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• ~* TBI! McHEHET PUUNDEiLKB, THtTRSDAT, SKPT.22, 1927 P-- • •* •.-: ;--^ -- • *'v V-.:i '#? *£ ••-'•• • * Oldest Street in America [coma, S XI., Hie sly clly o? (he leblos, boasts of the oldest street in j America. Hundreds of years before le white uian set foot In the western jemlHphere this street In Acoma was scene of commercial ictlTttiilc Arctic Wireless The most northern wt'-'-ess station the Wi>.SO ua* bttr, »• 'Kt^d OB ipe Desire, Jotting into the Arctic >ne west of Archangel. It will be to keep In touch with explorers uterlng the Aretlf airship and alr- . "Sic" Explained ^ "Ml1" means "so," or "so It vu S-ltten." It Is ased to make It clear at an error In spelling, grammar, or fcbe like, in a quotation, was there Originally. "He said 'I done If (He)" |a an example. Adepts in Reducing Most of the questions asked the experts by young women of the present feneration are in regard to reducing. Reducing men's incomes, mostly. */) You wouldn't bay A suit of clothes. 7 Or a suite of Furniture Sight unseen --- And yet The woodwork in Your house Is more important Than either! See the woodwork That you're going To have to live with Before You have to live With it! See it here! Drifts Phone 46 MnllENRY LUMBER PA IVIVI IQUALITY AND SERVICE FIRST tU« Weit McHenry LOOT/ & ELMO SCOTT WATSON A Career of Contradictions *T^HE career of Capt. John Phillips u i pirate was a short one--It lasted only nine months--but it was one filled with many queer contradictions. A carpenter by trade, Phillips sailed from England for Newfoundland 1B 1723 In a ship that was captured by the noted pirate leader, Captain Anatis In his ship the Good fortune. Anatis forced Phillips to become his ship's carpenter. After leaving Anstls Phillips worked for a while In a cod fishery in Newfoundland. Then one night, he with four others, stole a vessel from Petet harbor and sailed away, with Phillips as captain. Articles of agreement were drawn up among the crew which he soon collected and, in the absence of a Bible on board the ship, these artl :les were sworn to upon a hatchet! Among these articles were these two curious ones: "There shall be 40 stripes lacking one, known as Moses' law, afflicted for striking a fellowpirate" and "If at any time you meet with a prudent Woman, that Man that offers to meddle with her, without her Consent, shall suffer present Death." The pirates were successful almost from the start. They captured several fishing boats and in one of them found an ex-plrate named John Rose Archer, who had served his apprenticeship under the notorious Blackbeard and who they at once promoted to quartermaster. They next sailed to Barbados, but tl^lr luck was poor. At last when they were almost starving they sighted a big French ship, much larger and better armed thafa their vessel, but so terrified was the French crew when Phillip's men hoisted the black flag that they surrendered without firing a shot. As time went on and Phillips continued to be successful, be became even more desperate and bloodthirsty, often butchering his prisoners without any provocation. Occasionally he did have a "qualm of conscience come athwart his stomach," as one chronicler quaintly records it, and on one occasion when he had captured a Newfoundland vessel and prepared to scuttle It, he desisted because he found that It belonged to a Mr. Minors. Phillips had stolen his first vessel from Minors. "We have done hlni enough Injury already," he said and returned the ship to Its owner. Although this pirate captured no leu than 80 ships and a vast amount of loot In the nine months of his career. It ended In disaster at last. His crew mutinied in April, 1724, off the coast of Newfoundland, where his first act of piracy had been committed, seized Phillips und threw him overboard. <©. 1926, Weitirn N'ewnp&par Union.) . Heat Values of Woods The heat values of some common oaks and maples In millions. British thermal units, are: Post oak (Quercus minor), 24.0; red oak (Quercufe rubra), 21.7; white oak (Quercus alba), 23.9; black oak (Quercus velatlna), 22.0; sugar maple (Acer saccharum), 21.8; sliver maple (Acer aaccharlnum), 17i>; red maple (Acer rubrum), 19.1. And by the way which would you rather be right now, Red Grange or Charlie Lindbergh?--American Lumberman. YOUR EOOD WILL Oar used cars are sold with full knowledge and appreciation of the fact that the customer's good will is at stake. Consequently our prices are reasooafeis and our cars are rigbk JAMES MORROW & SON Waukegan and West McHenry A useo CAR IS ONLY AS DEPGrNQABLB AS TH6 D&AUE-R WHO S&LLS IT conclusive proof of leadership/ 9 flat wall paints were tested-- and DevoeVelour Finish was chosen WB wfah the rank olAbaii could be shown. It would settle •Once for all as to which Is the bast 4at wall paint to u*e. A large cor* po ration had the test made and m a (exult standardize on Devoe Velou* Finish. For Vdour Finish lead* Ins lj««» of application--Appcarsnce-- WashabiUty--Durabffltey--^Economy. JOHN F. BRDA McHenry, 111. tbacticalTe41 'Prove " DwvoeQuaktj SMALLEST MOTOR TALL AS A DIME Maker Spent Three Years in Manufacture. • lAiWSfe, Neb.--What Its modeler insists Is the smallest electric motor ever ai'tde Is In the possession of E. Kahm, who has put in most of his spare moments for the last three years cutting "Ut its parta and puttiug them to gather, it Is now complete and run uuig The machinery run by the BIO tor aud the uiotor Itself are mounted on a block of wood thai is two aud a half inches long and an inch aud u half wide. Tb« "belt" la made up of strands from No. 00 cotton thread. It makes 400 revolutions a minute. The motor has 58 parta. made ol ^old, silver, copper, brass and troi. aud is on the conventional lines ol standard motors. It Is held to^ethei by 19 screws, the smallest of whicii has 26U threads aud the largest &JU threads. Many of the parts, especially eight fiber washers and the binding posts, are so small thai they caunoi be seen by the naked eye iiahrn used a jeweler's glass while making the parts. The motor Is half as high as a lu cent piece and weighs 100 grulus. Ji took tive teet of wire to wind the armature and thre<e feet for each eleo trie field, making a total ofelevei. ,f£et Kahm is a garage mun and mi expert electrician. This is the secoiuJ miniature motor he has made, the Hi s. one being twice the size of this mult was stolen during a tire. Hiid Wii never recovered. _ Kaliru said that if he hud charged for day labor at the custoin:iry pru-e the labor cost alone would have been $180. Finds Music Pest Meano of Training Children Philadelphia.--Music is the best means of gainiug the understanding ot children in all campaigns f>kr Americanization believes Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok. who has spent many years working among the residents of I'liila- -delphla's foreign quarters. "We fiud uiusic the best way to reach out for the s.vnipathy--of these young people," says Mrs. Bok "While visiting the settlements I saw how many talented young musicians were compelled to give up a promising career because of poverty." Her work in the music settlement' schools of the city inspired Mrs. llok to give a permanent endowment of $12,500,000 to the t'tirtls Institute of Music, founded three years ago to aid in the development of musical talent In America. This fund is one of the largest ever devoted to this purpose. Josef Hofmanu is the director. Funds are available for living expenses of needy students. Tuition, use of musical in struments and tickets for concerts and operas are offered, without cost The institute also meets the cost of launch Ing students upon their professional careers. Among the teachers engaged by Mrs. Bok are Mnie. Marcella Sembrlch and Emllio de Gogorza. voice; Josef Hoftnann and Moriz Rosenthal, piano, and Carl Flesch, violin. Says Earth Will Cease to Rotate Eventually London.--The earth eventually wnJ cease to rotate and will become a sta tlonary object, one-half with sunshine and the other half with eternal dark ness, according to Dr. Andrew C.-< uielln, formerly assistant astronomer at the Royal observatory, who recently retired after 36 years of service. Doctor Crommelin declared here re ctntly that at the present rate ol "•lowing" In Its rotation the earth would cease to rotate in some "fmillions of years." He attributed thi- ••lowing" to friction of the tides. _ "The world is safe enough, how ever," he said, "so far as everyone who is on it now Is concerned." Referring to life on other planefand heavenly bodies, Doctor Croiumt lio declared so far as science knows ai the present there is no life on tlx moon. "Life on the moon," he said 'would be Impossible unless there Is •tome animal there that can live wii. >«u air." . Hat-Killing Record Cardiff, Wales.--Claims to having allied 2,500 rats In eighteen months are laid by Charles Rees. an official at the Llafftiiileth House colliery, near here. He used a Seaiyhain. a fox ter ior and a ferret in his work. Giant Magnet Clears Roadway of Nail Perils Olympia, Wash.--New equip ment for removing nails an metal matter from highway* hajust been perfected by the ei glneerlng department of th Slate College of Agriculture, a> Pullman. It cooalsts of a sp< iaily designed magnet built e>- peclally for road work. Ea<' isagnet is strong enough te pkJ up a loose nail a distance of si inches or more and In operatlo che magnet Is carried about tw inches off the road. It has i demonstration picked out nail huried two Inches In the gravr or mashed Into the tar divisio- 2 of the concrete. The equipmerr. 5 has four four foot magnet.- } sweeping a strip eight feet wid. New Fish Found A new kind of fish has been dl»COT- •red off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. It la known as the Ink stand flsh because of the bone on the back which leoks like a pea. When the pen la palled up, the blood Is black, and good enough to write. The bone pen handles as well aa the best steel pen. Tammany is not unlike a ojbber bond--there is ao much pull t<rHt •-- Hfcn OtaMl Journal. «* Trac* AU Alphabet* tp Symbolic Picturm§ While printing, of course, has unlocked the intelligence of the world, still even before printing there were records and communications. At first, these merely consisted of pictures. Theu the pictures were arranged in series so that there was narration. Next through use, these pictures became symbols, that Is, they were given a phonetic value For example, the circle which the Egyptians used to represent the sun, in time became a symbol. It was the Assyrians, however, who were first to take these various symbols and give theui arbitrary values phonetically. They were still pictures, but they conveyed sounds. Thus was formed the basis of all alphabets, ltomau, Hebrew, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Armenian and Arabic. Different these may seem, but all can be traced back to. the common origin. Tate the letter "A" of today., In the i'hoenk-lan-Assyfl'ac alphabet that letter represented ox tind was designated by a conventional ox's head. The Greeks took it and turned it upside down, refiued it and made it more graceful. In Hebrew, the word Beth is very common. Originally, It was an upright rectangle with a cross stroke iu the center. In other words, a drawing of a house, which is what it means in Hebrew. Now; the old rectuifj, it w iLi the comers rouiiued is ii, tiiui also oeing due to Gi tvk influence, the Greeks fuvoriug the i urved line of beau^r- ratWr, Uuui the rigid rectangle. "Mashers" Worsted by Girls' Clever 6c.ieme Pittsburgh's young women have vu rious ways of dealing" with "mashers,' "asphalt aiubs,' or whatever the sj>e cies may be caiud. They are Lot lacking in the uri of retusiug solicited ice creuin sodas or buggj rides. But this little tale Is handed on for what it may be worth In un emergency. The two girls liad beeu visiting In a rather loneiy neighborhood aud were walkiug to their homes. The street was deserted except for two men be hind them. After a time of doubts and apprehensive shivers, the young women realised that the;, were being followed. They hasieued their*sups* but to Ui avail. ; Gradually the pursuers gained, and at lasi were almost within speak Ing distance. The young women weiv at a loss as to what to do. Suddenly one raised her hands toward the other and began making strange gestures. The other one did the same. At this unusual procedure the men stopped In their tracks aud stared- Then they turned and retraced theii steps. Neither, apparently, knew tlie sign language of the deaf. Neither did the young women, who continued iu giggling triumph to their homes.--Pittsburgh Post. Fighting the Mississippi The levees on the Mississippi rivei have been in existence from the Eight eenth century. Formerly under tin slave system each planter along the river had dikes erected for himseli The towns then took action, tlnall.\ the counties, and the states buildinp levees. Then congress in 1879 ap pointed the Mississippi river cominis sion, but made no provision for the actual building of levees or protection of the lands from overflow. In 1S.SO congress made the first appropriation for the, improvement of tlie Mississip pi river. From" 1879. und^r the com mission, the, federal government has expended more than $80.0U0.iR>0 In the improvement of the Mississippi river and the protection of lands frotp over flow. Peer of Producers Niagara fails is still the peer of pro ducers of electric energy. Howard P Quick, the eminent Canadian engineer, has gathered data on all the great falls of the world and finds that aftei making due allowance for water di verted to scenic beauty the Niagara falls can produce 3,;{00.<)00 horse power of electrical energy while under sim liar conditions the falls of Parana river on the Brazil Paraguay bound ary could only produce 2,000,00«t horsepower of electrical energy and the, falls of the Zambesi In Rhodesia Africa, have a capacity of only 2l& 000 horsepower. Cot Through, All Right Recently there visited in this cit, a genlune old Georgia "cracker" from the outlying piney woods section of that state. While here he attended for the first time In his life )in Kpis copal church service. Later he remarked to a friend: "It was all as Interestln* as. a 'po> sum hunt. I never did know much o what all the folks about me was a-do In', but I jest kept my wits about m< an' fell an' rlz with.'em every tlme:"- Boaton Globe. Great Military Leader Hannibal of Carthage was one o. the great soldiers of ancient ame£ In 218 B. O., when twenty-nine yearof age, he led an army of 100.00)1 across the Mediterranean sea tc .Spain, and then marched bis "torc< <iver the Alps Into Italy. Only *^6,0<X men remained with him, and yet fo; 15 years he maintained a war against Rome. He was finally compelled t^ return to Carthage; was defeated In the battle of Zama, 202 B. C., and Anally committed suicide in Syria. Body Confided to^River Fardlnando de 8oto, Spanish noblejnan. discoverer of the Mississippi rtver, died of fever on June 20, 1642, In Arkansas. His companions wrapped the body in his mantie, encased it in a tree trunk and committed it to the Teacher: "Where do we go to see the stars?" Bright Kid: aTo Hollywood, <gf Alaska Empire. SLOCUM'S LAO Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Pfannenstill and daughter, Mae, and son, Arthur, were business callers at Spring Grove last Friday. Arthur Wackerow and Rollin Dowell attended the show at Fox River Grove last Wednesday evening. Mr. and M!rs. H. L. Brooks were business callers at Waukegan last Thursday. Willard Darrell transacted business at Waukegan last Friday afternoon. John Blomgren and Mrs. Sigrid Blomgren were recent supper guests, at the George Lundgren home at *Wauconda. J. W. Pfannenstill and daughter, Mae, and son, Arthur, were at McHenry Saturday afternoon. George Harner and RoUin Dowell visited the JGene Tunney camp at Lake Villa Sunday. Mrs. Harry Matthews and son, Robert, spent last Friday with Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Crystal Lake. Miss Florence Keliey of Pingry Grove spent a few days last week at the home of her aunt, Mirs. O. W. Grantham. Mir. and Mirs. W. O. Brooks of Waukegan spent Sunday afternoon at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Brooks. John Blomgren, Mrs. "Sigrid Blomgren and Mrs. Raymond Lusk spent Sunday afternoon at the Peter Anderson ^ome Algonquin. Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews and guest, Mrs. Fannie Carr, of Crystal Lake were Sunday afternoon and supper guests of Mir. and Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Grantham and children spent Sunday at the Lynn Keliey home at Pinsrry Grove. Sunday callers at the R. B. McGill home were Mr. and Mrs. Gansinprev and two daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Howard, Mrs. A. W. Howard, and John Morse and son of Chicago, and Tom Dowell and James Dowell of Roseville. H. M. Haffey of West Chicago and daughter, Miss Hazel Haffey, a teacher of the grade school at Wauconda. were Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell. Mrs. Henry Shaffer and Mrs. J. X. Zimrner of McHenry spent Monday afternoon at the home of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geary. Cbesny Brooks and his uncle. William Toynton of Wauconda attended the "101" circus at Waukegan last Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Geary and son of Wauconda were guests at the home of the former's parents last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon and children, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, Frances, and Miss Dorothy Dowell were callers at Harvard and Marengo Sunday. Mrs. John R. Knox of McHenry spent last Tuesday and Friday at the home of her parents here. , Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, Miss Frances Davis, and Martin Bauer were at Waukegan last Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Shaffer and son Stanley of McHenry spent Sunday evening at the Henry Geary home. Mr. and Mrs. H., D. Binks and daughters and son Walter Hick of Oak Park spent a few days last week at Ardelon farm. * Mr. and Mrs .Wayne Bacon and children and Mr. and Mrs. William Davis and daughter visited at the Ray Dowell home Sunday evening. Herman Kalling of Chicago spent Friday and Saturday with his sister, Mrs. Henry Winkler. Henry Geary and Mrs. Emmet Geary motored Grayslake last Wednesday and in company with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Geary visited Gene Tunney's camp at Lake Villa. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winkler of Barrington spent last Wednesday evening at the home of the former's parents here. Mr. and M!rs. Earl Davis and children spent last Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Willard Darrell and Harry Matthews accompanied by R. C. Hallock and Harry Francisco of Wauconda attended the banquet and meeting of the Mutual Life and Casualty Co., of Chicago, given by the Bevans Agency at DesPlaines, Saturday. A real estate transfer was completed early this week when H. D. Binks purchased the seventy-acre William E. Davis farm on the Rand road north of this village. The new owner plans to improve his newly acquired farm somewhat along the lines of his magnificent Ardelou farm which he purchased about two years ago from Mrs. Farnsworth. This latter farm has rapidly come to the front as one of the finest show places of the entire county. With its new and reconstructed buildings, fine horses and blooded guernsey cattle Ardelou farms presents an appearance that is most interesting to gaze upon and this community may well be proud in having a p\ace of this kind in our midst. \ Our patterns of cotton challies for comforts are very attractive. E rickson's Dept. Store. East Side Garage under new management The East Side Garage, McHenry, is now open under new management. All work guaranteed and prices right. Open Day and Night PHONE 49 Wilkinson & Meier McHenry, Illinois 'M Mr * * We wouldn't worry if we were you. Send us the spot and it soon is not. Gleaning and dyeing that brightens life itself. --MR. BEFORE AND AFTER "Spotless Cleaning--Permanent Dyeing--Tailored Pressing" Mrs. Anna Howard CLEANING, PRESSING and REPAIRING PHONE 143-W Located over Bolger's Drug Store ."i-s\ * ii A .S i '4 NAB H ¥ NEW & Mbdela--AH C7he most NEW LOWER PRICES *865 I. •. b. fuuo Upwards Po we r ful cars Nash ever built. The great POWER of these new Nash models will be a revelation to you* They "pull" the steepest grades or "the heaviest? going with absolutely amazing ease and smoothness. For there's EXTRA power engineered into every Nash motor* They have the extra efficiency of the STRAIGHT LINE drive so that Nash power flows directly from the engine to the rear axle in a straight line. -They take hills without a note of •train--without the least of laboring. Come DRIVE a new Nash. Test Out the QUANTITY of its power M Weil as the QUALITY. The newly-refined 7-bearingmotofi give Nash the world's smoothest power-flow throughout the whole of iiovt' ^ -- -=»= All ci'ankshafts are balanced intefl* rally with clutch and flywheel ta make the new Nash the smoothest# "sweetest" car you ever drove. And they're the EASIEST ridings easiest steering cars you ever handled with their new secret process alloy-steel springs and newly-improved steering mechanism. COME in today and select the mod* el you want to drive. New LOWER prices make these new models th#- greatest values on die market* V1 George A. Stilling Garage Phsoetl ^ MoIIenry, Hllnci*