Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-03-30 | Page 5 | "Old Misery" Reflects West of other Days

I. I Old Misery Mis ry 1 I II I Reflects West I IL L of Ot Other er Days I Rapid-fire Rapid action including a a. bandit gangs gang's activities robb robberies rles fights tights with knives and guns raids on wagon wag trains by bv Indians murders murders mur mur- ders dera and sarly when thousands were ere wending their wa way across the plains to seek dust and nuggets in the valleys and streams of the high Sierras is portrayed portrayed portrayed por por- por- por in a a. very interesting and vivid I manner by Hugh in I IThe hl IJ fi his novel Old Misery f I The story deals with the activities of ot a young g from Vermont Vermont Ver Ver- Veri i California to to mont moat who w went V nt to pick pickup up a fortune out of creeks and from the sides aides of hills bills Before leaving his home in the East jast he was with a large sum of money which he was to deliver to others others' from his home state who had gone I out West Vest before him Visiting a a. gambling house one evening while waiting for the boat to leave which would carry him to Sacramento he lost all of ot the money belonging to his friends and during durIng during dur dur- ing the excitement which was V caused when the place was robbed by a gang of Mexicans he In his drunken condition crawled out of the same window from which the bandits made their escape It Il was rumored that he had taken taken taken tak tak- en part in the robbery and fearing that if It captured he would be lynched with the rest or tried for the stealIng stealIng stealing steal- steal Ing of or the money to him he took to the mountains mountainS' where he made friends with Old Misery Miser f. f friend of Jim Bridger who protected protected protected pro pro- him and led him out of the country passing passin by Salt Lake and ending up at Fort Hall Stall Here Old Misery gave the youn man enough money to go back East to his home and his sweetheart The story takes you OU all over the gold-bearing gold section of or California and out over the Great American desert and through the plains of the Middle West where bands of Indians attacked every wagon train of ot white men they sighted The book Is exciting and InterestIng interesting Interest- Interest carles carries with It Ing throughout t and a. a reflection of the history of ot early days In the West The The Bobbs- Bobbs Merrill company Indianapolis Cost of Loving Serious Problem The high cost of or loving In Mexico Is a a serious problem to the prospective tive ive bridegroom says Frank G. G Carpente Carpenter in Mexico the eighth volume of or his World Travel series which Doubleday Page Co have ha just published If It a a. suitor wants to o take his fiancee to a a. theatre or concert he must invite the whole family TIe Jle must also make malce presents presents pres pre to the tile parents brothers and sisters during the courtship In a a. Mexican mar lage the groom has many expenses which In the United r rs States are rI paid lb by the bride and her parents lie Jle Is x to furnish the trousseau but he someI sometimes some- some timEs Imes fixes the cost Informing the I irl's mother how much she sho may spend This being done donI his mother- mother to law does the shopping 1 picking out for tor the bride the gowns fend the h shoes lingerie hoes stockings needed Y and Including small W t toilet even ll 1 articles She then sends th the bill to tile me groom m. m The goom groom also gives i ithe the bride Jewelry jel and other presents pres pres- among them an Ivory-covered Ivory prayer book lIe He supplies the home and find the furniture and often pays pas the ciVil cill and religious marriage ex exI ex- I i ron FOR I Emerson Em Houghs Hough's 54 40 or Fight l of The Covered Wagon Wagon- has baa been put into revised Braille for the benefit of blind its publishers publish publish- readers Bobbs Merrill ers ers era announce