The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-11-29

remained in the cities or tn
settlements, II it remained at al
: The beauty we knew best and re
! garded as such was the strenetl
OF character that buoyed the set
! ler's wife in tht slavedom attend
ant upon wrestling an existenc'
from the unframed mountains ant
plains.
do not mean to convey thu
impression that members Of thu
force were, through some strang'
quirk of nature or by training
made impregnable to the darts o,
Cupid, but | do mean to empha
size the fact that the efficient
trooper had very little opportun
ity of furthering his cause were
he so untrustworthy as to permit
official contact to vitiate the reg
ulatory admonition to remain alooi
from personal interest in those
with whom he was dealing. The
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his brother troopers or others was,
| must admit, equivalent to a
confession of weakness by the in
dividual policeman. The man who
could not treat with any situation
dispassionately and without fear or
favor did not rise in the ranks,
nor was he eve honored with i'm
portant assignments.
To illustrate the almost COM
plete absence Of ravishing lowell
nes in a majority of the women
with whom we had most to do, I
recall a typical case of rescue in
which a woman figured. In a howell
in the foothills of Alberta, isolat-
ed amid uninspiring surroundings.
lived a homesteader-a foreigner
with his wife and children, some
eleven in all, l believe. The sol
itude and hardships had unbal-
anced the husbands mind. One
day he became infuriated at one
Of the children. He grabbed the
under his arm and car
ried him from the house, picking
Up a sharp hand axe as he passed
through the door. The mother fol-
screaming and calling for
help. Some distance from the
house a clump of stunted trees
afforded a cover for a policeman
approaching the house in search
# water for his horse. Hearing
he screams, he glanced toward
he trio just as the father rails
d the axe in the act of striking
he wife, who, by this time, was
linging to the man and her child
lad the blow landed, the wom-
n would have died on the spot,
nd there would have been a Z
lurder to besmirch the record of 5
lat subdivision. The blunt end of 5
tree branch, hurled by the
struck the crazed man in [
lie face and the axe and child 5
ii from his grasp. n
That mother must have weighed y
10 pounds, and was squat with
all, making her appear to be y
5 broad as she was tall. Physical ?
ntidiness made her anything but |
asy to gaze upon. No visible 2
9auty certainly, but there was q
ealth OF courage and m~other-loye. N
That was an instance of where II
policeman had prevented a crime
most in it's commission. Because "
the extent of the territory GOV "
ed by a single officer, cases Of ?
Oh %opportune intervention were "
frequent, so much so that this W
.rticular instance was the subject /
comment in canteens and bar
cks. al
The fast that my connection ol
tn the force-from 1902 to 1921 al
extended over the period when oi
2 service reached its maximum
'iciency and widest prominence
a source of inexhaustible pride W
me. How much or little was Ii
individual contribution to the II
,ord achieved in those two de- be
les is, of course, debatable. n
t l do claim for myself an I'M
gging eagerness to reflect cred re
upon the service and my SUI Ht
'iors in every moment l was Az
'mitted to wear the uniform. u
attitude toward the force was be
'ical of ninety-nine per cent of 81
others in scarlet coats.
!. Bowen Perry, C. M. G., was ba
commissioner of the Royal Oh
nth West Mounted Pilice when ice
enlisted, and he remained at In
head of the force for sixteen
RS thereafter. Every one in the gu
vice, from latest recruit to the IN
istant commissioner, loved him Ar
his powerful personality, his fo
)artiality and his thoroughness. NO
mellow there was no job too Al'
an to be done well just because IN
felt we were dong it for the IN
IF. He vas a just man, and ev- %
policeman knew it. We were 0lo