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Show THE PITY OF UNDERSTANDING Ranged Tramp Was the Only One who Truly Sympathized With His Fel- low of the Idle Class. In tho park a man was nslcop on ono of tho settees. His faco was upturned up-turned to tho sun. His hat, which be had ovidently placed over his eyes to protect them from tho gloro, bad fallon off and rolled away In tho dust. Now and then n passer looked at him, some curiously, somo with amusement, some with scorn, somo with IndllTor-encc. IndllTor-encc. "Let him sleep," they seemed to say. "Pretty soon a policeman will como along and wako him up by pounding pound-ing tho lazy fellow on tho soles of his Bhoes and sending him off to sleep fcomowhero elso." In n workaday world there Is little sympathy for tho Idle. Some seats distant snt another man of tho same Btamp. His own ragged feet were stuck out In front of him, nnd ho contemplated them steadily, as If ho wondered a littlo at tho wreck of his own llfo to which thoy had conducted con-ducted him. His hands were deop In his pockots, nnd his battered hat Inclined well over his noso to protect pro-tect his cyos from tho sunBhlno. Presently Pres-ently ho grow weary of sitting, nnd roso unsteadily, ns If wondering whero to sit next. Tlfen ho advanced along tbo path toward tho Blecper. Tho hat lying In tho dust caught his attention. Ho stopped nnd looked at it, and touched It absent-mindedly with ono foot. Then ho looked at the sleeper. Ho seemed neither amused, nor scornful, nor curious. Ho picked up the battered hnt carefully nnd dusted It with tho sleovo of his coat. Then ho approached tbo sleeppr, placed tho hat over his face and shnmbled off nlong tho pnth, and ho did It nil with Inflnlto precaution, so ns not to awaken tho sleeper. Youth's Compnnlon. |