Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-08-22

with you now" was the response. "A
friends onions don't smell so disagree
able as Il strangers" 1t was a care.
less utterance, but sages could not
have bettered the wisdom OF the sug.
gestion 1t made. How the little mis-
cries of life would fall away and
leave us untouched IL we would but
cultivate the spirit of friendliness!
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In an age of superlatives, labor i
saving devices" tell only half the story. |
"Life.saving" Is often the more accu-
rate term. A decade ago Congress de-
creed that all cars used In Interstate !
business should be provided with auto
matte couplers. That year over four
hundred men were killed, and more
than eleven thousand injured in cou-
ping cars by hand. Last year. de- |
spite vastly increased numbers of EN-
ployes. only one hundred and sixty
were killed and less than three thou.
sand wounded. Automatic couplers
have passed the experimental stage Of
dollars on one hand and human lives
OH the other" Dollars as well as hu.
man lives are saved by the change.
The little.graills.vl-sa sand business has
a commercial exempliiicatiOn. English
"drumners' do not take their meals
with ordinary travellers mt the hotels,
but dine together In the commercial
/ si,. NJ
dent of the table. With the dessert,
according to the Worlds Work, a wait.
er passes around plate Oh which each
diner puts one penny--nO mOre-fOr
the support of the Orphans School of
the Ira velers' Association. The money
collected Is counted by the president
of the table, who enters the amount In
a notebook kept for the purpose. and
the innkeeper holds the collection until
, the proper official makes his quarterly
visit. As the collection Is taken up
every day. In the commercial room Of
every hotel patronizcd by drunnners.
, the amount received In a year Is large.
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The completion OF the last link in
the cable from San Francisco to the
Philippine Islands is an epoch. INA king
event In the history Of the Pacific.
!. Whether We view 1t from a political. Il
commercial, an educational or a mill.
tary point Of view. 1t IL an event Of
far.reaching Importance. For nearly
forty years we have had cable com.
municatiOns with our ncighbOrs across
= the Atlantic. but the spanning Of the
Pacific was a much larger problem and
the prospect Of returns much less en-
cOuraging. II Is true that more tina IN
: thirty years ago Cyrus w. Field pro.
posed doing for the Pacific what he
had already done for the Atlantic, but
the government did not see fit to un.
!. dcrtake the task and private capital
). could not ut that time afford 1t. 1t Is
@ as the herald Of our commercial con.
:, quest of the Orient that the cable has
@ It's greatest Significance. 1t comes at
q an opportune time when the nations Of
Y he Orient look with favor upon Amer.
i ca and American goods.
Great Is the power Of truth! But
error also IL not without Its value. and
the world would 20 more heavily on Its
II way were all the misconceptions and
/. false beliefs to he banished from 1t by
D. a single edlct. WHO would be the first
e to tell the plain glrv that she has Meth.
!. ~ charm nor beauty\and will never be
Il desired? The knowledsv would be like.
s ~ enough to parayze her effort to be
!. good and amlnble ana useful. and the
J.. mere stold endurance that she might
}. call to her aid Is poor substitute for
!. the more genial virtues. The ambitious
girl dreams Of earning money for a
college course. Who would take the
:, heart out of her effort by telling her
. that she has ambition without ability.
> and that she Is better fitted for general
!, hOusework than for teaching Latin? 1t
may perhaps he that the very desire
for achievement leaves Its beneticent
mark OH human character. Who would
tell the self.sacrlfcing mother that her
y son Is not worth her trOubley Who
:. would tell the faithful teacher that the
- student repays her devotion by care
- less rldicule? Who would tell the min
!" lister that his parish Is ready to re-
ward his years Of service by rank in
gratitude: In short. who would &c
e about this wOrkaday world destroying
!. those illusions which irradiate life
Il with glory not the less lovely because
Ie 1t 10 unreal: Like sunsets ana rain
10 bows the gorgeous col0rs may them
le selves he neetng and unreal, but a,
II reflections Of things that are real the,
n bring for the moment cheer ana cOur
T. age, and these are we'll worth the keep
D. Ing.
r, ~
~ For many generations ministers
sons have been treated unfairly. The!
have been catalogued by themselves
4. They have been regarded rs Il littl,
a different from other boys. There Is ,
r. suppOsitiOn that they ought to be bet
IS ter than other boys, mixed with con
)" victiOn that they are not. This col,
10 viction not uncommOnly goes so far al
le to hold ministers sons to he just llk'
1t other boys, only worse. There Is N
v gainsayinG the fact that, particular!
IN In country towns, the preachers boy Il
N constantly under gratuitOus surveil
Is lance ana usually under suspicion. !
i. ripening watermelons have been plug