Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — ODD TRAIT OF MANKIND. [ARTICLE]

ODD TRAIT OF MANKIND.

1 11 11 miln Nature Ever Prone to Get Something: for Nothing:. .Human nature may be more productively worked than a gold mine if you know a right method, says the Atlanta Journal. ■ General Manager Cbipman of the Indianapolis and Eastern Electric railway, recently utilized his knowledge of human nature in amaveLway. His company had a park the soil of which it wanted to plow up and pulverize thoroughly at small cost, at the same time attracting some traffic to the park. It therefore buried SSOO in gold coin In various parts of the park and threw the place open to any patron of the street cars that wished to dig, prescribing only that none but" small hand implements should be used. The plan worked admirably. The cars were thronged by amateur miners and by the time all the coin was found the entire surface of the park had been loosenel up and reduced to powder to an extent that no landscape gardener ever saw equaled. The street car company got its SSOO back in fares and at the same time gots its park thoroughly plowed for-notliing. Many will tenderly recall the old school reader story of the dying father who called his sons to his bedside and Informed them that, though the old farm he was about to lerive them was worn out and had become unproductive, there was buried somewhere upon it a great treasure and if they would persistently dig for it they would surely find rich reward. 3Clje sons digged and digged and digged, turning the old farm upside down and inside out, and, though they found no sign of the gold they expected their harvests of grain became enormous and their reward was richer than they knew. Through some peculiarity in our construction we are willing to work teu times as hard “to get something for nothing” as to earn it in ordiary wages.