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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24

Americans are poor cheese makers
Eighty to 100 cotton bous make a pounl.
This is the best season OF the year to put
down drain tile.
The crop of buckwheat this year Is very
large and little ate
Many excellent authorities declare that
Mrs. Lizzie Cotton and her bee hive are O
trau1.
Mr.. Henry Bergh is trying to make
blacks miths stop putting rei-hot shoes on
horses
Holstem- Friasian cows are recSoue1 the
finest, by expert need cheese makers, for
this branch of tie dairy interest
Kill the English sparrow AMI eat him
upon toast. 1t is all he is fit for Do it in
the fall, while he is plump.
Thousands Of tons Of cheese are made in
France from the milk of sheep, and in some
of the European markets it brings the high
est price.
More attention should be paid to teaching
young horses TO walk fast than is done A
fast walking horse is a desideratum not
often met with.
White Russian oats yield. with the use
of go poun Is of phosphate fertilizers, 6O1<
bushes to the acre. The Welcome gave
~ bushels.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
Hen Cholera.

This disease destroys $15 900 0)0 worth OF
poultry every year, somebody says. 1t
arises chiefly in consequences of filthy hen
houses. Tne symptoms are like this: The
chicks move feebly about with their wings
dropping; their heads turn black and they
die in from twenty-frur to thirty-six hours,
and on examination their crawS are hard
ami the contGn black.
Kill al the infectal hens AMI burn their
bodies. Burying wontdO For the Others,
have all the surroun lingS as clean as a
white washed wall Then few drops Of
carbolic acii in quart of water mixed
with their feed, or alum water, or common
baking soda and water, used Tor the same
purpose, will generally bring them through.
They must be watched, however, and every
sick fowl Instantly removed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
FIG. 1.

And yet they don't at all. The fact is
that the lines are perfectly straight all the
way down and parallel 1t is the arrange
ment of the small diagonal lines that makes
the long lines in Fig. look as though they
were bent outward in the middle, and
those in Fig. seem inclined inward. Your
eyes deceive you.
Another interesting experiment is men
toned. Turn a book upside down and
look at the letters. You will see that
every S will seem smaller at the bottom
than al the top. Turn itup right again and
each will seem the same size, top and
bottom The letter is actually made
smaller at thu top than at the bottom.
Our eyes naturally represent things a
little larger at the top than they
really are. So the S is cast to remedy this
defect in our eyesiglt. When it is really "A
little smaller at the top, the eye enlarges
this part just enough to ma 20 it appe"r
right. Next observe the lines in Fg. g.
Look at tho horizontal lines a b and d.
Guess which is longer Ga, II b, OF course,
.again you will say. Well, get thread and
measure ,hem You find that a b and d
are exactly the same length 1t is the
placing of the diagonal lines that fools tho
eve.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
GIRLS
Sore Critical Illusions

In the last number Of st. Nicholas Mr..
Arlo Bates slows up some curious facts in
optics They prove that our eyes really dc
not see straight, and that therefore they
cannot he trastel |. For instance, in the
picture below observe the two sets of up
and down lines, with the diagonal short
lines joining item. Do not the lines in Fig.
I swell ont slightly i'll the middle, while
those in Fig. come together in the same
place, OF cot rse they do, you will say
INSTANTLY
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24

The illustration shows plate of the best
and ham soonest pears that ever grew They
are fall ripener, golden brown, perfect in
shape and coloring. The Mime. Won Sieb0ld
is japanese pear. So is the Mikado,
another beauty, also ripening in the fall.
There were 1O varieties of pears at the
show. o. Yankee kints, the choicest for
early fall was the Canandaigua- The Presi.
dent Ms and the Black Worcester were
prodigious winter pears. The Easter Beurre
was q foe one that mellows very late in
winter. The Columbia is q sound and hand
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24

The American Institute is a venerable
and conservative society that has Given an
industI ial fair annually in New York city
for tifty-fou consecutive years. Inc fruit
and flower display is one OF the most in
teresting features of the show
APPLES,
Naturally, We're The chief center Of in
terest, since their culture Is becoming so
large a source of income to the country,
both from home and foreign consumption.
There was q large variety, but it was
melancholy to see how few perfect ones
there were. They were Of splendid size,
many of them, but scabs knots, lopsi res
and worm holes were the rule. Wa ought
to make a united effort through the country
to get rid of the apple pests that are in
juring our orchards so fatally. Almost
every year a new and unnamel variety
of insect or blight springs up, TIL
the raising Of orchards begins to be in
vested with new terrors. The only remedy
is high culture and eternal vlgi. alcs. Give
your orchards top dressings of manure and
pillow it in lightly. Let hogs run in the Or
chard to eat the wormy fruit as fast as it
falls. Keep the trees carefully trimmed so
as to make them compact beaded, and re-
move all the useless growth of wood that
takes away the strength Of the tree. Other
helps to orchard culture will be mentioned
from time to time.
We motel some Of the most perfect of the
fall and winter apples at the fair. Tie fall
pippins were among the bsst There were
plates of mammoth pippins, apparently
without a blemish, three to four inches
across One of the finest looking fruits was
the old Vandervere. Among fall and early
winter sp ,cinens the Porter apple was
beauty. So We're the Westti9ld Seekno
Farther and Ladies' Sweet.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24


Salcylic acil should not be used for pre-
serving fruit in tin but only in glass cans.
says The Philadelphia Press. We say,
don't use it at all either in tin or glass.
Put the fruit in glass cans; scald them well
and seal them tightly, and it will keep till
dooms day, and when you el5 it, it will
not turn your stomach into a drug shop
Be sure that every hemical that will pre-
serve frui, is not good for the human
stomac or for that of any other animal
either, for that matter.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24

some winter fruit. We can now have pears
nearly all the year round, to such perfectios
has their culture been brought.
VEGETABLES.
We were particularly interested to see
what vegetables Stood the test of competi.
ton best, that we miaiht make note OF
them for our readers or potatoes it was
easy to observe that ,mong all the new
fashioned varieties there was not one that
could v ct equal the old reliable Early Rose.
You can set that down
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
for Infants and Children.
WN&NM&MSM

Had n case Of InNnmmatory Rheumatism ~
nearly all the large joints. Gave ToNeALIsE, and
to-day my patient is out and doing we'll"
w. W. BAXTER NJ D.. Hersman, Ill.
/" In my opinion ToSoALINE supercedes all other
so-Caled rheumatic remedles"
s. c. WoRsHAM, NJ d., Marengo III.
Have given ToNoALrSE fair trial and think IL
the best remedy have ever found for Rheumatism
b. f. DAVIS, Sturgeon, Mo.
PRICE ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE
d ~ WASHINGTON AVENUE. 81. LOUIS.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
PEARS.

This hes been good year for pears. In
some localities barrel of good ones coull
not be sold for 81 At the same time how
ever, there were plenty of ragged, hungry
children to whom they would have been a
goisend They went begging rather be-
cause the dollar was scarce than because
pears were too plenty.
The japanese beat US all to pieces in pear
culture.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24

Though painful and wearing almost beyond
endurance is not All inCurablG disease Il treat
ed in time Perhaps no other disease has so
bailled the efforts of science and medicine as
this, but at last Il remedyhas been discovered in
tN>>> N r\>>>o which CURES RHEUMA-
SVN>S\>\\\\<T ISM, and is heartily en-
dorsed by many of the Leading Physicians.
WHAT THEY SAY:
"ToN6ALINE in doing all that is claimed II will do"
g. 9. SEIFERT. NJ. d., Cantral ILL.,
TOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
A. A. MELllER. Sole Proprietor TOO al
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24

The Baldwin apple was very sound and
handsome The Dominic was fine late
one. The Gloria Mun1i is winter apple
growth. But the late winter apples par ex-
cellence are the Russetts They are medium
sized AMI compact and hard in the fall. AS
January approaches, however, they mellow
down softly, and with the nuts and cider of
the long, cold evening are just unspeakable
The Roxbuiy and Golden Russe,ts are the
most no ed. In the city market these are
on the fruit stands in the summer till APP
pies come agan At the institute fair
there was a pate of tolerabie, though
withered, Golden Russetts that had been
kept over from 1851
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
GRAPES.

Fruits that will grow i'll the latitude of
New YORK state will grow rather generally
throughout the Union, except in the most
southern parts Therefore, the grapes,
apple. ETC., that thrive best in New York
are worth trying elsewhere.
Among grapes, tne finest black ones were
the Wilder AMI Worden. Some of the
clusters Of these were a sght 80 see rhe
Worden is shown il the picture. The old
Concord does TO do 81 badly, either, when
it is richly fertile ii AM Uendel. TIL JEFF
ferson was light red Crap, of a peculiar
and beautiful color. Another bcauty was
the Salem dark red grape. The Niagara
was the most perfect looking white or green
grape. a dish of such black, red and green
grapes as these, heaped artlsticaily to-
gether, would make an exquisite table or.
nament
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-10-24
MAINE

uNAcQuANTED GEOGRAPHY COUNTRY WILL
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1885-09-16
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3t PREMIEREs HosTILITEs.
raa 1ns7(sU1TE.) dad 5ll1.l

Une superbe espece de plante
rampante, que lon nomme toi-
le d'araign6e, q cause de la al6-
geret6 ct de la, d6licatesse de sa
tige flamenteuse, 6tait sem6e dams
des pots suspendus aux bords dea
fenetres ct, en- 50 sd6veloppsnt, cou-
vrait ! distance, de son feuillnge,
les murs de la maison, ct ses ra-
meaux verts, enables de grapes
de feurs rouges .et bleues, ainsi
suspendues semblaient croitre dams
Iair.o 5a9 Il sssEF 81
q On jour que le chevalier Louis
Sc rendait chez le sup6rieur de
Saint -Sulpice, il trouva N6lida
seule dams Pembrasure dune Gdee
fenetres du salon, effeuillant de
ses doigts l6gers une de ces feura
purpurines. Ellie paraissait in
quiete ct reveuse. Un livre 6tait
ouvert devant ellie, mais ellie ne Ii
salt pas. Son grand oeil bleu errait
sur SUI les nuages qui fuyaient l6gera
ct diaphanes dams un ciyl d'azur.
81 En- voyant venir le chevalier, ellie
tressaillit, SO troubla, salua avec
gaucherie ct chercha 3 SO donner
une contenance sans pouvoir y
paryenir. lie cheyalier he SO SEN
TAFT pas moins emu, mails moins ti-
mide ct moins trouble, il s'appro-
cha de la jeune file en- lui distant
dune yoix annie ct bienveillante
Elev6e CONNIE vous lavez 6t6,
au milieu des merveilles de la ma
ture, par un pretre ami des muyrea
de Dieu, vous devez aimer beau
coup ces heurs que vos doigts ef-
feuillaient tout . l'heure avec dis.
traction. H fE
.ia- Oh {! beaucoup !! TT vous, che.
,valier, les aimez-yous III
|,a#,--Je les aime, r6pondit-il aves
lm6lancolie. lorsqu'elles me rappel
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Tia suite sur Ia Qnat-,sne page.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03

elected State officers who are willing to nullify
certain of those laws in response to the
demands of certain men who despise all legal
restraint. 1t is a scandal that such things are
possible, and it impeaches the honesty and
sincerity of the majority that they will con-
sent tossee their expressed wishes thus DELHI
e%rately despised and set at naught at the
bidding of men who do more than all others
to bring all law into contempt. But at the
present time it is useless to demonstrate. The
Liquor League has demanded a change in the
board, and the demand will be respected.
The Democratic State officers feel that they
dare not reject any reasonable request made
by the liquor-dealers, and, in accordance with
their understood wishes, the board will be
reconstructed, and the laws will be nullified
in their interest.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03
The Story Grows as 1t Travels.

milwaukee sentinel.
Out in Indiana a feeble old man, appointed to
the largest postoffice in the State. deliberately
violated all the rules of the civil service and
seemed to be sorry there were no more to violate.
He kicked out every Republican and even three
old women who had been appointed to mend
mail bags, and said he was sorry there wasn't
another left to kick out. He put in all his rela-
tons and all the relations of Mr.. Hendricks who
had not been appointed to places at Washington,
and said he regretted he and Mr.. Hendricks
hadn't more relations to put into the Office.
When a committee of solemn DIS called
to see him about the matter, he told them to go
to the devil, and said he was sorry he didn't kick
them out also.
The Democrats of Indiana spend their time
about the postofice cheering for old man Jones
and reviling Thoman and Lyman. The Demo.
cratic newspapers are for Jones. The st. Louis
Republican warns the party that the members
of the civil service commission ''are doing their
best to divide the Democratic party. They must
rot succeed" it concludes.
Jones shares the favor Of the Democratic
party almost equally with Higgins. Jones will
stick.
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ment contracts, 1t would have been idle to expect that
any other particular promise, which it might suit it to
break. would be kept. Still, this wholesale and alb
rupt disregarding of a principle so often insisted on
and a pledge 80 often given. must be confessed to be
somewhat startling. Minneapolis Tribune.
AS a rule, those who are the best fixed 10 pass
through an era of adverse fortunes are more disposed
to grumble and fret. and make a great fuss over their
little discouragements than those whose sufferings are
moro notable. What, then, is in the accumulation Of
the good things of this life that curdles the l~acteals of
so many people 1t is difficult to determine. One fact
worth constant remembrance is this: that no adversely
is so great but it might be greater; and no trouble,
however huge, will not shrink in dimensions before
the spirit of cheerfulness. This prescription we com
mend to those who are wasting their valuable hours
and worrying themselves wrestling with this intangi-
BILE specter of hard imes.-Cincinnat Enquirer.
JUST think of a nation with 90 per cent. of the men
diseased, and one-fourth of the population abandoned
women! What can save it from destructionl Moth
ing except reform and publication. From France let
those philosophical gentlemen who have so strongly
advocated the legalizing of the social evils in America
learn a lesson as to the folly of such a course. No
nation can be free from crime and criminals, but that
is no excuse for giving them free rein to fleece the old
ana corrupt the young. A nation of saints is beyond
hope, but it is possible to subordinate the animal and
elevate the soul. These are matters that should
rouse parents to a closer scrutiny of themselves and
their children. and make public men thoughtful of
the future of the nation.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03
ACKNOWLEDGING, for the sake Of argu

ACKNOWLEDGING, for the sake of argument,
that Secretary Whitney has been actuated only
by an honest determination to insist upon
good work for the government, and hat the
Attorney-generals remarkable opinion was
based, as he believed, on sound principles, it
still remains that John Roach & Son did the
only thing left to them in going into bank
ruptcy. No business firm in the country
could stand up under a sudden draft for
So. 900, Oc0, in addition to having a shadow
officially placed on the character of its work.
The Reaches are deserving Of the sympathy
of all the people.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03
Grant Relics In, Demand.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
The leaves of the pads on which the General
wrote in answer to questions, after he had lost
his voice, are priced very highly. A gentleman
i'll the city who has one of them was offered
twenty five dollars for it. Governor Hill has
one which he guards carefully, and no money
could purchase it. IL a short time these slips
will be worth their weight in diamonds as relics
of the great man. One of the autographs on q
leaf written by him a few days before his death
is valued at ten dollars. All of the instruments
used on the General by DR.. Douglas are to be
preserved by him in a glass case. DIR. Shrady,
too, has a silver syringe which was used in Civ
ing hypodermics of morphia, and it will never be-
used on any other human being.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03

THE evident purpose of those who have the
making of the Board of Police Commissioners
Is to make it up of men friendly to the liquor
interest-of men who will wink at violations
OF the law regulating the sale of liquors and
intended to prevent their sale on. one day of
the week, This is as mildly as the case can
be stated. That it is a scandal and shame
that such a statement can be made in truth
ought to be admitted, and must be admitted
by every honest man. But, in the language
of an old and self-confdent breaker of the
law, what are you going to do about ita A
majority Of the people have chosen Legislators
20 make their laws, and the same majority has
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03

Memphis, together with a large
number of planters, have petitioned
Mr.. Villas to reconsider his action.
The Avalanche comes boldly to the front and
advises the Postofice Department to go slow,
saying that while the Republican administra-
ton left some routine errors, its business de-
tails have not been badly managed. THE
department." continues the Avalanche,
'hardly knew what it was about when q
change was ordered affecting the trade of a
large number of planters with a large COM
mercial city, and involving mail necessary
in such business" This fiat assertion, COM
ing as it does Immediately after the decision of
Mr. Cleveland not to extend the civil-service
rules over the postal service, should be a
''pointer" to that eminent reformer, as well
as to Mr.. Villas. The people Of the country
may not take a very absorbing interest in the
matter of retaining a few thousand clerks in
the departments at Washington, but the en-
tire population, regardless of politics, will de-
mand that its mails shall not be tempered
with or delayed for the sake of party. The
Republicans brought the service to its pre-
sent state Of efficiency, and care must be
taken to keep it so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03
Exaggerating Jones's Importance.


Mr. Jones has removed faithful officials, and
put in their places broken, down politicians. Mr..
Cleveland himself has done the same. Mr.. Jones
has given comfortable places to his sons and to
Mr.. Hendricks nephew. Mr.. Cleveland has not
been behind hand in bestowing favors upon his
personal cronies and political henchmen. Elk
Union soldiers and widows of soldiers have been
discharged to make room for hungry Democrats.
In how many scores of cases has the same thing
happened at Washington In the pension serv-
ice in particular, in several instances, ex-corfed
crates have displaced ex- Union soldiers, so that
veterans of the war enjoy the novel sensation of
having their claims passed upon, or disburse-
ments made to them, by men who did their
utmost to dismember the Union. These things
being so, we are. inclined to think that Mr.. Jones
is given a some what exaggerated Importance by
the mu1WumD press.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03
Jones Doesn't Think So,
Terra NautA Mail

IeIre HaNt9 NalI.
wump" friends are badly ''out." In the last
campaign they worked together with a true
David and Jonathan affection, but they pull
together no more. The mugwumps are offended
at the manner in which Postmaster Jones has
been dividing the loaves and fishes Tor rather
not dividing them, for he has hustled out all
Republicans in a hurry and filled their places
with members of his own family, as far as they
would reach, and when they ran out, with other
good Democrats. Evidently the mugs"
thought they were entitled to a loaf or two, and
not getting even a crust, they are bringing a
tremendous pressure to bear upon the President
for the removal of the odious Jones, on the
charge that he has hopelessly fractured the civil
service rules. The mugs think Jones will have
to 90, but Jones doesn't seem to think so.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03

COUNCILMAN BOWLING charges that he
bribed certain members of a former Council
in the interest Of the Citizens Street Railway
Company. This is a matter that should re-
ceiye attention from the Council and the
grand jury. If present or former members of
The Council have sold their votes for money,
the voters should know all the facts. In the
meantime, as Mr.. Bowling has admitted his
part in the dishonorable transaction, the
Council might inaugurate proceedings by ex-
pellinp him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03

THE serious charge made by the reformers
that Mr.. Dodd and the Rev. Abbott are too
old for postofice clerks, and nephew Morgan
is disqualified by reason Of being too young,
leads a New York exchange to inquire with
some anxiety if the four members of the In
diana mugwump party are not about the right
age to serve in the capacity mentioned. In
the absence of the family records we are I'M
able to give the exact age, but should say, at
a venture, that the average is about s'teen
years. A multitude Of witnesses will testify
that they have not arrived at years of discre-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-03

THE New York Post has exclusive informa-
ton to the effect that the Indiana Bourbons
are disappointed because Postmaster Jones
entered a generaldenial of the charges against
him. They had hoped, according to the Posts
authority, that he would admit the charges,
defy the commission, and that out of the in
vestigation a suit might be brought to test the
constitutionality of the civil-service act.
Whatever the Indiana Bourbons," whoever
they are, may have hoped, no one favored with
even a casual acquaintance with Postmaster
Jones ever suspected him of a disposition to
sacrifice himself and his large and interesting
family of sons for the sake of the party. Mr..
Jones is a Democrat of the old school, which
is the school to which Mr.. Hendricks and all
other Indiana Democrats belong, but he is not
OF the stuff of which martyrs are made. Some
other offensive partisan must be found before
a test can be made in the way indicated.