Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — HAD FAITH IN OLD ADAGE [ARTICLE]

HAD FAITH IN OLD ADAGE

John D. Rockefeller Enters Mean Man He Once Knew in the Championship Stakes. John D. Rockefeller once said to a New York reporter: “The poorest way to wealth Is the mean way. In Richford, where I was born, we had a mean man, a very mean man; yet the fortune he left was a small —you might say a mean one. “At a church supper one night this man cut the corner of his lip with bls knife. All searched their pockefbooks, but nobody had any court-plaster. What was to be done? The cut was bleeding. “Finally the parson produced a two-cent stamp and said: “Tut this on the cut, squire. It will stop the hemorrhage, I believe.’ “ ‘Thank you,’ said the squire gratefully, and taking out his wallet, he placed the two-cent stamp in it, extracting at the same time a one-cent stamp of his owh, which he proceeded to stick on the cut. “‘Thank you, parson,’ he repeated. ‘A penny saved is a penny earned.’*