The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-11

assumed a new and heretofore unnoticed
phase. Gall Is simply and solely duty, duty
in Its highest ana noblest sense. II Is that
duty which teaches one TO borrow c"i1ee'
tea, -four, and anything else one may need
from his next door neighbor year In anu
year out and scorn 10 accept aims from
strangers. For II our next door neighbour
knowing US 10 the cream.esthering time OF
our lives, before the skin. milk side OF our
4. yture asserts itself. has no confidence in
Us, who wills This docs not apply TO those
who are destitute of neighbors or whose
neighbors have become poor from this
constant strain of duty and have moved
sadly away, or have decided to summer In
the DOOR house, or have died OF continued
emptiness Of the stomach.
There is no one thing within the scope
Of human thought that makes man feel
A though he had rent his trousers with
knowledge that he had buta sack coat OF
abbreviated proportions to cover this back
seat as the consciousnesso Of an approaching
public investigation Into the details OF bib
record. He may have record with
string tied to 1t to pull II back for repairs
but the certainty OF the patches showing
conspicuously on It's surface Is sure to
cause him 10 feel small and compressed
both In bodily and mental avoirdupoise. A
record that 10 travelled stained and pune
tured with holes In Its roof large enough
70 permit the dew OF unfeeling criticism TO
soak through on Its more sequestered spots,
is not beauty and a Joy forever by long
way, and the sooner such record Is sent
to the repair shops for renovation, the bet'
ter. Care should, however, be taken 10 the
selection Of competent renovator. Aren.
ovator who is liable TO mix too much I've
with his soap suds should be silenced with
a patent fro extinguisher. He Is danger
QUE and an apparently robust record Is Of
ten unsafe In his care. Records have
been known TO bloom for dsy ana then fade
away, like pug nssed sunset, and when
II was time TO reproduce them, the renova-
tor seemed 70 have lost the key note and
the owner had found 1t necessary to have
substitute made TO order. The modern
style of record differs from the old and time
tried variety only In the style Of Its make
up, and II the fit is not as close as might be
desired, there should be no complaint, as
this lack of At Is sometimes good fault
II your record fits 30 tight that II has to
be peeled of with nippers every time Its
genuineness Is called into question, the
process Is rather painful, and 1t Is always
advisable to have one that you can conven-
iently turn about In order to defend Its
back door from the curious gaze OF un
feeling eyes. Such record comes high,
but In cam paign like the one now In pro
gress. the possessor Of q good substantial
record, with a patent reversible action Is In
dIspensible. But with little patching
here and there, to hide Its glazing defects
and blemishes, record with tendencies
towards blind staggers, can be made to
serve the purpose of bran new outfit, pro-
vided the renovator has a strong constitu-
ton and boileriron stomach. A record
that the flies will gather upon unless a
fan IL kept constantly 10 motion above Its
embrasures, may perhape prove cumber'
some and make one feel down-hearted and
sad, but many man whose record was
covered with boils and due bills that were
outlawed before he was nominated has
sailed through campaign without pang,
and made laws In our Legislative halls for
men who were too poor to have record OF
didn't have taste enough to cultivate one
properly. Such men as these care nothing
for their own records be they good, bad
or Indifferent, and are willing to let them
stand. II they can only be of service In our
law. making departments. They make the
best laws that can be made with the limi.
ted facilities which they possess, and are
are willing TO be pointed to with pride by
men who have had records and left them
at home on the plano for the children to
play with and then drop them down the
waste pipe into the sewer Of torgetful'
ness. Such men often borrow record In
a pinch, but borrowed record is hard
thing to manage as 1t is sometimes much
too large for the wearer, or causes him to
appear much In the same light as one who
goes to party In her grandmother's we'd
ding gown and neglects to scrape the mould
of time from Its clinging folds. Records
should be selected at once before all the
best ones are chosen, for when one wants a
record, he wants 1t and wants II bad, and II
Is no trifling mater TO be left with moth.
eaten, time-scarred remnant, In the hour
of need. o,,
| The Closing Heat.
The postponed 2 "a trot, unfinished, was
decided In one heat, ut he driving park,
on Saturday morning. The contestants,
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