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A ^ V ?v'0t S • • .£ * • f *«: '\t > THE MUENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, DEO. M, 1996 * < \ *f "f J ••••'«. KS-'" it'.' <99999999*99*19999*+++* sjbrcMl Do Tdur CfaristmaH Shopping at Where Your Dollar Will Go ifce Farthest • .V/l' £&>• Neckwear . Scarfs ' Shirts , Sweaters Wnirrni'"" '•* Mittelii' i." Oloves '• Stepim v, Envelope Chemise Bloomers Baby Socks ---- Bonnets - Silk Hose Wool Hose Rayon Slippers Felt Slippers Leather Slippers Oxfords • • Pumps » Shoes DressOoods Dress Silks and Dress Flannels ' WEST M'HENRY ©LOOT/ /frFIMO SCOTT WATSON He Wat Almost an Ideal Pirate IN MANY respects Capt. John Quelch wfs th« ideal pirate. That is to say, some of the Incidents In his career read like the story of a buccaneer in some blood-and-thunder piece of fiction. And this a man, born In the Paritaa colony of jVItiBsachuseits! In 1708 John Quelch was one of the crew of the brigantine, Charles, a vessel which had been fitted out by some of the leading citimens of Boston to go on j^privateering cruise in Canadian waters. Soon after leaving Marblehead the crew mutinied, killed the captain and elected Quelch commander. Here Quelch, the pirate of fiction, first enters the picture, for the flag which he hoisted was the "Old Roger," and in the middle of it was "an Anatomy with an Hourglass In one hand and a dart In the heart with three drops of blood processing from It on the other." Olf the coast of Brazil they cap tared no less than nine Portuguese ships, from which they took a great amount of valuable booty. Then Quelch had the insolence to sail back to Marblehead, divide the plunder among the crew who landed, and quickly prepared te return to their homes. But word of their crimes had preceded them, and am exciting manhunt was soon on. Within a week Captain Quelch and his mates had been captured a«id sent to Boston. In June, 1704, he was sentenced to death, and ffom an old pamphlet we read how the time was spent between his trial and execution. "The ministers of the town used more than ordinary endeavors to instruct the prisoners and bring them to repentance. There were sermons preached in their hearing every day, and prayer daily made with them. And they were catechised and they had many occasional exhortations. And nothing was left that could be done for their good." On June SO a strange procession wended its way through the streets of Boston town. At the head marched a man carrying a silver oar, the emblem of a pirate's execution. Behind him came a company of musketeers, and in the midst of these walked b little group of wretched downcast men --Captain Quelch's pirates. The captain, however, was an exception. With a great show of bravado he stepped to the edge of the platform after he had mounted the steps, and with his hat In hand and bowing to the left and right, he harangued the spectators and ironically warned them against "bringing money into New England to be hanged for it." (ft IMS, Waatera Newepsp* Uile*.) ^POOR-RI MANS 'EDITH HOLLICK OLIVER tr vv; Xmas Jewelry What makes a better Xmas gift than a beautiful piece of jewelry! In this store you will find a complete line consisting of HIGH-GRADE WATCHES AND CLOCKS, INCLUDING WKI8T WATCHES DIAMONDS, STRINGS 07 PEARLS RINGS, PINS, CHAINS, PEN AND PENCIL SETS, KNIVES/IVORY BETS, POCKET COMBS, ETC. • ASSORTMENTS OF SILVERWARE Look over this-stock before buying. ' te. ELM STREET Mort Ritt Located at Tempttt Fn^t M'HENRT .»<« i »n »»»»•»»»»»' '»»»»' t- G r e e t i n g s 52 Times a Year Send v, The McHenry Plaindealer Relatives or Friends SX.OO Per Year No more acceptable Christmas gift could be made for the small sum of $2.00 than to send the home paper to those who are away or to anyone * • nearby who may not be a subscriber. It acts as a reminder 6f the giver ' • fifty-two times a year. ^ The Plaindealer will be mailed to any point in the United States onf year for $2.00. Think this over when yw |fe considering a gift for somfcpe. your subscription early - , 1 . ^ THE M'HENRT PLAINDEALER, M'HENRT, ILfc KOPLE who call on the Inmates furnished rooms either wait in the hall while tu« footsteps that brought the means of ingress go upstairs and become responsible for knocks somewhere in the darkness, or go downstairs into oblivion, leaving Die caller to a personally conducted trior of exploration for the discovery of "two flights up; --th door." The top floor at Mrs. Cawthorn's was an exception to furnished room rules, for two of the doors stood wide open all day. The one In front, facing north, disclosed a tiny, desolate room chaining a narrow iron bed, a chair, a bureau furnished with meager toilet fittings, a trunk, and a corner curtained off foF a wardrobe. The door opposite disclosed an entirety differed interior. In one windo# a bird ill a brass cage sang above blooming plants and in the other an old lady sat In a rocking chair, when she was not peering out Into the haU, or leaning over the banisters, or trotting about on visits. Every morning precisely at 7:45 the door of the north room opened and a little, weazened shabby old man pulled the corner of the trunk forward to keep It so. Then he hung a very small empty aluminnm milk can on his wrist, put its -cover In his pocket, took up a neatly tled,package of refuse and went away. Mis' Bascomb got his story from the servant the morning she arrived and found him a case after her own heart. He was Amos Blnks; he had lived in that room for ten years. Christmas drew near and she was vety busy making presents and planning surprises and treats among her multitudinous friends, but every time she passed Blnks' door her heart ached for him, and so the days passed and it was Christmas Eve. She had been out shopping all morning; her arms were full of bundles and her heart of plans; but she glanced, as she always did, at Blnks' door, and what she saw there brought her to an abrupt stop with tears running down her cheeks. Poor old man. poor old man! On the miserable bu reau, among the meager toilet things there stood a Christmas tree, a very small one, and as desolate and bare as the room. The poor, proud old creature had Christmas in his heart. She would give him a surprise. 'She selected the choicest of her purchases and laid them, gayly tied with red ribbons and bits of holly, on the foot of his bed. She hung the stark little tree with bags of candy and all sorts of jolly trifles, chuckling over his surprise and delight as she departed to replenish her stock for tomorrow's festivities. He would never kno^r. Bless him. That morning *s ho was going out the little woman with three children had popped her heed out of the front parlor door and asked if die mlfkt leave her CfefteOnes tree In Mi; room so the chliewvwMiot see' It' "It's the laat place in thewortd anyone wouMJ, J«»k to Sod a Christmas .tree.* she sal^ Blnks had W rowed three lump* of sugar from Iter when he had a cold and he had worried about having to whole half pound to return wop Id cancel the obligation. vftif you don't make any mess," he salq/fcourly and went out X He had forgotten all about the tree when he returned that evening and he was even more than usually dour and bitter, for he could not avoid giving presents to the children o*f his partner and the Janitor of the office building. It W;IH one of the penalties of wealth. Tl nk goodness, no one at the rooming house had the ghost of an Idea thn' he wasn't poor Amos Binks, althoup . he was Amos Blnks, the millionaire He stopped 'n the doorway of his room in a pr-alysis of amazement when he saw the tree and the presents, and then a smile infinitely sly and sneering t roke over his face. He glanced at M'«' Bascomb's door; It was closed, hut he understood and chuckled. He heard steps coming stealthily upstairs, the Utile woman coming for the tree I He stripped 1\ of its decorations with hasty fingers and carried It »>ut to her. MM in Pennsylvania Built 280 Years Ago The waters of Cobb's creek turned the first mill wheel which ran la Pennsylvania. It is 280 years since Col. John Prise built it upon a site now embraced In Cobb's creek park at Woodland avenue and Seventy-third street, in the city of Philadelphia, says "Girard," In the Philadelphia Inquirer. A mill to resemble that first of all Pennsylvania industries has been. Imported from Swedes by ths Philadelphia Colonial Dames. The fat Colonel Prins--he weighed 400 pounds--didn't know It, but when he turned the water of Cobb's creek upon the water-wheel of his mill he started the largest Industrial empire seen in any American state. When the first English settlers came to Philadelphia nearly 40 years later they found that 8wedish mill--already called "the old mill"--still grinding its grist of flour. All the, original accounts ef the Quakers refer sooner or later to that and other Swede mills. To the friendly Indian who came to swap his beaver skins with the paleface, that Oobb's creek mill was as revolutionary a thing as to us our radio, airplane, telephone and automobile. For centuries the only way an Indian got meal out of his corn was to pound it between stones. The swiftly running water In the Pennyrack, Wissahlckon, Oobb's, Darby, Ridley, Cram and Chester creeks gave the settlers a power equal to that of thousands of horses and thouconvenience of Christmas shoppers we >^ \\ ; J • have arranged our gifts so they may be select-. , y ed quickly and easily .'Among other things^ ^ ][ jj. Satisfied A shortsighted man who waa also very Inquisitive was walking In the country one day when he saw a notice- board nailed on a tree that stood in a field. As he could not read the notice at thai distance curiosity prompted him to climb over the fence and walk across the field towards the tree. A few moments later he managed to scramble back over the fence Just in time to escape the horns of a racing bull. "Well," he gasped, breathlessly, "I bad the satisfaction of finding oat what the notice was." it sM, "9eware of the Ball." fefsK ers Vyou will find-- ' •" . k. * * i „i<f - » l-'i, •.;", • j .V •*.,?•;,^ Glassware -:- Pottery.:-^ Placquai * , v < Picture#, Mottoet Greeting Cards Brass Ware TrflYipt /if, T.iw»gif '! *' '• *•"' p Ribbon (£&& '• ;,"V ; Silk Undies ^ I Philippine Gowns 5 Aprons Children's Book* - Toys and Games Holly Boxes Gift Dressing* AGATHA SHOP Green Street McHenry -/-• V ? « ! * - r r-.< , ..J-: * This An Electrical Christmas Here M^a few items that are always aeeeptaWe. ^They will deligM any housewife. Make your selections early while the stock is complete* •i Jt Percolators Waffle Irons Heating Pads Belmont Tree Lighters mdoir Lamps Table Lamps Electric Irons Toasters 6-tube Oriole Radio Relllfers--" It's a Bird" "It's in my The day aft to his own < i which he hit Christmas pr< gave him ei: keep a nice himself, te. iiu.» v." he said teetily. hrlstmas he deposited ' t at the bank |6.50 11 tended to spend on until Mis'Bascomb h to go round, and no pair of soeke far M*wapa.p«j Tr < Soniethlnj have ti» be tain telegri according t< ing given t< ioin Tree a: ^ far Pol4r uUes 50,000,000 trees : -i ^ery year to maln- ,'»H»d telephone wires, ..• jt-oresti-y Primer, be- ^(•Ititols by the Ainer- "tstli>U. ^ WOT ' Hide Usuhtty There are vu Mdes to a story, btt the scandal-i '.i k<t has use for oalr Tisnscript , * "'.w Greatest of T h e ' y~ ; - i : EASYwashir Double Capacity, Double Speed Two tubs--one dries while the other washes. Consider These Features: Handles sixteen double sheets at a time. When you put so large a quantity of clothes through the New Easy, you're doing practically the whole week s , clothes, and returns each to the proper wash for a small family. t That s °*Pac- |u^ The New Easy even empties itself ity for you. when you're all through. Twice the speed. The New Easy We will lend you an Easy FREE washes and dries the clothes at the, g0 yOU may try the New Easy'Sad * ;; same time. Two operations are done as " learn all its wonders first hand, we will one; time is cut in half. That's speed for you. • ^ . * . Water handled for yoa"A marvelous new water-circulating system takes the suds, the rinse water, and the blue water as they are whisked, out of the lend you an Easy free. Just phone or .'write us, and a brand new Easy will be delivered to your home. There is no obligation. If you wish to keep the Easy, you can pay for it on easy monthly terms. 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