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INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA.

ANNUAL. STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81 1898. OF THE COW.
nuION. AND AFFAIRS OF THE QUEEN INSURANCE CONPANx OF A ERICA,
AdMPIIoRc OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF The COMMONWEALTH OF Virginia. IN
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-03-25

Pr@IfenLJANE a MAcDoNAIn
j. II. MoRroS MORRIS NanaR er Central and Southern Deratmeuts LouisyileE Ky
Secretary GEORGE w ByRcHELL
Pr ncipal Omce ~ CEDAR STREET, NV YORK
GsneralA Agent in Vrgina-D n WALKER
residence RICHMOND "a
Organized or -SHPrEMBgRh IL 1891.
commenced Business SEPrEnBER IL 1871
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glut the market and force prices down
Lower prices for cattle in Texas means
lower prices in Indiana.
Again. as to horses and mules: The duty
on horses and mules was $50 a head. and
30 per cent. more If the horses were worth
$50 and over. The duty under the present
Democratic tariff is 20 per cent. The Nc
Kinley duty was made high to prevent the
heavy importation of cheap horses and
mules from Mexico and Canada. For the
purposes Of importing the price OF such
animals was oftener $50 than $50 a head.
The 20 per cent. adj valorem duty on a
so horse would be IS. or SO less than I'M
der the Mckinley law. A duty of $50 on a
so horse would be 70 per cent. ad valorem.
That means a reduction of s. per cent. on
* per cent, which is 70 per cent But as
more animals are valued at $50. it means
tIat the duty has been reduced from $50
to Sc a head. 1t means. also. that the Mex
lean bronco" will be imported by thou
sands to further reduce the present very
low prices Of horses.
Thus, by degrees. the American producer
will come to understand the workings of
the Democratic tariff.
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sHREDs AND PATCHES.

When you see it in the sun it's a spot.
Chicago Tribune.
No really good man ever wants to climb
a tree to be looked Abrams Horn.
They are called racing tips because their
patrons are so easily upset by them--Sift-
ings.
No man would listen to you talk If he
didn't know 1t was his turn next.-Atchison
Globe.
Cleveland has become a President without
a horseshoe over his door.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
When church members want to have a
picnic Sunday they. call it a camp meeting.
-Atchison Globe.
Homeward the cuckoos, with clipped
wings, wend their weary way.-Philadel-
phia North American.
You never know whether a man Is your
friend or not until you smoke the cigar he
has given you.-Philadelphia Record.
Overindulgence in whisky does not ap-
pear to have made money tight during the
past few days.-Cincinnati Commercial Ga
zette.
The adjournment of Congress leaves the
people saddled and bridled and the Sugar
Trust booted and spurred.-New York
World.
Mr.. Kurino, the new Japanese minister,
speaks English so well that in Chicago
they must have taken him for a New
Yorker.-New York World.
If the Whisky Trust is in such hard luck
as it seems to want the public to believe
il might take the Kelley cure and try to
sober up.-Chicago Record. ~.
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The Sentinel showed iss confidence in the
Journal yesterday by copying its quota
tons OF the prices of sugar Aug. 80. 1893
and 1894, to show that sugar was higher
then than now. The Sentinel should know
that the conditions are different. The SUI
gar crop from which the article was sold
in August. 1893. was a short one. and the
new crop could not be anticipated. The
crop which is now on the market was an
abundant one. hence the decline in the
markets of the world. The Journal will
not take the Sentinels quotations, because
they are not full; but 1t gives below the
lowest wholesale price of the leading
grades Of sugar upon the market at the
refineries in the East June l. 1894. and Aug.
p, 1894. taken from the circular issued on
those dates by the secretary of the Indiana
ALhnIaaaln r-@-D~-s
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LOOKING

The Chicago Herald congratulates the
country that after the lapse of nearly half
a century it has. thanks to the Democratic
party. a tariff based as nearly as possible
on the Walker tariff of 1916. so prosper
Gus We're the people under this beneficent
law says the Herald, "that in all the
changes of parties during the succeeding
decade and a half up to the civil war
no thought was ever suggested of chang
ing it, save in the direction of lower duties,
and then for the purpose of avoiding a sur
plus in the treasury" If the country pros
pered during the period that the tariff OF
1916 was in force, as in some respects ii
certainly did, the government finances must
nave been very badly managed by suc-
cessive Democratic administrations. Sta
tistics show that the government receipts
from customs during the first four years
of the tariff of 1916 were 1923, 1926, All, while
the expenditures during the same period
were SIG. Us, 500, or $2, los, IA in excess OF
the receipts. During the same period the
public debt increased from sl5. $50. 202 to $685.
452. 773. an increase of SAL. 9O2. ST. in four
years. During the eleven years that the
Walker tariff was In force, from 1916 to
1851, the aggregate amount of government
revenue received under it was $523, 957 ,S72,
while the government expenditures during
the same period were $545. 74S, M. an excess
of expenditures over revenue of 81, $50, sos.
Yet the Walker tariff was a tariff for rev.
enue only.
Whatever prosperity the country enjoyed
during the period of the Walker tariff was
due in a far greater degree to the discov-
cry Of gold in California than it was to
that law. During the six years from 1S49
to 1854, both inclusive. California produced
$3.50, 600. 900 in gold. thus furnishing an ex-
traordinary stimulus to business. OF the
men now living who are old enough to re-
member the effects of the tariff of 1916.
none can be found who will attribute any
part of the prosperity of the country dur
ing that period to the tariff or who will
welcome the re-enactment of a similar one.
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1t viii be seen that all OF the brands
quoted, except four, were a dollar a hum
dred pounds higher at the refneries Aug.
% than they were June /. They were made
higher a week ago because there was then
no doubt that the Democratic tariff bill
would become a law i'm forty-eight hours,
when all sugar imported would cost 40 per
cent. more. and consequently all sugar in
stock in the country could be sold for 40
per cent more than the importing price.
The Sentinel will also see that, in the
period named. with the same crop, granu-
lated sugar has advanced in price 81 on "a
a hundred. which is % per cent. 1t will
also see that upon the brand known TO the
trade as Empire A." a soft light sugar,
sold largely, the price has advanced from
IL the Sentinel will inquire of any consid-
cradle retailer il can learn that on June l.,
1894, he was selling twenty-five pounds of
graduated sugar for a dollar. while that
money will pay for but seventeen pounds
now-all because of the Democratic legis-
lation in behalf of the Sugar Trust. which,
three months ago. the Sentinel was de-
nouncing with all the fury of expert COM
mand of apifhet
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Several Republican, druggists have re-
ceived typewriter missives signed "Senti-
mel Newspaper Company" and written on
office paper with the Sentinel heading.
bearing in its corner the name of S. E.
Morss, which read something as follows:
There is evidence that at about 2:3O Sum
day afternoon you sold a drink of whisky;
il you do not repeat the offense no COM
plant Will he made.
The druggist who received the above
warming has been in business years and
has never sold a drink of intoxicating
liquor to be drunk in his store any day
in the week since he has been in business,
and would be the last to be suspected.
AS he can prove that M call was made
for such a favor on Sunday. he will begin
a suit against any paper which may make
such a charge. The probability is that the
person who sent out these notices stole the
Sentinel paper and enovelopes for the pur-
pose, or that some irresponsible employee
has been guilty of the stupidity. as the
manager of a reputable paper would not
authorize the sending out of notices which
SAVIOR OF blackmail.
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To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journal:
About a week ago a reporter OF a city
paper. desiring to rip somebody up the
back fell upon the Citizens Street-car
Company and wrote an article concerning
Fairview Park. Like the buzzard that flies
over many beautiful fields and flower gar
dens 10 find a carcass. this pure-minded
man starts out 10 find something rotten
about which TO write a sensational article.
He think he smells a stencil I'm the di-
rection OF Fairview Park and starts for
that place. but on arriving he fails 10 find
the desired morsel and continues his search
in a row boat zap the canal in the direction
OF Broad Ripple. following a party OF
young people whom he imagined were
"toughs.' They all got away from him;
he lost the scent of the stencil and re-
turned 10 the park disguised with his e.
the park just now a beautiful. quiet place.
but he has come to write II uD and must
find something 10 blast IL. 20 he goes back
into the past over a year. ana al = tme
when he himself says the park was a coy
retreat and safe place for refined people
10 visit. trumps up a case about wnich ne
tries to write a sensational article. Now.
III this reporter, as he says. has FOUND
Fairview Park so degenerated Of late as
only TO be a fit place Tor lOaferS ana
toughs who can find no shelter I'm the
city. he ought TO have found a case OF
sensational article. Ii any person wants
TO know the truth concerning Fairylew
they viii find IL just the opposite OF AL
has been visited this year by a better class
of peop,e than ever before. and they have
frequently expressed themselves as being
well satisfied with al IT'S surroundings.
and good dicip,ine- - w NJ
IndianaDolis Aug. 81.
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ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The word cotiIlion means petticoat. and
was originally applied to a species of the
modern skirt dance.
The eyeball is white because the blood
vessels that feed its substance are so small
that they do not admit the red corpuscles.
NJ. Durnof. the a~eronaut. who first opened
communication between the besieged Paris
ians and the outside world in 1870. is dying
in a Paris hospital. His balloon was ruined
by the memorable trip. but for TWENTY-FIVE
years he never received a cent from the
government.
Lord Rothschild. according to foreign pa
pers. has undertaken to train zebras for
carriage use. He had three recently. and
had them first driven singly with a pony.
one of them has become so docile that he
was driven about the streets of London a
few days ago.
The Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor OF Kansas. sid Cooke, is tenn
porarily out OF politics. and the cause is
one that may we'll injure his prospects
among the horny-handed voters OF Kansas
farms. 1t is a broken leg, caused by too
violent play at lawn tenni
Secretary Gresham's favorite walk in
Washington Is the Zoo. where ne has made
a friend Of a huge old buffalo bull. which
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WARS AND RUMORs OF WARS.

While the United States are happily at
peace with all the world, without any pros
pect of trouble, unless it may grow out of
the situation in Nicaragua, almost every
days dispatches bring warlike news from
some part of the world. First, there is the
ever languidly it may be regarded from
this side of the globe. is really an impor-
tant event. These populous and powerful
nations of the Orient are slow to move,
but once aroused they are capable of ac-
complishing great things. The present war
is the outgrowth Of a long-standing grlidge
between China and Japan, and both sides
will try to make 1t a settlement of old
scores. The certainty that they will fight
to a finish, with the ever present POSSIBLE
ity of Russian Intervention and a more or
event of interest even to the Western
world.
A few days ago a dispatch from the
Hague stated that all Holland was excited
over news from the island of Lombok that
three columns of Dutch troops had met
with a disastrous defeat. and, in fact, mar
rowly escaped humiliation at the hands of
the rebellious Balinese. q is not TO be ex-
pected that the average American should
know or care much about the operations
Of the Dutch in the island Of Lombok, and
.os -hac ,,ora than five hupdrad oficerS
and men Of a trained European army are
killed in battle the student of current
events is apt to inquire what it all means.
Briefly, then. Hollands possessions in the
East, commonly known as the Dutch East
Indies. embrace a population of thirty-two
million people. The possessions are divided
into twelve provinces, of which the islands
of Bali and Lombok constitute one. The
trade of these possessions is valuable, and
to maintain her hold on them Holland
maintains there an army of 400 officers
and $4,000 men-considerably larger than the
regular army of the United States. There
has been trouble with the natives for some
years past, but no such disaster has over
taken the Dutch troops as that which re-
Gently occurred. With savage cunning. the
natives drew the Dutch forces into an am
bush where retreat vas cut off, and they
were mercilessly slaughtered. Such a dis
aster is enough To create excitement in Hol-
land. and 1t will doubtless lead TO very de-
cisive measures by way of publishing the
| natives and re-establishing the prestige of
Dutch arms.
The fighting in Samoa. which has led to
the Intervention of British and German war
ships, can hardly be called a war, and yet
the centending parties show quite as much
anxiety to exterminate each other as if they
had ironclad navles and big armies equipped
with the latest improved guns. In proper
ton TO their numbers they have been doing
considerable killing. and. il let alone. they
might have exterminated each other with
out the interference of the British and Ger
man war vessels 'in the interests of hui
msnlty."
Latest advices from Hawaii state that
while the friends OF the republic were re-
joicing over its recognition by the United
States the royalists refused to believe the
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BYNUM AND THE TRAITOR SENATOR'S

The Washington dispatch to the effect
that Mr.. Bynum had joined the German
Brice wing of the Democratic party and
will be its candidate for Senator against
Mr.. VOORHEES, will not surprise those who
are close observers of political events.
When the tariff raid was begun in Con-
gress Mr.. Bynum was an ardent free
trader. and showed his devotion to the
Cleveland coterie when he wrote to the
workingmen in the gas region and in the
Merritt WOODEN mill insulting letters in
response to petitions sent to him asking
his influence against the effort to reduce
the protective duties. But Mr.. Bynum was
not taken into the subcommittee which
was to pilot the Wilson bill through the
House. Soon he was out in an interview
duties of the Wilson bill and favored spe>
cific duties. When the German bill reached
the House it was noticed that he was not
one of the Democrats who pushed into
the front row to assail it. While it was
in conference he predicted. quietly. to be
sure, out frequently. tndt the senate OIL
would be passed. and predicted in a man.
ner which gave the impression 10 the
close observer that he was in favor of it.
He was one of the leaders of the House
caucus movement which was an attack on
the President and the Wilson gang, and
which was inspired By ,orman and Brice.
He was denounced bitterly by the Sentinel
for such participation. During the last
three months the fact that his free-trade
heresies will not be accepted in the Sew
enth district has made a Judgement in the
Bynum intellect. That has all along been
the belief of the traitors German, Brice.
Smith and Murphy. Rejected by the Pres
dents coterie. seeing defeat in November.
Mr.. Bynum has allied himself with that
wing of the party which, before 1896. will
be strongest in the North-that which will
be led by the traitor Senators. But 1t
is TOO late; the people of the seventh
district have ii in" for Bynum. The
hundreds of mechanics in the gas region
whom he insulted by letter in December
will not forget. but will get even in the
voting booth next November.
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were put into effect and all the poorer peo-
pie were forced 10 return 20 coal and wool
fires. who would be profted? Is IL charac-
teristic of the owners OF rich gold mines 10
take out only a limited amount Of the pre-
cious ore lest the supply be speedily ex-
hausted? No more would the owners OF
plants that, at present rates. are 80 profit
able as TO pay out a greater part of rhcir
indebtedness and yield dividends TO stock
holders greater than annual interest. per-
NIT the precious gas TO remain hoaldei In
the earth In order that the supply might
last the longer. That they would not do
so has already been demonstrated. After
refusing for one year TO extend mains un-
der pretense that they had not sufficient
gas 10 supply more customers they began.
when the pressure was lower-in 1S92-to
extend mains at the expense OF the proper
ty owners. Even IL prices were doubled
and thousands driven from the use OF gas.
the amount saved would be sold through
mains built at the expense of consumers.
or owners OF property who could afford the
luxury.
Mr.. Jordan and the gas companies cannot
delude the people into the belief that there
is necessity for higher prices. owe pres
sure or metric stealing. Neither can they
make IL appear that these measures, so de-
sirable, because so profitable. 10 the COM
panies. would make gas last one day
longer. w. Is. r.
INDIANAPOLIS. Aug. 30.
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HOWL Of THE Eek CATTLEMAN.

The following Associated Press dispatch,
bearing date San Antonio, Tex2 Aug. 50.
may be of interest to the farmers of In
diana:
1t is claimed by the cattlemen of south
west Texas that the new tariff bill will re-
of this section. The duty is reduced from
SO per head to 20 per cent. ad NalOrem, and
now that grass is good on this side IL is ex-
pected that at least 100000 cattle will be
brought into Texas from Mexico within the
next sixty days, and after being .fattened
the prices. Thousands of head of cows and
stock cattle will also be brought into Texas
from Mexico. There will also be large ex-
portations OF cheap horses from Mexico
into this country.
The foregoing is not a Republican cam
paisn lie, but was probably written by a
man who never voted a Republican ticket.
and the facts were furnished by men who
have helped TO make the Democratic ma
jority in Texas 100000. The duty under the
Mckinley law OF $40 per head was prac-
tically prohibitory. since away off in Texas
they are pretty good cattle that are worth
was from 70 TO 100 per cent. adj valorem.
Now IL is % per cent. on the value in the
country from which exported, which in
Mexico must be less than SO; consequently
the duty is reduced from SO per head to
s.. il valued at $40. Here is a reduction of
duty OF 81 per cent. on cattle on the Texan
border. which practically makes Mexican
cattle worth 50 per cent. and more for the
purpose OF importing to Texas. This i'm
portation of Mexican cattle TO Texcs
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he prods with his care through the fence.
Thfs has occurred so often that whenever
the secretary approaches the Enclosure the
DuHaio walks up to meet him.
Representative Talbert, of South Carolina.
occupies a unique position srnorg Con-
gressmen in that he neither goes to the
theater, drinks, smokes. cnews nor plays
cards. He has a habit, however, OF never
passing a beggar on the street without CIV
ing him a nickel. disposing thus OF the
small cnange that most men spend on tnem-
selves.
Augustus Thomas. the playwright. is g
heavily built man, with a smiling counte-
nance. who does not look as though the
midnight oil disagreed with his health. He
is one of the few playwrights in the coun-
try. who can undergo the ordeal OF a 'nrst
night" of one of their own plays anu MOI
exhibit outwardly the excitement that must
pertain TO such an occasion.
The Siberian millionaire PonomarJeff.
whose death was announced at st. Peters
burg some months ago. left a million rubies
with the direction that they should De
placed in banks at compound interest for
ninety-nine years, after which they are TO
be devoted to the construction and supper.
OF a Siberian university at lrkutsk. al
which all instruction is TO bs gratis.
So strong his fame for telling things Alright
None can modest il.
He went a-fishing and he got no bite,
And he confessed it.
Washington Star.
If you strike a thorn or rose.
Keep a-goin'.
If it halls or if IL SHOWS,
Keep a-goin'.
'Taint no use to sit an whine
When the fish amt on your line;
Bait your hook an keep on tryin'-
Keep a-goin'!
When the weather kills your crop,
Keep a-goin'!
When you tumble from the top,
Keep a-goin'!
'SpOse you're out o. every dime?
Gittin' broke amt any crime;
Tell the world you're feelin' prime!
Keep a-goin'i
Atlanta Constitution.
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Regarding the income tax the question
Is raised as TO what deductions or exemp-
lions a man Will be entitled to make. The
tax is 2 per cent. on the excess over $1,000.
and the permissible deductions are as fol-
lows: First. the necessary expenses actual
iy incurred in carrying on any business. oc-
cupation or profession. and also ali interest
due or paid within the year on existing in
debtedness: second. all national. State.
county, school and municipal taxes. paid
within the year. not including those as
sessed against local benefits; third. losses
actually sustained during the year. incurred
IN trade. or arising from fires. storms or
shlpwreck. and not compensated for by in
surance or otherwise: fourth. debts ascer-
tanned TO be worthless. but excluding all
estimated depreciation of values losses
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One of the latest plumbers discovered i'm
the Democratic tariff law is in the sugar
schedule. While the duty on raw sugars is
40 per cent. and on refined sugars 40 per
cent. plus one-eighth of a cent a pound,
sugar candy and all confectionery made
wholly or in part of sugar. and on sugars
after being refined, when tinctured and col
ored or in any way adulterated." the duty
is 30 per cent. ad valorem. The New York
Times. commenting on this point. says:
a little t~incture, a little color or adulter-
alton, will enable the foreign refiner to send
his refined sugar through the custom house
on the payment of 30 per cent. ad valorem,
while the trust has confidently reckoned on
a defensive protection of 40 per cent. and
one-eighth of a cent per pound. Assuming
that refined sugar can be entered at an ap-
praisal of 3 cents per pound. the difference
in favor of the foreign refiner who takes
advantage of the candy clause would be
5 per cent. ad valorem. or 10 cents a hum
dred pounds, plus one-eighth of a cent a
pound. or 1919 cents a hundred, making al
together 27I2 cents in the hundred pounds.
1t seems to be a section Of the Wilson
bill which was not expunged, but it will
cause anxiety among the magnates of the
Sugar Trust.
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news. and rumors were current that they
would attempt a revolution in the near
future. If they do. there Will be lively times
in Hawaii.
And thus. day by day. from many quar-
tiers of the globe. We hear of wars and ru-
mors of wars, and it may be added, in the
words of Scripture, .All these things must
come to pass. but the end is not Yet"