The Daily Texarkanian., 1897-05-31
INCREASE FOR 1896.
IN SIX YEARS
IN SIX YEARS
The Insurance in Force has Doubled;
The Surplus has Increased
Threefold
Mortality Cost per $1,000 Insurance.
$3.50,
OF Philadelphia.

We respectfully invite you to in
sure your life in The Fidelity Mutu-
al Life Association. THIS is not an
untried institution. 1t is a Phila-
delphia company which began oper
ations in 1878. It's business has
steadily increased with every year.
until, IN 1895, it made a greater
gain in the State OF Pennsylvania
than any other life insurance COM
pany- excepting only three, any
one Of which is much older, Our
business extends over forty states,
in each of which 1t is under
the inspection Of the msur-
ance Department, We have nowin
force over sixty five millions of in.
surance, The company has never
refused to pay an honest claim,
Our plan of business is unique
We decline to do business on the
plan of the old line or legal reserve
companies, simply because that
plan makes II necessary to collect
eXhorbltant premiums and fails to
furnish the best security to policy.
holders. We will not do business
on the ordinary assessment plan,
because the premiums commonly
charged by such companies are too
low, and an increase Is sure to come
a few years later, The Fidelity
bases It rates on what insurance
has cost in the old companies for
the last century, and It collects
more money for premiums than any
company has ever yet legltlmately
made use Of, This renders higher
premiums unnecessary and unjust
In this way we have saved to policy.
holders, In the seventeen Of years
our history several millions Of dol
lars,
We issue all desirable kinds of pol,
lcies, For a straight hfe policy we
charge about 30 per cent less than
other companies, We sell u twen.
ty advance payment life policy for
what others charge for an ordinary
lIfei a fifteen advance payment pol
Icy for what they charge for a
twenty.paymenti and a ten advance
payment life policy for what they
charge for a 0fteen-payment We
gIye paid policies, cash surrender
values, and extended insuranee=m
fact, we do everything that an in-
surancc company can legltlmately
do for lts polcy.holdcrs, We do
not Issue Investment or endowment
policies, We have something far
better For the same premium
that you pay to get an endowment
policy we will give YOU 30 per cent
more protection during the term
selected, and considerably more
money II YOU Wish II, at the end OF
the term,
We make II our business to eSs
plain what use we make of your
money Our motto has always
been, let In the Light" Our
whole story Is summed up In a re.
eital OF facts a=not the0ries=gath'
cred from insurance experience,
We put into every policy our FAM
ous Safety CLAUSE, which renders
failure Of the Company impossible
from any Of the ordinary causes
which compel business failure, In
this way we guarantee safety to
the poicy.holder and perpetulty TO
the Company a double security
We insist that ours h the safest ln'
suranee company Ia the world, aud
we ask no man TO insure with us uh=
less he agrees with that proposition
after he has heard II explained
| We court the most rigid inyeallga.
tIon,
No company IL America has a
more competent man At ils head,
aud none more ellleleht corps Of
assistants,
No company stands better Ia the
estimation 0l Insurance men gene
rally large numbers Of whom carry
policies with us.
We number dm0nW our patrons
thousands of the pro.purow busIs
uvsa men Of forty states We would
lilac iuuli your name to that lisL
ifuu will lgfae 10 H. you will be
ina ''A1diIy fellowship" YOU viii
hay some money LETT for other
thugs Shall we quote rates f0r
your agc2
liBAyEa n lladHf, Mgrsu
Little Rock, Ath
ioHE @ lfiaBY, Dist Mgfu