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Show A COINCIDENCE. Jstjffif Marry Thai lla llmhnt Acrnit lha Mlrtal RisS nlth lha llnuir. j jjlfjs "Tho strangest thing that ever hap- 'cZjHJf pened to me," said the old operator, HiaaaW who waa In n reminiscent mood, ac- ulSi cording to tbe Detroit l'rco Frees, "oc- HisH curred a good many years ago when I H was a young man holding down a H night offlco In n little town In the H west. 1 was halt asleep one night H when 1 waa called to the key to rccelvo H n rush messago. 1 took It oft the wire H without realizing what It meant, aa 1 a man will do at times when half 1 nsleep. llul when I glanced at what 1 1 had put down I taw that It read, 'It H you wlili to see your brother allvo you B will have to come Immediately' The H message came from San Francltca, nnd B was addressed tn an old roan who lived across the street from the station, bo I put on my hat and went over and delivered It. seeing that It was lm- portnnt that he should have It nt once. The old man caught tho train that left at midnight, nnd while he waa buying hla ticket he told me that tho meiwign referred to hla brother who bad led home twenty years before, and from whom ho hnd heard nothing dur- Ing all thai time. The next night u party called and aiked If there wero any meeaages fur blm. giving thn aamo name aa tho old man who had left tho night before. Ho must have noticed J that I looked at him rather blankly. JHhVJ for he went on to explain that ho had n brother In California who waa sick nnd that he was anxious to bear from him. Well, It turned out that tho J message I bad received tho night be- J fore was Intended for him. He was a sirnngrr In tho town, and chanced to bear the same nnmo as the old man whom I had ecnt on a wild goose cbaao across the continent Fortunately for BVJ me, I waa transferred to another town SJ beforo the old man got back. That la jHHH all there la to the story, except tbat .t HHJ la truo." H |