The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-05-09

| years straw hat appears on some fat man!
head, the winters accumulation of alley
scents impregnates the air, and there are
various other signs indicating that summer
has come to stay this trip"
= r.
The editor of the MarSeilles Reqistel
made bet on the recent city election OF
$40, ana because the other fellow wouldn't
stand it he gets right up on his ear and
gives him $40 worth Of abuse, as follows
"There are some pretty mean men in this
world, but we suppose they can't help it.
1t is Just as natural for some people to be
mean as il is for Democrats to love office
and we don't know that they ought to he
blamed for it. The human hog is the
meaneSt man on earth, because his mean
ness is so small and ungentlemanly. The
man who picks up rope attached TO a
black sheep, or who invades the sacred
precincts of another mans hen roost tC
pluck fowls, has an object in view or is
working for gain, but the man who is SO
narrow in intellect and so small in princi-
pie, and so hide bound as to refuse to pay
a small bet of $40, when he loses it, with
out contradiction, as did one of our so-called
citizens on Tuesday last, is the meanest
and smallest on record. That sort of a
man is meaner than the one who picks up
the rope, and he can be rightly called full
Ing chance to rob his grandmother, and
if he should ever get into heaven he would
want to steal the grand white throne right
away But then, there are some OF all
sorts, and some sorts are about as numerous
as others. The meaner the man is the
longer he seems to live, and the longer he
lives the meaner he seems to get"
After the cares that infested the day had
folded their wings and were pigeon holed
in the archives of eternity, jim Cross in
company with friend was going to his
home on the east side one bright moonlight
night recently, when he saw an object on
the sidewalk directly IN front of him. On
closer inspection he saw that it had a
green tint, and so Jim thought it was a
lady's veil. He very eagerly reached out
his hand and made grab for the green
VEIL wien his companion heard him give
vent 70 language very appropriate fer such
an occasion. 1t was not veil which Jim
discovered to his disgust, but-you had
better hear the rest of the story from his
own lips, and then you will find out what
a badly sold man he was.
$.*
A young girl of Norway, this county, Is
said TO have collected a string of buttons Is
feet long That accounts for so many
young fellows up there with their suspen-
ders attached TO their pants with a ten.
penny nail.
My son, DO you know that the greatest
vice to which the human family is addicted
is gambling And yet there isn't a single
word in the Bible that condemns 1t. There
Is nothing in the ten commandments, MOTH
ing In the sermon on the mount nothing
anywhere in the Bible against this passion
that leads To more wickedness THAI almost
any other. A gambler is bad man, my
boy; just as bad as common high how
jack. the game scoundrel or black.leg.
When La Sale newspaper man takes
unto himself $4,000 girl his brethren of
the Ottawa press denominate II as more
than ordinary "fat take"
So
II Is said that one of the jurors in the
Richards divorce case was deaf in one ear /;
at least one of the Streator attorneys thinks
so. Owing TO this auricular defect he
could not be expected to hear but one side
of the case and TO deliver his verdict
accordingly.