THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



VOL. XV . 



CHICAGO, JANUARY, 1901. 



NO. 4 





Philip D. Armour, the Chi- 



ca ^ P acker > died Jan - 6 - He 

 made a success of his life from 

 beginning to end. He never allowed his 

 accumulating wealth to lead him out of 

 his accustomed life of liberality and 

 honesty. From a farm-boy he started for 

 California where he first made a begin- 

 ning, and ended in Chicago, from where 

 lie fed the world. The Armour Institute 

 you might say was an inspirateon, for it 

 was after listening to a discourse by 

 Dr. Gunsaulus where he told what he 

 thought should be done for the boys and 

 girls of the present generation, that Mr. 

 Armour ask the doctor if he believed in 

 the views he had just expressed. 



"I certainly do" responded Dr. Gun- 

 saulis. 



"And would you carry them out if you 

 had the means?" 



"Most assuredly" came the reply. 



"Well, then," said Armour "give me 

 five years of your time and I will give you 

 the money." 



The institute was built, and will be a 

 monument to as good a man as ever lived. 



The war in South Africa, that 

 the Englsh have tried to 

 pursuade the universe is but a 

 skirmish with a few insane bushwhackers 

 and amounted to merely nothing, has 

 assumed new proportions. Several en- 

 gagements lately have reached the 

 dignity of actual battles, and under the 



South 

 Africa. 



leadership of Gens. Dewet and Delarey 

 the Boers have shown a bravery that 

 surpassed anything of the kind in the 

 early part of the war. Not long ago the 

 band of Delarey swooped down upon Gen. 

 Clements men, and after a sharp engage- 

 ment made prisoners of 550 of the North- 

 umberland and fusileers, and killed and 

 wounded many others. This was in the 

 Western Transvaal. Down near the 

 Orange river Gen. Dewet has been con- 

 ducting some, extraordinary military 

 operations, and all England is in despair 

 over the showing of the Boer strength. 

 That the Boers must ultimately succumb 

 to the superior number is inevitable, but 

 those who are supplying the money and 

 men are about discouraged. Meanwhile 

 Mr. Kruger has dined with Queen Wil- 

 hemina been entertained by the French, 

 and is receiving invitations from all over 

 the world by the common people to come 

 in person, to agitate intervention, and 

 though the rulers may stand by England, 

 the sympathy of the masses is with the 

 Boers. 



Last spring a young couple of 

 Fora^Baby Kenosha, Wis., eloped and 



were married at Milwaukee. 

 In the fall the young wife was stricken 

 with a fatal malady and recently died 

 leaving a young babe. Last week the 

 father called at the residence of his wife's 

 mother and demanded the child that had 

 been left by its mother to be cared for by 



