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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH AFTER MARY GRAHAM BONNER. -- M COmtOHl M VISION HCWAftX UN.ON THE AFRICAN LION Tell me your story, said Billie Brownie, who had gone to the zoo to pay a call on the African Lion. Billie Brownie, as you know, was given permission some time ago by Mother Nature to go and talk to any of the members of her family he wished to call on. He was given the power, too, to understand their different languages, and he used to hear their stories and translate them into language others could understand, and sent out word of his trips and his adventures and what he had heard. They were always anxious to hear the result of his trips back in Fairyland and Brownieland where they used to gather about and hear what he had to say. It was always an eager lot of fairies and brownies and gnomes and elves who gathered about when Billie Brownie came back from a trip. Yes, pray do tell me your story, ho said again to the African Lion. Roar, roar, said the African Lion. I will tell you my story. Roaring to me Is like laughing to d. EVERY Xm MEAL affords fn? benefit as well as pleasure. Healthful exercise for the teeth and a spur to digestion. A long-lasti- ng refreshment, soothing nerves and 6tomach. The Great American Sweetmeat, untouched to by hands, full of flavor. Farmers Attention! Car Now Buy Your Save Money We have 75 automobiles that Sometimes I roar because I am mad, must be sold NOW without and sometimes because I am glad. regard to profit. Any make you But anyone ought to be able to tell new or used. Trucks one roar from the other. My roars are want Priced to sell on different just as people speak differ- of all kinds. ently when they are cross from when sight. Write us today for comthey are pleasant and cheery. details of any make car In my days back In Africa I used to plete walk with my head down low, never you want. people. TV-- Dedication of Statue to (treat Explorerflarks 300 Anniversary of Coming f White Race to Ontario By of the real, Quebec Scores of misserted. sionary priests had been tortured to death. This enmitj of the Iroquois to the French pro- The dedication of the Orillia memorial should really be regarded as an International affair. For the people n this side of the boundary line have abundant reason for being interested in Champlain. d Suppose some person had forced his way to the front during the dedicatory exeand shouted this, before being forcibly removed as a crazy man: What are you French Canadians doing here, applauding with all your ndght the Founder of New France? Havent you read any history at alt Dont you understand that Champlain responsible for Canadas being British instead of French today? And why are you British Canadians cheering the name of Cham-plaln- ? Havent you read enough history to know that because of him the Oregon country was lost to Canada? And you Yankees instead of look-n- g on like mere outsiders, you ought to be parading around behind the Ma-rm- e band of Washington, D. C., tj. S. giving thanks to your great benefactor, Champlain ! loud-woice- rts Why, if Champlain, when he dis- covered Lake Champlain, hadnt used s arquebus on a band of Mohawks from the Iroquois Confederacy Doubtless such remarks would have sen inappropriate, to say the least, ut coo'd the speaker Justly be called crazy? Let us read between the Uses of history and see. Champlpjn, It should be kept ia Inland Finance Co. Ogden, Utah Box 32Q differ- ent line. It made them in effect the allies of the English in the century-lonstruggle for the possession of the continent. Six Nations overlords of the TTtbesMirom the Atlantic to the Mississippi lay in the like a buffer-stat- e rear of the growing English colonies r of the seaboard. When that hundred-yeaBritish won the was by contest on the Plains of Abraham the arquebus of Champlain was no small factor in that momentous victory. Now for the widening of the" circle set in motion by Champlain on the lake he discovered and named for himg ' ! aid. looking up unless I was suddenly startled. Sometimes I walked with some of my friends, sometimes with my mate. duced a still more impor- tant result along a JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN AMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN in bronze to commemo- rate the three hundredth anniversary of the coming of the white race to heroic An Ontario statue of the Founder now of New France graces the thriving little city of Orillia, 86 miies north of Toronto. The statue, tiie work of Vernon March, is 80 feet high and weighs 110 tons. It was unveiled on Dominion day by Rudolphe Lemieux, speaker of the house of commons of the Canadian parliament. The groups at the base of the monument respectively show the taking of Christianity to the Indians by the missionary priests and the trading of heads for furs by the coureur des bois. Apparently the Champlain statue commemorates a period rather than any specific event or date. Champlain ascended the St. Lawrence to Montreal in 1603 and founded Quebec in 1G0S. But it was not until 1615 that his trip of discovery to Georgian bay took him into vvliat is now Ontario. Incidentally, Etienne Brule, to whom a memorial was not long ago dedicated at Sault Ste. Marie, may nave discovered Lake Huron in 1610. By 1C3, however, the white fur trader "as in Ontario, the Recollects (Franciscans) had established missions and the Jesuits had teen called to their at MontRivers and were almost de- French Three mind, was many kinds of a man. He was, among other things, royal geographer to Henri IV and in his eyes two great purposes eclipsed all others : To find a route to the Indies, and to convert the heathen Indians. In 1601) ail the white man knew of New b ranee was the St. Lawrence to the Lachine rapids (Rapids to China). So, when Indians told him of a large lake to the south (Lake Champlain) he set out to explore it. Champlain carried his arquebus and took with him two French His Indians were Montagnais, Hurons and Algonquins. They went up the River Richelieu in canoes. This river and Lake Champlain were the battlefield where each summer for many generations the Hurons and their allies and the tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy (Five Nations, later Six Nations) of New' York had met in bloody conflict. Champlain agreed with his escort to assist in any battle with the Iroquois. July 30 Champlains fleet met a Mohawk fleet on Lake Champlain. Both parties landed on the site of Ticonderoga and the battle began. this Champlain tells battle in one of his books and fure nishes a picture of its beHe is shown advancing at ginning. the head of his Indians. He has just discharged his arquebus andtroughc down two chiefs and a warrior. The two arquebusiers to one side are i the act of, firing. Now the Mohawks knew nothing Panic about gunpowder and guns. seized them. They abandoned everything and fled into the forest The victors returned home in triumph, only stopping at intervals to torture and burn their ten captives. And Champlain named the lake aftr hims. arque-busier- all-ab- out full-pag- . L self. i Tradition says that the Mohawks, redoubtable warriors all, never stopped running till they got back to the MoAnd thereupon the hawk valley. whole Iroquois Confederation Oneidas, Cayugas, Senecas and Onondagas swore undying enmity to the French. And never was an oath of vengeance more persistently and ferociously carried out. As the Iroquois increased in power they carried, the torch and hatchet and scalping knife to the French missions and settlements across the St. Lawrence. By lfl50 they had almost entirely swept away the Montagnais, above the Saguenay ; they had cut to pieces the Algonquins on the Ottawa. The country of the was a desert. The trading posts s, Bu-ro- self: At the outbreak of the American Revolution, the Iroquois Confederacy and its allied tribes went with the British (except the Oneidas). They carried blood and torture to the American frontier. After the Revolution most of the Iroquois fled to Canada as a refuge from the wrath of the victors Again the widening circle set in motion by Champlains arquebus: In the summer of 1831 Christian Iroquois from a Jesuit mission in Canada visited the Flatheads in Montana and told them about the Black Robes Jesuit priests. These Flatheads were uncontaminated by the white man Two honest, peaceful and moral. Flatheads and two Nez Perces journeyed to St. Louis and asked Gen. WilBlack liam Clark to send them Robes to teach them to worship the white mans God. The Black Robes went to the Flatheads in 1840, headed by the famous Father de Smet. ' This touching appeal pf the however, set in motion other A chance sojourner in St. forces. wrote Louis up these Indians for an eastern newspaper. The most immediate result was that in 1832 the Methodists of New England sent Jason Lee and Cyrus Shepherd to the Flatheads Circumas preacher and teacher. stances landed them in Oregon instead of Montana. In 1835 the Presbyte-rians'seMarcus Whitman and Samuel Parker. They, too, landed in Oregon, because of travel conditions through the wilderness. The Oregon country at this time was in the practical control of tne Hudsons Bay company. But both Leo and Whitman were men of affairs. They busied themselves with colonizing as well as with spreading the gospel and soon the American settlement of the Oregon country was well under Flat-head- s, nt You know the rest: 1843, migration sets in over Oregon Trail and way. outvote Britishers Oregon Americans and adopt a provincial government; Forty or Fight, vic1844, Fifty-fou- r torious slogan in the Presidential election of Polk over Clay; 1846, Oregon treaty fixes the north line at parallel. So, since Samuel de Champlain did fire his arquebus forty-nint- h thats wroEijf this with picture? Youre right! Yes," Said the African Lion. Sometimes the Mrs. Lions all walked together and sometimes the Mr. Lions all walked together. You changed about, nodded Billie Brow nie. Yes, said the African Lion. If meat was scarce, he continued, we would have attacked anything which came our wTay I Oh, when meat was scarce, we were Oil doesnt run up bill. But poor oil does evaporate righf up and out of a hot motor. MonaHotor backbone without Oil has the body and to withstand motor heal fatal evaporation. Buy TWNotor Oil and keep your motoi new. MunaKotor Oil Company San Francisco, Cal. Los Angeles, Cal MoiaaMbtor dangerous. Oh, shuddered Billie Brownie. Well, its not scarce now. And youre all right anyway. I After A Bath Good," smiled Billie Brownie. With feel greatly relieved, I do. We used to have such a fine way of Dust With doing when we were free, the African Lion continued. CullcuraTalcmuj We would each roar in turn, and Delicately Medloatcd one to when had Of Pleasing Fragrance stop roaring to get his breath, another would continue with another roar, which sounded all like School to Teach Baking one great long roar. Baking now has taken its place Oh, such days, such nights! Such the arts. A salon of baking, among Such roarfreedom! hunting! Such which its doors In Paris, lma opened ing But Billie Brownie hastily put on his proved a great success. invisible robe for people w'ere coming The epitaph perpetuates the unmade into the lion house now. reputation. I must hurry away, said Billie Thank you for your story, Brownie. I know my friends will be interested hearing it. Good-by- , said the African Lion. You arent a bad little chap. The African Lion did not talk any more. The lion house in the zoo was now filled with people. Take care of your stomach. They were listening to him now as he began to roar to see that he was It is the best friend you have. still In practice. They had heard his IIOSTETTERS Celebrated voice and had not heard what he had Stomach Bitters taken before been saying, but he had attracted them meal3 improves the appetite, to the lion house. aid3 digestion and imparts The other lions understood that he was thinking of the days of freedom a feeling of robust health. and they began to think of them, too, and then they began to roar, one lion after the other roared. Druggists So from one end of the lion house to the other every lion was roaring. As one took breath, the other roared TH1 even louder to make up for the one BoSTsrrca oou who was short of breath for the mopirrsauiuj, pa. ment. And they acted Just as they did when they were free as far as their roars were concerned, for they were all 81 thinking of the wild days which now were over. But they had not left their voices behi&d them. Oils & Greases Cuticura Soap 1 Promote good Health. At All 1 s ibei |