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. i v^s* . / « ^ A » 7 ^ ;'*r %&*»-..• v. FORTUNE iN TWO TREE8. (Continued from page one) | *,> . P»: «*• m,-' -: i' *> •$.<~f: fe' second yield, and they were even better than those of the first crop. The fame of the Tibtoetts seedless oranges went far and wide in Southern California. „ . People who were growing the old- %- * fashioned oranges traveled hundreds of ' • miles in wagons to see the trees. V, Vjj," "Mm Tibbetts was sure that "there ^ was a fortune in his new variety of ' ; , oranges. For two years he experiment­ ed with propagating trees from shoots and cuttings from his two seedless orange trees. But all his attempts were failures. Finally he hit upon the scheme of budding from the seedless naval trees upon seedling trees. Ex­ periments along that line were success­ ful. It was found that a btid taken from one of Tibbettes' two navel orange trees and grafted into the bark of a seeding tree would grow to be a limb, which bore seedless navel oranges. "Then Mr. Tibbetts grew tiny seed- jS V / ling orange trees, just as had been done 1 by orange growers for ages, and butted ' into the trunk of each little tree several ' navel orange buds. When the buds had become branches of the trees he cut away all of the original or seedling branches, leaving only the naval or­ ange branches to bear fruit. In this way he easily created navel orange trees, and the problem of growing seed­ less oranges was solved. "The planting of groves of seedless orange trees propagated from bnds from the two original trees on the Tibbetts place began in earnest through­ out Southern California in the winter Of 1882. In the following year the demand from the Tibbetts trees was so large that a dozen buds sold frequently for 15, and some growers, desirous of getting navel orange bnds of genuine quality paid $1 each for buds. In 1884 the two Tibbets trees fnrnished buds that sold for $1,500, and a tall fence was built about them to keep people from stealing buds. A year or two latter the orange trees that had been propagated from the Tibbetts trees began to bear, and they themselves furnished tens of thousands of navel bnds as good as those from the two original trees. Then the first navel orange growers be­ gan to bear fruit, and from that time the boom in navel orange groves has continued. No one plants seedling orange trees nowadays, and tens of thousands of seedling trees have been budded into navel orange trees. The average returns from seedling orange groves in Southern California during the last ten years have been less than $100 an acre, while there are . navel orange grovep region that inict profits of $250 and $300 an acre a year. "The two trees from which have come directly and indirectly all the navel oranges in the world are still on the old Tibbetts ranch in Riverside. Since Mr. Tibbetts received the shoots from the argncultural department and began propagating the first seedless oranges Riverside has grown from a hamlet of less than thirty American residents to a beautiful prosperous city of 14,000 population with an assessed valuation of $8,275,000. It is the greatest orange- producing locality in the world. Some 18,000 acres of land is devoted to orange growing. The average annual ship­ ments of oranges from Riverside are 1,600,000 boxes, valued at $2,100,000. All this has come from the introduction of Tibbetts' seedless navel oranges," Golden Weddings are taking place •O over the country. The old V/f M v % t ; • >< ' • V. . * OSTKND. f ALACK! ALASt • She never talks about herself, - Her troubles or her I abora j .. Because her time is taken op. In talking of her neighbors. y- Chas. Jecks was a visitor st the metropolis May 1. Miss Lutie Martin Is assisting Miss Orvilla Clark at present. Miss Ethyl King, of Woodstock, spent Monday with friends here. , There will be preaching at the school- house next Sunday evening. Miss Jennie Thomas is assisting Mrs* Richardson at this writing. Mm Henry Hobart and son Roy were McHenry visitors Wednesday. If a woman tries to practice what her husband preaches she has no time for gossip. Thos. Jecks and Chas. Hollister of Woodstock, were Sunday visitors at Peter Martin's. Miss Orvilla Clark, who has been suf­ fering with a felon, is, we are happy to state, is much better. Mrs. E. E. Bassett was a Woodstock visitor Wednesday, at which place she is having deqtal 'work done fcy Dr. Besley. Lester Nogle, who has been working for Peter Martin, has returned to his home at Woodstock on aoooiint of sickness. It sometimes happens that a man of resources is one who has ingenious methods contracting liabilities. We know such. Mr. Johii Dwelly and family, of Woodstock, were visiting at the Thom­ as Bros. Wednesday. Mrs. Andrew Thomas, who has been visiting there, re­ turned home with them. Mr. Samuel E. Clark is having his sheep sheared this week. The flock numbers nearly 600. Messrs. Chester Howard, John Dalzelle and Wallace Colby are doing the shearing. There will be a School Exhibition at the school-house on Friday evening May 11th. to which all are cordially invited. An admission fee of 10c will be charged to buy new curtains, etc. for the build­ ing. Quite a lively runaway occurred here last Friday afternoon. The team of Ed Pierce's ran nearly a mile attached to a drill Fortunately but little damage was done. The strangest part of all was that the team ran at full spprf through six different gates an^' only struck one. Mr. Pierce cer^nly has a team that will "keep 7 we road" under all circum04®*1068* We^ 2*4$*'grade laundry work./ If yon appreciate it give us your trade. cHenry Wyckoff. '1* * ,< * * - i . '«(, sVP' S£ * R IF- i r : - ! ^ ' r V ^j' * i . * i. si- S?5 * 1 i-i ti. Hi* 'iv;i v *< w 4 'jt' *:' V ? •' '•! r; - • i . Yi " ' V' / ' • <*" 1 ' 4-v V /-> * * couples evidently took Rocky Mountain Tea in their young days. 35c. AwW yctar Druggist. s-ipfl I J OHNgBUSGH. Rev. H. Mehring was a caller in Chi­ cago Monday. Hubert Miches was a visitor m Chi­ cago Tuesday. John P. Lay was a business cailer i^ Chicago Tuesday. i Rev. H. Mehring entertained hip brother this week. Peter B. Freund, of McHenry, was a caller here Sunday. Stephen H. Freund spent several days in Chicago this week. C. M. Adams transacted business in Chicago on Wednesday. Hubert Huemann, of Chicago, called cm friends here on Thursday of last .week. Miss Minnie Kerst returned to Keno­ sha on Tuesday after visiting relatives here several weeks. Peter Weber finished drilling a well for Mrs. Catharine Freund on Thurs day furnishing plenty of water after drilling 17 feet. He is drilling a well r Math Schaefer at present, Bennie, the nine year old boy of W. Hay and wife, met with an accident on ^W^fies<ISy~tiiat cost his life. While sliding down a straw stock he fell on a hay knife, dying about an hour after the accident. Dr. Nye was summoned but arrived too late to help the poor boy. _ fc '"v.* ' L,a«t Tuesday wat the Day f-^2' to hegin taking Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for that indigestion. If you . didn't you better ask Julia A Story at \ her Drug Store. She will tell you just what's what for she is reliable , ^ _ • and on the square. • o j l s t o t u c a . • . -' Sum the /j The Kind You Have Always Bought ~ 1 1 Steam Laundry, W. N. SPRING OBOTS, Jesse Richardson was a Chicago visit­ or Saturday. Rev. Cross was a caller here Saturday and Monday. Mrs. Hannah Wheeler was a caller here Sunday. Mrs. Kate Shotliff is spending a few days at Wilinot. John Miller, of McHenry, transacted business here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Coulman spent Sun­ day at Jas. Westlake's. Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt left here Mon­ day he having completed his work here. Jas. Westlake has charge of the creamery during the absence of John Waspi ^ Fred Hatch is having the interior of his house papered and renovated. Ed and John Coleman, of Wilmot, are do­ ing the work. Arbor Day exercises were held here last Friday at the school house, two trees being" planted. A pleasing pro­ gram by the pupils folldwed. /-Married at McHenry April 85, 1900, pohn Waspi and Miss Lydia Andrews. "mrttesare known tp the groom fi^nag had charge of the cream­ ery Mte ever since its organization as a tjfariners co-operative was effected about five years ago and has made friends with jUl both in a business and social capacity/ The.young lady has spent liefentire life here and has a host of friends. To them we offer congratu­ lations ahd the heart felt wish that their future pathway inay be very pleasant. They are at present spending a short time in Iowa. At our annual school election- the question as to whether the district had had a complete board of directors for some time past or not, alleged non- residence on the part of clerk being held by complainants, was brought up, By vote the matter was referred to Sugt. Wire who after reviewing the facts in the case forwarded the same to State Supt. Bayliss who gave his decision. The question is now where did any one get, or have author­ ity to state to Supt, Wire that the party did not have a residence here?. The Supreme Court in E. R. Moffett vs Robert H. Hill vol. 181, p. 289 decided that "A permanent abode in the sense 9f statute in regard to elections, means Nothing more than a domicile, a home which the party is at liberty to leave temporarily as intrest or whim may dictate. It is not required that the elector shall continuously remain at his residence and his absence may be long or short, or for definite or indefinite periods and he does not hereby necessari­ ly lose his residence or right to vote" At #10 Ml OnM ,, **A few days ago," said a clubman* *1 received a small jar filled with a pe­ culiar brownish paste, which was sent me as a present by a young Chinaman who used to have a laundry here, but Is now living in San Francisco. A tet­ ter which accompanied the gift ex­ plained that the paste was a combina­ tion of peanut buds and ginger jelly. That sounds like a joke, but it lsnt. "If you will break open the kernel of a peanut, you will find at the base a lit­ tle cone shaped formation usually sur­ mounted by two microscopic leaves. It is the life germ of the nut, and If planted would develop Into a tree. As my friend Wong explained to me, the nuts are first roasted and then these minute growths are carefully extract­ ed. They are so small it takes many thousands of them to fill a teacup, but when a sufficient number are collected they are put in a mortar and ground Into a fine flour, which is subsequently mixed with the ginger jelly and rubbed down to a smooth paste. "That sent me was about the consist­ ency of cream cheese, and it had a peculiar aromatic taste that was rather pleasant. It Is One of the queer semi- confections that the Chinese like to nibble at between courses, and as it costs $10 an ounce it is literally worth almost its weight in gold. I have eaten a little of the preparation, but I don't think I'm apt to acquire a taste for it#* --New Orleans Times-Democrat. Willie'* Menu. The New England small boy general­ ly shows business capabilities at a ten­ der age, if he is ever going to have them. I have heard of a certain small Boston boy who got into the habit of teasing his mother for pennies until at last she said to him: "Now, Willie, 1 don't, like to give you pennies. If you want money, you should go to work and earn it." The boy remained thoughtful for some time. Then within a few days the mother perceived that Willie had plenty of pennies. She wondered a bit where he got them, but did not question him. But one summer day she noticed that some sort of a hulla­ baloo was going on in the back yard. Looking out,, she saw Willie surround­ ed by a mob of boys who were yelling with delight. She went down into th,e yard to see what was going ©iv as she passed out she s^w stuck up on the back wall .<?£ the house this notice, quite perffly "printed" out with a pen­ cil' WILLIE JONES WILL EAT 1 small green worm tor large green worm for.. 1 small fuz*y worm (or.. 1 large fuzay worm (or..... 1 small green toad for.................... Willie was apparently doing a thriv­ ing business. His mother Interrupted it--at any rate, in her own back yard. I don't suppose that she had any assur­ ance that he wasn't still carrying it on somewhere else.--Boston Transcript.. 1 cent 2 cents 3 cents & cents 25 cents More Than Imagination. : A commercial traveler, whose wife is one of those women who borrow trou­ ble indiscriminately, had occasion to make a trip east. $ His wife was very anxious about him and felt certain that he would fall a victim to smallpox, which was reported to be prevalent in the city to which he was going. She begged him to carry a little lump of asafetida in his pocket to ward off contagion. Naturally he objected and positively refused to be made the permanent abode of such a persistent odor. When he came home from his trip, he said to his wife: "It Is wonderful, the power of the Imagination. Why, don't you know, I Imagined that I smelled asafetida the whole time I was gone." "It wasn't imagination at all," quiet­ ly replied the wily little woman. "I sewed a bit of asafetida in the cor­ ner of your coat before you went away!"--Memphis Scimitar. A Flying Star. On a summer evening you may see Arcturus high up In the south or South­ west In June or July and farther down in the west in August or September. You will know it by its red color. That star has been flying straight ahead ever since Astronomers began to ob­ serve It at such a speed that it would run frrfm New York to Chicago In a small fraction of a jninute. You would have to be" spry to rise from your chair, put on your hat and overcoat and gloves and go out on the street while it was crossing the Atlantic ocean from New York to Liverpool. And yet if you should watch that star all your life, and live as long as Me­ thuselah, you would not be able to see that it moved at all. The journey that it would make in a thousand years would be as nothing alongside its dis­ tance.--Professor . Simon Newcomb in Youth's Companion. PAUL MUELLER I ItleEknry, ;V ./i, Bakery floods ana Confec­ tionery Cake (Ubite and Rye Bread fresb Every Day • i \ CHARLES 4 FREIT , Wholesale and retail ,, . jn • am In the rUiffHr M Poultry Smoked Meats, Saus^e CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of AMERICAS MOST POPULAR RAILROAD <B A l§0 & • O warn mmmm nRR % Through Pullman service between Chicago and and Wind mills Steel and Olood Catties - and Farm macbinery A full line'tn every department _ \ *We are prepaid ' to do ' -'v.': Well Work of all Kinds BiffUtU* (jm #•**> 2 jl •The Kind You Hqrc Always Biqp Hard Worii. Mrs. Tucker--Tommy, wl you so late? Tommy--Had some words with the teacher, and she kept me in. after school. •„ Mrs. Tucker--You had words with the teacher? Tommy--Yes'm. I couldn't spell 'em.--Chicago Tribune. 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CUCUMBER ..5I> need a Telephone There is hardly an hour passes but that you could make convenient and prof­ itable use of a Telephone either in your office or house, or both. v vs 5 to i6c per day of .24 hours is certainly a reasonable charge for service, and is hardly sufficient to be reckoned as an expense by the most economical. We will be glad to explain in person and a postal card request will rea^ife pl-ompt attention. { Chicago Telephone Company SIMON STOFFEL, Manager flcHenry, Illinois We want to contract al number of acres w J V of Cucumber Pickles at 40° PER BUSHEL, CA8jf Stdtfonl & Goldsmith (ompy. j R. W. Stafford. Robert P. Goldsmith. ; (Established in I860) General office: 608-700 Austin Ave., Chicago. Factories at Chicago, Marengo, McHenry, ;•and Libertyville. , . i -|p[ake your contracts 'v get your seeds at: dimon Stoffel, M.J.Walsh, John J. Miller c» Waiter O. Evanson, West McHenry. Gilbert Bros, or Owen & Chapell, McHenry. John P. Lay or C. M. Adams. 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Herriain Springfield, Mass. c^irriOK | BLANKS EXPOSITION (OITEES --You can drink coffee of the same superior, smooth, rich flavc j> if you demand Faust Blend at your club or restaurant, or buy I for your home. It costs more because it is worth more--in 3-pourJ i air-tight cans, whole, ground or pulverized, $1.30 per can. The above is a cat of the most complet e coffee plant in the U n i t e d S t a t e s . T h e tremendous business that made it necessary to erect such an establishment is the result of new ideas applied to the coftee busi­ ness. C. F. Blanke was the first man in the United States to blend coffees solely with regard to their drinking quality in the cup, rather than follow the ,old formulas of so much " Mocha" and so much "Java." There are good,medium, and poor Mochas and Javas, the same as there are good, medium and poor California fruits. That is the reason other coffees are not uniform. Blanke scientifically blends every lot of coffee to produce a drinking quality cxictly like " it has always been." " Faust Blend " is his higwt grade. Blanket other brands are as good proportionatej ̂ The C. E\„ Blanke Tea and Coffee Go. has . secured the follow^ agencies who will handle their celebrated teas and coffees: ^ GILBERT BROS., McHenry C. G. WESTERMAN. Greenwood, GOLDINO BROS., Waueonda U. W. COBEL, Lake iiuricb -r* . V , M .1 * i :K7r§'^ JOHN P. LAY, Johnsburjr HAWLEY BROS., Harvard JOHN ROSTNG G. H. HOOKER, Woodstock R. PANTALL, Mllbu --TJiOMPSON, Wllmout. W|». J. «. COHN, Antio -/> *• < ' ] sj ** & ~ ^ 4 S i y