The daily Alaskan., 1912-04-27

once ne was NTNuEhN uplNS ny w Nccnan and once l had 10 go to the station for him.
 Tomuy's father died when he was seven. and my boy said Mummy, youT have me with you always, won't vcu~' And I said: "I wish l might, Tommy. but youH grow up to be a man and have a wife and children Of vou- own. Oh. dearie mo, I wish you could always remain a little boy" But Tom said he hated girls and would never have anything to do with any of them: he would always stick to his dear old mum.
 But nature requires that boys and girls should break away from their psreuts and become parents them selves Tom stuck to me as long as he cop'd. but he was a manly boy and grew into manly man. He could never content himself iu the little town where we lived. and when he came to be eighteen years old l saw that he was chafinC to get away. He wouldn't leave me for a lonC while, hrt finally consented tC do So for few months. bid him 60 and not come back so loug as it was to his interest to stay away.
 Tom went. but be didn't come back. He wrote to me from different places, though. tellluS me what he was doing He made one voyage on liner as deck steward. but he didn't ike the sea and gave ir uD Then nc served one enlist. ueut term in the army and was sent Co the Philippines While he was there l was obliged to move to Huo,hcr town I left my new ad5rrSS wita the post master. but q new man look his place soon after that and the address must have been lost Al any rate, l didn't ce; any more letters "rrrn my Tommy.
 Two years passed. md | was get rI1- older every day lived by ny self and had no oun @ comfort me I didn't know whrthsr my hoy was alive or dead 1T ! old know that be lived and | could c-t a letter from him even but once a ycar-it would make a very different woC.an of me.
 went back once t1 vh,re Tommy and had lived tocethe- and where had brought mm up | wanted 10 learn f he had been there looking for me { found that be had A uumher Of the -rr-aga-S told me that he had asked them where [ was had told or.y one o- two where | was going. b,f it was so long ago that they had forgot fen Resides. ! h7d yoved again two or th-re times. Thy told nc that Tom was awfuGy disappointed not 70 fud me AT,cr asking everybody aud Co, ting Do information that woUh enable him Co snd me he went away. but d" u0t say where he was going
 That was the great dlsappoiutme". -of my life. To think tHsi he'd been t-yfac Co find his old mummy ano couldn't. And now that he'd gone acain mo ,he great world there was far less aonc of his ever finding mo or | nndfng h.m than there was before.
 founE a place to take care of a rich ladv'S oaudren. One afternoon l was told ,, ike them Co a moving picture show. ,rfo0C the pieces they eNhibi. ted WIS rue # real scene of a building burning. IT was in New York and was very Garre and costly wondered how thp- haI ocIr3 to have the photograph. ic z0na~atus in position at the time, but Jhcrr ar.. great many of these machines uay. and after the alarm ,rav world have good deal ot time to rat one Cf then on tho ground.
 Of course t.,ev gave the most realis- tlc and exciting parts One was wo- man standing at an upper window wild with terror She had been cut or and