The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-04
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Ks,snass> Journal.
From the Louisville Cour1et~ Turice
A quarter of century ago Mtss -. ;.
Whitbeck, of Lucerne county, Pa; Was =
gushing Young thing of some seventy SUM
mers, with fair prospect Of living to De-
come a woman of mature years: But Mt:
Ahr,m Oakley was Internationally Of the
oninion that she couldn't possibly hive
always. And so when he, at the ren!ote
period named above, went to the agency OF a
connecticut insurance company and proposed
TO have her sweet young life insured, for his
own benefit, in the sum of 81 300, the company
accepted the proposition with an emotion
of prophetic Joy and ground out the policy
| on the spot. Mr.. Oakley made the annual
PAYMENTS of the premium promptly for some
wears. constantly hoping that venerable
female funeral would speedily lift him into
the possession of the thirteen hundred dol
lars. But as Miss Eunice pelsistently lived
on, in spite of her fearful suppllcatlons TO
the gods that they would love her sufficiently
to enable her to die young. OF as young as
the peculiar nature ofthe case would permit,
and as she seemed to be, in fact,
| One of the few confoanasd things
| That were not born 10 die,
he became discouraged after Il while, and dis.
posed of the policy to the first man he could
lind willing to take the risk of his hands. That
man was Peter Conkling, possibly distant
relative Of Roscoe of that ilk. For seven
, long yearS-thc several holders of the policy
:. all would seem to have long 'cars--Peter
came around punctually with the required
annual payments; but, finding at the eXpira.
ton of that period that the fair brow of the
gentle and ncver-dying maiden was still
F,nued by the wing of llfe's hest apgel-Health-
he. too. became discouraged at the Gimme
rian hue of the prospect ahead, and sold out
to another of the Conklings, who, when III
vited to quench his thirst in the gently-f1oW'
ing bowl, answered to the baptismal name Of
James. And James, with fiery, untameo
eve. fixed immovably upon the 81 300 which
had so long eluded the grasp OF his prede
cessors, continued to pay the premium
every year. until one day he quietly
took the through train for the othel
,, shore. leaving Tile Teryese but love
" Eunice still blooming, at the serene
age of ninety, in seemingly immortal you'll
and undying freshness Of soul. And thel
!, his executors took up the payments where
d he had left of, and kept them UP until on
i fine day not long ago, when the intelligence
;. came that in the family of that female " In1.:
of the Perverse" there was an immediate
demand for "a dirge for her the doubly dead
: in that she died so yolmg"-that the veneer
{ able insured, in short, had at last gone
u hence, at the age of ninety-three
e e Whereupon the insurance company cheer
{ fully handed over to Mr. Conkling'
= executors the long sought thirteen hun
! dred dollars, having received, from frs
= to last, about twenty-siX hundred in pre-
3 g miums on that one policy alone. And now
= hereafter the Oakleys and Conklings viii
, leave the lives Of venerable females to tn
;, risk of their owners, and will yield to some
- body else the pious duty of rearing monu
= mental stone commemorative of the rare ant
. radiant virtues OF the loved and lost Eunice
. who, for them, lived not wisely but to-
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