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The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances and la Just on the point of reaching his opponent when with a sudden scream the latter drops his fish. The Eag'e, poising himself tot a moment as if to take a more certain aim, descends ffpppppps^ipppfspi THE MC HENRY Ata^ska Bounty-* Hunicw Have Killed 25000 in La^ll v : : \-xWv ^ ill ""JL '••• MCHENRY, ILL. www :*s0^'i *mr ^ TWO-BITS FOR OLD BALDY Ot3l fJaldy, long time white-crowned King of Alt, i^tth yellow eye of fierce, unshrinking stare •.< •> *nd courage stark as charging trumpet'* blare. With tearing beak and clutching talons dread And wings that almost match the airplane's spread "And swoop and soar that leave the bird-man aped1 ? Old Baldy from his lofty eyrie peers, A giant tree from which for fifty years He has by sea and shore kept watch and ward O'er all the realm below that calls htm lord, Prom which for flftyv years he's swooped, In Quest Of prey to seize and bear ?JVto h'® nest, i Where he each year has reared with hlw OM <m®e Two eaglets in a home inviolate, J , A home for yet another fifty years-- A shot! Old Baldy launches forth, but veers And crumples up, then like a ship careens And sinks. Thus dies the Lord of Wide DemUM# The while a bounty-hunter man demeans: "Got html Anothw two-bits in my Jeans!" » --J. I>. «. By JOHN DICKIN80N SHERMAN O YOU want to make a dollar **the worst way"--a big United States of America dollar with the "Bird of Freedom" on it--and at the same time to help to save Alaska from going straight to the demnitiop bow-wows V If so, get out your shootln'-lron, take a run up to the territory that Is clamoring for statehood, sneak ap on a bald eagle, pot him, scalp him, and rake In j»ur bounty. As to how you have helped to save JLlaska--that's different. Anyway, you may have paved the life of a fox pup, as the friends of cbe eagle put It. When Cornwallls surrendered at Yorktown In 1781, the British army marched oat with its bands playing, "The World Turned Upside Down." That „tone should be popular in Alnska just now, say the nature lovers. It was In 1782. the last year Of the Revolution, that the American eagle was officially made the national American emblem. The thirteen original states admired the American Since then ; R state* have at least been'- able to get along with him, « •. And now here In 1924 la Alaska asking for statehood and at the same time busy a" a one-armed goperhanger with the hives 'n an effort to exterminate Old Baldy. And If ro<igreas does not Intervene Old Baldy will be exterminated. For civilisation has driven out the American eagle from _j&e rest of the country. And Alnska Is the last etyrle of the American Bird of Freedom. . • Congress may stop the slaughter. Congress does queer things at times. It may suspend the Act of the Alaska legislature. And congress Is asked to do that very thing. * There are many "people who do not believe that the American eagle --endangers Alaska. There are many, who do not tielleve that the American eajjle does anything lor which he should be slaughtered. There are even some who do not believe that the American eagle--they are really quite sentimental about IT--should be exterminated under any circumstances. --- Anyway, eagle-nuntlng Is good these days in Alaska. Last year the patriotic hunters of Alaska got only , four-bits for Old Baldy. But the 'mt territorial assembly raised the bounty to a whole -dollar. During the five ---fifty cents only 18,000 American eagles were presented by Alaskan patriots for bounty payments. ?These patriots were playing In hard luck. They killed 7.000 more eagles, but could not recover the dead birds. Their only reward was the proud consciousness of a duty nobly done--at least in pert. But the dispatches say that with the Increased bounty It Is believed enough patriots will get out after Old Baldy to wipe him off the face of the earth and pluck him out of the sky. So hope yet springs eternal in the Alaskan breast It's a perfectly awful indictment that Alaska brings' against the American eagle. They say that be preys on birds, young deer, mountain^beep and -goats." They say that he is destructive to salmon, especially to those en route upstream to spawn. "_"_And finally--here Is the real animus of the indict- " -jBent--they charge that the American eagle Is a "menace to the silver and biue^foxes on the 1,300 fur farms on the coast, l»6th on islands and on tlie mainland. Fo^ pups lave pofentlal furs worth from $75 to $-'00 «*HCh." Mo there's the whole proposition in la nutshell, according to the anti-bounty people. Alaska having started the business of raising foxes for fura, the American eagle has got to get out because he woul be likely to carry off a fox pup If he got a chance. - The other counts-In the Indictment are plara bunk, according to Old Baldy's friends. Alaska cares so little for the conservation of Its deer, mountain sheep and goats that poachers and market hunters kill them In season and out and sell them for meat. And as to the isalmon--why* It is common talk that the fish-packers In their greed and disregard for the law have brought the salmon packing to the verge of ruin. The recent visit of the late President Harding and Secretary Hoover resulted in the taking of steps to check the greed of the commercial fishermen of Alaska. For years these fishermen have been killing spawning salmon that were needed for brood stock. No wonder they want to shift the blame to the American eagle. "ISo far as f have been able to ascertain," writ-- a citizen of Juneau to T. Gllb^rtf Pearson, pre$t» , Uke a whirlwind, snatches It In his grasp ere tt reaches the water and bears his ill-gotten booty silently to the woods." The sportsman Is the gentleman of out-of-doors. He believes in giving the wild game a fair chance, always and everywhere. He will not shoot a bird except It Is In the air. He angles with light tackle. He will not chase down deer with an automobile to get a shot. He never kills more than he can use. To him the game-hog and the market hunter Sre anathema. So the sportsman cannot understand bow the people of Alaska could be Induced In any circumstances to slaughter 25,000 American eagles. Twenty-live thousand dead American eagles-- why, at an average wing spread of seven feet that Is more than 33 miles of dead eagles I That dent of the National Association of Audubon Societies, "no information or statistics were presented to the legislature as a basis for the paa* sage of the bill, the basis for Its enactment being upon statements by observers that, in their belief, the depredations of the bird were seriously affecting the salmon supply by destroying the tish while engaged In spawning In the small streams, that they also killed a great many fawns />t deer, attlt - young forest and shore birds, as vfetl as duciar^r* »P°rtwnan5 , , . - geese And other birds." I i believe there Is no more bloodthirsty creature "The legislature that passed this law," says Mr. on earth than a boy turned loose with his first Shot- Pearson, "Is not controlled by wild Indians 1 was so turned loose ln the wl,d8 of Michiignorant Eskimos, but by men who should know is the cutting short of 250.000 years at the least of bird life--for the American eagle does not assume his head and tail of snowy white until ten years of age and nis natural spvn of life Is more than the four score years and tea of man. Hays better than to condemn any form of wild life merely on rumors and loose statements *of prejudiced observers and without some scientific Investigation." The biological survey of the Department of Ag-. rlculture, after careful study of the economic, relation of the American, or bald, agle, in Bull"tl®7 No. 27, sums up :he matter as follows: - All things considered, the bald eagle ts ratter more beneficial than otherwise, since much of Its food Is of little or no direct economic value, while the good it dbes mors than compensates for ita obnoxlous deeds. - ' * In Alaska where fish are abundant, at certain seasons of the year, the bald eagle undoubtedly lives largely on Ralmon, but It Is a well-known fadin the life History of the salmon that It dies after spawning. The' banks of streams are at times lined with the bodies of spawned-out tish whleU are' carried away and eaten by these big birds of prey. The fact Is--and any naturalist will bear witness to it--that the American eagle, while foijd of fish, is himself a most awkward fisherman. To catch fish he wades into the shallow water of a stream and strikes with his talons at the tish as W let the osprey catWi the fish and then rob the osprey. In fact Benjamin Franklin, who was a good deal of a naturalist, objected to the selection of the American eagle as the national emblem of the American people on the ground that the "Bird of Freedom" did not "get his living honestly." Alexander Wilson (17G0-1813), the famous ai-' thor of "American Ornithology" (1S08-13) In nine , volumes, drew this pen-picture of the American eagle engaged ln his fav^tme sport of robbing the osprey: "Elevated on the high dead limb of some glga*« tic tree that commands a wide view of the nelggh. boring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to coiltemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their avocations below. High over ail these hovers one whose action insttinfly arrests' his whole attention. By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air he knows him to be the Fish Hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His e,ve kindles at the sigt^t, and balancing himself with half-oi: OW»OOOOOOOOi«HKH«H5H«HOCH5HeHei Three Boys Punithed for Robbing Mail New Orleans--Three small boys, ten, eleven and twelve years old, pleaded guilty to tampering with and robbery of mall boxes and were sentenced In Federal District court to serve four years each tn the government training school for boys at Washington, D. C. They are Harold Schult/, ten years old; Jesse James Musgrove, eleven, and Joseph Brown^ negro, twelve. The boys were arrested recently by city police who caught them rifling a mall box. SUPPOSED POOR MAN LEFT KIN $103,53S New Yorker Bequeathed Estate to Scottish Relativew New York.--Robert Innes, who lived at the Mills hotel ln Bleecker street and died In Bellevue hospital on May 14, 1922, was believed to be poor, but the transfer tax report of his estate filed here recently shows that Public Administrator James J. Frawley found' assets of $ia3,r>53. chiefly in cash, stocks and bonds. The public administrator also found that Innes was survived by a brother, John Innes, and * sister, Mrs. Isabella Inglis, both of Greenock, Scotland, who divided his estate equally. The associates and friends of Innes thought that he had a few dollars |n savings banks because he kept bank-, books in a box at the Mills hotel, but he dressed poorly and left no personal articles worth while appraising. He had only $13 in his possession when he was removed to Bellevue to die; his watch was nickel and the chain waa brass. The public administrator found that Innes had $8,214 In five savings banks, and he discovered later that a safe deposit box rented by Innes contained bonds worth $25,704 and stocks valued at $65,053. Among the items were $2,- 037 In United States Treasury notes; $11,200 In Liberty bonds; $3,000 ln Kingdom of Denmark bonds, $3,000 Santa Fe 4s, and $10,000 Missouri Pacific 4s. His stocks consisted of 250 United States Steel common, $24,750; 220 Atchison railroad, $21,835; 100 Southern- Pacific, $0,062; 100 Pacific Oil, $6,500 and 900 MLssourT Pacific common. $6,725. A * m BAYED SPI SAY "BAYER" when you buy-1 Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you art not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe ( by millions and prescribed by physicians 23 years foe : Coids ;* Toothache Neuritis Neuralgia ^Headache.; Rheumatisnf Lumbago _ ... Rain, Para Accept only "Bayer" package which contains proven directions Handy "Bayer" boxes of 12 tablets--Also bottles of 24 and 100--Druggists, ii^tria to the trade mark of Bsrer Maaofaotare ot MoaoacetlcscldMtcr of Salicrlleacll Origin of Jury Trial In an urticle in the North Carolina Law Review "on Magna Chart:! and Trial by Jury," Chief Justice Chirk shows that "broad ns are the provisions of Magna Charta and great as has been its effect upon the course of history. It, has no claim to be styled, aa( It often has been, the origin and guarantee of trial by jury, with which It had nothing whatever to do." The chief Justice says trial by Jury was utterly unknown ln the shape in which we now, have it until It appeared In England nearly a century and half lifter the adoption of Magna Charta. The first authentic Instance of trial by Jury was, he states, in England and tn th»* year llir>l, where Magna Charta was sljmed June 10. 1215.--From the UuUlgli News and Observer. gan. Certainly I knew not the first principles of sportsmanship. Plsreons--now extinct, then as thick ,II the leaves--were killed by me on limbs of trees. Ducks were shot by me on the water. Ttie partridge on a log was fair game to me. But one day this bloodthirsty creature came to the edge of a clearing and saw an American eagle sitting on a dead tree watching htm. The Instant their glinces met the greHt bird shot out Into the air and began to soar upward In splraling circles. ""And the boy hunter, though within easy shot, took ofT his hat and cheered the living emblem of hla ••• country. . . . ___ - - The American eagle la an tapreaalTe creature. iOld Baldy's body Is more than three feet long and --weighs about 12 pounds. His spread of wing Is "from 7 to 8 feet--more than the height of the tallest man! The bald eagle Is so called because .Jot his head and neck of snowy white. > His tall and the upper tall coverts are Jtlso snowy while. The rest of him Is a deep- chocolate brown, lnclin- • ing to black on his back. Anyl consider these things about Old Baldy; He often llvtj to be one hundred years of age. He mates for life. He builds his nest on a lofty tree that stands out from Its lesser fellows like a sentinel. That nest Is home to him. Tear after year he adds to it for the mating time, till it grows to be a landmark. His mate lays but two eggs. He and his mate are affectionate parents, tending the --eaglets until they can care for themselves. In time of danger they fight like winged demons for their young and for their nest, as many a dating Indian, bent on getting a feather or a good-luck "eagle-stone," has found to his cost, it waa a proud Indian who wore an eagle's feather. ...I, JTbe bald eagle Is unawed even by man. Of the man with the gun the JClng of the Air has learned to be wary--but man he will "fight to his last breath, when the fight Is carried to him. Uoastlng of his kill, a bounty hunter sald>: It was a great shot I had at this #H eagle rTipercbed on the top of a tall spruce. 1 drew a An* I bead and pressed the trigger. He launched Into the air and started to sail away, but toppled over and fell with a thud. As I came up the blood was dripping from his beak. He was too near gone to "stand but he threw himself -on his back, with his talons stretched up defiantly. He struck at me. quivered and the film ofNdeath parsed over bis eyes The American eagle, superior to cold and storm, of miraculous powers of fllgh^ equal to any earthly power save tlmt of man. is a symbol of courage, the emblem of American freedom. U. S. Flyer* Brave Death to Photograph Volcano H(lo, Island of Hawaii.--Airplane photographs of the fire of an active volcano were taken recently by United States army pilots, who successfully performed this daring feat over Kilauea, the largest continuously active volcano ln the world. A group of four planes did the work. In a sudden descent directly over tlie inner crater they went down to within a few tiundrfed feet of the roaring Inferno of lava within the encircling walls, ® Heavily buffeted by the up-ruah of superheated air and gas fumes arising from the pit, the aviators drove their plsnes straight ahead, while the daring photographers leaning far outboard took a series of rapid-fire photographs of the tumultuous molten lava directly beneath them, according to witnesses of the feat A series of unusually graphic views was taken. Those who participated In the flight were Lleuts. J. M. McCulloch, W. N. Arms and Ned Schramm; Capt. R. G. Hoyt, communication officer; R. C. NVrlston, photgrapher, and three an* listed men. ~ Cutieura 8oothes Baby Raahee That Itch and burn,* by hot bath* of Cutieura Soap followed by gentle anointings of Cutlcnra Ointment Nothing better, purer, sweeter, especially if a little of the fragrant Cutieura Talcum Is dusted on at the fin* teh. 25c each.--Advertisement Homestead Explained Hogun was tired of the city and wanted to move out to the great open spaces where men are men and all that sort of thing. Accordingly, be sought information from a friend. ° "Clancy," lie said, "ye've trtkeo & homestead, so ye know all -about it Will ye be tellln' me th' law about goin' about it?" "Well, ye see," said Clancy judlciouafy. "I'm not after rememberin' the letter of the law, but here's what it amounts to: The guvvlment is wlllin' to bet ye wan hundred an' sixty acres of land agin $14 that ye can't live on it five jears without starvln* to death." A Van Amam Frenchman Blames Wife for Slwr, Escapes Duel Turin, Italy.--The threatened duel between Bruno tiemelll, Italian war hero, and M. Cassagraln, French horticulturist, is definitely off, the latter declaring his wife wrote the letter defaming the Italian army, which brought forth Gemeljl's challenge. The affair started with the belittling of Italian products In a' French horticultural catalogue. A woman member of a distinguished family of Turin wrote a letter of protest after reading one W^hese catalogues, and ln reply received a communication, apparently from M. Cassagraln, containing accusations of cowardice against Italian officers and soldiers. Gemelll, who holds the. gold medal for military valor, promptly telegraphed the Frenchman, begging him to consider himself "soundly cuffed" and challenging him to a meeting on the field of honor. Cassagraln now designates hi« wife aa the cause of all the trouble. Largest Swimming Pool Sun !• runcisco has a new swimming pool which Is said to be the largest In the world. It Is 1.000 feet long and 100 feet wide, except for a center portion which is 300 feet wide to provide for a racing course across the pool. The depth varies from 3 to 14 feet and the cost of the pool was $80,000. « MARRY 'EM YOUNG? TREAT ~ • T * 1 'EM ROUGH"--JOHNSON I wisdom of frefltfi [beginning with m V. iJ f ^ • When Bos well, at twenty-six. first met Johnson, the great man was In *, bis fifty-fourth year and at the height Of bis fame, with the celebrated dlc- „tlonary published eight y^are before 'pad his pension recently conferred upon him. Therefore, about fourflfth* of the *%lfe" are taken up with the last 21 years of Doctor Johnson's IK* Archibald Marshall, the English author, has summed up the previous years swiftly and compactly ln an Introductory chapter. It wag in 1736 that Johnson married. There Is in circulation today an admonition to the effect that the wise way tn which to deal with women Is to "marry 'em young; treat 'em rough; tell 'em nothing." Johnson did not marry hla wife young, but be saw the ng tjer rough at the e Idea of curhlng coquet ti all tendencies. She was a Mrs. Porter, a widow double the age of Johnson, yet despite her maturity, or possibly because of It. Inclined to be skittish. Long after the wedding Johnson gave Boswell the following account of their journey to the church upon the nuptlql morn: "Sir, she\had read the old romances and, had gm^ipto her head the fantastical notion tnat a woman of fine spirit aboald use her lover Uke a dog. So, sir, at first fhe told me that I rode too fast and «he could not keep up with me. and when I rode a little slower she p&3&ed me and complained that I lagged behind. I was not made to |>« the slave of caprice and I resolved to begin as I meiint to end. I therefore pushed on briskly till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges, so I was sure she could not miss It. and I contrived that she soon should come up with me. When she did I efcaerve* fear to be IK __ & y - nv«v tear*." .. Doctor Plays Solo for Guests, Then Ends Life Seattle, Wash.--Two minutes after he had finished playing a clarinet solo at a mnslcale recently In the house of Dr. F. Whiting, and without any warning (o the guests, Dr. Albert BV Mattlce. forjy, a Seattle oculist, picked up a revolver from a settee near the window and fatally shot himself, dying shortly afterwards. Doctor Whiting declared that the revolver was his and that he had taken It from his grip on removing some music. the window. According to* friends attending the musicale, no motive could be found for Doctor Mattlce'a actions, as he appeared to be in the best of spirits. Ten Flee as Sheriff Naps. Horristown. 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Some Nerve A very young doctor, opening a hrand new office, waited all day wtttP out a visitor until at last a breathleas man come running up the drive. "Sit down," said the young doctor, soothingly. "What can I do for youT* "I must get MUuthe telephone--at once." gasped ri^pvisitor. "My fife's ill, and I want to ring up cqj doetor."-- London Express. f w Three Accurate Clocim f • Three clocks kept in a t_i.\ in TtM Paris observatory, where the temperature practically never varies, are ae* curate to three ten-thousandths of a second a day. 3- Children Cry for "Castoria" A Harmless Substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, tops and Soothing Syrups -- No Narcotics! .^fioth er! Fletcher's Castorla has Food; giving natural sleep wlthont been in use for over 30 years to relieve babies and children of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of opiates. 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