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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH Game Leg QEveiiir3 fairy lale dom& V? i- - it- - it , COlrUnftUS AT ttli; COgitT Of UABZHU Photos ywWkWe'-w- y III. Up it SI 5 4? it 1. 5 '..afl!.-- & ' X.Cv. 4 Jff v i,.:v .. ; 3fW YORK SErzuxa?- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N THE year 1 102 there ap- Discovery peared at the court' of Ferdinand and Kins Queen Isabella of Spain a man named Christopher or Cristobal Colvmlms, Colon, a poverty-stricken- There lurks in every breast some of the fir. That sent Columbus daring unknown seas. There lurks in every human heart desire To To find new continents. such as these The woodland is a world, and continents They who go seeking shall as surely find As he who scorned an earth's experience And left established error far behind. , discouraged sea captain who at the ftf?e of fifty-si- x had all but given up a boyhood dream and the hope of ever realizing the fondest of his lifft. "He was tall and well built, of dignified mien, with red hair and beard, a long ruddy face, clear gray eyes and aquiline nose," writes Dr. I. li, Itichman author of "The Spanish Conquerors," volume two of the Yule university press "Chronicles of America." "To Inferiors his manner was exacting and brusque, to equals It was urbane and to superiors It was courtly. Ills figure showed to advantage, whereof he was not unduly aware, and he evinced a taste for yellow in heads and for crimson and scarlet in caps, clanks and shoes, , "Unlike the Spaniards, whom he was to lead, Columbus was not in disposition primitive; be had no relish for blood and suffering. He was, however, proud, with a measure of austerity, and he was highly romantic and strikingly devout." Such was the man whose great achievement Is celebrated on October 12 of this year, 4r?5 years after ttiat achievement took place, and perhaps It was the romantic element in bis nature which made him, despite all discouragement, hold fast to his dream of finding a shorter route to the wealth of the Orient by sailing directly west across the "Sea of Darkness." I'or the wise men of his day scoffed at his plan, ridiculed his idea that the earth was round like a ball, called him a visionary and a foolish schemer. This was not his first appearance at the royal court of Spain. He had been there once before and had failed Just as he had failed at the court of another monarch. The story of his failures and his final triumph, as given by Doctor Ricliman. follows: n Let us Ro forth, as great Columbus sailed. And we shall find new archipelagoes Sequestered paths that only deer have trailed. another continent, Perhaps who knows? Some cloistered valley far from man removed, Some fragrant clearing hidden In the firs Some lily prarden man has never 'loved, our coming, coverers. IValtin-- the dis- We may not find Americas, but we Shall feel the thrill that thrilled a greater breast Perhaps a mountain that will glimpse the sea, Beneath a stump, perhaps, a partridge nest; We shall make sail across the trackless green, We shall uncover riches In the shall behold new beauties O now unseen v Tea, we shall be Columbus for S K an hour. Douglas Malloch. o We X A 5 it flower, 9 g X v confessor to Queen Isabella. By these three, under the stimulating zeal of the monks, a plan was contrived. Columbus should thoroughly canvass the maritime section, having Palos for a center for all possible Information regarding pioneer voyages Into the Sea of Darkness. Not long after his return Guardian Juan Perei, and perhaps Pinzon also, wrote to Queen Isabella, asking a further hearing for Columbus ami his project. The request was granted. Colie oMalned an audience with the lumbus, repeating with emphasis the klnir of Tortusal and laid before him terms submitted to King John II, dea definite proposal. He asked for three manded of Ferdinand and Isabella a caravels equipped and supplied for a patent of nobility, the admiralty of the the and governyear; and, In the event of lands being ocean, ment of all lands discovered, and "a and perfound, for the 10 cent of commission upon everya per tenth of petual government therein, the Income therefrom, the rank of thing within the limits of his admiralty which might be bought, exnobleman, and the title of grand adchanged, found or gained." That, in miral. he should demand three So affronted was the monarch by addition, caravels, to cost possibly two million what he felt to be the vanity and was by com($6,000), of the petitioner that he maravedls . . trifling. parison counto a his referred plea promptly As in 14S6, so in 1492, In the month cil of three experts, by whom, after of January, Columbus was dismissed a tome deliberation, it was dismissed. second time from the court and Thereupon Columbus, late In 1485, or departed sorrowing. Spanish The flags early In 1486, left Portugal for Spain. streamed from the towers royal of the What first occurred Is not known. for Granada had fallen, but In FrestimaMy Ferdinand and Isabella, this event our Genoese took little Inafter a courteous hearing, smlllnK'y terest. His course led him toward . . . When put by the question of exploration, for Cordova. two only r, from Granada who should ihcy referred It to the queen's . leagues Hernando de Talavera, overtake him but a royal constable, who at lencth, late In 1490, reported sent posthaste by the queen with ors sover-clRnand the for Columbus, adversely ders for his return! His demands, one accepted the report. and all, would be complied with. He seem would to have Columbus pone set sail from Talos August 3, 1492, at back to Portugal, but by Mny 12, HS!, sunrise. wns atraln In Spain and in attendance upon Ferdinand and Isabella at Such was the start of his history-makin- g the sicRe of liaza. voyage. The story of that voyColumbus was poverty stricken and, for once, discouraged. With what cheer age is a familiar one how "as the last I dim outline of the islands faded from Plight, he met l.ts friend, the former puardlan, Antonio de Marchena, and their sight, many of the sailors were the first the nlso (perhaps time) overcome. Some shed tears i.niclatlnn guardian, Juan Perez, once completely vice-royal- ty vice-royal- ty ! fr Helium Gas First The discovery of helium gas on the sun preceded Its discovery in commercial quantities on the earth by about f0 years. Lockyer in IStW found a new gas In Hie spectrum of fhe sun while studying the flames f hoot lug out from its surface. The gas was new livrauso the color of the line represent ins It, when analyzed by the spectroscopy, was distinctly diffrom ferent previously anything Twenty-eigh- t known. years later truces of the same gas were found In urnniiiite, and for the first time scientists knew that It was present on earth as well as In the sun. More years passed and It was discovered that helium was a product also of the disintegration of radium, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Still later, during the World war, Kansas housewives began to complain that the natural gas supplied for cooking was deficient both in heat and light. A university professor was sent to investi as if they had 'taken leave of the world'; others, unable to restrain their grief, broke out into loud and bitter lamentations"; how they continued to be alarmed as the three tiny vessels plunged on into the wilderness of the water and especially as the needle of their compass seemed to be bewitched and varied more and more, as they went on, to the west of north Instead of toward the North Star; how they plead with their leader to turn back and how in the words of the poet, the reply of Columbus to all questions was "Wrhy, shall you say at break of day? 'Sail on! Sail on! And on!" And then on October 12, 1792, he reached his goal not the Indies of his dream but America ! Before the expedition had set out Martin Alonso PInson, an associate of Columbus, Id a recruiting appeal to the seamen of Palos had said "Friends, come with us ! Come with us on this voyage ! Here you are in poverty. Come with us, for according to accounts you will find the houses with roofs of gold and you will return rich and prosperous!" Although they never realized that dream of riches it was their venture which eventually resulted in the building in the New World which they had reached a nation whose wealth Is vastly greater than all the riches of which Columbus ever dreamed. To the eyes of many an immigrant from the native land of Columbus the skyline of New York rising up out of the ocean to the overhanging clouds has seemed to be truly that of a city composed of "houses with roofs of gold" in the "Promised Land." There Is much disagreement among historians as to the truth about this man, Christopher Columbus dispute as to his paternity and his nationality and dispute as to his right to the title of "Discoverer of the New World." Seven cities of Greece are said to have claimed the great poet, Homer, for their own. ISut no less than seventeen towns vie for the honor of being "the. birthplace of Columbus." Italy says tie was an Italian ; Spain Insists that he was born In Galicla, n Spanish province; Portugal lays claim to him as a native son, as does Corsica, once a French Island. Contrary to all school history teaching, there are those who insist that Columbus did not discover the New World. They would give that honor to the Norsemen or to any one of a number of navigators who are believed to have dared the Atlantic long before he did Rreton. Spanish, Portuguese or some native of northern Africa. P.ut after all. the question of his nationality and the question of who was the first European actually to set foot on land In the New World are relaFor It was the tively unimportant. achievement of Columbus, be he Span iard. Italian or Portuguese, that counts most. 1492 to 1927! Four centuries have nassed since Columbus sailed out Into the unknown but the message he gave to the world then still lives, the message of the ultimate triumph of faith and high courage and steadfast purpose over superstition and ignorance and fear. And the message which Columbus day brings to Americans each year is the Inspiration, amid discouragement and apparent defeat, to "sail on and on and on." gate and found In his samples that helium, a noninflammable. Inert gas, was to blame. Its extraction In paying quantities from Texas gas well followed. Famous Russian Crown Probably the mnst valuable and Interesting of all the Russian crown was the one made in 17C2 for Catherine II by Kauzie, a celebrated Jeweler of the day. Since the time of Catherine this crown has been used at the coronation of all the rulers of Russia. SICKWOMEfi MONFORT By EDGAR T. Lydia E. Hnkham'i Compound Has Health of (Copyright) sensitive tQIIV ARTHUR was so was such about his limp. Yet It won. an honorable limp so honorably ALLIE BAA'S PRESENT the war, during in the leg Injured somehow the operation to repair the she and sucBaa's Allie was birthday It accident had not been entirely had he was much excited. time a for long cessful and Allie Baa is a rag doll and no dll used crutches at last he had learned could be more beloved than she Is. to and for get along with a stick, Her face is painted but the paint awhile had hoped eventually to abanIs not very bright, for Allie has been don even that, but as the years passed kissed so many, many times. he realized that it would never- be. She has a sniaU body but It Is Just He was doomed to hobble through life. the right size for hugging, and she is He was walking down the street the most comforting doll in the world. one day when he dropped the magaHer mother, whose play name Is he was carrying under his arm zine so Mrs. Cucumber Green, loves her a stiff knee stooping down with and much that she could never possibly be next to impossible, so he had to was able to tell how much. stand beside his prostrate magazine, Rut Allie has a little bit of an Idea. sideignominiously sprawling on the is mutter She knows that when her to kind a for passerby wait and walk, sad she can curl up In her arms and It to him. hand help drive away the sadness. Florence Evans, walking jauntily She knows that when her mother street in her little blue flanIs happy she can be jumped up and along the with the blue felt hat to dress nel down with Joy. the mishap from a dissaw She knows that when there is a match, to restore the book hurried and tance or fun to too, have party she Is going '.ts owner. to if there is work to be done she can "Thank you," he said, embarrassed help Just by the way she watches. he always was under these circumas But it was Allie Raa's birthday and "Got a game knee and Mrs. Cucumber. Green was having a stances. stooping's too much of a stunt for party for her. A number of her small friends were me." He tried to laugh it off. "I think you're game!" she came coming to the party and they had been back at him, "to speak of it so lightly." asked to bring their dolls. Then by the flush of his dark, hand-fom- e Of course the rest of Mrs. Cucumber facs she knew that she had said Green's children and pets were at the the wrong thing. She put a timid hand party. There were Robbie the cloth doll, on his coat sleeve. "I mean, I mean it isn't bad. Noand Gyp the sawdust dog, and Lucifer the cloth cat, and Johnny Naples body notices It, I mean but I'm the worsted doll, and a number of sorry." She said it so wistfully as she others. All the guests arrived right on time walked along beside him that it made his heart jump, and he cursed his and the party began. The dolls and the pets all sat in lameness the more. little chairs and on the sofa and "My name's John Arthur," he said watched their mothers playing. They after a' moment, "if I may introduce had such a good time just being at myself." "Not the Pennington's John Arthur! the party. They didn't mind watching In the least. Why, everybody in that family simply And then the children played house adores you! They've written me such and the dolls played that too. reams about you !" "And I'm willing to bet you're Miss They were taken calling, they were taken to grand balls, they were dressed Peggy Hampton just back from and undressed and the talk was mos4 Europe where you went to acquire ly about them. knowledge." The mothers spoke of how well their "Exactly that !" she laughed. "Why, children had been lately and how good we know each other already, don't we?" "I should say so! I should have rec ycu from tho'r ' scription, but I just wasn't expecting to see you nf l.:.i moment. I thought you weren't due in until next week." "Yes, but I was exempt from final exams because I was good. So I came over early, and when mother and dad saw me they couldn't believe their eyes." She was a charming little trick, he thought, trotting along by his side so amazingly small beside his huge frame that it made her look like a very animated doll. They parted at the next street corner and Arthur stood with bared head. Time for Supper. "Of course, I don't think that I they had been and how little trouble could cut anyone out or anything they were and what healthy appetites like that," he stammered. "Just friends but if I might call ouce In awhile they had. After they had played for a long vi time it was the time for supper. "I Just wish you'd call twice In The dolls all sat at a little blue awhile." she smiled warmly. "It would table and were given e be fun." food on tiny dishes. And that evening after Peggy went The mothers had cocoa and bread to bed she kept wondering and wonand butter and chicken and little patty dering when he would come. He was cakes. so delightful and so and even the limp somehow Everyone seemed very hungry. made him After the supper was over Mrs. Cumore attractive to her. She pitied cumber Green took Allie Baa from the him and wanted to mother him. table where the dolls all were and sat From the very first visit they got her in her lap over where the children along famously together. Knowing were. many of the same people, loving the "It's Allie Baa's birthday," she said, same authors, they had no difficulty in "and I've got a present for her." All the mothers listened, and the finding things to talk about. They would spend the long lazy summer dolls at the other table listened. afternoons together "buddying" as Allie was just as proud as she they cnlled it, reading a book or just could be. Idling the time away. "I've got a new bed for Allie Baa," It was toward the end of summer. Mrs. Cucumber Green said. "Of course, He was leaning against a tree with his a great deal of the time she will sleep legs stretched out in front of him, the with me, but there are times when I'm book they had just been reading tossed busy and when she wants to be restface down on the gras3, the smart ing, that a bed of her own will h roadster parked at the side of the very useful." Then she left Allie in her chair and pike. "I'd give ten years of my life not went behind the bureau and brought to have this," he said tapping his leg out a. lovely doll's double bed which with his cane. was more than big enough for Allie "Oh, but Jack," she Baa. g protested, her hand In his, "I It had sheets on It, and blankets, never might have met you if t hadn't been for-tand a little spread and a hat pillow at and the magazine." the top, and it hud four posters and "I wish to heaven we hadn't was Just as tine and met!" complete a bed e said at last between as anyone could ever see. stiff lips-- and Peggy, affronted, fell back How proud Allie was. and all the "Oh well, if yon feel other dolls and the mothers, too that way," she said coolly. . .wished her many happy returns 'of the "Oh Peggy, my day. Lord, you don't t know I m wild about But as they all were you. But a felleaving low in my fix Allie hud h tiny present for each can't" little A"'i I'cggy, all smiles guest little boxes with hard candy. and warmth n a second, her face It was a most successful alight with hap-- l party. ness, did a most nnmaidonly thing crept up into his arms and drew Not Seriously Injured them about her. Junior fell down several iligM9 f,f "Maybe you don't know how to stairs and was hadly shaken pro-- i up, e r-ntachlevou-Jy though not seriously injured a mo-- t later." but I do and The small lad tried bravely not sometimes, t0 if a g,rl wants a man It's her only cry and when his anxious grandmother chance of getting him." Inquired If he were hurt, he exclaimed "Oh, Peggy" he . don't hear a tear, do you?" h'lsky witl, feeling "lu.Ll do you rall l.eheve you could stand Didn't Need a Nap s""! U?" she scoiTed. It?" Mother said to Marion, wh is ' ""'I0W not don't know how to "WhyU ., r. , n.f H11..11 put must words, bu- t- it 1 take our nap." 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If the pent-u- p last six months of each year are compared, It will be found that 0,703 were issued In 1020, as compared with 6,470 in 1925. "This increase suggests," says the circular, "that, given the economic peace that seems probable, the year 1927 will prove to be a bumper vear." (s Green's Flower August a mild laxative, and In has been tsi for sixty years for the relief of constipation, indigestion and similar stomach disorders. A trial will convinct you of its merit. 30c and 90c bott!;i G. G. Green. In At all druggists. N. J. Woodbury, Popularity Foe to Braim college The reason that popular marks u youths do not get as high commonly as Is not, the bookworms not care believed, just that they do they that but to work as hard, pow likely to rate lower In brain tests of Sheldon II. W. 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