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-i- . ;; \v- , " 1 '.. *- v •' ** - 1 - . . ; * : **" v^. .• s»' 1 .*, ' *• . v~ ? < * -/*' ; ^ «,-r r'v ' K T , *-lim^ir--"* ill-1 -'"linnaiM-niii VOLUME XXXIII. fc-. - McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, MARCH a8,1907. " ." •» *.-. ^ . NUMBER 40 Spr ing> f l i l l i n e r y $ 1 k - V. /"=* <•* ' ; •*-1 » | i r;V.vjvl *f| *r>\ J J t t 3 i t t 3 t t t t 3 To the Ladies I wish to announce to the ladies of this" vicinity that have my liiie of spryig and summer millinery auul feel safe iif paying that inv 1907 line is by far the best I have e^er exhibited. All the latest creations known to the millinery world can be supplied here. To th&„ ladies I Extend 4 . very cordial invitation to call an<|^ see beautiful line* ̂ Street and DresS ̂ Hats In the street and dress-hats I j £jin consciously defy anyarid all competition as to quality and price and with every hat I turn otit guarantee perfect satisfac­ tion. No cheap, trashy goods, ?*l»ut the kipd you can wear'with \'the utmost pride. Call and see if I ain#>lypiit. Positively Finest Line I Have Ever Shown m\ ss vn« m« jobnsburgb, « * Illinois Prtoo * sazso per pair.* • To tutpommo Wo Wtti SoU YOB M SOM/tfo Sot* Only IS ILL IT WILL COST YOU to write for our big FREK BICYCLK catalogue showing the most complete line of high-gride BICYCLES, TIRES and SUNDRIES at #RICKS BELOW any other manufacturer or dealer in the world. MOT BUY A BICYCLE XT5 or on o*y kind of terms, until you have received our complete Free Cata­ logues Illustrating and describing every kind of high-grade and low-grade bicycles, old patterns and latest models, and learn of our remarkable LOW PRICKS and wonderful new offers made possible by telling from factory direct to rider with no middlemen's profits. WE SHIP OH APPROVAL without a cent deposit, Pay the Freight and allow lO Days Free Trial and make other liberal terms which no other bouse in the world will do. You will learn everything and get much valu­ able information by simply writing us a postal. We need a Rldmr Agmnt in every town and can offer an opportunity ;o make money to suitable young men who apply at once. 50 PUNCTURE-PROOF TIRES£y NAILS. TACKS OR GLASS WON'T LET _ OUT THE AIR (CASH WITH ORDER *4.65) NO MORE TROUBLE FROM PUNCTURES. Result of 15 years experience in tire making. No dinger from THORNS. TUS. PINS. NAILS. TACKS or CLASS, Serious punctures, like intentional knife cats, can be vulcanized like any other tire. Two Hundred Thousand pairs now fn actual use. Over Seventy-five Thousand pairs sold last year. Fir fair Notice the MUCK rubber tread "A" and naaetoN strips "II and «D,» also rim strip "H" to prevent rlaa catttac. Tfcin tire will outlast tire will outlast n> stkwr make--SOFT, ELASTIC an* EASY RIDING. DEMGtUPTtQMt Made in all sizes. It is lively and easy riding, very durable and lined inside ith a special quality of rubber, which never becomes porous and which closes up small punctures Wivas u ^ j _ - - . ... without allowing the air to escape. We have hundreds of letters from satisfied customers stating that their tires haveonlv been pumped v.ponce or twice in a whole season. They weigh no more than an ordinary tire, the puncture resisting qualities being given by several layers of thin, specially ereoared fabric on the tread. That "Holding Back" sensation commonly felt when riding on asphalt or soft roads is overcome by the patent "Basket Weave" tread which prevents all air from being : when riding on asphalt The regular price of these price to the rider on approval. You do not pay a cent until vou have examined and found them strictly as represented. We will allow a cash discount of 5 per cent (thereby making the price 94.55 per pair) 1: , FUXX CASH WITH OKDEK and enclose this advertisement. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump and two Sampson metal puncture closers on full paid orders (these metal puncture closers to be used in case of intentional knife cuts or heavy gashes). Tires to be returned at OUB expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. Ask your Postmaster. Banker, Express or Freight Asrcntor the Editor of this paper about us. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that'they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any lire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle vou will give us your order. We want you to send us a small trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. ' . |» -rn rmrmm built-up-wheels, saddles, pediUa, parts and repairs, and WJmSFt SM'EffC/lff COa everything in the bicycle line are sold by us at halt the usual prices charged by dealers and repair men. Write for our big SUNDKXcatalgge. aajkM mmm m mmm but write us Q postal today. DO NOT THIKa OF BCTDTG a DO HOT wvAtT bicy e making. mmgm m mmmmmmm but write US a posiai louuy. m/mmi mtt WW*Iff bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the sea wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it MOW. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Dept. "J L" CHICAGO, ILL A Want Ad Doesnt He stop and pocket some of it instead of trying to avoid it? No man can afford to turn his back on the COAL QUES­ TION, it's the burning question of the day. We Sound a timely warning that a rise in coal is near and any orders that are left with us will be filled promptly. ORDER NOW. ; We carry a full line of Lumber, Lath, Mingles, Brick, Lime, Cement, Etc. Olilbur Cumber Co. ,A THE PLAINDEALER AND WATCH THE RESULTS. ADVERTISING means PROGRESS. TRY IT AND SEE}. r/:' f" =S\ P H I L I P J A E O E R GENERAL COriMISSION MERCHANT SFSCIAL ATTENTION GIVKN TO THE SALE OP Dressed Beef, flutton, Hogs, Veal, Poultiy/ Hides, Etc., Butter and Eggs This is the oldest house on the street Tags and price lists furnished on application. STORAGE FREE "*1)" •ASSS"*- • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. hShe A Niee Legai Distinction. A lawyer in the Indian Territory aamed McOftnn was the attorney for a farmer who had killed a neighbor. McGann got the man out on ball on the plea of justifiable homicide or some- thins of the kind. fxd the farmer Im­ mediately took his gun and killed the chief witness against him. Naturally this nettled the sheriff and the judges, and they offered $300 re­ ward for the murderous farmer. "Say,' said McGaun to the sheriff, "will you give me that reward if I get him?" "Ye*" the sheriff replied, and McGann rode out to the hiding place of his client. The farmer came up, and McGaun shot liini, took the body back to town and demanded the reward. "How afSSut this, McGann?" asked another lawyer. "Do you think it is in accord bAco with the ethics of the legal pro­ fession to take advantage of your cli­ ent in that manner?" "Ethics be blow- ed!" snorted McGann. "I killed him in another case."--Exchange. Sagacity of Blind Horailte A The way in which blind horses can go about without getting into more difficulties than they ordinarily do is very remarkable. They rarely, if ever, hit their heads against a fence or stone wall. They will slide off when they come near one. It appears from care­ ful observation^that it is neither shade nor shelter which warns them of the danger. On an absolutely sunless and windless day their behavior ,1s the same. Their olfactory nerves doubt­ less become very sensitive, for, when driving them, they will poke their heads downward in search of water fifty yards before they come to a stream crossing the roadway. It can­ not be an abnormally developed sense of hearing which leads them to do this, for they will act alike though the wa­ ter be a stagnant pool. Men who have been blind for any great length of time develop somewhat similar instincts to blind horses. ^tmi efk h The Frencft have some Interesting similes of their own corresponding to the English "drunk as a lord" or "drunk as a wheelbarrow," says a ! London writer. The most generally | recognized one in the case of "ivre,! | the less extreme and less vulgar word ! for drunk," is "Ivre comme une soupe J --"soupe" meaning the piece of bread ' eaten with soup as well as the soup it­ self, and a bouillon soaked piece of bread offering a natural slpiile for sat­ uration. When the-l^ss delicate "sotJl" is used instead of "ivre," the Fren<5» man may speak of being .as drunk as an ass, a cow, a Swiss or a thrush The allusion in the last case is to the fondness of thrushes for grapes, which are said at vintage time to make them unsteady in their flight. - • ^ ' te^for tl\e want of every kind - ' Worse Inaid* Than Out. /4!I$ you should visit a Japanese house," said an oriental, "you would be obliged to remove your shoes at the doorway. Japanese floors are very beautifully kept. I know of some houses where thirty or forty servants have no other duty than the polishing of the floors. A young Japanese stu dent, studying in London, had the mis fortune to live in an apartment house where the janitor did not keep the hall In very good condition. It was a great change to him, and he felt it keenly. On the approach .#t wUttjjer the janitor put up in the entrance the no­ tice, 'Please wipe your feet.' The young Japanese, the first night he ob­ served this notice, took out a pencil and added to it, 'On going out'"-- Minneapolis Journal. V'. '• A Tale of Red Tsps. " :' s At»ong the tales of red tap^flfr fol­ lowing should hold a high place: M. Roger CavaUhon, a young French gen­ tleman rider, who had won his hun­ dredth steeplechase, was drawn for the conscription and had to serve for a year. He asked to be placed In the cavalry, explaining with due modesty that he was not unknown as a horse­ man. The military ^council of revision refused the request on the ground that as his period of service was only one year he would not have time to learn to ride. A Strong Reason. ^ The bookkeeper of a sportsmen's publication received a letter one day from an old subscriber stating that he had long read it with interest and was aware that it was time to renew his subscription, but did not wish to do so, as he would not need it in the fu­ ture. It was not noticed that the post­ mark was that of a town In which a state prison is located, but the post­ script was eloquent. It said, "P. S.-- I am to be hanged next week." i'n a 8tudlo. b ordered you to paint me some cows in a stable. I see the stable, but where are the cows?"- "They are in the stable." "So is your pay for this picture. You had better bring both out."--Saeta. Conjugal Pleasantry. ICzt. Benham--The good book tells us that we must not covet our neighbors' wives. Benham--Well, I guess there isn't much commandment breaking on your account--New York One of the Mysteries. •One of the mysteries of the world Is .that which leads a man to tackle a sec­ ond cigar after the agonizing experi­ ences with the first one.--Milwatikee •"Free Press. What Lazy Means. Teacher--Bob by. what doan husy mean? Bobby--Lazy means always to want your little sister to get it for you. Natural abilities can almost eornpep- i'OfJfcnl- A Government to Kick About. "We kick about our own govern­ ment," said a reformer, "and it Is doubtless pretty bad, but what would we think If it took the taxpayers' mon­ ey to pay every year a pension of $50,- 000 to the Goulds, another of $73,000 to the Astors and another still of $25,000 to the Vanderbilts? That is what goes on in England. The English doctor, the English druggist, the English car­ penter, all sorts of hardworking Eng­ lishmen, are taxed $200 or $300 a year, and the money goes to pay the huge pension of some ducal loafer who is already too rich. Charles II., for In­ stance, granted an eternal pension of $9o,000 a year to ..the Duke of Rich­ mond and Gordon, In all the years since Charles II.*s time that pension hps been paid out of the taxpayers' pockets. To this day It is paid. The present Duke of Richmond and Gordon settles for his dinners, at the Rltz in London or at Ciro's in Monte Carlo with m^ney earned by English butch­ ers, bricklayers and blacksmiths."--Ex­ change. The Lion's Mouth. The use of the lion's mouth as the •ent of a fountain is so common that It cannot t>e regarded as accidental. As a matter of fact, the custom (like so many customs--not forgetting the foun tain pen) came from Egypt, which adopted it because the annual inunda­ tion of the Nile takes place when the sun Is in the constellation Leo--the lion. The allusion is too obvious to need pointing out. The oldest fixed date (4241 B. C.) can be traced to Egypt, where the calendar was intro­ duced in the middle of the forty-third century. And the history of modern shipbuilding began in Egypt, where it can be traced to about 3000 B. C. Hie most recent discoveries give to the land of Egypt a clean run of about 11,000 years without any admixture of foreign races. "Egypt, land of hidden mysteries, great mother of science and art, what thinking mind has not dream­ ed thee!"--New York Press. . Husband Would Settle. From India conies a story of the dis­ comfiture sof a very distinguished sol- die|. It happened at a big dinner, »where he had taken in a pretty Amer­ ican globe trotter, who asked him to pass a dish of almonds and raisins. "With pleasure," replied the gallant son of Mars, "but do you know that what you have asked for is called in the vernacular kissmlss and that the penalty of a kiss attaches to the re­ quest?" "Is that so?" answered the woman calmly. "I must consult my husband," and she called across the table to him and told him of the request. "Quite so," he replied, "according to the custom of the country iiLis a just debt and must be paid, but is the gen eral aware of the arrangement made when we married that I must settle all my wife's liabilities?" Submerged Aristocrats. Some curious letters are quoted by Mr. Percival Bickerstaffe the pedigree searcher? in an interview with a repre­ sentative of the London Tribune. One runs: r' "I am a plumber and gasflter out of work. My stummick is empty, but in my art is the blud of noble burth. * * * 1 claim the family title and tenements which I will not be denyed the same." A city clerk wrote: "I have long suspected that I am of high birth. People tell me that I have manners above my station of life. My photograph herewith shows that I have an aristocratic cast of face and will perhaps be a clew to my ancestry. I do not ask for fortune, but I aspire to the pride of race." Beane to Separate Bones. Anatomists, when they wish to sep­ arate the bones of a skull, sometimes resort to a very peculiar procedure. They fill the skull with small beans and place It In a vessel of water. The beans swell and rend the skull apart at the sutures. The well known Ger­ man physiologist, Grehaut, measured the force which .the beans are capable of exerting under these conditions and found that it indicated five atmos­ pheres, equal to the average pressure in the boiler of a steam engine. Put on More Than the 8addl«. A cookery teacher was giving a les­ son to a class of children and ques­ tioning them on the joints of mutton. The neck, shoulder, leg and loin had been mentioned. "Now," said the teacher, "there is another joint no one has mentioned. Come, Mary, I know your father is a groom; what does he often put on a horse?" "A dollar each way, miss," was the unexpected answer. -- Casaell's Satur­ day Journal. Not a Dog. Old Lady (to chemist)--I want a box of canine pills. Chemist--What's the matter with the dog? Old Lady (In­ dignantly)--I want you to understand, sir, that my husband Is a gentleman. (In profound silenoa. the chemist put up some quinine pills.)--London Queen. * Hie Name. "Who is that long haired fellow!" "Uriah Rembrandt Peiggs. He's making quite a name for himself." "I should think he would. If my parents had given me a name like his I'd have started to make one for my- selfatonce." •I* ^ A<Good Exampl^k ; Father -- Why did you run away, Franz? Franz--Because mamma was go unkind. Father--That is no reason. Do I ram away?--Wiener Caricatures. The Universal Tyrant. Everybody condemns the silk hat; rerabody finds it absurd--and OYtry- " . • ' h ^ . . v . . . Chat new Harness you placed your order for your new spring har­ ness? If not, let us figure with you. We are turning out some of the finest work ever seen i n Mc- Henry and want to do your wok. New harnesses are being b e i n g t u r n e d o u t here right along and our customers are pleased. Come i n and let us give you our prices. :: :: 111. fl. Cbelen, McHENRY, ILLINOIS. Bank of This Bank receives, deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange, and does a GENERA! BANKING BUSINESS. We endeavor to do all intrusted to our care in a manner and upon terms entirely satisfact­ ory to onr customers and reafMct- f ully solicit the public patronage. Honey to Loan on real estate and other first < security.. Special attention given to-rco^ctions. . INSURANCE in Firat Class Companies, at the lowest rates. Yours Respectfully Perry & Owen, Notary Public. - Bankers. A FINE LINE Of MEATS ALWAYS Here is the place where there can be found at all times a most excellent line of fresh and salt meats, sau­ sages, etc. It is our aim to keep on hand only the cleanest and freshest line and therefore we believe we can please all. : : : : Fresh Fish Every Friday We will also have a nice line of fresh fish on Friday of each week. Give us your order and we will fill it with promptness and satis­ f a c t i o n . : : : : : : : I r. MATTHEWS, JR. CENTERVILLE Market J- \ We handle everything In the line of fresh and salt MEATS We also handle Johns- burgh Creamery Butter •'l.y - j McHenry, •:5,