Arizona republican., 1891-11-22

was little mite of creature, and the boy, several years older, was a cripple. Ham and the children were great friends. He used to spend the greater part of his time there, helping the boy, Leo, to sort stamps.
 There was a hospital somewhere in the country which had offered cot to any invalid who would collect million post age stamps. 1t was the one ambition of Leo's life now to gain that prize. There were thousands and thousands of stamps already done up in neat little packages containing hundred each, but Leo was learning to his sorrow that a million was "monstrous big" number, and the end was by no means yet.
 But on the evening in question Ham met Leo's father for the first time. "'Ow de do, Mir. 'Amw he exclaimed, coming forward and shaking hands. "I was just tellin Leo as I've just card of a situation as would suit you nicely. It's open air work and very 'ealthy. I'm in the same business myself for firm in Broadway. This situation is ill Grand street, where the watkins particular good, and can recommend the boards to use as being very light. I'm sandwich man, you know, and so you'll be before long, l 'ope."
 It took Ham some little time to grasp the situation, and it took him a still longer time to consent. Suppose some of the old tirm-one of the office boys, even-were to see him, the whilom book. keeper, treading the street between two boards on which the virtues of patent medicine were extolled in effusive terms what would they say? But it was no time for reelection. He was happy here, and the thought of going out into the world again fairly appalled, him, and So he accepted the position and began his duties on the morrow.
 Really, all things considered, after months trial Jared did not find it as trying position as he expected. And there was one great thing about it, it en- abled him to help Leo He made friends with all the shop boys along his route by degrees, and got them to save all the stamped envelopes for him, and in the evening he would take them away. In return there were many little favors he did for them. He was by no means his old self nowadays, and his mind was apt to stray, but figures had always been . ruling passion with him and he was as good mathematician as ever, There was one little office boy in the grocery at the corner to whom he was boon in this respect. It was a part of his duties to add the accounts up, and this formed the bane of his small ex- istence. He used to sit near the window, and as Jared passed he would stick out his head and exclaim
 Say, Sandwich, seven times five?
 Sometimes even he would be awaiting him on the doorstep, and as Jared passed a slip of paper covered with figures and pencil would be pressed into his hands, while the boy remarked, sotto voce: Say, do it for feller, will yer? I'm all muddled up" Every night Jared car ried home a great bundle which filled Lco's little soul with joy. The evening was spent in sorting the stamps and packing them away At last there came day when the cupboard in the back room could not hold another bundle, and yet there were by no means a million there yet. Winter passed and the sum- mer came, and still Leo kept on count ing, counting.
 At last one night-a night when Jared Tgf hot hs. s,, rly he told himself he would go and lie down for little while before he went in to see Leo-as he climbed the stairs the door of the child's room stood open, and as Leo caught sight of him he waved his crutch enthusiastically and exclaimed:
 MT. Jared, it's million~
 Jared took his hat off and gave vent to a feeble cheer.
 "It's a million!" he repeated, as he threw himself exhausted on the bed. "A million Hip! hip! hoorayp
 Those were the last words he ever spoke.
 There's a new sandwich man walking in Grand street now, though the legend upon his back extols the same patent medicine as it did in Jared's time; but he has failed to propitiate the shop boys of the vicinity, and the boy in the gro | cery shop was but expressing the opin- ion of the boys in general when, in speaking of old Jared Ham the other night, he remarked, "All us fellers liked him, we did" And then added paren- thetically on his own account, "An, by gosh, he was a dandy adderP'-Acton Davies in New York Evening Sun.