Show T too oo 00 late to ro all who have ever felt remorse the mere thought of it should be caution enough against breaking the laws of duty and right conduct but thousands who arc are uninfluenced by higher moral re rush into wron wrongdoing wrong I 1 doing without thinking of the alf belf ri re and puni punishment hm ent that are insure to come the following contains cot I 1 a lesson to hotheaded hot headed h who arc nr i e in danger of breaking their e mothers hearts by disobedience or hasty words they were sitting in the waiting room of tho the depot together the dapper littleman litt little lemau man who looked ay as though he might 1 l i be a traveler and the great rough fellow cowhide boots shaggy gar merits and broad brown Alexi etl 1 hat told that ho lie was fresh from some saine s ani civilized re region 9 ion of tho tile west tho the westerner sat looking out of the tile window upon the dreary confusion of tracks switches fros and snorting freight engines ju just i at that moment ho be seemed like pure sympathy the commercial iler attempted to strike up a conversation got long to wait lie asked ad ed in a friendly tone bout an hour was the answer going far agh nigh onto a li undred miles into the kentry yes where stranger im going home my lily home so been away long bout ten years ten years and now youre home homel well pleasant know im only away about a month at a time yet when I 1 come back am atu as happy as a gosling in ill a sun shower fact pact you im sentimental yet when im on ou my way home the cars never seem to go fast enough and I 1 cant of anything b but ut home home all time im pin there my but id to be in your shoes for fora a short time just t to feel how happy you must be folks all well I 1 sup suppose Str stranger allger im going back to my mothers funeral ito ten year ten long long year since I 1 saw I 1 her 1 er lat and then I 1 went away aahl saying ng I 1 never wanted to sec see her again I 1 did that to my mother bu but I 1 was not much more than a boy then and I 1 know what I 1 was doing fig it was my ni mother tAller but im not after to bo be blamed too rashly and after I 1 went away I 1 never sent a letter home not one but I 1 always meant to she used to write me tile such heartbreaking heart breaking letters that 1 I preat great rough miner that I 1 was keep the tears back you gee eee I 1 write because I 1 was always a a thinking that I 1 would strike it rich and then I 1 would go home and just show the old folks what money and case was but but but stranger I 1 put it off too long I 1 was going to surprise em and I 1 had bad enough money to make their old ao age 0 but estranger et etra ranger 4 sh home before I 1 I 1 did 0 and he wiped his horny sun browned hand baud across his eyes there was silence for afew minutes minu teE then ho continued dont think worse worse of cf me for that stranger I 1 may bo be a I 1 man nan grown but voine somehow how I 1 cant keep tears out of my eyes they will come you see 1 I was the 60 youngest I 1 was the baby iier her boy she used to call me tile and when I 1 grew up I 1 wanted to see seo the world to sec eee life but she wanted me to stay at homo and I 1 was hotheaded hot headed and and I 1 went away but I 1 always dreamed dreamel of coming back and here when I 1 was ready it was too late too late ah stranger I 1 cant help hell it and the returning miner bowed bighead on oil his handa and was silent but the other said nothing there was iva a lump in his throat that prevented and he lie looked toward tile will window 01 v under pretense of wiping hia his forehead with his hand handkerchief h cef but it was only to conceal tho the moisture that came unbidden in hia hij c eyes yee V |