The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-03
Especial Correspondcnce.J


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| '%E2f~|W friends. This is
"x a popularity of
EX-SENATOR MAHONE. life in Washing
ton. Every day we see some of the old
timers who have dropped in at tho house
or senate or the favoritc haunts after
dinner to seek out their old friends and
talk over the old days. Ex-senator Ed
munds is one of the famous men of Il
few years ago who love to como to
| Washington, and whenever Mr.. Ed
munds appears on the floor of the senate,
rs I've does now and then, there is rush
to shake his hand and extend him friend
| ly greeting. With all his acerbity and
the venomous tendency of his tongue,
MIR. Edmunds is one of the most popular
men Washington has known for u long
time.
General Malone and Reform.
One of little Billy Mahoncs peculiar
tiles IS that he has gone back on the bcv-
| erage of his life. No longer does he
drink whisky. Time was when Billy
Malone without bit of fine old whisky
before him would not have been Billy
Malone at all. He was famous for the
! quality of his liquor, us he was for the
hospitality dispensed at his fine old es-
| tate down i'll Virginia, and for the hams
! and other dclicacies produced on his
plantation. Now Billy Malone drinks
nothing but beer. By way Of explana-
ton he says the man who sticks to whis-
ky all his life will burn himself out,
while the beer drinker may get heavy
and soggy, but he will live n long time
and enjoy life, while his friend, the red
liquor drinker, is sleeping beneath the
daisies. Oddly enough, Mr.. Malone
drinks glass of beer before breakfast.
He is perhaps the only man in Washing
ton who does that. But Mr.. Malone
| always was eccentric.
! Senator Mitchell of Oregon came in
while the conversation at Mr.. Mahone's
table was turning to drinks and their
influence upon longevity and said:
| Il do not believe this theory that the
beer drinker will live longer than the
whisky drnker With all Difference to
General Malone, and l admit that he
must know whereof he speaks us to both
| beverages, | maintain that the consumer
of whisky, if he will make sure of having
| always the best quality of liquor, such
as General Malone used to drink, will
! outlive the beer slipper
81 was talking about this the other dav
with prominent life insurance man in
this city, and this agent surprised me by
saying that in all the big life insurance
companies Il chronic beer drinker is un-
der suspicion. If he is IN good health,
and his family record has been good, he
may pass and get Il policy, even though
he drinks beer habitually. But if there
Is the smallest thing wrong with him, or
his family history is unfavorable to
longevity, they turn him down without
ceremony. They do this on the theory,
which they claim is substantiated by
statistics, that when the grip, or chol-
era, or any other disease of an epidemic
form comes along, it is the beer drinker
who first succumbs to it. Again, the
beer drinker. according to the life insur-
ance sharps, is the man who goes down
before an attack of common illness. such
as fever or pneumonia, whereas the
nonbeer drinker would have vitality
enough to resist it.
again" continued Senator Mitchell,
they tell me that in Germany the life
insurance companies do not attempt to
do much business, and what they do
write is at larger rate of premium than
in this country or in England. Even in
this country the life insurance experts
are prejudiced against risks of Teutonic
origin, though they are certainly among
our most sober and Industrious citizens.
The life insurance men say that Ger
mans rarely live to an old age, and that
You may look about you in any conmu-
nifty and you will find but few men of
that nationality who have passed the
sixty fifth year"
Dangers of Drink.
"a popularity of tho life insurance
business" said Mr.. Chamberlin, sis that
colOred men find it almost impossible to
obtain policies in the best companies.
Here in Washington we have many col
ored men who are possessed Of consider
able means and who are admirable citi-
zens' But when they go to the life insur-
ance companies for policies they are
almost invariably turned down. Even