WEEKLY: NOR WALK - GAZETTE. « THE'. MUTUAL '.‘ LIFE . INSURANCE.‘CO. I OF NEW YORK. RICHARD A. MOCURDY, President. IIIIIIIII' III'II IS THE 1113111100 IN THE WORLD. ASSETS OVER 204,000,000 INCOME. Received for premiums From all other sources $36,123,163 82 11,897,706 12 $48,020,869 94 DISB URSEM ENTS. To policy holders For all other accounts 21,089,257 08 9,789,63L 18 $30,878.891 26 ASSETS. United States bonds and other securities " 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. Reserve for policies, and other liabilities Surplus $83,970,690 67 71,339,415 92 11,366,100 00 21,691,733 39 9,655,198 91 6,615,645 07 $204,638,783 96 182,109,456 14 $22,529,327 82 Insurance annuities assumed and renewed Insurance and annuities in force Dec. 31, 1894 $750,290,677 855,207,778 42 Increase in total income Increase in premium income Increase in assets Increase in surplus Increase of insurance and annuities in force $6,067,724 26 2,528,825 84 17,931.103 82 4575.718 91 51,923,039 96 ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, ALBERT KLAMRO’I‘H, Assistant Secretary. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. EMORY MOOLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J 3., Asst. Actuary. CHAS. B PERRY, 2d Asst. Actuary. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Ass’t Tress. HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., cor EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comptroller. MEDICAL DIRECTORS—GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON n .E. J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D. _ JDEN W. NICEDLS, New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. A. H. (DAMP, hocal Agent. ‘ Taking hold of ' on the floor. . carried it to his place by the stove. ‘ ported from Blaine. SPRING IN GEORGIA. Sunshine after all the storm— Hints of summer heat, ' And the clod is getting warm And the air is sweet. N ow the meadow "grows to green And the valley seems, In the color of the scene. Paradise of dreams! Drowsy echoes from the dells, Soft as whispered words; Tinkle, tinkle, cattle bells—- Sing, ye mocking birds! Johnny, Johnny, Sure as fate Fish are biting—— Dig the bait! I ~Atlanta Constitution. WILKES BOOTH’S FERRYMAN. His Death Recalls His Connection \Vlth the Assassination of Lincoln. Thomas A. Jones, who was noted as the man who helped John \Vilkes Booth and David C. Herold to cross the Potomac river five days after the assassination of President Lincoln, recently died at his home in La Plata, Md. During the war Jones owned a farm on the banks of the Potomac, bounded on one side by Pope’s Creek, and standing on a high bluff. Through connection with another Southern sympathizer on the Virginia Side of the river, Jones was able to keep up communications with the other side, and J ones’s ferry became a very popular rendezvous for those who desired to cross the line. It was also used for the smuggling of mails to and from the South. Jones also made a regular business of aiding the blockade runners. A few years ago. after keeping his secret for many years, he published a book in which he described his share in the es— cape of Booth. He told of the flight of Booth and Herold into Maryland by way of the navy yard bridge, their taking refuge in the house of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, near Bryantown, Charles county, on the morning after the assassination and the setting of Booth’s broken leg by Dr. Mudd. who entertained the fugitives until night. Booth and Herold left Dr. Mudd’s house, in the northeastern part of the county, Saturday night, on horse- back, for the Pope’s Creek ferry. They went to Col. Samuel Cox, the foster brother of Jones, who hid them and sent for Jones to aid them in crossing to Vir- ginia. Jones gave them a boat and in other ways rendered them valuable as- sistance. After the assassination Jones was ar- rested and imprisoned in the old Capitol in this city, but the Federal authorities were unable to connect him with the af< fair and had to discharge him. For a number of years after the war he held office either under the State or general Government. He was employed in the Washington navy yard, and was dis. placed during the Harrison administra- tion. After that he was made a. justice of the peace in Charles county, which position he held at the time of his death. ——\Vashington Post. \Vhat Hawthorne Called Himself. After the publication of this collection of short stories, Hawthorne ceased to be what he once called himself—“the ob- scurest man of letters in America.” His classmate Longfellow, with whom he had not been intimate in college, re- viewed the book with hearty commenda- tion, and Hawthorne wrote him that hitherto there had “been no warmth of approbation, so that I have always writ- ten with benumbed fingers.” Now at last he banked in the sunshine of public ap- proval, and he was encouraged to go on with his writing. Yet it was five years before his next book was issued, and even then the new volume was only a second series of “Twice Told Tales,” collected from the periodicals. But meanwhile he had come out into the world again, and mixed once more with his fellowmcn. He had edited a magazine for a few months; he had held a place for two years in the Boston custom house; he had been one of those who formed a settlement at Brook Farm, and he had married Missb‘ophia Peabody. The marriage took place in 1842, and the young couple moved to Concord. They went to live in the house which had been built for Emerson’s grandfather, and in which Emerson himself had dwelt ten years before. Hawthorne took for his study the room in this old mouse in which Emerson had written “Nature;” and in that room, during the next few years, he wrote stories and sketches which were collected into the two volumes published in 1846 as “Mosses from an Old Manse.”— Prof. Brander Matthews in St. Nicholas for March. Makes Tunes \Vith Bullets. Here is a story from New Orleans that must be taken as it stands, \Vc do not vouch for the truth of it. “Musical shots,” says the tale, “are the latest among _the sensations of New Or- leans. A sharpshooter of the name of Pardon fires at the metal bars ofa set of bells. The bullet, in striking the bar, sound a musical note, and the shots fol- low each other in such rapid succession and with such accuracy that the mar-:8- man is able to shoot any tune that may be desired. ’ The only thing lacking in this story is some account of Pardcn’s ability, which we presume he must possess, to shoot chords with ordinary birdshot.—Harper’s Young People. Rented the Fleas. A storekeeper had a pet dog which was .‘ vainly trying to dislodge a flea, when an accommodating clerk took a curry comb from a box on the shelf and combed the dog with it to his great satisfaction. Then the clerk laid the comb back in the box and went to another part of the store. But the dog had taken" careful note of where the comb was put, and, after some efiort managed to climb up where it was. it with his teeth he dragged it out of the box and let it drop Getting uown himself he Then placing it carefully in the right position he rolled over and over on it to his heart’s ' content, wriggling and twisting all man- ner of ways the while so as to insure himself a good scratching. ____,,____._____.___.. Passing fashions have the same func- . tion in the reading of the general public - as pickles and Russian sideboard dishes in the dining room. They stimulate an artificial appetite where none exists unt- urally. But after all it is better to eat because yOu have had caviare than not to eat at all. An evenly balanced horse trade is re- Two farmers met and after a long talk one exchanged a horse for a cow owned by the other. Each ' took his new property home, and on the following morning dead. both animals were work?” LANDSCAPES IN FOUR MINUTES. .5. L ginning Artist Whose Pictures Are Appreciated in Eighth Ava-tine. liztn'n in the lower part of E. ; hth ave- .n , New York, there is a man \i'iw “as .r.h :4 m t are painted in red and black let- ters 0.. a piece of cloth stretched overt-he "pp-r part of his shop windOw: "Lightning artist. Elegant landscapes painted and finished in four minutes. “fall: in!” A Sun reporter saw him do even better that he promised. The artist stood in his shirt. sleeves in the front window, his easel in front of him and a packing case co .taining canvases about 12x14 inches at his side. In his left hand he held his Dalctte and brushes, the latter seemingly better fitted for house painting purposes than for the delicate work of landscape painting. He had just placed anew can- vas on his easel as the Sun man ap- proached. ' Taking one of his largest brushes he dipped it into a mound of paint on the palette, and then, with a nervous move- ment of the hand, covered about a third . c! the upper part of the canvas, leaving a gray blue background. Then, with an- other brush of equal size he laid in spots of white. After blending the two colors the effect, with a good imagination, might be construed into a. representation of a cloudy sky. To the right side of the canvas he applied a coat of mottled green. picking it out here and there with yellow and red—autumn foliage on the side of a mountain. Standing oflf a mo. ment to regard his work, he put a few extra touches on the mountain with his thumb. Then with the brush used for the first layer of sky he filled in the lower part of the canvas with lead colored paint, most of his strokes here being horizontal. Then he added a bit of high light in the center, and at the bac k a daub of white indicated a boat, the sail coming dangerously near the trees on the top of the mountain. The presence of the boat explained the scheme in gray paint; it was a placid lake, and when a few streaks of deep blue were laid in around the sides one was sure of the art- ist’s intention. The picture was now finished, and the artist, leaving it unsigned, handed it to his assistant. He had beaten his record by half a minute. After seeing a new canvas placed on the easel and a. sunset sky laid on, the re- porter walked into the store to see what disposition was made of the finished pict- ures. The store was filled with women, all of a type—that of the tenement life. They all appeared middle aged, were gowned in rusty black and bonneted in the old familiar way one becomes accus- tomed to at early mass in the Catholic church—a rusty black straw, topped with feathers, which Show signs of conflict with much hard weather, and flowers that enjoyed their first artificial bloom several seasons gone by. All were with ungloved hands, red, with blunted fin- ger nails, and the wedding ring on the left hand, always seeming too small for the finger wearing it. ‘ These women were grouped about the artist’s assistant, who placed the pict— ures in cheap white and gold frames and auctioned them off. The bidding was very spirited. Fifty cents was the lowest bid considered, and the picture, with the frame thereon, was usually knocked down for from $1 to $1.50, the successful bidder carrying away the prize in her hands. after paying heed to the auction- eer’s caution to handle it carefully until it dried. In this manner at least ten were sold inside of as many minutes. GENERAL BOOTH’S PLAN. His Solution of the Poverty Problem in America. In all our Salvation Army posts in Lon- don we have this sign posted: %K-*’i‘%*i§*** *i—E-X- *il-R-K-t‘EQI-ié-lt ,. No man need beg or starve or steal * or commit suicide. Apply to the cap- * tain for a ticket and he wrll find you ..,. Work. €+%¥:***£t * *$**>I= >26*l***i’r-Y:*~}Z~**** That is what everv State should have posted in the portal of its prison. The unions are opposed to having men ' in prison support themselves. I do not always agree with the unions. Here are four men in a garden. There is just enough work to keep them. Along comes the fifth man who looks over their heads and says: “Can you give me some They answer him, “No; there is just enough work for four here.” He says, “My God, you are not going to let me starve, are you?” They put their hands in their pockets and take out enough to feed him. \Vould it not be better for them, since they must feed him to get something for their money? That is in little what soci- ety is in large. America, has, in common with England the great drawback of an educational system. I don’t know whether Idare say anything against education, but it seems to me it is all done for the mind and nothing for the body or soul. The child- ren are brought up to be ladies and gen- tlemen, not men and women, who must work for a living. They are afraid to put their hands in the dirt or the diSh- water. The plan for darkest America. would be to start little communities—little vil- lages of thirty or forty houses together. Each man would have six or eight acres of ground surrounding the village, and, besides that, would have a common for his cow. pigs and chickens, and carts to come around so often to take the produce to the market. This little farming community would not find life away from the cities such a barren thing. They would have their proper recreations, the bands and the barracks and trips to the city, and while they would not get rich they Would make a fair living and a. sure one. None of the colonists will own the land. That is what I want the Government’s help in. I want the Government to deed to me in trust this tract of land, to be used for the betterment of these people, ; There would be hovels for his giving me the privilege of alienating it or. disposing of it only in cases where it is absolutely necessary for the success of the scheme. The colonists simply would have the use of the land free as long as they chose to work it. The money to build their little cottages, their sheds and styes for cattle and pigs would be a :t'nnced to them out of their OWn wages, so lhzlt if a man ran away he would run away from his own money, and the sch our would be so much the richer by his rimming away. “’6 have acollegein L miluu to prepare teachers i‘orthe sixty or SBVt‘IlLy colonies which we have scattered throughout the world. fit.— B. L. Tobacco sells for no higher price than other tobaccos, but is the Longest - Chew. A tetr- ccnt plug Will go as far as two pieces of any other kind. _ $9 Just . Received, Car 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. NEW YORK.NEW HAVEN (It HARTFORD RAILROAD. —Nr.w Your: Drvzsron; 5 October 1894. TrahzsleaoeSouth Norwalk asfoliown‘ FOR NEW YORK—Accommodation trains at 9.36,_a..m., 1.11. 2.54. 4.07. 5.30, 6.50, 8.00. 13:20 p.m. Express trams at 5.20 5.26. 6.15 (lo a” 6.55 (local). 7.08 (local), 7.55 (local).8.21 (loca . 9.03 (local) 9.58, 10-45. 11.37. (local) a, m. 12.25 2.25.4.20,5.20,6.20 7.57 p.m. Eor Washington via Harlem River 1.13a.m. (daifly. -~ Simona—Accommodation 9 15 a. m.. 6.14, (local).7.23,(local)9.28 p.m Expresr 5.20 5.26 a. 111. Fort New HAVEN AND THE Eaten—Accommo- dation trains at 0.32, 7.38, 8.46 and 1‘ 44 a. m., 1.40, 4.20. 5.27. 6.27. 7.28 (to .Bridseport) 8.41 9.41 and 11.15p.m. Express trams at 1.01.1.20 9.11 10.09, 11.06 a. m. 12.05, 3.03. 5.07 manga- tuck Express)7.10 p. m. _ SUNDAYS—Accommodation 7.38, 9.12 a. m. and 7.15 p.m. Ex ress 1.01 and 1.20 a. m. C. .‘. HEMPSTEAD. Gen. PasaAgt. The Nonalk Fire Insurance Us l Has now Completedits 320. SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR, And has not outstanding a dollar of unnai losses or claims for losses. 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