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Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
Towns

The Committee on Towns met in executive
session last evening TO consider TIL, proposed
division of the town OF Buothbay. An in
formal ballot was first taken resulting in a
vote oi five in favor of the petitioners. and
five against them. After two hours of dis
cusslon during which every member of the
Committee freely expressed their opinion.
another vote was taken which resulted ex.
actiy as before, Those in favor of the
petitioners were Senator kenda and Repre-
sentatlres Achorn, Closson, Allen and Tilton.
against them wore Senators Freeman and
Hinckley and Representatives Eels, Jordan.
Dame. Mr.. Eells will report the bill to the
House this morning at 10 O'Clock. As both
the Senate and House chairmen and two of
the three Senators are against the division,
tho remonstrants and their friends are
jubilant. and consider that they have won
the first battle of the Boothbay civil war
Legal Affairs
Before the Committee on Legal Affair,
the question of holding the February term
the superior court for kennebec county at
Watervilie came up and it was decided to
recommend the bill for passage by a vote of
TO :. Senator Wright and Representatives
Ciason, Dane and Sprsgue opposed the bill
and will present minority report
Hon t. r. Simonton appeared in behalf
Of the Camden Water Co and Hon John B. !
Donovan OF Alfred for a similar company In
Eliot Both were laid OIL the table
Judges Hall Of Richmond and Hobbs of
North Berwick appeared in behalf of an in
;Iease of the salaries of judges and registers
If probate throughout the State. but in spite
IT their arguments the committee deemed (
egislaton on the subject inexpedient.
Labor.
Before the Labor Committee last evening
be ame endments to the bill enacting that ali
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
sI,G.2ld,T

Decrease e5, 1906 s3.G.2i6y5 sls:,u>5 10
'frmium.unie interest for lss6 estimated.
mot including some overdue inter st OIL
II ortgsge: thc principal sum hich i s2p lOJ and
whichi- al present the subject of litigation.
This progressive change in the material
strength of the finances of the Company
must of itself be satisfactory to our policy
hnllers
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
REPORT OF DIRECTORS
OF the uains nutaal Life Inslfiles
Company


The opening sentence Of our report to the
policy holders last year Is equally true this
year-Tbe business of the Union Mutual
Life Insurance Company for the year 1888.
viii bear favorable comparison in many of
its departments With the years 1886 and 1887,
years considered by many ~ exceptionally
prosperous-
Business PxoekEss.
The following table Of number of policies
aud amount Of insurance in force At the close
Of the years 1855, 1896. 1857 and 1888, and
Of premium receipts for the same period, ex-
hibi,. healthy and steady growth;
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30

During the pas, year the Company has sold Real
E-t .te for sgp. .5f1 ~
shich was carried op the books at p-.sa2 W
Profit book value of t7Ot 20
since January lat. is?-, and to the close of lsss
the sales Of Real Estate by the Company have
amounted 10 s3,sts. sf4 IL
which WIS charged on the book at the
end OF the year prt cedng the respective
sales at 3asl7s.-D
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
sgD,2l.is


Wiilr the gross premium receipts OF the
Cumpanv IA l-s- we're s23 .1i2 % greater
than IN So, the actual increase Of cash re-
ceip,s from premiums ia issS over 1889 vas
s4I4l4U7 The difference between these
sums represents the decrease in the amount
of premium. on policies for pald-up insurance
IN l,-s a- compared with lsSl-being signal
evidence of tht Increased popularity of the
Company amor It's policy holders showing
As il does a mark ii decline in the demand for
paid-up policies, ard large increase in pre-
miums paid, This int Tease of business has
q, .n accomplished without an great Increase
of expenses in 1883 over the year preceding
PAYNESTs TO PoLI, Y-HoLDERs
Pay mett- TO polcp holders for the year
wrre as follows
lltnih O-ses, -fv"|'p
Maurrd Endorsements,
Discounted DO ldur lss- w 0p 90
surrendered I.ris. " ,tti Is
Divide nd, Jsssht
Annuitis- sh'-<|
Total s6Yo. = ! 10
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
Making a profit difference of

Making proht difference of si7.6s5se
These large sales of real estate at prices in
advance of what it was valued in the Com
pany's assets are no, only remarkable as
showing the conservative values placed upon
the properties already sold but they also con
,titute reliable criterion as TO the carefulness
with which the asset value has been com
puted upon the property remaining unsod.
REAL EsrArE, How ACQUIRED.
This real estate was a legacy from the
former administration, Not single piece of
real estate, at present owned by the Company
is from loans made by the present admins
tration.
WESTERN Real ESTATE Loans
In view of the recent experience of one of
the larger Life Insurance Companies, it is
proper to say that in July, 1876, at the be-
ginning of the present administration it WAS
found that the practice of our Company, as
we'll (we believe) as of others. was. when
making real estate loans, to have agents in
the west with whom the real estate mortgage
securities of the Company were deposited.
such sgents having power TO release the Sc
curities when they saw fit, receive payment
of the loans aud surrender the evidences
thereof to the borrowers.
The form of the security was generally bv
trust deed. in which the financial sgent was
made the trustee. These arrangements orig
mated from the idea that they were necessary
for toe convenience of the borrowers
Within few months after July, 1876, this
Company changed the whole of this arrange
ment and the securities were brought to the
Home office. kept there under the control of
the directors the money for new loans was
made payable at the Home ofiice, except in 3
few cases and in those, special arrangement.
we're made for their collection In no case
is any mortgage discharged, nor trust deed
released. without the express vote of the
Finance Committee.
We have abandoned the trust deed plan
also, ard our loans are row on mortgages
made directly to the Company, or assigned
10 il; go that it has the record of title in its
own name.
1t is now impossible for any snm of money 4
coming from a loan to accumulate in the Z
hands of any person, and so be diverted to
his personal use and benefit.
CHICAGO USIvERsIrY.
As We are about to close our report to the
the following dispatch was
-
CHICAGO. ILLINOIS January goth, 1853.
We have won suit of Douglass heirs in the
supreme Court This mornings Tribune
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
Soose Directorg.

A uGuSTA LODGE NO iAl Y. b A. N. Special
n Communication Tuesday evening, Jan. -, AT
7.31 O'Clock. Work in third degree.
All Masons sojourning in the city are cordially In
vited to attend.
&C. HUNT, W. NJ.
MELVILLE SMITH. Secy.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30

10 rust out. or rot out. or tumble over.
There 10 nothing 80 old. but that some-
en~ wants 1t at some price
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30

As We remarked last year, the policy pur-
sued by the present administration As out
lined above, has been directed to inherent con-
solidstion. and that end having been attained
il is intended to apply future energies largely
to the procuratlon OF new business; which
in its turn means increased assets, ETC., and
the state ments Of the company herewith ap-
pended show how fully this expectation has
been realized by the business done by the
Company in 1888.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1889-01-30
FURNITURE.

psrhap. .om. shro"n-by article. OF
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
SLIGHTLY MIXED

A Yorkshire woman's Peculiar Prayer for
Her Sick Husband.
The extent to which the ordinary
services of the church are understood
by the poor is not easy to determine
without special inquiry, and yet some
times the clergy come upon alarming
proofs that things are not quite so clear
as they suppose them to be. 1t is not
so long ago since Yorkshire incum-
bent, dwelling in valley where the
people are supposed to be particularly
long-headed. told me of a mournful ex-
perience which befell him when visiting
sick parishioner. The Yorkshireman
was ill, very i'll, but doggedly opposed
to spending a penny upon the doctor.
He had found he thought, a more eX-
cellent way, and was accordingly con-
Quoting, with very alarming result.
some experiments upon his con-
stitution. Excessive devotion to a
cheap but far from innOcuOus quack
medicine was fast bringing him to a
state in which medical aid and the in
fallible pill would be alike superfluous.
My dear Mrs. -" said the vicar to
his obstinate parishioner's wife, '.your
husband is really killing himself with
those pills. It's a case of suicide-a
downright SIM" Eyes, SIR" replied
the fearful partner; Il know it, and
many's the time I've prayed against it
in the church service" 'In the church
service?" said the vicar, a little doubt
fully; 'you mean when We pray for the
sick?" ''Oh, no. SIR" was the reply;
II mean where we always say in the
litany-isn't it?-.From all false doc
toring good Lord deliver us!"-Corn-
hill Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
.oN TO THE cITA0ELw
Progress In the March Of Woman Toward
Higher Education.

Progress In the March OF woman reward
Higher Education.
Columbia College is to have an ''an-
mex" for women. The trustees have at
last agreed to plan for an annex upon
the following conditions: That the
college for women shall have the same
professors and instructors as Columbia
College; that there shall be no dormo-
tories or sleeping-apartments for the
girls in the college buildings, or in the
immediate neighborhood of Columbia
College; that the college for women
shall meet its own expenses, not re-
quiring any money from Columbia Col
lege for its support, and that the trus-
tees of the new college shall be ap-
proved by the trustees of Columbia
College. The three ladies who have
been most active in forwarding the
idea of an annex are Mrs. Alfred
Meyer. Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood,
and Mrs. F. j. M. Merrill; and the
consent of the trustees having been
obtained, the work of obtaining the
necessary money and arranging details
concerning the courses of study. classes.
and the site of the college. buildings, is
now being pushed forward rapidly. As
a nucleus for the new college, there are
at present thirty young women taking
the regular college courses, who are
| obliged to obtain their instruction out
side of the college, not being allowed to
attend recitations with the young men.
but who are obliged to pass the same
examinations.
This concession is the reply to twelve
years rapping at the doors of Columbia
College. Sorosis, in December, 1876,
presented memorial to the board Of
trustees of the college, asking that
young women should be admitted to
the college classes. The memorial.
after discussion, was laid on the
table by a unanimous vote. Three
years later a motion that the statutes
of the college should be changed as not
to prohibit the attendance of women on
certain courses of lectures, under GER
| tain conditions, were refused.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

"Then if you go, remember that
love you; that no other woman's face
will ever charm me; that my life will
be vacant tedium until see you
again."
Silence
"For Gods sake speak! Am / to ut
terly lose you out of my life?" There
was a pause. I trembled.
II will write to you if you wish"
"My bright lady! Thank you! Then
you are not Indifferent this has not
been mere freak"
"Mr. Millet."
eyes"
"Does it occur to you that you are
accusing me of immodesty?"
What do you meanP"
'Do you think l would heedlessly in
dulge in a .freak?'"
Then your interest in me. your pity
for me has been sincere. Tell me that
may hope"
my Aunt! You may hope, Mr..
Millet. Good night"
saw her no more, but in few days
got her address, in letter which con-
tanned nothing else.
don't know how she managed it but
some way, during those long months
that I stared at the bleak window OPP
posite, with its ragged handful of dead
flowers, she broke the story to her
aunt, and in the spring l married her.
She didn't care for city life. and so l
went back to the little town again
where had grown up.
You have no idea how the old house
looks! 1t is as gay as a bachelor who
has fallen in love in his dotage. Some
way or other the sunlight has been let
in everywhere, and there are boxes of
nasturtiums growing in the dining
room windows, and in Salinas old
room there is little cradle.
Oh dear old Salina, l wish you could
see what bright, gay creature it is
that plants the pansies about your
grave! And she always sings as she
does it, Salina, till she transfgures
death for me!
Why Salina, even the larches no
longer look sad!
ELLA w. PEATTIE.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
SWEET POTATOES.

What . Large Cultivator Has to Say
About Their Value ~ . Food for stock.
Those farmers in the West and South
who raise grain and stock should GER
tainly raise sweet potatoes to feed their
stock in connection with grain. Aside
from their fat and fesh-forming ma
terials they exercise a cooling intiu-
ence on the system, materially reduc-
ing the chances of disease. From three
to six times as many bushels per acre
can be grown as of corn, thus making
them the cheapest to raise. They can
be easily grown on almost any kind of
soil where water does not stand at any
time, but on low land the ridges should
be made quite high, and plants OF the
Golden Queen and Red Bermuda set at
least two feet apart on the ridge. The
above kinds are the most productive
and are excellent varieties for the table.
A large cultivator says that fed with
third potato and two-thirds
corn-to hogs, and given nothing but
water to drink, they increased in
weight much faster than others which
had their feed of corn supplemented
with the milk and Stops from the
kitchen. The analysis of sweet potato
shows 60 2 per cent. of starch and 14.S
per cent. of sugar, which is proof
enough OF their value as food prod
uct.
At this time, more than ever before,
the profits of the farm depend upon
the economical methods and in its
management. The low price of most
all kinds of farm produce makes it
absolutely necessary for the farmer to
look for the cheapest way to produce
the same.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ABROAD.
The Condition of Affairs I'm France-Pro.
gress I'm Business and Education.

The Condition of Affairs I'm France-Pro-
gress in Business and Education.
The ''woman question" is making at
last stir in France, all the greater for
the length of time it has been STAYED
off. 1t is only within two or three
years that there has been a decided ris-
ing against conventual education-a
custom so long established that 'leav-
ing the convent has become in French
a synonym for finishing a girls educa-
ton. At this moment the public is Oc-
pied with the attempts of women 10 en-
ter the learned professions. The Pa
risians were startled a short time ago
by the application of a girl in Brussels.
who had taken her degree in law, for
admission to the bar, which the court
denied. More recently in Paris very
pretty and very clever Mile. Schultze
read thesis, when graduating at the
Medical School, on the practice of med
icine by women. She had been a very
brilliant student, and her thesis was
very able, and was listened to with
great interest by crowded audience.
DR.. Charcot, famed for his expert
ments in hypnotism, answered her,
denying most of her conclusions,
but complimenting her highly, in
thoroughly French fashion, on her
beauty. The public is, however, appar-
emily on her side. DR.. Charcot COM
planned that women doctors did not
want to serve in the lower grades of
the profession. that they would not
doctor quietly in country villages, but
insisted on competing with the men in
the great cities, where the profession
is already overcrowded; to which the
Temps replies very aptly. that if women
doctors cling to the cities, men doctors
do the same thing, in spite of the over
crowding. Conservatives are still
further alarmed by bill now before
the Chambers giving women who are
at the head of business houses the right
to vote at the election Of the judges of
the tribunals of commerce who pass on
disputed points arising out of business
transactions They do not object
seriously to the simple proposal that
such women should vote, but they use
against it the entering wedge" argu-
ment, and insist that it will end in wo-
men sitting as judges, which all seem
to agree would be q scandal; at least
this is the conclusion we draw from the
answer Of the Temps, that this is some
thing which would never happen,
though why it would not happen does
not appear. Y. Evening Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01

stern-looking dwellings. till it seemed
to methat should cry out against these
barren walls of stone. and gathering a
gigantic strength from my misery, top
pie them down and sit like titan
among their ruins, triumphant
But being a young man who. at my
best, weighed only one hundred and
fifty pounds, was obliged to forego
any such heroic pleasure, and to con-
ten: myself by sympathizing with
Yankee Doodle in his complaint
that she couldn't see the town. there
were so many houses.
So was best pleased to sit by my
window and read, for whole world of
literature had been opened to me when
/ discovered the Sea Side Library,
whose volumes purchased and kept
casefully piled on my little table.
Across the way and on an exact level
with my window-no, mistake, a very
little above my window-was a box of
nasturtiums at whose brilliant bios
SONS was never tired of looking. This
box stood on the window ledge, and out
of its corners grew a most ambitious
vine which had made its way up the
side of the windows in so luxuriant
manner that il left but little room for
the yellow silk curtains to be visible in.
Sometimes an uncaged parrot came and
perched on the ledge and gave his fam
tastic colors to the completion OF the
gay scene. The window was an odd
one, Moorish in design-as even a per-
son unskilled in architecture could dis
cover it to be, and l used to sit and
wonder what sort OF a person lived
back of all this splendor. For what
with the deep-hued nasturtiums, all
saffron and scarlet. and the parrot all
green and red, and the swaying yellow
curtains, not to mention huge Flem-
ish pitcher that stood there,
the window was wonder
of color in that quiet and severe street
otherwise showed little but linen shades
and inside blinds. Indeed, some
times thought that street must be an
asylum for deaf and dumb houses, so
lacking in vivacity was its aspect
One night finished my dinner ear
lier than was my custom, and finding
that had still few minutes of leisure
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
Woman's Rule.

Rev. DR.. Benjamin Akerly. the VEN
cradle Episcopalian minister of Oak
land, said, the other evening, to q
young lady from New York: "In look
ing over my career, find that have
been ruled by a woman all my life. When
! was a boy my mother ruled me. when
/ got married had to do as my wife
wished, and now / find that am not
independent of my daughters COM
mands." "And yet you seem to have
survived pretty well under their tyran-
meal sway" remarked the young lady.
Indeed have, said DIR. Aker.y; land
were to confess l should say that had
l always followed their sound advice l
should have made fewer mistakes in
life. San Francisco Paper.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
SORROW IN THE. NIGHT.


Night. solemn Night noiseIess tby shadow
falls.
While earth grows still. and moving forms re
tire
Not sorrow thus This ,s INV time tn roam.
From giare OF iav I hide these named eyes;
In this dim Iipbt NAV 90 forth to weep,
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LII =. nes 'orpiu IN soiiic secict plaoe
III, LII spIihg =, returns 70 Nakeh !. 70 me
linus 10 al weary hs,h9 Innings rePose,
aoucneu ny lne oiea'h Oh tue KIM ansoi S,eop'
no colneln nshtly 70 iran nhor'a WITH
Du' AN: whither sna AM 20 lor res1.
ny ny hane - oorIoN- PEEP conies not " me
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-02-01
GOOD eREeplNe STOCK.


Essentiais Necessary to Building Up
Trade In BioOded Animals.
IN order to make success of breed
ing and raising stock to sell again as
breeders. it is not only necessary to
have good stock. but he must build up
reputation for his stock and himself.
His stock may be of the very best kind.
and yet If he has not been able to build
up reputation for honesty and fair
dealing, he will find it somewhat diff
cult to build up good trade.
tits not only necessary that he should
own good stock, but he must be able
to make and breed so that the offspring
that he may secure will not only be Of
fully as good quality as the parents,
but he must be able to still further
transmit these good qualities to his Off
spring. The appearance of his is not
always a criterion of this, and
this is one reason why it
is so necessary to deal with
only reliable parties. The purchaser
of improved stock generally makes an
investment that he expects to be profit
able. Nearly all kinds of breeding
stock are sold at prices considerably
above the average market prices, con-
sidering every thing else to be equal,
except as for breeders.
In determining question OF this
kind the reliability and honesty of the
breeder becomes very important
item, as it is the purchasers principal
reliance for securing good breeding
stock. And the breeder who has start
ed out with the intention OF securing,
or rather of building up trade. must
be honest with his customers, or in a
short time he will find himself unable
to make sales at any thing like fair
price. A reputation for honesty is at
the foundation Of success with the
breeders, and if any thing like last
ing business is secured it is absO-
lutely essential. 1t is true that occa-
sionally breeder will be able by sharp
practices to seemingly make success
for some time, but he IS certain to be
overtaken at last; while on the other
hand. reputation for honesty and fair
dealing will grow, and the longer the
better, so that the reputation. or the
name itself, will be quite an item.
-Des Moiues Leader.