Show II I Stories o oj of the Street I I wont won't rail NII her hOl mother moth grid and t you OU can cant can't t make mako mo with I u a mini flush In iii his hi big brown yes i-yes and a a. shako shake of his curly head u u. Rood goal looking boy of or about H It years fluid this statement to his hili father In tho the presence of oC Judge Cowans Gowans of tho the ju juvenile court COUlt Monday afternoon A moment later the bo boy broke Into Inlo tears tear which streamed 1 down his fare face u UShe US os osho ho he I sobbed tb l out I 1 call her aunt aunt but 1 I cant can't call her mother molner r she sho aint t n. n im nn mother r and you OU ought not to lI ask nu nit t. t t call a It lion her mother No 0 and you OU ought iu II t tto to u ask k m my little brother and ami r r to 10 call her tier mother mothe Situ t lio aint our mother mothr i I and I 1 wont won't call her hel mother and then the h boy broke broko k Into tears again A 1 brotha broth broth- t r ra I Isido l tom tomel el t a year and four o months older stood t be- be lido sido the toy boy and announced that h I 11 would not call cail tho the new wife of the th i u iby i by the tho name namo that he ho had called the tho woman wom an who vho hud had brought him Into the the- world Tho The father Cather who was present waa W In Inclined III- III to Insist that tho the two to bo toys s call tho the woman an whom he married a It fw i w months ego ago t by t trio tho name namo that th y caned called another ng woman o until NIh her death about three years ears ago I 1 wont won't said the older ohler boy with defiance In III his hili every rry gesture and I cant can't I 1 wont won't saM said till the youn younger er be boy a as he again broke into t tears While the the tho judge Judge us was as trying to effect a II reconciliation b between tween the hue fath father r and n tho the WI older the tho hail son r with the a younger new made d boy walked It toot took Into k kless less than five minutes to win n a way to tho the heart of ot this boy who was frankness Itself In his talk between sobs Oh mamma was so FO good goad to us before she dl died d Father wants to bo be good sometimes sometimes some some- times but he wants us to do just his way pod nd wont won't let us think for ourselves We Ve me and my brother were ore working here in Salt Lake City and ho he wants us to go back bak home a 1 little way up Ul north and he wants us to call his new wife moth mother r. r I cant can't do It she ho Is II not my mother and I 1 wont won't call cail her hor mother Oh but m my mamma was so good to us and und the child put his arm aria around his new made friends friend's neck and broke into another another another an an- other flood of tears The elder boy lay was more moro defiant but he too shed tears as ho talked l with tho the judge jud lIe He declared that he and his brother loved each other and that beb bee beo he be would do o all In his hie power t to protect the tho younger e b brother r lie dl did not want t to togo togo g go 0 back badt home nor did ho want his brother to go back Just what to do with these two boys Is a problem bl w which 1 is confronting O n Judge d Gowans a ir The Tho o ow elder I r boy admits m that h lie he smokes the younger one ono denies that he hede has ever s smoked o or played a pool or pra practiced c- c de any cry of the many r vices r s which I C beset i ithe the young in a II big city The elder boy wants his Isla brother to stay with him In this city and promises to take taka care of ot him rind and tho the younger boy bov wants to stay with his brother rather than go home Both Doth boys have good jobs in the city and both bothI are respected by their employer But But But- and here Is the tho one big question How lIow Howlong long will they be bo good boys without someone someone someone some some- one older and who has an interest In them to guide them to see that they are not on the streets and In bad company after alter they leave their work each day Judge Gowans is of the tho opinion that If it t there fee was someone e e eol ol In this Ts city who ot would Ul agree to take a personal interest In the two boys bors he would be willing to give them I Into the care caro of or such a II person rather than have them than go back to tho the place that should be home to them them the the place where whore neither of ot them wants to go Both are bright boys both seem anxIous anxious anxious ious to make their own way In the world and there is a a. strong brotherly love be between between bo- bo tween them What to do In the case Is the question that is bothering Judge Gowans There Thero was vas a little little side Issue at the spring music festival at the tabernacle last night that not every one in the audience audience au au- au- au saw Away A way up near the top row of seats In the choir loft appeared an artist whose name did not figure on the program It was a little fox tox whose whoso white hair was waft not quite so white as tho the dresses of the women members of or the choruses and sod who had a table-looking table black spot over its eye eyo Nevertheless S. S the little s canine appeared to be e quite Wt at home up there and was I d h very r w well behaved e V It watched v the performers per pei- formers formeN with interest and when some member of the chorus struck a note noto In Ina Ina ina a manner that did not seem to the hairy balry critic to be quite en n en rapport It did not say anything but gazed contemplatively contemplatively at the domed ceiling of ot the tho buildIng building build build- In Ing as if It it were really lost to Its surroundings sur Cur surroundings In the beauties of ot tho the ance ante Thomas Hobday water commissioner has not yet killed off all the w women who m lItle l ih iho ona III will persist In telephoning o to o him about street sprinkling Mr Hobday haul had i rathel us- us then ther a busy time up Parleys Parley's can canyon on the latter ee part art of f fa last a week From Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- fl Ch day afternoon t to Sunday morning he it was wason as ason on his feet teet almost incessantly and got scarcely a II wink of sleep though once In Ina Ine ina a while 1 he e did try to get away from the scene e for o a db breathing e spell Th The place that required the most rapid work worl was wash where h the tho T laborers r. r were hC trying to a channel n through which the boisterous tl stream might be led around tit tn place piaN where it was doing all alJ the damage and be confined to Ineffective a action on n tl ti P e cement walls of ot the reservoir From Irom the tho sluice site to the telephone In the vr real real- l- l deuce dence for the tho guard at the Uio r r It was a considerable walk and Mr rr Hobday Hob Itoh- day says saS that If he hp made that trip onre he made It lIe 10 times Along about Friday afternoon It became be became became be- be came quite a burden to the tho worst wor wor-ivl wor Id d superintendent su- su u- u to drag hl his 4 sleep lit a av fr fret t r-t along that distance e and ami bark bar Bain but hut buthe buthe he had to do it It b on In to a while the call all was from the HIP attendant attend nt at someI some other h r est r sir k I Instructions I X e I I is or reporting p Wn d tio it T v 1 morning It was still morn more a It distinct hardship hardship hard hard- ship and b by b Saturday Hl afternoon It ASIo was nas unbeatable unbearable Io That evening C cone came lI the he grin hundred and d l cal coll to tho h IoU IoU- phone phon Who VIto U Is It asked the superintendent Dont ont know Some woman Tell her hOr I 1 cant can't come I l DId ld But she ahe Insisted Wouldn't tell mo me what she sho wanted anted All U rl right ht then So lU Mr Hobday turned rn over the thu ayer oper operations If where sluice e W ns at t the sluice where mens men's lives we were re often In peril In the battle battlo with the th unbridled torrent and once moro more made madr th the Is ls l trip r this to the the ell superintendent telephone came the the wire Inquiry over Yes Yea Well Wahl I want to know when n we wo ore Dro going to get t some water here Ar Are j you not getting water in the pl pies s not sprinkling any anyon anyon Yes Tes but they are on the streets and and and- I It U was the last straw Tired nature summed up IP its energies In ono one last ef effort effort ef- ef fort tort to he be emphatic r I Il l Madam if you OU have to wait walt to have bave your street et sprinkled until 1 walk all nil I this distance again to answer that question ques ques- tion said Mr lr Hobday you you will w H rever get et the dust settled on your through- through faro fare And with that he hun hung up the re re- re i |