The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-07-16

which ConPIslAly lays over Mutual
nOnant Lifo I~nanFaneo schemes,

ALAMAk 80
The fac, that there are more things In
lie than is dsiamt OF in the every day
philosophy Of most people becomes more
and more apparent. And the patent Office
does not scoop in every thing either. For
some time past protective unions and
cheap but Eais life insurance societies
have had quits'a run, with some Of them
blossoming out into immense proportions,
but now comes q scheme which has every
thing connected with 1t Of such pleasing
possibilities that 1t ought to become the
strongest aggregation Of mutual interests
in the country. An INTELLIGENcER re.
porter ran across an Eastern individual
Yesterday, who outlined to his sympa.
thetic heart the more prominent features
and details Of this assurance company,
and it would have done any bstchelor's
heart good TO have heard the conversation.
The party in question was here TO see what
the outlook was, or how the land lay,
with 0 view TO the establishment Of q
branch office Of the
AMERICAN MUTUAL MARRIAGE ASSOCIATION.
Most every body is familiar with the
workings Of the Protective Union or the
Knights Of Honor Association. Each mem
Der pays 90 much Of an initiation teei 90
much in the way OF dues, and, every time
brother dies, they have to plank down q
dollar, the latter going toward paying the
1.-Two, three or Ave thousand dollars insur.
ance on his life, as the case might be, and
the dues, DC, running the expenses oil the
machine, 60 10 speak.
Now the Mutual Marriage Association
Ia run on pretty much the same plan, bll
without the Objectionable features attach
linQ 10 the insurance business. In the lat
lter YOU have to be examined be q physi
clan who feels you oil over, puts q stethO'
scope over your liver, and aeks II you
: grandmother ever had the Chicken.pox
and makes minute inquiries OF the dlges
ton Of your lorefathefs and back up thl
third or fourth generation. Then you
age figures Ia IN important matter, snt
the older you are the more you usually
have To- pay to get something alter yot
are dead.
Now how different with the A. NJ. M. A
You may be % old % Methuselah and n
fall OF boils 90 job and yet you can planl
down your assessment oil from thirty cent
TO two dollars, according to the number o
Thousands OF dollars you want to draw
when you get mArfiedj ditto your month
. " dues and youEinterest on the princi
pal, and when you want Ia 60 up to Geo
,, Hooks office and say "HeTs, give US
marriage license, will your" the othe
} fellows who haven't screwed up thei
courage 10 the striking point have to pony
, up 10 help you pull through, and you ar
:. thereby enabled, to start up Housekeeping
In creditAble style.
/ Most every man, ct soma period OF hil
career, gels n oil Oupid'H arrows lodged
! in him, and thousands thus wounded
suffer In quiet because he cannot afford Il
employ the physician for life who CoulC
heal him. But the A. NJ. NJ. A. proposes
!. To do away with oil this, and their gener
Gus scheme meets with the hearty appro
val Of every unmarried man In this Office
The delegate referred to 10 therefor
bid hearty welcome, aud the hope is tina
his sign will soon be erected In oomforta
bic quarters In Wheeling, The reporter
with such Q pleasing prospect before him
mourns that earlier In life he had tn
silken knot tied. II matters not Of conrsC
/ 40 the public that he Is struggling alonI
: on o salary Of SIS per week, but when tn
I invention noted Ia brought to his Atten
tfon he necessarily thinks II hard that tn
2 : matter was not thought Of several year
! ago,