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Show v . scrM ccunr oEuw Ardent Lover Willing to Save tire Girl of His Choice i From " Institute 'of CcrrcctioV - - LOVE, plus OBSTACLES, equals ROMANCE. RO-MANCE. , No matter on how barren soil the sends of love may fall, under the right circumstances and Influences, these seeds will take root and grow. If there be no opposition, no obstacles to surmount and vanquish, the plant will come to its fruition in & happy but uneventful marriage, t Where obstacles arise, where opposition opposi-tion is encountered, there, if true love be the guide, the flower of Romance will bloom. . Often times the delicious perfume of the blossom of Romance is borne Upon the air into the hovels of the poor, in prison cells, to the bar of Justice. Many j ts ago there came to America Amer-ica from Kuly James Bartin, who, with his wife and little brood settled in an humble cottage near Murray. The father fa-ther was employed as a smelter hand. Working In the fumes and stifling heat of the great industrial plant for a mere pittance. But the poverty in which the family lived did not prevent them hav- ing a' large family. Of the many children, chil-dren, Anna Bartin, 13 years old; was considered as the little mother of the Ave younger children. . But Anna Bartin was not alone useful as a nurse for her mother's five younger children, and, she frequently went out in the homes at Murray, to attend children In homes better than her own. James Nero, 14 years old, stalwart, swarthy, muscular, lived in the province prov-ince of Campo Basso, Italy. Friends had gone to the wonderful land, America, Amer-ica, thousands of miles over seas, and there rhey had earned in the mines or smelters, or on the. railroads, what seemed to the provincial Italians vast amounts of money every month. Young Nero's Imagination waa inflamed in-flamed by the great prospects that were held out to him by the Immigration agents, and finally he, with hundreds of his fellow-countrymen, set sail for the promised land. Nero was a patient and faithful worker. work-er. He tolled and saved, as did some of his compatriots. Finally he came to Utah, three years ago. He secured a Job as a railroad laborer, near Murray, and became acquainted with Anna Bar-tin's Bar-tin's father. . Then Nero went to board at the Bar-tin Bar-tin home. There he met Anna Bartin, a girl of but thirteen years. He waa only five years her senior, but, in the hot blood of the people of Southern Europe Eu-rope love takes root, grows and blooms in all its beauty at an earlier age than among the colder people of Northern climes. The clear, olive complexion, the raven tresees, the sparkling black eyes, the trim figure of little Anna charmed the youthful Nero. He would marry her, he said. , Her parents thought her too young. "1 will wait for her," he said, philosophically, philo-sophically, as be continued ati his toll on the railroad saving his earnings by penurious living. Then the dark cloud of trouble settled over the Bartin home. Anna was accused ac-cused of -theft.' She was arrested and hard-hearted officers of the law tore her from her humble home. Then she was taken before the Judge and many persons told their tales of Anna's alleged al-leged thievish practices. Anna told her story, her black eyes fixedly garing into the eyes of her faithful Nero, who accompanied ac-companied her to the courtroom. He understood un-derstood not a word of the testimony, but he realized Its import, and shuddered shud-dered as he thought of the narrow cell in which his beloved Anna would be Imprisoned. Im-prisoned. ' "The court finds the defenqEnt guilty of petty larceny," said the Judge, "and believes her to be a fit subject for the reform school. She will be held to answer an-swer In the District purt, to show cause why she shoyjd not be committed to the State Industrial school." Nero knew what was meant. A few days after Anna's arrest Nero's heart had been made glad by news which he had received from I.taly. He was the 1 heir of a relative who had recently dted and would have, in a short time. $30C0 in his own right. Then Nero made a proposition to the attorney, who at once conveyed it to the court. Nero would marry the little 'Anna of his heart" desire, and would take her far, far away if she were only given her liberty. , But the matter was then out of the jurisdiction of the lower court. Another Judge only could dismiss the cat and prevent her from golngto the Institution. Institu-tion. Nero is determined, now, to marry his thirteen-year-old sweetheart at once, and take her away from where her friends say she is being hounded to the State Industrial school. Thus did the beautiful flower if Romance Ro-mance open and throw Its sweet perfume per-fume upon the air of the sordid rojrt-house, rojrt-house, and brighten the borne of the humble Bartin family, at Murray. |