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ce in the two institutions is that the former dispenses with the investment element, while the latter exacts it in connection with all their contracts. Hence the price to be paid is greater. But is not the _guarantee_ also greater? The beneficiary under a death claim in an assessment company has for her security the _hope_, or promise if you please, that one thousand men will pay ten dollars each for her account. The beneficiary under a death claim in a regular life insurance company has for her security not only the actual payments of ten dollars each by one thousand men, but the definite promise to pay in full by an institution which has ample capital, assets, and surplus to back its contracts. Assessment insurance is yet on trial, and its only hope of permanent business lies in a rigid compliance with the laws of mortality and of sound business experience. * * * * * THE OLD STATE HOUSE. BY SIDNEY MAXWELL. The Old State House! Within these antique walls The early fathers of the hamlet met And gravely argued of the town's affairs. Another generation came; and in This hall the Tory Council sat in state While from the burning lips of Otis, or The stem, defiant tongue of Adams sprang That eloquence whose echoes thundered back From Concord, Lexington, and Bunker's Hill! Between those years and ours a century lies; Those patriot's graves are deep with moss and mould, And yet these walls--the same whose shadows fell Athwart the crimson snow where Preston charged[3]-- Still cast their shadows; not on troops, nor mob Exasperated by their wrongs, but on A jostling, hurrying throng--freeman each one, Unless in bondage to himself. O Man: Pass not all heedless by, nor imprecate This aged relic of the past because It lies across thy path! From avarice Redeemed; restored unto its former self,-- We hail thee, noble Sentry of the years, And greet thee with a thousand loving cheers! [Footnote 3: The "Boston Massacre," March 5th, 1770.] * * * * * THE PRECIOUS METALS. BY DAVID N. BALFOUR. From the earliest times to the commencement of the Christian Era, the amount of the gold and silver obtained from the surface and mines of the earth is estimated to be $5,084,000,000; from the latter event to the epoch of the discovery of America, $4,363,374,000 were obtained; from the date of th
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