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EXCELBIOL I Livery and Sales Stable. . wmuuv‘.‘ l Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad depotI Norwalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers Safe horses" for women andchildren. .-. ' p ‘ . SADDLEHORSES A SPECIALTY HOSEA LURVEY. " .' “That man with the walking stick? i. ' Why, that’s‘Hosea Lurvey, of Brodick, Esq. Looks like he owned the hull. “Not old Hod Lurvey, of Tick Ridge?” “The very same.” Hiram Tucker smiled at his companion’s incredulity. “‘I don’t wonder you’re s’prised, if you recollect how Mrs. Lurvey used to run things up at the Ridge. Hod had no more to say than that yaller cat down by the wall. But there’s many a change in these fifteen years you’ve been gone.” ' “I should have thought it would have taken twice fifteen years to make such a piece of pomposity out of Hod Lur- vey. He was the worst henpecked man I ever saw,” replied Jasper Bur- roughS, tipping his chair back against the wall, preparatory to a, long talk with his old-time friend and neighbor. “I told you about the saddle they bought, just before I sold out, didn’t I? No? .Then I must. They come into the store, and Mrs. Lurvey asked to look at saddles. Of course I thought it was for herself, so I brought out a, woman’s saddle. She shook her head. “‘1 want a man’s saddle. It’s for my husband.’ “So I took them out into the back shop where there was alot hanging up. ‘She looked them over, asked the price of this, and found fault with that, and, finally, picked out the poorest and cheapest of the lot. It was a shame, too, for the Lurveys were well-to-do folks, and it’s cheapest in the long run to buy good luther. ‘Mayhap your husband might like to see the saddle, before'you .pay for it,’ I said, pitying the shamefaced little man. “ ‘Why, don’t you know Mr. Lurvey? He always depends on my judgment. This is my husband,’ drawing him for- ward, as if he had been a bashful boy. ‘Make a bow, Mr. Lurvey.’ ‘ “He didn’t come ‘into the shop again while I owned it, he was that ashamed, or else that shrew of his wouldn’t let him come to the village alone. I don’t suppose he ever had a cent to call his own. And now you tell me that pompous old gentleman was Hod Lur- vey. Why, it would be nothing short of a miracle.” _ “It’s quite a story,Jasper; but if you don’t mind listening, I’ll tell you how it come about,” replied Hiram Tucker, moving his chair so that he could watch the growing interest in his friend’s face. “Things got to such a pass betwixt the Lurveys after you went off that I jest couldn’t stand 1t, so one day, when Hod was cutting bushes out in the further corner of the pasture, well out of sight of the house. I went over to him, and sez, sez I: _ “ ‘Hod, why don’t you assert your in- dependence, and take your lawful place as head of your family?’ “You orter seen him start and turn white. If a cannon ball had taken his head clean off he couldn’t have been more surprised. , ~- “ ‘I mean it,’ sez I. . ‘You’re a full- grown man, and orter take your place in the world as a man, not a mouse, to be scart by a woman. The Scripter says a man shall be the head of the household. There’s no earthly reason why you shouldn’t be of yourn.’ “ ‘Do you think so?’ he asked. turn- ing white as a sheet. The idee had struck .him all at once, and had come nigh being too much for .him. It showed plainer than words could have done how it galled him to have things go the way they had. ‘Mrs. Lurvey says I’m not to be trusted,’ he added, hopelessly. “ ‘We’ll trust you any time.’ sez I. ‘Come out to the village and get what you want at airy one of the stores: they’ll trust you till harvesting if you’ll come out like a man and do your own business.’ . - “ ‘Do you know, -you’ve come jest in the nick of time?’ asked Hod, looking me full in the face. ‘Mrs. Lurvey has bargained the farm away, this old farm that father cleared, and she says Ihave got to sign the deed to night. I’d ruther sign away my right hand. and if you’ll stand by me I won’t do it.’ “Well, the outcome on’t was that the farm warn’t sold, but Mrs. Lurvey packed her ,. trunk in a hurry and went down country to her folks, and left Hod with everything to see to, and hayin’ jest comin’ on. There was ten cows, and seven calves, and five cosset lambs, and hens, and chickens, and ducks, and geese, and turkeys, and the three children. The youngest hadn’t been weaned and the oldest warn’t more’n ten year old. She thought if Hod was conceited enough to think he could run his own business, he might ,tend to hem as well. best thing that ever happened to Hod. “He come over and wanted my Jane Maria go and keep house for him. Now, Jane was as capable a girl as one often sees at fifteen, and there was Su- san to take her place at home, so I sez: ‘Go.’ Then he told Ben—the boy was growing up as lazy and sassy as a lad need be—that he’d pay him every week if he’d tend to the poultry right up prime. That kept him and the turks both out’n mischief. ~ “’Twas surprising how self-reliant Hod growed from day to day. He didn’t ask advice from nobody, but went right ahead. It seemed as if he growed taller. He sartinly did hold his head higher. He got a new suit of clothes, his first boughten suit, and a tall hat and a buggy, and sold two old 'cows that had been more plague than profit to him, and a lot of things that he had been hankering to do. “The neighbors begun to hope that Mrs. Lurvey had gone off for good, Hod was getting on so much better with- out her, when the stage stopped at their door one night, and out she got. Jane had just come to the door with the baby in her arms. Hod was bring- ing _in the milk. . . - “ .‘What are you here for?’ demanded Mrs. Lurvey, looking cross enough to snap the girl’s head off. ‘Put on your things and go home.’ , ' “ ‘You won’t do any such thing, , Jane,’ commanded Hod, firmly. ‘I hired you to work here, and here ‘ ; you’ll stay till after harvesting,’ and But it was the ~ he looked hiswife fullinthe face, like one who meant to be master. . “They had it back and forth for a: week, Jane told me, before Mrs. Lurvey would give him a mite of "peace, but Hod was: as firm as a rock. ’ ' She might go or stay, as she chose, but , he was going to be master in his own house. But such a life as she led him! “We was afraid Hod couldn’t stand- he was lost. If only he 'could be got out from that everlasting nagging un- til he got mbre self-assertion. “ ‘Why not send him to the legisla- , ture?’ asked my.wife. “ ‘Whv, he don’tknow the first thing about politics,’ sez I. ‘We want some- body to do credit to the town. Hod hain’t been out to ,town- meetin’ since he took the freeman’soath, twenty odd year ago-J . “But wife said things couldn’t go so badly to rack. and ruin at the state house as. they was going at Tick Ridge, even if he did vote the wrong way, and the only thing that would really help Hod was to show Mrs. Lurvey that some folks respected his opinions, if she didn’t. ick to save Hod Lurvey than to send the smartest man in town,’ sez she, and we couldn’t disagree with her. down the other at the caucus. Rafe Willey, who had been representative for five years, and of course expected to be again, said he ’nufi sight ruther Hod should have it, and would work for him. There was no danger but we could carry the town easy enough. There warn’t a man, far nor near, but would give all his old hats to get even with Mrs. Lurvey. “Hod did not know what was up, but I made him promise to go down and vote. He said he would come over, cross lots, and go down with me. When I went out to the barn that morning who should I see but Hod coming up the hill with his old clothes on, and looking as meaching as a whipped dog. “ ‘She suspected I was going to the village to—day and got tearing mad,’ sez he. ‘She looked my store clothes up and put the key in her pocket and told me to be lively about the chores, for we was going to pick geese to-day. I fed around, then made tracks for here. I guess I might as well give up fust as last. It will have to come. I don’t believe that man lives who could stand up against her when she gets in a rage.’ “ ‘You’re tired and hungry,’ sez I; ‘come in to breakfast, then we’ll talk things over.’ “I don’t suppose I was as sympathet- ic as I might have been, for if there’s anything under the sun that riles me it is to have a man under a woman’s thumb. ' “It took some argufying to screw his courage up to the pint of buying a sec- ond suit of clothes, but he done it; and there war n’t a sprucer looking man at town .mee‘ting that day than Hosea Lurvey. We had agreed to stop calling him Hod and to call him Hosea or Mr. Lurvey, to see if that wouldn’t prop up his self—respect a little: “He voted the straight ticket through till they come to town repre- sentative; then his name was proposed and was greeted with such a cheer that the moderator said it was a waste of time to ballot and we’d elect him by acclamation. Then we escorted him home in fine style. “Mrs. Lurvey come to the door all primed and loaded to give him a Scotch blessing, and was some took back to see so many of us. 001. Hook- er stepped forward and sez, sez he: “ ‘Allow me, madam, to introjuce to ye our new representative, Hosea Lur- vey, of Brodick, Esq.’ “ ‘You’ve hit it right for once,’ she answered. ‘If there’s an E-s-q. any- where it ain’t Hod Lurvey that deserves the title, and I ain’t overly sure that Brodick does, either, if it’s made such a fool of itself. Waal, Mr. Lurvey, of Brodick, Esq.,’ making him a mock- ing bow, ‘ye better bid your friends good night and come in. I’ve got a little account to settle with ye.’ “ ‘Thank ye kindly, but I promised to go down to the colonel’s to supper,’ sez he. ‘We only come up to tell ye the news.’ Then how we cheered for our new representative. . “That night the hull town turned out to serenade him, and on one pre- text or another he warn’t alone much for the next few days. “He hired Nathan Simpson to run the farm whilst he was gone, and told him what to do and how to do it. Mrs. Lurvey might as well have tried agin Hosea’s orders. There was differ- ent Works at Tick Ridge from that time. “You never see how Hosea improved when once “he had a chance. He took right holt of politics as though he had been brought up to ’em all his life and it warn’t long before he had the rep- ertation of being about as shrewd as they make ’em. “We knowed, when we met him at the post office, on his _way home the fust time, that our experiment had succeeded, and he was going home to rule the roost. Mrs. Lurvey seed it, too, and give up trying to hold her own agin him. 'He has been to the legislature every other term since. We send Rafe Willey other times.~ ‘This year he is first selectman and overseer of the poor. “He has got one of the finest'stock farms in the state, and has things in a different style from any Brodick has ever had afore. He’s makin’ money faster’n any other man at Tick Ridge and spends more, too‘. That is where his independence shows itself most, for Mrs. Lurvey is tighter than the bark to a tree, and keeps savmg they will be on the town yet. Well, if they be, we’ll help ’em out with a deal better grace than if Hod had never proved himself a man. The boys have grown up fine, steady young men, and the gal is one to be proud of. “Ion must go over to Tick Ridge, but I warn you that Mrs. Lurvey will introduce him to ye asvthe colonel did . Esq. ”—N. Y. Herald. that night, Hosea Lurvey, of the pressure, and if he yielded an inch ' “ ‘It would be more credit to Brod— f “Well, we talked it up one side and to drive a mule as to make Nate go » Brodick, ‘ i I. OF NEW YORK. Assets, ’ L . .- ,Liabilities - . p . Surplus . . . . . Total Income . . - . Total Paid Pel,icy:hololers in 1895, . SURANCE RICHARD A. McCURDY President. ., omen lll heYeal ‘ingfleulllflll Insurance and Annuities in force, . Net gain in 1895 _ . ' . who 53 m actually issued and pald for in cash Is Included. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. lav-~......_. parison with the assets of the Company. therein are in possession of the Company. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. D $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 51 - 823,126,728 45 $899,074,453 78 $61,647,645 36‘ NOTE—Insurance merely written, ls discarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance i From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of the Examining Committee. Ultiee of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York, February 11,1896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18t b day of December. last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com-_ The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets, specified In making this certificate the Committee bear testimony to the high character of A general transacted. H. 0. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J .' EASTON, Secretary, , . . FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. IOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in Robert Olyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, Committee J, H. Herrick. . ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. - HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst: Treas EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier . EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, .13., Asst. Actuary. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, MEDICAL DIRECTORS GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. Local Agent AQEOGAMPQ WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. (Comp. JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, _ A , EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M. D.- noun W monomers, - » * ~ ,g, New Haven, General Agt. foi" State of Connecticut.
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