Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-03-08

life saving crew Is doing the capsize.
drill with great agility at an age which.
Is so advanced as to be a subject of
endless speculation among the stu
dents of the university. The vital
powers last longer In some men than
In Others Some men die In their boots
and some after they have shifted to.
the slippered puntalOon. One cannot
say. Thus long snait thou work and
no longer. In the case of artisans, In
some trades. who have ceased to be
capable Of as full a days work as.
they once accomplished. there Is still
the device Of piece work, which will,
to some extent, relieve the situation.
II n man Is paid according to what he.
does the employer cannot complain.
1t Is, Of course, to bc expected that IL
the employer Is paying his men by the.
day he should want men who can do.
q full days work. II. however. he IL
paying them by the piece. any ten
dency to discriminate against older
men who may do less work than the
young ones Is largely checked. As
the worker passes the period Of his
greatest efficiency ana declines In
strength and skin, he can still receive.
Il return for his labor. and though
his earnings will doubtless decrease.
they will decrease only In proportion
to his falling powers.
As an eXempla Of the destiny Of
those who embrace ''get.rich-quick"
schemes ana scOrn the Old-fashlOned
methods Of industry ana thrift one.
Frank G. Andrews Of Detroit cannot
be said to have spent his life Ia vain.
Mr.. Andrews Is young man who.
arrived In Detroit II few years ago.
with u capital Of $I.25. by dint Of
nerve and quIckness In taking advan-
tage of opportunities he secured Il foot.
hold In the speculative world and from
that time on made money rapidly. be-
coming n millionaire. Always blat-
ant advocate of the lucky throw rs Op-
posed to caution, sound methods 6. ID
economy. says the Chicago News, he
has done what he could to imperil the
general prosperity Of the public. Hav-
Ing been lucky. Andrews. like other
"yOung NnpOleOns OF finance" seems.
TO have concluded that he was invinci-
bic. He invented several maXlms
which probably he himself believed at
the time. He openly approved specu-
latiOn and declared that human life is.
too short for the slow processes Of
thrift" 1t was his theory that mo
man should work after he Ii 49," and
no believed that all his good fortune
came us 1.-THE result of taking chances"
He found success consisted "in an In
dOmitable faith In your own PROPOSE
ton" Probably his philosophical view
organizing seemed correct ut the time.
His bOastful sayings doubtless In no.
way Overstatcd his faith In himself.
That he should have dipped into spec.
ulatiOn cnce too often and brought
himself into predicament In which
not even his "indOmitable faith" could
save him was inevitable. He has sue
ceeded In wiplng out his fortune In q
hurry. Not being an Garner or a saver.
but having been trained throughout
Ills life to the idea Of getting money
without labor. 1t Is not surprising that
he should have embezzled funds in
trusted to his keeping. From the
bank Of which he was vice president
he took $l,5OO.OOO. leaving abs0.
lutely no security. His fortune
IL gone ana so Is his credit.
Any clerk who manages to set aside
" Of his earnings weekly Is now bet
tar off hns hn Al t.l,
boastful SPECTATOR Youths who may
be tempted into speculation would do
well to note his example.
zone Of the best parishiOners' of a
certain well-knOwn clergyman used to
say that there We're four occasions
when he made 1t n point to be In bis
place at church. '"rhese Were when
1t was u stormy Sunday, when the
church was without n pastor and some-
body had to read sermon. when a
stranger preached. and when his own
minister preached" The conclusion
Is irresistible. Ii a special collection
unfortunately falls upon stormy Sun
day, any minister may confidently tell
this anecdOte on the following Sunday
and take the collection over again.
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A doctor says every mOuthful of
food should be chewed seventy-two
times before 1t Is swallowed. He
doesn't go so far, however. as to in
slst that cash register should be