| Show HOW SOME PEOPLE LIVE THE devices to which some people will resort to obtain money are so BO numerous as to defy enumeration and the people themselves are still more abundant by this we meau mean dishonest or devious devices not those which maybe may be clawed classed as undignified or unbecoming aud and are still within the pale of the law perhaps in this entire category the greatest number of schemers of the kind referred to are those who work insurance companies of various kinds and the name of that particular gentry alone laa imply legion the insurance sharp is not always as cunning as some of his brethren ju in crookedness are and he have to be he be has in some ca cases to exercise considerable fortitude if he has none provided by nature he must perforce by a mighty effort create it for the occasion AS for instance when he to is insured in an accident company and his policy calls for an extra af allowance lowance if he loses loom a finger a hand an ear or some other important member given the accident which is often created when the worker cannot providentially run into a slight one and escape with his life the next thing is to see that he emerges from it in a condition to get that extra allowance cutting off a finger may do tut litt if not noisome some thing else must go terrible in this connection we have the mouy of mr A N lockwood president of an in new york who says that since the accident company offered an indemnity for 2500 for the loss of a hand or foot there has been a great increase in the number of accidents to the left hand band so many indeed that it wm was found that people were maiming themselves to get the insurance finally the companies were forced to tc offer a less sum for the left hand band than for the right since which time there has been a decrease of 80 per cent n this variety of accidents now the companies contemplate eliminating the leg and arm indemnity clause from their policies for self protection mr lockwood lock wood is reported as saying that there are more insurance cripples in the country today than war cripples that th elove of money is the root of all evil was never more clearly demonstrated it seems as if money was not only the napoleonic ane qua non when war is involved but as though peace itself could not entirely overcome the golden influence it makes a bad showing for our race of course but it ir ib a truism to say that the money power holds full sway away the worst ok it is s abat thereto there Is an abundance of land producing nothing capable of producing many things valuable to man and beast that can be had for almost nothing and with one half the expenditure of mental force required to persistently hoodwink and rob some institution or institution sand a little muscular vigor added these lands might be made to yield greater profit and immeasurably better stand ins in life than anything else why will some people shrink from work which is honorable useful and profitable to take the desperate chance of living by their wits in too many oases cases a euphemism for rank dishonesty the career of the schemer is at best a devious one and it seldom leads to a good and beneficial result while the wor worker kerina in a legitimate field is almost always certain of a good reward and an honorable name |
