Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08

here all classes of citizens will he
.iven excellent value at reasonable
,rices.
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The author Of "Curfew Shall Not
Ring Tonight says the poem was
in Il room overlooking Il ceme-
Iery. This probably explains why
everybody wants to kill the amateur
who recitcs 1t.
The official head of the tobacco trust.
whose salary is 100000 "A year. says.
II am paid for the mistakes | do not
make" The ability to avoid mistakes
IL sometimes more valuable than the
ability to do things. Both combined
make the really great men In high po-
sitions.
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Electricity is RAPIDLY coming to con-
troll the country and Il decided de.
crease Is shown In the number of
companies and trackage of other
kinds of power. OF the total single
track mileage. 2l.914 miles. or % per
cent. are operated by electric power
and 4lG miles. or 10 per cent. by 9th.
or mechanical traction. while only
80 miles. or IL per cent. are operated
by animal power. as compared with
GS.7 per cent in 1890
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If business generally was as corrupt
as politics is generally. says the De-
troit Free Press. 1t Is doubtful II the
great fabric of industry and commerce
would long hold together. That gov.
ernment can still exist and perform
its functions when corruption Is 40
general is due simply TO the fact that
the government touches the daily life
of the people at few points. II their
daily bread depended upon Its high
standards most Of the population
would starve.
The educational test Of immigrants
shows illiteracy among the Scotch
Swedes and Norwegians to be l pei
cent: among the English. Firms and
MOravians. . per cent: German. Swis.
and French. I per cent: Japanese. I!
per cent: Dutch, q per cent The
range Of illiteracy among those coming
from southern Europe Is from II pei
cent among the Magyars to ~ per cent
among the Italians. The widespread
impression that German schools ar'
the most efficient seem to be ground
less.
A recent report 0f the British labor
department shows that the settlement
Of labor controversies by arbitration Il
growing In favor In the United King
dom. During last year $4,000 dis
putes respecting wdges were settled
by Cancellation boards and 10000 by
the parties themselves. Wage.earn
ers received much less than In 1901
but taking the period of ten years
from 1S93.l9O?. the whole Of the tim,
the statistics have been collected, there
was a slight average increase, abOu
Z pence per head per week.
The young gentleman who has nc
quired some publicity by murierinI
his stepmOther and uncle explains thu
he was driven to the deed because
schOOl.teacher once boxed his ear
with a spelling book. II the pedagogu
had gone to the length Of giving hiI
regular thrashing with hickor
switch II IL to be inferred that tn
youths sense Of his WRONGS wOul
have led him to wipe out the Who'll
community. 1t Is these acutely sens
tive souls who keep humanity awak
60 It's responsibilities.
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One OF the precious few gifts who's
givers will forever remain unknown
the x25O,OOO which gentleman hant
ell to the late Mr.. Hewitt one da!
telling him to give II to the COOpe
Union and never reveal the name @
the giver. Mr.. Hewitt accepted til
gift with the conditions attached. an
died without revealing the secret. A
the annual meeting of the union I'll
other day 1t came out that none Of I'll
present trustees knows or suspects th
name of the donor. And they will n,
try to find out.
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We may adopt as an approxima
figure for the age OF man a period
10000 years, which Is believed
have fair claims to provisional acceI
auce. Furthermore calculations bas,
on the rate Of solar shrinkage al
upon other data seem To suggest
period Of about 3,OOO,OOO years duriI
which animal life will continue to
POSSIBLE on the earth. Assuming the
two figures fairly to indicate the fac
we may take 1t that the human ra,
has only completed one-thirteenth pa
Of its history. In this sense, therefor
the world Is young,
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VINO u golHs 'o uc'iuc WH'h s'Ie
fists disagreel Here we find Ol
group Of investigators, moved by I
cent discoveries, such as the remar
able properties Of the substance know
as radium, figuring out that the ear
and all that is in it must resol
themselves into their original el
ments or confusion OF elements. al
that we shall have chaos come agaI