The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-02-25
The Local Lounger.

SPRING TINE.

Springtlme, with Its little boom,
C0meth with Its flower and bloom
And the merry sunlight days
Howl of land and lot boom days.
Hear the little townlet cry
What manufacturing site am L.!
While the tramp, with heel and toe,
Doth the length of railroads know.
Then the poet, from his moss grown bed,
Wakes the silent places of the dead
With his lay on Spring, and dizzy rhyme,
And dies long before the zenith of life's
line.
While the ward heelers and politicians
play
Again the same-that usual lay,
Methinks there comes mighty plumber
We flee before this dollar THUNDER
The court house stencil has been effectu-
ally muzzled, at least for some time to
come. About every two weeks the ashes
tos packing around the steam pipes In the
street would break loose, filling the record
er's office and Circuit Clerk Taylor's office
full of terrible Fiji Island Hungarian
gaseous stencil, which made work In the
circuit clerks office an imposslbility. On
Tuesday the deputies were compelled to
seek other quarters, but now the cracks In
the wall around the pipes have been
cemented up, and all is serene.
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IL won't be long now until spring opens,
and 1t lies entirely with our progressive
citizens and Business Mems Association, If
such an organization still exists, whether it
opens with boom or not.
We have had boom and We are fully
aware Of its effect upon our population,
trade and real estate prices, and an effort
must be made to increase Its intensity or 1t
will collapse and leave US in the lethargy
of 49,. We have placed our city too high
upon the pedestal of prosperity to let 1t
fall, for all know that when she falls her
values on real estate, her trade and her
backbone fall with her Shoulder to Shout
der we must stand in the fight for promi,
nence, and If we do so it can not but be a
few short years when population of $4,000
people will call Ottawa their home.
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We do not desire to pose as sage, but as
wise men are springing up all over the
country, few appropriate remarks will
not, we hope, be misconstrued:
First Solid R-When a lad down
upon your new silk lined overcoat, with the
remark that she will "press it for YOU" it
is always appropriate to answer that the
coat will hereafter be more press-ious. This
is very vile pun, but will do when no
other can be found in the family almanac
Second Solid R--A "mislaid" newspaper
may be said TO have been lost in the hurry
and hustle" of household duties. This pun
is especially adapted to home gatherings
and usually brings forth torrent of ap
plause.
Third Solid R-When you see a young
lady and gentleman seated very closely to-
gether on park bench remark concern
ing eventide in a ministerial tone Of voice
is very appropriated they are not tied
already. This is good pun to use at pic
MICS.
Flags flying at the peaks of half the
stats in the city, the school children on 2
holiday, and reference here and there to
Washington, shows that the natal day of
The great general, statesman and patriot
still finds warm place in the breasts Of
true Americans 1t is a day deserving of
more attention than il has been granted Of
late years, for nothing was done to let the
world know of its occurrence, excepting
its recognition by the Sons of America on
Wednesday evening, and an entertainment
at the high school on Thursday evening
This is not as it should be, for the birthday
Of the man without whom America would
still be under the flag of the Briton should
be a national holiday equal in importance
TO the Fourth of July. That this is not SC
is national fault, national neglect, which
reflects but little credit upon a people, who
hold their heads so high in the land of the
free and the home of the brave, made by
his bravery, He, who could have worn the
shoulder straps of British general, with a
chance for the peerage, and then after
saving his country, refusing its crown
should be better remembered.
Obituary.
JAS. X. MElGs.
Mr. Jas. X. Meigs, one of our old and
highly respected citizens, died at his late
home on Columbus street, at 1870 o'clock