Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-01-03

environment has done the thing. 1t Is
disease. not wickedness. wrOng-doing.
say modern-day philosophers. Is moth
ing more than misdirected energy.
Therefore we have an emasculatcd Cos.
pel--the soul that sinncth. It was mis-.
taken. misguided. bent wrong. Give II
bromide and science. Humanitarian
ism and science Is all right. Let us
have more of It, But let us also have
the preaching of the eternal law of sin
and death. There's plenty of sin in
the world. horrid. hideous. black. UNI
spcakable. The heart of man IL des
pcrately wicked. II is also phcnom
cnally good. 1t is "A DR.. Jckyl and Mr.
Hyde combination. Which shall pre-
dominate? If you tell 1t the Mr.. Hyde
part of 1t is no fault of its doing. that
1t Is the mere following of its natural
destiny. you but confirm the Mr. Hyde
nature. Let 1t he preached that sin
puts its stamp on the soul. that 1t
means moral death. that the mind Is a
free moral agent to choose. Put the
responsibility where It belongs. Call
things by their right names. A ser.
| ttlOu utTc are tuOSt uIbOh NuOIu
"woe is me IL I preach not the gospel
outside Of the pulpits.
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There he many who have been wont
In times past to cast a sympathetic
tear In pity for the lonely spinster. be-
cause of the dire fate that made her
spouseless. The facts seem to show that
these tears should have been shed for
the bachelors instead. The bachelors
the one to be piticd, not the maid. How
often have we heard 1t said that the
spinsters. some of them ut least, cry
out. as they wend their lonely way
through life: anything. good Lord.
, will do" All of which is a misconcep.
ton of the real state of affairs. Instead
of the maid saying. 'anything will do"
she II clearly entitled by the over.
, whelming argument of numbers. to
say, Lets sec the stock. IT you've
got anything that suits. well and good;
I otherwisc. take Il away. Foe there are
! Others" The census shows that there
are In the United States. G.12G, 10 bach.
elors of marriagcablc age. and only
I i.195.4i6 spinsters above the age Of 70.
r Who's the joke on II 1t isn't on the
) bachelor? There wouldn't he enough
: of the fair sex to 20 around II the law
: required all men to I've 30 before al.
/. lowed 10 marry and fixed the age of
girls az IL Think Of II. Dob 1888 men
/, in this country who couldn't buy Eas-
!. ter bonnets FOR their wives IL they
| u an ftap Al ts1n,, Il,
the land had wed. Just exactly that
many women have. by the good Offices
OF the census man. been translated
I from the unenvable class of those who
= would but can't" to the ranks Of the
: .can but won't" 1t has given new
dignity TO the feminine unyOked, u
n new status TO the unllnkcd lass. There
j. are. II seems. one and three.fifths men
i for every woman. leaving out the
u widowers, who are sometimes us much
e given to marriage rs their never.mated
!. brothers. For u decade. Or more. girls
y can pick and choose. CLEAN ana garner
= turn down right and left, play with
J.. many hearts with impunity. while men
!, are having n life-and-death bargain
COUNTER scramble to get wife befOr,
he supply gives out.
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A New York newspaper discusses thu
passing of the professional burglar
q Come to think of 1t. the artist In crime
II or In that particular class Of crime
4 which bends Its efforts toward robbery
Is almost extinct There are crook,
a.plenty. but they no longer appeal I,
that peculiar trait In humanity whicl
" admires skill ana nerve. even though
" they be misdirected. Our bank robbber,
, are men who have gone wrong, trustee
employees who were tempted ana fell
Our train bandits are mostly bunglers
9 our fOrgers anything but artists II
:. crime. When you face thug In thu
a dark, and dimly see the CLEAN Of re
vOlver. the chances are that lie IL ~
frightened rs you are, ana Is an anna
teur ut the business. Years ago Jim
my" and Johnny" Hope planned tn,
robbery Of the Manhattan Savings
Bank. In New York. and the job nettet
Il -. 900. Langdon Moore and Harr!
J. Howard walked out Of the Concord
u N. h National Bank with 100000 II
a carpet sack. and John Larney, Mol
lie Matches" made 100000 by rob
+. berry. Those fellows were knights o.
the profession. The boy with wildnesi
In his blood read about their achieve
ments. and lOngcd to be bank bur
u glar. They made crime attractive ant
U seemingly successful. The harm the!
u did morally dwarfed their direc
" crimes. They advertised the business
u Of dishonesty. and added 10 It n stage
~ glitter that was surely alluring. The.
!. couldn't last. Millions were oppose,
Il to few. Society was against them
u Night and day the law was In pursuit
e and there was faint on the dollar
- they stole. AZ n rule, crooks-evcn thu
= kings OF the profession--dle poor-an'
u miscrably. Every day inventors mad,
C. II more difficult for dishonesty Il
. achieve success. The skill Of the bur
glar did not keep pace with the brains
~ Of honest men. To-day the rObbcr l.
" an outcast, bloOdhoUhds are on his tral
10 aud the world refuses to admire Grim
~ or the bungling thieves who have fol
u, lowed In the footsteps Of the almost ex
~ tlnct "hIgh-class" professional. 1t is a
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