Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-10-11

=. Grace Nichols, Corresponding Sec
rotary Of the Illinois Equal Suffrage
| Association, Is sending out a circular
to women voters calling their attention
| to the fact that women have a right to
vote for University Trustees i'm the
state election. and asking the women
| to register.
Hon. Lyman Il. Cooley. the famous
civil engineer and former member of
the Board Of Sanitary Trustees, will
he given tremendous vote as candi.
date for the County Board Of Review.
Mr.. Cooley has proven himself worthy
of the peoples confidence in the past.
and If elected will do SO again.
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Not long ago 1O.year-old Hartford,
Conn. boy. visiting in New York. saw
street car drawn by horses, and asked
' his father what 1t was. He had beer,
born since the introduction of the troll.
ley car. and the horse car was as
strange TO him as a Connecticut road
filed with drove Of cattle OH their
way to the New York market would
be to his father. II the adult can
get the point OF view Of the child he
will appreciate somewhat the extent
Of the revolution in transportation
methods that has taken place within
twenty years or less. The horse cur
has disappeared from the cities. save
on one or two short lines In New York,
and street cars have been introduced
In small cities and large villages where
they were unknown. Then, too, subur.
ban villages have been connected with
cities by electric car lines. and the
rural districts which had no railway
cOnveniences are traversed by the troll.
ley cars. Consequently, the stage coach
which carried the mail and freight
and a few passengers. has found Its
occupation fast disappearing. At the
same time the business Of the rural
merchant has been injured because his
old customers go to town to do theii
trading. All this has changed the con
ditions Of rural life. and II has been
followed by shifting of population
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the town to the country. The perfec.
ton of the automobile, which Is now
approaching, will produce still great.
err transformation. The automobile Is
bound to be more than toy for mil.
llonaires. although many people will be
injured or killed by It before II comes
into general use. Then. with the good
roads now building In various parts OF
the country, there will come still
wider scattering Of population. for the
conveniences Of the town will be taken
to the door Of the dweller In the coun'
try, and rural isolation will be n thing
Of the past.
Ida Shafult. Of Muscatine. Iowa. Is
described as sweet-vOiced girl. pref.
ty. intelligent reasonably well edu.
Gated and In every way charming.
Now, any man ought to consider him.
self a favOrite Of fortune who gets a
girl like that FOR wife, ana no doubt
James l.. Glesler, who has married
Miss Shafult, takes this view ana Is
grateful as well rs happy. But be-
cause Mr.. Giesler IL a banker, rich
man, ana Miss Shafult worked In a
telephone office. the news Of their wed.
ding Is telegraphed as though some.
thing wonderful had happcned-as II a
King had raised u peasant maid to a
seat beside him on the throne. Tint Is
the aristocratic way Of looking mt
things, the way usual In countries
where they have hereditary rank, and
ordinary people are regarded as a low.
err order of human beings, not only by
those above them In the social scale
but by themselves. We have far too
much OF this slavishness In our own
Republic. Yet no matter how preva.
lent 1t may be, 1t IL altogether out of
place here. 1t IN un.Americnn because
1t Is undemocratlc. To every one who
Is not n snob at heart 1t Is nauseOus.
There are just two kinds OF arlstOcracy
In this world-the aristOcracy of brains
ana character. which IL real, and the
aristocrncy OF birth and money. which
Is bogus. No one, whether he be a
monarch or millionaire, who Ia not
also decent nan, Is good enough to
he the husband Of any pure girl of
good brains, good education and good
manners. The circumstance that
girl Is pure ana earns her own lveli-
hood honorably gives her an added
claim upon the respect and admiration
OF every man that has sense enough to
distinguish between the substantial
and the superficial. Money Is a good
thing to have, and only fools and very
young people despise 1t, but money is
not everything. The man who seeks
1t in marriage generally gets what he
deserves-not that rich girls are in.
ferior to poor ones, but because that
kind of man can make no woman hap
Ply. ana an unhappy wife means a mis-.
cradle husband.
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"There are many things for some of
us to do, and there are some for many
OF us to do. But there Is one thing for
every one of us to do, and that Is to
Cheer! Cheer Cheer" So writes
the young president of Adrian College.
And he voices a great truth. All of
us cannot do great or brave things.
But we can all cheer. When strong
man with sincere purpose stands up In
the political arena and fights for the
npODle'S rights wo con all choor NXyhon