Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1881 — How to Know Your Friend. [ARTICLE]

How to Know Your Friend.

A miserly old Earl had fallen heir to an estate worth some thousands of pounds. Being always reputed poor, his relations looked askance at him. Unaware of his altered circumstances, he tried the following ruse to know who were his frieiids: At the beginning of a hard winter old skinflint applied to his relations individually for a little assistance to tide him over the winter. Only one, a niece, a poor teacher, responded by sending €5 of her hard-earned pittance, witli a promise of more when her salary became due. Shortly thereafter the old man sickened and died, and to the astonishment and chagrin of his host of relations he bequeathed to the poor teacher, whose heart was in the right place, his whole estate, amounting in all to £20.000. As a tonic and nervine for debilitated women nothing surpasses Dr. Pierce’s “ Favorite Prescription.” By druggists.