Bi,stftlantkat,s.
THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR. IN ENG•
LAND.
We conclude our extracts from the arti
cle in the London Quarterly Review, upon
the sufferings of the children employed in
various trades in England. The first ex
tracts related to the state of things in Bir
mingham.
" Many are put to work at six or seven
years old, if they have a father in the shop.
An incident in confirmation of this is re
lated by one of the Assistant Commissioners.
While,' he says, ' I was in a cottage,
where I found a boy with a sore foot band
aged up, caused by a burn in a spade fac
tory, a sound of many voices singing
swelled gradually near, and the boy, limp
ing on his stick to the door, cried, ' Oh,
mother, there's the nailers coming, many a
thousand of them !'—a❑d there passed by a
crowd of several hundred men, women, and
children, singing a hymn, of which two
lines (constrasting strangely with their look
and errand) were :
And not a wave of trouble roll,
Across my peaceful breast.'
They were coming from the villages near
Dudley to hold a meeting in Hales Owen to
see if they could get out' the nailers who
were working against them there; their
strike having already lasted eleven weeks.
'lt's heart-breaking work,' said the woman.
Amongst the many children in the crowd
there were two little boys, apparently six
years old, or not much more, dragged along
by the hand of a woman, probably their
mother, foot sore and lame from their march.
To see such infants made to take part in a
strike and march miles to swell a meeting
to spread it, was a sight which gave but a
poor idea of the consideration which they
are likely to meet with at home.'
" The rapidity of the work in which
hundreds of young women and children are
employed is extraordinary. In one of the
processes of steel-pen making, a quick
worker can cut out in a day of ten hours,
36,000 steel-pens, an operation which in
volves 72,000 distinct motions of the arm,
or two motions in each second.
cc The great demand for young workers
in Birmingham has a tendency to invert the
natural order of labor as between parents
and children. The defective state of edu
cation is brought forward very prominently
by the Commissioners, and the ignorance
not only on religious subjects, but even of
the commonest and simplest objects of na
ture that was exhibited was amazing. In
religion, especially, the, minds of hundreds
were found in a 'state of
. absolute darkness.
In a button manufactory, out of thirteen
selected boys, nine had never heard of the
Bible or knew anything that was in it, and
some of the elder boys laughed at the idea
of their being supposed to know anything.*
On an analysis of a hundred, from seven to
ten years of age, 72.5 per cent. admitted
that they could not read, 13.75 practically
could not, 12.5 could read a little, and the
remaining 1.25, i e. one girl, could read
well. In Birmingham thirty-two persons
averaging more than twelve years of age,
including a young man of twenty and two
young women, could not tell the Queen's
name. The commonest and simplest objects
of nature, such are flowers, birds, fishes,
rivers, mountains, and the sea, were un
known. Some thought London a county,
one that it was in the Exhibition; a violet
was said to be a pretty bird ; a primrose a
red rose; a lilac also a bird; but whether
a robin redbreast or an eagle were birds
none could say; some knew not what a
river meant, or where fishes live; or where
snow comes from; and a cow in a picture
was pronounced to be a lion. Multitudes
of these poor children can never have seen
a primrose by a river's brim, or heard the
song of a lark—
Not for them
The vernal cuckoo shouteth ; not for them
Murmurs the laboring bee.'
"It is estimated that there are 70,000
children, young persons and women em
ployed in the metal manufactures alone of
England and Wales, who might, with the
greatest benefit to themselves and their
employers, be brought under the operation
of the Factory Act.
" The number of children and young
persons employed in the glass manufacture
in the United Kingdom is 3984 i and of
females, above the age of eighteen, there
are employed in England and Wales
about 1600. The age at which children
enter the glass-works is commonly between
nine and eleven. The beat to which they
are exposed is necessarily great, and they
are often literally standing for hours Y be
tween two fires.' In some works, as in the
orown and sheet-glass houses, the boys are
'almost permanently in a very high temper
ature,' the hottest employments being those
of th little shovel-holders and pushers,
boys who protect the men, by holdinc , up
shovels, from the heat of the furnaces when
they are opened for the extraction of the
metal, and who also open and shut the doors.
The heat to which they are exposed is ter
rific, and the thermometer held close to a
boy's head rose immediately to 130°. The
Assistant Commissioner, standing near a
boy whose position was permanent, after
ward found the crown and brim of his hat
completely melted out of shape. At -the
mouth of another kiln, where the boys were
constantly putting in articles to anneal, the
mercury of a thermometer rose rapidly to
the top, viz., 150°.
" Exhausting as the labor exacted from
boys is, six hours is the utmost period of
I Although it is painful to do so, we give a
f6w illustrations of this ignorance on religious
subjects, taken from the answers of children :
God is " a good man," or the "man in heaven."
"I've heard of Christ, but don't know what it
is." "Don't know where God lives, or about
the world being made or who made it." " The
Bible is not a book." "Have not heard of
Christ." "Don't know if lam a Christian, or
what it is or means." "The good and bad go
to heaven alike." " Them as is wicked shall
be worshipped." "When people die they be
burned, their souls and their bodies." g , All
/o into the pit-hole, where them be burned."
"They never get out and live again. They
have.not a soul. I have not one." "The soul
does not live afterwards. It's quite an end of
people when they die." " The - devil is a good
person; don't know where he lives." "Christ
was a Wicked man." "Don't know what
Prayer means; or who it is said to."
unbroken rest they are allowed, and this
is included the time spent in going home
and returning, and for meals; leaving a
very short period indeed for sleep, and none
for recreation unless at the expense of sleep.
Overwork is frequent A little boy, ten
years of age, had worked without cessation
from seven on Friday morning until seven
OR Saturday evening, only lying down a
little now and then on anything he could
find.' In one sheet-glass manufactory a
boy has worked thirty-six hours without
going to bed, and another had worked for
sixty consecutive hours. Night work pre
vails more or less in the all glass-houses. It
is impossible to conceive any system more
calculated to ruin the health of growing
boys, and to destroy their constitutions;
their appearance is described as unhealthy,
their frames slight, and they all suffer more
or less from languor, head-ache, and the
effects of. sudden chills after exposure to
great heat; their feet are often sore and
blistered, and they not unfrequently fall
asleep over their work. 4 When you come
to work at nine at night,' said a little boy
of thirteen to the Assistant Commissioner,
'you do feel very sleepy, and have to sing
to keep awake.'
"It might have been supposed rhat the
rural districts of England would at least be
exempt from the evils upon which it has
been our painful task to comment. nut agri
cultural labor is occasionally imposed upon
children, to the serious injury of their con
stitutions, and under conditions peculiarly
demoralising. In the course of the Poor
Law inquiries which, in 1862, were insti
tuted into the employment of women and
children in agriculture, it was found that
an organised system of labor called the
' gang system' existed in certain districts
of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hunt
ingdonshire, and Lincolnshire. A farmer
who wished to have a particular piece of
work done, such a clearing land of stones
or pulling turnips, applied to a gang-master,
who contracted to do the job, supplying the
necessary labor. The system still prevails;
the farmer agrees with the gang-master
and the gang-master bargains with the
laborers. If the work, as usually hoppers,
is such as can be partly done by women and
children, the gang is composed of persons
of both sexes and of all ages. They work,
together superintended by awoverseer.
parishes where there is,,an excess of popu.
lation, and consequently much competition
for employment, these gangs are easily col
leeted, andthe farmers gets his work done
quickly and cheaply, and the gang-master
is generally able to make considerable pro- .
fit.* His object is, of course, to extract
the greatest possible quantity of labor in' a
given time for the smallest possible amount .
of remuneration. A herd of human be
ings of both sexes and all ages, often in
cluding very young children, is speedily
got together, thus constituting an agricul
tural gang. The distanced traveled before
work is' commenced, is Often five, six and
seven miles, and the night is often passed
by the party at a distance from home, hud
dled together in barns and out houses, and
without distinction of age or sex. In the
formation of a gang the worst characters;
male and female, are often collected from•
the neighborhood, and the contaminating,
effect of a promiscuous assembly upon the
young who form part of it may be readily
conceived. Out of a hundred girls in a
gang, seventy have been known to have
been previously demoralised. This system,
we regret to say, hasincreased rather than
diminished since public attention was first
called to it. It prevails extensively over
portions of Suffolk, Lincoln, Cambridgeshire
and Huntingdonshire."
Is there really in Christian England no
remedy for this worse than heathen abuse
but the one of Parliamentary interference?
Cannot the condition of these parents be
elevated by more efficient methods of intel
lectual and religious instruction ? Is this
one of the inevitable and frightful results
of an overcrowded population ? Or has the
original Celtic and Saxon stock, represented
by the lower classes of the English popula
tion, never been really civilized and Chris
tainized, and is such want of natural affec
tion among parents but an evidence of their
remaining heathenism 7
* A. gang's man it is said often makes as
much as 16s. a day.
THE GREAT REVIVAL AND ITS
LESSONS.
The present, says a Chicago paper, is a
marked year in the reign of G-od's grace .
At no period for hundreds of years proba
bly, has so large a number been brought to
the knowledge of the truth as in the last
few months., This revival spirit has not
been local, but general, pervading the whole.
country.
A correspondent of the Evening Journal
of Chicago, writing from Springfield, 111.,
under date of May 7th, thus describes the
revival in that city:
" The religious interest recently awaken
ed in this community seems rather on the
increase than otherwise. The clergy seem
to have consecrated themselves anew to
their holy mission, and given themselves
with redoubled zeal and energy to, the work
of reclaiming lost sinners. The union
prayer meetings and open-air services con
tinue as per last report, with, if possible,
increasing numbers. So great is the fame
of the movement, that hundreds of persons
are drawn to the city for miles around, who
come to see and hear the wonderful things
that the Holy Spirit is doing through the
instrumentality of a preached word.
Churches that used to be - but sparsely at
tended are now crowded to overflowing
with new converts and others seeking the
way to Zion, and ministers that were con
sidered but common-place pastors and
preachers seem to have had their lips
touched afresh with the 'live coal' f rom o ff
the altar of Jehovah, and now carry the
message of' mercy to' lost sinners with ten
fold fervor and faithfulness. God is doing
a great work here, and its effects are maul
fest all around. The following testimony
on the latter point, will, I think, be con
sidered impartial, when I assure you it is
from the columns of the Register —a paper
that has hitherto not only not given any
countenance to the movement,"but opened
its columns t o the most wanton and vulgar
_
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY. JUNE 14, 1866.
attacks upon both the originators of the re
form and the movement itself.
"There can no longer be a doubt in the
mind of any but that the revival at present
in progress among us has been instrumental
not only in bringing individuals to a sense
of their duty and a change of conduct, but,
at the same time, has exercised a wonder
ful influence upon the whole community.
While many have been converted among
us, we believe all of our citizens have been
more or less benefited, and should the in
terest in the reform be kept up, it is to be
hoped that even more may yet be accom
plished. What the officers of the law and
the vigilance of the authorities have failed
to effect, has, been quietly brought about by
the influence of these religious meetings.
We refer to the moral reform in the com
munity which has taken place within the
past four weeksevidences of which are
constantly observable.
"Even the fears for the safety of life and
property which pervaded society so recent
ly, have been expelled, as it were, by an
unknown power, and a sense of security
seems now to be felt by our citizens, such
as has not been known before for several
years. If we are wrong in attributing this
change wholly to the religious influence
brought to bear upon society, tire must at
least partially account for it in this manner.
We know of naught else which has thus
suddenly arisen to bring about such a re
form—a reform that has only been notice
able since the inauguration of these meet
ings."
GRANT AND STANTON AND LINCOLN.
When Grant was about to leave Wash
ington to enter upon that sublime cam
paign which began with those terrible
battles in the Wilderness, and closed with
the capture of Richmond and the total
overthrow of the rebellion, he called upon
Secretary Stanton to say good-by. The
Secretary was anxiously awaiting him.
During the two and a half years that the
President and Secretary of War had
_man
aged the Eastern armies, it,,,•Wits the Itrst
point in their plans ; -to -keep Washington
heavily garrisoned - : with troops. Large
bodies oPiiien were stationed in the fortifi
cations around the city, and other large
bodies were kept within supporting dis
tance. Now that Grant had come into
power, Stanton wished to see that the
defense of Washington was not overlooked.
Accordingly, after a few preliminaries, the
Secretary remarked:
"Well, General, t suppose you have
left us enough men to strongly garrison
the forts?"
"No," said Grant coolly, •"I can't do
that."
"Why not?" cried Stanton, jumping
nervously about. "Why not? Why
not?"
"Because I have already sent the men
to the front," replied Grant calmly.
"That won't do," said Stanton, more
nervously than before. "It's contrary to
my plans. I can't allow it. I'll order the
men back."
"I shall need the men there,' answered
the Lieutenant-General, "and you can't
order them back."
"'Why not?" inquired Stanton again.
"Why not? Why not?"
"I believe that I rank the Secretary in ,
this matter," was the quiet reply.
"Very well," said Mr. Stanton, a little
warmly, "we'll see the President about
that. I'll have to take you to the Presi
dent."
"That's right," politely observed the'
General, "the President ranks us both."
Arrived at the White House, Grant and
the Secretary asked to see the President
upon important business, and in a few mip
utes the good-natured face of Mr. Lincoln
appeared.
"Well, gentlemen," said be with/ a
genial smile, "what do you want with
me?" ,
"General," said Stanton, stiffly, "state
your case."
"I'm satisfied as it is;" thus outflanking
the Secretary, and displaying the same
strategy in diplomacy as in war.
"Well, well," said the Presi ent, laugh
ing, "state your case, Mr. Secretary."
Mr. Stanton obeyed; General Grant; said
nothing; the PreSident listened attentively.
When the Secretary had concluded, Mr.
Lincoln crossed his legs, rested his elbow
on his knee, twinkled his eyes, and quaint
ly said:
"Now, Secretary, you know we have
been trying to manage this army for
nearly three years, and you know we
haven't done much with it. We sent over
the mountains,,and brought• Mr. Grant, as
Mrs. Grant calls him, to man., e it for us,
and now I guess we had I.c 'er let Mr.
Grant have his own way."
From this decision there v ;:- ..o appeal.
So General Grant went to thc 'ront, and
Secretary Stanton went backs !cis office.
—Boars at Home.
AM I AN ARGUMENT FOR OR AGAINST
If I believe that the Bible is the word of
God, and that belief has had no in
fluence upon my life and my character—if
I do not rejoice in its promises, if I do not
follow its counsels, if I do not feel that in
Jesus I am accepted, and that death is be
hind me and a resurrection to glory before
me—then, I say, instead of being an argu
ment for the Bible, I am an argument
against the Bible. If a man comes to me
and says, "I believe in the truth of the
word of God," and if I say to him, " Well,
then, are you sure that you are saved iu
Jesus Christ? is Jesus Christ your joy?
are you at peace with God, and dwelling
under the shadow of ,the Almighty?" and
the man replies, " I don't know," it is clear
that the word of God has never been the
word of God to him, for, if it had been the
word of God to him, with what joy and
alacrity would he have said, "I thank God
for having sent unto me this glorious voice;
blessed are the people that hear the joyful
sound." Ah, if every one who is listening
p s
e i s m t l b e l
e o d f
eternal
every man and woman no w i n
to me now—if
this hall, approving of the object of the
Bible Society, witetveenr Ib b
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o e
fh s al
on
d living noo fw thea
s e
there in connection -with the spread of the
THE BIBLE?
Bible, which is the revelation of Go& hav
ing heard the glad tidings of salvation, re
sponded to them, received them, and lived
them out in our lives, what a wonderful
and mighty influence would he exerted.
And that such a Bible Society should be
formed, and that from among all nations
many such should be added to the church,
this is the great object and work of our
Bible Society, which may God prosper and
bless to the glory of that eternal word
Which was from the beginning, and which
shall be for ever and ever.—Rev. A.
Saphir.
THE ECHO,
A little boy knew nothing about an echo;
but one day be cried out as he jumped
about in the grass, "Ho ! H-o-p !" and im
mediately from a little wall close at hand,
he heard, " Ho! 11-o-p !" Astonished he
called out : " Who are you ?" The voice
at once answered : " Who are yam?"
You're a stupid little fool !" cried the boy,
beginning to be angry. " Stupid little
fool !" came back from the wall.
The boy grew enraged, and in his pas
sion shouted all manner of abusive names;
the wall gave them all faithfully back again.
Then the child searched all over for the
mocking boy, that he might take vengeance
on him; but no creature could he find but
a harmless pussy hunting sparrows.
Indignant and surprised, the child ran
home and complained bitterly how a wicked
boy, hidden somewhere behind the old
wail, had been calling him hard names.
g' There !" said his, mother, " you have
betrayed yourself! You heard only your
own words reflected from the wall, as you
have seen your own face, sometimes, re
fleeted from a glass. If you bad given
kind tones and friendly words, kind tones
and friendly words would have returned to
yoti again. And so it always is; the con
duct of others is but the echo of our own.
If we treat others kindly and-considerately,
they will treat us kin dl i kand considerately
in rctutir;" but ifwe areiliough and rude to
then), we must expect nothing more our
selvef."
_ Albany Argus says that at a lecent
trial at Auburn, New York, the counsel
fur the Government, after severely cross
examiiiing a witness, suddenly put on a
look Of severity and exclaimed :—" Mr.
WitnesS, has not an effort been msde
induce you to tell a different story 1" " A
different story from what I have told, sir ?"
" That is what I mean." to Yes, sir; seve
ral per'gons have tried to get me 'to tell a
different story from what I have told, but
they couldn't." " Now, sir, upon your
oath, I wish to know who those persons
are." " Wall, I guess you've tried 'bout
as hard as any of them."
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for the benefit of the afflicted:—
Dear Sirs :—Having realized 'in my family imper
tant benefits !rem the use of your valuable prepare
tion—Wistar's Balsam of «Mild Chem—it affords me
pleasure to recommend it to the public. Some eight
years ago one of my daughters seemed to be in a de
cline:and little hopes of her recovery were enter
tained. I then procured a bottle of your excellent
Balsam, and before she had taken the whole of the
contents of the bottle there was a great improvement
in her health. I have, in my individual ease, made
frequent use of your valuable medicine, and have at
ways been benefitted by it. JACOB SECHLER.
Price One Dollar a Bottle. For sale by
J. P. DENbIHORE, 36 Dey. Street. New York.
SETH W. FOWLE & SON, Proprietors, Boston.
And by all Druggists.
GRACE'S CELEBRATED SALVE
..lutres Cuts, Burns, Scalds.
Grace's Celebrated Salve
Cures Wounds, Braises, Sprains.
Grace's Celebrated Salve
Cures Chapped Hands, Chilblains.
Grace's Celebrated Salve
Heals: old Soros, Flesh Wounds, die.
It is prompt in action, removes pain a!' once♦ and
reduces the most angry-looking swellings and indent.
mations, as if:sby magic—thus affording relief , and 'a
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complete cure.
- Only YS cents a box (Sent: by mail for 85 'cents.)
or sale by J. P. DENSMORE:36 Dey St., New. York.
Sar,FOWINE SON, ProPrietorsi.Decton, and hi
all Druggists. goners. sad Coustrz st9ros.
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GIRARD FIRE AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
OFFICE ON W ALE rT STREET. PRILADELPHLA.
CAPITAL PAID IN, IN CASH, $404000.
Thiscompany continues to write on Fire Risks
only. Its capital, with a good surplus, is safely in
vested.
701
Loma by fire having been promptly paid, and more
than
$500,000
Disbursed on this account within the past few years.
For the present, the office of this company will re
main at
,415 WALNUT STREET.
But within a few months will remove to it Own
Bui'dins N. E. CORNER SEVENTH AND CHEST
NUT. Then, as now, we shall be happy to insure our
patrons at such rates as are consistent with safety,
THOMAS CRAVEN. DIRECTORS.
ALFRED S. GILLETT,
FURMAN SHEPPARD, N. S. LAWRENCE.
THOS. MA CKELLA R., CHARLES I. DUPONT,
JOHN SUPPLER. HENRY F. KENNEY,
JOHN W. CLAGHORN, JOSEPH KLAPP, M.D..
SILAS THOMAS CRAVEN,
THOMAS CRAVEN, Preaident.
ALFRED S. MLR . ' T. V. President and Treasurer.
JAMES B. ALFORD, Secretary.
INSURE YOUR LIFE
IN YOUR OWN ROME COMPANY,
AMERICAN
OF PHILADELPHIA,
S. E. cor. Fourth and Walnut Streets.
Insurers in this Company have the addiMonal guar
antee of the CAPITAL STOCK allpaid up IN CASH,
which; together with CASH ASSETS, now on hand
amounts to
$1,143,874 15.
Invested as follows :
$lOO.OOO U. S. 5.20 bonds.
100.000 City of Philadelphia Loan 6's
new,
70,050 U. S. Treasury Notes, 7-iV.
26,000 Allegheny County bonds,
15,000 U. S. Loan of 1881.
10,000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds.
12,700 Compoinnd Interest Treasury
Notes,
1000 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
bonds,
10.000 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne A Chi
cago bonds,
6,500 City of Pittsburg and other
bonds,
1,000 Shares Pennsylvania Railroad
450 shares Corn Exchange National
Bank,
107 shares Farmers' National Bank
of Reading,
22 shares Consolidation National
Bank,
142 shares Williamsport Water Com
,
Mortgages pany , Ground Rents, and Real EL
tate 147,309 89
Loans on collateral amply secured.- ...... 169,481 95
Premium notes secured by Policies 217.504 58
Cash in hands of agents secured by bonds. 52.469 18
Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer, 80,000 00
Cask on hand and in banks 65.824 34
Accrued interest and rents due. Jan.]. .. 10.= 00
INCOME FOR THE YEAR 1865,
$544,592 92.
Losses Paid during the Tear amounting to
887,6343 31.
LOSSES PAID PROMPTLY.
DIVIDENDS MADE ANNUALLY. thus aiding the
the insured to__p_g_iy_premiums.
The last DIVIDEND on all Mutual Policies in force
January 1, 1886. was
FIFTY PER C3EZirr.
of the amount of PREMIUMS received during the
year. 3865.
Its TRUSTEES are well known citizens in out
midst, entitling it to more oonsiderstion than those
whose man ers reside in distant cities.
Alexander Whilldin, I William J. Howard.
J. Edgar Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine,
George Nugent. John Aikman,
Hon. James Pollock, I Henry K. Bennett.
L. M. Whilldin, Ron. joseph Allison
P. B. Mingle, Isaac Hasiehurst.
Albert C. Roberts.
ALEX. WHILLDIN, President.
GEORGE REGENT, Vice.Preshlens.
JOHN C. SIMS, Actuary.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
C. G. ROBESON. Assistant Secretary.
A few first-rate canvassers wanted.
INDEMNITY FOR
LOSS OF LIFE OR ILCTITRY
ACCIDENTS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
TRAVELERS' INSURANCE COMPANY,
HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
Cash Capital. and Assets. Dec. 1, 1865,
e5ee.,338 12.
Tmt PIONEER ACCIDENT INSURANCE
COMPANY IN AMERICA
PHILADELPHIA BRANCH OFFICE,
409 WALNUT STREET,
Where policies are issued covering all WILE every des
cription of accidents happening under any circum
stances. An institution whose benefits can be en
joyed by the poor man as well as the rich. No medi
cal examination required.
Policies issued for amounts from $5OO to $lO,OOO is
case of death, and from $3 to $5O weekly compenea
tion in case of disabling injury, at rates ranging from
$3 50 to $6O per annum, the cheapest and most practi
cable mode of Insurance known.
Policies written for five years. at twenty per cent.
discount on amount of yearly premiums. Hazardous
risks at hazardous rates.
Ocean Policies written, and permits issued for trays
in any part of the world.
Accident Insurance to persons disabled by acciden
is like the Sanitary Commission to wounded soldiers
in the field, providing the means for comfort and
healing and supplying their wants while preveated
from pursuing their usual employment.
The rates of premium are less than in any other
class of insurance, in proportion to the risk.
No better or more satisfactory inve-tment cln be
made of so small a sum. Therefore—nun/re tin the
Trove/ere.
OLDEST ACCIDENT INSIIRANcE COM-
pAiv - Y IN AMERICA
J. G. BATTERSON, Preaident.
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary
HENRY A. DYER, General Agent.
WM. W. ALLEN & CO.,
Qeneral Agents for Pennsylvania,
409 WALNIIr STREET.
PEILADWILIA.
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