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Show A Southerner Mot Afraid to Work. Alton Angler, who has been appointed United States consul at Rheims, France, is a popular citizen of Atlanta. Sixteen years ago, after squandering a fortune, as it was supposed, he applied to the railroads for work. All the upper offices vera filled, but Mr. Angier was told that he could earn hi living as a train hand. He pluckily accepted the offer, and people who were accustomed to meet him in society felt queer when they itaw him enter a passenger coach to build a Are for their comfort. Of course, it was never intended that he should spend bis lifo building fires, and pretty soon ho began to rise. Now he ia general pas-fngpr pas-fngpr agent of the Western and Atlantic Atlan-tic Savannah News. |