The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-04-28

kick at no lack of incentives The solid
citizen goes TO the town meeting with his
mind made up 10 give all the officers a
jacketng. He has nm idea that they are
either numbskulls or rascals and that moth
ing will do them so much good as a hauling
over the Goals Get three or four hundred
Of these censors In one conglomerate body,
eacn with a grievance and each emphatic
in its expression and you can form some
Idea of what town meeting is like"
An "ideal Hamlet" Is 10 be presented at
the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday
May 2lst with the following very remark
able cast
Hamlet DECENTRALIZATION. Edwin Booth
Laertes ....... .,.. Lawrence Barrett
Ghost ..............C Charles w CouldocB
King. ....,. ....... ..... Frank Mayo
Horatio Not assigned
Polonius. ..................J John Gilbert
First Gravedigger. ......J Joseph Jefferson
Second Gravedigger 80. VIM. j. Florence
ltosekrantz. ............ Lawrence Hanley
Guildenstern. ...........C Charles Ianford
Marcellus 80. .......J. Steele Mackaye
Bernardo. .............He Herbert Kelley
Francisco. ....,.........Lo Louis f. Massen
OSrlC ...... ..,.. 80, NOT hss'Rutu
Priest. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Harry Edwards
First player. ......,...,.. .John A. Lane
Second player. ..... .... Robert billiard
Ophelia. ...........,....M Nine. Modjeska
Queen ,.... So. Mrs. ID. L. Bowers
Player Queen ............. hose Coghlap
The suggestion Of such a"Hamler was
made by the Ueraid, and Messrs. DAILY and
Palmer, the well known managers, sue.
ceeded In arranging the above cast. II
would be worth "A trip to New York TO see
such "IIamlet,"
Speaking of the crosse jar" craze, a suf
ferer puts into verse his injuries, which are
regarded as very useful to those who are
in doubt as TO the proper pronunciation of
pot pOuri:
All, toll the bells and wall and weep!
Strew lilies where | lie asleep
For life is sad, and the grave Is deep.
was simple druggists clerk;
My cheek was pale, my eye was dark
And all day long and to and fro
The maidens passed, n lovely row,
And glanced and ga2ed, and glanced again,
And eyed me through the window pane.
"Ah, sweet oh, sweet" they cried ali, me !
Then came to buy some pott pourri.
In a hnutlinr tlprry
Would cry, "Oh, gimme some pott-purry."
One, blushing like nm Eastern houri,
Soft murmured, "SOme Of that putt. y0wry."
Another, fawn.like gentle, shy
Just whispered, "Ounce of pot-poureye."
A fourth, n Back Bay maid was she,
la accents clear said, Some peau-pree."
And ten, each velvety and furry,
Exclaimed, "Oh give me some pott-purry."
And siX--l tell truthful story
Requested, "Some of your pott pory"
So went the days, and, lone and sad,
felt myself wax slowly mad.
lodiform had lost its balm,
And magic mandrake vainly shed
Its searching colors round my head
siCkened, paled, and died, poor me!
But still they buy the potpourri.
So toll the bell, and weep and wall
For him who tells the mournful tale.
Der death no sorrow may prevail.
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A practical highway commissioner, who Is
credited with being road builder, and not
merely commission grabber, who has
built many corduroy bridge and culvert
and has watched rise and progress of all
kinds of Improvements In bridge building
culvert, road making and road drainage
says III am a firm believer In drainage as
the proper foundation for good roads In a
prairie country, and along the timber In
spouty places, with no less than inch tile,
and road grades no less than 20 feet wide,
and the culverts of sewer pipe of 20 feet
wide also 30 that the improved road scrap,
er can be run right along and teams pass
each other easily The sewer pipe should
be no less than 10 inches and up to "a
inches, with plenty of fall and well tamped
on each side, and two posts at each end of
culvert with an oak plank foot wide and
six feet long spiked on TO keep the grade
firm and keep the water from getting In
behind tine sewer pipe, with plenty of dirt
on the top; they make the most permanent
road culverts." The ideas are worth conn