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wmw ̂ mmmm He Ndfeay PMSHler SWINY SIDE OF FARM UFE PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY 'BKWBRY PUIKDEAIER COMPART. ir. K. OBAROBB, W. A. CBISTT, J. B. PBRHY, Pres. Sec. Treas. '.K Oiig, D. SOBOOKMAKKR, Editor. ^Mlla Buk BmUdin*. lUtpkOM. No. IR a ' TBRM« OF SUBSCRIPTION: li« year ... I aoBtlt, net*. $yM Three months. Mcts. Thursday, January 39. 1903* FOB COLLECTOR. - ' I hmby announce myself as m candi- '**' date for the office of township collector and respectfully solicit your support at At the coming spring election. 81-tf PETER NIECES. 1^' JUDICIAL CONVENTION. " ^The Republicans of the Seventeenth judicial circuit, comprising the counties of Boone, McHenry, Lake and Winue- bago, are requested to select delegates to represent said counties in a judicial oocvestion to be hsld at the Grand Army lwll in the city of Rockford, 111,, at 1 p. m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, 1098, for the purpose of nominating three can­ didates for judge of the circuit courts of the 17th circuit, to be voted for at the next regular election for judges of said court, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before such convention. The baas of representation for the avenl counties forming said circuit will be one delegate for each 300 votes and the major fraction thereof cast for president in the year 1900. Under that basis the said counties will be entitled to delegates as follows: Boone, 11; Lake, 17; McHenry, 17; Winnebago, 87. •... CHART.ES WHITNEY V R..W. WRIGHT 7 B. K. WELSH • Committee. ' . The Chicago University continues to "'#&ow--and so does the price of coal oiL •S IF John D. Rockefeller gives $1,000,000 to Chicago University today what will be the price of kerosene tomorrow? your answers to the puzxle editor. • ========--===== IT has been predicted by weather ̂ fitophetB that we will have an early ^ring. This is encouraging to t&e coal consumer, but what about the coal , , Inmost IT IS estimated that 70,000 people in Sorthern Sweden are suffering from 7 *** of food. It is not the only place in Ike world that people are crying out with hunger. Perhaps Andrew Carue- ; gle will open his heart and build them COL. ARTHUR LYNCH, tbe Irishman who fought for the cause of freedom in the Boer army and while the war was •till in progress was elected to the Eng­ lish parliament by the Boer sympathiz­ ers of County Gal way, Ireland, has been tried and sentenced to death for high treason. Should the sentence be carried out (which is not probable) the bitter feeling between Ireland and England would reach the limit JOHNSBUBGH, Peter Niesen went to Woodstock Mon- on business. fj ,T . Mrs. Frank Wagner of Spring Grove Wu here Monday. &\v ̂ Miss Rose Huemann called on Mrs. C. M. Adams Monday. p Miss Maggie M. Adams transacted Wsiness in Chicago Thuraday. jjy. Hubert Klapprich entertained some of friends at cards Sunday evening* f H. Newman came out from Chicago ' Thursday to visit friends and relatives. John King and family attended Wm. Huff's wedding at New Munster Wed- ll^Seeday. Mr. and Mrs. John Karls of Spring ' Qroye were the guests of Casper Adams fStinday, Misses Emma Pitzen and Maggie Adams visited several days with Rose Huemann the past week. ̂ John P. Lay and family and Mr. and 'U 'Unu John King visited C. M. Adams * and family Sunday evening. ||<v Mr. and Mrs. Peter Freund are the happy parents of a baby boy which ar- .̂7 rived at their home last Friday. (Continued on page one) A Cough "I have made a most thorough trial of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and am prepared to say that for all dis­ eases of the lungs it never disap­ points." J. Early Finley, (ronton, O. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral won t cure rheumatism; we never said it would. It won't cure dyspepsia; We never claimed it. But it will cure coughs and colds of all kinds. We first said this sixty years ago; we've been saying it ever since. nM*a: 25c., S#c., SI. All dreg(t*U. jOoaMlt your doctor. If be says tak* It, Ikaa 4m M U. uj». If h. tilU ftrtafer Isgl - __ you not tt, tbM don't take It. Ha knows, jtjrithhtu. We are willing. J.C. AYKK CO. LowaU, Nih. hands of our farmers is too great to be even comprehended. The purchasing power of the inoome derived from this property places our farmers in positions of greater security and independence than any other class enjoys. n. There is less friction between employer and employe in farming than in any other business. "Strikes" and "sympathetic strikes" that paralyze business frequently in in­ dustrial centers and cause distress and terror and sometimes bloodshed to those involved do not reach them. We see no "union" and "non-union" troub­ les in agricultural districts, which is reason for no small amount of gratitude. III. There is little danger of over production in farm products. The world must be fed, and the fanner furnishes the food; the world mnst be clothed, and the farmer furnishes the raw material from which clothing is made. If there iB a surplus produced here out* railroads soon transport it to supply a defiency there, and this is so quickly done that the danger of exorbi­ tant prices for the necessities of life in any locality is lessened, as well as the danger of low prices of any crop. IV. Farmers can depend on a market for their products. , When "hard times" come those who manufacture and deal in the luxuries of life suffer first and most because their goods can be m<*re easily given up by those who use them. When people find their incomes have grown less from any reason and they cannot buy, or should not buy, everything they want, they buy needful things, as those they must have. A large proportion of those needful things are furnished directlv or indirectly by our farmers. A market is thus left open for their products when many other business intents suf­ fer severely. Y. More formers own their homes than any other class of people. If a season of short crops oomes or a period of general financial distress, they usually manage to "weather the storm" and keep their homes To do this, re­ trenchment may become necessary and cherished plans given up, but as lavish living and display is much less in the country home than in the town home of equal means, retrenchment is much easier and more certain to occur when it becomes necessary to save that home. The farm, too, furnishes so many of the small things needed for household comfort that must be pur­ chased by those less fortunately placed. Often-times the sale of these small things makes no mean addition to the income of the thrifty farmers and is a material help in paying expenses and in tiding over difficult places in farm econ­ omy. Not many years ago there was a great "hue and cry" in certain political circles about the "poor farmers with their mortgaged farms," and we were asked to believe that fearful financial disaster was sure to come upon that abused, though deserving, portion of our population. But it never came. Individual cases of hardship there were, no doubt, for not all our farmers are provident and far seeing, and some lo­ calities were unfortunate, but as a class the farmers of this country have a firmer footing now than ever before. They own more homes, and better ones, have better stock, better implements, better clothes ahd have larger bank ac­ counts. Of one thing we can be cer­ tain, the farmers of this nation are the foundation of its prosperity. When they become fit subjects for commisera­ tion all other business interests will be paralyzed, for all others unite to form the superstructure built upon that foundation, and there can be none safer or more substantial. VI. The opportunities for the agri­ culturist of the present day a*.e appar­ ently without limit in our country. The broad acres of the public domain are diminishing as occupation of the less accessible portions goes on, but every year irrigation and drainage are re­ claiming the swamp and the desert and adding them to the tillable land of the country. Many sections once considered worthless for any agricultural purpose now literally "blossom as tbe rose" with exuberance of vegetation. Pros­ perous homes appear where disolation reigned, and the blessings of peaceful energy are extended. It is more diffi­ cult now for any man to "own all that joins him." The population of the old­ er sections has become more dense and the demand for land there is now great­ er. The broad acres of the "old settler" now command a price he cannot resist, and his "big farm" is divided among eager purchasers or he himself divides it among members of his own family to keep them around him. These smaller farms require different treatment, more diversified crops, more economical man agement, more careful, intelligent cul­ tivation. These changed conditions re­ quire better and more exact training for the farmer to enable him to win success. It is the mission of our agri­ cultural colleges, experiment stations, farmers' institutes, etc., to provide that training for the former of the present and the future. It is also the privi­ lege of the progressive farmer to pro­ vide himself with publications that give the latest and best information along those lines in which he is most interest­ ed, and so keep himself thoroughly well informed. James A Garfield once Haid: "In order to have any success in life, or any worthy success, you must resolve to carry into your work a dull­ ness of knowledge." This "fullness of knowledge" is the privilege of the farmer's wife in mat­ ters pertaining to her own sphere. Up­ on her devolves the duty of making her home an inspiring one to everyone con­ nected with it. She should make it comfortable, bright and sunny. She fbpnld U8e to wcoinpliih this and seek for more knowledge, and everywhere throughout the length There is no lack of literature to instruct and breadth of our land, we find the her in the work of her own department, sons and daughters of those homes men and at prices that places it within the and women of charaotf-r and influence-- reach of all. It is bright, attractive stronger aud better lor the stern disc - and instructive, and with such aid no j pline of youth. If this rugged portion r.-<r ,1-'if M. housewife has any excuse for getting in­ to a rut and staying there. She can get ideas enough, if she will, to make a "House Beautiful" of a humble home with food on her table "fit for a king." No woman, I believe, has a better set ting for a "House Beautiful" than the farmers' wives of our own rich county. Wealth is not necessary in making an attractive home, but good taste and re­ finement are essential, and nowhere are both more abundant than among our own women. Wealth combined with good taste make the beautifying of our country homes easier, but the erne, re­ fined housemother, who loves her home and family, will gather beauty around her anywhere. She cannot help it--it is a necessity of her nature--but she has her best opportunity in a country home of her own for the development of individaal taste. The conn try home haa nearly alway^ the merit of a roomy interior and a broad ontlook. It has the stimulus of fresh air, pure water and clear skies to make one think it a good thing just to be alive and do things. There is always plenty to do, there is no use denying that, nor the fact that the head of the household must always be on the committee of "ways an<l uieans" to make and keep a competency. Still there is time and energy lett to develop and carry out some plan for beautifying the home and its surrounding*, it is marvelous how much can be doue by judicious expen­ diture of a little tune and money about the home! How the interior can be freshened and made inm-e comfortable and convenient and coveted pieces of furniture added! In the home grounds the possibilities are delightful. The setting of trees, shrubs and flowering plants to grow into things of beauty, the smooth lawn, all cost but little outlay, yet they go far toward making a home, a home indeed, and a place where the boy and girl will like to stay. A beautiful home is an object lesson that every beholder has the right to en­ joy and is sure to lead to the better­ ment of other homes and other lives; so the maker of that home, though seeking only to gratify an urgent, innate sense of beauty, becomes a benefactor and ed­ ucator of others. The making of the ""House Beautiful" ourselves and in­ spiring others to do likewise is one of the bright spots in farm life. This has been going on for years until over the farming districts of this nation these delightful homes are found to testify to the taste and energy of their owners. When those of moderate means can do sc much to make their homes attract­ ive, we have a right to expect much more of the fortunate .possessor of wealth, and our expectations have not been in vsin. The log cabins of the early settlers gave way to the low roofed frame houses in our own state, and these in their turn to another style, until now one sees new residences, stately and beautiful, with every mod­ ern convenience and luxury. Within are found well stocked libraries, as well read and well digested as the city home can boast. One finds, too, the best pa­ pers and magazines, and household ful­ ly "up to date" in intelligence and that knowledge of tbe world that comes only through training and extensive travel. The farmer's daughter now becomes a college graduate as well as her brother or her city cousin. She talkes her pljuie as mistress of a farmer's hom^Sndsqees the treasures of her well stored mind to beautify and enrich it. My own love for country and farm life began on a rocky hillside farm in New England. It was one of those farms of which a western man would say: "It's all right for scenery, but 1 don't see how they get a living." Har­ riet Beecher Stowe made one of her characters eay of New England life: "They get rich selling their disadvan­ tages. " There were plenty of disadvan­ tages on that farm but not 'much de­ mand for them. There was also "a good deal of land to the acre" and a great many stones. But to my childish eyes, it was a delightful place with ev­ ery advantage needed for perfect bliss. The country home is ever a paradise for children and that home was no excep tion to the rule. There was liberty al­ ways, and the changing seasons brought a variety of which we never tired. The early spring brought the sweet delights of tbe sugar camp, and, later, the eager search for May-flowers in their hiding places while tbe snow trtill lingered in the valleys. The varied joys of the summer and all the glories of the au­ tumn foliage still linger in my memory with a beauty and freshness I shall nev­ er forget. Even winter brought its joys and sports for childhhood--the wild rnsh of the slide down hill, the building of the snow fort and the mer­ ry game of snow ball in the. winter sun­ shine. The gathering of the household around the evening fireside is well told in the following extract, no doubt fa­ miliar to all: "Shut in from all tbe world without, We sat the clean winged he%rth about, Content to let the north .wind roar, In baffled rage at pane and door. While the red logs before us beat The frost-line back with tropic heat; And ever, when a louder blast Shook beam and rafter as it passed, The merrier up its roaring draught The great throat of tbe chimney laughed. £ "What matter hqw the night be- havedT What matter bow the north-wind raved? Blow high, blow low, not all its snow Could quench onr hearth-fire's ruddy glow." ' Life there meant hard work, strict economy and stern self denial if a grow ing family was to be fed, clothed and tim rtwtjr mm wm tUm* \ of our country has done so much for the •children nurture<l there, can we not ex­ pect more from those nurtured in more favored localities, where life is not so stern a reality? What may we not ex­ pect from the homes along the shores of our great lakes and broad rivers--from the sunny South and the Pacific slope- where conditions of soil and climate are ideal? Surely there is every incentive to action and every possibility of success in this wide range of fortunate local­ ities, and, better still, every requisite, among our agricultural people to make tbe most and best of their opportunities,. There is now, appannrly. a ready market for every tbing the soil can pro­ duce and so rapid are the means of transportation the most perishable pro­ ducts are soonin tbp hands df the con­ sumers. There is a constantly increasing love of country life among our people. Ev­ ery year the shores of our rivers and lakes are becoming more thickly stud­ ded with the summer homes of those anxious to escape the city's turmoil. Our boys who have been sometimes so eager to try the excitements of the city cow meet those still more eager to ex­ change them for tbe quietest nook to be found. This is having its effect upon our ambitious young people. Many now are looking for openings for their energies nearer home and in safer fields of endeavor among, the Bunny farms of onr country. , MRS. fl. P. BDCKLANA, Ringwood, 111., January 14, 1908. James Faulkenberry, official surveyor of Reynolds Co., Lesterville, Mo., writes as follows: "Your Mother's Salve is the best I efver saw. I used two jars on my scalp for a kind of Eczema which has annoyed me for twenty years, and it has done more good than all else I ev­ er tried. Easy to use. Quick to act Price 26c. For sale by N. H. Petesch Sunflower Seeda ai Food. The sunflower crop is one of the best paying in Russia. A good crop is worth as it stands in tbe field $25 an acre. The seeds are sold by tbe farmer for about $1.50 a pound; then tbe mer­ chants salt them and retail them for $3 a pound, and at every street cross­ ing in Russian provincial cities at® stands arid peddlers with baskets sell­ ing to the passersby the salted prod­ uct of the big sunflower, which is eaten. ' Stop Ik. A neglected cough or cold may lead tp serious bronchial or lung troubles. Don't take chances when Foley's Honey and Tar affords perfect security from serious effects of a cold. "N. H. Petesch. Wanted the Whole Outfit. A friend onc$,bwr9|e to. Mark Twain asking his opinion on a certain matter, and received qq -reply. He waited a few days and then wrote again. Hig second letter was also ignored. Finally he sent a third Botfe, Inclosing a sheet of paper and a two cent stamp. By re­ turn post he received a postcard on which was the following: "Paper and Stamp received. Please send envelope." Many of tbe His from which women suffer can be completely cured with Rocky Mountain Tea. Rich, red blood, good digestion and health follow its use. 85 cents. G. W. Besley. Unprejudiced. ^/'But, judge, you were asleep when tne testimony was presented. How can you give a decision V" "Easily, sir, easily, for no one can accuse me of having been prejudiced by the arguments of either side."--New York Times. WEEDS Consumption !s a human ,veed flourishing best in weak ungs. Like other weeds it's ,asily destroyed while young; vhen old, sometimes im- ossible. Strengthen the lungs as you vould weak land and the veeds will disappear. The best lung fertilizer is Scott's Emulsion. Salt pork is good too, but it is very hard to digest. The time to treat consump­ tion is when you begin trying to hide it from yourself. Others see it, you won't.. Don't wait until you can't deceive yourself any longer. Begin with the first thought to take Scott's Emulsion. If it isn't really consumption so much the better; you will soon forget it and be Better for the treatment. If it is consump­ tion you can't expect to be cured at once, but if you will begin in time and will be rigidly regular in your treat­ ment you will win. Scott's Emulsion, fresh air, rest all you can, eat all you can, that's the treatment 4M?d that's the best treatment We will sencl you a little of the Emul­ sion free. 69 sure that-ffhis picture in the form of A Mabel is oil the wr.ipi>er of every bottle of KtnuUion you buy. SCOTT A BOWNE, Chemists, 409 Pearl St, N. Y. yx. amd$$; mH drnggiatfrj DO YOU GET DF - ? ^ WITH A LMWBier? Kidney Troupe Makes You Miserable. Almdat everybody who reads the news­ papers is sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It is the grea:t medi­ cal triumph of the nine­ teenth century; dis­ covered after years of scientific research by Dr. Kilmer, the emi­ nent kidney and blad­ der specialist, and is wonderfully successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou­ bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst form of kidney troubie. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec­ ommended for everything but if you have kid­ ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found Just the remedy you need. 11 has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur­ chase relief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement has been made by which all readers of this paper who have rpt already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to «»!.<!# Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing- pffe hamton, N. Y. The" regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-rioot. dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists. Don't muke any mistake, but ramember the name, Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root and the uddress, Bin«hamtonf N. Y., on every bottSe. Want Column. Ads. in this; column 25 cents per week for five lines or less; ovor five lines, 5c per line per week. Special rates by the month. •"p*OR SALE -1- two lots, wooasnea ana chicken coop, young orchard of all different kinds of fruit -- A new seven-room house and two lots, woodshed and chicken coo| and shrubbery. Will Call at IMaindculer. be ery Mti arch 1. \17'ANTED-- Faithful person to travel for vv well established house in a few counties, calling ou retail merchants and agents. Lo­ cal territory. Salary $1024 a year and expen­ ses, payable 119.70 a week in cash and expen­ ses advanced. Position permanent. Busi­ ness successful and rushing. Standard House, 334 Dearborn St.. Chicago. *23 - let p>OR SALE--Three short horn bulls. For A further particulars address Cole Bros., Spring Grove, III. Xj^ARM FOR SALE--Consisting of 314 acres, 2H miles from McHenry. with or without livestock and farm tools. Inquire of F. K. Granger, West McHenry. 111. A Life at Stake. « If yon but knew the splendid merit of Foley's Honey and Tar yon would never be witbont it. A dose or two will pre­ vent an attack of pnenmonia or la grippe. It may save your life. N. H Petesch. Smart Dressers will find onr Spring Suit­ ings and Overcoatings ab­ solutely correct in style and quality. Prices extremely low* A few minntes of your time is all we want to con* vince yon that we are show­ ing the bandgomeat line of Spring and Summer Suit­ ings ever offered to the trade. Won't you take a look? Tailoring Unexcelled. JOHN D. LODTZ. V tbM Mt Wfm WriaUeta. 2>as irucfybanb N. H. PETESCH, Druggist, McHenry. HARPER WM .'-.'V'-'A: '**• Physicians prescribe it for their j&^st delicate patients. OLD aud'PtJR^;' For sale by / All Leading Dealers I • SSMSSSSSI "IF YOU SEE IT IN OUR AD, ITS SO." i/- * i * \ 'Mzvr:: ;• - v v J' ia .'*•> Jf Goods ^ .... ^r,.... & ' v K*S.f " \ . . . . v , \ r s ^ > e V-* • • jy "V" '-Tl "^T1 r-Vi' ** * *•> j " k ' S * ̂ SueelSt**' to 0. McHsnry, I Wast M NMCEOOOOOA--BM oaoHHW O«MM | " f* E V A N S O N S ARE YOU INTERESTED? a*i iSpedal Shoe Sale here urda|k' Rubber Good^ iaS eluded. Fifteen cents for Child's Rubbers, size 9. The Bargain prices continue £9. usual* Come for the s&ke V' .1 " C of your Pocketbook. *15- C. Evanson. ' V"v- ' • y A N ' " Y"r '7 VfV* V' that a Furniture Dealer should have -what his customers want and alsp that he should place the prices within the reach of all. That has been our motto always and it has proven to be right. This Store is always tilled with staple articles in House Furnishings and is never lacking in a few extra fine pieces. Our prices must he about right or we would not have done such a big business last year. It will be the same in 1903. Plenty of Goods select from at right prices. v In Undertaking and Embalming my work has always proven satisfactory. Years of practical experience and study in this "branch of the business has enabled me to go about the work intelligently. Satisfaction is gugr*. anteed in all cases. V •J Jacob Justen. McHenry. 111. Hay and Grain Having recently purchased the. Elevator and Vinegar Factory formerly owtmh! by W. A. Crist y I am now prepared to sell all kinds of F E E D in large or small quantities AT ipWEST MARKET PRICES will buy yonr.. Y^. ,^' A N D O A T S for cash, or will take same in exchange for other feed. I now have on hand a large stock of Bran, Middlings, Corn, Oats, Oil Meal and Salt I have coming a large and complete stock of Farm Machinery, Wagons, Buggies, Etc. call and examine my stock fend get prices before b u y i n g e l s e w h e r e Wm. Bonslett. - ? Y i