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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Plague of Wolves in Mexico.

Man-eating wolves have killed more
than dozen persons in the San Pedro
and CuatrO CienegaS localities of
Mexico. Never in the history of that
region have these depredatOry animals
been so numerous and vicious as new.
it is stated. They run in packs and
do not hesitate to attack travellers
upon the roads and trails. Only re-
Gently a party of five MeXicanS were
making their way along a well-trav-
eled highway near Cuatro CieneGas
when they We're attacked by wolves.
The men made Il desperate resistance,
but were finally overcome by the
hungry animals. The skeletons of The
victims, stripped of all flesh were
found the following day. At the Ia
cuba ranch near San Pedro, a night
Waterman was attacked and killed by
wolves. Many cases of attacks being
made by the animals and in which
they were killed or driven off are
reported.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Ancient Perfumes.

Perfume plays a large part in the
affairs of the wOrld-a much larger
part than the average person casually
thinks. Pleasing scents have had
their influence in the affairs of man
kind for so many centuries that refer
ence to them may be found in the old
est chronicles.
According to Homer, Circe augment
ed her charms by amounting herself
with various perfumes, and it was by
the harmony of these perfumes that
she beWitched Ulysses. Violet was the
favOrite perfume with the AthenianS
at feaStS, funerals and other cere-
monies. There were fountains of fra
grant waters at the feastS of Nero. The
perfumery-makerS of the old time COM
bined the scents of roses from Cyrene.
viOlets from Athens, balSams from the
orient and henna flowers from Egypt
Incense was burned at pagan rites and
in Hebrew temples centuries before the
birth of our Lord, and ardent YER
vain was offered up by the GaulS in
their ancient rites. Great value was
given to the use of perfumery in Eu-
rope by the returned Crusaders. who
learned to value it during their travels
and trials in the east
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Sanctuaries for Fur-Bearinq Animals.

SanctuarieS for fur-bearing animals
as one means of keeping up the supply
are urged by the department of agri-
culture, whose biological survey tells
the story of the increased worth of
fur, says the Nations Business. One
man bought a lynx coat complete in
1913 for $500. After wearing it two
years he sold the lining for 81 900 and
replaced il with nutria at cost of
$3.50, in 1917 he sold the nutria lining
for $3.50 and put in muskrat lining
at a cost of 500; in 1918 he sold the
muskrat lining for $500 and still has
the shell of the coat and clear profit
of SS45.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Frances Hunt for Timber,

Numerous practical experiments
have been made by the French govern
ment in order to determine the re-
sistance and durability of the various
woods Obtainable in French colonies.
Contrary to the general belief, the
timber which abOundS in the colonies
is not the hardwood employed by cabi-
net makers but common varieties
which are adapted to ordinary con
structiOn purposes. A uniform com
mercial name has been given TO the
many varieties of timber which are
closely related from botanical point
of view and suitable for the same pur-
pose. The timber has been divided
into categOrieS according to it's char
acter and the purpose for which it may
be utiliZed.-Scientific American.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
LET DICE DECIDE
NeWIyWeds Have Bright Scheme
for Keeping Happy.
But Would 1t Work if One of Them
Should Have a Persistent Run
of Ill Luck?

This is story wherein the dice rule
Cupid. For some time the apart
ment neighbors of the NewlywedS
have been wondering what conSti-
tuted their recipe for marital bliss.
Those only d few years married de-
clared they had never seen anything
like it, and the old-timers asserted
that no pair could be SO happy and
still be married. 1t wasn't done in
this day and age. Not until just the
other day did the apartment neigh
borS learn the secret of the Newly
weds, and now everybody in the
house is trying it.
The Old-timers still have some trou
bic, even under the NewlyWedS' SyS
tenn, but those married only a few
years say it has promise and may
eliminate the divorce courts.
The NeWlyWeds had been having
trouble. Married for almost a year,
Mrs. Newlywed had discovered her
husband dipping his toast in his cOf-
fee in the morning and made CUR
Cling sound when he ate it. Such
breach of breakfast table etiquette
might be tolerated every other morn
ing, but every mOrning-that was too
much. On the other hand, Mr..
NeWlyWed had found his wife did not
prepare the steak just the way he
wanted it, hid his slippers in the> dark
corners, and in general committed
particular things which irritated him
ii little
These things were troubling the
Newlyweds when Mrs. Newlywed
struck on an idea.
You want to be fair about this 2"
asked Mrs Newlywed
Il do" said Mr.. Newlywed in sol
emn voice that almost made him think
he was back at the altar again.
Then We'll get rid of this head of
the household question which had been
disturbing u.s. said Mrs. Newlywed.
Have you got a pair of dice?'
Sure" said Mr.. Newlywed. What
fOr?'
Mrs. Newlywed took them.
''See," she said, well throw them
for high point to show who throws
first. Then the one who gets five
naturals first rules the household for
a day. The other will do just what
the winner dictates. In that way
there'l never be any argument as to
who is boss"
And there hasn't been. The dice
find their boss for Cupid every day
New York Sun
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
SEES IMPROVED CONDITIONS
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon Pre-
diets Lower Rates of Interest in
Middle West

Washington, May 6.-Financial con-
ditiOns throughout the country have
improved greatly during the past
month, Secretary of the Treasury Mel
Ion declared, in his semiweekly con
ference with newspaper correspond
ents.
He forecasts that, following the re-
ductiOn of the interest rates charged
by the Federal Reserve banks of New
York and Boston, lower rates will be
put into effect by reserve banks in the
Middle West and throughout the cOun-
try. This will be done he thinks, in
time to allow easier rates to farmers
in crOp-mOying season.
Reduction of federal reserve rates
will end and the period of 'liquida-
ton" and credit shrinkage treasury
officials believe.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
China Planting American Cotton.

The Kuangsi (China) provincial
authorities have of late shown an liz
terest in the development of cotton
growing. Seeds of the American cot
ton plant from the Nantung farms in
Kiangsu have been purchased and ex-
periments are being made at different
places by the Nung Lin Shin Yen
Chang. 1t is hoped eventually when
there is fair output to establish cot
ton mills, but for the moment no funds
are available for the purpose.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
NEWS BITS FOR BUSY PEOPLE

a Manila dispatch says 90 Moros
we're killed in a battle with the Philip
pine constabulary in the province of
Sulu.
The body of Ethel Gavin, twenty
tour, school teacher of Glencoe, H.,
was found hanging from a tree at
Mellen, Wis.
The feminine mayor and city coun-
I'll at Thayer, Kan, appointed men as
city treasurer and agreed to name
man as city marshal.
The American Railway Express has
notified its $4,000 employees that it
cOntemplates revision in wages,
working hours and conditions, effective
June 1, SAYS a New York dispatch.
The doors of the Exchange State
bank and the Central State bank. both
Of Keller, Okla. and the Bank of
jerks at jerks, Okla, were closed on
order of the state bank commissioner.
A serious outbreak of pneumonia
plague in Vladivostok. Siberia is re-
ported in a cablegram received at
American Red Cross headquarters at
Washington. The message gave no de-
tails.
Five hundred platform men of the
Northern Ohio Traction company,
Akron and suburban lines, struck
making the tieup of the traction com
panies' properties in this district com
plete.
All American nOncOmmisSiOned Off
GERS and men, up to and including
sergeants, at Coblenz, who have mar
ried Europeans actually in the Rhine
land have been ordered home. The or
der affects about 500 men
The break in the White river levee
near Georgetown, Ark, has expanded
from $50 to 500 feet. More than no.
900 acres of land are inundated; 700
refugees from the flooded district are
safe at Peach Orchard Bluff and Cot
ton Plant.
Appointment Of Walter II. Riddell as
general superintendent of railway
mail service was announced by Post
master General Hays at washington.
Mr.. Riddell comes from Cortland, H.,
and entered the postal service in 1889
as railway mail clerk. Recently he
has been division superintendent at
Pittsburgh
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
THE MARKETS.

FLOUR-Hard winter wheat-Short pat
ent, $S.O0QS25; first clear. $6.OOQ6.25; second
clear, $4.5GQ4.75 special mill brands, in IS
lb. cotton sacks. $S.25QS.5O; warehouse de-
livery. sS.S5q9.0O. Soft winter wheat
Short patent, $7.OOQ7.25. Hard winter
wheat-Short patent. s7.5OQ7.75; first clear,
$6.00Q6.25. Rye f1our-White patent s.. GOA
TBS; dark. S.. OOQ5.25.
HAY-No. timothy. $21.0O@220O; stand
ard and No. light clover mixed, $4,000
1000: No. timothy. $14.OcQ16.OO.
CATTLE-Prime steers, $S25QS. so; good
to choice steers, $7.50@84O; fair to good
steers. s6.25Q7.S5 yearlings, fair to choice,
s7.OOQ9O0; feeding steers $6.5OQS.O heif-
ers. $500QS.65; cows, good to choice, $5.25
100; fair to good cows. s4OO95.5O Gamers,
s2.OOQ30O; cutters. $300q4.25; bologna bulls,
s4.5Oq5.5O; calves, s7.25Q1O.OO.
HOGS-Choice light butchers, S. 156S. 80:
medium weight butchers, s7.85@S 40: fair
to fancy light, sS.O0686O; heavy butchers.
27O-325 lbs, S9O@S.3O; heavy packing, S3
s @7.9O; rough packing. s6.5O@7.OO pigs, 500
QS25.
SHEEP-Native lambs, $S.OO@105O; fed
western lambs, S9.0OG11.OO; shorn lambs,
$S.OOq10.5O; wethers s4.5O@T.5 so: yearlings,
:" OOq950; ewes. s3.5O@7O 90: feeding lambs,
$1.0OQS5o
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Coins as Metric Weiohts.

In the Valve World, Howard Rich
ards, Jr.. notes Il little known fact
as to our coinage and the metric sys-
tenn. 1t was shown at the recent an
nual meeting of the American Metric
association, he says, that the United
States subsidiary currency and the
nickel are legally defined in terms of
grams. A new 5-cent piece weighs eX-
actly five grams, and the 10, % and
50-cent silver pieces weigh one gram
for each four cents. Two 10-cent
pieces will balance one nickel. and
all of these coins may be conveniently
used as weights or to check metric
scales.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
No Use Making Noise Like $1,000.

To get an interview with ]. NJ. Bar
RE requires strategy. A lady journal
list from America, unable to reach the
author by direct means, sought out a
friend of his. The best he could do
for her, however was to make a sug-
gestiOn. Said he, Your only chance is
to go to his fiat, crouch down outside
his door and make a noise like a lost
child. Presently he will be moved to
look out; then, if you are quick, you
might get hold of him. Boston
Transcript.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
CALL THESE BRAIN TWISTERS
Try Them II You Imagine You Have
a Really Efficient Thinking
Machine.

Most people imagine they think
quickly and can act quickly. But in
many lines of work it is necessary for
person to know whether he thinks
and acts quickly. and as proof of his
speed demonstrations are required.
No class is required TO think more
swiftly than men who run trains,
street cars or automobiles.
If you want TO test your ability TO
think quickly. submit yourself TO the
following. which is a test employees of
one American street railway are re-
quired TO take
With your pencil made a dot over
any one of these letters. T @ III l ], and
cross after the longest of these three
words: Boy, mother girl. Then, if
Christmas comes in March. make a
cross right here. but if not, pass
along TO the next question and tell
where the sun rises. If you be-
lieve Edison discovered America,
cross out what you just wrote, but if
it was some one else. put in a number
TO complete this sentence: "A horse
has. feet Write yes, no matter
whether China is in Africa or not.
and then give a wrong answer to this
question: How many days are there
in week." 800. Write any letter eX-
cept q in this space. -. and then write
No if , times D are TO-. Now, if
Tuesday comes after Monday, make
two crosses here 80. Be sure to
make three crosses between these two
names of boys: George. -. Henry.
Notice these two numbers, 3, D. If
iron is heavier than water, write the
larger number here. But if iron is
lighter, write the smaller here. -.
Show by a cross when the nights are
longer? In summer. -. in winter?..
Give the correct answer to this queS
ton Does water run up hill?" -.
and repeat your answer here. -. Do
nothing here, > plus equals. -. unless
you skipped the last question; but
write the first letter of your first name
and the last letter of your last name
at the end of this line.
An unusually alert person can fill
in the above correctly in a minute or
less. The average person requires
about a minute and half.-BaltimOre
Trolley Topics.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
OF Course Not.

While mother was having her hair
curled at a department store one of
the clerks took fancy to the little
daughter, age five, and took her into
one of the booths where she mani
cured her nails The child's mother
told her to thank the young woman
and say good-by as she left.
The child looked at the mother in
a puzzled manner, and then said:
II don't know whether | shall or
not. She wants me to be a mailer
when l grow up, and l don't want to-"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
KU-KLUX KHAN CELEBRATES
Anniversary of Order Draws 5000
Knights to Stone Mountain, Ca
Many Candidates.

Atlanta, Ga, May 6.-Knights of the
Ku-KluX Klan gathered here from all
parts of the country for celebration of
the founding of the order on top of
Stone mountain, six years ago. The
original khan was formed May 6.
Some 5000 knights were present at
the observance and more than 10000
candidates are to be taken into the
order, according to announcement of
officials.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
1actful Solution

Look at the fine clothes she wears
and the car she rides in +. Her husband
must be making lot more money thar
you"
THAT doesn't prove anything. She
may merely be more eXtravagant than
you, my dear"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Benefit of Censorship.

DO you approve of censorship for
the theater?' Yes" replied the man
ager; 'but only for foreign countries.
You can always expect good business
for play whose production has been
Forbidden abroad"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07
Farmer Found Dead.

Peru, Ind, May 6.-JOseph Dauben-
speck, fifty-seven, a farmer, was found
dead in the grass at his home south
of Peru. A bullet hole in his heart
showed he probably killed himself. A
widow and daughter survive
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07

To please France the Germans who
mobbed French army officers were
given severe sentences. Now the
rioters are to be pardoned to please
Germany.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07

The only way to mediate between
the Turks and the Armenians is to
give the latter a good supply Of guns
and then diSarm the former.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-05-07

In old-fashiOned legalized whisky
there were fist fights, but in illicit
hootch there seems to be the poten-
TALLY of murder in every drink.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
Rail Line Is Planned
To Cross Argentina

During the latter part of the year
1920 the Argentine minister of pub
lie works submitted to the Pres
ident of the Republic for his sigma
ture a decree appointing certain en-
gineers to make the surveys for
a railway line, which starting from
the city OF Santa Fe would cross
the Parana River by ferryboat to
the city of Parana. whence it would
continue via the departments Of
Nogoya and Gualegnay to a point
in the neighborhood of Ibicuy. From
this latter point trains would again
be conveyed by ferryb oat either
to the vicinity of Alsina or to the
town Of Baradero. Thence a new
independent state line to the city
of Buenos Aires would be coin
structed by a route yet to be de-
cided upon. A sum of 100000 pesos
Is placed at the disposal of this
survey Z committee for. expenses.
Accompanying this report from
Consul General Robertson is an ex-
tract from The Review of the River
Plate commenting upon the pro-
posed railroad. After emphasizing
the large amount Of money needed
for any such undertaking under the
changed economic conditions which
prevail today. the article referred
to concludes by saying: we in
cline to the belief that the study
commended to the special commit
tee will prove to be a purely aca-
demic one."'
The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
BRITISH RECOVERY
AIDS COTTON PRICE
Demand for Futures. Brisk
And Market Tone
Strengthens.

NEW YORK. March IA sudden
recovery at Liverpool promoted q
brisk demand for cotton futures
here today, and the undertone OF
the market was considerably
stronger, although top quotations
were not held. Initial quotations
were frm at an advance of 80 to
63 points.
Covering was active and general,
but the upturn met a good deal Of
cotton. The South was a seller, and
there were reactions of about 30
points. Fluctuations were very ir-
regular. Traders who had been
waiting for bulge to put out short
contracts also sold. Bears were less
confident, however, and covering
was resumed. This, together with
some buying by the trade to fx
prices and purchasing for invest
ment account, based on the low
level of prices, led to another jump.
Late in the morning active options
sold about 60 to 10 points above
the previous close.
After the first half hour there
was little selling from the South.
Business decreased around midday;
early in the afternoon the demand
slackened and March dropped to
II. May to 11.S5, and July Ills, or
within to s points of yesterdays
low points. In the last hour Wall
Street and local supporting orders
again made their appearance. and
the market rose 80 points or more
from the bottom. The close was
steady at net gain of 80 to 47
points.
spot here was steady, with mid
ding 40 points higher, at ll.s5;
there were no sales. Spot at New
Orleans was quiet, with the revised
quotation of middling fixed at 1I.25;
the sales were 3S5 bales.
Receipts Of cotton in bales at
some of the leading points TODAY
were: Galveston, 14,771; New Or
leans, 1,4s5: Savannah, 1906; Au-
gust9, 1.044; Memphis, 1910: st.
Louis 6,402; Houston, 6,337.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
DEPRESSION CURES
ARE BEING SOUGHT
Chamber Of Commerce Mails
Quiries to Business
Throughout Nation.

Information as to what steps are
being taken by manufacturers. JOB
bers and retail merchants all over
the country to cut down their op-
Grating expenses during the present
business depression Is being sought
in a survey that is being made by
the domestic distribution depart
ment of the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States.
A letter of inquiry was sent out
yesterday by this department Of
the National Chamber to thousands
of business men, asking them such
questions as these:
what are you doing to reduce
your personnel cost to a normal
basis?
what have you done to reduce
your publicity costs to a normal
basis?
state separately the approximate
percentage of your reduction in
service?
Have you reduced your volume
of credit business?
Have you effected q saving by
shortening time on charge ac-
counts!"
Business men are further request
ed to give any information they
may be able to furnish, and which
is not specifically asked in the let
ter, which may help in solving the
pressing need of lowering the cost
Of merchandising to a normal basis.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
ENORMOUS FOREST
TRACT PURCHASED
National Forest Reservation
Approves 5S,S53 Acre.
Transaction.

. The National Forest Reservation
Commission at a meeting held Feb
ruary rs. approved the purchase of
58.S53 acres of land in the White
Mountains, Southern Appalachians
and Arkansas, at an average price
of $40. These lands consist of two
tracts amounting to 40 acres in
New Hampshire; three tracts aggre-
eating 800 acres in Tucker and
Hardy counties. West Virginia
fourteen tracts totaling 3s,056 acres
in Augusta, Rockingham. Shenan-
doah, Rockbridge, and Amhers,
Counties, Virginia; three tracts with
a combined. area of S,745 acres in
Johnson. Unicoi, and Green Coun-
ties, Tennessee; eleven tracts
amounting to 3s7 acres on the Boone
and Mt. Mitchell purchase units, in
Avery. Caldwell, Burke, and Nc
Dowell Counties, North Carolina /;
five tracts totaling 6sS acres in Ra-
bun County, Georgia; forty-five
tracts aggregating 6,2S3 acres
largely in Montgomery. Polk. Scott,
Yell, Pope, Stone, Newton. and John
son Counties, Arkansas; and nine
teen tracts in Lawrence and Win
ston Counties. Alabama, having a
total area of 3,305 acres.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
WORLDS FLAXSEED CROP
INCREASED Is PER CENT
Past Years Production Now Estimated al
l0,99O,000 Bushels.
tBy The Washington Heraid's Economist)

wheat. which Is significant adyan-
tage over flaxseed.
The nve principal wheat produc-
ing countries of the world are also
the important flaxseed producers
These countries, Argentina, United
States, British India, Russia and
Canada. produced about 10000, ,000
bushels per year before the war
Russia, which formerly produced
over 100000 bushels a year, has
ceased to be a factor. The crop In
the United States and Canada was
greatly reduced during the war be-
cause Of the urgent demand for
wheat. Production in Argentina and
India showed no such decided de-
crease. :.
Preliminary estimates, partly un-
official. are available for this years
crop In a few countries. The fol-
lowing table gives a comparison of
the 1s2o-21 production In these
countries, with that Of the preced-
ing year and with the pre-war av-
erage. On the basis of pre-war pro-
duction these eight countries pro-
duce nearly so per cent of the
worlds crop and IL Russia is exclud-
ed from the prewar average, these
countries yielded over 90 per cent
OF the worlds supply.
The Washington herald., 1921-03-02
PARIS SAVINGS
BANK PROSPERS
Deposits Show Gain of Twen.
ty-six Million Francs Dur
ing Past Year.

The amount held on deposit in the
Savings Bank Of Paris, an institu-
ton owned and controlled by the
municipality. increased by almost
$4,000, 900 francs in 1920. according
to the Bankers Trust Company. of
New York. The bank, on December
81, 1920, according to official re-
turns received by the Bankers Trust
Company. of New York. from its
French Information Service, had
665.550 depositors whose savings
amounted to l54.637,972 francs.
compared to 673.OsO depositors in
the preceding year with bank ac-
counts totaling l2S,779,1S3 francs
Thus while there was a decrease in
the actual number of accounts, the
average amount OF deposits in
creased.
Money withdrawn during the year
included over 100000 francs for
investment in various government
loans and more than ], 900, 900 francs
which went to other savings banks.
Payments made for the banks de-
positors to old-age pension funds
amounted to 1S.30S francs. The to-
tai amount received from depositors
during the year was 7e.7sS,72s
francs.