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THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY, NOV. 24,1927 em LOOT/ ^ ELMO scon WATSON ,Th* Pirate Hero of a Novel ALTHOUGH Capt. John Gow, alias Smith, alias Goffe, had the honor mt having an account of his piratical career written by Defoe and ninety years later, at "Captain Cleveland," he was made the hero of a novel by •Ir Walter Scott, there wag In reality Hfttle In his life to justify so much attention. The principal interest lies in tfce incidents connected with his trial and executon because they show that •pdety 200 years ago was often fully m brutal and cruel In punishment as Were the pirates themselves. Gow's career of piracy began with tte usual matiny and he, the second Mate, was chosen leader by the Mutineers after they had murdered tft* officers of their ship, the George. Most they renamed the vessel, the Beronjre--a fnvorite name for • Alp, It seems--and began a cruise off coast of Spain, but plundering the dipping of their own country Sngand ef Gow's native Scotland. Thea thejr sailed for Madeira where established friendly relations with the governor by presenting him Wtth a bo* of Scotch herring. Their aaxt port of eall was the Orkney Waads where they sold most of the cargoes of the ships they had robbed. At Oarristown Gow landed his men Mid began plundering the houses ef fee gentry, after which, in a spirit of bravado, be marched back to his ship With a bagpipe leading the parade. After a series of raids along ths Scottish coast, Gow and his men were 9uilly captured by his aroused coun W7BMD and taken to London on the •rtttsh frigate Greyhound for trial. Ik* trial opened at the famous Newfate prison on May 8, 1725. Gow was iftUso in behavior and refused to en- Mr any plea, so it was ordered that he fee "pressed," the only form of tor- Mre allowed at that time. This conrtsted of chaining the criminal down tpon a floor with arms and legs out- ^read. Weights were then piled upon ra until he consented to "plead." not, he was "pressed" to death, •t the last moment the pirate leadtr yielded and entered a plea of not gallty. He was found guilty, however, Mid hanged on June 11. An old'chron- Me gives the following naive account ml the manner of his dying: "As be Was turned off, he fell down from fee gibbet, the rope breaking by the Weight ef some that pulled his leg. Although he had been hanging for tsur minutes, he was able to climb up fee ladder a second time, which •Semed to concern him very little, and he was hanged again. His body was then taken to Greenwich and there hanged in chains to waru others. (A 1*M, Wwttri N«mmu DllMj Phytic if He', Sick One day the new physics Instructor •ante Into our assembly room and •aid: "All those who expect to take any fthysics this year, come with Me." Then ho wondered *-? why 'toughed.--Boys' Life. Dora: "I want a pair of bloomers to wear around my gymnasium > Clerk: "Yess, ma'am,--and what size is your gymnasium?"--Oral Hygiene. Character Shown by "FtoMimfiif' TeH Many thing*--the "pjacli igj of one's eyes, shape of the cBln, manner walking, 5nd so on--indicate character, but surest of all is the revelation made by "the-happiest-flve-mlnutes-lnthe day" test Those who, when they go to bed, get a book, make themselves comfortable, sigh with content, stretch themselves, and can say, "This is my happiest five minutes,** have mental power, imagination, foresight and selfreliance. They often have some outstanding gift, such as music, or painting skill. Those whose happiest five minutes are the last possible five in bed in the morning are of strong character, but selfish and domineering. Those wbo confess that their happiest five ruiputes are spent when they sit down to their principal meal and let their appetite have full sway are, as a rule, "hard," but Just They are the "big" men of the world of business, with no nerves, and very loyal to their friends. Men whose happiest five are the ones given to a stroll around the garden and a pipe, before going to business, are of the nonambltious type. They are honest loyal, generous, but not among the big-brained. They will follow, but not Istf^ ' Hie O. M. C. Bridge ~ ~ Club ~ By JANE OSBORN EXPLOSION OF SUN =8 Rtdee Thai Govern v Kinthip of Coatim 111 answering a correspondent's query, "What relation are the children of first cousins to each other? What relation to me Is my first cousin's child?" the Pathfinder Magazine •ays: "Reckoning cousin relationships Is simple If you start out right, A cousin Is one collaterally related by descent from a common ancestor, but not a brother or sister. Children of brothers and sisters are first cousins to one another; sometimes they are called couslns-german, own cousins, or full cousins. The children of first cousins are 'second cousins' to one another; children of second cousins are third cousins to one another, and so on. The child of one's first cousin Is a first cousin once removed; the grandchild of one's first cousin Is a first cousin twice removed, and so on. Confusion sometimes arises from the custom of some people who speak of the children and grandchildren of their first cousins as second and third cousins, respectively, but the practice is only local. The correct and almost universal rule foV reckoning OMitas Is as we have given It" Sad indication Borne one had told the woman diit he was a backward boy. But as she watched him playing in the sunny nursery and listened to him chatting he seemed to her quite normal--the usual child of four and one-half years. It was only later when she accompanied him across the hall into his mother's room that he made a Queer remark. His mother's room was a spacious one done in old blue, and as they entered it, his tall, bronze-haired mother was Standing before a full-length mirror trying on a chiffon negligee in old gold. The baby boy looked at the lovely vision in the full-length mirror. "Oh, dear," he sighed. "Two mothers! One's enough."--New York Sun. Auction Sale By virtue of an order of the United States District Court, the undersigned, Trustee for the estate of Ira J. Stuart, Bankrupt, will sell at public auction, on the farm now occupied by said Ira J. Stuart, located two miles south of Genoa City, four miles northwest of Ringwood, and two miles west of Richmond, at 1 o'clock p. m. 6liarp, on Tuesday, Not; 29 tiie loiiowing described property,* to-wit: LIVESTOCK 11 Milch Cows, 1 Bull, 1 Brown Mare, 7 yrs. old HAY, GRAIN AND MACHINERY 30 tons of hay, 30 acres of corn in field, 200 bushels oats. 30 grain bags, wagon and box, silo filler, hog feeder and trough, 10 milk cans, single buggy, hay loader, swill cart, corn plow, grain binder, corn planter, corp plow, two row; disc, gang plow, corn binder, mower, corn plow, seeder, two-section drags, tractor disc, Reo touring car, grind stone, iron beam plow, wood beam plow, "J boxes of repairs, fanning mill, side rake, 2 2-horse eveners, 3 setfr double harness, single harness, pile of broken harness, 4 forks, 3 shovels, set, scales, sack salt, lanterns. ^ TERMS OF SALE All sums of $25.00 and under, cash. On sums over thai •mount credit arrangements may be made with the Clerk. Floyd M. Foss Trustee for Ira J. Stuart, Bankrupt. George Vogel, Auctioneer . Gerald J. Carey, Clerk. <Cop?rl* ht.) TED CARSON, sitting at his desk In the city, talked to Howard Fern over his telephone. •"Can you come out and play bridge with us tomorrow? It's our O. M. C. Bridge club and one of the couples can't come. Ton don't know any of them--but they're perfectly harmless. Yes, bring your tuck--and, say, you don't mind passing as a married man, do you? I'll tell you on the way out. And you can meet your wife at dinner. Madge wasn't sure who she'd get-- it has to be some one the crowd don't know." At about the same time Madge Carson called up Alice Gordon, an old friend who lived in the city. "My dear, I hope you won't think Tin dreadfully rude, but I'm asking you to fill in at bridge tomorrow night It's our turn to entertain the O. M. C. and Clara and Bill have gone Scuth. You see O. M. C. stands for 'Old married crowd"--though, of course, we aren't exactly old. Well, anyway, we made some fool rules and one of them Was that we'd never have anyone belong who wasnt married--and no member is allowed to Invite an unmar> rled stop gap. But really Ted said he'd get some friend of his and I said you could pretend you were married." 8o it was arranged, and It was not until Howard Fern came downstairs with Ted for dinner after a hasty change from their business clothes that he knew that the girl whose husband he had been asked to impersonate was Alice Gordon whom he had met five or six times that winter in the city, and In all probability they would meet again occasionally. That was what made the situation a little more embarrassing. But it was agreed that they were to ptay the role of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Norcott After the cards were over the various members took places round the tables drawn together for the supper to follow, and sat while Ted and Madge Carson brought on the refreshments. Some one brought up the subject of proposals and Madge announced that she didn't think that Ted ever did propose to her. "I certainly did propose," Ted answered. "We were at a Sunday school picnic and I'd been drinking pink lemonade, and we stayed behind the others in the grove--I can remember the mosquitoes. One stung me on the nose when I kissed you." So that started It It was moved, seconded and carried that everyone confess how he or she became engaged. "Don't have the girls In on this," objected Madge. "Because they'd tell different stories and then we'd find out what liars our husbands really are. We'll just listen while you do the romancing. Gerald,- it's your turn." So Gerald told briefly of his own proposal, and then came time for Howard --Mr. Bob Norcott "You'd better let Bob Norcott out of this," suggested Madge, a Httle nervously, but half a dozen of the men protested. Howard was In for It, and Madge and Alice waited with some concern. Howard showed no signs of disconcertedness. "Isn't much to tell," he said smiling assuringly to Alice. "The only really remarkable thing about it was that she was willing to have me. You see Td met her a few times and she--well, you know bow a girl can treat a man without being at all rude. Snippity--I call It I knew I wanted her and I sat up nlgfcts trying to think of a way to get acaualnted. Then one night we went to fill in at a card party--much like the party tonight--and I knew right then that Pd got to ask her, and though we bad both been asked to spend the night I asked our hostess if I could see her home., I thought maybe I'd get my courage up on the way. It was on the train going fn to town that It happened. I never had an Idea that she'd have me--n Howard looked up and across at Alice with a straight eager look that made her blush. But somehow she rose to the occasion. "You're as bad as the rest," she told him. "I was crasy about you from the first I think It was I who suggested going home together and I'm sure I did the actual proposing." Madge gasped her amazement but no one noticed It and the confessions went on. Then they finished supper and there was the usual leave taking and Howard and Alice were alone with their host and hostess. Howard said he thought really he ought to get back that night--and as he was going perhaps be could take Miss Gordon. So they started and on their way to the station a few minutes walk away they said scarcely a word. "You are a very good actor," Alice said at last "I don't see how you carried It off so well." 'Tm not an actor at . all," said Howard without smiling. "You know what I meant It was pretty hard, though, having to sit there and listen to you, knowing all the time that you were laughing at me." Alice looked away from Howard toward the dark window. "Perhaps 1 meant what I said, too," she said * "Then you really could think of me --you would marry me?" asked Howard. Alice turned and looked at him. "Of course I meant It," she said and then, she laughed. "Didn't I say I had to do the proposing--and now I think I really have." • v "Show Mm" An English Inventor filters the scratching and metallic sounds from phonographic music by passing it through more than 30 feet of tin tubing filled with peas. •I Like Heaven--No Parting About the only advantage a baldheaded man has Is that he knows, when he brushes bis hair In the morning, it will stay that way all day.-- Galveston News. SEEN AS POSSIBLE M«nj Other Big Stan Have Blown Up. dticago.--Should the sun explode, which astronomers say may not happen in a million years, or might happen tomorrow, inhabitants of the earth would know of it in eight minutes and would have but 138 hours to live before they were destroyed by poison gases. Astronomers at Yerkes observatory admit such an explosion Is possible any minute, basing their assertion on the fact that every star has gone, or will go through the explosive stage. In the Spiral Andromeda alone mote than forty stars have exploded in the last twenty-five years. The last great star to explode was Nova Pictoris, which expanded many thousand diameters in 1925. Prof. C. T. Elvey of Northwestern university is^reparing a thesis on this subject He says:1 "It Is quite true that stars do explode and there Is no reason why the sun should be an exception. As yet we do not know exactly what the cause of this phenomenon can be, but the generally accepted theory Is that the explosions are caused by internal eruptions, caused by the liberation of atomic energy. "The liberated energy travels from the center of the star at explosive speed. When It finally reaches the outside the star is many times Its original size and Its Intensity Increases many times. "Nova Pictoris, the last big star to explode, has increased In Intensity more than 40,000 times. "Should this happen to the sun, and it Is entirely possible, we would know of the explosion in eight minutes and we would have an outside limit of 138 hours to live. At that time the burning gases would reach the earth and we would be annihilated" Gen. Percy May End n the Row In Albania Scutari, Albania.--The "Albanian question" Is now largely In the hands of Gen. Sir Jocelyn Percy, a veteran of the South African war, of several Indian expeditions and of the great war. Gen. Percy^came here to reorganise the gendarmery and was appointed by Ahmed Bey Zogu to command the military and civil administrations of all Albania north of the Matir river. He expects to pacify the turbulent region of the Mallssore tribes and thus put a stop to the continual agttation along the frontier between Albania and Jugo-Slavla. Gen. Percy's policy Is that of tha "square deal." "The tribesmen of the region under my command," he says, "can come to me and pour out their grievances with confidence that they will be heard and dealt with fairly." Gen. Percy, after leaving the British army as major general in 1919, went to South Russia with a British mission attached to Gen. Denlklne's srmy. He was later with Gen. Wrangell in the Crimea. He enjoyed three years of rest and quiet on a ranch in British Columbia. MORAL MUSINGS - In mankind likes a kind num. After it has happened, don't worry. Solitude is sometimes best society^-- Milton. Thought Is the seed et action.-- Emerson. A sheik admires himself too much to be worth while. Might doesn't make right, but It makes right prevail. A watchdog ls often too toil ef alarm. He overdoes It > Flattery may become • fleet tat sincere praise can't be. If you like to write poetry, study tiie dictionary diligently, * Unless the people In the bomeare congenial, the home wont be. .. Usually, the man who likes III lit stared at. Isn't worth staring sit. Everything was hot better forty years ago; you were Just younger. When a man with all the facts arrives, arguments are likely to cease. Business la something that flows around obstacles as often as it upsets them. Old-fashioned history left out 75 per cent of what was Interesting calling It unimportant There are groups of men so diligent and sensible that they could make the desert prosper. Join an "uplift"; but be careful that the uplifting Is of somebody who wants to be uplifted. Every man can be a success at something. Perhaps he needs an ex» pert to tell him what Too many cynical plays pall on theater-goers, exactly as too sentimental melodramas did. \ " .. ' J0HNSBURG Planes Rout Locusts Moscow.--A signal victory on the "locusts front" Is reported by the aerial expedition in charge of ridding soviet farms of the pest A total area of 324,000 acres Is said to have been cleared of locusts by spraying from alrplanos. Batik HzU for Men Paris.--Men's baiik hats with batik ribbon streamers are being Introduced to Paris by male !:i;anvo,iilns. The first of them api, ;.r^d at the noon hour at a cafe near the Theatre Francais. Frenchmen take the batik headgear calmly. Outlaw Fishermen Surrender to Law St Pfcul.--Outlaw fishermen of the wild north Bhore of Lake Superior, who have piled their trade since the region was captured from the Indians a century ago, have surrendered. Hereafter they will fish as the law dictates. The poachers once believed that Lake Superior contained an inexhaustible supply of fish. But the hauls hsve been lean in late years and finally the fishers have determined to join the state in seeking to preserve that which has been their livelihood for years. Now they themselves are warring on Illicit fishermen. State officials were quick to accept the co-operation, for enforcement of laws against poaching always bad been difficult in the wild country. Until recently the fishers laid their nets during the spawning season, Ignoring game laws, and used smaller mesh nets than the law allowed. Operating over a ZOO^mlle stretch of Isolated territory, they easily eluded the small $taff of wardens and for years did a lucrative business, supplying catches of choice whiteflsh, trout and herring to the itinerant schooners that shipped their cargoes to CJIstern markets. Woman's Heart Knock at a hundred doors, one opens; speak to a hundred hearts^ one throbs. The door that opens Is a woman's love; the heart that throbs Is a woman's heart STRETCH OF RAILS ABOUNDS IN BENDS An engineer once said Uintah railroad reminded him of the rail fence that was so crooked every time a pig crawled through It he came out oil the same side. This line, which covers the 70 mile* between Mack, Colo., and Watson, Utah, is declared to be the most difficult to operate in the United States. There are 283 bends In one stretch of ten miles. Between Mack and Baxter pass, atop the Rockcllff mountains, the railway cHmbs 8,896 feet, and to negotiate this stretch of 33 miles geared locomotives are required. <511- sonlte Is the chief commodity hauled, a vast deposit on the eastern edge of Utah being the only considerable quantity of the mineral known in America. Detomr Just been apprised of a taxi-driver whose fare, a gentleman slightly unsteady, gave the order to drive "to the end of the rainbow." The chauffeur was acquiescent--until he began to worry about the customer's ability to pay. Then he stopped the taxi, opened the door and said cheerily: "Well, here we are I" "Is this the end of the rainbow?" Inquired the fare. "Well, not quite, sir," was the ingenuous reply. "The end Is really one block west, but the street's torn up and you'll have to get out here."-- New Yorker. Ida^lff. Tnrbell, nationally know authoress of many book a on the life of Abraham Lincoln, paid the capltol city a visit recently In her search for new material on the great emancipator. Miss Tarhell was particularly Interested In the research work that had been done In the past fl>e years by the Lincoln Centennial as*'elation and other organizations. Miss Tarhell admitted that she was planning another book on the Immortal Lincoln, but she refused fo say. when her newest venture M ould be rendy for release. Loose Iqaf work is a specialty of the Plaindealer job department. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Adams and Miss Masie Mertes and Alex Adams left Tuesday for a week's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mills at Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Adams and daughter, Genevieve, spent several days visiting relatives and friends in Chicago. Do your shopping for ThanksgrviM dinner at Erkkson Dept. Store. • ? Original Hearte jik hearse originally was a MM grating or spike fence with upright spikes for the reception of candles tor Illumination or the hanging of decorative draperies around a tomb ev at a gateway. ) Meat Bargains for Saturday Only November 26 THESE PRICES FOR CASH ONLY Pot Roast, regular 28c grade, Saturday, per ^ Mo. 1 Breakfast Bacon, peri lb ^ jSgfc A few pieces left at this record-breaking pric* Corned Beef, lb. 22^ Boneless Ribs, Rolls and Rnmp Pork Shoulders 20^ Frett's Grocery and Market Phone 3 West McHemry ILLE THEATRE 'WOODSTOCK. ILL Woodstock's Beautiful Play House Thanksgiving Day Program Thursday and Friday * • Sp'; Matinee, 3:00 o'clock, 35c and 15c ^ . -X Evenings 6:30 and 9:00 o'clock, 50c and 25c u In order that our 9 o'clock shows may begin promptly orf; ^ time, hereafter whenever these is vaudeville or other stage entertainment our first show will start at 6:30 o'clock. > > A rap TO THE AHMlAlt IMPERIAL HAWAIIAN SING on 5faae*h4 Screen Also CLARA BOW "HULA" W m An attraction deluxe comes direct from the Hawaiian Islands. A troupe of Hawaiian singers and dancers coupled with a Hawaiian feature photoplay, will make the entire program one of charm and delight. Pity Posterity A Boston doctor says that la 00 years people will be too civilised to kiss. Well, who cares 7 Very few of us will be caring much about kissing la 60 years.--Cleveland Plain Dealer. Plenty of Fruit Cake, Pumpkin Pie and Special Mince Pies with Pure Brandy for Thanksgiving We will make the awards for the $20 Gold Piece ^ 12-lb. Fruit Cake 8»lb. Fruit Cake , on Saturday, Dec. , |f - Prizes will be distributed Dec. Si -- Save your coupons Open Until 11 a. m. Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) Marshall's Green Street McHenry