THE EVENlNG 'GA zr TTE
I
A CHANGE OF MIND
Miss Dubarle as
years of age on
March,-18-w, well”
year. And she was‘ stout, ahd short.
With no visible waist; and hands that’
were red and fat, instead of white
and slender;
mold, but seemed to be setting up. sui
generis, each on its own special ac—
count, with no 1ei’e1'ence whatever to
the others.
But we have not mentioned the
most, important fact of all. Miss Du-
‘barle had forty thousand dollars of
her own. ‘ ,
'And that was, without doubt, the
reason that her relatives sent he1
pressing invitations to come and visit
them,” and dispatched cases of wine
and hampers of game and boxes 01’
new “books down .0 Dubaile I"a1m;
the little girls w ked hideous pin-
cushions and tidies to decorate her
r0011;1s and young men 111'0te acros
its for he1 irthday and e1e1‘yhotly
istened politely to her speeches, how-
ever prolix they might be. For a rich
)‘ltl maid is worth cultivating, and it
:.'asn’t at all likely now that Miss Du-’
- ..1rle would ever marry.
It was a bleak afternoon the red-
and brown leaves 111h1l1nn' wand and
round in the blast, and the great wood '
every 1
file updn the hearth sending,
now and then, spiteful little gushes of
smoke into the room where Miss Du-
narle and her second cousin and com-
panion; Janet Heath, sat together,
working roses for a counterpane.
“Janet,”
ly, "you’re a fool!”
Janet looked 11p with a flush of color
on her pale, pretty cheek. She was
not at all unaccustomed to these little
:omplimentary rem .1'ks on the part of
Miss Dubarle.
“Be a sensible girl,” added the elde1
. female. “Give him up, and I’ll buy
son a blue silk dress and a black lace
'hawl. ”
. “But I love him, Miss Dubarle.”
“Oh, psha-a—awl” grimaced the spin-
ster. “Love, indeed! I never was in
eve!” I .
“And,” added Janet, growing more
'osy than ever, as she stooped to pick
-1p her iv01y needle, “he says he would
be miserable without me. D0n’,t
please, be angry, Miss Dubarle; but
ndeed, indeed, I must marry him.”
Miss Dubarle jum led up so suddenly
:hat the dozing blackbird in its cage
ittered a shrill note of consternation.
“Very well,” she said—“very well,
lanet Heath. Pack your trunk as soon
is you please. I can dispense with
vour services at once. And pack
nine first, if you please, Janet Heath.”
5 “You are not goi1.g away, Miss Du-
5arle?” queried poor Janet, in con-
:ternation.
"I’m going to visit my relatives,”
said Miss Dubarle, with pursed-up
lips. And then little Janet knew that
her own fate as far as any worldly
advantages to be derived from her
kinship to the heiress, was sealed.
“Put in the black silk gown, Janet,”
said MissDubarle, in a tone as lugu—
brious as if she were giving orders for
her own funeral. “Of all sins, I re-
gard ingratitude as the basest—and
the China crape scarf—«to think that I
have nursed a viper to turn and sting
me at last! And don’t forget my easy
slippers—though I don’t know either
why my corns should be entitled to
any more consideration than my poor
bruised heart.”
And then, as JanetHeath began to
cry, Miss Dubarle marched out of the
room. -
"I never could endure the vapors,”
said Miss Dubarle. “I’ll go to my
niece Maria, or maybe I’ll make Her-'
bert Smythe a little bit of a visit; he’s
' always saying how delighted he
would be to «entertain me in his bach-
elor quarters. , They both love me,
although I haven't done half for them
that I have for this little serpent’s
too-1h of a Janet. I dare say she ex-
pects to be my heiress, but she’ll find
out her mistake. I guess.”
And Miss Dubarle, who allowed no.
suns to go down upon her wrath, took
the first train for New York, and slept
that night in the fifth story of a mar-
ble-fronted hotel. .
“I didn’t think I should miss that
child Janet so 1i'lucl1.” she said rather
dolefully to herself the next morning.
as she tried to comb out her tangled
“back-hair,” and nearlyystrangled her-
self trying to button" up "her- own .-
hoots—“but I don’t care! I won’t give
up to her love-sick whims, and I will
go to see Maria Brooks and Herbert
Smythe; Maria’s little girl wrote me
a beautiful letter last month, and all
out of her ownrhead, her mother said. .
Let me see—Eudocia her name was.
Perhaps I’ll adopt Eudocia.”
And Miss Dubarle ordered a_ carriage y
and drove to the mansion of Mr. Secor
cdrooks, on an aristocratic side street.
“They ”seem to live ~very nicely,"
thought'the rich relation. “I didn’t
[know Secor’s income justified such
style as this”,
The servant showed Miss Dubarle
into a reception-room, furnished after
the style of Louis Quinze. His mis-
tiess was out, but Would return pres-
ently, he explained.
“I’ll wa1t " said Miss Dubarle.
A wizened little‘ g1rl with her hair
braided in long Chinese plaits, and red,
1 . chill-looking elbows, was tinkling
1111 ay at the piano. She looked round
ins the guest entered.
“You are Eudocia, I suppOse,” said
E's Miss Dubarle, afi’ably.
‘Yes,” said the child. “I’m Eudo-
cia. And who are you?”
“I am' Miss Dubarle,” said the heir-
ess; graciously. “You have heard
your mamma tell about Miss Dubarle,
haven’t you?" -
, “Oh, yes!” said Eudoda, her small
fishy eyes lighting up.
old maid that momma says is so out—
out—
and features that be-'
longed to. no Grecian type or Roman
said Miss Dubarle, polite- '
“You’ re the,
Nut of health?”
“NO; some very big word ”
“Outrageous?” suggested Miss Du-
five. and forty barle, s0mewhat discomfitted.
the nineteenth of
no matter what.
“No —— not that — outlandish! And
you’re going to die and leave me all
,your money and then we are to travel
in Europe. But papa says he don’ t see
'but what you’ re going to hold on
forever. What is it you are hnlding
ion to, Miss Dubarle?”
“Hem!” said Miss Dubarle. “So
your mamma’s kind enough to' con-
sider me outlandish, is she?”
‘Mamma’s going to invite you to
visit‘us,” went on the unwisely com-
municative Eudocia, “when the Fitz-
Roy Fortesques are gone. She says
lsh-e don’t want them to be .shocked
with your Noah’s-Ark ways. I had
a. Noah’s Ark once,” added the en-
'fant terrible, “with a dog in it and
Shem, Ham and Japhet.”
“I dare say,” said Miss Dubarle,
l checking a strong inclination to laugh,
'although she felt herself growing pur-
{ple 1n the fact with indignation. “I
think I won’t wait any longer. Eudo-
cia; good- by. ”
I And Miss Dubarle shook the dust of
the Secor Brooks mansion 01f her feet.
I “A pretty hypocrites nest I should
have got into there'” she said, half
'aloud, as she entered the vehicle she
had been wise ennugh to bid wait.
; ‘Janet Heath, with all her faults, was
at least frank and truthful enough.
Drive to twenty- seven Bachelor
:Square, coachman!”
Twenty- -seven Bachelor Square was
1a tall, brown-stone building, full of
> studio-s, Officers and sets of chambers,
Iand Miss Dubarle- was well—nigh out
of breath before she reached a door
at the very top, on which a card, neat-
ly tacked, bore the inscription, “Her-
bert Smythe, Artist.”
She beat a brisk tatoo on the panels
with the handle of her sun umbrella,
and a voice. answered,—'
“Come in.”
But to her amazement, the occupant
of the apartment, instead of a young
Iartist in a black velvet painting-robe,
lwas a grim female, sitting very up-
right on a gothic chai1, with tattered
gloves and a bonnet bent on the side.
“Is \Ir. Smythe in?” asked Miss Du-
barle.
i “No,” answered the stony female;
"he ain t’. But if you’ re wise you’ll sit
:down, like me, and wait until he does
icome in. I s’pose you’ve come after,
your bill?”
', “Have yo?” asked Miss Dubarle, tak-
ing the first part of the hint, by de
positing herself on a sofa.
“Yes—for the seventh time. He
owes everybody—Smythe does. I’m
his laundress, but you can ask the
landlord and the wine merchant, and
the tailor and the hatter, and——”
1 “Then,” curtly observed Miss Du-
barle, “I should think you were all
’great fools for trusting him!"
} “So we be,’ said the woman grim-
'ly; “and I ain’t a denyin’ of that, but
you see he’s kept us on the string all
along with stories of his rich cousin,
\Iiss Dubarle, as has made her will in
l his favor, and is goin’ to leave him no
end of money.” _
[ “Oh!” said Miss Dubarle, rubbing
her nose vehemently with the end of
.the sun-umbrella handle.
I “He says,” added the unconscious
traitoress, “that she’s as old as Me-
'thusela'h, and can’t live but a few
days, anyhow; but I, for one, don’t be-
lieve a word of it. But you ain’t
agoin’ be you?”
“Yes,” said Miss Dubarle, rising.
, “Please to give him this card when he
comes in and tell him, if you like, the
little conversation we have had.”
1 And she was nearly down-stairs be-
fore the lau-ndress, fitting on'a pair of
silver-bowed spectacles, had read the
two words inscribed upon the card:—
“Miss Dubarle.” -
The heiress was .very silent during
her drive back‘to the hotel. Perhaps
she was engaged in rendering the fun-
eral rites on her dear departed delu-
sion! All that she said to herself was
contained in one sentence,—
“I don’t like being made a fool of,”
she mentally enunciated, “and I be-
lieve I’ve come very near it.”
Janet Heath sat by the fire in the
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next evening’s twilight, musing, per- .
chance, half in sadness, half in shy
pleasure, when the door clicked on its
latch and in walked Miss Dubarle.
Janet started to her feet with a slight
cry.
“Don’t be alarmed,” said Miss Du-
barle, stroking the soft, brown hair
with a kindly, reassuring touch. “I" ve
come Back to you, Janet Heath; for I
believe, in spite of everything, you are
the truest friend I’ve got, and that
you love me, after all!”
“Indeed, indeed, Miss Dubarle, I
do!” sobbed Janet,‘ with her old fool-
ish trick of tears. ' ‘
“And so,” said Miss Dubarle, “you
can marry that Harry Dart of yours.
1 and he can come here to live, and we’ll
all be a happy family together. Untie
my bonnet-strings, Janet—they’ ve got
somehow into a knot—and make me a
cup of tea. These railroads are
lenough to’shake one into a jelly!”
So Miss Dubarle settled back into
the old groove again, and when the let-
ters from New York“ came she sent
them back- unopened. And When Mr.
Herbert Smythe and the Secor Brooks
family arrived in propria personae she
obstinately refused to see them.
“I won‘t be bothered!” said Miss Du-
barle; “Janet’s my heiress, and there’s
an end to the matter.”
And the relatives discovered that
they might as well attempt to move
the Rock of Gibraltar as to alter Miss
Dubarle’s resolvei—New York News.
’ A Russian chemist has discovered a
most powerful anaesthetic, several
thousand times more powerfulx than
chloroform. Experiments are being
made at St. Petersburg to see it it can-
not be enclosed in bombs, which would
have the extraordinary effect. of- anaes-
thetising instead of IWOunding tho'
enemy.
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' ous 11y stem.
WHAT .A LDTEOF THEM.
Norwalk Produces its Share
But They Are GroWi’ng
Lessf‘Every Day.
What a wonderful lot of people there
are who Sufier with backache. From
the millionare sin ng in his office cllp-
ping coupons, do1 1.0 the humble citl
zen who swings a pick for a dollara
day; nobody is free fromQL.
And it. all comes from the same cause.
The kidneys are to blame.
Backache is really nothing but kid-
ney ache. You can be sure that, it.
means a dis01 ”deled conditien Of the
kidneys.‘ a
I And if you are wise, ‘vou will heed
the warning immediately. Backache
neglected means severer forms of kid-
ney disease, diabetis, ur'in'my troubles
B11c ht. s disease—death.
Doan 'sKidney Pills are the one sim-
ple 1emedy that can be replied upon in
all fo1m‘s of kidney trouble.
Some of your neighbors have t11ed
them and not one has found them want.-
ing. Here is the experience of a. Nor-
walk Citizen:
Mr. Josiah Dodge, No.2 Belden
place, says: “I had some tiouble in
the way of kidney complaint, and then-
matic- like pains in the back. Being a
frequent. visitor at M1. Hales (now
Glendening 8: CO’ :5) d1ug st01e, I 110-.
ticed a great many people buying
Doan’ s Kidnev Pl lls, and as they all
spoke very highly about the results
obtained, IDOL .1. box,' began taking
them and in .1 fen days ’Lime they had
cu1 ed the attack. I am recommending
them to my friends.
Doan’ s Kidney Pills f01 sale by all
dealers. Price '10 cents. Mailed by
Foster-Milbutn C0.. .Buii'alo. N. Y.,
sole agents for the U. S. Remember
the name Doan’ s and take no substi-
ute.
,THE RESULT OF A PRACTICAL JOKE.
How It; Proved Beneficial to the One Upon
“'lmm It Was Played.
“I remember my first case as if it
were yesterday,” said a well known
physician. “1 have every reason to.
as it was the beginning of my present
practice.
“My father gave me a good educa-
tion, bought me an expensive library
and a fine set of surgical instruments
and then told me to sink or swim, and
not expect anything more from him.
“For a matter of six months it look-
ed as if it would be. sink.
“1 made a bold attempt at appearing
to be very busy. aiid would rush out
of my office at times as if on a case
of life or death.
"‘One day. when I had returned to
my office fmm one of these vain pll
I found a message on the
slate that I hopefully kept hanging 011
the door while I was aw:.1y
“It was a hurry call to attend 0111:-
.l'oh'n Smith. No address had been giv-
en. and I was appalled when I seized
a directory to find that there were any
number of John Smiths living in the
city. .
“However, it was my first call, and
I wasn't going to let the fact that
there were several dozen John .Smiths
stand bet11 een me and my patient.
“I copied them all down on a slip of
paper, and started to look them up in
their order.
“I was nearly to the end of my list
when a funny thing happened. I ar-
rived at the, home of one John Simix
grimages.
to be taken suddenly and dangerously
ill. I succeeded in bringing“ him around
and my present practice grew out of
that case.
an assistant that I learned the truth
about that hurry call. A young attor-
ney, who had an oflice across the hall
from me, and who, like" myself, was
waiting for a call, had placed the name
upon the slate as a joke.
“But I for gave him, seeing how the
matter had turned out ”—Detr01t Free
Press.
Stronger Than Oak. '
Foot bridges in Morocco that are
tsed for heavy traffic have been the
subject of much concern to many er.-
gineers Elm planks on oak string
pieces were the materials employed,
but those 1v ore out so rapidly that a
return to the old style of building was
proposed. This consisted of cables
made from the fibers of the aloe.
These cables are plaited and twisted
from fiber and are nearly two inches
thick and eight and one-half inches
wide. They are saturated with tar and
are firmly nailed to oak planking. The
ends are fastened by iron strips. These
cables make most admirable footpaths
They are sutficiently elastic to 11(-
pleasant under thefeet, and erycri-
ence has demonstrated that they am-
far more durable than an 1 material
heretofore applied for this purpose.
The Smallest, Sold ‘01- in France.
The smallest s0“icr in France is
said to be only two feet four inches
in height. lie is a dwarf with a
slight 11111st1u'l1e. When he presented
himself to. draw his number out of the
conscription urn fit was discovered
that his headdid not reach to the 1.0];
placed, so a gendarmc held him up
by the collar to enable him to put his
hand in the urn. ——New York Herald
TAKE 'care of your health. "Take
Hostetter’s Stomach Bit,—
ters, and then there will be an end
to Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Bilious-
ness, Constipa-
tion and Malar- "Sig ' a" s
is. It. drives all . ‘ .
poisons from the g
blood and builds "mac
' care of your silomach, and
your stomach will take
up the. breken-
down body and
shattered ner1 -
just at the moment that he happened -
“It wasn ’t until I was- obliged to hire —
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 26 Vice President
of the table on which the. u1n \V;)<:.
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OF NEW YORK.
RICHARD A. MGGURDY, President.
Statement for the Year Ending Dec. 31,’9 . ;
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State oi New York.
, . \
IN GDMEQ
Received for Premiums . - . ’73 . .
From all other Sources . . . . .
$42,318,748 51
12,687,880 92
$55,006,629 43
D’ISBUESEM ENTSQ
To Policy-holders for Claims by Death . . .
$13,265,908 00
To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 11,485,751 35
For all other Accounts . . . . 1
M53:
$35,245,035 88
ASSEVESO '- E I i
United States Bonds and other Securities ' . . $160,956,141 33
First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . . . 68,503,580 90
Loans on Bonds and other Securities, . . 9,396,619 00
Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents '
at $23,534,826.88 : Book Value . . . . 20,604,649 61
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 111,621,377 36
Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . ' . 6,434,957 10
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LIABILITIES.
Policiy Reserves, etc., . . . . 233,058,640 68
Contingent Guarantee Fund, . . . . . 42.238,684 68
Divisible Surplus . . . .- . . 2,220,000 00
_ 277,517.32
Insurance and Annuities in Force , . , . . $971,711,997 7‘9
lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
liabilities calculated by the lnsuranée Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER. Auditon ,
From the Surplus a. dividend will be apportioned as usua
Board. of Trustees
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ADRIAN Isnmw l 1'.
GEORGES. BI ownon
WILLIAM C. Wmmnm
W ILLIAM ROCREEFLLEE
JAMES N. JARVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR
ELERIDGE T GERRY
JAMES L‘EI‘EYER; .
HENRY H. ROGERS
J N0. W AUCHINCLOSS
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK l
STUYVESANT FISH
Aneusrus D. J UILLIABD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER B GILLETTE
H. WALTER WEBB
FREDEBIO CROMWELL
J ULIEN T. DAvIEs
A. N. W'ATERHOUSE
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
Burns W. PECKHAM
J. HOBART HERRIOK
W111." .. . DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNIss
GroReE G. HAVEN
I .
SAMUEL D. BLBOOGh
RICHARD A McClueDr
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN (l. VON Posq-
WILLLAM J. SEWELL I
OLIvER HARRIMA: ' . 1
ROBERT OLYPHAN'I l
GEORGE F..'BAKER
DUDLEY OLOOTT _; |
~_—_-__.__
ROBERT A. ’GRANISS, Vice-President.
‘ WALTER R. GILLETTE,Genera1 Manager.
DUES du—P. BREGK, Correspoe ring Secretar.
ALBERT KLAMtt-OTH, Assistant Secretary
FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. _
JAMES TIMI SON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
EDWARD 1’. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
EMORY ”Mot" LJNTOCK, Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistan. Actuary.
"'1" CHARLE A. PRLTLEB ,Auditor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. ,.
c. cum 1) .o GRETS‘lnGER, Aesistant Auditor. HENRY :5. BROWN Assistant Comptroller
J (JEN O. ELLIO I‘, superintendent Of Domestic Agencies.
EDW ARD LY MAN SHORT, General Solicitor.
MEDICAL DmEcTORs:
it'll. lAS J. MARSH, M. D GRANVILLE 31. WHITE
G. S. WINSTON MM D.(Jonsulti11g.
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM F. SAhDS, Cashier.
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