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*" v ^ \\ " ' >\\*' * ' ' 5 " • ' "1 it!" • '_ THE i«i«iiiii m 'Wm. if. ' - j i VOLUME XXVI. McH^NRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1900. NUMBER 6 tEST, PEACEFULLY REST ' 9- GRANDMA GAGE QUIETLY PASSES AWAY, AGED 83 YEARS. C«m« to McHenry County in 18S7--WHS Married July 4, 1838-Kemalnx Interred in Woodland Cemetery. 'One by one as the Sparrow's fly," we are called to that bourne from whence no traveler returns in these material forms of ours. , Hyr's was a patient, sympathetic, purely unselfish, loving heart, always doing for others, with never a thought of recompense. »Her memory will be cherished to the latest generations of her deceudents, relatives and friends, long after the "Lillies of the Valley" have ceased to bloom o'er hef ttrave. Martha Persia Heald was the sixth child in a happy family of five brothers and three sisters. She was born at Furnace Hollow, near Litchfield, in Herkimer county, New York, October 7. 1817. She sank peacefully to rest at the residence of her daughter, Georg- iana Clemens, the wife of Homer Clem­ ens, in the township of Nunda, McHenry county, Illinois, on Thursday, August 2, 1900, in the 83 year of her age. In 1837 her parents, Daniel and Persis (Howard) Heald and family, moved to Illinois, then in McHenry, but now in Lake county, where on July 4, 1888, she became the loved and loving wife of the late Hon. George Gage, of McHenry; a sketch of wrhose life, printed after his decease on December 19, 1899, will be found in the McHenry Plaindealer of December 21, 1899; and in which their subsequent residence, names of children and other data, will be found. In said sketch, however, it was omitted to be stated that they moved from the "Amos Whiting farm" into that part of Mc­ Henry Village now called West McHen­ ry, about the year 1855. Shortly after the war of the rebellion they went back to said farm and lived one year, and then returned to the West McHenry home, where they lived until a few years ago; when, old age creeping on, they went to spend their remaining days at the home of their daughter, Georg- iana Clemens. Her funeral service was held mid flor­ al tributes, at the residence of her said daughter, at 11:80 a. m. August 4, 1900. The venerable Rev. Holmes Slade, of Elgin, Illinois, formerly Pastor of the Universalist church, of McHenry, now in the 82nd. year of his age, and a dear friend of the family for many years; al. ways officiating therein on similar occa­ sions; preached the funeral sermon, as­ sisted by the Rev. Jacob Straub, now Pastor of the Universalist church at McHenry. The hymns were sung by Mr. and Jtfrs. Thomas J. Walsh, of McHenry; old friends of the family; in sweet, pa­ thetic and heartfelt tenderness; the wife presiding at the organ. The Services. Hjrmn--"THOU ABT GONK." Thou art gone, yes gone forever To the realms of endless joy; To the land where hearts ne'er sever, Where there's bliss without alloy, i Thy-sweet counsel ne'er shall vanish ' t rom the minds of those you loved. Ne'er shall thoughts of thee be banished, Not on earth, nor heaven above. No more words of consolation Will be issued from thy lips, Thou hast tilled thy earthly mission, God has called thee home to rest. But our parting is but transient. For this world is fraught with pain, goon we'll join our many loved ones, Where we'll never part again. Thou no more art with us numbered, For above, thy soul did go. •Peaceful be thy silent slumbers. Peaceful, in the grave so low. Comforting passages in the Scriptures were read by the Rev. Jacob Straub, who offered prayer. Hymn--"HEAVENL.Y HOMK." We are but strangers here-- Heaven is our home. Earth is a desert drear-- 0 Heaven is our home. Danger and sorrow stand. Round us on every hand. Heaven is our Father-land, Heaven is our home. There at our Saviour's side, Heaven is our home; We shall be glorified-- Heaven is our home; There are the good and blest. Those we loved most and best. And there, we too. shall rest, Heaven is our home. Brother Slade's text was from 2nd Samuel. 14th chapter. 14th verse. "For we must needs die, and are as water •spilt, on the ground, which cannot be gath Med up again; neither doth G d re -pect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him." ^ The following is an extract from his most comforting sermon: ' 'My first idea was that death was a cer­ tain thing; that man was mortal, and that it has always been God's plan that piirn must die and go the way of all the cannot speak of death as a cer .. **nty. It amounts to nothing but a misuse of language to say we may die. The text has its right, 'We must needs die, and are as water spilled upon the ground which cannot be gathered up again.1 And God is no respecter of per­ sons in this. Everyone is served alike, the high and the low; the rich and poor; the old and the young. As the seed sown in the ground has to die, all but the germ, to release the life encasied within its foldings, so man has to die, all but the soul, to furnish the conditions of the higher life else­ where; since if we did not die we could never have any life but the present. We see this in the crawling worm, escaping it's rudimental body and becoming the creature of life and beauty that is giv­ en us in the butterfly, as also the drag­ on-fly, living and dying as a groveling creature under the water, and coming forth as an inhabitant of the air, the winged creature that God designed it to be. It is not death in reality that we ex­ perience, so much as it is a fuller and completer life: the going forward to more of the reality of our being; that we may be freed from all earthly limita­ tions, and start on a larger growth. The death of the body is as it were the birth of the soul; its natal day; and so is a recurrent phenomena of immor­ tality. It is the end of life, it is true, to this exterior form, or personality which we have been taught to look upon here and now as man, and we do die as to the body, but the soul does not die. Under this view death has ceased to be anything but an epoch of life, for we rise out of it into life, and ascend into a better condition of being, into the trans­ cendent brightness of the upper heav­ ens. We may conclude that we are never to live half so really and truly as when we shall have shuffled off this mortal coil, and our present dream of sense shall be ended; for death is the pathway through which we are borne from time, to the shores of a better land, and the haven of a better destiny. We do not bury our friend, only the form, the vehicle, in which for a time our friend had lived. It is not we our­ selves, and it is sad abuse of terms to say that it is, that go down to the grave. The dust returns to earth as it was, but the spirit returns to God who gave it.' The spirits of the dead are nothing but our individual selves apart from these bodies of ours. We are not to forget that there are these two sides to dying, the earth-side, and the heaven-side. The dissolution of the body we call death, because our senses discover nothing but the dead form of existence when the soul is done with this earth-life. But those who see the other side of the event, may just as properly call it birth, or resurrection, because they see only the rising of the person out of the material into the spiritual world. Is not this of our text the consolatory reflection, whenever we would think of death as a necessary thing, that 'God devises the means by which his banished shall not be ex­ pelled from him.' Death sunders, as we know, all earthly ties. It breaks the charmed circle of home, and seems PRIZES FOR WOODMEN COUNTY CAMPS TO COMPETE AT THE COUNTY FAIR. Beat-Drilled Forester Team Will RMCIV* 9^0, Second flO and Third Price for Largest Attendance. BIO VOLUME OF TRADE. The executive committee of the Mo- Henry County Fair association met at the secretary's office, Monday, July 80, 1900, with Vice-President Harrison in the chair. Members present: Charles Forrest, John Carmack; Thomas Ooock, James Lawsoit David Mills, E. C. Wells, L. D. Lo^pll, C W. Hill, Wm. Saylor, George Hunt, Clifford Thompson, Superintendent Dike. Moved and carried that the society give on Modern Wood main Day, Fri­ day, Aug. 81. the following prizes: For best-drilled team of foresters, $30; second, $10; third. $5; also $10 to the camp showing the largest number present on the grounds that day. FINE CATTLE SHOW PROMISED. Dealer* Preparing to Make Live Stock Exposition (JnequaleJ. Active preparations are afoot among live stock dealers of Illinois to make the international live stock exposition in Dexter Park amphitheater, Chicago, the first week of December the greatest of its kind. Delegates have been ap­ pointed from all quarters of the earth. Prominent features of the exposition will be exhibits of by-products, including butterine, soap, leather, hair and fertil­ izers. Advices from Mexico, Canada, England, and other foreign countries say prospects are most promising for an interesting, representative meeting. A total of $75,000 will be appropriated for the premium list. Hunter A. Take Warning. The Woodstock Gun club has secured the appointment of a deputy game war­ den in every township in McHeary county and propose that the game law be respected until the shooting season opens so that all can have an equal chance. A reward of $5 will be paid to any person furnishing to the club sufficient evidence of any violation of the law. Any farmer or other person having knowledge of any unlawful shooting before Sept. 1 or of persons hunting on their premises when for­ bidden can have such persons prose­ cuted \^thout cost or expense to them by addressing the undersigned. It is unlawful to kill or attempt to kill any praiiie chicken, partridge, grouse, pheasant, squirrel, woodcock, mourning dove, snipe, plover, duck or other water foul before Sept. 1 or quail before Nov. 1. WOODSTOCK GUN CLUB, Woodstock, 111. Mrs.'Covell Entertains. Mrs. S. Covell entertained a large number of guests at an elaborate dinner party last Sunday. The occasion was planned in honor of Mrs. A. S. Smith, of Kansas. Those present were: D. A. jN. Smith, Messrs. Smith, Masters Lonnnie and Ralph Smith, Miss Mattie Smith, Mrs. A. S. Smith, Graudma Covell and Miss Jen­ nie Covell. like going away from life, and beauty, j Mesdauies W. L. Smith, and cherished friends; from conscious real life, into a realm of darkness and silence; but how far removed is this idea from the thought of God respect­ ing death and its accompaniments. Life and death should be brought into right relations with each other, and then would it be reduced to the exact­ ness of science. Of course it is hard to say the fare­ well word, but let us remember that there are no partings yonder; no fare­ wells to be spoken. For in the fields beyond the river. Love shall bloom for us forever, By and liy lty and by. All the hopes we fondly cherish. All the sweetest thoughts we nourish. There shall live and never perish. By and by--by and by. And what let,it be asked is the sim­ ple message slich a life as this bears to us? The one that beams out of it, more than any other, it is this, the worth of goodness. Nothing but goodness is immortal. Nothing reaches so far. Nothing tells so mightily. Nothing spreads the glory of heaven over the common places of earth, as the plain good man or good woman. Nothing but this goodness can last, nothing else. We shall believe it at last, that this is worth living for, and that only this goes through the valley of the shadow of death, and opens the gate to "the eternal life. And let me say to you friends, that we are to live so that at the close of life wa can look back and say of it, 'It has been a blessing to us and to others.' Messrs. and S. W. Smith, N. and B. L. (Continued on page eight.) The development of the manufactur- cent of the exports, in 1895 28.14 per ing industries of the United States dur- cent and in 1900 81.54 per cent. ing the past decade, and especially dur- The table which follows presents the ing the second half of the decade, is il- figures for manufacturers' materials for lustra ted by the completed figures of each of the periods named: the treasury bureau of statistics, show- Fiscal year-- Imports. Exports, i n g t h e i m p o r t s o f m a n u f a c t u r e r s ' m a - J j J J * S b E : ? 2 terials and exports of finished manufac- 1900 432.2*4.366 tures in the fiscal years 1890, 1895 and In the above statement the term man- 1900. From 1890 to 1895, importations ufacturers'materials includes only the of manufacturers' materials increased articles classified as "articles in a crude $9,047,281 and from 1895 to 1900 they in- condition which enter into the various creased $114,781,868. From 1890 to 1895 processes of domestic industry." the exports of manufactures increased The following table shows the expor- $32,498,81.7; from 1895 to 1900 they in- tations of principal manufacturers ar- creased $248,688,628. Manufacturers' ranged in the order of magnitude in the materials formed in 1890 28.06 ^per cent fiscal year 1900, including all whose of the total imports, in 1895 25.64 per value in that year exceeded $1,000,000, cent and in 1900 85.57 per cent; finished and compares the exports of 1900 with manufactures formed in 1890 17.87 per those of 1895 and 1890. Articles ex ported from the United States-- 1890 1X115 1900 Iron and steel and manufactures of f85,542.20S j. 138,000,089 tl21.S5S.344 Oils, minerals, refined 44,658.854 41.49S.37S 6S.24fi.tt4« t'upper manufactures , 2,3t'.l.:£J2 14.4tf8.70,? 57.S5l.707 Leather and manufacturer uf 1SS,4:>,<.847 15.014.407 27.2SS,H0S Cotton manufactures 9,9tM,277 13.7SW.S10 5El,KiW,001 Agricultural implements 3,8.V.I.1S4 5,413.075 ltf.0M.H8tf Chemicals, drills, etc 4,424,271» 8.189.142 ' 13.IHtt.tCW Wood manufactures ... 6.30M.645 ii.24W.S07 11.330.U7X I'arattine and paraffine wax.. 8.408.700 3.560.614 x,602.7:<2 Fertilizers .. l,t»ls.U81 5.741.202 7.218.224 Scientific instruments 1,429.785 ».4*12.717 tl.431.Wl Taper and manufactures of 1.220.6X6 2.185,25" 6,215,559 Tobacco manufactures 3,870,045 3.953, 105 6,000,646 Fibers, vegetable, manufactures of 2,094.807 1.722.55# 4.438,285 Cycles not stated not stated 3,551.025 Books maps and engravings....* 1,880.094 2.310,217 2,941.915 Carriages and horse cars \ 2,050.0X0 1.514.326 2.HW.7S4 Starch \ 878.115 :!0rt.S00 2,gM.;iir: Cars and steam railways \ 2,689.098 808,378 2,554,907 India rubber and gutta perclia manufactures. 1,090.'J07 1.505;i42 2.384.157 Spirits, distilled 1,633.110 , g.Wl.6* 2.278.111 \ egetahle oils (exceptcotton and linseed)..... 320,227 491.436 2,162.750 Malt liquors #54.408 558.770 2,137.527 Clocks and watches 1,695,130 1,201.005 1.974.202 Musical instruments I,l<fi.l34 1.115,727 1.955.707 Ulass and glassware 882,077 040,3X1 1,933,201 Paints and colors... 578,103 720.706 1.902.058 (.lullpowder and other explosives '868,738 1,277.281 1.888,741 Brass Manufactures 467.313 7x4,640 1,860.727 Soaps ' 1,109.017 1.092.126 1.773.981 Marble and stone manufactures 729.111 885.179 1.077.109 Zinc manufactures 156,150 237.815 1,068,208 Sugar, relined (excluding candy) 2*0N0,662 1,119.476 1.569,317 Wool manufactures 437.479 670,226 1,253,002 Japanese Tea. Mrs. .E. J. Hazel will give a Japanese Tea,in behalf of the Universalist church, I on Saturday evening. Some excellent musical and literary numbers will be rendered by the cream of home talent. Charming Japanese ladies in oriental costume will serve tea on the lawn and you will receive a cordial welcome. A Former Resident Dead. Joseph Bentfield, a former well-known resident of McHenry but more recently of Pierz. Minn., died in Germany. June 26. Mr. Bentfield left Pierz in May on a visit to relatives in Germany he land­ ed June 19 and the following week died of paralysis of the heart. Will Nut Issue Aug. 11. The Harvard Independent and Herald each announce that they will not issue any paper for the week of August 9, and that from August 4th to August 11th no job work will be done. This with the avowed purpose to give their employes a week 's vacation, which is very proper, (iives a Tea. Mrs. F. C. Ross gave a very delight­ ful tea at her beautiful cottage home cn Friday evening of last week. The guests present to enjoy the occasion w -re: Dr. and Mrs. H. T. Brown and Mr. and Mrs. A, L. Howe. Improving Her IteHidence. Mrs. W. Parker is making a number of very decided improvements in her residence. Several changes have been made in the interior and the exterior h. a received a fresh coat of paint. HERE AND THERE. A Miscellaneous Aggregation of Informa­ tion Interesting to All. A night man has been put on at the railroad pumping station and nearly air trains stop at Piano for water. The change was made necessary because the Fox at Aurora is so low that it is no longer a source of supply.--Ex. It is safe to say that more has been written and read about, the Chinese em­ pire in the papers and magazines of the world during the past month than dur­ ing any previous ten years. The man who is not learning something about China these days is not reading the pa­ pers. W. S. Dunham, James M. Fletcher and E. A. Vandevere leave for Paris next Saturday, on the Minneapolis, to receive a shipment of horses which are being shown at the Paris exposition. They will spend about two months in Europe. Belvidere is elated over the purchase of ground and machinery that will give to that place the largest sewing ma­ chine plant in the world. The purchase is made by the National and when all of the buildings are up will employ 5500 men and turn out over 800 machines daily. The company has a large foreign lis well as home trade. Frank Price, of Madison, 111., who has been missing seventy-one days and mourned by his parents as dead, was found yesterday working for a farmer not many miles from his home. Ed Ryan, his chum, who has been held by the authorities on the charge of mur­ dering Price and against whom a strong chain of circumstantial evidence had been woven, has been released. One of our exchanges speaks of a millinery store kept by a very esti­ mable lady, and says the editor was gratified $o see her stocking up. The editor says he was never so astonished in his born days as he was when the paper came out, to meet the millinery lady and have her strike him across the brow with an umbrella, and tell him he was a liar and she would tell his wife. He says he don't know what she was mad about and he read the iteln over a hundred times to see if there was anything in it that was the least bit disrespectful. The boys around Chas. Poole's black­ smith shop set a trap for him the other day, which came near causing serious results'. They fixed a pail of water over tne door so that it would spill on Mr. Poole when he entered. The pail was a heavy one, and was about half full of water. Instead of tipping over and splashing Mr. Poole with water, the pail and all fell and the lower part cut an ugly gash in Mr. Poole's head- Such pranks are very apt to hurt someone, and the less they are indulged in. the better it is for all concerned.--St. Charles Chronicle. On a charge of having abandoned his wife in Waukegan, 111., five years ago T. V. Dur kin was arrested in Chicago Tuesday. Durkin was arrainged before Justice Shattswell on a charge of de­ sertion, but his case was continued un- I -il the 9th of this month. He fnrnished the required $500 bail. Mrs. Durkin, who is employed as domestic in a prom­ inent Waukegan family, when inter­ viewed, said: "We were married by Justice Heath June 8, five years ago. My husband only lived with the twenty- four hours when he left and never re­ turned or made inquiry concerning my welfare. Our little girl is now liviug with my parents in Milwaukee. My father's name is Julius Seeger. I've been looking for Durkin for two years. For the first few years, I didn't pay any attention to the matter, but two years ago thought I'd try and locate him. Search has been kept up ever since, and now that he is found, I hope to make him suffer for what I've had to go through." Many years ago Lomando Pierce was a well-to-do merchant in Joliet. One good, or evil day, as you may call it, he married and the future took a rosy hue. But, as will happen in the best of fami­ lies, a quarrel arose between Pierce and and his wife. Thereupon he decided to go away. Leaving all his property to his wife went west. He settled in Kan­ sas and started the town which bears his name. He began to handle grain, and was successful from the start. Shortly after his going away, the daugh­ ter, Florence, was born, but Pierce knew nothing of the event until several years afterward. Later Mrs. Pierce secured a divorce and about two years ago remarried. This second marriage was annulled by the courts. Coming together recently the old quarrel was> smoothed over, the old courting re­ peated and Pierce was remarried to his first love and former wife after sixteen years of separation. Minister Conger met, 'wooed and won his wife at Lombard University, Galesburg, 111. It was a college match as both bride and groom were attend­ ing school together there. The bride was Miss Sarah J. Pike, and the match was a romantic one. Each was attract­ ed to the other by their brightness in classes and by the good spirit which pervaded every action and word. This was in ante-bellum days, and the firing on Fort Sumpter put a temporary end to their love making, as cruel war inter­ vened. Mr. Conger went away to war, serving with gallantry and distinction, rising to the rank of major. During his absence Miss Pike was true to him and kept in touch by constant watch and continued correspondence. The years spent apart only intensified their affection, and they were married when the war was over, the school day's courtship resulting^in thirty-four years of happp wedded life. They were mar­ ried at Galesburg in 1866, and there Maj. Conger.practiced law for a time, then moved to the farm near Dexter. Church Motes. The Willing Workers will .meet with Mrs. S. Covell on Thursday afternoon of next week. A cordial invitation is ex­ tended to all. The Ladies' Aid Society^f the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. Robt Sher- burn next Friday afternoon, for the pur­ pose of quilting. Come early. A large attendance is requested. GENERAL COUNTY NEWS. INFORMATION GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Some ef the Happenings lit oar C«ulf . in Condensed Form for Busy People-- . Kxchauge Gleanings. Thos. Bright has completed a well for Chas. Talbott up on the Stanford hill at the depth of 198 feet, of which 92 feet was in solid rock. The job was complet­ ed in just eleven days.--Marengo Repub­ lican. number of cases where money and goods have beep stolen recently and it looks as though the work was done by local tal­ ent. It will be a good idea to watch out for suspicious characters lurking around. --Marengo Republican. A few days ago the home of G. L. Avery was entered during his absence for a short time and $4? taked from his lx>cketlKX)k. He did not know that he had been robbed until he got his pocket- liook to pay out some money when h£ found it empty. Someone must have been watching for the opportunity to make a raise. We have heard of a Joseph Schwartz, who is a tenant on the Conyes farm in Leroy, Boone county, harvested and threshed out four acres of barley tnat yielded forty-five bushels to the acre. Henry Leverenz, tenant on the Wm. Wakely farm, north of this city, reports a yield pf 400 bushels from twelve acres of land. --Harvard Herald. Statement of the Greenwood Butter and Cheese Co. for the month of Jnne, HH)0: Total pounds milk received, 448,- 981; total pounds butter made, 20,355; amount received for butter, $8,980.75; average price received per pound, 19.8o; cost to manufacture butter per pound, 1.79c; average test of factory, 8.68; av­ erage yield of factory, 4.16; average price paid, 72.9. Attorney James F. Casey was at Marengo all of last week representing the defense in the case of the city of Marengo vs. John Zenk for selling liquor without a license. Another jury was impanneled and the second trial proceeded. Mr. Casey had called for a bill of particulars on the first trial, and held the prosecution down to it and fin­ ally shut them out on their own evi­ dence, the jury being discharged and the court taking the matter under ad­ visement until last Monday morning when an order of no cause for action was entered and the docket was onoe more cleared. This is a great victory for Mr. Casey as the city of Marengo was represented by City Attorney Marks, assisted by Attorney Walsh, of Rockford, who made a stubborn fight, as the week's record of the court will show, but they were out-classed at every turn on their "road of persecution."-- McHenry County Democrat. Najah Beardsley returned Saturday from Spokane, Wash., over the Union Pacific and C. & N. W. He will make an extended visit here, remaining until fall and perhaps longer. He says he never enjoyed better health, it being perfect for a person of his age--nearly 78. The crops in the west are good, the wheat i arvest being exceptionally fine. Among the former Nunda folks lately seen by Mr. Beardsley are: Will Cham­ berlain and wife, who are nicely fixed on a farm; Orsemus Beardsley and wife, doing well but the latter not in good health; Orton Beardsley and wife, pros­ pering--he being orte of the big farmers in Idaho; William Beardsley and wife, well and enjoying life heartily. Mrs. Abraham Dygert, who went west this spring is well. All the above are near Moscow, Idaho., W. A. Beardsley, of Almira, Wash., is thriving as station agent at that place, having a very good position; B. D. Beardsley is in Spokane, Wash., general agent there of the C. & N. W. . and he and his family are all well.--Nunda Herald. In Honor of the Band. Mr. and Mrs. i-. J. Hazel gave an in­ formal lawn party in honor of the Mc­ Henry Military Band, Tuesday eventog. The gentlemen, with their usual gener­ osity, curried with^ them their instru- rnei.ts and the residents on the west side were treated to a most excellent program. Miss Caroline Fischer, of Chicago, who is a finished artist with a either, was present and • very1 charm­ ingly entertained with several selections while ice cream and cake were served. •'"a liKar 1 yHl rd. Early Monday morning Joseph Jus- ten, one of our prosperous farmers, brought to town a number of fine pigs which were sold to Frank Wattles for the snug sum of $796.50. "It is the early bird that catches the worm." Gives a Tea. Mrs. H. T. Brown was the hostess at a very pleasant tea Tuesday evening. The gueits were Mesdames C. C Far- rington, F, C. Ross and Miss lassie Henderson] 1 'iSgF'