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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12
In the Offices.

INSANE.
On Sept, Sd John O Conner, aged 10 years
was declared insane: cause unknown. lie
is man of considerable means, comes from
the south end Of the county, and 1t Is
though, that worry about his money has
unsettled his mind.
REAL ESTATE.
From Sept. to Sept. 9, at 9 a. m'' loe
real estate instruments were filed Tor RECORD
in the Recorders office. Among the larger
sales were the following:
PJ Roche to Al O'Conor Q c ID July 10
to h lot blk l43 La gale for $4,000.
W J Goodrich to John Brundage W d
Sept Sd to NEG neq "a 50 and nwq nwq 80
50 Brookfeld for $4,000.
Isabella Spencer to Ida j Gay W ID Aug
81 to lot 3 blk . Walkers adm Ottawa for
$4,000.
Lucy S Hopkins to F A Sherwood W u
Sept 9th to lots 3 and blk . North Ottawa
for 81 500.
VIM Haskins to Thos IIaskins WD Sept
8 to lot 2 blk 100 lot 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, blk l29
lots 6, 9, blk lS1, lots !, 5, blk 1885, La Sale
for $1,000,
During the past week the following were
granted licenses to marry
FP Hartshorn and Juliet Bushnell.
Thos Wren and Mrs Sarah Coleman
JIM Thompson and Ida Bruner.
Peter Glozick and Mary Conschock,
Alvin p Smith and Theresa Lewis.
Geo II Clement and Ella Kennedy,
Jos W Rayburn and Margaret Bennett
VIM T Balm and Emma Maria E Wohlers
Edward Uavnps md isabella Clasper.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12

The Wenona Mder says an effort is being
made to secure special train over the T.,
b. & @. and c. & A. roads from Ottawa, via
Streator during the week of the Wenona Fair.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12

jacksonville has the heaviest base ball
nine in the United States, their aggregate
weight being 1851 pounds. The lightest
one weighs 206 and the heaviest 299 lbs.
They are to make tour of Peoria, Quincy,
Chicago, Bloomington, Kansas City, St.
Louis and st. Joseph.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12

Have given Tongaline fair trial in many
cases of neuralgia and rheumatism, and find
it the only reliable remedy for these com
plants. Drs. Terry & Keithly, Milford, Mo.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12
Blood

purifier, it is very much superior to any
other preparation Of Sarsaparilla. All
persons OF scrofulous or consumptive ten
denotes, and especially delicate children,
are sure to be greatly benefited by It's
use" j. w. Starr, Laconia, Iowa, writes:
"For years / was troubled with scrofu-
lous complaints. tried several different
preparations, which did me little, if any,
good. Two bottles Of Ayers Sarsapa-
rila effected complete cure. 1t Is my
opinion thu this medicine is the best
hlood
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12

In the haste of getting it into type last
Friday evening, for next mornings paper,
Mr. Gedney's poem, read at the Old Set
tiers Picnic, was considerably marred in
the printing, and to do him justice we re-
print it, carefully corrected by himself:
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12
The BEST

boon ever bestowed upon man Is perfect
health, and the true way to insure health
is to purify your blood with Ayers sarsa-
parila. Mrs. Eliza A. Clough, "a Airing
ton ST., Lowell, Mass, writes: Every
winter and spring my family, including
myself, use several bottles of Ayers Sar-
saparila. Experience has convinced me
that, as q powerful
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-09-12
New, Special and Interesting Features,
B. F. LINCOLN,

B, #, LINOOLINi
Attorney at Lac.
v,yFCUTORS' SALE.-EsTATH OF JOSEPH c. Moss,
II DECEAsEp-The undersigned, executors OF the
last will and testament Of Joseph c. Moss late OF the
county of La Sale deceased under aud by virtue OF
the power and authority them conferred as such cx
ecutors in and BY said last VII and testamen! VIII on
hour of two o'clock In the afternoon Of said day at the
south door of the County Court House in said county
of La Sale in the state of Illinois, oter Tor SAFE al pun
lie yendue 10 the highest and best bidder the following
described real estate situate in said county of La Sale
viz 49,, -,
section fifteen (l5) in township thirty-two (S2) north
range three go east of the third (Sd) principal merdi-
a.,
TERMS, Cash on confirmation Of the sale by the
prohatr Court j. ALLEN MOSS,
CLARK b. MOSS,
Executors of the last will ana tcstl'
ment of Joseph c, Moss, decd.
h. +. LINCOLN, solicitor,
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Farmer. II you want any luhr,UfM- n' for Your
Rappcrs Mowers or IN.ur Binders WIND Wis 40
other Machinery, Htv" the best mar can D" h11i'
40 prices that beat the world. =. - FitI''''N'
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man behind him to give an outfit and year by
year to reinforce him.
What is necessary to a thing is as sacred as
the thing. The candlestick which upholds the
sacred candle is also sacred. There may be as
much self-denial in staying at home as in going
to the war; as much courage, as much love of
country. The outward business of life is moth
ing; the inward purpose is everything. The man
who goes with Arnold through the woods of
Maine in winter to Quebec does a brave thing
His wife who stays by the stuff and the children
on half-ceared farm of stony Vermont, and
keeps the wolf from the door until he comes back
with his pockets full of Continental money. mot
worth continental" does brave thing
Many -colored are the services which a man
may render to his God. There is more than one
calling. Whether your calling is sacred or not
depends on how you feel about it. If you think
first of your work it is sacred; if you think first
of your wages it is profane.
Il blow the organ at St Tirnothys. Did you
know twas not the master. after all, that speaks
the great sweet sounds. He only beckons at the
keys, and Gods winds come and sing for him.
while draw the great winds in from up the air.
lis hard, tell you. For once the minister
Christmas day-walked down the aisle and
stopped and spoke to me, and he said that even
the master, and he and everyone, even the beau
tiful people in the choir, only did work like mine,
moved hands or lips, while the music all was
Gods and came from him. So ever since it has
come into my thoughts that maybe in that world
lcan make tunes like the great sweet ones and
may have white keys all of my own, and not so
cold and damp nights when 1 touch them" The
organists assistant is right. That is the way it
will be; he will be asked not what his work was,
but what he worked for. The chief end of man
is to glorify God.
The works of God are many colored. and the
works of man that glorify God are many-colored
also. 1t is Carlyle who says: ''Not this man nor
that man, but all men make up mankind, and
their united task the task of mankind" So in
man the religious feeling is one it may be de-
layed but it will express itself in all tribes of
the earth in many colored way. AS the fruits
of the earth are various, so the duties of men
multiply, and the high priest that ministers at
the altar is no more worthy than the servant
who with reverent spirit, carries out the ashes.
And the rewards of the service of God are many.
In the Fathers house are many mansions. 1t is
not monotonous place. There is the voice of
singers. But that is not all. There is the ripple
of water and all tn esplendor of color and form.
There is variety of life. Here the tree of life
bears many-colored harvest-twelve manner
of fruits
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ROller-Skatins Extraordinary
james Whitcomb Riley

Brooklyn Union.
The Brooklyn roller-skating rink corner Of
Bedford and Atlantic avenues contained one of
the largest audiences last night that ever
assembled in that building. The principal at
traction was the first appearance in America Of
T. W. Crowther, an English roller skater and
bicyclist, celebrated throughout Europe. At the
tinkle of Manager Byrne's electric bell, Mr.
Crowther attired in British military volunteers
fatigue dress of blue. the breast of which was
covered with gold medals and trophies. appeared
before the assemblage on skates an described a
circle. He then gave display of fancy
skating, not only executing all the principal diff
cult and artistic movements of American pro-
fessional skaters. but added original movements
of his own, many of them erotesque
ones. One of the best events of
his performance was when he arranged
apart, and skating between each bottle by a ser
pentine path, from right to left and forward He
repeated this several times skating backward on
one foot, forward on one foot and final
ly a full-header glide, picking up each
bottle of the twelve at swoop. He
jugged knives, fire-balls and flags while in rapid
motion; jumped over obstacles, and went through
a ring of fire, while he was blindfolded and a
sack was placed his head and shoulders
and this where 1t was seventy-five feet from the
starting point to the goal He rode his eight
feet bicycle, and concluded his performance by
skating hn his unicycle, the finale of the affair
being the darkening of the auditorium and the
performer going over the skating arena amid
vari-colored fireworks, which were appended to
his cycles or carried in his hands or on his head
The performance was novel and highly interest
ing, as the cheers of the assemblage indicated.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15

Gossip Concerning the Matrimonial Pros
poets of Princes aud Princesses.
Lucy Hooper.
am very glad that the marriage Of the Prin-
cess Marie. of Orleans, to Prince Waldemar, of
Denmark, has taken place at last, for there has
been little else talked about and thought of in
the Partisan world of fashion for fortnight
past l caught glimpse of one of the prettiest
dresses OF the trousseau at Worths, the other
day, just before it was sent home It was an
evening dress, with corsage and train in pale
blue satin, brocaded all over with silver ferns
The skirt front was in pale blue tullo, studded
all over with dangling loops in crystal and pearl
beads. The Princess's court dress is all in white
and silver. The train is three yards long. bro
caded with silver roses a white satin ground,
and bordered with band of white feathers
powdered with silver. The white satin under
skirt is embroidered by hand with roses and car
nations in in silver thread. Clusters of white
feathers, fringed with silver, adorn the sleeves
and the front of the low necked corsage. The
wedding dress was very simply made, being COM
posed of draperies of point lace over white satin
"a royal sort of simplicity, it must be confessed
The details of the wedding have doubtless been
given by telegraph Suffice it to say that the Prn-
cess of Wales in royal blue velvet, with a skirt
front In pale blue satin richly embroidered was
the beauty Of the OCCASION; that the Queen of Dem
mark had on the most elegant toilette Ia master
piece of Worth's in heliotrope velvet, with the
skirt front of cream satin, embroidered with
peacocks' feathers in crystal beads, the eye Of
each feather being an oval imitation sapphire).
and that the young Orleans princesses were all
dressed alike in corsages of ruby velvet. with
skirts of pale pink crepe There is renewed
rumor of the marriage of Prince Albert Edward
of Wales to the Princess Amelie, of Orleans, the
eldest daughter of the Comte de Paris, but the
provisions of the act of settlement that con-
ferred the crown of Great Britain on the elector
of Hanover after the death of Queen Anne, ex-
pressly prohibit the marriage of one of the royal
family of England with Roman Catholic. The
nXi hac al haa
the romantic persons that persist in believing in
the secret bethrothal of the Princess Beatrice to
the unfortunate Prince Imperial. The next
royal marriage in Europe will probably be that
of the Crown Prince of Portugal to the Infanta
Eulala of Spain, the youngest and last UNI
married daughter of ex Queen Isabella
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
Young Bayard's Wife.
Chicago Herald.

Concerning the appointment of James A.
Bayard as Secretary of the Territory of Arizo-
ma, there is said to be little romance. Though
a son of the member of the Cabinet, young Mr.
Bayard owes his appointment to Senator Davis
of West Virginia, who went to the President
and urged him to do something for the young
man. Between James and his father there is a
coolness growing out of the formers inability
to appreciate the latter's aristocratic notions
The elder Bayard as is well known. is a devout
believer in the idea that there is such thing as
good blood. and, fancying that the Bayards have
something to boast of in that line, he objects
most strenuously to his sons contemplated mar
riage TO a good-looking chambermaid in Vir-
ginia hotel
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Secretary Bayard's Inefficiency.
W ashington Special.


1t is said by those who are employed in the
State Department that Mr.. Bayard has never
crossed the threshold of one of his bureaus since
he has come into the State Department He has
examined into none of the workings of the de-
partment proper, and has confined himself en-
tirely to the outside field of our foreign rela-
tons. He has made consequently almost no
change in the department itself, while in the
representatives abroad he has made more
changes in the same space of time than any one
who has ever been at the head of the department
There is no business system in the Department
of State For long time there it had no finan-
cial accountability. The funds of the depart
ment have been disbursed in a way which would
bring bankruptcy on private institution in a
short space of time. The irregularities in the
management of the affairs if this department
could be corrected in two weeks time ii some
matter-offact business man were at the head Of
the department. Nearly all of the departments
are doing business upcn systems of by-gone
days. They all need improving and changing
so as to be more in accordance with modern
methods. The reports of some Of the secreta-
ries will undoubtedly contain many fresh sugges-
tons to Congress looking to future reorganiza-
ton. Most of the evils OF the departments have
grown from the faults of the systems themselves
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
jealousy.

Not jealous of the dead? Why of the air
That clasps you round / feel jealous thrill,
And of the sun that kisses your sweet face,
Which is to me more sacred than the
To Ancient DSAids in Stonehenges fame,
When there they watched its morning glow light up
The hem of Nights black robe with rosy dawn.
I envy it the kiss with which it tells
Your currained eyes another day has come.
For not with Plato's pale, insipid ghost
Of love, that never knew life clothed in flesh,
Has my full life clasped you in close embrace;
But with passion thrilling every chord
Through which the soul speaks unto consciousness,
Stirring the life with deep but soundless voice,
An utterance inarticulate yet plain.
And under stood by every sense of flesh;
love that consecrates and justfes
Its being, in whose purifying fame
All passions dross to perfect wilderness turns,
AS pure as might have been Sir Galahad's;
Yet virile mighty Antonys.
When tired of war his baldric was thrown off
To be replaced by Cieopatra's arms,
And his strong heart-beats tailed to the sound
Of cadenced pulsings of that siren queen
That serpent of The Nile, who shoathed his sword,
The blade which might have sceptred all the world,
And won him to herself, and won the world
Away from him who gave it up for love.
Yet, if from out the shadowy spectral past
Wrought from the mist of memorys charnel house,
Should float the flmest ghost of any cloak
With which your love had clothed another life
To veil the shine of this bright coat of mail
With which your love has spurred and armored me
Since became your knight, when accolade
OF your sweet lips gave me heraldic right
To bazon on my large bursting sun,
Whose rays spun with every thread oe thought
And woven with each fiber of my flesh;
Why, then the eating mold of mildew's damp
Would my fair pcnnon rend to rags,
And deep corroding rust my shield eclipse,
And all the surface of my armor soil,
Till all its hinges and its greaves would creak
AS harshly the swinging doors of tombs
Ruined by time, and Jared by bowling winds
Blown on black autumn nights from hell of skalds,
And dancing plumes would droop with deaths dew
damp,
So sorrow-laden that not breath of yours
Could stir them, though its fragrance exhaled
In kisses the face they, dropping, hide;
For in that breath would be the frost Of death,
That would oerspread with whiteness all my face.
And freeze the very marrow of the love
Loves armor had encased until it held
ieshless skeleton of what was love-
Slain in its coat of mail not strong enough
To ward blow aimed by deathless ghost.
Ben d. House.
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GipSy Mary.

Gypsy Mary dark woodsbeauty.
How love you! Truly duty
Would be pleasure if it called me in your name
Come to me in all the splendor
Of your eyes; with words so tender.
They are sweeter far than all the sweets of fame
Gypsy Mary, light and airy,
Dancing near me like fairy,
How you tease when you know love you So
Come, and let my caresses
Linger mid those ietty tresses;
In your secret will whisper low.
Gypsy Mary. so contrary.
Tell me now why thus you tarry,
When you know love you dearly, my bright pearl
Can it be you love another
Better than you would brother2
Or is it just because I'm nothing but a-GIRL?
Bertha L. Clauson.
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A Bachelors Plant.


Philadelphia Press.
On the ordinary masculine undershirt Of wool
there are usually just four buttons. These
buttons come off after about four days
wear. Then the bachelor fixes himself
up with safety pins and things that
stick into him if he walks quickly or stoops to
pick up anything. Why cannot the buttons on
the undershrt be sewed on property A lady
explained yesterday. The girls who do the work
are paid-that is what it Is called out of courtesy
by the dozen, aud they find their own thread.
which is of the weakest cheapest possible de-
scription. Bachelors of genius always leave the
garments with the outftter for few days to give
him chance to fix the buttons on with carpet
thread or castiron.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
ROYAL ROBES.

Gossip Concerning the Matrimonial Pros
poets of Princes aud Princesses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
The Elf-Child.
(Modern.)


Little Orphant Annie IS come to house to stay,
An wash the cups an saucers up an brush the crumbs
An shoe the chickens off the porch an dust the hearth
an sweep,
An make the fire, an bake the bread, an earn her
board an keep
An all other Children when the supper things is
DONE
We set around the kitchen fire an has the mostest
fun
A-listnin to the witch tales at Annie tells about,
An the gobbleuns at gifts you
Eff you
Don't
Watch
Onct they was little bog wouldn't say his prayr's-
An when he went to bed at night away up stairs,
His nanny heerd him holer an his daddy heerd
e, him bawl,
An when they turnt the kivvers down. he wasn't
there at ALL
An they seeked him in the rafterroom, an cubby
hole an press,
An seeked him up the chimbly fue an everwheres,
guess
But all they ever found was hst his pants an round
about
An the gobble-uns II git you
Eff you
Don't
Watch
Out!
An ono time little girl nd allus laugh an grin,
An make fun of ever one an all her blood-a kin,
An onct when they company" an ole folks
there
She Knocked EN- an shocked EN-, an said she didn't
carei
An thist she kicked her heels an trnt to run an
hide,
They was two great big Black Things astandn by her
side
An they snached her through the ceilin' fore she
knowed what she's about!
An the gobbe-uns II git you
Don't
Watch
Out!
An little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue
An the lampwick sputters an the wind goes woo-oo
An you hear the crickets quit an the is gray
An the ghtnin bugs in dew is all squenched away
You better mind yer parents an yer teachers fond an
dear
An churish them at loves you, an dry the orphants
tear
An hep the pore an needy ones at clusters all
about,
Err the gobbleuns II git you
Eff you
Don't
Watch
Quit
james Whitcomb Riley
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-15
Grave Matter for Alarm.

Brazil Register.
Two votes in the South have the same power
that is welded by three in the North There is
In this fact, and in the stubbornness with which
IT Is maintained matter for gravest alarm.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-12

Morris is booming, the railroad company
and town are fighting, the wheat buyers have
been engaged in bloody war all the fall and
a general rustic on all sides is noticed. A
large amount of wheat has been marketed
here this fall, and we feel that we have the
best market in this part of the state. -. An
interesting case was tried before justice
Hutchius yesterday. The Fife and Drum
corps, consisting of F. A. Hancock, A. A.
Lyman and Gus Bragg, sued the Democratic
party of this village for services rendered in
their grand demonstration last fall. Two OF
the plaintiffs are Democrats, young and not
ambitious ones, however. One of the gentle
men is a distant relative of a prominent can
didate of this place for federal position
under the present administration. The rail-
road company is at ''daggers' points" with
the village officers. They are down on Mar
shall Weber for his efficieut performance of
mis- duty in compelling them to keep the street
CROSSINGS open. Supt. Kemp threatens to
move the depot out of town, towards Dom
nelly or Hancock, but his threat wont scarce.
4 number of railroad engineers are here on
some mysterious mission the object OF which
cannot he learned. They drove into the
country this morning with all their imple-
ments q. District court convenes next Tu s.
day. The calendar for this term contains
h rty-four civil cases and five criminal. -.
Mrs. E. e. Newell is very sick. -. Eddie
Dunlavy broke his wrist last Sunday while
playing. .. William Mccullough and Katie
Murphy were married last Tuesday at the
CithOic church. Samuel Wolff and Maggie
NJ. Sarno we're married last Thursday at the
Congregational church, by Rev. K. f. Nor
ris.. The Sisters continue to make valuable
improvements to their property here; they
now occupy their dwelling near the school
house. . The new school house, which now
presents g finished appearance, is beauty.