Show RESCUING A POLICY A ufa insurance maa save a snuff little sam for hiir company the swindling of life banies by conspirators is an old story 1 an officer in one of the big companies said to a new york corro but the way wo sometimes gei even with them and defeat their purposes is not so well known A local agent aul the consulting physician of the tom may conspire with tho executors of a rich mans will and with the rich man himself to report him botho nov york company ad sound and health sober and industrious with tho understanding that each is to get a slice of the companas comp anys monay after death even if ahn company learns after death that the application was founded on lies the money is often paid unless tho amount is very lare rather than earn the reputation of contesting policies in the courts abo president of the company told mo ono morning a fortnight ago to take my grip and start for a large town in illinois and learn whether it was true as he had learned from an unknown correspondent that a man who had recently obtained a policy for was very dissipated in that caso I 1 was to get the policy and bring it back to be cancelled if possible there was the rub to got tho policy it required considerable tact any way and if the man should refuse to give it up it would cost the insurance company a good deal of money to contest it after hia death I 1 went to tho town knowing only the name of the man and that he was worth of course every one I 1 met spotted me for a stranger and sidled up to mo to know what I 1 was in town for it would nat dc to let it go abroad that I 1 was a lifo insurance agent and especially if I 1 should begin to inquire about our risk so isaid I 1 was interested in getting money on western mortgages it was not difficult after that to make my way to our policy holders house on tho pica of petting him to invest in mortgages he was in bed drunk and as I 1 afterward learned was drunk all tho time but ho bad a good bead for business oven when in his cups well ho said inquiringly I 1 told him flatly 1 had come to take away his policy iio kicked he kicked long and bard while I 1 argued on moral grounds of tho unfairness of his act and he finally put out his hand and said while tears started from bis eyes im glad to moet an honest man call my difo in his wife camo in and at his direction brought in a tin bos put it on a chair at tho and went out the insurance policies are in there somewhere take them be said I 1 opened the box and took out in government bonds and then tho insurance policy the bustnes s of releasing the company from all obligation being accod shed met tho omans wife at th door and sho wanted to know my bust ness I 1 told her tm glad of it she eald remonstrated at abo time th policy was obtained but without avail abo physician and the local agent of the company are bound to havo the money my husband will die in a few months without doubt he is a confirmed drunkard |