Show Got Rid of Age Agent t Blivins had learned by by many many years of experience that one of the lure sure signs of spring Is the activity of the life ute insurance agents He I He has for a good many years been paying aying premiums premiums premiums premi premi- on several thousand dollars more insurance than he feels like he is isable isable isable able to do and for that reason he considers the spring Insurance solicitor solicitor as one of the worst ills of the season season Ingenuity has always ays been the the theone one marked characteristic of Blivins and after the first one of the agents tackled him the other day and began telling him how soon he was to die and in what an awful state he would leave his family and creditors Blivins hit upon a new scheme The next morning Blivins took to his office all the old photographs he could find On each one he tied a little crepe rosette and then hung them on the wall stood them on his desk and put them at every point In the office where they could be seen seen Blivins had not been in his office for an hour when an Insurance agent came In and began reading Blivins' Blivins obituary The latter lengthened his face out an inch or two and drew out his handkerchief and mopped his eyes I fully realize the value of Insurance insurance ance said Blivins as blue as Indigo and I 1 wish I could get a mUll million on dollars dollars dollars dol dol- I lars on my life but but but- You are the man I like to talk to said the agent enthusiastically Our company will write a million dollars dollarson on your l life fe and and that too bad said Blivins I am sorry but I cant can't get a policy for a cent See that dear face he said pointing to one old picture dear Uncle Ephraim Consumption Consumption Con Con- sump on did it There id dear Coupin Cousin Cou Cou- sin pin Seth Consumption And there is grandfather Consumption And nd there is is- is The life insurance agent had turned purple He arose bowed and told Blivins there was no hope hoper As As the agent went through the doorway BlIvIns Blivins Blivins ins leaned back in h his s c cair air laughed and then arose and pi picked ed up a pound letter pre press d swung it und under under un un- d der r the table |