Show orphan pals pala reunited after hlf a century C ohina A half two d boys one fifteen and thea the t other ter sixteen six teen I 1 n m a ies of it a mercer ila ia orphanage and Insel inseparable companions pan ions put their flew belongings on the end of sticks across khouli ders era and ported parted company seeking their fortunes along different paths colbs forty years later inter fate brought roads on which these hoys boys now men I 1 i were traveling together at ohne nut where they have liv edever since for fo 13 henrs the two ilyes within a few miles of each other for halt half that time they both worked at the nickel railroad shops but their paths never neer crossed recently Kerent ly through a mutual friend in west aprin sprin springfield held ila ia hlll y dar row sixty eight and J 1 8 northop sixty nine met for the first farst ti time me tri in 1 I 3 years northop left Al mercer ercer iri in dar row rov left in 1877 thirteen years ago they both m oyed moved to conneaut for the next six years they worked a I 1 the nickel plate lut never during sk thai 4 1 time lid did they meet they are busy now recalling old tamea |