Show AND ye we favor able to turn up tip who wish for an opportunity to male ourselves rich or famous will do well to study the struggles struggled of those who have achieved something in the world poor men more often succeed than the well to do because necessity forces them to think for es and fight the battle of life alone from south bouth texas came a man who according toa to a re reliable ity built miles of railroad with a 13 5 bill and faith and the bill was avas a bo borrowed rowed one ile he moved up tip from corpus christi to with all his possessions heaped up on a two wheeled cart lie ile got a charter to build a railroad from san antonio to arandas aransas pass ile he graded a mile of itt it throwing browing a good deal more than one show cl of dill with ill s bands the receiver of another road loaned this indefatigable builder enough old rails for a mile of track in a distant part of the state late was purchased an engine W flinch bad been condemned G years before and sent to the shops to be wrecked for iron two old cars were picked up somewhere else at a bargain and that old engine dialing those old cars car steamed into san anthonio on engine and cars in bold lettering was painted in lampblack lamp black S find and A P with one mile of old rail ar i 1 track and with the equipment of the old engine and the two old cars uriah lott started the aranas pass system there has been some tall finan cering in the history of railroad raili oad building in this country but there anything which for dazzling pluck quite approaches the story of the building of this GOO miles abroad in south T texas exas to the one mile of track three were added three miles by a dicker for some secondhand second hand rails which a estreet car company hac bought from a narrow gauge company on this basis a credit trade was made with a pennsylvania rolling mill for ten miles of raile when they arrived there enough money in the treasury to pay the freight but it ties nas got somehow tom ebow ten eu miles of track gave the foundation for bonds which built forty miles more and so the system grew into its present proportions portions lArt ions this man who built the aransas arandas pass system rods rode from san antonio to chicago at one critical period in his enterprise without a cent in his pocket lie ile had bad transportation por tation but lie he anything to buy food and he went through hungry this may be regarded as an exceptional case but the caes of successful men are always exceptional yet they are always full fall of suggestion to young 9 men who wait for something eim ething to turn up in order to advance them in the world jay gould could once peddled led fittie in new neav york leland stanford Stan frd began life a as a struggling lawyer among men A who lie cared nothing for the law senator gorman was once a page paga for the body in which he has bas since become an important character the professions its are full of men whose struggles ruggles tt would ec He arcely be credited congress has many such and in the lives of all these men who have risen to eminence or accumulated a fortune after an humble beginning at the lowest round of the ladder there is a lesson fraught nith adith significance for our young people pluck anil and perseverance ardmore are more eisen lial to success by far than luck and fortune the former combination is sure to AN in while the latter is easily lost |