Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1905-08-05
ASSISTANT CHEF OF POLICE SCHUETTLER
OF New and important Police Bureau

when there Is well appointed field in
tie neighborhood where the scholars
can run. jump. put the hammer, play
ball and engage In sports and games
that. while developing the muscles and
assuring health to bodily organs. also
do their share In training sight. cult.
waiting decision end improving mental
resources.
The theatrical folk are perpctually
OH the lookout for dazzling announce.
ments to make for their enterprises.
One looks for nothing from them, how
ever. that will outshine the word from
Panama that the republic will start a
national theater. Bueno! Bueno! Let
It be built and opened quickly. We
can put the isthmus OH the kerosene
circuit and civillze it, Here's book.
ing for beginning: THE Danites,"
East Lynne" Sam T. Jacks Creole
Bellies, "Olivettc," "CnpitOla, or the
Hidden Hand" Uncle Toms Cabin"
"Ten Nights In Barroom," blue
Jeans" "IIumpty Dumpty," Lost in
New York." We've all seen them.
The Panamans have not. Why not?
They have had no theater. But now
they will have one. As long as part
of Uncle Sans S1O,OOO.OOO bonus is
going to be used to elevate the Cen.
trail American stage. 1t Is up to Pan
ANA TO patronlze the American drama.
They can have the list we've named.
and lot more, II they will promise
70 take good care Of them and return
them about 5000 A. ID.
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1t seems impossible for the Amcii.
can public to arouse itself to the point
of taking q reasonable and wholesome
interest In Its own great affairs. 1t Is
only in local and sporadic cases, like
the uprising in Philadelphia. that one
can see even hint or suggestion o.
| the presence of u sentiment and pur-
pose whose existence In the nation a,
large Is as ncedful as 1t Is In any 10.
callty. 1t would not Gc difficult to pre-.
sent a long list OF pertinent illustra.
tlons OF national Indifference concern.
ing great national affairs. but one will
suffice. The land frauds recently en-
posed are greater In the aggregate
many times greater-than all Other
frauds on this nation since the govern.
mcnt was created. That Is a simple
fact but II Is n fact Of enormous mag,
nltude. And yet the American people
| appear to take 1t rs Il matter of course
an item in the general order of bust
ness.
\ missionary In Japan writes of q
pathetic procession in hospital in ia,
Tokyo district From the street cam,
the sounds of marching ana cheering
In honor of Il japanese victory. Hun
dreds of wounded Japanese soldier.
We're patients in the institution. I'll,
triumphant cries from outside mad,
the crippled forget their injuries. III,
men formed a procession Of their own
ana marched about the hospital. Pals
buckets, basins and dippers wer,
seized, and a confused noise of pound
ing attested the enthusiasm Of til,
MANNED patients. The story of the re
jolclng shows that the common i'm
preston of the unwllingncss of til,
founded.
| New light on the efficiency of tn
American law for the restriction of i'm
migration was shed by the debate OF
the aliens bin in the British House O
Commons the other day. The premier
In defending the bill, said that Grea
Britain had become sort of slev
through which emlgrants entere
America. The fit got through ana III
unfit remained in the British Isles
This applies, of course, only to thOs
who sail from British ports. Whe
Great Britain joins with the Unite
States in prohibiting the entrance o
undesirable immigrants it will not b
so easy for the countries of contlnen
tai Europe to dump their incompetent
beyond their own boundaries.
| -''NNl NNHl W CciluE W uIuN
n quart OF vinegar for customer
who promptly robbed the till of 81 30
ana disappeared. The police are con
WINGED that the man did not want vino
gar AT all.
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The price of chloroform has bee
reduced 10 per cent. 1t is evlden
that DR., Osler has not succeeded II
causing the demand to exceed the sup
Iply.
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| When an engagement Is announce,
In small town the rest of the inhab
ltants begin to discuss which of III,
two contracting parties is going to Sc
the worst OF II.