*"'I ,;_WEEK1Y” —x— , . 4...». A.-. THE-“MUTUAL '. LIFE INSURANCE.‘00. OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. MCCURDY, President. IS THE. 1.111111 1111 1111111111 1, IN THE WORLD. ASSETS OVER 204,000,000 INCOME. $36,123,163 82 11,897,706 12 948,920,869 94 DISBURSEMENTS. Received for premiums From all other sources 21,089,257 08 9,789,631: 18 _.._.. _——.._—.——«..... $30,878,891 26 To policy holders For all other accounts ASSETS. United States bonds and other securities $83,970,690 67 1,339,415 92 11,366,100 00 21,691,733 39 9,655,198 91 6,615,645 07 First lien loans on bonds and mortgage Loans on stocks and bond Real estate Cash in banks and trust companies Accrued interest, deferred premiums, etc. $204,638,783 96 Reserve for policies, and other liabilities 182,109,456 14 Surplus 822,529,327 82 $750,290,677 97 855,207,778 42 Insurance annuities assumed and renewed Insurance and annuities in force Dec. 31, 1894 96,067,724 26 2,528,825 84 17,931.103 82 4,575.718 91 51,923,039 96 Increase in total income Increase in premium income Increase in assets Increase in surplus Increase of insurance and annuities in force ROBERT A. GRANNIS. Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, ‘WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Ass’t Tress. ° HENRYE. DUNCAN. .11., Cor. Sec EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRYQS. BROWN ,- Asst. Comptroller. MEDICAL DIRECTORS—GUSTAVUS s. WINSTON, 111. D E. J. MARSH, M. D. ' GRANVILLE M.-WHITE, M. D. _ FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. 1 JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. EMORY MoOLINTOOK, LL.D., r. 1:. A., Actuary. JOHN TATL’OOK, .13., Asst. Actuary. ' ' CHAS. B PERRY, 2d Asst. Actuary. JOHN W. NICHOLS, New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. ' ' A. H. CAMP, Local Agent. NOR WALK GAZETTE “OF THEE I SING.” DR. SMITH TELLS HOW OUR NA- TIONAL HYMN WAS WRITTEN. O First Scribbled on 3 Scrap of \Vasto 9 Paper; Sung on July 4, 1832, in Boston, I and Since Then in All Parts of the World: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said facetiously that he supposed the three people in the world whose poems were the best known were himself, one Smith and one Brown. The one Brown he had in mind was the Mrs. Brown Who wrote “I love to Steal Awhile Away.” The one Smith was his old college classmate and long-time friend, Samuel Francis Smith, 1113-. the author of “My Country, ’Tis of Thee.” Dr. Smith is still among the living, one of the last of that famous class of Har- Vard ’29 men which included, besides the late Dr. Holmes, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Judge Curtis, Judge Bigelow and a number of others well known in Massachusetts’ an- nals and beyond them. In October, 1894, Dr. Smith was eighty- six years old. He recently told a con- tributor of the New York Herald the fol- lowing story of the birth Of the national hymn: I did not know that I had written a national hymn till the conviction was forced upon me. While I was a student in the Thelogical Seminary in- Andover, Mass, Mr. Lowell Mason, through whose efforts the study of music was introduced into the public schools of 'Boston and elsewhere in this country, brought me a number of ‘singing books, which Mr. William C. Woodbridge, who had visited Germany to inspect the school system there, had brought home with him and put into Mr. Mason’s hands. Mr. VVOOdbridge had been much im- pressed with the German method of teaching music in the schools, and I was asked to look through the books and translate such of the songs as seemed to me appropriate to our Ameri- can schools. DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH. Turning over the leaves of one of the music books I found one song of a patri- otic nature set to the tune which England claims as hers because she has so long sung it to the words “God Save the Queen,” but which the Danes claim as theirs, and which the Germans claim as theirs, and which the Germans claim as original with them, and of the real origin of which I believe no one is cer- tain. The music impressed me by its sim- plicity and easy movement, and I was at once moved to write a patriotic hymn of my own, which American children could sing to this same tune, which I did on a scrap of waste paper, probably finishing it within half an hour. That was in February, 1832. I gave the hymn to Mr. Mason with others—some translations,others my own—and thought no more of it. The following Fourth of July I happened into Park Street Church in Boston, where Sunday-school children were enjoying a patriotic festival. It was at this children’s Fourth of July celebra- tion that “America” was first sung, the words of which I had written a few months before. 'Since then I have heard it sung all over the world. As to the story which has been told of the sending of the original of “America” to the Pope, it is not true. An autograph copy was sent, framed, by a friend Of mine, as an individual, to be deposited in the Vatican library at Rome; the original is still in my own possession. It was of Dr. Smith that Dr. Holmes wrote in his poem to “The Boys,” com- posed for one of their Harvard class re- unions: Ane there’s a nice youngster of excellent pith Fate tried to conceal it by naming it Smith; But he shouted a song for the brave and the free, Just read on his medal, “My Country, of Thee.” Speaking of the difierence between col— lege life to day and in his own student days, Dr. Smith said the chief difference is the decrease of class spirit owing to the largely increased number of men in the classes today. “Our class at Har- vard,” said Dr. Smith, “numbered sixty when .we graduated, and we all knew each other well. We had the chance to measure, mark and weigh each other, and ,were almost like brothers of one family.” For the last few years of Dr. Holmes’s life the remnant of the class of ’29 gave up holding their annual reunion at one of the hotels, and dined at his residence as his personal guests. These occasions lacted from 4 in the afternoon till late at night, and the reminiscences exchanged were peculiarly entertaining, saddened only by the dwindling numbers. Dr. Smith has 1811 too busy :1 life to sentimentalize over his work, until this year not even taking the trouble to hunt up the manuscript of his famous patriot- ic poem, to which he always referred when questioned as “scribbled upon a bit of waste paper somewhere.” It Was Very Sudden. She—DO you think the time will ever come when woman will propose? He—I don’ t see why it shouldn’t. Sup- poseyou propose to me to-night, and It said yes, what—— She—0h, Henry, this' 15 so sudden! But never mind; it is just as well, and moth- er, I know,will be dc.ighted.——-Milwaukee Catholic Citizen. The Coming. \Vomnn. When lovely woman runs the trolley Pedestrians won’t know where they’re at, She’ll gayly run them down, by golly, While studying some iuir fare s hat. ——Cincin11aii Tribune: Newsboys wanted. A NEW1MEXICO BAD MAN.“ Traits of the Real Article and Those of the Man Who Tries to be Bad. “Sitting in BOb Young’s saloon at Pueblo with that gigantic ‘old-timer’ Davenport, once Of Cimarron,” said the Western surveyor, “he entertained me with quaint and tragic episodes of New Mexico life and death in the seventies. One was about a Thanksgiving Day. In the afternoon the cowboy contingent came in to town to celebrate the day. They were showing the effects of the loads they had made it their first busi- ness to accumulate. One foolishly drunk- en fellow from the range, who had got separated from his gang, had strayed into this saloon and was bracing himself up- iight with his elbows upon the counter. None of the men playing cards or drink- ing quietly at the tables paid any atten- tion to his vaporings. From time to time he jumped up and kicked his heels to- gether to make his spurs rattle and an- nounced in defiant tones that he was ‘Only a cowboy, but he was as good as any man living, and if any man didn’t like his talk they might go to hades. “ ‘That fellow isn ’_t a bit bad, though he tries to be,’ remarked Davenport con— temptuously‘. ‘The real desperado doesn’t behave in that sort of way. If you want to know how a genuine shooting man acts take Clay Allison of New Mexico. ‘Ve’d been standing, for instance, in Lambert’s barroom at Cimarron drink- ing. There were plenty Of men in those days who would be too glad to take Alli- son’s life if they could only get a sure , drop on him, and he knew it; but he would stand there quietly talking with me, to all appearances as unconcerned as to danger as we are now. Only as he drank and talked you could see that, without turning his head, his eye—he had an eye like cold, chilled steel—was taking in the movements of everybody who went and came in the barroom. He had an Old grudge against Reinhart the Sherifl’, and it was commonly supposed that this feeling would lead to the death of one of them. At sight of Reinhart Allison’s bad blood would get to working and he would say to me in an undertone, so full of intense hatred and purpose that it was appalling: “ ‘ Do you see that man? I’m going to kill him to—day.’ “ ‘Well, a man in my place needed only to say the wrong word to bring on an en« counter then and there by which Reinhart would lose his life, for he was no match with Allison' 1n 3. man to man pistol scrap. His only chance lay in having his Sher- iflf’s posse about him. Allison liked me, . and I knew that the only way to turn him from his purpose was to appeal to his better nature. So I would say to him: “ ‘That’s all right, Clay, so far as you and Reinhart are concerned, but there’s another thing to be thought of. Just look at those who are dependent on him. He’s got a. daughter 13 years old and two little tchildren, a boy of five and a. girl of seven, to whom she has to act as a mother. Think what will become Of them if you kill their father. 1 “ ‘Well, that view of the case would take the idea of killing Reinhart from Allison’s mind for that time, and the day would go by without any trouble. Missed Their Train After All. The young Bittersweets were going away on avisit, and after many vissitudes they were in the street car on their way to the station. , “Now, Amelia,” remarked her lord, “I hope you will learn a lesson in punctual- ity from all this. You nearly made us late by running upstairs again at the last moment.” “For the tickets which you had forgot- ten, dear. “H’m. That was because you fancied you smelt gas and sent inc to look for it in the vacant room where nobody has been for six weeks.” “\Vell, you said some one might have been hidden there for days for all I knew ——and they might. I have been so busy all week making my owu dress, because I couldn’t afford a dressmaker, that 77 “Well, well, keep to the subject, Amel- ia. N ow, we would have missed the train if my watch had not been in order —yours was at the jewellers, as us- ual.” “Because you tried to regulate it, dear, and put it out of order.” “Always some excuse. But, as I say, punctuality is a great virtue—now I never miss atrain and never sit at the station half an hour or so. You are hab- itually late; you should make a habit of winding and setting your watch at a. cer- tain hour each day—say, when you go to bed.” “Yes, dear, I know. But sometimes I go to bed quite early and sometimes I sit up very late for you.” “H’m Here we are at the station. \Vait a minute, my dear while I buy a cigar. Now you will see that I have al- lowed just time to get comfortably into the train. Just give me the tickets, will you?” “Why Chauncey, I—I must' have for- gotten, and left them on the bureau where they were lying. I remembered some chocolate creams in the upper drawor and I was afraid the mice would 3’ ..__— “And for thesake ofa few:chocolate creams we shall loose our train. You will never learn—” “What train did yez want?” queried the gatekeeper. “The 3-30," snapped Mr. Bitter. sweet. “Went ten minutes ago,” was the cheery reply. “But—but my watch says 3:28 now,” faltered Mr. B. “Watch is slow. Yez should wind and set it at a cer————” But Mr. Bittersweet was out of hear- ing.—Chicago Tribune. The “Grass Widow.” The phrase “grass widow.” or rather “grace widow,” for the first has no foun- datiOn in fact, is simply a. barbarism, or fungus, which has attached itself to the English language. “Grace widow” is a term for one who becomes a widow by grace or favor, not of necessity, as by death, and Oliginated in the earlier ages of European civilization, when divorces were granted but seldom, and wholly by authority of the Catholic Church. When such decree was granted to a woman the Papal rescript stated “Viduca de gratin,” which interpreted is “widow of grace.” In the laws of the French it would read “Veuve‘ de grace,.” which, in England, gives “widow of grace,” or “grace wi- dow,” veuve being translated as widow. Seeds. Tlny seeds through summer hours Grow to leaves and fragrant flowers; True and noble thoughts are seeds The .- blossom into noble deeds. -Anna M. Pratt. if Advertise inleAZETTE. Every Plug and package of B. L. Tobacco is weighed and guaranteed ‘to contain 2 t full weight every time. . \\\l//2 ( 1’ GA Just Received Gar load Of Washburn’s _ Flour Three car loads Of 40 pound Clipped Oats. Ten car loads of Choice Michigan Hay, which we will sell in quanti- ties to suit purchaser, below market price. Raymond Bros. EW YORK III)EW HAVEN db HARTFORD RAIL1 tADO —NEW YORK DIVISION. October 1894. Trains leaveSouth Norwalk asfoliows: FOR NEW YORK—Accommodation trains at 936 a. m... 1.11. 2.54. 4.07. 5.30. 6.50. 8.00.10.20 .m. Exp 1ess trains at5.20 5.26. 6.15 (local) 6,55 (local).7 08 (local), 1. 55 (local).& 21 (local). 9.03 (local) 9. 58. 10 45. 11.37. (local) 11.. m. 12. 25 2. 25. 4. 20.5. 20.6. 207 57 p. m. For Washington via Harlem River 1.13a.m. (daily. 811 DNAYs. —Accommodation 9 15 a. m.. 6.14 (local). 7. 23. (local) 9. 28 p. m Express 5.20 5. 26 a"FOB NEW HAVEN AND THE EASE—Accommo- dation trains at 6. 32." 1. 38, 8. 46 and 11 44 a. m., 1. 40, 4. 20. 5. 27. 6. 27 1. 28 (to Bridgeport) 8. 41 9. 41 and 1115p.m. Express trains at 1. 01.1.20 9.11 10.09, 11.06. a. m. 12. 05, 3. 03, 5. 07 (Nauga- tuck Express)7.10 p.m. SUND D.Avs -—Accommodation7. 38. 9. m12 a.m.and 7.15 pm. Ex ress 1.01 and1.0 20 C. ‘.BEMPSTEAD. Gen. Pass. Agt. The 11017311 Fire Insurance 61 [Has now Completedits '320. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR, And has not outstanding a dollar of unpsi losses or claims for losses. No sound como mum in suresfor less J. Beavan, GPresu ' G. B. ST. JOHN. GEO. R Gowns. Sec’ v. 11 Recent Deaths. Tress TNA INSRUANCE 00., of Hartford Incorporated 1812. Charter Perpetua Capital and Assets, $8,902,272. 64; Insures against loss and damage by rm: on terms adapted to the hazard and consistei with the laws of com ensation ES dB MERRILL. Sole agents for Norwalk and vicinity J. 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