The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-03-28

laugh at the church and laugh at the grave
ri laugh at all this one at time,
And drink my fill Of the blood red wine.
land he cares for nothing-a king is he!
: Come on, old fellow, and drink with me.
I will drink to the phantoms of love and truth
To ruined manhood and wasted youth;
! I will drink to the woman who wrought my
l. woe,
In the diamond morning of long ago.
To heavenly face in sweet repose,
To the lily's snow and the blood Of the rose,
To the splendor caught from orient skies,
That thrilled in the dark of her hazel eyes.
! Her large eyes. wild with the fire of the South
And the dewy wine of her warm red mouth.
| will drink to the shadow of coming doom,
The phantoms that wait in my lonely tomb;
And last of all, to the monarch Of sin,
Who has conquered my soul and reigns within
Ny sight is fading-it dies away
| cannot tells it night or day?
My heart is burned and blackened with pain,
And horrible darkness brushes my brain.
I cannot see you--the end is nigh
But Wen laugh together before we die.
Through awful chasms plunge and fall;
Your hand good fellow,-I die-that's all.
The above, said to be written by Colorado
cowboy, is published by request, and shows a
genius not in keeping with the avocation OF
its reputed author. 1t is called the "SOng of
| Ruin"
The Gossiper has been asked for rules
governing the etiquette of the table
and drawing room and if wife has
legal right to use the title of her
husband. Not being a lawyer and having
neither wife nor title, it might seriously
disturb the feelings of a more modest in
dividual in attempting an answer. Bill
Duncan not long ago kindly lent the afore-
said little wade mecum on the customs
and usages of the upper-strata society
which the writer has since been studying
to good effect and few scattered sugges-
tions embraced therein are here given as
they come to mind Don't eat fast; don't
take large bites; don't job your foodlin
your mouth with your knife don't put
fruit in your pocket to carry from the Ia
BILE; don't leave the table carrying food in
your mouth; don't swipe the last piece of
bread on the plate; don't drink from the
saucer; don't put your elbows in your
plate; don't criticise the quality of the
soup but eat it quietly or leave it after you;
don't eat your corn on the cob like Nor
man horse. So much for dinner etiquette,
Now as to how you should behave yourself
in the drawing room, but little may be said
as it is taken for granted that you have been
there. AS to whether your wife has right
to use your title on her visiting cards, and
upon being introduced, you are requested
to observe that the society of distinguished
personages whom your informant frequents,
such as Bart Mitch, jim Kelly, Wash
Holmes, Jay Bloddgett, ct al, considers it
in extremely bad taste to say Mrs. Senator
j John A. Logan, Mrs. Senator Elijah NJ.
Haines, or Mrs. General L. S. Grant. There
is a Mrs. U. S. Grant but no Mrs. General
Grant. The title is distnctively the hus-
bands and the wife is not permitted by
good usage, to appropriate it. Though
this is not found in the vademecum referred
to, it is the Gossiper's opinion confirmed
as above, all of which is respectfully sub
mitted.
And now the oldest" inhabtdnt is pre-
dieting late dry spring and telling coterie
of street corner loungers that way back in
40 he remembered when the trees had
leaves on them and the grass was three
inches and half high at this time of the
wear. And no one doubts his word, and
this encourages him to tell another yarn.
Says the Lynvil,e correspondent of the
Illinois weekly courier; 1--WE are pleased
to hear of the matrimonial engagement of
j. H. Gill Early in the week following
the Cleveland inauguration lie led to the
altar Miss Annie Parkin, n belle of the
cattle covered hills of Buck horn 1t Is to
be hoped that she brought him few
steers as dowry. Wonder if Gill is from
Buck Creek.
Hotel fires have been pretty numerous
for the past two weeks and a number of
deaths from burning are reported. Not
one of these buildings had anything like
fire escapes and though in few cases they
were not needed, yet had such been the
case the loss of life would have been far
greater. And bringing the subject down
to this city how would it fare with guests
should fire occur in these hotels: Are
there sufficient methods of escape in case
of fire. This question should be looked
into and fully and satisfactorily answered.
A fire is as liable to break out in the stair
way as in other parts of the building, shut
ting off all hope of escape IN that direc-
ton. The gross criminal negligence in