Life — February 11, 1892 — page 19: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

hy Have You Not Made This Known to Me Before ? Is the question that many a man asks when he first learns that in he Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS., M. V. B. EDCERLY, Pres. JOHN A. HALL, Sec. can insure his life, with the privilege of retiring, on any anniversary of his policy date, after the first, with a generous render value in cash or in paid-up insurance. ‘ Well, the Company is trying to make it known, and to publish to all, the fact that these surrender values are fixed law and stated in the policy, and furthermore guaranteed by ample assets. Lee . . -$12,239,529.16 LIABILITIES, JANUARY st, 1892..... feet ee eben eee eee esse eeee 11,236,837.26 SURPLUS (MASSACHUSETTS STAND 10 West 23d Street, corner Fifth Avenue. IT HAS REACHED THERE. We translate the hieroglyphs on the right for the benefit of our readers. HIS CROSS. instrel: MOST SUBLIME AND ILLUSTRIOUS HYSON-EYED CHIEF, WHAT SONG 1 YOUR HUMBLE SERVITOR, PUNK LIP, SING FOR YOU TO-DAY? SHALL IT drate Father: K OF PEACE OR OF YOUR ANCESTORS’ PROWESS IN WAR? (See symbols,—ED.). Son: AW—VES—IT'S WELL FOR YOU TO TALK THAT—AW—VULGAH WAY TO ME k ° SO THAT 1 MAY JUG JUG THE MELODY AND WORDS MOST PLEASANT TO —ME WHOM YOU HAVE DISGWACED IN FASHIONABLE SOCIETY ALL ME LIFE, AR cpaainn : Father (indignantly); DisGRACED YOU, YOU FOOL, How ? ‘Peror (moodily): SING WHAT THOU WILT! pied linstrel (in great glee); COMRADES, COMRADES, EVER SINCE WE WERE ROYS, Som (sobbing); BY—BV—C-O-M-PEL-ING ME TO RE SUPFOKTED BY—AW—MAN— fTc., ETC, WHO HAS HAD TO—AW—WORK FOR HIS MONEY, GET OUT OF MY SIGHT: YOU LAZY GOOD-FOR-NOTHING IDIOT! comicbooks.com