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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-12-13
4 PrOhibitiOnist's Dream.

.V,suy. EditOrs-A few evenings since,
while friend who Is strong prohibition.
III ana took an active part in favor af that
party in the late campaign had dropped in
for friendly chat, the conversation hap.
pened 10 turn upon dreams when he r"lM
ed one that il not little remarkable, eope
cially in the light Of the Interpretation oi 1t
given TO the writer by person To whom he
told it day or two after. give the dream
in my prohibition friends own words, wh"
made no comment upon II himself anu oi
fered no theory as to its Interpretation or
significance, He said
thought had been placed in comu1n 10
of very fine steamer IA ply On lake Erie
between Cleveland and Buffalo, and natu
rally felt somewhat proud of my POSITION
On my first trip, after We had been "d'
some time and | was busy on deck giving
orders, | WAS called 10 by the man al the
wheel, who said: Captain, do you see
that light yonder?" " Yes" replied.
" Well" said he, that is the upward
bound steamer and she is right IN our
course making directly for us said, are
YOU sure you are on the right course lie
said he was Then" said |, " go ahead,
and went abont my business.
Pretty soon he called TO me again and
said the steamer WAS still heading directly
for us | again asked If he was orre he
was on his right course, and he said he
was. Then go ahead" repeated, and
stood watching the vessel rs she steamed
under full Roadway until she was within 4
few wards, when she suddenly turned and
presented her broadside directly III our
path In au instant our steamer struck her
about amidships and went crashing into
her. | heard the timberS crash and saw
the splinters fly in every direction, while
her passengers and crew shrieked with ter.
ror as they were precipitated into the va
ter, my own passengers AZ the same time
rushing on deck in their night clothes and
for "A few moment the widest confusion
reigned Immediately ordered halt and
we ~oon had our boats out and picked up
all we could find from the wrecked vessel
and when we compared notes il WAS found
that no one had been drowned or seriously
hurt, and We went on our way rejoicing,
Now the friend to whom, as already stat
ed, repeated this dream day or two al
forwards, Joseph-like volunteered an inter
probation about as fellows: The steamer
commanded by the prohibition captain rep,
resents the Prohibition party in the late
campais ~ She was manned by able sea
men, her pilot understood his business and
her brave and fearless captain knew his
rights and would not be bullied out Of them
by the fecest and most daring OF enemies.
When therefore the other steamer, which
represents the Republican party, with her
"plumed" captain, and crew composed
largely of Rev. gentlemen of the infant
New York Temperance Assembly diSpu-
ted her right of way and attempted To run
her down, she accomplished her own des-
truction That is what her friends no, on
Iy ADMIT but blame the Prohibitions fu.
Though she did not run hundred years
a day" she
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-12-13

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DissoLNING VIEWS By Mrs Andrew Lang.
Harper " Brothers, New York; Jansen, Nc,
Clurg ~ Co., Chicago. For sale by Hapc.
man " Graham, Ottawa. 10 ct>
The story i only >o>o>h II gives
pleasant glimpses of the higher grade OF
Bohemian life in Paris and on the cent
uent and generally how people in easy cir.
cum>tances with nothing to do manage In
make life -ndurable 10y engaging in little
intrigue> and love e>capale> There i
nothing about il # all exciting, vet ii is by
no means devoid ol merit for quiet, pleas
ant reading.
pIoc,piLIN. A Fragment of Contemporary
Biography. BY Laurence oliphant, author
Of "Altiora Pete" &c Harper " Brothers,
New York; Jansen. McClurg n Co.. Chica.
90; Hapcman X Graham, Ottawa. Paper,
- cents.
IL j. not much ~ story, but is full of
pleasant bits al sentiment, philosophy and
satire that sparkle like jewels ON every
page. One seldom gets hold Of more
sprightly reading.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-12-13
Went to pieces all al once,
All at once and nothing first.


just like bubbles when they burst"
And her captain and crew, who were 30 ge-
nerously rescued from watery grave by
those whom she tried TO destroy, have, II Is
hoped, come ont of their cold water bath
wiser and better men. Probably if hereaf-
ter the wreck is raised and again put aticzt
She will not attempt 10 dispute the right Of
way with the Prohibitionsts though the
temper of her friends does not appear to
to have been at all improved by her mis-
fortune There is reason TO hope, however,
that Like the poor Tallapoosa, that last ship
OF "our grand old navy" which went down
with such fine supply of QiquiD stores on
board, she will prove total wreck.
Farm Ridge, Dee ). y. G. X T.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-12-13

For chappcd hands, face, fps and all rousi,
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Sold 10y + V Griggs.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06
Gems Of Thought.

Follow after holiness; it will repay
your pursuit.
Simplicity, Of all things, is the
hardest to be copied, and ease is only
TO be acquired with the greatest labor.
Steele.
He who well and rightly considers
his own doings is not likely TO judge
hardly concerning another. Thomas a
Rempts.
Unhappy is he who desires to die
so long as there remains to him any
sacrifice to make, one joy to create,
troubles to prevent, tears to dry.
Every one should give, whether
rich or poor. The cent OF the strait
ened is as much needed for worship as
the dollar of the richer. The poor man
should no more omit giving because OF
his poverty than an illiterate man
should omit praying because Of gram
mar. No Christian has q right TO ex-
cept this from his worship. Exchange.
-Ye great men, spend not all your
time in building castles in the air, or
houses on the sand; but set your hands
and purses to the building of the porch
es of Bethesda 1t is u shame for a
rich Christian TO be like n Christmas
box, that receives all, and nothing can
be got out till it be broken in pieces, or
like unto drowned mans land, that
holds whatsoever it gets. John Hall.
If there is one sin Of the tongue
| that is more hateful than another, sure
ly it is the sin Of uncharitable charita-
bleness. Every statement has its i'm
plications, as the lawyers say; and
sometimes the most eilcctual way OF
slandering your neighbor Is TO express
a charitable hope that he may not be
as bad as some people have reason to
think him. There Is nothing which
hurts reputation lile suspicion, and
there is nothing which more directly
suggests suspicion than the apparent
reluctance with which one person ac-
.knowledges his hope that another per.
son may be an honest man in spite OF
what he himself might say II he would.
al know that this Is. not true OF MIR.
Asterisk," said one sharply. Il hope
not" blandly responded Mr.. Blank. 81
will try not TO believeit as long as ]
can help.u Some time later, Mr.. AS
lterisE's reputation was abundant
nv cleared, and that from the very
bsame SOURCE where it had been
birstii4 Dalleduuin .ipnestion. ''Now
yon see il has turned out all right"
said the one who had expressed his be-
lief in Mr.. Asterisk 3 Innocence. "Not
PEhitt@dlted. thope!s Said Mr., Blank
who Was. OF course, too charitable to
speak uncharitably. IS. s. Times
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06
An Interesting Analysis.

The following analysis of the Old and
New Testament will be interesting:
Books in the Old Testament, SO;
chapters, 929; verses, 23,2l4; words,
592, 439; letters, 2,728, 100.
Books in the New Testament, 81;
chapters, 200; verses, 1859; words,
1S1, 1858; letters, 1888, $50.
The Apocrypha has 1873 chapters,
6,08l verses, 1852, 1876 words.
Whole number of words in the Bible,
3,7lS,655.
The middle chapter, and the least'in
the Bible, is Psalm III.
The middle verse Is the 9Th Of Psalm
III.
The word land" occurs in the Old
Testament 5,543 times.
The same in the New Testament also
occurs l0,684 times.
The word Jehovah" occurs $3.50
times.
The middle book of the Old Testament
Is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is Job, 20.
The middle verse is I'd Chronicles,
chapter 20, 18th verse.
The least verse is 1st Chronicles,
chapter /, and LIST verse.
The middle book in the New Testar
ment is I'd Thessalonans.
The middle chapters arc Romans, IL
and II.
The middle verse is Acts II, 18th
verse.
The least verse is Acts Q, 35th verse,
The 2lst verse, chapter /, of Ezra,
has all the letters of the alphabet.
The 10th chapter OF I'd Kings ant
chapter 81 of Isaiah are both alike.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06

party boasted of its power In the solid
South made solid by this same species
OF terrorism. A Republican was not
allowed to I've in any Southern State
then, as now. In the In liaaa House OF
Representatives, in 1861, Hlmre He'll
rem declared that ii any attempt was
made to cderce the South it should be
done over his dead body--a threat that
he attempted to make good in his con-
nection with the Kn ghts OF the Golden
Circle. and for whc lie was honored
by the Democratic party OF Indiana to
the very day of his death. Every step
taken by the GovernmenC wa' opposed
by the Democratic party until, at its
National Convent on in 1864,
it declared the war failure and
proposed terms of surren Ter to the
rebels. But for such encouragement
Fort Sumter would never have been
fired upon. Long after that. and
throughout the whole course Of the war,
the backbone of the rebellion was in
Democratic sympathy at the. North.
Just so to-day II the bloody methods
now used in the South did not find
friends in the Democratic party in the
North, they would cease Immediately.
1t is wholly for the purpose o., carrying
solid South for the Democratic candi-
date that they exist at all, and 1t is be-
cause by such a vote the Democratic
party hopes to win that these things are
encouraged by the party here. BE it so.
II the Almighty has in reserve some
phial of wrath not yet poured out, this
combination may have temporary
success; but we can conceive OF no Ma
tional sin yet unatoned for that should
call down upon this Nation such q
calamity as the restoration. OF the DEM
ocratic party to power, with these
bloody wretches the controlling spirits
of the party.-IndianGpolis Journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06

tribute" We say of an improvident,
idle man: "He lacks energy" and of a
busy, active one: "How energetic he
is!'' thus making healthy activity syn
onymous with energy as 1t seems to be
in a practical light. "The soul of tho
sluggard desireth and hath nothing;
but the soul of the diligent shall be
made fat" which reminds us of the
New Testament passage; THAT unto
every one which hath shall be given,
and from him that hath not, even that
he hath shall be taken away from him."
Energy, used in the right direction,
seems TO be regarded in the Scripture
anonymously with righteousness; for
instance: "The way of the slothful
man is as an hedge of thorns; but the
way of the righteous is made plain.
"Thc slothful man saith; There is q
lion without, / shall be slain in the
streets''--so he vacillatcs, and accom-
plishes nothing. How many people
there are who sit and wish, when, If
they would arise and do, the thing
would be accomplished at once.
A friend who had just received the
sad intelligence of afriend's death, re-
marked to the writer: 81 realize more
and more that what we have to do we
should do at once, so suddenly are our
loved ones taken from us" We often
say of some one: "He has fine gifts, II
he would only improve them;" Iand OF
another: "How much he has accom-
plshed, and youremember when at school
he was considered the dull scholar OF
the Glass" This power Of doing is de-
pendent somewhat upon organization;
Of course; so it is necessary to cultivate
the more assiduously the tagging facul-
ties. 1t is easier to sit and dream than
to arise and do; consequently we should
resolutely set to work, and when we
have doneIso-breasted the storms, COM
forted the sick, cheered the poor, OF
brought comfort to the mourning-then
comes a satisfaction to the doer, Joy
of which the idle dreamer has no idea
whatever. Instead of doing as much
as we can, we always seem to be esti.
mating how little we can do and main
tain the respect Of our friends and our so
cial standing; so to the few who are will
ing the burdens of life are heaped upoI
them with no unstinted measure, while
the idle, only lacking the energy, live t
exhaust the energies of the good anC
helpful. Chicago Interior.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06
Justifying the Bloodshed.

A writer in the NctOs, of this city,
who has travelled extensively in the
South in the last few years, with good
opportunities of observations, admits
the general slaughter of negroes, but
justiiies il by saying that the Almighty
could no doubt have made a white race
that would submit to b. governed by
negroes, but He never has. This may
be true; and the problem which per-
plexes the people of the South may be
solved only at the end Of decades OF
blood and violence. But does it follow
that that particular portion of the white
race should be put at the head Of the
National Government? IL may be that
under our form of Government the Ma
tion has no right to inquire into the
methods Of any particular State, and
rapine and blood may prevail without
National interference. unless II he in
Japan, or India, or Ireland. But
should it be a passport to power in the
Nation, that the white race keep the
colored people under subje ton by shot
guns and ropes? But that writer
wholly overlooks an important factor
in this matter of shooting. II is not
negroes only that are malireated. II is
not even "carpet-bagg rs, as they call
all immigrants who dare 10 speak and
vote against these men, but natiye-bon
citizens, white men, men who have
never voted any other than the Demo-
cratic ticket; men who have heretofore
gone with the multitude on negro
''huntings," but who, for cause, have
chosen TO break away from them and
encourage others to do the same, and
true men, born and educated on the
soil, who have never been murderers,
are shot rs relentlessly rs the negroes
themselves, whenever they choose 10
break away from that type of Democ-
racy which Is in fraternal relations with
what they are pleased to call the Ma.
tlonal Democracy-that Democracy
which is now in the majority in the
House of Representatives, wholly
through these shotgun methods, and
which rs plotting TO elect President OF
their own faith and order, through this
Democratic machinery.
Who, in the light Of past events, does
not lay the responsibility Of this alarm
ing state Of affairs largely at the door
Of the Democratic partyp There would
have been no war but for the encour.
agement the rebels received from tho
Democratic party In the North. That
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06
Religious Reading.
GOD KNOWS 1T ALL.

How comforting the thought
That fills my soul to-day,
Tho with earth's burdens am fraught,
And struggle by the way
God knows It all! His face
In light upon me shines,
And looking up cleariy trace
The goodness He designs.
He knows each tear shed,
Each wave that DER me flows
And where my pierced feet have bled-.
Yes, all my grief He knows.
He knows each fond desire,
Each wish to upward rise
Above the worlds defiling mlre,
The sin that round me lies.
He knoweth what is best,
De IL to live or die;
And in His knowledge can rest
And on His love rely.
Then in this path of life,
Where oft the tempest blows,
On battle-fields with dangers rife
May still say: HE knows"
George W. Cr0fts, IN Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06
Energy.

Energy. "A defined by one standard
authority TO Be r"the : poher o. opera
ting, whether excited or not" and we
think the exercise OF ithisipqwer9 makes
The great distinction in the different
elhs5es Of mankind 9hi"Ye knew your
.iiutgs but yer rdida III Ilnot, ' ! mabes ithe
glofhfpl map, WHO sccomplishes ,notbiRg
) )sblai ianR and BetineN toGbis' friends.
.sThe hand Of tho diligent shall bear
rule; but the slothful shall be under
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-02-06
SEE T. ERE !!

It's Pads than by other
part of the harness Therefore important buying be obtaining
pad that viii not gall pinch want of harness will pay you
Go to j. M. Otterbacher's Harness Factory at
wellington or Greenwich and see and exam
inc Clark's Adjustable Team Pad
Entirely different from other principles constructed by mleab iron plates
that the directly back leaving plenty of room for
the spinal column and will gall pinch horse with his back
CALLED the will heal him will adjust
itself fat thin and should break cansbe
Besides unquad
J. nj. Otterbacher, Harness Manufacturer, has the
exclusive right to manufacture and sell said pads
Lodi Spencer Shiloh
purchase him will gladly
of the pad. Respectfully, TH0S. CLARK.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
Cotncidences

This coincidence is related: General
Garfield was a school teacher, and he
met his wife, who was a school teacher
also, while engeged'in his profession.
Now comes Mr.. Blaine, who was a
school teacher also; and he; also met his
wife, who was a teacher, in the self
same. way. .
Senator Logan is.the FIRST nominee of
the republican party since Andrew
johnson who has not ,heen:a widower.
Schuyler Colfax was a:widower when
nominated, and married just after his
election. Wilson, Wheeler and Arthur
were each widowers. Blaine and Logan
were nominated on a Friday and so
were Hayes and Wheeler. Moreover,
Senator, Logan is living in the same
house in Washington where Mr.. Wheel
or lived when nominated for Vice Pres
ident. Yes, and the democrats have
almost the same ma jority in the House
of Representatives that they had in
1876, and have not had so large a one
since March, 1877. j give these coinci-
dences, says Mrs. Grundy,"in the New
York Graphic, for what they are worth.
~- -:
Gov. Murray has been reappointed
Governor Of Utah.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
Why He Came to Dakota.

LaMoure Progress:-The people who
are settling in this favored spot are not
lunatics or land sharks, but they repre-
sent the most enterprising, energetic
elements of the older states. They came
out to this new country simply because
they wished to better their condition,
andhaving once seen the country, moth
ing would induce them to return to
return to their homes. Many of them
owned valuable farms and beautiful
homes, but they sold them and came
here. In c%onversing with n Of them
in this class, the question was asked,
what induced you to sell your farm IN
Illinois, and leave your home where
you were doing well enough and come
out to this country?" The answer ne
gave will stand for a large number of
men situated as he was. He said; "My
farm was too valuable for lie to own.
l had too much money locked up in my
land to realize anything but q small per
cent. on the investment; so I sold out
for $$s65 per acre, lcadeda car With house
hold goods, another with my team and
farming tools, came on here, got Alarm
for nothing, twice as large as my old
one, and had the money fof my home
in Illinois to build a better house here
and buy more stock, and in five years
my home will lie worth more than doub-
lie the money of the old" That is the
reason so many men are leaving good
homes to settle in a new country, for
farming land is too high in most of the
eastern states to make farming a very
profitable business. There is room for
thousands yet, and not until the whole
vast area Of Dakota is occupied by act
ual settlers will emigration cease.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
:Eippest in the World,

Huronite:-We are informed that the
New York World publishes the state
,,ment that the pumpkin furnished the
Dakota Farmer FORTS exhibition at the
Chicago Exposition last fall, was sent
to Germany by the Northwestern Rail-
road Company, ard captured the prize
as "the largest pumpkin in the world"
The mammoth vegetable was grown by
Sanford Suits, who resides two miles
and a half north Of Huron.
/. Cedar Falls Characterization, of
the Des Moines Register, attended the
. reunion on the field of Shiloh. While
, there he went to q certain place and
said: "On this spatI surrendered, and
before doing it ! planted my bayonet
beneath the soil" With his foot he
stirred the soil and brought to light the
pointed steel he had planted there twen-
tty years before. 1t was.a pleasant find
Ato him., and the regaining of an, old
friend that he will cling to the remain
der Of his days.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11
The Sioux Reservation.

ANOSA "
lands to settlement, which We had
hoped we could in this issue report as
having become = law, is still in the
same position it occupied at the date
of our last issue. 1t has passed the
senate and awaits action by the house.
It is not a question as to whether the
members ct the house are willing to
pass the bill. There is no opposition
to it, but the trouble is that the bill
may not be reached, though we still
have a lingering hope that the desired
action may yet be taken by the house,
and the landdeclared open ere the close
of the year. 1t is however more than
possible that II desires in this respect
may meet with disappointment, and
that the measure may go over until the
next session of congress. This would
be great disappointment to many peo-
pie east as well as west of the reserve.
Thousands have been waiting to occu-
Ply the land. Of these quite a large
number have now crossed the reserve
to find homes on this side. tmmigra-
ton can no longer be kept from the
available lands surrounding the Hills
by the mere fact of an uninhabited
stretch Of country to be crossed. Peo-
pie, having had their eyes turnedtoward
the reserve, and now despairing OF see
ing it opened, are settling to the west
of it, where they find many advantages
they could not enjoy in residence upon
the Sioux lands. The Black Hills
country is enjoying increasedprosperity
consequent upon the influx of many
people, a majority Of whom come well
prepared to stay. We had hoped to see
a continuous train of settlement from
the Missouri to the Hills this. year, but
the next best thing is to see. our lands
Immediately about the. Hills settled
with actiyes energetic people, who will
help develop the country and make it
such an one as will attract railroads
whether the, Sioux reserve be opened or
not. The fact is that the. Black. Hills
country is increasing SO rapidly in i'm
p%ortance, its. industries andinterests so:
varied in character, are developing so
rapidly that it must have railroad COM
m%unication with the outside world.
The trade of this sectionis worth'much
to the wholesale marts, of the east, and
railroads must reach out for it. If the
bill for opening the reserve should go
over to the next session Of congress it
Is entirely probable that work upon the
extension of one or more railroads to-.
ward this country will be commenced
ere the Sioux lands are opened to set
tiers. BY that time the agricultural
lands Immediately surrounding the
Hills will all have been settled.-World.]
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-11

Gov. Murray has been reappointe'
Governor Of Utah.