Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-11-22

Tons or Others VINO profess to he able
not only to identify chirography nm.
der all circumstances but to he ab,e
to establish handwriting analysis ma
an exact science. as II even sigma.
ture is always mathematically precise
and the perfect replica of every other
signature by the same hand. Court
| anecdotage received rich addition
when handwriting reading was pro.
nounced by one of It's professors ian
exact science based on the law of
probability"
The young man IL having his turn.
A distinct feature of the times Is i'm.
portancc of the part being played in
all great affairs. President Roosevelt
became Al years old recently. He il
the youngest President the nation |
ever had. 1t is the day of young men.
Great fortunes are made nowadays |
early In life, or else. the chances are, |
they are not made at all. Young men
set their marks in whatever calling
they choose and 90 upward to them |
In leaps and bounds. Most attain their
places In the social plan before middle
life. 1t Is a period of electrical rapid
fy IN all things. BY striking coinci.
dence. nearly all the great rulers of
Europe are comparatively young men.
While one of the youngest rulers of
nations. President Roosevelt is the
senior of several. For instance, Mich.
olas OF Russia Is only 81 years of age.
while william H., of Germany. Is n
year younger than the President.
queen Wilhelmina, OF Holland, IL
young enough to be the Presidents
daughter. having been born as late as
1850. Kuang Hsu. Emperor of China.
has but 20 years to his credit, while
sultan Abdul Azzlz. Of Morocco. was
born In 1873. and the Khedive Of Egypt
Is only %. King Carlos. Of Portugal.
II another who II Junior to the Presi.
dent. having been born In 1851, while
his near neighbOr. Alfonso. Of Spain.
has not reached his seventeenth birth.
day. Ferdinand, Of Bulgaria. Is still
another. he having first seen the light
In 1861. Alexander. Of Servia, Is quite
a youth In comparison with him, how.
ever. having been born in 1870. King
Edward VII. Of Great Britain, IL one
or those called n young ruler, but lie In
n grandfather ana Is II years older
than President Roosevelt. All Of these
come into their places by heredlty, and
age has no effect In their selection. 1t
IL by chance alone that all but two or
three OF the leading sovereigns of Eu.
rope are below the traditional nge
when rulers are supposed to ripen into
sufficient wisdom.
~
Apart from humanitarian senti.
mcnts. the budgets Of the nations need
but casual study to convince one OF the
folly OF war; or course. there have
been wars where the highest princi.
pies have been involved. There have
been from time to time. and probably
VIII recur as long as man IL man, con.
ditiOns TINT demand betterment and
arouse the loftlest instincts Of liberty
and Representation In a nation. even
to the point Of drawing the sword. Hut
Mars IL not long on principle. Greed,
Jealousy. the barbnric love Of blood Il.
self. too often arc the ruling incen-
tlves on one side or the other In inter.
contests. And when the strife
IL over there II not only suffering and
misery In thousands OF homes ravaged
by the battle demon. but there Is az q
a heritage Of debt that,
with its accommodating interest. falls I
heavily upon the shoulders OF poster.
lty. Take the national debt Of Great I
Britain. This year II IL estimated ut
about $3.50 ,OOOOOO. and Of this over {
Dne-fOurth Is directly traceable to
wars during the last sixty years. A
billion dollars OF war debt left unpoid
by one country In less than two gen.
pratiOns! Over twO-thiris Of this arose ,
from the South African war alone,
while the Crimean war Ia down IN the
books OF John Bull ut over ?
200. 100000. The rest IL made up
from expenditures In the Canadian In
and China war In 1S4l, the
Katir war Of lSl0. the Abyssinian In
1869. the Russo. Turkish and South AZ.
rican wars Of 1880. ana the Egyptian g
operations Of 1885. Not war In the I
list was contest to a hnality with &
my great power And yet, how mod.
'rn warfare. as eXemplifed In the re. I
cent BOer conflict. has swollen the to.
hi. No wonder the treasury Is good q
brake on the War Departments these ]
lays! 1t costs enough, surely, to keep I
up an army ana navy Of decent size In q
his wealth producing and wealth.dis. (
err, but war for suprem-
icy between Great Britain ana Rus. c
'la. for inst ince, would be won only J
1t the cost Of practical bankruptcy. i
The greatest ally Of the information u
arbitration ana universal peace project v
3 tho cost Of war. 4
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The rare combination Of genius. cOur.
ge and energy that made up the char
cter of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady stanton
would have made any man great In his |,
wn generation. 1t has made u woman
'reat In her century, ana has stamped
n enduring impression upon the age.
FOR fifty years this woman and her e
work. have stood In the limclght of u
ublic Inspection, and been marks for =
idicule ana open, often bitter. OppOsl u
Ion. But she never faltered. She liv.
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