Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-06-04

some of the minor European poten-
tatcs Jealous to see how easy 1t Is for
Il king of finance to abdicatc.
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n mothers congress always presents
q splendid opportunity for chldless
people with theories to tell,thc mothers
how to bring up their offspring.
a new poison has been discovered
I'm Germany. This will be boon to
the cigarette manufacturer. The boys
are getting hardened to the old poi
sons.
a Chicago man predicts the end of
the world in 1924. We haven't much
falth In predictions of the end of the
world. Very few of them ever come
true.
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Panama now talks of disbanding Its
army. This would seem to he an easy
matter. All that Is necessary Is 10
charter an omnibus and distribute the
soldiers around at their several homes.
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The American Tract Society finds
there is SO much work to do ut home
that II cannot spend as much money as
heretofore In efforts to enlighten the
heather In foreign lands.
A copy of Poor Richards Alma
nae" has just sold for S5G5. Any one
who will pay that sum for weather l5C
years old must be somewhat dissatis
fed with the present output.
Mr.. Rockefeller Is reported to bt
harbOring an ambition to become Il
platform orator. Perhaps he thinks
some of 1t can never be- got In any way
save by iecturing.
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To his sons Bible class John ID.
Rockefeller cOnfded the information
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he was taught to milk a COW. The art
IN milking II cow, as everyone knows,
Is to squeeze out all that there Is.
The statisticians have figured 1t out
again. 1t costs the people of the Uni
ted States S7.07 per capita per annum
to maintain the Federal government.
Yes, this includes postotilce buildings,
river and harbOr improvements and all.
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4 New Jersey court has held that
one boy Is worth as much as two girls.
The Car of Russia and the King Gf
Italy will probably hold that the New
Jersey judges estimate on boys Is en-.
tirely too low.
4 woman who wished to play with
the tiger In one Of the Chicago parks
IL thought to bc demented. Yet how
many men have the same strong incli'
nation without having their sanity
questioned.
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War has many implements Of terri
BILE destructiveness. But when war IL
over and peace Is established. tOrpe-
does and cannon and rifles, with their
gun cotton and smOkeless powder. he
come again, save for some chance ac-
cident. harmless In the hands of their
masters, the warriors. The contact
mine Is an exception. Set out to do
its work in its own good time, 1t
knows nothing of treaties or terms of
peace. The great campaign of nation
against nation must be followed by n
little campaign of the victor against
the mines before there Is real safety
again upon the sea. An exceptionally
large use of contact mines has been
made by the Russians during the pres
ent war. Admiral AleXien announced
early In February that he had mined
the entire Manchurian coast, including
every spot at which landings might
possibly be effected. That boast is to
be taken, of course, with much roserya-
ton, but still the fact remains that
neither any Japanese warship nor any
merchant vessel can now approach any
Manchurian port without taking great
risks of destruction. The Russian tor
pedO CumbOat, the Yenesei, IL will no