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The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18
An Orderly Cemetery.

"A resident Of Bismarck, who is con-
nected with one of the state Offices
visited Minot the other day. After
looking about the busy streets, he said
that upon coming to Minot from Bis.
marck he became fully impressed that
the Capital City was very orderly
and we'll kept cemetery.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18

Tho Independent has the be0e
equipped shop In the city for doing
your commercial printing In .
prompt and tasty manner.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18

Total Disbursements 80. !.
NORTH DAKOTA ~
Whole number Of Policies
written in North Dakota
during the year Lite. -.
Whole number of p licies
written in North Dakota
during the year, Accident,
Health and Liahility.....
Total Risks taker during
the year in North Dakota,
Life ........... $3.50; i.
Total Risks taken during
the year in North Dakota,
Accident. Health ana La
Total Premiums received
during the year in NORTH
Dakota, Life ......,...
Total Premiums received
during the year in North
Dakota. Accident. tlealtf
and Liability ..,...,,:.
Total L.g sses paid during me
year in North Dakota
Total Losses paid during the
wear in North Dakota,
Accident. Health aid LA
bility ........'..'...
Total Losses incurred dur
ing the year in North
Dakota. Lie .........;;...
Total Losses incurred our
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18
ABSTRACT OF STATEMENT
For the Year Ending December 81.

A. .. 1916
or the condition and affairs Of The
Manhattan Life Insurance Company, OF
New York, organized under the laws OF
the State of New York. made to the
Commissioner of Insurance of the state
Of North Dakota, in pursuance Of the
avs of said state.
President, Thomas r. Lovejoy.
Vice President. John r, Roche.
Secretary. Melvin DeMott.
Home Office. Ga. 66. So and 70 Broad.
Attorney for Service Of Process In the
State Of North Dakota:
Name, Commissioner ~ insurance;
Location, Bismarck. N. d.
Organized, 1850.
Commenced business August !, 1850
Amour, of Capital paid up
" cash .AssssiniT,;s '0o'00''''
Value OF Real Estate owned
Loans secured by Deeds OF
p1 real ns} Ssss, and LOANS
Stocks and Bonds: Stocks
owned by the Company, at
market value, $l49,3 "a;
Bonds at amortized value.
$2,71O.557 0O Bonds in de-
fault Of Interest, at mar
ket value, SiS1, 10000 49,. s.eMl.!!aaee.s:
Cash on hand and in bank 626 6S
Interest due and accrued. SS6, S29 3!
Rents accrued ............. 9.14O.U
Net amount OF deferred and
outstanding Premiums :. l75.7 10
Agents Balance Debit,
$41, 63l.24; Credit. s69940:
net Observation-Disclosures. AO.s31 81
Deposit Equitable Trust Co.,
acct. CHM, Ind. g. West.
Bonds ........... 10000. 90
Amount Of all other admit
ted Assets ..... l1,75S. 81
Total Admitted Assets SEC, 1875. 362 81
Agents debit bal
anceS ..........$ II ,G31 "a
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18

TdlU TO AUIlulLdIlIS. ......
Paid for surrendered Poll.
Paid for claims On supple
mentary contracts not in
volving life contingent
cleS ....
Cash surrenCer values ap.
piled in payment Of Pre-.
Cash surrender values ap-
piled to purchase paid-uE
additions and annuities. =.
Dividends paid to Policy.
holders or applied or left
with Company to accu.
mu!ate at interest.
Dividends held on denosit
and interest thereon. sur
rendered during the year
Dividends paid to Stock
holders ...................
Cash paid during the year
for Commissions and Sal
Rents paid during the year
Taxes paid during the year
Cash paid for Advertising,
Printing and Stationery,
Postage, Telegraph, Tele-
phone and Express and
Exchange :.
Cash paid for committing
Commissions ...... (.
Amount of all other cash
Expenditures ......... !.
Total Expenditures, Life
Business
Total Expenditures. Acct
dent, Health and Llabll-
ity Business ..,.. =.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18

> . =
Total Liabilities. Life. Ac-
cident, Health, and other
Business ..........
INCOME
New Premiums .........,
Renewal Premiums ........
Extra Premiums for total
and permanent disability
dement's .......... ..."...
Total ..............
Deduct Premiums paid for
Reinsurance ..........
Total Premium Income. -.
Interest and Rents received
Dividends left with Com
pany to accumulate at in
terest .............
Income from all OF h r
sources ...........
Total Income. Life Bust
ness
Total Income, Accident.
Health an d Liability
Business ..............
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1916-05-18

Total Assets .............
LIABILITIES
Matured Endowments due
ana unpaid and Annuity
Claims due and unpaid &.
Policy claims due and un-
paid
Policy claims in process OF
adjustment, or adjusted
and not due, and incurred
Ono proofs received) ....
X erve for net Death
Losses incurred but unre-
ported
Policy claims resisted by
the ,''inpany .-....-..
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
PETS OF FAMOUS S0NGSTERS
Grisi Owned Monkey, Lind a Mock
Ing Bird and Patti Was Fond
Of q Parrot.

OF all classes Of humanity In the
world female singers are the most ad
dicted to keeping pets, London Tit
Bits states. In the days of her prime.
some years after her marriage with
Mario, Nine. Grisi was the proprietor
of one of the smallest and prettiest
monkeys imaginable. 1t was speci-
men Of that diminutive and charming
race, the ouistiti, and was usually
most amiable, only protesting by
plaintive cry whenever its mistress
fondled her children or caressed her
husband in its presence.
When Jenny Lind was in the United
States one of her countless admirers
made her present of fine young
hooking bird in full song. He be-
came exceedingly tame and was wont
to perch on the great singers finger
and take seed and fruit from between
her lips.
In Minnie Hauck's Swiss home she
was always surrounded by focks of
tame pigeons that perched on her
shoulder and ate from her hand. They
often carried their audacity SO far as
to enter her bedroom and revel in a
good wash in her toilet pitcher, to the
great disorganization Of the very neat
arrangements of her washstand.
The parrot Of Nine. Patti is quite
a famous fowl, not only on account Of
the celebrity of its owner, but also be-
cause Of its own varied accomplish
nentA
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Seals AGAIN Plentiful

Z Under the precautions taken to pre-.
vent the extinction of the fur seals in
Alaska and the Pribilof islands the
species has multiplied so rapidly that
the bureau Of fisheries now recon-
mends that the killing of male seals
be resumed.
Ever since the signing of the pc
lagic treaty between Russia, England,
Japan and our own nation, prohibit
ing the destruction of COW seals upon
the high seas, the government has
taken an occasional census of the
seals. The last of these fixed the
number of seals owned by the United
9 States at 301,S44, as against less THAI
twenty thousand in 1906.
Besides fur, other possible use Of the
seal is being considered by the bureau
of fisheries. The scarcity of the
worlds meat supply and the tremen.
dous increase in seals as revealed by
the last census suggest the shipping
OF seal meat to the United States for
food. Those who have tasted it say
that meat from young seal is deli.
cious in flavor and that seal steak
would be popular addition to fash.
ionable hotel menu
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
OLD NAMES FOR NEW SHIPS
.AppellatIons Of Famous Sea Fighters
May Again Be Used In Amer
lean Fleet.

Should congress provide for the con.
struction of several battle cruisers the
navy department will in all probability
name the new ships after several "a
nous old frigates which helped to
make American history, the Cincinnati
Times-Star states. =
The starting of new class of ships
in our navy makes possible the carry
ing out of this idea. Under the pres
emit system of naval nomenclature bat
tleships are named after states. cruis-
ers after cities and torpedo craft after
naval heroes. Golfers bear more or
less classic names, while underwater
craft have been designated by useful
but not significant letters and numer-
ais. Communities of course have
taken great interest in ships bearing
their names, but at the same time the
present rule has been responsible for
the disappearance from the navy lists
of many names which are alive with
historic interest and the flavor Of
naval tradition. -'-
If the navy department puts into
use the idea now under consideration
Americans will in few years glory
in the spectacle of Bonhomme Rich.
ard, q Constellation or maybe a Hart
ford once more going to sea under tho
flag. The famous old Constitution il
still carried, although nominally, on
tho naval lists. AS long as she will
float Americans will insist that she
keep her honored place. But there
are still left plenty of historic names
which should be perpetuated and hon.
ored in our modern navy.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
PIANIST BUILT A CLAvlcHORD
Admiration for Bach Was Young
Man's' Inspiration In. Its
Construction.

A longing to hear and to play the
music Of Bach on the clavichord, the
instrument on which Bach played and
composed his music, led Frank NJ
Watson, twenty-five years old, Jack.
son musician, to build one of these in.
struments, and to build it under such
= handicap as would cause the aver.
age person to despair, Jackson cor.
respondent Of the New York World
writes.
Two years ago Watson went to Bos'
ton and studied for year at New Eng.
land Conservatory of Music. There he
acquired technical knowledge of the
plano and kindred instruments, which
enabled him to build a reproduction OF
the clavichord, an instrument which
has not been used for 200 years, from
printed descriptions Of it.
In the museum Of the University Of
Michigan there is a-clavichord built in
the time of Bach, but knowledge OF
this instrument did not come to young
Watson until he had practically com
pleted the clavichord on which he was
working. However, he made a trip to
Ann Arbor, and not only inspected the
instrument at close range, but put it
in repair. With the exception Of one
or two things he found that the claw
chord built by his hands was correct
and details which were wrong were OF
a minor nature.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
LOCK OF NAPoLEoN's HAIR
Relic Of Emperor, Obtained During
His St. Helena imprisonment,
Sold In New York.

A lock Of Napoleon Bonaparte's hair,
obtained while he was at st. Helena,
was bought by George D. Smith for
&107.50 at the John E. Burton library
sale in the Anderson galleries at New
York. It is preserved within folio
sheets Of celluloid and was accompa-
MED by letter of Capt. Thomas Pop
pleton of the Fifty-third regiment, who
was permanent orderly" over Bona
parte until the close of June, 1917.
The library of the Nebraska univer-
sity paid $3.50 for fine copy of John
Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexi.
co." published in London in 1S31-4S.
]. F. Lewis gave sSS for a manuscript
Koran written in the seventeenth CEN
fury, in red and black on native glazed
paper Each page is within ruled gold
lines and the first two pages are sur
rounded by ornamental borders in gold
and colors. 49,.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Genuine Wit.

Benjamin Moore. the second bishop
Of New York. was man noted in his
day for his ready vita quality thai
his wife apparently shared with him.
A dinner was given by some one OF
Gouverneur Morris friends when he
was about to depart for Europe Bish.
op Moore and his wife were of the
party. In the course of the converse.
ton Mr.. Morris observed that since he
was going abroad he had made hia
will and. turning to Bishop Moore, said
To- him:
MY reverend friend, l have be
lueathed to you my complete stock Of
tmpudence."
Bishop Moore replied: ''Sir, you arr
not only very kind. but you are very
generous. You have left me by fat
the largest portion of your estate
Mrs. Moore Immediately added, "My
dear, you have come into possession Of
your Inheritance remarkably soon."-
Youths Companion.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Hobo Amono Flowers,

The great bindweed, f1rst-cousin
to the morning glory, Is hobo among
flowers. It travelled UP and down the
lanes OF world trade for centuries,
until 1t has come to claim most of the
northern hemisphere for its abiding
place. It loves waysids hedges and
thickets, where 1t climbs over every
thing in its fight for the survival OF
the flttest; but 1t knows no Joy great
or than getting into cornfeld, where
1t can use the stalks as nature
built trellis for its wanderfngs. It
flowers from June until September.
4 It keeps solid hours, getting up with
the rising sun and going to bed when
the sun goes down, except on moon
light nights, when 1t keeps open house
for the benefit of certain moths that
are it, especial friends.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
SOUGHT ROOM IN TOWN JAIL
Weary Traveller Mistook Prison for
- the Leading Hotel to Which Hs
Was Directed.

Marvin Charles Of Buffalo is Q
stranger in Georgetown, and when he
got off the train at Georgetown about
eight o'clock at night he hardly knew
which way to turn from the depot He
was tired, hungry and dirty and he
wanted to hurry to hotel where he
could wash. get his supper and then
seek his room for sleep.
Charles inquired of the first man he
met as to where he could find a hotel
The man described the big hotel Of
the town, and told Charles to walk
down the main street to the big brick
house with porch on it.
Charles walked down until he came
to such house and then walked in. A
heavy-set man in his shirt sleeves met
him and inquired his business, and
then nearly fell over when Charles
asked for a room. He carefully ex-
planned to Charles that he was the
sheriff and that Charles had wandered
into the county jail
Charles walked another block and
arrived at the real hotel-Georgetow
OeL) Dispatch to Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
FIND GOODNESS IN PLEASURE
People Are Beginning to Understand
That It IL a Mistake to Work
Too Hard.

For q good many years we lad .
creed that the only way to Eeep men
or women good was to work them to
death. We didn't consider ourselves
virtuous unless we ended each day SO
tOil-wearied that we had no ambition
for anything but bed. When we had
. holiday we didn't know how to use
1t, and either slept it away or did
something that landed US in Jail.
The doctors are telling US now that
there is fatigue poison; that we owe
1t to ourselves not to overwork. The
shorter hours and graded work, so that
men and women workers shall not be
overtaxed, and so that the few may
not be overworked and underpaid at
the expense Of the many.
We are learning very, very gradu,
ally, that man was not created to labor
Is hours out of the "a in order that
he may have the privilege of eating
and sleeping. Very, very gradually
we are being taught that we are part
ASAo LII 0Oo pooIo4O, ouu t0ot, AASA
or poor, we have the right to take our
share Of sunshine and fresh air and an
idle time to enjoy them.
A fair measure Of leisure in each
day Is necessary to cultivate sweet
ness and saneness of soul, and the
man or woman, boy or girl, so over
worked that there is no opportunity
for recreation, never reaches the high
er planes Of being. Indeed, too much
work has often been as much breed
er of crime as too much idleness.
Sometimes it is a desperate effort
to escape from the grind. More often
1t is an intelligent craving for excite
different"
believe it is in one Of Aesop's
fablesswhere we are told of the man
who wts so busy grubbing in the muck
heap that he never had time to look
up and see the crown above his head.
-.43elchia RnllatinL t
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
MAZDA Point for Defense.

OF Sir Thomas Egerton, who was
gifted with quick perception, this story
is told: "A poor woman had been in.
trusted with the care of a large sum
of money by three farmers, who told
her to keep it safely until they ap.
peared together to claim it Shortly
afterward one of them went to her
and, representing that he came at the
direction of the other two, he received
the money and forthwith disappeared
The other two brought action to re-
cover the whole deposit. Egerton hap
pened to be in court during the trial
In which an intimate friend defended
the woman Seeing that the case was
going against his friend, Egerton vol
unteered to speak as amicus curiae
Permission was granted. Emphasiz
ing the condition on which the money
was left In the woman's care, Eyer
ton said: ut Is clear that the plain
tiffs cannot recover. because it lie to
the three appearing together that the
defendant agreed to deliver the money
Where is the third? Yet him be pro
duced." Thus Egerton saved the day
for hfB friend
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Made RIGHT at Home.

Dorothy lives in Kenwood avenue
and is spending part of the fourth
year Of busy existence in kindersar-
ten. Returning home one afternoon
after an entertaining talk by ha
teacher. Dorothy hurried to the home
OF her grandma nearby and informed
that person of how clothes are made.
You see, grandma said the ex,
cited and we'll informed miss, "wa
don't have to go across a big ocean to
get our clothes. All the nice, warm
things we wear are right here at
home waiting for us. All you have to
do is to go out and get sheep, for all
our warm clothes are made right from
the feas of sheep."-Indianapolis
News.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Potash and ,Phosphates.

The agricultural department Of the
University of Illinois has published an
other report dealing with the soils OF
this state and the fertilizers which
they need. This new investigation,
like the last, shows that Illinois farm.
ers need not worry about potash. With
the exception of swamp lands our soils
have all the potassium salts they need,
and the addition of more is stimu.
liant rather than food.
What Illinois land usually does lack
is phosphorus, and the United States
has plentiful supply of phosphate
rock. This is good news to farmers
who had been taught that the lack OF
German potash would cut down their
crops. 1t tends likewise to stimulate
an American industry which was be.
ing hidden behind clever foreign ad
vertising. By the time this war ia
over, America will know how much
potash fertilizer it really needs, and
what the stuff is worth on the SOIL
Chicago Journal.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Florence NIahtInaaIe,s Statue.

1.-THE Lady With the Lamp" statue
Of Florence Nightingale, has been m
yelled without ceremonial, In Water
loo place, London. The statue stands
high on red and gray granite pedes-
tai, and makes a notable and an ap-
propriate addition to Waterloo place.
By its side, fully harmonizing with 1t
In general outline, is that Of Sidney
Herbert. The effective background
for both is the Crimean memorial. The
sculptor portrayed his subject In .
sympathetic pose, standing in the vo-
luminous skirt Of the early Victorian
period, with the lamp borne in the
right hand. This statue of 1.-THE Lady
With the Lamp" is the first public
statue Of q woman In London other
than those Of royal ladies.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
WAR-cRIEs USED BY THE JEW
They Are Many and in All Tongues,
r But Another One 10 Said to
Be Coming,

"The Jew has as many war-cries ~
there are tongues in Europe. for he
fights with them all; and then he has
his own war-cry, that eternal fearful
cry Of his that In these days 10 rending
the heavens over Russian and Galician
Polands," E. R. Upset writes in the
Century.
And still there is another and .
newer cry coming, the war-cry Of the
neutral Jew. To arms! to arms! o Is
rael! has arisen. the sudden thunder
ing cry throughout the length and
breadth of the New York Ghetto and
all the other Ghettos in the larger
cities of America.
1--WE know, Of course, what are the
arms of the Ghetto Jew: they are
tongue and pen. By means of these
Il is intended to raise the Jew from
the depths of his ashes and make him
. live nation again. A congress q
American Jews is to be called and Il
Is to demand, at the conclusion of the
war, or before it, the return of Pales-
tine to its ancient owners. For the
Jews are nation, and they must have
. land and Palestine is theirs. 3
THAT is to say, in brief, that whila
nearly three-quarters Of a million Jews
on the European battlefelds are at
one another's threats, in vindication
each of different nationality, the
Jews far away from the bursting shells
and glittering bayonets are calling out
to them: No, you are all in the wrong.
For you are all one'
1T is not for US to determine
whether the Jews are nation. It 10
not for one man to tell another what
he should be. One is what one feels.
II the Jews feel themselves Q nation.
that Is sufficient" f.a .t
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
PALATIAL ABODE FOR CATS
House for FeIines, In Connecticut, b
Perfectly Appointed at Cost
Of $4,000.

= aaf
A palace for cats, which with its
furnishings cost $4,000, is the re-
markable establishment erected BY
Mrs. Clifford B. Harmon, daughter OF
Commodore e. C. Benedict, at Green
WITCH, Conn. Mrs. Harmon is famous
as breeder of cats, especially An
goras and Persians, several of her
pets having won the championship OF
America at different times.
To care for these blue bloeded and
aristocratic felines properly, as well az
to show them to the best advantage,
Mrs. Harmon decided that a special
building was needed. Accordingly she
gave instructions to her architect to
draw plans for what is undoubtedly
the most modern as well as the most
costly cattery in the world.
The establishment. which includes,
besides the kennels of the cats ten.
room cottage and Office for those In
direct charge of the animals, covers
more than an acre. The main kennel
contains 20 pens for the cats, each
OF which is lifted up with every known
device that will add to the comfort
and health of its occupants. The par.
titions separating the pens are of fine
woven wire on highly-p polished hard
wood base, thus insuring plenty OF
light and air. At a convenient height
In each pen are several shelves upon
which the cats may climb. The pens
also contain dainty individual sleeping
baskets, and once cat has been In
troduced to it's own bed it never at.
tempts to use that belonging to an.
other one. ..tt
Even pampered and beribboned Pei.
sian cats valued at thousand dollars
enjoy an occasional romp out Of doors
a. much as the most plebeian.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Need for stronoer Roads.

Motor. trucks are now made Of such
great capacity that they are proving
a serious strain on the roads and
highways, SO that in many states
there are regulations controlling their
movement, limiting their speed and
weight. An experimental grooved
concrete track is being tried on q
long private right of way between
Pittsburg, Kan, and Fort Scott, Kan.
Trucks and cars desiring to use this
road can do so on paying small toll.
The road is fitted with cement or con-
crete tracks, twelve inches wide and
conceived so that the wheels of an au-
tomobile will stay in them. It is a
single-track line. with switches at GER
tain points, to allow machines to pass
each other. II this road is successful
1t will be extended to Kansas City.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1916-01-14
Unable to Appreciate Silence.

Some people never learn to appreet
ate the beauty of silence. Perhaps 1t
ID an appreciation that cannot be &C
Quired. Perhaps it comes by nature.
Such people seem to believe that all
apparently human relations must ex
press themselves In speech. They
keep up an incessant chatter and they
try to make others chatter In return.
They are among the most fatiguing in
nuences in the world. Often they are
tormented with personal curiosity
They ask searching questions, and il
they do not receive spontaneous and
fall replies they become suspicious OF
hurt