The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-12-13


 couldl Has not that been the wish of thousands generation after generation7 All human memory is fraught with sor row and trouble I will I will forget my sorrowsr'
 Tt is done" said the phantom. T cancel the remembrance of all the sorrows you have known. It departs from this moment. You shall be the benefactor of your kind The gift that I have given you, you shall henceforth give to all whom you approach. Go! Be happy in the oood you have won and the good you dor
 With a terrible smile in which its changeless eyes did not participate, the phantom melted and was gone. Redlaw turned to the fire again and suddenly covered his face with both hands For now he was indeed alone. Alone, alone.
 He suddenly bethought himself of the student. Mechanically he reused himself to go out. Why he should go to him he hardly knew. He walked as one in dream. My mind is going blind!' he muttered. and passed his hand across ms forehead with a confused motion
 At Jerusalem buildings he inquired Tor sick student and was directed to house that had small shop on the ground floor with an ambitious sign ret terby & Co.,, Newsmen." The sho" ol qoods in the windows hardly came up to the ambitious sign. which, indeed was noetical abstraction of MT. Tetteroy who was Company and all. Mir Tetterby was very small man. thus heinz in harmonious proportion to h,s very small shop. He sat in his small hack narlor before a small screen which was pasted all over with small scraps of newspaper. From these small scraps he read impressive passages to the small Tetterbys, of whom there was 1 multitude-at least 1t seemed Hul- titude in the small parlor.
 Five small Tetterbys, bestowed into bads in the corners by some strong force. were making predatory dashes at each other with laughter and exultlng cries. Anoth CT small Tetterby was tol- tering 10 and fro under the weight or A very large baby, which he was sup uosed to be hushing to sleep but whose eyes were composed into fnexhaustlple contemplation and watchfulness' u was a very Moloch of baby that roamed from doorstep to doorstep In the arms of little Johnny Tetterpy ana Jagged heavily at the rear Of troops or juveniles and came up little too late for everything that was attractive from Monday morning until Saturday night
 Whenever Johnny wanted to go out Moloch was asleep and must be watched. Whenever Johnny wanted to stay at home. Moloch was awake and must be taken out. Yet Johnny was persuaded that 1t was faultless papy' without it's peer in the realm Of Eng land. and he was quite content to catch meek glimpses of things rom behind it's skirts and to go staggering about with it like a very little porter with A very large parcel which was not directed to anybody and could not be I delivered anywhere.
 1 "It is an undoubted fact read MT. Tetterby from the screen, that all re- mark kable men have had remarkable mothers Think of your remarkable mother, my boys" said he, "and know her value while she is still among youi"
 Here's mother, and 'Dolphus, too, sa+bsrw exclaimed Johnny behind the baby.
 'You're right" returned his father, listening. "Yes, that's the footstep or my little woman"
 The process of induction by which MT | Tetterbv had reached the conclusion that his wife was a little woman was his own seoret She could have made two editions If him very easily Mrs. Tetterby, how .,.r looked on her diminutive husband with every respect and admiradon-that ,s ordinarily. But tonight her usually ,,rieht and cheerful face was vaguely darkened as by something in which she | was hardly conscious herself. She opened the basket in which she had brought home the supper rom the ] cooks shop, and began to lay the table shs slapped the knives and forks on