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^ - v * „ - c"' JS» V- r",^ * . _i .• •* J" THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 1931 ' A. • SLUMP SPURS IDLE 1 TO HUNT FOR GOLD Important Strikes Are Made f in Abandoned Mines. > Reno, Nev.--The business depression «n<i th« low price of silver have stimated the gold mining industry in Neade, with new important discoveries pt high grade and shipping ore being made in scattered sections. Many of the famous Old silver camps, such as Virginia City, Tonopah, and Goldfleld, have responded to the world-wide cry for gold and mine operators ar^ shipping the yellow metal from camps formerly thought to be only silver producers. Unemployed persons have taken to the Nevada wastelands, some with a small grubstake and visions of a strike, others merely in the hope of finding,, steady employment at a daily wage. / $45,000 a Ton. The latest strike to capture:-the imagination la located 6S miles' ."ifpoin", at Fireball capip In i*ershing county, where ore; samples assayed 257 bailees Of gold and 123 ounces of silver ,^er ton. (Conservative engineers who- ^isited . the Fireball returned with - f l o w i n g r e p o r t s . " * V ' % \ • The greatest gold ercitemjent of 'iW year took place in February Iwhen two old desert men, Charley and'Jim Scos- 8a, discovered high grade ore assaying as high as $43,000 a ton, in the old Rabbit Hole district, 50 miles above Lovelock. This discovery caused a real gold rush and the camp now has grown into a permanent town. Mining men of Tonopah are speaking in whispers of some great gold discovery which has been made in that vicinity. ^ In Famous Camp. High £rade veins in aa old abandoned mine with ore assaying Into the thousands have been discovered during the last month in that famous old mining camp, Virginia City, which once poured $70,000,000 of silver Into the national treasury when It was needed most by the Union during the Civil war. , Numerous good gold discoveries have been made in Elko and TT'uiiboldt counties, which give prondj®?of production for years to come, Southern California capitalists are quietly investing huge sums in developing work there. Even the old "ghost ^own" of Gilbert has had a resurrection and a small army of leasers are working there in old mines. Round mountain continues o be the most prosperous camp with 200 men employed- at Gold Hill and Sunnyslde. Wool Superintendent ; Witii Plant 65 Tears Bast Rochester, N. H.--One day in 1808, just after the Civil war, an eightyear- old boy appeared at the Cocheco Woolen Manufacturing company's plant here and asked for a jolv He was put to work, tending a doth dyer at 50 cents a day. The "boy" Isi still on the Job at iae same plant, rnomas H. uotts, seventy-three, with ah unbroken record of slxty-fiVe years' service, is now superintendent of the wool department and has no Idea of retiring in the Immediate future. V- x HE WORKED HIS WAY. OUT Indian Fighter Saves Scalp of Chief He Slew Freeport, Ohio.--Theodore Holliday, eighty-four years old, retired buggy and implement dealer, Is the last of Ohio's living Indian fighters. Included among his relics are a Scalp of & Sioux chief he killed at Fort Laramie, Wyo., In 1865, the chief's brass wristlet with notches cut in It for ew ery "paleface" he kjlletl, his nose ring,, his scalping' knife, his wanjpuni PQWeh, his St^ei-handled;flint carrier and his blanket. ' ;• •". - . • Sea Replacing SingingrV *7; Beach's Musical Sands • . Boston.---;At Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., Singing beach apparently is slowly regaining its voice. Winter storms cah-ied away most of the musical sands which emitted strange inoises when walked upon. But lately the sea has been gradually replacing the sands, and old timers believe Singing, beach's lost voice eventually will be fully restored. By FANNIE HURST First Rocket Airdrome fs Opened Near Berlin Berlin.--The world's first rocket airdrome was recently opened near Berlin. It is on a tract a mile and a half square and is equipped with la bo-' ratories and workshops. At present Jt Is being used as an experimental station, and engineers are jeaperimenting with a means of flight which will make possible the shooting of mail to America ia, six hours. BMIMH Revolution! Early in the Nineteenth century, with the introduction and increased use of machinery, qame the so-called industrial revolution. The commercial revolution is generally dated from the organization of the Standard Oil trust, which was the first of the trusts to be organized. lit! bl McClure Newspaper Syndicate. J (WNU Svrvic*.) FOR forty years, Cyrus Markham had" nursed a dream. It was the kind of dream that can diffuse light over an entire lifetime. That is, Cyrus Markham was orte of the hordes of human beings who early in youth, are caught in the tight vise of routine. He lived in a world In which he had never had time,,, or opportunity, to play. He had never-, been'.out of the small city in which he had been born and at the age of twenty- three, after a drab ; series of ap- . prentlce^hips, as grocery clerk, had succeeded in passing a civil service examination and taken on the position oit mail carrier, which, he had held ever sShce. ;'.T« be sure, his route had changed from time to tim*?, but even those changes had1 been unremarkable. Cyrus used to comment upon the fact" that in all his years in the service, his territory had been confined to ,within fOur square miles. The dream helped the tedium. It was the kind of dream fostered in the hearts of thousands and hundreds of thousands like him, caught in the treadmill of routine. Cyrus, looking toward a day of retirement and pension, wanted a chickeq farm. " A smallish on$, probably not more than six acres, with a low white house, a kitchen garden and an outlying acreage which was to be filled with the white fluttering8 of thousands of leghorns. > This dream was in.his heart when he married Minnie Brown, the daughter of another postman. Minnie might be sa^d to have literally died dreaming that same dream in the little flat they occupied over a grocery store. The night before her death, she and Cyrus had been pouring through firm Journals and poultry magazines. Hie daughter of Cyrus and Minnie, Etta, was seventeen when the death of her mother occurred. She was a practical angular sort of a girl, a clerk In the town's largest hardware store. After the death of Minnie, with whom Cyrus bad been content, life in the little flat above the grocery store flowed on pretty much the same, except for the aching hiatus which death had created. Cyrus, then about fifty-eight, weath- Next Car will be away. As Etta used to, complain, a little bitterly to him when she was tired, and her nerves frazzled, he was more of a hindrance than a help. For instance, one night his son-inlaw had entrusted him with a simple chore of watching certain of the heat- ' ers in the incubators, and poor Cyrus, sitting basking in the rear garden, had forgotten. Result: hundreds of small chickens had died and losses had crowded to. further upon the house*, hold. Life on the chicken farm was far from what Cyrus had visualized. A woman with a chronic backache; a woman constantly irritable y^h her babies, was not conducive to household happiness. Poor Joe, ridden from the first with fear of debt, worry about his chickens and acreage, succumbed quickly to the role of henpecked husband. He was too harassed to resist, and with him old Cyrus succumed, too. They were a put upon pair. Etta scolding, nagging, yapping, at the heels of the two men. .Toe, while secretly despising the In* efficiency of Bis father-in-law, was at least silent about it. lie ceased finally to expect much in the way of help from the puttery old man, whcfse hand tirettibled and whose ideas, to the younger , man, seemed awkward and • y e n s e n i l e . ' • ' . " • ' • V V As Etta's babies grew oMei\^yrus gradually betari to take on r51e 'qf nurse girl, Sitting about with them In the garden, puttering with them .over mud pfes, or spinning out stories that were not always coherent. •_ Then one day, something quite horrible happened, but fortunately did not end in" tragedy. Cyrus, who had been bidden by Etta to mind the children, Inadvertently permitted the second li'ttje boy, Johnnie, aged three, to slip between the picket gate and out onto the open road, where he was run down by a motor car. Miraculously, the little fellow suffered nothing more than a" broken arm and lacerations, but it was the last straw. Etta, hysterical, berating, losing all control of herself, screamed out her rage against her father. Even Joe, shaken by the horror of what had almost happened, regarded his father-in-law In a bitter kind of silence. After that, the old gentleman was frankly relegated to the side lines In the runnlrlg of that farm and household. Nothing was expected of him. He was permitted, so long as he did not Interfere In the management, to putter about at will, but no chores were entrusted to him, not even the dandling across his knees of his youngest grandchild. The routine of the chicken farm went on all about him, busy, none too successful, but relentless, none the less. The routine of the household cluttered up with the haranguing and nervous shoutings of Etta moved about him. but his grandchildren lived in a world outside his pale, tf he so much as WMMMMKXWKKMM KIM KMMIIIIllllllll lift I Ants Build Home | I in Telephone Box I £ San Diego, Calif.--Ants here * I are fond of using telephones. $ They don't use them to talk i over, but rather to nest in and ? stop thgi Instrument. Secretary * Allan Perry of the city planning * commission, irate at not having *jje vi- t tug us customary * number of times during the day, £ found ants had built a nest * about the bell and the clapper I and stopped all ringing. I «MKMMHUHt » » « WtHHHM(||It MM* S*cr*t of Salesmanship Salesmanship isn't primari y a matter of goods,at all, but of kno ,ving a&J understanding people.--^Amer.can Mag- 'azi:'". ', - ;• WHEN you boy a Ford there are two tilings yon never have to worry about. One is reliability. The other is long life. Here's an interesting letter from a Ford owner in North -Carolina: , .r . "My Ford was parduied May ^ 1938, mmI lias bean ran 121,767 aittiles. It has never stopped on the road for npafai «f aay kind what* i llMTCr except pnoctoret. "The brakes were relined at 101,000 miles. My gas mileage «ref» miles to the gallon, and on tires, 19,000 miles per tire. I travdi silver all kinds of road conditions--mountainous and fiat. A- "I consider this a' wonderfal record and I aswiti yum wtf nest car, • will alto be a Ford." This is just one of many tributes to the reliability an J ^ong iife Df the Ford. A Ford owner in Iowa tells of driving,; v:.Jki8 Ford 73,000 miles in a single yeas. Another writes of 320,000 miles of good service. Think ahead when you are considering the purchase of Stn automobile and consider what it will be like after thoj- IKands of miles of driving. Will youatill be satisfied? Will ; |fou still say uit*8 a great car"? x , _ ^ i^8 a Ford, you know everything will be O. K. It wiBL ,fce taking you there and back in good style, just as it has ' Jllways done. And you will have saved many important^ • •orth-while dollars in cost of operation and up-keep anil |DW yearly depreciati<M. P.&. B. Detroit, pita freight anS Bumpers and spare tir# Mr9 at low cost. Economical time payments through th» Authorise^ Ford Finance Plans of the Universal Credit Company. warrant, never swerved from the routine of his route Etta, also long inured to routfne, went on with the day-by-day schedule of clerking in the hardware store. It was a little treadmill of a household, precisely as It had been during the life of Minnie. Day-by-day-by-<lay. Monotonous, repetitious, narrow. ^And yet, there burned, even after the death of his wife, perhaps more fiercely than ever, now that he was lonely, the dream In the heart of Cyrus. He was ageing now, and the chicken farm crowded his Imagination. There remained three years between him and the time he was entitled to retirement and pension. During those three years, Etta Markham became engaged to a young clerk in the hardware store. He was a likable enough young fellow, particularly congenial to Cyrus because his work in the farm- Implements department of the firm had also developed in him an ambition to return to the soil In the end, an arrangement was concluded between Cyfus and Ms prospective son-in-law. The savings of the old mail carrier, some few thousand, were pooled with the slightly larger nest egg of the young man. The day old Cyrus came into his honorable retirement, Etta and Joe Cook were married and Cyrus, his daughter and his son-in-law. moved to a chicken fartn thirty-two miles out of town, #hifh they had recently purchased. _ A dream had come into realization In the life of the tired, weather-beaten old mail carrier. What subsequently happened was Etta's fault, perhaps but there never had been anything In her make-up to help avert the deadening processes that began to take place within her after her marriage to Joe Cook. In the first place, she was the kind of woman doomed from the beginning of her marriage, to bad health: the sort of wife who goes around the houfe with bearing-down pains. Her children came rapidly, each one seeming to leave her health more Impaired than before. A certain temperamental nervousness, which had made her an irascible child, became enhanced ajs responsibilities crowded upon her. As a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, poor Etta was not ideal Chicken farming, once you were In the midst of its complexities, Its delicate mechanisms, wa? not the simple and Idyllic occupation it had seemed from the farm journals and the poultry pamphlets. Incubation was elaborate, unreliable, expensive, and usually profitless, at least as practiced by Joe Cook. The farm, mortgaged of cotirse, started out to be a losing proposition, and as luck would have it, old Cyrus began Just about then, not exactly to fall In health, but to fail in strength. It was as if, once the leather strap had lifted" from his shoulders, »4?d the burden of his mail- ' bag bad disappeared, a certain resistance in the\)ld man had fallen ^ **F*ol lor a Master" - Wo man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err If he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fbot for a master.--Ben Jonson. DiflFerenc* ia Clothing Black materials absorb heat md light, while white materials reflect them; therefore white clothing, on the whole, is cooler than black. The difference depends npt only upon the, color but also upon the texture, and type of material. - '• - _L ' ... , .. J ' ' McHenry Laundry Phone McHenry 1$9 and our driver will calI ' The Modern Laundry -Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Dyeing er beaten, and rather, more bent with •the-years than his age would seenr~to - -touehed -one of them, EHa Veaped to grasp the youngster away, in a frenzy of nervous fear of what accident might befall. The dream had turned Into a lusferless reality. One day, old Cyrus plodded down the road and was gone the greater part of the afternoon, returning Just In- time for his evening meal. It was a little outside of general procedure, but neither Etta nor Joe questioned it. Let the old man work ft (Hit his own way, was their unspoken attitude. The old gentleman had worked it out his own way. He had gone down the road and applied at a dairy farm for the position of local delivery boy; ft role which had, hitherto been filled l?y a twelve-year-Told youngster. It meant trundling a small wooden wagon, filled with milk bottles, along a few mUes of couptry road for local delivery. The old man eagerly took on this underpaid jjosition. He began to expand a bit under the dally routine. It reminded, him of the good old days when he had been a mall-carrier. Comparatively Few Men of Wealth Big Givers Much has Jigen written recently about the muhitmlp of big benevolent foundations a^d Institutions and the ^Sfood they d«y*<y the entire world. These foundaWonA have been used as exhibit No. l/to disprove "that Americans are seWish isola\jonists. Interested only in-ai^y^rujatinff wealth for themselves." Again andf again the dozen extraordinary benevolent individuals which we have produced during the last fifty years have been cited as representative of American generosity. Too easily Is It forgotten that during the same period we have produced thousands of millionaires and hundreds of multi-millionaires, most of them conspicuous by their absence from the ranks of givers. During a period of more than a century we have developed some 186 charitable trusts, hut In 1928 alone there were more than 500 individuals in the United States who had yearly incomes of $1.000,(H)0 or more. The total income of these persons amounted to, $1.108,86.1,000. The benevolences of a dozen Individuals, such as Carnegie, the Rocke: fellers, Harkttess, Rosenwald and a few others account fof a considerable proportion of the existing foundations. Of the estimated $1,000,000,000 now available in these funds, the gifts of the Rockefellers and Andrew Carnegie alone make up three-fourths of the totals.--Abraham Epstein, in the American Mercury. Emblem of Fr««doas' The Liberty cap is traced to the Phrygian cap of ancient Greece and Rome which wa| worn by galley slaves when the/ obtained their freedom. / v:'v.; Gamb ia Profa*ibs In the Palu gem field in San Diego county, Calif., tourmalines have been found in great numbers close to the surface of the earth. In some places they are picked up from the ground. ftuthnMior -• • The Bible does not name the mother of Methuselah. All that Is known of him is that he was the son of Mehujad and the father of Lamech (Qeneats 4:18 and 5:21-2?). Denote* Mil** Ftowi Man-mile Is an aeronautical term, and means the number of miles fio,wn by each man in anyone plane. To illustrate, a plane carrying two r^en a destination 150 miles distant would have 300 man-miles to Its credit. Open Air Marriage*. The church marriage ceremony, before the Reformation, was usoally held at the door of the church and not within the sacred lnclosure itself. '• SATURDAY, SEPT. 26, AND MONDAY, SEPT. •V.'s":."- 1 BR00H 1 CHIPS0 ...... 6 P &G SO AP 2 LAVA SOAP . „.i i JAP ROSE soAf 3 SUNLITE JELL POWDER 1 G. M. CAKE FL0U»|^^ 1 16 oz. OLIVES • 1 lb. CRANBERRIES BOX MATCHES 8 TOILET PAPER - 3 N. S. B. BEANS 1RED KIDNEY BEAN Ko. 2 can 1 BLUEBERRIES, No. 2 can - _ i. 1 SHREDDED WHEAT . 1 ASPARAGUS TIPS 4 ALOLA TOMATOES, No. 2 can 6 YDS. GOLDEN STAR PERCALE $ YDS. STEVENS ALL LINEN TOWELING PLAIN COLORED "BROADCLOTH, yd. .. . .. $1.00 $1.00 15* SMITH BROTHERS Phone 179 Green St. V • ; '7-r* ! V HELP? May we remind you again that for a small payment down you can turn your home laundry into a modern power laundry and let electricity do all the hard work. It's <&eai>er, too, than sending clothes out. -,vc^ This is the way you'll wash your clothes Load them into ti^h»e» rmoonmmyv tmubh noff tthhee wwaasshhiinngg mmaacchhiinnee.j switch oil the motor--and let it wash out all the ditt, thoroughly but gently. Then guide. the pieces through the wringer--let it squeeze out the water. While wringing out one tubful of clothes, the machine is washing another. You can have an average washing out blowiqfr on the line in two hours or less! Let us demonstrate these new washers at your Public Service Store. Prices start at $99.50. For a limited time all of them are only »2 DOWN 18 months to pay * This is flie wayyou'll iron your clothes Sit down while you guide the washing over die long roU<V of the "electric ironer. Catch each piece (shirts and fusif things as well as flat pieces) as it comes sliding out warm ind smooth--ready to fold and store away. Your ironing is done in one-fourtn the time. , - See how easy it is at vour Public Senrice Stoce. ifooeq a«epriced at $79 50 and up For a^Jimited time, 'any modUl' youseleaat $2 DOWN 18mont)»topay Your local appliance dealer also carries a complete line of eloctrit washing and ironing machines -- . PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILUNOIS E. J. LARKIN, But Mgr. Itl Wllliaau St, Oys^al Lak< Crystal Lake SM „