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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
1he Gum wa. worLing.

Rib Lake. Wis. Jan. 7.-Jo5eph Depto
was accidentally shot by Aisle Bone
vile. both of this village. While they
We're examining a loaded revolver.
Depto's condition is serious. but the
doctors think he will live.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
n. Found Deno an ned.

Ashland, Wis, Jan. Z. Joseph
Hughes. for many years a barber In
Ashland. was found dead in his bed at
the Leland hotel yesterday. An In
quest was held and the Jury found
a verdict OF death from heart disease.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
BANKS TAKE coUNTERFEIrs.
sioux Falls People Swindlea by Men
Who Make Money.

Sioux Falls, S. D.. Jan. Z. Local
United States officials are striving to
the identity of persons who
are circulating counterfeit IS and $2e
gold pieces I'm this city and vicinity.
Il is said a spurious $40 gold piece was
left IN every bank in town, deposited by
different parties, and was thrown out
of several of them. The coins are not
of the best workmanship, and a close
inspection reveals the fact that they
are counterfeit.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
cn.n,tcIeer in Demand.

The overworked rooster cut when - used
a. ~. rural press during the political cam
na,gr. 10 call attention 10 successful candi-
dates and duriag the remainder OF the year Tor
ths advertisement OF pcaltry dealers. Appeared
last week at the head OF the article .e..ns ~
che columbla's victory In the cup races VIA
.hs shsmrock u.-Kansss City Star.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09

Heggein and Andrew Patrick, two
farmers near here while on their way
home each was thrown from his wagon
and killed.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
Cranberry Convention

Grand Rapids, Wis, Jan. THE If
teenth annual meeting OF the Wiscon-
sin State Cranberry Growers assoc
citation will be held on Tuesday. Jan.
IA, at Grand Rapids.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09
STATE OFFICER ARRESTED,
Member of Gov. La Fo1Iette's STAFF
Accuse by Game warden.

Ashland, Wis, Jan. z. - A warrant
was served on county Treasurer Ten
nant, charging him with violating the
game laws by having partridges,in his
possession. Mr.. Tenant is a member
of the governors staff and is promi-
nent in politics. Two p~artridges We're
found in his Office by the game warden.
Tenant will fight the case.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09

Use past year over pre-
year -. ........... 5O,SS6.l2
imuh price per acre paid, 1901, sales,
Lake county.
Page, all sales 1901, SIS.
Page sales all prior years, S14.
$269. 525.
to sell. 1,SS0,s 75.
peer OF acres endowment lard sold,
to sell, 697, 1862.
to sell, 697, 1862.
Railroads.
e mas been but little railroad build
F1thln the state during the present
some short extensions of the north
IA system in the Black Hills, and
some thirty miles of the st. Paul,
[apohs & Sault Ste. Marie to the
url river near the ncrth lire OF the
comprises the new construction,
II II may properly be so Included,
iisnge In the line Of the Chicago,
Eukee q st. Paul at Redheid makes
ne more accessible to that city by
n mile.
New Towns.
owns have sprung up on the 800"
= us extension in Campbell county.
aiready assuming important pro-
These are Artas and Herrfed.
rser named in honor of the COVER
Aney are eligibly located In a. fer
'uon hitherto distant from rail-
Projected Lines.
chicago. Milwaukee g. st. Paul
.ompieted preliminary surveys for
tehslon OF its line from Evarts on
,,ssouri river to Butte, Mont, with
rn INTO the Black Hills. This line
rne.rate the extensive coal meas
q Grand river.
raul, Minneapolis e. SauIt tse.
nas completed arrangements TO
grade mace ten years ago from
49, 70 bismarck, In North Dakota.
Dh o. this work Is already corr
'saving Only a stretch from Aber-
ashley near the state line TO COM
ny system in the spring.
The Indians.
year finds South Dakota without
re- Bianket INDIAN rcmaininS
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-01-09

THO StUUUT IHuuNs
school lands have shared in the
PAL advance in real estate and afford
Eequate of what the normal
pee was up to the time of the sales
Pril last. The annexed figures COM
by Land Commissioner Eastman
y but comprehensiyely exhibit the
fnent in the school lards, and the
lion Of the permanent school and en-
lent funds:
permanent school fund
!, 1901, Sc, 045, 109.36
III, 1900. z 373 n26 10
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24

sible successful completion OF
canal on the Nicaragua route, while
a Panama canal has at all times been
clouded with doubts.
When Senator Morgan's eompre-
hensive speech is sent throughout the
country public sentiment should make
itself heard, and it should be deter
mined for once and for all whether
the people are bigger than the inter
national railroads, for the case is now
really The People versus The Rail-
roads. The defendant is seeking de-
lay first on one pretext, then on an
other, and the People have waited
fifty years, and the Senate still stands
in the way. 1t will continue to thwart
the will of the people unless public
sentiment reminds it and the Republi-
can party that further delay in the
interest of the railroads will be pun
ished in 1904 and at each subsequent
election.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
Farms and Farm Products.

There are many farms in this State
between 20 acres and 40 acres in size.
Out of a total of 223,220 the farms be-
tween 20 acres and 40 acres number
S0,7S4, or more than a third of the
entire number. This Is due in large
part to the tenant system of the chief
cotton counties of the State.
Cotton is the principal source of In
come on 141,965 farms; live stock on
1926; fruit on 401; vegetables on
2483, and hay and grain on 1o,S01.
The hay and grain farms are worth
one-third more per farm than the cot
ton farms. On the 22S4 farms that
reported in the census year no i'll
come, 925 were operated by share
tenants. and 500 by cash tenants.
There are 279,263 cows In the State,
loss since 1890 of 1895. OF other
cattle we have 52O,471, showing a loss
since 1890 of 63,417. In round num-
bers we have $4,000 less cattle than
we had ten years ago. We have about
80 900 more horses. 10000 more mules,
and 1000 more hogs than we had ten
years ago, but we have 100000 less
sheep.
Nearly all the farmers reported
poultry In the last census year, the
value of the poultry product of that
year aggregating $4,oS9,324. The pro-
duction of eggs rose in the last decade
nearly "a per cent.
OF the total value of crops in the
census year cotton contributed 57.5
per cent; corn 23.5 per cent; other
cereals, 1.S per cent; vegetables, In
Guiding potatoes, sweet potatoes and
onions, GA per cent; forest products,
"a per cent; hay and forage, 2.3 per
cent, and sugar cane and sorghum
cane, rs per cent. The State is still
largely cotton State. Less than 10
per cent of the farmers of the State
are non-cotton growers. Cotton was
grown in the census year in every
county, but the five leading cotton
growing counties are Dallas, Mont
gomery, Lowndes, Marengo and Bull
| lock
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
The Hardware Combine.

THE more I think of it the better 1
like the National Hardware and Metal
Company, commonly called the hardware
combine" said large stockholder in
the new corporation.
THE combination is not going to hurt
anybody. Those jobbers who are outside
of it will get along just as we'll as they
did before. Ours Is not a trust, and hard
ware men whose concerns were not ad-
mltted appreciate that fact fully. Had
the company been organized on trust
lines the promoters or leaders of the
movement would have got In more Job
bers than they did. But instead of want
ing every jobbing house in the country
they selected only large concerns in GER
tain large trade centers.
birmingham is the only city in Ala
bama that is represented In the combin-
alton. Atlanta and Savannah are the
only cities In Georgia. After jobbers
found that the scheme was going through
all right there were very few who did not
clamor for admission, Scores of options
were declined, simply because the Of
ficers of the company thought it advis-
able to limit the combination so as to
prevent it from becoming unwieldly.
If any one says aught against the
National Hardware and Metal Company
after 1t has been in operation for a year.
1 will be surprised"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
First Birmingham Festival.

Mr.. Claude Seals gave music fes-
tival in Birmingham in 1885. 1t was the
first affair of the kind ever attempted
in this part of the country, and 1t was
highly creditable, too, but the leader
had to pay deficit of $780, said an old
musician. There were no guarantors in
those days, and Mr.. Seals undertook to
handle the financial end of the enter
prise entirely alone.
1.-The festival consisted of two night
performances and matinee. Mr.. Seals
had a chorus of 100, which he directed,
and he engaged high-class soprano and
Cincinnati orchestra of thirty-five
pieces. 1t was not very expensive fes-
tival as festivals go now, but Birming-
ham was small place seventeen years
ago, and the receipts were lamentably
small Mr.. Seals paid 1900 good dollars
out of his bank account. He often laughs
about it. but he never felt like repeat
ing the experiment.
1.-THE mistake that the managers of the
last festival made was in not charging
s1.5O instead of 81 for seats. There are
here now enough $15O people who love
music to make a festival pay"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
Hydropathy Up-t0-0ate.

| Russian barbarities are no longer
Gin it." They are outclassed, out
watered, so to speak, by the practices
of American soldiers, and the victims
are American citizens Of the little
brown sort. True, the Republican
party may not recognize their citi-
zenship, but If the Philippines are a
part of this country the Filipinos are
Americans, and citizens to boot.
But this fact does not prevent the
application to them by the American
army of the method Of torture popu
larly known as the water cure" This
cure is very simple and also very
efficient. The American victim Is
seized and his mouth pried open, and
a stick placed in 1t to keep 1t open.
He is of course bound to the point of
helplessness. A line of hose is then
placed in his mouth and he is filled
with water, not only up to his neck,
but up to the top, until he runs over.
Suffocation of the lungs follows, espe-
cially when he is jumped on and
pounded by the brutes into whose
hands he has fallen. He is emptied
out before death occurs, and asked to
disclose the information needed. If
he refuses, he is filled up again with
water, and so on until death or a
| confession intervene.
This delightful and aesthetic method
has long been practiced in the Philip
pines by our army of occupation, and
Congress has persistently refused to
consider 1t, but the method had be-
come so notorious the Philippines
committee In the Senate has been
compelled to consider 1t, and wit
nesses have been called who have ex-
planned it and its frequent use and
all it's attendant barbarities. 1t is,
however, but an additional disgrace.
This barbaric form of torture COM
pletely overshadows anything that
Russia is charged with, and it trenches
close upon the cruelties of the Span
ish inquisition.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago Evening News.
A square man Is seldom a rounder.
A sealskin sack does not always warm
the heart.
The secret of dress Is the location OF
the pocket.
When In doubt turn to the right; then
go straight ahead.
A man never begins to rise In the world
until after he settles down.
Success covers multitude Of transact
lions of the gold-brick variety.
Political bosses like to think Of them
selves as. the sovereign people.
fool is his own worst enemy.
A pessimist is man who thinks other
en- are as bad as they know he Is.
Tears are the spectacles through which
a woman sees her wishes granted
Some men have no fixed price but pro-
coed to sell out to the highest bidder.
There is nothing so certain as a sure
thing game-for the man behind the game.
Ambition, like torrent, carries every
thing before It, regardless of the wrecks
left behind.
A hayward son Gays It r. q case of
loves labor lost when he fails to work
the old man..
1t is true the coat docs not make the
man, but 1t has much to do with. his
standing In society.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
Appointment Of Judge Howe Re-
wives Story on Watterson.

OF course the invitation to Crumpacker
to visit Alabama is Congressman Thomp-
sons private affair: but IL the Indiana
man should come into contact with any
considerable number of citizens the situa-
ton possibly might be embarrassing To
the State and to the South, more esne-
cially as the Crumpacker resolutions
against the South are still pending before
Congress. Upon the subject the WASH
ington Post says:
THE idea of this trip originated with
Representative Charles w. Thompson of
the Fifth Alabama district, who has a
large plantation near Tuskegee, where he
employs some 400 OF 500 negro hands.
Mr.. Thompson is prosperous man. pos
sesses means, and believes the trip will
give the Northerners a chance to form
some opinions of their own about condi-
lions in the South. He declares that he
will make no effort to impress his own
views about conditions upon the prospec-
tive visitors, but will leave them entirely
free to draw their own conclusions"
Crumpacker will be In position to say
he has visited the enemy's country"
for politically the people who govern
Alabama are not in love with him.
Many years ago there was great politi-
cal row because the proprietor of Birm-
ingham hotel refused to allow John Sher-
man to receive negro visitors in that
hotel. Simple as was the proposition,
1t was enough to politically fire the
Northern heart" 1t would seem best not
play with matches in powder-house.
LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
The Third Alabama.

Efforts are being made quietly to bring
about harmony in the Third regiment,
Alabama National Guard, but thus far
the outlook is not encouraging" said
guardsman yesterday.
I'VE are without field officers and the
situation will probably remain unchanged
for some time to come. The governor Is
being urged to restore Col. e. L. Higdon
to command and order an election for
Northumberland and three majors, but
he does not see fit to act. l am parti-
san of Colonel Higdon and naturally want
to see him back at the head of the regi-
ment 1t seems to me that the governor
might revoke his order suspending Hig-
don, and keep the matter of the other
field officers in allegiance. The colonel
could get along without majors for a
while by detailing captains to command
the battalions. All l am after is harmo-
ny. If the regiment is to be kept up to
any degree of efficiency head is abso-
lutely necessary"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24

night to assist in the institution Of
council of the order In that city. The
Knights have engaged two Pullman
sleepers for the trip.
A. P. Jordan of Norfolk is at the Nor
ris.
e. G. Richardson of North Carolina is
at the Morris.
George L. Derry of Washington, D. c..
is at the Morris.
H. P. Dyer of Boston is at the Nor
ris.
man.
A. A. Janney of Montgomery is at the
Morris.
H. B. Mccombs of New York is at the
Morris.
P. P. Watson OF Virginia is at the Nor
rig
W. K. Mcneil of Louisville is at the
Morris.
]. L. Hening of Asheville il at the Me-
tropolitan.
w. E. Estes of Washington, D. c., is at
the Metropolitan.
H. B. Johnson OF Selma is at the
Metropolitan.
]. w. Hoots of Washington, D. c., is at
the Metropolitan.
Julian Loeb Of Montgomery Ii at the
Metropolitan. -
r. B. Evers of Greensboro is at the
Metropolitan.
L. B. Fleming of Montgomery is at
the Metropolitan. @ ~ -
r. C. Maddox of New Orleans Is at the
Metropolitan.
Mr.. John Moffat, night clerk at the
Metropolitan, returned yesterday from a
trip to washington.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
Real Estate,

"It may not be called a BOOM perhaps,
but If the real estate market is not close
on to a boom do not know the meaning
of the term" said young lawyer of
Birmingham.
II was thinking Of buying property In
Ersley three years ago. had an option
on two corner lots at $500 each, but was
afraid to pay the price. Those lots sold
the other day for $1,000 apiece. They are
across from the city hail. The price of
three years back seemed to me q little
fancy, but business men regard $1,000 as
moderate. Many persons say that Ems
ley is destined to be a very large city in
side of ten years. and 1 begin to think
that way myself.
..If a mans foresight was as good as
his hindsight he could get rich without
any trouble. A few people have this
fo, asi1ht and many snug fortunes have
been made in Birmingham and Ensley by
real estate speculation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
WANTS TO BE TRIED.
Man Claims That He Is Sane and
Ready for Murder Charge.

New York, April 23-Claiming as his
right under the constitution trial by
jury for murder committed nearly
eighteen years ago. Theodore Bung, once
a wealthy druggist, has made before
Judge Marean of the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn, so strong a plea for liberation
from the State Hospital of the Insane at
Mattewan, N. Y, that the judge has de-
clared him sane and committed him to
the warden of the tombs to await the
trial for which he asked.
Bung. who says he has been sane for
the last four years, was produced In
court by DIR. II. H. Allison, medical SUI
perintendent of the asylum, In answer to
writ of habeas corpus, Judge Marean
has issued to lawyers who had taken
sufficient interest in Bung to institute
the proceedings In his behalf
Bung became insane in 1884. He suffered
from the delusion that a well-known
actress was trying to make him marry
her and was following him from place
TO place. He was then "a years old
Among Bung's friends was druggist
whose name was Nockin. Bung became a
victim of the idea that Nockin was in
league with the actress and shot him
to death.
Bung was held responsible for the muir
der and indicted, but a sheriff's jury pro-
nounced him insane. Since that time he
has been confined In the asylum
Buns now, after eighteen years, has
appeared In court and presented such a
strong plea that the Judge ordered a Jury
trial on the old indictment.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
EDITOR OF THE "RAG."

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
1t was announced in the columns of The
Age-Herald a few days since that Ex-
Governor Bob Taylor of Tennessee had
closed a contract with the American
Lyceum Union of New York to deliver
one hundred lectures next season, for
which he is to receive $25.0GO. We find
the following commentary thereon In the
columns of The Hullegan Herald, edited
and published by Mr.. Sprintley Spraddles:
''Oh, to be a Bob Taylor Our life
would be exceedingly sweet! We would
quit forever the pursuing of the festive
delinquent, pay our board year In adj
vance, and dwell in peace and harmony
with our fellowman henceforth and for
ever more. We would discard these
threadbare habiliments and array our
self in broadcloth and fine linen. We
would have our hair cut and our willy
whiskers amputated; and last, but not
least, we would drink mint juleps 'steen
times day from one end of summer
to the other-if we were Bob Taylor
But alaS, we are the eQ1IOr OIL This rag
and our life Is very sorrowful, for ours
it Is to forever pursue the flying delin-
quent whilst we suffer our Saratoga to
be ruthlessly nailed to the floor by our
noisy landlady for board past due. And,
yea verify, twill never be our lot to
dwell in peace and harmony with our
fellowmen, for he won't pay up! These
threadbare habiiments are here to stay,
and without our linen duster sorry
spectacle would we present indeed-broad-
cloth and fine linen constitute one vast
Utopian dream. And these refractory
tresses must continue to fall around our
stopped shoulders like seaweed on a
calm" while our "oscaro'' are doomed
to flourish In the greatest profusion. No
mint julep days, for we are not Bob Tay-
Tor, but the editor, the unhappy editor, of
this measley rag" Oh, for thousand
tongues to sing of our unhappiness!"
LAWSON A. FIELD.
Alfalfa, Ala, April %, 1902.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
IN HONOR OF SHAKESPEARE.
People Throughout England Celebrate
Birthday Of Great Writer.

New York, April 23.-Stratford- on Avon
Is celebrating the occasion of the festival
concentrating Shakespeare's birth with
such thorough-going enthusiasm that 1t
almost amounts to an orgie. says a Lon
don dispatch to the Herald.
The celebration began week and a
half ago and the festival is not going to
end for another week and half. The
chief feature of the celebration is the I'M
usually elaborate series of Shakespearian
performances. These take place nightly
in the theatre, which is in part a men,
orable building and Is situated SO pretty
in the meadows on the riverside.
Romeo and Juliet" Twelfth Night"
Henry VIII" king Lear" "Othello"
and Hamlet" have been given so far.
The elimination comes today, the date of
the great poets birth, when Miss Ellen
Terry will assist by playing Katharine In
a revival Of 'Henry VIII"
Stratford is full of devout pilgrims from
everywhere
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-24
Hole in the Tariff Wall.

The Chinese wall is preached even
If the rust-befriending Senate throws
out the clause repeating all differen-
tial and countervailing duties on sugar.
The hole may be patched up, but the
scar will remain to teach all who come
later how to break through the great
tariff for-trusts wall.
The amendment protects the people
instead of a trust, and this is strange
indeed. THE sacred" is no longer
sacred, for 1t has a hole in 1t. And
AZ Republicans voted in favor of put
ting that hole in 1t. This Is revolu-
tionary and really terrible, and every
Dingley organ will squall against the
Morris amendment this week. Morris
Is Michigan Republican. Mr.. Rob-
erts, a Massachusetts Republican,
tried to induce the House to adopt an
amendment putting hides on the free
list. Unfortunately he did not sue
coed, and shoes will be unduly high
a while longer. Mr.. Babcock, Re-
publican leader, asked that the goods
made by the billion-dollar steel trust
be met by goods admitted duty free,
but this was voted down. Too much
cannot be expected from the tools of
the Barons at the start and at once.
But the breach is in the Chinese
wall, and the Senate is 'up against it"
Let us hope the breach will not be
closed. If all duty on sugar were re-
moved careful estimates show that
the price of sugar to the consumer
would be reduced one-half The Lon
don price is 1875 cents pound, and
the price in this country would not
be much greater If all duties were
taken off. The present price in New
York is 3.37 cents a pound; in Lon
don It is 1.95 cents. The difference
is the tax levied on consumers chief,
for the benefit of the sugar trust,
heavy campaign contributor
The extra duty on refined sugar
was put In for the sole benefit of the
trust in order to repay a heavy cam
paign contribution. This return pay
ment has been levied upon all the
people in or out of the Republican
party. 1t is fair illustration of the
entire robber tariff. If the Senate
repeats it 1t will simply show anew its
allegiance to the sugar trust and the
campaign list.