CHEERFUL. - .. " .117}; There’s many a trouble Would burst like a bubble, Ari! into the waterslot Lethe depart, Did we not rehearse it, And tenderly nurse it, And give it a permanent place in the heart. There’s many a. sorrow Would .vanish to-morrow Were we not unwilling to furnish it wings; So, sadly intruding And quietly brooding, It hatches out all sorts of horrible tlflngs. ~ Resolved to be merry, All worry to ferry, .A’cross the famed waters that bid us forget; And no longer fearful, But happy and cheerful, We feel life has much that's worth liv— ing for yet. Georgiana C. Clark. HEII HUSBAND. We were dining at the Savoy in Lon- don, and I was staring about me all the beautiful Englishwomen in the evening dress which is so strange to American eyes in a public restaurant. It was a gay scene and I enjoyed its full flavor. I liked London. I had been there exactly three hours, but the peculiar atmosphere of the place, the Embank- ment with the strings of barges oi. the little, slow river, the great Nelson monument in' Trafalgar Square—with its lions, the cabs—were all old friends. Dike everybody else in America I was saturated with English literature, anti as most of us need to have a thing do scribed to us before we can see it, though it be before our eyes, I really felt that I knew London better than New York. I had read more about it. The man who sat opposite me smiled now and then in vast and beautiful content. He had told stories of Aus- tralia, where he had been for three years. He had had important busi- ness in San Francisco and had come home that way—for England was home to him. That was all that I knew of him, except that he was brown of skin, deep of chest, and with honest eye and a good laugh. One can’t dislike a man with a real laugn. He had great tales of riding in Aus- tralia, of the red dust in the gold country, of the winds and the desola- tion. Evidently he had felt the trag- edy as well as the comedy of his life. He was a likable chap and I wished I knew more of him than that his a; "as Gordon. "IVe left the table presently and strolled down towards the Embank- ment W'I’th our cigars. It was the sort of night in which a man wants to con- fide in something. I didn‘t know much, but I felt like telling it. I’er- bans I was hunting a leader when I said, “Odd a man like-s England as much as you do should have left it." The answer I expected was that he had gone out to make money; and I had a tale of my own which hung on money. But he grew suddenly grave. “I went to Australia for the same reason nine men out of ten do 'any- thing—a woman.” I waited .a minute for something more, and then I could think of noth- ing more original than the Old saw .‘hI‘rOllt a woman being at the bottom of everything. “Certainly she was at the botiom of my going to Australia. I loved her too much to stay.” “\Vas she married?” I asked. "She was—--—and to a confounded rake, a chap who ought to have been horse whipped all over England. He drank. he raced, he gambled, he led her the devil of a life.” “That must have hurt." “But not half as much as it hurt her.” “DO you think she loved you?” “I know she did. That was the thing which finally gave me the cour- age to go away, There hasn’t been a minute in these three years that I haven't known it, and it has made my life possible. If I hadn’t known that she was here in this part of the world believing in me, trusting me, loving me, L’d have lost my head inany's the time.” “And now?’ asked I. “Now I am going to see her again. She will be on the train from Paris which comes over that bridge there in just one little half hour. I haven’t seen her for three years.” "I suppose her husband has died?” I ventured. “No.” He spoke with sternncss. I‘But*17 “There areno buts about it. We are going to pretend that drunken wrotch is dead, and begin our lives all over again. We are going to take a yacht and poke its nose into every corner of the globe. I am going to take her out to Australia and Show her some of those places where I suffered —and where the thought of her kept me alive.” “Do you think that is just fair to her? She may love’ you enough, but—1! “She’s willing to risk life with me. and I am willing to risk it, although there was a time when I wasn’t. When two people love each other as much as she and I do it overcomes everything.” I had liked the man so much that I hated to see him so wrong, and I made a final plea. “But her husband? The man whose lawful wife she promised to be?” He gave me a heavy grasp on the arm and burst into his happy, boyish laugh. “But, mam, I’m her husband! She’s my w-ifelW—Robert McDonald in Mum- nev’l. l . evinced peculiarly when she sturdily refused to sell her elevated road Stock and thus broke up the elevated roads combine. She is independent, but not iashingly so. as being a typical “bachelor maid.” Everyone has known that Miss Gould was a patriot from the time when she caused 50,000 copies of the national hymn. “America,” to be printed and distributed among the public schools of New York. saying. i‘I believe everyone should know this hymn and sing it. if he knows no other. I would like the children to Sing it into their souls until it be- comes a part of them.” _But it was when the war with Spain that her patriotism shone forth most brightly. She responded to the call to arms by the only way in which she then thought she could he of use to her country—by a check for $100.000 to the government. Then she took an active hand in furthering the Red Cross plans and was a useful member of the “7oman’s ‘War Relief Association. But in both of these so- cieties she was rather as a rich mem- ber than a personal worker. and this did not satisfy her. When the sick and wounded soldiers were landed on Long Island. there she was in the midst of them. Then her eyes opened to see" the work mapped out for her. and she did not shrink. There was no time for formality or' red tape; the men needed money, care. com. forts, luxuries. She started diet kitchens, hired cooks and servitors. head of the IVoman’s War Relief iAs-, sociation. to draw upon her to the ex- tent of 3525.000 for necessaries needed at )Iontauk. While she herself stayed at Camp Wikoi’f. All at once. it seemed to her associates. the execu- tive ability of this quiet, slim little woman had flashed out, and she was. indeed her father’s daughter. When to camp was to be broken up it was Miss Gould who arranged for the care of convalescents, and her home at beautiful Lyndhurst was literally strewn with sewing being made ready for needy soldiers. Instead of a home it looked like a “sweatshop,” one of the visitors comically remarked, but it all showed the reality of.the work and the absolute sinking of all other con- siderations in the one great present fact. DELIGHTED WITH THE INFORMATION The Experience and Chagrin of a. Visitor at an Insane Assylum. Happening to be at the seat of one of the State insane asylums, a De- troiter who likes to see and learn all he can attended one Of the dances for the patients. What surprised him most was the difficulty he found in distinguishing between those who were rational and those who were not. and he was more chagrined than amused when several whom he met were evidently trying to find out just what was wrong with his mental ma- chinery. At length he was introduced to woman who particularly interested him. He convinced himself at once that her eyes were supernaturally bright, and her conversation soon eon- vinced him that. she was equally hri:ht.' All this made him pity her the more. and he'set about in his most diplomatic way to discover what form of mania possessed her. r] on to speak in rather flattering terms of the doctor. the hidden spring. him as he sang the doctor’s praises. which seemed so welcome to her. Her eves grow even brighter and her tones were unmistakably those of af- fection. ‘ “Doctor." later. “I don‘t know whether you are aware of it or not, but that handsome >atient of yours. over there in with you. She‘ll be making an open declaration, trying to elope with you. or doing something else equally em- barrassing. I never saw a clearer .' case. and I thought I’d just warn you. iShe‘s dead gone, I tell you." “Delighted to hear it,” laughed the 'doctor. "That‘s my wife."—Detroii Free Press. Frederick the Great and America. The superstition that Frederick the Great showed marked sympathy for America during the revolution is sin- gularly enduring, and most school children have been taught that he sent a sword to Washington with the message: in the world to the greatest.” Mon- cure D. Conway writes to the Athe- naeum to say: “There was no such sword or message." He speaks as a student of Washington’s life, and he was told by Carlyle, the greatest au- thority on Frederick, that there was absolutely no foundation for the le. gend. He also contradicts the singu- lar assertion which Bismarck iS said to have made, that Frederick was the first sovereign to recognize the linde- pendence of the United States. ,Louis XVI. recognized our independence. but Frederick never did, and never expressed a Word of sympathy with our cause, While he allowed Hessians to be sent to crush. the rebellion of the colonists. “What’s that button you’re wear- ing?” asked the Young Thing; “not Sons of the American Revolution?” "No," said the major, “I should think not. I’m proud of that button. It is the insignia, the outward and visible Sign of the largest military society in the United States.” “What's its name?” "Society Of the First Man up San Juan Hill.”-—Philadelphia Press. She does not strike one ’ began ‘ and telegraphed Mrs. Walworth. the “From the oldest General ' IIIIOWIIIII HOW PAYS. The Moral Of This Old, 0 Anecdote Will Save a Heap of Trouble’ and a File of Money. Something had gone wrong with some simple part of the machinery of a stationary engine, and the Stoker could not fix it. After spending a. day or two on it, he was f01‘Ccd to ask the aid of a more competent workman. He failed also and someone suggested the employment of a local celebrity—a sort. of tinker at any mechanical job. There is generally one in every local- ity. He gave two or three raps with his hammer and touched upa rod or two, when the pounding, or whatever ailed the machinery ceased. When asked to make out his bill. it read as follows: Fixing engine, $ .50 Knowing" how, 10.00 Total, $10.50 This anecdote has nothing earthly to do with Mr. Wm. F. Knapp, engineer and fireman at. Roth &‘G01dschmidt’s, South N orwalk, but it serves to intro- duce him to the Nor-walk public, and at the same time shows the close rela— tion between the tinker-’5 work on the engine and average humanity’s, when they tinker with their kidneys. Mr. Knapp tells how he cured his. Read this statement : “I am an old time engineer, and like a- great many men who follow my call- ing. the Weak spot. in my anatomy is my back, probably caused by becoming over-heated in a warm atmosphere and then exposed to cold. Be that as it may, I had considerable trouble with my kidneys, and although I used sim— ple household remedies and on one or two occasions took medicine, I was never able to completely rid myself of the attacks. Reading about the work performed by Dean’s Kidney Pills in and around the Nor-walks, I came to the conclusion that. they might. help me, and procuring a supply, I com- menced the treatment. After com- pleting it. I was so greatly improved in my general health that. I conscientious- ly endorse Dean’s Kidney Pills.” Just. such emphatic endorsement is plentiful in Norwalk. Drop into Glen- dening 82 Co.’s drug store and hear what. their customers report. Doan’s Pills for sale by all deal~ ers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster- Milburn (10., Buffalo, N. Y.,sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name Dean’s and take no substitute. ‘ AS TO STRIKING MATCHES. Streaks That Show \Vhere Lights “Vere Produced to Be Found Everywhere. “I may be wrong,” said the little woman, “but I fully believe that a man would strike a match on the tombstone of his mother,” and her eyes snapped and her cheeks flushed It the idea of such a sacrilege. Go where one will, in the most out- of-the—way place or corner to ignite 1 match, telltale streaks will be found as positive proof that a match striker has been there before. Raise the drapery about a mantel and peer underneath and there again will come in view the cabalistic brown tracks, the “blazed” way, as it were, of the match-striking guild. ' Letter boxes, street corners. door jambs, bottoms of chairs. and edges '01? bureaus, washstands and dressing Subjects and persons were discussed. 1cases possess the hiero—or till he thought he had about exhausr- - gll’DthS- ed the material. when he happenedi EVGII church edifices are n0t sacred At last he had touched; She beamed upmr pyro— when the hurried call is issued for a light. Even alter rails have been vis- ited by the same touch. In fact, Ethere is no place too sacred or too She added approvong sentences of her I own and adroitly drew out the praise , . cute said the Detroiter a little. much out of the way not to have, at one time or the other, received the necessary friction required to ‘se- a light. When Cleopatra’s Needle was placed in Central Park the apex bore traces, among the al~ most obliterated hieroglyphics, of the passing of the match. It is said that 1thc same modern signs can be found the . heliotrope silk, is hopelessly in love. ' ed over with cement stucco, upon the topknot of the Sphinx and upon the top of the Pyramids. Scent Bottle of Sydney. One of the oddest ornaments of which a city ever boasted stands in Sydney, Australia. It is called “the scent bottle of Sydney,” and is for the purpose of drawing the gases from the sewerage system of the city. It is constructed of. brick work. read and is eighty-seven feet high to the top of the casting shrmounting the brick work. - When the shaft was completed it was intended to purify the air es- caping from the sewer by means of charcoal. and trays containing char- coal were placed in the bottom of the shaft so that all air escaping from the sewer must pass the material.“ This was, however, found inoperative and was discontinued. Subsequently fire was suggested, but this in turn proved unsatisfactory. The “scent bottle” is not an eyesore. Its business is so disguised that it is an object of beauty, and is readily mistaken for a monument. Indeed, it is the biggest, most conspicuous and picturesque of all the notable monu- ments in New South Waleszew York Hera-1d. ll KIIIIIEYS Healthy Kid- neys filter im- purities from the blood and keep it red and p u r e. S i c k . Kidneys don’t. HOSTETTSR’S BITTERS stim- ulates the Kid- neys to the p r 0 per per- forma n c e of STOMACh their duties, and thus BITTERS . blood pure. asTE‘iTER’S VELEBRATED THE‘EVERIRG GAZETTE “5 .l. R tatemen in the Year Ending Dec. 31,97 According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. Received for u: taunts EHARE A. accuser, President. d, " IN @QMEo remiums .. . From all other Sources . . \ To 011 cy-holders for Claims by Death $42,693,201 99 I I94699406 3:4 $54,162,608 23 A ,1 DESEUESEETENES. - - - 313.279.6313 To olicy-holderu for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 12,712,424 76?. For all other Accounts . . . . . 10,132,005 5.71 ASSETSO ‘ ' l $36,124,060 991 l / United States Bonds and other Securities . . $132,017,341 45. First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . .‘ . 69,423,937 31 Loans on Stocks and Bonds . . . . 12,880,308 00 Real Estate ., . . . . . 21,618,454 88 Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 11,705,195 821 Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . . 6,141,200 30' 5m Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities . . 213127331237, 07 , Surplus . . - - - - $35,503m Insurance and Annuities in Force . . - $936,634,496 63i Ihave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. I 2' a ‘ J 1 W h liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor;1 Report of the EXamining Committee. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usua Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. - 1 To THE HONORABLE. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE WMPANY OF NEW YOHK. The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, on the twenty- 8 second day of December, I897, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company and . to verify the same. respectfully—fl , REPORT . That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have, at. various dates between the date by the Treasurer, the Comptr and have oar of the said reference and the date of this Report, attended at. the office of the Company, and have been waited 'on ' oller,the Auditor, and the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of such officers ' efully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be corre on. They 1 have examined and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared ' the pri such quotations—in property pany’s holding have con sary in such exa. the Same are accurate, And the Committee and methods adopted by the Com . All of which is respectfully submitted. NEW YORK, January 21, 1898. SAMUEL D. BABOOCR RICHARD A. MCCURDY JAMES C. HOLDEN HERMANN C. VON POST WILLIAM J. SEWELL OLIVER HARRIMAN ..OBERT ULYPHAN'I fluoaofi F. BAKER DUDLEY OLOOTT ces at which the same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations, and find the same not exceeding 1 fact, in many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real 1’ held by the Company, and find the same to be as stated. S of real estate and have verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust. companles, and nted the cash on hand held by the Cashier. And. the Committee certify that all the books, papers, documents, mination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their assistants, and than I in good order, and well kept. further certify that the investments of the Company are of a high order, and that. the system pany in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation CHAS. R. HENDERSON S. V. R. CRUGER They have also verified the valuation of the Com- 1 and evidence of title of every description neces- ELBRIDGE T. GERRY J. HOBART HERRICK A. N. WATERHOUSE : JAMES C. HOLDEN Board. of Trustees. FREDERIo CROMWELL J ULIEN T. DAVIES A. N. WATERHOUSE S. V. R. CRUGER CHARLES R. HERDERSOII RUFUS W. PEORHAH J. HOBART HERRIOR WM. 3’. DIXON 1 ROBERT A. GRARNISS .1 I GEORGE G. HAVEN ADRIAN ISELIN J B. ‘ 1 GEORGE S. -BOWDOIN WILLIAM C. WHITNEY '1 VVILLIAH ROCKEEELLES JAMES N. JARVIE 1 CHAS D. DICKEY JR. l ELBRIDGE T GERRY JAMES SPEYEB; HENRY H. ROGERS J N0. W AUCHINCLOSS THEODORE MORFORD WILLIAM BABCOCK STUYVESART FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD CHARLES E. MILLER WALTER R. GILLETTE . H. WALTER WEBB ——————_— 1 _ 1. ROBERT A. GRANISS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. lSAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. . JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM CHARLES C. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER, ASuistant Auditor. JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. EDWARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor. has... :2... kn, “my ‘1; 32-11.. NIEGECI’SS ”o EILIERE, swam, Aggmg P. SANDS, Cashier. EMORY MOCLJNTOCK, Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary. A, PRELLER, Auditor. DUEH du—P. BRECK. Corresponding Secretary ' ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary, JAMES TIMESCN. 2d Assistant Treasurer. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier... . . ,3 WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. 1 HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptrollm} Z 5 '1 I MEDICAL DIRECTORS: ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' G. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting. GRANVILLE H WHITE. M I) A... E. (SAME, hocal Agent. 1 l"
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