Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1911 — A Great Mind. [ARTICLE]

A Great Mind.

“See that well dressed man across the street? Well, a year ago he was about as poor as they make ’em. Hadn't a cent to his name, and hla clothes were ragged and torn." "He certainly looks prosperous. Did he fall heir to something?” "Better’n that. He was -one of these studious, dreamy fellows, and worked for years and years on a new health food.’ “O, that explains It all. I tell you these health food people are selling U>elr stuff by the ton." “But he never sold an ounce of It as health food.” “He didn't? Did the other manufacturers buy him off?” “No. But when the coal famine struck the country he had Just perfected hla Invention, and, being a m<m that realized the popular demand, he advertised hia product as ‘Burn-a-Quick-a,’ and sold all he could turn out as a substitute for coal.”