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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
=. M, GENERAL.

Postmaster General Wanamaker's
report, OF which the press dispatches
give synopsis, contains some good
ideas and sensible suggestions. For
example, he objects to the custom.
with the advent Of every new admin
istration, Of changing all the higher
officers of the department. 1.-The
whole organization being changed
from the top" he says, "the work falls
into unframed hands, which so un'
settles the service that from a bust
ness point of view it certainly cannot
be beneficial to any department."
In regard to postal telegraph SER
vice, his suggestions are equally sensi'
bic and business like. The sending
and delivery of telegraph messages, he
says, is undoubtedly proper post office
business and would add to the profits
Of the department. ''.he vast net.
work of wires covering the country
could easily be made to reach many OF
the village post Offices and benefit
more people, than by stopping at the
railroad stations, which are often d
mile distant from where people live.
He would not, however, go into the
business recklessly. "The experiment
could be made at little cost to ascer
tain, firstly, whether such demand
for cheaper telegraph service existed
as is claimed. The experiment Itself
need not even interfere with existing
telegraph interests, as it would be the
creation of new class of business"
In regard to Sunday mail service, he
says he will make use Of all proper
means tending toward the minimiz
ing of post Office work on Sunday, be
cause he believes the government
should, as far as possible, make no re-
quirements which will prohibit its en-
plOyes from the enjoyment of day OF
rest.
Other recommendations which com.
mend themselves for their good sense
are, double postal card for return
answers; the establishment of postal
museum, and the prompt delivery of
all letters on which the postage is not
prepaid, and to collect double postage
at the other end. Such letters are
now detained at the Office where
mailed until the party addressed,
sometimes "A thousand or more miles
away, can be addressed by the post
master and induced to remit stamp
to cover the postage, wasting another
stamp to do so,--a regulation the good
sense of which the public never was
able to get on to.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
WHERE Is THE DEVIL?

New York is just now taking vast
amount OF comfort from sermon late
ly preached in Chicago by the Rev. DR..
Lorimer, Baptist minister, who arose
in his little pulpit to announce that
the devil cannot be IN two places at
the same time. If that is so, says New
York, he must have so much to occupy
his time in the pOrk-slaughtering
metropolis of the bounding West that
New York is measurably exempt from
his presence. With due Difference to
the theological acumen Of Dr. Lorimer,
we are inclined to the view of the
Scotch dominic as more orthodox. He
had the Scotch habit of adding the
word She" after the use of proper
names, and preached from the text,
THE devil he goeth about like roar
ing lion, seeking whom he may de-
YOUR" and treated his subject under
heads: Who the devil he is: why the
devil he goeth about; whom the devil
he seeketh to devour; and where the
devil he is now. Omitting, as not
pertinent to the present inquiry, the
good dominies treatment of the other
heads, his elucdation of the last is
worthy of the consideration of DR..
Lorimer. Instead of an omnipreSent,
his idea was rather that of a pan
devil. "The devil, my mon," said he,
sis in your heart; in the heart of every
one of you; and it is for you, each one
for himself or herself. to say why the
devil he abideth there, and why the
devil he should not be expelled"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
SILVER CONVENTION.

The national silver convention
which met at St. Louis on Wednesday
was attended by delegates from most
Of the southern and western states,
and was in point Of members and tai
ent really imposing body. Many able
addresses were delivered by men like
Congressman Il. p. Bland, Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, Congressman
Symmes, of Colorado, Gen. Ginter, of
Mo-, Mr.. Fitch, of Nevada, the last
named (hithercto unknown to fame,
positively electrifying the convention
by delivering IA speech which in point
of force and eloquence far eclipsed all
Others.
The sense of the convention, after a
two days session, is embodied in the
following resolution, which was unan-
imously adopted;
"Resolved, That the List congress
be requested by this convention to pro-
vide at its first session for opening the
mints of the United States to the free
and unlimited coinage OF standard sill
yer dollars of the present weight and
fneness, to be legal tender for all debts,
public or private, equal with gold,
and that, until such provision is
made, the secretary Of the treasury be
required to coin the maximum, 1000,
600 worth Of silver month, as now
authorized by law"
Perhaps the strongest paper read to
the convention, and which had great
est influence in guiding It's delibera-
lions, was that of John Thompson,
Vice President of the Chase National
Bank, of Wall street, New York. He
insists on the immediate increase of
the silver coinage from $2,OOO,000 to
81, OOO,0O0 per month, confident that
the success Of the augmented coinage
would pave the way to the adoption
of free coinage by reclamation. The
present gold currency Of the country,
he says, is mainly locked up in the
Treasury and our working currency
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
IMPORTANT ARMY RECOMMEN-
DATION

Gen. Wallace, the President of last
summers board of visitors to West
Point, has just made his report,
in which he embodies some quite note
worthy recommendations. The prin-
cipal one is to abolish the present sys-
tenn of appointing cadets, and to make
all private soldiers in the army posi-
BILE students in the Military Acad-
envy. The enlisted men, instead of
doing the work Of drudgery and of
servants about the posts and camps,
as they now do, are to be instructed
by the officers at the posts where they
are stationed in the same branches
that are now taught at West Point.
When the privates have made GER
tain proficiency in their studies, they
shall be eligible for admission to the
Military Academy, graduating from
which they are entitled to commits
siOns as officers of the army-in short,
are on the final rung of the ladder
that leads to the top rank.
The plan has no end Of arguments
in it's favor, the chief of which is that
| it would make enlistment sought
after as the opening doorway to an
honorable career instead of, as now,
the last refuge of a man at the bottom
of his luck. 1t would at once infinitely
raise the grade of the rank and file,
and fill our regular army with class
of men full of zeal and ambition in an
occupation which, now to most Of
them badge of degradation, would
be the opening to life career as hon
Orable, as it would be crowded with
the loftiest hopes and aspirations.
While there would doubtless be many
difficulties to overcome in perfeCting
such system, there is so much to be
said in its favor that congress ought
not to be excused for failure to give it
careful consideration.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

The New York San, always high
tariff organ, though pretending to
Democratic proclivities, had an edi-
torial few days ago, column and a
half in length and apparently inspired
from high tariff quarters, outlining
the changes to be proposed in silver
legislation in Mr.. WINDOWS forthcom-
ing treasury report, and arguing from
these that not the tariff but the sill
yer is destined to become the all alb
sorbing topic in the next congress, and
going down from these, in the next
campaign before the people. Undoubt-
edly that is what the high tariff adj
vocates are longing for, as they are
afraid Of another anti-taxation cam
paign; but the silver business is very
nearly right as it is, and no great
amount of political capital can be
hoped for from an attempt at its Sc
rious disturbance.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

The argument Of the Republican,
that because Governor TOOle and the
other state officers of Montana hold
their Offices by virtue of certificate
of election from the state returning
board, therefore the members of the
legislature must have certificates from
the same body, does not cover the
case. The returning board was the
creation of the enabling act, under
which Montana adopted a state con-
stitution and prOspectively elected
state officers, to serve H. case the con-
stitution was adopted, and the Presi-
dents proclamation admitted the state
into the union. But the members of
the legislature were elected under the
territorial apportionment and pur-
Suant to the territorial laws. If the
constitution had failed of adoption
the state officers elected would have
been t,nct,ts oticiO-out of a job, but
the legislature would have remained
all the same, as a territorial legsla-
ture. That is the difference. See?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

consists Of legal tenders, national
bank notes, coin and silver certificates.
The latter do not now increase as fast
as the national bank notes are re-
tired. The result is a steady cOntrac-
ton while the business demands Of the
country are at an enormous increase.
Hence the rapid depreciation of prop
erty going on, the sheer result Of the
decentralization of silver, (which has
been giving wicked preference to the
creditor over the debtor classes of our
entire population, and it is this pref
erence that is driving our middle
classes into poverty and enabling mill
iOnaires to multiply their millions.
Nothing in my opinion will save our
people from social revolution so
surely as the full reconciliation Of
silver and giving it all the advantages
we now give to gold, both in law and
in the ruling Of our Treasury Depart
ment."
1t was confidently stated that one
half Of Wall street, that had until
lately been unanimous for the gold
standard, seeing "breakers ahead"
now endorse the views Of Mr. Thomp-
son
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

When the presiding genius of the
local newspaper down at Ringgold, in
Georgia, made himself nuisance by
gratuitous indiscriminate abuse of
citizens of the town, the people held a
public meeting and denounced him as
"a william of maStOdonic parts and a
falsitier of wonderful willingness, only
lacking the sense and tact to become a
liar of note and distinction, and they
advised him to git" or he would hear
from them again. But Georgia, you
know, is in the semi-barbarous south.
Around here, now, when a blackguard
editor, by indiscriminate abuse of good
citizens, makes himself nuisance,
people that is, some people) deprecat-
ingly ward off further abuse by taking
his paper and inviting him into decent
company.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
SUNDAY.

The republican ccauus of the HOUSE
met at Washington yesterday after
noon, and on the second ballot, Reed
Of Maine, was nominated for Speaker.
Mcpherson, of Pennsylvania, gets the
Clerkship, and A. }. Holmes will be
Sergeant-at-Arms.
Dom Pedro arrived at st. Vincent
Cape de Verde Islands, yesterday, en-
route for Lisbon.
p. ID. Armour yesterday deigncd to
reply TO questions put to him by Sen
ator Vests dressed beef committee,
and denied that his firm had ever en-
tered into any combination to fix or
control prices for cattle or dressed
beef
General Gordon was received with
military honors at Chicago yesterday.
He was entertained by the Iroquois
Club last evening, and delivered an
address to the ex-Confederate Associa-
ton.
The furry in corn collapsed yester-
day after the shorts had settled at 80
and Coo, when it fell back to its nor
NAL price Of &c. Wheat was steady,
closing at 79b(G79t Dec, and S4b May.
Oats remained the same. Cattle re-
ceipts only 1000, nearly all Texans;
prices steady. Hogs received, 1900;
prices a nickel lower. Receipts for
week-cattle, $4,000; hogs, $4,000;
sheep. $4,000.
The New York banks for the week
show a decided increase of reserve.
which now exceeds the Is per cent.
limit by 81, S7l, $50.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
REED OF MAINE,

Although as lllinoisanS our sympa-
thies were naturally with Joe Cannon
In the contest for speaker of the lower
house of congress, it needed little
knowledge of the composition and gov
erning influences of the Republican
party to forsee that there was no hope
for him. Reed represented the corpor.
ate and monopoly influences that are
now dominant in the party: Cannon
represented the western idea, which Is
FESTIVE under corporate and monopoly
rule and aims at gradual amelioration
of it's vigor. In point of ability and
claim, Mckinley, of Ohio, ought tC
have stood before Reed, for did not
the Chicago platform proceed from his
pen and was he not the ablest expo.
nent and defender of the principles il
embodied on the floor of the House:
But Ohio is western state, and the
result of her last November election
was such as naturally to shake inn
plicit confidence in McKinley's firm
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of limitations, though he is still liable
to prosecution in the Criminal Court.

of limitations, though he is still liable
to prosecution in the Criminal Court.
Both houses of Congress met at noon
yesterday, but beyond the election OF
a speaker in the house no business was
done. Reed received 1866 votes to Car
isles l64. There was great disappoint-
ment on the part of the full galleries
of both houses at the nOn-receipt OF
the Presidents message, which, it was
understood, will be ready for presen-
tation to-day.
In the Cronin trial yesterday the
defense introduced two witnesses who
swore that they had seen the two
knives, which other witnesses had
identified as having belonged to DR..
Cronin, in the possession OF Dan
Caughlin two weeks before DR.. Cronin
was murdered.
At Elgin, yesterday morning, John
Stapleton and his wife, aged about 90
years, and their lO-year old grandson
were found dead in their house, having
been suffocated with coal gas.
During fire in a bakery at Phila.
delphia early yesterday morning the
wife and four children Of Jacob Grass,
the proprietor, were burned to death.
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ness. SO the governing 1inhuences of
the party were sure of their man only
by going as far East for him as posi-
bic, and then found him on the shores
Of the Kennebec.
So the house will be run rigidly on
the lines of the Chicago platform,
which means unwavering fidelity to
the interests of the fat contributing
monopolies, liberal subsidies and a
bountful pension crap.
There was faint hope, and that
was probably what Cannon built upon,
that the OminOus outcome Of the last
November elections would give the
extreme protectionists such a hint Of
the trend of popular sentiment in the
west that they might let down little
in their rapacious demands and quiet
western approximations by a promise
Of ameliOration. The nomination of
Reed must dissipate any such hope.
The committees of the house will be
so organized that no tariff legislation
except such as is thoroughly approved
by the protection monopolists will be
possible.
And that is just as the democrats
would have it. They want the Re-
publican party to stand in their fort
ress of subsidy and protection, which
the elections last fall having demon
strated not to be impregnable, we
shall in the next onslaught batter
down over thair heads
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Children Cry for Pitchers castoria.
Children Cry for Pitchers castoria.
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

1t looks as if Senator Vest, who af-
ter so much Tuning and uttering of
threats, finally got Phil Armour to at
tend before his beef investigating COM
mittee at Washington, had got white
elephant on his hands. The represen-
tative of the renowned big Four don't
talk at all as Senator V. wants him to:
and now that his tongue is loosened,
the quandary is how to get him to
StOD.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

1t is a singular and notable fact
about the great fire which visited
Boston on the morning of Thanksgiv-
ing day, that it occurred on-the exact
site of the great fire of 1872, and the
buildings destroyed were the massive
"tire-proof" structures erected on the
ruins of that conflagration. After all,
are there such things as fire-proof
buildings? 1t only needs a fire hot
enough to burn iron, solid granite,
bricks and mortar, like finder wood.
The later footings place the loss by
Thursdays Boston fire at $40, 0O0, 900.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
EHE NEWS.
SATURDAY.

To-day is the last trading DAY or the
month. and grain deliveries on the
Board are due on Monday, the LIST.
That fact had seemed to worry very
few traders in corn, even the shorts,
as the fluctuations for the month had
been slight. The breeze, therefore,
that was excited yesterday when
corn, opening at 34c., took an up
ward jump, by leaps, reaching
SAC. within an hour, became a
whirlwind during the day. Corn
reached sec. and closed at SOC. With
the biggest crop on record in the cribs,
this price will hardly be maintained;
but there is enough in it and 1t will
last long enough to make the shorts
very weary. Wheat was quiet, open
ing at TAT Dec. and S4s May, touching
70 and S3s, closing &c. above these fig
ures on rally. Oats slow and steady.
Cattle receipts, 5000, OF which 5000
were Texans. Business active all
along the line, with prices generally
quoted 10 and 15c. higher than on
Tuesday and Wednesday on prime to
good native steers. Receipts Of hogs,
10000; opened active and higher,
closed weak with the advance lost:
packers paid $3.65(03.75 and shippers
$3.75(03. so; light sorts, $3.65(G3.7O Re-
ceipts of sheep, 5000, and all the best
sold at an advance of and l0c.
The prosecution yesterday in the
Cronin case put on witnesses to prove
that the witnesses for the defense
were liars when they located certain
of the defendants at certain saloons
on the evening of May 4th; and good
deal of hard swearing was done by
some one, as the defense followed with
witnesses that Offset the prosecution
The latest "queer thing" of the case Is
the finding of two of Cronln's pocket
knifes. A police officer named Flynn
who took Coughlin, along last sum
mer, from the mayors Office, after ar
interview, to the Jail, reported that ne
had forgotten a ''little matter" which
was, that on that occasion COughlir
turned over to him two knives with
the request to put them in the Fidelity
deposit vaults, which he did. The
two knives were found in the vault
and one was positively identified as
having belonged to Cronin. AS the
testimony for the prosecution has
closed, and this evidence cannot be
introduced, it is presumed the "fOrce'
will make Flynn present of leather
medal or some other testimonial Of his
amazing astuteness.
The origin of the great Boston fire
of Thanksgiving day is traced to the
crossing Of the Time Company's wires
with those of the Electric Light Com.
pany, all the clocks connected with
the Time Co.'s wires having stopped
at Gas, the hour at which the fire
started. The English insurance COM
panics are said to be the heaviest los
ers, the grand total loss being csti-
mated now at ten millions.
A furious storm swept over Lake
Michigan Wednesday and Thursday,
and yesterday quite number Of YES
sells were reported lost.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

The suggestion of French officer
that France and Germany each put
100, 900 men in the field to fight out the
old grudge, could only be improved
upon by cutting the number down to
two.-Chicdgo Journal.
France could easily spare Boulanger
for the job, and this country would
gladly let Germany have Herr Most
back to meet him.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07
TUESDAY.

The Appellate Court at Chicago
made decision reversing previous
decision Of Judge Jameson, filming
Lawyer G. j. Beattie $500 and sen.
fencing him to one years imprison'
ment for procuring divorce by foist.
ing perjured evidence on the court
Beattie escapes by his prosecution fol
contempt, being barred by the statute
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

Denominations are prOverbially
heartless, but the height of cruelty
was reached by cross-examiner Foster,
In the Cronin case, when he wrung
from A. G. BabcOck the admission that
he had voted for Harrison less than
day after the announcement of Frank
Hitchcock's appointment.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

1t must be rather discouraging to
the enterprise of piping natural gas
from Indiana into Chicago to learn
that the wells near Richmond have
just given out-the fourth or fifth of
the big wells of that state that have
given out within week or two.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

Grover Cleveland has rejected an of:
fer of $4,000 for Red Top, his coun-
try residence near Washington City.
Grover doubtless has ''sneaking" no
ton that he may want to occupy it
himself one of these days.
Democratic messenger., 1889-06-08

Many n man who tries TO ride n hobby
gets thrown finally.
Democratic messenger., 1889-06-08

Have used =. =. =. ln treatment of blood
iaint with remarkable success.
J. WILEY QuILLIAN, VI. ID.
Easlcy, :. G.
have used ;. ;. ;. for some time in the
treatment of blood poison without disap
poiniment. Physicians will he compelled
10 acknowledge its merits.
y. l.. GALLOWAY, VI. D., Monroe, Ga.
have tried Swiit's Specific in very
had ease Of BLOND Disease and take Great
pleasure in saying il was perfect success.
producing complete cure. have also
tried il in many other eases with good re-.
suits. ]. r. YERIoS, Millsap. Tex.
have used Swill's Specific in my pmc
iicc for some time. aud find il to be all
that the propriciors claim for Il.
ID. VI. McKSIGmr. VI. d.,
Magnolia, Ark.
have taken Swifl's Specific for second.
AIRY blood taini, aud derived grea, bene.
1T. II acts much better than potash or
any other remedy that have ever used.
B. +. wISGYIELD, NJ. d..
Richmond, Va.
Swifi's Specific Is entirely vegetable,
and cures by forcing ont the impurities
through The skin. send for book ON Blood
aud Skin Diseases. mailed free.
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC co.
Drawer ., Atlanta. Ga.
Democratic messenger., 1889-06-08

The King of Light is what the French
have christened Edison.
Democratic messenger., 1889-06-08
A Little fun,

Gets il down fine the grist mill.
Th. srool cotton makcI IL reel tough.
Wher , man is well fixed he is not in
fix.
a cat with lis ,ur ruiilcd loscnt feel fur
straight.
Man is so per cent watcr-that is VIII,
a boil makes him hot.
The leader of a brass band ough, to put
on great many airs.
A landscape gardener may be happy
yet love lawn fellow.
Some men are like thirsty cattle-ihcy
are easily driven 10 drink.
Even when a ship parts with her anchor
she still keeps her hold.
A soft yet persistent answer turncill
away borrowing ncighbor.
Our experience with some tailors de.
s,roys our belief in the it.ist.
The man who had IAN elephant on his
hands" must have had large hands.
Journals which use lightning presses
ought To make laundering reports.
ALAS, we are all pork reachcrs," as the
fellow said when he stole the hog.
The matchmaker knows about as much
about spring cleaning as his wife does.
Somebody says man can get roaring
drunk on water. We'll. so he can on land
Il have just made u HIT remarked the
actor who had just stepped on an orange
peel,
Men are never well "posicd." except
when they are lamppostcd carly in the
morning.
Hello, Moses. wois dc matter wild
ye:' ''Indigestion.' Flows dat:' liant
had nu,hin' TO digest lately"
Editors Young Wiic.-"My dear, you
must pardon me for coming down in n
wrapper this morning" Editor-"Dn
not mention il my love. Some Of our
most valuable exchanges come to us in
wrappers"
a sad calamity Clcrk-"Ocli,
iaddcr, dat gun vat you sole Mccster Sch.
mallwiih last week burstcd de Wrist dime
he wire il off, an killed him dei' Pro.
prictor-'.Minc gracious Dot vas awful
zold him DO, gun on lrusi"