Life And Farm Insurance

]y PBOF. J. I). BÜTLEB. Lifo iiiNuraneo moans houosty for some men, liüil polioy for inany more. In uu th r way ..tu ttiey di bts ir obcy tho apostle's charge that a man provide for his own and especially those of his own house." But good as is lifo insuranco, farra ingurtiiicu in the shape of lands sold on ton faun' credit is better. Both give a groat prize in rotura í'or a luinber of sinall annual payments. Hut farm insuranoe gives that boon in the muist of life ; lifo iusurance only at tho indofit. One givos it for a man hi:uiulf to enjoy, tho othor only for liis heira. Oue purfonus, tho othor promisQS. " Deatb," said un IrisUiuan, " ia no groat curse, for it always ooines just whoro we would have it, at the oud of lifo and iievor at tho beginning." Uut this is moro :ljan can be said of lifo insuraace, for its ilessings come at tho wrong gud of lifo, uot, liko doath aud farm iusuranco, at tho rijjht end. Besidos, in farm insuranco tbo payuentsare ouly niue or ton, but in lifo insura.'ii.e tliey imy beoome so iaultitudinous that thoy will umount to geveral iuies tho valuo of tho prizu lirawnat last. l'hu ono is a lottory, tho otber squaro dcaling. Again, farra insuranoo gives yon in tho outsot a mine which pays for itself, for out of it you can dig not only a HvTng, jut gold for all payments. Lifo insormoe makoa no suoh protensions. ft U all wxtmortem - and nothing " in tbo living ;jresent." In this aspeot lile iusurauco resembles tho pttunt Tautalus of Sydney Smith. That rovorend jok;r had u bag of oats huiii; justbefore fho tongue of bis carriagp, Tho hoise bearing the o;its rattjjog just aboad, would rush forward vvitl; all his leg.s, yot could nevor quito hrust his nose into those dainties. On ;ho othor hand farm insuranco givts a mess of grain befoce tho jouruey begins, ind all along many a baiting to prepare Eor eaoh hard jjuII before tho humostr.eJicJi. Sor it this all. Vhat life insuranco promises ie a fixed sum. But tho land pven by farm insuraxtoe is always growmg in valuo. Lnss than forty yoars tgo ;ho wholo arca of Iowa could havo boen aougüt for fprty tnilliang of dollars. It was sold by the United States for less thau that. To-day it would bring more bhan tuu times that sum. üivo iuo then first farm insuranco, - and theii life insuranco. Within tho last twonty-threc months, tho Great Western Farm Insuranoo Company, oUag tin: Burlington $ Missouri Kivcr liailroad Company, have sold along thfiir line, in Iowa and Nebcaska, 391,7Öó acres to .'JiiH purehüsos, iilmost all ón ten yoars' credit, and six per oout, interest. Farmer ! aro you insurod ?