Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-09

he doesn't use hoe any more. but a
cultivator. on the top of which he
rides under an umbrella.
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Large numbers of people in pros.
porous circumstances die as sexagen.
arans from maladies which are evil
dences of degeneration and of prema-
ture senility, while many who pass
this period go on to enter upon an
eighth or ninth decade of life. The
former class comprise those who have
lived without restraint of their appe-
tics and who have sought to allay
some of the consequences by self
medication. while the latter class com.
prise those who have lived reasonably
and who. II annoyed by imperfect In.
digestion. have sought relief by aban-
doning the errors from which 1t
sprang.
No writer in the English tongue
stands In the same rank with Shak.
spearc. and vet none was SO incessant
Il debtor as he to the classic writer's
and the folklore of other countries.
From Hamlet to "Shylock," from
"Coriolanus" to "Cymbeline" his play
wright path Is strewn with the frag-
mcnts of an older literature from
which he had pifered the best he
could lay his hands upon without so
much as a by your leave" 1t Is, after
all. the people who popularize rather
than the people who suggest or invent
an idea who deserve whatever praise
attaches to its success. The geologist
tells the miner where he might wisely
dig for gold. but it is the miner whom
we pay for getting out and giving us
the precious metal.
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Smokeless powder is very different
from the Old-fashiOned black or the
later brown cocoa powder. These lat
ter are quick to explode, becoming
transformed into gas almost instan-
taneously. but the nitrocellulOse COM
pound now used In our navy guns
burns much more slowly. even when
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tinement 1t may he said hardly to ex-
plode ut all. Owing to this deliberate
decomposition of the powder In the
Enclosed gun and In the handling
room below the turret. there was lit.
tie or no rcnding effect of the eXplo.
sive upon the structure of the Mis-.
souri,. The loss OF life was due al.
most wholly to the intense heat.
The extent of damage done by In.
sects which prey on the agricultural
interests Of the United States Is but
little appreciated. Twelve bugs. nc.
cOrding to reliable statistics. do an
estimated damage to farm products OF
S3G3. OOO,OOO per annum. The chincll
bug heads the list, with $1OO,OOO,OCO a
year: grasshopper, $OO,OOO,OQe; Hessiau
fly "a reminder Of the Revolution, since
the mercenaries hired by King George
brought Its eggs over In the straw for
their horses, $5O.OOO,OOO: cotton worm
and boil worm COTTON, $25,OOO,O OC
apiece; cotton boil weevil, S2O,OOOOOO;
San Jose scale. grain weevil, apple
worm ana army worm. $1OOOOUN
apiece; potato bug, $1,000 900, and cab
, bage worm, $5,OCO,OOO.
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> The announcement that rubber ha
been found In supposedly useless
weed, growing on the arid plateau
and high mesa lands Of the Colorado
I mountains. sets ut rest all fears Of {
3 rubber shortage. The rubber tree 4
. a product peculiar to the topics. Tn
newly discovered rubber plant Of Colo
RADIO, however. grows ut an altitude o
from 5000 to $4,000 feet. where tn
! climate holds all the rlgOrs OF white
l and all the whitening force Of rain
. less summer. The discovery Of tn
|, plant relieves the worlds rubber maj
ket from Its dependence on the tropic
and makes it possible for rubber to be
. come n stable crop, even In cOuntrle
, where extreme cold prevails.
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I students Of American life thin
that they detect n distinct tendency I
revert TO nature. The first effort II
a of course, to acquire competence; tn
q second, to amass fortune. but tn
y third Is to own country place, and I
!. be able to spend all but the winte
q months out in the open, away frol
the crowded, dusty city. Whether thl
be an effect OF Inheritance. a harkin
back to the form whence all cit
n dwe,lers ut one time or another spranl
d or not, 1t Is an interesting fact Healt
d is better, life Is longer and happier,
: all the time that can be spared frol
: the exactlons Of business be spent
the open air. where the breathin
spaces are large. the air pure, the SUI
=. light clear. warm and full Of con
Il fort.
e ~
o Under skilful business administr
h ton the French colonies along Il
o west coast Of Africa are attaining 7
u markable prosperity. In Dahomey
& railway IL under construction from Il
chief seaport. Kotonu. to Tcharu. thr
hundred and seventy-seven miles
= land The Niger Is to be ultimate
a the terminus. French Guinea Is bull
- ing line from Konakry, the capt.,
! to the Niger ut Kurussa, three In
T., drcd ana forty-two miles, of whit