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The Failure Record.
Report,
Columbus
Editor and Pub r.
Pekry, G-a. ifil
GIVE US J 1RIAL ORDER
Fhillippine Commissioners'
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Now York World,
Most of the society women of
St. Louis declare that whatever
the conditions may be in Phili-
delphia the women of St. \Louis
ure not addioated to gambling,
cigarett smoking and wine bib
bing. A notable exception, how
ever, is Mrs. L. J. Silva, of No.
1011 North Whittier street. She
was once a prominent figure in
the society world, and since the
loss of her fortune has been a suc
cessful architect. Mrs. Silva
said:
“I am sure that the conditions
complained of by the Rev, Rich
ardson are growing more and
more apparent here. While I do
not go out much nowadays, I
know it to be a fact that gam
bling is increasing among the wo
men who move in what is known
as good society. I could name
500 wompu of St. Louis who be
long to olubs which meet weekly
or oftener for the sole purpose of
playing poker and bridge whist.
Large stakes are played for at
these meetings and hard feelings
sometimes prevail. I know wo
men who are accustomed to win
ning or losing as much as $200 a
week at poker parties. I also
know women who have been oblig
ed to pawn their jewels to pay
their poker debts or to pay their
dressmakers’ bills because they
had lost at gambling the money
their husbands had given them to
settle their accounts.
“At these gambling parties
cooktails, toddies, brandies, wines
and beer are imhided by 00 per
cent, of the women who belong to
the morning, afternoon and even
ing whist and poker clubs. It is
quite common for fashionable wo
men to take ‘bracers’ on arising
in the morning, while preparing
for the theatre or the ball, and
‘night-caps’ on retiring.
“It is a matter of record that
agents of the anti-wine crusade
who kept detectives statipned for
days in front of a down-town wo
man’s saloon reported that be
tween the hours of 11 a. m. and
12:80p. m., the shopping hours,
an average of more than 1,000 wo
men passed in and out of the
place. Ninety-eight per cent of
these women plainly belonged to
the'better class and were fashion
ably or richly attire^. The great
majority of thousands of women
who go there every day drink in
toxicating liquors.
“As for tobacco, the mos)> cou-
olusiv|3 proof, to my mind, that
the cigarette habit is growiug
among women is that the Union
Station management haB been
obliged to issue an order prohib-
Savannah News.
Thers isn’t anything encoura
ging in the report of of the Gov
ernor of the'Philippines or in that
of ' the Philippine Commission
iting the smoking of cigarettes in
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the'ladies’ withdrawing room at
the statiou, which is frequented
by the better class of women trav
elers, the emigvant olass being de
nied admittance to this luxurious
resting plaoe.”
The money order department of
the Postoffloe Department made
a most excellent reoord last yeai.
It handled 79,000 000 different
transactions involving $002,590,-
980, with a total loss owing to
oarelessness and dishonesty of
$251. It is doubtful if a private
establishment handling so much
money oould show as clean a rec :
ord. The business was done in
84,127 different offices.
The Washington post has oome
to believe that it is a waste of
time to pass laws to enforce the
■collection of debts. The Post
thinks it is inexpedient to-get up
such statutes. It contends that
the last law for the collection of
debts should be wiped off the stat
ute books, leaving the credit busi-
nes where it should rest, on the
basis of personal honor.
Heads Should Never Ache,
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She writes, “Dr. King’s New Life
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biliousness. 25 cents at Holtzdaw’s
Drugstore.
There were twelve different
lines of railroad built in Georgia
during the past year, or about two
hundred and twenty miles.
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There has been a failure of crops
and a quite extensive epidemic of
the cholera. Therefore the gov
ernment has had to spend a very
large amount of mouey for food
to keep the people from starving.
And the outlook for the islands
is not promising,. The people are
almost wholly dependant upon
agriculture, and because of thd
destruction of their water buffa
loes during the war, they are at a
great disadvantage in cultivating
their lands. If additional water
buffaloes cannot be bad some oth
er means of cultivating the lands
will have to be found. Just what
other means can be found does
not appear.
The islands are full of robbers—
ladrones they are called. v It
seems that the people take to rob
bing to keep from starvsng.
How to put an end to ladron-
ism puzzles the insular govern
ment greatly.
And the commission want a
great many things, some of which
mean an additional burdon on
the United States, if they are
granted. It wants the duties re
moved from the Philippine ex
ports to the United States to the
exteut of 76 per cent, of the Ding-
ley rates, and it wants the gold
^standard estaolished. It also
wants land syndicates and indi
viduals given a chance to get a
larger slice of the public lauds
than the law at prcseut admits
and it recommends thut Chinese
be admitted to teach the Philipi-
nos to become skilled mechanics.
It will be found that the commis
sion will want a great deal more
before wo get the islands in a self-
supporting condition. The isl
ands may be very rich, but the
native population does not seem
to be able to induce them to give
up their riches.
No Use of Insurance.
The business methods of insu
rance companies are not all to the
liking of a, shrewd old German
farmer with whom a certain agent
had some dealings, says the New
York Tribune. The house of the
farmer, insured for $1,000, had
burned down. The privelege of
replacing a burned house is re
served by insurance companies,
and the agent, having this in
mind, said to the farmer:
“We’ll put you up a better
house than the one you had for
$600.’’
“Neinl” said the farmer, em
phatically. “I vill haf my one
tousand dollar or notings I Dot
house could not be build again
for even a tousand.”
“Oh, yes it oould,” said the in
surance man. “It was an old
lmuse. It doesn’t cost so much
to build houses nowadays. A $600
new house would be a lot bigger
than the old one.”
Some months later when the
insurance man was out for a day’s
shooting, he rode up again to the
farmer’s plaoe.
“Just thought I’d stop while I
was up here,” he said, “to see if
you wanted to take out a little in
surance.”
“I got notings to insure,” said
the farmer—“notings but my
vife.”
“Well, then,” said the insu
rance man, cheerfully, “insure
her.”
“STein!” said the farmer, with
determination. “If she die, you
come out here and say, ’I not gif
you one, tousand dollar. I get
you a bigger und a better vife for
six hundred.’ No, sir, I dakes no
more insurance oudl”
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According to Bradstreot’s re
port, the failure record of the
past year was a light one com
pared with previous years. 'The
report shows that during the
year there were only 9,971 com
mercial failures, with liabilities
of $105,698,628 and assets of $50-
870,800, showing a decrease in
the number of failures of 6.4 per
cent, and in the liabilities of 18
per cent, from 1901. j
As compared with 1900 and !
1899, the increase in the number j
of failures amounts to 5.5 and \
7 per cent., respectively, though j
liabilities were the smallest for j
any yeay since 1898. And, even j
though there is rak increase as
compared with 1900 and 1899 in
the number of failures, compari
sons with years prior to that
time make a most favorable show
ing.
ThiB is, with two exceptions,
the smallest number of failures '
reported in fourteen years, al- j
though the number of individu-!
als. firms and corporation doing j
business during the past year was j
19 per cent, larger than ten years
ago.
In view of the fact that there
wrre serious crop shortages in
some seoteons of the country,
lengthy strikes among the an
thracite coal miners, freight han
dlers and others, a great car
shortage and other things to han
dicap business this is in many
respects a most remarkable rec
ord.
This showing, however, is very
encouraging to' the business in
terests of the country in that it
shows that business is being con
ducted along successful lines.
A Lobster Tries to Catch a Mouse
/
The young man kissed her and
she screamed, says the Chicago
Nows.
“What’s the trouble, Nellie?”
demanded a stern voice from up
stairs.*
“I—I just saw a mouse,” she
fibbed.
Presently the young man claim
ed another kiss and the scream
was repeated. Again came the
stern voice:
“What is it this time?”
“I just saw another mouse.”
Then the old man came down
with the house-cat, a mouse trap
and a cane and sat in a corner to
watch developments.
Minister in Venezuela Bowen, it
has just been discovered, is a poet
and philosopher, as well as a dip
lomat. He published recently for
private distribution a little vol
ume of “Passing Thoughts” that
is receiving some attention in the
newspaper press. One of his
“passing thoughts” is this: “One
should have a great variety in
life so as to keep all of one’s self
awake.” In all probability Min
ister Bowen has not done a great
deal of dozing since he has been
stationed at the Venezuelan capi
tal, where they have a revolution
with each change of the moon.
Another of his ideas is that it is
“better for a man to blunder than
to be afraid to act.”—Ex.
An astrologer tells the New
York Sun that the present month
will be the coldest January in
American history. The Norfolk
Landmark cannot understand
“why a man should court death
by infle ming the populace in this
manner.” But isn’t the astrolo
ger a philanthropist? By making
the people hot he will save them
coal.
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for sick headache. If taken as
soon as the first indication of the
disease appears they will prevent
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any drug store and give them a
trial.
The New York actress who had
diamonds set in her teeth has been
outdone by another of the profes
sion, who wears diamonds set in
her thumb nails.
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