Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-03-19

4 war hero with II long name has II
doubtful chance of It's being handed
down To postcrity.
All the great powers of Europe are
preparing for the worst" ana the
chances are that they'll get it.
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The hunter who employs wounded
ducks ~ decoys Is wholly without the
pale of humane consideration.
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Few men are 80 linical as to refuse
to grow interested In war until they
have asccltained what II Is all about.
Now that u free pass does not mean
accident Insurance. some of our law
makers may not consider 1t very val
liable asset.
The British naval estimates for 1904
call for nearly S2OO.OOO.WO for new
ships. \ navy comes high, but, by
JiHSV, wv HuSt nave u.
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DR.. Knylor Is Claiming that there are
no female angels In heaven. We can
not argue that proposition. but there
are plenty of them on earth.
If there Is Il man In the world who
can tell just what Russian and Jap.
ancse ships have been sunk, damaged
or captured. what is his name?
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\ thrifty person who writes for the
newspapers says an umbrella will last
twice rs long II YOU oil It's joints occa.
slonnlly Oil your umbrclla--and
watch 1t.
Another feature Uf the Russlan-Jap.
anese war that closely resembles the
struggle In South Africa Is the number
OF hitherto brilliant military records
likely to he effaced before the time of
peace arrives.
Russia surely IL not as bad as II was.
For the first time In 800 years u person
can now telegraph information out of
the country without having the mes.
sage inspected by censors. That's one
good thing this war has done.
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When the school divorces itself from
the mother, or when the mother ceases
To work with the school, dark day
dawns for the child. Two complaints
have been heard of late years in regard
10 education. Mothers have been pro.
testing that lessons should not be
brought home to he learned What
are schools Iorf' they have impatlcntly
asked. Teachers have declared, for
their part that they cannot take the
place of tho mothers AMI teach man
no,s and morals, rs well as reading
ana arithmetic. Both complaints are
lll-Tound"d. The mother and the teach
or nr" partners, not competitors, in the
great enterprise of making boys ana
girls into men and women. Whatever
service can be rendered by one to the
other should he done not grudgingly.
but cagcrly--fOr the good of the whole
business iS the advantage of each or
the partners. You teach too much
arlhmctr,' said Il Japanese visitor to
IN American school. "In japan we
teach our children manners, then we
teach them morals: after that we teach
them arithmetic. for arithmetic with
out manners AMI morals makes men
and women sordid." Whether we have
too much arithmetic may be Il matter
for discussion, but there can he no
doubt that our children will profit by
more and better manners and morals.
TO that end, the schools and the homes
need more to he "mOthered." Says an
Eastern proverb, speaking with the
Oriental familiarity which is not lrrev-
erence, "When God found He could
lot be everywhere, He made mothers"
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Some time ago a woman who has
helped many people to see the wonders
of the world about them told friend
how her own eyes were opened. One
summer she happened to be spending
a few days at the same hotel with a
certain naturalist. His enthusiasms
G.d l.ot Interest her NJ all; the Progress