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They are *• follow*: J 1 Innh «ne year - - 5 00 2 Inches one year "» WOO 1 Inches one year t * ^ % '* 15 00 . U. Column one year* v », % *#' « S008 % Column one year*"' •*>•?' ' j*,- * ' 60 0# 0*1 umn one year V ^MS-' - 10000 •ne inch means the measurement of one iach dawn the column, single column width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, have the privilege of changing as often as they cheese, without extra charge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having ttandUng cards) will be entitled to Insertion of local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line each week. All others will be charged 10 cents per tine the first week, and 5 cents per tine f»r each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil ype, same as this is set In) the first issue, and cents per line for subsequent issuee. Thus, an inch advertisement' will cost $1.00 for one week, il.50 for two weeks, 01/00 for three weeks, and so on. The PiAmDEiHH will be liberal in giving editorial notices, but, as a business rule, It will require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of its columns for pecuniary gain. BUSIXBSS CARDS. PAUL BROWH, * *TO*Sr*T AT LAW. TT. 9. Express Cta.'# il Budding, 87 and 89 Washington 8C. CHICAGO, ILL. M, F. ELLSWORTH, A TTORNKY at Law,"and Soltcifcnr» Chan- XX eery, Nunda, III. ASA W SMITH, ATTORKKT AT LAW and toltattor Chancery.--Woodstock, I1L JOSLYlff * CASEY, * ATTORKBTS AT LAW, Woodstock III. All iMMiaeM wtll reeeive prompt atten­ tion. T C, P. Marnm D. T. Smiley- BARNES ft SMILBT, AVTORNRT9, Solicitor# and Counselors. Colleetlons % specialty. "WOADSTOCK, ILLIITOia. JSfolt P. ft Murphy. MURPHY ATTORN BYS AT Chanoerv, WOOIMTOOK, ILL. OIM In the rear ef Park House, flrst floor. F. & iMmley ft LUMLFY. LAW, and Solicitors la A. M. CHURCH, Watohmaker and Jeweler NO. One Hondre<ITwenty-Five State St Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re> pairing Fine watches and Chronometers. WA Fall Assortment of Goods in his line BUSINESS CARDS. C. H. FEGER9,, M, D> |>HYSlOtAN and suuaEON, XeHenry, I Ills. OOlce at Residence. -- T O. J. HOWARD, M. D. nHYHlCIAS AND SURGEON, McHenry, •t III. Office at Residence, one door West Of 11. E. Church. WVl. O^BORHE, M, O. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office at Residence, West _ McHenrv promptly attended to day and nil 111. ffht. Calls i&tsW'&l < » BARBIAN BROS. CtOAB Manufacturers, Mc Henry, 111. Or-ders solicited. Shop, In Old McHenrjr, in Kelter Block, third door west of Riverside Honse. ; Livery Stable. E. WlOHTMAN. T11 class rigs, with or furnished at reasonable rates, allkinds done on Short notice. Teaming of j . s c # r a , &MA R THE DEPOT* West mcHENBY, ILL Keeps open for the accommodation of the? ; Public a ilrst-Clasa . Saloon and Bestawaat, » Where he wtll at all times keep the best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigar#. • to be found in the market. Also Agent For FRANZ PALE'S LMrlB BEEE if Beer in Largs or Small KegB or Bottles al- ] i * ways on hand, cheaper than ahy other* 1MU- e ty considered. Orders by mall promptly attended tfc. ; 1 0OOD STABLING FQB HOR&B& MTOall and see na. li'*' % * A. - Robert Sohlesele. .^eat- McHenry, I1L A. SiLOON AND JMGHENRY, ILLINOIS* . ' ^-•1 ̂ •' United States Var Claim Apcy ---OF WM- H. COWLIN, Wood«tooky • - Illinois. Prosecuten all clasess and kinds of claims against the United States for ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made In prosecuting old and rejected claims. All communications promptly answered If Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. WM, H. VOWLlX Office at Residence. Madison St., Woodstock. Illlnela. - *.:•<_;:*[ • « •v • • " AttentloriHorsemenf MOHBITRT, IL&-, April 1st, lSW, f would respectfully Invite the Public to C4ll and examine m / stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. No bust. «T. 8. COLBY M'HBNKT tLti S. R. AUSTIN, " Liver;, Boardion aM Sale Stable. At. Parker House Barn. X?nWT CLASS BIGS, with or wlttrftnt J? Drivers, Furnished at lieasonable Rates. Bu»and Hacks run to and fr>m all Trains.-- Orders for Baggage Promptly Attended to. West McHenry, fll. Quintette Orchestra, McHENRY; ILL. Are prepared | to fiiralih First Class Music ft?? Dancing Public at Reasonable Rates. J, Smith, 1st Ylolln. Robt. Madden^Olarlonet, C. Curtis, Oornet, L, O wen. Trombone, B, Ingalls, Basse and Prompter, Address all eommunications to Jerry Smith, MoHenry. S1 for 13 Weeks. The POLICE GAZETTE will be mailed, •eenrely wrapped, to any address In the Ualted Stales for three months on receipt of ONE DOLLAR. Liberal discount allowed to postmasters agents and clubs. Sample copies mailed free Address all orders to * EICHARB K. FOX, y » • ' FBAJCKLIK SQUARE, New York in» niiiVi ' iwi^'W ... .mi i ":.v : ATTENTION I - farmers and Dairymen, i It will pay thoae^ooklng|for CHOICE COWS Freah milkers or springers, to call at nry lremlsr r before purchasing. I can farnish wok by the ear- load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFRUM, CHBMUirCI. Farm about four miles northwest of Harvard, Illlnoia. JOHN P. SMITH, Watchmaker £c Jeweler, MoHENRY. ILLINOIS. •A f(NE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew* ZlL elry always on hand. Special attention given to repairing fine watches. Give me a call. JOHN P. \8MITB. C. G. ANDREWS. GENERAL ^ Fine Kentucky liquors, , Prench Bitters, 4 - • McHenry Lager --AND-- | .v '?n. / J. Ia any qimntity from ,a Snitz Glass to 5Go barrels. * AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL Beer ill battles, kegs or case as cheap as tha cheapest. We bay none but the best asd ssliat Reasonable Priced. . Call and see me and I will we vou well. ANTONY ENOELH. • Hofieiur?* Ili*i 1.888. SPMNG GE0¥E ILL. Sales ot Stock, Farming Tools and Goods of all kinds attended to on the most B1AS0SABLI BK C. C. Andrews, Spring Crove, 111 attum mw. »th. 1985» 4 / i Phoenix of Brooklyn, Afl«nt ibr \ Continental of N. Y. (National of Hartford Fir% Llajntnt^T an I Ttrnvlo Insurance placed safelv and with despatch in either of above companies. Policies conecteil, changes And transfers made Call on or ad>ltesa Simon StoffeU West McHenry, Illinois. NEW YORK HOUSE. 239 tc 243 E Randolph St. Between Franklin and V Market Streets* CHICAGO. Beat Accommodation to 'X'ravefart and * . , 5 * Boarders, ' E. 6. K0EPPE, Prop. * •1.50 PEE DAT, «OOD SAMPLE BOOM. J, M. GILULAND, --Dealer €a aifl Kind* of-- HAEO WOOD ItUMBSB, EfTgBH BY CAR LOAD OH, KKTAUp. WwUTH WATER 8Tn CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, SQUARE TIMBER • SPECIALTY. WESTERN LANDS. J. O. M^Greffor A Oo.,'•fi"Elgii4,'*Illlnels, have for sale in the Great Pipastome Co , Minn. 60.000 Aoies ef Land. Which they offer at Low Price* and Easy Terms. See bills giving date of our next Excursion, and for full particulars apply to J. VAN SLYKE. i . » MiHenry, III. ' * "" «[fiii,iiyii in 11.11-Sm ' ^ HU FISHf v;- Practical fainter / AND DBCOBATEB. HEBRON, ILL. OaMting, PapsMtangHia, CALOIMININQy Q&A.ININQ. Dene en short notice and •atlsCsctiM gmma- cwie*er address^ H. FISH, i Psmp' Hepai:ing, CEMENTI^Q, ETC. The undersifcned is prepared- to do all jobs in the line of Diggitu? Wells, Repairing Pumps, Cementing Wells, or I Vill pet in XTew Pumps On short notlceand warrant satisfaction. IA short will do all work in this line. Cat furnish you a now Pump, cither ,weed " * CrtftMi, %varranted, as cheap as any other man. Good references furnished, if desired. If you want a Well Dug, a Pump lie paired or a new Pump, give me a call. MTOrders by mail promptly attended to. Post office, JohnsburKh, lit. L. BANTES. Johnsbnrgh, III., Hay 25th, 1886. . WM. STOFFEL. --Ag^nt for-- - LIGHTNING, dk.^±LaA. AaHidental -lagareBee.^------- -- iil»*flwn, Uli^iesota, Nebraska, Mi California Liiiris. call on or address WM,;STOFFEY, McHenry, ill. AND WESTERN RAILWAY. lPiiotrat#» the Centers vf Pepur&tlon In ' f nnesott, Dakota, Its train service Is carefullv arranged to •eet requirements ol local travel, as well aa to furnish the moat attractive routes for through travel betifeen important Trade Centres. Its equipment of day and parlor cars, din. ingand place sleeping cars is witliout"rival. its roit'l-bed is perfection, of stone ballast. ed steel. The Northwestern Is the favorite route for the commercial tiave'ler, the tourist and the seekers after new homes In the golden Northwest. Detailed Information cheerfully furnished ^ BERKARO BUSS. Agent, * , McHenry, III. Whitman, f tfo*. Manager. B. C. WICKBQ, . •'* "• Traffic Matuq/ert /. M. M. /». WJLWN; ffimeral Pa^maer AgtnL V^4pftBBD|HK Of-r- MORGLAN HORSES. Short Horni Bid Felled And Jersey attle. HillsidoFetrBa, West MoHemy, III. Our Morgan Stock la all pnre bred, and originated from the beat Morgan sto sk in the United States. OM CJiffird Morgan, wh > stands at ibe bead it our Stock, is one ot the best bred Morgan dorses in the country, ami can show more and •letter all purpo'e colts than any other horse in the West. We invite the Inspection ef our stock by Inrsemen and all lovers of line animals. A few full blood Morgan Colts and young •orses for sale. Also one matched team, fall •ilood . In Cattle we have the full blood Short Horn .vtiic-h we are crossing with the Eed Polled Angus and therefore instead of sawing ott the torns TO are breeding them off and with food success. » . t A few Heifers and Bulla, both pure bred Short Horns and the cross Above mentioned for sale. * . _ j. ft. Saylor 9l Sons. West McHenrv. III.. Feb. 27th. J8H8. -GUiORGia jO." No. 9701. Record, 2:34. Will be limited to •wen tv. Mares for the apring season. He ha» left the best Colts ever raised in this county. CEO. W. OWEN, Prop. McHenry. February 5ih, 1889^ -- f -- f e : ^ FA Hal LAND AND . SESDitlorrows. J. W. BAN8TEAD, Borden Blk, ^l«in, 1U DSPABTMIHT. Edited by WM. H. COWLIN, -WOODSTOCK, ILK- "To care for him who has borne the battle, ami for hit viiflow and orphans.?--LINCOLN. "JPi-iendfhip, Charily. Loyalty-- Worthy sons of Patriot fitthere." a A. ft. Directory. 3 s-- POST NO. IMS. Moetsthe first and Third Saturday evenings of each month. L, E, BBNNBTT, Com. WOODSTOCK POST. NO 108. Meets flrst and third Monday evening* of each month. W. H, Mo*$os, Oom. NUNDA POST, HO *». Meets the second and fourth tTueed*y evenings of each mrtnth. M- F. Ki.l8WO»TH, Oom. . HABT4KD POST, NO 2H. Meeta tin second ana rourtn Monday even tags ot each month. 0. W. ONTHINK, Oom. MARKNQO POST, NO. 190, Meets every Second- and -Fourth Friday evenings of each month. \ E. R MoBKlS, Oom. • WADCONDA POST, NO. 368. Post meets every second and fourth Satur­ day evening in tt. A. K. Hall, Main St. ASTHLB COOKE, Oom. , B. LAWLUS. --MERCHANT TAILOR-* How is the time to get your Clothes iaade to order, for C. P. TOBNOWf •" THE-- „• MEKCHANT TAILOR, Of Nunda, Is now With E. Lawlus and they are now ready to do anything in the Tailoring line at very low prices C F. Tornow invites hla friends from Crystal Lake an<l vicinity, and also the people of McHenry and vicinity, Weal I anil inspect the goods and get prices. Prices are aa tow here as anywhere according to the goods. E. LAWLUS, Opposite Riverside House, McHenry, III. L.- W. NICHOLS, JR., Qein m SODA Best intheWaucL mi and mum, jRIVUMOND ILLINOIS. All worfc In rav llne . neatly and promptly done. Fine watch repairing a specialty. « F°^ - .1 CONSUMP1* It has permanently cured THOUSANDS Of cases pronounced by doctors hope- lees. If you have premonitory symp­ toms, such as Cough, Difficulty of Breathing, &c., don't delay, but. use PISO'S CURE FOB CONSUMPTION Immediately. By Druggists. 25 cents. SALESMEN WANTET) ^Permanent Situations guar.-*-' teed. Salary and Expe's paid Special inducements to beginners Any man can succeed with our advaatages and quick- Outfitfree. Write selling specialties, series,*(e?iabiure ;e. Hooker Wur- "5), BOCHKSTBB, N. Y INaflMtWa^pma ( Along the Skirmish Use- There aro sixty-six (i. A. R. ports In Colorado. California has eleven circles of tlie Xj&c dies'of the Grand Army. Wm. H. Smart Post, Cambridgeport, Mass., at a recent fair, netted f3^900. Th<» name, Relief Corps, was flrst given to a Hocicty of noble women at Portland, Me., in 1809. The fifth department convention of the W. R. C„, of Ivansas, was held at, Em­ poria, March 12-13-14. Paul Vaudervoort, late commander-in- chief of the Grand Army, aspires to be Biiporinteudant of the railway mail ser­ vice. _ The Rev. Arthur Little, D. Di, of Dor­ chester, Mass., late of Chicago, 111., will be the orator at Hanover, Mass. Mrs. General lT. S. Grant has donated f 25 to the fund fop building a National Confederate Soldiers' Home at Austin, Texas. Now York has a collection of 340 bat­ tle flags, most of which are in the State House at Albany. Col. J. P. Sanford, of Marshalltown, Iowa, is announced to deliver the Memor­ ialDay oration at Elgin. Four members of the Harrison Cabinet served in the Union army; and tour, with the President, constitute a majority. Soldiers dW&bled in the r^tdiJf'tffiHy during or since the war of the rebellion, are entitled to the same pension as vol­ unteers. • j The department of New York, G. A. R., makes the following excellent showing for the year, 1888: Dec. 31, 1888, the records show a membership of 39,8(39 and (530 posts, a net gain of 17 posts and 1,017 members. The total number of posts mustered during the year was 25. Only three posts in the department were delinquent in the fourth quarter's re­ port. Don't let the main argument be for­ gotten. Broken-down and destitute vet­ erans must be takan care of by some one, and that some one should not be town ship or county, but the United States, which howl the benefit of their youthful strength, vigor, courage, and which defl- nately promised to care for those who were stricken down in its service. The last Congress passed the bill grant­ ing an increase of pension from $72 to f 100 per month to those who lost both hands in the war. The bill was signed by the President and is now a law. The 17th Illinois Cavalry instead of holding their next annual reunion at Chi­ cago as they expected to do, will meet at Milwaukee, Wis., next August during the National G. A. R. Encampment. There being a large number of the 17th esidents of MoHenry county, it Is ex­ pected that ali who can possibly do so, will put in an appearance. Grover Cleveland started out with one Union officer m his cabinet and two con­ federates. President Harrison, who was a soldier himself, has placed fiveex-Union Generals in his cabinet and no Confeder­ ates. Proctor, Noble, Tracy, Miller and Rusk all served in the war for the Union. We call the attention of the almost de- fuuet Young Bayonet Points to these facts, and would like to know how he ad­ mires the change of front. He Did Bare to Do It- General Sickles was marching a brig­ ade of troops down to the front through Pennsylvania--New York Zouaves, re­ cruited from the Bowery and Five Points, toughs from the word go. Innumerable depredations were being committed all along the line of march. Finally, all else failing, General Sickles issued an order that the next man breaking ranks to forage without permission would be shot. He was riding down to the rear, when a man left the ranks, sprung over the wall and gathered an armful of tur­ nips. He tried to avoid seeing the sol­ dier, but with an air of bravado,, the tough got in front of his horse and sang out: "Fiue turnips, General, have some?" "Did you hear th^ order read," said Sickles sternly, "forbidding all foraging?" Yes." Do you knpw that you are liable to be shot for disobeying orders?" "Yes," answered the insolent marau­ der, "but you, you don't dare do it." C-r-rack; the soldier lay dead in his tracks. I hated to do.it," said the'General afterwards, "but if I didn't it was the end of discipline." There was no more breaking of tanks in that regiment. . J / 1 * Pleket Duty. Th6flm«t>m of picket ^ty^ife %mte refreshing. A correspondent at Bermuda Hundred, Va., wrote last as follows: Since the picket firing on our front has ceased our pickets have become quite familiar with those of the enemy, and a conversation or an exchange of papers is eagerly sought for by both parties. A few nights since one of our Corporals was side of our line and a little too close to therebsoneof their pickets called out: "Are you the Corporal of these posts?" 'Yes", answered the Corporal. "Well, I want you to put a Veteran on that videt port; that recruit has been asleep for the-last hour." "All right; I'll attend to him," said the Corporal, and seeing the sleeping gray- back almost at his feet he turned and quitely moved back to his own side of the house. On our left, where our lines are close to the rebs, two videts from opposite sides were moved out toward the same tree. After remaining tor some time near the tree unknown to each other our videt discovered that he had lost, his capbox, and commenced calling tor the Corporal, After calling several times without effect the reb videt called out, "I say, Yank, what's the matter on -u»ur side of the tree?" The Yank immediately replied that he wauted to go for some water. "Well, go ahead," answered Johnny; "I'll watch both sides till you come back." Comrades, is your post afflicted with, a member, of the "rule or ruin"' species, one who must say just how a thing must be done and who shall assist in doing it ? One who takes the responsibility of in­ curring expenses of all kinds without any authority, and then comes up to the post room, and lays the matter before its members and expect them to pay it. If you have, the quicker you sit down on him the better for him and all concerned. Some posts are kept with a depleted treasury through tne inclination of some one of its members to boss everything, buy and hire everything and then tell that he did it because he thought it ne­ cessary and the good hearted members rather than see him pay it out of his own' pocket, will permit an order to be drawn, and set him even. If this very "officious" member was required to pay a few of the bills he so recklessly incurs for some one else to pay, he would soon get tired of taking the responsibility out of the hands of that post commander and the various committees. Try it comrades. Sit down on this "officious" member, and sit down on him hard.--Knight and Soldier. General Prentiss not Forgotten. - The heads of departments have some pathetic experiences with applicants for office, but few are more touching' or ,eud more happily than one in which General Noble, Secretary of the' Interior, bore a most creditable part Tuesday. Some one who visited the Secretary found him showing very visible signs of having been deeply affected. Old General Prentiss of Missouri, the "Hero of Shiloh," had called on Secretary Noble, whom he had known in the army, to get his signature to a petition for the post office in his town. "It is not. much of an office," saiid Prentiss, "as it pays only four hundred dollars a year, but I must have it." And then the old General went on to tell of his struggles aga'inst poverty and ill-luck and of tlie daily ti^ln for the necessaries of life for himself undjainily, until Secre­ tary Noble, with diftWirdty controlling his emotion, iskwrtipted -hltoy word" he said. "1 can't help you get the post office, and I do not believe you want that little post office anyway; but, Gen eral Prentiss I'll find a proper place for you it I have to turn this department in side out. Come and see me this after noon at 4 o'clock." At that, time Gen eral Prentiss received from Secretary Noble his commission as Ins|>eetor of In dian Agents, an employment Worth about $2,000 a year. Thus two old sol­ diers were made happy--the Secretary and the hero to whom he had given an office that will afford comfortable sup­ port.-- Washington Correspondence of the Troy Times. We are glad to have lived to see the day when the brave old General Prentiss is to be recognized as being worty of a position of honor and trust. He wa grand man in war and was really the "Hero of Shiloh." Thanks be to a loyal Union General, (Secretary of the Interior Noble) in appointing such men to office, instead of choosing ex-confederates to ad' ministrate the affairs of the pension of­ fice, aA d .̂ his predecessor onder Qeve- land. v have taken advantage of such a to the Northern army to have i the Southern Confederacy. How more would it have ̂taken for these tions. probably joined by other E« countries, to have opened the bJ of Southern ports, and to have , the South by actual armed assista&tiMiii" breaking up the Union and in cor the whole of North and South into markets for French and manufactures, and into feeble an nationalities, or perhaps tributar or provinces of the nations of In the event of the success of the i so far as to havesuccededfromti as a nation it would have beea »'L There could have been no stability] or South, no permanent peace; st armies; and intrigues, and secession «jf States, and war would have been the chronic condition of both North ami South. The Pacific States would have set up for themselves. Slavery would have been extended, English and French intrigue and gold would have worked when*their armies and navies were watching or not fighting. Mexico would have had a New European emperor, and kingdoms would have been constructed from the South American Republics. The fate of Republics, of free govern­ ments 'of the jieople, by the people, and for the peojUe,' might for a time have perished from the earth." The result of the war, th^result of the battle of Gettysburg upon the nation and the world can hardly be imagined or magnified in itstextent. . ,;>p Let its" stories be told, let its histories be written, let its monuments be built, that our children and the coming genera- . tions may be taught to keep alive tb#,;i%v§ spirit of patriotism, the love of their na- tive .or adopted laud. ^ J5 . .kvSrv •*?< KC M-* khs* V ' & ' - "riW' 'I"* :#yv • •X : * j 48* 7^ i.Siiai The Hew Pension Commissioner. Corporal Tanner, the new Pension Com missioner has no feet. He lost both early in the war, we believe in ,the first battle of Bull Run. Here is what he says about pensions and pensioners. A Washington special to the Chicago Inter Ocean says: Corporal Tanner, upon being' asked what his policy as Commissioner of Pensions would be, said "I can best answer that by quoting one of General Harrison's remarks during the last campaign. He said: 'Gentlemen it is no time to use the apothecary's scales when you come to weigh the ser­ vices of the men who saved this country. It seems to me that this is a pretty good motto for all the people of the United States to adopt. If I were asked to define my ideas on this i»ension question in a sentence I slfould unhesitatingly reply: 'A pension for every surviving soldier who needs one, and no soldier s widow, father, or mother, should be in want.' I am going, to take hold of this mighty machine, and 1 am not fool enough to thiuk' 1 have nothing to learn of its works." ^ "Are you in favor of an increase in the soldiers' pensions?" "I tell you frankly I am opposed to these $1, $2, and $>3, a month pensions. If you are going to give a man anything give him enough to realize he is getting something. If there is an old soldier who has got a claim that you'are satisfied is a good one and he'has not quite proved it, my policy is to assist him to secure that proof. You may say that I am not opposed to, knocking out soldiers' claims because of a technical shortcoming." Gettysburg. As twenty-five years ago all eyes and hearts were turning toward Gettysburg, when the fate of our country was in the balance, so the eyes of a reunited people are now looking that way to the great reunion of those who fought on either side. Do we all realize what Gettysburg meant for our country ? A good friend writes 'The effect of this great war upon the country and the worid has as yet been only partially manifested. I almost tremble when I think what would uave been the result or effect of a defeat of the Northern army at Gettysburg, and when I think also how slight an event might have turned the tide of tlmt" battle from a glorious victory .for the North into a most disastrous and humiliating defeat. How quickly France and England would :r , •'?*,' " ' * < ifirt' ' Jl % WIDE AWAKE for March has features appropria te to the Inauguration , '| month: a charming adventure story, V "How Nat Saw the Inauguration," relate : ,-iS iiig to. what befell a little fellow who walked into town from Alexandriafo Q< President Cleveland take the oath elf •?>. fcj office four years ago; a reminiscence of the Harrison campaign of 1840, and pretty little tale about Mrs. Harrison ' when she was a school girl--these liist two are in the department of "Men and Things." Daudet's pathetic Alsace* f. Lorraine story, "The last day at School," , jc has been translated for this number by Aj Mary Ferguson. There is an amusing " Western story,. "How Bess was ki<r |g naped," by Theodora Jenness, and & good outdoor story, "The Coon Hunt ik Wheeler's Woods," Rowland E. Robinson. Margaret Sidney's little Peppers are hav­ ing a jblly time back at the "little brows 5J* house,", while Mrs. SaHie Joy White, in. : : another part of the magazine, tells "How : the blind Kindergarteners Rpad Jim*. Little Pepiwrs," the pf-pper serial pub- ' lislxed several years ago. Mr-.TVowbridge'iff "two Davids" arg^ getting tastes country and city' life, each in ft hardly counted upon. Mrs. Whi her cookiugi>aper, how the Bo@%o#i'...I .lie School cWMren are vt^a^g|f|p^ siwrlf • " ' * "" ' *" kitchens. Professor Starr' 'Wtifsi "Some Odd Fish" in his his geblog&i talks, and Prof. Mason'"deHmbes the flying proa Queeu Kapiolani. sent to > » President Cleveland. There is a delight- ful article on "The Skylark," by Mrs. F. 5: A. Humphrey; also a richly illustrated i|| papei'about "Pets in Literary Life," by #§| Eleanor Lewis. The poems of the nam* ».* ber are charming: "Schnontz and I" bjf Whiton-Stone; "Capt. Carnes' Profitable Pepper," by John Albee, and others htjr? M. E. B. and Clinton Seollard. The department "Men and Things" is ^ very full and rich in anecdotes and pithy ; talks. Wide /Awake is $2.40 per yearv D. Lotluop Company, Publishers* Boston. WIDK AWAKE for April is a model num­ ber, whether for home reading or for supplementary reading in school. . ^| For instance, there is an extremely interesting article by John Burroughs-- his own story of his boyhood--that will be read with equal pleasure byyoungand ^ old. And the same may be said of the \| historical article entitled "Ralegh and v the Potato.*' A A novel and graceful Easter game for ^|f young people, "The Cascaroni Dance,'* is beautifully illustrated by Edmund "Garrett. , , The short stories are of nnusaal inter- est; especially "A Dash for a flag," a story of the Civil War,thrillingly illus- trated by Sandham. The poems are particularly good, ytj really for children--several very funny, /^M too. Mr. Bridgmau's "Court Calendar' is a decidingly amtisiug conceit. / .48 The helpful series of Public School cook-*" c- j ery articles treats this time of "nuirket-k ' ./> » ing," with diagrams of the various "cuts'* ' » of beef. ^ The serials, "Five little Peppers Mid-' //~3| way," by Margaret Sidney, and "David ^ y Vane and David Crane," byJ. T. Trow- - ,s| bridge, are jolly reading. The index page shows a list of over thirty different-, 'i* contributors to this number, and fifty illustrations. The publishers, D. 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