The Western News (Libby, Mont.), 1934-12-06
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Thursday. December 6, 1934. THE WESTERN NEWS. LIBBY, MONTANA PAGE SEVEN It Egypt’» Attraction» C^loru |-[unier 99 The tomb of King Tut-Ankh-Araen Here’s Slip That is now visited by nearly all Med iterranean cruisers, as are the tem Fits the Figure ple of Karnak and the other great relics of ancient Egypt, The huge PATTERN 1*87 columns and still mighty ruins of the temple are subtly pleasing to fem Inlsts. One of Egypt's strong queens, Hatshepsut, played a leading part In 'I directing the building of this temple. '•■I Wr*' When her brother succeeded her he 7’ :ymà Jealously had all her Inscriptions chiseled away and covered her great obelisks with BÖ ( a wall of masonry. mm ~ Capt. Tom With the centuries the masonry has j t J W.juste r crumbled away and Hatshepsut’s -, obelisk was disclosed, unchanged de DT, Bmrrt/ 4% spite the vindictiveness of kings. I % f 17 Simple Word* Best Jr Great thinkers say great things usually In simple words because à they see what ordinary men do not, i how much they mean. ¥ f ' Where the Custers Died 'fjRlNTL. f Phot* ty drove* Kribourn I VJ 0* É Gen. G For eo. A. Custer \ '//. i » our e f By ELMO SCOTT WATSON W S © K HIM It Is written: “He followed f k Glory all his days. He was her X z I lifelong devotee. She gave him fu- Quick, Safe Relief f  'U vor withheld from most men, and For Eyes Irritated % h fl denied herself when his need of her hi 7 irùirti By Exposure To irtrtrb m was sorest. When, desperately pur- f I N- i/ suing, he died on the heights above Sun, Wind and Dust m ÿ the Little Big Horn, Glory, the per- ml At All Drug Stores f i i ® verse, relented and gave eternal 'i* % % WrlteMnria.Co.,Dpt.W,duetto,for Pr®e Book brilliance to his name.” So begins chapter one of a new “now-lt-cnn- be-told” biography—Frederic F. Van De Water's “Glory Hunter," published recently by the Bobhs- Sound Advice If you can’t laugh—smile until Merrtl) company. The “Glory Hunter” was you can. “George Armstrong Custer, Lieutenant-Colonel, ;;v r Tth United States Cavalry, Brevet Major-General, IÔ97 United states Army, the ‘Boy General with the You will like this slip when you Golden Locks,’ the ‘Murat of the American make It, when you wear It—and Army,’ the good sword, the hero, the martyr," X when you tub and Iron It. What Around his name has raged endless contro more could you ask of any bit of versy, for he was the kind of man who seems Custer Monument * lingerie? It Is a wrap around model to have been capable of Inspiring either the bit et West Point that crosses In the hack and Is both terest hatred or the blindest loyalty. Chief among V Gen. bis people were no more hostile then than they • ^ôçaaii shadow-proof and adjustable, Our the exemplars of the latter was. of course, his figures do change a bit from time to wife, “who was to devote the rest of her life to end Mrs. had been when members of this same baud were II Custer the victims of Colonel Chlvlngton and hts Colo % time, and with all this talk of adornment of her husband’s memory." Long be “streamline silhouettes fore his tragic death In 1870 there were those rado troops at the Sand Creek massacra But I and what not. It Is a nice thing to know that who had reason to hate him but chose to hold Sheridan’s orders were, In effect, to “kill Indians” Jl a political foe and had been the Academy’s and Custer didn’t stop to find out whether the one’s slip will fit exactly right, come their tongues. After that event there were whis chronic Insurgent His nature was bright and village Into which he charged that cold Novem what may. It takes next to no pers of suspicion but little, If any, full-voiced volatile, yet durable past the power even of war ber morning was occupied by friendly or hostile To relieve time to make, ns you will find to denunciation. to alter.” Indiana your Joy, and Irons flat like the pro- “Elizabeth Bacon’s fifty-odd years of glorifica It was during these two years that the tradi Eczema His tactics at the Washita were the verblal handkerchief. Lovely In wash tion have enshrined her husband In the folk-lore tion of “Custer’s luck” began. For nothing else same as those which brought disaster less than ten Itching satin, crepe or unshrinkable rayon. of America. She proclaimed him hero and, since but luck could have made him a brigadier-general years Pattern 181)7 Is available In sizes she was his widow, men who thought otherwise dt the age of twenty-three, the youngest In the later—a division of his command and u headlong sand give skin comfort attack on an “enemy 3-1, 3(5, 38. 40, 42, 44 and 40. Size held their peace.” Last spring she died, as did army. ... At least, the historians have never whose numbers were un- w nurses use - known. But he soon found that he hud stirred 30 takes 3% yards 39 Inch fabric. Gen. K. S. Godfrey, another staunch defender of been able to find any good reason why In 18(52 Illustrated step-by-step sewing In Custer’s name. Therefore a *‘uow-lt-can-be-told’’ he should have been advanced frbm a first lieu up a hornet’s nest for Black Kettle’s village was Resinol only one of several along the Washita. Threat structions Included. biography can apj>enr without giving pain to tenancy In the Fifth cavalry to the command of Send FIFTEEN CENTS (15c) In these two honored devotees to a partly true ened by wurrlQj-s from the others, Custer hastily the Second brigade of the Third division, rocket coins and stamps (coins preferred) legend. withdrew, even though MnJ. Joel Elliott and 19 ing past the ranks of captain, major, lieutenant- for this pattern. Write plainly name, If, Indeed, as the poet tells us. the child Is men In his detachment were still unaccounted A colonel and colonel. True, he distinguished him address and style number, BE SURE father to the man. then several Incidents In the for. Lieutenant Godfrey had rejtorted bearing self In a wild charge at Gettysburg but at least %N„ TO STATE SIZE. childhood of the boy who was born In New Hum- twice thereafter he narrowly escaped annihila- sounds of firing which Indicated that Elliott was In distress. But Custer disregarded this and Address orders to Sewing Circle ley, Harrison county. Ohio, Just 05 years ago „ ®f fl'e hands of that cavalry genius In gray, — needs more Faltern Department. 243 West Seven (December 5, 1839) are significant of the Jeh Stuart marched away, leaving Elliott to his fate. His hasty withdrawal Indicates that he had -A than cosmetics teenth Street, New York City. he was to become. When war with Mexico The appointment of Phil Sheridan ns chief of Betuty of (kin come* threatened, his father. Emanuel Custer, Joined the lost for the moment, at least, his belief that the from wiihia.Whencon- the Union cavalry gave Custer his chance for »tipiuonclosi (be pores "New Burnley Invincibles,” a militia company, fame. It was Sheridan who overlooked Insubor Seventh could whip all the Indians on the plains. with Intestin»! wastes, and provided his little son, "Autle,” with a min But he lost something else at the Washita—the ■Set»**** I CLEANSE INTER QUITE RARE dinations by Custer with unwonted charity. NALLY with Garfield iature replica of his uniform. One day the young Here was no strategist hut a tireless body and undivided faith and admiration of the regiment Te». Help» relier» th» ster amazed his father by rifting his arm In Imi a mind as hungry for war ns a bent bow. Custer and the confidence of some of his officers. From cl oued system prompt- Snoop—Truth Is stranger than fic that time on the Seventh cavalry was a regi 1 ly,mildly,eflectuely, A/ tion. tation of an older half-brother who had been was a weapon that Sheridan knew how to use.” yaurdrut Uor» lie 6rlOc "speaking a piece" at school and declaiming in He used him In the raids which devastated the ment divided against Itself. Nor during the next Slink—Maybe It only seems stran his boylllh treble “My voice Is for war! For the Shenandoah valley where Custer seems fo have eight years was Custer aide to do anything GARFIELD TEA ger because It’s so much scarcer.— next 80 years “Autle” Custer's voice was to he learned willingly enough the lessons of ruthless- which restored that shattered faith. Pathfinder Magazine. During the Yellowstone expedition of 1873 he raised for war—to he heard In a “wild shrill ness so necessary to those who engage In the had one run-in with t$s sujjerlor officer. General whooping In the forefront of a hundred cavalry dirty business of making Mefo Pittance war. Stanley, and receive charges.” By the spring of 18(55 he had become a major- a severe rebuke which A newly-married woman was show caused him to be good thereafter—at least, FEEL TIRED, ACHY- The Custers were staunch Jacksonian Demo- general and It was “Custer”» luck” again which so ing off to a friend the treasures of far us obeying orders was concerned.