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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10
A SLIDE DOWN THE BhNIsTERs.

Sliding down the 6anisters, though a
swiit and delightful way OF getting down
etairs, is not popular method OF descent
except among BOYS of the hobbledehoy
age. When therefore, Mr., Dolph Hotchkiss,
L solid citizen Of Peoria, ILL.,, adopted that
style Of coming down from his room rc.
Gently it augurc1 that something ont Of
the usual line had happened to him, Such
was indeed the case. Mr. liotchki-s oN-
plains as follows Why lie preferred The
railing to the stairs:
1t was last winter, during the month
Of December One evening after getting
homt from the store | was taken with
severe pain in my ankle. |. felt at first
rs if had sprained it, was UP stairs
when tie trouble first came on and |
wanted 10 go down. The pain, however,
had increased 50 that found tina, it WIS
impossible 10 walk down the steps, end So
! Slid down the railing. From that night
! began to grow worse, the pain hecaa"
more severe, and my ankle gradually
swellcd up until il seemed ~ il tie tCsh
would burst. 1t WAS almost impossible for
me 10 lie in bed, and the least noise or At
tempt to move me would cause me the
SlNs'N,7b d,S'i'
After being in bed a month could not
stay there any longer. felt that ! must
have some kind OF change, and So | was
moved into an easy chair, where | lay for
tao months, suffering more than words
can express My trouble was rheumatism.
The doctors could do nothing fer me. |
used about every medicine ! had ever
heard Of for rheumatism, and many diff
ferent remedies recommended hy my
friends and ucichbors, hui nothing afforded
me any relief. A lady friend living in
Chicago hearing Of my affection, wrote
me, saying; Try Athi"Vhoros. IL cured
me
II was very glad 70 tgy anything. |
had many different sorts 0. medicines,
but this was new 10 me. | sent AT once
and bought bottle and began using IT. l
had terrible bUzzing in my head a, first.
but rs il was said in the directions would
have this if the medicine took hold Of the
disease | stuck TO il. The bu22lng Was
nothing with my sutlerings. | think 1t
was on u Monday evening first began
with the Athlophoro>. BY the following
Saturday the pain WAS nearI, all gone the
swelling WAS very much reduced, and with
the aid of Il pair Of crutcAes went oat for
the first time in three months.
IL continued taking the Athlophoros
until had used four bottles. My pain
and swelling had then all gone, and Had
no further use for CgUt,iC>. | have not
felt any rheainatism since. Athlophoros
i, very valuable medicine. recon-
mend it whenever | have chance and
never want TO be without some Ath!cpho-
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10


Clears out rats, nice, reaches, flies, ants bcdbues
Heart Pains.
Palgl'auon, DrorHcal sweI'lnaS, plznes,, Induces
Ton, llea;.cA', stc.lc-shrso cured by wells Health
Rough on Corns."
An fur Wy!!-' Rough ~ CornS.' Sc Quick com.
ple'c cure Hard or soh corns, warts hunlons
"Buchu-Paiba."
, Qq,c BE-. s9HplsG cur ~ k4nG{ 'a4e[ ant Erin
.! tie Bidder, q, Druggists.
Eed-nugs, Piles.
FNos. reaches, ante ucd.hu-- rat. mice, gorhcrs
cmpmunhr, cleared out Oy Tough On Rats l,c.
Thin People.
"wenr Health Eeneser" restores health and vger,
cGTr' Dyspepsia impotence, sexual Debility a.
"Ronsh on Pain"
Cur"- cholera collie, cramps d.arrhWa aches. pains
'grnn i EglGaSn' neuralgia rheumats &c Rough
II you ace failing, broken worn out and nervous use
wells Heath i!cHr"cr." 81. Drdggirts
Life Preserver.
you arc io:ns Sonr zig on life try wells Health
Rough on Piles"
Cures Piics or Hcmorrhoids. Itching. Protruding
Bl"rdni, Internal or other, Internal AMI External
SrncdO IN eaea package. sure cure, SIC. Druggists.
Pretty Women.
lai'"s who wora retain freshness and vivacity don't
fan 10 ~ Wells Health Remover"
"Rough on Itch"
"Rsuch On Itch" cures humurs eruptions ringworm
letter, sat rhcum, frosted feet, chslblalns.
Rough On Catarrh."
Corr"cts II ensiyo odOrs at once. Complete OF
wort chronic Cases also unequacd N garc for Diph
iberia, SOY. Throat, Foul Breath. SIC
The Hope of the Nation.
CluidreI, slow in development puny scrRwny and
le!lc'ite, Ose Wells Health Remover"
Catarrh of the Rladder.
Sunfihs, irritation. Inflammation, all Kidney and
Urinary Complaints, cured BY "Buchu-Paiba." 81.
Water Bugs, Reaches
"RpBeh RIt=' cei-s them out also Beetles Ants
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

Mr.. f. W R,nnett, OF Frelis hShurg, Can
ada, seek to turn III, tables GA his critics in
this way: Daring my late sicAnes' was
docto el thirty one days for mca;!e;, ami
before it was discovered that | had tho
small pox the disease was scattered in dir
terent pla 'es Now they blame ne tor this,
because some OF the people that called caught
the sma l-rot and del lh'y say it was
becaur wa; not va 'cinatld, but it Is Il
poor rule that won't w,rS both ways, and II
those that die! hal been vaccinatei they
Won not have eau Sht the dis 'ase. Chicago
Tibuus
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10
When Wattcr.on Il at Work.

When Henry Wat ersol reads he uses a
magnifying- glass. Whel he WI &s he takes
or his coat and COS at it with a vim. lie
is "A lunlle Of activity. He thinks fast,
60 on the trot, and steps hard He has
Its of laainesS, in which lie ceases writing.
Frank L.s'iss.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10
s,.n,in the R.ading-i,oom.

"Yoa look trci Cholly' "NaaS' Been
hard at wur;. Ell" "lanN What att
"Aw-waw" yanniaS Well, had 70
write "a lettIr 10 NAV, don ctew know,
and ,hu will insist GA taUn, two pages
Aud then -itw-waw made u mistake IN
the adw,s<, don't chew knoW, ami had TO
wite il twice. Aw-oIw-au.h' Goes tc
sleep I'll dinner tim, New YorG Town
Tories
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

A good variety of peaches for n northern
orchard, with the proportion of trees 10 each
kind is given in this list: Hale, averaging
20 trees Jacques, 100; Hills Chill, 200; Snock
Free, %; Gold Drop l3j; Barnard, 100; Old
Nixon Free, 30; Early Crawford, 10; Noun
tain Rose, -; Shows Orange, 50; Richmond,
-, Late Crawford 20.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

The largest h'ra in the world is Prosa,
DIV tia, OF th, Mon Cattle company OF
Cheyenn,. near Omaha f. covers five
are, cos ST., .Ono, and accommodate 3, 80
bead OF cat, 4 - Chi ago Journal
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

Here H. another dreamer which has been
highly spoken of It's peculiar feature Is that
the milk cau> have slit running up the cen
ter. The i,c water fills tl,ls and thus coos
tac mill more ropidly
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

You vii then have n single cane to grow
At the end Of the first season il will look like
Fig. T.. The next spring cut this cane down
10 three or four buds. If It has grown as
much a. three feet this time leave two buds,
AZ the end of the second season there will be
two canes. as in Fig =.
The beginning of the third season Tie vine
viii be ready to train uron the trcllis. Fig,
shows a vine six years old Let Just two
canes grow every year, one upon cach SIDE
This is called the arm system oil graI@
pruning.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

4 College scholarship on Condition.
Dartmouth has received 1900 scholar
shin on the co ldition that no student who
uses tobacco shall ever derive any benefit
from IL
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

A far v,s,ern paper briefly mentions
Np lan.ty IA the y Lii
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

Appropriate sign for church IN need OF
musicians: "wantsi-Sinsers; in choir
within"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

The front Is taken away III the picture so
fhat the inside works appear. The rreamcr
IS dCuhlc-walled refrigerator Goy. with II
lump Of ice in TIE middle. The ,uus are
placed around this.
We have here the u.lk can in which the
Iilk il set for tn cream To rise 1t is laid
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

we have shown from time 10 time in this de.
partnlent With ice, they are as good for
raising cream a, an old fashioned icc-cold
spring bousc The labor saved is in the lift
ing and handling cf milk crooks.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-04-10

'P'h ~ Ti'h, III
order that the bot
tom aud make OF il
may he seen. Tho
owners of small
diaries, or even OF
two on three family
COWS, will find
much saving OF
labor in the Use OF
some Of the cabinet
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15
TmE WILL.

/, -, beginning to be enfecblcd in
body and fearing | may soon be palsied in
mind and having entered on that course OF
intemperance, from which | have not
strength of mind to fec, and already feel
ing the evils resulting from it, which
have not the resolution to avert, do make
and publish this my last will and tesla
ment.
My property | give to dissipation, know
ing it will soon fall into the hands of those
who furnish me with ardent spirits. My
reputation, already standing on a sandy
foundation, | give to destruction. | give
my ability to be useful and happy in life
to annihilation. 70 my beloved wife, who
has chcered me SO far in the path Of life, |
give shame, sorrow, poverty and a broken
heart. To each Of my children | bequeath
example and the inheritance of the
shame of theiI fathers character. Finally
| give my body to disease, misery and
early dissolution and my soul, that can
never die, to the disposal of that God
whose mercy | have abused, whose COM
manls | have broken, and who has de-
elared that no drunkaId shall inherit the
kingdom of heaven
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recover, and that it was she who nursed
me back to life and reason.
And how did | ask her to marry me ?
Upon my word, now you ask, | can't re-
member that | ever did. That seemed ut
terly unnecessary, somehow. Caste dis
tinctions look small enough when you
have been staring death in the face for a
few hours; and words were not much need
ed after we had been in the rigging that
night. Somehow | was glad it was so;
glad my girl had taken me, in my cap and
jersey, for common sailor, and yet loved
the old Dick through it all; glad she never
dreamed | was owner Of Indian Creek
farm, and the richest man in this end of
Ontario, and had wealth ana position
higher than Mr.. Lotus, the young squire
at home. Tit people she a with had
all gone down on that awful night; she had
no one in the world but me. We were
married at Montreal-tle captain of the
Antarctic gave her away-and then |
brought her home to Indian Greek. To
see her face when she saw the rocking
Bile. Heaven bless herl
There she comes, with her baby on her
shoulder. Come IN TO dinner. friend, and
you shall see the sweetest wife in the new
country or the old-thc girl | won amid
the oceans surges.-Nele Noon.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15

We're headquarters for quilting mate
rials-just opcncd5 $500 yards Of best stand
ard calico at 8 cts per yard. Quilting Got
ton, weighed on the scales when sold,at ~,
IA and l5cts per lb.-E. b. Humphreys "
Co.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15

At what age is sense of humor usually
developed? It very rarely exists in chll-
dren under twelve. The funny things
that small children say are not funny to
them; the odd and startling questions they
ask have to them no element of The ineon-
gruous. 1t is usually only when they lose
the faculty of making odd or deep observa-
ions when they begin to see any humor in
them. Much of their apparent brightness
comes from ignorance of the true rela-
ton of things. A couple of incidents illus
tratc this. 4 gentleman in Massachusetts,
who was born for a soldier, but had never
the opportunity to indulge himself in this
capacity, was made a member of the Gov
ernor's staff. He at once procured a uni
form that for gold and -gorgeousness sur
passed anything ever seen in the militia.
Arrayed in this dazzling costume. he call
ed one evening at a house to accompany a
young lady to a reception. The little girl
| of the family, who was above-stairs watch
ing the progress of her sisters toilet, ran
to the balustrade and peepcd over when
the bell rang. and saw this Resplendent
Being enter the hall.
s'Who is it, Joe ?" cried the sister.
Il don't know" replied the appreciative
ehild-'I don't know, but think it's
God"
The other incident may be called more
subjective. A lady one day drove to thu
house Of a clergyman who served a large
parish, and OF course was frequently sent
| for to attend funerals. While the carriags
was waiting, the coachman took up one o.
the children of the family, a boy of tkret
years, and drove round the square. Wher
ne was set down, the boy marched intS
the parlor, and, by way of acknowledge
meut, said to the lady, "Aunt Lu, Fv'
been ridin' in your funeral. '-Harper'l
Magazine for Ocfober.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15
THE FAME OF JESUS.

And his fame went throughout all SYRIA
Matt. ", 81.
1t is remarkable that a full narrative OF
communication with Syria, contained in
the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius, CON-
pletely tallies with the words of st.
Matthew. Eusebius relates that when the
Divinity of our Saviour was proclaimed
among all men, by reason of the a~stonisil-
ing miracles He wrought, and myriads
came to Him from all countries to be heal
ed, a Syrian king, Abgar of Odessa, on
the Euphrates, renowned among the ma
lions for his yalor, found his body wasting
away with a grievous and incurable dis
ease, and sent Him by a courier a letter of
request TO come and heal him. Eusebius had
a copy of the letter taken for Kim from the
records which were then kept at Odessa,
the capital of his d~ominions, and his trans
lation into Greek was, until very lately.
the only original of many versions. But
the late DR.. Cureton found the Syriac orig
inal as it had lain in the archives of Edessa,
which were transferred thence Il Ecbatana,
in Armenia, and from that place to the
Natrol monastery in Egypt, but now rests
in the British Museum. 1t reads thus:
"ABGAR THE BLACK, Sovereign of
the country, to Jesus, the good Saviour,
who has appeared in the country of Jeru-
salem; Peace. have heard about Thee.
and about the healing which is wrought
by Thy hands, without drugs and roots.
F'or,'as it is reported, Thou makest the
blind to see, and the lame to walk; and
Thou cleansest the lepcrs, and Thouc easiest
out unclean spirits and demons, and Thou
llealest those who are tormented with lin
gering diseases, and Thou raisest the dead.
And when | heard all these things about
Thee, | settled in my mind one Of two
things: either that Thou art God, who hast
come down from heaven, and docst all
these things; or that Thou art the Son of
God and doest these things. On this ac-
count, therefore, | nave written to beg of
Thee that Thou wouldst weary Thyself 10
come to me, and heal this disease which /
have. And not only so, for / have also
heard that the Jews murmur against Thee,
and wish to do Thoe harm. But | have a
city, small and beautiful, which is sniff
cient for two"
There can be no reasonable doubt about
the authenticity OF this letter. Eusebius
had a copy brought to him as it was taken
from the original copy soon after A. d.
300, authenticated as part of the public
records. Moses, of Osrohene, historian of
Armenia, found the same document in the
House of Records" in the century fol-
lowing; and his translation into Armenian,
like that of Eusebins into Greek, doubles
the assurance that it is not fictitious
Oriental Records.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15
a REPORTEK,s GRIEVANCE.

Suit was brought in the Supreme Court
of New jersey. on Monday. by Walter p.
Blackwood, Esq, OH behalf of j. lamp
ton Moore, a reporter of the Public Ledger.
OF Philadelphia, against the West Jersey
Railroad Company, and Mulford Hewitt,
the ticket agent at the Woodbury. depot.
The action is for tort and the damages are
laid at 50, 900. The circumstances in the
case as they appear by the declaration are
these:
On August 10th last, the plaintiff plr-
chased an excursion ticket for Woodbury.
at the Philadelphia Office of the company
for forty-fye cents, the usual price. On
the face of the ticket was a provision by
the company that the ticket would be good
to go and return on the day of issue or the
day following, unless issued on Saturday
when it would be good to return On the
following Monday. The plaintiff went te
Woedbury on the day o fpurchase, but not
desiring to return, on the following day he
inquired of the ticket agent at Woodbury.
if he woald redeem the unused half of the
ticket, stating that he did not want to re-
turn until the next day, which was th6
18th. The agent, after examining The
ticket. said it would be good if presented
to the conductor on the day mentioned and
the plaintiff vent away.
On the 18th of August, two days after
the purchase. he boarded a morning train
at Woodbury. to return to Philadelphia
The ticket which had been shown to thu
ticket agent was presented to the candue-
tor and refused by him as mo good.
The conductor demanded money an.
threatened to put the plaintiff off the train
Moore stated his authority for presenting
the ticket and refused to pay the none,
or get off the train, claiming that the com
pany had his money and he was entitled
to a ride. Thcreupon the conductor stop
ped the train at Gloucester and sent
brakeman in, who put the plaintiff OF
| Hence the suit.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15
VOL. III.
0C'TUHER.


October comes across the hill
Like some light ghost, she is so still,
Though her sweet cheeks are rosy
And through the floating thistle down
Her trailing, brier-tangled gown
Cleans like q crimson posy.
The criekets in the stubble chime;
Lanterns flash out at milking time;
The daisy's lost her ruflies
The wasps the honeyed pipplns try
A film is over the blue sky,
A spell the river mufles.
The golden-rod fades in the sun;
The spiders gauzy veil is spun
Athwart the dropping scdges;
The nuts drop softly from their bnrrs;
No bird-song the dim silence stirs,-
A blight is on the hedges.
But filled with fair content is he,
As If no frost could ever,
To dim her brown eyes luster;
And much she knows of fairy folk
That dance beneath the spreading oak
With tinkling mirth and bluster.
She listens when the dusky eyes
Step softly on the fallen leaves,
As if for message cheering;
And it must be that she can hear,
Beyond November grim and drear,
TIL feet of Christmas nearing.
Susan H0rhy, in 81. Nicholas for Oct0beTi
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15

Mothers. are your children ever troubled
with worms Arc they restless al night, and
is their appetite yoracions at times' Vinegar
Bitters, old style, bitter taste, Is the best rem
edy for worms ever discovered. II is also "A
foe 10 every skin disease known, berause IL
keeps the blood pure and in a vigorous eendi
tim.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15

That we can, in connection with the MONITOR,
secure yoll IL subscription TO any paper or
magazine published, ut a much lower price
than the regular rate, and you VIII do well to
let us know if yon are contemplating Il sub
5cfipiion to amy publication.
TIE MONITOR. WoodstoWn. NJ.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-10-15

All kinds of crockcry and Qucensware;
We are selling lots Of goods OF MS kihd
now that we've room 10 show them at ohr
old stand at the corner.-E. j. Hum
phreys & Co.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-18
Sale of the City Hall lot.

In view of the great importance OF
the matter to the city, the HERALD
does little free advertising this morn
ing. At 10 A. M. Of to-day the CITY
Hall lot" will be sold at public auc-
ton, on the ground, corner OF Spring
and Second streets. Ii any one of
the fifteen men who are in the Coun-
Gil were selling this property for his
own benefit, he would have had a
two-column display advertisement of
the fact in all the papers in the coun-
try for month past. As the sale is
for the benefit OF the people the adver-
tisement is a couple of squares, single
column, for one time. The property
fronts one hundred aud twenty feet
on Spring street, is in the very heart
of the business portion OF the city,
and is dirt cheap at 81 900 foot.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-18

SAN Francisco has for some time
past been quite successful in winning
"a national reputation as place where
human life is held in low esteem.
The tame method OF shooting a man
two or three times a day, or hacking
a woman to pieces for the diurnal
matutinal repast, has become too slow
for the period. How much more in
accordance with the spirit of the age,
is the new departure of filling an old
rotten hulk with half hundred poor
devils, made drunk no doubt by sail
or boarding house runners, perhaps
shanghaed outright to get the COM
plement OF men, and sending them
on the edge OF night half way out OF
the heads in the teeth of a food tide,
to be carried back on the rocks, and
drowned like rats in hole This
matter should be most carefully in
vestigated, and the very letter and
spirit of the law invoked
for the punishment of the
guilty. That city and others on
the coast will be baptized in blood
after the fashion OF Cincinnati,
unless human life is set at
higher value. Nor are the
courts entirely to blame. Juries
need to look as closely to their acts as
any one, and some OF our able editors
who complacently write able editori-
ais in commendation OF these gentle
men in their box, who turn red-hand-
ed murderers loose on a long suffer-
ing community, and plead for the re-
version Of the verdicts of such juries
as now and then do by chance, hold
that the taking of human life for triv-
ial causes is a crime. Gentlemen OF
the bench. you of the bar, you in the
jury-box, and YOU OF the facile if not
mercenary pen, one and all we must
rise to the demand OF the age, and to
the civilization OF a great people.
Human life is not to be taken other
wise than as the last resort. The
shooters and stabbers are for the
most part unmanly towards. There
are men too peace loving and too
brave to go armed like guerrillas, or
robbers. These are the men to pro-
tect, rather than the armed ruffians
of society.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-18

The affluent who can pick and choose,
who can pay 81 900 an acre for five
acre patch to build thereon beauti-
full home will come here in preference
to the wide world.
If Northern California will wisely
lay hold of these facts, then wisely
aim for what justly belongs to her,
seek to secure such a class of settlers
as she can hope to hold, and not ape
the manners of her superiors, she may
build up solid foundations and hope
to see an era of real prosperity, with
nothing of the bubble element in Its
character, an era that will be long ano
healthy in its progress.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-12-18

SOME time since the HERALD out
lined change impending in the mil
itary departments OF the coast. 1t
was urged in these columns at the
time that Arizona and Southern Cali
foroia naturally belonged to the same
division. 1t now seems that this
change is to be made. General Miles
will move his headquarters to this
city, adding thereby most materially
to its business, to its population and
to its society. Old.timers remember
with pleasure when General and his
staff were domiciled here. They re-
call later when Wilmington was
headquarters, and they will heartily
welcome back the day which places
such desirable accessions TO our soci-
ETY. here again.