Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-12-01


this fat plum are said to be William Il.
w. X. Johnston. VIM. Arthur
Bennett, Oscar Cobb and George l..
Harvey. No one but an Al man can
expect to secure the place. which Is re-
garded as one of the choicest bits of
patronage the GovernOr.elect has to
dispose of.
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Though Elias Howe had only forty.
seven instead of fifty-three votes, and
so fails of immediate access to the |
Hall Of Fame, there can be no doubt |
that his great invention should be a sat |
isfactory card of admission. The same |
Is true not only of Morse and Whitney,
the successful candidates, but also of |
Fulton and Mccormick. If the world |
had not been blessed by the discoveries
of such of these men Its development |
would have been seriously retarded.
Morse destroyed distance, and aside |
from his service to mankind In general |
he performed an Invaluable service for |
his own country. without the telegraph |
republic covering a continent would |
have been impossible. whitney made |
the business Of the Southern States. |
Mccormick made the United States the |
worlds granary, and Fulton's genius |
shines In those great ocean carriers |
which have revOlutionized the COM |
merce Of the world. It Is difficult to |
pass upon the relative merits of such |
work, but, vital as 1t oil Is to human
progress, Howe Is not outclassed In the |
competition. Probably the women's
vote would be unanimous in his favor.
for he has llghtened the labor Of won. |
an hundred fold in some directions
and increased their opportunities for
employment hundred fold In others.
II to-day the sewing machine Is a com.
mOnplace adjunct of every household.
1t Is not SO long since 1t was regarded
as boon Of the first magnitude. Many
n woman subjected herself to daily sac
rlfices for weeks and months that she
might purchase one from her scanty
savings. When the price was high even
the little hand machine was gladly wei.
coined, and there was always the resO.
the real thing. But this domestic phase
Of the question Is only one Of Its many
sides. The principle llns been applied
on the larger scale Of enormous wealth.
producing Industries Of various sorts
until now the world would be ut a loss
without It. Business aggregating mill.
ions yearly, business which diffuses
comforts among a countless multitude.
would never have been developed. and
life would be much harder than II IL
had not Howe perscvered In spite of
prlvatiOns and dlscOurag ments and trl.
umphed over the race Of skeptlcs which
always distrusts the gifts Of genius.
That was u queenly deed done by
Amelia. queen OF Portugal, In saving
the life of man the other day. The
queen Is athletic ana fine swimmer.
She saw u man drowning. lie was not
a scion Of noble blood. but a plain boat.
man. The queen did not scream or ap.
peal for help. She plunged into the
water ana helped to hold the man up
until her attendants could reach him.
1t Is reported Of Car Of the RussIas
that he got or his horse. took a wound.
ed man to his saddle and brought him
or safely, crying rs he came to his
camp, 1--WE saved u man." He had
been victorious In battle but more ROYAL
than all the killing Of men was the
royal act Of saving one. So 1t may be
said Of the Queen OF the Portuguese.
She will never do u more royal act than
when she saved u subject. Queen
Amelia Is French woman by birth, n
daughter Of the Compile de Paris. She
IL about forty years OF age aud the
mother of two children. No one out.
side Of Europe had scarcely heard Of
her until she did this queenly feat.
Here Is an opportunity for the un.
known royalty Of the eifete mOnarchies
Of Europe to make themselves known
outside Of 2 o'clock functions" Let
them do something worth the telling.
This IL Witty age. Everything
tends to brevity. A few years ago the
shOrt-stOry movement began. Then
public speakers learned that the longer
their "splels" the shorter their inhu.
ence. They began to run the blue pen.
ell through their most swelling
thought ana trim the edges of their
rhetoric. Now an orator who holds his
audience more than IN hour II rarely
heard. preachers who 30 beyond twenty
minutes being voted bOres. Who now
will read siX.vOlume novel? The
BOokman says that the modern novel
seldom contains more than 10000
words, ana 10000 10 better. At the
same time sentences tend to shorten.
HOOker's average sentence contained
Al words. AIacaulay brought 1t down to
20 and Emerson to 20. Probably the
average In current penwOrk IL less than
20. Cut 1t short. BY any by we shall
talk In mOnOsyllables, grunts or gasps.
We have no time to accumulate words
In sequence. Why use two words when
one will serve the turn? And why
waste a word when look will sutiicey
W. haven't time to talk. There Is no
money In 1t.
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The case involving the question
whether n seat In an ordinary passen-
ger car can be PRESERVED" by the de.
post of piece Of baggage has been de.
cided by the New York court In favor
OF the right to 50 reserve. 1t may he
remembered that the case was one in
which Il passenger placed his valse in
a seat and then went forward to the