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Show 1 Struck to::the;BerfeV? ft $ 1, ;- ? :. '. . ' I IS" ;r r .- . HoioicvrBeggar Girl SJiamedjd B ' Drunkard. I Tie following story is a to'tich-j ing one, arid ilie.hero .thereof is a I well-knoTiS young gentleman ofj this city: He has been somewhat I wild1 in his habits in the past, but. for four months he had abstained from drink and spent his evenings I at home. One evening, three weeks 1 ago, he went out calling, and some I one gaye him ' a glass of wine. This i 1 aroused the sleeping fiend, and he 1 went off on a grand carouse; For 1 three Hays he lost all mastery s oyer I himself, and scarcely knew where I he wds. ' On the morning of the I fourth day he was comparatively I sobered up. He wandered intp.. the 1 reading-room of ono , of our hotelsV: V where he was . well known, and sat I down and stared moodily intp the I street. Presently a little girlJ of I abmit 10 years came in and looked 1 timidly around the room. , She was I dresseclih rags, but she had a sweet, I intelligent face, that .could scarcely. I fail to excite sympathy. Thore 1 wer4;fiye persoiiB in thfe vipQipi,. and . . - she went to each, . begging. One gentleman gaye her a 5-cent piece, and then she went to the gentleman spoken. of and asked him for a penny, adding, "I hayen't had anything any-thing to eat for a whole day." The gentleman was all out of humor, and he said crossly: "Don't bother mo; go away! I haven't had anythingto eat for three days." The child opened her eyes in shy wonder and stared at him for a moment and then walked slowly towards the door. She turned the knob . and then, after hesitating a few seconds, she turned quickly and walked straigt up to him who had spoken so ill-naturedly, and gently laying the fiye cents she had received on his knee said, with a. tone of true girlish pity in her voice, "If you 'haven, t had anything to eat for three, days you tako this and go and buy some bread. Perhaps I can get some more somewhere." The young fellow blushed to the ropts of his hair, and , lifting the miniature Sifter o Charity . ,.in Ins arms he kissed her two oMireo times in delight. Then he took her to "the persons in the room and to those in the corridors and the office, and told the story and asked contributions, contri-butions, giving himself all the money he had with him. He succeeded suc-ceeded in raising over $40,- and 'sent the little kindly hearted one -on her way rejoicing. Pittsburg Telegraph. ' V ii t Mrtm.Ut |