Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-08-10

England. II Is reported. hive reached,
an agreement, which agreement IL no,
to let the Macedonian Christians 70 ton
far In putting down the unspeakable
Turks. It Ii astonishing the amount
OF consideration these cruel and bestial
Orlentals receive from the great now.
crs. A they have failed thus far, how.
ever. In any scheme to protect the Ar.
menian Christians there Ii no reason
to expect that the Macedonian cry
"cOmc over and help rs" will be an.
swcred.
People who have been reading Coon.
er's novels under the Impression that
the novels amused or edited them arc
now rudely jOstled out OF this notion
BY Mark Twain. Mark has been read.
Ing Cooper. and decides that the author
Of the PATHFINDER was an extremely
poor hand at his trade. He shows the
public, so to speak, that the rOmancer's
art was very shabby and ragged and
full OF blemlshes. One gathers the i'm.
precision that II Mark were not too In.
dolent he would dash OF a romance OF
the red man just to show how the thing
really ought to be DONE May he Coop.
er was not much OF an artist. 1t ID to
lie remembered, however. that he told
Ills vlvaciOus stories aud carpenteretl
Ills somewhat jcrky plots In nm earlier
day and without any thought but to
amuse his audience. He did nmuxe II,
aud still amuses. His artistic blenl.
Isles flavor his cxcellences: he IL to. he
taken without minute Inspection. II
Mark must hit somebody. why not aim
at that unterrihcd crew Of English nov.
elmnkers-bOth men and women--w who
continue to write slightly varied para.
phrases Of LADY Audley's Secret Z" Al.
though Hardy and Meredith and Wal.
ter besant have saved aud gl0rlficd tho
nations reputation, the others continue
to thrive nOxiOusly. Individually they
are small. hut collectively they would
make a hrst.rate target.
II nothing detrimental intervenes the
country this year will have the largest
corn crop In its history. 1t comes ut a
most OplOrtune time. The foreign de-.
inand for both oats and wheat IL de-.
clining. while that for corn seems to Ike
increasing. For some years the Nation.
al Government hns maintained In Flu.
rope an agent whose business has been
the Introduction OF corn as food pro.
duet. and this policy has been pr0duc.
tive Of good RESULTS. 1t has been hard
to teach the Europeans that corn was
~ good a food for man AZ for other
animals. hut this fact has come to be
by the poorer classes--thc
great food cOnsumers-and the lower
price OF corn NJ compared with wheat
has been powerful incentive to Its
use. This years corn crop IL estimated
Ut ?.AO.OOO.O OO bushels. which IL more
than 100000 OO In excess OF tho largest
production Of corn on record. With no
foreign demand such u crop would be
almost u calamity to the producers In
lhls country, but the indications are
That tho exports Ut corn this year will
be more than Quadrupled. There has
never been SO active a demand for corn
Tor export as now, aud this demand II
more likely to increase than to decline.
II corn Instead Of wheat should be made
The leading export crop 1t would be far
better for the American farmer. Corn
d more easily raised and Is not 30 ex.
haustlng crop for the soil as wheat or
barley. Besides this there IL less for.
'ign competition for the producer of
'orn than for any other grain. The
wheat area IL constantly diminishing In
America. while the corn area Ia increas.
ny. ana the time may not be far dis.
ant when the United States win import
instead OF export wheat for domestic
The growth OF the for.
Ign corn trade IL one OF the most hope.
III things about this cOuntry's foreign |
radc.