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.;ii--cy^jLaa.ti;^us*» Ar^&.9»«r»>xaRXDUz«j<^^3SDKixr/ j^«T\\ kSURMsaov an arch of the room itino ; rvt his 'o- rundmotner 's Mrs . last and Satur greens ; being n -o a in Chicago Friday - tastefully decorated . After con - Pritchard . day . CP AGAINST gratulations were offered a bounti - School ch.ses Friday for a week 's T IT o IOMOE ITEMS ful dinner was served ; then an hour vacation . Len Crill was transacting busi - was in . ness iu Rockford this week . In the course of events man is spent pleasant conversation The M. W. A. meet the second and Albert Faulkner has taken Mr You want nil . hose new shape doomed to many disappointments until the bride and groom took fourth Mondays of each month . | Mae U ’s place in the ere am my . Mr. . UtO \ sc . . > 1 vie Fa. Jim Jenkins bought a horse of Cherished their departure , amid a shower of The Court of! Honor holds its meetings ; Mack now has a in Rock . plans go wrong ; happy position Peter Clark this week ., - the second and fourth Thursdays of Fred Tyler was in Rockford Tues - surprises for some ioved one fail in rice and old shoes , for Chicago , ford . each month . day their intended effect . To such as where they will visit with bride ’s Word was received from Chicago . You can get the choicest apples d s ' The Epwortii League ho ' its business i 7 this mu kind is inured but when relatives for a short time . After today that Wm Fallon . is not ex . at Tyler ’s. ither Baldwins ,Spies , , meetings Uie mhri Wednesday eveu - . Al Say - ms drove to Rockford - Greenings scorn is the first of March Mr and Mrs * ted or Pippinsl 1 . displayed toward a labor . . ing of each monIn . pec to live . Tuesday . O of love by one ’s better half then Reed will be at home to their many Lizzie Enright is able to be out e/ — The Junior League lod .’ s its business JO Mr . and Mrs . Ed Raup and fam - the poor fellow mur friends on the farm belonging to meetings the Inird Sat a : Jay m ea • i . A line of misses ’ and children ’s contemplates - again ily will spend Christmas with rel- der , suicide , divorce old the groom ’s father , northeast of month at 2:30, at the parsonage . Mrs . Leaser is still on the sick wool hose to «lo. e at reduced price . , any - atives at Harlem . W, C. T, Li . meets second i nd fourth . v tiling . Monroe . The following guests i list . A bargain at Nasholu ’s. Saturday afternoon . were present : Cherry Valley , Dec . 21. in misses ’ and children ’®, The other t erring in one of our Mr. and Mrs . S. D. Tyler were Bargains large department stores the rush Mr. and Mrs . J, H. Peacock and fam - wool hose at Nashold ’s. ily of Monroe . Quite a number from here attend - here several days last week . was so great and the extra force of Mr. and Mrs . Oscar Peacock and fam - ed the theater at Rockford Wednes - was ily of Fairdale Frank Taylor cf Kingston clerks were so - dis . From Davis Junction. Charles Miller was seeing the busily employed - day even in o\ Mrs . Mary Reed of Fairdale . • o a guest of G . IT. Hunt several days posing of the necessities of life and Mr. and Mrs . F. A. llalbroder of The Court of Honor elects officers sights in Rockford Saturday . Monroe . Mr. and Mrs . Wes key Janerson the first of the week . the luxuries of Christmas -tide that tonight . Misses Blanche and Ada Houdeshell of Iowa are to A j air of those lady or gents ’ no attention was bestowed on one of Monroe . expected spend the Robert Gritzbaugh of Kirkland Tom Martin of Monro © has rent - ’ would Miss Edna Dunning , ( Davis Junction . holidays at the home of Mrs . Jan slippers at Tyier s make a of the handsome oil illuminators ed a part of the postoffice and has - was a visitor at Lawrence Zimmer ’s Their many friends wish them erson s parents , Mr. and Mrs . Rob - line Curislmas present . which diffused its soft glow over put in a harness shop . Sunday . much joy and happiness . ert Richardson . the busy scene . ’ G-. A . Jueal has sold his bu c- her Mrs . T. W . Martin returned * . The banc : boys give a dance and Those lined ladies shoes at Suddenly the happy throng was shop to Oscar Peacock , who takes , fancy ’ cake walk in their hall Friday , Dec . from her Rockford visit Saturday . iiveloped in a blinding cloud of possession the first of the year . Nashold ’s are just the thing for Eminent . 30. Every coon from Coon town and soot . Investigation revealed the Ladies Social Dr. Rutledge of Elgin vas a vis - You can find the very newest winter wear ; warm dressy . will be present . fact that the oil had thing i; i lamps at Tyler ’s, illuminator itor at this place Thursday . 25 An The C., M. & St . P. has a force 3 lbs . choice candy for c at for some time seeded the attentions enjoyable , sociable was given The band concert last Fridny vva Friday of men working here putting in 600 Man James was a Kirkland visitor Tvler ’s. of the superintendent of lights and night by the Eminent largely attended and ev ( r body \ feet of new sidewalk . This com - lighting ; that it had been smoking Ladies for the members and their was well pleased . The band wish Tuesday . . Miss Sue Wulch was a Rockford families . pletes about 1, 000 feet , all in a at such a rate that the pearly Tempting refreshments to extend their many thanks to. visitor the first of the week . line , which is a muen needed im - Mrs . P. Murphy was a Rockford whiteness of the globe was trans - were served , and the evening passed those who assisted . provement to our town . visitor Saturday . formed to a black like unto a funer - with vocal and instrumental music , Dr. H. G. Lamont was a visitor Tyler has the largest and most The lecture given by Mrs. Grout ware and al pall . Enough lampblack bad graphophone selection recitations Thursday . Jim Porter was doing business in complete stock of china was largely attended and proved Christmas been unwittingly manufactured to and games . The program rendered Wallace camp M. W. A at their Rockford Saturday . lamps to select your very interesting .. in supply the local trade for a year was as follows : annual election of officers last night presents from that has ever been McDonough , Taylor &> Co. are this section of the country . could it have been saved . Graphophone .. elected as follows : Edgar B. Stiil , Ladies ’ fancy lined shoes ; warm , Song .Sir Knights filling their ice house . After the : evening ’s rush was venerable consul ; James Laatz , neat and dressy , at Nashold ’s. Declamation Dorian Clark Sterling Campbell returned to Grandpa Wright and wife hadra over and the extra help held de - Instrumental music .. ..Edna Jueal worthy adviser : L. E. Moyer , narrow escape from asphyxiation his home Monday night after two Mixed candies 10c per pound ; parted for their homes the propri - Declamation . . Clark Ups tone clerk ; Robert Craig , banker ; S. S. by coal gas Monday night , Mr. weeks at the hospital . fancy candies , assorted , 30c per etor endeavored to bribe his better Graphophone . Hollingsworth , escort ; Wm . Dean , Wright having just strength Declamation , . . Paul Manning Bicycle riders were out Sunday pound ; try a box at Fisk ’s. Half to accept the contract for watchman ; George Koch , .manager enough to open a window when he Reading . . . . Mrs . A. Clark enjoying the good roads . . cleaning the illuminator In this Thomas Shanahan had a bad acci . Recitation . Daisy Manning - Mr. and Mrs . Victoi Wethers tine Ed Sp -tingsteen was here Sun - awakened . They were both quite he failed and was informed that he dent o n e day this week . W n i te V « A • " Recitation —Miss Jones and the returned to their home Monday day . l from the fumes , but are now would have to clean it himself . Burglar Mrs O. W handling a coop of chickens at the .. . . Upstone after a brief visit with Mrs . W ’s nearly recovered . The next morning the aforesaid Graphophone depot ho ran a sliver fully an inch Robert Carienduff is visiting his Sir sister , Mrs . Woodworth , at Ore - Get you some of medallions proprietor , feeling a good deal as Song Knights and a quarter in length into his parents here this week . those gon . 's 2 he imagined Hercules did at the A special meeting of the Emin - right hand . Tfc went in at the thick at Tyler ; for 25c. ent Ladies has been called for next Wm . Dales has opened a shoe There will be a turkey and duck time he tackled the job of doing the ©f the hand near the wrist and part si op at King ’s Station . You can get your horse shod all chores at Mr . Tuesday night for the election of on bone , raffle at the billiard room tonight . Augeias ’ stables , set glancing a came out on the around with new shoes for $ at • There will be no Christmas ex - 1 about eradicating the marks of the officers . back of his hand . The sliver was ercises in our church this year . Take your laundry to the depot Powers ’ shop in Monroe . First lampblack ; soon extracted and Thomas per - Mrs . Fowler is seriously ill at Sent every Wednesday . class work guaranteed and only the Hot water , soapsuds , two or mitted to return to his duties . Lliidenwood Happenings the home of her daughter , Mrs. best materials used . Special at - three kinds of cleaning prepar - Mrs * . Daniel Cad well , mother of G. E. Smith , the dentist , will be V\ m. Dries . tention to horses that interfere . ations , chamois skin , feather duster Mrs . Philip Ups tone , died at her at Dr. Snyder ’s office 2nd and 4th Christmas tree at the church The Misses May Kennish , Bessie and plenty of elbow grease were daughter ’s home Dec . 20, at the Thursday A of each month . Hours At the meeting of the Woodmen Friday night . File , Edith Frost and Zulu Bagley used by him in restoring the globe age of 91 years 9 months and 6 12 :30 to 4 o. m. this week arrangements were made M. D. Stocking has his ie © up. closed their sol ools for LLie holiday , to its pristine purity of color . So days , death being due to old age. for the installation of officers at the Wm. Hills had the end of his vacation . ITeruy Krauthoff was here Sun - proud was he of the job that he Some days before she sustained a meeting of Jan . 4. It was also de linger bitten off bs a hog last week . Georg © Bennett and wife attend - day . ss* - drew the attention of everyone who fall , the shock of which hastened cided to hold the annual dance Miss Campbell , our night oper - ed the funeral of Mrs , Snyder at entered the emporium to the result , the end . The funeral was held from about Jan . 26, and all committees ator , has a two months ’ vacation . Oregon last week . Herm Crill of Glidden , la., is a and in return received many com - the church Thursday , Rev . Pierce were appointed , Revival meetings will commence The band boys are - unable to get guest at Henry Crill ’s. pliments . officiating . Sarah Flanders was next week . the Rochelle Harp orchestra to play Fisk is selling 17 lbs . ot granu - It was well along in the mornincr born at Eaton Sot an , Bedf rdshire , Henry Evers took out his first Tmff & Talbot want all accounts for their dance , owing to the seri - lated sugar for $1, 19 lbs . light before his better half entered England , March 14, 1807 . In 1833 papers at Rockford Saturday . the paid by Jam L ous illness of oie of the members . brown sugar $1 ; good Japan tea & tore . Hardly giving * her time to at the age of 26 she was united in E. Dresser of Rockford spent a Mr. and Mrs . Walcott of Rock - A subx « - p « 11 io a leading mag - 40 c ; coffee from 12 - - c to 30c; Lenox to Daniel Cad J be seated the proprietor , happy as marriage well . Seven ’ " few days with his son . ford Sundaytd at the home of Mr. az . iie makes a g t appreciated by soap 8 bars for 25c. chi dren born to , a boy with a basketful of gifts , and were them of ' A. Hart of Dixon , brother -in - ’ and Mrs , Horn . . a . i . G . H . H : . iii can supply any regardless of a number of custom whom but two are living , Mrs . Laundry packages called for and - law of F. Jones , was buried Wed - No. 107 passenger train tn:t magazine al ] > • - er s I M i e. ers from whom he had Philip Ups tone of Fairdale and just received nesday at this place , leaves here at 4:30, had a headend delivered in village . Leave orders " warm words of Daniel Cadwell of St . Joseph . Mo praise , called her Mr . Triggs of Rockfoid put up a collision with a freight , north of Remember that Ed H. Lane , the at depot . attention to the In 1850 she came to America and o rehabilitated lamp . line tomb stone this week Rockford Wednesday , no one being jeweler , will be in Monroe Jan . 5. to Chicago in 1851 , where she has The Milwaukee road makes a rate Steadily she gazed ; for fully two The Odd Fellows will be in their hurt . All repair work or orders can be made her home most of the time of one and one - third fare to all minutes her attention was devoted new hall next week . A Merry Christmas and a Happy left at G . H. Hunt ’s, where he since . She was a mealier of the points within 200 miles for the holi to the object and then , in a voice P. C. Areuds has a new horse . - New Year to the readers of the makes his headquarters . - Episcopal church of London . days . Tickets on sale Dec . 24 , 25, . audible in every part of the store , John Bird and wife of Rockford News , . 26 31, Jan . 1 and 2. Good re she said : Fairdale , Dec . 22 . If you are in need of sales bills , - la ., are visiting his mother this Thomas Richards is on the sick until Jan i i or job printing of any kind bring turning . 4. Why don ’t you get to work and week . list . clean it ?” your work to The News . Linden wood , Dec . 21. Several from here expect to take IT SAVES THE CHILDREN . Draw the curtain . CHERRY PICKINGS. in the Christmas exercises at Hol - Tige Upstone and Len Jenkins Chamberlain ’s cough remedy has comb Friday . were in Kirkland Sunday . saved the lives of thousands ot ROBBED THE GRAVE . Mrs . Ella Adams returned last - A. L. Pratt v as seen on our children . is also without A startling incident of which Mr. week from a three weeks ’ visit in croupy It streets Tuesday afternoon . Mrs. L. S, Wagner was a Rock - QUIET John Oliver of Philadelphia was the Beloit . n equal for colds and whooping A WEDDING. The oyster supper at the hall ford visitor the first of the week . subject is narrated by him as fol - Christmas tree Saturday cough . evening Friday proved a success . On Thursday , Dec , 22, the home lows : 1 was in a most dreadful at the M. E. church . Will Main of Stillman Valley NOTICE . ‘ [We wbh to thank the Davis of Mrs Bertha Whitman , north condition . My skin was almost yel The club dance given in San spent Sunday with Monroe friends . All persons knowing themselves - - Junction correspondent for news east of Monroe , was the scene of a low , eyes sunken , tongue coated , born ’s hall Friday evening was en indebted to the firm of Hii . debrand - this w -oek , but request that future You cannot always tell whether very quiet ' wedding ate which time pain continually in back and sides , joyed by all who at,tended & Eyehaner are requested to call * letters be signed , not for publica - your goods are all wool or mixed her only daugheer , Miss Annie , and no appetite gradually growing Stella Fisher is no better , Mrs . and settle , av it is desired to — tion ; just to get acquainted . ED], goods . It makes no difference if William B, Reed of Monroe were weaker day by day . Three phy - Fisher is improving . — close the books of the firm . you use Putnam Fadeless Dyes . united in the holy bonds of matri - sicians had given me up. Fortun - Charles Lowey is visiting at his ? Vns in the client when a HILDEBRAND & EYCIIANEE . person They color everything . Sold by G. mony . The bride wes becomingly ately a friend advised trying Elec - mother -in - law ’s, Mrs . Vandercook . has a co o. indicate a FIXE TAILOV . XG . tendency H . Hunt . attired . in a light brown serge with tric Bitters ; and to my great joy Miss Della Aten of Belvidere \ o wip 'd pneumonia . A piece of Clothes made to lit - your exact satin trimming , and first bottle made Sunday 4 - carried a and surprise the a spent with Mr . and Mrs . fh , nel damp < * ned wifch Cnaiu 6er - Fred Malana was here from measure as low in price as - ready boquet of white roses , ' The groom decided improvement . I continued Ben Attn . i a in s Pain Balm and bound on to j Genoa . Sunday . im -ide ” are the kind I am handling .

wore the conventional * black . John their use for three weeks and am Some of on r y oung peopie i n tc nd ihie c 1JEST , ov or Bne seat of 11 will Oxer 850 samples of cloth to choose pai J Mr . and Mrs . A. L. Pratt will Whitman ” , brother of the bride , now a. well man . I know they to attend the dance at Ne \v Milfurd ompiay rvlie hue and from , from $9 up and over pi pain prevent spend Christmas with relatives at prices acted as groomsman , Miss saved and robbed the Friday evening and my life grave « . tiirealeiuY ; nine o the H lack of pneumonia Aurora . years experience taking proper Blanche Houdeshell as bridesmaid . of another victim .” No one should Mrs . Beu Shirley is entertaining This same treatment will cure a measurements . Fit and workman - Rev . Beal performed the ceremony , fail to try them . Only 50 c per her sister . lame back in a few hours . Sold at Messrs . Frank Howe and L. 8, ship guaranteed . Call or write . Yippy couple standing under buttle at Hunt ’s drug store . | Guv Pritchard and wife are vis i drug * • . - I Hunt ’s o store . Wagner were transacting business J. A. Shahs lull . *rz - "o ,3b.

' ; , The Invent a of the T iascn JO OVER THE A L i 3 H z RAIL. T?er.ih « rrl t *S KOCPSI '- T<* . ? v. WH E N BURIED A LIVE * - . n ble. - - ' G r e pew One da , roar : y HO years ago. a cor • Royal , ' * 3 . the Sarah Be . che. dt has developed a -! I • ' The most costl k in A t< ew Electric RUiro > < 1 Up oh a Sid© of A MrtC l a fc > hit F < c an new eccentricity in the see usioh other optician was wording in his shop K ie library ar g - ! is a Bible. If is PnlitishojH Every Friday One of th © Hi: ’ » ost Peaks. Y < r { town cf Miadieburgh, in the Nethe - , ,, _ summer home in the abandoned army - no wo-LUc. dm: it is considered at Men roe Center, Ill. There shall aid Na I Count Michael von Kamice Ka niehi .- > lands, his children helping him orT precious just arracks , at Belleisle. - She will insist , - j , fo: there is not another ' po!eon, and he , Ms army | the czar’s chamberlain has invalid A L.FitATT ovei amusing themselves with the tools and j Hke it in world. In weight and ...... PUBLISKJB , upon takln's her daily bath on the roof and perfected an exceedingly cie er ap- the them. Modern scA -: has accom- i objects lying about, when suddenly his j unique that ' ' size alone it is . It is said . ^ . « < , ! H n |of her chateau. At the appointed hoiu, paratus for the prevention cf that bag i . , . , Dlished the - <- i = 0 xhe - llttie Sirl exclaimed Oh, papa, see j 160 asses’ skins were used for its , ’ atever h pens to be, the bath bear of the nervous a living burial* . — Lw elecSc railhead A t i e s iJ of ^ — how near the steeple comes!” Anxious i parchment leaves There are 309 pages Smbseription Kates. — prepared on^ the roof. Then the The apparatus was offered ar * a gift to . Gornergrat, one or the highest peaks of Ils “ - Opgyear. 1.00 actress ascends and this the French government which still has itc iearn the cause of the child’s amaze- j of writing and each page falls but one © the range, will be or erect soon So Performs ' ' . ment he turned towards her , and saw inch short of being a yard in length, H x . .... • • • • • . .60 functlon of the toilet. The advantage its acceptance under consideration / A fisigmths elated is the engineer with his success , twenty Tkiroe .. 33 of the situation are to be found in the tube protrudes four rcet to four and a that she was looking through two The width of the leaves is that he is already planning to build a lenses one held close to her eye. ihe inches. A Bible, the leaves of which AGENTS. and air whicb Mme Bernhardt half feet above the surface of the — - read uo the steep ascent of Mont ’ - length , calling are considerably longer than the larg Grace Greenway .Holcomb fndeelares are adJuncts of a baib tbat she grave, and upon the top of it is fixed ether at arm’s —and her - Blanc, “the monarch of mountains.” his side he noticed that the eye lens est newspaper at present issued, would Mr*. A. J. Groff Fairdal© 18 twilling to do without so long as a small metal box with a spring lid, to , - Ha' Adams Gherrv Valley The road up Gornergrat is 10 miles long plano concave, while the other was be a big thing to handle, and when the state of tbe weather and the i8 - says the London Mail. To the lower was - ® 0 $wcx)t Irene and rises by gradient foot . . of about one , ° end of the tube, which just enters the plano-convex. Taking the two glasses to this is added the fact that the cov- during , l£U10n of her establishment enable her * in five most of its ascent he repeated his daughter’s experiment , ers are solid planks, four inches thick, Svbfieaipti.onft may he handed to any to enj y tbem Her chief diversion at upper lid of the coffin is fixed an India of the agents of The . reaching its highest point at Ryffelaip - discovered that she :/’ it will be understood that this csstly News Liberal Belleisle° , apart from the luxury of rubber ball, charged pretty full with ; and soon 11 terms to any who will act as agents. station. This is situated on the ridge, hold the lenses at the prop Leciwiom ucasuxe is not exactly a 011 air, so that the slightest pressure up- ! chanced to - batnmS tbe ro L is found in hunt- ' and is over 10,000 feet above the level discharge er focus thus producing the wonderfi Packet Bible, in An day she° tram»s ove the ward on it would cause a ! , - Bnterod at the postoffice of Monroe of the sea, and lies between Findelen ‘ of air upward through the tube and j effect that he had observed. His quid ^ • country 4 © oi .n glaciers Gornergrat in hunting dress, and the dis- 2f irUt liMti Death*. and Gorner . From , in this wonderful discovery, Gunter as second-class matter. Proportion between the number of thereby release the lid of the oox | wit saw a According to the British Medical the traveler has a view unrivaled springs open upon slightest 1 and he once about making used which the - at set • , analyzed t, throughout Alps long shots sbe fires and th® Same she brinSs ournal Raseri, who lias - - the . It has been pressure. The opening of the lid auto \ his new knowledge of lenses. Ere lone Kates for advertising space made down has never been known to inter" - cases of death and 36,515 of births, a favorite excursion of Swiss travelers matically hag end sets ho a tube pasteboard known on application. Business locals fere witb her enthusiasm at the chase. raises a small had fashioned of were the exact time cf day was noted, who ascended it by Zermatt by a mule an electric bell in motion, which rings in which he set the glasses at t h d r 5 cents per line, with discounts on eon "ds that the maximum number of - path with comparative safety and com- immediately over tlie grave and in the proper focus and so the telescope was Power of a Pound of Coal. occur in the early afternoon traets. fort. Beyond a foot path ascends al- ’ — sexton s house, where it also releases invented, A curious and interesting calculation p. m.) , and the minimum, in the most to the top, but its dangers and a flap which indicates the grave over has been made on the dynamic power hours of midnight, whilst the max- MEETING NIGHTS. but , difficulties forbid its ascent to all which the box has opened As will Distinguish Uofl f n • of coal. From this we learn that a , i number of blrchs occur in the Woodmen, Camp 224. the . most intrepid mountain climbers. be seen, the slightest sign of breath single pound of good steam coal has - The Prince of Wales has officiated hours of morning, and the mini- Meets the first and third Wednesdays The new road, however, brings it with- ing on the part of the buried person, he within it dynamic power equivalent to seventy-five times as godiather. -'-- u in the early hours of the after- in the reach of all. Ryffelaip there or the slightest motion of the heart of each month at Woodman hall. of man for one day. emperor of Germany stands godfather m. As regards the cause of this, he valley the work one overlooks the entire Findelen will suffice to open the box and sound , • Home Forum. Three tons of the same coal represent to all seventh sons in Prussia Elin- As out that the hours of the maxi- and the traveler might be well satis- the alarm, and the open box, by a god Meets the second and fourth Wednes a man’s labor for a period of twenty press Eugenie in one year acted as - . number of deaths are precisely - fied by way he clever and intricate little mechanism, to return the came. years, square mile of a seam 3,834 children who were • when the pulse rate and tempera day of each month at Woodman hall and one • mother to - , engineer has been pumps a sufficient quantity of air down • However the even of coal, having a depth of four feet born in France on March 18, 1856. the ' ax -a at their highest in health, and preserve • Knights of the Globe. By reversing the into the coffin to the buried • • more considerate. only, represents as much work as one : same day as the prince imperial. Cecil ’ there is a febrile exacerbatior«p.n you person from suffocation while assist- Meets the first and third Tuesdays o direction of his train he carries million men can perform in twenty Rhodes is godfather to about forty css. valley ance is arriving. Count Karnichi, it eaffih month at Woodman hall. right down into and through the , years. Such calculations as the above young scions of the aristocracy, It is you by may be added, is firmly convinced that Hlrl lieu*. bringing back a beautiful cir- may remind us how valuable his to transfer to each of the Court of Honor. serve to thousands of persons are buried alive custom A passenger on a Cunard steamship cuitous route to Zermatt. The trains a commodity coal really is. godchildren fifty shares of the Be Meets the second and fourth Fridays of generated every year in a state of lethargy. had an experience which led her to be- will be driven by electricity Beers mines. eticii month at Woodman ha11. from the torrent that flows from the lieve that a seaman is not apt to waste - Photograph Film Nine Miles Long;. Knights of Pythias. Findelen glacier, a huge pipe down C©m as a Fuel. many thoughts on his personal trou- A photographis film nine miles and Artifloinl India Rubber. the the mountain side carrying the water at The difficulty of obtaining fuel in , . bles. The sailor who brought her to Meats second and fourth Tuesdays a half in length is somewhat of a nov Some recent attempts aDd a high pressure to the dynamos be- - certain localities has led to an investi „ l this opinion had a fall which resulted of each month at Woodman hall. elty even in this age of big things. - Germany to prepare artificial' mdia- bridge dynamos gallon of the fuel value of various farm ‘ in a bad cut on the head, the second neath the . The are these articles of the size stat bber bav« met wlth artlal euooe S Three of - crops. Some years ago, when corn was * - day out. She was solicitous in her in- capable cf developing 1,500 horse-pow- process construction product/ C , M. & St. P ed are now in of cheap pay While tbe French ls e - welfare when she . . TIME TABLE. er, current v/ be conveyed by* so that it did not to haul it / quiries as to his saw and the ill for use in a kinematograph. What able for lts comPlex composition“, tne to market, a number of western farm the captain that night, and woul.d un- GOING EAST, overhead wires to the motors attached scenes will be depicted on them is not - German Preparation consists main- carriages The bridge the ers experimented with it as fuel with I doubtedly have continued her sympa- No. 2 , ,,, {4:37 am to the . across yet decided, but certainly such a film of oxidized linse8d oil and ut® 41 very satisfactory results. It is claimed , |, thy had not a rough sea called to mind m , 8:3 1 a m Findelen is unique, as it is 164 feet is long enough to contain the seven / refuse^ Th& first of these two artlfiClal sufferings days , 6 .. • :27 am higher that ton for ton it has about two- i - j her own . Four later “ - 811 above the river, or 16 feet than ages of man, and although it may be rubbers has for lts delation a eUb | 94 way freight ., . 11: i of value of coal One the j - emerged, white and weak, “ . .. .. 50 a the bridge at Fribourg, hitherto the made to revolve at an immense speed thirds the . of ! when she 22 .. 3:27 • stance caUed “resm lme> wblc S euddenly “ .. p highest railway bridge in Switzerland. : part will be obstacles in the way of utilising corn is ! from her stateroom, she re- a considerable of the time is made UP of oil treated° Wlth ? 0r I The will drive on a , that when dry it burns with such membered the poor sailor, In the GOING WEST. t electrical motors to consumed in witnessing the show four times its bulk of m®ta llc oa cogged , between the two patience to fierceness that it is speedily consumed, | course of the day she saw him, with a central rail should the spectator have b ates, and then with nitric acid No. 91 way freight 6:50 ana whereas, much shut off strip plaster on his forehead, “Hov ' ordinary rails, as the gradient is much wait to the end. The cost of these if there is too - °° of 21 11:00 ana After undergoing numerous chemical^ kindly The your asked, , as he “C 9 steep for train be driven by £ 200 mile Photo draft, it smolders and blackens. is head ?” she § . 4:i0 pra too the to films is about a . - processes, thic compound is mixed with ... . J be fire must be fed slowly a small paused by her bent on some duty. • simple graphic films can, therefore, now — ** 25 goes to Beloit 5:54 pm adhesion. i oxide of manganese, zinc and methy- per yard, per acre, or per mile. amount of corn being put on at one “West, by south, ma’am,” was the re- % Stops on Hag for Chicago passen- had lated spirit, the whole mass when London Telegraph. — time. Where labor is cheap and corn — ply, delivered with respectful but hasty ger. fl Mail. Grutlfisd Ipyimcs. kneaded and compressed being found j plenty, it makes a fuel that is capable — I clearness, and he was gone. C. M MACE, Agent Prince Ferdinand of Roumania, who possess some of the properties of [ . . Power of Trunts. of doing most excellent work. to hunting Carpatians, The inventor is >; Way has been in the “Your mother agrees with me exact pure india-rubber. One-* Woman’s . expressed - Tex- a desire to kill a bear, and Glazed Paper and Eyesight pleased to call this production “ j “Speaking of women with saving dis- Preserve the Alligator. ly, Johnny,” said his father, proceed- . soon after had the luck to start up Some German physicians tiloid; ” if the “Flamp” had been a { positions,” said Bixmyth, “my wife’s in Since the authorities began enforc ing to trim the twigs from a tough have con- - two, one of which he shot. On exam g purveyor of rubber, he would j cjass by herself.” How so ?” ing game - switch. “She thinks, with me, that cluded that much harm may be done to - eat a ai “ the law the game all over ining week the carcass he found a • hole you need a good trouncing, and you the eyes by the highly-glazed paper have probably called it “smush.” queried his friend Hojax. “Last the state is becoming more plentiful. replied through the nose, as though the animal going get it, my used in some modern books. Espe- I bought an upright piano,” A similar lav/ should be passed where- are to son.” “Yes,” had worn a ring, and inquiry brought cially for school children is believed No Kissing in Japan Dixmyth, “and my wife made a beau- by the Florida alligator should be pro- bitterly exclaimed Johnny. “You and it . out the confession that the Amtmann always agrees to be injurious. Reference is made to No kissing ever occurs in Japan ex- tiful green plush cover for it so the tected from the guns of the would-be maw when it comes to of the district had bought the bears the books of the last generation, cept between husband and wife not polish wouldn’t get scratched. Yester- sport, who goes through the country lickin’ me. You and maw’s the whole whose — j from a showman in order to gratify thing. ’ ui. glazed, non-reflective surface did not even between a mother and child ; no day she made another cover of linen to slaying them and leaving their car- I don t never have no show. the Prince’s wish. ly fatigue the eyes shaking of hands in salutation. If one go over the plush to prevent that from casses exchange This fam’ ’s run by a trust.” Chicago . to rot. An says that , suppose Tribune. — were to offer a kiss to a Japanese j getting soiled Next week I a hunting party of Kissimmee killed make a calico cover to protect Not Guilty, Persian Pearl Trade. maiden she would probably think she she’ll 700 alligators recently and their re- Modern Ide- s you have ^ . diving operations which extend was going to be bitten. the linen. Oh, I tell , women mains were left for the buzzards If Miss Asenath Harper is “getting mayor The , . The of St. Louis, like the days hot great big fertile minds.” such along in years,” a fact which she is for over a hundred of the wholesale butchery of the Flor- Democratic leader in the house of rep Collection of Beetles accept very , - season on the shores of the Persian A . ida alligator is kept up the state will unwilling to . She wears resentatives ( Bailey The German Fire Department. Mr. of Texas), re- gulf and its islands, are considered the The largest private collection of bee- soon not be able to boast of this at youthful clothes; in fact, she lias been fuses to any “1 have the honor to announce, cap- - wear at time the swallow- greatest event of the year by the Arab tles in the world is believed to be tractive saurian, which affords the described by a waggish neighbor as tail tain, that the fire is in the fourth story coat which civilized society pre- population. All classes, from chiefs to owned by Professor Charles Fews oi northern tourist so much interest “sheep dressed lamb-fashion.” And and our ladders and the hose v/ill reach . scribes for certain evasions; and domestic slaves, have an interest in Pittsburg. He has over 75,000 of these Jacksonville (Fla ) Metropolis — sometimes when the world pushes her only the second.” “Indeed ? Then we’ll . . therefore he may be excluded from the the pearl take Nearly 2,000 boats and creatures stored carefully away ih his j into the niche where it thinks she be- - . have to wait until the fire gets down to Veiled Prophets’ annual ball at which engaged - rooms. The professor values his whole I longs, Miss Asenath rebels. One day — 30,000 men are in this indus the second.” Fliegende Blaetter. S the mayor is expected to make an ad- at $50,000, and this is con- — SUOKLEN ARNICA SALVE. she was talking merrily with a party try. collection dress and deliver the keys of the city cheap price. Th$ best salve in the world for young girls Her cheeks were pink sidered a All Take a Hand. of . because he will not conform — fluttering to the Not Very Amiable. “It is estimated,” said the statistical cuts, bruisss, sores, ulcers salt and her little curls . She Night Blindness. , rulee of \ \e managing committee. , laughed a great deal, “O Miss Ase “Excuse me!” exclaimed the timor boarder, “that 7 000,000 packs of play- rheum , fever sores, tetter, chapped - - Night blindness is a curious auection ous man, but may I disturb you for a ' ing cards are made every year. nath,” at last exclaimed one of the “ |of the eye i n w h i c h the patient seer ” bands, chilblains, corns, and A Cowboy Compliment. few minutes on a matter of considera- That,” said the cheerful idiot, “ all girls, innocently, “how gay you must j very well during the day, but become “ is a ble importance to myself and possibly - great deal.” Indianapolis Journal skin eruptions, and positively eurss have been!” “Have been!” repeated Once when Mme. Nordica was sing- blind as night approaches. It is mostly ] — . ing at of some concern to you ?” “No, sir!” piles, or no the lady, indignantly. “Have been! a concert in Texas sho forgot net with in warm climates and Soltiiera Are Snnust. pay required. It is replied the disagreeable citizen ; “not Well, I’d have you know I’m not a. her warm overshoes. A cowboy whom usually gives way to mild treatment. An interesting table, prepared by guaranteed to give , perfect satisfac- centurion yet!” she had utterly fascinated offered to unless you promise not to waste as the British Lunacy commission, shows talking you do Eet Your Sweethearts Cry. tion or money refunded. Price 25 bring them to her says the. Phila- much time business as the average number of lunatics in vari- delphia Ledger apologizing. Washington Star A good cry is beneficial to a woman. cents per box. For sale G- Swiss Are AU Right. , and did so, but he ”— . ous professions and occupations during by . H. Crying does not consist merely in the A curious shows the - brought only one at a time. When a period of , calculated on Hunt. occurrence sen shedding _ of tears, but includes so gen timent of the Swiss people. They have Mme. Nordica thanked him, and in her Very True. - the ratio t0 every 10 000 of the p0J>ula gracious way regretted eral and widespread an action of the expressed great interest in the suffer- to have given Little Clarence Pa, what does “gen - j tion. With clergymen the ratio is Washing-ton's New Club — muscles that the whole body is con-| i . ing Armenians, and have contributed him so much trouble, he said to her, erally speaking” mean ? Mr. Callipers n. ; with physicians and surgeons, What was it I heard your vulsed, and the blood pressure Gn the ; 4. " about new freely for the support of the orphans. “Don’t name it, ma’am ; I wish you It means one of the most prominent barristers and solicitors, 15.4; cook?” I asked a woman I knew day centipede — brain is much reduced Philadelphia ! ^chemists and druggists , But a German professor in the Univer- were a .’ characteristics of women, my son. — , 14.6; commer- before yesterday. “I can’t tell you, — Inquirer. y ! cial travelers, 14.1; raihvay engine ” sity of Berne criticised this movement Puck. she said. “I can’t talk about it.” “Is Carolina’s Pensioners. drivers and stokers, 12.5; soldiers, low- and declared that the Armenians were Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., at Work. it as interesting as that ?” I asked. “O, North Carolina, which pays a pen est of all, 10.5. not worthy of these marks of sym - It Wasn’t for Saying KT«j Prayers. some months past : no,” said she, “but I belong to the D. D. - sion to confederate army veterans For Cornelius pathy. Shortly after he asked to be Harry The police arrested that fel- j Vanderbilt, Jr , has been a bard work D. club.” “And what’s that ?” “Why,” that are in need, finds that but one in . - - j The Worm Turns. naturalized and received as a citizen low, ‘Jack the hugger,’ last night, ing employe in the mechanical depart ! she made answer, “it’s a club of Wash- fifteen of the known survivors in the - Mrs. Peck I wouldn’t act like an of Berne; but his request was refused Dolly Gracious! What .tor ?—Phila ment of the New York Railroad com — ington women who have sworn never state is on the pension list. Applicants - idiot if I were you, Henry. Mr. Peck 300 against 200. clelphia North American. pany, receiving a very moderate sal to talk of dress, domestics or diseases.” a vote of year No, of course you wouldn’t, dear, but for aid are fewer each , instead of ary. — Washington Post. ^ increasing constantly, as in the case as you are not me you might at least Two QUESTIONS * 5 — Fate of a Poet. POINTED ANSWERED S i f e t j. try to act a little less idiotic. with federal pensioners. Texas will Whitcomb Riley thinks the Down on His Buck. James vote on a constitutional amendment What is the use of maing a bet - Washington Star: “What do you j Pack lot of a poet a hard one. In a recent Weyler ? asked one Merely a Collector of Refusal !. : Jones Fortune doesn’t smile permitting the state to pay a similar ter article then jour competitor if think of Gen. ” j ' — he said: “If you’re called as ’ Say ’ propose on everybody. Kiekerton No she interview - pension to confederate veterans at a Spanish politician. “Is he what you d Johns—“ , don t to her; I gives of grand — — a witness in a lawsuit some little at- you caunot get a better price for it ? emergency?” j know she’ll refuse you.” Jaynes some us the laugh. special election next month. call a safe man in an — torney squares himself off and says, Ans. As there is no difference Undoubtedly,” answered the warm j “That’s why I am going to propose.” The sooner a cough or cold is cured — ‘ with withering scorn: ‘Let me see ; patr t. “Look at his record. When j Exchange. — without harm the Gets There All Right. in the price the public will buy only to sufferer the bet- you’re a poet, are you not ? H’m, yes. there was trouble in Cuba he never Old Gentleman (dictating an indig- the better BO ter. Lingering colds are dangerous. Gentlemen of the jury, the witness IS , that while our profits got any closer than the telegraph office. nant letter) “Sir: My stenographer, Hacking cough is distressing. One a poet.’ And your testimony is killed may be smaller on a single sale they Why, he was one of the safest men in being a lady—, cannot take down .vhat I Minute Cough Cure quickly cures it. dead as a door nail.” * will the whole war.” 99 think of you ; I, being a gentleman, be much greater in the aggre * Why suffer when such a cough cure is - |STEVENS FAVORITE cannot think it ; but you, being neither, gate. “ within reach? It is pleasant AN ENTERTK. IM.NG DRUGGIST. © RIFLE. to the GOOD WINTER READING can easily guess my thoughts.” taste. G. H. Hunt. How can you get the public to There are few men more wide j 9 For farmers in the eastern states is know your make, is the best? Takes Down The Sun’s Changing: Face. awake and enlerprisino- than G . H . “ . now the many years being distributed by Chi- How TO LOOK GOOD. Tf both articles are 1 For careful drawings of brought Hunt, who sparer no pains o se - the shifting spots il&r seen on the face of cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul E’y, Good Koks are really more tlmn prominently before the both 1 public cure the best of every hi i « or in his the sun been have made at the Kew free of charge to those who will skin deep, depending entirely on a are certain to be tried and the pub Observatory, near London. This year - line for his many customers. He send their address to H, F. Hunter, healthy condition of the vital or lic will very quickly it has been decided to discontinue - pass judgment now has the valuable aoocv for 22-inch barrel, weight 4-I pounds. immigration agent for South Da gans If Carefully bored and tested. For these sketches, which were made by - . the liver is inactive you on them aad use only the better one. Dr. King’s New Discovery for con - hand , on account of the great progress .22, .25 and .32 rim-fire cartridges. kota, Room 565, Old Colony Build - have a bilious look ; if your stomach This explains the large sale on , recently accomplished in solor photog- sumption coughs and colds. This No. 1 7. ing, Chicago, Ill . is disordered you have a Cl aaaberlain ’g . . raphy. Photographs of the sun, which dyspeptic Cough Remedy The is the wonderful remedy that is Plain Open Sights, 6.00 The $ are now taken every fair day, at finely illustrated pamphlet look, if your kidneys are affected people have been using it for years producing such a I furore all over No. 18 various observatories, present a more The Sunshine State, ” and othar have a . ‘‘ you pinched look.- Secure and have found that it can be de- the country by its many startling Target Sights, $3.50 complete record of old Sol’s changes of . publications of interest to all seek- good health and you’ll surely have pended upon. They may occasion Ask ’ countenance than the most careful - cures. It absolutely cures asttnna, your dealer for the “ FAVO- , RITE If he doesn t it ing new homes in the most fertile good looks < Electric Bitters” ia ally take up with si»me fashionable .” ’ keep we & drawings could do. ‘ bronchitis, hoarseness and all af - will send, prepaid, on receipt of section of the west will serve to a good alterative and toaic. Acts ncvelty put forth with exaggerated fections of the throat, ch st and price. ^ ° Send stamp for complete cata A cough D no 6 like a fever. It does entertain and instruct every farmer directly on the stomach, liver and claims, but are certain to return - to lungs. Call at above drug store logue showing our full line, with val- * not have to run a certain course, Cure during the long evenings of the uable kidneys, purifies the blood, cares the one remedy that they know to and get a trial bottle free or a reg - information regarding rifles it quickly and effectually with One and ammunition in general. winder months. Remember, there pimples, blotches and boil**, and be reliable, and for coughs, colds Minute Cough Cure, the best remedy ular size for 50c and $1. Guaran - is LQ charge; address as above. a gives good complexion. Every and croup there is I for all ages and for the moot severe — nothing e.qual to teed to cure or price refunded . J. STEVENS ARMS AND TOOL CO. cases. We recommend it bottle guaranteed. Sold at Hunt’s Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. For v . F. O Box 4- ji f because it’s DeWitt s Little Early , . G H - ’ Risers DeWstt’s Witch CHICOPEE FALLS, HASS good. . . H u n t. The H.tlc pills. drug store. 50c per bottle. sale at Hunt’s drug store. Hazel Salve 0 . Cures Piles, Scalds, Burns. MrrwWWSK ryr ! - ^***- ** g ' TjUj . . r 52 4H . f Hl- — — — — — * ' Tlie World’s Telephones. jM&Afi BO YEARS* : It is estimated that the total num- * ber of telephone subscribers of the ^ BBHS Mm whole world amounts to about 1,500,000. g W VU The United States stands at the top m k 1 with 900,000. Then follows Germany, t§ i5sros <0 - 3 with 160,000 subscribers; Great Britain, anything yon invent or improve: also get X = 1 I&JJLHMI» , or Y X with 75,000 ; Switzerland, with 50,000; CAVEAT TRADEMARK, COPYRIGHT DES&N % Are now prepared to TRADE SHARKS PROTECTION. Send model, sketch,or photo. ^ li % France, with 35,000; Austria-Hungary, for free examination and advice. do your DESIGNS with 30,000; the vast Russian empire, No Atty’a I $ COPYRIGHTS <%C. fee before patent. *> Anyone sending a sketch and description may only , 16,000 ; MI li PATENTS quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an with IS 000; Scandinavia, Write invention is probably patentable. Communica ' - Denmark, with 15,000 ; Italy, 14,000; to C A 8NOW & £ t ions strictlyconfidential. Handbook on Patents j . . sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents Patent Lawyers CSojrp . . >V3 , Holland and Spain, each 12,000; Bel- i WASH I GTON D.C. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- * at reasonable rates. »ieucit Ainr~ .--T m.^ *r Courtship ©^lov©y Russian . A V v* One of the national eccentricities in i p@©d dj'lpdcy * 'S> the Ukraim, Russia, is that the maiden % v > is the one - that does all the courting. •Wood Saw. * IA When she falls in love with a man she goes to his house and tells him the Work with any of the above 4 I Gippeyly state of her feelings. If he recipro- solicited. Satisfactory work <§> A A; A & cates all is well and a formal marriage guaranteed. & Stojfz is duly arranged. If , however, he is * * MONROE CENTER, ILL. *> unwilling, she remains there hoping to I * coax him into a better mind. The poor ISSUED I MONTHLY Arc nowr prepared to fellow cannot treat her with the least T?a © Rswid MoNally Official Guide and discourtesy her Sl&nd Book- of the Railway and Steam Navi- do your or turn her out, for gation Lines of the United States, Dominion of friends would be sure to avenge the in- Canada, and Mexico. he Devoted especially to transportation lines In the sult. His best chance, therefore, if of Ohio Mississippi > territory the and valleys, the lake V> is really determined that he will not region, including all lines governed by me tipia- of the 00th meridian (Central Standard time), and west to ' marry her, is to leave his home and thereof ; having also condensed and through fch&e- 1111 tablfis all other Cool ll to sections. stay away as long as she is in it. This In Ten Days. SUBSCRIPTION $3.00 PER YEAR. 25 CTS PER COPY. ' is cert ly a peculiar way of turning a THE AMERICAN RAILWAY GUIDE CO., Siiellfjag Publishers and Proprietors 4 man out of house and home. ^ 162 to 174 Adams Street, Chicago,gL ES£ DR.C.B.LYIM Rockford, Ill. We Are Frog Eaters. = From the present indications Amer- on short notice and I outdoing in ica will soon be France guarantee good work. I the consumption of frog flesh. The ‘CTssssgSk; city of New York alone consumes 600,- the 000 “hams' -vf frogs during the year. FOR I PREPARE RAIN SSE& > 0 These delict ies are now sold in tin h and durable protection from storms all kinds of Hay and Grain Stacks*. | MONROE CENTER, ILL boxes like other conserved meats. J The most: effective stack cover ever produced. *28 § War and 1$ “I suppose,” said the coffee - $ mer, “that the excitement over the war &«3 has all died out, even in this rather & backward neck of the woods ?” “Oh, & A ffl SI yes,” replied the grocer cf Basswood N A - TT Swanson - Corners. “Lots of the men don’t even Fairdale, Ill. bring their pocket knives with them s A any more when they come to tne store 9 *4> piejeliapt evenings.”—Judge. ROME, STROK COVER G-HRINS. -V f Our invention consists of an ingenious system of steel chain, with hooks con A - 4V One of Many. structed so as to bind each board to its place without nailing or other mode of 4- g a l l o p. fastening. Will last a life time. Have sold thousands of these chains. Send for Mrs. Weeks- “What business is your circular and price list Agen ts wanted TOLEDO WEEKLY Suits order 18 and BLUE — . . ^ to $ up. husband , engaged in ?” Mrs. Meeks— MANUFACTURED J3Y Pants to order $4 atd up. < < He operates stocks in .” Mrs. Weeks a 1 CO•9 = Pekin, Ill Cleaning and repairing neatly “Is he a ‘hull’ or a ‘hear’? Mrs. ACME HARVESTER . — ” I 4 done. All work wartanted. Meeks “Both. He a bull the — ’s at stock ^ Spring and summer samples exchange and a bear at home.” just received. The Largest Sun-Dial. . The largest sun-dial in the world is Hayou Haroo, a large promontory ex- Affairs BEWARE 0F rwtfTATVQ«5; tending 3,000 feet above the Aegean The sea. As the sun swings round the

, t CupED QE NT shadow of this mountain it touches r a l- £AE>ACt-> E.t- FOB VO . ‘ .5 m u iLOntlAUAC. gS CURRD, FOP 25 one by . one, a circle of islands, which ^ {- FOR— SALE E.V ALL CD«U act as hour marks. of I JASKSBM MEDICAL Cfi CttW Europe iLlV > Money Coined i & Britain. 260 SO. CLARK ST IMPERIAL0 0 . ,. ^ % V The total amount of money coined s^ NJEL Don’} take any ^ by all the queen’s predecessors on the are faithfully portrayed in the original and § with the same name but SlOO throne was £205,000,000 sterling. Dur- g spel i ind on which your | ing the present reign the mint has exclusive cable dispatches which THE CHI- $ makes Twice as muen turned out £ 450,000,000 sterling, in- e>&WA RE OF { Ml TATTONS cluding £158,000,000 in India—a record CAGO RECORD prints daily from the leading ! for all time. capitals of the old world. This magnificent i GOOD SEAMSTRESS § Just Wtmt She Didn't Want. IS A m Poor Lover I’d always treat you like special service is in process of being greatly — NECESSITY an angel. She—Yes; with nothing to extended so as to include every important HOUSEHOLD eat, and still less to wear.—Harper’s And a Household Bazaar. city in Europe ; and it is supplemented by is one of cur Unusual Origin of a Trinket. the full regular cable service of The Asso- Will Shy of this place has a very odd but beautiful scarfpin made from the ciated Press. tusk of a wild boar. The tusk was presented to him by Dave Nichols of the Salvisa neighborhood, who, while digging the foundation for a dwelling The Chicago Record, alone of all American SEWING MACHINES. bouse recently, where many years ago newspapers outside New York city, a pioneer’s log cabin stood, excavated BlBplillH skeletons of several wild boars. With now prints original and exclusive the skeletons, but not attached to them, SIM m were found several tusks half a foot cable dispatches daily from §§6 or more in length. Old residents say mBm that it has been seventy-five to a hun- the leading capitals of Europe. dred years since any wild hogs were locality * in this ; hence the skeletons bp excavated by Mr. Nichols must be very HIS f mmm old.—Harrodsburg ( Ky.) Democrat. *yiii F ’ A Prominent P5aySicilian. An Kldorly ILady. UB Men God Give . & 1 JMm A prominent New York physician An elderly lady living at Fordh m > ; “Men whom the lust of office cannot in discussing the merits of Ripa.ns Heights, a part of Law York City, i SI 1 kill, Tabuies with a brother M. D. said : and who was known to be a warm Men whom the spoils of office will “ Several years ago I asserted that advocate of Ripans Tabuies for any Mtl gSE itfgj not buy, if one wished to become a pliilan case of liver trouble or indigestion, thopist, and do a beneficent deed - said to a Men who have opinions and a will, reporter who visited her for one that would help the whole hu—- the purpose of learning the particu- FOP full parfieulaps address You Men who have honor, men who will man race nothing could be better lars of her case : “1 had always not lie.” than to procure— the Roosevelt Hos- employed a physician and did so on pital prescription, which is the basis the last occasion I had for one, hist K E EFQUIET of the Ripans Tabuies, and cause it to at that time obtained no beneficial be put up in the form of a ketchup results. I had never had any Adth Manufacturers of Fine Family Sewing Maofclnos. ’ and use Chamberlain s colic an • , cholera d distributed among the poor. in patent medicines, but having;seen EASTERN OFFIQEt A Ripans Tabuies recommended very 309 Broadway, N.Y. BSLVIOERE ILL and diarrhoea remedy for all pains ' Salos Increasing. highly iu the Now York Ffeixtld con- . 5 of the stomach and all unnatural | The largest retail drug store in cluded to give them a trial, and Want If America is that of Hegemon & Co. fotrnu they were just case looseness of the . i what my bowels It always S on Broadway in New York City. demanded. I have never employed cures. |A reporter who went there to learn a physician since, and that means a |how Ripans Tab- saying of $2 a call. Fraak Leslie’s Popular Monthly |ules were selling A dollar's worth of b bought a five-cent R i p a n s Tabuies has been reduced from 25c to 10c. ! carton and asked : lasts me a month, ! » 4 For sale at Hunt’s. < » ‘ Do you have and I would not be , j m u c h c a l l f o r without them now < > J j these ? ” if it were my Last « ; He was referred doLiar.” At the Galls on horse*, scratches and toagentleman who time of this inter- \\ sore back caused by saddle or har- proved to be the view there were ; [ head of the depart- present two datigh- ; ness cured by Queen’s ointment. ment. He said : ters who specially u No cure, no pay . For sale at “ The sale of Ripans Tabuies is objected to their mother giving a I ! constant and is increasing, due testimonial which should parade her ’ ^ r.3!3S?3?SSE8ffi ilwmBUS Hunt s drugstoreo . especially to theinfluential character name in the newspapers, but to do of thetestimonials in the daily press, this the elder lady argued : ‘‘There and growing out of these, through may be other cases just like mine, SWHI for taIaj ig sure i great « y g ijjlQgQMJteA fo i 5 foil the recommendation of friend to and I am take pleasure s& jfo56ri&M&a» all mtr pjaKoa mii G. H. Hunt can supply books , friend. Satisfaction with them is in recommending theTabuies to any wrgajja. HSHfflSSMBlSR. wo XAH vne i ftnw firm of actual maimfauforers newspapers and - very general. When onee they are cue afflicted as I was. If the telling ecl#ng oxelasively to the general magazines at pub i MS . canons puWio oitai. begun I notice that a permanent about m y case in the papers enables clireoi. at footorv foe ’ only firm where yottgot the R «M!. Kxfiet Value f o r j T T n — lisher s rates . Now is the time to customer for them is made. This, 1 some other penson similarly affected i 2W8l;n - 1 get your winter r eading. believe, is through their intrinsic to be .as greatly benefited as I have 4 > „ merit, which proves the bona fide been, Isee D O objection ” The daugh 1 IKP CASILQM Oi EAhY W AYM ¥Mr® m - < tosuit your P tnos ~ , earnestly gateclehvei " character of the advertising. I think ters knowing how she felt J 1 uurler our spesial warrant for tweuty^ iive years. No wi <»mev rdqmr&A rn attvanee. y C them specially useful in the general about the benefit she had received, - - Arrangements have been made • run of stomach troubles.” decided she was quite right. I whereby we can furnish the News . ( any ©we ean easily obtain a S ...... , . . „ , ,B rmLii.'ne of SollTWS worfo Of A now stylo picket contar - ii) 'rr.< rri-v? T.I rui.asmc.cq-Un a paper aarton* tyiclmutgla«s.« laoovr gI } i rn^itta from ns doling nearly 00 years. > 0OIOTH Piano or Organ for notiu S ip * he Toledo Weekly Blade for ^ m •'r in advance. etoreSoepers, news agonte and at seine iiqdor storesar.d barbtc thovs. One g.ves rebef. S > R A M 0 M ^ OS i i S H l i ^ M H . ...‘y

' A : < ' — ' : Beauty . i 9 • • ' - Facial ; 5 > $4* v ? E $: - j t'K . Prrhaps the whole question of facial AT TYTRF J. - Ui liULill << 3m 1 A GREAT CLOTHING STORE oauty was summed up by a physician BSltXaSSX£12J?Ji7iZ-JIi'£UZ4a.l.Si ‘ v . ho was asked not long ago if it were $ 4 not natural that the idle, unworried Tues <$ I. Jueal was in Eoekfcrd - • v> <4 ? woman should have a better complex- 44 day . • :on her weary and overworked '$<> than <£K : nOLIESAY' ' 1 Wi' " > IS Ayq PRESENTSY ister. ‘‘It’s a question of blood and Chamberlain ’s colie , cholera and 4-4 J- Tculation.” he said , “and if the busy diarrhoea remedy can always be . .•Oman s work keeps her on the go, ’ depended upon and is pleasant and H M mentally afid physically, permits her ft their of doing ime to slee'p and time to eat, I see no safe to take . Sold at Hunt ’s drug If Learn way business • eason why her cheeks should not store . v loom and her brow be as alabaster. <'H A year’s subscription to any • ff Dick A • deadly things for the com- Peterson and John Engle and you will trade only at this store he most 4 lexion are hot breads, monotony and wero Rockford visitors Tuesday . of the leading magazines boredom. A perfect digestion and a for clothing' For a clear skin , clear all the way and gents’ furnishings. selfish disposition are excellent cos- I metics.”—New York Commercial Ad- through , transparent enough to let it makes a present that will be V> the continent of Europe every year. “ Mr a fe# Of this high amount France alone Christmas tree exercises , under 4 takes one-third, it being a well-estab- the direction of ' the Sunday school , a. fl. HUNT. 118 Main street Rockford , Ill Gus J B South , . . ^ehland , Mgr . lished fact that French women are par- will be held at the Killbuck .school ticularly prone to anything of a showy MONROE GELNTE 1R, I LA LA ; color. Britain comes next, but a very house Saturday evening . u long way behind , , yards, , with 30 000 000 If ” a woman ever gets so and the rest is divided principally be- “ l c tween Spain, Italy, Germany and Bel- homely ” she isn ’ t worth looking of ; The approach winter gium and smaller principalities. Blue ’d take Moun The American Sheep Breeder , a a"e given , church affairs , parties , ? at, she better Rocky - brings to the - front the # and the higher pinks and scarlet are tain Tea . Brings back the bloom monthly magazine devoted to the etc - j at which we have no reporter , > fact that <> the favorite shades. of youth . 35 cents . sheep and wool interests , and The We very much desire a complete When you have eaten too much or News for $1.50 per year in ad- compendium of the week ’s events •> Allen Hart , aged about 42 years , > when you suffer from any form of dys- vance . Regular subscription $1 a aild iu order to reach this result it pepsia or died Monday at Eldena , III ., of indigestion remember that year for each . would give us pleasure to receive Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you cerebal hemorrhage . Deceased was writeups from the hostess or 4 eat. It cures the worst form of dys- some w a brother -in -law of F. Jones of Lin - Send in your subscriptions . >> pepsia G. H. Hunt. guest present . All we ask is that IP a den wood . The funeral services all communication are needed . We have a papdwaj ® be signed that § Tiie s Word. were held at Linden wood Wednes Special homeseekers ’ excursion Queen’ - we may know to whom we are in complete line of everything queen - The ex- of Servia, lost some day , Martin Nashold having charge tickets will be sold by the Milwau - on runners at the lowest %|> valuable diamonds while staying at debted . Names of writers ®f course & of the arrangements . kee road Oct . 4 and 18, Nov . 1 prices . Standard makes g> Are most appropriate for Biarritz not long ago, and at once ad - not to be published . J and 15 and all goods warranted . 4 gifts . Many of the most vertised in the local papers that if the and Dec . 6 and 20 at one ( > Call and inspect the % useful and ornamental arti - gems were returned to her she would REMARKABLE RESCUE . fare plus $2. Tickets will be sold The Rev .B. Wt Costley of Stock - f cles in everyday use can be cell them and give the money to the Mrs . Michael Curtain , Plainfield , NEW ANTI-TIP to New id amp ton , la., and points - bridge Ga . , while attending to his | found at our store . poor. Within a few days the diamonds Ill . , makes the statement that she west : i ^ GSCILLATIN8 SLEIGH sheet of AustinM , Minn ., and points j pastoral duties at Ellenwood , that k FEW SyaSSSTIONS were returned, wrapped in a ’ many I . caught co d which setti d on her wnich has improvements Pocket from 15 paper across which was scribbled: “I west ; between Mason City , la., and j state , was attacked by cholera mor . tip < % cutlery c to I —the anti- reachwith parent ^> ' wonder if the queen will keep her lungs ; she was treated for a month Randolph Minn swivel, permitting front or % $K 25. , . . ; Bird Island , j bus. He says : By chance I hap - ^ word ? The queen did keep her word, “ hind bob to turn completely 4 f Table cutlery from 75c to ” by her family physician , but grew Minn ., and points west ; Maple ton , pened to get bold of a bottle of - and the jewels were put into a lottery Y over while other remains up- ^ I $2.50 . wqrse . He told her she was a hope la and for benefit of the poor. - . , points west ; to all points Chamberlain ’s colic , cholera and right —patent self -adjusting X TI Granite and opal ware Irom the pcle, preventing a tip when less victim of consumption and that n South and North D 'vta , diarrhoea * % 1 5c( to 75c nor niece etc. remedy and I think It ± turning-patent brace on rear & io Pel Plece _ t £ rT ? ‘ - Late to bed and early to rise prepares no medicine could cure her . Her Stop overs will be allowed on | bob guaranteed to 6,000 lbs. x Hana sleds from o0o to $1. ^ going was the means of saving my life . It a man for his home in the skies. But * . — druggist suggested Dr King ’s New passage . For full information in - |relieved me at once .” For sale by 2 KBEE HS MB BBSS t j gg early to bed and a Little Early Riser, Discovery |- ?‘Z from for consumption . She quire of any agent of the Chicago , j G. H. Hunt , druggist . Strongly built patent bolsters . the pill that makes life longer and bet- 4 — 15c up. bought a bottle and to her f —guaranteed . ter and wiser. G. II. Hunt. delight Milwaukee and St . Paul . s p r8 ] Bring your MITUK usmu Mtr !" * ’“ " found herself benefitte from t,he job work to The i tZUSF Bamboo Suspension Bridge . first dose . She ""continued its use Very frequently entertainments News office . OUTTERSB ||; Call bells , 25 c. A recent British consular report Old and after taking six bottles , found friends in the cutter line j % Footwarmers , 35c. from the far East describes a suspen just the thing for business or— £ - X j Y Nickle -plated tea and cofiee sion bridge of 300 feet span, made of herself sound and well ; now does pleasure. n44 tntnttu V j % pots , tea kettles , pitchers , bamboo. The cane was split up Into he >' own housework and is as weil < S fibres and twisted together to form the ' *m - as ever 44 < " ' she was . Free trial bottles -A~$- CRIIL & HMEBRAM, A ;S . cables. Considering its span, the ma- 44 I £ of this great discovery at G. H. Monroe , 11 Kitchen utensils Cin terial of the structure is quite re- m Center Ill. endless m % f markable. The old tradition that al- Hunt ’s drug store .- Large bottles 44 Complete line of robes and| m most anything can be made out of 50 c and $1. blankets at lowest prices. bamboo receives here a good illustra- m 4 & K y •<> IHOWE LEE tion in the field of engineering. m TOUR OF ALL MEXICO When you ask for DeWitt’s Witch Tii a special vestibuled srain of Pull - * Hazel Salve don’t accept a counterfeit man compartment , drawing room , S> 4 A Sample of Feminize Wit. or imitation. There are more cases of 4 L dy Blessington, who was accorded library and dining cars , with the ©o yma -peed v ^ piles being cured by this than all others | ths the name of * the “gorgeous” when combined. G. H. Hunt. celebrated open no - top observation © Prince Louis Napoleon, the last em- |services f a t4 car Chililitli , starting from Chicago peror of the French, was in exile in Sunslnn © In European Countries . «> Tuesday , Jan 24 , for a tour of 37 London, was remarkably courteous to The duration of sunshine in the va- KEEP THE BLOOD WARM SEHERM. him, extending her hospitality in the rious countries of Europe was recently days , the longest ever offered . f most lavish way. After his accession discussed at a scientific meeting It 4| . Tickets include all expenses rail - DEFY THE COLD was shown that Spain — it mmnia 4 to the throne of France she was in stands the way and sleeping car fares 4 , meals < 4 Paris for a season, and s-omewhat nat- head of the list, having on the average ?> TURKENKOPH SELLS THEM 4 in dining . car hotels If ' you do, engage T. Craw - irally looked forward to an invitation 3,000 hours of sunshine per year, while , , carriages , I L. Italy has 2,300. Germany 4 ford and you will be perfect - o the Tuileries. Time passed and none comes next special street cars , boats , guides Recan give you a choice , at the lowest prices , : sumptuous with 1,700 and England 1,400. ly satisfied with the results . ame. But at a ball given and interpreters ; no extras what n44 t -Jsewhere the emperor passed in full - from nearly one hundred and fifty personally t ever . u THRESRYEAR ’S EXPERIENCE . -v- splendor of his triumph. Catching THE BEST PLASTER . it selected coats , including Dog , Wolf , Goat , right of his , he The party .will be a one 4 DRAWS THi PEOPLE LIKE ^ benefactress smiled and select and Lady A piece of flannel dampened with Marten , Wombat , Calf , Wild Cat A GIRCU 8 isked: “Ah, Blessington! You limited in number , and will be It , Raccoon , etc . . l Chamberlain ’ per - 4 » remain in Paris for a time?” Yes, s Pain Balm and SELLS SQCCSBY K!S QEFT 4 “ The latest styles in Overcoats are carried in “ 4 fire,” said she; “and you ?” sonally conducted under the auspices M GAB.” <1 bound on lo the affected parts 1: of The American Tourist associa 44 stock . Your choice of Meltons , Kerseys , NEVER FAILED TS PLEASE - superior to any plaster . When - 44 OWNER t tion , Reau Campbell , general man Chinchillas . Constipation prevents the body from troubled with a pain in the chest - ft , Frieze , etc . Prices from $5 up. V - 4 ridding itself of waste . ager , 1124 Marquette building , Chi > He will call at your place if 4 matter De or side or a lame back give it a - 4 Call at the Old Reliable Clothing Store when £ Witi’s Little Early Risers will remove cago . For full information X you want to consult him . trial You certain , maps , 4 in Rockford and the trouble and cure sick headache, . are to be more select X Leave word at this office or i circulars , etc ., .call on or address t biliousness, inactive liver and ejear than pleased with the prompt relief 4 send a postal card to the any ticket agent of the Chicago , 4# complexion. Small, sugar coated, don’t which it affords . Pain Balm is also 44 Milwaukee & St . Paul . TOWi CRAWFORD, gripe or cause nausea. G. H. Hunt. a certain cure for rheumatism . For railway Fairdale , Ill . sale by G. H. Hunt , druggist . Everyone knows the Toledo t A Remarkable* Creation. Weekly Blade ; we can give it and i A most remarkable cremation will place SUNSHINE ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA . this paper for $1 per year in ad rssi.ia take when Joaquin Miller, “the. - poet of the Sierras, dies vance . ” . He has Pullman ’s best tourist cars to Los Wiptef built a great funeral pyre <> on his prop- Angeles and San Francisco leave erty at Oakland, Cal., in the form of Anyone figuring on getting a a cube, nearly ten feet each way, made Chicago every Saturday at 2 o’clock |SUCCESS. new sewing machine can find a bar We are offering a year’s tui- of boulders set in cement. On the p . m . via the Chicago , Milwaukee - V top of body gain at the News office tion, books included free to this his will be placed and and St . Paul R’y to Kansas City , . student % burned, and the ashes will then be filing to all points of thence via the Atchison . Topeka the compass, if Two for the price of one ; the In Business the provisions of the will are carried and Santa Fe R ’ y to California r Square * dealing and courteous treatment is I out — Toledo Weekly Blade and this paper shorthand and typewriting’, . real Sunshine Route . For further the lot of every purchaser . No misrepresentation normal and English training for $1 per year in advance information . for $70, if you write to us ' apply to station agent of goods to make a sale . Everything in the cloth Soothing , healing’, cleansing, De - naming’ this paper. For full ' of tlnvC , M. & St. P, R’ Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve is the implac y. ing and furnishing line , particulars, address I - Queen ’s ointment is designed to for children boys and l able enemy of sores, burns and wounds EXECUTOR S NOTICE men . H s children ’s suits at $1.50 and will BWB IGSIMESI COLLEGE ? It never fails to cure piles. You may . correct all skin troubles . Try it up 77 8. Main St. Rockford, IIJ. rely upon it. G. H. Hunt. Estate of Frederick Koch, deceased. for chapped hands . No cure , no please every mother . The undersigned, having been ap- pay . For sale at Hunt ’s drug Trattic Over London Bridge. pointed executor of the estate of Fred- „ store . Modeled r» «n. ^ anfsKrf ’ minL?dS& f/efibv By the admiralty’s orders perfect gives notice that he will appear before ” ' h 1 the county court TpUFk models are made in paraffin wax of 44 ( of said Ogle county, The Toledo Weekly Blade and the ji . fineCl shoe4leataerP ^or a little every English ), at the courthouse in Oregon, e t d y new Rng.iSn batUeshiii beforeoeu e _7 Illinois, I just | News for $1 in - iroil a rifi > when per year advance . it is laid down and these models are But litter and at the March term, on the first Monday <4 dU£t are added to these minute losses in March next, at which time all per ^ - tes.cd m a tcaik at llchiui me i a- tlie whole fills between three and four sons having claims against said estate els are u’om twelve to twen.y-four The new Queen 5 carts< The - are notified and requested to attend ointment s oint - | ’ ^ most surDri'fin* fact of all feet long, and the tank is 400 iset long — for the purpose of having the ' copli sD however lg same ad ment has and twenty wide. The mouels > that the incessant - given good satisfaction in 4 feet are . . . . x , justed. All persons indebted to said the^ nceB to P wder made of wax because it is a material I , ? , ° estate, are requested to make immedi- a number of local oases where it 1 P ty"fll e cublc” yards o£ gral1' It 106 MAIN STREET . ROCKFORD , ILL . that does not absorb water , or change ate payment to the undersigned. has been tried . -44 ice e\ ory year. Dated this19th daj- tf December, A its weight, so alterations can be easily ' . One door south of Second National bank building ^ I CD: . made. Also the material can be melt- D. , 1898: \ -' JACOB KOCH. Executor. ed up and used again. l&hwie Cov.txh Caw?, Glares. O-KS M iFicrt © re, T‘xz.1 is v: V: : J. C. Scyster, attorney. ' h iZ for. ih&Z i-3 vAr&t It Vv»a5 toadte var.