Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-04-22

ago, Thcn tho father, TINT had been sliidy
ship carpenter took TO drink He tried TO
take care Of the child, but soon ho wasn't
able to care for himself When hos not In
tholockup he's drunk In Tho cutters. aud oil
the money the poor boy makes blaeSin' shoes
and selling papers, he takes from him aud
uaoa for whisky, The wondher TO me is not
that there arc 80 many hard cases among the
young, but that there are not more"
Poor little doyil.r said tho policeman. In
tono intended 10 bo sympathetic. "itd be
bettar for him, II he walked right on and
was drowned" and then no walked on him
self. softly whiatllng and swinging bis club.
Tom Latin went down 10 tho end OF the
pier and sat with his legs hanging over tho
water while no ate a pigs foot and piece OF
bread, produced, with a remnant Of news
paper. from inside his shirt,
Supper over, he reached down and from
croyico between two piles, he iished up two
dnapldRted blankets, by this tirno tho wind
increased aud II began TO rain. BY the aid
Of limp, swinging from tho rigging OF
nalghborlng ship. tho boy made hlmsslfa bed
inside an empty hogshoad, and wns soon
sleeping 40 eoundlya rs II no wore In Fifth
avenue palace, with loving parents and faith
full servants about him.
The old Waterman, at tho shore end OF the
pier, put on a black oll-skin coat, aud as the
rain poured down no looked like sheet~lfon
man freshly blacl.loaded.
II was about midnight. and following q ter
Fi1c roar Of thunder Larry Barnes Imagined
he heard ahrill cry for help coming from
the direction Of tho wator. Onco before thls
ho had bOen down and saw that tho boy was
fast asleep. HO hurried 10 tho hogsbead
now, and 10 his horror II was gonei The
wind had swept It, with ia occupant into
the outgoing udei
Larry Barnes met the same oiiicer the fol-
lowing night. and, with tnars IN bis voice, he
told him tho boy was drowned, and the on
cor, who was not particularly humane, nor at
all rollglo, '. coughed and said; "May tho
Lord have marcy on his soul"
Twelve years went past, and although .
little sitter IN his movements, Larry was
atill watnhman Of the same pier, and neyora
stormy night passod since thon, that he did
not think Of 'poor little Tom Lalin, that's
dead and gomez
One evening when larry came down for his
nights duty, he found n fne bark from Val.
peuieo moorcd alongside tho pier, but this
was not 30 nprsuAl as 10 attreot HE attention.
He WA sitting Ia his little box trimming his
lamps, when a aaioT. who spoke with q
strong foreign accent, looked IN. and asked
"Aro you Mr.. BarnesYr -. -.
r"Yis; Larry Barnes, at ysr,aarvlcs." wa
tho reply.
'srhen tho captain OF La Incz' will see you
In hle cabin, --oef you plcg, said tho nailor.
Larry was conducted on board and into a
flnc cabin. where tall. handsome youns
man who did not look Ike foreigner. WA
seated at dinner, with plato opposite FOR
Larry.
"My name 10 IAiln. and am tho captain
Of this ship, and part owner. said the hand
some sailor.
'1'ni very glad 70 meet you, sor, but sure
you don't want the likes OF mo to cit down
and ata with the ukos of ypn,'
~ certainly do. Larry Why. have Won for
gotten Tom iaHin, that used 70 sleep on tho
ond Of this pier
"And was drowndedlo broke in larry.
"No. fnith. 10 could swim like duck,
and no clung 70 that hogshaad and drifted
down tn daylight. whom no WAS picked Up
by an outgoing spanish ship. Tho captain
adopted him, educated him. and bore am
t'j-dAy. Larry 10 toll you that have never
forgotten your kindness 70 me when hlui no
other frlnnd Ia tho world"
And 20 Larry Barnes aiayeiI to dinner. 49,
NKrScs rHonfr-D
Phllosophle contentment produces all the
elects that riebA- Asins hs bsnisliina tho de.
sire for them.