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VETERINARIAN TB and Blood THtiif I^BMON^ ^ ; r ILUNOmj 1 j>\'_ irn » . *», I McHENRYGRAVEL* EXCAVATING CO.' A. P. Freund, Prop. load Building and Excavating Estimates Furnished on £ Bequest |Iigh-gr&de Gravel Delivered at any time--large or small <irders given prompt attention. flume 204-M McHenry • I M HENRY V. 30MPEL General Teaming , Gravel and Goal for Sale Grading, Graveling and Road v Work Done By Contra<Jfc Of Every Description or By Day Phone McHenry 649-R^H r McHenry, DL J 1^ 0. Address, Route l# & Lawyer *J» ,^|yj vQMtoe with West McHenry State Bank Every Wednesday 4 . McHeory, Illinois 1SS-W ReassuoMs Rates *.BL SCBAEFEB ^ - . Drayfcqr ^ HeHENSY - - - - ILLINOIS '"if. 11 mL i'Ug'jjU'iiw Mo. ltt-B Stoffel A Reihansperger %enrance agents for all clasaeo of property in tke beet esmpanieo. *B8T McHENRY - - ILUNOU •«S hsore-b Sqre-hsgriace WITH Wm. G. Schreiner GILBERT FAILURE By FANNIE HURST G' .;'jii23fefc . Anctioneerinf > OFFICE AT RESEDf^NCB M R McHeary, Hlioeb i- %' S. H. Freood & SOD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS Phone 127-R McHenry Our experience it at Your Service in bnildlng Your Wants c«r«pap*r P • Servlo*.) ILBERT was «t least twentysix before he first began te realize that some of the mountain tops toward which he had directed his footsteps were not going to be so accessible as he had dreamed. Gilbert had come from an achieving family. His father, up to the week of his death, had been one of the most important barristers in town. His mother had p Act iced law in a highly successful way up to the last year of her life. His brother, at thirty, was already a surgeon of more than local Importance. His sister, a college graduate herself, had tparrled one of the outstanding bio-chemists of the world. So it was by background, environment, example and possibly inheritance that Gilbert, even before he was finished with college, should turn his footsteps resolutely toward acompnshment It is true that the subject of law had never particularly interested him. He had not a systematic mind. The conception of ideas interested him more than their execution, and if he had any preference at all. It was for lying for a large part of the day before a good fire, or a son-kissed meadow, and reading. But a man cannot foster such inclinations if he hopes to get ahead in this world. Gilbert knew that. Unless you had a marked talent of one sort or another, the safest road to achievement lay along lines of one of the substantial, remunerative professions. Medicine. Law. With his slender talent for writing, the best he could probably hope for would be • - Journalistic or editorial career: And so it was that Gilbert turned to law. It was not that he did not bring a fairly average equipment to this work, ^le had a good mind, even an unusual endowment of intelligence, and every law office of the city wAs open to the son of his father. The secret "of his failure to progress, along about the time he was twentysix, was a subtle yet a fundamental one. L.s heart was not In his work* Intellectually, he wanted to be a successful lawyer. Emotionally, he yearned for the blue days at Capri, where he had been taken as a young boy on his first trip abroad. He yearned for the sweet indolence- of that kind of life, with perhaps a pad and pencil at his heck and call, so .that he could write as a dilettante writes, from impulse rather than ambition or necessity. The instinct to struggle was not In Gilbert, and yet, surrounded as he was by the examples of successful people, he had not the courage to let ?o. >nd ro for four years after these first realizations began to dawn disquietipgly upon him, he strpggied ahead at a profession that was flavorless to him. It was. impossible to plead a case with fervor about which yon felt so dispassionately. The claims of one set of human beings against another could not. did not, interest him. The cunning, devious? shrewd phraseology of the contract, so fascinating to some types of mind, elicited no real Interest from Gilbert. The ramifications of the law, its interpretations and Its practice. Aroused in him nothing mort than a weariness for the rather purposeless struggles of asanklnd agalnsf mankind. At thirty, bn an Impulse he wtfs never thoroughly able to comprehend --nor the amount of courage that went with It--Gilbert resigned his position as Junior partner in a wellknown law Arm, left superficial explanatory notes to a few of the members of his family and his friends, drew out a saving account of some several hundred doJIars and took a ship going Mediterranean way. 'That was the beginning of fifteen -ears of wandering over the hoary face of the hoary earth. Lingering, when necessary, in one city, in one port, in one village or another, long enough to lay up, by simple manual labor, sufficient money to sustain him for a brief period of the future. Those of his friends who happened to encounter him in their travels, described him sadly as a pale, draggled fellow wandering aimlessly across the face of the earth. In a way. that was how Gilbert regarded himself. While the new life was far. far preferable to the old, and not a regret lurked in his heart, at - the same time there was also a futility, an aimlessness, a seeking after he knew not what. Gray began to come out In his hair and a stoop was upon his back. Even the variety of new scenes, new faces, began to pall. The tecond era ef his discontent was upon him. It was not that the fifteen years following his decision had been unhappy ones. On the contrary, they had been rich, fruitful, yielding and adventurous. The university of the universe had been Gilbert's. Figuratively and literally speaking, he had kept lean, whetted with an appetite for life,- for wisdom, for experience, for love. And yet sometlknes it seemed to Gilbert, as he entered a new port, as lie steamed out of another, as spiced and foreign wines slid tH his 'ArryU" 10 Argyle is derived Dm Gaelic words, "airer MrM if tlic Bv«ry Tn>| Mra'i AmUtlm Jnst how many young men have decided they want to be sporting writers Is not officially known, bat the number Is Incredibly large. It runs somewhere into the millions, at least--Ool- WeeMv. «- , P« lit ia P«mt Core Systematic care of fon*ts is given as the reason why Germany produces four times,as much timber an %OFO M Ike Uoited Stfctoo prodocc*. ' palate, as the sweet, mocking eyes oi exotic women beckoned him, as hr lived and learned and suffered, that after all he was getting nowh^pe. And that, for one who has made tin kind of momentous decision that Gil bert had fifteen years before, is a dis heartening realization. He had sac rlficed everything. Well and good, bu only if the sacrifice had been justi fi<vV Whither? was the question that be gan to engrave itself acidly Into th< heart and mind and the consciousness of the • wanderer. Freedom and wha* to do with it? Leisure nnd where t- RINGWOOD Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Bacon of Crysspend It? Tfie world his playground spent Thursday here, •amndl wwhheerree ttno pnliaavyf? and Mrs. E. P. Flanders at- He was always coming, he was al ways going. Maidens smiled at him out of their casements. , They had homes.* They belonged there. They were rooted to some soil. Everybody, It seemed to Gilbert, was rooted to some soil and even though the men with whom he came in contact in the cities and along the countrysides-- family men with responsibilities--listened with wistful eyes as Gilbert recited his adventures, they were secure men, surrounded with the intangible aura of belonging. It began to dawn upon Gilbert that he belonged nowhere and yet that was not what was bothering him. He wosld not, hpd he been able to manipulate backwards the magic time-carpet, have returned to the life he had so debonairly discarded back In his youth days. If certain dissatisfactions, nostalgias were upon him, they were not those of regret He was sick with quest. Neither must you think that In all Mrs. B. T. Butler entertained the Evening Bridge club at her home Thursday evening. Prizes were won by Mrs. Clarence Pearson and Marjorie Whitings. A| the close of a pleasant eveningTuncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Carlson and son were McHenry visitors Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper of Chicago spent Thursday with relatives and friends here. tended the funeral of a cousin 111 Crystal Lake Friday. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and children were McHenry visitors Thursday afternoon. Mrs. B. T. Butler and Mrs. A. W. Smith were Woodstock visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. James Bell and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Snyder of Richmond spent Wednesday evening in the James Bell home. Mrs. George Bacon of Antioch spent Wednesday night and Thursday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dodge. A. A. Biggers of Chicago spent Friday night id the Nick Young home. Mr. and Mrs. George Shepard and family spent Sunday with the latter's parents at McHenry. Mrs. A. W. Smith entertained the Social Wheel at her home Thursday afternoon. Five hundred was played with prizes going to Mrs. J. J. Rotherihel, Mrs. George Kuhn and Mrs. these years Gilbert had been without . Thomas Kane. At the close luncheon the pastimes, the amours, the gratifl- ! cations that have to do with women, j Mr and ^ jM Weber He had crossed the paths of many and ' they had left their memories upon him. Yet, at forty-five, Gilbert, failure, was still seeking. It was in Naples, of all places, when Gilbert was forty-eight, that he ran across, in the open market place, a girl named Chita. She was selling lemons out of a big beautiful basket and she had driven in that morning with, them plied on a donkey . cart, from the incomparable hills of Amalfl. She was beantifuJ in a brown, Italian way, no stripling of a girl, but with a blown maturity to her. Rich, rather dusky skin and white teeth that flashed against tt. Gilbert, who spoke many patois of Italian, drove back in the hills of Amalfi with her In the donkey cart. She lived ln>|i white adobe house with an ancientt grandmother nnd their worldly possessions consisted of seven lemon trees, an orange tree, a goat and a silk quilt. The view from the adobe house was the Incredible Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius, turquoise blue of sky and water. Gilbert and Chita were married In the small church In the center of the square of the nearest village^ She wore orange blossoms from her own tree and the little ceremony was attended with all the pageantry of these peasant people of the hills. v Gilbert has built a wing to the adobe house, which he calls his stndy. Most of his mornings he writes- in thert, bio view the sail-specked, bluedecked Italian bay. Afternoons, he helps Chita ia the orchard and,-before supper, he milks their goat. His book is half finished and he has Increased the fruit trees around the house until they number twenty. The old crone of a grandmother blesses him each day. Chita Is as full'+f. some as summer. She Is with child. Gilbert knows well in what light his life will be regarded by th« world he has deserted. In 'hi| own eyes, ho la no lotypr a failure. Mirror Superstition * A woman is apt to be nmde miserable because she breaks a looking glass. 8he believes she will have deaths In the family, and other bad luck, for seven years. This belief Is one of manv popular superstitions which are not supported hy scientific or other trustworthy Investigation, but are truth to those who believe them. Tfie question of the effect of this belief on the health and outlook of the believer has been the subject of much investigation. but the general answer seems to be that some persons give no second thought to their fortune when they break a mirror, and seem to suffer no ill consequences. *Sciwc«H aad "Ar# According to Jevons, a science teaches ns to know and an art to do Astronomy, for Instance, Is the foundation of the art of navigation; chemistry Is the basis of many useful arts. The arts are distinguished as fine arts and useful arts, the former Includlnr painting, sculpturing, music, poetry and architecture, the latter (useful arts) including the trades. Tie sciences have been variously classified. The principal ones are physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, mathematics, geography, geology, ethnology, anthropology, archeology, biology and medicine. M»i«i First to CM COT Maine generally has been acknowledged as the early home of cohi packing In this country, and Its claim lias been a just one, says an article In a Portland (Maine) paper. About 1830 Isaac Wlnslow began his experiments in canning com near Portland, but It was not until 1862 that a patent was issued and then ft was to John Wins low Jones, Isaac's nephew. The first recorded sale of rannet1 corn was from Nathan Winslow t< Samuel S. Fierce of Boston. Tl»e In voice was dated February 19. t&43, nn> was for one dozen canister of pi-> served <wn al $4. ! Aa4 Laovo tke Brafaa > A toothpaste that removes the film mm the teeth may be all right, but wlut wo need is a hair oil that, when on the head, will remove the fog from the brain --Cincinnati Enquirer. Wooltk's TripU Cowtisi A railway, a railway share and a railway trip are not three separate Items of wealth; tbey are respectively wealth, a title to that «c4&<*n4 * amice of that woatt^^^v.'^,-; . and family of McHenry spent Sunday with the latter's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Thomas" and family were Sunday dinner guests in the Earl Mann home at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean of Woodstock spent Sunday with Mrs. Frankie Stephenson. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jackson and family of Solon Mills spent Sunday evening in the S. H. Beatty home. Wayne Foss spent Saturday in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hitchens of Chicago spent Saturday in the F. Hitchens home. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weter and daughter of Mundelein called on Wil liam Giddings Sunday afternoon. Adrian Thomas of Chicago spent the week-end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Sunday night and Monday with relatives at Belvidere and Hunter. Miss Frances Dix of Paddocks Lake spent the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dix. Mr, and Mrs. I. N. Butler and daughter of Illinois Park, Elgin, were callers in the F. A. Hitchens home Saturday afternoon. Thomas Dempsey of Chicago spent the week-end with Miss Nellie McDonald at the home of her parents at Keystone. Edward Thompson of Chicago is enjoying a two weeks vacation from his duties at the Bowman Dairy plant at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thompson. The D. H. G. club of McHenry very, pleasantly surprised F. A. Hitchens at his home Friday evening in honor of his birthday anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thompson and son,V.William. Mrs. Nick Adams and Mrs. '.Nick Young spent Wednesday at Woodstock. Mr and Mrs. George Young spent Saturday evening in Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Wilcox and Mrs. Burden and son of Woodstock were callers in the Ben Walkington home Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Hawley of Elgin and daughter and four children of New York were Sunday visitors In the E. C. Hawley home. David Stanley of Woodstock was a caller in the Wm. Kelley home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCannon and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson attended the party given at the community high school at McHenry Friday evening by the teachers in honor of the school boards of the township. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rahn of Elgin and Mrs. Sarah Johonnott of Richmond spent Sunday with Mrs. Lillian Stevens. In the afternoon all went for a ride to Burligton and Kenosha. Mrs. T. A. Abbott and Mrs. Mabel Johonnott are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Wade Sanborn at Spring Grove. The Ladies' Aid society will hold a dinner at the M. W. A. hall Wednesday, April 29. The Sunday school girls will hold a bake sale at Hawley's market next Saturday. Mrs. Leo Karls and son, Mrs. E. E. Allen and Wm. Hendrickson of Richmond were callers in the Mrs. Jennie Bacon home Saturday. - Mr. ad Mrs. C. J. Jepson and family visited relatives - at Wauconda Sunday evening. Mr. and/Mrs. Lester Carr and family were Woodstock visitors Saturday evening. Charles Carr and Mrs. Frankie Stephenson spent Saturday afternoon at Crystal Lake. Frances Helms of Woodstock spent the week-end with her pqfents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Welter. Mrs. Albert Purvey and Mrs. Albert Krause of McHenry were callers here Thursday. . Mesdames Harry Hartley and P. Moriarity of Chicago, Paul Meyers and George Worts of McHenry spent Friday with their sister, Mrs. Ed Thompson and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and family were McHenry callers Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ritter and Mr. and Mrs. Burbridge of Kenosha were callers in the Frank Fay home Snnday afternoon. Mrs. Nick Adams and Ml* Nick Young were McHenry callers Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and family were Snnday guests in the Fred Wiedrich home. Mr. and Mrs. Chariee Gbrr .opeot Wednesday at Woodstock. Mr. and Mrs. D. 6. Bacon of Cryi* tal Lake spent Sunday in the E. C. Hawley home. Mr. and Mrs. Kruchman and daughter of Waukegan spent Sunday in the A. L. Laurence home. The Home Bureau held a bunco and card party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hitchens Wednesday evening. Prizes in five hundred were awarded to Mrs. Lillian Stevens and William . Whiting, first, and Mrs. Thomas Kane and Earl Harrison the consolations. In bunco Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peet were high and Mrs. Walter Harrison and Mr. Sweeney held low. A lunch was Served. SCHOOL NEWS Primary Honor Roll--Laurence Freund, Amy Harrison; Robert Adams, Pearl Smith, Walter Low, Shirley Hawley, Rita Mae Merchant^ Sylvia Freund and Floyd Freund. Shirley Hawley treated the children to candy bars in honor of her birthday, April 8. Easter eggs were enjoyed on Fii» day, April S. Mrs. Ray Merchant, Mrs. Viola Low and Mrs. E. E. Thomas were visitors in school recently. The Ringwood school will give the operetta "Kay and Gerda" at the M. W. A. Hall on Thursday evening, April SO, at 8:00 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Hanford and niece, Joan, and Mrs. L. W. Colford of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Smith and sons of Harvard, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith and family. Those from here to attend the funeral of Mrs. C. A. Matsen in Chicago, Monday were: Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Stephenson, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Butler, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. August Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olsen and son, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Olsen, Florence Olsen, William Giddings,. Lewis Hawley, S. W. Smith and daughter, Bemice, and son, John. Mrs. Ray Peters and Mrs. Viola Low were Woodstock visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Leonard Carlson and son are visiting her mother at Port Washington, Wis. Mrs. L. E. Hawley entertained her bridge club, Tuesday afternoon. Luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Max Beth and son, Billy, of Chicago spent Wednesday in the William Beth home. Mr. and Mrs. Mahappey of Grays lake were visitors in the E. P. Flanders home Wlednesday. Clay Rager of Chicago spent Tuesday with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Weber and family of McHenry were guests in the Nick Youog home Tuesday evening, . Getting Tiresome If work and play were the only things that make us tired, life would he much m o r e p l e a s a n t M o i n e s Register. ' Human Nature A lot of us are actually happier In tiaaster. Wlipn the sun shines we expect a storm to follow. When It storms We look forward to future sunshine.-- Buffalo N«4w« v ; -M I imni.li ' ~ Aesop's Fables A critic I know admits he gets much more pleasure out of a good dinner thnn he does out of a play. Of course: a bird In the hand Is worth two on the nfpte.--Rxrhnnge. 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