Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1886 — Page 8

Insuring Women’s Lives.

Of the many life insurance companies of this city, says the New York Mail and Express, only one is managed by women in the interests of women. The attorney for the company, when asked by a reporter for some particulars regarding its work, said: “All the officers are ladies of wealth, and they expect no salary. What they claim is that, if a woman desires to insure, she should have the same unrestricted freedom as a man has in such matters. The company was started in 18t>o, and is now on a paying basis. It Las a hundred agents, and its large agency in Philadelphia is managed by a woman. Some of the statistics that we gathci will surprise the public, 1 think. For instance, I have just received the report of the English registrar general for last year. It shows that out of every 1,000 living persons 487 are males and 518 females: that of births, Lo every 100 females born there are 108 5-100 males; and that at every age of life the death-rate is lower among females than among males. From his figures fie shows that tie;*, mean expectation of life of males is 41.82, and of females 44.62. He also finds a diminished death-rate in both sexes, and the improvement in living is shown to he greater in females than in males. This proves a statement made in 1861 by one of the English government actuaries, that on general principles, if there should be a general improvement in living, it would first be manifested in females. In this country we find from statistics that the same things prevail. This making a special subject of woman insurance has had the effect of inducing women to insure who never before thought of the subject.” “Have there been any attempts made by them-to defraud?” 1 ies, there have, but where we find isolated instances of women insuring by fraud there are numerous cases of men doing the same thing. One thing observed in such a business is that although women are fighting for equal rights and all the privileges that men have, yet they doirt want to assume the same responsibility, and when trouble comes they want to shield themselves behind their sex. The experience of our company has developed the fact that women ought to be held to the same accountability as men, for they have shown themselves equally as shrewd in putting up, pressing, and even creating insurance claims as any man I have come across in my experience. We have eases where women have attempted to insure a husband in failing health, hut we have had no cases that 1 am aware of where deception has been practiced as to agq. A well-planned but unsuccessful attempt to get money from us wrongfully was made ruffe long ago by a woman who held an accident policy in the company. Her policy was for $25 a week indemnity, and .$5,000 in case of death. We limit the period of liability to twentysix weeks, and we take them on very low rates, for one of the conditions is that if a person is able to do any portion of her regular work our liability ceases. This woman fell, sustaining no injury, but receiving quite a shock to her nervous system. " Within two weeks after, as we found out, she took a two-hundred-mile trip, returning after ten days, and going at her regular business again. After a month or two she presented a claim, together with a doctor’s certificate, and asked for $250 on account, as a partial payment of the liability. For the sake of being liberal we gave her this, thinking that would end the matter of course. But at the end of six months what does this enterprising woman do but present us a bill for indemnity for the entire of that time! We had personal knowledge that she had not been disabled during that time, and it was perfectly evident to everybody that she had not. We refused to give her any more, and she knew so well that she had no claim in law that she gave it up. A curious fact observed about woman insurance is that the moment the applicant learns that there is any doubt about her being accepted she is ten times more eager than ever to be insured.

A Tramp’s Great Feat.

As the South-bound freight train left this station Tuesday afternoon, a number of our citizens were eye-withesses of a scene that made the biood in their vein# run cold. A tramp was trying to “beat” his passage on the train and ah tempted to get on a brakebeam. He missed his reckoning and his feet dragged on the track between the rails. The train was moving about six miles per hour. To let go was certain death. He struggled frantically to get his feet on the brake-beam, but failed. Meanwhile, the spectators were horrified, and many turned their eyes away from the scene. At last, by an almost superhuman effort, he got both feet up between his hands against the brake-bar of which he had to hold, and, after swinging several times until his body had gained sufficient momentum, he let go with his hands and shot out from under the car head first, and landed on his back on the side of the embankment, down which he rolled into a mud puddle. His face was devoid of color wheii lie arose, the palms of his hands were bleeding, and he trembled as if suffering from a severe chill. His adventure and marvelous escape aroused the sympathies of those who witnessed the knock at “death's door,” and a collection of several dollars was promptly taken up and given him. He was a robust young man of about 25 years of age, and owed his life to his strength and agility. —Qridlcy ( Ohio ) Herald. ... i . ttm ♦ ■ 1 "** The Welsh communities of the United States are talking of taking tip 10.000 acres in one locality and buying jaoenl lands t>»r the ■ urpoao i»i eslabmmmg * uumsicr uoiuny.

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A movement is on foot to erect a statue of Gen. Robert Toombs, at Atlanta, Ga. China has 563 books on behavior, 361 of which refer directly to the ceremonial of dining. At Penobscot, Me., a poster announcing a church festival had this postscript: “No flirting allowed.” Dan Rice, the one time noted circus clown, is lecturing in Texas, and is said to receive SSOO a week for his oratorical ground and lofty tumbling. Grace Hubbard, a graduate of the lowa University, has adopted the profession of civil engineer and is employed by the United States government survey in Montana to make maps. A revolver in a glass case, surrounded by pictures of beats ami surmounted by the motto, “Pay or Pray.” aids a Nebraska photographer in conducting his business on the cash plan. Ex-Senator Bradbury of Maine, who served with Webster, is 82 years old, but has a firm step and bears few marks of great age. He was a collegemate of Hawthorne and Longfellow at Bowdoin. Judge Noah Davis was asked to write an opinion in favor of a proposed mar-riage-license law. His answer was: “I believe time public policy requires that marriage should be made easy and divorce next to impossible.” Hereafter all the Chinese going over the southern division of the Grand Trunk Railroad will be passed in bond, and the conductors will be held responsible to see that none of the Mongolians are allowed to stop in Canada. Boston experts criticise Howell’s last story, where he gives a carefully elaborated scene in a police station, but represents the captain as asking the young woman who makes a complaint to him what her age, height and weight are. The cost of suppressing locusts ip Cyprus since the British occupation amounts to over $830,000. But the government engineer states that, large as the expenditure has been, it is certain that it has already been recovered by the island many times over in the value of the crops saved. A discussion going on in Boston as to who is the oldest living member of the Masonic fraternity in New England has brought forth the names of several who have belonged to the order for more than half a century, among them David McDaniels, of Morristown, Vt., who joined in 1812, when twenty-one years old. The usual story of the remarkable travels of a pin is at hand. This time the scene is laid in Newton, lowa,where thi steen years ago Mrs. Cyrus Gage dropped a pin in her ear. The pin in course of time dropped into her throat and was swallowed. The other day a doctor took it out of her left leg near the ankle. One of the most ingenious processes which has lately come into vogue in the treatment of iron—an Austrian invention—is that of giving to the metal a silver surface, this being <effected by first covering the iron with mercury and then silver by the galvanic process. By heating to 300 degrees, C., the mercury evaporates and the silver layer is fixed.

“Lord Rowton,” says the London World, “is very angry about the publication of Lord Beaconsfield’s early letters. He regards it as a direct and unwarrantable infringement of his rights as his late chief literary executor, and as calculated to diminish the interest of the great work which lias occupied his exclusive attention during the last two years.” Henner, the Alsatian, is one of the few artists in Paris who sell all their pictures for good prices in hard times as well as gooch To a friend who admiringly remarked to him that he must be making $40,000 a year, “Very likely,” he said; “I keep no account of it. but I “might earn still more if I were not bothered and hindered. These bourgeois are such cattle.” A huge California hawk swooped down on a sleeping cat at Santa Rosa the other day and bore it squalling and scratching high in the air. When about 500 feet high the hawk lost its grip and the cat came down with fearful velocity, but the hawk caught it again just before it struck the earth and was carrying it off when suddenly both fell like lead to the ground. The cat had bitten through the hawk’s head, killing it instantly, and the fall killed the cat. Pliny Martindale of Kirtland, 0., is a well-to-do, but apparently very lazy, not to say heartless farmer. He had 300 sheep when winter set in and plenty • of grain and fodder; but the other day an agent for the humane society found seventy-one of the sheep dead,forty being piled in the basement of one barn and twenty-three in another, and others scattered about the place. They had all starved to death. Alabama is in luck in her effort to catch up to Pennsylvania as a producer of iron. Her good fortune as to ore and lime deposits had just begun to attract attention when Pennsylvania’s development of natural-gas wells again* renewed our former advantages. But the Alabamians then began to hunt for gas, and it is now reported that a supply has been found near Birmingham, and that pipes are to be laid to the mills without loss of time.— Phila. Ledger. The thirteen States of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhodo Island, Vermont, and West Virginia, with an aggregate population which does not exceed that of New York alone, have twenty-six United States senators to New York's two. From the five States of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Ohio the government derives one-half of all its postal -wvalues.

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I would respectfully announce to tlie people of Jasper County that I have made arrangements to sell EKiFiRE BINDERS &«. And will keep extras on hand at all times for the machines- .[ am also prepared to do ■ REPAIRING, in[the best and most workmanlike madner, and at the lowest possible rates. WAGONS AND BUG II £G repaired, and all other work usually done in that line. NEW WAGONS AND BUGGIES Made to order, and of the best material and workmanship. ISIPShop on Front Street, South of Citizens’ Bank, c=^| D , T , m h. yeoman; Rensselaer, Ind , May 21, 1886

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