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Candles Nothing «1M (MI ao much to the churm of the drawing room or Iraodolr as the aoftijr radi- ant light from CORDOVA Candles. Hothimg will contribute morp to the artistic aocceeH of the luncheon, tea or dinner. The best decorative candles for the simplest or the moet elaborate function--for cot­ tage or mansion. Made in all colon and the moat delicate tinta by STANDARD OIL CO. and sold everywhere rA ' % t o - ; ft VsK 'V. •v.'fc.,;i ^^ggilt is not our desire to cany ;"oyerf a stock of horse blan- • Vx}t••keta and to prevent this we • '< have put the prices down to ~ the lowest possible notch. •5o cents to $3.06- ' * t k ? jvi .. *» 0? '*•** • ••* • 'We have ai good a88ortment.||,.v' Ja" all prices from 50 cents to \ 1$3.00. Horse owners should | • I? , ' | "»*-takeadvantage of,..|hj,s.;^|-.> •• Portly *»»•««, 1 p f - i - . - ' • ; : » ? • ^ WM. MERZ, - McHenry. 'VK ii:»' H. fl. Jensen f ^ < r : V'Mi • * \ 4 y M .•4 V T". • ft';-' i,-t in all Varieties. FLORIST Flowers , .Funeral l̂ esigns on shortnotice and at 'reasonable prices. f c £Vif . -5 Potted Plants Potted Plants of all kinds constantly r? n hand. We would be greatly pleased, io have .the public give us , a call MeHENRJf# {*< ILLINOIS; Touches For Cuts, Burns Bruises, Sores, Pimples, i »; ,,Chapped Hands and Ifoa, M U 'V>V.-.- s f j E t c . E t &r* ~J • - ,d for sample. Large boij :W DOBBIN HFG. CO. . M. .tsrfS'ii Station S, Chicago, IH. •--Don't wait for the Casualty!-- Be Prepared! ===== 1-- Where do you ship your Dressed Beef, Calves, Hogs Sheep, also Hides, Tallow, 0«, « Butter, [ft., Etc •m you get Satisfactory and Prompt Returns for your shipments? If not, why not ship to a strictly Reliable House, where you not only secure the best prices but get HONEST and T HOMPT returns? Write for tags and market quotations. ^ r H * C A H A M 7 a f t - S m vi rt. Lcrii Commission Mer hant. lo. i futten Mantel, Ok*. HL ' This Bank receives deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Do­ mestic Exchange and does a • *.Vv- ttKRAl BANKING BBSlHfSS. 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.... . . Honey to Loan on real estate and other first class se­ curity. Spec- ial attention | given to collections, and promptly at- "< tended to 1^'INSURANC^p Tkt Jigger la Ogsnia. Several sepoys were suffering from that African pest, the "jigger," whose scientific nauie of Pulex penetrans de­ scribes him and lilsliabtts concisely and well. He is an exact reproduction in miniature of tin* common flea (i'ulex irritunsj. but instead of merely inflict­ ing a comparatively innocuous bite he burrows under the skin, close to the toe nails for preference, and then pro­ ceeds to propagate the species. Unless he is very carefully removed the sores cause the most intense irri­ tation and may lay a man up complete­ ly. The usual method of removing him Is to widen the hole in which he has entered and then extract him, intact if possible, with a needle, care being tak­ en that no eggs or young are left be­ hind. The piace should then be dressed to prevent festering. It is not advisa­ ble to march uittch after removing jig­ gers, but unfortunately It Is frequently unavoidable. 1 may mention that Lieutenant Colo­ nel Macdonald once tQld rue that dup­ ing his first visit to Uganda some na­ tives caught a leopard in one. of the banana plantations whose feet were so thoroughly diseased from jiggers that he was quite unable to move or to de­ fend himself.--Blackwood. H E A L T H N O T E S in .first Class Companies, at the tiow- estrat&l Yours Respectfully, PERRY & OWEN, ttli Time to Fiflrfct. ^Wtfcn Oeneral Grant was JittHsl- deut," said a Washington man, "a cer­ tain friend of his came out of the west to see him. One day, just after leaving the White House, this rriend fell in with a fellow westerner in the White House grounds, and a heated encounter took place, which suddenly terminated by the general's friend knocking the other man down and out. '•The matter was hushed up. but the general, naturally indignant, called his friend to account, saying: 'John, you've treated me and the olliee 1 hold with much discourtesy. Why did you do such a thing?' " "Well. It was this way, general," re­ plied the now thoroughly peuitent one. 'You know there was bad blood be­ tween us, and he bad set all sorts of stories going about me. Just after leaving you 1 ran into him. and be at once accused me of doing a certain thing. As it was a lie 1 only laughed at him. Then he accused me of some­ thing else, and that being also a lie 1 jeered at him again, but his third accu­ sation was true. and. by gad. sir. 1 couldn't stand that, so 1 knocked him down.' "--New York Tribune. Pnjr Day In China. Kefir'Tear's is the national pay day ID China. All accounts must be squar­ ed up at that time, and the man who ean't raise money enough to pay his debts has to go into bankruptcy. The laws are such that the creditor can en­ ter the debtor's house and take what he pleases if there is no settlement. To prevent such action families club together and make all sorts of com­ promises to keep up the business repu­ tation of the clan. New Year's is a great day for the pawnbrokers. Their shops are crowded with people who want to redeem their best clothes be­ fore the new year. There are crowds also who want to pawn other things in order to get money to pay their debts. Pawnbrokers receive high rates of interest. In which they are protect­ ed by the government. The Chinese paint the whole country red on New Year's day In more senses than one. Red Is the color which with them denotes good luck and prosperi­ ty. and all the New Year's cards and Invitations are on paper of that cblor. Every child Rets its New. Year's pres­ ent wrapped in red paper, and red in­ scriptions are pasted over the doors of the houses.--London Mail. ftotsry Pttblic. Banker*. The GrnmbllnK Start; 4 noted divine has declared that a husband's grumbling and scolding were often only his way of beginning a conversation, and he maintained that if a pan were sulky the worse he was the more cheerful his wife should be. Certainly husband and wife should bear and forbear, he says, and the soft answer turneth away wrath more ef­ fectively by the domestic hearth than elsewhere. Then business is often wor­ rying. and the husband coming home needs and usually deserves to find there all soothing and calming influ­ ences. But surely it should be mutual kindness. At times the man must take his turn in meeting irritability or low spirits with cheerfulness and {clad. gentle consideration. As to the theory that the wisest and best course is for the wife of a sulky, tyrannlc-a! man al­ ways just to give in and crouch before the storm, he does not think that is ei­ ther good policy or real ki ado ess ulU-1 ^olve food question, mately to the man himself. * Not So Dad. Critical Husband--This beef isn't fit to eat. Wife--Well, I told the butcher, that If it wasn't good I would send you round to his shop to give him a thrash­ ing, and 1 hope you'll take some one with you. for he looked pretty fierce, and I didn't like the way be handled his big knife. Husband--Humph! Oh. Well, ! will say I've seen worse meat than this.-- LondofftFun. ' . Tarn Ahoat. Mrs; Weeds--Oh, you remind me so much of my first husband! Mr. Weeds--I'm' glad to hear it. You've been reminding me of him so often.--Philadelphia Press. The American consuls at all foreign ports have the lawful right to examin intending emigrants for the. United States for the purpose of ascertaining that they are fit for admission to this country. V In the Black sea no animal life of any kind is found at a depth below 1.200 feet owing to the lar^ Aij»ouaMf hydros ulphurlc acid. - \ -; .« ' 'i lli-: OL.D-S1 VLE NUK8K. 'When folks first began to send for trained nurses,' remarked the uniformed woman, according to the New York 'Times,' 'there were those who said I would soon lose my job altogether; but that was many years ago, and here I am still, with more calls than I can attend to, though there's such big classes of girls graduating every year in the hos­ pitals that it has begun to be complained that the profession is over-crowded. I have only got my experience to put against their education and hospital training, but somehow it seems to carry the day.' 'And natural talent into the bargain,' suggested a listener. 4I have heard that sick nurses, like cooks, are born, not made.' \ ; • I don't know abouttha& * I dare say I've made lots of mistakes in my time-- I mean when I was new to the business --but I always liked to be around sick people. And then there is another thing. Although I've been nursing so long I ain't a bit bossy, and that's just the difference between me and so many nurses, especially young ones, that's .jot diplomas to show. There's lots of ladies who don't like to be put down in heir own houses, and them's the sort A*ho, when they've had to do with some and of trained nurses, would rather <end for hie the next time there's sick­ ness in the house." 'Of course, when a doctor puts a case in my charge, I'm going to follow out his instructions, no matter how the Home folks may cut up about it, but there's ways and ways of doing most everything, and I never make myself iisagreeable if it can possibly be helped. "She knows it all, but she makes her­ self too numerous," a man once said to me of a hospital nurse who had attended aim when he was down with the rheu­ matic fever. ' 'She had the whole fam­ ily under hack, from my wife down to the cat." And from what he let out ;rom time to time after that--I was nursing his children through the mea­ sles, and he talked mighty free in my bearing -I found that there was many m occasion when his nurse might have humored him without doing a bit of harm. But no; that wasn't the way chey done things in the hospital where >he got her training. " 'I suppose when there's a ward full of nek people to look after a nurse has to L>e strict, and things has to be dime just lo, but it i* different when there is only jne ^patient to be waited on. 'But the patients I get along best with are sick children. I am fond of children to begin with, and having had a family of my own, naturally I know better how to treat them than nurses do who only ^0 by hospital instructions. Many's the little tea party I have had with little ^irls who are just getting over the scar­ let fever, and I've played dolls with 'em, and helped 'em make scrap books 'till they've said they 'd rather play with me than with other children. Such treat­ ment ain't down in the hospital books, but, all the same, I ain't never lost any patients by it.' \ „ 1 ; * A WEAK DIGESTION. * *** J It is quite possible, says "The Young Woman', !to give the digestive organs too little, as well as too much, to do. tn these days there is a fad for trying to compress the largest amount of nu­ triment into the smallest possible com­ pass. We have lozenges reputed to con ' ain the equivalent of a pound of meat, an ox in a teacup; biscuits one of which is said to be capable of sustaining an active person for a whole day. etc. Whatever may or may not be the actual value of such handy and easily consumed foods, there is this to be said: Any natural function kept unused 01 improperly exercised is bound to deteri­ orate, so that if we try to shirk the necessity for eating we shall be doing; our best to annihilate the faculty oC digestion. A weak digestion is as often as not traceable to want of exercise of its functions, or it suffers in sympathy with the "rest of a feebly-developed or­ ganization. Outdoor exercise will lie one of our best assistants in helping to 1 v - ^ , ' ' LONGEVITYf ' - ; ; A &&& characteristic mioiii^lty, seldom or never noticed, js ease and re­ pose of movement. The oid person-- the hale, vigorous, healthy old man-- moves easily, lightly,' silently. He has always moved that way. That's the reason he is here now instead of with the others who, with their gasps and sighs, their clinched brows and twirling thumbs, their intense emotions and lit­ tle complaints, are gone and forgotter. Ease of movement and grace depend upon muscular relaxation. Muscular relaxation is impossible except when the mind is tranquil. Another peculiarity of those who live long is that they are invariably small eaterp. Gourmands die young. The octogenarian is always frugal. The vv. ormous physiological task of digesting and execreting daily pounds of food in )t needed by the organism is not perform­ ed by the frugal eater, and so he has the more vitality to expend in thought in working and in living out his cen­ tury. We live not so much because of what we eat as because of what we do not eat. Much has been written on the subject of longevity, but little that to­ day possesses any beyond % merely lit­ erary interest # Maftufitcturgaf Steel CArs HM Few people realize how rapid the growth of the steel car industry has been. Three years ago there was prac­ tically nothing done in that line, while today there are 10,000 men and boys in the United States earning their living at it, and the American steel car is to be found not only nil over the American continent, but in the wilds of Africa and other regions in which, for obvious reasons, it is preferred to the wooden vehicle. A load that would crush the ordinary wooden car is carried with ease by its steel successor; 100,(W0 pounds is a common specification for their capac­ ity, and only recently 2,500 cars, each capable of carrying this immense weight, were ordered by three of the leading American railroads, the value of the order amounting to $2,750,000. The greater the carrying capacity of the steel car the smaller the ratio of its weight to the load carried. The steel car carrying 100,000 pounds weighs 80- 000 pounds, the same as a wooden car that carries only 70,000 pounds; the life of the wooden car averages fifteen years, and it costs $85 a year to keep it in re­ pair; the steel car, it is estimated, will run for fifty years, and its repair bill amounts to but $10 to $15 a year. No wonder the steel car building company has work ahead for several years to come. • Old People Hade Young- 1 ,f - J. C. Sherman, the veteran editor , of tne Vermontville (Mich.) Echo, has dis­ covered the remarkable secret of keep ­ ing old people young. For years he has avoided Nervousness, Sleeplessness, In­ digestion, Heart trouble, Constipation and Rheumatism, by using Electric Bitters, and he writes: "It can't be praised too highly. It. gently stimu­ lates the kidneys, tones the stomach, aids digestion, and gives a splendid appetite. 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