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p THE ABO US, MONDAY, MAY 7, 1900. STORY OF THE YAZOO FRAUD Oar of the Moat Oisvaatie Traata Krer Known la America. On; of the must gigautic trusts ever formed on this eoutioeut was ia the tarly days of the republic, back Jn 1U. ieveral geDtlemen organized themselves Into a company for the pur pose of iur-haxing frwtu tLe state of Georgia her unclaimed western terri tory, extending from the M isslsslppl cn the west to t Atla-ntpc on the east and from the thirty-first degree of latl tude north of the -itiator on the south to the southern boundary of Tennessee toil the north, including what now cou- Mitutew tle territory .f CJeorgla, Ala bama anJ MUxUsippI. This vast ter ritory was purchased for $500,000 and thl.t was th commencement of the fa- inon "azo fraud," alxnt which so iiiiich was mi id and written. The 1 4 11 authorizing ttfe purchase and fcale parsed the (Georgia legislature on Jan. H.'l :.,. and to is said that Eicmbfru wTe paid all the way from eight negro- to l'0o,O0O acr- of land t vote f It. Corruption bV bribery was oneli. fJreat iodiguatlou spread throughout the state, and upon the as sembling of the legislature one year later an act was passed declaring that the said resuriK-d act was null and void; thttt the records relating to the t.n rue be burned In order that no trace of so unconstitutional, vile ami fraudu lent a transaction ghould remain pub lie. "The Infamous records were placed in one vat heap," said a senator, "and sun glass was used to set It on fire, tltnt it might be said that the fire that destroyed It was from heaven. This Is the first and only Instance in the history of the cotnltry where a leg islative lody iersoualIy superintended the destruction by fire of its previous records of corrupt and obnoxious laws." St. Iuil Globe. AN EDITOR'S APOLOGY. A Happr Inspiration That Proved to He a Iloouieraa-. The editor of a small provincial pa per ia Austria was In great difficulty to find a lit subject for his leading artl--le, having. been too Intent upon other buslnes or upon pleasure to provide rue. The last moment had, come, and the editor was lu despair. He tortured bis brain In vain, when he suddenly wus inspired by a happy thought and da.hd off the lines: i ftA. Mif nltw ....-....... .1... I H'l 1" I U1IJ; lilt? 11'UUllJg . - t . . . . . ' mm it- nnitru lor me present iiumner by one of the ablest of our contrlbii- I tors, we have arrived at the conclusion that It rnn-y be misinterpreted by the authorities and regarded as an attack upon thu government. We ourselves Consider it to b iterfeettv iniux-ent but. as w are unwilling, for our read-! rs' sake as well as for our own, to have our newNpaer confiscated, we have very uuwilluigly. though, as we think, prudently, resolved to withdraw tiie article! This must serve as the apology to our readers for the blank paee in oClr present issue." The journal was published In the evening, and the sly editor, after per forming this little piece of stratagem, left the otilcu In high humor. As soon as he arrived in the office the next morning a clerk came up to him with a doleful expression and said. "Ilerr Rednktor, the poper is confiscated by the police!" 'Tor what reason?" ask ed the astonished editor. "For mali cious ridicule of the institutions of the Austrian empire by the omission of the leading artW." repm-d the man. A ( arloni Shoe Trail. IoyIetown has four odd characters who Iool their 'ssiies hi buyiiyj shoes. They all fiav- the same sized foot, and eacij regards this fact In the nature of a libel pcrrsraled upon him by the other three. Kveny year each one of the quartet whips in Sis. mid the fund of $7'2 is cxtM'tided for shoes. Iluyiug them in such quantities there Is natu rally a reduction in price. One would think that there would he iJ equal di vision of the shoes, but that Isn't their little game. The shos are owned collectively, share and share alike, and when not being worn they are kept lu a closet In the exreis office, whinh Is the general lounging place f the quartet. If one man wants to wear new shoes, he goes to the express office and puts them on. If he wears rassets In the daytime and wants to wear iutteirt leathers In the evening, be goes to the express office and makes the change. They have been doing this for several years and claim they wouldn't wear shoes In any tther way. Itiiladelphio, Record. Why They Keep to the nil lt is a rar trat for a person t. to BO K1DRET DISEASE CHICAGO'S GREAT CRIMINAL LAWYER CURED. Chicago. Ill- Sept. 5, 180. The Dodo Medicine Co.. Buffalo. N. Y. Uentleawa: I aftered I rata RheaaMtlaai and Kldaey Trouble for year. MycoodKiea grew gradually wors. la apite of ray efforts te las prove It, and Anally I hecaaM totally hllad. I consulted different ptaysidaaa, bat bob of theai coald care ate. fly case anaiiJ to ha hnpelraa, fly physlclaa ad viced ate to try Dadd'a Kld aey Pills. I used ths pills, aad am bow glad te say that I ana cured, fly eyesight ia restored, the Rheumatism haa disappeared, and my kld aeys appear te be la as good aad healthy coodU Uea aa before I aa attacked with the disease. I am as well e'ery way as I ever was. Dodd's Kidaer Pills care all Ueaees of the Kidneys. Hit J ctae. 50 casts a box or six boxes for $1.50. Seat on receipt of price be The Dodds Medicine Co, Baaxlo, N. T. tnrougn turope tne nrst timer saia a returned tourist. l visited one old palace In Scotland and was walking down a long corridor when I came to a sentinel, who told me to keen to the right. I could not see any reason why I should keep to the right and asked him why, but he said be could not tell. I finally asked the custodian, and he said he had looked It np in the archives of the palace and found that nearly 100 years ago the floor was painted, and some people walked over the fresh paint. The officer of the day was or dered to station a sentinel there to keep people oft from the fresh paint and have them walk to the right. The order had never leen countermaaded. and from that day to this a sentinel stands there and tells everybody to keep to the right." Indianapolis Press. Aatldotea For Carbolle Arid. Alcohol and vinegar are eiTeatlve antidotes for carbolic acid poisoning, a Xetv York doctor announces. What ever quantity of the poison has been swallowed, four times as much whisky or five times as much vinegar should be administered Immediately. No oil of any kind should te given. 'Thus treat ed early enough, be adds, "ail cases will recover. if nil the Bees aad the People. "I'ecple buy comb honey, said a man from the country, "believing that the fact that it is sealed by the honest little bee precludes the possibility of fraud. The fact is that the bees of many professional 'honey' raisers do nothing the livelong summer but pack glucose into their hives from an open barrel that is left standing close by. The bee will not search fragrant flow ers the livelong day for a trifling amount of pure boney when be can get glucose. The boney men see that there Is plenty of glucose bandy, and instead of one pound of pure honey they aid the bees In putting tcu pounds of glu cose on the market. "Human ingenuity has not devised a way for making and sealing the honey comb, or the bee would be dispensed with altogether. In handling the glu cose the bees give It a honeyisb flavor. and if you complain to the bee man that it is not as sweet and sticky as it should be he will tell yon that it Is the early crop and that the heavy rains make it thin. "I know a man who keeps SO hives of bees on the roof of his store In the city, and by hustling up plenty of glu- cose he gets enough 'honey' out of the l.nn.ttii. l. i In n nliAlnctnlA Kliol. RtMMt fsr CoMslltf- tis. buzzing slaves to do a wholesale busi ness In honey. Why, his bees never saw a flower and would shy at a hon eysuckle If they happened to come near one. He will not even let the poor things have a recess to get a drink of water, but keeps a pan of fresh water near the hives for them to drink." New York Mail and Express. Aa Immortal Oration. The funeral oration of Pericles Is pretty nearly what was actually spo Csaptoy ken, or else It is the substance of the speech written out In the historian's own words, says James Ford Rhodes In The Atlantic. Its Intensity of feel ing and the fitting of it so well Into the situation Indicate It to be a living con temporaneous document, and at the same time It has that universal appli cation which we note in so many speeches of Shakespeare. A few years after our civil war a lawyer in a city of the middle west who had leen selected to deliver the Memorial day oration came to a friend f his in despair because he could write nothing but the commonplaces about J those who had died for the Union and for the freedom of a race which had been littered many times before, and he asked for advice. "Take the funeral oration of Pericles for a model." was the .reply. "Use his words where they will fit and dress up Ct-sptn- tloa with I !. the rest to suit our day." The orator was surprised to find how much of the oration could be used bod- fly and how much, with adaptation. was germane to his subject. Averted the Storm. A certain congressman went home at a very early hour in the morning. He had made a night of it with some friends. He knew that his conduct would be considered reprehensible by his better half, and so. as he ascended the steps of his modest home, he rack ed his brain for some plan to avert the lady's wrath. As he entered the hall he saw an umbrella. Instantly it oc curred to him that the umbrella might Prt Sharing vHb ths Pukllo. be his salvation. He carried the umbrella up stajrs. Seating himself on a chair in the cor ner of the bedroom, be raised the rain guard over his head, and then he coughed loudly. His wife awoke and saw in the dim gaslight her liege lord sitting solemnly under the raised um brella. "What are you doing?" she asked in natural surprise. "It Is 3 o'clock, my dear," said he. "and I am waiting for the storm." The congressman's ready wit saved him from a Caudle lecture. He Is wor rying now, however, to find an equally effective act for the next time he stays out late. WasMngton Post. CaiMttMSf Oltit)ll A Mlahtler Tribe. Once upon a ttme'the Hev. Thomas K. Beecher of Hlmira. N. Y., brother to Henry Ward fU-echer. got Into some port of a quarrel with a man named Smith down at Oohoes. Thomas K. Beecher wrote the presumptuous man a defiant little note, saying curtly: "Do you want to get Into a quarrel with the Beecher family?" And the man wrote back, with a snarl: "Do you want to fight with the Smith family?" And no Beecher could stand that. Thomas K. laughed and hastened to make terms. Im Angeles Times, At the battle of Hastings. A. . D. 105. the weapons being swords and battleaxes. 00U fell fatally wounded nt of every 1.000 soldiers. NEW Profit-Sharing with Our The great success attained since 1887 by.Slegel, Cooper & Co. has Induced and given warrant to the enterprising owners to further ingratiate themselves into pub lic favor by consolidating their two mam moth establishments into a co-operative enterprise on a profit-sharing baai3. They recognize the tendency of the pres ent age to be in the direction of co-operation of employers with employees, as well as In profit-sharing- with patrons. To accomplish this desired condition a new company, the Siegel-Cooper Co. (Co operative Stores, Now York and Chicago), has been incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey, with a capital stock of 824,000,000, of which 814,250,- 000 is divided into 285,000 shares 6 cumulative Preferred Stock of 850.00 par value, and 69,750,000 into 105,000 shares Common Stock of $50.00 par value. The charter of the Company provides that after full dividends of 6i per annum have been paid on the Preferred Stock, and full dividends of 3 per annum have peen paid on the Common Stock, all addi tional dividends shall be apportioned and paid on the basis of I3 in amount on the Preferred Stock and in amount on the Common Stock. To carry out the plan of co-operation with Its employees. 82.000,000 of the Common Stock has been placed in trust, the annual dividends of which will be distributed among such employees as have been or may hereafter be with the New York or Chicago establishment for a period of three years, during their satis factory continuance In the service of the new Company; such dividends will also be continued and paid to employees for life who, after ten year3 of service with the new Company, become incapacitated for further employment, thereby practi cally providing a pension fund for faithful employes in their old age. To oarry out the plan of Profit Sharing It is proposed by the present owners, who are the owners of all the stock of the new company, to offer to the public through the undersigned 200,000' shares (fully paid and non-assessable) of the 6 cumu lative Preferred Stock at par; upon which the full 6 dividend must always be paid before the Common Stock receives any dividend whatever, the Preferred Stock also having a prior right to all the assets of the company. In order to give double assurance to the general public, whom It is desired to Interest as stockholders (Instead of specu lators) and who may not be fully con versant with such investments, the money required to pay dividends on said 200,000 shares has been set aside and will remain on deposit with the Central Trust Com pany of New Yorlc and the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago respectively to secure the dividend of 6 per annum. payable 3 semi-annually, for a period of five years, L e., until July 1st. 1905, on all such Preferred Stock as may be allot ted in their respective territories, and each certificate of stock so allotted will have an indorsement by said Trust com panies respectively to that effect. We thereby offer not only an absolutely safe 01 investment, but one which will without question yield considerably more. No Commsn Stock li 80 Sold. Ths Influsnce of New Stock-holJer The lniu;u- rol day of tho New Compter OF1 THE YORK AND CHICAGO. PatronsCo - Operation Under no circumstances will any of the Preferred Stoek not so allotted, nor any of the Common Stock, bo sold, tho present owners having no deaire to sell out, but intending to remain with the business; they will therefore not part with any more stock than they beUeve necessary to fully carry out their plans for co-operation and profit-sharing, as previouely stated. The owners confidently believe that, by Inaugurating tha liberal policy above out lined towards their employees, th3y will in return be rewarded by more faithful serv ice and courteous attention to patrons, the result of which must be beneficial to the new company, as well a3 augment the continued good will of tho public. Furthermore, lb can b calculated to a certainty that with many thousands of new stockholders exorting their personal Influence toward the saccoss and welfare of the business larger patroaaje and cor respondingly greater earnings for the new company will be assured. It is from the increased benefits ani material ad vantages which these changed conditions are expected to bring about that the pres ent owners feel confident o better pro rata remuneration on tho stock which they retain and in a measure Justifies them in parting with any portion of their interests in an established and exception ally profitable bU3ineS3. The SIEGEL-COOPER GO. Co-operative Stores will take possession Monday, July 2d, 1QOO, or the two great department stores of Slegel-Cooper Co.. New York, ana Siegel, Cooper & Co.. Chicago, in their entirety, covering a floor space of over thirty acres, with their millions of dollars' worth of Merchandise, Store Fxtures. Delivery Plants (consisting of many hun dreds of Hoi sea. Wagons, etc.), Machin ery, extensive Stable Properties and all appurtenances required for the complete oneration of the two stores, and also its palatial fireproof store building and real estate In New York City which alone rep resents an asset of many millions of dol lars, free of all encumbrances or indebted ness whatever, so that the Slegel-Cooper Co. (Co-operative Stores, New York and Chicago) will start its career without owing a single dollar. For the good and sufficient reason of not wishing to divulge ths details of our business to our competitors we present no balance sheet for publication. We do not, however, desire to ask our patrons or the publio to rely exclusively on our represen tations, and therefore the money required has been set aside and will remain on de- In oider to subscribe for shares use the blank Date 1900. To the Slegel-Cooper Co., Chicago, III.: Enclosed please find S , being 20 per cent, first payment, (Oil in amount). upon shares of the Preferred Stock of the Slegel-Cooper Co. (Gil la cimtitr of bars.) (Co-operative Stores, JVew York and Chicago), for which I hereby subscribe and promise to pay to the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, at Its office In Chicago. Illinois, as agent of the vendors, the balance due on shares of the stock allotted to me on or before July 5th, 1900, Same. Street address. m urns . i aeor A02.X 145 PF FWQR. SPACE' 12 ACRESO E with Our Employees. posit with the above named Trust Com panies to absolutely secure the dividends on all the Preferred stock to be allotted as stated. Moreover, we allude with pride to the fast that the Chicago establishment has since its inception paid millions of dollars in dividends to its stockholders, and that the New York establishment, while only in its fourth year, is not only doing a larger business than the Chicago store, but is also on a most profitable div idend paying basis. We can also say for the benefit of subscribers that the net earnings of our two establishments for the past year were largely in excess of the amount required to pay the dividends on all the Preferred Stock of the new com pany. There will be no change in the manage ment, and tho same men who thirteen years ago started the original Siegel, Cooper &. Co. store in Chicago (and later its sister store in New York), and who have achieved a success almost without parallel in modern retailing, have pledged themselves to continue iu the management of the business of the new company the same as in the past, and they will deposit with the Central Trust Company of New York all of their stock holdings for a term of years to se cure such pledge. Subscriptions for the 200,000 shares of the Preferred Stock will be received In person or by mall on blank forms pro vided for that purpose at the office of Siegel, Cooper & Co., Chicago, beginning at lO A. M., Monday, May 7th, 1900, and will continue for a period of one week ; the right, however, is reserved to close subscriptions upon one day's notice in any one of the Chicago daily papers. All subscriptions must be accompa nied by money, check, money order or draft payable to Slegel-Cooper Oo. to the amount of ' 20 of such subscriptions (equal to SIO.OO per share), for whioh proper receipts will be given. Notice will be given as soon as prac ticable of the number of shares allotted to each subscriber, and the balance due must bo paid to the Illinois Trust and Sav- lngs Bank, corner La Salle street and Jackson boulevard, Chicago, as agent of the vendors, on or before July fi, 1900, and said bank will thereupon make deliv ery of the stock delivered to it for that purpose, pursuant to the allotments thereof With a view of extending the benefits of our offer to as many of our patrons and the public as possible it is proposed to allot the stock in the following order, namely: 1st To all subscriptions for one share. 2d To all subscriptions for two shares. 3d To all subscriptions for three shares. And to continue in the same order for lar ger subscriptions until the entire 200,000 shares have been allotted. Respectfully, SIEOEL-COOPER OO. (Co-operative stores. New York and Chi cago.) , Profl: Past and Prospective. Manage ment. How to Sub scribe for Stock, Allotment hereto attached: State. I