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«f the missing gift aUbougb not vary
certain where 872 Elm street East wgs,
•r If there were an 872 East or p<*
•ratted of any knowledge concerning
who lived there. §
Now, 872 East la a .little tnmblw
down house, or was, well oat Biss
street and sotMwhat back from ths
thoroughfare.
“I femember—there's some old wom
an lives here," said one of the party.
They all piled oat and fallowed the
broken sidewalt up to the dwelling, T
‘‘Come lp,” rnswered si-ebeery bat
quavering voles when they knocked.
Ko they entered In the duak. It waa
a bare room, with a few old-fasbloaed
pictures in wi Inut frames ■ on the
wulls, some ar rhalc furniturs of the
sit me period, and a rag carpet Itself
reduced to Its • riglnial material.
H ;Not fnr from the window stood the
celebrated leather rocker, with a cane
close at hand. In the chair sat a little
old woman, with her face smiling hap-
pily under unke >t gray hair. Her face
was white, her wrinkles were many,
but her eyes shone with the real Christ-
mas light.
“I ain’t ask you boys to set down,”
she suid, trying to turn toward them,
‘‘because there Isn’t much to set down
In except this, and the sofy over there.
But I knew you’d come, and I want to
Old Father Time
The Boys of
the Old Town
By HARRY IRVING GREENE
Calls “Y" Work In German Prison
Camp “Life Saver,? While Con-
V x 7 flood At Villingen. .1
Jl Christmaiy
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By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
New York, Feb. ...—-Lieutenant
Qeorge Puryear, of Memphis, Tenn.,
an aviator, was one of a trio of hardy
American adventurers who were suc
cessful In a wild dash for liberty from
(Copyright.) ... j
am CHRISTMAS wed-
Jn ding Is always a
W very charming
)I 1 bolly
Ieods sucl1 s^y et f
MM decorations,
JRj and the mistletoe
Rf seems so approprl-
tw 'ate. Then It fflakeS
one present—do
vh^re otherwise
Ak would have
i»k ^ een r, ’i uin ‘ d - A,1<1
anyone who brings
£2 rjtfmprsa th ® t ll to K ptt8818 a
nt£[ public benefactor.
"" r 1 ' This reference to
the wedding, of course, right here at
the very opening of the story,, really
makes the story superfluous, which is
Bostonese for “no use." In a story,
the wedding is supposed to be the ^ery
last thing.
Harry was a young architect and
engineer who had only Just opened an
•Bice In the town. When he came out
of college he reached the conclusion
that he would do better to set up a
business in some small town and grow
up with It than to grow old unnoticed
That la how he
the Villingen prison camp on October
6. Sixteen men made the attempt,
but only Puryear, Lieutenant* Harold
Willis of Boston, and Naval Lieuten' : .
ant Isaacs of Portsmouth, Va., got
Word has Just been received-
MW#
away;
at-Yr-M. C. A. headquarter* here
oerning . their almost hopeless
pads.
The mernbrought back remarkable
accounts of Y. M. C. A. work even at
-VMHigsfri ' • ■ ,
"The *Y’ sent us book* of all kinds
and even sporting goods," said Lieut.
Puryear “We played basketball and
volley ball incessantly—our space was
too small for baseball and football. I
tell you, those games were life s
to us, and they kept ua in fair 1
cal condition.'*
It Is reported that Puryear
comrades slipped out of the
through a tunnel under the wire. * All
but the three named were headed off
before they reached the river Rhine,
but the Intrepid trio Bwam the river—
esca
[avers
bhysl-
ln some older town,
came to be here. He met Harriet soon ■
after his arrival and it wasn’t long be- £
tore he was desperately in love with
her. 1_1
There really wasn't very much the \
matter with Harry—except Harriet V
And there wasn’t anything at all the
matter with Harriet—In Harry’s opin
ion. 80, after he had got down to
business—both at his office and w th
Harriet—she said “Yes.” Their mar
riage brought them • great deal of
happiness, and. what was more pe
culiar. a greet deal of happiness to
someone who wasn't related to them
hi any way. Which Is wbat the story
la about This other person not ofrly
waa not related to them, bat was
■rarerty known to them. She lived In
me other end of town. Elm avenue
run* right through the town from east
m west At one end. the west end. It
Is well named, for It IS bordered by
stately elms that shade One residences,
and cosy bungalows, like that which
Harry had provided for Harriet
planned with the architect's MB
a terrible feat in itself--and made
their way Vr»to Holland. —'^ -
c^prrlrht. 1*1*.
Western NVwapeper Union
I came with Space, and hand m hand,
We two sat here alone,
As two twin Kings of equal might
Sit side by side athrone
While eons came, and eons went
In ceaseless passing flight
And ail was still as dungeons deep.
OsugKbeya “Cleaned Pockets'* fer
Heme Folks, When Return From
Fight Was Uncertain. Y. M. C. A.
Has Delivered Millions ef Dollars
Fer Amea.
Her Eyes Shone With the Real Christ-
mas Light
thank you. I want to thank you all.
and every one of you. for the lovely
present you sent me. and for remem
berin’ an otd woman like me. When
It come, and I read tha card. ‘From the
boys of the old town.’ the boys of the
boys I need to know, for 1 guess I knew
•11 your fathers, I told them to put It
here, and -I would set In It and wait
until you come. Ais’t von Will
StearnsT”
“Yea," stammered the chairman,
quite undecided what to aay or do.
"I thought ao. My. how you favor
yobc father! And I waa at your
eheinteoin*. I guess that waa about
*ho last time I was anywhere when
ny rtlcumaHz got so bad. And your
father would been proud of you
this day. If he coold known what you
wum goin’ to do for alt old friend of his,
God rest him !"
At the mention of big* father, the
chairman was astonished to find his
hat still on his bead. lie pulled It off,
hurriedly, ashuined. . Then through
thut head went flitting first a quick
memory of his father and then tbs
moat astonishing thing In the world—■
his carefully-prepared speech, to ths
bride, lie bad said it over so many
times to himself In secret that after
noon, to make sure he would not break
down when the moment came, that now
everything else .seemed to ha vs van
ished. Then an even more astonishing
And black as moonless night
The steady unsel
fishness of the American spldlec.
shown by the way he “cleaned his
Then age by age—a million years
We watched the Sun take form.
While through the void in endless count
The Stars were being born.
And then from out unfathomed Space,
We saw the world appear.
1 shook my glass—and from It fell.
A Sand of Time—the first New Year.
pockots* of moat) before going Into
action, to be sent home if he didn't
come back. Is told by W J Baker of
Portchenter. N. Y, who served eleven
months ns a Y. M C. A worker with
the 2<tb Division. Ht* particular
charge was the third battalion of the
103rd infantry. Ka Joined that ualt
on the Rt Mlhlel front, went with
them to Chateau Thierry, and later
was la the famous St Mlhlel clean-up
and the drive before Verdun
“It was Just before that action be
gan.” said Baker, “that I saw the finest
example of the characteristic unselfish
ness of the boys They 'cleaned their
pockets' for the folks at home They
kaew they were going up against the
real thing, and.they wanted all their
money to go home In case they never
osir« hark In all. I was entrusted
with 8.000.000 francs — upwards of
•fl.BwStO® — before that attack. We
handled auch funds through the regu
lar Y M C\A. service established for
sendtna monev from soldier* to rela-
It bad been arranged that they were
to be married at high noon on Christ
mas day at Harriet s old home. Then
mere was to be a quiet family dinner
there, followed by a reception to their
friends at Harriet's new home, where
•pen house was to be kept In honor of
the day and the event There their
friends gathered in the afternoon, and
there the presentation was to occur.
For Harry's young men friends, of
whom there were a few despite hi*
short renidence in the town, and Har
riet's. of whom there were more, had
derided to give them. In addition to
all the “little stuff." one practical gift
«f larger proportions. So they had
"chipped In" and bought them a mag
nificent leather rocker, one of the big,
comfortable kind; and that was to be
The Years! 1 watched them come and go,
Till 1 could count no more,
The Old—the New—like falling rain.
Or sands upon a shore.
Through age of Mist, and age cf storm.
And agevOf sweeping Flame.
Till last Man came with gift of speech.
And gave to me my Name
Old Father Time, he calls me now,
As close 1 glean my tithe.
1 walk the Earth with silent thread.
Yet ever sweep my Scythe.
Forever old, yet doomed to live,
I’d rest—but none is here.
Again 1 raise my Class and pour
Another Sand—a new, New Year
vaw lively time*
thing happened. It astonished him.
Division." as It was calrafl, was kepi
on the fighting front almost contiad
oust/,- . \
and It quite paralyzed the other young
men.
That presentation speech, altered by
but a word here and there aa he stum
bled and steered away fhun the Inap
propriate phrase, came falling from
his lips’.
“And for many a year," he finished,
“may you sit by your own flreskle as
the shadows of life lengthen, with this
chair to give you comfort and to re
mind you of the boys of the old town."
There was nothing for the rest to do
but applaud that speech, to wish
“Merry Christmas!” over and over, to
bend the head for that venerable “God
bless you!” and to go quietly away.
The car was turned westward again
before any man spoke a ftord. Then
it was Will Stearns:
“Well, what do you know about
that?" ‘— ~
“There’s nothing for them now, but
we am scare up something tomorrow
said an-
Wbat optimist a generation ago
Here’s a Real Santa Claus
would have thought that backward
Chira would have a hand in the-settle-
nent of a world war? But China is
having a very important role in the
great war that is just being brought
to a close. Not as soldiers—fighting
qien—but as laborers benind the front
lied troops have been released for
other duties Practically one hundred
and fifty' thousand, of these coolies
have been transported by way of the
yu*v, to France. This work has been
done under the direction of the British
Government and Church Missionaries.
Among these missionaries are many of
the Methodist EpiseopalChurch, South,
which is j.ust-finishing the details of
Its campaign May 18-35 to secure $35,-
000.00*i to fhrther work of the kind that
is being done in France and other
places *"* ...
•‘I Can’t See What Has Happened—"
duly presented' at the hour of its ar
rival that afternoon. It had been ar
ranged that it was to be delivered
while all the young folks were there,
as a sort of surprise extra offering.
But, as the afternoon wore on, the
face of the chairman of the delegation,
who was to* make the presentation
speech, grew longer and longer.
“I can’t see what has happened," he
said in confidence to a group of the
fellows, when an opportunity for con
fidences arrived, “and why that darned
chair doesn’t come.**
“Are you sure you gave them the
right number, and everything?" some-
•ne asked. . —
“Sure—87 Elm street West That’s
simple enough.’’
It must have been five o’clock when
one of the hoys had an inspiration.
“Do you supi*>s$ by any chance that
chair wus delivered to H72 Elm street
East?*' he usked.
. a,
At last here waa a due; and the
chalrpu'i, a airman without a chair,
tutu a Mif-appointed research commit-
tee .U loaded themselves Inti
a rr, .tt*T making uobsllevabla as-
t„ «:,¥ brida and groom, and
and say nothing about tills,
But someone told one of the girls
who knew all about the chair, and at
the collation the whole story came out.
Will Stearns was evfen made to stand
up and give that speech. And the
bride declared, and, bless her dear
heart! everybody believed her, that she
waa glad it had turned out just the
way it did.
Somebody remembered the old lady’s
name, and then somebody else remem
bered that it.was said that her father
was the man who planted those elma
on Elm street In the early da’ys ( ’f
the town. The bride announced /that
she was going over* to see the dear old
rouI. 1
She did go, and often, aui^ her nurs
ing did much to ease that rheumatis.
When llarry arid Harriet moved lots
the Mg house they Dow occupy, n paper
circulated among the old resident*
bought the bungalow at a bargals
price.. There the pioneer was moved
by "the boys of tbs old town," * her*
she could b# under tbs shads of the
slnu fv father planted. There, fas
was a .w««adrrfslls spry s.d tody
BANDING TOGETHER TO SPREAD GOSPEL
Nashville, Tenn—Oae hundred and ._
forty thousand Southern Methodists
have signified jtheir determination to
oray for the success of the missionary
work'of the M E. Church.-South, and
for the spread of Christianity through
out the world. These people have not
Cnly decided to do this, but have band
ed together in a league known as ths
Fellowship of inter esslon. each sign
ing a small card which it is thought
will ruake the cause for which they
prnv more definite-in the minds of the
signers of 'he card*. ‘
,Dr. S. A Neh’ctt. secretary of the •
Department Intercession of the de.-
rtatM to a reporter that
*■*» *vfv in «V !i the praver cafds
r p'e tST’t.h ~ •* an inspiration *
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