Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 169, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1913 — GENEROUS AT SMALL COST [ARTICLE]

GENEROUS AT SMALL COST

Philanthropist's Right to Hava "Mb Name on List of Those JWho Go About Doing Good. At a banquet at San Francisco recently William F. McCombs told of a conversation in a club in which sev- • oral philanthropic personages were mentioned and lauded to the skies. The Conversation had gone to some length, Mr. McCombs said, when a man who was sitting in a comer arose with a merry smile flitting over his features and broke into the gabfest "Your philanthropists are all right,” he remarked, “but I think it Is only just that my next-door neighbor should be included in the kindly disposed bunch.” ‘‘We are willing to add him to the list," responded one of the others, "but is he really so generously inclined?” “Well, I should say that he Is,” was the emphatic declaration of the first. "Dozens of trampß hammer at his back door and I have never known him to send one away emptyhanded.” “You don’t mean it?” returned the second a trifle incredulously. “That's right,” rejoined the ?flrst; “he always gives them a letter of introduction to me.”