Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-12-27 | Page 33 | Costly Error

Costly Error Besides bclni a statesman Senator Dry den of Now JiTfloy IT also the president QC a prominent Hc Insurance company flue other day ho received J u loiter llko this Dear Sir T am desirous of taking out a life Insmnnco policy and as I im from your Suite I 1 thought I would write you drrctly thinking1 I I might yet bfttlrr tnnmi nppcIiUy an 1 run In the best of health uid would ho nu excellent risK I have never suffered 1L dnyii Mslotis Illness In ny life J would be glint 1C you ould have ono of your agents directed to give my matter noreomil I attention Very luily yours JOHN SMITH Cho next letter tho Senator jilckod up had been forvanlal to him from tho In buruncu comjiny3 nuilr office ami was nlontr this line Dear Sir Cnnl you jet mo a pcnnlon I suivud In the Spanish war contracted IL fever In Cuba and have since auffrwi with weakness of the back and legs shuck to nervous system diseases of the stomach stom-ach and dlirestlvo organs vertIgo and other allmiiitN until 1 JIm a phyclcnl wreck If anything LH to be done for me It must come toon I Very respectfully JOHN SMITH I Mr Smith had made the embarrassing mistake of addressing the ipillcntlon for pension to the liisurnncu office unit the I letter about the nollcy to Washington Had ho not done this hit deception would probably novor hiivp boon discovered As a result Mr Smith will roculvu neither I neith-er the pension nor tho policy Boston Vost