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TKAUJL lbbUil miLi Aili WMUV HAMM: DUMBER 6, value will puy for. I Illustration of the Mutual Benefit's Non-1 Fo-'eiting Rule i j “Policy No. 16.877.on the life of Mr. Ralzie J. Fuller, of Cleveland, Ohio, was issued in 1861, at nge SO, for $1,000, with an annual premium of $118;O0. He paid I 19 premiums, amounting to $2,241 00, j which, less dividends of $936 81, &ud pri-1 mium loan of 184 19 (canceled), made a n**t payment or cost of $1,121 00,exclusive of interest. He did not pay the premium due in October, 1880; but instead of tak ing a paid-up p'dtcv fot $1,811, be allowed bis insurance to be extended for 12 year* and In days, making in all 31 ytars and 10 days’ insutance at an aveiagel yeariy cost of $7 i2 per thousand. Mr. Fuller died in D.comber,.1890, mere than 10 years after the lapse of the policy, which, however, was promptly paid ia fu.l by the company." If you want good insurance, fire, life, or accident, call upon Sidney P. Reave®, Thomas street, over the store of J S K ng & Co. SIDNEY P. ItEAYES •me lawyer was an unusualu thetieman and he felt very ! y,T| P* pArty In a Crumpled shirt who cam-! tl “ Office with a wan, haggard face m *° hl * JfJSSTiRtlfAw H. tion. 161 OeJ-^. “My wife” His voice was a groan and the hollow. UB R*oa»w M —“and I are hopelessly estran^ „ The lawyer was pained and go *«!' himself. 0 ex P r M*al “But” He rested his hand reassuringly nnn Knee of the party iu a crumpled shirt' IU ’ 1 ® “is a reconciliation impossibly.; “As impossible”-—- The party had leaped to his f ee t ant i extending his arms dramatically Ua **• “as that the sun should staud...... the heavens.” Itll ‘ ia The counselor shook his head “bemused. “There INSURANCE AGENT. Fire Insurance, Life Insurance, ai Accident Insurance—The Most Reli able Companies, the Best Kind ef Insurance, tlie Least ef Com plications, and the Cheap est Bates. Agricultural Implements, MILL SUPPLIES, SASH, DOORS & BLINDS, PAINTS, OILS &C. Will have for the Holidays just the very thing you need to give to vour friend for a “Strange,” a case that”- ‘.‘Oh, you”- The party interrupted excitedly. “don’t understand T»„ ‘ “don’t understand. Do you v n what we quarreled about?” now “No.” The party leaned forward and whisnerai hoarsely: ^ 63 ; “Alimony,” he said. And the lawyer was silent.—iw** Tribune. w#l1 OH, WHAT A COUGH. Will you heed the warning Thegi* nal perhaps of the sure approach S that more terrible disease Consumption Ask yourselves if you can afford forth* aake of saving 50c, to run the risk and do notiiing for it. We know from «. perience that Shiloh’s Cure will cur* your cough. It never fails. This * x . plains why more than a Million Bottles were sold the past year. It relieves croup and whooping cough at once- Mbthers, do not be without it. Fnrlama UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. A short course of instruotion in the | State College, especially arranged for young men, engaged or desiring to en gage in farming, will begin-Wednesday, January 4, 1893, and continue three months. The course comprises instruc tion in English, Mathematics, History, Agricultural Chemistry, Farm Engin eering and Practical Agriculture, with exercises in the field, barn, dairy, etc. Tuition is free and no fees are obarged Open to all over 15 years of age, and no entrance examinations. If you can’t find what you want after looking at his stock of Board and lodging from $13 50 to $15.00 per month. For particulars address H. C. WHITE, President State College, Athens, Ga. PLATED WARES, We are now offering at reduced Prices a Large and complete stock of Goods useful and ornament-1 a^, he wi,ll lend you a pair of his celebrated Got Tips for • Policy “Gig.” An old colored man was standing at the corner of Eleventh street and Sixth atenu#, grinning to himself and not interfering with auybody, when a drunken man stag gered along. The sight of the other seemed to enrage him and he hit out, knocking the negro down. The old fel'ow stumbled to his feet and four teeth fell into his hand. The blow had .caught him fairly in the month, knocking them out. “I’ze in luck,” he cried, counting them, “one, two, three, four. That makes four, this ia Eleventh street and my son’s forty- fdur years o' 1 today. That’s 4-11-44. If that ‘gig’ doesn’t win I’m an old black hoodoo man.” And hastily shaking hands with the drunkard, who seemed amazed at the turn affairs had taken, he started on a foot race for the nearest policy shop to play the “gig,” his face beaming with delight.- New York Herald. Sun Fire Office, of London; the Commer cial Union Fire Insurance Company, of London; and the Lancashire Fire Insurance Company, ol Manchester, England. The strength and reliability and business worth of the e companies is best shown by reference to their assets, liabilities and surplus as follows: : MERCHANTS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY I Assets $1,600,949 Liabilities ....743,731 Surplus 867,218 IMPERIAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.«• Assets $1,692,873 Liabilities 926,525 Surplus 767,848 8UN FIRE OFFICE. Assets $2 510 368 LiabUtties 1,653515 Surplus 856.853 COMMERCIAL UNION FIRE INSURANCE CO Assets $3 685.958 Liabilities 2,479,200 Surplus 1,106,758 I LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Assets * $2 901 391 I Liabilities 1 673,62 i Surplus 1,827,761 THE DIAGRAM MAN. A Case of Rescue and Real Romance In Dakota. • “I will save you!” “Sorry to trouble you, but” “Don’t mention it. “I’m always happy when I can oblige.” REVOLVERS, SPORTING GOODS, AMMUNITION, ETC. —AGEN T FOR— The Celebrated Electric Razors and Strops. Call and See us at the old Stand, 248 & 250 Broad St., Athens, Ga. ^nd you can make your selec tion without any trouble. The above diagram represents the scene —a prairie in Dakota. Lulu Washburton, only child of Dan and Saffy Washburton, emigrants, left the wagon to cull a few gentle flowers, and the first thing she knew she was lost and the shouts of Indians were ringing in her ears. “I will save you!” It was the clear and ringing voice of Frank Ashton as he rode np on his bron cho and prepared for action. He was an ex-New York bootblack who had been hired by the government to kill off 1,000 hostile Indians that summer. .With the The Only Way to Head It Off. ' “So you are in the electrical engineering line,” said the traveler in the palace car to the chance fellow -traveler with whom lie was exchanging fragments of personal his tory. “There has always been a fascina- tipn for me in that field of research. By the way, don’t you think” “Beg pardon,” hastily interrupted the other, taking from his pocket and handing to him a well worn card inscribed: —SUCCESSOR TO Childs, Nickerson & Co Just So. It is one of the prime secrets of happi ness to recognize and accept one’s natural limitations, but philosophy of this kind iB perhaps hardly to be expected of children. A little girl had sent back her plate for turkey two or three times, and had been helped bountifully to all the other good things that go to make a grand Thanks giving dinner. Finally she was observed looking rather disconsolately at her unfin ished dish of ice cream. “What’s the matter, Ethel?” asked Uncle John. “You look moumfuL” “That’s just the matter,” said Ethel. “I am more’n full.” And then she wondered why everybody I laughed.—Youth’s Companion. A Sarcastic Reply. A certain doctor in northern Maine Is noted for his love of hunting, and he is reckoned a pretty good shot. During an epidemic not long ago a well known lum berman had the misfortune to have sev eral of his men quite sick, and one of them being in a dangerous condition the lum berman started in haste for this doctor. Now onr medical friend is sometimes quite slow in getting ready for his trips, and on this occasion after being called he was un usually so. Suddenly the thought came to him that, as he was to go so far into the woods, he might see some game, and, stepping to the door where the nervous lumberman was impatiently waiting, he inquired: “Say, don’t you think I better take my gnn along?” “Gun! No necessity!" was the excited reply. “The man will be dead before you can get there.”—Lewiston Journal. i Nor, the Science of Electrical Engineering. ; IS NOT : : In Its Infancy ! \ And the conversation gradually drifted to other subjects.—Chicago Tribune. THE ONLY ONE EVER PRINTED. • CAN YOU FIND THE WOKD ? The-eis a 3-inch disp'ay advertise ment in this paper, this we 1 k, which has no two words alike except one word. The aame is true of each new one appearing each week, from the Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a “Crescent” on everything they make and publish. Look for it. The dots in the above diagram represent twenty-three dead Indians. While the brave and undaunted Frank killed the en tire gang, there’s no use in crowding such a lot of corpses into a picture. They fell Sneaa’s old Stand, Broad St Athens, Ga. He Told Her. Some time ago a troopship was return ing from abroad, and among the passengers there was an old lady who bad a favorite parrot, which she placed under the especial care of one of the sailors. On going to at tend to Polly one morning he was surprised to find the poor bird dead, and, knowing how very much upset tho-old lady would be to hear of the death of her favorite and not feeling equal to imparting the sad in telligence himself, he employed a brother tar, who was famous for his gentleness in matters of that nature. Going up to the old lady with a very sad face and touching his cap, he said: “1 don’t think that ’ere parrot of yours will live long, niarm.” “Oh, dear,” said the poor old lady. “Why?” “ ’Cos he’s dead,” was the comforting reply.—Tit-Bits. Feline Amenities. “Yon have saved my life!" exclaimed Lnln as they were ready to ga “Then be mine!” “I will!” The aliove diagram shows the pair as they meet Lnlu’s father later. He was a preach er, and as soon as he ascertained that his little pet loved the heroic Frank he tied the knot which made them man and wife. In just two hours from the time our hero rode up beside the charming heroine he had killed 178)4 warriors, mad** $600 and won a wife. CHILDREN, “How kind of yon to call—I’m so sorry to have kept you waiting!” “Oh, don’t mention it—I’ve not been st all bored! I’ve been trying to imagine what I should do to make this room look comfortable if it were mine!”—Punch. .—Judy. RUSSELL SAGE. The well-known financier writes: “506 Fifth ’venue.; 1 New York City, December so, 1890. f F»r the last twenty years 1 have been using' Allcock’s Por us Plasters. They have repeatedly cured me of rheumatic pains, and pains in my side and back. Whenever I have a cold, one on my chest and one on my back speed ily relieve me. My family are never without them. Russell Sage.” DYSPEPSIA AND LIVER COM PLAINT. Is it not wortn tne small price of 75c to free yourself of every symptom of these distressing complaints, if you think so call at our store and get a bot tle of Sbi'oh’s vitalizer, every bottl has a printed guarantee on it, use ac cordingly and if it does you no good 1 will cost yon nothing. Sold by the Cit’ Drug Store. R. C. Orr, Manager. STRENGTH AND HEALTH. If vou are not fellinir strong and healthy try Electric Bitters. If “La Grippe” has left you weak and weary, use Electric Bit ters- This remedy acts directly on Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, gently aiding those organs to perform their functions If you are afflicted with Sick Headache, you win find speedy and permanent relief by ta king Electric Bitters. One trial will con vince you that this is tne remedy yon need. Luge bottles only 50c. at John Ctawford & Co., and Palmer & jBinnebrew Drag Itch on human and horses and sll sol* mals cured in 80 urinates by Woolfrr • Sanitary Lo ion. This never fails. Srid bv Dr. E. S. Lyndon, druggist, Athens, Ga. thire was no sense in it. Tne young man who has a family dependent upon him can make no better investment than to have bis life insured. Some day the hand of death may be laid suddenly upon him and then the insurance comes in well for the support of his dependent ones. Lire Insurance works in two ways. I< is a proitclion; it is ao investment. In either direction it is of vast benefit to the insurer. Mr. Reaves’ company,the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, of Newark,N.J. is reported by good authorities to be the most conservative and strongest of old lioe companies in the world. • All policies issued by this company are absolutely noc-forfeitable. after two years’ premiums have been paid. Whether they lapse from inability to p»y, or from care lessness, accident, mistake, misfortune, forgetfulness, absei.ee, insanity or sick ness, or from any cause, the full reserve or value of the policy, by the highest 8’andard, will, without any action on the patt of the insured, be applied by the company to the exiention of the full amount of the policy forjBueb time as lbe Subscribe for the Athens A Dark Saying. Young Higgins was heard to remark the other day that he feared that his janitor was not pleasantly impressed with the im pressionist school as represented by the works in bis stndio. “It happened this way,” explained young Higgins. “Patrick had looked at my paintings with ominous solemnity. When I displayed my portrait of myself the blow MADD#X BROS fell. I said: * “ ‘The paint on this is badly cracked, which spoils the likeness.’ “He answered promptly, ‘Not at all, sorl’ ”—Youth’s Companion. Studio 109 E. 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