Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-06-06


places had been secured for nine men
out of ten--places at salaries ranging
from SIS to SO and S12 week. There
was a great demand for the young en-
gineers. The great locomotive works
wanted few. the great bridge build.
ing companies. the electrical compan-
ics--the Westinghouse. the General
Electric, the Western Electric and
others-took more. They take them
every year. Why should they not,
when they can get talented and edit
Gated young men at wages which are
paid to the statesmen and women in
city store? For the solitary man
who had studied the science of fores-
try the United States government,
New York State and several other
commonwealth. two or three institu-
tons of learning and number of pr-
yate enterprises were clamoring. One
of the lowest salaries offered to him
was $1,000 a year. with prospects Of
ropid increase. So great was the de-
mand for men who could make two
trees grow where one grew before that
President Schurman publicly announc-
cd the fact and deplored that so many
young men were consigning them.
selves to lives of ill-phid endeavor in
the over. crowded professions when
one full of delightful possibilities was
clamoring for men. There Is nc. need
| to point out the moral of the tale
Boys who are hesitating which road
to take should seek the guides and
ask them to what ends the different
roads of learning promise to lead. The
universities are turning out too many
engineers and lawyers and doctors.
They IRE turning out altogether too
many bad preachers. Let our bright
boys seek some less crowded paths on
which life will not be constant strug.
gle toward the survival Of the fittest
and on which they may walk with
less Of jostle and sorrow and with
opportunity for more useful and more
profitable and more satisfactory &c.
complishment.
~6A
"Here goes another fool" shouted a
man as he jumped from the deck of a
New York ferrybOat. by the time his
body was recovered he was dead, and
his body was carried unrecognized to
the mOrgue. 1t Is n most depressing
fact that there were between 5000
and 1900 of such fools" last year.
marked increase upon any previous
twelve months. This prevalence Of
suicide indicates that grave national
danger confronts us. In the multi.
plicatlon of our wants. In the In.
crease of what we call the ''neces-
stiles" Of life. we are losing sight Of
the value Of life itself. Men measure
themselves by what they own, and n
sudden loss Of property therefore
brings the value Of existence down to
zero. Others IRE overwhelmed by the
vastness and strenuous life Of great
city, and sense of their own insig.
niicance and helplessness drives them
to self.destruction. In oil these cases,
the underlying cause Is lack Of self.
valuation. A man or woman becomes
discouraged and says: "Nobody values
me, therefore amount to nothing and
might better be out Of the world
1t Is peculiarly tragic that there should
be so many suicides Mt the presen,
time. when all great wOrld.movements
have become 10 rapid and interesting
Almost every morning we read of {
new triumph OF science. Travel ha,
become safe and comfortable In nearly
. every country. Inventions and dis
cOveries such MS the past never dream
ed of are to-day commonplace facts
This Is an age when the lines OF
Wordsworth should be true: '".Tis bliss
to be alive and glorious to be young
The terrible fact that over 5000 a
, year think otherwise shows that there
must be something out Of gear In our
social machinery.
~SA
Judge Lindsey, of Denver: Every
man found guilty In my court of cruel.
~ to animals must 70 to Jail; there
Will be no other sentence In this court
n SO long as sit on the bench. The
sooner this Is understood the better
1t Will be for the community" A jaiI
sentence Is severe. but not too severe
y for the man who maltreats the brute
over which he Is master. Let him
mediate In the seclusl0n Of a cell the
4. responsibilities Of a living soul tina,
has been given domination over the
beasts OF the field and the fowls OF
the air. What a friend Of man thu
? horse has been! That noble animal
( was companion and assistant to mer
when history began Its records. II,
has pl0wed mans fields, borne hi,
burdens and carried him to battle
Civilization would have come slower
upon the earth but for the horse
|. Often abused. frequently neglected
he Is always mans willing slave
What right have you to mistreat him
.. even though you hold a paper yo
call a bill Of sale? Your race owes hi
race more than you can ever repay
And the dog. He was the staunc
; helper of the stone age man. In a
periods of history he has been trus
worthy friend, constant cOmrade, d.
. voted guardian. His name Is In itse
a synonym of loyalty. To all Of thes
man is god. Shall their deity,
/. whom they look In dumb and humbl
worship, reward their trust and tide
. ity by lack of love and justice, b