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NG GAZETTE
UPSET THE PRESIDENTMA
Bow VnnBuren \Vas Convinced That
Better Roads YVere Needed ‘
in the \Vest.
Dumping a man in 'a mud puddle is
.rather a drastic way of changing his
convict-ions, yet such was the means by
-which President Van Buren became a
‘convert to a good-roads movement
started in Indiana away back in the
thirties. There had been considerable
protest against the condition of the
.western highways, but Van Buren was
opposed to what he looked upon as a
needless expenditure of money in times
of financial stress. Finally he de-
cided to make an inV estigal ion for him-
self, and planned a trip from \‘V asl i11g~
ton to St. Louis. The stage coach run
between Indianapolis and bTerre Haute
was under the charge of a Whig named
'» .23 INDIANA’S HISTORIC ELM.
‘Under This Tree Van Buren was Upset in
-., the Mud.)
'Hale, who was determined to give the
president a practical demonstration of
'the necessity of additional improve-
'ments over his part of the road, at
deast. He entered into a contract—With
his driver, Mason Wright, the hatter,
Vagreeilng, in consideration of a. five-dol-
ilar hat and relief from all damage that
might accrue, to dump the president in
'One of the’deepest mud holes along the
5919:.-
The plot VV as carried out in all its
details, and the presidential party up-
set under an elm tree near Plainfield,
Ind. The president landed on all fours
——if such a description is possible—and,
'as a dutiful lieutenant, the secretary
of state follov ed his lead and w allowed
in the mud and w ater. IV right caught
the stage and did not get very deep 1n
the mud. President Van Buren and his
secretary flonudered around until they
found a root of the old elm, and, stand-
ing in the mud almost up to their
waists, they waited until the crowd
pulled them out. ‘
The historic old elm stands as state-
ly and as full of life now as on the day
when the roots gave the president of
the nation a plunge. But the road that
passes along beside it is no longer a
mire of mud. The highway passed un-
der the state and private tollgate
‘ regime and was improved into passable
shape.
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MONEY WELL SPENT.
Every Cent Paid for-llae Improvement
of Roads Is Sure to Pay a
Large Dividend.
The construction of good roads has
received wide attention in this country,
but as yet no practical system has been
devised by which any considerable
portion of our roads can be improved.
The construction of good roads on any
except a gram el soil is a costly business,
so expeu 51113 that the fanners simply
cannot bear the burden. It would
amount to confiscation of the farms if
the burden'were placed upon them, for
on black prairie soil, for instance, there
must be a deep. solid foundation laid.
Gravel on such a soil will not stand. It
will go down out of sight during the
spring thaws. Where such roads exist
wide tires would go a long ways toward
preserving them, but it would be a long
time before everybody adopted wide
tires. But bad roads are very expensive.
IThe wear and tcar of wagons, harness
and horses which they entail amount to
many mill ions of (lol’A‘N'1s 1n a year, and
the farmer is shut out of the market
and from all s0cial intercourse
neighbors frequently for long periods.
TO EMPLOY CONVICTS.
How Kentucky Intends to Place Its
Principal Highways in 3
Proper Condition.‘
One of the leading divisions of the
League of American Wheelmen—Ken-
tucky—is making a strong efiort to
have the convicts in the penitentiaries
and other jail pris ners used in the
building and repairing of public roads.
It is receiving the support of many
good roads advocates, and the agita-
vision will cause a bill to bepresented
to the next legislature for the ac-
complishment of the plan.
The convict question is one which
has w01 ried the state ofiicials of Ken-
tucky, as it has those of other states,
and the plan of the wheelmen would
seem to be a very fair solution of the
problem. The great objection to con-
vict labor has alw ay 5 been that it came
in contact with free labor, and in
some states, notably New lor'k, the
antipathy to it has almost resulted in
the convicts remaining in idleness, as
there have been laws passed which pre-
vent them from doing almost any kind
of work. In consequence their health
is reported very bad and theii’ sanity
in jeopardy.
If these convicts, as w ell as those of
other states, argue the Kentucky VV heel-
men, were put to work upon the
public roads instead of being kept in
idleness in the prisons, they would be
of incalculable value to the people of
the state, and at the same time would
come in contact with no class of free
labor, ’ there being no road-builders in
this country.
It is estimated that by the use of
the convicts the state would be able
to place its highways in a proper con—
dition within a comparatively short
time and at small expense.
SOLID, CLEAN PATHS.
They Add Much to the Comfort of
Farm Life and Can Be Built at
Small Expense.
While it is a good idea. always to have
the walks about farmhouses con-
venient and attractive, the one great
essential point lies in obtaining those
which will be firm and dry at all sea-
sons of the year, no matter what the
, cather is. Indeed, a solid clean path
1' not only a. pleasure to walk upon,
1‘. it prevents less mud and dirt of
various kinds from being tracked into
the house, saving the patience of the
housekeeper.
Hence the reason for my presenting
the plan in the accompanying illustra-
tion, which shows how a very neat and
permanent walk may be made. First,
a shallow trench is dug the desired
width of the path, and. the bottom
filled with round stones. Smaller ones
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FOUNDATION FOR SOLID WALK.
i having been placed on these, two strips
of board are arranged at either side,
: nailed together, as can be seen, and
over the whole suficient gravel is shov-
eled to “round up” the path. In this
way the outer edge of the walk is
kept straight and true and the center
f t1 ee from grass, the horizontal board at
' the bottom echudmg much which
I
with .
All this is a. loss and a serious one, so
serious that in many sectiOns where
the conditions are all together favor—
able to road improvements “there
should be no negligence in this matter.
No- one should object to the small cut-
lay necessary to make a good service-
able road when only a small outlay is
needed. Every road should be made as
good as it is possible to make it at rea-
sonable expense, for money thus ex-
pended will pay a large dividend. ——Ag-
ricultural Epitomist.
Smooth Regular Surface.
The peculiar feature of a road
grader is that it cuts away the dirt at
the side of the road, and draws it up
into the middle, thus producing a ditch
at each side and a slope in each direc-
tion from the center. At°the same time
it will cut- away the dirt to just the
proper depth and no deeper. In this
' particular, itswork differs from that
accomplished by the use of plows, shov—
els or hand scrapers. The road grader
leaves a, smooth, regular surface, giv-
ing the road the proper contour. A dirt
or a gravel road can be put into cxcel- .
lent shape by running the grader re-
peatedly over it. Care should be taken
first to remove l:he brush and rubbishl
from the side 0! the road, that the
grader may not carry it into the trav-
eled roadway. . “A _
right board. Provided coal- tar could
be mixed with the top layer of gravel,
it would cause it to harden down and
E become like pavement, and once hard-
ened the smell of the tar would al-
most entirely disappear.—Fred O. Sib-
ley, in Farm and Fireside. ,
LESSON FROM ILLINOIS.
Some Farmers Evidently Expect
Dwellers in Cities to Bear the
Entire Road Burden.
The city of Chicago oifered to pay
for one-sixth of all the good roads re-
quired throughout the state of Illinois,
but the farmer representatives of the
legislature “yelled joyously” when they
defeated the good roads bill requiring
the state to pay 50 per cent. of. the cost
of roads, the county 35 per cent, and
the property owners petitioning for the
road 15 per cent.
As one-third of the taxable property
of the state is in Chicago, it would seem
as though the people of that city would
have opposed the bill, but they did not.
It was the farmers who jumped on the
bill with ghoulish glee and ripped it up
the back. The thinking people of Illi-
nois are now wondering if the farmers
would acceptgood roads, Were they of—
fered to them free, with a 90-year guar-
antee to keep them in good repair.
It is evident some of our good farmer
friends, who are floundering in the mud
several months every year, are sadly in
need of some mental phosphate.
,Because of its deep, soft soil, Illinois
is thdught to 'be. the champion bad
roads state, a distinction it seems like-
ly .to cling to until the farmers come
out of their mud—locked lethargy, or
the people of the cities and towns pre-
sent the rural communitieswith a sys-
tem of good highways, free of cost.—-
L. A. W. Bulletin.
New Jersey Still Lends.
New Jersey’s good roads bill, appro-
priating $150,000 for permanent stone
roads, has passed the senate and will
probably go through the house. This
is $50,000 more than the.former annual
appropriations, but every dollar of it
is already spoken for. If the state
should appropriate $500,000 it would
hardly more than meet the requests for
state aid in the building of the stone
lroads already laid out and waiting for
the state’s share in the cost of theirim-
'provements..——E1izabeth (N. J.) Jour-
i ".31.
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tion ha'scso far progressed that the di- .
ll Long Fell Wanl.
Many Norwalk Readers Will
Appreciate This
Information
It is hard always to b3 pleas tut.
Good natured people are often irri-
table. >
If you knew the reason you would
not be surprised.
Ever have itching" piles '9
Not sick enough to go to bed.
Not well enough to be content.
Nothing will annoy you so.
The constant itching sensation.
Hard to bear, harder to get relief.
Keeps you awake nights.
Spoils Vour temper, neai ly d1' 11' es you
(:1 azy.
Isn’t relief and cure a long felt want?
It is to be l1adfo1 evex you»: in Doau‘s
Ointment‘
Itching Pil
0f bhe Skl‘l].
I-Ie1c is p1 oof of the above.
M13Lewis Snow, of 3:3.P1'cspect St.
VV ebster. Mass , says: "l‘hei' e was a-
bad case of bleedino' piles in 111v family
which had resisted Oidinarv elicits to
cure. We Were so faV orably impress-
ed with the Iesults obLaincd f1om using
e,s Eczema 0‘.‘ a 1V itching
Dean’s Kidney Pills, that we reasoned
if what it claimed for them is so
thoroughly carried out, why should
not the represent 1Lious made for Dean’s
Ointment. be equally true? We got a
box at a drug store and it- szopgcd the
trouble. We consider both Doan’s
Ointment and Dean’s Kidney
valuable remedies, and have no hesita-
tion in recommending them.”
Just such \‘cmpuatlc endor semeut is
plentiiul in \o1--1-.\-.1.lk Drop into Glen-
deuiugd: Co. s dlug stoic and hem
VV 11.15 their 0115 101111: 1s lcport to them.
Doan's ”Ointment for sale by all
dealers; pr'ce :30 cents a box. Mailed
on receipt- Ot' price bV Foster -.\lilb111'n
(30., Bufi'alo, N. Y.. sol agents for the
U. S.
Remember
take no other.
the name—Doziu‘s—-und
When you awake
more tired than when you went to bed
with an unpleasant taste in the mouth,
your tongue coated and dry, and having
no appetite fO1 breakfast, you are suf-
fering from Dyspepsia.
Numbers of people am suffering ser
ionsly from this complaint and its result,
when one package of US ARMY &
N AVY TABLETS will bring about a
prompt cure. Afew doses will do more
for a ll mic or Sour Stomach than a pro
longed couisc of any other medicine.
Nothing can be used with so much cer-
ta1 11W in obstinate cases 01' C onstipatz'on.
These tablets are the outcome of years
of study. and 0.10 compounded of the
finest drugs onlv,pu1ely vegetable, they
do not- mine, produce no reaction. Take
gqsubstl... e 1') CENTS PER PACK-
If you cannot got the 111 at our drug
store ' nd 11') cts.fo1'.. package of 12
to the U. E. a El at? ("1: NA‘. Y TABa
LET (30.,17 EAST 14?}: Sr .NEW YORK
A MODERN PASTORAL.
It Is Spoiled by a Prosuic Irish “'orl-n—
mun with No Eye for
Romance.
They were waiting for the 5:45 p. In.
New York train—five Italian boot-
blacks in a group on the platform of
Mamaroneck station, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser. 'V'hy
there and in such numbers with only
himself—taking the season by the fore-
lock for summer board—the passing
stranger could only wonder idly as he
watched them seated in a dirty but at-.
tentive semicircle, each on his blocking
kit, before the eldest of: them, a chll<
grown, handsome lad of about 15.
He was seated flat upon the sta-
tion platform, braced against the warm
red brick of the station wall, a pic‘
turesque figure, picturesquely occu—
pied. He had cut a branch from a
tree and had fashioned it, dexterously
enough, into that first of all musical
instruments, :1 shepherd’s pipe. And he
was playing on it, as the shepherd in
“Tannhauser” plays when he sings
about the lovely May. It,_was May 1,
too, as it happened, and a beautiful
May 1, as this last one was. Spring in
the air; on the trees about the station
the first filmy shadowing of green; fil-
tering through it the golden haze of the
declining sun, and there, against the
warm red background of the station
wall the comely lad, dreamily at ease,
with the tattered flap of his soft hat
flung back and' his black-fringed eye<
lids pensively downcast, as he played
his shepherd’s pipe—but did the real
shepherd’s pipes sound like that, the
passing stranger wondered, on old
Hymettus’ heights?
“Say, boy,” said a prosaic Irish work-
man, coming along, puffing with haste,
and covered with the lime and plaster
of his day’s job, “a little music goes a
long way. Shut up.”
Fighting Around Morong.
MANILA, June 10. —— Twenty-five
American soldiers who were engaged in
recounoitering in the fortified hills in the
vicinity of Morong yesterday were at-
tacked by 300 of the insurgents. The
Americans fought their way home
through the enemy and inflicted severe
losses on them. The chief scout accom-
panying the Americ ms was killed. Five
insurgents were mptured and taken to
Morong. The enemy is veiy active The
garrison cavaliv and the North Dakota
infantry aie employ ed in throwing 11p in—
tienchmentS.
ET There is not-h-
figs ERS lug which
drains energy,
‘ “EMT” ambition and
endurance like
Malarial Fev-
el' and Anne.
Hostett 1"s
Stomach Bit-
tel'S will send
them away.
and keep them
- away. It has
never failed to
f
owe the worst.
cases. Thls is
. a)
a fae t—not an
expeI 1ment
Try it.
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Pills ,
Received for Premiums
From all other Sources
For all other Accounts
Policiy Reset ves, etc.,
Divisible Surplus .
SAMUEL D. BAecoca [
RICHARD A MOCURDV
JAMES C. HOLDEN I
HERMANN C. VON Pos'i- l
WILLIAM J. SEWELL I
OLIVER .HARRIMAH
ROBERT OLYPHAN’T
GEORGE F. BAKER
DUDLEY OLCOTT [
WILLIAM J. EASTUN, Secretary.
ELIAS J.
Contingent Guarantee Fund,
LIARII 1'11
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OF NEW' YORK.
Assume.
United States Bonds and other Securities .
First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . .
Loans on Bonds and other Securities, . ~
Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents
at $23,534,826.88 : Book Value . .
Cash in Banks and Tru‘st'Companies . .
Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. .
Insurance and Annuities in Force . .
FREDERIO CROMWELL
J ULIEN '1‘. DAVIES
A. N. WATERHOUSE
CHARLES R. HENDERSOR
Euros W. PEOKHAM
J. HOBART HERRIOK
WM. 1’. DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNISS
GEORGE G. HAVEN
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usua
HENRY H. ROGERS
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' WILLIAM BABCOCK
I STUYVESANT FISH
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H. WALTER WEBB
lSAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-Piesideut
JOHN A. .FON DA, Assistant Treasurer
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier.
CHARLES A PRELLER, Audltor.
C CLIb FORD GRETS‘INUER, Afloistant Auditor.
J 011‘ (J. ELLIOI‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies.
E- 'J \A ARD LYMAN SHORT General Solicitor.
VV ALTER R. GILLETTE, Generm Manager.
DUEtt du-P. BRECK, Correspon ing Secrets: ,
IVES.
J so. W AUOHINCLOSS
THEODORE Moaroan
Aueusaus D. J UILLIABD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER B. GILLETTE
RIO‘HARL . A. Moccanr, President.
dementia the Year Ending Dec. 31:98.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State at New York.
- $42.3 18.749 s I
. 12,687,880 92
$55,006,629 43
‘ISPURSEM EN ”1‘39
To Policysholders for Claims by Death . .
To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc.
- $13,265,908 00
‘ [1,485,751 35
' I094939379 53
53593451038 88
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. - $160,956,141 33
. 68,503,580 90
9,396,619 00
:1 20,604,649 61.
. 11,621,377 36
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$277,517,325 3.61
‘q 233,058,640 68
. 42. 238, 684 68
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277,517-325 36
- - $971,711,997 79
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lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
liabilities calculated by the insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER,"Auditcr
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Board. of Trustees-
ADRIAN Isams J11
GEORGE S. Bowuom
' WILLIAM 0. Walnut"
WILLIAM 14100111111111.1111
JAMES N. JARVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY J11 .
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
JAMES Span-:3;
ROBERT A. GRANISS, Vice-President.
ALBERT KLAMRO’I‘H, Assistan Secretary
FREDERIC CROM V‘V ELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMI SON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
EDWARD 1’. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
EMORY MOCLINTOCK, Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, JR. ., Assistant Actuary.
WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
HENRY S‘ BROWN, Assistant Comptrollez
MEDICAL DIRECTORS:
G. S‘. WINSTON M. D. Consulting
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