Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — Two Old Proverbs and True Ones. [ARTICLE]

Two Old Proverbs and True Ones.

When he returned from his first boxing boat in Portland, Ore., James J. Corbett, the ex-ebampion pugilist, was asked by his father, “How did it turn out?” Being, told that the fight was a financial failure, he advised the youthful pugilist to remain at home in the future. “Remember, me lad,” he said, “there's an old proverb and a true one, ’A rolling stone gathers no moss.’ " Six months later Corbett boxed Kilrain in New Orleans, and when he came home his father again approached him. This time he replied that he had made a lot of money and paid him SSO he had borrowed on a previous occasion. “Well, me boy,” said Pop Corbett, “remember there’s an old proverb and a true one, Tt's the roving bee that gets the honey.* *’