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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16
MORTALITY RATES IN NEW-ToRk.

A studv of the ratio of deaths 10 population
an this city by John f. Roche, made primarily
for the life insurance companies. brings out a
y number Of facts with which the general public
Is probably not well acquainted. To serve the
special purposes he had in view his inquiry re-
lated 10 the bearing OF sex and age, rather than
that of disease on length of life. In al respects
rhe metropolis would not represent the country
at large The paper now reprinted from the
Transactions OF the Actuarial Society Of Amer
YEA" was based on the census Of 1890. and not
that Of 1900. Moreover. Mr. Roche refrains
from philosophizing over the facts presented.
None az these considerations. however. mate
rally lessen the interest which attaches 10 his
analysis.
Possibly the most curious and novel feature
OF his statistics is the way in which first one
sex and then the other exhibits superior vital
ity Although a larger number OF boys than
girls are born here. the former appear to sue
cumb more readily than the latter TO the dis
eases and accidents Of infancy and early child
hood. At the age Of seven Mr.. Roche's tables
indicate that numerical advantage OF about
LOCO in births has been wiped cut and thence
forward what has been regarded as the more
tender sex continues 10 make the better show
ing for more than twenty years. Thereafter
the pendulum makes two oscillations Between
the ages % twenty-nine and ffty-six men are
were i'm lSeo-mOre numerous than women.
From that point onward tie latter are again
in the ascendancy. When the Eleventh Census
was taken there were IN this city 1850 men
who were seventy-five years old. and 2 100
women For persons eighty-fve years old or
more the figures were respectively 29l and
Els The greater endurance I'm infancy and old
age here revealed more than compensated for
the higher mortality OF women in middle life
The net result may be put i'm this fashion: Out
OF a population of about 100000 there were
at least $4,000 more girls and women than boys
and men. and yet there were 5000 fewer deaths
among the former than among the latter. From
this state Of things Mr.. Roche estimates that
AZ the time Of birth in this city the natural ex-
recfafion OF life" for n boy is thirty-line years
and Tor a girl forty-three
That an enormous proportion Of children die
before reaching the age OF one full year is only
too well known. II amounted 10 over Is per
cent in 1896. or one death for between Eve and
six births A less familiar fact is the stage al
which the minimum mortality occurs. The rate
fails of rapidly with both boys and girls from
infancy 10 the age Of eleven. when IL is only
one I'm about $40. Thereafter there Is steady
increase IL slightly exceeds i per cent AT
thirty and per cent ar threescore years and
ten About 20 per cent of the. women who at
tain the age OF eighty five. and Is per cent OF
fire men drop OF inside OF the next twelve
months
Mr.. Roche was able 10 make no comparison
with the mortality Of earlier years. but there
a. annie evidence from other sources that the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16
PERSONAL.

An obeIisk of unpublished gray granite has been
placed over virchow's grave. in the ola Nathan
graveyard Berlin. II bears on one side black
marble tablet on which inscribed Rudolph Vir-
chow and the date Of his birth and death a
statue OF Vrchow will also De erecte9 ne, 'ne
place where his scientific work was conducted
city Attorney Joseph W. Folk. of St Louis. has
been invited to deliver the grafton at the com
mencement day exercises OF Harvard. on June 80
next.
Henry p Bates professor of electrical engineer
ing In the Clarkson School of Technology at Pots-
dam " T. has been appointed professor or eiec-
trical engineering in the University or Coioraoo.
General c. r. TaylorNthe week past completed
thirty wears as manager Of The Boston Globe
A nortraft Of DR. Francis L. Patton. president Of
Princeton Theological Seminary. has just been hung
in the Princeton University Library. 1t was paint
ed by John w. Alexander
The Rev henry Parke Cochrane. who has been a
missionary in Burmah the last fourteen years.
is AT present on a visit to this country. being in
Indianapolis His brother Wilbur w. Cochrane.
Is still In Burmsh. where he has been missionary
for the last thirteen years.
Princess Serge Beloselsky OF Russia. a daughter
OF General whittier Of the United States Army.
has amazed everybody by announcing her inten-
ton Of going with her husband to Siberia and liv-
ing there quietly WORKING Tor nslns unt .ney
The princess enjoys a high standing at the Russian
court.
DR.. J, W. Swan. the inventor Of the incandescent
electric light has just passed his seventy-ffth
birthday Ieis a generation since he first ex-
hbited the light that has come into such universal
The Rev Godfrey schiIling a Cincinnati priest
who for many years connected with the Fran
ciscan College. has Just received notable distnc
ton among his brethren in distant Egypt in being
largest monssteries Of the FRANCISCAN order in the
world.
The Rev. DR.. Robert Johnson has accepted a call
to the American Presbyterian Church In Montreal.
which is the only Presbyterian church in the Do
minion that has not Canadian affiliations. This
church belongs TO the New-York Presbytery, which
has appointed committee 10 represent II on the
occasion OF DR.. JohnsOn's induction, early In De-
cen1ber
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

average length of life in the United States has
increased in the last quarter Of century. This
results mainly from the adoption of sanitary
precautions in large cities and from better
understanding of the nature of disease Sun
greater progress. though may be expected IN
coming years Mr. Roche bases some OF MS
hopes for the future in the metropolis on the
filtration Of water here. No doubt that VIII
come In time. even If the death rate from V-
phoid fever remains as small as 1t is now.
However, the greatest scourge is tuberculosis
which I'm 1900 caused 1876 per cent of the NOR
talty in the metropolis. When the ignorant
classes understand as we'll as do educated peo-
pie what measures should be adopted to pre-
vent Infection with this disease wonderrui
diminution Of harm from II will result.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16
FOOD SUPPLIES.

=, great deal has been done at the expense OF
the United States government for the restock-
ing of rivers, streams and lakes, and also OF
coast waters, with edible fish. and this work
has been of almost incalculable benefit to the
people Are all the States experimenting the
wise outlay of national funds by we'll advised
efforts of their own?
There are Maryland and Virginia, for In
stance. Are they as enterprising and liberal
as they ought to be in the protection and the
restocking of their oyster beds, which have
been rich fields of treasure in the past and
ought to be still richer in the future?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16
Amusements.


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Craftsman.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

been. Bulgaria for the Bulgars. and let Russia
and Austria Hungary and all the rest look out
for themselves was the keynote of Stambulon
policy There could be none more sound III
Bulgaria has now indeed adopted IT, ana VIII
manfully stick to it. she will command the sym
pathy of all the freedom loving and progress
loving world
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16
MONEY AND BUSINESS.

Commission houses report quiet market. yet
total sales of securities have exceeded 100000
shares on some days: sales of Pennsylvania
stock rose above 200. 900 shares in one day. yet
Insignificant percentage was transferred on
the books These facts emphasize. II emphasis
is necessary, the highly professional character
OF trading These speculative drives are not CAL
culated to revive the confidence that has so long
lain dormant Early in the week the securities of
the United States Steel Corporation established
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

Mr. Mcclellan continues to utter cheerful
promises of respectable administration with no
graft" or red lights in sight from the Battery
to Harlem. If ne is able to make good" the
Tigers stripe up and down and all around his
Uniform will not prevent him from receiving as
much honor and applause as is found ball
ancing of the books to be his due.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

win line up on the date appointed and say ms
grace and eat his dinner according TO the stat
utes and proclamations in such cases made ana
provided
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

With an ample supply of antitoxin IL should
be possible to wage a good fight against diph-
liberia in the Elmira Reformatory. In institu-
lions where large numbers of people associate
daily in dining hall and elsewhere con-
tagious diseases have fine chance to spread
after they get a foothold. When the out
break has been suppressed. IT will be interesting
to learn the history of its inception.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

Now and then a Comanche yell 10 heard In
Democratic ranks exutinz that that obstinate
political ninepin. HILL Is at last to be knocked
over II certainly looks that way now, put
counting chickens before they are Matched IL an
uncertain exercise In computation everywhere
but particularly so in the neighborhood of VOL
ferts Roost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

The most powerful explosives are now carried
by rail In such large quantities that IL penooVes
the transportation companies to exercise more
care than ever before in the handling Of perilous
stores of volcanic energy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

Tammany is coming back WIN Hoiahan's
hayward son return?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

How old Ann is is question for grantees
Like other women, Ann is as old as she looks.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

Thanksgiving is only ten days off and the
national turkey is well up in the part he is to
play on that occasion. without a rehearsal Con-
sidering Tammany's victory. Father Knicker-
booker. like the Governor of Maine on a like
political occasion, may feel as II he didn't know
what he had to thank God for this year." but he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

The complaint that lot Of guns purchased
in this country for Venezuelan revolutionists
wouldn't shoot. and therefore the revolution
failed to revolve reminds of the incident
in which thrifty Spectator sold 10 an Indian
tribe a lot of guns made of cast iron. friend
demonstrated with him. Don't you know" he
demanded. that they'll burst and kill the poor
fellows who fire them 2" "Oh, no. they
won't" replied the cheerful vender OF pot
metal. You see. I've made 'em without touch
holes and so they can't fire 'em offr' 1t might
conduce to the peace and also to the gayety
of nations II more guns that couldn't be fired
of were made-for some people
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-16

Astonishing tales are hurting through the
startled air from China saying that the EN-
press Dowager has taken UP the use of auto
mobiles Can that be possible? Could there be
n more bewildering change of customs habits
and traditons7 VIII the use of chopsticks be
entirely abandoned next?
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
Systef1, Run Down?
Do You Feel All Worn Out:-Con-
stantly Weak and Run Down.
Are You Nights Sleepless and
Your Days Full of Weari-
H., ness "A Safe, Simple
Remedy

That unutterable weary feeling Is
Natures warning of low systemic ac-
tivity 1t means that the blood, nerves,
stomach, bowels, liver and kidneys are
disordered.
Something has gone wrong inside
you.
What you need is a tonic. Stimu-
lants do more harm than good, be-
cause they merely excite the nerves to
temporary activity, which is invaria-
bly, followed by depressing reaction.
Tonics do not bring about unnatural
activity, but by building up the nerves,
regulating the bowels, purifying the
blood and restoring perfect action to
the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels,
enable Nature to take care of herself.
Iron-Ox Tablets are a true, safe
tonic. There is no immediate nerve
exhilaration at the expense Of the
stomach and heart, but swiftly and ST.
lently the re-energizing goes forward,
and before you realize the change you
look better and feel far better than
before.
Do not confound Iron-Ox Tablets
with liquid preparations which depend
upon drug disguised alcohol for imme-
diate effect and which create habit
which is nothing more or less than
alcoholism. Iron-Ox Tablets build
up the system naturally-they cannot
create a habit"
Anything which shocks the system
into activity is dangerous. Iron-Ox
Tablets are not purgative, cathartic or
stimulating in their effect; they are
tonic-laxative; they cure by building
up the entire system. Purgatives, ca
thartics and stimulants give only tenn
porary relief by violent and Injurious
action-they do far more harm than
good.
Fifty Iron-Ox Tablets in an attrac-
tiveSaluminum pocket case, rs cents at
druggists, or sent postpaid on receipt
of price. The Iron-Ox Remedy Co.,
Detroit, Mich. '5s
Lyman Eliel Drug Co., Minneapolis,
Mimi, Northwestern Distributors.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
MERCHAnTSGOSL0W
Buyers Not Anticipating Require
ments With the Freedom Here
tofore Noted.
Conditions Favorable on the Whole
With Some Minor Bad Fea-
lures to Note.

New York, Oct. photographic advices
from correspondents Of the International
Mercantile Agency thruout the United
States are summarized as follows:
Merchants generally are not anticipat-
ing requirements with the freedom here
tofore noted, partly on account of weather
ana crop conditions and in part because OF
industrial slowing down. Car congestion
is caused by relatively heavier western
movement Of merchandise.
Dry goods at wholesale are moving from
New York more slowly. Retail merchants
in New England report a falling off and
jobbers with southern connections report
a like situation in the Atlantic coast
states. Orders from country merchants in
spring wheat regions are still behind ear
ler anticipations. Chicago and Louis
vile report banner seasons in leading
staple lines Business holds its own at
New Orleans, but has declined some in
Texas and elsewhere southwest because
of delay of the cotton crop
The cotton plant has deteriorated and
is later than anticipated. Cold weather
checks raisin curing in California Little
interest is shown at southern sugar ana
rice markets.
Financial advices at larger centers in
dicate that neither imports nor bank loans
are being curtailed and that Indebtedness
abroad is increasing. James H. Eckles
former controller of the currency, sends
compared with last year are not due to
the banks carrying speculative accounts
Arrangements for a general reduction Of
pig iron production cause better feeling
among western consumers, but all I'm
ished iron and steel is quite dull, except
wire products. United States SteeIs con-
fession to having over a million tons few
err orders than year ago. while on Jan.
1 they had a million tons more than year
before, is taken as evidence that the gen
eraI Industrial tide has actually turned
and that a contest between producers and
consumers in other lines may be expected.
Pittsburg, however, reports maximum
volume of general trade. New England
cotton mills are running on short time;
some are storing products. There is no
apparent check to labor disturbances
Louisville's tobacco manufacturing In
dustry is growing, and its distilleries re-
port heavy orders. Philadelphia textile
Industries are affected by high prices OF
raw material. .-- .-.s
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
PAPERS WERE FORGED
Federal Grand Jury Is Investigating
Naturalization Frauds In st. Louis.


Naturalization Frauds In st. Louis.
New York Sun Special Service.
st. Louis, Oct 9.-In pursuance of Judge
Adams vigorous instructions to "go after
the political leaders high up" who, he
declared, should be held responsible for
the gross naturalization frauds committed
before recent elections it is believed the
federal grand jury has found a law which
will lead to the indictment of one of the
most prominent democratic politicians In
Missouri. .@ E.aU
1t appears that in st. Louis county nu-
merous subjects of foreign nations applied
to the st. Louis court of appeals for
naturalization papers. Now comes the in-
formation that these men never appeared
before the court and were not sworn as to
whether they had been residents Of the
United States for five years, the time re-
uuired for issuance of final papers.
Developments show that hundreds OF
these documents were clear forgeries. Not
only was the name of Clerk John Murphy
of the court of appeals forged to some OF
them but also seals purporting to be those
of the court. tEE .'.r>.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09

ler's obsequies of some of the goodly company
on whom he had practiced his gentle art of
making enemies. One of the first to arrive was
Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema. with whom Mr..
Whistler had one of his latest wars of words.
Sir Lawrence loves yellows, and somehow Mr..
whistler set M for himself a certain monopoly
In the use of that color Sir Lawrence, employ
slider himself a plagiarist of Mr.. Whistler.
These decorations he had not even seen. There
Romano Dutch st. Johns Wooden eye has never
looked upon them, and the fine jaundice Of his
fiesh is none of the iaundice Of my ysllOws.
Ta-de ma boom de-
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
SENATOR BROWN ARRESTED

Utah Man May Have to Go to the
Penitentiary.
New York Sun Special Service.
Salt Lake, Utah, Oct 9.-Former United
States Senator Arthur Brown was re-
arrested yesterday on new complaint
charging immoral relations with Mrs. An
ME Bradley, whom Brown discarded, and
who has pleaded guilty to the. charge in
order to legitimatize her children. Brown
was arrested as he left the courtroom
where he had been arguing ascivil case.
Mrs. Bradley will be the star witness
against Brown, and she declares she Will
drag him to the penitentiary with her.
Feeling is hostile to Brown, and lead
ing newspaper editorial demanded to-day
that Brown be punished along with Mrs.
Bradley. The woman will not be SEN
fenced for several weeks, as she is in
delicate health.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
/ IS CANCER INCREASING 2
Exchange.

There is a feeling of great uneasiness in
England over some statistics that We're recently
published about the increase of cancer can, , in Great
Britain. The death rate from that disease @ Elm IN
Inhabitants hut IN 1910 it was eight three in
every 100000. Besides. the ratio OF deaths from
persons over SO years of age. was only one out
Of twenty in 1890, and one out OF twelve in
1900.
These figures have given rise to much alarm,
but a conservative student of mortality says
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
K1pL1Ne's DESTROYED WRITINGS.

Kipling throws a good deal Of his work into
the waste basket but it is some time since any
Of it went into such a receptacle owned by some
other person. He feels that. having won repu-
tation 1t is his duty to write up to it. On one
whole book. The title of this unborn work was
II orty five Mornings. 2 After 1T was finished he
asked Robert Barr to read it.. As good as Plain
said Kipling 81 don't think it is. answered
Barr s<rhen it will never be published. = was
Niplings's unexpected reply, and 1t was de-
strOyed forthwith
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
PLEA FOR HELP
Bottle Found Containing Report of Pacific
Island Wreck .

Bottle Found Containing Report Of Pacific
Island Wreck.
New York, Oct. 9.-If a note which has
been found on the beach at New Ro-
chelle, N. Y, is genuine, the bottle which
held it fioated thousands of miles from
the Pacific ocean, where it was thrown
into the sea more than year ago by
some shipwrecked sailors The note said:
''Shipwrecked on island 21st July, 1902,
South Pacific ocean, neighborhood PALS
16, not far from Fiji islands Whoever
finds this document, please send relief to
party Of eight. We are on the brig Hell
vetia II. Please send help, in the name Of
God. Martin,
Mate Brig Helvetia H.
No record Of the Helvetia II. can be
found.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
MUMMY FOUND IN coLoRApo.

er was made last week by Mrs Jeanette r.
Newcomer. wife of John Newcomer, assistant
made by her in burial village in the Grand can.
syon of the Colorado. The mummy was taken to
Chicago and is at the Newcomer home 1t
will probably he given to "a local educational
institution. The mummy is said to be the most
perfect of its kind eyer found. 1t is that of
man about 51a feet tall. On one side of the
head there is a mass of soft brown hair. All
of the teeth are perfect. The lower portion of
the body was wrapped in coarse saclzng cloth.
The right leg below the knee had crumbled
away. 5S &
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09

To remind you. It is distinctly to
your advantage to bring, send or
phone in your want ads to The
Journal before 1870 Saturday a. m.
One cent a, word, not less than 20
cents. Cheap enough.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09
TWENTY-SEVEN INDICTED
Accused of Conspiracy Against Negroes
~ and of Murder.

H. - and of Murder.
New York Sun Special Service.
Helena, Ark, Oct. 9.-Twenty- seven in
dictments have been returned in the fed
eral court against white citizens of Cross
and Poinsett counties, who are charged
with conspiracy to deprive certain negro
citizens of the rights granted to them un-
der the constitution.
Twelve of the defendants are accused
of entering itno conspiracy to drive ne
gro tenants from certain lands and with
the murder of Memphis private de-
tective who sought to ferret out the per-
petrators Of white cap outrages.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09

that the increased rate is probably due to the
accurate every year and are now gathered from
places from which no reports formerly came.
In addition to that physicians are all the time
becoming better able to diagnose disease. and
they now put down to cancer many deaths that
might formerly have been Incorrectly attributed
to some other disease.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-10-09

ceremony the preacher, who esteems himself
somewhat Of a joker, remarked: 1T is Gus
will omit that on this occasion The groom
grinned, making fine display of ivory, and
answered: All right boss, it customary
to glib de preacher five dollahs after the cere-
mony, but All win omit dat on dis OCCASION
The parson has concluded that he will not joke
any more SO solemn an. occasion as we'd
ding.