The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-11-17


ed Answers 10 correspondence and who
want TO learn TO talk Auently and agreeably
In the drawing room or at the dinner table
II Is a matter Of no wonder, therefore, that
when these deliberately coached society
women. who have absorbed information re.
specting all questions of public concern In
the same highly condensed form from
which they take their physical nourishment
(for beef tea, soft boiled eggs and calves
foot jelly are favorite viands), are able
when they meet distinguished foreigners
to converse with them In 50 prompt and
glib and entertaining fashion that the
foreigners are left In condition of help
less bewllderment and establishment"
And 30 the office of circuit clerk goes
back into republican keeping after an in
terval Of eight years. Ii was there and in
the office of states attorney, that the first
bench was made In what was once suppos>
ed TO be ali invincible combination of re-
publican county officers, and which was
known as the "court house ring" and gal
liant, powerful ring 1t was. Against this
combination w. ". Taylor, as a candidate
for circuit clerk, and l. w. Brewer, as a
candidate for states attorney, led a forlorn
hope and led II to victory. The so.called
ring" was broken, and two years later the
republicans had lost the offices of county
clerk. sheriff, treasurer and Judge, having
nothing left but the Office of recorder.
One by one democratic disseptions have
given these offices back to the republicans,
and democratic soreheads enjoy the fruits
Of their labors. They have had famous
victories; but like one Of King Pyrrhus of
Epirus over the Romans, they have "done
up" themselves and party. We have left
Browne Of MENDOZA" however; and can
with the democrats of Peoria,
who bewail the loss of their county offices
as do the democrats of La Sale county.
1.-THE subject of the drainage Of Chicago
through the proposed canal" says VIM. s.
Macharg, G. E., 10 Building Budget, land
he consequent permanent pollution of the
Illinois river, is again being discussed with
opinion apparently forming against the ad- Z
of building ship canal. There !
Gems to be an idea, however, that the river
must be polluted with the drainage of the
anger towns of the valley, and that conse-
uently the inflow of Chicago diluted sew, q
ge would really De advantageous.
AS matter Of fact, the sewage of the
alley towns may be kept out of the river n
With comparative ease, and undoubtedly
Sill be so kept out If the river is not pol
lted at its head waters by the vast amount
I diluted sewage which Chicago would 10
oliver. The experience of the east, as set
Orth In the Massachusetts statute published
D the September Budget should teach US
hat the time Is not distant when Illinois y
aust pass a similar law for the protection u
( her rivers, and If when the time arrives,
ast sums have been expended In works u
eniered useless by the new order of "
lings, the effect will doubtless be to delay u
he adoption OF improved methods, but
the sscriiic Of the works must .
Q made, "
THE proposed scheme is by no means the p
My way In which the sewage OF Chicago Ii
lay be discharged In that direction. nor Is
Hutton the only way by which the percen-
age Of pollution may be reduced, and 1t
ppears desirable that plans and estimates "
ased upon these other methods should be c.
arefully made, and should be published o
efore Illinois IL committed TO scheme, W
bout the success of which, In a sanitary HI
lew, there is great difference of opinion" d.
So al
d.
The payment OF election bets have about T
II been made, and in New York the Har -
ison men are counted as worth at least
million more than they were worth IL days ~
go. The betting, however, was by no =
means confined to funds. but million,
more or less, OF Harrison and Fifer men >,
wear new hats, smoke democratic ci- =,
,ars, &c. One man In Indianapolis was
publicly spanked on the court house >,
grounds for his bad judgment, and the
spectators we're invited TO witness the chas y
Using effects of the new administration ~
Several marriages are reported as the un- q
ortunate result of Cleveland defeat, and o
he several parties will find out for them
selves whether marriage is a failure" or -
not. Many carefully nursed mustach has +,
gone the way of the unjust and number r
ess sets of cranks have gone through the !,