The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-29
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Emporia Gazette: II young fellows
who are pursuing their dissolute course
conuld be convinced of the evil they
are storing up for future days. they
would reform in body and the mil
lenium world be here tomorrow morn
ms.
The youth who Is Jolly fellow for
season or two when life Is young.
pays for II through the autumn and
winter. and finds that he is paying
usurious interest, without recourse.
Il is one thing to stand in bar
room In the golden evenings Of youth
aud sing Marguerite. and enjoy TO
miliar conversations with the barten-
der; II is another thing to pay for
dead horses in old age, when dollars
come hard, and dimes look uEcon-
sciously large
The country is full OF obi men who
are needy and miserable, doing hard
work that that Is almost beyond their
strength. who might be spending their
age in comfort. even IN opulence. had
they not been jolly good fellows, when
they we're young II is the winter OF
their lives. and the darkness Is clos
ing in. ard they are paying for the
horses that died long ago
What the wcrld needs is a preacher
SO compelling, so forceful. so elo-
quent and aincere. that he can show
the Jolly good fellows wherein they
are fools and impress upon them the
llesson OF the dead horses.
We have preachers enough who
III.
the Baptist IN tho wilderness. and the
tortitude of Daniel In the lions den;
but John and Daniel are dead. and no
body cares much about what hap
pened TO them I'm the wilderness. or
the menagerie: while the country is
full of jolly good fellows who are
going hellward with their heels over
the dashboard. and they are worth
saving, for most of them have good
material in them.
To one who is growing old. and who
is still paying for dead horses, there
is nothing Hadder than the spectacle
OF a young man going wrong; the
wrong road Is taken so bouyantly, so
gaily. that the wandering youth looks
like victem decked with flowers for
heather sacrifice. And there is no
/ power great enough to turn him, to
convince him OF the ambush and the
avalanche Thit is the pity of It.
' Antipathy 10 the Wooden Indian.
Never has there come to the Caucas
ian world an intimation that Indians
resent the placing of wooden effigies
2 OF themselves In front of cigar stores
until an Indian member Of the Oklaho
ma legislature introduced a bill tC
< make II a misdemeanor to display
such figures. All these generations
with bis characteristic tacIturnity. has
the red man borne silently in his bos
ON a sentiment of injury that the
: thoughtless white man should crudelN
! parody him for use as signboard
Who. may know at this date but that
bloody massacres we're precipitated
, by the installation of these burles
l ques of his race in some frontier vii
+ !age? Some of the wooden Indians
/ displayed are capable OF instigatinl
4 bioodspel Any self-respecting alb
origine might be impelled to cleave
such a monstrosity from crown ia
r chin with his tomahawk after one
\ glance at It's vacant and imbicl,
+ countenance-us usually chocolate col
. ored. Highly civilized members OF
Q cultured society have furiously rip
ped carcases TO pieces--more thar
that, consigned them to the flames
! because the counterfeit of themselves
! was too fiagrantly vile. The human
heart and the tutored or untutoret
mind is essentially the same, ano
/ Lo, the poor Indian, Knows a work o.
art when he sees IL.
j, Far his soul proud Science never
taught TO stray
Far as the solar walk OF milky way
But he n Gave 40 wooden Indians
4 doing duty with a box of cigars II
hand In the sordid marts of trade
The indian, such as have attained tC
acardemical educ1tions, and they ar,
now many, wishes the Fenimore Coop
er tradition preserved II Is the West
: ern frontiersman that washed the gil
on and exploded the glamour of the
:. romances II is he who translated
I the musical Indian names into shock
ing English and made Namlokah into
Two Blankets" and Arikawanee int,
4 Black Kettle" 'Hiawatha" an,
7 Misunderstanding" and Ramona" 10
eether did not deter the despoilers
2 They took from the Indian his land
4 ed patrlmony, his striking. vivid garb
clothed him In trousers tout OF which
he forthwith cut the most voluminou
s portion with one sweep Of his hunt
) ing lmife), eclipsed his proud hea,
with a black slouch hat. fed him OF
agency beef and Englished his nam,
I 70 a wretched commonplace But nov
o his descendants are IN Legislative
halls. and their first blow OF a nobl
revenge Is to annihilate the woodel
y lndian.-St Louis Globe Democrat