Show the way up by walt mason t IC great men from low conditions rose as history records from poverty with all its woes they reached for high rewards abe lincoln used to study law by feeble candle I 1 while stretched ched upon his couch of straw on many a winter night him sell self he had to educate he cound not go to school and so he climbed to high estate while other boya boys played pool and even as we go to press some boys are striving hard in pov erty and grim distress to tain gain the world worlds s regard in garrets darethey dark they eon con the page that points the upward way and walk with ith thinker and with mith age sage and they 11 arrive some day alas such hel ful wholesome joys appeal not to the fool where one thua thus reads a thousand thou boys are busy playing pool ive I 1 ve read ten thousand sprightly tales of boys who rose to fame from whacking mules or split ting rails of kindred humble game the halls balls of congress always show a score or more of men who in the days of long ago hoed hood corn to earn a yen and everywhere the great and good from small beginnings rose they milked the cows and sawed the N wood and colled coiled the garden hose I 1 ve never heard though of a wight exceptions prove the rule IT 1 who reached a great and shining height through skill at playing pool |