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Send Your Holiday Orders Early
This is^he
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Every holiday season there are some disappointments because the expected goods do,not arrive until too late. We are not
to blame, as we always clear our shipping room of all shipments wanted by Christmas. To do this we work night after night for
months before the holidays. Some orders do not reach us until the eleventh hour, but we ship them, out as quickly as possible.
We are known as quick shippers, but the holiday rush crowds the railroads to their limit, and some of the late orders are neces-
:' - sarily delayed. No one can afford to be disappointed at that ’time of the,year„and .we are anxious that you should not be.
We receive as high as 30,000 letfers per day during the season before the holidays; but will make prompt shipment of your
order, no matter when you sennit. There are Xgo many chances for disappointment in ordering late, and we advise you to
avoid all, risks by sending your order early. ;;■.•)
""N* If you- have looked through our large and new Catalogue No. 72, you will realize that the city buyers have not
the slightest advantage, over our customers, either in prices, quality, or selection. Our stock is the cream of the
. world’s best nfarkets and the prices are such that you can easily save from 10 to 50 per cent on everything you buy.
If you want our 1100-page catalogue, we will send it free if you will
fill out the blank in the corner and enclose 15 cents to partly, pay
the postage. You ca.nnot afford to be without it. ; Send for it today.
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-Cut this slip out and send it with 15d in stampsTobAY—
Mont^merV Ward Chicago'1 ' : •
Montgom ery Ward Lp Co.
Michigan Avenue, Madison and Washington Streets
Chicago
S p, Sa—Send lnjrow order for Holiday Goods early in December,
and hare the gooda shipped by Weight. Perhaps some of your neighbors will be glad to iota
you in making up a 100-pound shipment.?
Enclosed find 15 cents for partial postage on Catalogue
No. 72. as advertised, ; \ ' . .-
Name..
Postoffice.
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MUTUAL
Insurance Company of New
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RICHARD "A. MCCURDY, President.
'mm;, After am examination, asked for by the Go
J partment from January 2 to September ^!, 1903, every dollar of the hundreds of mill ions handled by the Gom-
" «any from January 1,1898, to January 1,1903, ^ras checked and found accounted foriu strict accordance with the
After am examination, asked for by the Company, which occupied the entire examining force of the De-
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pany fi
Laws of the. State. In his official sanction of the findings af the examiners, the Superintendent of Insurance says:
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“I think it fitting to note the unusual extent and thoroughness of this examination and the
evidence which it bears to the conscientious and careful management of this large institution.”
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Francis Hendricks,
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CHIEF EXAMINER ISAAC YAXDERPOEL, of the New York Insurance Department, in his report, says in part:
examination just concluded, ha9 qccupted the entire time of the examining force of the Insurance Department since January 2
last, and during this period of nearly nine months every detail of the Corhpany’s transactions has been subjected to the clos-
est scrutiny. Every facility was afforded by the Company?s officers and the heads of its several departments, to thoroughly
accomplish the work, whicn has been materially expedited by.....
ling of accounts and keeping of books of initial or final entry.
lited by the admirablo methods in vogue at the Home Office in the hand-
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Condensed from New York Insurance Department’s Report.
Receipts and Disbursements.
JANUARY 1,1898, TO JANUARY i, 1903 ,
The net or ledger assets December 31, 1897, as
found on the previous examination of the
Companj’ in 1898, were then shown to be., ....$ 236,630.175 78^
This sum has since been augmented from the fol- (
lowing sources, and these receipts have been
examined and verified in detail:
New premiums..A......................52,257,884 72
Renewal premiums..................... 175,031,892 62
Oonegderation for annuities ........ 15,085,511 65
Rents...................... 5,537,361 34;
Interest-...................................... 59,346,31726
Profit on sale or maturity oi led-
ger assets........ ....Ai............... 5,352,3)14.07 )
Other income,...:.-....... 797,565 54
hTotal receipts from 1897 to 1903:.....-..;.....313,408,337 20
-i Total...................550.039.0™ o8
1 Condition January ist, fgo
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United States bonds and other securities............220,140,3h6 02
First lien loans on bond and mortgage.:.-..;;........; .81,566.584 ^0
Loans on bonds and other securities.................... 10,278^000
Loans on FompanyTs own policies....................... < 14,020iS7479v
Real Estate: Company’s office buildings iu I.on- ) );
don, Paris, Berlin, New York, Boston, Phila-
. v delphia, San Frimeisco, Seat tie,,8y<lneyaud ;
Mexico and other real estate....:......... ......_____ 32,833,323 45
Cash in Ban^s and trust..companies..............:^. 45,677,925 ~s
Accrued interest, net deferred premiums, etc.:;.i>.. 7,315,66666
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* $382,433,68130
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Jptal disbursements from 1897 to 1903. including
claims Mid dividends paitkpolicy-bolders......# 199,892,647 15
mee, being net or ledger assets, December 31,
1902.......................................... ...................... 350,146,965-83 Contingeht GoarahteeFund
Non-ledger assets December 31,1902, audited at.. 32,680,170 $6
4 # 382,827,136 69 . ^
Deduct agents’debit balances, gross.................. ‘ 394,455 39 ".w
LIABILITIES v ^
Poliey reserves, etc.......................................314.293,458 19
Authorized dividends...................... £.. .................
65,119,223 11
3,020,000
$382,432,681 30
Total admitted assets December 31, 1902 $382,433,681 30
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CHAMBERLAIN & GILLETTE,
Managers MutpalLifeetN.Y^
-SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
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WM, PETERSON, Agent, Halietsvilte,
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In Memoriaifi.
[Yoakum Herald.] *
A beautiful fife has closed on
earth, but only to shine forth
with greater brightness q,nd love-
liness in that glorious home
above. On the first day of shintin£ Ulrronj^QT eorJ^ kad
October 1903 the death angel
entered the home of Mr. Clyde
Cameron, at Mineral City, Texas
and with his icy fingers quenched
the flame of life in the bosom of
thelpving wife - and mother in
that home, and her sweet im-
mortal soul went up to God who
gave it. She was twenty-seven
years and ten months*old and
leaves behind her a husband,
two children, mother, father,
several brothers and sisters, and
many other relatives and friends.
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All will miss bey lovely face, her
sweet [ministries of love and
kindness and* the influence of her
noble, consistent, christiai? life.
But we sorrow not as those who
have no hope for bye? and bye
we expect to meet her. near the
been a consistent Christian for
about twely^years. . Her church
membership at the time of her
death was in Mineral City Hap^
tist church, AH her life; except
the last two or three years nvas
spent in 1 >avaca and De\Yitt
counties, where she taughtj sev-
eral schools before her marriage.
We tender our sincere sym-
pathy to the bereaved ones
and commend them to tlie
tender, loving Savior who can
yith the sweet balm of His love
heal their bruised and bleeding
hearts, I would say to them be,
comforted in the promises of
God and be faithful to the ; bless-
ed Savior whom dear Laura
loved and served, Could she
speak back from: the * portals of
Election Proclamation.
Noticir is hereby given; tbat I11 ac-
A Lawyer’s . Queer Description .-yf a
Sermon—Astonishing Behavior of a
Corpse—When the Mourners Failed
to impress a Jury-^—A Negro at
the Cireus—Thought the Elephant
Mid 'Too Muph Leather In Hit
Breeches—Why a White -Man Was
Punished For Playing Craps.
[Copyright. 1902, by Champ Claric.]
. S#me.people use big wore]* appropri-
ateiy and inappropriately in order to
appear to possess, great learning. Oth-
ers use them inappropriately as a mat-
ter pf amusement.
Ah; Astonishing Sort of Sermon, v
Dr. .Greene, president of William
Jewell college at Liberty, Mo., Invaria-
bly .preaches a baccalaureate sermon to
his graduating class on the Sunday im-
mediately preceding the edmmed'ce-
meiit exercises. He is a very stole man,
and the people-of Missouri, without
any reference to politics or religion,
take great pride in him. At Liberty
there also lives a very bright lawyer
who uses very large words for the pur-
pose of astonishing people.
A year or so ago, after Dr. Greene
had delivered a famous baccalaureate
sermon, somebody asked this lawyer
what he thought of it, whereupon be
replied, “It’s the greatest bacchanalian
sermon that I ever heard!”
On another occasion this lawyer was
addressing a jury for thfe defense in a
murder case. Like a great many other
lawyers, be put himself‘in the place of
his client, and instead of saying that
the deceased did so and so and said so
and so to his client be would say “he
did it to us.” So in a great buret of
eloquence he said: “The deceased cut
us; he beat us; he stabbed us; lie
choked us; he called us a liar, a scoun-
drel and other appropriate epitaphs!”
The Cheerful Mourner*.
Ohe of my most distinguished con-
stituents is Judge J, W. Boulware of
Fulton. Judge Boulware Is’one of the
greatest criminal lawyers in Missouri
and has beep unusually successful In
the practice.
Like all other great advocates, he has
met with some crushing disappoint-
ments. He tells the following anecdote
at bis owii expense. "Some years ago,”
says the judge, “I was engaged in de-
fending a man for murder down in
Osage county. It was a very tongb
case, and in order to prevent the man
from being hanged’ I brought lnt6 play
all the arts of which I was capable. In
order to help me along when I came to
tly pathetic part of my speech, I had
the wife and six or eight children of
the defendant, clad ip V mourning,
brought Into court and seated at a con-
venient distance behind me. In my
peroration I became as pathetic as pos-
sible and pumped for tears with all my
might. In. order to make more forcible
the' heart melting appeal that I was
making to.the jury, I turned around to
the? woman and her children and said,
“Gentlemen of the jury, look at these!*
I looked myself, and every infernal one
of thorn *vas crunching a stick of red
circus, candy as unconcernedly as if the
ruatr on trial for his life was no kin
to them. I was so amazed and dis-
gusted that I forgot the rest of my
speech and stammered out. ‘Geptlemen
of the jury, take the case.’ They not
only* took' my case, but they took my
clieptalso.”
Orator and Humorist.
Recently I went over to Fulton, the
capital pf. Callaway county, which bas
been added <0 the Ninth district, on a
$ori of missionary' expedition. That is
the seat of Westminster college, the
v great Presbyterian college of Missouri.
One night I attended*a banquet of the
alumni, Amoiig the speakers was Hon.
William H. Wallace of Kansas City,
(o won imperishable renown by his
speech in prosecuting Frank
James for murder. He is a splendid
lawyer, an orator and possessed of a
fund of wit and humor. He delivered
a speeefi which he entitled “Some
Thoughts on Extemporaneous Speak-
ing.” It was made up almost entirely
of a string of the funniest anecdotes
that f ever heard. Among other things
be said: "Onc£ uponx time there was a
colored preacher who took for his text,
‘The devil goes about like a roaring
lion, seeking whom he may devour.’ In
announcing his subject he said, ‘Breth-
eren and sistern. I ^111 divide my text
I into three parts—fireS Who gm he? see-
I ond. Where are he goin’? third. What
In the deuce am he roarin’ about?’ ”
• He followed that up with the foilow-
i ing about a colored mah who went to a
| circus for the first time In antebellum
days. M’hen he returned home, his mas-
ter said, "How did you like the circus?”
“Oh, fust rate,” replied the colored
man. “Did you see the tiger?” “Yes,
man's game,:
cences about *>naex,.’
iariy called.
Judge Williams says that on o:
canton a man was up before
Shackleford*1 for “shooting
. 8hack looked at the prisoner in a
zical sort of way and inquired,
you a white man or a colored
“Fm a white,man,” exclakned the
oner, with astonishment. “Then/*
plied his honor. “I will fine you th
treme limit, for this court takes
cial -notice of the fact that,
peculiarly the colored
if a white man indulges in ft
my Jurisdiction be must pay
fact, the highest price—for the
Ordered the Jury .Out.
Governor Charles P. Johnson at
Louis is rated in the front raUk
criminal lawyers. He und
Ijie arts of bis profession. Among
ers he has a sly way ^f raising a.
tion of law and of injecting
argument to the court a speech ini
ed . foy the ears of the jury. He
quently appeared in Judge
ford’s court, and Shack, so Judge
liarns alleges, soon observed the
ernor’s habit and made up his
cure him of it. So in a bitterly
criminal case at Boonvilie Govs
Johnson raised a knotty question
was about to begin arguing it 1
Judge Shackleford surprised and &
gusted him by roaring, “Mr. Sh
take the jHry out into the
yard beyond earshot” The
said, “Your honor, there is no
sending the jury out” w!
Shack blandly replied: “Now,
you are about to make a dry legal
ment for the information of the
solely, which the court will be
to hear, but the jury Is co
farmers and will enjoy rolling a
on the grass under the trees. S*
ceed with your argument The
all attention.” ^
Supreme Court Pulchritude.
The pessimists who are
ing in our ears the dismal
the human race is deteriorating
lcally as well as mentally si
a good square look at the
court of the TJnited States and
illiisionized.
It Is a magnificent body of
gaze upon. While none of them
up among the clouds as did
wvieX
f y ^
imposed .
who )
great
Before
m
vllk». by the authority in me vested
her blessed home of vest no \ u.s Maybir.bf the said City, do order
oar AvooW i that an election be field • at the C-ity
doubt she would > nv, \\e^j> n<>^ Hall in tire City: of Ilalletsville,, on
dear mother aad rather) it will jTu^sviay. th.- first'day of December,
19u3. fbr the ;i>nrp6se of electing an
ahloriuan for the uuIXpirdd term, of
Ty If. Ntrefeb.. resigned, aiuF I do
timniv <8A„tv#.«-. Mt pomiin 1, V think of him?” “I dunno much bout
re-
spectable sort of tiger.” “Did you see
‘the lion?” “Yes, sah; l saw de lion.”
the City Couneil at the regular meet- ,
iiig;;Noveinber 22ti<l; 1903, I, T; Av tigers, but be seemed to me to be a
Hester, Mayor of tlie City of Htillcts- ----**—*,rkM ””” ‘
not be loiijr ere you shall ' conn
up here; and to her beloved hus-
thihd, mourn: not (tstPfing Ope, | hereby awioiut).-Vv Searcy presld-
but «»;Q Cheerfully on ill tile di>- ing otfieer-df said election.,
charge of dVeiAr' dutv/lead'the ; ' bv.en tunler my band- in liallets-
lost to Jvsus1 ana .^ng up our vl li,'7n',,. vnv,.r.
precious little ^rirl and sweeb l Attsst) Xnni.t: M<.ia:i..vsi*, Wre-
baby boy to know mutji <>1J esus tiny.
and of the happy
Mafn.a is.
hotiie where
Her friend,
M X. Smith.
1®—Mrs. F. akubik was *, in
Yoakum visiting- relatives last
week.. - ;
“tVhat did you think of him?” “I dun-
no much ’bout lions, but he ’peared t»
me to be all-right” “Did you see the
v'elepbantT’ “Yes. sah; I saw the ele-
phant.” “What did you thing of him?”
“He ’reared to be all right except that
he seethed to have too much surplus
leather in the seat of bis breeches!”
Hon. D. W. Shackleford, Jurist.
Hon. \yniiam M. Williams of Boon-
vilie, a great .lawyer and an ex-judge of
the supreme court of Missouri,’is a
close friend to Judge Shackleford, who
represents the famous .Bland district in
congress. In fact Judges Williams and
Shackleford were boys together. Judge
tWllllaihs likes to Indulge In remlnis-
whoro we read, they are all
specimens of brawn and bone,
smallest man on the bench, thu
that women artists would
the handsomest, is Chief Justice
ville W. Fuller, but be stands six
ami weighs close to 200 pounds.
All the 'judges are what ,W
commonly call “whoppers,** sm
them under six feet ,
Judge Hartan as a Soldier.
1 have known Mr. Justice
sight for 35 years. When
eyes first gazed upon and
magnificent form, he was
the Tenth Kentucky Union
one of the finest regiments that
for the old flag. Two-thirds 4
regiment were husbands and
sober, thinking men, who
“three years or during the war,**
William H.- Seward’s prophecy
90 days* picnic was exploded
men. north and south, recognised
awful fact that the civil war jraa
be a long, bitter, bloody struggle t*i
death. V
Judge Harlan w^k then In the
of bis years, over tfx feet,
an arrow, supple as an Indians
ture of manly beauty. ' -.Yu"
Ho was a brave soldier and
ingly free with his men.
got into a battle he was always
them how they should deport
selves. Alter Mill Springs.
Pap Thomas gained his first
where ZolLicoffer fvas killed and
the Harlan regiment received Ita
tism of tire, the judge frankly®
ed to his “boys,” as he cail«4
that fighting wasn’t exactly,
performance and that a sense
was ail that held him to his post.
A Fighting Chaplain. V'-£fj
Colonel Harlan would have
general if he had not resigned,
incident is illustrative of . the
spirit of the Kentuckians.'At
inauga the chaplain, who Was a
tlan militant, would not stay
rear among the ambulances,®
properly belonged, but when
street’s Virginians were charging
ously he rushed on the fields
wishing to swear hftnself and
no other mode of expression
to relieve his pent upfeelings. he1
up and down the lines, shouting,
give tfiem b—l. as Colonel Hays* ^
Mr. Justice Harlan is not One Of
dry as dusts. He enjoys a joke
much as Private John Allen
One of the most pleasant day* «t
service iu congress was that on
the Judge came over to the
remained two or three, hours
ing> with the members*
ans gathered about hin^na
gleefully while be poured out
reminiscences garnished with ft
la ting wit and delightful hnamrj
I afterward took .U ‘ “
Barker of Mexico out tt hit house
introduced him to the gteat jurist,
whom he had some professional I
ness. At first Colonel Barker, w
game as a rat and myself felt
nervous, but Judge Harlan Soon poll
at ease by his gracious manner.
Time bas broadened Judge
ideas. He is no longer & partisan
tieian. but a great iudge, worthyi
high place. Mentally and pi
is a magnificent man. Tall,
bust, blond as any lily, wittt
face, light sandy hair—what1
it—a military nose, a square fa
massive jaw, a capacious mouth,
steel blue eyes and a 24 inch
looks the ideal Jurist A RepublicanH
politics, a Presbyterian In reUgta*. ||
enjoys this world and the good
thereof with the relish at the;
Kentuckian, which he la.
CHAMB CLAJ
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