Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-06-14

uate. Every island In the Windward
group Is subject to like visitation
and throughout the West Indies sim.
liar doom impends. Is nature going
to claim one district for its own
where Il may mutter and spit upon the
earth to its content? And will the day
ever come when man shall control Its
subterranenn wrath even In those beau.
tiful but stricken islands Of the sea?
1t /. currently stated that commit.
tee representing a church body has ex.
periencctl difficulty In securing a place
to hold the sessions of the association
under a pledge that the delegates will
be entertained by the citizens. 1t
seems the average church member has
a Discrimination to act rs hostess to
the visiting ministry and delegates. In
these days of better salaries for minis.
tiers the church member who contrib.
utes his share toward the expenses Of
the congregation IL inclined to suggest
that preachers and delegates should go
TO hotels or II entertained privately pay
for their board and lodging. He notes
that frntcrnal organizations pay their
delegates per diem and mileage. thus
providing for the expenses incident to
such representation. Why should the
church ask Its delegates to represent
1t for nothing and In addition call
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entertain these delegates without pay :?
Some questions naturally arise. IL the
church getting upon a commercial la.
sis In order to conform to CONNER
cinl age? Is the good old custom Of
hospitality declining? Has the church
memL ershIp drawn the line ut a money
equivalent and dIscar,le self sacrifice
and the law OF service? Is Christianity
resolving itself into a matter Of dollars
and cents?
Recently two attempts were made to
kill the chief Of police Of Moscow.
Three shots were fired at the governor.
general OF Warsaw, and the minister
Of the interior was assasslnated ut st.
Petersburg. All these crimes were
committed by studentc or by their
friends, and may ne interpreted rs a
response to the severe measures re.
Gently taken by the government against
student agltatOrs. How severe these
measures are Ii indicated by the fact
that In Moscow alone six hundred stu.
dents have been condemned either to
exile or Imprisonment The process IL
that known as administrative order"
that Is, simple police hearing. In
which the person accused has small
chance to vindicate himself. The min.
lister OF education. General VannOvski,
the one Russian official Of high rank
who has shown sympathy with reform.
has resigned In despair because the re.
dictionary elements are too strong for
him. At the other social extreme there
have been riots OF working men. partly
on their own account, as an incident Of
strikes, and partly to express sympathy
with the student agitation. In tho
southern provinces there have been
outbreaks OF peasants. almless and un.
organized. the expression apparently
OF blind revolt against the misery Of
their lot. In Finland there IL deter.
mined resistance to recent edicts for
the Russlanizing Of the army. The
communal governments have refused
to obey the edicts. the cOnscripts sum
mOned have not responded, ana at Hell
singfors, the Finnish capital. there has
been street fighting between the PEG.
| pie and the COssacks. Russia Ii q vast
empire, and Is ruled SO automatically
that n revolutionary propaganda en-.
counters peculiar difficulties. The
press is censored, and there Is no op-
pOrtunity for public assembly. But
these simultaneous den. OnstratiOns Of
unrest among different classes Of peo-
pie and In widely separated parts Of
the empire tell story Of revolt which
is the more pathetic for being SEEM
ingly hopeless.
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The drift of young men toward the
engineering professions IL one OF the
marked developments OF an Industrial
era in which inventive genius Is har-
Messing the forces OF nature to every
possible form of productive energy. The
electrical field is particularly allurlng'
this department In the technical schools
being crowded beyond the facilities
provided for instruction. In order to
prepare students to enter upon success
ful careers In the various departments
OF engineering these technical schools
have arranged their currlcula with ref
erence to teaching the largest amount
of science ana engineering that can be
compressed into the time at the stu
dents disposal. The schools have
found 1t necessary to omit from their
courses many studies which We're for
merly regarded as essential to lib