The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-03

diate wealth. II il were not for the adj
juster, the insurance company would
soon give way all its money and fetch
up III the poOrhOuse. When notice of
my loss was sent in, the company want
ed TO pay me for the house, grounds and
barn at once, but the adjuster said.
mo; you must not give Mr.. Nye all
your money, for You wogld run short
and be vagrant inside Of year. :"
So the adjuster came. After awhile I
convinced him that l did not set the
house afire, and could see that it was
a relief TO him, for he was a man who
loved to believe in his fellow men.
/ proved that my wife was very dan
gerously IL on the night of the fire, and
that her life for three days had been
despaired of, and so looking into my
great, deep, honest eyes he said: Some
men might say that you had selected
this time to become a wealthy widOwe-
and skip, but I am not so sOUred against
my fellow men as that. I believe that
if the house was set ahre some one else
did it. a"
l am insured in FIVE companies be-
sides the one that carries my piano, and
so really there should have been six adj
justers and the local agent in addition
TO the independent adjuster, but the
climate here is so pure and bracing that
one man can do the brain work Of two,
and so they did not all come.
The local agent and the adjuster. l
find, are two different men One is a
social favorite and a pleasing couversa-
ZIONIST, while the other is a man who
tells lou how cheaply houses like yours
can DO built nowadays.
The agent gives you all sorts Of adj
vantages over the company, and when
the adjuster comes you find that those
things, after all, were not put into the
policy. He also takes you around behind
the barn and shows you that, as mat
ter of fact, your policy has been vitiated
seven or eight times within the past
year, but he Will say nothing OF that be-
cause you evidently did not set the house
on fire yourself, and you seem 10 want
to do better and live purer life, so he
will give you s22 and pass receipts Then
hurry away and make some other home
happy with his ready john, and away
he goes.
The agent and the adjuster arc both
lovely characters, bat IN a different
way. One fixes II so that you VIII, IN
case Of fire, be about s., 00o better OF,
while the other makes you feel SO glad
10 think that the company has not slap
ped you into Jail for fraud that you
tremble all over till he goes away.
was glad that all the adJustsrs did
not come. II they had, would have
been a poor man
Once / had a house insured fer S15,-
900, and lightning struck one q tee
chimneys and DESTROYED the roof, TIE
falling bricks cutting through the tn 40
that IN entire new roof had 70 be put
on had planned 10 20 20 Italy that
summer, but / had TO stay az home and
prove that did not tip that chimney
over on the house myself in order to get
a new roof
Life insurance is not quite 80 bad,
although / expect 70 Be dag up By seven
or eight different companies IN order
that they may b plumb SIRE tla. am
not playing possuu. on tnern
When the adJusters went a7vsy, ! felt
from what they said 70 ne that ! was
a sort q jAni;oT for these Insurance
Companies, and that II ] DID not Ese
more care IN protecting the property /
would - discharged and another Glzn
put in my place
want 20 add orr word IN closing r.
gzrding the good Effects On ElT health .
shown from the constant Ess q Lithia
water, II the rsader sill pardon ny de- .
fiction from TIE Insurance basins.
Last month was quite IL Tor 2
week. and among o;her thiuEs A<d qzlts .
a chill one evening. bat lOt = big hot .
water bottles PLACID about ~ persc1
non warmed II up and went 20 sleep .
co1nfo-t4bly- Ia Gay o. tvv9 v@s up 4
again AID decided - ;ry the benefits q I
Lithia water. which some q TIE family
had been using with good resaltz
This l. not q osrtlhcste - tfe heneS;
90 tia; hevc.age. bit ! did 80 raz-kad
which ~ .r.ea1s Glso