Show u Nr CO F T t t r J 1 i iO of y J J 05 I IC J O I t k T E CITY ITY ETHYL ETHEL BY C C. C PIERCED 1 A ANY Y many years ago 00 children In Ina N M MANY a 0 land across the seas there lived 7 a little boy hoy who nho had dreams Of picture books he had none and toys were ere very cry scarce he had no rocking horse no little cart but always be had his dr dreams ams Often Otten in broad daylight with hl his eyes eye wide n-Ide open he lay by upon the ground round looking look ill ing through the leafy tr trees cs to the sky a above boye dreaming sometimes of the silver bowl bon that Hopping Bopping Peter said aId was vas buried under the lake lak sometimes of or the thet t golden cradle deeply sunk unk in the mo mound nd but always nys of burled buried treasures treasure I i 7 lOne One Christmas when h he was eight years old little Heinrich for or he lie was n a aGerman German Gennan boy bor bad bui a beautiful gift itt That ThatIs Is is he thought It was as beautiful maybe be you yon 1 0 would not have o liked it It was wasn n big hig hi big book full of pictures The pictures weren't colored like those in your jour picture books still HeInrich was as asery very ery glad to get Jet it since he hc hadn't any at all He Ho I liked to Ho lie on the floor with the book in in front of him looking at the pictures I There was a one ono he liked well probably you rou wouldn't have liked it It was nothing but a city an nn ancient city by bj the sea eca all alJ aflame its walls tumbling down and its houses bosses all afire acre and people ladies adles with wIlli fine robes on on running toward the sea en to get tet away from the fierce heat It H seemed to him very strange that men pat walls about their cities unless in those days there were ere many wicked men I In fn the tho country or wild beasts of which I the people were afraid His father put him off when he naked asked questions telling him that some day when hen he was older and went to school he would hear about it Are Arc the tho walls still there he asked Yes my son replied the father tather buried under the ground There must be bl big treasures there father Y Yes my son it was a rich city And Dd has bas no one ever been there to todis dig dis for tor the treasures No Xo they are buried very deep and aud that was more than two thousand years ago almost three thousand long Ions before ever corer the Blessed Christ came to earth So little Heinrich nd added ed to his dreams of at s getting gating the silver bOJ bowl 1 and the golden cradle when he grew ew to be a n man that of dil digging sins for the treasures in the buried dt city What bat treasure he be would find many manya n a silver sll bowl and many a bold golden en cradle Then his fa father ther no longer would be poor his mother pate pale and worn from over over- work nork It seemed to little sometimes sometimes some some- times as if he couldn't wait 1 i A f iIii 1 r rI ii I I 2 LIKED TO LIE ON THE WITH THE BOOK IN FRONT OF HIM I Five Flore six years passed and he was ns just beginning to learn about the buried city in his books at school when his bis father rather called cane him one day My 1 son I cannot peep keep you YOU in school an any longer lonser you jou ou will have havo to get bet to work to do for yourself I am torry orry but Lut I have II little money That ni night hL in the quiet of his room when the rest were sl sleeping epin little tittle Heinrich Hein rich ridi wept I If only the stories that Hopping Hoppin 1 Peter had told him had been becu true no noone ono one could have ha kept kepL him from getting settin the I he bowl and the tho cradle Now ow he must give up his loved studies si give c up his am nm ambition ambition to d dl midst the rums ruins of the buried city Soon after he began o to 0 seek work an nn opportunity came for him Lm to clerk in a n grocery grocer Ille Ike pay was wai at small but he be did not mind it h. so much now after his first disappointment He was wag glad Iad to add his mite to the tho family Little Litte Heinrich Heinrich Hein- Hein rich was I bJ harpy py rpy for tor he still kept ept his dreams ams One Ono day a 1 drunken miller came reeling into nto the store muttering in iu an unknown tongue the thc words were beautiful and Heinrich was much moved mo d. d After drinking drink drink- in ing ng the bel beer bee Heinrich was 1 11 got get gotor for or him the miller pas pasted cd d r or nr ort it t o over er tho the counter II Jl i back saying that he pay for his drink if Ie the miller would recite the words s again nain to him And Aud so day after da day the miller came for his hia drink of beer recited the beautiful words and Heinrich I paid for bis Lis ti drinks What were the beautiful words Your big bit brother Fred who is a n senior in the hi high h school would la laugh uth a scornful scornful scorn scorn- ful laugh maybe to hear bear that they were ere the first hundred words of Homers Homer's Iliad a Greek book he be studies and finds findsen ivery very en difficult and dislikes exceedingly Every cry day the miller came for his bis glass slats of or beer and Heinrich learned er e every day n a few more lines Jines of Greek He was vas I happy for he be still stin had his dream to excavate excavate ex ex- ex the city which for the first time he I sa saw w In his first picture book He was happy for he was as learning the language I of the people who Ii lived ed in the buried city But a second disappointment came As time passed Heinrich grew Tew very fast taller toller and more slender He was not very strong stron and the work In the grocery was very bard hard One 11 day as a result of i I liftin lifting too much he spat blood When hiS his his' father found it out he told him bim that he be must find other work to do Heinrich I 1 was sorel sorely grieved when he found that r the necessity of getting work outside o of the town would separate him from his friend the drunken miller who was aching him Greek After some time he ho got Jot a position as j I cabin boy on ou a n bri brig From this point his life was filled with adventures When he I sailed 1 away from his native land his hig sadness sadness sad sad- ness at nt parting with ith hi his father antI and mother and brothers and sisters was wasby lessened by the thought that persistently haunted him that he be was really starting for the buried city there to di dig for the treasures of or his his' dreams But one da day when they we we re well out to sea sea a 0 fierce gale ale came up and struck the brig briS' which h I quickly sank All AU of the crew were lost save ore Heinrich who m managed to clin cling toa to toa I a floating timber until a ship passing passin by discovered and aud rescued him He was carried to a n strange land and md there left friendless and nd without mont money y He happened to think of a 1 tourist with whom he had become acquainted the summer summer sum sum- Imer mer before whose home was not far away way To him he applied for aid nid which he was fortunate to receive Again he went to work this time as a apost apost apost post boy and he thought he was getting a fine salary but it was only a year He lie still dreamed but his dreams ms were changing He lie began to see that he could ne never ne er dig dlf up the buried city for its treasures treas ures tires until he himself had saved sa almost a n treasure to begin with onith So he had bad an ambition am now to become rich It is a 1 long tale talc to tell how bow ho he accomplished pushed his desire how he be ga e his bis spire spare moments to study until m a great language f scholar how his knowledge of the Russian language brought him a promotion promotion pro pro- motion and how this promotion brought him another and another until he became so rich that be he didn't need any more money how he be married a Greek lady and nd at last went ent to the East to unearth the buried city of his picture book days dars s. s Scholars scoffed at his belief perhaps s they pointed at nt their heads and shook them and said said said- Too bad such a bright man too That was the way they did when the great Col Columbus believed that there were acre other worlds But just like the great Christopher Columbus Co lumbus Heinrich believed that he was was right that right that under the sifting sands s of time there were cities cities- buried which to toI dig i up would greatly help the world worM I So he lie went to the tho En East t. t to the reported site of ancient Troy the city of Homer I and there thero he dug and aud there after much much I I labor he ho found the city of or his dreams dream and 1 he found yet ret more more cities Luri buried tl deep eel I under ground round with treasures of ot silver er and gold Heinrich ia had J his lids reward ren For this is a tru true story about a man who really lived Jived So the little boy who ho as ns a lad had hu bug bui ono one picture book who had no no- horse no nc little cart aud and no DO little boys bon h tt play with who had only Hopping Peter and his dreams when hen he lIe was n-as a n boy t h he became 1 n man unearthed treasures treasure that have made him famous the wort over as ns Dr the greal archaeologist excavator tor of orn Troy |