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AN IMPUHTANT TABULATION I Contribution Plates
Mny 11, VMY2.
Auditor Weston Has Printed a Sinn
mary of the Business of the Life
Insurance Companies of
the .State.
A COMPILATION OF FIGURES
Which Mont Surprise the Arvriaite
Ilium W hilar Attention linn
Not Hern tailed
to It.
Nebraska has three Standard Life Insur
ance Companies, of which the Hankers' Re
serve Life Association nf Omnha Is the
most energetic and supeessfiil. Against It
for this reason, the hot Are of alien
enemies hag been chiefly centered. Some
facts, shown by the nnnual compilation of
the auditor, will be well worth considering
The three Nebraska companies col
lected In premiums during the
year lflftl In round numbers $ 2C,r,nno
They disbursed during the same
year, chiefly In Nebraskn 2 IS.noo
Hilling the same period the for
eign companies doing busines In
Nebraska collected from Nehrns
kans In premiums the phenom
enal sum of 2 ns.l nnn
They disbursed In Nebraska to
hcnenciarli's the relatively in
significant rum of 514.000
They enrried out of the state to
enrich alien capitalists the en
ormous sum of 1,569.000
Of this enormous balance In the life in
surance Irnde against Nebraska not one
penny pays tuxes nnd not one penny will
ever find Its way back to the Nebraska
policy holders.
TIIK lltiVKI.ItW iti:si:n VK I.II'K
calls especial attention to these figures to
enlighten the huslmss men of the state on
a commircial situation not appreciated by
them. The folly of permitting this to con
tinue will be greater than th folly of the
past. These alien companies mu'-t be
niado to pay their share of state taxes, for
every other buslnc's Ik compelled to pay
taxes, and the people of the state must b
educated to the importance of abandoning
this blood-lelt lug style of slow coiiiinercl.il
suicide. Every man who will Join in the work
of correcting this evil by legislation and eilu
cation is Invited to write his views to the
Hankers Reserve Life. Omaha, Neb.
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ON 1 HE prUMISES Of
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"The contribution plate of the present
day." said a maker of and dealer In church
furniture and equipment, quoted by the
New York Sun, "is made of wood, of oak
or of walnut, In the greater number of
oqk, ana it is made twice as deep as the
old-style metal plate In order to give am
ple room for contributions In envelopes.
There are now manv churches that in r..n
on the envelope system. These plates of
woon cost .( to 125 each.
"The plate sold at $3 Is perfectly plain,
but of a graceful design, made of selected
wood and finely finished. Covering the hnt.
torn of the depression In the plate Is a
disk of velvet, stamped with an ecclesiasti
cal design. The costlier plates of wood are
more elaborately finished, some havlnv
scripture texts carved around upon the
surface of the rim and some being carved
also with designs of a decorative character.
Hut even the simplest of these plates is
beautiful, as a plate of such material,
handsomely polished, could not fail to be.
"In old times there was used In nm..
country churches for the collection of con
tributions a contrivance consisting of a
close-meshed net with a handle three or
four feet long something not unlike a
small crab net. The netting was made
lose meshed so that coins couldn't s-o
through it. The handle, of course, was to
liable the person taking tin the collection
lo reach with the net to the remotest nnr-
son in the pew. Such contribution nets as
these, lined with velvet, are Btill In use to
a considerable extent In England. It
might be that you would find some still in
this country.
"Another form of contribution recentnetn
which once had vogue was the contribution
box. made of oak or mahnganv or hlncV
walnut, and consisting of an oblong, velvet
lined box, about eight by five by two
inchei in dimensions, having ntiached a han
dle about three feet In length, the person
carrying It being enabled by means of this
nanaiu to reach to the Inner end of the
pew. This handle always made the con
tribution box rather an awkward thing
to manipulate, to get one In and out of a
pew in a graceful and dignified manner
calling for the exercise of some care and
skill; but the chief objections to It was
its liability to upset when partly filled with
coin. You couldn't verv well unset a not
hut you easily could a shallow box thus
we ghted and carried at the end of a handle
of that length.
"All of this time. In the old dnv theru
was widely used a contrlbutlcn plate of
some sort, often called the penny plate,
because In those days there were many
pennies dropped Into It, the penny plate
tiling prnctlcnlly like a pie plate as to
form and dimensions.
'This kind of contribution nlate u in
fact, In some form, long a standard thing.
Many of these contribution plates were of
plated ware and some were of silver- ih.r.
were plates that were both handsome and
costly, and they came in time to put vel
vet coverings on the bottom of the plates
to break the sound of the first coin dropped
into it, tnese velvet pads Incidentally Im
proving the appearance of the plates as
well. In surne form the metal cnntrihntlnn
plate was tone the standard artlels tnr thi.
I purpose, and for that matter there are
cnurcnes still using silver plates for taking
up tne contributions.
'A comparatively modern variation nf h
plate, used for reasons of economy, Is the
contribution basket, consist I n IT nf m flaw
ing basket of suitable dimensions lined with
silk. Contribution baskets of this sort will
still be found In use. Rut the thin of th.
day for taking the collection, which has
wnony or In great measure displaced all
others and which at the same time Is the
most dignified, slghtlv and eonvAnlent Oiin.
yet devised for Its purpose Is the contrlbu
non piate or wood."
In Ye Goode Old Tymes
Judge: Nowe, ye goode knyghte Percl
valle stoode at ye postern gate, mur
inurynge sweet e nothynges Into ye wyll
ynge eares of ye Ladye Ysabelle, & she
smyled full sweetlie uponne hym & sayde
shylle:
"Melhynketh. IVrcivalle. that there be
ye beame of trewe love in thyne eye "
Hut at thya poynte came fort be her
father full wrothfullle and made moche
ado, shoutynge:
"tkls-bloid! A murrain seize me, an I do
not take ye beame from thys fellowe's eye
In a Jyffle."
Whereuponne ye goode knyghte Perclvalle
chuckedde ye angrie papa into ye dytch
aboute ye rastle. saying, merrlllie:
"Fyrste plucke ye mnate from thyne own
eye, goode sir."
A thenne he bestrode hym hys horse &
made speede thence,
Colored Philosophy
Philadelphia Times: Two old-time darkles
were engaged In a discussion of death and
its mysteries when I'm ie Mose said:
"Keuben, does you b'lieve dat whin a
pusauu d!fs dat he kin turn to a dog er
chicken?"
"Wtll, I dunno." answered Reuben.
"Ef you had yo' way whin you dies would
you turn to er chicken?"
"Dat depends all togedder."
"All togedder on what?"
"On whedder you lived In de nearabeuts
er not."
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