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Show THE PROVO POST FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1922 CHINESE DIES BY STARVATION IN That Intangible Something DACK Ah Fook, dealer in dried frogs, has starved himself to death to cheat the electric chair. Ah Fook killed his cousin. Ah Ben, one night last January when Ah Ben refused to return to China with him. The player was tried and sentenced to die. But Ah Fook smiled when he was told. He knew in his heart of hearts that another fate awaited him. Shang-ti- STARVED COMPLETE LINE WEEK ENDING MAY 20 69c : 55e 45c 65c 53c SpecialI27c 15c Bottles Sniders Salad Dressing cans Marshmallow Cream 3 pkgs. Aunt Jemimas Pancake Flour 2 pkgs. Evaporated Cherries 2 pkgs. Cream of Barley 2 cans Dill Pickles 5 lb. Pail Swifts Silver Leaf Lard 2 pkgs. Green Bag Coffee 2 cans Libbys Pork and Beans 1 2 lbs. Fresh Tomatoes 3 25c 25c 50c .. 3 25c 35c 45c 85c 35c 25c 35c New Potatoes, per lb -- Lighthouse Cleanser 3 cans 3 10c 115c 48c 20c 35c Utah Asparagus, per lb. 10 "bars A. B. Naptha or Crystal White Soap cans Saponiphier Lye I PAY HIGHEST CASH PRICES FOR LIVE POULTRY. NO CHARGE. NO DELIVERY. MORE; FOR THE MONEY. I 450 West Center St., Provo. v jSummer Music Study Prof. C. W. Reid Piano, Organ, Voice i (Simmons hom', Tabernacle caretaker house) i T I v Mrs. Leona Mildenhall Van Wagoner a For information call o!f 82-- W. Mr. Reid and Mrs. Van Wagoner Students will be given a course in Eurythenics in tion to the private lessons. ; addi- BECAUSE . far-seei- As a public utility its earnings are not sufficient to provide funds for expansion programs. It is only permitted to earn in addition to operating expenses and taxes sufficient to pay a fair rate of return on the value of its property a reasonable rate of return on the capital already invested. This stock is free from Utah and Idaho taxation. The dividends you receive are free from'The normal federal income tax. You may purchase this stock at any of our offices, or through any of our employees they areour salesmen. state-regulat- ng start with when subscribing for a share of this preferred stock. Then pay the balance in easy monthly installments of $10 a month. You can get your money back with 6 per, Cent interest any time before your jast payment. We will sell you as many as 25 shares on this plan. We pay you 6 per cent interest on all payments. Clip this coupon and mail for further particulars. This is a real opportunity It calls for action! Mail this is all you need to ", Coupon TODAY. Send in this coupon it will bring you an illustrated booklet and tell you how to buy this stock for $10 a month. high-grad- I Utah Power & ("Without Obligation) i Public Service Its Utah Power Light Co., Kearns Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. Please send me booklet, The Story of An Opportunity at lome, containing (1) More information about your preferred stork. (2)' Details of Easy Pawn rt Plan. (3) How to Judge An Im & Company Light Efficient i Name not w'hat you earn what you save that counts ed $10.00 r j Address gggsmaaaEgaiiMiJ8BaHEM n. ,,,1 1922, by McClure Newspaper fayndicate The world looked bright und rosy to J o0in Patterson. It was his thirtieth birthday and his second wedding anniversary, and he hud Just received a substantial Increase in salary. He could hardly wait to tell Mary the good new s. He hurried home only to find the aiwirtment deserted. The tiny kitchenette, however, showed that everything was in readiness for a hurried assembling of the dinner on her return. He wandered aimlessly and forlornly around. He looked about for the note he had so often found, explaining her delay, hut there was none. There was, however, a note half concealed under some bills, which he took out and read mechanically, until the full Import of it reached him like a sharp stab. His eager happiness was changed to acute suffering. lie read: Dearest Jim Your letter arrived this morning and has made me gloriously happy. It has lain next to my herrt all day and through the monotonous dishwashing, sweeping and dusting of my life lias run the wonderful melody of your love. It has made me very happy, and it will make me very happy all through the years to home to know that you love me, even though the knowledge of your love Is all I have, for I can never have the reality. We must renounce He read to the end and then with a heart as heavy as lead he paced the The Names of Provo Persons Familiar to All. Who are the witnesses? They are Provo people Residents of Provo who have had kidney backache, kidney ills, bladder ills; who have used Doans Kidney These witnesses endorse Pills. Doans. One Provo resident whh speaks is George A. Madsen, fish dealer, 254 N. Second West street. He says: Not only I, but others of my family have used Doans Kidney pills. I have' always found a box or so of Doans sufficient to rid me of weakness or lameness through my back. I well know they are a good remedy from the results I, as well as others of the family have received. Price GOc, at all dealers. Dont simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doans Kidney Pills the same n that Mr. Madsen had. floor. Y. N. , Mfrs.. Co., Buffalo, Why John, whats the matter? You look as if the bottom had dropped out FEWER FAILURES REPORTED of the universe. There was a decrease in the total He was startled, at her unexpected number of failures In the United presence. He had not heard her come States during last week, as compared In. with that of the week previous, acWhy, I guess I have a slight headcording to Duns Review. Last week ache. Been working rather hard tothere were 408 insolvencies reported, while the former yeek showed 491. day. You poor deui and I bet jou are During the corresponding week of half Howwere shown. starved, too. But I will have din1921, 333defaults ever, in every section, except the Pa- ner ready In a Jiffy. cific coast, decreases were shown, She was as good as her word. ' week last You poor dear, youre too tired The Review also states that there even to eat. I wish you didnt have was a widening margin of increase to work so hard. I hate to have you in hank clearings over last years figaway at the office every day Just ures, reflecting an improvement in slave to earn money for me to spend. I do general business and activity in the wish I could help you. But I do try to various markets. Several statistical exhibits of the be economical. week are highly significant of the Youre a wonder, Mary. Youre the current business recovery. A trend best manager In the world. toward improvement is reported by He tried to speak naturally. He centers outside of the metropolis, must not let Mary suspect he knew her with gains over last year, assures secret until he had decided what to this survey, which also states that do. the activity in new construction has Somehow the dinner was finished been a prominent feature of the industrial situation 'during recent John, strangely silent, but his wife as months. merry and talkative as ever. If she Foster-Mil-bur- For information call 429 I PROVO WITNESSES Dividends are paid every three months Jan. 1st, April 1st. July 1st and October 1st, promptly and regularly. SAFE DEPENDABLE TAX FREE f From coast to coast the securities of the electric light and power companies are known to be among the soundest inest-ment- .. Banks and insurance companiesthe most exacting and investors have millions of their funds 'invested in companies such as the Utdh Power and Light Company. You can do no better than to follow the example of your bank and jour insurance company. Invest savings in the electric light and power industry an industryjour that is founded on a permanent necessitj for its service. The Utah Power & Light Company has been supplying electric energy to Utah and Icjaho cities, villages and farms for many years. It has pioneered in. many localities and has kept abreast of the development of the territory it serves. It is faced with further development now to meet the growing demands of the thriving West. It is only because the business cf this company is growing and because greater demand for power must be met that we have this preferred stock for sale. Whj the Utah Power & Light Company must obtain outside capital through the sale of its preferred stock. The company cannot provide, out of its earnings, the money which is necessary to take care of the enlargement of its plants, the increasing of its facilities and the extending of its lines for expansion of its service. It is continually neeiiTmg new money. It must obtain it e investment public in its through investment by ttye ' securities. DIED OF PNEUMONIA. His friends told them they hoped he would die soon, as then his soul, freed of the guilt of murder, would go to Paradise. He would have fulfilled the duty imposed on a moral sinner by the philosophy of Confucius. Ah Fook, before he became too weak to speak, begged the jail authorities not to tempt him by offering him food. Then when unable to talk, he merely shook his head anc closed tight his lips when food was brought to his bedside. At last an attack of pneumonia ended his suf- siin-molatio- Per Cent 3 i Friends visited Ah Fook, praising him fojr his determination, encouraging him to stand steady until the end. And he did. He endured the torture of hunger and thirst which racked his body, until even the prison officials, trying to feed him artificially, hoped for the end to come speedily. Lowest Prices. 1-- Put your money where you know it will be safe and pay you a return that you can depend upon. little Chinese. Samuel Kopp 450 w. Center Phone 446 Preferred Stock Co. & EARN 7 DAYS. starvahis days ferings. The two Chinese cousins had lived together at 200 Mulberry street Newark, N. J. They had been born in the same town in Shansi province and had come to the United States together. Ah Ben had adapted himself to American ways. Ah Fook never could. Ah Ben cut off his pigtail and wore American clothes. Ah Fook wore his queue wound tight under the silk skull cap and wore the thick-sole- d Chinese shoes and a veeshon, or loose silk blouse. Ah Fook cherished the hope of going back to .Shensi to live. Ah Ben scouted that idea. The men quarreled and then fought. All Ben died in the Ci(y hospital. There jls to be no mourning- over the death of Ah Kook. He has won Pearlv Gates by through the and has saved himself and his ancestors from the disgrace of dyelectric (hair. There is no ing m the futuie lift' for the executed man in Chinese philosophy So instead of mourning there is to he a feast over the triumph of Ah Fook, and the emancipation of his soul. Hip body will be sent back to China neSct week to he buried in Shensi, the province he loved so well. It will go in a great leaden sarcophagus, weighing more than 500 pounds Before it leaves Newark many firecrackers will be burned about it and chasers will encircle red paper-dev- il it, though many of his friends say that Ah Fooks soul is already safe In the Chinese regions of the blessed. A MONTH $100 Shares for $95 and Dividend i EIGHTY-EIGH- T ht FOR CASH Sugar 3 Dozen Strictly Fresh Eggs 2 lbs. ' Pacific Nut Butter 2 lbs. Ttanch Butter , 2 large 2lz J5car Pineapple Special 2 large Oval cans Sardines in Tomato Sauce Cooking Butter, per lb an-- For eighty-eigtion lasted. Prison officials wondered at the stamina of the shriveled Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Go. 10 Ibis. a Chinese deity, was Power payment for the crime and to propitiate the god. Not" 4 taste of food would he allow to pas his lips nor a drink of water. He was paying his debt. f and Carry System. THE MOST , DOWN gry at the murder of a kinsman. Be-- 1 lieving this, Ah Fook started to make 1922. ' Cash! Eighty-eig- ht Days. J, MONEY-BU- Y Fook, to Eat for something which pervades the atmosphere of the central exchanges and of the administrative offices. - It is something which animates and gives urge to the personnel of ' the employe body, out of which emanates efficiency, courtesy and a genuine desire to please. That intangible something is The Spirit of Service, woven into the warp and woof of the entire fabric of our Company. It is this same Spirit of Service that has made possible our growth from an exchange of 200 stations in 1879 to a system of 350,000 stations in . CELL Murderer, Cheats New Electric Chair; Refused Jersey some- - of little value. It is something wrought into every unit of telephone equipment SAVE Ah of the Telephone there is something intangible thing invisible something without which the instrument itself would be s. PRISON noticed his silence, she attributed it to Ills being tired. When, they were comfortably settled In the living- room he Immediately took up his evening paper. "Well, what day Is It 7 The question cut deep. I dont know, he muttered, from the depths of his paper. Why,( John Patterson, arent you ashamed of jrourself? No answer. And after Ive worked so hard to get jou, a present that I earned j all ray- self. , No answer. If thats all the Interest you take Im glad Im no Eleanor Hallowed Abbot, and couldnt afford to buy a sedan for a present." Still mo answer. Well,1 dont you want to know what I got you? Why, of course. What Is it? In a lackadaisical tone. Well, Its on the table beside you. He reached out for a much berib-bone- d package, with trembling hands, and started to open It. Dear, Im really afraid youre going to be sick. You look so pale. Nonsense. Im all right. Well, this is Just fine. Thats "my favorite cigar, but I cant afford to smoke them everyday. Ohi, I have a package for you. J roo. He went out to his coat pocket and returned with a box of chocolates. Then while he smoked, she munched - chocolates- liow Make Believe that you enjoyed so much. And what, may I ask, has she to do with my cigars? Well, one day I was telling Ruth I wished I could earn some money all my own to buy you a birthday present with, and she suggested that I should try writing stories. I finally got five dollars from the Western Tribune. thats fine. What for? Get- ting subscriptions? No, for writing a love letter. Mary may have been somewhat surprised at ' the strange effect of this news on John and at his great jiby over her literary success, but he never ex plained 1L t Life is jike a country road in the spring full of ruts. The wise motorist pauses before a deep rut and figures out how he will take it, and the wise man does the same with the ruts of life, while the foolish one plunges in, trusting to luck to get through, and is always surprised when he has to be pulled out. - UNTIL Hills Bros. 2'2-lRed Can Coffee 1 Qt. Can Del Monte Prunes NOON 95c 25c b. ' Cans Dutch Cleanser Pork Roasts, your choice, lb. Pot Roasts, any cut, lb. Hamburger and Sausage, 2 lbs. for 29c 3 20c t 14c 25c OUR MEAT DEPARTMENT Loin Steak, lb 2.3c Steak, lb Bound Steak, lb Shoulder Steak, lb. Pot Roasts, lb Rump Roasts, lb Prime Itib Roasts, lb Heel Boil,, lb Rib Boil, lb. . 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I grow a lot of seeds, both flower and vegetable. : - j Wilford Perry; Seedsman Store 338 West Center Greenhouse 483 North Eighth West |