Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-10
TO PRoLoNe LIFE.
Insurance Companies to Build = Homi
For Consumptive Policy HolderA

| Eor tonsumptife Foitcy holdera
The large and enormously wealthy in
surance companies are considering .
scheme TO prolong human life. 1t Is not q
newborn spirit of philanthropy that has
actuated them, but a strictly businesslike,
though in every way laudable, desire to
saye themselves from financial loss by
availing themselves Of the best medical
skill and appliances.
Steps are now being taken by these COM
panies which will result in the building Of
sanitarium for the express purpose OF
prolonging the lives Of consumptive policy
holders. Il is pure matter Of business.
They believe they will be able to save an
immense amount Of money by providing
sanitariums for those Of their policy hold
ers who are affected with tuberculosis in
stead Of allowing the disease to proceed un-
checked until 1t results in the premature
death Of the policy holder.
The sanitarium will fulfill the medical
and surgical ideal. Every method known
to science and art will he employed and
every theory advanced by the great scien-
lists of the world to check the invasion Of
the dread disease will be promptly tried,
so that hereafter the consumptive who Is
fortunate enough to hold policy in one Of
the companies connected with the sanitari-
um may feel confident that he will be en-
abled to live as long as there is any human
way of keeping the breath of life in his
body.
1t is believed, too, that the influence of
all this upon the patients mental attitude
will act benefcially upon his health, for
he will not only have the feeling that his
family will be provided for after death,
but also that they will have assurance that
the best medical care In the world has
been given to him, and that no million
aire who ever lived could have had better
DR.. A. Jacob of New York city, who
has made study Of q somewhat similar
idea recently tried in Europe, says that
under patient care and skillful treatment
many consumptives have been restored to
usefulness in the community. The thought
Of founding the great sanitarium in Amer
ica however, has come from DR.. Denni-
son, a specialist of Denver.
One of the early results which Is expect
ed from the establishment of the insurance
sanitarum is that the time will soon come
when consu.nptives, no less than persons
in good health, will be insured by the COM
panies. This Is no mere theory, but, ac-
cording to Mr.. Halsey, vice president of
the Manhattan Life company, is a policy
that will be forced upon the American
companies.
Already those in Germany having the
sanitarium system in operation are plan
ming to have their representative branches
in this country take such risks, and the
themselves by doing the same. By refus-
ing they would lose not only the consump-
tive patients, but hundreds of others every
year, who would be influenced by the great
er benefits of the German companies.
Indeed under such a system thousands
Of persons will be insured for the simple
purpose of securing the advantage of tho
medical treatment New York Herald
Record Breaking Machine.
President L. S. Woodbury. of the Great
Falls Iron works has in contemplation the
construction of what he chooses to term
horsecycle, whereby horse can propel a
four wheeled vehicle on ordinary ground
at the rate of one mile in 80 seconds. The
proposed machine can be made in two
FORMS either one of which Mr.. Woodbury.
thinks will fill the bill.
The first is In the form of an ordinary
buggy. Instead of being hitched ahead,
the horse will occupy position between
the four wheels and operate sort of tread
mill. Should the velocity be so great as
to attract too much air, then it is proposed
to inclose the entire machiDe-horse, rider
and all-in a whaleback or torpedo cut
shell, the propelling operation to remain
the same. The seat of the rider will be
directly behind or above the horse. Pres
ident Woodbury. is so confident of success
that he is willing to back his bonds against
silver that mile can be made in SO sec
onds or better. The machine will be a
novel one, and if it should prove success,
will undoubtedly be world breaker in
records for fast travelling. Great Falls
Mon \ Leader