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Show '' 4!j3 73. i- PROYO. UTAH. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1924 ' : - Tens," be said. "Be Is the greatest authority tn the world oa such case as your husbifnd'a. I was peaking of It to him last week, and be wishes to make an examination.' Half an hour after the doctors cam out of the sick man's room to the woman, c who bad risen hastily from her knees. She had been praying that Curtin might live. The prayer wu to be heard. "Doctor Stevens' thinks that there is a ciiariceT to cure yonr husband," said the physlcjaa "It will necessilie hemmed a littate an operation. tle. "Of course Doctor 8tevens fees are high, much higher than those of be continan ordinary practitioner '' ued. "Never mind the' cost," said Anna Foulkes. "Give me back my husband." "Excuse me, doctor," said the physician, and .the great- - man withdrew a little way across the room. "It is i necessary to be businesslike, lira. "He-- fFonnTes.- - her doctor continued. wlll ojierale for iB'o'liuiiUrtd dollars. Two hundred dollars ! If Curtin died that would be the last of the InsurBut If he lived what ance money. venrs of toil! And the Idea of Grant- ludicrously wi;b TWUilll . ," g" . THE WILL THAT TURNED THE SCALE 3 By H.M.. EGBERT I nwl I IC lilt, J 'A Bri : . C WmUti Newajwper Uatea.) NNA FOITKES-wasthi- rty. nlne,.and her by, the apple of Her her eye," was twelve. , worthiest husband bad abandoned her seven year before. Anna's friends and acquaintances had congratulated her when six years of married life ended In ber freedom. She would not get a divorce, but then the did not want to marry agaib ., Curtin, having run through all her At first Anna money, had departed. dared onjy hope his decision not to return was true then she dared to became cer believe; tainty. She left the neighborhood and took up her residence In a different city. .,. Anna's folks lioil been gentle. Tin' ttltsuril? Ann did not-- waver- .pre-boy wag to go to an Well it must be done, of course, paratory .school. Kor ihls she had THie said. "When can Doctor blevens when-shtolled and scraped In the olllre operate" was employed a a stenographer. . "Now." answered. the physician. "In ttecn (lathhad The money the si'itiiMT the better. To be ered together. In three months Char- frank witli yon, Mrs. Foulkes, I lie was to enter ticaniwlch. brought him tare, for that "purpose." And .then Curtin came baik. If he had been franker he would Anna found him lt:inin npikist tin' have added that Doctor Stevens would on the out "gate of her little eottltse: Jiavc been glad to have operated " skirts or the town. ITeiviTs In" "ffi. 'nothing.' It was an unusual rue, and but sober. He vsiih thin uuri wasted imi. li was to he learned from it. " As iiml i)h)hII' pnl.'. Instinctively a iifatti roTTact, he would have paid shrank "away from hiiu us she two hundred dollars, for the experiIttisidimi. .saw and recognized her ence. But of .course Anna could . not "Wily know "Curtin!" die, whispered. anything about that. have yon conic .buck?" continued "Get the "Ill tell iiiu. Anna, lie answered. the iihvsiriaii. "And take down the to the I have telephoned "May I come in?" .. curtains, "Yes, It's your right," she answered. hospital for a nurse." "But " An hour later the fumes of ether "Oh, you needn't be afraid that I'll began to permeate the cottage,. The. do uny harm to Uie boy," he unswered. doctor and nurse were Tou needn't say" Inside the parlor. Outbusily working an"That Is his right, Curtin," she . side Anna prayed. swered. Slie called Charlie from .the She thought of her life with Curtin, fife Is father,"., "This your garden. of those miserable years, his dnink- aid. euness, bjs dishonesty, the total, wreek The frank-eyeboy gazed with natoj their happiness that they had made. ural repugnance at the wretched It was partly, her fault; Curtin had tramp before Una. been an average sort of nian. But livwas he "You didn't, know that she had high Ideals; and, in fixing her ing, my dear," she said to her son. gaze on them she had forgotten to be "But" tolerant of human fallings: "L knew all about him, mother," the As she kneeled there It seemed to fcoy answered. ber as though her single will were "Now I'll tell yon why I've come fighting a lost battle against the will back. Anna." said Curtin Foulkes f dvln- i- I've got lust two months to tradesmen, of the undertaker, of the be live. It's something that can't and "surgeon, even. As In cured..' You needn't be'Wfraid of me physician a vision she. saw the terrific battle any more. I've been a bad lot, but And. there' was one thing that all even a Bog conies home to die, and 1 depended on. want to die here, Anna." Jj'bat was Charlie.: His will, added In and the next day io either She took hlra side, would change the situ gave up her position to take care of ation. If he were 'against her, then him. There was "money enough for there was no hope. the boy's first term at Grantwich, and She A shadow fell across the floor. at the end of the two months she looked up, to see the white face or hoped to be able to go back to the the boy. An agonizing love rushed .office. into her heart. How like a little man The sick man grew neither better he was! And be had always known nor. worse. The doctor confirmed Ills about his father, and never told her I statement, but he extended .the period She rose and put her arms around of suffering to three months. Before htm. the first month was ended there was "Charlie, dear. I want you to under Anna stand,", she said. "If your father dies, money lnthe bank. was confronted with the alternative his Insurance money will take you to of sacrificing her boy's school career Grantwich and give you an education. and sacrificing her husband. She sac- It will pay the bills of the tradesmen rificed the boy. and the doctors, too, and the funeral At least, she meant to. But Curtin expenses. Hut ToulkeiTmtfde a movewhTcTi was even near ooy, inere wiu ue u mine o.uwi bis than more dramatic reappearance. for you. It will be Just one long and "Anna," he said, the evening before dreadful battle for the rest of our Bhe was to w;rite that letter to the lives. You and I 'will have to work as head master of Grantwlcb.."I want to hard as we can work.- hat do you tell you something. They say the want to happen, Charlie?" worst man, has a streak of good In i warn The boy s lips quivered. him. Do you remember that insurne answered. my,fatner, ance policy for a thousand dollars 1 In spite of all you must give up, took out when we were married? I've dear?" or , kept It you. I've borrowed to "Yes, mother," he answered. the limit on It, but there will still be Then, in that Instant, Anna Foulkes seven hundred for you and Charlie, felt a sudden uplifting Of her heart. after I'm gone." The boy's will had. turned the scale. The letter was never written. The She felt It ; . she knew the devil s tradesmen, .clamoring for payment, legions of tradesmen, doctors and all were told the circumstances. The doc- the rabble rout were beaten. statement. Anna's tor confirmed Her heart went out to Curtin with It waa: a. rac with Thenceforward would 11 the love jof I timer-S- he death. make a man of him yet. Their lives The butcher, the baker, the grocer. should begin again together, from that the physician, and, last of all, the un- (Jay forward. dertaker looked forward, each and all, There was a stir within the operatto the death of Curtin Foulkes, that ing room. The surgeon came to the ' they might get their money. And. the dinir. .. future of Charlie Foulkes depended will live, Mrs. "Your husband npon his father's death likewise. If Foulkes," he said. "There Is no doubt ever a. man would be well out of the of It." ' world Curtin would, blackguard that The nurse and the physician were he had been. wheeling the unconscious man Into Anna And, strange to say, as he lay there the bedroom, on the table. through those weeks, hunihled. re- Foulkes looked after blm with eyes pentant, a shadow of her(.fortner Joye that swam with tears. Her prayer began to grow in Anna's heartAnd was answered. one day she kneeled down and prayed that he might live. Foreaeea Wood Shortage There seemed no chance of that. a German Interested In the lumber The doctors all agreed his case was trade. Ernest Wlcm. of Bremen, has of It' seemed the height hopeless. in a local paper a note of " : Irony that the man who had ruined published He 'says Europe ts wasting warning. his wife's life should have come back lumber supplies In meeting the its to ruin, his son's career. 'increased demand since If ever wishes fought, Anna's wish enormously All the wooded areas of Euwar. the was fighting the determination of the and Scandl-nnvlrope, Including Russia - tradesmen, of "jthe sick man himself. amount to 158,000,000 acres, It was. will, against will, pitted in and these are being cleared so rapid deadly struggle-- a dozen to one, if .MivAVlctus, that in the will counts fornythlngln1fie"aTTalrs to come Europe will 'bave to " of men. And the boy's future, against the husband's life, with no possibility Import wood. of any compromise! t '' "White CoaV ih France Anna had reckoned that If her hue--' band lived the three months there The French ministry of public would be Just two hundred dollars re- works has announced that on January maining, with which to face the world 1, 1924, the hydraulic electric power anew. If he lived the total debt would harnessed In- France amounted to be hldeouB.' horse power.. Of Ihls amount, ; It wu at the beginning of the third 2,250,000 horse power operates electric jnoath. that the physician came to the generators; 8T per cent of that total, fb erase with a youngish, keen-eye- d man, or 850,000 horse power, Is used by elecan automobile, trochemical and electrometallurgies! " "Mrs. Foulkes, this Is Doctor Sto- - Industries. P -- exiM-nsjv- e e ' . hard-earne- d fi.i-t- . " fr Gi wc wi ish I bo white-robe- " i i d tTlTrheeenrtherrfredlls-o- wt ca tr Al wt e Bi Oil' t . to (v v'AmTMV sear The magnificent martle bead may be part of .statue does tt .depict agony or inspiration, la It that of a god or of human J The column la high relief, a strik ing piece of classical work, lai till partly buried la the land. the center picture . While would seem to Indicate damage caused by an earthquake, tt la stated that much, of the by. Label Stick to a Man " M, By R. M. TtRRELL Pas (t), PoeblwUf. . Qe.) was the town "DINGO DICKERSO underdog of Stony Point ' The role had been wished npon bun by his fellow dttiens at much as by facetious fate. Hard luck had consistently dogged bis trail ever since he. bad left his cradle. - He was only thirty, but he bad lived sixty years of ops and downs, mostly downs. Now he was Stony Point's best utility. When in doubt, blame It on ?Uat had become Bingo r Mi' - mil r-- v , ... KKfifir rB piotofrpBrni)PERA TOR C(A)ESAB LUCIUS 8 (EPTUflCS).'" The tatne It that of father of medicine. Not the serpent at the but, which la fart of the Identification. - Toe head is missing, but win presumably be found i . a town maxim. - 8uch Is the. drift of human nature. Label tn Innocent duffer and underdog, and soon, he wouldn't be known by any other name. Then one day he disappeared. The earth had opened' up and apparently rr?&mA 7 :w i :.'v yf - 1 1 swallowed hlmj yHe became a nine-damystery In Stony Point until Seth Garrison, who owned the Elite restaurant,-receivea marked copy of the Slerre Btanca Longhorn News, from a cousin y In Texas. The newspaper carried the information that a Mr. B.' . logo Dickenson, a resident of Stony Point,. bad arrived la Sierra Blanca ranch of hls to rake over the 5,000-acr- e late uncle, obi Buck Dlckerson, up In the Guadalupe mountain country near - the Salt lakes. Five thousand acres!' The new's spread all over Stony Point in an hour. Of all peop'e Bingo Dlckerson, who now called himself B.'lngo. One of the greatest ranches In Texas. Wow t Three months passed Then one day Bingo Dlckerson got off the train at Stony Point He was the same old Bingo; If anything a little more the Same. He wasn't dressed like a mU lionaire, and he certainly didn't act like one. He just resumed his old place In the town's dally life or rather, tried to. His fellow citizens hadn't been born the day before ; you couldn't hoodwink them that easily! j Bingo had a mint behind him and those Bol-- , shevtkian days it paid rich men to keep that fact camouflaged. B. Ingo couldn't When he No sirreej fool them! 'would confess that he had left half of the money In Texas they would.be his. boon companions." Whereupon B. Ingo Dlckerson automatically resigned his position as town Thai action, too; was underdog. wished upon him, for old Bingo went about his business In tils 'same old f-fact way . He nKver had bew s bad sort, and now that fact became apparent even to Ike Timmons, the barber. r,Back on Hell's Half" be farmed away contentedly uttd Acre city, which occupied several without disclosing any of his. future square miles, has been To all Inquiries, adroit or othplans. preserved by the pro- erwise, about his 5,000-acr- e ranch, he tecting aand. aa mute as lie, was remained The quality of the ; By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN marble, the worttmanv : Label a patient. as 4 good citizen, and S ILEITIS MAGNA, an African city of mat) the size pilof ship and the he soon becomes one, or apparently aps the days when Rome was Mistress of lars all Indicate that the palpears to hsve become one. Frequently the World, to rival Pompeii as an ace la of truly royal magnifiIs only In the labeling. p. exhibit of the life of the ahcient Rocence. It la hoped to find here the change Dlckerson thrived under his new Ingo mans? Archeologists, Impressed' by records. historical valuable role. His fellow citizens made It their the excavations In progress, think RoselConcerning this Doctor L that It may prove a rival to the pleasure to" go out of their way to Jo , ll Bnysr 7 favors for him. Not that he asked famous buried city at the foot of Th period that produced them. Vesuvius. But Leptls Magna, In any Principally, they spoke well of Caeaar Auguatue Luclu Sep1 much . event, will furnish an exhibit th period about him and acted, when they met hlra, aa tlmiu which scholar knew leaat though he was a fellow human being. different from that of Pompeii; Authentic document ar few, Old Bingo smiled and plugged away at Rome was' founded about 53 B. O. and so are relic of hi cononce and fell In 476 A. D. Up to 510 B. C Rome was a tributions to letter and. art his farm' work. The place, In local affair, governed by kings. From 610 to-- 205 tbe Leptl Magna may reveal th. reputed to be the worst patch B. C It was a republic and conouered Italv. Tn aecreti of hli home, J31o-Ca-- 1 began to take on a look of pi entjr, and alu. th Greek historian perity." Bart Kestler, th bankerv Inrepublic begaancaeeFeYtra. a contemporary of Septlmiu Italian conquest In 28 B. C. began the empire. sisted npon extending the mortgage, of tell something Severus, When Christ was born Rome wa undisputed Misthis Caeaar and speak of hts' and good old B. Ingo did nothing to tress of the World. From 180 to 268 A. D. waa SuperetUloas and hla belief In dissuade blm. In six months he ha ! .. miraculous signs. a period of disaster. About 375 A. D. began the V begun to pay some of It off... 11 was probably Magna series of barbarian Invasions which brought about Leptls : In a year B. Ingo; Dlckerson was part about two miles square In and the fall of the Roman empire In 478 A. D. of the town's pride In one parcel Then" seems In "desert suburbs. There the sands and buried the ancient times, with outlying crept Now, Pompeii was founded sometime before BOO he had revolutionized that short year B. C. It came under the power of Rome about . no reason to doubt that It was In truth an Imperial city of Severus from 15 to SO feet deep. For a farm that little half-acr- e miserable thousand years it was forgotten, 'except that : 800 B. C Its Industries were fishcity. All the results of excavation point to that once caught your cynical eyes as you among the Arabs of the Sahara there lived a fact For Instance, two bathhouses have been drove Intp town. Now It was a place ing and the working of lava. It wu a gay and legend of an "Enchanted City." Eighty years ago pleasure-lovinfound tn different parts of the city. ;ln "those to be city of considerable wealth and proud of; the little house had the explorer, Rohlfs, one of the first of white men' days only a city of Importance , had two bathluxury. August 24, 79 A. D., .Veauvloa erupted and with the new fence, rebuilt been to cross the Libyan desert, was caught in a great and In 24 hours Pompeii was buried In ashes. houses. Both are elaborate and extensive. There who would be in Neighbors, painted. sandstorm that uncovered enough to show that a are baths of marble and stone, with large pipes About 2,000 of Ita Inhabitants perished. The ashea on the finish of this crazy-quil- t right was burled city so preserved the city that excavations which are still Intact pipes between two walla which carried thereArcheologlsts were eager comedy, had helped much In this transto excavate but theTurk ruled the land. hot water to the steam rooms. Some of the pipes still going on have revealed the Pompellan life figuration. Italy took over the colony In 1911 and promptly - wasn't to lta most Intimate details. Even the "graffiti" are of cement Others are made flf bricka llmt-lar alt .that" hart Tbe farm - t the buried .preparaMo'the The up dig to city." bricks we use today, but larger. theBcrlbbllnga on Jhe walls give us the wltr different B. "wag Ingo changed. ' Along cameTbe World war and Italy bad to fight and politics of the day. . bridges, of which several have been uncovered, man. True, hla her life. for Now the work, of excavation la well Now as to Leptls Magna: It waa In J48 B. G are of superior masonry and substantially built manner hadn't changed, but his way. A road la being built from TripolL : Evidently no earthquake shock disturbed them, that Rome destroyed her rival Carthage and made had. Not o much his appearance Several hundred Arab prisoners of War are busy her territories Into the province of Africa. Lepfor they are Intact, having been well preserved by clothes, which don't count as touch as under the direction of Renato Prof. Bartocclnl of '". tls Magna" was probably founded by the Romans the sand. they're popularly aupposed to in the department of fine arts. Already the dlscbv-erie- s 1 There are soon afterward, Lucius Septimlus (146-21A. D.) He many quays. . These indicate that of a man, but his face give hint that the possibilities are very great was born there. He became consul and In 193 Leptls Magna had a considerable water traffic, looked ten years younger and twenty Next spring an international congress of archeolwas proclaimed emperor by his troops, following though It Is suggested that some of them may years happier, and that )s Infectious. ogists will be held in the ruins. It is probable the murder of Pertlnax. He marched on .Rome, have been built at the time Severus waa bringing Some5? bis friends began to look like several years will be needed to finish the work. which submitted to him ; defeated Albinug, prochoice marbles from Greece and other countries him. ' An epidemic of sunhlness and The photographs reproduced herewith were claimed emperor by the troops In Gaul ; waged a to beautify the .city and erect bis palace. There cordiality swept the town. People successful campaign against the Partblans and brought to this country, by Dr.-- Bruno Roselll, pro--" certainly Is much marble of very high quality.' Vent out of, their way to see that no fessor of Italian at Vassar college, who has Just Doctor Roselll says that some of the temple are captured Babylon. He rebuilt the wall In Britain grouch remrtned in Stony Point Cltfuds returned from an extended visit to the buried city. between the firths of ForOi and Clyde which made of precious "glallo antlco" old yellow marwith silver linings were the only ones bears his name. He was an extravagant emperor : He U greatly impressed and says: . ble as well as of "dpolllno" onion marble. The , permissible. All of the butldlnra and statues unearthed are who achieved a reputation for expenditures. He of the palace are of the finest marpillars B. Ingo prosperTwo years passed. of a pronounced Roman type, with a touch of the made much of Leptls Magna, his birthplace, and is ble to green, yellow, blue and other colors. about his enor; mute remained and still Some of Oriental, Egyptian. the ing, decorative supposed to have spent thl three years between work is remarkable. Archeologists will be greatly Interested In the mous Texas Interest-.-HJ- s fellow clt- Columns nine meter high 199 and 202 In building his palace there and beauhave been. uncovered. Nothing like them has been harbor construction work, which Is Intact and 11 l' Izens had almost reso their forgotten found In any Roman ruins. Impoelng and nnspolled tifying the city. said to he the first of the kind to be unearthed. , , to be In on the unveiling of tbe lutions have been palaces already the location by exposed of the Nowadays digging,There Is also a lighthouse. Lrptis Magna Vlest It la In ruins, so no Dlckerson fortune when Setb Garrison with ipaclous courtyards still paved with th Jlaa-described by saying It Is In northern Afrlcajln one can tell how It looked.". But apparently the tones of Roman days. whe not only ran the Elite restaurant" sands of the Libyan desert, about one hundred" t)K "WhaVraa once an arm: of the see. Is the only stones are all there and it presumably can be rebut had the worst curiosity In Stony Roman harbor ever found Intact. Th quays and miles east of Tripoli and four or fiv miles from stored. . , it Point, having written" his steps leading down to the water are In almost perthe Mediterranean sea. In the time of Severus ' The fact that Leptls Magna has not been looted cousin out in Sierra Blanca. received fect condition. Galleys must once have been moored It was a flourishing city of possibly 300,000 Inl'iab- there to transport grain to the Imperial City. Even since Its abandonment by Its Inhabitants gives the following delayed answer; . m i..r. f .... Vi .. .. .. .. n i . ttnnt, .....,.. the warehouse which held the grain are still in iisi uaiirai region and a hope of actual treasure, since there are Indications standing. No burled city has ever yielded anything seaport, either on an arm of the sea .or the mouth Sitrra Blanca, Texaa-Fe-b., of underground storehouses. iiae, . river, II. Frt. P. M. No one . .. . . need worry lest .Italy doea a good Job Der Beth: Pompeii, whan It wa due from beneath th .T . . .Magna nari probably begun to decline ashes of Vesuvius, gave aa almost perfect picture, in excavating Leptls Magna. month o. Her archeologists ' Got y or letter before tbe fall of Rome, A. D. What ' how MVecX of their kitchen utensil of the Roman. happened know their business. Moreover, there Is the proa-pec-k busybnllding. pig pen. PigT. of minute details of their home. Leptls Magna and to ltnox.dy knows. Did an epidemic wipe out of Inestimable treasure If not In gmd and can't wait About yore old friend, hla will be of equal trnftortatrce, but It ha far mora Its people when Rome fell? Were Dlckerson, he' . still got they frightened ..silver and gems, then tn historical records and In Ingo Impoalng structures and probably more valuable uncle's old salt lak ranch, ye. They away by. an earthquake? Did savage hij'des work of art than any found In Pompeii. The fact works of art worth more than their weight tn aolld was a Mexican Kid born up there last that tt wa th birthplace of Emperor Septlmiu . slaughter them? been raised on i gold. J'y, spring, that' all that's Severn It an added gave and Importance . ranch In thirty year. No, Buck' old Anyway, vhen the Arabs came about 800 they and It had a aplendor of which Pompeii coulddignity In fact. It may be aafely assumed that the inv T. found a dead city. They neither occupied It nor Ingo haint sold out. He can't. Rel boaet . ."'I-.perial city of Severus will not only be carefully estate market plumb shot to b L Old looted It; the place was contaminated for them The photographs give hint of the quality of the Buck's ranch. I worth every cent- of and understandlngly explored but also restored because Christian dogs had lived there. But the to sa an attraction to tourists. It will soon be pos- fifty cents a acre but nobody wants city of Severus. It Is believed that Severus spent ' Arabs did take 40 great marble columns, which gamble.. time and money lavishly. In beautifying the cltj sible to make the round trip from Rome In a week Oh, yea, them pig all died, 1 waa they transported 80 miles to the west and used oi nis Dirtn. certain it is tnat ne had there a So, even If none of the gold of Sereraa la ua ae long getttn' up there pens. 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