The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-21
BATTLES WITH MISFORTUNE.
Some True Instances OF Hard Fights
Against Poverty.

Some True Instances OF G2rd rights
Against Poverty.
There are few self-made men. as they
are called, who can not tell of some
times when it was impossible for them
to get . dollar, and when they felt the
world was against them. and they were
justified in trying to get something for
nothing.
a New York man who has placed
himself far beyond the reach Of want,
and who hopes and believes that he will
never see the time when he can not
place his hand on money whenever he
needs it, recently told a story about the
turning of a young mans fortune.
He went to Texas when he had saved
few hundred dollars and tried to get
rich. 1t did not take him long to lose
every dollar that he had in the world.
Things went from bad to worse with
him until he was practically a tramp,
for he trudged many weary mile and
worked for his meals as he got them.
He felt that life was pretty hard, but he
did not doubt his ability to succeed in
it. Itwas only question of time. with
In his struggle to get on his feet ho
worked his way north as far as Arkan-
sas. Nothing which he tried seemed to
be of service to him. He was more
than at the end Of his resources. He
was desperately hungry more than half
the time. In all that time he was too
proud to ask for financial aid from his
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he himself confessed he might have
asked assistance from some one
in the southwest where he had no rep
! utation. but he was so poor that no one
would have trusted him for penny.
In his wanderings he reached the Red
river. Here he received written offer
from a man who did not know of his
adversely, but who had known him
| long enough to admire his character
and supposed ability. The young ma n
he was college graduate and had
means all his life until he tried Texas
| accepted the offer. Arkansas is a
| long way from New York when one
has no money. He worked his pass
age on steamboat down the
| heu river anu Oh tcds
up the Mississippi, and to
| Cincinnati Here he earned dolla.l
| and half and took passage on another
boat up the Ohio, investing a dollar in
ticket for as long distance as ii
would take him, for he was in no con.
| dition now to do more work on a steam
| boat. He stayed on the boat when it got
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| You may put me off," he said, when
they found him. Il am trying to get
east and | haven't dollar" They LET
him stay on the boat for some reason
| From Pittsburgh he bought ticket as
far as his last fifty cents would take
| him He did not get off at that sta
ton. When they put him off the train
he walked ahead and climbed on the
platform between two baggage-cars
He rode in that way all night. His
Journey to New York would make q
very distressing story.
The young man who beat his way
is the man who told the story He tolc
it not in bitter, but in painful way
and he found justification for every ride
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begged. There is something heroic
about such pride which makes one ap
ploud its acts despite himself.
In New York there is a professional
man who makes a handsome income
Only three people in the world know
that for months after he came to New
York he literally starved himself, eat
ing sometimes for days in succession
only bread. or bread and oatmeal tina
he might contribute to the support o
some of his people in a little New En-
gland village. He has lied repeated!
a about his early experiences in fear o
the pain it would cause those people t
know of his sacrifices for them.
A young man who made an unhapp'
marriage and was divorced was 70
years mystery to his creditors, be
cause he did not pay his debts. though
he worked hard day and night. HI
reputation in that time suffered terri
bly, and he lost caste with many peOpl
who had formerly admired him. Nhel
the woman from whom he had been di
vorced died some time later from an eX
cruciatingly painful disease, he begal
to paw his debts. There are exceed
ingIy few people who know that all tn
money which he could earn he gave I
make her life less miSera bic.
1t is no wonder that each Of thes
three men turns a deaf ear to the az
peals of those who urge that Chart
should be bestowed only through regu
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pose. 1t is no wonder that they find
difficult to resist appeals for aims mad
in the street. for they do not know
what stories are hidden behind rags o
! behind the inscrutable face OF ma
who has touched the lowest depths o
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