Show ac t 5 ea s 0 g 4 1 S N k Y boz B 1 W vis X V P V N I 1 i I 1 I 1 SERVES THE TH 9 aaste flaster GRANDPA SAMPSON IS EARNING A CROWN ak A peep at the late work of a man who finds find true happiness mappen ln in making little children happy the story told by his bis mall W 11 la Is well that we I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 should pause occasionally al sio io on the onward march of our boasted civilization and d take a peep at the deeds of an 1 I humble servant of I 1 j the master no doubt there are am some who win will say that it is an inopportune thing to do but ne verthel opinions of that kind should have little tle weight for more than twenty years the rev william sampson has been toe the c chaplain he and superintendent of the childrens aid society and industrial school and home in the city of cleveland ohio ahlo he was an old mau man when he came but these twenty years of caring for little children have freshened him and renewed his youth so that though ohp almanac says he is 83 the glow of immortal youth is on his heart and in his eyes there is no work more fascinating nor more full of promise and hope tor for the future than that which ministers to the need of poor and homeless children every little child that comes into a home like this has some interesting story drunken parents and other evils degrade and bring many families to poverty and wreta agedness misery the child is not to blame in other cases the mother dies ana the father is to keep the children together from such sources and many others little waits are thrown Z gy RR ii iby V 4 i 1 1 I 1 you ana would like to have your picture 1 1 I shall always have pleasant ute memories mories of you you dear grandpa sampson thank god that he rai raised d up grandpa sampson lots lota ot jbf love tu tj grandpa and so go on with ever varying phrase but breathing the same spirit of gratitude and love the mail bag is grandpa sampsons Samp sons constant garden of delight I 1 never sef sec him but I 1 think how happy this old christ like hero will be in heaven lihaven li eaven where so many children a are re gathering every year I 1 N j 1 k 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 11 1 1 I 1 tt an f I 1 t k I 1 J 1 I 1 S Z 2 A ax 4 V I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 J I 1 1 4 I 1 1 1 11 I 1 I 1 1 T 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 1 I I 1 1 1 I 1 1 I 1 11 t t k I 1 v k I 1 N 1 i I 1 R 1 I I 1 N 1 11 i I 1 1 I 1 I 1 t I 1 X 7 11 1 I 1 ill V I 1 I 1 L I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 X 1 I 1 REV WILLIAM SAMPSON out like the master who loves them without a place to lay their heads beads in his spirit in his dear name william sampson gloats with a mother like tenderness over every such child with as much eagerness as a gold miner who has found a precious nugget in this home they are taught habits of cleanliness civility of manners respect for age and the sanctity of f religious worship together with such each industries dus tries as are adapted to their capacity over five thousand children have received instruction and help in the years that axe are gone and over twenty six hundred of these boys and girls have been placed in good homes in different parts of the country where they have had a fair chance for noble lives these lads and misses happily placed in good homes outon out on the farms and in the villages of the great west shower their loving letters on this good man who has been such a benediction to them I 1 have been peering into this mail bag and the letters are so fresh and redolent of breezy farm life and sincere childish affection that one can not wonder that grandpa sampson renews his you youth jouthas thas as he reads them here is one from a boy from which I 1 take these lines 1 q I had a swamp that brought me 1 I put it to corn and potatoes and had fourteen bushels corn and twenty bushels of potatoes then he adds something about the pure life ot of that country settlement 1 I want to tell you about my surround surroundings ingli there is not a man iti in this locality who has any bad habits such as drink and profane language not a bad place that for a young lad of fourteen here is a little gift girl who bubbles over with 1 I am happy asa as a bird and I 1 go to school every darand day and T such a good teacher I 1 sold i in my iamb and I 1 got three dollars tor for ft t t now n ow I 1 lave got four dollars and twenty cents here iss pathetic little touchy in a I 1 utter letter from a litt little I 1 hoy lack how W 1 1 daany children have nave naveros Y rou abw M W 1 many s and g girls ag to be algood grandpa i A ia 11 6 phe nl I 1 afe I 1 1 way I 1 ana aa vi eve ik I 1 I 1 e theohare of the thare are ea expressions i a me I 1 I 1 I 1 1 i I 1 to X a 1 va rr I 1 ZA 4 i i 3 V r V 5 W ut 14 Q i gg gr M a W I 1 5 alar I 1 A ir 5 va 1 11 w Z 7 ss o t 0 1 W 01 |