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MUltatMiiiii lr Irate®! ^ ioMMliiieiil - by» pwaaineDt or the New York 1«h% , <(h|ipl'i» lose flOO -on a wager if »MWlon is wrong. Here it is: A column of troops 25 miles long is of- ; #ered to a. point 85 miles distant. A ' courier starts simultaneously with the ia* of the column and reaches the head thereof. Returning, lie meets the rear % of the column at the point where the head originally was. Both the troops ' and the courier are to travel at a uni­ form rate of speed. How ipany mllee * does the courier traverse? | It looks simple. The young New York- fi'-4r said it was simple and that it didn't i;Hike a mathematical sharp to figure that lite courier journeyed even 50 miles. The ?ian who made the bet with him was a hiladelphian, and he called in Professor thunder, a teacher of mathematics, said ;i*to be the greatest expert in the Quaker City. The professor figured at it awhile and said it was plain that the courier ; covered over 50 miles, but just how much > wore he wouldn't undertake to say off- liand. The man from Gotham was not satis­ fied with the Philadelphia professor's inclusion, so on reaching Washington he hunted up Professor George Hill, the clerk to the house irrigation committee tad and expert in mathematics, who in tarn referred him to Professor Wood- - ward of the coast and geodetic survey. His answer was sent in and appeared at the bottom of a long sheet of algebraic equations. It was 60.3 miles. And still the New Yorker is not satisfied. Before giving up the $100 he is going to have the opinion of the professor of mathematics of Columbia college. It will take no less an authority than that to shake his be­ lief in the correctness of his own cipher­ ing. which, he admits, was not done with: the help of quadratic equations.--Wash­ ington Post. " ' ••fa,*-..v GRANDMA says it is 20 years since she made such good bread as G'LLETTS YEAST Is like the yeast she used-to make herself,. and she hopes she will never have to do Without it again; and we all hope so, too. Call for it at your Grocer's. It la always good and always ready. S • ' • " c . . GEORGE 0, 2:211-2 iV 4-! t-vy-" S: '• fjf ft't. f «; < A S?Jt K- "t • PV' . ,4«ff ^ The Derby as a "One Horse" Bsc*. For a fortnight or more before the Derby everybody who talked or read about the subject must have become Wearied of the expression that it would ««*'07*0 HORSE RACC. IT SXIAY BE VTCII, however, to realize the fact that the Der­ by appears to be becoming a one horse in­ stitution, for at the start for the last eight Derbies odds have been laid on the favorite with the single exception of last year, when the merest shadow of odds (11 to 10) was laid against La Fleche. Before the race of Wednesday it seemed reasonable to inquire whether backing these so called certainties for the seven previous Derbies had proved profitable. Hie reply was that if the sum had been Invested on the favorite in every instance the gains would have about counterbal­ anced the losses, so that the backer Would hare "had his fun for nothing," Although he would only have earned that tmsatisfying reward for his arduous la­ bors. On the other hand, if he had put Ithe same sum on each of the favorites "®Br the seven Derbies immediately pre­ ceding the one horse Derby period he Would have been a considerable loser. 80 after all there is something to be said in favor of the one horse race.--London Saturday Review. DOWN » - r ! ; :!Si f * | f - ; • • ' * "'5* ' $ there IN \r*x;tV; w ISOTHINO SPEblA^i Wl •M W' jcrs THIS ̂ w.wotjjNcaE? That we ihave made a prices on all kin t M; Reduction in our s of Dry Goods, Notions, Boots & Shoes, j*"?'%'•'iH*-1' Also Groceries, And ask the people.ot McHenry and vicinity to call and inspect our stock, which is always complete, and get our priceB* % --J--- •vfos never doi^" filtii _ _ Soap io\erken,Ariij®w N1FA!RBANK(SC0. Q&CM. •v^itfs « *• KW /short, quick HcHenry, 111. 1893! JOHN I. STORY DON'T BEEED TO GEORGE O, 2:21) TJnleee 70a want to raise a fast Pacer er- Trotteraa all his colts ara fatt; never Mas; Btrcl one but what can b? put m the He*. ItJ den't seem to make an? difference what the dams are. He si'ed the following c»lt« with records the firat year out handled by profeseioMti horsemen: ETHEL B (p) 2:18J at 5 years% HENRY o (,,) 2:20J i»t 6 years. MARY LEE 2:22$ at 6 years, PRINCE T 2:29} ALGONQUIN 239| Two below2:2G?4 from dams of no ksewn blood, also sire of Mftry Lu,2-yr. old, neord of 2:49 In a race, and several more below 2:40, GEORGE O is standard under both the Trotting and Pacing rules and will soon have two numbers. No other stallion in Northern Illinois or Southern \V isconsin can boast of it. Service Fee, 850. For circulars send to CEO. w. OWEN, MCHENRY* ILL. Qi^Wrt3jjL-? apoBef Sold by ail watch dealers, at Jas, Boss Filled and other' cases containing this trade mark-- Ask your jeweler lot ] Keystone Wi DR. FRUTHi -HtiOX BE-- b'-v sf;. oiSTdicM, Friday, Aug. <£•» f JOHN J. MILLER. West McHenry, duriiigr tlie f yjfiMX«/ Mta >^1 All Competitors Acknowledge it re m the Standard. We haye an over-stock of (Clothing and vill give a special low price to reduce stock soon, for cash. Call in now. it will pay you. UOJN H'i k.IVI A'l'itiiM SUITS. We have full assortment of these goods, in all sizes and at all prices. CaU in before buying* as you may Aee something here you cannot find flsew here. ° SI 1 v»- McHENRY ii ; \|< Americmn Ncwiln Europe. ' An English correspondent takes oc­ casion to point out to Americans in the L course of a recent letter to a New York- newspaper that the outrageous quality 6f what is sent abroad from this country news is working wonders in lowering win the esteem of foreigners and in corrupting all classes of transatlantic leaders. Of the few days preceding the transmission of his angry letter he states. , that more than half the whole matter sent during that week was given up to stories of lynching in the south, includ­ ing minute details of the burning of a negro for outrage after an hour of tor­ ture with redhot irons, and nearly as long a story of the lynching of a black Wireemaid. {; ;i "It is a small thing," says he, "that Americans living and traveling here ekouid be continually insulted by opin­ ions based on this garbage, but if inter- inational respect and amity mean any- Ifcuig it is not a small matter that our people as a whole should be persist- ' esitly and libelously given away in this •feshiOKj and from their own side too." Strange if True. _ U related that on the date of Edwin Booth's birth there was a meteoric show- • At the hour and just before the mo- M ^^th at the Players' club . ~® electric lights,, all went out, and at •we hour of his buriat in Mount Atiburn | • *|p3t sunset there wm a phenomenal ' ~f .;^ky. The west was not ^ply brilliantly I but aglow in a peculiar way. V • Abore the horizon line was^a band of • Ight verging toward golden grlhm, while | laelow and abo v© was a m arvelous^end- f;f |ng of roue aad azure and gold, wH •:^;|v|he eaet tl»ceflecti^i of all this gplen<3 t. Was repeated in fainter tints. It was axF • %, effect so beautiful and so unique even! ; * ^i»mong beautiful sunsets that it was re- : j^madced in many towns and all along the I jooeet here.--Boston Cor. 3Tew Orleans | ^Times-Democrat. it n»akes more Breaii : ^ ,4 For Sale by all the Leading 1 •.*»*.» t.«., »<« Than any other Flour. | The Roller Mills. PiJ1.3bury's Best at lowest market price. Washburn's best $1.10. A choice Fancy Patent at $1.05. Try a sack of any of the gr aies mentioned here, and if you do not obtain the Jh$»t results jour money will be cheerfully refunded, EST*Leave your order at the Mill, we will do the real/ Bran and Middlings for Sale. We positively carry in stock all sizes of the very latest square toe Patent Leather Tip Button or Lace Shoes, at correct prices. A full line of ladies' and men's GAUZE UNDERWEAR. Our stock of Hats is yet complete, call in. Also, a full liiift bt Straw Hats, Trunks, Lap Robes, xiosiery, Groceries and Flour, M CaU on yours for business. HOTEL WOO J. MILLEE, W«st McHenry, i't?' Osalss S. Miller & Son, OKB DOOR WEST OF R1YEBSIDB HOUSK, UcHeitry.Hl, --DXALEB3 IK- HAmE & GRANITE, Monnments, Headstones | Ta.l>let», Eto. The above is a cut off our sew Folding Machine* which can [now be seen at work in the Plaindealer Office. ; Medicines -A frttLL LINE O* Cemetery Work of every de-j scription neatly executed at the Lowest Prices. Satisfaction SmnotMd. Shops at McHenry and Johns- burgh, 111, where at all times can be Sound a good assortment of finished work. Henry Miller & Son. Drills, Cttals. Die Ms, Pants, Oils &Co1bk Constantly on hand. Also a large line of Patent Medicines. Toilet Article#. AMD A COMPLETE STOCK OF ^fATIOHEpr AMD DBDOOISTS' Converting the Jews In England. Daring last year no less a sum than ;; £86,487 was subscribed in the country !«>, %, by infatuated enthusiasts toward the1 ' Utopian object of converting the Jews ~to Christianity. The annual report |r| • '• states that 12 "converted" Jews were confirmed during the year, of I & v whom, however, only five were adults. It appears therefore that it costs about T:y . £8,040 to convert each Jew, but this is 'ax too low an estimate, inasmuch as |$Ji / , 7 out of the 12 were"infants."--London ^ • " Trath. 1h' f e f ' • H e l p l * * A l e n i a n I n v e n t e r . *•>f The Bavarian government has made a j grant of 1,600 marks to Herr Koch, an | rat and author of a pamphlet en- 'Free Human Flying as the Pre­ condition of Dynamic Aero- to enable him to construct an on the principle which he de- iii Iris work. m RESTAUR ANT. McHEWY, ILLINOIS. Our patroi^, and those needing such a machine i*re invited to' call and see ir at work. It is simple, easily hand led, and takes such little power that you cannot notice it. The ma 'hine was put in by the Bascom Folder f'o., of Sidney, O., who hf.ve been build­ ing and selling them for the past eight years, and uvery machine is fully warranted for five y ears. If you need such *a machine please I write the above company for prices, discounts and terms, as . they sell the machine on the most favorable terms, Or write their Agents Chicago Newspaper Union, Chicago; J. & F.Garret, Syracuse, Nj Y ; Mather Manfg Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Marder Luse & Co.. Chicago; Benton, Waldo & (-0,. Milwaukee; Wright, Barret StillweU, St. Paul; Geoctfcin & rion, Toronto. Canada. ' •*•4 --r' r.i- v7 ' Ciiefnlly and accuratey compounded by a out, A.. JUSTEN BROS. r' ' \ •. v- y IXMI ABOUT I - # Fine Kentucky Liquors, French BitterC; HcHenry Lager Beel, "-AND- \<| J. Sciiliti Hilf aiee Bottle Beer, In any quantity from a Snitz Glass to 1C0 barrels. ^ AT WHOLESALE o* RETAIL |J N D E R T With I wo stores, one on the West sideand one oa ^ side, (McHenry), they present tflflhe buyiug public A. Lar^ei* gftockojt all kinds of dpu HNITU Rjp Than ever bet ore, whloh we ? are oflerlof; at greatly UEDUdK) P1UCE8. NOW IS THE TUIIE TO BUT, R»^^\SythlD^ 8tr®k \fa" Mne of samples of CA3tPET«, and «»em any other house InflC" cheapest to the finest Brussels at lower price* than ^county. 1 • latter or TXMUI cardjto -- cfcAoHTiw KO.Box 4M. COHPAWT, •OMHtSr™ "r"" WIDOWS, CHILDREN. PARENTS. .for Soldier* and Bailors dtaabled in the line of , »*w entitled. Old and rejected ctelms Thousand* entitled to "Wgher nites. Wo Wofm 1 ""HW" ™ -™1" We tT4/ "a". Beer in bottles, kegs or case as cheap as the cheapest. We buy none but the best and sell at BeasoEuLk Prices. a'i me an# I will vse yov well. Hu./.; :. Coffins. Cdekete and TrloimiDgB'. elegant. We keep oothing but the want of aify tiling In our line. great pains in selecting <our .\! N C S U P P L I E S , tlie latest designs. Everything new and Do not fall to call and see as when In A SPLENDID ftr connection, which will le furDishcd at JUS >v '£' » * t •?, , aJ-, bit, * *. 1^. i?2rSci ,W4"' w: HEABSBfk Me Rate 3. ^ B \ • p- a -"'i When you ai» spending your good round dollars for an •r HAHWABB ' • .. . - ' -1.^ Line it may interest you to know that I oai» save yon % cent on your purchases. . i" Cv"• mg in DR. D. O. f RUTH, Late Burgeon <n (he Proyikent Medical Di'prftJ: >' tary of New YorHruhiPresiderUofthe JrYuth MtdxcjCl Ins t>Jiite, chartered His iong experience in the largest hospital! in tho world enables him to Vreat all OHKONIO NEKVOUS, SKIY AND BLOOD diseases upon tha latest scientific,principles. /" I)R FRUTH has no superior diagnosing f and treating dlecMes and deformities. lie will give }50 for any case he can»0t tell the disease and where located in flv\ minnte*. Medical and surgical diseases, feu .e and chronic Catarrab, diseases of the Bre, Bar. Nose, Throat and Lungs, Dyspepsia,\right'» Disease, Diabetes, Kidney, Liver, Btyider, • Chronic Female and Sexual Diseases epe^diiy cured by treatment that has never fallet in thousands of cases that had been prohoan' beyond hope. Many people meet death eve' year who might have been restored to pe: health had they placed their oases in th< hands of experts. DR, FRUTH has attained the most wonder­ ful success in the treatment ot' cases to which he devotes special attention, and after years of experience, has perfected the most infalli ble method of curing Orsranic Weakness, Ner­ vous Deoiilty, Premature Decline of the Man- ty Power, Involuntary Vital Losses, Impair, ed Memory. Mental Anxiety, Absence of Will Power, Melancholy, Weak Back and kidney ejections if consulted before Idiocy, Insanity Falling Fits or Total Impotency result from VOUTIIFU L ERRORS, the awful effec t which blight the most radiant hopes, un 11 ting pati­ ent tor business study, society or marriage, antiuallv sweeping to an untimely grave thousands of young men ^f exilt^d talent and brilliant lutellect. PILES CURED out pain, knifecntery, El'Il.KJ'sY pr ly cured by our new and never failing ^ tal treatment, FREE EXAMINATlufBhr '•* the urine, chemical and mieroeeopical, iiTall cases of Kidney Diseases, Brigbt's Disease, Diabetes and SpermatorrhM. Bring £peci- mens, WONDERFUL CURES perfected In all cases that havo been neglected or unskill- fully treated. No experiments or failures. We undertake no incurable cases, but cure thousands given np to die Remember the date and eoine early as his rooms are always crowded ~ Gases and eonrespondence csnfldential, and treatment sent by express with full direct­ ions for use! but personal consultation pre* ferred. DR q, 0< FRUTH. 3532 Lak* Avenue.'Chlcago. Y4 • S m' per If yo^ contempla te buying a VAPOB STO^E \ ) This spring oomt and see what w<e hwre to fcfcow# v- •, '• nn YOUR OLD YAPOR STOVES CLEANED By ot te who understands them, pay you. before starting them again. • \ •' . • "M It will If yc » are fi^rtog on building, be longing to the Hardware business, you wiU do well to get my ptucee. •c: Touts Respectfully, Wi F . hi M c O M B i R , sf' 'v 'i A-' 1 . Jaf. SuAlAU. .« *1? * =r J4t' I • 1 JL% JWamt Mo! King of HcHenry tad kits Counties. ; / i Has the fastest reeord of any Stallion ( I la Northern Illinois. Has woo more f races than any Stallion In McHenry or Lake Co. And can go a X, X, V, a mile or a raeeS In 5 1 faster than any other siallion In the two counties. He his won 35 races in 3 seasons, t Started against and staid in race with Storm, f 2:0834 ; Almont Bashaw, 2:1'X; won two races from Ethel B. 2:18&; started 12 times in 1S92, won 11 races Below you will find a ? w that are recorded in year bnok As an individual no horse can outshow him. As flne arid as game a bead as ever wore a b»ldle. Kind in and out of harness; is nojumping jack when jppedln g. in fact never makes any mistakes. He is a natural pacer, and a race fcMje* that no man can find fault with; gooa Biwe, ana Ihe best muscled horse I ever saw. , A Color bl<»ok; stands 15M hands high; welgM 1075 IDS, He was never hitched to a by*i, ana always had a oriver that weighed 210 I Midnight paced an exhibition mile at «Mon city, Iowa last fall, in 2;14; last halt In l:M; last quarter in 31 seconds. X Will Match him against mny paef«R or trotiiug stallion, autre or geldjMc in McHenry County. I also have in my b»J» a two-year old paclnf flllv sired by MidnigJw<r«Hof a common mare, that 1 will show agmiapany two year old for points ot speed. As a proof that t> e public like Uliu, thirty days Ironi the day I got him home 1 booked 38 mares, I think Midnight's service fees less than any h.ree in the .«tate with a record of 2; 17J^, or an^ better than 3 ;2& FEE. $20. pot Midnight will start th'S fall to lower hlsrec- ord, and those who haye seen bim in his races say that he will take a mark better than 2;13. BBKSNINO OF MIDNMHIT, 2:L7?4. -- Black horse, 15% hands high; foaled 1886; bred by B. H. Pooler, Sernia, III. aired by Nigger Boy, he by Plymouth Kock,2:34, he by Hill's Black Hawk, 1st dam Starlight, could pare in 2:27, br McKay horse, dam of Midnight 2;IT?&';f'i dam pacer, by Pharaoh, paccr; sue Kiclibaii HilStJit Sddam by Etban Allen. . Midnight will make the eeafon of 1883 at the stabler of the undersigned, at Jgunda. H. B. THHOOFs Kunda, 101.. April, im. 4 ......-J'.-..4..--fi? P A T E FOR PROTECTIOn, NOT PO?. ffrtti) DUBOIS ft DUBOIS, Patent l.<kn^ Inventive Age Euildln^, WASHINGTON, D C'