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PUIS ARE WEALTHYSome of the Stellar Fistic Artists Have Saved Enough For Their Old Days A Few Fighters Have Been Busted When Thy Quit the Game and Die in PovertyWhat lfcvconifn of all th«* tighter*. one Ik *Hrotie to .lt;*L wh*u he htpara of their Nv* thg the ring. NVluU do thlt;*y do when gtieff lighting doya art1 over? One h*4ta that -juration about the Ught««» quit# a* often• * ha (feet at the .opcrti Whwi oAe Ift-5*tloottvfdy it-Nk.H about ttxo d**tiuy of tho •horn* girl*.A* aoon n« a fight get* to the |Mlntwhirv ha ran no longer itucro*! hi* pub*jlt;\ Ih* dlMpptum fRm IK# itmrttni page*and fMm the faro of the earth. If hotiM beon a thrifty atjutrrel, Bailing down(he «t*y money nkvt) the Halting wa* S»whI. ha will not fall on evil day*. If he iui* hern a graomiuppct. xinging alt the •tlmthff urul traveling witn the high fllct*. It hccomc* another proposition, •llifl lighter without brains or n hank io|| |* a ltd thing when east on. Id* small resource*. « lm* acqutrad Wt-IMMmtve taatca and habit*. He like* tohoar the whang l*f th.t music and pop uf the cork/*He want* to wear Jewalry and loaf• bout the afreet earner*; he think* tb« world owe* him a living, and h« rather took* to the good fellow*, With whom toi .spent Ida money, to fw Ip him coltdpt that debt. t ,Than lt;«»me* the awakening and the he-ginning of the descent. The end of tlmt journey t* the panhandler who work* on ihe dark corner*.••I w*a a good fellow when I had It/ they gajr.Now for a few of the nietl Who will have money when the Improvtded aotla %?*♦• eating snowbird* and drinking aprhiftl water. Taking them alphabetically, wefractal with: _James Kdwurd Hrllt, the cream puff [HUH%her wine mndo an educated left harul win him a small fortune. Jimmy had a r«w right a. na record* go nowadii*. hut In made every tight count and he In* rented hla money wisely At that Jamea rm no hermit crab; he aaw the whit* Tight* and he aang com* tll-yee* over tne [Kipping oorka. but he had au file lent Intelligence to buy a airing of Hat*, and i.»w the wolf can howl and be disappoint*Ml ,Next we have Tommny Burn* a frugal «oul. Tommy had a lot of luck and slipped through to what they called a chsmplou-Ihin by ahaer fortune. He had a Innrt-!V‘»a man * head and Mid hla product in h* beat market Tomm* win be a mil-lonalra If he Uvea He ha* the money-linker * instinct.Jim Corbett wilt never want for any* titng under the *un *o long a* he re* lain* hi* ready wit and hi* native ability. It in doubtful if Cord bet t took any of hf» treat OMltey winning* out of the game wIt It him, for he ws* atway* a Mender, ►it* three trioat work hoe been quit* sue 'e**ftil. end should Cerhett quit work tomorrow be need not care how anon the *»ker* combine and put up the price orThe hiime thing go** for Boh fli**nx-nun*. Who w** alwaya a thrifty sort t cifla n Boh *** he fa going to ^tab-t*h n nhyataat culture school on tne Mill* hum order This *hould te a great money letter, and. fo« Boh* aube fat u* hope hat he dor* not forget hlmootf and walk II with the wallop ewce in a while. Ho© ilway* did like to are tho fat men fall.Ha* * 8*loon.Rddle Hanlon, mfuit popular of .illMW* turn**.! out »» tW w«».H,u«r*Nt. Chaneat kid of them nil. »»*■ ilH Httlt t« H»n Kranrhwo amiI t.-n.iis enough t« »* •* Rl»II, no.-«t not worry. Kddle «** M'mmI *'»' Jiin0,JlfTrt«D liven «w*v tt» *tJ1** ‘j**'1 .f May street. He earned a M of ***•*: ,ml.. a lot more, and tMU a wife who willi,.|n him take lt;*re of It.j!,. k JoHnflon will oev. r have iinythlnr. »o mutter how mti' li money he n«*k« Me• h naturul-t*jrn *|»tmd-thrift.Ketch«l ha* ma«»« »»«« ST7« ,u I uveeted some of It. not en.m*h to putin In the Nelson fkw, howe\er. i,t \lt;-l*on I* the hoy who ha* »»hl ,y hi* small * linnr- Th“h »*•rerat.H hla ean.ii.K-I01Ittlt.tlI'7 , small rhan*e Thooah he e*-Vrat.M Ml* earn In,* a htt. It fa known t he ha- enough money InvestaU to rare of the wool* Nalaon famUt »«•! i ,, over for the t.eat ganemthm. |*irk ft'tlrlen (KMMhI for a time a* onethe wealthy ftshterm. »**»« Hosinea* re-«e* In the paat live yenra have am* n^ed for most of the Quak-, * lt;oln. ha* some Philadelphia real ••■taU. ommv Uvan I* another n««ti who n«*««l worry a* Ion* M I*ea*’h ,r‘v bUJ'; pearh orchard will keep the w .ifHulllvan left the rtn* '’hu««-• took several benefit*, needed sot,,- n e benefit a. hi»1 finally W^t^)tJ»« „ er wagon He hn* done well tl.ent • llv speit kl i ik and has more tmoney J,1 up at the present time than itt ever ^at any one time la h* l,,#-ml of eourae. our dear lt;»t.l ft lend.„ Sharkey. Toot may have a tin e therr 1* no hMov In the Hhark. y bank lie hit* every deltar he ever matj ,1a life—alt the dolhira glued togatharI a aohd Mock. vlirk Twin and Mike Twin, two noble nan*, had no chance to nt -k up the »t hi* purse* but they fought early often and. by aavtng up every «»nt. itnulitltd enough to hold the oulU-funtily for a few generation* tof eourae aome «»f the flg9itrrM have r» idetpped. There are others of tn« in » have done well, and then again re are one* who played the grH**nop-aet and are now wintering badly.I* charity not to mention the name* heae men They are enduring a loo* aliment and perhaps the memory of dollar* they burned alta up with them dght*.erfefat,ii*'»'raiie1MrM
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Lincoln Daily Star

Lincoln, Nebraska, US

Sun, Nov 07, 1909

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