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Show LOUIS, THE OGDEN FASTER Picked up at Sprinsrvillo By Officers and Brought to Provo Going' to Denver Atoot. Louis Mellot, the eccentric individual indivi-dual wtto has attracted more or less attention at-tention in Ogden the past eighteen years is in Provo today. He was urought over from Springville by Marshal Mar-shal Storrs, who found him running run-ning about the streets of that city last evening in his peculiar garb of white and again this morning. Louis frightened fright-ened several women and children over there, especially last evening. The moon playing hide and seek with the earth's shadow, first blushiDg red and then becoming silvery white, and women turning their eyes i'om looking 6Kyvvard down again toward our mundane mun-dane sphere and there beholdinga gray bearded man, his head wrapped in a white cloth, and his body ciothed in white and over his shoulders a coarse blanket, the sight waa such as to make them shiver and cry out in fear. People thought Louis was a crazy man, perhaps an escaped insane asylum patient, and the marshal was called upon to bring him over here. But they were mistaken. Louis is far from being crazy. He is a religious enthusiast and for eighteen years has lived not like other people. He has worn sackcloth, bathed daily in the Ogden riyer during winter, slept on a hard bed in a cold tent near the river, dressing himself in frozen garments gar-ments in the morning and it will be remembered that he completed a forty days' fast only on the sixth of December Decem-ber last. He does not impose his views and ideas on others, but is simply working out his own salvation. St. Paul, he says, boasted not of the luxuiiee and ease he enjoyed, but epofre of the trials and tribulations he endured. He is a man past sixty yearB of age, ia a first-claES first-claES carpenter by trade and has always al-ways earned his own livelihood. Impulses, Im-pulses, or leanings, as he prefers to term them, lead, him on to do what he does and when once he undertakes a course Jthese leanings prompt, be completes that course. He says he has been in Ogden eighleenyears and during all that time has never been out of that city or.ly on short walks for a few miles, but now he must go east at least to Denver, What ne shall cL svhen he gets there be doesn't know, but presumes that ho shall find employment at his trade and continue on in the even tenor of hia way. He has no funds and proposes to walk, and feelB confident that he will be taken good care of no matter where he goes or where he may be found. He will not go back to Ogden. He left Ogden on Monday last and saya he haB Been it for the last time. Before his changed life began, about eighteen years ago, he never married, so . that he now has no one depending upon him at all. His only relatives are a brother living in New York city and a sister living in California to neither of whom has he written for twelve years. He was born in the city of Buffalo, state of NvW York. Further details of his history he does not care to give, for the reason,he says, that newspapers news-papers say a great many things about him which he do?B not like, and some which are not true. He does not care to attract public attention or to be much Bpoken about. |
