St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-04-10

it, to pick out that year and compare
others with it2 Perhaps he didn't know
that the 1878 figures covered the extra
five millions. Perhaps he did know. He
was called down Tor the same deception
before he left the Equitable or before that
company left bin, whichever may have
been the case But let that pass-that is,
Bumblcbee" Hastings and his idea of
honesty and competition.
ave are not looking Tor records of long
ago; we are after records OF now and to
come" so roared this mighty challenger
ofall agents and all companies when had
brought him down to the present year
of grace thoroughly well whipped as to
the past. proceeded to satisfy his yearn-
ing for current history citinga st. Johns
bury policy issued ten years ago, upon
which the cash dividends in March, 1896,
amounted to $24S, reversonary value,
$491, inviting him to match it, He
began to grow white around the eiIls
and to fear that his little knowledge was
indeed dangerous thing. The best he
could do, after backing and filing, was
to find policy in his company which
had practically the same premium. His
was thirty-two cents greater, on which
the cash dividends for the same period
amounted to "about SITS" with rever.
sionary value of 1854. Here was an
admitted cash difference of 500 in favor
Of the Mutual Life and yet the man of
bluff and buster coolly remarks: 81 do
not see that this example is anything to
brag of whatever" and there again you
have ''Bumbeb,e" Hastings. He tries to
wriggle out on the assertion that my
policy was on the ten year distribution
plan. 1t was not. 1t was a five year
distribution policy. Had it been ten
the dividends would have been much
larger. But as Bill Nye would say, he
kept on shedding information long after
he had run out of facts, asserting that
the dividend on my policy would have to
be used to pay premiums and couldn't be
drawn in cash. Wrong again, young
man. Ny company will pay the divi-
dends in cash and your company won't.
Some of the gas must have escaped at
this point for he goes on to herewith
give notice that unless he Drew can
bring some point against my company
shall advertise in this way no more"
"Bumblebee" Hastings again. All bluff,
all buster, filled to the bursting point
with self conceit and possessed with the
idea that he can rise in the world by
annoying and pulling down others.
Business courtesy and fair, open meth
DDS do not weigh with him. To him the
broad sunlight Of brotherly love and the
milk Of human kindness are poison. For
years he has kept up this bombastic war
fare, setting up straw men and knocking
| them over, and has wallowed around in
the muck until the entire insurance frater-
nifty is ashamed of him. Time and again
the agents of Other companies have urged
me, as the chief sufferer from his trickery,
to show him up; and this mild homeopa
THO effort to enliven the cerebral cells oil
gray matter which, in absence of proof,
may still exist in his head, will be fol
lowed by blue pills. calomel and bleeding
unless immediate Improvement is noted
But my text just now is his statement
that the Mutual Life is Back Mum
ber," and beg to submit some figures
from the Mutual Lies record: