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ccn THINGS THAT MAKE GREATEST CITY IN THE WORLD. M°THER By Jessie M.PvHoi\ The tounders of Chicago did pot have in view the building of a great city. What they accomplished In thia direction was only Incidental to tiie ordinary pursuit- of the varied activities of life,-bt their efforts have resulted In the greatest material development the human ra<<e ever baa witnessed In a similar length of time. The com bined populations of Boston ami St. Louis, two of the large cities, ure not equal to that of Chicago; add Gin- cinnati and Indl;inai>olls and you haven't got a Chi- cago; then, after adding Omaha and Denver, you still will have to throw in Des Moines to make a Chicago. Chicago covers nn area of ninety-six square miles, has 4,200 miles of streets, 1,500 in lea of sowers, eight large parks, forty-five small ones, ami forty eight miles of boulevards. The 22,000 manufacturing plants, with $7Q0,- 000,000 of invested capital, paying $240,000,000 In wages and turnlngout products to the value of $1,100,000,000 an- nually, show that Industry lias not been neglected. The stock ya'-ds and packing plants occupy 600 acres of land, ship annually 12,000,000,000 ponds of beef, and other prod ucts In proportion. Chicago is the largest grain market In the world, having ninety elevators, with a combined capacity of 75,000,000 bushels. The receipts of grain amount to 450,000,000 bushels annually. Chicago’s com merce by water surpasses that of New York. Boston. Phil adelphia and Baltimore combined. In the iron and steel Industry Chicago does more than twice the business of all other cities west of Pennsylvania; she produces more steel rails than uny other city In the world. In the downtown district a spot a mile square can be fsdnntcd out in which more business Is done than in any similar .-yiai-e In the world. By actual count the average number of drays, delivery wagons and street cars that cross the corner at Fifth avenue and Lake street luring business hours Is thirty-one per minute. More than forty milk companies distribute milk to the people of Chicago, and one of these companies runs 1,100 wagons 'n sujiplylng Its Chicago customers. Within an area of half a mile by three quarters tn the loop district there are lid buildings ten or more stories high, twenty-one that contain fifteen or more stories, and six in which twenty or more may be counted. The fed eral building does not come In this list, although It Is the most ponderous structure in the city except the court house. It cost $5,000,000, and the courthose a little more. The largest office blldlng In the world Is the Monadnock, seventeen stories, which contains 1,264 offices and twenty eight stores. Chicago Is able to boast of the largest department stores, as well as the largest mall order houses. In the The Photograph The door of hla cabin stood open and a shaft of light stole In over his shoul der us though to examine the fireplace, nnd the pans and kettles hanging pic turesquely about the walls and the two or three extra bunks for possible visit ors, and the floor and quaintly carved tools—all as bright and immaculate as though presided over by a woman; and another shaft came down through the foliage and rested u|mn the bowed, whitening head, ami ui>on the rough knotted lingers that were unconsciously betraying the longings of a repressed soul to the familiar, responsive strings of his violin. A boat came noisily up the river and was fastened to the bank below the cabin; then two men hurried up the slo[M', leaving a third to follow more leisurely. But still Bat Pinaud played »n unmindfully, unconscious. "Oh. I say.” called one of the men Impatiently, “that's awful fine, but will you please stop Just a minute?" The bow poised in the air and then flashed a tinnì staccato across the strings. “Are you Bat Pinaud?” “Out, nnd monsieur?” "Oh, I’m Doc Willets, and my friend here Is Col. Case. We and Jack Phil lips down there have been camping on the big lake for the last two months. What we want with you Is this.” lower ing Illa voice and glancing over bls shoulder to «1*0 that their companion was still beyond hearing; "we’re up for a day's fishing In the rive-, and Case and I have each bet $100 with Phillips that we'll get the biggest creel. Now we understand that you're intimate with every fish In the I’enobscot, nnd what we want Is for you to place us on the river tomorrow so.our bets will 1*' •ure. Re»1?" Yes, Bat saw—perhaps more than they intended, or would have liked. He had heard of Doc Willets nnd Col. Case, and of reckless, good-natured Jack Phillips, who allowed the ahnr¡>- ers to bleed him on every possible pre- teit, and in a way Hint was patent to everybody but himself. "Oul, sure- nient,” be saw. “Everything all right?" asked Jack Phillips, as he Joined the group. “«U|>- per and breakfast accommodations for the night, and all that sort of thing?" “Haven’t had time to ask yet, you followed us up so close," rejoined Dis' Willets, tipping a wink of secrecy to Bat and at the same time Jingling some coins in his pocket, "but 1 suppose ♦ here'll lie no trouble, "eh. guide?" Bat rose slowly nnd carried hla fiddle Into the cabin. When he came out he was ngain the obliging, matter-of-fact trnpper and guide. "1 s'pose maytie 1 fixed up nil those things," he said graciously. "Now. you go In the cabin or sit down under the tret's, whatever you like besf. Roon's I bring things up from the boat well have supper." It was dark before the supper had been preparad and eaten, nisi then, at their requeat, Bat took them down to • 1 world; one of the former employing 8.000 people; the dnlly postage bill of one of the latter Is $0,00a In one room there are ¿«10 girls who do nothing but o;>en and assort letters. Chicago does more than tour times as much business as the great State of Iowa. This require® the handling of vast sums of money, but fifty-seven banks, fifteen of which are national, seem 'to do It efficiently. One of these bnnks is the second largest lu the United States. Its capital is $10,000,000 and deineits $115,- 000,000. Chicago trades with every civilized country on the globe, which necessitates extensive transportation facili ties. Tills business is divided between thirty-two rail road Mnd ' twenty-eight steamboat lines. Every day It requites 1,260 trains of six cars each to carry the people who come to Chicago on the steam roads, 280 orf which are through trains and 980 suburban. Twenty-four sur face and seven elevated car lines run from the outskirts to the business center. Trains run every three minutes on the elevated and several of the surface lines, four or five cars each to the former and two to the latter. Dur ing sixty trips on Madison street no two were made with the same conductor; nor did the Investigator re member seeing any particular passenger twice. The total daily arrivals within the downtown square mile by all conveyances amount to a half million. The total municipal expenditures of Chicago are now $45,000,COO a year, but the rapid growth of population and the vast Improvements increase these figures every year. The 3.5'0 policemen Involve an expenditure of nearly $4,000,000. Chicago possesses a larger number of the "greatest things on earth” thnn any other city In the world. She has the largest car factory. Is the largest manufacturer of telephones and other electric supplies; her cominercs by water Is greater than that of any other city; In every respect she Is the greatest railroad center; Is ths largest agricultural implement market; has the grandest park and boulevard system In the world. Chicago speaks more languages than any other city, and publishes a larger number and the greatest news papers In the world. Chlcngo Is great not alone In ma terial things Rhe Is devoted to all the activities that develop the higher Ideals of life. There are 308 public school buildings, and In oonsiderlng the great things of Chicago her big heart must not be overlooked. No other city has shown the humane attributes to such a degree or manifested such a spirit of generosity. She la ever ready to help the needy or aid and encourage whatever Is for the public good or the uplift of humanity. She does everything on a grand scale.—Chicago Tribune. deer run to try their luck at flash light. The next morning they were out with the day, and after a hasty eating of breakfast and a careful preparation of lines, they followed Bat a mile or so up the river to where he said the fish ing was good. As they paused on the bank. Doc Willets and Col. Case tried to catch Bat's eye and again audibly fingered the coins In their pockets. Bat lookt-d up and down the river criti cally. "I s'pose maybe Mr. Willets better go to that little cove there and fish from the point back to the big white rock,” he said at length. “I’ve caught more tish there than I could carry. Mr. Case I will take up round the bent. Plenty tish there. And Mr. Phillips,” looking at him as though somewhat In doubt, “maybe I'd best show him beyond the rapids. I catch fish there sometimes and sometimes not. Maybe he'll do better. That suit?” “Oh, yes, that's Just the thing," cried Doc Willets, and “just the thing," echoed Col. Case. Then they both rub- IIEUI ED BAD LUCK. bed their hands and looked at Bat ap provingly. Jack Phillips did not even hear. I l,e was gazing gloomli across the river, his thoughts evidently else- where. An hour or so Inter, ns Bat was clr- cling from one to another, watching and giving bits of advice from his own experience, he came upon Jack Phillips beyond the rapids. The young man had drawn something from bis ¡>ocket and was looking nt it hungrily, oblivi ous of everything aTound. His rod and line lay upon the bank unnoticed. As Bat turned to steal ttway he heard Phillips utter a stifled groan of Enun ciation and despair and Saw the object cast into the underbrush. Then Phil lips caught up bls rial and wont crush ing-through the bushes along the river. When he was Iteyond view Bat went to the place where he wns standing nnd found the photograph of n beautiful young girl, whose eyes looked up at him wistfully and appealingly. Bat thought. He gazed at the picture for some mo ments, hla face whitening; then he nod ded reassurance to the eyes. When darkness brought them togeth er It was found that Jack Phillips, in spite of h?s desultory fishing above the rapids, had caught more thnn both the others. "Well, t suppose It's all luck,* ©oc Willets grumbled despondently. "Deu ced bad luck, thought, I think." Then: “Say, Jack, old man. you’ll have to wait a week or two for your money— I’m broke.” “Me, too,” Col. Case admitted gloom ily. “I was counting on thiB to— to—” lie flushed recollecting and was silent. Jack Phillips smiled satirically, but said nothing. Presently he turned to Bat. “Pretty lonesome life here in the win ter, Isn’t it?” he asked. "When snow shuts you away from everything. Rtlll I suppose you have always been used to It.” “Folks can get used to anything and like it,” Bat replied shortly. But a little later when Phillips moved down the river be followed. "No, I haven't always been used to it," he said abruptly. “I lived In a city until I was over 20, then I got mad and played the fool and came off here, The girl waited a year, and married another man.” "Why do you call yourself a fool?" asked Phillips, looking at him curi ously. "Because I am one,” harshly. “I didn’t think so for a year, until 1 heard she was married, then I knew. And I have been living in the woods for thirty years, and knowing it more posi tively every day. I have never spok en of it before.” "Why do you tell me?” Bat looked him square in the face. "I found a photograph in the bushes today, up above the rapids,” he said, his voice softening. “I saw you throw it away. There is nothing but good ness in that face, and the girl’s soul is In her eyes, I am an old man. and you are young and hasty, One fool in the world Is enough. Here is the pict- ure. The girl's eyes are looking for somebody, and you nnd I both know who it is. Go back to her.” Jack Phillips bestitated. then held out his hand. "Give it to me,” , said he. hla voice trembling. “I have been trying to con vince myself for a month that I wasn’t a fool, but It has been a losing tight. I am sorry—for you." Bat Pinaud stood on the bank as they pulled away, then went hack up the slope to his cabin. And so the moon rose up from the far bank of the river, sending its spiritual light into .the under spaces of the forests, the music of his fiddle rose and swelled put through the swaying- aisles nnd across the water of the river, benring on Its plaintive tide’the past of the bowed figure whose gray beard was bent close, -close to the respopslve in- strnmenf. as though listening to‘Its own heart throbs there.—New Orleans Times -Democrat. Million- In Slirh t. It Is estimatisi that 21.060,000 acres are available for rice growing in I/ni- Isiana and Texas, and the value of such a crop would be $400,000.000. This would make the rice crop fifth In ¡mint of value nmong the cereals of this coun try. The Tornln« nt the Worm. Mollie—I wish you were more lffre Mr. Rimpson. Coddle—My dear. If I were more llkf Mr. Simpson, I should have married a woman more like Mr® Simpson.—St. Louis Post Dispatch. • ■* » t « © 0 e •• •• e 9 0 fl) I «• o • • 0 Science '^invention o 9 * • 1 aflurma. © This Is an exceedtnly Infectious dis- ' ease, often confounded with a common I cold, but really an entirely different i affair. It attacks young adults more , frequently than the very old or chil dren, but no age Is exempt, especially I during severe and wide-spread epi demics. An attack confers Immunity for a variable period, from a few months to a year, but- after that there appears to ’ be an Increased susceptibility. Many ' persons suffer from the disease every year. Influenza prevails chiefly In late autumn and winter, although epidemica may occur In the summer, especially If the season is cold and wet. The disease assumes one of three special forms, ' called from the parts chiefly affected the respiratory, the digestive and the nervous. In each case th« onset Is sudden, with a chill, headache and mental depression, muscular pains, diz ziness and high fever. Sometimes there are premonitory symptoms for a day or two, such as lassitude, mental torpor, dull headache and pains In the arms and legs. Soon after the onset catar- rhal symptoms—sneezing, running at the nose and watering of the eyes— make their appearance. In the respi- ratory form these Increase in severity, with release of atmospheric pressure, and there are also cough and shortness and the accumulation of water mors of breath. It Is not uncommon for this than aufflced to counterbalance the de form to develop Into pneumonia. crease is weight of the nlr. In the digestive form the most prominent symptoms are nausea and i YUKON MINERS FIND MASTODON vomiting, or diarrhoea and severe ab dominal pains, the first two Indicating !!■*• Aalaitl la Perfect Stat« nt The Importance of the charcoal In involvement of the stomach, the second Preservation la Du« lip. two that the Intestines are Involved; dustry in the United Rtates la described John Frollng has Just returned to hla sometimes all are present nt once. Indi . In Popular Mechanic's. Originally val home in this city nfter an absence of ued only as a heat producer, charcoal nearly seven years In Alaska apd the cating a very severe attack. In the nervous form the headache Is I Is now used as an Ingredient in th«? Yukon territory, says n Tacoma dis usually Intense, and the muscular and manufacture of gunpowder, a decolor patch to the New York Hernld. Dur neuralgic pains are very severe. De izer of solutions, a medicine for dyspep ing his absence Mr. Frollng traveled pression, both physical and mental. Is tics and a purifier of water. As an over the mountains and followed the a prominent symptom, the despondency antiseptic and cleanser its power Is river and creek valleys of the far north often passing Into real melancholia and universally recognized. In a hospital a for years. In a fevered search for th« sometimes leading to suicide. Insom piece of charcoal will soon absorb and yellow metal. nia is a common symptom, both during decompose obnoxious gases and sweeten Mr. Frollng brings the facts of th« 1 the atmosphere. All these are but a finding of the remains of a mastodon the attack and following It. Convalescence Is tedious, the body uart of its uses. In an almost complete state of preser regaining its strength very slowly and What man has learned by dint of vation. The body of the mammoth was the mind throwing off Its depression thought and exjierlment some of the found forty feet below the surface, Mr. only after weeks or months. ! lower animals appear to know through Frollng says, seven miles up Wood The most important part of the Instinct. An Instance Is furnished by choppers’ creek, a small stream that i treatment is absolute rest In bed. The the “spiral swimming” of certain or flows Into the Yukon about forty or sick room is to be. If possible, on the ganisms, such as the spherical-shaped fifty mill's above Circle City. sunny side of the house, with windows volvox nnd several elongated infusor Several miners there had staked out kept open both day and night. The ian«. As they revolve atiout the axis claims and were going through th« patient should be protected by light of progression, ns does a projectlie frosty earth In an effort to strike pay but warm bedclothes, and by a silk tired from a rifled gun. the consequence dirt. They were operating n steam nightcap. The diet should be greatly Is that they nre able to travel In a plant, running down points, and were restricted, especially while the fever Straight line, ns they could not do oth one day surprised by noticing a pe lasts, but water should be drunk in erwise, the revolution compensating culiar smell of flesh emanating from abundance. The medicinal treatment with absolute precision for any tenden the excavation. naturally varies with the form which cy to deviate from a straight course. Upon Investigating they found that the disease assumes and the parts Without such a device many of these they were Immediately upon the car- which it attacks.—Youth’s Companion. minute creatures would simply describe cass of some I nense animal, which the almost red hot steam was rapidly circles, making no forward progress. Wonderful t'sev nt the Magnet. delaying after tt had lain In the frozen The Size of the Sea.—This refers not clasp of Its earthly bed for untold Electro-magnets are much used In connection with cranes and other con to the area of the oceans only, but to years. veyors for lifting heavy pieces of iron their total cubic content, which Is reck- By great effort they got the carcass and steel. The Illinois Steel Company I oned by Edward A. Martin of the Geo out of the earth, the task proving a has a magnet weighing 1,200 pounds logical Society nt thirty times the cubic most disagreeable one. owing to the which lifts six tons of hot metal in content of all the land lying above sea fetid odors arising from it. Much of foundries and rolling mills. I level. In other words. If all the land of the meat was still In a good state of The power of the electro-magnet Is the globe were scraped off down to the preservation nnd was eaten by the dogs regulated by the switch controlling the 1 level of the sea nnd thrown Into the nnd wild animals that came about the current. The magnet Is lowered to the 1 o-eun, It would fill only one-thirtieth camp at night. The bones of the mam object needed with the current turned ' part of the enormous abyss which Is oc moth were all Intact and the last Mr. off. When the switch Is closed the cupied by the waters. According to Frollng heard arrangements were being magnet-becomes active, holds the arti Lyell, the mean height of the land made to preserve the skeleton. cles to be lifted while they are raised above sea-level Is 1.000 feet, whereas In his long travels over the Yukon and transported to their destination. I I the mean depth of the ocean Is 12,000 country Mr. Frollng found many spots When they are lowered the switch is feet. There are mountain peaks which where the tames of the mastodon worn opened and the magnet Immediately re rise ns high above sea-level ns the de numerous, everything pointing to a leases them. As the operator of the pressions of the ocean sink below It. but time when some sudden cataclysm had crane controls the action of the magnet the average height of the land Is slight brought unexpected death upon all the through the switch, this one man can compared with the average depth of the animal life. He says these spots where attend to all the details of transferring sea. the mastodon bones are found so plen heavy metal objects. No assistant is Many projects arc now under way, or tiful are Invariably sheltered valleys, needi-d to attach them to the conveyor under consideration, for the utilization where the animals undoubtedly congre or to release them when they reach of the numerous sources of electric gated tn their extremities to shelter their destination. power that are f furnished by the themselves from the hardships of th« Another use to which the electro streams descending from the Andes In weather. magnet is put is In breaking old cast Chile, Everywhere In that country Wort Deri ration«. ings so that they be melted and util there Is an abundance of water, suffi ized. To accomplish this the magnet ciently constant in volume, and pre “Disaster” is an astrological term Is made to lift and drop a steel bell i senting almost any desired amount or meaning "unfavorable star,” one of th« weighing from one to six tons fall. The city of Santiago Is develop many words that astrology has be ing n scheme for supplying 20,000 horse- queathed to the English language. “Pre- The Only “McrrymaL Ing.“ power from a plant located between six dominant," “ill starred,” “In the ascend The school record kept by an old- teen and seventeen miles from the ant,” are other Instances, not to speak time teacher of "Number 6” In a New town. Engineers have recently report of the expression "My stars!" Even England village contains at least one ed In favor of the electrification of the "Influence” Is really astrological, signi item which moved a chance reader to new railroad which the Chilean and fying the flowing lu upon human affairs smiles. It is this : Bolivian governments have undertaken of the power of some heavenly body, Special honor badges were given to to construct between Arica and La Paz, "Petrel” nnd "petrol” both descend Flora nnd MinetUl Ixtvett for the best and which parses through the Andes. from "petra," a rock. "Petrol” comes attendance. During the entire school There Is something stimulating to th- directly enough through “petroleum,” year they were not once absent to at I imagination In the- thought of those rock oil. but “petrel" through St. Pe tend any picnic, reunion, excursion or mighty mountains lending a hand to ter, nfter whom the bird was named merry making, the only exception being "teip man surmount their slopes. because It appeared to walk upon the the afternoon of May 10. when their wave®. It was the Invention of the seismo twin brothers were 111 from the effis-t Not Half Throuxk, pf something- they had eaten, nnd not graph for the study of earthquakes that “Well,” said the obedient husband, led to the disetwery of the surprising expected to live, although they wood sensitiveness of the crust of the globe "now tl»at I am in politic«, I hope you recovered. to forces that might have been thought are satisfied." “Getting In politics,” replled hfs am- too Insignificant to cause distortion An Inde*. bltlons wife, "Is comparatively easy, Among these forces Is the alteration in Knicker—Wbnt is tbeir social stand «letting out again gracefully Is wlmf ing? Böcker—Ito they cali It a harn, the pressure of the atmosphere during counts these days."— Washington Star. the passage of storms, causing a percep stable or gnrage?—New York Sun. tible tilting of large areas of ground. ionrnte. • How hard It Is to convict a guilty A curious case of such tilting In nn un “Henry Is a brave man. The Othei man In the courts: and how easy It Is expected direction has recently been re night bin wife thought she hoard a bur to convict an Innocent man In the corded by Prof. Omori In Japan. A glnr.” storm pnssing over th* sea east of To- newspapers and reform meetings! "And he went down?” kio caused the bordering lnnd to flit “No. lie hnj the courage to tell hei Man learns from experlenq®, aft.«t downward, notwithstanding the fact he was afraid."—( 'freie. ®11; when the oldest girl In the family I that the atmospheric pressure is les is given a musical education, the other sened withip a storm area, Thl»ls ex- The lH»St w.-ry to stop a waggly^ girls are not. plained by t®t fact that the sea Mses tongue 1* to atop your ®ar® Ì « Of all the sorrows common to suf fering humanity, I know none surpass ing that of a mother whose son has gone wrong. Can ther» be anywhere on earth n more heart breaklug spectacle than the endless procession of mothers who I ►»‘siege the d<M>rs of workhouses, prisons and correctional Institutions of If every kind, seeking the son who has sinned? The entrance to every prison is a Via Dolorosa, a Way of Sorrow, In deed, to hundreds of mothers. Some In widow's weeds, some luxurious^ dressed, but all In tears, they conie to weep over the graves of lost op portunity. Not every boy w-ho goes wrong could have been saved, even by careful training, for there is always a residuum, the [>ound of tlcsh claimed by heredity, but fortune favors the boy who has been started right. When you teach your son to lie. Innocently, thoughtlessly, ns many mothers do, you do not si-e the effect on his after life—but it will be there. Such a little thing? But that first untruth makes a deep Impression on sonny—-mother quibble« anil evades the truth, so It can't be very wrong 1 Then you run down hi« companions and praise him before company, and he quickly learns to hide his wrongdoings from you, his mother, who should know the worst and the best of him. You have taught him duplicity, shown him that it isn’t no much what a boy does but what Is found out by the other mothers in the block that counts. As he gets older you nag at him anil chase him out of doors to play, so that you may be undisturbed—he has no corner in the house he can call his own. I have always been amazed nt the number of forbidden things a boy can do without his mother finding It out lie Is pestered and laughed at his healthy appetite and awkwardness made a butt for family Jokes, and hit mother knows so little about boys, and his father Is to “busy,” that he live» practically alone. If you enter Into your boy's life, not as a monitor, but a companion, you will know when he “welches” or shows a streak of yellow In his sports; you’ll be tltere to speak the word of grave warning, laugh at his silly Ideas of “manliness”—furnish the ballast where it Is most needl'd. It Is a mother’s duty to be on hand while her son's character is being formed. • • ss* o 0« •• o o o * •• o o • • • • o 0 © 0 <?? 0 °o o 0 o © © © 0 © o 0