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--p. :'n* i TBS M'HKTRY PLATWD1AT.IR, THTOgDAY, JAW. •, 1#27 v\v Pa*. Prepared for Fag idon policemen on the boats the Thumps river are equipped With hooks and life-saving Jnckets to Msifit tn rescuing persons who are un- IfrrtDnale enough to fall i.nto the *Hlky water* during a denaefog. I r Reasoning That Counts jtbe lime for reasoning is before we Sfcve approached neaf enough to the forbidden fruit to Jook at It and ad- Mire.--Margaret Percival. Farm Loans .&%, 5M% or 5y±%, depending mjppalue of land per; acre Prompt Service 'SAVINGS BANK W KKWANEE P Kewanee, Illinois 0. W. KLONTZ, M.D. " Physician and Surgeon (Also treating all diseases of the Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat and doing Refraction) OAce Honrs--8 to 9 a. m., 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment OBce at Residence--Kent Home-- South of City Hall, Waukegan St. Phone 181 McHenry, 111. WM. M. CARROLL Lawyer Office iritk Kent A Company Every Wednesday Phone 34 McHenry, IB. {Telephone No. 106-R. S toff el & Reihansperger Insurance agents for all classes of property in the best companies. WEST McHENRY, ILLINOIS J. W. WORTH ~ PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT Audits Systems Income and Inheritance Tax Matters - Member of Public Accountants Association pf Illinois those **-J McHenry, III. Ir;- Phone 126-W. Reasonable Rates % Jjs. m H. SCHAKFKR Praying McHENRT, ILLINOIS Iisare-- la Sure--Insurance --W WITH Wm.G. Schreiner Auctioneering OTF1CI AT RESIDENCE Vfcone n-R McHENRY. Il£ KUNZ BROTHERS ? Local and Long Distance fu* lauHng Pfceae (1-1 ' McHenry, I1L Old Fashioned or •/ * 'iy&iS,wk Setf-RisingZ _ il,.' *• We Have Them Both This is. the time of year when buckwheat cakes are mighty good. Order to^ay. Manufactured by flour Mills i Wee' McHenry, M. V. IMMMMMMMMM»MMM»»»»M»MMMMM»MMMMM "RE-DISCOVERING ILLINOIS" By LESTER B. COLBY, Illinois Chamber of Commerce1 o DENTISTS Drs. McChesney & Brown INCORPORATED) Dr. L W. Brown Dr. R. M. Walker Established over 50 years and still doma business at the old stand* Pioneers in First Class Dentistry at Moderate Prices Ask your neighbors and friends "•bout us. 8. E. Oor. Clark & Randolph St 146 N. Clark St., Chicago Daily 8 to 5, Sundays 9 to 11 Phone Central 2047 AJL|L • Wv . 'ift'#: prescription Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue BiBoui Fever and Malaria Black Hawk comes down to us in Illinois history as a sort of bold red devil of the woods. We think of him as sending his scalping crews against our frontiers to murder, burn, torture, steal women and children and to rob. Such are the legends that have been handed down for a hundred years. Shabbona was the white man's friend. He was the good Indian. When Black Hawk, chief of the Sacs and Foxes, prepared for the warpath it was Shabbona, born an Algonquin but chief of the Pottawatomies, who rode day and night, borrowing a fresh horse now and then, to warn the settiers to flee for their lives. Now let us see how the white nan ipewarded them. Standing overlooking the valley at Oregon, 111., is a great stone statute of Black Hawk glorifying his prowess. When our soldiers go tc war we call one of our major units the Black Hawk division. We name concrete motor trails, fine hotels, restaurants and football teams after Black Hawk. But what of Shabbona, friend. He died a beggar, a pitiful old Indian going around in rags with his hand out. He lies buried at Morris, 111., in a grave that is only a little more than unmarked. And no one has ever built any monuments for him; neither has anything much ever been named for \ him. Why this apparent injustice? I have wondered. And in seeking the answer I have read a number of books. Some Of them speak highly of Shabbona. But now it seems to me I have found perhaps the psychology of ir; have learned why Black Hawk is the hero and Shabbona the forgotten. Blackhawk, before he died, dictated a story of his Hfe. He said he wanted to get his story set straight for the generations that would come after. He realized that he was a personage ; that his doings were front page copy. You can find his story as he told it in a book called the "Lifer of Black Hawk." The old chief rambles through a colorful series of episodes having to do with the inter-tribal war. When he is thirty-five years old, he relates, lie has killed in battle with his own hand thirty-three Indian enemies. Then the white man begins to filter Into the frontier country. Fighting white men is a different business than fighting Indians. The Indians have customs governing warfare that might be called ground rules. After a battle both war parties go home to lick their wounds and relate the stories of the fight. Each battle, in effect, constitutes a war. The victor is not supposed to return to the fight. The defeated ftlone is expected to strike the next blow. He has his choice of doing that or staying licked. Probably after a decisive defeat he will not take the warpath for a year or perhaps five years or until there is some new affront. To the consternation of the Indian, Hack Hawk reveals, the white man ever stopped fighting, never retired to rest for long from his hurts, never admitted defeat. He was right up and at it again; just kept on. It was no pleasure fighting the white man. Now a bit of the story telling of what led to the Black Hawk war. Black Hawk contends that his tribe, the Sacs and Foxes, wer^ tricked out of their lands, swindled and cheated. Villainous white men, ranging the woods, would often shoot down an Indian trapper returning with a bundle of valuable pelts and rob is body. Besides murder such a crime meant that the Indian's widow and children would be left in hunger and want because the peltries, to be swapped at the trading poets, meant food for the Indian's family, new traps and fresh ammunition. Finally his tribe was ordered across the Mississippi. When they tried to harvest the corn they had planted, in the fields they had tilled, they were called thieves, he says, and were whipped and beaten. Indian women were clubbed and their arms broken. And finally his band flamed up in righteous ire. He cries: "Why did the Great Spirit ever send the whites to drive ub from our homes and introduce among us poisonous liquors, disease and death?"- He pictures how the white mSn began to gather an army to put his band out. Listen to this from the heart of the old warrior: I directed my village crier to proclaim that my orders were, in the event of the war chief coming to our village to remove us, that not a gun should be fired nor any resistance offered. That if he determined to fight for them to remain quietly in theiiK lodges and to let him kill them if he chose! I felt conscious that thiB great war chief would not hurt our people--* and my object was not war!" But war did come. The trouble got out of hand. There was killing, plenty of it. on both sides. Black Hawk's harassed band--men, women and children starv'ng--fled up the Rock River past Beloit to Madison, Wis., kept on and like jungle beasts before the beaters reached the Mississippi. Comes now the battle of Bad Axe. More a massacre than a battle. Squaws lashine children to their backs try to swim the broad Mississippi. White rifleman, like hunters potting wound* I ed du ks, send up spurts of watet about them. Now and then a squaw ! is hit and she wallows and sinks io the reddening flood, her babies with her. Some reach the other side where bands of Sioux, hereditary enemies, set upon them and complete the obliteration. A few of the band, seeming unable to die, fade into the thickets. Black Hawk is amon<r A little more and nor"----lb"4--".* Indians accept his surrer«'"'" *-"1 him over to the white *»•*•* him in irons. Finally T*«v~lc is taken east and after sor"» ment is shown about. T-> h* seems a sort of a her-v to ^th"*"* "Everybody treated up with friendship and many with liberality. The squaws presented up with many hand^ some little presents that are said to be valuable. They were very kind, very good and very pretty--for pale faces." Here is another quotation: "I must correct the story of village criers who, I have been told, accuse me of having murdered women and children among the whites. This assertion is false. I never did nor have I any knowledge that any of my nation ever kill a white woman or child." And finally this: "We will forget the past--and may the watchword between the Americans and the Sacs and Foxes ever be-- Friendship. I am done. A few more moons and I must follow rny fathers to the shades! May the Great Spirit keep our people and the whites always at peace--is the wish of Black Hawk." Let us now turn to Shabbona. History says less of him. He fought against the Americans in the war of 1812 and was at the side of Tecumseh when he fell at the Battle of the Thames. He was then known as Chamblee. In that fight he got a drubbing that he never forgot and it is said that after the battle he remarked: "If I ever fight another batte it will be on the side of the Americans and not against him." When Black Hawk and his band started up the Rock River Shabbona went with the militia as a scout. When Black Hawk's end was inevitable it is recorded that Shabbona went to the commanding officer and asked as a favor that certain squaw in the Sac band be spared from death. He was told that none of those who surrendered would be killed whereat he is said to have remarked in surprise: "Why not? They breed like lice" It is a little interesting these glimpses into the minds of the bad Black Hawk and the good Shabbona. Both of them, brave and daring chiefs in their younger years, were crushed under the onrolling tide of the white men. Black Hawk shook his battle flags,to the last and went down crying loudly to the Great Spirit to protest of his wrongs. Shabbona, foreseeing the inevitable, became submissive and calmly took his alms. Black Hawk died in the spotlight's glow. Shabbona ended his days submissively in rags, victim of the civilization he tried to understand. Few Indians got their names into Illinois history but you will find pleasure and some knowledge about these few. I think we rather like Black Hawk because he stayed Indian. OSTEND School opened Monday with usual attendance. Anna Kaiser, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kaiser, is having much trouble with teeth. She loses pari) of a day nearly every Week to visit the dentist. January 1, 1927, was a very quiet affair in this neighborhood.. Very few entertained. Many farmers in this section made good use of the better dfeys the last of 1926 and husked corn. Warren Francisco and sister were business callers at the county seat Monday. Rain did not stop them. Frank Kaiser delivered the first mail to several neighbors fn 1927. Warren and Miss Ammie Francisco received a Christmas card from an old schoolmate, now a resident of Michigan. A verse on the card read, "Shall old acquaintance be forgot, etc.," and the signature was Tom Jecks. There have been many large truck loads of baled hay taken from the Wallis farm the past two weeks. John Harrer and wife of Chicago came out Sunday and spent a few hours in the home of the former's sister and family in the afternoon. His brother, Joe Harrer, and family and sister, Mrs. Herdue, and family came by the Kaiser home and they enjoyed a pleasant family reunion. Now is the time to stock up on winter underwear and zippers. Our stock is eompelte. Ericksott Dept. Store. Chicken-Chaser * 1 An Ohio man grafted skin of a chicken on his dog's back and now the dog can chase himseif.--Illinois 8i«*en Exposin' one's ignorance Is the best way of gettin' rid of it. Them folks that never expose their ignorance generally have plenty of it on hand. The Bible says something about not hidin' a light under a bushel and it might 'a said somthin' about the harm of keepin' the darkness under the bushel. Exporin' things to the sunshine now and then la a good way to purify 'em." The famous after-dinner speaker had resolved to turn over a new leaf. Never again would he get on his feet to address a bored gathering. He was through. But one day he was approached by a woman who sought to have him address her club. "I can't," he explained firmly "I have burned my bridges behind me." The lady looked slightly surprised, but nobly came to the rescue. "Oh, in that case," she said, "I will lend you a pair of my husbands." , Tom Garble was a-going to be one o' the Paul bears at a fun'ral a-Tuesday afternoon so he come home early to get ready. When he started to dress he got hold of one of his boy's shirts instead of his'n an' pretty soon Lucy, which is his wife, heerd the most turrible langwidge so she-went to the bathroom door an' there he were with the shirt half on which he couldn't get it one way or a nuther. He were a-cursing the shirt something fierce an' Lucy says, "What's the matter with the shirt?" saiys she. "I don't know," he rared, "I think the devil's in it," say he. "Yes," Lucy says, alooking at him wedged in it tight, "I think you're right," says she. A young man in his courtship days, when in the process of pressing his union suit, vows with solemn mein that he would gladly go through hell for the lady of his choice; little realized that shortly after marriage he may start doing that very thing. Us farmers ain't got any chance to put no profits in our pants; We start and make a little dough and then some feller has to go and spoil it all and make us quit before we can cash in on it. I had the business comin' fine at this here roadsida stand of mine, most ev*ry feller stopped to buy Sary Jane's chicken and her pie. Then just as things was goin' fine the sheriff, he tor down my sign, and says, "You needn't weep nor wail or I'll take you along to jail." You'd think I was a crook, by gee, the way that sheriff talked to me, the way he'd tear his hair and rant, you'd think I'd murdered my step Aunt. I says, "If you'll calm down a bit, III just give you the straight of it," and then I thought I'd pacify him with a piece of pumpkin pie, and while his mouth was full of that I told him that while he was at it he might just as well sit down and rest himself a spell and have some chicken and some cake. You'd ought to seen that feller take right hold and go for that fried hen, and as he passed his plate again he says, "With grub like this for sale you ain't no cause to go to jail, before I finish up these pies, take this here star, IH deputize you and when folks is goin' by, arrest them till they try your pie." I shook his hand and asked him back, Sary Jane sure has got the knack of reachin' hard officials' hearts with pumpkin pie and lemon tarts! Heard tell of a champion Illinois tightwad the other day who refused to take cough medicine fbr fear it would loosen him up. A small boy, sent t& a druggist's, went into a hardware store by mistake and handed the merchant the following note: "My baby has eat up its father's parish plaster. Send an anecdote quick, as I am a bit historical." After spending a convivial evening with freinds, Jones returned home only to fall asleep in the front yard. Early the next morning he opened his eyes to see his wife looking at him from an open window. "Shut that window," he yelled, "do you want me to catch my death of cold?" ft IE m w Told Tales •M Interesting Bits of News From the Columns of f^Waiadealer Fifty afl ' Twenty-five Years - A«« January, 1877 F. Best, of the McHenry bakery, had the misfortune to lose his pocket book one day last week, containing, about $30, and up to the time of writing has been unable to find it. We think the person who picked it up would have sweeter dreams if they would return it to Mr. Best at once. The New Year's party under the direction of the band was a grand success financially and otherwise. One hundred and thirty-three numbers were sold and all who attended report a good time. Parker, as usual, got them up a first-class supper and all went home well satisfiied with their New Years in McHenry. Our village was visited by another fire on Tuesday afternoon last. The cooper shop connected with the pickle factory caught fire while the workmen were at dinner, and got under such headway before they returned that it was impossible to save it and was entirely consumed. It was owned by Curtis & Walker, whose loss is about $200. The cooper, Mr. Sigel, lost about $25 worth of tools. No insurance. If our local columns are a little thin this week we hope our readers will overlook it, for besides losing one day for New Year's we are feeling very much indisposed, and would be much better off in bed than trying to get out a newspaper. We hope to be able to -do better next weelc. January, 1902 The official butter market waf made steady at 24% cents a poundL The sales for the week were 601,451 pounds. N. H. Petesch, Deutche Apostheke Familien Recepten sorgfallig zu bereitet. Big headaches stopped for ISttle money. Why puffer when Petesch's Headache Powder stops all sorts of headaches. Three doses for one dime, Stephen Freund has secured the contract for carpenter work on the: Schiessle building. Mr. Freund is % good workman and will do his share hp making the building substantial. The bridge over the creek was finished on Tuesday and as soon ajn gravel has been filled in behind th# abutments, teams can pass over. It will be several days before the side* walk can be rebuilt. Johnsburg is to have a new bridge* for the voters of the township have said it,< t&oogh net in a very loud voice. Largest Garden Crops lb Jhfs country only white potatoes sweet potatoes and tomatoes of th* garden vegetables exceed the lettuc* crop in market value. Investing in Happiness iWS> Linked with every growing savings account is •-'* better chance for the happiness of the owner. 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