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McHenry Plaindealer (McHenry, IL), 10 Aug 1922, p. 3

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IT, ILL. i- i ree in M Correspondents Find Quiet Sort 'iW Men Make "Mountain Dew # With Kick." SUSPICIOUS OF STRM6S1S ; si: w. %'t Continually on the Alert for Deputy Sheriff#, Revenue Agents and Pro* ' ** hlbition Officer*--Peact Sc||4 V ' . World Magastoea. . P v Ostlettsfcnrg, Ky.--Typlcaf ttfttin- * 111 °°n•Miners of Kentucky are not . ^ always of the gun-toting and troublemaking kind, It Is proven to news corl respondents by visits into the moantain region In this area of the state. The mountaineer type of moonshiner, however, is continually on the alert for deputy sheriffs, prohibition officers g : ' and revenue agents. 7V; After a trip of thirty, or forty mllss Into the mountain* the correspondent ^-,v was escorted to a moonshiner's log •back, made from the rough timber of the hillside and carefully arranged oft a foundation of stone, "Bill" greeted his visitors with a. keen eye, a bit of suspicion, but with a friendly note in his shoot of "welcome stranger." Proper Inquiries whether any squirrels Inhabited an adjacent mountain side, where a newly beaten path had been noticed, brought the answer that squirrels were scarce and none were found In the woods. Mountain Dew Kicks. When a friendly spirit developed some "mountain dew," or, in the language 0f the cities, "white mule," was produced from a small hand-made cupboard within the single room of the cabin, over which hung a religions picture and other articles of a religious nature;- On the opposite side of the room over the bed of the mountaineer was a rifle of heavy caliber, an automatic pistol and a small-caliber revolver. The contrast was unique. A small drink of the "mountain dew" almost brought Cumberland a la Dempsey. Inquiries as to the age of the liquor brought the answer, "Tbefs today's stuff." Hospitality of typical southern quality will be found among the mountaineer residents if you are a "friend"; If an enemy--beware, or, as "BUI** explained it, "snakes in the mountain are killed." "Bill" makes his farm a payable proposition for his wife and children, who were attending church at the time of the correspondent's viplt, by occasionally cutting some timber. His Interest in wofid affairs is not limited and weekly trips to the nearest postofflce furnishes him with newspapers from the "outside." These are read by one member of the family, by lamp and candle light, to the others and often last throughout the week. The moonshiner's home from the outside has an uninviting appear^ * anee, but once within the hone, while some inconveniences are found, the tmpreasfon of cleanliness is prodM|B$. The low celling forces a man of nary height to stoop. The board floor may creak, but it is solid and hign an<| dry. In winter cold winds are shut out by the mud-plaster between the cracks of logs and by the board and paper lining of the inner walls. Heat Is furnished by an oil burner and cooking is done on a coal range. Oxen teams haul coal to the home during the fall months. A yoke of oxen pulling a load of timber along the narrow mountain road explains the manner which enabled the mountaineer to obtain all the sizable logs used In constructing his home. Rat Attacks Sleeping Baby. Kansas City, Mo.--The screams of her six-months-old daughter, Alice, aroused Mrs. William T. Elledge shortly after one o'clock In the morning Rushing to the child's bed, she found a large gray rat clinging to the babyV right foot. Mrs. Elledge shook the rat loose. With the child In their arms, Mr. and Mrs. Elledge ran to a hospital. Emergency treatment was administered. . Bi tck &e Old Days at Mb«on FOU 6 BELLA** Hot wafer ^ SuieReSef ELL-ANS S5t and 794 Packages, Ewnrywhsii : Cuticura Soap -- AND OINTMENT---- Clear die Skin Owtmmt 2S sad 5Sc. T.W-- fflr. 'SJfKPi U. S. Explains $108 The color and life of the old days of early California were brought buck for twenty-four hours when the beginntag of the restoration of the historic San Fernando mission was celebrated recently. Dressed In colorful Mexican native costumes, gay dons and dashing senoritas restored the sleeping mission to a semblance of Its original life. TWs Sum Will Provide for Eyening Gowns and Business , Frocks, Says Bureau. U. S. University in TELLS HOW EASY IT ALL IS Sv' •->' 8erles of Pain ph lata Issued by Department of Agriculture Calculated Reduce High Coop Clothing. " ,* Washington.--Uncle Sam, ^besides occupying himself with strikes, law enforcement and International agreements, has Interested himself in woman's clothes. How to have a wardrobe for 1106 Mrs. Harriman With *No More War' Banner Mrs. J. Borden llarrimun, member the executive board of the National Council for Reduction of Armaments, holding the "No More War" banner with the unbroken circle of the flags of all nations, which will be raised rtyer the council headquarters as part of the international "No More War" demonstration to be carried oat In fourteen nations July 29 and 80, the week-end pre* ceding the anniversary of the outbreak of the Worjd war. that Includes dinner "and evening gowns, a smart business dress, frocks of voile and tissue, gingham for summer wear and a broadcloth coat for winter winds, is explained in a series' of pamphlets issued by the Department of Agriculture, as an aid In reducing the high cost at clothing. One of these pamphlets declares that the business girl with a reasonable amount of zeal and talent, can use part of her spare time to such effect that her clothing bill Is cut in half. First she must send to the Depart' meut of Agriculture for the circulars Issued by the department. One of these pamphlets explains how to make a dress form by pasting layers of gummed bundle wrapping paper over a tightly fitting vest on herself, as a model. When the paper casing is cut off and fastened together she has a "light, stiff and perfect reproduction of her form." This eliminated the purchase of a store figure. The girl with the $108 wardrobe, a government employee, used such a form. She made for $24.61 a co*t of tan broadcloth with a good lining, such as she saw priced at $50 In shops. A blue voile dress with a slip, cost, including trimming, $11.09. A tissue gingham dress, with organdie and hemstitching for trimming, cost $6.33; with scraps and a remnant she made another gingham dress for exactly 46 cents. For $16 she bought materials to make a pussy willow taffeta and georgette crepe dress for social occasions, which she said, she could not duplicate at a store for less than $35. Her business dress of serge and crepe de chine would have been priced at $40 or more if she had purchased a dress of the same quality of material already made. Her evening dress of taffeta and silver lace cost $21, although it was modeled after one seen In a shop priced several times higher. Attended Many Affairs. This wardrobe, supplemented by two dresses for which materials were purchased, brought .the total op to S108.34. "This wardrobe, while not elaborate, enabled me to attend many affairs which, had I not sewed myself, I would have been unable to attend because of lack of a proper gown. Without the dress form I could not have done It In the time at my disposal. I made ten such forms for my friends, too." Suggested by Dr. Stepanek as Promoting World Peace. SPREAD AMERICAN CULTURE LEGEND QUIETS HAWAIIANS' FEAR Volcanic Activities FaH to Disturb* Older Hawaiian!. Remember Ancient Legendary Agreement In Which Pels, Goddess of the Volcano, Promised ||h ; Withhold the Lava, -y • Hllo, Island of Hawaii, T. H.--Recent volcanic activity in the ancient pits of Makopuhi, Hanau and Napau, which have been "dead" since 1840, drained much of the lava that had made Halemaumau, the vast inner crater of the Kilauea volcano, so spectacular, and caused much fear that the lava would flow toward the sea and inundate the little vrllages of Kala- ' pana, Panau and Puaa. The #older generation of Hawailans, however, entertained uo such fear, for they remembered an ancient legendary agreement that had been made by . Pele, goddess of the volcano, with Kama Puaa, the Hawaiian pig god, by which Pele promised ber lava would never flow through Hllo pr Puna to the sea. Pele and Kana Puaa had an argument and Kama Puaa went to Halemaumau, Pele's home, to flght It out. The god and goddess fought until Pele was overcome, and she pleaded for peace, according to tne legend. "We shall have peace If you promise never to allow your lava to flow through Puna or Hllo to the sea,** Kama Puaa said. Pele assented, and she has never broken the promise, fearing a return of the hated Kama Puaa, ,the legend said. In 1880, when a lava flow was proceeding toward Hilo and threatened to destroy the city, the Princess Ruth came from Honolulu here and, standing near the flow, reminded Pele of her promise and her danger from Kama Puaa if she broke the agreement. The flow stopped Immediately, according to the older Hawailans. On several other occasions Pete has sent her red-hot rivers In the direction of Puna and Hllo, but they have never reached the two places. The last activity, resulting from an underground flow from Halemaumau that broke out at Makaopuhl, 11 miles down the great southeast rift that leads from Kilauea, has changed be appearance of Kilauea". t It is now possible during favorable wind shifts to approach close to the plt-rlm in what was known as Pele's oven. Aithoagb the pit of Kilauea shows no activity, volcano observers say that "she Is not dead, only sleeping." Cobbler Finds $100 in a Shoe. Warsaw, Ind.--Thomas Ross, Winona Lake, placed $100 in bills and several checks inside ohe of his shoes for safekeeping. Then he went to Florida and forgot al1 about the bills and checks. While repairing a pair of shoes for Ross, a Warsaw cobbler discovered the greenbacks and checks and turned them over to the owner. AT LAST A WEEKLY DAY OFF Japanese Department Store Starts Ghring Clerks Hebdomadal .. "-•> $ West Tokyo, Japan.--The clerks of Japan, who heretofore have had few If any holidays during the year, are hoping much from the inauguration of a weekly rest day by a large department store of Osaka. * The Tokyo Chamber of commerce and other bodies have taken the matter up with a view to the adoption of a similar system here where there , are a number of large department stores conducted on American lines. Heretofore the stores have remained open seven days a week the year around, and the employees have had a few days at New Year's and during the feast of the head in summer. Macrocytis, a giant sea weed, h«sa stem 700 feet long. All field artillery schools of the" ' United States army are to be concen- \ Goat Locked Eight Days , ' in Car Without Water ' * Poplar Bluff, Mo.--And now J t comes the "harmless" billy goat * J displaying some of his unique ( " qualifications. - When .a carload of lime was loaded at Gape Girardeau, Mr. Goat, unnoticed, made his way Into the car and was locked therein. Eight days after, when the seals of the car were broken at the destination, Doniphan, Mo., and when the door was opened, out Jumped Mr. Goat, spry, but apparently thirsty. He was quickly treated to a w £rink of "Mountain Dew," which 0 bubbles from a spring near Don- J f lphan, and was happ.v. He # * seemed none the worse for bis * 1 "Volstead feat." * 0 V V • ' t The oil of the humpback whale Is PASSPORT VISES EXPENSIVE Every Central European State Mulcts Passing American $10 at Frontier. .. Belgrade, J u go-Si a via.--Collecting $10 gold from American travelers every time a passport is vised continues to be one of the popular occupations of officials of the states of central Europe. Any American who wishes to visit ohe of the countries must pass the frontiers of several of the others and at each frontier the charge is $10 s head and $10 every time he passes. One American business man within the past three months has paid $120. "But don't blame us, blame your State department," said a representative of the Jugo-Slavia foreign office. "It Is a matter of reciprocity,with us; fee as < World Union of Engineers Also Advoeated in Line With Marconi's ftuggestion of Promoting Peace Through Science. Washington.--Establishment in central Europe of a great American university and library Is urged by Dr. B. Stepanek, minister to the United States from Csechoslovakia, who, to advance international peace, calls upon the engineers of this and other countries for united participation in world affairs. Doctor Stepanek makes an appeal for the formation of a worldf federation of engineers, and for an International engineering conference to deal constructively with the problems of civilization. Doctor Stepanek's views, msde public by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, which, through its official journal, stresses the need of engineering solidarity among the leading nations, are regarded by engineers as a significant Uplomatic utterance supporting the efforts now being made ill America, Great Britlan, France and Italy to bring about closer relations among engineers. Closer Relations Among Enginsers. Award of the John Fritz medal to Senator Guglielmo Marconi has aroused fresh interest in the idea of a world union of engineers. Marconi's expressed hope of promoting peace through science coincides, it was said, with action to devise a working plan of international co-operation between the engineers of America and Italy. John W. Lleb, vice president of the New York Edison company, has reported, after a trip to Italy, that Italian engineers are ready to form such sn alliance. Herbert Hoover, Prof. Comfort A. Adams of Harvard university, Eugene Schneider of Paris and Sir Robert A. Hadfleld of London are others who favored advancement of world peace through the united action of men of science. Actively backing the project also are the presidents of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Federated American Engineering Societies. Alfred D. Flinn, secretary of the engineering foundation and chairman k of the engineering division of the National Research council, indorses Doctor Stepanek's suggestions "that at an early date there Uiculd be an International conference of engineers, rather than of politicians and statesmen, bound by tradition and self-seeking nationalism--a conference of constructively minded men who could take fresh views of the world's condition, deal scientifically with fundamental pauses and suggest Impartial, far-sighted ptans for continuing prog-1 Mr. Fltnn advocated a Joint convention of the great national engineering societies In Europe in the summer of 1928 to meet the engineers of all the countries of Europe for discussion of such of the world problems as may be the most vulnerable to engineering attack. For an American University. In appealing for the establishment of sn American university In central Europe, Minister Stepanek said that It would constitute a center from which could be given out the best products of American culture, a source of correct information about America and American ideas. Through a world alliance of engineers, the minister thought, a constructive type of mind could be brought more effectively the service of the nations. Professor Adams predicted that ar. tlficial distinctions between nations would be removed by engineering science. Removal of the barrier of distance, he said, is bringing nations so close together, and making them so Interdependent, that Intelligent co-operatlon will make war impossible. Racial and national antagonism. Professor Adams asserted, will give way to the progress of engineering science. l O N I G K l Tomorrow Alright NR Tablets stop skk jhssifarlisfc relieve bSioos aHadn, (OWSM regulate the itfimlnativ eegansb msko you leel fine, "Srttw Tkas Hb Fer llaer H»" HAY FEVER--ASTHMA KHP Polkn and Dwt «ot «R*MT NM*. Tnqr NASALFO.TBR ' • ^ , |1 no PaataaM NASAL FILTER CO.. SaM fart, M*ft» Young America. "Do you remember when you WHS ten and steered your mother to tht toy department?" "Yes. My little daughter. of tfc» same age now steers me to the d|fr mond department." • \ ' • •tlll-y. Hewllt--Oft In the stftly hlgifct* Jewett--That's all moonshine.--New York Times. WILL TEST THE EINSTEIN THEORY PhotoQraph Stars in Investigation of UQht Rays. Expeditions Will Qo to Australia to Make Astronomical Observations When Sun Goes' Into Total Eclipss. Papeete, Tahiti.--Preliminary observations were made here in April and May by Dr. Robert Trumpler, assistant director of the Lick observatory on Mount Hamilton, California, In preparation for fiual astronomical observations in northern Australia to prove or disprove the part of Einstein's theory of relativity which has to do with the composition and characteristics of light. Various astronomical expeditions will gather on the northern coast of Australia September 21 to take their observations when the sun goes into total eclipse that day. Doctor Trumpler's work here has been to photograph, on a large scale, the stars in thst part of the heavens where the sun will be on September 21. On the day of the eclipse, when the sun is totally obscured and the stsrs are visible, similar photographs will be taken on the same scale. Einstein's contention Is that light Is not, as scientists hitherto have held. SEES A LONG FORGOTTEN TRIBE American Bird Specialist Invades Jungles of Nicaragua. Oele Large Collection of Rare Mrds, Beasts, Fish and Reptiles--Penetrates to Villages of 8ume Indians. Philadelphia.--Wharton Huber, assistant curator of the ornithology section of the Academy of N&tural Sciences, returned recently to this city from hitherto little known regions of Nicaragua, where he assembled a large collection of birds, beasts, fish and reptiles, a number of which he believes have not yet been classified. He also claims to have penetrated to the villages of Sumo Indians, who rarely bad seen a white man. The scientist's specimens Include 600 birds, 40 rare mammals and 2,000 fish, reptiles and insects, all or which will be. placed on exhibition In the local institution. "My research work was done about 180 miles inland from the Nicaraguan coast," said Mr. Huber. "We established our headquarters at a small mining camp, whence we made trips farther into the country. The average annua! rainfall here is 147 inches. From the time I rescned the interior until I ieft there never was a dry article of cloth lug on me. The country IB Infected with red bugs, smaller than fleas, which burrow under the skin and inflict serious wounds. "I went up the Prlnza Polka river for 180 miles in a pitpan, an open boat made of a hollowed-out mahogany log. Then in a smaller pitpan I ascended the Banbana river to Mlninda. The district is hilly and,covered with tropical forests so dense that It is impossible to enter them until a way is cut by Indians. "The only inhabitants are a few the very rapid vibrations of the aft pervading ether, but is msde -up of electrons snd therefore is a form of matter. If light is mstter In sny form, It will be subject to the lsw of gravitation, and It is to establish ot disprove this point that the obseiW tlons are being made hers and In Australia. If Einstein's theory of light is well founded, according to Doctor Trumpler, the rays of light from a star In that quarter of the heavens passing by so large a mass ss the sun will be deflected by the force of the sun's gravitation and the star In question will appear on the photographic plate at a place slightly removed from its true position in a direction away froa the sun's disk. Whits Squirrel. Kansas City, Mo.--A white squint is a rarity. Last week, in Shannon county, a man saw a white squirrel go into his hole in a big oak tree. The next day he took some Incredulous neighbors, determined to capture the little animal. It was necessary to chop down four trees before this was accomplished. And, sure enough, the squirrel wss all white with pink eyea. It now lives in s cage in Birch Tree. Amethysts have the reputation « calming and soothing the nerve*, scattered tribes of Indians apparently of Spanish and Mlskito Indian de scent. With a body of these Indiani as guides, I penetrated to certain villages of the Sumo Indians. "The Sumo men are very sluutui hunters, but the tribe is rapidly becoming extinct. Wltn all their ability in hunting and their courage of facing wild animals, they are excessively timid of strange human beings and will run away even rrom members of other Indian tribes. Mlskito Indian* sometimes walk Into their villages and take anything they want without meet Ing resistance. The Sumos, numbering about 500 souls all told, have the slant, almond<eyes of the Chinese, snd their skin Is about the same color as that of a Chinaman." Mr. Huber had with him a number of dogs, two of which were killed by jaguars. The scientist believes that fully 40 per cent of the birds and animals he shot were lost, because neither dogs nor Indians could make their way into '.he jungles to the point where they fell. He used dynamite to secure his fish specimens. MBKIMRl T TSEFUL for all the w little ailmentsbumps, bruises, sores, sunburn and chafing. Keep a bottle In th« house. It's safe and pure. Itcosts very little. CHESEBROUGH MPG. CO. (CooaoUdsted) Mats Street New Yetk * v->'0 we charge the same United States.' does the The number of stars visible to the naked eye is 5,000. t v Women first appeared on the stag/ in the latter half of the Seventeen h SEEK GOLD IN OFFICE SMOKE United States to Filter Clouds From Wsll Street Assay Building • for Saving. ; f NMf York.--Thousands §f dollars' worth of gold and silver which now goes up in smoke each year through the stack of the United States assay office in Wall street is going to be saved by the government. A dispatch stated that work has been started on the installation of the Cottrell electrical precipitation equipment. Through this equipment there will be recovered suspended particles of precious metal from the gases arising from smelting and refining operations. The gases which will be treated will pass up flues, provided for the purpose, to the precipitation plant. Superintendent Isaac H. Smith, wlio has been conducting tests, believes that 'there will be a saving In the recovery of gold and silver of from |8 to $9,000 a year net. The steamers Majestic and Levia- Camping Party Uses Hearse for Bedroom Frank Remlinger of Green Bay, Wla., and four friends, on a camping jaunt, use a hearse instead of the usual type of motor caravan. Only a few changes were necessary. Part of the glass side was replaced by board panels and a flooring was put In, dividing it into decks. Two of the party sleep "upstairs," snd all supplies are carried below. Three of the party sleep In tents. Rubber tires Insure easy riding. No ghosts have been encountered so far. even when they camp next to a cemetery, and no matter how It storms, the hearse Is snug. 1 A doctor's degree in i veTsity now costs 600 i German unlmarks, about PLATYPUS COMING TO AMERICA Singular Mammal That Lays Eggs, en Way to Philsdelphla Zoo From Australia. PMhwJelphla.--The soologleul gardens in Falrmount park are being prepared for the accommodation of a number of new guests, now on their way here from Australia. The most unusual of the shipment is a platypus, an egg-laying mammal. The platypus will be the only one of Its kind In this country, it Is said. This species dies quickly In captivity and is related to the echidna, also an egg-laying mammal. However, the local gardens have exhibited one specimen of the echidna for eighteen yeari. - This shipment Is being sent by Ellis C. Joseph, Australian soologist. 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