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Slfp ^ hl, v mmm - All EX ll HSMBT, ILLINOIS, TMSDAT, 27,1930 Illiterate Greek Rules Cuino ml Deauvifle., > usgal- „&•} fv" *y. ^i*5; fj" •;••:<; 7?* fe'v v ^ iXEMmvme.--What Nicky ""the biggest gambler in' the world," who runs the famous Greek syndicate at present, leaves the Royal hotel around 3:00 la the afternoon wi go to the Deauvllle casino for the day's first aesadaa behind the green tables, his piwiie through the streets •excites more <cnrioslty and excitement than If the president of France •or half a dozen European crowned pleads should happen to go by. It takes a big bribe to one of the casino's liveried bellhops to be allowed *® tiptoe up to the door of the room where "the inner circle" holds Its session to catch a glimpse of the master gpmbler at his work. Ab he sits there at the head of the table he gives the impression of one of these "automatic machines or robots of which scientists have prophesied. His face Is impassive and grouchy even. When he Is playing he talks in Qionosyltables; short, cut phrases In a jj-aw sort of tone as If he had M cold. His movements are so few that the onlooker gets the impression that the man Is just an animated -doll as are shown sometimes In shop windows for advertising purposes. Began as Stable Boy. The fortune that this thirty-se^enjrear- old gambler has managed to accumulate is variously estimated at from 100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 francs. He began life as a stable 'boy near Athens. Then be became .a shopkeeper's assistant, like his famous countryman, Sir Basil Zaharoff, "Europe's mystery man," who once controlled the Monte Caflo gambling concession. Zographos is barely able to .write, but he Is good at figures. When he has found some opponent worthy of him, he plays 10,000 franc stacks ($4,000). He has recently had a solid run of luck, stretching over 30 consecutive nights, when his winnings were seldom less than 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 francs (about $500,000) per night. After he cleaned out ex-King Manad of Portugal; Andre Citroen, the Henry Ford of France, and August Homburg, Parisian banker. In the same evening at Cannes last winter, the only sign of satisfaction he gave was to order a bottle of champagne. He didn't, even smile. A talking film that was taken next night of Nicky .as he faced the Dolly sisters; Gordon Selfridge, the London department store ownec; Jean- Hennessey, the multi-millionaire French brewer, and half a dozen other big players, did -not register one single word spoken toy the Greek master player. Always a Gambler. Se graph os is not Interested In smalT ffy. Only when the croupier announces, "Messieurs, en taille a banque ouverte! Tous les enjeux tenus!" which means the play Is to be with open bank and that any one who desires to venture 5,000,000 or 10,000,- 400 francs on the green cloth will have a chance, the Greek gambler begins to show a little animation. Interviewers have only managed to *et one set of invariably identical phrases out of hiin: "What's the rse of talking?" he says. "I have no secrets. I was born In Greece. I learned French in a Cairo dive, but I can't , write it. I have always gambled. That's why I came to France. I'll go on gambling till my death, I guess. I am like an aviator who does stunts.' Only an accident can stop me." - Wite» Weary of Boas%^ v Begs Fine of Her Own v* CSlcago.--J. p. Sanger bragged so much about the time he was arrested and fined for speeding that his wife grew tired of it. MI insist I'm guilty and I want to be fined," Mrs. Sanger told an amazed justice of the peace when she was arraigned on a charge of running by a stop signal. Tve got to stop that man from bragging somehow," she explained, "and I want a fine all my own. I ran by that light on purpose to prove to him he wasn't the only pebble on the beach." She judge fined her fl and costs. ' . , J Cat Falls on Wire; FWe Towns Are in Darkness " Johannesburg.--A cat endangered one of its nine lives when It fell on • wire at thp Victoria Falls Power company's gerenatlng plant, throwing five towns into darkness and stopping work at 16 gold mines for 45 minutes. Most Dangerous Spots for 3 Shipping Pointed Out - Washington.--Salvage operations to recover gold worth millions in the 8. S. Egypt, sunk off France In a famous graveyard of the sea, revive Interest In wrecks in other waters. Polnte du Raz. off which the Egypt was sunk after a collision. Is one of the most dangerous headlands of France because all ships coming sooth out of the English channel bound for Bordeaux, the Mediterranean, Africa, or Sooth America, must dear Its toothed and hungry rocks. Snared 500 Ships. **It Is to France what the Goodwin sands and the Lizard are to England, and what Nauset beach on Cape Cod, Nantasket beach south of Boston, Nantucket island, and Diamond shoal off Cape Hatteras are to the United States, and King island is to Australia," says a bulletin of the National Geographic society. "Nantucket is credited with snaring 500 ships from the time of its settlement down to 1876." continues the bulletin, "Lighthouses, buoys, light ships, better weather report service. Increased use of motor power, and, now, radio direction finding, have made the death corners' of the sea less dangerous, bat they still exact their toll. •"For 12 hours we passed skeletons of what had once'been ships,' writes Melville Chater In a communication to the National Geographic society describing a motor trip along the hard beach of Hatteras banks, 'blanched •Ictims of the sea and sand, their upstanding ribs resembling files of gravestones, their forests of protruding spikes being the grisly grass of the desertlike expanse. At one point we counted 14 wrecks within 100 yards. Dae to the enormous tonnage of steel hulls Imbedded in the Diamond, there is a magnetic deviation of the compass amounting to 8 degrees.* "Ship Swallower" of Thames "Goodwin sands, a trap lying Just beyond the mouth of the Thames, has long held the title of 'ship swallower,' Innumerable vessels having been bur-' led in Its wastes. Small King island off the Australian coast counts, to date, 40 ships brought to an untimely end on Its shores. "Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and Cape of Good Hope at the end of Africa have villainous reputations among sailors. In the same class fall the rock-cluttered straits off the south end of Japan where typhoons out of the Philippines -sweep whole fleets to destruction. "Each of the world's worst waters has its own peculiarities. Cape Cod and Nantucket are most dangerous in a northeaster when the howling wind tries to drive ships, Europe express lane steamers, coastwise steamers and New England fishing schooners, onto the sandy shores that run at right angles to the direction of the gale. "Cape Hatteras, jutting t&t out into the Atlantic, extends Its shoaP water still farther out. Northeasters blowing contrary to the flow of the Gulf stream build up ever these shoals the highest, steepest waves to be found along the coast." I l l l l l l l l l i n i l l l l l l l l l l t The Wedding Party -**3 By SIDNEY BLAIR - Goldfish Wii Divorce t*m Angeles.--Cruelty to goldfish was asserted by Mrs. Mollie B. Clark, s graduate nurse, In obtaining a divorce from Frank L. Clark. Superior Judge Scott granted the decree. i. >2$ Pays Fine for Dog Killed S Years Ago Liberty, N. T.--Frank Cowles, charged with causing the death of a hunting dog five years ago, jvas fined $60 on his plea of guilty. «The warrant was served only recency. According to police, the dog, owned by Leonard Bulman of Stephenville, was caught In one of Cowles' traps and died of starvation. iiiiM ^ • * • f, \ - * Hm National Bird While most communities protect wild ducks, the bald eagle is shot with Impunity in many districts. Some «ven offer bounties for dead eagles.-- s Home Companion. larriUbla AmUmU Tis major" Is a civil law term used to denote an Inevitable accident-- that is, one-that could not have been avoided by the exercise of care because it Is the result of the operation Family Has Dealt in Cotton for Last 100 Years "New Orleans, La.--When Henry J. Stouse, Jr., withdrew from the partnership firm of Alrey & Stouse here recently the New Orleans cotton business was without a member of the Stouse family for the first time In 100 years and In the history of the New Orleans cotton exchange. Jean Godfrold Stouse, the pioneer member of the family, began cottogi toidlag business here in 1832. ' ' Shoplifter Bites to Make His Getaway El Paso, Texas.--A young Mexican shoplifter bad better be careful he does not come into Jessie Araujo's range of vision. Jessie, a department store clerk, caught the Mexican boy "lifting" articles from her counter. When she seised him he bit her on the arm and made good his escape. ' Driwr Commits Suicide After Killing His Friends Prague.--Killing two of his companions and Injuring twelve others by rounding a curve at too great a speed In a five-ton truck, a driver of the Hoheomauth fire brigade went Immediately to his home tad committed suicide. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo- Newer Wore Herself Out, So Now She's 102 Lynn, Mass. -- Mrs. Harriot Lavlnla Horton Hodges recently observed her one hundred and second birthday at the home of her son, Wlliam Horton Hodges, on Breed street in this city, by holding a reception for many friends as well as greeting several grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. "Asked to what she attributed her long life Mrs. Hodges said: •"Well, you see, I never was very strong, so I never wore myself out." oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Taaey Hob* a Shriae heme of Roger Broke Tanef tit Frederick, Md., ante-bellum Chief Justice of the United States, who gave the oath to Uaeota, Is a ^national shrine . * Hid* and S««k Some one has found that when he boys one shirt he gives employment to SO persons, and 47 of them do nothing but hide pins in the tall.--Ohio • » n i ii i ii n in i hi 11 m 11 (Coprrfrtt.) U ELENA settled down happily into her seat In the special train foit was taking the guests to Phyllis lowing a wedding. It u&ruly seemed possible that she was part of that gay throng--and an Important part, too, a bridesmaid. She'd been In her own little home town ever since last June, when she and Phyllis and the other bridesmaids were graduated from school, and all these other girls had been having such gay times since then--how sweet it was of Phyllis to want her now. They'd been roommates, of course, but Phyllis knew that she hadn't much money, and most girls wouldn't have thought of her! There were gay greetings all about her--"Hello, Sue; I hear you're going to Paris next month. So am I see you on the Rue de la Paix!" "Nanette, did you hear about Madsre? She eloped, my dear, and her father's raving ; says he'll cut her off without a cent" "Oh, well, shell soon get a divorce! Madge will try anything once, even love's young dream," retorted Nannette, dropping into a chair near Helena's. Then, suddenly recognising her, "Oh, hello, Helena. Havent seen you since you used to help me with my themes at school!" Nannette turned her back when the Inspection was over. "Speaking of love's young dream," she remarked, "wait till you see the best man. He's absolutely the best looking thing I ever saw. And with a whole week of parties and things in romantic scenery nhead of us--well, girls, just give me a free hand. I warn you all. I'm going to do my best to land the handsome Daniel." "Is that his namer "Who Is he. Nan?" "What's he like?" "Daniel Gray. He's Just out of West Point a year. I've never met anyone like him. I had luncheon with Phyllis and her best beloved and him when she was buying her trousseau In town, and lost my heart right then." Helena met Daniel Gray that afternoon, but Nannette ran over to him with a tale of the latest joke, and pulled him away before be had much more than acknowledged the Introduction. Helena liked him, liked the nice, steady look In his eyes, his square chin. There was a dance that night, a very gay one. Daniel Gray danced with Helena, and told her a little about his life; he'd been stationed near Chicago this last year, but his regiment was going to the Philippines In just two weeks. "Oh, how wonderful l" cried Helena, her blue eyes gtowlng. She was so small that she had to look up very far to catch the answering gleam in his dark ones. "How happy you most be at the thought of seeing so much of the world." "I am," Daniel Gray answered. "I wouldn't want to stay all my life la the same place." She saw little of him during the next few days. There were polo games between the men and girls-- and she couldn't ride horseback. Nannette could, perfectly. They all went swimming a lot, too, but Helena couldn't swim way out to the raft, as Kannette could. . "Can't you do anything?" cried Nannette that night at dinner, disgustedly. Helena blushed, when everyone turned and looked at her. Then, suddenly, she threw back her head spiritedly. "I can cook and straighten up a house, sew," she said, her voice trembling a little. "And I can make preserves, and play the piano a little, and take care of little children. That's all." "Bravo, Helena!" cried Mr. Ewing. "You're a dear, old-fashioned girl, and I wish Phyllis was going to ma^e John half as good a wife as you'U make the man you marry!" A dreadful thing happened two days later--two lopg days, they were. In which Helena spent most of her time with Mr. Ewing, except for one golden afternoon when Daniel Gray and she went for a long walk together, and talked asy If they'd been friends all their lives: The dreadful thing was that the maid of honor came down with mumps. ' "It's so Inconsiderate of yon!" walled Phyllis. "IX you'd Just had something that dldnt show!" "Well, she dldnt, so pick another maid of honor, Phyl," urged Nannette. "I'm an applicant for the position; In -fact. I insist on having It--the dress will just fit me, and--" ^ "And It will fit Helena, too," told Phyllis, quietly. "I chooee her." So It happened that little Helena walked down the aisle alone just In front of the bride, her lovely blue eyes starry with joy, straight toward where Daniel Gray and the groom waited. And It happened, too, later that evening, that Daniel Gray took her to a secluded corner of the moonlit !«wn. *1 can't help rushing you, Helena, bat--well, I fell In love with you at first sight, and I'm sailing so soon, and HI be so far away from you, for so long--unless you'll go with me, to cook, and straighten up a house--and play the piano a little--won't yoa marry me, please, Helena dear?" Helena didn't answer In words. Bat Daniel found the answer quite under* Btandable and satisfactory. AL That Is Visible jUfOld air Is visible, having the appearance of water with a taaee sf bluing la It. ' Can Not Be Linked Prudence Is a quality Incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively'enlisted in its cause. --Burke. •ii II <• ii wnii' m II mi. in i *' ,u'i"iU!.yw» Ferdag th« Heart a man runs uphill, hlslMart pours blood Into the aorta about seven times as fast as when he sits quietly reading. WILLIAM HODGE IN THE OLD RA8CAL" AT GABUCK William Hodge, for many years one of America's most successful stars, now appearing in his ninth selfauthored play, "The Old Rascal," *t the Garrick Theatre, Chicago, has won the praise of both press and public in Chicago, just as he did in New York last season. "The Old Rascal" as a gay comedydrama and as such a bit different from any of his former plays. The theme is based on a very vital and timely topic and his characters are all representative, true-to-life figures of the hectic present-day era. William Hodge is seen in the role of an ex-judge from a small Western town, having a holiday in New York, away from a nagging wife, who is a sort of Carrie Nation type, and interfering in-laws. Trapped in New York by Mrs. Adams and a pair ot shrewd city lawyers, and embroiled in a blackmail plot, the Judge turns the tables, and»the complications that ensue furnish endless humor- "The Old Rascal" is acknowledged to be the most entertaining and laughprovoking of his.entire output of plays. Supporting Mr. Hodge is an excellent cast including Maud Ream Stover, Donald Kirke. William Balfour, William E. Blake, Edmund Dalby, Gita Zucker, Judith Windsor, Evelyn Piatt, Judson Langill, John Martin and William Vaughan. Mr. Hodge not only wrote the play but directed and produced it as well. The Clficago engagement is at special popular prices every night in the week, with no raise on Saturdays. Sundays or holidays, and with bargain matinees on Wednesday and Saturday. Dumb Animal* in Warfare About 40,000 camels were used In the Palestine campaign during the Worfd war, and the Italians used about 100,000 donkeys in their campaigns. Hamas Sugar Reserve A human being normally has about ten ounces of sugar stored in muscles and liver as a. reserve of potential Hiny OtiervatTon Point* The United States weather bureau has 500 stations where river stages are observed daily. ~- SLOOUlfS Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bacon wore callers at Crystal Lake Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse and daughter, Frances were callers at Oak Park last Tuesday. Mrs. Henry Winkler called at the Elizabeth Condell, hospital at Llbertyville last Wednesday. Mr- nrtd Mrs. Leslie Davis and daughter were callers at Grny*l*kp Wednesday. Mrs. Ray Dowell spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Davis at Wauconda. Mrs. W. E» Brooks and son spent Tuesday at Park Ridge. Mrs. Wm. Foss and daughter, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss of Libertyville to Chicago Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping and Mrs. Willard Darrell and grandson spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews at Crystal Lake- v Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lnsk near Round Lake. Bob Dunn and friend of Chicago spent Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Foss- George Eatinger of Wauconda and Lloyd and Milton Dowell of Volo spent Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell. Mr. and Mrs- A. Foss of Libv ertyville were Sunday supper guests at the home of his parents here. Harry Matthews and son were business callers at Crystal Lake Saturday. Mr. and Mrs., George Jepson of Wauconda and guest were callers at the home of Mrs. Clara Smith Monday. Henry Filmenter and two nieces if McHenry spent Sunday at the Wm. Foss home. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk of near Round Lake. Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews of Crystal Lake and guosis. Mrs." Albert Roether and daughter and son of Mineral Point, Wis.. Aland Mrs. John Blomgren and Mr. nml Mrs. Harry Matthews ad sons spent Saturday evening at the Willard I1 >> roll home.- Msg SOT! Carload of No. 1 Irish Cobbler Potatoes Is now on track at McHenry 4 Xrioe per bo. $1.17*4 •ve 10 Ira.; per bu. .2 These are late potatoes of the best grade. Last to buy at this low price. MAS AT OAR ALL DAY THURSDAY, Idtlf DAVE SEGEL Phone 92-J West Identifying Dlamvntfl A gem i xpert states that 06 per cent of diamonds are "finger-printed" by their imperfections which may be used In identifying them. Incompleted Work Many men build as cathedrals were built: The nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever Incomplete.--Beecher. , Cultivate Cheer A cheerful temper, joined with Innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wK good-natured.--Addison. Inventive New Entfander The fire alarm telegraph system was invented by Moses (}. Farmer, born in Boscawen, N. II., and he Imd electric lights in his house in Salem, Mass.. as early as 1858, the first house ever so lighted. Specials Nonentity **He who has no sorrow," 'said 111 Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "has found some way to exist without usefulness or sympathy."--Washington Star. Betrays Himself "A trickster," said Hi Ho, tin Sage of Chinatown, "Is often so desirous of appearing clever that he defeats himself by exposing his own tricks."-- Washington Star. Shoald Be Told A lot of people can't make speeches, but few of them know they can't.-- Florida Times-Union. Friday, Saturday, Monday Nov. as, 29 and Dec. 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Camel Cigarettes---tntfciB of 50 far 30c Henry George Cigars in Christmas pack- d* "1 1 rj age, 50 for $2.35 25 cigai* l.iO Ericksoa Dept Store Phone if 4 Main Street McHenry 4c- '.;: GOODWILL Community School Auditorium McHENRY, ILLINOIS - - * • - ' .. vii • >i '"'•'"jfgtityi' :,'M "7::I - i '* t j'r ^IWrt 8 o'clock p. mi Speaker -Winfield H. u Main Street Crusader ft Yso can hear this nan tftry night at 7s30 ow WCH1 or WORD--149* Ulocjrclase Now eonie and hear and sm kin in his dynamic oratory High School Band Concert of half hour TT] 'J Everybody Welcome Ladies especially Invited Sponsored by Community Builders of McHenry 1 •.'i '4* u