Evening gazette, Thursday, April 8, 1897 · page 6

 

 

 

 

THE EVENING :IG'AizETT-E . ~ ‘ -

 

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Many a free man
who is sick would
willingly change
p l a c e s wit h a
healthy convict. A
man might as well
be shut out of en-
joyment one was
as another. If he
is shut up in a cell,
he cannot engage
in active pleasures.
He. cannot see the
beauties of nature
and art, but he can

, , .niniagine them, and

' ' " a? so get some benefit

it; “fiv;,;;gfr0m them. A

~ ‘ Nil ' man who is sick
has these things before him, but he doesn’t
see them as they exist. He cannct look on
anything with appreciative eyes. Hrs phy~
sical condition warps his vision and his men-
tality. He cannot euj oy anything, no matter
how enj 035531:- it may be in the abstract. A
man with a foul_ taste in his month, With a
bilious headache, and with poisonous refuse
matter circulating all through his body can.
not enjoy anything. He honestly believes
that the world is all wrong, and that it is a
mighty poor place to be in. He is blue,
despondent, cynical. Life isn’t_worth liv-

.ing to him. Such a simple thing causes
this condition that it is absurd and ridicu-
lous to think of a sensible man remaining
in it. Symptoms like these come from con-
stipation. It is the most prevalent of all
causes of sickness. It makes a man worth
less for work or pleasure, It is a stubborn
trouble when you do not treat it properly,
and a simple one when you do. It IS cured
by Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets. They were

. made for this purpose, and no other. They
accomplish this purpose as no other prep.
oration ever did. An unscrupulous druggisi
maytry to sell you something else. Look
out! It is your health that is at stake. It
is your health against an extra profit on the
thing he says is “ just as good.” DoctOi
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets—don’t forget—
don’t take anything else.

, The People’s Common. Sense
‘ ,_- Medical Adviser, in plain En-
Ign," glish, or Medicine Simplified by
‘ R.V. Pierce, M. D., Chief Consult-
.. ing Physician to the Invalids' HO'
tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo,
N. Y., 1008 pages, illustrated.
080.000 copies sold at $.50. Now
sent, paper-bound, ABSOLUTELY
FREE on receipt of 21 .one~cent
, stamps to pay for mailing only.
Address the Author. as above.

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Merchants, Monomer...
ers, Lodges and Societies
will consult their own inter-
ests by giving us a call. ‘

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work to do, write to us.

.hardly necessary to say that they are

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ii'OR BOYS AND GIRLS.
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How a. Boy Secured 6). Position.

.‘limmie BroWn, aged 10, sat busily
poring over the advertising sheets of
the New York dailies. He was wildly
anxious for a good position as office
boy, for not only did be sadly need
wages, but he had an ambitious little
brain in his head, and he wanted.
above all things, to master the techni-
calities of some good business. Fi-
nally his eye lighted upon an adver-
tisement that seemed to appeal to him
more than any of the others, and he
determined to make a desperate effort
to secure the position;.only the “Ad-
dress lock box 441” was so very dis-
couraging in the beginning, for Jim-
mie had already cudgeled his poor lit-
tle brain and cramped his stiff little
fingers over many an answer to adver-
tisements—to say nothing of the pre-
cious stamps he had risked—and all to
no purpose. No! Plainly in this case,
some other method must be thought
out. i

The next morning Mr. Adams. a
wealthy contractor, took a, very, very
fat mail from lock box 441, most of
which, however, he' was destined
never to read, for close at his heels
followed the sturdy little boy, who
managed somehow to slip into the of—
fice with him. . ,

“Please, sir,” said Jimmie, for it was
none other, “will you give me a chance
to try to suit you as an Office boy‘s"

“Why, how do you know that I want.
an office ’boy?" said Mr. Adams. ' .

“I read .your advertisement in the
paper, and ever since I have been
watching box 441 to find out who you
were and where you did business, so
that I might get in my work before
you had a chance to read about the
other fellows. \Vill you give me a
try, sir?”

“Well,” said Mr. Adams. loosing
rather amused, “If you are smart
enough to do that, I guess you are
about the kind of boy we want. Yes.
you may stay and go right to work.
First. sort out these letters and dump
all the answers to that advertisement
into the waste basket.”

This all happened many years ago,
and today Mr. James Brown is one of
the leading partners in that very firm
which he first served intelligently and

 

'Hlir twins.

Money .Voted For Persons Rendered
Homeless by the Floods.

.THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE.

The Response of Congress “'as Prompt
and $200,000 Is Now Available For
the Destitute Ones——Full Text
of the Joint Resolution.

Washington, April 8.——The president
today sent the following message to the
senate and house of representatives:

Information Which has recently come
to mefrom the governors of Arkansas,
Mississippi and Louisiana and» from
prominent citizens of these states and
Tennessee warrants the conclusion that
widespread distress, involving the de-
struction of a. large amount of property
and loss of human life, has resulted
from the floods which have submerged
that section of the country.

These are stated on reliable authority
to be the most destructive floods that
have ever devastated the MissisSippi
valley, the water being higher than
the highest stage it has reached be-
fore. . From Marion, Ark, north of
Memphis, to Greenville, Miss, a. dis-
tance of more than 250 miles by river,
it is reported there are now at least 50
towns and villages under water; and a
territory extending from 100 miles north
of’Memphis to 200 miles south and from
5 to 40 miles wide, is submerged.
Hundreds of thousands of acres of cul-
tivated soil with growing crops are in-
cluded in the submerged territgry.

In this section alone there re from
[0,000 to 60,000 people whose property
has beendestroyed and whose busi-
ness has been suspended. Growing
crops have been ruined, thousands of
cattle have been drowned and the in-
habitants of certain areas threatened
with starvation. As a great majority
of the sufferers are small farmers they
have thus been left entirely destitute
and will be- unprepared for work even
after the floods have subsided.

A “'liole Valley Flooded.

The entire Mississippi valley in Ar-
kansas is flooded and communication
with many points out off. In Missis—
sippi a like condition exists. The levees
in Louisiana, with a single exception,
have held, but the water is rising, and
the situation there is reported as being
extremely critical.

Under such circumstancesthe citizens

 

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The strangely dressed
whose pictures appear above are the
children of the Princess Marie, of Ron-
mania, and their garb is the national
or Bayard costumer. Prince Caral is 3
years old,'and his little sister, Princess
Elizabeth'Charlotte Josephine Victoria

Alexandra, is a. year younger. It is
great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria,
and Prince Coral is the heir to the
Roumaniau crown.

. -, Tiger Gratitude.

'l‘lio Pall Mall Gazette recalls a diffi-
cult operation which was successfully
performed in the Zoological Gardens,
Dublin, a few years ago. One of the
finest tigers in the cOllection was
threatened with gangrene in its paw,
the claw having been distorted and
grown into the- foot. Reverend Sam-
uel Houghton, M. D., Senior Fellow
of Trinity. College, Dublin, and a. well-
known personage in. the Irish metrop-
olis, undertook to perform the danger-
ous experiment of operating on the'
paw.

The mate of the tiger was first se-
cured in a side den. A not was thrown
over the tiger, and he was drawn for:
ward to the door of the cage. Four
stout keepers then held the feet of the
stuggling animal, while Professor
Houghton cut away the diseased claw.
The suffering beast furiously endeav-
ored to get at him during the Opera—
tion, but the rage of the tigrcss was
much more terrible. She roared and:
tiqu herself violently again and again
against the barriers inberfmad desi‘ré’»
to go to the rescue of her mate. «‘4'

When the tigress was admitted to tlipf
cage after the wound of her mate was.
dressed and the not removed,
turned up the paw and examined it,
with .toucbi'ng solicitude, and then-
li-cked her, mate as a cat licks its kit?
ten to sooth. him, purring softly the
while. But perhaps the most extraor-
dinary part of the affair was the se-
quel. A week later Professor Hough-
ton was again at the Zoo, to see how
his patient was going on. When the
animal espied him he began to purr
like a cat. allowed him to examine the
paw, and seemed pleased that he
should do so. Indeed, for years after-
ward, the tiger and tigress showed
themselves most friendly and grateful
to Professor Houghton.

 

“I wonder if the little Eskimo boys
have any. out-of—door games like ours?”
said Polly. ’

“Oh, I guess so,”. replied Jennie.
“They have polo—bears up there, .you
kuow.”—-—Harper’s Round Table.

A Definition.

Teacher—“James can you tell LUI;

James—“I don’t know exactly, but

she, '

‘of these states look for the co-opera—

tion and support of the national gov-
ernment in relieving the pressing cases

'. \of destitution for food, clothing and

shelter which are beyond the reach of
local efforts.

The authorities who have communi—
cationwith the executive recognize that
their first and most endrgetic duty is
to provide as far as possible the means
Of cring for their own citizens, but
net. y all of them agree in the opin-
ion hatafter their resources have been
exli rated a sum aggregating at least
6150...;6, and possibly $200,000, win‘be
required for immediate use.

Precedents are not wanting that in
such emergencies as this congress has
taken prompt, generous and intelligent
action, involving ‘the expenditure of
considerable sums of money with sat—
isfactory results. '

In 1874, $590,000 was appropriated, and
in 1882, $350,000 was also appropriated
for relief in the same direction, besides
large sums in other years.

llIeasures For Relief.

The citizens’ relief committee of
Memphis, which has taken prompt ac-
tion, has already 'cared for from 6,000 to
7,000 refugees from the flooded districts,
and they are still arriving in that city
in large numbers daily. '

Supplies and provisions have been
sent to the various points in Arkansas
and Mississippi by this committee, but
the utmost that can be done by these
efforts is to partly relieve the most
acute cases-of suffering.

No action has yet been taken for the
great majority of the inhabitants living
in the interior whose condition has al-
ready been described.

Under these conditions, and having
exerted themselves to the fullest ex-
tent, the local authorities have reluct-
antly confessed their inability to fur—
ther cope with this distressing situa-
tion unaided by relief from the govern-
ment. '

It. has, therefore, seemed to me that

be promptly informed of the nature
andextent of the suffering and needs
of these stricken people, and I have
communicated these facts in the' hope
and belief that the legislative branch
of the government will promptly re-
enforce the work of the local authori-
ties in the states named.
‘ WILLIAM- M’KINLEY.
A Prompt _Response.

_ The following resolution was prompt-
ly introduced and passed by the house
and the senate 'and's'ent to the presi:
dent: . ' ' .. _

‘ “Resolved, That the sumof $200,000
'is herebyiappropriatedout ,of any mon-
ey inth'e "treasury not Otherwise ap-
propriated, to be expended by and un-.
'der' ‘the‘ direction .. Of the secretary of
war- in the purchase’ and diStribution of
subsistence stOres to such destitute per-
sons as‘ may, requireasfsistanCe' in the

district .ov'erflowed by the' Mississippi

.river‘land its tributaries and by the
Red River of the North, by the recent
floods. And the secretary of war is
authorized to use the steamers and oth—
er-boats and vessels belonging to or
now employed by the government upon
the Mississippi river and its tributaries
in the transportation and distribution
of the supplies furnished by the United
States or indiViduals to and among
said destitute and suffering people, and
he may employ such other means of
transportation as he may deem neces-
sary to carry the purpose of this joint
resolution into effect.” '

The president promptly signed the
joint resolution, and it is now a law.

Killed by Gas In a Tunnel.

Colorado Springs, April 8.—Seven men
were overcome by smoke and gas today

of Pike’s peak, and two of them are
dead, while the others are in a critical
condition. The dead were George Gor-
don and Michael Lew. -

Roumanian Cabinet Resigns.

 

I suppose it’s a, yard that the (iuimn
children play in.”—Boston 'l‘ruwlcr.

Bucharest, April 8.-—The 'Roumanian
rabinet has resigned,"a.nd,great ex-
Iltement prevails.- . .

 

TIE? 'UTUAL 1.1m 111663?

the representatives of the people should,

.HERMANN C. VON POST

in the Strickle tunnel on the west slope,

 

 

. OF NEW»YORK. :

RIGHARD A. MoCURDY, Resident.

Stale-men! for the Year Inkling December 961, l896 ~

According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the 'State‘ of New York. ,

‘ ” INCOME, .‘ *'
- ' 669,593,041 26

 

Received for Premiums -
From all Other Sources

_ DISBURSEMENTS, _
To Policy-holders for claims by Ilealli V I - - ' - _
To'Policy-holtlsis for Endowments, Dividends, elc. - -
For all Dlher Accounts - . - - _ -

. ASSETS...

niled Slates Bonds and other Securities '- ' - I - -
Firsl lien Loans Ion Bond and Mortgage - - - -
Loans on Stocks and Bonds - — - - .
Real Estate - - - .- — ~. . _
Gash in Banks and Trust companies - - - -
Accrued Inleresl, llel Deferred- Premiums, elci -

612,595,116 39
12,642,456 5|
l0,18l,005 64

. S36,2l8,515 l4

 

s I I 0,I25,082 15
11,546,929 6~
11,691,525 66
22,161,666 65
12,666,696 66

.' 6,565,555 66
s film—IKE

3953116 for Policies and other Liabilities - . - -

_ Surplus - - - - -
Insurance and'Annuilies in force - . .

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‘91
2
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03
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3 “3.598.333 45

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I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be carrect
liabilities Calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES-A. PRELLER, Auditor.

 

From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual

Report of the Examining Committee.

Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE MUTUAL LIFE InsuniucE 66mm or new vonx 1
The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twenty-
third day of December, I 89.6, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, and to

 

verify the same, .espectfully

REPORT

That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates between the date of the
said reference and the date cf this Report attended at the office of the Company,_ and have been waited on by the Treasurer,
the Comptroller, the. Auditor and and the Cashier, together With the the respective assmtants of such oflicers, and have care-
fullv gone over all the items contained in the said Statement,_ and have found the same to be correct. They have examined
and‘counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the
same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such quotations—m fact, in
many cases I. l w them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company,
and find the s « we to be as stated. They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have
verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the

C hier. . . .
as that all the books, papers. documents and eVidences of title of every description necessary in

And the Committee certify . , , _ ,
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their aSSistants, apd that the same are

accurate, in good order and well kept.

And the Committee further certify . . . . _ .
methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation

' All of which is respectfully submitted ROBERT OLYPHANT ' J. HOBART HERRICE
JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D. DICKEY. JRJ
JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON

that the investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the system and
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NEW YORK JANUARY 25, 1897.

 

The company has issued an order whereby women can be insured without the, extra
charge heretofore réquired. More definite information on the subject will be furnished by

the local agent, Mr. A H. Camp, . . _ .
Board of Trustees

GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN ISELIN JR.
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
THEO. A. HAVEMEYER
WILLIAM C. WHITND!
W ILLIAM ROCKEFELLER
JAMES N. JARvIE

CHAS D. DICEEY JR.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY

EENRY H. ROGERS

J No. W AUCHINCLoss
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER B GILLETTE
H. “ALTER WEBB

FREDERIO CROMWELL

J ULIEN T. DAVIES
ROBERT SEWELL

‘S. V. ti. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
RUFUS 1W. PEORHAM

J. HOBART HERRICK
WM P DIXON

ROBERT A. GRANNIss

ROBERT .A'GRANN IS 8 Vice-President.

, .VVALTEE R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ~ ,.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. ' HENRY E. DUNCAN, JR, Correlsponding Secretary
WILLIAM J. EAS'I‘ON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary.
', FREDERIC CROMWELL.T1'ea.surer.' . _ _
JOHN A. FONDA,‘Aesistant Treasurer. JAMES TIM PSON. 26. Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS,'Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
' 1 EMORY MCCLINTOOK, Actuary. .
. JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary.
' CHARLES A,.PRELLER, Auditor. ' . WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
C. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, Asaistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant. Cpmptrollér.
' JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies.
- EDWARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor.

. MEDICAL DIRECTORS: .
ELIAS’J. DIARSH, M. D' 4 GRANVILLE M._-‘VHITE,'M'. D

SAMUEL D. BABCOCK
RICHARD A. MCCURDY
JAMES C. HOLDEN

LEWIS MAY ‘
OLIVER HARRIMAN
ROBERT OLYPHANT
GEORGE F- BAKER
DUDLEY OLCOTT

 

 

 

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