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|ieHnrj fvvu H>D Brm Wuwbsdat »x . , V^j . v \N st, YK •iMTOft AND PBOFBUTOR Office In Pekovskj's Block, One door South of the Post Office. TKKM3 Or SUBSOBIPTIUM. •1 60 One year (in advance) It Not Pain within Three Months... ... 2 S«l»«c.ription» receive for three or six months in the same proportion. lr- Kates of Advertising, We ^uii»unce liberal rates for advertising I the PtiAiMDEAtiBBt and endeavor to state them so plainly thlt theywll! be readily un der stood. They tb the Pla.indeai.bb, lilt I . are as follows: 1 Inch one year 2 Inches one year , 8 Inches one year It Column one" yea 3tf 06iumn one ye» Column one yea r ^ • -V-. & 5 00 . 1000 15 00 . 30 00 60 00 - 100 00 - r- 8. ' . *4. % 1 One inch means the measurement of one Inch down the column, single column width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, have the privilege of changing as often as they choose, without extra charge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having standing 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 line the first week, and 5 cents per line for each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set In) the first issue, and 5 oents per line for subsequent issues. Thus, an inch'advertisement will cost ®L00 for one week, fl.50 for two weeks, |2.00 for three weeks, and so on. The Piaindralbr will be liberal in giving editorial notices, but, as a business rule, it will require a suitable fee from everybody sseking the nee of its columns for pecuniary gain. BUSINESS CARDS. F. C. COLBY, D, D. DENTIST. Woodstock. III. a8peclal atten­tion paid to regulating children's teeth Parties coming from a distance would do wel to give timely notice by mall. Office, Kendal block, corner Main street and Publicdquare O. J. HOWARD, M. V. Pmr^IOTAN AND 8UBGBON. Office tt the ersldence of R. A, Howard, West McHenry, 111. a H. rEOKRS, U, D- HrslOiAN AND SURGEON, McHsnry Office at Keaidenoe. DR. A. E. AUKINQE'fe, PHYSICIAN A5JDSURGEON. Office! n Dr Ohllds building, West McHenry, 111. Residence, house formerly occupied by Dr. Osborne, All professional ealls promptly at. tended to. , B, V. SHEPARD. F. L, IBITAIO SHEPARD ASHEPARD, ATTOKNKYb AT LAW. Suite 512, North-ertT Office Building, 86 LaSalle Street Ohieago, 111. « ly KNIGHT & BROWN, TTOBNBYS AT t AW. U. S. Express Oo.*s i. Building, 87 and 89 Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL. V. 3. LUMLEY. ' A TTORNEY AT LAW, and Solioitor la CX. Chancery, _ WOODSTOCK, ILL. Office in Park House, first Hoot* A* tion. J09LYN * CASEY,. 'TORNEYS AT LAW, Woodstock I1L AJ.1 business will receive prompt atten- C. F. BARNES, TTORNEY, Solicitor, andl Oonnselor, L Collectlons a specialty. WOODSTOCK, 1LLIKOIS. JOHN P. SMITH, Wntohmaker «8c Jeweler McHENRY, ILLINOIS. A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew-elry always on hand. Special attention given to repairing fine watohes. Give me EC*U' JOHN P- SMITH. Horsemen, Look Here. I have a fine stock of H orses, among which are •' Young Green Mountain Morran," "Mor- rill Charles," and others. Call and see these Horses before making arrangements else­ where. N. S. COLBY. McHenry. Ill.. May 10, 1892. Uiitei States ffar Clp Apty --OF - WM. H- COWLIN, Woodstock - - Illinois. Prosecutes all classss and kinds of claims against the United States tor ex.8oldi«rs, their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs. A specialty is made rejected claims, All A specialty i ilected clai communications Postage Stamps are ene is made In prosecuting old and promptly answered if loaed for reply. IfAf, H. COWHJS Office at Residence, Madison St., Woodstock. • Illinois, Land in California Free, "That can grow, if irrigated, Oranges, Grapes, or any fiuit in California that will grow by ir­ rigation. This land has no mar­ ket value without irrigation We will Plant the Trees Free* Take care and cultivate them for 5 years for half the profit, pay the taxes, labor and other charges, will pav you back the first year after irrigation one-third of your investment if you will help get irri­ gation. Price $25 for 5 years, payable $5 per month till $25 is paid. FREE DEED to the land, no charges to you for taxes or labor or trees. Address California Land and Water Exchange. 'A % * i- < 5 > * » F. E. PILCHER* Dental - SufgeOn. «'* Office with Dr. Auri*ger, Wat McHenry, 1U. Crown, TMnte ami Bridtre Work art'stically executed at reasonable prices. Special aiten tion given to the care of Children's Teeth. Consultation Freb, A. M. CHURCH, Watchmaker and •Jeweler NO. On i HandredTwenty-Five State At Chi­cago, 111. Special attention given to re- pairingF me watches and Chronometers. •VA Full Assortment of Goods in his line W. P. ST. CLAIR, Ju*ticc of the Peace, Insurance and Collecting Agency./ v > ' OFFICE OH RA1LBOAD ST., RKAB F. OK - nunda, iii. ***- H. C. MEAD, Justice of the Peace and General Jn- turance Agent Including Accident and Life Insurance. Office with B. Gilbrrt, nkah Dbiot, West McHbnby, III. McHenry House, McHENRY. ILL. JOS. HEIMEti. Proprietor, Being situated on the banks of the Fox Elver, in the VilHgeof McHenry, special at tention will be Riven to the entertainment «-f Bn titers, Fishermen and Pleasure Seekers g '.nerally. Sportsmen Supplied with Com plate Outfit* . ' MMAB THE DEPOT* MoHENRY, XiM Keeps open for the accommodation of the Public a First-Class Saloon and Restaurant, VFhere he will at all times keep the best brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars to be found In the market. Also Agent For FRANZ FALS*8 llilwukii . Lags; BIN. Beer In Large or Small Kegs or BotUes al­ ways on hand, oheaper than any other, quali­ ty considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to. GOOD BTABUNG FOR HOR8F8 iVOall and see us. Robert Sohlessle. West McHenry* HL J. R. SA7L0R & SONS, OAY^irfWW •* BBBBDBR8 OF Morgan *: Horses, Embracing th^ celebrated General Glftord, Green Mountain and Motrin blood. STOCK FOR SALE. Bullions and Fillies, tie ndfor pedi­ grees. JKsaez and Registered Poland Chins ="SWINE.--z: Choice Merino Sheep, Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. High Grade Jersey Cattle. For sale. Come^and Inspect stock or address, J. H. BAYLOR & SONS West McHenry 111, •»e®©®«>®®eeeeeeeeeeeeeee s #1 R I P A N S A B U L E S REGULATE THE STOMACH, LIVER AMD BOWELS AND PURIFY THE BLOOD. RlHSS TABCLE8are the tot Hell, cine known for Iadlfentlon, BUlonneM, l(e*du>k>i. dnnaHpntiai,. lIvcn^nslfL rkw»ni« Liver Troubles, D1zz1dcm« BndComplezloa, Dysentery, Offentlve Breath, and all dls> •rdert ef the Stomach, Liver and. Bowela. liipsns TabuU's contain nothing: lnjurioug to the most delicate constitution. Are pleaaant to take, sjife, effectual, and erive immediate relief • THE Hi PANS CHEMICAL CO e 10 SPRUCE STREET, NEW 'SORK CITY. i » i e » > -- « • » » » » « S& i •• I PATENTS Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat­ ent business conducted for Moderate Feeb. F Our Office is Opposite U. 8. Patent Office f and we can secure patent in less time than those 5 remote front Washington. Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip­ tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A Pamphlet, "How to Obtain Patents," with cost of same in the U. S. end foreign countries sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Opp. patent Office, Washington, D. C. F. J, BARBTA.V, BARBIAN J3ROS. Wholesale and Retail Nuiit nr UNE CIGABS, MeHENBY ILLINOIS Beinsr now pleasantly located in our n*w store, formerly occupied by Althoff Bros , we are now prepared to offer to the smoking pub lie a fine line « f Oieara of oar own wanuiac- ture, together with Smoking and Vhewlai Tobacco of the beat brands, Pipes a Specialty. • -*#§%»•• a '?Asry w TWT k&ndaeme patteraa. CALL AND 8KK U8^ • " SAxviAi »*oe MeHenrr. 111.'. Jane **. I8W. . ' CALL AT L1TTLX 8T0RI ABOVSO TBI coraii And see those fine Diamonds, some of them &a inch across, or less, and many of tbem 'will weigh a pound. Also we still have on hand a lew more of those fine. Gold and Silver Watches Which yon can bay st your own price. JOHN P* SMITH, The Jeweler. </> <u u 4-> C/D u u a; O JOHN HATTPRISH'S Steam Laundry McHenry, III. Having just put in a new Ironing and Polishing Machine, aho STEAM APPLIANCES I ft in now prepared to do all work to the Laundry line on short notice, and ruaraotee aatiaiactloa. M&- All work left wltb m« will b« promptly d«De.aa the new machinery put In enables me to do my work much faster and better thau heretofore. All Laundry'will be called for and delivered when done, If word Is seat me' JOHN HAUPRISHi So toHEAMAN BROS. FOB FINS PLATED WARE. New Watches and Chains. Be sure and see our New Dia­ mond Set Ladies'Neck Chains. VOW IS THI TIME TO BUT A Sewing Machine! Only $5 a month until paid. I have just received a large in­ voice of Indies' and gents' ribbed and plain Balbrigan . Undercroft*, Which I am selling at bfd rock prices. I am selling a Ladies' good ribbed Vest for 9c, An extra fine Vest, •••..•*. 25c. And a silk floished Vest. . 88c. Qents' Balbrigan from 28c to 49c. Underwear It in need of any Uuderwear it will pay you to call and see what I have to offer yon in this line. I have also a full line of and Notions. BOOTS, - - - - - SHOES. If you want a pair of good Ox­ ford Ties, with patent tip, you «;an get them tor 97c per pair. This is a big bargain. I have also a full line oi wom­ en's and children's shoes that 1 am selling at a very small margin. Men'* shoes in great avamty. Don't torget that I am head- quarters tor CROCKERY & GLASSWARE. My stock of Groceries is com­ plete and nothing but the best goods kept tor sale. Flour at Last but not least wholesale prices. • Electric Light Flour 83c Halt Patent Flour, $1.03 Minnesota Fancy Patent, L10 Pillsbury's Best XXXX at the lowest market price. I pay the highest market grice for all kinds of produce. , A. P. West McHenry, 111. WE TELL YOU nothing new when we state that it pays to encage in a permanent, most healthy and pleasant buii- ne»s, that returns a profit for every day's work. Such is the business we ofler the workinc class. We teach them how to make money rapidly, and guarantee every one who follows our instructions Fait ;thfully the making of S300.00 a month. Every one who takes hold now and works will •ureljr and speedily increase their earnings; there can be no question about it; others now at work are doing it, and you, reader, can do the same. This is the best paying busiuess that vou have ever had the chance'to secure. You will make a frave mistake if you fail to give it a trial iit once, f vou grfi*p the situation, and act quickly, you will directly find yourself in a most prosperous business, at which you can surely tnake and save large sums of money. The results of only a few hours' work will often equal a week's wages. Whether you are old or voung, man or woman, it makes no difference, -- do as we tell you, and suc­ cess will meet you at the very start. Neither experience or capital necessary. Those who work for us are rewarded. Why not write to day for fell particular*, free ? k. C. AlXEN * CO., Box Mo. 4X0, Augusta, M*. G. L. HUBBARD, Harness - Maker AND DEALER IN HARNESS. SADDLERY. Bridles, Blankets, Whips, CUTTEB8, Jk©«, (I won't move a peg until you get me one of those fine single Harness, at Hubbard's ) 12 Sets Double Harness all ready. 7 Sets Single Harness all ready. Double Haknkss. complete,....928 00 Singlk Harness, Dickie or rub­ ber trim 10 00 Bame Straps. 7 8 Id 10 Spread Straps 10 BREAST STKAPS. 1 1-3 ID.. 60 MARTINGALES, 11-3 IS.. . . 60 Axle Greasic 5 BOSTON COACH OIL,........'.... 25 COMMON C. P. BITS. . . 15 ROPE TIES 20 Bubt Plush Plush Lined Fur Bobe8. 94 00 Inch Lines, with Snaps 3 60 TWOttNAPS 6 Harness or all kinds in stock. C. L. HUBBARD. " W* „'•* • .!> -1 Just as a IJraccr For the 1'isli Season. While a largo pine log \va3 being work­ ed up at the Brown. & Kail sawmill, Acton, Ontario, a wonderful discovery was made. After the ontside '.'slab" had been cat off a large toad was seen to poke his head out of a hole in which he was imbedded, ^and where he had barely escaped being- cut ia two by the saw. How the creature ever got there is a mj'stery, as ho. was perfectly incased in the wood with no possible tueans of in­ gress or egress. As the log was the fourth or fifth up from the butt of the tree his position must have been a^eaat 50 or 60 feet up from the ground. There is but one way of accounting for the fact that he was found in the situation mentioned. He had grown up with the tree from in­ fancy and wa3 probably hundreds of years old when the saw awakened him from his long nap. Naturalists of Acton say that he ia of an unknown species of the rcptilia, and that the cavity in which he was found was perfectly sound and as smooth as though chiseled out by a carpenter. He was surrounded on all sides with solid wood from 4^ inches to feet thick.--St. Louis Republic. • Large Group of Sun Spots Visible. Professor Holden of the Lick observa­ tory says that a iarge group of spots is now clearly visible on the sun, which by the use of a smoked glass can be seen with the naked eye. It will be extreme­ ly interesting to note what, if any, ex­ traordinary change in the weather of the present period may occur. In any case experience shows that & a rnlfi wV>.w the R"v>'s activity is increased remarkable meteorological changes very soon take place on the earth. The pres­ ent indications from the large group of spots telescoped by Professor Holden are that we may shortly look for an in­ creased movement of the trade winds on our gulf and south Atlantic coasts, and consequently "warm waves" in the in­ terior of the country."--New York Her­ ald. New Ruling on Railroad Liability. A drummer for a firm of jewelers lost a checked trunk in an Illinois railroad accident. It was the kind of a trunk in which jewelry drummers carry their samples, and its contents were worth ,000. He .brought suit and recovered judgment for the full amount of the loss. The railroad company carried the case up. Now the supreme court of the United States "reverses" the court be­ low, sets aside the judgment and lays it down as law that the railroad compa­ ny's check and liability cover only the personal effects of the drummer--hi* shirts, collars, cuffs, etc. As for the de­ stroyed jewelry, he and his employers must arrange that matter between them­ selves. It is no concern of the coixu&dn carrier's.--Hartford Courant. The Fateful Opal. Miss Qiszelle Sikay, 16 years old, daughter o^ John Sikay of Bridgeport, died Sunday. She was to have been mar­ ried to Henry Callopee. Miss Sikay had just been trying on her wedding dress, and displaying an opal pin intended for the veil remarked to her bridemaids: "Some girls think opals bring ill luck. I am sure this will bring Henry and me nothing but happiness." She deposited the pin in its case and turned to rearrange the display of her wedding gifts, when the muscles of her face contracted and she was seized with a convulsion, during which she sank to the floor unconscious. Her heart ceased to beat in 40 minutes.--New Haven Regis­ ter. ' Royal Relics. A writer in "La Vie Contemporaine" has discovered that an old box in the lum­ ber room of the Louvre museum instead of containing archives, as was supposed by many, is full of the relics of royal per­ sonages--jawbones, shouldpr blades, shanks, ribs and vertebra. The writer states that there are among them the scapula of Hugues Capet, the thighbone of Charles V, the shinbones of Charles VI and Francis I, the vertebraB of Charles VII and Charles IX, the ribs of Philippe le Bel and Louis XII and the lower jaw­ bone of Catherine de Medicis. The au­ thenticity of. these relics is, he says, proved by papers also found in the box. World's Fair Pattcs. The number of free season passes to the World's fair issued by the exposi­ tion officials is estimated at 200,000. On each of these is the photograph of the holder, so as to prevent use by another. The pass is in the form of a book 2i by 3} inches, containing 18 ̂ .admission cou­ pons, or one for each day of the six months. They aro issued to officials, employees, exhibitors, newspaper men, foreign commissioners, etc.--Pittsburg Dispatch. Chicago Pressed Chlekso. A Dundas man has for the past few weeks, it is claimed, been traveling through the counties of Rice, Goodhue and Dakota buying up all the calves he can for 50 cents. These calves are taken to his farm at Stanton, about seven miles north of this city, where they are killed, skinned and chopped up--lights, livers and bones--and packed into boxes and shipped to a Chicago firm. The Chi­ cago firm puts them through some proc­ ess and sells them to the World's fair restaurants for "pressed chicken." This man has shipped large numbers of these calves.--Cor. Minneapolis Journal, *' What's In a Name. It is a year of odd names for men of sudden fame. Here is a list that sug­ gests it self at a moment's thought: Zimri Dwiggins, banker; Dahomey Dodds, warrior; Hoke Smith, journalist and statesman; Sylvester Pennoyer, who told the president "to mind his own busi­ ness;" Stanhope Sams, poet and states­ man; Colonel Pod Dismuke, statesman; Colonel Dink Botts, office seeker. And the year is yet young.--Kansas City Times. A New Yorker's Houseboat. William Skinner & Son has launched a houseboat which was built for a New Yorker. It ia a unique vessel, upon which a person can live comfortably in summer or winter. The vessel will go to New York bay and the Hudson river. It was named the Half Moon, after the vessel in which Hendrik Hudson ex­ plored the river which bears his name. The owner's wife, who was to christen the craft, refused to do so, believing %ftt to insure good luck an unmarried •dy should officiate, so Miss Fannie Thompson, a young Baltimore girl, did it. The Half Moon is 84 feet long, 18 feet abeam and 9 feet deep from roof to floor. She will draw but 2J feet of water. She is built up bluff from the water line to the top, inclosing 11 apartments, repre­ senting all the rooms needed in a home. She has an engine room in the extreme after end. Below are cabins, staterooms, lockers, toilets, crew apartments and engine room. Ten windows of heavy French glass will light each side, and the ventilation will be perfect. Mr. Skinner will fit the vessel for sailing purposes only, for vuich she will have two masts and a bowsprit, spreading but three sails. The whole frame is cedar, with selected Georgia pine for planking. The interior is being finished in cypress, relieved with mahogany. In a few weeks the Half Moon will be ready for deliv­ ery.--Baltimore Sun. Death From a Toothache Core. Simon Eintzer, a leading citizen of Hummeltown, had been suffering for two days with toothache. On Monday •vening a stranger called at his house and said he was a traveling toothache doctor and had a magic cure which would relieve the worst case in a short time. He induced Kintzer to let him try the cure on him. He applied some strong liquid to the aching gum, and in a short time the pain became easier and finally ceased. Eintzer gladly paid the stranger his fee of $1, and the man went away. An hour later Kin tier's tooth began to pain again, and soon he was in greater agony than ever. His jaw became swollen and badly inflamed, and the pain extended to his head and neck. Early yesterday morning a physician was sent for, Eintzer having become insane from pain. The doctor pronounced him suf­ fering from blood poisoning induced by the6tuff the stranger had used on his gums. An hour later Eintzer died. No one knows who was the traveling dentist, and no trace of him has been found. Eintzer was 67 years old.--Cor. Pitts­ burg Dispatch. miners Leaving the Comstook. Owing to the recent frequent drafts in the mines, Com stock miners are daily leaving for new camps, and lately many with their families have taken their de­ parture from the lode. The majority of the single men who turn their backs upon this locality have no special point in view, but wend their way to Butte, Mon.; Park City, U. T.; Vanderbilt, Eootenai and other parts, not decided where they will locate. Every depart ing train carries away some miner whose home has been on the Comstock for a number of years. The mining popula­ tion of Virginia is gradually dwindling, and it is doubtful whether the major portion of those departing will ever re­ turn.--Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. A Wall Street Broker and His Millions. If multimillionaire Russell Sage when the excitement of the dynamite episode was over had drawn a check in favor of Laidlaw, who passed through the awful experience with him, the expensive liti­ gation into which he has been plunged might have been averted and the impu­ tation lifted from his reputation of hav­ ing endeavored to save his life by the sacrifice t>f another's. Mr. Sage must have known that Laidlaw was perma­ nently injured and that he was a poor man. We are glad to believe that thS' impulse to lighten the seriousness of such an experience for one's less fortu­ nate associate would at least occur to most men.--New York Advertiser. Voyage of m Bottle. During a stroll upon the beach Of Par- ramore's island, Va., a few days ago, a member of our editorial staff picked up a tightly corked bottle that had been washed to his feet by the waves. The bottle contained a letter written by a romantic young lady, resident at Asbury Park, N. J., and committed to the sea by her upon March 18 last. Unfor tunately for those who would like to see or hear of a romance growing out of this incident, the finder is a married n"tn with an interesting family. --Philadel­ phia Ledger. FLOUR! FLOUK! Chick's Best, fl.10; ^lalf Patent, fl .05; New Process, 95 cents; Honest The Best Ten American Books. The vote of The Critic's readers on the ten books which they regard as "the greatest yet produced in America or by Americans" has resulted in the follow­ ing choice: Emerson's Essays, Hawthorne's "Scar­ let Letter," Longfellow's Poems, Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Dr. Holmes' "Autocrat," Irving's "Sketch Book," Lowell's Poems, Whittier's Poems, Wallace's "Ben-Hur," Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic." A Pawnbroking Experiment. Notice is Served in The ChristbB Union of the impending trial of an elee* mosynary experiment which has long been discussed and is of tinnwi^l inter­ est. In August or September the Peo­ ple's Bank association hopes to open tftv first of several model pawn offices foi the poor. The newspapers abound from day to day with stories telling how hard it is for the very poor to bor­ row indispensable small sums of money and what exorbitant -rates of interest are exacted for such loans. The legal rate at pawnshops is S per cent a month for the first six months and 2 per cent a month for succeeding months, but most pawnbrokers supplement these rates by charges for care of the articles pawned, so that as much as 800 per cent per annum is something paid to them for the use of money. The People's Bank association pro­ poses to begin by a charge of 1 per cent, a month and expects to start with $100,- 000 capital, which is to earn 4 per cent dividends for its owners. The success of such a movement seems to depend simply on the shrewdness of the money lender employed. With the right man in the avuncular situatiou there seems to be no inevitable obstacle to the suc­ cess of a plan which, if it does succeed, seems bound to help the right people at the right tyaae. Plans for the relief of pawnbrokers who succumb to competi­ tion- can be devised later on if they are needed.--Harper's Weekly. • Woman's Apt Beply to Mr. Cleveland. It was during Cleveland's first inemn- bency. The daughter of a irvrcycr prom inent in a neighboring Kansas town had married an officer who a few months after the ceremony had been detailed to a remote post. The young wife, who had enjoyed a sort of belleship in the semimetropolitan community in which she had been reared, felt as if she were about to be buried alive. Encouraged by her husband and father, she repaired to Washington to seek reprieve at head­ quarters. "Fort Riley? Why, that's a pretty good detail, isn't it?' asked the president, to whom the lady had stated her case. "No, sir; it doesn't suit me at all.** "Shouldn't we try to be sitisfied where we are?" continued the chief magistrate, with a patronizing smile. , "You might have been satisfied with being sheriff at Buffalo, but you wanted tbe the president of the United States," sne the pert retort. Mr. Cleveland apdse with the same patriarchal smile on his face, but tins, lieutenant's wife is still at Fort Riley.-** Kansas City Times. Quarantine Against Hamb«|. As we had to shut the gates at Ne# York against Hamburg for a time last year, we may have to shut them against it once more this year. We cannot tol­ erate any foolery about the existence of cholera in a city with which we are con stantly in communication. We must not permit Hamburg to imperil New York. The authorities of the German city have once and again concealed from us facts which they were in honor bound to make known. They did so last autumn, and they have done so twice within the past two months. As "Punic f&ith" got a bad name ages ago, Ham­ burg faith is likely to get a bad name in oar times. Hamburg will act wisely in sending us immediate reports of sU cases of cholera, variola, typhus and par* tigo there.--New York Sun. Willed Himself a SIO Funeral. The will of the late William John Macdonald of this city, who died on the 4th of March, leaving an estate valued at $44,151.04, was filed for probate yes­ terday. A strange clause in the will is that regarding the funeral of the de­ ceased, which he requires shall not cost more than $10, and he gives the most minute directions as to how the funeral can be oonducted on this economical scale.--Toronto Mail. Follnwaiig Harvard. Harvard sets the fashion every year for the walk of the Boston gilded youth. It changes constantly in some slight degree, enough to stamp it to the knowing ones. This season the young swells stick their heads forward and jerk along, with one hand in the pocket in faithful imitation Illuminating a Boy's Head. r At a meeting of the Academy of Med' icine held in New York recently, Dr. Wendell C. Phillips, one of the mem­ bers. exhibited an electric head illumi­ nator which was productive of some unique results. A small boy was taken, and a powerful electric lamp was insert­ ed in his mouth, which was then closed on the handle which held the lamp. The lights of the meeting were all turned down, and the storage battery was turn­ ed on. The light in the boy's mouth shone out through his cheeks, detailing every vein, line and imperfection in the skin and the lines of teeth and gums in the mouth. His face looked ghastly In its vividness and reminded one, if it were possible, of an intensely realistic jack-o'- lantern. ... Why Mr. Hawthorne Wants to Get Av«9» . > Mr. Julian Hawthorne, who happens to be in Chicago just at present, says that the new and cheap editions of his father's t "Scarlet Letter" are bringing upon him (Julian) a mighty flood of let­ ters from people who "discover in this powerful, if improbable story," the prom­ ise of "extraordinary work in the fu­ ture." The editor of a weekly literary journal in Texas has offered Mr. Haw­ thorne the magnificent sum of $300 if he will contribute to that publication a novel of Texas life treated upon the same lines as-those of the "Scarlet Letter.* This is one of the reasons why Mr. Haw­ thorne is anxious to go to the West In­ dies to live.--Chicago News-Record. . « > Emperor William's Defeat. *' The defeat of the German army WSf^ from whatever point of view ii is re­ garded, is a very serious affair. In the first place it increases, only a little, per­ haps, but still increases, the probability of war. The emperor, rebuffed at home, cannot accept any kind of rebuff abroad and will be far more sensitive thau be­ fore about slight incidents and more In­ clined to believe that France or Russia is taking advantage of his situation. * Moreover, Frenchmen will think thai the internal struggle will weaken Ger­ many, as it would weaken France, and the hope of finding a moment to fight Germany when she is weak is exceeding­ ly keen. Too uiuch must not be made of this danger, because the rulers at France are much better informed than her journalists and can see that a docla- ration of war would at once reunite the German people, but still it exists and must be recorded. In the second place, it is probable that the rejection of the bill does leave Germany weaker ihm ate should be.--London Spectator. World's Ftiir "Clothing atT J. WeatStf* . SM ^ >"A ^ iV'jr!..AM.. < "'.I IA'