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at Wholesale Prices as we will close this sale in a few days r a; >: If you are thinking of buying a piano you should, in Justice to yourself, give the mat- ter your most careful attention. Your only safegaurd will be to buy from a reliable house; a house that represents a number of stand­ ard pianos of high standing and one that has an established reputation for fair, honest and liberal treatment of its patrons for 64 years. We have placed more than two hundred pianos in the best homes in MeHenry county and have given alf fair and liberal treatment. f >• * v If^rou are thinking of buying a piano we want to know you; if y<m are not, we want to know you. We want you to come in and talk piano with us. We want you to take time to look over our selection of high-standing pianos, each with a reputation. We want to sell you a piano and we will give very careful attention to your wants in the se- lection of onfe. We will not ask you an unreasonable price. Very few piano buyers pay cash for their instruments. The great majority buy on time, making a small cash payment and the balance in monthly installments. Our terms will enable anyone of limited means and whose intentions are honest to own a good piano. , If you have an old instrument we will take it at its full value as part payment on a new one. If you buy a pianoin this way you will not miss^the money you pay for it and its purchase will tend to help each member of the family to acquire the habit of saving. You will be surprised at how quickly the time will pass and how soon you will be the owner of a good piano, paid for without working a hardship on you or your family." In all the years of our business career we have never taken advantage of any pf our patrons who have met with misfortune. We operate five of the largest piano factories in the country. We sell to the HOME DIRECT. No dealer'§or middleman's profit. We can certainly give you more for your money than any one SMAI#L CONCERN. Look at our line of pianos: BRADBURY, one of the oldest standard eastern makes; SlIfTH & BARNES, oldest and best piano made in Chicago; WEBSTER, standard for 25 years; WILLARD, fifle product of our Milwaukee factory;" HENNING, favorite for 20 years. And then compare with the unknown makes offered by competition. Ask for our list of satisfied customers, right in your own home county. Dealer's Price $250 Piano Our Price $139 Dealer's Price $300 Piano Our Price $175 Dealer's Price $350 Piano Our Price $200 i: % \ v y F. Q. SfllTH PIANO CO. IN E. C. JACOB'S JEWELRY STORE. MANUFACTURERS-ESTABLISHED 1854. McHENRY, ILL. Call and get a book of "Old Favorite Songs" FREE. A concert will be given every afternoon and evening. Call today~ Kyou are busy and cannot call drop a line and have our representative call on you. WE TAKE SQUARE PIANOS AND ORQANS IN TRADE. Open every evening until 9 o'clock. Warerooms: New York, Chicago, Washington* Milwaukee, St. Louis, Kansas City a; ^ . A.'"' •':\v * 1 |||̂ ita At ' V V V V W V W V V W *4t i« on# of the easiest things in the to conduct a campaign of vituper- l^nn SUd slauder, either in business or politics, aud ike' mac who predicates hie m *ach a foundation may for 4| lippi) receive plaudits that he will mis- OQmtrM into approval, bat in the end iojwdtttoa will be proven qne of Fertile? Senator Mason in his cam- \ Pltan Amt Senator tiopkiite geat in the States senate has interspersed a •Nile# «>>ii«cw>a of vulgar stories with of Senator Hopkins, and the fnraiahed by him has been tlpfeadM by the thoughtless as a pass- ifp e*e©t,hut when M&sou attempted to ***• a lack recently and to bolster op fc»ow» record, he encountered an en- *re*y4ift«r«Bt proposition. His claim «A.to tba hUtborship of the pore food bttl to memory the booming of a brand of baking powder, and tfeift WhfthKWlli franking-«*>f champagne his now professed for President McKinley brings to aftpd hi# funding of the President S&Uk troublesome times with Spain 9et. |j* stated by the Galesbarg Re jgMUfm Register, there is mach far- to be said. When he desired a 1 siacUtt* si* years ago all the facts of hi*. Mxtge# in t!» senate were mach more fttfajEW than sow. The people of Illi* mau understand folly what sort of a ra-! ©9*d fee had made and also what had' ottte reports isgnllsB hit work with thl pare food agitation. They also knew fall well at that time what had been his attitude toward President McKinley. Whatever he may say now his attitude in the senate when the Philippine question was under con­ s/deration was such as to give the impres­ sion that be was unfriendly to Mr. Mc­ Kinley. bad made the record that he now claims, if he had convinced the farmers and other people of the state that he was their chief friend and pro­ tector in the matter of pure foods, and that his re-election was absolutely to their advantage, that he had in all things watched closely after their interests and that all his conduct there had been of sitch a character as to reflect the highest honor on the great state whose repre­ sentative he was in the senate, it is opinad that there would have been no trouble about his re election. But the people of the state were not convinced that he had come up to tb«r expec­ tations and consequently there was no general demand for his re-election. The very fact that six years ago, when the recollection of his record was fresh in the minds of the people, they did not want him for another term is evidence now that he shtmld not thus again be honored. What bas he done since lie left the Benate that the people should again feef called on to return him to that body? What great cause during these six y«are has he so championed as to make feisfaaioe a homehold oaif : •& .** * .* In what manner has he proved daring these sis years that he bas a larger elaim on the people now than then? During these six years hp, has been in a public way but littteueard of. He has sprung again, as it were, from com­ parative obscurity. During these six years if he has done a large work for the* people it is yet to be seen. It is not believed that the people of this state want Mr. Mason again to be in the senate. There is no desire to do him injustice, but there stands out the bold fact that six years ago when his record was {freshest he was in effect re­ pudiated by the people who six years before honored him. And it is also clear that if his record had been above re­ proach and had been fully in accord with the party that had elected him in the first instance there would have been no strong or efficient oppostion to h|,B re-election. But he suddenly springs int$ the arena agait^ as the championbf the- people! They =wiH not be fooled this time. Bfointlos la Travel. First--walking. ^ Second--stage coach. . Third--railroad. Today--By " telephone. For * eepn- QUARTER OF A CENTURY. Itomi Clipped from The PislndMlsr ot J ana 4, 1U1. The most convenient way to visit Chi­ cago. Chicago Telephone Company. Fro. Gans the auctioneer Mtw wittfwttoa. He guar* The annual sheep washing has com­ menced in this section and wool buyers will soon be around. The interior of the M. E. church, in this village, has been undergoing quite extensive repairs, papering, painting, etc., and is much improved in appear­ ance. D An exchange wisely remarks that if your hens come home at this season on one leg, recollect that they were in your neighbor's garden, where they bad no business to be, scratching out long and anxiously looked for plants. Ji. J. Dinsmore, pastorM «tb» TJai- versalist church, in this Milage, has received and accepted a ]call from the Universalist church it Owatonna, Minn., and will commence his labors in his new field on the first Sabbath in Jnly. Quite a serious accident happened with the section handB on the railroad, near Ring wood, on Friday morning last. As ihey were going up the track, eleven men being on the car, a wheel hrokd, throwing them all into a heap on the track. AU were severely braised, omy, speed, comfort it excels all others, i oue man, Charles Petersf was seri­ ously injured, and will be confined to the house for some time in consequence JUNE 18. One of the workman In the brick yard • t* had his leg broken one day last week, by the clay pit caving in upon him. Iy; Bonslett has removed his flour and feed store to the new building just east of Fitzsiminons & Evanson's store, where his customers and tbe public generally can hereafter find bim. Martin Cole, who lives two miles north of Johnsburgh, left on our table three hen b eggs that weighed ten and one-half ounces. Tbey were certainly large ones, but Mr. Cole says tbey are only the common kind produced by bis bens. James B. Perry, Esq., received bis commission •» postmaster of MeHenry last week, and on Monday moved the office back to its old quarters in the filter part of tb*> village. It was hoped id expected that after, the report of tbe b pec tor, who was sent hereby tbe de­ partment, the long and bitter contest would be ended, but from rumors in circulation It looks as if such was not to l»4he.ca8t!. The wind and hail storm of Mobds^r evening made things rather lively^ od\ tbe farm of Wm. Keneally, abont three miles south of this village. One half of his house wasvunroofed, his bafn moved eight inches on its foundation, one cow killed, tore up the trees in bis orchard, carrying them full thirty rods away, oak grubs wore torn up and blown away, etc. It was evidently the tail end of a cyclone, s?3d Mr. Keneally is extremely glad hey did not see the head. These things are getting a little too numerous in this section. V A fuiMi M«wspap«r Man. William E. Curtis, the famous corre­ spondent of tbe Chicago Record-Herald, writes a two-column letter for his paper every day in the year without inter- mission. His powers of sustained work are as great a marvel as bis faculty of always making his matter interesting. Probably no other newspaper corre­ spondent in the country is read so regu­ larly and eagerly by so many thousands of men and woman as Mr. Curtis. Mr. Curtis has traveled several times around the world, visiting every conntry under tbe sun, and writing a larger number of brilliant and interesting letters of travel than were ever before produced by a single band. ' Many of these have later been reprinted in book form. One of his latest expeditions for The Record- Herald was through Mexico, resulting in a series of letters as entertaining as those he wrote a few years ago from India, Turkey and the Holy Land. His forthcoming letters from Ireland, Russia and Germany will rival in importance itud interest any of his previous contri­ butions. Beginning his career in Chi­ cago as a reporter in 1878, Mr/ Curtis rapidly rose to be managing editor. He resigned that poaition to accept a govern­ ment appointment as secretary of the South American commission. So bril­ liantly did he perform the duties of this oihc«s that James U. Blaine, Secre­ tary of State, placed him at tbe head of the world's fair in Chicago he (tie- %. tinguisbed himself as the executive bead of the Latin-American department Ha is a member of almost every Isarned society in Washington and of many is Europe. It is not strange that The Record-Herald prints Mr. Curtis' lettar e/ery day in tbe first column of the ; front page, and that nothing bat a Call- fornia earthquake can displace it froas : that station of honor. * ^ ^ Wamlac Watts*. . : All parties found or seen hunting *£ fishing, boating or trespassing, without my permission, on Lake De&uiti*, with- in tbe lines of the N. W. i of the S. *,• u i of section 6, township 44, N., rang^ E. 3rd P. M., will be prosecuted to 'thai extent of tbe law, and all boats fonajL^x trespassing within the above Hum tm f < §| said lake will be captured and held «a ̂ hostagM. See Illinois statute*, chaptsr 56, section 7. M. " March 1, 190* « * ' ^ - * Nothing lite knowing what's going ^ on. We keep yon posted locally, b«k : ^ The Weekly Inter-Ocean gives tbe news ^ of all the world. By our special af» rangement vuu can secare Wib . , • c ' for on* full year for the very low rati #1.75. •• l.+ -fV.il, -'li Did it ever occur to you that you caai . ^ hny envelopes with yw»rintern addreef^ \ printed on them just as cheap as yu| ^ can buy the bis nil eaveilopes at thf ^ v-