Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — Couldn't Lose Him. [ARTICLE]

Couldn't Lose Him.

To Illustrate Yankee persistency 3. Plerpont Morgan told the following ■tory to The Cincinnati Commerical frUmme the other day;

“A New England Yankee, who waa a prisoner on a pirate ship,' 1, said Mr. Morgan, “in the good old days when pirates roamed the seas, became, because of his Yankee attributes, oblectlonable to his captors. "It was finally decided to maroon h»m on a desert Island, with but little food anrf a coffin to remind him of his inevitable fate. The island was found and the New Englander and were left alone on the beach while the pirate ship sailed awsy. “For several days she sailed and then became becalmed. For three days she laid there with not a breath of air. On the * evening of the third day a black speck was noticed on the horizon. It steadily grew larger, and ioon was dose enough for the men on the ship to make out what It was." The of millions paused for an Instant and then said, smilingly; “It was the Yankee in his coffin, with half of the lid in either hand, rowing for home." •