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THE GIFT OF THE WISE MEN.
By 0. Henry.
j|l THE GIFT OF THE MAGI.
la One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty
> ‘ts of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by
pK^ulldoring the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until
I one’s,cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such'
f <dose dealing implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and
eight-seven cents. And the next day would bo Christmas.
There was clearly nothing to do bat flop down on the shabby
little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral
'J reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles
predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradully subsiding from the
first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at
$8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly
had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad.
f In the vestibule below was a letter box into which no letter would
( go, and an electric button from which no mortal finger could coax a
J ring. Also appertaining thereunto was a card bearing the name
y “Mr. James Dillingham Young.” ’
The “Dillingham” had been flung to the breeze during a former
I period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $3G per week.
J Now, when the income was shrunk to $20, the letters of “Dillingham”
I looked blurred, as though they were thinking seriously of contracting
to a modest and unassuming I). But whenever Mr. James Dillingham
Young came home and reached his flat above he was called “Jim”
and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young, already intro
^daced to you as Della. Which is all very good.
Della finished her cry and attended her cheeks with the powder
rag. She stood by the window and looked out dully at a grey cat
walking a grey fence in a grey backyard. Tomorrow would be
k Christmas day, and she had only $1.87 with which to buy Jim a
|f jpresent. She had been saving every penny she could for months,
[iNvith this result. Twenty dollars a week doesn’t go far. Expenses
Mkad been greater than she had calculated. They always are. Only
SUsJ.87 >to. buy a present for Jim. Her Jim. Many a happy hour she
■Fin'd spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and
W are and sterling—something just a little bit near to being worthy of
Hbhe honor of being owned by Jim.
There was a pier glass between the windows of the room. Perhaps
W you have seen a pier glass in an $8 flat. A very thin and very agile
J person may, by observing his reflection in a rapid sequence of longi
/ tudinal strips, obtain a fairly accurate conception of his looks. Della,
being slender, had mastered the art.
Suddenly she whirled from the window and stood before the
glass. Her eyes were shining brilliantly, but her face had lost its
color within twenty seconds. Rapidly she pulled down her hair and
let it. fall to its full length.
Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs
in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim’s gold watch
1 that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s. The other was
J Della’s hair. Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the
air-shaft, Della would have let her hair hang out the wndow some
day to dry just to depreciate her majesty’s jewels and gifts. Had
King Solomon been the janitor, with all his treasures piled up in the
basement, Jim would have pulled out his watch every time he passed,
just to see him pluck at his beard from envy.
So now Della’s beautiful hair fell about her, rippling and shining
like, a cascade of brown waters. It reached below her knee and made
itself almost a garment for her. And then she did it up again nerv
ously and quickly. Once she faltered for a minute and stood still
while a tear or two splashed on the worn red carpet.
On went her old brown jacket; on went her old brown hat. With
a whirl of skirts and with the brilliant sparkle still in her eyes, she
fluttered out the door and down the stairs to the street. .
Where she stopped the sign read: “Mme. Sofronie. Hair Goods
of All-Kinds.” One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting.
Madame, large, too white, chilly, Hardly looked the “Sofronie.”
“Will you buy my hair,” asked Della.
“I buy hair,” said Madame. Take yer hat off and let's have a
sight at the looks of it.”
Down rippled the brown cascade.
“Twenty dollars,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a prac
I taped liana.
* “Give it to me quick,” -said Della.
«' Oh, and the next two hours tripped by on rosy wings. Forget the
Bashed metaphor. She was ransacking the stores for Jim’s present.
|pf She found it at last. It surely had been made for Jim and no
one else. There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had
turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain, simple and
chased in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone
and not by meretricous ornamentation—as all good things should do.
It was even worthy of The Watch. As soon as she saw it she knew
tl7at t must be Jin’s. It was like him. Quietness and value—the
description applied to both. Twenty-one dollars they took from her
for it, and she hurried home with the 87 ceuts. With that chain on
his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any com
pany. Grand as the watch was, lie sometimes looked at it on the
sly on account of the old leather strap lie used in place of a chain.
When Della reached home her intoxication gave way a little to
prudence and reason. She got out her curling irons and lighted the
gas and went to work repairing the ravages made by generosity
added to love. Which is always a tremendous task, dear friends—a
mammoth task.
Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny, close lying
curls that made her look wonderfully like a truant schoolboy. She
looked at her reflection in the mirror, long, carefully, and critically.
“If Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself, “before he takes
a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl.
But what could I do—oh! what could I do with a dollar and eighty
seven cents?”
At"7 o’clock the coffee was made and the frying pan was on the
back of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops.
Jim was never late. Della doubled the fob chain in her hand
and sat on the comer of the table near the door that he always
entered. Then she Ward his step on the stair away down on the first
flight, and she turned white for just a moment. 'She had a habit of
saying Little silent prayers about the simplest everyday things, and
now she whispered: “Please, God, make bjm think I am still pretty.”
The door opened and Jim stepped in and closed it. lie looked
thin arnd very serioiis. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two—and to
be burdened with a family 1 He needed & new overcoat and he was
without gloves.
Jim stepped inside the door, as immovable as a setter at the scent
Muail. His eyes were fixed upon Della, and there was an expression
K them that she could not read, and it terrified her. It was not anger,
nor surprise, nor disapproval, nor horror, nor any of the sentiments
■ that she had been prepared for. He simply stared at her fixedly with
" that peculiar expression on his face.
Della wriggled off the table and went for him.
“Jim, darling,!’ she cried, “don’t look at me that way. I had my
hair cut off and sold it because I couldn’t live through Christmas
without giving you a present. It’ll grow out again—you won’t mind,
will you? I just had to do it. My hair grows awfully fast. Say
‘Merry Christmas,’ Jim, and let’s be happy. You don’t know what
a im>-—what a beautiful, niee gift I’ve got for you.”
VYou’ve cut off your hair?” asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had
not Arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental
labor.:
“Cut it off and sold it,” said Della. “Don’t you me just
as well, anyhow? I’m me without my hair, ain’t I?”
Jim looked about the room curiously.
“You say vo'V hair is gone?” he said, with an air almost of
idiocy.
“You needn’t look for it,” said Della. “It’s sold, I tell you—
sold and gone, h»o. It’s Christmas eve, boy. Be good to me, for it j
went for you. Maybe the hairs of my head were numbered,” she I
went on with a sudden serious sweetness, “but nobody could ever
count my love for you. Shall I put the chops on, Jim?”
Out of his trance Jim seemed quickly to wake. He enfolded his
Della. For ten seconds let us regard with discreet scrutiny some
inconsequential object in the other direction. Eight dollars a week or
a million a year—-what is the difference? A mathematician or a
wit would give you the wrong answer. The magi brought valuable
gifts, but that was not among them. This dark assertion will be
illuminated later on.
Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon
the table.
“Don’t, make any mistake, Dell,” he said, “about me. I don’t
think there’s anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo
that could make me like my girl any less. But if you’ll unwrap that
package you may see why you had me going a while at first.”
White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper. And
then an ecstatic scream of joy; and then, alas! a quick feminine change
to hysterical tears and wails, necessitating the immediate employment
of all the comforting powers of the lord of the flat.
For there lay The Combs—the set of combs, side and back, that
Della had worshipped for long in a Broadway window. Beautiful
combs, pure tortoise shell, with jewelled rims—just the shade to wear
in the beautiful vanished hair. They were expensive combs, she
knew, and her heart had simply craved and yearned over them with
out the least hope of possession. And now, they were hers, but the
tresses that should have adorned the coveted adornments were gone.
But she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able
to look up with dim eyes and a smile and say: “My hair grows so
fast, Jim!”
And then Della leaped np like a little singed cat and cried,
“Oh, oh!”
Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to
him eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to
flash with a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.
“Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You’ll
have to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your
watch. I wint to see how it looks on it.”
Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his
hands under the back of his head and smiled.
“Dell,” said he, “let’s put our Christmas presents away and
keep ’em a while. They’re too nice to us just at present. I sold
the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose
you put the chops on.”
The magi, as you know, were wise men—wonderfully wise men
—who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the
art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no
doubt wise one, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of
duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful
chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed
for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last
word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts
these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as
they are wisest. Everywhere they are the wisest. They are the magi.
USELESS CHRISTMAS GIFTS
From the Youth’s Companion.
By this time it seems that onr Christmas must inevitably be the
same hurried, tumultuous, weary and costly thing that it has always
been. We must rush hither and thither, dazed by a strange medley of
undesirable objects, and daunted by the prices asked for them. Wa
must storm postoffices, and stand in line before the dingy desks oj
express companies. We must waste money and strength and time and
temper, turning the great feast of the Christian year into a mad
scramble for gifts. We must wTalk down the streets and ask ourselves
fearfully what inutilities are coming our way in return for the inutili
ties we send forth We must do what we have always done, and
wonder, as usual, why we do it.
Here at least is room for practical reform. The call for nation
wide economy is not a meaningless word. It represents a real and
bitter need. Waste of money, waste of raw material, waste of man
power and woman power, all help to bring disaster. We might and
we should resolve that this Christmas we will buy—for adults—
nothing absolutely useless. The fact that useless things have been
made for sale (like Peter Pindar’s razors) is no real reason why they
should be sold, and certainly no reason why we should purchase them
Useful gifts are more difficult to find and to fit; they are mort
homely than the glittering trumpery spread on the Christmas
counters ; but their purpose is known, their dignity apparent, theii
welcome well assured.
Kathleen Mavoumeen.
Kathleen Mavoumeen! the gray dawn Is
breaking,
The horn of the hunter Is heard on the
hill;
The lark from her light wing the bright
due is shaking—
Kathleen Mavoumeen! what, slumbering
still?
Oh, hast thou forgotten how soon we i»T*t
sever?
Oh, hast thou forgotten this day we mr it
part?
It may he for years, and It may b* for
ever?
Oh. why art thou silent, thou 7oi< “ of
my heart?
Oh! why art thou silent, Kathleen Mr \ our
neen?
Kathleen Mavoumeen. awaks from thy
slumbers!
The blue mountains glow in the sun*t
golden light;
Ah, where is the spell that once hung oc
my numbers?
Arise In thy beauty, thou star of mjr
night!
Mavoumeen, Mavoumeen, my sad tears
are falling,
To think that from Erin and thee I must
part!
It may be for years, and It may be for
ever !
Then why art thou silent, thou voice
of heart?
Then why art thou silent, Kathleen
Mavoumeen?
—Louisa Macartney Crawford.
University 900 Years Old.
From the People's Home Journal.
The University of Cairo was installed
in one of the magnificent mosques of
that city in the year 988. or more than
900 years ago. The mosque has been
the.seat of this Arabian university ever
since.
The room for prayer of the mouque is
also the university lecture room. Its
floor is covered with mats and the stu
dents enter this holy room only on their
bare feet. In the great court in the
halls of the sanctuary the students sit
on the floor in oriental fashion, assem
bled in groups about their teachers.
With shoulders swaying they repeat
their lessons in a loud voice to memorize
them, or murmur their prayers. When
ever the word Allah occurs In the read
ing of the Koran the student must In
cline his head gravely and with proper
reverence.
The university numbers 8,000 stu
dents from every part of the Mohamme
dan world. It is maintained by en
dowments. Kvery day more than 0.000
loaves of bread are distributed among
the scholars, and besides they are in
vited to free tables in restaurants and
boarding houses, and there are also
lodging houses in which free accommo
dations are placed at their disposal.
The lecturers are poorly paid, but the
rector, as head, enjoys a large income.
Beside a Bright Fire.
When winter winds
Set the yollow woods sighing.
Sighing, oh sighing!
When such a time cometh,
I do retire
Into an old room
Beside a bright fire;
Oh, pile a bright fire!
And there I sit,
Reading old things.
Of knights and lorn damsels.
While the wind pings—
Oh, drearily sings! • • •
Thu®, then, live I,
Till ’mid the gloom.
By heaven! the bold min
Is with me in the room.
Shining, shining!
Then the olouds part.
Swallows soaring between,
The spring is alive.
And the meadows are green.
I Jump up, • • •
And away to the meadows,
The meadows again!
—Edward FitEgerale.
Have You Ever Seen a “Dingonek?"
J. J. Jordan In Wide World.
The dingonek, is a huge, unclassified
aquatic monster. It resembles in many
of its characteristics the extinct dino
saur, a huge reptile of the Mesozoic
period, fossils of which have been dis
covered by paleontologists in the sand
stone strata both of the African and
American continents.
It lives in Lake Victoria Nyanza and
its numerous tributaries, and there is
no record of the monster having been
seen in any other part of the world.
Whether it is a descendant of one of
the huge pre-historic saurians that has
by a process of adaptation—living as it
does in Impenetrable regions far away
from the encroachments of civilized
man—continued with but slight modi
fications through prodigious ages to
the present time, or whether it is an
unclassified reptile or amphibian, it Is
equally impossible to say, as no speci
men exists either of its bones or of
its skin. That this monster does exist,
however, there can be no particle of
doubt, as the testimony of authorita
tive eyewitnesses cannot be reasonably
discredited.
Tomorrow Never Arrives.
Always lookin' forwr.rd to an easy-goin'
time,
When the world seems movin' careless
like a bit of idle rime;
A day when there is nothin' that kin
make you sigh or fret;
Always lookin' forward—but I haven't
■sen it yet.
—Washington Sta.
The Viewpoint,
H*—This world Is too full of shams—
Sh*~-e>h, John, I got such lovely ones
at sue*; A barsrYto 'oday.
EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES
STILL GRIPS U.S. CAMPS
Washington, D. C„ Dec. 14.—Th«
measles epidemic in the camps of the
Thirtieth and Thirty-first, Thirty
eighth and Thirty-ninth divisions of the
national guard troops no longer consti
tutes a menace, according to a report
for the week ending December 7. made
public today by Sturgeon General
Gorgas.
The epidemic has spread somewhat
however, in the Thirty-fourth and
Thirty-fifth divisions and to a greater
extent in the Thirty-sixth. Pneumonia
following measles, is particularly in
creased in the Thirty-sixth division and
slightly in the Thirty-fourth, Thlrty
sighth and Thirty-ninth.
All other national guard camps show
a decrease in measles, although there
have been a number of cases of pneu
monia independent of measles in all
national army and national guard
camps.
The reports shows 190 deaths during
the week in the national guard of which
171 were from pneumonia; 94 deaths in
the national army of which 47 were
from pneumonia.
ANOTHER STORM MOVES
FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA
Washington, D. C„ Dec. 14.—Most of
the country was in the grip of storms
and cold weather today and under cover
of snow throughout its northern parts
almost from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Rail and wire traffic wero much im
peded. The unseasonable cold extends
to the gulf states.
Snow was heaviest in the east from
the Great Lakes to the coast, with a
fall of a foot or more in interior New
York. Gales of heavy forces prevailed
along the New England coast this
morning and storm warnings were up
from Delaware breakwater to Eastport
Me.
The second pronounced storm in
moving southeastward from British Co
lumbia causing rains in Washington
and snow over the north Rocky moun
tain and plateau regions.
In the south temperatures are very
low for that region.
AUSTRIAN WAR DIRECTOR
TALKS DISARMAMENT
Amsterdam, Dec. 14.—The Austro
Hungarian war minister. General
Stoeger-Steiner, Is quoted by the Heue
Freie Presse, of Vienna, to the effect
that the relief resulting from an armis
tice with Russia would depend upon the
details of the agreement, but that in
any case it would relax considerably
the strain on the transportation sys
tem.
Discussing the question of disarma
ment, the general said lie agreed with
the recent statement of Count Czernin,
the foreign minister, that army and
navy expenditures had reached a level
it was almost Impossible to maintain
permanently.
Austria and her allies, he said, dared
not place themselves in such a position
as to permit the rest of the world to
dictate to them; less than ever today,
when tile ranks ot military states have
been increased by two great powers,
the United States and Great Britain.
AUSTRO-GERMAN TROOPS
SENT TO BARRACKS DUTY
Washington, D. C„ Pec. 14.—First
Steps to place soldiers of German 01
Austro-Hungarian birth or extraction
at duty apart from the actual fighting
forces appear in today’s army orders.
Orders show the transfer of nearly
100 enlisted men of the regular or na
tional army to duty with the discip
linary barracks guard at Port Leaven
worth, Kan. The list contains hardly a
name that does not appear to he of
German, Austrian or Hungarian origin.
There are several non-commissioned
officers, including Sergeant Martin A.
Stolz of the quartermaster’s corps at
Fort Nebraska. Ail will be privates in
the barracks guard.
Three men come from the American
expeditionary forces in France and in
other cases it is evident that men were
withdrawn from recruits about to sail
to Join General Pershing's command.
PORTUGUESE REVOLTERS
ENCOURAGES SOLDIERS
Lisbon. (Thursday), Dec. 13.—The
government established In consequence
of the recent revolution, has tele
graphed greetings and messages of en
couragement to the, Portuguese troops
which are fighting the Germans in
France and Africa. The Portuguese le
gations have been informed of the es
tablishment of the revolutionary gov
ernment.
Bernardino Machiado, the deposed
president, has been asked whether he
desires to leave Portugul by land or
sea. It having been determined that he
must live abroad until the expiruticn
of the term for which he was elected.
The cabinet lias not decided what dis
position to make of former Premier
Costa and former Foreign Minister
Soares, who are being held aboard a
warship.
FIREMEN CALLED OUT,
NEW BLAZE STARTED
Wilmington, Del., Dec. 14.—One man
Is dead and five injured as a result of
a fire which followed an explosion today
at an acid plant of the Dupont Powder
company. IS miles from here. After the
firemen had been summoned from this
city fire broke out in the Wilmmington
power house, cutting off all light and
electric service.
GERMANS RUSH SUPPLIES
FOR VAST OFFENSIVE
Geneva, Switzerland. Dec. 14.—Swiss
travelers crossing the frontier from
Germany tell of immense preparations
going on there for an orfensive of the
western front. Ammunition, provisions
and materials of every kind are being
concentrated in upper Rhine towns
through which military trains past
frequently bound west. Ordinary night
traffic lias been suspended for 10 days.
KAISER CALLS MUNITIONS MEN.
Amsterdam, Dec. 14.—The Rheinisch*
Westfalische Zeitung. of Kssen, Ger
many, reports that the president of the
war board of German industry, the
Centeral Union of Manufacturers and
the League of Manufacturers have been
summoned to a conference at Geirtian
great headquarters.
PRAIRIE OIL DIVIDEND.
Independence. Kan., Dec. 14.—-The
Prairie till rfc Gas Co., today declared
a qunrterly dividend of $3 and an extra
dividend of $2, payable January 31, to
stock of record of December 31.
NEW OFFENSIVE
HASTENS PEACE
Kaiser Plays Into Hands of Al
lies by Sending Men to
Slaughter in Great Ef
fort, Mason Says.
PRECEDES PEACE DRIVE
British Expert Says Entente
Must Expect 500,606 Kresh
Men, Guns and Air
planes in West.
BY J. W. T. MASON. ’
(Written for the United Press.'
New York, Dec. IB.—An effort by
the Germans at this time to develop
a major offensive along the west front
against the British and French will
be playing the allies’ own game. Re
ports that Hindenburg has such a move
In contemplation are almost too good
to be true.
Should the Increasing unrest of the
German people at home cause Obo Ger
man war lords to entertain tire hope
that the Anglo-French lines ^re cap
able of being shattered and delve the
Germans into a western offensive the
war will be brought much nearer to the
allies' winning point.
Flower of Army Wasted.
If one fact has been demonstrated
conclusively since the battle of the
1 Marne It is that the Anglo-Freifch line
Is impregnable to Teuton assaults.
During the battle of Flanders and of
Verdun the Germans tested the allies’
western lines with large supplies of
men, guns, ammunitions and provi
sions and could not pass. The Ger
j man troops then consisted of the very
1 flower of the military strength of the
German empire. All of this considered.
It Is folly to believe that wifh the
Drlppled armies now available any bet
ter success could be had.
The allies can and will hold fast to
all they have and their chief object
now is to keep on killing German, sol
fliers and thus reduce the man power of
the central powers to the point where
the kaiser will bo forced to admit his
defeat.
PRECEDES PEACE DRIVE.
London, Dec. 15.—Germany's much
advertised forthcoming west front drive
is preliminary to another peace offen
sive. She hopes to achieve some meas
ure of success In the drive at some
point on the west front.
Then she will urge on the people at
home the necessity for peace cencea
sions. because of the crippled atray, and
Jiopes to accomplish all this before
America brings into play her millions
Of men and untold stores of all kinds.
The kaiser by his well known wiles
has induced the Austrians to sacrifice
their men by the thousands in Italy to
achieve the advantages that have been
gained there. The same thing Is being
done on the west front.
The new peace drive Is the explana
tion, according to best informed men
here.
EXPECTS 500,000 FRESH MEN. \
"We must expect 500,000 fresl» Ger
man fighters on the west front and
many more guns and aircraft,” declared
..’olonel Rrflngton, truined military ex
pert, in a signed article today. He gave
emphatic warning that Germany is pre
paring to make her supreme military
effort, that she is able to do so be
cause of the Russian situation and the
Italian defeat.
Many men have already been trans
ported to the west front, he says. He
asserts the centra! powers now have
2,200,000 men on the western front and
approximately 79 divisions still on the
east.
RUSS GENERAL DIES
AT GERMAN QUARTERS
General Skalon Said to Have
Committed Suicide While
Making Peace Pact.
I'etrograd, Dec. 15.—General Skalon,
t>-< the Russian staff, committed suicide
under sensational circumstances today.
Just prior to assembling of the Rus
sians and Germans for the armistice
conference, according to information re
ceived from Brest.
Full details were withheld. It was
stated, however, that he shot himself.
The shooting appears to have occurred
at German army headquarters.
PUSH ORGANIZATION
OF LABOR RESOURCES
Washington. D. C., Dec. 15.—To meet
the rapidly Increasing war demand ifor
labor a new system of labor exchanges
to be known as the war emergency
employment service Is being organized
by the international service section of
the council of national defense.
L. C. Marshall, chief of the section,
announced today that all state councils
of defense had been asked to form
labor exchanges in co-operation with
the federal department of labor. Many
shipyards were said to be tn need of
workers and in the near future the
need is likely to be felt equally by
munition steel, lumber, mining, trans
portion and all the other essential in
dustries.
TRAINING STATION MEW
GET CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
Chicago, Dec. 14.—A five days’ holi
day at home either at Christmas or
New Years for every one of the 30.000
jaekies at the Great Lakes naval train
ing station is promised by Capt. Will
iam I*. Moffett, commandant. The flvo
days will be granted In addition to
whatever travel time is necessary to
reach their homes and return.
Half of the men will be drawn tor tho
Christmas holiday and the other 10.000
will go immediately on the return of
the flrst contingent.
In addition to the unexpected leave of
absence. Captain Moffatt has arranged
that each of the men will leave with a
well tilled purse.
ltishop Henderson, of Detroit, Mich.,
has Issued an order that every Metho
dist church in his diocese shall display
the Stars urd Stripes for tho duration ;
of the war.
