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Never Is a Long Word Phone 644 By ROSE MEREDITH (Copyright.) 4 " 1 ** * "• ^ •% ** v " ' " • • -Mi l:.- Aran. 3, »» -w > ijp v 11 FRANCE HAS WORST HOOD IN CENTURY Pickford' ,i- Douglas Fatfbanlci . Ifj. In an adaption of ^ Shakespeare's ; * ^f-/U /'^TAMING OF THB { SHREW" **' Oomedy, News and Coilortone ^0 Revue fcATUBDA* Matinee at 2:30 George Bancroft in his est picture '*TER MIGHTY'^ Comedy, Hews, Fabler" Matinee--"Tarsen the Tiger -- ftllT HY not?"demanded J!m Blake, ' VV when Dorothy Lane refused to marry him after she had worn tola ring for two happy years. "Is there somebody else?" v "No--that is, not exactly," she blushed furiously, "bat one's Ideas change, Jim--" "Right." declared Jim crisply, "and I am glad you hare changed your mind now, and not waited until after we were married.** "I knew you would feel that way," she salJ, relieved, and drawing off the modest diamond she was wearing, she proffered it. "I am sorry, Jim,** she said gently. "What for?" Be eyed her, nothing loverlike In his attitude. "Sorry it has ended this way--" "Thai Is op to you, Dorothy." ^ "Here Is fhe ring, Jim." Be looked at it for a moment, hesitating ; then he accepted tt and slipped It Into a pocket. "If you doirt want It--of course I may give it to sqme one else--some day.** "No nice girl would want to wear SUNDAY | Continuous 2 to ^ Uffrmi fCONRAD NAGEL Comedy, News, Cartoon Vit&phone Acts and •*.' h' MONDAY-TUESDAY M. 1 fit I**}7 A TALKING PICTURE. OF THE GREAT PLAY • ONE YEAR on BROADWAY; TEN YEARS im the Conntry^ And Note*,* Am AU Talker ...With the. Power... AO the Suspense' ... . AU the Heart-Throbs... AU the Dramatic Smash Which Set the Nation Talking. • ring that was bought for another.' Beautiful Southland Swept by Deluge. Washington, D. C.--France's worst flood In a century or more, which drowned scores of people, swept away Tillages and bridges' many hundreds of years old, destroyed vineyards, and put hundreds of square miles of farming land under water, has been centered In the Gascony, Midi and Lan- ^juedoc regions Just north of the east- YOUlL never foroet it y 3. u . • • • - • - ^6 Added Attractions • ' WEDNESDAY Mary Duncan, Charles Farrell "CITY GIRL" Tinne--4 Star Picture Breathless drama and subtle contrasts in a heart stirring picture that pulsates the heat e. THURSDAY-FRIDAY ifef: R«W**tia| TI . Tlie forest service says that It is ^paver very satisfactory te move trees from the woods. It is better to secure them from nurseries. However, the chances of growth depend on circumstances- If the roots are taken Intact •ad are not exposed to the air and are kept wet, the chances are that the <pM win H»e. • * ^ - V • • # : f IilaaJ of Horror Deril'i island Is located in a group islands called the lies Du Saint, ID JVench Guiana, off the coast of South America. Here la located a French yenal fetation, with administrative headquarters in Be Royale, nearest fhe mainland. To the seaward is the He Du Diable (Devil's island), noteworthy as the prison of Alfred Drey- ,(11, confined there, in 1804-99. It Is lahaMted mainly fey transported lap- There was a tinge of contempt In Dorothy's voice. "No?" queried 31m. "Why bother about whether a ring Is new e* second- hand, wben one does not question lore itself? Have you first love to Offer any other ma«T* "1 may never marry," haughtily. Jim smilec! his nicest smile, thqoKh bis lips w^e white, and' little crtekies came around his Mne eyes. "Never, Dorothy?" "Never! Men are--1m--Impossible.' "Never is a long word," he remarked as he went away. As the door closed after his erect form, Mrs. Lane came Into the room. Dorothy was staring at the door into the ball. x , , "What Is the matter, my dear? Where Is Jim?" t "Gone," said Dorothy, with a stiff little aroile. "I never want to see him •gain!" "Dorothy 1 Never is * long word." "So Jim says." "You are too foolish to quarrel," sighed Mrs. Lane, bending to stir the fire on the hearth. "Has Jim been neglecting you?" ^ "Mercy, no, mother. I Just want to marry him--I cannot make op my mind to settle down as a poor man's wife and work in poverty." "Sow many of them would hare married the man they did if they bad not loved?" "Oh, I don't know, mother." "They all made love matches. Jim is not a poor man. 1 am afraid tbe attentions of Lydia Rockwood's cousin, with bis fine cor and his lavish expenditure of money have quite turned my little girl's head," said Mrs. Lane, slipping bet arm around Dorothy's waist. "Mother \" she protested warmly, bot She did not deny it. "Samuel Rock wood is nice enough, dear, but be is an exceedingly selflsh nan and 1 am afraid his wife would be very unhappy. Perhaps If she lo,ved him very much she might endure blm." "Endure two country houses, s yacht, a place in Florida, any number of motor cars, oceans of clothes P ejaculated 'Dorothy. "Weighed against the great love of a rising young architect." countered ber mother dryly. Then she added in a speculative tone, "There may be some truth in what Mrs. Curtis told me this morning. I hardly believed it, and that Is why 1 was anxious about Jim." "Why--what did Mrs. Curtis say? "Nothing much, only that they admired Jim so much, and they were glad that Violet seemed to appreciate him; she insists upon Including him In all their invitations. 1 don't believe they know about your engagement.*" "It ta broken. But, mother, Violet Curtis has said she would never marry a poor man, and she could marry almost any one--she is so lovely--" •he paused. "Perhaps she has changed her mind, dear. Anyway, tt Is all right now for poor Jim. He is free, you say? But he might Dot change very readily--or forget, for he is eo devoted to yon. dear child." "Don't mother--1 sent him away P "Not your heart--that did not send him away." "He Is gone." Oor«tfhy*s voice was frightened now, and she clutched ber mother's arm. "It is a relief to you, Dorothy, dear?" The girl bowed her bead and cried softly. "1 thought so, but somehow, it geems lonesome without him. I told blm to go away--that I never wanted to see him again 1 Or something like that--perhaps I said 1 would never vtnarry. I said *never,' anyway." "Forever is a better word. Dorothy," «aid Jim's dear voice from the door- .way. "I made up my mind that you couldn't send me away like that, and Ibo 1 came back, and 1 am going to jstay forever and ever." By that time Mrs. Lane had slipped out of the room, jand Jim hao drawn Dorothy down to _a low seat before the Are. "Dolly, will you tie my suburban wife?" be whispered. "Poor and happy as the day Is long? Will your "Forever and ever I" dedare& othy enthusiastically. ^ *"*' ' < TorribUI A poet writes In and tells as that ho gets op In the middle of the night when be can't sleep and writes his poetry. We have always contend J f {psomnla Is an awful thing. ern Pyrenees mountains in southerp France. This country and its life under ordinary conditions is "described in a bulletin from the Washington, D. C., headquarters of the National Geographic society based on a communication to the society from Melville Chater who traveled across the region of the recent floods, through the Lateral and Midi canals, in a canoe. Molssac, Where Lot* Was Heavy.. Mr. Chater writes thus of Molssac where a breaking dam caused the death of J50 persons and destroyed a large part of the town. "We came to Molssac through a pretty countryside of baymaking scenes and red-roofed farmhouses. Here the sinuous canal hardly permitted ev«i a canoe to squeeze between- the monster barges pyramided with wine tuns for Bordeaux, <he western Midi's wine center. "Surely it was by a sheer prodigality of the religious art impulse that Molssac, a mere rustic townlet, became dowered with Twelfth century cloisters which rival any in France! Their column capital^, graven with many a scene in which popes and cardinals figure, constitute a veritable church history in stone. "Long before we gained the Canal du Midi at Toulouse we had learned how vividly the French for 'midday' describes Pyrenean France. One's abiding recollections of the Midi are of the midday--withering heat, whitish, fast-shuttered houses, whitish roads, dust-blanched fields and foliage-- all under a cloudless, turquoise sky whose fires light the peasant** bedtime hour. "At Toulouse we left the Lateral canal and entered the moch older' CamO-dii Midi. The Canal du Midi Is np* only an important commerce carer; it Is aufong the most beautiful French waterways. Immediately don'^"beyond Toulouse we found ourselves floating through a series of woodland vistas, a ceaseless interplay of lights, shadows and reflections, that changed with each turn of this endlessly twisting stream. "Soon we left Gascony behind and were well into Languedoc. In the neat, measured-out countryside through which we were passing, the day's work began at gray 5 o'clock. Then the first barge locks through, old crones marshal regiments of geese, and snowwhite oxen drink at the canal side. At sweltering noon the clatter of the American baling machine ceases, men put cabbage leaves in their bats, and the oxen stand flank deep In the backwater. "Field work and locking through continue until 8 o'clock. Then there Is an hour of mandolin tinkling and beer drinking in the canal-side cafe whose placard begs 'tbe amiable clientele to wish well to regulate the consommatlons before departing.' And so to bed. Such Is life in tbe back-doors country. Loveliest Stretch. "Beyond Carcassonne lay the canal's loveliest stretch, with the Black mountain's peaks rising higher and nearer, day by day, as we approached the foothills of the Pyrenees. "From Carcassonne to Besiers the scene resembled one continuous vineyard 60 miles long. ^ "Finally our trip came to an end at Oette on the Mediterranean where hotel-fringed quays and busy ship Basins lent a Venetian air to the scene. It was evening and we watched the sun Mnk over the Midi. "The Midi! It is France's sunburned southland whose fires coursed in the veins of Bernard de Panassac, highwayman and troubadour; of daredevil d'Artagnan ; of Cyrano de Bergerac, duelist-poet supreme; of dashing Richard l'lantagenet, the most meridional of England's kings. It is France's music-loving, bullfighting southland, heady as its own wines, whose ragged revolutionaries marching into Paris first popularized the 'Marseillaise.' "Quick loves, quick hates, quick laughter--of such is the Midi, the Land of the Midday Sun." PARROT ALMOST Rt|NS QUARANTINE Pgw M Cmt, but Makes Uafartonate Slip. >f- "• • -'1 -'l • York.--A hundred and Mlltlf parrots from Nicaragua expended all the riches of their limited vocabularies here when they were ordered by the public health officials to spend thirty days at Hoffman's island under observation for signs of parrot fever. One bird, more talented than the others, almost got ashore by posing as a kitten, but at the last moment betrayed himself by directing an uncomplimentary epithet at one of the ship's officers. All the birds came In on the Colombia of the Panama Mail line, which arrived from San Francisco after stopping at Central American ports to collect the parrots, seven macaws, two toucans and fifty ring-tailed monkeys. Mrs. Margaret Daly, a stewardess, also had a parrot and she wanted badly to pet In the city. She knew that It would be suspected of carrying psittacosis, but she was morally certain the bird was well. So she taught it to meow like a cat and then put it In a wicker cage covered with cloth. "What's In the cage?" asked • •Wtoms agent. "A kitten," she said. . . ' ' "Meow!" said the parrot In coallrtnation. "Meeeeeteow!" . Then through a chink tt caofht sight of a ship's officer. "Hello, you " -- Yellowstone Park Elk Change Place of Abode Yellowstone Park.--One hundred and ten American elk, born and reared In Yellowstone National park, have changed their permanent place of abode and will be listed under different localities when the census enumerators for 1930 come around. The rangers in Yellowstone National park lately have been busy filling orders for these Wapiti, as they were known to the Indians, and shipments have been made to various parts of the country. Three carloads, two consisting of thirty animals each and one of thirty-one, were sent to the Izaak Walton league at Moscow, Idaho, for release at Bovill, Idaho; the Izaak Wfclton league at Dayton, Wash., for distribution in that locality; and to R. Nadeau, Saugus, Calif., to roam the hills In the vicinity of his ranch In the southern part of the state. it Jovially remarked. "What kind of a kitten Is that, *nyway?" said the Inspector. He tore off the cloth around the cage. "Hoffman's Island for you, fellow,' he said. - "Meow," said the parrot. There was considerable debate between Inspector James Duffy and Deputy Surveyor of Customs John Taylor as to the statuii of the seven macaws and the two toucans. They were finally admitted when Dr. Lee Craseail, representing the Department of Agriculture, said they were not psittacosis carriers. Hone Tutrarintloa" Raw milk brought to a boil is not, correctly speaking, pasteurized milk. However, that Is about as well as can be done In the home, since the household equipment does not permit the milk to be boiled any length of time without impairing the flavor or scorching it. What'* hi • HUM? "There's nothing In. a same,* seems to fit New York's newspapers . well. ^It's first "morning" paper comes ,j out at U o'clock the evening before, and the first "evening" paper Is out • at 5 o'clock in the morning. Just , ' transposing the names would fix things all right--Capper's Weekly. WaUs of Water Will Protect Gotham Vault New York.--Walls of water through which cracksmen In time of peace or enemies In time of war could only penetrate by the use of submarine apparatus will surround the great vault of the Irving Trust company at its new headquarters at 1 Wall street. This remarkable protective feature will be supplemental to ad elaborate system of mechanical, chemical, and electrical safeguards In the second largest vault in the city and the third largest In the world. Only the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve bank and the Bank of England are larger than the treasure house In the hew Irving Trust home. x Preparations are now well advanced for the Installation of the three-story vault. It will rest on foundations cut into solid rock and will occupy almost the entire block front along Wall street, between Broadway and New street, with a depth from front to rear of 40 feet. The bottom of the vault will be S9 feet below Broadway, well below sea level. It Is this feature that made possible the water wall, regarded as the last word In vault protection. The only way by which the outside of the vault may be reached when the building is finished and the vault sides flooded. Is by an elaborate system of air locks and pumps such as tunnel workers under the river ose. Census Shows Portuguese Women Are in Majority Lisbon.--The latest census of tbe Portuguese population shows that there are 321,855 more women than men In Portugal. The excess of fimale over male population has been s regular feature of Portuguese vital statistics, wfth tha preponderance in* creasing not only as the normal population growth increased the difference in absolute numbers, but also increasing in proportion to the relative niuttbers of the two sexes. Work of the Langs The average adult breathes 15^S 18 Hen Lays Eggs With Two and Three Yolks East Orange, N. J.--Omnibus eggs are the usual thing with a hen owned by Mrs. George Fyre here. The hen lays eggs three Inches long and almost two Inches In diameter with two and three yolks. One egg hatched Siamese twin chicks that sodn died. French woman Has Slept 100 Years in Same House Saint Omer. -- Mme. Constantlne Becu, widow for 00 years, celebrated her centenary several days ago with • wine party to which she invited her neighbors. Madame Becu has an unusual record, having been born In the house in which she now lives. In 100 yea re she has never slept outside of that house one time. Hears It's Triplets; , Pa Takes a Holiday XBOxville, Tenn.--"It's a girl Manning M. Stinnett, blacksmith, heard the words at his shop near Townsend, Tenn., and started for home. On the way another runner met him and announced: "It's two girls 1" Stinnett quickeoed his steps. Half way home a third messenger greeted him with: "It's two girla and a boy!" Stinnett then fcroke Into a run and verified the report of triplets, four pounds each. Stinnett knocked off work for the rest of the day. Airplanes Win in Races With Bilds Tacoma, Wash. -- Airplanes can beat birds of all kinds at speed. Several government aviators arriving at the Fort Lew- Is airfield report races with migratory species of birds, with wild ducks keeping up the highest velocity, flying an average of 60 miles per hour Herons'fend ravens overtaken by the army planes were traveling less than 30 miles per hour. A flock of crows with the higher altitude to aid were making 40 miles. A number of unidentified birds in northern California were flying thousands of feet above the planes. Birds in trees on hearing the approach of airplanes generally take flight in the same direction and are easily overtaken by the aviators. Chocolate la the Qlet > Chocolate for eating la comparatively a modern development. As a beverage It has been used since the discovery of America. The Aztecs Biade a cold, frothy drink from cacao beans. It is only since 1700, however, that milk bss beep need In preparing tbe drink. Find Japanese Beetle Causes Damage in U. S. Washington, D. C.--The Japanese beetle thus far has Iteen primarily a pest of fruits and ornamental plants, although lately it has shown a tendency to damage some of the staple crops, a report summarizing the activities of the insect for 1929 said. The damage of crops from the pest thus far has been serious only when the beetles have become very numerous. The injuries to economic plants have been local In occurrence even to the individual plants which are attacked., owing to the gregarious habits if die •dult beetles. • - 3^ . ^ Dime Worth $8 Chicago.--Officials of the Sunday Evening club announced their thanks, to the unknown churchgoer who dropped a thin dime Into the collection plate. The offlrtals discovered that the dime was minted In 1867, ani le valued at $5 by coin collectors. In case you haven't tried it, we wan yon that you won't make much of a hit with a woman by telling her that she can get more results from red flannel underwear than from a new for osat.--Fort Wayne News-Senttaat. Am4 Got BwpoJ "Stop, Look and Listen" is all right, but many a fellow gets bumped as be •tops to hwk.f Pes Capital. AtampWic At s height of 45 miles, it is calculated that hydrogen composes 50 per cent of the atmosphere; at 60 miles, 96 per cent and" at W miles, over W% per cent. Uatvonity Orgaaixatioa ^ Americnn Association of versifies was organized In 1900 for the purpose of considering matters of common, interest relating to graduate * « d i , * * . >• < J you can go yourself Send your voice I No other form of message is so personal, direct and enjoyable as a telephone conversation. 4 By prearranging with distant friends--or your folks or children away at school--you can telephone at 9 set time when they will be waiting. This enables you to take advantage of the low station-to-station rates. Some persons have a certain time each week for these pleasant telephone visits, f Dont let a hundred miles or so separate you from an old friend when Long Distance is so Qtffck. Clear and Inexpensive I Ml tines Reach Everywhere TRAVEL VIA LAKE ERIE to Niagara Falls, Eastern Mid Canadian iNrfats TBTTHEC& B LINE be your host for * delightful, tcfrcshii* atftt'safe I . between Cleveland and Buffalo or to Port Stanley, tan. Every crtmfarr of a modern hotel •waits you. Autos carried. CLEVELAND-BUFFALO DIVISION DO _ Fare $5.00 One Way; #8.50 Roand TUp. Auto Rate S&.50 mad up. CXXVELAND-PORT STANUET, CANADIAN DIVISION Steamer '.eives Cleveland midm| Poet Stanley 6:00 a.m. Returning, 4:3C p. m., arriving Cleveland 9~)0 p. a. juae 20th to September 6th. Bare $3-00 One Wiy; $' OC Roand Tlfpw Auto Rate #4.50 and sp. Vriu/M t. n foldtr jndAnrr Map. fordtuiu :n COB Line Tn&ngU, Crrcts f mnd AU E.xptirre T im, aho 19.i0 CrmtM dt Luxt to ClitMgo. THB CLEVELAND AND BUFFALO TRANSIT T Notice To the Our> representative, Mr» William Sorenson, will be in McHenry and vicinity every Monday tog solicit your orders. G|We take this opportunity to* thank the customers who: patronized us the past few years indirectly. Write or phone 84 at our ex- •M Bttrflngteil, Wlis. I ,VE-^ On the job 1 To the Voters: The office of County Treasurer requires a man of Experienci ' Sole Interest la Duties Harry F. Peteit, deputy county treasurer, has all these qualifications /l* tttlNOlS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY •ILL SYSTEM One Policy One System v. !• • n . ' Universal Service : - -it' , -i When a wise employer trains a man at a nominal salary fayears, does he throw that man out of a job and }ire anotfcer he must train all over again? v The tax payers of McHenry County are the employers choose their county officials and they have trained Harry F. Fstoit for this important office of County Treasurer. As the tax payers are paying a salary of $2,500 a year for this office and as the increasing duties of the office require a fall time official, th< logical man for the position is Harry F. Peteit who has been trained for the position, who has had four years experience ia the office, and who has no other outside business interests. If elected, Mr. Peteit will be on the job to serve anyone who has business with the County Treasurer and will he ready to assist and keep in constant touch with the Board of Supervisors at all times. , Vr'Vfk'"' 'i# 'i ' &rrtin l Ni i" vk"aiiaiid