The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-01-19
About Town,

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schools. Ottawa has Q large and varied
population of mechanics and laborers, and
hundreds of young men and women who are
starting in life without mental preparation
other than readin' an writin'" in very
limited degree Night schools, under the
supervision of competent instructors should
be the object of at least q trial, There are
many ladies of proper accomplishments in
this city who might be willing to make the
trial of their skill in good wholesome work
OF this kind. There are quite number who
are eminently capable of taking charge and
leading in the work, and would, the FREE
=, TRADER believes, readily undertake it Can't
some one " pop the question" at the next
meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society, or at
some kindred organization, and bring it
into general discussion!
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To say the least, the manner of conducting
services, or meetings. in vogue among the
Penticosters is unique and not altogether
without its touches of the sublime and the
ridiculous. The meeting is invariably open
ed with singing The leader gives out the
hymn and reads the verses. The reading
q would cause trained ear to thump like
big bass drnm, and yet the smiles of com
plete and soul felt JOY playing about her
lips and the lightning up her rather plain
face makes her countenance seem but half
earthly, The singing of the hymn is on
par with the reading Each seems commits
stoned to make as much noise and do as
much yelling as he or she possibly can, and
while the ear would tell one that Bedlam
had broken loose the eye is quick to detect
the entire and deadly earneslness of the
singers. Then comes the prayer. Such
howlings and shriekings, and beating of the
hands together would seem to awake the
very dead in their shrouds Of immaculate
linen. 1t seems to take the very form of
fanaticsm The individuals sole object ap
pears to be the working up of the.imagina'
nerves, until the person is in semi,hyster'
ical condition. somewhat similar to the old
manner of " getting religion" Then comes
what is known as sermon. A youth of
perhaps twenty summers held forth on
Wednesday evening lie did net possess
fund of knowledge Of sufficient magnitude
to tempt man of good judgment to borrow.
Indeed mis- ideas, as the ideas of most per-
sons who attempt to argue upon theological
questions about which they know absolutely
nothing, were narrow. minded and iron
bound. One might perhaps accuse the auth
or of the Koran Of fathering the sentiments
experienced by this youth, but they should
not be placed to the dement, Of Jesus
Christ. He loved justice for Justices sake,
and the law because it was justice They
would teach justice as does the avenging
demon, ever ready to destroy, and God as q
equity old imbecle, frowning at the smiles of
q child Christ taught God as the lover Of
mankind-they as mankind's mentor.
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According to . dispatch in the Chicago
DAILY News, the week eyed Celestial is not
favorite in Spring Valley. The News and
private sources furnish the Man about Town
with the story in detail. A couple of the
dragonial eye-browed gentlemen, from this
city, went down to the Valley the other day
to start laundry. They had no more than
landed in the place, before a dozen or more
ida mippra yuhn ho1 hacnu,a cd
rye and morbid desire to punch somebody
or nybody, in order to relieve their minds
from the immense burdens imposed by the
social status of Spring Valley, started them.
The Cinnamon fed towards the woods, but
ne more fleet of foot among the miners,
soon caught up with them. Then was the
fable Of the boys and the frogs amply and
forcibly brought to mind They mauled
hammered, kicked and chawed the Chi
namen. They knocked them down and
caused their clean "sox' to miugle with
the chaste mud of Main st. They wallowed
them in the mire, stepped on their eye
brows and walked on their collars. On, il
was lots of fun-for the miners. At length
the Cinnamon broke away and ran for their
lives. They were again caught and this
time they got it-got it in the neck. They
were hammered to jelly and to cap the
climax of abuse their Gue's were nearly
dragged from their. scaps
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A woman with garments all bedrsgpled
and torn, and shoes that bad seen better
days, sat in the seat of disgrace in Squire
Weeks court, on Tuesday afternoon. She
gave her name as Alice Bryant. and her age
at the sweet period of thirty-nine. She was
not full blown rose any longer, Alice
wasn't; neither did her nair fall in sweet
confusion over her alabaster shoulders. No,
Alice's hair was of that hue oft described
as sunburned red and it had been a strang'