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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02
GLEANINGS.

Gath says that mahogany furniture
Is all the rage now.
In England florists complain that
there is less sunshine than there form
arly was.
John McGrcady, cousin OF the
"Avenger' O'Donnell, lives in Iona
coming, Md.
Scooba, Miss, boasts of an OK seen
on her streets with two perfectly form
ed tails.
Robert Toombs, of Georgia, says he
would have written book long ago
had not his papers been seized at the
close of the war and lost beyond recov-
cry.
A giantess named Ann Dunn died in
London a few days ago, aged thirty
nine. She weighed nearly 500 pounds,
was nearly 9 feet high and measured
round the shoulders over 3 feet.
DIR. Fletcher of the insane asylum al
indianapolis, celebrated Christmas by
burning all the mechanical restraints
and instruments of punishment in that
institution, and instituting season oil
moral suasion.
The Rochester Democrat would bet
ter pocket its theory of sun-spOts and
decayed sunsets, and steal silently
away, for the London Times of the 9th
prints an article. covering three and q
half columns and containing upwards
of 5, 800 words, every bit of which ia
vors the theory of burnt Java.
The Alllendeuna, of Boston. complains
of the intellectual and literary deca'
dence Of that city, and prophesies q
day, which will not be far of. when
Boston will ..look back with wonder,
half regretful, but half contemptuous
on the time when she was known q,
the Athens Of America.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02
PURE AIR IN THE BARN.

One of the speakers nj the meeting OF
the Massachusetts Board OF Agricult-
IRE urged the Importance OF having
pure air in the barn AT the time OF
milking, and stated that "cows ought
not to be cardcd just before milking,
and the barn swept up, giving rs a
reason that "it fills the air with parti-
clcs of impurities and bad odors. " This
may be correct, and it perhaps often
causes an unpleasant taste in the but
ter that the farmer is at loss 10 ac-
count for. For, as we have said in "A
former article, milk absorbs bad odors
more readily than most of other sub
stances.
Thus ii would seem that the farmer,
by the very act OF trying to keep his
barn sweet and clean, puts it in the
very condition required to faint the
milk. But the question arises, if the
COW cannot be cleaned and the barn
swept just before milking, is it good
policy to milk the COW just before she
is cleaned and the barn swept This
would certainly be very undesirable;
in fact, we cannot help thinking that it
would be almost impossible to milk an
uncleaned COW without injuring the
milk by the loose hairs falling into it,,
and also whatever loose particles OF
dirt might be on the milk bag As a
rule, the farmer cannot clean his barn
and card his cows early enough in the
morning and leave time enough before
milking to air the barn, and have all
the flying particles of impurities settle
There seems TO BE- but two other ways
to avoid this trouble First, by card
ing and cleaning the COWS in shed
before milking, then return them to
the barn to be MIXED. Second, by
cleaning the cows in the barn, then
LEADING them into warm, clean room
to be MIXED. The last would seem to
be the best method
This is a matter for serious thought
to those farmers who desire to make
gilt-cdged butter that they can sell for
Fl a pound, If, AS the speaker re-
marked, tobacco in the mouth of the
mixer will affect the milk, it is no
wonder that it so difficult to make
frs quality butter. We have for some
time entertained the idea that farmers,
rs n rule, have not given attention
enough to pure air in the barn and the
milk-room, but confess had not thought
much of the consequences of the bad
breath of the farmer or we should have
urged him to abandon onions, as well
rs tobacco. Massachusetts P(oughman.
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profits generally than will he whose
mbition, and whose faith in the future
market for real estate, leads him to try
to buy all creation. But rs every hill
has its vale so every story has two
sides. In the neighborhood of markets
the man with few acres may well be
content to confne his operations to the
effort to make those acres produce the
greatest possible quantity, but in the
broad west it will be long before the
majority OF the farmers will be salts
fled to ''trot all day in a peck meas
ure.' Their ambition will induce
them, rs il always has, to invest their
dollars and their energy in the task OF
securing broad farms. They can show
that land has risen in value ever since
civilization became power, and that
they are warranted in holding the
opinion that it will continue to adj
vance as long as land shall be needed
Tor the support of car,h's population,
And they show that many a farmer OF
treat estates has grown rich by his
farming operations, as it has been sup
posed that the managers OF the great
Dalrymple wheat farm OF the north
west have done.
But after all there are some things
about life on the small farm well con
Quoted which, at times, make the large
farmer wish to exchange lots with his
neighbor Of the garden-patch. The
latter is, as a rule, surrounded with
comforts not seen in the home Of the
lord OF many acres. The disposition
which keeps him contentod with few
acres, makes him satisfied with a small
but steady profit. His cares may be q
many rs those of the owner Of the
large farm, but they are all brought
within little compass, and his losses
are so divided rs to be small at the
worst He lives snugly, and so do his
stock, and his domestic animals show
that they are like their owner, con
tented with their lot in life. Tina. the
net income from small farm is often
considerable larger than that from
greater farms cannot be denied; but
there will probably always be, as
there now are, men who could not sue
coed with small farms, and who GER
tainlv would never be satisfied To con
fine themselves in that way, even il
they knew that they would make more
money by so doing
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02
LITTLE FARMS WELL TILED.

Newspapers give place from time to
time to interesting and instructive
items showing how far more pleasing
and profitable it is to cultivate a small
number OF acres than to carry on q
large farm. II is an essential part Of
these articles to show that the man
Who. il content with few acres. and
tills them thoroughly. sets an example
which should be followed by his neigh
bors: that he Is almost sure to have
better stock. better crops. and better
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02
How Some of Our Representatives
Dress.

Your average congressman dresses
In black, q sort of compromise between
an afternoon dress-suit and business
suit being the most popular style OF
body gear chosen by these the peoples
servants. Hiscock. of New York. usu-
ally wears black coat Of the prince
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-02-02

Six quarts of bread yeast saved the
life of an OK in Connecticut that had
eaten his fill at the meal box!
Lager beer, which thirty years ago
was practically unknown in this coun-
try, is now made by $500 immense es-
adjustments, with over tl5,l. 900, 600
capital invested. The value OF this
production each year is over $500. ooO.-
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-08-14
Before Breakfast.

''Ivanhoff," said the Gear this morn
ing, as he rolled out of his patent Nihi-
list-proof sleeping safe and felt to see
if any nitro lycerine had been put in
the toes of his boots, chow many pois-
oned letters came by the six a. m.
mail?"
"Ninety-seven, your Most Illustrious
Highness.
"Have the police discovered any plans
to blow up the palace?''
"Only twelve up to daybreak, SUI
preme Ruler"
''H m. things are getting safer How
many men with bombs have been ar.
rested about the royal quarters?'s
But seventeen, Mighty Lord of ST.
beria."
''And how about the conspiracies of
students to aSsassinate me?"
''All the students in the Empire have
been exiled, o Arbitrator of the Desti-
MES of Mankind
''Good. Have any of the cooks been
found putting arsenic in my food?'
'Only little scullion boy this morn
ing, and he don't count, Master of the
World and of the Sideral System
''Have any of my confidential attend
ants been found to be high cockalorums
in the ranks of the Nihilists ~
''Only a few this morning, hardly
worth mentioning, Exalted Emperor
and Emperor of all the Russias."
''Better yet. Ivanhoff, does the tele-
graph tell of any new uprisings in diff
ferent parts of the Empire ?''
"There are but three minor rebel
lions, and couple of Jewish massacres
reported this morning, not enough to
cause second thought, o Originator
of all that is-Good and Benefcent -"
swell, if this is the state of affairs, I
think | may venture to get up. Ivan
hoff, telephone for five regiments to fill
the corridors of the palace, and when
they come you may unlock the combi-
nation of my sleeping safe. For break
fast l will have eggs boiled in the shell;
they are safest; and see that the cook
who prepares them is made to break
fast On portion of them. All, by the
way, order that services of praise be
held in all the churches for the UMPIRE
cedented peace and quietness that pre-
walls in the Empire. How my people
love me !''
"'Tis done, Grand Mogul of the
Earth and Planets. ~ Cincinnati Times.
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Graham Flour.

The high proporti on of proteine mat
ter found by chemical analysis to exist
in wheat bran, and the quantity sup
posed to be thus removed from the four,
in the process of manufacture, has led
many Intelligent and well-intentioned,
people, and induced many physicians Of
high standing, to advocate the use Of
whole meal-that is flour made from
the whole grain and unbolted- bread-i
making. instead of the white boiled
flour ordinarily made employed. 1t Isl
believed that with the removal OF the
bran and other matters in the process
of grinding and boiling, causing sep
aration of from thirty to sometimes asl
high as seventy per cent, of the weight
of the grain used, large proportion OF
the most nutritious part of the cereal is
rejected. while if the whole product is
saved in the flour the value of the latter
for human consumption will be CORE
spondingly increased. But that this
belief is wholly erroneous has BEEN
lately proven by DIR. Max Rubner, who
has made some careful digestion exper-l
iments TO determine the amount of mar
GOAAoA uSO0 up III btAC auttldA OCOhSAAIft
when each kind of -four il used in the
bread consumed, respectively. He ex-
amined the residues from ordinary
Aours and those from the -four orwheas
meal of the Bread Reform League, andl
as a result of his examinations be ar
rives at the conclusion that the larger the
proportion of bran left in the -four the
greater will be the amount Of nutritious
matter unassimilated and excreted.
While he considers it quite possible
that the digestibility of the bran might
be increased by finer grinding, be
doubts the adyisability of such a pro-
cedure, or its economy, from the facF
that it may be more profitably fed To-
the lower animals. which digest It 50
much more readily. The higher palst-
ability of bread from the best bOlted or
purified -four renders it at all times
more desirable. and the facts determined
by DIR. Rubner must therefore BIZ haiiea
by dyspeptics, who have been confined
by their medical advisers to q diet o.
Graham bread, with a sigh of relief a.
least, if not with feeling OF positive
pleasure. Exchange.
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Crime Exnosed.

Only few months ago the papers
gave an instance of the acuteness of q
French detective. A man had MUIR
dered his female companion and buried
her body in cellar. The corpse was
discovered and the man then said that
the woman had killed herself by falling
down stairs, and that he had buried
her secretly fearing to be accused of
her death. He asserted that this sac
cident'' took place in the autumn, in
October. The detective observed the
traces of smoke on the ceiling. 'You
had a candle when you buried the
body" he remarked, and was answered
in the affirmative. ''And you say you
only entered this cellar on that one day
in Octoberp" The suspected man
again averred it. ''You are speaking
falsely" retorted the detective, and
showed the murderer, between the
crevices of the ceiling, the half con-
sumed Larvae of certain insects which
only lay in the spring, and which had
been burnt by his candle at the time
when he had actually buried his victim.
How often has clever forgery been
detected by some keen observer who
noted some very triiing oversight in
the skillful fraud. Forged wills have
been found out from the water-mark of
the paper not tallying with their date.
There is a story of a false will being
once propounded in a French court,
and the forgery was so skillful that it
appeared impossible to deny the docu-
ment's authenticity, though certain
circumstances caused its genuiueness
to be suspected. 1t was drawn, not on
ordinary paper, but on the back of
map of France professedly over CEN
fury old. The name of the publisher
of the map was in the corner, together
with the date, and the words, ''Geog-
rapher to the King" Though the rel
atiyes who were injured by the will felt
convinced that fraud was being prac-
ticed upon them, redress seemed hope
less. But clever lawyer discovered
that, at the time of the supposed pub
LEGATION of the map, the dignity of
Photographer to the King" had not
been conferred upon the map maker.
The name was correct, that of a we'll
known publisher of charts in his day,
and he had been permitted to assume
the title the forger had added, but not
till some years after the date of the
forged map. Investigations clearly
proved that the geographer never as
sumed the title till it was legally con-
ferred upon him, and never afterward
published map without adding it;
the map, as well as the will written
upon its back, was forgery, detected
by an observer of unusual acutenesS. -
London Standard.
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Blsmarek's Wife.

The giant spirit who raised the Ger
man people from their long abasement,
and gave them their place among the
nations. in due time, by his choice of a
wife, established for himself happy
home, in which his domestic nature has
received manifold and fruitful devel-
opment, and that he is, after all, not
by any means the man of blood and
iron which many people suppose him
to be. His wife is nine years younger
than her husband, and was married to
him in .1847. Her maiden name was
Johanna Won Puttkamer, and she was
the daughter of a quiet, godly Pomer-
anian home, the atmosphere of which
was pervaded by the spirit of the Mo-
ravian fraternity. That "the mad
Squire Junker] of Kneipnof," as
Bismarck was then called in the gossip
of the neighborhood, the future Iron
Chancellor, should have been attract
ed by, and at the same time should have
awakened a warm and lively interest
in. lady whose first impressions of
men and things were received amid such
surroundings, need not, after all, create
any surprise. Even in those days the
period of unrest. storm and stress had
been succeeded by one of calm, and his
wildness and love of mischief had given
place to self-examination and longing
after higher things. The Princess was
strictly and piously brought up, but is
of a cheerful and lively disposition, en-
dowed with a considerable amount of
mother-wit, keenly sensitive. and pos
sessed of excellent taste. Very musical,
and an excellent performer on the
piano, she is at the same time
careful and thrifty housewife, and
like the noble ladies of former
times, possesses some knowledge of the
healing art. During all these years she
has shared intelligently her husbands
hopes and cares, sometimes even the
political ones, as witness the letters
published by Hesekiel, written to her
when official duties or holiday travels
CHANGED to separate them for while.
In these he addresses her as ..My
darling" (naein HerzJ, ''My best be-
loved" he sends her jasmine from
Peterhof; he promises her Edelweiss
from Gastein. From the royal castle at
Ofen he bids her s'good night from far
away" and adds, ''Where can ] have
heard the song which has been running
through nay head all day:
Over the blue mountains, over the white sea
foam,
Come thou, beloved one, come to thy lovely
homer
wonder who can have sung that to
| me some time or other in 'auld lang
syne?'" Elsewhere he recalls on the
sixteenth anniversary of his marriage
how it chad brought sunshine into his
bachelor life" Over and over again
he gives expression to feeling OF
homesickness, of longing for her and
the children. And in letter written
from Smaland he wishes he had little
castle peopled with those he loved on
one of the wood and heather-bound
lakes of that Swedish province. Many
other parts of this correspondence show
how dear his wife is to him, and how
| often he thinks of her. On the other
hand, we can infer from several of the
letters that the good lady has become
deeply imbued with her husbands en-
ergetic modes of feeling and of thought.
M0rttz Busch, IN Harper'S Magazine.
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A Brave Little Girl.

Just between the towns of Hoboken
and Weehawken, in New New Jersey,
lies the little hamlet of Union Hill, an
old-fashioned village, peopled mostly
by Germans, and in this village has
stood for many years a great frame
building, used principally as hotel,
and known to all the towns people by
the name of 1.-THE Old Swan.''
In years gone by this place was
quite a famous resort, but it gradually
ran down until it became at length q
cheap boarding house.
Among the many inmates Of the
building were Julie Brohmer, q little
eight-year-old girl, her mother and
three younger children. The smallest,
. little girl baby of two, was little
jules especial charge, and her mother
leave the little baby with Julie, sure
thatno harm would come to her 20 loge
IL hsF taithfI little sister Ras asari
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Julie attended the public schoel =
regularly as her duties at home wo,,l1
allow, and. unlike most little girls a
her age, when she came home She al
not care to run out in the street ana
play at 'tag" or ''hide-and-seek," but
instead staid at home and relieved. hes
mother of the care of her youngs-
brothers and sisters, and acted the usrs
Of a small housewife.
The other evening, about half navs
nine, little Julie sat in room on one "A
the lower floors patiently waiting for
her mother to come in that she 1ioht
go to bed. She had just put her little
baby sister to sleep in the back room
and as Julie sat waiting SO quietly. her
half-elosed eyes and frequent yawns
told only too well that the "dustmanss
was on his rounds.
Suddenly, as she sat there, soma
bright sparks fell from the ceiling and
smouldered on the floor. Almost at the
same instant number of the tenants
who lived upstairs ran wildly through
the hall and past the door, SCREAMING.
''Fire! fret" at the top of their voices
In another moment the flames appeared
in the very room in which little Julia
sat. She heard the cries of fire
and the people rushing madlv
into the street. But there was
no one to to tell her what to do. or ever
to think of her, in that moment of ex-
element.
Perhaps q good many of the littIa
girl readers of Young Peopte, If thew
had been in Julia's place, would have
screamed and run out of the house a
quickly as they could. But that was
not what brave little Julia thought AZ
as she saw the sparks falling about her.
and the red glare of the fast approach.
ing flames.
No, indeed: for she knew that ia tba
back room her baby sister slept uncon-
scious of any danger, and the brave lit.
tie girl thought first of her duty to that
helpless infant So, without thinking
twice, she dashed forward, and CROPPED
through the smoke and falling sparks
until she reached the baby's crib. Then.
snatching out the little two-year-old.
sleeping peacefully as it was in its lit
tie night dTess-a pretty heavy burden.
too, for so small girl-and clasping il
tightly in her arms, she ran out of the
room, struggling through the smoke Of
the hall, until at last she reached the
open air.
She did not stop even then, but ran
on until she had reached the opposite
side of the street. There she sat down
on a convenient rock and watched the
FIRE. still holding her little sister tightly
to her breast to protect her from the
cold. And in this position, after hunt
ing all over, and almost concluding
that Julie hal persisted in the flames,
her mamma and the neighbors found
her.
Brave little girl! Though only eight
years old, when danger threatened She
did not have to be told what was right
for her to do, nor did she for moment
lose her presence of mind, but bravely
rescued her baby sister.
So, littleI girl readers, think what
brave little girl Julie Brohmer was, and
try to learn from her brave act lesson
of courage and self-control. --Harpsr's
Young People.
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

An Australian farmer has cured the
blight in his apple trees by placing to-
mato plants after being pulled around
them.
An English fiock-master says that
he keeps his nursing ewes in rather high
condition. contending that fat dams
make fat lambs.
Fried Bread: Mix half pint of
sweet milk with one egg and pinch
salt dip into this slices of bread, and
fry in butter until light brown
Household.
If each man would feel response
bility for the condition of the roads in
his district, in proportion to the amount
of his travel over them, we should soon
have highways very much improved
Chicago Times.
The Farm and Garden says: eff
the harness be thrown over a draught
horse. or the saddle be placed on the
back of a rider, he may be led out of a
burning stable as easily IS on ordinary
occasions. Should there be time to
substitute the bride for the halter,
the act of rescue will be more easy"
"A correspondent of the New York
World believes the freedom of his large
herd of swine from cholera is due to his
habit of raking up the accumulation of
corn-cobs in the yards, setting them on
fire, and, as soon as they are on fire,
putting it out by sprinkling with water
The hogs eat the charred cobs greedily.
Whatever virtues condensed milk
may have had as diet for babies, it
does not seem to be satisfactory sub
stitute for new milk fresh from the COW.
A mother who believes that her baby
came near starving on it wishes other
mothers to be very careful and not linn
it any child's diet to it exclusively
" Y. Post.
Farmers can not expect to raise
choice vegetables without labor now,
but the garden plat really pays better
than field crops for the time and labor
given it. Weed seeds are terminating
rapidly, and most garden soils are wei
filed with them. The hoe and the rake
must be piled constantly or weeds will
get the best. of the struggle. Throwing
the earth up around most growing veg
etables is better than level culture
albany Journal.
The Canada thistle and no other
infliction of the farm was ever got rid
of by act of Assembly; but there is a
plain, common-sense method by which
the thistle is headed off, aud that is by
frequent cultivation of the soil, and
there is mo better crop for this than
that of corn, and assisting this by res
olutely digging it out with the fork as
fast as it makes its appearance above
ground. BY digging out with the fork
it can be taken out entirely, leaving no
pieces behind; but if the spade is used
and the plant is cut each piece will
sprout again. 1t will not be likely to
disappear at the first attempt, but by
replanting the land with corn and con-
tinuing to fight the pest with a fork as
before it will eventually be headed OF.
-Ckieaqo Journal.