12 Conservative.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITARY OF THE UNITED STATES.
National Bank of the Republic
OF CHICAGO.
, OJYB MILLION DOLLARS.
JOHN A. LYNCH , President. W. T. FENTON , Vice President and Cashier.
J. H. CAMERON and H. R. KENT , Asst. Cashiers. . R. M. McKINNEY , 2d Asst. Cashier.
WILLIAM L. WILSON.
By the death of President William L.
Wilson , Washington and Lee University
loses an executive who continued and in
creased the influence of that institution
for scholarship and character among
men. Learning has been deprived of
a rare advocate and exemplar. States
manship is afflicted by the departure of
one of its best illustrations in this age.
Virginia had no son worthier of homage.
The United States had no teacher , econ
omist or idealist of finer grain and no
bler quality than this honorable , mo
dest , mentally true and morally great
man.
man.He
He was a lawyer who put justice be
fore all things. He was a politician who
sought to identify the science of govern
ment with the rights of humanity. He
was a legislator who subordinated sec
tional and local to national and univer
sal obligations. He was an Orator who
vindicated the god-like power of elo
quence by devoting it to the good 'of
all. There never was a representative
of sweeter or broader spirit in our mod
ern times.
The short-lived law that bore his
name was malformed beyond his intent
by coarser influences he could not con
trol. He should never be held responsi
ble for it.
The pulmonary disease to which he
succumbed at the early age of 57 had
long impaired his strength , but all the
strength he had he gave to his duty , and
with him duty signified devotion to
principle and to his fellow men.
Soldier , statesman , teacher , orator ,
moralist , economist , publicist , Chris
tian gentleman , he has made the South ,
the nation and the world poorer by his
death , for they were made richer by his
life. Brooklyn Eagle.
It is the purpose of the friends of the
late William L. Wilson and of the
alumni of Washington and Lee Univer
sity , of which he was president , to raise
by subscription a fund of at least $100-
000 , to maintain a professorship in the
university , and to be known as the Wil
son endowment.
Incorporated 1849. Charter
. Perpetual.
SPRINGFIELD
Fire and flarine Insurance Co.
Of Springfield , Mass.
Annual Statement , January ist , 1900.
Cash Capital , $1,500,000.00
Reserve for Re-Insurance , 1,476,584.27
Reserve for all unsettled Claims , 245,262.45
NET SURPLUS , 1,685,092.34
TOTAL ASSETS , . $4,906,939.06
The Springfield has continuously transacted
business for fifty years , and has disbursed for
losses over $26,000,000. It has borne its share
of the burdens imposed by the great conflagra
tions at Troy in 1862 , Portland in 1866 , Chicago in
1871 , and Boston in 1872. It is one of only three
fire insurance companies that have been repre
sented in Chicago continuously since 1851. It has
never failed to promptly meet its fust obligations
with 100 cents on the dollar. It stands today in
the front rank among American underwriting insti
tutions. It insures against fire , lightning and
tornadoes , and has agencies in all prominent
localities throughout the United States.
A. J. HARDING , Manager ,
Western Department , Chicago , 111.
N. S. HARDING , State Agent ,
Nebraska City , Neb.