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Show Their l'lret Dollar. TlieNewVrjrk Continent contains a page of Information on how a number of well known iitllllouatrc- obtnlnol their lint dollar. It wai not the earn Ing of the dollar, nor the Kiting of It, tliutinade their stirt fonnt fortune. Other men have enrned flrat dullara, nn 1 other men hire aated them lint they had the talent for recognising the ct ult connection between uiiportnnlty nnl wenltli. uther mcti may liavo the talent, lmt the opportunity does not come. In tho com of tho men named the tali nt anl the opportunity came together, an 1 the rnralt was tho million. The founder or tho Vderlllt family wan Accustomed to aay, with n profane nljective hitched on, "Any fool ran make money, but It irqnlrai n amart man to keep It" According to Idijmlg ment the aartng talent mnt nro lie nd 1 rd to U-come a millionaire. Vet nothing Is tmnr thanUitt If itjuan Ucome. miserly be gets tvi stlngY fur his own gwl and defeats the very end he lias In I view by being unwilling to put out money tolUclcut to bring In returns. C. 1. Huntington, tho railroad king, liegan life ns a farmer's Iny, torklng fur his board nnd clothe. Ilo nays now tliat his Imard nnd clothes nro all he has ever got since, so that ho does not know but he wat as well off when hoetartcd In llfo ns he Is now. CougrrMinan lt.l-den, lt.l-den, of Hyrncii, who lias nn income of fr.M0.lw0 a year, shovied from the start i xtraordlnary talent fur money b irgalns. He saveil n few liunlred dollars by Khoul teaching, and slarteit to Call foroU when tlio(oll feterwas nt Its hilht. He went byway of Panama. Ho fount on the Isthmus great orowds waiting for tho steamer to California, thrvo tliuei as many ns tho ships cool 1 carry. ' Voting Ilelden look hit place lu tho line of rsons buying tlckits an 1 waited his opiortaiilty. Tor twent) .four hours he stood U fore the ticket oDlce wailing lilsluni. He irot the tlcki t, however, nnd then sold It for (TOO a lranco to n man who mas will to get to the gold fit I Is. Then Uelden himself quietly waltcl for tho next steamer, n month later, and proved when ho reached the taul of goll tliat there was lack In Iilsure, since ho made his furtuno there ahead of the man who taught his ticket Ilnfus Hatch raised garden vegetables at first, an 1 Hanker l.ngeno Kelly, now worth tMOO.ew), earned money to cone to America by driving a Jaunting cur lu Ireland. |