Show GIFTED YOUNG LIARS HOW TWO SMALL BOYS CAUSED A DALE O TllttUBBLE Said They Were Deserted and Left Penniless in Salt Lalte Picked Upon Up-on the Road to Purovrnn Taken Homo and Spanked 1 Mister will you please give us a I rideThe farmer who was thus addressed stopped his wagon and looke i down at the two urchins who were trudging along the State road below Sandy on Thursday and asked Where are you going Oh we are going to Parowan What ejaculated the farmer to Parowan Yes sir Jump in hereUpon here-Upon inquiry the lads said they were Joseph and Albert Ballard aged six and eleven years the sons of J W Ballard formerly of this city The two boys put up a pitiful story and repeated crossexaminations failed to tangle them up in the least Theji 1 said that their father brought them here during the last session of conference con-ference and that after staying with them for a time finally abandoned them They lived with the newsboys those little Samaritans who have a feeling for all waifs which is beyoncj the comprehension of those who send i their money abroad for the educatiorji i of the lads in BoorioboolaGha and have ate what they could get and slept I I I where they could find a shelter We sold papers sometimes piped I the little one and when we did wj I bought crackers and doughnuts Sometimes Some-times we slept with some of the bo sand s-and sometimes under a wagon The lads said that their mother died about three and onehalf years ago i while they were living in the Twenty i first ward Their father shortly afterward after-ward married again The stepmother did not like them as mamma did and life was anythin but pleasant according I ac-cording to their tale Six weeks before I the conference the family removed tn I Parowan When conference time arrived = ar-rived they came here with their father Some time during the conference they were walking about the city and he left them They have not seen him since and do not know that he has ever sent for them Tired of roving around hungry at times the smallest ones clothes being in poor condition I the little chaps at last decided that I they would go home to Parowan The I I I two lads were turned over to the i custody of the constable of the pim I I cinct who yesterday brought them to this city and turned them over to I Selectman Geddes That individual j questioned them rather sharply but they adhered to the original tale I It was decided to turn them over to the infirmary until today when an I effort could be made to ascertain something some-thing regarding their father If ha j did not want them Mr Geddes would I I endeavor to provide them with homes i They are unusually bright the smaller I I I one being as sharp as a tack I After the above was written and before I I be-fore the head man had been afforded j Ian I-an opportunity of getting in his work Mr Joseph Simon came to The Herald office and asked if any one in the employ em-ploy of the paper had seen anything j of two boys answering the description of these two lads Mr Simon was informed in-formed that they were in th custody I of Mr Geddes and the father for such he proved to be at once set out inquest in-quest of them Mr Simon conducts a I store at 127 South Ninth East street and says that for prevaricators his 1 sons take the cake They have been i away since Monday and he has been looking for them ever since They were never in Parowan and all they I know of the town is that their grand j mother lives there The youngsters were taken home and I uo doubt properly spanked |