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Candles Nothing else adds so much to the charm of the drawing room or boadoir as the softly radi­ ant light from OORDOVA Candles. Not hfng will contribute more to the artintic success of the luncheon, tea or dinner. The best decorat ive candles for the simplest or the most elaborate function--for cot­ tage or mansion. Made in all dolors tun the most delicate tints by (STAN1»ARI» OIL CO. and sold everywhere. • • • • • tt is not our desire to caî ̂ oter a stock of horse blan­ kets and to prevent this we .have put the prices down to lowest possible notd*/' -5o cents to $3.oo- .•%1,-V, t ve .a good assortment . at all prices from 50 cents to |8.00. Horse owners should take advantage of this op­ portunity at once. WM, MERZ, - McHenry. ifld H. fl. Jensen FLORIST W ̂ Cut Flowers in all Varieties. Funeral Designs on short notice and at * reasonable prices. Potted Plants Potted Plants of all kinds constantly on hand. We would be greatly pleased to have the public give us a call McHENRY, ILLINOIS. It Touches the Spot Bi"SA f !.V[ For Cuts, Burns Bruises, Sores, Pimples, Chapped Hands and Lips, Etc. Etc., 3end for sample. Large box, 25c; DOBBIN HFC. CO. Station S, Chicago, 111. --Don't wait for the Casualty!-- Be Prepared! F. WATTLES ' (Successor to It. R. Howard) Proprietor of the West Side * Meat Market All kinds of Fresh and salt Meats always on hand Oysters in their season. Vegetables and Canned Goods. Come and give me a triaL---- F. VjTATTLES. West McHenry. f This Bank receives deposits, buys ^ and sells Foreign and Do­ mestic Exchange, and does a J GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. 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 floney to Loan on real estate and other first class se­ curity. Spec­ ial attention given to collections, and promptly at­ tended to INSURANCE in First Class Companies, art the Low- ibt rates. Yours Respectfully, PERRY & OWEN, Notary Public. Dealer* Make Careful Note of till Chuncn in Their Ownership. / ' * . . - ' -r • The dealer iliftrecioni* stones keejjs remarkable account of the valuable gems whit\h couie into this country. His huMbbSS does not end when he succeeds in disposing of a precious stone or mounted pi'ict* at a good.round figure. He can tell how many times it has changed hands since it reached these shores and usually he can tell every person in the country who owns any­ thing in gems worth knowing about. This city is the great center of these dealers, as it is through this port that practically all gems enter. The American woman .buys the finest diamonds that can be had in the medi­ um size, iu which the purest stone comes. The mine from which the most beauti­ ful stones are taken, at Jaegersfontein, In the Orange Free State, has been shut Hp, as a great reef encountered made it unprofitable to mine further. The next best diamonds come from Wesse]ton, about ffey two miles from Kimberley, Ind that, too, is shut up oji account of -•'he war. ' The nucst large diamond which ever lamb into this country belonged to the Morgan collection. It weighed twenty- five carats and sold for about $100,000. There was one diamond of 128 carats sold in this city and another Kemberley -ttone of seventy-six carats, but both were tinged with color and not nearly *o valuable as the Morgan gem. An­ other single diamond sold in this city less than three years ago for #42,000 and it is now owned by a western woman The American woman likes her dia­ monds,* not by ones or twos, but by dozens and hundreds, and these are fouled into tiaras, necklaces, corselets, corsages and hair bouquets and sprays, Ml arranged with or without other stones, and so that they can be easily detached knd worn in separate pieces. As the wealthy families of this county come into possession of a large number of diamonds, their taste turns toward colored stones. The ruby is preeminently the next in favor, and prices higher than those paid for diamonds are given for it. Two years ago a firm in this city sold a single ruby for $25,000. Last year there came a demand for the em­ erald and a* single beautiful stone in the autumn brought a dealer $30,000. Subscriptions not High Knough, A correspondent in the Newspaper Maker has this to say about subscription prices: . ' ' 'The rise in the cost of paper seems to be causing a good deal of uneasiness among newspaper publishers. The big ones , and the little ones, both east and west, show an anxiety on the subject for which they cannot be blamed. "Some of them appear to have de­ cided to solve the problem by advancing the advertising rates. Others will at­ tempt- to secure the same result by in­ creasing both the subscription price an I the rates for advertising. So far as noticed, not one of them has tried ruw>t the increase in the cast of paper by putting up the price jof the publica­ tion to the reader or subscriber alone. "In this respect tKe publishers seem to be as blind to their own interest as they have been for the list eight or ten years. The majority of publishers, with the ex­ ception, perhaps, of a large proportion of the country publishers, have furnished their papers to subscribers and readers at a price altogether too small, and have regarded the advertisers as to the parties who ought to bear the cost of production and of meeting the deficien­ cy that results from issuing the publi­ cation at too cheap a price. The pub­ lishers have expected a limited body of a few hundred advertisers to bear an un­ just proportion of the cost of producing the papers, while millions of readers get the papers on ridiculously cheap terms." Wh«re Hulk Wan an Advantage. William M. Evarts, with all his wit and brilliancy, was once outwitted by Senator David Davis, who weighed over 300 pounds, and whose figure was nearly the same in circumference as it was in the perpendicular. He and Evarts were twitting each other about personal sige at a dinner one evening, and finally Davis said: "If you will let me choose the course I will bet you $100 that with three yards' start I can beat you in a race ofJJX) feet." Every one at the table laughed and said: "Take him up, Mr. Evarts." The wager was laid, and Mr. Davis was asked when he would race, to which he replied that he was ready at once. The whole party then adjourned to the course chosen by Senator Davis. This proved to be an alley between houses, just three feet in width and 100 feet deep. He stepped into the mouth three yards, and said "Gk>!" and walked through quite leisurely. Mr. Evarts could get neither past him nor under him, and he called Davis back to the street and paid the bet.--Harper's Weekly. Notice to Stockholder*. Notice is hereby given that on Satur­ day. March 17th, 1900, there will be a meeting of the stockholders of the Citi­ zens' Telephone Co., at their offices at Woodstock, 111,, to consider the propo­ sition of increasing the capital stock of said company from $20,000 to $30,000. A. B. WAGNER, M. L. JOSLYN, Secretary ' President Woodstock, I1L, Feb. 30, 1000, [The I'littndroler does not bold itselfrespon- siUh; for the opinions expressed in this col­ umn.-Ei>.l Selections Front Mis* Wlllnrd's Writing*. Nothing is truer than that people are more afraid of words than of ideas. It is not uncharitable to judge an act as good or bad, but we should be wry slow to judge the actor bad. " • * Only a great cause can sti** ft gr^at people. No half-way measures are worthy of whole-hearted reformers. • All strife in manner, word and deed, grows out of worldliness, and to this there is but just one antidote, other worldliness. • " -"\ . There is. a vast amount of righteous sentim«-.it on the subjects of intemper­ ance and social purity that is scattered, and is, therefore, comparatively power­ less. -,/,A " ' •" - ..'r V On* W. & T^UR:fa.» school #tot founded in "that thotigiit, or for that, purpose, but sure to fit us for the duties of patriots in the realm that lies beyond the horizon of the doming century. It is only when we feel ourselves at the very core and center of our con­ sciousness, linked with the spirit of God, that we can put life into the ingenious and varied machinery of, ottr organiza­ tion. ** We believe to the inward call that leads to personal consecration and divine enthusiasm, and that this call is always attested by character and conduct, ad­ aptation to th* work, and success in it. As a working hypothesis, no age and no race of men can ever go beyond Christ's single dictum, "The kingdom df heaven is within you." All pure habits, all health and sanity of brain, make for the kingdom of heaven. The time will come when these gates of gospel grace (church doors,) shall stand open night and day, while woman's heavenly ministries shall find their cen­ tral home within God's house, the nat­ ural shrine of human brotherhood in action as well as human brotherhood in theory. The fingers of the hand can do little alone, but correlated into a fist they be­ come formidable. The plank borne here and there by the sport of the wave is an image of imbecility, but frame a thou­ sand planks of heart of oak into a hull, put in _your engine with its heart of fire, fit out your )>hip, and it shall cross at a right angle those same waves to the port it has purposed to attain. We are getting weary, all of us older ones; oh, let us expand those two de­ partments that shall fill up the ranks with fresh soldiers for God. Let us make broad paths for the women that are leading on the new recruits in their fresh enthusiasm--let us build up the work among our young people and chil­ dren. A principle whioh I always tried to inculcate in the minds of my girls was this--a sentiment of true honor and dignity favors the school not the delin­ quent. How is it in society? Every noble man brings rogues to justice. He never dreams of shielding tuem, yet pupils think it honorable to shield each other. The time will come when, whatever we do not teach we shall teach ethics as the foundation of every form of culture, and the "faith that makes faithful" in every relation of life will become a thing of knowledge to the child of the then truly Christian republic. For we can never teach these things and leave out Christ as the central figure, and His philosophy as the central fact of our system of education. We believe that this mighty grayer wave shall move on until the militant host of God shall include in its manual of arms the attitude and uplift of prayer whenever the noontide sun stands forth as the symbol of that Sun of Righteous­ ness when shall arise with healing in His beams, when and wherever the heart of man is open to let those 1 earns shine in as a purifying and regenerating presence. I do not recall the time when my in­ most spirit did not preceiye the injustice done to woman; did not revolt against the purely artificial limitations which hedge her from free and full participa­ tion in every avocation and profession to which her gifts incline her, and when I did not appreciate to some extent the state'8 irreparable loss in losing from halls of legislation and courts of justice the woman's judgement and the moth­ er's heart. All the work that we do is based on a prohibitory law for one, enacted by himself, and the prohibition of the leg­ alized sale of intoxicating liquors as beverages enacted by the town, county state or nation Whatever tends direct­ ly to this result, viz., restricted hours of sale, Sunday closing, prohibition of the sale to mihors and drunkards, we, as j white ribbon women, will strongly favor j and do our utmost to enact in law and to enforce in fact. The greatest party stands for nation­ alism as against sectionalism; it stands for the noblest aims and aspirations of the wage-worker as against monopolies that dare to profane that holy word "trust;" In stands for the future in politics ad against tfie past, the home vote with an educational test against the saloon vote with a beer-breath ^as its credentials; and beet ol all it stands for the everlasting and absolute prohibition of sin as against any alliance between sin and the governmient We are one world of tempted human­ ity; the mission of the white riblwm women is to organize the motherhood of the world for the piece and purity, ihe protection and exaltation of its homes. We must send forth a clear, call to our sisters of the world and our brothers, too. We must be no longer hedged about by the artificial boundaries of states and nations: we must utter as vomen what good and great men long ago declared as th r ir watch ward: "The whole world is my parish and 1s6; do good my religion." "v ^The church conserves the fruits of victory, but has not been eager to en­ dure reproach in the reformer's Camp... I have no quarrel with the church; it would only disturb my own spirit and do nobody any good, but this much I am free to say: Whoever does not apply Christianity to the special sins of his own age, in his own person and by his own work, is, to say the least, a most unscientific Christian. We ap­ ply steam, when we have manufactured it, to the specific places where it is most needed: we make it turn pistons and drive wheels. When we have caught electricity and tamed it, we turn it on where it can do most good. When the spirit of God had been generated in a aiuinan being, it must not be shut up in the prayer meeting or the church buili - i ng, but turned on in the saloons, the gambling houses, the haunts of shame, and for this purpose the ballot is one of its most effective batteries of power, New ran slat ion of "R. Si. V. P." 1 A clergyman entering upon the charge of a new living not far from London re­ solved to invite all his parishioners to an "at home" in order to make their ac­ quaintance, and accordingly sent out rards to that effect. A district visitor calling at one of the houses was at once accosted in this way: "Oh Miss, I have been wanting so much to see you, for my neighbor and I have got an invita­ tion card, but we are so puzzled about the four big .letters in the corner. She says they mean 'Reply goon, vict­ uals provided,' but now you will be able to tell us" , What^s Your Face Worth? Sometimes a fortune, but never, if you have a sallow complexion, a jaun- iiced look, moth patches and blotches ,.>n the skin,--all signs of Liver Trouble. But Dr. King's New Life Pills give Clear •^kin, Rosy Cheeks, Rich Complexion. Only 25 cents at Julia A. Story's Drug Store. Help... Nature Babies and children need proper food, rarely ever medi­ cine. If they do not thrive on their food something is wrong. They need a little help to get their digestive machinery working properly. SCO*]?" COD LIVER OIL. WfTH HYPOPHOSPMTES of LIME* SODA will generally correct this difficulty. If you will put from one- fourth to half a teaspoonful in baby's bottle three or four times a day you will soon see a marked improvement. For larger children, from half to a teaspoonful, according to age, dissolved in their milk, if you so desire, will very soon show its great nourish­ ing power. If the mother's milk does not nourish the baby, she needs the emul­ sion. It will show an effect at once both upon mother and child. 50c. and ft .00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. •Mm II 11 II II II » II 'Hi» wKSRisi: XVege tabic Prcparationfor As - simulating theToodandRegula- ting thcStomachs andBowels of IM AM S i HILDKIN Promotes Digestion,Cheerful­ ness and Rcst.Contains neither Opium,Morphine nor Mineral. Hot N, *0f*tllrWWEUmM# Pumpkin Setd~ Atx.Smna * jRetAtlU Smbt 9.. J4TWM Stmt * '• HirmSetd - Qanfwd Sugar . Wlhtryrmm. FXtrm Aperfect Remedy for Constipa­ tion, Sour Stomach,Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish- aess oral Loss OF SLEEP. Tisc Simile Signature of ~ NEW "YORK. A t b m o i i t h - s o l d j j DOSLS - ] JCL M S EXACT COPY OF WRAPPED J • CASTORIA For Infants and Children* k:* * f 2 The Kind You Have Always Bought For Over Thirty Years THC CCNTAUW COMPANY, NIW VOW* CITY. Our Muslin and Sheetings When in need of anything in this line, bear in mind that our stock is complete. New goods are constantly arriving and the chances are that you can find what you want at a Arrive We have placed onr orders for an immense line of Spring Goods which will soon arrive and be placed on our counters for your in­ spection. These goods were selected with care that we might please you in quality, quantity and price. Keep your eye on our ads and and profit thereby^ Cotton and Wool Goods Newest things in Black Goods * Call and inspect the goods mentioned above. They are here for yo*»r and will speak for themselves. Ladies' Petticoats The most complete stock of Ladies' Petticoats ever placed before our many customers. If you will call we will prove this statement. Plaid^ for Dress Skirts A fine line of Plaids. Ladies should call and see them he- fore going elsewhere. They are beauties and up to*date. Sleepy Eye Flour. •SiriON STOFFEL- West McHenry, 111. ••"v V '4 J. \ READ THIS And be assured that others will notice that well displayed advertisement of your's MM Aug. Buchholz, -The West McHenry, JUL Don't befl istaken If you want a stylish fitting Suit or pair of pants go to Buchholz, That is the Place HenipLkearno humbug fit an4 workmanship is the best. it Made up right or no sale. ; t *