Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — A Quaint Endorsement. [ARTICLE]

A Quaint Endorsement.

J. Pierpont Morgan, at a recent diocesan convention In New York, amused a group of clergymen with a story of a minister.' "He was as Ignorant, this good man, of financial matters,” said Mr. Morgan, “as the average financier Is Ignorant of matters ecclesiastical. He once received a check—the first he had ever got in his life—and took it to a hank for payment. ‘"But you must endorse the check,’ said the paying teller, returning it through his little window. “ “Endorse ItT said the old minister, in a puzzled tone. ‘"Yes, of course. It must be endorsed on the back.’ " T see,’ said the minister. And turning the check over, , he wrote across the back of It: “ ‘I heartily endorse this check.’ ’’