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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-06-22
James Hanley lost another enc horse last

week.
Al Ames sold his spotted colt which was
erred by Pope Leo, for $500. We notice in
last weeks items in the Utica Gsscue from
Waltham that Will Jamison had sold his
fine horse to A. j. Hsgenbaugh, and that
viii had gone into the canine business with
David Muir, and had erected q kennel on
Mr.. Muir's farm, where they we're intend
ing TO keep a variety Of choice dogs, making
q speciality Of the shepherd. Sleuth joins
with the rest Of the Walthsm people in
wishing him unbounded success.
Squire Hagenbaugh recently won a fine
gold watch in lottery at Prairie Center
Accept Of my congratulations on your luck
Squire.
China Hall for bargains, Ottawa, Ill.
A certain director says that IL a certain
young man who lives at Mrs. --'s
does not cease TO visit a school house, (or
school marm,) he will look into the matter
Jas. Percy, from all reports, is about to
become a benedict.
Mr.. Dan Dibbins Of Wallace, srndayed
with the Misses Corrigsn's.
young man from Wallace says Mrs
Biliman has the finest garden of flowers in
the county to pick boquets from.
Pinch Douiva spent last week with his
brother Ed, of Wallace.
John Kinneger spent Sunday with the
Misses Hanley. YouSG SLEUrH.
Seneca Matters.
SENECA. ILL.,, June 2l-N. J. Rulison was
down to Ottawa on Tuesday.
Sadie Heaton was in the hands Of her
81 do NJ IN GaturAau
Cora Shaver was in Ottawa on Saturday.
John Burke and W. McGettrick ate straw
berry short cake in Chicago on Saturday.
Phil. Howe is erecting new house on
Main street. How he fills il we don't un.
derstand.
China Hall for dishes, Ottawa, Ill.
Lucy Pope was here for about "a hours
last week.
The Good Templsrs had some good ice
cream and straw berries on Tuesday evening.
We have great failing for ice cream. Our
physician will not allow US to cat over one
freezer full at time.
VIII Seneca celebrate? Well, guess so
The silver .tongued orator, City Attorney
and General Counsellor, John f. Madden,
of Ottawa. and J. j. Downey, Of Joliet, will
be the speakers on that day. The Joliet
band will be here, and then the eagle will
scream.
julius Windall and Editor Horsley went
to Morris Saturday to procure some fire
crackers.
The matter that appeared in the Record,
which has attracted considerable attention
was an article on Miss Vaughy, severely
chastising Peter O'Lsughlin. Miss Vaughy
was perfectly right, and we are Satisfied that
IL Peter had been struck on the head and
injured in any way, i. was purely aceiden.
tai, as Miss Vsughy has exercised great care
and diligence in training her pupils.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-06-22
From Walthan.

From Waltham.
WALrHAM, June 20.-The weather quite
rainy and the roads are very bad at pres
ent. Corn is small and very weedy; and the
girls are feeling down hearted and very lone
some.
Visit China Hall bargain department for
bargains.
A fishing party went to the river last Sat.
urday and met with extraordinary success
considering the condition Of the weather,
and high water. They caught about 800
pounds Of very fine fish.
John Motaz was the guest Of Miss Mary
Chalute, last Sunday
Mr.. Conard has about four acres of car
rots. He expects to feed his horses carrots
next winter. He also has three acres Of
beets for his Jersey COWS.
Edward BibbinS was severely kicked on
the knee last week by vicious stallion. He
is improving as fast rs could be expected,
and will probably be able to commence his
work by the first Of next week.
John Wilson is the best wrestler in
WAlthsm, but he says he will never tackle q
big man again, as he thinks 1t is harder
work than farming.
Joseph Douvia lost valuable mare and
colt last week.
Quite number of the young folks went
to Ottawa to the circus last Monday, but
were not as we'll pleased % they might have
been, 40 about one half Of them were com,
PEELED to walk homo.
Messrs. John and Charles Capsil had
quite draw for the first prize last week At
Dist. No. 7. Charlie took first prize and
John the second.
We understand that II. Z. Wicham has
sold his interest in the Utica Gazette 10 a
Wsltham man, but have not learned who the
party is.
There will be big picnic and dance in
wsltham on July 4th, if the weather is ia
vorsble. OLD SLrurH.
wALrHAM, June 1.-THE crops in this
vicinity do not look very fattering, especial.
ly the corn. Timothy hay is going to be q
light crop.
James Pearcy has erected new fence in
front Of his fne residence.
Miss Katie Gilligan spent Sunday in
Wallsas, the guest Of Mrs. Hennsy.
Mrs. Joseph Dennsy Is dangerously Ill.
Her recovery 10 in doubt.
China Hall, opera house block, Ottawa, Ill
Pinch Douvia 10 thinking about stocking
his large pond with fish. Pretty good idea,
Pinch, for then the boys wouldn't 70 to
Dayton.
jacob Billman is the happy father of .
pair twins, and both boys.
Mr.. Hsny Harmon 10 also feeling jubilant,
lie girl.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-06-22
Farm Ridge Notes.


FARM RIDGE, June 20.-We seem to be in
a fair way to get all the rain we want a,
last.
Mr.. Samuel VALLEY started yesterday for
Pennsy lvania, where he expects to spend
the summer He had intended to start tn g
day before the Johnstown disaster, bu for
some reason changed his mind at the last
moment
China Hall for silverware, Ottawa, Ill.
E. B. Capen marketed over 600 boxes Of
strawberries on Tuesday.
Eta Capsn is expected home to-day from
Massachusetts,. where she has been for sew.
eral years . student Of Smith College
The Doctor is said to be making prepare.
lions for new housekeeper.
MIR. Doolittle Of Streator is visiting in the
neighborhood.
New potatoes and green peas are in order.
GOSHEN.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-06-22
Galloway DOiugs.

GALLOWAY, June 1S.--Rain, rain, rain.
Lightning struck an old buggy pole which
was run up into an evergreen tree only four
rods from the postofice, last Saturday Nc
serious harm was done, though quite rack
ct accompanied.
T. J. Patterson has sold his team Of driv
ers; consideration, $500. He is now break
ing more Of the same stock to drive.
Samuel Brierlie's horse ran with him las
week. No serious harm done, except tina
the cart was badly damaged.
j. w. Fetzer went TO Fairbury Saturday
and returned Monday. He found his bro
theirs people we'll. He said that they die
not have much rain Sunday.
Mrs. Everal Angel visited her sister, Mrs
NJ. +. HALEY, on Tuesday.
Mrs. Sadie NJ. Bailey, will at the end o.
this term, sever her short but pleasant con-
nection with the Galloway school, having
accepted the position Of primary teacher in
the graded school at Earlville, Ill.
Miss Nellie Dihel spent last Sunday with
her sister. Mrs Chas. W. Halcott.
China Hall for baby carriages, Ottawa.
A few cars were filled with corn last week
at the crossing.
owing to the fact that farmers cannot gel
into the fields to pillow corn, a great many
bad weeds are being cut and pulled up.
There is one place In the town Of Eagle on
the east side Of Dan Harris farm where the
weeds have been allowed to grow for the last
twenty five years, 80 that teams can hardly
pass. They are lender now and some of the
commissioners ought to see that they are
destroyed.
Mr.. J. Jennings and wife, and Mrs. Arth
ur Burgess spent few hours on last
Saturday at the postoflice. They then wen'
to Mrs. Burgess and spent Sunday and re-
turned home Monday.
China Hall for dinner sets, Ottawa, Ill.
Quite good many of our people went &c
Streator Monday.
We have not captured that animal, yet
but believe it to DO a coon. We have the CUR
loaded and traps set and feroclous dog
ready to let loose at any moment.
Mrs. Stephen Patterson has been quite
sick at Briggs's. William, who lives in OF
taws came out to see her, Tuesday evening
Two wagons we're out begging for the Mi
ners last Tuesday-one from Streator ant
the other from Kangley.
Owing to the rain there was no services 81
the church last Sunday night. CAP.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
How to Secure Fine Favored Butter.

The reason why certain number of
consumers in all large cities are willing
to pay what, to a farmer or an average
consumer, may seem extraordinary pri-
ce-. says the American Agriculturist, is
because they get buffers of high favors
which are always uniform. The makers
of these buffers nearly all use clover and
meadow hay and corn meal, i'll varying
proportions with other coarse fodder and
meals. The makers who produce the
finest tiavors prefer clover and meadow
hay, cut on the green side just before
maturity, and carefully cured, fed With
corn meal, ensilage apd roots. Forage
plants harvested just before maturity
contain their maximum of nutritiye mat
ter, and therefore their highest favors.
When the coloring matter of plants is
allowed to bleach out, as in hay or corn
stalks, the flavor, or the best part of it
goes with 1t. This fact is one of the best
reasons for the practice of feeding ensi-
lage, for by no other method of treating
fodder corn can the color be so we'll
preserved. The Swedes and Danes use
small quantities of rape cake combined
with their grains and folders TO produce
the uniform havors which their buffers
possess. The Engiishmau uses wider
range of mixtures, including fine clover
and meadow hay, small quantities of
carrots, or mangels, middlings, shorts,
bran, pea and oat meal, corn and cotton
and llnseed meals in various proportions.
In the United States, the farmer has
everything st his command for feed
which he can desire, with corn ensilage of
the best quality. Successful feeders
compound their ratiops from many sour
ces rather than few, as much for the pur
pose of maintaining health and vigor of
digestion as for the food of varied fsvors.
At present prices, there are no cheaper
bases for dairy rations than gluten aud
cotton seed meals. mixed with enough
bran or shorts or whatever else is cheap
est on the market. With hay a. present
prices and plenty of corn stalks, most
men will be able to construct cheap
ratlons from the most abundant meteri-
ais. Due care must be exercised at all
times to avoid exclusiveness in COM
pounding ratlons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND THEOFD
John j. ROONEY.

BY the hut of the peasant where poverty weeps
Aud nigh to the tower of the king,
Close, close to the cradle where Infancy sleeps
And joy loves to linger and sing.
Lies garden of light full of heavens perfume,
Where never teardrop is shed,
And the rose and the lily are ever IN bloom
IT'S the beautiful land Of the dead.
Each moment of life messenger comes
And beckons man over the way;
Through the heart sobs of women and rolling OF
drums,
The army of mortals obey.
Few Ips that have kissed not a motionleSS brow,
A face from each fireside has fed,
But we know that our loved ones are watching US
now
In the beautiful land of the dead.
Not charm that we knew ere the boundary was
crossed,
Aswe stood in the valley alone.
Not a trait that we priced in our darling is lost;
They have fairer and lovelier grown.
AS the lilies burst forth when the shadows of
night
In bondage at dawn-break are led,
So they bask in the glow BY the Piller Of Light,
In the beautiful land of the dead.
OH the dead, our dead, our dearly loved dead,
Are close to the heart of Eternity wed.
When the last deed is done and the last word Is
said
We shall meet in the beautiful land of the dead
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07

looked in. Strange was the sight that
met my gaze. Three large fires were
burning furiously, il each of which was
body in the act of being cremated.
Through the binding smoke could see
the figures of two men lowering about.
These men, in their ragged clothing,
looked scarcely human, as, armed with
pitchforks. they silently moved from fire
to fire, rearrangine the blazing logs, or
adding fresh fuel as occasion required
Such sight held one rooted the spot
Indeed, the large, gloomy buildings, the
blazing fires, the clouds of smoke the roar
ing of the flames, especially when con-
trasted with the quiet moonlit scene
without, but, above all, the two ragged
attendants, who, gliding, about from time
to time with their pitchforks stirred the
fires, sending showers of sparks up into
the smoke-laden air above-all this pre-
scented scene which, once gazed upon,
could never be effaced from the memory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07

can get better returns from COWS out of
given quantity OF feed than his neigh
bors; with pigs he is not success by
any means.
I have neighbor who keeps his horses
in the best of condition of any farmer in
this vicinity. Some time ago he was in
my barnyard and had one of his horses
with him, fat, sleek and we'll groomed,
and well trained. We were looking at
my COWS when he said: 81 don't see how
it is, but can't keep my cows in such
fine condition as you do yours" He then
added: II give them all they want TO
eat" I found on inquiry that he was
feeding heavier than /. Just then one of
my horses was led out of the stable, and
I said: "Tbat is just the case with me
in regard to horses; yours are always
in first rate order; now look at that
horse and compare him with yours. Ny
horses have all the good necessary, but
they do not loob as well as yours" Here
was case in point; the feeding instinct
of my neighbor was in the direction of
horses, mine of COWS. ! have never had
lot of COWS that looked i'll kept, aud if
almost instinetively whether the COWS
with horses it is different; am not so
sure with them. With pigs also / am
successful, and can get from them good
return from bushel of corn or other
feed.
The dairyman should have the feeding
instinct strongly developed coward, as
so much depends upon how and with
what the COWS are fed. If ne is not a
hnr Inr hn he
science of feeding if he wants to make
the greatest profit out of his herd. 1t
won't do to write to the papers and get a
feeding ration prescribed as the doctors
give prescription and go on feeding it
| blindly, saying it was the requisite
amount of aluminoids, carbo hydrates,
etc., in it; but you must experiment, try
different quantities and combinations,
and see just what and how much your CO VS.
can eat profitably. You can't give GER
tain fixed percent. of food to hundred
pounds of COW indiscrimipa tely. Some
COWS can eat aud digest only three per
cent. OF their life weight, while others
may eat three four or more pounds per
hundred. Then again your ration may cali
for say two pounds of linseed meal and
| while you cannot get that cheaply you
can get bran. It may be wise to substi-
tute bran for the linseed meal, or perhaps
use timothy hay in place of the clover rec
commended; but in all feeding the COW
must be the Judge and the verdict she
given will be found in the milk pail or
churn. Tables of feeding stuffs, giving
their value and their manurisl value after
| passing through the animal, are useful
but it must always be borne in mind that
they are comparative only-are the chem
| lists estimate of value, not the animals
| or the soils.
Here is where the feeding instinct
COMES into play. Ttshould teach the feed
er whether the ration is the right one for
his COWS. It may be all right for the "theor-
etical" cow, but his COW may have far
more or less capacity for digesting food,
and Judgment should be used in giving all,
and no more than can be profitably eaten.
"A. l.. Crosby in Praire Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
WANTS A PARDON,
Anarchist Oscar Neebe Will Make Full Con-
feSSiOn.

CHICAGO, Ill.-Louis Neebe, a broth
or of Oscar Neebe, the anarchist,
now serving term in the penitentiary
for participation in the Haymarket riot,
returned from a visit to his brother at
Joliet. Before going, Neebe mad a
talk with Judge Gary, who presided at
the trial, on the subject of a petition for
the prisoners pardon, and was told that
when Oscar woHld make full statement
regarding the workings and plans
of the anarchist groups, including Lehr
and Wehr Verein, what steps he and
Others took in the consummation of their
proposed social revolution, when he ex-
posed all the plans and schemes of the
defense during the progress of the trial,
and expresses regret and contrition that
the judge would consider the question of
signing his petition for his par
don. The statement and requirements
was laid before Oscar, aid he agreed to
fulfill them. The Prison authorities have
furnished him with the necessary ma
terial for that purpose, and the state
ment is probably being written now.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
him while life lasted, and see him decent

him while life lasted, and see him decent
Iy bu-ied when he died.
After almost two weeks of wandering
they at length reached the mouth of Coos
bay, where they sound q friendly Indian
who put them across on the ocean beach.
By following this about twenty miles they
would reach the Umpqua. Williams now
gave out so completely that he could not
move, and suffered untold agony, crying,
begging and praying for death to release
him from his suffering. He again urged
Hedden to 60 on and leave him to die in
the sand hills; but with the resolution of
a martyr Hedden refused, saying he must
move on while life lasted, and not give up
now when help was so near. So, tearing
up his shirt, Heddon made sort of sling
which he placed around Williams, and
thus carried him along until the reached
the Umpqua, where Williams was placed
in friendly hands, and his wounds dressed
for the first time.
Shortly after their arrival at the Ump-
ana, a vessel came in from San T Francisco
having on board as passenger, DR.. E. R.
Fiske, graduate of Harvard College and
kind and benevolent man. Under his
charge Williams was soon able to move
around, but the arrow still remained in
his body and caused him much trouble.
Finally, on February % 1859, the end of
the wooden joint of the arrow made its
appearance near where it had entered,
and with the aid of pair of bullet moulds
Williams succeeded in drawing it out. 1t
was hard vine-maple stick about three
inches long, both ends CT which had been
hardened by the fire, and it was as solid
as ever. BE now began rapidly to get
well, and in ten days threw aside the rags
and bandages for the first time since
| September 81, 1851, and stepped forth a
well man.
In after years Williams was twice coun :
| ty clerk and twice county treasurer of
Umpqua county; and in 1868 when Doug
| las and Umpqua counties were consolida-
| ted, he filled the Office of clerk twice by
appointment and three times by election.
| He was also captain Of company of
volunteers, and spent two or three years
with his command among the Indians of
| southwestern Oregon. He was strange
combination of self taught scholar,
| lifelong backwoodsnan, a frst-class
| hunter, good explorer and mountaineer,
and a persistent Indian hater, for which
last named quality he had as good war
rant as any man living. He took an &C
tive part in the Snake River Indian cam
paign. He died in San Francisco in 1881:
leaving fortune of about $4,000, the
larger part of which was bequeathed to
| charities.
Although the expedition was fatal to
most of its members, yet it opened to
set Element one of the finest valleys of the
Pacific coast.
Hedden, now an old man, still lives at
| Scottsburg, Douglas county, Oregon, and
is the only living member of the expedi-
tioI. Although he has undergone many
hardships since the frightful experience
of 1851, that dreadful massacre in which
he and Williams SO nearly lost THEN lives
has made an impression upon him that
| can never be eff aced.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
Winter Work That No Farmer Should Neglect

Winter Work THAT No Farmer Should Neglect
When the season is mild, and the ground
in condition TO permit of blowing, the
work that can be done this month shoId
not be delayed. The difficulty With many
farmers is that they do not take advan-
tage of the opportunities in winter of
getting as much outdoor work done be-
fore spring as may be possible. The
corn land should be plowed now, if it can
be done, for in this latitude there are
often weeks of .open weather some sea-
sons that oause the frost to leave the
ground. By blowing such ground the
frost kills the cutworms and reduces the
clods. The hauling of the manure is also
work that may be done, but to save labor
in the spring it should be spread evenly
on the ground as fast as hauled out.
Manure that is coarse and in rough con
ditIon should be retained in the barn
yard.
It is important that the manure heap
be handled once Or twice during the win
ter. Only the fine, decomposed manure
should be handed out. The coarse
material should be made into another
heap, well packed and saturated with
urine, in order to get TIE manure fine be
care too much heat may be generated and
the materials injured by "ire-fanging,"
with loss of amonia. This is prevented
by turning the contents of the heap over
occasionally. The objection may be that
the handling of large quantities of
manure is laborious, which is true, but it
pays to bestow the labor. To haul out on
to the fields a mass of coarse rubbish, CON
sisting of cornstalks and straw that have
undergone no change, is to haul that
from which no benefit can be derived for
q long time. Before any kind of manure
can be available to plants it must decom-
pose and become soluble in water. This
process may be quick or slow, according
to its preparation in the heap before it
reaches the fields.
The rapevines should be trimmed in
cold weather. If the work is deferred
until spring the vines will "bleed" close
sap) and be weakened. The raspberries,
bIackberries and all small fruits can be
trimmed in winter and the old wood cut
away. The Strawberries can be MANFRED
and the asparagus beds looked after, it
being the earliest of the vegetables
The manure for hot beds must be
saved, and it will save time to cut away
all the Surplus branches of the orchard
trees
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-03-07
The Cultivation of Nutmegs.
Glasgow Mail.

Padding into little cove, says Capt.
John Strahan, on the south side of the
bay, we landed beside a clear, ripping
stream, and having ordered the whole
of the men to march in Indian file in
front, we started by a little rugged path
into The mountains, with my interpreter
Immediately behind me, and the rajah
just in front. Every foot of the journey
which was laborious in the extreme, dis
closed fresh scenes of verdure and troPi-
cal splendor. Winding along the sides
of deep ravines, sometimes dragging
ourselves attained an altitude of about
one thousand feet above the sea, and then
entered the nutmeg country. Here we
halted and rested. The raj ah pulled some
of the nutmegs and explained how far
they were from being ripe.
Having rested sufficiently, we again
starred forward, and after scrabling along
for about an hour we gained a fine piece
of tableland over which we travelled for
about another half hour, when we reached
three Eouses erected in the very heart of
the forest. These were used by the
natives for drying the nutmegs. The
country was everywhere magnificent, and
the aroma of the spice-laden air delicious.
Nutmeg and other equally valuable trees
were everywhere growing in great pro-
fusion. The fruit of the nutmeg in ap
pearance resembles a pear, and when
ripe, opens and displays the nut covered
with beautiful red coating of mace.
The nuts are then picked from the trees,
put into baskets, and taken to the houses,
where they are husked and placed on the
shelves. They are then partially roasted
over slow fire until all the moisture is
extracted. After this they are cooled and
carried down to the village in nets ready
to be battered to the Bugis, Arabs, aud
other traders 10 frequent the gulf in
their small prows or junkos at the proper
season.