Show LITTLE THINGS OF LIFE exchange I 1 reader if you were aked to name the most moat popular man in town whom would you designated 7 perhaps you think on the spur on the moment you would indicate ou bithe some a great lawyer or some dav favorite minister or perhaps some old family doctor or any one of a dozen or more notable personages in the community but on second d thought you are not so sure cure and after mature reflection you are ready to discard them all 11 then you begin to cast about a the less notable ones now you on are getting warm as the children say now you have located him and you are surprised because he I 1 B never associated in your mind with the great or ever the near great nevertheless as you study him his popularity and the reasons are brought forcibly to your atten tou lon in the first place you study him as he comes down town in the morning his progress is ie slow as he seems to be stopped by every per aon on he aeeti meets ana and he has a warm handshake and a cheerful good morning for all you follow him and see him radiating the same sun eun chure and cheerful greeting and you yea find he is known to everyone as uncle watch him to the ladies he is especially courteous and you are surprised to see that courtesy unshaken even when confronted by one whom you by no stretch of the imagination could term a lady he wes your surprise and for the sake of the sex he smiles now watch him as he starts for home toward nightfall school is IE out and the children are on the streets here he must stop atop to shoot beat a marble with a crowd of chains ms and they hail had his coming with shouts shouts of glee another must per suede suade him to have a try at his top pa on account of avor dupoise he be has to draw the line at the hoop which another offers him but he starts it off for far the youngsters young stera to pursue A little further on he is accosted by a bevy of small girls who are in their element a as they swarm around him clamoring for a story teasing him to jump rope or even rifling his pockets tor for suspected sweets you see him as he reaches his home when the gool good wife meets him at the gate she haa bat a sad tale tor for his hia ear sorrow has entered a neighbors home at once he is iq all sympathy and without waiting to enter his own door he prince passes onto on to the house houe of sorrow per haps baas he can offer offe nought but sympathy but this cornea comes so plainly from the heart and is accompanied by such a warm clap cla P of the hand that it carries its blessed message of comfort and sympathy now you are beginning to appreciate the true reason for his hia larity lanty he is a man of innumerable small deeds of loudness kindness bat those deeds are such suen as touch the heart strings of the people being content to occupy himself with the small of af fairs of life knowing full well W wise man that he is that of such is hu man life composed he wait would ld smile amile with incredulity were you to hint to him of his great popularity because he is essentially one of the humble ones of earth and his great popularity whence compa comes it ita in his hia heart he be has caught ond and held the echo ho of a voice from the far off past and the d is a like unto this thou shall love t thy by neighbor as thyself |