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THE DAILY E YNG TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 18G8.
LITE H ATUHE.
REVIEW OF NEW 1JOOK8.
BisocBf es op the Pacific Si-orB. Ty. J. Ross
Urowne. Published by D. Appleton & Co.
Philadelphia agent, D. Ashmead.
We regret that the crowded state of our
columns prevents na from making more than
a mere mention of thia vaiualile and impor
tant work. Mr. J. Ross Browne, one of the mort
competent men that could he found for the
task, was selected by the Government to pre
pare a statistical and descriptive summary
of the mines and minerals, climate, topo
graphy, agriculture, commerce, manufactures,
and miscellaneous productions of the State3
and Territories west of the Rocky Mountains.
Mr. Brown was aided by a competent corps of
assistants, and the result of their labors is
contained in the volume before us. Appended
to the report is an interesting and valuably
Sketch of the settlement and explorations o
Lower California from its discovery in 15312 to
iMw, and sketches of Washington and Nevada
Territories.
I'. Ashmead also sends us, of Appleton'g
publications, "Woodside and Seaside," an
elegant holiday quarto, printed on tinted
paper and handsomely bound, containing
selections from some of the most esteemed
American and English poets, and finely illus
trated with designs by ilirket Foster, Dalziel,
Howe, Duncan, Harvey, Weir, and other
artists; "Newton Forster," one of the attract
ive fifty-cent edition of Captain Maryatt'a
ever-popular sea stories, and "Isaiah," with
notes critical and explanatory, by Rev
Henry Cowles, D. D. This last-named work
is the third of a series of notes on the Old
Testament prophets designed for the use of
pastors and people.
Claxton, Remsen & HalTelfinger publish
'Silver Threads," by Harriet B. MoKeever,
an interesting story, founded on an incident
connected with the rescue of a little ship
wrecked girl, which the author read several
years ago.
From the same house we have received
"Wild Life Under the Equator," by Faul da
Chaillu, and " Adventures in the Apache
Country," by J. Ross Browne, published by
Harper & brothers. Mr. du Chaillu gives a
narrative of his wonderful adventures in the
gorilla country, in a shape suited to the tastes
and understandings ot young people. The
book is handsomely bound and copiously illus
trated, and there are few boys who will not
consider it an acceptable gift for Christinas.
Mr. J. Ross Browne, who is always amusing as
well as instructive, also gives a record of ad
ventures in Arizona and Souora. This volume
is rendered attractive by numerous illnstra.
tions drawn by the author, and representing
the scenes, incidents, and people he met with
in his travels,
Messrs. Claxlon, Uiitusen & naftjllinger
ako send us "A Treatise on the Dcmesti6
Practice of Medicine," by William Paine,
M. D. Published by the University Publishing
Society. In this treatise the author does not
propose to substitute a book for a regular
physician, but to furnish the peblio with such
information as is indispensable to the care ot
the sick and the aid of the educated physician;
also to enable the non-medical reader to treat
many simple diseases.
From J. B. Lippincott & Co. we have re
ceived "Tricotriu: the Story of a Waif and
Stray," by "Ouida." This story i3 dedicated
to the American people, and it will doubtless
be read with interest by the many admirers Of
the author in this country. "Ouida'o" Etorie3
are full of action and highly-wrought situa
tions, which render them attractive and enter.
tainiDg, although wo may be disposed to quar
rel at times with the somewhat exaggerated
Style. This volume is embellished with a lice
steel portrait of the author.
From the Auieiican Sunday Soliool Union
we have received "The Little House in the
Hollow," a religious story for children.
MtS3rs. llurd & Houghton announce "To
bacco and Alcohol an Antidote." By John Fiske,
A. M , LL. B. This volume will bean attempt
to answer Mr. Barton's extensively circulated
articles against tobacco and alcohol, and the
subjects will be treated under the heads "It
Does, Pay to Smoke" and "The Comiug Man
will ilrink Wine."
The first of a series of papers by Mr.
Charles Dicken?, entitled "New Uncommer
cial Samples," has appeared in Every Saturday,
published by Fields, Osgood & Co. These
papers will be of the same general character
as the "Uncommercial Traveller" papers, and
may be regarded as a continuation of them.
Mr. Anthony Trollope's Btory, entitled "He
Knew He Was Right," now appearing serially
in Every Saturday, increases in interest as it
progresses, and it promises to be one of his
beet novels. Every Saturday has always an
attractive variety of articles culled from the
best European magazines and reviews.
THE JAMJAKY M&UAZIXES.
"The Atlantic." '
The January number of the Atlantic com
mences the twenty-third volume, and opens
with a serial story by Colonel T. W. Higgiu
Bon, entitled "Malbone: anOldportRomauoe."
From Bayard Taylor's poem, "The Sunshine
of the Gods," we take these verses;
As a man that walks in the mist,
As one that gropes for the morning
Through lengthening chambers of twilight,
The souls of the poems wander
Restless, and dumb, and lost,
Till the Word, like a beam of morning,
Shivers the pregnant silenoe,
And the light of speeoh descends
Like a tongue of the Pentecost I '
Ah, moment not to be purchased,
Hot to be won by prayers,
Not by toil to be conquered,
But given, lest one despair,
By the gods in wayward kindness,
Stay thou art all too fair I
Hour of the dancing measures,
Sylph of the dew and rainbow,
Let ns clutch thy shining hair I
For the mist is blown from the mind,
For the impotent yearning is over,
And the wings of the thought have piwer;
In the warmth and th glow creative
Existence mellows and ripens,
And a crowd of swift surprises
Sweetens the fortunate hour;
Till a shudder of rapture loosens
The tears that hang on the eyelids
Like a breeze-suspended shower,
With a pen se of heavenly freshness
Blown from beyond the sunshine,
And the blood, like the sap of the roses,
Breaks into bud and flower.
"A Literary Gourmand" is by Henry
James; and "The Good-natured Pendu
lum" is a characteristic story by E. E. Hale.
Mr. James Russell Lowell has a poem en
titled "The Flying Dutchman." In the third
paper on "Co-operative Housekeeping" the
author asserts that our present system of
domestic service is a relio of slavery:
We mistresses who try t. regulate inde
pendently these creatures who come to us we
know not whence, and Hit away we know not
where, little realize that we are bearing up
the heavy lag-end of the once universal
Fystem under which not only domestio labor,
but every possible species of agricultural and
manufacturing art, was carried on in the
bouses or cm the estates of their owners by
slaves, who could no more dream of giving
their mistresses warning and leaving the fol
lowing week, if they disapproved her arrange
ments, than they could hope to reverse the
decrees of fate itself running away, when
there was nothing but slavery to run to, not
holding out those rosy inducements that of
late the North did to the Southern bond
woman. Serfdom was at its last gasp
in Queen Elizabeth's day, but the tradition of
bondage remained for a hundred years or
more. In Cromwell's time servants were only
paid a few dollars a year; they seldom left
their places, and were glad to transmit them
to their children after them. But the disor
ganization begun by emancipation has culmi
nated in our American chaos, where from its
very foundation the domestic temple sways
and iluotuates unceasingly on its ever-changing
basis of ill-trained and unprincipled service,
creating an antagonistic feeling which renders
the relation of mistress and servant but a cold
blooded bargain, formed in suspicion, and dis
solved with pleasure on the slightest provo
cation. All our trouble come3 beoause we are going
against the spirit oi the age, which revolts
against submission to an individual will, but
freely subjects itself to the despotism of au
organization. Arrerioau-born girls, as we all
know, have long abandoned domestio service
for the factory, the shop, and the district
rchool; snd the Irish girls are following their
example, eo that umir the present pystem it
is a grave question whcie, when Irish emigra
tion ceases, the servants of the next genera
tion are to come horn. Even without this
problem to trouble ns, however, with the
American idea deely implanted in 'servants
that the maid is as good as the mistress, it
is absurd to hope for obedience and respect,
and the only way to control them the
is by unalterable laws and regulations of an
organized incorporation. The community
would need fewer of them, their wages would
be h'g'uer, and as fei vice would then ba as
"respectable" and "independent" as factory
work, and (owing to the good meals p.nd lodg
ings we crfuld easily provide for them) far
more comfortable, a lauch better class of
women would, go into it than we ever see in
our families, while even those who do so
badly in private houses, by the accurate
division of labor, and the having only one
kind of thing to attend to all day long, would
reach a higher standaid cf pisifection than
with their precent diversity of duties they are
capable of.
"In the Teutobnrger Forest" is one of
Bayard Taylor's series of articles on the By
ways of Europe. Mr. Whittier contributes a
poem, "After the Election." "Consumption
in America" is the first of a series of articles
on this important subject, by Dr. Henry J.
Bowditch. We quote the following:
We know of two families iu Massachusetts
of whom the following story maybe tod. Two
healthy brothers manied two healthy sisters.
Buth had large families of children. One
lived on the old homestead, on the southern
slope of oiie of the numerous beautiful aud
Wtfll-drainod hills iu that vicinity. The
whole house was bathed all day long
in sunlight, and consumption aid not
touch any of the young lives under its roof.
The other brother placed hia house at a
vtry hbort distance oil", but upon a grassy
plain, covered all summer wiUi the rankest
veidure. In its front was a larga open "ootn
mon." In the centre of this water ooied up
from between the split hoofs of the cow3 as
they came lowing homeward at evening, and
tlin barefooted boy who was driving them
ustd to shrink from the place and preferred
to make the circuit of its edge rather thau to
follow the lead of his more quiet comrades.
Back of the house was a large level meadow,
reaching to the very foundations of the build
ing. Through this meadow sluggishly crept
the millstream of the adjacent village. Still
fuither, all three surroundings were inclosed
by lofty hills. The life-giving sun rose later
and set earlier upon this than upon the other
lair homestead. Till late in the forenoon,
and long before sunset left the hillside homii,
damp and chilling emanations arose from the
meadow, and day alter day enveloped the
tender forms of the childreu that were trying
in ruin to grow up healthily within them. But
all effort was useless. Large families were
born under both roots. Not one of the chil
dren born in the latter homestead escaped,
whereas the other tauaily remained healthy;
and when, at the suggestion of a medical
friend who knew all the facts we have told,
we Yisited the place for the purpose of
thoroughly investigating them, we thought
that these two houf.es were a terribly signifi
cant illustration of the- existence of this all
powerful law. Yet these two homes had
nothing peculiarly noticeable by the passing
stranger. They were situated in the same
township and within a very short distance one
from the other, and scarcely any one in the
village with whom we spoke on the subject
agreed with us in our opinion that it was looa
tion alone, or chielly ttiat, which gave life or
death to the inmates of the two.
We might speak of other homesteads which
Eeem to ns now to be the very nest of con
sumption in consequence of this law, and yet
not one parent in a hundred acknowledges
even theoretically his belief in the truth of
our assertion, Parents themselves, during a
long residence, may escape from the dire in
fluences of location; and therefore they ima
gine, if their children are falling, that some
other evil agency is at work, rather thau this
law.
We have known daughters and sisters, who,
full ot apparent health and strength, when
consumption has seized a mother or
sister, have continued to sleep with
the iuvalid, and to breathe the same olosed
np atmosphere at night, and to watch
all ' day without perhaps a moment of
healthful out-of-door exercise. And we have
been distressed to tiud not a few of such
healthy young persons gradually begiuning to
suiter with indigestion, debility, aud finally
cough, and all the symptoms of consumption.
In come instances, in fact, the attendant lm
died before the life of the original patient ha
ended. These facts are very slguiticant; and
although we are well aware that in some
of them other elemonts of disease may have
had their fatal intluenceB, still the cases have
been full of suggestions as to the necessities
of greater precautions than we iu this country
have usually taken in this matter.
Mr. James Tarton discourses abaut "The
Mean Yankee at Home," and William Cullen
Bryant has a poem from Dante:
The following lines were written about the
t ime of the nix hundredth anniversary of the
blrtli of Dante; which wnn cc-leuiHtrd in various
parts of the civilized world in May, If
they have any interest for the reader, thoy will
owe It In a good degree to t lie recont admirable
translation of Dante's great poem, which have
familiarized ttie American public with the
character of his luinu and what, he did for Inn
own ago and tho urcs which succeeded htm
the translation of tneeiiliro poem by Longfel
low, in which the naked grandeur of the oib;i
nl In reproduced with n severo lldcllty, mid
that of the "Inferno," by Parsons, rem irkaulo
lor the ease and spirit of its rendering.
The allusion in the lnst stanza ol tho lines
here niven will bo readily understood to refer
to tho history of our own country fjr tho yor
1C05.
Who, midst the grasses of the field
That spring beneath our careless feet,
First found the shining stems that yield
The grains of life-sustaining wheat;
Who first upon the furrowed land
Strowed the bright grains to sprout and
grow,
And ripen for the reaper's hand
We know not, and we cannot know.
But well we know the hand that brought
And scattered, far as sight can reach,
The seeds of free and living thought
On the broad field of modern speech.
Midst the white hills that round ns lie
We cherish that Great Sower's fame;
And, as we pile the sheaves on high,
With awe we utter Dante's name.
Six centuries, since the poet's birth,
Have come and flitted o'er our sphere;
The richest harvest reaped on earth
Crowns the last century's closing year.
"On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners,"
by James Russell Lowell, is sharp and to the
point. Professor Lowell speaks thus about
"mother-in-law England:"
It will take England a great while to get
over her airs of patronage towards us, or even
passably to conceal them. She caunot help
confounding the people with the country, and
regarding us as lusty juveniles. She has a
conviction that whatever good there is in us is
wholly English, when the truth is that we are
worth nothing except so far as we have disin
fected ourselves of Anglicism. She is especially
cendescetding just now, and lavishes sugar
plums on us as if we had not outgrown them.
1 am no believer in sudden conversions, espe
cially in sndden conversions to a favorable
opinion of people who have just proved you to
be mistaken in judgment, aud therefore unwise
in policy. I never blamed her for not wish
ing well to democracy how should she ?
but Alabanias are not wishes. Let her not be
too hasty in believing Mr. Reverdy Johnson's
pleasant words. Though there is no thought
lul man in America who would not consider a
war with England the greatest of calamities,
j et the feeling toward3 her here is very far
from cordial, whatever our Minister may say
in the ellusion that comes after ample dining.
Mr. Aoams, with his famous "My Lord, thij
ineacs war," perfectly represented his coun
try. Justly or not, we have a feeUng that we
have been wronged, not merely insulted. The
only sure way of bringing about a healthy re
lation between the two countries is for English
men to clear their minds of the notion that we
are always to be treated as a kind of inferior
and deported Englishman whose nature they
perfectly understand, and whose back they
accordingly stroke the wrong way of the fur
with amazing perseverance. Let them learn
to treat ns naturally on our merits as human
beiDgs, as they would a German or a French
man, and not as if we were kind of counterfeit
Briton whose crime appeared in every shade
of diflerence, and before long there would come
that right feeling which we naturally call a
good understanding. The commou blood and,
still more, the commou language, are fatal
instruments of misapprehension. Let them give
up trying to understand us, still mora think
ing that they do, and acting in various absurd
ways as the necessary consequence, for
they will never arrive at that devoutly-to-be-wis-bed
consummation till they
learn to look at us as we are and not as they
suppose us to be. Dear old long-estranged
mother-in-law, it is a great many years since
we parted. Since 1UG0, when you married
again, you have been a step-mother to ns.
Put on jour spectacles, dear madam. Yes,
we have f,rown, and changed likewise. You
would not lot us darken your doors, if you
could help it. We know that perfectly well.
But pray, when we look to be treated as men,
don't Bhake that rattle in our faces, nor talk
baby to us any longer.
''Do, child, tio to It Rrandaivi. child;
(live Kiandum Kingdom, mid it grandam will
(jive it a plum, a cherry, and u tig!"
"Gnadenhutten" is au interesting histori
cal sketch by W. II. Uowells, and "Cinders
frcm the Ashes" is a racy chapter of school re
miniscences by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Mr.
E. P. Whipple discourses on the "Moral Sig
nificance of the Republican Triumph," and
the magazine wiud3 up with appreciative
reviews and literary notices.
"Our Young Folks"
for January opens with "The Story of a Bad
Boy," Mr. T. B. Aldriuh's new serial story,
which is followed by "My Heroine," a true
6tory, by the author of "John Halifax." "The
Story of the Golden Christmas Tree," by Mrs
A. M. Diaz; "Among the Glassmakers," first
paper, by J. T. Trowbridge; "The World
we Live In," first paper, by Mrs. E. C.
Agassi; "Honor's Dream," by Mrs. Harriet
Prescott Spofibrd; "Kitty: a Fairy Tale of
Nowadays," by Aunt Fanny; "The Beauti
ful Gate," by Helen Wall Parsons; "Dr. Isaac
I. Hayes," with a Bteel portrait; "The Divert
ing History of Little Whisky," by Mrs. Har
riet Beecher Stowe; " Round the Evening
Lamp," and "Our Letter-Box." The pub
lishers of this magazine announce that it is
designed to make its contents more practical
and instructive than heretofore. Mr. Al
drich'B "Story of a Bad Bjy" will give the ad
ventures of an active, wide-awake little fel
low, whose love of mischief leads him into
many amusing adventures; biographical
sketches of navigators, voyagers, and discove
rers, by James Parton, will be given. Rev.
E. E. Hale, Mrs. Agassi i, J. T. Trowbridge,
and other popular writers will oontributo
articles on practical matters, icienoe, and an
Innumerable variety of interesting subjects.
ilodeifs Lady's Book for January has a
fine steel plate frontispiece entitled "The
King's Daughter," representing Madame
Eliza! etb, daughter, of Louis XVI, Bweep!ng
tEe floor of her apartment in the Temple. A
fine colored fashion plate is given, and a great
variety of patterns for worsted and needle
work. The reading matter is, as usual, varied
and interesting.
Arthur's Home Magazine is an attractive
miscellany of stories, sketches, fashion arti
cles, domestio receipts, etc. It la nloely illus
trated, and has a number of fashion and pat
tern plates.
The Chf.dren's Hour, edited by T. S.
Arthur & Sons, has an interesting variety of
short stories, poems, and sketches, which will
please the little ones. It is finely illustrated
with designs by E. B. Bensell and other
artiats.
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Ureatly Utlow Usual Trices,
As wo Lave, In addition to a complete assort
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kliii ts, Underwear, ami Hosiery,
An elegant variety of Fancy (Joints, compris
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oilier requisites lor gentlemen, witu tt I'icu
BtVKAHPER-t AND BREAKFAST COATS.
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Holiday rrescuts at MoJerato Trices.
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Selling off Old Stock at (Ulilmrp
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A very large assortment
MICKOHCOPES,
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And a large variety of Uweful aud Ornamenta
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INSURANCE COMPANIES,
orntx OF THE
DELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Pit I LADKLpn 1 4. November II, 1808.
The following Btatemeot of the .flairs of the Com.
paoy la inbiisbed Iu cuDlormliy wliu a provlslOQ of
IU Cli.rter;
PKEMIUMH KECEIVED
Frnm November 1, ls7, to October 31. 1808.
On Marine Rud Inland IUbIjh JWl:t.WMC74
On 1 lie Klbks 1 15,V!05 tW
U 18,71 1 60
Premiums on Policies not marked off
Mov. 1, im 400,81571
fl,:f5,557fil
PKEMITTMS MAKKED OFF-
An rnrnt'd from .Nov. 1. 1m;7, to Oou 31, ISfiS.
On Alnr'ne and Inland lilskb ....f7K) (" 77
On Flro Kims HS,U7-7'2
8SU4.y.l '-1H
Interest rl nrlng t lie same period Sal
vages, etc 107,198-82
LOSSES, EXPENSES, ETC., 1'lW2.J--
ttie year hh uuovo.
Mnrlue amt lniiiud Naviga
tion Losses t'i'ZJ.052 74
Fire lxKes 74 4.soX7
Keturn Premiums 6't,14l (2
Reinsurances 3(J.10ti 51
Agency Clmrges, Advertis
ing, Printing, etc aO,5SS03
Taxes United States, State
and Municipal Tuies 4.'!,f55-89
Expenses 3
J710.887 81
ASSETS OF TIII2 COMPANY
Aovciubcr 1, 1SOS.
U. 8. 5 per cent. Loan, 10-10s. 208 500 00
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Paoitto Kalhond) 60,000 00
State of Pennsylvania 0 per
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City of Philadelphia por
cent. Louu (exempt from
Tax) 128.501 CO
Stale of New Jersey 0 por
cent. Loun Ri.Mmm
Pennsylvania Kaiiroiui 1st
Mortage 0 per cent. Ponds 20,200-00
1'emif.ylVHijhi Kallroad 2d
Moiturtkie 0 per cent, lionda li .mm -nil
Western Peuu'a Kxllroad
Mortgage 0 per cent, iionda
(Peuu'a Kaiiroiui guar
antee) 2-J,')25-00
State ol Tennessee 5 per cent.
Loan 21,000 00
Stale of Tennessee U per cent
I-oan 6,031-25
Germantown Uhs Company;
pnnolpal uud interest guar
anteed by tne City of Phi
ladelphia, oUO shares stock 15,000-00
1't nnsylvanla Kaliroad Com
pany, 2U0 shares stocfc ll.SOO'OO
North Pennsylvania Kail
road Company, ItiO shares
stock 3,500 00
Philadelphia aud Southern
Mali Steamship Company,
W shares Btock 1j,00(J 0O
Loans on Koud aud Wort
first, lions ou City
Properties 207,000'00
t:eo,oi'0
120,000
6o.uuo
200.000
125,000
50,000
20,000
25.0C0
23,000
30,000
7.000
15,000
10,000
5,000
20.0'JO
207,900
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Cost, $l,OWlU0P2ij.
Heal EstHte 30,000 00
Bills Kecelvable fur Insur
ances made 32i',4Sii 91
Ealances due at Agencies
Premiums on Marine Poli
cies, Accrued luteieht.und
other debts due the Com
pany 40,17-83
Slock and Scrip oi wi.ndiy
Corporations, SulOti. Esti
mated vslue 1.S13 00
t'ush in liank iUU.loJ (-8
C'Rsh In Drawer 413 G5 , . .
llfl.563 73
81,617,307 80
Philadelphia, November n, mis.
Tho Boarrt ot i'lrecturs have this day declared a
CASH DIVIDED ot TEN VS.H. CiSNT. On the
CAPITAL STOCK, and blX i'KU L'f.NT. Interest on
the bCRIP of the Couipaoy, payable on and after the
let December proximo, free of National aud Stale
Taxes.
TLeyhave a so declared a eciUP DIVIDEND ol
THllU'Y PEK CENT.oa tlie EAKXEO PitEMIDAIS
fur the year ending October Ol, isus, cerillieates of
which will be w-tuea to the parties eulliled to the
same, on aud after tho let December proximo, free
of National &Dd 8taie Taxes,
They have ordered, alao, that the BCEIP CERTIFI
CATES OP PAUFITd of the Company, for the year
ending October 31, 1M, be redeemed la CA3H, at the
OOice of the Company, on aud after 1st December
proximo, all Interest thereon to ceoxe on that dale.
t fBy a provision ot the Charier, all Certliluates of
Scrip not presented for redomptiou within live years
after public notice that they will be redeemed, shad
be forjutul (out canctlltAon the Movka qf tne Company,
&M'S'o certificate of profits lutuxi under fij. Ay
the Act uf Jncwporation, '-no certlicale shall Unie inv
est claimed within two years aler Uie (ieclaration ol
'if. (iii'jtfcml uhtreof it is tvuU nce,"
Dia.b.c1"?
EUuiUU'l A. Bonder.
eaiuuel k.. BloVeu,
iUnry .-Momi,
Wlillum (J. -Ludwlg,
ueurue U. helper,
iieiuy C. Daliett, Jr.,
John i. t'ayior,
Oeortse W. Bernardou,
W llliuui U Buultou,
Jucuo Klcgcl,
Hpeucer it'll vaton,
John H, bourne, Pitts.,
A. B, ilergei, do
lk. T. M itt-LAii. nn
THO:fA!s L'.HA.VU. President.
JOHN C. DAVIo, Vlce-iTeaidout.
IlF.Xr.Y LYLliUKN.tJtcrelary.'
II UlSUr .BALL, Auaiuiani becretary. 11121m
Trtonias C. Hand,
JOUU J. UUVIS,
Jauies C. liana,
'iheopillua fuuldins,
Joaei'h H. beat,
llutiU Cihik,
Jonu It. feurose,
Jacob 1. JoufM,
Jaruea '1 ruqimlr,
.aa d DnrilDKion,
11. Jonen Breoku.
jouin 11. McFailar.d,
Kuwaru Laii.urtace,
Jothua Jr. lLjie,
"CHARTUli FEHPETUAL.
ISM"
Franklin Fire Insurance Co.
OFPICK:
Mis. i'ib and 43J ULESWI STliliJrJT,
AKStETM ON JAMUAUT 1, 1888,
CAPITA!. .,....... 1O,0O0'i
AlCJtUJCD HVRi'L US ........,, l,Ulft,8-M.
ii.Jfc.jit.s......... i.ivi.ijta-uu
CKbtTTiiliJi CLAlMls. USUOAtK Jjoit ls07
Bas.eua-aa ase.oovoa,
l,lSttJ JKAIU BI3SCE lSiitf OVKit
000,000.
f eipemal ana Tempoiary Pollute on Liberal Term
DIKECTOK8.
Charles N. Baucsei, Ueorge Fale,
Tobias Waiibr, 1 Alfred Fluor,
bamuel Orttui, Frauds W, Lwl, M n
uwrge W iilchards, 1 uoinoa Hearts,
Isaac Lea, 1 W liham ti. uraut.
CHARLE-j IS. HACKKK. president.
UcOiloh; FaL&S, Vwb rreoiUeul.
JAB. W. WcAjjijlblli.lt, tteetelary pro louu
Lxceptat Lexington, Keiiiutnj, una Company h.
no AKeucies West of PnuoarK. Ul
TaSUKANCE COMPANY
NORTH AMEItlOA,
No. 232 WALNUT BTRKKT, PHILADA.
UNCOKPOKATUD 171M. CHAKTKH PKHPATUAI
Harlue, Juland, aud lr Iusarance.
ASSETS JANUARY 1, 1868, - 12,001,266-72.
10,000,000 Loesea Paid ia Cuh Biuoo iu
Organixation.
niRiix'i'ona.
Arthor O. CofUn, George L. Harrison.
John A, iirown, '
Charles Taylor.
Ambrose white,
Frauds R. Vow,
Ko ward H. '1 roller,
Kdward B. Clarke,
T. Charlloo Uenry,
Alfred 1- Jeaiiup,
John F. White,
Dwul. U Madeira.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.' I
N8URE AT.HOM)
IN IBB - 1 .j
Pciin Mutual Life Insurance C
Jio. 021 cm;sMjr St., ruiidtlcipiiiii!
assi:t, 82,000,00. '
CHARTEnKD BY OCIt OWN STATE,
MASAHKD BY OCR OWN CUIZEN9.
L'JIHt-S PKOMP1LY PAID.
rOLK'IKs lUaUED OM VARIOOs pr.ASS.
Applications may be mdo at the llome Otllce, an4
rje AKencics throughuui the tiiaie, 2 I
JAMi:N "1 It A1 11 A I H PKE31DK1
NA.1II Kl. K. ft-I'Ulii; VICEFREblDKi
W- MUHMKH A. V.r. an1 ACtUAl
HOKATIO H. WlfcPllKXM 31LURKTA4
COMl'AXr
)IHEMX INSUliAKCE
I'M ILAlKI.l'lil A.
liN'CUHri'hA'lKJI lwu CHARTK.R fERPKTni
No. 2.4 WALM.-TWiretl.oppoiie the "xcuiuM
Thlb Company Insures friiu ioi.s or damaue by j
FIK;,
on liberal terms, on bulldiUK. mprchriiid so. fnrnlta'
nc.iornoinea period, ana permaueuilv on nnf
UfcS by tirpoitli of premium I,
I
UheC. nipany hfcg bt;eii In active operation for ml
M.anblXl KAli. durlug whiua all loa, h.
been promptly adjusted and pal 1,
John L. HodKe, i-avia Lewie.
J. 11. Idh l.y, ; Hei.Jaujiu iiiilcK.
1 iioini.ii m . foiv'era.
A It U nil ....
JoIid T. Lew In,
Wll lain b. Ura-t,
Ilobtrl W. Leu in lug,
I). Clark Whaitun,
Lawreuce Lewis, Jr.,
jo six ll.
BiMflL WlMin, .-wcrfmry.
A. 11. JUCllB I V.
jvdn ui d Uitiuiion,
hamnpl ftncux,
Lew In C Aorr .
w CCHKlijiit, i'rcslilenti
4
tTlKK IXSLKAACE KACLL'blVLLY TE
JL" f-lr,i5i L,AfrlA Ulla. l&aUHANUKlXJ
FA W Incorporated lhto Charter Ptr ituall
61U WALWfT Bireet. opnlie Independence Hani
This Company, lavor.O y known to the commiint
for over loriy years, Continue to Ininre aL-alust In
or damage by nre ou Futilio or Frivaie Balldln.
either permaiieniij or nr a limited t" Also 5
Furniture mocks of Uooda, aud Merchaudlie een
rally, on liberal term, " el
lhelr Capital, toKinliT with a large 8;iniln vnJ
IS Invested In the most careful mauner, nnioh n.i.L
ll.om to nlTMr In tha l...i.r .....1....... .. "'
iheTase oi im " ,HHiur'1'
IBBTOs.
joun never en i,
Thomas Bnilib,
Henry A.ewi,
uiuiuguani x Hit.
bo,
Daniel Bmltb. Jr.,
Alexander Bnuson,
Isaac Kazlebnrst,
Thi.mu UllhlUS.
Daniel Baddnnk. i
STRICTLY MUTUA
PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST CC
VB a Ji lliAlUiLi I X3 lAi 1
OFriCE, Ko. Ill H. I'OURTU iSTBEEl
Orgaulzt-dlO promote LJFU. AAaUMAKCJC uiai
uemoertolthe
tSOCTKTY OF FRIKND3, J
Good risks of any class accepted. J
1'oliclts lkued upon approved plans, a: the lower
Tales, ;
Presldenl, I
BAM OF.L R. SHIPLEY. J
Vlce-Presldeut, WiiiiiAM C. LoiNt-tHTttETH. f
Aeioary, ROWLAND FARHY.1
7 be ed vantages ottered by this Company are 1
excelled 72 !
Jai J. Lit A A Aj r ilili AA a C li AA CL CO ML ATS I
LONDON.
r.STAl!l.I.SHi;i) 1803.
Fald-np Capital and Accomnlatea Funds,
GGjO O 0,0 O O IN COLD
1'ItLVO.ST A HEKKIKU.Ageutfl,
1 H Sm, Ko. 107 Bouth THIRD Street, Fhila,
LIFE INSURANCE.
William WelHh.
Richard I. Wood,
U. Morris Wain.
.Tnlin Hf&Mttn.
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President.
CHABX.EH Platt. Kecretary.
WILLIAM BDKHLKR, Harrlsburf, Pa-, Centra
Agent for the b tale oi Pennsylvania,
THE NATIONAL
LIFE NSUOCE COMPANV
of rna
United Stales of America,
WASIIDiUTOX, D. C
Cliarlcrctl bj Special Act of Congress
Approved July 25, 18CS.
CASH CAPITAL. Sl.OOO.OOa
BRANCH OFFICE:
riEST AATIOAAL BANK BUILUIXG,
I'HILADELFUIA,
Where the buslneH8 of tlie Company Is trans
acted, and to which all general correspondence;
should be addressed.
DIUKOTORS.
Clarence II. clakk,
JAY tOOKK,
ItATCHFOBTl STAKR,
W. O. MOOKtlliAD,
Gkowik F. Tvlkk,
J. HlfiCiiLKY C'LAllK,
E. A. KOLLIJI9,
H KNRY 1J. CoOKF,
Wm, PJ. C'manulkr,
John i. lmFKthij,
KUWAKD DtilHIB,
H. C. FAiiiJi4itOCS.
OFFICERS.
Jay Cookk, Chairutau Flnaucu ana Kxeoullvo
Comnilltee, (
H i.nry 1). Cooke, Washington, Vice-President,!
Kmeknon W. PjtKT, PhiittdelpUla, -eoretary.
and Actuary, J
K. ti. IVBUhu, Washlnnton, AsNlMtnntS ee'y. J
! uan( is (i. Hmi-1'11, M. I)., Medloul Jjirector,
J. Kwinu MjlAkm, M. U., AbHiatant Medloal'
Director. i
MEDICAL ADVISOUY HOARD.
J. K. BAKNEa, cjurgeou-Ueneral (J. M. A., Waari
lugton,
1". J. lloRWixa, Chiel Medical Deportmea
U.S. N., WuriLlngion.
D. W. LLifcB, M. U.. VYaBhlnston.
SOL1CITOKS AND ATTORNEY'S.
Hon. Wm. K. Chanbi.kk, Washiniften, D. (X
(jtoiiUK ilAuuibo, Aniiudolphla, l'.
THE ADVANTAGES
OQered by ihU Company are:
It laaNaltonal Company, chartered by spe.
clal act of Congress, lson.
ll has a paid-up capital of $1,000,000.
ll oilers low rates of premium.
It furulMtieti lurgtr iuMuiauco thau other com
panleafor the same money.
ll ia definite and certain In Us terms.
It ia a home company in every locnitty.
1th policies are exempt from altacnmeut.
There are no nnneceauary resti'iutloas In trie
policies.
livery policy Is non-forfeltable.
l'ollclts may be taken wuioa pay to the In
Htucd their lull amount aud return all the pre.
luiumH, eo thai the insurance oosu ouly the in-
WitiNluu luuauuuni puj uiruuk a
Policies may be lubeu that will pay to the
JUbuitiu, nitux Mueiiuiu uuiuuerui jrtiata, uaring
Hie an annual Income of one-tenth the amount,
named iu the policy.
Mo extra rate is charged for risks upon the
lives of females. 88wsrp
It Insures not to pay dividends, bin at so i0w
a cost that dividends will be Impossible.
TO RENT.
p O R RENT.
VOB 8TORJB OB OrriCJB.
ALHO, OFF1CKH AND LARGE BOONS saiUbi
ror a t. uuiiuerciai MJiirge. AVUiy n
i ur i
IMlf
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JONES, TEMPLE ft CO.,
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