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Show THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER UTAH : -- -- Tk' - I THE My left the pawn shop, calculating closely how be could most effectively Invest CHILDREN CRY his little ctipItuL It was raining and the air was chilly and disagreeable. He was proceeding past a row of wholesale stores closed up for the night, when a commotion proceeded from nn Intersecting court. Crash bung! Then yells, the shrill By A. G. SHERWIN t'wtings of a watchman's whistle. :t Three men dashed Into the street and pust Roy. One of them dropped a Chapman.) (Copyright, by W. bundle In his flight. They were eviHE is too good for me, but I thieves pursued. A policeman am going to make myself dently from the mouth of the court. emerged orthy of her." declared He began firing after them. To evade Roy Wilder. a stray bullet Roy sprung Into a ' "As how, now?" questioned his blunt building entrance. and practical uncle, who conducted a In was dark the little space where It business at Llyton and had made the elevator started. There building frleuds, a little money end felt that wns a bench nt one side. He moved life was worth living every hour of towards this as a bullet shattered a the working day. pane of glass near by. As he did so he "Why, I'll tell you, uncle." explained pressed closer to a figure huddled back Roy. "1 love Lesbia Thome, es you at the end of Hit; bench, seemingly disknow. I believe she knows that, too, her from sleep. and perhaps likes me a little In re- turbing "Oh do not harm me I. I was turn. I was at the commencement resting" when she graduated and the beautiful only "Great heavens!" gasped Roy and me. sentiments she spoke attracted stood aghast, for the voice was that She is a poor girl, but she has hlfrh Lesbia Thome ! of It Ideals. I cannot help but believe she tottered nearer to the light As would dwarf ail her ambitions to of the street he saw how pale and thin a humdrum country slit was. There were traces of care spend her life in village. She Is going to try the city ami suffering In her once bonny face, "BRIGHT LIGHTS" FOR "CASTORIA Especially Prepared for Infant, and Children of All Ages S. Mother! Fletcher's Castorla hu been in use for over 80 years to r. lleve babies and children of Constln. tion. Flatulency, Wind Colic and rhea; allaying Feverishness nrUin, therefrom, and, by regulating th Stomach und Bowels, aids the asslmi. latioa of Food; giving natural sleep without opiates. The genuine bears signature of ! i - yy y j$rp dmJm Ww yL so nm I." Old James Ridgely shook his head slowly nnd sadly. Fondness and indulgence were manifest in his kindly face and voice as he said: Nephew, I won't blame you, but when you have seen the bright lights and tire of the lure of the magnet city and find out as i did once, that all that Is fair to the sight but at the core hold but bitter dust and blight, turn back to the old man and remember I nm always your friend." Like some knight errant gaily and hopefully entering the lists to battle for some great cause, Roy Wilder repaired to the distant metropolis. He had only a little money nnd started out on his budding career with real sense and economy, lie was fortunate In finding a true friend, If one without much influence. This was a man considerably older than himself, one Rolfe Lismond. lie was a cynic, he had grnffness for al" most everybody. A a failure he designated himself, managing to pick up a few crumbs from the overloaded table of literary lords who used ils hack services when thiey were too Indolent or Incompetent to tackle subjects It meant hard work to truverse. lie showed Roy the paths, and thorny ones they were. He educated him Into the mysteries of cheap hall rooms and Inexpensive lunches. His delight "was to fill his old pipe evenings nnd sit dreaming while Roy told y of Lipton and its rural delights. At the end of six months he had managed to work In Roy as an occasional writer of sketches for a society fad paper. Roy felt the meanness nnd disloyalty to his true soul principles every time he slurred rustic life, for it was because of his familiarity with coun try character tint he was engaged. His publishers required satire, ridi cule. He was obliged to deride the simplicity of the announcement that "Si Green was painting his front fence," or that "Our pastor had a rousing donation party last week." In contradiction with this, he was compelled to gild the false unnatural glamour ot the white ways. The artificial glare of the bright lights had dazzled him at tlw first. Now they sickened his spirit. Distinction, affluence might be gained, but to pay the price of their acquisition was to part with the last vestige of truth and lie y? v&) 4Pc?2- SCOTT WATSON Drawing by Ray Walters. HO said that Romance Is kept and were In tho possession of the dead la those modem Russian quartermaster of the pirate until he tiled in tho Far Kast. days. In this year A. D. Bhip Ktffht expeditions were niado to find 1027? the treasure between 1800 and lSa2, Pieces of eight ! Doub- but moat of thm never reached the Those loons! Treasures of the desolate coust of the Island. did found that the landmarks, Pirate that Spanish Main! marked on the map, had beun wiped gold! BURIED TREAS out by a landslide. "Kobert Louis Stevenson used the URE! na the scene of 'Treasure Do those words bring back memo- place Island,' " Simmons says, "but the plunries to you memories of your boyhood der found In fiction reatly la still days when you first rend Stevenson's there." Such Items are not Pt nil uncommon "Treasure Island"? That was long In our newspapers nnd probably will go, perhaps, and yet Here are three dispatches which continue to appear therein for many have appeared In our newspapers years to come. For, onions our most within I he last few weeks. Head them ihorlshod traditions Is the belief that and see if they don't give you a sort every pirate who sailed the main r.t ' thrill : some time iu his career buried a part NEW YORK. Residents of Asbury of his loot somewhere nnd never rePark and nearby villages are warning covered it. And there (wherever up to a hunt for pirate treasure as tho uwalt-Ip.- c result of tho discovery by IVirival O. "there" is) it lies to this day whom the lucky- discoverer, tTllman, Jr., of No. 9 Lake street, Asbury Park, in that city of a fossil- through blind chance or because ho has ized boot of the type worn by swashcome across some old document which bucklers two centuries ago. Embedded In the boot I'llmnn puts him on the trail, it will enrich found a woman's gold ring, set with a beyond his wildest dreams. As si matlarce pearl. ter of fact It Is much more likely that The boot was found near the spot where a flintlock carbine was picked the average pirate squandered more up a month ko. A band of sea ma- of his gains thnn he ever rauders, led by a woman, took refuse buried, that not one Jn ten of nil the snot. at the The woman cut her hair short and was a ruthless plunderer, stories of buried treasure have the the original "bobbed-hai- r bandit." slightest foundation In fact and that more money has been spent In the NEW ORLEANS. Mysterious bands efforts to find this hidden wealth I ban fif treasure hunters still ranpre across aft the treasure which all the pirates the Louisiana marshes. They are necking- the burled spoils of the pirate Jean In history ever buried is worth. Lrfltte. Hut these facts, even if they eonid The bucenneer Is said to have cached be definitely established, probably vast stores of doubloons and pieces of eiEht alons the Rrcat coastal Htretch would fail to dim the lure of the sup southwest of New Orleans. posed buried treasure nor dampen the '."ported discovery of n burled treasof those who go tint to enthusiasm ure near Vermillion bay a year ago seek It. That lure and that entbusi- ri.us.'d considerable excitement. One party of treasure seekers went asm are based upon n universal human so far as to pull up a port t by weakness the desire. surveyors evidently bellevlnf? Terhaps Edgar Allen Poe Is its much mark-tncs one of tv:is (he the tbat made by LafUte. responsible as any one for nourishing It Is said thnt two members of the burled treasure angle of that deband once lived in the vicinity o long as the tradition of hidsire. f the city of Lake Charl.s. den treasure on our coasts and CLE VE ?.ANI OHIO. Doubloons, j so long as his "Gold ling" Is read by pieces of elirbt. and other treasures of successive generations of Americans, the Spanish Main, to the value of $51,- - ro long will we have the great Amerilinn.non, n,. ,urcd on a South American Island, ready for the person who Is can sport of hunting pirate gold. to dlf?, Recording to Coorte Only n year or so ago a Canadian curator of Kinlay Simmons, Invention of the metalo-phmiof ihe Cleveland Museum of announced his an electrical ' (!old Hug." which Natural Ulstorv. who has Just returned from the island. The cache Includes could detect the presence of burled much golden plunder taken from the metals even though they were conInca Irdlans by the Spaniards, who. In turn were robbed by the two plraies cealed beneath more than 30 fevt of on solid rock. who burled the loot & century Immediately the Word the Island off the const of HrRr.lt. went out thnt the metalophone was to One of the hoards, Simmons says, mounts to tin. 000.000, and was hurled be used to find the burled treasure on Ifiy the Spanish plrnt. Jose Santos, the historic ('won Island, which lies who captured a ship laden with (told hp Pacific ocean about ill. mna silver mroin, innr veaiineiiis aim southwest of Costa IIIc Hnd which :'rom churches of the candelabra wan n favorite lnlr of pirates In tho Peru. Urn. more w More than H.000,000 old freeboot!ng days. In fact Cocos burled on the same Island by an 1'nij-Jlsbeen a magnet for treasure island has pirate, who styled himself Itecords of this cache (M seekers for many years because then; By ELMO i if Is an apparently story that the mutinuous crew of the Britlt-- h land - cov-emine- nt "' ornl-tholoK- e, ao r'i h "Zul-mlro- T. Rs ." Diplomacy "I remember once, while serving as p correspondent In Washington," snld Sam Lapgdnn of Kt. Ixu!s. "how I chanced to be present nt a diplomatic conference in which Intrigue and guile were so manifest as to lx almost nu affront. Finally Mr. Ilonsevetf, having stood It as long as ho could, Jtt'nptd to his fts't nnd exclaimed: "(JetiMeinen, you can't get away with It I U l me say In plain Cnlted States, $12,000,(XM) (wine nccounts put it r.t $33,000,000 nnd others at $00,000,000) more than a hundred years apo. Soon afterwards the secret leaked out and scarcely a year has passed since that time that someone has not tried to uncover this vast wealth. As late as 1023 a party of r.ritish scientists set out for that purpose, but If they or anyone else have been successful, the world is yet to hear of it. The treasure which the famous Captain Kidd Is supposed to have buried somewhere along the New England coast is nearly as famous and us much sought titer us the Cocos island wealth. It Is true that he did bury a part of his loot on Gardiner's island, o(T Montank point on Island, N. Y., when he returned from his trip a pirating, but that was recovered soon after his arrest. And that Is nil of Captain KIdd's fold that has ever been recovered. The ramous P.lackbrard Is said to have burled part of his piratical wealth In New Jersey. Wherefore "gold diggers" have made the dirt fly at various places in New Jersey hut more particularly at Hurling says that Kir Henry Morgan hid pun of his loot beneath the soil tif ;:k Island, off the coast of Maine, nnd more than $200,000 has been .spent from time to time digging on Oak Island to recover It. So far the net result has been nothing. The gold of Jean Lafitte has kept treasure seekers busy at various places along the coast of Louisiana and Texas. This legend la almost 1 perfect burled-treasuryarn. There Is a document, bequeathed by u father, about to die, to his son, bearing the dale of ISl.'l, which tells of (he burial by Lafitte an I his men of 7(,iXM doub loons and a bar of silver. It Is signed by a number of the pirate's followers nnd has as its seal the usual pirate marks, the skull and crossbones and n dagger. There occur also the words "mutiny." "cruelty" and "Inquisition" and on the other side Is a rude map which Is the key to the location of the hoard. There Is a story of a party of men who stumbled upon the pince where they were sure that the treasure was hurled, then went back to get spades to dig and could not And the So there (wherever place again. "there" Is) lies Uifltte's hurled treat tire worth 1.120.0(10 for someone. P.nt. in the argot of (he day, "try nnd get it." j rock-encrust- s-- ship Mary Dear hid on the treasure valued at ls- - e j that a flush In the hand Is worth two First Golf Club on the face, and for that reason, the The first golf club used on the first irplted States of America Is f.latiillt'.g golf course west of thP Mississippi pat." fo he enshrined In a place of honor nt the Wichita Country club. Prof. C. Harth Puritanism P. Clark was the first one to Introduce In lti'! the Puritans, through the golf to the residents of this city p ;oprnl court of Massachusetts, nre Kansas. said to have enacted an ordinance providing "that everybody who is Which Wone? found observing by abstinence from We ask yon, man to man, which Is labor, feasting or otherwise, any such worse, profanity, or , declaring that day as Christmas day, thull for every something Is 'crfectly darlixnr such otTente be flned'a shillings." Little Hock Democrat. h It p!" he said to himself one day. "I will not longer travesty the sweet simple life I must get back to or go mad In this wild whirlpool of fraud, deceit and hypocrisy." And Lesbia? Several times Roy heard of her, but did not seek to m.vt her. In some way some college friends had secured for her an entree as a singer Into the higher circles of society. Lesbia had a beautiful voice. Her ambition was to become an opera singer. Then, when the social season was over, Roy heard nothing of her.. He had about given up his city dream. He had written wearily, longingly to good old Uncle James. A very little encouragement nnd Roy was ready to go back to Upton ami begin IITc all over again. Lismond went away on a commission to write up a trip around the world with some state Improvement committee and Roy was lonely and discouraged. Tln-- came dark days no work and no prospects. He was room he compelled to give rented and cut down meals to two a day. Finally even this system he could not afford to keep up, He took the cheapest lodgings by the night nnd made do with u pound of broken vrackers or yesterday's stale rolls for a time. There were no bright lights now. All was obscurity, the gloss gone from metropolitan life, nothing sweet In the city but llio patient lives of the . poor. "I'll make one last break, try to get placed and if I fall" he soliloquized, and halted then? his speech with n shudder, turning from the darkly rolling river which be passed at the moment. ills watch was his Inst valued property possession. To this ho had clung, but necessity seemed to demand the sacrifice of the last shred of respectability and he pawned It. His plan was to Invent In n new hat and shoes, tidy up as far ns his means would allow and seek work outside of the up-th- literary field, With hl 1UU store ot wealth Hoy name nnd she was re- keepers. "I do not exaggerate when I say thnt most of the second and third genera-tion nre like n young contractor I know, who bad Inherited the bushiest from his father. One day he hired u youug engineer and put him to work on a design. r Roy insisted that she accompany "'May I use calculus In solving this him to the home of nn old lady with whom he had boarded during his first problem?' asked the vonth. "'Certainly, use anything you want palmy days In the city. There she was given in kindly charge. There, to,' said the Ignorant, but kindly emwe haven't enough in too, Roy found a belated letter from, ployer, 'and if his uncle In answer to his own lov- stock "I'll send out and buy you Los Angeles Times. some.' ing, ardent, "Can I bring Lesbia with me?" was wired an hour later and the prompt reply came: "She shall he as my own daughter." So these two, wedded the next day, went away from the bright lights so delusive, so devouring back to the sweet simple life that was full of Your sidles, and tenderness, and love. throat soothed, head cleared, cough relieved by the exclusive menthol blend in K2 Few Willing to Admit Doing Things for Fun MEHTHOZ. COUGH DROPtJ People would be better off In many The Shiftless Policy ways If they would occasionally admit that they do things merely for the fun secretary Wilbur, at a Washington of doing tliein, contends an editorial diuqer party,' complained about in Liberty. "We Americans have a of appropriations, which prevent peculiar complex Inherited from otli him from keeping the navy at full tl'.ff-lac- Puritan forebears," the editorial main- strength. tains. "Wo stubbornly refuse to ad. mit that we ever do anything for the sake of pleasure. We persist in reanil garding pleasure as n feel that doing anything pleasurable for Its own sake Is akin to sin. The surest way fi;r nn American small boy to insure a whipping is to tell his fa- I "A shiftless policy In appropriating' money," he said, "Is as unsatisfactory as a shiftless policy in any other affair. It reminds me of a little story. "'I've only got two clean pa!rs of socks, a man complained one morning, 'and they've both got holes 'Aw, I did it for fun.' ther, "Ills wife examined the socks. Then "The ancestors of most of ns, when they arrived on these shores," the edi torial explains, "were down in tne world, homesick, lonely and broke. Thry resented the fact that the aristocracy nnd the nobility In the old country did tilings for pleasure. In their was she said holes are In different places.' " i Taks Tablets Without Fear If Yoif See the Safety "Bayer Cross." Warning ! Unless you see the name 'Bayer" on package or on tablets yo are not gettltig the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions amf prescribed by physicians for 20 years. Say "Bayer" when you buy Aspirin. Imlttilons may prove dangerous. Adv. Origin of "Limerick" Class by Herself Limericks were usually extemporaneous compositions and produced st convivial parties in Ireland by each Individual in turn, while the entirs party Joined In singing a chorus b which were the words, "Will you cotim lift to Limerick?" From this It is supposed that the word "limerick," applied to a special type of poetry, I derived. Arthur I'.ernsteln. former business manager for Jackie Coognn and now manager of a group of West coast theaters, was busy casting types for one of the many prologues that are staged under his direction. "Have you had any experience?" he asked the sweet young thing on the carpet. "No sir," "I suppose yen w ere the talk of your home town?" Military Drill for "Oh, no." of conr(-- , you expect to be a star some day?" not." A harmless vegetable butter color used by millions for 50 years. Druif (lores and general stores pell bottle of "Dandelion'' for 85 cents. Adv. osity." Telephone Statistics ! that approximately! 73.000.000 telephone conversations take place every day within the boundaries of the Cnlted States, the total for the year being In excess of 22 . OdO.ooO.fKK), or nt the rate of 101 for each Inhabitant, The nearest approach to this among the other countries of the world is that of Denmark, which Is credited with more than 1.11 talks. Norway and Sweden rank next, with 113 and 1W. respectively; while France nnd Italy, which nre presumed to be racially conversational, are near the bottom of the list with 20 and 0 talks, respectively. s co-ed- "DANDELION BUTTER COLOR" "All right," said Arthur, "I'm going to hire you. I'll use you as a curi- Is estimated Co-Ed- s to law in Japan compels take military training along with the men students, says the Dearborn Independent. A "th. no. of course "Can you sing?" Must a little." The DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRlfi Its own sake was wicked. "A frank admission thnt we du things for the fun of doing them, and the omission of hypocritical excuses from ancestors who were down In I he world," the editorial contends, "might help us to correct some of the evils that oppress us." It : "'Put on boh pairs, dear. eves, nnvthlni? the nrlstocrncv did Therefore pleasure for wrong. "Rut. Exceedingly Eccentric "Queer family, are they not?" "Very I Why, they haven't g"t rndiol" No other nngler has ever been nhl' to bent Jonah's fish story. Waste Matter Retained in the System is the Greatest Barrier to Health "Dr. Pierce Taklma, Wash. Pleasant Pellets have been my f" vorlte family medicine for fnftif years. They relief one of liver trouble, aid digestion ami are Tory Hood fnr any disorder of the, tnmaeh. hi lloti'-iiegior bilious Puritans of Many Sects Puritanism wns never a denomination In the true sense of the The Puritans were originally member! I thin .I . verf or the established church who believed l: purifying nnd reforming the church rrtcuiator of 'A'ia the In respect to rituals and certain matonrh, liver and bowels that ters of doctrine. Those who came to anrono can tsk America heenmw Conirresratlonnllsis. ' They keep on'a system In porfcci Presbyterians, Bnptlsls nnd' members rondlMfin If taken na dlrectod." or various other sects. For instance, Mr. W. J. Andrews, (102 Brood'-?- ; nftrr Roger Williams was expelled rbtsln a 11 of Fe'lets no' m from Massachusetts be onrnnlzcd th your dntgglrt and gee how qalrklf rou'll feel clear headed - full of T'10 first Baptist congregation in Anmrlru and !tallty. 69 Telleta for 30c l atliUnder u Maguiiua, ; ' 1 t 1 homo-welcomin- far-awa- integrity. "I give h'.s "Nature Itself Is socialistic," dp. dared Michael Devlin. "It would not take long for a few families to corner all the money In the world, were It not for the fact thatv as a rule, the sons of money makers are not money assured. She almost fell to the seat, lie sat down beside her. They forgot as their environment, everything, stories were exchanged. Lesbia had found the road to operatic favor a dismal treadmill. Poverty had come, she was homeless. "has-been,- -- spoke Sons of Money Kings Seldom Money Makers ... i j ' |