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THE ENDURING.
A misty memory—faint, far away
Md vague and dim as Childhood's long-lost
day—
sForever holds and haunts me with a spell
,(lf awe and wonder indcfinable—
A grimy old engraving tacked upon
A: .shoeshcp walk—An ancient temple,
drawn
0! crumbling granite, sagging portico
‘And gray. forbidding gateway, grim. u
woe; . ..
And o'er the portal, cut in antique line.
~s'l'he words—cut likewise in this brain of
mine:
“Would'st have a friendT—Would‘st know
what friend is best?
Have God thy friend; He passeth all the
rest."
r..'.Agai1: the old shoemaker pounds and
pounds . -
Resentfully, as the loud laugh resounds .
And the coarse jest is bandied round the
throng
~. That smokes about the smoldering‘stove;
and long,
Tempestuous disputes arise, and then—
Evon as all like discords—die again;
no while e barefoot boy more gravely
heeds '
The quaint old picture, and tiptoeing reads
There in the rainy gloom the legend o'er
" The lowering portal of the old church door:
"‘Would'st have a friend?—-—Would'st know
what friend is best?
rest."
. Have God thy friend; He' passeth all the
4‘ 'So older-older—hlder,_year by year,
IE
' sent for to a lawyer s.
I[the boy has grown, that now, an old man
" here ,_.
He seems a. part of Allegory, where ‘ ‘
He stands before Life as the old print
there— '
Still awed, and marvelling what light must
be
Hid by the door that hamFuturity; -
Though ever clearer than with eyes of
youth, '
He reads with his old eyes-and tears for-
' sooth:
"Would'st have a friendY—Would'st know
what friend is best?
7' Have God thy-friend; He pass‘eth all the
rest!’ ,
—-Jemes Whltcomb Riley. in Scribner’s
Magazine. .
Appetite Comes with Eating f"
By Eugene Chavetto.
ELL, are my books ready, Mme.
Colimard ?"
“Look, sir, there you are, still in the
press! Colimard made sure he’d have
them finished for you, but in the mid-
dle of his work, all of a sudden, he was
“So you have had something left, eh?”
“Upon my word, Si 1', it’s like a dream;
.We can hardly belieVe it, it’s so unex—
pected! Not that we are looking: for
anything much,aring, perhaps, atoken,
some trifle or other. If he left us an ap-
le * * "-‘ just one apple * * *
we ought to think ourselves lucky, for,
after all, the poor dear departed owed
us nothing.”
“He was no relation, then?”
“No nearer than Adam. Ah, it’s quite
a story. You know Colimard always
works in the front shop to get all the
light he can for his gauflering. Well,
every day, from twelve to two, an old
gentleman used to pass the shop taking
his constitutional. I suppose he must
have had a fancy for binding, for he
would always stop at the window, and
takcalook at my husband working. Col-
imard didn’t- like it having his light
taken from him; so one day he said
K in my little boy’s hearing: ‘1 wonder
. And he would tell us to keep our cour-
' houses;
"Von.” (-
,_.__'
. ; 1:; 4//\v
,o-
, "OLD SKELETON, ARE YOU WAITING
» FOR THE UNDERTAKERT”
if that old skeleton is waiting for the
undertaker at my window?’ You know -
you never can be too careful what, you
say before children. No sooner had
my husband-said that than what docs , .
Dodorc do but fly out of the shop, run
after the old gentleman and shout:
‘Say, old skeleton, are you, waiting for
‘ the undertaker?’ "
“He must have been dreadfully an-
my!"
"Not a bit. He burst out laughing,
patted the child‘s cheek, and gave him
a sweety. Next day, of course, Dodore
was on the lookout for him, ran to him
to gctanother sweety, and got it and
a kiss into the bargain. To make a
long storysbort, at last the old gen-
tleman took to coming into the shop,
and spending a quarter of an hour every
- day—sec. .ihere is his chair still, poor.
dear old maul—talking to Colimard at
his work,‘ and petting the little one.
He took to us, too, for he never lets day
pass without asking: ‘Ilow is busi-
ness? How are you getting along?’
age up, and never despair of the fu-
ture.” - a
“You found out who he was, I sup-
pose?” .
“Of course, we made inquiries. We
found that he was the rich M. dc Bam-
briquet, owner of all this block of
17 houses, all his own; just
think of that! Naturally, when he
"bade us hope, we would say: ‘It’s easy
enough for you with all these houses!‘
and he'wauld answer: ‘Well. children,
who knows? Some fine morning when
you least expect it you may find a house
tumbling into your sac ’ ” .
“Very true. We never know what to
“Well, one day he didn’t make. his ap-
pearance. After a week Colin-lard made
inquiries, and learned that the good old
{man had caught a cold and died. We felt
sorry, for we liked him for liking the
‘My husband could not help. saying:
‘There’s the future he was always talk-
ing about! All I wanted was a chance
to work; and now he’s gone, and his
library with him!’ A body might think
the ghost of the deer departed heard
him, for, while my man was grumbling,
ing as to call at Master Hocquet’s—the
old man’s lawyer—to hear of something
to our advantage."
“Think of that, now! It looks as it
the house were on its way downt"
“Oh, don’t. say that! ”
“Why not?”
“The poor man 'was nothing to us. Be-
sides, he had cousins. It’s not likely he
would rob his own for strangers like
'us.” .
“But" he had 17 houses; he wouldn't
need to rob his own.”
“That’s just what I have been saying
to myself. Still, he doesn't owe me a.
straw. Why should he leave us any-
thing, I’d like to know?”
future practically" amount to a ln-omv
ise?” '
tongue, and not have troubled poor
folks? minds.” ‘ , _ '
“Besides, he was fond of your son.
Why shouldn’t he have made him one
of his heirs, along with his cousins ?" .
“Yes, and cousins he had never seen.
They don’t know what is coming to
them. Ah, some folks have luckl'”
“How do you know he hasn’t left you
this house you live in?”
“This? It. brings in 17,000 francs.”
“Well, 17,000 francs more or less
won’t make or break the heirs.”
“Especially as the house badly needs
repairs. The good old soul trusted the
janitor beyond reason. As long as his
lodge is all right he never worries about
what the lodgers have to put, up with
There’s a lazybones that wouldn’t stay
long in a. house of mine! IIc‘s as bad as
the first-floor tenant, Mme. dc Lc—
strangle, a stuck-up thing as ever there
was! She’d trample on you, if you’d
let her! If the house was mine a min-
ute, wouldn’t I give her her walking
ticket? And I’d do it all the quicker
because she has spent such lots of
money fixing up her rooms. Crack! I’d
have ‘To Let’ up to—morrowl- And I’d
raise the rent, besides. Repairs have
to be done, and why shouldn’t the
lodgers do them '3" .
“I quite agree with you; I would
raise all their rents."
“Yes, and the man who took the shop
ofl my husband‘s hands—I’d make him
'pny 1,500 francs a year more.”
“But didn‘t you tell me that business
was dropping off? Oughtn’t you to
charge less for the shop, instead of
more?”
“What! A lucky shop like this? Why,
the next tenant may find his old gen-
tleman too. I dare say this is only the
beginning of a regular run of them.”
“If I were you, I wouldn’t raise the
shop rent. I would use my fortune to
make at least one person happy.”
“I am old enough, sir, to get along
without advice from anybody, thank-
ing you all the same!”
' “Oh, now, don‘t get angry, we‘re only
supposing. How do you know the dc—
partcd has left you this house, and not
the one at the corner?"
francs?”
“Why not? If he wanted to make you
happy he might as well have made a
good job of it while he was at it."
“What you say is very reasonable. I
hadn’t thought of it, though.” .
“It is quite on the cards, isn‘t it?"
“Yes, now I come to think of it, it is.
Nothing obliged the dear, good man to
do anything for us at all; but, since he
meant- to leave us one of his houses,
why should it have been the worst ‘2”
“I would look almost an insult."
“So it would. But, hczcstly, he owed
us nothing.” ..
he never saw?"
“And he used to spend every after-
noon with us.”
“It is not relationship so much as af-
fection that guides a man in making his
will.” - 7 ,
“So far as that goes, I. know he cared
more for us than for them; he never
breathed a word about them."
“You see, yOu have us much right
as they have.”
tion.” Mme. Colimard seemed to hesi-
tate here, but cupidity conquering, she
added: “And even * * * if the Al-
mighty did his duty by us.”
“Even what?” .1
“Even the 16 should be ours. Why
shouldn’t we have the 16 houses, and
the cousins the seventeenth?”
‘ Just then the shop door was violently
thrown open. "it was Colimard, back
from theiawycr’s. He looked pale and
haggard.
With eager anxiety. his wife cried:
“Well ?"
As the man was too breathless to re-
ply quickly enough, she shook him:
"Speak! Do. for heaven’s sake, speak!"
"He has left us * * * only 30,000
francs for the boy!”
Mme. Colimard fell back upon her
seat, heart-broken. Through her
clenched teeth she hissed her thanks:
iional.
Slightly Mixed.
“Nellie," said a mother to her little
daughter, “I wish you would run over
and see how old Mrs. Smith is. She has
been quite ill." .
In a few minutes Nellie came running
back and reported. “She said to tell
you it was none of your business.”
"Why. Nellie," said the astonished
mother. “what did you ask her?"
the. little innocent. “I told her you
wanted to know how old she was.”—
‘ inltimore. Sun.
‘1
little one, and because he had promised .
us all the books in his library to bind. '
in comes 'a messenger with a letter tellq .
"Why, didn’t his talking abouLthe'r
“In truth, be had better have held his
“Why shouldn't you be one of them? *
“The one that brings in 60,000.
“What did he owe his cousins, whom '
“Ay, and more, if you look at afi‘ccr
“The mean wrcicbl"-~The Interna-
‘-.‘i‘ust what you told me to," replied“
The Hidden Future.-
With Its Joys and Sorrows
is Like a Closed Book,
Unreveaied.
When the great. Harvey was whipped
at school for experimenting with a. eat,
his teacher little wought that he had
trounced the future discoverer of the
circulation of the blood. When Ma-
hommed was an obscure driver of
camels, be little imagined he would
found a. religion which 10-day embra-
ces over two hundred million souls
When Mr. George N. Warren, oyster
_ plaster and dealer of No. 2 Uhesmun
i street, was induced to try Dean’s Kid-
!nerPills. almost against his will. he
never ex‘ pectedtthc results ;he. obtain-
. ed. If the reader is troubled like Mr.
4 Warren, and Will but. give Dean’s Kid-
1 hey Pillra trial, he can assuredly de-
i pend upon the same results. Speaking
l about it Mr. W'arueo' says: "I have
i been subjected to inclement weather,
and it is quite p'snible that exposure
awhile sui eriutev ding different branch-
: es at my business induced kidney
troubles. At. all events, 'when con-
signments are being shipped to Europe,
and this is the busiest part of the sea.-
Ikncw I had kidhcy complaint. for a
long time, and chancing to see Doan’s
remedy, and not a. cure-all, I had con-
fidence enough in them to get a. box at
a drug store and try them. The first.
box convinced me that they were just.
what I needed, so I took another. and
I did not require any more after that.
for my back became well. I prescrib-
ed them for my son, who has had a.
weak back from boyhood. They cured
him.”
You can obtain incontrovertible proof
from Glendening. the druggist. that.
Doas’s Kidney Pills do just as repre-
sented. (fall and see him.
Doan‘s Kidney—Pills for sale by all
dealers; price 50 cents a. box. Mailed
on receipt of price. by Foster-Milburn
$10., Buil‘alo, N. Y.. sole agents for the
. S.-
Remember the name—Donn’s—and
take no other. --
ORGANIST AN AurOCRAT.
No One Must Dare to Criticise Thai
Functionary’s Part of the
Church Service.
If there ever is any trouble in the
congregation about the music, and if
the minister ever worries himself, it
is admitted at once that the congre-
gation and the minister are alone to
blame, writes Ian Maclaren in Ladies'
Home Journal. But there are other
difficulties, and they may be men-
tioned in a spirit of becoming humil-
ity. For one thing, the organist is an
artist, and every artist has a nature
of special refinement which cannot
bear the rough-and-tumble ordinary
methods of life. With a man of
common clay you deal in a practical,
straight-forward and even brutal
fashion, arguing with him, complain;
ing to him, and putting himright
when he is wrong. But no man must
handle precious porcelain in. such fash-
ion, or the artist will be instantly
wounded and willresign and carry his
pathetic story to every quarter, for,
as a rule, theorganist thinks that he
is'lifted above criticism and public
opinion. It is impossible to teach
him anything; it- is an insult to sup-
pose that anything could be better
than the music he provides.
IDEA TOO ORIGINAL
The Riayor Suggested ’1‘?! at the Town’s
Visitors Climb the erv Stand-
pipe for Entertainment.
In one of the towns of the upper
peninsula they were preparing to en—
tertain a delegation of eastern capiin1~
ists, many of them accompanied by
wives and families, who were prospect;-
ing for investments in mining, railroad
and other enterprises. At the meeting
to make arrangements for the recep-
tion the new mayor presided. He had
ideas of his own, says the Detroit J our-
nal, and evidently thought that his oili-
cial position entitled him to settle any
disputed question; After several plans
“Gentlemen,” said his honor, “what
I insist upon is something original and
something that these people will 8.1.
’way-s recall as having happened right
here. Our neighbors in the east
dr0pped them a few thousand feet into
a copper mine; our rival city to the
'north drove them six miles to see the
water works; at that struggling little
burg west of us they gave them a chance ~
to blister their faces over the red sand-
stone quarries. We’re no imitators.
What I propose is that we let them
climb, one at a time, to the top of that
new standpipe of ours. They’ll lmow
we‘re up to date on our fire department
and they’ll get a splendid view of the
surrounding country."
And it took the leading men of both
parties to get the mayor's consent to
another programme.
A Young Girl’s Experience.
My daughter's nerves were terribly out of
order. She was thin and weak; the least
noise startled her, and she was wakeful at
night. Before she had taken one package
of Celery King the change in her was so
great. that she- could hardly be taken for the
some girl. She is rapidly growing well and
‘ strong, her complexion is perfect, and she
‘ sleeps weilevery nighL—Mrs. Lucy McNutt.
Brush'valiey, Pa.._ .. ,
Celer King cures Constipation and all die-
easeso theater-veal, Stomach. LiVerandFLid
[ neys. Sold by druggiste. and
ennJ feel mytbackvtroubfing me' most; -
Kidney Pills advertised as a. kidney
had been suggested, he took the floor. ' '
lHEMUlUALLl INSURANC
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UMPAN .
OF NEW YORK.
arenas]: A. McGU'RDY, sass.
according to the Standard of the" Insurance Department of the State of New York.
IN GOMEe
Received for Premiums . . .
From all other Sources
34393189748 :-
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nrsnunsnmnnms.
I‘o Policy-holders for Claims by Death
[‘0 Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc.
For all other Accounts
AgSEV-Jl‘ge
United States Bonds and other Securities
First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage .
Loans on 13011615 and other Securities,
Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents
at $23,534,826.88 :
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies
Book Value .
Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc.
$13,265,908 00
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68.503.580 90
993969619 00
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11.631.377 36
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Poiiciy Reserves, etc.,
Contingent Guarantee
Divisible Surplus . .
Insurance and Annuities in Force
Fun'd. . .
43-238.684 on
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277,511.32; so
$971,711,997 79
Ihave carefully examlned the foregoing Stateme ‘
liabilities calculated by the lnswance Department." and find the same to be con‘ec
inmost. D. Bassoon
fireman A MoGnnnv
James C. HOLDEN
HEBMANN C. VON Poss-
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CHARLES A. PRELLER, Audito:
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Cass D. DICKEY Jr.
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ROBERTA. GRANISS, Vice-President. - ‘ *
{sues LLQIIJ, 2d Vice-President
WILLIAM J. EAS'I‘ON, Secretary.
‘ JOHN A. 'E‘UNDA. Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Oaghier.
CHARLES A_ PRELLER, Auditor.
Ll (3L1 FF 0K1) GRETSIN HEB, Assistant Auditor.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General
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KLAMBUTH, Assis' tam Molar} ‘
Fannnluo anon WELL, Treasurer.
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EMORY McULlNTOUK, Actuary. ‘ 4 5518mm washer.
JOHN 'TATLOUK, Ja, Assistant Actuary. .
w mum W.'RICHABDS, Com troller. .
HENRY s. snows, Assistant Uogiptroller
JOHN QELLIO'I‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies." .
. , EOW ARI) LYMAN SHOltT. _(Jlenerai Solicitor; ‘ .. -
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Norwalk Chronicler