Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-07-13

says. Many victory of statesmanship
is won in the drawing room; and over
the most famous drawing room In the
land 1t Is the privilege Of the wife OF
| the President to preside.
| The posted order of great Chicago
packing firm against swearing has not
unnaturally attracted public attention
That profanity should be discounten-
anced. IL not also expressly forbidden.
i'm any respectable establishment Is not
strange. says the Chicago Post. The
swearing habit is felt to be not only an
indecency. but an incivility. Whatever
may he thought of swearing or BIAS
phcmy as wanton, impious insult to
Deity, 1t IL IN the nature of an Insult
to those In respect to whom such ex.
pressiOns are used. The order referred
to was doubtless issued on the part Of
the firm as a protection against the
wanton abuse of workmen In their EN-.
ploy. 1t Is felt that the men have n
right to respectful as well as otherwise
/
seer or foreman who swears at his men
or In their presence shows a disposition
and a temper which so far unfit him to
deal with self-respecting men. II the
foreman has a right to make the air
blue with profanity, then the stenOg.
rapher. the office boy. the elevator boy
and every one else on the premises has
n right to go about doing the same
thing. This. of course, would be intol.
cradle. Any establishment where such
things prevailed would be good one
for respectable people to avoid. 1t Is
one of the better signs Of the times
that In these days the men at the head
of affairs are presumed to he. IL not
Christians, at any rate gentlemen.
They find ways enough of making their
wishes ineligible and effective with.
out resort to buster or swagger or the
lndecencies of blasphemy.
1t may or may not be true that King
Humbert's assassin. Bresci, was tur.
tured by his guards. Probably he was
not dealt with very gently. But no
amount of mere physical suffering
which his keepers could have inflicted
without running the risk Of kill.
Ing him could have been worse
than that made necessary by the
very nature Of his sentence. He was
In solitary confinement. with nothing
to do and just sufficient food and eXer.
else to make It impossible for him to
sicken and die. The human mind can
not get along without occupation and
remain sane. To be placed In small
chamber with only stone walls to look
nerves. To be confined thus with the
certainty that the confinement Is fol
life probably would result In partial OF
total arrangement for almost any per
son living. Italy considers the death
penalty too severe u measure for any
crime. but II may well be doubted II
the few minutes Of terror before gulllo
tine or scaffold Is not u less fearful
punishment than the slow process
which drove Brcsci to madness ant
then to suicide.
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There's very tender little story II
the sickness and death Of AlOysia Han
nahan. She was slip Of n Chicag'
girl. A good many people knew Of he
, existence. because her father was ono
president of the Locomotive Firemen
She was III. very III. The doctors look
cd troubled. Then came some work
men. who built fences across the stree
ON either side of the home where a CIR
|, was fighting for her life. Absolute
quiet was necessary. 1t was gray
matter to close up thOrOughfare 10
weeks. but no one complained. Tn
r mllkman and the iceman took man,
extra steps ON account Of those wv
strips Of fence. Transfers drove NJ
and. when the fence ana big police
man stopped them, and they lcarne
that Jack" Hannahan's girl was YER
III, there wasn't grulnble. The heart
Of people. take them rs u whole. ben
very warmly, and, when they stop t
think Of II, they are sorry that any
body should be sick or In pain. An
| ~ I'VE Wcchb tuc bITeeI WIZ CIObcs
One morning men tore down tn
fences. They hammered softly an'
, talked In whispers. 1t couldn't max
any difference. for a great knot O
Grape was hanging Mt the door. an,
the troubles Of Jack" Hannahan'
girl were over. It's good to re,nemDe
the little episode Of the barrlcade,
street, for 1t shows what n universa
thing Ia sympathy and the kindnes
that radiates from human hearts.
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The Congregational Church Mt Griu
: nell has done the only thing 1t cOul,
do, by casting out George ID. HerrOl
from Its membership. II this act. say
the Chicago Journal. would also b
!. the means of casting him out from al
association with decent people an
!, make him a social pariah everywhere
J, the punishment would then most adG
:, quately TIT his crime. One matter ia
;. cOngratulation there IL. aud that Is "a
y Mrs. Heron. She has gained goo
: radiance of a man utterly unworthy Q
;, her. She has very much the best @
!, the bargain. Herron's letter to tn
council that tried him Is the usual pie
of the man who, tired of one woman
;, finds his affinity" In another. Their