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statement Of the
North British ~ Mercantile In.

surance Go. Of London England. to
December 81 1907
Total Admitted Assets s.. $50. ITO 80
Total Liabilities ABA. 02l. %
Surplus 2,69s. $50 l3
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Sun Insmramce Office of Lon.

England. TO December n, 1907
Total Admitted Assets So. 1870. 7G7. -
Total Liabilities 2.7ll. 90. "a
Surplus ,07g. III 10
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Statement Of the
New York Life Insurance Co. al

New York. to December 81, 1906
Total Admitted Assets S4g4. 40s. sos
Total Liabilities AZ. Az. 293
Surplus 40, 96l 5l4
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INSURANCE STATEMENTS

Published in pursuance of the Act Of
General Assembly of Maryland.
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FTTtlFE TTINTFE - w
Insurance Co. OF North America

INSURANCE Co OF North AMERICA OF
Philadelphia Pa. to December 81,
1907
Capital 1900, 900
Total Admitted Assets II 26s, l04
Total Liabilities 200, 1854
Surplus ,06l ,94l
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statement OF Iht
metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Statement of the
Statement Of The
Northern Assurance Go. q

don. England. to December 81 1907.
Total Admitted Assets St. 592. $50. r.
Total Liabilities 3. 1896. 667. n
Surplus 1913, go ~
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Statement Of the

I'fUUtHIIhT I,lNUTNIlVt u III
America Newark n j. TO Deem
Der 81 1907
Capital ; 1000, 900
Total Admitted Assets lI5. pa, 667
Total Liabilities 100. 1914. Alb
surplus 1860. 1874
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Statement of the
American surety Co. al New IOrl

To December 81. 1907
Capital 81. 500. 900
Total Admitted Assets 6.37l, Cor
Total Liabilities 500. 066
surplus LOGS, o31
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COW PEAS
l,usllel
rlAINE GROWN SEED POTATOES

Irish Cobblers. Hoton Rose Crown Jewels - Bag.
Canada Marrowfa Peas early possible in Mar
with Oats and harvest great crop Of Hay in May)
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How many American women IN
lonely homes to-day long for this
blessing to come into their lives, and
to be able to utter these words, but
because of some organic deraDge-
ment this happiness is denied them.
Every woman interested in this
subject should know that prepare
ton for healthy maternity Is
accomplished by the use OF
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Fire Association OF Philadelphla. z;
Statement Of the
Phoenix Insurance co. of

Conn. to December 81 1901.
Capital 81. 900, 900
Total Admitted Assets. :. 965. 454
Total Liabilities i,543, GIG
Surplus l.l2l, S3I
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JOHN w. STATION,

Attorney AZ law, snow Mn. Md. unice In III
Court House
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Statement Of the
MutuaI Benefit Life Insmrance

Statement of the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company OF Newark. n. j.. to
December 81. 1907.
Total Admitted Assets Sill, 772, 81
Total Liabilities l07, 100. 06l
Surplus 1865. $40
Statement Of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
of New York to December 81. 1907
Capital 5 1000. 900
Total Admitted Assets l9S. 800. 1863
Total Liabilities 1874, 36s. j64
Surplus II. 95l $50
Statement of the
Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety of New York. to December 81
1907.
Capital : TOO. 900
Total Admitted Assets l27.27l, lOS
Total Liabilities 379 O9I. 6ls
Surplus IS. ITO. $50
Statement of the
Markham Assurance. IN nG an.
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100000 MEN IDLE
Nearly All the Soft Coal Mines
Are Closed.
A LARGE STOCK ON HAND

Homer Castle indicted For Fraud
Or Hill Named TO Succeed Ambas.
sador Tower - John Mitchell Re.
tires-The Biakeiey Torpedoed
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BEET SEED
SULPHUR

Sulpher for spray ing Pur
poses ....... ......-........ SIC
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rel lots.
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Statement of the

German American Insurance
60. Of New York, 10 December 81.
1907
Capital 500. 900
Total Admitted Assets l3. Sos. OBS
Total Liabilities 1852. 6S5
surplus 4.4l5. 1853
Statement of the
Florida Home Fire Insurance
Co. OF Florida to December 81. 1907.
Capital Si20. 600
Total Admitted Assets 1893. III
Total Liabilities 80. 712
Surplus. ld.3iS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-05

two or three OF the usual gentiemen-of-
leisure of the neighborhood. who loved TO
sit and look at others working, were Sit
ting on form against the wall All OF
them looked up when the invasion flowed
into the house. Malachy Murrins eyes
spoke politely repressed inquiry he
said:
You are welcome, Father Pat, and gen
tlemen all. Isn't this a beautiful morn
ing. glory be to goodness for it. and fine
have salts, gentlemen? Get up OUT Of
that, Micky Dorian, and you, Hugh He
Sarty, and that third numbskull of yours
and give the gentlemen salts. And Phe-
limy Brady. too" says he. Il hope you
and your care are all we'll Phelimy; and
where is your hat o.
Phelimy. who was not little stunned
at such GOODNESS in a house of sudden
death, said Malachy. these gintlemel
have come to see Mrs. Connolly. Let them
see her at once-or. is she alive YETI
us she what? Alive said Malachy
What would all her if she wouldn't be
alive? Certainly, gentlemen, yous can see
her Immediately. She's in the room here
behind me: for, as SKIES an uncommon shy
woman and Il stranger among us yet, she
keeps close up in this room doing her
sewing and darning whenever Terry's
from home, as he is now And the room
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me2t. | assure YOU. And there was such
a confusion of tongues round about the
country that night as hasn't been heard
i'll any other country. before since,
saving AT the building of Babel.
To make matters worse. Terry Connolly
never invited his neighbors of Carney TO
the draghome. He did tie thing in u
disgracefully quiet way; having only
Donal aDonel, Jimminy Haraghy and
two or three other immediate neighbors.
to whom he absolutely owed the treat in
token of favors received. And when,
that night, its trusty scouts brought back
this news to Carney, It first shook its
head and then hopefully prophesied the
height OF ill-luck rising out OF this I'M
advised and ill-omened alliance. Then it
cheerfulIy set itself down to watch and
wait for the certain fulfllment of the
prophecy.
On that very day. well the day
after and the day after that again, by
a most remarkable coincidence. there was
not a family in the length and breadth
of Carney that had not to dispatch onc
or more of its members to Terry Con-
nollys, over the river, on an GRAND, or
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The cares of the world lay lightly on
them in Carney, and they would sooner
that goodness sent them bit of gossip
han a goose, any day. Though the sun
was shining and the corn shaking, they
would stick their spade in the ridge, or
their hook in the hintin, and hurry to-
sether to debate the latest news of the
ueighborhood.
Patrick Monaghan OF the Back of the
Hi said that solitary crow couldn't fly
over Carney but it would aggravate the
inhabitants TO know where the dickens it
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here he tapped his forehead with his
foretinger-''You know, you know said
he.
All. wee bit off her head poor wom-
ano'' said Phelinly.
AT times" said Malachy, "at times
An YOU see it is now at the change OF
the moon. My own notion is that though
she is a trifie strange in her ways these
days she's maybe as right as you or me
or any other sane man in the parish
atween times
God help the crature,'' Phelimy said
with genuine sympathy now, and God
help poor Terry
Amen said Malachy 'Phelimy,
said he, mind YOU are not to breathe
a word of that to man or mortal
lis it me breathe it, said Phelimy
with high Indignation.
And, moreover" said Malachy, ''as
you are working the hill facing i;s, and
have the house under your eye all day
long, if YOU happen to see anything odd
pass--as maybe you will; for We had big
work confirming her to her room yester-
day and keeping her from going abroad
please put your foot on it."
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charitable idea of having all his house
hold reclothed and reshod. And accord
inEly, as was the custom in those days, he
sent for the tailor and the shoemaker to
attend his house for a week and fit out
his five children and himself in clothes
and shoes.
"And now said Phelimy and al Car
ney, I'VE will soon know the ms and outs
about Terry Connolly's new wife: for.
not to mention Neddy Brogan, the shoe
maker, Malachy Murrin will not have
bowed his legs for many hours upon
Terry's table till Terry's new wife will be
like a Diapers window to him. He will
have seen her through and through. and
turned her inside out, and know her by
heart like a ha'penny book'-for slyer
or cutter fellow than Malachy was not
within the barony. And the heart OF
Phelimy and Carney was rejoiced.
Phelimy abused himself for his stupid
mismanagement in allowing Malachy
Murrin to escape home from his work on
the first night without having intercepted
and interviewed him. but to make amends
he was on the hill early next morning.
watching for Malachy, and he was re-
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was going and what the dickens was its
GRAND, anyhow.
But even when stripped of the fanciful
trimmings that were tackled on to them,
when the doings and sayings of Carney
were carried wide on the wings of ru-
NOR, still the hard fact remained that
the curiosity of Carney was not to be
matched, though you screened the world
from Farranfieuch to Ffddler's Green on
the hither side of Godspeed.
And this curiosity reached its climax
when Terry Connolly fetched home new
wife-and brought her all the way from
Connaught. too.
Now, if Terry didn't live in Carney he
was-as we say-within a kick of the shin
Of it. Just only over the river from it,.
and hens race farther. Facing Terry'S.
in the kingdom of Carney itself. and half
way up the hill, just good cuckoos call
away lived Phelimy Brady-Phelimy Rua.
as we called him. because OF the fine
head of red hair he had. And Of all the
curious folks that Carney could count
there was not lad of them all more
curious than my friend Phelimy.
Terry. poor fellow. had been married be-
fore-and we'll married too; for his wife.
WHO Idu Dten one Vi inc tldllilSiliS VI
Drimard, had been both mistress and
master to him: made him know his place
and keep it, for a good seven years: and
tEen died. leaving him her blessing. a
prosperous farm and a thriving family
of five, each one of them blessed with
the appetite OF a hawker. And after he
pulled the green quilt over her lie gave
his curious neighbors of Carney the bene-
fit OF two years matchmaking for him.
At the end of that time he hoisted him
self off one Monday morning, early
whittier no man knew. Carney noticed
that he had on him the new pair Of
homespun trousers he had been naggng
Michy, the tailor, for during the last
ten days: that he wore the loan of Donal
a-Donel's black frocll and had borrowed
Jimminy Harashy's speckled mare. But
carney had concluded, on good grounds.
that he was off to the fair OF Belcoo TO
purchase a venture of donkeys.
When Terry returneS. as the day was
waning, on the Thursday after. without
a venture OF donkeys, but with much
robler investment, black-haired, brown
eyed Connaught wife, riding side-saddle
on a pillion behind him, the eyes of
Phelimy Brady. and through him all the
eyes in Carney. opened wide in wonder
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'Malachy," said he, trust Phelimy
Brady for that
Phelimy, though he vas bursting with
the great news. hurried up his own hill
side and took his spade in hand with the
resolve, today, of overtaking all the work
he let slip him yesterday evening while
he watched in vain for Malachy Murrin.
And he was firmly determined on it that
a word of the news about Terry's new
wife he would not breathe to man or NOR
tai, inside the parish or outside of it.
until after he had got his good days
work dolc
But the WI der whether Terry's new
wife woail elude them today and get out
of doors in spite of them, made his eyes
60 wandering 10 Terry's domicile beyond
oftener than vas good for the progress
of his labor. And the house had now
such a fascination for his eyes that the
longer he continued trying to work the
less work he found he could do, till, after
an hours vain endeavor, he laid down
the spade on the ridge and sat upon It.
liking his gaze upon Terry's. He was all
the more watchful of it, inasmuch as he
had seen Terry himself quitting the house
and going out over the hill half an hour
before For. though the house was too
far from him to make out mans fea-
lures, Phelimy could recognize Terry's
half-limp as far as he could see him
SO, Terry having gone, Phelimy rightly
imagined that the watch upon the new
wife might relax and she make burst
And, before another half hour went by
Pheliny clapped himself on his back for
his cleverness and had his patience well
and richly rewarded. The gable OF Terry
Connolly's house faced him, and in this
gable was a window. After time
Phelimy, whose eyes took in everything
observed the sash of this window 70
suddenly up and next instant a woman
leap out. The leap was fairly deem
one, SO that she fell forward On her
hands and knees. And Phelimy was at
once panied and astounded and he caught
his breath. But he watched for the next
move. The woman got to her feet again
looked cautiously around both sides of
the house, and, finding the coast clear
dashed into the garden. Here, to Phelimv
further amazement, she began cutting
the most extraordinary capers and most
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errands. OF various degrees of impor-
tance, from that of borrowing the loan
of hay-rope to tie down the thatch on
the back of Uncle Johns" to paying
back the loan of the porringer of butter
milk my Aunt Susy's wee Mary got from
you last Tuesday was four weeks But
of all the Corners and goers that thronged
the casey to Terry's door Phelimy Brady
was undoubtedly the most constant. And
the number of absolutely necessary err
rands he felt forced to bear to Terry S
within those three days marked Phelimy
a man of no common talent. Yet, not
withstanding all their praiseworthy en-
deavors, when the good people of Carney
met in conclave each night, not in the best
of humor. they were again and again
compelled TO admit to themselves that
Terry Connolly's new wife, from Con-
naught, was still a riddle and aggravat-
ingly reticent. having persstently re-
fused. not only to rise to the occasion
when Phelimy Brady had put to her
pertinent questions bearing upon her
dowry, her history and the history of her
family, but even TO be drawn into the
most apparently guileless conversation
that Sally McGrath. the deepest-minded
woman in Carney, could devise.
Now. this was all the natural shyness
OF Il blushing Young bride who had only
Just left her fathers hearth. and entered
a strange state. and come into strange
country among strange people; but
Phelimy Brady, with the hearty backing
of Sally McGrath, gave voice to the uni
Versal sentiment in Carney when he said
that Terry's new wife took entirely too
much of the Connaught cuteness with her
down here amongst lis supplemented.
simple hearted people OF the black north"
But God grant, Sally said with bite"
piety that it may turn out well for
him. Every one of us would not wish i'll
to his mothers SON"
And all Carney bowed its head and said,
with pious aggravation. Amen TO that,
Sally McGrath.'
We will wait" Sally said resisnedly.
land see what we will see.
And all Carney said LAY, ay!'
So they waited, but not exactly in in
action.
1t was a trying time for Carney-a
trying time indeed So. little wonder
that Phelimy Brady and all Carney
hailed with delight the advent of Malachy
Murrin. the tailor. with his journeyman.
For Terry Connolly conceived the very
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warded. for he succeeded in capturing
him as he leaped the marsh-ditch into
Long John Meehans land. 1t is as well
to say that Maachy, for all his uncon-
scious air. knew the very thoughts that
were stirring just at this time in poor
Phelimy's heart; for Terry Connolly had,
on the day before, made him well aware
of the present curiosity of Carney.
Pheimy. who always fattered himself
as the one great diplomat Of the parish
fell into casual conversation with Malachy
and gradually worked up to his point in
a manner that he conceived to be a
triumph of adroitness.
An ye tell me now. Malachy," said
he when he had got that far. that it's
beyond in Terry's We are, making clothes
for the chider. Well. well, well. there's
me for We, and me understanding that it
was in the upper end of the parish you
were, at John Pat Hude's fitting out John
Pats son for the states"
'.Och," saaid Malachy, cts a week
since / left John Pats. l came TO Terry's
yesterday morning.
And Terry Phelimy casually re-
marked. has fetched home a new wife,"
so he has" said Malachy.
And a fine brave woman. too said
Phelimy. and he watched Malachy now
very close. A fine, brave woman--so fa-
as we have seen of her.
"Ay," said Maachy, "a fine, brave
woman. in troth-when one looks at her
from mile off,
''Ay, ay. Malachy,' said Phelimy. do
We mean?-Do We mean-?'
Il mean." said Malachy, confidentially
lowering his voice and looking over his
shoulder before he went further Il
mean,'' said he, that she would be a
fine, brave woman surely, only" and
Malachy shook his head pathetically.
'Only?' said Pheimy eagerly, "only--''
Well said Malachy. "of course. it is
not my place to be saying it. nor would
l breathe it to soul but yourself, either
knowing that secrets as safe with you
as with the head of the church.
Yes, yes" said Phelimy, lit surely is.
Only what, Malachy?''
We'll, Phelimy," said he. of course.
we all have our little pecularties, and
maybe. IL I say it, Terry's new wife is
no exception among u.s.
All. said Phelimy, I'm sorry to hear
it, Malachy. You mean to say that She
Well said Malachy. in still more con-
fidential tones, II mean to say that
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Phelimy and his following reached the
house just as the priest and doctor and
magistrate, who had met together on the
way. arrived also. With his natural po-
likeness Phelimy gave them precedence
waited for them TO pass in of the door
first. and then went in himself at their
heels. with a large representation of the
neighbors following
When they entered. Neddy Brogan, the
shoemaker was industriously pegging
away at a pair Of brogues for Jimmy, the
eldest of Terry's children. and Malachy
Murrin with his journeyman on the ia ole,
was working as intently and conscien-
tiously as he never worked before, and
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picture. indeed. OF life and health. step
ped down from the room and courtesied
modestly 10 Father Pat as representa-
tive OF the gathering. But showing
through her mOdcsty was look of inquir-
ing wonder also at seeing SO many
strangers suddenly thronging into her
house.
And II there was wonder in Mrs Con-
nolly's face it would be no untruth to say
that there was establishment In the faces
of Father Pat and his confreres. From
the blushing bride they turned their eyes
upon a thunderstruck Phelimy Brady: and
Phelimy Brady, on his part, turned his
eyes upon Malachy Murrin. But, behold
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cuts over hill and hollow, TO try to be
there as soon as they.
And, as Phelimy returned, the alarmed
people. whom he had left thunderstruck
on his forward journey. now closed in
after. and followed him fast on the back
ward one; and, in bits and scraps which
Phelimy deigned to throw over his shout
der as he flew they, to their increased con-
sternation, managed to learn what the
gist Of the matter was, and then they ran
harder than before.
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Malachy indicated. be il noted, was not
the one from which Phelimy had seen the
woman emerge that morning. Malachy.
without moving from where he sat. simply
stretched back his arm and tapped with
his thimbled finger upon the room door,
saying, Mrs. Connolly, If you would be
so kind as to come down here there's
Father Pat and several other gentlemen
wishfuI to see YOU" And Immediately
the room door opened, and Mrs. Connolly,
biushing and pretty woman and the
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: YOU were to get
Up with the sun
and ride with the
same for twenty
four hours, ii is Il
well known fact
that you would
not find n more
curious place or n
more induisitiVe
people
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-29
SINGERS AND PREACHERS.

According to Kansas preacher,
the custom of paying for professional
singers in church choirs, of paying for
professional musicians to play the Or
gan during church service, IS all wrong,
and he condemns the system in no
measured words.
Many people have long been famil-
lar with one important fact, namely,
that the singing rendered during
church service has proven q far great
er attraction to the masses than the
sermons of the parsons Judged by
their respective drawing capacities,
the singers ought to get better pay and
the parson render his own services
gratis. 1t is noteworthy fact, how
ever, that no suggestion is made Of any
wrong-doing on the part OF the parsOn
to receive handsome stipend, by con-
tract, for doing far less work than the
singers and musicians.
Judging from his argument offered in
support of his contention, it is in effect,
that unmindful Of the fact that singers
of merit and organists of ability, hav-
ing spent large sums of money in voice
culture and musical instruction, ought
to be willing to donate their services
to the church for the greater glory and
power of god. Ii this be true would
it not rebound to the greater glory of
god if the parson would remit his sal
ary and agree to donate his services to
the churchq This is only another case
of do as l say but not as l do. Par
sons, as a rule spend less money on
their education than singers and
musicians. For the most part a num-
ben are charity scholars, young fell
lows who take advantage of some edu-
cational fund and struggle through
some ecclesiastical institution to be
turned cut full-fedged, duly quail
fled an. ordained preacher. There is
no good or valid reason why the par
son should not set the example of do
mating services and when he does it
there might be an incentive for the
organists and singers to follow his
example.
One of the most impressive signs cf
the mendacity Of the Christian world
Blue-grass blade., 1908-03-29
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

won't work. Educated men and wo-
men know that good does not come
from such source while the misery
wrought in god s name controverts all
idea of love being connected with it.
If it be true as claimed, that Christ
came to "reveal the father" then his
revelation should have been made to
all men of all nations and not to
specially chosen few in one selected
spot and then expect others to take the
revelation second-handed.