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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-12-17

with which we insist on thorough
preparation for their work by our law.
yers and ministers, on education and
drill for our soldiers. and on mastery
of all the details of their respective
callings by those who are to boss our
Industries. Diplomacy, In Its proper
sense. requires special training just rs
much rs any of these, whatever the
natural qualifications Of n minister
may he. Not that any one need be
vcrsed in the subtletles Of a Machia.
velli. a Gortschakoff or a Metternich.
The American plan of frank and sim
cere dealing Is more than match for
these. but 1t needs to be supplemented
by a knowledge of languages and af.
fairs. of history and economics, of com.
mercial exchanges and business rela.
tions between countries. such rs can
only be had through special training
or long experience. We have done fair.
~ well SO far in our principal transac.
tons with other nations, because on ev.
cry important occaslOn-as In the case
of negotiations now in progress Mt Par
is--we have called from other work the
nblest men In our nation to represent
us, for that emergency only. But there
have been multitudes of smaller trans.
actions. constantly occurring. In which
the inferior training of our representa-.
ties has placed us at a disadvantage.
The establishment Of school Of the
character named above by Columbian
University Is n step In the right direc.
tlon. That school may. perhaps. become
the nucleus Of larger Institution
which. under government control. may
one day do for our diplomatic and con.
sular service what West Point Is doing
for our army and Annapolis for our
navy.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-12-17

AT least, interest III THIS SUBJECT, anu "
Is possible that some good may come
from the work that he tried to do.
even though he failed at 1t. lie can.
not be classed among the worlds
greatest inventors; but. In view of the
wonderful discoveries that are now he.
ing made In all fields of scientific re.
search. who can say that the day will
not yet come when this force, to which
Keely pinned his faith or some other
akin to 1t. will be harnessed down by
man and forced to obey his commands?
cannot conceive of anything that
women could do in the future that
would shock the public now as the
things they actually are doing would
have shocked the public of thirty. TWEEN.
~. or even ten years ago. writes a cor.
respondent of the North American
Review. Women attend business
meetings of corporations. and In
some cases, notably small manufac.
turing or business concerns. II they
have large amount Of money invested.
they serve as directors. even as presi-
| dent or treasurer. They vote on school
matters in the majority of the states.
They have full suffrage in Wyoming.
Utah. Colorado and Idaho. and munich
| pal suffrage in Kansas. Even In States
where they do not vote. women are fire.
| quently seen at the polls. notably men,
bers of the W. G. Il. u. who go for the
purpose Of distributing ballots or pro-
vding coffee In the interest of temper.
ance. We see the same change In social
life. Years ago mans club was the
one spot where n woman could not SGT
her foot. 1t was generally supposed
that the moral tone Of the place was
such that she would not wish to go
there II she could. Customs have
changed SO much that women not only
visit the club on "ladies' nights" but
they are actually invited to the restau-
rants OH ordinary days. Almost all the
newer clubs. especially those in the
country. and those connected with ath.
letlc interests. make provision for won.
en-. and In some cases the club suppers
are almost as domestic rs family par
ties. Last winter attended q meeting
of the woman's society at mans club
In one of our great cities. The club
men were not invited to the meeting.
but the courtesy Of a portion Of their
house was extended for the day. be.
caue the society was noted one and
the club could offer finer acommoda-
tons than any hotel. Some Of the In.
dies, when enjoying the perfect up.
pointmcnts Of the dressing and dining
rooms, remarked that It was pity that
women should ever undertake house.
keeping when men had shown that
they could do II SO much better.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1898-12-17

What the South will do In the next
few years along the line of manufac.
turing cloth from cotton fiber probably
the most optimistic cannot foretell.
The day when the Southern people
were satisfied to produce cotton for
Lancashire and New England has pass.
ed away. There was n sentimental In.
tercst attaching to the plantation life.
even with Its human slavery. but 1t Is a
distinct economic advance when the
fiber can he spun and woven ut home.
In many cases In the midst Of the fields
Of opening cotton bolls. A few weeks
ago an account was published Of n
Southern cotton mill whose engine and
boiler rooms were set In coal bed.
The flremen and stokers reached down
from where they stood and got their
fuel ont Of the ground. The latest de.
velOpment In this Southern wonder.
land Is n realization Of the idea that
the cotton bale should be eliminated
and that the cloth should he made on
the farm. A plant has just been com.
pleted In Edgeneld. 3. c.. where this Is
virtually the method pursued. The
cotton IL picked and glnned, the seed Is
pressed and the oil. cattle food and
phosphate are put into marketable
form. the lint Is spun into yarn. which
In turn Is woven into cloth-all In a
single plant. Here there Is no bnllng.
no shipping of the raw cotton to En-.
gland or to any place. The South. from
a producer Of raw material. becomes
producer Of the finished manufactured
article. which II ready to take Its place
ut once In the domestic or foreign mar
kets. II the immediate future contains
any such industrial developments rs
have come to the South In the past few
years, It will be hard to shy what 1t
may not achieve. The Southern manu-
facturers Of cotton goods have already
made very notable advances In the ex.
port trade and their future Is closely
bound up with the question Of our com.
mercial progress In other lands.
The record-union., 1898-09-02
Women as Physicians,

1t is over half a century ago that
Elizabeth Blackwell applied to the fac
ulty Of the Geneva Medical College in
Western New York for admission to
the ranks Of students. She took the
five years course graduated with dis
t1nction and was the pioneer Of the
nineteenth century in the profession,
so far as women are concerned Other
women who followed in her footsteps
had hard time, for the next twelve
applications to various medical colleges
were refused by the cold-hearted facul-
ties. Some refused without qualifca-
tions and others stated in no unguard-
ed terms why they considered women
unified for the medical profession.
One faculty stated that it refused wo-
men admission to it's medical school
because women by nature were assign
ed to a dependent position; because
men had a peculiar and exclusive right
TO the art of healing, and because the
study of medicine was demoralizing or
"defeminizing" NOWADAYS women
have proved they are not content with
dependent position. 1t would be in
teresting to discover by what right men
hold the exclusive right to practice
medicine, for ancient history tells Of
many women who were doctors.
The Athenians tried to put to death
Agnodice, who practiced medicine. In
Rome there We're recognized women
physicians and the names of some of
them have been preserved to US
through Inscriptions. There were Fla
via and Afnucia and Sententia. who
were well known. From the time Of
the ancient Greeks up to the middle Of
the eighteenth century, when Anna
Mazzolini qualified and became profess
sor OF anatomy at Bologna. women
have been numbered among the medical
practitioners.
In regard to the "defeminizing'' in
fuence Of the study Of medicine that
objection has been raised in turn
against every art and profession women
nave taken up At one time art was
considered quite beyond the pale and
yet none Of us would be willing to give
up the works of sculpture and painting
which have been bestowed upon the
world by women of talent. The sec
ono woman to study medicine was Eliz-
abeth Garrett, who started the move
in England. In 1860 she began to study
and met many obstacles, the least Of
which was her exclusion from some of
the classes, so that she was Obliged
10 nave the necessary course of lectures
delivered to her privately. But she
tr1umphed in the end.
The record-union., 1898-09-02
THE GIRLHOOD OF YESTERDAY
Propensities That the Twentieth
Century Maiden Might Revive.

"Arabella is safely shut away in an
old daguerreotype, and there is moth
ing left TO her memory but a few dead
rose leaves and the fading dreams IN
the hearts of the old. But We would
offer to her memory a tribute of praise
for certain sweet endearing charms
which are almost lost arts at the
threshold Of the twentieth century,
writes Carrie E. Garret in the "Wo-
mans Home Companion"
True, Arabella was a pale, faint star
in the brilliant light Of the new girl,
and yet, looking into that old daguer.
reotype Tin just the right line of vision)
one sees some sweet, old-fashioned pro-
pensities which have been banished TO
the cobwebs and dust Of age, but which
even the proud new girl would do Well
to adopt.
If it is old-fashioned to be modest,
then it is grand, good old fashion,
and we need to dig it up out of the
past and give 1t a genuine nineteenth
century BOOM Old-fashioned gowns
old songs, old plays are born again after
years of burial and delight new genera
tions. Happy if some old fashioned vir-
tues long abandoned and forgotten
might be resurrected and become the
rage. Is there anything so refreshing
(and so rare) in this weary world as a
sweet, unaffected, modest youth? After
the cheap jests and shrugs and manner
isms of society, a pure frank, unspoiled
manner is like sunshine on the waters
of brook after the yellow glare OF
gaslight. Arabella was wont to sit in
state of sweet receptivity and alb
sorb the eloQuence of man. which
though perhaps inglorious, was at least
restful. Therefore, she had that pearl
OF all manners-repose. The new girl
on the contrary, is all the time making
a palpable effort to sustain her -epu-
tation for brilliancy Now, the con-
scious effort TO be continuously witty
and entertaining may be as trying to
the nerves as those deadly pauses
which occur between ideas (and which
unquestionably occurred pretty fire.
Quentiy between the ideas of our lost
Arabella). The grill who is determined
at all hazards to fill UP silence. and
takes that task wholly upon herself, is
sure TO become exhausted and exhaust
ing. Isn't the new girl, by demonstrate
ing her power to do anything, in dan
ger Of having everything thrust upon
her?"
The record-union., 1898-09-02
Astrological Relics.

Poor Robins Almanac for 1921 Is
emoell1shed with the floating cherub
and the issue for 1929 adds the follow
ing stanza:
The little Mortal in the Ring below
Drawn Neck & Heels, doth to the Reader
show
That part of Man & Woman, Sheep &
Are govern'd by each Celestial Sign;
But Women's Tongues, when Passion
once gets vent
Break out from this & other Government!
Benjamin Franklin, with all his en-
lightenment, introduced this emblem
into his famous Poor Richards AL
manac" 1t first appears in the issue
for 1741, being drawn as a man seated
on globe surrounded by the twelve
signs, in square; and above is the
legend:
Here sit naked like some Fairy Elf
My Seat Pumkin; l grudge no Mans
Pelf
Though Eye Eye no Bread nor Cheese upon
I'll tell thee gratis, when it safe is
TO purge, to bleed, to cut thy Cattle OF
thyself.
The same number contains an adver.
tisement of Indian Physic. Qpecacu-
ana), signed John Bertram.
Still another form of the emblem is
found in Poulson's Town and Country
Almanac" published at Philadelphia ir
1889. A boy stands on the earth, his
feet in the Arctic regions, on his right
a rosebud, on his left a thistle. Above
the boys head flies Chronos with
wings, scythe and hourglass. Around
| these figures are four concentric rings
bearing the names and signs Of the
twelve consultations.
The present prevailing form of the
emblem, the erect man surrounded by
symbols, appears in Richard Saun.
ders' Poor Richard. Improv'd," fol
1888; a slight variation Of it occurs II
Father Tammany's Almanac" fol
1877, both published In Philadelphia
| and from that date to this year this
persistent relic of astrology makes hi:
| annual appearance. No explanation o.
the significance of the repulsive figure
is vouchsafed beyond the customary
! legend: Anatomy of a Mans Body a.
governed by the twelve consultations.
1t has been a valuable trademark fol
a century.-Journal Of American Folk
Lore
The record-union., 1898-09-02

ago, is Californian, residing at Red
lands, in the southern part of the State.
What, with Skaters army and the
grand old Oregon, California played no
little part in the war just closed.
WHAT WE HAVE GAINED.
Los Angeles Times: Now that the
war is over the mathematician have
begun to calculate its cost A more i'm
portant subject to consider is the re-
suits accomplished, for it matters little
what the cost may have been if the re-
suits more than compensate for it. The
cost, however, can be more easily cal
culated than the results. AS computed
at washington the cash expense of the
war, to date, is about $3.50 0OO0,0
equivalent to something like 81 per
capita OF our population. The results
cannot be estimated in dollars and
cents, for they are largely moral rather
than material in character OF course
there will be a very considerable ac
QUESTION of wealth incidental to the
success Of our arms, but that will be
but small part Of the actual benefits
that Will accrue to this nation. Per-
haps the most valuable of all the re-
suits OF the war is the patriotism it has
inspired in the rising generation.
AIDING AN EVIL.
Alameda Argus: Those San Francisco
papers which are encouraging the High
School pupils of San Jose to strike
because there is something in the man
agement thereof that they do not like
should be in better business Nothing
is SO injurious to the youthful character
as encouragement of defiant spirit
Nothing is so beneficial as discipline
The young person Of high spirit who is
encouraged to run riot over rules and
made to believe he is doing right and
establishing a sound principle is about
as badly advised as is possible But
these San Francisco papers have no
thought or care for the young whom
they are doing their best to befool.
Ihey want to get even with a politi-
clan. Not because he is a politician
per Sc, but because he is not their kind
or politician. 1t is characteristic of
these journals that they would bedevil
boys and girls and ruin schools to work
out a grudge. 1t is entirely like the
san Francisco press.
The record-union., 1898-09-02

The decline in thirty years there
fore has been from about cents to s
mills-or fall of 5S per cent. Even
this does not represent the whole of
the actual decline, because for the
earlier years the records are incom-
plete and the roads on which the rates
are now ascertainable are those which
with the least business had the high
est rates The real average for the
country in those days was undoubted-
ly even higher than the figures indi-
cate. Taking the figures as they are,
the report says that the decrease sis
probably not exceeded by that in the
price of any important commodity
among those largely shipped by rail. 81
This is the exact opposite of Mr.. Bry-
ans assertion. and while Mr.. Bryan
was only guessing for political effect
the other statement is official and
backed by figures which are unchal-
lengeable.
The record-union., 1898-09-02
The Decline in Freight Rates.

William Jennings Bryan, in the cam
palgn OF 1896, declared in one of his
public speeches that there had been
no reduction in railway rates commen-
surate with the decline in the prices of
other commodities. The statement was
Immediately challenged and shown to
De untruthful. The United States
Government Department of Agricult-
ure) has now issued an official and
authoritative statement on the subject
in the form Of very carefully COM
piled document by T. H. Newcomb of
the Bureau of Statistics. The decline
IN rates per ton per mile is shown to
have been aS follows.
The record-union., 1898-09-02

days DO not nave
$3.50. ~ to use a stream of water
mirrors that will tell them very promptly
whether their beauty is fading. A wom-
ans beauty fades very rapidly If she IS
troubled with some arrangement OF the
distinctly feminine organism. Ignorance
or carelessness in this respect frequently
causes great suffering and irregulaTity IN
after life. Little irregularities and weak
nesses in girlhood should be looked upon
promptly and properly treated at once.
Mothers cannot be too conscientious IN
this respect, and cannot throw aside the
prudery that is so prevalent upon this point
too soon. Every young woman should
know something about her own physical
of her local as well as general health. A
woman who suffers from weaknesses pc
culiar to her sex will rapidly lose her
beauty, her general health, her am1ability
and her usefulness and capability as wife
and housekeeper. DR.. Pierce's Favortte
Prescription promotes regularity OF all fem
mime functions, gives sturdy health to the
distinctly feminine organism and prepares
it to meet the trials of wifehood and moth
erhood. The Favorite Prescription -
not cure-all. It is intended for but one
class of disorders and is good for no other.
Taken during the period of CESSATION, II
makes parturition easy, and banishes the
discomforts of the expectant months. All
good medicine dealers sell it.
"I wish to express my thanks for the good
have received from DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription," writes Mrs. e. Scovifl, OF Bolton,
Stephenson Co., Ills. ~ have used It at ditier.
ent times for the last eight years. It is the best
medicine for expectant mothers. never tried
it for that until my last baby. had been very
bad, almost helpless could not get out Of s pea
menced taking the Favorite Prescription, and
could soon get in and out Of bed as wen as at any
time On March 7eth gave birth to an eleven
pound boy suithom pain, and have since been a.
well and healthy as ever was"
The record-union., 1898-09-02

Improved grades, roadbeds, rails and
locomotives are compelling revision of
old ideas Of railroading. A train Of
from fifty to sixty cars has heretofore
been considered a long one. Now
comes the Railroad Gazette" and in
forms US that a locomotive Of the
Pennsylvania Railroad recently drew a
train about three-quarters of a mile
long, made up Of 13O loaded coal cars,
from Altoona to Harrisburg. 132 miles,
in twelve hours. The weight of the
train behind the tender was 5,212 tons,
the locomotive weighing 1O4 tons. This
is probably the longest train ever
moved long distance by single loco
motive
The record-union., 1898-09-02

The Democratic papers are at pres
criticism of the Administration. Fault
is found with everything connected
with the conduct of the war and with
the condition of camps and hospitals.
Every critic seems to think he could
have managed things much better if
he had been in the exalted position
held by President Mckinley. This
calls to mind the reply which President
Lincoln sent to Carl Schurz in 1862,
when that individual, then a Brigadier
General, undertook to tell the Presi-
dent how to conduct the war. Mr..
Lincoln wrote:
You think 1 could do better; there
fore you blame me already. / think
could not do better; therefore,
blame you for blaming me. / under
stand you now to be willing to accept
the help Of men who are not Republi-
cans, provided they have heart in it,
Agreed. 1 want no others. But who
is to be the judge Of hearts or Of
hearts in it?" If / must discard my
own judgment and take yours I must
also take that of others; and by the
time i should reject all should be ad-
vised To reject, 1 should have none left
Republicans or others-not even your
self For be assured, my dear sir, there
are men who have heart in IL" that
think you are performing your part as
poorly as you think / am performing
mine.
The record-union., 1898-09-02
FOREST FIRE FIENDS.

The Commissioner Of the General
Land Office of the United States has
just issued an order to the effect that
all forest fires that occur on the pub
lie domain hereafter will be thorough
ly investigated by the Interior De-
partment. and that everything possible
will be done to bring negligent and
guilty parties to justice.
There is good law (Which thou
sands of careless persons never pre-
tend to respecD to the effect that per-
sons who build camp-fires and aban-
don them in juxtaposition to the public
domain shall be held as responsible to
the law for their criminal carelessness
as if they had purposely set fire to for
ests. Like many other laws in mu-
inequalities as we'll as in the States of
the Union, this law is ignored.
Commissioner Hermann, among 9TH
er things, says:
The attention of the public is called
to the fact that immense areas Of the
public forests are annually destroyed
by fire. originating, in many instances,
through the carelessness Of prospec-
tors, campers, hunters, sheep herders,
and others; while in some cases the
fires are started with malicious intent.
Warning is hereby given that the
origin of all forest fires will be closely
investigated, and, where the fire Is as
certained to have originated through
ca0y7cr
plicated will be prosecuted to the full
extent Of the law.
The public generally IS requested to
aid the officers Of the Government in
it's efforts to check the evil referred to,
and in the punishment Of all offenders
The law referred to makes the Of
Tense punishable by Imprisonment in
the penitentiary for two years or by
the payment of a fine not greater than
50 600, or by both such fine and impris-
onment 1t provides, also, that ANY
person who shall build a camp fire, or
other fire, in or near any forest, tim
Der or other inf1ammable material upon
the public domain, shall, before break
ing camp or leaving said fire, totally
extinguish the same"
Many of the disastrous fires referred
to have destroyed millions Of dollars
worth of property in this State. In
this connection it is we'll to say that
it seems inexplicable why so many
persons in this country Of great hber-
ties and opportunities are SO careless
regarding public property. 1t is a
common sight to see a wanton waste
of property just because it belongs to
the whole people.
This benign law should be enforced
to the letter, and all persons known to
have been guilty of burning forests,
either Intentionally or negligently,
should be punished without hesitation,
until it begins to be generally under
stood that a man who is careless with
fire in a Government forest takes his
liberty in his hands. Not until there
is such an enforcement Of the law as
TO instill an au-pervading fear in the
minds Of the careless will there be
any markedly good results from the
agitation Of the question.
The record-union., 1898-09-02

cisco. From the reports in some Of the
papers in that city one would be led
ment were decimated. The Associated
Press made an investigation and pro-
cured a list of all the soldiers deceased
up to and including August Both. The
total was just thirteen, the names
being given in the Associated Press dis
patch published in the Record Union"
yesterday morning.
Notwithstanding these facts the Dem
ocratic press will continue to reiterate
the false reports already printed. for
that is Democratic politics.
The record-union., 1898-09-02
His share Of II.

II suppose you get a lot Of honey
moon couples billing and cooling around
here7" asked the inquisitive stranger
of the landlord of our favorite week
end seclusion.
well, ye-es," replied the man of ex-
perience; plenty of cooling. l man
age the rest. sporting Times.
The record-union., 1898-09-02

Captain Evans of the Iowa, in his re-
port Of the Santiago fight, says that
Corporal Smith on the Iowa fired 135
aimed shots in fifty minutes from a
four-inch gun. Two shells struck with
in ten feet of Smith and started a small
fire, but the Corporal went on pumping
shots into the enemy, only stopping to
say: They've got 1t in for this gun,
Siro
The record-union., 1898-09-02
Judged bv It's Color.

Teacher-Do all kinds of birds have
feathers?
ma'am.
Teacher-Not the parrot?
Bennie Bright-No, ma am; the parrot
has grass.-Harper's Round Table.