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Q. BOYLE. Attorney at Law. Office With
y. NJ. I. Mooney Opera House Block, Ottawa, IL,
feb2l.30
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nR. Nj. ZEN DIR, Homeopathic PHYSICIAN
~ OTTAWA, III Offers his services TO the friends Of
the Homeopathic system In Ottawa In all branches D
his profession Particular attention gives .he treat
SnaL,s NICK febi5
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HIRAM r. GILBERT. JAMES II. RCKRLs
GILBERT 81 Eek ELS, Attorneys ami
VI CounselOrs at Law Futterer & Metzgers Block,
east of Court House sep29 g
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w. EBERSOL. Attorney and Counselor a,
y. Law. Office with ID p Jones. LynCh's Block, OF.
tawa, Ill Notary Public jani994
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~ GRIGGS, Attorney and Counselor at Law.
y. Office in Lynchs block Main street, Ottawa, HI
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ID r. LINCOLN, Attorney at Law. once
ID. over No 10 Ia Sale street, west side n Tue
Court House Ottawa NJ JulyyT5
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nR. II. w. WEBS, CDeutcher Doctor) isie
~ Physician and Surgeon 70 the ST. Louis Female
HOSPITAL Office over Stiefes Clothing Store corner ot
Main and La sale streets Residence on south blum,
At Mrs Renys sp3
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4. F. BULL. LESTER II. sTRAwN. W. RUGER
DULL, SIRA WIN * RUG E.R, Attor-
ID ness and COunsellors at Law. Office over CITY
Drug Store Of La Sale and Madison streets OF.
taVa, III. jan26,8i
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II Y. IRIGGS, Druggist, Bookseller and sts-
r.. ton er, Ottawa, III. second store IN NattageFe
Block south side OF Court House Square.
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a. <SEJTSSI., German Drugglst and Apotne.
MI cary (wholesale and retsil,) Main street, Ora.
wa III Importer Of Drugs Chemicals, French Cogni.
&C Brandies. Vines, &C.
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(If1 a 81, FOWLER, Master In Chancery Al
\ tOrney and Counselor at Law. Office in Gedneye
Block, northeast of court house square Rooms
Sand l. Ottawa Illinois. Jun0's2
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mr. WIN. - - PPARD, Member OF tAe
IL Royal College terinary surgeons, Ensiand'
yellow ofthe IondO0 eterinsry Medical Association
Also Veter nary Ed or Dun.ons Spirit or ne iITT
can he consulted 81 his Office lafayette St sus3
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@. W. W. BLAKE NJ. T. hoLONkf
OLA X +, * MOLONEH, Attorneys and
ID Counselors AZ Lew Rooms Is and 26 Opera House
Block, Ottawa, Illinois. lun3SL
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p ny SIC n Q .

Or GUN DLACH, Nj. D., lately or ST.
d Louis, Mo. having assumed the charge oil the san
iCula Mineral Spaings, heretofore known as the Ott
wa Springs) would herewith most respectfully tender
his professional services to the people of ottawa ani
La Sale county especially in the treatment OF chronic
diseases Office and residence at Spring Grounds.
Office hours, TO r NJ Consultation free; When OV
mall enclose stamp for reply. Janl2-smos
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j. w, DUNCAN A. D. % CONOk.
nUNCAN * O'CONOR, Attorneys at
~ Law. Office In futterer a. MctZgcrs block. east
Of court house. Ottawa, Illinois. luly292
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GEORGE 3. ELDREDGE, Attorney ~
" Law Office In Postotice Block Ottawa Ill sprlr
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professional GarDs.
AT @ r n e Y 8.

DICH "A RID "A. IIA S'TF., Attorney at Law
IL ONCE with D.. A. Cook, Armory Block Ottawa
Illinois. oct25tf
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HENRY MAYO JOHN Il. wIDNsa
MAYO 81 wIDM E;R, Attorney at Law
WI Office in Nattiager's Block, corner OF ALE
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Bill Arp on Education.

Well, / do love these old-fashioned
honest darkeys, love them for then
dependence and their trust in us, l
wouldn't defraud one out of his just
dues for no amount of profit or gain.
l had rather overpay him than under
pay him. But l have no considera-
ton for these educated upstairs who
swell around and talk big about equal
ity. Well, as to that l haven't any
more respect for lazy supercillious
white folks. Education spoils lots of
folks, both white and black. Just
about half the college boys ought to be
In the corn field now, they are TO &C
count. Well, don't mean to say that
tie corn field wants no account men,
but l mean to say that the college
spoilt a goud corn field man. When
he was at home on the farm he was
ftten to do something. But as Sam
Jones says he went off to college and
now he aim. fifteen to get fitten.
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The Woman VINO Works at Home.

l notice, says a Chicago lady, that
in all of this talk about what is designat-
ed as women's labor the everyday
routine work of the no sekeeper is lg-
nored. There is no reference to the
work of the women whose lives are
passed in home-making and home
keeping. They are not considered as
active workers. They are regarded
as a negative, non-productive class.
Yet the profession of the housekeeper
is regarded as the most natural and
proper avocation of women. There is
no other trade so complex. None
more difficult. Add to this the cares
of motherhood and what else can a
woman engage in which will as COM
pletely absorb every energy OF which
she is capable2 To be a good house
wife and mother is by no means the
occupation of an idIer. Perhaps my
notions are obsolete, but l think the
woman who creates a comfortable
home and raises children worthy man
hood and womanhood is the noblest
work of God, and is quite as much of a
producer as the woman who writes a
book, invents some machine, or fol-
lows a profession.
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whip and off he goes for mile 'or two,
then all of a sudden he stops in the
road. After rest he starts of again,
but he soon stops for good and moth
ing but derrick could move hin.
The weak parts Of horse can be
better discovered while standing than
while moving. Ifhe IS sound, he will
stand firmly and squarely on bis limbs
without moving any Of them, the feet
fatty upon the ground, with legs plump
and naturally poised or if the foot is
lifted fom the ground and the weight
taken from it. disease may be suspect
ed or at least tenderness, which is a
precursor of disease. If the horse
stands with his feet spread apart, or
s,raddles with his hind legs, there is a
weakness in the loins, and the kidneys
are disordered. Blush, milky cast
eyes in horses indicate moon blindness
or something else. A bad tempered
horse keeps his ears thrown back. A
kicking horse is apt to have scared
legs. A stumbling horse has blemish-
ed knees. When the skin is rough
and harsh, and does not move easily tc
the touch, the horse is a heavy eater
and digestion is bad. Never buy q
horse whose breathing organs are a
all impaired. Place your ear at The
side of the heart, and if wheeling
sounds heard it is an indication o
trouble.
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How to Buy a Horse.

An old horseman says: Ifyou want
to buy a horse, don't believe your own
brother. Take no mans word for it.
Your eye IS your market. Don't buy
horse In harness, Unhltch him and
take every thing off but his halter, and
lead him around. II he has a corn, or
Is stiff, or has any other failing, you
can see it. Let him go by himself a
way, and if he slaves right into any,
thing you know he is blind. No mat.
Ter how clear and bright his eyes are,
ne can't see any mUre than bat. Back
him, too, some horses show their
weakness at tricks in that way when
they don'tin any other. But, be as
smart as you can, you'll get caught
sometimes. Even an expert gets
stuck. A horse may look ever so nice
and go at great pace, and yet have
hts. There isn't man could tell it
TIL something happens. Or he may
have a weak back. Give HIM the
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Prices for Pure Breeds.

tits supposed that breeders charge a
high price for fowls and eggs, but when
it is considered that the breeding of
pure breeds is a different matter from
that of keeping fowls without regard to
merit, the prices are really very low.
A sitting of eggs is the beginning of an
interest In poultry, but the sitting pro-
cured, and at an outlay of only a few
dollars, transfers the stock of the most
careful breeder to the yard of the
novice, for the qualities of the parents
are transmitted to the offspring What
it has cost the breeder to bring his
stock to the standard qualifications no
one but himself knows, but yet, for a
small outlay he allows everyone the
privilege of possessing that which has
given him pride, pleasure and profit
In viewing the matter thus, it seems
almost impossible that a buyer Can
object to prices, and yet it Is done
The best only pays, and the best only
should be procured, while a beginning
can be made at very little expense.
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A Cheap Poultry House.

A writer in the Fancier's Gazette
says on this subject:
have seen a great many plans tor
chicken houses, most of which were
expensive for most people. 1 have
used one of my own make which gives
good satisfaction. Select an east or
south slope, if convenient. Dig a
basement seven feet deep, sixteen feet
long by twelve feet wide, on the east
of which make lath pens, four feet one
way by two the other way, which will
give you sixteen pens in which to set
your hens. In a basement like this
you can set hens very early, and in the
summer can hatch TO better advantage,
as the temperature is more even at all
times. One window will furnish all
the hight the hens will need. If you
wish to set more than sixteen hens you
can make double tiers of nests one
above the other. By having the coops
four feet on each side it leaves a four
foot walk between. The front of the
coop should be made of lath, in the
shape of sliding doors l brick up
the side walls, and put in two or three
inches of tin chips, and cover over
with dirt or sand for a floor, board
over the top and cover with TIN chips
and sand, thus making a rat-proof
cellar and one not liable to freeze. On
top of this build a chicken house OF
barn boards with single roof for the
roosting purposes. Attach a run fifty
feet long, eight feet wide, and four
feet high. Cover all over with hay or
straw except on the south side, which
is made of glass With such run the
hens will not suffer from the cold, and
will lay all winter.
In conclusion l would advise the
keeping of only one breed of fowls.
think the time is not far off when the
breeder who sticks 10 one breed will be
the one who will come out ahead, as 1t
is difficult to keep more than one
breed at time without having some
accident.
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all Sorts.

The dark ages-Women's.-[ San
Francisco Chronicle.
Cheapest gas-The demagogue-
Philadelphia Call.
A bad jury in lawsuit-Perjury.-
Boston Courier.
A blunder-bus-Kissing the wrong
girl Boston Star.
The grandest verse ever composed
the universe.-[Golden Days.
An extension table-The multiple
cation table.-[Texas Siftings.
When ignorance is bliss 1t is folly to
ask the landlady what she puts in the
hash.
Mint statistics--The number of ju.
leps dispensed by the bartender
[ Boston Star.
A shoe manufacturing company is
not soeless corporation.-[ Merchant
Traveller.
A father who has put his boy into a
law office. speaks of him as his son-in-
law Boston Star.
The easiest way to take a Joke good
naturedly is to do 1t with the scissors.
i St. Paul Portrayer.
The Yonkers Statesman thinks it
isn't strange to hear of woman dying
without will, because she has exer.
cised 1t SO much during her life that
there IS nothing lett of it when she
dies.
The human crank turns himself.
New Orleans Plcayune. And fur
nishes the nearest approach to perpet.
uai motion.
Hymn to be sung at the obsequies
of a gentleman who didn't know it was
loaded: "a charge to keep I have"
Pittsburgh Chronicle. {.
An opossum was found In the UNI
brella stand of a Reading, Pa, hotel
recently. lit had been an umbrella
1t would never have been found
Lowell Courier.
A poet plaintively MARBLES; "Wten
the song raves in thy head. kiss thou
me-" This is The first time Jersey
applejack has been called ..son y.n-
New York Journal.
Bombay husbands cut off their
wives noses for punishment. Thus do
we arrive at the knowledge of the inn
portant fact that Bombay women talk
through their noses Boston Post.
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Cholera Remedies.

The following remedy and preven-
tive of chicken cholera has been fur
nished US by gentleman who tried it
thoroughly and pronounces 1t success.
From the source we get it, we believe
it to be the most efficient remedy we
ever seen:
Irisene, I dram; podophyllin, ?
drains; leptandrin, 3 drains. Mix to-
gether and give one teaspoouful in
two gallons of water, or the same
amount in two quarts of meal.-Spirif
of tie Farm.
II there is disease among fowls
resulting more particularly from care
lessness or ignorance than any other,
it is the fatal disease known as the
cholera. All writers on the subject
agree that it arises from exposure to
sun, without sufficient shade, warm
and stale drinking water, foul and Of
fenslve grass runs occasioned by the
droppings, and most important of all,
the absence of a regular supply of fresh
green food, which is the great proven
tive OF diarrhoea in fowls. The disease
is rarely if ever known where a COO
shade, clean runs, fresh, cool water
and green food are provided daily
Symtoms-Sudden and violent thirst
diarrhoea, greenish droppings, after.
wards thin and whitish, with extreme
weakness and staggering or "falling
about" sometimes accompanied witt
cramps, and often with an anxiou.
look about the face. Death results il
from twelve to thwty-six hours.
Observation-Disclosures every the,
hours the following: Rhubarb, S grams
cayenne pepper, grains; laudanum
10 drops. Or the following: Equa
parts of the t;ncture of opium, red pep
per, rhubarb, peppermint and camphor
with doses increased from ten to twelv'
drops several times a day when no
Immediately relieved.-Amerfeaa Fla,
Her
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Poultry need lime with their food.
The common food alone will not furnish
lime enough for full supply of eggs.
In state of nature hen would lay
single litter of eggs, hatch them, rear
the chicks, and then give up the bust
ness for the season. The ordinary
food would supply this small demand,
But when hen lays 100 eggs she will
want as much lime in a month as she
would naturally get in year. This
excess must be supplied. Crushed
bones and oyster shells are the best
and should be Kept always withia the
reach of the hens. 1t IS not advisable
to give egg shells unless they are bro
ken up very fire, otherwise the hen S
may learn to break and eat eggs
Poultry Yard.
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4 DUDES DISCOMFElTUKE.
A Philadelphia Opera Company Make
an Unexpected Use of a
Foolish Letter.

Among the disadvantages of the
position of prima donna of light
opera are innumerable mlssives from
masculine admirers, sometimes tender
and apologize, but often grossly I'M
pertinent. Last evening, despite the
watchful care of the stage doorkeeper
at Haverly's Theater. a note was de-
livered to the lady who was to sing the
title role. 1t read as follows
"MY DEAR Miss: have seen
your charming impersonation and am
desirous of becoming acquainted with
you, and tor that purpose invite you to
sup with me after the performance.
am aware that have more cheek than
brains, but have plenty of money and
am New Yorker. l shall be seated
IN sixth row left. third seat from the
center aisle. you accept my invita-
ton, when you come forward for your
solo in the second act please wink
with your right eye. Twill have a car
rage at the stage door"
Amused, in spite of her vexation, at
the insufferably cool ,mpertinence OF
the letter, the lady exhibited it to va
rious members of the. company. 1t
was resolved that the conceited New
Yorker should be punished, and in as
open a manner as possible. So when
The curtain rose the second act and the
whole company was on the stage, the
actor who should be the first to speak
walked deliberately to the footiights
with the letter in his hands and putting
on his eyeglasses, began to count, in
a manner which attracted the atten-
ton of the entire audience, until he
singled out the New Yorker, who was
beginning to squirm under such close
scrutiny. He then removed his glasses
and after once more glancing at the
letter, slowly and solemnly wlnked his
right eye and pointed over his should
der toward the back doof. The audi
ence by this time began to suspect the
position of affairs, and all eyes were
liked upon the sixth row. Then an
other actor stepped to the front and,
IN the same manner, winked and point
ed over his shoulder, while the un.
lucky dude seemed trying to shrink
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"The head of the Plymouth Rock
should be of medium size; beak bright
yellow short and curved at the point;
comb bright red..and single, wattles and
and earlobes bright red; hackel abund-
ant ana free from red, white or black
feathers; back is broad and breast
broad and full; thighs covered with
fluffy feathers; shanks bright yellow;
plumage all over bIuish-grey crossed
by bars of darker blue. Among the
disquallications are feathered legs or
legs of off color, earlobes of any color
but red, white spots in breast or back,
and red or brass colored feathers in
saddle or neck."-hdiana Farmer.
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In purchasing tnos for spring, re-
member that the Leghorns, Handbags,
Langshans, and Houdans VIII lay by
next April if Matched as late as last
June. The Langshans unusually lay
earlier than any of the large breeds.
In selecting Plymouth Rocks, Brahams,
Cochlns, and Wyandottes. however,
endeavor either to procure old fowls,
or pulIets that Matched not later than
April. For breeding purposes the
winter laying is no object, and late
Matched pullets will do If mated with
an old cock or early cockerel, but for
winter laying, get them as large as
possible. and Garden
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out Of sight behind his neighbors. But
the end was not yet. Tor, as though at
a concerted signal, the entire compa-
ny, principals and chorus, fastened
their gaze upon the now thoroughly
uncomfortable young man, and each
deliberately winked the right eye.
This was too much for his dudeship
and Using in his seat, he beat hasty
and inglorious retreat amid shouts OF
laughter. --PHilaaeibhia Press.
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lay as many eggs as any variety that
matches and rears Its own young. They
are hardy both as chicks and matured
fowls and being an out and out Ameri-
can breed adapt themselves to our
climate as we'll as any other. They
make the best of mothers, being kind,
gentle. spry and good foragers, neither
non-sitters nor persistent sitters, and
when once set seldom abandon their
eggs.
In short this comparatively
new breed unites all the sturdy ana ex-
cellent elements of the large-fesh and
egg producing breeds to wonderful
degree.
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sion and the giving of their present
name they were known as Silver laced
Eurekas, Columbus and American
Sebrights. The most probable supo-
si,ion as to their makeup is, that they
are cross between the Silver Spang-
led Hamburgs and Dark Brahmas.
Quite often we get slight feathering
on the legs which shows little Brahma
or Cochin blood. In feather and APP
pearance they are represented in the
picture above. The standard weights
are: for cock s I-a pounds; cocFrels
7 IL pounds; hens 6 I-2 pound /; pull
lets S 1-2 pounds. As table towels
they are equal to any, beng exceed
ly sweet, juicy, fine grained, tender
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THE MILL HAS SHUT DOWN
BY HELEN JACKSON In. ~

1.-The mill has shnt down! Good God, shut down.
Like cry OF food or fire. the cry
Runs swifter than lightning through the town.
''The.mili has shut down. Good God. shut down.
Men wiring their hands. and look ut the sky:
Women fill faInting; like dead they lie.
At the very best they earned but bread.
With the mill shut do wu they'd better be dead.
Last year, with patience. a essened wage
They helpIessly took: better than none;
More children worked, ut tender age;
Even their mite helped the lessened wage;
The babies where left at home. alone.
Twas enough TO break heart OF stone
To see how thes people worked Tor bead,
With The mill shut down they'd better be dead.
s'The mill has shut down! Good God, shut down.
1t has run atioss this many day,
Far worse than food or fire n the town
VIII be famin g, now the mill has shut down,
But to shut mills down Is the only way
When they run at loss, mill-owners say,
God help the hand TO whom 1t meant bread!
With The min shut down they'd better be dead
IN. Y. Independent.
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Trying to chew chocolate caramels
with false teeth, and essaying to unite
fast-knotted shoestrings with dogskin
gloves on, is very like trying to do bus
mess without adver.ising.-[Carl Pretz-
els Weekly.
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Our Poultry Department

The cnts used In iiln strasing his department arc
kindly furnished as through the courtesy OF q. j.
Ward. Publisher OF the AMERICAN POULTRY
JOURNAL, Chicago. Illinois. Send your name
and address for specimen copy.