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WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 20.1898. as By A. O. HUPP. |§r rt«tt«r on the Elgin Board of Trade Monday want active at 27c, bids starting lit 26c. kales were 23.340 pounds. Last i pric«, 27e; a year ago, 24tf@25c. I®-The number of unmarried women fiio aw making "the rush" to get in the Cherokee strip stows the changed condi­ tions of these modern days. Women am looking on t for themselves more than before. ' The New York World wants West­ ern farmers to contribute each "a bag of 'Wheat to the starving multitude of the / unemployed in great cities." The World >©ry flatteringly says: "Our Western farmers are a generous class. The idea that men, women and children anywhere jare suffering for bread stirs their pity." # tfTTo America belongs the honor of I constructing the largest and most pow­ erful electric search light in the world, now being set up at the World's Fair. It stands ab<£t 10 feet 6 inches high to the qpper side of the ventilator on the top of the drum, and the total weight is about 6,000 pounds, b«t so perfectly mounted «B(i balanced that a child can move it in any direction. It was bnilt hy German . Electric Company. 'The rush of boomers to the Chero­ kee strip serves to demonstrate how thoroughly a part of human nature the desire of getting something for nothing Is. There are plenty of good government lands to be had for f 1.25 per acre, where no risk as to the quality or situation of - the land must be taken; as well as the number of eastern farms, but the major­ ity of those bound for the west prefer to take their chances with the excited itftirong. p.: r ¥m>. If m- Congressman Hopkins surprised Ifefiidsman Maxwell the other day by ®Pug on him and urging that he speed- Wtt°Te a number of Republican post- iree in the Fifth district. Many of |he catmasters in the Fifth district < tiblei ^e removed. They don't enjoy jfinite continuance in office and ; 1R Cut to be fired right away. As the '• §* ^'strict has its quota of hungry sho^d^t® ought not to be a difficult i^fog prtto accommodate the Republican Jarw^ters who want a change.--^cl- ~j%*n{epiibfieaM. - 'That was a hard slap which Sena- - cor Stewart gave to the proprietors of tiie New York World and Herald in con­ cluding his speech on the silver question. The New York World is very prolific in its advice to public officials, from the President down, frequently demanding of them more than they can fulfill. The Herald is also very apt to declare, with out hesitation or reservation, when pub- Ik men have misrepresented public senti­ ment. As Mr. Pulitzer, of the World, is Of foreign birth, and now spends most of his time in other lands, while Mr Bennett of the Herald, although born in this country, has had his permanent residence abroad for 25 years, Senator Stewart believes, with many others, that some people who have lived here all their lives are quite as competent as these men to know what is the wish of the American People. Mr. Stewart rightly call them Voices from across the ocean." *7. A Heartless Fiend. - ,4ohn Hart, living on a farm with his parents near Rockford murdered his two Meters one day last week. His motive lips to exterminate tho whota family : o ^at ke mi^ht set possession of tlieprop- «rty. The Republican of that city said: t. "The unusual spectacle of two hearses moving side by side through the streets - Was witnessed in Rockford last Friday. In one hearse was the body of Mary flart. in the other was the body of her *;«ijfeter, Nellie Hart. "The two hearses came into the city from the Hart residence in the forenoon about 10:30 o'clock, the funeral being held in St. Mary's church, where -only last Sunday the dead young women at­ tended services, and but two blocks from "here their brother was locked in a mur­ derer's cell. ' A threatened lynching was averted by prompt action of the sheriff. In response to his call for military aid, companies G . and H, of the National Guards were or­ dered out and a detail of soldiers was t placed around the jail. Hart, the murderer, maintained his Oool demeanor until evening. Although the knowledge of the plans of the farmers to lynch him was kept from him he seem- f, to apprehend intuitively that his life > was in danger and his braggadocia air deserted him. He grew nervous, and for '*• the first time appeared to realize the {^enormity of his crime. ,, Hart, in a long interview in jail Mon- charges his two brothers with the • murder of his sisters, and also claims ' that they gave his father paris green two years ago which resulted in his death. , He says they also attempted to poison Ikitn. The blood on his clothes he at- t-ibutes to hemorrhage from his nose. tate's Attorney Frost does not believe Hltfs story, but it will be his defence. The A$a!k of lynching Hart has subsided for v fhe time being, and the extra • gharris ; been taken off the jail. , Drouth la Central Illinois. * "fir" The last rain in Bloomington came on if th* night of May 25, three and one half months ago, and but one clap of thunder , has been heard since. This was one day in August, when about one quarter of an inch of rain nearly laid the dust. Such a drout h has rarely been known. Water is scarce, grass is burned up, and not a lawn mower has been heard this summer. Strange to say, com is doing well aiffl will be bettor now without a rain until it ;;:i»:«Htt oi theway of frost TBX NSWSPAJPSB'S OHARACTKB A critic recently undertook a sweeping arraignment of modern newspapers and their methods. He chatged them with publishing very little of the real news, but much that appealed to depraved tastes. While it is to be hoped th&t the case is not as bad, as depicted, he lost sight of the fact that a uowepaper pub­ lishes what the people like, and, hence, reflects very accurately the standard of the people who support it. As one gen­ tleman puts it, "the first principle of journalism, as viewed from the business office, is to buy paper for two cents a pound and sell it for 10 cents a pound." What shall make it sell for 10 cents? What the people wish, and that is deter­ mined by the men who direct the policy of the paper. The people should be criti­ cised for the tone of the newspaper, and not the editors. But it is argued that editors should make the paper high classed be the people what they may. An editor iB merely a man, and though he be cultured and educated, the better informed he is concerning the practicali­ ties of life, the more careful he will be to avoid getting too far in advance of his readers. When he is not successful in this regard, he fails along the entire line --in finances and, in influence, and the power to be of service to the public. Fautless preachers are not for earthly tabernacles ' After all, * newspaper is not sodeprav- ed as some of its critics would make it out to be. Looking back over the his­ tory of its, achievements, one is almost inclined to say with Jefferson, "I would prefer a newspaper without a govern­ ment, rather than a government without a newspaper." In his opinion a news­ paper was a government in itself. As a moulder of public opinion he believed that it exerted an enormous influence in whatever direction it wished. To-day the newspaper ranks as one of our free American institutions. It is, in fact, the embodyment of the American idea of free speech, and as such is an im­ portant factor in tne life of the nation. While its news features in every instance may not have been what the highest morality would dictate, yet it has been singularly fearless in its editorial depart­ ments How quick and how fearless it is to always point out any corruption in high places where citizens would hesitate to look. It is a well known fact that the "Boss Tweed ring" was broken up by newspaper attacks. Many similar re- reforms have been made and are being made daily by the press. But the newspaper has other weapons besides bitter attacks. There is a class of men in every community whose ac­ tions are constrained by no moral or re­ ligious obligations. These the newspaper holds in check most effectually by ridi-j cule. As the clowns of the earlier ages covered with ridicule pompous insanity, so the newspapers hold up to contempt inflated emptiness; The intrepid war correspondent,march­ ing in the front ranks, waging warfare with pencil and pistol, has rendered his country as great and as far-reaching a service as he who fought with musket alone. He kept alive patriotism at home He can say with Richardson, "1 have looked in at the windows of death; I have stood upon the verge of the life to be." Richardson's journey, summed up in his famous telegram to the Tribune, "Out of the jaws of death, out of the month of hell," deserves to rank with Sheridan's ride or Sherman's march to the sea. It has been said that the millenium can never come while we have such news­ papers. A newspaper is a public news- gatherer, and when the people are better the newspapers will be better. In the meantime it will help, as far as lies with­ in its power, to make them so. jbieetn«lty at In all quarters of the Electricity build­ ing are new and astonishing usee to which the (subtle fluid Is put, sometimes when only the slightest force is desired; at others when a mighty and irresistible power is applied. There are splendid exhibits showing the application of elec­ tricity to mining. Leaving this building, onp watches the electric trains glide along the intramu­ ral road, or the electric launches dart, silent and smokeless, about the beauti­ ful lagoons. Turning cityward, he sees Chicago covered by the lowering, im­ penetrable pall of smoke belched from myriad chimneys, and wonders when the equivalent of light and heat will be generated at the big coalfields and waterfalls and sent broadcast through­ out the land; when cleanliness and quiet shall prevail.--New York Evening Post. To Kxterminate Ptnuol Ants. The government bf Trinidad has passed an ordinance for the extermination of parasol ants, so far as its power extends. The pest has become unbearable. In fact, from the nature of things wherever this ant is found a growing civilization must wage war to the death with it, for the creature strips ttfees of their leaves, which it neatly trims to the size* and shape of a threepenny bit and carries to the nest. An army of iEcodoina cephalotes at wotk is one of the strangest sights in tropical America. The column may be followed for a mile, 8 or 4 inches in width, a serried mass of ants, each carry­ ing aloft upright as a flag its green disk. They will strip a large tree of which they fancy the leaves in 24 hours.--Kew Bulletin. Where Their Wealth Came From. The New York Sun has been investi­ gating the Four Hundred and prints a number of receipted bills of the last cen­ tury showing that a Stuyvesant sold handkerchiefs; a DePeyster, beans; a Rhinelander, hats; a Brevoort, pewter spoons: a Beekman molasses, and a Roose­ velt, lampblack. Their plutocratic de­ scendants may not like it, says the Atlan­ ta Constitution, but if the old pioneers were honest traders there is nothing to be ashamed of in their record. -Jiii t>• .... . - s. 1 -i Prints, Ginghams, Suitings, and everything needed for early Fall< ̂ Standard Prints, 5c. Yard wide sheeting, 5c. M Studying Oar Architecture. Tatsuzo Sowe of Tokio, a Japanese ar­ chitect, is in Boston studying the archi­ tecture of notable buildings--the new public library, Trinity church, the state house and others. He told me: "I came to the United States rather than Europe because the United States has the latest and newest designs. Europe still clings t6 the old styles " Executor's Notice Estate of John Filzsimmnns deceased. The undersigned having- ben appointed Executor* of the last Will and Testament of John Fitzaimmons, deceased, late of tf e County ol McHenrr and State of Illinois, hereby give notice that they will rppenr be­ fore the County Court of M^H^nry Comity, at the Court House at Wfod*tock,' at the No vember term, on the first Monday in Novem­ ber next, at which time all persons living claims against said esta'e are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of havjnjc the same adjusted. Alt persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment',to the undersigned. Dated this 11th dav of September, A. D. 1803. jAMEfl I XTZ9 MMOHS. Jos Fitzsimmons, 10w4 Executors. Shoes, Clothing, Hats, or any ticle you may need will be here. fee xV, v • / * - v A . - < L * } . , 1 » * < t * ' f i k f , t .» l ih , N A ' , 1 t - i * 1 » " ' * ' ' 1 The staple goods are somewhat below you? expectation, perhaps. Look in. i£ ' - . • * McHonry, 111., 1>93, FALL ANNOUNCEMENT. A Larga Creamery- •• * One of our exchanges says: "The largest creamery in the United States is near St. Albans, Vt. Twelve thousand cows, owned by 700 farmers, supply it with cream, and the average daily pro­ duct is 10,000 pounds, or five tons of butter. All cream received is tested in order to obtain a thorough knowledge of the amount of butter fat in the aver­ age of each farmers dairy, and be is paid daily for the butter value he brings in There are 54 stations for receiving the milk, and at these stations the eream is separated and only the latter is sent to the factory. They run a score of churns, each one of which will turn out 500 pounds of butter in one batch. The but- ter working machines are four in number and in a very few moments eighty pounds can be properly worked and salt* ed. They use a carload of salt every two months, and and the factory employe sixty hands, besides the forty on the stations employ force, to prepare the product. • Mistaken Idea. There is a prevailing opinion that the law forbids the removal or change of the body of a person who meets a violent death from the position in which it was first iound, untii the coroner had first viewed it. This impression Is very erro­ neous. The law does not prohibit the removal, and common sense and human ity demand that the body of a dead per son found under extraordinary circum stances be decently cared for until the arrival of the coroner. The testimony of the witnesses who found the body will have as much weight after it has been cared for as before. The body of drowned person can be removed from the water, a murdered person, a suicide or any kind of a person killed by accident can be removed to a proper place with- out subjecting the persons who removed it to any trouble whatever. V. 8; LUMLEY, Attorney. Administrator's Notice of Filing Pinal Settlement. as STATE OF ILLINOIS, MCHRWHY couhtt STATE of JohnB, and Adelheid Kenno-F/ beck, decease 1 Public notice is hereby given, that the un­ dersigned, A'lminist'rof tne estate of Jobn B. nd A elheid Kennebeck, deceased, will at t*nd belore the Oounty Court of McHenry County, at ihe C^urt House, in Woodstock on iiond »y, the 2d day of October, 1 93 next, fcr the purpose of making a final settlement of sal t estate, at which time and place I will ask for an order of distr.buti n, and will aleo ask to be discharged. All persons interested are notified to attend if they see At. McHenry, lit., Sept. 11, A. D 1S93. John 11. Kennebeck. 10w4 Administrator. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 8HOE HeTtt* Do you wear them? When next In need by a pair.^ •est In the world* •5.00 . MOO v 43.90 42.50 42.25 42.00 FOR To our Patrons of McHenry and Lxtte Co untie*. We ire entering iho rice thii Fall wtih a strong determination to yet p.rt of your Pall and WInter trIf a good MBortfd flock, bought right, I »r Mab. and sold on tbe cloaest living margin will accomplish thla end. Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. In this line we aim to carry none but the best makes, in grciat variety, making the line a specialty. We are enabled to give you a better assortment, at lower prices^ to select from, than you may be able to find elsewhere. Our fall stock is now in. When in need of anything in the Boot, Shoe or Rubber line it "will pay you to call on us* Clothing and Overcoats. With our new fall invoice now bought, we are starting out by showing to the trade a two thousand dollar stock of ready-made Clothing, from o boy's 4-year old knee pant up to a man's 50-inch Overcoat, in all grades and at all prices, from a cheap, cotton up to the finest men's woolen 6uiis. Customers living within twenty miles cannot afford to buy here or in other towns without first look­ ing over our line and getting our prices. We shall make it your special interest to trade with us, Special attention will be given to tbe Underwear stock dnrlng tbe next two months. Cotton and woolen. In men's, women's and children'silzea. Hatf and Cap», Trunks and Traveling Bags, Floor Oil Cloths, Hosiery, Dook Coats, Rockford Overalls. Jackets and Shins, and GlofM, Fresh Or icerles. Flour, Corn Meal and Graham. JOHN J. HILLEB, McHenry. Cool; Stoves at SO per cost Less THAN REGULAR RETAIL PRICE, . 00 *2.50 •2.00, FOR LADttft #2.00 *1.75 FOR BOYS 7# If you want a fine DRESS SHOE, made In the latest styles, don't pay $6 to $8, toy mv $3, $3.50, $4.00 or $5 Shoe, They fit equal to custom made and look and wear as well. If you wish io economize Sn your footwear, do so by purchasing V/. L. Douglas Shoes. Name and price stamped on the bottom, look for it when you buy. W. L. IXMJQLAS, Biwckton , Kui< Sold by I have a few high grade wood cook stoves that can be purchased at a deduction of from 10 to 20 per ct. cost. Now is your chance to secure a GOME IN And inspect • our fine stock of goods. We have been receiving sevetal invoices of new goods, and it is a rare treat to look them over,. Our Prices are Lever Tban M Recognizing tte fact that money is very close everywhere, we have marked our goods away down. Our prices cannot be duplicated, and our goods are strictly first class. They aw bound to go at this reduction. Eveiy stove warranted Yours Respectfully, F . L . M c O M B E R , West McHenry, 111. THE FARMERS STORE. iliiStSif1 NOW IS THE TIME. To bay summer goods very cheap for next 30 days, as we will and must unload at once, to make room for winter goods. All dress goods, suiting, wash fabrics, capes, shawls, hats and clothing will be greatly reduced in priceatSimonStoffeTs. Give us a call. THE CHICAGO West FAIR STORE. enry. D. GOLDMAN & CCj, P«orKi*xof»( Are you taking advantage of the Low Prices the Farmers Store is offering, if not you are behind the times, and you had better call and secure some of the many Bargains i? I am offering. A. P. BAER, West McHenry. WE AKE SOW K£€£IVlNO me m LAR#E VAB1ETY. directly from first hands, at depression prices, and have m*de ca? eful selection of goods suitable to our Messrs. Joseph Beifield A Co., if f ^Siicpgo. who are admitted by all to be the foremost »nd largest manufacturers of correct styles of . Ladies', Missea' a^d Childx#n*i^ v<- \ • ' - & * « • >x ion prices, and have made ft °U~r »ndq"auUy,> A ^ TaOTi»/"lT. NEWMARKETS, CAPES, •v"'* ' ' • X * . • \Js SsacotteI; ̂ JACKETS 51 JsrSv .. ' - it • ^ *„ V " And ULSTERS In the United States. . M W* carried IMr gififtetftt ttfrfch we shipped to t\M auction house of Messrs. Geo. P, Gow & Co , tor cash, and this will give us an exclusively new stock, free of all stickeis, or out-of- style garments Our styles are the newes', and we carry ail siz«i n colors aud blacks, all well made and of the be-t of material. Our stock is very large, with prices the lowest, ~ » A A? •• We are now adding to our stock a large an£ new line of well made, well wearing, stylish and cheap suits and overcoats, in all sizes, from age 4 to size 46 or 50. from the well known manufactur­ ers, Messrs. Nathan and Fischefc. Come etrly and obtaiA first choice. m/mprn 9 Autumn and Winter Dress Goods^.: Storm Serges, Hop Sackings, Imported Serges, Henriettas, Brill* iantines, Flannels, Velyets. Plushes, braids, Domestics, Warps, Battings. S&S55™ WOOL AND MERINO UNDERWEAR, In fccarlet, natural and white, in all sizes, for men, women* and children, at popular prices. Swits Condes'fully'^ . warranted goods in stock, Union suits for ; ladies, misses and children. fc *11 We have again bought a large stock of the Famous and fully warranted Badger State Overalls, Shirts* Jackets* Duck Goats. and Pants tor the fall winter. We can fit and suit everybody. New Shawls, New Blankets, and New Flannels, rr \ All kinds of aYarns, Wooi and Cotton gray, tan and brown. HosieTyiublacly natural ts, Wall Paper, Patterns, Witftfew Shades,; Curtains. TRUNKS AND HAND BAGR We are exclusive agents for the famous and fully warranted Douglas $3 00 Shoes and aleo carry other grades of same factory, tg^-Fargo's custom made Boots and Shoes in nil sizes and various tilths and kinds, constantly in stock. Prices way down. Fargo's $2,50 men's shoes in lace or Congress is a great bargain. -f Hats and Caps, Gloves and Mittens. Lustre Band and White Granite Crockery, _ Ware. Pure and unadulterated Ttas, Coffees and Slices, f a med Goods and Provisions. "f ®-The staff of life if flour, converted into bread. Chick's fall# warranted Rockford Flour leads thom all in quality and prices. • fiouest Abe 860, New Process 90c. Half P«tent tl 05. Cnlck'e B<>st )110 • All fully warranted and delivered free In any part of town. Try us. 50 barrels common salt, 90c. Special inducements will be held out to all who will buy a full supply tor cash. hi?. FV9 mm In our old and reliable time-tried and fire and storm tested cou»-j panies, on all classes of insurable property at jast rates. Our bnal- ness in this line is veiy extensive and your interests receive the bfst of attention possible. Bespectfully, y*- ' SIMON k. wiit MoBenry, 111