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PERSONALS.

J. K. is still Hyer.

There is a "row" developing. See No. 3 on the list for October.

And, lo! A. C. Haynes's name led all the

rest.

It looks like "leader" A. M. Shields for the last year of the century.

They say that J. C. Wilson, Jr.'s, applicants average 89 years of age.

The Pittsburg agency is not out of the woods yet. Eisele & King are giving Woods a run for his money.

J. A. Rossillo, the Society's Directeur in Spain, sent a most ingenious advertiseing arrangement for the prize advertisement competition, but, unfortunately, it arrived too late. Muchisisimas gracias, Senor.

D. D. Monroe, of New Hampshire, writes that the authorities of that State are paying $1 a bushel for grasshoppers. Mr. Tarbell says he will pay $2 a bushel for applications.

A. C. Haynes gave a lunch to his business associates at Delmonico's, November 12. They promised him a great amount of assurance during the remainder of the year, and up to date it looks as if they were going to do it with ease.

On October 26 a meeting and dinner of the Yorkshire agency of the British branch was held at Leeds, under the presidency of Mr. H. W. Southgate, F. S. S., the manager for Yorkshire. Mr. Triggs, the joint general manager for Great Britain, was present, and made a stirring appeal for a good windup in 1900. Addresses were also made by Messrs. Southgate, White, Jarvis, Victor Southgate and others. Every one present was most enthusiastic, and a large business was promised. Here's looking across at you, Yorkshire.

Recent visitors at the home office included J. S. Ramsay, F. W. Danner, L. D. Wilkes, M. N. Wisdom, H. H. Hoyt, H. D. Neely, and F. A. McNamee.

R. B. Daniel was also a visitor at the home office. During his visit he was seen by another manager to enter Mr. Tarbell's office. "There goes Daniel into the lion's den," said the aforesaid manager. And the band played on.

Mr. Hyde was treasurer, and Mr. Wilson chairman, of the executive committee of the Insurance Men's Sound Money Club. And yet the Club had a balance of over $100 in the treasury when its affairs were wound up.

Mr. Tarbell rode a spirited horse in the great parade. Owing to the wet weather the asphalt was very slippery, and it was nearly a horse on Tarbell once or twice. Mr. Wilson said: "Mr. Tarbell may ride on a horse if he will, but I feel more safe in an automo-bill."

Good morning! Have you seen Mix's new circulars? Hoop la!

Aird and his cohorts in Buffalo are making a big effort for business these closing months. And they are getting it!

L. Samuel writes from Portland, Ore.:

This is a good time to call the attention of our field men to the advantage of dealing in finance with a strong institution, instead of one that is all right in fair weather, but cannot stand the storm. The country has just furnished a good example: Alvord stole Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars from one of your New York banks, and it was fortunate for those who dealt with that bank that it was well able to weather such a loss. Cashier Brown stole only One Hundred and Ninety-one Thousand Dollars from a Kentucky bank; it promptly closed its doors, and will probably pull down to ruin a great many men who did business with them.

Whom do you suspect, Samuel?

Miss Amendt's picture appears in the current issue of Success. This has inspired the following from the office poet: "Have you seen Miss Amendt's picture in

"Success"?

It is taken in her very bestest dress;
There's a happy smile depicted on her face,
And her dress it is of black "peau de soie" lace.

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ONE OF THE MANY IDEAS SUBMITTED IN THE PRIZE ADVERTISEMENT

COMPETITION BY ARTHUR KENNEDY.

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ASSURANCE OF ONE'S LIFE A DUTY. Dean Fair Sets Forth the Benefits Accruing from Protection.

(From the Omaha Bee.)

In discussing the insurance of man's life and property at Trinity Cathedral last night, Dean Campbell Fair took for his text II. Timothy ii, 5-8: "If any man provide not for his own, especially for those of his own home, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." The dean said:

"It may be that before next Sunday some one here to-night, strong, able and robust, may be laid low and feeble upon a bed of dangerous illness. You may lose your

health of body and your strength of mind. In a moment an accident can strike you down, and in a second you become helpless.

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"But, my fellow-man, something else is to happen! That illness may end in death, and what then? What and who are to support the helpless widow and more helpless orphans? Here comes in the magnificent system of finance we call insurance, the greatest of our many 'godsends,' to prevent pauperism and preserve the home. I bow in reverence before an insurance agent. I honor with unfeigned reverence the insurance organizations of America. They have saved the homes of our country and fed and clothed the widows and orphans of

America, when nothing else but begging and borrowing and an almshouse could have fed the hungry when death took the husband and father to the grave. Consult a representative of these great companies and excellent orders, and at once, while you are in health and strength, pass the medical examination, secure your policy and never cease its payments-from $6 to $20, saving your family $1,000 or $2,000 when you are gone so that you may be a free and honest

man.

"What shall such a course as this prevent? It will prevent an aching heart upon the bed of death as you think over from where can bread come to feed your loved ones. It will prevent shame upon your brow and poverty in your home. It will prevent the relieving officer coming to your widow and children to take them in the paupers' wagon to the Douglas county almshouse. It will prevent a thousand and one ills and make you feel that you can look with confidence into the face of loved wife and children, of mother and sisters, and know in your heart that because you loved them you saved them the awful condition of being a 'destitute family.'

"Some men tell us they don't believe in insurance, and that the world owes them and their families a living. I never argue with such men, because I feel the world owes them a kicking, and I wish someone would do it right off!"

A New Issue of

5% Debenture Bonds

Either Coupon or Registered.

Bonds to Run for Twenty Years.

Payable in Gold at Maturity.

Interest Semi-Annually in Gold.

PAYABLE JANUARY 1, AND JULY 1.

Sold in Lots of from $1,000 to $200,000.

Issued, Guaranteed, and Insured

By the EQUITABLE SOCIETY

OF NEW YORK

The Safest and Best of Investments.

The above is reproduced from a circular issued by the Society regarding its new issue of 5 per cent Gold Debenture Bonds. These bonds, together with the new Guaranteed Cash Value Policy, have been received with the utmost enthusiasm by the Society's representatives throughout the country. The managers and agents, with great unanimity, pronounce these to be the best contracts ever placed in the hands of a life assurance

agent. Here are some of their expressions of opinion.

"Certainly the best contracts in the insurance market to-day, and, backed as they are by the 'strongest and best Society in the world,' they should be great sellers."

"We consider them as strong contracts as could be placed in the hands of an agent."

"They are going to be sellers, and I am glad to have them to start the new century with."

"New contracts all right; special congratulations for allowing suicide clause to stand."

[No thought of ever taking it out.-ED.]

"Best things in life assurance since we became managers."

"Superior to any policy on the market to-day, and I believe can be more readily sold than any policy in existence, backed as they are by the strongest and best managed life company in the world."

"The new policies are all right. Best of all, the improvements are made in such a way as not to sacrifice a proper conservatism."

These are but a few, a very few, of the opinions expressed; but they show the tenor of them all, the widespread satisfaction felt, and the unanimous opinion that, with these contracts, the Society's representatives in the field should surpass all previous records during 1901.

GOLF "AS SHE IS SPOKE".

In the absence of the regular golf editor, the following question from a beginner was referred to the turf editor for an answer:

"In a game of golf is it the proper play to fizzle your put, or is it better to fetter on the tee?"

The turf editor set his teeth together, firmly stared at the wall in front of him for a few moments, and then wrote the following:

"In case a player snaggles his iron, it is permissible for him to fizzle his put, but a better plan would be for him to drop his guppy into the pringle, and snoodle it out with a niblick."-Exchange.

A GOOD START.

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"A good beginning makes a good ending." Now is the time to make a good start for a new century. It is our only chance. We have never had one before. We shall never have one again. Centuries don't come often enough. Make a good start for yourself by inducing your clients to do likewise. Induce them to make a good start by taking life assurance. It is not yet too late for them to so start, even at the very beginning. A policy issued now can be dated back to January 1, or, rather, January 2, the first business day of the century.

Apart altogether from the satisfaction such a policyholder must necessarily feel in the knowledge that he has begun a new year and a new century aright, think of the convenience of it. He will always know just how old his policy is, and just how many premiums have been paid on it, for his policy will be precisely the same age as the century.

One other point. By taking a policy on the first day of the twentieth century, the assured can rest assured that before the first day of the twenty-first century rolls around, his policy will have matured. All he will have to do will be to pay the premium.

But, seriously, there is now the chance of a lifetime to draw men's attention to the fact that all men are mortal. With the beginning of each year men realize to a certain extent their unstable tenure of life, as they think of the many men of their acquaintance who have died during the previous year. They know, however, that they will probably live through the coming year, and perhaps through many years. This year it is different. It is the beginning of a new century, and a man must realize that, long before the next century comes, the present generation will have passed

away.

DELAY.

A month ago Mr. J. T. D., of Sacramento, signed an application for a policy, but delayed going before the doctor for examination. We have received advice that Mr. D. was accidentally drowned a few days ago. Not having gone before the doctor, his family are now without the protection of assurance. Edwin Cramer.

F. A. C. HILL.

The name of F. A. C. Hill is well known to our readers as that of the Society's Boston manager. Mr. Hill is still a young man, being not much more than thirty years of age, but he has already made a great success in the profession of life assurance. His first direct contract with the Equitable was in 1892 at Providence, R. I., and his success in that territory led, in a few years, to his appointment to a larger field.

On January 1, 1898, Mr. Hill was given charge of the Boston office, and since then this territory has been brought up to first place, and now the Equitable leads all other companies in the amount of business written in Massachusetts. Manager Hill is a large personal writer, and has for colleagues a very able body of life underwriters, and the result of their efforts has been, as stated, to place the Equitable in the very front rank in this field; and this has only been accomplished by the writing of about seven million dollars of new business annually.

HE HAS ONE

F. Opper, the cartoonist, says that President McKinley is "very anxious to have a good, strong policy."

He has one-in the Equitable-the strongest in the world.

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