Show st stories t ones 0 n 0 of f by etwo G great r e a scouts yel D 0 western newspaper New paper union OLD JIM BRIDGER TELLER OP OF TALL YARNS yes air up in the yellowstone yellow stone I 1 seed pee trifled trees a gawin with pec trilled birds on em a peet rifled songs once declared old jim bridger Bri deer scout trapper and fur trader ue he was one of the first white men to visit the natural wonders of what Is now yellowstone national park af after ter bis his return be he save gave an account of u bat hat be had seen to on an eastern magazine writer two of the writers articles were nere published then the editor refused to print any more saying that his readers would not believe such baron munchausen tales everything ery thing the old trapper had told the magazine writer weter was true and when bridener found that bis his stories were no longer bell believed eNed he began telling other yarns yams which did not always stick so closely to the truth one day in the yellowstone be he said he came upon an elk grazing within easy gun range he ile fired but the elk neither dropped nor seemed alarmed by the shot the scout reloaded and fired again aga alth the same result then he be became angry picking up a rock he threw it at the animal the rock struck some invisible barrier and dropped to the ground when bridger reached the tile place where here it lay be he found that he had been shooting at the elk through a mountain n of transparent crystal I 1 bridger was as the first white man to see the great salt bait lake in utah this was as in 1824 and he told some won darful stories about the lake one of them was about the great snowfall in the winter inter of 1830 which covered the whole salt lake luke valley to a depth of to 70 feet all of the buffalo perished when spring came all I 1 had to do w ins as lo 10 umme era pm into the lake an I 1 had bad enough pickled pick fed buffalo ath raia for myself an the whole hole ute nation for years bridger dee declared lareL I 1 bridget was known as old gabe or the old man of the mountains by his fellow trappers and the crow indians called him casaby the blanket chief fineral Gi whar you dont see no in juns jun sartin to be thickest he once told gen henry carrington and the general found it good advice when the engineers for the union pacific railroad were uncertain about the easiest route through the rocky mountains they bent tor for old am he ile took a piece of old ald brwn paper fand with a piece of charcoal marked the route which they were ere to follow later they found that he had not made a single mistake in mapping the route bridger died in 1881 and Is buried in kansas hannas city the person whose thoughts run in the right channel has no reason to fear the words that slip out unawares if it Is true that sleep Is to conducive to beauty we fear some people should wake up doctors and are nety adepts at facial control they compliment you on your good health with a smiling countenance while knowing at the time that it Is keeping them out of a fat fee A pretty woman may be quite without friends and yet possess th the eternal gratitude of the druggist |