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;i: (Icannt During January and February we will offer bargains in Winter Goods that will interest yon. Our stock of Winter Suits and Overcoats of this season's cut style and make-up is yet reasonably complete. The price we make you on them now, is after the holiday kind. We have too many Wool Hose in Men's, Women's and Children's, are willing to divide pro­ fits with you to unload. Fur Coats, Fur Robes, Horse Blankets, Duck Coats, Caps, Mittens, Wool Jackets. Sweaters, Flannel Shirts, Etc. Extra large pranes, 15 pounds for ONE DOLLAR. Dried Apples, Peaches and Apricots. Flour, Buckwheat, Graham and Corn Meal, Yours for Winter Trade, 2*r*" JOHN J.'MILLER Sold by All Newsdealers Furnishes Monthly to all lovers of Song and Music a vast volume of New, €hoic« Copyright Compositions by the most pop­ ular authors. 64 Pages of Piano MtasHc, half Vocftl, half Instrumental-- 21 Complete Pieces for Piano--Onee a Month for 10 Cents. Yearly Subscription, $1.00. lf_yoo will send us the name and address of FIT* Piano or Orjran Playem, we will send you a capf the Magazine Free. j. W. PEPPER, Publisher, Eighth * Locust Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. BO YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS DESIGNS COPVRIGHTS AC. Anyone sending a eketcta and description may amikly ascertain oar opinion iruy whether aD Invention Is probably patentable. Commnnwa- tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents Bent free. Oldest agency for Beeuringrpatenta. Patents taken through Muan & Co. recalva ipecial notice, without chnrpe. in the Scientific American. A. handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest ete- culatloa of any scientific Journal. Terms. SI a year; four months, ? L Sold by all newsdealer*. MUNN & Co.36,Broatfw**Hew York Branch OIBce. 636 If BU Washington. D.C. you will appreciate the clothing made here. SUITS and OVERCOATS are hand-tailored throughout Each garment has that subtle something--that individuality-- found only in the productions of artiste. ^And the fabrics--every pattern and coloring that is shown in this choice assortment of the very latest designs in Woolens. Prices to suit the People. J. D. LODTZ. Zero Weather ^Zero Goods marked down to Zero Prices We have many bargains for you in seasonable up- to-date rierchandise | Our Spring Clothing Samples are ready for your I inspection. Yours truly, if if 4* i'f Shoes Shoes Shoes Now is the time and this is the place to buy Goo4 Shoes cheap. I have several assortments of odd and ends of the best made shoes on the market that formerly sold from $2.50 to $3.50 at $1.00 i for choice to close quick. • And to reduce my whole stock of Shoes to make room for Spring Stock will for the next two weeks give a special discount, for cash, of io per cent, on any pair of Shoes in the housey, * . Remember I carry only the best grade of Shoes of ^11 kinds. This is your chance to buy right. S H E R M A N S . C H A P E L L . THE COUNTY CONVENTION. Th* Contests will be Spirited Natured. and Good * i Ooods Delivered Promptly. # Long distance 'phone No. 363. $ M. J. WALSH m m m m m m m m m m » « m m m m m m m * » m m m m # m m * m m m m s m m $ m * s m 9 m m m m m • # s ; * The basis of representation; at-the county com ention will be one delegate for each twenty votes cast for MCKinley in 1900 and each major fraction thereof, which will make the convention consist of 264 delegates, requiring 132 to nomi­ nate, says the Harvard Herald, The calling of the convention will act as a stimulus for the aspirants for the various offices and they will have to hustle from now until the convention meets, which will be two weeks from next Tuesday. All of the candidates now in the field, except Mr. Whitte- more, have been announced for months, so that none can justly lay claim to being late in entering the arena. The contest from now on will be spirited and good-natured. The primaries, can- cuflses, will pretty generally be held during the coming week. Dorr and Marengo are. the only two towns where a fight is being put up for the local delegation. In Dorr the con­ test has been slightly simplified bjf the withdrawal from the race of Geo. Eckert, candidate for sheriff, who J eaves the race so far as the town of Dorr in concerned, Dorr still has three candi­ dates, E. C. Jewett lor treasurer and O. H. Gillmore and D. T. Smiley for county judge. ~ Mr. Jewett is conceded the delegation by consent of the judi­ cial candidates and they will then go before the people of the town for an endorsement as to which will have^ the Dorr delegation. The caucus there ^rill be held on the afternoon of the 22d. At Marengo the contest is between E. D. Shurtleff and Chas. Whittemore, both being aspirants for a seat in the general assembly. The battje there is being waged with the vigor so char acteristic of the town and the outcome 11 virtually settle who will represent McHenry county in the next general assembly. Something: that Will do Ton Good. We know of no way in which we can be of more service to our readers than to tell them of something that will be of real good to them. For this reason we want to acquaint them with what we consider one of the very beet remed­ ies on the market for coughs, colds, and that alarming complaint, croup. We refer to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy We have used it with such good results in our family so long that it has become a household necessity. By its prompt use we haven't any doubt but that it has time and again prevented croup The testimony is given upon our own experience, and we suggest that our readers, especially those who have small children, always keep it in their homes as a safeguard against croup.-- Camden, (S. C.) Messenger. For sale by Julia A. Story and G. W. Besley. Auction. F. E. GRANGER. Auctioneer. The subscriber having sold his .farm, will sell at public auction, on the premi­ ses, being one and one-half milen south of McKenry, on the east aide of Fox river, Wednesday, February 28, com­ mencing at one o'clock p. in., sharp, the following property: Two new milch cows, 8 early 'sprin­ gers, 3 choice heifers, span draft colts 8 and 4 years old weight 2500 pounds, span brood mares in foal, two work horses, 6 choice brood BOWS, due in April, 2 choice young boors, 9 young sows, 8 yellow turkeys, McGormick binder, McCormick mower, new hay rake, hay rack, spiing-tooth cultivator, sulky plow, walking plow, drag, set dump boards, double buggy, milk wagon. 2 single buggies, truck wagon, pair bob sleighs, stone boat, SO sharpened fence posts, a quantity of hay, corn stalks, corn and oats, 25 bushels choice potatoes, one cook stove and other house­ hold goods, the usual amount of shovels, forks and other small tools too numerous to mention. Terms of sale: $10 and under cash, over $10 ten months time will be given on good approved notes drawing 6 per oent. interest. 2 per cent off for cash. Everybody present will be fed atnoon. EDWARD SUTTON. ED. P. GRANGER, Clerk. THE8UNNY SOUTH. Another Interesting: letter Froai Mra. Emma Phillips. 1902. Saved Him From Torture. There is no more agonizing trouble than piles. The constant itching and burning make life intolerable. No position is comfortable. The torture is unceasing. De Witt's Witch Haeel Salve cures piles at' once. For sKin diseases, cuts, burns, bruises, all kinds of wounds it is nnequaled. J. S. Ger- all, St. Paul, Ark., says: "From 1885 I suffered with the protruding, bleeding piles and could find nothing to help me until I used De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve. A few boxes completely cured me." Beware of counterfeits. Julia A. Story, McHenry; G. W. Besley, West McHenry. & THE TEST OF J.'ME FOR many years the people of .Mc­Henry have been purchasing good reliable goods at this store, and in­ variably have all wrongs been mtkfle right when any complaint has been made. My stock of drugs and patent medicines is just as complete as ever and in notions everything imaginable can be found on my counters and shelves. I have an exceptionally fine line of stationary and school supplies. JULIA A. STORY Will the Philippine* Pay r Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who has just returned from a tour of study in the Philippines, has written for The Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, a valuable paper ou tine UUDIUCM wjpect of our insular affairs. He comes to the conclusion that our aocount with the Philippines must, for an indefinate time, be on the wrong side of the ledger, This article will appear in the issue for February 22. Frictional Electricity, a clever hum­ orous story by Max Adeler. How Trusts Promote Men, by Paul Latzke. When O'Connor Draws His Pay, by Holman F. Day. The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop, by Hamlin Garland. How Albert Edward Saw America, by Rene Bache. Lettres from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. Sophomores Abroad, by Charles Macomb Flandrau, and the usual miscellany and dejpart- ments. Had to Conquer of" Die. "I was just about gone," writes Mrs, Rosa Richardson, of Laurel Springs, N. C., "I had Consumption so bad that the best doctors said I could not live more than a month, but I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery and was wholly cured by seven bottles and am now stout and welL " It's an nnrivaled life-saver in Consumption, Pneumonia, La Grippe aud Bronchitis; infallible for Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Hay Fever, Croup or Whooping Cough. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Julia A. Story's drug store. Helen Keller** Flrat Karntnga. There is a pretty story in connection with the series of articles which Helen Keller, the wonderful blind girl, has written for The Ladies' Home Journal, telling about her own life from infancy to the present day. She always has Shrunk from the publicity whieh fol­ lows successful literary work, and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to take up the task of pre­ paring her autobiography. She had, however, set her heart on owning an island in Halifax harbor for a summer home, and in a spirit of fun the editor of The Journal offered to buy it for her, or to provide the means to buy it. When the work of writing appeared especially irksome Miss Keller was re­ minded of her desire to beoome a land holder, and it spurred her on. Just before Chrsstmas she completed the firit chapter of her marvelous story and on Christmas morning she received from her publishers a check for a good rotrad Bum. Her delight may be im agined, for this was the first money of any account which Bhe had ever earned. "It is a fairy tale come true," she said, Whether she will reatly carry out her plan to bay the island remains to be seen. Biloxi, Miss , Feb. 12, MR SCHOONMAKER: Dear Sir:--No doubt, while you are enjoying the snow, you can imagine that at so little distance the temperature is far different, yet even in the*5 Sunny South the tiionth of February furnishes days that chill, fully equal to zero weather in the North. Biloxi still has charms, and even greater ones, after visiting New Orleans, the most noted of southern cities in this localility. Of course one must attend the wonderful Mardi Grae which consists of a series of a week's festivities and terminating just before Ash Wednesday. Thou­ sands of money is expended in making ready for this fete as many excursion rates are offered as inducements. The city is over crowded with an outside populace and its very meagre accommo­ dations for some, makes it almost an impossibility to entertain in a manner befitting a large city or the. century in which we live. Owing to good for­ tune we previously had secured a place to view the wonderful crowd and the two parades on Mardi Gras day. This of all days i s given to fun and general amusement. Thousands of maskers representing every nation and oondition, but particularly the colored, in its full and truest meaning. The crowd was certainly an orderly one. One can not describe the floats and give them justice. Twenty in numoer, different for each of the four parades. Rex or King of the carnival is represented by some noted gentleman who furnishes much towards the expenses of same, whose identity is a secret until his introduc­ tion to the city. All are dressed in beautiful costumes, the flaming torches at night add much to the beauty and brilliancy. As to the city of New Or­ leans, will visit it again and give better description. Monday we took a drive to Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis. The man­ sion is in a fairly good state of preserv­ ation. On a payment of a fee we were allowed to visit the grounds and were taken through the houses. Many pieces of furniture atill remain to prove the once lovely home of luxury and honor. Two buildings near by, namely, guest cottage and library, the latter of espec­ ial interest, as here Miss Winnie passed most of her time in her private studies, and library sketches from her brush tell of her ability as an artist. The drive to Beauvoir was interesting, a distance of four and one half miles along the beach, hugh pines in the back ground at whose base the palmetto waved a welcome. We find the people of the South cor- teous and kind, ready to lend a helping hand and plenty of time for service. We send greetings to friends while we are enjoying fresh vegetables, fish and oysters, bracing atmosphere, social gatherings about a huge grate fire at evening, yet find solace that our abid­ ing place is northern Illinois. T EMMA G. PHILLIPS. The Last Heard of It. "My little boy took the croap one night and soon grew so bad you could hear him breathe all over the house,' says F. D. Reynolds, Mansfield, Q. "We feared he would die, but a few doses of One Minuta Cough Cure, quiok ly relieved him and he went to sleep. That's the last we heard of the croup Now isn't a cough cure line that valu able?" One Minute Cough Cure is ab­ solutely safe and acts immediately. For coughs, colds, croup, grip, bronchi tis and all other throat and lung troubles it is a certain enre. Very pleasant to take. The little ones like it. Julia A. Story, McHenry^ G. W. Besley, West McHenry. After yon have read the local and county news in this paper, how pleasant to have The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean on band to give you the happen­ ings of the outside world and Europe in general* $1.75 pays for both one year. Things Worth Going After. Boys' suits, specially designed for the confirmation season, $5.00, $5.85 and $6.45. Boys' knee pants 19 and 25 cents. Men's all wool suits $3.95. Men's over­ coats $4-85. All sizes of men'B satin calf shoes, lace and congress, 98c. A new line of ladies percale wrappers--just in, 98c and $1.29. Ladies' underskirts, black, lined with outing flannel, 75 and 95c. Just received--11.8 dozen ladies' fancy petticoats at 49c. Men's flannel shirts 49c. Black and white silk laces at 10 and 12c. Fancy hat pins at 4 and 9c. Remnants of Lest linings at 8c. 20 pounds sugar for $1.00. 10 bars Lenox soap for 28c. 1 gal. can pie peaches 15c. Herkimer County cream cheese 15c. Selected Peaberry coffee 5 poundsftor $1 .00--the.se are prices which will save you money. C. F. HALL Co., Dundee, 111. The Ladies' Aid Society meet Friday Afternoon of this week with Mrs. Chas. Lamphere. All are requested to attend. Mr. Wheelar Got Rid of HIH 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. •fiSK'* Early Risers The famous little pills* PR EVEN T10H and C U R E are both in the same box. Our Favorite Cream is not only a remedy for but a p-eventive and beautifier. It whitens and softens the skin and takes away all roughness. Made of pure in­ gredients and will not harm the most delicate skin. Price 15c per bottle. We Carry a Pull Line of Toilet Requisite*? N. Justen Block, H. PETESCH, McHenry, 111. "Fnr TrifaTit.R and «^hlldr8ll: itmm.rnmn There never WM anything so interest­ ing «m the market reports and financial page of The Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean. You may have both The Inter Ocean and this paper combined for one year at the special low rate of $1.75. It's a rare chance. O Beam the Sifnatam of X' ----umiii--iti--IHIIUM Mniimimil \ •jp Cb x 9 >lhfl Kind You Have Billon* Colic. H. Beever, a carpenter and bnilder of Kenton, Tenn.,when suffering intensely from an attack of bilious colio, bent 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. Wi Besley. A Fireman's Close Call. "I stuck to my engine.although every joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain," writes C. W. Bilamy, a lo­ comotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa, "I was weak and pale, without any ap­ petite and all run down. As I was about to give up, I got a bottle of Electric Bit ters and, after taking it, I felt as well as I ever did in my life." Weak,sickly,run down people always gain new life strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by Julia A. Story. Pricc 50 cents. Taxes. The tax books for McHenry township will be open on or about February 12. On Mondays tax payers will find me at C. M. Adam's store, Johnsburgh; Tues­ days at J. E. Cristy's store, Ringwood; Thursdays at John J. Miller's store, West McHenry; Saturdays at S. S. Chapell's store, McHenry. 82-4t PETER ROTHERMEL, Collector. 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 Rowel troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe, sure. Only 25c at Julia A. Story's drug store. AVfcgetable Preparationfor As­ similating IheFoodandBegula- Ung the Stomachs and Bowels of l!\IA N T S / < H 1 L D K E N Promotes Digeslion.Cheerfuh ness and Rest.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. NOT KARC OTIC . Ahpe QfOM VrSAtWELPOXJOR /\onfJan Seal' Mx. Senna * RochelU StdH -- jhiiw Sevil * Jtpperminb A Carbonah fK/m Sep J. - rnkfrysmn. t A perfect Remedy forConstipa Hon, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. 1! A 1 b 111«1111 h «11 d j ^ D o s v s -- I N I S EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the of In Use For Over Thirty Years CUSTOM flEW YOHU CITV. mm Schioyf tiago BY QEORBE EDWARD GRAHAM. White Pin* Cough Byrnp con* Itee Oongb Sjraj^ Saury v,.' SANTIAGO 7 v>r: a/ The closing out sale of housekeepers' articles at Bvanson's should be of inter est to economical traders, but you must come quickly. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Till Kind You Have Always Bovgiit BMUW tlu with ph.to.rM*. t+kem by the Author during: the The Momt Sonsatlonml Book of Day* TV, i<orr Of tho fiiiuoui crut»» of tfca Ilyta* So..2dron under Commo Sotu W ufl»ld Soott •ohUy, iMlng blockad. Md d«Btruetion .f tlrt IfUilk iMt, xSlS rOK TBK FIRST TIME. ' roBtalna *» *utoBr«rh ul P«r*mt*l account of tho battl. by Re»r-Admiral Sekl.y. ••The fact* of the itorr of the movement! Mid operations or th» Flying Squadron aa tha author tells th«m in thto book are correct." --W. S. SCHLEY. An late resting ntrrmtlv* of fa«U. Explain* th« J palled'•F-'"T*llf MoTMient;" the "Leop;" th« "Coaling Problem," end icttlea eeaolnslrely every ad»«rs» rullmf | of the Court of Inqnlry. / NEW YORK HERALD uyc--"Mr. 1. ia ihc teliiat of (acts, leavce the free to make the deduction tkat naval o(fk«rs Died a Court el la- 0 rc-e«tab!l«b their rtputalUas, M a be r«-«atahllihe4." .„hwt hi>< ever been before the public thai li;is interested everybody an , tha in which Admiral Schley has been treated, and tbe American pnople I thV full roooHJ/on •/'#>• Hmrm mi Smnllagm. Tbi. book t«lU everything lust as it occurred ami tbe eyewitnesses saw it book is selling lil. wildfire Liberal ••omiulsMons Outfit and books now ready. Heud suven | 8^^™* for canvassing outfit. ACT QUICK. Now is tbe time to MAKE MONEY. Price $1.50, $1.75, $2.25, $2.75, according to style of binding desired. w. Sa QQmPMsiY Sotm Publishers, OHIOAQO. AGENTS WANTED *-