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' THE ORIENTAL WAR.
Its Results May Prove a Menace
to American Trade.
So Says Sir
Authority—Japan 'May Make In-
ronds Upon English and Ameri-
. can Industries. - ‘é
Japan has‘a prophet in England who
can scarcelyficontain himself for joy
er 0v her victory; who. predicts vast
things for her, and who is happy at her
prospect despite the fact that a part of
his prediction is that through her gain
England will lose heavily and the
United States will be severely stricken.
Yet, says the New York Advertiser, he
is an Englishman born, and has been
knighted by the queen; an Englishman
of ever-bubbling patriotism. Yet he
loves America, took an American wife,
and is loved and respected by Ameri-
cans. He is Sir Edwin Arnold, cele-
brated as the author of “The Light of
Asia” and many other wonderful books,
and, lately, by his—shall we call it
J apomania?aSir Edwin Arnold, who
is no less a politician than a poet,-
knows more about the J apan-China war
than any other Englishman.‘ Here is
, part of what he said:
“Japan is one of my most enthusias-
tic loves. I have been there twice and
both visits were long and pleasant. If
I live I shall go again. Japan’s victory
is the greatest progress that the world
has seen since the American colonies
won their independence. For un-
counted centuries an impassable
boundary existed between the west and
the east. England broke it down so
that India was open; America, through
Perry, broke it down so that Japan was
open. Now Japan has broken it down
so that China—greatest conquest of
them all—is open.
“I do not mean by that that China
will ‘how or, perhaps, ever enter into
the column of progressive nations.
Japan 'will not go far enough in her
victory to uproot the present Chinese
governniént—a government that has
been handed down with few changes
since before the time of Christ. Japan
knows too much for that. She under-
stands the people with whomvshe has
to deal. She realizes that they have
been infected with a virus of stupidity
and barbaric conservatism from which
it is scarcely reasonable to hope to ever
free them. Confucius was the man
who killed China. His philosophy of
fatalism is the sleeping draught from
whose effects she may never wake.
China is like the grub chosen by the
iguna bird for her young. This bird
injects a subtle poison into the worm
she selects for her family’s food, which
paralyzes it, and without killing it
makes it like a dead thing. Confucius
was China’s iguna bird. He introduced
' into her veinsa oison which has made
her comatose for nany, many centuries.
It is, in one sense, a dead thing which
Japan has conquered, aad it is doubtful
if it will ever come to normal life. But
it is a valuable corpse.
. “But Japan will be from now on the
great civilizing, regulating, dominating
power of Asia. Without disrupting
China, she will let the whole world
reap the result of her resources. She
will throw down the barriers which
have closed her vast possessions to
trade and commerce. She will intro-
duce such modern methods as are pos-
sible into the interior, which has been
absolutely stationary for centuries.
The day when lucifer matches and mills
and railroads and other results of civil-
ization can be shut out of one of the
richest and broadest countries in the
world ended with the decisive battle of
the J apan-China war.
“The victory of Japan over China
may well make certain English and
American industries tremble for their
future. It means that from now on
cheap labor—labor which is incredibly
cheap to us—will be thrown into com-
petition with high-priced labor. Tariff
duties will not protect us or you. No
nation could protect itself by tariff
against the attack which Japan can
and will make in the near future, any
more than it could protect itself by
guns and fo‘rts against an invasion of
the influenza epidemic. ' ~
“Let your cotton growers look to
their positions. Even England’s Indian
cotton will be hard pressed, and if the
growers are in danger then the manu-
facturers are in greater danger. The
capacity of the Japanese and the Chi-
nese for incredible detail in their work
makes for them the most perfect work-
men in the world, as they are the most
rapid. And when one realizes that this
ability and capacity can be obtained
there for an average of eight cents a
day, against from a dollar and a half
upwards in America and four shillings
upward in England, it is not hard to
see there is reason in what I say. I be-
lieve that Japan will, ere long play very
hot with Manchester, our great Eng-
lish cotton manufacturing center, and
there are American cities which, while
they may not feel the evil effects of
this modern progression quickly, will
not fe‘ hem less segiously in the end.
“Ari ‘ "ottonis Gulf/one of the indus-
trial branches of which Japan is des-
tined to become the queen. In silk
growing and silk making and the labor
and resources of China which she will
develop she will be supreme, and in an
infinitely varied and infinitely numer-
ous list of other industries in which
cheap labor must be the chief element
,—such as matchmaking—she will rule
the world.” .
Father Violet.
When Napoleon left France for Elbe
he said: “I will return with violets,”
,and the followers, who awaited his re-
’turn, wore always ‘on their breasts a
violet, and in their gatherings they al-
ways drank to the toast of “Corporal
Violet.” Prints are in existence that
in two violets have the outlined pro-
files of Napoleon and Maria Louise, and
beneath these are the words "‘En prin-
temps il reviendra.” There was a pop-
ular song early in this- century called
“Le Pere de la Violette,” and 1e pere
was Napoleon.
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THIS ATOM MAKES TROUBLE.
Miscroscoplc Thingumbobfiriving the In-
habitants to Hard Drink.
A microscopic thingumbob in the
reservoir of the Middletown (Conn)
water works is making ‘more trouble
than same, persons very many thousand
times its size. Its present occupation
appears to be driving the inhabitants
of Middletown to drink, and although
scientists are after it hot hooks it goes
right on thriving.
Some of these same scientists, says
the New York World, gave this dimin-
utive beast the name of uroglena vol-
vox. But this mouthful of dead
language didn’t exactly fill the bill, so
some male person of Middletown tacked
on the adjective “odorous.” Now all
folks who live in Middletown call the
intruding organism the “odorous urog—
glena volvox,” and try, as far as possi-
ble, to keep it out of their midst.
The odorous whadjecallem’s partic—
ular forte is dying along all the water
mains in the Connecticut borough.
Scientists whohave pried into its family
affairs say that before it gets into the
water mains it has no effect upon the
fluid. But in the hurly-burly of jostling
through the pipes with unaccountable
millions of its kind it gets all broken
up, disintegrates and gives to the water
the taste of fish long dead, but un-
buried. 52» - ’
Scientists who have brought it be-
neath the cold, unscrupulous eye of a
miscroscope say that it is a minute mass
of jelly. The Middletown @eople say
that it may be jelly, but that it leaves
a taste a “darn sight larger than a
minute”—~some hours long, in fact. And
the whole town waits to see what a
learned biologist can do to clean the
uroglena volvox out of the reservoir.
He says, just at present, that the atom
is washed down into the reservoir from
the hills above and that it looks as if it
has come to stay. Meanwhile the Mid-
dletownian associates with the thing-
umbob externally, and the price of hard
cider has gone up.
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MADE UP A COFF‘iNED CORPSE.
A Ghastiy Job an Artist Undertook to Please
an Undertaker Friend.
A well-known artist of Syracuse, N.
Y., amuses his friends with an experi-
ence he had some time ago that has a
tinge of the uncanny. It seems, says
the Washington Star, that the artist
has a friend who is an undertaker, and
who at that time was badly in need of
assistance. It seems that the under-
taker had accidentally spilled a fluid
ing for burial, and on account of his
carelessness the fluid had acted upon
the skin, and turned it black in many
places. The undertaker realized that
something must be done, and that very
soon. It would be out of the question
for the family to learn of the accident.
‘For‘ a moment he was nonplused, but
his mind shortly turned to his artist
friend, and he thought that he could
relieve him.
“It was at night when he called,”
said the artist, in narrating the story,
“and I had retired. 'At first it seemed
impossible for me to attempt such a job
as he laid before me, but his sad plight
touched me, and I finally consented to
do the best in my power. ' I went to the
house with my box of paints. The un-
dertaker entered the front door, but he
feared that suspicion would be aroused
if I was seen. According to arrange-
ments, I waited outside until he had
reached the death chamber. Then he
silently raised the window, and I
crawled stealthily in. For more than
an hour I labored silently upon the
spotted face, carefully painting over the
black places, and finishing the whole
with that effect which betokens death.
“It was a ghastly job, and I never
want another like it. After it was all
over the body looked as lifelike as pos-
sible, and no one ever knew that the
.face was entirely made up.”
INA CIRCULAR GALE.
Exciting Experience; of the Ship James
Nesmith.
Circular gales are a species of dis-
turbance at sea which every mariner
fears and seeks to avoid. The Ameri-
can ship, James Nesmith, which ar-
rived here recently from New York,
says the San Francisco Chronicle. re-
ports having encountered one of these
“spin arounds” when only three days
out of the clearing port, and, according
to the crew, the vessel was in serious
trouble for several hours.
The gale came up with such sudden-
ness and fury that all efforts to keep
the ship to her course were fruitless.
She was forced by the gale to describe
aseries of circles, just as if she had
been caught in a maelstrom. The
revolutions finally ceased, and, after a
hard struggle with a fresh blow off
shore, the Nesmith eventually escaped.
She was rather badly crippled; how-
ever, having sprung a leak astern
which promised. to do considerable
damage to her cargo. Capt. fiarkey
turned his men to the pumps and.
headed the ship with all sail for:Ber-
muda. From Bermuda to this port she
enjoyed splendid weather. The Ne-
smith was altogether one hundred and
forty-six days making the voyage from
New York.
The Best Metal for Rifle Bullets.
Tungsten, which is about one and a
half times heavier than lead and al-
most as hard as stcel, is considered the
best metal for rifle bullets, now that
the diminished calibre of rifles has led
to the use of a smaller bullet. It is de-
sirable under the circumstances to have
. for the manufacture of rifle bullets in
metal heavier than lead, and of greater
penetrating power. A tungsten ball
penetrates a steel plate three inches in
thickness at a distance of 650 yards,
while a similar one of lead only pene-
trates a two-and‘a-half-inch plate at
325 yards. As a rule bullets are made
of perfectly pure lead“ the purity of
which is tested by ,chemical analysis.
Afi'y impurity tends to alter the Weight
and to affect the expansion, and thus
to spoil the shooting of the arm. The
bullets are all made by compression,
the lead being just squirted into long
rods and then formed into bullets in a
machine. ' .
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Assets, - . ..
Liabilities . .
Surplus . .
OF‘NEW YORK.
AL 2111]?
RICHARD A. \McCURDY President.
in amen for eYear ndingfleuflllflli.
_. I $221,213,721 33
194,347,157 58
$26,866,563 75
Total Income . .
$48,597,439 51
Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895,
. $23,126,728 45
Insurance and Annuities in force,
Net gain in 1895
$899,074,453 78
$61,647,645 36
actually issued and paid for in cash is include .
parison with the assets of the Company.
therein are inpossession of the Company.
general transacted.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, ‘
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, '
IOHN A. FONDA, AssistantTreasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier
JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary.
CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor,
MEDICAL DIRECTORS
GUSTAVUSS. WINSTON, M. D.
' H. 0. You Post, '
' Charles R. Henderson,
James C. Holden,
ELIAS, JLMARSH, M. D.
NOTE—Insurance merely written. Is discarded from tgis Statement as wholly Misleading. 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.-
Office of the Mutual Lite Insurance company of New York,
February 11,1896.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 181; h day of
December last, theu‘ndersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual
Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-
\
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
In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony 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
Robert Olyphant,
Wm. P. Dixon,
Committee
J. H. Herrick. . .
' ROBERT A. 'GRANNIS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. .
HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy.
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Seoy.
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.
JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Tress
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier
EMORY MeCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary.
WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.
JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies,
EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor.
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