Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1887 — A MODEL APPLICATION. [ARTICLE]

A MODEL APPLICATION.

The Sioux Falls Fire and Marine Life Insurance company was organ* izedjthis week. One trouble with the life insurance companies in the past has been the great number of unnec?&sary and troubelsome questions the applicant was obliged to answer This has been largely done away with in this company’s application blank, a part of which we subjoin: 'Jive your full name at length, and state if you contemplate going to Canada and changing it. Were you ever in tne legislature, and if so. have you reasons to believe th t the attack will recur? Have you eyer been vaccinated, and if so, was it fatal? Give your wife’s name. Ate you married or single? Are you taking this insurance for speculative purposes? Have you ever had bronchitis, small-pox, big-head, sore throat, laziness, back-fever, consumption, or vigilance committee? If so, state about how fatal. Are you insane? Are you subject tc attacks of spinal meningitis, glanders, orgsunstrohe? Were you ever in the army, and if not, what pension do you draw? Give your views at length on the question of future punishment. Haveyeu ever removed for the benefit of your health, and if j»o, how far ahead of the sheriff were you? Have you ever committed suicide? Are you addicted to splitting wood under a clothes line, or do you let vour wife split the wo d? Do you understand that you must pay a premium on this policy, and that its amount will probably increase on account of the interstate com merce law? Do you work for a living, or run a daily newspaper in a small town? Were you ever chewed by a mad dog? Do you hereby agree to live fifteen years and crive the company a chance ? —Dakota Bell Sioux Falls, D. T.

Senator Hearst, or California, like some ot her men, is not loaded down with educations adornments. It ie told of him that two Californians, having a dispute over a word, agreed to leave it io the next man they sho’d meet, whejhappenod to be Mr. Hearst. Approaching him, one of then asked him it lay were a grammarian. “A what?” asKfd Senator Hearst. "A grammarian!' was the repeated Inquiry. “No. sir: not by a long sight," was toe emphatic response; “I’m a Missouri:) n.” I