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Show X Successful Man. Ono of the brightest advertising men in Chicago male Ills rise through tho fall of another- It was some yean ago when as a mere boy he was tramping the streets of Chicago Chi-cago in searchj of any sort of a Job which offered. His last nickel had cone for food, and one afternoon he was walking through a down town alley, tired and disgusted. Hap-peisios Hap-peisios to glance upward he saw a boy leaning out of a wlndqw. In a moment tho boy lost lib balance and fell to tho ground with tho customary dull, sickening thud. Tho discouraged man hastened to tho boy's side and discovered that death had been Ins'.antaueouB. looking up at the open wludow from which he had fallen theroan counted thestorlesand then sought the stairway nearby. Mounting the stairs he dashed Into thu editor's room, for it was the oRIce of Tho TraUIo Farmer, and blurted out: "Do you want a boy?" Looking up In surpriso tho editor answered, "No, we hsves boy." Then the man said, '-I'll bet you haven't your toy Just fell from the window and Is dead; I want bb place." Investigation found that the man was right, and ho was engaged for hb pushing way. Since then ho has risenJiy degrees and mado money, and vy few of hb friends know how he gained lib place. Chteago Jerad. |