The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-18

"Don't make ne laugh, my lips are ehapped.' replied the busted sculptor gloomily.
 "'For s1OOOO,' repeated the insur- ance man. And you can throw that nice little policy tn your wife's lap as peace offering, and if that don't get your happy home together again I'm a bum guesser.'
 "'Dream on,' dismally said the sculp- tor. .
 "It's easy.' said the insurance man. You're big, well-muscled and healthy proposition, and locker. You're dis tinguished sculptor, engaged in mak- ing big name for yourself. and with the prospect of doing a whole lot of the sculping for the st Louis fair. You're sound risk and man of pretty fair means. You've got the duds to put up a front-top hat and all that. and I can rig it up so that they'll salaam before you when take you to the office of the company to be looked over and examined by the doc tor. You won't have to pay anything ldown-good thing, that, eh-for I'm pretty certain that I'll be able to get you three months. time, on your note for the first premium. How about it?'
 Any old thing, said the sculptor. ''The insurance man hiked right down to the office of one of the companies with which he had been doing business for number of years, and where he was known as hustler and a digger when he kept himself straight, and told the manager that he had snagged a toppy live one-scuIptor of reputation, designer of such-and-such statues, etc, and that he was going to insure him I for S10,000. That sounded pretty good to the manager, for the absolute insur- ance chap with the scheme on hand was manipulator of sound wind in class A.
 < Fetch your sculptor along for ex- lamination, said the manager.
 $" I'll have him down this afternoon said the reckless one. By the way, he's just finished paying off a big mort gage on the house in which his studio is located. and for that reason it'll come a little inconvenient for him to pay anything down right away. I guess you can handle so good a mans paper on three months basis, can't you?'
 The manager said that would be all right-and the reckless one hiked back to the sculptor's place.
 !" 'Tog out he said, Put every glad rag on you that you can rake out of your chest-we'ye got to get away with this thing right
 The sculptor proceeded to make an elaborate toilet. He had good suit, with frock coat, left out of the wreck, with silk hat and other good fixings, so that he made a pretty good figure of | it when pronounced all ready, being | an unusually good looking man.
 | '9The insurance chap and his pal, l the sculptor. went down to the office of the big company, and the sculptor was introduced to the powers and made an impression with his fine presence land manner. The, doctor examined him and pronounced him an albright I Irisk. The sculptor gave his three months note in lieu of first payment on the policy. and the absolute insur- lance chap, who had rigged up the lphony scheme out. tof. pure desperation being in urgent need of change. calm l iy drew down sS0 in cash, his first com mission on the transaction.
 | Looked like q pretty bad job up to that point, didn't it? And 1t looked worse when the insurance man and tho sculptor. with the s9o, went out and proceeded to paint the town. They wound up on the following afternoon considerably the worse for wear, at the
 Morris Park race track, the insurance man being a horse race fiend An6 there's where the sRatiei of, the transac. ton that looked pretty dark happened
 The insurance man had little more than $50 of his s90 left, and he put s5l on a horse that was at $50 to ii in tf1e
 betting. The horse romped in an easy
 winner in the mud, and the insurance
 man found himself just $4,000 to tho lgood He passed $1, 900 of the winning. lover to his pal the sculptor. Then tht 1.-two took a brace, and few days latel they went to the home of the sculptor's Wife's people. The artist tossed tn,
 S10,000 life insurance policy into hi, Iwife's lap-he already visited the office | taken up his three months note ant paid the premium and on top of tha