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K Regular advertisers (meaning those having Standing card#) wili be entitled to insertion •f local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line Oach week. All others will be charged 10 tents per "ine the first week, and 5 cents per 4ine for each subsequent week. " Transient advertisements will be charged ..»s the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil / type, s*me as this is set in) the first Issue, and i f oents per line for subsequent.issue*. Th".s, #n inch advertisement will cost 11.00 for one week, #1.50 for- two weeks, #2.00 for three we^ks, and so on. The Pt,AiWDHAT,BR will be liberal in giving . iM'.torial notices, but, as a business rule, it |riil require a suitable fee from everybody feeking tfte use of its columns for peeuniary BUSINESS CARDS. O J. HOWARD. ML D. %>flTtIOl VN iND SURG BOS. McHenry, 1 ill. office at residence, one block east of yjj'ubHc School 'Building. a H. FBGEHS, M. D- l>imi04AN iSD SUROBON. I Ilia Offlce at Residence. MeHenry, . . . . 1 W«. 04B0RVB, «. ri, V / HY*10IAX AHD SUROKO^. OMce »t Residence, West McHenry, 111. Call* fromp*ly attealed (a day ani night. •OH' Livery 8tab(e. Proprietor. WI(lBTM4ni thout drivers Class rigs, one M tnOf U triads BUSINESS CARDS. PAVL imowH, A TTORNBT AT LAW. U. J». Sxpnu^S.'* .£% Building, 8? and 80 Washington 8t» CHICAGO, ILL. • ^ m. r. ELLSWOIITH, i'ji A TTORSKT at Law, and Solicitor in (Than* •4% wry, Nnnda, 111. * ~ ' AHA W SMITii, ATTORNEY AT LAW and Hollfltor In Ohsaeery.--Woottetoqk, IH. JOSLTN * CASEY, ^TTORVBYS AT LAW, Woodstock tun. . 111. All business will receive prompt atten- .v-,r, C. P. BARNES, ,'1 ' A TTOJtSTET, Solicitor, and Couft&W. /1L Collections a specialty. WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS. V. S LUMLEY. A TTORNKY AT LAW, and Solleltor in HL Chanoerv, WOODSTOCK, ILL. ? Ofltae In Park House, lirst floor. . A. M. CHURCH, ^ Watchmaker and Jeweler NO. One HundredTwentv-Five State St Chi­cago. 111. Special attention given to re­ pairing Pine watches and Chronometer*. JWA Pull Assortment of Goods in hit line Unitefl States War Claim Apcj OP WM. H- COWLIN, Woodstock - - Illinois* Prosecutes all class stand kinds of claims against the United states tor ex-Soldiers, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or lleira. A specialty is made in prosecuting old and rejected claims. , All communications promptly answered tf Postage Stamps are enoioeed for reply. W M , H . V O W L I S Offlce at Resaleaoe, Madiaou St., tytoodetec*, Illinoia. Attention Horsemen! MoHBHRT, III , April 1st, 1898, I would respectfully invite the Public to 0*11 and examine m 7 stock of Horses before making arrangements elsewhere. No busi­ ness dene on Sunday. N. 8. COLBY- • M'Rim ILL Quintette Orchestra, J(c HENRY ILL. Are prepared) 10 furuishl First OIa«« to the Dancing Public at (Reasonable Rates. J, Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden. Clarionet. C. Curtis, Cornet. L, Oven, Trombone. ¥. 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This House is situated near the Iron Bridge ami opposite the steamboat Liniln*. has been newly renovated anil p4iutoiJ.fi| Inside aa<l out, aa«l id now prepared to accommodate the traveling public, or boarders, by da v or week, on ili€ most reasonable terms, and iu^ranteejto give satisfiction. Thot public it itt- yited to give.ine a^catU GOOD SUBL1N5 FOR HORSES D. HEEDHAM'8 SONS 116-11 • Dearborn Street, CHICAGO lei Clever Bl tarrta Oaacer, for or- STOFFEL, Afient for (Phosnix of Brooklyn. 1 Rockford losur'ceCo fin,' LU'itnit "inl T >rni1o Insurance placed srffelv and with despatch in either of above companies. Policies eor.ecte.1, changes andltransfers made. Call on or address * Simon Stoffel. Vest M»?lpnry, Illinois. Life in Southern California. SEND 20 CENTS FOR THE TWO, i*»8 Angela* Time* Annual, 1S90. *S psges; Weekly Xirror, 12 pages --standard pub'ication. Or send $2 tor the Mirror 62 weeks (6ii large pages), Full and valuable iuiormatiou about the most famous section of the Union. TIMES MIRROR CO., Los Angelas, Qif; WAVERLY HOUSE , WM. H. ROTXOUB, Prop., WOODSTOCK, - - Samole Roomon First Floo^k NEW YORK HOUSE. 239 tc 243 E. Randolph St. * Between Franklin and i Market Streets, H'v/ CHICAGO. Be$t Accommodation to Traveler* and Boarders. E. 6. KOEPPE. Prop. •I.BP CKDAV, GOOD SAMPLK BOOM. FIRE 8TOFFRU, Jor- • , LIGHTNING, And AM;dental Insur&no*. Also Iowa. Minnesota, Kehraska, AlabuoHl and OUifOf<<ia iAbds. CteU^n or address WM.STOrl^Bt,, McHenry, ill. - : 1^- S AaugiiaiE Wawted. Local ox* Traveling. N To sell our Nursery Haiary, Expenses and Steady Empioviaeippuaranieed. CHASE BHOTKKlt COM PAW Y. Rochester, N. T. -- AGENTS WANTED. Furnishes the B sarance for t^tal liquors as a be vera ing after 30 .years, terms as men. ' a General Agent for A Urtl-clats .House, the Boy* All Stop Ther» THE Culver House. RICHMOND, ILL. "i v' ^ r . Good Li very, . Good Sample Room. FREE BUS TO AND FROM ALL TRAINS FOR PATROm OF ~ THE HOUSE. ' ' f rtm '# line of cnrrlasres to 'f«rl« -fiirtr** from Richmond, three fourths ofamtle nearer than any other rovi, and more level and pleasant l»y far. If you intend xoing t«> Twin l.akea, «top at Bichui >nd and inqnlro for UCL.VKR'S BUh It in al«re.ys there, rain or shine, ttound trip prices as usuai. C. N. CULVER. Prop . Poop Btpaitlng, . CEMEMTING, ETC. •>e undersigned is prepared to do all joi the line of^DigKini; Wells, Repairlni " Cemeutin vill put Hsw Pnmps* Cemeuiing Wells,' or i ID ba la ng Hi snort notice and vrarrant satisfaction. ,In , thort will do all vrork in this line. Can furnish you a new Pump, either wood or iron, warranted, as cheap as any other man. vtood references furnished if desired. If ' ou want a Well Dug, a Pump Unpaired ora >«w Pump, give me a nail. WOrders by mail promptly attended tot Posi|y[|||j!>s, Johnsburgh, III. L. BANTES. lohnstnii^h, 111., May 26th, W6. Praotioal Painter JUfP DECOBATEB, HEBROM, ILL. ' Oecoratinj, Papsr-Hanglng OALOIMININQ, GRAINING* * Daae ok short notice and satistfcetion |iuu- - QaU o* or address,; BU «18H. t--BBBsbsas or--- j, VTORGAN HORSES. Short Horn, Bsi Polled Aagoi, And Jersey Cattle. Hillside Farm, • West McHenry! III. pure bred, Our Morgan Stock Is all pure bred, lad »riginated from the bw£ Morgan stoik in the Onlted States. • Old Gifford Morgan, who stands at .the head )f our Stock, is one of the best bred Morgan norses in the country, and oan show more and letter all purpose colts than any other horse In the West« We Invite the inspection of onr stock by horsemen and all lovers of fine animals, A few fall blood Morgan Colts and yonng torses for sate. Also one matched team, fan '•loods. in Cattle we have the full bloM Short Horn »liirhweare crossing: with the Red Polled \ngus and therefore instead of sawing off the mmn we are breeding them off and with (ood success, A tew Heifers and Balls, both pare bred ^nort Horns and the cross above mentioned fir sale. J. R. Saylor A Sons, w*>« McHearv. I1L. Feb. 27th. 1888. L. W. NICHOLS, JR., V/ATeiW- JEWKLER m KHGSAVSR, RICHMOND ILLINOIS. CHEAPEST In. f:t from alcoholic jl#S. self.su pport- ti»e«re>i on N ("HANK, H«rv>fd, llli, *y County. PERRY A OWlljfi Bankers, MoHENRYf - This Bank rt-.e. and seUtt Foreign change, and doe* General ILLINOIS. d-'.poHits, buys Domestic "jEt> BlJSifl688, We pndeavor to do %U business en­ trusted to our tare in a manner and upon te:ni8 entirety swUsfaciory to our customers and rexptytfu'ly solicit the public patronage MO 4EY TO LOAN; On ileal Estate and other Jifu class security. Special attention given to cot- l ec t i ons , : f \ f - INfeU«ATNCI2 In Ftrst Class Companies at the IsmntRate*. „i , Yours Bt>specttulty% p*m*y & OWE*. P AN D SOLOIIBS' DSPABTKIHT. Edited by WM. H. COWLIN, WOODSTOCK, CM* '•Ticare tor him who ha* borne the battle, and fur his wirtow and orphant."-- LINCOLN. "HHewMUp, Charity. Loyalty-- Worthy sons of PrUriot Fit/hen." O A. R, Dirsotory. X'HBtTRr post MO. 643. Meets the First Thursday evening of each mmth. t L. E. RKHNKTT, Com. _ WOODSTOCK rOST, HO J0R. •tSsIs first and third Monday evenings ef each month. 40 ;w. H, MOXKOS, OOBU WVKDl POST, HO 298, Meets the second and fourth ^uesdav evenings of each month. C-F.DTKa.Oen. N4RVAKD rOST, MO 8M. Meets the secona ana rourtn Monday even ings of etch mouth. T JOHN MARSHALL, Com. MASKNCO POST, NO. 1«9, ' • Meets eve-y Second and Foarth Friday MOKBIA Com. •venings of each month B. B WAPOONDA. rOST, MO. 80S. Post meets everv second and fourth Satur­ day evening la O. A. B. Hall, Main St. AKTHUBCOOKB. Oom, "Why should the Govermenfc sulk be­ hind the limitation of arrears erf pensions to avoid paying its just debts? In what possible way is the amount, that it will take to pay these debts a justification of this dishonesty? No one thought that the billion required to pay in Gold the principal and interest of the bondholder's claims was any reason why they should not be paid. Veterans, then in their youth and prime, cheerfully submitted to unprecedented taxation in order to pay this. If the amounts necessary to pay the expense of all the recommendations of the G. A. R. Pension Committee were multiplied by 10 or 20, yet they woold not bear so hardly on the people as the taxes which, in the years immediately after the war, were imposed to pay the money-lenders to the last cent of their claims. We have nearly twice as many people and four times as much property as we had in 1865. We can pay f 150,- 000,000 to the veterans in 1891 fourfold easier than we paid f143,781,592 inter e&t, in gold, to the money-lenders in 1867. " ' RAILWAY ..Rf tfn'Tivtied fimlitiei for tTMlSlt be *ve«n the uost niiofrr.ant cities and iow-<s >n Illinois, lo-VH, W'sc .nsln. Northern Vlich gan, Minnesota, X >rtti an l ^ouita Dakota, Neoraskaani] A yoiniug. The irim service is carefully adjusted to ueot the requirements of through and local travel, ana include* FAST VESTIBULED TRAINS Dining Cars. Sleeping Cars A Day tioaohss Running S'dll between Chicago and ST. PA UL. MrNNEA POL tS% COLNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA, DENVEh AND PORTLAND". ORE. PULLMAN A WACKER SLEEPERS Chicago to San Frarolsco WITHOUT CHANGE. COLONISTS SLEEPERS. Chicago to Portla.n<l, Ore. AND SAN FH A A CISCO. Free Reclining Chair Cars CHICAGO TO DENVER AND PORTLAND, ORE, Via Council Blaffs and Omaha. For the time of trains, tickets and all Infor­ mation, apply to Station Agents of Chicago A North, western Railway, or to the Ueneral t'assenxer Agent, at Chicago. W. H. JHEWMAN, J . M. WHITMAN 3d Vice Preit Gen'I Manager. U . P . WILSON, B . BUSS , Uen't Piu*. Affi, Agent, McHenry, 111 HANLY BROS, BSEEDKB9 Or- I t i ) t t , « r \»A- 'i-' *! Fm&i . *» I. wer* tat say line neatly aad vtM^Hp Fiws wateh refaj;ri»« m apaeMtf. ' ' * » ».• •:. » * ' " • * ^ ^ .V/*'- '<«vv wil' be reasonable. Accidents and escapes at owner's risk Hares from a oiatance well cored tor, at mo<l / HLAJNJUY BBOSi Aioao' the Skirmish Line. Memorial Day is drawing nea%, ' Morrill's Pension Bill passed t&e Lower House last Wednesday. U. 3. Grant Post, Bay City, celebrated the anniversary of the firing on Fort Sumter. The headquarters of the Department of New Hampshire, G. A. R., are located atLaconia. - Robert A. Bell Corps, Boston, 'is the only colored W. R.«C. in the State of Mas­ sachusetts. • May 25 to 30, inclusive, a reunion of the Blue and Gray will be held at Vicks- burg. Miss. The bill which is now before Congress to raise the pension of the totally blind to $100 a month should pass. It is as little as the Government can do to give that much to the men who are suffering from so terrible an affliction. The annual convention of the Woman's Relief Corps of the Department of Wis­ consin was held at Milwaukee, March 19. Officers elect as follows: President, Helen II. Carleton, Brodhead; Senior Vice Pres­ ident, Libbie C. Baer, Appleton; Junior Vice President, Belle Hanover, Merrill. , < .,. . . ' I veterans with good military records ones--now in the Teditable showing for thequarter ending poorhouse of Cook County, 111. Several "ComTftlasfetter Rautti ieiBtttrt^ ttiJit there are 143,920 veterans now at the age of 62 years, and who would at once be entitled to receive $8 a month nnder the Morrill bill. In 1892 14,819 more will reach that age, and every year there­ after the number will increase. At the same time the death rate will be rapidly increasing, and six years from now, he estimates, there will be 200,000 less vet­ erans than are alive at present. In view of these facts, how ineffably mean it is for Congress to palter about passing a general service pension bill. Think of it: 143,920 comrades who are already 62 years old, Irad with the 12-years' short­ ening of their lives by reason of their service, are, in Qffect, 74. Within the short period of* six years--by the time the next administration is as .old as this --200,000 of the veterads will be beyond the reach of pensions. If the service pen­ sion law were passed at once half of them would not enjoy their little -stipends for as long as they spent in the service of their country. It cannot be passed too soon for national honor and decency." The soldier-hating Chicago iVews-which is one of the most virulent anti-pension papers in, the country, is now temporarily whistling another tune. It has discover­ ed that there are more than 50 Union to ever rebel's heart, and he will either fly or surrender. If this don't work I " But he got no further. He said that the general booted him out of the teat. It was a sudden and radical care, and 4 he spent too more time planning great campaigns. • ®" The following sketch of Lehwiati, ' the Chicago "Fair" store man, who has gone crazy, we clip from the New York J Press: ••• '•"£ j§"Alderman F. C. Vierling, of Chicago, who is one of tfce leading real estate ; dealers of the Windy City, was in New York over Sunday. He has the collection of rents on the sooth side of that city for '}• E.J. Lehman, the millionaire, who was sent to Bioomingdale Asylum here last" week, amounting to $2,500 monthly, Mr. Vierling wont to Bloomingdale on* Sunday. He scud to me: -It was not advisable for me to see Lehman until his case has been studied and the extent of his malady ascertained. While I was at • the hospital my wife remained at the gate ;> lodge. Lehman was out in the yard, ~ in charge of an attendant,and passed by the lodge twice. He was as jaunty and erect as if he was walking the streets, of Chicago-. I have known Lehman thirty years, and I want to correct the cruel stories about his gambling. I have see him daily for years, and have been his frequent companion. He was not a frequenter of gambling places. In all my : , close connection with him I never knew S him to enter one. He was a hard worker * up to two years ago, getting up every morning at 4 or 5 o'clock, and rafely going to bed before 1 or 2. But for two , years he has been taking things easier, > and I think his trouble comes from teac- *, tion rather than from breaking down. % When Lehman started his businajw, known as the Fair, he had tees thain $500. In 1876 he became involved to such an extent that he could not have ; raised $50 of his own money. «But the f rising tide of the times came along, and * he is now one of the rich men of Chicago.' * Dec. 31, 1889: Members in good stand ing. 3,000; amount, expended in relief, $3,090.53; turned over to posts not es timated as relief, $607,75; estimated value of relief given in clothinfg, etc., $590.15; number of soldiers and their familks assisted, 405. , • 'The California delegation to the Na­ tional encampment, G. A. R., to be held in Boston iu the coming August, has se­ cured th6 post rooms of the Abraham Lincoln Post, which are said to be the finest in the United States. The Cali­ fornia boys are going in gilt-edged Btyle, and will, as usual, have a big supply of fruit and California wines. The Cook County G. A. R. Posts intend .to send a delegation to the National En­ campment in August that will be a credit •to the organization as well as to Chicago. The matter of post consolidation for the occasion is being talked of now--that is to form a battalion of the posts, elect a battalion commander, and have the best band procurable. The encampment will probably be more largely attended than any previous one and the East will turn out some dandy posts, so that the West must look to its laurels. Cheap trans­ portation and a grand good time is ex­ pected. General Alger arrived at Minneapolis Wednesday afternoon and was royally received by hundreds of veterans. They escorted hfm to the West Hotel. At 4:30 p. m., General Alger held a reception and gave to each veteran present a hearty hand-shake. In the evening a grand camp-fire was held, attended by hundreds of veterans, their families and friends. The annual report of the Assistant Adjutant General of the Department of Minnesota makes the following showing : Net gain in membership during the past year, 194; membership in good standing I)ec. 31, 1889, 9,346; loss by deaths during the year, 76. Financial condition as follows: receipts,$3,577.52; disburse­ ments, $3 ,587.36; number of posts, 178. The Sons of Veterans in the respective divisions show a gain during the month of March, 1890, of 93 camps, 1,921 mem­ bers as follows: Alabama, 1 camp, 10 members; Arkansas, 1 camp, 14 mem­ bers ; California, 1 camp, 13 members; Connecticut, 2 camps, 39 members; Iowa, 4 camps, 79 members; Illinois, 7 camps, 182 'members; Indiana, 11 camps, 302 members; Kansas, 14 camps, 239 mem­ bers; Missouri, 4 camps, 107 members.; Minnesota, 2 camps,34members; Maine, 1 camp, 24 members; Massachusetts, 5 camps, 92 megibers; Michigan, 2 camps, 38 members; New Hampshire, 1 camp, 16 members; Nebraska, 2 camps, 47 members; New York, 6 camp^ 133 mem­ bers; North Dakota, 3 camps, 46 mem­ bers ; Ohio, 4 camps, 75 members; Ore- Roadster, Draft, AND GBASE HORSES. We having the following stallions in serTice for the season of i*ya VON LS£R. Yen? Hamblevonian Stallion. Foaled June 1st, 1885. Stands K>% hands high, weight 1100 pounds. Is Iinsht oay. black points. Has fine style and good action. As a representa­ tive for getting good roadsters is hard to "Von Leer" was sired bv George O. (9701), by Lakeland Abdallah (351). First dam by Patchen, by Antocrat, second dam Dolly by Ulfford Morgan. CHANCELLOR, JR. Raving purchased a very fine imported Ulydesdale >taliion, Chancellor. Jr., tor our own use. will breed a limited number of mares outeide. Chancellor Jr. is 9 years ol<i this spring; is a Cherry Bay with black points; V>% hands high and weighs about 1700 pounds; strong, clean limbs, fine action, milJ disposi­ tion. He was sired by (-nancellor. (1310;, he by Drew Piince of \tTaies, (673) '»am by Loft y, MC0); grand-<tam by Duke of Welling­ ton. (151 i); great-(?rand-d'im by Sir William Wallace, (891). He combine* in his Uteeding the best biuod Scotland ever had, and has proven his ability to get uniform colts. of great siee, line form, strong and rugged. CHAMPION, JR. The Pwrchon Morgan Horse He has proven hi<n«<elt a line stock getter for general'1 pur­ poses, aud cannot be >eaten in (he Northwest. Parties who intend breeding the com in? season, find it .0 their advantage to call- and see our stock and get our tejms twinch Won, 1 camp, 10 members; Pennsylvania, camps, 121 members; South Dakota, 2 camps, 32 members; Tennessee, 3 camps, 53 members; Vermont, 3 campsv 60 members; Washington., ^ campa^ 87 members; Wisconsin, 3camps, 58 mem­ bers; Wyoming, 1 c^mp, 10 members. of theseserved outone enlistment of three \voars and veteranized. A number applied for pensions from 6 to 15 years ago, but their claims have not yet got through. There are likewise a number of veterans' widows in the same place. The Neivs is making a great sensation over the dis­ covery, and shedding many crocodile tears.The responsibility for the wretched condition of these indigent comrades lies directly with the News, and papers of its ilk. Had it not been for the shameless warfare they have waged against old soldiers and pension legislation measures would have been passed years ago, which would not only have kept the 50 veterans out of the Chicago poorhouse, but more than 20,000 others in the various alms­ houses of the country, and would have brought relief to tens of thousands of others who are in fully as much distress as those who have become public charges. However, we are grateful to the News for even this much help in the great causc of veteran's rights.--National Tribune. Right you are, comrade, and McHenry County has just such a paper, for when the News howls, Young Batyonet Points 1 Qonnsn'i Plan- We had in our company a very con­ ceited young man named Gorman says a writer in the N. Y. Sua, and from the day he shouldered a musket he was anxious to invent a plan to save the country. He had somewhere read that a private sol­ dier gave Napoleon the plan of a success- full campaign and was rewarded by being made a general, and his whole time was taken up in inventing plans, all of which were knocked in the head by our captain. One failure after another had no damp­ ening effect on Private Gorman, however. The more he was suppressed the harder be thought, and his time finally came. When Burnside moved up to attack at Fredericksburg Gorman wrote him a letter ,saying that he had a plan by which Lee's whole army could be driven into Richmond in terror or captured without bloodshed. The letter was put in such strong language that the general decided to investigate, and private Gorman was sent for to explain his plan. He came back to us a prisoner, and was kept in the guard house all that winter, and it was three months before we got a chance to find oat what happened at headquarters. He explained that he was ushered into the presence of Gen. Burnside. with cere­ mony, identified myself as the writer of the letter, and the general wheeled on him with: Well how would yo® scatter army?" " "Easiest thing in the world* general." was the unabashed reply. "Wait, for a dark night; then, let 10.000 soldiers dress up aa spooks, put on false faces, and cross over the. river. Each one is to step softly, groan every lew seconds, and if accosted he is to answer that he is the ghost of a soldier slain at Bull Run. The of thene spooka, wiB strike terror 1ST The statistics of the consumption ^ i -v and production of food in the United States shows that it requires 3.15 acres to maintain each person. Starting on r ^ this basis, Mr. C. Wood Davis, of Kan- sas, who has made a close study of the r farmer's condition and of the laws that 1 govern the distribution and consumption of farm products, shows jfchat the* tillable land in the United States will in a few yeaes be no gre&ter than is requi support the population. His concl is that when this period is reached shall have no food products to expor and that we shall require for home con* sumption all that our farmers can grow. He looks, therefore, xto the constant in­ crease of population to overtake *tbe \ production ol'food at a very early date, >*{ and his prediction is that then the farmer ^; ' will be able to get a higher price for his products, and will passout of the present era of depression, and become more p¥os~ perous than ever before. 1 HardTixnM. * A Texas farmer writes: "Yes, them j* no use denying the fact, agricultural and :: other productive interests are depressed, and times are hard, in some localities | very hard indeed. The coal miners of Pennsylvania are in gre^t distress, while ' "" ^ the fanners of Nebraska have to bum com for fuel on account of the cost of § ' x.- % transportation. In Kansas there are ^ t *.1 WM •3 >5 mortgages on thousands of farms and foreclosures are threatened. A very large proportioh of the Southern cotton and sugar is produced under a crop » H mortgage. Supplies are bought on long i ^ time and at a big advance on the cash- r ,s4rfVj price, which cuts off all profit to the pro­ ducer. Thq advancing merchant is the only man who makes the credit system pay, fend in case of a general crop failure he goes to the wall too. If crops are good he makes a large profit, and is ready to make still greater advances next year. "Borrowing money is a bad practice as a rule, but it seems that many of our Western farmers and stockmen have been cajoled into borrowing large sums ' by mortgaging the very roof over their heads. Too late they see their folly, and now they are asking government aid. Growing cotton and sugar cane under a crop mortgage is about as bad, from » business point of view, as borrowing money, but not so disastrous in its effects. It keeps the farmer in a state o£ peonage to the merchant, but leaves him . his home and land. . 'Let every farmer remember that his individual prosperity depends principally upon his individual efforts. He most1 practice economy, utilizing everything produced on his farm to the best advan­ tage, avoiding all wastes, and above all things eschewing the long credit store- , account and the money-lender as he would a pestilence. Let us hope that the- bottom has been reached, and that our material prosperity will be forthwith en­ hanced. Let us do what we can individ­ ually to better our condition, and also use onr strength collectively m free American voters to compel onr public servants to give us such relief as can he accomplished hy wise and just legisla­ tion/' CHICAGO MERCHANT TAILORS f ? Have received from E. Lawlus. tailor, orders for 14 suite up to Nov. 211, 1?W9. Good fits, low prices and the best o§ goods is what you all want. CUi In «•£ see the large book of samptes. > .^ifs •*r 'Ji'. J * • ' * m i - J; ^ " '* "i K"* ? .. 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