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VOL. 17. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1892 NO. 29 ]|e]|eBrj ̂ Ismieafor, •"^POBUIHKO EVSBT WL VAN SLY E,- AND PKOPBIBTOB. iu Bishop's Block, 'UIT A OVKH'I "PRRM^ OF StfBSORIFTIOH. Subsctiptlor received for three or bU months in the au Raton of Advertising. i liberal rates for ad rertielng AL.8B, and endeavor to state that the? will be readily an- PLA.I!FI>> hem so pUlnl, erseood. The; 1 Inch one yet 8 Inches one \ • 3 Inches one i U Column one , X Oolumn one ; Column one i One inch m' Inch down the Yearly a-lver the privilege Choose, withon Regular adv standing car<1 f of local notice wnohr. cents per ? ine line for each si Transient a at the rate o type, same as ; R cents per Hn> an Inch aclver' week, $1.50 f< Wfteks, and sc The PLAIWDI editorial notl- wnl require i seeking the u»< gain. are *s follows: 500 10 00 15 00 %ns the meajiiremenc of one column, single column width. Users, tit the above rates, have >f changing as often as they t extra charge. irtisers (meaning thofe having ) will be entitled to'nsertion • at the rate of 5 cents per line II nt.hnra will ha chtr<r<v' 10 he first week, an<l 5 tents per bsequent week. vertisements will be charged 10 cents pe line, (i onpareil lis is got in) ibo Aral i: sue, and for subsequent issuer. Thus, isement will cost § UK) for one two w^eks, ti.OO tor three •n. t &L.BB will be liberal >n giving js, but, as a business rule, it suitable fee from everybody • of its oolnmns for poonniary BUS'NESS CARDS. O . HOWARD, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURG BON. McHenry, III Officr at residence, one block east of Public School itaiiding. O. H. FEGEBS, M, D ,, •••% PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, MoHsnry Ilia. Office at Residence. WM. OSBORNE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at RasMenC" West McHenry, lit. Galls promp.ly attei ded to day and night. Livorv Stable. HE. WlinHTMAN, Proprietor. First • olassrlgs with or without drivers furnished at ro isonable rates. Teaming of all kinds done )n short notice. R.SGHIESSLE NEAR THE DEPOT. WEST HoHENllY, ILL Keeps open 'or the acoommodatloA of the Public a First Class Saloon and Restaurant, Where he wi 1 at all times keep the be«t brands of 1 Vines, Liquors and Cigars kto be found in the market. Also Agent For FIW.NZ FALK'S Milwauku Lagtr Bin. Beer in Larp • or Small Kegs or Bottles al­ ways on hand, cheaper than any other, quali­ ty considered. Orders by mo il promptly attended to. GOOD M .4 BLimt FVR ffORS fS , WOall and; ee us. Robert Boh iesale. West McHer ry, III. A. Englons ik\Sm AND RESTAURANT WhsHfTlifTfILLI BUSINESS CARDS. Fine Kentucky Liquors, French Bitters, Mrikoy Lager Beer, -AND- J. Sc'iililz lilianta Bottle Beer, In any quantity from a Snitz Glass to 1C 0 barrels. AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL Beer in bottles, kegs or case as cheap as the cheapest. V- We buy none but the best and aell at Seasonable Pricses. Call and see me and I feu well. rV AJ.TONY 1NGLIK. in., H. VBHKPARD. F I.. Rfl SHEPARD A SHEPARD, A TTOBNKYS- 4Tl,\W. "uitr 512, North t\. ern «<ffi-.e Building, 36 LaSalle Srree Chicago, 111 46 ly KNIG <T A • ROWS, A TTORNBTS AT LAW. IT. 8. Express A Building, 87and 89 Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL. Oo.'s JOSLYN ft UASEr. A TTORNBTS AT LAW, Woodstock 111. J\ All business will receive i C. r. I; A UN HP., A TTORNKY, Solicitor, and xi Oollep.tlons a speciaitT. WOODSTOOK, ;RXN»OT«. V. S LUMLEY. ^TTORNEY AT LAW, * WOODSTOCK, ILL, Office in Park House, first floor. A. M. CHURCH, Watchmaker and Jeweler MX). One HundrettTwenty-Five state RtOhi- i'l cago, 111. Special attention given to re pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. WA Full Assortment of Goods in his line Attention Horsemen! MollENRr, Itt,., April 1st, 1898. I would resoectfullv invite the Public to call and examine m 7 stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. No busi­ ness done on Sunda?. N. S. COLBY 6 V'HBNKT »IX The Police Gazette, Is the nly illustrate i paper In, the world containing: all the latest e>cnNttt;onftl and sporting news No sain n Keeppr, Barber, or Clut> Koom can affonl to Vm without it. It always makes friemls wherever it Koes. Maileri to any aMdress in the United States securely wranpeil, 13 weeks for #1. Send Five Cents for sample copy. BICHABD X. FOX rKANKLTN ^QDiBF,, New York United States far 6 lain Apcf OF WM. H- COWLIJST, Woodstock - - Illinois. Prosecutes all classssaad kln^ts of claims against the United States tor ex-Soldiars, their Wulows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejectofl claims. All communications prouiptlr answered !f Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. WM, H. COWU* Office at Resldenoe, Madison St., Woodatoca, Illinois. ATTENTION! Farmers and Dairymen. It will pay thrfs* looking for CHOICE COWS Fresh milkers or springers, to call at vj> premises before purchasing. I can furniac suoh by the oar load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFRUM, OHBMU1TO. Farm about (bar miles northwest of Harvard, Illinois. - Aifricao Clover BIgsm Co. 381 N. Clark St. CHICAGO, ILL. The Croat Blood Purifier. Cures all Blood Diseases thu "rise from the 'ffect of Bad Blond. A sure cure for Cancer, ( a tsrrah, Piles, Si. ' .k Headsche, i>ys- pep-ia, Whooping v ougb, iltheumatism, Con Btlpition, etc. tO.BO -•"1.00 2.50 BLOSSOMS, per pound - FLUID EXTRACT, per botile SOLID EXTRACT, per pound - Bot the Solid and JHnid Extracts ore made from the same stock of BinftAoms, and are equally a* good and efficacious as the Rlot;- boms. i JULIA A. STOar, Agent. McHe^rr. HHnols. CIDAR LftWS STOCK FARM, HEBRON, ILL. SIMON STCFFEL, Phsaiz, ef Brooklyn, V. Y. Capital, o,008 ;}15. Rockford, of Rockford, III Capital, 802,448, National, of HartM, Corn. Capital, $2,620*21 a Insurance carefully and safely placed on an ui«»»er of piOj-« i ly agniiiit flic, i 'gutu>ug, x.n' tornado, either (or cash or on lon> time, without irterest. Kire policies on live stock cover «sme in buil ' ing or <10 larin tgainst loss or dania>ii> t>y tire or lightning aii<> acuinst li)rlitnii>g «nyw-h<tre M«ay, straw, stalks and fodder are i-overetl bv ove policy fin building • •r stacks <>n farm UrainV-jset ds"an<l mill feed are covered under o e sum 11 buildinir or on farm Insurance.transferred to other locali­ ties free ofcarge. tianolme or oi stove and ftcnm thresher' penmis granted In nolicies free of charge Household goods of every description, includii.g coal, wood and provl- si in" a l coveted under one item Complete records kept of all poUriee.condition*, assign­ ments aiid transfers made. Call for list of over 700 policy holders in above companies. 8iinon Stofiol. West McHenry, Illinois. If. J. Barbiun* J. J. BarbiU ft;?BIAN BROS. Wholetale and Retail DEALBBB Ut FINE CIGARS, Mc HENRY ILLINOIS. Havirg l.eas'Mi the hriftk building one door south of the pest office, we have opened a retail store, where, at all times can be found flne cigars of our own manufacture, together with smoking and chewing tobaoeo of the best brands. Pipes a Specialty. We have a very large assortment and; some 'ery'haiidnome patterns. CALL AND SKK VS . BA.BBLAV *RO» H'M'enr^. Wovemh«fl**h, WW lardson, BREEDERS OF High Grade Jersey Cattle, REGISTERED POLA.ND CHINA HOG§, AND PUKE BRED POULTRY. Silver La«*ed Wyandottes, Light B^amas, Ply mouth Rocks. 9 O. White and 8, O Brown 1 eghorns, Patrldpe Cochins, »nd other Varieties Mammoth B onze and White Holland T><rkeva. Pekln Ducks and White Guineas. We have a lew high Grade Jersey Cattle for sale from choice aeiecied gt ck. Our Poland China Hogs are of the best and choicest strains We have some very choice spring Pigs for sale at very reasonable prices. An inspection of them is invited, or write us your wants and we will quote you prices. All pigs eligible to any register. Poultry for stle at *easonable prie.es. Ercs during season. We have some very ehoice Poultry of all kinds »t Fall prices. All orders for Pigs, Birds or Eggs receive prompt attention. Our stock has been c a r e f u l l y selected and is strictly pure, and we Guarantee it -s such. Our customers may rest insured that we shall ship only such stock »s will reflect credit upon ourselves an 1 them also, Correspond­ ence cheertul'y and promptly attended to and respectfully solicited. Visit >rs welcome any day but Sunday, and we extend an invi­ tation to all to call and see our stock. Hoping to receive a share of jour patronage, and assuring our f 'iends that we will labor to pleaie you, we await your favo<-s. Touts Respectfully, P1HLLIP8 * RICHARDSON. September, 1890. F. K. GRANGER, General Auctioneer. I Sfilss of Real Estate, "Stock, Farming will n« Tools, Household Furniture, and Goods of aU kinds attended to on the mostreae- 1 onable terms, I Orders by mail will receive prompt at­ tention. A-ddreas. j r. K osAiren. West Mouenxy QAK LAWS ACADEMY Will oppn Its B^ond year on W^d tveday, 16, 1891, and will nflt>r ap^oiai privlKffPS to the rlirht.clj-sa of R'udon»8. The iuetllutlon wi l be con­ ducted as a Home School for Boys Where ihoy will rp«;Mve tli« benefite of a thorough preparation in all >ot the common branches of study. GERMAN AND MUSIC. Weclafm for our dchno! a pleasant and heal li? situation, ard the past year hears us out in the Assertion. TEEMS ARO DESCRIPTIVE CIRCULAR Sent to any addreaa on appltcatlou The school is sl'uared at Ringwoorf, Mc 'enrv To.. Ill , on the U & N W. K. R,. 59 Mllrs from Chicane. 15 miles Irom Lako Gem va. anil 6 mil* 8 Irom Fox Ltk«>. N"o snloen. bllliurd hall, or other loafing place in town. Addn ss Oak Lawn Academy, 8;f RINGWOOD, ILL. NOW IS THE TIMB TO BUY YOUR Robes & Blankets I I I I I I I THE 44BOSS" HAREKS -.--MAKER NUNDA. ILL. Can save you money if you will call on him. A Large Size, No. 1 Fur Robe, only $2.50 to closr out; The Largest Size Square BlanKet made. 75 cents. You can afford to keep yourself and your h r«p warm at ih-se'prlces, Call atul see me. a. L. HUBBABD. Narda, III,, Dec 1 1891. This Trad* Hark Is on Tbe Best Waterproof Coat irs the world. BTA<LIPTLILU»TTT4EDC«TTK>KO«, A. J.TJWTJB^TON^ PENSIONS! The Disability Bill Is a Law. Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled* Dependent widow# anJ parv te naw d«- pondont wbpjn suns uir<i fw-in lre offeoiB of army eervires &re. mchidfit If you wish your claim . pscdily and sucoessfully prose- oated, addre •. JAMES TANNER. WASHINGTON D. a Lftte Comatlisioner of Pensions. a JOHN P. SMITHV Watchmaker He Jeweler McHENRY. ILLINOIS. AriNE slock of Clocks, Watches and Jew. elry always on hand. Spocial attention riven to repairing fine watohos. Give me % AMI -e. JO HA p. SMITH. WM. 8TOFFEL. --Agent for-- FIRE, - UCHTNINC, Also Iowa. Minnesota, Nebraska, Alabama, and Oailfornia Lauds Call on or address WM. STOFrEL, McHenry, ill; Quintette Orchestra, ; McHENRY* ILL , Ars.preparedI to fnralsh First Class Mu*l« to the Dancing Public at Reasonable Rates. J, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden. Clarionet, O, Ourtls, Coinet. L, Owen, Trombone, B, Ingalls, Basso and Prompter, Address all c< McHenry. 8ALARY and Com " is 'ion to \ Agents, Men and Women, Tiach ersanicierg m»n to introduce a n«u> and popular standard book, MARVELS of the N£W WEST A new Agent s"W 70 m one week. Agentt pro:Us, 1136 50 O* er original engravings, MM • • <:p « • • n ofte week, Exclusive erritory. Endorsed\ n.. f tn t. of our country, Appl THE HENS Y BILL PUB. CO., Aot tvich, Own ]flQET BORN BU <LS For Sale at Living Prices by the under­ signed. Call on or address , FRANK COLE, SFRINO OROVE. I l l spring Grove, IH., Nov. IS. 1800, McHENRY H. Miller & Son, --DEALERS IN- MARBLE & GRANITE, Monuments, Headstones Tablets, Etc. Cemetery . W ork of every de­ scription neatly executed at the Lowest Prices. Satisf&cttoa (faan&twd. Shops at McHenry and Johns- burgh, III, where at all times can be lound a good assortment of finished work. Respectfully, Henry Miller & Sou. J. R. SAYLOR £ SON, BREEDERS OV Morgan:: Horses, Enobraclng th<* celebrated General Olflord, Green Mountain and Mjtrlll blood. STOCK FOR SALE. Stallions aod Fillies fiend/or pedi­ grees. Eesex and Registered Poland China -_SWINE.i= Choice Merino Sheep, Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. High Grade Jersey Cattle. For sale. Come and iospcc* stock, or addreFfl J. R. SAYLOR & SON. ITast McHenry, 111, ^ Strange Story, A strange story comes from a neigh­ borhood about ten miles southeast of here. Oct. 84, 1890, Alex Yoke, an aged farmer, committed suicide. Yohe's mind had been unbalanced for some time, and he imagined that the discov­ ery of natural gas would prove the ruin­ ation of the world. He was opposed to any search for the new fuel, and often pleaded with his. neighbors to leave it alorie. He also imagined that he was a ruined man, although he owned a good farm and was in a prosperous condition. He thought his family had been doomed to starvation, and he rcsolvc-d to t&k@ his life, thus terminating his misery. Recently an Elwood company began drilling for gas on the Starkey farm and the work had proceeded nearly to com­ pletion. They were rushing the work and a day and night force of hands were; employed. The night force, however, is no longer at work and the following is the cause: A few nights since, while the men were at work, they were startled by a slight noise near the derrick, and on looking around they beheld the form of old man Yohe walking from the en­ gine to the derrick. One man approached him and the form suddenly vanished, only to reapper in a few momenta. This sort of thing was kept up for sev­ eral nights, the old man making his ap­ pearance at the same spot each night. The men claimed the place was haunted and they refused to work any more after night--Tipton Cor. Indianapolis Senti­ nel. Spending Their Honeymoon in a Cable Car. It was pretty cold in the forward com­ partment of one of the Seventh and Ninth street cable cars last evening. The short benches on each side of the grip- inan were empty save for one figure-- that of a petite and pretty brunette in a warm gray cape ulster, with a big fur boa around her neck. The conductor put his head through the door for a moment and came back chuckling. "Love's a funny thing," he said, as he got back on the rear platform and rung up two fares. "There's Jim's wife in there with him. Jim's the gripman, you know. They've been married pretty near two weeks, and I'm blamed if she hasn't put in tbe best half of the time riding round with him in the car. They couldn't afford to take a trip off, you see, and f*o they're spending the honeymoon in this way." "Yea, sir," said Jim, "we've been mar­ ried two weeks tomorrow. May be you think it a funny way to spend the honey­ moon, and so it is. But it's Mary's do­ ing. I'd saved up enough to take a week or so off, but she wouldn't have it. She says, 'We'll just lay that away for a rainy day, and I'll come and ride on the car with you.' Don't you put my name in the papers or maybe I'd get the bounce."--Philadelphia Press. An Unlneky Locomotive. Engineer Knowblow, of the Erie, has finally agreed to preside at the throttle of Engine No. 670 of that road. This is the machine «that passed through the two terrible wrecks on that road at Ra­ venna on July 3 and at Kent, Sept. 30. When it came out of the Meadville shops recently none of the boys wanted to sit at the right hand side of the cab in the tmlucky engine, and it was only after considerable persuasion that Engineer Knowblow was persuaded to take charge of the hoodoed locomotive. Railroaders are like sailors, they have their super­ stitions, and an engineman no more likes to run on an unlucky machine than does an old tar to sail on certain unfor­ tunate vessels.--Pittsburg Post. The Spruce Gam Season Is On. The spruce gum season is on in Maine and business is booming. One firm re­ ceived twenty-four barrels of about 2% tons of gum in one day, and it will have 125 barrels or 25,000 pounds before the close of the season. The first grade of gum is clean and clear and ready for chewing. It sells at wholesale at sixty cents to one dollar a pound. The dark colored gum, mixed with bark and pitch, is worth from six to eighteen cents a pound, and is purchased by refiners, who boil it, skim off the dirt, add some other things and produce many varieties of spruce gum.--Maine Letter. No Flowers at Hli Funeral. Owen Meredith's (Lord Lytton's) coffin was borne to the grave without a blos­ som to decorate its pall according to the direction of Lady Lytton, who said that her husband had requested that not so much "as the tiniest violet or the small­ est rosebud" should be used about his bier. "What, in heaven's name, have poor flowers done to be condemned to serve such a horrid purpose as being consigned to vaults and graves? I like a sad looking funeral," was a frequent saying of the poet's, and his funeral ceremony was indeed a gloomy one.-- Exchange. «• Wong Chce'i Coat of Mail; When a Chinese highbinder, named Wong Chee, who had been arrested for vagrancy, was stripped in the city prison recently, a coat of mail was found around his body. It was a tight fitting armor, made of a double thickness of interwoven steel links, and it weighed twenty-two pounds. Experts say that no pistol bullet ever made would penetrate the armor, and when tested the links turned a rifle ball from its course.--San Francisco Ex­ aminer. Heavy Damage*. A poor citizen of Nassau, N. Y., sued a rich neighbor to recover damages for the attack of the latter's small dog, which he maintained was a "snapping, snarling, vicious brute." In answer the defendant maintained that the canine was a "great pet and of gentle nature," but he lost his case and must pay $1,000 damages.--Philadelphia Ledger. Black Cats to Become Plentltal* With regard to the Consolidated Black Cat company, which is going to breed black cats by the "thousand" on au island in the Pacific and make (so th>» projectors say) "millions" by the indus­ try, 1 am of course very glad to think that maid servants and other ladies who ride in omnibuses and tram cars will soon be provided witlf handsome and fairly inodorous fur garments at reason­ able rates, but 1 tremble when I think of the effect likely to be produced upon the canned meat trade. Canned rabbit carried (it is very difficult to eat it oth­ erwise cooked) is now a very favorite luxury in middle class homes. Tho black coated workingman devours it in prodigious quantities, finding it a grate­ ful sti&ulant to a digestion debilitated by double entry. But it is not to be supposed, it is not within the bounds of possibility, that the 'cute Yankee directors of the Black Cat company will let the "thousands" of carcasses of skinned black cats rot on their island in the Pacific. It 6tands to reason that those cats will be canned unless, indeed, some means can tie found of converting them into one of those fashionable and delectable concoctions by the aid of which the civilized Briton is fast turning himself into a sort of pariah dog or natural scavenger.--Lon­ don Truth. How a Gold Discovery Was Made. Mr. James F. Wardner, of Fairhaven, tells a singular story of how the gold quartz in Okanogan county, which is now being worked as the Little Falls and Red Jacket mines, was found. "On Sept. 18 last." he says, "two prospectors, Redmond and Herrick, were out hunt­ ing and prospecting, and they had with them a bird dog named Skookum. They were working through the Salmon river basin when they came over a hill and looked down into a little ravine with a brook running through the bottom. They saw in a bush overhanging the brook a pheasant, at which one of the men shot. The bird fell into the water and the dog Skookum started after it As he scram­ bled back with it in his mouth his paw pulled down some soft green moss from the rock at the side of the stream. The prospectors noticed that the stone showed white under the moss. They made an examination and found it to be gold bearing quartz. They followed the lead and located the two claims. "Well, 1 had been for some time look­ ing for that sort of ore, and so on my recent trip to Okanogan 1 bonded the two claims, and with them included the black dog Skookum. We are now going to take possession and arrange for de­ velopment."--New York Post. Christmas at Sandringham. A friend of the Prince of Wales says that on Christmas morning everybody is wakened at an early hour, and at 7:30 mother and daughters meet in the breakfast room by a big open fire and examine the presents from all over Europe, heaped on a large table. In a few minutes the Prince of Wales and his two sons come in in rough tweed suits and knickerbockers from their morning "appetizer," a brisk walk around the farms. The guests then come in and all sit down to a breakfast robust enough to make lackadaisical imitators stand aghast, and then disperse as suits their fancy. Services are attended at 11, the Rev. F. Hervey officiating, and at 1 luncheon is served. After luncheon the prince' and his sons go out for another consti­ tutional, and the princesses for a drive. Dinner is served at 8, and after the principal meal of the day--all hearty ones^-the entire household assembles in the drawing room, where the evening is passed with old fashioned games.--Lon­ don Letter. Anniversary of Postage Stamps. The postage stamp will celebrate itB fifty-second anniversary on May 6. Its invention is due to a printer, James Chalmers, of Dundee, Scotland, who died in 1853. England, fifty-two years ago, introduced the new system of preparing letter postage, and, according to a de­ cree of Dec. 21, 1839, issued the first Stamps which were to be put before the public on May 6 of the following year. A year later they were introduced in the United States and Switzerland, and within three years had become common in Bavaria, Belgium and France. One of-the most important and valuable col­ lections of postage stamps and other pos­ tal devices in the world is in the German imperial postoffice museum at Berlin.-- St. Louis Republic. A Hermit in a Hole. Nelson Purdum, of Jefferson county, I lid., disappeared from his usual haunts a couple of months ago after having squandered a big pension allowance. No trace of him could be found until a few months ago, when hunters came across him on the bank of a river near Madi­ son. Smoke was issuing from the ground, and an investigation led to their finding a room underground, in which Purdum was living. A rude cot, a stove and a quantity of provisions were found, but the man, whose long gray beard and locks gave him a wild appearance, de­ clined to come out The rise in the river is likely to flood the hermit's place of abode, but no amount of persuasion will make him desert his strange home. --Louisville Courier-JournaL Forbidden Words in Russia. It is forbidden to use the words •hunger" or "famine" in Kazan, Russia. Nevertheless, the sights in the streets would draw tears from the manliest eya --Cor. London Standard. Apple Blossoms li> Winter. Perhaps every one does not know how taaily fresh apple blossoms can be had in winter. Get the ends of branches with plump flower buds, and place them In water in a warm sunny window, and they will soon bloom. No doubt many other kinds of trees and shrubs will give as good satisfaction.--Vick's Magazine. A plant is to be erected in Philadel­ phia for the manufactured cellulose, a material to be used for a lining for ships. Cellulose will absorb eight times its weight of water. The Japanese students and others, in New York city, raised a handsome sum for the relief of the sufferers from the recent earthquake in Japan. ftajpe's Scouts Out of a Job. A r.tass 6f persons who have suffend greatly by reason of the bomb throwing tragedy have hitherto escaped the notice of the press. Mr. Sage was doing a large business in options or puts and calls, spreads and straddles. He was not so greatly absorbed • in this specialty as he was in 1883. He was caoght in the panic of that year and lost a good many hundred thousand dollars, and since then has been more conservative than he was before. Still, this business has amounted to a good many thousand dollars some days and has afforded a. number of men an opportunity of get­ ting a living. These men are typical Wall street creatures. You see them hustling here and there, buttonholing men and whis­ pering in their ears. They are tireless. They know everybody who is likely to take a little flier. Sometimes as many as a score or more of them used to go to Russell Sage every day and ask him what he would charge for options on va­ rious stocks and securities. Having got Sage's terms, they scoured the streets, professing to give tips, and in the course «f a week would bring in many cus­ tomers to Sage. Their usual commission was one-eighth of 1 per cent., and the smartest of them coald make from tea to twenty dollars a day. They brought Sage a great deal of business first and last But these men have been sad eyed enough since the ex­ plosion. This part of Sage's business life is ended as much as though he had been killed on that day, and it is a seri­ ous question whether he will ever re­ sume it. This has thrown these scouts and commission agents upon their up­ pers. -- New York Cor. Philadelphia Press. - * He Locates Oil Wells in His Dreams. Butler county has an "oil smeller" who can give points to persons who bring out the power of the hazel rod. Some months ago Cunningham & Co. were drilling a well on the farm of fra Stauffer. One night while the well was drilling Casper Keichner, a crippled jew­ eler of Zelienople, dreamed that the well was dry, and in the same vision he saw a spot on the farm of John Shriver, near the Stauffer farm, where a well was flowing 1,000 barrels per day. Keichner related his dream to Cut- ningham & Co., but a smile was all he got for his trouble. When the well on» the Stauffer farm was completed it was a first class duster. In their adversity the owners of the well went to Keichner and asked him to show them the spot on the Shriver farm where in his dream he had seen the coveted 1,000 barrel well. He accompanied them to the place and a well was started on the spot. A few weeks ago the pay streak was reached, the well actually flowed 1,000 barrels a day and the place is the richest oil farm in Butler county today. --Fittsbuig Philadelphia Times. t ••i s of the n A Woman's Strange Bequest. " A very aged lady. Mine. Guzman, who died on the 30th of June last in Pan, was deeply interested, especially during her last years, in the descriptions of the planet Mars and the theoretical] bility of communication betweei planet and the neighbor worlds. Ft more, expressing in her will a peculiarly astronomical, she made"* following legacy: A prize of 100,000 francs is bequeathed to the Institute of France (science sec- * tion) for the person, no matter of what " v.'-+ nationality, who shall discover within ^ ten years from the present time a means •* ^1 of communicating with a star (planet or . ^ otherwise) and of receiving a reply. The testatrix has especially in view the planet Mars, upon which the atten­ tion and investigation of savants has ̂ been directed already. If the Institute Of France does not accept the legacy it - x . will pass to the Institute of Milan, aaod in case of a new refusal to the Institute • of New York.--Cor. New York Hevald. ] Two Historic Ships. Out in the bay stands the "dear old Hartford," and by her side the heroic Nipsic. It is to be hoped that both these historic ships may soon b§ repaired. All the World associates the Hartford with the exploits at Mobile bay. but besides this interesting fact she is one of the few remaining and one of the most beautiful of her type. Hers is indeed a heart of oak. She is not "dead,"as an old sailor lately said with a sigh. She only sleeps. The Nipsio is still stanch and soond. A ship that could make her way home (half around the world) with a storm twisted propeller such as brought her •p from Samoa after the tempest of March, 1880, is not a ship to be set light­ ly aside.--San Francisco Cor. Augusta Chronicle. Mot So Funny After' AU. f A supposed practical joker went into' the Staten Island fei ry slip on Saturday, and exhibiting a black bag declared it contained dyuamite and that he intend­ ed to blow up the building. Everybody made a break for the door except a po­ liceman in citizen's clothes, who knocked the man /down and captured the bag, which was found to contain nothing dangerous. The practical joker had his jaw broken by the policeman's blow.-- New York Letter; gj A Striking Jury. Without doubt the most unique strike on record was that which interrupted the trial of the Jones versus Gordon debt case at Burlington, la. The jury had arrived at a verdict but refused to re­ port till paid their fees. The plaintiff, who had demanded the jury, was anx­ ious to learn the verdict and paid the fees. Much to his chagrin the verdict was against him. -- Cor. New Yo*k World. . A Record Breaking Tear. Eg h teen hundred and ninety-oos seems to have been sort of record break­ ing year. Horses have trotted faster «S the same time during lsyi than ever be- fore; trains have run faster and further; ocean steamships have made quicker trips; crops have been bigger ais4 facturers have prospered asMver bdoNi --New York Press. '•dJTi