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HE INSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT RrIIITs TO The
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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
GENERAL,

The funeral of B. c. Porter, the actor who
was murdered at Marshall, Texas, took
place in New York City at the "Little
Church Around the Corner" on the Goth.
The dramatic profession made up-a purse
of several thousand dollars in aid Of his
widow and mother, who depended upon
him for support. The citizens of Dallas and
Marshall, Texas, have given benefit per-
formances to the company of which he was
a member, and in every way done what they
could to efface the memory of the horrible
crime committed by q drunken desperate.
The American Rapid Telegraph Company
recently organized in New York, claims
that by its patents for machine telegraphing
it can transmit 1000 words a minute, and
over wires now In ordinary use 800 words a
minute. The company announces that the
construction Of wires to all large cities east
of and including st. Louis will begin imme-
diately. Its tariff to all points east of the
Rocky Mountains will be 25 cents for 30
words.
Gen. Sheridan told Chicago Tribune re-
porter that the fears of q general Indian up
rising in the summer are almost wholly
without foundation. He characterizes Sit
ting-Bull as a pretty chief without influ-
ence, and greatly overrated- as a warrior.
The stories Of coming trouble on the from
tier are, according to the General, mere
newspaper talk, inspired by interested par
ties who hope to turn a dishonest penny in
case of an Indian war.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
Life Insurance for Inyalids.

A writer in the Portland (Me.) Press
proposes new plan for life insurance
q company in which only invalids and
weaklings shall be insured. He says:
" The robust man shall be summed, for
he is a deception and snare. You can
not count on him. He is always sure
to die when death is least expected. He
has been the utter ruin of many strong
companies, and the cause of embarrass-
ment and impoverishment to many 9th
ers. just when you are counting on his
premium for a dividend he drops off,
and you have policy to pay. The in
valid, on the other hand, is tolerably
certain to live to good old age. The
sickly youth, who promises to die before
he is thirty, often lives to ninety, and
sometimes reaches par-and is then re-
deemed, let us hope. OF course, there
are exceptions. Once in q
while vigorous young man
lives to be old. Occasionally an
invalid who is very, very good,
dies young. But in general the weak
ling outlives the other. The trouble
with our life insurance system, as now
conducted, is that its managers obsti'
nately work on the assumption that a
healthy man ought to live longer than a
weakly only. Perhaps he ought, but he
doesn't. The facts are against them.
Still they go on in the old way, obsti
nately clinging to their unfortunate theo-
nv. They are unable to see what enter
prising men in other branches of busi
ness have long seen, that the invalid, il
well worked, is mine of wealth. Look
at the army of doctors he supports
Look at the great drug-shops he has
built. See the fortunes he has made fol
the owners of patent medicines. What
a help he is to the fruit trade, and tc
the people who put UP jellies and othel
delicacies for the sick. The only mar
he does not assist is the undertaken
That worthy loses great sums OF inter
est while waiting for him, and some
times goes into bankruptcy with s
large stock, shop-worn and out of style
on hand. In face of all these fact.
the actuaries go on in their blunderine
way, insuring the strong and refusint
the weakly. They do not perceive tha
the robust man has his head turned b.
the possession of great capital G
health and goes and squanders it. H'
does not appreciate its worth. 1t cam
to him without effort on his part; per
haps he Inherited it, and he regards
lightly-lightly come, lightly gone
The invalid guards his little store, hus
bands what strength he has, lives fru
gally on his narrow income of health
and takes care not to touch the princi
pal. Sometimes he does not use all tn
income, but puts by little year b
year, accumulates surplus stock of Vi
tality, and when old has substantis
capital of health to live upon. Here
to the invalid! May he live long an
prosperin
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
Queen ViCtOria's Dairy.

The Queen of England has very
nice dairy farm, which is thus described
by one who has examined it. 1t is a
mile from Windsor Castle:
The dairy is beautiful cottage. with
a marble-paved and frescoed vestibule.
The interior is a room about thirty feet
square, the roof supported by six octag-
onal columns of white marble, with richly
carved capitals. The floors are of white
proclaim tiles, the windows stained
glass, bordered with hawthorn bios
SONS. daisies, buttercups and primroses.
The floors are linei with tiles of porce-
lain of blue tint, with rich medallions
inserted of the Queen, Prince Consort
and each of the children. Shields, mo-
nograms of the royal family and bas-re-
liefs of agricultural designs, represent
ing the seasons, complete the ornamental
ton of this exquisite model dairy.
All around the walls run a marble ta-
BILE and through the center two long
ones, supported by marble posts, rest
ing on basins, through which runs a
perpetual stream of spring water. By
this means the slabs of tables are always
cold, and the temperature of the dairy
is chill, while the white-and-gilt china
milk and butter dishes, resting on the
tables, are never placed in water. The
delicious milk is brought into the room
in bright metal buckets, lined with por.
delain, the Queens monogram and crest
glittering on the covers. In the room
where the butter is made, milk skim
med and strained, the eyes may be feast
ed on the rows of metallic, porcelain
lined cans of every size, made to lock,
and sent to the royal family, even as
far as Scotland, or wherever they may
chance to be, so they always have good
milk and butter. The churn is of metal
also, lined with porcelain, and made in
to two compartments. The outside
chamber surrounding the cylinder car
have warm or cold water poured in tc
regulate the temperature. The lid i!
screwed on, and the stationary stano
on which the whole is turned makes thu
work easy and rapid. But while owe
sixty cows are daily milked, and a
many more are out grazing, the roya
family are more than satisfied, and tee
Londoners growl that the overplus i
sold, and the money pocketed by thei
money-making sovereign.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
Conference Of Greenback Congressman.

wAsHiNGToN, March 2s.-About 80 mem
bers Of the House of Representatives, in
Guiding Messrs. Reagan, Jones of Texas,
Springer, Stevenson, Ewing, March, Ladd,
Keller De La Matyr, Weaver, Warner,
Wright and Wise, met this evening to con-
slider the subject Of the presentation Of tinan-
cial measures the present session. After a
general interchange of views the following
resolution was adopted: ,F,f ..
Resotred, That we willask the cooperation
of our fellow members, of all parties, In en-
deavoring to pass at this session a bill for the
following purposes:
/. To increase the coinage of silver to the
capacity of our mtnts, and to issue certih-
Gates, receivable for all public dues, and pur-
chase of silver bullion at the market rate.
Q. To reissue the greenbacks now held for
the redemption of fractional currency or
hereafter retired. Tor the payment of arrears
Of pensions and I'm extinguishment OF the
g. Providing for the substitution of legal
tender notes for National Bank notes.
L. To stop all further increase of the ma
tional debt.
s. To provide for a tax on incomes of over
5000.
Come conversation followed as to the better
means to introduce bills for the foregoing
purposes In the House, and Messrs. Ewing,
Weaver and Warner were appointed COM
mittee to prepare d Silver. bill in accordance
with the first branch OF the resolution.
1t was stated that Mr.. De La Matyr bad a
bill to offer in relation to the substitution OF
legal-tender notes for national bank notes.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
What is Conscience?

Says Prof. Swing in a recent sermon:
This fact stares US in the face all through
history, that the most conscientious
men, the most fully bent on not doing
wrong and upon doing right, have been
narrow in their views, selfish and cruel,
utterly free from any connection of the
highest good of the most. Conscience
cast no Ggh. upon duty when for hum
dreds of years the Hindoo mothers cast
into the rivers children which they
should have tenderly reared and loved;
it cast no light upon the duty of Saul
when he was consenting to the death by
a mob of such saint as Stephen; it
cast no light upon Jephthah when, for
an oath's sake, he was, amid awful sor-
row, putting to death his beloved daugh-
ter. According to the story, that He
brew Judge or King had, on the eve Of
battle, made VOW that should God
grant him victory he would sacrifice on
the altar the first living thing which
should come out to meet him on
his triumphant return home.
And behold, his beloved daughter,
led by affection, had outrun all else,
guard, and servant, and slave. The
face of the victorious King turned pale
He tore to shreds his royal vesture and
cried out, "Alas! my daughter! thou
has brought me very low, for have
made a VOW to the Lord, and can not
go back.' 1t would appear that, it
conscience was designed ever to convey
any information as to the moral quality
of actions, it would have let some light
fall upon this unhappy father and
daughter; but, instead of diffusing any
knowledge of right or wrong, it simply
impelled Jephthah onward toward the
keeping of the savage vow. This story,
from Jewish history, only illustrates
what has taken place in all the long his
tory of man, namely, that this power,
called conscience, has never inforr5
any man or age as to what is right
what wrong, either in a general or,
particular manner. 1t has never been
a light bringing star.
Having learned what this faculty does
not do, it becomes us to seek out its true'
office. Conscience is a feeling. tits an
appetite that loves the moral right, but
the intellect must find out what the right
is. The intellect must come with its
observation, and comparison, and expe-
rience, and discover what general laws
of right-doing there are, and what par
ticular actions are noble, and then con,
science will come and render him haprS
who does the noble things, and rendef
him miserable who does the dis
graceful things. If the Logical
faculty makes any blunder in id
argument. and concludes that witche} ,
exist and should be hanged, or ths
a hereto should be quartered, or tha|
Jephthah's God desired that a voY
should be made or kept that would docf
to death daughter as compensation fo1
victory, conscience will not hesits1
for moment, but on it will CONF
vast, powerful sentiment, and will nan
the witch, or quarter the hereto, or sla]
the idolized daughter. 1t knows moth
ing and teaches nothing, it only impelsI
1t drives train along track, but th|
reasoning powers of man first builds th|
track, and according to the work dom
by the intellect the impelling powd
draws the train in safety or to destra1
, ton.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
Life's Flavor.

When wit is combined with sense and
information; when it is softened by be-
nevolence and restrained by principle;
when it is in the hands of a man who
can use it and despise it; who loves
honor, justice, decency, good nature,
morality and religion ten thousand
times better than wit, wit is then a beau
tiful and delightful part of our nature.
Man could direct his ways by plain
reason, ard support his life by tasteless
food; but God has given us wit, flavor,
and brightness, and laughter, and per-
fumes, to enliven the days of mems pill
grimage, and to charm his panied steps
over the burning marie.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-04-05
Science and Industry:

Portland cement is made from lime
stone and clay.
"A Salem IN. J.) man ships $500
quarts of milk to Philadelphia every
day.
Timber may be said to be well sea-
soned when il has lost about sixth part
of its weight.
Boston sent out 2,235, ,O68 yards OF
brown cottons valued at over 1921 900,
to Madagascar in a single week.
Savannah, Ga, has paper-mill
that makes nine varieties of wrapping
paper and has capacity of 1000 pounds
a day.
TO tell a diamond from a gem, look
through the stone at the point of nee
die or small hole in a card, and if there
are two points or two holes the stone is
not diamond.
The black sulphate of silver which
forms on plated and silver wares, may
be removed at once by wiping the sur
face with rag wet with aqua ammonia,
and without the trouble of rubbing.
"A Helyoke Mass paper mill has
been making tests between the best En-
glish and the best American writing pa
pers, much to the disadvantage of the
former in length and strength of fiber,
in sizing, in the "laid" process, and in
general finish. ...t.l- ..,.a. =
"A new telephone has been recently
Sciences, said to give remarkably good
effects. 1t is the invention of Mr.. Cow
er, an American. Simple phrases,
| .,.t< fl,a fra
mitter, are heard as far as 16 or 20 feet
from the receiver.
The bricks of which the pyramids
of Egypt are built contain abundant re
mains of animal and vegetable life, per
fectly preserved, and throw light upor
the civilization of ancient Egypt
Plants, grain, shells, fishes, etc., are SC
well preserved that there is no difficulty
whatever in identifying them.
Among recent labor saving inven
tions is that of potato digger. 1t is {
sort of wo-horse cart, under which is ,
sort of plow which runs under the po
tato hills and is followed by a revolving
toothed cylinder which separates th'
potatoes from the loose soil. A sort o
stationary rake, the tines of which pro
ject between the revolving teeth, pre-
J vents the vines from winding about tn
cylinder. -
Maj. Z. H. Cameron (of the Brit
ish Royal Artillery has patented an in
} vention whereby matches can be rem
dered waterproof. The process can b
carried out after manufacture, wit
slightly increased cost. Matches coate
with Maj. Cameron's composition
r which have been soaked in water fo
r "a hours, can be struck with drop {
: water adhering. They can be ignite
/, by friction on wet as we'll as dry SUI
a face. ..