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Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
OpaI's Bad Reputation.

The opal was given its bad name by
the Rabbi Benoni in the Fourteenth
century ana has Eeyer quite lived it
down According to Benoni it is fatal
to love ana sows diScord between glver
ana receiver Another authority says
that, given as an engagement token, it
is sure to bring bad luck. Neverthc-
less, there is one month in the year in
which it is the emblem of hope anti
perhaps even good fortune. OCt0bers
children may receive and wear opals
without any i'll consequences.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20

Mary Loretta, were Morris callers IN
| Saturday.
Mrs Felix Dcvaney. of ottawa,
/ spent last week here wi'h relatives
and friends
A. Yates is here from Kentucky and
viii work for Frank Deyaney again
the coming year.
Misses Sadie MCClOskey and Ur-
/ sulla EIennebery, Of Kinsman, were
callers on Mrs Edward Tally last
week.
/ Everett Welsh spent a few hours -
Ottawa on Thursday
Mrs. James Sheedy was an Ottawa
caller on Thursday
Miss Margaret Mcintyre, who has
been sick Tor the past four weeks.
VIII be able TO resume her employ.
ment Saturday at Bertha Hardys
/ store.
Fred Shcedy was an Ottawa caller
on Thursday.
. Mrs. Joseph Maicr and daughter.
Felicia, were Ottawa shoppers on
Thursday.
Mrs. Clark Tryon, who submitted to
an operation at the Ryburn hospital
in Ottawa on Thursday is reported
to be doing nicely Her husband and
two sons visited her on Friday morn
ing
Misses Rosella and Gladys Welsh
were shopping in Ottawa on Thurs
, day afternoon.
Louls IuatZ was an Ottawa caller
I q
''' Tnh ,"' CO. "le5, MON,
ottoma '''''e"S spent wednesday III
Cb"rIio 49,,
co1,nrs 10 =, an, Nto nary Jones were
,rnrrino ""' SUITES oh tuesday
'''o' ms
MrS. FRED Sheedy is spending a few
DAYS III Ottawa at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Kelly. |
inward MaIady was Marseilles |
'"iIer on ! tuesday.
JUNIOR Rooney, OF Seneca, spent |
sunday mere at the home of his grand |
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Kennedy |
Misses Nora and Neva Heppner
We're Ottawa shoppers Saturday after.
noon.
MISS carolyn kohrt, of Ransom.
spent saturday and Sunday here at
I CIe nome 3, OF her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. FRED kohrt.
Mf' ana Mrs. Charles Kutz, of Nor
.IS' Speht Easter with their daugh,
YER MIS-, wizard Sheedy.
sick at her home in Seneca an S.tnr,
day.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Ruslness Quarry.

The pawnbroker who had risen 10
wealth and had retired was staying at
n fashionable hotel. His only worry
was that he had fits of absent minded.
ness one night Il conjurer came to
the hotel and went through his per-
formances, Presently he cried out:
"Will any gentleman in the audience
lend me SlOt' ION WHAT" shouted
the ex-pawnbroker
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Weather Vanes.

A weather yanc should he made OF
metal. preferably Of brass, bronze or
copper as these substances are cheap
and do not rust There should be
two vanes. separated by an angle OF
about ~ degrees. II has been found
that the double vancd form was more
responsive to slight changes in the
direction Of the wind than the single
vaned form.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Drys Began Dive in 1889.

One of the first temperance move
ments recorded i'll America was
launched at Litchfeld, Conn, in 1889.
when several hundred farmers came
together and pledged themselves not
to use any distilled liquors or intoxi-
cantS in doing their farm work the
ensuing season.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Must Carry Allotted Load.

II Is easy to say that we have no
vote on the question of our own en-
and must remair. and we are bound to
make the best of it. We must carry
the load. and our consent is masked;
If we drop the burden. human society
finds its own way, in its own time, TO
punish US. no matter what penalty in
exOrable Nature mposes-Exchange
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20

There IS, | believe, only one spc-
citic for hiccough," says an eminent
physician. and that is small dose
of vinegar, sweetened with as much
sugar us II will absorb. have used
this remedy when the annoyance has
pissed almost into the dangerous
stage. and never knew case which
one dose would not relieve and two
cure"
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Periious.

She had studied all the modern fads,
and was rather amused at the latest
theory about kissing Doctors said it
was most unhygienic and dangerous
Finding herself alone with a rather
silent young man, she mstook his 81.
lence for shyness. do you think kiss
ing dangerousT she asked. "TerribIy,"
he answered. "Why? Whatever can
II produce" Marriage" he snapped.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Turpentinina the Pine.

Successive seasons Of turpentlnlng
cause no lowering in strength or
resin content of pine trees, states the
forest products laboratory Of Wis
conSin. The crude turpentlne, says
the Scientific American, is the result
Of wound stimulus, and comes only
from living cells in the sap wood re-
gon of the tap bore. The heart wood.
which consists OF dead cells, contains
no sap.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
INTERPRETED,

Doctor--"I would advise You, dear
madam, to take frequent baths, plen-
ty of fresh air and dress in cool
gowns" Husband Gan hour later)-
what did the doctor say" Wife
He said | ought TO 20 To a watering
place and afterward, to the mountains
and to get some new light gowns at
once "-FIipgendo Batter
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Stamp Fancier Sets New Record.

The largest stamp collection In the
world was made by the late Baron
Philip Won Ferray, who died in Paris in
1917. The collection is said to have
contained used and unused specimen
Of every postage stamp issued down to
the end of the Nineteenth century.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
His Reason.

A colored man said to his minister
one day: "Sah, could enjoy nah
religion bettah if you would ies, say
something new now and then instead
OF stamping round de pulpit and
groaning" What | lacks in light
ming, said the minister, 81 tries to
make up in thundah."
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Land Rich in Birds.

More than $50 species of land birds
have been found in that little Central
American republic Costa Rica. where
as in all America north Of Mexico ONLY
500 species are known. The figures
give some conception Of Central Amer
lean bird life.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Three Valuable Frisnds.

Three men are my friends. He that
loves me, he that hates me, he that 10
Indifferent to me. Who loves me,
teaches me tenderness. Who hates me,
teaches me caution Who Is Indifferent
TO me, teaches me selfrellance.--
Panin.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
Uncle Eben.

Form will tell" said Uncle Eben.
Dat story bout de hare an dc tor
t0ise describes fuke dat made good
moral lesson. Jes' de same, if ever
gifts a chance AT dat kind of race Ia
gineter bet on de rabbit"
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
County Court

1ll33 Dept Of Pub Works & Bldgs
VS. Lippold ct al-cont to May 10
on mo petn.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20
A Chipped Frame.

If corner is clipped off OF a gilt.
edge frame camoufage it with chew
Ing gum. Gid with gold paint.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-04-20

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The New York herald., 1922-08-27
Lady Rhondda Explains.
She Did Not Comment on the Course
OF American Women I'm Politics.

To THE New YORK HERALD: / have
only just had an opportunity OF reading
the account of an interview with my
self which appeared In your paper of
Sunday. August 90, and should be CRATE
ful II you would allow me TO correct one
small possible misapprehension.
The interview begins "viscountess
Rhondda would like to remind American
women--if she didn't think they would
consider Il an impertinence on her part
that In union there Is strength" and
the impression might possibly be gained
by a further reading of the interview
that / had commented upon the e-present
alignment of American women in poll
tics. =
did not do so, and I should certainly
consider 1t gross impertinence to be
guilty of such a thing. know nothing
Of the political position over here ex-
cept the few bare facts which an inter-
ested stranger naturally picks UP.
should not presume to discuss matters
OF which ! know so little. / confined
myself, therefore, to describing the pres
ent position in Great Britain.
RHoNpDA.
SroNINoToN, Conn, August rs.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27

not take his exercise in private It
must be done in public; the stimulus
of racing under colors usually brings
out the best that is in a horse. With
this purpose Whiskaway was entered
on Wednesday last in race at Sara
toga Springs as preparation for a
special event in which the best of the
three-year-olds were to meet. Going
to the post the colt lunged and tried
to dislodge his rider. In the race he
ran unplaced, demonstrating a lack
of condition or an unwillingness to
make his best efforts.
AS a result of Whiskaway's be-
havior Mr.. WHITNEY is full of re-
grets at having sold the colt that was
regarded by many as the champion
of his age: it grieyes him to see the
colt unhappy. JAMES Rowe also has
regrets when he witnesses the antics
OF Whiskaway, and another SYM
pathizer with the exiled colt Is
MARSHALL, the star exercise boy OF
the American turf, who helped
to train Colin, Sysonby and other
famous race horses.
II Whiskaway could speak he too
would express his opinion of exist
ing conditions. Being dumb he can
give vent to his feelings only through
exhibitions of temperament. He is
begging to go home.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
Harry New on the Bonus.

If HARRY New, Senator from Indi-
ana, had illumined his six years
course through the United States Sem
ate with frequent speeches the equal
Of the one he delivered on the bonus
Friday in the Senate the grassroot-
crossroads campaign of BEvERIDGE
could never have prevailed against
him.
News speech Friday was simple.
sound, convincing. There was no
fireworks about it, no attempt at
oratory. 1t was straight goods direct
from his heart and brain-the kind
Of man to man talk that is effective
among thinking, unprejudiced men.
That speech, not great but good,
will add to the stature of HARRY
New with those of the American peo-
pie who are not irrevocably for the
bonus, no matter what it does to the
Government or how, heavy the bur-
den on the people.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
Feat Of a Blind Man.
Remarkable Case Of Rapid Calculas
tl0n Reported In England.
From the scientilio Amcrican,

From the ScscnfWc Amcrtcun.
Some years ago the London Lancet
cited remarkable case in which extraor-
binary ability In arithmetic calcula-
tion was associated with general mental
inferiority II not actual insanity.
The patient was completely blind and
was able TO make elaborate calculations
such as the square root of any number
running into four figures In an average
of four seconds. and the square root OF
any number running into six figures In,
six seconds. These are mere tribes.
however. compared with the following:
He was asked how many grains at
corn there would be in any one OF sixty
four boxes, with one In the first, two in
the second, four In the third. eight In the
fourth and so on in succession He gave
the answers for the fourteenth (S,l9g.
for the eighteenth (13l,072) and tho
twcnty-fourth (s.sss.6oS) instantane-
ousH. and he gave the figures for the
forty-eighth box U4o,737.4ss.S55,s2S) In
six seconds.
Further. on the request to give the
total In all the boxes up to and includ-
ing the sixty-fourth, he furnished the
correct answer 1s.44s,74I 07S.7o9,55i.-
61b) In forty-fve seconds.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
The New York State Police.

There will be no popular support
for the measure to abolish the State
police or to curtail their duties
which JAMES p. HOLLAND announces
will be introduced in the Legislature
of 1923 with the Endorsement of vari-
Gus trade union politicians. Mr..
HOLLAND wants to have the efficient
and necessary State guardians of the
peace done away with because in q
few cases they have protected lives
and property from attack by strikers
and sympathizers with strikers.
The State police will have been in
service five years next month; they
first appeared in public at the State
Fair in Syracuse in 1917. During
that time they have earned respect
and admiration all over the State.
They are highly trained men who
perform important functions that
were it not for them would remain
undone. OF their functions, the one
they are least frequently called upon
to perform is that Of guard duty in
communities .menaced by rioters in
industrial disturbances. The State
police are primarily and almost ex-
clusively rural police.
The State Federation of Labor ac-
cuses the troopers of brutality in the
trolley strike in Buffalo. They had
4 to deal with dynamiters and the like
in Buffalo. No police in the world,
not even New York city's police, can
handle dynamite throwing ruffians
with gentleness. Moreover, the State
police are under strict discipline, aud
any of them used unnecessary force
in the performance Of his duty at
Buffalo or anywhere else he should
present it to their commander and he
may be sure the offender will be
justly punished.
There is just about as much JUS
tice in the State Federation of Labcrs
demand to abolish the State police as
there would be in a demand to abol-
ish the United States Marine Corps
because marines guarding railway
post Offices shot mail thieves.
The State policemen have estab-
lished a record OF more than fifty
arrests each year by every trooper
with 94.6 per cent. of convictions
Last year they patrolled a million
and a half miles. They have given
splendid service in running down
murderers and incendiaries outside
cities; they pursue automobile
thieves successfully; they enforce
the fish and game laws; they inter
cept bootleggers. They have shown
their worth in score of ways and
the people Of New York will back
them up.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
The Homesick Race Horse.

Thoroughbred horses are tempera-
mental and the stars of the turf in
some instances rival in this respect
opera singers, baseball players and
other humans who are in the public
eye. A case in point Is that of the
crack three-year-old colt Whisk-
away, recently sold by HARRY PAYNE
WHITNEY to C. w. CLARK OF Montana
for s150,000.
When Whiskaway, product OF
the Whitney Stud near Red Bank,
New Jersey, was among the colts and
fillies he had known from his birth
he was as we'll behaved as could be
desired and went through the course
of training as soberly as his task
master, the veteran JAMES RowE,
could desire. He was at home amid
the scenes and companions he had
always known.
The transfer tos the establishment
Of Mr.. CLARK brought change. He
showed a desire to get away from his
new surroundings. Sometimes he
was moody and sulky on the race
course in his morning gallops, while
at other times he tried to rid himself
Of the boy on his back and bucked
ana fungcd like a bronco. IL was
only when MARSHALL, the colored ex-
ercise boy Of the whitney stable, with
whose touch and presence he was
familiar. was borrowed to put him
through a speed trial that Whisk-
away became somewhat normal.
A certain amount of work must be
done to keep an animal fit for the
tests OF racing. IL race horse will
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
To-day's Dancing.

Dancing is to be redeemed and the
American National Association OF
Masters Of Dancing and the Interna-
tional Association Of Masters OF
Dancing have set themselves to the
task. These organizations have
opened war on teachers OF the art
who are not aware that ii Is an art.
They see the waltz returning to favor
and a general movement in the direc-
tion of smoother dancing, which they
say the coming Of the longer skirt
will encourage. They see an end to
hops, jumps, slips, dips, bends and
toddles.
They deserve all the support that
can be given. To-day's dancing Is
ugly, whether 1t is done in ball
room, a country club or dance hall
That Is in itself sufficient condemna-
tion, but there Is the second indict-
ment, that to-day's dancing is vulgar
and vicious, whether 1t 10 done in a
ballroom, a country club or a dance
ball.
There was time when children
were sent to dancing school not only
to acquire a social accomplishment
but to acquire physical grace as well.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
An Old Timer Of the Eastern shore.

From the Chestertoion Transcript.
For moment Wednesday history repeated
Itself in Chestertown. We were back
twenty-five years ago when the Eastern
Shore was the principal peach section OF
the country and bands Of peach plucks," as
they were known, were camped along the
water courses Of Kent. The reason for this
throwbnck to the old times was the visit
TO Chestertown OF one OF the real. honest
to goodness old timers. lie had everything
which the old time pluck" had, that Is.
plenty Of dirt, plenty of whiskors, tho same
old coat thrown across the shoulders and
a liberal amount of nerve. lie lacked what
they lacked--mbney and food; but he soon
sought both and received neither In a great
many cases. lilo was about go years Of
age, possibly 20. and when we saw this
old time familiar figure wc could slfnost
catch the scent OF their campfire and hear
the whistle OK the Ericsson liners. -
The New York herald., 1922-08-27

the most palatial residence in the
Province of New York outside OF New
York city" In 1872 he built, at his
own expense, court house, the first
brick building west OF Albany. 1t
still stands, "the Oldest court house
in America" it is said, (which is used
for its original purpose" He buiit,
too, church, Jail which became a
fort in the Revolutionary war and
reyerting to its first use is still stand
ing in Johnstown; school, tav-
ern and many other private and pub
lie buildings. AT the same time he
sought the development OF the Mo-
hawk Valley and served the colo
nists by establishing friendship with
the powerful New York tribes which
insured them during his lifetime
against Indian wars.
He served with distinction as an
officer in the French and Indian war,
defeating General DIEsKAU at the
battle of Lake George, aiding ABER-
CRoMBIE at the repulse Of Ticon-
deroga and leading the Indians in
the Amherst expedition into Canada.
He was present at the capitulation
of Montreal, which ended French
power in America. Perhaps his most
distinguished service was the nego-
tiation OF the treaty of Fort Stanwix,
now Rome, by which the colonies
ACQUIRED vast tracts Of land between
the Allegheny Mountains and the
Mississippi Valley.
Sir WILLIAM died year before the
beginning Of the Revolutionary war.
His death, it is said, was FASTENED by
his worries over the strife between
the colonies and the mother country
1t has been question which side
lie would have taken in the war
had he lived. Would he have broken
with the British Government, which
he had so ably served? Would he
have thrown himself with all his
soul into the struggle on the side of
the colonies and attained the high
command to which his military ex-
perience and success entitled him?
Whatever answer one chooses to
make to these questions nobody can
detract from his fame as one Of the
greatest characters Of Colonial times
and one of the men who built solidly
the foundations of America.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
SUNDAY. AUGUST 27. 1922.
Coal and the Railroads.

AS things stand now the people
are reasonably secure in the matter
Of coal for domestic use next winter.
Those that have been accustomed to
using anthracite may be compelled
to use bituminous coal. BY closing
down industries, turning industrial
labor generally out of a job, there
will be coal enough to take care OF
the people in their homes, and the
homes will have first call on the
coal.
With the bituminous coal strike
settled and the transportation lines
running all domestic needs will be
supplied, and it is safe conclusion
that the transportation lines will
continue to operate. They have
operated since the first of July with
an embittered strike on, and the best
conclusion is that these transporta-
tion lines will continue to carry coal,
and the mails and food supplies,
whether the shop crafts strike is
amicably settled or not.
Just now the shopmen on the one
hand and the carriers on the other
are at an absolute deadlock, but-the
trains still continue to run and serve
the public. The shopmen stand
rigidly on their extreme demands.
The railroads, on the other hand,
have gone far in the matter OF a
compromise-gone just as far as
they can go and keep faith with the
old men who stuck by them and the
new men who have come to them:
and here the railroads make their
stand. To yield on the point OF
keeping faith with their men would
place the carriers in a contemplate
light before the public and would
rob them of the respect and conf
dence their employees have in them.
However men may differ about
other things the public will stand FOL
men keeping their word, will stand
for men who maintain their honor
The public will condemn men and
have no use for men who do not de
both these things. With the public
backing and the demand of the public
that their railroads continue to serve
them it is pretty certain that tn.
transportation lines will continue tt
do business.
The anthracite situation is not ye'
settled, but it is by way Of settlement
either through mutual agreement be-
tween the operators and the miners
or through Government intervention
Government operation of the Goa
mines. But with the supply Of an.
thracite exhausted, even If the mines
were to start up in full tomorrow
there would still be heavy shortage
cf anthracite. But in most countries
there is no anthracite; soft coal is
the coal of the home, the coal of the
shop. the coal Of transportation, and
with soft coal in sight in abundance
for domestic uses fears Of freezing
suffering and disease because of lack
OF heat need not give concern.
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
On the seaboard.

The surf is pounding on white beach
leagues away.
a ridge of snow that rides and rides
Upon the shoreward moving tides
That roll from half across the world
beyond the gray.
A distant surging steamer trails her
smoke clouds far,
Faint stain upon the misty rim,
A craft outbound for province dim,
Or silver bay beneath the burning troplc
star.
Untiring seagulls dip and wheel In grace
full arc,
White wings above the foam and spray
That swing across the seaboard day.
Until from main mysterious comes the
edging dark.
THOMAS J. MURRAY,
The New York herald., 1922-08-27
Mr.. Finney.
A Vain Attempt TO Learn the Author
shin Of Famous Poem.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: | have
been trying to learn the authorship OF
the lines beginning "Mr. Finney had a
turnip.' and also TO get copy OF the
verses. and have been unsuccessful in
both endeavors.
AT the Free Public Library Of Newark,
N. j.. which has exceptional facilities
for answering such questions, they were
unable to find the account of Mr.. Fin
ney's exploit in any of their collections
of verses given otherwise than anony-
mously. Carolyn Wells In her Non
sense Anthology attributes There was
little girl TO Longfellow, but Mr.. Fin
ney" is listed as anonymous.
A friend remembers distinctly seeing
"Mr. Finney" forty years ago In Holiness
Fifth Reader. he also says there was