Show HAS MESSAGE FOR ALL BOYS I 1 young man draws lesson from strange experience which fell r to his lot 1 I wish I 1 could send a message toile tol every boy in the world of a sad an and III coincidence that happened to me 0 when ihen I 1 was a boy exclaimed a young man the other day one hot sultry july afternoon tho hottest day we had that summer I 1 had just turned our street corner when whenn j I 1 met ray my father 1 I wish i on would deliver this package for me joe lie he said rather weakly as I 1 remembered afterward I 1 now I 1 was only thirteen years old and had been out playing in the liot hot sun all morning and was all in when I 1 met my father after playing a ten inning game with our side the losers US f first impulse was to refuse but ono glance at his kind gentle face stopped me surely I 1 will go father I 1 said ealda pleasantly i j thank you yon son was the answer i 1 I was going myself but I 1 dont feel very well today and I 1 thought houi you ak would not refuse ns as you have always i been a good boy to me joe 1 I walked away thinking father did I 1 not care much about his only son or ori lie he would not send me on this jaunt I 1 I 1 about one mile and a half on such a hot day but somehow the words 1 thought you would not refuse andi andi you tou have always been a good boy to i me joe seemed to ring ln in my ears cars and before I 1 reached the end of my journey I 1 was whistling a merry tune returning home I 1 saw our doctor doctors si 2 auto and a crowd of people at our door one of my aunts hurried to meet me with tears rolling down her che eln 7 your father fell dead just ns as hereace ed cd the stoop she said 1 I found out later the he last words my father spoke were you have always been a good boy to me joe |