The Ottawa free trader., 1888-05-19


Now the farmer plugs the naples and be
gins to milk his COWS.
Now aspirants presidential fill the papers
with their rows.
Now Jamaica's warming ginger antidotes
Bermudas fruits.
Now the girls are out agadding In the
loyeliest Of suits.
Warren Tribune,
TEXAS CRoCKERY DEALER 90 clerk -
Have you heard what the returns are from
the Prohibition vote. James?
JAMEs-The ProhiDitionists are showed
under, toes up, sir.
TEXAS CRoCKERY DEALER Well mark
that invoice of jugs down fifty per cent.
We're stuck.
1t Is said the English sparrow makes a
famous pot pie. Certainly, he would be
much quieter between the crusts than he Is
of summer morning, just at the very mo-
ment when you are trying to get that last
five minute nap. As t.pie ingredient,
he is always ripe, and may be picked at
any time-the sooner the better II In large
quantities.
The Streator Ind Times is trying to start
a congressional boom for ex.rev. John III.
Shay. BY the beard of the prophets! |!
Wraghts
Esquire Weeks was severe, on Friday
last In flning the editor of Roses Nose $3.50
and costs for carrying gun; and Tommy
Canty only 81 for hitting the Nose. Or did
the Esquire take into consideration the ex
hibitions of nerve by the two men, and
distribute his fines in inverse proportion to
the back bone dislayed by each? When a
man as big as Rose draws a gun on man
as small as Capty he ought TO be given the
full extent OF the law as a warning to cow
ards generally
The Mayor of city ought to set a
better example than to give any man a
permit to carry weapons. The practice
should be discouraged, No one In Ottawa
has any necessity for arms. And whatever
Rose may think of the people of Ottawa,
they know that he Is not surrounded by the
same kind of society with which he
mingled familiarly In Detroit, Cincinnati,
DC, and that he has no necessity for arms
here, whatever may have been the case
when he was among his friends and asso-
clates of Detroit. A few more applications
of fines for this offense by Justice Weeks
would be very good thing for the town
1t would discourage blackguardism and
perhaps prevent the disgracing Of the city
by the kind of shooting so many towards
are indulging In almost daily elsewhere In
this county and state.
The refusal of the City Council to grant
Jerry Canty license Is hopeful sign,-
not that Canty Is so much worse a man
than many others who have held licenses
In Ottawa for he Is not But II is the tiret
assertion of the right the Council has to
refuse to grant Il license TO any person
who, as they may think, is not proper pei.
son to have license. This right the Cour-
cl must have; and the interests Of the
public demand that 1t shall be exercised.
II Is a hopeful sign. because 1t seems to
indicate that the Council Is not yet ready
To abandon every right In conflict with the
desires of class. Every man should
have his rights, but In this business 1t is
not necessary that class should receive
on demand, anything more than their
rights.
The black bass have come to the front
again, and at Dayton especially large mum
bers are being caught. The bass has OF
late years been coming into his kingdom ;
and by anglers is now looked upon as the
gamiest fish that swims In fresh water
His quality as fighter is unequaled, in
comparably superior to the famed trout
and In proportion to his size superior ever
to the salmon. No finer sport exists thar
the landing Of black bass weighing from
three to five pounds, which is practically
his maximum size.
As pan fish he ranks high. He would
rank much higher could the epicure ea
him within half an hour from the water. A
host recently adorned his table with an
aquarium wherein were number OF
trout As the guests ate their clans, he
said, Gentlemen, there are your fish,
Presently the aquarium was removed and
a flower piece substituted, and at the mex,
remove, the fish that had adorned the table