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Told MM at Eatsrcet Tita Pm thi Files ef tiM PleiaMW «( Years Alt FIFTY YEARS AGO f \;« Both steamboats mad* excursions fto Fox Lake on Sunday and were well V ; .^patronized by our citizens. v \ The largest apple tree we think we gever Heard of around here, is on the "farm of J. Sherman, west pf this tillage. It was recently measured >'4k "|and the following is the result: | ^Across the top, north and south, 89 T 2 fr«ch«s; esst and west, 85 feet; •£*>'^fleiglilt, 2fi feet, 4 inches; crrcumfer- 4 ftet, 5 inches. The tree was ^loaded with apples last year. * Business at the Clorer Dryer is Jboomfng night and day, and they are jretting all they can handle, all the ftmpty rooms in the vicinity being flll- #d with drying blossoms. The meeting of the town clerk, asi> r and supervisor will be held 27, at which meeting they will all bflls presented to the in. FORTY TEARS AGO Married--In Claremont, Va-» on , Saturday, June 6, at the residence of Uhe bride'$ uncle, George W. Colby, by Rev. A. J. Porter, Mr. Wm. Mere- ^•.;«fess of Walworth, Wis., and Miss i>ella Gage of Claremont, Vh- . We learn that J. C. Riley of Volo •'* a. i»as sold his factory at that place to • ^ohn Evanson, of this village. Consideration $4,000. ^ ^ A new time table went into effect • *:.. ^ |»n the Northwestern railway on Sun- * ' jday last. We now have four pass- ^enger trains each way every day. YEARS AGO Mrs. Madden, mother of Miss Charlotte Madden of this place Cud Mrs James Green of Ringwood, paused away at her home in this village on Sunday of this week Rev. A. Royer, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church here, will celebrate his silver jnbiiee on Tuesday of next week. Q A simple but very, impressive wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Newman at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon when their oldest daughter, Nellie, was united in marriage to Mr. Lewis McDonald of Crystal Lake, the Rev. A. C. McHenry of Chicago officiating- Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Schreiner are this week moving their household effects from their home on Maple avenue to their beautiful new residence on Main street. , Miss Edna Jean Hunter of Elgin and Mr. Charles J. Heimer of this city were married at the home of the groom's mother, Mrs. Josephine Heimer, on Rfcdnesda? afternoon of this week. TEN YEARS AGO Keeping their wedding a secret for a period of almost two months, the announcement of Miss Fanny Granger and Mr. Robert Thompson, issued the first of the week, came as a delightful surprise -to their many friends. The wedding took place at Waukegan, May 7. Mathias Miller, a highly respected citizen of this village and who was the last tax collector of the township, passed away at his home Monday- Commencement exercises, participated in by the pupils of St. Mary's school, were held at the Empire theatre last Thursday evening and brought out a packed house. To the strains of a beautiful march, the graduating class of the McHenry community high school, fourteen in number, and the school faculty, marched to and took their places on the stage at the Empire theatre, Friday evening. Dr. A. L Froehlich, president of the high schffol board, presented the diplomas. VILLA, A HOUSE THAT CAME, TO LIFE '»»»»»» By FANNIE HURST The marriage of Miss Mary A. Er» ;pwin, McHenry, and James Heaney, of ,; ^Chicago, was 'announced last week, 4i Ray H. Owen went to Chicago on "^Monday where he has accepted a posi- ^Vlv'^tion in Estey & Camp's mu4ic store. > A. H. Brewer has made an engagement for himself and team to work for Simpson A Co-, the' Kenosha »v, .lightning rod knen. £ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS A60 . Miss Kate Howe, who has taught in ~]the primary department of the Mcpublic schools for the past eleven years, has resigned her posi- |^tion here and accepted a position in ^ V'the Maywood, 111., schools. Carpenters are at work on the John • t Stoffel residence, corner Third and g Waukegan streets. H»e old liouse :=! £ will be moved to the south end of the 'v 2 lot and a new modern residence will v . ^take its place. A new bridge is being put in over '*^1 the mill race near the Hanly mill on ( :ythe West side. f ] % A nine-pound boy is the cause for - that broad smile which Harvey Price Js wearing these days. Mrs. Wm. Yeager, who at one time , %as a resident of McHenry and with fcer husband conducted the Riverside -hotel here, passed away at Waukegan Tuesday night. avenue, . • Happily frWrgotloa ' ©mPfiay Norman Hapgood Twain strolling along Fifth New York. "How is Mrs. Clemens now?" asked Hapgood. "Much better," he drawled. "In fact, the whole Clemens family has been so surprisingly weU of late that I have begun to think that Providence has . . . forgotten us."--Kansas City Times. M* Wonder If. Hard One reason a foreigner has a hard time learning our language Is because we ourselved ball it all up. We say we drink up a pint of milk when we drink it down. We also say we drink a glass full of soda when we drink It empty.--Florida Times-Union. All Aboard Humanity's positive passion forlfe- Ing somewhere that they aren't, comes to a head once every year in what they call a vacation.--Woman's Homo companion. Rou«*eau'« Great Work The writings of Jean Jacques Rous* seau .started a world-wide enthusiasm for nature and the exaltation of man.' Purity Ice Co. PHONE McHENRY 59-M Our Pure 'Artificial Ice In your refrigerator keeps vegetables and meats moist and flavorable. We deliver regularly and promptly* f A" phone call is all that is necessary. 1$'X • Smith & Butler ' 3 • ptfii f' " ' • 3 - i f • IF#. Fof "Dad'sTJDay Now Sensational Shirt! ' tidi a Wrinkle, aag VAB'Hfcssi COLLARITE shtot COtM^g MAmKEiRuSn i, \ W-. McHenry, Illinois (t) b> MeClar* N«wspap«t SyadicAtA) • (WNO Sm-VU*.) T&S terrace upon which Miss Eusfacia de Lima sat each evening was regarded, by all fortunate enough ever io have trod Its perfect turf, as one of the most exquisite and commanding of all Burope. It hung, this terrace, over the gray-green slopes of Fiesole, which commands that view of the city of Florence which spreads like a lady's proud fan at its feet. Not even in the days of Its original owners, Fifteenth centnry Medicls, hnd this terrace boasted Its present perfection. Carefully restored by Its A ruerican owner from the overgrown condltioe In which she found It, back to a semblance of what must hare been Its original pattern. Eu.«tari» had added subtly, and with conservatism, to its bloonv and geometric scheme of plants and walks. Approaching the Villa ftaoole, a half mile of slender and precise Italian poplars, as straight and narrow and rigid as tall spears, pointed the way to the villa. -Once at the top of 'this battalion of poplars, the terrace and villa, and all its Incredible view, burst upon the beholder. It was said In soma of the guide books that its wealthy owner, Miss De Lima, had set about to make thi? vilfk the most glorious In all Europe. After a while, of coufse, as her suecess came to be noised about and friends, acquaintances, and sightseers came from distances to behold the perfection of her dwelling place. Its beautificatlon blossomed into her hobby. Her only motive for ever leaving tt, her only desires, were that the might gather within Its massive walls treasures that might enhance Its glowing beauty. f How well she succeeded Is further attested by the fact that out of deference to her outstanding achievement In the way of perpetuating and idealizing a landmark, the government honored Miss de Lima. Fiesole Villa became twice over the target it had ever been for the sightseeing thousands who annually crowded In. for the feasts of beauty Florence tad to offer them. It was after the acknowledgment of the jfovernment that Miss de Lima decided to throw open her gardens one day a week for the further enjoyment of those who came peering through the grill-work of her handsome gates. Guards were installed at Intervals throughout the gardens and parks, turf was • chained off where need be to protdbt It from heedless intrusion and the general public was thus admitted <o one of the show villas of all Enrape. Od this day each week Miss de Lima kept carefully to her chambers, moving about with ceaseless enjoyment among the high-patined. Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and even Thirteenth century bbjects of furniture and art that she had collected wjth such loving care. It wss as if these objects, packed to their very timbers with memories of turbulent and picturesque yesterdays were live and breathing companions. Bach one had a history, of which she' was most carefully aware. Here, the elaborate carved bed in which a Fifteenth century Doge had slept Here, a Gothic chest of Ineredihle associations. Here, a painting by Rubens that was laden with reminders of his early life. For twelve years Miss de Lime, growing older, more fragile, more remotely associated with the bygone centuries she loved, dwelt in the midst of the luxtkry of beauty,, sharing It, to some extent with the public, but for the most part, drinking her pleasure and her tea alone, on her terrace, at sunset: strolling, with her two lean wolfhounds, through her gardens, olive groves, and leafy hillsides at dusk; spending long hours in arrangement and rearrangement of the rows of chambers; tending and caring for a bit of cracking wood or majolica as if It had been a living thing; loving her solitude, glorying in the beauty of this solitude with which she was able to surround herself. Gradually, as this began to pall a bit. Miss de Lima allowed herself the luxury of Invading friends, who came eagerly to share these blessings with her. But after a while, It seemed to Miss de Lima the pecking curiosity her visitors brought with them, the restlessness, the desire for bridge and pastimes, after the first few hours of exclaiming delight had worn off, desecrated, in a way, the crystal silences of her villa, and so she relapsed Into solitude--solitude among hanging gardens and strutting peacocks and tiny hissing waterfalls. "Selfish!" said her Mends. Something of this awareness must also have struck Miss de Lima, because after a while, prompted by a com binatlon of ennui and sense of duty, she arranged that the villa he open to the public again, two days a week. In a way, that served to Increase her Isolation because It meant that additional hours must be spent Indoors, prowling among her objets d'art. It was with something akin to unpleasant sarprlse that Miss de Lima began to apprehend herself In what had come to be her habit of peering voices end sbrwuneni of lanchtet and high excited eulauitioM ttuft came to her, seeinfd fo draw her automatically towards the din. There It was;' the same old vandal, vulgar, poking, curious public that she In a way despised even while she tolerated its ways. How they moved about, down there, through her gardens, kept In place by guards, ad-, monlshed by parenta, splashed In sunlight that seemed positively coarse as applied to them. How they could metamorphose her beautiful silence into din; her paradise into a mere pennya- stare spectacle! One onslaught from them, and dignity became so much raucous curiosity. The racing children. • the gaping matrons, the Aeavy-legged papas brought desecration, and yet, for the Ufe of her, it was impossible for Miss de Lima not to feel drawn to her windows as if to an open grate that held warmth. They were a common lot, b^-jUisre rose off then?; mysterious as mist, the aroma of humanity. They eliiCtlHsji the place. Even the Venuses, the ma«t»le fauns, the atello groups, the Delia Bobbin frieze* around the gulden, seamed to taf e on s sort of .relationship to Ufa. They emerged from the centuries as replicas of life; not as mere objets d ' a r t . . . It: was that carious warinlh, coming over her these days, gradually Impelled Miss de Lima, although she would never have admitted It, even to herself, to throw open the gardens five days a week, and on the sixth the vljla Itself! That was the most exciting day of all! The youngsters, with th,etr round questioning eyes and-grimy little hands clasped into those of the gaping matrons and the heavy-legged papas! Young honeymooners standing spellbound before the beauty of a Botticelli! -Men and women out of thq humblest walks of life, trailing along the corridors, bathed in the mystia beauty of they knew not what!' s From various apertures which 8hf had arranged for herself, Miss do Lima, seeing but unseen, could behold all this. It was as if the great stona palace, so difficult to heat at bestr were infused with warmth. Vulgar animal-warmth, but warmth nonethe* less. This Is the story of the beginnings of the gigantic plan which was at thi^ time Just beginning to take shape io^ Miss de Lima's brain. Villa Fiesole Is now a iiome for onohundred poverty-stricken children oi( the Fiesole countryside. Tutors^ nurses, musical Instructors, educator^ from over the world, dwell In tfeOS frescoed chambers, and children, with ; k books, palettes, music rolls, toys, Infest its corridors. In a room high at the top of the house, which she had never oven troubled to restore, Miss do Lima dwells among the simpler of her per-, sonal objects. All day she Is down among the cor* rldors and the gardens, moving among children. .' , \ Mrs. M. Basely and daughter, Harriet, Mrs. Howard Anderson and children of Wnueonda spent Tuesday afternoon at 1»me of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon ~ " Miss' Edan Fisher and Nick Hycuri of Waukegan spent the week-end at the Fiaher heme. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and children spent Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Lohman at Liberty ville. *nd Mrs- Walman entertained the former's parents over the weekend. Miss Vhmie Bacon motored to McHenry Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gottschalk of Lake Zurich spent Tuesday evening at the Lloyd Fisher home. . Hijpnimus and Lloyd DOwell drove to Chicago T jesday evening. Jwr. Ear| Hfronimus returned home With thefe, after spending the past week with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kaiser were evening callers at the Uoyd frabar home. Arthur Wacker was a visiter at Barrhigton Saturday evening. Lowia Behm pf Fremont and friend were callers hero Sunday^ fa building a now filling »tn«on in bur lown on the JFox Lake road. Littlf Shirley Ann Dunker b ill with the iw--hi • Arthur Wfcckarow hid the tnisfortune to sprain his ankle Monday evening. 3Hr. and Mrs. David Jenkins of Wauconda spent the week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Basely. Mrs. Lloyd Fisher and family, Mrs. Esse Fisher and Mrs. Elmer Gottschalk of Lake Zurich were Grayslake -callers Thursday. m and tftvani dMtast Kaiser and FlAer attended a y evening. 'amMgtJNB9r*|| hnprorinf his h0UM> **** *** of white-fcafat Miss Bttaaa Vegt drove to Wankegm Thursday . Hr. and Mrs. Esse Firher, Arthur Waekerow, Mrs. Lloyd Fisher daughter motored to Waukegin Saturday. 4 >£•> _ Vv- •••• Vf-j Smallest Split of UnH Yet Recorded by Clock: Of all split seconds for time pieces, the smallest is a fraction of one sec* ond In 30 centuries. This fine dlstlnc* tlon can be made with a crystal clocht described In a report to the National Academy of Sciences* by W. A. Mar* rison. The clock, he saya, can be made to operate one dock on mean sfcri time and the other on sidereal time, which are only about one second apart in 80 centuries. The crystal, of quartz, vibrates 100,. 000 times a second, and this Is reduced by electrical gears to the requirednumber of beats to operate a clock accurately, an Associated Press cor* respondent explains. The sun time clock, says Marrison, would operate at 306 cycles per sec* ond, while the sidereal clock would have ' 306 cycles minus 0.000,701,861 cycles per second. The crystal arrange* ment can be made to maintain this fine dlatlnctton. Wan for WhUkers There Is a movement UL. France working for the return of whiskers to popular favor. Some time ago the American Idea that a man presents a brisker and more youthful appearance with a cleanly shaven face took root in France and whiskers fell to the sweep of the safety ra^xor. In ancient Gaul the beard was the symbol of au* thority and power. No slave was at* lowed to grow one and the local lord would tolerate no beard in his district that was more luxurious than his own. And was not the beard held among the Gauls and the Vikings as an es> sentlal sign of manhood? The "beardless youth" was a person of no consequence. The advocates of the whiskers do not expect to popularise the full be%rd at once but are paving the way by encouraging goatees, imperials and aide whiskers. Spider Oaee "Spliir*^ For the origin of the word "Spider** we have to go to Old English spldhre^ which was formed from spin-dhret from spinnan, to spin. It has no relation to the fanciful source that John* soa gave to It--"spider from spy-dor-* the insect that watches the dor or humble-bee." That It was long in the language before It was referred to la any manuscript Is' a reasonable deduction, but the earliest literary record found among the materials collected by the Philological society of England has been ascribed to the year -1340, is which it was speUod 'Spldhrev--Kas^ sas City Times. DeU«tlav Uatnith «e lie detector is an if deaigned to show changes in respiration and blood pressure of a person being questioned. Sharp variations in theee two functions are believed to Indicate that the person is teeing an or attempting to dqcatat, ^ ' V;> "The ^hallelujah chorus" was written In the original score of the "Messiah," by Handel. .;r- • •>- j Mag Fatal to Boo - -* Bene? beek die within a day or tw% and sometimes sooner, after stinging a person. This is because when th*f sting the "stinger" remains la the body of the person stung and is torn from the bee with such injury that it cannot *9+ - ' j: v.. V«B-Fave**d To be a well-favored man Is the gift of fortune, but to write and comes by nature.--Shakespeare. Electrls Light aad first homes tn which the SMe trie light bulb shed its rays were the Hsassr In Menlo Park, N. J., where Mr. Mlaan'a laboratory was situated' 'hen.; The Invention of the incan- * lamp jtaalf took place on Oc- 21, l£T9,va»d Jthe lighting systemr was Invented before the end of that* year. 3*t two ytauB before tta P^k>Ued|k thstfswe# 1*s fffest electric Hgtts, «hariea WH* l&una, Jr„ of SoatrVfll* Mas*. over s telephone installed m his This waa tbe first homo la the wfrid OQnlppedx with a phone, and a similar instnUatlcn was made- at the Muhe ttae in Mr. WUUam's office at Boioa, so he coald have aocpe pl«ee te caH up. _ • • a WjmmUj ,^,^1:* . . ^ *igh heals to saaMe the cowboys to keep their fsst la the stirrups and torn a brace vfeae throwlng a lariat and Hdtag. ^ wiiipi MttwrMao. lersa, uMl, «r Mm, - The.aaaie tIos *#* |l' tn the motto, "Thwe,g»e«e « Mpiih'- tries bash to ear kattyard^* assd if Ia» Madarek for his "Bsslds the Bosale Brier jBush." S •_; -til ' Nl. /i odocree aad Heah(: A sarvey aade by the QUaois de> ^ paitisast of health indicates that War yeairs sf cnllsgs life add two yeara tea tensor*, ms, it was fouod that the eapestoaegr of male cellfge gradutwo yssse greetar the geoeral average, while hclie. students have an extra two years. VS.: AttrosMaucal Jflne heavenly bodies are |b astrology--the sevea planets aad the sun and the moon. Nuking, bask-driag to aatyototo ^|toe.ls, • ? JP! 5" * b*ras se itb#i^ i ^0.*MIM -tompinm onttl the Mag of. the admlsslwB yalve again, the Incoming charge la the Intake pipe sod shoots ' * to the carbnretoR, x •f m m" "" I TffT*-- 1H. Frent & Soi . OOMTKAOTOKS aHDBUlLDXBS Our ez|Mi»iiee is at Yo«r SIPHDC in bpilcHiig Your Wiutts MR. 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