Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — Bare He front My Friends. [ARTICLE]

Bare He front My Friends.

An insurance company once declined to write a large policy on tho life of a prominent St Louis lawyer, on th« ground that he had too many enemies, and it thereby made an enemy of the lawyer. But the company had reason to congratulate itself upon in action , the other day, when the aforesaid lawyer was shot and killed by one of his numerous adversaries. The man with too many enemies may inspire doubt and hesitation in an insurance office, but they take far greater risks in insuring the mad with too many friends. He is the chap who is in the greatest danger. A man can avoid hie enemies or guard against them, but he is often powerless against his friends. Thousands of men are ruined or senl to aa early grave every year because they had too many friends.—Texas Siftings.