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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
Stall Feeding Beef.

Wheat bran is not proper ingredient
Of ration for fattening cattle, as 1t is
not fat producing food. Corn meal is
the best fattening food for cattle. For
each 1000 pounds of live weight mix
twenty pounds of best hay or fodder and
eight to ten pounds Of corn meal. Clover
hay is the best, but even corn fodder will
do, or you may give six or eight pounds
of corn meal. three pounds Of cotton seed
meal and twenty pounds of hay. An oc-
casional change or addition Of other food
promotes appetite and digestion. but corn
meal and hay should be the main reliance.
Southern Cultivator.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
On the Country Road.

To be thrifty our animal must be com.
Portable This is true in summer as well
as winter.
Better feed inferior fruits and vege-
tables to the hogs than send them to
market, is the opinion of many.
Have place in which to deposit what
ever will burn A shallow trench Of
proper size should be made to hold the
ashes. When burning has been made.
cover the trench with boards to prevent
the ashes from being blown away. BY
care in gathering the rubbish. supply
may be scured without outlay Of ashes,
one of the most valuable of fertilizers
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

done in the line Of photography by this
novel phosphoresence, experiments were
made in this direction According 10 the
authority quoted from, the elater or lantern
bug was held in the fingers within one inch
Of the original to be copied, and in such
position as to allow the rays to fall perpen-
dicularly on the negative. The time of ex-
posture to bug light was thirty seconds. The
subsequent development was by the usual
process. In the cut is shown the copy of
family portrait, said to have been photo
graphed in the experiment described.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
RECENT for Packing Butter.

A good receipt for packing butter is as
follows: Churn the cream as nearly sweet
as possible and work out all the butter
milk Make brine strong enough to bear
an egg, add one pound of sugar and one
of saltpeter, bring to boil and strain.
Keep in a new jar; add butter from time
to time as made, wrapped in cloths. When
the jar is full, weight down and keep in
cool placa
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

A pleasant remedy for tender and tired
feet, which cause so much suffering during
the hot weather. is cold water, about two
quarts, two tablespoonfuls Of ammonia, one
tablespoonful of bay rum. Sit with the feet
immersed for ten minutes, gently throwing
the water over the limbs upward to the knee.
Then rub dry with a crash towel, and all the
tired feeling is gone.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

recently presented
to the Bridgeport
Scientific Society,
and a writer in
The Scien tiff G
A III erican d g
scribes 1t as about
one and one-half
inches in length
and Of a dark
brown color. Be-
ing DESTROYS of see
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

8 feet In dame
ter. To make q
compasses. take Q
strip of lumber 2
inches wide and 4
feet 4 inches long,
Bore q ! hole 2
inches from each
end. This gives
you q compasses
4 feet long. Put
a PIN in one end,
to drive into the
ground. and q
sharpened pin in
the other end to
make the mark
NTH laval tho
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
FIG. BARN DOOR ON ROLLERS.

FIG. |BARS DOOh ON hOLLERS.
The rollers, track and other trimmings
may be obtained at any hardware store.
The track is first securely fastened to the
edge of an inch or two inch board, about
four or FIVE inches wide. This Is then
firmly nailed or spiked to the building,
parallel to and even with the top Of the
doorway, and should extend the width Of
the door on each side. In order that the
doors may run easily. the track should be
laid as level as possible, and upon one
board. The manner Of fastening the
rollers of the doors Is clearly shown in the
engraving Fig. 3. The doors are placed
upon the tracks at the end of the latter,
and are prevented from running of BY
placing q block at the end of the track or
upon the side of the door. The track
should be protected from the weather by
some kind Of covering. Two narrow
boards nailed together similar to an caves
trough, and fastened to the building above
the track and rollers, form protection
from snow, etc.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

There is proof existing which shows that
calming the sea with oil is not a new idea,
but the revival of a very ancient practice. OF
late many experiments have been made
which appear to demonstrate the practical
bility of calming breakers by means of oil jul
diciously distributed on the troubled waters.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
Ventilation Must BE Without Drafts.

There are always some who object to rails
ing a window, or sensitive invalids whose
lives would be endangered by direct cur
rent Of air blowing upon them. What is
needed is system Of ventilation which shall
be in constant action and which will keep
the air Of the whole structure, whether large
or small pure and fresh at all seasons of the
year and under all circumstances without
exposing the inmates to draughts.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

The bill signed by Governor Hill June 4,
authorizing that criminals shall be put to
death by an electric shock, is to go into effect
Jan. l, 1889. The new method of execution
will be applied in the punishment of crimes
after that date in New York state.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18

The great convenience of sliding or roll
ing doors on the farm out buildings, says
Country Home, is well known. and as
every farmer with a little ingenuity can
construct them himself, there is no reason
why these should not be generally
adopted
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS
FROM MANY SOURCES.

A Farmer who Understands the Subject
Gives Minute Directions About Building
Cistsrns ut Small Cosx and with Com
paratively Little Labor.
There are great many practical build
lug shape in their cisterns. such rs is do
picted in the accompanying illustration.
An advocate of cisterns Is near Jug
shape as possible described recently In
Ohio Farmer his cisterns, which he makes
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-08-18
The Van DOren Farm.

FOR RENTING Van Doren Farm. Ave miles south
OF Otswa consisting OF 6 acres OF high rolling land
Would make a splendid stock farm, Good running
water and good house and barn. Terms cash For
further particulars apply TO Z. NJ, VAN DoRkN ;,s
Cas- street. Ottawa, III. luyll
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

Box stalls 80 cents; open stalls, % cents.
The committee instructed to observe the fol-
lowing suggestions in judging this class of horses
As speed Is not the important consideration, they will
not be driven by tme but gracefuness and elegance
of action are to rule in deciding upon the merits Of
this class of horses.
Pacing horses may compete. Sec note class 1.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

NoTE.--Any article known or used as farm inn
plemen entered for exhibition, but not incorporated
in the above list, will be subject to q discretionary
premium VI in the opinion of the committee is worthy
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
No Family Tickets will be sold this year. Admission rs Cents

Of award IL manufactured in the county within the
year; and foreign articles will he entered 'for cxhb
ton only
Class 80 Boots Shoes, Leather etc.
Superintendent l.. Mills.
Commitlec-D - Posi-,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
CLASS 2-Roadsters and Trotting Stock.

do stallion with three of his get 90 90
Box stalls 80 cents open stalls % cents
AS far as practicable all stock in this class to be
shown in harness.
The committee will not only take into consideration
in this class, the breeding of the ANIMAL but also its
general utility for breeding purposes, and its quality
with regard to the following points: First sze second
symmetry; third, action; fourth value as carriage
stock See note class one.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
Farming Implements, Etc.
Glass 2b-Farna Imn euauts

Superintendent. L. Mills.
Committee-M. 5. SMITH, l.. f. BUNTING, CLARK
WHELAN.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
Horses.
GLASS standard Bred Horses.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. SAWER.

Superlntendent-WM. SAVER.
Conlmtee--To be selected by Superintendent
All persons entering stock in this class must show
the committee certificate of registration from j. H.
Wallace or show by Wallaces Trotting Register that
they are standard bred
LIST Prm "a Prm 3rd Prm
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
GLASS 5-praft Horses.

superintendent. A. HAYT.
tomniltcc--G. COOPER II. CAEMoDy, III. MARTIN.
Isl Pun I'd Pm sd Prn
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
GLASS 4 carriage, Matched and Single
Horses.

superintendent. A. HAYT.
Committee-GEo. CARPENTER, w. ii. COLE, L. V.
NJ. BoTsFORD.
LIST Pm ID Pm Bird Prm
Best matched team, four years
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

Box stalls, % cents; Open Stas, 20 cents,
The horse for all work is intended to De capable
of being trained for the saddle, and for the harness,
and he able to go the road in draft he may
chance to he broken. 1t may be that the hOrse for
all work" SHALL after few years training, make
useful spirited, handsome family roadster, he may
he brought up to be good draft horse, true TO pull
any load that is put behind him. Hence the COM
mittee will note that he is not TO be Judged by the
speed he may make for single mile 1t will also be
noted that he must have size, action and spirit as
well as constitution, If he is worthy of premium as
q breeding animal.
All horses shown In harness must he exhibited on
the track See note class 1.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
GLASS 7-clydesdales.

Superntendent--J. A. HAYT.
COnmittee-Same as class 8.
PremlumS-Same as class l.
Box stalls, 80 cents; single stalls, % cents.
All persons entering stock i'm this class must show
the committee certificate of registration from the
proper recording Officers
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

Nj articles heretofore exhibited in this class for
when premiums have been awarded, will be ruled out
by the committee.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
GLASS e-Percherons.

superintendent. y. IIAYT.
C0mmittee-Same as class ;.
Premiums-Same class /.
Box stalls, 80 cents; open stalls p cents.
All persons entering stock in this class must show
the committee certificate of registration from the
prOnpr recording officers
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
CATTLE.
GLASS e-shorthorus.

SUPPLEMENTARY. d. UNDERWOOD.
Committee. w BARNES, f. +. BUNTING, THos.
GOODWILL.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

Superintcndent-P. BROWN.
Committee. DILLON, A. }. GooDALI, WILLIAM
BRANDS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

"" Jun WIN uiict vi Ills Btt--- w w
Box stalls, 80 cents; open stalls, % cents.
Quality of animal and fitness for breeding, with
business of proportion to be considered after establish
ing purity of blood. This applies to all the improved
breeds of thoroughbred stock.
The attention of exhibitors Is directed to rules IL
and Ia.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
SUPPLEMENT-.
PREMIUM LIST
VIEWING COMMITTEES.
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY FAIR,
OWOSSO,

OCTOBER 2, g., 4 AND 5, 1888.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
Glass so-Paintings, Photographs, etc.

superintendent. f. MABIN
Commttee--MEs. G. r. LYON, LIZZIE CoMsrocK.
ALA BRYAN, ...Ia
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
CLASS e-Herefords.

SUPPLEMENTARY ID. UNDERWOOD
Committee-E. w. PEARsALI JOHN WILKINSON.
.EwIs BRANDS.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
Glass 24-Poultrv and Pc sto,

The Judges will he governed by the American
Standard of Excellence
Coops of fowls entered for competition shall contain
two specimens (male and female) except when enter
ed as collection. The term ''chlcks" applies only To
birds Matched in 1888, and the term fowls" applies to
birds Matched prior to 1855.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

90 display OF Jewelry and silverware so / 90
All articles heretofore exhibited In this class for
which premiums have been awarded, will be ruled ont
by the committee Foreign articles NAV compete with
domestic 49,
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07
Class Needlework.

SUPERINTENDENT. +. MADIN.
Committee-MRs. B. +. TAYLOR MRS G. A. WAR
REM, Mrs. CLARK WHELAN.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1888-09-07

The above premiums will be paid for each variety
recognized by the American Standard of Excellence
tst Ppm pr,,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24
Future of the Phonograph.

The time may come when as many
persons will have their voices recorded
as there are now who have their faces
photographed. Mothers will wish to
have the earliest prattle of their children
preserved that they may hear it again
when they are men and women or after
the voice of the child is silent in death.
Families may desire to embalm the dying
words of a father, mother, brother or
sister. Photographs Of the persons who
compose a social circle are now taken as
the members stood or sat on some pleas
ant occasion that all wish to preserve in
memory. The next thing may be pre-
serving not only the words they used but
the exact tones of voice in which they
were uttered. BY means of the appara-
tus for photographing forms, faces and
expressions of the c~ountenance, as well
as all the surroundings, and the new ap-
paratus for preserving and reproducing
not only words but the tones of voice
in which they are uttered, we may be
able to live over the pleasantest portions
Of u lives. The bridal ceremony may
be reperformed on the occasion of the
silver and the golden wedding. The boy
who leaves home to seek fame and for
tune among strangers may take with him
the words and accents of his fathers ad-
vice and his mothers blessing Chicago
Times
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24


was his desire that there should be no
general display, and, aside from the SER
vices Of the Catholic ritual and the ordinary
military funeral, there was none.
The site selected for Sheridan's last resting
place is extremely beautiful and appropriate;
1t is but a few rods from the old mansion
house Of the Arlington estate in open ground
with a fringe of trees behind it, where the
monument will be in plain sight of the win
lows Of every public building in Washing
ton. The burial plot slopes gently toward
the east; at the head of the grave, on the
west, stands a beautiful horse chestnut tree,
on the left a maple. The monument will
have a background Of trees, which, in their
season Of heavy leaf, will make it beautiful
ly conspicuous from Washington, and from
the foot of the monument one can overlook
all the lovely city. At the foot of the hill
east of the grave flows the Potomac, as if
Sheridan still kept guard over Washington.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24
Cheese for Red Noses.

" will give $500 to the man who will re-
store my nose to its natural color" said a
well dressed man in a downtown saloon.
Then, as if to give zest to his remark, he
gulped down a big drink of whisky, and,
putting the glass Town on the bar, he took q
long and wistful look into the dim prospec-
tive of his life when his nasal organ was of
the tinge it should be now. 81 don't know
how it ever got SO red," he continued, after
ordering "a little Of the same" AT this re-
mark the bartender winked slyly at the
mans companion and gave a significant
glance at the empty glass on the bar.
A physician, who makes his headquarters
in a Chestnut street drug store, was asked if
there was any way in which a man could be
cured of his red nose, and his answer was an
emphatic mo.
1T is a bad thing to have a red nose,n he
said, because most people think that it was
brought about by whisky drinking; and
while this belief is justified in a majority of
instances, it is not always the case. One of
~Philadelphia's most prominent men has a
nose as red as a ROSTERS comb, and l know
that he never drank a drop of liquor in his
life. He will carry it with him TO his grave.
Cheese, if eaten frequently and in large
quantities, will delay reddening of the nose,
but if a man is a confirmed topper the whisky
and The cheese will nave a tussle, and the
whisky will ultimately get there and fresco
the nose for him in the most approved
yle.n-Philadelphia Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24

Democratic, and as a Democrat he was
chosen to the Indiana constitutional conven-
ton of 1850, and circuit judge of the Third
judicial circuit from 1851 to 1854 and Judge
of the supreme court of the state for a term.
From 1856 to 1858 he was United States dis
trict attorney for Indiana. Soon after came
the war inc he entered the service early as
colonel of the Twenty-fourth Indiana volun-
teers.
His military career was remarkably brill
liant, and his services in the field were quite
equaled by his ability as civil administrator
of districts in which he held command. His
ready application of the principles of law to
the exigencies of the military situation were
Of immense advantage to the government.
April %, 1869, he was appoin ed brigadier
general Of volunteers, and in the Vicksburg
campaign Of 1868 he won high honors. Gen.
Grant credits him with the success at Cham
pion Hill. The next year he was brevetted
major general for distinguished services. In
1865 he retired from the army, and was ap-
pointed minister to Peru, which place he re-
signed in 1870. In 1886 he was elected to
congress as a Republican. He is 81 years
old, and still in vigorous health. His oppo-
nsnt. Col. C. c.. Matson, is also a soldier
Of good record, and the two will undoubtedly
make this years Indiana campaign exceed
ingly lively.
The portrait of Gen. Hovey here given is
from a wartime photograph.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24
Overworked Dogs In Germany.

Some philanthropist in Germany
should send his name reverberating
down the ages as the friencl and protector
OF o~verworked dogs. The condition Of
these poor animals throughout Germany
is a blot upon Nineteenth century ~civiliza-
ton. They passed a law in England
prohibiting the use of dogs for dragging
vehicles, but there is no such law in
Germany. A customary sight is q wo-
man 70 years of age harnessed to a cart
with two dogs drawing it YEARLY along
country roads or through the streets Of
the cities. Very often the woman gives
it up or is too feeble to bear her share,
and then she varies the journey by alter
nately pushing the cart and whipping
the dogs as she walks by their side. A
cart about the size of a street cab in New
York, and often loaded to the height Of
five or six feet by merchandise, is the
usual load for an old woman and two
dogs. A cart of smaller dimensions Is
often dragged by the dogs alone, and
sometimes one poor beast is seen strug-
Cling along under a load that an American
would consider up to the powers of an
average horse.
The dogs are Of all sorts of breeds, but
invariably large and strong. They are
muzzled-for they grow savage under
their harsh treatment-and are harnessed
a good deal after the fashion of a horse.
The faithfulness apd industry of the poor
creatures are wonderful. They will toll
along the dusty roads straining every
muscle in their bodies until they drop
dead in their tracks, and dead dogs by
the roadside in this country are by no
means uncommon. At night In the
streets Of Berlin are countless venders'
carts displaying fruit, and to every one
is attached a dog or two. AS o as
they have dragged the load into Berlin,
the woman who is selling the fruit takes
a small square of carpet out Of the cart
and places it on the pavement. The dog
then rolls himself up on it and,is tenderly
covered with another rug to protect him
from cold. He sleeps there till it is time
for him to begin his journey home.
Very often the coats of the animals ex-
hibit big sores where the harness has
chafed them.-Blakely Hall in New
York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24
The Impulse to Write.

AS to authorship itself. I believe q
writer should have a natural impulse to
write, just as the bird has a natural de-
sire to sing. This impulse comes from a
great variety of motives. If it is a mere
sentiment, or a petty ambition to see his
name in print, why, he will write his
book, the public will give its verdict and
there will soon be an end of it. Among
all this throng of writers one will be
found here and there who will have the
power to interest, win and hold an audi
ence. No one can pick out the man or
woman who will do that; the writers
themselves do not know how it will be;
they must make the trial before they can
know whether they will succeed or not.
Young writers should rely on the liter
airy judgment of honest friends, and not
ask busy authors with whom they are
not acquainted to c~riticise their manu-
scripts, as nany of them now do.-E. p.
Roe in The Epoch.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-24
Cosmetics Sure to Show.

SIS there any powder which can beput
on so as not to showr I asked, when the
black robes had huttered away.
81 never saw any which l could not
detect" was the reply.
"1s the use of cosmetics increasingly"
was the question put to the proprietor.
Certainly it is" he said. IAN sorts
of women use complexion remedies. We
don't have much to do with the stage
people, who have their own ways of
making up, but every other sort of wo-
man comes here. In the winter we make
up even buds in their first season, when
they haven't bloom enough for a ball
room. The washes and enamels come in
play then. In summer women
who have been shopping step in
to get a dash of powder SO as not to 90
home to dinner in a perspiration. Some
times one of our attendants is sent for
post haste to a fashionable watering place
to make up a regular customer for a hop
or to repair damages after a yachting
day in the wind. Shop girls make up
quite generally. 1 don't believe their en-
ployers require it, as some say, but they
powder and rouge as much as society
folks. No, we don't often use cosmetics
on children, though once in a while there
is a call for that sort Of thing in prepara-
ton for a child's party or ball. There is
one little tot of 9, whose mother is a rich
widow, and terribly disappointed because
the child hasn't inherited her beauty, who
is brought here to be made up about as
often as children's festivities go on."-
Eliza Putnam Heaton.