Show I 1 TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE A california story that proves that thoro there is 13 such a thin thine g as true friendship A double houw bouw avit win recel recently itly moved frow powell street sall cobie aning which fill oil alil net settler t ler IA ian nil in interesting story III in the kte bee lie he says that two young men inen front from new york state who had been to lo fellors together arrived in sun san francia I 1 ro early in ill tile the flit fleties ieS mack vent to tho the and I 1 villau letl in 11 the lie city aud and with if 11 small sum slim fittell fitted ta up P it 11 little store more lie I 1 if marri married eds lind had children childre if then til ilia iv it a bic big revel st fit found lii inell ill 11 tight r place fi from orn which nothing ait but 61 could him ile he went among hia friends to gnp the money but they lind none to give give him and then ns as lie turned a i street coiner sharply lie ho ran rall into black s irnis arnis ile he told fold lidin his and give hini him all his bisi history hito ry during durin c the ten tell airs eairs they had iiren separated s cpa rated 1 I have tho the xiii lalack t hut but jua js mv iny pile I 1 nil Ani tired of minin gr ra aull lioard lo 10 settle down here and get into saine lutiness Lui iness ant you call have it 1113 dear fellow and ill tike take a whack it pick and rocker gray took tile the money and black to alie in tile the course of that benr ye ir tile the ind Inele chant halit innie luck turn and sent the miner miller ins his money with ample interests inte interest resti then they to correspond and the last the merchant aicard of his friend wis was that lit hu was about to marry will and move into a new ili iii ining nin i 0 district five yenn years afterward the file miner nud find ilk hi filmily fanaly returned to sin francico 1 co lilack lack was belil broke everything tiling hall had gone one wrong with him his lili mining mug specula speculations tims hall had failed tit tha ties lie hall had disc discovered over ed petered out the men inen lie had fruit triciti el d I 1 dece deceived ivell hill and lie hall had about SO 30 re ai n ing of a 01 once ce ample fortune lie ile hunted up his friend oray gray who was of course delighted delight cd to sec ec him and I 1 dont ree ce iiii ciny thing fur fair me to do old man joan said the despondent nimer miner except to get g a ajob job shoveling saud if youl youcan C help ell me to get one 1 11 I have ju A moved into a handsome house honie on oil powell street said lilack ind and I 1 want you to come celile ind and dine with me file to morion avei evening it is a double house fini lied alit about 1 I i week ago g 10 till the millar was on n times time with his hh shabbily dressed wife and little ones onci 4 you did well sticking to the t town will lie rental rem ii ked to his hii old schoolfellow here eliere you oil aro are way up till as a 1 merchant living in a fine house tilt idl your own al and I 1 having a ank account its as long loll 1011 0 in my 1 y aral tirui I 1 1 su suppose pus e before dinner dianer they the visited vi cited tile adjoining boeve hou ic which I 1 was avo s furnished in ill precisely preci ely the same saine style as the dwelling then they sitt down chatted over od al times limes until the lateness 0 of the hour warned tho ilia witter miner and hilife his wife eliat ti it at it was time to return to their lodging i ill house ouse a all light 0 iny hoy boy said gray evl y but jut step next door there ii i ri i something so I 1 wish visit to show yuu which I 1 neglected on oil our ur birst visit when m they entered the ilia hall black halted failed here said lie that looks like my iny trunk said gray come up ill sta stairs ars to thia bedroom I 1 ali enli Vl i said the iiii miner iier looking about confound iou you yon bacz have e moved fill all my iny up till heie front from that lod lodging gin g house louse aye have I 1 ill my friend shouted the other ollie slipping slip linn un oil tile shoulder where vl cre should a man keep his things but in ill lilt his own house bouse ind alad in ill what pirt part of 0 tile house better ini his ti bedroom I 1 roona ia III alyis w an ind 11 baI began rall to 11 hau ve dw ul 31 liis his friella s sanity 1 but when hill lii i frand a deed of this very house into his hig hand and followed fOlloW etl avith a deed de id u I 1 in ill ini IM blile bu ine he broke doan all and d alried like 1 clotild and now flow we ire in ioviti moving ariy chii old sit sir to oil 1 another I other qu atter cr said the narrator of this remarkable tile tale of gratitude and friendship but I 1 would not tak take e a 1 I hundred A thousand thon dollars doll irs for it it was wai mack black who told the story now it a successful ill erchin t |