Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-01
col. LOWDeN'S COUNTRY HOWE.

The purchase 10y Frank u. Iowdci!.
"f the picturesque old Hcmmingway
place. On Rock River. just below the
artists colony. near Oregon. gave IN.
tcrrsting proof that the associations ~
u boyl,Ood In the country are strength.
cn,Sl, not ctfncc,i. by metropolitan sue.
! cpssps. and survive the pleasures Of
triumpls IN the business activities Of
| n great city. Farming Of the real old.
| fashioned kind--nOt the making Of u
! city park IN the co,intry--wns the pur.
pose for which the young lawyer and
capltnlist bought The Cakes. as the GNL
acre farm has been called IN late years
lie has renewed the dissertation of his
hoyho,s, on an Iowa farm by gripping
once more the handles Of II pillow ns
the ribbon Of black Ioum scours back
from, the mold hoard.
| The joy of "wntchlng things grow"
and holding the rcins over the steam
ing backs of heavy duf, horses strain.
ing forward IN the lead Of n clicking
moving machine or n bummiuy lmr.
ycstcr--thcsr are some of the whole.
some pleasures to which this former
country boy lowkel forward with the
kccncst authorization. They were not
unknown to him. lie knows the feel
of the plOw handles and declares the
sensation of cutting n elem f,rrDw
through, n stretch Of moist soil gives
a pleasure that exceeds tho delight
over winning u hOtly contested law
suit.
Those rity.rcarrd men who do not
share Col. Low,,cu's enthusiasm for
the toll of plowIuu and seeding. of ,ul.
tlyutluv AMI harvesting, but who prc.
fer to do their farming on the yi,url.
Gus plan, may well envy him the field
of his rccrcntiyc hbors. Rock Xiv.
cr's scenic rlorics I'm the Oregon 70,
rion urc classic. and The Cakes ia IN
thr most charming and ujrturcsu,,,
port of the diversified pnnoramu of
gently sloping shores of woodland and
swur,l, of scrrial bluffs and broud
stretches of bottom lands. Almost ry
CRY promIncnt fcnturc of the land
scnnc IL rich I'm traditions nnd n scor,
of spOts on the old ucmminywuy plnc,
have M leust Legendary history reach
ing bnck to tho dnvs when thc rod
men who rulrl the hanks of tho Itocl
were worthy 10 bc called the nh0rir
Inal princes of the land. They wcr,
the nristocrnts of their race nrOu,I mn,
fenrless. romantic I'm sentiment. rnis
ing the richest crons Of maize mn,
making the finest imulcm.n,s uscd Ia,
the Indinns IN npricuIiu,,, war nud IN,
chase.
For II link whc,rwl,h 4. connu.i
Th. Ouk,s with Tho wild n,sl lonc
vanished DAYS of Indian o.cunotion I
ia not necessary ~ rr,V an tlre trn
ditIons usso,intc,, with its rocks isl
nnds and rnyines. Thc ol,l stone hons
il itself that link and the very ucc,l
linrities of its construction point Il
IN, pcriul when thc white nionccr wa
an lntrldcr I'm this uurodisc of IN
nboririnc. AItbourb marc Than hal
con,ury has nusscd since thjs nionec
mousion WAS huiIt with m,t.rinIs fink
,u from the farm. th, h,us, il to.,,n
in ,y,,Il.nt r,udItion and will IA, M
rio changed hy If. now owner
nh, ston,s I'm tho massive wallis wcr
tuk,n from IN, rlv,r hank and tb
hlnrk walnut woodwork WAS cut an
, sawed ON the place hy Mr.. Ucmmin.
WAY n wcIl.tn-do Enrlishmun of d,
rlI,dly adventurous lisuosition, VIII
came 10 the wilds of Illinois at a vcr