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Show UTAH THE HELPER TIMES, HELPER. ! The Recluse of Fifth Avenue g... recognize him. He clung to the Idea that when once he ceased to shave and STORY FROM THE START wear clean linen the descent to hell would have From the comfortable financial He rolled a cigarette and Indulged ltuatlon to which he had been born, Peter MUman, American In pleasing reveries. Good dinners and old school, gentleman of the were not given idly nor were hundred-dolla- r laat of his family, la practically bills expended for nothing. reduced to penury through the misfortune of a friend, Haie i Peter Mllman wanted him to do someBrewer, whom he had unwisely thing. Well, Neeland Barnes was his trusted. Learning of Brewer's suiman. Perhaps after all these years cide, which means the destruction the man who had run away with Mrs. of hlB last hope, Mllman engages a French butler, Achille Lutry, Mllman was back In America. Perwho speaks no English, and Is to haps I'eter Mllman desired him to be of servant long replace Bneed, chastised publicly. He would find Mllman By Lutry, standing. Neeland Barnes devoid of fear and In sends letters to Prof. Fleming d Bradney, Floyd Malet and better physical trim than he had been Barnes, men whom the for a dozen years. Barnes always saw world has classed as failures, himself In a heroic light. He hoped once of high position. the thing would be staged so that his old cronies might see It. They would never believe that he could keep so fit CHAPTER II Continued after the scandalous rumors that had 3 "Beside yourself there will be, I been spread about him. Naturally there would be expense tnist, Neeland Barnes, formerly an International polo player and owner of money. It would be a delightful exrace horges, and Floyd Malet, who. perience to pay Lippsky his deferred when he seemed about to take his rent In nickels and cents and watch place In the world as a great sculptor, him scrambling feverishly for the coins among poison Ivy. And he would ufTered an unfortunate eclipse." Bradney went to the library and be able to send his daughter a decent opened the New York directory. Sure present at last. Poor NIta, whom he enough, Peter Mllman was recorded as had not seen for years, brought up by living on Lower Fifth avenue,' The Jealous relatives far from his care. thing, then, was not a foolish prac- The adventure might lead to amazing tical Joke. things. Puffing at a big pipe, Fleming BradPresently these brilliant prospects ney sat on his little balcony and gazed faded. He was conscious that his only at Manhattan lights. This strange home was In Llppsky's grotesquely letter had awakened old hopes and furnished house. Adventures with ambitions that he had thought for ever glorious endings offered themselves dead. Of course, there could be no only to youth. He sighed a little. practical Joke which expended a hun- Then he smiled. After all, he had the dred dollars on Its fulfillment. Brad- hundred dollars and the prospect of ney read the letter again. The phrase, a good dinner. "Perhaps at this dinner you may be offered the opportunity," torrtt his Floyd Malet, under the name of Did M. fancy strangely. Opportunity! Floyd, was earning a poor living any exist for a man who had been by teaching drawing In Philadelphia and was now forgotten? Unschools. The man who had private betil this letter came Bradney had to see his name associated with lieved his career finished. lie went hoped Rodin and Meunler was forgotten by Into his bedroom and disinterred fl all save the few who had seen in him u!t of full evening dress from Its the signs of genius. Malet was a man mothball tomb. He had not worn It of middle size, thin and haggard. tor a dozen years. Once or twice fastidious pupils had complained that he paid too little atPeter Milman's letter reached d tention to his personal appearance. Barnes at a moment when that Milman's letter came by late mall. At eminent sportsman was engaged In first the" sculptor was inclined to think staving off his most persistent cred- it an advertising scheme of some sort. itor, the landlord Lippsky. The Lower Fifth avenue address was Barnes was a tall, finely made man thick with loft and office buildings. who had run through several fortunes Like Bradney, he went to a library ky his love for horses and his Inabil- and looked up Mllman. The genealogto Judge of their chances In races. ical department gave him ample data. ity After his wife had died, his relatives The stranger's letter held out the had shrugged their shoulders and promise of temporary relief from an bandoned him. The many schemes intolerable life. There was money for his rehabilitation had failed, lie for the and enough over to live trip disappeared from fashionable resorts. for many weeks as he had lately His only daughter was being brougl't learned to live. He packed his grip, op In England by rich relations. Hh thankful he had saved a suit of evehad drifted about the world until, at clothes. the end of all resources, he had taken ning There is something vivifying about a little house on the outskirts of the air of Manhattan. It had its ef PeekskiH. on the three men bound for Peter Here he was engaged In what he fect Milman's house. Bradney held up his explained as on attempt "to stage a bead again and Malet lost his droop comeback." He was trying to become of depression. Neeland Barnes, walkphysically fit, and he was succeeding. down the avenue, passed But mountain hikes and sculling up ing briskly clubs which had dropped him on acthe noble stream brought no grist to count of nonpayment of dues and felt the mill. himself within measurable distance of "Mr. Barnes, you are a loafer," His military mustache Lippsky crjed when the sportsman had and fine made him a marked carriage nnnounced his Inability to pay rent and he liked the limelight. figure, long overdue. This seemed cruelly unAs he neared the Mllman house he just to a man who had Just returned wondered what his fellow guests from a twenty-milwalk. "Some day, If you keep on annoying would be like. In other years no physme," said Neeland Barnes, "I shall icists had been numbered among his He was not quite ceracquaintances. kill you." a was. As to what tain physicist "You don't have to kill me," Lippsky cried shrilly. "You Just pay my rent. sculptors, he had met one In Rome, but he was a marquis. Sculptors were fr"ell your swell clothes and get over-nils.- " He waved I'eter Milman's let- probably all right. He was reassured ter. "Get some of your swell friends by remembering that the wife of a former polo pal had her own studio. to lend you money." Neeland Barnes looked at the letter, But he would probably have to dompuzzled. He did not recognize the inate the conversation with I'eter and talk of old New York society. writing, but the stationery was reasbe careful not to mention the must He suring. "When what you term my swell Daynes. The runaway wife had been friends know I am living In a hovel u Iayiie. like this, they will advance me the Wedged in betwei n tall buildings, money. I shall not ask them until I the Milman house looked squat and Yet Barnes gazed ut liiive finished my training. I ara about unimpressive. t" begin. If I hit you. It's your look- It with respect. To be able to retain out." it spelled wealth. Lesser meu would Barnes began his shadow-boxinhave sold at a profit and moved upexercises. I'imly Lippsky perceived town. What this millionaire might that his debtor was getting nearer ami want with Neehmd Barnes was .a de- He went out muttering Dearer. "Loafer." It was a word which did Biueh to appease him. , Barnes boxed no more when lilg landlord had disappeared. He read the astonishing letter a dozen times The oculist had a Joke the other rid secreted the money-orde- r at once, A)"ne of the three wiio hud received morning. Every now and then he somewhat similar communications, he smiled quietly to himself. "You know," knew of Milninn and his family. Very lie said finally to the Woman, "mothHrantly they were connected by mar- ers are wonderful people. They always riage. Barnes hud no idea that the believe tU'r Is nobody quite so clever as their own children. Lrewer failure had brought i'eter to penury. One sentence lie "Now, my 11, other, for Instance, f md strangely intriguing: "If. as tliiiiks I know everything about eyes. biMe-.o- , you feel yourself unfairly She (!e!i't con fine her boasting to the t!'eal;-by the world that wiik yours, neighbors, either. She is Just as like1 ui.i.v be lible to ofler you tlie oppor-tly lis in.f to walk up to a nearsighted l ily t'J taice your place ngiin In or cros'-eyi"passenger in the stihwuy and tell hl:u his pjes need attention i r!e;y." Nro!;iiid Karnes longed above nil urn! Unit her son is the best oculist In rhln::s for rue comfortable life tlint New York, sin- - says that isn't hunto;:cc I. ecu ills. He had never ing business for me; It's helping limself to become shabby. people who don't know enough to look N(or tiitd lie sunk to such a state after Uuir sight. But the Joke la on j I that former friends would hesitate to her. ., Nee-lan- d Nee-Inn- e Mil-ma- n 1 ! i.-- 1 : Utah : Live in It's a Privilege 1 J WYNDHAM MARTYN Ooprrfcht in the I r nltrd Stto W K U faerrlc b Hghtful mystery, ne rapped loudlj with the brass knocker. A few minutes earlier Floyd Malet had stood appalled at the smug ugliness of the building. He did not think with any sympathy of that generation, represented by the builder, which had distrusted elegance and loved what was solid and lasting. To the sculptor It seemed the Mllman home was modeled on the old Astor house. But he liked the door and the brass knocker, which was a copy of that decorating an Oxford college. The last to come was Fleming Bradney, whom the 6ubway had delayed. He rather liked the house. It had strength and the air of studied Isolation. None could look through Its windows to disturb the inmates It lay fifteen feet back from the sidewalk. Bradney had that Imagination can without which mathematicians never be great. Whom and what was he to see behind the tall door? CHAPTER III of Neeland Barnes disapproved Achille, who admitted him with lavish gestures. This was not the sort of butler a Mllman should employ. He followed him to a library, where he found his host speaking to Floyd Malet. It was as Barnes thought Sculptors were not quite up to his bo-clal standard. This stranger was and his physically inconspicuous, clothes should have been more recently pressed. Neeland Barnes held out his hand to Peter Mllman, as one could to s man of his distinguished ancestry, with a smile which said plainly, "I, at least, belong here." "It Is very kind of you to come," said Peter Mllman. He turned to Floyd Malet: "Mr. Malet, this is Mr. Neeland Barnes." Barnes nodded a little .coldly. Curious, he thought, that Peter Mllman should have Introduced Malet to him. Then Fleming Bradney came In. Although his clothes were of another era, there was an air of power about him. His was a carelessness due less to Ignorance than to lack of concern with other people's modes of life and thought. In an age when beards were unpopular he wore one, and little children hissed "Beaver" to him at every street corner. Peter Mllman, so Barnes thought, treated hlra with extreme respect. It was not until Achille brought In the cocktails that Barnes' frown left him. It was easy to see that of the three Peter Mllman considered him the least Why, he wondered, did Important, Mllman esteen It an honor to have a physicist to dinner? The word recurred many times. This must new way of describing a physician. That was it Thyslcians were lt not so bad. One had married a In America and another duke of Norfolk's daughter in England. The second cocktail found Neeland ne inoked Barnes more amiable, keenly at his host, but discovered no trace of nervousness about htm. no wlldness of eye which might confirm the world's opinion that he was mentally unfit. Perfectly dressed, as than usual, but no better turned-ou- t Neeland Barnes. The dining room was beautifully furnished. "Ha, ha," said Barnes, "good old Chippendale!" "Sheraton," the sculptor corrected gently. "Just as you like," Barnes said genially. There were certain bottles In plain view which banished any he might have felt. Not for years had he sat down to a really and dinner. Everything about him spoke of lavish exTo Floyd Malet everypenditures. thing spoke of exquisite taste. The relief, after years of furnished dissonance, was grateful. He felt cheerful after a decade of gloom. The bearded Bradney noticed only that he was sitting at a bountiful table and Invited to sip excellent vintage wines. What was the reason? He was Impatient to know. What opportunity was he to be offered to regain the rank in science that disgrace had bereft him? Van-derbi- well-chose- well-cooke- d (TO BE CONTINUED.) One Eye Her Oculist Son Could Not Help Mil-i)i;- n News Notes to "Yesterday she met a man who Is distinctly and painfully 'walleyed.' You mustn't let your eyes go 'like that,' she told htm Immediately the Introductions were made. '.My son can do anything with eyes. Why dou't you go to see him?' 'I'm afraid he can't do anything with this eye. madam,' answered the object of her solicitude; 'you sec, It's a glass one.'" New York Sun. Aztec Religioui Belief The Aztecs believed in special glds who brought diseases and In other gods who knew healing secrets. per-t.iitle- d The bark of several suedes of the eucalyptus tree yields a rosin, bene the tree is culled the "gum Lrcu. of the EPHRAIM Epbraim factory ..,... m,..,tc,in Packing corporation run hand-I,:- . bas just closed a two w eek 3 Approxi- croD. ,,..a r..t canwere mately 40.000 cases of peas a for run ned and a record over 50u0 cases period was set when or over 120,-00each r cans of twenty-foucans of peas, were packed between r 0 midnight and midnight. Millers in thif AMERICAN FALLS ad section of the country and those in Powei pacent states are watching the of the much With crop. wheat county producing in the grain wheat oS grade lections throughout the country, they are anxious to obtain a product that will measure up to milling requirements. Inquiries received by Manager Harry Knott of the Power Ccuuty Farmers Warehouse company seem to show they are particularly interested in Tower County Red, and the probabilities are that the farmers here will benefit in consequence. PROVO With a record hay crop iu prospect large amounts of hay are likely ta b; crowded into market channobs during this 1927 28 season, and farmers Iu hay shipping sections are cautioned by the United States department of agriculture to make sure of their market before adding the expenses of bailing and shipping to poor quality hay. MOSCOW Tests on alfalfa conducted by G. R. McDole, agronomist of the Idaho e.xtens'cn division, shows that application of gypsum, preferably In the fall of the year, produces a yield averaginf,' 50 per cent greater than yields on similar ground, and under identical conditions. CITY Recent surveys BRICHAM of the beet fields in the Brigham City and Gsrland sugar factcry districts disclosed soma very interesting anf encouraging facts concerning the outlook for a bumper crop this fall. The curley leaf, caused by the white fly, has done no appreciable damage, probably no more than in years before it was so severe and the farmers were not so familiar with it. The white fly practically ruined the beet crop toi two years past, but, from present indications, is causing very little, if any1 damage in the county. FILER All is in readiness for the sixth annual ram sale of the Idaho Woolgrowers' association, which will be held at the county fair grounds here next Wednesday. With fifty-fivchoice studs, 700 yearling range rams, 425 ram lambs and some registered ewes, a total of 1100 in all, comprising consignments from all breeds practicable for Idaho conditions, livestock men are predicting a successful and well attended event. RICHFIELD Friday night and Saturday Sevier valley was visited by a general rain, the largest since last March. The storm registered .40 of an Inch In the government rain gauge, according to S. R. Boswell, cooperative weather observer. Although some second crop hay was damaged, the storm has been of inestimable good to sugar beets, gardens, potatoes, pastures and the range. BOISE Irrigation needs of the Minidoka and Twin Falls canals will for the most part be filled from the American Falls tiservoir this year, insuring a large carry-ove- r for next year, it wa3 indicated in a report submitted by G. Clyde Baldwin, watermaster of Snake river, to the state department of reclamation. The upper Snake river, says Mr. Baldwin, is sure of a 100 per cent water supply this summer. MYTON Indications point to a fairly good crop of alfalfa seed in the basin this year, as present weather conditions seem to be favorable for the maturing of the seed. In the warehouse of the Uintah Basin Seed Growers' association plant, quite a volume of last year's crop remains unsold. A portion of this belongs to growers who entered the seed pool organized last fall. IDAHO FALLS Idaho Falls schools will open for the school year of 1927-2on Thursday, September 1, it was announced. Monday and Tuesday, August 29 and 30, will be taken up with the enrollment and classification of Junior and senior high school pupils. Wednesday will be devoted to be present on Thursday, September 1. VERNAL The Vernal-Mila highway was unofficially opene' to automobile traffic Thursday bv caravan of six automobiles carrying a ot rurty Union Pacific railway o:?ia'..s, escorted by a large delegatior of tireon River. Wyo., and Iagg-t- t conntv. intercommunity excursion of business Ltnh. residents to Vernal iu the ir- men from southern Wyoming CALDWELL-- In order to rrotect the prune growers of id.' members of the Southern Idaho IT r.e Growers' association met here and adop.-- d a resolution asking the st.ue drpnri-r,..n- t of agriculture to publish a li.i of the licensed prune shippers o.' tnc state. BOISE Information couching an ore discovery of on important property of the Castle Creek Mining and Milling company of Owvhpn county has been received at he 0;!ieo of the Idaho Mining assoela'ion rotary Ravend Maej.(J,!; s;.1;. - -w - " CrtisE Mid t ;1S ' --g- a . f, c SALT w Mo-jta- the World war a VIENNA, since different atmosphere from that which enveloped it a decade and a half ago under the Ilaps-burgDut physically it has remained the same beautiful city. Until recently one of the richest and gayest cities on the continent and the center of Europe's oldest empire, she Is today the capital of a few mountains and rivers that occupy a small corner of her former dominions. The dissolution of an immense polyglot empire has brought Austria close to ruin and put Vienna largely In pawn to the s. world. On the edge of a shriveled little republic of 6,000,000 Insolvents, Vienna for several bitter years lived on alms, while her currency dropped until It took many thousand of her twenty-cen- t pieces to make one American dollar. Surrounded by countries that nursed ancient grudges against her, dependent on them for nearly all her food and fuel, and with only worthless money with which to pay her bills this was the fate which brought almost unparalleled national misery upon a highly civilized people in a famous center of learning, art, and culture. Recent years, bringing a loan guaranteed by the League of Nations, and a replacement of worthless money by new units, have seen considerable betterment over the dark days of seven years ago; but even so, Vienna, and the sadly shrunken territory of which it is the capital can hardly be said to be wholly out of the economic woods. Despite the tragic atmosphere that has clung round her recently, Vienna is still a beautiful city, with the cosmopolitan charm of Paris. In area she can compete with London, for her limits embrace more than 105 square miles. The city, however, is not built up to Its limits, but is surrounded by a belt of meadows and wooded hills known as the Wiener Wald, from which many of the beautiful trees have been cut down in recent years. Many Eeautiful Buildings. No Cner buildings can be found in Europe than in this city of the Haps-burgSeveral races labored at building Vienna for mure than a thousand years, and the artistry of many peoples is represented here. The buildings ure a" record of the changing taste of western civilization. liatoque architecture, which came to grief iu Rome and to perfection iu Vienna, has many brilliant examples, particularly in the Inner city. This is the oldest part of Vienna and is inclosed by the famous a boulevard 187 feet wide, with double rows of trees, and built, like the old boulevards of Paris, on the site of fortifications which once extended for three miles about the cure of the city. Within or on the Ring are the palace buildings, the greut Gothic cathedral of .St. Stephen, the celebrated university, the parliament bunding that Greek temple where the national assembly of the republic now sits the immense twin museums, the Exchange building which is the city's pulse, the opera and the Ilofburg theater, all in a sviting of linden and trees, which frame the boulevard and avenues and line the Walks of Vienna's lovely parks. Outside the confines of the Ring are many palaces, embassies, chateaux museums., hotels, and handsome stone apartment houses like those of i'.erlin. In this splendid setting m economic uphiaval alter the armistice completely overturned every normal social condition ,,() changed the destinies 0f all fho-- os of the population. "nie wrk. i"? man is now ,m top of the heap m.d will be provided tor as long as the Social Democrats are able to 'oake th.-igoven.nivtital machine function. Next down the new economic scale Come the titled atul the ritoeraey other upper classes V, Us(., t(l ,jve by "unearned Increment." y,my 0f these have spent their since principal the icM.Iuiiou and have come to bitter .....uB c-t t'lns--ii- ,e rml.ia on the scale is the middle r.al ,f Vienna. a trady lourth of the' population "I'd lliclidin3 tlH. intelligentsia this ''lire class. , wh,., thfl () cy inei.sur,, ow.,,s 1s cn fered greatly ..ii.ee KM!ll.li int middle Cas uaveier i.wu, uc umy even Yin 0 rAO m WI10 1. Cras sees, it uves on ei"! leave the city all is gom. with the Viennese. There Is the impression that r Keav in the hotel district on the Riog" indicate to him that here is a r that Is running along on mere hi. How It Looks to the Tourist lie will be served plenty of P.. food. Hp will ... 1UUJ luiurifj ji me snop windows priced beyond t pocketbook. Opera tickets are tainable, be may find, unless he tf' a hotel porter to stand In hi) seven o'clock in tne morning. G. uiuwus mat, uei ireeiy will surrot him at the races. He will pass J0i stands piled with roses of the m icuu ueu uiy variety, ana irmt who have mounds of hothouse The :,e larger by far than P' :ned eved fOakla: iron; tosist fyPO :er, fc'erke; isc!i In.' veiide-- Mi: s those in New York. He will see drab s. :to Ro san. ners blazing with oranges. If he wishes to take tea at a m HH cafe, he will have to get there er or he will find all the tables &: 1L Strolling about the King afterea: he will see scarcely a person, who not well dressed and well fed. Buj all this is seen in the Vte of tlie tourist, near the Ring. Dolfc, pounds, francs, and lire keep hotels and shops running at a pro llsVe, too, come the exchange and profiteers, known as the schieberJ who became wealthy while the rest Vienna starved. The gaiety which has always ckrj aeterized the soul of the Viennese t. an elastic quality which has enafc them to survive the most extra diuary hardships and times without depressing their bling spirits. As long as a man has his old I: roleau hiking costume of leafe breeches and a feathered cap, and woman her peasant's costume, w. its black bodice and red apron, Ik will pack raincoats, bread, and a knapsack, take their cliW: off for t by the hand, and start country. is Every Sunday and holiday LaughM care-fretrumping. at b romping, the bare cupboard countr the to forgotten, they hike some favor through sua or rain, to Wald. spot in the Wiener At nightfall they turn back, tw in" thu eirv us the onera and crowds nre rnsllili" to catch the trams for the suburbs. I'erW them . bottle of wine has prepared their lore? wnlk hack In the d.lrtK sing ami inspires them to shout and of tneir rscene to the return they ; ;: A sit-i- e ations. King-Strass- horse-chestnu- t ac The plight of this (Prepared by thu National D.CeoKiaphlc J. ) Society. Washington. torn by recent riots, nh r.,nk9 f.rlh in r.tom.,1,1,,, ,ravrl to Yellovsfone park Wnin th., :27 acconl-nto a report receive,! fi(.ason I nlon Pacific system cilice, r., at ,h, leads al! th other "i ouy. states. l. Pnllfn I. gl Orusf poverty. LAKE-H- lei i 4 at Belvedere Palace in Vienna. - e ' ZriA -- Their sufferings have left bitter impressions. Like node-oirrt-- sible children, many seem whard pt as the aftermath of the. war . nn cpnt K,Z"-be- d tney which Ishment, after Butt" without any supper. row surely they will be tW '11CI the good old times of plenty back. Galleries. Coffee Houses and of houses The famous coffee e the population repairs, newspaper business hours, for ut ing, letter wrilting. chess tni'J as are still well patronized u".VN , i ti, l"c lorl;eSt... c,tu u,""' - ts.e , i Austrian cannot change is uiD when national calamity ,.lit" SLIII., , hnif his time n H'UO,.l,i ",,e of although his allowance and down cut was schnapps no longer be generous to tne Vienna bas always U'n too.'S ;; f of Europe what Moscow north a great studio ami art The magnificent 'lllu'r''J; ft by the ilapsburgs, have . dents from all over the disl'l")' still windows shop art f, whimsicalities of modern invention the native l'ra''j .u eels. Exquisite ceramic and ""f". wooden articles, have been Viennese s"M'IM ,;. ; chunk's PoliMeal ha the city's geographic! slI,i;' the Danube still H"" In lllt' through the opening am' ships ranges, hearing e:Sl 1,1 goes for distribution ..ml lIHl' .in "" sun ts leliliu rope. ..c ii.l.iod seiilioi't "" '' 'vjt: ;.,: will'(J...tfiV i..,.-.l'in im- on tin ill.,., III'. null) 'II I'll i t'l'UUIMTCKU i ,.. 111 t; " ,,r.r ill'1 fn c'Pt the Vu!i , J -- ( being her salvation. 1 ft 6" |