The State Journal (Mulhall, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, July 16, 1909 Page: 2 of 16
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Mulhall State Journal
By TOM B. WOOSLEY
MULHALL
OKLAHOMA
NEW ENGLAND'S VITALITY.
One of the striking features of the
rvvival of business is the great Indus-
trial activity in New England. The
number of new mills, buildiug or
planned, the additioona to old mills
and factories which are being made,
and the general increase in productive
resources afford evidence of expand
ing traffic and greatly augmented
wealth. This industrial growth is on
a larger scale than it has been for a
long time. It is abundant proof that
New England is full of vital force, in ;
business and in all productive activi- j
ties. The greatest gain in the num- j
ber and capacity of mills is in the tex- |
tile industry, the field the best part
of which superficial observers of busi-
ness conditions and changes have said
the south was fast capturing, says the
Cleveland Leader. Southern cotton
mills have indeed multiplied rapidly
and prospered greatly, but they have
merely taken a part of the increase
in the vast industry built upon the
fiber of the cotton plant. They have
not cut down New England's output of
cotton goods. They have not even
prevented its strong and almost con
stant expansion. Yankee skill and
capital, the experience of New Eng
land manufacturers, the prestige ol
their products and the machinery ot
distribution in their hands, all unite
to defend the cotton industry of that
section from injury by competition in
the region where the raw material is
grown.
Sam Harding's
Trophy
By
Duke Cuvlrr
Once upon a time, the seasoned gos-
sips of Washington say, you could spot
a United States senator at sight. But
now, they declare, it is hard to tell a
solon of the upper house from a stock
broker. It is all in the matter of
clothes, says the New York World.
The long frock coat, the expansive
shirt front and the big, soft black hat
of old have yielded to modern business
attire. We mention these things be-
cause a Washington dispatch stating
that 55 members of the house ap-
peared on Monday in wholly new rai-
ment suggests a general thought of the
clothes of congress. A British M. P.
who visited this country a few years
ago remarked that our national legis-
lators did not know how to dress. To
which a traveler from home rejoined
promptly that they were lucky if they
did not know how to dress like mem-
bers of the house of commons. Be
that as it may, what meager particu-
lars we have of the new suits of Vari-
ous representatives indicate that the
increased salaries of congress have
fallen amid exponents of sartorial
progress and good taste. It is likely
that all 55 of the freshly clad would
pass muster on brightest Fifth ave-
nue.
Here Is one point on which the im-
migration laws might easily be
strengthened. American citizenship is
not a right, but a privilege, and it
should be so construed, says the New
York Tribune. If the Country offers
exoeptional opportunities to the
strong and intelligent of other coun-
tries, it is worth their while to prove
that they are entitled to share in
these opportunities. No one can find
any legitimate fault with this pro-
cedure, except the criminal and the
incompetent, and the American people
need consult their wishes only in so
far as It may be desirable to find out
what the/ would prefer and then act
to the contrary.
Among the first who built their
cabins on the shore of the beautiful
Ossipee lake was a man by the name
of Sam Harding
Alone with his wife and child he
had threaded the forest that lay be-
tween the settlements at lVner Point
and the lake. and. once arrived upon
its banks, he built his cabin, and set
about Ins work at once of clearing up
a homestead.
Foi many years there had been sus-
pended from a suioke-stained beam
above the broad fireplace a trophy of
the early days he had spent on the
shore of the lake.
It was an Indian's scalp.
So long had it hung there that it
was as dried and smoke-begrimed as
the beam itself.
Few there were of his visitors who, j
remarking it. failed to inquire why it
was thus preserved.
To these he did not fail to tell its
history, as we shall do now.
We will give it in his own words,
so the reader may imagine that he is
sitting in the cabin of the old pio-
neer, with the strange trophy sus-
pended before him.
"You ask me why it is that I keep
tf.at thing in the house? Well, I will
tell you.
"When I first came up here to set-
tle on the banks of the Ossipee. it was
a howling wilderness for miles and
miles on every side.
"I hadn't but one white man for a
neighbor, and he lived two ijiles away,
down at the foot of the bay.
"But I had plenty of another kind.
There were wild beasts and savages
on all sides, and there were times
when they both gave me lots of
trouble.
"With the beasts I could get along
pretty well.
"When they got too neighborly, I
would spend a few days in hunting,
and get them thinned out, so that for
a time I could live in peace.
"But with the redskins it was dif-
ferent. It wan't no use to try and thin
them out, although there was times
when I had to try my hand at it. My
plan was to keep 011 the right side of
them if I could, but 1 could not al-
ways tell which side that was. They
were mighty uncertain. You never
could tell for a certainty when they
were friendly to you or when they
were waiting for a good chance to
take your scalp.
"A big bear, one which I judeed by
his track would weigh at least 500
pounds, had been into my corn, and
the way he had finished it was enough
to make anybody's temper rise. It
seetned as though the critter had
trampled down and destroyed a good
five bushels of it.
"There was not any trouble in fol-
lowing the trail he had left behind,
for his feet were as big round as a
peck measure, and you could see
where he had planted 'em, a half dozen
rods ahead.
"The valley became narrower and
narrower as you went up, until at last
the rocks came so close together that
they shut out the sunshine, and a kind
of twilight filled the place.
"1 had just made up my mind that I
should find his bearship not far from
here when all at once I heard a deep
growl only a little ways afore me
"The next minute I saw him—he
had seen me and was sitting up 011
end, to give me a hugging when 1
come near enough.
It was a good chance for a shot, and
bringing my rifle to bear, I took good
aim for the spot right between his
fore shoulders and fired. The next
moment he was kicking among the
dry leaves, giving up the ghout.
"I knew that there would be no
need of another shot, so I did not stop
10 load my rifle again, but rushed-right
uu to the spot.
"I wasn't long In getting there, and
when 1 did. I found that there was
somebody before me
"A redskin, a fellow 1 had had soma
trouble with before, was standing over
the bear, who was jest gusping his
last ami the varmint had sent an
arrow into it. and 1 knew in a moment
that he meant to claim the carcass
for his own Hut 1 had no Intention
of being cheated out of my meat in
this way. so 1 walked up to the bear,
and whipping out ray knife, cut its
throat.
The redskin looked as ugly as p'izen,
and in broken English wanted to know
what I did that for; the bear was his,
and he was going to have it. he said.
"1 showed him that it was my bul-
let, not his arrow, that had killed it,
but that did not make the matter any
better.
" 'White man let it alone, or Injun
have his scalp' he cried, as he drew
his knife.
"'You'll have to take it first, you
thieving redskin,' said I.
"I had not hardly got the words out
of my mouth before he sprang upon
me. But I was ready for him. 1
knocked aside his hand, which he
meant to twist into my hair,
"For about a minute it was as hard
a tussle as ever 1 had in my life; but
at last I managed to trip him up, and
down we went across the carcass of
the bear. As good luck would have it,
I came uppermost, and the next min-
ute I plunged my knife to the hilt into
his heart.
"That did for him; and I rolled his
carcass off the bear, and went to work
a-skinning the animal. I took as much
of the meat as I could carry, and the
scalp of the redskin, and started for
home. When I got there I hung the
scalp up where you see it, and it
hasn't been moved since."
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESTNT.
I
"Why, Mrs. Jones, what are you do-
ing out in all this rain?"
"Oh, I just ran out to buy an um-
brella!"
DREADFUL_ DANDRUFF.
Girl's Head Encrusted—Feared Losi
of All Her Hair—Baby Had Milk-
Crust — Missionary's Wife Made
LEFT STORY WITHOUT MORAL
Judging from Boy's Comment Father
Who Believes in Early Rising
Must Stick to Shingle.
Is there a boy In the world who
doesn't hate to get up in the morning?
A Jersey man who has three possible
future presidents does not think so.
With his he has tried everything from
a bucket of cold water and a shingle
to proverbs. The shingle seems the
best argument. The proverb was in
this nature:
"You know Jones?" the father re-
marked at the dinner table, address-
ing his wife. "Well, he is a very
early riser—takes a long walk before
breakfast every morning. Besides the
good it does his health, he says that
he finds any number of things on the
street—he got up at 5 o'clock the
other morning and found a pocket-
book containing $20 before he had
walked a block."
The oldest boy looked at his broth-
ers, and grinned.
"Wonder what time the man who
lost that pocketbook got up?" he re-
marked.—Illustrated Sunday Maga-
zine.
Two Perfect Cures by Cuticura.
"For several years my husband
was a missionary in the Southwest
Every orre in that high and dry at-
mosphere has more or less trouble
with dandruff and my daughter's scalp
became so encrusted with it that I
was alarmed for fear she would lose
all her hair. After trying various rem-
edies, in desperation I bought a cake
of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuti-
cura Ointment. They left the scalp
beautifully clean and free from
dandruff, and I am happy to say that
the Cuticura Remedies were a com-
plete success. I have also used suc-
cessfully the Cuticura Remedies for
so-called 'milk-crust' on baby's head.
Cuticura Is a blessing. Mrs. J. A.
Darling, 310 Fifth St., Carthage, Ohio,
Jan. 20, 1908."
Potter Drug Jt diem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston.
Burning String in the Sick-Room.
Months spent in a sick room have
taught me many things for the com-
fort of an invalid, one of the simplest
and most effective of which is burn-
ing a string to purify the atmosphere.
Take a soft string and stick it with
a pin to the back of a chair; after
lighting, blow it out gently, leaving
the tiny spark, which will create
; smoke enough to make a decided dif-
j ference in the atmosphere.—Harper's
i Bazar.
Rats Killed the Snake.
Two big gray rats fought a battle
with a rattlesnake the other day and
the rats won. The snake was pur-
chased by a grocery firm in Dalton,
Ga., for a window display and two big
rats were obtained as food for the
snake. When the rats were placed in
the cage with the snake it made no
effort to molest them. A crowd gath-
ered to witness the snake eat the
rats, but it was over an hour before
the rattler moved to attack. The
rats showed fight from the start.
While the snake was after one the
other would be plunging its teeth into
the snake's body. After an hour
the snake succumbed. One rat was
nearly dead, while the other apparent-
ly was unharmed. As a tribute to
its valor, the unhurt rat was released.
The rattler measured seven feet in
length.
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