Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-01-04

reports an unusually large Increase In
the business during the past year.
Does this mean an alarming Increase
In the death rate? Better ask the
BOOZers' Union.
The County Attorneys office claims
credit for starting In to collect x1.OOO.-
600 delinquent personal property tax,
and points with pride to his having
collected xIS.OOO of 1t In two months.
At this rate II would all bc collected
In five hundred years. Energetic Coun
~ attorney.
City Clerk LOefiier Is said to have
tclcphOncd the newspaper offices about
that meeting of the Stock Yards 1lar-
mony Trust In his office. lie evidently
wanted the Traction Companies To see
that he was still In 1t.
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Every dny things happen that furnish
sufficient excuse for Individual, munlcl.
pal, or even national rejoicing. 1t Is not
80 often that anything happens to ben.
eft the whole world and to make It
proper for the two hcmIspheres to con.
gratulate each other. Just such hap.
pening. however, IL this OF the trans.
mission Of the first wireless signals
across the Atlantic. In this achievement
MI mankind may take satisfaction. 1t
Is II triumph, for everybody. Or course
1t Is MarconI In particular who Is to be
complimented, and the public will not
he sorry that 1t Is he. MarcOni has con.
Quoted his researches and experiments
In the most admirable way. His dis.
closures to the public have come after,
and not before. the fact. They have
been accounts Of what he has done. not
Of what he intends to do. II MarcOni
had plans for communicating with the
Pleiades the public would know moth.
Ing about It till tho first message from
that constellation had been received
and translated. So when he says that
he, In Newfoundland. has received sig.
nails through the air from England. he
can be believed. No doubt MarcOni,
like other men. Is not made unhappy
by public recognition Of his services.
But he relies for that recognition on his
achievements, not on his aspirations.
For such man the public has deep
respect and n cordial admiration. Only
one exception can be taken to tho uni
versal shout OF approval that will
doubtless greet the young scientist.
There Is some danger that In glOrlfyinR
him the public may forget the men
whose steady, patient toll made his
dazzling success possible. In tho SOS
james Lindsay sent wireless tele
gram across Il narrow sheet OF water
and since that time scores Of men have
contributed the small results OF their
personal Investigations to the great
general problem. These results, inform
ed by the genius Of MarcOni, have given
the world the first transatlantic wire
less signaling. 1t Is n case OF grea,
many men labOring and one greater
and more fortunate man entering into
the fruits of their labOrs. To say this Ii
not to deprecate MarcOni's abilities. II
IL only to call attention to the fact tina,
coming ut the end OF a long line OF In
vestigatOrs he has so summed up II
himself all previous studies ana con
clusions that MarcOni ana wireless Eel
egraphy are as imperishably linked to
gether as Darwin ana evolution, though
in neither case does the linking tell tn,
whole story. There We're evolutiOnisti
before Darwin and wireless telegraph
crs before MarcOni. The outcome %
MarcOnrs successful experiment re
mains to he seen. There was lon,
space of time between the first expert
ments i'm passing an electric curren
through a copper wire and the first sue
cessful telegraph line. 1t may be a lon;
time before the transmission OF mes
sages across the Atlantic otherwis
than by cable will be an economic sue
cess.
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The Judge who sustained ruling o
the Treasury department that lmmi
grants afflicted with tuberculosis la,
no right to enterathe country did no
go into the mertsof the case. He sim
ply held that the matter was one 70
the Treasury officials TO decide Blu
it is clear that the Treasury decides
wisely. that 1t is doing no more than /
should to protect the health of tn
country. Tuberculosis Is the most de
siructive disease known. In Europe, n
well as In the United States, 1t Is tn
cause of more deaths than any Other
Epidcmics of plague and fever are re
spOnsible for more scares ana sensa
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