The Triumph from Ottawa, Kansas • 3

GO HOME! want a barrel of flour, send to some some description of livestock sustained like the advice given by gold-ringed, kid-gloved, sjft-hanJed agi icultural Will those subscribers who have promised us coal and wood, come to time? This is the seasou for using it. The best placa in the city to get a dinner is at the Ohio House. Only twenty-five cents. Go and try it, the next time you come to town. Now is the time to get up clubs for The Triumph far the new year.

Only oue dollar each in clubs of a dozen or Subject at Presbyterian church, next Sabbath evening "Every man makes his own world." If you desire a trunk of the best type, and at the lowest price, go to Ring Smith's. They have the biggest stock in town; Subscribe for the "Triumph ordy in advance and in clubs ot twelve and over, just an even dollar a year. Get up a eluK The colored Hablist church will have a Christmas F'e, at the old stand of Chenowcth Heeler's, between if First and Second streets. Wanted One hundred thousand bushel of white and yellow corn, at Forest Mills Highest market price will be paid. The Ottawa Fire Company will give a bull in Sheldon Hall New Year's nfght.

It is intended to make it a success, the best of music having already been secured. Last Monday night Salina, was visited by a lire, which destroyed thirteen buildings. Loss about Supposed to be the work of an incen- ttiary. We would inform those knowing themselves indebted to us, that we will take corn, oats, potatoes, wood or coal in payment. Hring it along, as we need it.

Sunday, Dec. 2Gth, the membership and friends of the M. E. Church, meet in a praise service in connection with the payment of the debt, 1.050. Certainly it will be a cause of thanksgiving.

J. T. Smith Co. have sold the "Potatoe" Cook farm to Mr. John Fisher, of Missouri.

Mr. F. intends making the breeding of line horses a specialty, and will bring with him a number of line animals from Missouri. H. C.

McQuesten has a couple of thorough-bred Herk shire chickens which he wishes to trade for a couple of dozen post-holes. The care of these, interferes with the training of his trotting colt. Mrs. O. T.

Crossett has opened a shop on Main street, east side, north of the Postofficc, where she is prepared to do dress-making, cutting and litting in the latest and best manner. Ladies will do well to call and see her. A man who kicked up a row with a better man at the Lu.lintoii Housf dance, last Saturday, and drew a revolver, was up before Justice Devore, on Monday, and deposited forty dollars for the use of the city, and to pay costs. S3L30 is what it cost Win. Sage far a side saddle taken without onsent of owner.

Justice Devore affixed the price. He was committed to jail, not having that amount of loose change about him. The MontDnnier's give a concert at Ottawa next wo-jk. If the Ottawa folks want to hear music "as is music," let them turn out and attend this ecu-cert. Lawrence Standard.

First we have heard of 'om, Are you putting up cribs for your corn If not, you should be, and the place to get the lumber for it, is at K. McDonald's, on 4th street. He always keeps a full stock of pine lumber, sash, doors, lime, cement, hair, which he sells at reasonable prices. (Jive Mac. a call.

The storms of winter are almost here. Have you made the necessary arrangements to keep comfortable, by protecting the extremities from dampness incident to the winter months? You have not well, then, make haste and leave your order for a pair of boots with J. Houvy, opposite Stingley Willing's meat market. Mr. H.

makes a No. 1 boot, at a pric-j that you cannot help being satisfied with and warrants his work to be as represented. Leave him your measure, and get a good fit. Mr. S.

T. KAsoy, farm-rly of this county, and for a time Forester of the S. S. F. R.

is opening a farm in the mountain region of the southwestern part of North Carolina, 4,000 feet above the ocean. He is setting out trees and intends to put up sec-ds in that country which are in demand. The shrinkage of grains and pota-teos by keeping over winter is as follows: Corn looses one-fifth; Wheat, one-fourtee'ith Potatoes, o2- per cent. Wheat at $1.2" in the fall is equal to a bushel in the spring, corn at 75 cents in the fall is equal to $1 in i And tell your folks that the Forest Mills are selling Flour, Feed, at Wholesale Prices. Orders left at the office, 92 Main street, near Piersol's bakery, will be promptly tilled, and delivered to any part of the citv.

IT SIILYKS FOR ITSELF. An Improvement that Omiiot be Improved. It "comes the nearest perfection of anything I have so said the celebrated Surgeon Gregory, Principal of the St. Louis Med-ical College, while delivering a lecture to the students, holding up before them a IIoav's Sirtiie I licit Truss They are a luxury to all who are ruptured, and when once used, will be classed with the necessities. Call and examine them at D.

Dzford Co's. DOWN IT GOES of LIN COUNTY. It is well known that the wheat crop of this county was almost a failure tho present season, and sntil another harvest is gathered, the deficiency must be supplied from abroad, and the producers of the county must necessarily expend money far Hour to meet their wants. We believe that the farming community should have such provisions at the lowest rates, and we have decided to give them, and also the citizens of Ottawa, the benefit of wholesale prices for cash. For the convenience of the public, we will open an office at No.

91 Main Street, between 2d and od streets, where we will take orders for Flour, Feed, and deliver the same promptly to any part of the city. O. W. Haudwix Co. Forest Mills.

Dec. 1st. HOME COMFORT. Iqtv to 31ali.c It, and Wlien ii it is made, will keep Peace in the Family Itead this, and it will do you Good. In cold countries, at certain season? of the year, the all-absorbing subject of the hour is, how to get the most heat for the least money.

During the inflated period of war times, not much attention was given to this matter. Hut now that we are gradually approaching the level of hard money values, it becomes a matter of serious consideration to the masses how to make one dollai conduce as much to their comfort and convenience as two dollars would in more prosperous days. True economy does not consist in going without the conveniences and comforts we desire, so much as it does in placing the little we have where it will do the most good. To obtain comfort at home we must have a good stove, and "The Rotary," of the Cleveland Co-operative Sto Company, far whom Ottawa's popular stove and tinware dealer, S. D.

Smith, is sole agent in this county, is jest the thing one needs, for if is eminently conducive to both comfort and happiness. In every sense of the word it is a first-class sto en-tilled to the confidence and consideration of the public. As a soft coal base-burner it has no equal and is the nc phis ultra of the household. Resides its heating qualities, it is the most economical and durable soft coal stove in the world is a beauty economical of space and fuel unequalled for retaining fire and easily controlled. It is also the only stove made having Baldwin' patent Gas Damper, an entire preven-tatve against the escape of gas or smoke into the room burns our soft coal with the same freedom the hard coal burners do the hard coal and the only base burner having convenience for toasting or broiling.

Wher- ever exhibited, it carries awav the blue ribbon, as tho following associations where it took the first premium will testify Fjrst premium at the 1 Illinois State Fair at the Great Central Fair, in Peoria at the Union Fair, Ottumwa, Iowa Northern Ohio Fair, Cleveland, O. Union Fair, Connors- ville, and others, both State and country, too numerous to mention. Whenever you want a healing stove1 (or any other kind) don't fail to call on Mr. Smith, west side of street, between 1st and 2nd streets, and pro- cure a "Rotary." Mr. Smith also keeps a full stock of other stoves, and is agent for the famous Charter Oak stove, besides having a full stock of tinware, etc.

Call and see far yourself. HOW TO KILL, A TOWN. Some Plain Facts to Take Under Consideration. An exchange says if you want to buy an article of furniture, instead of going to the dealers in the town in which you live, send to some distant city for it it sounds much larger to say, "We sent to Chicago or St. Louis far it." If you are fortunate enough to have a babv in the house, and vour a jm I MK a e-urriage ior ouioi editors v.

ho nevt-r I rM 1 'nw r. n. 1,0 tr a 10 luru a furrow or build a rod of fence. ThcV talk glibb'v about a sul-iect of which ithr.v know nothing hit theory. A 1 -TU Kt V.

ill aSSUril i COIlC "IlITa IO I i IO stock interests in the hands of the few. and the farmers who have faw ca! vi a will be compelled to sell them to tht large dealers whatever he to give. Had it not been for the cattlo held by the farmers of the county last fall, the merchants of Ottawa and elsewhere in the county would not have sold as many dollars worth of goods a they did. Last winter we demonstrated that cattle could be wintered prairie hay. The failure of crops wiii come again, and If the cattle intvreht should be previously destroyed, wo would find ourselves in an unenviable condition.

Ask the farmers as you meet them not the Sehofield, Whet-t re i I Eider class of farmers but such, who as a general thing, fallow their own plows from what interest they have the surest income, and I venture they nut answer from corn, or wheat, or oat-, they wdl tell you, enttl. I would not in aire casehav. my -ttlerun in my i.eigh-bor'seorn fk-id, any re than I would go there ia person and take his corn. 1 Would say to many wlu profess to bo farmers, and who have leen stayi on farms for the last past sixt i eighteen years, to fence their farms. Do not build au apology of a fane, but a fence that will turn ttock and to this, quit your loafing in town at the stores, blacksmith sheps and groceries.

Go. to work, and in their seasons plant hedge, and haul stone. Spend as much time at that as you do at loafing, and in a few years you will not be bothered with cattle breaking your fence, unless it be those that are proof against any fence, made so by the id tiny have had to deal with since calf hood and such tho country would get rid of. Don't surrender to the riJu, your rinht to a common grazing grund, by advocating a herd law. There are tens of housands of acres of land that never can be tilled.

All it is fit for is grazing. It is nearly all owned by nonresident speculators, who have never added one dollar to the wealth of tho State. Your and my labor has enhanced the value of their lauds, and now thoy ask us, after years of planting, plowing end fencing, to allow them to have their agents have whatever of their land can be tilled, plowed and planted to crops, without the protection of a fence, and that we be re quired, after fencing our own farms, protect our own crops, to watch our" stock off cf their crops, and they sit back at their case in some far eastern city, caring little how we fare, only they fare sumptiou-dy every day. Ail special laws should be repealed. The law requiring, upon proclamation of the commissioners, that stock be coufiued during the night for certain seasons of the year, should Ik? repealed, and one passed requiring all stock ownsrs, during all seasons of the year, to confine all kinds of stock daring tho night, and then the cry about the detraction of crops would, in a meas ire, cease, and the desire for a herd law would hitural'y out.

W. IL A Touching plagiarisms in general, it is to he remembered that all men who have. Hcnse and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person whom they, meet, and enriched by everything that fays in their way. The greatest is lie wh; has been oftenest aided and, if tho attainments of all human minds could be traced to their real sources, it woull be found that the world had been laid most under contribution by the men of most original power, and that every day of their existence deepened their race while it enlarged their gifts to it. kia.

TfiOS. IlAKDIi; FASHIONABLE AM) SHOE MAKER, ill Sirf-ef, St-lle, OTTAWA, KANSAS. irork warrantotl, szl: niit-eL fifli.m ri-r Tlltl-J SHOMO Is receiving an immense stoek of TOYS Of all kinds Candies of every description and kind. Figs, Dates, Muscatel Kaisins, Nuts of all Kind, Oranges, Lemons, California I'ears, c. The Best Er2nd Fresh Oysters Parties, Festivals and Sunday Schools furnished at BOTTOM PRICES.

Please call and see prices and gooda before you buy. SALi: STATE OF KANSAS, Franklin O.imty, os. iiiio v. Arthur ct tlie Fourth fV.trt. in mv tii.lj;n Sluie of T)Y VIRTUK of an OHlfrof salt-, li out t.w foiirtii i-i-i) win om ti jmi-ry, i.

kI i. m. of tjiil hv. at f.T.n'f 1 ai uv.cU the l.i.-'.Ur: I.i riui the crawl lai.u, au.i i. iiit'ut-, to-vit AU Hrfin t.f the sooth of the north -t 'JU ti'tti-OJ" Inu n.n i.

le.Mar! it-s rhw. cv-iitina tr: i.rlI.l, i 1 tu rl-i Vl-itf oiriitA )) rW-- lolii nil til of in? ile-r r-it -rt twt-my ingu tnw ritf.t lum, a the M.ir: i rrrv. iif.n or if i.i Frank' of taktn th. ir.rt- iui lU, ft t-4 at f-ntn a (h-v -cr tn.1 1 1 7t u-r'l o. eru unrit-r my nainj at )'t-j' tin SOlii "Jy of A.f distant city mills and get it, pay a dol iar more on tne narrel.

besides the freight, and don ever try your home mills it can't be as good because it is ground at home. If you want a sleigh, buggy or carriage, before going to our home manufattories, send east far one, and let your home factory live on repairs. We know of a man in this eity who sent east for a carriage, and after paying the freight from New England to Kansas, offered to trade it for one made here and give $2) to boot, when he could have bought one for the same price he paid for his without the freight. He should have visited his home factory first, aud got what he wanted. "Where there are eo many who act upon the principle of sending out of town for every tiling they want, is it any wonder that oar home factories and merchants complain of hard times? Is it not strange that- they succeed as well as they do "We have right here at home too much of sending away for everything.

Prtronize your home. merchants and mechanics, and see what a difference if will make. "Wanted Immediately. 100 Farms for which we will undertake to find buyers. Hamri.ix Oifice 1st door south of Post Office in "Hamblin's Block." Blow Blow Blow If you want to see organs, lounges, bureaus, patent rockers, camp chairs, go to Jeffkriks "Whetstone Pfack.

MAKE MONEY BY SAVING IT In buying Goods at RIN.G SMITH'S BALTIMORE Clothing DTJEING THE 1 HOLIDAYS Stop and consider how foolish it is to squander money on useless "truck," when you can go to RING SMITH'S and purchase presents useful, and decidedly more acceptable to the recipient. PARENTS, Give your children Suits of Clothes. CHILDREN, Select a Fine Overcoat for your Father. WIVES, How much more wise to surprise your husbands with a needed piece of Wearing Apparel, than to spend money for nick-nacks. AN EXTRA LARGE STOCK Has been purchased for the Holiday Trade, and the most Elegant Goods in the market can be found at the Baltimore Clothing House Overcoats of" Every Grades, Hats and Caps of the Latest Styles, A Fine Lot of Handkerchiefs and Gents Underwear.

Ready Made Suits in Endless Variety of Style. NOTIONS Of all kinds, including Neck-Ties, Scarfs, Gloves, Cutis, Coilars, etc Our Prices Lower than Evsr, and an especial reduction will be made on all goods purchased during the llol-idavs. REME3IBER That you can do Hotter at RING fc SMITH'S, than any house in Southern or Central Kansas. No. 72 Main Street, OTTAWA, KANSAS.

For a Herd Law. Omo Township, Dec. 13, '75. Eiutoh Tiul'mpii Will you please publish the inclosed article that I copy from the National Live Stock Journ a I. You will see that the drift of the article is to show that grain and grass growing, and stock raising, must be a joint enterprise, in order to be profitable.

And that this can only be done by keeping the stock on the farm if stock is not kept on the farm, all the manure is lost without it the farm will run down. Good farming cannot be carried on without the manure bank; it will pay the farmer better than despositing in any other bank. Farmer. now to arAKE FARr.rixo tav. This is a subject in which all oru readers are interested, and it is certainly worth examining.

As a general proposition, it may be said the farmer who makes the farm pay the largest returns, on the capital and labor employed is the one, other things being equal, who has acquired the most thorough knowledge of the real adaptabilities of the farm, as determined by its soil and its situation as to markets, and who devotes it to the production of such commonalities as this knowledge will suggest. Each particular farm, if managed with a proper reference to these considerations, and to the capacity, habits and condition of the owner, should perhaps be managed in some minor details a little ditlerently from any other farm. Rut take the great mass of fauns as they exist in this country ton lay, and it will be found that the size of the farms, the character of their sales, their situation as to markets, and their distance from them, the surplus capital available for UTC ill LHVii tLHH I tiL.Ull. Utli'UIll CIlipiovetl them, and the iR-aiui, vujuiai, MiiMtuirun. uint iinui- mat-ion of the owners, inexorably re- r.Tiii-.i tli-if iiiio'tv-tjiru" tint fif cliTV quire mat innery-miie oat oi eer i hundred t.f tiwiii tho I -inn- I' IP warded to the arser and more bulky products, such as gras, gnda, etc.

We shall find, furthermore, that tne vaUi? V.1''' is Stin as 10 prociuue tac osuhji. of their being marketed in the crude form, them and that the great poitot of arc aud w-f-t be by 1 is of an of as in a a of to I as or I upon the farms where these products 1 7 considering the ouantitv of ia1j ie voted to oast urn nnd Vomw and the proportion of the product or" rJ'tt ivtlxo haud; 01 stock is, to nine larnie.s cut It'll the m.iit the farm and as the imst iuVoor- tant business of the farm, the pruni oi me iarm win uopena almost en tirel upon the mteilmenee and care with which the lives tock department is managed. If the farmer selects animals of good blood and quality, and their management is intelligent and systematic, he will always be sure of satisfactory profits, while an indifferent class of stock, poorly managed, will not only yield no profit, but frequently eat up ull the profits ot the faun. Tni is tne important de- of the farm, where you make or lose money, and it should receive the farmer's earnest and latest study. He may rise early and retire late, he may labor and toil through sun and rain, and practice the most rigid economy, nod yet, utter all, tiie character of his live stock, and the manner in in which he bandies it, must determine whether the results of his industry and self-denial are to be realized in money, or dissipated to the winds.

It is right here that the money is to be made or lost, and right here, and no where else, that the question is to Ue decided as to whether the farm pays or not. Anti-Herd Law. Laxk, Ka's, Dm. 4, 'To. Eiutou Thicmimi The sign of the times indicate that there will be an effort made this winter in the legislature to have the herd law now in force in the western part of the State, made co-cxteusive with the Stxite.

As to the benefit resulting from such a law, those st interested the farmers- are divided in opiaiou but that difference of opinion arises from not having given the matter a thorough and landil ex amination. It is one of those questions. which in equity, the most of the deni zens of cities, towns and villages should have nothing to say almut, any more than should residents of the country have a voice in the saying whether or not the cattle, hogs, owned by dwellers in towns, should be confined during the niarht. The major part of the advocates of a herd law, are those who are too lazy to build fences, or keep them in repair large land owners, resident and nonresident land agents and politicians. A herd will undoubtedly desire" the interests of all the older settled counties of the State, unless it be the few counties on the Missouri river.

We certainly have not forgotten, that the cattle tho farmers had to sell in these eastern counties, helped them to tide over the hard times of last winter; resulting from the loss of their crops. The fact is apparent tj all who have candidly examined the matter, that the eastern portion of the State weathered the hard times better than the. western. Travel over the herd law counties, and you do not find cattle, horses or mules in such numbers as you do in those where there is no herd law, distributed among all the farmers. If you find a herd it is a large one, owned by some money mongers, who are there for the purpose of fattening their cattle on the farmers' fifteen cent corn, While he compelled to sell, from the fact that he has nothing else to sell, and he must have a little money.

With'the general class of farmers you will find a cow or two at th end of a rope. They cannot hire a herder. The calves they must sell to the men who have no laud, and are only in their midst to fatten their cattie, and grow rich at the expense of the farmers. An argument in favor of herd law, is, that non-residents, owning large tracts of unimproved land in the herd law counties, instruct their agents to plow their lands and sow them to wheat. Weil, is it to our interests to pour wealth into the pockets of these, non-residents'? men who have never iulded one-dollar to the material wealth the Stnte, but on the contrary treat the State as do tho non-resident land holders of Ireland their tenantry.

The product of the soil goes to build up fine homes in the other States, and nothing added to the tax duplicate of the State. Your correspondent, "Farmer," soar? above his subject, or, loses sight of the fact, that usually the season of the year in which water is scarce on the broad prairies, is, when the grasses arc getting dry, and the corn 2iatable to the hungry steer; and that it would be almost impossibility to drive a herd cattle past an unfenced corn field. His plan of securing water, by building a pond will do well enough as long there is frequent and cou pious rains. To make such a pond a success, the subsoil must le as adhessive as putty, order to hold -water. The water mis caught will be tolerably good for fehort time.

After exposure to the scorching rays of an August or September sun, it becomes unfit for any kind of stock if they are to be kept in healthy condition. Again, his plan securing cistern water is good, if it was at ail practical. The few are able build barns and cist but the many are not. The building of a she 1 fifty or sixty feet long with a cistern attached, is, likewise, almot as impracticable. A roof alone on a tempor-ji rv frme would not do.

Tt would have to be enclosed, or one of these i i roof. A buiidmg of that character. cistern would cost several huu- with jjlred dollars, which is more than the average Kansas farmer is able to ex- pena. All who are have made or ktp ninkin-r r.rrtvisintia nv oti.t 1 i fast as others become ale, thev will i erect sueh structures, if they ar lif i legislation. The rich, or at least those a.

i ettiuioi oe properiy lenaca poor, lght to know that the poor ln.ve! i Mfr 1.. 115111, mai iui mcuiii t-jiiio jiianner tney will cojnKl ref ct. gueh suggestions treat dint 1 1 i In I in of oI nf o. Editor and Proprietor. OTTAWA KANSAS, DEC.

17, 1373. tji-irk, in ink or pencil opoifc a tit; nil, on the vr or tl.e wrapper, will iurliciitc tliut the time paiil f.r hud ex- jitiC'l, or id about tuL-xuiiC. Cold again. Two dances last Friday night and Miothcr on Saturday night. Mince Meat, at Jen-kins', street.

Licenses have been granted our saloons for another six months. Leave 3'our ordei's for eoal or wood nt Grabendike's. Delivered to any part of the city. Don't fail to go and see Ilarley's large stoek of toys before purchasing elsewhere. Take your fall clothing to Charley Hchober, and get them cleaned and repaired.

Subject of sermon at M. E. Church, Sunday night "Book of Science, and the book of Religion." Subscribe for Tin: TimrMPir S1.2" cash wnt'ii pain tii uio ena oi tho year. Christinas trees at all tho churches, Christinas Fve. Who wouldn't bo a Sun lay School Scholar tho two last months of the year Wo v.iil give current rates far eggs, chickens, butter, corn, oats, wood or nl, to those who are indebted to us.

1'ring along. J. T. Smith Co, have a good nise and lot in Lawrence, which they wish to trade for a farm in tins county, and will pay the dilfarenee. in cash.

John Nelson, corner 2d and Kail-road streets, Ottawa, Kansas, wants a large amount of hides, wool and furs far which he will pay the highest market price in cash. The ladies of the Methodist chuch to meet there agreement to help pay the debt on the church, will give a sup-per next Wednesday evening for that purpose. A pleasant time is promised. All are invited. J.

T. Smith tfc Co, have some fine I unimproved laiiij ii YY abauasoeaud Woodson counties, Kansas, which they wish to trade for improved farms. They will pay part cash. We leani that the membership of our Sabbath schools have been rapidly increasing for the past month. Wonder if prospceti ve Chritmas trees have anything to do with it E.

1). Hall bus disposed of his stock of dry goods, and will now devote all his time and talents exclusively to Hoot and Sho.s. Remember the place, llrmb'in's Rfack. A reader of that valuable Daily the K. C.

Tiims, requests us to ask it to transpose tho ice of shelled com, and the corn in tho ear, in its market repf rt. Holiday goods at Chmoweth Heeler, auch as brackets, picture frames a ml some elegant pieces of furniture. Prices reasonable. Call and look at their stock before buying. 'I it "Rare b.i-gah." a Ivrr'isjd in Tin: TfUUMl'ir by Messrs, Smith lias been iSgobb'iei" by Mr.

Arther-holt, of Missouri, who will be here in a few lays, md make this his future home. Parlies wishing loans on real cs-. tate security, can be supplied on rea-Mnable terms by applying to R. W. Thaeher or R.

J. Waddell, at the First National IJank. The money is furnished at once, without waiting for applications to be sent Fast. We learn that there was a very destructive prairie lire last Sunday in the north part of Appanoose township. Our informant couldnt give the particulars, further than that fences, a large amount of hay, and considerable grain was destroyed, Mr.

Ifaeinau alone loosing over a thousand bushels of corn. At Viium it Woo Iworth's, on Second street, you can get your steak far breakfast, roast for dinner, and groceries and vegitables to with it, and all sent home, without having to run all over town for it, as they have a meat market in connection with their store. (iiVe them a call. II. S.Ming, once the Ciulf Agent at Olathe, and latterly at Ottawa, has been transferred to Fort Scott.

Ming was a drummer boy in our old regiment, the Second Wisconsin infantry, miring the war. lie is one of the best telegraph operator in the State. And wmjust as gjo I a soldier. Spirit. You ran save money by going to Parker's photograph rooms, on Main street.

Four large pictures, four small ones, o(e 8x10 oval and rustic picture frames, llOv albums, 40c; vll chromos, iTe mountain street views. 25c; Indian pictures, 15c. The largest, best and cheapest assortment of picture frames ever brought to Ottawa. The He: I Family Newspaper. This is the claim which tho publisher of the New York Observer makes in behalf of their paper.

It is a bold claim to! make in our day, when there are so many papers but an undeviating I course in sending out, far fifty-three i years a large, full, fresh, readable, ami i pure newspaper, which is unsurpassed, justifies them in the claim. Wc can roceom mend the Observer. It has no i hobbies it is sound in doctrine, impartial and unbiased, reliable in its news, interesting and instructive in its var-io is departments, and offars clap- trap premiums or pictures. For specimen copies, address S. I.

Prime New York. i Having purchased new material, we are prepared to execute the neatest of Job Work, aiul at prices correspond- Ins with the times. Call and see us i in our new quarters-east side of Mam street, ground floor, opposite the Whet- ftiv hlo-k. E. H.

SNOW, 1 more Judge K. Gocnlin returned home from Kenton, Ohio, last Saturday, where he had been attending on the bedside of his sick father. He left him much better. The Judge looks heartv, and was as glad to get home again as his friends were to have him. The Merchant Tailoring Department of the Ualtimore Clothing Score, was never in a better condition than at present, to give complete satisfaction patrons.

Ring Smith's cutter is giving the most perfect fits, and making the most stylish suits we ever saw. The Humboldt Union and Paola Spirit, are out for Hon. J). W. Wilder as Republican candidate far Congress, next year.

Weh. will never get the nomination, as he is too irood a man far the party managers they don't want a man of independent thought, ami sterling integrity. S. J. Stoughtou has sum-red a alllietion in the loss of his wife, who was buried last Wednesday.

Jfer xly was followed to the grave by a large number of our citizens, thus paying their last tribute of respect to the deceased. The family have the sympathy of all. Stranger, if you want a few toys and some candies for Christmas, and i don't know where to go. just jump uo- on a dry goods box and watch where the crowd goes, then jump down and follow, and pou will be sure to find yourself at W. C.

Hartley's Now that you have sold your beans, and there is a brisk cash demand for your corn, you can inndulge in that long coveted article of furniture a lounge, it may be, or bureau, or beadstead, or a set of chairs, or a few brackets, or a sewing chair but let it be what it may, Chenowcth Heeler's, near Third street, on Main, is the place to get it, and at prices that defy competition. Call in and take a look at their stock, ana get prices you wii; find them clever, affable, and obliging gentlemen. "Wanted. Stingley Willing will pay eight cents per pound for dressed chickens, and ten cents per pound for dressed turkeys and take all they Can get. Also always on hand the choicest of fresh and pic kled beef, pork, sausage andmutton.

WHY NOT! Leave your order at Forest Mills, OFFICE D'2 MAIN STREET, and have your Flour, Feed, delivered at wholesale prices. Sensible. At a regular meet lug of Twilight Grange held on the evoning of Thursday, Dec. 9th, the following resolution was unanimously adopted Jiexofred, That we, the members of Twilight Grange, extend our patronage to the Forest Mills in appreciation of the recent terms offered by that firm in the sale of flour. W.

H. Pass, Acting Master. J. Jenkins, Sec'y. CHRISTMAS Holiday Goods in Quantities.

Endless THE LATEST ATTRACTIONS. Toys of All Descriptions. AT OX 2d STREET. Parents, guardians, children, while you are wondering what you shall buy as a present for the loved ones, just step into JENKINS' STORE, on Second Street, and take a look at his stack ol Chinaware, banded and plain; bo-quet holders; Rohemian glass vases; quceusware and glassware silver ware statuary toys till you can't rest, wooden and tin, of all kinds, sizes and prices. Also a mil assortment or can-! dies, plain and fancy, new and fresh.

PKEi'AKEI) 31 INC 3IJEAT. Remember to call at JEFiKSHS' Oil SSCOnil StfcEt. fc 5 compare Inees, and you will never regret it. To the Farmers. In order to meet the increcsing demand among farmers for grist work, wo have fitted up our mill for custom work, and are prepared to grind grists of not less than six bush- els, properly cleaned.

O. W. Hvldwix Forest Mills, Ottawa PANIC Them PRICES Read Come and See Prints, 5 cents Canton Flannels, isle per yard. Ginghams, f) cents per yard. Farmers' Jeans (heavy) 23 cents per yard.

Worsted Dress Plaids, 2J cents per yard. Ladies' Kid Gloves, To cents. 1- 1 iU it -f 1 I -1' i the spring. addition to his holiday g.ods, One of the finest and most complete Mr. Jenkins has just received an stock of goods ever opened in Ottawa, innnens0 new stoek of fresh gro-is undoubtedly that of Messrs.

Stacher I c-eries, canned goods, dried, fruits, Cobb, opposite the jail. There you which it will do the housekeeper will find in the grocery department, good io take a look at. Resides his toys of all kinds, candies, dried fruits, store room is one of the pleasantest in canned goods, apple and peach butter, the city now, since its enlargement, quceusware (some handsome banded Ue is also in receipt of the "newest china pieces for 'holiday presents), tfrinar out. in tho shaiwof a wlh. wooden and willow ware.

In the dry goods department, you will find, in addition to the regular staples, some ele- scurfs, nubias, wbicb i will make handsome presents. You can get here everything you want to teed and clothe your family, and pres- ents besides. Call in and see what an immense stock they have. Why Ring irc Smith e.m sell lower than anybody six reasons lt. They carry the largest stock in the city.

2d. Thev manufacture all their own goods at the home House in Baltimore, 3d. They buy material hi immense quanti ties from factories, and get the lowest prices. 4th. Their goods do not pass through the hands of middle men, and they can and do givet their customers the profits usually paid to two or three job dealers.

"th. They sell large quantities of and make up in amount, far their low profits. 0th. The last and best reason is, are determined to buiid up a large trade in this county, and will sell in lk.r t() aIul rc tain their custom. GIVE TII EM A CALL.

U'ju uiLiii, uii'i rmvn for it nnd lot nr h.wifi I live as best they can without your pat ronage. Your wife wants a silk dress nice shawl; don't go-near your home dealers, but send to some distant city and have it sent to vou bv express, then let vour wife tell'the neighbors that there was nothing in town that -Misses urn loves, Jo cnts. E. E. Fn.Tj:r, suited her, and that she had to send to Ohieagro, New York or ton.

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