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Show Bj SPICE OF LIFE HJft When Sir Thomas Llpton started in I business ho was very poor, and mak- Hflf ing every sacrifice to enlarge his little WP shop. His only assistant was a youth WJTf of some fifteen years, faithful and fhi honest. One Saturday morning he I was heard complaining, and with jus- 1 tice, that his clothes were so shabby Bl that ho was ashamed to go to church H the following morning. Says Sir HI Thomas in eaking of the incident: HR "I felt son- for the lad, and, after m thinking the matter over, I took a H sovereign from my carefully hoarded H ; savings and bought the boy a com- H I fortable, good suit of blue cloth. He B was so overwhelmingly grateful that m I felt amply repaid for my sacrifice, fl The following morning, however, he H did not make his appearance at the B accustomed hour, and later in the H day, as his mother was passing the H building, I inquired the reason of her M son's ahsence. 'Well, Mr. Liptori,' H said she, with a bland smile and curt- H sying, ' 'Arry looks so respectable, H thanks to you, sir, that I thought 1 H would send him about town a little to- H day and see if he couldn't get a bet- H ter job'." San Francisco Argonaut. H |