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Show B AFFECTION THAT NEVER DIES ffiOTj Old Friends Have a Place In the Heart 3f! f From Which They Never Can rPMi Be Removed. JOB ' Ab to old friends, they nro llko old Jjjffl. shoes, an abiding comfort and a great fflmb eolace. If they have not been tried in H extremity they have been tested by Afflr time and Its mutations, and by the PB wear of years, There Is llttlo more B beautiful In human experience than m Jong-sUBtnlnod ftlendshlps between BlBBk" ' kr." "H women grown far Into tho yearB, for oxatnple, and yet who have maintained their communion of dreams ami confidences con-fidences unbrokon and unspoiled. There 1b little more refreshing to contemplate con-template than friendships between middle-aged or old men that have existed ex-isted In strength and harmony from boyhood days. Other friendships hnvo these folks of tho passing generation, some of them true, some of them tried, but none of them as richly regarded re-garded and highly treasured as the old oucb. For nccoBsarlty there are many things that occur In a lifetime which Jar or disturb us, which give a different turn to our tastes and disposition, dispo-sition, which introduce changing elo-montB elo-montB and predilections Into the problems prob-lems ot tho day and times of the present and futuro can never bo tho same as In the long ago. Yet tho old friends romaln, possibly1 not In the samo neighborhood or community, nor In the samo part of the country Dut thoy are evor within the boundaries boun-daries of our spiritual vision and they are enshrined In the sauctvary rf the heart. Without them we should be lonesome In a crowd, and sometimes should feel as If wo had been abandoned, aban-doned, though surroimded by our own household nnd loved ones Old friends, In brlof, havo a niche all their own, n position in our affections peculiar pe-culiar onl to them, which no nllon Influence In-fluence may npproach. Pittsburgh Gazetto-Tlmes. |