Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-23

always live in the memory of those
who love him; if he be gifted, his
work will ever live, if it be worthy;
the names of Tennyson, Shakespeare,
Edison, Westinghouse and Morse
will never die.
Few of US are great so far as the
world generally is concerned; most Of
us are greater than people give US
credit for being; all of us would make
the world happy if we knew how.
Very few people are mean; some have
allowed disappointments to sour their
disposition; others feel that they are
the Bullets of fate; some have no
friends in whom they can confide and
are mistrustful; but on the whole men
are pretty square and fair. Get to
know a mans real soul and you will
find qualities like gems hidden from
the public gaze. People keep the best
side of themselves protected from
criticism and injury.
All of us want to do good and GER
tainly most of us can. The most
practical way to do some good is to
protect those who are dependent up
on us after we are gone. 1t is use
less to say, "If I die" Say, when
de-; for all things born in time
must perish and there is no 'if' nor
''but" in this matter-you, like all the
rest, are going. The way to live after
death is to let your family feel your
presence by| something substantial;
they cannot live on love and memory.
Some poor fellows imagine that if
they leave a few hundred dollars
every nan in the country will be after
his widow. If they marry your widow
they only compliment you, and surely
man would not be so selfish as to
want a woman to be thinking about
him all the rest of her days. But if
you want her to cherish your memory
for goodness sake leave her some
thing t. do it on. AS matter of
fact the less woman has the more
likely she is to marry the first scala
wag that comes along, because she is
lonesome and DEPENDENT; now unless
a man leaves his wife in such shape
that she cap be free from annoyances
and bills he does her a great injury.
A woman's chances of marriage de-
crease as her years increase, and If
she has paid you the compliment to
be loyal and true you owe it to her
to be equally as complimentary by
providing for her after you are gone.
It makes a man feel better to be
able to pass an insurance examina-
ton; it makes his passing beyond a
little easier because he knows that
his power of protection does not pass
with him and he still lives in deed
and memory. Now the great insur-
lance companies have made it pos
sible for every man to be sure that
he will be factor in the life of his
widow; if woman respect you she
will not let some one spend your mon
ey; if she love you, and her living
with you, with all your faults, proves
this, she will not care less for you in
your last illness, but 90 all she car
to help you because she knows when
you are gone she can pay the bills
You can get a policy from companies
from 5. cents a week to $4,000 a
year and every self-respecting man
ought to have one. I see cases every
now and then where these people
come in with check, and it is like ar
angle Of mercy pouring balm over q
wounded soul and is like the hand OF
the dead reaching out assistance, like
a voice from heaven telling Of love
and thought. Get policy; put your
wife and family in the respectable
class; live after you are dead anc
make your widow as attractive as
possible; the better you are to her
now the better youw ant to be to her
after you are dead.