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- : «• , ' - ' . - im ' \ ' -..-V ... : b • . -4®r« As i-m ^ ."'!V • " " A . -A* -t • • •• 1 :.-iL.:-..-- •••'••• : •*'• v '«•• . -- . :"' j r r , W ^ •y.*A "Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and taw: No Favors Win us arid no Fear Shall Awe." VOL. 1. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1876. no; 38 K#»fi Published Every Wednesday by jr. VAH WIJYKE Editor and Publisher. Office in Riverside Block, Over Smith Bros. '& Co.'s Store. , TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: "On® Tear, (in Advance,*) ,....'.<1 50 If not Paid within Three Months,..........2 00 Subscriptions received for three or six months • the same proportion. BUSUOSSS CARDS. H. T. BROWN, M. I>. * PHYSICIAN and Surjreon. Office in Brick Block over F. G. Maves Clothing Store Water Street, McHenry 111. " . E. A- BEERS M. D. ~~ ~~~~ IDBTBTCFAJI and Surgeon. Office at residence, two doors west of Post Office, McHenry O. J. HOWARD, M D. PHYSICIAN and Surgeon. Office «t the store of Howard & Son, McHenry, I1L P. G. MAYES. MERCHANT Tailor, anil dealer in Read v Made Clothinar, Cloths, Cassimeres, Vestinir &<\, One door north of Colby's Drugstore McHenry RICHARD BISHOP, A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. X*. Office in rear of Mnrpliv Jt Bishop's Bank Korth Side Public Square, Woodstock, 111. GEO. A. BUCKL.IN, NOTARY PUBLIC, Conveyancer and 3n-< surance Agent. Office "at Bucklin & Steven's Store, near the Depot, McHenry, 111. E. E. RICHARDS. HAS ft complete Abstract of Titles to land in McHenrv County, Illinois. Office with Oottnty Clerk, Woodstock, I1L D. A. POTTER, RICHMOND, ILL., Notary Public and Con­veyancer, IT. S. Claim, Insurance a Collecting Agent. FR. HECHTLE. OUSE, Si«rn and Carriage Painter, Mcllen- Sry 111. Will do all work promptly and at aonable rates. TTOU JLl*ry K. M. OWEN. GENERAL Dealer and Mfcnnfacturers Agent in Leading Farm Machinery. Prices low and Terms favorable. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. S GEO. SCHREINER, ALOON and Restaurant. ,Nearly opposite the Parker House, McHenry 111. S®"First-Clas9 Billiard and Pool Tables. J. UONSLETT, SALOON and Restaurant. Nearly oppoeite Owen's Mill, McHenry, 111. Freeh Ovsters ••rved up in any shape desired, or tor sale by the Can. «TGOOD STABLING FOR HOKSE&-«r ,d*>S. WIEDEMANN. SALOON and Restaurant. Near the Depot McHenry 111. Hoarders by the duy or week at reasonable rates. Warm and cold meals at all hours. 49~Good Stabling for Horses.^nr MQHENRY LIVERY STABLE. H. E. WIGHTMAN, Proprietor. First class rigs, with or without drivers, fnrniahed • t reasonable rates. Teaming of all kinds ioie on short notice. W. W. ELLSWORTH. BREEDER o the Celebrated Magie Hog. Also Light and Dark Brahma Fowls.' Pig.s •hipped to all points by express. P. O. Ad­ dress, Woodstock, 111., ROBERT MURFITT, 4 WATCII-MAKERof 18 years iiL experience, lias located at Nunda, and will give bis atten­ tion to the Repairing of Clocks, Watches, &c. Shop in Watson & Co.'s Drug Store. All Work warriMiiun. PETER LEICKEM. REPAIRS Watches, Clocks and Jcwolrv of all kinds. Also Repairs Violins in theYiest possible maJher, on short notice and at rea- .sonable rates. Also Violins for Sale. Shop first door North of Riverside Block, McHenry in. BUSINESS CARDS. MCHENRY HOUSE. "J^TcHenry, 111. John Karges Proprietor. Ill Centrally located and the best of accom­ modations furnished. Charges reasonable^ RICHMOND HOUSE. RICHMOND ILLINOIS. Frank Foster Pro­prietor. Gitpd accommodations for all parties. Samplerooms for Salesmen. Livery -Stable attached. Public Hall for Lectures, Shows Ac., The McHenry Brewery. King & Herbes, Proprietors. TIE best of Beer Shipped to any part of the country and warranted as represented.-- Orders solicited and promptly attended to. FRED. RENICH, CIGAR MANUFACTURER, --AND-- WHOLESALE TOBACCONIST. WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. L. C. BICE. A. A. BICE. Ii. C. RICE & SON, D E N T I S T S , ' NUNDA, ILL. Satisfaction Guaranteed on all work. Teeth Cleaned, Filled and Extracted in a careful and skillful manner. Artificial Teeth inserted In full or partial plates, on all the Uaseskuown (to the profession. Call and have your teeth )|xamine4. Office of L. c. Rice, West Madison St„ Chicago. Office of A. A. Rice, second door Korth of the M. E. Church, Nunda, 111. RsrEBEXCKg. -- Win. Archdeacon, Nunda; Rev. Frank Burr, Green St., Chicago, 11L S®*Will visit McHenry every Saturday.-- Booms at the Parker ~~ E. BENNETT, M. D., SURGEON ' and Accoueher. Diseases of Women a Specialty. Ofliceand Residence on Clay Street, Woodstock, 111. W. H. BUCK, M. D„ HOMEOPATHIC Phyticlan and Snrjrefm.-- Office East Side Public Square, Wood­ stock, 111. Office hours 11 to 13 A. M., and 2 to 4 P. M. Waukegan Cigar Manufactory, E. M. DEP'NIS, Proprietor - manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in CIGARS, TOBACCO, , -AND- Pipes of Every Description. 55 GENESEE STREET, WAUKEGAN, ILL. O. W. OWEN, WATCH MAKER & JEWELES, MCHENRY ILL., Dealer in all kinds ot American • and Swiss Watches, Clocks from the best factories in the country ̂ Silver, plated ware, Silver Spoons, Ac., ALSO AGENT FOR THE Weber and Bradbury Pianos AND TI1E Estey Organ I Which we believe to be the l>est Organ in the market. We think we know that by experi­ ence, and we believe it, for it is backed up by the Best Musicians in the World. I also sell other Organs at less pric.es than the Estey, but can't ruccoiumeud theui to be as good. O. W. OWEN. July 23. MURPHY & BISHOP. BANKERS. Office Korth Side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, - - ILLINOIS. TRANSACTS a General Banking and Ex­change Business. Deposits Received.-- Interest allowed on Special Deposits! Buy. and sell United States Bonds, Gold, Gold*Exchange, etc. Exchange on all principal cities Woodstock, tit THE OWEMS Fox River Valley Mills. H. ft. LUFF, Proprietor. McHenry - - - - Illinois. FLU I FIB, CONSTANTLY ON HAND. custom: grinding Done promptly, and satisfsw iion guaranteed Thankful for past favors a continuance of patronage<is>respectfully solicited. JKff~The Highest M.'»»kot Price in Cash for good Milling Wheat. II. D. LiUFP, Successor to Owen Bros. W. H. SANFOHD, Mercliant Tailor. In the store of C. II. Dickinson, East side of Public Square, WOODSTOCK, ILL. ~*A xrood Stock of Fine Cloths for Suitings al­ ways on hand. Suits made to order and a lit warranted- Give me a call. * W. IT. 8ANFORD. Woodstock 111., Sept. '27th, 1S75. MOUNT1" ROOT BITTEBS. TIIIS BTTTKRS, for'Its intrinsic properties, is known as one of tho Best Tonics of the Age. As a laxative Liver Cleaning, Blood Purifv- ing Medicine, it has not its superior. It should be'taken in (juantities from a Tablespoon full to a small wine glass full three times a day, according to the. strength and age of the lnva- id or the dfegree of sickness. For Sale by the Case or Bottle, --BY-- L. KAPPLER, Patentee, Woodstock, ill- Village Lot For Sale. Lot 1. Block 1., West McHenry, containing one acre of land, which is well fenced and on which is an OrcliardVit good fruit, is now offered for sale on rea Pliable terms. It is one of the most desirable building places in the village. For further particulars inquire at the PT.AINI>EA I>KJT Oflice^ McHenry, III., March 1st, 1376. House and Lot for Sale. . SITUATED near the Nippersink Point, on the noted Iluntingaud Fishing Grounds of Fox and Pistaqua Lakes. The House is well built and capable of accommodating twenty persons. There is a good stable, two acres of choice land and one of the best spring of water in McHenry County. Any parties con­ templating building a Club Ho'usu will lind this a u^and opportunity. Will lie sold on the most rdbsonable tonus." For Further Particu­ lar* inquire; at the 1'LA.IKDEALEB office. A BROKEN COMMANDMENT^ • There is to-day ijo more pre •ilk'nt evil in aH the walks and strata of %)ci- e t y t h a n " ' b e a r i n g f a l s e A v i t n o s s I t is seen in the form of perjury iri^c«arts of justice and tribunals of where the solemnities of the oath And appeal to heaven have'been invoked, and in less serious form though* ifitli equal semblance of sincerity in the col­ umns of the press, in uublic haran^nes, and in private circles where still great­ er latitude is taken, if possible. TlSere seems to have been for years a gro^4ng spirit of aggressiveness upon the lati­ tat ions of men and women, in pa^lic aud private life, and confined in its ' as­ sault neither to the field of politics, morals or business. It spares no class, condition, sex or age. It invades |H-i- vac'ies and traverses open fields, And nothing is barred against its iusiima- tion. Of course there at tends all th^ a growing disregard for the consequeiiles of perversion or misrepresentation j^of the acts and motives of others, aam a blunting of the moral sense. $( The press has reached out far iftnd wide within the last few years lu lits grasp after matter to interest its In­ creasing multitude of readers. It fcas prying eyes, acute ears and graphic, elastic pen. It aims to answer flie growing demand of the age for thrfjls and sensations, aud it must pander more or less to the morbid tastes it lias help to educate if it has not done lnt^ck to create. In the competition to be first, most complete or most sensational there has come an enterprising reck­ lessness that seeing too readily forgiiibn by a craviugly expectant public. The mischievous tendency of this eager­ ness for surprises, and the greater sus­ ceptibility to the untoward influences they set agoing, have been seen in the circumstances which have attended or followed the fall of Secretary Belknap. What a world of scandal has since been put afloat, not about him and his ering wife merely, we don't mean to intimate 'but to very many other personage*. Of these other subjects, there have been told stories of various cases ©f turpitude in official and professional life, and of all these charges very few seem to have been substantiated. It is easy enough to make assertions, pfRrfclie mfntdTnc^ curreWjrof print when there is a diseased public appetite for gossij^plng literature of an exciting kind. But it is another thing to verify damaging allegations, and still another usually neglected task to repair injuries done by unfounded ac­ cusations or unsupported misinterpre­ tations. It is here that the animus of this libelling spirit is shown in its meanest aspect, since it adds cowardice to its falsehood, and shows a persistent design to falsify and to perpetuate, in­ jury. The moralist may muse long and deeply over moral remedies for the de­ plorable disregard of the ninth com­ mandment, but a resort to those afford­ ed by the courts might occasionally be of much avail,-both to secure repara­ tion for the wrong inflicted in such cases,,and to,furnish a sqnlp tbnt n|ny warv ^ga?"ct repetition. A rigorous enforcement by the court® of the pen; r.lties provided for perjury and libel, could not fail to prove serviceable in that direction, and an intimidation that would amount to something. The distinction between perjury and libel is a wide one in the law, perhaps not too great, but they are twin crimes in some respects, and each may some­ times play subordinate parts to the other. The decalogue makes no dis­ tinction, and that inclusion is at least a signification as to the similar charac­ ter of the ofl'enses. The political campaign which the country is soon to enter will doubtless very thoroughly stir up partizan pre­ judice and strife and evoke much that is evil in human nature. It will es­ pecially devolve upon the press the duty of repressing as far as practica­ ble the tendency to aspersion and de­ famation of the candidates and their associations. There is one encouraging feature, however, in the signs of the times, respecting the probable charac­ ter of the political welfare that will be waged. The indications are good that men of unblemished reputation will more than ever before be "brought to the front" to answer the popular de­ mand, and the awakened moral feeling will be likely to call for purity* aud ability throughout the ticket. This seems to be a reasonable forecast of the personal character of the contest^ and if so, a great barrier will be erected against a very mischievous agency in American politics. It will do to hope for such reform, and better still to work heartily for it, and in this way help in one of the fields of life at least to stricter regard for social ob­ ligations and to fitting observation of the ninth commandment. TAKE THE PAPER. We find the following going th® rounds of the press. Bead, ponder and --pay up! Why don't you take the pa­ pers ? they're the life of my delight, except about flection time aud then I read for spite. Subscribe, you cannot lose a cent; why should you bj afraid ? forcash thus spent is money lent at in­ terest, four-fold paid. Go, then, and take the papers, and pay to-day, nor pay delay, and my word it is inferred, you'll live until you're gray. An old neighbor of mine, while dying of a cough, desired to hear the latest news while he wa§ going off. I took the pa­ per and I read of some new .pills in force; he bought a box--and he is dead ? no--hearty as a horse. I kne*v two men as much alike,,as e'er yost saw two stumps; and no phrenologist could find a difference in their bumps. One takes the paper and his life is happier than a king's, his children can all read and write, and talk of men and things. The other took no paper, and, while strolling through the wood, a tree fell down and broke his crown, and killed him--"very good." Had he been read­ ing all the news, at hon\e like his neigh­ bor Jim, I'll bet a cent that accident would not have happened him, for he who takes the paper, and pays his bill when due, can live in peace with every man, and with the printer too. IfeiTThe scandalous peculations which are shown at Washington in the management of the war give a new in­ terest to the luxury question. There is little of manhood or logic in throw­ ing upon one or two women the respon­ sibility of the crime® whieli have bee« brought to light. They probably did not understand all the bearings, all the shameful consequences of the acts laid to their charge. The Secretary of War shotiid have understood them, and al­ though it was believed at first that he was ignorant of the nature of the in­ fluences which actuated the first wife and afterwdflfd the second in asking the certain positions for unknown parsons, it is averred now tliat nothing was hid­ den irom him, and that lie was the real culprit. It is no less certain that the prim* cause of the evil been luxur­ ious living, that the leading motive of eagerness, Oieunbrfaleu desire char­ acteristic of every woman of fashion to shine in the world and eclipse her rivals, that very probably the greed for gain alone would never have led Gen. Belknap into this infamous bargain, than that it has dragged him down to the lowest depths of dishonor liecause it was impossible for him with his reg­ ular salary afid his private income to satisfy all the whims of feminine vain- ity. • * * * * + * Is it necessary to conclude then that woman is radical, jnore vicious than man? That would be great injustice. Government, laws, systems ofeducation are the works of men. The place wo­ man occupies in the social sphere man assigns to her. If she is imperfect, ca- prlciouv""':-Wit i* imn/who has niade her^.--r<Mx, v' v>JC3TTIi» ttg 3f the new specie in 3ne?s pockets is to be retarded a little by the necessity of returning the House bill for providing for the issue of silver to replace the fractional paper cur­ rency, on account of amendments by the Senate. These amendments reduce the amount for which silver is to be legal tender from fifty to twenty dol­ lars, strike out the provision making trade dollars legal tender, and require all the new coins to be equal in fineness to the old silver dollars many years ago, and worth about six per cent, more than the silver half dollars of the pres­ ent coinage. The concurrence of the House involves delay and uncertainty. JSgj^The recent shower of flesh in Bath county, Ky., has provoked quite a religious revival among the colored population there. They seat them­ selves about in little groups, with their faces turned upward, as if the heavens were full of mutton chops, and sing: "Kiim set yere, hungray niggah, Kum set yere on tho groun', De Lawd he am a gwiue To frow de wittals down." If you want any kind of Farm imple­ ments or repairs call on E. M^Owen. ffafMr. E. P. Roe, the author and horticulturist, writes as follows: They who live withput strawberries certainly miss one or the best things that this old, thorny and thistle-cursed globe can produce, Man's folly gave the devil a chance to plant his hoof on Eden, but he was not permitted to stamp it all out of existence, and one of the daintiest little bits remaining is ripe with us about the tenth of June." Mr. Roe writes for the latitude of the Hudson, on whose banks his farm is lo­ cated. In the south the strawberries are ripe now, but they are too dear in the New York market of to-day to be used extensively as an article of food.-- Turf, Field and Farm4 March 31. Speech of Hon. S. A. Hurlbut. The following is the closing portion of Gen. JHurlbut's upeeeh in the House of Representatives, March 24th, on the state of Public Sent iment in Relation to the Causes and Issues of the Late Rebellion. Sir, there are undoubtedly here a great many men on the other side of the House who have come into this House by the regular expression of the political opinions of the districts which sent them; so also there are a great many meu who are the spasmodic re­ sult of a certain hysterical affection of the body-politic, the result of some siiock or disgust, aud the trial is .work­ ing now. The demonstration to be made is that you are more competent, more true to the Union, more true to its real interests, more true to its un­ deniable rights and to its future desti­ nies than those who have had it in charge so long;and that, sort of thing cannot be met by any petty line of busi­ ness; it cannot lie met by any flinging of mud. it hag get to be met by de­ monstration of purpose, heart, aud abil­ ity, aud that is where this majority is now being tried. You cannot meet the demands of the people as you propose to do it in this bill, by a rash sweeping, cutting oil"of expenditures without any reason, or by simply asserting without any proof that the Departments of the Government are overloaded, or by cut> ting down the poor clerks from* their monthly pittance. The American peo­ ple are not poor. These gentleman op­ posite and especially the gentleman from New York, (Mr. Willis.) who represents. I believe, all the wealth of Wall street, have no right to talk about the American people being poor. They never have been, and they never will be too poor to pay a fair and compe­ tent price for the labor they ask from their public servants, But, sir, the question which overrides all others in this matter is the question of the maintenance and perpetuity of this nation. That is the real tiling. With this doctrine of secession asserted here again upon this floor and argued elaborately, with the declaration that we are not a nation, Avith the; assump­ tion that we are but a loose confeder­ acy of States, all men see an attempt to roil back the whole current of events, to set aside all the great fruits of the •struggle the country has gone through ancl 1 warn gentlemen here now that the most prominent sentiment in these United States to-day is nationality and the perpetuity of the country. And the manor men, the. party or parties, that either run against it or that even indicate that they shudder from coming up to the full requisition of that de­ mand, are doomed. Now, sir. 1 tor one desire the estab- try;tHit l do not expect It to come from resolutions nor from rpccchee. I 1 expect it to come in the only way in which it can come, by action. I expect the judgment and conscience and feel­ ings of the great, conquering, victori­ ous portion of this nation in the late struggle to bo satisfied by the acts of those who now are restored to the Union. Those acts are of a nature so plain, so manifest, so clear, that they will be satisfied with nothing else; for. sir, the people of these United States --and I mean by the people of the United States that mass of brain and boue and muscle which saved the coun­ try in its hour of peril and which de­ fends the country now--that mass of mind and brain and muscle will not be satisfied with anything but the fruition of that for which they fought. They have accepted, sir, as full payment for all that they have done and suffered, the complete enforcement of the three £icat ai.iOiuIiiients io the Constitution. %"• jy*"' :ira* foment for' the -s.«Tv,'?08v.T;hieh they receive them as the reward and the result of the great war. They re­ ceive them ij- payment for their empty hearthstones and their crowded grave­ yards. And whenever it appears that in any part of this country there exist combinations by which the rights se­ cured under these amendments are either violently or fraudulently de­ feated, it touches tnetender spot in the sensibilities of the people oi this coun­ try. Unless throughout this nation there shall be no differences between citizens unless it shall be absolutely lawful and absolutely secure -for any man, any­ where, under this flag, to speak and act and vote just precisely as he likes--un­ til that consummation has been reached this cause of irritation aud trouble will remain. Mr. Chairman, every man knows that in all these things that I have said, or in what I may say, 1 am governed bj* no sense of personal bitterness. There is probably no man who stands upon this floor, upon this side of the House, who has .such close relation by blood and kindred with the Southern States a? I have. Some of the very leading spirits who assisted in seducing the people from theirallegianee,areaniong those who are bound to me by ties of kindred. I believe they were holiest and earnest in what they did, but the cause for which they worked, the end which they sought to bring about, was in my judgment, and In the judgment of the people of the United States, the most criminal for which men ever combined together. To strike at the. life of a man is but to extinguish a single existence ; but to strike at the life of tho nation is to arrest the en­ tire progress of civilization, to roll back the current of progress, and to cast us all adrift again upon a sea without a compass and without chart, and so the people have considered it. It was said of old, Whether is the greater, the gift, or the alter that sanc- tifieth the gift? What is there that a man values more highly than he values his life? Aud yet innumerable lives were freely offered up. sons given by their mothers, husbands parted from their wives, and their livek offered up on the altar of their country. It is by the price which we pav for things, or are willing tot pay for "them, that we value them. And »we recognize the price itiat has been paid $ we fecognii# that that price it one that cannot b« afforded to be paid again in & gcnsr&* tlon--scarcely in the fife time of any nation. It is a full, complete, satis­ factory price. And the reward that !• claimed for it is not that men shall join in adopting resolutions, but that thejr shall recognize the dominion of the law that they shall recognize that violence is npt a mode to be applied among ft nation of freemen to control election** '"When these things shall come to pass, when it shall come to pass in this country that everywhere throughout this nation the rights of all men, black and white and of all the intermediate 'shades, shall be recognized fullv, com­ pletely, and absolutely, then there will be peace. But that peace never can come as long as men who themselves have been active iu the original pro­ mulgation of this doctrine stand op before the American people, asserting that same dangerous, suicidal, ruinous doctrine of extreme state sovereignty and the right of secession. Two-thiras of all the thinking men of this nation to-day have been educated up to this point:that they can raise their bold foreheads to the blue sky that hangs over them, recognizing but the on* flag of the country, and say in all hon­ esty and pride: "Above us th^re Is nothing but the nation; above ttkft na­ tion there is nothing but God." MARENGO. --W. W. Norris, has broke ground tBi his new stone store, adjoining Crisssy's Harness Shop. --We learn that S. S. - Crandall wlU take charge of the Marengo-Geneva Lake Park this season, and cater to the patrons of that villa. The owners of the Park are going to enlarge the hotel by the addition often or a dozen sleep* iug rooms, and also increase the capao- ity of the dining room. --The residence of Mrs. F. Saftord was entered by some sneak thief last Saturday morning between 4 and 5 o'clock, in pursuit of plunder. Fortu­ nately, he made a uoise while opening a door to provide for his escape, and awoke Mrs. Safford, w'ho, on striking A light and proceeding to ascertain the cause of the noise, found a man stan­ ding in the hall-way. She notified bins to leave, which he did instanter, aicl without any plunder. The would- be- thief was either a colored man, or • white man who had blackened his faee- for a disguise--Mrs. S. was unable te» decide positively which. --If you want to know abovt the tettc aa4 tetffparatnm oftfce wster tm Kishwaukee, Dr. Stull. J. Q„ Adams, Jerome Ad inns anu Mr. Straiton can tell you all about it. An old leaky boat went down with them, and Doc follow* ed down till the water came up to hit ears, when he thought it about time to get out, and taking a gun fn each hand swam ashore. It was delightful swia»> ing, with a gun in each hand, a si» pound ptouch of shot slung on his- neck* a heavy overcoat and long rubber boots on, but he made the riffle, and so did the rest of the party, but they left a shot-gun in the river to marie the scene of disaster. Ducks plenty eh?--Repub* lican. The Present and the IMt "Hermit" of the Troy N. Y, Tim*t recently intervie wed Lucieu J. Sail ill 'vf JoUustc**;a4v:^0: hasten ?n 'trs3e te' tb?.t "Hi!age "S years, now 78 J'ZM* old. While talking with Mr. Smith he referred to the present *4hard timss/* and asked him how they compared with the depressing which followed the war of 1812. "They are not as bad now bj any means as then,*' was his reply: "When I opened store neither potatoes, butter, eggs, or such produce, could be sold for money. We paid in trade six to eight cents per bushel for potatoes six cents per dozen for eggs, and seven cents a pound for butter. Grain was teamed to Albany and sold at a low rate for cash. I bought oats at 10 oents a bushel--the price for years. Fannem then had poor fare, poor clothes, an4 worked like slaves t<S keep afloat.1* This is a sad picture. Farmers have It bad enough now, and it is a consolation to look back on the difference. This was the lesson 1 learned from the oldest merchant on the continent. SHE TOLD HIM.--A mother was tel­ ling some lady callers the other day about her intention to celebrate an an­ niversary of some event, and her plug- ugly of a boy came into the room just then and asked: uMaw, what is an anniversary f* "Pll tell you some time," she replied. "I know," he wickedly replied; "yon are going to pickup the shovel and- chase pa down cellar again J" After the ladies had departed the mother took the boy up stairs and re­ moved his false impressious. The lie at and theChM^Mt The American Sewing Machine Runs the lightest of auy Shuttle Ma­ chine. Makes the least noise, Has self-setting needle. Has the most room under the Arm. Never skips stitches or breaks threads. Is most easily learned. Can be instantly adjusted to work from No. UOO to No. 10 Cotton, la thoroughly made in all its parts of the best material, and every machine is^ warranted. O. W. Owen, McHenry, the Agent, who will sell you a Hii.ehin# on the most reasonable tetma. Call ai his Store aud examine it.