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Show DNeSBIT. . H c 7 ffPifi WML f 1 gSJ !M rij.XVell, sir, I met Jim Breen to-day His hair Is gettinp thin and gray. His eyelids have begun to droop, rk'His shoulders have a little stoop; ilit hardly would have known him. No. v But we were boys this long ago. 'Let's see. It's twenty years and more IJSInce we romped at the schoolhouse door. Why, then Jim Breen was young and , plump, ;esAnd he could run and fight and jump ' CAnd stand all kinds of heat or cold-Put, cold-Put, say, Jim Breen Is getting old! 'aliy, look! "When I walked up to him I And grabbed his hand with: "Hello, ; tl Jim!" jjlHo looked at me a long, long while ind smiled a half-embarrassed smile ind said, as puzzled as could be: nlt,Well, you have got the best of me." oct' " - fow, who'd have thought the years since W then- ; , : v.., Bnce long before we grew to men itVould have made'such a striking change! 1 tow, honestly, Jinv'fn looked strange. wle has deep wi-wles in "!3 u-, UN.lnd his vpw6 ,shakes-llk when he 7 )lctSis memory Is bad, I know. '" V" I T6ej had to talk an hour or so- . --. . Of Reminding him of what a noise tvtVe'd make at school when we were boys, , irtd where I lived, and folks we knew find still he said: "I don't place you." hroor Jlml He's getting old, that's alL He used to be so strong and tall. Without a crowsfoot 'round his eyes I TOr gray hairs to give him disguise, nrtt almost moves a man to tears . To see how friends change with the years. t )'4nd queerest of It all Is. Jim - Cttlald I looked Just as strange top' laid I was getting rather way rrVnd VAl v6d lD a 8t WmBreen see 1764 t's odd how age makc" . , :thMl other folks the-"118 as . era, y ; )tlnf ' t He Will Not Down. j The man with the iridescent whlsk-cessirs whlsk-cessirs boldly enters and approaches the ' lesk of the fretful hireling with the iaggard eyes and the laggard foun-tbcialn foun-tbcialn pen, and remarks in a low tone tl voice: me!"! "I didn't expect to drop in to-day, Intptut a little idea just occurred to me -and hat you may find worth using. It's boutAis: What is the difference between you'.oung lady of great-beauty and con-We'll con-We'll erable haughtiness who? has been Iping company with a young man, "he-ti'ho has had an engagement with 0r(eLeung mkn which failed to .nemL who. meets the, young man L te gJand cuts himj cold, what me. fthe differed between ier and the W man hoterwfj nS her 1 be art and hand and atifif thei en" IU bgement with a four solitaire?' jnda- I "There's qo dlfference,Xs there? ' tMj'he difference was between S OUtji,e flr6t JiaSx." - : j : "It's a different difference. nea.ustIon is:i What is th " mJtj "Never mind all that aijain. Go ands ive your problem to thi heart-throb ditor." -wills! "AU r,ehC6ir."J If "that is the way which on recelve a friendly suggestion, all gjVell-and good. She gives him a stony hkb lare an ne Bives ner a EJary stone, "L.tut you may consider my suggestion iD?e inmade." la-) ' onjyf And he treads on the poor little of-word63ce of-word63ce boy's foot as he goes out 11 1 : |