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FEQEBS, M. D- PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, MeBenrv IUa. Office at Residence. O. J. HOWARD, M.D. f>HTS10IAN AND SURGEON. Office at the erslaence of R. A, Howard, West oHenry, 111. er ^ 1 1 ' 1 -- DR. A. E. AUR1NGSR, V PHYSICIAN AS*NSURGEON. oMceln Dr. <uhi!d» building, West McHenry, 111. Residence, house formerly occupied by Dri ,Osborne, All professional calls promptly at> Wnaea to, :,^r% ' 1 ' I . I ' r.O.OOLBY, D, D.R. DENTIST. Woodstock. 111. Special atten. lion paid to regulating ohi etb, Parties coming from a distance would do well give timely notice by mail. Offlre. Kendal nlooi. corner Main street and PubUuSq uare C. P. BARNES, TTOBNEY, Solicitor. and, Ooanselor, Qolleotionsa specialty. . WOODSTOCK, 1IXIMOIS. • II ••IN •• --MI. KNIGHT A BROWN, A TTORNEYS AT LAW. U. S. Expvess Oo.'S A- Building, 87 and 89 Washington 81. OHIOAGO, ILL. '• ' y, 3. LUMLEY. A TTORNEY AT LAW, and Bolioltor In 'iA. Chancery, WOODSTOCK, ILL. . vffioe in Park House, first floor, H. C. MEAD, Justice of the Peace and General In* surance Agent jncluding Accident ana Life Insurance OFFIO* WITH B. GILBRRT, HEAR DLFOT, WEST MCHBNBY. III. W. P. ST. CLAIR* Justice of the Peace and Notary Public heal Eatate and Insurance, KUNDA, III. . i1 1 M" 1 i4*yny-;» Aa Iff. CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jewetor I : NO.On t HuodredTwenty-Five State At Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re- pairiugF ine watches apd Chronometers. 4HT4.f ull Assortrasat of Goods in his line JOHN P. SMITH, Watohmaker 4c Jeweler McHENRY. ILLINOIS. ; ',A FINFI stock of Clocks, Watches ana Jew* A. elry always on hand. Special attention given to.repairing fine watehes. Give me ' ' JOHS P. BUTTS i|l©r«emen. L 5olT Here. 1 have a fine stock of H raes, among which M-e •* Young Green Mountain Morsan," "Mor- rlH Ohnnes/'and others^ Csl! *s<! see these Horoes before making arrfngements else­ where. / • M / 8 C O L B Y . McHenry, III.. May 10.1802. C. F. BOLKY, Proplor of McKenry Brever;, MeHENRT, ILL. on Band with Be»t Beer. -* United States War Claii ipej WM. H- COWLIN, Woodstock - - Illinois. Prosecutes all claeass and kinds of claims against the United States tor ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claim s. All communications promptly answered If Postage 8tamps are enolosed for reply. WM, H. COW-L.lt* Office at Reside nee, Kadlaon St. Woodstoea 10c. r- IOc. • Does cigar aripftj^.. Like ii cense in the air? -V' Or does it only cause a smudge: • ; - And make yoar neighbor swear ? Why will yoa stick to cabbage leaves And drive your friends afar, When you can purchase for a dime "Our Monogram" cigar? IOc- IOc. BARBIAN BROS. HAKSBS OF| ' Choice CigarJfe ' We can sell you one or a thousand--retail or wholesale. DO YOU KNOW - WHO SELLflH f6 00 Pan « |4 25 6 00 Harris Cassimere Pants 4 25 20 00 Riverside Mills Suit.... 16 50 5 00 Suit 3 50 Fancy Good Pants f 1 50 to 1 75 2 00 Boys Conjacrees Shoes 1 25 2 50 Men'^ Fine Shoes 1 75 Also Groceries and Canned Goods fresh every two weeks. E. LAWLUS. Opposite Riverside House, •mitf JOBS J. BVVH, HESTAURA-NT •if.. - . BOARDING HOUSE, IMI tk. Iron Bride*. McHoiiyV. . Soard by «h« Day or MTmIi at Reasonable rates, |K Nton Liirn-oFiHow BOATS AT KT LAHDIKO. ' Pare Wines, Liquors and Choice Cigars always on hand. JVPresh Lager Beer eonstantl^ On draught. ift Or. Price'* Cream Baking Powder - - WerM** Pair Highest AwafC h BEST IN THE WORLD, COAL & FEED .WW -- si,.'- i'-.i m mm III Good Supply,- . « Spot Cash Only. Prices Reduced Accordingly. It will pay you to investigate. W. A. CRIST?, WEST McBENRY% ILL. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1894. INK MOXIE TBS FAMOUS NEKVE FOOD BEVEKAOK. CHICAGO CONSOLIDATED BOTTLINQ CO. 14 TO 16 CHARLES PUCE, CHICAGO, III. raUnWNI. MAIN a»T. .out MMT*. aCWARK or NOR IMITATIONS. T" -TO THE- Hoiintani. Lakes aBd Seaslore VIA BIG FOUR ROUTE THE FAVQB1TE TOCTaiST LINE TO Put-in- Bay and all Lake Erie Islands via Sandusky. Lake Chautauqua, Niagara Falls St Lawrence JRiver, Thousand Inlands, Lake Champtain, Adirondack** i Green tic White Mountains* MEW EKGLAND RESORTS New York and Bot ton VIA CLEVELAND, . L*H SHonE. NEW TOBK AVD BOSTON AHD ALBAUT KAILWATS. ; % TO THE COOL RESORTS OF MIOHIQAN VIA BEMTOX HARBOR. When yon *o on your summer yaeation see that your tl ket reads via the Big rour Bonte. ^O, McOORMIOK. D. B. MART H, JPftssenger Traffic M'gr. uen, Paa. T'k't A|t OraonnAii. O, YOUR MONEY , fBOCLD OBTAJM FOK TOU The M Goods id tie Market. That ito what we are aat> iartiedi to make, u Th e 13 e M.t • ** and think we V oannodenioiiatrateto you if you wl 1 give «M the opportunity. Call In and ••• the Goods and be , eonvlnood. CU8 CARLSOII. McHeniy, Ul., 1894. WM. BACON DEALER IN * ' Agricultural Blachiuiryl A. Exxj gain's SALOON AND RESTAURANT McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Wholesale and Retail 'Agent 1t»r SCULITZ HilTanlee Breviii Oil Boer, T H E B E S T M A D E . in any quantity from * Snits Glass to ICO barrels. Orders by mail promptly attended to. A I. SO ALWAYS ON HAXD Fine Kentucky Liquors, French Bitters.Zchoice Ales. Wines. Cigars, Etc. I buy none but the best and sell at reasonab'e prices. Call and see me and I Will U* use you well. ANTONY ENGELN. McHenry, 111 , 1894, MoRKNRY, ILL liflllll mi I Q The best mart*, and at •» llllf mla.lt <9* ihe Lowest Prices, We make a specialty of Repairing Pump*, both wood and iron. Iron Pipes and Wo.*l To ing always on hand. • - CARRIAGES, BCJGGIES Ac SUHREYS We keep a full stock always on hand, and can fit you out with atrvthing you want in this line and for )e»$ money than yru can get for ol any deaier outfrlde of towo. .,, A New Line of BlcyCle* Just Receive'. We i%|so hfve the Babcock Cream T©8tert ANI> ARE AGENTS FOR THK De LAVAL SEP ABATOR CO. And re8pectfullv Invite Dairymen and Farmers to call and a e us wlieo In want of anything in this line. We keep on ha id afine lot of garden H<>se, cheap. Honest Prlc§^*i»d Fe'r itoallngisour Mott<-. I WM. BACON. McBeory. July 2d 1894. i"ii||ifei)tjiii,aitiiiii Hard - and - Soft COAL! WOBDB UMBER : j AT THEIE YARDS IN WEST MoHENRY, Have now on band >ioth hard and soft Coal, which thev will sell at prices as low as tbe lowest. We are handling the celebrated Cross Creek Lehigh Hard Coal, Delivery made to suit pur­ chaser. We do not advocate tkat Crml will be lower than last season, but whether lower or-higher we guarantee to meet all prices and satisfy purchasers. Wilbur Lumber Co. •A'i A B. BJBAB TBE DEPOT, ? : i VTEOT MoHENRY, ILL. Keeps open for the aeeonuaoOaUMi of tae PaUteaFlrst-Olase •* * * Saloon and Restaurant, Where he will at all times keep the beat brands of Wines, Liquors and Olgatft "; ' to be found In the market. PAB8TS Kilwankm lagif BM> At Wholesale anil Retalb Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al- irays on hand, oheaper than any other, qnaU. ty eonsldered. s Orders toy mall promptly attended to. GOOD 8TABLINQ FOB, HOR&Fj OTOall 'aad see as. Robert Sohiessle* HII.L, JEWELER & -- O P T I C I A N . Fiiest toes, Fye-Glatas aid SPECTACLES. No Charge for Testing the Eyes. PERFECT FIV GUARANTEED. Will be at a T. Daniel's Drug Store, Algon quJn, eferjr Wedneoday, commercing July-TC' Also, at a Severns's Drng Store, Cary. every Thursday,commencing July 20th. ' OSMUM BLOCK. KUNDA, ILL »ti i . f HD PDITTO'O "*Kt a UlL rfiUlll U Friday. Sept. 7th. WOOOSTOOK* ILL.* At the Hotel Woodatook. DISPENSARY OR. IKUT1I, after years of experience has fierfecteri tbe most infallible method of cur- ng Nervous deb Itty, decay of body and mind, sel'-distrust, poor memory, weak eyes, Blunted development, lack of memory, im­ poverished blood, low vitality, and all etteots ot Abuses, excesses, improper life, etc., which render® marriage unhappy and life miserable. srtciALTiKS -Catarrh, Skin Diseases, Sores Pi nples, Scrofula, B<ood Taint, Eczema, Can. cer, Piles, and Diseases of Women Wo Guarantee to Forfeit esOOfor a oaae of SEXUAL DISEASE Jure. Question list FREK, « ne personal interview solicited. CousnlUtion tree D R . D . O . F R U T M . 3B33 Lake Ave« Chicago; SAVINGS e and surplus foods received and loaned on carefully ao-leeted real satata securities and the i n t e r e s t c o l l e c t a d T A A M C and remitted wtyhontJL*V/x*.i^i O# charge. Loans made on time and terms to suit borrower- J. W. RANBTKjlD, 81 DuPsge street, Klgin, Illinois. QUJBEN O F T H C KITCHEN 1 With one hind yea can drain the water from boiling vegetables and it is impossible to bnrn yourself. Anr »hild that can carry the vesael can operate it with ear>e simply by pretsieg the two bails together in tbe hand A Blessing to Housekeepers. Saves Time, Vegetables and Pain from Scalds and Burns. WILL SELL AT SIGHT. MRS. C. W. SLAFTC*. Agent for McBeory and Vicinity, ELECTRIC TELEPHONE Sold outright, no rent, no royalty. Adapted I to City, Village or Country. Needed In every home, shop, store and office. Greatest coniH- ienoe and best seller on earth. Ateato make from t> to|58 perdar. One In a residence means a sale to all tno neighbors. Fine instruments, no toys, works anywhere, any distance. Complete, ready for me when ahipiwsd. Can be put np by any one, never out oT order, BO repairinir, lasts a lize time. Warrsnted. A mow maker. Writ© 1W. P. Harrison & Co., Clerk 10. Columbus, a P A T E N T S . FOK PROTECTION, NOT FOR ORNAMENT. flits DUBOIS ft DUBOIS, Patent Attorneji. Inventive Ags Bulldinff, WAS^IMQTON, D. C. Mention tUe HE NAMED THE TOWN. A Ckokln* Indian Responsible for Keo- * knk'a Peenltnr Cognomen. "Just been out in Keokuk. Hottest place in Iow&," said a weary traveler the other day. "Wonder why they have such towns on the map. Only place there that appears to do any business is the steam laundry. What does the name Keokuk mean, any­ way?" "Indians named it," said a traveling man, in the rotunda. , "Wish they had forgotten to," sighed the weary wayfarer. • "Ever hear how It came'about?" ask?4 the drummer. "Never," replied the traveler, as he sank, exhausted, into a chair. "\Vell, it was in this way," said the commercial man, sitting down. "Years ago a lone Indian walked across the plains looking for game and trouble. He shot a prairie chicken, built a fire near the river and cooked his bird on what is now the site of Keokuk." "Was this in the summer time?" asked the traveler. "It was," said the drummer. "Don't see why he needed a fire to cook a chicken, then." "Never mind about that. He cooked his chicken and proceeded to demolish it. As he sat upon the river bank en­ gaged in this pleasing pastime it sud­ denly occurred to him that some day there might be a great city built where he was sitting." "The red man was fooled," said the traveler. "Well," continued the drummer, not heeding the interruption, "he thought to give that great city a name, and he arose, the chicken still in his hand, and prepared to register the name with the winds of heaven. Just then a bone stuck in his throat and all he could say was 'Ke-o-kuk.'" Then the two men clinched and .the porter pulled them apart. TREE MINES. A Onriona Industry of Southern Aain-- Loga Excellent for t'oftina. 6ne of the most curious industries in the world is the business of mining for coffin planks which is carried on in Tipper Tonquin, a portion of the French possessions in southeastern Asia. In a certain district in this province there exists a great underground deposit of logs, which were probably the trunks of trees engulfed by an earthquake or some other convulsion of nature at a comparatively recent period. The trees, says the Youth's Compan­ ion, are a species'of pine known to the natives, and also to some extent to Eu­ ropean commerce, as nam-hou. The wood is almost imperishable, and has the quality, either through its nature or as the result of its soujourn under­ ground, of resisting decay from damp. This quality makes it particularly val­ uable for the manufacture of coffins, and for this purpose It is largely ex­ ported to Europe. The trees are often a yard in diame­ ter. They are buried in sandy earth at a depth of from two to eight yards, and are dug up by native labor as de­ mand is made for them. In many other places in the world trees are found underground in a very fair state of preservation. In Ver­ mont certain meadows, which now are cultivated every year, are known to be underlaid with great masses of logs which were brought down and deposited in great Jams in floods within the rec­ ollection of living men, and left where they were. In the course of time the interstices between the logs filled up with earth and all were covered over evenly with more earth and vegetable growth. Whenever any of those buried logs are dug up they are found to be in a surprisingly good state of preservation; but the business of "mining" them has not yet become an industry. STORY OF THROCKMORTON. How Ho Obtained a Verdict for m Client In a Tozaa Court. The late Gov. Throckmorton, of Texas, was once engaged in the defense of a man accused of murder. The evi­ dence against his client, says Kate Field's Washington, was too strong to be overcome by any plefa except that of self defense; but the man killed was in his shirt sleeves at the time, and no one had seen him with a weapon exposed. Mr. Throckmorton at the proper junc­ ture of affairs suddenly pulled off his coat and waistcoat and, turning around so that the jury could see every side of him, inquired whether, in their judgment, he was armed or not. The answer in the negative was unanimous. With a knowing smile Mr. Throckmor­ ton proceeded to draw from under his left arm one pistol, another from under his right, one from each of his boots, n,nd, finally, a huge bowie-knife from tinder his shirt at the back of his neck. As he laid the weapons in a row on the table, he said: "You,'see, gentlemen, although in my shirtsleeves, it was not safe to consider me unarmed." The counsel for the prosecution knew from that moment that their case was gone. His Striking Feature. A certain judge who is blessed with a tremendous head of hair, which is generally in a state of wild disorder, was questioning a youthful witness, to make sure that he comprehended the eharacter and importance of the oath he was about to take. , "Boy," he said, with his severest and most magisterial manner, "do you feel sure that you could identify me after six months. Now be careful. Think before you Speak." *'Well, your honor," replied the boy, after a prolonged survey of the judge's portly figure and rugged features, "I ain't *ure, but I think I could if you wasnt to comb your hair." GRAND HARVEST PARTY. Yourself and ladies are cordially invit­ ed tQ attend a grand Harvest Party, at J. Michaels' Hall, Johnsbargh, III, Thursday evening, Aug. 2, 1894. Floor managers, M. Rouen, N. Rotbermel. Music, Orchestra. Tickets, 50 cents. J. MKHAEIA, Proprietor. DRAWBACKS OF FREE LIBRARIES The Particular Book You Want la Always Out and the System of Fines Annoying1. Here is one man's ^experience of a free circulating library: "I gave my reference and took out my first book. It was good to scan the library list and see the amount of literature I could read free. The second time I wrote, according to the rule, the list of cabal­ istic figures which index the book, and after nearly a half hour's delay I was told that the one I wanted was 'out.' Then I put down fresh sets of figures and wasted more half hours, but they were «all 'out,' until I finally took in desperation >a book recommended me by the young woman who disappears for such an age to make the searches. This book proved so uninteresting that I brought it back next day and again went through the figure list business and the half hours of waiting, until I wound up by repeating my previous ex­ perience and taking a book by recom­ mendation. "I threw it aside on reaching home and forgot I had It until a postal warn­ ing me of "the due of one cent for every day ov^jr two weeks in which I had it had now set in. I turned up with it when -eight cents were due, took out another I didn't want and forgot it until eleven cents were due, kept up the business of figure lists, waitings, books I didn't call for apd fines after­ ward throughout a year until I might for better have bought straightout the books I wanted, but never got. "At last one time with a book in my possession I left town. A siege of postals and of visits from a mysterious- looking man kept my servant busy. I had forgotten all about the book, and my friends were indignant over the dunning of this Individual. On my re­ turn to town I found that my refer­ ence had been called upon to pay for the book which I was in the position of having stolen from the library, and that my reputation was in an unpleas­ ant fix. I now pay for my books." . TORTURING TURTLES. Hew the Poor Reptllee Are Deprived sf Their Shells. "I never see any of the pretty arti­ cles made out of tortoise shell," said a citizen of Oakland, Cal., recently, "without thinking of the probable torture the poor turtles had been sub­ jected to in order to procure the ma­ terial for their manufacture. The na­ tives in the West Indies lie in wait for the turtles as they come to the shore €o deposit their eggs, then they catch them and turn them over on their backs, so that they are absolutely help­ less. The operation of divesting these creatures of their shells is cruel in the extreme. The tortoise shell that we value is merely the scales that cover the bony shield of the turtle. These scales are thirteen in number, and a large turtle will furnish about eight pounds. In order to detaoh this shell from the living animal (for they don't want to kill them, as in that case they would be exterminated in a few years) they fastep him down, and then put dry leaves and gr^ss under his back, to which they set fire. The heat causes the scales to separate at the joints. They then insert a large knife beneath them and lift the shell from the back. Many turtles die under the operation, but they have been known to be caught a second time with an outer ooating reproduced, but in such cases there was only one pieoe, fast--d of thirteen. AUSTRALIA'S CLIMATES. It Has a More Varied Assortment Than Almost Any Other land. What is our idea of the Australian climate? It is most probably news to us to be told--perhaps we have never even thought of it--that in one colony of New South Wales, in parts, the in­ habitants experience a winter like Can­ ada and a summer like Jamafca. In Kiandra, says All the Year Round, a mining town on the borderland be­ tween New South Wales and Victoria, there is no communication with the outside world for four months in the year except by the -use'of snowshoes. Snowshoe races are organized, and the mail man has to use these of lo­ comotion. At the same time In Queensland the sun will be pouring down in over­ powering strength, drying all before him and making water dearer than wine. To continue the tale of this di­ versity of climate, in part of northern Queensland the rainfall and vegetation are not unlike those of Ceylon; in the northern rivers of New South Wales canebrakes flourish as moist and lux­ uriant as in Jamaica; in the west of the same colony a long file of camels laden with merchandise has become a common object. And in Tasmania Assam hybrid tea plants grow side by side with barley, maise and potatoes. Surplus of lawyers. In 1850 the proportion of lawyers to the male population in this country was one in 404 and in 1880 it was one in 398. The number of lawyers in legis­ latures has always been greater than their proportion of the population would warrant. In Maine there has been on the average one lawyer for each ten members; in Vermont and Rhode Island, one for each twelve; in Connecticut and in New Hampshire, one in sixteen, and in Massachusetts, one in nine. Of the entire number of United States senators since 1787, 2,068 out of 3,122 have been lawyers. Of the twenty-four presidents of the United States nineteen have been law­ yers. Seventeen of the twenty-three vice presidents and 218 of the 232 cab­ inet officers have been members oi the bar. NO. 7. AN H-fc' IMPRESSIVE TRAIT. A Queer Man Who Hade a Friend ky B»* spect for HI* Mother. During my bohemian days it oc­ curred that I sat in an uuptown with the sort of a man whom thin inci­ dent will reveal, says a writer in the ^ New York Press. A wild-looking, unkempt chap, ganoat, • ' > I shabby, with a four days' growth of' beard, rushed in, looked wildly around • and then hurried over to my compan- * f'; ion and took him aside. As a result of their conversation the man with me ^ turned to me and said in a whisper: "I am going to ask you to loan me two dollars, but don't you do it." Then he asked me and I refused the ^ loan, and the gaunt man went instead- , yV: ily out. "Queer duck, that," said the man at * ' the table with me; "always getting into scrapes, taking out opera com- panies and leaving then) stranded. The ' * last scrape he got into was in Montreal, lie telegraphed home: 4I am in jail on 1 a technicality, but don't tell mother.* r £$ That struck me as very funny, 'Don't '•$, tell mother.' But he was always an f "i ill-balanced ass, anyway." * A' Now the thoughtfulness of his moth- - er in the young man who wanted to ' - borrow two dollars struok me as a v t rather deserving trait, and-il left my * -.1-; companion abruptly and followed him % ^ out. 1 saw enough of him to convince ^ me that he was not a man of business, > <4^ and not even an admirable character. ; »' However, I loaned him the two dol- lars. Since then he has been consider- •„ ably in the public view in many upa and downs. But he is now comingn- „ k home from the other side as the tm- , "*, ^ presario of a lot of continental stars. I , fr^. wish him well. Like Mark Twain I * love a man who never shakes his moth- er. This one's name is Robert Grau, / AMERICAN RICE PAPER* * ,. ! " t ' ri • J Vtw Chinese Tree Is Now Successfully -;';V Grown In Florida. i • The rice paper tree, one of the most interesting of the flora of China, has ,-,4 • recently been successfully experiment- » ed with in Florida, where it now flour- ' ̂ ishes with other subtropical and Ori- >'-fj ental species of trees and shrubs. When first transplanted in American * - \ • soil the experimenters expressed doubts * as to its hardiness, fearing that it would be unrfble to stand the winters. All'^^j^. these fears have vanished, however, \'\f and it is now the universal opinion that . it is as well adapted to the oiimate of this country as to that of the famed ' .#/ Flowery Kingdom. , It is a small tree, growing to a height J -*1 ̂ ; of less than fifteen feet, with a trunk ?. ^ (i. or stem from three to five inches in diameter. Its canes, which vary in color according to season, are lar^e, *" ;"i soft and downy, the form somewhat resembling that noticed in those of the castor bean plant. The oelebrated rice paper, the product of this queer tree, is iormed of thin slices of the pith, which is taken from' the body of the tree in beautiful cylinders several in length. The Chinese workmen apply the blade of a sharp, straight knife to these cylinders, says the St. Louis Republic, and, turning them round either by rude machinery or by hand, dexterous­ ly pare the pith from circumference to center. This operation makes a roll of extra quality paper, the scroll being of equal thickness throughout. After a cylinder has thus been pared it is un­ rolled and weights are placed upon it until the surface Is rendered ludformlf. smooth throughout its entire length. It Is altogether probable that if rioe paper making- becomes an industry in the United States these primitive modes will be done away with. HE HAD FOUND IT. ** ; r' „»W- A Confuting Clause. A famous London will bequeathed "all my black and white horses" to a! certain devisee. After the lawyers had wrangled to determine whether all thej black horses and all the white ones, were meant, or only the piebald, or black-and-white ones, a witness test!* fled that all the horses of the dead aufi were mares, and the oom fusion WM| . worse confounded. Just Kxaetly How MaehJhne Poetry Was Ground Out. The young man and the young wom­ an from half a mile beyond the timber line came hesitatingly into the office, and the young mafl inquired if they could look 'round a bit and see how a newspaper was made. Of course, per­ mission was granted at .once, and a guide was furnished to do the honors. They went everywhere, and, on the principle of saving the best till the last, they wound up in the editorial rooms. About the first thing that attracted their attention in that department waa a smooth-looking young fellow busily at work on a typewriter. The young man left his fair companion in the hands of the guide and sidled over to the writer. He had no idea what it waa» but in a minute or two he noticed the written page as it slowly emerged from the roller, and he beckoned hasti- ! ly for the girl to come over, says the Detroit Free Press. "I say, Maria," he said, as he caught her by the arm and dragged hereloaer, "look at that, will you?" "What is it?" she asked. "You've heard tell of the poetry they Iiave in the newspapers, haven't you?" She nodded. "Well," he explained, "that's what they make it on. You watch the ytranjg feller awhile and see how fast he turn it out," and they stood by the busy writer so long that it almost gave i him a oonniption fit, and then broken. him all up by asfcing him if he couldn't give them a sample to take home with them. Continents Named far Women. Three great divisions of the globe took their names from feminine orig­ inals--Asia from a nymph of that name, Europe from Europa, the daugh­ ter of Agenos, and Africa from Libya, or Aphrica, the daughter of Epaphus. And the fourth quarter, America, though named for a man, has been given a feminine ending. . ' ' ' 4 v?i V WM®. -- C I D E R M I L L . r The undersigned having put in a first class Cider Mill, is prepared to make your apples into cider in the beet manner and guarantee satisfaction. Bring wr apples along and we will he row topfeMJ you. Mill at my residence, just north of the cemetery, MfHwrr. IU- KM* WBKU* 4 ' " v k "C .5