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THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH As a renewed declaration of the need of tbe business elements of the country, and •as voicing the determination of the honesty and intelligence of the American people, President McKinley'a Speech in New York, before-the Manufacturers' as­ sociation, showed abundance of his can­ dor and courage, such as marked his utterance to numerous delegations that visited him at his Ohio home during the presidential campaign. He is as clear and emphatic as ever, in his insistance for the best money and the highest honor in discharging the nation's obligations. In dealing with currency reform, however, the president is emphatic rather than explicit. He de­ mands reform, which is certainly needed, liut he insists that his party is "bound in good conscience to Undertake" a re­ form, even though it is obviously impos­ sible lor this congress to do anything, with a senate decidely silverized. It is of no great importance, therefore, that he does not explain what, in his mind, are the existing evils of the currency, acd tell how they should be rendered. The chief troubles are well enough known, but profitless to discuss-until they can be got at,"through congress. On the whole,jas an assurance of cor­ rect views and the right spirit, the presi­ dent's speech will have a good effect, upon the public credit and will strength­ en confidence in the business world. Woodstock, Illinois, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9, 1898. Notwithstanding the coM weather, the deep snow, the high drift*, people have attended our January Special Sales. Our store has been crowded with eager, delighted customers. Our sa es have exceeded our expectations and we aro encouraged to make unusual preparations for our Febiuary Sale. We have increased our already large stock and are prepared to welcome all who come. February is a hard month for manufacturers and jobbers. We make it easy for ourselves by taking advantage of the market when low prices occur and giving our customers the benefit. That bring* new faces. That is what brings people from long distances and the bargains they get is what brings them back again. Have you seen the new Ginghams ? Have you seen the new Patterns, the new colorings ? Well, they are just handsome; we want everybody to see them. We are delighted with them and we are convinced that you will be plea-ud and feel well paid for coming. Come and bring your friends. Tell your neighbors that all may reap the benefit. Everything is cheap. Much bfclow the usual fates. We are only able to quote a few of our numerous bargains. FEBRUARY Call and see the beautirul new Ginghams and the new novelties. Our price for Ginghrms 3$c per yard and up. ' ' Dress Goods, adapted to the season, worth 15c, bur price .. v. .. ...,.. . ... .. 9c 12£c Flannelettes ...... .... 4... .... .... 7£c 12£c Percailes, ...... ...... ....... ...... .... 7£ Good heavy unbleached Sheeting ......... .... ..<• 4c 'Kid Gloves, colored or black...... .. .... .. •• .... 69c per pair NOT A CANDIDATE EDITOR PLAINDEALEK:-- A report hav­ ing gained circulation that my name was.being considered ,by certain parties as a prospective candidate for County Treasurer, I desire, most emphatic illy, through the PLXINDEALER. to correct such report. Such a thought has never for an instant been entertained by me. I have no other ambition in this direc­ tion than to see our County offices fflled by tlie most worthy and capable men to be found in the county, regardless of all combinations, or influences, which have not for their object " the greatest good to the greatest number" of our citizens. . - - Very Respectfully; : J. W. CRISTY. Ringwood, Feb. 1st, 1898. ltt^*There was but a email offering of butter on the Elgin Board of Trade Monday; the total being but 115 tubs. Bids of 19 cenfs were placed on nearly all, and fifty-nine.tubs were struct off. "The quotation committee reported the market firm at 19 cents. Factory men reported sales tor past week at 5,973 tubs of butter and 34,900 pounds of cheese. ' tfi^-Mr. W. J. Bryan insisted with much iteration and vehemence during the'late unpleasantness of 1896 that the United State* must add §45,000,000 per annum to her currency in order to keep pace with the growth of population, and that this could not be done except by the free coinage of silver. If he takes up this subject again, he will discover by an examination of the official figures just made public that the coinage of the United States, in the calendar year 1897, was more than double the sum he named as necessary to add to the money of the country annually, being for the year $96,041,882, of which sum §76,028 485 was gold. Ifi^It has been until recently allowable as a practice for Treasury bank examin­ ers to make private examinations of banks within their jurisdiction, at extra compensation from such banks as for any reason desired special examination of their accounts. This practice, however, has just been abolished by the new (SUCCESSORS TO TERRY & OWEN.) 84,000 WORTH OF And Infant's Cloaks gcing at actual Cost to us. A few going nelow cost. Vi inter weather has just set in so don't be afraid to buy Winter Goods. We will get three months of go >d hard winter weather befoic spring sets in. Don't go .ha4f clad When you can get, Clothing at prices we are asking, $6 75 buys a fine all-wool Suit, as good as any one would wish for. Remember that good, warm Qiothing saves many a doctor bill. 20 per cent Discount on all Winter Goods, Shoes, Etc. SUGAR BEET CONVENTION' , The Agricultural Experiment Station ot the University of Illinois has in press a bulletin reporting in full the experi­ ments and investigations upon the sugar beet in Illinois. Fhe conclusion is that our citizens aunually spend twelve million dollars or more for sugar; that it would take 50 good factories, or one in each of half the counties of the State to make this amount; that Illinois can grow beets as well as any state in the Union; that her people can make their own sugar at any time when they will set about it, and all that is lacking is exact knowledge o how to begin and what to avoid. A Sugar Beet Convention is called to meet at the University of Illinois on February 25, 1898, immediately upon the close of the State Farmers' Institute. The University has secured th£, services of experts in growing of beets and the manufacturer of sugar. The object is to have a face to face talk between our citizens and men who know the business and who come as our friends to instruct and to answer questions. This is not a school for boys but a meeting of man­ ufacturers, business men and all interest­ ed in bringing this great industry into the State. The Agricultural Experiment Station has been to great expense in conducting experiments and investiga­ tions, and now bring into the State ex­ pert and exact information such as could not, he obtained by a private citizen at any cost even by a visit to the factory. Let communities meet immedi­ ately and send one or more delagates to this convention, in order that exact infor­ mation may be diffused over the State, and that the first steps in this new enter­ prise shall be well taken. A FAMOUS CRIMINAL. W. D. Burleson, formerly of Dundee, publishes a newspaper in California.*1 In that he records the recent Algonquin murder and adds: "Algonquin is a little town on the Fox river in Illinois, and its new notoriety brings to mind the doings of 'Old Sile' Doty, the famous criminal who operated in Indiana, Ohio. Michigan, and Illinois along in the 40's. He established a 'cache' and rendezvous on an island in the Fox river at Algonquin, and for years hid his plunder there. He was credited with many murders, and accomplished numerous escapes from jail and prison. Doty was a peculiar fellow, and frequently stole from a well- to-do man and gave the plunder to poor people. If he heard a poor man say he needed flour, hams, horses, oxen, tools, harness, or anything else he would go out and steal the article, and in the morning the needy person would find his wishes fulfilled as though by the wonder­ ful powers of Aladden's lamp. "Doty became so accustomed to being in prison .that in his latter years he would apply for admission to a peniten­ tiary, and was in two instances turned away, though he had to his debt several, years unexpired terms in each. The officials didn't care to take charge of a man whom they couldn't keep by means of stone walls, and ball and chain, This same island afterwards figured in crimi­ nal annals as a resort of counterfeiters, who established a regular mint and turned out coin in great abundance. The gang was finally broken up and a number of the coiners captured and convicted." GREAT DEPARTMENT STORE GROCERY DEPARTMENT Arbuckle's and McLaughlin's Coffee, 10c per pound . Gold Dust, 4 lb package, 18c per package. Kirk's Dusky Diamond Tar Sor.p, 5c per bar. 8 bars Lenox Soap, 25c. Caraher Sardines, in oil, 5c per can. Good Sweet Corn, 5c per can . Pure Food Baking Powder, 25c per pound. Good Broken Rice, 5c per pound, Pint ot Mustard, in glass jnr 10c Fine Tomatoes, lCc per can or 3 cans, 25c Parlor Matches. „ 10c per package, Argo Gloss Starch, in pound packages, 5c per package, Best bulk Starch, 3c per pound Gilt Edge Flour. $1 25 per s^.ek 20 pounds F. O. Granulated Sugar, 11.00, Fine uncolored Japan Tea, 25c per pound Canned Pumpkin, 3 lb can 10c 3 cans for ( 25c, Best cleaned Currants, in 1 pound packages, 10c And Dozens of other Snaps not Mentioned. Y ours Trrilj", A large Chicago Department Store, on State street, disposing of their leasehold at an attractive figure, decided to discontinue business, bein^obliged to vacate and give immediate possession, they placed their e!rtire_stoclt-of-T^I)epartments on sale. Of some entire stocks at private sale, and portions of others at pub­ lic auction, at prices such as can only be secured at Compulsory Sales. who states that he believes that the ^"Stoppage of the practice will relieve examiners from any suspicio i that such special employment can in any way affect the strictness of their official duties as applied to the banks under their jurisdic­ tion. The action is generally commended as a sensible one, and will be food for thought for those persons who always insist thatthe entire Government is operated in the interests of the banks of the country. 16T"The action of the Administration in sending the battleship Maine to OWEN & CHAPELL NEXT WI:I:K Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday We offer the lot of Merchandise, augmented by some seasonable bargains from our own immense stock at such McHenry, /Minois 16^° A Clerical friend of mine, says Chauncy M. Depew, told me a capital story of a Yale man who was the stroke oar of his crew and the chief athlete on the foot-ball field- He entered the Ministry and spent" years in missionary labor in the far west. Walking one day through the frontier town, a cowboy stepped up to him and said: "Parson, you don't have enough fun. Take a drink!" The minister declined. "Well," he said, "parson, you must have some fun. Here's a faro layout. Take a hand in the game." The minister de­ clined. "Parson," said the cowbow, "you'll[die if you don't have some fun." And he knocked the parson's hat off his head and hit him a whack on the ear. The old athlete's spirit arose; the science which had been learned in the college gymnasium and forgotten for a quarter of a century was aroused, and a blow landed on the jaw of that cowboy that sent him sprawling in the street. The parson walked over him > as if he had been a door rug, picked him up and dusted the 6ide of the house with him, mopped up the sidewalk, and as the am­ bulance was carrying the cowboy off, he raised his heat feebly and said: "Parson, what did you fool me for? You are choekful of fun." V ANSON'S Havana has added to the public confi­ dence already so clearly expressed in favor of President McKinley's attitude on the Cuban question. His course ever since he came to the White House has been one which the public has commend­ ed, beginning with steps which resulted in the prompt release of,.all American prisoners in Spanish prisoners in Cuba, following with demands upon the government for cessation of the cruelties in Cuba, resulting in the proposals for autonomy, now being tested. Should that prove unsuccessful there is good reason to believe that further action, equally as satisfactory to the people of the United States,, will be taken by the President and his Cabinet. And this fact is leading a large majority of the people of the United States, irrespective of party, to a public and vigorous condemnation of the course of the Demo­ cratic members of the House of Repre- senatives who have recently insisted upon an attempt to force upon the President a line of policy different from that which he has so Successfully pursued up to this time. Something like 150 pairs of odds and ends, ladies', misses', men's and boys Shoes to clean up the stock. "Some of these Shoes cost up to $3.50, Ptrhaps in the ladies' some may be a trifle out of style, but no matter, the high grade is here just the same. But you must see them. New Shoes for spring are here also. NEW SPRING CORSET OPENINC PRICE, 38 CENTS We have just received a car of "Very Best" Flour. .The mi lcr says its the finest Flour the mill ever turned out. Special price on barrel lots. Be sure and get a trial sack of this car if you doubt its quality. We have extra inducements in men's Pants and Shirts. I&" President McKinley and the repub­ licans in Congress are much pleased at the crushing defeat of the Teller reso­ lution by the votes of the republicans of the House, and they will be even better pleased to have that resolution made the isssue of the Congressional campaign. The republican party stands now, as it has always stood, for the payment of all obligations in 100-cent dollars, and it doesn't bclieve^the time will ever come when a majority of the voters of the country will favor calling the nation's obligation1 56, or any other per cent. Secretary Long said of the resolution: /'By this promise of a 44-cent dollar and of the practical discredit of the financial, obligations of the U. S.. they (the silver men) commit themselves to a policy which will reduce the value of every labor­ ing man's wages, of every veteran's pen­ sion and of every penny saved and laid upin our saving banks. We shall go to the country next fall in the Congres­ sional elections upon a square issue be­ tween a sound currency and a depreciat­ ed one; between maintaining and im­ pairing the credit of the U. S.; between giving the industrial people of the country a dollar worth a hundred cents for their labor and product and giving them a dollar worth forty cents." A Washington correspondent says: "Senator Davis is now absolutely certain that the Hawaiian annexation treaty will be ratified when the vote is taken, although the vote is not likely to be taken for several weeks, if all the Sena­ tors who have given notice of their in­ tentions to make speeches on the subject do so. A motion to postpone further consideration of the treaty until March 1, was defeated by the Senate this "^eek, thus disposing of the stories of a Combi­ nation of Senators for the purpose of holding up the treaty in order to com­ pel President McKinley to adopt their ideas of what should be done with the Cuban question, instead of following his present policy. la this connection it.may be just as well to say that the Cuban policy of President McKinley is not in any sense personal. It was only adopt­ ed after the most careful consideration and many conferences with leading Re­ publicans, and it has the support of every Republican in Congress and the hearty personal endorsement of nine- tenths of them, and is, therefore, not likely to be changed by buldozing or, in fact,.by anything short of changed con­ ditions in Cuba. JOHN EVANSON & 00 IF YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY Call and Bee me. I have a very fine stock of Light and Heavy SINGLE & DOUBLE HARNESS MiLO L. HOWE, Having leased the East Store in Stoffel's Block, WEST McHENRYi III,. HAS opened therein a first class Music Store, where at all tim< s can be found Which will be sold cheaper than the same goods can be bought elsewhere and war­ ranted as represented. Do not fail to call at once and get the benefit of our bargains. And in a Workmanlike Manner. Excursion to tlie Mardi Gras and Win- te Resorts. On account of the Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile, the Northwestern line will, Feb. 14 to 20. inclusive, sell ex­ cursion tickets at very low rates, limited for return passage until March 19. Ex­ cursion tickets are also on sale daily, at reduced rates, to the principal winter re­ sorts in the United States and Mexico. For information apply to ticket, agent Chicago & Northwestern R'y. Yours Respectfully, GUS CARLSON McHenry, 111.,. Feb. 1. 1898.