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ATM : wncc, i .............. ^ f diMUN BROS., - FlcHENRY. { Overcoats, Felt Boots and Overs, only £.v--TC;^i few left for selection. Also all lines •f' Of Dry Goods which must be closed out once, * r T : : : : : : : : : : : : mSmm mm mam BY { OUR ABLE CORPS OF CORRESPONDENTS I s ' $ This cold winter weather makes iis "coal up" in order to keep from freezing. We are extensive dealers in Coal and can supply you with any kind or any amount., We also handle Lime, Cement, Fence Wire, Tile, Building Paper, Lumber, Sash, Blinds, Doors, Etc. Don't forget that we always carry a complete line 6f Feecf. Give us your order and get the best goods to be had. fMNIHNMMHMNMMNMNtMMNMHMNMMMI What will I get for W* ' New YeaF Dinner? Independent Pineapples, can. .10c Good Baking Molasses, gaK.. .25c Apricots, can, Reindeer Strawberries.. .13c . 8c Fancy Teas, Best Grades Sngar Drop Gages/.......... .15c Green Japan, pound, only .20c Gages .10c Uncolored Japan .25c Plums, per can . *6c Oolong ,25c Blackberries, can , 8c Tea siftings, lb........... ... .10c Pumpkin, can . 6c Raisins, 3 pkgs ,25c Farm House Peas, can . 7c Scourene, 2 cakes.. 5c Baked Beans, can . j&C Snnnyside Catsup, bottle..... 8c (5 for ,28c Capiuicel Olive?, bottle 10c Tomatoes, can............... . 6c Al l .sorts of Cookies & Crackers Monarch Kidney Beans, can. . 8c Oyster crackers, pound 5c Corn, fresh arrived, Scans... .15c Soda crackers, pound 5c Full Value Bak. Powder, can. 9c Select sodas, 3 pkgs 25c Good Salmon, 3 cans 25c Fancy Holiday Dates, pound.. 9c ORANGES, BANANAS, FIGS, CANDIES, NUTS EVERGREEN WREATHS. FRESH OYSTERS ALWAYS ON HAND. \ / Anton Schneider, McHenry, III. Happy New Year F. L. McOmber, WEST SIDE HARDWARE. • If s° you ought to appreciate anything |5 that will help you save it. ' The best way to save time is to have a Your Time Chicago Tetephone Money =_ C«»t Imt 6* oeeta a d«y CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY Wilbur Lumber Co., | West McHenry, Illinois. § EMERALD PARK. Barry Bacon of Chicago waas recent visitor at J. B. Frisby'a. _ Frank Martin of Wauconda *m a re­ cent visitor at B. J. Fnsby's. Master Ray Walsh of Fox Lake b visiting his grandparents here. Geo. W alms ley, Sr.; is spending a few Weeks with relatives in Chicago. Miss Rose Geppanl of Chicago visited the Misses Knox the first of the week. P. Walsh took Christmas dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Jdhn Walsh of McHenry. Miss Alice Sutton of Elgin is spend­ ing a week s vacation at her houie here. Miss Mary Sutton of Chicago spent Christmas and Monday at her home here. ,. Messrs. Ed. and J. A, Farrell of Chi-, cago spent the holidays with relatives in this vicinity. Messrs. Albert Walsh and Ben Mar­ tin of Wauconda were callers at Ed. Knox's Monday. Misses Mayrne tod Lola Aylward of Elgin spent a few days the first Of the week with home folks. .. Mr. and Mrs Chas. Oivens and chil­ dren of McHenry spent Christmas with B. J. Frisby and family. Mr. and Mis. Wm. Robinson of Chi­ cago spent Christmas and Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Berkircher. L. E. Walmsley and Paul Walmsley spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. P. Reiger at Griawold Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Larkin and children of Elgin spent Christmas and a few days the first of the week at R. J. Sut­ ton's. Miss Beulah Larkin, who has been spending the past two months with her grandparents, returned home Wednes­ day with her parents. Miss Mary Knox and pupils of Emer­ ald Park school and Miss Mayine Kno> «nd pupils of Prairie school are enjoy ing a vacation this week. A Thousand I>ollsr« Worth of Good. A. H. Thames, a well known coal op­ erator of Buffalo, O., writes: "I have been afflicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, passing gravel or stones with excruciating pain. I got no relief from medicines until I began taking Foley's Kidney cure,then the result was surprising. A few doses 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 $1000 worth of good." Sold by G. W. Besley, West McHenry, 111. JOHNSBITRGH. The concert was well attended on Christinas eve. ^ _ Mr. and Mrs. Nick Weber were call­ ers here Sunday. Mrs. Susan Frennd visited her son, Hubert, Tuesday. * Mr. and Mrs. John Mertes are the happy parents of a baby girl. Mr. and Mrs. Joe J. Mertes visited at John H. Miller's at McHenry Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John V. Freund of Spring Grove were visitors here Sunday. Stephen M. Smith entertained all his children and relatives on Monday, the event being his namesday. Report Frout the Reform School. J. G. Gluck, Superintendent, Prunty- town, W. Vs., writes: "After trying all other cough medicines we have decided to use Foley's Honey and Tar exclusive­ ly in the West Virginia Reform school. I filid it the most efficient and absolute­ ly harmless." Sold by G. W. Besley,' West McHenry, 111. SPRING GROVE. : [People of Spring Grove and vicinity desiring to subscribe for The Plaindeai- er may leave their order and money with Raymond Moss^^ur correspond­ ent. The subscrippm price is $1.50 a year or 75 cents fo£ six months. Er i Dr. Fegers was a caller here Monday Frank Andrews was in town lit st week. - Mrs. Frank Shumacher fe Still on t?ie sick list. Dr, Wm. Lichty of Woodstock was in town Monday. " Mrs. Jack Warner^as a Fox "Lake visitor Friday. • Miss Alice Shotliff Was » Fox Lake visitor Sunday. . Miss Bertha Myers of Chicago spent her vacation here. Elmer Fuller of Chicago spent Christ-' mas with his family. James Westlake was a Chicago visit or Thursday and Friday. Michael Rauen has been q&tto sick, a result oi blood poisoning. Wm. Hogle and wife and daughter went to Liberty ville Sunday. Wm. Campbell and family oj^Solon were at Wm. James' Sunday. John Westlake and wife of Chicago spent the first of the week here. Theodore Spoonljotz spent Christmas with his parents at Genoa Junction. Andrew Neish aud wife and son, Bernie, Were Fox Lake visitors Monday. Harold Watts was seriously injured by the explosion of a dynamite cap, last Wednesday. Mrs. James Neish and Mrs. Cot) Marble were Johnsburgh callers Satur­ day evening. Must l»f y«tck, Pains in the stomach and attacks of the colic come on so suddenly and are so extremely painful that immediate re­ lief must be obtained. There is no ne­ cessity of sending for a doctor in such cases if a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is at hand. No doctor can prescribed better medicine. For sale by all druggists. The Plaindealer will be sent to any address on trial three months for twen­ ty-five cents, and will be discontinued at the expiration of time unless other wise ordered. Try it. A Frightened Horse, Running like mad down the street, dumping the occupants, or a hundred other accidents, are every day oc­ currences. It behooves everybody to have a reliable Salve handy and there is none as good as Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Burns, Cuts, Sores, Eczema and Piles disappear quickly iin%' its soothing effect. 25c at Jnlia A. sWory and N. H. Petesch's, McHenry, and G. W. Besleys West McHenry drug stores. The Plaindealer will be sent to any address on trial three months for twen­ ty-five cents, and will be discontinued at the expiration of time unless other­ wise ordered. Try it. - An Emergency Medicine. For sprains, bruises, burns, scalds and similar injuries, there is nothing BO good as Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It soothes the wound and not only gives instant relief from pain, but causes the parts to heal in about one-third the time required by the usual treatment. As it is an antiseptic all danger from blood poisoning is avoided. Sold by all drug­ gists. New Year's dance at Central Opera House, January 2, 1905. Don't forget the "want ad"colnnin1 lankets At Actual COST • * We are offering:, for a short time only, our entire STOCK OF BLANKETS AT ACTUAL COST. Just stop and think what a big saving this means,to you. Every Blanket in the House must go. Come early and have first choice as they are bound to go fast at these prices. GUS. 'v " ' h What -does the Breakfast-Bell a mean in your household Light, whole-v some Biscuit = made with Dr. PRICE'S' Baking Powder? or ttflwftolesoffle'food made with an alum baking powder? Bis worth poor white to inquire. "jit""*".. FREE $2.50 TREATMENT. Describe Your Symptoms to Dr. Franklin Mites, the Celebrated Heart Specialist, and He Will Send You a Complete Special Treatment for your Case, Absolutely Free. To the people who suffer from weak heart, short breath, pale lips, cold feet and hands, poor circulation, dizziness, fainting spells, palpitation, weak, sink­ ing or smothering spells, pain in side, shoulder or left arm, irregular pulse, fitting up to breathe, swollen ankles or dropsy, etc: v A word with you. I am a practicing, graduated physician, with over a quar­ ter of a century's experience in treating human ills. I have discovered a scientific method of treating the human heart, when sick, by means of tonic tabloids, a cura- tive elixir, eliminating pills and a com­ pound strengthening hyoscyaniic plas­ ter, in which the ingredients are so var­ ied in strength > and composition as to ejive every one of my patients the bene­ fit of a treatment so carefully adapted to their case as to make a cure practi­ cally certain. , To prove to you the positive value of my new system of treatment for a cla$8 of diseases hithereto deemed incnrable, 1 will gladly send you free a complete set of these special remedies adapted to your own particular case, together with valuable advice as to diet, exercise, etc., upon request. All I ask of yon is to write me a com­ plete history of your case, with symp­ toms. your age, height, sex and weight, mentioning this paper, when I will at once prepare and send to you this Com­ plete .Special $2.50 Treatment together with my new Book on Heart Diseases, absolutely free. Address: Franklin Miles, M. DT LL. 13., Dept. W, 421 to 481 Main St., The Grand Block, Elkhart, Ind. - New Year's dance at Central Opera House, January 2, 1905. A Timely Tuple. At this season of coughs and colds it is well to know that Foley 's Honey and Tar is the greatest throat and lung rem­ edy. It cures quickly and prevents ser- iousresults from a cold. Sold by G. W. Besley, West McHenry, 111. New Year's dance at Central Opera House, January 2, 1905. If you haven't time to prepare Hollis- ter's Rocky Mountain Tea, it is now made in tablet-form also. Get a pack­ age already to use. Makes yon well; keeps you well. 96 cents. Q. W. Bes­ ley.1 New Year's dance at Central Opera House, January 2, 1905. Removes the microbes which impover­ ish the blood and circulation. Stops all trouble that interferes with nutrition. That's what Hollister's Rocky Moan- tain Tea will do. 35 cents. Tea or tablet form. G. W. Besley. When an Iceber* Turin Turtle, Think of sections bigger than ttliod® Island being torn from a glacier and swept off into the ocean, to be ferried j 3,000 miles on the bosom of the Lab­ rador current until the heated waters of the gulf stream cause them to van­ ish from human ken. Then can one form some Idea of the immensity of the Ice area discharged from the Green­ land seas each year. Thousands of miles of valley are constantly emptying their contents Into the bays and fiords of the north waters, whence the tides hurry the detachments southward to cumber the wide Atlantic. The disposition of Icebergs to turn turtle Is one of their most dangerous propensities. It arises from several causes. When they start out from Greenland their bottoms are heavy with the detritus gathered in their glacial period, and this drops off at in­ tervals as they move south, causing tfceir center of gravity to change and the berg to assume new positions. The scientific theory of the formation of the vast submarine plateaus which ex* tend from Labrador to p'undy, and are commonly knq*fn as the Grand banks of Newfoundland, is that they are the products of bergs duringi. countless ages.'--Leslie's Magazine. WalklaK od the CcOiar. Few people probably know what it Is that enables flies to walk on the ceil­ ing. It has been supposed that their ability to do so was due to the fact that each of their feet is a miniature air pump. This theory was found to be unsound, and it was then explained that the feat was made possible by means Of a viscous substance which exuded from the hairs on their feet. This theory also was abandoned as being only partly accountable for the facts, and the preferred explanation is that flies are enabled to walk upside down oh smooth substances by the help of capillary adhesion. An investigator has found by a series of nice calcula­ tions, such as the weighing and meas­ uring of hairs, that a fly would be upheld by capillary attraction were it four-ninths as heavy again as it is. Each fly is supposed to be furnished with from 10,000 to 12,000 minute foot hairs. These exude an oily fluid, and it is because of the repulsion between a watery surface and this oily liquid that a fly finds It difficult to mount a damp­ ened glass.--Harper's Weekly. I OUR. Best Ads are not PRINTED Spoiled It All. A farmer went to hear John. Wesley preach. Wesley said he would take up three topics of thought. He was talk­ ing chiefly about money. His first was, "Get all you can." The farmer nudged a neighbor and said: "This is strange preaching. I never heard the like be* fore. This Is very good." Then Wes­ ley discoursed on "Industry," "Activi­ ty," "Living to Purpose," and reached his second division, "Save all you can." The farmer , became more excited. "Was there ever anything like this?" he said. Wesley denounced thriftless- ness and waste, and he satirized the willful wickedness which lavishes in luxury, and the farmer rubbed his hands, and he thought, "All this have been taught from my youth up,' and what with getting and what with hoarding it seemed to him that "sal­ vation" had come to his house. But Wesley advanced ' to his third head, which was "Give all you can." "Ah, dear; ah, dear," said the farmer; "he has gone and spoiled it alll" They are Worn! Ilellotroplsm. Hellotropism is the peculiar property shown by many plants, notably the sunflower, of always turning toward the sun. In the case of seedlings the phenomenon is especially marked. The cells on the light side are apparently retarded in growth, thus causing a curvature toward that side. Professor Romanes experimented with an inter­ mittent light, such as that of an elec­ tric spark discharge, upon mustard seedlings and found the heliotropic effect produced in this way far greater than that, caused by the sun or any other form of light. Strange to say, however, this abnormal influence Is un­ accompanied by the generation of phlorophyll, the green coloring matter In plants which requires sunshine for Its proper production.--Pall Mall Ga­ zette. First English Letter. The oldest letter written In English of whleh there Is record was that to Sir John Pelham in London by his wife, who was then in Kent That letter is dated March 22, 1339, and was sent to London by messenger. Up to the commencement of the reign of Edward I., all letters, even of the most private nature, were written in Latin, About the time of Edward's accession, French, which had been the spoken language of the court from the time of the conquest, began to be used in written correspondence. In the reign of Edward III. the English language, in pursuance of an act of parliament, was made the language of legislation. We have undoubtedly reached the eil- jnax in ease'apd style In purmenture Coats, body and over, are comfortably roomy, and trousers deeidly easy at. the hips and through the legs, fitting close over the shoe at the instep. Though the shoulders are broad and full the natural width of the shoulders has supplanted the bulging fullness of artificial padding, and the unnatural Hercules proportions are reduced to give a graceful contour and manly dignity. Collars and lapels are broad­ er and shorter, so as to be in keeping with the increased width and length of the garment. The notch points of la­ pels are rounded, even to bluutness, a welcome change from the pointed cor­ ners which always have a tendency to curl outw&rd after a few weeks' wear Even the lapels on some of the double breasted sacks I have seen have the "step" corners quite blunt, a style I admire more than the wide, sharp- pointed rovers now rather common. We do as we Promise and Promise only What we Do. | John D. Lodtz. ! FAIfCr GROCERS Ne w Ye ar Candies. Tf|r our broken mixed caady. Finest in town; We guarantee it to be pure. Pure sugar broken mix.. 15c 2 lbs. for 25c Peanut squares, 2 lbs 25c Peanut taffy, 2 lbs 25c A mixture of 50 different kinds of chocolates, 2ft>..25c FANCY Chocolates <£L Bonbons $ lb. box chocolated 1 lb. box chocolates, 2 lb. box chocolates. | lb. box bonbons... 1 lb. box bonbons ... 2 lb. box bonbons... 3 lb. box bonbons.». Cake trimming, lb.. Fresh Cracker Jack, es for. . • »-4-. 25c ..50c . .$1.00 ....25c ....50c ..$1.00 . .$1.25 ....25c 7 box- ....25c Cannibalistic Scorpions. During many years of scorpion hunt­ ing I never remembered to have seen two individuals living together in amity, and even their more tender re­ lations are tainted at times with the ' unamiable habit of cannibalism. The males are decidedly smaller than their mates, whom they approach accord­ ingly with the utmost caution. If the fair inamorata doesn't like the looks of her advancing suitor she settles the question pffhand by making a murder­ ous spring at him, catching him in her claws, stinging him to death and mak­ ing a hearty m^al off him. , This is scarcely loverllke. On the other hand, if a dubious wife, the female scorpion is a devoted mother. She hatches her eggs In her own oviduct, brings forth her young alive--unlike her relations, the spiders--and carries them about on her back, to the number of fifty, dur­ ing their innocent childhood, till they are of an age to shift for themselves in the straggle for existence.--Oomhlll Thedford's Black-Draught comes J nearer regulating the entire system i and keeping the body in health than any other medicinfe made. It is always ready in any emergency to treat ailments that are frequent in any family, such as indigestion, i biliousness, colds, diarrhoea, 'and stomach aches. Thedford's Black-Draught is the standard, never-failing remedy for stomach, bowel, liver and kidney troubles. It is a cure for the domes­ tic ills which so frequently summon I the doctor. It is as good for children as it is for grown persons. A dose of this medicine every day will soon cure the most obstinate case of dys­ pepsia at constipation, and when iwfcftTi as directed brings qnick relief. DANVELLK, 111., Doc. 23,1903. Thedford's Black-Draught has been our family doctor for five years and we want no other. When any ot us fotsl badly we take n. dove and are all right In twelve hoars. We hare spent lots ot money for doctor bills, but get aiong just as well With Black-Draught. jftA H. BADKK. Ask your tValer for a package of Thedford's Black-Draught and if he does not keep it send 25c. to The Chatta­ nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. and a package will be mailed to v°u. CHOCOLATES Molasses chips, sour or­ ange, walnut squares, ma­ ple squares, maple creams, pecan creams, raspberry creams, nougats, lemon creams, strawberry creams, almond^ top pineapple creams, triple vanilla choc­ olates, coffee creams, Sara­ toga chocolates, banana chocolates, peach chocolates cream wafers, almonteen chocolates. The above chocolates in f | j lb. or 1 lb. boxes, assorted or plain, per lb . 35c These are absolutely high grade chocolates. A good mixed candy-* ,; . 10c FANCY GROCERS Telephone £3 , BO YEARS* EXPERIENCE PATENTS 1 RADC HMMHC cot>vmSm^le. Anyone sending a sketch «u<i deeorlptkui way quickly ascertain out opinion free WMther an Invention is probably patentable,. ConaesBto*- tu'n.s strictly cotitidtmtlal. HANDBOOK OB Pateata im Okie-n for securtnj£aetettt4-Patents taken UirvuKh Muutt A To. wctlr« rytcuil notice, without charge, lathe Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated culation of any scientific , year: four mom lis, |L So weekly. L»r journal- Ter _ m by all newsdealer*.: N&wTort I. IS* ¥ St.. w***uvt , ^