Logan Republican | 1914-10-22 | Page 7 | Sir Thomas Lipton

SIR THOMAS LIPTON When Sir Thomas Upton started In business ho was very poor and making evory sucrlllco to enlarge his little shop. Ills only assistant ttas a youth of some fifteen years, faith ful and honest. Ono Snturday morning morn-ing ho was heard complaining, and with Justice, that his clothes wore so shabby that ho was ashamed to go to church tho following morning. Says Sir Thomas In speaking of the Incident: "I felt sorry for tho lad and, after thinking tho matter over I took a sovereign from my carefully hoarded savings and bought tho boy a comfortablo good suit of blue cloth He was so overwhelmingly gratoful that I felt amply repaid for my sacil-flco. sacil-flco. Tho following morning, how over, ho did not make his appearance at tho accustomed hour, mid later In tho day, as his mothor was passing tho building, I Inquired tho tcason of her son's absence 'Well, Mr. Lip , ton, said sho, with a bland smile and curtsjlng, "Arry looks so respectable, thanks to you, sir, that I thought 1 would send him about town a little today and soo If he couldn't get a better Job." San Francisco Argonaut.