The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-04-13
Ghe9ntelIigsrtes
The Attempt to Insure BITTER
WlCk'S Lie.

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Philadelphia Bulle,Inl
When Benjamin P. Gum, the life in
mrance agent, called upon Mr.. Butter
wick, the following conversation ensued
Gunn-"Mr. Butterwick you have nj
insurance on your life, believe?
dropped in to see il ! cant get you to 8!
into our company. We offer unparallel
ed inducements, and"
Butterwick-"I don't want to insure.
Gunn-"The cost is just nothing wortl
speaking Of; mere triAe. And then vi
pay enormous dividends, so that you havo
30 much security at such little outla!
that you can be perfectly comfortable ant
BntterWic k-GBut I don't want to be
comfortable and happy. Pm trying to
10 miserable"
Gunn-"Now, look at this thing in Il
practical light. You've got to di Ut some r
time or other. That is a dreadful GER
tsinty 10 which we must all look forward
1t ia fearful enough in any event ous Iow
much more so when man k"oW W. '. III
he leaves nothing behind nun VIZ W
shrink from death, We all nate 70 Inlnk
81 Il. tho contemplation Of It fills us with
owini JrcSd: but reflect, what must be
n. f"cIing1 Of the man who enters the
dark valley with the assurance that in u
pecuniary sense his life has been an utter
iailurc! Think how"
Butterwick-"Don't scare mo bit.
want to die; been wanting to die for years.
RIther die than live any time"
Gunn-"l say, think how wretched will
he the condition OF those dear ones whom
YOU leave behind you. Will not the tears
Of your heart.broken widow be made
more bitter by the poverty in which she
is suddenly plunged, and by the reflection
that she is left to the charity Of cold
and hear,less world. viii not"
Buuerwick-I wouldn't leave her q
cent il had millions. It'll do the old
woman good 10 skirmish around for her
living. Then she'd appreciate me-"
Gunn-"Your poor little children, too.
Fa.herless, orphaned, they will have no
one TO fill their furnished mouths with
bread, no one to protect them from harm.
You die uninsured and they enter life
Of suffering from the keen pangs Of pow.
erty. You insure in our company and
they begin life with enough to feed and
cIoihe them and TO raise them above the
reach OF WANT
Buterwick-"I don't want to raise
them above the reach Of want. / want
them to want. Best thing they can do is
to tucker down to work MS / did"
Gunn-"Oh, Mr.. Butterwick try to
take higher view Of the matter. When
you arc IN angel, and you come back to
revisit the scenes OF earth, will 1t not ill
you with sadness TO see your dear ones
exposed to the storm and blast, to hunger
and coldp
Buttcrwick-"rm not going to be an
angel, and il | was, wouldn't come back"
Gunn-"You are n poor man now.
How do you know that your family will
have enough when you are gone 10 pay
your: funeral expenses, to bury you de-
Butterwick a don't want to be
buriei." .
Gunn-"Perhaps Mrs. Butterwick will
be 80 indignant ut your neglect that she
will not shed tear over your bier"
Butterwick-"I don't want bier, and
I'd rather she wouldn't cry any"
Gunn-"Well, then, s'posen You 80 in
on the endowment plan aud take policy
for $1,000, to be paid when you reach the
age Of 5O?'
But,crwick-'I don't want So, 600 when
Pm 30. wouldn't take it il you were to
ling it at me and pay me to take it."
Gunn-"I'm afraid then I'll have to say,
Good morning."
BntterwickH don't want you to say
good morning; you can so without say.
ing it,"
Butterwick-':Aha now you've hit III"
do want you 10 quit, and as suddenly as
YOU can"
Then Mr.. Gum left. He thinks he
illhnrdly insure Butterwick.