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' J C . C H O A T E WEDNESDAY, JAN. 12, 1898, GREAT CLEARI.NG-UI West McHenry, III, IST" Butter dropped lc below last week's prices Monday and sold at 20c on the Elgin Board o! Trade. The offerings were 425 tubs and the sales 3 CO tubs. Ridding opened at 17c, advancing to 18c and then to 20c. The market closed steady at 20c. After the Holidays. Everything cheap. Now is the time to buy. Reductions all through the house. Closing out our WINTER JACKETS AND CARES In order to close out our Winter Stock in the least possible time we wiil make the following ' i Unprecedented Low Pricer. $ • v \ •> 1 lJ' \ »{•* • •. > • • ... • [. Badger L L. Muslin, 1 yard wi le, 4% cents Heavy Fine Muslin, 1 yard wide, 5 cents Bleached Muslin, 1 yard wide, 5 cents and up Indigo Blue Prints, cents Fai cy Dress Prints 5 and G cents Wool Underwear for Grentinmen, to.imer price 97c new 79 cents Men's extra heavy fleece lined Underwear 42 cents Ladies' and Children's Underwear at greatly reduced priYcs. In fact we ara making sweeping reductions in our entire Dry Goods Department. 16?" Contrast last New Year's with this New Year's: Empty dinner pails against foil dinner pails; two or three d^ys a week; thousands of unemployed men against men working at regular wages. Does it look as though the change from democratic to Republican policy had done nothing towards returning pros­ perity to the country? With the aid of bolting Republi­ cans, who are opposed to the re-election of Ma'rk Hanna as U. S. Senator, the democrats of Ohio have obtained con­ trol pf the organization of the State legislature. The recalcitrants justify their course by claiming the act is a re­ volt against personal "bossism." The contest for the Senatorship promises to be a long and bitter one. Dress Goops--a 1 ue of 15 eent goods reduced to Our 12J cent Flanne'ettes, your choice Our Apron Ginghams. ...... Oui yard wide Precale ..... .... Our 6 cent Cotton Flannel .... ..... Our 6 cent Unbleached Muslin .... Woodstock, 111,, .fan. lO, 1908. 9 cents per yard 7% cents per yard 3% cents per yard 7% cents per yard 4 cents per yard 4 c nts per yard 4C) cenls 39 < entr 9i cen's A. AND M. BRYHN, Are now prepared to give lessons on Mandolin and Guitar. Leav. orders at Heman & Schneider's, John Evanson's, or at Studios, S Stoffel's More and Mrs. Buhr's house, north of Village. Terms 12 lessons, $5. Single lessons 50 cents. A. AND M. BRYHN- BOOK ON DISEASES OF HOBSES. Book on diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, dogSj hogs and poultry mailecl free by addressing Humphrey^ Veteri­ nary Specifics, corner William and John Ste., New York. W* ANTED --TRUSTWORTHY AND active gentlemen or ladies to travel for responsible, sstablishedjhouse in Illinois. Monthly $65 and expenses. \foBii on „ steady. Reference. Enclose .self ac. dressed stamped envelope. The Dominion Company, Dept. Y, Chicago. -- J, VAN SLYKE, Editor. -- {©"In order to ascertain to what ex­ tent the recently discovered $ 100 silver certificates have gotten into circulation, Secretary Gage has called in the entire ' fe&ue of that denomination. These coun­ terfeits are the most dangerous ever seen of any U. S. note. The paper, the en­ graving and tli-j printing are fully up to he standard o; genuine, and it is feared that man, of them may be in the hands ai banks. They are calculated to fool expert money handlers. ident's manly appeal for relieve the Cuban who are the necesities of life by rea- nditions on the island, has charitable hearts of people this country and substan- pouringinto Cuba by every Arrangements have been made ara Barton, president of the Red Cross, to go to Cuba with ssistantsto help the United insular agents in distributing g the suffering. exchange very pertinently Hair* Congressman Hopkins, just before leaving Aurora for Washington, after the Holidays, predicted a busy session oi Congress, saying in effect: "1 -see but slight possibility of financial legislation during the session. Congress is sadly divided upon questions of currency and banking, and 1 do not "believe those of radical vie we will become reconciled to a law which can command the support of the conservative majority. However, now the Dingley law has more lhan vindicated itself, and has earned a sur­ plus five months before the committee on ways and means anticipated that re­ ceipts would equal expenditures many problems * which appeared as large as mountains in the gloom of a treaeur.v deficit will sink to the insignificance of mole hills in the bright light of a boun: teous revenue. In the emergency of an untoward event and the lack of financial legislation, the President may be de­ pended upon to carry out the pledge of the St. Lou's platform and preserve the gold standard inviolable. The session will be marked by long and sharp de- hates, not only upon questions of finance, but upon Cuba and other foreign issues. la my. opinion Hawaii will be a part of the United States weeks, if not months, before the spring adjour- ment. Although congress will do much talking. I do not.believe, however, that it will do anything conflicting with the adminstration's policy of peace and trade advancement." Ms9"Hon. J. R Burton, of Kans., now in Washington, is one of the numerous republicans who believes in the policy of letting well enough alone. He says "Congress ought to pass only the neces­ sary legislation and adjourn as speedily as possible, so as to give the country the longest rest possible before the campaign opens. It would be a great mistake, in my opinion, to tinker with the currency. Every dollar we have is as good as every other dollar, and is going to remain so. It is the best to let well enough alone. Prosperity' has knocked out the free silver shooters, and they will, if the present good statues is maintained, have very frigid audiciences next sum­ mer and, fall. Give them any excuse by interfering with our monentary • system and they will start up their howling with renewed energy. There is no need to give them any opening, but let them go with their worn out 16 to 1 platitudes. Our present currency system may not be ideally perfect, but it is answering all purposes and a change at this tim? is not desirable." endency of young men in this to embark in the learned pro- with no especial aptitude for fating except avoiding manual labor, constantly on the insrease. It is itly to be deplored, for to such, fail­ ure is the inevitable result. The trouble with these young men is that they do not mnderstand the dignity of manual labor. They do not realize that honors and fortunes mny be more readily real­ ized outside of thdse socalled learned professions than in them, and that it is just as honorable to swing a hammer or to hold a plow as it is to make a speech in court or amputate a limb. \ , ================= 'No man contributed more to the defeat of Bryanism and the silver heresy paign of 1896 than Mark A. and, although that party was uarely defeated in Ohio this fall publicans of the state of Ohio it is concentrating every effort to defeat Mr. Hanna for the senatorship and thus "even up" in a personal way. The elec­ tion of a silver democrat would insure a silver senate and blockade legislation during the first half of President Mc- Kinley's adminstration. The mug­ wump Republicans who are attempting this outrage should be held to a strict account. v. $: LUMLEY, ATTORNEY. Notice of Sale of Real Estate. By virtue cf an order ami decree or the County Court oi M> Henry (jounty, Illinois, madecm the pctitioa of'tire unrtorsianed Mary A Hc.Glasban, -AdminUtratrix, of the Estate of Alexander MoGiashan deceased, for leave to sell the Re«l Estate of »ft id deceased, at the January Term A. D. 1898, of sajd ucurt, to wit; ob the 3d day of January 1893 Notice is hereby giyen, That op Saturday thoSthdayof February next, betw»«n the hour* 9I ten o'clock in the forenoon and Ave o'clock In the afternoon of said day, at the OairyiuSn's 'Hate Bank, in the city of Marengo, County of McHenry and state of Illinois, the following described real estate belonging to the estate of Alexander Mr- Glashan deceased, 10 wit: The south east quarter (J4) of the south wos quart'r (M) of section twenty nine (29) and the north east quarter (&)ofthe north west quarter (&) of section thirty.two (82) ail in township for y four (44) north range five (5i east of third Principal Meridian, containing eighty (SO) acres more or less, willbeiold to the high- eat and best bidder- TERMS OF SALE CASH. MART A MCULABHAN, January 8, 1898. Administratrix V. 8. LUMLET, ATTOBNET. Executor's Notice. ESTATE of Nicholas Sohaefer, deceased. The undersigned having been appointed Executor of the last Will and Testament of Nicholas Schaefer. deceased, late of the Oountv of McHenry and State of Illinois, hereby gives notice that he will appear be- fore the County Court of McHenry County, at the Court House in Woodstock, at the March Term, on tho first Monday in March next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and re­ quested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to Bald estate are requested to make immediate payment t« the undersigned, Dated the 3diday of Jan., A. D., 1898. JOHN HTJEMANN, Executor. t6T"The friends of the silver cause will probably be quite distressed to observe that the gold mined, the world over, during the year just ended is estimated by Director Preston of the United States mint at fully $240,000,000, being an in crease of nearly twenty percent over 1 \3t year. The worlds popnlation increases on an average about one per cent per annum, and with gold increasing at the rate of twenty per cent per annnum it would seem that nobody need be lying awake nightsj troubling 2 himself about a lack of circulating medium, or struggling to find a way of increasing it with a depreciated and discarded metal. A Letter From Oregon The following is an extract from a letter received by Capt. Snow from Albert Calkins, a former resident here, who, who with his son, Frank, are located on a farm in Oregon: ROSEBURG, OREGON, Jan. 3d, 1898. We are having very fine weather here. Have not had any frosts since November; then only a light frosts that did not kill the leaves on apple trees. We are going to make garden to-morrow. We have Cabbage large enough to set out now We don't have to grow the plants in hot beds or in boxes in the house as they do east but sow the seed out doors. Frank has in about 50 acres of grain mostly Oats, which look fine, 6 or 8 inches high now, and is going to sow 10 acres more. They use Oats for hay here, cut when they begin to turn. He has six work horses and will have all they can do and will have to hire some besides as he Will have 250 acres to plow in the spring, then will have to cultivate it all, the same as they do corn east. Oats are 40 cents per bushel here now, last year they were 50 cents at this time. Theclimtae is different in every valley in Oregon. We can see snow in the mountains on the coast range and in the cascade range. We are about 30 miles from the coast. With best regards to inquiring friends I am, t Yours Truly, A. CALKINS. V. S. LUMLET, ATTORNEY. Administrator's Notice of Filing Final Settlement. STATE OF ILLINOIS, j „ McHenry County, 1 ss Estate of George Flllweber deceased. To whom it may "oncern and to the heirs and distributes of said estate, Fou are hereby notified that on the 25th day ot October. 1897, the Administrator of said estate will present to the Coimty court of McHenry county, at the Court House In Woodstock, 111., his final report of his acts and doings as such Aimlnistrator *nd nsk the Court to be discharged from any and all fur ther duties and responsibilities connected with said estate and his administration there­ of, at which time and place you may be present and resist such application if you choose to to do. V. 8. LUMLEV, Administrator, 0 JOHTRMSON^ P6?*The pension list will not be pub­ lished. The Secretary of the interior is decidedly opposed to the proposition. He does not believe it would result^ in any good, but would furnish the claim agents with material for another raid upon the treasury. He thinks that the experience of the department when the lists were published before, some twenty years ago, would be repeated. Then the old soldiers were deluged with enticing circulars from claim agents, who offered to secure them an increase if they woul3 advance money to pay the expense of working up the evidence. It is the opin ion of the law offisers of the department that they can find) cases of fraud with out publicity. Jill V • \&* When it comes to jingo talk Edi tor Henry Watterson is able to hold his own with the best of them. He says "The.Courier-Journal is a jingo; but is a jingo having an example and a soar, ing soul. When it goes a-catting, goes a-catting! If we want Mexico, let us take it. When we want Canada we can do the same thing. J ohn Bull is the boy for us to tackle if we mean business, and, by the way of keeping our hand in the old queen's grandson over there Potsdam. Let us take Ateace and Lor rane and return them to France as part payment of the debt we owe her. Let us settle the vexed Schleswig-IIolstein con troversy by creating a republic out the Danublan principalities. Let establish the Christian religion in Tndia China and Persia, and plant the stars and stripes over the seraglio of Abdul the Damned, on the Bosphorus. Or it's islands we want, there is the owld Emerald Isle itself--very essential as etragetic point in case we go to war with England--let us annex Ireland. p- V • • ' ; " ; . Farmers' Institute The McHenry County Farmers' In­ stitute will convene in the court house at Woodstock, Thursday and Friday, Jan. 27 and 28. A very interesting pro gramme has been prepared, as follows: THURSDAY-10:30 A, M. Prayer Bev S O Hay, Woodstock Address of Welcome Mayor Jewett Woodstook Response... .President Zimptrmann, Marengo Seoretary'i and Treasurer's Report Question Box AVTBBHOON--1:3C O'CLOCK Prayer.. Bev R B Guild, Woodstock Musio Mill's Band Future of Horse Breeding M W Dunham, Wayne iftpeolal Breed of Dairy Cows BF Wyman Sycsmore Valueof Corn Fodder... WlllDyer, Alden;C W.8ylvesterllarengo Silo and Silage Feed 8 E Clark Woodstock M B Metcalf Marengo Does It Pay to Buy Feed for Dairy Cows W A Boise, Marengo »VEHING--7:30 O'CLOCK Prayer Bev Sunderlin Woodstock Farming Interests ol McHenry County V8 Lumiisy Woodstock Song Male Quartet Woodstock The Farmer Boy Rev E J Rose, Marengo Song... Ladies Quartet Marengo Household Economy Mrs Parkhurst Marengo Song .. Ladies'Quartet Woodstook Social side of Rural Life Mrs Allen, Woodstock Song Male Quartet, Marengo The Farm Home E 8 Fursman El Paso. Song ..... .Male Quartet, Woodstock Rural Free Mail Deliytr / .. k lion J M Stahl, > h'cago Bard Roads J J Murphy Woodstock Song--America ....Audience KBIDAT--10:30 A. M. Prayer.. ....^..BevStavens, Woodstock Tile Drainage and Its Benefits.... H Thompson Huntley ,0 H Tryon Woodstock Feeding Cattle for Market J King Rockford; C Thompson Woodetock Sheep Raising.. .GeoMcKerrow SutBex Wis AFTHRHOON 1:30 O'CLOCK. Prayer ..Rev8 C Hay Woodstock Management of the Dairy W R Hostetter. McCarroll Fruit on the Farm A F. MoOre, Polo Dlveslfled Poultry Farming Mrs R A Judy,Decatur Corn Culture..E8 Fursman, the ' Oorn King Swine Breeding • J Lovejoy Roscoe; C H Everett Belolt Mransactlon of Business. FIRE SMI File SHE By Order of Insurance Co, ocA1} ^e^c^an,^,se d!imi£e<l by Fire (on the evening of December .hy, "wa^er or smelts, must be old to best advauta^e. Men's Felt Boots, extra heavy. Boys'Felt Boots, extra heavy, Men's Mishawaka Knit Boots, bill brand Men's MLhawaka Knit Boots with snow fx -.luderandWulei Goodyeur Overs, best in the market, $2..r>8 Men.s 1 buckle Arctics, best goods,^ $1 17 i Boj's 1 buckle Arctics, best goods cents Ladies' Buckle A»ctics cents Misses' Buckle Arctics, 73 ccnfs And all other Winter Foot* ear at less than wholesale pi* ct s. Gloves and Mittens, Well you must see goods to appreciate prices. At least $5,000 worth to be sacrificed Sale begins business tire "larcT'inBntlis of this ye have surpassed all records. The iron dustry has been greatly encouraged increased demand during the last f< weeks, and, while the slight impro^ ment in pig iron at Pittsburg has b& maintained, notwithstanding the greatc output ever known, the new contracts f finished products have been unusual f the season. Minor metals have be rather weak. The cotton industry is ha ed by the question of wages, although general reduction now seems probab The manufacturers have been buyii largely of material for worsted good and their purchases have stimulated bu ing by wool manufacturers, so that tt wool markets are stronger, though wit! out changes in quotations. After t' great excitement at 1-- NEW MUSIC STOKE Janiary 6th, 1898. H s e e are Great Bargains awaiting you. JOHN EVANSON & CO. In our coffee Deportment we hive the finost, line we ever h<id. Tiy our Fancy Rio Coffee for 1.^ cents a pound. If not the best coffee you ever had tor tbe price your money refunded. W e have also the celebrated Saa-Ceara Roasted Coffee for 25c. Nothing to equal it in this town. The Red Dragon Teas we make a tpecialty of. Have them f om 25c up Dried Fruits, Cannad Good-, in fact anything: you want in the Grocery line. ••Buer's Choice Syrup" has again come to town. The finest Syrup in Northern Illinois. Try a keg and be convinced. FLOUR ! FLOUR! We vMll have a car of the famous old Sleepy Eye Flcur in this week, and those wishing Flour at Jobber's Prices can have .Hume in 10 sack lots for Cash. Do not buy until you see me, as I will s tvo you money. Pankako, the gtent health preserver can be had at the Farmers Store, 10c per package. West MoHenrj, Illinois. MILO L. HOWE, Having leased the East Store in Stoffel's Block, WEST McHENRYi III,. H«s opened therein a first class Music btore, where at all times can be found PIANO 5, ORGANS, VIOLINS Mandolins Guitars Banjos Zithers, Antoharps, Music Boies, And in short all kinds of mus­ ical instrumacnts, Sheet Music, etc. Our Pianos and Organs are the best made, and will be sold as low as any hrst-class Instrument can be bought anywhere. The public are cordially invited to call and look over my stock whether they want to purchase or not. Pianos and Organs Tuned, On short notice and satisfac­ tion guaianteed. MILO L. HOWE. NEW STYLE IN PHOTOGRAPH! Portrats Like Old Paintngs. The leading photographers of the country are now lighting the faces of their sitters in the style followed by the great­ est portrait painters the woild ever saw. It "gives a perfect likeness and preserves all the character in the face. It is highly artistic and needs only to be seen to be ap­ preciated. WE ABE BIGHT OP TO DATE GREAT DEPARTMENT STORE, EL.QIIT, ILL, UNIVERSAL LOWEST PRICES The Chance of a Season! Oppoitunities, said the old darky, are sure to come to every man and woman, but its only the bright man or woman "dat knows em when dey comes." . offeiings this week in Cloaks and Suits are opportunities that it won't take a very bright woman to recognize the extraordinary value Ladies Jackets, of black boucle Cloaking, double stitched seams and edges, plaited back, wide box front, fastened on collar with a fly' deep storm collar, $4.98. Ladies' Jaeket, of black boucle Cloaking box front, fastened with pearl button, front, baek and sleeves trim­ med with straps of cloth, and small tailor buttons, *5.98. Ladies black Kersey Jackets, box front, fastened on fly, coat back, double stitched seams, storm collar front and back braided in black soutache the popular 26 in length, $5.98. Ladies' Beaver Cape, two box plaits in back, beautifully trimmed with black soutache braid, set in velvet collar, good length, wide sweep, $2.98. Ladies'black Cape, made of boucle cloaking full silk lined, Thibet fur trimmed collar, extra length, wide sweeps 29 Ladies' Seal Plush Capes, full silk lined, elaborately trimmed with soutache and jet, collar trimmed with Thibet fur, *3.98. • ' AND CAN DO IT. COME. SEi AND BB CONVINCED. JL. 23. BENNETT. PHOTOGRAPHER, Ladies' Suit of Novelty Check Scotch Cheviot Suiting, velveteen bound and faced skirt stylish cut jacket $4. 98. Several styles ladies suits of all wool novelty suiting, elaborately trimmed with braid and velvet, jackets full lined, skirts lined with Tafleta, velveteen bound the entire suit for less than the jacket is worth, $6.98- Ladies Man Tailored suits of finest broadcloth, Green, Brown, Dark Gray and Black, full tailored, piped seams, jacket lined throughout with bro cade satin. It is such a suit as any tailor would charge you $12 00 for making, our price suit complete $12.98 * THEO, F, SWAW, GREAT DEPARTMENT iiSTORE ELGIN, MJU " J O H N J . v M I L L E R . W© have just unloaded a. car of the Celebrated "Jersey Lily" and "Hard to Beat" Quality the Highest, Price the Lowest. GROCERIES ! 21 pounds Prunes, - J 21 pounds Raisins, Genuine Home Made Pure Sorgum, Pure Self-Raising Buckwheat Flour. Home Ground Buckwheat Flour, Yours for Busi ss, $1.00. - $ 1 0 0 . 40c per gal. $2 per 100 lbs. WEST MOHENBY, III , 1897. TO HAVE A WELL FURNISHED HOUSE ..CALL ON.. He Carries a Full and Comolete Line of Bedroom Suit*, Parl.>r Suits Lounges, Couches, Tables. Fancy Rockers, Iron Beds. Hall Trees. Wardrobes, Side Boards, K:t« hea Cupboard-, Trunks, Kvdhers.v II W IHU Mattresses, Carpels, <;'ar­ il P pet Sweepers, Rugs, Foot Mats. Hassocks, Easels, Pictures and Room Moulding, W indow and Doll Carriages. Shades and Curtain Fixtures, Ba «y WE CARRY A FULL LINE OP Caskets, Coffins, Burial Robes, Etc., Etc. We guarantee first class work in every respect. Call and see me before purchasing. McHenry, 111., 1897.