Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-01-05
Hyandot County Republican
''Ctreel Jones" as n Life In Ir-
ancs Agent.
Bi jEhIAL SLAB.

"Yon know Grubbs, General
Agent of the Adorable Life Insur.
ance Company, don't your inquir
ed Green Jones.
"No? You've missed sumner
then.
"He came along here about year.
ago now. Tongue glib! Well. it was.
Ran as easy as an empty hand sled
in winter. Even made me believe l
was gifted as life insurance agent.
"The way he told it, not a single
man had taken holt of the Adorable,
for the last hundred and fifty years,
and made less than five thousand a
year and expenses.
Zone agent has cleared S156, 900
in eight years.
"Another had laid aside S126, 900
in six years
"Another still (peculiar case that
was, though-man particularly adap-
ted to the work |. He built up such
a business In the short space of five
years, that he actually overshadow
ed the company. They had to force
him out as a measure of self pro-
lection. Averaged twenty thousand
dollars year clear of all expenses
while he was in, and the company
paid him S162,O00 in lump for
his renewals, besides, when he went
out.
"Well, didn't care much about
being such an agent as that-the
Ints rnal Revenue officers would al
ways be bothering me so. But fin
ally 1 concluded [seeing the thing
was so common and easy that l
would turn in and make eight or
ten thousand a year, for eight or ten
years, and then retire on my reuew
al commission.
"Grubbs posted me up till be said
1 could go it, Then he went on
home and left me to go it. alone.
"The town was strange to me a
year ago, and every one in it stran
ger. One locality seemed just as
good as another to begin in, as it
were. So 1 sauntered leisurly down
street the morning after Grubbs left,
and swung into the first store l came
to. 1 wasn't going to let anybody
see but that / had all the self-posses
sion necessary for my branch of bus
mess.
Nobody in sight. lounged along
among the boxes, and brooms, and
Goldfish piles, in sort of cheeky,
familiar way, till got to the back
office. There 1 found middle aged
man, sitting alone, reading a news
paper.
t'He looked up over the top of his
paper rather suspiciously as l enter
ed. Then he said, Good morningn
Coolly and obviously.
Il was very intent on my errand
by that time-so intent that | wholly
neglected to answer him.
Il hauled out my rate-book and
opened it.
The paper was laid aside onin
ously, his gaze still riveted on me.
with hand kind of trembling and
knees shaking little. began:
Mister, did you ever consider the
subjet Of
L didn't finish that sentence. for
down Slated a two dollar and a half
pair of spectacles. Up bounced
two hundred pounds of well devel-
oped bone and sinew. Around the
room, agile as French dancing
master, it went hopping like a wild
bull in a slaughter yard it roared {:
Julius Caessr. Six Life Insurance
Agents, and it aint nine o'clock yet.
I Here began to crawfish]. 1 won't
stand it another minute! Here, Tige !!
sick im!'
There was a sudden, convulsive
scratching oftoe nails at the further
end of a big safe that stood on the
other si,le of theAfocm. Then came
scrat hing equa ly sudden and con-
vulsive, where | was
+ started just one slHare jump
ahead of that big bull dog, and /
maintained my advantage till l got
within about ten feet Of the front
door Then 1 suddenly found it ne :
cessary to.execute quick, strategic,
right flank movement around pile
of boxes.
That dog went on out of the
door with one Of my coat tails in
his mouth, and I went through a
side window.
4 didn't pay much attention to
anything but the work 1 had on
hand going home. Then, with
features grim as gravestcn ne. pro
ceeded to pipe application after ap
plication, book after book, and cir
cular after circular, on the top of
each other. Then I turned all my
pockets inside out, to see if some
fragment hadn't escaped my notice
THAT pile is in the house there
yet, if my wife hasn't burnt it up.
And there it may stay, my friend
1 shan't touch another one OF
those documents if they get to be
as old as the Declaration of Inde
pendance.
Life Insurance Agents? I-well
others may seek success that way if
they want to. I'd rather be a pack
peddler,"
The Mont Gents Tunnel.
Travellers from France to Italy by
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