Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-14

and most powerful corporations in the
country. For stated sum intrusted
to us each year we agree to settle q
large income on the widow of every
man who comes under our care and
protection. An insurance company ;
No, not exactly that. Insurance com.
panies are organized to make money.
you know. This is an organization of
rich men who agree to pay at death to
the beneficiaries of their friends five,
ten or fifteen thousand dollars, as the
case may be. You are young man
who will rise in the world and become
worthy of the liberality of the organi-
zation l represent; You only need to
pay small sum each year to help de-
fray few minor expenses of the insti-
tuition and at your death your wife will
receive handsome amount of money.
If you will come with me, l will intro
ucs you to our president.
Wilkins looked hopelessly from Dunn
to Dobbins, and those two glared at
each other AS before.
Gentlemen, said Wilkins, desper-
ately, 1T is useless for you to waste
any time with me. have heart dis
ease, am predisposed to consumption
both of my parents died of that disease
i have the gout, and not a day passes
that ] do not fall to the floor in an
eplleptic fit.''
Dunn slid from his seat on the desk
and came over to the corner where
Wilkins and Dobbins were standing.
Both agents chimed in at once to ex-
plain that Wilkins physical condition
made no difference; that all those lit
tie ailments could be cured easily.
" Come over to my office and l will
convince you," pleaded Dunn.
mo; let me introduce you to our
president, said Dobbins, catching
Wilkins by the right arm. Dunn, see-
ing that he might lose his man, grasped
the left arm and the two agents pulled
in opposite directions, overturning- sew
eral chairs in their efforts to get Will
kins to accompany them. The latter
finally released himself from their
grasp and said;
will talk this matter over with
my wife and see you tomorrow at 3
O'clock
The two agents left, and when they
reached the street, Wilkins saw them
from the Office window, walking
away arm in arm.
That night Wilkins talked insurance
to his wife. She cried. He tried to
explain to her the intricacies of life in
surance and became tangled up in a
confusion of endowments, cash values,
premiums and experience tables. The
agents called upon him the uext day
and for several days following. but he
talked off," He was interested, how
ever, and resolved to get his life in
sured. Being suspicious of agents he
the standing of several
and finally selected one that
he thought was sound. The medical
examiner told him that he would pro-
badly live for some time, unless some-
thing unforeseen happened, but that he
must agree not to engage in hazard
GUS occupations like the following:
Not to smoke cigar while seated on
a keg of powder.
Not to speak of water while in Ken
lucky or Missouri.
Not to explore Africa in summer.
Not to go in search of the North
Pole.
Not to walk tightrope over Niagara
Falls, attempt to shoot the rapids in
barrel, or jump from Brooklyn Bridge.
Not to be in the vicinity when any
person is handling an unloaded shot
gun.
Not to kill himself within two years,
whether sane or insane.
Not to become parachute jumper.
Not to wander about on lake and sea
bottoms as professional diver.
Not to attempt to vote Republican
ticket in Georgia.
Armed with policy for $4,000, Will
kins went home and presented the doc
nment proudly to his wife, telling her
with tremulous voice that the time
might come when she would have to
wear black. but that she would get
some comfort in the thought that she
could think Of her departed whenever
she had occasion to draw ON her FIVE
dollar bank account.
A few days later Wilkins was busily
engaged at his desk when another agent
called upon him.
"Mr. Wilkins, 1 believe" he said.
Il read of your marriage"
Never mind going any further" "
fastened to say; 1.-THE man
you probably wish to find used to be
employed here; he has been dead a
week. But the enterprising agents
still watch the society columns of the
1aily papers. Ocean.
why don't you work? You're an
able bodied man." asked the lady Of