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HAGUE 



When P. T. Baraum visited Hagenbeck's ani- 

 mal park at Stellingen, near Hamburg, he 

 bought $15,000 worth of animals. In 1905 

 Hagenbeck sold 1,000 dromedaries, each ani- 

 mal provided with a suitable saddle, to the 

 German government, for use in Africa. He 

 collected the animals in less than three months 

 after the order was received. The German 

 government was so pleased with the handling 

 of this remarkable order that it promptly 

 ordered another thousand. Hagenbeck made 

 his first visit to the United States and Canada 

 in 1886. He exhibited more than a thousand 

 animals at the World's Columbian Exposition 

 at Chicago in 1893, including many rare wild 

 species. 



HA'GERSTOWN, MD., a commercial city of 

 importance and the county seat of Washington 

 County, is situated in the northwestern part 

 of the state. Baltimore is eighty-seven miles 

 southeast, Washington is seventy-one miles 

 southeast and Harrisburg is seventy-four miles 

 northeast. The city is a few miles east of 

 the Potomac River and Antietam Creek. It 

 is on the Western Maryland, the Philadelphia 

 & Reading, the Cumberland Valley, the Nor- 

 folk & Western and the Baltimore & Ohio 

 railroads, and it has an electric interurban line. 

 The population, ninety per cent American, was 

 16,569 in 1910 and 25,679 in 1916, by Federal 

 estimate. 



Hagerstown is situated in the heart of the 

 Cumberland Valley. Near by are Fort Fred- 

 erick and the battlefields of Antietam and 

 Gettysburg. The prominent buildings of the 

 city are the Federal building, Washington 

 County Free Library and a hospital. It was 

 formerly the seat of Kee Mar College, a non- 

 sectarian college for women. City Park con- 

 tains fifty acres. 



Owing to excellent shipping facilities, Hagers- 

 town is an important trading and manufactur- 

 ing center, and its large railway and machine 

 shops employ 3,000 men. Flour, furniture, 

 silk, skirts, hosiery, automobiles, bicycles, agri- 

 cultural implements, fertilizer, sash, doors and 

 blinds, carriages, spokes and wheels are manu- 

 factured. 



Hagerstown, which was settled in 1640, was 

 laid out by Captain Jonathan Hager in 1762, 

 and was incorporated in 1791. The present 

 city charter was granted in 1848. 



HAGGAI, hag 'a eye, a Jewish prophet of the 

 Old Testament, in Jerusalem, about 520 B.C., 

 after the Israelites had returned from their 

 exile in Babylon. His prophecies, four in 



number, constitute the Biblical book of Haggai, 

 in which the writer urged the people to pro- 

 ceed with the building of God's Temple. He 

 predicted a greater glory for the new Temple 

 than had belonged to the former one, and 

 implied that Zerubbabel, the son of the gov- 

 ernor of Judea, would become king of his 

 nation. 



HAGGARD, hag'ard, SIR HENRY RIDER (1856- 

 ), an English novelist whose works have 

 a persistent popularity, not because of special 

 literary merit but because they show a fertile 

 imagination and are successful in creating and 

 maintaining a weird atmosphere. The scenes 

 of many of his best-known novels are laid in 

 South Africa, and if the events he describes 

 are unreal, and the setting almost equally so, 

 the thrill is very real and endures after the 

 memory of the actual plot is lost. She, King 

 Solomon's Mines, The Return oj She, Allan 

 Quartermain, Jess, Montezuma's Daughter and 

 Lysbeth are perhaps read as much as any of 

 his works. 



Haggard was born at Bradenham in Nor- 

 folk, studied at Ipswich, and in 1875 went to 

 Natal, South Africa, as secretary to the gov- 

 ernor, Sir Henry Bulwer. After his return to 

 England he studied law, but finding fiction- 

 writing both pleasant and profitable, he de- 

 voted himself to it for years. Later he studied 

 and wrote on agricultural conditions in Great 

 Britain, and in 1905 was commissioned to re- 

 port on the Salvation Army settlements in 

 California and Colorado, with a view to estab- 

 lishing like colonies in the Transvaal. In 

 1912 he was knighted by King George V. 



HAGGART, hag 'art, JOHN GRAHAM (1836- 

 1913), a Canadian statesman, for forty years a 

 member of the Dominion House of Commons. 

 Haggart was born and educated in Perth, Ont., 

 where he engaged in business as a miller. He 

 was elected to 'the House of Commons in 1872, 

 and served without a break until 1912, when 

 he voluntarily retired. He became prominent 

 among the Conservative leaders, was post- 

 master-general under Macdonald from 1888 to 

 1892, and was then Minister of Railways and 

 Canals until 1896. The Sault Sainte Marie 

 Canal was completed under his direction. In 

 1894 many of the leading Conservatives felt 

 that he was the logical successor of Sir John 

 Thompson as leader of his party, but he was 

 passed over in favor of Sir Mackenzie Bowell. 



HAGUE, hayg, THE, the seat of Dutch roy- 

 alty and of the government of the Nether- 

 lands. It is the city in that land of windmills 



