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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS. CASTLE DALE. UTAH f. B nnsimas is T ner 'Ha r . n Forgotttteira I , ::. HEROES . n 25,J r l. 'a 0 ELMO SCOTT WATSON ,ili.'??Vs in n Drives it away in 12 lie eve t i Headache Neuralgia n.v 1 - 1 I1IR Saved From Apache Torture , been for the fearless of one of those typical old army sergeants, the career of a Indian distinguished cavalryman and at the ended been have .fighter might outset and American literature might never have been enriched by the stirring romances of the old army days In the West which came from his pec-Fo- r Gen. Charles King, at the age of one of the few remaining eighty-sevelinks today between the present and the past when there was a frontier, owes his life to Sergeant Bernard Taylor of the "Fighting Fifth" cavalry. In 1S74. King, then a lieutenant, with a small detachment of the Fifth, was pursuing a band of Apache raiders in the Mogollon mountains of Arizona. Near Sunsei pass King, accompanied by Sergeant Taylor, scouting ahead of the detachment, uncovered the ambusb which the Indians had laid for the soldiers. The first sign of the presence of the enemy was an arrow which whizzed past his head and buried itself deep into a tree. A moment later he felt a burning sensation as another dart tore through the outer corner of his left eye. Jumping quickly behind a rock, King waited for the enemy to show themselves and as two dusky forms glided into the optn a quick shot from his carbine brought one of them down. Before he could reload a volley from the other warriors spattered on the rock. A bullet pierced his right arm and his carbine dropped from his hand. Realizing instantly that the savages would be upon him before the detachment could come up. King sprang to his feet and started to dash down the slope. But a tough clinging vine plunge tripped him up and a head-lonof ten feet left him lying bruised and almost senseless among the rocks. As he fumbled for his revolver, for he was resolved not to let them take him alive, he heard a voice calling "Lieutenant Where are ye?" "llere. Sergeant," replied the wounded officer, and a second later Taylor was at his side, had lifted him In his arms and started down the slope. When King fell, the Apaches lost his trail for a few moments but they caught sight of him again as Taylor readied him. Now began a thrilling race for life with the savages gaining on the sergeant with his heavy load. Every few yards he stopped to send a shot from his carbine to delay his pursuers and twice an Apache dropped tn his tracks. Taylor was tiring fast and King begged the sergeant to drop him and save bis own life. But the sergeant knew what that would mean for the young lieutenant. He staggered on and Just as he was about to collapse he heard the welcome sound of the othei soldiers crashing through the bushes. They were saved. HAD "Si it Dot For Domestic P.... Teacher Yes, children. .... I duties of the lord hl.h m,'1"'! tn nnt r wn , ho tu . . lu . Willie (who has observe -- And did he have to think enses to tell the kinsr'a : "I n Jfiwwwam n I 1 iMWWiiniwuiiiii iiiimmMimiiisimTwi tartri"" i.i....r. By LOUISE M. COMSTOCK "Merry, Merry Christmas everywhere: Cheerily It rlngeth on the alrl Christmas bells, Christmas trees, Christmas odours on the breeze. . , IIRISTMAS is almost here! And once more we nd ourselves somehow again doing all the things one always does at this time of year, with an enthusiasm which repetition or business depressions fall to dampen. It Is a wonderfuul thing, this spirit of Christmas, In the name of which jwe open hearts and pocketbooks in a stupendous lffort to make Joy universal for at least one day a year. When we stop t analyse it, clearing away from it the tarnished tinsel and candle drippings with which many years of sentimental-1- 1 ty and commercial exploitation have to some find it based after all on fe stent covered it, we tie most lasting, worthwhile and certainly the imost pleasurable of human instincts. There will always, of course, be Scrooges to sneer and Hout the spirit of Christmas, and busy business men who will send the stenographer out to buy the wife's present or else sign a few checks and be glad It's over, and unhappy mortals vho give because they have received or expect to raceive or hope to outdo the rest of the girls in the bridge club. But fundamentally the spirit of Christmas is sound and true and healthful, as is probably, right now when depleted bank accounts and curtailed wages put a new g and indulgence in insignificance on nocent merrymaking for the sake of a faith or a tradition, being demonstrated more convincingly than ever before. What else but the real spirit of Christmas makes It possible for us to go into ecstacies necktie from Cousin Kitty, or over an a scrap of silk underwear three times too small from a school mate who hasn't seen us since and a perfect size sixwe were twenty-on- e teen? What else gives us the strength, now that there are only a "few more shopping days" to go, to dive into crowded stores, elbow through crowds, and to pay more than we Intended for something we are not sure will please. Gift giving Itself is founded upon the noblest sentiment of them all, the very heart and sow of Christmas, which is after all merely the annual celebration of a great Gift. The custom of exchanging gifts as we today practice it dates from the first offerings made to the Nordic god Frey for a fruitful year. Saint Nicholas, the Fifth century bishop who is said to have inspired our modern Santa Claus distinguished himself by his lavish gifts to the poor of Lycia, Asia Minor. Like Christmas feasting, however, giving reached extravagant heights during the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, and Queen Elizabeth is said to have received almost her entire personal wardrobe as Christmas gifts from her courtiers, and an unbelievable quantity of precious jewels. Introduced into this country by the first Dutch settlers, the custom of filling the '.children's stockings, and heaping presents upon young and old alike has become one of the most 'important things about Christmas. Nor is there any indication that there will be less gifts given this Christmas than in previous fatter years. When figures showing the total savings represented by the various Christmas savings clubs throughout the country were published recently, they showed the staggering sum of $593,000,000, 6 per cent less in actual money than last year, but much more in real purchasing power due to deflated prices. It has further been estimated that fully 40 per cent of this total annual savings is actually used in making Christmas purchases, while an additional 3 per cent, this year probably much more, can always be counted on for educational and charitable uses. Certainly there will be no diminution In the amounts of charity gifts this year. National unemployment relief programs, local drives by charitable organizations, and individual gifts, old clothing, baskets of food, money, toys, will surely be made in greater abundance and In closer accord with the real sjdrit of Christmas than ever before. One of the most painless methods by which we join in the universal philanthropy demanded annually at Christmas time is by the purchase of anniChristmas seals. This is the twenty-fiftversary of the Christmas seal In this country. The Idea was first utilized in financing health work in Copenhagen, Denmark, In 1904. A postal clerk, familiar with the vast numbers of packages mailed at this time of year, suggested It as a means of raising money for a .charity hospital. One of the original Danish seals, stuck onto a Christmas package, reached .Jacob Kiis, social reformer and friend of Theo- - KSSSC . cause of the paper on which they are printed. There are a great many stocks with shiny surfaces, black, gold or silver; bright candy stripes dash gayly across others, and one very popular and almost spongy in paper Is texture and brings out any printed design of outline that Is most effeclettering In clear-cu- t tive. Time was when Christmas dinner was many weeks in the making and many hours in the serving, but that was in the days before the grocer around the corner was brought even nearer by the telephone and quick delivery service, and every nearby restaurant offered a menu rivaling mother's own. Today even Christmas dinner may be procured in cans, and fortunately so. Imagine a modern woman in her neat white enamel and shiny chronium plate kitchenette mixing together this recipe for "shred pie," an old. English Christmas favorite: "Two bushels of flour, 20 pounds of butter, 4 geese, 2 turkeys, 3 rabbits, 4 wild ducks, 3 woodcocks, 6 snipe, 4 partridges, 2 neat's tongues, 3 curlews, 7 blackbirds, 6 pigeans!" Or even let her undertake the day's cooking with which little Sally Fairfax of Virginia, writing In her diary in 177, credits her mother: ". . . Mamma made six mince pies, and seven custards, twelve tarts, one chicking pie, and four puddings . . .!" When Christmas feasting was in its heydey menu but included: scarcely a rough-surface- 11 1. "Gee, I hope I get something like that!" Young America lines up In front of store win- dows to gaze longingly at the fascinating displays therein and to hope that "ol' Santy Claus" will bring Just what they have been wanting. 2. This highly unusual Christmas tree Is nothing else than a gigantic prickly cactus being prepared for the outdoor celebration at Christmas at Palm Springs, Calif. The tree's holiday regalia was supplied by society folk from all parts of the country who winter there. 3. Mr. W. K. Public does his Christmas shopping. Loaded to the guards with packages, bundles and gifts, the poor fellow sets a good, if somewhat overloaded, example of buying his Yuletide gifts early in the season. Friend wife directs operations, and all he has to do is to furnish the funds and transportations. gift-givin- off-sha- h ,. I $ dore Roosevelt, who was so enthusiastic about the idea that he wrote it up in an article published in the Outlook. There Miss Emily Bissell, trying to raise $3,000 for a tuberculosis pavilion In Wilmington, Delaware, read about it, borrowed the idea and had the first American Christinas seals printed and sold in 1907. Today, under the direction of the National Tuberculosis association, the work has reached vast proportions. In one year over 5,000,000,000 of these little stickers were sold. At a penny apiece their sale supports over 2,000 affiliated tuberculosis associations and committees throughout this country. Another way in which we spend a goodly proportion of our Christmas money is on cards, which last year cost the American public some $50,000,000, not counting engraving and postage. The first Christmas card was sent out In 1846. The idea was that of Sir Henry Cole, English gentleman and social reformer; they were designed and lithographed and hand colored to his order und,er the direction of J. C. Horsley, member of the Uoyal academy. The cards were 6 by 4 inches large, and bore three panels separated by a leafy trellis. In the two side panels were scenes illustrating the charitable acts of feeding the hungry and clothing the needy; in the central one was the whole family, grandparents, parents and children, all holding up brimming beakers and about to drink to the recipient "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Cole ordered and sent out 1,000 of these novel Christmas greetings, and we may imagine that they were received with a great deal of curiosity, if not of enthusiasm. However, the card became really popular only in the 1870s, when, along wiih everything else they were highly ornamental and senders strove to outdo each other in original and expensive designs. The "best people" in this country got the craze about 1873, artists of note found It more profitable to prepare Christmas scenes for cards than to paint portraits, and poets of consequence did not think it beneath them to compose fitting sentiments for them. As the result of our present need for Individuality, the Christmas cards is no longer a sheer work of art, but a commercial novelty and a good racket. This year In addition to the conventional design of religious theme or showing snow scenes, carol singers, holly wreaths or candles, we have the card decorated by Scotty, the little terrier who is Just now at the zenith of his popularity, or bearing a modernistic design, which, however incongruous to a thing as old fashioned as Christmas, nevertheless is always striking and fresh in appear-- , ance. Most 1931 cards are interesting also d "Beefe, mutton and porke, Shred pies of the best; Tig, veale, goose and capon, And turkie well drest." There was also the famous boar's head, lemon in mouth and ears wreathed around with rosemary; the peacock, roasted, sewn back into its own skin with every lovely feather in place; generously garnished and carried In on a golden platter with due ceremony; haunches of venison, plum porridge, frumenty and the steaming hot wassail drink. The shred pie, unlike its modern descendant the mince pie, was baked in a long dish, shaped like the cradle, or manger of Bethlehem. However this lavish outlay of food may, in the reading, make the mouth water, there was probably In the tasting another side to the story. Imagine the fastidious and Vitamine-consciou- s gourmand of today seated In some huge smoky baronial hall before a dinner served up by a nondescript retinue of servants from mysterious dark cellars and smelly kitchens and consisting of ". . . . thirty-pounbuttered eggs, pies of carp's tongues, pheasants drenched with ambergris, and a single peacock covered with sauce made from gravy of the bruised carcasses of three fat wethers!" Nevertheless, it Is to this cookery that we owe many of our favorite Christmas dishes, and at no other time of year does the modern kitchen show sucli a flurry of activity as now. The Christmas turkey is, of course, America's contribution to the feast; and is found on almost every American table. Time was when one of the most important duties of the last few days before Christmas was to cut, bring into the house, and set up the Christmas tree, which had been marked out from its sisters In the old back woodlot months ago for this very purpose, and tenderly Hatched over ever since. Onto its fresh, fragrant branches went homemade tapers, fancy paper strings of popcorn prepared with much ado by the children themselves. Its glowing lights, its shining tinsel strings, its sparkling colored balls, represent the age-ollove man has felt for warmth and light, for the sheltered companionship of the open hearth, for the rays of the sun. In them the Christmas tree carries on the purpose of the old heathen festival to which our modern celebration in some ways corresponds, expressing their joy at the return of the winter solstice, when the sun once more became friendly to men, when days commenced to lengthen, and spring was not so far away. Our modern Christmas tree decorations are thus in one sense merely modern symbols of the sun, descendants of the burning barrel and the flaming torch with which the ancients used to worship it. Martin Luther made the first Christian use of the tree when he set up In his home in Germany, for his own children, a little fir tree, and hung it with candies, like the stars, he explained" to them, which lighted the night of the Nativity. The iir tree is still regarded as the Christmas tree par excellence, particularly in the northeastern and lake states, because of Its long, spreading and springy brandies and its deep green and fragrant foliage which stays fresli longer than that of almost any other type In the western states fir, while abundant, it is harder to reach and cut, and its place is largely taken by lodgepole pine and spruce while on the Pacific coast white fir is m0st popular. d old-tim- e cut-out- s, d life-givin- g ( by W astern Newspaper Union.) g F. F. V. Homemade bread wasn't fluff.., was solid, but yet light, ve gJ; ' it In the past tense. If It's Your Live- r- yea do ahM you drink a few cup of Garfield Tea. Th gentle but potent actum of its purs herbs flush the bowels morongniy. restore the - Normal actian nf unm hrer, and meke yousT k..l.!" ' . fit .1. Hill MVWUIJ. . A t th nearejt druggist GARFIELD . - 11511 HAIR RaMtltw TEA v BALSAM tnr.no.J rl HTwoiChOT. ........ in Wk..p.t(hSSt j j BalaanuMakatk .ucaiiurQig. connection with Parker's Hair hair soft and fluffy. 60 cents by mail orttdra. Chemical Hiacox Sista. Works, PatcbogucK.1 Can't Convince Police "I saw you arguing with your on the street yesterday." "Yes, I was trying to convince lie that the police wouldn't refuse to taj wile the car merely because she insi It was all right to park that near t fire plug." One of the worst things sun is a shady reputation. under tie Mothers... Watch Children's COLDS head colds often "settle and chest where they nay become dangerous. Don't takt chance at the first sniffle rub Children's Musterole once every hovt COMMON If: jorflye hours. Children's Musterole is fust eooi oil you have known so long, it milder form. This famous Mend of oil of mustarJ, camphor, menthol and other ingredient! brings relief naturally. Musterole gea action because it is a saentific"counter irritant" not just a salve it penetrates and stimulates blood circulation, helps to draw out infection and pain. Keep full strength Musterole on hini, for adults and the milder Children's Musterole for little tots. All druggisa, Tvlusterole, CHILDREN'S and Indian Scout FN HIS veius (lowed some of the proudest blood in ail America. His father was Col. Richard Garnett ol Virginia, a classmate of Sheridan at West Point, who was commanding olfi cer at Fort Laramie, Wyo.. before the Civil war and who as a brigadier general of Virginia troops in the Confederate army lost his life early in the war. His mother was an Indian woman of the great Chief Red Cloud's Ogallala Sioux. So Billy Garnett could claim that he belonged to the "first families of Virginia and the Dakotas. During the Sioux war of 187G-7he served under General Crook as a scout and interpreter and it was largely through his energy, influenrp and work in the field that Chief Crazy Horse, leader of the hostiles who over whelmed Custer on the Little Big Horn, surrendered at Fort Robinson in' the spring of 1877. Then when the wai was over and some 9.1X10 turbulent rer men were placed on the Pine III rite reservation with Dr. V. T. McGillycud dy, a former army surgeon, as agent, Garnett wis made chief Interpreter. And this is Doctor McGiilycuddy's tribute to him: "During seven years of service, it was largely through help and influence that I was able, with the assistance of only ten white men and a force of 50 Indian policemen to hold those 9.000 Indians in check. Many a time during my incumbency as agent. Billy stood by my side in hostile councils, aligned on the tide of the Great White Father, when ou." prospects were good for 'a buffalo hunt on Ghost Creek,' bm he never weakened. "During the Ghost Dance outbreak of 189()-i,- i Garnett was as usual to the front serving between his people and the whites. He Is the last survivor of the old scouts and interpreters; he had lew equals and no superiors He helped open up the West to civilization and he helped make history on the frontier." Those last words were uttered when only a few years ago. Billy Garnett old and decrepit from arduous service and exposure during campaigns where the temperature ranged from no in the summer to G." below In the winter was trying vainly to get a pension of $:0 a month from the government he had served so well. At last the grateful republic which he served did grant him a pension, but they cut it down to $20 a month! 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