Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — Tl»» Croked Son. [ARTICLE]

Tl»» Croked Son.

William Knoepfel, of St Louis, has Invented and hopes to patent a secret plowing method for the cure of baldness. “A genuine cure for baldness,” said Mr. Knoepfel the .other day, “should make a man very rich. Why, men grow rich on fake cures. It is amazing, It really is, what fakes some of these cures are. Yet there's money In them.” , Mr. Knoepfel gave a loud, scornful ktugh. “In their profitable crookedness they remind me,” he said, “of the third son of the old eccentric. Perhaps you have heard the story? Well, an old aocentrlc died, and left his fortune equally to his three sons. But the will contained a strange proviso. Bach heir was to place SIOO in the coffin Immediately before the Interment “A few days after the Interment the three young men met and discussed the queer proviso and its execution. ‘“Well,” said the oldest son, *my conscience is clear. I put my hundred In the coffin In clean new notes.’ “ ‘My conscience is clear, too,’ said the second son. ‘I put in my hundred in gold.’ ‘“I, too, have nothing to reproach myself with,’ said the third son. ‘I had no cash at the time, though; so I wrote out a check for S3OO in poor dear father’s name, placed it in the coffin and took in change the S2OO In currency that I found there.”