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Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1890-03-06
ANNUAL STATEMENT.

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81, AID. IFS.
OF the Condition and AFFAIRS OF the State Insurane.
Co. Of Des Moines. organized under the laws ~
the state of Iowa. male TO the Auditor of q.
State OF south Dakota, in pursuance of the isss
of said state. q
President Hon, o. b. Ayres
Vice President ~. X, Love.
Secretary. J, G. Cummins.
Assistant Secretary. II. A. Elliott.
Principal Ohice 2l9. 22l and 223 ith street Des
Moines.
Attorneys for Service OF Process in the State of
South Dakota:
LIST Judicial Circuit--S. J. Lewis, vermillion
Clay County,
"a Judicial Circuit-J. .. Allen Sioux Falls. Min
nehaha County.
3d Judicial Circuit-G @. Griffin, Clark, Clark
County.
4th Judicial Circuit. @. Read, White Lake
Aurora County,
9th Judicial Circuit--C. c. Fletcher. Aberdeen
Brown County,
9Th Judicial Circut-Jno n. baldwin, st. Law.
renee, Hand County.
Organized or Incorporated September 1865
Commenced business October 1868.
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1890-03-06

VII. .ifsloho,
Gross amount Of risks taken
during the year 1883. 2
Gross amount OF risks taken In
the State Of south Dakota
during the year 1889. .......
Whole amount of risks out.
standing, but many are void
because of past due notes. -.
Whole amount Of losses incurr-
ed during the year 1889. in
cluding those claimed and
not yet due, e,............-.
Whole amount OF losses incurrd
during the year 1859. includ-
ing those claimed and not
yet due, in the State of South
DAKOTA. ..........
Number of Agents in the State
Of South Dakota-i02
Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1890-03-06

VI INCOfEDJKINH TIE 1EAN ISoA
Whole Amoant OF cash premiums
ceived. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. oUJSe' W
Whole amount of cash premiums re-
ceived on policies written ia
the state Of South Dakota SllbD 50
Whole amount of interest
money received ......... l6sS3 81
Whole amount of income
ceived from all other
sources, rents,..,.... bb12 w
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
Electric Cigar-Lighters.

An enterprising restaurant proprietor
has made novel application of cleo
tricity, namely, to the lighting of cigars.
On the top of the case in which the
cigars are kept stands little oblons
machine. 1t has the usual sockets con.
tanning methylated spirits and torches,
and on its summit is little square pro
lection. To light his cigar the smoker
takes one of these torches, sees that il
is we'll slaked in the spirit, and touches
it sharply against the projection, which
instantly emits volley of sparks and
sets the end of the torch ablaze- The
current comes from electric wires "
above. from which couple of light
wires run down to the quaint little in
strument-i2 hicsgo Inter Ocean
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
PASSPORTS IN RUSSIA.
without One of Them You Can Not Liv
in the Cars Dominions,

without One of Them You Can Not Live
in the Cars Dominions.
You can not enter or leave city OF
town in the Empire without reporting
yourself to the police like ticket-of-
leave man; you are forbidden to extend
the hospitality of your roof to your
friend or neighbor for single night
without first informing the police Of
your intentions and sending them your
guests passport; whether you are a
Russian or foreigner, you can no more
spend a night in a hotel or change your
lodgings even for twenty-four hours
without communicating with the police
and sending them your passport than
you can bespeak rooms in the Winter
Palace. Nay, whether you are Rus
sian subject or foreigner, you can not
possibly exist without passport, which
is such an essential part of your being
that Russian lawyers have not inappro-
priately defined man as an animal
composed of three parts-a body, soul
and passport. This passport you must
have renewed once year, unless you
are noble or an honorary citizen, and
the process is as tedious and painful as
molting is to birds. A voluminous cor
respondence and pile of documents
with copies, petitions and fifteen sup
plements was the result of the attempt
of man named Dudinsky, in the Gov
eminent of Smolensk, to renew his pass
port two years ago. And yet his papers
were in order, his conduct irreproach-
able, and his right 10 have his passport
renewed was not even called in ques.
ton. These obstacles and irritations
make ones soul weary of life, and ex'
plain why in the course of one year in
st. Petersburg alone IA, 799 persons were
arrested and imprisoned for not having
complied with the passport laws. Many
of these wretched creatures may be nov
on their way to Siberia.-Fortnightl.
/ Review
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
MISS MARION FOSTER.
The Patient and Talented Invalid Arts
in Her Boudoir.

The Patient and Talented Invalid Artist
in Her Boudoir.
Marion Foster, the sweet, pathetic
littlo invalid artist, who has had such a
wonderful career, lives at the Sturtevant
HOUSE, in cunning room which she has
had arranged in such way that her
friends call it "her fiat"
The whole room is about the size of a
large Turkish rug-narrow and not very
long-and the wardrobe is placed as a
partition between a believe hall
and a bed, so that the space beyond rep
resents her ''parlor." Here, surrounded
by pictures and photographs and bric-a-
brac, sits the dear, gifted little artist in
her invalid's chair, smiling, animated
and cheerful as if she was not one of the
most afflicted of the human race.
do you suffer pain, or are you mere
ly lame?" we asked of her.
81 never know what it is to draw a
breath without PAIN" replied the sweet,
delicate lips, with pathetic smile.
"Since my last of series of accidents
in ST. have been a constant sufferer.
Last August, in the hottest week of the
year, l had piece of bone taken out of
my spine, the result of that fall at Sara
toga, when child ran into my chair as
my maid was wheeling me along the
street / can not take step, you know
i could as easily carry the world on
my shoulders as walk one step"
Yet this is the artist who has made
portraits of the Flood family in Cali
fornia, of Mr.. Belasco, Patel, Albani,
Mary Anderson and scores of other we'll
known people. In her room we saw a
finished pastel of one of the most beau
tiful women in America-an exquisite
piece of work.
81 am busy, but / need to be, you
know" she said, with her angelic smile
"My expenses are, of course, great, as
must have maid to wait upon me, and
must live where there is an elevator.
can not live upon ground floors on ac
count of the dampness and can not &c
up and downstairs.
absurd stories of my having falleI
heir to immense fortunes have been /;
bar to my progress in art" she contin
ued. ''People have imagined me roll
ing IN wealth, and have given thei
orders to others, whom they believe,
needed them more. Why, after one ex
travagant and groundless report of tina
kind received no orders for half year
and was frightened to death for fear
would be without work always; but
began to come in again gradually, an
glad enough was to be busy once more.
Miss Foster has beautiful face and
most angelic expression, and bears he
sufferings with remarkable fortitude
She is cousin of Ex-Governor Foster
of Ohio, and her family is one Of tn
Oldest in the State.
She has supported an aged mother an
an invalid father for years by the brus
which she Yields so skillfully in her de
icate hand.-N Y. journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
COCOANUTS IN FLORIDA.
Cocoanuts, as Well as Oranges and Man
goes, VIII Yet Flourish in Florida

Cocoanuts, as Well as Oranges and Man
goes, VIII Yet Flourish in Florida.
The cocoanut culture seems to have a
good future in this country. Some time
ago our Consul in Manila sent different
varieties of that fruit to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and Prof. H. e.
Van Deman, the efficient chief of the
Division of Pomology, had them, by
order of Secretary Rusk, distributed in
the southern part of Florida, as expert
ence has shown that the climate and
soil of that part of the State is we'll
adapted for the development of that de-
licious fruit.
The same department recently re-
ceived six varieties of the grated trees
of the choicest mangoes from Bombay,
India, which were also sent to Southern
Florida. This is the first time any of
the choice varieties of this fruit have
been introduced. There is no fruit even
in the East Indies that is more highly
priced than the best varieties of the
mango, and this country is to be con-
graduated upon the introduction of it
here.
At this occasion will remark that tho
Department of Agriculture, which has
received new impulse under the direc-
tion of Secretary Rusk, is doing all in
it's power to improve agriculture in this
country, and considerable attention is
paid to fruit-growing, with great sue
cess. Prof. Van Deman is pomologist
of long experience, upon whom our
fruit-growers look as an authority, and
the thousands of inquiries which are
sent to him during the year are all
promptly answered with valuable ad-
vice.-E. Stephan, Washington.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
PETERTOWN COURTSHIP.
4 BIT from Real Life, with Apologies to
william Dean Howells.

Bit from Real Life, with Apologies 20
william Dean Howells.
snow, you, Bob SIMPSON,
"What m doingP
ooh, you know"
81 don't, either"
"Oh, you big story-teller-stop|
''Stop what?"
"You know very we'll"
"No, / don't"
ooh, Bob Simpson, amt you 'fraid
you'll go to the bad place for telling
such ascfd stories? Stop, now!"
81 amt doing any thing"
"Aw-w-w"
81 anti"
"Where you got your arm9"
where l want it. y
'You ought to be so asha-a-a-
amedp'
"Pooh! What OPP
"Oh, you know-now take your arm
right away"
81 shan't"
"What if l call paw and maw?'
Huh! No danger of that"
81 will, tooI'
Lets hear YOU"
saw! What if somebody should see
you with your arm there?''
'Pooh! / wouldn' care"
I'D be so asha-a-a-amedr'
"Humph! What's the matter of me
putting my arm around you if want to?''
at amt nice; and you just shaa't, SO
therer'
Cant help yourself"
SRI call paw"
"You said that once"
"Go way, you dreadful thing! Qua
hdt, now!"
''Quit what?"
cav, you know"
mo, don't"
Trying to lass me!'
81 wasn't either, but will now"
mo, you shdnt'"
"We1l see-here goesl"
"Aw-oh-go 'way!-stop.-qait that
aw!-tee heel-guit!-aw y0ui"
"Ah, ha-kissed you nine times"
"You dreadful horrid thing Now III
never speak to you againF'-Zenas Dane
/ in Puck.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
DON'T. Cor Female shoppers.

Don't carry pocket-book in your
hand.
Don't carry pocket-book in very
losse pocket which hangs away from the
person.
Don't lay your handbag, containing
your pocket-book, on the counter of a
store while you walk across the DOM to
examine goods
Don't wear a watch in a pocket on OUT
side of dress.
Don't wear ehatelaine watches.
Don't judge strangers BY their dress
Don't stand long in the same spot in .
eroWd.--Poston Transcript.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
A MEXICAN PARADISE.
The Alleged Discovery of Gorgeous An
cient Temple.

Client Temple.
At one side of Gold avenue in Alamo,
Just above the Montezuma mine, may
be seen an old Mexican dry-washer
named Don Mariana Salazar. He is
very industrious, thoroughly under
stands the business of dry-washing, and
his gains during the six or eight months
he has been at Alamo must have been
considerable. During the summer he
went over to Mexican gulch, but says
he has done much better in Alamo,
where he is now, by scraping the bed
rock and running the dirt through his
machine, making from $3.50 to half
ounce per day. He made his dry
washer, which is a small affair, himself,
and was really the parent of that kind
of business here. He never goes near
the water to clean up, but simply
emp'ies his machine into blanket, and
with his gold pan sits his dirt out in
less time than it would take an ordinary
man to carry out the operation with
water.
! Don Mariana, who is native of
Sonora, was years ago miner in the
Real del Castillo, Zaragoza, Yuma and
other points north of here. making and
selling many machines to the Yuma In
dams. About five years ago he made a
trip down the peninsula on the ocean
side, returning by the gulf, and his adj
ventures, if he should reduce them to
urfai III u.bi nb ha 10 1Nln Of Atno- ~,
Spanish, would make an interesting
volume. A day or two since he told a
wonderful story about finding the ruins
of an ancient temple on the gulf side,
somewhere in the vicinity of San
Borja, three or four hundred miles down
the peninsula. He says he was placer
mining at Calmilli during the first ex
element there, and in company with
two Frenchmen undertook to pass ovel
high range of mountains which was
supposed to be impossible. Owing to 9
scarcity of water at Calmilli they trav
eled all day and the next night by moon
light, and when nearly exhausted the,
encountered what appeared to be tw'
small lakes of clear water. and plunged
in it to quench their thirst. The waite
was salt, but they were so thirsty tina
they drank until they vomited and wer'
Frustrated by exhaustion. Afterwar'
they recovered sufficiently to max
their way back to the mines. and tn
Frenchmen did not care to make an
further explorations in that direction.
Don Mariana afterward returned t
San Borja, and from ranch called {
Rey started out to cross the gulf rang
at another point. This time he says b
was successful beyond his expectation:
and after passing the divide came into
veritable Garden of Eden on a smal
scale. In a valley mile or so wide an
three or four miles long he found grow
! ing wild in the greatest profus1o
oranges. grapes, pears, guaTaS dates an
s-aits the like u watch be had Revs
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The University of Wisconsin lately
received $40, 900 by the will of the late
Judge jackson, of Madison, to endow a
law professorship.
Rev. T. P. Sanford, full-blooded
negro, who was born slave in Virginia,
has recently been appointed the pastor
of a Baptist church in Birmingham, Eng.
The coax Cliff Female Institute" at
Dallas Tex, is new college for girls,
which will accommodate five hundred
students. 1t is under Methodist au-
spices.
The students of Evelyn College, the
women's college at Princeton, N. j..
have adopted orange and white as their
college colors, in contrast to Princeton's
orange and black.
"A Methodist church in Alpharetta,
Ca, recently expelled flor heresy) four
women who had adopted Seventh Day
Baptist views as to the keeping holy OF
Saturday and the humiliation of the
wicked.
According to the Philadelphia Press,
Mr.. Flagler, of the Standard Oil Com
pany has spent $500, 900 this last year in
church building, dividing his favors
among the Presbyterians, Methodists,
Episcopalians and Roman Catholics.
The First Congregational Church Of
Chelsea, Mass, lately celebrated it's CEN
tennial. Reminiscent and historical adj
dresses were delivered by former pas
tors, and many old-time members from
other States attended the exercises.
The Bishop of st. Asaph's, in Wales,
appeals to English churchmen to aid the
clergy of his diocese, whose resources
have been nearly cut off by the 1.-THE
agitation. starvation" he says, sis
an ugly word, but it represents the con-
dition to which several of the Welsh
clergy have been reduced"
AT Charlottesville, Ind, the other
day the members of the city school
board presented Miss Nellie Constant
with handsome set of Tennyson's
works. Miss Constant attended the
Charlottesville schools for eleven years
without being absent or tardy single
time, and the presentation was made on
that account
-Edison's photograph has found a
new application at the Milwaukee Col
lege, where it will be used as an assist.
ant in teaching the French and other
foreign languages. In giving lesson
the teacher reads it before the phono
graph, at the same time addressing the
pupils and the lesson is reproduced
whenever wanted.
In Japan there are thirty-onc
schools of medicine, one of dentistry
and two of veterinary surgery. The
University of Toxic (the imperial uni
versity) has over twelve hundred stu
dents, and an average of one hundred
medical students graduate yearly. II
Toxic alone there are numerous activ'
medical societies and over twenty hos
pitfalls.
This story is told by Cornell stu
dent of President White and the colleg
football team of IA. A match had BEEF
arranged between the elevens of Cornell
and Rochester universities and ii wa
, to take place in Geneva. When the car
tain of the Cornell team called upo
President White for permission to go t
i, Geneva, "What, go all that distance t
kick bag of wind" President Whit
exclaimed. 'Never, gentlemen, wit
my permission. just think and you'll
: see that it is ridiculous to go kicking
: bag around ten-acre lot. Then
think of going fifty miles to do It'll" Tn
game did not take place.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
TIE HORSE.
II You Want Good Service From Your
Horse Care For Him.

II You Want Good Service From Your
Horse Care For Him.
To take the utmost care of the horse
should be fixed rule for every farmer,
and standing order for every hired
man who has to do with the horses. The
old saying: "a merciful man is merciful
to his beast" is no doubt true, and a
piece of philosophy sustained by the OBJ
servation and experience of the ages.
But this is hardly enough to meet the
case with those who have, perhaps, sew
eral horses or teams, and the care Of
which is left to hired help. The beast
is not "his," and in cases where he
might be a fairly good-tempered man he
becomes thoughtless and careless about
the covering of the horse or horses. Our
point is that the owner must provide
good blankets, and make the command
imperative, with a penalty, that they be
used.
We go much further than the merci-
full argument. Many owners Of horses
have been brought up, or have ''ceme
up" in way to have no feeling for their
animals. The idea that a horse should
actually suffer from the cold, would
strike them as absurd, or at least as I'M
important. Such men often have one
sensitive spot. 1t is the pocket. Prove
to them that blanketing will save them
expense of grain and hay, and, there
fore, much more than pay the additional
expense IN the costs of the blankets,
and you will touch a more responsive
chord than that of pity for the SILVER
ing animal. But this fact and prin-
ciple have been established in thous-
ands of instances. Again is goes with
out saying that the actual value of the
animal is increased by keeping him in
good order and good appearance. such
| as results from careful blanketing.
To lose a good horse is great loss t.
any man; often it is felt more than tbs
mere loss of the money value. But how
many horses take cold and die from tn.
effects of neglect properly to blanket
Other diseases are easy developed il
connection with or as result of cold
/ q geod blanket then, rightly used. i
N tina nature Of an insurance policy aaE
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06

found in Sonora. Near the center OF
the valley were the ruins of an ancient
temple, one side of which was standing,
with arches and style of architecture
different from any thing ever found
about any of the old missions. In the
courtyard above a stone platform were
suspended three large copper bells and
a great deal of metal, some made into
vessels and some in crude state, was
scattered about. Salazar thinks themeta1
was bronze. He says he spent several
days in this strange valley eating the
best of fruit to his hearts content, and
looking in vain for human inhabitants
or traces of dead ones. Finally he made
his way to the gulf and resumed his
prospecting journey northward. Alamo
| Lower California; Nugget.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
/ A MAID.
Zen Require of Their
Attendants.

RSittenudHtss
Va lads maid, says one
e almost constant, if sell
Dsavy. One may have leisure for
18alf day or scarcely get breathing
spell of ten minutes in twenty-four
hours. There is not great deal OF
variation. | get up at seven o'clock in
the morning, and am through my bath
and toilet in time for breakfast at eight
o'clock. Immediately afterward / take
pot of chocolate and the morning
papers to my mistress, and while she
drinks the chocolate | read from the
papers aloud. Her mail is brought up at
nine O'Clock and | manicure her hands
while she reads it. Then prepare her
bath, and afterward arrange her hair
and dress her for her ten o'clock break
fast.
While the chambermaid is doing up
her room | arrange her toilet brushes
and boxes and get out her afternoon
dress. / have my dinner at noon. If
my mistress fells like mapping after
luncheon | read her to sleep. If she
goes shopping usually accompany her.
| At three ! dress her for her afternoon
drive, and at six for dinner. / have
supper at seven, and the evening is gem
orally my own, but / go to bed early
when my mistress is out because when
she comes home / have to undress her.
brush out her hair, give her cup of hot
Douillon and read her to sleep. Brush
ing, mending and making over her
dresses, attending to her laces and look
ing after her linen take up most OF my
spare time. Sunday afternoon | always
have to myself, and altogether | am
very well satisfied. Ladies who require
the attendance of maids have to treat
them with certain degree of considera-
ton in order to keep them.
Once | lived with woman who would
not open her eyes in the morning until
had bathed them with rose water and
who compelled me to brush her teeth
for her. | found out that before her
marriage she did all the houseworll for
her father and family of several chill
dren, and the discovery SO irritated me
that | soon conjured up pretext fol
leaving her.
The ladys maid in most households
ranks with the housekeeper and butler
and is not required to eat in the kitchen
Her average pay is S25 month, but i
she fulfills all requirements the very
wealthy often give her $50, or ever
more. If she is capable dressmake
and milliner 1t is positive economy t.
retain her at high wages. Englisl
maids who have lived with the aristoc
racy are the first choice with New Yorl
women at present They are able t.
give points. All the Vanderbilts hav
maids who have lived in the families O
English noblemen, and as much may b
said with slight limitations of the AS
J tors, Lorillards and other families
Mrs. William Waldorf Astors persona
attendant formerly waited upon tn
Queen of Italy, and Mrs. w. X. Wander
bilt has one who served with Lad
Churchill.
Recently ladys maid was discharge,
because she was mistaken for her mis-
, tress when the two were out together
Another was sent flying because she az
cidentally pulled her mistress hal
while brushing it. A third discharge
: herself because her mistress insiste
that she should administer hypodermi
injection Of morphine every night
Y. Cor. N. 0. Picayune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06
song has made.
Don the window
Inc - sy gleam-
Its brilliafSl so sunny
VIII make home brighter SEEM.

Theb Isy gleam-
Its brilliaflsl so sunny,
VIII make hSme brighter seem.
Don't scorn the little Arab
You pass upon the street,
In livery torn and tattered,
With bare, blue boyhood's feet;
Perchance the whirl of fortune
That--in strange ways unknown
Yet, makes him money magnate,
May make Arabs Of your ownl
Don't grudge word in kindness
To the stranger passing by,
Nor give to wan and weary
But compositions paltry sigh;
Perchance the rule that's golden
Will teach, in lesson, too,
What meant the humble Master
We should to others do.
George E. Powell, in Inter Ocean
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1890-02-06

bCtocf. III
horse and &
scarcely ever 1dS(
your horse. In tite other case yoc
your horse and pyhbably he win increase
in value, while rendering constant and
valuable service.
Proper care of your horses at this sea-
son, and during the winter, requires
blanketing not only in the stable and at
night, but more imperatively when they
are left standing in harness. To be sure
most farmers take their stable-blanket
along when they are out driving in the
winter, They do not always remember
to do it at this season. We advocate two
sets of blankets, one for the stable and
one for out-of-door use. 1t is not abb
solutely necessary, but tits better. Then
If one set is kept in the wagon or buggy,
it is not forgotten or left behind, as is
often the case with the blanket
Dixie Farmer.