Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-09-24

ma clasSfcatiOn In the meuical DOCKS.
\ most estimable young woman. Cora
Ravens. was engaged to marry Charles
l.. Fait. a prosperous young farmer.
Extreme bashfulness caused Miss Hav.
ems to postpone the marriage several
times, and at last. after the wedding
guests had assembled. she refused to
allow the ceremony to proceed. There
upon the prospective bridegroom com.
mi;ted suicide by taking morphine. 4
few days later the girls mother com.
United suicide by drowning. and final.
~ Miss Ravens herself died. There
seems to he no room for doubt that In
the case of this unfortunate young
woman bashfulness was rs clearly a
disease rs scarlet fever or typhoid. The
day probably will come when the skill.
ed physician will minister not only to
the body. but also to the mind. and
when shades of feeling and personal
pecullarltics Of disposition and temper
ament will come within the purvicw Of
his office.
Last spring corporation known as
the Elcctrolytlc Marine Salts Company
established ut North Lubcc. Maine. u
complicated apparatus which was said
to extract gold from sea.water. For
several months gold bricks. alleged to
be the outcome Of the process, were
regularly shipped to the New York
n say office. In July the chief promo.
s.p an a. ~ "a Inv
negan. suddenly disappeared. The per.
sons who had Invested several hundred
thousand dollars In his enterprise were
Informed n few days later that they
had been grossly deceived. II was
shown that q confederate went down
In a diving-suit nnd introduced into
the "separators" and "accumula sors"
the gold which was supposed to DO
drawn from the ocean. II Is doubtful
whether the annals Of great swindlcs
record any more plausible AMI In.
genious than this. II was based upon
a scientific truth-that there Is gold In
sea. water: the pseudO-d iscOvcrcr Of the
process was u man Of good rcpute. u
clergyman. In fact; the preliminary
tests were conducted by honorable
gentlemen. under conditions which
seemed to leave no opening for fraud.
Because of all this the press treated
the project with respect. For the same
reasons. persons who could III afford to
lose money were willing to buy the
cOmpany's stock. These persons are
entitled to the most cordial sympathy.
| ant hat "a tnV ~ IA l,s.ll s,
have learned a lesson which Is worth,
perhaps. every dollar 1t cost. That IL,
TO be wary of any investment which
depends upon a "secret process More
often than not the "secret" conceals
nothing but a rascars thefts.
Almost the whole OF the public deb
OF the nations of the world has beef
incurred In war. since 1902 Grea
Britain has added f00i,O0O.0OO TO he
public debt in seventy-hve years o
war. AMI diminished the debt f2IG,O00,
900 in one hundred and twenty year
of peace. Thus 1t takes more than tiv,
years Of peace to pay the loss Occa
stoned by one year OF war. The nc
debt of the United States In July. 1901
was Ss7.7OO.OOO; In August. 1865,
was S?.75GOOO,O0O. 1t reached its low
est point since the civil war In lS9a
when II was $s39.000,OOO. That is, Il
twenty-elght years of peace this rlcl
country had paid little more thai
two-thrds of the debt incurred in fou
years of war. France staggers' unde
public debt which causes IN annun
interest charge of $3.50 for every pei
son in the country, and she owes thi
debt chiefly to foreign ana domestl
wars. 1t Is nearly the same story ever!
where. ana we are learning this yea
that national glory Is costly, even I
our own country.