Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-09-29

prune Is to be formed the public will
have occasion for regret. Many even
among those who have ridiculed the
fruit the most, would rather be sur
feited with prunes-be filed with them,
so to speak-than be forced to go with
out them entirely.
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At the various fights pulled off" re-
Gently in New York S3,OOO.OOO was
| taken in. The fighters themselves
made not less than S25O,O0O. If money
Is the measure of greatness. where Is
the philosopher or artist who can claim
equality with Mr.. Bob Fitzsimmons or
MIR. Jim Corbett? Milton got five
pounds for Paradise Lost" Herbert
Spencer published his words at loss
in the early years of his career and
Carlyle's flaming thought went begging
for years. Walt whitman. who by
many Is considered the master spirit of
America, couldn't make his salt and
was supported by few believing
friends. The man of spirit may be
greater. but the man of muscle is better
kept. Ardent young men who are de-
liberating whether to earn their living
by writing epics or by landing on the
solar plexus should not overlook this
fact. Epics are all well enough in their
way. But punching is UNNECESSARILY
more profitable.
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a great deal is sad about the desola.
ton of war. but Mafeking was desc.
lated more in an hour by a cyclone than
by the guns of the Beers in siege of
six months. There were 1854 men
killed and 10000 wounded at Gettys.
burg. The next year $4,000 lives were
lost and 100 ships destroyed by storm
ut Calcutta, India. Pekin, after six
weeks of anarchy and several battles,
had its palaces guarded by foreign sol.
diers against the destruction of mobs.
In 1890 storm cut path of desOlation
through Louisville, Ky, a thousand feet
wide. destroying over 900 houses. A
British army swept over the Orange
Free State and the Transvaal in a cam.
paign Of eleven months, but In one day
in the year 1884 there were In MIssis
sippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois
& over sixty tornadoes. which destroyed
10000 buildings and killed 500 persons.
, The storm Of one day was more de.
structive Of property than the British
. campaign of eleven months. Lady.
: smith was bombarded week after week,
, but the British army and the citizens
were rescued. Johnstown, Pa. as large
a city as Ladysmith, was swept out OF
existence In one night. There were
2.142 lives lost and property to the
!. value of $1O.OOOOOO was destroyed
Man, through strategy, inventive gen
ius and skill, has some control over the
; destruction of war. He has no control
/, over the destructiveness of the cyclone
or the tornado.
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!. II Is by no means true that all the for
{ eign arlstOcrats who marry American
D heiresses are blackguards and spend
! thrifts. Some Of them are men Of hon
or. though 1t need not he said that q
man who marrles woman for the SAX,
of her money Is not likely to make the
best husband In the world. This, how
y ever, applies to native fortune hunter,
as well as to those Of foreign birth. i
" Is happily true, however, that few ma
tive fortune hunters would he SO FIJI
lost to shame Us young Castellane In,
J, shown himself. While openly insulting
. his wife by the maintenance Of Othel
establishments" he has not scruplet
to squander her fortune. lie not Ions
y ago apparently reached the end OF Il
ana applied to his brOther.in.law Il
: pay his debts. II George Gould pos
Q sessed the sturdy spirit Of his late faith
y or the little count would have received
l. decisive answer. Jay Gould woult
g no more have devoted his millions I,
$ the qualification Of this understood
II scapegrace's prodigality than lie wOul,
. have thrown them into the East River
He would have notified the COUNTIES
that her home was always open TO he
!, In New York, but that her WORTHLESS
n little husband would have 10 20 4
. work or starve SO far as the Gould fam
n lily was concerned. jay Gould was no
~ an admirable character, but he was
~ good deal Of an American after all. Ill
% son should have followed his example
!. He will be forced to do SO some day
@ For, great as the Gould wealth Is,
. cannot forever stand the drain upon
Il caused by the extravaganza OF the PIN
IS and white little person who married
- Anna Gould for her money and threat
|. ems to bankrupt the whole family.
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ia Probably that peculiarly caution
"a temperament which Is distrustful o
I. banks and safe deposit vaults will neve
,s become entirely extinct. 1t Is the n
/. suit Of atavism. The rural grandm
!" who half a century ago made strOn
~ box Of a cracked china teapot survive
d In the person of the prudent individua
who seIuesters his paper currency u
the parlOr stove and Is greatly discOu
certed to discover some fine mOrnin
" that a fire has been lighted therein an
" that the bank Is consequently "busted.
" 1t Is, nevertheless, more or less SUI
le prising to hear Of men Of presumabl
~ fair business sense INDUCING In thes
- Out-Of-date performances. 1t Is an In
" dicatiOn that the teapot habit persist
20 with more strength than we should eA
a pect. On what other hypothesis tina
;" inherited instinct can we explain IN
,o action Of the salO0nkeeper who tucke
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