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tannins CHARGE
The Senator Alleges Money Now
Controls Local Politics.
All APPEAL TO HIS STATE
The Great Railroad He Says, Already Ila:
Furnished and Distributed Its Money to
Control Representatives and Senators.
A Grave Charge.
Manchester, N. II, Dec. 20.——The
Union prints the conclusion of Senator
W'iiliam E. Chandlers statement on the
growth of the use of money in politics
in New Hampshire As to the last
campaign the senator says:
“Unfm‘tunately the temptations un—
der the conditions existinr“ boidly to
seize and selfishly use the great power
of the Republican party was too gr. eat
to be resisted by certain forces and
persons. '
“It is at just such times of over-
whelming ascendancy of a party that
designing men take the opportunity
to possess themselves of the party or-
.g: iiization. The few men who are
s izing power will wield it with unre-
l .itless mercilessness. .
”W'ill Senator Gallinger fail to issue
snore circulars and money drafts like
Whose which have made his conduct of
the canvass of 1898 the most notable.
in the present history of the state?
Ex Pede Herculeum. The game is
made up. Look to see it played. Ex—
perientia docet stultas.
“In the coming legislature the Man-
chester and Milford railroad bill is to
be’defeated: so are all bills for electric
railroads; so is the bill to disentangle
the supreme court from railroad con—
tests; any bill effectually prohibiting
free passes; the bill for electing rail-
road commissioners by the people'and
making them the people’s agents in-
stead of the agents of the great rail-
road, and, moreover, the bill prevent-
ing fraud and bribery in party cau-
euses.
“To accomplish these objects the
great railToad has already furnished
its money and the chairman has dis-
tributed the funds to control the rep-
resentatives and senators.
“There is no possibility of doubt that
herein is correctly depicted a new sys-
tem of political control in New Hamp—
shire under which, through money in-
fluences, all popular legislation at the
-coming session is to be defeated, and
hereafter all Republican political cau-
cuses and conventions, and the elec-
._,t‘ign of all delegates and nominees for
office, and of all federal office holders
are to be directed by the chairman
of the state committee, according to
his own will and pleasure, except so
far as he may be influenced by the
corporations or individuals who have
furnished to him the large sums of
money necewary to fasten upon the
people a scheme of political rule.
ind‘o-rse. approve. submit to and cr—
petuate such a system. in nhuut the
most important question upon which
its members have ever )een called up-
on to act.”
rag»
Duels in Hungary.
liuiglapest, Dee. 29-.--The first of the
Si}: duels arranged between M. Ito-
ranszky, a member of the lower house
of the Hungarian Diet, and his sec-
onds. and the seconds of Baron Banf-
fy. the Hungarian premier. growing;
out of the dispute, still unsettled, be~
tween the two principals, took place!
yesterday, between Baron Fejervary,
Mlnistr of national defence, and Count
Kuruiya.
I’istols were the weapons, but the
encounter was bloodless. Baron Fe-
jervary missed his opponent. and the
pistol of Count Karolya missed fire.
Baron Banffy’s Second, M. Gajarl
and M. Horanszky’s second, M. Sze—
moro. fought a duel later with swords.
In the first encounter the latter was
cut on the head.
After his wound had been bound the
duel was resumed, and M. Szemoru
again was severely wounded in the
head. The seconds stopped. the fight-
ing and a reconciliation followed.
hIany Arrests in Havana.
Havana, Dec. 29.—The patrols of
American troops made thirty arrests
for misdemeanors Tuesday night and
turned them over to the civil authori-
ties.
Two of the men arrested for the
Vegas Bomba Cafe affair are Spanish
marines. They were surrendered to
the Spanish authorities. 4
Fifty United States soldiers have
been arrested for being" in the city
without leave. They were sent to the
camps for punishment.
A detachment of one hundred Cubans
under the command of Colonel Jose
Estranco, has entered Havana. The
men are quartered at the Dragone bai-
racks.
Historians in Session.
New Haven, Conn, Dec. 29,—The
fourteenth annual meeting of the Am-
erican Historical Association has 09- '
ened here.
'i-m- association was organized at
Saratoga, N. Y., in 1884, and has grown
to include in its membership many of
the ablest historical students of the
country.
The sessions are so arranged at the
present convention that the. discus—
sions of the American Economic Asso—
ciation may be attended by Historical
Association delegates, some Of the ses-
sions being joint meetings.
Last evening President G. P. Fisher
delivered his annual address.
The Porto ltioan (‘omniissiom
New York, Dec. 29.—The members of
the Porto l'tican Commission are still
in this city and will probably be here
for some (in ys yet.
The secretary, M. Catala, said yes-
terday that the commission would go
to Washington next Tuesday to pre-
sent their petition to the president. The
aim of the commission is to secure a
territorial form of government for the
island, in place of the military gov-
ernment now in progress.
They wish to have the president is-
sue a proclamation for an election, at
which municipal officers and members
of a. legislature may be elected .
rations.
ual reduction of the armies Of the grea
CURRENT COMMENT.
Pennsylvania. 'has' begun the build;
ing of a new $500,000 State House
which she llODOS‘lO complete at n cos
of not more than $3,000,000. l
The Czar will notice that the Unitc(
States understands the act of disarm
ament. After disarming Spain it 1'
rapidly reducing its own military es
tal‘llislunent. ’
Poor old Spain now proposes a na
tional lottery'a' a means of replenish
lug her exhausted treasury. It is a;
if :1. father should seek to repair the
fortunes of an impoverished forum,
by asking his sons to join him in set
ting up a gambling establishment witl .
themselves. as the sole patrons.
.A forestry department in Cornel
University is to be given charge fOi
thirty years of 30,000 acres of wobd
land in the Adirondacks. This is high
or education of the most enlightenei
and practical kind.
The United States has sent to China
Japan and the Philippines an “Agri.
culture explorer,” charged with at
ranging for the introduction in thos
regions of American agricultural pro
ducts, especially butter and cheese
Our Indian corn missionaries hav:
been a success, and the idea will bea‘.
enlargement.
The CXDI‘CSS companies have fouut
it more profitable to own their' car:
and pay mileage for having them haul
ed than to use 'cars run by the rail
roads, and it seems as though the gov
ernment should do the same thing
Then there could be no opportunity to;
the frauds which, it is alleged, an
practiced by the railroad companiel
at each annual weighing of the mail:
in transit, the government would knov
definitely what it is paying for, ant
its payments to the railroads could h.
compared with charges made for Sim
ilar services to individuals and corpc
It is one of the contrasts of histor:
that a suggestion looking to the grad
powers comes from the most despoti-
of them all. Russia, just at the momen
that the most democratic, the Unitei
States, is about to largely increase it
permanent military force. Yet it 1.
easy to draw false conclusions from
the coincidence and antithesis. it d0e.
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 ltsdf, cast any (JOubt
on the Cz‘ar‘s sincerity. Young poten
fates are often idealists and entliusi
asts. Caligula. who, in the latter par
of his reign, said he wished 'the peopl
03f liome had only one heck, so tha
is: could cut their heads off with on
blow. was a liberal monarch at the be
ginning; of his reign. So were his fei
low-tyrants. Nero and Domitian.
The Editorial Association Of 111
State of New York appointed a COM]
mittee to confer with the Governor i1
regard to measures to end the illega
use of street and other cars for ad
vertisiug purposes. which, it is trul;
remarked. is but one of the brunche
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
merely the street cars but our town
and villages and the face of natur
inisccllnneouslyflvulgariziug the fast
of the community and making all on
public places hideous—Ts a direct (ll
version of'legitimate business from ill
newspapers and magazines." If i
added that in France and Italy a larg
sum is derived from a stamp tax ()i
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 newspn
per mm of New York will unite to pu
an end to a flagrant imposition on tb
public, and an aggressive raid upon ,
legitimate business. '
Secretary Long and the technical ex
perts of his department. in their desir
to formulate a general policy of DEV?)
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 Cox
struction, acting under the direction a
the Secretary, has unanimously (11
cided that the battleships and cruise:
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 then
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 net les
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 capacil;
together with others of smaller typv
having a displacement‘ot 2,500 to 3,0f
tons.
THE EVENING GAZETTE "
WAR LEFT THEM SO. .
What anell a Veteran of the Civil War
Long Afuer His Discharge.
An old colonial soldier lying in 1‘
hospital improvised for the occasion ai-
mr the battle of SLu-atoga was patient.-
1 ' waiting until his time came for ex~
aminaiiou. When the physicians sur-
rounded lllS humble pallet to probe for
a bullet in his chest, he opened his
shirt bosom. shut his eyes and said,
"l'm ready.” Neither groan, sigh or
cry escaped him, but as the probe
reached the piece of loud 11c Opened his
eyes and said : "Dcclor. an inch deep-
er and you will find General Washing:
ingmu.” In the Revolution and Civil
War the American soldier withstood
hardships that almost equalled those
when Napoleon retreated from l-lescow,
and Sir John Moore retired to Corruxm.
Disease left its mark and shattered
the strong" consiiLuLious of the best.
NO organ of the human body suifered
more. than the kidneys, and veteran
W. R. Green, of -l-l Spring street.
South Norwalk, engineer at Croi‘ut &
Kuupp’s hat factory, only echoes the
experience Of thousands of his com-
rade s, when he. says " I was a boy when
I enlisted in the army, and exposure
and hardships weakened me physically.
In the factory we use under the boilers
about two tons of coal per day. and asI
do my own firingl have to handleit. It
was quite a job for a man who had
trouble with his kidneys. and I was al-
ways anxious to get rid of it. Slight
urinary diliiculty set in and as I no-
ticed an advertisement about Dean’s
Kidney Pills curing such cases I got a
box and look them. After taking the
first box my back did not. ache. I felt,-
so much better. and the secretions were
natural. I am recon)mendiug‘Doun’s Kid-
ney Pills to the. workmen of the factory.
Dean’s Pills for sale by all deal-
ers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster-
Milbur'n ('10., Buffalo, N. Y.,solcageuts
for the U. S. Remember the name
Dean’s and take no substitute.
. —-»-»-¢io<¢l>o>—~——
THE PERSlAN JEWELS.
A Descriptlon of Their Splendor Reads
Like aFairy Tale.
A writer in the Illustrated Magazine
says: “Who has not heard of the. Per—
sian jewels—their glory, their num-
ber. their priceless worth? When the
doors were unlocked and I was taken
into the peacock throne room I found
myself surrounded 1by a‘ mass of
wealth unequalled in the world. No-
where are such treasures, but nowhere
also is there such an accumulation of
rubbish. I will, however, dismiss the
rubbish and refer only to :the'trcas-
u-res. Down each side of the room
were chairs entirely covered with
sheeted gold, and at intervals there
were tables of gold nailed, and I shud-
dered to note, with the commonest of
black headed tacks. '
At the far end of the room was the
wonder of the world, the peacock
throne. Whether it is one of the
seven thrones of the great Mogul and
was brought from Delhi, 1 don't know,
but it is certainly the most costly or-
nament that the eye can look upon.
I inspected it most carefully. it is en-
timely of silver, :1 great camp-bed
structure, but modeled in lovely de-
signs. It is encrusted fro-“I end to
end and from top to bottom with dia-
monds.
At the back is a star of .brilliauts
that makes you blink. The rug on
which the shah sits is edged with
precious stones, and the pillow on
which he rcclincs is covered with
pearls. I could keep on writing about
the dazzling beauty of the throne of.
the king of kings, but I never could
get beyond declaring it 'to be a superb
jewel.
.But although the peacock throne is
the magnum opus of the Persian
crown jewels, it by no means extin-
guishes the magnificence of the other
treasures. thO can attempt, howev-
er, to recount the number of bejewel—
ed arms, the royal arms, the flashing
aigrets, the trays piled up with cut
and uncut stones and the bowls filled
with pearls that you can run through
your fingers like a handful of rice?
Every one 'has heard of the Daria-i-
Nur, or Sea of Light, sister-diamond
of the Koliinoor, or Mountain of
Light. Every one has also heard
about the Globe of the World, made of
seventy-five pounds of pure gold and
51,320 ge1ns#thc sea of emeralds, Per-
sia of turqu-Olses. India of amethysts,
Africa of rubies, England and France
of diamonds.
Velvet. Very Fashionable.
Velvet in all shades and varieties will
no fashionable, 'both as an accessory
and for the making of redingotes, un-
der-dresses, and complete costumes.
Black undoubtedly takes precedence,
but marked favor is shown to new, very
elegant shades in Russian green, dam-’
son, orchid purple—a s'uperb color,
with a glow of crimson in it—to dark
sumac red, and a. complete grade of
rich, becoming browns, which include
the Havana, cedar, seal, chestnut, and
mrquisa dyes.
"Do you believe in corporal p'unish-
ment?” asked the lady whose children
are old'enough to go to school, accord-
ing to the Washington Star.
“No." answered the young man who
had been a private. “It wasn’t the
fault of the Corporal. If anybody’s to
blame it’s some one a good deal higher
up» in rank."
ease away than to fight it.
TRUE after it. comes. An occa-
WISDOM sional dose of HOsicD-
Ler’s Stomach Bitters
makes people hungry
at meal time. and gives the digres-
livc apparatu:< power to get. lull
nutrition out. of loud.
mus BODILY .. .
smevem as MAIN- HUDTETTE‘R’D
ILlS-fdl' wiser to keep dis-
TAINED, we .
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Brennan a. Mcouanv, President.
Statement lill’ ideal End'ng Dec. 31:97.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department‘of the State of New York.
1‘”!
I’.
INGQMEQ . '
Received for remiums' . . . . . $42,693,201 99
From all other Sources . . . . ' . ' 11,469,406 24
4 . $54,162,608 23
To oil cy-holders for Claims by Death . . ' .\ $13,279,630
To olicyahoiders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 12,712,424 76
For all other Accounts . . . . . W
$36,124,060 99.
ASSETS;
United States Bonds and other Securities _ . . $132,017,341 45
First Lien Loans 0n Bond and Mortgage . . . 69,423,937 31
Loans on Stocks and Bonds . . . . 12,880,308 00
Real Estate . . . . . . 21,618,454 88
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 11,705,195 82
Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums. etc. . .. 6,141,200 20
. $253,786,437 6'6
Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities . . 218,278,243 07
Surplus . . . . . . $35,568,194 59
insurance and Annuities in Force . .. . $936,634,496 63
I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
liabilities 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 Brandi ning Committee.
Office of the mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
'i 0 THE HONORABLE. THE BOARD or TRUSTEES or ‘
THE MliTUAL ‘LIFE INSURANQE GOMPANY OF NEW YORK.
The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, on the twenty-
second day of December. I 897, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company and
to verify the same, respectfully—é“
.. 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 of this Report, attended at the office of the. Company, and have been waited on
by the Treasurer, the Comptroller-,the Auditor, and the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of such officers
and have mrefully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be corre‘ on. They
have examined and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared
the prices at which the same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations, and find the same not exceeding
such quotations—in fact, in many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real
property held by the Company, and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuation of the Com-
pany’s holding? of real estate and have verified the deposits of money in the various banks and tr t compames, and
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 description neces.
sary in such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said Officers and their assistants, and that,
the same are accurate, in good order, and well kept.
And the Committee further certify that the investments Of the Company are of a high order, and that the system
and methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation
All of which is respectfully submitted. CHAS. R. HENDERSON ELBRIDGE T. GERRY A. N. WATERHOUS}.
NEW YORK, January 21, 1898. S. V. R. CRUGER J. HOBART HERRICK JAMES C. HOLDEN I
'" *Board of Trustees-
GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN ISELIN JR. ’
GEORGE S. Bowoom
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
WILLIAM ROCKEEELLEB
JAMES N. JARVIE
CHAs D. DICKEY JR
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
JAMES SPEYER]
HENRY H. ROGERS
J N0. W A3CHINGLOSS
THEODORE MOBFORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIABD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R. GILLETTE
H. WALTER WEBB
SAMUEL D. BABCOOR FREDERIO CROMWELL
RICHARD A. MCCURDY J ULIEN T. DAVIEs
JAMES C. HOLDEN A. N. VVA'I‘ERHOUSE
Hummus C. VON POST S. V. R. CRUGER
WILLIAM J. SEWELL CHARLES R. HENDERSON
OLIVER HARRIMAN RUFUS W. PEOKHAM
comm ULYPHAN’I' J. HOBART HERRIOK
GEORGE F. BAKER WM. 3’. DIXON l
DUDLEY OLCOTT l ROBERT A. GRANNISS ,
ROBERT A. GRANISS, Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
iSAAL.‘ ls‘. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. ' DUE Ii du—P. BRECK, Corresponding Secretary
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. - ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary.
FREDE RIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. '
JAMES TIMt‘SON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.;
EMORY MCCLINTOCK, Actuary.
» JOHN TATLOCK, J3 , Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. ‘ WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
C. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, Aegistant Auditor. HENRY 8. BBC W '31, Assistant Comptroller -‘ ’
J OIIN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. ' a
E ’) WARD LYMAN SHO RT. General Solicitor.
. _ MEDICAL DIRECTORS: ' .' ~
~ ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D- GRAN VILLE II. WHITE, M D.‘
o. s. WINSTON M. D. Consulting.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P.'SANDS, Cashier.
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urcnons e CELBERT, consent Agents. *
A... a. canon, [noon agent. ‘
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