IIOHNIKG ENTERPRISE, HE FOUND A BROTHER By ARTHUR BOYNTON Copyrtsht by Amtrtru Pra Asso cl.tton. 111. My earliest reua?uilirnc la a gar ret whera I was kept by an Italian woman. A man ram to sea ber oora alonally, and they talked a great deal t about me. Out day tbey took me away ' Tery hurriedly to another city, where they kept me for a long while, send ing me out to steal what 1 could get my hands on. One day after being out on this errand 1 returned to the shabby room and found Jt empty. I must hae been about seven years old at this time. At sny rate, I was old enough to pick up a living as a street gamin. I didn't like stealing because I bad been often Vcked and cuffed for doing so. 1 therefore ln . vested the proceeds of a Tery success ful theft la newspapers and entered upon that business. On one or two occsslons I got out Into the country and longed to be there Instead of In the dirty and dingy city. This threw me Into the profession of tramp, but 1 Instinctively shrank from asking peo- pie for food, therefore 1 made a very poor Uvlng. I noticed that whenever I asked any one for help I was always looked upon with a sort of cariosity that I did not understand. - One night, tired and hungry, I was tramping on a road. I had failed to obtain any supper, and no "7o would let me sleep on the premises. I wss about to choose my accustomed bed on , such occasions, two flat fence rails, when I saw a dim light ahead. Trudg ing on, I came to a house. I looked In at a window and saw that the room was lighted by bright coals left from, a wood Are. There was a bearskin rag before the fire place, and I longed to lie down on it and have a comfortable sleep. I tried the window sash, expecting to find It locked, but It wasn't I could lift It easily and without making a sound. I did so, pat my head In and listened, then climbed Into the room. The house no doubt belonged to well to do persons. They had evidently . gone to bed. I thought I might snatch a few hours' sleep and get out before , any one moved In the morning. I knew It would 1m risky to do so, but I wss desperate and ready to take any ' chance. So down I got on the rug and had hardly struck It when I fell asleep. I was awakened by being Viaken. Opening my eyes, I perceived that the room was. Illuminated. A man In pa- Jamas was stooping beside me, shak . lag me with one kind and holding a cocked revolver In the other. ' . "Get up and get out of hereT he said roughly. "All right." I. replied. Raising myself, I stood on my feet and rubbed my eyes. The man asked me how I got In and what I came for. He soon saw that I was not danger- ous and uncocked his pistol. When he 'learned that I was a tramp and tired ' and hungry he softened toward me. I noticed that he looked at me with that aanae curious gas with which others had regarded me. After talking with me a few minutes be got me some thing to eat and, not having the heart to turn me out, told me he would show me into a room where I could sleep till morning. I told him I would rather He on the rag, and he said I might do ' so. , He had come down before going to sleep- to make sure the Sre warf In safe condition, had seen me lying be i ton it, had gone back upstairs for a revolver and had awakened me. In the morning early he came down, roused me and told me to follow him upstairs, showing me Into a beautiful tiled bathroom and pointing to a suit of clothes, with undergarments, hang ing to hooks. I bathed, put on the clothes and went downstairs. The man whe had befriended me was there and, turning, gazed at me stead ily and with a wondering look. - -If I didn't know better," be said, "1 would think you were my own broth er." He led me to a pier glass, where our figures were reflected. I had never ' aeen myself decently dressed before, and was astonished at the change In my appearance. I was as much aston ished as he at the resemblance between - me and the man beside me. Turning to me, he ssld: "You're no tramp. I saw that last night Ton are or were at least born a gentleman. You've got gentler blood In your veins than I. Tou're working some game." I assured him that he was mistaken and during our conversation gave him the sketch of my life I have given here. From the first he seemed moved by some powerful emotion. Before I had finished he rsn Into the ball and , called: "Mother! Emily! Jack! Come here!" , When these persons came down be aald to them, "Look at us two togeth er and tell me who you think be Is." "Oh, heavens!" exclaimed the moth er. "Can he be Julian V In a few words it wss explained to me that sixteen years before her little boy, Ave years old, bad been kidnaped. During the negotiations for his return the kidnapers hid become frightened and disappeared. The child was at , last given up for dead. No direct proof was ever adduced that I was the lost member of this family. Nevertheless the fact was cor roborated by much circumstantial evi dence. I am the very Image of a grandfather whose portrait hangs in the houe I entered and look more like my mother than either of my brothers. The grandfather I spesk of was con sidered a thoroughbred. Funny In the Wrong Plaee. That Prusslsn police officials are de Told of humor Is the (Irmly rooted opinion of a traveler for a Berlin cot ton firm. . Ills business took him to the little town of Nordenburg. When the hotel register was placed before him be filled In he various columns and when be came to "Aim of the Journey" he wrote, "The wide, wide world." Fourteen days later he was ebarged with- having committed a pub lic outrage, for which he was fined alx marks, one day's Imprisonment being the alternative. 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