Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — WORTHY OF J. P. MORGAN. [ARTICLE]

WORTHY OF J. P. MORGAN.

Boy Exhibits Qualities Which Stamp Him as a Coming Financier. He was only a small boy, but in the eight years of his existence he’d learned to be terribly mean. “I’ll give you this nice big apple,” he said one day to a pretty little damsel of his own age, “if you’ll let me kiss you twenty times with your eyes shut.'* She was a shy and modest little girl, but the apple was a temptation, and she succumbed.“Mind,” said the boy, “if you open your eyes you don’t get the apple.” The apple-bought maiden - closed her eyes. “Smack! That’s one,” said the boy. An interval followed. “Smack!” Another interval. “Smack!” "Willie is making them last out,” thought the girl. At last the twentieth kiss was given. ’’’That's twenty; may I open my eyes, Willie?” asked the.little lady. • "I’m not Wtllie,” replied the boy who’d just given her a full-sized smack. “Willie’s down the street, selling your kisses at two apples a time. You’d best not open your eyes yet, as he’s taken in a heap of apples and the next six boys are awful ugly.”