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<\' " Spiv rii ; i ; • . te - I FALL ipio % JWTOtS «s $500 can be saved by buying ready made Suits or Overcoats from us, which are better than made to order or Tailor Made because the cloth is thoroughly shrunk before the garment is made up and there­ fore it keeps its Shape Better and warranted by the makers. JOS. W. FREUND WEST McHENRY, - - ILLINOIS. SEE WHAT THEY ARE WORTH? ARE YOUR HENS LAYING? NO? Try A sack of Red Comb Meat Mash. There will soon be "something stirring." WILBUR LUflBER CO. WEST McHENRY - - TELEPHONE 651 --OF THE VERY BEST CHARACTER |; K fir WE) hear a great deal these days about the value of practical Gifts. We knqw that 1 useful things are the best. We know it because they are the Gifts that we ourselves appreciate. Why not make this more than ever a practical Christmas? You can save time and?trouble by coming to this hardware and cutlery store for help. You'll find here the best kind of Gifts for men, women, boys and girls. Also toys for the little folks. JOHN J. VYCITAL, McHenry, Illinois. r im w The Extraordinary Range of ELECTRICITY as a Servant In the Home has enabled the invention of a host of APPLI­ ANCES to REDUCE WORK, add BEAUTY to the surroundings and increase the COMFORT of the family. The subject becomes of special interest at this time of the year, THE SEA­ SON OF GIVING AND RECEIVING GIFTS. For whether it is a machine for heavy house­ hold work or a dainty table lamp, ELECTRIC1 AL, APPLIANCES ALWAYS PLEASE THE EYE. Decorati ve lamps are many of them real jewels in bronze, copper, Etruscan and opales­ cent glass. We show an interesting line of appliances at our sales rooms at Antioch, Crystal Lake, Park Uidgre, Wau kegan, Highland Park, Evanston, Harvey, Chicago Heights aVid Lagrange, and sell everything electrical at the lowest prices. North Shore Electric Co. WEEKLY EXCHANGE ITEMS AS TAKEN FROM THE COLUMNS OF OUR MANY EXCHANGES. MISCELLANEOUS ASSORTMENT OF NEWS ITEMS IN CONDENSED FORM TOR BUSY PEOPLE. The official census figures give the population of the United States at 03,402,151. The Ringling Brothers of Baraboo, Wis., ht»Ve yitrcuassd 70,000 aCTS!? of land in Saskatchewan, Canada, which they will improve. Skiing is again taking hold of the people of Radine, and the hills north anil went of the city are being used for the furtherance of this exhilarating sport. Wauketfan has a colored man who ie gradually turning white. The change began a few years ago and he confident ly believes that it will not be long before every part of his body is white. tfohn VV. Dekay, author of Sarah Hernhardt's "Judas," was born in Mc- Uriiry county. He was a compositor's assistant when he was fourteen years old. Ten years later he was the owner of quite a number of newspapers, and now at the age of 38 he ia a millionaire. Crystal Lake Herald: Dr. LI. rl. Bay oanie in from Dakota ana spent Tuesday ami Wednesday greeting old friends in Crystal Lake. The doctor raised 425 acres of flax this year getting about half a crop owing to the drouth,, realizing for the yield on a failing market, about *:U>00. The Libertyville Mararoni company was recently fined fifty dollars by Jus­ tice lleswick at Lake Forest for com­ pel ling girl employes to work more than ten hours a day. It was prose­ cuted by the Lake Forest Law and Order league, assisted by Factory In­ spector Davis. Ex-County Treasurer Fred Ames of Lake county is found to have a short­ age of $27,000 in his accounts. The news comes as a great surprise and shock to the people of Lake county, us lie was believed to1 be capable of keeping a straight account and scru­ pulously honest as well. Because his name did not appear in the telephone directory, N. G. Van Sant of Sterling, brother of the national com­ mander of tue Grand Army of the Re­ public, was given judgment of $10 against the Central Union Telephone compauy recently. It is said to be the first case of its kind in the United States. With milk at $2 per hundred many dairymen in the vicinity of Harvard are realizing good sums of inont y from their dairies. One Hartland farmer, and he is a renter, too, is making 750 pounds per day, which means $15 each day as his receipts from his dairy alone. An­ other farmer in the same town is mak­ ing 1,000 pounds, or $20 per day as his milk money. About thirty-five or forty men were laid off indefinitely at the Emerson Typewriter factory at Woodstock Mon­ day night of last week. On the other hand, the Oliver Typewriter employes have been called upon to work two extra nights last week and all day Saturday. In all probability they will #be called upon to put in considerable overtime in the next few weeks ae there are many orders to fill. Superintendent A M. Hhelton has secured a room in the county court house which is to be fitted np as a standard one room school. In this «n object lesson in seating, heating, and equipment will be given. Country peo­ ple and schoot directors may see what constitutes a standard one room school. This will be done without expense to the public, the manufacturers of seats, stoves, blackboard, etc., supplying the eqnipment without charge for demon stration. Hitching posts in Iowa are doomed as a result of an edict from the state board of health. Incidentally a row has betfu stirred up with the Iowa farmers, who now will be compelled to take their teams to stables The action was taken partly because of the epidemic of infan­ tile paralysis, which has swept over the state. The state board declared the dust and filth accumulated by horses standing at hitching posts endanger public health, and in towns where no street cleaning departments are main­ tained, posts must be removed. This affects almost every town in the state. Woodstock S-utinel; At least a dozen people are infested with trichinae in the neighborhood of Union. William Hen- sel, living on the Steinke farm, killed a large hog early in the fall. T^he carcass was divided with his son-in law, Fred Ehlers, and both families salted the meat and made sausage. At present every member of the two families who has partaken of any uncooked meat, (and sansage is usually eaten raw among the Germans) is afflicted with trichin­ osis. Some of the patients have been ill for five weeks, hot all are apparently recovering. William Steinke and the fninily of Rey. Schulmelstrat of Har­ mony, who were recipients of presents in the form of this sausage, are also down with the disease. Hogs nsnally are infected with trichinae after eating the meat of the common rat, which an­ imal usually harbors the paresits in countless numbers. THE PATENT MEDiUNE EVE AS SEEN BY A MEMBER OF THE JUNIOR CLASS OF THE HIGH 8CHOOL, 1 Ends Winter's Troubles. To many, winter is a season of troub­ le The frost bitten toes and fingers, chapped hands and lips, chilblains, cold mires, red and rough skins, prove this. I'.utsach troubles fly before Bucklen's Arnica Salve. A trial convinces, (ireatest healer of Burns, Boils, Piles, Cats, Sores. Eczema and Sprains. Only 2~> cents at N. H. Petesch's and P. Mas- (juelet's. Ymu will find the biggest and best liue of Christmas candies and nuts at M. M. Niesen's. The following composition was pre­ pared and read by a member of the junior class of the McHenry high school in one of the regular recitation periods in physiology one day recently. The composition is a truly good one and, as the old saying goes, "consists of more truth than poetry:" THE PATENT MEDICINE EVIL. Americans consume more drugs and use in ore patent medicines ?>.»•> the people of any other country on the civilized globe. A sum of $200,000,000 is spent annually on palent medicines. Everywhere, in cars, on transfers, on bill boards, in magazines, in news­ papers, in the mails are advertised medicines to cure disease and devices to promote health. When we consider that electric cars contain from thirty- two to fifty-two advertisements each, three-fourths of which are directly or indirectly concerned with health; when we multiply these by the number of cars actually in use in American cities; when we consider the number of ad­ vertisements in magazines and daily papers, and the enormous circulation of these papers and magazines: when we consider that an increasingly large porportion of advertising space is de­ voted to health, we begin to realize the cumulative power for good or for evil that health advertisements must have. Some of the main patent medicines are "Colds Cured In One Day," "Ap- pendixine," health loods, massage vibrators, violet rays, sanitary tooth washes, soaps and faith cures. New- ones appear every day, enough to make a really sick person dizzy, let alone a person suffeiing from imagin­ ary ailments. Last winter an Irish maid slowly lost her rosy cheeks and grew hollow eyed and thin. She was taken to a special­ ist who discovered a rapidly advancing case of consumption. He said that owing to the girl's ignorance, stupid­ ity and homesickness, her only chance of recovery was to return to the coun­ try at once. The girl agreed to go, but insisted on a few days to talk it over with' her cousins in New York. After two weeks had elapsed she was found in a stuffy, overcrowded New York tenement. She had found a doctor who had given her a little bottle of medicine for $2, which would cure her in the city. It was futile to protest. Days in the unventilated ten­ ement and nights in a dark room meant that she would never live to finish the hot,tie. Last summer a district nurse of the summer corps, who visited city babies under two veai-s of age, encountered in the hallway of a tenement a bevy of frenzied women. A child lay gasping and rolling its eyes up into the top of its head. The nurse asked the fright­ ened mother what she had been giving it. '"Nothing at all," said the woman. Hut a tell-tale bottle of soothing syrup showed that the child was dying from morphine poisoning. Happily, the nurse came in tijne to save it. • Is it not pitiful, this grasping for a poison in an extremity; this seizing of a defective. rope to escape the fireV The patent medicine evil cannot be cured by occasional exposure or by overexposure. Nor can it be cured by legislation unless laws are rigidly en­ forced. Over exposure is ineffective. It \s the evils of patent medicines that do harm, not their name and not their patents. The medical profession has in vaita protested against proprietary medicines. Ethical barriers cannot be erected by revolution. The mere pat­ enting of medicines for profits does not make the medicine injurious any more than the mere mixing of unpatented drugs makes a physician safe. Phys­ icians, who would not themselves patent a ditig, will use certain patent­ ed drugs wnose ingredients are known to be safe and uniform. True exposure of patent medicine evils will enable the average physician and the average layman to distinguish the dangerous from the safe, the fraud from the genuine, lies frtmi truths. Enforcement must be insured. Im­ pure drugs may do as much harm as patent medicines containing harmful drugs. In New York a vigorous cam­ paign was recently inaugurated by the department of health to drive out im­ pure drugs. Drugs are dangerous rnough at their best. When they are rot what they pretend to Ik\ whether patented or not, they may take life. Fighting patent medicine evils is a civic duty to be accomplished by civic co-operation, not private effort. It is impossible to organize unofficial educa­ tional agencies that can offset the cumulative, lying advertisement. sonal'opposition is but the beginning. Official machinery must be set running and kept running so as to protect the public health against the commercial motive that preys u|>on ignorance and easily inspired faith. f Saved Frpm Awful Death. IIow an appalling calamity in his fam­ ily was prevented is told by A. D. Mc- Donold, Fayetteville, N. C., R F. D. No 8. "My sister had consumption," he writes, "she was very thin and pate, had no appetite and seemed to grow weaker every day, as all remedies failed till Dr. King's New Discovery was tried, and so completely cured her that she has not "been troubled with a con^h since. It's the best medicine I ever saw or heard of. " For cooghs, colds, lagrippe, asthma, croup, hemorrhage all bronchial trouble it has no equal. 50c, $1.00. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by N. H. Pet- e&ch and F. Masquelet. Old plumes made into willows and plumes cleauedj curl ml and dyed. Mrs. E. D. Fischer, 61(5 North 61st Court, Anstin, 111. Jan. 10 Want Column. AH advertisement* Inserted under thU head at tbe following rates: Five Hum or leu, g# eemta tor flint cents for *ut>»<Ktuent< Insertion Iforo than e im.ts, ft ceatt* «. line tor n<i S cent* at line Cor addition I insertions. W ANTE1>-- A man to chop cord wood. Ap- *" ply at this office. F°S _ SALE--Chester White boars. O. W. Harbison, Ringwood, 111. 17-8t* T.OST--Satchel containing piano tuning "T Ketura to O. H. Pamtham, Wood­ stock, 111., and reeeive reward. * T^OR SALS--The Dr. O. H. Fegers, Jr., reai- , den.se and property In McHenry. For farther Information apply to or address T. J. " r" 1 l«-tf Wal£h, McHenry, 111. T usx--an Saturday, use. 10, a w»tarsna2 ZT fountain pes. mdet will confer a favor by calling up telephone 86!. "p^Olt SALE--A cottage and two andone-balf f- lots on west side of town. For further information apply to or write Tarn Plain- dbaler, McHenry, III. 25-tf SALE CHEAP--A fourteen-ineb Em- . il 53".s Acorn selr-feeding base burner, farther information apply to or write Jonh " " ni. JPOR W. Bonslett, McHenry, TjV)U 8Ai.H. ub hKNT- My property i:; .. . W»st McHenry, now occupied by E. F. Matthews, Jr., as a meat market. This is a desirable location for business and can be obtained on reasonable terms. R. A. How- apd. Inquire of Suton Bxoffkl., West Mc­ Henry. or the owner, 512 South State, Elgin, HI- S*-2t tjV>R SALE ON EASY TERMS-elesmnt cor ner property in village: good house, bjM'u, weil, shaae trees, fruit, lar^e tract of ground tor garden, etc.; well located on main street. eor rent--another property, #6.00 per month; Urge lot, house, bar a, well, etc., one acre of *ndJwyo!niiig Included. Simon Srorr&fc, West McHenry, 111' QUARTER OF A CENTURY. ITEMS CLIPPED PROR PLAINDEALER OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. DECEMBER 16. There is a rumor that E. A. Shedd & Co. are contemplating the erection of more ice houses here this season. We have been unable to learn whether or rjot rumor is correct in this particnlar. Station Agent Base is the proudest man in tbis section, the Northwestern Railroad company having lately pnt a new floor in the depot and office, fur­ nished him with a new safe and made other necessary improvements in and around the station. The wife of Ed. C. Howard, proprie­ tor of the Howard House, Fox Lake, died very snddenly on Thursday morn­ ing last. She leaves three children, the youngest bnt a few hours old at the time of her death. Mr. Howard has the heartfelt sympathy of his many friends in this vicinity in this, his honr of bereavement. The Standard Theatre company, ac­ companied by the McHenry Military band, go to Richmond on Thursday evening of this week, and by rrqaeet to Wauconda on Satarday eveuing. We can assnre the lovers of the play in these towns that they will miss a rich treat if they fail to see this company. The drama, ' 'The Ocean Waif," is a fine one, the farce a button buster, while the original sketch by Cntteridge and Going is alone worth the price of admission. DECEMBER 23. Cook Wright, who is with Marshal Field & Co., Chicago, made his parents, in this village a visit over Sunday. Rev. 13. Brunning will "occupy the pulpit at the Universalist church in this village on Sunday next, morning and evening. John Myers has commerced filling private ice houses in this village. He tilled Iiobt. Schiessle's this week with good ice about one foot in thickness. Arrangements for the New Year's party Friday evening, January 1, at the Riverside Hotise are progressing favorably, and promises, as usual, to be a very pleasant and enjoyable affair. There will be appropriate services for the Christinas festival at the Uni­ versalis!. ehurch^on Thursday (tomor­ row) evening. The choir will have appropriate music for the occasion, and Rev. B. Brunning will deliver an address. In spite of the thaw, Santa Claus, bis wife, children and all will arrive at the M. K. church on Christmas eve. Come and hear Rev. J. M. Conlee's address to the children. Come and hear the vocal selections by the Star q^Uji'tet. Come and receive an intro­ duction to Santa Claus' wife. Admis­ sion, 10 cents. Children of the M. E. Sunday school admitted free. Pro­ ceeds to furnish Sunday school supplies for the new year. Doors open at 6:45. Exercises begin promptly at 7:30. Dance at McHenry Houne. The second dance, under the present management, will take place at the Mc­ Henry House hall on Satarday evening, December 31. Mr. Bickler promises the dance loving public a rare treat and has especially engaged Brodie's fnll orches­ tra of Chicago for this occasion. Brodie's orchestra appeared at pavilion dances in this vicinity last summer and those who have heard this musical organiza­ tion pronounce their work first-class. A midnight sapper will also be one of the big features of the event. This will be served in the diniag hall of the hotel and will consist of the seasonable good things. Mrs. Bickler will have charge of this part of the evening's program and it's a safe bet tbat no one will go away hnngry. Dance tickets, 75 cents; supper, 60 cents per plate. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Wants to help 5ome One. For thirty years 3 . F. Boyer, of Fer­ tile, Mo., needed help and conldn't find it. That's why he wants to help some one now. Suffering so long himself he feels for all distress from Backache, Nervousness, loss of Appetite. Lassitude and Kidney disorders. He shows that Electric Bitters work wonders for such troubles. "Five bottles," he writes, "wholly cured me and now I am well and hearty." It's also positively guar­ anteed for Liver Tronble, Dyspepsia, Blood Disorder, Female .Complaints and Malaria. Try them. 50« at N. H, Petesch's and F Masquelet.'s. Santa Clans bas left an excellent line of Christmas candies and note at M. M. Nieaen'a. Everything fresh. OUR LINE OF TOYS is the largest a n d m o s t varied ever bronght into the village. Come in and aee the ex­ cellent dis- p 1 a y. We have every­ thing t h at will bring joy into the hearts of the littie folks. fjr «ii tbe !*TTR special effort this sea«m in the lldirectioTl of useful and ornamental ioatures has met with most gratify­ ing success and we shall deem it a privilege to show yon a very exten­ sive assortment of HOLIDAY Goods that are as new as they are pleasing and appropriate. We invite your at­ tention to the latest and best which insures an easy selection of appro­ priate Gifts for young and old. We feel confident that the most critical examination of our complete and very appropriate lines of desirable Holiday Goods will convince you that they are not equalled elsewhere in merit or in price. :: :: :: ;; ;; F. A. Bo h lander Capital Stock, $25,000. 3 with us. -OFFICERS: Edwin L. Wagner, Pres. C. H. Fegers, Sr., Vice Pres. Carl W. Stenger, Cashier. for FORD and REGAL auto­ mobiles, INDIANA silos, wag­ ons, buggies, pony carts, cut- ters, sleigh^ pumping engines, manure spreaders, tank heat­ ers, bolster springs, batteries, t e r m i n a l s , w i r e s , m a c h i n e bolts, axle grease, etc. :: :: Prop us a card or phone.us abuot Silos and we will be pleased to call on you. Always at your service, WM.STOFFEL Phones: ResiDer&& 19*. XMAS C H I N A ! We have a large stock of Imported China that is sure to delight the Christmas shopper, for it offers a tempting variety of beautifully decorated pieces; and all at a price amazingly low. Included are plates, footed bowl#, salad bowls, bon bon dishes, sugars and creamers; syrup jars, cracker jars, chocolate pots, cake plates, wall plates, celery trays, candle sticks, berry sets, spoon trays, cups and saucers, jugs, creamers, mugs, etc. :: :: BOOKS! BOOKS! A well selected lioe of the latest and best selling popular nov­ els at less than publisher's prices; also books for the boys and girls. Call in and look our line over. :: :: ..JOHN STOFFEL.. West McHenry Telephon* 301 !sy when you were young you could now be as gracious as Santa in uistributiduf cheer and happiness. Every young man should have a B a n k A c c o u n t t incites the germ of saving, it makes you independent, and associates you with success­ ful men. There will never be a better time to open an account than right now. .. .Safety Deposit Boxes, $3.00 Per Year... Simon Stoffel, Vice Pres. &