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Show but a buaineto man. Those black land in Illinois are good inheritance. They are the only lands in the world in which that rare plant called the Indian corn aaaimilatea exactly. They are made for each other. It is hard to make good roads across them. When they are very wet in ihe spring of the year it is hard to walk aemss them ana. save your boots; but they will raise corn, the finest kind of eorn. Just across the Mississippi, in Iowa, they raise fair quality of corn, but it does not compare with that of Illinois, and now ai last accounts acnie thirty-two different kinds of commercial products are being manufactured out of the corn and the stalk. Which is only another way of saying that in the sagacity of his early youth, Uncle Joe picked upon a substance from which he had thirty-two time the chance of making mak-ing something that he would in any other substance sub-stance on earth. It wa on them that Uncle Joe learned to stand pat, and the reason is very plain when man gets fixed in that soil he has to stand pat he can't get-out. THAT ELACK SOIL Th other day a proposition was made to cut '' ott $2,000 from the payroll of the bouse. While it was pauding ex-Speaker Cannon declared that th sVary he had received as a member of the hous in tha last thirty-eight yeara had only cor red about one-third of his actual expenses. Then, continuing, he said i "Why did I atay beret 111 telj you what I told constituent who waa . com-' com-' plaining about my ways in congreaa. Tears before I came to the house I was fortunate enough to ao quire aome of thosa black lands out in Illinois th finest soil ia the world. What I received as salary fri-m the house, together with what I derived de-rived from those lands, haa kept me going, and very year I have kept just' little bit ahead." 'I of which shows that he ia not only1 a patriot, |