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Insist Jgpon genuine "California Fig "*lfhlch contains directions. " " ' j No Methuaelah ^ Slowboy--Why do you fear that your t'jBktber. will never give his consent to ",J|ur marriage? "yul The Girl--I was thinking, dearest, tbat if you approach htm with as much "* :/\»i - - -- -v ... • " . *«* uecitti ;lj»g yourself to me he will be In dug- ||er of dying of old age before you,(sua* to the point.-- Boston Transcript- I & U-&&. American Immortal ta 1857. He was the guide and companion of Gen. Granville 11 Dodge in his Union Pacific surveys •®d in his Indian <*"»Mlrn« nf 1865-6. These are some of the thin si James Bridger did. They do not rest on tradition, but are recorded In Standard contemporaneous torfcal works. ^ Here is a bit from General Dodge's description of Bridger: ^ , Bridger was a very companion* able man. In person he wu ova* star feet t&Tl, spare, straight as at arrow, agile, rawboned and of poW» erful frame, eyes gray, hair brow* and abundant even In his old with expression mild and agreeable. He was hospitable and generous an^ was always trusted, and reapectei. Here are two other contemporaijr expressions of opinion about Bridger: *' v A bota toMrtplMf aiieerto*- pher.--Capt. W. F. Reynold*, g^. A., topographical engineer. JHr>alfkar} jft-om txj-i Olcl J>m.<guL&r,ri&<yiyjaG ^ ^ w -- o -- " -- U Is He Correet/y Portrayed k "The Covered Wa$on'? By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 'WOMEN! BEWARE! -2 REFUSE IMITATIONS Warning 1 Not All Package Are "Diamond Dyes." Dyes Diamond Dyes. 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TO COLDS ™ •TWIN IODAC roatSR COUGH BAMiluaM-te. mislil«i--«i1y for eou«kL wia«. tamwiw •»! hroochW Bdamtrr liwtotwnrMSi a^farsUMrra. •rv:- iaaauN.Y.Mm. COMPEER--AND RIVAL 'O "OLD JIM" BRIDGUR, "Teller «f' Tall Yarns--" They're classics still, these lattcg: . days-- ®lr George Gore, straight-faced. K*d f "JJunrhausen'a Tales* By Rocky Mountain campfire** btazac Sakt^Old Jim," scornful: "Paasel *f big lies! ikut turuter's dogoned bad mistook An' say! Some things I seen myself w'd read .. ' More lilfahitln' In a book-- Tellerstun ellff o' rock ye kin see thru; Hull herd o' pickled buffler in Salt Lake; Gran' Canyon, where the moon Is always full. Wake-tip Gorge--echo comes back nex* morning Boilln' water runnin' from ice-col' spring, • ^ An* Alum Crick, what shrunk my pony's faetr-- f,; They'd make a man sit up and look." Tou may know much or little or nothing about James Bridger. You probably know considerably If you belong-- ?r 9<9 Shewn in"77z& Cbrtrrvdh&gort Out Where the w»rM la t» lie aMkiiy, , Where fewer hearts witli despair are achTric-- That's where the VVest begins-- Where there's more of singing and less of sighing W!.Wretthere's more of giving and leas of buying Aal a man make's friends without half trying-- That's where the West begins. ' For that Is the West of today, as Arthur Chapman has sung it, and there Brldger's name, though he has been dead these forty years and more, is still one to conjure with. If you are a student of Americana you know that the history of the United States cannot be told without the story of Bridger and his fellow explorers, trappers and fur-traders west of the Mississippi. If you are a "movie fan," you may have sees "The Covered Wagon," and know Bridger as pr^ sented In that motion picture production. The Immediate motive of this article Is the fact that Mrs. Virginia Bridger Hahn of Kansas City, Kans., Brldger's only surviving child, has brought suit for dumages of a million dollars against "The Covered Wagon" because of Its presentation ot her father. According to the petition in the suit, it Is reported, the motion picture production depicts Bridger as a heavy drinker and a person who often became intoxicated and as living with two squaws. Mrs. Huhn charges that her parentage is brought into question; that her name Is disgraced, and that she suffers great humiliation b* / cause her father Is shown in several carousal*. She asserts that her father was an upright, honor* able man. who was never known to drink to excess The purpose of this article Is not to try out of court the case of Mrs. Hahn against the Famous Players-Lasky corporation and the Paramount Pictures corporation. Its sole purpose is to show that James Bridger, drunken or sober, is an Americas Immortal--and why. The Covered Wagon" is a picture based upon a historical novel of the same name by the late Emerson Hough, an American novelist and nature* writer. It depicts the progress of a caravan over" the famous "Oregon Trail." As a whole It Is a powerful and touching picture of the times--la Portland the people In the theater rose in response to some of its most stirring scenes. The interpretation of James Bridger presented on the screen by Tully Marshall is disconcerting and perplexing, to say the least, to both hero-worshiper and student of history. He drifts. In from the desert, shabby, uncouth, rather maudlin and quite grotesque, with a predilection for hard liq» nor and squaws. His produest achievement seems to be symbolized in his ability to shoot a tin cup of liquor from the bead of a boon companion after a drinking-bout James Bridger and his times must he seen In perspective. Tlie history of the United States west of the Mississippi begins with the Spanish explorations of the Sixteenth Century In the Southwest. The French of the Seventeenth century attempted to build an Inland empire along the St. Lawrence, Great Lakes, Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico. They lost tlje St. Lawrence region to the British. The Revolution fixed the westers boundary of the American Colonies at the Mississippi. Thp French, under Napoleon, staged a second attempt at empire-building, this time from New Orleans and west of the Mississippi. Napoleon, forced to choose between/war and colonization. ' elected to fight So he sold to the United States for $15,000,000 the territory between the Mississippi and the Rockies. He planned to "kill twe birds with one stone:" get the sinews of war and "plant a thorn In the English breast." So, at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. : ir&asf the Southwest and California were Span- Canada was British. The Pacitlc Northwest *'as "No Man's Land," with Russian, Spaniard, »rttaln and American all striving for a foothold. The "Undiscovered Country" of the Louisiana Purchase was American. The French trl-color came down and Old Glory went up over St Louis March 10, 1804. With a ^heer, the Lewis and Clark Expedition, waiting Impatiently on the American side of the Mississippi, set forth on Its historic exploration to see %hat the United States had got for Us fifteen raillions. It wintered (1805-6) at the mouth of the Columbia and arrived at St. Louis late In 1808t returning as from the dead. The nation rejoiced. And thereupon, the American people, with the realization that the Louisiana Purchase was In truth a "Delectable Land," thrilled with their first full vision of their destiny and resolutely set their faces toward the Retting sun. thenceforth to be content with nothing less than a clean sweep from ocean to »>cean, Lewis and Clark reported the Missouri to be alive with beaVer clear to Its headwaters in the Rockies. And thereupon began the Age of the •^rapper which was to last for forty years. * "The trapper, as blind in his way as the Spanfrrd who saw nothing unless gold, saw nothing but fur--and trod on the gold that In the next stage ot development was to cull out the prospector, to be followed in turn by the settler and civilization. It was the American free trapper who first spied out the land and established the practicable routes of travel. By 1830 the trapper knew the West; any geographical discovery after that was a discovery only in the sense that It resulted In publicity. The return of Lewis and Clark In 1806 spurred American fur-traders to activity. Manuel Lisa of 8t. Louis--adroit and masterful "Father Manuel--" made a successful trip up the Missouri and In 1806 organized the Missouri Fur Company. John Jacob Astor organized in New York the same year the American Fur company. Astor's plans were of world-wide scope--the founding of Astoria on the Columbia; the shipping of furs to China; return cargoes of tea and silk to New York. Lisa died In Ills prime In 1820; the Missouri Fur Company lasted until 1830, when it was crowded out by the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and the American Fur Company. James Bridger, bf>rn In 1804 In Vlrglnta, appears upon the scene In 1822, when the Rocky Mountain Fur Company was organized In St. Louis by Gen. William H. Ashley. A youth of eighteen, be was one of Ashley's profit-sharing associates, with Smith, Jackson, Provost, the Sublettes, Fitapatrick, Campbell and BeckWourth--all of whom became famous. Bridger gained his title 'of respect--"Old Jim"-- before he was thirty. In twelve months of '823-4 be made a circuit of 5,000 miles, extending from "the Mississippi to California and from Kansas to Montana. He discovered South Pass through the Wyoming Rockies In 1823 and Great Salt Lake In 1824. He rediscovered, about 1830, the Yellowstone. first set-n by John Colter In 1807 and laughed off the map as "Colter's Hell." It was Ashley who superseded the stationary trading post by the caravan and annual rendezvous. By 1890 Bridger was a directing partner. In 1832 he and Milton Soublette and Fitzpatrlck bought out Ashley. In 1834 Astor got out of the American Fur Company because the French had Invented a way to substitute silk for beaver In top-huts. Hl% successors bought out Bridger and his associates in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. In 1-843 Bridger established Fort Bridger In the valley of the Black Fork of the Green river In Utah. Fort Bridger was not on Indian trudingpost. but was u house of accommodation for settlers pressing west over the Oregon Trail. It was - the first of it* kind and marked the passing of the trapper and the beginning of a new era. 7™ Bridger opened the Overland Route by Brldger's to Sail Lake. He guided Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson's punitive expedition against the Mormons. yf SF yL hr fwwliif Tmmtptrtell OLB-T. Will Yotir Family Be Happy This If yours is one of the few remaining families lacking an automobile, no doubt you have finally dccidcd to get out within the next four months. i A low-priced modern automobile like the Chevrolet has j come indispensable to the family of ordinary income. A | million other families can easily prove to you that the better ,f } way i» with Chevrolet. The beauties of nature, the interesting •I and educational features of other places and ways of livings remain things to read about or seen dimly in cold photographs until you are free toget to ihem at your convenience and pleasure* But, suppose you have definitely decided to buy a Chevrolet this spring. This does not necessarily mean you are going to " get it. Anyone posted OR conditions in the automobile business will tell you that thousands of families are going to be unable to get cars this spring. This has been true almost every spring ' for the last ten years. There are just two ways of making aiare " of gettiug your Chevrolet for um whett the flowers and babag. bapezes of spring lute you to the country roads--buy it nam' or order it now. If you do not want to pay for it in full at this time, any Chevrolet dealer will arrange terms to miit your convenience. You will be surprised to learn how easy it is to pay for a- Chevrolet and use it while you are paying for it. Please realize these statements are made by us in good faith end we mean just what we say about the possible difficulties of getting a car delivered to you this spring if you wait until then to order it. The only way to be sure of a ChevrolsC this Spring is to-order it NOW. y'. , I Prlocs /. •. k Flint, Michigan . $490 „ . 4 9 5 Superior UtiHcv Coup# . . 640 Superior fPw. Coupe . . 715 t' •iHtv E*pre»i Ti FUW Bodlf on all Closed Model* Superior Sedan Superior Comat Superior Light Delivery • • 499 " "rack OmhIs 590 •31 Chevrolet Motor Company, Detroit, Michigatt Division of Qeneral Motors Corporation With a buffalo ekin and a piece of chareoal. ha will map out any portion of this Immense region, and delineate mountains, streams and the circular valleys called "holes' with wonderful accuracy.-- Capt J. W. Gunnison. U. & A. Bridger sold out at Ft Bridger la IUSO and moved to Jackson County, Missouri. He bought a big farm and built a large residence. He had an Indian wife and several children. He kept open house. Virginia Bridger was married there In 1864 to "Capt. Albert Wachsman. The wedding was a big social event Captain Wachsman died In 1883 and in 1802 she married Frank Hahn. ' Bridger died In 1881 and his grave In Washington Park cemetery, Kansas City, Is mnrked by a monument erected and Inscribed by General Dodge. According to General Dodge, Bridger had three Indian wives--one at a time and all regular--a Flathead, a Ute and a Snake. ' Mrs. Huhn Is the daughter of the second wife, the Ute, to whom Bridger was married at Ft. Bridger by the famous Jesuit, Father de Smet Brldger's career reads like a fantastic romane* and the most fantastic thing about It is thla:^ "Old Jim" Bridger Is an American Immortal because of his fantastic "Tall Yarns." The West may forget him as "the uncrowned king of all the Rocky Mountain scouts, guides, trailers, Indian fighters, trappers and plainsmen from the Thirties to the Seventies," But his "Tall Yanuf' will always be told In the West to each succeeding generation. "Old Jim" led a dual life. He was apparently equally devoted to fact and fiction. When he told fact he was exact. His spoken work had the confidence of white man and Indian alike. His maps were Invariably correct. When he swapped yarns with old cronies or could get the ear of a tenderfoot, his adventures were limited only by the powers of his Imagination. And he never played a bigger Joke on a greenhorn than he played on himself, for when he told of the wonders of the Yellowstone an admiring public burst Into laughter over "another of 'Old Jim's' tall yarns"--and refused to believe a single word. So Jim, making the best of a bad Job, concoct^ ed the "obsidian cliff" yarn and added It as the crowning wonder of the Yellowstone. It Is probably the most popular of all his "Tall Yarns" and la too well known to need telling here. The "herd o' pickled buffler" was snowed in by a seventy-day storm and frozen solid. In the spring Jim rolled the carcasses into Salt Lake and supplied the Utes with meat for two years. The Ice-cold spring was high up and the water ran down hill so fast that It was boiling by the time it reached the foot of the mountain. The alum creek shrunk up his pony's feet to points, so that the animal stuck when he hit the trail. Can Imagination conceive of a situation mong unique than Sir George Gore, with a perfectly straight face, reading "Munchausen's Tales" t»- Jim Bridger beside a Rocky Mountain campflref Yet the incident Is strictly true, as is Jim's eozament and rival boast. Sir George was a noted Irish sportsman who hunted for two years In thai Rockies, 1854-5, with Jim for guide, philosopher and friend. The Gore range Is named for hlnn,v He traveled with a retinue of fifty and outfit to correspond. He dined in state late In th# evening and It was his practice after dinner t? read to Jim from the great books of the world. Imagine his Inward delight In reading from the biggest liur of all print to the champion liar qf the West! Placet Animalg on Much Higher Plane Than Men Dr. William T. Ilornaday of the New Yotk Zoological park sets down two axioms In his book on "The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals."' The first is this: "if every man devoted to his affairs, and to the afTalrs of his city and state, the same Industry that every warm-blooded wild animal devotes to his alTairs, the people of this | world would abound In good health, s osperity, peace and happiness." And the second Is: "Many men are s <th morally and Intellectually lower | than man quadrupeds, and are In my | opinion as destitute of that Indefinable I attribute called soul as all the lower , ilnials commonly are aupposed to 'M'." -1g>. On a chart Doctor Homaday shows the relative Inelilgence of .wild animals as he hi^found It In his long experience with them. The chimpanzee heads the list with a score of 925. This Includes all the qualities and attributes that might be grouped as temperament and intelligence. The Hon, noblest o. the cat family, scores 725, the tiger 575.--New York Ti: King of Denmark "SaoeJ9 Movie Actrett at Sta The king of Denmark, who rescued Queen Alexandrine recently when the Ice on the sound broke under her feet und she vas waist deep in water, once played the leading part In a "spoor* rescue. lie was enjoying a cruise off the Danish coast In the royal yacht, Rita, when he heard loud firing and ordered the yacht to turn at full speed In the direction of the sound. He soon came within range of an appalling spectacle. From the deck of a steamer some men were firing on a rowing boat, and, as the Rita approached, a girl flung herself from the boat. A motorlaunch was promptly lowered from the _ yacht, aboard which the drowning girl was hauled by King Christian himself. His majesty then espied In the offlng a huge camera, and realized he had been acting for the benefit of a cinematograph operator. He waa angry at first, but calmed down on seeing the humor of thn gltnatlnn Manchester Guardian. Locfil Heat He--It didn't do any good to call down the Janitor about our cold rooms, did It7 She--Yes, It did. I got sit warmed up after 1 got through chasln* him around the engine room with a poker. If "dreams ca would be a grotesque. is came bedlain. true" this world Most dreams are wjirv They*re Soft • A couple of tourists were taking luncheon in a Los Angeles beanery. While ont of them read the market reports, the other got into conversation with the attendant. Pretty soon he confided to bia friend: "Our waitress says she hopes to be a movie star some day." "Comic or dramatic star!" > "Oh, dramatic, of course." "Then I guess it will b order pie." Why the Penalty of Lying Awake? MANY people spend hours at night, restlessly tossing from side to side, waiting lor sleep. All because they drink coSee with their evening meal. i * II the caffeine fil <5© flee irritates your nervous system and keeps you awake wfien you should be asleep, recuperating your energies, why not stop cofiee and drink Postum? Postum is a pure cereal beverage, absolutely Iree from caffeine or anything that can disturb health and comfort. Many prefer Postum for its delightful aroma and flavor, vr If you want to know the truth, change to Postum for a month or so, and see how much better you will sleep and fed. -as '-J <1 •• H-i KING WAS FRIEND OF STEVENSON It was typical of Stevenson that In stead of choosing the best room In the house for bis own he should seek out a dilapidated, cob-webby Utile shack, 80 to 40 yards away, and papered with mildewed newspapers. In which to Install himself. Here in complete contentment, with his cot, flageoiet, and Ink bottle, he set himself to the task of finishing the "Master of Ballantrae"--while centipedes wriggled unnoticed on hisfloor, lizards darted after files, and the undisturbed spiders peacefully continued the weaving of their webs. Here King Kalakaua would occasionally drop In on him for a long and confidential talk, while the horses of the royal equipage fllckwl their tails under t neighboring tree, and the imposing coachman and footman dozed on their box. - King Kalakaua. tfce-laat ot the*Hawaiian klitga, was a orach-maligned man. From the.stories often told of him one would picture a grotesque savage, who was constantly drunk; a sort of Sambo. In. rldiru'ous uniform, whose antics and vices became so intolerable that finally a long-suffering community had to sweep him away. He waafhn the contrary. a highly educeted man,/with an air of extreme distinction In spite of ids very dark skin, and bad a most winning graeiousness and charm. He would have been at ease in any court In Europe; one could Imagine no predicament eg. contretemps from which be could not have extricated himself with grace; lie had, besides, the kingly quality of never overb.wkS'rtg anyone. Sooner at later. In a way that never seemed premeditated, lie always had a word an# a smile for those who had not presumed tQ think themselves within hla ken. He was the' greeted gentleman I have ever known.--Lloyd Oebourue, gi Scribner's Magazine. 8corn la the antidote for IngaMk for Health "There's a Reason l - y Your grocer sells Postum to two ieirns: Instant Poatuas (m rms) prepared instantly ia die cup by the additiaB oi txaling water. Fcmum Cereal [in packages} £ur those who Meier the flavor brought out by boiling tally 20 cunuat The cod oi either iona Is . auc lull ; -*r,