The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-01-19

comes, 50 Out n t1S 0OcFflne OF probas
bilities, calculated by Prof. Hugens
and Prof. Pascal for games of
chance, came the calculation of
the proba bilities of human life
as used by life-insurance COM
panies, and no business Oh earth
is more stable, or honorable. and nd
mightier mercy for the human race
has been born since Christ was born.
Bored beyond endurance for my sigma
tire TO papers OF all sorts, there Is one
style of paper that l always sign with
a feeling of gladness and triumph, and
that is paper which the life insurance
company requires from the Clergyman
after decease in his congregation, In
order to the payment of the policy to
the bereft household. / always write
my name then 50 they ean fead it
can not help but say to myself;
'Geod for that man to have looked
after his wife and children
after earthly departure. May he
have one of the best seats In Heavenl'
Young man! The day before or the
day after you get married, go to life
insurance company of esta blished rep
utation and get the medical examiner
to put the stethoscopc to your lungs
and his ear close up to your heart, with
your vest off, and have signed, sealed
and delivered TO you document that
will, in the case OF your ss6den de.
patture make for that lovely girl the
difference between d queen and
pauper. I have known men who havH
had All income of three thousand dol
lars, four thousand dollars, five thou
sand dollars year who did not leave
one fafthing to the surviving household.
Now that mans death is defalcation,
an outrage, swindle. He did not die;
ne absconded. There are hundred
thousand people in America to-day
a-hungered through the sin of itnpIovi.
denee, ''5ut, 4" says s6nie, Thy income
Is so small can not afford to pay the
premium on life insurance" Are
you sure about thatP If you are sure,
then you have a right to depend on the
promise in Jeremiah, xix, II; Leave
thy fathefless children. / will pre-.
Serve them alive, and let thy widow
trust in me-" But if you are able to,
remember you have no right to ask
God to do for yotf household that
y
For the benefit of those young men
excuse practical personality.
Another fact that you may depend
upon for perpetual poverty is the In
capacity of many to achieve livelEs
hood. YOU can go through any com
fnunity and find good people with more
than usual mental caliber. who never
have been able to support themselves
and their households. They are 3
mystery to us, and we say; II do not
know what is the matter of them, but
there is screw loose somewhere"
Some of these persons have more brain
than thousands who make splendid
success Some are too sanguine Of
temperament, and they see bargains
where there'are none. A common min
now is to them goldfish, and a quail a
Hamingo, and blind mule on
tow-path Bucepha1us. They
buy when things are highest
and sell when things are lowest
Someone tells them of city lots out
west, where the foundation of the first
house has not yet been laid. They say:
tWhat an opportunity and they put
down the hard cash for an oEnau1ented
deed for ten lots under water. They
hear of a new silver mine opened in
Nevada, and they say; What
chancel' and they take the little money
they have in the savings bank and pay
it out for as beautiful certificate of
mining stock as was ever printed, and
the only thing they will ever get out
of the investment is the aforesaid illu-
minated lithograph. They are always
on the verge of milIionairedom, and
are sometimes worried as to
whom they shall bequeath their ex-
cess of Torture. They invest in aerial
machines, or new inventions in per-
petual motion. and they succeed in
what mathema ticians think impossible,
the squaring of a circle, for they do
everything on the square and win the
whole circle of disappointment They
are good, honest, brilliant failures
They die poor, and leave nothing to
their families but a model of some in
veption that would not work. and
whole portfolios of diagrams of things
impossible. can not help but like
them, because they are so cheerful
with great expectations But their.
children are bequest to the bureau of
city charities.
In various colors of ink other life
insurance policies are written. This
one have just shown you is written
in only one kind of ink, and that red
inlx-the blood OF the cross. Blessed
be God, this is ''paid-up policy
paid for by the pangs ot the Son Of
God, and all we add to it in the way
of our own good deeds will aug
ment the sun of eternal felicities
Yes, the time will come when the banks
of largest capital stock will all down,
and the fire-insurance companies will
all GO down, and the life-insurance
companies will all go down. In the
last great earthquake all the cities will
be prostrated, and as a consequence
all banks will forever suspend
payment. In the last confagra-
tion the fire-insurance companies
of the earth will fail, for how
could they make appraisement of the
loss on universal fire? Then all the
inhabitants of the round world will
surr ender their mortal existence, and
how could life insurance companies
pay for depopulated hemispheress
But our Celestial life insurance viii
not be harmed by that continental
wreck, or theE hemisphere acci
dent, or that planetary catastrophe.
Blow it out like candle-the MONDAY
sun! Tear il down like WORKOUT
upholstery-the last sunset! Toss il
from Gods finger like a dewdrop from
the anther of water Hly-the