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"f ?' rg4 wjs-"" -ar'aey THE STORY OF A LAD WHO BECAME A MAN IN SPITE OF DAD'S MONEY Behind a recent wedding in the quaint town of Hingham, Mass., lies a romance and a lesson of universal interest. Three years ago the groom, a rich man's son, met the lady and tum bled head over heels in love. Wanted her to marry him right off; felt he couldn't wait. If he hadn't been, at bottom, a good deal of a fellow, and she a girl with a level head, there might have been an elopement, some family bitterness and perhaps a quick follow-up in the divorce courts such things have happened, you know. But the girl said "wait;" and what is more the lad's "old man," a two fisted, practical-minded chap, who had been through the world's rough and tumble, said it, too, with rather more emphasis. He told son he Eked the girl and would be glad to have her for a daughter-in-law; but he'd be switched if he'd let a son of his run so fine a girl into the noose of matrimony until the aforesaid son had shown ability to paddle a canoe built for two. He had had to work like blazes for what he had got, and son would have to do likewise if he expected to get anything from dad. Kind of rough, unfeeling talk to hand out to a youngster palpitating with love's young dream. But, as we have said, the lad had real stuff in him. He winced and flared up and shed a boast or two; but after a heart-to-heart confab with HER, he lit out and that was the last dad heard from him for quite a while. One day a bronzed and sturdy young man entered father's office. It wasn't a case of the prodigal son. No siree! He'd been in a southern lum ber camp, had begun on the ground floor and had' worked up until he was boss of the patch. He had money, nerve, self-respect and bright prospects and he incidentally called to invite dad to the wedding. Dad went And took a check and a heart replete with gladness. For he had helped to make a man of a boy who, if dad had been easy and ten der, might and probably would have been spoiled. It's a big risk a young man runs who has a father with a million. But there are fellows who can survive it. o o SHE CAME BACK c A schoolmaster in the country de livered an address to the scholars, of which the following passage is an ex ample: "You boys.ought to be kind to your .little sisters. I once knew a bad boy who struck his little sister a blow .over the eye. Although she didn't fade and die in the early summer--time, when the June roses were "blooming, with the sweet words of forgiveness on her pallid lips, she rose and hit him over the head with a rolling-pin, so that he couldn't go to school for more than a nionth, on ac count of not being able to put his hat on," SHE WENT . A minister in a small country vil lage, who was noted for his absents mindedness, was once observed to stop suddenly in the middle of his sermon and heard to mutter: "I knew she would I knew she would!" After the service was over some one asked him the reason. "Dear me," said he,, "did I? Well, you know, from the pulpit I can Just see old Mrs. Rogers' garden, and jthis morning she was out pulling up a cabbage, and I thought to myself, 'Now, if that cabbage comes up- sud denly she'll go over;' and just then it come up and over she went," - l.-,iiati.-A:Au aw'-';'? -Vyj----'