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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-30
Commissioner of Insuran
MAY 9th to June 13th.)
Official Publication

(May 9Th to June 13th0
Official Publication.
STATEMENT of the condit OF the
KNIGHTS OF THE GLOBE MUTUAL
BENEFIT ASSOCIATION, of Freepurt, in
the state of Illinois. for the year ending
December 3lst, 1899, made to the Commits.
sioner of Insurance of the State of Wiscon-
sin, pursuant to the laws of said State.
FirSt-Balance sheet
Amount OF net ledger assets De-
cember 3lSt of previous year. 500 $40 81
Second-Income.
Gross amount of membership
fees ;.......................... -. s11,779 90
Dues for expenses. per capita
Assessments: Mortuar;y w.. ..... ... 57,S7S 6
Medical examiEers's fees. wheth-
er paid direct or otherwise~.. 2,36S 90
Income from all other sources. 294 95
Total income ........... $sS.S14 10
Sum OF both amounts. -. $l1S,424 81
disbursements.
Death claims or inStallmentS
paid 49, =. ........ =. -. s6S,OOO 90
allowed to agents ......... 1889 %
Salaries and other compensation
of officers and office employees GALS 80
Medical examiners fees, whether
paid direct or otherwise. ....... 3,17S Is
All other expenses........ ....... $3.50 95
Total disbursements ... S96, 4G3 Is
Balance. Observation-Disclosures. $50, O2l &C
Fourth-Assets.
Cash in Office and deposited in
banks -. !3.......... s21,7OS 66
Assessments due on last call and
to become due, made within
sixty days ..:;........,... 1882 % 70
All other assets .......... ......... 3l3 90
Total assets. Observation-Disclosures. S31,O54 sc
Less items not admitted as as
sets and depreciation -. $500. 900 Is
Total admitted assets S30,154 Is
Fifth Liabilities.
Losses and claims in process of
adjustment -. ......... 80. $4,000 90
All other liabilities ............... 2,5l0 90
Total liabilities ........ $685.. S2S,510 90
Sixth MiScellaneOuS--W Wisconsin Business
Policies or certificates in force.
No. 643. .....,...........S 81. 154 900 90
Losses or claims incurred. No. s. $500 90
Losses or claims paid none
Premiums and assessments COL
ected during the year......... 5.271 35
Insurance Department. Madison, Wis.
hereby certify thai the foregoing is an
abstract of the sworn statement of the
Knights of the Globe Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton. filed with the Insurance Department. of
Wisconsin, this End day of March. 1900
EMIL GILJOHANN.
Commissioner of Insurance.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Time For Taking Medicines.

In LIE Revue de Therapie DR.. E. Vogt
gives it as his opinion that most medi-
cine can be taken any time on an empty
stomach, before or after meals, though
If an irritating substance be introduced
it is important that it be not in too
small Il volume. If such body is solu-
BILE in water, highly diluted solution
is given, but if it is insoluble it is Civ
en- with the meal Again, the form of
the drug is of importance-hard pills,
for instance, taken on an empty stom-
ach may irritate likewise, wafer cap
sules, whose contents first spread over a
limited space in the stomach. But if
such capsules, like sodium salicylate,
are given with the meal, the contents
mix at once with the food, and cannot
cause any local irritation of the mu-
cous membrane of the stomach. If.
however, prompt action is desired,
the medicament is given on an empty
stomach, but always diluted, because it
is very sensitive to strong solutions
Mercury salts irritate the mucous mem
brane. Therefore they are given in
diluted solution on an empty stomach
early in the morning. Bitters Dr. Vogt
advises, should be taken the moment
one sits down at table, not half an hour
before the meal It is imprudent to ad-
minister cod liver oil before the meal
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
How to Drink Water.

Professor Slikham says there are few
people who thoroughly realize the value
of water as a beverage or who know
how to obtain the greatest advantage
from it. The effects produced by the
drinking of water vary with the man.
ner in which it is drunk If, for in
stance, pint of cold water be swallow
ed as large draft, or if it be taken in
two portions with short interval be-
tween, certain definite results follow
effects which differ from those which
would have resulted from the same
quantity taken by slipping. Slipping is
a powerful stimulant to the circulation,
thing which ordinary drinking is not.
During the act of slipping the action of
the nerve which slows the beats of the
heart is abolished, and as consequence
that organ contracts much more rapid
ly, the pulse beats more quickly, and
the circulation in various parts of the
body is increased. In addition to this,
we find that the pressure under which
the bile is secreted is raised by the sip
ping of fluid. And here is point which
might we'll be noted by our readers: A
glass of cold water slowly slipped will
produce greater acceleration of the
pulse for a time than will glass of
wine or spirits taken at draft. In this
connection it may not be out of place
to mention that slipping cold water will
often allay the craving for alcohol in
those who have been in the habit of tax
ing too much of it and who may be en-
deavoring to reform, the effect being
probably due to the stimulant action of
the slipping. Popular Science
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
THE FLOWER OF FAME.

He sought it before the biow of spring on the
meadow seen,
When only the flush OF the willow tracing
the river with green;
He scanned to the edge of the frsying SHOWS that
dappled the mountain slope,
And too late the March rose, for he
searched the world with hope
I saw him at of the summer day, and that
the favorite hour
To who had hunted from March to May and
never had found a flower,
For the light full, though the sun were
aiding his eager quest,
And there warning shadows to run o er
his path from east west
And still in Septembers purple and gold he was
hunting the grudgins ground,
But not with the steady eye of old or the spring.
times joyous bound;
II he stopped in his feverish roaming, twas to
question the darkling air.
Too early the cleaning; he was searching
with despair
And while, for a chance of the rarest, he wanders
in heat,
He is blind the charm of the fairest he Is
crushing beneath his feet
The flower of every valley. the flower of all the
year,
Deep in whose broken blossom the dew lies like a
tear.
Robert Underwood Johnson in Century.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Indications of Malaria.

The statement is made by DR.. Bots
son, a French military surgeon, that
patients suffering from malarial affec-
lions, even those of masked or latent
character, always present peculiar
discoloration of the nails, this, it also
seems, being independent of the locality
in which the malaria was contracted,
as he has found in soldiers from Ton
quin and Madagascar. 1t appears before
the rigor, increasing during the cold
stage, attaining its maximum in the
middle of the hot stage, after which it
gradually diminishes. disappearing to-
ward the close of the sweating period.
This discoloration, which has also been
remarked by other observers, has gen.
orally been looked upon as due to cir
culatory troubles during the cold stage
but, according to DR.. Boisson, it cannot
be thus accounted for, as it begins be-
fore the cold period and is most evident
later on. It differs also from the 1ivid
blue tint due to local asphyxia, being
of a gray slate color, and is probably
due to change in the hemoglobin of
those red corpuscles which are destined
to be destroyed during the acute stage.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Fan to Warm With.

Every one is familiar with the use OF
electric fans for cooling purposes-hard-
ly restaurant, business Office or place
of amusement being without them in
hot weather. A writer suggests their
use for heating purposes as well in
places where the usual methods are in
convenient or inadequate, explaining
the process thus: eff an electric heater
were constructed of the form and size
of the face of the guard usually attach
ed to electric fans and fastened to the
guard, and if it were fed with current
from the same source of supply as that
which operates the fan, it should follow
that the fan propeller would force out
and distribute the warm air generated
by the electric heater. Electrical Re-
view
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
BOric Acid and Milk.

A scientific journal says that boric
acid is an excellent and harmless preser-
vative of milk and that in the quaint
ties necessary for preservation it's pres
ence cannot be detected either by the
sense of taste or of smell. Five grains
to the gallon will preserve the milk
from one to three days, according to the
care exercised in the cleaning of the
containing vessels, the temperature.
etc. Within the last three months DR..
O. Liebreich, director of the Royal
Pharmaceutical institute in Berlin, said
he had carried on a long series of ex-
periments with boracic acids and had
convinced himself that it was admira-
bly, adapted as a food preventative and
in the quantities necessary for that
purpose it was quite harmless He add
ed that neither in actual practice nor
according to authoritative literature
has case been known in which food
prepared or preserved with borax or
boracic acid had exercised deleterious
effect on the health of any individual
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Electric Seaso1inx.

A new process is announced for sea-
soning wood by electrical action. The
timber to be treated is put into quad
triangular tank of liquid. immersed to
rather more than half its depth and an
electric current applied through me-
talllc conductor, so arranged as to dis
tribute it throughout the area, and it
Is stated that in space of four min
utes the sap begins to exude at the lower
end of the wood In six hours it is all
extracted. The wood is then placed in
another tank from which septic solu-
ton is forced into the pores by an cleo
tro capillary method. If this process
has successful results at cost which
will not be commercially prohibitory,
it may prove of great Importance.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
LUNCHES SHOT HOT.
Busy Business Men Fed by Pneumaf.
ic Tube.

Busy Business Men FED ny Pne um NJ .
ic Tube.
There is room for controversy, says
the Pittsburg News, as to whether the
invention of a Philadelphia genius to
supply hot lunches by pneumatic tube
does or does not fill a long felt want.
The question will probably have to be
decided by individual preference. Will
liam J. Kelley proceeds upon the as
sumption that men whose work lies far
away from their homes would prefer a
lunch prepared by the loving hands of
wife or mother to one concocted by a
restaurant chef. Cold lunches carried in
the pocket to the office are unwhole-
some.
Accordingly Mr.. Kelley has placed
himself at the head of a concern which
will shoot hot lunches made at home
through pneumatic tubes of new de-
sign. Such speed will be used that the
domestic lunches will not have time to
get cold. This scheme possesses many
advantages. When the system is per-
fected. it could be extended over a wide
stretch of territory SO as to embrace
several cities Thus a Pittsburg man
who is in Harrisburg on business and
doesn't like his hotel fare might have a
hot beakfast or lunch fired to him direct
from home. In response to a telegram
he would not have long to wait for a
consignment of biscuits like mother
used to make or a slab of apple pie from
the home factory.
But Mr.. Kelley's scheme has its dis
advantages as we'll The newly married
young man. whose wife delights to dab
BILE in culinary affairs, has no chance of
escape. He may be putting on his coat
in his Office preparatory to going out
for his MONDAY meal when the pneu-
matte tube bell rings. Opening the slide,
he takes out a package containing some
choice cooking school samples, more fit
for parlor bric-a- brac than human food.
An accompanying note from his wife
says the lunch is 'tintended for sur
prise" and she hopes he II ''eat every bit
of it Unless he wishes to tell lie
when he gets home, he does so. AnOth-
er danger is that the various lunches
may get mixed up with each other while
flying through the tube, and a 125
pound man get the lunch of fellow
weighing $50, and vice versa. But ev-
cry new invention has its disadvan-
tages. which are eradicated with use
and Mr.. Kelley's is probably no excep-
tion to the rule.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
HE LIKED AUCTIONS.
But When He Bought Secondhand
Coffin His Wire Objected.

|
Mr.. Peterson ne tended all the auction sales
| That off
For miles around.
He used get his back up, and he'd swow he
wouldn't go,
But the bills would always tease him, and the
| first thing he would know,
When there was / hcop-ti-doo
In the shape OF vendue,
There Mr.. EzTy Peterson was regularly found
He bought up patent winnowers that somehow
wouldn't sift,
He had n dozen spinning wheels, for every one a
swift
| He had lot of OK yokes, though he never owned
And more'n thousand rusty keys that wouldn't
fit the locks.
He never had the moral strength to leave thing
twas cheap,
And, OH the stuff he carted off; you should have
the heap
But when he'd haul the mixture home and dump
it in the yard.
Mis- Peterson would hustle out and give it to him
hard,
And, though he'd promise better things, his grit
would always fail,
And, thunderation, off he'd dodge and tend an
other sale.
Pod augers and patent rights,
Old fusees with busted sights.
Tin lanterns and wooden pals
He jest went loony at auction sales.
Mr. Peterson he tended all the auctions round
Or he would bust.
He knew he hadn't ought to- but, you see, he was
afraid
That possibly it might occur he'd miss mighty
trade.
And at each vendue
He was there and bidding, too
A-starting ev'ry fgger just though he thought
he must
The time they thought Mis- Peterson was surely
going to die
The Pottses store was auctioned off, and Ezry
made try
To stay at home and mind his biz, but when he
heard the bell
He hustled down quick's he COULD and
though it's hard to tell
They had a coffin up for sale; the thing was built
and planned
For some one that it failed to fit, and so twas
secondhand.
Now Ezry saw he had chance to little
tin,
And up he braced, big's you please, and bid
that coffin in,
But when they told Mis- Peterson she r'ared and
tore, Oh my!
And got mad right through and through, by
gosh, she didn't diel
Pod augers and patent rights,
Old fusees with busted sights,
Broken tools and old machineS-
And he uses that coffin for storing beans.
Lewiston Journal
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
MOUNTAIN RAILROADS.
They Are Said to BE Safer Than Prai-
RE Lines.


RE Lines.
There has been no state in the Union
as fortunate in the matter of accidents
as Colorado, so far as her passenger traf-
fic is concerned. says the Denver Times.
This is son auhing marvellous, too, when
one takes into consideration the fact
that there are more crooked, winding
roads in the state than'in any other in
the Union. There are more up grades
and down grades and tapping over than
on all the rest of the lines of the coun-
try combined.
Away back in the past when the pro-
jectors and promoters of the Union Pa
cific suggested to congress that it would
be possible to climb over the mountains
and band the continent with rails of
steel, the members of congress laughed
and told in long speeches of the folly of
such an undertaking. Not very far back
in the history of Colorado, when the
Rio Grande proposed to pierce the
mountain Businesses, many of the citi-
zens derided the idea and suggested
that others could ride in a train up over
mountains if they wished to. tsbut not
me-
But the Union Pacific found its way
safely through the mountains, and so
did the Rio Grande, and so have several
other roads. They carry the traffic
across the backbone of the continent
and do not report as large per cent Of
loss of life as the air lines on the broad
prairies. The secret of the safety of
mountain roads lies in the fact that the
best equipment is used and the greatest
care exercised in the running of trains
two facts which guarantee safety.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
High Lights.

Our hereditary traits are those which
we pick out to blame on our ancestors.
Let us live for each other. but not so
energetically as to become meddle-
some.
1t depends on what we do whether
we are really industrious when we are
busy.
Imagination is that faculty by which
we describe beautiful sunrises without
losing sleep.
AS soon as the winter days get longer
some women begin to worry about flies
and mosquitoes.
If n man doesn't know a bargain
when he sees it, at least he knows the
bill for it when he sees it.-ChicagO
Record.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
DemaSnetizinE a Watch.

A simple method of curing magnet
lied watch consists in hanging it from
string, which latter is twisted as
tightly as possible, and then holding
the string and watch near dynamo or
strong magnet. The watch is then re
leased, and. of course, begins to spin,
and while doing so is gradually carried
away from the dynamo and out of tho
magnetic field. The demagnetization is
due to the rapid alterations of the
poles Of the magnetized parts in mag
netic field that is decreasing in intensity.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Her knowledge of 1t.

The young woman had been typewriter
to the chairman of the finance committee
for about month and had made mis-
take in one of its circular letters.
Here" he said angrily, don't you
know anything about the money question
at ALP
81 know this much" she responded
with asperity, 81 was to get Sc week in
this office, and I've been working four
weeks and haven't had a cent yet."--De-
troit Free Press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Lease of Six Inches of Lnnd.

A lease of six inches of ground AZ
III Franklin street, Chicago, for 81
years and one month was recorded the
other day. 1t runs from George L.
Barber to Hiram Il. Peabody and is
for an annual rental of $45. The prop
Irty has depth of s feet and COM
prises the party wall between lit and
115 Franklin street.-Chicag Times
Herald
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Her Best Tim e.

Mrs. Kute-You're not really going
to ask him for your new hat before
he's had his dinner?
Mrs. PhoXy-I am indeed.
Mrs. Kute-I should think you'def find
your husband in better humor after his
dinner. Mine always is.
Mrs. PhoXy-Yes. but I'd have to
contend with my husbands indigestion
then.-Philadelphi Press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28

The head has - muscles-S for the
eyes and eyelids, l for the nose, for
the lips, s for the jaw. IL for the
tongue. IL for the larynX, IL for the
ear, II for motions of the head and
neck, 1 to move the hairy scalp and
for the eyebrows.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Anything but That

'You wicked boy" exclaimed the
elderly woman, horror struck. what
are you pounding that poor dumb brute
for?'
dumb brute, ma'am?" said the boy,
turning upon her in anger and astonish-
ment. Dumb? This is a donkey,
ma 'amY'-Chicago Tribune.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28

Mr.. Growells-What! You want a
new bonnet? Why, think the one you
have is very becoming.
Mrs. Growells-Yes, and so do the
neighbors. They think it is becoming
very ancient and decrepit.-Chicago
News.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
The difference.

whats the difference between wit
and humor?"
eff man says humorous things
about you, it makes you laugh. If he
says witty things about you, it makes
you mad."-Chicago Record.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28

when Butler is doing nothing else.
he can work up Il little financial amuse-
ment."
How
"By cashing his checks on the banks
of the MISUNDERSTANDING Plain Deal
er.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Approved.

Saunting Sim-Wot do you t'ink Of
dis ''Man Wit de Hoe?''
Tired Treadwell-I tink he's all
right. l seen n picture of him wunst
and all he done was lean ag'inst it
Chicago Times Herald.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
CLUB AND LIGHT COMBINED.

electric light is made to show at the
will of the carrier. 1t is said that the
electrical apparatus within the club is
not disturbed when blow is struck
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
Police Club SearchIiSht.

A Ludlow (Ky. policeman is credit
ed with carrying a club with bullseye
in the end of it. through which an
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-28
And Didn't Want To,

He (who might sing if he understood
music and had a voice)-You haven't
heard my very last song, have you?
She feelingly)-Unfortun l have
not had that very great pleasure.-Nug-
gets.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-07-15
EXCURSION AT REDUCED RATE.
To Tampa, Fla, via Georgia Southern
and Georgia G. Alabama.

The fourth great annual tour to Tam
pa, Fla will take place July 25th.
The Georgia Southern, in connection
with the Georgia &.'Alabama and the F.
@. & p, Will operate personally con-
Quoted excursion from Macon and all
points in this territory to Tampa. The
round trip rate from Americas is only
S. 90, tickets good on any train re-
turning until July Goth. Georgia &
Alabama ticket agents will sell tickets
for noon passenger trains on 25th.,
which connect at Cordele with the
Georgia Southern & Florida's trains
for Tampa, arriving there at 5 o'clock
next morning. This excursion will be
personally conducted, and the very
best order will be preserved. Core
spending low rates from all stations
in this territory. For further infor-
nation see any agent of the q. & A.
road or @. B. Rhodes, general passen-
ger agent G. s. & T. at Macon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-07-15
DECISION OF GREAT INTEREST.
Relative to Transfer of Property in
Bankruptcy.

In recent decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States, it was held
that the United States Courts cannot,
except by the consent of the adverse
party, entertain jurisdiction over suits
brought by trustees in bankruptcy to
set aside fraudulent transfers of money
or property made by the bankrupt to
third parties before the institution of
proceedings in bankruptcy.
This decision has settled an Import
ant question in bankruptcy practice,
upon which lawyers and courts have
heretofore differed. One of the earli-
est cases in which this question arose
If not the first case of the kind-was
in the case of I. r. Cain VS.. j. N. Car
ter, in which Mr.. Cain, through his
attorney, Mr.. j. Fl. Lumpkin, filed a
petition with Hon. Shelby Myrick,
Referee in Bankruptcy, to set aside a
conveyance made by the bankrupt to
himself as administrator, prior to the
institution of bankruptcy proceedings.
Mr.. Carter, as administrator, through
his attorneys, Messrs. Allen Fort, J.
A. Ansley and j. A. Ansley Jr, plead
to the Jurisdiction of the court,
contending that the proceedings
should have been filed in the
Superior court of Sumter.
After elaborate argument, Judge
Myrick decided on February 18th, 1899,
that the district court of the United.
States and consequently thereferee had
no jurisdiction to hear and determine
the petition but that the same should
have been filed by the trustee in the
State courts.
Most of the courts followed this de-
cision, though number have held to
the contrary. The question was as
novel as important, for the reason that
former bankruptcy laws specially con-
ferred this jurisdiction on the United
States courts. The Supreme Court of
the United States has disposed of the
question, and the position taken by
Referee Myrick upon. what was at the
time a new and disputed legal question
has been sustained.