NO FRENZIED FINANCIER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3765, 7 May 1907, Page 3

NO FRENZIED FINANCIER.

Abraham Lincoln, before he moved to Springfield, was postmaster in a small Western town. The office was poor, and Lincoln was poorer than the office. It was known that he was very hard up, and it was also known that the Washington agent was in town, to collect the little sum due the General Post Office. A friend, thinking Lincoln might be embarrassed, came down to the office to loan him the sum necessary ,to meet the demand. Lincoln thanked him, and said he did not need any loan. While the two were talking, the gentlemam came in. The sum due was less than 100 dollars. Lincoln went to his desk and took out an old stocking and turned the coin on the table. It was counted cut and met the demand exactly. Well ,it might, for it was not only the exact amount due, but the identical money itself that Lincoln had taken in ; old-fashioned rix-doll-ars, pistareens, sixpences, oldfashioned cents, and all were there. “I never use no money that belongs to other people,” said Lincoln, and that resolution did much towards making him President of the United States.