LITTLE JAKE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2176, 19 June 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

LITTLE JAKE.

Tint was what he was always called, for although he was the elevator boy in a bir dry Roods establishment, hn was so small that ladies would look in and inquire • "Where* the man that runs the elevator ? Then little Jake would pipe up from bin coi ner; •« Here I be." I do not know anything to compare bin to but a ray of sunshine lighting up a daric place. He was of such lowly stature that. • wheu hs was in his corner there seemed to. be nobody there. But gradual! y the small earnest, cheerful face grew visible, and ai you looked it brightened into snch a happr smile that the little man seemed to nil too whole elevator with sunlight. I wonder if the ladies who used to giv» a nod or a word as they went up and dowtt absorbed in their purchases will miss hitn now and speculate as to what has become of the quaint httle fellow who was ever smiling, helping, always doing his dutr bravely ? "* He went home sick one night, and wrj Uood-mght bravely, swallowed a \w* „ m his throat, and ran off. The day %f }l his father came in. vtT f.tb2 e «M" petter> mooch *■**■ b» plJcX^rteboT 8' tll6y WJW* **■ "Oh, so sick. He is too mwh sW , k BW,» the mother said, laying he* haw . JJ° ]* breaßt. *w i•" TellT el1 hjm - to , pet well« *nd *• *hall hava his place," Raid his employer, "" .?SnSS we ahall ome aud "co him." *°™onow thftteS the r^ the f *thf roam«r oam« »^ swolleiS ' 6ye3 W ° nd «nd " Mine leetle Jake." he began, andthea broke down, and said no more. It went the rounds of tb« stow* lib. wild-fire the new, that KttjTjS? SS dead, and you would have tbc«rht *t thl that he had been the proprietor And he was, in his small way, proprietor of the hearts of the pco P]e he served; of their esteem, their good-will-a dividend that will servo him letter than money in the land where he is to-d»y. They gent, every one of them, oeautiful flowers t» little Jaka's funeral; he was covered with rhe last offerings of cood-will from those he served. " Wo wibh we bad known that he was so ill. Wo might h*ve ministered b, hi<» want. |«r «nved him, lu 3 employers said with sad regrets. But there is nothing to rem-afc «• Tf»well with the,o'ijld." And itTt lonw -Guten nacht," with thee, but "Guff morgen, Little Jake. -Detroit Free Preas

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