Life's Battle

Of twenty-three yomig men who recently stepped across the threshold of lito trom an Eastern college, and wrt forth upon the trackless ocean ot' life to battle with relentless fate, niul win renown or a glorious death in the arena, eleven are cüerking in auction stores at $14 i month, one íb running a fishboat, two are learning the honse-paintinfi trade, one starved to death bef ore he had been out of college a week, one is driving team on a street contract, two are tramps, and the others are living with widowed mothers, who are their only support. Fact is, brethren, when old life grapples its hooks into a man's collar, it shakcB uil his arena and ocean and battle business out of hirn so quick that in six wees, if he is alive, lie knows more in a rninxite about the price of pork and flour than he can teil you