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Show Coming Uncle John's Way "To him that hath" etc. Take an invoice and '.discover what than hast. ''..' Years ago, Rockefeller bought control of the Wheeling I and Lake Erie and the Western Maryland, two short rail- ' ' road linos, in invidious comparison called "jerk-water roads." These little ronds are now essential to big consolidations now in the making by the New York Central, the Van Sweringens and other promoters. They would buy of Mr. Rockefeller. Dispatches state that Mr. Rockefeller's price for his little railroads is very high, almost too high. This is quite Believable. Believ-able. Mr. Rockefeller is a good churchman and familiar with that passage in the Bible which predicts that "To hi'fr that hath" etc. Moreover, Mr. Rockefeller always appreciates it, when his left hindfoot of a graveyard rabbit is working tight. Off-hand and without consulting the stock quotations, 'we are inclined to predict that those promoters will get Mr. Rockefeller's railroads, when they come to Mr. Rockefeller's price but not till then. ' ' ' ' ' I |
