Show FRIEND TO THE NEEDY two years ago a russian widow bade goodby good by to her ber six year old son and came to america to earn educate him the boys re relatives promised to care for him until the mother earned enough to bring him to this country I 1 i but the war came it swept away al their property and drove them fugitives to moscow whence they wrote the anxious mother to come and get her boy whom they put ini an an orphan asylum she did not have the money she did not kno know how bow to go alone in war time then the man and wife in whose family the woman worked considered how to get the boy they told the facts to our state department at washington the american consul at moscow was instructed to try to find the boy and send him to america our consul found the lad his wife kindly clothed the little fellow and with a good deal of difficulty they got a passport from the russian government fortunately tuna tely a red cross nurse was 1 returning to america just as the passport was received she kindly took the boy in charge but he fell sick with measles and she had to leave him in chris norway there the american merican consul took him in charge ge his clerk repeatedly visited the boy in the hospital hospi talt and wrote the kindest possible letter to his mother when the boy was ble able to travel the consul put him on a steamer bound for new york and arranged that he should have the personal rare care of a steward steavard during the voyage meanwhile the proper af fida ivits were put into the hands of the commissioner of immigration I 1 I 1 at ellis island an agent of the steamship line took the boy to the boston train tra inand and shipped him properly ro erly labeled to the home of mother I 1 A telegram told the mother when when to meet her son at the station and the conductor and passengers with moist eyes wit i hessed the happy reunion of mother and son I 1 what other government than ours would do so much for a poor little foreign boy in a country at war youths companion |