FOREVER DRY. (From the Philadelphia Record.) There is a youngster in Girard College who combines the poetic instinct with a keen sense of humor. He is not a close student; in fact, he regards books as instruments of torture. One of the professors picked up a text-book belonging to him the other day and found on the fly leaf this bit of verse, which no doubt expressed the student's opinion of it: "Should there be another flood, For refuge hither fly; And should the whole world be submerged, [The above was sent to the editor with a letter to the effect that "the item would be appropriate for both the NEWS and RECORD." We wonder what is meant.-ED.] THANKS, MAJOR! Major H. A. Shorey, editor of the Bridgton, Me., News, publishes the following in his paper: Hicks, the St. Louis astronomer, knows much as to the stars and the movements of the heavenly bodies. But he knows something as to such practical matters as life assurance, too. His Easter number of Word and Works has this as to the Equitable, which we are glad to republish: "To say that the old Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York is strong and great is like saying that the sky is very wide and high, and in both cases the truth is stated very tamely. Word and Works Publishing Company has given a feeble expression of its estimate of the Equitable by placing a handsome policy in that splendid Society on the life of this editor. The NEWS got in ahead of Word and Works and placed Equitable policies, now running, on the lives of both members of its publishing firm, years CLARENCE L. NIELSON. The above gentlemen are respectively President and Vice-President of the W. F. Taylor Company, wholesale grocers and cotton factors, of Shreveport, La. They are great believers in life assurance, and between them carry some $200,000, nearly all of which is in the Equitable. Both are comparatively young men, and show what can be accomplished by perseverance and industry, as only a score of years ago both of them were poor boys. They are great admirers and friends of the Equitable, and hold about the largest amount of "Equitable" assurance in North Louisiana. Mr. Taylor is identified with other leading enterprises in Shreveport, being a director of the Commercial National Bank, vice-president of the Shreveport & Red Valley Railway, and owns large planting interests in the Red River Valley. AN AGENTS' JOURNAL A leading Chicago daily is out with a prize offer for the best short stories concerning the most reliable dealers, workers and articles whose announcements find their way into print in a business line. There are twenty-eight classifications. An interesting phase of the announcement is that the list of subjects is headed with the "Most Reliable Life Assurance Agent." In other words, it is tacitly conceded that out of nearly thirty prominent business themes, including pretty nearly everything from real estate to typewriters, the life assurance agent is entitled to precedence. All of which is as it should be, for nothing in the world can get ahead of a reliable agent selling reliable life assurance. He not only leads the procession, but when his wares have been accepted and the recipient has become a member of one or more of the standard companies, all else is relatively easy for the latter. The life policy holder can go ahead with comfort in any business essay of his own, knowing that all is well with his dependents. And when life's task is finally done, and the policy holder in his turn heads the procession in that last earthly ride in which the cortége starts out slowly and with some dignity, but returns rather helter skelter and with the principal carriage always empty, he may have been a failure in many things, but in the matter of providing for his own he will have proved himself a magnificent success. -Iowa State Register. HULLO! 1901 |