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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-17
Ransom Gins,

RANSOM, Aug 14.-The past week has
been very favorable for threshing, pastures
good and stock looking we'll. We have had
cool nights and the corn crop needs more
warmth and sunshine, yet it is still rowing
finely, and IN the absence Of early frost will
be a fair crop.
VIM. Cochran is stacking his oats and in
tends to have his threshing done for one
cent per bushel; that's business.
The young men will give ball in Jones
rink on Friday night, August S0th. All are
invited to enjoy good time.
The Misses Collisions Of Ottawa are visit.
ing with the Misses Harty's.
Mr.. Robert Douglass Of Kansas is visiting
with his parents in Ransom.
Five of the members Of the 104th Ill.
Regimental Reunion held at Ottawa on Aug,
23d.
A big rain yesterday which stopped the
threshing for while.
John Smith is canvsssing the town in the
interest of Merrick's washing compound
manufactured at Chicago. John is heart
smssher among ladies.
George Shear has been doing some paint
ing and granting on the inside Of the Ran
som school house. George is a good hand
at such work, and if any one doubts US, let
them visit the school room at Ransom and
be satisfied.
There seems to some trouble about the
deed on John Helds farm, a lady from the
east claims o have never signed her right to
sell said land. Space will not permit the
particulars this time. D.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-17
Hsrried.

On the 10th inst, by Arthur Lockwood, Esq, Mr..
GEORGE WILLIAMS, OF Jones Location, La Sale
Co., to Miss MERCY LEWIS OF Deer Park.
On the 18th inst. by the same. Mr., GEO X. LEE, OF
Ills, to Miss ANNA II. GlDDINGS, Of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-17
N arseilIes.

MarseilIes.
W. Smith left Tuesday for Amboy, "a
take charge of livery stable that he has
purchased. His family will move soon.
Eugene Moflil of Chilllcothe, WAS calling
on old friends on Monday,
Austia Makeever recited some of her
popular recitations 10 large audience al
an entertainment for the benefit of the Con.
gregational church, Saturday evening al
Macon, H.
Mrs. Knickerbocker Of Chicago, visited
here last week.
Alex IIolcom has been having the ague
al Jay Eye See gate the last week. lie
says he don't care about the shakes but he
hstes TO loose sight Of the races at Ottawa.
Rev Taber returned last Friday from his
summer vacation TO York state.
w. Wiley Of Seneca, was calling IN
friends Tuesday
o. Walbridge lie rusticating out about
Plt,sburg, Kansas, for a few weeks.
y. Il. Hawks let with his family Wednes
day, for Soda Springs, Idaho, where he has
charge of a large cattle ranch for his faith
or. Charles Douglass goes with him 10
take few degrees In mountain life.
About all Of our sporting fraternity at
tended the races at Ottawa this week.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-08-17
Tonica Tales.

Touica Tales.
ToNlcA Neps, Aug. l6.-The Central is
running very heavy trains nowadays.
Tonica sent liberal delegation to the
Ottawa races this week.
Fiint's warehouse received IL $50 bushels
Of corn last week
The oat crop averages large in this part
Of the country.
An election has been called to choose a
village trustee to fill vacancy.
J,E Morris has bought II A. Radle y
Co.'S implement store.
W. A. Thompson has a Bible printed in
l57Sin old English text.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
WOMEN'S DRESS


How willing the general mau is to take
all the burdens of ftmjninity On bis
shoulders. Mankind assumes tue re
sponslbility Of cors.ts, and high. heelcd
shoes; he troubles himself about petit
coats and he thinks women ought not to
earn their own living. As far as tie last
goes am with him rapturous'y and en-
Enthusiastically. shake him by the hand
and ask him to produce a man and a
brother to earn bread and butter and
jam for every woman who hasn't got it
From Miss Muffet down we would all
like to SIT on the tufIet and be led with
curds and whey. There is no reason III
| the world why a man should object To q
properly made nigh heeled shoe. If il
tits you well it doesn't Kurt your foot
half as mach as one Of those ~CTeadfully
| broad So called common sense ones liz
which slender feet waddle around and
are made uncomfortable. The high heel
keeps you out Of the mud if you are a
small woman it adds TO your dignity and
it is too altogether womanly looking for
anything. Whenever | see, in a hotel
corridor, a pair of mems shoes, and Just
beside them. waiting to be brushed, a
| pair Of common sense, bread, low. heeled
denominations, | Am always certain that
there is q woman in the room who ob-
jects to fleeing the walters, who wears a
loose corset, who is t1at-chested and won't
let her dres smaker put any cotton in to
make her look better, and who thinks it
10 perfectly silly in John TO expect to be
kissed at any Time except when he is GO
ing of on n long trip or if it should be
discovered that ne was dying. and some.
how | have an idea that john himself has
long Ceas "a to hunger tor those kisses.
Now, why shoulu n man bother ABOUT
the health Of pelticoats, He doesn't have
TO wear then. The Lord didn { build
him 30 that he vas to have them hung
around his hips, and when he made
womtn he did. Those marvels of lace
and silk were thought Of, and it Vas
known that their appearance would be
entirely spoiled if they were sluug from
her shoulders by a pair Of braces. Take
any wild country, where civilized dress
is unknown, where the natural woman is
found, and you will discover that she
carries her baby on her hips and a pitcher
of water on her head, but tina she sings |
only necessary for mankind to trouble
about the way we wear our
petticoats when we raise an objection TO
the adjustment OF his trousers. For my
own part he can wear them by q string
about his neck IL he wants to. though |
don't think he would look pretty in that
way, and perhaps 1t would be better for
him to stick TO his braces.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
rKAlRIE DOGS


What q Visitor to One of Their
Gowns" say y or Them.
Youths Companion: The prairie dog
is no more like a dog than he is like an
elephant. Instead of being a carnivorous
canine, with danger in his eye and
treach cry in his mind, he is a prairie
marmot, a chubby, f~at.paunched ground
squirrel, with a short tail. He is the
jolliest little rodent under the sun; he is
as lively as q cricket, as watchful as a
weasel, and, to all appearances, as happy
as the day 10 long.
While you are still some distance from
the town you See the Inhabitants rul ming
freely about. plDbling at roots and blades
OF grass, and foraging at quite alittle dis
lance from their respective dwellings;
but as soon as you show yourself within
100 yards Of The municipal suburbs, the
alarm Is quietly gwen and every dog
scampers for his buriow as fast as has
8 unpy little legs can carry him.
On reaching Lis open door. which is a
SIX inch hole running down through the
center of "A iltlIe u ike a miniature
volcano with a bottomless pit for IA era
ter, he poses himself on the rim, stands
up on his hind feet SO bign ana go
straight that he looks uncommonly like n
tent peg, and views the landscape Der.
When you get fairly into the own the
holes are found TO be rs thick as apple
trees in an orchard, and on each of the
mounds. excepting the very nearest, there
will be a prairie dog, yapping away at
you as ii his whole life depended upon |
his bringing out 100 yaps to the minute. |
Perhaps twenty dogs will be barking in
dustriously at you in concerr, with
twenty tails jerking s~pasnodically in
unison n twenty pairs of eyes watch
ing you with keen interest.
As you slowly walk forward and cross
the imaginary dead line that the nearest
dog has drawn around himself, he dives
head foremost into the bowels Of the
earth, and his tail wrinkles merrily from
side to side as his hind feet disappear.
When you run forward and apply your
ear TO the whole you hear an indistlnct,
shufiling sound, which grOws fainter and
fainter, until it finally ceases. and then
you hear his jolly little bark. "Chit-tit-
cit. tItr' comes like a smothered laugh
from the regions below.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
A COM MON SENSE LETTER.

TO II EDITOR: l see that newspaper
articles are again making their appear
ance calling attention 10 matters pertain
ing to health as well as TO the means
whereby disease may be removed and
good health preserved. | am thereby re
minded that | have received from time to
time, pamphlet publications issued by the
well known firm of II. III. Warmers *
Co, which dwell upon the history and
growth Of kidney diseases; showing bow
such is the cause Of consumption, heart,
brain and nervous disorders, which can
only be successfully treated by removing
the primary disease from the kidneys.
At the same time care is taken to remind
the reader tha. Warmers Safe Cure is the
only means whereby the physician or the
individual can successfully prevent and
cure this class Of disease.
Whilst have personal cause to feel
grateful to Warmers Safe Cure, for the
benefit which | derived from it when
suffering from kidney troubles last
spring. | cannot see, since that remedy
to already SO well known in every house
hold, Why the parties interested in its
manufacture should continue to eXpend
money ia calling attention TO what the
public already knows 60 well ! am
aware, hr. Editor, that the members OF
the medical profession arc seldom dis
posed 10 give due credit ID proprietary
medicines, but public confidence is likely
TO be even more shaken in those learned
gentlemen since the startling disclosures
in the Robinson poisoning cases were
made IN Somerville, Mass.
Here il was discovered, through the eff
forts of an insurance company, that eight
cases Of death from arscniCai poisoning
had occurred-seven Of them In one fam
lily, and within five years and the other
that Of a relativC-Whcrein the true cause
If death had not been even suspected by
prominent physicians who were in at
tendance, but who treated the cases for
other causes, ana finally, when death Oc-
Cured, issued certificates FOR such causes
as pneumonia, typhoid fever, meningitis,
etc.
After such an evidence Of utter in
competency Of those physicians who
we're regarded as experts IN their pro-
f~ession, | cannot conceive why it wi b,
iouger necessary for further advertising.
10 be done in behalf of Warmers Safe
Cure, since | deem the So"nersyille dis
closure 10 be the best possible endorse
men of the good sense manifested 10y
those who take matters of health in their
own hands and use Il remedy which ey
peTience has shown 10 be fully adapted
for the purposes intended, instead of
trusting themselves in experimental
hands. EXPERIENCE.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
Rats I'm tho Moal.

The Utica, N. Y, Herald relates how
q wedding trip was interfered with. A
dspper young gentleman in a skull cap
jumped off a drawing room car and went
into the candy store at the station and
asked for two boxes Of carsmels. While
they were being made ready he noticed
the new toy. Rat in the Meal" and
picked one up. He became very much
interested in the same and chased the
rats around and around for nearly ten
minutes. There, I've 60: itl' he ex-
claimed, but while he had been absorbed
the train had moved OFF. He was In utter
CONSERVATION. 1t TRANSFERRED that he was
recently married and was on his wedding
trip. The groom was Mortified 10 find
;a.t his bride was on her way to Albany
with his hat, oveIcoat and belongings.
Matters were Strengthened out by means
of the telegraph.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

P~hiladelpnia Inquirer's Washington
Letter: A letter from Mrs. Logan, who
is now travelling in Europe, chaperoning
the daughter Of George Pullman, the
millionaire car builder, informs her
friends that she will return to Washing.
ton in August. Before her departure
Mrs. Logan became dirgctress of a ladies
magazine, printed in Washington at a
p~opular subscription price, and which
has already secured a long LIST of sub.
scribers. Upon her return she will again
take editorial charge. Her European let.
tiers have been exceedingly interesting.
Her literary work plainly j~nstifies the
high opinion in which the people Of the
country have held her.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

Here is a list which may be character
lied as serious and into one or more
of which the reader will probably find
he is in the habit Of falling more or less
frequently. These mistakes are: To
labor when you are not in lit condition
10 do SO. To think that the more q per-
son eats the healthier and stronger he
will become. To go to bed at midnight
IN | rise at daybreak, and imagine that
every hour taken from sleep is "a hour
COINED. To imagine that if a little work
or exercise is 6 'od, violent or prolonged
~Aercise is better. TO conclude that the
smallest room in the house is large
enough to sleep in. To eat "a if you
only had a minute 10 finish your meal in,
o. TO at without an app tit or continue
after it has been sat shed, merely TO sat
isfy the taste. 10 bel eve that children
can do AZ much work rs grown people.
and that the more hours they study the
more they learn. To imagine that what
ever remedy causes one to feel immpdi-
ately be ter las alcoholic stimulanis) il
good for the systcm, without regard 10
The after effects. To take off your proper
clothing out of season because you have
become heated.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

When old Judge Jowler wa, tucked in his
little bed by Mrs. Mouser he couldn't sleep n
wink until the ex client woman had brought
a bottle OF DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup. Then
he crossed his little hands and sunk In sweet
repose.
General Wayne Stables, Baltimore and Paca
streets, Baltimore, Md.
can safely recommend your Salvation Oh
to ~ll suffering with rhumatism, as I was a
sufferer, and before I had finished using the
first bottle was entirely cured.
JOa. 8. FOX, Cattle Dealer.
III Nor h Broadway, B aitimore, Md.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

Diseases ca be cured, II properly treated IN
tire, az ,howa by the fol owing statement
from D. Z FREEMAN, Sydney: Having b en-
a or at suffr rer from pulmonary attacks, and
gradually waiting away for the past two
vear., II affo ds me pleasure to testify tha'
Sc TITS EMULSION az Cod Liver Oa with
Ii ne and 40 "a has given me great r l'ef. ami
I cheerfully recon end IL to all offering in
a similar WY 10 myself. In al iition, | would
cay that 1t 10 very pleasant to t. ste.n
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
Consumption snyaiy Cured.

TO the Elltor - Please inform your readers
hat r4yo a positive remedy FOR coueuup-
ion BY its timely use thousands Of hope
less case, hRge b,cr permanently cured. |
sball be glad to send TWO bottles Of my rem
edy Tree 10 any OF oar rtAQera " DO nave con
sumption X they WIZ send me their express
and poetotiice address. Respectfully, r. a.
SLOGUM, Vi. C., ISL PeGrl St. n. X.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
-Sneaklng of the Oklahoma ru

Speaking OF the Oklahoma rush, the
Caurier-J urnal is moved to remark: az
hell itself were announce 10 be open to set
there, and men could get there without dying
there would be no lack of immigrants"
Over 200 men have been thrown out of
work by the burning OF the Loui willie Bridge
and Iron company's works at Louisville, Ky.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

The British consul Mt Panama recently
Distributed hrea d among the coiored laro-er
on the Panama canal, who have suff red
great distress since the suspension OF the
work.
A $5 900 FUND has been raised in London
to psy the way Of several English workmen
to the Par 9 exposition.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

When Baby was sick, we gave her C~lstoria,
When she was o Child :; O cried for Castoria,
When she became N. ~ chung to Castoria,
When she had Child. On, sire gave them Castoria
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

In Germany labor troubles are spreading.
Three thousand bricklayers are ont on a
strike in the northern districts, 1900 taiiors
In Hamburg and 500 house painters In Co
logne.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

Hannah Batter by, the fat woman who
died the o her day, we ghed so pounds.
Think Of a woman OF tsat magni-
tude climbing the golden stairs.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

The "RoNeTt Elsmercn collar Is one OF
the latest thing $ out. The critics win pro-
ctcd at once 10 take toe starch out Of il.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

The policemen OF Ithaca, y. T., ere on a
strike for an increase " veg 5 from ~ 10 BIZ
per week.
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

II afflicted WIN sore eyes use DR.. Isaac
Thompeon's Eye Water. Druggists sell 1t.
DEo
Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18

The cleansing, antisoptic and healing qualities Of
Dr.. Sages CataIrh Remedy are u~neQualod. 80 cents.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19
SOME BUILDINGS.
Stone, Brick and Iron Buildings to 60
Up in Fort Worth.
A Theaser Building for Lower Rusk Street-A
Hotel for Lower Hsaston and
aain Streets.

There we're rumors of new buildings il
the air yesterday, and a GAZETTE re-
porter hunted them up. Finding Col.
R. E. Maddox, he asked, az hear You
are contemplating erecting several build
ings; is there any truth in the rumor?
eyes, there is. am not contemplate
ing It, however; have decided to build
and my plans have been arranged.
What are they?'
Wen, first l shall tear down the old
La Belle house on Fifteenth and Hous-
ton, and erect in its place hand
some four-story building, which
will be used in connection
with my three story brick on
Main street for hotel, aud a first-class
one, too. -
what about Pythian temple?"
81 have decided to build a fifty-foot
front, three-story building on the east
side of Nam street, on the corner of
Fifteenth, the first story for stores, the
second for offices and the third
tor secret orders. This building will
be an ornament 70 Main street On
Rusk and Fifteenth I viii build an
opera house or theatre building, three
stories high. The theatre will be in two
high stories, with rooms on the third
floor for dressing rooms, etc. -
When will you begin on these build
ngs?''
''In very short time, possibly next
month -
Mr.. Maddox also stated that Mr..
Thomas Roche would build adjoining
the two-story brick now being erected on
the west side of Main street between
Fifteenth and Front by c. H. Rintle-
man, who will also erect buildings to
cost in the neighborhoOd Of $50 900.
Mr.. George Hurley was seen later and
asked what he knew about buildings
Mr.. Hurley said: eve have let the
contract to H. W. Holden for the exca-
walton for the elght-stOry building on
Main and Seventh, and contractors are
preparing bids for the stone work, which
will be acted on Saturday. But for the
rain the eXcavating would have been I'M
der W;sy before this
''You say an eight story building?'
eyes; it will be seven and a half stories
above ground, and half the basement
story below the sidewalk level The
building will be we'll under way this
month. -
''Do you know of any other build
ing?''
81 learn from a letter received from
my brother that Mr.. Huffman has sue
ceeded in placing loan for MIR A. T.
Byers, who will erect a fine four-stOry
building on the corner of Main and
Seventh, fifty foot front, directly oppo-
site our eight-story building
"Anything else?''
Mr. Hurley told the reDOrter of still
another building of immense proportions
and to cost large sum of money, but
for prudential reasons desired nothing
said about it.
Two Sl4, 900 residences are in contem-
plation for the South Side In fact
they will he built.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19
H. AND Z. C. LANDS.
The Attorney General Asks that no More Pat
ents Receive Commissioner Halls
Signature.

Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. Sept. 1.-THE follow
ing explains itself:
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE,
Austin, Tex. Sept. II.
To Hon. r. NJ. Hall, Commissioner of the Land
Office:
DEAR SIR-The attention Of this de-
partment has been drawn to the fact that
the Houston and Texas Central railway
company has recently placed all lands
claimed by it on the market for sale; that
it is now fast disposing of them by quit
claim deeds; that itsis procuring patents
to them as fast as possible,
and also the lands claimed by
the Waco ana Northwestern
a sense of duty and propriety as well ),
this department begs TO ask that no more
patents claimed by that company receive
your signature for the reasons:
l. That this department deems the as
signment of the Waco and Northwestern
claim to the Houston and Texas Central
railroad company Illegal and unauthor-
lied, and that the lands in fact or in law
were never earned from the state by said
Waco and Northwestern.
2. That if not all the certificates
to the Houston and Texas Central rail-
way company are Illegal, now that it has
obtained sixteen sections to the mile for
sidings, and switches in addition to every
linial mile of road completed under the
law, thereby acquiring improperly nearly
one million acres of land more than it
was entitled to
Action to settle the questions in court
has thus far been delayed on ac-
count of other important heavy
litigation and other duties that
require the undivided attention of the
force in the department. Feeling that
you have never been fully advised of the
premises, this letter is, with the pro-
fohndest respect, addressed to you.
Your Obedient servant,
LSfgned. j. S. HOGG,
Attorney General.
Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-19

their official relations. The secretary
said it was entirely due to differences of
opinion in regard to matters of official
administration. The secretary called at
tention to a letter received this morn
ing from Secretary Tracy to contradict
the report of an interview which Is
SAID to have taken place at the White
House. Secretary Noble said that the
story of a wrangIe between himself and
SeeI etary Tracy was made out OF
whole cloth and was true neither in word
nor.thought. He added that the same
cordial relations existed between himself
and Secretary Tracy as between the other
members of the cabinet.
Commissioner Tanner so far has made
no plans for the future. He will con-
tlnue to live in the district for some time.
He has q lease for a year of the residence
in Georgetown which ne now occupies,
and it is furnished with furniture which
he brought from his home in Brooklyn.
Speaking about the Tanner case to-
day, Private Secretary Halford said:
You know that the president is not
believer in much talk, and l don t like
to say anything about the pension office,
but there are one or two misstatements
that ought to be corrected. No issue
was ever made by Secretary Noble to the
president as 10 whether he or Mr.. Tanner
should go. Next there was meyer any
formal cabinet consultation about the
matter and there was no disagreement
whatever among the members, much
less any exchange of incivilities. The
president mad several times during the
summer made suggestions to Mr.. Tanner
which he hoped would have a good
effect, as he feels very kindly toward
him personally. The question was not
at all in the presidents mind whether
one of two persons should go.