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i r • 'XV"** 7 " c ' - N i#, *„ ,• < < j. 'A * ,S ^ ^ 1 . ft |jg " •» ' ' V "•\1» J'-"!':f-i • k v,'<"' ** '•' VOLUME XXXIII. McHENRY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, APRIL u, 1907. - v ' 1 ' - w v BALLOT. •im £ V7 ' ' For President Board of Trustees PETER J. FREUND.* ». ̂2*: ' •' <*. ."•<•'• ,. Por PmUiBt Board of Trusties BLOCK. SIMES. HERBEJS. 1* ^ ^ wm.pift jimnlfji-l ( :• 5,1 #or Trustees ALFRED M. BROWN. • WM. BONSLETT. ̂v • >7 ..... . «-> V ' ft'III jiUll'llnf^ll^^ liiiltjllj'l'j' ; V' • "is •-i..; m I hereby certify that the above is a true specimen of official ballot to be voted at the annual election, in the a village of McHenry, McHenry county, Illinois, on Tues- a ' 'V-*' ' ," \ V< #l'V -;'r \ Clerk Jos. H. Huemann Johnsburgb Illinois. sells the McVi.'ker Gasoline Engine, Duplex Grinding Miliar Bock Island Plows, Wagons Carriages, Buggn t-,, Wind Mills, Well Supplies, Harnotw Oil, .* Paint Oil and v.-. ;; ^ Machine Oil a Specia fr«klfa Lgfitsig M Wirksl 1 am agent for the above. We put the Bods on your Build­ ings and should they be struck by lightning we pay damages If no more than 1500. Gall and get full particulars. OCKial BkckssiitUflg! ^ Prices iiwiys Rwamitiie Ad m lid tHE PLAINDEALBR AND WATCH THE RESULTS. ADVERTISING means PROGRESS. TRY IT AND SEE. . - - i-.fr*" ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR ABOUT IT m He Had the Moat--Perhaps. A comic actor who had been engaged to entertain a family party proposed at , ^the conclusion of the performance a little game of bis own. Bach of the company, himself included, was to Btake half a crown, and the pool would , "-he taken by the person who possessed ' ^vjthe most of the articles which he (the ^ comedian) wpuld inquire for. On his .' • f iissurance that he would take no mean '^".advantage, but run the same risk as . ',the re^t, all the members of the party "Consented, and between fS and £4 was ^ •, 5" |B°on laid on the table. The actor add- • *rf;%d his piece to the pool, with a cun- ' filing smile, and then said: "Now, which of you ladies and gen- flemen happen to have the greatest iiumber of false teeth?" - . Deathlike silence reigned for about a ' Uiinute, then a burst of laughter, both '?•< • hearty and in some caoes forced. f . "I have three," continued the actor. [$ «"Who has got more?" - The comedian took the pool.--Xjoodon T';, Tit-Bits. • • • i** \ f|> Senator Qate's Authority. : - The late Senator William B. Bate of ;! ^JTennessee was a major general in the Confederate army and never quite rec­ onciled himself to the defeat of the ».<8outh. Soon after he came to the sen- i whom was the unfortunate chemist, lite he formulated a set of rules which he called "Rules for my proper legis­ lative guidance." Whenever a proposi- Writihs on a Train. "No matter how fast and rough the pace," said a brakeman, "you can write with perfect ease and comfort ̂ on a train if you hold a cushion on your .lap. You rest your tablet and your arm on the cushion, and somehow or other nei­ ther jolt nor jar disturbs you. The soft cushion nullifies every tremor. Your -writing is as legible as if it had been done at your desk at home. We railroaders have a good many accounts to make up while traveling, and hence we usually have a cushion handy. Drummers and other experienced trav­ elers are great hands to borrow our cushions from us when they have ̂ lit­ tle correspondence to attend to/** • "Talesman" In English Law. A talesman, according to Engttsh law, is a juror summoned to fill a gap, and formerly, at any rate, this was often done by taking any suitable per­ son who was present in court. "Tales de clrcumstantibus" ("such of the by­ standers") were the first words of the order directing this process. Good Pickwickians inay remember that, as only ten special jurymen were present on a memorable occasion, Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz "prayed a tales," whereupon two of the common jurymen, one of Stubborn Coigks and Colds were pressed into the service.--l^mdon Standard. ,J$ion came up about which he was un- j- ^ decided he would take the printed slip / Containing these rules from his pocket 7 .J^nd study it carefully. j "Bate," said a colleague one day, i * * .^'what is that slip of paper to which '. ^ou refer so frequently?" , v> "That" said Senator Bate, "is a little reminder of my belief on constitutional V/Questions." . "Where did you get it? Think it out yourself?" j^p "No, suh," replied Bate, with much >'ifilignitj*; "I found most of those immor­ tal truths in the constitution of the H" ^..Confederate States of America"-J|»t- nrday Evening Port. ' v It Might Spe&fc' ^ ' •; The Artist--Oh, sse madam has ze ./ grand face. I shall make ze speaking f ijllkeness. Henpeck--Er--well, old man, ' you needn't go so far as that, yon . JKiow.--Metropolitan Magazine. Traitor. iky that he fell overboard *s the ship rolled on Its side." "You might say that he left the ship Tha Vary Worrt. Douglas Jerrotd was seriously di# aKMinted with a certain book written by one of his friends. This friend beard that Jerrold had expressed his disappointment and questioned him. "I bear you said was the worst book I ever wrote." "No, I didn't," came the answer. "I said it was the worst book anybody ever wrote." Where It Snows In Summafw Snow, it appears, only falls fe'ltie antarctic in summer and on those rare occasions at other seasons when the wind blows almost due south, and, strange to say, these south winds are warm winds, raising the temperature to 50 or 60 degrees F. They seem akin to the snow melting Foehn winds of the aips. Fully Posted. ' v "Could you do the landlord irt The Lady of Lyons?'" asked the manager of a seedy actor. "Well, 1 should think 1 might I have done a good many landlords.** FOLEY'S HONEY AND TAR Obstinate, racking Coughs that fflitt' your head ache, your throat and lungs sore and inflamed, that rob you of sleep until your system becomes so ran down that you are in grave danger of Pneumonia or Consumption, are quickly cured by Foley's HsiMif MM! Tar* NUTS MKT Ml TM soothes and heals the Inflamed air pas­ sages, allays the feverish conditions, stops the cough and prevents serious results from a cold. rotErs Mffivm TH Is the only prominent cough medicine on the market that does not contain opiates or harmful drugs of any kind and on this account is safest for children. It is unexcelled for Croup and Whoop­ ing Cough and will quickly cure the racking cough which follows measles and leaves so many children with weak lungs unless properly treated. Remember the name -- ¥m*f Homy mat Tar--and refuse substi­ tutes that coat yoaa tht Mm# as the genuine. Do not take chances with •omo unknown preparation. fammpVlM TbrtaliMtft v C. Unger, 211 Maple St., Champiagu, III., writes: "X was troubled with a hacking cough for a year and I thought I had consumption. I tried a great many remedies and I waa under the care of physicians for several months. X used one bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar; it cured me, and I have not been hea* bled since.'* Three sises--25c, 50c, $1.0*. The 50 cent size contains two sad one-half times as much as the small sise and the $1.00 bottle almost six times as much. MU1BKW--BW a W. BESLEY, WEST McHENBY Sunday Theatrioab. Sunday theatricals had a rough time of it at one period of England's his­ tory. On Sunday, Sept 27, 1681, Shake­ speare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" was privately performed In the biabop of Lincoln's house in London. The Pur­ itans had the affair inquired Into, and there is a suspicion of humor in the punishment awarded to the performer of Bottom, the weaver--"We do order that Mr. Wilson, as he was a special plotter and contriver of this business and did In such a brutish manner act the same vrlth an ass' head, shall upon Tuesday next from 6 o'clock In the morning till 6 o'clock at night sit in the porter's lodge at my lord bishop's house with his feet In the stocks and attired with an ass' head and a bottle of hay before him and this subscription on his breast: "Good people, I have played the And brought 111 things to paaa. , 1 waa a man, but thus have made Myaelf a silly aas." ^ Really Worth Heading. Je£ certain tims* in the year, and particularly a month or two before the Christmas holidays, new books come into newspaper offices for review faster than any one man can possibly read and review them with justice ei­ ther to himself or the books. He glances through them haatlly, unless they are by noted authors, gets a salient point here and there and "writes them up" as best he can. Then he forgets all about them. "A frlsnd came to me one day and expressed his gratification at the way I had written up a new novel by a comparatively unknown author," said the literary editor of a Chicago paper. " 'You expressed my idea of it exact­ ly,' he said. 'It is one of the remarka­ ble books of the year. The plot is ab­ solutely unique, the treatment of It is bold and original and the dialogue crisp and delightful. It will make a great hit' '"Well,' I said, K it ts as good as all that ril read it"*--Youth's Com­ panion. Hew the Gem* Rank. In the gem kingdom the ruby, the diamond, the emerald and the sap­ phire constitute "the big four" and take precedence--and in the order nam­ ed--of all other precious stones. The pearl Is of course not a stone. It haa a standard of its own. The expert test of the gem is its color, its degree of clearness and its perfection of cutting. Upon the last depends Its brilliancy. In the diamond the "brilliant" cutting holds first place. The other stones are cut altogether differently--they are crystallised in different systems--in fact they differ In another respect, the diamonds being a mineral carbon, the finer ruby (the oriental) a variety of corundum, the emerald a variety of beryl and the sapphire a colored va­ riety of corundum. What la technical­ ly known as the "step cut" is an es­ sential to bring out the Are of the lait three.--New York Tribune. Hew the Pulse Varies. The human pulse has rather m wide range, but the general average may be put about as follows: At birth, 140; at two years, 100; at from sixteen to nineteen years, 80; at manhood, 75; ok! age, 60. There are, however, great variations consistent with health. Na­ poleon's pulse is said to have been only forty-four in the minute. A case is also related of a healthy man of eighty- seven whose pulse was seldom over thirty during the last two years of his life and sometimes not more than twenty-eight. Another man of eighty- seven years of age enjoyed good health and spirits with a pulse of twenty- nine, and there is also on record the carious instance of a man whose pulse in health was never more than forty- five, and, to be consistent In his incon- sistsncy, when be hsd fever his puis* fell to forty instead of rising, as is Wrestling Per Kxerelee. WtrestHng, the "mlcrocosmos of gym­ nastics," is a fine form of bodily exer­ cise for those who enjoy hard muscular work after the tedious business hours of the day and may be practiced-- adapting it to circumstances--by the man of a ripe age aa well as by the boy of ten or twelve, especially the form known in thla country as catch- as-catch-can (which is about identical to one form of Swiss wrestling). I ex­ changed the Greco-Roman (or Ger­ man gymnastic) style for this one about twelve years ago, and I waa then over forty years old, and still en- Joy it much if my opponent Is of my own weight or a little lighter and if it la deprived of its potential roughness by a gentlemanly spirit of the part­ ners.--New York Medical Journal. > . Lincoln's Much Quoted Worded- * Perhaps the most famous address ever made by President Lincoln la the one that he delivered at the dedication of the foldiers' monument on die battle­ field of Gettysburg, and the words moat quoted from It are "the govern­ ment of the people, by the people and for the people." This phrase was no doubt an unconscious quotation, for the same words were used by Theodore Parker in an address to the Anti- Slavery society May 18, 1854. Nor was the phrase original with Parker. Dan­ iel Webster In 1830 used the words "the people's government, made for the people, made by the people and an­ swerable to thf people." And even be­ fore Webster Chief Justice Marshall had expressed the same idea in similar phraseology. Tunneled'Hie Register. A bookworm or some such creature left his mark upon a volume of the "British Annual Register" of the year 1810 in a club library of New York. The worm ate its way through seventeen leaves of the volume, and for much of the way Its path has out­ lined something very like the crouch­ ing figure of a cat, with one ear erect and a short tall. This figure is repeat­ ed upon eight or ten leaves and then gradually becomes less clearly defined until the progress of the worm is mark ed by a single small bole. Wtf At Dinner. "Who la the taciturn man opposite, next to Miss Smith?" "That is Louis the Fourteenth." "Louis the Fourteenth?" "Well, you see, his name is Louis, and he is called the Fourteenth be­ cause he's only asked to keep us from thirteen at Rreesutiene of Old Time Deetora. It was formerly the practice among physicians to carry a cane having a hollow head, the top of which was gold, pierced with holes like a pepper box. The top contained a small amount of aromatic powder or of snuff, and on entering the house or room where a disease supposed to be infectious prevailed the doctor would strike his cane on the floor to agitate the powder and then apply It to his nose; hence all the old prints of physi­ cians represent them with canes to their noses. . I A Marriage Warning. 7 '* I* Germany all marriages have' to be contracted before a register previoua to the ceremony in church, which la optional. The law requires public notice to be given of the match, and this notice is generally exhibited in a box hung up at the town ball or oth­ er municipal building. Hie following official announcement appeared lately in a email town: "From today there is fixed at the town hall the new box, In which all those who intend to eater the married atate will be hung." •MeiedteiMtiianMia Net Labor Last. The safe bore a paper stating that there was nothing of value within. Nevertheless the burglar blew the re- ce^laele open, finding the statement correct "Well," he remarked, gather­ ing up his tools, "if s worth something to ascertain that there are still people tail the truth." -- Philadelphia The Opportunity. Opportunity haa all her hair on her forehead, but when she has paased you cannot call her back. She has no tuft whereby you can lay hold on her, for she Is bald on the back part of her head and never returns.--Francois Ra­ belais* The weakest living creature, by con­ centrating his powers on a single ob­ ject can accomplish something: the strongest by diaperslng his over many Plaster of Paris Bananaa. Bunches of bananas that are abso­ lutely unfit for food hang out in front of the wholesale produce commission houses. Some of them have remained there until they have grown rusty with age. "Couldn't get a finer looking bunch than that" said one of the dealers the other day, "even if it is plaster of parls. We used to put out the real article for a sign, but the peddlers who came down here had a way of pulling one or two out of the bunch that hap­ pened to be hanging there on the hook. The small boys, too, had a way of making a grab for a banana or two. By the time the bunch was on duty under the awning for an hour it was no longer presentable to the aesthetic sense. So we began to cultivate the make believe article, which ia not quite so palatable, but just as good for advertising. And even at that some youngster in his haste will grab plas­ ter of paris fruit and get away with it before he realises that he has made off with something bad for his diges­ tion."--New York Herald. A Meal of Locusts. fti the West Indies the negtHM^ tift freely of the big grub found in palm trees. The fat white morsel, which they call "grugru," Is not cooked or salted. The aborigines of Australia live almost entirely on a butterfly known as the bugong. The flies ap­ pear in batches on the rocks, and the natives smother them with smoke from fires built below. It is said that a Hot­ tentot with an appetite made sharp by the simple life, can devour 300 fat locusts at a sitting and feel better sat­ isfied than if he had paid $8 for a ten course dinner. The Arabs dry the lo­ custs and pulverise them Into flour, for breadmaklng purposes. The Moors make a stew of them, and after boiling in water for a few minutes they are eaten with salt, pepper and vinegar. The locusts found in Central Africa are enormous, and the native negroes cut them in two and fry them In fat and And them not only appetising, but nourishing. A flight of these big lo­ custs is a matter of tribal thanksgiv­ ing. Snakes With Two Heads. *f have lately been assured by more titan one of my friends that they have seen in northern India snakes with two heads--4. e., without a tail, but with a second and perfectly formed head In the place where the tall ought to be. They assure me that there are speci­ mens in northern India museums and that these freaks of nature are fre­ quently found by the natives. The rid­ er is added that the natives declare that each head lives and performs ac­ tive service for six months in the year in turn. The snakes are said to grow to about three feet In length. I my­ self have killed a small snake with two heads, but these were both at the same end of the reptile, a very differ­ ent matter, which is, I believe, a well known freak and in the same category with £wo headed calves.-- Pion«^.,:;W Man and His Dress. The well dressed man wears clofnOs that no one ever notices; at business, except in the very warmest weather, usually dark. No one ever notices clean linen, while linen soiled ever so slightly is very conspicuous. No one ever notices a hat unless it is of ultra shape, dirty or shabby. No one ever notices shoes unless they are loud or need blacking or are run down at the heels or shabby. No one ever notices clean finger nails, while those needing attention are always conspicuous. The man should not be lost sight of by the consplcuousness of his clothes, either from being overdressed or shabbily drained.--Batten's Wedge. fv •§* V anything,--Car- The One and the Naughty Oliver Wendell Holmes once sent two poetical letters to the "postofflce" of an Episcopal fair at Plttsfield, Msbs. In one of them the first stanza was: Fair lady, whosoever thou art, / Turn thla poor leaf with tendereet eiM And hush, oh, hush, thy beating heart The one thou loveat will be there. On turning the "poor leaf" there was found a dollar bill, with some beginning: Fair lady, lift thine eyes and tell If this is not a truthful letter. This is the one (1) thou loveth well, And naught (0) can raaka fL better*!#. hT'M • : > fc" t •• • Oeeultiem. l It is noteworthy that nupernatural­ ism prevailed just as strongly at the other side of the globe among the ab­ origines of the new world. The coming of the Spaniards had been prophesied to the Mexicans by their caciques, and the prophecies were sung amid loud lamentations at their festivals.--Lon­ don Onlooker. The Hot Wind From the DsSSrt "Khamsin" is the hot wind from the desert which blows out of the Sahara upon Egypt. The word means fifty, from the Idea that it lasts for fifty days. The "khamsin" is terribly hot and dry, and sometimes brings pes­ tilence with it Persistent. A middle aged man stopped at the subpostofflce In the north end and asked if there was anything for the Sslurphys. "No. there >$ not" said the man st the window. "Anything for Jane Murphy?" .> >' "No." . X i "Anything for Anne Murphy??* "No." / ".S "Anything for Bob Murphy?" A "No." " 'id "Anything for Terry?" "No, nor for Pat nor for Dennis nor Pete nor Matt nor Edward Murphy. There is nothing for any Murphy, dead, living or unborn, native or foreign, civ­ ilized or savage, male or female, black or white, franchlsetl or disfranchised. No, there is positively nothing for any of the Murphys, either individually, collectively, severally, now and for­ ever, one and inseparable." The little man on the outside of the window looked amazed und then in a persuaaive voice said, "Please look and see if there Is anything for P. J. Mur­ phy."--Columbus Dispatch. NUMBER 42 v Almost a Miracle. :: A good hearted curate who firmly believed that God was continually working miracles to enable him to help the needy and who seldom had a coin in his pocket, though he was never de­ void of the fire of charity In his heart was accosted one day by a beggar wo­ man. He pleaded utter lack of money and sadly turned aside, but on the mendicant beseeching him to search his pockets he hopelessly put his hand In one and, to his amazement and joy, found a five shilling piece there. "Another of God's miracles," be ex­ claimed, and then, addressing the wo­ man: "This coin belongs to you of right Take it knd go in peace." Hav­ ing told the story a few hours later to his worldly minded vicar and suggest­ ed that they should both go down on their knees and render thanks to God, S strange unpleasant light suddenly broke on the mind of the shrewd pas­ tor, who exclaimed in accents uot sug­ gestive of thanksgiving, "Good Lord, are tnose my breeches that you've on you?"--Contemporary Review. Cbatltew Barness l-IAVE) you placed * * your order for your new spring har­ ness? If not, let us figurg mth you. We are turning out some of the finest work ever seen in 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 ^long and our customers are pleased. Come i n and let us give you our prices. ;; i: IH. fl. Cbelen, McHENRY, ILLINOIS. 'y^TV- .4 V-! - *0 It t:. "Duck* and Drakes." The origin of the common saying "Making ducks and drakes with one's money" Is attributed to a game de­ scribed in the words of an old writer as "a kind of sport or play with an olster shell or stone thrown into water and making circles yer It sinke." If the stone emerges once, It is a duck; If It emerges more than once, the game proceeds according to the rhyme: ;V-\/ 1, i, A duck and a drake; i- t, And a halfpenny cake; 4, And a penny to pay the old baker; 5, A hop an a scotch la another notch; -- 6, Slltherum, slatherum! Take her! The game is evidently the same as that played even today by every boy who has access to a pond or a quiet river when he tries to make a smooth stone skip along the surface of the wster. Its connection with the pop­ ular phrase is, of course, only a meta- Storlcal one to indicate heedlessness in e use of money. "To tha Bittpr End." One of the most Interesting phases of the study of language Is the peculiar manner In which words and phrases originating In mistakes finally grow Into the common speech of the people. An instance of this is the expression "to the bitter end," which Is common­ ly used to denote the final extremity of a crisis. Although perfectly proper today, It is In reality a mistake. The correct phrase is "to the better end" and arose from the fact that when a vessel has paid out all her cable in a storm it has run out to the end which been little used and therefore to the bet.er end. Daniel Defoe uses the proper phrase in "Robinson Crusoe" in hla description of the storm at Yar­ mouth when he says, "We rode with two anchors ahead and the cables veer­ ed out to the better end." Her "No." Tom--Bess said "No" to me last night but I don't think she really could tell why she did It. Nell--Oh, yes, she could. She told me. Tom--Did she? Nell--Yes; she said she didn't think you'd take "No" for an answer.--PhU- adelphia Press. About the Only Piaoe. A company of settlers In their new town called it Dictionary, because, as they said, "thafs the only place where peace, prosperity mid hap­ piness are always found." The notion of God which makes a manufacturer of footstools, our mles being the raw material, is pjjgpv;' Romanoe of the Cigar, A bride of a year ago gave her hus­ band a box of long, lean and sickly look­ ing cigars for a birthday present. The man smeiled them, looked at the label and then, with tears in his eyes, said: "I cannot bear to smoke your present. I will keep them always as a token of your love." His wife was so touched that she went down town and ordered three boxes of the same brand and had them charged to her husband. When she gave them to him she said: "Here, dear; these are not a present. Smoke them and enjoy them."--Topakf,, Journal. Homerlo Symbol. You know the fine picture in Homer of the dead leaves which fall to make place for the young buds. It is as true of men as of trees; we have our time and pass away. Behind our vanished youth germinates the youth of others. Our children's destiny ought not to be dulled by what there has be^a ln. ours. --Bevue des Deux Mondes. ^ S: •' Ban McHenry This Bank recei res. deposits, buys and sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange, and does a GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. We endeavor to do all businees intrusted to our care in a1manner and upon terms entirely satisfact­ ory to our customers and respect­ fully solicit the public patronage. Honey to Loan on real estate and other first clasa security. Special attention given to oollection8 •̂ ^1* INSURANCE * li in First Class Companies, at the lowest rstes. Yours Respectfully Perry & Owen, Notary Public. - Bankers. fiti .1 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. : : , : V: Fresh Fish Every Friday We will also have as nice line of fresh fish on Friday of each week. Give us your order and we will fill it with promptness and satis­ faction. : : : : : : : E. f. MATTHEWS, JR. • * J,mm - A Lever. "Is that baby strong?" "Well, I should say so! Be raised the whole family out of bed at 3 o'clock this morning, and scientists say that that's the hour when everybody's strength is at ltsjowest point."--Lon­ don Answers. Giving It Away. Thp Young Man--Dicky, you think * good deal of your sister, don't you? Dicky (entertaining him)--You bet I So does ma and pa. She's been in the fam'ly mighty near forty years.--Chi" cago Tribune. An obstinate fruit stain can gener­ ally be removed by holding the spot -'SSI CENTERVILLE Market c- "J We handle everything the line of fresh and salt MEATS* and Sausage* . We alao handle Johns- |rargh Creamery Butter •"j, .-I Chas. Q. Frett, McHenry, III* t,» ° < >-v *„ * » " '*• 4 •» <r -a.' *§ 'i if, if.jA . \ j.."*Jt • /iv-: