Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-07-03
ave me hearty slap OBJ the shout

gave me . hearty slap OBJ the shout
der.
seemed to myself like one who
had passed rom nightmare into some
pleasant dreamiand. | felt my face
warming, and the blood leapiDg thro'
my veins.
My application went to New York,
and | waited, in nervous suspense,
| until the third day, when policy
for ten thousand dollars, payable i'll
case OF death To my wife, was placed
in my hands.
1 felt my knees tremble as | took
the precious document and thrust ii
into my pocket My head had a
strange lightness. | went down
stairs from the office, and out into
the cool street; but the lightness did
not pass away. How weak my linn bs
had suddenly become. 1t was with
difficulty | walked without stageer-
ing.
"Ah, Granger ~ 1t was the voice
of a friend. Then the tone changed.
Why, my good fellow! what's the
matter? Are you sick ?i'
Il feel little strangely" l an
swered. ''Some confusion here
Came on all at once.n And laid
my hand on my forehead.
He drew bis ARIA into mine, stead
ying me, and we walked to the next
corner, where | took a car and went
home. The next instant my wife
looked into my face, she grew pale,
and exclaimed -'Oh, Henry! what
is the matter?
Nothing at all, ~ / replied, with a
heaVinesS | could not shake off ;"on-
~ | felt little dull, and thought I'd
come home. I've been overworking
myself, you know, and nature gives
4 remonstrance. That is all Pm
going TO ease up and take things
more quietly.n
Her eyes were all over ray face, ca
gerly reading every line. | saw in
them both anxiety and alarm.
/ went up to our cosy sitting-room
and threw off my boots, little three
year old bringing nay slippers, and
her mother my dressing g-gown. /
took my two babies into my lap and
tried to hold and frolic with them as
usual but they seemed like so much
lead In my arms. Then all grew
found myself in bed, with my weep
ing wife bending over me, and the
doctor sitting with an anxious face
by my side.
Well, to make the story short, I
had q pretty even struggle for life !;
but that policy saved me. | was in
the grip of an exhausting disease, the
same under which poor Claghorn
had fallen and the weight of an ad-
verse feather would have turned the
scale OF resistance against me. The
dread of dying, and leaving my wife
and children without dollar in the
world, would have done that fatal
work. But my mind was at ease
here. No business care Obtruded, no
dresd anxiety for my beloved ones
brooded over my mind. l was pas
siVe in the hands of my physician
and curative nature, and olI was
well.
1t is five years since then. | am
i'll good health and III easy circum-
stances. My business, conducted
with a cooler head and less nervous
anxiety about rapid gains, has grown
with healthy growth, larger and
larger each year, just as u human
body, IL stimulus is withheld and
good food supplied grows to strong
and vigorous manhood. And / owe
it all TO a policy of life insurance.
But for that, [ would now be in my
grave, and my wife and children
but / cannot bear to think OF it,
have shuddered hundreds OF times
since then ut thought Of my impend-
ing shipwreck and almost miracu-
lOus escape Arthur's Homo Mag
aIiue.