Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-12-05

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and fails to carry out the agreement.
After this II may he expected that the
lights will lie put out promptly ut l.
O'Clock Saturday night.
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According to the London Mail brain
fag Is attacking the higher circles of
English society. Now will some one
tell lis how brains that are not worked
can become TAGGED?
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Statistics show tndt lIiGi single year
the egg, produced in This country have
been worth NOR" than one hundred
ana fifty million dollars. Hens do not
20 on strikes. They consume little,
ana demand little Of the community
except the right TO scratch In the least
valuable plots of ground. No class of
labOrers can excel them In conscicn-
tous and skillful production.
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Truth IN more Of stranger than
fiction. says the perverted provcrb. A
popular novelist Sys 30, too. since he
had u story rejected on account of
the 'imprObability" OF II certain cpl
sOdc which, he ailirms. had actually
passed before his own eyes. But who
can trust his eyes? An occurrence is
improbable IL 1t happens to only ono
man. once In lifetime. ana probably
no work of the Imagination can sue
coed or survive unless 1t Is grounded
on the most truthful form of truth,
the general experience of mankind.
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Cattlc-kccping In Hawaii used to bc
u hazardous business. Pools of M.
wholesome water ubOuntlcd; 80 did the
luke, Il tiny animal that lives IN the
grass, ana when swallowed by Il sheep
or COW speedily finds Its way To. the
vital organs and causes death. -Four
years ago II consignment of frogs from
California was taken to one of the
islands. whence they ana their pro.
gcny have been introduced to all the
group. The frogs are cleansing the
water. extcrmnatlng the tlukc, and
fattching in the process.
\ mob of 10000 persons, 'mostly
women" mObbed the GOelct we'd.
ding In New York. wc are told, and
on the same day In Baltimore 100
schoolgirls mobbed one of their school.
mates on the street. Almost every day
we have fresh instance Of the mob
violence called "hazing" and the kind
Of mObbing called lynchlng is distress.
lngly prevalent. People have tend
ency, 1t appears, to assert their present
desires ana antipathles by force, with.
out the regard .ur the rights of 9th
ors which civilization implies. The
tendency seems 20 grow and must ex.
cite apprehenslons. What are we com
Ing TO! In proportion qs we advance
IN science, art and other forms of cul.
turc are we becoming Indifferent to
law and ord ana ethlcnlly barburous .
Education, In which Americans excel,
ought to produce better results than We
are getting.
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Scandal, gossip, envy, killed man.
Remember the suicide OF Gen. Sir
Hector Macdonald? People talked
about the affair in whispers. They
were told by gosslps that he had done
some great wrong, and died because he
could not face 1t. And his death was
viewed as Il confession of guilt. Hector
Macdonald was Il victim OF scandal,
ana the miserable stories about his
life We're put in circulation by heart
less men who We're jealous of his
courage, his military glory, his mar
hood, and his position. 1t Is true. A
commission was appointed to inveSli-
gate the affair, and after the most
rigid investigation not th, slightest
talnt could be found t, attach to this
brilliant soldier. There was ample
evidence of the work of the assasslns
of character, but every tale was run
10 earth and found to be Il lie, builded
by scounGrels ana circulated by gos-
sips who would rather believe i'll than
good. Perhaps the man was weak
when he took his own life. who Shall
judge him? His way of fighting was
face to face. lie had no skill in the
devious ways of the scandal monger.
lie couldn't see his foes. He didn't
even know them. lie only realized
that the people OF his world believed
him Il man viii, biOt on his name;
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