Show uY BY FAir FAIRI II ALL ARE E CONQUERED EVE TIME I j. j 1 1 o 1 1 j. j t t J I to 1 4 OLDEST PENSIONER I IN LIFE UFE AT T RIPE GE E OF 81 07 I 1 William Newell V Veteran et rah Railroader and Indian Fighter Hale and Hearty at 87 Ministers to Sick at Local Hospital Gives Give Secret of Longevity r I I 1 By DOLLY DALE v Se Sewing th tile the buttons on on onnes nes ne's own On sI ids is pr siE not to say occupation for an I Indian dian fighter but that thatis is s exactly what I found William Newell Ne oldest pensioner on the Harriman lines traveler pioneer Indian fighter and twice a widower widower widower wid wid- ower doing in his room at the L. L D. D Ds S. S hospital I suppose th the proper course for me to pursue would have be hen ben n to take a needle and thread out of ot Newell's Newell's New- New ells ell's nimble finger fingers and assume the job which custom has Ion long since wished on the more armful of the species Slut nut Buta nuta a casual inspection of the work vork under underway underway underway way showed me I could not hope to compete with the skillful and dexterous manipulation of Newell so I refrained an any attempt at realization of my prop proper r sphere in life Newell pleads to 86 years and if th the ability to thread a needle without glasses is any Indication he shows a fair promise of ot rounding out a full century Like the man in the poem I would give you JOU the name of the verse if I knew it he bears his llis budding honors thick upon him in the tangible form torn of medals government awards for bravery in the early days The exact deeds which won them for tor him he did not clearly remember a form Corm of modEsty modesty modesty mod mod- esty which has all the charm of novelty novel novel- ty but he talked at some length on ott the eleven weeks trip from Liverpool to New Orleans which brought him to this country at the age of ot 24 Eleven weeks at sea Sadly Sad acute memories of as many hours spent on n the ocean wave brought a vision of many hungry little fishes to my mind But But But- Did the Cooking I had to do the cooking during the trip myself so I X wasn't sick a minute he proclaimed triumphantly Plague pestilence famine they famIne they trooped one by one Into his story from the landing at New Orleans A A. plague of ot mosquitoes perhaps not epic in its conception but sufficiently momentous to cause a pol poignant nant squirm at the memory greeted the travelers travel ers era extending In their own original manner the compliments of the new country After a months month's quarantine the band started into the wilds of an unknown land now flow designated Kansas to find the cholera In all Its terrors In wait walt for tor them It was horrible sal said Mr Newell to see ones one's friends and comrades alive and well and In ten minutes stretched dead on the round ground The fear of death haunted us all It struck suddenly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly without warning both friend and androe foe roe sparing some of us and taking others without any apparent method or reason Those de desperate erate at the thought of being left al alone ne in the world at the end of some loved one and to whom death would b ba be a blessing were spared en entirely entirely entirely en- en while white the very ones who had the most to live for were taken taleen or so ISO it seemed to us Recalls War Dance Then famine Starvation Star Wheat could not be procured I X remember when would woul 1 not buy me a sack of flour Our food was doled out to us In half In rations but most frequently rations We Ve were hungry ry for months Mr Newell placidly threaded another needle and began taking little stitches around the neck of a shirt where his collar had begun to rub i It thin You should have seen the Indian bothered us never war dances They to 40 any extent on our trip across tho the plains and ancl often made male friends and allowed us to camp near them Often Orten In the night we could creep nJ near ar are e enough to see the braves cs dancing In a circle around the fire and hear the drumming of the tom tom We saw tho the feats by y which they proved ed th their lr title to manhood manhood b themselves manhood burning burning- themselves with red hot coals running the gauntlet of blows hammered at them by their fellow tellow tellow tel tel- low braves tearing pi pieces ces of their flesh out with hooks ugh hooks ugh I But with it all Mr Newell lives to thread needles and repair worn collars and minister to the sick and dying for he is the official chaplain of the L. L D. D S. S hospital And the secret in his own on words is Live simply have faith for by faith are all things overcome William II-William I William Newell at 85 I J 6 4 I q y 1 |