I Giant Strides by a Giant Company l
j j |
l! OFFICERS LIFE INSURANCE WRITTEN AND PLACED during 1901, over 273 MILLIONS _ . , .
j! JOHN I. DRYDEN, PRESIDENT. Twenty-sixth Annuel Statement if.
j. U sui. D -. B " r ' Mident E "d'and counsel. PAID POLICY-HOLDERS, in 26 years, over .... 53 MILLIONS January I, 1902 ij
! J FORREST F. DRYDEN, HORACE A LUNG, FT
j I Secretary. Treasurer. a*
i i T - C - i:ss, jACOB E - WAR ciu„so. ASSETS, end of 1901, over 48 MILLIONS ASSETS $
I! WILBUR S. JOHNSON, F. C. BLANCHARD,
]j Comptroller. Supervisor Loau Dept. Bonds aild Mortgages $11,163,73793 f[!
ii IO^ A RT D L H BVR A RAOE:} JOHN K - GOR W. INCOME, during 1901, nearly 29 MILLIONS Real Estate .0,075,68. 22 f
i! FREDERIC'AIBOYLK,"' Assistant secretary. R.R.Bondsand Stock (Market Val.), 14,251.857 50 jlj
f! . „ Cas^' r - v - H - PAID POLICY-HOLDERS, during 1901, over .... 8 MILLIONS I Municipal Bonds (Market Value), . 5,077,99203 I ft
J) VALENTINE RiKER, 1 Associate Actuary. 1
J* LESLIE P. WARD, 1 W. P. WATSON, U. S. Gov. Bonds (Market Value), . 112,00000 ft
| I Supervisors. Asst. Medical Director.
X L_-——————————J SURPLUS, nearly 7 MILLIONS Cash in Banks and Office 4,285,41180
jSj ~,lnterest and Rents, due and accrued, 362,020 30 i!
I * _ --_ ,1 , . Loans on Collateral Securities, . . 915,000 00 '/•
.! Pollc,es Force nearly 4a Millions, Covering !AlB9 „
Life lnsurance of over $703,000,000, P ~55£?65.,68. „ ''
Surrounding with Absolute Pro- j Total,
I // • / # tection • More Than LIABILITIES I!
il (f & / I Reserve on Policies $41,012,766 00 I |*
t I All other Liabilities, 753,200 09 I .Ij
1 f/ ne Million F am '®' es |j
I I I )| A- Progressive Company in which the Safety and Advancement of Its ji
| ® Ij Policy-holders' Interests are the Chief Considerations. i!
| The Prudential jM\ j
I N?WARS F N CE I' INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA. j!
| OFFICE I3ST FEEELAND. ||
| W. R. Donmoyer, Assistant Superintendent, Room 2, Birkbeck Brick. |
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If Treasurer-elect Harris can find
any consolation in the verdict in his
libel suit against Hon. P. Gray Meek,
he is satisfied with the thinnest sort
of a husk. We admit that it looks
rather rough for a man to take the
treasurership of a great state like
Pennsylvania while resting under the
charge of being the prince of thieves
and the chief of crooks, but it looks
far worse to have it practically proved
in open court. Mr. Harris evidently
depneded on the favor of the court to
convict Mr. Meek without incriminat
ing himself. The jury must have con
cluded that Harris was guilty of all
that Meek charged him, but disliked to
make him pay for it besides. If the
witnesses who were on hand had been
called and testified to what they knew,
the jury would have felt that the whole
gang should be hanged as high as
Haman.
The Democrats of New York had an
able and stainless candidate for mayor,
yet he was defeated because he was
held responsible for Tammany's sins.
The Republicans of Philadelphia, on
the contrary, stood by and elected
Quay's ticket, composed of his known
tools and satellites, In the face of such
exposures of official villainy as would
have paralyzed any other community
on earth pretending to be civilized. It
would thus appear that the premium
on rascality in the Republican party
is as great as the discount on it in the
Democratic party.—lndianapolis Sen
tinel..
CHILD LABOR IN THE SOUTH
Sentiment and LefclMlntlon In Ala
bama and South Carolinu.
The Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy of
Montgomery, Ala., chairman of the Al
abama state committee which seeks to
abolish the labor of young children In
that state, it at the Hotel St. Denis,
says the New York Times, where he
said to a reporter that New England
capitalists were largely to blame for
the conditions under which it has been
conservatively estimated that in some
sections of the south more than 20 per
cent of the employees are less than
fourteen years of age. The protection
to children, he said, was removed as a
concession to a mill brought into Ala
bamu by Massachusetts capital, and in
efforts during the last sessions of the
legislature to have the protection re
stored the most aggressive and ef
fective opposition came from salaried
representatives of northern investment.
While New York and Massachusetts;
he said, protect children up to fourteen
years, Alabama only seeks to protect
hers up to twelve, and he holds that
it is an economic as well as a human
itarian question.
"To protect these children is to pro
tect the operatives of the future," he
said. "The conditions of child labor
result-in the depletion of the vitality
and efficiency of the future opera
tive."
Chairman Murphy said that he had
heard it stated that the northern own
ers of the mills are striving to perpet
uate present conditions with this very
end in view, reasoning that as long as
they can keep down the intelligence
and efficiency of southern operatives
their great New England mills will be
safer from competition in the finer
grades of products. He said he did
not share this opinion. Reform in
child labor and the educational move
ment in the south have much in com
mon, he said.
"When children from six to twelve
years of age are at labor in the mills
i for from ten to twelve hours a day, the
I educational provisions of philanthropy
j or the state must seem like u mockery
of their helplessness."
In regard to statements that great
philanthropy was shown to the child
workers in the mills by their employ
ers he said in one mill controlled from
Boston a little girl of eight years old
j had all the fingers of her right hand
torn from their sockets, being the sec
j ond accident of the same kind in the
same factory. As compensation for
the loss of her hand the owners prom
ised her continued employment at 9
cents a day.
"The fundamental principle of our
appeal is not that Alabama is guiltless
or that the north is willfully indiffer
ent," Chairman Murphy concluded.
"That would he unjust to the north
and unjust to our own sense of right
and truth. Our elementary condition
is simply that the common conscience
will hold, and should hold, the capital
of the east to the moral and economic
standards of the east. The appeal of
our committee lias not been without
response. We care to indulge in no
recriminations for the past. We huve
prayed that in our approaching strug
gle the north will stand with us and
not against us, for we have no inten
tion whatever of seeing her invest
ments at the south embarrassed by
complex and oppressive labor legisla
tion. Our motives cannot long be mis
understood."
In South Carolina the sentiment for
the more humane regulation of child
labor is growing, as the following dis
patch from Columbia shows;
"The bill for the restriction of child
labor In the cotton mills has been re
jected again, the house refusing to con
cur with the senate, as was the case a
year ago. A decided advance in pub
lic sentiment, however, was indicated
In the house vote, which this year was
52 to 54. A year ago only thirty-two
members of the house favored the
measure. This year, too, the bill was
given more consideration. Long hear
ings in the committee room were fol
lowed by two days of debate in the
house. The debate followed the lines
of a year ago, pleas for humanity's
sake being met by claims that the agi
tation was prompted by mill owners
In the north and that such restrictions
In South Carolina would drive needed
mill labor into adjacent and more "lib
eral" states.
SplcH In tlie Unions.
Edward Boyce, president of the West
ern Federation of Miners, has in his
possession a statement from a mine
owner who sympathizes strongly with
organized labor and who, although a
member of the Mine Owners' associa
tion, does not approve of the attempts
that are being made to destroy labor
organizations. "I can inform you," the
mine owner writes to Boyce, "that
your unions are honeycombed with
spies who will try to make them the
scapegoat of other people's schemes,
claiming that the shutdowns in Butte,
Rossland and elsewhere are on account
of stock jobbing, but the real Intent is
the suppression of your unions. The
Mine Owners' association, which ex
tends over the continent wherever min
ing is carried on, as well as in England
and other parts of Europe, realizes that
your organization is getting far too
strong and will have to be checked,
and it has outlined and is putting
in operation a system to accomplish
tills object. It realizes that it can
not cripple the federation by making
the fight In one place, such as
Rossland, but will work all other lo
calities in sympathy wherever possi
ble." Boyco's friend says the working
forces are to be reduced and every ef
fort made to create a large surplus of
unemployed miners. When the idle
men become restless, It will lie an easy
matter to create confusion and dis
cord, force strikes and lockouts and
break the union.
A. Oswald has the agency for the cele
brated Elysian's extracts and perfumery.
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QUININE.
Oh, the city Is sounding with beautiful
bells.
When your system Is full of quinine!
You list to the chorus that echoes and
swells,
And the shivering germs hear their fu
neral knells
As In terror they fly down your spine,
And the microbes, like sprites who for
mischief still lurk
In your head build a sawmill and set It to
work.
All the world Is astir;
'Tls a resonant blur.
The universe whirls with a whiz and a
whir;
The stars and the planets rush on till you
feel
Like the dull, helpless hub of a hurrying
whesl
You long to keep still,
And you try with a will.
For you fear the results of a general spill
That will send you afar like some recreant
star
Through the vast milky way with a Jolt
and a Jar.
And your dreams—they are full of such
dreadful dismay
That memory revolts and forbids them to
stay.
You try to get rid of these fancies malign,
But you can't when your system Is full of
quinine.
—Washington Star.
An Eany Mark.
"I hope you and I won't quarrel
when we are married like your father
and mother do, my dear."
"Oh, dear, no! You'll be so much
more easy to manage than poor, dear
pal"
A Ilappy Thought.
"Yes, Jones struggled along with his
toric plays and melodramas, but they
wouldn't take. Now he has a wonder,
a record beater."
"You don't say! What's the plot?"
"I don't know, but the play ends In
the middle of the last act."
"The mid—say, what are you giving
me?"
"Straight goods. The idea Is to fool
the peoplu who always begin putting
on their wraps before the curtain
falls."—Baltimore News.
Trnfh nt bant.
"So this is what I married you for,
is it?" said the angry wife as she help
ed the other half of the combination
up the stairs the other morning just as
the clock struck 2.
"Can't (hie) shay, m'dear," answered
the weary husband, "but it's what I
(JUJc) doubled up with you (hie) for,
jesser same!"— Chicago News.
She Wanted an InJnnctlon.
"Is Mrs. Brimfield-Baker the daugh
ter of a judge?"
"Yes. Why do you ask?"
"Because I just now met her, and she
said she was hurrying down to ask her
father to grant licr an injunction to
prevent her husband from beginning
divorce proceedings."—Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Grouchmnn'a Advice.
"And what do you think is the proper
way to address the prince?" asked the
gushing creature.
"That all depends," growled Grouch
inan. "If you get close enough, ad
dress him in a natural tone of voice,
but if you're off some distance use a
megaphone."—lndianapolis Sun.
The One Cloud.
lie—Darling, tell me truly, does the
fact that I weigh 100 pounds less than
you make any difference in your love
for me?
She—Of course not, dearest, but
sometimes 1 would like to know how
it feels to sit in your lap.—Brooklyn
Life.
find Them Located.
"Young man," said the stern physi
cian, " do you know whore the evil ef
fects of tobacco are first felt?"
"Yep; In dc woodshed," responded
the depraved youngster.—Philadelphia
Record.
Evidently.
The Amateur—Sometimes I think 1
have artistic talent, and sometimes I
think not.
Iler Friend—Well—er—you cuu't be
mistaken all the time.—Puck.
Overworked.
Mrs. Gotham—Why, dear, you're
home very late from church tills morn
ing!
Mr. Gotham—Yes; 1 overslept myself.
—Youkcrs Statesman.
Tint a Bad Cook.
"I have a friend who has kept a cook
for nearly a year."
"Is it possible?"
"Yes; he's a Jailer." —Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Velvet Mantles and Coats.
Black lyons velvet of the richest
quality Is much used for the mantles
and long coats worn by women who
can no longer make any pretense to
youthfulness of appearance, and Paris
is particularly successful in the shap
ing and trimming of such wraps, pro
ducing some magnificent models rich
with jet and having lace designs show
ing linings of deep violet or emerald
green and edgings of fur or ruchlngs
of lace and chiffon. The three-quarter
velvet coat, with straight hanging back
and large, very open sleeve turned
back with important cuffs, makes an
Ideal autumn wrap for the elderly
lady.
The Willing; Worker.
"Why Is it," naked a modest young
breadwinner, "that when 1 stay at the
office after hours to voluntarily do an
extra amount of work somebody who
is in charge pounces upon me as his
justifiable victim and gives me still
more to do?
"That has happened to me time after
time in my business, and at each repe
tition I ha' 3 taken a vow that if I am
ever in charge of an office I shall give
any one of my subordinate who sits
down and does work which isn't specif
ically required of him credit for what
he does do and let it go at that, with
out adding insult to injury, as it were,
by giving him something further to da.
"Of course it's an old saying that the
man who docs the most work is the
man usually 'worked;* but It's discour
aging, don't you think? Strangely
enough, though, he goes ahead and lets
himself be 'worked,' with only a weak
objection to ease his feelings."—New
York Mail and Express.
Munhroomn Are Filling;.
One virtue of the mushroom that of
tentimes is not realized by its cham
pions even is its nutritive qualities, for
it is often considered fit only for a
sauce or a side dish. Recently I ate
dinner with a friend who is a bon vi
va nt and gifted with an abnormally
large appetite. To my surprise, he or
dered nothing but mushrooms, bread
and butter and, of course, drinkables.
We had mushrooms raw, stewed, fried
and broiled on toast. It was my first
experience, but I found them excel
lent. I certainly thought they would
not "stay by me;" but, to my surprise,
for many hours afterward I had as
complete a sense of fullness as rare
roast beef or juicy steak ever impart
ed.—New York Telegram.
Runiilan Women.
Russian women, writes George Ken
nan, are among the finest in the world.
In the upper classes they are the most
markedly individual, the most brilliant,
the most accomplished. They are all
highly educated, many of them speak
ing a number of languages fluently and
being at the same time accomplished
musicians. But in upper or lower class
es the women of Russia are the most
self sacrificing in the world. The girls
have the most exalted ambitions and
will make marvelous sacrifices in order
to accomplish them. These ambitions
are ideals. Their desire does not seem
to be for personal advancement nor to
make a career for themselves, but to
work for the good of the people about
them.
Cigrnra nntl Tobacco.
There are between 1,500,000 and
2,000,000 brands of cigars sold in this
country, and your average smoker
thinks that every brand means a differ
out kind of tobacco. As a matter of
fact 150 is an outside estimate of the
different kinds of tobacco that can be
procured from all sources, and even ex
perts can't tell some of these apart.
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