Show Glib Accident Insurance Agent Trembles at Attempt at Suicide An industrious a agent ent of an accident Insurance company Is convalescing from tram a recent severe shock Tho The agent keeps on friendly terms with a desk clerk at a leading hotel in tn the city and thereby Is rewarded occasionally with Introductions to newly arrived guests who show symptoms of possible possible possible ble policy purchasers A A. few da days s 's ago agoa a vigilant agent spotted two clean- clean cut well-dressed well and ready-money ready looking young gentlemen lounging about the hO he hotel lobb lobby and sought and obtained the coveted introduction The visitors whose names were Clark and Joseph Sylvester Sylves ter tee of Philadelphia politely accepted the agents agent's Invitation to smile and comfortably disposed in tn chairs in the cafe seemed affably inclined to listen to his discourse on the multiple advantages advantages advantages ad ad- vantages of a policy in the only reliable reliable relia raIls ble accident company compan Pres Presently they displayed sufficient Interest to inquire the amount of re returns returns ro- ro turns afforded by the company's best hest policy On being informed that the royal accident policy polley awarded the young gentlemen regretted that the amount was too trivial for them to consider Quickly ordering another expensive expensive ex ex- pensive round of fluids with some of your very best beet cigars cigar tho the expectant agent hastened to assure his ne new friends that In Instances like the pros pres ant ent one special policies could bo be written written writ writ- ten to any desired amount The Phila- Phila opined that each would about fill nil the bill and suggested I that the policies be brought to the tho h hotel hotel ho ho- tel on the following day to be signed With visions of ot corpulent commissions commis cominis- I alone in tho the not yet et but soon loon stage the jubilant agent tel telephoned phoned an Invitation invitation i I tation to his best girl to join him Ina Ina in ina a visit that night to the Orpheum Or theater with the postscript of a asman small email i I hot bird and several large largo cold bot bot- ties Down near nur the tho end of the Sill bill a pair of comedy acrobats scored the hit of the performance Their work I was decidedly strenuous a 0 whirlwind succession of 1 bumps and falls fans that seemed to threaten to jar them In Into to fragments Presently the tho clown In one of or his frenzied scrambles landed handed in tho the orchestra scattering tho the alarmed must must- clans dans In iii all ail directions When he II cUm climbed bed back to the stage he had a serious limp and a B kink in one arm I but finished the act to boisterous ap ap- Great act said tho the applauding agent to his best Lessee who they are Then looking at the program he ho painfully read and Sylvester in An Attempt at Suicide And then ho he collapsed |