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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. •
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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.
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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®
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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.
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