Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-09-08

grandchildren. who do not think il dig.
nified. To resolve to live forever is a
laudable ambition. II Is a good idea to
hitch your achievement wagon TO
star. If you don't attain the full meas.
ure Of your ideal, at least you will save
yourself from being q whining. shriv.
cled. unsightly wreck Of human be.
ing at 20.
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A manufacturer Of collar buttons
complains that he Is often defrauded
10y the inattcntion Of those TO whom he
sends unsolicited goods on approval.
Hiscomplaint raises the question of the
rights Of peddlers to obtrude their
goods and themselves upon public at.
tcntlon. Newspaper and other print.
ed advertisements may be read or neg.
lected and even the billboard and
waste paper box appeals may be pass.
ed by, although the roll Of invalids
made by the dreadful iteration of need
In given line has yet TO be counted:
but the receipt Of unsolicited goods,
the non-acceptance Of which involves
their return, although this may require
no more than the sealing and mailing
OF the inclosed envelope. Is distinct
invasion Of individual rights. The use
OF the mails for advertising purposes
has so over.reached itself that a
glance In the majority Of cases con.
signs anything bearing a resemblance
to an advertisement to the waste has.
ket. When the wasted effort OF the
sender and the receiver Is counted the
postoffice department Is presumably
paid by the postage) the sum total de-
mands the economists attention. The
call Of the book agent has long headed
the list OF nuisances and amounts to
an imposition when the agent assumes
the guise Of an acquaintance by calling
for his victim 10y name or by sending
In an ordinary visiting card. That the
housekeepers' doors should be besiegcd
by an army Of fruit and vegetable ven.
ders. old women with thread and nee.
dies. and Italians with cheap orna.
ments, who require the persuasion OF
the mistress herself 10 convince them
that she needs nothing al their line.
suggests a pitiable state of municipal
life that should be legislated out of en-
istence. II may he possible for man
TO resign himself to the solicitations
Of street peddlers to encroach upon the
space properly belonging to foot pas.
sengcrs, as he goes 10 and from bust.
ness, but he cannot rid himself of the
| belief that his home and Office are de.
voted. the one 10 his family and
friends, the other 10 his particular line
OF business: in them he refuses to rec.
ognlze II as his duty 10 receive who.
ever presents himself: neither can he
bring himself 10 feel an obligation TO
open correspondence with an un.
known firm for whose goods he has no
use, although by his refusal he lays
| himself open 10 the charge of fraud
made by those who price time and the
freedom of buyer NJ the value Of a
postage stamp.
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4 Russian architect who has been
travelling in this country to study
American building methods was great.
! ~ interested in the elevator which he
saw used for raising brick in the con.
struction OF a great apartment house.
He even photographed the device. in
order that he might have visual evi.
dence of 1t 10 show on his return home.
In his country no other method Of
hosting brick Is in use than the primi-
tive one of carrying them alOft on the
shoulders of men. Such incidents are
of common occurrence. Many Of the
labor-saying devices in use in Ameri-
ca are unknown elsewhere. Our own
countrymen travelling in Europe, and
more especially in Asia, are astOnished
AZ the slow and tOilsome methods there
employed. 4 failure TO make use Of
lahor-saving contrivances Is not always
due TO lack Of enterprise. Many Of
the inventions most useful 10 us
"wOuld not pay" where labor Is cheap.
passenger and freight traffic In the
West Indies encountered an obstacle
which the American promoters had not
foreseen. The ten cents for which the
company would carry package five
miles or mOre-a rate that would In
sure generous support here-did not
seem small there, for the simple rea-
son that many native could find no
easier way to earn ten cents than by
walking the FIVE miles and carrying
the package on his head. II "a work.
man is known by his chips" he Is also
known by his tools. High.priced men
do their work with high.prtced machin-
cry. The engineer Of the mammoth