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I <-*> ^ iwr oM hast- »t6p,andtbe]r Iter Mt mtr b«D«UM-*U , zr-rr. -- --WfBMm., Mid. br •TI*»AU» «u c#. . £-.VA: - ,, ft is not OUT flestfWil carry­ over a stock of horse blan-; \ prevent this we ^ M 'm :£ , ijkets and to have put th the lowest prices down to ; #• poadtble notch-, -50 cents to $3:00- •VI 1 CK'We have a good assortment at all prices from 50 cents to |||8.00. Horse owners should ?^!js /s^take advantage of this op- . j- portaaityatonce. ,&•* * .9 4 *AC>, I WM. MERZ, - McHenry. McHEXKY, 114. Cut Flowers in all Varieties. •• % on short notice and Alt prices. Ttv-'i %•& '*/ '-"jfK.nfe"" • F^ ;! Potted Plants of all kinds constantly n hand. We wonld be greatly pleased 0 lurtfe tfci public g^eHs*<|̂ M. JENSEN, Manager. tTouches l the Spot • For Ciits, Burn# Bruises, Sores, Pimples, Chapped Hands and Lips, V'J ; Etc. v i rait sample. DOBBIN riFG. CO. StationS, Chicago, 111. -pon't wait for the CastiiUtji** • -.IVBe Prepared! uv4* Where do you ship yotur Dressed BeeV Ca Ive s, H ogs : Sheep, also -Jtrify, Hides, Tillowffame, Butter, Etc., Etc. Do you get Satisfactory and Prompt turns for your shipments? If hot, hy not ship to a strictly Reliable ouse, where you not only secure the t prices but get . HONEST and 'EOMPT returns? Write for t^p and ket quotations. CHAS. A. DANE, Commission Mer hant. Hi I Fulton Market, (Jfcifo, III. Both- tn his many stories of him. He was dining at Portsmouth or somewhere at a rvgtmeotRl mess to whi<Sh the officers him with every show of tlie highest admiration and with no appearance of social su­ periority. After dinner, as the party sat at wine, one of the officers asked Sot hern to give them a recitation. Now, Sothern abominated that kind of thing. He wouldn't tolerate being treated as an entertainer when he was by way of being treated as a gentleman. He coldly declined. They pressed him. He hotly declined. Still they pressed him. He expressed his feelings. Per­ haps the officers were a little affected by wine. At all events they persist­ ed. They would take no denial. At last he said in a manner which showed that he was nettled, but yet yielding: "Well, if you won't let me off I must. I'li give you the dinner scene from 'David Garrick.'" He did. He had never, acted it bet­ ter. They were delighted until, spring­ ing to his feet, he made his wild, tipsy exit. Just as he did on the stage, and dragged the cloth off the table and with it all the regiment's prized des­ sert china and decanters and glasses, etc. Great was the smash. The actor did not wait to be applauded or to im­ prove the occasion. The lesson was, In­ deed, a rough one, aijd probably only .a man with some roughness In his dar­ ing humor would have given it, but it W|W quite deserved. .Row Hard Bee« Work, , Darwin after close observation found that a bee would often visit as many as 27 flowers ih the course of a minute, though with other plants in which the honey was difficult to extract the aver­ age would be as low as seven. Strik­ ing a mean between these two figures, one may say that an ordinary working bee visits 15 flowers a minute, or 900 an hour. Considering the late hours to which a bee works, it is probably -no exaggeration to say that it is bdsy for eight hours a day, allowing for inter­ vals of rest. This wotild make It visit 7,200 flowers a day, or 648,000 in a pe­ riod of six months. Mr. A. S. Wilson in a recent paper showed the enormous amount of labor gone through by bees in making even a small quantity of honey. He found that approximately 125 heads of red clover yield 15 grains of sugar, or 125,- 000 heads about two pounds. As each head, contains some, 60 florets, it fol­ lows that 7,500,000 distinct flower tubes must be sucked in order to ob­ tain two pounds of sugar. Now, honey contains, roughly speaking, 75 per cent of sugar; therefore the bees must make, in round numbers, 2,500,000 visits for one pound of honey. WfM I Question la Cnimi'irerei, f'"j A eertain grocer on the hill has for some days been looking for the owner of a voice that claimed his attention at the telephone one busy morning. When he finds the man. the meeting will fur­ nish material for an interesting item, and the following dialogue explains it­ self: The Voice---HelUvthere! Is that you, Charles? Grocer--Yes. The Voice--Have you any salt fish? Grocer--Yes. The Voice--Is it fresh? Grocer--Yes; came In this morning. The Voice--Cod or pollock? Grocer--Got both. Which do yon want? The Voice--Well, I don't knot?. Is the pollock good and dry? t Grocer--Yes. The Voice--Well, why don't you give it a drink, then? * At this point the grocer brought the colloquy to a sudden termination with a remark that would be out of place In pplite society and therefore unfit for publication.--Portland (Or.) This Bank receives deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Do­ mestic Exchange, and does a t 5 r; GENERAL BANKING WSIHfSS: - • We endeavor to do all busi­ ness entrusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entire­ ly satisfactory to our custom­ ers and respectfully solicit the public patronage .V. .'J Honey to Loan on real estate and' other first class se­ curity. Spec­ ial attention promptly at-ven to collections, and nded to INSURANCE First Class Companies, at the Lpw- t rates. Yours Respectfully, PERRY & QWEN, PtfMIC* BftOktr*. & Mtoe M Food In Cht«>. The first thing which strikes" the traveler In China upon his entrance In­ to any of the many cities of the Celes­ tial empire is the strings of dried mice which hang from the roofs of the houses suspended by their tails, just as sausages are hung in front of butcher shops in France. The Chinese hunt these mice with a long, sharp pointed knife, which they plunge into the animals' throats. Then the mice are suspended by the tails un­ til the biood has dripped out, when they are skinned, drawn and smoked. Another favorite dish with the Chi­ nese is dogs' feet. The feet of black dogs are considered more of a delicacy tiiEu those of any other color, asu white dogs are rejected as being taste­ less. Dogs' fat, prepared in a special manner, is lookedk upon as a repast fit for a king. Going; to Bed In Inilia, Going to bed in India is a very dif­ ferent process from going to bed at home. To begin with, it is a far less formal process. There Is no shutting the door, no cutting yourself off from the outer world, no going up stairs and finally no getting into bed. You merely lie down on your bed, which, with Its bedding. Is so simple as to be worth describing. The bed is a wooden frame with webbing laced across it, and each bed has a thin cotton mat­ tress. Over this one sheet Is spread, and two pillows go to each bed.'That's &K 1--Scottish American. ." I- r , l>; ^ r. J* •«» T\o. she answered coldly. "I can­ not marry a man who carries a rabbit's foot for luck." For a moment he contemplated her in Intense silence, but only for a moment "Who." he exclaimed, "now can doubt the efficacy of the rabbit's foot after this?" Then he left her forever, pausing on­ ly to laugh the wild, mirthless laugh which was suitably to the ocoMdoa^- Petwft Journal,1 * ^ *'1 MRS. A. E. AU( Editor, $£tHttidealer does not hold tt.solf respoti- >$Ih* opinions expressed ia this col- 1'oiaon Will Out. People often say this man has drtink whisky, that man has smoked, and that the other man has chewed tobacco forty and fifty years, and he is Well, hale, and hearty. But they do not tell how many others have done the same thing and are dead and buried long ago; nor do they tell how many of the man's chil­ dren have been laid in untimely graves as a result of his evil and vicious habits. "Unto the third and fourth generation" is the descending curse extended, and not till four generations are passed are we able to estimate^he full consequences of parental iniquity. "We learned the other day," sayB the tlerald and Presbyter, "of a man who boasted that he had taken, a bottle of wine every day for fifty years, and never been injured by it. But of his twelve children, six died in infancy, one was idiotic one became insane, and the other four grew up nervous invalids. Men find it impossible to get away from the old law down thousands of years ago, that God visits 'the iniquity erf the fathers upon the children.' It is a terrible thing for the father to commit sins for which his children will have to pay the penalty, but .the ^re |toing s o o n e v e r y h a n d . ^ r « r > How One Man Helped a lloy. The following story is told of a Phila­ delphia millionaire who has been detod for some years. A young man came to iiis home one day and asked for a loan of money to aid him in starting in business. ' 'Do you drink f' asked the millionaire. "Once in a while." * Stop it! Stop it for a year, tod then oome and see me." v The young man broke off the babit at once, and at the end of the year came to see the millionaire again. "Do you smoke V' asked $,e success­ ful man. - "Now and 'Jhen. "a * J - P "Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me again." The young man went home and broke away from the habit. It took him some time, but he finally worried through the year, and presented himself again. "Do ypu chew?" asked the philan­ thropist, "Yes, I do," was the desperate reply. "Stop it! Stop it for a year, and then come and see me again." ' The young man stopped chewing, but he never came back again. When asked by his anxious friends why he never called on the millionaire again, he re­ plied that he knew exactly what the man was driving at. "He'd have told me that now that I had stopped drink­ ing and smoking and chewing I must have enough to start in business. And I have.0 Vbmmp <M«# : h A writer in an exchange speaks very plainly and in a way that the girls of my acquaintance would be apt to resent, yet there are many girls who need such a sharp reminder and so perhaps it is worth while to quote it here: I have talked so much to the old folks that I am afraid I have neglected the boys and girls, especially the girls. So, here is a word to the girls, about a "cheap givl." A teat her of mine once said of a cer­ tain girl, "The trouble with her is, that she is too common. She is cheap." How different from what I heard re­ cently on the street car! A teacher speaking of a pupil said, "She is a rare girl, has simple tastes, is pure-hearted-- there is nothing cheap about She is a real treasure." I once heard the Rev. Charles Goss, of Cincinnati say, "I have some of the best girls in my church that ever wore shoe leather. They are bright, full of life, carry themselves above criticism and the boys all respect them." You ask me what I mean by a "cheap girt" Well, I will tell you. 1. A girl who hangs around the boys is cheap. The boys thi^k less of those girls who are forever running after them. They are too cheap. When people order their wedding clothes they do not pick out something common, The girl that turns her head every time the boys -pass, that uses every pretext to turn the corner where the boys are, that talks to her friends constantly about Tom, Dick and Harry, is a cheap girL Of course the boys make her believe that she is the "life of $he town;" but I notice that when th@se boys, grown up, look for a companion for life, who shall be their "treasure," they pass by these shop-worn girls, the second-hand, the cheap girls. The girl who hangs around the boys is cheap--even the boys think 2. who lets boys take liberties with her is cheap. Years ago, I heard two boys debating about a certain girl. One held that she was com!mon, the other denied it. "Well," said the first, "I bet you I can get a kiss from her tonight." They were going to a party. "I bet you cant," was the reply. The first boy didn't win his bet, and that girl went up in Uie estimation of those boys. She was not dommon. Those boys were ever after that, her devoted admirers. God has given to every girl a casket of charms. If she casts them before every­ one, it will not be long before she loses them, and the very people wlio were and common. 8. A girl without high principle* is cheap. Such a girl thinks her parents are old fogies and the Bible out of date. The cheapest girl I know is the butter­ fly girl. The most highly esteemed girls of my boyhood--and I was no saint, then or since--were those who acted as if, like Gibson's women, they had back­ bones. I heard a boy say of a certain girl whom he fairly worshipped, "If I should ever see her carousing around like some of the other girls, I shouldn't believe in God." He was a little foolish to make his belief in God hang on a girl: yet thousands of men have been held to God by faith in a true woman. When a girl makes the principles of Christ the back-bone of her life, she wins the respect and love of everybody. God has endowed girls with such rich gifts! How great is your power to lift up or pull down! Girls, do not be common. Do not-cast your pearls be­ fore swine! Do not sell yourselves for nought! You can be queens and have the world at your feet. But if you are cheap, by and by the world will desp you. . You have read of the noble Queen of England and how, when sh^ was a girl, coming to know that some day she might be queen, she said, "Well I ought to begin to live like a queen." Every girl is made to be a queen. May you say, my girl, "Well I ought to begin to live like a queen." • Having 'a Great Rwh <)n Cftiufktarlaln'fl Cough Remedy. Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug store, informs us that he is having a great run on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He sells five bottles of that medicine to one of any other kind, and it gives great satisfaction. In these days of la grippe there is nothing like Cham­ berlain's Cough Remedy to stop the cough, heal up the sore throat and lungs and give relief within a very short time. The sales are growing, and all who try it are pleased with its prompt action.- South Chicago Daily Calumet JTOr sale by Miss Julia A. Story. Announcement. The U. a Civil Service Oomniiaslon 1 announces that the annual examinations for positions in the classified service will be held all over the country in March and April. There was over 8,000 ap pointments last year. Any one who wishes may try for a place without ex­ pense. One can obtain full information about the dates, places and character of the examinations, free, by writing the Columbian Correspondence College, Washington, D. C. ASK YOUR DOCTORI Ask your physician this ques­ tion, "What is the one great remedy for consumption?" He will answer, "Cod-liver oil.** Nine out of ten will answer the same way. Yet when persons have consumption tnev loathe all fatty foods, yet fat is neces­ sary for their recovery and they cannot take plain cod- liver oil. The plain oil dis­ turbs the stomach and takes away the appetite. The dis­ agreeable fishy odor and taste make it almost unen­ durable. What is to be done ? This question was ans­ wered when we first made SCOTT'S EMULSION of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypo- phosphites. Although that was nearly twenty-five years ago, yet it stands alone to- flau 4k® nn* uav W»«> 1 VIUVMJI for all affections of the throat ; and lungs. « The bad taste and odor have been i taken away, the oil itself has been partly digested, and the most sen- i sitive stomach objects to it rarely, i Not one in ten can take and digest the plain oil. Nine out of ten can i xtake SCOTT'S EMULSION and di­ gest it That's why it cures so j nviny cases of early consumption. Even in advanced cases it brings : comfort and greatly prolongs lira. 50c. and $1.00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNK, Chemists, New York. Mf For Infants and Children. • [The Kind You Hays simulating 1 tiogtteStanficbsi I M A M S , ( 1111 D I U N PronwtesIHgestioaQieetful-ne5sandHest.Contaios neUher Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC^ Mrnmrnftmik-smmmaat DmmftIm Smd~ I }\i .*3 A perfect Remedy for Constipa­ tion. Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms,Convulsions .Feverish- OESS and Loss OF SLEEP. Yfce Simile Signature HEW "YORK. A l ( ) m o n l h s it 1 t l J 3 D 0 S I S - J JC I M S si EXACT COPY OF WRAPPEB. CUSTOM! tHt OCttTAUn COMPANY, NIW tOM OITT. .-j,. t 'i " 1 r * •t / V-f-'iV When prices have - teached bed rock Jt means that they have reachei the lowest not I#',- -"">1 -V 'lf\4 * "***. ! . \S nv • y ' t- •?« - \0% *The holiday rush being over we have had time to look about us and in so doing find that we have left on our hands a large number of dress goods rem­ nants and odds and ends in all kinds of merchandise. These goods must be sold regardless of cost and it "f- t SMiS 'PS. Xi SiriON STOFFEU " t W e r t f l c H w w y , I H . r&s: .f^'v READ THIS at others will notice advertisement of your's Mtiminf m--------iniiinimi----wnmiim--i------i Aug. Buchholz, vM&v: Don't beflistaken '•* If yon want a stylish fitting Suit or pair of pants go to Buchholz, 4 That is the Place! He makes no humbug fit and workmanship is ^ ^ West McHenry, ill. Made up right or no sale. v i 53 • V -,"*s ^ v« • •Ul " / X -• >•«• •?'* , : ; r p.- _ ; miJ, fee « ii-. .J*. . »_.*.? « *;<'SSFII-WIV M J * ... a' .if .i