The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-21
SCOTS Emulsion
LIFE's hard STRUGGLES.
some True Instances OF Misfortune
Which Were Kept a Secret.
From the NetU York Tribune.
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Which Were Kept a secret.
From the Ne,v York Tribune.
There are few self-made men, a. they are
called, who cannot tell of some times when
it was impossible for them to get a dollar,
and when they felt the world was against
them. and they were justified in trying to
gg5 something for nothing.
A New York man who has placed himself
far beyond tho reach of want, and who
homes and believes that he will never see
the time when he cannot place his hand on
money whenever he needs it, recently told
story about the turning Of a young mans
fortune.
He went to Texas when he had saved a
few hundred dollars and tried to get rich.
It 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 be trudged many
weary mile and worked for his meals as he
got them. He felt that life was pretty hard,
but be did not doubt his ability to succeed
in it, 1t was only q question of time, with
incidental hard knocks in that time.
In his struggle to get on his feet be worked
his way north ward as far as Arkansas
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 fiuan-
cial aid from his relations and friends in the
east. As he himself confessed he might
have asked assistance from some one in the
southwest, where he had no reputation. but
be was so poor that no one would have
trusted him for penny.
In his waUderings he reached the Red
river. Here he received a written offer of
a position in New York from man who
did not know of his adversity. but who had
known him long enough TO admire his Char
acter and supposed ability. The young
man-he was a college graduate and had
means all bis life until he tried Texas-ac-
cepted the offer. Arkansas is a long way
from New York when one has no money.
He worked his passage on a 81 eamboet down
the Red river and on another boat up the
NJ sslssippl, and to Cincinnati. Here he
earned 81 80 and took passage on another
boat up the Ohio, investing 81 in a ticket
for IS long a distance as it would take him,
for he was in 20 condition now to do more
work on a steamboat. He staid on the boat
when it got past the place called for on lis
ticket.
''You may put me off, he said, when
they found him. II am trying to get east
and haven't dollar" They let HIM stay
on the boat for some reason. From Pitts
burg he Bought ticket as far as his last so
cents would take him. He did not get off
at that station. When they put him off the
train he walked ahead and climbed on the
platform between two baggage cars. He
rode in that ay all night. His journey to
New York would make a very distressing
story.
The young man who "bea5 his wayn is
the man who cold the story. He told it not
In bitter, but in a painful way, and he
found justification for every ride that he
stole and every meal that he begged. There
Is 'me' hing heroic about such pride which
makes one applaud its acts despite himself,
In New York there is professional man
who makes handsome income. Only three
people IN the world knew that for months
after he came TO New York he literally
starved himself, eating sometimes for days
III succession only bread, or bread and oat-
NEAL that he might contribute to the sup
port OF some of his people in little New
England village. He has lied repeatedly
about his early experiences in fear of the
pain 1t would cause those people to know of
bis sacrifices for them.
young man who made an unhappy
marriage and was divorced, was for years
mystery to his creditors, because he did
not pay his debts though he worked hard
day and night. His reputation in that time
suffered terribly and he lost caste with
many people who had formerly admired
nm. When the woman from whom he
nad been divorced died some time later
from an excruclatiDglY painful disease, he
began to pay his debts I here are exceed
4ngIy few people who know that all the
money which be could earn he gave to
MAKE her life less miserable.
IL Is no wonder that each of these three
men turns deaf ear TO the appeals of those
VINO urge that charity should be besto wed
only through regularly organized channels
Ior The purpose. 1t is no wonder that they
h"d 1t difficult to resist appeals for aims
Haue IN the street, for they do not know
what stories are hidden behind rags or he
hind the inscrutable face of a man who has
touched the lowest depths of want.