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.11(1 i ant VKLLOWSTONK KIT.TIIK UKKAT MMMCINK SIAN 18 NOW A ft WKBCK.I* n “Ho you remember Yellowstone Kit?”was the ipiestion put to a .Journal man 'of ^y ^r* **■ Hag to-day.“Yes.”I“You remember he was rated by Brud-slreet an being worth three and a half millions?”ntig “Yeslie | “Well, he’s a peifeet wreck, worth n- nothing and not even making anything.”•tg “That can’t be true,” put in the re-% porter.ier i “But it Is. I’ve just returned from a 1 il visit to Meridian, Miss., my old home,1 and while I was there I had him pointed out to me. Although I had seen him often—here in Atlanta and elsewhere— he was so changed, so broke down d ; physically, that I didn’t recognize him.”“What was the cause?”“I can't say, but the fact remains that he is a w reck physically and financially.It Is saitl that he came to New Orleans in a llsherman’s boat; didn’t have money enough to get there any other way.”“f remember having talked w ith Kit the time while he was here,” Mr. llall continued, “and 1 was struck with his intelligence. It was plain that he was an unusually well read man, and I asked him how he found time to read, lie replied that when a boy he resolved, that no matter how urgently business do- “ manded the occupation of his time, ho would always devote two hours each os. day to reading some profitable book,No and lie had adhered faithfully to the resolution.—Atlanta Journal.i in the fc-
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Cullman Alabama Tribune
Cullman, Alabama, US
Thu, Feb 05, 1891
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