Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-13
EA0LET8.

century jailer.
Sheriff Barrett has decided to retain
.Jailer whitman In the office which he
has so well and acceptably filed. The
best citizens of Chicago have Joined
In a petition to the Sheriff to retain
this excellent officer. and Sheriff Bnr.
rett needed nothing more than the re-
quest of the best citizens OF Chicago.
who elected him. to influence him In
this direction.
Mr.. whitman II a man eminently
and peculiarly fitted for the Office no
now holds. and The Eagle takes pleas.
ure In congrntulating him upon his
retention In office and In felicitating
sheriff Barrett for his broad. gagged
and public spirited action In the mat
ter.
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Hannah Il Hogs new wholesale
store on Wabash avenue. opposite the
Auditorium. In the finest institution Of
It's kind In Chicago. II IL worth u
visit and u visit will repay the time
used.
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Harrison has claimed to be Il s,ickler
for civil service.
How about SclOenbeck?
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The man over 30, unless he have his
own business or profession, has. to-day,
little chance to get ahead In the world.
The cry Is for young men, and the older
ones are rutllessly crowded aside. This
Is true, though It should not be. 1t Is a
diseased condition due to the freiixied
ambition Of young men to push them.
selves to the front on the first quarter.
stretch. We leap ut success nowadays
instead Of climbing to II, step by step.
slowly but surely. Many an active
young man, to his own amazement, has
alighted squarely upon his feet OH the
shore OF the promised land. without
having fitted himself by patient toll and
self-deniai to appreciate and enjoy his
achievement. SO his conquest IL but
u mockery. His success IL but hub.
bic. He Is like turtle placed upon
high rock; he feels foolish and out Of
place where he Is, he knows not how to
climb or ny, and to jump or means I'm.
initiation. More men have been cursed
by early successes than by early fall.
lires. Success Is sweet only In proper.
ton to the effort put into II. Riches
easily gained are generally soon squan.
dered. And then the man IL far poorer
than II he had never had them, for his
xest Is gone ana he Is an old man In
spirit, regardless Of his years. The
business world to-day IL full of men
whose lives have been wrecked by
early successes that were due more to
gall and accident than to real worth.
by the time they reach 80 It Is apt to be
discovered that there Is nothing In
them. There Is an unreasonable host
too, who have frittered away their
prime and dlssipated their emotions and
energies In strenuous but divided and
ill.cOnsidered purposes. At 80 the fight
Is all gone out Of them. The best years
of II mans life ought to be between 80
and 65. 1t IL his own fault II they are
not. His Judgment, IL he has any, Is
soundest during that period, or even
later In llfe A man upwards OF 80 will
do his work more cOnscientiously, be
more tractable and more readily fit
himself to conditions. 1t Ii Il violation
of the natural order of things to thrust
Il man aside when he IT, at his best.
The report that Northwestern Univer.
siIy, ut Evanston, ILL.,, has all the stu.
dents that II can possibly care for with
its present accommodations. and that
the enrolment has reached the large
figure of $500, invites attention anew to
the remarkable general increase that
Is noticeable In collegiate attendance
throughout the country. Twenty years
ago there was not II college or univer-
slty in the United States which could
boast 5000 students. Harvard, the
largest Of them ALL was considerably
below that mark, and did not pass 1t
until some ten years later. Last year,
however there were six institutions
having more than 5000 students each.
ana two others which We're SO close to
the mark that they must have passed
1t handsomely by this time. And IL the
rate of increase at Northwestern, which
had 2,GOO in the fall of 1901, has been at
all common the list must now be cOnsid-
erably enlarged. Turning from the
growth of the greater universities to a
general consideration of the subject, 1t
appears to the Chicago Record Herald
that there has been tremendous gain
all along the line. A report of the bu-
reau Of education for the year 1882 put