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Show TOTTCHUTG LETTEBJ r ; - When Senator Russell A. Alger of Michigan was a young man he moved from Akron, O., to "Detroit.- - He was poor, with no prospects for the future except as come to every msn who is industrious and honest and has. an instinct in-stinct for business. Shortly afterward Mr. Alger went up in the great lumber fields of his adopted State and laid the foundation for the splendid fortune which has since come to him. In the meantime, however he had been married, mar-ried, and taken wedding Journey In company with 'a friend who had likewise like-wise Just taken unto himself a bride. The other day in Mr. Alger's mail was a letter from a man, 'a farmer la Michigan, Mich-igan, upon whom fortune had not smiled as generously as It has upon the Senator. In the letter the writer saldr f'Mr. Alger T have Just lost my barns by fire, and I am In a pretty bad way. One Of, your tarms Is next to mine, and. on It you have a number of barns, all of which you do not use." Would you kindly, give ma the use of one until I., am able to hava mine rebuilt?" When the Senator's secretary had fin-, lshed reading . the letter to. Mr. Alger he turned to the latter, expecting the dictation of af reply. Tears -were running run-ning down the- Senator's cheeks, and for a moment he could not speak. At laat he said' to his" secretary: That man and I took our" wedding trip together. a had mora money,' than. I then, and. aned me $20 pn the way, and I needed It to get home with. ' Tou write and tell him that ha can have all the barns on my farm to use. and that if they are not enough I -will build some more." , |