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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

CHEYENNE md NouleIu Il ,lrsl Com u'
10 build lis road across the Fou Russell an,
Fort Laramie military reservations und
such restrictions rs may he approved 10y
tha Secretary OF War. The right Of way l.
not % exceed 100 feet
The House Committee on Indian Affair
his under consideration bill 10 refer all
claims for Indian depredations committed
subsequent to 1916 to a commission to be
APPOINTED by the President, II is estimat-
ed that the aggrate amount OF these claims
will be about $l40ooOOO,
In the House on Thursday Representa-
tive Miller submitted the conference re-
port on the bill "abolishing certain fees
etc. in connection with American shipping,
Thisfs the bill containing the Frye amend
ment authorizing the President TO deny, by
proclamation, to vessels of foreign coun'
tries privileges as are denied TO American
vessels In such foreign countries. The re.
port was concurrred In. Mr.. Miller explain
ed that the bill as agreed TO In conference
was substantially as it was passed by the
Senate.
The Irish Home Rule reform bill still
holds fire. The uncertainty which has
clouded the Premier's measure from the
outset has not been done away with, anu
IL is now AS difficult to foretell the fate OF
the bill as il was when II was first intro
duced a month since. During the past
week various rumors lave been circulated
as 10 what Mr. Gladstone would DO, bat
none seem TO have any foundation upon
which to rest Ii was said that the Pre-
mier would go TO the country on the bill at
once, but this is hardly probable. On
Thursday Mr. Gladstone held a meeting OF
the liberals at the foreign office, which was
largely attended by his supporters and by
none Of the Harrington and Chamberlain
sdherents To those who met with him
he announced that the government had de
cided to modify the clause (NO. ~ OF the
home.rule bill, excluding Irish representa-
tives from Westminster He, however did
not state what the modification promised
should be, but COntented himself with say
ing that the government had decided 10
modify the clause, provided the bill passed
TO its second reading and was referred TO
select committee for action during the
autumn session of parliament, at which
time he SAID he would introduce an amend,
ed Irish home rule bill The meeting cor,
daily approved the position taken by their
chief. II is claimed by Gladstone's fol.
lowers that this modification on his part
will insure the bills passage on second
reading, but they give no figures TO prove
their assertion. The best evidence OF their
ground of hope is to be found in the great
number of boiling liberals who are return
Ing to the Premier's cause.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The annual average of suicides for every
million people Is II in Spain, 80 in Russia
81 in Italy, SO in Hungary, 20 in England
and Norway, ~ in Sweden, ~ in Austria
l27 in Bavaria 15o in France, 1914 in Wur
temburg, 161 in Macklenberg, ia in Prssla
300 in Denmark, 800 in Thuringia and 3i'
In SaNony. Suicides are becoming more
frequent every year in highly civilized
countries, but especially among the poor
German races.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29
The Gossiper.
A KNOT OF BLUE.

She hath no gems of luster bright
To sparkle in her hair;
No need hath she of borrowed light
To make her beauty fair.
Upon her shining locks ahoat
Are daisies wet with dew,
And peeping from her lissome throat
A little knot Of blue.
A dainty knot of blue,
A ribbon blithe of hue
1t fills my dreams with sunny CLEANS,
That little knot Of blue.
met her down the Swallowed lane
Beneath the apple tree,
The balmy blossoms fell like rain
Upon my love and me;
And what | said or what did
That morn never knew,
But to my breast there came and hid
A little knot of blue.
A little knot Of blue,
A love-knot strong and true
Twill hold my heart till life shall part,
That little knot of blue.
Samuel Miaturn Peck in The Centur
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

IL Is said that the new Washington sewer
is the largest In the world. Ii Is large
enough for team of horses and load OF
hay TO be drawn through the entrance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The senate of the United States has at last
confirmed the nomination by the President
of Mr.. Miles j. Finlen as postmaster of
Streator and brought to a close the long and
bitter fight that has been waged upon him.
The citizens Of Streator are to be congratu-
lated upon this fortunate outcome of the af-
fair. Mr.. Finen is in every respect COM
petent and faithful officer. No better one
could have been selected He is thoroughly
honest and commands in the highest degree
the respect and esteem of his fellows
Throughout the whole course of the contro-
versy over his nomination and confirmation
he bore himself as a gentleman, and as a re
suit his friends now are more numerous than
they were prior to his appointment. The
action of the senate removes from him every
charge of dishonesty made against him. The
fight against him was not only senseless, but
it was malicious.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

1t is to be hoped that the orators of memo
rial day who speak in commemoration of the
dead soldiery Of the country will not, as so
often happens, forget to render the need of
praise to the private soldier that is his due.
Orators, carried away by desire to deal
with that which smacks of brilliancy and
dash, often forget that the great burden of
the war rested upon the private and not upon
the titled officer, and that it was the former
rather than the latter who assured the sue
cess Of the union cause. The private soldier
endured indiscribable hardships, and in the
majority of instances endured them with a
patient fortitude that deserves for him the
most distinguished mark of honor and chal-
lenges our admiration. When, on Monday,
flowers are scattered by loving friends and
comrades, let not the graves Of the generals
and the colonies and the captains be covered
with lavish hand, and the last resting
places of the common soldiery be remem-
bered with but a simple wreath; but let them
be given the very choicest that the earth af-
fords, for it is their due.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Entered at the VOst O1ice at Ofiftrn, iNinOis, as
Second CiIss NdH HItter,
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'All candidates, therefore, can "proceed
in the usual manner" without reference to
me. That is to say that l shall be in no ones
way as candidate, but all rights are re-
served to help some poor fellow who is, or
to help maui the stuffing" out of some still
poorer fellow who is.-Extract from lettel of
En- Collector L. B. Crooker in Ottawa Rspubh
can, protesting that he cannot stand ii TO have the
newspapers so clamorously call upon him 10 sare
the county By accepting nomination for office.
Mr.. Croker, who styles himself "an often
sive PARTISAN and whose offensiveness con-
sists simply in the style of his politics and
the coarseness of his expression of his still
coarser political thought, has so well estab
lished reputation in this county upon the
manner of his keeping voluntary pledges
that we suggest to "the poor fellow" prom
ises to help, the proprety of very close
ly keeping his own secrets and contenting
himself with studying Mr. Croker at dis
lance. When it comes to the sacredness of
political pledges, as estimated by Senator
Logan's enemy and supporter and Mr.. Cul-
lens supporter and enemy, MIR Croker
must be classed with those individuals who
think such guarantees of good faith are but
"writ in water"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

nunbers Of pensions to those whose only ef-
feetiye service was rendered on Tie po teal
field instead of the field of battle Among
the special bills recently vetoed by President
Cleveland was one granted to II deserter and
the other to a bounty jumper. OF course
of such things; but as he does it, these re-
publican papers must be granted the priv
lege Of making great cutlery about his un.
friendly feeling to the soldier element Of the
country. Their love of the soldier and his
interests is touching in the extreme.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The death of Gener Durbin Ward removes
from Ohio one of the few honest oliticians
of that state. His own intense honesty
made it impossible for him to obtain, even
from his own party, fair recognition of his
abilities and claims upon its generosity. Dur
ing the war he was a brave and gallant sol
der, and throughout its course did his coun-
try much service and suffered many wounds.
His fealty to the democratic party was never
questioned, and as the friend and supporter
of Thurman, he belonged to the best element
of the party in his state. The Mclean wing
of democracy could well afford to study Gen
Wards character and at least initiate his un
questioned integrity, for from such a study
they might learn much that would do them
good. In future democratic national con-
ventions Gen. Ward will be greatly missed,
and from the platform where each campaign
he was to he found giving voice to democratic
homes and democratic aims. He was always
a man Of the people, and, though seldom
successful in his political aspiration, it was
not because of lack of popularity with the
great body of the state, but rather because
of the opposition of the politicians of Ohio
wis defeated him because they could moi
use him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

CHEYENNE md Norheru r. ilral C,nI u'
10 build lis road across the Fou Russell ana
Fort Laramie military reservations und &
such restrictions rs may he approved 10y
the Secretary oi War. The right Of way Is
not % exceed 100 feet.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

Elsewhere is published memorial day"
poem by the Hon John Howard Bryant
who resides at Princeton Mr.. Bryant,
though past the age of seventy eight years,
is yet hale and hearty. He is very active,
and in the affairs of life takes as much in
terest as he did half century ago. Like
his late brother, William Cullen, he has a
strong poetic instinct, and many of his poems
will rank with those of more pre.entious
poets. Mr.. Bryant has always been active
in politics. Prior to the war he was strong
absltionist and after the close of the war
acted with the republican party until 1872,
when he joined the Greeley movement,
eventually becoming democrat. In every
educational movement of his city he has
been deeply interested and uniformly gener.
Gus. He is in every respect a man of more
than average ability and culture.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-29

The republican papers seem to be very
much wrought up over the recent vetoes OF
the President of special pension bills There
is nothing strange about this. for his so doing
will have tendency to put stop to the Gus
tom so long in vogue under republican ad-
ministratiOns of using the privilege ofspecial
pension acts In such 9 way as to grant vast
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01
AT THE THEATRE.
'.The Danites," by Really Fine Com
-Tonight's Attraction.

There was fair audience at Hafpcr's
theatre last night, in the second perform
auce of the Stevens Dramatic company.
The play was The Danites," and it was
put on in as fine style as any troupe has
presented it here before. W. E. Stevens
is strong actor, and Miss Jessie FIRE.
mont Stevens is an accomplished little
actress, who WINS admiration from the
moment she puts her footupon the stage.
Edwin Haskell and Miss Emma Gates are
also good in their parts, and the entire
caste was far above the average. The
company is deserving of much better
support than it is receiving. The band
and orchestra is one of the best that has
ever appeared in Harper's theatre.
Tonight The Home Wreck" or Rich
ard Manchester Love. is to be presented
with the company's own special scenery
This is one of Mr. Stevens best PLAYS.
The play springs from "Euoch Arden. y
and as given by the Stevens company
with lis scenery, is equal to Hernes
Hearts of Oak" or any of the standard
price entertainments No one will regret
it who attends the opera house tonight.
On Saturday there will be a grand mat
inee with ten cents admission to all
parts of the house.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01
Bill Nye's Boyho0d.

Ii | was boy again, endowed with the
same wild passion for plucking watermel
ons in the dark of the moon, writes Bill
Nye in the Boston Globe, | would no
doubt fall victim to that overmastering
passion as did before, but looking at it
as | do now, | would be wiser Bows
cannot, however, have the mature iudg-
ment of manhood without the experience
and the rheumatism that 90 with it. So
it is better that in our childhood we NAV
be able to eat raw turnip with safety.
and know something later on in life.
| notice great change in myself while
comparing my present condition with that
of joyous boyhood. Then Ihad no sense,
but / had good digestion. Now |
haven't even the digestion.
The hurrying years have cavorted over
my sunny head till they have worn it
smooth. but they have left a good deal
yet for me to learn. | an still engaged
IN learning during the day and putting
arniCa on my experience at night.
Childhood is said to be the most glad
some period in our lives, and in some re-
spects this statement may be regarded as
reliable. bnt it is not all joy. | have had
just as much fun in late years as did in
boyhood. though the people with whom
have been thrown in contact claim that
their experience has been different
hope they do not mean anything personal
by that.
do sometimes wish that | could be
boy again. but smother that wish on
account of my parents. What they need
most is rest and change of scene. They
still enjoy children, but they wopld like a
chance to select the children with whom
they associate.
My parents were blessed with five
bright eyed and beautiful little boys,
three of whom grew up, and by that
means became adults. | am in that con-
dItion myself ! was the eldest of the
family, with the exception of nv parents
| am still that way. My early life was
rather tempestous iu places. occasionally
flecked with sunshine, but more frequent.
ly with retrihution. ] was not very
good roadster when young. and so retri-
button was most always just In the act Of
overtaking me. While outraged justiot
was getting in its work on me, the other
boys escaped through small aperture in
the fence.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01

The editor of country exchange lives
in house located between Methodist
church and dance hall. One night last
week there was a meeting at the church
an! dance at the hall: it being quite
comfortable out of doors. the editor
sat on the veranda and took in the situa-
ton. jotting down the following which
he heard: Let US prsy-all salute
We beseech Thee to-join hands and
draw near-circle to the left-listen to
us-frst four forward and back-as we
- all promenade before Thee and
balance all-present our petition
grand right and left--for Christ's sake
scat your partners. The editor was
more than saddened at the degeneracy OF
the village and went off and joined a base
ball club in order to be neutral
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01
HOW rEMMICAN is MADE.
Two Ways of Preparing 1t for Use rs
Food-"Rub-a-Boo" and Rousseau"

Two Ways of Preparing 1t for Use rs
Food-"Rub-a-Boo'' and Rousseau
The meat, cut in long flakes from the warm
carcass of the buffalo and dried in the sun, is
afterwaTrl beaten into shretls by fails upon
floor OF buffalo hide on the open prairie. The
hide is then Sewcd into bag, the meat
Janlmed in, the top sewcl up all but one cor
ner, into which mere meat is crowded, and
then the fat, which has meanwhile been tried,
is poured in scalding hot, I'll ing every crevice.
species of cranberry is often added with
the meat The whole forms a bolster shaped
bag, as solid and as hcauy as stone, and in
this condition it remains, perhaps for years,
until eaten Each bag weighs from 100 to
100 pounds. One who has tried it viii not
wonder that it was once used i'll the turmoils
of the contests between the Northwest and
Hudson Bay companies TO form a rcdoubt,
armed with two swivel guns.
There are two ways Of preparing this-one
called ''rub-a-boo," when it is boiled in
great deal of water, and makes a soup; the
other more, favorite dish is rousseau" when
it is thrown into a frying pan, fried in its
own fat, with the addition, perhaps, of a lit
tie salt pork, ana mixed with a small amount
Of -four or broken biscuit. But sometimes,
when philosophers are hard put to it, and
forced TO take their meal in the canoe, the
pemmican is eaten raw; chopped out Of the
bag with a Ratchet, and accompanied simply
by the biscuit which has received the sohri-
quet of Red river granite These wonder
full objects, as large as Sea biscuit, are at least
thrce-quartcrs Of an inch in thickness, and
against them the naturalist's geological ham
mer is always brought into requisition
But the "infidel dish as rousseau is termed,
is by comparison with the others paatable,
though it is even then impossible to so dis
guise it as to avoid the suggestion Of tallow
candles; and this and the leathery, or india
rubber, structure of the meat are its chief
disqualifcationS But even rousseau may
lose its charms when taken as q steady diet
three times day for weeks, especially when
it Is served in frying pan, and, breakfast or
dinner over, one sees the remnants with the
beef or pork all hustled together in the boil
ing kettle; the biscuit broken bannocks and
unwashed cups placed in the bread bag; the
plates, knives aud forks tossed into the meat
dish; and all, combined in the ample folds of
an old bit of gunpy cloth, which has served
daily at once Us dishcloth and tablecloth,
thrown into the canoe to rest until the next
meal, when at last Billy finds time TO wash
the dishes-the tahlecloth never.-Frank
Leslie's.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01
SUDDENLY BUT SURE
Is the Way the Winter OF 1856 and
80 Set In---The Ferry seeks
HarbOr

Following the snow storm which pre-
vailed all day yesterday. the severity OF the
winter season set in in the evening. During
the night the wind switched around to
the northwest. and the first icy blast from
the cold regions came suddenly but with
evident intention to stay. The mercury
darted down to zero. and four below At
O'Clock this morning the thermometer
registered at two below, and there has
been little variation from this all day.
At 6 o'clock this morning it became APP
parent that the ferry had better be taken
into place of safety. The ice at that
time was not so thick in the channel, but
Watchmau Staassen had noticed the for>
nation of the fiigid substance during the
night, and fears entered Capt. Csmeron's
mind lest the ice should form below and
shut out his passage to the harbor when
1t became necessary TO 90. He resolved
therefore to seek the boat yards immedi.
atelv, and at ten minutes past six the
Spencer steamed off down stream to the
ferry company's harbor below the city.
This afternoon there is abundance of
floating ice in the river, and with a con-
tinuation of this weather aud the present
low water, the river will be closed entirely
by tomorrow night The boat weat down
on December last year. nearly week
later than this, but came out and resumed
trips for a short time January 2, aud
again returned to winter quarters, coming
out the second time the first of March.
Trains were delayed but little in conse
quence Of the Storm the St Paul trains
and the c., B. Il @, and c., r. / & P
being less than an hour late this morning.
The trains due tonight from the north are
reported coming along all right.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01
OieO.

The number of farmers who are being
caught up under the oleomargarinc law,
prompts a Scott county farmer to say:
Many of the farmers who have been
bowling about bogus butter and oleomar-
garine are the very first TO be spotted by
the new law. They object to factories
using beef suct and making an imitation
butter, yet they will make au infinitely
worse article, by mixing hogs lard and
tallow with their butter, and sell IL AS
genuine. So, too, nearly all the farmers
in the land, for years past. have persisted
IN using "butter color" to make their
cheap grade, white, greasy butter as
sumes golden hue. This is downright
dishonesty. 1t takes extra care OF stock,
food, milk, cream and butter, to produce
clean, sweet, yellow, gilt-edged butter,
and the farmers family who are too care
less, lazy and shiftlcss to make good but>
ter should not be allowed to color it with
any material, however harmless, and
palm it OIL as first>clsss article"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-01

ANYONE who mas ever dealt in lands,
knows that no investment of money will
SO surely and quickly yield return, as
such venture If carefully made. To
the absolute safety % government
bond, is added profit fa- in excess of
rate of interest which can be obtained
on any safe loan. Ir Kansas and Neb-
raska especially lands are raising in value
very rapidly and with steady growth
which gives assurance OF stability. The
good season and the great tide of immi>
grafton into these states has made invest
ment there doubly safe and desirable.
The climate Of Southern Nebraska and
of Kansas, free as it is from the long
RIGOROUS cold winter, added to soil
unsurpassed for richness and productive
capacity. has made possible the wonderful
development of these states To the far
mer they hold out special inducements.
Cheap land. easy term of purchase, good
markets and varied products enable him to
own his farm at a smaller cost and with less
labor than is required to pay rent for the
land he occupies here, OF the interest on
the money he has invested in it.
If you are looking for safe place to
invest money. where ii will pay you 8
large and sure profit, or if you are farm
er and want farm of your own, call or
me and see what | have to offer. will
make the visit profitable to you. Offics
over American Express office, Rock Is.
land. Ill. SAyILLE JOHNSTON.