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Show A Itkli rfmtrarrlfr. Ttwtloryct Jolui JlcDcrllt, of l'o l(, N. J i tcms ta ptoTo that money Coot here It it eout, In face of tho most niltcrM clrcnmatancca. John vru a hoil carrier, who ntrcr rirl orcr (ISOi day In hit life, and the tint part of hit manhood itu tpont In working for twenty Ore centa a day and hit board. Yet a little whllo ago tho grip carried lilnt off nnllmi-ly at the nge it I fifty, acroi, and he left behind lilm property worth fJO.OOO. Krerythlne accmed against biro, .lis conld not real or wrlto. Boon after ho wae RToim he came to America by attempt panage In a uvlllnj Tcttel, hating with him only a bag ot potatoci to llroon daring the voyage. He u a Donegal boy. It required two yean for him to eara money r nongh to tend hie young wife to bring her orcr hero too. llotu worked u hard aa they could and tared all the money they conld. 8ho did tho housework house-work and her husband tho agrlcnltnnl labor on a gentleman' placo for awhile. Then John began hoilcarrylng, an occa patlon ho riertr left off till two yean ago, when at the age of fifty fire lie fell from a ItlJtr one day and seriously Injured In-jured himself. They eared all tho money they could, yet after twenty-Are yean of marriedllfe, tolling and denying thetnselrci, they had only (000. Then cams the carious turn of fortune that medo them well to do In a ftw years. They Inrcatodtbe tOO In a comer lot In Passaic Tho deal waa one of those eo seldom mode that Just "happened to hit." JIcDerltt mortgaged tho property and built a house on IL It wat shortly after the war, when I rlec were etUl high. The Donegal Irishman mortgaged tho tint house, and built others. Tha first one Wat a two story frame, tho last ono wae a large brick structure. Tho couple had three children. These worked In the raasala factories, and what they earned was adjed to the family store McDor-lit McDor-lit finally had three hou a, Tho lower floon were let to business men, and the upper once to reliable lodgers. Then, Just when ho had ererythlng the way he wanted It. had (50,000 paying him good Interest, and was ready to begin to lire, along oamo the grip and snatched him mercilessly away from it all, lie nerrr had eren the satisfaction of going back to the old country by cabin fas sago In a tcamshlp, |