The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-02-23

Bulwer- Lytton, Sheridan, BOucicault and
who have no other satisfaction than that of
mere reading and studying, 10 whom the
prospects of acting out or suggesting their
conception of the authors meaning, would
be received with favor. In other days il
did not seem difficult 10 arrange play for
presentation, nor does 1t appear at ali diff
cult to secure a very good piece of acting
at social. AS someone said, and | car
not better the expression, there's millions
in it,"
| There was dark, sinister scheme con-
cocted the other day by six young bloods,
who formed themselves into temporary
organization and called II the Valentine
Club. The name of the club was breathed
In secret, and they met In dark alleys and
gruesome cellars in the silent hours of the
early morning, just about the time the
early nippers come forth TO psrtake of an
early morning skate" They held two
meetings, and at length decided to buy a
hundred of the meanest, most disgusting
bulldog revolver exploding comics in
Chicago. They sent to one of the boys in
the Garden City, and the stuff came on
Wednesday afternoon. In the cleaning,
with their dreadnaughts buttoned tightly
Oh hy 10 4,
battered cellar door and passed within.
Two candles were shedding or casting it
doesn't make much difference which, a
u sallow light over scene that would have
drawn shrieks from cast'irOn mummy,
If the cast"iron mummy happened TO be of
the female persuasion. Here and there
sat dreadnaughted figure, while the space
beyond was occupied principally by gloom.
The wind howled without, and the slow
gurge of the liquor as it kicked against
its unstable equilibrium, was the only
sound that knocked out the silence. One
could almost hear the thoughts of the
other five. Ii was a secret meeting of the
Valentine Club. At length voice, indi,
cative of the departure of the spirits, issued
from capped head and spent itself against
the Shiny wall Evidently some one was
speaking;
"Send this pretty one, with the bull dog
head and stumpy legs, to the gawk that
raised the limit and froze me out of a little
game when | was sure to win It, Send
this cartoon on Sullivan to the mOke that
always poses before the glass In his under
shirt before each night he dozes. Let the
crank on girls, who stalks along and thinks
he Is a dear, have the one with the hump
backed soul and the razzle dazzle ear"
And thus the voice rang out In the gloom,
and In the early dawning six muiiled forms
emerged from beneath the battered cellar
door and went away. Their ghoulish
work was finished An even hundred
young men are buttng their heads against
the walls of their bedrooms in wild, wierd
agony. They will "awau my love- and
when the sand bags arrive the six young
men will fly to North Judson, Ind, and
seek the Interference of the sheriff.
The Chinese lily has come to our homes
to stay with US. That amiable celestial
amiable only to cash customers-Tuck
Zee, imported few bulbs from China
and distributed them among his best GUS
toners. This lily is purely water lily ;
as II requires no other n0urishment than a
basin or vase of water, with sufficient
number of pebbles to keep 1t in place. 1t
is an attractive plant and when in bloom
shows small white flower, which is much
admired by those who have seen 1t.
Ladies' on the west side are much wrought
up over the fact that Tuck did not secure a
bushel or two; or at least enough to 60
around. Tuck has promised to secure
another invoice of them next fall, and II is
expected that he will be literally patron>
lied by the ladies all next summer. A
really beautiful window flower Is this lily,
|
with sea shells and beach pebbles with
the lily in the center, would be an object
of much attraction and an ornament to any
house.
1t was at the Turner's mask ball. A
young man from La Sale had written for
tickets and invited his Ottawa girl 10 the
dance, and after arranging all things TO his
taste, beat his way up on a freight train
and waited at her house until the hour of
departure. When they arrived at the hall
he fairly froze TO her. There wasn't a
young man In the house who could even
get an introduction or persuade her 10
dance. After the unmasking, one of the
boys who was we'll acquainted with the
girl, desired to make date with her, and
approached her with that intention. Some
how, | could not divine by what means
the La Saleian seemed TO scent the danger
! from afar, and seated himself on her dres.