The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11

was crowded with people
 tns o"nditions of life. The rich anu oInshia oI a,t were there, elbowlng .he ,oorest Immigrant and oegsaF. haa all come for the same p",ng howayer. Their loved ones wee as away. over the seas 10 ois.a H,t; them and they were there 'o 'e'
 goodbye. ,.,L was drawn
 .nd the great ship moved siowis up' u Ina nier Handkerchiefs waVeu .,a1Is and. even after those on shoie haa turned to go back to their ho.' .,,, .hs eyes of the crowd on the vesse,
 s.nsrsd m the wharf. Well they knew .nat tbev might never see a,, strong men broke doWn at ttha thought of seeing tneir ~' and children perhaps for the iasl . nr For this voyage, through the sto'ms Cane Hatteras and Cape Horn. .
 the typhoons of the southern
 and up the Pacific to AlasAa' .rous w .,aered one of the most uanes .a,,.ss that the ocean liners take' anu .Sa,, fullv realized that their lives "efe in peril. .,osrs how .var were not class that ieafeu Aaurer. They were mostly miners ous of work who, stricken with the SolN fever. were on their way to the hion
 avke They talked together about 'he orosnects of the Juneau claims ot their families and of politics at ho.uo n,.
 one solitary figure. leaning over .le rail seemed strangely in contrast "i', the rest of the passengers. lie seeAeu to have no friends on board, but per ss.tiy obliyious of the noise and con- 1usion around him, gazed at the sea ,,,,.h a listless expression In his deep -rav eyes. He was only boy, per bons nineteen or twenty years old. put hts faca was not lighted up with the honas of youth. For tho young Law
 rence Thornton had tasted failure, and tha hopeless gleam in those eyes was caueed by a sorrow, born not or grlel' but of despair. AS he gazed at the ocean that day, the memory or all ms past life came to him. rallure III everything, no great iallure' put 5uen '" seeming inability to succeed in any lit tIastbine. was his record The predic- tiors bjs old nanny had made, when ha' svas little child in southern hox.a about de ebil star" seemed to have been fulfilled. Always shy ana reticent in disposition. Lawrence hao been leased, and ridiculed when NelS vonpR SO that when he grew older ne avoided people. and soon became known as a queer fellow who was coIc @ ana did not care for friends. lie car ~iad this record into his college life. His professors did not understand the boy. who came to them with good les sons- but who did not seem to eaten inc college spirit, nor to have single friend in the whole school. He leit' after his four years were completed having done nothing to make him re- ynar,bered. except, to distinguish him. self in engineering. which had always interested him more than his other studies. He had intended to adopt It as his profession, but. when he got home. his father had insisted on his studying law and in his efforts to obey him, Engineering had been forgotten.
 MT. Thornton did not pretend to un- derstand Lawrence. The father was the head of a large business house and a family. and did not have time to analyZe his sons feelings. He simply regarded Lawrence as the black sheep. and consoled himself with the brilliant achievements of ASthus and