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Show I, RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS . " AID A FELLOW ' SUFFERER w.ho claim Americans are a race of cold-blooded coin grabbers and money hoarders are just plain darn fools ordinary third year men in lunatic lun-atic asylums, or worse. I And although, millions and millions have been contributed to starving Bel-; Bel-; glans, Rumanians and Armenians, for Red Cross work, Christmas boxes and other wartimo funds, tho individual cases are not forgotten. To instance I United States Railway mail of the Ogden district, have contributed $130 during the last two days to send an invalid mall clerk, James F. Stevens I of Ely, back to his old home in the Southland perhaps to die. Tho money was forwarded today to the hospital authorities in Ely whore Stevens has been a patient for the last ten months, j A fund of ?65 was raised in Ely a few I m?th8, aSO to supply tho patient with delicacies. He is suffering-of tuberculosis tubercu-losis and his condition is serious. He has been handling the mall on the run I between Cobre and Ely until ho was f compelled to surrender and seek ref-l- jUgein a hospital. It is a notable fact that every rall-way rall-way mall service employe to whom the contribution paper was handed responded re-sponded with real money some gave lea than, others, because some have ' neaessary expenses that others do not. ' (But each put just as much heart into the donation as tho other. Incidents x)C't2iiB character aro happening every day and with every recurrence. 1 ' Heaven smiles and adds a now merit I mark to the credit of tho sympathy and understanding and generosity of ' fhefcAmerican people. |