The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-11-26
CAPPY KICKS
He Forgiyes His Insurance Broker
Written for Tho Star By Peter n. Kyns

How conner Nr smith answered
lightly
il1w short On the memory ~ imam
Iarpy declared. looking rl4arly up
uarI as n hs would niu gaII aliru,
ZION n tho Almighty 90 "a defect m
the attrTa hHndIUork n suppose
you've forgotten that Way back lu
1895 sou placed a couple 81 hundred
thouraud dollars worth ~ fro lu
suranCs for tho San Fraurineo retail
gard Of The Kicks LDEgiuF a Lum
barring company
~ have. truly. Cappy Ana why.
n1tf ono cannot clutter up onra
mind with ancient history any more
than can clutter up ones once
with records more than 10 yrau old
Tho 1905 annals ~ my office vent
up boz smoke iH 1915. Hud The 1915
records win d. iha rlmg iu 1895
You don't know o. ta.nE about
your own business. Eddie Your 1906
~recortn went up iu smoke ou April
rs, 1906. when San Francisco was
destroyed ~ fire
"HlEhI-as usual capry Wei
what aboutst
In 1908 sou placed oar lumber
yard Insurance with % smear ~
German nu1 insurance companies
and when par retail yard burned IA
April, 1906, those German com
pauiss you placed us In just nat
uraiiy WEIGHED on us You Will re-
call. Eddir. that We didn't set o..
bean on that insurance
seems 10 mo I remember some
thing about that Mr. Smith muir.
INJURED. and turning 90 J Augustus
RrdeI he asked tho latter how he
thought tho In Toilette campaign
was getting along. But Cappy wn
not 10 b. denied
Don't tfy 90 change ihr subject
Of conversation be commanded
AS a matter 81 fact, you wouldn't
Try 10 change Il u you dldut suffer
from that terrible habit % burning
your records every 10 years You'd
know better
"Eh, what's thbt7'
so YOU ARE interested. after ALT
Well Eddie. set an earful % this
when We vent 20 war with Ger
many the allen property custodian
grabbed All the property OF al the
Germans ln sight Ito has sold
most Of Il Tor cash ana now DE haH
a let Of cash on hand and. OF
course. before that cash can 60 into
tho trsaEuU all Just claims Of
American citizens against Germans
or German companies must be al.
Indicated.
Tho 1906 firc insurance claims
Of san Francisons against
those short sport German In.
suranoc companies arc now TO
be considered. ~ you would
have observed II you had read
your paper carefully This morn
ing
Great snakes cappy' Can This
BE- porslhlo7'
Not only possible. but true
And have you your old policies
and proofs Of loss on hand 10 prove
your claimg
II haven't, but Skinner las. You
may safely play Skinner ~ one
who eve lossa hope and never
destroys anything
The Rlcks Logging & Lumber
inE, under SINNERS management
has always maintained "a anfo de-
pnsit vault In n local hank. It's az
big ag tho First preshytcrlnn church,
and for years Two brcn after skin
nrr 20 clear out tho worthless junk
hos nccumu atrd there, cut down
the space and reduce tho annual
rental
"Ho u tgumsd me. however. and
finally ! grew weary OF tho annual
scrap and let him have his way.
NOW. Just TO provo no was al
ways right, skinner showed up an
hour ago. dusty ~ a miller but with
an is.yenr.old flo Of insurance pa
pcru that nro worth their weight in
thouaaud-dollar bills. In that ono
trick skinner has justified that nb
normal rental for tho next hundred
years"
II hope you apoloEizcd 20 him.
Cappy." J. Augustus Redcll cut In,
II certainly did-and when ho
sat down and commenced figur.
ing compound interest on
claim Ut I per cent for Is years,
] felt like writing a book and
dedicating IL to him. Indeed, rs
matters stand. l think I shall
name n ship after his wife"
There was silence In the Bilge.
water club for a minute following
Cappy's remarkable statement. Then
/ Ulysses Grubb murmurcd: "To him
that hath shnll DO given"
Say. look here" the old gentle.
man shrilled, ~ / have it's because
it's coming TO me. Eternal vigilance
Is tho price OF liberty. I'm sitting
on top OF the world because in the
day OF the harvest / worked 10
hours NJ my office instead OF eight
and did an hours solid thinking
before / won't 70 bed-carly-and an
hours solid thinking when l woke
UP refreshed IN the morning.
"0ne Of the things | never
had TO think about was what u
plagued fool I'd been the night
before. MY mouth has never
felt like IN empty lime barrel"
1T IS the privilege Of tho aged to
preach to tho younger generation,
Ulysses Grub tabled back one Of
these days | expect TO see you the
author OF n book entitled; How /
Made and Kept My First Nickel. or
How a Young Man Can Become n
Millionaire
"Tli give YOU II of the prin.
cipal rules right now. Ulysses. II
isn't original. Bismarck coined u.
Damned fools write letters and
wise men keep them
"In other words, never commit
Yourself I'm writing. The