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Show 58 THE CITIZEN cease we see that proper notification gets into the papers and your photo graph is used. Imagine the advertisthough corroborating what I had said. ing advantages. And he stretched An insurance policy is, as you beout his hand and drew back his chin lieve, an entertainment and an adlike an orator. make By $20,000. vantage. dying you My heart was truly affected, i had act an be can which By performed always hoped to get my name in the without any exertion, an act which oc- papers and to get my picture in also cupies but a small portion of a busiseemed, when presented by this tactobness mans time, a fortune can be ful and congenial personage, an octained from our company. All you currence of extreme fellcitude. I just have to do is to die. We do all the imagined myself, or at least my fam rest. We furnish the death, we fur- ily, picking up the paper with a smile nish the kale. Imagine, my dear of pride and pointing out the picture friend, what can . be done with to any visitors who had happened in $20,000. after heamgi about the occurrence. litAh, yes, I replied, perhaps a Truly, tne prospects of insurance two-rootle sadly, I could rent a began to rosy up. cottage seven miles west of Sand And, he continued, It costs you a for with month that." Springs nothing. ' And when he you die, continued, I looked him straight in the eye- blithely tossing away the stub of my the left eye cigar and reaching into one of the It costs nothing? I said. cuimy holes of my desk for a package Nothing. he replied. Nothing to of Camels, We furnish a rosewood speak of. coffin without extra expense or ani I had always thought, insurance a noyance to you. expensive' A rosewood coffin, I sighed, al perpetually increasingly more for the idle, rich than pastime most happy. RoseThink of it! for the idle poor, I said. wood, not merely hoards ' nailed toNo, he said, It costs nothing. gether, but manufactured from rose I sighed somewhat relieved and wood! We also attend to all little details'. reached my hand out for the cigarWe guarantee, on a slight increase of ettes. However, the last one had . monthly payments, say $1,000, lo see' been taken. that immediately ' after your deeaen inOf course, he said, cease sure makes a few donations to the My what? I interrupted. company merely to pay for corresYour decease, he said smiling pondence expenses and postage d& after daintily. Right away your stamps. Juat a few donations. About A Cherub I didnt know now it was going to turn out from the very first. The office door opened and an old friend, middle aged, smiling afid flashing a watchfob and a diamond shirt pin, walked in and seized my hand. I had a ten-cecigar in it but he took the cigar from my fingers and laid it on the edge of my desk, out. of reach, and then took my hand and shook it like a pup shakes a polkadotted rag doll. I could He was an old friend. not recognize him, but he knew me all right. He had met me a long time before, apparently. What Let me see, I floundered. is your name again? I remember you well, but Why, Im Artemus Jones of the Aesop Insurance company. I under; stand that you have been hunting around for a good insurance company for some time, he said, picking up my cigar and curling a few smokp rings around the chandelier. Mr. Jones, I replied with extreme spontaneity, the facts have been completely misrepresented and discolored to you. Each fact has been faked. he said smiling effusively, MAh, sitting down in a comfortable office chair and leaning down and opening the third drawer of my desk, hunting for a match for my cigar had gone he continued, as out. Ah, yes, nt , . - . -- m -- -- . . . . - Yes, of bourse, I said. "A few donations. That is natural and right. I would be glad to make a few donations. The fewer the better, in 'fact I have no objections to a scant donation now and again. A mere piffle. I assure you. A donation means no more to me than a hole in the ground I to a balloonist. Donations said almost contemptuously. Laid down He drew up closer. some papers on the desk. Pretty papers with borders, dotted lines and conditions and things scattered all over them. He pulled a fountain pen from a vest pocket on my vest and pointed to a paragraph starting Suicides. You would never commit suicide, would you? he asked me. ! I never have yet, I replied. am a single man. You must promise never to ride m . a jitney in Tulsa, he said warningly Why not? I asked. We never take such risks. Toil may start a revolution in Mexico, be a movie usher, contradict Dempsey, jump off Pike's Peak with an umbrella for a parachute, but you cannot ride in these jitneys, he said determinedly. I didn't tell him I had a pass on the street cars, because I didn't want hint to annul it How many policies would yoti want? he asked, taking my watch out to see the time and filling a calar I 'ij !i ! Jli ;i i i Company Salt Lake Utah City , $24,000,000 Insurance in Force. $2,000,000 Invested in the i Intermountain Region. r ii i, THE COMPANY OF SATISFIED POLICY HOLDERS I! |