Show THE ROMANCE OF A CARRIER BOY HAI by Anie rican press association theres a 0 time of the year when we pause on the brink 0 of the ho now ono to coule conic and tile the pauso pause makes na think of 01 the past anil and tho the years that woo nolo lived through before and wonder just what in ili the futures auturo in ili store when wo we bait up accounts with ft a eye hem much better to try and then when weve settled this point in our wo vo turn with our thoughts betro retro to bolind fi nd somo some solace lit in scones scenes that bovo lived through before though tho the joy may bo loss less and tho the brict may bo be wore more for even in sorrows gono gone by BS as wo we look wo get the same ileaure as aa madrug re i book that always fa familiar millar still makes oth our bearta burn As AB ovar om its pages at new years wo we turn so arthur Nf munroe as lie ho trudged down the street wrapped up in ills hla greatcoat lila its faeo face to the fillet with crowds all around him and yet all clone alone dwelt on bone ot of tho the past and the years that hod bad flown and so 0 o my dear reader if you will draw near mar ill give you a glimpse of Mun fun roas roes past career it travel all night in tho the frat mall mail express on tile tho A and B road to a point I 1 con few ive forgotten forgot teu tho name it a junction you we cc and its iff down in some maps just as plain as a s can be A and d cabane edg cars it if rl aldo 10 halt half a day sou will como to tho the beautiful village of clay it was here in rk a quaint little cottage one moni that t arthur lonroe our young hero was born they say bay and with truth that tho the coun arys tho the place where a man loan lu in tho the years scars that como come after can braoo the rich drafts ot of health that havo have been beell such budi a Il leming to help in his life work but I 1 am dl and so to bo be brief I 1 will merely remark that tho the boys early carly ufa life was indeed all a lark ilor horan an in and he be grew stoutland tand tall with skating and swimming and playing baseball and lit bl mother dear woman was proud of 0 her boy and hailed balled him a blessing in facts fact her ono joy but alaa lor for our story the truth must iw be told not overstocked over stocked with the metal challed gold fold and tho the time canio came when arthur by nature no shirk was obliged to stop playing and go right to work which lie ho did with a will though abo pay was quite small on oil tho the ller uld a weekly sheet tal taken on by ill all la 14 the tillage ot ct clay fail and til lill ti Jit V W edw more kopul r paper lie bo bari to rate and ami so our hero to whom type apo wai waa 0 greek reek began ou oil tile tho lerald herald I 1 nt nl so much a i week A bum so allow atwould bo be quite too no petty to mention it 11 now and lili bli duty was ahli to deliver each weel tho the herald to all of 0 the lowly and anil and thoo alio llio o who were not so in brief I 1 may inny siy say to all tho the subset 11 firs who paid up lip in clay among those subscribers was ono one bained judge green who upon certain clays in ili tile week might inight bo be seen out with his daughter a dark eyed young wald mold with ft a tuco face that ciu an rus ft staid As tho the dearest young grandmother pictured in books thero was no other girl why excelled her in IL I 1 til 7 III aud and helen greens green eyes and and ani her dalr anil and her ber old fashioned anys acro beyond nil all compare IT was natural then whon when every week aft hla his paper nt at greens lio lie should linger to speak just a word or receive lust a wonderful smile from tho sweet little girl with tho the old fashio jio and awaa plain it Is nature not bit ait that in ili time young mungroo holuj find lug ilia heart and then canio camo tho the offer from rom new york one lay day and d arthur bunroe and lis 1 ift clay and tile boy found himself blin self with lis hla youth and ambition A rising young man with an envied position reporter and editor thus had bad ho io gro crown wn to he bo quite ii a power in the time that had hown flown since lie ho lovi loved helen green yet ho be felt nn an od odd 1 thrill when lie ho her face ace tor for ho he loved tile tho girl gill still and so EO on ono one summer bummer lie ho sought compensation for years of 0 hard work and ho he took hl ills vacation in ili clay where here tile lovo love ot of hla his life might bo seen and lio lie sent up tip his card it you yon ii plea leabo c to miss liss green grcen sho she was so glad gl ad to soo him striking how tall hed grown in ili tho the years that bad that was all and then tile door opened sho she turned with a i smile 11 ay aly iy friend from new york mr sidney do doLlt lible lo tho two men both bowed they instine dively knew it was war to tile ho death deahl I 1 and their faces both grow quito fet and determined few mon can conceal like women so BO suddenly just what they fed tho the fatal day ea camo ute w lien hea munroe must return turn i sf go tto ltd to stake etal all ob deu deax road 6 or r dl discern carn why it 13 eliat alio lic heart artof of it il maiden 9 it na flighty and clings tu to tile weak when sho she cou could 11 have bavo the mighty aud anil to so it caino out ns as you may havo have expected that turned lis liis face lack back to work crushed rejected to lava such buch a was not a alg light bt blow to a 0 man of tho the stump of young arthur oo hut but work helped him greatly then after awhile ilo ho learned of 0 her or nian matlage ingo to sidney do lisle though hla his face turned quito quite palo pale ho he ro belvid to forget and harbor no feelings of hopeless hofele s regret tu ku no now w that IOB INo hown shown you ilia hla life 11 fo dear realor know why lie a wife re and know why it Is that hla his heads slightly bowed asejo alks in ili deep thought through tho the now years evo crowd THE MEETING have you ever walked broadway Broad woy nt at night when ill tha snow has turned into kloct and the winter winds blow irom from nil all quarters tit at once in a frenzy of sport and cut rift the breaths of tho the pas crsby short you seen the lights glin glimmer ns its it if th through n fog on a i when gather in ili cren a ang though tho the sorrI sorriest cst pup that you ever beheld or the worst tooling looking tramp that by hunger compelled aski As food as ho he cringes in front ot of your door while tho the storm howls around him as nev or er before jiovo you tho the shop windows nil all glitter with glory on tile night before new years it if so BO then my story will bring back the scene amne hero yc you u gone with abo throng of 01 bundled up humans tho the weak and tho the strong the rich and tho the poor the ibo sad and tile kay gay an they hurry burry along in tho the night on II 11 roadway broadway have you noticed tho the beggar whoso choso acted despair givel color at night to that great thoroughfare ough fare so arthur munroe wall walked ed along in tho the night light but absorbed so BO that little appealed appeal cd to his sio sight bt ind and lis ills cars were quite dent to tho the beggars taint faint cry As ag they tow touched bed its ills greatcoat or in vain caught his bis eye A ra 7 V 4 tw 1 L V s xintu ngath tho the gaslights faint glow clow he was stopped by a roan man in lis his way ire ho mechanically dropped ills hand band in ills ilia pocket and then lo 10 1001 looked down with a curious eye on this trump tramp of the town jostled against him this creature for torso so ire ilo fremed to tho the vision of arthur munroe was a man imbo ho appeared to have shrunk by some soma law that applies to nil all victims of I 1 tys I 1 a ills ilia clothes hung around him in tatters ilia cidiaco face sad had written in ili language quite plainly kinrd caw case ind and yet there was it who can to ro show that its ita owner lind had once ken been a mull beg pardon ho he in muttered uttered LIL alko 6 some missing link dt df tile past lust heard and ho be felt lilt ills beert beurt sink 4 L OP 1 s g bvm mk 4 V tho the voice was familiar again as Is if gazed at the faco of 0 tile stranger before him hall bazk ia J jio he know by tile the poso and the he general style the ono one who addre addressed sed him was sidney do lisle THE HAND OF A thero there aro are so somo me who ever and with truth bo be it said that tile man mancho who Is weak might much dietter ix bo lead dead you ton way may curb a strong nature or prune it at will cut but you yon cant make a river gush fortl from a i rill you may nurture a seed with a caro cam quite complete ent you cant mako an oak from a small grain of wheat anil and yet it this riddle boult solve so to speak yon havo have first got to know 1 it tho the mans man really weak in every mans lito life theres a time when fall all if ho be tho the strength of 0 a friend within call but once over this by himself ho be may grow to a much higher piano it ho be has but a show theres a 5 ww wen spot in all of 0 us think of 0 it 16 yet vet As you see poor do lisle in the coll aull tho thov wet ret was lie ha hopelessly weak was oa hla hij soul boul shriven erlven hare baro ny by the claw put upon lt it or was vas it do d that brought him so low did ho he nood need now tile land hand of 0 a trl frh nd to return mitt him lis own self co command minand tho thoughts through throng Mun roos roes mind camo surging quite fast As 18 lie stare stared 1 at do lisle and ho he thought though it of the past meanwhile there b had ad colao through the th wet and tho cold calil A flash froin tile eye 0 of his bis rival of 0 old A nal that was full of 0 complete re cogill lion and freighted with ine meaning aning lie iio I 1 know noar his position and with quiet quick intuition took in at a glance file dio aholo sit nation imron bunroe lun im roc roe in a trane tran I 1 Lecove ml inore fc jowly lowly do DC lible with A slight shrug of ri shoulders turned away la in the th night then it wits waa that with a quick genrty ty laid his land haud on tile tho shoulder of sidney do 1110 elslo come do lisle ho said briefly never will do im not such a fellow as that As aa for or you it ever a nuin ninn WAS in ili need of 0 a friend you certainly are arc lut but you never caw c mend yourself f on oil the wheel of a 1 falsified pride 11 tile the other man mail stopped shook then trembled and cried with ills hla handa to his falcer and jig laj 1 I ara veal 1 i rn aby god goa youre the 1119 ant ono to lo speak A una kind word to me for a time well troll it seeing an eternity such as wo we dream 0 of la in dreams finco sho ho at tho the ru mention cation of this word munroe grow stern and lis his voice slipped his its soft rone follo and so ho he bu bur stout ont you have left her you yon curl theother ilio Tho other mans mails eyes flushed flashed iio did not dunar for nn an instant ot of time then lis his face quickly inched with tile insult upon it not utterly crushed lie diew lip and said levarl dont dare anro to repeat rihab rhad youve said for mungroo roc I 1 will swear chit I 1 did not do athla will you swear said munroe Vun roo tint you never ill her ber it not biall tin n gul got you tire as such now nov do lisle LIAO I 1 demand no ord of N our past As tile tho past rt t act it baand but I 1 ik do you lovo love her and where ii silo ho now bowl I 1 do not require that lint you tell me 1110 just how you yon lii hat no a brought f down wo we are all of us keala hut but h leavo avo you ill treated your wife do lisle lile speak artl do lible i ard loo Ledin in tho face of his mentor manroe lio lie replied my disgrace Is not of that sort and I 1 swear dr belr to yo you 11 that my wife lies lias gono gone home do I 1 lovo love her I 1 do I 1 swear that lint aie left me herself well in short for no other reason than this nonsuit port since then put but munroe with a gesture said stop you tell tile ino no moro more como do lisk 3 oil will drop it if wo wa stand hero bere much longer your word 1 ii enough I 1 ask for no more youre no longer lon gera 1 tough I 1 evO you ill help you to it you can from tho the wreck of yourself a respectable man 1 and under tinder his breath lie said softly ill make A IL iii man in of this vagabond just tor for ler her ri ea aso ito conr YEAR laten miss percy cf clay clayto to a friend out of town some lines train from her litter aro here berc jotted ilo 11 my aly DEAU ivo a astl ango bit of romance ron ianco to tell its about helen green you remember her win ma if gan ai r pa 01 I 1 x r it you remember tier marriage to sidney le do lisle lido A and till liow how avell she looked us its walked down tho alclo they began in a Dulin dubuque Du buquo quo A position po sillon lie he cot A and till N with till lovo love on cm their side and antl n dinall aspinall rod nod lot they started in life true his clerks clerkship bip was and he biad few hundreds behind liim all yet many khov married v count them avil ci is li cl the man Y viii ith C hi latart ind the then oman so 60 filmy Y how weal was vis D Ds listol I 1 declare it 11 la is stran strange gr knit and im thankful I 1 a mail within rank rang youn sidney do cislo was the malt it of all itlen who would win a I 1 I 1 gills ills heart without I 1 rouble rou M v and then ile he caino of good in till nil striking ila iio was just such a fellow you help 1101 laking ila iio was and witty a man mail of 0 good and they say kiy ho played pl iyce havoc with many gills glza heart ic rt and so lo 10 met helen and loved lovci her my ry fil filona erld von iou this and yet aou ou must walt to tile V iian a mar limn my ineil alar r gill mth no training in III laro starts ant mill I 1 fth somo aswelt little wife they say abat hia bif will trill stick by ailin nuch long lonar r than the cash CB 11 II noid pw c e in ili tile tho end to lie ID rt ronger sl irdon 17 elili patience at lence to tile and put lint on cin a anillo sni 10 lo when ber ligart all abo felt inerd jio iilo crying while sidney ix bog gl m to ii go down alo 1111 and yet still liko a 0 diall ito iio etli k it h fate end and I 1 think thin lie did veil when we vre think of lils his and now I 1 ennst tell lull the saddest of 0 nil all of 0 this llila trig dy dear clear 1 I ur or ono one cannot expect to corn correct ct ft year tho the of a 11 bearin rearing that always was va wrong unless wo aro are lorn born with a will doubly etrone and when we turu turn back all how little wo know kilow of 01 tho the dragon dragoni i dhove followed full owed us onward I 1 and so when tile little babe came rind and lie ho mother grew sick MCI aud bills 0 all shapes and nil sIz sizes esgrow grow thick lie begun to loo nerve till tile the fatal lay day chloc when lio ike lost his position iio was not to blame so bo helen dmares declares tit n es were e dull in 11 so they ald sald S so tile tho licad lend of lin office just cut olt off hla his herad then it was that do lilo lost his lead head on oil tho the brink brifil aud anil thought lie could drown all it Ms is troubles in ili drink that shows that tho the fellow was w oak or was waa in ill just tho right friend to him a bacling backens I 1 do not know which but the flirts facts must remah no he had failed with lis his life though it may give U us 3 pain to admit this ans so co yet it wis all tho the baino for tho the fault w as do lisles Ll sandwith and with him lies tho the blame too proud to write ciomo shed have died in ill tile tho end it if by chance she lad had not been ob observed served by a friend from tile ea eat who tATLO tool took in ot at 1 glan colier fa 7 N sk j U 4 ave ana vl arli sitt cut dawn nod wrote botho to the judge than and there thero tho the ju juilio igo fint fent ork or money and wroth and implore it her to leave ond and come on to the bom thod hed adored and to leao ik do 1110 lic hero ro sho th mr request t and wrote file lio Y stick by do DC lisle lu in tile wl act 4 dut but tho the judan |