THE MUTUAL lire [rename Ila,
aresAun A. Moouspv, President.
Statemutior thelear Ending Dec. 31:97.
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T HE EV EN 1 NG GA 2 E T T E
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According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
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THE- GU’I‘TUN BELT.
MOMENTOUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE
GREAT SOUTHERN INDUSTRY.
Its Centre Has hinvod Beyond the BIissis-
sippi and Scientific llIethods of Culture
Have Been Adopted~ The Low Prices
Keep Down Foreign Competition. -
North Carolina has already enough
hills within her borders to spin every
Jale of cotton raised in the State and
1 little to spare. and in a few years
the same will be true of Georgia.
South Carolina and a few other At-
.antic States. But now it is predicted
:hat within ten. years these great
Southern mills will be as far from the
centre Of cotton' production as the
New England mills, when the distance
is measured by freight rates. The
.-eason for this is not far to seek. The
cotton belt has been changing and
shifting year by year. The great bulk
If our cotton came from the States
gust of the Mississippi twenty years
ago, but to-day about seven-tenths of
Coat for Little am.
A stylish, outdoOr garment for a little
girl is made of dark red serge and trim-
med with fancy braid and buttons. It
is arranged with a. lining front and
back. The material is gathered at the
neck front and back and fastens down.
the center of the front invisibly with
hooks and eyes. The revers are stiff-
ened and lined with silk and trimmed
at the edges with braid as are also th'
CURRENT COMMENT.
Pennsylvania has begun the build
ing of a new $500,000 Sta-to House
which she. hopes to complete at. :1 cos
of not more than $3.000,000.
The Czar will notice that the United
States understands the act of disarm
ament. After disarming Spain it i!
rapidly reducing its own military ea
tablishment.
Poor old Spain now proposes a na
tional lottery as a means of replenish
lng her exhausted treasury. It is a;
if a father should seek to repair thi
fortunes of an impoverished famil;
by asking his sons to join him in set
ting up a gambling establishment wit]
themselves as the sOle patrons.
A forestry department in Cornel
' University is to be given charge fot
thirty years of 30,000 acres of wo'od
land in the Adirondacks. This is high
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From all Other Sources ° ' ° ' ' I [’469’406 2'4 Jally to run only through the best and practical kmd'
$54,162,608 23
BISBURSEM ENVESo
.ands of Virginia. Georgia and the
two Carolinas, with the edges over-
.apping parts of the contiguous States.
l‘cxas was not thought of, Arkansas
was too far west and Missouri and
Kansas were supposed to be good only
The United States has sent to China
Japan and tlie‘Philippines an “Agri
culture explorer,” charged with at
ranging for the introduction in thos«
regions of American agricultural pro
oli hol ers for CI ims b D a h . . .
T0 P ‘3'" d ' a y e. t - 5‘3’279’630 66 for corn and cattle. ducts especially butter and cheese
To olicy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. " . 12 712 424 76 ., .. . .. . . .4, .
F 11 h A t 9 9 {lhe map of the cotton bell. is en- Our Indian corn missionaries havr
01' a 0t er ccoun S - o 0 ° ' w tircly_ altered. and each successwe been a success, and the idea will heal
$36 [24 060 year 1t must be enlarged to Include l a t ' h,
’ ’ , 99 new territory where cotton flourishes cn argemen,
~ abundantly. Texas has forged ahead ‘1
ASSETSQ in cotton raising so rapidly that grow- The expresS companies have fount
' . ers wonder where it will stop; Arkan- it more profitable to own their can
sas has more recently started upon a .. and pa . mileage for hav'no th h
United States Bonds and other securities 0 . $132,017,341 45 similar’ career; while the farmers of .. 5 ed thaii to us: cars “1:11), :11]: 1:;
First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . ‘ . . 69 423 937 31 Kansas and “550“” are beginning 1° mm tum down ”11‘" and munded roads and it seems as thou h th
Lo I k B d ’ ’ :aise cotton on a large scale. At the epaulets over the sleeves. The full ’ > . g e gov
8115 on sun? 5 and 011 S . . o 0 12,880,308 00 )resent rate of increase this great belt bishop sleeves are finished with turned ernment should do the same thing
Real Estate . . . . . . 21,618,454 83 west of the Mississippi will soon be back Cliffo- .Thonthoro could be no opportunity tot
C8511 in Banks and Trust Companie . . I! 0 I 8 raising three-fourths of all 011,. cotton. A red felt hat, adorned with bows the frauds which, it is alleged, or!
g I t N t D f P 1 o 97 5! 95 3 Then the mills of the South, around and 19093.013 black velvet ribbon 3085 practiced by the railroad companiei
Accrued nteres ’ e e erred 1' em “ms, etc' ’ ' 6,141,200 20 which so much interest centres to—day, prettlly Wlth this charming coat. at each annual weighing of the mail:
$353,786,437 6’ 'Will have as great a problem to solve in transit the government would knov
P as the New England mills are stru - How m" Pluck“ ’5 Closed' - ’ , , . . .
Reserve {fr 0110185 and other Liabilities . . 218,278,243 07 gling with. g g .Couriersfrom Paris cry that the definitely what It is paying for, ant
Surp us . . o . . . $35,508,194 59 But the growth and development of new fashion of buttoning the dress “5 payments to the railroads could bl
Insurance and Annuities in Force . . - $936,634,496 63 the cotton mills in the South Wm CW skirt at the back was the happy comparedenh charges made for sin
, ‘ thought of a French, dressmaker, ilar services to individuals and come
__ lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct;
liabllitles calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
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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 0F
tinue, now that the movement has
been once started. They will not stop
in the cotton belt east of the Missis-
sippi, but new ones will appear in
Kansas’and Missouri. and south to the
Gulf. There is something in this l‘OW
cotton belt that promises great things
for the future. The climate is. in
some respects, better suited to cotton
young, handsome and masculine.
When the real solution of the placket
didiculty came it was sure to be sim-
ple. But no one supposed that a man
would discover it.
Men, except Worth and a few oth.
ers, have been conspicuously success-
ful in readily inventing novelties for
women’s costur’ning. Men do me-
ratlons. 3
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It is one of the contrasts of histor;
that a suggestion looking to the grad
ual reduction of the armies of the great;
powers comes from the most despotig
of them all, Russia, just at the momen
that the most democratic, the Unitei
growing than the Atlantic seaboard . , , , . .
States. The cotton plants dcm'on- chanical “OIL on womens clothing States, ‘5 about to largely Increase in
strate this better than any scientific much better than women. BUt It IS permanent military force. Yet it 1'
theory. The bush grows higher and
bears longer. while open. rainless falls
make the harvesting easier and the
injury from insects and Weather less.
It is estimated by the Department of
Agriculture that cotton can be raised
the feminine dressmakers who think
up pretty patterns. Though they oft-
en may be unable to execute them.
The mind which should conceive a.
suitable placket closing had to be in-
ventive, and the hands which worked
out the model skilled.
easy to draw false conclusions free
the coincidence and antithesis. [t doe
not necessarily mean that the grea
absolutism is a friend of the cause 0
peace and the great republic its enemy
Nor does it, of itself, cast any doubt
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE GOMPAIY OF NEW YORK. successmnv in,,e,,,.1,.o,,e_,,,,,.d of the F . the a mus “h .5 m t 1 t 1 t
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The underfSIgned,: Comrggtfe appomtedhby your honorable bOdY’ On the twenty- Itizlggiyflfef Cg‘t‘icflfietff 0:13:54 5” have conquered: the placket, is both rates tare oftben idea‘iits and genlthusi
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second dayo Decem e , I , o e a met eAnnual Statement Ofthe Company and grees of longitude am about 10 (,0 original and experienced. He was a) 35m Caligula, who, in the latter pal.
tailors apprentice not long ago. how
to verify the same, respectfully-fl ,
REPORT-
That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have, at Various dates between t h
date of the said reference and the date of this Report, attended at the office of the Company, and have been wait 6 e
by the Treasurer, the Comptroller,the Auditor, and the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of such Ofici - OD
and have carefully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be corp,- Cers
have examined and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the COmpany
the prices at which the same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations, and find the same not ex
such quotations—in fact, in many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and moi-m, 0
property held by the Company, and find the same to be as stated. °
pany’s holdings of real estate and have verified the deposits of money in the various banks and tr
have counted the cash on hand held by the Cashier.
And the Committee certify that all the books. papers, documents, and evidence of title of every descri tio
sary in such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said Officer.s and their assistanfis n neces-
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the same are accurate, in good order, and well kept.
And the Committee further certify that. the investments of the Company are of a mob order
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ct. They
and compared
ceding
aces on real
They have. also verified the valuation (if the Com-
ust compames, and
and that.
grees of latitude, but only about one;
twentieth of the land is actually use}.
for cotton growing. Thus the 20,000,-
000 acres of cotton plantations repre-
sent only a fraction of the vast empire
of cotton soil that has never been
tilled. -
The fear that cotton growing has
reached its zenith, and that it must
soon decline, in view of the low prices
received for it, looms up every season
when the-new crop begins to come in,
but like similar nightmares. it fails to
produce any permanent results. The
world has just begun to use cotton.
Our invasion of the Japanese, markets
with this product is but a promise of
what we may expect on a larger scale
in other quarters. There are over
1,500,000,000 human beings existing on
he is reported a despot, before whose
decision women how as to their con-
fessor’s.
Francis‘s plackets are buttoned
through the outer goods. The but-
tons are made from the material of
the gown. They are ornamental, but
require to be fitted with perfection.
Six or seven buttons. dime size, are
Used. His dresses are cut without a
scrap of fullness in the back.
To show that he is altogether supe-
rior to placket trickeries, he omits
them entirely from the back of some
frocks. closing the skirt on the left
side invisibly. A skirt without any
fullness whatever at the back. near
the belt, is rather startling at first,
but one soon becomes accustomed to
and likes it.
of his reign, said he wished the peopl
of Home had only one neck, so tha
he could cut their heads off with on.
blow, was .a liberal monarch at the be
ginning of his reign. So were his fel
low-tyrants, Nero and Domitian. .
The Editorial Association of th
State of New York appointed a com
mittee to confer with the Governor il
regard to measures to end the illega
use of street and other cars for ad
vertising purposes, which, it is trul:
remarked, is but one of the branche
of a great evil. The association fur
ther says, and with perfect accuracy
that “The whole business of advertia
ing by printed posters, defacing no
, and that the system
titled to commendation
A. N. WATERHOUSE
J AMES 0. HOLDEN
and methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are on
All of which is respectfully submitted. CHAS. R. HENDERSON ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
NEW YORK. J anuar‘y 21, 1898- S. V. R. CRUGER J. HOBART HERRIOK
'w 'merely the street cars but our town
and villages and the face of natur:
miscellaneously—vulgarizing the tast=
this globe, and of this number about
half are imperfectly clad. They live
in climates where little protection is
The New Bicycle Skirt.
English women are wearing a new
Board of Trustees-
SAMUEL D. BAsooox
RICHARD A. MoCuaDr
JAIIEs C. HOLDEN
HEEMANN C. VON POST
WILLIAM J. SEWELL
OLIVER HABBIMAN
ROBERT OLYEHANT
GEORGE F. BAKEE .
Donner OLOOTT |
FEEDEnm CROMWELL
J ULIEN 'I‘. DAVIEs
A. N. WATERHOUSE
S. V. R. CBUGEB
CHARLES R. HENDEBsOE
RUFUS WSPEOIIHAM
J. HOBART HERRIOK
WM. P. DIXON
ROBERT A. GBANNISS
HENRY H. ROGERS
J 110. W AUGHINCLOBB
THEODORE MORFOBD
WILLIAM BABOOGK
STUYVEEANT FISH
Auoosros D. J UILLIARD
CEAELEs E. MILLER
WALTER R GILLETTE
. H. ’WALTEE WEBB
GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN ISELIN JR.
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN.
WILLIAM G.' WHITNEY
. WILLIAM ROCKEEELLEE
JAMEsN. JABV‘LE
CHAS D. DIOKEY J3
ELEMDGE T GERRY
J Aims SPEYEB'J
.ROBERT A. GRANISS; Vice-President.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. "
WILLIAM J. EASTUN, Secretary.
0 ,- '.ii;~;iéa""/:;;J OHN A. FON DA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier.
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CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. » .
o. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, Ausistant Auditor.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
, DUES du—P. BRECK, Gorres ondin S t
ALBERT KLAMROTH, P g we at)
FREDERIO CROMWELL, Treasurer. ,
{AMES TIM ESON. 2d Assistant‘Trpasurer.
EDWARD RHOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
Assistant Secretary.
EMORY MoOLINTook,iAotum.
JOHN TATLOCK, 38 ,Assistant Actuary.
" WILLIAM W. RICHARDS Com troller.
HENRY 5., BBQ WN, Assistdnt Cognptrollerl
JOHN C. ELLIO I‘, Superintendent of Domestic A en “6
EOWAED LYMAN sneer, [General Solidi-.gor. u 8‘
ELIAS J. MARSH, M.
.MEDIOAL DIRECTORS:
D.
GRANVILLE M, WHITE, M D;
G. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting. ~
arduous to amount“, coaster Agents.
A, E. dour, Loom Aaron
needed, but that protection must come
in the form of cotton clothes. The
vast hordes of the Orient, of the
islands of the Pacific, and of the great
African continent, require cotton
goods for clothing. To—day they go
without them only because they are
not obtainable at prices within their
means.
The World‘s yield of cotton has
trebled in twenty-five years, and it
has nearly doubled itself in the last
ten years. Our own product has rep-
resented a large percentage of this in-
crease. India, China and Egypt can
raise cotton on alarge scale, too. but.
with all their cheap labor. the South-
ern planter can raise and the Ameri-
can manufacturer can work up into
salable goods our cotton and place it
in Eastern markets at prices lower
than the natives can ever hope to ac-
complish.A—New York Sun.
Pulling Ofl‘ Hats.
“I have not yet lived a million
years,” said Mr. Goslington, “but so
far I observe that there is one form
of play that all boys have alike dur-
ing a considerable period of their
youthful existence. This consists in
pulling off other boys’ hats and throw-
lng them in the street. The desire. Ol‘
impulse, to do this comes at a very
early age. and it remains in the boy
until he is pretty well grown.
“It is not unusual to see a boy ten
or twelve years old. or even older than
that. pull off another boy‘s,hat. us-
ually. in some instances, the hat of a
smaller boy, and throw it away. Here“
the act is intended to be annoying and
exasperation. and it is a pretty meant
thing for the big boy to do; but litticf
boys do this thing just out of sheet:
playfuln.«_\ss.”
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Groom—I'm they play golf in Ger.
many?
Redd—0h. yes: haven‘t you eve)
heard of the Iv‘rankt'urter links?»
Yonkers Statesman.
bicycle skirt, “The Badminton,” which
appears to have peculiar advantages,
and some drawbacks. The inventor
disdains the idea that the skirt is di-
vided. Yet it is in two portions, by
whatever name you call it.
The advantages are in the ease with
which any bicycld' may be mounted,
the absence of all entangling straps
and elastics, and the unique superior-
ity of the garment for use with a
wheel of diamond frame.
The only seeming objection to the
skirt is the old one of some men dis-
liking any garment on a woman which
hints that she has more than one foot.
However. men are more liberal about
feminine athletic costumes nowpln
this country. And such a skirt might
be much admired in Lenox or in the
morning hours in Newport if a know-
ing tailor should ‘build‘it from one
or another of the. plain or checked
fabrics ngw in vogue. .
The skirt appears to be no more not
less than a well fitting one, slashed
back and front. from hem to near the
belt binding. and fastening on the left
side.
Pretty suit it would be in hunter's
green tweed.
Peculiar Wedding Rings.
There is a popular idea that a ring
made of gold is the only one that can
be legally used in a wedding ceremony.
This is, however, a fallacy. , Any and
every kind of ring may housed, and
though gold ones are customary, there
is no reason whatever why silver or
any commoner metal should not be
called into requisition. Numerous in-
stances are on record of runaway mar-
riages in which a brass ringhas played
the all important part, and the legality
of the ceremony has never been ques.
tioned. In some cases a piece of hur-
riedly-tied string has answered the
same purpose, as have also circles cut
out of card paper.
A man who is too busy to take care
of his health is like a workman who is
too busy to sharpen his tools.
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of the community and making all on
public places hideous—is a direct dl
version of legitimate business from th
newspapers and magazines.” ' It i
added that in France and Italy a larg
sum is derived from a stamp tax (It
poster advertising, and that Congres
makes a mistake by not including sue!
a tax in the war revenue bill. All 0
which is quite correct. The newspa
per men of New York will unite to pu
an end to a flagrant imposition on th. 4
public, and an aggressive raid upon I
legitimate business.
Segretary Long and the technical ex
ports of his department, in their desir
to formulate a general policy of nava
construction which shall enlist th
prompt co-Operation Of Congress, hav
reached an agreement which shout
and doubtless will command the in
mediate and unquestioning support 0
that body. The Naval Board of Con
struction, acting under the direction a
the Secretary, has unanimously do
cided that the battleships and cruises
hereafter added to the navy shall be a
least equal to the largest and speed!
est vessels of their respective type
in existence. The Board has there
fore ordered that designs be prepare
for three battleships, each with a di:
placement ranging between 13,000 an
14,000 tons, with a speed of not lea
than nineteen knots an hour. In add
tion to these, it proposes the buildin
of three first—class cruisers, each wit
a displacement of 12,000 tons and;
speed rate of not less than twenty-tw
knots. It also recommends the build
ing of additional cruisers, like th
Olympia, of Admiral Dewey‘s flee
but with a. greater speeding capacity
together with ‘others of smaller Vtyp.
having a displacement of 2,500 to 3.05
tons.
Norwalk Chronicler