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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-28

STATE or NORTH CAROLINA,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE,
INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
RALEIG4, n. c., Dec. 81, 1895.
In compliance with Section of An Act
to consolidate the Insurance Laws of North
Carolina" / certify that the above is q
true extract from the sworn statement of
the German m rtcan In urance Comply
on Dec. 81, l89 now on file in this
ID partment
G. VI COOKE.
Secretary of State
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SHOWING THE CONDITION OF THE
Mass aChusetts Benefit Life
Association, Cooperative,
of Boston.
DECEMBER, 81, 1895.

Value of real estate and ground
rents owned by the company
(less the amount of eT cum
brsnces thereon, S POS, 5000
Loans on bond and mortgage
duly recorded and being first
liens on the fee simple 22I 1859
Acc unit of tCcks ami bonds
d the United States and of
this al d OF er : tates, a s Ii
other OCks ar d bonds abs
lute'y owned by The ON any, 3rJ gG3 -
Stocks bonds and other Sc
cur ties Except mOrtg' g-s)
hypOthecated to the 20 a.
pany as collateral security
for ca. h actually loaned by
the e. mp8ny, ~ ,53.12
Interest due and accrued on
stocks and other securities, $50 30
Cash il con pany's itclpa}
Office nd belonging TO he
co ppa y, dtpos ed In bank, 23) 49, d
in transitu, 1s.@L4c
Prom ums or ass ssmtnts I'M
Usid 6Ii 600 90
All orh4r assets, detail Ell in
statement, 5l.sl924
Total assets, @l.si nO98
LIABILITIES.
Losses a jus ed not yet due, 8 851,as3 l8
Losses in process Of adjust
ment, - 53i %
Losses reported, 100000
Risks or certificates ri ten,
+, sisted, $4,000 90
Total liabi tiles, S 546,g.5OT
Totsl income, 9 739 $50 50
Total e penditures, 2Sll. $685. 81
NORTH CAROLINA BUSH ESS IN 1895
Amount of policies or certih
Gates issued, ITO 600 %
Amo mt of losses incurred a.
paid, 5C0O.OO
Amount of losses incurred snd
not paid, 100000
President Geo A. Litchfeld.
Secretary E. S. Litchfeld.
General Agent-W. J. Saunders, Bal
eigh.
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Justice Waiter Clark, whose name
has been so prominently mentioned in
connection with the Silver party's
nomination for Governor, is quoted as
saying that he is not candidate, and
could not accept the nomination, even
if ii were rendered aim,-Winsfon Sen
finel.
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One hussared dollars a month will be
the pay of Populist Lloyd in the United
States Senate. Grant. Republican, il
elected, viii get in the neighborhood
of $500 a month. This is about the
way the Popalists have Jared all along.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-28

The Sampson Democrat prints let
ter written by eN7Judge Russell TO a
Sampson Republican in which this
sentence occurs: AS things now
stand, have the nomination but great
changes in sentiment can prevent it,
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President Geo A. Litchfeld.
Secretary E. S. Litchield.
General Agent-W. J. Saunders, Bal
eigh.
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Mr.. w. L. Curtis, who has spent
muoh time in Japan, says there is not
an almshouse in that country, and a
beggar is neMer seen on the streets.
Japan is "a silver country.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-28

The Sampson Democrat calls atten-
6ion to the fact that pending discus
sion in the House last week upon the
resolution requiring the Secretary of
Agriculture to continue sending free
seeds to the farmers, Dir. Skinner
made this statement: II am the rep
resenfative upon this floor Of the very
cradle Of the government, the country
of the Dismal Swamp where the fox fire
is as strong as lamp"
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MploE 10 CONTRIBUTORS.

Communications and itc1sss Of siews
intended for publication in The News
,snd Observer should not he addressed
10 Individual members of the staff, but
simply 10 The News and Observer.
Al communications must be accom-
.panisd by the authors real naEae. No
executions will be made To this rule,
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Salisbury gets the Southern railroad
shops. The Herald says there is much
congratuiation and talking about it,
prefacing its article with these words:
THE first thing that set the tongues
to wagging WAS special telegram
from Washington to the Raleigh News
and Observer which was given the
heading Salisbury Gets the Shops.
The Southern Railway has Already
Closed the Deal" They all read the
News and Observer.
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The most recently published statis-
tics of the English population show
that while the birth rate for 1894 was
the lowest on record, the birth rate for
1895. still lower than the average, ex-
hibited marked improvement. During
1895 there was an increase in popula-
ton Of 353, 900 men, women and child
rem, an increase of 1900 over the
average annual increase, Marriages
were also more numerous during the
latter half Of the year.
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DEla HBEE 1895.
LIABILITIES

Losses unpaid, including those
resisted, 80, T3l 10
Reserve, as required by aw, 1881 2 IS
All other claims, 2 G,3iS4S
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SHORT sC!sSORINGS.

From an old tub well lately dis
covered in the Roman ruins at Silchcs~
ter in Hampshire, tub in gooo preser-
walton, though the wood is somewhat
rotten, has been taken out. 1t is be-
Iieved to be LOCO years old.
Licenses to sell cigarettes in Fort
Wayne, Ind, cost $500 each, and some
dealers have taken advantage of the
political campaign TO circumvent the
law. They sell party buttons and throw
in the cigarettes.
According to the reports sent out
from Kentucky, the only difficulty
squirrel hunters experience now is in
lodging their game, for the squirrels
scramble from limb to limb on every
side of them in the woods. md rim in
every furrow of the cornfelds.
Marriages in Ireland last year were
far above the average, the number be-
ing 23, 100, and the average of the last
ten years $4,000. OF those marIi led
s3H per cent. were able to sign their
names on sae register. There were ten
marriages between Quakers and only
five between Jews.
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Only two minutes are required fo1
the blood to course through the heart,
thence to the lungs, back TO the heart
and then through the entire body ana
return to the heart.
Two or three thousand people, it is
estimated, are employed in the picking
and canning of fruit in Butte county,
CAL, and there is demand Tor more
workers.
According to Chambers Journal,
Egypt is at present the most active
and aggressive competitor in the onion
trade. The trade with Egypt for onions
is now so important that four lines OF
steamers are engaged in the traffic.
bringing consignments from Alexan-
dria to Liverpool, Hull and London. The
Egyptian onion is handsome and use
full vegetable.
The biggest rope ever used for haul
age purposes has just been made for
district subway in Glasgow. Scotland.
It is seven miles long, Az inches in cir
cumference and weighs nearly GO tons.
1t has been made in one unjointed and
unspliced length of patent crucible
steel. When in place it viii form com
plete circle around Glasgow, crossing
the Clyde in its course, and will run at
a speed of Is miles an hour.
SIN the light of modern innocuiation
by the injection Of blood from. the i'm
mune, it has been suggested, says the
Medical News" that it may be possible
TO protect African explorers by blood
from the healthy natives. In the case
of Stanley it is known that he submit
ted to the TRANSMISSION of native blood
some so times in the practice of the lite
of blood-brotherhood and it it not inn
possible that to this was due his exemp-
ton from the fatal fevers of that cli-
mate"
The total area of land surface of the
earth is calculated to be 2S.3 per cent,
and that of sea as TT of the earth's sur
face, certain assumptions being made
for the unknown polar regions. The ra-
ito of land to water surface is thus LIZ "a,
by Prof. Hermann Wagner, says the
Engineer. Other interesting levels are
those of the mean height of the land,
700 meters-2, 300 feet-above actual sea
level; and of the condensation sphero'd,
!. E., the physical globe it the waters
were condensed to the density Of the
rocks of the crust, 1900 meters-or 4,26o
feet-below present sea level.
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x Raw. FOR eve Trouble.

One of the neatest uses to which the
Roentgen photography has been APP
elied is the detection of glass splinters
and other foreign bodies in the eye. The
difficulty of photographing the eye is
very great. because it is practically in
closed in bony case and cannot be
got at DIR. II. Lewkowitsch has, how
ever, invented continuance which en-
ables this operation to be successfully
performed. The plate is so made that
it can be inserted tunder anaesthetics,
of course) into the orbital cavity be-
tween the os lachrymale and the eye
hall, and in this way photograph can
be taken which shows the position OF
objects quite beyond the reach of the
ophthalmoscope. In fact, Helmholtz'
wonderful instrument is useless, except
where the foreign body is located in
transparent tissue, and is free FROM
extravasation of blood, conditions
which do not apply to the Roentgen
photograph at all.--Pall Mall Gazette
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PUNoENT PARAGRAPHS.

-Tommy-"Paw, what is human ma
t,ire?' Mr.. Figg-"Human nature, f.,
son, is the excuse generally offered by
q man who has been acting like hog"
indianapolis Journal. 80
-"One reason why some smaht men
doan git along faster" said Uncle Eben,
sis case dey loses time shown off how
smaht dey is. stead o. trabblfn' right
erlong."- Washington Star.
81 understand Ham, the actor, dies
very naturally in his new play?" "Nat-
urally? Why, he dies so naturally the
people in the house don't know whether
to be glad or sorry."-Detroit Trib-
une.
-"You'II drive me into my grave
with your demands for money" said
old Sleek. 'sThen you'll have to give me
ten pounds MORE said Mrs. Sleek
because mourning goods are verys ex-
e."-Tit-Bits.
Cure for Seasickness.-Bridget--
"Wuz yeh sick whin yez WORT comm
over the ocean?' Moike (newly ar
rived)-'Wosn't I, thought II ! hadn't
put on loife preserver l believe ora
doid."- Harlem Life. =
How very easily child may get
out of scrape is shown by the case OF
the little nephew who had gone to be
the guest of his aunt, and who, on be-
ing asked at tea if he had not been help
ing himself secretly to jam, said quiet
ly: please, auntie, pa never lows me
to talk at meals."-Tit-Bits
-"We must economic" he said
peremptorily. I'm SO glad!" his wife
exclaimed: 'You take the announce
ment more good-naturedly than usual
"Yes. It's pleasant to hear you
use the plural number. Ordinarily
when there is any economizing needed
you expect me to do it all."-Washing
ton Star.
-"Humph!" said the wayfarer
"You want assistance, do you?' "Yes,
said the beggar. "Well, these are hare
times, and l have very strong conyic
tons on the money question. Are yot
for gold or are you silyerite?" Sir
replied the beggar, Il am anything
but 1 have feeling this evening tina
I'm nickelite." He got it.-Harper's
| Razar
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A CURIOUS CATCH.
Stolen Bicycle Was Recovered from the
Bottom OF the Bay of Bermuda.

Stolen Bicycle Was Recovered from the
Bottom OF the Bay of bermuda.
Among the residents of Bermuda are
two brothers, one of whom, besides be-
ing an enthusiastic yachtsman, is also
a swift and skillful rider of the bicycle.
Some time ago, shortly before the date
set for bicycle race in which he was to
be one of the contestants, his wheel
mysteriously disappeared, and all ef-
forts to find trace of it proved fruit.
less. s Z
One day, about IA months after the
bicycle had been presumably stolen,
a fisherman, who was angling out
in the middle of st. Georges harbor for
floating fish, hooked large one, which
instantly plunged into the depths Of
the harbor in vain endeavor to escape.
The angler played with him for awhile.
and then, feeling the line tighten in
his hand and the strain become steady,
began to haul up. He soon realized that
he had at the end of his line one of the
heaviest catches which he had ever
made, and (what he could not under
stand about it) that it was apparently
almost dead weight. He hauled away,
however, until there appeared above
the water not only the fish that he had
hooked, but bicycle, round the
handles of which the fish, in its efforts
to escape, had wound the line number
of times.
When the astonished fisherman had
sufficiently recovered from his amaze
ment at his curious catch he took the
bicycle ashore. There it was soonidenti-
fed as the one which had so inexplics-
bly, disappeared. Strange to say, the
machine, in spite of the fact that it had
been at the bottom of the. .harbor for
IA months, was but little damaged, and
was easily put in running order again.
For some time no clew as to how il
found it's way to its watery hiding
place could be discovered. Eventually,
however, several circumstances came
to light that pointed to n man with
whom the bicycle rider had once had
trouble. At one time whenever he rode
past this mans place the dogs which
were kept there would run out AID
bark end snap at the rider, causing him
considerable annoyance and trouble
At first he contented himself with sim.
ply driving off the brnfes as best h.
| could, but when he found that they
were set upon him by their master, he
took prompt measures to have the mar
arrested, brought into court and fined
From various circumstances that were
found out regarding the disappearance
of the bicycle, there seems to be ns
doubt that the owner of the ugly dog
was responsible for it. and that he stol'
the machine and sunk it in the harbol
in order to be- revenged on it's owner
Boston Transcript.
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A passenger train on the North Brit
sh railway met with curious accident
which engineers attribute to the intense
heat which prevailed on that day. The
train when rounding curve left the
rails and ran on the ballast for nearly
400 feet before it could be stopped. This
state of thing was brought about by the
spreading Of the rails from expansion
caused by the heat. According to the
report the thermometer on that day
and at that point registered 1913 degrees.
The dierailing occurred at noon while
the track was exposed to the full rays
of the sun. The expansion took place
within few hours, as an inspector had
passed over the road during the fore
noon, and everything appeared to be
in the usual condition AS the train
approached the spot the engineer saw
the rails were badly warped. and al.
though he at once applied the brake, IL
was too late to stop. The curious feature
Of the mishap was that the engine re-
NAMED on the track, having gone sale
~ over the spread rails. In connection
with this account comes the statement
that the road had not been kept in the
very best eqpditieps~N, Y. Ledger
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THEY SWING THEIR ARMS.
This Ia the Terrible Charge Brought
Against Bicycle Girls.

This Ia the Terrible Charge Brought
Against Bicycle Girls.
The queer habit men have of regard
ing women as mysterious beings whose
actions and modes of thought are quite
incomprehensible, was amusingly il
Illustrated recently by writer who Won
dered, through column and more,
why women, when walking, seemed
embarrassed about how to dispose of
their hands. The custom of the sex OF
carrying purse, card-case, umbrella or
other something was explained to be
an effort to solve the question of what
should be done with her hands. Most
peculiar, so it was averred, and very I'M
like the habit of men. 1t is indeed quite
tire that the sexes on the streets man
age their hands and arms after differ
ent fashions. but unlikeness in this par
ticular is ar.ifcially produced, as the
certained if he had taken the trouble to
Investigate.
Men of high and low and all inter-
mediate grades swing their arms as
they walk; that beautiful, natural and
comfortable movement is not permit
ted to a woman or girl with any pre-
tensions to good breeding. Don't swing
your arms is among the earliest of the
appalling long calendar of "Don'ts" pre-
pared exclusively for girls. In fact,
among the very awful sins that conserv-
alive people charge against the bicycle
girl is that when off her wheel she
strides "along and swings her arms" "
What she should do, according to these
censors, of course, is to glue her ell
bows to her sides and to take lady-like
steps. However, athletics is likely
more and more to claim the homage OF
woman, and it is more than possible
that ere long convention will permit
her arms to swing as freely as those OF
her brother, and when that time arrives
one m,r, woman mystery" will be dis.
sipated.- Philadelphia Times.
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Miss Winter (skeptically)-My photo
graph! You must be thinking of some
one else, too.
Capt. Vivian (earnestly)-Oh, no; las
sure you not. / remember quite well
now. You see, your cousins got
whole lot of your photos and II sup
pose I've noticed them.
Miss Winter-How very impertinent
of Algie. He must have stolen them.
/ wonder what he's got?
Capt. Vivian (thoughtfully) = We'll,
there's one with rough-haired terrier
on your knee.
Miss Winter--I certainly shan't let
him keep that. Why, it's the only one
I've got my darling "Doddles!"
Capt Vivian Cooking in alarm)-We
cau't be getting into Kings Cross. We
are, though. by Jove! Turning to Miss
Winter It's awfully good of you to
have let me off so easily; didn't deserve
it bit for keeping up the mistake SO
long, but you've no idea what fright
/ was in.
Miss Winter Qaughing)-Tm very
sorry; didn't know was so alarm
ing. Thank you, that's all. Good.
by.
| Scene II-Regimentai Sports. Miss
Winters and Alice Drummond looking on.
Miss Winter (enthusiastically)-O
we'll run. well run! Wasn't that splen-
did, Algie? I'm so glad that man won.
What's his name?
Algie (airily)-Blest if know. Takes
all my time to remember my own. O,
here's Vivian coming, he'll tell us. Wv
ian, hi! What's the name of that
Tommy who's just won the race?
Capt. Vivian-Parker, think. How
do you do. Miss Winter?
Algie-Oh, forgot! You know Wv
ian, don't you, Eve? (Chuckling.) Give
you my word never laughed so much
in my life as when heard the muddle
you two got into. / simply yelled
laughs immoderateiy.)
Miss Winter (sharply)-Well, don't
yell now, please; everyone's turning
round to look at us.
Algie tcomplacently)-Let EN-;
don't mind, bless you.
Miss Winter-No, but I do. Blythe
bye, AIgie (severely), should like t.
know how you got hold of my photos.
Algie (quite Observation-Disclosures 'eir
all, last time / was at Kirkleigh.
was awfully hard up for something te
: stick about the place, you know.
Miss Winter Acknowledgements re
ally, if that's all you want them for,
T. may as well have them back; / must
have the one with "Doddles."
Algie-Awful sorry, Eve, but, you SCI
1 haven't got it; some fellow bagged i
the day brought it back.
Miss Winter (indignantly)-What
I shame! Don't you know who it is?
Algie (valorously)-Wish did. IL
: make him fork out, that's all.
: Miss Winter-Perhaps you could flint
out, Capt. Vivian, as you know it.
Capt. Vivian cred and embarrassed)-
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o yes, perhaps i might. At least
Turns away in confusion)
Algie-Hullo! there are the Fairies.
I say Eve, / must go to them, Vivian II
look after you. He knows lots about
the sports. (Going.)
Miss Winter (hurriedIy)-Stop min
ute, Algie-where's mother?
Algie (cheerily)-O! she's all right;
don't you worry about her-the coloners
got her in tow. (Exit.)
Miss Winter with a sigh)-O deari
how dreadfully hot the sun is; it comes
straight down upon us.
Capt vivian-Suppose we go over
Hereunder those trees
(They leave the crowd, and go off to quiet
part of the grounds.) -,
Winter, / took that photograph of
yours.
Miss Winter-Oh, but why did you?
Capt. Vivian drawing closer)-Why ?
Shall / tell you why? Because l fell
in love with it at first sight, and I
couldn't bear to part with it. But
with heavy sigh if you really want
it must give it up.
Miss Winter (nerrously) 20, it
doesn't matter very much.
Capt. Vivian (delightedly)-Then
may keep it? o thank you! You don't
know what it is to me. "a short pause;
then recklessly)-Tm not much of a
hand at making speeches, but, you
know, seem to have known you so long
from having your photo; and-Evelyn
Il love you so much, with all my heart.
Could you, do you think, learn to love
me?
Miss Winter VERY low)-I don't think
1 need learn, because
Capt. Vivian (rapturously)-Darlingl
Black and White.
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Few people can claim to have ontwit-
ted the late Sir James Hammer, the
wcll-known judge. His lordship, how
ever, was curiously ''done" by a somber-
addressed juryman in his own court.
In a melancholy tone the juryman
claimed to be exempt from serving on
the jury which had been impaneled. Sir
James very alphabetically asked on
what ground he claimed exemption.
''My lord" said the applicant, II am
deeply interested in funeral which
takes place to-day, and am most anxious
TO follow"
certainly, sir; your plea is a just
one" remarked his lordship.
The man departed. and the next day
tbs Judge learned that be vas the IN.
destAkers-epaye Moments,
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HAPpENINcs OF ENGLAND.


conscientious registrar Of births
and deaths at st. Ives, England, recent
ly certified to the death of an infant
aged one minute.
An old lady of Greens Norton, Eng
land, celebrated her Tooth birthday re.
Gently by presenting stained-glasa
window as thanks offering to the par
ish church.
St. Saviour's church, in Southwark.
where John Harvard was christened,
has been completely restored, with the
exception of some of the smaller stained
glass windows.
A royal commission on the financial
relations between Ireland and Great
Britain has handed in seven differing
reports and two memorandums as the
nearest approach it can make to an
agreement.
London omnibuses carried 100000
passengers in the last six months, moro
than twice the population of Great
Britain and Ireland. The receipts were
So, 491,77O and the profits $326,695; 1908
omnibuses Travelled 11,6ss,000 miles.
Handel's organ. given by the compos-
er to the London Founding hospital in
1850, is being renovated. Handel played
on = Himself at the dedication, when
the crush was so great that gentlemen
were requested ITO come without their
swords and ladies without their hoops"
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Latest Thing In Cards.

Cards for both men and women ere
considerably smaller, and the script en-
craving is finer in consequence, follow.
ing more closely the English style than
the Partisan. which is large and with
flourishes. The block or Roman letter
is very English. and with those affect
ing London styles it finds great favor
The price more than doubles that Of
eript engraving. Chicago Tribune,