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Show SCHWAB AND THE BRICK. Brooklyn Eagle. Charles M. Schwab, when he was a boy, attended the village school of Lor-etto, Lor-etto, Pa., and in Loretto they still tell the story of young Schwab and the brick. It seems that the schoolmaster was an ardent geologist. He had ordered, one day, that each of the chUdren bring to school a specimen of some sort, and these specimens he would designate and describe, one by one. Accordingly, on the appointed day a great armload of stones were brought to the little building, but young Schwab's contribution to the armload was a broken brick. In due course the master took up the specimens. "This," he said, "is a piece of feldspar feld-spar from the cross roads. "This is a piece of marl from the meadow. "This is a piece of argillaceous sandstone sand-stone from the quarry. "And this," he thundered, taking trp the broken brick, "this Is a piece of impudence from Charlie Schwab." |