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onirour where I cans gallons. from BMLt £1* A FAMOUS PICTURE. B$* Benjamin Wnt'i "The Raising of pnickaied by Tiffany. ^ RLANKETS! ^ ' "* • • • • • It is not our desire to carry over a stock of horse blan­ kets and to prevent this we have put the prices down ,Jfeo^ the lowest possible notch. * -60 cents to $3.00- We have a good assortment At all prices from 50 cents to $3.00. Horse owners should " ̂ take advantage of this j \' portnnity at once. WM. MERZ, -McHenry. Floral (0. Cut Flowers Pif'1 Funeral Designs on short notice and at reasonable priccf. 'otted Plants of all kinds constantly on hand. We wonld be greatly pleased ^to have the pnblic give ns a call tf. M. JENSEN, Manager. ' It Touches the Spot ! For Cuts, Burns Bruises, Sores, Pimples, Hands and Llpa*' Etc. Etc. ; . Send for sample. Large bo*, 25c ;« DOBBIN rtFQ. CO. fP Station S, Chicago, 111. **»Don't wait for the Casualty!-- e 4 , Be Prepared! i , Where do you ship your / i Dressed Beef^ ^Calves,Hogs Sheep, , also i, Poultry, Hides, Tillow, torn, Butter, f tc, Etc l; iDo you get Satisfactory and ""Prompt Returns for your shipments? If not, why not ship to a stric tly Reliable ? House, where yon not only secure the beet prices but get HONEST and PROMPT returns? Write for tags and market quotations. CHA5. A. DANZ, »*-? ommission Mer hant. ̂ Ito. 6 Fulton Market, Chicago* III BANK This Bank receives deposits, buys and sells Foreign and| Do­ mestic ExchangeTafod does a QIHIMI mm<* LUSWiESS. We endeavor to do all busi­ ness entrusted to our care in a manner and upob terms entire­ ly satisfactory to our custom^ ers and respectfnlly solicit the public patronage • • • - Honey to Loan * . 11 r EI l\ \f on real estate cninRY xs ______________ ial attention and promptly at- Sir Benjamin West's famous pic ure. "The Raising of Lazarus," an ornament of Winchester Cathedral for more than a hundred years, has been sold for $7,200 to Titt'any trf New Yoark. Dean Stephens says: To the hest of my knowledge the picture is intended for the new cathe­ dral of St. John the Divine, in New York, as much more fitting than* this cathedral, where it is out of harmony with its surroundings and spoiled in proportions by the new altar and screens. The proceeds of the sale will be devoted to various decorative work." Ul Local feeling is hostile to the sale, $iut the dean and chapter are the su­ preme authority in such matters. Though thfe picture has been carefully preserved, it has suffered somewhat and it is feared that some of the pigments employed were different. It'must undergo some restoration before being rehung, t . 0: The Natural Master or the Mule. When the war began and it was an­ nounced the British artillery and am­ munition were to be transported by American mule power, the 'Scimitar' and other knowledgeable journals point ed out a fatal omission in the pro­ gramme. No provision was made for American darkies to manage the an­ imals. Any Southerner could have informed the British Government that whenever a white man undertakes to handle a mule he is bound to come to grief soon­ er or later. There is no affinity between ibem. But between the American Negro and the mule there is a subtle under- Standing which is beyond the compre­ hension of the Caucasian. It is a kind of telepathy, and S singu­ lar feature of the case is that the famil­ iarity thus engendered never breeds con­ tempt on either side. The mule takes no liberty with its dusky driver, and he never loses sight of the fact that the seeming meekness of his charge is as little to be trusted as the quietude of a cotton-mouth moccasin in coiL The re­ lation between them is that of armed neutrality. Both are constantly on the alert, and the animal will no more pre­ sume upon the nodding of its driver, than the driver upon the air of peaceful meditation which is the distinguishing characteristic of the animal in repose. given to collections, led to . INSURANCE First Class Companies, at the Low- rates. Yours Respectfully, perry & OWEN, . .Jilt The Barber Shop BOM. "Yoli're next, sir," said the boss bar­ ber, Indicating a fat man who was buried behind ^newspaper. "I'll wait for awhile," replied the fat man. "I'm ,ln no hurry." As another man climbed Into the vacant chair the fat man lean­ ed over to another customer who was Waiting his turn and confided that he Was in a hurry, a deuced hurry, but he •would rather lose his turn than be .Shaved by the proprietor of the shop. ; "It isn't that I have any grievance ^gainst this particular barber." he [ Went on. "but I shun all boss barbers as I would a plague. In the first place, he patronizes you. and, in the second place, he is invariably^the worst bar­ ber in the shop. Then. too. it takes hiro about twice as long. He will lather one side of your face and then go over to the desk to make change for a cus­ tomer who is going out. for he is gen­ erally his own cashier. He considers It his dutj* to exchange airy persiflage with each customer as he leaves the (shop, and by the time he gets back to you your face is caked in cold lather. \ "This usually happens four or five ^tJmes while you are getting shaved, and you may consider yourself lucky If a salesman for a perfumery or soap house doesn't come in to talk up his scares. In. that event you are bound to t>e kept waiting for 10 or 15 minutes, and when you are finally shaved your peace of mind is destroyed for the rest of the day. No boss barbers in mine, I know 'em too well, and I wait every time."--Exchange. Richard Harding Davii' Kew Storjf, La Lettre d Amour is one of the best love stories Richard Harding Davis has written. The scene is laid in London and the characters are a beautiful American girl, her mother, a wealthy young Harvard-man, and a violinist of the Hungarian Orchestra, The illus trations are by Howard Chandler Christy. La Lettre d Amour is the leading story in the Midwinter Fiction Numl>er of The Saturday Evening Post, wi^ch,will be on sale January the 25th, ';^ ;:-:|id»Mee In Higher Education. The advanced stages of education Are becoming more thickly crowded Twenty-five years ago only .05 per cent of the population was enrolled in the public high schools; now the precentage is 0. 61--the number of such pupils hav­ ing increased from 22,900 in 1876 to 449,600 in 1888. The number in private high schools has increaced in same time from 78,740 to 105,225--there having been' a decrease relative in the popu­ lation. This indicates a large measure of advance in the public high schools as preparatory schools for colleges oyer what .Was the case years ago."- P* -- : : ' ' A Large Sign. ^ The largest advertising sign in the world is said to be on the hillside of an Islet off the Grand Canary, northwest Africa. It is several hur.dred feet above the level of the sea and contains four words, in letters each 15 feet wide and 80 feet high, each bar of the letters being 8 feet 8 inches broad. The sign is 790 M »>•••«>>»• »«»»»»••>•»»>«»» --MSf W. C. T. U. PRESS DEPARTMENT MRS. A. e. AUUNOBR, Editor. [The Pialodealer does not hold itself respon- ible for the opinions expressed in this col-si mini. En.l Rritinli Soldier* Without Alcohol. By order of Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, British commander-in-chief, careful and exhaustive experiments were made with a view to ascertaining the relative effects of alcohol and of total abstinence upon the physical en­ durance and staying qualities of the troops. One regiment was deprived of every form of'alcoholic drink, while another belonging to the same brigade was allowed to purchase, as usual, malt Vqnor at the canteen, and another would receive a daily ration of„ whisky. In each instance the experiment showed that, whereas, at first the regiment which had received an allowance of grog surpassed the other in dash and -in impetuosity of attack, yet, after the third or fourth day, its members began to show notable signs of lassitude and a lack of spirit and endurance. The same manifestations, though in a minor and slower degree, were apparent in the regiment restricted to malt liquors; whereas, the men who had been kept from every form of alcoholic drink in­ creased in staying power, alertness, and vigor every day. The results of these experiments led the British War De­ partment to decide, not on the ground of principle, but solely for the sake of maintaining the pofrer of endurance of the troops now engaged in the Soudan campaign, not to permit a single drop of alcohol in camp save for hospital use. Spirits, wine, and malt liquors have been debarred from the officers' mess table, as well as frqm the regimental canteen; and from generals in command down to the drummer boys and camp followers, liquid refreshments have been restricted to tea and oatmeal water. But all the power of Congress has not sufficed to break down the "canteen" in the American army: the War Depart­ ment, under the advice of the "Law" Department (Griggs) having boldly de­ fied and trampled on the plain intent? and plainer words of the law. Presbyterians Appeal to the President. The permanent committee on temper­ ance, pursuant to the order of the gen­ eral assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States, has forwarded a communication to President McKinley, protesting against the sale of liquor in new territory. The committee repeats the resolution adopted by the general assembly, and says: "The duty thus imposed by the gen­ eral assembly on its permanent com­ mittee having been allotted to the under­ signed, members composing a sub-eom- mittee, we desire respectfully to repre­ sent to you that so far as we have been able to 'investigate' existing conditions, the reports which occasioned 'pain and indignation' in our general assembly do not seem to have been exaggerated. "Since the recent accessions to^ our national domain injthe Indies, East and West, anxious eyes have been directed toward those lands by the Christian people of America. Recognizing the fact that opportunity involves respon­ sibility, deep solicitude has been felt as to the results that shall follow in those islands from the assumption of authority by our government. The unfurling of our national flag should be to those peoples the pledge of the starting of in­ fluences that shall be elevating and in every way beneficent. And surely the hope of su<'h results seems justified, in view of our avowal of disinterested and philanthropic motives in entering on the recent Conflict with Spain. The officii* 1 records at Washington show that the amount of alcoholic liquors exported to countries has doubled in six months. The American saloon, that foul blot on our civilization, has already gone to curse those lands. Whatever blessings of a higher Christian civilization we may-have hoped to bring to those dis­ tant islands, it is to be feared that the benefits conferred will be counterbal­ anced by the demoralization and riiin inflicted by the American liquor traffic. "Deprecating the coming of such sad calamities on those helpless races and with treuibling apprehension of God's righteous judgments on 'our beloved country, we come in the name of the million communicant members and . of other millions of adherents of the Pres­ byterian church in the United States of America to address you, the president of our republic, earnestly asking the exercise of your power to the prevention of this great wrong." The paper is signed by J. P. Hill, William C. Lilley aud Oliver L. Miller, M. D. _ The late General Lawton said a short time before his death to an interviewer at Manila: "I never drank a drop of liquor" ;v7^ • :;V:. A widow, whose only son dered by the canteen--and at whose burial the editor officiated--in sending her mite to help on the- fight against the army saloon, asks: "How long moat the sons of Christian mothers have the drink craving fostered and lowered down to drunkards' graves by a canteen, sanc­ tioned and protected by the Christian president of a Christian n^|ion ̂ ' tional Temperance Advocate. A special from New YorffSS^r fh the board of aldermen to-day an ordi- WfttiAo nroa nftflaa^ tt. WlMfl, tneanor to sell cigarettes to persons under eighteen years of age, and was passed by a vote of thirty-eight to three. Alderman Wafer of Brooklyn spoke in favor of the ordinance. ' 'Our children are driven almost 'dopey, *" said the alderman, "and instead of us fathers bringing up boys to a sturdy manhood, we are bringing them up fit subjecto for sanitariums and asylums." The Chicago Tribune says: "The nation's two greatest foes are anarchy and rum. . . . Both sap the foundations of good citizenship, and if allowed to work together unchet&ed, will cause the downfall of the mightiest nation. . . . Rum itself is the arch anarchist. . . . Anarchy and alcohol are both B alike destructive of ideas and ideals." At no time in the history Of the nation were these words more applicable than the present Never have we seen anarchy and rum ruling in such high places as they are to day. At jhe behest of the rum power a law enacted by the highest- law making body of the nation is set at defiance, is nullified and that, too, by the highest officers in the land. If thit» is allowed to go unrebuked then the re­ public has received a fatal woun|||;>|$ ^ , , ©«r Army and Navy. «• *, Not until the close of the Spanish- American war, which proved such a brilliant success for our Army and Na­ vy, did foreign powers appreciate the strength and stability of our engines of war. Not only did foreign countries watch the movements of our troops and ships with amusement, but our own people, right here at home, were sur­ prised to find that the United State* possessed an army and navy of such strength and proportions. In one of the latest books to appear, entitled, "The United States Army and Navy, 1776-1899," a grapic description of the operations of both branches of the service, from their inception to the close of the late war, is to be found. It is a beautiful art edition, and no book so complete, both from a literary and ar­ tistic point of view, has ever been pub* lished. • Y The text is by eminent authorities in both branches, and was compiled after a careful research of all government re­ cords. The illustrations and there are 43 of them, full-page size, are the finest specimens of art ever placed in a book. The volume is published by the Wer­ ner Company, of Akron, Ohio, who are making a special offer to introduce it to the reading public. In another part of this issue will be found a more detailed description of the book and how it can be secured. tf. "Secrets of Success; or, Our Business Boys" by the Rev. Francis E. Clark, fonnder of the Young People's Society for Christian Endeavor is a book of good and wholesome advice for boys. See the advertisement in another col­ umn. The Werner Company, publish­ ers, are offering it at a special price, tf. S For Infants andJDhildreik You Have Always Bought iN/tgetable Preparation fior AS- ^gnature -A. <sj Iv1 ^ 1; 4^ ' I •r Promotes DtgestioaCheerful- ness and ftest.Contalns neither Ojpfiuro,Morptiiiie nor Mineral. OT NARCOTIC t A petfetf Remedy for Constipa­ tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- ness and Loss OF SLEEP. YacSunki Signature of KEW YOBK. Years EXACT COPV OF WRAPPER* TM« etNVNU* OWNW, ««W VWMJMTIt. 0 Muslin and Sheetings s*7i, When in need of anything In this line, bear in mind that lur stock is complete. 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