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f#tteS|l|pSllliftllSlP^ mm Java Whips at.... 10 and 15 cei\ts Good stocked Jav*. Whips 25 cents Solid Rawhide Centers from tip to butt.: i5° cents Extra heavy Rawhide at.. -75C and $1.00 WHIPS! Vulcanized Rubber at .*. $1.00 Whalebone Whips ?it $1.00, $1.25, $1.50 GUS. CARLSON McHenry and West Mo Henry . ;f • SEEDS K. G. DEKKER •Vest McHenry, III. , FRUITS P/,\ Fancy Groceries and Delicacies! i\TS Our motto: "The best quality of everything at reasonable price." att ln>st goods are always cheapest in the end. Specialties: Jara& Mcx-kiu coffee nilxe<l, line teas, boiled ham, canned and smoked fish, Linihurger. brick, lunch cheese etc. Im­ ported; Edam & Swiss cheese. Gray peas, pickled beans and genuine Holland her­ ring. For SICK and delicate people our imported cocoa and toast is very highly re­ commended everywhere. We also sell tickets to and from Europe at lowest rates, and exchange farms for Chicago property. Produce bought and en changed. Best Portland Cement Delivered at McHenry at $2.50 per barrel. WM. BELL. Factory and residence, No. MX) H i l l Avenue Offlce, room 2, McBride block, Douglas Ave ELGIN, ILLINOIS (HARLES 0. fRETT Wholesale and retail dealer hf* I am la the Market "'For Beef Veal riutton Hoc* and Poultry Olve Be a call r and Smoked Meats, Sausage McHenry - Illinois Pumps Steam'Fittinas and Wind mills Steel and Wood Canki and Farm machinery A full line in every department We are prepared to do Well Work of all Kinds Give us a call Conway & Rainey Ring wood, III. This Bank receives deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Do­ mestic Exchange, and does a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. We endeavor to do all busi­ ness entrusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entire­ ly satisfactory to our custom­ ers and respectfully solicit the public patronage v Honey to Loan NM1 on real estate and other first class se­ curity. Spec­ ial attention ft* given to collections INSURANCE in First Class Companies, at the Low­ est rates. Yours Respectfully PERRY & OWEN; Notary Public. . Banker*. DON'T BE FOOLEDI Take the genuine, original ROCKY MOUNTAIN TEA @ IS*: "vTW '•, Made only by Madison Media cine Co., Madison, Wis. M keeps you well. Our tiade mark cut on each package. Price, 35 cents. Never sold la bulk. Accept n« *ub»ti- Aafc year druggie*. Mancota Uaed by Gambler*. Habitual gamblers arc perhaps the most superstitious persons in the world. They invariably carry little portable mascots in their pockets, and it would be Impossible to persuade them to en­ ter into a game of chance if, by some inadvertence, thqjr mascots were not with them. Lumps of lead, coins, snake rattles, locks of hair, cauls, bits of bone, hairpins--a pile Of these things would be shown if the players in any •tiff poker game were required to re­ veal their mascots. And each amulet has a story con­ nected with it. A bullet, for instance. Which one man carries was extracted from the brain of a woman who killed herself on his account. A gold hairpin that is the mascot of a broker fell from a lady's hair in a theater aisle. lie picked it up and returned it. and the acquaintance begun thus informally culminated in a marriage. A lawyer Of Wissahiokon has for a mascot a coin that was given him by a murderer on the day the man was hanged. The mascot catalogue could be continued thus indefinitely.--Philadelphia Record. Maarplea and the Stork. Once, when joining a shooting party in England, the German emperor hap­ pened to see a magpie fly right over his head. Turning round to the Duke of Cambridge, who was with the pftrty, his majesty said: "I have just seen a magpie. Now, I'm not a particularly superstitious kind of a man, but I don't like to tumble across these wretched birds, I don't, indeed." The duke laughed and said cheerful­ ly: "Does your majesty know our old saying concerning the superstition about magpies? 'One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth.' Your majesty must look round for a second or a third or a fourth mag­ pie." "Oh, Indeed!" thoughtfully replied the kaiser. "A fourth magpie means a birth, does It? But supposing there is a fifth magpie, what then?" "If you see a fifth magpie," answered the duke, very solemnly, "it means twins!" Pattl'a . Reasons For Success. This is the way that Adelina Patti is said to have at one time summed up her good points in accounting for her success on the operatic stage: "1 am not beautiful, but I am pretty; that's one. I am tolerably graceful, that's two. I am an effective dresser, that's three. I have a way with me that is piquant, that's four. I like my public, for my public like me because I like them and never tire of pleasing them; that's five. I have a good voice, that's six. I know how to sing well--my own way--that's seven. I always know my music--that gives comfort to my audi­ ence--that's eight. I act fairly well with the roles I sing, that may count as nine." The Indian Child. In tepee life the Indian child Is unique. It is given nothing to play with except the toads that hop about the tepee doors. It has no playmates except those of its own relation, and it receives but few caresses from its par­ ents. The squaw mother is in the habit of putting her baby to bed at dark-- they sleep in little sacks--then she goes away to a dance or something of that nature, leaving the child to its own resources. If it cries, no one comes to sooth it. So crying has come to be almost unknown among these children. Green Cheese. The green color of certain kinds of Italian cheese is due to the milk hav­ ing been kept standing in copper ves­ sels. The milk takes up quantities of copper, and it is customary to estimate the degree of activity attained by the milk by noting the gradual disappear­ ance of the brightness of the highly polished metallic surface. YonnK Old Men. A writer in The Cornhill declares that "in the early part of last century a man was a man at twenty or so, a middle aged man at thirty and old at fifty. At the present time he is a boy up to about thirty-five, a young man up to fifty and is hardly regarded as old until he has exceeded David's maxi­ mum of life by six or seven years." Volcano Cooking. The Maoris of New Zealand cook their potatoes and other vegetables in volcanic hfeat. There are a few vol­ canoes in New Zealand, and some of the Maoris live up in the mountains near them. They make the volcanoes do several useful things for them, but the queerest is the cooking. Her Career. 'ou know Clara waa ambitious to "have a career. Mamma--And matrimony interferes with a career? She--Yes; but she made up her mind that she doesn't want any career that matrimony interferes with.--Puck. Bach In Hla Own Field. Papa--See that spider, my boy, spin­ ning his web. Is it not wonderful? Do you reflect that, try as he may, no man could spin that web? ----- Johnny--What of it? See me spin this top! Do you reflect, try as be may, no spider could spin this top? NEIGHBORING NEWS AS CHRONICLED BY OUR ABLE CORPS OF CORRESPONDENTS Don't forget^ the drama at Stoffel's J hall on Eriday and Saturday evenings. OSTKND. Mr. Irish was at McHenry Tuesday. Jacob Hauprich was a Ringwood vis itor Saturday. Miss Laura Sayler is at Ringwood with Mrs. C. C. Harrison. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Thomas were Ringwood visitors Thursday. Oh! Clyde Clark won the prize for the best crokinole player at the party. Robert Brott of Harvard was visiting his parents and relatives here recently. Mrs. R. H. Richardson and children, Alice and Alfred, were McHenry visit­ ors Saturday. Mrs. A. C. Thompson, Mrs. H. N. Thompson, and Miss Susie Thompson wej*6 at Woodstock Saturday. "Vernon and Ernest Brott have been absent from school for a few days on account of the inclement weather. Robert Richardson and Eber Bassett went to Woodstock with cattle Sunday evening which they took to Chicago Monday morning. Miss Clara Lincoln of Harvard spent the greater part of last week visiting at Henry Hobart's, Warren Francisco's and S. D. Brott's. When parents are determined to have their children well educated, cold weather does not have much effect upon the daily attendance at school. That is the way it is at Ostend this weather. I do not believe that another school in the county has a larger per cent of at­ tendance. This is a pleasant thing to note. Miss Ethel M. Abbott was pleasant­ ly surprised last Friday evening by a few of her friends in this vicinity, it being her seventeenth birthday anni­ versary. The guests played crokinole until a late hour and all partook of delicious refreshments. Among those present were: Misses Ella Thomas, Nina Hobart, Callie Thomas, Veda Woodford, Anna Harrison, Lora Mc­ Donald^ and Ethel Abbott. Messrs. Lester Thompson, Clifford Thompson. Guy Harrison, Clyde Clark, Ray Thomas, Alonzo Bishop, Ed. Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Eber Bassett. The correspondent recently received a letter from C. E. Jecks, now at Bur- ford, O. T.. in which he states that h§. arrived safely and found things in a very prosperous condition, and that both farm and town property is steadily advancing in value, some claims selling as high as $3000. After remarking on the difference between the people who come there from the North and those who come from the South, he winds up by informing us that it is near zero with two inches of snow and cattle are suffering^ from the cold, and a few human beings who are living in teuts are obliged to move briskly to keep their blood moving. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Has world-wide fame for marvelous cures. It surpasses any other salve, lo­ tion, ointment or balm for Cuts, Corns, Burns, Boils, Sores, Felons, Ulcers, Tet­ ter, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Chapped Hands, Skin Eruptions; Infallible for Piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c at Julia A. Story's. RINGWOOD Eranl Harrison and wife of Nebraska are visiting with his mother and other relatives in this vicinity. Last Sunday the famous ground hog awoke from his winter's nap. He saw his shadow and according to tradition, we are to haye six weeks more of cold weather. •Mr. Small, the post master of this vil­ lage, has been requested by the Illinois State Auxiliary of the McKinley Nation­ al Memoriol Association to take sub­ scriptions of those who wish to con­ tribute to the McKinley memorial fund: Our States Attorney Lowell made short work of the "blind pig" one day last week. This makes two he has killed this winter. If he serves all his constituents this way his reeltction will be assured. On Friday evening Jan. 81 a pleasant surprise party was planned and carried out on Irving Walker. The occasion being his 25th birthday. Somewhere near a hundred gussts were in attend­ ance. The evening was spent socially, many enjoying the different games. Light refreshments were served. A dinner and crokinole social will be given in the M. W. A. hall Eriday even­ ing, Feb. 7, to raise money for side walks. A most cordial invitation is ex­ tended to all. Price 15 and 25 cents. The social given by the W. C. T. U. ladies, at Howard Waterman's Friday evening was well attended and all re­ port a good time. The drama entitled "Thompkin's Girls" will be given in Woodman hall in this village on Saturday evening, IPeb. 15, under the auspices of the local Woodman Camp. The play appears at McHenry Friday and Satvday evenings of this week. It's a good drama and the cast is excellent. BARSEVILLK. Watson C. Baird is very sick with pneumonia. E. B. Smith of Ridgefield was a caller here Friday. Fred Palmer of Nun^a was a caller here Saturday. Mrs. James McNish has a sister from Missouri visiting her. Wm. Wingate and John Nish were in McHenry on business Monday. Mrs. Mary Ramsey of Elgin spent a few days with friends here last week. Ed. Wilmington of Carpentersville spent a few days last week with rela­ tives here. Miss Gertrude Turner was here from Chicago over Sunday to attend her father's funeral. Mrs. Chas Wilmington spent Satur­ day with her daughter, Mrs. Harry Wooley, of Nunda. John Thurlwell of Lincoln, Neb., has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Clarence Colby, the past week. Ed. Suttonsdio lives near McHenry called on friends here recently, he ex pects to moye to South Dakota soon. Mrs. Sarah McMillan and Mrs. Louife Smith of Lincoln. Neb., sisters of Mrs. Clarence Colby, have been visiting here. Earnest Turner died at his home here Friday evening of pneumonia and paral­ ysis after an illness of about a week, he was aged 46 years and leaves a widow and two children, four step-children and a host of friends to mourn his loss. A Card. We, the undersigned, d<rhereby agree to refund the money on a 50 cent bottle of Green's Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold. We also guarantee a 25 cent bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded. G. W. BESLEY AND JULIA A. STOTY. May 21. This paper and The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean $ 1.75 for one year. ' 'Special deal." The sky looks bluer, the sun shines brighter, a feeling of youth and strength creeps over the soul after taking Rocky Mountain Tea made by the Madison Medicine Co. 85 cts. G. W. Besley. Feteech's White Pine Cough Syrup, * Working Overtime. Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless, little workers--Dr. King's New Life Pills. Millions are always at work, night and day, curing Indigestion, Billiousness, Constipation, Sick Head­ ache and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe, sure. Only 25c at Julia A. Story's drug store. VOLO. William Dillon of Chicago spent Sun­ day with his parents. Perry, the son of Robert Walton has been very sick with pneumonia. Mi tses Florence and Fanny Smith of Fort Hill were Volo callers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Townsend spent Saturday in Chicago. Miss Annie Miller of Grayslake spent Sunday with her mother. Two sleigh loads of Volo people spent Friday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Tiller Gilbert. The evening was spent in singing songs and a very sociable time was had by all present. Friday evening of this week all are invited to meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Huson. Miss Maude Walton spent Saturday and Sunday in Fort Hill. Those neither absent nor tardy during the past school month are Maude Wal­ ton, Lucy Dunnill, Bessie Dunnill, Elsie Walton and Myrtle Wright. The di­ rectors have introduced the Cooley lan­ guage system into the Volo school which is very much appreciated by teacher and pupils. C. G. Huson was a McHenry caller Friday. A number of young people from our village attended ehe masquerade at Wauconda Friday evening. Sidney Russell and children have been on the sick list the past week. Favorite Nearly Buery where. Constipation means dullness, depres­ sion, headache, generally disordered health. DeWitt's Little Early Risers stimulate the liver, open the bowels and relieve this condition. Safe, speedy and thorough. They never gripe. Frvorite pills. Julia A. Story, Mc­ Henry; G. W. Besley, West McHenry. KMKKALI) 1'AKK. Mrs. Eld. Sutton spent Thursday at Dundee and Elgin. Miss Minnie Knox visited at W. Bolger's Sunday afternoon. B. Bonslett of Chicago and Chas. Frett of McHenry were business callers here the first of the week. Ed. Sutton started for South Dakota Tuesday where he will make arrange­ ments for his future home. Misses Kathryn Walsh and Maigaret Sutton and Chas. Gibbs attended the dance at Wauconda on Friday evening. Miss Kathryn Walsh went to Nunda the last of the week to care for her brother, Richard, who is very sick there. Messrs. Lynn Cristy, Robt. Sutton and Thos. Bolger of McHenry high school visited Miss Knox's school Fri­ day afternoon. Robert Costello came up from Elgin Wednesday and will stay the remainder of the winter with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. Walsh. Mr. Wheelar Got Rid of His Rheumatism. "During the winter of 1898 I was so lame in my joints, in fact all over my body, that I could hardly hobble around, when I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's" Pain Balm. From the first application I began to get well, and was cured and have worked steadily all the year.--R. Wheeler, Northwood, N. Y. For sale by Julia A. Story and G. W. Besley. f Peteech's headache powders core. SPRING GROVE. Byron Orvis is very sick with quinsy. W. C. Moss was a Woodstock visitor Monday. Fred Hatch left Friday last for a trip to Florida. Ina James is the latest victim to the scarlatina. The tax collector is on the way and will soon call on all. Herbert Peacock visited his parents at Richmond Sunday. Chas. Andrews is contemplating a trip to Arkansas to invest in land. Richard Oxtoby is preparing to build a house on his lot on Blivens street. Matthew Smith of Lake Geneva spent last week here. He offers his house and lot for sale. Rev. Gee will be here again on Sun­ day, Feb. 16. All come and hear a good sermon and good music. The Juveniles are very busy working hard to make a success of their school entertainment Friday evening of this week at the town ball. Frank Colby is home after a trip to the Pacific Coast. He and his brother, Harold, will engage in the chicken in­ dustry on a large scale on their father's farm east of here. The marriage of John Rauen and Miss Susie Smith both of this place took place last Wednesday at the Catholic church here and was afterwards cele­ brated with great festivities. The bride's home also her uncle's home ad­ joining and the large hall were thrown open to the many guests,all were served to most bountiful and delicious refresh­ ments and the young people spent the afternoon and evening dancing. Among the maSy presents given were a set of parlor chairs, ^vo rockers, a set of silver knives and forks, lamps, berry sets, dishes, spoons, carving set and numerous other articles. The newly married couple will move soon to Wm. Carey's farm which they have rented. Bllloun Colic. H. Seever, a carpenter and builder of Kenton, Tenn.,when suffering intensely from an attack of bilious colic, sent to a near by drug store for something to relieve him. The druggist sent him a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, three doses of which effected a permanent cure. This is the only remedy that can be depend­ ed upon in the most severe cases of colic and cholera morbus. Most drug­ gists know this and recommend it when such a medicine is called for. For sale by Julia A. Story and G. W. Besley. WOODSTOCK. Horse sale next Wednesday. John Dennis made h business trip to Chicago on Friday. Jerry Quinlan of Chicago was called to this city last Friday by the death of hiB father. George Bachman returned to Chicago on Saturday after a pleasant visit with relatives in this city. Louis Dimmel and daughter, Lena, of Seneca spent Sunday with relatives and friends at McHenry. Vrs. W. B. Sullivan of Seneca was the guest of relatives and friends in Chicago the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Wendt and children of Carpentersville spent Sun­ day with relatives and friends in this city. John Sweeney of Harvard attended the funeral of Jeremiah Quiulan in this city on Monday and also called on friends. William and James Gallagher of Chicago spent the latter part of last week with their brother, B. J. Galla­ gher, in this city. The masquerade ball in Murphy's hall last week Friday evening was not very largely attended but those present report a very enjoyable time. The "All a Mistake" company at the opera house last week Thursday even ing was greeted by a large audience and gave a very creditable performance. Arthur McCoy died at his home five miles south of this city on Friday after a short illness. The funeral services were held at St. Mary's church in this city on Sunday and the remains were laid at rest in the family lot in Calvary cemetery. The McHenry County Teachers' As­ sociation will hold a two days' session at the school house in this city on Fri­ day and Saturday, Feb. 14 and 15. A tine program has been arranged and all teache&ln the county are requested to attend. Jeremiah Quinlan died at his home in this city last Thursday evening after a long illness. The funeral services were held from St. Mary's church in this city on Monday and the remains were laid at rest in the family lot in St. Josesh's Cemetery in Hartland. Sarah Burbridge died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. K. Bur- bridge, one mile south of this city, on Thursday evening of last week, after a long illness of consumption. The funer al services were held from the house on Sunday afternoon and the interment took place in the Ridgefield cemetery. WAUCONDA. F^auk Wtlgner &nd Joe Basely made a trip to Chicago Saturday. Joe Glynch of Chicago is visiting with his Bister Miss Mary Glynch. Several couples from McHenry at­ tended the masquerade at Oakland hall Friday evening. M. S. Clark has purchased the milk route of A. T. Giloertandisnow supply­ ing the customers. Mrs. Huntington died at the home of .bar sop,.D, Huntington, Thursday, Jan. ss. YOUR How would you like to buy shoes that are so good that two pairs a year will fill your wants. How would you like the custom kind for $3.50 the pair. The All America is made on custom models by the best work­ men money can hire. They wear long because the stock and work is in them. Can't buy better shoes at any price, nor shoes so good at anything like the price. It is a pleasure to show them. Run in and look around. Spec ial Closing of Blankets, Underwear, Rubber ^ Goods and many other items at Underprice. W. C. Evanson. | Cbe Independent J It is conceded on all sides that the cele- J brated and popular Beers brewed and (bottled on improved and hygienic princi­ples and known as $ Prima and Burg Brau 4 are unequalled as the finest table Beers, f Prima Tonic, produced by The Indepen^J f dent Brewing Association, possesses a J fine flavor and taste and is especially rich i in nourishing constituents and invigorat- (ing qualities. Thef Best Beer f and nothing but the best is made by this f Brewery. Try it and be convinced. !' Purity, strength and rich flavor are its qualifications, Delivered in barrels, hal- 4 ves, quarters, eights and cases. The Independent Brewing Association JOS. HtilHiiR, Manager McHenry Branch. JOS. H. HUEflANN, Johnsburgh, Illinois. Sells Appleton Corn Huskers Corn Shellers and Tread Powers General Blacksmith Prices always Reasonable Duplex Grinding Mills, Rock Island Plows, Wagons, Carriages, Buggies, Wind Mills Well Supplies. Harness Oil, Paint Oil and riachine Oils a Speciaty I •»•••••• •••••»•• •••••••• MMHM ••••»••• • Special attention given to the sale of' PHILIP JAEGER General (Commission merchant ... Stall 1 & 3, Fulton St. Wholesale Market Cbicaao, Illinois Dressed Beef, riutton Hogs, Veal, Poultry Hides, Etc. Butter and Eggs This is the oldest house on the street Tags and price lists furnished on application COLD STORAGE FREE 29. She was 91 years of age. Dr. Freeman lias moved his office fur­ niture out from Chicago and will open an office in our village in the near fu­ ture. Among those from Chicago who at­ tended the dance Friday evening were Earl Harrison, Frank Murray. Howard O 'Neill, Pearl Pratt, Ed. Pratt and Miss Nina Pratt. R. P. Andrews and Clarence Martin went to Chicago Saturday returning Sunday. They went to select a play which is to be given by the pupils of the high school some time next month. The masque ball given at Oakland hall was 4-ell attended, about 90 num­ bers being sold. The music by Prof. Hern's orchestra was first class. Vesty Murray aud Miss Nettie Murray were awarded the prize for the best waltzers. Graham Prindiville "and Miss Emma Vanetta secured the prize for the most ludicrous costumes and Martin Murray and sister Celia got the prize for the best costumes. O Bean th« Bigutu* TORZA. • The Kind You HM Always Bugll HEATS! Fresh Salt and Smoked. Vegetables and Fruit in Season Full Having . \^j|. purchased » the West Side Market of F. Wat- . ties, it is my intention- to give all customers the- ;-vv'M.-z best service possible. I plf * spot cash for hides, poultty •.'<>' ^ and stock of all kinds, thus paying the low- • • est prices, and" ..*•'&? •** will sell on ̂ '111 line of fresh Fish at all j during the cold weather. A. C. HATTHEWS, West McHeury. ;« •:i'l V-ks* '^.1