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Show THE WEEKLY NEWS EXPRESS. LAYTON. UTAH 'Mind Over Matter bring ourselves to believe that this Mind was made only for thte body,' the greater fot of. a tea nothing oi dinner cloth, the less, the unlimited and ever-- , buffet or vanity- - set, all of which growing Spirit for a short-live- d grow little by little as you cro- organization Of dust? Can it be chet a simple medallion in hum- that a power erf Intellect, so s un- ( ble .string. Repeated and joined measured and exhaustless in its they make stunning "heirlooms. has been brought into beIn pattern 5560 you will find range, ing merely to drudge for aft am-complete instructions. for making real existence? How could 'such the square shown; an illustration waste of Mind be reconciled wnth.. of it and of all the stitches needthe wisdpm of the Uncreated ed; material requirements. Mind! W. E. Charming. To obtain this pattern send cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Week's Supply of Postum Free Read the offer made by the Postum Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N, Y. Company in another part of this paWrite plainly pattern number, per. They v ill send a full weeks pup-pl-y of health giving Postum frei to your name and address. anyone who writes for 11 Adv. Cdn ByELMO SCOTT WATSON Strong Smith is commonly regarded ALTHOUGH Jedediah claimant to the title of "American Ulysses, there was once another who, !n many respects, was a better proShooter the totype of the legendary Greek hero. he became Williams" when, as a "Tarson Osagcs named him. ride Missouri in to the cirhis home youth of Seventeen, he left hell-fir- e and brimstone to cuit as' A Baptist preacher, threatening the. unrepentant. "Old Solitaire" his fellow trappers called him. But frontier history has written him down as "Old Bill Williams, one o'f the most picturesque figures that ever galloped across stage of the Great West in an era tvhen strong individuality arrd.picturcsqucnesj were the rule rather than the Red-Head- ed e .exception. Along with history, legend has also marked him for Its own, as witness a quotation from a ' book published recently by the University 6f North Carolina .Press. ttisOld Bill Williams, Mountain . Man, written by 'Alpheus II. Favour, 'who says; "Fiction and fact have been ac-- i .so mixed in the fragmentary count we have of ' the li6 of n the plains and 'Bill. Williarp upon many phases Af our national growth from tha tlma of the Revolutionary war to the end of the west-war- d Ilia parent lived expansion. In a pavt of the country where doubt and nileuntlerslandlng of the leadnri of opr country had become the common attitude of the people toward the government. IK kinfolk were among the Regulator! of North Car. ollna, and hla father, although a Revolutionary soldier with yeara of eervlce, emigrated Into what waa then a foreign land. Horn In the early daya of the American republic, he lived under Williams! One of us must be ready for dinner. After five years, however, Williams gave up his circuit riding and settled among his boyhobd friends, the Osage Indians, as a missionary. For the next 15 years he lived among the Indians. He married a girl of the Big Hill band of the Osages and she bore him two daughters. Duririg these 15 years he became a changed man. When the United States government established the "factory system of trading with the Indians, the first trading post west of the Mississippi was located at Belle Fontaine. Jt- was succeeded by one at Arrow Rock and in 1808 Fort Osage wa$ established east of the ..present town pf Independence, Mo. Williams first began' serving the government as a messenger between these trading postd and St. Louis. In 1817 he, was employed- as Interpreter at Fort Osage and four 'years later he was made official interpreter at the factory at Marais des Cyg-ne- principal in one .of the greatest disasters in exploration that ever befell any guide engaged during the history of the Rockies a disaster which was to be the 'co.v ' trtbuting cause 'of his death, where his ability 'as a scout am) guide would be brought into controversy, and In the final chapter, result in the perpetuation of his name in Arizona by the naming of h. river and a mountain to him. . , Pattern 5560 But that is exactly what hapFor Williams almost so out pened. "Company Vcoming froze to death, almost starved the the- best bedspread, ta death and after Fremont and With both scarf, matching the remnants of hi? .expedition dressers, this easy way. You 11 crocheted had straggled back to Taos he .be have.Jeason indeed, to,, to say 'this lacy pair, proud of Vjl of the heart. A mensa et thofd. (LA From ii ' bed and board. Ben trovatp. (It.) Well invented. Every Chacun a son gou (F.)' ' man ,to his taste. '. .Contretempts.- (F.j An awkward incident; fnishap.-- ' Delenda cst Carthago; (L.) Carthage must be destroyed. the Ecco homo! (L.) Behqld man! in omniFalsus in uno, falsus ' one in False point, bus.' (L.) false in all. Garde du corps. (F.) Body. . guard. In aeternum. (L.) Forever.. Je he sals quoi. (F.) ,1 know not what. k After this service there is - hiatus in Williams life for which . , 5' V. - Man Eats a Ton Jt x '-3S5- s' According to science, A healthy youth weighing 10C pounds, eats 20 times hi3 own weight during the' year. A ton a year is' what the .average man is said. to consume. Think- how appalling it Would-bto see ones. years allowance of bread and butter, steak and tomato catchup, pota- toes and salad and rice pudding laid fertd to end! fihtfO to- Forget- Perfection IS No Trifle Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michelangelo. - Ifow pleasant to wake up in th'e morning and not be able to what it was that worried the you evening before. Promises that are the hardest to . obtain are the surest of ful'. fillment Life is a grind, but it doesnt always make things smooth. Dont Use your common sense so much to take your friends to task. Be thankful that thfcy like you. . Despair Often Close Few know the thin partitions that separate their fellow men from despair. ' If youre going to be lonesome anyway, why not climb to the top of the ladder, of fame? - Life is but a fleeting show AFTER YOU EAT? After you finish a meal can you be sura of regular, successful elimination? Gee rid of waste material that causes gas, acidity headaches. Take Milnesi'a Wafers for quick, pleasant elimination Each wafer equals 4 teaspoonfuls of milk of magnesia. 20c, 35c & 60c at drug stores.- - yet it is the best show man has on earth. Saddest . change ih our old friend, when affluence and honors are heaped upon him, is that he grows more effusive than ever to us and thipks about us far less frequently. Getting a job is so muoh a matPHOTOGRAPHY ter of accident that it is a wonder any man can map out a caRoll Developed 418 elie or smalfor, t reer at all. beautiful enlargements from your roll 2Be. After a man has toiled for a Wisconsin 1'hotoshop, West Salem, WIs. fortune he resents being called 30-- 38 WNU W lucky. AN INSIDE STORY OF MELVIN PURVIS FORMER ACE G-M- AN MELVIN PURVIS, theyoung lawyer w ho became Amer-ica- ace G-M- a who directed the capture of Pretty Boy Tloyd, Baby Face Nelson, and other public enemies. Mr. Purvis reveals here meths. ods used in capturing Dil-ling- s er, crim-inal- Names have, of course, been changed. STS fffj that ano 0 MM...TH0SE TRACKS ARE DEEP CLOSE TOGETHER v means 1 .a ti that whoever made those prints WAS CARRYING A HEAVY BURDEN 1 .-- nn fU N ra? 'Affair Affaire du coeur. . (F.O XlncLz It's Pleasant Foreign Words . q. and Phrases' .. his biographer cannot account satisfactorily. This is a tantao' , lizing fact because, as he spys, these years, between 1825 and 1841, were the years he made a reputation 'for himself, . the years in which his exploits made him famous as a' mountain man. Much has been written about his - . doings; some of it is authentic, much is fiction. Like the others' of that restKIT CARSON . less breed of mountain men during these 16 years he wandered accused Williams . of stupidity, t even cannibalism.. through all parts of the Great treachery, These West, according charges, 't, headthe p' trapping along waters of its rivers, stealing grew partly out of Frehorses from the Californians and monts desire to shift responsiMexicans, trading with the vari- bility for the failure of the exous Indian tribes, living with pedition with its loss of life from them, fighting against them, his own shoulders to 'some conFREMONTS PARTY SNOW - BOUND IN TIIE coming to know every mountain venient scapegoat and partly, SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS the range with its passes and its several years later, out of tarof grooming a necessity and river canons, every every nished hero for a Presidential a boy, and .in the western mountains that, Spanish authority started his own career at the time trail. although re stands out in most Jefferson, Livingston and Monroe efWhen the fur trade era ended candidacy. Old Bill didnt live of them as a prominent moun- fected the Louisiana Iurchase. ' In "Bill to defend himself but other Williams, Master .Traptain man and master trapper, in manhood he became a part of the of the Fremont expemembers as he of llfi signed himself, had dition came to the. plains and mountains. He per, many ways he has come to be saw thethe Indians support of pushed back, the to look around for n4w fields of regarded as a legendary charac- - New Mexicans dispossessed, the to man clear his mountain and CalHe found them in . ter. Certain of his characteristics ifornia taken all In one lifetime. , , , adventure. of tohistorians and reputation of the role guide for the military are always emphasized in the As we follow him through life we Old Bill's biograincluding records of his doings: his early And him a member of an average and exploring expeditions which day, have .accepted their verdict pher, to the in West began penetrate American family, then a trap calling as an itinerant preacher early. rather' than that of FreIn 1845 Williams per and hunter, finally emerging Into tho forties. ' in Missouri; his efforts as a misona of the moat noted of the mounmont. for a served time with the third sionary among the Osagcs; his tain men. Likewise we can follow In Two months . after Williams eccentric habits; his drinking of hla career the changes and develop exploring expedition of Qapt. reached C. Taos he started out, acJohn marked for Fremont, nmnta of a from the W'est wilderness quantities of strong liquor; his of the Louisiana rurchsse of 180 future fame as "The Pathfinder companied by Br. B. J. Kern, ability to speak many different Into a compact section of our coun- even though he deserved that who had been the physician with Indian tongues; and finally nls try at the tlma of hla death. did title much less than Some of Fremonts expedition, and a few capability as a hunter and his The wanderings of this Amerwho guided to regain the instruthe mountain Mexicans, men peculiar method of Indian fight- ican Ulysses becomes more iuv him, notably Kit Carson. ments and baggage which the ing. derstandable when we consider la the early summer of 1818 expedition had been ' forced to "Search the records as you his ancestry. He came of a line may, Old Bill Williams never of Welshmen, restless and indeseems to have had any youth, pendent, who migrated to Virfor he is usually referred to as a ginia, then moved to South Carotrapper who had been many lina and, failing to find the pros' years in the West. A number of perity hoped for there, crossed dillerent versions of his death the mountains to the western have been given, ranging from a part of North Carolina. When ceremonial execution as a medi- William Sherley was seven years cine man of the Utes in the old the urge to move struck his Southwest to a violent death at father again and the Williams the hands of the Blackfeet in family started west through the Northwest. The stories told Tennessee, Kentucky, southern of Williams are more varied than Illinois, finally arriving in the those of any other man of his Spanish country west of the Mis ' O' V'V time, and leave the casual read- sissippi and settling in a village 'O er in uncertainty as to the real of less than 1,000 inhabitants o man, or in doubt, indeed, if there called St. Louis. There on Sep: tv ever did exist such a character tember 23, 1795, another son, outside of fiction. John W., was born to Joseph and r taW vJ kW $ I f However, Mr. Favours re- Sarah Williams the first AmeriIp-,Q into the available can white child born in that city. searches source material has1 set at rest Even at that early period St. any such doubts and has given Louis was the center of the fur trade and young Williams saw "French voyageurs with their keel boats and barges going up and 'Jovt tle river, within sight of the Williams home. The v V de bois traveled over the ' t olj Trace past the Williams mtothd trapping counv try and returning to St. Louis laden with their packs of furs. t t s'v. , O AH tMi became Mi part of young Bill WiH'.sms life. He grew up, OLD BILL WILLLVMS AT COCIIETOrA PASS from his first remembrance in (From the painting by Marjorie Thomas) the atmosphere of that trade. He also grew up ih a religious1 Old Bill served as a scout with leave behind during the retreat atmosphere, for Sarah Williams the Missouri Voluftteers against from the mountains. On March was a recognized authority on hostile Apaches and Utes 14, 1849, their camp was atthe Bible among the American the the hero of the Battle of tacked by a party of Utes and and settlers. Although cestrictions Cumbres Pass. Although he was both Kern and Williams were were- placed upon freedom of reshot in the arm, shattering it killed at the first fire. Afterligion by tiro. Spanish rulers of most horribly, he managed to wards when the Indians- disthe country, they were removed use it so as to keep his rifle hot covered whom GEN. JOHN C. FREMONT they had killed, when the Upper Province Of Louand they gave the old trapper a the engagement during us the first biography isiana, including St. Louis, won from the commander of the chiefs burial. . of this famous frontiersman. It passed from the control of Spain in. his report of tire battle, His grave is unmarked but he traces his career from his birth to France and immediately to troops, this accolade: Williams, acele-brate- d has an enduring monument. on January 3, 1787, on Horse the United States in 1804. A remountaineer, though Down ip Arizona there is A creek in Rutherford county, ligious revival, then sweeping wounded badly, behaved himself "beautiful green, wooded mounNorth Carolina, to his death at acrossr thfe Middle West, helped in the engagement. tain, a towering solitary peak the hands of the Utes on the Up foster more interest in spiritual gallantly went back to Taos to above the foothills at its base, Williams per Rio Grande in southern Colo- matters. So it was not so un- .recover from his wounds and characteristic of Bill Williams rado on March 14, 1849, and re- usual that young Bill Williams, Solitaire and not far dislate that fall went up to Pueblo. ports in as much detail as can with his religious training and Colo., winter tant is the to there the mountain stream, possibily be done the Odyssey of his gift for speech (he is de- with somespend old comrades. To and quiet peaceful; or, jafter a Old BUI Williams. scribed at the time as "a ready Pueblo in November came Fre- storm, a rushing torrent, emInteresting as an individual, talker, witty and quick at repa- mont on his fourth expedition and blematic of the human career, William Sherley Williams such rtee) should to preach. although all the mountain men whose life as a mountain man was Old Bills full name is more Within A short begin time he was rid- advised the army officer against helped to save the plains and Important as a type, as a sym- ing a regular circuit and Wild to cross the mountains Louisiana Purbol of an era in American his- liams once said of himself that trying in the Fremont to this country. chase Both passes of tory, the like which can never be was so well known that even prevailed upon Williams to un- that mountain peak and that be duplicated. For, says his bio- the chickens at the farms which dertake the job of guiding. "Lit- stream bear the name of Bill grapher: he visited knew him and would tle did he expect that in a few Williams. HU Ufa oolneldea with and touche exclaim; "Here comes Parson short weeks he was to become a CWtstera (twlpew felon. v' fifteen ! - s. r w-- e geLthat was wi I HAVE exciting! now mayS SOME MOPE POST TOASTIES? YOU CERTAINUT MAY ! J 4 WANT! EUERY MEMBER OF MT JUNIOR, CORPS TO ' E AT LOTS OF posttoastiesL cou-reu- rs N cab-bvgol- Td i N ng s VN N J '"-v- BOYSCIRLS! JOIN CORPS MY JUNIOR BADGE, AND PUT TOUR NAME C FREE MY Of FlCIAL JUNIOR ABOUT THE SECRET ROL- L- ALSO SEND YOU MY BIG EXCITING BOOK THAT TELLS Alt CLUE SECRET COOES, SEIF DEFENSE. INVISIBLE WRITING... SECRETS EVERY JUNIOR C MAN OUGHT TO KNOW.. .INSTRUCTIONS ON HOWTO BECOME A ROVWG OPtRATlVE AND EVEN CHIEF OPERATIVE! ALSO MV BlO CATALOG TELLING BOYS NOW JWD GlRH how TO GET OTHER FREE PRIZES? 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