Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-08-06


II. IIOdgins. "Thc Best New Things
from the World of Print" With Illus
tratons.
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EAoLETS.
1t may be a sign of greatness to he
u crank. hut TO be able to turn u crank
Is proof of power.
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Every time an old bachelor hears u
baby cry he takes fresh grip OH his
resolution to remain single.
An astronomer at the Lick Observa-
tory has found 100 double stars. But
there are many other gentlemen. not
astronomers, who are prepared to
prove that this isn't the record, by sew.
eral.
In his recently published remlnls.
cences of the Duke Of Wellington the
late Rev. q. II. Gleig recalls that that
famous commander was mt all times
strenuOusly opposed to new inventions.
lie scOrncd, for example, such novel.
ties rs the MIME rifle, and good old
Brown Bess,' the clumsy musket of
Waterloo. was his ideal. 1t was with
the greatest reluctance that he allowed
flint and steel to give place to the per.
cusslOn cap. This only an extreme
instance Of feeling not uncommon
among military men. nor IL 1t unnat-
ural. Most OF the inventions that
have revOlutionlzed warfare have been
due to civilians. Have they benefited
the world? 1t Is Mt least hard to show
that they have tended to make war
impossible. as was so generally held
few years ago.
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Tho cost of political campaigns has
Increased tremendously since Lincoln
ran for President. The Republican
campaign of 1864 cost about 100000.
The cost of the campaign of 1900 was
about $5,OO0,OOO. Maintaining head
quarters costs ut least $1,000 day.
Great paradcs cost from $4,000 TO
$4,000 each in New York or Chicago.
Great public meeting cost from $4,000
to $1,000 apiece. According to con-
sentative estimates the legitimate cam.
paign expenses Of the rival parties this
year will reach S0,OOO,OOO. In 1906 the
late Chairman Hanna was worried
about Iowa toward the close Of the
campaign. He ordered a personal can.
vass made of every doubtful voter In
the State. This canvass IL said to have
cost the Republican committee $?O,OOO.
The result showed that McKinley's
election was assured. Iowa gave the
Mckinley electors G5.OOO plurality.
The British government has recently
issued IN official Blue Book, which
contains the latest census OF India
that Of 1901. The trials Of American
census enumeratOrs In the Philippines
We're slight compared with the expert
ences Of the British enumeratOrs IN
India. In one province, a community
OF ascetics vowed to perpetual silence
made difficult problem. The tribe OF
Bills, whose members have long
claimed exemption from intrusion
We're brought to terms by the argu.
mcnt that persistent refusal would cut
them off from the receipt of food In q
famine year. The implacable Jarawas
made Il murderOus attack upon the
enumcrators, during which one of the
ASSISTANTS was killed. Almost three
millions OF the people of India arr
Christians, and of these the native
Christians number more than two ant
half millions. The growth of Chris
tianity is far more rapid than that OF
the population.
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The day OF iicardihg gold pieces il
old stockings has passed. Even the re
hottest regions of the modern worl,
have learned that money must pas
from hand to hand il it is to do good
even II 1t Is To increase its own value
But 1t Is not yet so clear to women tina
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not treasured in garnet and storcrOom
Somewhere in the world there Is
best place" for everythlng-frOm
WORKOUT shoe to Il discarded maya
zine, from last winters cloak to grand
mothers feather bed. Little indee,
of this debris OF ordinary life ought t,
find its dismal resting place unde
the caves of the old house. The Stun
the hospital, the lonely farmhouse
with its flock of children, the South
ern mountains, with their new zeal 70
learning, the Salvation Army, the cit,
missiOn--these are the claimants TO
the "cast-Offs' which. left to them
selves, would hut harbOr moths an,
breed disorder in the home. The gil
who has had from wise mother