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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05

Mra Anna Mead ana daughter 81
Oklahoma rity we're the guests of
Mrs Meals brother pr T. A Hahn
and Mrs Hahn They iefs las, ulght
Tor Illinois for visit
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05

Nr ana Mfs u Keith and son
Ted of Afkansas CTS vsre fhs guests
of MIR and Mr. George faddps3 Yea
;erday.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05


Mr. and Mrs w Y Harker enter
talned the Wednesday Dinner club
las. night az their apartments With
an attractive Dinner ehon all decora
tlons and three course dinner were
carried out in yellow having yolioe
rosos everywhere
Following the dinncr auction hridge
was played in which Miss Ethel
Douglass and Mr. John Nissley Won
TOP eucs. score Mrs llager and Mr
gickford top eluh s1lre and MI
HlGren and Mr Gray consolation
Additional guests wore Mr. and Mrs
George Paddock Mr. and Mrs John
fairrow Mr. and Mrs Phllip Ira.
band Mr. and Mrs Clifford rraband
Mr. and Mrs v W Llntg. Mrs
Hacke,t Miss r'hel Douglass Mr
John Nlssley and Nf Ned Holman
Tho last meeting of tha club far the
summer viii be ncsl week IN form ot
4 plcnicAt ihe Country cluh.
N " Y
Christian cnurch Missionary Society
The Missionary Society Of the First
Christian ehnrch was entertained As
tho homo Of MIS- Wilbur Brown
yesterday afternoon This was one
Or 'he best meetings ever held show.
ing an Increase IN membership and
fast becoming one 81 the greatest
powers Of the Christian church unier
the splendid corps Of officers
A report Of the sia.e convention %
the Christian chnreh recently held
~ Tulsa. was given 81 Rev aud Mrs
J W knborn and Mrs Barry presi
dent ~ the local missionary sorieiy
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05

Hfs Emma ilushoa Gilmore eh3
has boen visiting Der mother in the
home 81 Nrs q 81 rhllosi has fe
'uraed 90 Nameo kaRNaa
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05

G n shlssrs Uncle 20 Ned podisp
and Airs rcfnia shlsers sister q
Mr pedlso a4e bette rom iiuich.nspu
On VISIT
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05

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columbus Ohio afe quests At me
home - Nr aHd Mrs = p Gross
fls sou'h rlref
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-05-05

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have worked hard in my time, but
never let work throw me-"
The colonel was reminded he was look
ing exceedingly well on his eightieth
birthday.
Looks are deceiving,- he countered
Don't you hear me pufnns7 I've just
come over from the club-and in q taxi
too-but I'm blowing like q bellows.
Can't stand much any more"
The wattersons were about to take
of" from Manhattan for their home in
the South. The colonel explained he now
sees little Of his native heath out Ken
lucky way. Only small portion of the
year is spent there Their time is di-
home in Florida.
No matter IL Atlas stumble and fall.
permitting the world to come crashing
down, there is one virtue amid all the
1t is the modern newspaper. True to his
old love. he maintains, with Talcott Will
Jams, that taken as a whole, the news
paper was never better written and never
did its work better in any OF its neIds
than II is doing It today"
Some one complained recently that re-
porting appeared today to be a lost art
To this Col watterson emphatically take.
exception. declaring the newspaper Of the
moment cannot be excelIed in the matter
of collecting and presenting news.
"here is there anything to compare
with it?" he demanded. Every morning
at breakfast read not only everything
Of Importance that has happened in my
own town. in my own State, in my own
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reached up and pulled the Cleaners, vhistis
cord and cur answer shrieksd out, venomeus
and shrll. The second mate srasped my
arm.
It's all very well to lie here at the end
Of = short line and show our lights and trust
in Cod" he told me nercely. But It's thick
~ mud and that's . iinsr~
listened and heard the thump and rush Of
twin propellers reversed out in the i'm
penstrabIe darkLess.
~rhe Enterprise" said.
Yes" said the second. a kne~ her siren
the frst se-oR. I hope she clears that raft!"
But another sound caught my ears
leaned over the rail and aw Howard lower
ing our dinghy singls-handed. 1t dropped
into the sea, was hove on on . great roller
and toward the unseen steamer. was
dumb with bswtidsrmsnt. Then another
terrinc blast Of sound swept over me. and
raised my eyes to So the vlgue shape Of
the Enterprise moving ont Of the misty
darkness. ali a1ight from wateriine to bridge.
edsinE slowly through the murk. An In.
stant's calculation told me she would sue.
cessfuiiy clear the raft that lay hidden to
leeward Of US II she held the course she was
on &. she would clear II by scant
yards And right In her course
tossed our dinghy with Theodore Howard
standing up In It. shrouded in . gray coat.
a cap over his ears. reached to blow our
whistle again. The second mate grasped my
arm.
She sees Us" he whispered. She'll 90
clear!"
But At that instant . harsh. faint, and
plansent voice rose from between US and
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proud Of my calling and Jealous Of its
good name"
No game like IL in all the world he
says "A high csIIing-no man can at
tain higher sphere Of usefulness-but
~ithsI good sport life. adventure, color.
travel, temperament and all that
Some people think OF it .s q strenu-
Gus game in which a man wear, out be-
fore his time. Well I'm still her. and
so years old Just got out Of the saddle
recently. On the point OF longevity the
newspaper man may live as long as any
other. provided he takes care OF himself
Col Wstterson complains they are not
making great editors nowadays like
they used TO. He says there are no
GreeIeys, no Dsnss, no Bowles. Medins
and Halstesds. like there were in the old
days when editor could speak for q
whole section OF the country. and whose
opinions could help shape party plat.
forms. He deplores the passing OF in
dividuslfsm" in this respect
While airing his own personal view in
the matter the colonel took occasion to
say that II L had my way l would
abolish the average editorial page, for
it is nothing but hapdoodIe." He ssys
the people are thinking for themselves
today.
But when IL comes to tne straight
news the modern journal is a marvel Of
twentieth century perfection. II. thinks
you have to hand it to the boys. for
they are getting out the news" which.
from his point OF view is the prime fune-
tion of q newspaper.
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in pot that night appeared where Peg
made her dive for life and it swirls and
revolves there to this day
Rowdyism was to be expected on the
Ohio River 1t was the avenue of national
expansion toward the West. Historians
say that for more than a century no
stream of it's size ever afforded a HveIi-
hood for SO many people. They were a
motley crowd, just of the sort that could
be depended upon to furnish an outcrop
of nendish pirates.
They pillaged and murdered at all sorts
of places. but their most infamous car
ryings-on were centered at Cave-in- Rock
on the Illinois shore. This is cavern
of immense size opening on the river
The floor is smooth, and the walls are a
series of terraces. Over the river-level
cavern is another cave, reached through
a long chimney-like tunnel
Wilson's Liquor Vault and House of
Entertainment was established in Cave
in-Rock during the height of fatboat
tranlc 1t was an attractive resort on the
edge of the water, but il soon DEVELOPED
into loblolly of hell Wilson, at the
head OF gang OF pirates. used the cave
as q lure. Crews OF hatboats loaded with
produce for the New Orleans markets were
enticed there and murdered. Pirate gangs
took the hatboats down stream, sold the
cargoes and the craft and made their
way overland back to Cave-in- Rock 1t
was very safe game, because at that
time wrecks and legitimate deaths of
men engaged in the trade were common
occurrences, so that the depredations of
the Cave-in-Rock gang were as prolonged
a. they were bold. Eventually the oper.
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Of the war. It will take as some time
to untangle and get back to normal
It was then he raised the question Of
possible decadence after 1900 years Of
Christian civilization-more particularly,
after 500 years construction Of the North
American republic, known a. the U. 8 A
We'll. what do you say!- was asked
in turn DO you think the world Is so
topsy-turvy that it is headed down hill
instead of upward--
Col 'Marse- parried. study history
he counseied- Look at the Egyptian
decline. Take Up the Grecian eiviliza-
builded what was considered . perfect
civilization. Each IN turn represented
something bigger and better than the
world ever before had known. Then they
crumpled and fell
Now We have been building our own
for 1000 years. II history may be taken
as . criterion. then we are bound for a
tumble.
win it happen! How do know? How
does any one know? Time alone will
answer. Wait and see; but in the mean
time it might be q good thing to study
the underlying reasons for the decay Of
other civilizations and take care lest We
go the way of the rest Of them History,
I tell you; study It You can learn q
whole lot from it,
In the meantime The Gentleman from
Kentucky" is not worrying a whole lot
about the future
1T would be a terrible thing IL We
all knew just what was going to happen
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Dont Worry Even Atlas Should Stumble and Drop the World
The Way Through RanksBy Charles W. Duke

IS AMERICA going down hill! Have
we climbed to the zenith of human
= endeavor in this modern civilization
and started down the other side?7
For 1000 years we have been building
the worlds most perfect civilization said
Col. -Marse Henry watterson. who has
been called The Greatest Editor the
South Ever Produced
IF history Is to repeat ITSELF he add
ed. then we have attained the pinnacle
and are now bound the ether way
Eighty years old. his hair and whiskers
snow white falter In his step, but that
hair-trtgser brain of his stin functioning
As Of Old this patriarch Of American
journalism was taking it easy in a soft
cushioned chair in the foyer of q big
New YORK hotel, . picture Of comfort,
when the writer bumped into him
-Marse- Henry had just dropped in from
the Manhattan Club. his favorite New
York nook. to meet Mrs watterson in
time for lunch
The question Of the alleged IMPENDING
decline of American civilization was one
Of hts own propounding. It had been ar
rived at after a few dissertations on
world events, the high cost of living.
the political situation and the league Of
nations Col. watterson dismissed boI-
shevtsm, socialism and the Democratic
party with one sweep Of the hand
TIM getting too old TO rneddle in such
perplexing things any more" he said.
But ours Is somewhat Of a difficult sit
uation today. 1t is not a political situa-
ton. but rather q condition growing out
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THE OTHER SHOE

Howard reached . shaking hand for ths
pips on his desk. filled II fumblingiy. and N
II. Through q cloud Of smoke he said:
"wha'd. you know of Hubbard! And
vhas the Enterprise doing in these waters,"
I recalled aarnnklss. warning and said:
.oh, I vas quartsrmastsr, with that erasy
leon once In the old days. He was always
seeing things around Point Reyes"
Howard swsysd In his chair And vhs,d
Martin Hubbard seer" he said drunkenly
though knew him to be cold sober SO Gar
a. iisuor went shot my answer af ven.
turs.
"A woman adr1ft In . small boat"
Howard rose and blew q huge pun Of
smoke ceiiinsward. Just like Martin! Tie
was always great man for the ladies'! He's
different. now. they say. But in his time h.
vas q iaAy.kiiler. They say the man
ehoked-- he even went 70 far a. to lie 70
s<hsr mems girls. Mads love to women
ether men loved. And when they fell for his
talk and his premisSs and his sleek OATS
he kept his course and let 'em drift astern
inte-into-"-Howard turned his wild eyes
on me and guiped-"let em drift astern into
the darkness while he bent over some other
girl beside him on the bridge and whispered
:, whispered 3 whispered :"
The little cabin seemed Allied with acrid
smoke, seemed to see for an instant the
torture in which this man lived. seeing al.
ways the vision Of the girl he loved. whom
Martin Hubbard had betrayed. drifting back
into the mist in the boat she had 50 pain.
fully rowsd into the misty reaches Of the sea
In order to hail her lover and so be on And
I heard the thunder Of the nearing steamers
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country. but throughout all the world
In what business field do they work fast
er and produce more substantial results
than in the modern newspaper ONCE"
Take it from "Marse" Henry. the bes.
way into the editorial chair is by way Of
the local room. The best editors are
those who have come up from the ranks
Of cub" reporters sparring for scoops
Give me the cub every time" he
said. rather than the long haired in
tellectual when 1t comes to making edi-
tors. I'd much rather have the district
reporter than the hishbrow from college
hill IL l were molding embryo editor"
watterson came up from the local
Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia
where he gained his nrst editorial e1pe-
rience editor of the school paper.
They badly bent their bylaws to continue
him in once.
After school. as a lad OF II years, he
went to MacMinnville, Tenn. and there
started in journalism as founder. pub
Usher and editor of a weekly newspaper.
But he was not for smalI-town stuff. and
at is years of age he sold his country
newspaper and set forth for New York
to embark upon the remarkable career
that carried him to the editorship of the
Louisville (Ken.) Courier-Journsl and the
title of The Greatest Editor the South
Ever Produced" ="
and grew up in q newspaper once" is the
coloneTs proud boast First and last.
have filled every newspaper function
from galley boy to leader writer. l am
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pent was an ever-present terror, because
it bleated like a fswn to attract men and
animals to it, Then it seized them and
ate them when hunters heard fawns
bleat in the woods they never looked for
them. but moved in the other direction
Up hill or down it nothing could es-
cape the pursuit of the foot snake"
but il could not go along the sides OF
ridges because the weight OF its head
broke the hold of the sucker feet when
the creature moved sideways
One morning an Indian hunter working
his way through the bushes at the base
of what now is the barren knob, heard a
fswn bleat in front of him. He guessed
that it was the foot snake" but he
made up his mind to see it. He went
straight forward. and there was the
monster, with his head as high in the
air the tops of the taIlest trees. 1t
saw him and moved toward him in jerky
strides. every one OF them longer than a
tree trunk. The monster bIeated as 1t
came, because IL saw that the hunter
would make a satisfying breakfast
He was frightened and started to run
directly up the side of the hill The
snake came after him. gaining half q
length on him every time that il took a
fresh grip with its forefeet Then he re-
membered that the monster could not run
on the sides of the hill and he changed
his course The snake began ito lose
ground. Every time that 1t raised itself
the weight of its body threw IL little
lower down the side of the knob. The
Indian soon left the snake out of sight.
Then he cautiously worked his way to
the top of the knob. and. looking down.
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yarn that one clear night. when the
challenges and battles overlapped one an.
other on the bluff. there emerged from
the channel OF the river a hairy hand II
grasped a knife that was shaped like a
scythe and that was as long as three
hatboats. Reaching beyond the far sid.
OF HelPs Half Acre, the hand completeiv
carved 1t from the shore and down even
with the low water line. like a thirsty
man carves the heart out of a water
melon. - e.
And they certainly went on clear to
hell" assert the pilots, because there
never was any obstruction in the channel
where they went under"
And the genesis story of a small vhirI
pool begins with one fall evening when
Mike Fink. best known of the half-horse
half-alligator creations. tied his natboats
to the bank at the mouth of the Mus
kingum. He went ashore and gathered
leaves into pile that was higher than
his head.
Peg" he called to his Wife" com. ont
hyar frum often that boat and Law down
in that pile o. leaves an cover up in 'en"
Peg obeyed because Mike was a terror
He set hre to the leaves at four places
and stood guard with his musket untiI
the blazes leaped high. and Pegs scantv
clothing was ahre. Then she took a
chance on outrunning a bullet leaned
from the leaf pile, ran to the river bank
and umped in.
There" said Mike when her head an.
peared above the water "thatIl larn We
not Z be winkin' at them felIers in tb'
other boats"
An eddy that resembles water boiling
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ations Of the pirates were common
knowledge, and reward was offered for
the mead of Wilson. He was killed by
one OF his own men. Later sixty skele-
tons OF murdered men were found in the
upper cavern.
AS strange tale, however as one Is
ever likely to meet on the Ohio River was
told by a quaint one of the pioneer type
VINO remained among from other days
IL concerns high knob on the north
shore, about midway the length of the
stream This knob has never been other
wise than brown and bare at any season
OF the year, though its soil appears to be
no different from the grass-and-tree-
smothered peaks about it.
The tradition tattler said that in the
days when parrots formed shrill, chat
tering mobs in the timber growth along
the Ohio River, the knob was the home Of
a monster reptile. the foot snake" so
called because 1T did not glide 1t had
no legs, but at each end of its body
there were three-cornered and fiat feet
that took hold on the GROUND like
suckers.
The monster moved by strides like a
measuring worm. 1t raised itself on IL.
hind feet and waved its head high in the
air until 1t located a place to take fresh
hold. Then 1t bent forward gripped its
'front.' feet to the ground and drew its
body up from behind. When the foot
snake went from one side to the other
OF the river and of deep ravines it threw
Its head across. got grip on it's front
feet and then swung its body over.
Wherever the footprints of the snake
were found there was danger. The SER
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Q TRANCE creatures at one time or
another moved over and about tn.
- orgy of typographical unusuaIness
that wantonly embraces the Ohio River
for 200 miles in either direction from
Cincinnati Among them tradition tells
of the half-horse, half-alIigator clan.
These animal-reptile creatures were
types of the hatboatmen. who so named
themselves because they wanted to an
pear as horrible beings before the eyes
of the world.
"whoopee- one of them vouId a..
nounce- This is Billy Earthquake. I'm
six foot four in my bare feet an a half
horse an half-alligator all TIL way
frum North Fork o. Bloody run
W-h-o-o-p-e-e! Won't nobody come out
an hght me? Come out some O. YOU. an
die decent. fer I'm a-spilin' fer a fight.
hain't had none fer more'n a week. an
ef ye don't come out I'm hy-blowed afore
sundown."
Few places on the river lac legend to
perpetuate the memories of ruffans who
lived in the canoe-natboat era of the
stream. One of the unusual Steamboat
landings upstream from Cincinnati is a
straightruled. sheer-sided hollow pIace
with a beach as smooth and as shiny as a
freshly peeled onion. 1t once supported
HEIRS Half Acre" bluff that was a
steersman's landmark. surmounted by
saloon and gathering place for the
half-horse, half-alIigator clans.
Generations of river pilots have never
oeen able to answer the question -as to
why the devil removed his half acre when
lts record never let down to less than
one murder day. But they do spin the
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the srsat passenger ship. 1t paeresd the
Distances with its mslaneholy vail:
Lucy Aste~f Lsey Asont"
It seems as II silence fell on both steam
srs. The cry rose once more. sobsinsiy.
LSoy Asto~i Leon Astoxi Lxoy A.
toni isapt an octave. and stopped the
breath In my threat with its queer. tremu-
ious: ~kartsa HsSSsrSi ksrtssl ks~ts~
lover!
By thunder, that's a girl in that boat
cailingi" the second mate gasped.
But from the lofty bridge OF the Enter.
prise came the rear Of an order:
Hard a.port! Hard aport-
Followed the eiang Of ensinereom teie-
graphs and the sudden rumble Of screws
taking hold. The Enterprise began to sheer
OF. Slowly her bows pointed towards the
invisible raft as she gathered way. The
man beside me shook q frenned nst At her.
She'll strike and 70 down like Q Stone
with an thoss psoplsr he moansd.
But another voice rose on the liners
bridge and knew that samuel osrnnkis
had taken charge. Amid the Changing Of
Gonss and shouts Of orders the big ship
drew back again. inch by inch. till she was
In the clear. Az she noated notionless at
last. agleam. with lights and resounding to
subdued voices. the small boat drifted up
shadowlike from the mist-veiled water and
. ghostly voice rose. and cried in q long
drawn vail:
Martin Hubbard! Martin Hubbard! Mar
tin lover! Come and be with Lucy Aston-'
The small boat had now drifted almost
under the Enterprises huge breast. Its
vague occupant seemed to stretch out ssunt
arms. The voice died away slowly in the
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made Point Reyes and he'll make II TN his
dying day. And Howard has strung this raft
right across the path"
From some far distance q faint blast told
us Of . vessel feeling her way inward. I
Jumped up and sought Howard. found him
In his cabin, seated before his desk writing
steadily under . shaded lamp I had to ea,I
to him before he looked up. put the case
to him. He laughed.
Il reckon the sea II fres." he said. we've
got our lights going and hardly believe any
man Of experience II going to Jam his ship
on that raft"
By this time my fsars were alive I'VE
really have NO excuse for lying hers,- I
maintained.
Howard lifted his voice shriiiy. And
who are you to advise your commander to
proceed during . heavy fog and mist with
tow and tow-hns over half q mile lonsf
Who'd b blamed II anything happsnsdf
Here We bs, snug. an 1t up hks q church.
and no man but fool could miss our sis.
mails. Only q fool could hit u.s."
The moisture laden breeze brought IN
through the open port the below Of the In
visible vessel nosins her way through tn.
fog. And Howard's eyes 1T with . Are that
startled me. He laughed. looked at me tri
umphantly, and then recovered his usual
mild. worried expression and the attitude Of
. skipper discouraged by the steady force Of
circumstance
Its forty thousand In my pocket, mis-
ter" he mumbled.
I'm bet Martin Hubbard would 1--WE twice
that to be sure nobody v.s waiting for him
of Point Rsyes,- rstorted