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Show oo BIRTHDAY OF A PIONEER. On his eighty-second .birthday, which was observed yesterday, President L. W. Shurtliff presented a remarkable preservation of body and mind. He was as erect as a young man of twenty, twen-ty, as active as one 30 years his junior and as keen of intellect as the brightest. bright-est. Two years ago he gave the editor of the Standard an idea of his ability as an axman by felling six big trees which stood in his front yard. He did what no ten men in Ogdcn could have done with an ax. In talking with him a week ago on his approaching birthday, the writer suggested that perhaps the hardships of pioneer days gave to him the vigor of constitution which fortified him against the ravishes of time, and he replied by declaring the struggles of the the earlierdays were accepted in good spirit, and that, as a matter of fact, they were not hardships. They wore not, because men of tho spiritual fortitude of President Shurt-IJff Shurt-IJff could not be daunted. Uncertainties Uncertain-ties were mot without undue worry, obstacles were brushed aside and a conquering resolvo was maintained. Out of tho buffeting came men firm of limb and rich in experience. They are the men of tho West to whom wo aro proud to point as typical. |