Show THE HOPE OF HIS OLD AGE story ot of a youth who avio we was overcome by gratitude it baa bas cost me to carry you through college hiram but I 1 dont regret it A good education my boy is the right foundation for success in life the well preserved old man back in his chair and looked with pride on the youth who stoel before him no matter what calling or profession you may adopt he continued the knowledge you have ha ve acquired and the mental discipline you have lave d ahr through 0 u gh will be found indispensable in the r race ace for supremacy you can now start on an a equal footing with the best of them Ye so assented the young man 1 I have not been able to keep track ot of your progress as I 1 should hare have liked but your standing in your class waa was fully up to the average it ya as 11 and you took your part in the regular college athletics I 1 presume 1 I waste any time on baseball or rowing but I 1 was no slouch with the gloves 1 I have never had bad any complaints from the faculty and I 1 inter infer that your behavior W 4 WM M sener alJy satisfactory absorbed la in DusI ricEs e Is A mabb s afe n r couta got exercise that personal supervision over you that a watchful father should have done perhaps but I 1 have trusted to the good effects of early training and I 1 have been generous with you have I 1 not riot as regards spending moneet money oh yes and now my boy what are your plane for the future have you formed any well I 1 have thought I 1 should like to travel in europe a year or two liml pretty expensive hiram the young man put hie his hands in his pockets and strode back and forth impatiently tient ly they all do it he said with a cloud on his big brow A fellows education finished until hes traveled and seen the world how illow much will it cost to give yon you the trip you want about A bout 2500 11 that would make tI OOOO the old man pondered in silence a few moments its a pretty largo large sum to spend on a boys education hiram he said yet it maybe may be that you are right I 1 had to do without a european tour until I 1 had made the money myself and I 1 got along comfortably fort ably on M COO but the world exactly what it was in my young days you shall have the money the young mah man was touched A glow of gratitude lit up his somewhat pallid face he ile thrust his hand ina in a breast pocket pulled out a small paper box opened it and extended it to his father duvner Guv ner he ile said impulsively have a cigarettes cigar ettel Ill chicago tribune |