction in place of
the old one destroyed by lightning -Rebecca
Taber of this town died on Friday aged 81
wears.