Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-01

to arise is natures way of telling him
that he ought TO stay in bed. The IA.
Their of Frederick the Great permitted
his children only five ar 81" ''urs'
sleep. declaring that more 4 that
made people lazy. hut 1t is doubtful
whether any one ever had too much
sleep. II nature he not nj fault man
should sleep until he awukcs-not un.
I'll he " awakened. Nature, that IL.
did not intend our slWnlTrs to I've rcgu.
lated by IN alarm clock. Perhaps.
however. the way TO get around the
'early.to.rise" difficulty Is to practice
the "early.to.bed" maxim. lie who
seeks his couch betImcs IN tho even.
ing will experience no dlTlscNlty IN get.
ting up while the light II still faint in
the east. He will have had his sleep
out and that, after all. Is the desidera.
tum.
The English, rs people. are univer.
sally known as nation Of very sturdy
contestants for what they call their
rights. ana n recent case in Liverpool
illustrates these characteristics strik-
ingly. \ purchaser of tea complained
that he had to pay for the bag ut the
ten rate. when he bought tea. because
the grocer put the tea IN the bag and
weighed the bag AMI ten together. The
ease was taken before Il magistrates
court AMI the hnpless grocer was fined.
He appealed the ease AMI the high
court has decided that he was within
tea because that was the universal
practice and custom. which was gen.
orally understood ana ncluiesccd In.
The striking thing about the whole
ease and the proceedings In connection
with II IL the extraordinary tenacity
with which the Engllshman pursues
little things ana the serious and order.
~ manner In which he sets about to
regulate the minutest matters which
concern his pOckctbOok.
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There IL Il story that when MarrYVt's
"JapLet In Search of II Father" was
running rs serial the usual signals
were neglected by an American and
II British boat which met at sea ana n
| substitute appeared In the query. HAS
Iaphet found his father yct:' That
was seventy years ago. ami ship loads
Of books have been written since. Not
| only was Juphet not tlle final work of
Its kind. but tales of adventure have
poured forth In amazing quantity and
with all the variety that Is indicated In
the range from dime novel to Steven.
sons "Trcasure Island" Furthermore,
the public that feasts on these later
productions knows little Of Japhet.
Some readers pick him up by chance,
others search him out because they
have curiosity about cone of the old
authors who was once very popular
Meanwhile the vast majority go after
the books Of the year and are not con
sclOus that they ars losing anything
Possibly, too, there II no loss, but 4,
may be said also that Japhet would an
swer as well for Its purpose now a'
ever It did While 1t falls much below
Treasure Island" In artistic value and
considerably below 1t In sustained In
terest. 1t Is lively performance and
greatly superior to much of the con
temporary literature that has usurpe'
Its place. Moreover, when we say s,l
prrlOr we include in the idea those ele
mcnts that make such works popular
People who want Just n rafting goOt
story will find 1t In this divertng mar
ratlve. Probably the signaling ac
would not he repeated if II were run
ming as n serial now, but 1t Is quite
conceivable that 1t might he celebrated
rs Il book of the year. ON the score o
fashion alone there would certainly b'
nothing to prevent. for there Is nOthin;
that stamps 1t as belonging eXcluslvcl!
to Il peculiar time or peculiar mOo'
of the reading public. The new book
take Its place simply because they ar
newly published, which Is a happ!
thought for the new author. Each gen
GRAFTON must have its own output, In
Guiding ephcmeral stun that appear
|
while the critics rage Miss Corell
points with pride to the fact that forty
three tons Of paper Were used In tn
first edition of her latest.
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DIR. Oliver Ferguson, In u recent lee
ture at Oxford University, predictc'
extraordinary longevity for the hu
man race. He said the average human
life had been heightened ten years II
the last sixty years, and that TIL
grandchildren of people now Twin,
would live 100 years or more. Strang
to say, DR.. Ferguson, II reported cor
ectiy. based his prophecy entirely OF
tho improved methods Of destrOyin'
pathOgenic bacteria, Why he shOul'
have done so is not clear. as there ar
many other equally potent influence
at work In modern society to lengtheI
human life One of these Ia yaccina