Continental Life Insurance Company

We wisb to cali attention to the adertisement, in another column, of the Dontiuental Life Insurance Coinpany of New York. This has been a popular ompany from its organization, owing argely to the fact that its officers were not only men of sterling worth and good business uien, but were also pracical life underwriters, and knew fttll well the wants of the insuring public and the essential elements necessary to he suecess of a company: It was organized on the basis of liberal fair dealing with its policy holders and strict economy in the management of its financies, and putting in the field a corps of energetio business men for agents, it very soon attained an enviable reputation, and has uiaintained it ever since, going ahead quietly but steadily during the years that have shaken the financial world, until on the irst of July it has in available assets seven million dollars, with a clear surilus of over seven hundred thousand dollars beyond all liabilities, and since lts organization has paid in death claims over three million dollars. The company aïïows thirty days grace in paymeut of renewal premiums and always pursues a very liberal course in the re-installmeut of policies wbich have lapsed for want of payment. The management of the company's business in Michigan has lately been placed in the hands of G. A. Watkins, of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. Watkins has been actively engaged with this company for the last six years, most of that time as general agent for Western Michigan, but for the last year general agent for Ohio, with office at Cleveland. He is an energetic business man, and will give tone and vigor to the company's business in this State, and is prepared to make liberal contraéis with a few more first-class men to act as agents for the company. John Sears of this place, who has for several years past, been tue company's agent here, has built up a fine business, and enjoys the confidence of his patrons generally. Mr. Sears has recently been appointed district agent, and will doubtless in his extended field prove hiinseH faithful in the future as he has been in the past. Persons wishing either for insurance or an agenoy will do well to confer with Mr. Watkins or Mr. Sears, and investígate the plans aud workings of this popular company. One of the clerks of a Boston hoiel early one morning recently, when the President and Cabinet paused in that city, enroute for Lexington, was accosted by a Democratie politici an, who asked tho impertinent question : " For which branoh of the Government of the United States was that gigantic gin cocktail prescribed that I just saw in the bar rooin 'i It was three inches solid gin." The clerk gravely snubbed the anxious inauirer, saying he would have to go elsewhere to get the needed information.J The Democratie politioian passed out rebuked and abashed, when the clerk winked at an amiable "staff correspondent" of a truly loyal sheet, and smiling softly said : "It's none of bis business, but that cocktail was made upon the highest authority in this oonntry." _ . [ __ ir At A time when North and South seem to be appreciating each other's motives as thoroughly as they appreciate each other's bravery, Hobert Toombs characteristically declines an invitation of the citizens of Atlanta to co-operate in a Fourth of July celebration, saying : " I am ashamed to siug paeans to the lion-hearted héroes of that grand epoch iu the worid's history until we sball have regained those eternal principies of Stílf-governiuent which we have both lost and betrayed. I cannot shake hands with those who dug it, and filled it with the bloody corpses of the brave and the true, over the bloody chasm whioh engulfs also the principies of '70. I want uo frateruity with states or people without liberty and equality."