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46und approximately as many birds as he found color shadesâ€"about 4,000. went to school but who has degrees from universities and honors from naâ€" umes of a gigantic work called "The MdMMMA-cI‘,” Thax SS popue ‘bang sev 0 Tost than papers. ago was ’h-.:.b-hdnunl-hh life‘s work. He is writing the tenth birds. _ Joy and $50 a month besides! And right there he started on his journey among birds that has lasted for 59 years and is still unended. The expedition went to San Francisco via P-n-.fn_nnlhmmuu Just a few months after that first drawing traveled to Washington young Robert, then 16 years old, was invited to join a government expediâ€" tion into the then mysterious mounâ€" tains of the Great West to ‘study drawing of the purple finch! the man who loved _fiE;fl ?hrl;;; who foved birds. Other pictures went forward to Prof. Bairdâ€"for naming. Story of Olney This is a story of Olney, home of white squirrels, the redâ€"top industry ; center of rich orcharding, wholesale merchandising, abiding place of €,500 people, the boyâ€"a whiteâ€"haired happy little man nowâ€"his wife and his birds. 4 Dr. Robert.Ridgway, that boy, has been curator of the division of birds, United States National Museum, since this? Listen. The boy who rambled the Wabash bottoms barefoot reconâ€" noitering the armies of his feathered friends didn‘t know the name of the bird. So he carefully worked out a picture of it, in waterâ€"colors, and sent it to the man he most revered, Prof. Spencer F. Baird, of Washington, orâ€" nithologist, and founder of the United States National Museum. ‘ ho S se P oi m Eoat Een that uses colors, they‘re there, all of them. It is the standard color chart used in all the industries of all the by symbol. The hues of Milady‘s sheer hose, and yours, find names in this color chart; all colors, sombre or gay, oppressing or glad, just dullâ€" every coaor_cued in every industry e worked, whenever he could crowd in â€" an hour, for twentyâ€"one years, with infinite pains, separating eolorâ€"shades. Sometimes a month on a single shade. He gave names to 1,115 of them; the rest he recorded 1O 12 BAIC 22 200 20 AARCeWeste ing instant 60 years ago, this story you read today. For Fiftyâ€"Nine Years For fiftyâ€"nine years the boy who saw that bird that day has been studyâ€" ing birds and the outâ€"ofâ€"doors, writâ€" ing, writing, writing, about birds. And in his work among birds, and flowers, he sensed that something was lacking. It was the absence of a colorâ€"chart for naming the variegated colortones on feather and petal. Heâ€"set out fo‘ remedy that void. l He worked, whenever heâ€" could Dr. Ridgway has written nine volâ€" name and symbol, 4,000 colors lore, vast scientific information about birds that aid man or are enemy to him apdâ€"atrangely, it brought to the industrial world a standard color work or even games. ‘The bird loiâ€" tered to pick seeds from a horseweed. That bird, a purple finch, brilliant and flashing, was gone in an instant. But, perhaps, no other bird ever passâ€" ed a few brief moments more , sur~ charged with importance to man" For that bird in that moment became a factor in developing a latent force in a boy that has given to the world P eR ie esught the eye of a boy who loved birds more than he loved school or the wealth of foliage in the Wabash bottoms near Mt. Carmel. Minoia. More than THURSDAY, OCTOBRER 18, 1921 More than sixty years ago a bird did the purple finch start all Listen. The boy who rambled 46 years, Among his , by This may surprise you. He has here, in IHlinois, trees or shrubs or plants which bloom every month in the year and have bloomed each month except one ‘month, January, during the eleven years the Rirgways have lived at "Larchmound." Two ‘yurs ago that gap was filled. Here “n some of the growing things that | may surprise you: . Mimosa trees from the Holy Lands, crepe myrtle and pomeâ€"granate from the south, five varieties of yucca, Oriental bamboos, (a native bamboo grows in the Wabash bottoms) rhoâ€" dendrons and Manchurian filberts, Ridgway‘s Message Mre» Ridgway gives me a message to peopleâ€"about birds. She says the greatest winter feed for all birds is the little Spanish peanut, ground. She feeds hundreds of pounds every year and much sunflower seed. Dr. and ! Bird â€"Haven f "Bird Haven" was under plow 35 years ago, utterly bald of foliage and wild things. Dr. Ridgway, gently oi n mt en spÂ¥ties and on it, all native. That is more varieâ€" ties than grow on the Pacific waterâ€" shed from Mexico to Alaska. And here are more species of oak than grow in all New England. He plans to have growing here every variety of tree or woody vine natice to Illinois; already has 95 per cent of them. Eight varieties of magnolia grow in the United States and seven of them are here. | so definite that anyone can folâ€" ‘low itâ€"and so certain that no ome can fail It provides proâ€" with the State of lows. These mx exceed the sum of e pignlk MASTER CONmb? of all protective, savings investment On your present living budgel By small annual investment in theâ€"MASTER CONTRACTâ€" TER CONTRACT is 3 de, . 1 NBR SIICE fl:m your t::;y and :; own old age. & Issued the great Bankâ€" gm-clz.zbv-,mhh And she it is who gave name to the eighteen acres near Olney which is called "Bird Haven." This spit of land, according to Dr. Ridgway‘s plans, will be continued tgmut eterâ€" nity as a spot apart fof birds and plants; an oasis for scientific experiâ€" ment among them in southern Iliâ€" nois. A Collateral Security for fiâ€" nancial mmvndu., in fact, this MASTER CON TRACT is so simple that you ‘-'-mtoluh;lu-mdfi. brightâ€"hued birds . Ridgway paintâ€" ed pictures of and wrote about. The engraver‘s daughter found amazing interest in the pictures of the wonâ€" derful young bird man. I found her the other day, his wife, among his birds at their home, "Larchmound," in the edge of Oiney. Protective, Savings and Investâ€" ment Plan. Follow the definite plan given in this MASTER CONTRACT and your financial independence is guaranteed. This MASTER CONTRACT works just as surely, whether you are now earning at the rate of $1,000 or $100,000 a year. It Providesâ€"â€" A Monthly Income or retireâ€" ment fund for your old age. A Monthly Income if you are wick or disabled and cannot Retire A Mortgage Retirement Fund A Liquidation Fund for your An A!:’r;uaiqu’nmd or Monthâ€" a 5t your J _ when you kave passed v!-’ was employed by the gov at 65 J North Shore Gas Company | ; orate machinery for cleaning the seed | and preparing ? for market. | _ The secret of the redâ€"top nm:my is this; while redâ€"top flouri alâ€" | most everywhere planted it does not | need anywhere on ecarth in sufficient | quantity to make it profitable as a seed crop, except here, in one small { spot in New Jersey and some outâ€"ofâ€" | theâ€"way place in far Russia. So Illiâ€" { nois redâ€"top men maintain a "natural | monopoly" which brings the state milâ€" | lions of dollars yearly. w | Center Peach Industry j “ Olney has recently become the cenâ€" \é What it means to these counties can | be estimated better when it is said | that the seed houses in Olney in 1925 ;lhlpped out 80,000 sacks of redâ€"top seed valued at $500,000.; Arthur | Shultz, of the Shultz Seed Co., seeâ€" | ond generation in the business, might perhaps be called the redâ€"top seed | king.â€" He is theâ€"man who % f !Menhip*fiy‘fifihu*%' one began to wonder if the seed of this remarkable grass might not be sold. Oltofmttmhth.m an unusual industry. Under the name of redâ€"top it is merchandised all over the world. Redâ€"top seeds liberally in fourteen counties in southern Hlinois. The industry centers in Clay, Wayne and Richland counties. The main markets are Olney, Fairfield, Flora and Salem. years it When the first white man saw this region, about 1702, here was a vast plain covered with a strange grass. As the district was settlad it became known as "herdsgrass." For 170 ars it was merely native hay, Finally, along in the 1870‘s, sc THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, RIGHLAND â€" at quarter after eight o‘clock in the College Chapel Season Tickets $8.00 Single reserved seats $i.50, the School of Music, telephone Lake Forest 999, Drug Store. Special Gas Fired Home Incinerator This Garage Heater is approved by the 'l’ml * v.l,lmh nter motoring a Warm it with a scientific Gas LAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MUSIC $5.00 Down Payment, Balance T FIRST SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT 1927â€"1928 HELEN FOUTS CAHOON _ PIANIST _ â€" SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15th Scientific Garage Heater us now for an estimate on installing a Your Cold Garage Is Useless MARTA MILINOWSKI, _ _ _ Knox Tarnish: The Logical Place to Buy Gas Burning Appliances The Best Little Toasters, 40c SOPRANO Fired Garage erty a fruit growers association has been formed. Fourteen members conâ€" trol 800 acres or about 65,000 peach trees. The Richland county. peaches come in between the southern and the Michigan peach crop. That means a good marketâ€"usually $3.50 to $4 a bushel. The yield is often 250 to 90 bushels to the acre. Farm land Olney was pretty much downâ€"inâ€" theâ€"dumps up to five or six years ago. . That was before peaches were discovered and before the shoe facâ€" tory‘ came. The shoe factory employs 600 people. The payroll is $11,000 a week. Dozens of empty houses were filled and many more built. .Some wouldâ€"be orchardists have failer, rather bitterly. F. R. Landenâ€" berger, an experienced peach grower, said: "It‘s about 75 per cent man per cent orchard." for $40 an acre That was the first peach orchard in the district. As a result â€"farmers have gone peachâ€"wild. At West Lib this yéar. Een anene got a big crop and his 40 acres gave him a gross income of $39,000! That was in 1920. Since then the orchard has yielded 23,000 bushels of peaches with prospects of another big crop Therevunnrthlyid‘thelm year. It paid for the work on the orchard that far. Then â€"came the fifth year! That fifth vear Mr. Dav $50 an acre. It still is, for that matâ€" ter. Mr. Day told the owner that if he would buy the trees he, Day, would set out a peach orchard. He‘d pay the owner $6 a year rental and take an option to buy the land at $100 an L. O. Day and to 1915. Mr. Day, renter, leased 40 acres near West Liberty, not far from Olney. He made & geal with the owner,â€"used his head. ter of a large and profitable peach industry. ‘That story goes back to seats $2.50, obtainable at Forest 999, or at Krafft‘s bought e For hotels, restaurants, apartments, homes, hospitais and office buildings, is the modern way to health and safety. THE GAS FIRED HOME INCINERATOR mthenhntocflm.hndbw on the lawn or garden. May we tell you more about our *" Time Payment Plan? Gas Disposal of Garbage and Rubbish sters, 40c each; Two for 39¢c. Make perfect toast for your breakfast perior metal polish, 1 ib. can 50¢ size, to introâ€" gud 25 welve Equal Monthly Payments The hookworm is nearly extermiâ€" nated, which is very fine, but the boy element say they should not also deâ€" stroy the fishworm. How easy it is to forget other | ple‘s troubles.â€"Woman‘s Home C panion. they were turned loose. And Oiney , today has white squirrels -uuend’ all over the town. they I EPP TD IE mapatuaiiire in oi dourneimdindbrcac is tle hospital in Olney. rmmlmmummum are tem doctors on the staff. ‘About three miles of grading were received mhflwmmm«-dthmwdfile fice patients are handled yearly. works and buildings August 31. The Olney‘s white squirrels? Oh, yes.| pavement sections are as follows: Souyemocq.hrur(o.d.lmu.ml“-dm-p- litter of Aibina squirrels. He brought| Proximately 16 miles, near Crescent them to town. Mvu"nyhd,‘(‘lt!;mn.miulu.iflnh preâ€"Volstead. ‘The squirrels were in l_mrSllnnoa.inCarmH-ngeo- a saloon window for a time. Then| ties; Route 110, sections 115 and 119. $p O ie o e ts Wenus. 4. . T C y e â€" ~â€"â€" two sisters, the brot ;-.-':,.&' â€"- and surgeons and the sisters nurses, Weber the family name, opened a litâ€" AND HARD TO REMEMBER The Lhicago Mercantile Exchange Building This thagnificent building, the future home of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, will be ready for ocâ€" cupancy January ist, 1928. It stands on a most deâ€" sirable and corvenient site at the northwest corner of Washington andâ€" Franklin Streets. For rental rates and complete information address Edgar M. Snow & Company, 69 W. Washington Street, or S. Edward Davis, Business Manager Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 136 West Lake Street. price and special information of interest to you and your iaundry. The Canton Clothes radiated heat comes in contact in Macoupin county, five miles, Bunker Hill and Benhld; Rou Section TSVâ€"1, Lee county, one mile near Sublette! Route 13, tion 17, Perry county, 2.18 miles, Di k _ m “&&m‘% five miles of hard roads and thirtyâ€" lhne_-il.clm'mw STATE GETS BIDS FOR MUCH HARD ROAD WORK Bids for the PAGE ~Ugie counâ€" 115 and 119, miles, near ; Route 2, y, oneâ€"half te 13, seeâ€" miles, near