Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-09-15

fighting the devils with their own
arms.
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1t Is rather a singular thing, and dis
couraglng into the bargain. that the ac-
ton of King Alexander of Servia in
marrying an untitled lady has evoked
more unfavorable criticism than any
thing else he ever did. Yet from all &c.
counts 1t is about the only sensible
thing he ever did. Its results will prob.
ably deter him from acting wisely
again. 1t Is easier to be q fool, any.
way.
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A professor of geology has found
near Montclair, n. j., fossil specimens
of fish supposed to be millions Of
years old. The fish belongs to the or.
der Of ganoids, of which there are only
few modern representatives. House.
keepers who think their fishman is not
furnishing wares as fresh as they de.
sire can ut least comfort themselves
with the knowledge that his ice-box
contains nothing as old as this.
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"When the rats die, you may know
the plague has come" Is common say.
Ing In the East. Honolulu puts 1t DIFF.
ferently. "When the plague has come
the rats must de-" Is the Western yer.
sion. The physicians became convinced
that rats were responsible for the dis.
semination Of bubonic plague In Homo.
lulu, and offered a bounty Of % cents
head. Within two weeks more than
five thousand were killed. The result
seems TO have justified the outlay, for
1t Is said that since the rats were de-
stroyed not a single case Of plague has
appeared.
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1t must be a false alarm that the
blonde girls are dying out In this coun-
try. Who Is responsible for the an.
nOuncement? There IL nothing to prove
that 1t Is true. Men of hopeful minds
will refuse to believe 1t without proof.
The brunette girl Is all right, but We
could not do without the blonde. How
unless they could lind girls with golden
hair and blue eyes? The country can.
not afford to lose Its blue.eyed beauties
with golden hair hanging down their
backs or done up In psyche knots. Such
an outlook cannot be contemplated with
equanimity.
zone of the things that strikes one
most forcibly In this country" said an
English observer, who has been spend.
Ing some weeks In the United States,
us the way In which your young men
not only support themselves but push
Oh into positions Of trust. Our English
boys certainly seem to be better edu.
Gated, but the American boys beat 'em
hollow In self-relIance and horse sense,
as believe you call II here. Perhaps
1t Is owing to the different way In
which the American young man looks
ut things. The English boy, starting
out In life, obtains q berth'-which IL
something to sleep in--or he finds sit.
uatlOn.' The American boy either gets
u Job or goes to work for somebody.
There Is a whole revelation OF mental
attitude In those different phrases"
The editor OF an anarchistlc newspa-
per published In this country hailed the
murder Of King Humbert with an ed.
tOrial paean Of JOY. He frankly con.
coded that Humbert was kind and esti-
mable, personally, and that he had not
been guilty Of expressing his people;
yet this man rejOiced In his death mere
~ because he was king. What sort
Of man 1t Is who breaches such doc.
trines-what sort Of men anarchy
breeds-is well brought out by the com.
ments Of a Chicago paper on this ed.
tor: "He il not a worker, but u dead
beat lie spends most Of his time con.
suming beer and giving utterance to
the desire that people may be killed.
He Is not even brave man. When he
was last wanted by the police he had
to be dragged out from under the bed
where he had hidden" This Is a just
arraignment, not merely Of an anarch.
list, but Of anarchy.
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A writer In the New York Sun gives
igures to show that the problem of
procuring a sufficient number of rail
road ties, causes the corporations in
creasing perpleXity. 4 mile of stand.
ard single'track railroad requires about
fOrty-tive hundred ties, and the aver
age life of tie Is estimated at about
five years. The annual requirement Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad for the part
OF the system east of Pittsburg Is near
ly twenty-seven hundred thousand ties.
The tie supply of all the railways Of
the country represents an aggregate
| impressive at once to the business In
stlnct and to the Imagination. Under
the best conditions, and making no al
lowance for fire and other accidents, a
plot Of two thousand acres and period
OF thirty years are required to produce
a million ties. Every line OF railroad
thus becomes an argument In favor Of
preserving our forests from destruc.
ton.
There Is a skeleton In every closet,
but some skeletons are more Obstreper-
Gus than others. Take one of the poets
In a current magazine. for example.
lnwardly he Is consumed with a rag.
ing fire. "Oh, take me-" he eXclaims,
"lntO the still places of your heart, and