Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-11-12


chest naked. winter and summer. and
the legs uncovered. The ordinary folk
do not wear hats. The county people
pass half their lives with their legs In
the water of the rice fields. This war
has shown that the Japanese are the
hardest nation on earth.
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Periodically some one suggests that
New York or Chicago or Philadelphia
he separated from the State of which
IL IL II part and bc allowed 10 have a
State government of its own. As 1t
was about time that the suggestion
should he renewed. some one has re-.
Gently proposed that the state of Phil.
ndclphia be carved out of Pennsylva.
mia. The plan IL not taken seriously.
Indeed. II Is regarded with less con-
Germ than the proposal made In 1861
by Fernando Wood, then mayor of
New York, that that city sccedc from
the Union and join the Southern Con-
fetleracy. Although there Is little pros.
pcct for q state of Chicago or State
of Philadelphia. there are innny prcce-
| dents for the division of States. Maine
was originally u district of Massachi,-
sets, and Vermont was part Of New
York. Kentucky. Ohio. Indiana. I'LL
nOis and West Virginia owe the great
e. part. II not all. of their area to Vir
ginin. 40 Virginia might he called the
mother OF states rs well as the mother
of Presidents. Tennessee was cut of
from North Carolina, and Alabama
and Mississippi were carved out Of
| Gcorgin. North and South Dakota en-
tered the Union ~ separate States, nj.
| though rs II territory they were u sin
gle political unit.
Nearly every one has heard Of the
ROCKFORD mclOn---it IL eaten In al!
parts of the country-but few know
its history. That has recently taen
told by william Il. Curtis In the Chi.
cagO RecOrd.IIcrald. and Is an In.
| structlve illustration of what enter
| prlsing men can do when they set ont
to make market for their product
ROckyfOrd IL In southeastern Colorado.
where the soil Is well adapted to
melon raising. Seventeen years ago
a farmer there, who had succeeded In
raising an excellent crop, advertised
that he would give away melons to MI
who called on certain day. Less
than II hundred called. but they got
melons. and liked them. In response
to a similar advertisement. Ave hun.
dred called for melons the next year.
and the neighbOring farmers began to
see the wisdom Of this kind Of al.
vertlsing. This year twelve thousand
persons visited Rockyford Oh Septem.
her O. or melon day, ana eighteen
thousand melons were given away. Sis
extra trains were run to carry tho poo.
| pie, some Of whom Travelled a hundred
and twenty-five miles. Melon day has
become NO popular In that part Of Colo.
RADIO that the county fair Ia held In
ROckyfOrd In the week In which II &C.
ours, ana the money to pay the ieces.
snry expenses of the day IL subscribed
by the enterprislng men Of the town.
In the march of mechanical inven.
ton the latest achievement announced
IL IL mechanical stenOgrapher. 1t Is de-
scribed as IN instrument which will
| translate the sounds of the human
voice into words typewriter on paper.
IL sounds impracticable: or, II practi-
| chile, miraculous. If the report be
Il ne, probably its first recognition will
be as II text for the humorous para.
graphers. There IL wonderful Op.
portunity here to ring the turns on all
the stenographer ana typewriter jokes.
But who dares to deny, or dlsbelieve
the announcements OF advanced sci.
cilce? The thoughtful man Or woman
who stops ana runs his mental vision
back over the history of Invention In
his or her own span of life-and it
may be short span ut that-dares not
disbelieve. lie may be an agnOstic
so far as science Is concerned, but he
cannot be u skeptic. He may not
know, but he cannot disbelieve and re.
main fair and enlightened. This in
vention sounds impossible, but no
more SO than the telephone sounded
to those who first heard of the posi-
bility of transmitting the human voice
| a thousand miles. 1t Is unnecessary to
recall how impossible, how unbelieve
able were the first reports regarding
the electric light, photography, color
photography, the photograph, the
kinetoscOpe, the automobile, the steam
engine, the electric car and the steam
harvester before they became the com
monplaces Of our daily lives. 1t seems
hard for us to believe that our grand
fathers and great-grandfathers did not
also look upon these as the common
!. places Of their everyday lives. So