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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20

Some of the passengers on western
stage aches give strange accounts of
the crossing OF swollen streams. Those
who recently Travelled on the Santa
Barbara (Cal) line say that there the
bridge consists of rope stretched
across. The passengers get in a basket
attach he'd to the rope. For those going
to Santa Barbra the rope is creased,
as the bank on this side is the highest
Then the basket is turned loo, Sc and the
passenger and basket shoot to the other
side with lightning speed. Going the
other way the passengers draw them
selves up the rope by pulley.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20
An Unfortunate sand Bath.
Exchange. !

A party of explorers were crossing q
sandy desert, carrying six of their
comrades ill of disease peculiar to
the country. The sand bath was pro-
posed to them and their assent gained.
They were buried in the sand, their
heads alone being left above the
ground. In this position, chatting
with each other, their comrades left
them and retired to their tents for the
night. In the morning they were hor
ritied to discover that wolves had
visited the camp and eaten off each
sick mans head level with the ground.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20

The point il made. in Queca Vie
toria's behalf. that In shosing hsF 70.
gard for the memory oi her dead ssrs-
ant she will "doubtless ira~ tears
from the eye of many . loving sablee,.
who will be ovespowered st hearing
how much she 10 like other people"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20
Clumsy Farming In England.

In New England, two young farmers
running farm of eighty acres would do
about all the work themselves. have
only time to hint at the clumsiness of
English farming methods and ma
chinery, as often, though of course not
always, exhibited. I have stopped by
the roadside and looked with astonish-
ment and amusement at the sight of
three horses dragging q heavy iron
plow. one man driving. another man
holding plows moving at snail's pace,
turning the burrows in O field where o
New England farmer would have done
the same work alone with single stout
horse-holding plow, and driving with
reins over his neck. So it was all
round-two or three men to o single
mans work, and teams of horses out OF
proportion to the labor required of
them
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20
HIta the mil.

The Cincincinnati Commercial Ga
zette hits the nail on the head when it
declares that too many young men want
TO begin where their fathers left off,
and they consequently leave off where
their flthers have begun.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20

1t is proposed to intro luce Industrial
training into Russ an normal schools
The idea o: industrial education is gain
ing favor in all the countries of the
world
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20

Rev. A. S. frisbie, of Des Moines, is
human electric battery. He will scrape a
carpet with his feet for a moment and then
light the gas with the tip Of bis forefnger.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20

Philadelphia Ledger: knowledge,
like the blood. is only healthy while in
brisk circulation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20
How the Fog Affects Oysters.


The report having been circulated
that the recent foggy weather had in
jured the oysters, a reporter asked
dealer ii it were true.
"The fog made them weaker, OF
course" was the answer. "There's fog
when the air is warmer than the water /;
so when the oysters come out of the
cold water into the warmer air it en-
feebles them"
The man behind the counter leaned
his white apron against it and shook his
oyster knife for emphasis as he said,
after his boss went out:
"lts all very we'll for him to talk |;
he's Interested; but some o them oys-
ters amt got over coughin' and sneelin'
yet since that muggy weather. Why,
the other night there came party in
here to eat out bet and that big show
oyster there, on top o the pile, l thought
she'd cough her shell of. One of the
party said, It's Scotch snuff makes her
cough but all the other oysters began
coughin', too, and the party went out.
The little oysters have all got the
whoopin' cough and Group. They make
the worst nose. There's six old ones
died last night of pneumonia and
Give us less gulf, said the proprie-
tor who had rotnrned
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-20
The History Jay Gould Wrote.


Jay Gould's History of Delaware
County," etc, is one of the curiosities
of the collection. The reason why it is
q curiosity is because Gould has bought
up all the copies he could find, and put
them away. Why he has done SO, no
one seems to know. The work is no
discredit to him in any sense; it Ger
tainly is great deal more otherwise
than some of his railroad work. The
Murphy copy goes to the Pennsylvania
state library at $24. When Gould
wrote it, nearly thirty years ago, he
probably had no idea that copy would
ever go into state library at all. The
time WAS lS56. and. his occupation was
that of country school teacher, out in
the woods. Eelaware is his native
county, and the school was near Rox-
bury, his native town. He took hold of
teaching only to fill up some idle time
and he dropped it when he could do
better. The history was written be-
ween lessons, so to speak.
He had been all over Delaware
county as helper to a surveyor, who
came to grief financially and left young
Gould to shift for himself. He always
knew pretty well how to do that, so he
contrived to get back to the paternal
roof at Roxbury all right, and with his
head we'll filled with knowledge of the
county that had had the honor of Civ
ing him birth. A good deal of it re-
lated to the anti-rent insurrection of ten
or twelve years before, whereof Della
ware county had contributed full
share. The full title of the book he
wrote is. History of Delaware County
and Border Wars of New York, Con-
tanning Sketch of the Early Settle
ments, and History of the Late Anti
Rent Difficulties in Delaware" 1t con-
tains portrait of the now eminent
iinancier as q youth of about 20, and o
very different looking person.from the
JayGould of to-day. Along about the time
that Gould was tramping about as sur
veyor and embryo historian, Vanderbilt
was trying to scratch out living on o
farm on Staten island, and the Old COM
modore was saying he would never be
of any account. Gould never made any
money by his history and did not dream
OF copy ever selling at $24.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07

element in jubilant frame OF mind Nv
cry colored face in the house beamed WIN
delight" says the Inter-Oced" lhenegroes
sre easily pleased and rs easily deluded'
Whenever the Republicans desire TO be
particularly emphatic in showing uheir
con,emnt for one of their fallen leaders
who aspires for place. they do it by KICK
ing him aside and giving the place 10 a
"nigper." Thus, when Keifer, OF ONO
asked to he appointed delegate at large
n the Republican National Convention
the party showed their contempt Tor MN
by appointing negro in hi, stead. lhey
did the same with Robson, OF New Jer-
sey; and now, when particularly enrageu
at the treachery Of Clayton, they manifest
their contempt for him by kicking him
aside and giving the place to Lynch, say
ing, in effect, that they regarded him as
mea er even than "nigger" The mig
gers" may accept it rs II compliment, but
that don't make it any less singing
insult
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
BLAINE AND LOGAN.

The nomination yesterday Of James q
Blaine for the Presidency by the Repcbll-
can National Convention AT Chicago, opens
the campaign Of 1884 with hoop and II
shout. With Blaine in the foreground, the
contest will necessarily become largely a
personal one. Questions of finance, tariff
revenue and civil service reform, and all
the other great issues that usually divide
the parties in presidential campaigns will
be relegated to secondary grade, and the
tipht will be made on Blaine himself. We
shall have rehearsed 10 the last minute de
tail his transactions with the Little Rock
and Fort Smith Railroad Company, and
how he came, as speaker Of the house, TO
defeat the bill 10 forfeit the land grant OF
that road and received $4,000 Ms his re-
ward and how, by taking forcible posses
sion of the Mulligan letters, he undertook
to destroy the proof of that transaction
And we shall have his famous Spencer
rifle contract overhauled, and his acceptance
pIIt vi I~DDuv li'iii tho AN'''h''" -
cifc Railroad; and lastly there will be a
thorough overhauling of the wild and
quixotic foreign policy he undertook to
inauguate during his brief reign us secre-
tary of state under Garfield.
These and the like will constitute the
actual platform which the republican stump
speakers and newspapers will have TO ex-
plain and defend, and it is to campaign
to be fought on such miserably low grounds
that the party has invited the country by
the nomination of James G. Blaine.
The addition to the ticket of John A. Lo-
gan for the vice presidency cannot change
this programme for however free Logan
may be from the personal taints that stain
the character of Blaine, the candidate for
vice president cuts no figure in the fight
to help or mar success, be he saint or
kndve.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
CARTER HARRISON.

The apparent unanimity with which
democratic county conventions, AS far rs
held, in the southern and middle counties
of the state are instructing in favor of the
nomination of Carter Harrison as the dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, leaves little
room to doubt but that he will be the NOM
inee. Under such circumstances II is to be
regretted that certain influential democrat
ic papers are engaged with more virulence
than the occasion seems 70 call for, In rs
sailing Mayor Harrison and trying TO under
mine his strength. The papers notably In
the lead in this crusade are the Peoria
Democrat and Bloomington BllestA; and
the objection they make TO Harrison Is,
that he is not sound on the tariff question ;
in other words, is a proctectionist or Ran
dallite. The charge seems to be without
foundation. II is based on his alleged pro
tectionist speech, about which so much
noise was made at the time, nj the banquet
of the Iroquois Club. But a fair reading
Of that speech certainly will not bear out
any such construction. The speeches at the
banquet in question had all breathed n tone
more or less of ultra tree trade. Carter
Harrison simply called halt and said the
democratic party, earnestly as they opposed
the present unjust and oppressive tariff,
and demanded tariff reform and reduc-
ton OF war taxes. were not ready to endorse
such ultra free trade views rs some of the
speakers had uttered And in that he was
undoubtedly correct.
During the tendency of the Morrison
tariff bill in congress Mayor Harrison fire.
quently and unreservedly expressed him
self in favor of the passage OF that bill, and
to-day it is well understood Morrison favors
Harrisons nomination for Governor and
that the counties in his district are instruct
ing in his favor.
Mr.. Harrison's views of the tariff ques.
ton have, within week, been quite fully
and clearly presented in an interview with
reporter of the Chicago Herdtd and are
shown to be such as the democracy of this
state will heartily indorse. The general
drift of these views may be gathered from
the closing paragraph of the interview,
where Mr. Harrison says:
"To sum up my ideas on the question, |
should say that we have right TO levy IA
tariff only for the purpose of raising rev.
enue; to levy tariff for the purpose of
bringing about protection simply is moth
ing more nor less than robbery. don't be
lieve in that True craftsmanship would
dictate while levying tariff for the pur.
pose of raising revenue that that tariff
should be levied so AS to benefit the masses
and not the few, and should be 50 levied
as not to fall upon the poor man who is un-
able to pay II, and is therefore an exaction
in the shape of tax upon his right to ex-
list"
While as governor of Illinois II may he
of less consequence whether our candidate
is solid" on the tariff question than If we
were about To send him TO the U. 5. Sen
ate, yet while voting for a man as demo
crat We undoubtedly have right to know
whether he is one out and out 90 the tai
Ia as we'll as all other questions and be
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
MORE DYNAMITE.

Another series of dynamite explosions
occurred in London at 10 o'clock on Friday
evening of last week, causing greater
alarm and excitement throughout the city
than all the previous dynamite outrages
put together. One bomb was placed
ngainst the corner of the detective police
building in Scotland Yard. Its effect was
TO destroy portion of the brickwork and
10 make ali aperture fifteen feet wide In
the wall. 1t also demolished cab stand
ing In the vicinity and injured the driver.
Another bomb was exploded In the base
ment of the Junior Carlton Club House In
Pail Mall 1t was no doubt Intended to
reach some of the arlstOcratic club mem
bers, but II only succeeded In severely In
turing four female servants who were
working in the basement. The explosion
in Scotland Yard was rendered much less
serious than 1t was no doubt intended to be
by the failure of fuse to burn. Several
cakes of dynamite were found In the
vicinity to which fuse was attached but
which had gone out. Sixteen packets of
dynamite, with fuses attached, were also
found under the Nelson Monument In Ira
falgar Square, but which, for some reason,
were not exploded with the rest, there be
inc no doubt but that the three explosions
were intended to be simultaneous. The
only discovery of any sort in regard to the
authors of these attempts was that the in.
dividual who lighted the fuse under the
| Carlton Club House was seen TO light the
fuse and then run away. He was pursued
by an indignant crowd but managed to
make his escape by jumping into a cab,
which had been in readiness and which
was soon lost sight of in the darkness
The great and astounding mystery Is,
how these terrible explosives could be
placed as they were and fired without the
slightest clew as to who did it. Scotland
Y ard being the police headquarters, is con-
stantly under the closest surveillance, so
that 1t seems impossible that the amount
of work which the placing of the explo-
sives and lighting them involved could be
done without detection Evidently one or
more of the least suspected of the police
themselves must have had hand in it.
So the vigilance of the police In the vicin.
ity of the Carlton Club House had been
equally constant and unremitted; while the
Nelson Monument, having been threatened
heretofore, was the object OF especial
watchfulness. The fact that the dyna-
miters could invade quarters rs closely
guarded as these with such apparently per-
feet safety and impunity, Is regarded as
good cause for the EXTREMIST uneasiness
and alarm.
Meantime, of course, everybody accuses
the Irish Fenian organization as at the bot
tom of all, and O'Donovan Rossa In New
York, in his usual self-impOrtant way,
glories over 1t as his own especial work.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07

FAYE. X. Fay, of Auburn, n. T., Is IN the
city.
FoRBEs.-Geo. Forbes, OF Fiske q BEEN .,
WAS in this week after tour of Illinois.
UrpE.-Mrs. W. II. w. Cushman is in the
city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. Perkins.
NATToCKs.-Mrs. F. W. Mattocks ana
daughter Lillian have gone to OHIO Tor a
summers visit
REv.-Flavel Bascom, D. d., of Hinsdale
maid his sen, Or. II. NJ, of this city, a brlef
visit this week.
ECKgIs.-Mr. J. II. Eckels, OF this CITY,
will deliver the Grafton at the Mendoza Fourth
of July celebration.
MArrocKs.-Miss Marion Mattocks, OF
Peru, has accepted position as primary
teacher at Des Moines, Ia.
Mc.-Mr. and Mrs. Mcclellan, OF Chicago
were In the city this week, the guests OF Mrs'
McC IS father, A. Lynch, ESQ.
HoNs.-D. L. McNsir, a jourDeyman PRINT
er at knight & Leonard's, Chicago, is visiting
his Ottawa home and friends.
JnKrLL.-Miss Jekyn has returned from
Chicago and win reopen her classes neh'
week, continuing them during the summer
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
REMEMBER THE PRIMARIES.

The Democrats of the different towns
and veting districts of the county should
bear in mind that one geek from tO-day is
the date on which they are asked TO meet
20 select delegates 10 the County Conven
ton 10 be held in Ottawa on the following
Thursday, June 18th. The convention will
not only appoint delegates TO the State
Convention to be held al Peoria on the I'd
of July but also TO the Congressional Dis
trict Convention, the day and place fol
which have not yet been fixed, but will al
30 have the important matter to attend tC
Of arranging the party organization of the
county for the most effective work during
the pending presidential campaign. The
approaching convention will thus be the
opening of the campaign on the part Of
Democrats of this county, and hence il be
hooyes our Democratic friends of the sew
eral towns 10 see TO il that good and sound
Democrats are chosen 10 represent them
There is everything to gain by starting out
right.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
Democratic Convention.

- =, = .I.I-a,, -, a Colp county who UppOHrU
=. 'nO7. 1,,,,. O., osc,al nositiop In the state
10 'he 'oht'i NJ, ,he R.nublIcan party
"ho n"N''' Wv -, a., ,,, or,y,s teachings and would
VIM w no. ,,"a,,,oa. and Who do believe the Dsmoc.
oon"'n,N "' -, aho,,, .nonomv in public erpendl.
rae! "o'. " o1 o,r,o, ne are reouested 10 select
- o, ronr.s.,t them AT A Democratic County
oeleeaus !" no ha,d in the hoard. Of SUPERVISOR
Convention 10 DE- heIu III ''' n " ,n -,.
Room. Court House in the city Of Ottawa on lhursday
~. nineteenth dsy Of June 1881, at the hour Of O'Clock
p NJ, such convention to appoint o. ael'kaV i"
,ent La Sale county In the Democratic state Conven'
''N' IN - ,, ~, p.or,a nm IN, ID day Of
ton to be held IN 'he oi'' VI ~ " .,,.a.on, :,
July 1884; also to select w deeea"s l" 'op''oo. -
e,,Ta cor,,v in n Dstrict Congressional Convention
'"''' 'o"' " ,.,o Gov Oh. holding ~ the same
whenever the ua'e anu pi"'' ava -, .u
shall be determined upon also tO trhhSac' my anu u"
-, ,,,.r h,,s,ness MS nay properly come before the
tGch o'ner o'nli' ~ ,, 80, H. ,,n,, A. oil each he
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
EXIT.
Annual commencement Of the Ottawa
Township High School.

The nnualIccommencemen exercises OF
the Ottawa Township High School took place
at the Opera House on last Thursday evening.
Not according to the usage in such cases, as
seemed to have been made and provided, the
clerk of the weather was gracious, and for
the first time in some years the exercises were
held on an e7ening when the floods came not.
Not that a rain would have made any differ
ence in the size of the audience. 1t is pleas
anter to 90 under a cloudless sky, but the eX
perience of the past shows an interest in this
event that rains cannot dampen though they
"straighten out frizZes," and which will not
be oyerpowered by discomfort subsequent
cold in the head or ruined store clothes. The
High School is an expensive luxury, no doubt,
bnt it is a factor in Ottawa life that none but
the most misery taxpayer or disgruntled
misanthrope could wish closed again The
house was filed to its utmost capacity, and
could its capacity have been quadrupled still
| it would have been filed, so great is the inter
es in the exercises of graduation.
The class this year numbered 81, the largest
class ever graduated by the school, and was
|
We say noticeable, for from various causes,
necessity of earning a living, or OF precocious
anxiety to begin lfe's work, the boys OF
class gradually drop out one by one, leaving
the more favored or more patient few to car
~ off the honors, the smiles of the pretty
girls and the bouquets.
| The proscenium of the theatre was tasteful
he of nyar
flowers, on which the audience Toasted ere the
curtain rose, typical no doubt, OF the flowers
of rhetoric and oratory which should follow
the rising of the curtain and the burst OF mu-
sic from the orchestra. Above the class was
the motto, in white, on green ground, sup
porting the o. H. 5. monogram in the center,
Not finished but Begun" paradox not one
of the class probably believed in. 1t is n sort
of pous fiction that the average graduate
of ward or high school, or colleges INDUCES
himself in, all the time rejoicing from hat 10
boots that he has finished; and it takes him
ten wears to find out he has mot finished but
bepun " if indeed he ever finds it out.
The honor of the Salutatory fell to MISS
N,Rp1 NJ. PIcKgSs, who welcomed the grand
audience and congratulated the class, VINO
after four years of work had come TO this
final exercise of high school work She eau
toned the audience that perfection should not
be expected; but the class hoped to show that
thar Efforts AT improvement had not been in
vain.
FRASKJ. COSTELLO followed with hssty
sketch Of the sad history Of "lreland.' 9th.
er countries have been Wasted by the sword
and bound hand and foot BY tyranny; bat
their agonies came TO an end Only Ireland
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07
1884,.
The Free Trader,

The Free Trader,
During the ensuing political campaign
will be the same RELIABLE, PRACTICAL
USEFUL AND soLIDLY DEMOCRATIC paper
II has always been.
II will as ever be Democratic-the only
journal representative of the party at the
county seat where the conventions meet,
and where will be the headquarters for the
campaign.
II confidently relies upon not only Dem.
ocrats, but all who desire 10 he fully posted
on home matters, for continuance Of the
liberal support it has received in the past
Especially would II urge upon Demo
Gratis an increase of its circulation, 10 the
end that its influence upon the presiden.
tial canvass of the year may be the more
extended and greater.
In accordance with our past custom dur.
ing presidential campaigns, we will send
the FREE TRADER 10 Neao Subscribers
from May lst TO December 1st, or seven
months from any date beginning in May,
for Is cents cash in advance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-06-07

Two remarks made by Hon. Frank
Hurd, of Ohio, in his argument against re-
storing the duty on wool, are worthy of be
ing pondered by every laborer and every
politician in the land The first is this;
IF subsidies must be given TO any indus
try, take them out of your overlooking
treasury, not out of your suffering poor
And the second is like unto it: 81 would
not, for considerations of party expediency
vote at this time to make wooden clothing
dearer to the American people, If every
democrat in Ohio should request it,