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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1884-02-04

the proper use of language is to conceal
the meaning of the person or party using
it, this platform can hardly be excelled-
One night puzzle over it forever without
discovering its meaning, if it has any.
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Swiudiing Through the Mails.

PORTLAND, Feb. 2.
Henry L. Graves, arrested in Portland for
swiniling through the mails, vas Saturday
morning bound over in one thousand dollars
bonds for trial at the United States Court.
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Reduction in wages.

Sour;I BERWICK, Feb. 9.
The wages Of the operators of the Landing
cotton mill At South Berwick have been cut
down ten per cent
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Instaatiy Killed.

RockLASp, Feb. 2.
John Fitzgerald. aged Sc, . Quarryman.
fell iron, the bluff in Limestone quarry, this
forenoon, and was killed.
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KENTUCKY.
The Senatorial Contest at Whit. Hest


FRASKFoKT, Ky., Feb. 2.
The interest in the senatorial contest il at
white heat. With Sweeney Withdrawn the
deadlock would seem to be broken, but Car
Isle will take his place and the deadlock will
continue There is much talk of Carlisle
and his chances appear better than ever
before.
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WEATHER REPORT.
Indications for the Next "a Hours,

War Dept Office of Chief Signal Officer, /,
Washington, ID. c., Feb. Al A. NJ.
Fer New England and fiddle States,
slightly colder, partly cloudy weather and
light snow; winds generally frsm north to
EAST; rising, followed by falling barometer.
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BANGOR, Feb. 8.
Mrs Jane Moran died yesterday in Brewer
aged l04 years. She come from Ireland.
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ing of and discounting maturing endow-
ments. An unusual proportion of the COM
pauy's business was written upon endow-
ment policies.
The books have been found in admirable
CONDITION, and the system such ~ BY reason
of checks and counter checks to reduce the
chances of error 10 a mi imum, and to place
an individual responsibility upon each de-
parrment Ii has been the habit of the COM
pany TO make statement of Its affairs at the
end Of each month, including an exact calcu-
lation of it, re insurance reserve. de terred
and outstanding premiums and other items OF
assets and Liabilities The securities md ac
counts have been counted ard audited quar-
terry BY q committee Of the directors
In making this examination, nothing has
been taken for granted, and every item of
assets and liability has been extensively
serutinized. To accomplish this force OF
nine persons was employed, exclusive of APP
prai.ers of property and searchers OF titles.
All ordinary and msny extraordinary means
of checking the correctness of our conciu-
sions were employed. and there can be no
reasonable doubt of their accuracy All
items in the nature of contingent asseV>, such
as accrued and overdue interest outstanding
aud deferred premiums. and OF liabilities,
cuGu uc ALI Cldllu, SiAo" A.SAiS,
outstanding dividends. ETC.. have been thor
oughlv investigated Premium notes have
been in.pt cted and verified seriaim, and the
policies upon which they are based, ascer-
tained to have been in tore. and the reserves
thereon have been founded sufficient TO sus-
tain The loan. Receipts and disbursements
have been fully examined TO ascertain the
correctness Of the various accounts. Every
courtesy and facility has been extended freely
BY the company, its officers and clerks, and
all answers to questions put by US have been
made by the officers under oath.
We have no hesitation in pronouncing the
company to De safe and solvent under the
laws of any State IN the Union, and that with
the same degree of skill and integrity with
which the affairs of the company are being
managed, it will undoubtedly meet every OBJ
legation which il has assumed
On December 81. 1888, upon the basis of
the four per cent actuaries table of mortal
ity, it has a surplus of $751; 10; upon the
basis of the American table with ur and
one-half per cent interest, Sis, 901.21. Both
of these standards are highly technical and
conservative. Thay make no allowance for
the margins or loadings upon premiums over
the net rates nor for the gain which arises
from the lapse and surrender of policies.
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LIABILITIES.
Reinsurance reserve per cent, 1921 $3.50
(Re-insurance New York
standard four and one.haf per cent.
interest, 2O.53l.39)
Death losses and matured endowments
due and unpaid, E,OOf-O
Death losses and matured endowments
not due, $3.50 90
resisted, 1850 2a,sos5s
Premium obligations in excess of net
value Of policies, $500
Unpaid dividends to policy holders, 10,74s.s4
Other liabilities, viz premiums paid
in advance; sos 50; contingent
reserve. s927.Oo unpresented bills,
100000. S,6H.e9
Total liabilities policy holders acct. 5,si4,77l 90
Surplus on policy holders account, $3s7, 9l3 10
Surplus by New York standard,
$7ls,907.27.)
$6.2s2. 6s4, 10
February |, s1s4.
Signed,
ORAMANDAL SMITH,
ms. Com. of Maine.
OLIVER PILLsBURY,
ms Com. of n. II.
CHAs. Z. SwIGERT,
Auditor and ex-officio ms. Co. of Ills.
MICHAEL SHANNON,
Deputy Supt. OF N. Y. Ins. Dept.
CHAs. II. MOORE,
Supt. of Ins. of Ohio.
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The Eminent Director and Teacher Of Togus, form.
ery Boston, viii receive pupils for instruction on
the Violin, C1arionet, Comet and In Harmony.
either single or In classes Terms within the reach
Of all.
HIS superb Orchestra Of ten pieces, including nve
soossfs, or any number from two upwards, win fur.
nish excellent music for Concerts, Balls, Weddings,
Theatre. etc. Apply ct G.. e. Hunts Masic 0tores
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Coughs, colds and Sore Throat yield readi
" to b. II. Douglass & Sons Capsicum Cough
Drops,
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.aIlp 4ennebsf Jcr-.-'.
Revision Of the Tariff

Augusta, Monday Morning. Feb. a.
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SDeciGL Adcer, iSent o1a Is.

Small advertisements, not erceeding three iises
coming under the head of WANTED, FOR SALk
To LET, LOST, &C, ,ciH be inserted here one tim
for 25 cents three times 40 cents, and one sceei
for so cents.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-02

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viii agree to forfeit FIVE HUNDRED DOL
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ID E. SPIN Il e Y,
No. II Kearny Street.
treats I'll Chrsaic and Special Diseases.

Y Dung Men
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This Great
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of over twenty
years practice and
CURES W 1T II
U N FA l. l n G
G f Il I AIN TY
Nervous and phys
ical Debility, Sem
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-02

Ii:,p"tencv Exhausted Vitality. Premature De
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it stops an uatatursl and facilitating drain
upon tiie system, preventing involuntary losses,
facilitating dreams, semiio losses with the
urine, etc, so destructive 20 mind and body.
1t is a sure eiminator of all KIDNEY AND
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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-02
The Great English Remedy

Is a never failin
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Debility, Exhaus-
ted Vitality, Sem
in al Weakness,
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Inpotency. Pros
tatorrllaa, Paraly-
sis aid all the ter
ribie effects Of
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full fOl;ieS ard eX-
ceases in U3sI.rSr
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TRIAL BOTTLE FREE.

Sufficient to show its merit, will be sert to
anyone applying by letter, stating his symp-
toms and age. Communications strictly conf
Dental ais
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-04-02
On. G. D. SalFIELD.
2l6 Kearney Street,
SAN FRAN CISCO, CAL

Consultation strictly confidential, by lette
or at office, FREE. For the convenience o
patients, and in order to insure perfect secrecy
have adopted private address, under which
all ma s~es are forwarded
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
Switzerland in Russian Asia.

The entire length of the Than Shan
is about 1000 miles, and its highest
peaks everywhere exceed the limit of
perpetual snow. Members of the Alpine
Club, who are beginning to think that
Switzerland is nearly played out, will
perhaps be interested to know that
this mountain mass in Central Asia is
estimated as being twenty-five times
larger than the Swiss Alps, covering
an area that is as large as France
and Spain, and forming protuberance
upon the earth's surface considerably
larger than the aggregate of all the
mountains of Europe. It has plenty Of
peaks from $1,000 feet to $4,000 feet
high, and one of them, of which I was
said to have been within sight.
exceeds 21,OO0 feet. These Alpine
mountaineers may be further interested
to know that the glaciers of the Than
Shan are computed at not less than
5000; that there are numerous snow
bridges, some of them mile and one
third in length and 100 feet in thick
ness, and, finally, that any one wishing
to make little summer tour from vi
erny to Kashgar, the distance merely
from London to Durham, will be under
the pleasant necessity in so doing OF
crossing not one, but eight parallel
ridges, most of them rising to the limit
OF snow.-L0nd0s Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
A Horse Car Incident,
Acknowledgement

Two Acknowledgement young
women. one with water spaniel in a
leash of rawhide, get into a car where
In are four passengers, one a stern,
strengthening old man wearing gold
bowed glasses and reading newspaper.
The spaniel Immediately on entering
looks around and espies the old gentle
man. He evidently takes him for an
old friend, for he places his fore paws
on the old gentleman's knees and gives
two or three banks of delight and moves
his paws once down the old gentleman 8
trousers. The o. G. does not recipro-
cate the CANNES manifestation of de-
light. He places his boot under the
dog ribs, and, with .sGet out. YOU vile
curr' lifts him the entire length of the
car. The pup, no doubt, would have
continued on his mad career were it not
for the tension of the rawhide thong at
tached to the wrist of his mistress. She
exchanges a glance of Indignation with
her companion at this evidence of
'.man's inhumanity' to dogs. The
dog whines, the passengers smoker.
After q minute or two the stern pas
senger is heard from cnce more. He
shouts Conductor, is this 3 dog carr"
The tall blonde is equal to the emergen-
cy, and. looking straight in the in
quirer's eyes, murmurs softly: eff it
was not for brutes the conductor would
have told you when you were getting
on" The o. G. glares. the passengers
laugh. the girls look pleased, and the
surly passenger soon gets o6.-M 7.
Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
A Wooden Caterpillar.

The queerest thing have seen out
here is the so-called ..bulrush caterpil-
lar" or vegetable caterpillar" This
also is found in New Zealand. where
the natives name it "Aweto-Hotete,"
but have two specimens found in Tas-
mania. The plant is fungus, q
sph@ria, which grows seven or eight
inches above the ground, generally in
single stem, round, and curving at
the end like q serpent. This end is
thickly covered with brown seed for
some three inches. 1t grows near the
root Of q particular tree, the ..rata."
When pulled up its single root is found
to consist of a large caterpillar, three
inches long, which, when dissected. is
found to be solid wood. Every detail
of this grub is preserved. The spharia
always grows out of the nape of its
neck. It is supposed that when this
grub (that of large moth) burrows
in the ground, one of the seeds gets
bepa cen the scales of the neck, strikes
sos and completely e,rns the interior
eture int rs own substance.
Only the kolf6 1sft intact, nosmallest
10 ,det - en1in& anywhere. The abo-
Rieines also eat this pure whl.e grub,
at d frisnd tells me that, taken raw.
it is deIjo;ous. The Neg Zealanders
- sd11Dsi6l1szt0csterpiilar root and rub
it into their tattoo wounds. A good
many white people. it is said, believe
that the plant actually develops the cat
erpillar form, and If this be true, we
cannot laugh much at those who be-
lieved in the vegetable Scythian Lamb
and the Mandrake Man, of which
specimens are preserved in the Sur
geons' Museum at London. Phil
0delphia Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Lima beans are grown more sue.
cessfully if planted in rows, seed six
inches apart, than if planted in hills.
The rows should be about three feet
apart.-N. =. Herald.
-Souse: Clean pigs feet and soak
them in salt and water for a week Oh
ten days; boil tender and split: pour
boiling water over them, spiced with
mace and pepper corns.-1he House
hold.
Leaks in roofs, about chimneys and
elsewhere, may be stopped by thicken-
ening white lead paint with fine clean
sand. Openings are easily filled with
this cement and become durably water.
tightly. Y Times.
For turnips in white sauce shape
some turnips like pears; make a good
white sauce, to which is added some
stock. Boil the turnips in this until
they are tender. When the sauce is
well reduced (after taking out the tur-
nips) add to it a little powdered sugar,
and, at the moment of serving, add a
small lump of butter and the yelk of two
eggs.-Uticd Herald.
The bee martin is highly valued BY
farmers as mortal enemy to hawks.
Woe to the blue darters and huge hen
killers when attacked by those plucky
policemen of the poultry-yard. When
ever they are wanted, all the farmer
has to do is to elevate little box, with
holes in the sides, on a high pole. and
soon the martins will come and fill it
Camilla (Ga.) Clarion.
The rubber rings used to assist in
keeping the air from fruit-cans some
times becomes so dry and brittle as to
be almost useless. They can be re-
stored to normal condition, usually,
by letting them lie in water in which
you have put little ammonia. Mix in
this proportions: One part ammonia
and two parts water. Sometimes they
do not need to lie in this more than five
minutes; but frequently half-hour is
needed to restore their elasticity.-N
Y World.
For dry hash, cold meat of any
kind will do. but canned beef is best
Always remove all surplus fat and
gristle; chop fine, and to one-third meat
put two-thirds of chopped cold boiled
potato and one onion chopped very fine;
season with pepper and salt; place in a
hot skillet with just enough water to
moisten; add little butter or nice fat
drippings, stir often until warmed
through, cover and let stand on mod
erately hot part of the stove for fifteen
minutes. When ready to serve run the
knife under and fold as you would an
omelet and serve hot with tomato cat
sup.-Erchange.
Steamed brown bread: One pint
of buttermilk, one pint of Indian meal,
one pint of flour, one cup of molasses,
one teaspoon of saleratus, add little
ginger if you wish. Mix we'll these in
gradients. Grease two quart basin
and pour the mixture in. Then set in
a steamer and steam for three hours.
DO not let the water stop boiling and
do not lift the cover till done. Then
set in the oven few minutes to brown,
and form = crust. Try it and l know
you will pronounce it good; it is so nice
with baked beans. Half Of the amount
can be made for small familv.-Aunt
Nellie, in Western Rural.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
The Principle Of Rest in Nature.

Throughout animated nature q re-
pose succeeds one Of activity, both re-
curing in regular alienation. The
vegetable world grows and blooms;
then. for q season, al the vital pro-
cesses stand still. Work brings weari-
ness, which rest must dissipate. So is
1t with the tissues of the body; and the
younger and more delicately organized
they are, the sooner does toll exhaust
them. Brain-matter is the most deli
cate of all our tissues, and nearly one
third of the pure blood thrown out by
the heart at each contraction goes to
supply it. A tissue, when at work, has
its blood-supply largely increased.
When the mind is actively engaged in
study, the circulation in the brain is full
and active, the temperature is raised,
even the face is flushed; and the more
difficult the study, the more these effects
are intensified. After time, the brain
becomes so engorged with blood that
its activity is depressed and its ener-
pupil is, the sooner does his mind grow
tired. Between the ages of six and
seven, the lessons should not exceed
ten minutes duration, as young chill
dren are unable to keep their attention
fixed upon one subject for greater
length of time. 1t may be laid down
rs safe rule, that close mental appli-
cation for an hour and half will tire
out the majority of pupils, and leave
them unfit and indisposed to proceed
further without q relaxation of at least
ten or fifteen minutes.
Here the forenoon recess is indicated
mot. as some imagine, simply to kill
time, but as a positive physical neces-
sity, not for the pupil alone, but also
for the teacher. The worry and mental
strain of governing roomful of nerv-
Gus, restless children, and teaching at
the same time, no one can fully realize
without actual experience.
How should recess be spent by the
pupil? To reply to this, his physical
condition must be considered. As the
blood is contained in series of closed
vessels, it is evident that if the circula-
ton be increased in one portion, it is
correspondingly diminished in another.
When the brain is engorged, some
other portion of the economy must be
under-supplied. BY a wise provision
of Nature the surplus is drawn from
the tissue that is least active-in this
case from the muscular system. The
indication is to relieve the congested
brain, and this is best met by muscular
exercise, as q tissue in action has its
blood supply largely increased. The
muscular system is of considerable ex-
tent, and the exercise that brings the
most muscle into acton is the most ben
eticial-Dr. P. j. Higgins, tn Popular
Science Monthly.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26

For % years l have been afflicted with
Catarrh SO that have been confined to my
room for two months at time. have
tried all the humbuHS in hopes of relief, but
to no success until rfnet with an old friend
Who had used Ely's Cream Balm aud add
vised me to try it. Iprocured bottle to
please him, and from the first application
l found relief. 1t is the est remedy have
ever tried.-W. &. MATHEWS, Justice of
the Peace, Shenandoah, Iowa.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26
A Great Horseman.

Mr.. J. II. Goldsmith, owner Of the Wal.
rut Grove stock farm, N. Y, says of the
wonderful curative qualities of St Jacobs
Oil, that having long used it for rheuma-
tism and on his breeding farm for silments
OF horses and cattle, he caeerfully accoris
this great pain-cure his preference, as the
best he ever used, in en- experience of
twenty years.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-04-26

HAVE seen remarkable results from use
of Swift's Specific on a cancer. A young
man near here has been afflicted five wears
with the most angry locking eating cancer
| ever saw, and was nearly dead. The first
bottle made wonderful change, and after
five bottles were taken, he is nearly or
quite well. 1t is truly wonderful.
n. i. CRUNLEY, II. D.. OGlethorpe, Gs.