Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — Wellington Not a Man of Baldness. [ARTICLE]

Wellington Not a Man of Baldness.

The great Duke of Wellington was noted for his rigid integrity. Here is an instance which occurred in reference to his large estate. Some farm adjoining his lands was for sale, and his agent negotiated for him for the purchase. Having concluded the bush ness, he went to the Duke and told him he had made a capital bargain. “What do you mean?” asked the Duke. “Why your grace, I have got the farm for so much, and I know it to be worth so much more.” “Are you quite sure of that?” “Quite sure, your grace, for 1 have carefully surveyed It.” Very well, then, pay the gentleman from me the balance between what you have already given and the real value of the estate.”—Argonaut. A line of motor boats is about to be established on the Dead Sea. This will result in shortening the JerusalemKerak route, which will greatly benefit tourists and others.