Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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Watch Dogs
Wilderness
LAND of Infinite attraction
and of infinite danger, a hap-
py hunting-ground for the
outlaw, a iand of peril almost prohibi-
tive to the peaceful-minded settler. That
was western Canada 30 years ago. Now
what country can point the Pharisaical
finger? The beauty, the fascination, the
amazing possibilities, realized and yet to be, re-
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freight cars carry thou-
sands of bushels of "Al-
berta Red" where not
long since the buffalo
browsed and the white
tail deer wandered un-
disturbed. It will not
Wmm k i
The Important
Problem
confronting anyone in need of * laxac
tlve is not a question of a single ac-
tion only, but of permanently bene-
ficial effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in a healthful way. with
the assistance of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Senna, whenever it is re-
quired, as it cleanses the system
gently yet promptly, without irritation
and will therefore always have the
preference of all who wish the best of
family laxatives.
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly bcneflcial, and because it has
given satisfaction to the millions of
well-informed families who have used
It for many years past
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.
Cleaning Handbags.
The handbag or satchel of undres*
ed kid. when soiled by usage, need
not necessarily be turned over to the
professional cleaner. The secret of
restoration is a piece of sandpaper
rubbed over the surface. A very fin*
grade of sandpaper is required. When
this is used with care the effect Is
leal and no injury to the material ac-
crues. Many kinds of leathers without
polished surfaces—for example, sue-
de, undressed and ooze calfskin—catt
be cleaned thus.
GUAJfzTMOUfrT JIT A I~TOUTiT£Z> POLICE J?TATJQtf
main, and with them and of them are ordered
and orderly living.
If the story of how this came about is the story
of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
The mounted police! Don't you remember
when you were a little chap, how you looked after
the uniformed man on the glossy bay as he can-
tered through the park, and how you had no
dearer dream of glory than to be like him? Even
now, don't you feel the old, boyish thrill at the
sight of a blue-coated, erect figure in the saddle
at a crowded city crossing? If you do not. you
are a "grown up"—saddest of labels—and will
Journey no more to the Never-Never-Never Land
But for us "incurable children," the sight of
the mounted policeman still catches at those old
heart-strings.
And if all this for the blue-coated, brass-but-
toned horseman of the parks aiid boulevards,
what of that other horseman, the cne who rides
alone with the stretch of endless prairies for his
beat, with the criminal ^ho holds a life at less
than' naught, his quarry? Surely even your dulled
Imagination, poor, to-be-pitied grown-ups, can
•catch fire faintly from the gleam of his scarlet
■coat.
Recruited chiefly from the younger sons of well-
to-do, and even titled, English families, the North-
west Mounted Police has long been an institu-
tion where an English university man can work
ofT the bubbling froth of a drop of gypsy blood
before settling down as head of a county family
and warden of his church, in the main a collec-
tion of young men for whom the Red Gods call
too wildly, men with a dare-devil dash in their
make-up, who leave England because they are im-
pecunious, or because of a row with their fami-
lies, or for sheer love of adventure. Come with
me to Reglna or Edmonton and you will hear
stories of men who gave the recruiting officer the
name of plain John Smith with something of a
cynical smile—and It was bad form for the re-
cruiting officer to notice this smile—men who had
a habit of reaching for a monocle that wasn't
there, of talking with the correct London pronun
elation, and thrashing the fellow-trooper who
called attention to this fact.
And any story you ever heard of the heir-pre-
sumptive to an English marquisate patroling a
500-mile beat along the Arctic circle can be out-
matched on the written records of the force, and
in the memory of any officer. Fifteen years ago.
Englishmen of Kipling's "gentleman ranker" type
made up fully half of the force, and the other half
was composed of wild Irishmen with all their
country's love of a fight, old plainsmen and Indian
fighters, the silent, steady-eyed, hard-riding men
who gather on the frontier where the savage falls
away before the ragged vanguard of civilization.
And they have done their work so well that they
are fast driving away their own excuse for be-
ing. The present northwest is no more what It
was in 1874 than busy Winnipeg of to-day is the
old Fort Garry to which the first troop of the
"mounted" came 40 years ago. They have made
western Canada what it is out of the lawless ter-
ritory" an almost preposterous undertaking
one-quarter of the number of policemen in New
York to govern a country 250,000 square miles
larger than the United States!
In short, the mounted police have brought
British law into western Canada, and firmly es-
tablished it The homesteader can go into any
of the provinces and take out his claim, secure In
the assurance that he can work his land undis-
turbed and harvest his crop uninjured. The home
steader is doing it by thousands, and the Last
West is vanishing. The frontier—the last fron-
tier of America—is being prosaically plowed by
the practical man in blue overalls, who doesn't
carry even a hunting knife, except to cut off his
chew of Granger Twist.
The Indian has been reduced to his lowest
terms. When men of the United States were
building the Union Pacific across the plains, they
were obliged to employ Uncle Sam's troops to
guard the builders. If the ghosts of the dead who
died violently In that first five years' fight for the
west were to line up along the right of way there
would be almost enough of them to mark the
On a 30-mile ride from the North Saskatche-
wan last fall, I met dozens of teams driven almost
wholly by Indians and half-breeds. They were
hauling the long logs that were to be driven
twenty to thirty feet into the sands of the Sas-
katchewan to carry the false work of the Grand
Trunk Pacific's steel bridge.
What a contrast! Instead of hindering as was
«*ice the case, the northern Indians are helping to
Duild the railroad. In the construction of the
new government transcontinental line, the In-
dians arc employed wherever they can be used,
for the road Is being rushed with all possible
speed consistent with good work. The Indians
are useful, also, to the pathfinders as guides;
they know the forests of new Canada: they know
the mountain fastnesses of the Peace river, and
they know all the crooks and canyons of the
Coast Range. In short, the red man of to-day is
the trusted guide and faithful servant of the path
finder. He hunts for the white man still, but quite
differently .'rom the way he used to hunt for the
uioneers of old.
ThsnSs to the Royal Northwest Mounted Po-
rtce civilization's house Is In order. To-day the
M ' long before the mount** will be a
thing of the past as
well. Commissioner
Perry's report states
that the present ar-
rangement ends on
March 31. 1911. What
after that?
Their work is done
The spirit of adventure
which brought the men of 1874 to Red River Set-
tlement willlure the hardiest on to still more dis-
tant fields. The scarlet tunic -will be seen no
longer, except in the pages of some historical
source book; but the work of these silent, steady-
eyed men will live forever, a record of tlreless-
ness, fearlessness, unflinching courage and pa-
tience—the making of a new and great empire.
Change has already come to the mounted. The
days when a scant 800 men were magistrates, doc-
tors, coroners, explorers, surveyors, mining re-
corders, crown-timber agents, revenue and cus-
toms officers, telegraphers, scouts, riders, drivers,
boatmen, canoemen, marines and sailors, dog-dri-
vers, mail-carriers, couriers, public-health and ani-
mal-quarantine officers, prairie and forest-fire
guardians, constables and soldiers for one-third
of the British Empire are passing with every
new mile of railroad. The border "wolfer," the
cattle "rustler," the whisky trader, the fighting
Indian, the whole band of swaggering ruffians who
used to give zest to life in the "Territory" has
largely passed away, or been crowded northward
and westward toward the mining camps of Alas-
ka and the Yukon. The reckless daring, the ro-
bust hardihood and plcturesqueness of the force
necessarily have somewhat changed in the de-
velopment of the thoroughly civilized new north-
west. Now the young fellows are getting their
breaking-in among the settted districts, while the
old stagers are stationed to the north and west
where there is still the "frontier" on the edge of
untraversed wilderness.
For the purposes of the new order of things,
It is a thoroughly competent and efficient force,
as it was in the days of the Territory. The mem-
bers must pass a physical and mental examination
which guarantees that. I came upon one of them
in a moment of leisure studying a text-book on the
common law. and he showed me some examina-
tion questions which Implied that he must know
how to conduct a cross-examination in open court
so as to avoid what are known in the law as
"loading questions." And any lawyer will be im
pressed when I say that every mounted policeman
must know how to take a murdered man's dying
declaration in such a manner that It can be pre-
sented as evidence in court. The reason for this
Is that he combines the functions of a policeman
with those of a petty magistrate.
And this arrangement, whereby the same man
could arrest you, and then try you himself, and
finally put you in prison and be your keeper, was
an ideal arrangement in the days when justice
was a justice of the saddle, and all the more de-
sirable for being summary. Although there are
regular civil courts in the southern portion of
Canada now. in the far north the duties of the
mounted policeman are still as varied as those of
Gilbert and Sullivan's Pooh-Bah. Primarily he
keeps order After that, he does everything that
ought to be done, and that it isn't any one else's
duty to do. And when some one else leaves his
duty undone, the mounted policeman takes it up
and finishes it. When the mail-carrier, who cov
ers the North Country on dog sledges, reaches the
most northern limit of his route, the mounted po-
liceman takes over the bags, and goes 500 miles
farther north with them Ndt long ago a letter
came to my hands from the Leffingwell polar ex-
pedition. in which the writer stated that he would
take five dogs and a companion and travel 300
miles over the ice to mail the letter. When the
letter rcached its destination, the envelope bore
the stamp of the Royal Northwest Mounted Po-
lice, who evidently had received it at one of th^ir
posts in the arctic, and then had carried it by dog-
train from the Ice fields to railway connection.
It is all In the day's work to them. They will
undertake anything, from minding the baby to
hanging a man. with equal placidity, and put it
through without flicking an eyelash. They have
done their part to demonstrate that the one
thing on this earth longer than the equator is the
arm of English justice. Less than three years
ago a mounted policeman tracked a Yukon mur
derer over 6.000 miles, caught up with him in
Mexico, brought him back by way of Jamaica
and Halifax, avoiding United States soil to pre-
vent extradition complications, and hanged him
within sight of the scene of his crime.
There has never been a lynching In Canada. Put
that down to the credit of the mounted police, who
administered justice so successfully that there
was never any temptation for the work to be ta-
ken up by private enterprise. There was never
any parallel for the experience of Bismarck. North
Dakota, where It is said the first 24 graves were
those of men who had died by violence. Toward
the Indians, the mounted police maintained a tra-
dition of stern vigilance which prevented anything
like the costly Indian wars which the United
States waged up to a few years ago There was
never in the history of Canada a train robbery
such as still feature the headlines of United
States newspapers from time to time. The des-
perado of every type had a healthy respect for
the mounted policeman and preferred to conduct
hi* little enterprises south of the border.
Canadians are particularly fond of telling the
newly arrived American about the troop of Amer-
ican cavalry—a whole troop, mind /ou—who ten
derly escorted a band of "bad Indians" bent on
crossing the border, to the Canadian boundary
Are you ready for these Indians?" asked the
American officer.
"Yes sir." responded the policeman.
"They're a bad lot. Where iB your escort sta-
tioned?" x
The trooper smiled faintly under his mustache.
"Why, Scott's having his horse shod, and 1 guess
Murray's over getting a drink They'll be along In
a minute.''
And when presently Scott and Murray came
placidly on the scene, that troop of cavalry sat on
their horses and watched the band of Indians they
had so carefully guarded, depart over the yellow
pralrie under the charge of three men.
The American officer watched them dwindle to
a dot across the level. Then his feelings found
speech. "Well, I'm damned!" he said. And the
troop rode away.
Again, old Pie-a-pot and several hundred of his
tribe were making serious trouble along the rail-
road then under construction, and the mounted po-
lice promptly rode out to the Indian village with an
order for the tribe to break camp and take the trail
to the north, away from the line.
When the policeman explained the order to him,
Pie-a-pot laughed and turned away. The other In-
dians jeered and discharged their guns in the air.
The two policemen sat still.
"I will give you just 15 minutes to comply with
the order," said the sergeant quietly.
When the 15 minutes were up, he dismounted,
walked over to the chief's tepee, and with calm de-
liberation kicked out the key-pole of the lodge,
bringing the whole structure down—poles, war bon-
nets, drying skins, kettles and all—In a miscellane-
ous heap.
Pie-a-pot did some deep and rapid thinking. A
gesture to his young men would have sent a nun-
died bullets Into each of the quiet, unruffled men
who were systematically going through the camp,
kicking out the key-pole of each tepee. But the In-
dians of the northwest had learned that sooner or
later justice was done by the mounted police, and
Pie-a-pot never made that gesture. He gave in,
and in sullen silence the camp collected its scram-
bled effects and turned their ponies' heads north.
Not so fortunate was the attempt of Sergt. Cole-
brook to arrest a fugitive Cree Indian named Al-
mighty Voice.
Almighty Voice had stolen a steer, and Sergt.
Colebrook, with a half-breed companion, rode across
the prairie to arrest him. The policeman in-
structed the half-breed to tell the Indian that they
had come to arrest him, and that he must go with
them. The Cree replied: 'Tell him that if he ad-
vances I will kill him."
Instantly the half-breed covered the Indian with
his rifle, but Colebrook promptly ordered him to de-
sist, for Almighty Voice must be taken alive. Then
he rode deliberately forward upon the muzzle of
the Cree's rifle, and, sooner than submit to the
shame of arrest, Almighty Voice fired. A year la-
ter, however, the Indian was surrounded In a pit
where he had taken refuge. The police brought up
their field guns and shelled the pit, killing Almlglity
Voice and thus avenging Sergt. Colebrook's death.
The outcome of this incident served to prevent se-
rious trouble with the Indians, who were all in a
more or less sulky and unsettled mood at the time.
How greatly the Indians have come to respect the
just and Impartial administration of the law by the
mounted police was shown when one of Mecasto's
band escaped from the guardroom at Macleod after
having been tried by the police on a charge of theft
and convicted. When he returned to Mecasto's
camp, the chief who had attended the trial at which
the fugitive was convicted had been so deeply im-
pressed by the Impartial nature of the proceedings
and by the fair administration of justice that he
promptly delivered him up again at the fort gate to
the officer in command.
Perhaps the greatest achievement which the po-
lice ever undertook was accomplished when they
persuaded Sitting Bull and his band of between
five and six thousand hostile Sioux to return and
surrender to the United States authorities when
they had taken refuge in Canada after the memor-
able massacre of Gen. Custer and his command.
Commissioners from the United States had visited
Sitting Hull and had negotiated with the chief for
his return and surrender, to no avail. The police,
however, by infinite tact and diplomacy, and be-
cause in their previous transactions they had won
the confidence of the Indians of the northwest, at
length succeeded in inducing Sitting Bull and hit
hostile braves to return peaceably to the United
States, an exploit of which any body of men might
be proud.
When the Boer war broke out. England called for
the mounted police to help her there. One-third of
tliem, practically the pick of the force, went out.
Very few of them ever came back. Many were of-
fered commissions, and some accepted. Wherever
there is trouble, there the mounted police are the
answer to the problem, as they have been in west-
ern Canada for 30 years, from the time of the Rlel
rebellion up lo to-day
The story of the mounted has Its shadows Men
HIS IDEA.
Empress' Fortune Small
The prince regent Is reported to
have told the members of the govern-
ment that lately the people have been
nsserting that the late empress grand
dowager has left an enormous amount
of money. They express a desire that
it be appropriated to the use of the
country and even the ministers have
memorialized the throne to that effect
but as a matter of fact her majesty
has not left very much. It Is not suffi-
cient to effect anv of the reforms. He
intends to beg the empress dowager
to have the exact amount published
in the Official Gazette so as to dls-
pel the doubts of the public and to
devote It to the reorganization of the
navy when the naval commissioner*
return to Peking—Shanghi Times.
Granite for Europe
American granite is b-Mng shipped
to Europe. Not long ago 320 tons of
b'ue granite fron South Car^H it «'«
st nt to Aberdetn. Scotland It re-
oyired 11 cars t > transpcr. the stone
to Charleston. C., from '.a* quarries
U will be mail tTactured uto inonu-
u.- i-ts.
Jonson—Jagson's wife died last
week and he's been drunk ever since.
Hen peck—Oh! well; he never could
atand prosperity.
Treatment for Lump Jaw.
Lump jaw is due to a fungus which
Is usually taken into the animal's sys-
tem in feed consumed. Lump jaw is
liable to affect the glands of the
throat or the bones of thp head, writes
Dr. David Roberts in American Cul-
tivator. It is not advisable to keep
an animal thus afflicted lingering in
a herd. On the other hand it is ad-
visable to either treat such an animal
or kill it, as such animals invite dis-
eases into the herd, owing to the fact
that they are so reduced in vitality
that they have no resisting power.
A remarkably large per cent, of such
cases can be successfully treated If
taken in time by opening up the en-
largement and washing it out with a
strong antiseptic solution, like five of
carbolic acid In water, and putting the
animals on a tonic. In this way the
afflicted animal is not only saved, but
the entire herd is protected against
disease.
As a Matter of Fact.
"Old fellow," suggested the candid
friend, "you use the expression 'As a
matter of fact' entirely too much. You
have no idea how frequently you
sprinkle it through your conversa-
tion."
"Thank you, old chap," replies the
object of criticism. I'll try to avoid
It hereafter. As a matter of fact, it
isn't at all necessary to use it."
A friendship which makes the least
noise is very often the most useful;
for which reason I should prefer a
prudent friend to a zealous one.—Ad-
dison.
And much is done in the name of
charity—also many.
MISCHIEF MAKER
A Surprise In Brooklyn.
How Armour Got His Rate.
In the late '70s, after several year®
of large receplts of hogs and low
prices at the Kansas City stock yards
eastern receipts began to drop off and
prices nearly doubled. The Armour
Packing Company had considerable
pork product In the cellars here. They
wanted It shipped east and railroad
rates were considered too high. A
better rate was requested from the
railroads, but they refusd. The late
P. D. Armour said: "All right, gen-
tlemen, you haul none of our prod-
ucts."
In less than 24 hours Mr. Armour
bought a steamboat and "wo barges In
St. Louis for $50,000 and headed them
for Kansas City, and in another 24
hours the railroads were taking Mr.
Armour's product east at his own fig*,
ures.—Kansas City Times
grew tired of the loneliness and deserted at times; — - . ...
men who had lost all—love. hope, ambition—quietly Grape-Nuts enough after the r g-
ness it has brought to our household."
Grape-Nuts Is not made for a baby
food, but experience with thousands of
babies shows it to be among the best,
if not entirely the best in use. Being
a scientific preparation of Nature's
grains, it Is equally effective as a body
and brain builder for grown-ups.
Read the little book. "The Road to
Wellville." In pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Em mi tke ikor* tetter? A
appears (tm tin* t« tl«e-
inilM, trmm, u< Ml •<
An adult's food that can save
baby proves itself to be nourishing and
easily digested and good for big and
little folks. A Brooklyn man says:
"When baby was about eleven
months old he began to grow thin and
pale. This was. at first, attributed to
the heat and the fact that his teeth
were coming, but, In reality, the poor
little thing was starving, his mother's
milk not being sufficient nourishment
"One day after he had cried bitterly
for an hour, I suggested that my wife
try him on Grape-Nuts. She soaked
two teaspoonfuis in a saucer with a
little sugar and warm milk. This baby
ate so ravenously that she fixed a sec-
ond which he likewise finished.
"It was not many days before he for-
got all about being nursed, and has
since lived almost exclusively on
Grape-Nuts. Today the boy is strong
and robust, and as cute a miscbief-
makcr as a thirteen months old baby
is expected to be.
"We have put before him other
roods, but he will have none of them,
evidently preferring to stick to that
which did him so much good—his old
friend Grape-Nuts.
"Use this letter any way you wish,
for my wife and I can never praise
Taste and Smell
Physiologists have long known that
many sensations ordinarily ascribed
to taste are in reality due to smell,
but this fact has been made clearer
than before by the investigations of
German savants. Air enters the olfao-
tory chamber, where the nerves con-
nected with the sense of smell are
centered both through the nostrils
and through an Inlet leading from the
mouth. In consequence, a breath of
perfumed air manifests Its odor not
only when It is breathed in, hut when
It is breathed out. or this reason
we are sometimes deceived as to the
source of the pleasure we derive from
things taken into the mouth, the'
agreeableness of the Impression being
due, in some cases, rather to amell
than to taste.
"Lady Merton, Colonist"
Canada Is the scene of Mrs. Hum-
phry Ward's latest book, "Lady Mer-
ton. Colonist," first published by
Doubleday, Page ft Company the Can-
ada of the West, of vast satin-smooth
fields of greenish blue wheat, of Illimi-
table wilderness and primeval moun-
tain grandeur; and of a hero, to<K
who is Canadian born, and has grown
up with the Northwest, sharing all
it« hopes and ambitions. This sturdy
self-made engineer, with political aa-
pirations, typifies the human force*
that are beginning to control this vir-
gin territory opening up to civilisa-
tion. Lady Elizabeth Merton, a weal-
thy, aristocratic English widow, la
filled with enthusiasm for the vast
empire she is speeding over, but her
sensibilities are so finely attuned to
a life of refinement ana culture that
she hesitates before giving up her
luxurious ancestral home to wed thla
Canadian, the total opposite of the
famous polished English connoisseur
who has come half round the world
to claim her. She finally chooses, how
ever, even though the hero Is held
back by pride, and she has to do the
proposing herself.
line. They were met by a single mounted police-
went away into the wilderness and blew out their
brain? Tho life was unsettling; men could not
leave It and take up clerical work or farming, bo-
cause adventurers are not built that way.
But. shadows and all. the story of the Canadian
mounted police is one of the most gorgeous tales
since the days of the Spanish Main And the spir-
it of the force Is best embodied lu that message
found scrawled on the orders of a policeman who
perished in a blizzard while making his way with
dispatches to a distant post. In his last moments
with numbed hand he had written; "Lost, horse
dead. Am trying to push ahead. Have done my
best."
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