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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
JAMES j. WEST.


given very responsible position, and by the
end of his second year he was manager in
chief under very lucrative contract. A
year later he was full partner in the con-
Germ, having bought a fourth interest for
SG6 800, which amount he paid in cash from
his salary and commissions. Under Vests
management the company sold 100000
copies of one book, retailing it for $3.50 per
COPY From the profits OF this business and
occasional ventures in real estate, he has, i'll
less than seven years, gained what the major
ity of men would consider an ample fortune.
The Times property, with the Storey estate,
cost the new purchasers Sl,2OO,OOO, and of
this amount West paid more than one-half,
so that lie is now the controlling owner of the
paper founded by Mr. Storey.
OF the younger generation Of Chicago
journalists none are better known than
Clinton A. SnOwden. The Times is no novelty
to him, because he was for a time managing
editor of the paper while Mr.. Storey was
alive. He is a native of Illinois, born in
McIIenry county, in February, 1916, where
his youthful days were spent and where his
first labor was done on his fathers farm.
Sent To Chicago to perfect his education, he
was graduated from the Chicago university
in 1871, and in the autumn of the year fol-
lowing did his first newspaper work as night
reporter on The Times. He was soon made
law reporter, and looked after court proceed
ings up to and including part of tho year
1875, when, he resigned to take the position
of chief clerk of the secret service division
of the treasury department at Washington.
Two months completely filled the measure OF
his aspirations in this line of duty, where
upon he resigned and went back to The
Times to assume the duties Of assistant city
editor. So satisfactory to Mr.. Storey were
his services in this capacity that he was pro-
NOTED to the city editorship and then to the
position of managing editor.
During his administration The Times was
n marvel of journalistic enterprise When
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14

and was for many
years president OF
the Young Mems
Christian associa-
ton there, rs he is
now one of the
board Of trustees.
During the war for
the Union he was
actively engaged
in sanitary work
for soldiers, and so
efficient were his
efforts that his SER
vices were ac-
knowledged by q
vote Of thanks Of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
A Day Mattel.

De day wen we fails ter think o suthin'
dat we didn' think erbout on de day befo', is
wasted Wen de time comes dat We fail ter
fine some new truth an beauty in natur', we
has dun seed oil de good O. dis kfe dat ws'ss
ewtne ter see. --Arkansaw Traveller.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
william T.. Dodge.

William E. Dodge, Of New York. president
OF the Evangelical Alliance of the United
States, which recently met at Washington,
was born in the city Of New York in 1889,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14

SHALL never lOT-
get an incident
that occurred to
me in my early
journalistic expert
ence, said an old
gentleman at the
Press club the other
evening to a party
of reporters who
were interchanging
their professional
"reminiscences.
l had been de-
tailed by the man
aging editor Of
the paper to which
| was then at
tached to attend
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14

both he and his partner were ruined. Hoping
20 tide over his difficulty, he had given notes;
but unable to meet them at maturity, he be-
came bankrupt. Removing to cheaper quar-
tiers, the husband endeavored to secure q live
Ghood as a clerk, but even here i'll fortune
overlook him, and the poor man finally found
himself without employment. To cap the
climax, his creditor arrested and threw him
In fail for debt. Meanwhile the wife bravely
struggled against fate, and with her needle
eked out q scanty and uncertain subsistence
With the approach Of winter their suferingD
l1creased The little boy became dck, md
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14


Canon Farrar
preached his ia
nous sermon on
"IIell,n Snowden
succeeded IN enlist
ing so III a II y
preachers in dis
cussion OF the topic
that he was enabled
to lay before the
readers Of TIL O
Times columns and
pages of original
matter concerning
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
CUTS A GREAT FIGURE.
II. c. Thruston, the Seven Foot Eight
Inches Texas Giant.

The appended 'ctnre is an exempllfication
of the truth that nature is full of contrasts
The shorter of the two men depicted is five
feet eleven inches, longitudinally considered,
a human altitude that is considerably above
the average. The other gentleman is Mr. IL.
c. Thruston, Of Texas. His father was six
feet five inches in height, and the son has
seem his father, and "gone him fourteen
and one-half inches better being seven feet
seven and one-half inches in his stockings.
A correspondent for The st. Louis Republic
can, writing from Texas, thus describes the
tall Texans appearance on railway train:
1.-THE passengers noticed the violent sway
ing back and forth Of the bell rope, and look
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
THE NEW CHICAGO TIMES.
Something About the Men Who Eavo
Reconstructed that Notable journal.

II the late lamented Wilbur +, Storey
could see the daily newspaper which he
founded in the days when Stephen A. Doug
las was the idol of the voters of the state Of
Illinois, he wouldn't recognize the sheet.
geographically speaking, it has been born
again The old journal has new proprietors,
new editors and new business manager.
The latter, James j. West, is n striking illus
tration of what man with genius for BUSH
ness can achieve through the opportunities
afforded by the western metropolis. He was
born near Cadiz, o., in 1858, and is conse-
quently still quite young man. His career,
prior to removing to Chicago, was mainly en-
compassed by the incidents of acquiring a
collegiate education and subsequent studies
having the ministry in view. In February
1881, he entered the employ of the Western
Publishing company of Chicago. He was
then $3.50 in debt and accepted an offer
that would bring him in shade over
$500 for his first years work. As an odd
commentary on the manner in which the
careers of men are swayed by circumstances
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14

foreign to their
purposes, it is
worth noting that
his hope was to
earn enough to pay
his little debt and
h a We something
over to defray tue
expenses of pursl-
ing his theological
studies, But from
the outset he devel-
oped such a capac-
ity for business,
that at the end of
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
WILLIAM Z. DODGE

The New York legislature At present no d
especially interested in the work Of the Evan
gelical alliance
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
A REPORTERS STORY.
IT IS ABOUT A STARVING FAMILY
IN THE METROPOLIS.

The Mother sends Her Child Out to Beg
In the Streets OF New York-A Sad Tale
with u Happy Endius-A Severed Fam.
fly and Its Reunion.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-01-14
Especial Correspondence

New York, Jan. Q.
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29
Treatment for Weak Eyesight.

Near sighted, small or blinking eyes should
have special treatment, tho first care being
never to expose them to trying light Small
bonnets and front light pouring into the face
from window or lamp ARE responsible for the
inferior, peering, uncertain eyes which
abound. To enlarge the eye and to give It
o noble steadiness Of glance it must be rem
dered strong and the general health i'm
proved. Dyspepsia weakens the eyes, and
good treatment for this is Liquid food" for
six weeks, with coarse toasted crackers, meat
broths, and grape juice or lemonade if it can
be borne The use of grapes, lemons, and
sub rosa, of garlic and onions, has great .ef-
feet on the eye. Tuscan and provencals,
indeed all southern nations, owe their
smooth skins, rich hair, and large liquid eyes
TO their diet of fruits, light wine, olive oil
and the great regulating food, onions and to-
matoes Chilly surroundings contract the
eyes with the rest Of tho flesh and injure ex-
preston.
Weak eyes and disordered stomach or kid
neys exist together, and these must be set
right before tho eyes are good. The cool
douche across the loins and constant use of
green parsley are the best remedies. A Jet
Of weak salt water-a teaspoonful of salt to
a half pint OF water-playing on the eyelid
or spraying the closed eye with a vaporizer,
strengthens and enlarges the eye. Holding
the eyelids apart at the corners with thumb
and finger will enlarge the size of the eye in
time, being careful not to fret or infame it.
Outdoor work and use are indicated for
every one with small, inferior looking eyes.
Open air pursuits, not carried TO extreme
fatigue, will restore the balance of the sys-
tern, which shows its bent in contracted or
gans and limited force. Skillful manipula-
ton and training will cure near sight or far
sight 10 the point Of doing without glasses.
When books and papers are printed in plea
type, as they should be, much worthless mat
ter viii be dispensed with, and poor sight
will DO almost unknown. True distilled rose
water Is the best soothing lotion, and, next
to that, dew of the grass.-Sbirley Dare's
Letter
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29
Gas for the Cash.

'sThey have a strange new kind Of gas
meter In Paris" remarked Gen. Hicken-
looper.
''What Is 1t likep
sit is somewhat on the principle Of these
chewing gum boxes at the centennial, where
YOU drop nickel In the slit and a stick OF
gum Is measured out TO you. In this meter
you drop certain number Of pennies In a
box and then that amount of gas Is at your
service. IL you want more gas another sou
must go into the box"
"That is q good idea"
''Yes, it Is an odd trick. People are so
economical In France and so many of them
live from hand 10 mouth that i suppose that
such O meter Just fills the bill There Is such
a large, floating population that If the gas
companies were not thus paid day by day for
the Illumination furnished they might find it
hard to find any one at the end of a month to
present with bill"
'Going 10 try that kind Of meter herer
"Can't tell; still, do not think we want
such q thing just yet in America. But ii
wouldn't be bad thing In some ways" and
the general paused refectively as be doubt
less Thought that with such an automatic
cash receiving meter there would be no IN
paid gas bills Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29
A Sound Legal Opinion.

4. Bainbridge Munday, Esq, County At
torney, clay Co., Tex, says: "Have used
Electric Bitters with pOGt happy results.
NV brother also was very low with Malarial
Fever and Jaundice, bat was cured by
timsiy use of this medicine. Am satisfied
Electric f3itters saved his life"
Mr, /. Wilcoxsoa, Of Horse Cave, KY.
adds a like testimony, sasiag, He posi-
lively believes he wonid have died had 1t
not been for Electric Bitiers.
This great remedy will ward on as vel as
new, liver aud stomach disorders stands un.
equaled. Price SOC. and LOO at II. ID.
Watkins Drug Store.
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29

The cure for sickness 500 years ago
was Neglect; 300 years ago, Sorcery
100 years ago, Herbs and Drugs; 25
years ego, MedIcines; to day 1t is
Compound Oxygen.
Medicines weaken the whole sys-
tenn TO strengthen one weak point;
CoDpouni Oxygen strengthens both.
A Doctors average bill is $50. In
yes; SIS 10 our Home Treatment"
and you will save the other S35, and
feel better than you have for five
years. Are you nervous? Those
tired, sick headaches will vanish!
Have you weak lungs? Give com.
pound oxygen one chance to
strengthen them. Have you dyspep-
sia? 1t will cure youl
Remember always one thing! You
risk absolutely nothing IN trying our
treatment. 1t is simply breathing
different air; no dosing" or drug
ging," or going thousand miles
away from home and friends. II is
breathing daily into your lungs, at
your own home, the concentrated
vitality of all the health resorts in
the world.
200 page book mailed free.
For particulars, address,
DRS. STARK TX & PALEN.
1927 aud 1923 Arch St, Philadelphia,
Penn.
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29
Don't Experiment.

You cannot afford to waste time IN ex-
perimenting when your lungs are In danger.
Consumption always seems, at first, only
cold. Do not permit any dealer to impose
upon You with Some cheap imitation OF DIR.
Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds, but be sure you get the
oenni,e. Because he can make more profit
he NAV tell you be has something jnst as
good, or Just the gaTue. Don't be deceived, !,
but insist upon getting DIR. Kings New
Discovery, which Is guaranteed to give re-
lief in aIi th roat, lung and chest affections.
Trial bottles free at II, II. Watkins Drug
Store.
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29

IL you have lost your pocketbook,
you will listen to- anybody who can
tell you how to get 1T back. If you
have lost your health, which is more
precious, listen to us.
Medicines can do nothing but
check disease; they act negatively,
not positively. They cannot build
up your hoalth, or bring back your
strength, or renew your vitality.
Why do you hesitate to join the
large army who are using Compound
Oxygen when you know two thinPs:
First, by no possibility can it harm
you. Second, Ir nine cases out of
ten it must benefit You.
The quality Of our curative agent
is proved by the success in our bust
ness during the last eighteen years.
Investigate, and you will not hcsi-
tate a moment. We will send free
some of our books on the subject OF
HEALTH, il you will send your
address,. .,
DRS. STARKEY & PALEN,
1l27 and 1929 Arch st., Philadelphia,
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29
A Helmet for Eirernen.

A new helmet for firemen has been in
vented In Bremen. II consists principally
Of copper mask, which Is very light The
wearer's nose, mouth and eyes receive,
through an india rubber tube, constant
stream of pure air, which leaves tho helmet
by an opening opposite the eyes, end pre-
vents the entrance Of smoke. Tho halmet
has been practically tested, and Is to DO used
by the Berlin frsrnen, it is said--Bosbon
Mohave County miner., 1888-12-29
He Lived Close BY.

Banker--Whati you here again already
Beggar-Yes; you see live right around
the corner. It's no inconvenience at all for
me to cal. l.--Texas Siftings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-18
THE ASYLUM TRUSTEES EXPLAIN

THEY ARE LEGALLY AND MORALLY RIGHT AND THR
CITY AND THE ORPHsNs ARE GAIvrRs.
The snakc" which the Mayor and Controller think
they have discovered In the management Of the prop
erty which tho Hebrew orphan Asylum received from
this city Is treated by prominent Jewish citizens with
contempt As published In rHE TRIBUNE yester-
day. the Mayor, on Thursday, submitted to the Sinking
Fund Commission a communication from the Controller
In relao to the asylum property on ths south sde
of seventy second It,, from Third to Lexington
TIL tract of eighteen lots conveyed the asyum
trIsters In 1860 and 1854, respectively for nominal
consideration. The deed contained a provision that
the land should revert TO the city In it ever
used for any other purpose than that OF the Asylum
Subsequently the asylum trustees secured the enact
ment IF bills In the Legislature authorizing them by
amendn ents CT charter to take and hold land sul
Client to produce Income of $4,000 year, beside
the lard necessary the asylum Blu din and grounds,
and to subet lease the property In question,
vided the proceeds be applied to the uses and pur-
poses of the asylum, and provided further that IL
used for any other than the purposes of the asylum,
the property should not be free from taxation.' Tho
asylum trustees then removed the asylum Itself TO
One-hundred anCthir ysxthst and Tenth where
they had secured large tract of land The seventy
seventh-st. property then leased out by them.
On these grounds Mayor Hewitt and the Controller
base their complaint The Mayor doubts whether
the city has lost its title to the property through the
legislative measure mentioned above. The Sinking
Fund Commissioners have Instructed the ColpOI
Counsel 20 look INTO thc matter.
jesse &c i.man president of the asylum trustees
said yesterday Mayor Hewitt ought to be lawyer
enough to that nothing done by the trustees
INT hey had secured the proper legislation
l.. LauteIbach, the LuIn counsellor said " Tho
chang from venty seventh to OnG humid ell adthr
sALn-st was ncces,itated by the gJOw1ng demands
o. the institution. The new property acquired by
purchase aud asylum erected upon IL, thu
nancy being raised for the most part by the tssuIng
OF boa1 to the amount OF 300 200, bearing Interest
al per cent. The interest, therefore, amounts to
about $4,000, which is also about the amount of tho
ground rent received nom the seventy sevenfh h. st.
property The rental Is applied TO the payment of tho
interest on the bonds So far the city Is concerned
the orphan asylum itself caused that property To be
mad subject 10 taxation soon as IL leased to
OF her parties. OF course the new property Is exempt
from taxation that the city precisely In the Same
condition IL would have been II change had ben
made, except the taxes the Third ave property
larger than those the One hundred aud hirty-
sixthst property the city really receive, moro money
by the change than would have do had no change
takon pttce. Legally, 1t will be found too, we are
thoroughly SAFE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-18
THE BOSTON MAIL SERFICE.


THE RAILWAY People, THINK TT FTRsr-RArE,
BUT THE POST OFFICE COMPLAINS OF IT.
Washington special says that Postmaster General
Dickinson Is in receipt Of numerous protests and
petitions from business men OF NewYork and Boston,
describing the mall service between the two cities ~
Inadequate, and asking for fast mail train to leave
New YORK at midnight, arriving In Boston carly the
morning The dispatch represents the FOst-
maste General and Mr. Nash, chief of the Railway
Mail Service, agreeing with the complaint New
York and Boston merchants Is to tho insunic hcy ot
their present mail SERVICE and laying the blame upon
the railway companies Mr- Nash said that there was
but one line, the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad, over which all the mails bound for Boston
and the East must 60, and that although this company
was paid the large sum OF 900 annually for tho
transport alton of these mails because there no
competing line they did they pleased and ran
trains whenever they saw tit. Although repeatedly
urged to put on q later train to accommodate tho
wants of the business community, DR. Nash said the
company had refused because 1t would not pay thenL
The Department therefore, not to blame as 1t wa
powerless TO compel this road to change It's time
table to put more trains.
To TRIBUNE reporter who visited tho Grand
Central Station yesterday, Official Of the Now
York. New Haven and Hartford Railroad said
No complaints from the Postonies Department have
been by the company far as have been IN
formed, about OF mall faefes between here and
Bostou Mails are carried on nearly every train There
are two trains for Boston, by Springfield which
leaves at 10 80 p and teaches BOSTON, at $40 tho
next morning. and the lher ny the Shore Line, which
goes at IL D. and arrives in Boston a. 30 m The
mails by these trains are distributed Boston by tho
first letter carrier delivery M morning. and In the
suburban towns Of Cambridge Chariesown Chelsea Deb
ham, Somsrville Brighton, L0ngwOod. aud Brooklins
by delivery letter pus into tho postoees At
10 80 D. M or dropped into postal box here at tho
station 10 so p M, will reach Boston for the carly
delivery train started from here at midnight would
not get TO Boston In time delivery there
II there was such train few would send letters by III
they would all icy yet their mail OF the 10 30 or
II D. IL trains OF the first Boston delivery
Then a. m. have fast tram which carries out
the morning spapeTs and de.ivi, sack mail all the
way through TO Boston. It Ii difficult to understand
what mail fatalities is needed could be d.shsd Ihts
our road S furnishing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-18
~ Date of First
Solh p"HSr' 'hiO' Performance,
Opera.

A reference to the prospectuses issued last fall
shows that save to four works the list OF operas
promised by the directors has been adhered TO- The
operas which were announced but not given arc
Rlenz' Queen Of Sheba,- Merlin and Ada,'
works which, we believe, could easily be spared in
season that brought forward such novelties as sieg
fried" and GOetterdaemmerung,' to say nothing Of
Ferdinand Cortcz' "Trompeter Saekkingen'
and Euryanthe,' the last practically a novelty
far the present generation of opera patrons arc
Concerned
Up TO and including the representation of Lohen-
grim last Tuesday evening the receipts and attend
at these operas as Is stated in the following
table, in which the works arranged according to
their comparative popularity, as indicated by the
aYerage nightly receiptS:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-18

Since last Tuesday two representations Of Die
Goetterdacmmerung" have been given, and this after
Siegfried' will be repeated These three rep
RESERVATIONS included in the first table, but nrt
In the second Assuming merely for the sake Of
argument the receipts for these representations
Will not change the average for the two works Gas
a matter Of fact, they Will materially increase IT. tho
total receipts for the will reach 81 81 0O4 05
for sixty four representations, against S202 T5l
for sixty-une Representations last season, gross
loss of 81 746 o. The average receipts last season
1923 10; this season, SS71 o. difference Of
s451 so a performance in favor of last season.
A final paragr aph about the relation # Wagner's
works TO the seasons business. OF the fourteen
works presented. seven-that Is. Cne-haf-were Wag
ners. These seven were performed thirty-sx times
to the remaining works twenty eight Wagners
operas brought into the treasury ST 95 30 against
Sos SOS 70 brought In by the other works Tho
Wagneran average 50, 80 81 the nonW agneri an
S2457 as, difference In favor OF Wagner OF 81 ~
h night. This Is the popular to the criticism
OF Mr. Stant0n's oh Ice Of repcrtory. The assess
paid by the box holders is Of not included
In the ahOYe tables.