Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-05-11

King Though the title Is misleading,,
and "Napoleon's Love Letters and
"Canova's Love Letters to Nine. Reca.
mier" are announced. TO keep up with
these fads Is exhausting, If not impos.
sible. In such an emergency there Is
comfort in the words of the last arti.
Gle written by Charles Dudley Warner:
without special anxiety, then, to keep
pace with all the ephemeral In litera.
ture. lest we should miss for the mo-
ment something that Is permanent, we
can rest content In the vast accumula.
ton of the tried and genuine that the
ages have given us. Anything that
really belongs to literature to-day we
shall certainly find awaiting us to.mor.
row."
OF course It's nice thing to be born
with a silver spoon in ones mouth. It
Is pleasant to have money and luxuries
without working for them. But TO gain
those things by personal effort Is bet.
ter, and there are young men who re.
fuse to be the pampered children of
fortune simply because Of manhood and
the good blood that Is in them. In a
box car ut AIadill, I. T., lives Roger d.
Whitman. He Is assistant station mas.
ter. and the car Is the railroad station.
II Is as rough as the country In which
ii Is located. Who Is whitman? a
millionaire's son. There Is home that
Is almost a palace, waiting for him In
New York. He can have horses and
dogs. He can ride in Central Park
with groom behind, and hear people
say: That's young Whitman, son Of
the old millionaire" He can have any.
thing that money will buy, and he Is
working for the st. Louis aud San
Francisco Railroad Company for $50 Il
month. He Is building up his body
with beef and beans, when he might
wreck It with champagne and rich
foods. and he sleeps we'll on a bunk In
the bOx.car station. All this because
Roger Whitman wants to be rail.
roader. He doesn't believe that trade
can be learned In a day, or that one
can cut across lots to success. He Il
going to learn rs other successful men
have learned, by hard, unceasing toll
and rise only when lie merits promo
ton. That kind OF spirit will bring al
most any young man into prominence
Ii will doubtless make II big man OF
Roger Whitman. 1t should make ever
greater successes Of the young fcl
lows who, spurred Oh by necessity, ant
who are not handicapped, as he surely
Is. by money.
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Country school teachers in lllino!
are TO be charged with the rather biz
task Of convincing their pupils that !
isn't worth while 10 run away from til,
farm TO become rich or famous In tn
cities. 4 convention of county super
intendents has agreed upon this as
necessity II the country schools In tina
State are not to become extinct from
want of pupils. Whether this educa
tional movement will have any etfec
upon the Illinois country boys Is uncel
tain. II 1t We're possible to secure
census of the country boys who hav
left the farm to swell the poverty AM
crime OF the cities instead Of imprOy
Ing their condition, the chance o
checking the migration from country I
town might be improved. UnfOrtun
ately, the country boys of Illinois. Xix
those Of other States. read ana hea
only of the small minority who achlev
q conspicuous success. The names o
those who fail don't get In the papers
Teaching agriculture by scientific metl
DDS will doubtless make farming NOR
profitable and less irksOme to the boy
who remain OH the farm, but the sur
way for the Illinois school teachers I
check the migration from farm to cit
will be to convince the boys, II the
can. that 1t pays better, on the Who'll,
to be Of some account In q cOuntr
neighbOrhoOd than to become an III
counted unit Of a city rabble.
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The aggregate importance Of llttl
things Is again curiOusly Illustrate,
Great tracts of Maine woodland m
now said to be menaced by no MOI
significant a foe than the common
everyday SPOOL The members of til
devastating army are small, but the
number Is legion, and each year IL
drain upon the white birch forests
the only wood used for that purpose
grows more severe. Seventeen spOO
mills now devour thirty-tive or fort
million feet of birth timber every yea
The output is eight hundred milliO
|, spOOls, on which could be wound threa
enough to reach around the world
, the equator three thousand six hu
bred times, and still leave ends enoup
, to tie. Fifteen or twenty million fe
! of birch are annually shipped to SEQ
|, land In the form Of spool bars.
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Events to-day are, moving with ma
J velOus rapidly. Corporate cOmbin
! tons yesterday considered fabulOl
are to-day realities. Principles yeste
day revered as sacred are to-day r
nounced as puerile rot. The preset
: tendency in less than decade W
J make a complete revolution in the cha
I. acter Of the nation. The old man "
/. pass away before the harvest. III
IyOung man must ultimately reap Il