Show the old settler 0 my dear san itta Jua n ners ers the young and unthinking people of the community called him stingy john because he had a pronounced mania for saving things food clothing any article or material which might be put to a good use in an emergency he stored them away and preserved them as if to meet impending famine he was too old and crippled up to do much hard bard work but he raised a good garden and fruit and berries every summer and he tended his two cows ared and hischuck his chickens and his bees paid every obligation with great care and always had enough to last him for some time to come people laugh at me he said as he leaned on his hoe they call me stingy and say im wrong in the head but this generation faint never seen what ive seen they dont know like I 1 know what there is ahead of them it was 1200 miles from salt lake valley back to the missouri and it was on to Cali forney president nt brigham young told us to make and save everything we could or we would starve to death some of em came mighty nigh starving as it was when the tight pinch came some families have any bread for weeks ana weeks at a time I 1 tell you this gluttonous generation cant imagine how we suffered I 1 remember one family wha took an old cowhide down off the fence and scraped the hair off and boiled it till il il was tender and ate it we dug roots out in the hills we boiled soup bones till they would make no difference with the water in which they were boiled ile he paused seemingly to view the scenes again in that impressive world of his keen memory for something to cover our nakedness we cut up old wa wagon gon cov covers I 1 we dressed in buckskin we pu put t on patches till the original could hardly be distinguished we was mighty glad to make our own clothes and hats and shoes if we could just find fin d something to make ent em with oh a garden like this lie he said looking down the he straight continued on page 8 the old settler 0 continued from page rows he had been hoei hoeing iigA iad ald have looked then like a part pan of heaven As a little boy I 1 knew the sting of the cold and the gnawing of the hunger that made men weak and threatened to wear them out he continued reflectively you think of it as a thing of the past but I 1 want to tell you it is a matter of the future as well president young haq ha 1 warned us that it was coming and then when we were in the midst of it he told us that bad as it was there was to be a worse ime in the future for the people in utah and neighboring states I 1 may not live to see that time but if you do observe that the people who have listened to my warning and laid lai d things tor o that time of want will be 0 4 r off than those who laugh and call names and think that prosperity will always last ALBERT R LYMAN |