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Show MERIT WINS. The rise of Thomas Cochrane from obscurity to a partnership in the Morgan Mor-gan bank furnishes proof of the falsitv of the claim, so often male, that it is impossible to get on in lite without a ' ' pull. ' ' Cochrane went to Xew York sixteen years ago virtual !y penniless and secured employment with a real estate es-tate firm. He attracted the attentiou of H. P. Pavi?on, then vice president of the First National b:mk. Mr. Pnv-ison Pnv-ison was searching for ( ' pmm isinsz young men" and found what he was looking for in the person of Cochrane. "l'u!i" had lint : i ii ir whatever t,, ,0 with the inat'-'r. The vni;! man was j-o.-t i'L.-u- in- m.c. i to ::-c and scec iiic at ions of what was want- 1. ' Had it ).--n nrherwi-o ail the ' i:l I ' ' in i he v, in M un',lil nut have ai.i.-d him. It i- pro'.nidy true that merit uii.-ri me- y.-,.-s unr.-A a rdM, but it K none thi- h--s tiu- that thoe. who de;,ofid tr: ; ti ,' ng pn-hed a Sung -:!-iom ;j.rrh at. a comiii.'induig station. 1 n the Inng run it is the young man who kiUA'.a iliii:' i and in i riiaijU: that will win in the ha trie of 1:I. |