Show CASE WHERE TRUELOVE TRUE LOVE STOOD TEST Rich Ranch Owner Becomes Substitute for His us Boyhood Chum IS NOW IN FRANCE Draftee Rejected Faces Death at Surgeons Surgeon's Surgeons Surgeon's Surgeons Surgeon's Sur- Sur geons geon's Hands to Spare Man Who Married Girl He Himself Himself Himself Him- Him self Loved Fort Collins Colo Coio JOsePh Colo-JOsePh Joseph Emmett ONeill O'Neill wealthy ranch owner In Colorado Colorado Colorado Col Col- orado rejected for military service Under under under un un- der the draft is with the United States army in France taking the place of Walter Howard Stone boyhood chum who married the girl that ONeill O'Neill loved The le romance Is one of renunciation renunciation re re- re- re akin to that of Sidney Carton Carton Carton Car Car- ton In Dickens' Dickens famous Talc Tale of Two Cities ClUes and calls to mind the thc passage of Scripture recorded In St. St John 15 1513 13 Greater love hath bath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends Romance Began In Youth Joseph Emmett ONeill O'Neill and Walter Vatter Howard Stone were born In Fort Collins Col Col- has lins a c college town In Colorado The 1 former was of a n wealthy family which I owned great ranches that reached across the plains into the Rocky moun moun- I The parents of Stone were p pi pioneers pioneers pi- pi in the community and In modest modest mod mod- est cut circumstances The girl In the romance romance romance ro ro- ro- ro mance was Marion Marlon Palmer whose father father father fa fa- fa- fa of the ther was one of the founders college and prominent in Colorados Colorado's financial and social life The three families lived Ived in the same block In Fort Collins and when school days Miss l were over oyer and Marion Marlon became Palmer both young oung men became suitors suitors suit sult ors for her hand Walter Stone became a n bank clerk and was ambitious to rise In his pro pro- profession ONeill O'Neill whose father had died came Into possession of the tIle family family fam fam- ily fly fortune and the management of the ranches The race was neck and for Miss Palmers Palmer's hand Of course in the nature of things that state of affairs could not go on Finally Miss l Palmers Palmer's heart began to affect her neutrality Then ThEm she summoned summoned summoned sum sum- the two young men before her V dW 1 ArIt af I IV Submitted to an Operation V and nud demanded that they he be friends no matter which was selected to be her husband They agreed Miss l Marion Marlon as girls sometimes do followed the Inclinations In in- natIons 1 of her heart and select selected d Stone litone whose salary was meager In preference e to ONeill O'Neill and his wealth Then came the draft V Stone was summoned before Defore the draft board and passed He was placed In class 1 and filed no claim for exemption ONeill O'Neill was examined and rejected In February Stone was ordered ordered ordered or or- dered to report By this time an nn Interesting Interesting interesting Inter inter- esting event was presaged In the Stone home and he asked for more time The draft board was powerless and his wife became seriously ill because of worry ONeill O'Neill was watching He visited n a noted surgeon In Denver and asked for an operation He was told 1 that his chances for recovery would be two in five but he elected the op op- op V ONeill O'Neill Became a Substitute Three weeks after the operation ONeill O'Neill returned to Fort Port Collins sound and whole and demanded a new ex ex- He passed as ns qualified for military service Then he lie asked that he lie be substituted for Stone The draft board was unable to make such a n subStitution substitution substitution sub sub- but because of the urgent appeal of ONeill O'Neill they finally summoned summoned sum sum- Stone for re examination and gave him a deferred deterred classification b because because be be- cause of nervous breakdown ONeill O'Neill won his fight Then he went further He TIe called Stone from his bank Job and placed him in charge of the ONeill O'Neill ranches which yield a n year ONeill O'Neill stipulated that Stone manage the ranches on a 50 basis And Aud ONeill O'Neill went to war Marion Marlon Stone Is now well and happy following the arrival of a new mem mom ber bel In the Stone family a boy who has be been n named Joseph Emmett Stone Now the father who has regained regaIned re re- gained his farmer f health Is asking that he too be allowed to go to the tho army irmy and If possible be assigned t to J luty with ONeill |