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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06
LIABILITIES.

State of Indiana, Office of Auditor Of State.
/. the undersigned. auditor OF state OF the
State of Indiana, hereby certify that the
above is a correct copy Of the statement OF
the condition of the aforementioned COM
pany on the 3lst day Of December. 1888. as
shown by the original statement. and that
the said original statement is now on file In
this office.
In testimony whereof here
ISEALl unto subscribe my name and af-
fix my official seal this 30th DAY
Of January. 1900. w. IL. HAhI'
Auditor of State
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06

Al O'Clock last night there were eight inches
q snow at Grand Haven. Mich. four AT
Pubuque. three At Chicago and one at Daven-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06
Copy Of Statement Of the Condition
OF THE
Queen lnSuranceCompany
Of America,
On the 3lst day of December, 1892.
II is located at No. 43 Cedar street,
New York.
JAS A. MCDONALD, President.
GEO. w. BURCHELL. Secretary.
Western Department - Royal building.
Chicago; p. d. McGregor, Manager.
Home Ofice-New York city. N. Y.
The amount OF its capital is. .-........$ 10000
The amount Of its capital paid up is. $4,000

The amount of its capital is. $50. 900
The amount of its capital paid up is. 6o0.0
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06
Tie Assets Of the Company In the U. S. are a
follows:

Cash on hand and in the hands OF
agents or other persons N0s,4O458
Real estate unincumbered $1,000. 720,1643
Bonds and stocks owned by the
company. bearing interest as
per schedule filed, market value 3467,e444S
Debts otherwise secured, accrued
interest .--...---.--..- ..-..--.---- .o,olo 20
Debts for premiums ............... Sll.Sl52
All other assets ................,.... S,isio0
Total assets ....................s4.e CO. s2so<
LIABILITIES.
Losses adjusted and not due...... $53. Us
Losses unadjusted ...............-. n0,2oo59
Losses In suspense waiting for
further proof mediterranean. 16,Ssi.N
nanv ........ .................... 1ss.s7Loo
Amount necessary TO reinsure
outstanding risks ................. 1889 81
Total liabilities 81, S26, $50 Sc
The greatest amount I'm any one risk.
$4,000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06
On the 3lst day Of December, 1899.

II is located at No. 43 Cedar street,
New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06

JAS. A. MCDONALD, President.
GEO. w. BURCHELL. Secretary.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06

Western Department - Royal building.
Chicago; p. d. McGregor, Manager.
Home Ofiice-New York city, N. Y.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-06

c, F. X. wAPPENHANS.
Local Forecast Official.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
"Ich Kann Warten,"

In the outer room of the small suite o.
offices in the Mills Building occupied by
the late Coils P. Huntington of New
York, hangs a small engraving of a
painting by the German artist Knaus,
which has many times been the means OF
showing the kindness of heart of the
dead magnate. The picture is that OF an
old man who is soliciting employment.
The face bears many traces of age and
hard life, the clothes hang loosely on
frame that gives evidence of once hav-
ing had great strength, and there is a
general air of submissiveness and pa
thence about it. Under nearby table
lies bag of references, perhaps, and
underneath is the inscription, Itch kann
Warten" ("I Can Waltz,
This little engraving was one of Mr..
Huntington's iavortes, and he often
looked at it for several minutes at a time.
Some of the older employees say that he
would always express sympathy for the
old man in some kind phrase. He said
that it was sad that an old man like the
one in the picture should have to show
so much patience and be treated as an
inferior. Perhaps he found matter for
comparison between the old man and
himself. There certainly was a great
difference, for it is impossible to imagine
Mr.. Huntington with a submissive
demeanor saying Itch kann Warten" to
any one. Many men repeated the words
at his office door, but no one could ever
charge unkind treatment.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
Every Wheel Stopped.

Every wheel and stroke of commerce
throughout the great Southern Pacific
system of railroads and steamship lines
was stopped for seven minutes during
the burial of Coils P. Huntington in
New York. At the exact moment when
the clock struck II in New York every
hammer in all the shops ceased changing /;
engines paused upon the rails and steam
ships hoated litelessly upon the water.
In Chicago the Offices remained closed all
the morning, and no tickets were sold or
other business transacted until after the
remains of the once great railroad mag
nate were laid to rest. During the short
suspension of business so 1000 men in all
sections of the United States remained
idle.
Services were held at the First Pres.
bvterian church at San Francisco at the
same time the funeral was in progress in
New York. W. G. Neimeyer, General
Western Freight and Passenger Agent OF
the Southern Pacific, with headquarters
in Chicago. said that this is the first
time in the history of American railroads
that there has been total suspension OF
business on any system as a mark OF
respect to the memory OF any man.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
Stirring Times in China.
The Rescue of the Missionaries in Shan
tunR.

The Rescue of the Missionaries in shan
tung.
Miss Calista Downing, st. Johns
bury lady who has been for the past 25
or 80 years missionary in Chefoo, has
sent to Mrs. c. M. Stone report Of the
rescue of American missionaries in the
interior of China, which is given in full
as it tells the story from official sources.
Miss Downing writes in private letter,
CDR. Porter and his sister and Mr.. Per
kins are still here. l, too, am refugee.
All of us ladies and children left our
home "a days ago. 1t is trying time.
Some DAYS we hear we are to be attack
ed anytime, aud then we hear we are in
no immediate danger. You get all the
reliable news quite as soon as we do.
am sure you are praying for the native
christians as we'll as the missionaries"
Miss Downing's letter was written from
Chefoo under date of July IL. The re-
mort of the rescue Of the missionaries is
as follows:
Report of Rev. George Cornwell who
went to Yongkioaknu, an inlet on the
coast of North Shantung, over 200 miles
due west of Chefoo, with the japanese
Ship Kwanko Maru, chartered by John
Fowler, ESQ.,, United States Consul, Che
foo, for the purpose ofrescuing endanger'
ed American and English missionaries
from the interior of Shantung and Hon
| au.
Japanese Ship Kwanko Maru.
June 20, 1900.
Tohn Fowler, Esq, U. S. Consul.
Dear Sir: Herewith l submit to you
nv report of the undertaking with which
YOU honored me in sending me in charge
of the Japanese steamship Kwanko
Maru to rescue the missionaries who
should gather at Yang Kiakoo. Leav.
ing Chetoo at 3 p. m. on the Goth inst,
we reached Yangkiakou roadstead at
10 a. m. on the Dist and arrived at the
dock some 4OIi (13 miles) away at 2
D. m. found only one person on hand
the Rev. Cesaire, a French Bishop
That evening the French consul and
wife arrived, bringing word that the
Chinanfu party would not arrive before
the 25th, consequently made PROPOSE
ton to the consul to take the steamer
and return to Chefoo at once, paying all
expenses of this trip. He gladly accept
ed the proposition. On arriving on the
afternoon of the Dist had at once sent
a special message to Weihien with warn.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
Trouble with the Cabbages.

Cabbages are subject to several dis
eases, some OF which are severe. Trouble
is especially apt to occur with the late
crop,-those grown for sauer kraut and
winter storage.
Probably the worst two of these cab
bage maladies are the club-root and the
black rot. Both have been found in
Vermont gardens, and both are threaten
ing to become widespread.
The Vermont experiment station,
which makes speciality OF investigating
all such troubles, has been making ex-
periments in the treatment of these dis
eases, and has issued small pamphlet
setting forth the facts as far as now
known.
Club-root is a curious malformation of
the roots, which ruins the plants by pre-
venting the absorption of water and
foods. 1t was probably introduced into
this country from Europe, and is spread
ing. 1t has been observed in Vermont
only recently. Clubbing of roots is due
to their invasion by parasite which
stimulates them to abnormal growth.
This parasite once established in the soil,
is very difficult to externinate. The
parasite is perpetuated over winter by
spores which are formed in vast numbers
in tie dubbed roots. These germs pass
uninjured into the manure OF stock fed
upon dubbed roots, and the use of such
infected manure is one of the commonest
ways of introducing the germs into the
soil. Another way is with roots trans
planted from infested soil.
The remedies recommended are briefly
as follows: a. Remove all dubbed
roots from the field and destroy them by
burning or burial, or boil them if to be
fed to stock. (2.) Plow infected soil
deeply. (3.) Rotate crops. a. Sup.
press all weeds OF the mustard family.
(5.) Apply lime, $3.50 bushels per acre,
in autumn before planting cabbages or
turnips.
Black rot of cabbages has been
observed in numerous Vermont fields.
1t is caused by bacteria, which invade
the vessels of leaves and stem. The
diseased plants are weakened or die of
sort of dry rot. The blackened condi-
ton of the invaded veins is the surest
sign of the disease 1t is not to be con-
fused with the common wet rot. The
germs pass the winter in the soil, or in
the manure if diseased plants are fed to
stock. They re-enter the cabbage plants
through the water pores or insect
punCtures.
The treatment recommended for the
black rot may be summarized as follows:
a. Rotation of crops. (2) Care in
selection of manure. g. Suppression of
cabbage insects, az Removal and
destruction of spotted leaves in the early
stages OF the disease and of entire plants
if the stem is invaded.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
KIDNEY TROUBLES OF WOMEN
Miss Frederick's Letters Show How She
Relied on Mrs. Pinkham and Was


Relied on Mrs. Pinkham and Was
Cured.
"DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-I have a
yellow, muddy complexion, feel tired
and have bearing down pains. Menses
have not appeared for three months;
sometimes am troubled with a white
discharge. Also have kidney and blad-
der trouble.
have been this way for long time,
and feel SO miserable thought would
write to you and see if you could do me
any good. p Miss EDNA FREDERICK,
Troy, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1899.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM Il have used
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pound according to directions, and can
say l have not felt so well for years as
do at present. Before taking your
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Now [ feel so well cannot be grateful
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Ohio, Sept. 10, 1899.
Backache Cured
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1t is the only medicine I have found
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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
The Passion PLAY

Correspondence of the CALEDoNAN.)
How strangely at times we are in
debted to wrong and even crime for
some of our richest and rarest bless
ings. Bunyan was unjustly imprison-
ed and the world has been uplifted
by his Pilgrims Progress. Rome
killed and scattered the early Christ
ians and by her very persecution
spread Christianity and FASTENED
the overthrow of Paganism. The
Jews cruci6ed Christ and aided,
though guilty, in the redemption OF
the world.
Such an overriding Providence
seems to have turned the unfortu-
nate action of Caspar Schuchler,
who introduced the dreaded plague
in ODER Ammergau during the fear
ful Thirty Years War" In his
selfish anxiety to revisit his family,
he came from a plague-stricken vii
lage to this mountain hamlet, hither-
to exempt owing to the strict
quarantine maintained, and in few
days the place was swept by the
ravages Of the dread disease, Caspar
and his family being among the first
victims. The story is known to us
al-the terror, the prayers and vows
to perform the Passion Play as
religious duty every ten years, the
miraculous staying of the disease,
and the faithful observance Of the
VOW by succeeding generations oil
the villagers. Thus to Caspar
Schuchler's crime we owe the per
petuation of this wonderful represen
tation, the sole survivor of the mira
Gle plays, once so powerful a means
otreligious instruction.
One wonders, on reaching the vii
lage, how so small a place number
ing scarce 1900 people can produce a
play so wonderful as to draw throngs
Of visitors from all parts of the
world. Nor does the wonder cease
10 grow, as one becomes acquainted
with the villagers differing in no way
from those of hundreds of other
similar villages. And yet there is
one difference-the inspiration of a
great idea.
Seated in the great hall before the
stage with its background of noun
'ains and blue sky, we wait in sus
pense for the opening scene. AS the
chorus in flowing colored robes and
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
First Postage Stamp in America.

1t is believed that the first postage
stamp used in this country was one de-
signed by the Hon. E. A. Mitchell, post
master of New Haven, Conn, in the year
1847. 1t was brown in color, printed
on ordinary paper, and about the size OF
the present. government stamp, and
signed by Mr.. Mitchell He issued it for
the convenience of the citizens, who COM
planned of the delay occasioned by their
being unable to prepare letters except in
the office hours.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29
Politics and the Foreign Service.

One who travels in another coun.
TRY always finds that the consular
seryice of the United States is far be-
rond those of the other leading ma
tions of the world in efficiency and
general ability. Mr.. Clapp's letters
to this paper have reiterated the
fact that Commissioner Peck has
been junketing all the time at the
Paris Exposition and this is confirm
ed by other writers and visitors to
the Exposition. Our regular cores.
nondent at Paris this summer writes
this week of The way we are disgraced
abroad by gilt-edged commissioners
and cheap consuls andlays the blame
lust where it belongs, to the politi-
clans who secure foreign appoint
ment as their reward for party SER
vice There is a good deal Of truth in
the letter given below and much
food for thought:
I'VE have made ourselves ridiculous
By sending a great host Of commits
sioners to the Paris Exposition, and
they in tarn have made us and them
selves more ridiculous by insisting
through official channels upon social
recognition. Many of them, too
many, with their sisters and their
cousins and their aunts, have got it,
and the way they WELD and flourish
and display it makes the groundlings
grin, the judicious grieve. The fault
is at home in the vicious system
which treats every appropriation to
worlds fair as a junketing function
to which every American has right
to 90 at government expense, pro-
vided his member of Congress has
pull enough to put him on the roll.
Would that this vicious system
stopped at Paris or were as epheme-
raj as the Paris Exposition. But we
know it is the bane of our diplomat
ic and consular services, and that it
results in our sending aspiring, litter
ate ounces to represent us in hun
dreds of foreign cities, where our
consuls are in sharp contrast with
the elite, educated, polyglot agents
Of England, Germany and Russia.
The crying need of our foreign trade
today is not cheaper production, or
more ships, but an improved corps
Of commercial and consular agents
speaking severallanguages of cosmo-
poitan intellectual range aud as in
diligently Jealous for the interests
Of their country as is the average
Chicago or New York drummer for
the success OF his house. We have
the raw material for such a corps
The pity is that it is so very raw
French, German and Spanish should
be known by those who presume tC
ask for consular places, and not only
a smattering of these languages but
easy conversational felicity in them
The requirement of these languages
will enable the scholar to speak one
more language, Italian, almost with
out study, and not until we insist
upon this equipment as a sine not
for consular appointment will we be
able to compete with the austute
debonair, and versatile agents sent
put nv M her countries
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-08-29

golden crowns files in and indignity
announces the Introductory tableau
the exclusion of Adam and Eve
from Eden, one feels Immediately
that 1T is a representation inspired
by deep religious motives. Nor is
this feeling lost all through the play.
1t is essentially a religious and
sacred presentation of the sacrifice
of Christ.
The Passion Play is familiar to all.
It's divided into sixteen acts repre-
senting the period from Christ's
triumphal entry into Jerusalem to
his ascension. Each act is preceded
by prologue sung by the chorus,
and tableau from the Old Tesla
ment typical ofthe ensuing scene from
Christ's life. Thus the conspiracy of
Joseph's brothers to sell him intro
duce the plot of the Sanhedrin to
seize and punish Christ; the unjust
condemnation of Naboth is the pre-
Jude to that of Christ by Caiphas,
the high priest.
These tableaux are wonderful pro-
auctions. In beauty ard harmony
of color, in unity and accuracy of
expression, in their artistic arrange
nent they are veritable master
pieces which impress themselves in
delibly upon the memory. So realis-
tic are they and so vivid that one
feels himself actually looking upon
the biblical scenes represented.
1t would be difficult to say what
parts or players are superior to
others, it is all so true and natural.
But one is strongly impressed by the
leading characters and the part they
play in the great tragedy. In Judas
one sees the distrust, the meanness,
the treachery, the desperation, and
awful despair so fearfully imperso-
mated that one is moved with horror
at the sight OF this wreck Of a human
life. Mary's face CLOVIS with holy
light and divine trust even when her
soul is torn with the deepest anguish
The Christ is always the dignlfied
and loving Saviour, the man of sor
rows and acquainted with grief, the
meek and lowly Jesus, and Antor
Lang, in his Interpretation of thi:
most difficult part, seems to have
caught the spirit of the Master, anC
to set before the observer the rea
scenes of the Passion. In the scenes
representing the Last Supper, the
agony in Gethsemane, the browning
with thorns, the way to Calvary
and the cruci6xion, the vast audi
ence remains spellbound with in
tense interest in the scenes before it
These are among the finest and mos
impressive parts of this wonderful
drama, drama so powerful as tC
attract thousands of people to thi:
little isolated village. The visitor
comes to ODER Ammergau with keer
interest, sees the play with wonder
and fascination, and leaves in amaze
ment that grows as he contemplate
the simple yet beautiful village, anC
remembers the peasants and thu
great story which they so earnestly
and wildly present.
c. H. DEMPSEY.
The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1900-05-08
ADVICE FOR OLD PEOPLE.
should Keep Their Minds
Occupied.

There have been certain changes In
thought and feeling during this CEN
tury which have gone great way to-
ward solving for woman the old secret
of perpetual youth. The advance in
woman's education has kept her young
by keeping her interests alive in vital
questions of the hour. Education has
given her something to think about
some living interests when she reaches
that period in her life when younger
hands take up her work. The woman
who formerly gossiped on country
piazzas or employed her time embroid-
ering impossible flowers, dogs and cats
in eye-scratching colors and discussed
the deterioration of youth and the SUI
periority of her day to the present is
a figure of the past. She has become
an anomaly not to be tolerated. Wom-
en- of to-day do not think of themselves
as belonging to a past age, whatever
years they may have attained. 1t is
only the very old who become rem
iniscent We see instances each day
ofwomen making new departures, TAX
ing up art studies, courses in universi-
ties and in other ways showing their
interest in the present and future of
the worlds life and progress, and at an
age when few generations ago they
were considered to have passed their
usefulness. There is no more pathetic
picture than that of the grandmother
in the corner, knitting to keep her fin
gers active, yet only thinking of day
passed that can never return, waiting
for the end. Il cannot be forgtten that
the women of the beginning Of the
century an6 before often sank into
this hopeless state al a period when
men were in the prime of their powers.
Living interests keep us young. The
sympathies we have in life keep us
young. At any age an ennuied mind
cannot long inhabit a healthy body.
Keep your interests in nature alive il
you would keep young. Do not become
Indifferent TO the succession of years,
20 that the seasons go by without
thought or feeling. but rejoice with the
birds and all living creatures in the
Joy of the spring, the beauty Of the
summer and autumn and the promise
hidden in the SHOWS OF winter. Meas
ure your health" says Thoreau. "by
your sympathy with morning and /
spring. II there is no response in you I
10 the awakening Of nature. if the pros
Dect Of on early morning does not /
lanish sleep. Y the varble Of The first
liucbinl does not thrill you. know that
he morning and spring of your life is
'ast. Tins sou may feel your pulse
~. Y. Tribune.