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Potted Plants ' Sotted Plants of all kinds constantly on hand. We would be greatly pleased to have the public give us a call *tcHENRY, ILLINOIS. I It Touches ff p the Spot! B^A For Cuts, Burns Bruises, Sores, Pimples, Chapped Hands and Lips, Etc. Etc. end for sample. Large box, 25c DOBBIN riFG. CO. Station S, Chicago, 111. --Don't wait for the Casualty!--- Be Prepared! F. WATTLES (Successor to B.B. Howtwrd^ a Proprietor of th« West Side Meat Market All kinds of Fresh and salt Meats always on hand Oysters n their season. Vegetables and Canned Goods. Come and give me a trial. * F. WATTLES. West McHenry. This Bank receives deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Do­ mestic Exchange, and does a «EMatAL BANKING BUSINESS. We endeavor to do all busi­ ness entrusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entire­ ly satisfactory to our custom­ ers and respectfully solicit the public patronage floney to Loan on real estate and other first class se­ curity. Spec­ ial attention given to collections, and promptly at­ tended to INSURANCE in First Class Companies, at the Low­ est rates. Yours Respectfully PERRY & OWEN, Notary Public. Banker*. A Kauju Bllxnri. "When a real Kansas blizzard elans," said a native of the state. "the snow at ilrnt Is usually soft and flue *nd comtry tlowu with an ominous Then it increases in volume, *in«i a wild wind liurls it along. It is blinding and enveloping, and, aside Crop being freezing cold, one cannot l:ut lose bis way. The storm some­ times lasts two or three days. When oae of these blizzards comes up, the farmer who wants to get from his farmhouse to the stable or mllkhouae takes a cord and starts for the stable or milk house, as it may be, even if It is only 50 yards off. He seldom makes it the first time, and the cord is to keep him from getting lost and wandering in the snow. Sometimes the people stand in the door, and beat a tin tan for a signal to any one who may be out in the storm, but this is of little use, as the noise of the wind is so great that it drowns almost every oth­ er sound. "I know of a case of a man who got lost going from his stable to the house, so swiftly and blindingly did the storm whirl down upon him. He stumbled over the entrance to a cyclone cellar and crawled in there and dropped the door after him to keep out the snow. The snow fell faster and faster aud burled the door so deeply that when it was all ended and he tried to open it he found It impossible. His family searched the country around for him, and it was not until the snow had melt­ ed and gone and some one happened to go Into the cyclone cellar that he was found there."--New York Tribune. Teat Vai Committed. "I remember well once when" Joe Blackburn and I were on the same Committee," said a senator. "It was during a Democratic administration, and there had been a good deal of bother trying to get the secretary of agriculture to agree to a certain thing, and Blackburn bad been sent to talk him over to the committee's plan. In fact, the whole cabinet had been difficult to deal with. When Joe came back, several of us were assembled In the committee room, among us Sen­ ator Vest, who was sunk dejectedly in the depths of an armchair. Some one asked: " 'Well, Joe, did you succeed?* " 'Succeed T he echoed. Then he began to tramp up and down, fuming and fussing. Finally he broke out: " 'Of all the obstinate things in the shape of a cabinet officer I ever en­ countered, commend me to J. Sterling Morton! Don't you agree with me. Vest?' "Vest roused up slowly and 'answer ed: "Tm sorry, Joe, but I am commit­ ted to Hoke Smith.' "It was the funniest thing I ever heard," continued the senator, "and our bill was never even reported."-- Saturday Evening Post. What He Would Have Said. In a complicated criminal case an old bind surveyor was subpoenaed to give his professional opinion in the matter. As the proceedings were about to be­ gin he asked permission to say a few words, but was called to order sternly by the judge, who told him to wait till he was questioned. The case then pro­ ceeded^ A host of witnesses were ex- .amined, and even the prisoner fre­ quently was called upon to make a statement. After a couple of hours the judge said to the old surveyor, "Now, sir, we shall be glad to hear what you have to say on the whole case." The witness stood up and replied: "I only wished to remark awhile ago that Bam quite deaf in my left ear and ratheKhard of hearing in the right. I was merely going to ask if I might be allowed to sit immediately in front of the witnesses and the prisoner. Up to now I have not heard a single word of the proceedings."--London Telegraph. Foot* Could Be Cmtle. One of the best repartees on record is that of Foote, the actor. Dining with some friends, a heated dispute arose between himself and a young nobleman. The latter sought to dis­ parage Foote by asking him what his father was. "A tradesman," said Foote. ^ "Then, sir, it Is a pity he did not make you one." "And pray, let me ask, what was your father, my lord?" "My father, Mr. Foote, was a gentle­ man." "Then, my lord, if s a pity he did not make you one."--Collier's Weekly. Chlaeae Dinner Invitation*. "When a Chinaman issues invita­ tions to dinner," writes Dr. Sven He- din, the traveler, "he sends out, one or two days beforehand, a tiny card of Invitation, contained in a huge envel­ ope. If you accept the invitation, you are supposed to keep the card. If you have not time--that is, if you decline-- you are expected to send it back. If the banquet is appointed for 12 o'clock, you need not go before 2 p. m." Lifelike. Sir Robert Peel was once going through a picture collection with a friend where there was a portrait of a prominent Englishman who was fa­ mous for saying sharp things. "How wonderfully like," said the friend. "You can see the quiver, on his lips." "Yes," replied Sir Robert, "and the arrows coming out of it."--Youth's Companion. Conceit All Gone. "That boy," she said when her hus­ band reached home, "is just like you." "Been naughty again, has he?" he returned. Long experience had taught him the circumstances In which she noted the resemblance between father and son, and years ago the remark had ceased to flatter him.--Cbicagb Post. I LITERARY NO TES A n A prim Wnrtli OO. There has recently come to light an a porn--probably the most exquisite1 example of needlework extant--that busied the fingers of the hapless Mary, Queen of Scots, during her long im­ prisonment. and served to divert her mind from her impending doom at the block. The fallen sovereign--all hope gone--centred her interest upon it dur­ ing the latter part of her long confine­ ment, and created them asterpiece of needlework. Just before her execution she secreted her prized apron under the lining of one of her robes which kept her treasure safe until recently the gar­ ment was ripped apart Its history has since been fully authenticated through letters written by the ill-starred Queen to a friendly ambassador at Pari? who smuggled the materials out o* which it was wrought in her dungeon By strange change the apron came into the posessiondf an American, who ha«- refused $o<\0 >0 for it, and has also de­ clined $5000 for the privilege of unravel ing a single stitch to learn its secret, which is a mystery to all the experts. Its owner has consented however to it? reproduction in large size ip the Jum Ladies' Home Journal. The Passion Play. The devout peasants of Oberainmer- jua are preparing for the decennial per- 'ormance of "The Passion Play," which will be given at frequent intervals dur­ ing the spring and summer. Tin greater part of the cast has been changed since the last presentations. The Christ of this year's play is the son of a stove maker--a stove maker himeelf; th« <o Magdalene is the daughter of an inn­ keeper, who helps care for her father V hostelry, and the Mary is the daughter >f the Burgomaster, a pretty girl of eighteen. A most interesting and pro fusely illustrated article on the play ind tho players will appear in the Tune Ladies' Home Journal ^; A New Romance by Julia Margrudei. "The Voice in the Choir" is the latest romance from the pen of Julia Mag ruder, and its publication will begin immediately in the June Ladies' Home Journal. It is a love story that has its inception through an accidental meet­ ing in a church choir, and which by Grange accidents is shifted to the hospital tent in the wake of an invad­ ing army. Miss Magruder heightens the charm of "The Voice in the Choir" by uniquely veiling the Climax. Selling: Their Daughters.,, The Rev. Rockwell Clancy, a mission­ ary at Allahabad, who is visiting his brother in Medford, said: "The condition of famine-stricken India to-day is something perfectly awful to contemplate. 1 cannot tell anything about the number dying, but when I left Bombay last February there were some 60,000,000 people suffering and over 80,000,000 were in dire distress, and of these but 5,000,000 were receiving government aid. - "It is not cities, but the country places, which are stricken, and when you know that it is mostly among the agricultural classes, and that 80 per cent of the population of India is made up of tillers of the soil, you may be able to grasp in some slight manner the ex­ tent of the suffering at the present time. When the famine set in the people began to sell everything they had that might get a little grain or food. They took the doors from their houses and sold them; sold their furniture and farming utensils; and then, when they had no longer anything to sell, they sold their children. The boys don't sell well, and traffic is largely in girls. ' 'I saw girls in one town jurft before I came away being sold for 80 cents apiece. They were bought up by Mohammedans. But they won't buy the boys, so when the parents can no longer support their children they abandon them and henceforth they must get on as best they can. These cast-offs congregate about the doors of the grain merchants, shops, and the only way the proprietors can get rid of them is to throw out handfuls of grain, scattering it wide. The children pick and pick all day, and at night perhaps are rewarded by having collected a single handful. Rev. Rockwell Clancy is the mission­ ary whom Julian Hawthorne commend­ ed in the Cosmopolitan Magazine, dur­ ing the famine of 1897, as one of the ablest missionaries in India and a per­ fect specimen of American manhood. The Most Expensive City in the World. The annual expenses of the city of New York are larger than those of any other municipality in the world, and the financial transactions of a year re­ present the receipt and expenditure of more than $200,000,000, counting temporary loans, sinking funds, and bond issues. The gross budget of the city for 1899 was $20,000,000 greater .than the expenses of the city of London, $18,000,000 in excess of the budget of Paris, and only $1,000,000 less than the combined expenditures of Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia. The expenses of New York last year for local purposes, exclusive of bond issues, amounted to $19.56 per capita of an estimated population of 8,500,000. The combined annual expenditures of the six largest States ih the Union are less than those of the city of New York, and the financial transactions of the latter are equal in ̂ amount to one seventh of those of the national Government. The credit of^the . city, it may be stated at the outset, is second only to that of the Federal Government, and the property owned by the nmnicipalil y, if sold at market value, would pay the entire funded debt several times over. The consolidation of ninety munici­ palities with the former city of New York was the culmination of a senti. ment so. fixed upon an ideal that there had been little careful reckoning of the cost. The municipality, by taking in the extra territory and population, doub. led its debt, added less than one fourth to its tangible assets, and increased the cost of local government $15,000,000 a year. This added cost is the price paid by the taxpayers for a sentiment and for haste and carelessness in the work of completing consolidation. The cost- of government for the enlarged city was in 1899 approximately $15,4)00,000 more than the combined ^expenditures of the various municipalities for the last year of their separate existence. Tliif» increase was excessive and altogether unnecessary to the maintenance of thorough and progressive government. --From an article by Hon. Bird 8. Coler, in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly for May. AH Pleasant as Maple Syrup. Most remedies have something un­ pleasant to the taste and in consequence many people, especially children, dread the dose and put <3ff entirely or delay the taking of the medicine that can do them good. Not so with Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin--everybody likes its taste and when taken it will cure constipation and all kinds "of stomach troubles." In 10c, 50c and $1.00 sizes of Julia A. Story. TO THE DEAF.--A rich lady, cured ol her deafness and noises in the head by Dr. Nicholson's artificial ear drums, gave $10,000 to his institute, so that deaf V^ple. unable to .procure the ear drums, may have them free. Address 18,828. The Nicholson Institute, 780, Eighth Avenue, New York. tf. i . _ . I consider it not only a pleasure but a duty I owe to my neighbors tot^l about the wonderful cure affected in my' c?se by the timely use of Chamberlain'sv Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I was taken very badly with flux and procured a bottle of this remedy. A few doses of it effected a permanent cure. I take pleasure in recommending it to others suffering from that dreadful disease.--J. W. LYNCH, Dorr, W. Va. This remedy is sold by Julia A. Story. Great opportunity offered to good, reliable men. Salary of $15 per week and expenses for man with rig to in­ troduce our Poultry Mixture and Insect Destroyer in the country. Send stamp, American Mfg. Co., Terre Haute, Ind. __ 82-ly An Epidemic of Whooping Cough. Last winter during an epidemic of whooping cough my children contracted the disease, having severe coughing spells. We had used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy very successfully for croup and naturally turned to it at that time and found it relieved the cough and effected a complete cure. --JOHN E. CLIFFORD, Proprietor Norwood house, Norwood, N. Y. This remedy- is for sale by Julia A. Story. Great opportunity offered to good reliable men. Salary of $15 per week and expenses for man with rig to in­ troduce our Poultry Mixture and Insect Destroyer in the country. Send stamp American Mfg. Co., Terre Haute, Ind. 32-ly "After sufEeringfrom severe dyspepsia over twelve years and using many reme­ dies without permanent good I finally took Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It did me so much good I recommend it to every­ one," writes J. E. Watkins, Clerk and Recorder, Chillicothe, Mo. It digests what you eat. Julia A. Story. Advertised Letters. List'of letters remaining uncalled for in the post office at McHenry, 111., May 1st 1900. Mrs. Hattie Wallace, Emma Humbract, Frank Wendt, Wilson G. Austin, Geo. A. Bennett, H. T. Thompson, M. M. Swan, . Wm. Moore. When calling for above letters please say advertised. ROLLIN WAITE, P. M. W. S. Musser, Millheim, Pa., saved the life of his little girl by giving her One Minute Cough Cure when she was dying from croup. It is the only harm­ less remedy that gives immediate results. It quickly cures coughs, colds, bronchi­ tis, grippe, asthma and all throat and lung troubles. Julia A. Story. . ; Aug. Buchholz, -The . • The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature at " and has been made under his per* sonal supervision since its infancy* Allow no one to deceive you in this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Kxperiments that trifle with and endanger the health of infents and Children--Experience against Experiment* What is CASTORIA Gastoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pave* goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotie substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverislmess. It cures diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation find Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy aud natural sleep* The Children's Panacea--The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA AMTAYf -i '#3 The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. 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READ THIS And bef assured that others will notice that well displayed advertisement of your's Don't beflistaken tiiMmuiaiiitti If you want a stylish fitting Suit or pair of pants go to Buchholz, That is the Place He makes no humbug fit and workmanship the best, i Made up right or no sale. ! --f--------» .t i " : r'; t 1 '?v