The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-13

cry hear that gold mining is very
hard work, and they will be glad to
( be free
ScOlapps roared with rage and pain.
| 20 not, OH, do not leave me thus. "
| he shrieked. II cannot bear it. / will
F, do anything you desire if you will re-
! lease me, if only for a minute to get
/ my breath. Take all my gold. IT is
/ in the first valley to your right. and all
/ the diamonds, but let me breathe only
one full breath again"
You seem to be getting breath
! to make a lot of noise.'' said Theo-
dore and therefore III Just leave you
a while and look at your pile of gold
and diamonds" Then he stTOlled away
/ TO the first valley TO the right, and
| looking down into il. he saw first an
! immense pile of gold. and then a num-
| Der of people, men, women and chill
dren, who were all engaged in adding
90 the vast heap. Then he went down
and told them that he had captured
MIR. Seolapps, and you should have
been there TO hear the shout the cap
, tives raised when they found that they
were free.
Show me where all the diamonds
are" said Theodore.
They led him to a great cavern. and
there was a heap of diamonds ten or
twelve feet high, blazing. even in the
darkness of the cavern like stars.
Now said Theodore, I'VE will Just
divide up all this gold and diamonds
equally between US, and we will every
one be millionaires, and then we Will
go up and serenade old Scolapps and
make him feel good"
1t took that great crowd of people,
whom Scolapps had been catching for
years. just about an hour to divide
up his wealth, and although there were
so many, there was plenty of treasure
for all. Theodore was asked by them
TO take the very largest diamonds.
some of which were big as eggs and
worth million or so each, for his
own share. and with only fifty or
sixty in his pockets, he had wealth
enough to last him for his lifetime.
Then. in great and joyful process
sion, they marched up the hill TO where
the ugly monster lay grooming and
complaining. They sang song to him
while he writhed in agony to see all
his prisoners and all his ill-gotten
wealth slipping away. After the song
was concluded Theodore took some
stout rope and. moving the great rock
a little, he bound the monsters seven
hands tightly to great stick of wood.
Then he took away the stone Scolapps
rose and tried to break his bonds. but
they had been tied skilfully, and he
could not part a single strand.
You may as well give in and behave
yourself" said Theodore, for you can't
break loose. If you are quiet, / viii
not kill you, as ! intended, and as you
certa inly deserve, but 1 viii let you
live
Bringing the Captive Home.
After a moments reflection Scolapps
concluded TO march along with the pro-
cession of joyful released captives-
Away down at the foot of the noun
dispatched by the sultan of Turkey TO
assist Theodore. and great was the re-
joicing when they saw old ScOlapps, who
had troubled the country. for 200 years,
tied up in knots and perfectly helpless.
The soldiers wanted to shoot at him
in order to see if his hide was really
as imDerVious to bullets as was
claimed, but Theodore wouldn't allow
that.
When they were upon the broad
plains all of the released captiveS went
to their various homes with their treas
ure and the girl whom Theodore had
rescued was restored to her mourning
relatives. Her father wished to reward
Theodore, but he had little to offer that
coult tempt boy with pocketful of
diamonds as big as eggs, of course, and
as he was still in love with Theodosia
/ Pickering, he couldn't marry her. as
usually happens in such cases. As they
/ marched on to return to the sultans
l palace all the countryside turned out
| TO meet them, and fireworks were set
I off. guns doomed and bonfires blazed all
along their route. When they camped
( for the night a gorgeous tent of Grim
son velvet was erected for Theodore
I and in il he placed the monster, now
/ fastened with chains that he couldn't
break for he wished to keep him I'M
| der his own observation
/ A guard was placed about the tent
/ by the sultan's orders. just as if there
were anything that could harm Theo-
l dore the Boy Hercules. But that was
more of a compliment than anything
| else On their arrival at the sultan's
/ palace all of the wise men, who are
| called Wise Guies in Turkey. were
/ amazed and disappointed at his sue
| cess. but they didn't dare say a word.
| Theodore told the sultan how SEQ
lapps had been caught, and presented
him to the monarch. who had an i'm
/ mense steel cage built to- keep him in,
and there he is to this day, 1 suppose.
unless something he has eaten has
killed hiTn.
Theodore now prepared to return
home. but he was compelled to remain
in Turkey while longer to attend to
all of the Invitations he received from
prominent people who desired to show
him honor One night he was return
ing from the house of an emir or some
such great officer, when an old man.
( bent and feeble, stopped him. Theo-
dore always felt sorry for weak and
feeble persons, and he was about to
give the old man coin, when he said;
| .-Sir. most noble and great dOer of
good. are you that man whom they call
Theodore Ginks. the new Hercules
1 Il am" replied Theodore, feeling
somehow that something was about TO
happen, but what it was he could not
guess
what do you wish Of me?' The old