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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1901)
THE NORTHWESTERN. BFNhCIIOTEIt * GIBSON. E.U »nd Fab» LOUP CITY, The department of agriculture In its annual ropor. gives the amount of money the people of the United States spent in buying Coweis at retail in 1 Si#9 as follows: Hose.-. $0,090,000; car nations, $4,000,000; violets. $750,000; chrysanthemums, $500,000; miscellan eous, including li’iss. $1,250,000. A remarkable burglary has just been committed at the suburban station of Herkulesbail, Buda-Pesth. Three men delivered a coffin, apparently empty, for conveyance to Buda-Pesth. "carriage to pay.” The last train hav ing gone, it was locked for the night in the station master's office. Next morning the coffin was found with the lid off, and.Abe office safe had been rilled. The geodetic commission of Switzer land has undertaken an exact leveling of the whole country by the mos scientific methods. The work has been going on fur many years. Each point determined is fully describe 1 so that, in its turn, it may serve as a datum point for more detailed w'ork and all the points are referred to one origin—namely, to a monument lu Geneva whose altitude above the sea has been fixed. A German expert in the east points out that as time goes on more and more men are required to coerce China into doing the will of another powe-r. The opium war required only 4,60o Europeans, the Anglo-French war against the Ctiinese lti.000 and 4 SOO Indians. Tae Japanese needed 95.000 men and 1,5.000 coolies, and to day we find 90 men-of-war and al most 150,000 men attempting to com pel obedience from the giant empire. Most curious are the sewing or tailor birds of India—little yellow thumb. To escape failing a prey to snakes and monkeys the tailor bird picks up a dead leaf and flies up into a high tree, and with a fibre for a thread and its bill for a needle sews the leaf onto a green one hanging from the tree: the sides are sewed up. ;.n opi ning being left at the top. That a nest is swinging in the tree no snake or monkey or even a man would suspect. In the Hawaiian legislature the na tive or rea tionary element, which calls it.- elf the ' Home Rule party,” is in control. Its loaners were opposed to annexation, and some of them have not abandoned the hope or the recall of the ex-queen. Not all the members speak English, and few of them are familiar with American institutions. They make unreasonable demands upon Governor Dole, and consume much time in personal bickerings. Many radical measures have been In troduced, but the only bill enacted during the first half of the session was one appropriating money for the ex pense of the legislature. Altogether, It is a di.-appointing beginning; but legis lative vagaries will be held in check by the executive, and gradually experi ence and growth of intelligence will bring improvement. A London scientist is exploring the "color cure” or "cliromopathy,” based on the influence on disease or morbid staus of the system which different kinds of light waves are presumed to exert. The modus operand! is to allow light to pass to the patient through glasses of different tints. Disease, says the discoverer, “shows a want of har mony in the system—in other words, a want of color.” The main doctrine propounded under the system Is that red i. a stimulant tint, and should be used where there Is lack of vitality, while blue exerts a soothing and seda tive action. Yellow is “a capital cere bral stimulant.” But the color curlsts are not content with the action of light alone. They think that colored rays allowed to play on water endow that fluid with curative properties, the wa ter being used externally or for inter nal administration. Unrle Sam is not only building a big, new mint in Philadelphia, but he is making it the finest in the world. He is also bringing it wholly up to date; for electricity, and electricity only, will be the power which makes the thousands of wheels go round. Elec tricity is the password for every appli ance that knocks for entrance here, and nothing that will not lend itself to the energy of the dynamo can find a resting place. The building is a gi gantic bunch, of electric nerves, and the floors of the many rooms are tatooed with little brass plate.. which mark the spots where* these vibrating nerves may be tapped to secure the power used in driving the machinery. Every machine in the place will have its own motor attached, tnereby rendering its use independent of any otner part of the system, making it possible to op erate the smanest device, both night and day, without moving any other part of the system. An interesting fact hi ought out by the recent elections in Colorado is the marked tendency of Colorado men to elect women as city treasurers. Mrs. Margaret Robins was unanimously chosen city treasurer of Idaho Springs. At Aspen, Mrs. E. A. Kenney was re jected to the same office by a large majority. Mrs. Jennl? dale was elect ed city treasurer at New Castle, Mrs. Emma C. Palmer in Greely, Mrs. Clara Clark at Alma, Mrs. Mary Shank* »t Ouray. Miss Nellie E. Donahue at Victor and Mrs. A. N. Frownle at Man Xou. TALMAGE'S SERMON. "JUDGING OTHERS” THE SUB- j JECT LAST SUNDAY j From the Foil owing Bible Tr*t: “The Lord Welghetli the Spirit*" — Pror. XVI: 3 — Weighed In the Divine Scale*—>’a tlons Like Individuals. (Copyright. 1W1. by Louis Klopseh, N. Y.) Washington, May 26.— in tins dis course, from a symbol of the Bible, Dr. Talmage urges the adoption of an unusual mode of estimating character and shows how different is the divine way from the human way; text. Pro verbs xvi, 2, “The Lord weigheth the spirits.” The subject of weights and measures is discussed among all nations, is the subject of legis’ation, and has much to do with the world's prosperity. A system of weights and measures was ; invented by Phidon, ruler of Argos, j about 800 years before Chiist. An i ouDce, a pound, a ton, were different in different lauds. Henry the III. de cided that an ounce should be the weight of 640 dried grains of wneat from the middle of the ear. From the reign of William the Conqueror to Henry VIII. the English pound was the weight of 7,680 grains of wheat. Queen Elizabeth decreed that a pound should be 7,000 grains of wheat taken from the middle of the ear. The piece of platinum kept at the office of the exchequer in England in an atmos phere of 62 F. decides for all Great Britain what a pound must be. Scien tific representatives from ail lands met in i860 In Paris and established Inter national standards of weights and measure. • • * Two Kind* of Truth. There are Christian people who had faith that China would be redeemed and for thirty years have been con tributing toward that object, but they changed their minds and now despair of the Flowery Kingdom since the Boxers began their massacres. There are those who were busy in New York missions and expected the salvation of our American cities until recent de velopments showed that the police were in complicity with crime, and now these Christian workers are des pairful, as though all were lost. Of what worth is such a man's faith? When weighed, will they have what the chemists call atomic weight—the weight of an atom? No. Such faith is no faith at all. But there is a man who by repent ance and prayer has put himself into alliance with the Almighty God. Made all right by the Savior's grace, this man goes to work to make the world ! right. He says to himself: ‘ G d launched this world, and he never launched a failure. The garden of Eden was a useless morass compared with what the whole world will be when it blossoms and leaves and flashes and resounds with its coming glory. God will save it anyhow, with me or with out me, but I want to do my share. 1 have some equipment—not as much as some others hut what I have I will use. I have power to frown, and I will frown upon Iniquity. I have power to smile, and I will smile encouragement upon all the struggling. I have a vo cabulary not so opulent as the vocabu lary of some others, but I have a store house of good words, and I mean to scatter them in helpfulness. I will as cribe right motives to others when it is possible. If I can say anything good about others, 1 will say it. If I can say nothing but vile of them, I will keep my lips shut as tight as the lips of the sphinx, which for 3,000 yeai a has looked off upon the sands of the desert and uttered not one word about the desolation. The scheme of recon structing this world is too great for me to manage, but 1 am not expected to hoes this Job. 1 have faith to be lieve that the plan is well laid out and will be well executed. Give me a brick and a trowel and 1 will begin now to help build the wall. I am not a soloist, but I can sing ‘Hock of Ages’ to a sick pauper. I cannot write a great book hut I can pick a cinder out of a child's eye or a splinter f:om under his thumb nail. I now enlist in this army that is going to take the world for God, and I defy all the evil powers, human and s.itanlc, to dis courage me. Count me into the ser vice. I cannot play upon a musical Instrument, but 1 can polish a cornet or string a harp or applaud the or chestra.” A Cheerful Falili. All through that mail's experience there runs a faith that will keep him cheerful and busy and triumphant. I like the watchword of Cromwell's Ironsides, the men who feared noth ing and dared everything, going into battle with the shout: “The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge! Selah!” No balance that human brain ever planned or human hand ever constructed is worthy of weighing such a spirit. Gold and pre cious stones are measured by the carat, which is four grains. The deal er puts the diamond or the pearl on one side of the scales and the carat on the other side and tells you the weight. But we need something more delicate ly constructed to weigh that wonderful quality of faith Which I am glad to know will be recognl/.eJ and rewarded for a'l time and all eternity. The earthly weighman counterpoises on metallic balances the iron, the coal, the articles of human food, the solids of earthly merchandise, but he cannot test or announce the amount of things spiritual. Here is something which the Attic and Bnbylonian weighing systems of the past and the metric weighing system of the present can not manage. "The Lord weigheth the spirits. • • • f»o I) But look Into the dream of that schoolboy who, without saying any thing about it, planning his life time career. From an old book part ly written in Hebrew and partly writ ten in Greek, but both Hebrew and Greek translated into good English, he reads of a great farmer like Amos, a great mechanic like Aholiab. a great lawyer like Moses, a great soldier like Joshua, a great king like Hezekiah, a great poet, like David, a great glean like Ruth, a great physician like Luke, a great preacher like Paul, a great Christ like no one on earth or in heaven because the superior of all beings terrestrial or celestial. He has learned by heart the Ten Command ments and the sermon on the mount and has splendid theories about ev- j erything. Between that fair haired boy and the achievement of what he wants and expects there are obstacles and hindrances known only to the God who is going to discipline him for heroics magnificent. I have no power to prophesy that different experiences of his encouragement and disappoint ment. of his struggle or his triumph, but as sure as God lives to make his his word come true that boy who will sleep tonight nine hours without wak ing will be final victor. I do not know the intermediate chapters of the vol ume of that young man's life, hut T kraiw the first chapter and the last chapter. The first chapter is made of high resolves in the strength of God. and the last chapter is Ailed with the rewards of a noble ambition. As his obsequies pass out to the cemetery the poor wiii weep because they will lose their best friend. Many in whose temporal welfare and eternal salva tion he bore a part will hear of it in various places and eulogize his mem ory. and God will say to the ascending spirit, “To him that overcometh will I give tp eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” In the hour of that soul's re lease and enthronement there will be heavenly acclamation, as in the royal balances “the Lord weigheth the spirits." Other balances may lack precision and fail in counterpoise. Scales are affected by conditions of atmosphere and acid vapors. After all that the nations have done to establish an in variable standard, perfection has nev er yet been reached, and never will he reached. But the royal balances of which I speak are the same in heat and cold, in ail weathers, in all lands and in all the heavens—just and true to the last point of justice and truth. The same balance that weighed the tempted spirit of Adam under the fruit tree, and the spirit of Cain in the nr.st assassination, ana me spirit of courage in Joshua during the pro longed daylight, and the spirit of cru elty of Jezebel, and the spirit of gri«f in Jeremiah's lamentation, and the spirit of evangelism in Paul between the road to Damascus, where he first saw the light, and the road to Ostia, the place of his beheadment, is weigh ing still and never yet has varied from the right one milligram, which is the one six-thousanth part of a grain. The only perfect standard of weights and measures ever established was estab lished in the heavens before the world was made and will continue to do its work after the world is burned up. To measure the time we have calen dars. To measure the lighting w’e have the electrometers. To measure the heat we have the thermometers. To masure the atmospheric pressure we have the barometers. To measure souls we have the royal balance. “The Lord weigheth the spirits.” Welched In Divine Scale*. In the same divine scales the spirit of nations and civilizations is weighed. Egyptian civilization did its work, but it was cruel and superstitious and idolatrous and defiant of the Al mighty. It was cast out and cast down. The tourist finds his chief in terest not in the generation that now inhabits the regions watered by the Nile and sprinkled by her cascades, but in the temples that are the skele tons of ancient pride and pomp and power—her obelisks, her catacombs, her mosques, the colossus of Hameses. the dead cities of Memphis and Thebes, the temples of Luxor and Karnak, the museum containing the mummified forms of the pharaohs. It is not the Egypt of today that we go to see, but the Egypt of many centuries ago. Her spirit ha3 departed. Her doom was sealed. The Lord weighed her spirit. Now cross over the Dardanelles or Hellespont and see Grecian civiliza tion put in the royal balances. Surely that is an imperishable spirit. A land that produced a Pindar and a Homer in poetry, a Sophocles and an Aeschy lus in tragedy, a Herodotus ami Thu cydides in history, a Socrates and Plato in philosophy, a Strabo in geog raphy. a Hippocrates in medicine, a Xenophon in literature, a Plutarch in biography, a Miltiades and an Alexan der in battle and could build a tem ple of Dianna at Ephesus and the acro-Corinthus at Corinth and could crown the Acropolis with a Parthenon i —surely such a land, with more genius compressed in small space than in any of the nations of all the ages, will stand forever triumphant among sur rounding nations. No. Her pride of heroics, her pride of literature, her pride of architecture, must be brought down lower and lower, and humilia tion must follow humiliation until in the latter part of the nineteenth cen tury she Is compelled to submit to the outrages of a sultan whose hands are [ red with the blood of 50,000 Arme nians. Had Athens prayerfully listened to Paul’s 6ermon oa Mars hill and adopted his precepts of brotherhood and divine worship she would have stood In her old power today, and all Greece would have stood with her. and that civilization so long dead un der the carved pillars of her shrines and under the marble of her pentel lean mountains would have been, per haps for all Asia and for much of Europe, a living civilization. Bu! for her arroganoe she was cast out and cast down. The Lord weighed her spirit. Thti WHfhlnf of >at nni, And so the spirit of our American nation is put into the royal balance, and it will be weighed as certainly as all the nations of the past were weighed and as all the nations of the present are being weighed. When we go to estimate the wealth of this na tion. we weigh its gold and silver and coal and iron and copper and lead, and all the steel yards and all the bal ances are kept busy. So many tons of this and so many tons of that, a mountalnful of this metal and anoth er mountainful of another metal. That Is well. We want to know our mining wealth, our manufacturing wealth, our agricultural wealth, and the bush el measure and the scales have an Im portant work. But know right well there is a divine weighing in this country all the time going on, and 1 can tell you our country's destiny if you will tell me whether it shall be a God honoring nation, reverential to the only book of his authorship, ob serving the “shalt nots” of the law of right given on Mount Sinai and the law of love given on the Mount of Beatitudes, one day out of the week observed not in revelry, but in holy ronvoeation, marriage honored in cer emony and in fact, blasphemy si lenced in all the streets, high toned systems of morals in all parts of our land, then our institutions will live and all the wondrous prosperities of the present are only a faint hint of the greater prosperities to come. Keep the National I.lfe Tare. But if our character and behavior as a nation are reversed and good morals give place to loose living and God is put away from our hearts and our schools and our homes and our people and our literature be de bauched and anarchism and atheism have full sway and the marriage rela tion becomes a joke instead of a sanctity and the God whom Columbus prayed to on the day of his landing from stormy seas and whom Benja min Franklin publicly reverenced when he moved amid derisive cries the regular opening of the American congress with prayer shall in our na tional future be insulted and blas phemed, then it will not be long be fore we will need another Edward Gibbons to write the decline and fall of the United States republic. i v in mis was King aim nan large do minion, but was determined to make ] war against the Romans, and Cineas, the friend of the king, said to him, "Sir, when yon have conquered them, v/hat will you do next?” "Then Si ci!y is near at hand and easy to mas- ! ter.” "And what when you have con quered Sicily?” "Then we will pass over to Africa and take Carthage, j which cannot long withstand U3." j "When these are conquered, what will you next attempt?” "Then we will J fall in upon Greece and Macedonia and recover what we have lost there." "Well, when all are subdued, what fruit do you expect from all your victories?” “Then,” said the king, “we will sit down and enjoy ourselves.” "Sir,” said Cineas, "may we not do it now? Have you not. already a king dom of your own. and he that cannot enjoy himself with a kingdom cannot with the whole world.” I say to you who love the Lord, the kingdom is within yon: make more of the invisi ble conquests. Study a peace which the world has no bushel to measure, no steel-yards to weigh. As far as possible we should make our balances like to the divine balances. The Uniform Man«l*ro. By joint resolution of congress, in 1836, the treasurer of the United States was ordered to send a complete set of the standard weights and meas ures adopted by the national govern ment to the governors of all the states, so that there might be uni formity and accuracy, and that distri bution was made. So. now, the Ruler of the earth and heaven, having estab lished forever the right standard, sends to us all and to all people a copy of that standard—the standard by which “the Lord weigheth the spirits.” What a world this will be when it is weighed after its regeneration shall have taken place! Scientists now guess at the number of tons our world weighs and they put the Apennines and the Sierra Nevadas and Chimbor azo and the Himalayas in the scales. Lint if weighed as to its morals at the present time in the royal balance the heaviest things would be the wars, the international hatreds, the crimes mountain high, the moral disasters that stagger the hemispheres on their way through Immensity. Rut when the gospel has gardenlzed the earth, as it will yet gardenize it. and the at mosphere shall be universal balm and the soil will produce universal harvest and fruitage and the last cavalry horse shall be unsaddled and the last gun carriage unwheeled and the last fortress turned into a museum to show nations in peace what a horrid thing war once was, then the world will be weighed, and as the opposite side of the scales lifts as though it was light as a feather the right side of the scales will come down, weighing more than all e'.se those tremendous values that St. Peter enumerated—faith, vir tue. knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, charity. nig tilft for Toiler#. George Cadbury, the English choco late manufacturer, has presented to the city of Birmingham an estate of 416 acres, valued at $900,000, upon which to build houses for working people. LESSON OF THE AGE. TAUGHT BY ENGLAND'S PRES ENT FISCAL POSITION. The Trading Froe-Traile *'onntry In the World Flndw Itweir Sinking Deeper Into Debt at the Kata of Over Half a MlJ lon Dollars In the l’ut Two Tears. England's enormous deficit of $541, 000.000 fdr the two years 1900-'01. 1901 '02. with its accompanying causes and effects, teaches one of the most im portant economic lessons of the age. In spite of the abandonment of pro tection in 1846, England seemed to prosper for nearly thirty years, a con dition due to the impetus of her 400 years of protection, just as a ball pro pelled by force will roll up an incline till overcome by the law of gravita tion. About 1874 England reached the point where she could no longer resist the inevitable law of commercial grav ity, and, first coming to a standstill, slowly began rolling backward with increasing rapidity. Her enormous de ficit has increased her debt to nearly $3,500,000,000. and with the anticipated new loans, it will soon approximate $4,000,000,000, or $100 per capita, as compared with $14 per capita in tire United States. Here alone is not only a continued interest burden, but a legacy to the next generation that will hardly be welcome. But this is not all. England is no longer loaning money to the world; she is borrowing abroad. She is pass ing from a creditor to a debtor nation. She is reaping in earnest the fruits of free trade and an adverse volume of trade. For the last few years she has been selling back millions of American securities, and her annual dividends and interest charges are decreasing. She has gone backward in everything but her shipping, and that is the only tning she protects. And it is needless to say that this plight in which England now finds her self is due to the South African war. That might temporarily increase ex penditures anil add to the national debt. But within the last three years the United States has conquered a much mightier nation and has over come an insurrection. Yet we have a surplus in the treasury, and our finan ciers are lending money not only to England but to Germany and other European countries. Could we have done it in 1893? No. We had to borrow money then for or dinary expenses. Why could we do it a few years later? Because we substi tuted protection for free-trade. Be cause we began again to manufacture for ourselves. Because we employed our own people at American wages. Because an adverse balance of trade became a favorable balance to the amount of 1300,000,000 and more an nually. We have not only added to our material wealth, but we have acquired a credit of $2,000,000,000 on the world’s ledger, and a large part of it can be found in our account with Great Brit ain. And when we stop that little ocean freight bill of $200,000,000 a year we shall he still better off. It is now admitted that England was never in a worse plight and that she is drifting to financial ruin. Sir William Har court says she is worse off than at the close of the French war and that the recent statement of Sir Michael Hicks* Beach, chancellor of the exchequer, was the most disastrous that the exchequer had ever made. We need not concern ourselves over the outcome; it is not our funeral. Let British economists and British parlia mentarians find and apply the remedy if one is to be had. But the lesson should be heeded and studied. It is the more apparent because of tae com parison with the finances of the United States. We are today enjoying the greatest prosperity ever known by our own or any other people. We are more fully employed, we are producing and consuming more, we are selling more abroad, we are increasing our foreign credit, we are reducing our na tional debt, we are loaning money to other nations, and, best of all, we are maintaining and increasing the highest wage rate known to mankind. And yet only five years ago all these conditions were reversed. The time is too recent to need a reiteration of our condition. But the lesson to be drawn from a comparison of our national and individual condition now and then and from a comparison with England’s pitiable plight is only too full of meaning and moral. We do not have to reason from un solved problems or guess at riddles. There are certain economic truths es tablished beyond question. One is that If we buy more (han we sell we shall in time become bankrupt. Borrowing and bonds do not pay the bill. An other truth is that an individual or na tion who is idle and does not produce an equivalent of wh#t is consumed will soon become ruined. These two eco nomic laws are the great lessons of the age, proved beyond question by actual results both at home and abroad. There is no need to study Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill to day. Study the existing conditions of the past decade and the practical teaching will suffice for all. And it is the more important that we give heed to these great lessons, for there is a certain class among us who will always ignore truth and fact, and endeavor to teach precepts that lead to ruin. The free-traders, now combined into their immense trust, are scattering their pernicious doctrines over the land and boldly preparing to "capture con gressmen” next year and so bring about doubt and restlessness in busi nr»is, even though no free trade blit could become a latv. Protectionists must keep on guard. Nothing is surer than that. HARMLESS IF NOT NEEDED. When Protection Heroine* t'imece»»arjr It Crmei to He Operative. Gen. Russell A. Alger was asked by a Free Press representative whether in his opinion the Republican party would modify its position on the pro tective tariff in the next national cam paign. ‘‘it would be very difficult to say what the attitude of the party will be," said the general. "Conditions are changing so rapidly in these days that it is by no means easy to predict what will be considered best for the people. It la certain, however, that the Re publican party will protect those in terests that might suffer from com petition of foreign concerns. Protec tion is ns-nercssary to the workingman of this country as to the capitalist. Our prosperity depends in a large measure upon the good condition of our working classes. When they are making good wages and ran live well there is a demand for everything that makes trade. When the workingman must economize dullness and hard times ensue." The general was reminded of the statement often made that American products, particularly steel, are sold in European markets for less than the price in this country. “That may be the result of our manu facturers disposing of their surplus abroad." said he, "and some business men ronsider it a good principle to get rid of their surplus in this way. main taining prices here at a figure that in sures a reasonable profit to the manu facturer. as well as good wages to the workingmen of this country.” "Hut is it not true,” General Alger was asked, "that in many lines of American manufacture we have reached a position where we ran pro duce more cheaply articles now on the tariff lists than the foreign makers are capable of doing?” "That is probably true,” was the re ply, “but even if that is the case it ought not to hurt this country. The tariff then simply becomes a dead let ter. as foreigners will not. be aide to send their goods here to compete with us. and then the tariff will not operate. “Altogether. I think it best to keep tlm tariff on manufactured articles. Even if it does not operate in <asc3 when we can manufacture cheaper than the foreigner, the law will do no harm. It is like the reserve fund. It may seem useless, but there may come a time when it will be of great serv ice."—Detroit Free Press. PROSPEROUS BUSINESS. Uncle Sam: “1 guess I’d better give this business my mast careful atten tion; for I find that my horn*’ trade is fifty to a hundred times bigger than my trade with all foreign countries put together.” For tlif United States All the Time. The thought of protection is not ex cluded from a free list, and if duties are lowered it will be because the higher duties are not required for protection nor for revenue. If freer trade will best protect and promote the industries of our own people we shall have freer trade under laws enacted by the Republican party, but it will never be the aim of the Republican party to legislate in behalf of foreign markets to the disadvantage of our own. Conditions change, and methods change with them, but it does not fol low that the principle guiding action is not the same. It is a distinction of the Republican party that it has flexi bility; that it is not hidebound, that it can deal promptly with new questions and adapt policy to now relations. Hut the Republican party is aU the time for the United States of America.—Sioux City Journal. Unfair Unit Injurious. ; The wisest man camyjt balance vary ing exports and imports accurately, but whatever tlie balance may lie and on whichever side it may be found, the re sult, when obtained by means of a reci procity treaty, will involve the sacri fice of the weaker American interests for the benefit of the stronger. Cali fornia may never hope to make tho balance in her favor, and if it did turn that way the process would be none the less unfair and injurious. The reciprocity treaties must be fought on. principle, and with no dallying on our part with deceptive suggestions that we may profit by the robbery of others. We shall not so profit, and it is kicked to attempt it.—San Francisco Chronicle. Chicago is pluming itself on being one of the best places in the country to study birds. Over 200 varieties have been seen, outside of those in the com mon council chamber.
