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r l M ^ . . . . . • ' - • • . . - . . _ . • • • . • • , • • • • ' " • ' - . . . . . . . . - . . - • . . - . , • < • , - - . >; W tmrnrnmrnrnm^mmmm^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmt̂ mmm Christmas Gifts! The below listed goods by mentioning The Plaindealer all for $IO.OO. Man's Suit, $8.00 Gloves - 50c Tlan's Shoes 1.50 Neck Tie 25c Man's Shirt }5C Muffler 25c Man'Cap 75c Hose - - 15c Handkerchief - 10c. We will sell the above all for $10.00 from now to Christmas or until the supply is sold. This is a rare chance, so make a Christmas present. I Jos. W. Freund. ?<is? Hk. Sr'V-- NO NI£ED OP REPEATING A LONG LINGO ABOUT THE 1! Come in and see. That will tell the story. The special reduction sale is in effect ALL THIS MONTH--too many goods--too little cash is the reason. You can help us out if you care to. We have all Jthe needed Candies, Nuts, Oranges, Etc. (to^gladden the hearts ror yuletide. W. C. EVANSON r% fe Yes a warehouse full of Farm Machinery, Wagons and Buggies. FOR THE AFTER HARVEST TRADE we have an unusually well selected stock of time paving, labor saving, money saving Implements, which we fully guarantee. It is our aim to be up to date and ever ready to meet, even to anticipate the wants of our most progressive customers. Farmers who consult their best interests buy only the best of Goods. We sell the FAIRBANKS MORSE GASOLINE ENGINES all sizes. FEED! - FEED! - FEED! We have on hand a large stock of Bran, Middlings, Oil Meal, Salt, Etc., on which we will not be undersold, whether you want a bag full or a Car Load. Come and let as convince you. West McHenry, 111. WM. BONSLETT. :%• <i #' SB*' •» , Don't Hesitate! 1ft " £ T^re is no comparison between Tailor |j || made and ready made Clothing and the 8 difference in price is nothing compared || j£ with the difference in wear. We have « At thousands of samples to select from. Just || look at tlii'se prices for tailor made clothing: Suits, $9 to $40 Pants, $2.50 to $10.00 0 • Cleaning, Dyeing and Scourjng promptly &*.; attended to. Bring in that old Spit and [ype will make it look like new. m i |l John D. Lodtz QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAPPENINGS IN M'HENRY TWEN­ TY-FIVE YEARS AGO. Itoitt*'clipped from Th<> Phlndwiler Pub- tithed Dfcrmber n. 1878-Particularly latorMtliiK to Old Resident*. Joe Bach has again opened bis busi­ ness at his old Btand on Water street. It becomes oar painfal dnty to, an­ nounce the death of the youngest daugh­ ter of Geo. Schreiner, aged about three yetfTs, who died on Tuesday morning of membranous croup. This is the second child Mr. and Mrs. Schreiner have lost in the past four weeks. C. T. £?dredge has commenced his annual war on turkeys, chickens, dncks, etc., and is now dressing an average of over a thousand pounds a day, which he is shipping mostly to eastern markets. Everything at the ice house is now ready for taking in the crop, but it is probable that work will not be com­ menced until after New Year's. The ice on the pond is now about four inches thick. The ice will be thrown into the houses and cars this winter by steam in­ stead of horse power, as last year. The mortality among the children ill this village it* bee >111 ng a serious mat­ ter. Five have died within the past six weeks, and quite a number more are sick. The disease assumes the form of an epidemic, and by some is called mem­ branous croup Hud by others diphtheria. It is with ileepest regret that we are obliged to chronicle this week the death of the only child of Benson and Georgie Hanley, who die<l >ti Saturday evening last of membranous croup, aged about three years and uiue months. Our pickle factory is doing a thriving business this winter, the factory having orders for cars ahead nearly all the tima 'J 1 . ;,w.;v.:. iVy'v •• "&• >r"' f*v •• * " '."f, -Vi v<s - ~v ?'• • -""V • ^ Jv<sf « I have the finest line of Japanese Ware ever shown in McHenry. There is nothing nicer for a Xmas Gift. Come and look at it any way, it will do your eyes good. No one ever tires of nice Crockery. Fancy Golf Gloves, Stocking Caps, Silk Mittens^ Silk' lined Kid Gloves, Fancy Neckwear, Perfumes, French Flannels and Vestings, a nice all-wool Dress Pattern, Table Linen, Napkins, Towels, Mufflers, Sweaters to fit everybody. Fur Coats at reduced prices, fancy Linen Handkerchiefs, a ni^e-Qilk l^mbrella, Beaver Shavv Is, an up-to-date Belt, fancy Table Covers, Dresser Scarfs, an all wool pair Bed Blankets, a pair of good Shoes that are guaranteed, Fascinators and hundreds of other useful things that make sensible Xmas Gifts. The Store is filled with gocd things all out in plain sight. Give us a call and let. us show you what we have • Complicated Relationship*. 'It's astonishing when you come to think of It bow the simplest appearing marriages may have complicated re­ sults," said a philosopher the other day. "Of course when a man marries a joung girl and bis son marries the girl's mother the possible offspring have all sorts of relationships with their parents. Rut take a simpler case. A chap I know married his first cousin's daughter some years ago and has two children. Those olive branches are first cousins once removed to their grandfather and second cousins to their mother on the father's side and first cousins twice removed to their father on their mother's side. Then each is second cousin once removed to himself. A similar state of affairs occurs of course In the case of children of mar­ ried first cousins. 'I think I've proved my theorem, haven't 1. that complicated results of­ ten follow simple enough causes?" T the Public. We know of no greater service that this newspaper can render its many readers than to let them know of n really meritorious article and where the same may be procured. For this reason we wish to have every reader peruse the following re<*.ent letter to tin­ man uf act urers from Dexter Mahoney, general merchant at Quigley, 111. He says: "Please send me by express two dozen of Re-Go. I find it an ex­ cellent medicine and have to keep it ir stock." Re-Go Tonic Laxative Syrn] is an unfailing cure for Constipation, Sick Headache, Biliousness, Sour Stom­ ach and Dyspepsia. It is the ideal med­ icine for children. Sold in 26c, 50c and $1.00 bottles by G. W. Besley, druggist. W. McHenry, 111. Market Value* of Dead Rata. A New England senator tells a story of a certain wealthy business man In Providence. R. I., whose reputation for tight fistedness in business matters Is a matter of common knowledge even In neighboring' states. Not long ago the man of strict busi­ ness principles engaged a professional ratcatcher to undertake the task of rid­ ding his warehouse cellars of the trou­ blesome rodents that Infested them. The ratklller presented his bill, show­ ing that the Providence man was in­ debted to the former In the sum of (10. "Good gracious," exclaimed the tight fisted man as be glanced at the bill, "$10!" Then after a second's pause he anxiously asked: "Don't I get anything for the rats?"-- New York Tribune. S. S. ill. The Klclcapoo*. The Kickapoo Indians have a very peculiar marriage custom. They sim­ ply select their wives, and If the selec­ tion is mutual they reside together as man and wife, and nothing is said. There are no scandals among these people. Husbands and wives are true to each other, and the quiet under­ standing is considered as sacred as our marriage vows. There are few acts that can be termed criminal among this small band of Indians. Murder is seldom heard of. and death is the pen­ alty for the crime. Robbery from each ether is unknown. All their posses­ sions could be piled together In the ttreet. and no one of them would think of taking the property. Their religion is the same as Columbus found among the Indians when he first landed in America. They believe that there are two spirits--the great, good spirit and the bad spirit. After death the wicked are supposed to fall victims to the bad spirit. The religious worship is car­ ried on every day. It consists of dances and singing and beating of tomtoms. They are very delicate regarding their belief and seldom take a stranger into their confidence.--Kansas City Journal. A Tlwtuftaud T'OLLNI-H' HUIIII »F Good. "I have been af&icted with kidney and hla lder trouble for years, passing grav­ el or stones with excruciating pain," says A. H. Thurnes, a well known coal operator of Buffalo, O. "I got no re­ lief from medicines until I began taking Foley's Kidney Cure, then the result was surprising. A few di.ses started the brick dust like fine stones and now I have no pain across my kidneys and I feel like a new man. It has done me a th usand dollars' worth of good." A kidney or bladder trouble can always .be cured by using Foley's Kidney Cure in time. Sold by G. W. Besley, W. Mc- Penry. SomniouiiiK .Sleep. At al' times a pcriVct mob of ideas and words stands at the gate leading in­ to the mind, trying to get in. While we wake and are sane, says a writer in Everybody's Magazine, there is some­ thing that stands at this gate and lets in only the sensible ideas and the words that have relation to the subject in hand. All the others it keeps shoot­ ing away with: "Get back there! Goon away!" it is this inliibltive faculty that keeps us sane. But in order to reach the general paralysis of sleep we have to pass through a preliminary stage wherein we are as foolish as any lunatic. When the sentinel at the gate of the mind goes off duty for the night the mob of irrational ideas and words comes trooping in, and so when 1 would court sleep I deliberately open the door of my mind to the rabble, turning loose upon it a troupe of unrelated words and pln ases. For some reason or other I find that the vocable "abracada­ bra" is a good one to start off with. Often a word or sentence will repeat it­ self with increasing rapidity--and shall I say loudness?--until it is all a jumble which breaks up simultaneously with the disintegration of the colored pat­ tern before my closed eyes. A Chinese Fish Story. ( The tish editor of the Courrier de Tientsin is going strongly at present. Gloat over this, O ye disciples of Mun­ chausen. and cull a passing pointer. O ye followers in the footsteps of Ana­ nias: "Some days ago an enormous fish thirjy-Kix feet long was caught in the vicinity of Pel tang, near Tangku. It was cut up and sold in the surrounding vil­ lages. The carcass of the fish was probably poisonous, as 800 inhabitants who had eaten of it are dead and many others are ill." What royal fiction such a man would scribe about the sea serpent!--Shanghai Times. I It will be good news to the mothers of small children to learn that croup can be prevented. The first sign of cronp is hoarseness. A day or two lw fore the at- . tack the c hild heroines hoarse. This is I soon followed by a peculiar rough cough. Give Chamberlain'R Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or j even after the rough cough appears, and it will dispel all symptoms of croup. In this way all anxiety may be avoided. This remedy is nsed by many thousands of mothers and has never been known to fail. It is. in fact, the only remedy tha$ ran always he depended npon and thai' j is pleasant and safe to take. For sale | by all dr lggists. Koilnl pMia Cure digests all classes of food, tones and strengtnens thp stomach and digestive organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Stomach Troubles, and makes rich, red blood, health and strength. Kodol Dys­ pepsia Cure rebuilds wornout tissues, purifies, strengthens and sweetens the stomach. Gov. G. W. Atkinson, of W. Va., says: "I have used a number of bottles of Kodo' Dyspepsia Cure and have found it to be a very effectfte and, indeed, a powerful remedy for stomach ailments. I recommend it to my friends." Sold by all druggists. TOYS! TOYS! TOYS! N. H. PETESCH, Druggist. Jewelry Perfumes Stationery 1 FOR THE APPETITE g --------------i $ it': It is sometimes necessary for a person to indulge in some del­ icacy to "sharpen" the appetite. Something in the way of Fruits, perhaps, is what you need. We have a complete line. We also have a nice stock of Dried Fruits and Seasonable Vegetables that go well this time o' year. Telephone yonr order and we will guarantee to fill it satisfactorily. JOHN STOFFEL. Telephone No. 301. Oive u» a Trial. This is the season of the year when the prudent and careful housewife re­ plenishes her supply of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is certain to be needed before'the winter is over, and results are much more prompt and sat­ isfactory when it is Kept at band and given as soon as the cold is contracted and before it becomes settled in the sys­ tem. In almost every instance a severe cold may be warded off by taking this remedy freely as soou as the first indi­ cation of the cold appears. There is, no langer in giving it to children for it contains no harmful substance. It is pleasant to take--both adults and chil­ dren like it. Buy it and you will get the best. It always cures, i or sale by all druggists. The Secret of llaraaoay. Toung Mrs. Mead, whose experience of married life had been brief and happy, had just engaged two servants, a man and his wife, for work at her place. "I am so glad yon are married!" ahe said to the man, with whom she bad made terms. "I hope you are very, very happy, and that you and your wife never have any difference of opin­ ion." "Faith, ma'am. Oi Wouldn't say that," replied the new servant, "for we have a good manny, but Oi don't let Bridget know of thlm, and so we do be getting along well." CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tie Kind Yon Have Always Bought Bears tha 3lga»tip»of t J i 3 t t 3 HOLIDAY GOODS We are showing a large line of Fancy Goods for the Holiday trade from the cheap to the finest articles ranging in price to suit all purses A beautiful linebf Silks Velvets and Printed Velvets for Waists and Skirts. Children's Toques, Tamoshanters and Bonnets. Mittens and Gotf Gloves. We have a special line of Ladies Dress and Walking Skirts and vrilk Shirt Waists suitable for Xmas Gifts Heavy Shawls of every'kind. Shoulder Shawls, Head Shauls and Fascinators. Men's Fancy Mufflers, Neck Scarfs, Ties, Bows, Puffs, Shield Scarfs, Ways Muf­ flers, Kid Gloves, J\ ittens, Golf L.loves, Fur Caps, Fancy Shirts. - - - Toilet Cases, Dressing Cases, Manicure Sets, Brush and Comb Trays, Military Sets, Collar and Cuff Boxes, Photo Boxes, Albums, W ork Boxes, Kodak Lunch Boxes, Mirrors, Jewel Boxes Perftimes. The finest line of Shoes and Slippers in town. Every style and quality. Overshoes and Rubbers, Felt Boots and Sock Overs, Legginsv^juid Over Gaiters. Stuffed Wall Nut Dates, Kancy Florida Oranges, Fancy Mixed Nutsy. Animal Rookies, Fancy Cookies and Crackers in boxes and bulk. Canned Goods, Canned Fruits, Monarch Preser­ ves, Fancy Pickles, Clives, Sauces, Etc. Candy* Nuts and Fruit We are offering the finest broken mixed or Christmas Candy at 8c per pound. Finer grades at 15, 20, 25, 30, 4C, 5$ and 60c per pound in bulk or fancy boxes.. Don't forget to purchase a box for your best girl. - - - - We are Making Special Holidjy Prices on My Lines to (lose Out YOURS TRULY M.J. , WEST MdllY, 1LUH0IS. d.V&,