The Hermiston herald., May 20, 1921, Image 2

Rears 25 on
Laborer’s Wage
Progeny of St. Louis Man Range
in Ages From 40 Down to
Seven Years.
TELLS HOW HE MANAGED IT
Hard Work and Industry the Secret—
Never a Brighter, Merrier, Rosier,
Healthier Lot of Children
Graced a Board.
OSCAR IS THRIFTY
Chicago’s Municipal Pier a Great Attraction
floors, but otherwise In an orderly line
about the table, speechless In the pres­
ence of the strange visitor, their si­
lent but rndlunt smiles reflected their
father's pride In them.
Somewhere recently the writer came
upon statistics to the effect that at
the age of sixty-five no less than 54
per cent of parents in tills country
are dependent upon their children for
charity. Walkenhorst’s next remark
revealed another remarkable contrast
in his attitude toward parenthood.
He had spoken of tils dimming eyes.
“I figure at the rate they are going
my eyes are good for about five years
more,” he said. “I expect to work
every duy until I am blind. By that
time Helen, the baby, will he old
enough to do something for herself.
Then I shall be through.”
St. Louis.—Parents, you who find the
Be thrifty and save the little tilings
rearing of even an average family
and they will grow into big things.
a problem these days, behold Frederick
The great Municipal pier of Chicago Is growing In pop ulnr favor each day and, aside from being a big attraction
This is a favorite maxim of Oscar
Walkenhorst, who is the father of
Fisher, an Ohio city mall carrier. Start­ for visitors, is being utilized for many civic enterprises. T he “Pageant of Progress” to boost Chicago will soon occupy
twenty-five children, aud tells how he
ing less than a year ugo, Mr. Fisher the pier.
has managed to bring them up on a
began saving the pieces of twine with
laborer’s dally wage.
which small bundles of letters are
Sight Returns on Deathbed.
The house in which he lives is one
bound. The ball grew until nt the
Omulm, Neb.—John Fisher, ninety- time this photograph was made It was
index to his methods. It is a cottage
Bird Row Over Odd Egg
of perhaps five rooms. Buck of the one years old, Nebraska pioneer, two feet in diameter and weighed a
Fascinates Man for Days
house Is a burn and in the barnyard blind for 11 years, regained Ills sight little over 64 pounds. Mr. Fisher esti­
for 24 hours prior to his death the mates that the small pieces, which are
a cow and a fiock of chickens.
New York.—An elderly man
There is u best room furnished other day and was able to distinguish tied .together, would stretch over three
In tattered cap and suit, sat mo­
his
sons
and
daughters.
miles.
neatly but scantily, the superfluities
tionless under a tree at One
consisting mostly of homemade handi­
Hundred and Fifty-seventh and
craft, shelf covers and their tidies of
Broadway, when u mounted pa­
Most Picturesque Body of Fight­ One frontier—the Indian—extended
white linen crochet. The visitor is
trolman, Informed that a queer
along the edge of the great prairie
permitted to tarry here for a moment,
stranger had been sleeping there
ing
Men
the
World
Has
from
the
Bio
Grande
to
the
Red
river,
but almost immediately is invited into
three days, approached.
a distance of 500 miles; the other—
the kitchen beyond, witere three
Ever Known.
“I’m interested in birds,” the
the
Mexican—stretched
from
some
daughters busily scrubbing floors or
old man said. “Particularly In
point on the Rio Grande to the mouth
preparing the midday meal cannot
the domestic affairs of the pair
of that stream, an approximate dis­
spare timo to sit Idle as they talk.
of robins above us. I have en­
tance
of
300
miles.
The
actual
south­
Indeed, one is told tliat father will be
joyed their acquaintance three
ern boundary of the settlements at
in presently for his dinner, but he
seasons.”
won’t have time to talk, either, for Russian Farmers Resent Food turned home, when he went to Russia Organization Date* Back to Time the time of the republic really corre­
He then launched Into the
sponded
with
the
Nueces.
several Jobs of plowing are waiting
as a correspondent.
story of a row that was being
When
the
Lone
Star
State
Was
a
It
should
also
be
observed
that
for
Requisitions
and
Often
Kill
for 1dm in the afternoon.
“The soviets are pretty solid polit­
waged in the nest, the result,
Separate Republic—Self-Reli­
every mile that the Indian frontier
Daughter Runs House.
ically, but economically extremely un­
Those Seeking It.
he
said, of the laying there of
ant, Resourceful and Brave.
was pushed bnck, the Mexican line
sound,” suid Mr. Fay. “They may
Hilda, the oldest daughter at home,
a cuckoo’s egg. “The male bird
was
lengthened
by
Just
so
much
until
have to give way to a firmer form of
apparently has been in authority since
wanted to throw it out, but the
Dallas.—Texas is the only state
government, and one wherein property which hns the distinction, not to say the two attained a combined length
ttie death of tiie second Mrs. Walken­
female chirped ‘no,’ and has
of
more
than
1,000
miles!
Surely
no
rights must have some say. The people privilege, of working out its own in­
horst, five years ago. The first wife,
hatched it. I am waiting to see
In the cities are the most unfortunate, stitutions before becoming a member state was ever more desperately situ­
the mother of 14 children, died when
what will happen next. Queer
ated than the young republic. Some­
for they are so underfed. The govern­
things, birds?”
her last child was five days old. The
of the Union, writes W. P. Urbb of times she was at peace with one en­
second wife, a widow with one child, Russian Government Does Not Take ment sends out expeditions to requisi­ the history department of the Univer­
“Yes,” said the patrolman,
whom the stepfather also reured, be­ Kindly to Visitors and Traveling tion food from the farms, but the sity of Texas in the Dallas News. emy and sometimes with the other;
“and the folk here about think
but
again
she
fought
them
both.
War
peasants do not take kindly to the This fact has given Texans a singular
came the mother of 11 Walkenhorsts.
you're somewhat of a queer
Has Been Made Difficult—Ameri­
appropriation of their products, and feeling of independence nnd has en­ was the rule, the commonplace of
bird, too.”
There are now 12 children ut home,
cans Popular in Siberia.
dally
life,
and
death
was
the
price
are heartily opposed to the soviets,
“How very extraordinary," re­
besides a smull sou of Hilda's.
although they will be slow to take shrined the state’s institutions with of defeat, for the enemies of Texas
plied he of the tattered cloth­
There are not enough chairs any­
a peculiar Interest for those within knew no mercy.
New York.—A better economic sys­ any action.
ing. “Here’s my card.”
where visible to seat all the family tem must be evolved by the soviet gov­
and many without her borders. Her
Devising a Fighting Force.
Real Property Taken.
The patrolman read: “Prof.
at table at once. But chairs are to ernment or it must surely give way
flag, her presidents, her foreign am­
Malcolm Ogilvie, New York Or­
What sort of fighting force would
be classified as luxuries that may be In a very short time, according to
"Sometimes the peasants ambush bassadors, her army aud navy, all have
nithological society”—and rode
dispensed with, one observes later Harold V. Fay of Auburn, N. Y., who these expeditions nnd kill them, but come In for a share of the song and Texas devise to meet this unhappy
on.
when six bright, rosy cheeked, blonde has Just returned from a year’s ab­ these cases have not been very numer­ story, the history and tradition of situation? Had the state been popu­
lous nnd wealthy, as she is today, the
youngsters come trooping in from sence in China, Russia and other ous. All real property has been taken the Lone Star republic.
school and take places, standing, all points In the Far East. At the begin­ from those who owned the land. It is
Of all her institutions, however, answer would have been simple. In
attention, with spoons poised, ready to ning of tiie war Mr. Fay was In China, not likely that they will ever be able Texas has none which has attracted those days her population was less than
begin on the soup utmost before Hil­ and when the American forces went ^ J V ’r . - ^ ^ ' t . ^ a i . t h i s p r o p a . more attention at home nnd abroad that of Dallas, and tier promise to pay ! self-reliant and resourceful, frequently
da lias measured It Into their plates. to Siberia he resigned his position In II. .--i y i 'i°Se W,h° have COIIie out of than that organization of fighting was worth about 16 cents on the dollar, extricating themselves from difflcul-
Hard money was a negligible quan- tles, not by fighting but by quick
The nges of the Wulkenhorst the University of Nanking und Joined, Russia and have lost their estates w ill, men known as Texas Ranger8.
tlty. These things made a standing thinking. Only one thing in warfare
„
progeny range from forty down to remaining with them until they re- be of little avail, In my belief, for It is |
extremely unlikely that Russia will re-
’f t what 8 th® TeIns Banger? army impossible. Whatever fighting they had forgotten In their long strug-
seven yeurs. Besides the 12 children
turn to the old form of government i T1*® <1“estlon ca“ b« answered best force was provided must be small and gIe wlth a dua, foe an(J that wns tQ
now ut home, five have died at vari­
"Th«.,, „„„ ___ .
.
.
. ! by finding out what he has been, dls- inexpensive In order to be maintained | surrender. They gave quarter—some-
ous ages and the others, being older,
Rnssln now Th, , '
n'* r i * n8 n covering his origin, tracing his devel- at all. It must rise In time of need
have married and gone to homes of
tn k e klnrti ' t
government f °es not opment ancj examining his duties. The and disperse when the danger had times—but never asked and never ex­
Kills Mountain Goat,
their own. There are eight grandchil­
take kindly to visitors, and travel ne exact date of the origin
.7 .
of the Ilnngers passed. Such are the circumstances pected IL
dren. Three of those who reside un­
Finds Ore Under Body
not . kZ m h„vB in y '
CUlt- ? ey
18
Obscurity of early Texas of our early history out of which
Their leaders were natural leaders,
der the pnrentnl roof are working In
men who possessed In a high degree
from «iiheri *
‘ rs coni® through history. Stephen F. Austin mentioned evolved this peculiar fighting force.
factories in the town.
rrom Siberia, and no one Is nllowed to them * in his letters of 1823, neurly a
Stewart, B. C.—A mountain
These early Rangers were semi the qualities they lmlred In others
enter from tiie southern countries of century ago; Bancroft ascribed their
goat recently was responsible
"How have I managed to take care
military
In character, varied in forma­ and found essential to themselves. A
Asia.
Another
newspaper
man
und
my­
for the discovery of what Is be­
of 25 children?” Frederick Walken­
beginning
to
1838,
but
in
this
he
was
tion
and
organization, ununlformed few of these men were John C. Hays,
self were tiie only two Americans com­
lieved to be one of the valuable
horst echoed after my question, after
Ben McCulloch, John S. Ford and the
clearly
wrong,
for
the
Rangers
had
ing through from Siberia, nnd when not only come into existence but had and undrilled, and Irregular in opera­ two Rosses. The ranks were filled
mines of British Columbia.
he had fed his horses out in the
we arrived In Moscow the authorities acquired a legal status before that tions. They were. In n sense, indig­ with those courageous ones who loved
barn and stood rolling up his sleeves
Years ago float ore was found
enous to Texas, having sprung from
did not seem to like It, but finally they time.
nt the kitchen sink. “By working
In the mountain runge south of
and adventure better than ease
the soil made fertile by the blood of action
sent us through to Finland, and In this
hard every day.” The hands he
the Grand Trunk Pacific railway
and gain.
Rangers
Date
Back
to
1835.
their
kinsmen,
and
they
soon
became
way we came out of the country.
spread to view were testimony more
ten miles from Stewnrt. It was
Did Valiant Service.
When Texas revolted, in 1835, a the frontier fighting force par excel­
eloquent even than the vigorous, clear
so rich that Its discovery cre­
In Siberia Americans are very popu-
In 1845 Texas Joined the Union. The
lar, as America has done a great" deal1 general council met, nnd, ns a part of lence of the world. They were the
ring of ills voice, and his knitted coat,
ated a sensation and prospect­
wet with perspiration, was further
for Siberia in sending clothing and lts work’ authorized the first Ranger forerunners of such organizations as Mexican war followed immediately,
ors flocked to the region and
evidence of his henrtv Industry.
other aid to the people, and nlso be- force- Thl8 organization was to con the Northwest Mounted Police of Can- during which the Rangers performed
spent months In fruitless efforts
to locate the vein.
enuse the United States government sist of three companies of 25 men ada, the Cape of South Africa and 8Uch valiant service as scouts and
No Signs of Worry.
(lid not recognize Kolchak. But the each, one to rnnge east of the Trinity, the Pennsylvania State, though unlike guerilla fighters with the armies of
Recently a man hunting
He Is a tall, spare man, remarkably
mountuln goats high above the
Russian people In the more western one between the Trinity and Brazos any of them. They were the Anglo- Taylor and Scott that they were her-
erect for his sixty years, fair and rud­
areas are very bitter toward us, as and the third between the Brazos and American solution of the problem of aided ns heroes throughout the nation,
timber line had trailed in ani­
dy, and the lines on his face are not
In 1874 the Rangers were reorgan-
they feel that we offer greater re­ the Colorado. The men were to serve the frontier. The true character of
mal for miles when It suddenly
those of worry but of good humor. If
came
out
on
a
glacier
and
stood
sistance
than any other country, and solely as protection against the In­ the Rangers becomes clear only In the Ized, six companies of 75 men each,
his children tuke after him, dentist
In full view against the sky on
they say that we are the last strong­ dians. the remuneration being $1.25 a light of thnt knowledge which comes But an Important ehnnge was made in
bills need not be one of the family
from nn acquaintanceship with, the tbelr status and duties. They were to
hold of capitalism. Their ideas are day.
a pinnacle of ice. His rifle
problems. His teeth are strong and
Thus was the Texas Ranger force nnlure and disposition of their foes, i protect the frontier und fight Indians
cracked and the goat fell dead
that communism Is bound to prevail
white. Ills eyes, he says, are fall­
all over the world, nnd that they will canted In the midst of revolution, and the Mexicans on the one hand and the ns before, but, in addition, they were
down a steep precipice and
ing. One doctor assures Idin noth'ng
from that day to this it has existed Indians on the other.
! given the power of pence officers. On
win out.
rolled several hundred feet. Its
can be done for them, so he thinks
almost constantly In some form,
From long experience with the Mex-I ,he northern border they fought Lone
body fetched up nenr the foot
Issue Ration Cards.
any further expenditure on them Is
though under varying titles.
leans the Texans had come to distrust | Wolfe, Little Bull and other Comanche
of the glacier nnd when the
useless.
“Rations are served to every one In
The
first
settlers
from
the
United
every
word and deed of the race. warriors; on the southwest they
hunter reached It lie found It
Never a brighter, merrier, rosier,
Russia, hut there Is renlly great order
bad dislodged a massive rock
healthier looking lot of children
there. A traveler gets one pound of States were Introduced Into Texas by They doubted their honor, feared their guarded the Texas side of the Rio
beneath
which
the
long
ever gathered about a millionaire’s
black bread a day nnd one-hulf pound Stephen F. Austin during the latter mercy and despised their valor—les­ Grande against Cortina and his band
scarched-for vein lay exposed.
board than those 12.
Their heavy
of sausage and some salt, sugar and part of 1821, now Just one century sons dearly lenmed nt the Alamo, of cattle thieves; In the interior they
shoes made a lot of noise on the bare
ten, but the residents only get one ago. Why did the Mexican govern­ Goliad and San Jacinto. From the In­ pursued and killed Sam Bass, broke
ment permit an alien race to come In? dlans, whose position on the West up the Sutton-Taylor feud and drove
pound of black bread nnd no sausage.
are several reasons well known has already been indicated, they also the r°nd agents under cover,
They give you ration cards for which There
to the historian, and It Is said that
When not more actively engaged,
yon con draw from the government one of them was the desire to place took hard lessons. The Comanche
stores, but only one meal a day. You some strong arm between the timorous warrior was a terrible foe, courageous, they guarded prisoners, protected
must buy the rest from whatever Mexicans, like those of San Antonio, cunning and cruel, nn adept In all the courts and dispersed lynching parties,
sources you mny be nhle to find. There and the wild Indians. The Comanche’s practices nnd subterfuges of partisan The Rangers were busy men In those
are government restaurants nnd there horse might become too hard to hold. warfare, nnd In order to meet him the days! In their double capacity of sol-
are also some public markets In Mos­ Qulen sahe? However this may be, Ranger had to adopt his tactics. For diers and peace officers they presented
cow, but the government means to an examination of the land grants example, the Comanehes always came a novel experiment in government, and
suddenly, mounted on the fleet prairie one which did not escape criticism,
eventually control all food products
and dispense with the public markets; made to Americans will show thnt mustangs, which they managed with In fact, all the criticism that has ever
their holdings tend to form a tier ly­ consummate skill, nnd which bore; been brought agninst the Texas
they would do thnt now, but they find
It difficult to prevent those that are ing roughly between the timber belt them away with the speed of the wind. I Rangers has been brought against
open.
i and the prairie region. In short, the
Faced Torture and Death.
them In their capacity as peace offl-
“There Is no gasoline to run the Americans from the United States
Again. the Comanehes never per- cers- Be that as 14 may, durlng the
were
to
serve
as
a
buffer
between
the
trucks and automobiles, but they use
mitted themselves to be made captive ten -Teara following this reorganlza-
ns a substitute a spirit made from wild tribes and the Interior settle- and to become their prisoner meant tlon **** HnnSers pushed the Indiana
(
ments,
and
on
them
was
to
devolve
potatoes. This Is also drunk quite gen­
torture and death. Here were the t0 the very 1,mlt8 of Texas, and
erally ns a stimulant. It Is poorly the task of conquest at which both ready-made rules by which the nt ,he 8ame ,Irae rendered the Interior
Spain
and
Mexico
had
fnlled.
mado alcohol and not so good as the
Bangers had to fight. They were of n 8afe and dec®nt place to live In.
Mexico Unable to Close the Door.
vodka thnt they used to have In former
necessity superb horsemen, using their i The 8UCCess of ,he,r work was due
Once the door of Texas was open legs mostly for mounting and sticking larRe,y to the h,Bh personal courage
times, but It Is consumed In great
quantities.
Prohibition
prevails, the Americans pushed In with that on. They were sure marksmen, show- ' and Indomitable spirit of the officers
though, all over Russia nnd It seems mighty surge which carried the Anglo- Ing great preference for the revolving | and nien’
American civilization from the Atlan­ six-shooter. They were versed In wood- ! w ,th the P u ling of the Indian raids,
to lie a good thing.
“The American dollar Is now worth tic to the Pacific during the first half craft and possessed on uncanny sense 1 ttlp Bangers were relieved of further
from 2,000 to 3,000 rubles, but the of the last century. Mexico, becom­ of direction, and they knew the lore I,urely military responsibility, and
money has to be exchanged secretly. ing alarmed, undertook to close the of the" forest as well as that of the from
t0 ,he Prp8«nt they have
While I was In Moscow I heard that door, but It was too late. The Tex­ plain. Col. John S. Ford, himself a devoted themselves largely to the
Emma Goldman nnd Berkman had been ans—for such the Immigrants had be­ Ranger, soldier anu newspaper man maintenance of law and order within
sent out to one of the Russian prov­ come—not only stood off the Indians, summed up their qualities In these the 8tate-
inces to collect data on some pretext but turned on the Mexicans and wrest­ words:
or another, as they were very unwel­ ed from them Texan Independence In
“The Texas Ranger can ride like a
IV« an III Wind, Etc.
come to the Bolshevik!. The govern­ 1836, Just 15 yeara after they had en­ Mexican, trail like an Indian, shoot
Athens. O.—Bootleggers are doing
ment was greatly annoyed that the tered the state.
like a Tennesseean (."n?
and nrnt
fight l,ke
like • a A,hen!' ®
turn- in o »
United States should send anarchists
This done, however, they found
,he’e frontler9- !hre« months of 1920 the city police
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt and his wife nt the to Russia, as they do not recognise themselves In a most precarious sit­
“
“ only
- —
launching of the Su|>ordrendiinugtit Colorado, which will carry eight 10-luch them there. The soviet form Is not uation. They were caught, as It were, men were the embodiment of Individ* collected
$75 In fines, but daring
nallsm. It was their outstanding trait.
guns and a crew of 1,700 men.
anarchistic.'*
between the Jaws of a great vise. their chief characteristic. They vere the first three months of 1921 bootleg-
gets paid Into the city coffers $2JHJ0.
•
Texas Rangers
Real Fighters
More Light on
Bolshevist Rule FOUGHT TWO WARS AT ONCE
BITTER AGAINST
AMERICA
j
‘‘Hurrah!” Yells Colonel Roosevelt