Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-12-15

before spring. A big rush to the re.
gion Is looked for next year, because
the placers have panned out so well.
HIGHER than St. Peters at Rome,
higher than the Strasburg Cathedral,
higher than the Great Pyramid, high.
er than the Cologne Cathedral will be
the top OF tho statue of William Pens
in Philadelphia within n few weeks.
The hat Of the good Quaker will over.
top every other structure in this or
any other country, except the Eiffel
tower at Paris and the Memorial
shaft to Washington at the capital !;
but us neither of these is n building,
comparison is hardly fair. The
Washington monument Is 555 feet
high, the Eiffel tower 9S4 feet. The
crown Of William PENIS hat will be
547 feet from the ground. The next
structure in height, the Cologne
Cathedral, is $40 feet. The City Hall
Of Philadelphia Is an immense struc.
ture of marble and brick and iron.
1t has been building since 1871. ID
main tower on the north side Of the
building is 90 feet square ut the base.
Great marble blocks rest upon a
foundation Of eight feet Of concrete
laid 20 feet below the surface OF the
ground. Some Of these blocks weigh
five tons. The walls in places nre 20
feet through. The whole building Is
40 by 1856 feet. IL Is the largest sin.
gle structure on the continent.
In Belgium a new system OF voting
has recently been tried with some
very surprising results. A few years
ago only one in fifty Of the popula.
ton had II right to vote. Tho liber.
ais demanded universal suffrage and
obtained 1t by bulldozing the parlia.
ment. Every man was made n voter.
A single man had one vote, married
man two, and the owner of a certain
amount of property three. Then. q
compulsory voting law was passed.
At the recent election the liberals
who were responsible for this change
lost heavily. The conservatives and
socialists were the gamers. 1.-THE
compulsory system" says the Allan.
tn Constitution, worked badly.
Citizens who refused to vote OH the
ground that they were dissatisfied
with the candidates and platforms
were arrested. driven into the polling
booths, and ordered not to como out
until they had made up their ballots.
II they persisted In not voting they
were sent to jail. Naturally, all Bel.
gium Is In an uproar, and IL Is probable
that the compulsory system OF vot.
ing will be abolished. The people
have come to the conclusion that
when citizen Is unwilling to support
any Of the candidates 1t Is an outrage
to lock him up"
One Of the Oldest Methodist minis
ters In harness In the United States
Is the Rev. Stephen II. Beggs, Of the
Rock River Conference, Illinois. He
is 03 years old, and sound In mind
wind and limb. He was born Marcel
D, 1901, and began his ministry ID
Clark county, Mo-, in 1922. His cir.
cult led him out OF Missouri and intt
Indiana and Arkansas. He Travelled
u circuit there for nine years on horse
back, when he was fortunate enough
to have u horse, but not infrequentl,
on foot. AS the conference forbad,
circuit riders to marry until they hat
completed their course Of study ant
been admitted In full connection, II,
applied himself assiduously to hi
books, was admitted to conference
and married, In 1881, Miss Elizabeth
Lambeth Heath. Immediately ate
this Mr.. Beggs was transferred t,
Illinois and became q circuit rider II
the Tazewell district. He then be
gan to hear OF Fort Dearborn and LAX,
Michigan, and had great desire Il
see the lake. He eventually made
trip to Chicago for the purpose, and
OF course, preached sermon before
he left. His congregation consisted
OF twenty-five persons, assembled II
DR.. Harmon's room In the fort. Thu
was In 1881.
THE French press IL devoting ,
good deal OF attention to the addres
recently made before the Sociology
cal Congress ut Paris on the effect o
education and crime. Since the pas
sage Of tho act OF 1870 the number O
children In English schools has In
creased from 800, 900 to 5000, DOC
and the number OF persons In priso
has fallen from ~, 900 to 5000. Tn
yearly average OF persons sentences
to penal servitude for tho wors
crimes has declined from 1000 t
500, while juvenile offenders have fal
len from $4,000 to 5000. Sir Joh
Lubbock sees In these figures con
frmation OF Victor Hugo's saying
that "he who opens II school closes
prison." In France, according t
the Temps, criminal statistics an
the statements of magistrates sho,
that, as schools have been opene
prisons have filed. and that the di
fusion of education has been accom-
panied, apparently with increase c
crime, and especially OF juvenil
crime. In attempting to account fc
this phenomenon the Temps point
out that In France, under the repuf
lie, education Is simply intellectu,
instruction. In England there Is nc
only instruction, but training. Nor,
and religious influences are brougE
to bear upon the children.