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Evening Star, Issue 23496, 9 February 1940, Page 10

Oliver Goldsmith often went with, out meals, fires in winter, and was constantly dunned by creditors. Balzar lived in an even more precarious state* and never answered the bell unless fa* knew the identity of his caller. Thes* men were not spendthrifts without * sense of morality or responsibility. They tried their utmost to m6et their obligations, and worked, like slaves# Greatest of them all, Socrates, never made money. His name will live, so long as the human race endures, but he was so poor that he had often t® borrow a chicken for his dinner. As he lay dying he remembered'the loan of a rooster which was as yet unpaid. “ Crito,” he said to one of his friends, “we owe a cock to Asclepios; pay it and do not forget.” Those were his last words.— 1 Tit-Bits,’ London.