Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-04-16

OF the wOrlU we'll uuupteu lOr tue cui- |
tivation of cotton. There is lack of
competent labor to do the cultivating.
1t il the custom of many cotton plant
ers in the South to complain of the in
efficiency of that black labor on which
they have to depend. The Germans
who are trying to grow cotton In AZ
RIGA cannot get labor one-tenth so eff
Gent and intelligent as that to be
found in the Southern States. With
all his shortcomings. the American me-
gro Is better worker in cotton field
than any planter in Africa or Asia
can get to labor for him. Not until
sufficient supply of intelligent labor
can he procured will there be serious
rivalry with this country in the pro.
duction of cotton.
| a legal publication has gathered sta
tstics respecting the number of laws
passed during the year 1903 by the |
| Legislatures of the States and Terri |
tories. How many. do you suppose?
Fourteen thousand. three hundred and |
pinety-four (li,30D. And this does not
| include the number of laws passed by
Congress. OF the making of laws I'm
this country there Is no end. Some
body. somewhere. Is always ut il. Did
Blackstone realize when he said there
is no wrong without its legal remedy
what u hOOdgate he had opened? Ev-
cry little legislator has his bill In his
inside pocket. How could he make
record" else? suppose he should re-
turn to his constituents without hav.
ing introduced one bill! As cOnse.
uucnce the statute books of every State
are padded with oil sorts of enact
ments. Frequently these laws cross
and criss.crpss until their interpreta-
ton is the despair of the courts. zig
norance Of the law excuses no man."
And yet no man knows precisely and
fully what the law il. What wonder
there should he lawltSsncss? Here Is
+ the fundamental error: Men suppose
! they can sprinkle Thou Shalt NOts
e through Il book. bind 1t In sheepskin
!. and thus reform society. All history
u proves the falsity of this supposltion.
The shy little CIR! who buries her
face In her mothers skirts on the up.
). proach of II stranger makes II charming
:, | and picturesque figure; that same
;, child. become II young woman and suf
!, feriny the ngOnies of diffidence as q
!, walaower at II party. Is an object fol
pity. no wOmuN can he unsympathet
ic with the sufferer If she has herself
once endured the miseries Of self-cOn
III scious sliyness: the fear of social blum
j. ders. the sense Of physical awkward
i'll ness: the envy. detested yet cherished
's of the more easy ana graceful friend
rc the bitter apprehension that no on
10 will ever have the desire to brca
tx through the barrier of apparent cold
MI ness and discover the real woman. ic
10 this shyness has Its root In quality o
III character both noble and serviceable-
"s In that admiration of the admirabl
hg which reaches to fear. The German
Is have two words for fear-Furcli
III which represents the fear Of the COW
Us ard. and Ehrfurcht. which represent
50 the fear of the man already wise. Il
he stands before his superior in wi
dom--honor-fear. 1t may seem idle
Su | tTN w ONtI'oIlle SlIilSu
NJ an ethical argument: but II once Il
he timid girl can bring herself to regai
CO. the terrifying social group as sinp
Try her lessons and examples, she ma
tut gradually lind her fear melting I'M
Ing admiration, and so into whOlesOn
he imitation. Social grace II largely Il
the self forgetting ability to put oneself
30 anothers place. All the easy give-an
lso take which Is the chief charm of Il
md huskimg In the country or the nftc
led noon tea In the city Is the result, n
die of genius for conversation. but Of pru
OF tIce in the art of entertaining. Tn
In art IL acquired with far less toll tn,
So skill In playing the piano III In 81
broidery or in cookery.
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the VIII the future historian DO ava
ter that the people who lived In the tive
ser tieth century could write Yes;
the viii lind u few letters which the too
his of time has not destroyed. There W
eti. be the court ana probate record, tOui
OF and unfuding. thanks to legal sal
no guards: ana the nrcheOlOgist will u
the earth blocks of granite ana tablets
Of brass with letters cut upon thel
ain There will he no doubt that tho
for Americans possessed the art Of WI
dia ing; but the great libraries ana the I
ugh pOsitOrics of newspapers and mag
of zines, to which the historian will lO'
diff for the intimate and accurate pictil
Of of daily life. will contain little mo
for than piles of dust, or volumes In wifi
diff nothing Is legible, and which cruml
yet, ut Il touch. This Is the fear of the h
I'M torinn and the librarian of tO-dn
hat They know that books and magazine
her rs well as the daily papers. are nc
ON nearly all printed on paper made fro
b 1t wOOd-pulp, which IL very pcrishab
of Fifteen years Is the life allotted to
ces. by some observers, a period probah
:. n too short. From seventy-tlve to o
dis. hundred years viii doubtless rend
ser. any wOod-pulp book or newspaper
nee legible, If not too fragile to handle.
Is useless to hope for return to r
paper. 1t Is too expensive. No o
o, can afford to use n material viii
costs II cents n pound when his co
pettOrS Use one iOr which they d