Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1912 — VALUABLE PROMISSORY NOTE. [ARTICLE]

VALUABLE PROMISSORY NOTE.

. Franzied finance is not exclusively a habit of recent'years, says r the Kansas City Star. At the Riggs National bank in Washington there is carefully guarded a proof of the. foregoing assertion. Regarding the proof, there is told this story: One winter morning, Henry Clay, finding himself in need of money, went, to the Riggs bank and asked Jpp the loair*bf $250 on his personal note. He was told that, while his credit was perfectly good, it was the inflexible rulp of the bank to reqhire an Indorser. The great statesman hunted up Daniel Webster and asked him to indorse the note. “With plep.ure,” said Webster. ’But I need some money myself. Why not make your note for five hundred, and you and I will split it? This they did. And today the note is in the Riggs bank—unpaid.