Show I LAND HUNGER I People look bn as capital combines In every form of trust and speak of It as something unnatural and as something some-thing that is filled with omens of evil to the country But it Is a perfectly natural Instinct J Sterling Morton In his Conservative says that the commercial spirit is illustrated as vividly by l the farmers of the con belt of the United States as by any other class of acquisitive Americans The desire to get more land is dominant in the owner of nearly every farm in Nebraska Ne-braska To this end selfdenial and moneysaving arc practiced by him and forced upon wife and children Doubtless what Is true of Nebraska I farmers is quite as true of the farmers farm-ers of all the other States It Is an Instinct The next thing we may look for will be the absorption of whole townnhips Cl lands and the direction of them given to a board of trustees In normal times farms pay their owners own-ers from 5 to 15 per cent per annum Money for long investments Is not worth on the best of security even the smaller figure named above If syndicates can purchase land with a reasonable assurance of making clear 3 per cent they will be bought even if in the purchase the rule will have to be resorted to that was Invoked In the purchase cu say the rNorthern Pacific railroad and 60 per cent over their nominal value paid A vell known financier the other day said If your Income Is I 2000 per annum you cannot afford to loan money at 2S per cent If your Income Is 500000 per annum you can afford to loan It at that rate for that will give you an income In-come which you cannot spend legitimately legiti-mately Looking over the country the two best conservative purchases at present are of mines and lands As most people know nothing of mining they will naturally turn to tho lands and it is T wonder that they have not already caused a great advance in rirstclass agricultural lands After all the ruling trait of our Nation of all nations for that matter Is n steady desire for more property 1 CURRENT PUBLICATIONS S The Worlds Work for July gIves for frontispiece a fullpace portrait of Governor Gov-ernor Odcll of New York and a brief biography of him as A BusInesaLIko jSxecutlvo Is also given Tho March of Events an Illustrated Editorial Interpretation Inter-pretation carries the events of tho month in admirable style and Is accompanied accom-panied with fullpapo portraits tho Su promo Court of tho United States of I Gifford PlnchOt and Sir Wilfrid Laurlcr L I A Trust for Social Betterment by W S II Tolmnn describes an Industrial development devel-opment In England Photographing Tropical Fishes Our Relations with Canada Tho Revolution in Farming Why tIme French Republic Is Strong The Good Roads Train The Salvation of the Negro Alexander Johnson Cas satt Tho Machinery of Wall Street Breaking Up tho Solid South Trees and Civilization James R Kocnc 1 anA ipulator an-A Days Work of a StockBroker Stock-Broker book and literary notices and tho Invaluable Among the Worlds Workers malco up a great number of o most able and useful magazine Doubleday Double-day Page Company New York McCalls Magazine for July hao elegant colored plates Promenade Costumes Outdoor Costumes and a wonderful variety va-riety of dresses and patterns In black ShirtWaist Hats Tho Henley Regatta Regat-ta Evolution of a Visiting Card Beauty as a Fine Art household hints fancy work tho nursory tho kitchen and good ihcnuB are carried A good household house-hold magazine Tho McCall Co publishers publish-ers New York The Discovery of tho Old Northwest By James Baldwin Published by tho American Ameri-can Book Company Chicago A most Interesting and l wellwritten sketch of the early discovery of tho Great Lakes the Upper Mississippi the Ohio and other leading rivers Jacques Cai tiers discovery f discov-ery of the St Lawrence In 1G33 la the beginning be-ginning and from Unit on tho discovery I of tho Ottawa of Lakes Huron Ontario r Michigan Superior Eric tho Wisconsin river 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