| Show SMALL SHALL BOY FOLLOWS LOWS A BAND 1 UNTIL SLEEP OVERTAKES HIMI HIM Listening to V the Reuben band which is 15 making all kinds lInds of ot noise throughout the city city ip a V a local firm Frank Prank La pm i 10 years ot of otage otage age who lives with Ms lils parents at the I Metropolitan hotel became b came enraptured with the discords yesterday and for forgot forgot forgot got that he had followed the musicians for or miles He followed and followed until be he became bec me so tired that he lay Ia I down in a doorway on a crowded cro d street I and went fast asleep sl epH found later and taken to police pollee headquarters h where he be was kept ti SJ mother was notified and called I IThe The alleged band p parsed i s d V his home I early earl in the afternoon and the boy at once joined the jeering tiri of or ur urchins urchin urchins chins chin which followed He laughed and ridiculed with ie rest un until until until til he suddenly realized d that at he was tired He stop st though when the other boys show sho that they were tired So he marched on after aft r the band until he had traversed the principal streets of ot the City The band ban kept up Its monotonous u discord and the small boys continued their jeerings The proCession pro to Main street and started down First South street The boy bo was to the last however and stayed with the crowd j I until his feet refused to carry him himAt himAt himAt At last he reached Second Sel Ud South street where crowd of people I lined both the street and the th sidewalk walk He edged his way out of or the mob of small boys and crept painfully into a doorway He laid himself down in the broiling sun on the stone step and ana in ina ina Ina a moment was dreaming peacefully No Noone Noone one in the hurrying huerIng throng ng of or people who rushed past vast troubled themselves with the sleeping child so he remained rem ined on the doorstep until late in the after alter afternoon afternoon V noon V Meanwhile his hl continued absence a had aroused the fears fea Cea of his mother and she hastily be an n a search for Cor the f missing lad Securing the aid of friends she went through the neigh neighborhood but no trace of bf the boy was found Police headquarters hea were noti notified fied fled and officers on their beats curiously t scrutinized all the youngsters who j passed None was seen seel who answered the description Late in the afternoon a woman pass pas passing pasIng passing ing along Second South street observed the boy sleeping peacefully in the sun on the doorstep p She tried tied to arouse him but efforts to disconnect him from the dreams which he enjoyed Joyed en were were fU fUtile f tile He slept calmly in spite of all aU aUthe the shakings which could be J I V Convinced at last that the boy was waI completely worn vorn out the woman took too him in her arms and carried him tenderly tended to police headquarters He during the trip and could not be awakened by b the officers He H was taken to the matron of ot the t e jail jaU who wh placed the little on a bed and left heft him to rest aest until he was a t en by bV byan byan an almost frantic mother |
