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M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1896 West Side JLivery, FEED AND SALE STABLES J. HANLY, ^rop'r. . WEST MCHENRY, ILL. First class rigs, with or without drivers, furnished at reasbnable rates- Parties taken to and from the "Lakes in E&sy Riga, and prompt connection made with all trains. Our Bigs wiil be kept, in first ciasc shape, ana we shall spare nb pains to pleaseour cue tofliers at-all times, Give us a call, I v '•'W E J. HANLY, ••• West McHenry, 111,, Aug. 15, 1894. . Floral Company McHENRY, ILL. C, T. ESHILSON. - MANAGER. All kinds of Cut Flowers, and Funeral de­ signs to be had at all times at l.easonable Rates. Carnations in bud and other potted plants for sale. Orders'taken now fo^r bedding plants de­ sired iu the spring. f Will have all kinds of plants for fancy bedding. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Address, " . ROSEDALE FLORAL COMPANY, MCHENRY, 111. PEERY & OWHB, Banners. MoHENRY, 8ILL1KOI8 This Bank i eceivcs deposits, buyt and sells Foreign and Domestic Ex change, anddoesa ----:--* General Banking Business • We endeavor to do all business en­ trusted to our care in a manner ana upon te:ms entirely satisfactory to our customers and respectfully solicit tht public patronage. ^ MONEY TO L On Real Estate and other first c o security. Special attention givent co lections, INSURANCE In First Clo.ss Companies at th> Lowest Rates. Yours Re ipectfulli PERRY & OWEN. Notary Public. A Money Saver! FOR YOU. CUS CARLSON, At hiB Harness Shop, near the Red Bridge, has now in stock the finest as­ sortment of Robes, Blankets and Whips To be found in McHenry County. I can sell you a B l a n k e t f r o m 7 5 c t o $ 5 . And guaranteed as represented. If you want to save money call and see me. Also a fine stock of SINGLE & DOUBLE HARNESS Which will be sold cheaper than'the same goods can be bought elsewhere and war­ ranted as represented. REPAIRING Promptly Attended to. Do not fail to call at once and get the benefit of our bargains. C U S C A R L S O N . McHenry, 111., Sept. 30, 189G NEW ! New Summer Shirts New SummerTies, New Styles of Collars. LARGE SALE On New Neckties. Within 24 Hours I can supply you with any size in Shirts that I have not got in the store. Complete Stock Of Gents' Furnishing Goods. Biggest Run On Merchant Tailoring since I have been in McHenry. Latest style and best goods, at prices never before offered in McHenry. Come and be convinced. Thanking you for past patronage, I am Yours Truly, J. D. LODTZ, Jr. McHenry, 111., May 12,1896: 1. . K " . ELGIN, ILL. THAT ANNUAL EVENT, Oil 1NIT SUE I THE THIRD IN THE MAMMOTH STORE, Opens Monday, Nov. 9th, AND CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. All Elgin and suburban patrons look forward to this sale as the BIG MONEY SAVING Event ol the year. Think back, not many years, before Elgin had a department store, when you were obliged to pay the LONG- PRICE on everything. Who changed it? If it wss not for Theo. H. Swan you would still be paying the extreme long price, DQIS'T J30 IT A1\Y MORE. „ If you haven't traded with us, If you don't know us, s. • If you don't know our ways, If you want to get posted, CONSULT WITH US! COMMUNICATE! WITH US! When in Elgin Call on us, Make Our Store Your Shoppings Headquarters. We don't ask you to buy, visit with - us. THEO. F. SWAN, GREAT DEPARTMENT STORE ELGIiV, ILL, " Plodgod but to Truthy to Liberty and Law; No Favors Wi n us ind no F©ar Awe." RATES OF ADVERTISING:: We announce liberal rates for advertising in the PLMKDEALER, and endeavor to state thorn so plainly that they wilS be readily un­ derstood. They are as follows: 1 Inch one year - ' • > * - . BOO 3 Inches one year - - - 10 vo 3 Inches one year - - - - 15 00 Columnone'year -• - - .30 00 Column one year- - - - - 60 Oo Column one year - - - - 100 uo One ncn means the measurement of one Inch down the column, single column width. Yearly advertisers, at the above rates, have the privilege of ohangin& as often as they e&oose, without extra oharge. Regular advertisers (meaning those having standing cards) will be entitled to insertion of local notices at the rate of 5 cents per line each week. All others will be charged 10 cents per line the ilrst week, and B cents per line for each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, (nonpareil type, same as this is set In) the first issue, and 5 oents per line for subsequent issues. Thus, an inoh advertisement willoost $1.00 for one week, $1.50 for two weeks, $2.00 for three weeks, and so on. The JPLAIKDHALBR will be liberal in giving editorial notloes, but, as a business rule, it will require a suitable fee from everybody seeking the use of its columns for pecuniary gain. ' BUSINESS CAHDS. L. N. WOOD, M. D. PHYSICIAN ANDSUhGEON, Office at G W. Besley's Drug Store. Office hour«r9 to 11 A M , and 2 to 4 r M. Residence over Barbian Bros * McHenry. Ill FKGER8, M, D- PHYSIOIAN AND SURGEON, MoHenry IllB. Office at Residence. JOS, L. ABT, M. D, PHI3IC1AN, SURGEON AND OCOLIST, Office in Nicholfi Blcclt, over Plaindealer Office, McHenry Telephone No 4 W . C - B E S L E Y . D . D . S . , Surgeon Dentist. WEST MCHENRY, III. Office in rear of G W. Bosley's Drug Store. All work guaranteed. DR. A. E. AURINGER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in the Stroner uuilding, one door wett of A. P. Baer'e store, West McHenry,.111. Residence, house formerly ocoupied by Dr. Osborne, All professional ealls promptly at­ tended to, J. B. HOWE, M. D, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Offi-ie and Re&uiencc, Hotel Woodstock. Office hours l,to2 p. M. daily, (jails promptly at­ tended to Deserving poor treated tree ot charge at officc, Including meaicine Monday and Fridiy. F. C. COLBY, D, D. 8. DENTIST.Woodstock, 111. Special alen-tion paid to regulating children's teeth, Parties coming from a distance, will do well to give timely notice by mail. Office, Kendal block corner Main street and I'ublioSq are FRANK L. SHEPABD, /COUNSELLOR AT, LAW. Suite .894--132 V/Clark St., Chicago.- C. P. BARNES, \ TTORNEY, Solicitor, andi Counselor, AJL Collections:a specialty. WOODSTOOK, ILLINOIS. KNIGHT & BROWN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. U. S. Express co/s Building, 87 and 89 Washington St. CHICAGO. ILL. JOHN P. SMITH, Watchmaker Jic Jeweler McHENRY. ILLINOIS. A FINE stock of Clocks, Watches and Jew­elry always on hand. Special attention given to repairing fine watches. Give me a nail. JOHJX P- SMITH. W. A. CRISTY, JTustiee ot tlie Peace. WEST McHENRY', ILL. Special Attention paid to Collections. H. C. MEAD, Justice of the Peace and General In­ surance Agent- Jncludinff Accident and Life Insurance. WEST MCHENKT, 111. W. P. ST. CILftlft, Justicie of the Peace and Rotary Public heal Estate and Insurance. KUNDA, lll« A. M. CHURCH, Watohmaker and Jeweler No. 126 State Street, Chicago. Speolal attention given to repairing Fine Watches ana Chronometers. *3- A Fnll Assortment ol Gcods in his line. NOTICE. All you men and boys that want to Save from $2 to S5 on Pants OK SUITS. Don't Miss this Chance On any kind of good» sold in my store, at Chicago's lovest prices, E. LAWLUS. pposlte Riverside Hotel, McHenry. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY - J . V A N S L Y K E , - EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE IN THE NICHOLS BLOCK. Two Doora Northof perry & Owon'e Stor*, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One year (in advance).,!..,.... ... ........$1 50 If Not Paid within Three Months;.. 2 00 Subscription* receiveu for three or six months in the same proportion. fi. C. SPURL.INC, Veterinary - Surgeon, West McHewry, 111. MAKES A SPECIALTY.©# CASTRATION. 4^ Office at Hanly's Livery Stable. West McHenry , 111. NO. 18. Men and Women Not to Be Judged by the Same Standard. Whether it is tliat we are poorer, or that we are more luxurious and exacting in our tastes, and that the fir Is of today require more in their marriage than the ordinary Englishman can affor^, I can­ not say, but unless girls have great beauty or large fortunes we hear much more of the difficulty of their marrying. Among the mass of women, however, there is no revulsion from the marriage tie, and all healthy minded girls and women seem to be just as rhuch interest­ ed in the question as were their grand­ mothers. The one great fact that haa kept English society is the inviolability ,of the marriage tie; Infidelity in a mar­ ried woman is surely reason enough to justify hor husband in getting rid of her, and the woman who clamors for divorce on the same grounds as men is 'surely lowering the standard of female purity in a ruthless way. Is iinan, with his stronger, coarser, more animal na­ ture, to be judged by thesame standard of chastity as a woman, with her higher ideals of life, her purer nature, and the exemption from temptation which she enjoys? If we think for a moment of the temptation to which men are exposed from their very early youth, and which they undoubtedly combat very unsuc­ cessfully, and which attacks them at a time when they are most prone to suc­ cumb--in the period of youth, vigor and ignorance--and contrast their posi­ tion with that of women, we must sure­ ly feel that we are degrading our sex when we ask for a corresponding code of morality, or even suggest that women are to be tried by no higher standard than that to which men strive to attain. We are told that no union can survive the conjugal customs and intimacy of English married life. Perhaps the new woman thinks so because in her ephem­ eral passion no feeling of constancy, af­ fection, or gratitude is possible. We be lieve that the overwhelming majority of old fashioned English women regard that intimacy as one of the purest and sweetest ever devised--one which, when the passion and desire of youth 'fade away, blossoms into a friendships com- pansionship as constant as it is holy, without which their lives would indeed be barren.--Lady Jeune in Saturday Re­ view. t A REMARKABLE VENDETTA. All This .Jalf Savajje Father Lives For Is to Kill Walrus. "Did you ever hear of a strong, able- bodied man going crazy from grief?" asked Captain Debney of the steamship City of Puebla, on the water front yes­ terday. "I don't mean one of your high­ ly sensitive areatures," continued he, "but a man 6 feet 4 inches in his stock­ ings, and as strong as an ox. Of such a man I heard during my la^trip to the sound. He is a Russian Finn and is sensible on every subject save one. He has a vendetta against the walrus, and his cabin in the wilds of Alaska is built up with their skulls. "According to the story told me by a passenger who came down with me from the sound, this man settled in Alaska years ago. Ho married a nativo woman, and she bore him a son. A few years later the mother died, and all the affection of the half savage father cfen- tered on the son. Nothing was too good for the lad, and everything in the way of hunting and fishing lore was taught him. "When the boy was old enough, his father took him out on all his hunting expeditions and soon the youngster be^- gan working on his own account. "One fatal day he attacked an old bull walrus, but instead of killing it he himself was the victim. When the father saw the dead body of his son he was wild with grief, which finally settled into a species of madness. Now all he lives for is to kill walrus. "When the mania first seized him he lived in a dugout. Now his hut is on the ground and composed almost entire­ ly of walrus skulls. "He crawls up behind the brutes while they are asleep, and, seizing them by the tusks, stands them on end by main .force. He looks into their eyes as thoughr seeking to recognize the one that killed his son, and then his knife does the rest. The head is then cut off, and goes to make one more to the monument he is raising to the memory of his son." --San Francisco Call. Safer Than Lightning Bods. Each day adds some new virtues to the long list of those already credited to the pneumatic tire. The latest of these is that the wheels of a bicycle be­ ing encircled by a band of india rubber and dry air, which is a perfect insu­ lator, the rider is completely insulated •from the earth and consequently is im­ pervious to the attacks of the electric fluid. Any one who suffers from nervousness during a thunderstorm has now only to go into the dining room or the cellar and seat himself upon the 6addle of a pneumatic tire bicycle to be perfectly safe from lightning stroke. As the chances of a man on a bicycle being struck by lightning have been carefully calculated to be about one in a billion, there will, of course, be some pessi­ mists who will denjc, that this newly discovered virtue of the pneumatic tire amounts to very much. -- Pearson's Weekly. : ., Sparrows Served as Beedbirds. There are few restaurants in the city where sparrows are not served up as reedbirds. It has become a regular busi­ ness and may ultimately solve the spar­ row nuisance.--Philadelphia Times. Prejudice was originally nothing more than a judgment formed before­ hand, th§ character of such judgments being best indicated by the present meaning of the word. The division of time into months and weeks is so old that its origin cannot possibly be ascertained. We Want More All Bound Work. 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 some men of past history. Yet, as a matter of his- tory, the physical development come9 first and proves that good physical work 6hould be cultivated. The dapger lies not in the cultivation of it, but in the overeultivation, and the tendency now Is toward the latter. v I can remember when exercises of a physical kind were 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 men to an overeultiva­ tion of certain parts of the body that should be shunned; that destroys its own object, in so far aa 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 a 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 that they kill it for food and not on account of any nat­ ural antipathy. When some of the ants catch sight of a enake, 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 such splendid concentration is the attack made that the snake has no chance at all of escaping. It is like a thousand elec­ tric needles piercing him at once. The snake soon becomes exhausted? and dies ignominiously. Then tlft anta set harder at work. They begiu to~+ear~~off the flesh in 6mall 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 i 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 if 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 pie tare.-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 goda ..that they might escape to wrath of father mandarin, who pursued them.--New York Post. A Mountain of Gold. The most famous and most puzzling of all gold mines is the Mount Morgan. It appears, from one of 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 samo 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 a 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 difficult to express 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 Welshj!" and .straightway launched upon the sea of gntteral? which came so readily to his lips.--New York Ob­ server. Milk. Milkmen sometimes find in summer that the morning's milk will.sour, while that of the evening before is still sweet The reason for this is milk when drawn from the cow is at a temperature best adapted for bacterial growth. Tht night's milking is cooled overnight, whereas'the morning's milk is poured directly into the cans, and the bacteria which have entered it are well started on their growth before the night's milk is warmed by the air. A Practical Education Was Hers. "Then you have learned to love me already?" he rapturously cried. Straight into the eyes of the man with a miffionJooked she. "Yes," she answered, and her words thrilled him strangely. "I was given a thoroughly practical education. "--De­ troit Tribune. Westphalian Witches Were Bed Haired. Soest in Wsstphalia, Prussia, was the •Salem of the European witch burning era, and, by the way, the witchcraft de­ lusion lasted for three or four centuries longer there than p, did in the benighted burg in the colony of Massachusetts bay. The judicial tribunal before which all WoiVuhalian witches were forced to ap- pe£»'„ as called the vehm-gericht and WHJ' '^-aposed of the most superstitious set of bigots in the province. The trees are still standing under, which this witch trying congress regularly met on the commons of Soest and the records of their proceedings are still to be found in the archives at the town hall. One of the most-noticeable things fa these queer old records of the days of .bigotry and blind superstition is the fact that the pages upon which are writ­ ten the proceedings o.f cases in which the accused were condemned to the stake are all adorned with locks of the culprit's hair. The individual hairs of this queer collection"of tufts exhibit all the variations usually noticed in such assortments, being lung and short, coarse and fine and straight and curly. In one very characteristic feature, how­ ever, that of color, all 'the locks have the same general appearance, being uni­ formly red. , It is passing curious, to say the least, that in a country where red hair does not predominate all the witches execut­ ed during a period covering several hun­ dred years should belong to that class of beings derisively referred to as. "brick top blonds."--St. Louis Republic. Odd Delusions. In a recent lecture in London, by Dr. W. R. Gowers of the Royal society, some curious facts were stated concern­ ing the optical delusions suffered by vic­ tims of epilepsy at the commencement of their attacks. One man for years was always warned of a coming fit by a sensation of thump­ ing or beating in the chest, which grad­ ually extended to the head. Then two pulsating lights appeared, which seemed to draw nearer. In an instant tfiese" were gone, and in their place was the figure of an aged woman' wearing a red cloak, and always the same in appear­ ance and dress, who offered the patient something that had the odor of Tonquin beans. Then the patient invariably lost consciousness. Another case cited was that of a wom­ an whose attacks were invariably pre­ ceded by a vision of London lying in emptied of water in order to receive the rubbish of the destroyed city, and the patient believing herself to be the only survivor of all its inhabitants. Still another patient alwajfe seemed to himself, just before an attack, to have been set down in the midst of a broad field of grass. The cause of these singular deceptions lies in tho brain, but its mode of work­ ing is not yet thoroughly understood. Singing Mice. Some few years since there was at Coley Hall, near Halifax, a singing mouse, which lived for several years in a hole near the fireplace in one of the rooms and became very tame, Mr. A. G. Sunderland not allowing it to be dis­ turbed. Many people came to hear it$ so called singing. This mouse appeared perfectly fat and healthy, and met its end accidentally. Another correspondent says: With ref­ erence to singing mice, I may say that I caught one last year and kept it in a cage. That they do not sing for pleas­ ure, as a bird does, is evident from the fact that it eang even when frightened, and the singing was evidently due to some difficulty in breathing, which, however, appeared to cause it no great inconvenience, as it fed well and was in fair condition when caught. The "singing" soon became monotonous, and I therefore restored the mouse to his sorrowing relatives. -- London Graphic. j The Potato's Genesis Unsolved. The early naturalists differed greatly as to the origin of the potato, writes John Gilmier Speed in Ladies' Home Journal. In England it was held to be a native of Virginia, and in Spain it was said to have originated in Peru. Mod­ ern opinion holds that it is indigenous to the elevated tablelands of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexioo and southwestern United States. It probably got to Virginia by the hands of some early Spanish explorers. It is certain, however, that it was not cultivated in Virginia tillfar into the eighteenth cen­ tury, and then it was introduced in tha American colonies on account of the es- teem in which it was held in Europe. THE MARRIAGE TIE. From Sleep to Death. In consideration of the reports to the effect that electricity as a means of exe­ cuting condemned criminals is harsh, barbarous and uncertain, it is suggested by Dr. Andrew Wilson of I^ondon that a means painless and merciful would be that of the lethal chamber invented by Sir B. W. Richardson. It is employed at Battersea in the disposal of homeless and ownerless dogs which are valueless and whoso maintenance is undesirable or impossible. The death produced by the inhalation of carbonic acid gas, as far as any record of the action of the gas can inform, is certainly painless. It is really a sleep which deepens insensi­ bly into death.--Exchange. Mercurial. The adjective mercurial^ like many others, came into ordinary speech from the realm of astrology. In astrological language a mercurial man was one been under the influence of Mercury, when Mercury , was in the ascendant, and therefore possessed of the mental quali­ ties supposed- to distinguish the heathen defty of that name. Soine Are That Way. She--Why doesn't Mr. Pompus join the church? He seems to be quite agood man. He---I guess he feels as if the church ought to join him.--Detroit Free Pres*