{ENGINEER'S LITTLE DAUGHTER.
Where far aWay the two long tracks
Seem running into one,
; I watch, and watch for father’s train,
At setting of the sun.
I seem a giant as I stand.
My shadow at my side;
The engine just a tiny dot,
Upon the prairie wide.
But, oh. it grows. and grows, and grows
Into a monster high.
Flying a silvler banner out,
Against the eastern sky.
My father ’tis the engine drives,
He 'looks out sharp for me,
And whistles by the willow trees,
To let me know ’tis he.
_‘ He takes me on the engine tall,
I ride while it goes slow.
. Backing about from track to track,
Taking on freight, you know.
I love my father very much,
And when he kisses me, ' '
I never mind that he is black.
And leaves the black on me.
When I go home my mother dear
Speaks soft and sweet to me,
And kisses me—I wonder why—
Just where the black spots be.
—Grace Hib‘oard, in
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HOUGH “a prophet is not without
honor save in his own country and
home” contains a truth that is applica-
able to any and every vocation, Frank
Woodson, having completed his
“course” at a medical college, displayed
his “shingle” in Canfield village, where
he was born and had. always had a
home, VV here no physician had ever been
located.
'As he sat alone in his office—a small
and meagerly equipped apartment— .
quite late one dismal August evening.
wondering when his professional serv-
ices would be called into requisition, a
young man entered his presence and
exclaimed:
“Col. Balnes is thought to be dy‘ mg
and fad-Ere wanted In his home as soon
-as you can get there.”
The young doctor hastened into the
:presence of him who was to be his first
.patient, whom he found lying on a
'couch—near which his only child, a.
'motherless daughter, was sitting and
'chafing his temples. He was in an un-
conscious condition, his heart beating
'afeebly, his lips as livid as those of a.
'-c orpse, his skin clammy.
Durin his medical course Dr. Wood-
son 'ohaf been especially interested in
toxicology and immediately diagnosed
the case as one of alkaloid poisoning.
He administered an emetic, subcutane-
ously which acted at once, restoring
his pdtient to consciousness, though he
was too weak to utter a word or even
move a hand. V .1 V
“DO you know anything concerning
the medicines which he has been-”tak-
ing ‘?”he inquired, addressing the daugh-
ter.
“For two days he has been improving
so rapidly that Dr. Howe deemed it ad-
visable for him to take no medicine, but
occasionally to take a little wine as a
stimulant. ”
“How did this attack come on.
“An hour 01 so ago he expressed a
desire for some wine, and I got it for
him. Soon after he remarked that he
was terribly sleepy and, lying down
upon the couch, soon became uncon-
scious. I feared that some heart trouble
- had attacked him which might prove
fatal and sent for you.”
“I should like to see the glass from
which he took the wine.”
“He seldom took more than two
swallows of it at a time, and drank it
from the bottle in which it came to
him.”
“Let me see the bottle, if you please.”
“It is the one without a label on the
stand near which you are."
Just as he had taken it into his hand
Dr. llowe entered the room, and soon
had been informed relative to the c011-
ditiOn in which Col. Barnes had been
found by the inexperienced practitioner
and the ‘ treatment,” causing him to
11ch ouslv exclaim:
‘ It is incomprehensible to me why
such sy mptoms should have manifested
themselves, but you undoubtedly saved
his life.”
A few moments later Dr. Woodson
said: ’
“I should like to confer with you pri-
vately’, " addressing Dr. Howe.
"Then 1 will leave the room,” Miss
Barnes observed, and presently the two
physicians were by themselves.
"W but do you think of the case. 9" Dr.
Woodson asked.
“As I said before, it is incomprehensi—
ble to me," was the reply.
“It is not to me.”
“lsn’t?” fell from Dr. Howe’s lips in a
tone of amazement.
“In my opinion he was delibeDately
poisoned, with intent to kill. ”
" 'VVhat!” ejaculated Dr. Howe, in a
more amazed tOne than had been his
before.
“Had you left with him any medicine
which, even in an overdose, would pro-
duce symptoms such as were his?”
"I had not. ”
“Do you think that, within his reach
he had any alkaloid poison?”
“I do not.” .
“Do you see the ‘tiny specks on the
inside of this vessel?” inquired Dr,
Woodson, holding up the bottle in which
was the wine.
“Yes 9!
“The wine itself would not generate
them?”
’ “Jt would not. ” ,,
“My theory' 1S that the wine was dac-
torcd, and if you have no objection to
my doing SO, I am going to analyze
what wine remains in the bottle and
. learnthe kind of poison used. ”
“I am incapable of performing such
an analysis and, Shall be glad to have
you do it. But—I cannot comprehend
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why anyone should desire 001. Barnes’
death. "
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“We Will investigate that later on, if
myopinionnproves to have been cor-
rect.”
The fOurth evening afterward Dr.
:1 fine-looking and neatly-attired man
put in an appearance; saying:
‘ “I came here as soon as possible after
receiving your note requesting me to do
so, Frank,” smilingly addingz‘ “Please
excuse me for thus familiarly address-
ing you, but it'is more natural to do so
than to address you as ‘doctor.’ ”
“That is all right, William,” was the
response. “Have a seat.”
The 5newcomer, William Smith, ex-
changed a “Good evening” with the
other man, and then sat down.
“During Col. Barne;' recent illness
you assisted considerably in caring 'I’ar
him, did you not?” the doctor presently
inquired, addressing Mr. Smith.
“I'd-id,” was the reply; and the speak-
er’s face slightly crimsoned, probably
because he was the colonel’s prospective
son-in-laVv. . wr‘
“You know the extremely critical
condition in which he was when I was
summoned to attend him?”
“I do,” was the tremulous response.
“A qualitative analysis of the wine
revealed an alkaloid in it known as
brucine. This poisonOus substance fig-
ures so slightly in materia'medica that
it is procurable at scarcely any drug
store save a wholesale concern, and I
wondered where and by whom it could
have been obtained.
“At length,” the doctor continued, “it
flashed into my mind that you, whose
vocation is that of head clerk in a drug
store, would know where to obtain it,
and could easily place it in the wine
without being suspected, though I could
conceive no motive that would induce
you to do such a thing.
“The next day after completing my
analysis, I casually learned that you
had been engaged in disastrous specula-
tions, and it at once suggested itself to
me that the brucine might, in some
way, be connected therewith; indeed
that—”
The doctor hesitated, and Smith said:
“That I administered-the poison to
Col. Barnes.”
“Hadn’t I reason for so thinking?”
“And you invited me here that Mr.
Fox might arrest me ‘2”
“It grieved me to pursue such a
course against an old friend, but I
wished to make no publicity of the af-
fair if you could explain away the cir-
cumstantial evidence of your guilt.”
“In order to pay my margins, I, fami1~
iar with Col. Barnes’ chirography, by
means of a check to which I had affixed
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THE WINE was D'OCTORED.
his name, secured $1, 000, hoping and be-
lieving that I should be able to prevent
my crime becoming know 11,” Smith be-
gun.
“The more I pondered upon the mat-
ter, the more fearful I was that my
crime would find me out,” he continued.
“To prevent this, I attempted a more
heinous one, having no fear that the
latter would be detected because, as
you have intimated, brucine and its ef-
fects are unknown to most physicians.
I intended, but forgot to take care of
the bottle into which put the poison
and expected the colonel’s death would
be attributed to natural causes. 1 cal-
culated incorrectly, but I'am prepared
for the emergency in which I find my-
self. Please let her know nothing about
the affair.”
As he uttered these last words he
drew a vial from his pocket, placed it to
his lips. fell from his seat—a corpse.
The vial had contained prussic acid.
For his services in behalf of Col
Bar,nes Dr. Woodson was by him lib-
erally rewarded. Only to the persons
above specified—not including Miss
Barnes, who was nearly crazed by the
untimely death of her affianced—have
the fa "as of the case hitherto been
known. '
Miss Barnes grad ually recovered from
the effects upon her system of the
shock. and, fully realizing her indebted-
ness to the doctor for saving her fa-
ther’s life, began to entertain for him a
warmer regard than had been hers,
though she had ever held him in high
esteem from the time when they had
romped together as children.
The colonel was more than willing to
intrust his daughter’s future welfare to
ple than Dr. Woodson and his wife it-
would be difficult to find. -Boston
Globe.
The Price of Asparagus.
At dinner one day‘Mr. Gladstone re-
marked that the best asparagus was
‘two pounds sterling a bundle. Mrs.
l Gladstone, who was present, was moved
to say: “How can you possibly know
that? I am sure we have bought none."
“No, my dear,” was his instant re-
ply; “but when 1 see a new thing in the
shops I always like to inquire the price,
and I went into a shop in Piccadilly this
bly fine asparagus they had in the win-
dow was selling at. ” Truly the old
5 simile of the elephant s trunk was not
inapplicable to the intellect 0‘ Mn
Gladstone. —-“The Life of Gladstone.“
Woodson was seated in his office con- ’
~ versing with a middle-aged man, when
, at the event.
the doctor’s keeping, and a happier cou-
morning and asked what the remarka- .
A Long Fell Wanl.
Many Norwalk Readers Will
Appreciate This
Infarmation.
It is hard always to be pleasant.
Good natured pedple are often i11'i-
table.
If vou knew the reason you would
not be sul' pi ised.
Ever haV e itching piles"
Not sick enough to go to bed.
Not well enough to be content.
Nothing VV ill annoy Vou so.
The constant itching sensation.
Hard to bear, haider to gee relief.
Keeps you awake nights.
Spoils Voui' temper. neai'lv driV esyou
01 azv.
Isn t relief anrl cuiea long felt want?
It is to be had f01 eve: Vone in Doan s
Ointment.
Itching Piles, Eczema 01' any itching
0f the skin.
Hei e is proof of the :1va e.
Mi. Lewis SUOVV, of 33. Plospect St. ,
Webster. Mass. ., says "'Thei e VV .1: a
bad case of bleeding piles in mvf familv
which had 1esisted ordinar v etl‘mts to
cure. We were so favorably impress-
ed with the results obtained f1'om using
Doan’s Kidney Pills, that we reasoned
if what it claimed for them is so
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‘not the 1 (3111 esentitions made for Doan’s
Ointment be equally t1"ue? We got a
box at a dung, Store and it stop oed the
trouble. \Ve consider both Donn s
Ointment and Dean’s Kidney Pills
valuable remedies. and have no hesita-
tion in recommending tliem.’
Just such emppatic endorsement is
plentiful in 1 0111'1lk Drop intoGlen-
deuing & Co. 5 ding st01e and hear
VV 11.11; their customeis report to them.
Doan s Ointment for sale bV all
dealeis; price 50 cents a box. Mailed
on receipt of price by Foster -l\lilburn
00., Bufi‘la 0,1 N. Y. , sOle agents 1°01 the
U. S
take no other.
When you awake
more tired than when you went to bed
with an unpleasant taste in the mouth,
your tongue coated and dry, and haV mg
no appetite for breakfast, you are suf-
fering from Dyspepsia.
Numbers of people are suffering ser
iously from this complaint and its result,
when one package of U. S. ARMY 8:
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prompt care. A few doses will do more
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Nothing can be used with so much oer.
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These tablets are the outcome of years
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do not g1ipe, produce no reaction. Take
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If vou cannot get them at ”our d1ug
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A VALUABLE RELIC.
"i
man Soldier of the Cru-
clfixion,
.“Contmuing my examination,” said
Sig. Marucchi, “I came some time since
upon a little d1aVVing,15xS inches. It
was on the VV all of a room in the sol-
diers’ quaiters in the house of ’Iiber-
1us ” says Ainslees Magazine.
“The‘ .ines in it w ere almost complete-
ly obliterated. NeV ertheless, bV the aid
of powerful glasses, I thought I dis-
ce1 pen a pictorial reproduction of some
striking event” There seemed to be
two croSseS with laddeis leaning
against them. On one of these a sol—
dier was mounting ,'carry ing something
like a tablet. AbOVe the transv e1 se ba1
'Of this same cross was another soldier
VV ith a hammer Beneath VV as a figure
dragging another toward the cross.
Y et another figure VV as raising a laddc1
to the second cross, and on a thi1d lad-
der a soldier VV as mounting. Two ropes
hang from the cross beams VV hich unite
the crosses. Names are written near
the figures. One is Pilatus or Piletus
(written Piletus). High abOVe the
drawing is a word resembling Crestus,
known, was the emblem of the cruci-
fixion. .
“All the circumstances brought me to
imagine for a moment that I might be
in the presence of a picture of the cruci-
fixion Of our Savior, and possibly even
drawn by soldiers who- had assisted
Many others were of the
same opinion, though there were com-
petent authorities who read in it a
different signification. They suggest»
ed, for instance, the launching of a
ship, or the representation of an acro-
batic performance. One thing is now
clear, the large inscription over the
drawing can be no part of the idea
therein represented. It is the work of.
many hands, written at various periods,
and composed almost exclusively n7
libertine expressions.” ‘
Greatest Act} of Devotion.
Maj. Marchand, the explorer, has re-
ceived,.’from the French Academy of
Moral and Political Sciences the Au-
ditIred prize of 15,000 francs “for the
. greatest act of devotion of any kind.”'
About the same time the French gov-
ernment bestowed upon his ' sister,
Mlle. Marchand, the right to keep a
whims-o shop in- the Rue de la Tom-
fi’étnvergne, in Paris.
Tl1e1e is- noth-
ing which
S'diains energy,
ambition and
endurancelike
Malarial Fev-
er and Ague.
Hostett 1"S
Stomach Bit-
ters will send
them aan.
a and keep them
,, .. L CW i away I” has
mg; , <
. B'T STOMACH ‘RS
floSTETTER‘
3 L‘BRATED
never failed to
curethe worst
cases. This is
a. fact—not. an
experiment.
'lry it.
Remember the name—Donn ’s—an d
Thought to Be a Drawing by a Rb-f
and near it. is a hammer, which, as is.
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THEODORE MORFoRD
WILLIAM BABCOOK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIABD
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WALTER R. GILLETTE
H. WALTER W EBB
FREDERm CROMWELL
JULIEig T. DAVIES
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VV ALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
lSAAC I“. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President.
WILLIAM J. EASTUN, Secretary.
FREDE RIC CROM W ELL, Treasurer.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer
WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier.
' ~ EMORY MoCLlNTOCK, Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK,,JR. ., Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES A PRELLER, Aud1tor. '
C. OLE: FORD GRETSINUER, AegistantAuditor.
J UHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies.
E ') VV ARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor.
. MEDICAL"DIBEOTORS:
ELIAS .1. MARSH. M. D- GRANVILLE 11 WHITE.
' ‘ ‘ G. S. WINSTON M. D; Consulting.
DUER du—P. BRECK, Correspon ing Secretary
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assista‘a Secretary
JAMES TIMI-SON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
. EDWARD 1’. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
WILLIAM VV. RICHARDS, Comptroller
HENRY S BROWN, Assistant Comptroller
11111an a stunner, sensual Agents
a, n. 1111211». Local agent. .. , '
lH MU 111111 1131111111 EUMPAN
Statement for 11111111 Ending Dec. 31:98
According to the. Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
542,318,748 5
12,687,880 9
$55,006,629 4
5‘392659908 0'
11,485,751 3
10,493,379 5
$35,245,038 8
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1
516019561141 33
68,503,580 90
9,396,619 00
20,604,649 61
11,621,377 36
$277,517,325 36
233,058: 640 68
42. 238, 684 68
$2,220,000 00
2771517-325 36
$971,711,997 79
lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
CHARLES A.
PRELLER, Auditor
Board Of Trustees
ADRIAN ISELix J 1:
GEORGE S. Bowoou.
WILLIAM C. WRITER,
WILLIAM Rocxarmit
JAMES N. JABVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
JAMES SREYER,
ROBERT A. GRANIS S, Vii. c-e -President.
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