The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-01-07
FATE's QUEER TURNS
Condolences Which War Has
 Brought Forth.
First Man South Sea islander Speaks to in London Is Man He Is Looking For-Other Inter
 esting Cases.

prominent resident of Putnam, was at Charing Cross few days ago he no- ticed a number of men clad in khaki getting out of the train. He learned they had just arrived from the far off Fiji, where they had given up good situations to offer their services to the motherland in her hour of need. MT. James asked if any of them were from Suva.
 Sure" replied one of the stalwart young fellows. q come from Suva."
 Do you know Harry James? ?'- in. Quired the man from Pullman.
 q should think do. He and I are overseers on the same plantation. have a letter of introduction to his brother, E. H. James, of Fulham."
 You can hand it over now," said MT. James. Both were amazed to learn that the first man the South Sea Islander had spoken to on reaching London was the very man in all Eng land he wished to see.
 This is but one of the extraordinary ;oincidences which the war has brought forth. A London hospital had another remarkable illustrations:
 A young soldier was severely wound sd in the fighting somewhere iD France" He lost consciousness, and when he regained it he was lying com. tortably in a bed in ward of a large hospital. His first words were Where am I?" The nurse told him hat he was in London, that during the period of his unconsciousness he had been transported across the channel and that his wounds had been tended He asked the name of the hospital he number of the ward, the day ot the week and the hour. The nurse told him. T say, nurse, you might tell my dad I am here" The nurse looked at him, thinking the poor lad was in a delirium.
 'All right, nurse, my dads in the aext ward now. You know he is the lay"
 And so it was The father was in he next ward performing his work, thinking all the time that his son was In France. He did not even know that the boy was wounded, far less that he was being tended a few yards away.
 Writing from the front to friends at Llangollen, Private s. N. Jones of the motor transport A. S. c. relates peculiar coincidence concerning himself. He was a driver on the Llangollen-Wrexham motor bus route and enlisted soon after the commence ment of hostilities. In France, strange to say, he was drafted to the identical chassis Of the motor he had been driving on the Donbigshire route, fl having been purchased, with marg others, by the government.
 The manager of the road car com pany has written to Private Jones stat ing that, if it should be possible, they will repurchase the car after the wal and place upon it plate recording the circumstances related.
 David Henderson, a Bowhill soldier belonging to the Black Watch, has remarkable story to tell of how he was able to pay back on the field of battle the services of man who saved his life in this country in the piping times of peace.
 About year ago, when taking part in regatta at Wemyss, his boat was capsized and he was thrown into the water. He had been swimming towards he shore for some time when he was picked up in an exhausted condition by a passing boat belonging to by. 5art
 Strange to say, after a fierce days fighting in France, Private Henderson saw a wounded soldier lying in front of the trenches, and on going to his assistance he was struck by some thing familiar about the wounded man Henderson then asked his comrade if it was he who had saved "Davie' Henderson from a watery grave at Wemyss the previous summer. Tt was," came the reply. Then I am Davie Henderson" was the dramatic rejoinder. Henderson then took his wounded comrade by the arm and under a heavy fire, led him to a place of safety.