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i% Pledged but to Truth, to Liberty and La* ; No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe. .VrHENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1895, Every now and then an anecdote comes to the front showing that on* first presi­ dent lilied the theater as well as do his followers of today. The point is men­ tioned in one of the many theatrical stories narrated in "Shakespeare's Hero­ ines on the Stage. " Says the author of the book :, "A Philadelphia Portia of this same season of 1793-4 comes of a noted fam­ ily, being none other than Mrs. Eliza Whitlock, the sister of Mrs. Siddons and of the Keinbles. In England, at the age of 22, she had made her London debut as the heroine of Shylock' on the 22d of February, 1783, and though some­ what masculiue in face and figure, yet displayed so animated a countenance and so graceful a bearing as *0 win a moderate, degree of favor. A feSv years after coining "to this land she enjoyed the distinction of playing the first 'star' engagement on the American stage, be­ ing engaged for $450 and a benefit, to play at the Boston theater in October, 1796. There she repeated her Portia, contending with the remembrance of Mrs. Powell's impersonation of a pre­ vious season. She also had the honor of playing before George Washington in Philadelphia." It is clear that we cannot look round and take note of our contemporaries in any department in life without feeling certain that many who stand in the' first rank are not indebted in any way to any physical powers which they may have cultivated for the development of their mental organization, and I may include In that observation also Boine men of past history. =: Yet, as a matter of his­ tory, the physical development comes first and proves that good physical work should be cultivated. The danger liea not in the cultivation of it, but in the overcnltivation, and the'tendency sow is toward the latter. I can remember when exercises of a physical kind wire limited in number;: when cricket and rowing were almost the only ones, and when rowing was the only exercise that led to any considera­ ble risk of overstrain. Now both these exercises are being' pushed to excess, while others'which are very popular, such as football, cycling and pedestrian- ism, are alluring mien to an overcnltiva­ tion of certain parts of the body thafe should be shunned : that destroys its own object, in so far as bodily perfec­ tion is concerned, and that certainly when it renders the body imperfect, in­ jures the mind of the owner and of those who unfortunately spring from him.--Sir B. W. Richardson in Satur­ day Review. How Ants Kill k Snake. That ants can actually kill snakes is a hard thing to believe. There is irre­ futable evidence, however, that they do, and scientists have discovered that the snake has hardly a more dangerous ene­ my. The large red brown forest ant is the sort that is the most fatal to snakes, and a curious thing about the attack of these tiny creatures on this comparative­ ly enormous reptile is tiiat they kill it for food and not on account of any nat­ ural antipathy. f When some of the ants catch sight of a snake, they arouse the whole commu­ nity at once. In platoons and battalions the little fellows set upon the reptile, striking their nippers into its body and eyes at thousands of points at once. With such rapid movement and snch splendid concentration is the attack made that the snake has no chance at all of escaping. It is like a thousand eleo- tric needles piercing him at once. The snake soon becomes exhausted, and dies ignominiously. Then the ants set harder at work. They begin to tear off the flesh in small pieces,.gradually stripping away the skin and working underneath. Not until they have carried off everything except the bones and the skin itself do they retire.--Pearson's Weekly. • •" The Famous Old Willow Ware. You may know a plate of old willow ware by this decoration: On the right there is a mandarin's country seat. In the foreground there should be a pa­ vilion, in the background an orange tree and to the right a peach tree. The place is inclosed by a fence, and through the estate there should wander a brook, and in this brook there is an island high at the left side with a cottage on it. Over the brook there is a bridge, and on it there should be three figures. The wil­ low tree, the famous willow tree, is at one end and a gardener's cottage at the other. Two birds are high in the air. above the picture. The whole is sup­ posed to tell the romance of the man­ darin's daughter, who is one of the fig­ ures on the bridge. The others are her loVer and the mandarin himself. ' The birds are turtle doves into which the lovers were changed by the gods that they might escape to wrath of father mandarin, who pursued them.--New York Post. • - y/iT,"* A Mountain of Gold. » The most famous and most puzzling of all gold mines is the Mount Morgan. It appears, from one oif the Sydney pa­ pers, that it contributes more precious metal to the world's treasure than any other patch of the earth's surface of the same extent. Mount Morgan is supposed to be the product of a thermal spring and is simply a mountain of gold, but of gold that has already been treated by nature. In some faroff age the hill has been a huge natural crucible, and all the gold it contains has been already mined, chemically dissolved and precip­ itated by nature herself. No speck of gold larger than a pin's point has ever been discovered in the mount. The pre­ cious metal exists in a sort of golden flour, dissolved through ironstone.-- Westminster Gazette. Took to Welsh* It is seldom that ^ man so masters a foreign language that he can express himself therein when greatly excited. A Welshman, ̂ after attempting, to take part in a prayer meeting conducted in English and finding it very diffionlft to expiess the fervor of his heart in the partially acquired tongue, suddenly broke the halting and laborious sen­ tences with a joyful exclamation: "Lord, I thank thee that thou know- est Welsh !" and straightway launched upon the sea of gutterals which oame.so readily to his lips.--New York Ob­ server. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. I am closing out my entire stock of Boots, Shoes and Winter Goods at less than cost. Those who wish to furnish themselves with Boots and Shoes for winter, call on time. 1 don't ask you to buy, just call and learn the price. 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Now parliaments, in accordance with the laws of collective psychology, like all human assemblages, are liable tc sudden and unexpected impulses--im­ pulses such as may at times move a crowd to commit crimes, as was the oase in the French revolution, or to practice some generous act, as happened during the Italian risorgimento. That such was possible had been recognized already by Napoleon the Great ere the modern Italian positivist school of phi­ losophy had reduced experience to a for­ mula, for when inditing his studies on the convention the emperor wrote, "Col lective crimes implicate no one." A deed or word may change the judg­ ment of all by the contagious emotion of a moment. Thus, besides lowering the intellectual level, an assembly is also liable to sudden mutations of view, yet another danger and yet another rea­ son why the judgments of these huge national talking shops should not be re­ garded as infallible or be treated with too much deference. John Stuart Mill dimly foresaw this modern positivist conclusion when he pleaded eloquently in favor of safeguarding the rights of the minority.--Blackwood's Magazine. A Winged General of the Seas. One of the most extraordinary speci­ mens of the fish family is the nam hai gnan" or great general of the south sea, an animal of the whale species, which has its home in the Indian ocean. A full grown nam is upward of 85 feet in length, pure black in color and has eyes as large as a saucer. Besides the above characteristic features, which may be said to be whalelike, with the ex­ ception of the eyes, the nam has two immense tusks, which resemble those of the elephant, both in size and color, and two queer winglike membranes ex­ tending along its sides from the side fins almost to the tail. The old nams have a curious habit of marshaling their kind to-do battle with the whales and the sharks, and old mariners say that they maneuver with so much intelligence and sagacity that they are known to all the islanders by names which signify winged generals, winged warriors or winged chiefs of the seas. The National mu­ seum at Berlin has a fine mounted speci­ men of this queer warlike fish. --St. Louis Republic. Next Visit, Friday. Nov. 1st, McHenry, 111,, 1895. WOODSTOCK BUSINESS CARDS FRANK L. SHEPARD, IOUNSELLOR AT LAW. Suite 514--3ft La ' Salle St., Uhicago. DISPEHSARY O. H. FEGERS, M, D- (HYSIOIAN AND SURGEON, MoHenry Ills. Office at Residence. JOS. L. ABT, M. D. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND OOO LIST, Office in Nichols Block, over Plaiudeaier Office. McHenry Telephone No 4. Selling the best goods at lowest Cash Prices. That's our way of doing business. No book-keeping, no credit, no collectors, no bad ac­ counts, no 10 to 15 per cent added to the price to make up for bad debts. 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It was this: The crown prince had received the news that two carrier pi­ geons had been caught, and he had or­ dered them to^be sent to Versailles. On returning home in the evening he found the following telegram : "Lieutenant Colonel Verdy has just eaten them." They had furnished forth the ragout at Villeneuve-le-Roi.--Realm. Wholesale and Retail Agent for W. P. ST. CLAIR, Justice of the Peace and Notary Public heal Estate and Insurance. J UNDAylll. Don't Miss this Chance On any kind of goods sold in my store, at Chicago's lowest prices, E. LAWLUS. Opposite Riverside Hotel, McHenry THE BEST MADE. In any quantity from a Snitz (ilass to 1C0 barrels. Orders by mail promptly attendedSto. ALSO ALWATS ON HAND Fine Kentucky Liquors, French"Bitters, choice Ates» Wines, Cigars, Etc I b none but the best and se 1 it reatonab e prices. Does smoke from your cigar arise Like incense in the air? Or does it. only cause a smudge And make your neighbor ewear? 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For in­ stance, President Warren of Boston uni­ versity wrote a volume- to prove that the true location of Eden was ̂ t the north pole. It will be noted that we have no mention of Eden anywhere in the Bible after the first chapter of Genesis.-- Hartford Religious Herald. <s> Likes and Dislikes. Flossie was being urged tp get up one cold morning and did not respond quick­ ly to her mother's suggestion of a sponge bath. "You do as you like, mamma," she said, "and let me do as I like. You like to be cold and oleanCate&JI like to be warm and dirty, xy- New York Times. Those Appropriate Gifts. To a silver wedding celebration re­ cently a pious old lady sent as a present a pair of flatirons, a rolling pin and a motto worked on a cardboard, "reading, "Fight on!"--London Telegraph. Tall and see me and I will us u^e vou wel1 ANTONY ENGELN. McNenrv, 111 , 1894. Agents Wanted! In every town In McHenry County, and the Northern part of Illinois, to so. licit Life Insurance for th« JOHN J. 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