New-York tribune., 1920-11-27
WHEN A FELLOW NEEDS A FRIEND
BY STEPHEN SCEpKOWSKI

BY STEPHEN SCEPKOWSKI
(Fourteen gears OF n0e, and messenger bov
to the State Commission Of Hioh'cays)
In city there lived very poor boy
with his mother and at the age Of ten
he was forced to &c to work for
living. His father died in an accident
when the boy was six years old. Since
that time his poor mother has been
working in a factory, supporting her
self and her son whose name was Bob.
One day Bobs mother got very sick
and died few weeks later. All the
money the mother had saved was spent
for the doctor, and the funeral cost so
much that everything in the house was
sold to pay for the funeral. A week
later Bob had q job on a farm. He
worked there for his board and rs
cents week, which he saved for his
clothes. He worked there for four
years and had saved eighty dollars. He
went to the city at the age of fifteen
getting seven dollars a week. His
beard cost him four dollars week and
the other three dollars he put in the
bank. Now he had sixty-eight dollars
III the bank, a few weeks later he got
a raise of three dollars, that made it
ten dollars week. He worked there
Tor year and was promoted to Junior
clerk and got a raise of two dollars;
that made it twelve dollars week.
One day while sitting in the Office he
heard the broker say that a certain
stock was going to be doomed. SO Bob
went to the bank and drew out 5000
and bought 100 shares of this stock
at 81 share. In a few days this stock
went up twelve points. Bob was no ID
ing on to it, the next day the stock
went up three more points. Bob was
very ad he bought this stock. Bob
cot scared and thought the stock would
take downward jump, so he sold out
and had $500. Bob invested the
$1,000 in another stock. This stock
vent down to nothing and Bob was out
$1,000. Thinking luck was against him
he joined the army when the Mexican
war broke out.
DOWN IN MEXICO
While down in Mexico one night the
Mexicans attacked their camp and
killed three Of his pals and wounded
Bob severely. When Bob recovered he
stayed with the army until the Great
War broke out Bob was with one
OF the troops that were first to go
across. When they got across he met
french girl on the dock who was
greeting the so diers and he liked her
very well. She told him that her father
was q Major in the French army out
IN the battlefieds just now. In a few
days the American troops were out in
the batt ehelds Of France While in
the trenches he heard the moaning of
dying person. He put his head up
and saw French Major lying there
dying from wound near the heart. 1t
meant death to the man who would go
oul and save him, but Bob took
chance and got him into the trench,
but 1t was too late because the Major
was dying. The Major asked for
Niece OF paper and a pencil and told
Bob to write down the following: TO
20 to Paris and he would find his
daughter; that she had locket given
10 her by her mother when her mother
was dying and that he left his fortune
to Bob if Bob would marry his dauph-
ter. lie took the pencil and signed
his name to the paper While Bob
was advancing on the enemy with the
other men he was shot in the breast
and was taken to the nearest hospital
and there he saw the French girl as
nurse While she was taking his coat
OIL she saw the letter with a hole in
1t and stained with blood, and her
1athers signature on the letter. She
i%inIed ana latar she was revived and
while Bob was telling her the story
three French officers walked up and
asked for Bob. They came near Bob
ara one Of them pinned medal on
his breast for bravery and kissed him
on both checks. Bob did not like that
kissing, but he thought it was ali
night and was worth that for the medal
Bob left the hospital with the French
girl. They were married and with their
fortune left for America. Happy the
In Mr.. W. L. GEORGES "Hail Co.