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

of the purest vocabulary will gradually
refine the coarsest, vulgarest character.
Habit Is all powerful. The coarse man
| beginning the practice Of proprlety In
his speech will ut first seem to be whit
he Is not, but II lie perseveres he will
come TO be what he desires to seem.
, Then. when passion consumes him he
will be In no danger of lowering him.
self In his own eyes or in the estima-
ton Of others. He will still be q man.
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| Medical science. which now attrib-
attributed them to the wrath Of the
gods, naturally could not overlook sun.
| stroke, or, rs the medicine man now
| prefers to call H., heat stroke. II we
are to believe certain earnest gentle.
men who pass their time squirting into
microscopes sunstroke-or heat stroke
lis due to a germ. Maybe 1t Is. If
that Is SO. however. we are no better
off than before the sunstroke bacillus
was discovered. Fortunately. more.
over. we are no worse of. We are no
more liable to be overcome by the pred
atory bacillus than We were when we
attributed the trouble 10 the excessive
heat Of the sun. This Is one redeemng
trait Of the germ theory. II does not
seem to do any particular good. but 1t
does no harm. Nowadays We call u bad
cold ia grippe" aud attribute 1t to "a
micro. organism known as the influenza
bacillus. We have located the bug. but
we cannot kill him. Stlll, the bug does
no more harm now that he Is known of
all men than he did when his existence
was unsupported. Which is magnani-
nous Of him. We may fairly expect
similar generosity on the part Of the
sunstrOke bacterium. His existence
being duly recognized, he will not raise
any especial row. He will keep on
doing business as usual, though he now
glories ina Latin name fifteen syllables
long instead Of being unheralded and
unsung-hls activity being mistaken
for natural II excessive heat. At the
same time, people who believe In this
new bug-and those who do not believe
In him-will do wisely 10 exercise the
same old precautions of avoiding extra
eXertiOn, Of keeping out of the sun as
much rs possible ana of using their
stomachs gently and respectfully In the
hot weather season. Bugs or no bugs,
the man who will cOmport himself thus
will not get sunstruck-or heatstruck.
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Newspaper writer's have made the
death Of G. +. Huntington the text for
many articles on genius In money get
ting. Less was said about Mr.. Hunt.
ingtOn as an organizer, as manager
OF great properties and as a promoter
Of large enterprises. There are many
accumulat0rs OF wealth whO as far 10
the worlds affairs are concerned, are
mere trifers and oilers. but we have
had In America for half a century Q
class OF men who have accumulated
wealth through hard work and the en-
ployment Of extraordinary talents In
management. Such men have been as
necessarily active In carrying out great
schemes, as much absorbed In forward
Ing semi-public enterprises as the most
commonplace workers In Industrial
fields. There has been for this class no
elegant leisure, no lOunging at home or
abroad, no indulgence in social pleas
ures or designations. Such men have
projected great public improvements
and have organized schemes for the
development OF new cOmmOnwealths,
not rs a pastime but as an absorbing
employment. II there has been any
lesson In their lives II has been against
the old dream that to be wealthy gave
any one license to be useless and prOtil-
gate. The example of such workers
has stimulated the ambition and
strengthened the character Of young
men who have inherited or acquired
wealth. More than ever before we find
young men Of wealth disinclned to
idleness and more prone to activity In
business, In the professions. or in spe-
cial lines of investigation. There 10 less
disposition among young men to-day
than ever before to regard the posses.
sion of money as the object aud aim of
life. The general impulse Is to win q
reputation, and this impulse Is carrying
hundreds OF young men into the most
trying work Of practical life. There 10
no premium on idleness In this country.
The wealthy men OF the present day
who have exercised the greatest inhu.
ence have been those who used their
money In achievements that directly or
Indirectly benefited the public. Coils
i. HuntingtOn's life illustrated this
fact, even though 1t illustrated few
other moral lessons.