Show the old settler my dear san Jua ners every boy needs a dad some boys just must have a dad or make wretched failure of the destiny they chev came inthe in the world worl d to fill society is vitiated in all nations by boys who grew up to be desperadoes for the one deadly reason that they had no dad to sympathize with them to love them and lead them i in the th ways of usefulness in little jimmys innocent and unsuspecting eyes was the mute appeal for something that only a father could give jimmys mother loved him she tried to answer that plaintive look which her tender motherly instinct could not fail to discern the look of a hungry soul who could make no argument but just expect some response to his yearnings jimmys father was more annoyed than pleased with his petulant little boy he chastised jimmys mother for humoring him he declared that the boy was s sissy issy and that his mother would make him into something ng worse not only was she hind crded from the perfect gift she would have united with her husband to give but from the help she would have given of herself if not deterred by fear nothing else in all the world would have pleased jimmy like having his father for a confident i i companion a sympathizer a leader he would have followed follone d biz hi father with joy into an anything y if only he had been invited invited jimma know his own self well enough to define just what he wanted and why md and before he became able to analyze the situation he was embittered by his fathers in clerence ole rence being repulsed and driven away from the things he wanted to share with his father ind have his father share shara with him he sought without a leader to find expression for his urgent impulses in places of bange and sin ein and was chastised and for the mistakes he ma made there i there came a time in the development of jimmys in depend ent powers when he resolved to endure it no more people wondered acred and shook their heads and made remarks when it was reported that jimmy had stolen i horse and tried to run anav where was he going he did not know anywhere surely there was somewhere in the world a place where he could tind find the thing for which he had been looking in vain in his own home since his early infancy yet in all the world there was aust one man who rho had loeen an a pointed to be jimmys dad and that hat one man had been unfaithful ul to his trust the penalties for jimmys first offense and for other of benses anses to which he was algrava ted ed later on penalties devised and administered by judges and officers without understanding hearts discouraged all that was and built ut un all that wac evil evil in the boys heart his mother was his onla friend and he had been so often rebuked md ind repulsed for the manifestations i ons of her sympathy that it went but a little way to keep him from disdaining bining all restraint and defying the whole hateful world when a call was made 10 men in the infantry he enlisted in the vitiating influence of military camps and under the stern discipline of hard masters he developed into ferocity all al the latent elements which a real dad could have built into asplen did manhood one last message came back from a distant battlefield a desage from jimmy to his mother no mention of anyone else As that mother bent over the letter and showered it with her tears the father who should have been faithful to jimmy sat staring in agonized silence at the crumbling embers and looked back through the years to 0 o the face of an innocent unsuspecting little boy who looked in vain tor for ka a dad a and n d could not r 1 0 J l kinf 0 in all the wold woj wo ld j |