Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — TEMPER IN AN INSURANCE RISK [ARTICLE]

TEMPER IN AN INSURANCE RISK

Kentucky a Bad State for Policy Holders of an Irascible Nature. The manager of a life-insurance company had the floor. “Life-Insurance companies,” he was saying, “are as particular about the people they already have on their lists as they are about getting them on In the beginning. They are rich, of course, but they are no more anxious to take In a man who will die of disease withIn the first year or two than they are to take in a perfectly healthy man and have him hazard his life by taking personal risks in dangerous pursuits or by , travel In unhealthy countries. “I remember one funny instance: One of our SIO,OOO men had a way of calling a man a liar in the most careless and indiscriminate manner, and with only the merest or no provocation. One ’ day he was In our office and casually mentioned the fact that he was going ? to make a trip to Kentucky. “When?’ Inquired the manager, alertly. “ ‘Next week.’ “ ‘On business or pleasure?* “ ‘Going to buy a pair of horses.’ “ ‘Um-er-er,’ hesitated the manager, ‘before you start I wish you would stop in and see me.’ “ ‘What for? Want me to buy a horse for you?* “ ‘No; I want to arrange about yofir policy.’ “ ‘What do you want to arrange.; about it? Isn’t it all right T “‘Yes, as long as you stay in this || country. But if you go down to Ken- p tucky we’ll have to advance the rate | until you come back.’ “ ‘Well, what in ,’ began the pol- 1 icy-holder, hotly, when the manager in- | terrupted him. “ ‘Don’t fly the track, my dear fel- j low,’ he said, gently. ‘lt’s all right | here, and the rate is satisfactory to 1 us, but we can’t give you the same rate and let you go to Kentucky and J call men liars like you do In this see- | tion. Not much. We haven’t got ' SIO,OOO policies to give away like that, 1 and you oughtn’t to expect IL’ ” —Chi- 3 cago Inter Ocean.