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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08

Letters testamentary have been
of the estate of Bartholomew Fergu-
son, deceased: bond Of $500.
The will Of Emily Yost was ad-
mitted to probate on Tuesday and
Philip Yost was appointed admins
traitor. Charles Kramer and Stephen
Arnold are surety on bond Of So, 400.
John Goedtner, Casper Fischer and
Eckert are the appraisers.
Letters of administration were
granted to Patrick Conerton, who was
appointed administrator of the estate
of Patrick Manley, deceased, on Tues
day. A bond in the sum OF 300.
A proof of heirship was made in the
Edward Fitzgerald estate. Bridget
Fitzgerald, John Fitzgerald, James,
Johanna and Bridget English are the
only surviving heirs.
The last will and testament of Will
lam ii. Graves, late supervisor OF the
town of Hope, has been probated.
Harvey +. Graves was appointed adj
minlstrator and furnished bond for
$1,000, with Frederick Weber and
Henry Patterson as surety. Mahlon
Fill. BENJAMIN +. Hiltabrand and
Albert \. Grant were appointed ap-
praiSerS.
A bond in the sum Of $45, ZOO, with
seven well known Tonica men as sure
ties, was recently approved in the es-
tate of George G. Pratt, who died in
Tonca, January 26.
An order for final settlement has
been entered in the estate of Frederick
w. Weisheit, and a claim of Sl2 was
allowed Martin McGetrick against the
estate of Peter Mccullough, deceased.
Letters of administration have been
granted to Peter Fotheringham, adj
ministrator of the estate of David
Fotheringham. VIM. Wilson is surety
on bond of $4,000. The appraisers
are Oscar NelliS, Adam Wylie ami
Edwin Small. FOthelingham died in
Waltham, Jan. y last.
Marriage Licenses.
Ole Olson and Bertha NOrmeland,
Serena. Eddie A. Danielson and An
ME Anderson, Adams. Henry A.
Bauer and Minnie f. Roth, La Sale.
L. ii. Adds and Catherine Gubhon,
Streator.
Theodore Herbert and Emma e. Ru-
pert, of Mendoza, and r.. Lee Robin
son and Maud Wilkins, of Rutland.
Albert Nafziger, Of Chicago, and
Emma Brenneman, of Eden.
Andrew j. Byrne and Catherine
Carr, La Sale.
Frank 'Srokp and Mary Studzyeski,
La Sale.
Grant Cunningham, Meriden, and
| Lena Wallen. Freedom.
Jacob Larson and Jennie Bagby,
Miller.
Barton Johnson. Otter Creek, and
Martha ElefsOn, Miller.
Geo M. Trimble and Clara j. Griffith,
! Ottawa.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-08
Probate Court.

' Letters of administration were
granted to Thomas Haskins, admins
traitor of the VIM. Haskins estate,
bondof 81, 400.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
The turning pois1,

The turning potsG
in woman's life brings peculiar
weaknesses and ailments. Dr..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
brings relief and cure. It i .
powerful, mvigorating, restorative
tonic and nervine. It imparts
strength to the whole system n
general, and to the uterine organs
and appendages in particular.
Rundown" debilitated and deli
cate women need it. It's . legiti-
mate medicine -purely vegetable,
perfectly harmless. It's guaranteed
to give satisfaction in every case, or
money refunded. Nothing else does
as much. You only pay for the
good you get. Can you ask moref
As q regulator and promoter Of
functional action, at that critical
period of change from girlhood to
womanhood, aFavorite Prescrip-
ton is a perfectly safe remedial
agent, and can produce only good
results. It is equally efRcacious and
valuable in its effects when taken.
for those disorders and derange-
ments incident to that later and
most critical period, known az "Tha
Change of Life"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

30 to 60 per cent. In weight, according
to the manner the sheep have been cared
for. Accepting that the unwashed fetches
only half the price Of the washed fleece,
the money value ought consequently to
be reduced the moiety. In practice he
has not found this to be q fact. Since
eight years the Basedow focks have been
clipped unwashed, and each sleeps wool
realized IF. ~, while a preceding eight
years, when the sheep were washed be-
fore being shorn, the fleece fetched fr.
1913. M. Muller, bearing in mind the
variations in the price of wool since 1870,
not the less estimates, that the unwashed
realizes only fir. ~ less than the washed
fleece. One speaker affirmed that the
Important saving by not washing sheep,
was not appreciated as 1t should be, and
that good breeds, when well fed and
cared for, will not entail any pecuniary
loss-but on the ~contrary-if the wash
ing before shearing be abandoned,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
THE WEST is READY,
Tho Oregon State Organizer says the Eas
Il Tnn Sln"

Is Too Slow.
Doubtless our view is partial and our
instructions worthless, but to an old SOL
der the National Temperance Council
seems but another Babel. One man does
not believe in prohibition because "my
Bible nowhere says, Thou shalt not
drink AS If any M of sense goes to
the Bible to learn if fire burns, or if hui
man slavery or the saloon is ordained by
heaven, as if heaven deemed us such
fools as to need revelation on such
things. True, some of your Christians
may need a little sacramento alcohol to
land them safe in heaven, and DR.. How
ard Crosby may like some with his din
ner and for the sake of his stomach;
may, in spite of Pasteur, DR.. Davis and
the almost unanimous decision Of the
best French physicians, continue his
twaddle over the wine table to the dis
gust Of every philanthropist; but the
wild and woolly West has some practical
sense, and 90 in every 100 of our people,
including saloonkeepers, know the whole
thing ought to be swept from the earth,
whether they sweep it or not.
Others talk about educating the peo-
pie" Insult unreasonable! Since the
days when a few of US first stood I'D to
NC COuiltcu WlUu DIdfo Olu JOuu huSSel,
we have not found the man who needs to
be educated on the evil of the drink
habit. Our trouble, sir, is almost en-
tirely from the old political parties.
Let those who are tired of asking q
few ring masters for money reform and
tariff reform and rum reform combine.
The Union party of Oregon, composed
of farmers, Knights and proh%ibitionists,
received more voted in some precincts
than both old parties, and turned Is, 900
votes in favor of Gov. Pennoyer, the
peoples friend, and nobody grumbled
about our grand prohibition plank habit,
written by the Knights themselves. In
two years the State is ours.
The people of the West are ready to
vote for themselves, and we give notice
to uninterrupted politicians and their
subservient journals, scores of which you
have exposed, to time-serving preachers
and to the m~onopolistic East-England
included-that they must stand from
under.
We are no longer to be fooled into the
idea that the interests of laborers de-
mand that they should be divided into
two hostile camps and labeled Democrats
and Republicans, to be controlled by the
purchasable vote within the manage
ment of that monopolistic devil-god,
class legislation.
Let the East spend q century in edu-
eating q race unborn, If she wants to-
we are ready for action.
M. v. RoRK,
State Organizer, Union party, Oregon.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
THE STOCK RANCE,
Live Stock Notes.

DRY meal and sulphur are recon-
mended for shoats that may be troubled
with the scours, and the recommendation
is a good one.
The farmer who has advanced to the
point of knowing what he is feeding to
each animal, will not long be satisfied
with wasting good feed on inferior stock.
IT is more expensive to make full
cream cheese, but it is always readily
salable, and brings good prices, while
the poorer article is not in demand at all.
1t does not pay to attempt to economic
the cost Of cheese by Swimming a portion
Of the milk, nor can any substitute for
cream be used that can not be detected
by experts.
a\IF q fly or a mosquito buZzes around
his face the mixer will stop milking op-
erations and make o desperate slap at
the offender; but when Mooley has flies
tickling her back, and perhaps the mixer
is tearing open cracks on her teats and
sticking his uncut nails into her, she is
expected to stand patiently and not even
switch her tail. says a contemporary
Western Farmer.
ATHERE Is no best breed for all pur-
poses. On rich pastures, where stock
have access to an abundance of food, the
heavy beef cattle will thrive; but in those
sections where grass is scant a more
active animal is required. The Merino
and Southdown sheep, being active for
ayers ara better adapted to hillside pas
ture than the heavier Cotswold or Ok
fords. In selecting the breed give some
consideration regarding the proper con
ditions necessary for it's thrift and its
adaptation to the purposes in view.
The discussion on the subject Of dosing
growing animals with phosphate OF lime,
has been whitfield down to the formula
that, recourse should be had only to that
salt, when the ordinary rations appear
to be deficient in phosphates; and this de-
6ciency will be indicated by the defect
I've growth of the animal, and Its ten
dency to diarrhna. The same land does
not always produce, in the course OF
years, hay straw, corn. etc., OF uniform
richness: the fields NAV be less manfred,
or the season too dry, resulting in pro
duce possessing o lower percentage in
phosphoric acid. Try, then, it is urged,
change of ailments; barley and rye are
poor in phosphate; but good hay, and
even pea haulm, are very rich in It,.
Bran, oil and COLA cakes, dried and con-
centrated brewery malt, are, also, excel
lent BODYBUILDING foods.
ATHE Agricultural Society Of Malchin,
In Mecklembourg, has discussed the
question: els it profitable to wash sheep
before clipping them?" The members
agreed with Agricultural Inspector Null
Ter, that 1t was best not to wash before
shearing; it was less troublesome for the
farmer, and more agreeable and less ex-
ems In clipping. The Inspector says
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

In the bodily mechAnism when tho liysr ests
out Of order. Constipation. dyspepsia, con-
tainination of the blood, imperfect assimila-
zion, are certain to ensue. But IT is easy to
prevent these consequences, and remove their
canse, BY a course of Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters, which stimulates the hillary organ and
regulates it's action. The direct result is q dis
appearance Of the pains beneath the ribs and
through the shoulder blade, the nausea, head
aches, %yellowness Of the skin, furred look OF the
tongue, and aour odor OF the breath, which
characterize liver complaint. Sound digestion
and a regular habit Of body are blessings also
secured by the use Of this celebrated restorative
the body, which is its best guarantee of safety
from malarfal epidenics. Nerve weakness and
over tension are relieved by 1t, and it improves
both appetite and sleep.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15


The housekeeper of a hotel has usu-
ally nothing whatever to do with what
may be called the commissary department.
That belongs to the steward of the house.
She has nothing to do with the kitchens
and dining-rooms, except to see that they
are kept supplied with the necessary
amount Of clean, fresh linen. But the
laundry work, which renovates and
makes sweet and clean the hundreds of
table cloths, napkins and towels in daily
use, comes under her supervision. To
her, also. belongs the care Of the great
.linen-room, where the stores of linen are
kept, and where the making and mend
ing goes on. She divides her forces,
therefore, into Squads There are the
laundry women, the women of the linen
room, the chamber maids, who do all the
sweeping and busting and bed-making of
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

A NOVEL race is soon to come off in
West Che ster. Each contestant is to wear
.aced shoes, and all the shoes are to be
taken off and placed in a barrel. The
runners then start from a mark, run
twenty-five yards to the barrel, pick out
their own shoes, put them on, lace them up
and then run 100 yards to a mark. The
man who gets over the entire route first,
with shoes properly laced, will be the win
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
:.
OABY.


Ono little head Of golden hair.
Two little cheeks 10 round and far.
Two little lips with 9csgrant signs,
Two little HANDS 90 soft a. . peeck.
Two little feet with II, o 4 ,es Zach.
Two little smiles and two little tear.
Two little legs and two little ears,
Two little elbows and two1 little kness,
One little grunt and one llttl snee.e,
One little heart, but no little sins,
Plenty Of skirts and lots OF pins.
One little cloak and plenty Of frocks,
One little hood and { xo little ocks.
A big disposition to haul and to pull,
One little stomach that's never fun.
One little mouth Of thu 8 tint,
One little bottle Of peppermi t.,
Plenty to cat and lots to wear
And yet this baby is as cros1 as q bear
hicu0o Herald.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

ALL through New Mexico, Arizona and
some parts of Colorado, and also in Old
Mexico, no rain has fallen for months.
Thousands upon thousands of range cattle
are lying dead in the parched valleys, and
thousands more are dying for want of grass
aud Uafar
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

IT is easy in the world to live after
the worlds opinion; it is easy in soil
tude to live after your own; but the
great man is he who in the midst of
the crowd keeps with perfect sweet
ness the independence Of solitude
Emerson.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

DURING the recent London riot Mrs.
Field, of New York, was mobbed by a
crowd of women who pulled her from her
carriage and attacked her with great vio-
lence. The soldiers rescued the lady be-
fore the women succeeded in stripping her
of her jewels.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

PEOPLE do not discover it until too late
that the so-called washing powders not only
cut up their clothes, but ruin their skin.
Use nothing but Dobbins' Electric Soap.
Have your grocer keep it.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

DON'T kill the dude though he may be
A thoroughly annoying elf.
Just give him lots of cigarettes
And let him do 1t for himself,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

THE air is full of hints of grief,
Strange voices touched with pain.
The pathos Of the falling leaf
And rustling OF the rain.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
A Scarcity of Wisdom.

Society is now too vast and too re-
s~istless for any man or set of men to
control. Like a storm at seq, or the
fall of waters at Niagara, it moves on
in its course, and the puny' hand of
MAI cannot stay it. In spite, even, of
the protests of IN Astor, people will
sit upon their front porches and have
serving maids answer their door-bells.
A favorite maxim of Aaron Burr was
ut is useless to repine at the inevita-
ble." With the foolish, Providence is
always confounding the wise. Num-
berless are the illustrations of the
statesman's remark: "You have no
idea, my son, with how little wisdom
the affairs Of government are man
aged."-PulhnGn Journal.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
None equal -Tansilrs Punch" Sc. Cigar.

A MASS of pure, compact rock salt, said
to contain 10000, 900 tons of the mineral,
is located on an island 1876 feet high which
rises from a sea marsh on the route from
Brashear to New Iberia, up the river
Teche, in Louisiana.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

OF s,o34 persons engaged in the liquor
traffic in Philadelphia a few years ago,
GALS had, at one time or another, been
arrested for crime.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

The next annual convention of the
National w. G. T. U. will be held in
Trinity Church, Atlanta, Ca, beginning
FRIDAY, Nov, IA.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
DR.. WOOD, e tas FIN e,ax street ;ss,,,

LADIES, use Dr.. LIE Dues Periodical.Pfns from
Psri,, Franco Established In Europe, 1859; England, 1850; CsnaaA.
1873; United states, 1887. Cures all impressions, Irregularities and
monthly derangeasn.s. Safe, harmless, reliasia They positively
must aot b. taken during pregnancy. The Large proportion of lila
to which ladies are liable Is the direct result Of . disorderpd and
Irregular msnaruation. Continued mosthly suppression. result IN
blood poisoning and quick consumption. e7a package, or sfor Is,
PR mali, in Piain sealed envsiops, on Isos.s: Of price Tia Aae.i.
can Pill Co, Wholesalers and Royalty Proprietors,
The Esnuin. Pill sold BY sEDGw1cK 4 DE LONG, Druggists
Sioux City, Lows, WHOLESALE md Rstel Agents.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

The body of Martin V. Tuck, of East
VIM, Me-, was raised at Madagascar lake
on the morning of the 22d inst. by the use
OF a heavy charge of dynamite exploded
from a rock on the shore of the lake, about
forty rode distant from the spot where he
sank. The body bad been in the water
about twenty-five days.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
HE woodpecker has a three-barbet

The woodpecker has a three-barbed
tongue like a Fijian's spear, with which
it draws out the worm which it has e1-
cited by it's tapping. The clam feeds
with a siphon, and the oyster with its
beard. The tapeworm has neither
mouth nor stomach, but just lies along
and absorbs the already digested food
through its skin.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

A DESCRIPTIVE writer said of a pompous
man that he looked as if he knew so much
that it made him unhappy.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

When Paby was sick. we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child. she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss. she chung to Castoris,
When she had Children. she gave them Castoris.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

ASK for DR.. Bulls Worm D~estroyers.
Don't let your druggist sell you some
other kind OF worm medicine. None other
are SO safe and yet so sure.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

HAYS CITY, Kan., Jan. 10, 1890.
Bile Rcans" Is the best medicine l have
found tor constipation.
N. NJ. RASNIsTER. City Clark
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
Good News for rat People.

cago. whose advertisement appears ia this
issue Is no doubt the great reducer of the
age. He takes fat folks overloaded with
adipose tissue until they are a burden &,
themselves and a charge upon their rela-
tons and friends. aud in a short time re-
duces them, at the rate of IS to 25 pounds
per month. and making different persons Of
them. What was INDUSTRIOUS becomes trim,
well built and able to run a foot race with a
trained pedestrian.
A once very fat friend of ours, is not now
recognized by half the people he meets. SO
great has been the change in his weight
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15
Farm NOtAA.

FLAT culture is better than hill Gull
ture, in dry weather.
STEADY application is what counts,
Especially in agriculture.
CLOVER hay makes a capital feed to 20
along with corn silage in winter.
HERE is rotation for soiling crops:
Rye, red clover, oats, timothy, corn.
KILL weeds as soon as they show them
selves. This is the only way to keen
them down.
The farmer who makes his own. pork
and beef puts another bond on health
and pays himself for so doing.
IT is estimated that over seven hum
dred thousand dollars worth Of clover is
devoured annually in New Hampshire by
the woodchuck.
THE atmosphere contains ammonia
and nitric acid, but these must be alb
sorbed by the soil in order to benefit
vegetable growth.
WHAT kind of stock do you believe in?
was asked OF a Michigan farmer. Double
barreled stock-meat and wool, was the
reply.
WE are apt to become narrow-minded
and selfish when we allow ourselves to
fret and worry because we can't work in
q certain groove.
HE number of acres of irrigated land,
also, the number of flowing artesian
wells on farms, will be included in the
census returns this year.
Soils that easily bake should be worked
over with a harrow or c%ultivator after
each rain. A loose soil is essential to ad-
nit moiture and warmth.
The manure from animals differ,
Growing animals take from the food
eaten, about six per cent. of manurial
value, and milch cows about nine per
cent.
A GOOD crop of both corr and weeds
cannot be grown on the same ground
at the same time, any more that two
railway trains q pass on the same
track.
CLOVER can be put in the silo, we
would say to a correspondent. 1t should
be cut when in bloom, millct when the
blossoms fall, rye when the heads begin
to show.
You can't cheat nature. Starve and
neglect your farm and it will starve you
off Of it in due course of time, and when
it does you will go around growing at
everything. See!
A SOUTHERN farmer remarks: "Life
is lived to little purpose if at the end of
twelve months the farmer knows nothing
more to his advantage than he knew at
the beginning"
: A BOY should learn the habit Of easy
p%oliteness in all circumstances, but if
there be one place on earth where one
should use freely his very best manners,
it is in his own home.
SMOKE introduced into the bottom of a
smoke-house through a piece of pipe
long enough to allow the air to cool be-
fore it reaches the meat is much better
than a fire in the smoke-house.
UNRULY cattle on a farm are very
troublesome, but the cause is not hard to
find. It is almost invariably poor pas
ture and semi-starvation. Why shouldn't
q hungry animal jump fences or push
them down?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

A HEAbsE ran Tito q street car at De-
troit the other day, the corpse md the pas
sengers being BADLY shaken up in the COL
lislon.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

THE older one grows the more one
knows" Don't get a day cider before you
use SAPOLIO. 1t is a solid cake of Scour-
ing Soap. Try 1t.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

0rator-Yes, gentlemen and fellow
citizens, the wealth of a country is in
it's soil!
Old Hayseed lin back seat)-Guess
ye never tried farmin' did, ye?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

MRS. AMBROSE CROUCH. Of South
jackson, Mich. Las been keeping tab on
her family and finds that during the past
year she has baked for them 1868 cookies,
1888 doughnuts, 217 cakes. 267 pies, 81
buildings and 1893 1oaves Of bread. Her
family is not large, either, except as to ap-
petite,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

BENJAMIN FRANELrN, while working
as a printer among London beer drink
ers, was called the aAmerican Aquatic"
because he drank only water.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-15

TALK about keeping the palace saloon
and suppressing the doggeries! AS we'll
propose to inoculate men with the virus
of smallpox and suppress the eruption.
s. THOMPSON.