' “‘did you hear what Mis’ Prentice said? . :Mrs. Prentice, with her arms akimbo. . ~-n.‘ansy, had implied more than she meant, ’ 'who had. entiggd Jerry Rogers away ' «groin Sarah, and who gloried in th. . Now,” to Mrs. Prentice, “is Sarah en- 5 , home she felt a little better. HANNAH MATILDA’S ” i . WEDDING CAKE g By Dorothy. Leonard. I V \ mag B ‘ ES, I was determined Hannah Y Matilda should have the best cake to be had!” said Mrs. Benson, as she opened the oven door and looked in at the beans. “Guess I may as well take ’em out,” she continued; “some folks likes their beans baked to a crisp, we like ’em brown but not over-done.” "I’m Sure your beans are always most delicious, Mis’ Benson,” answered heI visitor. “I like ’em myself, but down to our house I ’most have tohburn ”em to suit! I s'pose your Hannah can turn her hand to' mOst anything in plain cooking?” “Yes, indeed! there ain’t nothing in that line Hannah don’t understand, plain or fancy; but a weddin’ cake, why, that’s kind 0’ different. ycu_see, and me and Benson made up our minds that our only child should have the very best. It’s going to be from a first-rate city confectioner’s, and I don’t feel any doubt but it’ll more than suit." Mrs. Prentice set her thin lips to- gether and made no answer for a min— or two; then she said: . “Well, it ain’t the first time it’s been ‘ tried in these parts, a-makin’ the wed-' ding cake out o’ the house! Some folks think it bad luck, and, though I’m no believer in such things myself, I shan’t try it for Sarah.” “Why, do tell!” exclaimed Mrs. Ben- son. “I didn’t know Sarah was keepin’ company with anyone. Hannah,” to her daughter, who had just entered, ‘Now, Mis’ Prentice, do tell us all about it!” “I don’t know as I said Sarah was a-keepin’ company with anyone. I said I should make her wedding cake 'myself.” " g, “EYell, 12111715.?113 keeping company?‘ And who’s fhe fellow?” demanded Han- nah, placing herself directly in front of . *1“,- ”can! The poor woman, who, stung by jeal- was silent. There was now no way out .of her'ditficnlty but to say that Sarah ‘was not having any attention, and she ,md father die than say that before that saucy Hannah Matilda—Hannah; 'fieed. “Well ?” said Hannah, impatiently. The thought of the Benson riches was dpiiérmbst in Mrs. Prentice’s mind, and again she spoke unadvisedly. “I guess whatever young man is showing my daughter attention, she didn’t have to use money to entice him away from .Kaiiigther girll’j ‘ .. Hannah, who well knew that she 1 ., could not compare with Sarah in looks, 2 flushed crimson. “I understand!” she ----exc1aimed; “you’re just pretending, so that I won’t think Sarah is dyin’ of a ‘brpken heart!” Mrs. Benson, whose attention since Hannah’s entrance had been absorbed ' by the beans, started and upset half of them. “Hannah Matilda!” she cried, “what can you be thinkin’ of, to use such words to Mis’ Prentice in this house?” _ \ “Well, ma, why can’t she answer, in- stead o’ beatin’ about the bush so? i gaged or not?” * 3 “Yes!” and for the first time in her life Mrs. Prentice had told a lie. i Hannah, anxious to show that she ! was not jealous of her former rival, brought out various articles from her trousseau and displayed them proudly ‘ to Mrs. Prentice, advising her how to ‘ have this and that made for Sarah; livery word out the poor woman to the heart, and the lie loomed up more black and fearful before her. Dimly she noticed the dainty embroideries and laces, and the marking (she re- membered that marking afterward)— llannah Matilda Rogers, not Benson. ‘~ By the time Mrs. Prentice reached become accustomed to almost anything -—even to telling lies. “There ain't any way out of it now,” 1 she keg! saying to herself. “I‘ve just got to be..r it. Perhaps Sarah will get engaged to some one before the year is out, and then they’ll never suspect.” As the days passed by Mrs. Prentice was struck by Sarah’s cheerful man- »ner. She went frequently to.the woods for mayflowers, and came back with .rosy checks and sparkling eyes. “She certainly doesn’t care any more about Jerry iogers,” thought mother. “There may be some one else she’s a-thinking of, but I don’t see how she can be so cheerful wheII Hannah’s marriage is so near. I just feel in my , bones that it’ll all come right.” The wedding day came at last, and, like one in a dream, Mrs. Prentice found herself seated in the Bensons parlor, .near the window, waiting for the minis- ter. She had been among the first to ‘arrive, for she knew that Jerry’s deser- ztion of Sarah would be the principal "theme of conversation if her back were turned. out; but she had begged her mother to go, and Mrs. Prentice was sure that she had seen tears in her eyes when she bade her good-by. ' “I’m so afraid she does care, after all," she said to herself. “I’m just glad I did tell Hannah Matilda that lie!” The past week had hardened Mrs. Prentice, and she looked her neighbors "boldly in the face and talked volubly ”about Hannah’s trousseau. The min- ister arrived promptly at two o’clock, but still the guests sat waiting. “I guess it’s a-goin’ to be something out o’ the ordinary,” said one woman at last. “Do you know, I jest went into the other room to look at the clock, and it’s goin’ on to three.” ‘ “We all know it’s late enough,” an- swered another-“woman, who sat near him. Prentice in‘the bay window, “but mo..-—— ' ”:‘I guess you ain’t glyen the. right rea- I One can 3 her . Sarah, of course, was not pres- ' BILLIE, 13V. t. l son. I’ve beena-sittin‘ by this win- dow steady ever since I came in, and Jerry Rogers ain’t arrived yet! N 0 one can make me believe he has.” The guests all startled and looked at each other in. amazement, then sought conference-with her nearest neighbor. “I shouldn’t say it to others, Mis’ Prentice,” whispered the one who had spoken last, leaning over and laying a black-mitt_ened hand on Mrs. Pren- tice's arm, “but I don’t feel no confi— dence that he intends to turn up. I always thought Hannah caught him against his will, and he ain’t the kind that can say no to a body’s face.” Mrs. Prentice turned a white, scared countenance upon her. “You don’t think, you don’t mean—” she said, be- low her breath; but she never finished the sentence, for the door burst open and Hannah Matilda stood, in all the splendor of bridal array, before them. Her veil was thrown back, showing her large, plain features, white as marble, and her hands, in their tight white gloves, clutched nervously at the folds of her rich satin skirt—almost as if seeking support under some'new hor- ror. Her eyes scanned the frightened faces before her, one by one, until théy fell on the group in the bay window; then singling out Mrs. Prentice, she screamed: “0, you wicked, deceitful woman! I wanted to know’whether y01f had dared to come here, before I asked my guests to come out and. try-my wedding cake. Here!” extending one hand with a crumpled paper towards her, “yes, you’d better take and read it, though you already know it well enough. And I just blame you more ’an I do Sarah—— yes, I do!” ‘ Her voice rose to a scream, and the minister forced his way through the crowd of women, some of whom were sobbing with fright, and laid his hand upon her arm. “Miss gannah,” he said, kindly but . 4‘. -—-- - .~ , ‘ , firm y, “you forget yourself In speak- ing so to this good woman.” ' Hannah Matilda turned toward him like‘a child with no idea of conceal- ment. “See!” she said, her lip beginning to tremble, “this note’s just been left at the back door. It’s from Jerry Rogers, and he and Sarah Prentice left- on the 2:30 train for Boston, ’cause he couldn’t speak out plain to a bodst face. And that woman knew and planned it all, that’s what I mind.” All eyes were turned toward her, and Mrs. Prentice was quite forgotten. She now tottered forward, stretching out her trembling hands. “It’s that lie I told! It’s that lie! 0, if I had never told it she wouldn’t think I had known! 0,” she went on, catch- ‘Wth-‘oraqu- d.- -, w \ l: _ ‘ .| . \\\\ ‘. l I ' “ ~E fl 'I <:\ \ ”I. " . fir . 0:3. / \ v \\ HER LARGE, PLAIN FEATURES WHITE AS MARBLE. ing her breath, “I told you Hannah Ma- tilda, as Sarah was a-keepin’ company ’cause I was so jealous. And 0, what I’ve suffered this week! I wouldn’t live through it again for any money.” Hannah turned her eyes upon Mrs. Prentice, and her expression seemed to soften a little, but she made no reply. For a few seconds there was a breath- less silence, then Hannah turned to- ? ward the others. “I want you all to come out and have a slice of my wedding cake,” she said, adding with some spirit, “it came from « a first-rate city confectioner’s, and it’ll taste just- as good as if there were a dozen Weddings.” Mrs. Prentice allowed herself to be led out and helped in without a word, and the minister had unfastened his horse and was just climbin in when he was startled by a cry: “Wait! wait!” He turned quickly and saw Hannah Matilda running down to the gate, her . ample train over her arm. "Here!” she gasped, “Here Mis’ Prentice!" and she thrust a parcel, wrapped in a napkin, cake,” she added, softly, “and there’s a piece in there for Sarah." ‘ She turned and hurried back as ab- ruptly as she had come, and the minis- ter saw her tall, White figure disappear- ing in at the door as he drove away.— Boston Globe. The Trapper's Story. ~ I have always been of the opinion that 'owing to his keen senses the bear is our first game animal, and should be carefully protected by law. His dep- redations on live stock are not worth taking into account, and I am quite ready to agree with an old trapper who was sleeping soundly in his cabin one , day when an eastern man in search of l hairbreadth stories of adventure, knocked at. his door. The door was opened by the trapper’s partner to whom the visitor made known his er- rand. ‘ “Bill!” said the younger man, “this feller wants to hear some narrer es- capes you’ve had from bear." ‘ The old man, rubbing his eyes, looked the stranger over and said: ‘ -f ' “Young -man, if there‘s been any narrer escapes the boar’s had ’em."— l W. E. Carlin, in Ainslee’s. dealers; price 50 cents a box. _ on receipt of price by Foster-hillburn into her lap. “It’s some of the wedding ‘ 1, p A long Fell Want. 3 Many Norwalk Readers will Appreciate This Information. It is hard always to be pleasmt. Good natured people are often irri- table. If you knew the reason you would not be surprised. Ever have itching piles ‘9 Not sick enough to go to bed. Not well enough to be content. Nothing will annoy you so. The constant itching sensation. Hard to bear, harder to get. relief. Keeps you awake night-s. Spoils your temper, nearly drives you Crazy. - ' Isn’t relief anv‘. cure a long felt. want? It is to be had for everyone in Doan’s Ointment. ‘ ' Itching Piles, Eczema. or any itching of the skin. - Here is proof of the above: Mr. Lewis Snow, of 33, Prospect Sh. Webster, Mass, says: "There was a bad case of bleeding piles in my family which had resisted ordinary efforts to cure. We were so favorably impress— ed with the results obtained from using Doan’s Kidney Pills, that we reasoned if what. it. claimed for them is so thoroughly carried out, why should not the representations made for Doau’s Ointment be equally true? We got a box at a drug store and it stopped the trouble. We consider both Doau’s Ointment and Doan’s Kidney Pills valuable remedies, and have no hesita- tion in recommending them.” Just such emppatic endorsement is plentiful in Norwalk Drop into Glen- dening dz Co’s drug store and hear what their customers report to them. Doan’s Ointment for sale by all Mailed 00., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the U. S. ’ Remember the name—~Doan‘s—aud 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 having no appetite for breakfast, you are suf- fering from Dyspepsia. . Numbers of people are suffering ser- Iously from this complaint and its results, when one package of U. S. ARMY & NAVY TABLETS will bring about a prompt care. A few doses will do more for a ll"cak or Sour Stomach. than a pro longed course of any other medicine. Nothing can be used with so much cer- tainty 1n obstinate cases of Constipation. ":3: hese tablets are the outcome of years - study. and are compounded of the finest dru gs only, purely vegetable,they do not gripe, produce no reaction. Take no substitute. 10 GEN TS PER PACK- If you cannot get them at ”our drug store, send 10 cts. for a package of 1.2 to the U. S. ARMY d7 NAVY TAB- LET CO., 17 EAST 14m 32‘..an YORK. A VALUABLE ‘RELIC. -' 1 Thought to Be :1 Drawing by a no- man Soldier of the Cru- elflxion., .“Contmuing my examination,” said Sig. Marucchi, “I came some time since upon a little drawing, 15x8 inches. It was on the wall of a room in the sol- diers’ quarters in the house of Tiber- ius,” says Ainslee’s Magazine. “The lines in it were almost complete- 1y ’Obliterated. Nevertheless, by the aid of powerful glasses, I thought I dis- cerned a pictorial reproduction of some striking event. There seemed to be two crosses with ladders leaning against them. On one of these a sol- dier was mounting, carrying something like aIablet. Above the transverse bar of this same cross was another soldier with a hammer. , . dragging another toward the cross. Beneath was a figure Yet another figure was raising a ladder to the second cross, and on a third lad- der a soldier was mounting. Two ropes hang from the cross beams which 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, and near it is a hammer, which, as is known, was the emblem of the cruciv 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 at the event. 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 g; libertine expressions.” Greatest Act of Devotion. Maj. Marchand, the explorer, has re- ceived from the French Academy of Moral and'Political Sciences the Au- diffred prize “of 15,000 francs “for the greatest act of devotion of any kind.”‘ About the same time the French gov- emment bestowed upon his ' sister, Sills. Marchand, the right to keep a tobacco shop in the Rue de la Tour Q’Anmrgne, in Paris. . . ET 9 There is noth- flflfi , ERQ lingwhich - , rams energy, “LEBRATED “ambition and endurance like Malarial Fev- er and Aaue. Hostett r's Stomach Bit- tev-s will send them away, , p, and keep them " ‘ away. It has! never failed by cure the worst cases. This is a fact—not. an ex1;eriment. .. Try it. STOMACH BITTER NILG7GAZETIE“' .”‘ , * n Muiullll INSURANCE BUMPAN OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. McC'U'RDY, President. . atemefltforthe Year Ending Dec. 31:98. According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State Of New York. INOQMEQ Received for Premiums I . . " . . From all other Sources . . . . . $43,318,748 51 12,687,880 92 $55,006,629 43 Msnunsnmanms. 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 . . - . . . . 10,493,379 53 $35,245,038 88 -. ‘ assume. 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 b’y Insurance Superintendents at $:2.3,534,826.88 : Book Value . . . . 3 10,604,649 61 Cash in Banks and Trust. Companies .' _ . . 11,621,377 36 Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . . 6,434,957 10 ‘ $277,517,325 36 g. LIABILITIES. Policly Reserves, etc., . ‘. . i . . 233,058,640 68 " Contingent Guarantee Fund, . . . . . 42.238,684’ 63 Divisible Surplus . . . . . . . $2,220,000 00 . 277,517-325 36 Insurance and Annuities in Force . . , . $971,711,997 79 lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Audito, ,, From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usua Board of Trustees- ADRIAN ISELIs J a. GEORGE S. Bowvou WILLIAM C. anzmr WILLIAM ROCKEFELLIB JAMES N. JARvIE CHAS D. DIOKEY J 3 ELBRIDGE T. Gunny JAMES SPEYER, ' HENRY H. ROGERS JNO. W AUCHINOLOSS THEODORE Monronn WILLIAM BABGOCK STUYVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD CHARLES E. MILLER WALTER R GILLETTE H. WALTER WEBB Farnnnm CROMWELL J ULIEN T. DAVIES A. N. \VATERHOUSE ‘ CHARLES R. HENDERSON SAMUEL D. BAecoca I RUFUS W. PEOKHAM i l RICHARD A McCain)! I JAMEs O. HOLDEN l HERMANN O. VON Pos'r l WILLIAM J. SEWELL l J. HOBART HERRICK l W M. P. DIXON ROBERT A. GRANNISS l Grocer G. HAVEN OLIVER HARRIMAN ROBERT OLYPHAM' GEORGE F. BAKER DC'ELEI OLGOTT ROBERT A. GRANISS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC 14‘. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President DUEfl du—P. BRECK, Gorrespon’ing secretary WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMIt-U'I‘H, Assistan Secretary . FREDERIG ORONIW ELL, Treasurer.. , , JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer - JAMES TIMrSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, cashier. hDWARD 1’. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier. EMORY MOOLINTOUK,‘ Actuary. . JOHN TATLOCK, Ja, Assistant Actuary. CHARLES A, PHELLER, Auditor. ~ ' WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. O. CLIFFORD GRE’I‘SINUER, Aguistant Auditor. HENRY 5. BROWN, Assistant Oomptrolle: JOHN C. ELLIO 1‘, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. ‘ . - E') w ARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor. MEDICAL DIRECTORS: _ . ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D" UttAN VILLE )1 WHITE. M I) . U. S. \WINSTON M. D. Uonsulting. ". menace a manner, @eueral Agamg, ' A. spans. Local Assets - . u
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