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mmm THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, JAN. 14, 1926 L"i£ YOLO •;-$k w ^f'Worster of Savannah spent several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ehredt recently. ffinoos Emma Bacon and Rutn «Lusk spent Saturday in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Molidor and children of Ivibertyville visited their mother here Sunday. Miss Agnes Myer of Chicago was a viStor at the L. V. Luak home SUMtof Orpha Russell visijfd sister, Mrs. Robt. Mickey, at Barringt° M^tSdA.'v.«y *hMrPe«ndr"i*Myrs. F«d WBKB daughters of Tacoma, W»3V,?Pt1a -3- dSkheTPMf»rWs boypleased to see him an "fe and Mrs. M. Smith and «>ns Raymond Lusk, Mrs, Blower." and Mri Anderson were callers at we ^arl^rtscler^h. prou* possessor of a fine new Dodga road- "mV »nd M™- Wm- DlUon the fonner's father at Round La>« , Thf/ community was well aented at the £ht ' X £ ^ro? Mr.^nd Mrs'. Joseph C On this day the five. pound box of candy, presented by Mr. Schlottman to the ladies for th«r items .will be opened, so ladies get in on this treat and bring your Miss Grace Duesing went to Chi cago Sunday, where she now has a f P°Marshall Smith was elected treas- * urer and Esther Lusk s^cretary and Hazel Dillon assistant of our Sunday school. Jan. 17 there will be Sunday school at 10 a. m. and evening services at 7:80 o'clock. Rev. Tompkins, D&stor* Tuesday, Jan. 6, Mr. and Mr^ Jay Vasey and children motored to Yorkville to attend the golden wedding anniversary of Mrs. Vasey's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins. All of their children were present and will have many happy memories of the day. Wm. Pittwood of Maywood spent Sunday at the home of V. Geary. Mr. Waldman and grandson of Chicago spent Saturday at his farm. Mesdames P. L. Stadtfeld, Peter Wegener and Miss Ethel Fitzgerald were in Waukegan Saturday. Mrs. Libbie Bacon returned home Saturday after spending the past week in Waukegan with Mrs. Ames. The old factory at Volo has been sold and all the machinery was moved from it Thursday. What will be done I" with it now? } Earl Donley spent last Thursday in Waukegan. G. A. Vasey, Wm. C. Dillon and son, Arthur, L. V. Lusk, Fred Converse went to Libertyville Wednesday, Jan. 5, to hear Prof. Rhode of Urbana. After a very interesting and instructive talk he presented Mr. Fred Converse with a medal for being the only man in Lake county who Aftd & cow that finished a successful reeord in the 600 lb. club. •A small investment in a ad in the Plaindealer will pay yon m- ' expected dividends. tl MOTOR CABS G-1MS of BUICK. Examine the credential* of the builder of any car you think of buying. Be sure there is stability behind the car. Be certain that it will not tome day join the ranks of the mil* lion and more unmarketable "orphan" cart whose builders have quit. Buick motor cars are barked by vast resources of men. equipment, investment ana tucccu. The Buick factory is a mile and a half long. The Buick engineering staff is the largest in the service of any motor car manufacturer. The Buick sales and service organization numbers 4000, with millions invested in showrooms and Authorized Service Stations all over America. LAnd Buick leads in public eferenr«; the Indispensable :tor in. motor car succeee. consecutive yean, has invested more than in the k other member of Automobile WITCH OF THE CANYON llion **a*> y By HARVEY FERGUSON (© by Short Story Pub. Co.) 0 ALL of the Mexican laborers were on a strike, and the work was indefinitely delayed, for no better reason than that aq ugly and aged native woman had disappeared, leaving no clue to the mystery except a large spot of blood before her doorstep. Her adobe hut stood on a "bench" on the steep canyonside, and close by that narrow gash in the rock, where, by the grace of God, and my labors as an engineer, was some day to be the Chama railroad. It was a hard five-mile climb from our camp in the canyon to the point where we" were then working; and in* order to get even a short day'B work done, it was necessary to return after the quick-falling darkness had settled upon the canyon. That meant passing the supposedly dead woman's house in the dark; and therefore u&y whole crew, from water boy to foreman, Hiad rebelled. For to these Mexican peons, as I soon learned, the strange old hag who lived alone on the mountain, aloof from the people in the "plaza" down the river, gathering herbs and selling charms for a living, was a creature of supernatural powers--a witch. It was sufficiently evident, to me, that something or somebody had killed old Juliana and made away with her body, thereby forever ending her earthly. Influence for good or evil But, whatever had befallen her, to the Mexicans she had now become a baleful spirit. All of this superstitious lore was ridiculous enough to a civilized white engineer; but the fact did not build any curves on the Chama railroad. And the situation remained that I could not induce a single man to go up the canyon that day and take the terrible risk of returning in the twilight. The only means of bringing the superstitious cowards to time, that I could devise, was by an example that would set their fears at rest. If I could induce one Mexican to brace the terrors of the canyon, perhaps the others would be encouraged. There was one man in the crew that I thought I could rely upon. He wap Juan Baca, the cook, vhom I believed to be fairly free from the Incubus of superstition that rested upon the minds of the others. But when I proposed that he go up the canyon after some tools that had been left behind, he laughed uneasily to conceal his nervousness and began to make excuses. Then I resorted to foul means. I gave Juan a drink from the flask in my tent. His courage rose wonderfully. It was nearly dark when Juan descended the hillside into camp like a landslide. He was undoubtedly in a panic. He was pale with a sickly gray pallor. When I questioned him he sulked like a kicked hound, but some of the other men repeated his story to me. Something had silently dogged him, he told them, all the way up the grade until he turned back In terror, and then chased him until he was in sight of the camp fire, when it had uttered a terrible scream. He did not describe either the "thing" or the scream in any comprehensible manner, and I felt that there was a reasonable doubt whether he had seen and heard anything except the shadows and the night wind, elaborated by his own fancy. I retired to my tent to think the matter over. The whole crew was now convinced, if any of them had doubted it before, that some malevolent spirit was abroad In the canyon. If the work was to go on the next day, some thing must be done, and that lmmedi ately. After a little hesitation, I resolved that I would spend the night In Juliana's house. If the men found me there whol$ and well in the morning, they could scarcely doubt that her shade was at least harmless, while If there was anything tangible back of Joan's terror, I might discover what It was. I took a double army blanket, wrapped In it a sawed-olf shotgun of the sort used by express messengers, and after bidding my cpward crew a contemptuous adk>£, set off up the 'roadbed. I could just hear the river tumbling along several hundred feet below, and the canyon was filled with bottomless gloom, so that my pathway seemed to bang in the air. As I trudged along on my strange errand I could not help thinking about that singular superstition <of primitive people, which endows the pld and ugly and odd with supernatural powers--a superstition absurd beyond all others, and yet the most widespread of all. And as I thought of the old hag, Juliana, sitting in her doorway as I had often seen her, wrinkled and toothless and inscrutable, I felt that I could almost comprehend the psychology of such a belief. Once I stopped ajjd turned quickly about, for exactly wfrat reason I could Dot tell. A man alone In the wilderness at night often has the sensation of being stealthily followed. And, often, indeed, It is the warning of a subtle sixth sense, for the great cats, panther and bob-cat, will trill a man for hours, not daring to spHng. At any rate, I peered Intently Into the darkness for several minutes without detecting anything, and then kept tepidly on, not deigning another look. .. When 1 reached Juliana's abodes perched in high isolation above the gloom of the canyon, I intuitively glanced about for the spot of blood, the discovery of which had been the beginning of my troubles. It was no longer there. I had seen It, myself, In the morning, drying in the sun and curling up long black fingers of gore; but now it had cleanly disappeared off the bare rock before the doorstep --the fact was indisputable. It sug gested the absurd fancy that Juliana had rejoined her mortal frame, blood and all. In tht^se weird surroundings, the idea so strongly impressed my mind that -I approached the closed door with some hesitation, and even timidly knocked. But there was not h sound from within, and when I pushed the door open the room was obviously empty. Some strings of red chill peppers hung from the unhewn rafters, and also various dried herbs that pervaded the place with a queer, "musty odor. The furniture was, next to nothing. A very small adobe hearth- was built In One of the' corners, aS lii nil Mexican houses, and 1 set to work at building a fire as quickly as possible. When the red flame licked upward' and the shadows leaped back, I felt a sense of relief and comfort. The Immensity of the night all about me, looking in through the black square of the single paneless window, made my tiny haven of light and warmth seem all the more desirable. I spread the blanket and rolled myself in it with a billet of wood for a pillow and my feet to the flre. The short shotgun lying at my side gave me a feeling of security, which nothing but the cool touch of steel and the capable look of a good gun can bring to a man alone in the mountains. All In all I felt well satisfied and began telling myself thai 1 should have a good night of sleep in spite of my strange situation. Sleep did not come so easily, however. For more than an hour I laystaring at the open window, where the night peered In as with a still black eye, or watching the noiseless dance of the shadows upon the wall. I resolutely downed the grotesque fancies that crowded my mind and tried to think of all sorts of monotonous things. Gradually my efforts, com blned with the sinking light of the tire and the soft voice of the canyon wind, lulled me Into a doze, and then into a sleep that could not have been deep. For it was no sound or touch that awakened me, but just the subtle, unmistakable sense of another presence within the room. Instantly I was wide awake with every sense alert. I had evidently slept several hours, for the fire, which I had fed with a heavy billet, had died to q faint smolder that lit a little space before the hearth, and made the shadows that filjed the corners all the more impenetrable. As I lay motionless, trying to vindicate by sight or sound the strange feeling that oppressed me, a single tongue of flame shot into the air and expired, the glow died, and the darkness was absolute. At that moment there rang out within the room an indescribable scream of agony and terror, filling the place with a confused volume of sound and dying without an echo. Fear, utter, uncomprehending fear, laid clammy, ghostly hands all over my body and clutched at my throat. It traveled along my spine ^nd stirred my hair with a chilly, prickly breath. I was suffocated, I could not move, but only peered Into the darkness with eyes unnaturally dilated, seeking madly for something that lived and moved. Whether that terrible tension lasted for seconds or minutes I cannot tell; but at last my straining eyes discovered a mark In the blackness. In a far corner I saw two points of cold, green fire that seemed sinking closer to fhe ground. It was the visible stimulus needed for action. With one hand I managed to raise the shotgun which bad never left my grip, and pulled the trigger, sending a scattering charge of buckshot straight at the threatening lights. I saw a long body shoot upward and heard It fall with a heavy thud. In a moment I was upon my feet and fired shot after shot at the writhing form In the corner until It lay still My hands were trembling and I was cold all over as I fumbled at repairing the flre. When at last the flame sprang into life, I saw a very large, gaunt panther, with its face and throat shot almost to pieces, and the torn lips rolled back from the yellow teeth in a dead snarl. I tended that flre with solicitous care the rest of the night, and very early In the morning I returned to camp, triumphant with the beasfs tail as' a trophy. The strike was broken. It was easy to construct the whole story of Juliana's undoing and the subsequent mysterious' antics of her supposed spirit. The panther was a very old one, which had been forced to hunt man because It was too slow to catch deer and other game. For. though all of the great cats will trail a man, It Is only when desperate with hunger that they will spring. Having made off with the old woman, It had doubtless returned to lick up the blood and lurk In the vicinity. Juan's Impression of a noiseless pursuer hud been quite correct, and both he and I had heard the usual wailing scream of a hunting panther. Fear had deadened him to Its real nature, and in that tiny room, I would have defied any man to think it less than a voic>' of hell. I have heard panthers squall at many a camp flre In the open night, and the sound of it always conveys a thrill; but I shall never forget the reduplicated horror of that scream In the witch's hut. The lucky part was that I woke when I did. The brute was undoubtedly waiting for the fire to die before it sprang. God is good to the foolish mm TAKING ADVANTAGE OF HIGHER PRICES The high egg market last fall was in the latter part of November. The records Indicate that the tendency Is for the high spot In the market to advance earlier in the fall. The problem of the person who Is Interested in making his poultry pay. Is how to prepare to take advantage of these high prices. I'ullets "^hlch1! began laying late la October frequently lay during the entire wintep/ Pullets which are developed /foo early begin laying early in October and then begin to molt, and unless they are exceptionally well fed they win not begin laying again until spring. If Leghorns^, are hatched before April 1 and arewell gfown they will likely -start laying early In October. Under good growing rations a Leghorn will mature In about 200 days. Some growers can carry their early hatched pullets along more slowly and prevent them from laying much before the first of November. In order to do this they feed very little meat scrap and other high protein feeds and feed considerable ground oats and other bulky feeds which grow a good frame but which do not hasten the maturity of the birds. \ ) . The heavy breeds which are slower maturing will lay better in the fall if hatched earlier than April. February and March pullets of the breeds such as Plymouth Kocks, Rhode Island Reds and Wyandottes will be, about the right stage of maturity for November eggs if they are grown on a good ration. One trouble with a good many producers is that they do not feed their pullets so that they mature quickly enough so as to start laying In the fall. In other words you have two sources of trouble in getting pullets to lay in November. One is the hatching of Leghorns too early and thereby having them go Into a molt, thereby losing production in the winter from that source. The other trouble Is on account of late chicks and slow development which results in the pullets not laying until the greater part of the winter is over and the period of high egg prices has passed. Potassium Permanganate Good as Water Purifier "Dr. S. Erikson of the Mountain Grove (Mo.) experiment station has carried on experiments to determine the value of permanganate of potash as a purifier of water for poultry, and has found that it Is very efficient The germs of cholera and of other intestinal diseases are destroyed In s few hours. The quantity to use is 14 grains per gallon of water. This quantity can be measured with sufficient accuracy with a ten-cent piece as measure, about 14 grains being carried on it. Permanganate soon loses its strength, which is indicated by loss of the purple color. When ^his occurs a new solution should be made up, Hrlkson's experiments show that imnH chicks are not injured by drinking permanganate water over a period of nine weeks. It can be safely used when sour milk is being fed, but it Is not recommended to be added to milk. Poultry raisers should not place <to> pendence on permanganate as a curs for any disease. Its use Is not Intended as a cure but as a destroyer of germs that gain entrance to the drinking water from sick birds, thereby lessening the chance of the spreading in the flock. , I*M nwttw wmm n •J* W fe IWH* MUttfe ft* m ww y \ tet imp ft* ftwwfof iffiFfdy en wepttei wmm m Mwtoa gvm*- flow Iwtfn Wwri h *** Vtt WH 0f ttn wm W U Wm *\- its« fei is teeeftwteuuttft H&rw tote* m\ Tm* fw norar^. ft vmt IftflmA to iiUuUik tfcilii ^bkiMilnfrlati Egg-Eating Habit The habit or vice of egg eating Is difficult to break, once it has been established. It usually starts from the birds getting a taste of a fresh egg when It is broken. Sometimes fresh egg shells thrown to the chicks without being heated gives them a taste of the raw. fresh egg. Darkened, large, roomy nests, the frequent removal of eggs and the Immediate removal of any broken shells are the most dependable methods for breaking up this trouble. "Funeral" From Latin A funeral Is so termed from dM tact that In ancient times the Romans were buried by torchlight, twisted ropes (fnnalia) smeared with pitch being carried by tbe mourners for the purpose. Ktmpa Them Dodging Half the world seems* determined to run down tbe other half.--Detroit Free Press. Many Superior Women ft Is said that the uverujic Ain^chaB woman spends $6H.5S a year tor clothes. Most of the women we've met are way above the average--Milwaukee Journal. Fishing Products A-Detroit Judj-'e declares that' flslt» Ing induces calm, leisurely, logical thinking. And >ome awful whoppera --Milwaukee .Imirnal Doubtful Record j§ The greatest age at which & man said to hH'-e become a rather Is one hundred and two. This was stated to be the age ;>f Thomas Beatty of Drumcondra. near Dublin, when hts young, est-born came Into the world. ' Doubly So "Pretty sank.' remarked the colonel, reviewing the passing troops.--Notrs Dame Juggler. NEVER MEND « < * The brand that carries a perfect guarantee It wilf pay ^ilto cpiile in. and cbnvince yourself as to thfe .quality of Never Mend Boilers, Wash Tubs, Ensilage Baskets, Milk Pails, Strainers and Strainer Funnels. .. The quality "of this Imeis unequalled and the price* is reasonable.^ H. PHONE 65-J HARDWARE WEST M'HENRY -;*itM • Hens Should Be Fed So That They Molt Quickly The old hens should be fed so that *' they will molt quickly. Eggs will be \! high in price this fall and winter and *) we should feed the (lock so as to ob- «' tain every possible egg, suggests D. H. \| Hall, extension poultry husbandman • > at Cleruson college. The molt Is a natural thing and the hen must be allowed time enough for it. We can help them through the molting stage by feeding. The mash feeds are very beneficial In growing feathers, therefore, these hens should have all the mash they want A pound o<\Sulphur added to each 100 pounds of mash will also aid the hens In growing new feathers. Sulphur is also a mild tonic and aids In keeping the hen's body In condition. During the molting period, the hens need a large amount of gralnffeed for the upkeep of the body. The molt Is a severe drain on the hen and a good strong body, with plenty of extra energy should be kept by the hen. The hen Is also laying up surplus energy for next year's laying. The best feed, care, and attention should be given them at this time. It will always pay you to send your hens to roost witli a full craw each night. f*«ri«i#a fetlwM Sfopi farts is s^ld tv \% tort*, 1*4 1&M ife WM wm WPiStm Hat. v fc m ft* I*##* ** Mi to* ******* Are You Getting Anywhere? Many young^ men are tied dowa to_ their jobs in McHenry. 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