Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1910-04-23
EA0LETs.

turesque fgures In the metropolis.
His plain, blunt, outspoken manner Of
administering justice caused him to
be idolized by his friends and neigh.
bors. He always said that the weak
and oppressed needed friend at
court, and he was going to help them.
He soon became famous for his advice
to policemen. While many Of his &c.
lions had a humorous aspect, It was
never denied that he mixed much com.
mon sense and knowledge Of human
nature with his decisions.
An understood boy was once ar.
raigned before him by two-hundred.
pound policeman.
"What Is the trouble?" asked bat.
terry Dan." peering over his glasses.
"Your honor" said the policeman,
Il arrested this boy at Canal and La
fayette streets for interfering with the
police commissioners automobile. He
was driving heavy team and the au.
tomobile was unable to get BY"
"Horrible!" said the magistrate.
Young man, do you realize the helm.
BUSINESS of your offense?'
Sobbing. the youth said he did.
WELL" continued Battery Dam"
"heinous as 1t Is. I am going to dis.
charge you. But I warn you that II
ever again you are brought into court
on a similar charge, shall deal with
you severely. shall sentence you
to the Waldorf.Astoria for ten days
with a muzzle on. I will teach you
who owns the city"
One afternoon, while walking down
Third avenue, Finn met some friends
Of a prisoner he had held. They plead.
ed with him to accept bail for the
man. While he was meditating what
to do, a patrol wagon filled with pris'
oners being transferred from the Nor.
risiana court to the Harlem prison
came along. The prisoner. whose
friends had interested the magistrate
was among the number.
"Stop!" shouted Magistrate Finn
running into the street and waving
his blackthorn cane. "Where IL the
prisoner" he asked. reading the name
from the paper that had just beer
handed him. Taking the prisoner from
the van he went to nearby saloon
where he announced he would hole
court. Everyone in the saloon doifet
his hat while the accused man wal
arraigned. Then the bail bond wal
made out and the prisoner formal!
discharged.
1T doesn't hurt to do an act o
kindness to a fellow man when It Il
within our power" he said.
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"Next to the well-nigh universe
error Of assuming that the Indian 4
only q white man with a red skin. tn
most frequent mistake made even b.
sympathetic friends Is to take TO
granted that because he Is non.Cau
casian. he Is to be classed indiscrim
inately with other non.C aucasians
like the negro. let us say" write
Francis r. Leupp. who served fou
years as United States Commissions
Of Indian affairs under Presiden
Roosevelt. 1.-THE truth Is that. in spit
Of the analogy traceable between tn
customs of all races in their primitive
stage. the Indian has distinct ind
viduality; and nothing shows It NOR
convincingly than the way he has SUI
vived his experiences as victim o
conquest.
Suppose, q century or so ago. al
absolutely alien people, like the Chi
nese, had invaded our shores an,
driven the white colonists before then
to districts more and more isolated
destroyed the Industries on which the
had always subsisted. and crowned al
by disarming them and penning then
into various tracts OF land where the
could be fed and clothed and cared 10
at no cost to themselves. to what cor
dition would the white Americans O
to-day have been reduced?
In spite Of their various ancestr
they would surely have lapsed int
weakness Of mind. body. and will. an
become pauperized. No race on cart
could overcome. by forces evolve
from within themselves, the effect q
such treatment. That the Indian
have not been wholly ruined by 1t
the best proof we could ask Of tn
sturdy traits of character inherent
them. But, though not ruined. the
have suffered serious deterioration
and the chief task now before us IL I
prevent its going any further"
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The art OF Munchausen arrived Q
the stage OF the newspaper hoax earl
In the last century. The hoax In II
| original form was meant to be foun
out sooner or later. 1t was general
a wild geographical fantasy or pir
dream and Its purpose was half HI
morOus and half mercenary. In II
first stage It was meant to create
| sensation among the news-readin
| public upon Its appearance In n
news columns. In Its second stage
| was kept alive as long as pOssib
while Its perpetrators told 1t In II
form OF pamphlets and broadside
making all the profit possible out Of
In its last stage, when found out,
/ depended upon the humorous capae
ties OF the public, which loves to
fooled. to take It In good part as
| joke. In Its final effect 1t general
| worked out as fine advertisement Il
| the newspaper that published 1t.
III One Of the en- rliest and most success