The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-07

(Copyright, 1905. by Daily Story rup-
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 Tom and Dick were two poor little waifs, From morning till night they roanned the streets of the great city. Tom was the older and always LOOK tne lead in everything. He was bright eyed, handsome boy, in spite or ms o'Ess face and tattered clothes.
 IA had taken care Of hfmseI ever since he could remember. First he haa herwed. but having been born with a faculty for getting along in the woTio he sold a few matches bought with ,,Nss hss first sayings.E He knew he could polan shoes. but he never had a chance 10 trv rye wished he could have a peanut stand. but he was only little boy ana that ambition seemed to him as lofty and unattainable as the stars Mean while he plodded along. putting on as hraye A face as he could when ne was hungry, and whistling when bread was plenty. for the asking if anybody would WoIA' hut when Dicks mother died ana ne was left all alone in the world, ne wondered what would become or nm, for Dick could not talk. consequently was unable to ask for work Ihen he was not so old as Tom and did not know how to do anything; addeo to this rom loved Dick better than any thing or anybody else in the Wofio' SD he opened his arms and said:
 Come, Dick, I'll take care or you and we'll live together.
 Now this was not a very munincent offer. for Tom lived nowhere or any where. Some nights he slept m an otu box behind a great warehouse, or TIA doorway If he could get in there un- observed. When the weather was warm. he lay down in one of the small rarks where the grass was soft and the frees waved over his head. Next 70 Dick he loved the trees. If he had known anything about Heaven he would have said it must be full of trees and that one might live under them forever. He would lie on his back watching the moon glide slowly upward. with the leaves dancing across it's shining race, ana dream of the village where he was born and which he only remembered as one recalls dimly beautiful dream CT A far-off unknown country. However. such as he had he offered to Dick and it was joyfully accepted. Protection and love are gifts not to be despised:
 Selling a few matches would hardly feed two, and Tom, with ready inven" tion tried other means of Livelihood. He bought a harmonica and learned few of the popular airs he heard the hand organs play. He had often danced on the pavement in the evening with the other children to the music of those same hand organs, and he set to work to teach Dick to dance The loss or one faculty quickens the others and soon the two chums were able to do a little dance together, to the strains of the harmonica. Then Dick would take a little plate and pass 1t around and often the pennies piled up.
 Dick had never been so happy in his life. Though he could not talk about his gratitude as many people do, 1t was none the less deep and sincere, and he loved Tom with the strength that grows in heaps up through lack of expression.
 Tom found it was profitable to get on ms of the excursion steamers which made a short run to the nearer resorts on the shore. He paid the fares few times, but he managed to ingratiate himself with the mate, who took