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Citizens Insurance Go.

OF PITTS RG, PENN.
Incorporated in March. l>i9.
Commenced Bus mess in March 1850
WM Il. JOHNSTON Pres. j r. sSIvELY. sec.
Capital paid up in Cash. 100000 90
ASSETS, DEC. 81. le90.
Real estate owned by the company
unincumherei sl06,o00 20
Loans on bond and mortgage first
Hens, 2s5--O 20
Stocks and bonds owned by the com
pany, market value. si3,O4s 90
Loans secured bv cnllaterals 81 Ia3 40
Cash in the company's principal office
and in bank. 2G.os6 sc
Interest due and accrued, 4ISl gt
Premiums in due course Of collection 217S 63
Aggregate of all the admitted assets OF
the company at their actual value. .54,072 20
LIABILITIES DEC. 81, 1890
Net amount of unpaid losses and
claims s23 $50 %
Amount required to safely re insure
a outstanding risks. I-254S IS
4 il other demands against the com
pany, viz. commissions, etc, 632Os4
TOlal amount of liabilities except
capital stock and net surplus, 202 40 AZ
Capital actually paid up in cash, $4,000 20
Surplus beyond capital. jl,f2I o
Aggregate amount of liabilities
including net surplus, s-4,0.2 90
GEO. II. GRANT, Agent.
3ws Ellsworth, Maine
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Mechanics 4 Traders InS. TO,
OF NEW ORLEANS, La
Incorporated in October, 1862.
Commenced Business in November, s6s
LLOYD r. COLEMAN, Pres. GEo II FRosr Sec
Capital paid up in cash, $4,000 %
ASSETS. DEC. 81, 1880.
Real estate owned by the company.
unincumbered, ss5,ssl IS
Loans bond and mortgage (fist
nens). 500 90
Stocks and bonds owned by the com.
pany, market value, 64o,sos rs
Loans secured by collaterals, ZOO 90
Cash in the company's principal Office
and in bank 1890 90
Due from other companies re insur-
ances on losses paid, S,5G- 10
Premiums in course of collection, 1854 ~
Bills receivable mot matured) for
premiums, $3.50 Dc
Aggregate OF all the admitted assets of
the company at their actual value, 7ss,slsI7
LIABILITIES, DEC.sl. 1890.
Net amount of unpaid losses and
claims, $li,1s4 OF
Amount required to safely rensure
all outstanding risks. 100 469 Is
Dividends remaining unpaid, 1880 90
All other demands against the com
pany, viz. tax and re-insur-
ances due other companies, 6,5s4 IS
Total amount of liabilities, except
capital stock and net surplus, 203,5s7 81
Capital actually paid up in cash, 1915, 600 90
Surplus beyond capital, 2O7y6ss rs
Aggregate amount Of liabilities
Including net surplus, 1S6sl6 IL
GEO. H. GRANT, Agent,
3ws Ellsworth, Maine.
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Commissioners Notice.

VIE the subscribers, having been appointed by
w the Hon. D. P. Cunningham, Judge OF FRO,
brate for the county of Hancock. 70 receive and
examine the claims of creditors To the estate OF d.
Augustine Merrill late of Bluehill, deceased, rep
resented nsolvent, do hereby give notice that SIX
months are allowed to said creditors 70 bring IN
and prove their claims and that we shall attend
that service at the office of Edward e. Chase In
said Bluehill. on the 4th day Of March, also ON the
10th day of June, A. D. lspl at ten O'Clock. A. II.
Signed,
MP. HINCKLEY.
". !. PARTRIDGE.
BIuehill, Dee. 10, isoo. 3ws
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ONLY A DIME!

Use Miss 0eecher's Hair 4 Whisker Dye.
1t contains no lead or sulphur. Washing not
required after dyeing as in other dyes. Wholesale
druggists pronounce it the best single preparation
ever brought to their notice. The largest bottle
and hest dive In the market. Used extensively by
ladies'. Price, 50 cents. Prepared only by G. W.
THOMPSON, ROcklsnd, Ne.
AWsoId BY al dealers. ayD'
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A coarse, harsh. il-natured voice
has no place on the farm or anywhere
else.
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Dental Notice.

For the benefit Of those wishing my profess onal
services, would announce that shall, in about
three months, leave tins city for an indefinite
period. During my absence my practice will be
conducted by my brother, DIR. Chas. ;. Bragdon,
who is now at the Philadelphia Dental College.
All those indebted to me will please settle their
accounts within sixty days.
GEO. W. BRAGDON.
Jan. Goth, 1891. 3mos4
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Hancock County, Pub. Co,

With the Americas. one year, for only $500
The price Of the FORUM alone is 500.
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,ANGOR LINE

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BANGOR LINE.
steamers will leave Buckspou weather per
hitting for ~carePort. Belfast, Camden. Rock.
land. and Boston, Mondays and THURSDAY at !
A. VI.
RETURNING.
From Boston, TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS Al L. NJ.
Prom Rockland. Wednesdays and saturday
At 4. NJ, touching AT intermediate landings
MOUNT DESERT LINE.
steamer 'ROCkLAND." Capt y. 4. saw ellie,
will leave Bar Iiarhor weather permitting, Mon
dAy~ and THURSDAYS at \. NJ, touching at North
east fIarbor, Southwest Harbor, swans Island and
Green's Landing and connecting at R"ckiand
with steaWff2, tex Bf2f7t2lla, ar. .,a.ul,4a,,
RETURNING.
From Boston. Tuesdays and Fridays at4 T. NJ.
From Rockland. Wednesdays and Saturdays
at about + 7. NJ, or upon arrival Of steamer
from Boston.
From sorrento, Monday, and Thursdays at :
=. VI.
f. :. J. MORSE, agent. Bar Paror, Msinc.
CHa> T.. WEEKS. Agent, R1Ckand Maine.
HENRY I. >ANBoR>, Agent, Bangor.
WILLIAM II. HILL. treucra4 Manager, Boston.
lii.
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Signal Corps. Assistant
Cambridge. Mass, Feb. 9TH, 1891
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Boston &Ba0gOr $500.

CHANGE IN TIME.
TWO TRIPS PER WEEk TO BOSTON.
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1.-The Ellsworth American
The Forum

With he American. one year. for only 50. so
Price of the UNION alone. $500.
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Feb n.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
Reciprocity and the Tariff Wall.

The Spanish-American Commercial
company recently held its annual meet
ing in Chicago. In reporting this meet
ing The Industrial World, high tariff
trade paper, remarks:
''Flattering reports were presented by
the officers as to the prospects for open
ing up the Spanish countries to the
products of American manufacturers
since the organization Of the company
one year ago. A great deal has been
done toward introducing the wares Of
American manufacturers to the Spanish
American merchants. The company has
the exclusive agency in South America,
Central America, Spanish West Indies
and Mexico for the goods of number of
Chicago's largest manufacturers. The
greatest competition comes from English
merchants who have been long estab-
hshed in that section. The superiority
of goods of American manufacture is so
apparent that the English dealers are
being driven from the field
1.-The long credit system which former
ly prevailed has been supplanted in a
great part by the short time and low
price plan Of our own manufacturers.
Reciprocity with Brazil has opened up
new market for the American manufac-
turer, and the company reports the re-
ceipt of many inquiries from that coun-
try, with every prospect of very large
trade resulting. Spanish-American pa
pers on file at the company's Office indi-
cate general desire on the part of the
South American nations for closer inter-
with he T-,nf+al =
1.-The officers Of the company are en-
thusiastic over the posi- bilities that lie
in the path of manufacturers of every
description OF goods, if the Spanish
American market is properly looked
after"
All of which reads very curiously in
the light of ex-Czar Reeds utterances on
reciprocity. Here is what he said:
As to reciprocity, that is an attempt
TO carry on commerce by diplomacy.
Two secretaries strike bargain with
each other for their respective states.
But the commercial world can only do
business on great commercial principles,
not on correspondence between state de-
partments. Then, again, if we must have
a tariff to protect our business in New
York city, how can we compete with the
same rivals after we have shipped our
goods to some distant republic in South
America? If we cannot compete on
equal terms here it is preposterous to
suppose that we can there. And it is
equally preposterous to suppose that our
neighbors viii keep up discrimination
against other nations in our behalf.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
Meaning of the Word Nosegay.

Here is an old derivation of the word
nosegay: AS to the latter part of the
word nosegay, it is so transformed in sight
and Specification that only such judicious
writer and etymologist as Cleland would
have traced it to its original" In his Celtic
vocabulary, page 2, be says: Gay. applied
to nosegay, comes from the Erse tongue. in
which geach signifies bough or bunch of
flowers, which might be held to the nose 1"
Webster's substantially follows the
above and The Century literally, pretty
thing to smell; nose added to gay, a bunch
OF howers used to regale the sense of smell,
a posy, a bouquet. 1t certainly is not in
form to call formally made bouquet a
nosegay, says the Florists Exchange
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
500 RWard BOO,

The readers of the ARGUS will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all its stages, and that is catarrh.
Halls Cstarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity.
Catarrh being constitutional disease. re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease. and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The propretors have So much
faith in its curative powers, tina. they
offer one hundred dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of ties.
timonials Address,
F. j. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
Do Trees Strain Out Bacteria?

The Sanitary Inspector describes some
investigations made by Serafini and Arata
to determine the correctness of the belief
that the foliage of trees has some influence
in tiltering out the bacterial contents of
the at nosphere. Their method of procedure
was to determine the number of bacteria in
air under motion before and after it had
reached the woods. The barometrical pres
sure, direction and strength of the wind,
temperature at the edge and in the midst
of the woods, humidity audrai mall were
all taken into consideration AS the num-
Der of observations was only forty, the in
vestigators give the results with some re-
serve; nevertheless, they believe that they
are justified in affirming that forests do
exercise the power of straining out the
bacteria that are brought to them by the
wind
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
THE HORSE CENSUS AND DUTIES.
Large Domestic Sales and Small Imports.
A Worthless Duty-Where II Hurts.

Large Domestic Sales and Small Imports.
A Worthless Duty-where 1t Hurts.
A recent census bulletin shows that
the number of horses in the United
States in 1890 was 14,976,017, and that
during the year 1889 the number of
horses sold was 1909, 557.
Last year Mckinley raised the duties
On hoyses under the pretense that such
action would help the American farmer.
Under the old tariff all horses paid
uniform duty of 90 per cent. Mckinley
raised this to so per cent. on all horses
worth $50 or more, and on horses worth
less than that the duty was fixed at
thirty dollars head.
These figures of themselves might in
dictate that our farmers were being sub
jected TO ''ruinous foreign competition"
But the treasury reports show that last
year we imported only 3S,24S horses
paying duty. What do these imports
amount to against the sales of 1907
domestic horses? They are not drop
In the bucket.
But McKinley's high duty is cutting
down the importation of horses, the
number coming in and paying duties
during the fiscal year ended June 80, be-
ing only 1890. OF course this has not
resulted in raising the price of American
grown horses, for the number imported
has been too insignificant. But if the
price were raised, what would be the
effect on the agricultural classes them
selves? Taking the whole country over,
1t is certain that not one farmer in fifty
ra1elS ha-Sas fpr la III
all farmers are buyers of horses at some
time. How could higher prices for
horses help farmers?
But there is one country in which
McKinley's horse duty is severely felt
In Texas and New Mexico the Mexican
mustang is a very useful little beast,
with many people an almost indispensa-
bic one. Mustangs can be bought in
Mexico in any number at ten dollars
apiece. In 1890 more than half (20,4f1) of
our imported horses were brought from
Mexico, and the valuation was slightly
less than ten dollars head.
Now a thirty dollar duty on ten dol
lar horse is a manifest absurdity, as well
rs rank injustice. 1t means the fetal
prohibition of the only kind of horses
that the poorest class of people in the
southwest could buy. The effect of this
harsh restriction was seen soon after it
went into operation in the very curious
form of smuggling that it gave rise to.
Americans bought up herd of mus
tangs in Mexico and drove them across
the border into the United States. The
animals were seized by the custom house
officer and sold at auction, the original
purchasers buying them a second time.
and thus saving large part of the duty.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
Poison in MoIdy Bread.

The mold of bread, according to for
eign journal, is a veritable poison for man
and beast, as witness the following in
stances: In 1865 three peasants-father,
mother and little girl of five years of age
ate. after having carefully cleaned, some
bread covered with green mold. They all
three became very i'll, and the little girl
died. In 1872 two pigs and a horse were
poisoned by moldy bread. In 1873 eight
persons who ate pudding made with moldy
bread were poisoned, and two died. In
1881, in the Second Hussars at Oran, there
was some bread so damaged that the sol
diers threw it away. Some horses ate a
part and became seriously i'll, one of them
being paralyzed. 1t is easy, however. to
avoid using this bread. Sight suffices, and
at need can be aided by smell and taste.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
Per over Fifty Year,

hrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has
been used By millions of mothers for
their children while teethipg. If dis
burbed at night and broken of your res
by sick child suffering and crying with
pain OF cutting teeth send at once and get
8 bottle o. Mrs. Wipslow's Soothing
Syrup" for children teeihing. 1t will re-
lieve the poor little sufferer Immediately.
Depend upon it, mothers. there's no mis-
take about it. 1t cures diarrhoea, regu-
lstes the stomach and bowels, cures wind
collie, softens the gums. reduces infsmms-
ton and gives tone and energy to the
whole system, Mrs Wipslow's Soothing
Syrup" for children teething is pleasant
to the taste and is the prescription of one
OF the Oldest and best female physicians
and nurses in the United States. Sold by
all druggists throughout the world. Price
twenty-five cents bottle. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
E3a9YI:T7E~
THE SCIENCE OF MANNERS.
OF Interest to the Woman Who in an I'm
tried Sphere Fears for Her Etiquette.

MANY a good soul gives herself great
uneasiness upon being called into a new
sphere OF action, either through increase of
wealth or through the husbands election
to Office or because of promotion in any
way, or on occasion of a visit among those
with whom much social usage has rubbed
away corners and angles and who know
just what to do and how to do it at every
point, and who, she fears, will either be
mortified Oy her ignorance of the lesser de-
tails, or Will scorn her ignorance, and her
self with it,
Harper's Bazaar, which thus describes a
a common social difficulty, then gives the
following advice: There is an exceedingly
ready and short way out of every difficulty
of the sort, for if the EN- barrassed ipdiyid-
ual of who N we speak will take the trouble
to reflect upon the various dicta of the reg
ulations concerning which she feels herself
uninformei, and which have seemed TO her
only a trap and pitfall for the unwary, she
will come TO the conclusion that none will
ingly hamper themselves with useless or
capricious rules, which would only involve
their own discomfort and that it is there
fore to be supposed that every one of these
lesser details has sprung into being to an
swer neeC, to make things easier, to spare
peoples feelings, prejudices or exertions
That she n ust not break an engagement
to dine, let US say, is not simply because
she must never break any promise, but be-
cause doing so will disarrange the whole
affair and make awkwardness and incon-
venience for those that have been so kind
as TO ask her to their table. That on
calling tremendously on one member
of a house hold, who is so either tenn
porarily or permanently, she should leave
her card, OF ask for the lady who is the
head of the house, even if quite Indifferent
as to whether she sees her or not, is not the
command OF an idle piece of hypocrisy, but
is to be done both because the courtesy is
due to the person whose threshold is
crossed, and because it makes the circum-
stances easy for the person on whom the
call is really made, avoiding any disturb
ance or jealousy. That she may not refuse
an invitation from one and accept it from
another is not rule for the arbitrary cur
tailment of her liberty and pleasure, but is
one made for the sake of sparing the sensi-
bilities of the one whose invitation is not
accepted. Indeed, we might 60 through
the whole list of the things to be done and
not to be done, and although one might be
appalled, by their extent and number, yet,
upon searching into them, one would find
that a single authority controlled them
the authority that is behind all good man
ners-the authority of the Golden Rule
They are the finest ladies, they are the
gentlemen most without reproach, in rela-
ton to manners, whose whole behavior is
modelled only upon the intention of doing
to others as they would have others do to
. them"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
c6oge:}Ft e1a
SEWER GAS IN THE HOUSEHOLD,
A Time When Fevers Are Frequent and
One Probable Cause of Them.

Time When Fevers Are Frequent and
One Probable Cause of Them.
1t is well known fact, to which an ex-
change calls attention, that many people,
after spending the summer away from
home, are on their return taken down with
fever. Some of the reasons for this are
known to us, but probably there are many
yet to be discovered. An unmistakable
cause is found in many city homes which
are shut up for months, during a portion
of which time they are filled with sewer
gas. Very few, indeed, have the traps un-
der their sinks sealed up when they leave
home, nor are they filled during their alb
sence. OF course the water in them soon
evaporates, and there is no longer any OBJ
struction against the free passage through
them of gas from the sewer With this
pervading house there is certainly bad
outlook for its returning tenants. In such
a condition it ought to undergo fumiga-
ton; if that remedy is not applied, then all
that is left is thorough airing of all the
rooms and everything therein, with cur
tains up to admit every possible ray of
sunli ght. And the longer the windows are
kept open the better. A house infected by
sewer gas is scarcely likely to be made
safe, even by thorough ventilation, unless
it is prolonged for days and days.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
{E1E|::0! |l| 81 ii! !
OLD ENGLISH EMBROIDERY.
The Symbolism Which Lent It's Peculiar
Charm to the Embroidery Art.

The Symbolism Which Lent Its Peculiar
Charm to the Embroiderer's Art.
The most ancient examples of embroidery
that are preserved to us or of which we
have any record are distinctly symbolic.
The four winged cherubim standing on a
wheel is very early symbol of the Chris
tian church. 1t appears under various
notifications; the symbolism of the figure
is described in the first chapter of Ezekiel
This symbol appears under endless modif
cations until the close of the Fifteenth cen
tury. IL is distinctly one of the character
istic allegorical decorations of early Eng
lsh work. The eagle displayed is another
emblem of very frequent occurrence on
ecclesiastical vestments of the Middle Ages,
and seems to have been of considerable an
tiquity. 1t may have been abusive in the
first instance to the eagle mentioned by
Ezekiel, but it also had another signifi.
cation. 1t was always an emblem of power
and supremacy. Homer calls it the bird of
Jove
Birds of prey have always been regarded
as omens of good or evil, but the birds most
venerated in the age of chivalry were the
swan and the peacock. Around these gather
romantic associations, and we may be quite
sure whenever we meet with them--and we
the Middle Ages, that there is some touch
ing or chivalrous story connected with
them. We find examples of the swan and
the peacock mingled with the heraldic de-
vices of knights and noble families in the
embroidery of the age of chivalry The
romances of the period abound with refer
ences 10 the ''vowis of pecok and swan {"
The swan and the peacock were deemed
royal birds and emblems of royalty before
proves. The great warrior kings and their
knights made their solemn VOWS of dedica-
ton or enterprise by the God of heaven and
the royal birds,
Other birds are frequently introduced
symbolically. Parrots are represented in
ecclesiastical work in connection with the
wise men of the Epiphany and gifts from
Saba. They were tabled to have whispered
to the Queen of Saba the doings of Solo
mon and brought around their necks letters
from him. They appear on the vestments
of old st. Paul's. Wherever met with,
they have an eastern significance, and de-
note wealth and greatness, with an espe-
cial reference to the glory of Solomon or
the gifts of the magi
The Star of Bethlehem often appears in
connection with them. overlapping the
Islam badge Of the crescent moon on the
blazons of the crusaders. The swan was
also employed as a symbol of stainless pu-
rity and majestic beauty in women. and
was therefore often represented in connec-
ton with the virgin. There are examples
of swans with women's heads, and they
| often occur on orfrays of the Fourteenth
century
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-10-06
Dagger Money.

Many curious incidents are related in
the early diaries showing the social life of
old English towns at the commencement
Of the century. From these diaries it is
learned that it was once customary to pre-
sent the mayor of the town, on grand occa-
sions, such as an assize, with dagger
actually for his defense The custom had
ceased by this time, but the remembrance
remained in the fact of the continued pay
ment of sum of money as dagger
moneyn