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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

As might have been expected, in
tense excitement rcignS among the
boomers in Oklahoma over the pro-
posed colonization of that territory by
negroes. The whites are rapidly band
ing together to nip the scheme in the
bud. Already, near Kinghsher, band
of masked boomers rode to the house
of negro named Hawkins, and accus-
ing him of setting fire to neighbor-
ing settlers grass, took him from his
bed and severely whipped him, order
ing him to leave the country. During
the whipping a son Of Hawkins
aroused neighboring negro family
named Bengess, three of whom re-
turned and fired upon the boomers
from ambush, wounding one of them
severely. A rush was made upon the
negroes, who became so frightened
that they all agreed to leave the
country. All of which shows that II
the scheme of the First Grand Broth.
erhood to seize Oklahoma and the
Cherokee strip for the negroes is per
sisted in there will be bloody work.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

There are upon the bench Of the
Supreme Court of the United States
at present, we believe, seven Republi.
cans and two Democrats; yet, rcferr.
ing to the late decision of that court
in regard TO "Jim Crow" cars on south.
ern railroads, the Inter Ocean has nc
hesitancy in saying, "The spirit OF
Roger h. fancy seems to be the pre-.
siding genius of that tribunal, not
withstanding that, with two excep
tons, the judges were all appointed
by Republican Presidents, and al
were confirmed by Republican Sen
ate" The upshOt of IL is that any
law or court decision in this countr,
that does not in every minutia accorc
with the Republican platform and
Republican ideas, is necessarily bat
and must be reformed.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

called upon TO manifest their new
faith by the choice Of one OF its adj
herents to represent them in the coun-
ellis OF the nation. Three candidates
are presented, two OF them-BestOw
ana Larrabee-are adherents Of the
new faith, the other-Alison-is the
blind and pitiless advocate of the pro-
tective tariff system, which the far
mers voted is robbing them, and the
ally Of the money power which is
crushing them by its mercless con-
traction.
Before they came to vote, however,
the head vaudoO calls the faithful to-
gether in his den in caucus, the usual
orgies are enacted, and, presto. the old
sorcery or party FETISH again enchains
its devotees in its memorable folds, and
they vote to man-not in favor Of
tariff or currency reform, as they had
voted at the polls, but to down the
rebels and up with the negro--in
short, for the superanuated old repub-
lican fetish.
The case of these tariff and currency
reforming Iowa farmers is so aptly
illustrated by the Chicago Herald in a
little fable, that in conclusion we
copy it: "Oncc upon time fairy
changed cat into an old woman.
The metam0rphosis was very satisfac-
tory and promised to be permanent,
until one day the old woman got her
eye on mouse, and then instantly
she became a cat again" The repub-
lican farmer can see the wrongs done
his class just as plainly as demo-
cratic farmer, and weep over them,
until he comes to the sticking point,
then he gets his eye on the old repub-
lican fetish and he relapses into his
old suicidal idiocy.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08
It, never disappeared until death took

list, never disappeared until death took
him.
"Beemus" is gone. We say 1t with
deep regret, as always, for the loss OF
friend. Besides nature had made
him rare mana man among ten
thousand; and but for his one fatal
failing would have made for himself a
name as journalist that would have
adorned the list of the professions
great men. Yale! John.
The remains of Mrs. Flora NJ. Reed
arrived from Chicago on the c., b. &
@. railroad at 1902 p. m. Thursday.
Friends were in waiting at the depot
and the funeral cortege moved directly
to Ottawa Avenue cemetery, where
the remains were inferred. Mr.. Henry
Reed, husband of deceased, accom-
panied the remains to this city and re-
turned home in the evening.
A telegram was received here last
Thursday stating that John Matthias
had died at his home in Chicago on
Tuesday and that the remains would
be brought to Ottawa for burial.
Mr.. Matthias was native of
Prussia, German Empire, and came to
America many years ago, settling in
Ottawa. He had been superintendent
of one of the departments of the
Krupp gun factory, and upon his ar
rival.in this city engaged in the bust
ness of repairing machinery, making
models, etc, having shop on Column
bus street for number of years.
The funeral took place on Thursday
from the German Catholic church.
The remains arrived on the Rock
Island from Chicago at ll:25 a. m.
The funeral was conducted under the
auspices Of the German Benevolent
society and the members of this Or
ganizatiOn marched to the graveyard
in a body. Hentrich's brass band
headed the procession.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

When the house pension committee
at Washington began the other day to
foot up the aggregate of all the pen
sion bills before them, on which they
were expected to make favorable re-
ports to the house, they found tn
figures mounted up to S6IO,OOo,OOO'
The committee at once decided that
service pension bill was not to be
thought of and that they must &c
slow even on a dependent pension bill
The fact is, tables before them showed
that old soldiers, and especially those
receiving disability pensions, were re-
markably tenacious of life. the death
rate being below 5 per cent. year,
and Of the 500, 900 members of the G.
A. r. last year less than 5000 had
died. In short, nothing seems so in
migrating to shattered constitution
as liberal dose of government pen
sion.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

The decision of the Supreme Court
of the United States has just been
promulgated in the noted Mormon
case, in which the main question at
issue was, whether the Mormons can
be disfranchised on account of their
religious belief in polygamy. The de,
cision covers the whole case. 1t is not
necessary that the voter shall be an
actual pOlygamist to be DISTINGUISHED.
The fact that he believes in the right
eousness of polygamy is sufficient.
However free the exercise Of religion
may be under the constitution" says
Justice Field in delivering the opinion
of the court, sit must be subordinate
to the criminal laws of the country,
passed with reference TO the actions
regarded by general consent as prop
erly the subjects of punitive legisla-
ton" Polygamy is such proper sub
ject. A man whose conscience and re-
ligion justify him in committing that
crime and making it his religious duty
to uphold it, is unfit to be good, safe
citizen, no more than if he believed
forgery, robbery or murder to be justi-
fed by his religion. In a word, re-
ligion that teaches crime is not pro-
tected by the constitution of the
United States. The EdmundS bill,
therefore, by which every member of
the church is disfranchised, is sus-
tanned.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

The great Chicago Board OF Trade
is in the dumps. A decade ago it was
the biggest gambling hell in the
country. Everybody gambled in OPP
lions, puts and calls. The lawyers, the
doctors, even preachers, and every
body else that had few hundred dol
lars ahead, were putting it up as mar
gins on "turn of the market" Then
the game was nearly a fair one, and if
a man put up $500 as margin on 1000
bushels of wheat and wheat went up
cent he made something near $50 on
his venture. But the institution sc
rapidly increased its dimensions, eX-
penses and commissions, and invented
so many other ways to fleece the
'lambs," that the outside gamblers
rapidly fell off, or largely transferred
their patronage to the bucket-ShOpS,
where the SHINING process was less
severe. And so that, with the bucket
shops and the loss of the army of out.
side gamblers, the operations of the
board have fallen off to next to null
it business being largely confined tC
deals among such big fish as OLD
Hutch, the ArmOurs, etc. The only
way for the board to recover it ole
business and prestige is to return tC
its old, simple, square, upright, mex
pensive ways, if such thing can ever
be predicted of an institution which
| in the most charitable view that car
be taken of it, is in all its essentials
concern devoted to gambling.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

Mr.. Congressman Hill-om Mr.. Hill,
astonished Congress on Wednesday
no less than the country will be as.
tonished, by exhibiting dangerous
symptoms OF having conscience. Ii
has, of late, got to be pretty well
settled rule in Congress, from which
there is at least not the slightest dan.
ger of departure by the present Con.
gress, in all contested election cases
to admit the member whose politics
agree with a majority Of those in the
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

A strange and weird use of the pho
nograph was made at a funeral the
other day at Larchmont, Long Island.
Eight months ago Rev. Il. Allen Home
lost his wife, but before her death he
had secured on photograph slip one
Of her favorite hymns. A week ago,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-08

To prevent the diseases of babyhood
from attacking your child, use In time
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup, the best REM
edy for children. Price - cents.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
ART AND ARTISTS.

Much impatience is expressed at the
delay in completing the memorial to Ran
dolph Caldecott in St. Pauls Cathedral,
London.
Frank D. Millett, the artist, who has re-
turned to Europe, was an art critic. His
taste for gunpowder contracted in the civil
war, led him to join the staff of London
paper during the RussoTurkish war.
The bust of Sidney Lanier, given by
Charles Lanier, of New York, to the city
of Macon. Ga, will be unveiled October
Sd. Judge Bleckley, of the Georgia Su-
preme Court, will make the dedicatory
address.
Bismarck is opposed to having monu-
ments to himself erected during his life
time, and has asked that the money col
lected for the purpose OF building hall in
his honor in Berlin be used in construct
ing a memorial church.
There is proposal on foot at Dresden
for the erection of statue to Ludwig
Richter, the wood engraver. A commit
tee has been formed, with Prince George
of Saxony at his head, to receive subscrip-
tions. .All lovers of art" says the pros
pectus, "are kindly invited to assist"
They may communicate with Messrs.
Gunther and Rudolph, Dresden.
Henry Savage Landor. gifted young
artist, and grandson of Walter Savage
Landor, the poet and critic, is now travel
ing and painting in the interior of Japan.
Although only "a years old, he has visited
this country, Alaska, Egypt, and much Of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
A Story of JOSH Killings.

A few years ago, riding up town in a
Madison avenue car, | was seated opposite
the gentleman who is best remembered as
Josh Billings. The rear platform was
somewhat crowded, and in the course Of
our ride one of the passengers stepped off
and on several times, in order to assist the
lady passengers. Finally, when the car
was Just comfortably filed, and the court
eous gentleman had taken his seat inside,
Josh Billings, seeing an opportunity for a
joke, beckoned to the conductor, and point
ing to the stranger, said:
Don't you charge for every ride on this
car ?''
eyes, sir" answered he.
'Well, Pve seen that fellow get on this
car six times, and you have collected only
one fare from him. Harpe,s Magazine.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
STREW FLOWERS IN THE PATH OF
THE LIVING

strew flowers in the path of the living
To comfort and cheer them along,
And OF all that is ever worth giving,
Whether deeds, words, bright looks or song.
Freely give, while the sweetness refreshes
Ere the heart has sunk in despair,
And weird vision that so oft distresses
May vanish, as phantoms in air.
Cheer thy friend WHO is gloomy and downcast
With sorrows too great 10 be borne,
Take his hand in a loving, brotherly CLASP
And new strength may await the morn.
Though long the marcn and severe the fight,
Thus eheered and refreshed by the way,
Such deeds may brighten the darkness Of night,
And courage and hope win the day.
LIES real pleasures are never too many,
Its sorrows outnumber by far;
Give your kind thoughts in words have you sny
Ere delay their sweetness can mar
Why wait until the struggle is ended,
The journey over and through,
Till the neighbor you might have befriended
Has ceased in his efforts to do?
His faults may be many his good traits few,
We know not Of faults overcome,
Nor the sacrifice made for another's advance
Though he lost, while the other had won.
his life may seem useless and all in vain
In the eyes OF both old and young,
But who would refuse his praise to proclaim,
Did they know OF the great acts done2
strew your flowers for the living to tread,
To soften the path 10 the tomb;
Nor wait 10 disclose your love for the dead,
When life needs Its fragrance and bloom.
There is many heart that breaks. while smile
Bellies the sorrow il bears,
Ano many sacrifice noble and great
Gains nothing but sadness and cares.
strew flowers, bright flowers of thought and
deed,
For the living to daily tread,
That life may be cheered and the golden seed
Rain IN blessings upon your head.
This beautiful world has flowers to spare
Alike for both living and dead,
But their intrinsic worth is lost in the air
When senses and reason have fed.
Vernon Former.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
Don't Worry.

One of the worst habits to acquire, ex-
cepting, perhaps, that of smoking cigar
cites, is the habit of worrying and fretting.
Don't fret A fretting man or woman is
the most disagreeable object in the world.
A wasp is comfortable housemate in
comparison-it only stings when dis
turbed, but an habitual fretter buzzes, if
he don't sting, with or without provoca-
ton.
In every community there will be found
large proportion of men, and women,
too, who are constantly engaged in in
venting troubles, and, as some writer says,
it would be ludicrous, if it were not pro-
foundly pathetic, to notice the perverse
ingenuity with which many people pursue
this business of tormenting themselves
with imaginary sufferings.
The true remedy for worry OF ALI kinds
is work If misfortune hits you hard,
you hit something else hard. There is
nothing like good, solid, absorbing, ex-
hausting work to cure trouble.
There is no end to the complaints which
we hear uttered against the hard fate,
the numberless sorrews, to which the
human race is exposed; but the man who
works is not affected by them. Work is
not a patent medicine, but it has proved
its efficacy ever since Adam and Eve
wiped their weeping eyes and settled
down to hard work.-Tsuas SJtings.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14
Art More than Appearanoes.

A very good story is told of a prominent
musician. A young lady went to him for
a course of finishing off" lessons.
Lets see what you can do" said the
teacher, and placed before her simple air
of Mozart's.
She played few bars and was inter
rupted.
'Take off your rings" said the great
man.
A few more bars and another Interrupt
ton.
~Take off your bracelets"
A little further on she was stopped
again.
"Your sleeves are too long. | want to
see your wrists"
The pupil pinned up her sleeves with a
face on fire. At last she succeeded in
finishing the selection.
'SDo you want me to teach you ~ the in
structor asked, as she took her hands from
the keys.
''Yes, sir"
every well. Come to me tomorrow at
this time, without jewelry and in some
sort of dress that you can breathe in. l
don't know at all how you have played
this aria, because of the rattling of gew-
gaws and the distressing noise you have
made in getting your breath. A musician
thinks first of his art and last of appear
ances."-C Chatter.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14

the continent, and hopes during the next
three years 10 spend some time in Siberia,
Corea, China and Australia. Then he will
exhibit his work in London.
The colossal statue to Forster on the
Thames embankment, unveiled recently, is
of bronze, and bears. with his name and
date OF birth and DEATH this inscription
TO his wisdom and courage England owes
the establishment throughout the land of
national system of elementary education
The artist has treated his subject simply,
striving to produce good likeness and
content with that. Eminent personages
looked on while the ceremony proceeded,
including Lord Granville and other col
leagues of Forster, but not Mr. Gladstone.
Lord knutsford made one speech and
Lord Cranbrook another in his capacity of
official head to that Education Depart
ment of which Forster was the most dis
tinguished and useful chief England has
ever had.
Everyone has missed the inimital lie
drawings of Charles Keene in Pttacs
lately, and everyone will be grieyed to
hear the reason for their absence has been
the serious illness of this accomplished
artist. 1t is satisfactory to hear, how
ever, that, according to the latest reports,
he is making fair progress toward recov-
cry, although it viii be some time before
he will be able to resume work. There is
no one who can touch Mr.. Keene in his
especial line, and it is to be hoped it viii
not be long, before our hearts will be glad
dened by the sight of his graphic and art
istic pictures. Mr. Keene is especially
held in high esteem by the French art
lists, Many of them account him to be at
the head of our humorists in black and
white. Probably from an artistic point of
view never has Punca-since the death of
John Leech-been so good as it is at
the present time. The veteran, John Ten
MEL, is better than ever, and is admirably
supported by George du Maurier, Harry
Furniss and Linley Sanbourne, while Mr..
Atkinson and Mr. Wheeler contribute the
excellent small illustrations.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14

New YORK, September 11th.-The Press
states that Rev. DR.. George II. Hepworth
has been retired from the editorial conduct
of the Herald on . pension.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-09-14

An autograph letter of Mendelssohn
sold In London for $3.50 two weeks ago.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-30
IT MISSED FIRE.
Narrow Escape of an Indignant
Husband From Death.

Peter Lorenza, who claims sunny Italy as
his birthplace, is sailor bold of a rowing
disposition. Peter had fretted under
monarchial restraint in his native land, and
the enchanting tales of California, the land
Of free gold, free lunches and free earth
Quakes, had implanted in his bosom de-
sire to visit the new Ell Dorado.
So Peter, when favorable opportunity
presented itself. set sail for the Pacific
Coast and thirty days ago landed in this
port He remembered a playmate of his
boyhoud days who had located in San Fran
cisco and after a short search found his
friend, Frank Scealuza, at 1509H Stockton
street. lie was made welcome by ScealuZa
and offered n room in the house until he
secured employment.
Now, Mr.. ScealuZa has n pretty young
wife, who is firmly and devotedly attached
to her husband Lorenza, imbued with the
idea that the institutions of this free cOun-
try gave every one the undeniable right to
lavish his affections on whomsoeYer he
pleased, began to make love to Mrs.
ScealuZa. The lady indignantly scOrned
his advances, but, fearing trouble. refrained
from informing her husband of their
guests behavior
On Monday night, while Scealuza was
reading III the kitchen, he heard struggle
behind him, and upon turning observed the
sailor val2ly endeavorlng to kiss his wifi E.,
ScealuZa arose in his wrath. and, securing Il
catch-as-catch-can hold on two portions of
LorenZa's garments, elected him from the
house. This indignity it was that prompted
the tar. to return last night with an old
fashioned revolver and primed with high
proof whisky.
He made directly for the head of the
house, and, drawing the weapon, took aim
at Scealuza and pulled the trigger. The piS-
toll missed fire, and ScealuZa did not wait for
second trial, but ran into the street for
the police Officers Madden and Richter
appeared and arrested Lorenza for an as
sault with deadly weapon and for carry
ing MeapOn concealed.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-30
LOST AT POKER.
But He Wins In Court OF Law-Moses
Gunst,s Game and Potentini.


Gunst's Game and Potentini.
The case of Joseph E. ShAin against An
Dire Potentini Of the Poodle Dog Restaurant
to recover S775 on a promissory note, given
in Moses Gunsts poker looms for chips in
December, 1888, was again before Judge
CARRIER yesterday.
The complaint sets forth that defendant
gave his promissory note for S775 to
Charles Ascher IL Co. in payment of chips
supplied him at poker game at the time
stated; that the plaintiff purchased said
note at discount, and that defendant has
refused TO pay.
The defendant, Andre Potentini, en-
tered crOss-cOmplaint, alleging that the
firm of Charles Ascher & Co is composed of
Charles Ascher, John Doe katzenstein and
Moses GunSt; that these men are running n
gambling establishment under the title of
the " WaShoe Club" with rooms over the
cigar store of said Moses Gunst on Kearny
street, that said Ascher and katzenstein are
professional gamblers; that defendant was
under the influence of liquor on the nights
Of December 49, and 20, 1885, and was pur-
suaded by said Ascher and others to enter the
rooms of the Washoe Club" and play
poker.
Potentini further AYERS that eventually
he gave his promissory note for S775 for
chips supplied by Ascher IL Co. that Ascher
took part and played and won in the games
that he believes that Shain has not pur-
chased said note, but understands the cir
cnmstances under which said note was
made To be that he is employed by Ascher
q Co. to collect said note. Therefore the
defendant asks that the case be dismissed
because the game was Illegal at which he
lost and for which losses he gave said note
AT late hour in the afternoon the case
was given to the jury, and within ten min
utes that body returned a verdict for the
defendant
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-30
AN ELEVATOR MISHAP

In Which Two Workmen Fall Thirty Feet
and Are Badly Injured.
Two workmen at the PotrerO Gas Works,
named Terence Hoey and Edward Kelly,
were seriously if not fatally injured in an
elevator accident at the works shortly after
O'clock yesterday morning.
They were on the elevator with some coal,
and, when about thirty feet from the
ground. were precipitated to the bottom of
the shaft by reason of some Of the machi in
cry connected with the elevator giving way.
When extricated from the debris of coal,
barrows and broken tinlbers the men were
unconscious, and at first appeared to be dy-
ing. They soon recovered, however, from
the shock, and were removed to st. Mary's
Hospital, where Drs. FOttrell ana Leonard
attended them. Being strong, it is expected
the Injured men viii recover, although
Hoey lost considerable blood.
Kelly sustained a fracture of the knee
which will render him permanently lame,
and also of the arm, as we'll as cuts and
Commissions of the face and body.
Hoey received horrible cash across the
throat IN striking against some framework
in his long fall. The ugly liberation
stretched from ear to ear and minor arteries
were torn, yet his windpipe escaped. From
the open arteries blood spurted ever his
clothing until he was treated by the doctors