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i > -' Ssra1 «• M- . .. .» . .1 F ESDAY, AUG. 28. 1891. ar VAN 8LYKE, Editor. .••ntrmots m»; b« «*<(« for It In T> A DUD M*y be round OB 1 A rCiA file at GEO. P. ir Advertlaiai ire artvortlsim YORK KOWklil ft 00.*8 Newspaper Advertising Hunan (10 Spruce Street), wnsr ©jwlvortlstjut • 11 --i--.-- psjT* Butter on the Elgin Board of Trade Monday was steady. Sales aggregated 18,500 pounds at 23 cents, the same price as last week. One year ago it sold at 23% and 24 cents. ier Those who feel so badly because Che Republican editors of Illinois have formed an association for mutual benefit and for campaign work, seem to be large­ ly the editors of plate papers. We picked 8p one a few days ago, in which* there were just four items of home and county news, the balance plates and three squibs >;;tor the Editors' Association.--Sr. $v«rThe worst enemy of the Democrats, tree-traders, "alliance" frauds and gang- demagogues generally is the present prosperity of the people. As the Omaha JBeesays: "Cornstalks twelve feet high and well-eared alongside of wheat fields yielding twenty to thirty bushels to the acre are as frightful in mien to thecalam1 ity crowd as dragons and wild beasts." It is so not only in Nebraska but everywhere. US" An eccentric old woman of 88 years, who was very wealthy, died in Lyons, France, leaving behind her a pe­ culiar "last will and testament." "In grateful recognition of the intelligent and devoted care of Dr. X.," so runs a clause in the document, "who has enabled me to attain a ripe old age, I bequeath to him everything contained in my bonheur de jour." After the death of the estima­ ble testatrix the executors unlocked the article of furniture in question and found in it still unopened, sealed and corked, all the pills and potions prescribed for tiie deceased by Dr. X. daring the past ten years. f®"Oar first taste of the Australian btflot law in Illinois will be at the town and municipal elections next spring. In the preparation by the secretary of state of the circular of instructions on ike Australian ballot law. controversy arose last week as to whether the law applies to the election of constables jus­ tices of the peace and aldermen. Attor­ ney General Hunt was called in and de­ cided that the law applies to these elections, the same as to general elections. The only elections to which the law does not apply arc those for school directors, oif board of education and officers in road districts in counties not under township organization. » 1 ffSTThe gulf between the fidn temperance workers, whose leader is i,ncis Murphy and the Prohibitionists tms to be widening. In a recent speech Iowa, Marphy harshly scored the ;ter. He said: "I despise prohibition u»d everyone connected with it. The movement has stunted every section of the country where it has been started t4 land it has injured the cause of temper-. * auce incalculably. The methods used by the agitators of prohibition are despica- I- • ble. If you wish to prohibit you must i feegin by cutting all the apple orchards . vineyards, currant bushes, raspberry l x V plants, cherry trees, and goodness knows vaunt *6* xa* MM VVM&WM*. Attorney-General Hunt's Opinion Be*' flmrdlnff the Illinois Game Statute*. For the last two years, ever since the Thirty-sixth General Assembly Under­ took to amend the game law, there has been a dispute among those mejnbera who were interested in the law enacted as to tile exact date at which it became lawful to shoot prairie chickens in this State. It was claimed by some of the members of that General Assembly that the law as published was not the same in its terms as the one actually passed, so far as the date of the chicken season was concerned, and the Legislature intended to make and did make the open season begin on September 1st. It was further laimed that, a mistake was made iu the enrollment of the bill, whereby the date was changed from September 1 to Sep­ tember 15, and the validity of the law was challenged on that account. If the law that was approved and pub­ lished as the law was not actually passed as approved it might on that account be declared invalid, but if the bill which was actually passed was not approved by the Governor and published as required it could not have become a law and cannot be in force. There is but one rule in such cases and that is that the law as officially published is the law and must be enforced as such unless it should be declared in valid by some court of competent juris­ diction. The Thirty-seventh General Assembly should have settled the uncertainty which has been occasioned by the contro­ versy as to when the prairie chicken sea­ son begins, but this is one among the many acts of omission on its part. A bill was introduced to remedy the mis­ take alleged to have been made two years ago, but it failed to pass, and in consequence the law must be taken and observed as it stands. Attorney-general Hunt has received a great many .in­ quiries on the subject from State's At­ torneys and other officers, as well as in dividuals interested in the observance of the game laws, and has answered all of them in the same way. Be advises the law officers and all others that it is their duty to enforce and observe the law as published and that executive officers can­ not undertake to pass upon the validity of a statute, as that can be done only by a circuit court. When askf d recently to state his posi­ tion regarding this particular provision of the law Attorney-general Hunt said: The time fixed by the published law of 1889, in which it is lawful to kill prairie chickens, is from the 15th day of Septem­ ber to the first day of November. See Session Laws, 1889, page 162. I must construe that to be the law, and it is the duty of State's attorneys, sheriffs, con­ stables, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce the law, to accept the law as published and treat it as valid. None of these officers has any power to pass upon the validity of a statute. That power rests in the courts alone. Any person denying the validity of a pub­ lished law, and violating it, assumes the burden of showing that it is invalid in court, and until a court of competent jurisdiction declares a published law in­ valid, all executive officers must treat it as the law of the land. No rumor as to any irregularity in the passage of a bill, can, therefore, have any effect on the conduct of an executive officer or relieve him in any manner from t he attempt to discharge his duty as indicated by the law as published. \y what not. It is not the use of liquor Hthat hurts. It is the abuse." ^ • W-Gen. John W. Foster, who negoti­ ated the treaty for reciprocity with Cuba, makes the following pertinent sugges­ tions to American manufacturers: "The government of the United States cannot do everything to gain a foreign trade. 'The manufacturers must do their part, and in the past they have been very de- " linquent in reaching out and trying to tfr cantrol foreign markets. They have not studied those markets or observed the tastes of the people. To gain a foreign ; tnarket manufacturers must conform the state of things which exists in the ^places where they want to sell. The mar iket at home has been so large there Iim keen no necessity for manufacturers to Strike out in foreign countries." by . 'A correspondent in the Democrat %4 of last week, signing himself "Auld Mickie gv ^ lien," has the following: \ The unanimity among our Bepubliean '•'J; county contemporaries on the tariff ques- A 'tion is certainly remarkable, seeing that 'they publish the same identical editorials $ each week, in precisely the same form "Has all this copy been furnished - "Long Jonep? " Now we wish to say to this big-headed correspondent that he is a "Auld Mickie •*. * Jjiar." The Plaindealek is one of the ! *„ * Itepublican county papers refered to and : /'Long Jones" nor any other man, out- • '»*. , *ide of the editor, whose name appears jat the head of this paper, furnishes edi ll^^torials for its columns. The Itepublican • , Tapers of this county unlike the Demo- crat> do not have to get their | ' written by a syndicate. m ST A curious story about John A. Logan is told by Truth (New Nork). A short time before his death, says this publication, the General returned from Mexico to Chicago, and there a young lady of 20, a favorite of his, who had picked up palmistry, was asked by him to tell his fortune. She laughingly took his hand, but her face soon grew serious, and she told him that death was marked in it, and warned him to change his method of living and working and get rest. Mrs. Logan, who stood by, ob served that this revelation had a disturb­ ing effect on her husband, and with some reassuring remark and a laugh held out her hand and told the young lady to read her hand. The girl took it, looked at the lines an instant, and burst out crying. "You will be a widow within six months," sobbed the young palmist dropping the hand. 19" The St. Paul road is building two engines at the Merrill shops in Milwaukee which promises a revolution in locomo­ tive building. The new engines consume their own smoke and have no smoke stacks. They are fitted up with an electric headlight which is placed on stand immediately in front of the boiler thus giving the engineer an unobstructed view of the line ahead. The drive wheels are larger than on the ordinary locomo­ tive and intended for great speed. The new engines furnish power for lighting passenger trains with electricity and for furnishing steam he&t.--Beloit Press.' LSTTBB »BO* MAINE. ist liisv. B. nitUNNlNO. ,*i • <;•- •••- TT-' ' ' •pj. .'••• Errirron Pr.AixnEAi.r.n:--Living m io many different sections of this great country, as 1 have, it becomes an element in my experiences to note the varied and multiplied differences in the minds, ideas, habits and practices of the different people. Then again, this great variety and contrast is an educator to any man who has an inclination, let alone a pas­ sion, as I have, to watch, take note of, and appropriate what he sees and hears as so much information gamed. Living in Massachusetts lust, year, on Cnpe Cod, in the immediate locality of the original Pilgrims and among their descendants, it would be natural that I should see the genuine, ready-niade and inevitable Yankee; but after all, that genus homo is found as the literal Yankee in the most perfect form right here, down East in the State of Maine. In Massachusetts he is tinctured more or less with the ideas, fashions and atmosphere of Boston His phraseology is 1 hat of'"hoss" for horse, and "bnttah" for butter, and "wautah" for water. And his clothes are cut after th° style (a good while after, sometimes) of Boston And when natiu that form, th£n it is after the style of the sea-faring man But down here he. is of the orig­ inal stamp of the Maine Yankee of the ^tate of Maine. Loyal to the core, in his opinion it is the State of Maine against any other State in the Union. There is the least formalism and foimil- itv among them of any people with whom I have mingled since I left Ye~- mont. in 1857. There is a sterling worth among them that is admirable; a hos­ pitable friendship that is cheering and pleasant, and a contentment that is marked beyond almost any other people. A common saying among them is, that "ef anybody goes off ter the West they soon git homesick, git skaert of (at) the country and are mighty glad ter come back ter the State of Maine." Oi course it is well known that this State has three elements of industry, agriculture, lumber and fishing. In many places there are getting to be many manufacturing plants. But in the country there is little else but farming and the usual attendants of village life. There is a large brain power in the people of Maine, crude and uncultured as it may be, save in the common schools of the State, and if the entire brain power of the State could be brought into its highest degree of intelligent action, if. would not be excelled in any part of the nation. Maine(s congressional represen­ tation is above the average of the States according to her number--Reed, Dingle.v, Boutelle, and there in the cabinet is "The Blaine." As an agricultural State she is not among the first. In small grains she is very limited in the amountof production. In hay she is among the foremost in shipping away, but her average per acre is less than a ton. Her potato crop is immense, both for consumption and ex­ port. Butter making is the leading in­ terest among the smaller farmers, and poultry claims large attention. Nearly all for the Boston market, save what goes to her own little cities and villages. The attendance upon her sea-coast watering places, which are almost innum­ erable so long is her coast, and so plenti­ ful her islands, has been very limited this season, except here and there a place, until very lately. Just now everwhere is crowded, but there is not so much money spent as people stay a shorter time, and it will grow less for there is a great com­ plaint made at the enormous charges for accommodations. Even little cottages are let at enormous rents. I have known cottages not plastered, with few accom­ modations, rent for $ 150 for the season that did not cost over from $250 to $300 to build. There is a growing disgust at the enormous additional expense of "tip ping the servants." Dimes and quarters are of no account any more. It takes from fifty cents to a dollar to "attract the attention" of a waiter, or your meal is pooriy served. One of the strictly "Yankee notions" down here is the inevitable "baked beans" on Saturday night and Sunday morning, and warmed over for Monday's dinner. They tell a story down here of a Baptist deacon who one Sunday harnessed his team and went into the field to plow Some of the brethren on their way to church went to him and asked him if he was crazy, working on Sunday like that He denied its being Sunday and said that they were crazy, or had gained a day And as a final clincher that he was right said, with all the confidence imagina­ ble, that be knew it was not Sunday "Cause why? We didn't have no beans las' night for supper, nor for breakfas this mornin'." The season here has been delightful for both comfort and pleasure and for pro ductiveness of crops, and the average fanner smiles. The farmers raise a large amount of cucumbers for pickles here and are just beginning to deliver them pretty lively. They are bought and salted here for Boston parties, at one cent per pound for small and half a cent for the larger ones. Bowdoinham, where I now live, is on the Catanse river, close to Merrymeeting Bay, and in a straight line, about two miles from the Kennebec river, and about fourteen miles from the seashore, and al though the tide puts up here the salt water does not reach us. We have some interests and peculiar­ ities of geological formations, that are worth making public, and of which T will write in my next. Bowdoinham, Me., Aug. 14, '91. '-J 4 -V V> 3 4.V W AID V* x,.' I®"President Harrison is right when ff 4 he says, "I try to be broadly philan- p?>' thropic in my thoughts about the human ^ ra«e, but cannot help thinking that an American workman has a stronger <>inim on ifty sympathy and help than any - other workman. I believe that our insti­ tutions are only safe while wehaveintelli- JhS gent and contented working classes. I would adopt constitutional methods --any administrative method--that would ' preserve this country from the condition ^6p^:;';1nto which some others have unfortu- : nately fallen, where a hard day's work f * does not bring substance for the work- ^ man and his family." No firm or indi- vidual has the right to cut down the Swages to less than a living rate. Girls employed by factories at a weekly sti- pend that does not pay for board and ;,v, room are constantly exposed to a terrible ^temptation. I®" A farmer came into the office of the Belle Plain Union last week and said to the editor: "Brown, can you make pic tures? I would like to see in the Union the picture of a working man carrying the quart pail he can now buy for a quarter, and the twenty pounds of gran ulated sugar a dollar buys to put into it, contrasted with the little tin bucket he used to pay more for, and the eleven pounds of sugar, all his dollar would buy. I tell you, Brown, the grangers begin to see the good effects of the McKinley bill in hundreds of ways, and 1892 will show what farmers think of the men wb^ wark for their interests." I VST Governor Filer is a man who can express in choice and eloquent language a matter of fact or sentiment as well as the best of scholars and speakers. In a recent address he said : "My life has touched each level and sphere of experi ence that has fallen to the lot of the av erage of mankind, and J, declare to you that the difference between the farm, the brick-yard and the chief executive office of a great common-wealth is not worth dying for. I have seen quite as much happiness, contentment and pleasure in the humble log cabin as I have enjoyed in the executive mansion." Use l'il'sbiiry'n Hest Flour ami your bread will always be a well spring of joj in the family; light, dweel and wholesome. BAKES WIHfEK BREAr, El TER han any o the r f l ou r m tnu fac tured If you ore not using ? i l l *bu ryV* Bes t t r y a sa r l c and you will use no other, only$1.60 )er sackfc Wealso cai ry (jive us your orderH and we wdl try and please you in quality and price in any flour you migh want. Remember the place. -5 . iC oi -0,433020 XHO* -PIBOM OWTO VM -JpMtlO/C #|M| pill *puiMqi(ftootr pHO TMO "JI •S/m*/ TFV*/Dpun 0009 SA¥M1V •/ s.namio iamX jood <n sfluoiaq u oaqM '.mop aqt O} pa&reqa poo-iy; jo i{0)Bq aood « iu*ui Jtoj p : - C J t / i / q / s u o c l s a y & u i 'nam oqi tnoji nocsa; « uj«at Hmgdjpv nvfe VBqi auiiuXuu asu o:, |IUB o| j/ojnQ a JO U9fl m toro poos « ylop» <« mamaavo M 0/$ BJD U9UI0/DI WILL TESTIFY Tbat our fttock must be conver ed into cat-h -THE:: PRICE:: CUTTER- IIS! flw been here with his price axe again, and a price . bre*«9 full it comfort blows from every corner our store. 1 * T hj rty- eighfio about our .H*ve ken 50c to Yon know SATEENS!: Extra heavy 15c good* for 7 cents Finest* Organdy In eluding blacks, #c; hai e been 12 1-2 to 15 Straw hats must go also, uo matter at what loss; 35c tor the 50 aud 75 cent ones. Perhaps the lat-t chance at th* odd Shoes that have accumulated here for months past. $1 50 f »r the $2 10 to $3 kinds. child'S FINE KID SIIOBS SIZES,;*. 4 1,2. ^SD s. CHOICES {fe, YOU KNOW ABOUf STOCK THE Suits at $6 to $10, for value of $8 to $15. PAIR T.MES ARE NEAR, PR0V1DF NOW. -- Sixty -six bars Kirk 's Savon Soap, $2 85 £>usrar in 1C0 pound s»cks at wholesale prices, at 25c and 50c are here. We bid you "WELCOME. \w4 •' Finest Extra Grauulatec Fine Teas 99 ONLY DURIM& AUGOST, , •: .--jrpN £)'l Spring & Summer Goods Oftfrjd aerlpiloft tnc!udt*|| Dry Goods, ^ < Notions, • T" 5 , 1 ' * * * * • i T Dress Goods, Underwear,5 * ^ m : Clothing, Wull aper and Lace CurtuQSt^' " Window Shades, Lawns, Bunting*, fenniBllai Ch allies, ' ^ Cambrics. Calicoes, " Ginghams, ' t Glorttt. West McHenrylf • •» • r . v •" v and Shoe Store ! ARB WE 19* An English Mastiff, bought last week by a man named Ryerson, of Salem N. J., to scare off tramps, has already demonstrated that it is a wide-awake watcher. It caught Ryerson the first night he came in late and bit and tore him in a rather serious manner, only letting op when the son, attracted by the father's cries, came to the rescue witb ja club and beat the animal off. .1 -• _a . AN OLD-TIME "RACKET" REVIVED An esteemed contemporary upon read ing in an exchange that a certain ancient sect prescribed kissing a pretty girl as cure for toothache, sagely observed that it is exceedingly difficult to improve on some old-tirqe methods. The same re­ mark applies to Magic Yeast, now being sold in this town, and advertised else­ where in our columns, and by the use of which, toothache or no toothache, kisses or no kisses, the pretty girls and their beautiful mothers of to-day are mak­ ing that prime requisite of health and beauty, good, wholesome, old-faeh- ioned bread, as did their predecessors in the days that come no more. If you are looking for a fine buggy, it; | will pay you to look our scock over be-j f fore placing your order, as we have jnst; received a new and fresh supply, and be­ lieve we can save you money, if you will favor us with a call. Our time is yours.: No trouble to show goods. For aale at Bishop's. • CHICAGO MERCHANT TAILORS, First class in every respect, have sent E. Lawlus, Tailor, three hundred more samples of their cloths, to take orders^ and measure men for suits. Good fits" and low prices on the very best goods in the market is what you want and no humbug. E. Lawi.us. Opposite Riverside Hotel. Wrong? A Shoe Dressing must restore the bril­ liancy of a worn shoe, and at the some time preserve the softness of the leather. LADIES will the Dressing you are using do both ? Try it! Pour a dessert spoonful of your Dressing into a saucer or butter plate, set it aside for a few days, and it will dry to a substance as hard and brittle as crushed glass. Caa such a Dressing be good for leather? Wolff's ACME Blacking will stand this test and dry as a thin, oily film which is as flexibic as rubber. 25 Dollars worth of Hew Furnrtur• for 25 Cents. HOW? By painting 26 square feet of Old Furniture with J&fK-'SaON # Assist®,o°£fA\r ***** , r- WOLFF & RANDOLPH, 887 Ifortb Front Straot PHILAOSLPTTUL \k f> D U S T E R S ARE THE BEST. _ 100 stylea, WE ayheh & 100 styles, prices to suit alL HONS, P fcKiiu oy all dealers. Philadkxfhxj* leaders in the Boot and Shoe business here. We handle nothing but the best goods there is manufactured in the world. We have nothing but the lowest prices on them. Call in and see our large and well selected stock for this Falls business in anything pertaining to the Boot and Shoe line. JOHN J. West McHenry, Illinois.: Trunks, Valises, - NECKTIE#, renins Siur^ii Blouses, ; Waists, Fly Nets, Summer Footwear, PARASOLS ! Our stock of above good* it very coWj)kt» and *e make tf* above SISSLICKER Coal Brwid" tradR-mark. lllalnW C»Ulotn« fw. A. J. Toww, Boton, BM C. P; BARNES, Attorney. STATE or ILLINOIS, McHenry County. bb. Circuit Oourt of MoHenry cjuoty, To the September term, A. D. 1^91- ^ , Anna F. Botsford va. Cbas. A. Botsfcrd, ia Chancery. s.V' AtUdavit of the non residenee of Cbas- A. Ilolaf.u'd, the (tefemiant alK»%*e named, havlnff Veen filed in Hie oflloe of the clerk of saw Circuit Court of McHenry countv, notice is licreov given to the aaid non-resident defendant, that the complainant filed he» till of complaint in said court on the chan- eery side thereof on the l'th day of August, A I) 18BL and that a summons thereupon issued out of said oourt ajralnst eaid de. fendant, returnable on the 28th day of Sep tember, A. D 1881, as is b* Taw required. Now, therefore, unless you, the sa A. Botsford,.shall personally be and before the saut Circuit Court of Mrtlonry county on the llrst day of the next term thereof, to be hoiam at the Court House in the city of Woodstock in said countv, on the 38th day of September, A. T> and plead, answer or demur to the said com piainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and ^stated will be taken as confessed, and a de­ cree entered against you according to tbe prayer of said bill. In testimony whereof I bave hereunto set mv hand and affixed tne seal of said court at my office, in Woodstock this 10th day of Aug­ ust, A. D. 189). w. p. MORSB, Olerk. BW4 the said Ohas. appear ^Htsnry O, P. Baknis, Oompl't'i Sol'r. August 10th, A. D. KM. v„ - UIIF Surgeons spouge* etc., at J. A. Story's. I'Y:RI4 " Mr. Clark to the publicT wish to eay to my friends and the public, that I re­ gard Chaniberlaiu'B Cholie, Cholera and Diarrhfua Remedy as the best prepara­ tion in use for Colic and Diarrhoea. It is the finest selling medicine I ever bandied, because it always givfts natisfaction. O. H. C1.1AHK, Orangeviile, Texas. For sale by G. W. liesley. 51 GANDEE TENNIS C. H. Fargo & Ca. AGENTS, CHICAGO, ILL • Canoee SIMON STOFFEL, ft ent for McHenry 111% Onr low price are our best argunxnta. J. W. CaiBTV & Pok, Ringwood. We have for sale the qplebrated Abbott Buggies and will say that we can please yon in style, finish and quality in any­ thing you might want in the buggy line. Call in and learn prices. If you are look­ ing for a full leather top buggy we are sure to please you in quality and price. R. Bishop. Liberal Discount ' TO THE CASH TRADE W>* . RTest30 3Day> Otlj, To Reduce Stock an Make Room for Our Hegtvy Fall: Purchases, soon to Arrive, . » W.WILI. HAV* G R E A T B A R G A I N S :r'- - - .J. ' A i • v . ..: M' In all kinds of which must be sold regardless of cost Merchandise, at Once, and UliiS f i i i i r i l l j 7K STOCK With Matched Borders now com­ prise over 120 stylet*, and all am new and desirable. ••'X. - J?"*'*' ",'"*1 M i 1 1 I ;*•" -1 _ See our new Carpet*, from 25c. to 90*» ; ' . I , . A ... > * •' 'f" _____ | v.- "1)1 | ' - . . ,> p _ Kow is the time to buy ^ood .J: merchandise for one month, at »\v actual, and soine at less than, w<. •• 4'. ^ % i All graics of gool Warranted^ Flour kept constantly en hand. iXMi Simon Store West WcHc ry, XLi' .-it .M.i "• V,; ji'SV • -"fe-; "* ' . ;t * * 1 ,t.\' V,- •>