Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-08-08

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4 company in Boston is doing n big
business selling abandoned farms.
Here lies the solution of the New En-.
gland problem. Farms that cen.
tury or less ago easily sustained their
owners have long since ceased to |
sprout peas. What to do with them |
became a leading question which none
could satisfactorily answer. Now
comes along the abandoned farm"
genius. He has set out to corner the
supply. which he proposes to work of
on the rich urban population of the
north and down east as sites for coun.
try homes. In time these deserted
farms will belong to the millionaires.
who will convert their barren fields
into game preserves and fish ponds. 1t
is stated that in Maine alone over B.
OOO such farms are for sale.
After all the effort and money that
have been and are being expended
the necks that have been and will yet
he broken I'm automobile races. the ma.
chine that will abide with us and In
time supplant the vehicle drawn by
horses Is one that will average ten or
twelve miles an hour on fairly good
roads. and which can be kept I'm SER
vice without expenditures for repairs
that will greatly exceed the feeding
and care of pair of good. reliable
horses and the ordinary repairs which
a wagon or carriage requires. The
prejudice against automobiles that Is
felt by nearly everybody who is not
able to own one will disappear before
the advent of the machine which Is
built for use Instead Of speed alone.
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Flies are more detestable than mos.
quitoes, They mar whatever they
touch and do not possess the merit of
being sweet singers. \ mosquito or
chestra is not bad when one appre.
ciates IT, The desire of Mr.. Fly to
settle upon the whitest things In the
house Is his worst fault. In fly com.
munlties white shades are converted
into dark blue or bottle green ones be.
fore spring Is half over. The fly Is the
| only universal benst. 1t Is the unwel.
come companion of man In every quar-.
| ter of the globe and is equally at home
In Alaska and the great desert. a ship
| may leave port without one on board.
yet In midOcean an unclenn spot on
deck will attract u swarm. The fly
seems to be born for the occasion.
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Statistics of immigration alone do
not fully show the growth Of the ca.
madam Northwest. One must include
such figures as those which u Toronto
Globe correspondent sends from ROs'
thern and Hague. two little towns In
the saskatchewan country. nearly six
hundred miles from winnipeg. Four
years ago three carloads Of grain
were shipped from these stations. Last
year they shipped more than Il million
bushels, and this year. Judging from
the acreage under cultivation, the ship
ment will be One.fOurth larger thar
that. The more workers, the more
wheat. What wonder the Old WOrlt
peoples flock to the continent that Of
fers them food and a home!
Drink water and get typhoid. Drink
milk nid get tuberculosis. Drink
whisky and get the jimjams. Drink
soup and get Brlghts disease. Eat
meat and encourage npOplexy. Eat
oysters ana acquire taxemia. Eat
vegetables and weaken the system
Eat dessert and take to paresis
Smoke cigarettes and die early. Smoke
cigars and get catarrh. Drink coffee
and obtain nervous prOstratiOn. Drink
wine and get the gOut. In order TO bt
entirely healthy one must eat nothing
drink nothing, smoke nothing. and
even before breathing one should see
that the air is properly sterilized.
Wait u moment, young man. YOl
say you haven't been given fail
. chance In life to make something O
yourself? Look Mt william Il. Corey
| WHO nus Just uceu etcCtcu iTeSueu
!. Of the United states Steel corporate
ut a salary that would make maj
, rich In u year. DO YOU think he hut
"a pull:" He did. Fifteen years ag,
= Corey was pushing a wheel barrow II
the yards of one of Carnegle's mills II
IIrWtldOck. And this was his ''pu!l.
"He wheeled no much more iron In ;
day than the men Mt his elbow that Ia
was soon made foreman over them.
In other words Corey wasn't afraid Il
do 81 worth of work for dollar"
!, fea.. that besets many young men ia
day. When Corey became foreman
was noticed that he got twice as mucl
|. work ont OF his men as the other fore
men. He didn't swear at his men
They never grumbled mt their boss
. they respected him. Carnegie brg'.
, promoting Corey. And Corey wOrke
hard. He had only fair common
school education. He studied ut night
f'e took up course In correspond
e encc school. In time he became an eN
4 pert chemist. BY ana by he was II
O authority on armour plate. He knoN
l. more about armour plate than anyOn
d In the mills. There was only one thin
d rur Carnegie to do. He made Core
"A superintendent OF that department
z Corey Increased the output. That's NJ
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