Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-10-18
; Few-Line Interviews.

Goodwin Smith thinks that marriage is
a protection against suicide He says
statistics show that suicide is largely
ON the increase The inference which
some would draw is that progress has
failed to produce happiness. 1t is true
that mankind has grown more restless
and that with multiplied desires and
heightened aspirations there have come
new sources of discomfort. But the gen
eral fact probably is that sensibility has
increased with civilization. 1t seems to
be proved statisticaly that marriage is
safeguard against suicide, while divorce
is specially productive of it. Marriage
no doubt is too often the disillusl0n OF
love. Yet the immense majority of mar
riages are happier than lonely life
Of the relief work in Galveston, Ste
phen e. Barton, second vice-presldent OF
the Red Cross Society, said: $50 far
there has been donated for the food SUI,
ferers about $1,O00,O0O cash. Of this
amount $4,000 has been donated to
Galveston. It will require every cent Of
this amount to clean up debris and pay
the expenses of distributing the materials
donated, and nothing will be left for re-
construction of the 1000 homes destroy
ed. The broken lumber that can be ey
tracted from the debris is not worth the
cost of the labor necessary to recover it
However. it is utterly impossible to think
of burning any part of it without remOv'
ing it to some distance from the remain
ing buildings"
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Said Conrad G. Hubbard to a Wash
ington Post reporter: American tourists
rave over the glorious scenery of the
Rhine, when it is UNNECESSARILY inferior
to the acenic charms of the Hudson OF
the st. Lawrence There is not in any
corner Of Europe, nor elsewhere on the
globe, anything comparable to the Thou.
sand Islands for natural beauty"
Emperor William says that the Boxer
chiefs should suffer for the death of the
Christians, and he also says: II also long
for peace which atones for the guilt
which makes good wrongs done. and
which offers to all foreigners in China Sc
curity for life and property, and, above
all, for the free service Of their religion
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Kato Takaki, japanese minister ID
London, says Of the empress dowager
"She is the heart and soul of China
So long as she lives, so long as she re
mains in China, whether the supreme,
power is taken from her or not, she will
always be the greatest force, the one
above all others to be reckoned with. The
difficulty will be to get any one who can
speak for her. fear that the influence
of Li-HungC Chang is now of extremely
little weight
Samuel Gompers defines the position Of
organized labor by saying: "All that labor
demands for itself it is willing to grant
in equal measure to others. 1t does not
oppose combination among employers. II
does not depend upon legislation. 1t asks
no special privileges, no fayors from the
State. 1t wants to be let alone and 10
be allowed to exercise its rights and USE
its great economic power
About the influence of the Uniteta
States in world politics Gen. JOSEPH
Wheeler says: - We are not a military
people, ana yet we are the most martla4
and, when necessary, the most warlss
Of all peopleson earth. We seek to avop
entanglements with other nations, op
to-day every nation on the face Of tDs
globe, before it makes diplomatic moVs
telegraphs to its minister in Washinse
and lear1ls tho views, wishes and %
maj ds Of the American people
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Chicago will arrest street beggars