Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-04-16
Miscellaneous.
Bill Nye.
HE SHOWS IN HIS MAICHLEss WAY
WHAT LIFE INSURANCE HAS DONE FOR
HIM.

HUDSON. Wis. Mar. 10. 1885.
To the Editor of the Globe:
Referring to the matter of life insurance
and its benefits. can hardly give The
Globe very extended experience so far
as am individually concerned.
Icarry an insurance OF $1,000 only. and
though that may look small to you. Mr..
TAYLOR. am sure that if you could see
me and converse with me you would say
it was plenty large enough. If l were to
die Suddenly Tomorrow. would be al
most ashamed to claim the full amount of
the policy. am trying now to lead such
life that by next fall | would have no
hesitation in asking the companies to raise
my insurance to $4,000
look upon life insurance as great
comfort, not only to the beneficiary, but
to the insured. who very rarely lives to
realize anything pecuniarily from his ven
ture Twice | have almost raised my
wife to affluence and cast a gloom over
the community in which lived but some
thing happened to the physician tor a few
DAYS so that he could not attend to me, and
I recovered. For nearly two years was
| under the doctors care. He had his finger
on my pulse or in my pocket all that time.
He was young Western physician. who
attended me on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The rest of the week he devoted his med
zeal skill to horses that were mentally and
physically broken down. He said he at
tended me largely for my society. felt
ffattered to know that he enjoyed my so
ciety after having been thrown among
horses all the week that had had much
greater advantages than !.
Ta 6r-f ahianfoI coripns 1yrt RI on
Insurance on my lie, and said she would
never, never touch dollar of the money
if were to die, but after had been sick
nearly two years and nv disposition had
suffered good deal she said that need
not delay the obsequies on that account.
But the life insurance slipped through
my fingers somehow, and | recovered.
have built up two life insurance COM
panies and placed them on their feet since
that. hope they will not forget it when
| come to call on them for a iavcr. One
of them is ian old liner" and the other
is an assessment company. | took poll
cy in the assessment company because
had been in politics some, and when |
went out [ missed my assessment sadly.
| had become slave to the assessment
habit, and so had to do something to sup
ply its place now ieel first rate. When
| get my assessment notice imagine that
am an office holder and that it is a billet
douX from the central committee, 50 it is
like old times almost.
Life insurance is good thing. l would
not be without it. NV health is greatly
improved since got my new policy. For
merly used to have seal brown taste
in my mouth when arose in the morning.
but that has disappeared entirely. | am
more hopeful and happy and my hair is
getting thicker on top. | would not try to
keep house without life insurance. Last
September | was caught in one of the
most destructive cyclones that ever visit
ed republican form of government. A
great deal of property was destroyed and
many lives were lost, but | was spared.
! People who had no insurance were moved
down on every hand, but aside from a
broken leg. was entirely unframed.
Since insuring my life sleep better
nights, and my neighbors are getting
more reckless about leaving their water
melons and clotheslines out over night. Ii
had a voice that could be heard on the
other side of the Soudan, it would still be
for GOOD. solid life insurance. In these
days of dynamite and roller Kinks, and the
CORY meat-axe of new administration.
we ought to make some provision for the
future. BILL NYE.