Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-12-14

when self-respect gets the better of free
advertising and fads In American edu.
catiOnal institutions, American degrees
will be more honorable and Will attract
more respect. at home as well as
abroad.
Patrick McHugh will probably head
the list of candidates for the judiciary
on the Democratic county ticket next
fail. lie would add strength to the en-
tire ticket.
Thomas A. Smyth has started out
well as President of the Drainage
Board. Since his appointment to that
office the trustees obtained a valuable
concession from the government in
the matter of an authorized increase
Of 10000 cubic feet a minute I'm the
flow Of water In the channel. Mr..
| Sinytl Is a mascot In every position.
and IL nominated for Sheriff on the
county ticket by the Democrats next
fall he would sweep Cook County.
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Another man who would run well
on the Democratic ticket Is u. j. Nc.
MallOn. who II much talked Of for the
judicial bench.
Arthur ID. Wheeler, attorney for the.
Chicago Telephone Company. was per.
fectly correct in his statement to the
state Board Of Equalization that the
most outrageous and unjust assessment
was that against the Chicago Telephone
Company. That against the Peoples
Gns Light and Coke Company was even
more unjust and outrageous.
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II would be the most poetic form Of
poetic Justice II Pinkerton's impracti.
cable proposal to transport all the an.
archlsts to sea island could be carried
out, especially II they were left to gov.
ern themselves for n few months. In
just about three days the most talkatlve
Of them would be longing for the de-
tested regulations and laws of society
to protect them from their more active
associates. 1t has frequently been no.
ticed that they are exceedingly lively
In claiming the protection Of the laws
they cOntemn.
The stay.athOme vote IL large. If all
of II could be brought out In favor Of
good government It. coupled with other
elements. would very often carry the
day and dIslodge corrupt forces long
intrenched In power. Many attempts
have been made to interest this class
Of men In public affairs. Even compul.
sorry voting laws have been proposed
and It Is seriously urged that qualified
electors who do not exercise the fran
chlse should be punished by the gov.
ernmcnt.
Genius for government ana genius for
business nre not even distantly related.
Take the United States for example.
Washington was successful business
man. but he might be called the first
and the last Of American statesmen
who deserved the title. Nearly all the
other bright names In the history of
American government, from Jefferson
TO Mckinley, have been possessed by
men. who. II they were not slothful In
business, We're by no means success
full.
II may comfort those who are haunt
cd by fear Of germs In Ice to learn on
unimpeachably scientific authority that
| even those germs which do not die Of
cold do not inhabit Ice. When the sur
face gets too chilly they move into
warm waters. and SO are not found In
dangerous quantities In Ice, even when
the water IL badly infected. unless the
freezing was so thorough as to reach
the bottom ana leave the germs no room
for escape.
One Of the latest fads. a cOrallary OF
Palmistry, Is tho reading" Of the soles
| OF the feet. People who are credulOus
enough to have their feet read are
usually disappointed In results because
they are OF that lOng.eared variety of
the human species that are more likely
to present hOOfs than sOles to the palm
list ana the lines In hOOss are somewhat
Obscured. The crying need Of these peO.
pie IL blacksmith rather than palm.
smith.
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j. Pierpont Morgan Is reported to
have bought IN English shipyard where
he can build 21-knOt steamers. Still
King Edward Is making preparations
for the coronation. He must think Mr..
Morgan intends, after getting 1t all
bought, to let England go on pretending
1t has the same old system of govern
ment.
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ut Is impossible to teach child
English when he lives In bad English
atmosphere ut home," said President
Eliot, OF Harvard, recently. "You have
got to get at the whole population iirst.Y
Is 1t arguing In Il circle to comment that
the whole population begins, like char
ity, at home?
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Emperor William certainly has the
soldier business on the brain. His bed.
they say, Is regulation camp bed, ana
the covering an army blanket. It's II