Life — April 2, 1914 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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The Prudential A National Institution of Public Usefulness Assets, over . 323 Million Dollars Liabilities, (Including Policy Reserve $260, 000,000) 297 Million Dollars Capital and Surplus, over ‘5 25 Million Dollars Amount Set Aside for Holders of Deferred Dividend Policies, over . . 31 Million Dollars Dividends Payable to Polieyholders i in 1914, over . 6% Million Dollars Paid Policyholders during 1913, nearly . ‘ é 34 Million Dollars Total Payments to Polleyholders, since organiza- tion, over . : é 7 a 300 Million Dollars Number of Policies in Force, . . 12 Million Real Estate Mortgages and Farm Loans, over. 92 Million Dollars Voluntary Concessions raid Folleyholders to raate, A eee eee nearly =. + 18% Million Dollars Animals That Work New Business Paid for During 1913, Some of the wasps are papermakers; over 481 Million Dollars the spiders are spinners, and the worms are weavers. The ants are indefatigable workers and , have a well organized system of labor. LOWEST EXPENSE RATE IN T! Certain species of East Indian ants = HISTORY OF THE COMPANY are horticulturists; they raise mushrooms, upon which they feed their young. The bees are expert builders; their cells are so constructed as, with the least | Over Two Billion quantity of material, to have the largest sized rooms and the least possible loss of | e e ste | as. 406 Million So also are the ant-lions, whose fun- STRENGTH OF nel-shaped traps are exactly correct in GIBRALTAR > conformation, as if they had been made D 1] ty the most skilled architects of our 0. ars stecies with the aid of the best instru- 7 ments, fi I The beaver is an archite, capincer Life Insurance and woodeutter; he builds houses and e dams water-courses with the ingenuity 4 K and. despatch that would do credit to In rorce human hands and brains. We all know what it means to “ work like a beaver”. The spiders are skillful spinners. THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE CO., OF AMERICA Their webs of great variety and intricate : ‘i s the State of New Jerse: pattern are in reality marvels of con- Tncerporsted a0'8 Brock: Company by the: Ser ry struction. Each is made to serve the FORREST F. DRYDEN, President Home Office, Newark, N. J. combined purpose of a trap and a castle. — Ox Desad Aninals: ‘The Prudential Issues Life Insurance for the Whole Family, Write for Information, Dept. 55 Dad Tells This:— Future Highbrow “Saturday we were mired-down on the lower road. If Brown | He was a very solemn little boy, and hadn't happened along with an Autowline in his car. and pulled us . i Out, we'd be there yet. I carry an Autowline myeell, his chin barely reached to the counter of line Autowline the circulating-room in the public library. as ees —— ere aae Syingiidond Bis Heal He stood there for some moments in as taken the ou of mud, sand, hills, sulky motors—all roa : j trouble. About Tec of i inch Welow Strand wire ope with ‘epecial silence, and seemed to be taking it all in, hooks and manila slings for attaching; light, flexible, easily stowed ow, a ” under a cushion, quickly attached without danger to paint. All Well, my little man,” said one of the supply dealers. Price, east of Rocky Mountains, $355. | assistants finally, “ what book shall it be FREE: Ilustrated circular giving all needed Autowline information, Soon today?” Broderick & Bascom Rope Co. } ’ day? . . 909 5. fad Bereet, St. Leats, He. New Terk Oitlee, 360. Warren Street ek: Oh, something about life.” returned Manufacturers of famous Yellow Strand Wire Repe e the little fellow, philosophically. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. comicbooks.com