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THE POSTAL CONGRESS
Held Once in Five Years by the
Universal Union.
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Next Meeting to Take Place in the United
States Capital in 1897—Work
and Objects of the Asso-
elation.
The Universal Postal union holds a
congress once in five years todetermine
what changes are needed in regulations
governing the handling of international
mail. The sixth is to be held in Wash-
ington in 189 .’. The director of the
executive committee of the Universal
Postal union, says the Philadelphia.
Times, comes to the United States on"
invitation of the postmaster general,
to make arrangements for the meeting
at Washington. The delegates will be
entertained in New York as well as in
Washington, for in New York they will
have the best possible opportunity for
examining the American system of
handling the foreign mails, which is
the most perfect system in the world.
It is possible that they will be taken
west to see the operations of the postal
systems in the other cities—in St. Louis,
where the trolley car service origi-
nated, in Chicago and Cincinnati.
There are thirty-eight countries in.
the postal union, and the mail from
more than 200,000 local post offices is
handled in the international system.
The United States alone receives
$2,650,000 for foreign postage each year
and pays out less than that sum for the
service. The international mail is car-
ried at a profit, while the domestic mail
is carried at a loss of 86,000,000 a year.
The fact that there is a. profit in hand-
ling international mail is the text of a
good many postal reformers in Eng-
land. We collect 8250,000 a year from
recipients of letters from foreign points
on which postage has not been prepaid.
This is equal to one-tenth of the sum
sum received on letters bound outward
the United States gets only a share.
Often there is actually a loss to
this country in forwarding a letter to a
remote point. Every country through
which the letter passes collects toll
from us on these letters. On the letters
received not fully prepaid we collect
double postage, and the entire amount
belongs to- us. We have no reason,
then, to complain of the number of let-
ters which come to us unpaid; yet the .
double postage is a penalty intended to
be a constant reminder to the people of
the necessity of prepaying postage. In
spite of the penalty, one-tenth of the
foreign mail received in the United
States is not fully prepaid. Probably
this is because the man who sent the
letter is not subject to the penalty.
The chief question to be . considered
at the congress of 1897 is the proposi-
tion to make the intermediate nations
handling a letter transport it for noth—
ing. This proposition is made in the
interest of simplifying the accounts of
the postal service. Under the conven-
tion now in force the nation by which
a letter is forwarded pays to each inter-
mediate nation 2 francs per kilo for all
mail in- transit. This increases mate
rially the cost of forwarding letters to
distant points. For instance, a letter
to Turkey will go from New York to
London, thentoBelgium or Holland, to
Germany, to Austria, to Hungary and
then to Turkey. A kilo is two and one-
fifth pounds or thirty-five and one-
fifth ounces. Although the postal
union carries a half-ounce for 5 cents,
the average of letter-weight is less
than that maximum. The estimates of
the postal union are made on a basis of
three letters to the ounce. Therefore,
2 francs, or 38.6 cents will carry 106 let-
ters through one intermediate country.
On 106 letters to Turkey the United
States post office department would pay
38.6 cents to each lpf the intermediate
countries -—five in all. This. would
amount to more than 1% cents on each
letter—a considerable tax, and one
which would put “penny postage” on
foreign mails quite out of the question.
This tax, of course, is supposed to be
balanced by other governments on let-
ters set through the United States to
Canada, to Mexico and New Zealand. ‘
There will be 150 delegates to the
postal congress, and it has been said
they will be handsomely entertained
during their visit to America two years
hence. The form of their entertain-
ment is now under consideration by
the post office department.
Long Trip with a Wheelbarrow.
Seventeen years ago, in 1878, Lyman
Potter, of New York state, performed
the prodigious task of pushing a com-
mon “paddy” wheelbarrow across the
continent. He started'from his home
on Dane street, Albany, N. Y.,,on the
morning of April 10, 1878, and arrived
in San Francisco on the afternoon of
October 5 of the same year, being al-
most exactly one hundred and seventy-
eight days (five hours and three min-
utes over), in performing the wearisome
feat. Potter was a shoemaker, and the
trip was the result of a wager made by '
some friends who believed that such a.
trip would occupy at least two hun-
dred days. The wager was one thou-
sand dollars, but Potter made between
three and five times that sum advertis-
ing for different parties along the
route. The wheelbarrow was made
specially for the use to which it, was
put and weighed but seventy-five
pounds. The distance traveled by Pot-
ter was exactly four thousand eighty-
five and three-quarter miles.
An Extraordinary Freak.
A citizen of Tampa, Fla., is the owner
of a wonderful curiosity in the shape of
a pair of deer’s horns in which one of
the prongs ends in a startling malfor-
mation- Four inches from the place
where it branches from the main horn.
this prong suddenly enlarges into a
bulbous growth nearly as large as a
man’s fist, and it is in this excrescence
that the wonder lies. The bulb is in
the form of a hound’s head, plainly
showing ears. mouth, eyes, etc. It was
“taken in the down,” and were it other-
'wise it is impossible that it could be a .
work of art. owing to the enlargement
necessary for the freak.
Of the '
A WOMAN iDEPUTY SHERIFF.
San francisco’l Vef’y—T-Interesting Officer
‘ of theLaw.‘
San Francisco, being a. progressive
toWn, boasts of a woman deputy sheriff.
She is Miss May Simpson, and it is said
that she manages the duties of her
unique position with great skill.. She.D
is a young woman, and she says she
has never seen anything of which she
was afraid. The dark, ghosts, bur-
glars. drunken people and the insane
have no terrors for her. Horses, dogs,
mice and even the fiercer animals that
men themselves have no longing to
fondle, are nothing to her. '
Miss Simpson’s work consists mainly
in escorting women who have been
adjudged insane to their asylums. She
has a theory of her own as to how in-
sane people should be ‘treated, and her
ideas have stood successfully the time
test. She believes. in kindness, com-
bined with firmness and absolute fear-
lessness. - -
The salary cdnnected with the some-
what difiicult position is in no sense
large. It is like the pondmaster’s
wages—no dogs, no pay. The woman
deputy is paid by the piece—two dollars
and fifty cents for every trip. If no
women are committed there is~no pay,
and the deputy goes home and awaits
the next session of court. The most she
has ever made was forty dollars in one
month, and sometimes there are as few
as six cases in a month—that is, fifteen
dollars. It isn’t exactly a princely in-
come for taking one’s life in one’s hands
every day or so.
There is nothing about the woman
deputy to attract attention, except the
novelty of her position. She is young
— considerably under twenty-five —
dresses in dark, stylish clothes, is unob-
trusive in her manners, and has a pret-
ty face, with dark curly hair, gray eyes
and a brilliant complexion that tells
of long hours of dreamless sleep, un-
troubled by the faintest suspicion of
scenes of the Jane Eyre type. ,
The men about the sheriff’s office
treat her courteously, as they would
another man whom they respected.
They don’t try to do her work for her.
She wouldn’t like that, but they treat
her as she treats them, with a business—
like courtesy that is refreshing.
THE BALTIC SHIP CANAL.
How It Will Make and Unmake Variant
European Ports.
Germany does well to make the
formal opening of‘ the great Baltic
ship canal a ceremonial affair of the
first magnitude, says the London Re-
view. ‘When ships of the largest bur-
den can pass by a protected short cut of
sixty miles’ length from the North sea
to the Baltic the ugliest as well as the
oldest problem of north European nav-
igation will have been solved. Inci-
dentally it will destroy what little re-
mains of Denmark’s commercial im-
portance. .
Copenhagen has endeavored to fore-
stall disaster by making itself into a
free port and spending large sums of
money upon dock and harbor improve-.
ments; but, we fear, all in vain. It is
incredible that any shipping will here-
after be sent into Danish waters, to
round the tiresome Jutland peninsula
and brave the dangers of the treacher—
ous passage of the sound, which can
take advantage of the shorter and en-
tirely safe route across Holstein.
Where the commercial supremacy of
the Baltic will resettle itself when once
it quits Copenhagen is not clear. Ham
burg is very confident about its own
succession to these rich honors. An-
cient Lubeck is projecting an Elbe-
Trave canal, by means of which she
hopes to divert the increased traffic and
wealth to herself.
The Courland port of Libau has spent
two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
in enlarging its facilities for the compe-
tition, and even St. Petersburg, which,
with its new deep~water dock in the
Neva, becomes a seaport this year for the
first time, has visions of maritime great-
ness based on this novel rearrangement
of. trade currents. While these rival
claims are as yet in the air the advan-
tages to British shipping are tangible
and immediate. Not least among these
advantages may be counted the in-
creased incentives to peace which the
financial importance of keeping this
great canal open will give to the Ger-
man empire.
. Bad dreams dis-
tress the man whose
di estion is out of
or er. Constipation
creates more dreams
than are in the infer-
nal regions. People
who are troubledwrth
constipation sleep
badly and restlessly.
Sometimes they can-
not sleep at all, and
when they do sleep,
the dreams come. It
doesn’t take so very
long to wear a man
out with that sort of
'thing. He gets 11
in the morning fee -
M“ l in worse than he
' di when he went
to bed. He is listless and without energy.
’The chances are he is dizzy, has “ heart-
burn,” palpitation, sees black spots be
fore his eyes, has headache and is bilious.
What nonsense it is to let a condition of
that sort continue. Nine-tenths of all
the sickness in the world comes from .
constipation and neglect of it. It is a
simple thing to cure if you go about it .
right. It’s a bad thing and a serious thing
if you don’t take the right medicine. Dr.
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are designed for
the cure of constipation. The “ Pellets ”
are tiny, sugar-coated granules. One is
a laxative, two a mild cathartic. Every-
body who has. ever used them has a good
word for them. They have prevented
more serious illness than any other
remedy ever sold. Druggists sell them,
and an honest druggist'will not try to
sell you something else. ,
Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad-
viser is the greatest family doctor book ever
published. It ex lains human physiology
and the laws of 1i e and health in plain yet
scientific language. It has had a tremen-
dous sale; 680,000 copies at $1.50 each, bound
, in cloth. The present free edition is the
same in all respects except that it is bound,
in strong manilla. paper covers. A copy will
be absolutely given away to anyone who
sends 21 one-cent stamps to pay cost of -
mailing omly, to World’s Dispensary Med-
lcal Assocmtion, No. 663 Main Street,
Bud'slo, N. Y. ‘
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OF NEW YORK.
A RICHARD A. Mc’CURDY President.
Se emen ur- eYear in Bend]. 1 ‘ ’.
Assets.
Liabilities .
Surplus .
Total Income .
Total Paid Policyrhol'ders in 1895,
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895
fiNOTE—Insurance merely vnrv'ttean dlscarded from this Statemen‘t
tier actually issued and paid for in cash ls Included. L
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$221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 75-
$48,597,430 511
$23,126,728 45
$899,074,453 78
' $61,647,645 36
as wholly mlsleadi-ng. and only insurance
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. .
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as/usual.
"Report of the Examining Committee.
Offieeef the Mutual Life Insurance (lumen! of New Yerx,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18t h day of
December "last, theunderSIgned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
parison with the assets of the Company.
The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby
certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified
therein are in possession of the Company.
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimonv to the high character of
the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and
accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in
general transacted.
H. C. Von Post,
('harles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
Robert Olyphant,
‘Wm. P. Dixon,
Committee
J. H. Herrick. '
ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE. General Manager.
as ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President,
All 1’
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary,
TOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy.
’ ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treas
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier
EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PBELLER, Auditor,
WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
HENRY S, BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies”
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
GusrAst s. WINSTON, M. D.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D.
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GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. 1).
Jean w. NICHOLS.
New Haven, General Agt. for State ofConnecticut.
Local Agent.
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