Show they watched him if A heath ileath one ot of the broom hotel birthday tors attended bis his th thirty airty ninth birthday friday night daring the evening be he was invited upstairs by some one ot of the help in the house and there were in the presence of the hotel employees given a surprise ur prise the steward was the spokesman mr heath be he eaid said this is the thirty ninth anniversary ol 01 your birth and you are along tray way aror from your native eath you are now many yeara years older and a much larger man than when you fi ero bord born but tim time hab has dealt gently ba with you so that no one would suspect I 1 I 1 I 1 A I 1 I 1 11 I 1 you to be nearly BO so old I 1 PS a you are n nor or the fatter of a largo large family we Vs yon employees desirous of showing the appreciation pre clation with which we regard you I 1 have bavo joined together and pure purchased based a gold watch and chain chala as a present and a memento of this somewhat eventful occasion to you and abd our regards tor for you we aek ask you to accept it listen to its ticking and watch the circling of the bands hands on the dial for the tick and the movement will verve notice on you that time is flying on at the rate of sixty seconds a minute and the while you are rowing growing old we wish you as many happy returns of the occasion as this little timekeeper is warranted to run ran seventy v years which if it that fortune be your win will make you A a cen 11 the speech and the beautiful rift gift was a stunner to mine boat host heath who was fairly overcome by the show allow of remembrance made toward him by those in bis his employment but be he managed to stammer out bat that be he would remember the donors every time he wound up the watch and then rushed down stairs stair sto to show ane ticker to the people in the office |