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THE H'HKKST PLAIKDEALKB, THUE8DAY, AUGUST 8, 1929 DIM CANDLE LIGHT AND JUMPY NERVES FROGS AND DUCKS When you hear that big frog down |§n the meadow send oat his challenge -J|t dusk, and almost immediately have About ten others join in the Bull Frog Chorus, you jnay think there are at. ileast a thousand frogs as big as diner plates down there--but remember hat a few frogs can make a lot of noise. Probably you enjoy hearing them, r probably you prefer to eat them, ut in any event they are interestcreatures which are now. protectin many states. Some states don't allow the Use of J»rtificiaal lights in catching frogs, ' but fishing for frogs with special ^ attractive baits dangled before their ^jpreen noses is good fun, even though • you may not catch many frogs. And X;"'.••••'^he little 22-calibre rifle in the hands r " '*of an expert is a lot of fun in frog '(J, ^hunting. ' y •' * , Many folks have sought to make - fortunes raising frogs, but frogs are |f 4:-^: Jcannibals, and comparatively few t. V*r?pave pueceeded. Frogs don't confine S^'ftheir diet to insects and other frogs, - ^ • but sometimes they actually destroy " young ducks. Turtles, large bass, nd pike have often been accused of illing young ducks, but this summer Dr. T. Gilbert Pearson, President of the National Audubon Societies, wrote to Seth E. Gordon, Conservation Director of the Izaak Walton Xeague, Chicago, as follows: '.'Yesterday (June 16, 1929) at our <Camp Fire Club we caught a bullfrog just when he grabbed and -caught one of our baby ducks. We think we have now discovered what probably becomes of nearly all the young mallards hatched on our little lake." Mr. Gordon foolishly told more "than one hundred thousand members of the Izaak Walton League through the columns of OUTDOOR AMERI- •CA, the official publication of the Xeague, about the duck-eating frogs on the Camp Fire Club Lake. Then the trouble started. One enthusiastic frog hunter wrote in and said, "I have been searching for years for a place where the frogs are big enough to swallow a live •duckling, and that sounds like the place I have been dreaming about. -Just tell me the name of the railroad station nearest that lake and I will soon stop some of those mammoth frogs." The way he said it indicated that the frog story was a joke, but Gordon insists he has Dr. Pearson's letter for it, and that the Doctor is a man of unquestioned truth and veracity. But another correspondent was still more skeptical. He said, "If those frogs are as big as you say; I think they should be saved for seed. They are too rare to let them be killed. They must be saved to produce giant frog legs for the ^/people of America." Well, that was his idea of conservation. He didn't \appreciate frog k music, or else he would have inquired about the distance they could be heard and not have worried about their size when they reached the ta- Exptain the Appearahcm oi Most "Specters,** England is well supplied With good ghost stories, and the list is constantly being added to, largely, It is believed, because candles are still extensively used for illumination and the dim light of a candle is very favorable, according to scientists, for producing the condition that leads to seeing things that aren't there, says a writer In Popular Mechanics Magazine. Ghosts have always had one drawback from the standpoint of careful investigation--they are usually seen by people who don't want to see them, and almost never by persons who go looking for them. There is a simple explanation for that, and for the ghosts that are heard as well as those that are seen. The visible ghosts, scientific investigators declare, exist only In the eye of the beholder, and the audible ones in his ear. Everybody, even .those who have never claimed to have seen a ghost, has lain awake at night and heard queer sounds, abnormally loud, even though they would have been Inaudible to anyone else, because they existed only in the hearer's own ear. The sounds were made by blood pulsing through the veins of the ear. Picked up by the eardrutn, which amplifies them just as a radio receiver amplifies an incoming signal, the ear sounds, heard in moments of apprehension or nervousness, can easily be Imagined tq be the stealthy steps of a burglar or the movements of a more ghostly visitor, particularly If one is sleeping in a centuries-old castle well supplied with ghostly legends. As for the ghosts that are seen, they are classified medically a& Purklnje Images or Sanson specters, both named after their discoverers, and it is in seeing them that the weak light from a candle plays such an Important part. Purklnje discovered that under certain conditions the blood vessels In the retina, that film at the back of the eye which Is directly connected with the nerVe leading to the brain and which really sees the Image focused on It by the eye lens, could produce Images of Its own. To do that, though, a dim light Is necessary, as a bright illumination furnishes so much light that the blood vessels do not cast their shadowy reflections. It Is as when one meets an approaching automobile at night. If the car has bright lights on, that flood of light blinds the eye, whereas If the dimmers are turned on, the retina is ableto distinguish all the details of the roadway clearly. Given a dim candle flame and a condition of nervousness, grief, or even Indigestion, it isn't hard to Imagine that you are seeing images of ghostly figures, particularly as they appear to be almost transparent, and jaeva and shift position as you move. : Hiram. L Director Rodney Brandon, of the state department of public welfare, has announced the appointment of Dr. Daniel T. Cloud, superintendent of the state school for the deaf at Olathe, Kan., as managing officer of the state school for the jdeaf at Jacksonville. Doctor Cloud, who will assume his duties August 17, succeeds Frank D. Whipp, who has been named superintendent of prisonk In a statement issued following the formal announcement Governor Emmerson said that the deaf of the state had urged that he appoint an educator with special training and experience in the teaching of the deaf. "What they want done at that school." said Governor Emmerson, "is what I want done and what I am sure the people of Illinois want done./ I want it made the leading institution for the education of the deaf in the United States. I be. lieve that this ideal requires a technically trained man. They argt very scarce. Our own state has not offered the man who fills the requirements and I have approved the recommendation of the state association of the deaf and the sta'te department of public welfare. Dr. Daniel T. Cloud, superintendent of the State School for the Deaf at Olathe, Kan." "We are going to make SpMngfield just as dry as possible during the state fair," is the declaration of Deputy ProhibitlM^ ^oilQistrfrtor E a t o n . . . . . x . Scarcely a tnonth after ttifc Tpfftslature adjourned, bound volumes of the laws enacted by the Fifty-sixth general assembly were put into the mails. The printed session laws were compiled by the index department of Sec retary of State William J. Stratton's office. Lewis Vogel is head of the index department. The first mailings go to members of the legislature, jurists and all county officers. All other copies are sent on request only. Governor Louis Emmerson has announced the appointments of James A. White, Murphysboro, as warden of Chester penitentiary and of C. J. Metzger, Shobonier, Fayette county, as superintendent of the Illinois state farm at Vandalia. The appointments were effective July 31. Attorney General Carlstron has ruled that barbers plying their trade on Inter-state trains must first have a state license, secured from the department of trade and registration. N liartied Elderly Wives Among well known men wV ase wives were older than thejr were are the following: Josephine was older than Napoleon; Catherine of Aragon was older than Henry VIII; Mary Stuart was older than Francis 11 of France; Jenny Lind was older than Otto Goldschmldt; Disraeli's wife was his elder. Their Decision "How Is it going, fellers?" softly asked Jig Fiddlln of Clapboard Springs, who had shinned up thi lightning rod and was Mow peeping in at a window of 4the jury room In Tumlinvllle. "Six for fonvlctlon and six lor ac- 4Uittal," replied the foreman of the jury sitting in the case of Lafe Tudd of Booger Holler, charged with hog stealing. "Well, I just thought Td let yoa know that there's a bunch of the prisoner's kin hid back yur in the timber that say If he's found guilty they'll come over and shoot up the whole bltamed court, and-^" "Not guilty!" cried the Jury In sm> voice.--Kansas City Star. . „ Interest in state circles centers la the rebuilding plans for the Lincoln monument at Springfield. Plans' and specifications for the work have be%n completed and bids will be asked within the next 10 days. Damage to the shaft of the monument through freezing has made It necessary to make extensive repairs on this part of the monument. When the matter was called to the attention of Governor Louis L. Emmerson, he expressed the wish that the work go even farther and that the interior of the monument be rebuilt to give the tomb a setting fitting to the memory of the Great Emancipator. The sarcophagus will be rebuilt and the interior of the tomb altered so that visitors may view the burial place of the martyred president without the necessity of first entering the reception room and then going outside and peering through a small iron door. The state has received many letters from prominent men and women of the nation expressing congratulations at the decision to reconstruct the monument into s more suitable resting place for Illinois' Civil w&r President. ... Homer £ Tice, president of the ffilv nols State fair advisory board, "addressing the Springfield Lions' club at a recent mid-day luncheon, urged cooperation on the part of industry and commerce to bring about agricultural advancement He spoke particularly of the desirability of team work in conducting successfully the Illinois State fair. "It is the policy of this administration," he stated, "to conduct this enterprise along such lines as will best serve to build a better agricultural Illinois. The annual exposition 'of, by and for the people' can attain its worthy objective only through the united efforts of the ones who are the most concerned--the families on the farms of Illinois." : ~ AUDITOR'S NOTICE * STATE OF ILLINOIS 1 ' * . OFFICE OF AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS The undersigned Auditor of Public Accounts hereby gives notice that he has appointed Theodore Hamer of Woodstock, McHenry County, Illinois, Receiver of the CITIZENS STATE BANK OF M7HENRY, McHenry County, Illinois, and that the said Theodore Hamer has given bond and is the qualified and acting Receiver of said bank. All persons having claims against said bank are hereby notified and requested to present the same to said Receiver forthwith and to make legal proof thereof. All persons indebted to said bank are requested to make immediate payment to said Receiver. Xjj-^ Dated this 17th day of July* A. D. 1929. , v OSCAR NELSON, - Auditor of Public Accounts, i..;^,v . SUt# HliBqis Prehistoric RwUarut Ho doubt that archeologist la the Near East who found blmself In a prehistoric restaurant surprised the patrons. They probably mistook him tor the waiter bringing the second cop of coffee.--Yakima Morning Herald. Real Geld D«*t « Paiat Real gold dust is one of the m* terials usqd by an artist wbo special* Izes in miniature paintings, some of which measure only half an inch across, in executing these be works with a jeweler's magnifying glass; \iiiAA'i mi • Robert L. Conn, deputy clerk of the Supreme court, spoke at a recent meeting of the Springfield rotary on cpurt practice and told of a number of cases brought to the Supreme court, Including some of many years ago dealing with slavery The division of dairy husbandry of the Illinois department of agriculture, now under tlfle direct supervision of Frank Channlng, of Elgin, is making preparations for an educational exhibit to be conducted in the dairy products exposition building during the Illinois State fair, August 17-24. The exhibit will feature two concrete dairy farm buildings--a model dairy barn and a milk house. Both buildings will be one-fourth actual size, and will show the details of construction so clearly that any handy farm mechanic can reproduce them on his farm. Lived Secluded Lives The Misses Bird, after reaching the ages of seventy and seventy-four, forsook the even tenor of their lives In Electric Mills, Miss., and went to town for the first time. These two have spent their entire lives within 15 mUea of Kemper, their county seat, but had never gone there. They were filled with awe at the sight of the courthouse, and announced In one voice that It was the prettiest building they had ever seen. Then, although they said they had enjoyed their outing, they ware glad to turn their steps back toward their hills.--Indianapolis New*. For SATURDAY And MONDAY, Aug. 10 and %% St. DENNIS CUPS AND SAUCERS, If l QG* Per dozen h A » O D 19c THIN BLOWN TUMBLERS ope-half dozen ^ - BftMjWli ; STONE WARE ICE WATER PITCHERS each THREE ONE-POUND PEGS. REINA MACARONI, for .. ' Hill Gees, Island Appears How an extensive wooded hill wai swallowed up in a hoof-shaped open Ing of the earth, 3,500 feet long, nortl of the Claro river near Guaico, Chile has been reported. Peasants workin) there at the time say they were terrl fled by an accompanying loud noise ai of an earthquake. Panic-stricken, thej fled toward the river, out of whicl they were surprised to see appear ai island $00 feet long and 90 feet wide as though the river bed had beei raised by a dynamite explosion. Th« space between '.he river and the hil was unchanged except for the raddei appearance of a few small Assures. Walter Miller, who for a number of years has been chief clerk of the automobile department of the secretary of state's office, is in charge of the administration of the oil inspection law, which went Into effect simultaneously with the gasoline tax Ww on August 1. Under this act all authority over oil inspection passes from the cities to the state department of trade and commerce. sz than any other six of equally tow price PO^ITlAC BK 7*" ^^teooocrr or gcwal motobs M? p--Mm m tLP When you drive the Pontine Big Si* and actually experience its exclusive performance qualities--it's easy to understand why thousands of buyers are turning to this outstanding General Motors product! Big Sb, $74S to •. k fWH «f, Mick., pint 4»li»mr3' chmrgmm. Bumf •, •ra, tpriitg eoMra and aftacfc ( Mtitn r«|itlar ffiupiiMnl mt alight mxtrm Ml. Cwm nl Motors Tim* m--t rimm arailatilra* minimum "»'*• , wmm--* . (JMaUar the pHiw aswwll a* Mm Urt prfe* eomparing tutomobile Oftkland-Pontiac d«liver«d i jurPw*** Mly rciaiMNiaUe chgrgM for wbMK.tiVi.. I 45 /. a. fc. fontiaf. Miefc. $|jp down payment ia low --and a few dollars a •Math tajke owe rf the •rtM InetaJ® « fflnn-- Cobm Ia to sn / how much more Pontiac Big Si* offer*---and bring your present car for oar 0m»ter 1r» More EeommmUeoi • Smoother • biorm Pi !•* • • •*y Rauen Motor Sales 23- The department of public works and buildings may legally make a refund under the state aM law to Kane county to repay it for building sections of Route 22 through Geneva and Batavia, since these sections connected with or completed a state aid road when originally built. Attorney Geueral £arl8troM has advised highway officials. Beardstown held a three-day celebration to mark the anniversary of her one hundredth year. A pageant, employing a cast »f 500, and depicting every historic event of importance to -Beardstown, was given each evening Of the celebration. As one episode, gn experienced cast from Chandler- •ille presented the famous "Duff" Armstrong murder trial In which Abraham Lincoln successfully defended the accused. ^ Macoupin county's and Carllnville's Vne hundredth anniversary celebration opened with the unveiling of a tablet on the place where Abraham Lincoln stood to give a campaign address when he ran for President of the United States. The monument on Which this bronze tablet is placed is a boulder weighing 7,000 pounds, Which was unearthed In the new state -route built Just west of Wilsonville In 1928., • Governor Emmerson has announced the resignation of F. EL O'Bryant, assistant director of trade and cornpierce. which took effect July 31. Mr. D'Bryant's home is at Ashley. More"than half of the men killed In llinots mines are Injured fatally by !alls of the roof or sides underground, according to the state's 1928 annual report. Oat of 139 deaths la th* ysar, falls cost the lives of 72. More than 2,500 farmers of the state ^luring 1928 made use of the simple farm accounting service developed by the farm organization and management department of the college of Agriculture of. the University of Illitiois. R. R. Hudelson, extension specialist of the department, reports. Dr. H. N. Heflin. Kewanee, a member of the Illinois Tuberculosis association, was in Springfield recently and was Informed of his appointment ms one of the lecturers at the health show at the state fair. The records of the auditor of Public Accounts, Oscar Nelson, show that $110,732,419.86 was ordered Into the state treasury during the fiscal year ending .Tune 30, 1929. Of this amount $10,549,063.82 was received on account of direct property taxes. Other Important sources of revenue were bonds sold, inheritances, corporations, insurance companies, auto licenses, etc. When the state gas tax law and the state oil inspection law became effective August 1, only three measures passed by the Fifty-sixth general assembly and approved by the governor remained unenacted. These are th4, conservation bond Issue bill an<J th4. women on juries bills, subject to ap* proval of the voters at the next gen* eral election, and the pneumafcte bill, effective after July 1, 193l| • Fisherman's Lucky Find A- note which former Mayor Allen EL Bragg, of IMttsfleld, Mass., Inclosed in a bottle together with about $1 in small change and £hrew Into the bay of Biscay has been answered by a fisherman of humble circumstances In Prance. In his reply the fisherman says: "I found It near the harbor of Mortals, a town not far from Brest on the coast of Prance. I thank you for the money I found in tills letter. I am a poor fisherman and have four children and the money will help me very Btuch." QUAKER PUFFED WHKAf two pkgs. for,.. ; JELLO Three 1... PIIfLSBURY'&l CAKJ! FLOUR Large pkf. . . -25c MINUTE TAPIOCA > Two pkgs. I iitiri'i iWiii 29c 25c AMERICAN FAMILY SOAP FLAKES Two pkgi. LADIES' RAYON H0SIERYlatest shades, per pair WOOLEN BATHING SUITS -ThesMLSOU^ 20C One-Hall Price DRESS GINGHAMS, BEST QUALITY' per yard *• " ' / - 7 - : ' v ' • • K0TEX Two pkgs. foif One hundred and two girls have enrolled for the Illinois State Fair school of domestic science, to open in the Women's building on the grounds August 9 and to continue until the close of the exposition, August 24. Dr. Andy Hall, director of the state department of public health, has detailed Dr. Elizabeth Ball as resident physician for the school. Mrs.x Anita Shamel, who will superintend the in^ stitution, states, "The plans for the 1929 girls' school are broader than for former sessions In that they embrace attention to physical as well as mental and social development." The Egyptiau Club of Illinois, an as* sociation of former residents of souths ern Illinois, will bold Its annual picnic In Washington park, Springfield, en September L Prank T. Sheets, chief highway ei gineer, has left Springfield for Rio df Janeiro, where he wlH attend the Pan- American Road conference by appoint* ment of President Hoover. Although not commonly thought of as an oil producing state Illinois has 13,547 oil and gas wells, employing 88 operators and 1,509 men, according to the annual report of Director A D. Lewis of the state department of mines and minerals. These wells produced a total of 5,225,515 barrels of oil snd 1.973,159 cubic feet of gas. Building operations of the state of Illinois are furnishing work to hundreds of men in different sections of the state. C. Herrick Hammond, state supervising architect, reports that the present month sees the state at the helghtb of an especially busy boll# Ins year. ix* , ; 1 I m ^ , * 4 PLENTY of CAPABLE HELP far your HOME LAUNDRY The weekly health report issued by Dr. Andy Hallk director of the state department of health, on July 2IL. showed a decrease In contagious diseases In the down state. There were 318 cases of whooping cough. Bwimiwt of DITIIH According to scientists, the automatic telephone exchange is the braln- 1st of all mechanical devices. The remarkable assemblage of apparatus Sorts out tbe one telephone line desired from millions of others whenever the .proper series of numbers are turned on the dial. n *• Sjjk ' ' • ------• l^f'ICake Work for Theswelvea Hen spoil women, and then try to reform them.--E. W. Howe's Monthly. Boston's Grand Coacerft The Grand Musical Peace Jubilee concert In which 10,371 voices and 1(- 004 musical Instruments, with additional anvils and bells, etc, took part was held June 15, 1869, in the city at Greatness Aostly Bhf The great are only great because ws carry them on our shoulders; when ws throw them off they sprawl on U* ground.--Montandr* / The automatic storage type water / heater sup- L Plic* ho« f water for V . every house- • hold need* V The heater V. is efficient, *^| and the well-built storage tank keeps the water hot for a long period. f run of ww tb« faacst Hotpoirtf WtgaUoQ tank--Electric Installation $149£0 Extra m $ HOT WATER Electric or Gas Table Type *7952 This type attaches to Thor Washer in place of wringer $4950 The ELECTRIC VENTILATOR TAKES OUT THE HEAT The Airmaster draws cooking odor* and heat out of the kitchen and brings in clean, fresh air. Q75 The whole house benefits Easily Installed in Standard Size Window Ar Hotpoint--6 lb. $600 American Beauty--6ht lb. $750 Sunbeam Iron wilk Fireproof Steel Case $850 Federal No Wringing MkiMMr? of cloche* whila dM m Mar b wUriedowt baacti la wuhnt >175 Fddeo-$12S Tfcos--$9925 You may purchase appliances at your I Service Store the convenient "Little by Little" way, for a small additional charge. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OP NQRTH£RN ILLlNOUi M. J. LARK IN. Dist. Mgrl PUBLIC SERVICE CO. of XslIIL Crystal Lake 28i 101 Williams St., Crystal Lake IH. Tel. t , "tM' ; v| -mi z m- f >