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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-03-31

For the year ending December III, A ID.
1903. OF the condition and affairs Of the
ANCE CO., LTD,
or London. Organized under the laws OF
the Kingdom of Great Britain. made 10
the Commissioned of Insurance of the
State of South Dakota. in pursuance OF
the laws OF said State. Attorneys for
service of process in the State of South
Dakota Information furnished 10y Com
missioner of Insurance). Organized or
Incorporated, January IL, 17s2 Com
menced business in United States, Octo-
PROPERTY OR ASSETS OF THE COM
PANY.
Cash in office ... Sl13.I4
Cash on deposit ........... BOG, S65.33
Accounts due from agents. l31,2l0.u3
Stocks and bonds owned by
the company ..... 2.4.9.91O.OO
Interest due and accrued. 10. 81, 1890
Reinsurance due on losses
already paid .............. 2.6is.I5
Total assets ......... 2,97s. 91l.95
Losses yet unpaid -. s22ia74e2
Losses resisted ........... l9.G}6.00
Amount of unearnrd pre-
miums on all outstanding
Salaries due officers and
employees ............. s,o4s.16
other existing claims not
included in above 49,. 41.sl4.29
Total liabilities ....... S2,1Is.4sl O2
INCOME OF THE COMPANY DURING
Total premiums Tor tie year s~2.470lsl.74
Interest receipts ......... 81, SoG.S5
above .....- ......... 16sI1.45
Total Receipts ...... 81. aGS. SOC. o.
EXPENDITURES OF THE COMPANY
DURING THE YEAR
Commissions paid To agents 492.G30.92
Salaries paid to officers and
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-03-31

For the year ending December 81, A. ID.
1903. of the condition and affairs Of the
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-03-31

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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
A serious ofense.

Mr.. Banks had acquired a dictatorial
manner in his youth, and it had grown
with his years. When he gradually
became nearsighted, he refused to
wear glasses and held other people re-
sponsibIe for any difficulties into which
his failing sight led him. One day he
clutched by the coat sleeve a man who
was hurrying past him on the street.
81 want word with you, Mr..
Griggs," he said sharply. 81 will de-
tain you only a moment"
my name is not Griggs You have
made mistake" said the man.
"Your name isn't Griggs!7 said Mr.
Banks, still OBTAINING the stranger and
peering into his face. 81 should like
to know why not?"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16

we'll enough she knew the story of his
boundless ambitions, now so swiftly
ended. Well enough, too, she knew
the shortcomings of this mortal man
before her. Even as she had in her
mirror looked into her own soul, so
now she saw deep into his heart as
he lay there, helpless, making no fur
Their plea for himself, urging no claim,
making no explanations nor denials,
no reservations, no promises. Did
she indeed see and recognize again, as
sometimes gloriously happens in this
poor life of ours, than other and in
ner man, the only one fit to touch a
woman's hand-the man who might
have been? Did she see this, and
greet again the friend of long ago?
God, who hath given mercy, remedy
alone suficing for the i'll that men
may do, He alone may know these
things.
Could John Law failing be John
Law succeeding, and in his most sub
lime success? Upon the wreck and
ruin of the old nature could there
grow another and better man? May
hap the answer to this was what the
eye of woman saw. How else could
there have come into this great room,
so late the scene of turbulent activi-
ties. this vast and soothing calm
How else could this mans breath come
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
FTHE END.J
Continued Next Week.
THROWN UPON The STAGE.


The way English Audiences Reward
Popular Players With Gifts.
There have lately in the provinces
been several sensational nights at
prominent theaters when to mark the
last performance of a local pantomime
all manner Of gifts have been thrown
upon the stage for the benefit of popu-
lar performers.
All those acquainted for long with
the inner life of the theatrical profess
sion can tell some remarkable stories
of these gifts cast upon the stage. The
most celebrated and universal of these
relates to a lady who once held the
main portion of the lease of a promi-
nent London theater. While this lady
was still an actress only and not a
manageress, an actress of great talent
and beauty; there was one night on the
first production of the piece small
bouquet cast upon the stage at her
feet. Attached to the bouquet was a
small Russia leather card case, and in
side this were bank notes to the value
, of $1,000 exactly On no fewer than
seven different occasions, with a toler-
ably long interval between, did the
same thing occur, and the lady, as al
legged, has never from that day to this
discovered who her admirer was,
though all manner of romantic conjec-
lures were made at the time.
Even within the last few weeks an
unknown elderly gentleman threw an
envelope weighted with pennies and
containing a five pound note to a tiny
child performing in a London subur-
ban pantomime. Some theaters have
been celebrated for their gift nights,
all manner of presents, from frying
pans to green vegetables, having been
gently deposited on the stage for the
popular actors; yet, on the other hand,
both writs and summenses have been
handed to actors who could not be ap-
preached through the stage door, but
who consented to receive presents over
the footlights on their benefit nights.
The most curious sight the writer
ever saw in connection with these gift
throwing nights was in relation to a
favorite actor who, at great provin-
cial theater. played during long pan
tomimic run the part of parasite
named Cadgi, who carried a pipe
that had a huge bowl and whose oft
repeated cry was, Can any one oblige
me with bit O. 'baccaw On the last
night of the performance the familiar
request for "bit O. 'bacca" had no
I sooner been spoken than literally scores
of packets and screws of tobacco of
every imaginable kind were thrown
upon the stage, more than 120 of these
falling about the actor.-London Tit
Bits.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16

Grass is the most important of all
foods for young goslings. I keep box
sown thiclSly with oats, and when it is
too cold for the goslings out Of doors
let them deyour this, which furnishes
an abundance of green food that is
much enjoyed by them. They eat very
daintily, preferring grass to all other
foods With their musical chatter
they are ready to meet you, take a few
mouthfuls of food, and then with the
same old tune they lazily saunter away
in search of more grass and more rest.
Early in the spring turn them into
a yard set with tender June grass; lat
er place them in clover field. If
your range is limited and grass is
scarce. a yard sown with oats will do
splendidly Mrs. Jennie Wolcott in
Ducks and Geese.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16

the residence of Monsieur Las. and
this is Monsieur Las himself. fear
he is taken suddenly i'll.
The lady stepped quickly to his side.
AS she did so, Law, as one not fully
hearing, half raised his head. He
looked full into her face, and releasing
himself from the arms of his servant,
stood thus, staring directly at the Wis
itor, his face haggard, his fixed eyes
bearing no sign of actual recognition.
ssCatharine! Catharine!" he ex-
claimed. "Oh God, how cruel of sou
to mock me! Catharinei"
The unspeallable yearning of the cry
went to the heart Of her who heard it.
She put out hand and laid it on his
forehead. The Swiss motioned toward
the house. And even as the officer
wheeled his troop to depart, these two
again assembled the steps, half carry
ing between them a stumbling man.
who but repeated mumblingly to him
self the same words:
ssMockery! Mockery!"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16

now so deep and regular and content
With the dawn there came into the
heart Of Catherine Knollys a flood OF
light and JOY. Why. she knew not
how, she cared not; yet she knew that
the shadows were gone. The same tide
of peace and calm might have swept
into the bosom of the man before her.
He stirred, moved. His eyes opened
wide, in their gaze wonder and disbe-
lief, yet hope and longing.
sCatharine, he murmured, Gath
arine! Is it you? Catharine! Dear
Kate!"
She bent over and softly kissed his
face. Dear heart" she whispered. q
have loved you always. Awake The
day has come There is another world
before us. See. I have come to you,
dear heart, for faith, and for love, and
for hope!'
1.-THE END.J
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
Not to Be flushed.

Bishop Littlejohn of Long Island,
who died at the age of ninety, refused
up to the day of his death to accept the
assistance of a eoadjutor bishop, de-
claring that he was perfectly able to
perform his duties and care for his
people. At meeting of the clergy in
the last year of his life Archdeacon
Bryan was requested to call the meet
ing to order The archdeacon arose
and requested the delegates to give at
tention, remarking:
1.-THE bishop wishes to say few
words
"a few words, sir; few words!' in
terjected the bishop. Il would have it
understood sir, that the bishop will
say as many words as he pleases."
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16

George NJ. Freeto is one of our wide
awake young farmers, and he says
Farming is pretty poor business done
in the old way, and if want to raise
anything at a profit 1 have got to force
it, Look, for instance, at those tur-
keys; young gohblers there that weigh
eighteen pounds and young hens four.
teen pounds. How did do it? Well
I feed them warm dough mornings
then in an hour or two / call them up
and feed them little more, and then
give them barley and cracked corn
then whole corn. l feed six times q
day and throw the feed down to them
every time so they can see it when il
falls Then they grab for it with a
rush, and by so doing l keep their
crops full all the time"
Turkeys are something like trout
they want to catch their feed on the
fly. Freeto's neighbors feed once or
twice a day and keep the feed before
the turkeys all the time, but they don't
eat enough of it to weigh twelve OF
fourteen pounds for gobblers. -Four
pounds extra at is cents is II cents
each. With a flock of forty turkeys il
makes almost $50 extra. Didn't that
pay? Then an extra price of 2 cents
per pound would bring it up to $40. The
raiser feels little pride in selling a
good article, and the consumer is salts
fed to pay a larger price for meat in
stead of bone. Farm and Home.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
CHAPTER XLIII.
THE QUALITY OF MERCY.


Within the great house there was
silence, for the vistas Of the wide in
terror led far back from the street and
its tumule: nor did there arise within
the walls any sound of voice or foot
fall. OF the entire household there
was but one left to do the master
service.
They entered the great hall, passed
the foot of the wide stairway, and
turned at the first entresol, where were
seats and couches. The servant paused
for a moment and looked inquiringly
at the lady with whom he now found
himself in company.
"The times are serious" he began.
I would not intrude, madame, yet per-
haps you are aware
81 am a friend of monsieur replied
Lady Catharine. He is i'll See, he is
not himself Tell me, what is this i'll
ness?"
Madame" said the Swiss, gravely,
This illness is that of grief. Monsieur's
failure sits heavily upon him"
How long is it since he slept?''
asked the lady, for she noted the
dropping head of the man now reclin-
ing upon the couch.
mot for many days and nights
replied the Swiss. '.He has for the last
few days been under much strain. But
shall | not assist you, madame? You
are, perhaSs-pardon me, since do
not know your relationship with mon
sieur-'.
"A friend of years ago. knew Mr..
Law when he lived in England"
Il perceive. Perhaps madame would
be alone for time? If you please,
will seek aid
They approached the side of the
couch. Laws head lay back upon the
cushions. His breath came deeply and
slowly, not stertorously nor 1abored.
How strange" whispered the Swiss,
che sleepsl"
Such was indeed the truth.
Madame would be alone with mon
sieur?" asked he. st will be better
Lady Catharine Knollys, left alone,
gazed upon the sleeper. John Law, the
failure, lay there, supine, abased, cast
down, undone, shorn utterly of his old
arrogance of mind and mien. Fortune,
wealth, even the boon of physical
well-being all had fed from him. The
pride of superb manhood had depart
ed from the lines of this limp figure.
The cheeks were lined and sunken, the
eye, even had the lid not covered 8,
lacked the late convincing fire. No
longer commanding, no longer strong,
no longer gay and debonair, he lay, a
man whose fate was failure, as he him
self had said.
The woman who stood with clasped
hands. gazing at him, tears yelling in
her eyes-she, so closely linked to his
every thought for these many years
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
ONE MANS SUCCESS.
A. c. Hawkins Tells How He Made q
Fortune In Chickens.

A. G. Hawkins Tells How He Made q
Fortune In Chickens.
In sketch of his life as a poultry
man, written for Reliable Poultry
Journal, II. c. Hawkins Of Massachu-
sets says:
When | was twenty years of age
my father gave me a deed to four acres
of land located at one corner of his
farm, and on this strip | built for a
starter two henhouses, each 200 feet
long. / purchased fifty Barred Rocks,
and the first season raised nearly 1000
chickens, which gave enough pullets to
fill the two houses. | fed them well,
and during the holidays my 500 pullets
We're shelling out twenty-five dozen
eggs a day. They sold readily at 40 to 45
cents dozen, and l was never happier
in my life than / was right then, sell
ing the products of my four acres at
$40 to So day. which was more than
the income of all the rest of the farm.
'sThe next season / raised 5000 chick
ems and built more houses. Next
made a contract with a Bosom hotel
for sixty dozen eggs day, to be ship
ped the day they were laid at 80 cents
a dozen the year round, or $1,000 from
one hotel for the year. ! bought more
good stock and raised 1000 to 5000
head of fowl each year and in 1880 be-
gan to exhibit and advertise in the old
Poultry World and American Poultry
Yard, published at Hartford The win
ming of my birds at the shows began to
attract the attention of the older breed
ers. and soon I had customers for my
best birds from all over the country.
in the winter of 1888 my hat began
to get too small and / decided to take
a try in Americas greatest show at
Madison Square Garden, New York.
Mr. p. III. Scudder, who now judges
the Barred Rocks at New York, was
my strongest competitor, and when l
got to New York was up against
every good bird that money could buy.
When the battle was over and the
clouds had swept away, had won
every first prize in Barred Rocks. |
sold $500 worth of birds at that show,
and came home the happiest man on
earth and, of course, had to buy still
larger hat right away.
my competitors at New York said
that no New England Yankee could
do that trick again. told them that
when the New York show opened
again the next year they would find
my birds in line Every good Barred
Rock that could be heard of was
brought to beat the Massachusetts
Yank, but he again won pretty nearly
everything in sight, and sold several
birds at $50, $75 and 500 each.
"My advice to beginner would be:
Always start with the best stock you
can afford; study and breed them care
fully and when you have stock for
sale try to give every customer good
value for his money. Always have a
price on everything but your family.
There is nothing too good to sell.
Good stock sold will make you many
customers and a good reputation.
Breeders who reserve all of their
best birds and sell what they do not
want cannot expect customers for
high class birds at good prices"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
RnrreI Trnnhle

Bowel trouble in young chicks is COM
monty caused by either improper feed
ing or improper temperature Of the
brooder. Impure water will also cause
it. A brooder that is too cold or too
hot will bring it on. Sour or tainted
feed, or too much meat, will cause it
The prevention is to keep the chicks
from getting chilled or very heated,
give pure water, feed dry chick feed or
a cake made of cornmeal ana shorts
mixed up with skim milk, seasoned
with salt and soda; also keep fine grit
before them and allow plenty Of exer-
else.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
How to Make Nut Cheese,

Take any Of the soft American
cheese, scrape off a piece and roll it
into a ball the size of a good sized
marble. put the half of an English wal
nut meat on each side, pressing it fast
to the cheese.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
how to Glenn Polished Floors.

Dust well and then wipe with a
cloth wrung as dry as possible out OF
cold water, then rub well with dry,
soft cloths and polishing leather.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16

How to Keep Steel Free From Rust.
Steel jewelry which is not in use
may be kept quite free from rust by
plunging into magnesia and allowing
it to remain there Antil it is wanted
again.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-30
WAsHsURN is sCkNDALIzED.
Girls Objected TO AlIusons to Buggy
Riding and Embracing.

The Reverend Walter Spence Of Council
Grove addressed the Washburn students
yesterday morning at chapel exercises
He talked on Opportunity" taking for
his text. to use his words: Opportunity
is like young woman-must be embraced
to be enjoyed.
This scandalized the girls, bue some
or the boys applauded the sentiments
| expressed by the divine. Encourag ed by
this APPLAUSE, Mr. Spence continued in
the same vein and finally RECALLED his
hearers with a story in which he got
badly mixed about embracinb young la
dies and opportunities. This is what he
told:
"A couple Of Washburn young girls
were talking when one asked the other
What would you do if somebody should
propose TO take YOU buggy riding?'
d" Why said the other. I should re-
gard it as an opportunity to be en-
braced.' -
This was greeted by a few smokers
from the boys, but the girls showed their
disapproval by an ominous silence. pune
tuated by a few scattered and subdued
Kisses from their side Of the house.
MI optiiNt. dl lllAitN DIS Itdl SIltCl-
tons of poetry to the young people he
was addressing. This had the effect of
SOLDERING down the students after his
funny stories.
The pont of his talk was lost in the
stew he stirred up about embracing thine
girls. This may be a proper subject to
talk about from the platform and pupilt
where Mr.. Spence halls from. but il would
seem that such things in public speeches
have been prescribed by the Washburn
students.
During the preceding the members Of
the faculty on the rostrum never raCked
a smile. but the preachers bwack was to-
ward them and SO h hurried along to
his fate He quoted Professor Towne as
authority for one Of his statements and
that gentleman did his best to retreat
from view; but the best he was able to
do was to hide behind another professor.
Dean Penny. Of the Fine Art school. sat
near door and so succeeded in making
his escape.
Mr.. Spence also made a break in teel-
ing the parable OF the foolish virgins
As he told it. when the bridegroom pass
Cd By, the I'VE wise virgins had their
wicks trimmed and chimmneys polished.
THhe humor Of this statement will be
apparent 10 those who are acquainted
with the gravy boat style OF lamps used
by the virgins.
While he was speaking the hard rain
came up and soon the rrof of the chapel
sprang leak in the back OF the room.
Some Of the students tried 10 show their
iisapproval by devoting their entire at
tentiCn TO the leak
After the chapel the rain was pouring
down and the students gathered in groups
and said some very uncomplimentary
things abou Mr.. Spence.
Why" said one young woman. Il
think he just insulted the Wsshburn
girls. The very idea. and he's a min
lister. too Topeka Capital
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-30

started less than two months before the
close of the last quadrennium. The Paci-
fic Japanese Mission has celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of it's founding
and has been organized into Mission
Conference. The Gulf Mission Conference
has been made an annual conference,
mission work among the Chinese on the
Pacific coast has been reorganized and
the Alaskan Mission has been reconsti-
tuted.
INCOME OF THE SOCIETY
The contributions to the Missionary So
ciety from conference collections alone
during 10000 amounted to s5,015, 55s. p;
during the previous quadrennium, S.4i9,
5S0.06, making an increase of $566.02S. 16
same period was IS. 793. 527.13 Orom all
sources, including special gifts, etc.; dur
ing the previous quadrennium it was S.
$780, 1888, an increase of s63S. o27O0
THE WOMEN'S SOCIETIES
The contributions of the Womans For
eign Missionary Society from 1868 were
s1.22S, $50: from 1so0-03 these amounted
to sl,S14,056. an increase of 1856, 467. The
auxiliaries increased in number during
the four years from 6.375 to 1924, and the
increase of 1859 auxiliaries and 60, 334
members The contributions Of the Wom-
ems Home Missionary Society last qua
drennium were S739, AIS and during the
quadrennium just closing 81, 210313, an in
crease of $40, s3S. There were ISIS organi-
cations in 1899, in 1903 there were $40
The total income of the society during the
1913, 527.13 Grom all The contributions of
total membership from 156,759 to 217.093. an
and druring the four years the member
ship increased from IS ass to 1l6, 253, an
increase of So organizations and ATS
members.
GRAND TOTAL OF MISSIONARY
GIFTS
The Methodist Episcopal Church during
1868 gave to home and foreign mis-
sions through the Missionary Society and
its two auxiliary women's societies the
sum of s7.122, SOB; during 10000 it gave
$s,S17S96. an increase of 81, 695, 1893, or % per
cent.
THE MISSIONARY AWAKENING
The quadrennium has witnessed a most
notable missionary awakening throughout
the church. The e mergency Of three
years ago was occasion of the creation of
the Open Door Emergency Commission,
which, indeed, was none other than the
Missionary Society at work in a specia
lized way to meet this emergency. The
Cleveland Convention of 1902 and its train
Of successors in more restricted fields
have provided notable public presenta-
lions of the cause of missions while the
demand for information which these con-
ventions provoked has been met by a more
varied and better adapted literature than
was before available. Prayer for mis-
sons has increased in intensity and defln-
iteness and the growing purposeful deter
minatiOn on the part of both pastors and
people adequately to support the world
wide enterprise of the church has been
most inspiring
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-30
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