Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-06-20

took n king to know good thing when
he saw 1t. King Edward has long
been noted as one Of the most tactful
men In Europe.
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The New York vegetarians now pro-
pose to wear shoes made Of vegetables.
Wooden sandals and hemp thongs
might do: and then there are colts.
foot, leather.aower. leather.leaf, leath.
er.wood, leather. plane. leatheroid. pan.
tasOte, caoutchouc ana a dozen other
vegetables that might fill the bin and
avoid using the hides from poor dead
animals.
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The report from Sofia that the Mace.
DOMAIN committee plans to fight all
Europe with the germs Of the Indian
plague II It's demands are not con.
ceded. Is simply beyond belief. There
Ii something 80 fiendlsh In the bare
suggestion Of such thing that It is
hard to fancy any state Of savagery
that would put 1t into operation. And
yet who can place bounds to unbridlcd
human passions? The pages OF history
are blackened by atrocities almost as
inhumnn as fighting with the germs Of
a speedily fatal malady.
Every year thousands Of drawn
money orders are not paid. In Eng.
land last year the post office depart.
ment realized from this source nearly
$3OO,OOO. Under the British Inv
money not claimed reverts to the gov.
ernment after one year has elapsed.
Under our laws or post office regula.
tions (the same tliing) a money order
is regarded as an obligation Of the gov
ernment, to be hOnOred whenever pre-.
scnted. Notwithstanding. unclaimed
money orders and postal notes on hand
Oct, III, 1900. amounted to $2.25O. 600.
Invalid advices amount to about 5000
Il month, or 100000 a year.
Drink water ana get typhoid. Drink
milk and get tuberculosis. Drink
whisky and get the jimjams. Eat SCUM
and get Brights disease. Eat meat
and encourage apopleXy. Eat oysters
and acquire taxemia, Eat vegetables
and weaken the system. Eat dessert
and take to paresis. Smoke cigarettes
and die early. Smoke cigars and get
catarrh. Drink coffee and obtain
nervous prOstratiOn. Drink wine ana
get the gout. In order to be entirely
healthy one must eat nothing. drink
nothing. smoke nothing. ana even be.
fore breathing one should see that the
air Is properly sterillzed.
Men who have sacrificed youth ant
health. scrimped their families. ana In
jured their digestion In the acquire
ment of a pile" often think they ar
public benefactOrs. and that humanit,
In general owes them debt OF graf
itude for being SO rich. In cOnse
Iuence they resent as cruel injustice
the fatigue, chagrin and newspaper no
toriety that money invariably bring
In It's trail. 1t would be about as con
sistent for little boy who had gOrge'
himself on purloined apples to feel In
jured when an avenglng stoma chach
followed gluttOny.
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Americans go to Europe to see West
minister Abbey. Europeans come I,
America to see Niagara Falls and tn,
Yellowstone Park. The President, aft
er spending two weeks In the park, re
marked that it was singular that NOR,
Europeans than Americans visited II
lie hoped to see Americans appreclat
ing the attractions of their own cOun
try. His hope will be realized, bu
there will still remain thousands, IL no
millions. who fail to lind anythin,
beautiful In their own village or thei
own county. but fancy that only thing
at distance have the power Of en-
chantment.
The other day a child fell out of tn
window Of moving car on the New
York elevated railway. That viii
cause mothers to shudder. The moth
ers who travel have been positive tina
no greater danger could menace thei
offspring than open car windows. The!