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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22
NEWS IN GERMANY

A German paper recently
printed large picture OF
Georges Carpenter and beneath
it. In large black type, said:
GEORGES CARPENTER of
France, who knocked out Jack
Dempsey in two rounds. Carpen-
tier is now CHAMPION OF
THE WORLD AT ALL
WEIGHTS
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22

most feared of foes when at Carlisle,
Thorpe displayed his remarkable
punting ability when he sent the ball
a distance of 81 yards during the
game. He also tore off run of 60
yards through the entire opposing
team the Buffalo All-Americans, COM
posed of some Of the greatest college
players of the last decade. The All
Americans defeated the Bull Dogs Z
to 3. This photograph of Thorpe was
made before the game which was
played at the Polo Grounds.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22
MANAGERS OF TIGERS

These are the men who, since
the organization of the Amer1-
can league, have been chosen by
the Detroit club to guide the des-
TIMES of the Tigers:
George Stallings, 19OO-19O1.
Frank Dwyer, 1902.
Ed Barrows, 1903-19O4.
William Armour, 19O5-19O6.
Hugh Jennings, 19O1-192O.
Tyrus Cobb, 1921.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-01-22

The idea of asking Chicago people
to contribute one million dollars to
increase the revenue of newspapers
in other cities is insulting and prepos-
ferrous.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
The Witches Brew.

There's no telling what you're drinking if
you buy moonshine. When the witches in the
play of Macbeth concocted their home brew
Shakespeare says their ingredients included
dead toad, the wool of a bat, the tongue of
a dog lizards leg, a witch's mummy cows
blood the nose of Turk and a lot of other
unmentionable gruesome articles to make
really potent ~heIl-broth".
writer in the Outlook, describing the
1noonshine industry in Alabama, says, that
frequently the moonshine watts yield dead pos
sums, squirrels, jay birds, owls and chickens
During the summer he continues, 1.-The top
Of the liquid mash nearly always has a thick
coating of dead flies, bugs and perhaps a few
lizards for good measure but the mess IL
skinned off and the extract from it is bought
and consumed by its devotees, although it is
generally known that most of the moonshine
liquor is not made amid rules for cleanliness"
The writer Vouehes for the story of a negro
who collects garbage and swill from restau-
rants in Birmingham ostensibly to feed his
hogs, but was found to be distilling his stuff
into moonshine in a filthy stable-and some of
his patrons Dragged nightly of the class of
liquor they were obtaining
Physicians who have analysed noonshine
testify that much of it is denatured alcohol
which, VI course, CONTAINS OeaGly poisonous
wood alcohol-treated to Disguise the odor and
colored with caramel. All sorts of coloring
matter is mixed with alcohol The wood alco-
hoi, of which there is a high percentage in
mucfr of the moonshine being peddled. will
cause blindness. insanity or death depending
on the amount taken Small wonder that one
reads in the papers of moonshine having such
bad effects in driving persons to commit all
sorts of violent acts while under the madden
ing influence of the stuff. Poison peddlers es-
Gaping with 500 fines are getting off lightly
considering the damage their traffic inaicts.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
Here and in Germany.

1t is reported that American officials at
Coblenz have warned the German population
that girls should refuse to marry enlisted men
of the American forces of occupation unless
they are personally provided with sufficient
money to convince the immigration authorities
that they will not become state charges on
their arrival in the United States. Fair enough
But what is interesting is the further enlight-
eminent offered prospective German brides of
American soldiers, the former being told by
the same American officials that the cost of
living is much higher in America than abroad,
and the common soldiers pay is insufficient
to support wife.
Possibly you satisfactorily explain why
the cost of living is higher here than abroad,
taking into consideration the fact that Euro
pean nations, Germany especially, were ire
mendously taxed and otherwise burdened by
the war, suffered inestimably more than did
the United States as the result of the war,
were not as well fixed financially before the
war this country, have by no means the
same natural assets as the United States and
are in no way industrially, commercially or So
cia11y comparable to this land in which
to live today
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
Fewer Newspapers.

Census bureau statistics show that during
the 5-year period from 1914 to 1919 the num-
Der OF daily newspapers i'll the United States de-
creased So per cent. but the circulation in
creased 1873 per cent. Suspension of semi
weekIies was Pill per cent and of weekHes it
1t.9 per cent. Weekly newspaper circu-
lation increased A per cent There was a
decrease in the number of publications of all
classes, but general increase in the circula-
tion of those surviving.
Newspapers, daily, semi-weekly and weekly
probably never went through as critical a ne
rlod as the five years for which the census I'M
reau figures are given. Increased costs of ma
per- INK, machinery, postage Iabor-everv eIe-
ment entering into pubication-drove MANY of
them out OF business This was true of papers
IN the three classes mentioned, but there are
other reasons Tor the disappearance of the
weekly The weekly's most prosperous DAYS
were when the farmers did not read Even
theh 1t was difficult to persuade some farmers
10 subscribe They said that they took an
agricultural paper monthly and hardly had
time to read that. Nearly all of the county
seat dali1es had weekly editions. but when
rural free delivery came and with it the GEN
eraI use OF telephones, motor cars and other
improvements the residents decided that thew
wished to keep IN touch with events day by dav
suspension of weeklies in many instances did
not mean discarding newspaper properties. II
merely meant that the weekly was disco,-
tlnued and the daily became more prosnarors
People who moved away from the old homo
towns looked upon the weekly as a letter gro-,
home, but few years absence served IN vves,
them away from the old influences. New
1lnes-tnose or strsngers-crept into the news
and subscriptions were not renewal sayor.1
years ago the weeklies exerted q rovrar+,,, =,
huence In the life of the people. Thew have
served their purpose, however, and thev ara
lessening in number
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
The County Jail Problem.

| The failure OF the voters to approve the
t proposition for bond issue to raise funds with
| which to complete the new Rock Island county
! Jail has forced upon the board a situation that
| grows more complex and aggravating with the
passing of time. 1t will require approximately
100000 TO complete the new structure on Fiji
teenth street. Until additional work is done
on the building it will be unavailable for USE
In the interim the old structure on the court
house square is being used for the custody of
prisoners. This building has repeatedly been
condemned as insanitary and county officials
are now confronted by the alternative during
the coming winter of being required to trans
fer prisoners to jails in other parts of the state
and to follow this program until such time
the new prison is available for occupancy.
The county board must keep within the law
in matters pertaining to the Jail problem. Va
rious suggestions have been advanced, but the
impractibility of all has been acknowledged
when the question of meeting the bills arises.
One suggestion that seems to be the most
promising of ali advanced is for the board to
pass resolution appropriating say $1,000 per.
year to be applied to the contract for the COM
p1etion of the Jail, arranging with some con-
tractor to proceed with the work and borrow
ing the total needed sum from some bank, Civ
ing collectable warrants as collateral. Such
program would insure completion of the Jail
and clear up a situation that becomes more
grave with each passing day 1t would take
at least $4,000 to place the old Jail in habit
able condition. This would be a sheer waste
of the taxpayers money and if any move were
made in that direction doubtless there would
be legal action to restrain the board in any
such extrayagant enterprise. On the other
hand, it will cost thousands of dollars for the
transportation of prisoners to jails elsewhere
and their maintenance away from the county.
So the cheapest and wisest course it would
seem, for the board to follow, would be to as
soon as possible make some arrangement
whereby the work of completing the new jail
may be taken up, trusting to the fairness of
the people at the election next fall to approve
bond issue for the raising of the needed
funds. 1t is believed that the people would
not again reject the bond issue. Many of those
who voted negatively when the proposition was
submitted for their consideration have since
expressed regret at their action, not realizing
that by doing so they were tying up the coun-
ty board and allowing an incompleted building
to stand useless. The money can come from
only one source, and thae is through taxation
of the people, and the sooner the new Jail is
finished and put to use the better of the tax
payers will be.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17

The change killed him. Thomas Parr of shrop-
shire England, married first when he was S..
had two children, and died when he vas l52.
His grandson lived to 132, his great-grandson
to I42 Ireland in 1872 buried Countess OF
Desmond, aged 145. Hungarian history re-
cords Peter Torton, peasant, who was lS5 years
old when he died in 17z4. John Rovfn, an
other Hungarian peasant. lived to be 172. his
wife 1874 The oldest man in all history, whose
age has been authenticated with reasonable
conviction was Numas de Cugna, native OF
Bengal India, who died in 1856 at the age OF
go He was famous, all through the Orient
Arabs considered him the eighth wonder OF
the world.
How can you live to be more than 100?
In the Berkshires, near the Connecticut line,
there's a wood-chopper named Joseph Gillette.
He is in his Tooth year, chops wood 10 hours
day, six days a week-and says hard work
is what made him live so long. Most excep-
tionaliy old men have the same notion But
the real reason for their unusual age prob
ably is that mysterious nature gives them an
excess of the powerful current that drives the
motors of the body. Work, however, does pro-
long the average life Many retired business
men die before their time, from the rust of in
action. More than two years ago, Arnauld,
the great Frenchman, was urged to retire, by
his friend Nicolle. What for?" asked Arnauld-
You are old. It is time to rest" 'Rest!"
snorted Arnauh- 81 have all eternity to rest
in"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
Pores Hereby Abolished.


/ The pores of the skin are like
NATURALIZATION fine hypothet-
/ icaI foundation upon which to set
remedies-plausible to credulous
! folk
/ The skin has a great many min
ute openings in it, to be sure from
which protrude the shafts of the
fine hairs that cover the skin and
through which empty the sebaceous
or oil glands, whose secretion
serves to keep the skin soft, plia-
Bile, pink, young and warm; and
| the sudoriferous or sweat glands,
whose secretion serves to regulate
the temperature of the body, but
| practically not at all to carry OF
any poisons.
A pore is something more than
an opening in the skin. 1t is an
inlet, or means of absorption. The
skin of man has no such equip
ment Man does not breathe one
bit through his skin. The minute
openings just mentioned, so com
monty mistaken for pores" do not
absorb anything from the outside
world. nor do they open" and
"closeR with warmth and cold, as
popular Imagination has it. In
fact, the little openings called
pores" are no more important
physiologically or pathologically
than is the hole in which a post
stands or the hole in which a nail
is set in the wood.
1t seems deplorable to add that
this leads straight to the inevita-
Bile conclusion that things purport-
ing to feed or nourish the skin
through the pores purport to ac-
complish the impossible. Thus,
things purporting to improve
complexion by giving something to
the skin through the pores would
have the same effect il applied to
the side of a house
1t required several years of
study for me to learn that when a
young woman complains of EN-
Iarged pores" she means she has
an excessive secretion of sebum or
oil doctors call this seborrheal or
more or less plugging of the little
openings of the sebaceaus ducts
with hardened sebum (white heads
or comedones) or with sehum
mixed with carbon and other DIRK
pigments (blackheads). For these
troubles the best application I
know is a mixture of about equal
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
Oldest Man.

i am lSS years old, says Uncle John Shell
celebrating his birthday in a long cabin on
Greasy Creek, Ky. The census-taker in 1860
recorded Uncle Johns age as 81. That would
make him 50 years old now. instead of "tba
Oldest man in the world" But John insists
there was an error in that early enumeration.
lie says he was born in 1888. a similar case
was Noah Raby. who died in New Jersey
poorhouse several years ago Raby claimed
TO be 1877 years old. After his death. the census
bureau investigated and found that he was less
than 100.
Your comment probably Is. Il guess these
stories about men living much beyond a CEN
fury are hokum." Not always: Henry Jenk-
ms of Yorkshire. England. lived to 169 years.
The king had his age investigated. became con-
WINGED that Henry was telling the truth. and
had the old man come and live at the palace
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
Chr Unitthstnttp
-EPITAPH :-
/ HERE LIES MANS ANCIENT ENEMY,
DILL CARE.
WHO DIsiNTKRs THE UNL0yED CESS
BEWARE.
R4TN INA VERMONT TOWN.

[F'rom The Coming Tower.1
The rain~stepped down upon the town,
Bouncing like toad.
And only the doctors buggy
Was seen upon the road.
The gardens drank with glistening mouths
Silver and rose and green;
Their leaves stood out against the fog
Like leaves upon a screen
The little boy with puddle boots,
He won't come out today.
I think the doctors buggy turned
Up Billy Jones's way.
CHARLES A. WAGNER
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17

@. Has Germany a diplomatic
representative in Mexico? S. D.
A Germany is represented in
Mexico by a minister, Count Mont
gelaf.
Q. Does the skull keep on grow
ing until a person is tuH grown:
K. D. S.
A. The skull increases very little
in size alter the seventh year and
after about the twentieth year
ceases growing.
Q. Is the nsh, whose eggs are
sold as caviar, large fish:
X. Z. H.
A. The Russian sturgeon, known
1t has Deen known TO grow TO the
length of 20 to % feet and to
we:gn 5000 pounds. AT spawning
time a female produces from tive
to three million eggs, constituting
from one-dftn to oue-third of the
entire weight Of the fish.
Q. Who first called Ireland the
Emerald Isle? E. NJ. E.
A. This name, given Ireland on
account of the richness of its YER
dure. was first used by DR.. Dren-
nan in a poem entitled Erin. d..
brennan lived from 1854 until
1920.
Q. How long a strand of silk
does a silkworm spin? R. R.
a. A single fibre produced by a
is from 500 TO 1000 yards
in length. Each fibre of silk, when
examined under a microscope, is
seen to be double
c. Who makes and modifies the
rules Tor cricket? A. M
A. The rules that govern the
game OF cricket are made by the
MaryIebone Cricket club OF Lon
don.
Q. Our postman refused to de-
liver d 5-pound package. Isn't he
to deliver them? G. l. T.
4. Tie Pcstof6ce department says
that all postmssters have been in
structed to have patrons call at
the postoffices for such mail mat
ter as cannot be easily carried by
the carrier. That is the reason
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
LITTLE WHITE CURLS.
By Katharine Gla<Se,
Copyright. 1921, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc)

Ry haInaF1ne UidsSes
/ Copyright. 1921, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
az detest white hair. II I found
the least few in mine l would have
it dyed at once" Beatrice patted
( her own golden locks and gazed
with contempt at Joan's white curls
in the front of her otherwise dusky
hair.
Edward SINNERS looked at the
/ lovely girl at his side slyly out OF
his fine eyes. They say wisdom
comes with gray hair" he said
teasingly.
! But you're not gray. Mr.. Sim
mers, and you are awfully wise,
Beatrice purred with an idol wor-
shipping gaze.
IF writing the popular novel of
J the season and so soaring the wolf
from the door can be called wis
dom you're right. But"
why. Mr.. SINNERS! Look at
wise, do you think, to have let a
mans death bother her so-and he
was. married, too.
you konw the story. No? Well,
he was drowned about eight years
ago. Joan was only 10 then. Joan
saved his wife. Alec's wife was a
little mad, don't you know. They
were out boating with her on the
lake at their summer home and the
boat capsized. Alec got sucked
under the boat. 1t seemed too bad
such a handsome fellow had to go
and his insane wife was saved"
Beatrice sighed as she ended her
scrappy narrative of the tragedy
You probably think that Miss
LIE Pointe should have saved the
man she loved. Ell >" asked Sim
mers thougbtfullv watching the
quiet figure of Joan.
Yes and no. If Joan had saved
Alec there would have been some
Then you think she only saved
the poor little mad wife for ap-
pearances?" demanded the man.
81 don't know" faltered Beatrice,
dropping her long lashes under his
stern gaze.
do you want to know how to
avoid gray hair, wrinkles and some
of those charming symbols of those
who have loyed-and lived?''
Beatrice pouted her vivid red lips
and raised her fower-like face to
the wonder man of the year as he
asked the question forcefulIy.
Don't sheer at old age The old
of today were the youth of yester-
day-every bit as lovely as you.
Just look at them and try TO realize
that unless you intend to end your
life dishonorably you. too, Will be
some day just like them. though
perhaps not quite so delightful IS
some old ladies l know Another
Don't attempt to ana
lyze peoples motives: it is quite a
dangerous proceeding, young
lady"
SINNERS stretched out his long
limbs, and shaking the sand. from
his clothes bowed and Left the
'loveliest deb" of the season alone,
angry tears from her for.
blue eyes.
He made his way to the terrace
where Joan stood apart from the
gay afternoon tea crowd ENJOYING
the beauty of the scene The girl.
Or woman, she was q blending of
both, turned with a pleased smile
at his approach. He had been in
to her by Mrs. Levin.
whose companion she was. AS a |
companion" she knew her Mace
among the fashionable colony at
he PASTORAL Inn and they more /
Dr. less respected il with a shade /
90 much of patronage to please |
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17

I the carrier refused to deliver the
5-pound package. You can readily
see that if a carrier had many
packages of this weight to carry
on one trip. it would tax his
strength heavily.
@. Who formed the body of men.
who, during the Civil war we're
known as "DuTyia Zouaves" and
nicknamed The Red Devils?
E.A.
A. This regiment was organized
by Abram Duryee and they partiel-
pated in the battles of Great Beth
ell. Antietam, Fredericksburg Chan
cellorville and "in battles around
Richmond and on the Peninsula"
G. Will you kindly advise me OF
what material burnt umber IS
made and how it got its name?
H L. D.
A. Burnt lumber is obtained By
roasting umber, an ochreous eaItH
containing manganese This mate
rial is so named because it was
first discovered in CmbFia, ltaIy.
@. What was the shot that was
heard around the world?
A. The shot that was heard
around the world" was the 6not
fired by the American colonists az
Concord at the beginning Of ls
Revolutionary war.
@. How large do drops of water
have to be to be called rain? a
W. A.
A Drops of water formed in the
atmosphere by condensation o.
aqueous vapor and falling rapidly
by virtue of their weight are known
as rain Smaller. finer particles,
falling more slowly. are known a.
mist or fog. Drops Of rain one
fourth to three-tenths Of an lboi
indiameter have been measured.
TIE smallest drops of rain measure
ene-twentieth OF an inch in diam
eter
@. Into how many states is Bra
I'll divided? T. ..
90 states, one territory and one
federal district-
Q. How many railway mai
clerks are there? T. L |.
A. The Post Office department,
says that there are about l9roeo
railway mail clerks IL the service
at the present time.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-17
The Daily Short Story

J Edward SINNERS. who had beer
very much of an under cog" fol
many years.
Isn't it wonderful" was he1
commonplace observation, made II
a tfmid voice, as she indicated the
Green Mountains, and the lake ly-
ing like a quivering pool of silver
metal, in the heat of the day.
i SINNERS looked at the girl close
iIy Beatrice's venom-tipped pratt
> tie had awakened his interest He
saw in her frank. violet blue eyes
and we'll balanced face, nothing OF
the adventures. The little white
locks were a very strong indica-
at the time, placed duty before
love-and had suffered intensely
"WouIdn't you like to go over to
the mainland with me before din
ner?" he asked, with the smile
that won all corners.
I'D love to! Mrs. LAWN won Il
want me until 6, if you could come
back them"
Joan had the happy knack of
letting man talk, If he wanted to.
To SINNERS, who had been COW
cred for months with oral bou-
Quets, her silence regarding his
work came as blessed relief That
trip to the mainland in his motor
boat was the first of maryland to
other points of interest.
Weeks passed and still SINNERS
fingered and enjoyed the sensation
of being himself with Joan.
One evening Mrs. LAWN sent for
him to come to her apartment.
I've got bone to pick with you,
Mr. SINNERS" Mrs LAWN an
nounced. with a CLEAN in her keen
old eyes
Pick away-Tm ready to share
it with you, Madam." he returned,
smilingly.
found my Joan crying over
your picture-girls will do those
things, of Course-but it hurts
when my Joan cries-and l Just
won't have her hurt any longer
by you." she ended hotly.
Il don't want to hurt her; l want
to make her happy, to marry her,
her forget" he replied, calmly.
Then you remember the story?'
ut was told me in part - that
made me love those little white
locks-don't you know"
"Joan's a saint! Alec was my
niece's husband. I saw the acct
dent Joan was on shore with me.
I've had her since she was a mere
baby. Well, she swan right to
Vera, Alec's wife, and brought her
back to Shore-theu she went back
for the nurse Alec had tried to
save her, but before she reached
them, they were in some way
caught under the boat We never
found their bodies. 1t was horri-
Bile. That is why Joan has those
white curls, Shock, poor darling.
she adored AIec-but if was just
4 girls adoTauon-she loves you
with woman's love- I'm SO glad,
Mr.. SINNERS. I have passed Joan
off as my companion-because l
wanted her out OF the hands of for
tune hunters. She does not know
it, but she will inherit poor yera's
portion-or he children will
when Vera dies-so you are really
d lucky man! Now, go and get it
over with" Mrs. Lawns voice
trembled IS she pushed him from
the room.
When Beatrice, in the solitude of
her baby blue boudoir, read of the
Of the noted playwright
and novelist to Joan lie Pointe, she
Little reolized that her own re-
marks about white hair had been
responsible for this happiness. But
it was with a food OF tears that