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THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER, THURSDAY. JWR72 * ? jvi-syt" %*#"".« "-T I'-rc :' - *s^ .*•$££ - ^ * ' 1 TNI CIRCU*, QUimmtcnte. UADOiPHE MiNJOU MITA NlfMN- ' • ^ ' •-. .,/• .••• '••, '; a WHAT HAS HAPPENED '* v Thatcher Colt, Police Commiaaioner-, •mud kit aecretnry, Miaa Kelly, go on a :-^wacauon to uueaa, n. t., a amau Colt aaaumea the name of Smith to avoid detection. The "Oreat Rainey mh&u> Circtta" la en route to GUead. M<My oak a Joaie La Tour, beautiful • Serial acrobat, to aucciimb to the wilea '#/ Lovell, the man who ia putting up "Ml money for the circus, for Love.I •MM stated that he trill atop giving unleaa the girl doe a aa he tviah- - 4a. She refuaea, for although ahe ia married to Flanarin, her aerial part- •er, ike ia deeply «» love with The ml real Sebastian, atar aerialiat of the '•4rjftVM>. Joaie threatens Flandrin with Siworce and the bereaved husband pleads with Sebastian to make the \ friri change her mind. ; J<fOW OO ON "WITH THE STORY UpT CHAPTER THREE A'" Th* sun was bright and hot a* the v?elrc(us parade marched down the Street to the tune of blaring music. • A eloudless sky made it a perfect I Mlay for the big event. The town •Oof Gilead seemed a mass of varied .'colors with its few thousand people fining the main street and the gay • .-j-eircue banners floating in the warm 'bpbreese. , _ Thatcher Colt and Miaa Kelly .V«tood In the crowds on the sidewalk. Beads of perspiration were Colt's forehead. With a crackling i yioise, a peanut shell broke tinder •jfeiColt's thumb. : ! Kellj looked at the Police Com- •ilfel III: 'Tye got to get back to the teAt. Come on along an' meet some of the boys." "And miss the parade?" Colt smiled. "I should Bay not. Well drop in after lunch." "Fine. That's a date." Dugmn hurried away. After a quick lunoh. Colt and his secretary walked over to the circus grounds. The grounds were alive with activity, as the laborer* put up the tents for the big show. I Squatting on the* ground was the t troupe of cannibals dressed in their native earb. They were all gesticu- | latins and talking in high, excited voices. In the center of the group was the witch doctor. Keblim. a savage with a horrible, black. scarrSd face and staring white eyeballs. - Colt shuddered as he passed them. He looked over at another act--* a shooting act--which was practie* lng. A man stood up against 1 wooden board, while a woman traced his figure with revolver bid* lets. - "That man's got plenty of nenr«s»~ said Colt. "Nerve my eye." It was Dugan. "He's got a bullet-proof Jacket." ",.v Colt looked around. '"You've got a nice layout here, Dugan." "It looks all right." .- "Don't tell me you've got thS Sheriff trouble." " " ' fortunately -tdid Colt ! (Posed by Adolphe Menjou) - Bilssloner. "That's the third bag of peanuts In an hour." "So what?" "So dyspepsia! You know: peanuts Always give you indigestioii." - "Not in Gilead." Kelly grinned. . * • "There's balm in Gilead, Kelly," Colt went on, "oodles of it. This is What I've been dreaming about for years--a hideaway where there's r9othing to do but kill time--where r-^lhere isn't a chance in the world of ;fltunning into anybody--where " ' "Commissioner!" Colt looked up sharply. An expression of dismay crossed his face as he saw the owner of the voice. 'It was Dugan. The press agent's face beamed .With vociferous Joy as he pumped Colt's hand. "Well--I'll be any- • thing you say!" He turned to Miss Kelly. "And you. Patsy!" ,\ "Hello. Jim." /... Dugan grinned and looked at Colt. "I could hardly ' believe my eyes-- fit's you--it's you!--the greatest ! Police Commissioner of the greatest • City of the greatest country in the )World. Not a mirage--not an illu- <aion--Thatcher Colt in person!" "Ixnay, apsay!" Colt whispered. "Tune down, you loud speaker! I'm !on a vacation. You're talking to a jtfuy named Smith. The only person tttamed Colt I ever heard of was the jttian that invented the forty-five!" ,He looked at the parade. "A nice J troop, Dugan?" I "Greatest show on earth--any • •arth." Dugan pointed to the colorful caravan. "See that cookie on the white horse? That's Josie La I Tour." • La Tour was a gay nymph on a White horse. A dosen large balloons. ( Attached to her waist, danced with happiness at being so close to this beautiful woman. White tights repealed her strong, slim form. Flan- ;drln, her husband, rode another ; prancing steed along side her. He jseemed to he talking to her. for his JIlps moved, but no sound was audjlfcle above the loud march music of jtlie band. . The girl apparently paid Ho attention to her husband's words, i Suddenly, there was a loud report. iOne of the balloons had burst. La )Tour's horse reared up. alfnost unaeating the girl, then came down ] *nd started forward. It looked like ja breakneck runaWay! .Before the /frightened horse could gather headjway, Flamlrin leaped down and 'grabbed the white charger. A tragedy was prevented. 1. "Part of the ballyhoo?" asked .Colt. •J Dugan shook his head. "Thanks jlor the compliment, but I ain't that good. That was on the level." j\, A worried look came to Dugan's -face then passed as his Irish good- •Ihumor predominated. He slapped C«>»t on the back. "Let me tell you something. This is the first time since I've been with the show that we'd welcome a Sheriff. There's trouble popping all over the place. It's certainly a lucky break for us that you're in town." i Colt frowned. "Come on, Kelly!", "Wait." Dugan pleaded, "Ralney wants to see you. He's got to, see y o u" h Kelly threw up her hands. "There's no balm in Gilead," she: said. j Colt looked at the ciflfinibal troupe as they started to walk towards Rainey's wagon. As soon as the savages were aware that they were being watched, they became silent. "We seem to haye interrupted a conference. Who are th^se people?*! Dugan answered tersely, "Can* nibals!" "From Harlem?" "No, on the level, Mr. Colt, they're the real McCoy. Real cannibals. Believe it or not, there were fourteen cannibals in that troupe last week. There's only thirteen now. "Thirteen." He shook his head. "Come on!" Colt roared with laughter at the implication. He was still laughing When they entered Rainey's wagon. Lovell and Ralney, Immersed In gloom, were seated. Dugan made the introductions. Ralney explained the situation to Colt. "What's* the use of a sell* out when you can't give a show." he said. "What's to prevent you?" asked* Colt. "Well, to begin with--you saw what happened to Miss £a Tour at the parade this morning. If her husband hadn't been on the Job she might have been killed, or at least crippled." "But fortunately the accident was averted." said Colt. Lovell spoke now. "It wasn't an j accident. That balloon didn't burst of its own accord." r •. j "We figured." added RalneyJ "That somebody on the line oC, march must've thrown a dart or' something to explode the ballooiv There's no doubt about it--some* body's out to wreck this circus." - "What m->kes you think so," Colt asked. Rainev reached into his coat pocket and took out several sheets : of paper. He handed them to Coit. Colt read aloud. "Do not attempt your act tomorrow--or you wlO die." The words were penciled la capital letters. Colt stared at Rainey's worried ' fac* "Every one of our principal performers has gotten * one of .', these!" said Rainey. (TO BE CONTINUED* Calgary HM NO Rata Cttty officials say Calgary has been ratless for several years. In 1920 ten rats were rounded up and slaughtered and since then.none has been seen. FINDS NEW FUEfwfr. A new fuel which promises to revolutionise the transportation of the world has been extracted by T. H. Kruttschnltt, son of the late railroad magnate, Julius Kruttschnltt, from natural gas. It is made from butane gas which has either been Ignored by engineers and chemists or used only to help In refining gasoHne.'^>^':».f "'-VUV Rigkt Economist--The automobile* ts nothing but a luxury. Friend Jones--To me it is a necessity ; Fm a repair man.--Brooklyn Eagle. CAMERA CAN SNAP ' CANNON PROJECTILE New Apparatus Takes 2,500 Pictures a Second. New York.--A portable super-speed camera, which takes 2,500 pictures a second and Tffb photograph objects moving with thfe rapidity of a cannon projectile, has been demonstrated here. The camera, operating at 125 times the speed of a normal mbtion' picture camera, has no shutter and the film runs continuously instead of being stopped for each "fra^e." One hundred feet of film, which usually runs In four minutes, speeds through this camera in two and a half seconds. It differs from anything previously made by taking its pictures in ordinary light, either daylight or artificial. Lights flashing hundreds or thousands of times a second have been the only means of taking such pictures heretofore. An electric timer Is part of the apparatus, and the time used on the object photographed is recorded tn minutes, seconds and hundredths of seconds on the same strip of film as the pictures. Motion pictures taken with the new development prove conclusively that the eye is faster than the hand. They showed the hand is not removed from a burning cigarette until 26-100ths of a second after the cigarette begins t<Jt burn, whereas the eye Is closed 13^ 100th of a second after a brilliant light is flashed before it They showed also that a wink requires 11-lOOth of a second. In practical application the timing system Is said to provide an entirely new opportunity for the study of extreme speed motions, such as the valve spring and tappet mechanisms in gasoline engines. The flexure of an air plane propeller at full speed may be shown and studied. The slightest aberration in machine operation can thus be shown and defects ia newly designed machines caught at the beginning, It is claimed. .^Throwing the Voice," ' Art in Ventriloquism A popular fallacy among boys tfhd girls is that certain gifted persons ca,n "throw their voices"; that is, can speak in their throats or chests and make the sound of th<eir voices appear to be coming from another source. Such a thing is Impossible. Ventriloquism it an art; It is not magic. Almost anyone can become a ventriloquist by patient practice. The rentriloquist you see on the stage does not "throw his voice"; he merely talks without moving his lip or face muscles, and as the dummy's mouth moves simultaneously, it seems to, the audience that the voice is "thrown" into the dummy. A very expert ventriloquist, however, can make it appear that his voice is coming from some distant point, though not from any specific point. He muffles the' voice so that it sounds far away. By directing attention to a certain object, then muffling the voice, an illusion can be created (hat the voice came from the indi-, cated point If you want to practice ventriloquism, stand before * tnlrror and try to Kay words and Sentences without moving s muscle of your face. The lips should be slightly parted. You'll find you can aay most words pretty easily, with a little practice, hut words beginning with or containing b, f, m, p, or v are hard to pronounce without closing the lips for a second. Even these letters though can be made to be understood by throat intonations.-- Washington Star. Watfcr Mills Disappear; Now Relics of the Past Throughout Kurope, as well as America, the multitude of quaint little grist mills which are run by water are fast becoming relics of the past, writes a correspondent in the Pathfinder Magazine. In Jugoslavia it has been the custom to perch a tiny mill or even a series of such mills In the middle of a small stream. This reduces the cost -of the plant, as the mills are exceedingly simple. They consist of little more than a big box, set up on stilts right oyer the water. The Hour is of the genuine "whole wheat" type, as U is not even sifted. Such mills, though very picturesque, are not efficient, as they produce such $ small amount of flour. Their use Is being discontinued in localities where other and more modern power can be had. Electric current has been intrtn duced very widely where thefe is water power, and of course gasoline motors are used to a large extent RINGWOOD That'* Efficicncy < Jud< Tunkins says safety first Is a grand* idea that Is now worked out so fine that a radio entertainer carries his appThuse. Germany'* Iroa Ring The Iron Ring Around Germany was part of the French post-war policy to establish' what was known as the Lit tie Entente*, or tite Iron King Around Germany. To gain the support of the countries hemming Germany In-- Czechoslovakia, Austria, Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland--she lent money to strengthen their armies. Racord Length (4 Will Distinctive for its length was the will permeated with the strong religious beliefs of Elias Boudinot, former director of the mint of the United States. He passed away in 1821 at the age of eighty-one. His will was contained in 26 closely written pages. Bell Weigh* 216 Ton* The largest and most valuable church bells in the world, including one weighing almost as much as a locomotive, are in Russia, says a Carnegie Institute bulletin. The Szar Kolokol in the Kremlin, at the foot of the Tower of Ivan the Great, weighs 216 tons. Tear Gas Routs New Hampshire Strikers ^ -\Jp" --v Tusk* of Mammoth* Because of their liner teitiife; and distinctive "eld ivory" pallor the well preserved tusks of the ancient hairy mammoth are 'more valuable than elephant ivory. Eskimo hunters and white gold miners In Alaska have reaped a valuable harvest from the tusks of the prehistoric mammoths they have uncovered along the perpetually frozen ground of the Arctic coast. Such tusks have proven even a greater source of profit to prospectors In Siberia, from which region It is estimated that the tusks of approximately 20,000 mammoths have reached the world's Ivory markets since Siberia has been under the control of the Russians. - : . Color of Baby** Eye* It la not only possible, but says Path Under Magazine, Is It of quite common occurrence for a child to have brown eyes If the eyes of both parents were blue. This would not be likely to occar If the different strains of the human race had been kept Isolated for centuries, but every person of European descent Is almost sure to have had both brown-eyed and blue-eyed ancestors. Blue eyes might run In the families of both parents for several generations, only to have the browneyed trait show Itself after the browneyed ancestor had been forgotten. All babies are born with blue eyes, but many of them soon change to other shades. Mr. and Mrs. George Young entertained the five hundred club at their home, Thursday evening. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. F. A. Hitchens and B. T. Butler and Mrs. G. E. Shepard and Clyde Bell. * Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ladd, Mrs. Howard Btickland and Miss Flora Taylor spent Thursday in Elgin. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hopper and daughter of Chicago spent Thursday with her parents,, Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Smith. ' . Mesdames Charles Pteet, Edward Peet, B. T. Butler, P. A. Hitchens and Joseph McCannon attended a canning demonstration at Greenwood Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Wm. DeWolf and daughters, Daun and Irene, ahd Mrs. Harley De Wolf of Woodstock and Mrs. Ingeborg Johnson of Chicago were callers at the Wayne Foss home Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Ethel Colby of Crystal Lake spent Thursday afternoon with Mm. George Shepard. Mrs. Roy Neal and children and Shirley Hawley spent Thursday afternoon at Woodstock. : Mr. and Mrs. Roland McCanJion and son, David, left for Urfeana Friday, where Mr. McCannon will attend the summer school. Mrs. Cora Flanders spent Friday and Saturday with relatives at Crystal Lake. Mrs. Grace Jackson and son, Lyle, of Solon Mills attended the funeral of Clifford Smith Wednesday and had •upper with Wayne Foss. Mr. and Mrs. Harvy Bumgartner and son, Harvy, Jr., of Royal Oak, Mich., arrived here Saturday evening Mrs. Bumgartner and son will remain here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dodge for a month's visit Mr. Bumgartner returned home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. George Garland of Antioch spent Sunday in the George Shepard home. Mrs. Harold Whiting of Chicago spent a few days the past week in the Lewis Schroeder home. Mr. and Mrs. George Bacon, Mr. ard Mrs. Lester Nelson and children of Antioch, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bumgartner and son, of Royal Oak, Mich.. Mrs. Roy Shafer and daughter, Sally I£ae, of Cincirfftatti and Mr. and Mrs^JU^n Dodge and sons were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Dodge" Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Romie and son, Morton, and daughters, Lutie and Bernice and Louis Johnson of Paddock Lake were Sunday guests . in the F. Dix home. Rita Mae and Audrey Merchant are visiting relatives at Waukegan. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Carr and family spent Sunday with relatives at Wauconda. Mrs. Homer Mann and son and Mrs. Ada Mann of Woodstock spent Tuesday in the Edgar Thomas home. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith of .Crystal Lake spent the past week in the George Young home. Roy Wiedrick was operated upon for appendicitis Wednesday at the Woodstock hospital. He is getting along nicely. Charles Coates of Genoa City spent Sunday in the Fred Wiedrich home. Billy Dix is visiting in the home of his grandparents at Paddock Lake. Mr. and Mrs. George Young and family spent Sunday at Chicago Heights. , Mr. and Mrs. Robert McLean of Woodstock spent Sunday in the J. F Stephenson home. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hawley of Chicago spent Sunday in the E. E. Haw ley home. Mrs. Harold Whiting and daughter, Mercedes, of Chicago spent the weekend in the Lewis Schroeder home. Mr. and Mrs. Sooling of Waukegan and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wagner of Mc- Henry spent Sunday evening in the A. L- Lawrence home. r Mr. and Mrs. James Conway \and Helen Laurence of Libertyville were callers here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Peters spent Sunday night and Monday with relativas at Belvidere and Hunter. Mrs. S. H. Beatty, Mrs. Jennie Bacon and Mrs- Viola Low and children spent Friday afternoon in the Charles Gates home, at Woodstock. Robert Wilson of Grant, Iowa, is visiting in the Mrs. Jennie Bacon home., The La<H$s' Aid society will serve a dinner at the M. W. A. hall, Wednesday, June 28. Harold Jepson of Winnebago spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jepson- Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Burns of Oak Park were visitors in the W. A. Dodge home, Sunday. Mrs. Mason Bancroft and son, Blaine, of Redfiejd, S. D., spent Sunday night in the Ben Walkinton home. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bumgartner, Mrs. W. A.. Dodge and Mrs. Roy Shaffer and daughter, Sally Rae, visited at the peony farm near Crystal Lake Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Pearson and August Pearson were visitors at tavia, Sunday. / Jt. M. Stephenson is enjoying t % fishing trip with frienda up m northern Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Simpson entertained their card cluo xrom Chicago fver the week-cjid. On Saturday vening they all enjoyed a picnic supper at the J- F. McLaughlin home, playing cards later in the Simpson home. Those to attend were: Mr,/and Mrs. Roy Lymann, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lymann, Mr. and Mrs. Max Beth, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Whaley of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bohnen of Wilmette, Mr. and Mrs. Paul C lax ton of Berwyn and Mr. and Mrs. Hide AHams. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Buckland and J. V. Buckland and Miss Flora Taylor spent Sunday with Mr. and Mts. Geo. Dixon at Eagle Lake, Wis. Mrs.' Vaughn Jones of Chicago, Mrs. C. W. Goodell, Ethel' Jones and. Warren Jones of McHenry spent SttBday with Wayne Foss. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Smith and soots of Harvard spent Sunday with tike former's parents, Mr.- and Mrs. S. W. Smith. Mr. and Mi's. Bruce Nichols lad children and Mrs., Raymond Powers and son of McHenry spent Mondagp evening in the Leon Dodge home. 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" Gwidiaf BUad Ships More than half a million ships are guided up and down the Thames every year by the pilots attached to the great Port of London, says the Montreal Herald. Pilots are taken on board vessels to steer them through dangerons reaches and channels, or to take ships In and out of harbor, and while on board they take command. Occasionally a pilot Is compelled to take long voyages because the weather makes It impossible for him to board the pilot boat Some time ago a pilot taking the liner out of Queenstown had to go to New York because he was unable to leave the •hip in heavy weather. Hnlk Hm Extiact The heath hen, a species of the grouse family that inhabited the wooded districts of the Central and New England states, is now extinct This species of birds was found in large flocks in the early Nineteenth eeatury. « \ •> •• V When a mob of 3,000 strikers became disorderly-at- the gates of the Amoskeag Textile mills at Manchester, N. H , It became necessary for National Guardsmen and police to stage this tear gas attack. Forty were reported Injured. --- gas barrage stay be sew la tke foreground. i Fetch m the Um "When we are perplexed," said HI Bo, the sage of Chinatown, "we wait for a man with an idea. When he ar> rives thousands of us. begin Anrl^ tow we think we can better If COSTS LESS THAN Sticky and hot 77*". not a breath of air. But a fan soon stirs up a 0 ^ gusty breeze. The electricity that brings you this comfort is cheap. It co^i J less than a third of a cent an hour to run a 10-inch fan in the average home served by the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. • : * Fans are low-priced, too: Small, sizes are now less than $2.50 mi Public Service Stores and other LOCAL ELECTRICAL DEALERS.