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Show THE SEMI-WEEKL- Beau ty Spots . in Chicago , NATM. Y X. T. I1YDE. .. Fobllikn Correspondent 'Claims the Illinois Metro polls .Is Not, All Dirt. and Ugliness Fine X Buildings and Statues Adorn the City, X UTAH LOO AN. RTIC01T0R! AGRICULTURE SES" V ' . The oil brick did not stay with po long as the gold brick. John L. Sullivan Is now firmly convinced of the ingratitude of republics Sienklewiez always uses red ink lc writing his MSS. And his books are read. Papa's pocketbook is in the very midst of the Blrenuous life we hear so much about. (Special Correspondence.) gulls dart and swoop, when the criks catch and reflect the light, and gay crowds walk the shore, one can gaze for hours and never tire of this gentle -earn a new philosophy which beauty, within a few m a of restless city. find to ought many John A. Ixigan In bronze cuts a among Chlcago- dashing figure. As one approaches Chicago Is dirty; but fpirn Wabash avenue only the fact as one lady, au enthu-yjlj- that he is bronze gives security to the siastic citizen, though onlooker that he will not swoop down not a member of the upon him and the passing crowd on aristocracy of befo the pavement. Here and in Lincoln park, near the the fiah. exclaimed: Dirty! Of course its dirty, who- Grant moiftimcnt, veterans love to ever saw a big workshop that gather and discuss their former leaders. At sunset when the commander-in-chie- f wasnt? on liis beautiful Arab is outAnd parts of Chicago are ugly, lined the brilliant sky, many against hopelessly ugly; but those parts are in the outlying districts. The heart old soldiers go to gaze at him. The beauty of the river is still of ChicRgo is picturesque, presenting It is easy to point out the landscapes and vistas worthy the and sordldness of its surrounddirt brush of a good artist. A few have the ings, lumbering eraft, and the deemed it so worthy, but most of of smoking chimneys, hut background as well as most of them, those who notes the marvelous the expert eye daily tramp the streets, lack the seesometimes seen ln opaque greens, ing eye which makes pictures out of the the water, gorgeous sunset skies tall, dark chimneys, high buildings and by black mists overlaid, pierced wrapped in mist, or deep canons of of older and uglier smoke. And the iron frame structures outlined more the the craft the picturesque against a pale sky. sails and rigging. It is a sattheir As striking a view as there is in isfying thing at the end of a busy day Chicago is that of Dearborn street, to catch a glimpse of the river with ending with the Polk street station, the spire of the Northwestern depot passenger arriving or departing la rising dark and quiet, the ripples on seldom Impressed with the beauty of the water tinged by the green, red, his surroundings, but let him take a and colors of the sky, and the yellow glimpse of them a mile north, and If busy hum of men slowly dying he cannot see a picture there he has away into the quiet of rest and night. no artist in his soul. And so one might wander the whole The dark walls of the canon rise city over, picking out dozens of its abruptly on each side, cut clear redeeming vtrjues. Different days against the light sky; Stretching and different 'times of day make picaway unbroken, they seem finally to tures of some vistas otherwise meet Just where the slender towers lifts itself dark and sharp, too, against a pale background. Its a Thinks Admirals Too Old. good tower, too. Giotto might have Lord Charles Beresford has raised done better, but again bis product another little breeze In England by would perhaps have fitted ln poorly protesting that officers In the British with canon walls made by skyscrap- navy are promoted to be admirals , ers. when too old to hold that rank. Of The usual and the most flattering the twelve officers holding the rank of And this our Itfi-- . ever In nubile streets. Kinds visions In smoke, vistas down dirty remits. Sentiment in imA'ing stones, and beauty Ju ChieiiKu. O RUNS the burden c I . 1 con-ver- ts jl I.a Soufricre is just like a piofes-siona- l pugilist. The foolish old thing doesnt know when to stop. . Wizard Edison is said to be What if be should forget to turn on the electricity some day! absent-minded- It certainly ran do the Boer cause no harm to note that Chamberlain and Botha are actually grow ing chummy. The man who invented the flat is dead, and a good many people who live In them would about as soon be. In the death of Herr Krupp it may truthfully be said that Emperor William has lost one of his best fortifications. The laws of hospitality have had a good many amendments since the days of scattered population and stage coaches. The sultan contributes his mite toward advancing the millennium bv buying 14,000,000 worth of Krupn peace-maker- . B s. Hetty Green Is seeking to foreclose on a Chicago church. Is this to be construed as an effort to lay up so mo treasure In heaven? A French scientist has found a way to make alcoholic liquors harmless. But the trouble is people will go on using the other kind. The American Federation of Labor Is to hold Its convention next year lr Boston where it can get a nearer view of President Eliot a i It has been found that many of New York's churches are unsanitary. W Yur-if they get au the men Into them after this. Ilerr Krupp had a system to-da- y h Farm Economies. There was a great failure In Now York not long ago which involved mil- of pen- sioning his employes. His system also embraced plans and specifications whereby the employes footed the pension bills. A dead Indian is not the only good Indian after all. Twas a redskin who gave the information that led to the discovery of the Alaskan boundary monuments. The Maine bride who Btopped the marriage ceremony in order to pin her veil on straight should certainly man' age to get along through thia matter-of-fac- t old world. A Philadelphia wife carelessly left a stove. If her husband had borrowed 10 cents from her she would not have forgotten it for a minute this side of doomsday. fl.SOO (n King Leopold says the anarchists scare him out, but it is reported that he turns pale whenever he hears the cook making the Bteak tender with the cant potato-mashe- h tL s : Missouri Horticultural Meeting. L. A. Goodman, secretary . of the Missouri Horticultural Society, notifies us that the forty-fiftannual meeting of the society will be held at Springfield. Mo., December 2 to 4. ln a circular he says: The state society has been a great factor in the wonderful growth of the fruit industry in Missouri. She ranks first now in ap pie orchards of any state ln the Union. The fruit lands of our state have been brought more and more to the notice of grower and dealer. We feel of our position, and with proud proper care and attention we should, be able to hold it. To this end the society ln all its efforts to develop the fruit interests of the statu and to bring good fruit men into it, has never lost sight of the need of the best means for educating, assisting and developing all our fruit growers; instructing them where knowledge is wanted, advising them where experience would give the help needed, assisting, directing, encouraging, whenever opportunity is offered. This forty-fiftannua! meeting will be one of the best ever held. Some of the best men of the state and nation will be there to help answer scientific, technical and practical questions and to give instructive papers. The fruit growers of Greene county and south Missouri will give us a hearty welcome. One hundred and fifty dollars Is alloted for premiums, to be given on fruits and flowers In our usual manner. Five specimens constitute a plate. Perfection of size, color, form and condition will be the points conCollections shall embrace sidered. only one plate of a variety for the judges to pass upon. New varieties and rare ones are desired. Specimens for name are always in order. Let us make this a banner meeting. Monday, December 1, the Ozark Apple Growers' Association will hold its regular meeting and all apple growers of the Ozarks are Invited to be present; the society delegates will oIbo be welcome. Railroad rates will apply for this day also. A good program will be carried out Fruits should all be arranged on Tuesday. All fruit will be reserved and put up ln glass jars for the World's Fair. r. The Doukhobors or Russian Quakers who are thinking of migrating from Russia to Turkey have presumably never beard the adage about the frying-paand the fire. n A physician says that habitual lying In boys is due to ixior circulation. The same thing may he said of certain publications, ami the remark will not be speculative, cither. A physician declares that people who sleep witli their mouths shut live the longest. To this might be added that if they keep them shut while awake they live the more comfortably. STATUE OF GENERAL GRAN. (Lincoln Park.) view of the Art institute Is obtained admiral or only three either north or south of It on Michi- are below the age of sixty, one adgan avenue. An unusual and a satis- miral being and two and factory one is to be seen by the travbeing eler from the west on Adams street. Nelson was only respectively. It reminds him with a thrill of pleaswhen he won at Trafalgar. ure of both Paris and Rome, where Ixrd Fleresford (mints out that Gerone is always turning a corner am! many lias much younger men In these running bead on into some marvel of exalted places and he asserts with architecture, which would be the Napoleon that at 'sixty years one Is boast aud pride of any ordinary city, good for nothing. but which in those, too. is as much a of course an oxygen. Burchard's Church a Residence. Th famous Run-harEven the most carping critic has alliteration, little to urge against the view from "Kmn. Romanism and rebellion, Is North avenue to the river, on the reeallel by tin transformation of tho Lake Shore drive, it in a never end- church in New York over which he ing pleasure. Changing with every piesided into a residence. An artist nhift of wind, sun or weather, not and his wife. Mr. and Mrs. Francios for a moment docs it cease to be licau-titu- Touctti. have Imiighl the place, and Even the battered gray wall, will have it fitted up for a studio, a gaping at intervals, has the charm f n sldcnce and a stable. For a long red brick antiquity it never possessed in its tiine tin1 church, lias been on the market. bu.t complete and palmy days. At the line of resiliences is broken ft mid no purchasers. Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer lower, which Toiio'iti, boili having ample means, the by suggests at t li is distance castles on k ok ing around for a place of residence. hit upon the disused church the Rhine and darkened dungi-onsThe sweep is broken suercsslwly by m.d Ih night it. It will be remodeled. ilie Raymond apartments, the spire o t!ie cathedral, and Montgomery Cripple Plays Football Well. lb njstiiin Owen, a Ward's angel. man, Directly south is (be made land Is a Mil uaMe member of a football bordering the rlur. lilaek chimneys t' am in Syracuse, N. Y., playing and factories rise here to complete guard. In a recent contest on the the picture. Curiously enough, if we gridiron, lie proved himself a power in t'oci--only to look at smoko we every attack, holding his nponent shouldn't tie tight ing it us a nuisance, msily. Wiif n thp ball was taken by for in color ami foint it is ritio of the fenm down tin field lie went leapmost beautiful natural substances. ing a'ung.kf rping up with the fleetest. On a clcur day, when sky and lake When the other side got the hall he . are varying shades of beautiful blue, was right in the center of the when tiny waves break and sparkle, His kmIo finally wou the gams white winged boats and white winged by s score of 10 to 0. vice-admira- l, $143.-04- 5 worth of his paint inns in one day at New York ln order io bring the millennium ir only remains now for somebody to rich writing poetry. g-- The Cleveland Ilai'i Healer spoke of the growing disuse or ilie "high silk hat" and the New York wants to knoir what a "silk hat Is. anyway. Maybe the Sun would cal! it a "plug hat." Uncle Sam is mounting a gun that with l.ftflu pounds of fiowdor will send a projectile weighing 2. ?. ;) pounds a distance of twenty-onmiles. This Is putting the strenuous lifts into fhUI with a vrageanc. e fifty-fiv- e fifty-seve- n forty-seve- n l. tin-rigli- The painter VerestchaRln sold vice-admira- fifty-nin- e t . one-legge- d lions of dollars. Investigation showed that the failure was due very largely to the neglect of small economies, the saving of a few cents here and of a few dollars there. The waste had gene on for a quarter of a century and had resulted in bankruptcy. How many farms have been lost because of the reckless way their owners had of doing business? The best thinkers on this subject have been for years advising every farmer to keep books and by that means looking after the big and the little things. The little Incomes and the little outgoes are almost lost sight of, and even the big things and' transactions are too seldom properly accounted for. We do pot wish to advise the farmer to put his family on shorter fare than at the present time, but we do wish to urge that he know where his money Is going to and where the money is coming from that Is to meet his future obligations. We do wish him to know whether his various farm operations are all bringing him a profit It not Infrequently happens that a certain crop will' be grown on the farm for years without ever paying a profit it would be economy to know fully the truth about such a crop and cease to grow It To cease to lose money In that way is one of the most necessary farm economies. It might be well to inquire (on some farms) if the money that is being put Into that embryonic trotting horse is not mostly wasted. Has account been taken of all tlje little expenses incurred in bis developing? To save these expenses incurred on a gamble") is a worthy farm economy. It is economy to put the farm tools in out of tnc sun and rain and cover them with preparations that will protect them tren the dampness that everywhere exists. Not the least of the economies on ike lann is the saving o( time. Tnc shoriest to do this is to have a pl;u for everything on the farm and io see thul everything is Lcpi wlmv :l belongs. This will save hmli linn ami The practice of molsti-iui.the cows teat wiin mil.; a I, on milu:.;-is a dirty one and sliouM In; , u!.i;--doned- . There is no doubt annul life bems; one long, swot song. Pur of us are good sinners. m.-- t Spain has fO.'.nnu mi:es .r .rk forKoiitu'-kis usunc'y jealous. ests. and scrim-mage- It takes lr.it little filth to foul a well The Seedling Apple. For a good many years there has: to whether it was beep a contest-a- s n better to hunt up new apples ln. countries and import them or devarieties from seeds. velop new Doth methods tave been tried and both have yielded some discouraging results. A fe- - good apples have been imported from foreign countries, but very many, after having been tried for a dozen years, have been cast aside as worthless. On the other hand, of all seedlings that have been brought to a stage of fruitfulness not oi c in a thousand has proved to be of value. However, we should not forget that all the progress that has been made in the development of new varieties at home or abroad has been by means of seedlings. For every good variety we now have, multitudes of seedlings have been tried and cast aside. We must continue this work, though it is very slow as a process. It is a great task to care for a thousand seedling trees and bring them to a bearing age. They must be planted at first in seedling rows and then transplanted. They must be cared for after the best methods for years till they come into fruiting. Even after that it is sometimes necessary to keep them for other years to determine other facts about them; for a tree will sometimes show increased fruitfulness as the years go ' on. Among the things that must be done for the trees are keeping the ground fertile and the trees sprayed. The borers must be hunted out and the caterpillars attacked as soon as they appear. The discouraging thing about the work is that after so long a wait and much hard work the grower may find that not one tree 1b superior to varieties already growing, and unless a new variety be superior ln at least one point to other varieties it la of no use to save It The laborer can never know that he Is to reap the benefit of bis hard work. Even If he develops a superior variety, other years must elapse before he fcan make anything from It; and even that will depend on his business acumen and business energy. However, the seedling is the only available road of advance. If all apple growers would each 'grow a few trees it would distribute the load over many backs and it would weigh less beavily a few. Farmers' Review. for-.cig- etl -National Bureau of Forestry. The work of the Bureau of Forestry is now being carried on in 20 states. The Bureau appointed 90 new student sssistants for this season, the entire field force numbering 1C5 men. The work Includes, among other things, the gathering of the necessary data for several working plans, a study of a number of commercial trees, the examination of farm wood-lotand a study of the treeleSB areas with a view of devising plans for forest extension. The Bureau of Fornew fiscal year of the estry began with an appropriation of $291,860. The amount for the previous year was $185,440. This Increased appropriation shows how this work commends itself to Congress, and it makes possible a much wider range of work. The present seasons work Is by far the most varied and Interesting yet undertaken by the Bureau of Forestry, and is being carried on ln Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, North Carolina, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma. South Dakota, Montana, Arizona and California. Later la the season it will be extended to still o'her states and territories. well-know- n s, 1902-190- 3 Plum Trees in a Poultry Yard. From Farmers' Review: I would :.ot by any means have plu.t trees In a poultry yard, if it must be kept clear from grass, in order to have the plum trees do well. I can not see what good they do any way, for the shade from them is very poor, besides, unless the ground under the trees is well stirred, after every heavy rain, the ground will harden so they will not scratch or keep it loose so as to net as a nriulcli, consequently they will Uo no good in there on that account. Of course, if .you ppado up the ground under caeh tree after thi heavy rains, it Would make au ideal dusting place for them. A, poultry yard, by all means, must have grass, for it is impossible to raise ehlekens and have. them do well without it. .-t Ho that trusted his automobile to the eare of u hired man shall come quickly to grief; lmt he that rarcth for it himself shall llourMi like a branch. Public vlrfuo never survives demise of private rectitude. thw |