Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-20

myself If Id had the choice. I think
would have asked for dark hair
soft and curling just Il little bit over
my forehead. I'd have had u fore
head white as marble and broad and
low. SOS everybody would know ! was
II genius ns soon as they looked ut nfe
My eyes would have been big and dark
and melting, like Il poets. never saw
u poet. but just fancy what kind Of
eyes they have. And eyebrows. Real
eyebrows. Not few little thin hairs
that you have to hunt with Il micro.
scope. like mine. My! 1t must bc
splendid to have, eyebrows.
There's u white marble head In
grnndfnther's library. with some Greek
name under 1t. that has nose ad.
mirc. That's the kind of nose Id have
had--stright ana beautiful like an
artists. My mouth would have been
curved and sweet. with firm red lips
and teeth like the even little grains
on n baby ear OF corn. People would
say I was n saint as soon as they look.
ut my calm beautiful face and my
heavenly curved lips.
or course. I'm not poet. nor n
genius nor saint; although do think
l might have been all three II could
have had face like that.-Philadcl.
phin Bulletin.
by the retirement OF Justice Mayer,
who the other day presided for the last
time ut the children's court. the city
loses u useful public servant. Fitting
testimony to this loss was rendered In
court by the representatives of chnri.
table societies. But the best word was
spoken by Meyer Cohen, Il probation
boy" when he said, u little hOarsely
II was one of the first boys to come
under you. You've been the best friend
l ever had. You seemed to care
whether l was square or not, an !
wish that you wasn't going away from
here"
Perhaps Justice Mayer was trlfe
hOarse alsO--the weather has been 40
trea cl,crOus--w when he replied that he
should always take an interest In his
young friend. and that there are lots
of you here In New York who don't
have half chance"
1t IL because half Il chance" IL
more than some poor boys get. and be-
cause II they were put with hardened
criminals for slight Offenscs they might
thereafter have no chance ut all, that
the childrcn's court was opened. May
1t always have man on the bench
who cares. New York World.
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Modernism has made no more re-.
marknble stride Of late years than
around the famous volcano which once
showered dust and lava upon the cities
of POmpei ana Hcrculaneum. \
new electric railway has been COM
pleted by which the traveller can now
reach the smoking crater of Nesuvius
in Il comfortable car. Tho new line
starts from PuglianO at the base OF
the volcano and within a short distance
of the shore of the Bay of Naples,
The trip from Naples itself can be
accomplished In an electric tram car
and the old cable railway up the cone
has itself been electrified so that prac'
tically the whole journey from Naples
to the cone can now be made by elcc'
tric propulsion,
The new railway has been construct
cd by the world famous firm of Sock
who have worked the cable railway
up the cone for the past fifteen years
| The total length of the railway il Just
over four and One-half miles. II Is built
up of three sections, the first ana third
of which have ordinary smooth rails
the second section having an addition
nj cog rail. The first section of the
railway passes through II lovely vine
clad zone on which are grown the
grapes which makes the famous
l"Iacr'ma Christi" wine. The house.
are gradually left behind as one ap
proaches the second section. This sec
tion is the steepest part of the journey
the cars, which are self prOpelling or
the easier gradients, being here dis
connected from the current and pushed
up the slope by an electric locomotive
with two motors and elaborate brake
attachments.
The power station is situated at thu
lower end Of the steep section and q
large hotel at the upper station, known