1872 .] 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
159 
Empire Mutual 
Life Insurance Company 
OF 
NEW YORK. 
Office, - - - - 139 Broadway. 
Success the Criterion of Excellence. 
Compared with the following well-known Companies, the 
prosperity of tho EMPIRE MUTUAL IIPE has 
been moBt remarkable. 
The average number of Policies issued by the 
Empire Mutual in the 
first 2 years 
was.... 
... 4,016 
Mutual Life. 
.. 21 .. 
n ... 
... 1,403 
New England Mutual... 
- 22 “ 
“ .... 
... 812 
New York Life. 
“ 18 “ 
M .... 
... 1,098 
Mutual Benefit. 
“ 18 " 
“ .... 
Connecticut Mutual. 
“ 16 " 
M .... 
... 1,785 
Charter Oak. 
“ 13 “ 
“ .... 
... 1,027 
Massachusetts Mutual_ 
“ 17 “ 
" .... 
... 1,038 
The ratio of Policies issued in 1S70 by the Empire over 
those issued in 1869 was 167 per cent, and of Receipts, 609 
per cent. 
Number of Policies issued in first two years, - - 8,032 
Annual Premium thereon,.$793,742.45 
Amount Insured thereby, ----- $17,286,406.00 
Average Amount of Policies,.$2,152.00 
Total Assets at the end of two years, above - $700,700.00 
Notice the following Liberal Features ! 
Ordinary Whole Life Policies absolutely Noil-For¬ 
feitable from payment of the first annual premium. 
All other Policies Non-Forfeit able after two annual 
payments. 
All Policies incontestable for usual causes, and abso¬ 
lutely incontestable after two annual premiums. 
All restriction upon travel and residence removed 
and no permits required. 
One third of all premiums loaned to the Insured, if 
desired, and no notes required. 
No accumulation of Interest on Deferred Premi¬ 
ums, and no increase of annual payment on any class of 
policies. 
Dividends Accumulative, the surplas being re¬ 
turned to the Policy-holder, equitably In proportion to his 
contribution thereto. 
The business of the Company conducted upon the Mutual 
Plan. 
C. HILTON SCRIBNER, President. 
CHAtNCEY M. REPEW, Vice-President. 
SMALL FRUIT. 
INSTRUCTOK. 
Sixty-four pages, price 35 cts., post-paid. Tells how to 
plant and grow nil kinds of Small Fruit successfully, both 
for market and home garden. John J. Thomas, Henry Ward 
Beecher, Judge I S. Harris, of Ga., and others, say it is one 
of the most complete and practical works ever printed. 
Price-List of Plants, retail or wholesale, Froe to all 
applicants. Address 
A. M. PURDY, Palmyra. N. Y., 
Or, PURDY & HANCE, Sonth Bend, Ind. 
The New Haven Patent Whip, 
With adjustable top and socket-guard. The most economi¬ 
cal whip made. Broken whips instantly repaired. Horse¬ 
men use no others. Choice whalebone whip, with one extra 
top, sent on receipt of three dollars. For sale hy all dealers. 
Circulars and Frice-list furnished on application to 
THE NEW HAVEN WHIP CO., 
New Haven, Ct. 
flROKEX NATION AI. BANK 
AD notes bought. Four (4) per cent premium. 
Full printed list furnished. 
DK HAVEN & BRO., Bankers, 
40 South 3d st., Philadelphia, Pa. 
A GENTS Wanted.— Agents make more money at 
work for us than at anything else. Particulars free. 
G. STINSON &, CO., Fine Art Publishers, Portland, Maine. 
IF YOU WANT AN 
AUCTIONEER 
TO SELL LEAL ESTATE, 
Stocks, Furniture, or Merchandise, 
CALL ON 
JERE. JOHNSON, Jr., 
Successor to JTOHNSON & MILLER, 
35 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK. 
A <■ SCAT’S, LOOK ! — $12 a day made selling 
A Soissor.s Sharpener said other new wares. Sample25c. 
Catalogue free. T. J. HASTINGS & CO., Worcester, Mass. 
(United States WatchClo., Marion, ilL) 
Watch No. 10,584, Stfm-Windfr— Bear¬ 
ing Trade-Mark u Frederic Atherton & Co., 
Marion, N. J.,” manufactured by the United 
States Watch Co., has been carried by me 
twenty months; its total variation from 
mean time being five seconds per month. 
Z. 0. PRIEST, 
Ass’t Sup’t N. Y, 0. & H. R. R. 
P. S.—Specimen copies of the Fruit Recorder and 
Cottage Gardener, a dollar monthly (A. M. Purdy, 
Editor), Free to all applicants. It speaks for itself. To sec 
a copy is equivalent to subscribing. 
THIRST Premiums awarded by Amer. Inst., 1870. 
MICROSCOPES. 
Illustrated Price-List sent free on application. 
MAGIC LANTERNS. 
Catalogue, priced and illustrated, sent free. 
T. H. McALLISTER, Optician, 49 Nassau-st., N. Y. 
per mouth guaranteed 
■- vrVF I'll sure to Agents every¬ 
where selling our new seven-strand Whits Platina 
Clothes-Lines. Sells readily at every bouse. Samples 
tree. Address the Girard Wire Mills, Philadelphia, Pa. 
WANTED—For our new Book, THE 
BRIGHT SIDE OF NEW YORK. By 
)0 Engravings. Agents sell 40 a day. 
Publisher, 805 Broadway, New York. 
AGENTS 
a City Missionary. 2 
E. B. TREAT, 
CIXTY Y*HE5, dEIXTT allowed canvassers 
for the best work on Carpentry for Farmers, HOWARD 
CHALLEN, Publisher, 521 Minor st., Philadelphia, Pa. 
TH!WATT of worthless imitations with which the country is flooded. To avoid ir/ipd- 
eition, see that the words MARION, N. J., are engraved on the plate over the Main-Spring 
Barrel. All others are spurious. 
iW Price-Lists furnished the trade on application, inclosing business card. For sala 
by the trade generally. Ask your Jeweler to see the MARION watches. 
sa o?ti£? m UNITED STATES WATCH CO., 
GILES, WALES & CO., 13 MAIDEN LANE, NEW YORK, 
And GILES, BSQTHEB & 00., 83 & 85 State St., Chicago, El, 
