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

~HGA
When man has reached that point
Of spiritual development where he can
resist the great joy of answering
back" he Is getting pretty good and
must beware of spiritual chestiness.
a Louisville woman died from the
effects of swallowing u small electric
light bulb. That should keep those
advocates Of Il light diet quiet for n
few days.
The inquiry Is made In one of the
Eastern papers: Are our great guns
safe?" That all depends on whether
man in front of it.
~SA
Scientists claim they have fully
proven that malaria Is carried by mos.
quitocs. AS they seem unable to OK.
terminate mosquitoes. they should try
to cure them of their malaria.
a woman can stand II much better
TO have rainstorm come up when
she Is out In her good clothes than
to have It clear up when she Is out
in her old ones which she wears only
in bad weather.
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Wages In Russian factories are 2
cents an hour and upward. There
are thousands vino work for Il cent un
hour and tens of thousands who do
not receive 30 cents day for ten,
eleven and more hours work.
A Boston man who had been steal
ing Cor years and juggling the books
was discovered In his wrOngdOing pure.
~ by accident. One of the wonders
of the age Is the ease with which
books can be made by IN expert to
cover UP shortages.
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The girls are crying out against the
ruling that bank officials must not
marry on Il salary Of less than $1,000
year. They think the officers might
at least have waited until leap year Is
over. How contemplate II clerk must
feel when he refuses the offer of a
pretty girl and gives her the reason.
~eA
A Chicago bank Is trying to enforce
n rule that It's employees shall not mar,
ry until drawing Il salary of ut least
81 600 Il year. Or course 1t Is presumed
the restriction would not apply to Il
fascinating $500 clerk who happened to
be proposed to this year by Il beautiful
blonde millionairess.
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China Is willing to let the Russians
and Japs fight OH her territory, and
spoil her crops, and take the gems
from her mines. and wreck her cities,
ana annex her provinces, ana scOurge
her peOple-but she gives notice that
II anything Is done to the tOmbs of
her ancestors there will be trouble of
seventeen different kinds all ut once.
~6A
No man knows the sound of his owl
voice. He hears himself through two
channels-the outer ear and the eusta
chan tube. He hears his friend through
the ear only. Hence, he would rather
listen to himself than to his friend
Try your voice In Il gramaphOne. 4,
first you will not recognize 1t. But YOU
will Immediately identify that of yOul
friend
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What an eXtravagant, wastefu
thing Is war; What enormous sums
of money are spent in getting ready
ana how short time 1t requires fro
quently to destroy that which thou
sands of hands have spent months OF
years in building. Extravaganza ant
waste are part of the wickedness OF
war. Producers are converted into
consumers and the means Of cOnsum
ing ana destroying products are mul
tiplied many fold. An army costs fear
fully even in comparative repose. II
actual conflict it is n bankrupting ant
paralyzing institution.
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It's n hard lesson to learn that pcOpl,
after all are only folks. A Texas man
starting his boy out on career
away from home, said to him: "Y0,
may see heap of people who have go
more money than you have; heap o
people who have got more brains ant
more success. Don't you worry abOu
that. Whenever you meet man VIII,
allows he's your superior you just loOl
ut him and say to yourself: After all
you're just folks You want to re
member for yourself, too, that your,
just folks" That's often the trouble
We look at other people and wonder a
the great stakes for which they arr
playing, and we say to ourselves: "It's
M IlSp for a pppwaa like ma IN Of