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Show HAS MESSAGE FOR ALL BOYS Young Man Draws Lesson From Strange Experience Which Fell to His Lot. "I wish I could send a message to; every boy in the world of a sad and' strange coincidence that happened to me when I was a boy," exclaimed a . young man the other day. "One hot, sultry July afternoon the hottest day we had that summer I had just turned our street corner when,, I met my father. : " 'I wish you would deliver this package for me, Joe,' he said ratherj weakly, as I remembered afterward.! Now I was only thirteen years old and , had been out playing in the hot sun all! morning and was all in when I metj my father after playing a ten-inning I game with our side the losers. My I first Impulse was to refuse, but onej glance at his kind, gentle face stopped! me. 'Surely I will go, father, I said pleasantly. i " 'Thank you, son,' was the answer. ! 'I was going myself, but I don't feel $ very well today and I thought youj would not refuse, as you have always i been a good boy to me, Joe.' "I walked away thinking father dldj not care much about his only son, orl he would not send me on this jaunt j (about one mile and a half), on such, o hot day. But somehow the words, . 'I thought you would not refuse,' andj 'You have always been a good boy to i me, Joe,' seemed to ring in my ears ; and before I reached the end of my; Journey I was whistling a merry tune. "Returning home, I saw our doctor's! auto and a crowd of people at our! door. One of my aunts hurried to meetl me with tears rolling down her cheeks. ' 'Tour father fell dead just as he reach- 1 ed the stoop,' she said. "I found out later the last words my , father spoke were. 'You have always1 1 been a good boy to me, Joe.' " |