Show the of foolish sir mr B a wealthy and respectable physician in it southern city died a few months ago he ile boro bore throughout the i greater part of his life a strange cross of 0 which no one but big his most intimate friends were cognizant when a lad ad of twelve years B like many other boy boys of that age grew restless and discontented with home lie ile ran a away w ay and for a year was a cabin boy on a ship while there ambitious to bo be decorated like the other sailors ho be had a word i of coarse meaning tattooed upon his arm I 1 before the year was over he be repented of his folly bitterly and returned to bo be forgiven and taken back to the old pure life and tender tenderness nm of home the wild oats were eown sown the outbreak was over a and nd BOOD soon almost forgotten by his family he ile was an earnest hardworking student and an affectionate ton bon and grew up into an honorable useful manhood 1 I might ho he once said to a friend have forgotten that wretched year with all its damage to body and soul but for that accursed mark I 1 could never wash or scrape it out there etwas it was with its vile meaning stamping me for life I 1 was always conscious of it always in fear lest I 1 should hoose expose it to my wife and children they knew it was there but I 1 hoped that they would w somehow forget I 1 it was visible even after death A friend covering vering it closely said it is hard bard that ho co u good a man must carry to ills its coffin the sign of his foolish youth 11 youths companion |