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^ •* - %?" 'i - h ' *4r- l / V - W ' - . : "" "isifei •V'f >* - t-f * %$' > < - ' - >' "k V ' .•* \^:V'- Pledged tout to Truth, to Liberty »nd Law? No Favors Win us and no Foar 8hall Awe," M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1891 NO. 19 business ^liulealer. PUBLISH so imr WBDHMDAT BT . v.r?flr . VAN 8LTKG,~ SDITOR AJTD PBOPBIETOB. Office lit Bishop's Block* \ Owowwi Pnrr ' - * Owaa*s TIBKS OF SUBSOK1PTIOH. OB« T**t (la A<T ranee) If No* Paid within Thr fim> Three Month* .. in SaMoripthms nwlnd for thrWeor elx BO»thi 1B tie aeme proportion. 4.v'\ M M c.;-* 500 • 1000 18 00 4, sow 8000 . 10000 M- Kates of Advertising. <N announce Ubeml rates for advertising JB the PUiiroiii.il, and endeavor to atate • kM ao plainly that they will be readily un- stood. They are as foliowa: « 1 Iaoh one year :£ S Inoheaone year • • S Inehea one year - • M Oolaran one year * X Oolamn one year- • Column one year - , One Inch means the meaiareac.eat of oae laoh down the oolnmn,alagle oolama width. Tearly advertisere, at the above rate a, have the privilege or changing as often as they Choose, without extra oharge. Kernlar advertisers (meaning those having atudtng card#) will be entitled toiaaerttoa Of iooal Botieea at the rate of 5 cents per line :Heh week. All others will be charged 10 seats Mr Mne the first week, aad Scents per tlae wntah subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged "At the rate of 10 cents syptb same as this is set aoeats per tlae for «ubasque |m i«eh advertleemeat will ooat SUB for one •encs win oe cnargea s pe line, (nonpareil : la) the first issne. and leqaeat laanee. Tlraa. • T.IHWiWJ. F. L lamtD. SHEPARO A8HEPARD, Suite 512, North S uaSalie Street «ly A TTOBHlCYb AT LAW. <1 era Office Building, 5 Chicago, 111. KNIOHT A1 BROWN, A TTORKKTSA A. Boildiag, rs AT LAW. IT. S. Kkpress'Oo>.*S . 8? aad » Washington St. OHIO AGO, ILL. JOSLTN A UASSY, J^TTOBNBTS AT .LAW, Woodatoek tooa. I1L All business will receive prompt at ten- a P. BABNSS, A TTOENEY, Solicitor, and Oonaaelor, JtX. Oolleetlons a specialty. • WOODSTOCK, LUOTOM. |'.S LUMLRT. LAW, aad Solicitor Chaaeeryt \i_ WOODSTOOk, ILL. Office fa Park House, first floor, '»'( 1 -A; : riiVi rr-.li II V. s. ^TTOWfST AT M. CHURCH, l^atohuaker and Jeweter JtfO. Oae HaadredTweaty.Five State at Ohi' i." oago. 111. Speelal attention given to re pairing Fine watches aad Ohronometera. ar A Pall Assortmeat of Ooods la his line Attention Horsemen! MORENRT, 111., April 1st, 1898, I would respectfully invite the Public to Mil aad examine m / stock of Horses before auiklag arrangements elsewhere. No bust sees doae on Sunday. U.S. OOLBY M'HBm IUL Week, |LN for two weeks, ' Weeks, and so on. $100 for three <: TIM PiAWDHAtiBR will be liberal la giving ; editorial notices, but, as a business rule, it riWiil require a suitable fee from everybody peeking the BM of Its colamns for peeuaiary .>-.|rala. BUSINESS CARDS. ? > O J. HOWARD, K.1). r>lir-«10l\N AND SUKGBON. McHenry. L 111. Office at residence, oae bloek east of labile Softool Building. f>U> : a H. PKOEBS, M. D- IBTBIOIAN AND SUBOSOK, MeHsary, Ilia, office at Betldeaee. W». OSBORNE, If. D. WIOIAH AND SITROBOX. OSes at Residence, West Mo Henry, 111. Oalls ip.ly atteoded to day aad night* 1^# •-As. '••I f.i v +1 v - Liverv Stable. tint rivers Teaming of M. WIOHTMAN, Proprietor. elass rlgft with or without drivers iwlasoi nabie rates, oa short aoUa*. HEAR THE DXPO% WURESRR MOHBNBY, ILL, Keeps opea for the accommodatioa of the ^ ^nhlto a rirst-Olass Saloon and Restaurant, %here he will at all times keep the beat brands of Wines, Liauors and Cigars - # *• *<»BBd la the markBt#!!";^^ Also Ageat For v •' iratAJfSB ;; Lagn Btw. Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al­ ways on hand, cheaper than aay other, quall- f ooasldered. Ordsrs 17 aaU pnxsptly atteadsdta. GOOD 8TA BLfNQ FOB^BOEOMCa. MTOal aad|iea <ls. «Mt ICoHeary, 111. •m 'my A. Sziglen'a MM iND RSSTADBAHT. fRcHBNRY, ILLINOIS. A~ Kentucky Lienors, Fre:ick Bitters, HcHeniy Lager Beer, --AND-- V: £ "" £ "" - y* w' jsS / * *¥\ r$' * • iV"* !;•;/ sAn Schlitz Miliantee Bottle Beer, In any quantity from * Snitx 01&B8 to 1C0 barrels. t IlT WHOLESALE ox RETAIL Beer in bottles, kegs or eats as |$£&p as the cheapest. :i:N Wv. . . We buy none but the bast and #11 at Reasonable Prices. Call and see me and I will use w«U. ANTONY ENOLEN. The Police Gazette, Is the "aly illnstratei paper la the world coataining all the latest seasattonal and sporting news No Salo«>n Keeper, Barber, »Boom " - -or OlubRoom can afford to be without it. It always makes friends wherever ft goes. Mailed to aay address ia the United States soourely wrapped, IS weeks for fl, Send five Cents for sample copy RICHARD X. 70X rBA.mcx.iir SQVJLBB, New York United S ates War Olaim Apnej WM. H. Woodstock COWLIN, • - Illinois. Prosecutes all otassss aad kinds of claims tgtiast the United States tor ex>SoIdtera, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made in prosecuting old aad rejected claims. All communications promptly aaswered If Postage Stamps are enclosed for reply. WM, EL COWLIN Office at Restdeaee, Madison StM Woods toes, Illinois. ATTENTION! and It will pay (hose looking for CHOICE COWS fresh milkers or springers, to eall at Wf premises before purchasing. I can furaSaa suoh by the ear load or single cow. PORTER H. WOLFBUM, OHBKtrara* t%rm aboat four miles aorthwest of Harvard. nilaols. PENSIONS! Tt»« Disability Bill la a Law. Soldiers Disabled Since the War are Entitled* Dependent widows sad pawtt a»w ds- pendeat whose sons died from the offsets of army pervlces sre included If yoa wish your claim speedily aad successfully prase, eated, address, JAMB8 TANNER. WASHINGTON D. a Lata CoBtmlssioaer of Peasions. 4t V. J.SarMaa. ^^<4'^..^'.:. J. }. BarMaa BARBIAN BROS. Wholnala and BetaB DBUtU IK mi WW ' nmapa rUNilj uiljimD, MeHENBY ILLINOIS. Bavlng leased the brick buildlag one door South of the post office, we have opeaed a retail store, where, at all times eaa be found flae cigars of our owa maaufactare, together with smoking aad shewing tobaoso of the test brands. Pipes a Specialty. We have a very large assorfeat aad | some Tery haadsome patterns. GALL AND 8KE US. KUl XsBMry, Wo»s»ber l8 h. 1888 Bay Colt; 15 8-4 handt.bigh Foaled May 11,1888^ WEIGHT, 1150 POUNDS. SIRE, ALROY 5715, The sire of Al«vi Atlas [S veam t.VSXi Allspice, 3Alsippa. 1:10; Alaioa. S:41M, and other good ones. 1st dam, ANTBXM, (he fltatf Choral, mm of Waters' finest brood mares. Anthem, by- tayler 100, sire of Klviaa 2:18X, Ohaatev, Rdwin O, 2:21M. Day !>resm, 2:81*. also sire of dams ot Patron, 2:14M »M otbavsw Sod dam, AUQUHTA, dam of Chancer i -W% Abaiioross, trial, i 23 [half in 1:10]; *ugusta» An.hem and others. Augusta by Rvsdyke'fc BeilfoBnder. sire of the dam of Kingstey. son of Elambletoniftn 10 [sire of Dextnr 2:17M> Nettle 2:18, Orange 3irl 2:20, and K others In the '2:30 list, aad grandeire of SH performers j. ________ will make the aeasem at i of Richmond, at m fas Feb 1st. Oall and : yoar mares. Watchmaker McKCNiY. Be Jeweler IIINOIS. A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew­elry always on hand. Special attention given to repairing fine watches. Give me * JOMN P. 6MJTS. WM. STOFFEL, -Afftni for- . , • LIGHT rfiftC, Aad AeetteaUl Iasoraaee. Ale* Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Alabama, aad California Lands. Call on or address WM. STOFFEL, MoBenry, ill: Quintette Orchestra, McHENRY; ILL. Are arrsparedi to fnralsh first Olaaa Maslr to the Dancing Public at Reasonable Rataa. J. Smith, 1st Violin. Robt. Madden. Clarionet, O, Cartis, Cornet. L, Oirea, Trombone, B, Ingalls, Rasso and Prompter, Address all commaaicattoaa to Jerry Sadth, McHenry.. SHORT BORN BULLS For Sale at Living Prices by the under- Jdgned. Call on or aadreaa J v FRANK GOlsB, SPRINO 8IOTA ILL. Spriag Grave, IM., Nov. IS. KM, SIMON STOFFEL, -- AOBNT FOR--- Fhmiz, of Brooklyn, f. T. Capi tal, «,<)08,31S, Rockfordfof Rockford, III Capital, 802,448, National, of Hartlerd, CQDD. Capital, sa,«20,ai a last!ranee earefnlly aad safely placed OB all elaases of property agaiast fire, nghtatag, aad tornado, either lor cash or on loag time, without interest, Fire policies 011 itve stock oover asine in building or oa farm agaiast loee or damage by Are or lightaiag and agaiast lightaiag anywhere, liay, straw, stalks sad fodder are covered by oae policy, in buildlag or stacks on farm. Qrata. seeds aad mill feed are covered nnder one sum In building or on fans. Insurance transferred to other loos ll. Wee free of catge. Gasoline or oH stove and •teaaa thresltei permits grafted la aolletee free of oharns. Household goods, of every deaerlplMia. iwsladiag eeat, wood and provf. •liasail covered under oae Item. Coaiplete records kept of all policies,condition*, assign- aad transfers made. Osll for list of •11 ?oo fs gaaraa alaries ana SJCBti paid No experts terms giving agr territory. 100 fiursarv Stock it* first class Uoo<i or a liberal commls* on aecessary. Write for "wnre yonr choice of NIGMT & CO., ae, Rochester, N. T. & sw, Cvalner* P©por Hangers, Kalsomlrwrs, ~ McHENRY, ILLINOIS. All work prompt guaranteed. Oonnt oa or address done an«t satisfaction work a specialty. Oall •dltad by WM. H. OOWLIM, ---WOODSTOCK, NX. "To cam tor Mm who ha* borne the battle, and for Mi Widow and Orphan*," --Lmoouf. "Friend*hip, Charity. Lay ally-- Worthy torn of JPatrvX ftuher* " O. 8. Curtis A San. McBMimr. Jbu.tm>48 inricai Ctor Btai Ce. SSI M. Clark if. ONIQAOOf ILL* The Croat Blood Purifier. Cures all Blood Diseases th%t arise from the effect of Bad Blood, A sure cure for Cancer, Oatarrah, Plies, Sink Headache, Oy». pep->ia, Whooping Ooagb, tRheumatism, Oon stipation, etc. BLOSSOMS, per poaad - . .. . fOJSO FLCTD KXTBAOT, per bottle >4 ^ • 1*00 SOLID EXTRACT, per pound - Ut Both the Solid and Fluid KxtrfiitiTm made from the same stoefc of Blossoms, and are equally as good and efficacious as the Bios, •oms. JULIA At STORY, Affent. MeHenrv, llllnola. 4tyi; t over 700 policy holders in above companies. Simon Stoffol. West McHenry, Illinois. J. E. SAYLOE I - ir ----BRKRDBRS Of Morgan:: Horses, Embracing th^ celebrated General Glftord. Green Mouataiu »nd Motrlll blood. STOCK FOR SALE. Stallion* and Fillies, ctoadfor pedi­ gree*. Xcsax and Regfstere'd Polaod Chla* --SWINE.-- Choice Merino Sheep, Mammoth Bronze Turfcoyo* High Grade Jersey Catties For sale. Come and inspect stock, or addren J. R. 8ATLOB & SON* We*t McHenry. HI. Ttila TnSC Hark la oa TkeM TatervMf Coat twHwi world. Wn«ffilhi A-fTnnftltfBj QAK LAWH ACAD1MT Wilr opea its second yesr on Wi»d- needay, Sept. 16, 1891. and will offer ipr'clal privileges to the right class of students. The institution will be coo* ducted as a Home School for Boys Where they will receive the benefits of a thorough preparation in all oi tbf common branches of study. GERMAN AND MUSIC. We claim for oar school a pleasant and bealthr situation, and the put year bean as out in the assertioo. TERMS AMD DESCRIFTiYE CIRCULAR Sent to any address on application. The acbovl fa situated at Ringwood, Mcflenry Co., III., on the C. A N. W. R. R„ 69 Miles from Chicago, 15 miles from Lake Geneva, and 6 miles from Pox Luke. No caloon, bllliartl ball, or other loafing place In town, Address Oak Lawn Academy, XT Bwowoo», I*** SRBROK, ILtt. ps & RicUa BRKKDKKSOF High Grade Jersey Cattle, REQ1STRRBD POLAND OH1KA MOQS., AND PURE BRED POULTRY. Mirer Laeed Wyaadottes, Light Bmmaa, Plyf mouth Itoeka, 8. 0. White and S, O. Browa i.Aghoras, ratrtdge Ooehlas, and other Varieties. Mammoth B'onze and White HoUaBd T«>rkevs. Pekia Ducks aad/Wklte Ouinsas. We tevea tew hlgpKade Jeresy outl* £»r sale, from choice selected stock. Oar Poland Ohiaa Hogs sre of the best aad choicest sirs las. We have some very choice spring Pigs for sale st very reasonable priees. An inspection of them is invited, or write us your wants and we will quote you prices. All pigs eligible to any register. Poultry for s ilo at reasonable prices. Krgs during season. We have some very ehotoe Poultry of ail kinds at Fall prices. All ordsrs for Pigs, Birds or Eggs receive prompt attention. Our stock has been carefully selected and is strictly pure, and we Guarantee tt -a such, Our oustotners may rest issureii that we shall ship only such stock as will reflect credit upon ourselves an I them also, Correspond, ence cheerfully and promptly attended to snd respectfully solicited. Visitors welcome sny day but Sunday, and we extend an invi­ tation to all to oall and see our stock. Hoping to receive a share of your patronage, aad aesurtag our f < iende that we will labor to pleaw yoa, we await your favore, Tours Respectfully, PHILIPS * RIUHARDSOH. September, MML McHENRY G- A. IV. Directory. M'HBHBT POST HO. 641 Meets the First aad Third Thursday evea* lags of each moath. L. S. Bmrarat*. Ooa. WOO OS TOOK TOST, M> M Meets first aad third Monday even lags of eash month. A, s. WEIGHT, Com. •tnsaA VOBT. BO S36. Meeta the second aad fourth Tuesday eveaiaga ef each moath F. R. COX. COM. UMN POST, HO W. Meets the secona ana tourth Monday eaea lags of eaott month. S. N. AUSTIN, Ooat MABBBOO POST, NO. MB. Meets every Second and Fourth Fridav evealage ateaoh month. K. R. HOBBIS, Ooat. WACOORDA FORT. NO 3«8. Post meets every sceond and fourth Satur­ day eveaiag in Q. A, R. Hall. Main St. A. L. PBIOB, ooas. H. Miller & -DEALl IN- MARBLE 4 GRANITE, Mouumenta, licaclHtonea, '^"iTabletSi Et/' Cemetery Work of every de­ scription neatly executed at the Lowest Prices. Satisfaction BuranUsd. Shops at McHenry and Johns- burgh, 111, where at all times can be found a good assortment of finished work. ,4 Respectfully, Henry Miller Along the Skirmish 1400. The Union Veteran's Union was organ­ ised at Washington, D. C., in 1886. Michigan has forty-one commands of the Union Veterans' Union. Minnesota in 1860 had a population of 172,023, and of that number 25,053 served in the civil war. The ex-Union Prisoners of War, of Michigan, held their fifth annnal reunion at Ionia, October 28, and 29. Comrade E. T. Lee, Chief Mastering Officer, Department of Illinois, G. A. R., has tend?ml his resignation and the same has been accepted by the Depart­ ment Commander. Comrade J. E. Evans, of Montioello, has been appointed to fill the vacancy. "Speaking of the pensions of crippled veterans of the old Union army, the Dem­ ocratic St. Louis Republic whines out: "Foreign mercenaries would have been much cheaper." It adds: "Patriotism that has to be paid ior in money is about the costliest service the people can buy." Did the editor of the Republic do any shooting for the old flag gratis? " Governor Buckner, of Kentucky, he who held Fort Donelson against Grant after Pillow and Floyd had skedaddled, has been at West Point enjoying the old scenes an&telMng stories. He was at the academy with Grant for three years, and says of him: "Grant was the most fearless rider I ever saw at West Point. He rode a horse named Rocket. And I have seen him take a six-foot hurdle in the base­ ment of the old academical buiiding, when nearly every one present expected that he would have his brains dashed out against the low ceiling or his leg or back broken by coming in collision with the posts that are distributed through out the hall."--Iodinaapolis Journal. One of the old soldiers of Northampton went to the cars the other day to see his daughter off. Securing her a seat he passed out of the car and went around to the car window to say a parting word. While he was passing out the daughter left her seat to speak to a friend, and at the eaine time a grim old maid took the seat and moved up to the window. Una­ ware of the important change he hurried­ ly put his head up to the window and said: "One more sweet kiss, pet." In an­ other instant the point of a cotton um­ brella was thrust from the window, fol­ lowed by the wrathful injunction: "Scat, you gray-headed wretch." He scatted. --Union Guard' ̂ Assistant Secretary Bassey rendered a decision upon the application for pension of 'Squire Walter, of John's Creek, Ohio, as the dependent father of George Walter, late of Company H, Second West Virginia Cavalry. The record shows that the soldier was drowned while bath­ ing, with the knowledge and consent of his captain, in the Potomac River near the chain bridge above Washington. The claimant's application was originally rejected on the ground that the soldier was not at the time of his death in the line of duty. About five years after the first rejection a special act granting pen­ sion to the claimant was passed, but was vetoed by President Cleveland. General fiussey finds that under the law and the rulings of the Department the claimant is entitled to a pension at $13 per month, to date from the original appli­ cation which is accordingly ordered. Local Traveling. MflJtary* all - • • • ; / %.Y To sell out Nursery Sto'.k. Salary, Ex pea sea aad Steady KniDioyment guaranteed. A gentleman wearing a G. A. R. badge and apparently well posted^ made the re­ mark during the, parade October 7th, that the average age of the Union sol­ diers waa less than 18 years. The rec­ ords show that muster rolls were pro­ vided showing the age of each recruit. The youngest age entered on these mus­ ter rolls was 18, the oldest 45, these be­ ing the limit in either direction. Of 1,012,273 registered ages taken from the muster rolls, those at 18 years numbered 133,475; at 44 years, 16,070. The man or average age is placed at 25 years. There were large numbers in the service outside of either limit, but at the time of muster the ages were given so as to com­ ply with the legal requirements. Boys of 14 passed as 18, and men in the sixties^ were only 45. These--beyond the --would not change materially the age ag»--35 ; tv.-r, .. Of Especial Interest to Comrades aad Others Coaoeraed. Assistant Secretary Bussey has decided that the increase of widow's pension for each child uuder sixteen years cannot commence prior to July 25th, 1866. He holds that on the act of July 7,1888, re­ lieving widows' pensions of the limitation in the act of March 8, 1879, applies to the latter act. Gen BusSey also decided that the accrued pension due, where a pensioner died before receiving his pension, win be paid to the legal representatives of the deceased, provided the pension certificate is issued before the death of tibe pen­ sioner. General Bussey also ruled that in the absence of the strongest medical or lay evidence to the contrary, the report of the medical examiners of the Pension Bureau must be accepted as showing the rating for pension. General Bussey has also decided that the widow and children of a soldier are the lawful claimants for pension, provided the woman's relations with the soldier were recognised as a legal marriage by the laws of the State in which they resided. Assistant Secretary Bussey reversed the former adverse action of the Com­ missioner of Pensions on the application for a pension of the dependent father of Wm. Barnum, late a private in Company E, First Michigan Volunteers. It ap­ pears from the record that the soldier was one of a detachment sent out to guard the railroad and bridge at Savage switch, Maryland, on the Balti­ more and Ohio railroad. By order of the commanding officer he went to Annapolis Junction the headquarters, to procure medicine for the sick, and was directed to return on th« 6 o'clock train. This he did, but as the train did not stop at the camp the soldier jumped from the cars and was killed. After a full review of the testimony in the case the Assistant Secretary is satisfied that the soldier should be held to have received his fatal injuries while in line of duty, and he so holds. He also holds that under his orders and the circumstances of the case he was not guilty of contributory neg- linrmma - , the Dead Hareas, The past, as It were, rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sound of preparation--the music of boisterous drums--the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages and hear the apppeal of orators; we see the pale cheeks of women and flushed faces of men; and in theee assemblages W© 866 all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers. We loose sight of them no more. We are with them when they enlist in the great army of freedom. We see them part with those they love. Walking for the last time in quiet woody places with the maidens they adore. We hear the whis­ perings and sweet vows of eternal love as they lingeringly part forever. Others are bending over cradles kissing babies that are asleep. Some are receiving the bless­ ings of old men. Some are parting with mothers who hold them and press them to their hearts again and again, and saying nothing; and some are talking with wives and endeavoring, with brave words spoken in bold tones, to drive away the awful fear. We see the parent. We see the wife standing in the door with the babe in her arms--standing in the sunlight sobbing. At the turn of the road a hand waves. She answers by holding high in her loving hands the child. He is gone, and forever. We see them all as they march proudly away under the flaming flags, keeping time to the grand wild music of war; march down the streets of the great cities, through the towns and across the prairies; down to the fields of glory, to do euid die for the eternal right.--Robert G. IiifrermlFa ikmous speech at Iodiaa- apoBa. - Sheridan ia Hia Slipper*. A good story of Gen. Sheridan was told the other day by a Mexican gentleman, an intimate friend of the great Northern soldier in bis lifetime. One day, calling on the commander of the army of the Union at his pffice in Washington, he found the hero of Winchester at his desk, his feet incased in slippers, and his shoes democratically placed on top of his desk. While the General was apparently ab­ sorbed in some writing, the Mexican gen­ tleman who thought some servant had left the warrior's shoes in the wrong place, took his cane and gently deposited the shoes on the floor. The next day the Mexican gentleman called again on Sheridan, and found him at his desk, &hoes on top as before. The polite resident of the tropics began once more removing the shoes to the floor, when all at once Sheridan roared out: "Don't you do that again, sir. T«u make me ridiculous, sir!" 1 beg your pardon, General, but hew have I made you ridicules?" "Why, sir," said Sheridan, still MI. noyed, "yesterday, sir, I went out to walk after you had called on me. I was nearing the White House when I noticed gentleman looking at me intently, addressed me saying: 'Excuse .but aren't you afraid of V 'Why, sir, not that I >t's the matter,sir?' 'Well,' ileraan, 'it is very damp and going about in your stippera.' I tell you, sir," said Sherida his Mexican friend, "you mi lous. It is my habit, sir, to f*ft shoes on my desk where I cannot see them so I may not forget them on, and, confound it, sir, round here with your notions of |WS»*»§* propriety and send me around frwwi III my slippers, air."-Boston HeaM. > He Beat tie Bullet. 1 J It was in a well-known hotel in Baagnr.^; A party of gentlemen were conversing OH one subject and another. During a hd||» in the conversatian one gentleman nofrf iced a scar on the hand of another interrogated him ae to the -mm Th» other answered that he received it in Si very curious, way and told the j story in regard to it: "I got that wound in the bottle of tysburg. I had been fighting all d^yaad felt very tired, and so sat dora OB a rock snd shot from there. "I was just loading up my gsn when ® long, lean, lank fellow darted by rae^ making for the woods like a streak ol greased lightning. I up with my fa- and let drive at him, but he dlda** drofc and as I had shot just nine hundred att&> ninety-nine, and didn't want to lens tlw thousandth I started after him. "I never saw a man run so fast is my adventurous life, and I eovM l I was gaining upon him, but in a while I lost sight of him tree or a rock. "I noticed a lull in the fight, ing aside I saw that both arm mm ImmI stopped fighting, and were their eyes to see the race. "That raised my courage, aad I forgolff all about being tired. Just then I mad* a spurt of speed, and as I did so 1 Mil' something strike my haad, which spread out like the fan of a windmill. * 'Well, to make a long story short, I caught up with him and was about tcp collar him when he turned about an*t$ tried to stab me. I dodgad his btow«H<:;^ just then something hit him aad bt Ml:'; over dead. I sat down to rsst» aad si lb- did so noticed blood trickling dona hand. On closer investigation I SiMSi'::' that there was a bullet hole in my 'The dead man had a bullet id Hit', breast, and I am positive in my that both wounds were made by same bullet, Mid that ft was ths saiii#. bullet that I had fired at the Confederate. \ „ The race was so hot that I caught wp with and passed it at some my chae*. That is why I now scar."--Bangor News. ABOidWenS.' One of the happiest men who fetanM#!'- from the Gettysburg memorial eaflasqp ment is C. W. Bishing, of Harvey's Pa. He was a private in Capt. Biafm. company, 53d Pennsylvania Voluat--S. Bishing was shot twice at one bullet shattering his arm, aad other entering near his right thjgb. TMs occurred near the bloody angle and nob far from thespot on which the regimental monument stands. As soon as he received the wouuds ha set to work to bury his musket. He fell near a big rock, and, though eulfcting great pain and bleeding profusely, ha managed to scoop out enough dirt Kt the base of the boulder to slip his mnaks* into the excavation. Afterward he eaie* tully covered it, and wondered he should ever see it again. Bishing accompanied the members of his old regiment to OcMja- burg on the occasion of the dedieatiiMk of their monument. While panied by several old com; ed out to look for the m buried over 26 years ago. The bloody angle was easily he soon distinguished the huge botldar at whose base he had fallen aad tkm ha had hidden the guiw It took but a few moments to dfg the earth np, what to his joy he struck the old musket aad quickly resurrected it. It had the mfb pearance of Rip Van Winkle's fowfag piece. The stock had fallen apart baft was still in a good state of preservation The barrel was bound about with a thick coat of rust, and the lock and other por­ tions were in the same condition. Bishing lifted the old musket tenderly, and as the recollections of the past filled hi« mind, he kissed it with the enthusiasm of a father who has found a longboat child. He says he is poor; bat no mofiey : will buy the musket--P&iMdeJpIiis Ledger. D. Clark, of this city, has been hon­ ored by a position on the staff <4 Horace 8. Clark, of Mattoon, Commaoder of the G. A. R., Department of IBinoia. Hie honor conferred is that of assistant in- suector ot Grand Army Postsaaditgjva* Mr. Clark the rank of major. This position was filled last year by Mr. Clark, though it then came through De­ partment Commander Distin. It is very evident that Mr. Clark gave good satis- faction, hence his appointment now, coming unsolicited and unexpected, is all the more appreciated. The work re­ quired is the inspection of the Posts throughout McHenry county and we who are acquainted with him know he wia perform his work well--as he do** every­ thing he undertakes.--/afrirrflrt/ Htmki. No better appointment could bavtbeoa made. Comrade Clark we have the heal of reasons to know is a pleasant geatle» man, a sealous G. A. R. man, friend of all ex-union soldiers aMfrl champion of what he oonsldtis their just dues. We havea tew odd Price $2.00 Do you need • ̂ cl