Boys' Life 1916-01: Vol 5 Iss 11

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x », , a ll > Ree By the CAVE SCOUT ELLO there, January! You rough old duffer you! You tough old January! A man’s month, through and through! I like your style, old fellow, Your pep and grit and snap; I like your strength, old fellow, You hearty, red-faced chap! You're such an awful joker, You big old polar bear! Now what you up to, joker, Putting stingers in the air? Come on now, January, What have you up your sleeve? Oh, I know, January, A blizzard, | believe! What have you there, old fellow, Behind that sleety snow? I thought as much, old fellow, A bunch of “Ten Below’! You can't fool me, old-timer, I'm wise as I can bel I know you want, old-timer, A chance to wallop me! You like to maul a fellow, And make him puff and blow; You like to haul a fellow, And wash his neck with snow! Published by the Boy Scouts of America At National Headquarters, 200 Fifth Ave., New York City Wooprow Wi son, Honorary President Tueopore Roosevett, Honorary Vice-Pres’t Witt1am Howarp Tart, Honorary Vice-Pres’t Cotrn H. Livinestone, President Grorce D. Pratt, Treasurer James E. West, Chief Scout Executive Editorial Board: William D. Murray, George B. ~ ian Frank Presbrey, Daniel Carter eard. Why BOYS’ LIFE “Ads” are Reliable All advertisements published in Boys’ Life are carefully investigated and approved by the Editorial Board of the Boy Scouts of America. The aim is to accept only the advertise- ments of articles, books and propositions which we believe will be not only of interest to the readers of Boys’ Life, but worth while for the boys to have. In every case the article advertised is first submitted for examination, as evidence that all claims made with reference to it are as represented. In writing to advertisers, always mention Boys’ Life. You like to biff a fellow With frosty blasts of air; You like to cuff a fellow And tousle up his hair! BOYS LIPE The Boy Scouts’ Magazine WALTER P. McGUIRE, Editor DAN BEARD, Associate Editor FREDERIC L. COLVER, Business Manager Vol. 5 JANUARY, 1916 No I! Leading Features Cover Design By Howard L. Hastings Vinegar Bill ag = Dcccccscscccesace cocccccces y Frank Blighton The Boy Scout F ajg 4 B LOmt) SesShaseesoododee 5 win C. Burritt A Test In Mondera cas Suber das decbessdcedees y Daniel Carter Beard Don Strong of a Wolf Patrol (Cont.)......... a By William Heylinger Dan Beard’s pate . POLO EL PCOPRTTS LP CRTE 10 Daniel Carter Beard A Scout Wy a Rolling Pin Wireless.......... 10 Boy Scout t-Qovwe kei nhoendeaderiovckentes ll By Armstrong Perry The Game of Scouting In the ae. poe eetes 12 Our Great Contest—44 Pri: $6 WO GOCE GR in 0 5 ieee iy dc sens cecccededvcece 13 By the Cave Scout The Mascot of ire ESI ee ee Te ee 14 y Frank Roy Loope Two Pages of aie | Fotnes 16-17 What Boy am OD Rio's nb 55 cen vtinsccge 18 from Many Troops A Scout Is ‘er igebeidechetinandeoas od shbde 19 Scout Law No. Three in Practice Stamp Relics of * Pony Express.............. 20 Our Lonesome Corner.................see0eee Letters Exchanged from Around the World Scouts’ Questions Answered.................... 24 Perplexing Little Problems Solved Boy Scout Night at the Movies................. 26 “Artie’s Good Turn” Scouts’ Discoveries and Re-discoverles.......... 26 Things All Scouts Should Know Why Mr. Seton is Not Chief Scout............. 28 Answers to “‘What Animal?”’.............. secee 32 By Fannie Moulton McLane Convright, | 1915, , the a oe * America. second-class m at New York City. ™ one Such tactics, January, Make some folks pretty mad! They knock you, January, And say you're wholly bad! But you have friends, old codger, For instance, I am one, Who realize, old codger, You're simply having fun! I think you hate a quitter, weakling who will run! I think you hate a quitter As microbes hate the sun! You want a chap to sass you And slam you with his right, To challenge you and sass you And fight with all his might! Come on, old rough and ready, You big old bluffer you! jus og i ¢ time you're ready have a round or twol Hello there, Janua You rough old duffer youl You tough old January! A man’s month, through and through! @ on Boy Scouts’ Mag- ys azine, is issued © sronthly by the Bo Scouts of America. It is the official magazine of that great organi- zation and is devoted to the best interests of EVERY BOY. IN AMERICA. 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really the chief-dispatcher issu- ing an emergency “train-order” ; while the long-drawn, sonorous whistle, a harmonious, booming, subdued howl, made on his clenched hands, was really En- gineer Tom Davenport’s “sta- tion-signal,” as he _ rippled across the last stretch from Vail into Two Suns in the cab of his big three-driver “wrinkle-belly,” signifying that the “de luxe Limited” had once more nego- tiated “The Stormy,” as the di- vision between Two Suns and El Paso was called. William Lockell was unable to interpose a defence. He was merely a sturdily- built American boy of 16, with an inordinate fondness for the mighty, mysterious business of railroading. He loved every cinder in the “right of way”; the dirtiest Chi- nese “wiper” in the smoke- | 3] wreathed oe held a 4? “, more enviable job than any sen- Herman Racket ator whose official functions and “Wii: AAM LOCKELL, come here, perquisites William’s neglected textbook on sir!” civil government painstakingly set forth, Miss Bryant’s voice rang while Tom Davenport, the lean, sun- sternly through the eighth grade class burned engineer, whose smile at William room. from the cab window had once lifted the William obeyed, sheepishly. mischievous boy to the seventh heaven of The other scholars watched his short, boyish bliss, was a far more exalted per- stocky body shambling toward the plat- sonage than the president of the United form. Some in the seats far back tit- States. : tered, those further forward covertly Miss Bryant, being a prim old maid, di- watched the offender’s progress while as- vined naught of the heart of the stocky suming an air of most intense absorption youth standing beside her desk. His si- in their studies. lence she attributed to obduracy, for Wil- “Why is it, William, that the moment I liam, with his round head, his strong nose, leave the room you always start a dis- firm lips and stoical expression under her turbance?” asked the teacher. previous castigations had seemed “un- William's heavy-thatched head hung low. ruly.”. He did not whimper, cry nor He made no reply for the very good prance when the ruler descended on his reason that the corner where he had been bare palm. sitting a moment before resembled the Wherefore Miss Bryant grew waspish. railroad yards at Two Suns more than the 69 William Lockell was escorted to the sedate class room of a public school. Miss principal’s study. Here, having failed to Bryant’s entrance, unobserved, through the proffer even the semblance of an excuse, rear door leading to the principal’s study, William was summarily treated to a spe- had been greeted with an assortment of cies of discipline, the which has no need bizarre bangs, whistles, rattles, hisses and of detail, | tag turmoil—all emanating from Wil- Principal Kane’s stern visage remained am’s seat. unaltered during the ceremony. “Well, sir?” a William, The Culprit, shifted uneasily. | $0 did William’s. It was not his first offence; but how was And, by way of balm, at recess, Wil- he to explain to Miss Bryant, tall, spec- liam, the incorrigible, illustrated to his tacled, and just now vengefully glaring playmates the way Tom Davenport sig- down upon him, that the shrill whistle nalled for “the board” at Vail, twelve between his teeth, dying away in a faint miles beyond the “yard-limit” sign at Two hiss, was “the full release of the air’; Suns, and the technical reason for said that the banging of his feet was, in minia- signal, when the de luxe Limited, finish- ture, a replica of the needful preliminary ing the longest passenger-engine run in the process of “M.-C. B.” couplers gripping United States—812 miles—raced down each other on two refrigerator cars; that from Mescal into the home-stretch of the the rattle of the pencil on his slate was western terminal of The Stormy. 2 Vinegar Bill By FRANK BLIGHTON Illustrated by NorManN P. ROCKWELL “What makes ’em call it The Stormy?” inquired Vivian Marshall, a well-dressed boy with effeminate manners, about Wil- liam’s age. Vivian’s father was a banker and Vivian’s mother never allowed her son to forget the fact. “Aw! Don’t you know?” queried Wil- liam, with a gesture of contempt which brought a sharp twinge of pain from his shoulder. “No, honest I don’t,” replied Vivian, eagerly. “It’s because it is The Stormy,” ex- plained the embryo railroad man. “It’s the longest, hardest division in the hull country—that’s what they all say. You're goin’ east, say. All right! At Two Suns you gotta pretty level piece of track ’til you’re at Vail, then you climb ’til you’re into Mescal. That’s forty-three miles ’nd you’ve clumb six hundred ’nd seventy feet. Then, you drift ’round Dead Man’s Curve ’nd down into Benson, ‘leven miles further on, ’nd you drop four hundred ’nd eighty- five feet. Then you drop mebbe a couple of hundred feet more and climb again ’til you hit Dragoon, which is. forty-six hun- dred ’nd thirty-one feet high. You drift down through Cochise, Wilcox. ’nd Bowie and on to San Simon, ’nd from there you gotta climb up through Steen’s Pass to git into New Mexico. Then down to Lords- urg, up and down until you git to Aden, *nd then down into El Paso—grades all the time, ’nd curves. You git sand storms in the valleys ’nd snow storms in the hills— ’nd mirages in between. I seen a lake, once, between Cochise ‘nd Bowie—reg’lar mirage—” The jangle of the bell interrupted Wil- liam’s discourse. “Got to head in on a siding,” he re- marked, with an expression of disgust, as the scholars trooped back to their tasks. Miss Bryant looked. the room over imper- sonally when all were seated. “William Lockell is excused for the bal- ance of the day at his mother’s request,” she announced before calling the next class. Her tone was ominously quiet, at least William thought so, as he closed down his desk and hurried homeward. Also it was in such strong contrast to the one previ- ously used toward him that William was puzzled. As he left the building he won- dered why the teacher had leokell so oddly —almost sympathetically, or so it seemed —at him as he was leaving. He hurried up the steps to his home and entered quickly. Several women neigh- bors were within. Some of them were try- ing to comfort his mother, who was sob- bing, bitterly. Others were gathered around a rigid figure on the couch in the front room. There was a slight acrid smell —as of burned powder and _ scorched clothes—in the air. At the sight of her son, Mrs. Lockell stretched out her arms. “Oh, Willie!” she cried, clasping him o-

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January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine 3 close, “your father was killed this morn- ing by a blast out at the Twin Butte’s mine!” T to William and his mother a week later. The boy. did not go back to school. The sharp spur of necessity was already goading him into action. His father’s sudden and shocking death was like that of hundreds of other men who follow mining for a living in that it left the family of two with a home only partially paid for and with no resources whatever. Whatever his son did not know about life, he knew enough railroading to realize that when meats, fruits and vegetables must be brought five hundred miles in re- frigerator cars that run on passenger schedule, the cost of living is high. Down in this far corner of the southwest, in an arid and slightly developed country, mining and railroading were the principal pursuits. In the northern part of Arizona, stock-raising and lumbering were followed as well. But of these the boy knew little and cared less. “I heard to-day that Mr. Wagstaff, the grocer, wants a pragttg d boy, William,” said Mrs. Lockell at the breakfast table. “Huh!” said William, non-committally. He was always chary of words, as if he feared there were not enough to go around, save when on his favorite theme. “He'll pay four dollars a week to start,” went on his mother. William rose and reached for his cap. “I’m going to get a job,” said he, quietly. Mrs. Lockell’s eyes were misty with tears as her son strode out of the door, but there was something so aggressive in the sturdy shoulders as his head thrust forward that she, woman-like, was comforted. In spite of his youth and lack of experience, they were very dependable-looking shoulders. “Four dollars a week to start!” muttered William, as he walked along. “I wonder what he’d give me to quit! Me juggle lima beans ’nd asparagus, ’nd sacks of flour, ’nd eggs for four dollars a week? Not if I can get on at the railroad.” Getting on at the railroad was not a sim- ple matter. Railroading was the princi- pal industry of Two Suns, and of such im- portance that it was the main reason why the little city of thirteen thousand was the metropolis of Arizona. Obtaining em- ployment at such an institution was a very II. HE world seemed very much zhanged solemn and delicate matter. stayed, for the pay was good, the work Once in, men —" and promotion always a possi-~ ility. William Lockell, however, recked little of “influence,” particularly at such a time as this. He only knew that “Big Tom” MacCarthy, six feet four inches tall and built like a locomotive boiler set on end, was the mainspring of the division head- quarters, with offices in the beautiful stucco station. “What do you want to see Mr. Mac- Carthy about?” asked the chief clerk when William had stated his errand. “I want a job.” The chief clerk smiled, pityingly. He had heard that same statement many, many times. “I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed,” said he, turning back toward a mass of cor- respondence. “After I see him, mebbe,” growled Wil- liam, seating himself without invitation. The chief clerk did not appear to hear him, but William did not esteem chief clerks as of any consequence whatever. When Superintendent MacCarthy came briskly out of his office a few moments later, and started through the gate in the railing, he almost fell over the figure which barred the way. MacCarthy looked down on the bushy- headed boy standing there in a stolid, im- personal fashion, and not offering to move. He stared for several seconds, then his stare became a glare. “Well, what do you want?” he bellowed. “A job,” retorted William, without either hesitation or embarrassment. MacCarthy gave a snort that reminded the boy of a passenger engine whose pop- valve opens suddenly to relieve the pres- sure within. Then he stepped through the gate, and began walking down the broad stairs to the station platform. William kept pace with the big man’s strides. “A job?” repeated MacCarthy in a tone intended to convey the maximum of irri- tation at such a presumptuous answer. “Yes, sir.” “Doing what?” “Whatever you say to do.” This time MacCarthy looked the boy over more critically. An amused smile lit up his big face. “Well, suppose for anything?” “That wasn’t what the feller said when I say I don’t want you you went to work first,” pointedly re- turned William. “Hey? What do you know about that?” demanded MacCarthy, now too surprised to realize that he was called upon to de- fend himself against the importunities of this juvenile inquisitor. “I know how you got your job and it was carryin’ water at thirty-four cents a day when they was buildin’ a railroad,” said William, not at all meekly. “If you hadn’t got your job that day, would you be superintendent now? And would you be goin’ one of these days to Los An- geles for a bigger job?” MacCarthy “threw in the emergency” and stopped short. “You seem to know a lot about my business,” he sarcastically observed, scru- tinizing William as if he would eat him raw. “Yes,” said the boy, “I do. I read all I can about railroads and railroad men.” MacCarthy resumed his stride leading toward the shops. He: did not at once reply. William kept pace with him nor did he turn back at the entrance gate, with its “No Admission” sign, nor notice the guardian. His heart gave a great thrill. The very earth beneath his feet held a different quality—a compelling magnet- ism seemed to tingle in the soles of his shoes as he walked on and on, alongside the towering giant of a man by his side —the man whose word was law on the railroad from Two Suns west to Yuma and east to El Paso. Without the slightest notice of the fag MacCarthy strode into the iler-shop, wearing his best official frown. The thunder of the air-driven hammers against the sides of the great shapes jacked up on blocks for repairs; the skirl of emery-wheels where several tool-sharpeners were splitting flakes of fire over a corner; the ring of sledge on chisel—and a thousand and one other evi- dences of men grooming the leviathans of the rail for fresh energies—dazed Wil- liam Lockell. Nevertheless, with dogged persistence, he plunged along in the superintendent’s wake, his head hunched down between his stocky shoulders, his whole being infused, apparently, with sheerest obduracy—his strong face contorted in a frown like that of the man he followed. From the boiler-shop they passed into

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BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine January, 1916 the machinists’ department, thence to the sheet-metal workers, out through the car- repairers’ sheds, thence through the paint shop, and finally into the sacred precincts of the great round-house, with its sixty tracks spread like Vulcan’s fan. Here they paused again, one of number- less similar stops, while the superintend- ent conferred with his foreman. The place was noisy enough—the labored breathing of the great locomotives made it not un- like a stable or a great menagerie, whose animals panted, growled, wheezed, snorted or gasped, according to their various moods. Now and again one would be run cautiously out upon the turn-table, balance a moment as if undecided, whirl coquet- tishly—then dart away in charge of the hostler to a stand-pipe, where oil and water were allowed to gush into the big, spherical tenders. Tom MacCarthy, surreptitiously eyeing the boy who was intently studying the scene about him with fascinated eyes, gave a growl as if he had seen him for the first time in that forbidden enclosure. “What are you doing here?” he de- manded. William Lockell straightened himself. “I come down here with you to git that job!” , The round-house foreman- doubled up with mirth. William’s glare was that of a panther in the semi-obscurity of a cave, his face contorted in a horrid scowl. “Put him on wiping,” observed the su- perintendent to the round-house foreman. “He'll stand the grease for a week and then he'll quit.” “Thank you, sir,” with a smile celestial. IIl. ‘ee ~ MacCARTHY would have been as disappointed as if he himself had failed at securing his first job, had his prophecy come true. William Lockell went home to get suitable clothes, spurning the earth with flying feet. A jumper that had once been his father’s and a new pair of over- alls adorned him when he reported for duty the next morning. “I’m gettin’ nine dollars more a month than I could get deliverin’,” he told his mother. “That ain’t so bad, is it?” It was much more than the widow had dreamed her son would receive, and she kissed him fondly as she said as much. The first day was one which would have tried -the soul of a less enthusiastic ap- agneg in any line of work. Arizona is ot for nine months of the year. In June the thermometer hardly ever falls below a hundred—more often it goes higher. In- side the fetid, smoke-stained round-house, and with masses of super-heated steel nestling close together waiting to be groomed, the temperature was often as high as a hundred and fifteen. William Lockell, however, shirked no task then or in the days that followed. He was in his element at last.. Heat, smoke, grease and laborious tasks all were a part of the game. He emerged, nights, dripping as if fresh from a bath; he was so weary at first, as he staggered” home- ward, that he ate perfunctorily on arrival rather than from a conscious need of food, and slept like one dead until morning. But never did he utter a word of com- plaint, never did he “soldier on the job.” At the end of a week he was as resolute as on the first morning. At the end of three months, when Tom MacCarthy came strolling through the round-house, he saw William Lockell, grim and squat, emerge countered William, like a fiend of the pit from the fire-box of a big passenger engine, and straighten up on the gangway to engage in verbal battle with a careless boiler-maker anent the way certain bolts had been set in the crown sheet of this particular engine. “Whatya think you’re doin’?” demanded the wiper. “Don’t you know that crown- sheet’s goin’ to expand when she gits hot? That phony job of rivetin’ will let the bolt- head pull right up through inta th’ boiler —’nd then where’s the engine crew? Out in the ditch alongside the right-of-way, a lot of equipment shot to flinders—the hull division tied up—all on account of one bum bolt !” MacCarthy beckoned. The wiper swung to the ground beside him. “Since when have you been foreman?” asked the superintendent. “Foreman nothin’,” growled William. “Would you pass an engine like that for passenger service? You know you wouldn’t. Ain’t it bad enough to have to feed these here hogs boiler compound by the ton to keep ’em from-foamin’ up into the throttle- head, ’nd kickin’ out the end of a cylinder —without havin’ a crown-sheet let down on you ’nd mebbe wreckin’ the crack train of the road? That there’s Tom Davenport’s engine.” MacCarthy hesitated. William’s earnest- ness was certainly pardonable, but the foundation of all good railroading is dis- cipline. As if divining his thoughts the youth broke in upon them. “See here, Mr. MacCarthy!” He squatted alongside a heap of sand and traced a series of small squares on its surface. “Here’s your crown-sheet, see? There’s a bolt every four inches square. Four fours is sixteen—that is, this bolt has to hold boiler pressure on sixteen square inches of crown sheet. That engine car- ries as high as two hundred ’nd sixty pounds of steam pressure to the square inch before she pops. How’s a defective bolt in a crown-sheet going to take a train over The Stormy with two tons of pres- sure strainin’ on a head that ain’t riveted right?” MacCarthy could not believe his ears. Here was an employee that actually mixed brains with his work. The incipient reprimand was toned down to a well-modulated request that hereafter William report defects to the inspector in charge of boilers, and refrain from.“bawl- ing-out” other workmen. “The company don’t pay me for inspect- in’,’ answered the wiper. “But the rail- road’s bigger than any man on the divi- sion, ain’t it? And it goes on runnin’, no matter who lays off, gits discharged or dies. Ain’t it better for some one to bawl- out the man to blame—even if it’s the su- perintendent himself—than have a wreck?” MacCarthy walked over to the foreman. “Ain’t he the vinegary little devil? What’s his name, anyway?” “Bill Lockell. He’s a crank—but he’s the best wiper in the house, far and away.” Thus, without further ceremony of any kind, William Lockell thereafter became, by virtue of MacCarthy’s ready characteri- zation, “Vinegar Bill.” In due time he was promoted to a hostler’s job at more than twice the salary a wiper receives. He accepted his promo- tion as a matter of course, outwardly. In- wardly he was very proud, yet, paradox- ically enough, very humble. By the end of his first year Vinegar Bill knew all there was to know about an en- ine that the propinquity of the round- ouse could teach him. In leisure hours he studied to learn more. Insensibly but steadily he mastered the details of “auto- matic air,” including that marvelous mech- anism upon which the lives of millions of passengers daily depend—the triple-valve. He could “nurse” an engine on or off a turn table with the nicety of touch which is instinctive in some men; no veteran of the division had a finer judgment of distance when shifting in or out of the yard, coup- ling on trains or gliding up to a water- plug. In the maze of petty politics that always infests large numbers of workingmen, Vin- egar Bill made enemies, as any resolute, assertive individual necessarily must in liv- ing his life. More than once he justified his sobriquet. Reticent to a degree unless roused, heed- less of personal jibe or jest at his own ex- pense, Vinegar Bill, nevertheless, had a tongue like a scorpion’s sting when it came to an issue regarding the manner in which an engine should leave the round-house. On the anniversary of his first employment he was better hated than loved by the care- less and indifferent element among which he moved, but as enthusiastic and indefati- gable as when he began. His stocky body was a mass of tough sinews and flexing muscles; his thatch of heavy hair stuck aggressively out from un- der his cap during the day, but was always neatly combed at night; and on his hours off, Vinegar Bill, still intent on his con- suming ambition, got into the habit of hanging around the dispatcher’s office, watching the operation of the trains over The Stormy. Omnivorous to a degree never before known in the history of any employee on the division, Vinegar Bill stood chatting one night with Al Wakefield through the chief dispatcher’s window at the end of the Two Suns station. Outside, the full moon beamed down, silvering the grey hills with a glory all its own, casting deep, grey-black shadows along the concrete platform or penciled the few cars in the yards in black silhou- ettes along the right of way. Over on track seven a yard-engine was’ snoozing like a tired man. It was after eleven o’clock, but Vinegar Bill was waiting for the arrival of No. 102, east bound. Her departure was a signal for his sleeping time. Destiny has many methods for achieving her ends. Vin- egar Bill, as much a dreamer as when he had disrupted the peace of the school room, still loved to linger until. the last east- bound passenger train began the climb over The Stormy—still dreamed of the day when he would pilot one of them him- self between Two Suns and El Paso. “Will they get extra freight No. 2769 over the hill into Benson ahead of No. 102?” he asked the dispatcher, as the far- flung gleam of the electric headlight of the coming express flashed athwart the sky some fifteen miles to the west. “Can’t say yet, Bill,” replied the dis- patcher. “May have to head her in at Mescal—they’ve got to stop there to set out a couple of cars of stuff for the Dos Cabezos mine.” Vinegar Bill strolled down the platform to mingle with the passengers. Several among them he knew quite well. One of them was Miss Bryant, en route to the east on a vacation; another Mrs. Marshall and her son, Vivian. The latter came over to him. (Continued on page 24)

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——wwerr - “In this way a wall of bamboo rose rapidly” The Boy Scout Crusoes A Tale of an Adventurous Patrol Stranded on a Pacific Island By EDWIN C. BURRITT Illustrated by WALT LOTDERBACK CHAPTER IV Food and Shelter. pect of action, roused the boys from the sense of despair that had come over them at the sight of the deserted bay. “I don’t see anything to eat,” said Harold disconsolately. “We can’t fish, we haven’t any tackle.” “IT see at least two things that are ex- cellent eating,’ the scoutmaster answered cheerfully. “There’s not much danger of starving on a tropical island.” “Cocoanuts,” said Rod, looking up at the palms. “What’s the other thing?” “T’ll soon show you. Fred, see if you can find any fallen cocoanuts. Karl may come with me to gather the vegetables. The rest of you collect fuel and build a fire. All of you keep a close lookout for snakes and insects. Rod, you had better build a fireplace. There are plenty of stones to do it with.” TT pect intense hunger and the pros- | Yaad Apne fell to work at once. Rod- erick set about constructing a fire- place in a sheltered spot among some rocks. He walled up with stones a small oblong space, leaving an opening in front. He chinked the walls with sand and mud to make them tight, then laid across the top some flat slabs of a dull greenish rock he found on the beach, being careful to leave a hole at the back for the smoke to escape. In the meantime the younger boys col- lected firewood. Dry wood was hard to find, but both Dick and Bobby were good enough scouts to know that a stick ap- parently soaked on the outside will often burn fairly well if split in two, the inner parts being drier than the outer. The sun and wind were rapidly drying things off, and Dick suggested that they spread the wet wood on the beach to dry. Red was a skillful fire-builder and soon had a blaze in spite of unsatisfactory fuel. Fred, however, did not have such good luck., He found nothing but cocoanut shells from which the meat had been ex- tracted. This had been done cleverly through the end of the nut and the boys wondered what sort of an animal had per- formed such a feat. “There are plenty of nuts on the trees,” said Fred. “We'll have to devise some scheme for getting them down.” “T have read,” Harold remarked, “that if you throw stones at the monkeys they will throw cocoanuts back- at you.” “A very fine plan indeed,” replied Fred, “but it won’t work this time, for we haven’t seen any monkeys.” Dr. Cameron and Karl had better suc- cess, for they soon returned laden with fresh, green, succulent looking shoots. 5 How the Boy Scout Crusoes Began R. CAMERON, a scientist, takes his patrol of scouts with him on an ex- pedition in the South Pacific. They leave their ship, the Flying Fish, to explore an island. A terrific storm comes up and they are forced to spend the night ashore. In the morning no trace of the Flying Fish can be seen, and the party finds itself marooned with only a meager supply of equipment and provisions. “What are they?” asked Bobby. “Are they really good to eat?” ‘Fred took one and examined it. “I know,” he said. “They are young bamboo shoots. I’ve eaten them. They’re fine.” He then told Dr. Cameron his experience with the cocoanuts. “Let me take your rifle,” said the latter. He selected a large bunch of nuts, took careful aim and fired, clipping the bunch off neatly. The boys were loud in their praises of this feat of marksmanship. The bamboo shoots were cut up and boiled in sea-water in the boys’ aluminum cups. The lads pronounced them good, better than asparagus Karl said, and with the cocoanuts they made a yer good, though not very nourishing, meal. The green nuts they thought better than ripe ones. The meat, instead of being hard, was soft like cream cheese, and the cool, refreshing water in the center served as drink, for their water bottles were empty. The scoutmaster called their attention to the fact that the water in a young nut is always cool no matter how hot the sun is. HEN breakfast was over they held a council. “If the Flying Fish,” said Dr. Cameron, “has had to put out to sea it may be three or four days before she gets back. In the meantime we must make ourselves as comfortable as_ posible. There are three things we must look out 7

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6 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine January, 1916 for, food, water and shelter. I don’t think we shall have much difficulty in finding food, though it won’t always be just the kind we’ve been used to. Fresh water is a more serious question, but with that from the cocoanuts we can get along fairly well.” “The cave I was in would hold us all, I think,” said Dick. “It is rather far away,” answered the Doctor. “When the ship comes back they will look for us here. Then I don’t like the idea of being cut off by the tide so that we can’t get out. I think it would be better to build a shelter here.” “We might make a cabin of bamboo,” suggested Fred, “and use the blankets for a roof.” “It was something of that kind I had in mind,” the scoutmaster replied. “We had better get to work at once.” Fred and Rod were sent to cuit bamboo, while the others were to carry loads of it to the place Dr. Cameron had selected and to help him build the shelter. The lads were delighted with the bamboo grove. The long canes, some fresh and green, some old and turning yellow, rose above their heads waving their beautiful feathery sprays of quivering leaves. They varied greatly in size and height, the giant ones being as large around as good sized tree trunks and thirty or forty feet high, while others were as slender as the fish poles used at home. The boys set to work with “He crept trembling into the hut and seized Dr. Cameron by the arm” a will to cut canes of a certain size and length according to the scoutmaster’s in- structions. Using a piece of heavy cord, from a ball Rod happened to have in his knapsa and bamboo pickets, the Doctor markew out a straight line, (see diagram, a 6b), for the rear wall. He then drove in an- other picket at c. Taking another cord he made a loop at each end and found the middle by Es doubling __ it. / He placed the two loops over 6 and ¢ and stretched the cord into the position b dc, driving in a stake at d, the middle of the cord. Then A. d coca a of How they made the stake at b, cabin “square” he turned it around until it came into the position d e in prolongation of ¢ d. Join- ing 6 and e he had the right angle needed for the corner of his cabin. It was then easy enough to get the other corners by measuring, the space marked off being about ten by fourteen feet. With a heavy stone for a hammer he drove stout posts near the corners and at regular intervals along the sides. The bamboos to be used for the sides had been split lengthwise into halves. The Doctor laid one of the right length along the ground against the posts marking one side of the space and tied it firmly to the uprights. He placed a second on top of this and then a third, tying each firmly. He then took a whole cane the same length as the up- rights, and, resting one end on the ground opposite the first of the posts, he bound it firmly in place, leav- ing the upper end free. This process was repeated opposite each post. The re- maining split bamboos were then slipped in between these up- rights, a n d uprights and horizontals tied together to give secur- ity. In this way a wall of bamboo rose rapidly. Rod’s ball of twine was used for tieing. their N spite of the in- creasing heat they all worked away steadily, the three old- er boys and Dick tak- ing turns at the axes, ‘until Harold, coming back to the bamboo grove for a new load, announced that Dr. Cameron had said it was time to eat. — nearly starved,” said Rod a few minutes later, as he dropped his load of bamboo. “I feel as if I wanted some- thing more substantial than cocoanuts.” “There are lots of sea birds around the cliffs,’ Karl a “Perhaps we can find some egg: “Go and see,” said the scoutmaster, “but be careful climbing around and don’t go very far.” - Dick and Bobby started for the beach to get some of the fuel they had spread there to dry, but were surprised to find that almost all of it had been carried away by the rising tide. “Well,” exclaimed Dick in dis this we’ll keep the wood above mark.” And they did. It was not very long before Rod and Karl were back with their hats full of eggs. “How will you have them, boiled or fried?” asked Rod. “Better not boil them,” was his father’s answer. “You'll find a good many aren’t fit to eat. You'll have to break them to find the good ones.” “But we can’t fry them,” jected. “We haven’t any grease. “We'll poach them. I'll show you.” The Doctor partly filled a cup with sea water and set it on the stone stove to heat. He then broke an egg into a cocoa- nut shell, carefully so as not to break the yolk. It proved to be fresh so he turned it out into the hot water, and it poached in a few minutes. Many of the eggs were spoiled but enough fresh ones were found to more than go around. They were not so pleasant as hen’s eggs, and, although cooked in salt water, they needed more salt, but the boys were very hungry and found them a welcome addition to cocoa- nuts and bamboo shoots. After lunch they took a short rest, and then all went back to work on their shelter. The string was soon used up, but they succeeded with some difficulty in twisting the tough fibres of the outer husk of the cocoanut into rough twine. “Our blankets will never make a roof for this big place,” said Bobby when the walls were nearly completed. “We'll need the blankets inside,” - his father answered with a smile. “I’ve a better plan for the roof.” When the walls were finished, the ends of the split bamboos having been trimmed so that they fitted together closely at the corners, canes were laid across the top at intervals of about a foot and projecting about three feet beyond the sides. The Doctor then took the boys to a at the edge of the forest where a alm tree with big, broad leaves had tom roken off. This, Dr. Cameron said, was a Borasuss Palm, and the leaves were much used by the natives in this part of the world for thatch. There was not time that day to make a properly pitched roof with the thatch tied on as it should be, so they had to be content with a flat one. This was soon completed and the shelter for the night was ready. The house consisted of three walls, the end towards the sea being left open, while a square opening about halfway up the rear wall served as a window and gave circulation of air. The boys covered the ground with several layers of palm leaves and on_ these quend the two rubber blankets. B Y the time "their not we, satisfyin supper of eggs, bamboo shoots fon | cocoanuts was over it was growing dark, (Continued on page 80 st, “after igh water Fred ob- » ce CHAPTER V. Night Watches.

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o e t y 7 “oe A Test in Woodcraft Here’s a Job for a Modern Daniel Boone—Are You One? By DAN BEARD National Scout Commissioner, Boy Scouts of America. read about woodcraft and you have all heard talk about woodcraft, and I am going to give you for this sermon some of the real thing. The material I have gathered from the woods way up among the black spruce forests of the un- mapped portion of Western Quebec, from the Maine woods and from the forests in the mountains of Pennsylvania. The pho- tographs are not particularly good be- cause they were taken in the twilight of the forest where it is necessary to give a long exposure in order to get satisfac- tory results and as they were all of them photographed while hiking with a pack on my back, I had not time to stop for time exposures. Nevertheless, they are interest- ing. No. 1 shows Mr. Frederick Vreeland, a Fr esa ab SCOUTS! You have all member of my staff and my old camping. partner, examining a tree trunk. ust what has happened to that tree trunk is for you boys to guess in time for me to publish in an early issue of Boys’ Lars, so send in your answers immediately that they may be in time for publication. No. 2 shows some of the work of the same animal as shown in No. 1. Tell us briefly what animal it was. that partially Photographs by the Author. Look sharp! Can you tell what did it? eauceveannanaceatarerenerieey cut down the tree in No. 1 and felled the trees in No. 2. No. 8 shows Mr. Arthur Rice, Sec- retary of the Camp Fire Club of America, standing by a scarred spruce tree. The scars were fresh and the sticky sap was running from the wounds. The animal, you will note, must have been a large animal or it could not have reached so far above Mr. Rice’s head; whatever the crea- ture was, it reached as high as Mr. Rice could reach. Tell us what ani- mal did this. The trees in Fig. 4 (marked 1 and 2) are different from each other and from the preceding photographs. What does not show on the photo- graphs in No. 1, Fig. 4, is a number of small teeth marks where the bark was removed from the sapling. No. 2 of Fig. 4 is a striped maple from which the bark has been stripped. There are some teeth-marks on the trunk of this tree, too, near the top of the scars, but they appear to be almost the size of those made by horse’s teeth. Now tell us what animal gnawed the bark off No. 1, Fig. 4, and what animal pulled the bark off No. 2, Fig. 4.. Fig. 5 is a smaller tree, not more than four inches in diameter. It stands in the mountains of Pike County, Pennsylvania. You will note that it has been scarred up and splinters -of the wood are stickin out of the lower edges of the scar. Te us what creature did this. A good woodcrafter is an outdoor Sher- lock Holmes. He must have a knowled; of the habits of all the creatures of woods in order to. tell which animal made the signs he sees on the trail. In the older days, in the good old times before pump guns and market hunters drove the game from our woods, one — all of the marks represented by photographs on one hike of a few miles, but it took your National Scout Commissioner two seasons anc hundreds of miles of travel 7 to secure for you the five photographs showing the work of five of our brothers in fur overcoats who feed upon the bark of trees—that is, three of them do and two of them leave their mark on the trees for reasons of their own—but I have told enough; if I go any further I will be giv- ing the case away. Of course we do not expect all of you boys to be able to visit the wild woods where these very wild creatures live, but in every field, in every grove, there are some creatures. And no wild creature, or tame creature either, can. travel afoot across the country without leaving a trail or, aS our ancestors used to call it, a trace, which a good woodcrafter, an ex- pert nature student, will not only see but recognize. This is especially true in the winter time when the snow makes a blank page where every foot-fall leaves its signature—where Renard the fox lopes along, then cautious- v circles around a musk-rat house on the frozen pond to reconnoitre before ex- amining it; where the short-tailed meadow- rat, or vole, creeps from one hole to an- other, leaving not only the tracks of his feet, but also the track of his tail; where the little jumping mouse occasionally wakes up from his winter sleep and leaves the record of his jumps in the snow, where molly cotton-tail, the skunk and the mink, mark in their own peculiar style the path they have taken in search of food or in escaping an enemy; where last summer’s weeds have sprinkled their seeds over the surface of snow, interspersed with count- less tracks of little birds. All these small animals except the fox exist inside the limits of New York City, and all of them offer you a splendid opportunity to prac- tice your woodcraft by reading the tale the trail tells. But get busy! I want some bright fellow to tell us what wild animals marked up the tree shown in the photepre h so that I may publish the name o the modern Daniel Boone in Boys’ Lirz, our magazine.

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Don Strong of the Wolf Patrol Cuaprer IX (Cont.) ON sat there until the room D was black with the shad- ows of night. He heard Beth’s footsteps go along the hall. He sighed, and stood up, and moved toward the door. Downstairs in the dining-room his father and his mother and Barbara were talking in low voices. When he walked in on them the discussion stopped. “I thought you had gone out,” said Barbara. “I was upstairs,” said Don. “What doing?” “Thinking.” Barbara looked quickly at her father. “Thinking of what, Don,” he asked. “About that man from Irontown. Did you write to him yet?” “Not yet.” “Then you can write to him in the morn- ing and tell him you'll send samples.” Barbara smiled. “Why should I tell him that?” his father asked. Don cleared his throat. “Because I’m going to help you afternoons. Beth’s job. You know what I mean. We've got to make up that money some way. I’ve thought it all out. You make the screen framework, and in the afternoons I'll tack on the wire and the molding, and I’ll paint them. I guess we'll be able to take care of all the orders that come along.” His father was so long in answering that Don said quickly: “I wouldn’t slop the work, dad.” “That isn’t what’s bothering me,” his father said slowly. “I’m wondering if it will be fair to let you make this sacrifice.” “Oh, it isn’t a sacrifice,” Don cried. “No?” Mr. Strong looked astonished. “What is it, then?” “It’s being helpful and sharing the fam- ily duties,” said Don. His father said “A-h-h!” very loudly, and stared up at the ceiling and blinked his eyes. His mother laid her hand on his arm. Barbara leaned across the table. “Aren’t you forgetting the school nine?” she asked gently. “No,” said Don. He thought about show- ing Mr. Wall, and his first-class badge, and the trip to Irontown and the ride in the tally-ho, and he tried to keep his voice steady. “I—I’m giving up baseball.” Cuapter X. Quick Speech. EXT day Don told Mr. Wall that he was going to quit the nine. He had an idea that the coach might be displeased; but after he had explained his reasons Mr. Wall gave him the ‘friendliest of smiles, By WILLIAM HEYLIGER. Illustrated by NORMAN P. ROCKWELL. Mr. Wall brought out the schedule. They studied “That’s a fine thing to do, Don,” he said. “Are you going to work every afternoon?” “Yes, sir.” “Saturday afternoons, too?” “No, sir. I forgot about Saturdays. I will help my father each Saturday un- til noon.” “So!” The coach puckered his eyes thoughtfully. “What’s to stop you from pitching our Saturday at-home games?” “Oh!” cried Don. “I never thought of that. How many Saturday at-home games are there?” Mr. Wall brought out the schedule. They studied it. Don’s face clouded with disappointment. “There’s only one Saturday at-home game,” he said “and that’s Saturday “We played a lot of at-home games when we started, and now we’re doing our traveling. The first Irontown game is a Saturday game, but that’s played at Irontown.” “And the second game is here the fol- lowing Wednesday,” said Don with his eyes on the schedule. “And if each team has won one and lost one, the deciding game will be played the Saturday after that. You may get a chance then, Don.” “Not if they won the toss,’ Don said gloomily. “They’d pick Irontown as the place to play the deciding game. And anyway, if they won two straight and if we won two straight there wouldn’t be any third game.” Mr. Wall laughed. “You don’t look like a very cheerful scout,” he said. “Buck up! Something may happen that will give you a chance to pitch half a dozen games.” “IT guess not,” Don said. “Anyway, if I can’t pitch, P’ll get Andy in the best shape a That will be next door to pitching the games myself, won’t it?” “Now you're talking like a real scout,” said Mr. Wall. Afterwards the boy re- membered that the coach hadn’t said a word about the nine. All his concern had seemed ta be for the p’ yer who was 8 compelled to give up the game. ON didn’t attend the prac- tice that day. If he was going to help his father the best thing to do was to pile in and get started. So throughout the late afternoon he helped on jobs that were waiting to be finished. After supper Andy Ford and Alex Davidson appeared outside the front gate. “Bring them in on the porch,” said Barbara. She had never suggested that Ted Carter be in- vited to the porch. Don led them through the front yard. The three boys sat on the porch steps. it. “Mackerel !” dismay. the season, Don?” “Almost,” said Don. “I may pitch the game against Englishtown School, two weeks from Saturday.” “And you’re not coming to the field for practice?” Alex demanded. Don shook his head. “Can't. help Dad.” “Who's going to coach me in my pitch- ing?” Andy wailed. “I am,” said Don. Andy jumped up. “How? Where?” “Right here. From six to seven o’clock each night. I’ll get my practice, too. You fellows can make that, can’t you?” “I can,” said Alex. “I'd come out at midnight and use pine torches,” Andy cried happily. His voice changed. “I’m sorry you're out, Don. The team would be a whole lot better off if you were with them.” “Rats!” said Don. “You won’t lose a game.” After his visitors had gone he stared out at the road. Gee! Weren't Alex and Andy rousing good scouts? He was glad that they all belonged to the Wolf Patrol. Next day the sample screens were sent to the Irontown merchant. Three days later the first order arrived—nine window screens and one screen door. Don was as happy as though he had achieved a per- sonal triumph. “We've got to make a good job of — Dad,” he said. “This is the first ot.” “We must make a good job of every lot,” said his father. The work ran along. More orders came. Soon Mr. Strong, as he put it, was “up to his neck and swimming hard.” Don acquired a speedy knack of doing his end of the job. The Irontown merchant wrote that his customers were well pleased with the goods. “Isn’t that great?” Don _ breathed. “You’re getting a reputation, Dad.” “We're getting a reputation,” his father smiled. Meanwhile, the baseball work ran on. Andy cried in “Are you through for I must

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Andy pitched three games and won them all, though it was only heavy slugging by the Chester nine that saved him in the third game. After that struggle Don tried to teach him that slashing inshoot and that quick return. But Andy shook his head. “J don’t think I'll bother with those, Don.” “Why not?” Don demanded. “Oh—— What’s the use?” “But why won’t you bother with them?” “Because I don’t like them,” Andy said frankly. “Tell me how I break this drop, Don.” Don watched sullenly. He was angry. He didn’t like this way Andy had of criticizing his pitching. However, his ad- miration for the improvement in Andy’s work was so great that he stuck to his job as pitching coach. He was rapidly de- veloping Andy into a school star. TS came the approach of the game with Englishtown—the game Don was to pitch. Here was where he showed Mr. Wall that he didn’t try to hit the batters. But at two o’clock that Saturday after- noon, while Don was warming up with Alex, storm clouds appeared in the east. Fifteen minutes later rain was falling and the game was off. Don ran for home and sat sadly on the porch. There Bar- bara found him. : “I’m sorry you missed your game, Don,” she said. “It isn’t that,” he said miserably. “I was going to show Mr. Wall I don’t try to hit the batters so that he’d recommend me for my first-class badge, and now I won't get another chance all season.” “Are you sure, Don, that that’s the reason Mr. Wall won’t recommend you— because of your pitching?” “It must be that,” Don answered. “Mr. Wall never tells a scout he mustn’t do this or that. He lets us figure things out for ourselves.” Barbara was silent a moment. “When’s the first Irontown game?” she asked. “Next Saturday.” “I'm going to ask Dad to let you off so you can pitch that game,” said Bar- bara. She jumped up, and caught his head, and bent it back and looked down at him. “I’m proud of you, big brother,” she said. “And I’m proud of you, little sister,” he answered. They both laughed. But Don did not pitch the opening Iron- town game. Friday morning came a rush order—the biggest order Mr. Strong had yet received. “Tll have to work all day tomorrow,” he said. “You go off to your game, Don. You’re entitled to a holiday.” Don sighed and shook his head. It wasn’t as hard to say no now as it had been the first time. “If this order is big enough to keep you working all day Saturday,” he said, “it’s big enough to keep me on the job, too.” “I won’t let you work Saturday after- noon,” his father said. “Our agreement gives you Saturday afternoon off.” “But if I want to help you, Dad * “You go over to Irontown,” said his father, “and see the game. You'll get there for the closing innings, anyway.” The team had heard a rumor that Don might pitch against Irontown. Friday evening Ted Carter came around. “How about it, Don?” he asked. “Com- ing with us?” “Can't,” said Don.

“A big order came in this morning. and help.” Ted Kicked his toe against a clump of grass. “You quit at noon tomorrow, don’t you?” “Yes.” “Mr. Wall has ordered us to get the 12.30 car at the Transfer Station. It’s an hour’s ride to Irontown.” “T couldn’t make that car,’ said Don. “I'd have to wash, and eat dinner, and then walk to the station.” Ted kicked at the grass again. “Sup- pose I come around tomorrow — and help you with your work? That woul make two of us working. Couldn’t you quit at 11 o’clock then?” “Do you know how to cut wire, and tack it on, and set molding, and paint screening?” Don asked eagerly. “I could learn,” said Ted hopefully. “Couldn’t you show me tonight?” Don gave up his last hope. His father’s business was too important to trust to green hands. “You couldn’t learn it in an hour, Ted,” he explained. “It’s fine of you to want to help. I wish you could. I—I’d like to pitch that game.” Ted nodded. “I guess I know how you feel. You'll come over, won’t you, and sit beside Andy and sort of keep him up? He’s pretty nervous.” “T’ll be there,” said Don. He went into the house. “What did Ted want?” Barbara asked. He told her. She looked thoughtful. “Maybe you ought to ask Ted around some evening,” she said. Don gave a gasp. “I thought you didn’t like him, Barbara.” “Don’t be a goose,” said his sister; but she squeezed his arm in a way that showed that she was not scolding. I’m going to stay here T noon next day Don quit work and hurried upstairs. Barbara had laid out clean linen on his bed. He bolted for the bathroom, splashed into a tub and then splashed out.. After a while he came downstairs clean and cool. “What car do yow want to catch?” Barbara asked. “One o’clock,” said Don.

The three boys sat on the porch steps. “It’s twenty-five minutes to one now. I don’t think you can make it.” - Don sighed. “Maybe if I went right off now——’ : sd “You'll do nothing of the kind,” said Barbara. “You'll eat your dinner.” “All right; P’ll get the half-past one car. Isn’t that beef stew I smell, Barbara?” “Beef stew,” Barbara answered, and Don took his place at the table with less regret. e half-past one car was waiting when he reached the Transfer Station. ot was an hour’s ride to Irontown. After that it was a fifteen minutes’ walk to the field. He got there at about a quarter to three —and the game was scheduled to start at two o'clock. “Does this car ever get to Irontown in less than an hour?” asked the con- ductor. The conductor shook his head. “One hour is our running time, but we won’t make it today.” x “Why not?” the boy asked. “The road is torn up about five miles from here. That holds us up each trip.” “How—how long?” “Oh, about fifteen minutes.” The con- ductor pulled the bell-rope twice, and the car moved away from the station. Don went inside and sat down. He wouldn’t get to the field until three o’clock. He had a feeling that if he were the motorman he’d make that car go a whole lot faster. Every time the car stopped he fretted until it started; and when the stretch of torn road was reached he almost had a fit. The way the road was choked with men and teams it didn’t seem as though they would ever get past. But presently the men and the teams tt off to one side and the car went ahead. on wanted to look at his watch, but did not dare. They were playing the game by now. He wondered if Andy was being hit. i At last they came to Irontown. Don jumped from the car and ran up the main street. Soon he turned into a side thoroughfare. He heard a faint cheer. E ran faster. The houses became few- er. He saw a fielder, and then an- other, and then the in- field, and the catcher and the boy at the plate. The pitcher threw the ball. Don recognized the motion. at’s Andy,” he told himself. The batter swung and missed. Don won- ’ dered if that was the first or the - second strike. But Alex took off his glove and mask and the team began to run in. “Gee!” said Don. “It’s three out.” He reached the bench before the Iron- town nine had taken <gpeeeg Ted called a happy ing. Mr.‘ W. odie’ att smiled. Don sat down next to Andy. -“P’m glad you're here,” said the pitch- feel tter (Continued on page 29)

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BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine Jeunaiy, 1916 Dan Beard’s Duffel Bag Echoes! Are You Going to Have One? By DAN BEARD National Scout Commissioner LL you fellows know A what an echo is, but probably you have not thought that there are many kinds of echoes. For instance, if one of you gives birth to a good idea or a good expres- sion, you are liable to hear it from every imaginable source, years and years afterwards. For instance, in May, 1905, the first boy scout society was launched and in the announce- ment to the boys, the editor of Recreation said, “Let me tell you that when you are united and each lad working for the cause, you will find that even President Roosevelt and King Edward will be more than glad to serve and earn your support and commendation, for those men know that the BOYS OF TODAY ARE THE MEN OF TOMOR- ROW.” You will not find this expression previous to that day, but you hear it everywhere now. What you hear now are the echoes of © Underwood that old editorial. I have be- fore me, while dictating these notes, a very popular boys’ magazine and in it is a message from an eminent divine to the boys. Listen to what he says and see if it does not sound familiar: “It means that a boy is the most important thing in the world; the boys of today are the men who are doing the big things tomorrow.” You now hear this with slight variations everywhere, you see it in editorials and speeches of~states- men who have occupied the highest posi- tions in the gift of the Government, the judges on the bench repeat it, it appears in editorials, in sermons and on the stage and all these repetitions are the echoes of what? Echoes of the noise made at the birth of the first boy scouts in the world; echoes of a little editorial appearing in Recreation in May, 1905. I am telling you this because it leads up to something else, something you will not find in the dictionary or encyclopedia, but which is another echo you hear every day of your life. It is an echo from the brazen throats of the old sportsmen and hunting barons back in 1500. Gee! but they must have had some voices to be able to make a sound which down the aisles of time still reverberates 400 years after the voices of the hunters are stilled. You see it is this way. In the olden times, Great Britain was full of wolves, not only did they have real forests there for the beasts to live in, but the kings, when they wanted a new hunting ground, would wipe out a few farms, churches and settlements and turn the country into a wilderness where wild animals would thrive. And what did these old fellows shout as they went rushing pellmell after the wolves? They shouted the French hunter’s cry, “Hab le loup,” which is pro- Mr. Beard nounced “Ab leh _ loo.” In an ancient book with the title of “La Vanerie de Jac- ques du Fouilloux, a Paris,” 1578, dedicated to Charles IX of France, one may find the hunting cries. In England, the court language was French and they used the same cry, but gradually the ‘hab le loup” was shortened to “a lou loup” or “a loup,” which would be pronounced “ah lou lou” or “ah loo.” This afterwards had the Saxon H hitched on so that it became “halloo.” The “halloo” was brought over here by our iron-clad Puri- tans and. our gay cavaliers. It became Americanized, and it is now “HELLO.” So to- day, fellow scouts, “Central,” penned up in a little office with hearing pads on her ears and a switchboard in front of her, sits there all day long, listening to the echoes of the wolf-hunters’ cry way back in the 15th and 16th centuries. & Underwood And we call her the “Hello girl,” but she might be called the “wolf girl.” Every day, all over the United States, in- door people who do not know a katydid from a grasshopper, who could not tell a moose from a caribou, nor a wolf from a dog, are greeting each other and hail- ing each other with the old wolf-hunter’s cry. And this brings up to the point at which we are driving. The Yaqui Indians are known by their yell, the wolf-hunters had their cry, which we still use, but the scouts haye no cry by which they may be rec- ognized. Fortunately for us, the original scouts from which our scouts were evolved in 1905 had a call which was an echo of the old Indian call, and the Indian call was an echo of the barred owl’s call, so we we might appropriately echo the buckskin scouts and use the same call as the modern scout call, thus when we hear “Hoo-hoo hoo-ah!” we may know that it is a hail from some other scout and a greeting. The old kings of England destroyed farms, houses and churches to make a wilderness for their own selfish recreation, but I have just received a postal from Troop 8, of Rome, New York, telling me that their scouts are planting trees in the north woods near Indian Lake. These boys are planting trees for coming gen- erations, like good old Johnny Appleseed did in the Ohio Valley, and a hundred years from now, every time the breeze blows and the branches of the forests swish, the people will hear the echo of the Boy Scouts of Rome! The branches will whisper the story of their work; so let us, as Tennyson says, “Give a lengthened loud haloo, Tuwhoo, tuwhit, tuwhit, tu-whoo-o-o.” and end up with a Whoo-ah! for the Boy Scouts of Rome, New York! . - of A Scout Makes a “Rolling Pin Wireless UPPOSE you had a rolling pin, a S piece of iron pyrite, a half-pound of No. 22 bare copper wire and sev- eral binding posts, and you wanted a wireless telegraph outfit—do you think you could build one? Scout Louis Buhl, of Troop 46, Philadelphia, thought he could— and he did! The set was constructed at Treasure Island, the Philadelphia camp, during August, 1915. Here is the way Scout Buhl went about it. First the rolling pin was given a coat of shellac found in an old can at mess hall. The shellac was thinned down with Jamai- ca Ginger borrowed from Dr. Bernstein, the camp Doctor whose supply of alcohol had been exhausted. After shellacking, two tacks were driven into the pin about one-half inch from either end. The wire was then fastened to a tack, then by rolling the pin, was wound onto the pin. Alongside of the wire was wound a heavy thread to insulate the turns of wire; when the entire pin had been wound, the free end of wire was fastened to the other tack. The coil was finished, the handles were taken off the pin and square ends nailed on, after which the coil was mounted on the end of a soap box. The sliders for the coil were made of strips of tin from a Nabisco box, mounted on small blocks of wood with a hole through them. The hole was just large enough to allow sliders to slip on the guides which were made from a gal- vanized iron barrel hoop, hammered and rolled out straight. The guides or bars were then fastened on the ends of the coil by wire fence staples borrowed from nearby. : The detector was made out of a safety pin, iron pyrite and a piece of Nabisco tin. The fixed condenser was made from a Nabisco box also. Altogether it took about four days’ time and thought to complete the set and the strangest thing about it is that it worked and still is in operation at Scout Buhl’s home, 5117 Brown street, Philadelphia. Scout Buhl and His Outfit

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Boy Scout Life-Savers ‘© TUST like sliding down hill without having to walk back,” was the men- tal conclusion of Earl Lifshey, of Troop 25, Brooklyn, N. Y., as he stood looking at the outlet of Lake Marguerite, Outcalt, N. J., the day before the Fourth. The water, rushing swift- ly through the great gates, shot across a basin a_ hundred yards wide, divided, and eddied back again. The only question was as to treacherous under- currents and _ sub- merged obstructions. His hesitation was swept aside when he heard a terrified cry: “A boy is drown- ing!’ and saw a mop of hair being swept into the middle of the basin. Carefully gauging the current he jumped in. He was carried directly past the youngster and grabbed him by the back of his bathing suit. The scout was hanging to his charge with one hand and swimming for dear life with the other when his foot struck a log. Finding it solid, he stood upon it and planted the other fellow beside him. Then help came in the person of Orson Turner, age fif- teen. They instructed Willie, the near victim, to lighten himself by adding air to the water with which his insides were filled, and then towed him ashore. Willie’s mother closed the incident when she saw Scout Lifshey at the railway station next day. To equal her appreciation, the bronze honor medal would have to be as big as a pancake,

Scout Lifshey [* is harder to act in an emergency with a crowd around, looking at but not real- izing the seriousness of an accident, than it is when judgment is unhampered by the negative example of others. The command “all out” had been given at the end of the swimming period at the Herkimer County Scout Camp on Keyser Lake, July 3, when a scout took a running dive from the bank. The earth caved be- neath his feet and he failed to clear the jagged rocks which lay just beneath the surface. For ten seconds he seemed standing on his head, his feet sticking up, then with a dazed “oh!” he struck out for the opposite shore, leaving a trail of blood. He was twenty yards out before anyone realized that he did not know what he was doing, but when he threw up his hands and a scoutmaster shouted “get him!” one scout in the thirty was ready. __ Walter L. Horth pushed past ten who stood in his way and went to the rescue, taking a chance of striking the same rocks By ARMSTRONG PERRY which had cut open his companion’s head. When he reached him, they were sixty feet from shore and about the same distance from the bottom. If Horth lost his hoid there would not be one chance in a hun- dred of getting another. Half killed, half drowned, the injured scout struck at his rescuer wildly and then } grabbed his wrists. Horth remembered the break and, taking a safe grip, he swam with one hand until those on shore could reach a helping hand. The National Court of Honor awarded a j silver medal. < eww T. WOOD, JR., of Troop 18, Indianapolis, started to do his dail good turn on July 2lst and it resulted in } a bronze honor medal. He was holding his rowboat tight to a pier on Big Moose Lake, N. Y., and a

Report of National Court of ’ Honor for November HONOR MEDALS Earl Lifshey (bronze), Brooklyn, N. Y. George T. Sidebotham (bronze), Baltimore, Md. Walter Horth (silver), Mohawk, N. Y. Kernan Dishaw (bronze), Canton, N. Y. Edson T. Wood (bronze), Indianapolis, Ind. LETTER OF COMMENDATION Robert Jones Gaylordsville, Conn. Nelson Laferty Foxcraft, Pa. William Wilson Mohawk, N. Y. EAGLE SCOUTS To win the Silver Eagle these First Class Scouts must have qualified for 21 Merit Badges. It is the highest honor given for winning Merit Badges. Harold Rounds New London, Conn. George A. Peiffer, Jr. Glenside, Pa. Robert H. Gard Washington, D. 0 Floyd Meck Cleveland, Ohio Raymond M. Thomas Pittsburg, Pa. LIFE AND STAR SCOUTS Life Scouts hold Merit Badges in first aid, athletics, life saving, personal health and public health. Star Scouts have five badges in addi- tion to these. Ernest Voss John B. Starkweather Harold Rounds William McIntyre Paul E. Kallenbach Chreswell H. Potts George A. Peiffer John Blakeley G. L. Simpson Henry B. Bosworth J. Paul Wintrup Harold W. Lambert George H. Batterson F. J. Hall Buffalo, N. Y. Edwin Eller Buffalo, N. Y. Edward J. Thimme Paterson, N. J. H. Kenneth Weed Rochester, N. Y. Leonard Scharf Ozone Park, L. I. E. 0. Hathaway Richmond Hill, 1. I, Arthur Wahl Webster City, Iowa Elbert Wilson Cleveland, Ohio Condit Atkinson Highland Park, N. J. Racine, Wis. Boston, Mass. New London, Conn. Ashbourne, Pa. Ashbourne, Pa. Glenside, Pa, Glenside, Pa. Swissvale, Pa. Coraopolis, Pa. Buffalo, N. Y. Wilmington, Del. Wilmington, Del. Rochester, N. Y. Marshall Clausson Chicago, Ill LIFE SCOUT Alex W. Holcombe Cynwyd, Pa. Eugene Squingley Norfolk, Va, lady whom he was to take to a camp was stepping in. She stepped upon the wrong foot, it gave way, and she fell between the boat and the pier. Now Edson could swim a little under favorable circumstances, but just at this time his nether extremities were encased in rubber boots which acted like sinkers and he was further hampered by having a 110-Ib. lady in one hand and eight feet of water underneath. The rowboat sneaked away like a thief in the night. With rare good judgment, the scout decided that the proper thing to do with his free flipper was to acquire a strangle hold on that pier, the only thing in sight Y which seemed to stay put. This saved the neighbors the trouble of sending for grap- pling hooks. ACK of Kernan Dishaw’s father’s shop at Canton, N. Y., the water, swift and deep, runs down toward a dam, twelve feet high and built on solid rock. Kernan scented danger the moment he caught sight of two eight-year-old boys on the wall beside the stream. He shout- ed a word of caution and then walked on, but hearing a scream he guessed what had happened and ran back, throwing off his hat and coat as he went. The dam was so near and the boy who had fallen in was being carried toward it so swiftly that Kernan did not stop to remove his shoes. He called to a companion to help him, and jumped. It was hard to maneuver in the strong current, and the drowning boy got him by the arm in such a way that he could not swim. There was only one thing to do—not nice, but necessary. Dishaw dou- bled up his free fist and landed a knock- out blow. Fortunately the current veered toward the wall at that moment, and the rescuer was able to grasp some vines which clung to the stones. It was a well-managed affair, and the bronze honor medal was well deserved. T seemed hard-hearted to keep out of reach of a drowning boy and let him struggle alone, but Geor, . Sidebotham, Catonsville, Md., knew that he was play- ing a desperate game and he kept his nerve. One would-be rescuer had already been pulled under and another foozle . might mean a double tragedy. He swam along, watching, waiting, until the psychological moment came, and then shot in, got his hold and landed his man— unconscious but safe. We never saw George play baseball, but we don’t doubt that he gets four balls oftener than a strikeout. e don’t know whether he plays football or not, but if he does, we know that he keeps behind his interference until he is past secondary- defense. The rescue occurred in the Patapsco River on August 10th. A bronze medal has been awarded.

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In the Dictionary More to It Than You Think, as This Tells OST fellows are inclined to think that scouting in the dictionary is going to be dead easy, too easy. “Pshaw,” say some, “it isn’t like workin’ out a real trail through the woods. It isn’t half as hard as hare and hound or stalkin’ a deer. You don’t have to shinny up boul- ders or wiggle your way through a swamp filled with cat briars. It’s the easiest thing ever. Just get a pencil and paper and a dictionary, and a rainy afternoon, and there you are. The words just tumble over themselves tryin’ to get a place in your list.” But just the same scouting through the dictionary is a real job, notwithstanding. And it isn’t like swimming on dry land or ice skating in the library either, when a fellow gets really interested. There are boulders to shinny up and swamps to be traversed for the chap who is going to come out on top of the list in the $100.00 Prize Scouting Contest conducted by Boys’ Lire. Maybe the words will tumble all over themselves trying to find a place in your list, but then what does each of those words mean to you? What do you know about the word itself? Its history—ety- mology (as the history of words is called by the men who make the dictionary)? Oh, you'll find out how little you really do know about your own language, once you get started, scouts. There’s one right off—what does the word scout mean? What do you know about your own name? That’s it, turn the pages over to the S’s. Sure, the Standard Dictionary gives just the definition you had in mind. Maybe you couldn’t have put it in that same nice snappy way, but you knew all the while that a scout is “a person sent out to observe and get infor- mation, especially of the movements, posi- tion and strength of an enemy in war.” Of course you did, but if that’s all the word means to you—if that is all the definition conveys to your mind, why—why—well, you need to scout through the dictionary and scout hard. Dr. James C. Fernald has pointed out that although scout seems like a native English or Anglo-Saxon word, it is not really English, or Anglo-Saxon by birth. It’s a foreigner, an immigrant in the cos- mopolitan English dictionary. But it is years, yes, centuries ago, since it moved into the English language. It was there even before the days of Shakespeare and Milton. Indeed, it was being used by Brit- ishers away back in 1800, even though it was not a native British word. Here’s its history as Dr. Fernald traces it. Originally a word in the language of the Romans, it was spelled ausculto and meant listen. There was nothing warlike about it then. Years after the Romans had overrun Gaul, the same word, slightly changed in form, made its first appearance in Old The Game of Scouting French as escouter, and had the same meaning, to listen. into the language of the people of the British Isles, the stolid Englishmen soon set about remodeling the word. They chipped off the first e and whittled away at the final er until all that was left was the neat, crisp little word scout, which at first had various spellings: skowtz (1800), Our Great Word Contest Forty-four Prizes to be Awarded Total Value $100 READERS of Boys’ Lire have until February 15 to send in the lists of words which they make from the letters in the four words, Boy Scouts OF AMERICA, The rules governing this contest were published in detail in the December Boys’ Lirs, and will be reprinted in the February number. The boy who sends in the largest num- ber of words in accordance with these rules, will receive the first prize. Sec- ond prize will be awarded to the boy who sends in the second largest list, the third prize to the third largest list, and so on. In case of a tie for any of the prizes, the prize will be sent to each con- testant so tied. THESE ARE THE PRIZES First—The $30.00 edition of Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary. Second—The $27.00 edition of the same. Third—The $12.00 edition of the same. Fourth—The Desk Standard Dictionary, value, $2.25. Fifth—The Comprehensive Dictionary, value, $1.25. Sixth—The Concise Standard Dictionary, value, 85 cents. Seventh to Twenty-fourth, Inc.—Each one year’s subscription to Boys’ LiFe, value, $1.00 each. Twenty-fifth to Forty-fourth, Inc.—Each a book from Every Boys’ Library, value, 50 cents each. Begin the preparation of your list of words today. When you have made it as complete as possible, and are sure you have not violated any of the rules, you may send your list by first-class mail only to “Word Contest Editor,” Boys’ Lirs, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City. scowte (1486), skowte (1575), skoute (1590), skowt (1618), scowt (1618) and scout (1688 and ever since). And there you are. After all, it did not take much to make the word scout out of the Old French escouter. It does not require much imagination to understand how scout came to be a war word. Wars were common in those days (yes, even more common than they are today, if that can possibly be) and, of course, each army, in order to find out as much as it could about the movements, armament; strength, etc., of its enemy sent out men to observe and listen. But a man can not always see without being seen himself. He 12 can, however, if he has good ears, listen When it moved over to a great deal and understand from the sound just what men are doing, how many there are in the group in question, ete. That is why men were sent out who were good listeners. And of course if they were good listeners they were “scouts,” so there you are. That’s how scout became a war word. As to the word listen, that can mean a lot to a scout who is scouting through the pages of a Standard Dictionary. Dr. Fer- nald tells us that the word listen does not necessarily mean to hear. One can listen without hearing. And, indeed, one can hear without listening, also. Stop to think about that, scouts, and see if it isn’t so. But one frequently has to listen in order to hear what he wants to hear. You know that, too, don’t you, scouts? You know that if a boy wants to hear the soft song of a wood thrush he has to hide himself away in the alders and keep as quiet as an Indian with every nerve on edge to hear the silvery warble of that shy brown bird. He has to have his ears cocked as sharp as a fox’s, figuratively speaking. He has to be on his toes, alert, prepared—what do you think of that?—he has to be prepared. Why, that’s the first law of scouting—to be prepared. That’s mighty strange, isn’t it? A scout is a careful listener; a care- ful listener must be alert, to be alert one is prepared, and to be prepared is to be a scout. And then there are other uses for the word scout, too, besides that of being a listener. For instance, we are told that a hive of bees sends out scout bees just be- fore swarming time. These scouts are sent out to locate a new home for the workers gathered about a new queen bee who is contemplating the establishment of a new bee empire. The scouts fly around until they find a good hollow tree or fence rail, or an unoccupied hive that looks comfort- able enough to house the new queen and her hundreds of workers. They come back and report and a few minutes later they start out again, followed by the entire swarm. The scouts lead the swarm direct to the new abode and in a jiffy a new bee kingdom is established. The queen is, fig- uratively, on her throne and her people are busy working for her. Why a fellow could keep it up all day, and learn something new with every thought. Just look how much that one single little word can mean. And then stop to think that there are more than 400,000 words in the new Standard Dic- tionary and every one of them with a story behind it just as interesting as the story behind the word that the old Romans coined and which later immigrated into the English language, bag and baggage, and became the short, crisp, snappy little word SCOUT.

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January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine 13

In the Scout Cave By THE CAVE SCOUT FP. Jl. P. Hello there, January! You rough old duffer, youl You tough old January! A man’s—— 66 AY, Mr. Cave Scout, I’ve got a picture on the title page that just fits your poem. Let me put them together, will you?” ; All right, Mr. Editor, anything to please you. Take the blooming old poem and do anything you like with it! If any of a J rs - you fellows want to read this poem, you'll have to look for it on Page 1. : Now then, let’s get down to business. First we'll take a grab in the question hole and ‘see what we get. Here’s a letter from a scout in New Jersey. Let’s see what he has to say: Dear Cave Scout: f I am going to ask you to give me some “dope” on this problem. Our troop has been organized about two years, and has thirty-two members. The average attendance at the weekly meetings is from 21 to 23. (1) Somtimes we plan hikes and when the day for the hike comes, about half of those who said they would be able to go, show up. (2) At our meetings we make rules but these are soon forgotten or disregarded. Re (3) We appoint committees but these fail in their purpose. (4) The boys don’t obey the patrol leaders so that it is hard to secure order. (5) Although we hold nearly one hundred merit badges it seems impossible to get the boys to do scout work as a troop. - Any suggestions, remedies or anything that will help the troop in any way will be appre ciated. I am enclosing stamped envelope for your reply. Thanking you very much for your trouble, I am, Yours faithfully, Scout ArTHUR L. GOWEN. ELL, that isn’t such an awful situ- ation, after all. A troop of thirty- two members with an average attendance of more than twenty isn’t half bad. And listen, Scout Gowen, I’m going to tell you a secret; there are hundreds of troops bucking up against the same problems of lack of discipline and lack of team work that are bothering you. On your honor now, scouts, how many of you are having these same troubles? Gee, I guess nearly every scout in the cave has his hand up. So you see, Gowen, you have struck some- thing fundamental. That’s just the kind of problem we like to tackle here, isn’t it? Something that every one of us can get some help from. Now, I’m going to ask you fellows what you think is the reason for such a con- dition as that existing in Scout Gowen’s troop. “They’re losing their pep!” “They’re forgetting the Scout Law!” “They’re going to seed!” Yes, there is something in all of these charges. But I think I can tell you some- thing that will not only explain their pres- ent condition but suggest a way out of the difficulty. . OU know how it is with dozens of troops. The members go to meetings regularly, practice first aid and signalling faithfully, go on hikes occasionally and spend a few days in camp in the summer. They go through their scout work in a rou- tine sort of way and one scout meeting soon gets to be like every other scout meet- ing and one hike like every other hike. The same old stunts are done over and over, and the money runs low in the treasury, and nobody keeps the records, and the fellows begin to skip meetings, and gradually they lose interest and drop out, and the scoutmaster gets discouraged and—— Wake up scouts! We're all getting sleepy just talking about it! Well, what’s the answer? Here it is! Come on scouts, let’s jump the track and do something BIG! I Goo you fellows are ambitious and game as roosters! You are not afraid of big jobs! Let’s tackle something so big it will make us grunt and sweat! Something so big that it can’t be done unless every fellow in the troop peels off his coat, rolls up his sleeves, spits on his hands and goes to it! Now then, I’m willing to bet my new hockey skates against a peanut that there isn’t a troop in the country that wouldn’t rise to such a challenge with a yell and get to work with a snap that would make things hum! Scouts are not a bunch of kids who want to spend all their time playing games! They want to make things go! Give them a chance and they’ll do it! == a little story that proves it. Troop 24 of Philadelphia was or- ganized with a membership of 100. This gradually dwindled to 80, then to 60, then to 40 and and finally slid to 15. After a feeble struggle of several months, during which three different scoutmasters were tried, the troop finally disbanded. In the spring of 1918 the troop reorgan- ized with a membership of only four. New members were added from time to time until twenty names were on the roll. But it was not until the fall of that same year that the troop really got started. And the thing that started them was a Big Job! The boys decided that they wanted a bang-up headquarters, all their own, and they started out to get it. They had no money in the treasury, and nothing to build a house with. But they had their hearts and their heads set on that club- house and nothing could stop them. Their energy attracted the attention cf a gen- erous man in their neighborhood and he gave them a lot of old sheet metal. Lum-

The Scouts of Troop 24, Philadelphia, building their fine cabin.

ber’ was obtained from old fences that were being destroyed to make room for a new street. A hardware company gave the boys tools to work with and took pic- tures of the scouts at work to use in ad- vertisements of their products. People began to realize that these scouts meant business and carpenters, bricklay- ers and architects came out to their club- house and offered suggestions. When the boys started they expected to have the house completed in a few months but it was a bigger job than they had thought. One whole year went by and the clubhouse was still unfinished. But the scouts were still on the job more eager and determined than ever. It was another whole year before the cabin was finished. But when it was done, it sure was a Rippin! The boys’ plucky fight for a clubhouse attracted the attention of the whole city and when it was dedicated on November 20, prominent city and scout officials and 1,500 Philadelphia scouts attended the celebration ! The best part of the story is the fact that these workers of Troop 24 have not devoted all their energy to building their headquarters. They have made rapid progress in all branches of Scouting and Troop 24 has the reputation of being a crack troop in Philadelphia. They can hold up their end in any sort of a com- petition. S These fellows know how to “do scout work as a troop”—to quote from Scout Gowen’s letter—because they had a job big enough to challenge the enthusiasm and demand the energy of every member. This doesn’t mean that every troop should get to work at once and build a (Concluded on page 28)

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The Mascot of Troop 16 By FRANK ROY LOOPE Illustrated by Norman P. ROCKWELL “This is an actual experience of several of my friends and myself.’"—The Author. form of scouts, stepped off the rail- way grade and threw themselves on the ground under a huge ‘fir tree, where they stretched out on their backs and wiped their foreheads with their big ban- danna handkerchiefs. “This must be the place, Frank,” said one of them. “Yes, it’s the first sharp turn in the track we’ve come to,” answered his com- panion. “The fellows said it was only two miles, but it seems to me more like ten. I’m sweating like a pig already, and the hard part of the trip hasn’t started yet. Think we can find the way, Al?” “Of course we can! Dad told me how to use this compass and gave me some tips on the lay of the land, so it’ll be easy.” The two lads, Albert Bosworth and Frank Steele, had been sent ahead by the “Bear” of Troop 16 to blaze a trail through the dense woods of the Pacific slope from the railway to Black River Falls, about four miles back from the track. They had started soon after daybreak so as to keep well in advance of the others. It was their duty to find the falls and select a camp site before the other members of the troop arrived. “Now,” said Albert, “I'll explain for you. You see, at this point the track runs east and west. We must go due north until we come to the ridge and then keep just above the low land. That will take us in a pretty zigzag route, but we'll have good footing and only about a yey of a mile of swamp to go through and two small streams to cross, instead of swamp the whole way, as it is on the other trail.” “All right,” replied Frank eagerly. “I feel rested now, so let’s get going, we've no time to lose.” The boys then arranged a scout sign at the place they had left the railroad and removing from its holster their little woodsman’s axe they climbed the wire fence and selected a tree from which to take their start. This accomplished, a small portion of the bark was chipped off so their comrades could tell where to fol- low them. Cutting away the brush and limbs that might impede free action, they started as near due north as possible, choosing the best footing and passing around fallen logs too high to climb over comfortably. Every little way, and within sight of the last tree marked by removing a bit of the bark, another one was treated in like man- ner. It was ten o’clock when the boys reached Black River, tired and ravenously hungry, but jubilant, for luckily they had struck the stream at a point where a clean spring bubbled out of the ground and where a high, sheltered bench of land af- forded a splendid camping site. Producing their haversack, they s°on prepared a light "Ttocs boys, dressed in the khaki uni- meal and satisfied their hunger, while the cool spring quenched their thirst. “Let’s do a little exploring!” said Al- hard to see. bert as the last strip of toasted bacon canyon and find out. “I’m crazy to see those —“ that would hurt us.” e disappeared. falls.” Frank slowly approached the deer “So am I,” exclaimed Frank. “And be- lieve me, they must be some falls, by the way they roar!” few minutes’ walk down stream brought them to the edge of the sheer ledge of rock over which the water poured. They discovered that Black River Falls were about fifty feet wide at the top in high water, but it was now August and the water was very low. The water fell in a straight drop of forty feet, dashing against the rocks. below, and causing a spray which, in the brilliant morning sun- light, formed a rainbow gorgeous to be- hold. The stream at the bottom turned at right angles and then again fell about twenty feet. “Say!” cried Albert excitedly, gazing down through the spray, “what do you reckon that thing is down there moving about?” 14 “I thought I saw something, too, but the spray and floodwood are so dense it’s Let’s down into the I don’t think it’s By the aid of old trees and timbers which had been carried over the falls in high water and left leaning against the perpendicular wall forming the~ basin, the lads made a slow descent. When the two scouts reached the bot- tom they cautiously made their way through the tangle of logs and bould- ers. Frank was in the lead when sud- denly he stopped, for not more than six feet away, and looking straight at him, was a fine big deer! Al was quickly at his side. The deer made no effort to run, but stood trembling and watching them with his big, pleading brown eyes. “The poor chap seems to be all right, but awfully weak,” whispered Al. “If he wasn’t so scrawny, he’d be a beauty, wouldn’t he? He must have tumbled into this hole and couldn’t get out again. There isn’t much here for a deer to eat, and I guess he must be nearly starved to death. Wonder how long he’s been in this natural trap.” “Search me!” answered Frank. “Let’s see if he’s bruised up any.” Quietly motioning for Albert to fol- low him, Frank slowly approached the deer. The animal, staggering about, tried to dodge his approach. As the boys advanced the deer retreated until at last it reached the sheer rock wall, where it evidently gave up all hope of escape and lay ) exhausted, Upon closer inspection the scouts found that the deer was sound in limb, so they immediately began planning a way out, There was but one feasible ascent, and that was straight up, as the second fall of the stream was the only other way and they knew the deer could never make that, even if the floodwood was removed. Frank patted the frightened animal affectionately. “Never mind, old fellow!” he said. “We're going to do our level best to get you out of here—and we'll do it, too. “You bet we will!” heartily seconded his chum. “We'll climb out of this old hole and bring you some help.” The ascent was a much more difficult feat than going down, for the wet timbers were very slippery, but here their scout axes came in handy and by notching foot- holds in the logs and cutting off limbs that were im the way the boys finally reached the top of the falls. Just as they finally landed upon the firm ground above, they heard a great shout, and the eighteen members of Troop ed — whooping over to the edge of the alls. When the scouts were told of the trapped deer at the bottom they were a yw

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wwe January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine 15 much excited. “Rescue! Rescue!” they shouted. But when their Scoutmaster, Mr. Howe, was informed of the animal’s predicament he said gravely: “I don’t believe it can be done. I think I had better send a ‘detail to Mr. Rowett, the game warden, and ask him to come im- mediately with his gun!” “But, sir!” pleaded Frank anxiously, “do please let us have a try at it! I feel sure Mr. Rowett will approve of my plan. That deer’s had enough hard luck with- out getting shot, and we’ve just got to rescue him!” The scoutmaster smiled his approval of the lad’s desire to be of service to the helpless animal. “All right,” he agreed, “you can try it, if you can suggest any plausible scheme. What do you propose to do?” he inquired. Frank led the older man away from the edge of the falls, and where they could talk more freely. After listening intently to what Frank had to say, Mr. Howe exclaimed: “By George! It ought to work! You have a great head-on your shoulders! I'll send at once to Mr. Rowett, explaining the case and inviting him to spend the night here with us, if he thinks it advisable to come !” “Thank you, sir,” was the only reply Frank made, but his eyes shone and his heart beat wildly with expectation. Two hours later, when Mr. Rowett and the two scouts who had been sent for him arrived with their pack sacks stuffed with ropes and tackle, all was in readiness. Frank and Albert had found an old fallen cedar tree and had put the whole troop to work. Some made shakes, or hewed boards, the proper length, and these were wrapped with the canvas pack cloths, Others found and prepared long poles that could be used to project out over the side of the canyon in such a way that they could be swung around. The shakes were lowered, and then came the fun of strapping them to the deer to form a splint. ‘This the boys accomplished after some little struggle, and though they were bleeding and bruised—for Mr. Deer didn’t understand and still had some real fight left in him—they were overjoyed when they finally had him _ properly “bandaged.” After a very careful inspection of the knots, to make sure there would be no hitch, Frank shouted at the top of his voice: “All ready! Hoist away there, you fel- lows !” Slowly the deer was raised in the air with not even a kick of protest, for it would have been wate for him to move himself had he been so inclined. When the animal reached the top of the falls, and the pole swung around so he could be lowered to the ground, his wild, bulging mma or in every direction, and he quivered with fear when the entire troop joined in a great shout of triumph which could be plainly heard above the roaring of the falls. But when the animal was released and realized that he was once more free, his fear subsided instantly. Instead of dart-|* ing off to some of his old haunts, as thie scouts expected him to do, he su them immensely by beginning léisurély to feed on the moss and grasses at the foot of the trees. Mr. Howe ordered the troop to take the pack straps and tackle and return to (Concluded on page 27) When a new subscriber is handed his telephone, there is given over to his use a share in the pole lines, underground conduits and cables, switchboards, exchange buildings, and in every other part of the complex mechanism of the telephone plant. could not be installed for each new connection. It would mean con- stantly rebuilding the plant, with enormous expense and delay. Therefore, practically everything but the telephone instrument must be in place at the time service is demanded. Consider what this involves. The telephone company must forecast the needs of the public. It must calculate increases in‘ population in city and country. It must figure It is obvious that this equipment | Anticipating Telephone Needs the growth of business districts. It must estimate the number of possible telephone users and their approximate location everywhere. The plant must be so designed that it may be added to in order to meet the estimated requirements of five, ten and even twenty years. And these additions must be ready in advance of the demand for them—as far in advance as it is economical to make them. Thus, by constantly planning for the future and making expenditures for far-ahead requirements when they can be most advantageously made, the Bell System conserves the economic interest of the whole country while furnishing a tele- phone service which in its per- fection is the model for all the world. ‘AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY % AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES JUST OUT--1916 cat. of Model Aeroplanes IDEAL AEROPLANE & SUPPLY CO., Warren St. & West Mention Boys’ Lire in answering advertisements

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i 16 BOYS’ LIFE—Thes _——SS eee 4 Troop and 13 1. The scouts of Chattanooga, Tenn., believe in practical mascots. The .2._We don’t know this feller’s name. Scout Braun Whatley, Kime & 1, . We ae t one in the picture contributed tc the milk supply at their camp last Lineville, Ala., who sent us the picture said ‘‘Just call him ‘M at summer. be a babit 5. Patrol Leador Leavitt. of Camden, Maine, 6. Seoutmnestes Henry E. Batcheller, of Sedalia. 7. Scout Joossh Aiken, Benton, IIL, 8. Favorites at) i -. wi Guess wha' th his tame crow on the summit of Mt. with Romeo and Juliet, the coon mascots and his Troop mascot. Battle. + his posany 12. an combined mascot and ‘‘vic- 13. No rowdies get “fresh” with the members of Troo: 14. “‘Scout,”” the Maseet of Eagle 182“A —— Pp * of Troop 70, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1, Astoria, Lt L.. when ‘“Reddie”’ is along. She belongs Patrol, Troop 1, E. Moline, IL, to Scoutmaster Joseph Lynn. is a real patriot! ae

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Scouts’ Magazine 17 I HAs d Btrol Mascots I6 2 Gt know the name of this one. either, but he was a ~~ 4. The boy scouts of Napanoch, N. Y.. swear by their mascot “Charlie.” He is om, friendly, ee at the Chicago camp last summer. Getting bandaged got obedient, brave, reverent, and an all-around good scout. The picture was sent to Boys’ Life be a babdit with him by Scoutmaster Robert E. Gardiner. tes at) thi phicago Camp. 9. Two pals at the Chicago camp. Note the 10. Ps leader of the Donker Patrol, 11. A worthy member of by 1, Inglewood, juess what fey a one with the long ears is the mascot. , Col. From Scout G. M. Rye. Cal. From Scout Clarence an Winkle, 4 Rar re a EE See oa 162"A Beout is Friendly.” From 16. Patrol Leader John T. Orr, of the Crow Patrol, Troop 2. 17. “Driver."’ mascot of Troop 12, > Va. His spe- Henry & Kruse, Brooklyn, N. Y. Greefiville, Pa., ‘starting on an overnight hike with the cialty is preventing thefts wagons. From patrol mascot. Scoutmaster Ashby B. Pye a CO eer, NM

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“Oh-h-h! it’s BEECH-NUT GRAPE JELLY” END 10c in stamps for newest, most fascina- ~ ting game, “Going to Market.” Amusing, instructive. Will interest the whole family. BEECH-NUT PACKING CO. Canajoharie, New York 7,000 girls earn Camp Fire dues by selling our “Camp Fire Cocoa” 7,000 boys should do the same- Drop us a post card for circu- lars and copies of letters. “Best cocoa put up in America.” $7.00 profit on a case. 60 days for payment. LOTOS TEA CONCERN, Inc. 87th St. and Lexington Avenue *phone Plaza 7454 New York City, N. ¥. BOXING GLOVES $385 Can You Box? Every red-blooded young man or boy should prac- Per Set of Four a2 o,De7 should prec: Take Advantage of Our Special Offer for January No. 06—Finest Brown Kid, Corbett Style, Boxing Glove; laced wrist, special safety grip, patent sani- filled with finest quality leading boxers in this country. Send remittance by P. O. order or express order. We pay all shipping charges. National Athletic Supply Co. 2414 Washington St. Boston Mass. Week send pecs card, Doit NOW. =“Army Shelter Tent is zetive service , Same tents that are Eat Wheatena Mention Boys’ Lirz in answering advertisements | BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine January, 1916 Boys are urged to send in With the Scouts Afield reports of their interesting doings Deer River, Conn.—Basketry is a_fea- ture of the work of the scouts of this city. Their work is done under the direction of Scoutmaster Frank A. Norton. Last year a course of in- struction. lasting twenty weeks was given to the boys and the products of their work were shown at a public exhibit of scout handicraft. The accompanying picture shows the baskets which ‘were exhibited on this occasion. WILMINGTON, Dru.—On Saturday, Novem- ber 27, one hundred and twenty-eight merit badges were awarded to boy scouts of this city. Harold Lambert and Paul Winthrup, both of Troop 9, were made life and star scouts. The ceremony was held on the Courthouse lawn in the center of the city before a large crowd, permission having been given by the Court Com- missioners. The badges were presented by the Hongrable Charles M. Curtis, Chancellor of Delaware, who commended the boys for their interest* and hard work and spoke of the im- portance of Scouting ‘in developing character and fitting boys to take the leadership in mat- ters of importance in later life. Following the presentation ceremony, ill troops united in a hike to Oarrcroft, Del., where the scouts cooked supper in the woods and returned home by starlight. Houston, Tex.—Scout Dorris D. Giles has been awarded a medal for life saving by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. This is a further recognition of Scout Gile’s exploit for which he received an Honor Medal from the Boy Scouts of America in 1913. The rescue was effected on July 1, 1913, when Giles saved J. Ralph Landgrebe from death by an electric shock. Landgrebe had grasped a live trolley wire and was unable to release his hold, when Giles saw his predicament. With rare presence of mind, Scout Giles —— the legs of the victim with newspaper to form an insulator from the current and then dragged the boy from the wire. . Wuits SuupHur Sprinas, W. Va.—Taking advantage of a special rairload rate offered, Troop 1 with some of their friends made a trip to Washington, D. ., Where they were re- ceived by President Wilson. Many of the in- teresting places with which the city abounds were visited. Scoutmaster Mechem with several of the boys called on Colin H. Livingston, Pres- ident of the National Council. : Cotumsr1a, 8S. O.—During the Harvest Junbi- lee week celebration in which the scouts “took an active part, an incident occurred which shows plainly that people are coming to know that a seout’s hénor is not to be treated lightly. Re turning from the fair grounds one evening, one of the members of Troop 5 was taken from a trolley car and detained, being accused of not paying his fare. It was later proved that he was not guilty and a public announcement to this effect was printed in the local.papers. In part, this announcement read: -“As.this scout was in full uniform and was publicly accused in this manner, we wish to make this. statement and hereby apologize to him personally and to the well-known organization he represents.” BRANFORD, ConNnN.—Troop 1 recently spent a Saturday afternoon helping in the work of filling in the meadow which the town is plan- ning to use for a baseball field and playground. During a hare and hound chase, the Scoutmas- ter suggested a “leaf contest.” The Owl Patrol won, with thirty-three varieties identified, while those of the Wolf patrol were a close second with thirty. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y.—At_a recent meeting of the scouts of Sarnac Lake, the following “good turns” were reported to Scoutmaster Nash—the scouts received a hint that a certain family in town were in great need, and a party of six scouts borrowed baskets, collected food and delivered the welcome gift to the needy family. Report was made of having as- sisted at the Stevenson Memorial unveiling and washing dishes for the ladies of the Reviewers’ Club who served tea on that aecasion. LOUISVILLE, Ky.—A Hallowe'en party was given by the Blind Scouts at fhe Institution for Education to ae gk of the Wesley and Neighborhood houses of Louisville. The blind scouts were divided into several patrols, each of which had charge of some particular feature of the entertainment. The ‘“Bulldogs’’ served hot cakes, the “Owls’’ told fortunes, and others gave ghost dances. A pie-eating contest, potato roast, bobbing for apples and ghost stories were other features. LEAVENWORTH, Kas.—A patrol efficiency con- test lasting four months is being held by Troop 1 of Leavenworth. At the end of this time a trophy will be presented to the patrol which has shown the highest record of efficiency by points given for patrol attendance at meetings and hikes, gaining new members, largest patrol bank account, attendance at Sunday school, etc. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—$25.00 was earned by Troop 35 at a picnic and field day. This troop, which in six months has grown from ten to thirty-five members, has an interesting merit system. For good “stunts” a scout received merits, but if he breaks a law he gets a de- merit. A scout with 100 demerits is dismissed from the troop. MIAMI, FLA.—Progress and growth of Scout- ing is indicated by the recent dedication of a permanent home for the scouts, at Arch Oreek. Ever since the time, several months ago, when Mr. R. E. McDonald, a friend of the Movement in Miami, donated eleven acres of ground for this purpose, the scouts have been persistent in their efforts to secure the necessary funds and complete the building. They are rejoicing in having everything completed even to the laying out of the grounds in an attractive manner. PITTSBURGH, Pa.—As guests of the Pitts- burgh management more than 1,000 scouts at- tended the Pitt-Tech football game at Forbes field. A special section of the grandstand was given over to the scouts and their attendance added still further interest to one of the biggest football matches of the year in Pittsburgh. LEXINGTON, Miss.—Troop 1 reports a suc- cessful entertainment when “A Strenuous Aft- ernoon”’ was enacted. Demonstrations in ar- tificial respiration, bandaging, knot tying, etc., were also given. Scout Scribe Stigler suggests this as an easy way to acquaint people with scout activities and at the same time to provide money for needed equipment. BRIDGEPORT, CONN.—With a stage wilt b two of the patrols, scenery of large trees an bushes so arranged as to look as much like a real camp as possible, with a “campfire’’ burn- ing cheerfully, “A Strenuous Afternoon”’ successfully produced by Troop 19. A five- piece orchestra furnished music and the en- tertainment closed with a scout “yell” and the singing of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” De Kaus, Iti.—This is an interesting look- ing tree, isn’t it? It has an interesting history, too. Years ago an old. Indian trail led 4 this tree which stands near De Kalb, Ill. e Indians who laid out the trail bent a sapling as a blaze and that sapling is the peculiar shaped tree shown in the picture. The is in the picture are members of Troop 2 of De Kalb. The picture was sent to Boys’ Lire by Scout S. Browman.

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ll et teal Te v =F eae 8M OOS ew ewe °” owe SN i ee January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine 19 A Scout iS Helpful Patcnocug, N. Y.—Members of Troop 3, returning from a hike, noticed flames and smoke in the woods about Canan Lake. Making their way through underbrush, marshes and dense scrub oak, they reached a spot where an up- rooted tree and the surrounding foliage were ablaze, fanned by a strong northwest wind. Di- rected by the patrol leader, the scouts formed a brigade, using their hats as water buckets, filling them at a nearby stream. After an hour's persistent work the blaze was finally extinguished and a very serious forest fire averted. Lynn, Mass.—Scoutmaster G. Ernest Magee is justly proud of the way the scouts con- ducted themselves during the recent search for a young lady who disappeared after leaving home to visit friends in Swampscott. During the whole week which passed before her body was found these scouts were tireless in their search of the Lynn woods, the ponds and surrounding country. Part of the search was carried on during a severe rainstorm, but the scouts put in hard work in spite of the disagreeable weather, INDIAN LAKE, N. Y.— Reforestation work has recently been completed by the scouts of the Rome State Custodial asylum. During the month the scouts were employed, some 150,000 trees were planted, covering 150 acres. This work represents a saving of $1,000 to the State. Worcgster, Mass.—Following their custom for the past two years the scouts of Worcester are caring for the birds during the present win- ter.” In previous efforts, more than 12,000 pounds of grain have been distributed, and the scouts are now centering their efforts on the collecting and storing of grain and other ma- terial needed for this year. Stale bread and crackers are also collected from the restaurants. Worcester scouts have received many letters of commendation for their kindness to their feath- ered friends, from the various humane societies all over the country. FRANKLIN, LA.—Through the efforts of Troop 1 and Scoutmaster R. E. Brumby, arrange- ments were made with authorities in charge whereby a stop of the Liberty Bell was made in Franklin on its return trip to Philadelphia. Practically all of the people of Franklin and neighboring towns turned out to view this famous bell. Many are the expressions of appreciation for the scouts in their successful endeavor. Harrison, ArK.—Dick Baumgardner, aged 15, a member of the troop of Harrison scouts, recently saved a five-year-old boy from drown- ing. Playing near the creek, the little fellow fell into the water, and Scout Baumgardner, who was in a boat some distance away, heard cries of alarm. When he reached the scene the boy in the water was sinking, but Scout Baum- gardner soon dragged him ashore. De Kats, Inu.—A group of the De Kalb troop of scouts did a splendid good turn re- cently when they went to the home of an aged couple and banked up their house in prep- aration for the winter. “The work was done thoroughly,” says the De Kalb Chronicle, ‘“‘and while the boys don’t do these things for praise they are surely entitled to it, and any en- couragement the people can give.them.” MERIDEN, Conn.—When a forest fire burn- ing over a belt of land some fifteen to twenty acres in extent was discovered, Scout Commis- sioner Woodstock, of Meriden, was notified, as well as the fire warden. Mr. Woodstock im- mediately collected a group of fifteen scouts, and with their zealous assistance the blaze was finally placed under control. ESCANABA, MicH.—The_ scouts have pre- sented 100 small maple trees to the city schools, which have set them out in the school grounds. The trees are silverleafed maples and were se- cured through the state forestry department. 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Delicious with canned fruits or alone with milk or Include it in your hiking outfit—it is an important Made only by The Shredded Wheat Company, Niagara Falls, New York suoonsensnnevnanuungasucessednsanancccensenccessanscusnensconsegSggunsenncnusnannanannneantni \ aa SUMUsO.OUUOEOCUOUEEGOUEOERUUCAGEGUUSOEENEUAEEGUOOAEGEELOOEGGEOAOEGOUUAEEGLUAOEELOOEUGLOTLEARLOES WHITE FOOT OIL POISON IVY REMEDY Relieves all itching. Cures Poison Ivy Poisoning, B Chafing, Frost Bites, Itching Piles, Old Sores, etc. No smarting or ap- plied. A can any Druggists WHITE FOOT REMEDY CO., Centreville, Md. = $4}OO 2nd You Cet This ‘288 Su ‘Free tal balore instrument making 250-page fet S Band ‘atalog! eeere a uae ssten tion, the scouts of Old Orchard visited the poorer homes in town and volunteered their services to saw or split wood and clean up sheds and back yards. One particular case where an old lady had wood and coal stored & shed where she could reach it only with the greatest difficulty was quickly remedied. FURS Higher. Ship Coon, Fox, Mink, Skunk, Opos- sum and other Furs. We sell your SKINS to the highest bidder for 5¢ C i Guar- antee our prices over official Fu ; tions, Son ine See Eviese furnished weekly free. FR Isco COMM. Co. B-B'W. IN ST. LOUIS, M ao AY & WASHINGTON 8TS., Leather, Given to any BOYS’ LIFE sending us two yearly (at $1 each) for BOYS’ LIFE. How to Get a Fine Football ¥°....5, 4, Bese (value $1.25), made of fine Brown Pebble . Canvas__ lined. reader y rain of Mention Boys’ Lirz in answering advertisements

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While they have been detached from the original cover, there is no doubt as ps their being genuine, they were accompanied by evidence. The New York Postmasters’ stamp, while it is not initialed as called for in the catalogue, still must have been in service if the document to which it was attached is au- thentic. This is a most attractive stamp, quite valuable in any form, and finely en- graved. It was issued in 1845 by the New York Postmaster, Robert H. Morris, and was supposed to be initialed. before prom sold, either by him or a clerk who signed, A. C. M. The ——- were, of course, signed by the clerk ancy most of us would be willing to accept such a specimen even in poorer condition. The Wells-Fargo stamps seem to have been cancelled in the middle fifties, prob- ably °56-57, and were originally attached to a very dirty scrap of cover. These were issued by the Wells, Fargo & Co. express company for mail carried across the plains by their pony express or mounted messen- ger service. The charge was very high and while some of the stamps bear a rate of 10 cents a half ounce, the higher values were also to cover insurance and carriage. There has been a very complete history written of these stamps, but we have no room for it here. How tue Scout Founp THem. Of course, you will have to have the story of the find. Spurred, as the scout writes, by the Boys’ Lire stories of “finds” in strange places, this one secured permis- sion to go over all the old books and papers in a private library. In an old wooden portable writing desk, enclosed in an old-fashionel leather wallet, he found some dozen specimens, of which these were the interesting ones. Unfortunately, the document (for it was folded to make its own envelope) could not be given him, but he got the stamp. The other stamps were early S., which we cannot il- lustrate, but which were all available in the scout’s collection. So here is another scout who has earned his own funds for the improvement of his collection. Unstampep Covers. So many scouts have written about “un- stamped” covers that I must give them a little notice. In the first place, before 1847, even while the Postmasters’ stamps were being used, and for some time after the first issue of U. S. stamps, small offices were accustomed to receive the pay for ° postage in currency, and in place of a stamp the clerk wrote or stamped on the letter ——— to indicate that the post- age was prepaid. (Por other Stamp 1ainbedans see page 21) Mention Bors’ Lirz in answering advertisements ese cancellations or notations consist Pony Express A New “Find” by a Scout—Other Stamp Helps By FRANK L. COES COCA BS ng A “Postmaster’s stamp,” and two “Pony Express” specimens found by a scout. of figures, words, sometimes both, and often the postoffice stamp. Words like steamboat, express, boat, etc., are indica- tions probably of routes that were either to give, quicker service or preferred by the sender on account of delivery. Figures indicate rates, either paid or to be col- lected. Most often the postoffice stamp indicated mailing point, but sometimes there was one used at the receiving office, and sometimes the le*ter got marked at transfer points between. You must remember that envelopes were not used in 1847 or before, and the sheet of the letter was folded to make its own envelope. Learn to do it yourself, and it will be — interesting. Now there were a few offices, like An- napolis and Baltimore, that issued a few letter sheets with a printed stamp on them, and a few that used a stamp in such a way that it could be considered as a “provisional postage stamp,” and such ones are not only really rare, but very valu- able, and this fact makes hunters think that some other covers may possibly be | amassed and consequently very valu- able The papers have given great prominence to the sale of an Annapolis cover for $8,000 or more and it thus becomes doubly hard to disappoint the inquiring scout by telling BGI coe SET

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January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine him his cover is worth at the most a half dollar, or, if exceptionally interesting, a whole dollar. The one we show is one of these mis- leading ones. If it did not have that “Charge Box 47, S. & I.” down in the left hand lower corner, it might be a real, bona fide “provisional” or local stamp. In this case, however, the postmaster carefully put on a stamp to show that he had been paid for the postage, as he was directed to charge the 10 cents to the “S. & I.” After he had done his bookkeeping he doubtless added the “PAID” to check his work, and assure that no claim would be made at the other end for postage. I think likely this cover might be worth a half dollar, but it has been worth a deal more as a good example of stampless cover. It would be very interesting if we could know the course these old letters took from sender to delivery point. . Just think of the mounted messengers, the old stage coaches, perhaps a chaise or two, with two wheels and leather “springs,” or hanging straps to the body. Then we can count river boats, coastwise vessels, and all the hand to hand transfers. along the mail routes. If you can find a copy, read “The Old Boston Post Road,” or let your city libra- rian give you something along the same line. A Worn to Parents Asovt Srartrne. A last paragraph to parents, of whom there seem to be many interested. There are two ways to acquire an initial start for the collection. One way is to buy a packet of as large size as is possible, and of the highest grade possible. The other is to amass a few stamps by one means or another, and then make out a want list to fill the blank spaces, or fill them from “approvals.” If the packet is chosen, perhaps the best _way for those*who can afford it is to select a series of non-duplicating packets, which supplement each other. iP money is a serious consideration, buy of’ a reliable packet compiler, as large a packet as is pessible, and let the boy do the rest. I have told several parents that the stamps their children t themselves, the ones they turn up in the garret, in dad’s waste basket, in the junkman’s scrap pa- per, anywhere, in fact, will be much more valuable to the beginner than any others, but as we are confronted by the question, I think this is the best answer. I will be pleased to recommend such a’ dealer, or to help in any way I can, but cannot give firm names in the column. Cups of Confidence —three sturdy rows of them, rapid riding on treach- erous and non-skid — built making Wx sure (exes on xen pavements tough 15% oz. special punc- ture-proof fabric— VACUUM CUP™ © Red BICYCLE nto your dealer’s and ask him to show you the *THREE x 5 STAR * BICYCLE TIRES At your own price-limit you get a tire of proved quality and tread design un- paralleled for the money. Tread ES The highest grade, classiest bicycle tires ever made. Guaranteed for a full season of ser- vice or replaced or repaired without Constructed throughout like an automobile casing— VACUUM CUP MOTORCYCLE TIRES Skid-safe, long wearing. Give an average mileage the Sturoy Stuo —the master of the trio. Full of goodness, neatness and value. ; service double distance guaranteed—5,000 Miles. Second in quality only to Vacuum Cups. Always averaging a mileage in ex- cess of the user’s expecta- tions. Reasonably priced, but built | for unusual service. Guaranteed 4,000 miles. —— CRIES IER) SIG Pennsylvania Rubber Co. SUCCESS Low price, highly durable. Jeannette, Pa. Direct factory branches and service agen- ctes throughout the United States and Canada - ’ IN MEMORIAM Scour George NewTon Pratt, Troop 1, Rutherford, N. J. Scout ELMER OCRUMPSTON, Troop 1, Henry Olay, Del. Scout BosweLt McTaGGarRt, Troop 100, Buffalo, N. Y. ScouT FRANK BLASER,. Troop 1, Hoboken, N. J. Scout CHARLES FLETOHER, Troop 1, Georgia Plain, Vt. Mr. LEWIS PERKINS, Assistant SCOUTMASTER, Troop 2, Ruston, La. Mr. LAWRENCE WoopMay, ASSISTANT SCOUTMASTER, Troop 8, Tulsa, Okla. STAMPS—(For other Stamp Advertisements see page 20) 101 DIFFERENT FOREIGN STAMPS FREE. If you send 10c for 10 weeks’ subscription to Mekeel’s Stamp Weekly, 502 Kast, Boston, Mass. Or take 50 . &. or 42 Japan. Thousands of stamp bargains, stories, etc. Australia 1913, % p., 1 _p.; Jamaica 1906, % p., 1912, 1 p., le each. France 1900-07, 40, 45, 50 and 1 fre., set 3c. Approvals at %, 1, 2 and up net. M. Neel, 889 Clarkson Ave., Brooklyn. Weapons exchanged for United Profit Shar- ing Coupons. Booklet for Stamp. COIN EXCHANGE, New Rochelle, N. Y. 33 DIFF. STAMPS, 8c, NEUTRAL NATIONS; 66 DIFF. 8 WARRING NATIONS. A. ©. LE DUC, Danvers, Mass. C Wess Notes, Stamps, Indian Relics, Antique very GooD APPROVALS FoR BEGINNERS R. B. WATT, 435 Park Street, Hackensack, Ni: J. High grade stamps from all over the world sent on approval. Big Discount. ‘BERNHARDT +L agg Dept. B, 194 Gerald Ave., Highland Park, ich. All for 30c. A 25c California gold piece, a “d's Sas Columbian nickel, a@ Coin Book, C. J. CAREY, New Rochelle, N. Y. Album, _ over Illustrated St ATTENTION $ porn 250 poe and 100 pe stamps, 5c. WRIGHT, 47 Court St., Boston, Mass. Mention Boys’ Lire in answering advertisements BIG WAR PACKET 50 stamps from warring countries, includ Germany. surch: Belgium and Polan All for cents to those applying for approval sh FAR WEST STAMP CO., Tacoma, Wash. eo COINS WANTED, Tee .25 each paid for L. 8. Eagle Cents dated 1 $2 to $500 each paid for hundreds of old coins dated ‘ore 1895. Send 10c. at once for New ILlustrated bef Coin Value Book, 4x7. ; it mean your fortune. C. F. cLaRee & ©O.. Goin Dealers, 10, Le Roy, N.Y. 25 Ani STAMPS—all different ,—27c. Im R.H.A. Green, 4407 Dover St., Chicago, Il.

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BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine January, 1916 Get the 3-in-One oiled guns shoot straight—never pit or lead. 3-in-One Oil reaches every friction point in gun actions, too. Ends sticking and jamming. Keeps rust away. dealers. 10c, 25¢ and 50c bottles. Handy Oil Cans full of 3-in-One,25c. Avoid substitutes. Free-Sample and Use Dictionary 3-in-One Oil Co..42 ELMB’ way, N.Y. comes in bottles and Self-Sealing Handy Oil Cans bearing the well- known -* in-One red trade mark. 3-in-One Oil puts smooth motion in gun actions. Prevents rust and tarnish, leading and pitting. Nevergums,dries out or gathers dust. Pol- ishes stock and fore-end beautifully. 10c, 25c, 50c. Non-leak Handy Oil Cans with 3% ounces of good 3-in-One, 25c Free — Sample and Use Dictionar. 3-in-One Oil Co. ; 42 ELM B’ way, N.Y. ad aaancy FOR YOUR TERRITORY 32 Horsepower—112 Wheelbase— + meme me Full-Fioat- ing Rear Axle—Demountable Rims yatt Bearings ing, Pi Tires — Delco — and Lighting System = Extra Rim—One-men_ Top — Comnlete Eu “EARN A CAR; AGENCY FREE Yes! you can earn this car and get an agency FREE. ready for delivery. There is big money made selling Bush Cars. Get your territory now. Address a card Get ready for big 1916 business. 1916 models now for particulars at once, to me personally. J. H. BUSH, President. Write today. Department G. Bush Motor College, Inc. Building, N. Clark and Chicago Avenue, Chicago, 10 DAY! vs TRIAL. ane EI et a iA cata com ine 0: j ‘Bota ara f gues ace on 8 bicycle. our low prices Tor Bicycles, ez bi remarkable — RIDER AGENTS Wan one ye put on the market. In use all over the United States. Can put on or detach In- stantly ‘with adjustable hook. Good sellers, because the riders all want them and the price is popular. Write for Prices. DOW WIRE AND WORKS, IRON Louisville, Ky. Good Akron Bicycle Tires °248 Sturdy—Enduring—Ask Your Dealer Mention Boys’ Lire in answering advertisements in this issue. First, read the rules. Hossies George R. Ahrens, N. Y., physics, Bothwell Butler, Jr., 8. all states. Robert H. Bailey, IIL, and American scouts. Gilbert Bond, Okla., Canada, Alaska, California ; graphs; scouting, hiking. David Burford, Tex., tomobiles. W. H. Brown, Jr., foreign boys. D. Jay Culver, states east of Mississippi River. Roger Conant, N. ways to make money William B. Campbell, 8. M., Pa., scoutmasters in South America. Claude W. Harkins, N. J., boys from China, write to him. Gowan Caldwell, N. C., boys in England; swim- ming, books, photography, scout news. Joseph Roberts Doe, N. H., 12 and 16 year old scouts about patrols; exchange postcards; scouts in every state; foreign countries. William B. Dunlop, Mich., magic. Elbert Downs, Cal., camping, hiking, snapshots; scouts in warring countries. L. OC. Emerick, O., scout news, activities, books, patrol leaders, ‘scoutmasters. Lyle ©. Everett, Minn., 13 year old scouts; patrol leaders ‘and scouts in Canada, England, Japan. Bradley Fisk, N. Y., poster stamps. G. Millon Gregg, Colo., foreign scouts, books, cycling; exchange stamps, scout manuals; scout news. Tom Green, Iowa, scouts of all nations on carpentry, stamps and scout work. Harold Haskett, Ind., stamps, postcards, photog- raphy. W. Gordon Holder, O., foreign scouts; post- ecards; stamps. George Halbert, N. J., arrow-heads. James Hennessey, IIl., field meets, athletics, bas- ket ball. Claude W. Harkins, N. J.; boys from China, Germany, Canada, Norway, Denmark; William Jansen, N. Y., Indian boys, Indian relics; exchange letters, postcards, stamps, curios, etc., with foreign boys; wants also to exchange visits. Donald M. James, N. J., stamps ; merit badges; Okla., stamps. collecting U. S. raising prize poul- try Kenneth Kimmel, tries. Glenn L. Keidle, Iowa, everything, everywhere. Benjamin Kuykendall, Pa., electricity, stamps, old coins, athletics, foreign scouts; Panama, South America, Japan; raising money; ac- tive scouts. Fred T.emon, O., boys in United States and electricity, scouts in foreign coun- foreign countries, George W. Lind, N. J., peach growing. : Rex Lynn, W. Va., France, Germany, Serbia. Rhea F. Moore, Va., India, Japan, Germany, France, South Pope gee countries; stamps, photography, postcards, etc. Willson E. Moore, N. Y., wireless, foreign boys. Tom Noland, La., cam raft, hikes, cycling. Harold L. Osterby, N. , foreign and American boys about wireless. Jack Polhemus, N. ee photographs and post- cards of bow, scou Sidney Polacsek, N. ‘Y.. foreign boys on stamps. Harry Painter, "Pa, wants to correspond wit boys from Akron, Hugh Rice, Va., scouts in Alaska, San Fran- cisco, Virginia. Moe Rafelson, N. Y., first class scouts in United States, on merit ‘badges, mining, bird study, forestry, conservation. Fritz Ruhl, Mich., law, literature of American and foreign countries; astron wireless, nomy . Clifford Smith, Va., foreign and American scouts. Our Lonesome Corner LPF Senna is certainly proving the best time for Lonesome Corner letter writing. Our mail grows heavier every day. Boys who haven’t entered the Corner should do so now, by writing an interest- ing letter to some boy whose name appears American Boys WHo Want Lerrers on chemistry ; exchange photographs of troops; poster stamps. C., scouts in war zone; English, German, French mechanics, especially au- Va., exchange stamps with N. Y., boys in foreign countries; scouts and R.E Any Boy Can Do It This is the Way Pick out the name of a boy. Write a letter to him. Address an envelope with his name and the right postage. Put your own name and address on the reverse side of the inside envelope. Don’t seal that envelope. Enclose it in another addressed to the boy, in care of Boys’ Lirs. Mail this to us and we will forward it. If your letter is to a boy in North America or England, put on a two-cent stamp. If it is to go to any other country abroad, five cents. boys in warring nations; exchange photo- Harvey Stewart, Conn., wireless; foreign boys; patrol leaders ; postcards. Leland R. Smith, O., photography, merit badges. Fred Silcott, Ww. Va., wireless telegraphy, ex- change specimens of insects and stones; dif- ferent things from the North, South, East and H., hikes, woodcraft, foreign West. Roy Swanson, Minn., exchange stamps with for- countries. boys Joe Crabtree, Ill., exchange photographs, post- ,,©'8 _DOvs. , cards, stamps and coins. we ; = books, birds, stamps, his- Everett Cofran, ass., poster stamps, scrap ’ : . books, passing tests, scout activities. ee peso Ml N. J., patrol leaders, merit Michael Cammarato, Pa., foreign scouts; travel; acges, Stamps. ys R. Sessions, Tex., American and foreign scouts; kodak pictures of state capitols. Schmucker, Ill., wireless, electricity, wood- craft, hunting in the United States, Alaska, Australia, South America, Asia. Elbert ©. Taft, Colo., boys in different coun- tries; wants to trade stamps with boys in Great Britain and United States colonies. Robert B. Taylor, O., boys in United States and foreign countries. Dewey M. Taft, Colo., United States, Oanada. England, Alaska, South America, Australia; boys whose last name is “Taft.” Theodore Vought, Mich. exchange postcards with scouts in Japan, England; war zone; electricity. Glynn Williams, Wis., trees, in Wales, England; also Arizona Worth B. Wilker, N. C., wireless, English and German boys. Erwin Waxman, Mo., English scouts on stamps, ae. poster Pictures; also able to write Ger- overt H, Weber, N. Y., anyone interested in making his troop a success. Teddy Wolf, Mo., correspond with any one by the name of Todd, or Searles, especially at Plymouth, Pa. books, baseball; Cary Wintz, Tex., George R. Ziph, Mo., England and Germany. pateee ; scouts t Virginia and signaling, foreign scouts. Boys 1n Orner Lanps Cyril A. Hart, Canada, foreign boys willing to exchange stamps, postcards, coins. Edward Todd, England, stamps. Tuese Want Lerrers From Awnyone, ANYWHERE ON ANYTHING Bromley Wharton, Pa. Gordon Crabtree, Mass. Ivan McCormack, Neb. Quinton Schaefer, Tex. Howard H. Graves, Ill. Mannie Stevens, Tex. Leslie Wright, Cal. Boys Wuo Have Sent Letrers ann Want More. CaLtForNia.—S. Togasaki. CoLorapo.—Glenn R. Hyler, Buryl Roush. gem taee te —Herbert Daly, Stanley Sher- w FLoRIDA.—J. Milton Blake, Warren W. King. Grorcia.—W. P. Britt, Jack L. Daniel, an thur Darsey, Oscar D. Jones. ILLtNoIs.—James A. Brookens, Salin Brow- man, Stanley Michalek, Oarl Martin, Elmer h Stewart. InDIANA.—Harold Harman. Iowa.——Roland L. Dent, Donald Luther. Kansas.—Edward L. Mclihenny, John Poisal, Maro Stacey, Frank B. Stacey LovuIstaNna.—Frederick Gockener, James L. tterfield. MASSACHUSETTS.—John Micui1can.—Edward Gabei, Weiter Gabel, Jay Rathbun. ee ee ae ee

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Missourt.—Joseph Barnby, Fred Jekel, Charles Merritt. NEBRASKA.—Frank Brown, Charles M. Horth, Clyde Tindall. New JERseY.—George Arp, Walter Boyd, Harold W. Olark, Larry Lindquist, Herbert G. Zimmerman, . Nxew YorK.—Joseph H. Beal, Douglas Begbie, Clifford M. Bausch, Henry ©. Bangs, Rogers ©. Dunn, Mayo L. French, Oscar Gottburg, Harold Gates, Louis Gelwicks, Robert Haines, Monroe Sturges, Wm. M. Van Antwerp. OKLAHOMA.—Lyman Darling, Edmund Sched- Boys! NOW is the time ler. Oxn10.—George Ewing, Lavelle H. Foley, Ken- ton Moore. PENNSYLVANIA.—Lyle Cutler, Joseph A. Dick, Lance L. Eck, Lioyd Hedges, Thomas N. Les- lie, Jay H. Mervis, John A. Park, Frank Quinn, James Singley, Charles W. Trigg, Elmer Beck- inger. oe . SourE CaROLINA.—Lawrence E. Black. Columbia Grafonola 15, price $15 TENNESSEK.—Herman Robinson. TexaS.—Wayne D. Finer, Albert Morrow, Reginald Painter, Don OC. Peterson, Oharles Pe- - N terson, Dewey Williams. . Wiaost® aed, olumbia Grafonola VIRGINIA.—Lance Fulcher, Clarence Wenger. * West VIRGINIA.—Paul F. Sheets. WISCONSIN.—Harold Bald, Isadore Krom, Lawrence T, Sogard

It may not be ideal weather for camping, FOREIGN pntwa— lee de Roo, Frederick ©. Douse, but it’s just the time to get that Columbia JAPAN.—Soichi Sasaki, Susumu Morita. Grafonola and learn the Patrol Calls. Ernest

Thompson Seton shows how to give them, on The Cave Scout the Columbia Record, No. A 1331, 10 in., 75c. (Conte re ener And first thing you know, you’ll be plan- headquarters. Hundreds of troops already have good ters in churches and schools, i i j . bs nny ooares ee be foolish for them to ware | the nem ST, estos 7. Then ll ease spend a lot of time and money for some- tainly be glad you own this Columbia Graf- thing they don’t really need. Building a ~ cals just happened to be the big job Troop onola 15—the perfect instrument for all out- 24 tackled. Any one of a hundred other doors—small light easy to tote and needing big jobs would have served the purpose ° ‘ Je just as well. It was the big job that was little bunk room. important, not the cabin. oak Cone et ne ee St ee NOW, too, you want the Grafonola for a Haven't Sing 006 here die, Sait ie dandy entertainment whenever the boys gather suggestions: ° "ee 3 1. Winter bird feeding. Mark out for a good time. Stirring band music, popu- 1 big territ t d and wh bd : > soe are plousidag tasaghl te aa ip lar songs, banjo and accordion solos, lively your feeding “stations with, the mercury dances and the funniest of comics—“all the through the woods you won’t kick any music of all the world, and most of the fun of about the job not being big enough! You ° 2 : . can pretend the birds are a party of it, too, 1S yours on Columbia Double Disc Arctic explorers stranded without i- sions and Te is up gas tncbee Sides = Records. ethnic: . eT fr and — sitchen. i t that ~ : : hes o castes Tues a our ani Columbia Records in all Foreign Languages. the best of its kind in the country. Use New records go on sale the 20th of every your own ideas on it and make it fit your month. peculiar needs. Here’s a job to keep your whole troop busy—both hands and brains tor several aaaiie a8 least The Columbia Graphophone Company 3. Plan a “century hike” for next sum- mer, working out a definite itinerary, list Woolworth Building New York of equipment, daily rations, assignment of " duties, etc. 4. Undertake the job of keeping the pay cnto <— certain — eh city . By EDWARD or town free from snow. Sidewalks in front Y of vacant lots and in front of houses where BOY'S CAMP BOO a perot A doing the work Ghemeelves, offers splendsd || Stata taciutia ar cumuter euaer al emseives, Offer a splen it! nstruction: r nder opportunity to do a big job P conditions. ‘Numerous helpful illustrations by 9A, SQUAB BOOK FREE Oh, ther lent f She Bas Norman P. Rockwell. AVS ake breeding PR 1916 demand sts to tace! et every tro in he |] Our Offer —tisn tr OVS" Lire, || Mall ase Sra ew country come to grips ‘with in at Vine the offici » a i -y pated porting Witctoder. PLYMOUTH RC wake Saas ee — be will be less trouble about scouts ~ ye foam § 4 F ee ae Kao ST. MELROSE HIGHLANDS, MASSACHUSETTS. not “doing scout work as a troop.” ” RAISE PIGEO) Let’s keep our eyes skinned for some- eg a FREER, off charges grapes It’s lots of = ay keeps vg in pocket

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BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine January, 1916 shapesenensuenssannatsneenee’ Scouts’ Questions Answered The Boy Scouts’ Year Book Packed full to the brim with de- lightful stories by the authors the boys like best. It is edited by Walter P. McGuire, Editor of “Boys’ Life,” and Franklin K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian of the Boy Scouts of America, and published under the supervision of the editorial board of the Boy Scouts of America, and contains special articles by prominent men in America, including President Woodrow Wilson, Ex-President Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, Orville Wright, Dillon Wal- lace and many other famous men. There are also many pages of “what to do and how to do it” material on woodcraft, carpentry, scouting, hygiene, athletics, sports, etc., photographs of Boy Scout ac- tivities in all parts of the world, and over 100 pictures. Write for it at once: or get it at your nearest Booksellers The Boy Scouts’ Year Book con- tains, besides nearly 100 pictures, 20 full pages of photographs and 2 colored plates, is 10% inches high, 7% inches wide and 14 inches thick. It is bound in red cloth, stamped in gold, and finished with a beautifully colored inlay on the cover. The price is $1.50 net, or $1.65, if sent by mail. If you can’t get this bully book NOW, be sure to put it first on the list of things you want for Christmas. Net, $1.50 By Mail, $1.65 AGENTS WANTED We want live boys to act as agents for the Boy Scouts’ Year Book. Here is your chance to make some money, Write for terms now. D. Appleton & Company 35 W. 32nd Sireet, New York City How would a man wishing to become a scoutmaster get his authority and number and the number of the troop? A. Send to National Headquarters for an application blank and then apply for a com- mission. Q. What is the price of the Scoutmasters’ Manual! A. 60c postpaid. . How many boys does it take to make a troop? A. From two to thirty-two. It is more in- teresting if there are eight or more. J. G., Ounto.—Q. In going a mile at scouts’ pace, in the second class tests, what margin, if any, is allowed either under or over the twelve minutes? Is the runner permitted to consult a watch while making the test? . The Scoutmasters’ Manual states on page 38, “To pass the test it should be noted that the mile is to be traversed in twelve minutes. The boy who does it in less than twelve minutes fails equally with the boy who takes fifteen minutes to do it.” But since it is impossible for a boy to run a mile exactly in twelve min- utes except by luck, a margin of thirty seconds is usually allowed. The scout taking the test should not be permitted to consult a watch while taking the test. Scout W. R. D., N. ¥.—Q. What would the Boy Scouts of America do in time of war? would they be obliged to do or would they not have any part? The Boy Scouts of America, as an or- ganization, would have nothing whatever to do with war. As individuals, scouts have the same duties and responsibilities as other citizens, and their training aids in preparing them for any service which their country may demand. EaGLe PatTrROL, Itu.—Q. Is a patrol of a troop allowed to have a thousand-point system if the troop hasn't any, and if so how much will a medal cost? Are the patrol leader and the conkstant patrol leader allowed to enter the con- test} A. Ask your scoutmaster. quarters has no rule against it. J. L., JR., Ky. Does it take certain merit badges or merely five merit badges to qualify a scout for a life scout badge? A. See page 57 of the Handbook for Boys. A life scout is required to have merit badges for first aid, physical development, personal health, public health, life saving or pioneering. . Oan a scout make out an order for equip- ment and get his scoutmaster to sign it? National Head- “How do you like railroading, Billy?” “Fine,” heartily responded Vinegar Bill, serenely unconscious of the marked dis- approval with which Mrs. Marshall re- garded her well-dressed son’s proximity to his own grimy person. “We're going to Atlantic City,” re- marked Vivian, patronizingly. “I should think you'd like to get away from this grind once in a while.” “Huh!” said Bill, “to do what? Listen to a peanut-roaster whistle on the board walk? Or get lost in a tintype gallery? Two Suns ’nd this—” he waved his hand along the yards, “is good enough for me —fer awhile yit.” Vinegar stood watching the swift, pre- cise way the car-whackers went about their task of rehabilitating No. 102 for her run over The Stormy. No detail of their work escaped him—from the placing of the blue light on the pilot of the engine to the filling of the tanks with fresh ice through the roof of the Pullmans. It was all a part of the marvellous detail by and through which two hundred millions of passengers had been carried during six years without a fatal accident—to say nothing of billions of tons of merchandise over these same gleaming rails—the girdle that bound civilization to the isolated spot far down in the southwest corner of no- Mention Bors’ Lire in answering advertiseminte where. And he, Vinegar Bill, was now What . | A. Yes. A BROKEN-HEARTED Scout.—Can a boy who is now seventeen years old who has given in hie second class pin because they would not give him a transfer to another troop join the scouts again? A. It is contrary to rules to transfer a scout from one troop to another without the consent of both scoutmasters. W. S., Mass.—Q. I would like to know if the north star is found by following the star at the farthest edge of the dipper, or by follow- ing the two stars on the farthest edge. A. Refer to page 102 of the Handbook for Boys and you will see that the two outside stars of the bowl of the dipper point to the north star. The distance from the one on the rim of the bowl to the pole star is about five times the distance between the two “pointers,” as the two stars in the dipper are called. Watch for This Scout Boys’ Lirz has been notified of the disappearance from -his home in Salem, Ind., of Scout Samuel B. Hobbs, of Troop 2. Scout Hobbs has not been seen since November 23. His descrip- tion is as follows: Age, fifteen years; weight, one hundred pounds; light red or sandy hair; blue eyes; height about four feet eleven inches; stammers or stut- ters a little in talking, quick, alert movements. When he left home he wore a black : ‘ and white checked suit with short pants, but bought a pair of long trousers and put same over the knee pants. Please wire any information to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Hobbs, Salem, Ind., at their expense. Vinegar Bill (Continued from page 4) one of the dependable links in the mar- velous mechanism. It made him proud and also more thoughtful than before. Even the little blue light on the pilot of the newly-attached locomtive, whose air- pump was, throbbing as if impatient to be off, played its inconspicuous but vital part. That blue light was more authoritative, for fifteen minutes, than even the presi- dent of the mighty system. For the presi- dent, himself, could not budge the train from its position until that blue light was removed by the chief car-whacker. And the chief car-whacker could not remove it until every member of his crew had sep- arately signalled that all was ready to proceed—that no humble but necessary employee was still sprawled under the train, wrestling with a recalcitrant air- hose or a hot-axle. That blue light represented the death of one car-whacker in almost the place where it now gleamed—years before. He had been ground to bits because the startin signal had been given before he anerged from beneath the cars. Nevertheless, his death, like many others in railroading, had not been in vain, for because of it had come this arrangement for safeguarding human lives against the possibility of another like accident. Then the blue light lifted, the conduc- tor’s signal was answered by the enginecr, PRR ct

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He went reluctantly, and with a last long, lingering glance at the twin red eyes boring back into the silvery night from the tail of No. 102. He was opposite Wakefield’s window when he heard an inarticulate but choking cry of alarm. He glanced inside. The chief dispatcher was bending with ashen face over the madly chattering instrument at one minute—at the next he was leaping for the interlocking lever at the end of the office controlling the signal at the “yard limit” at the east end of the division tracks. “What’s the matter?” demanded Vine- gar Bill. Wakefield turned a blanched face in his direction. “Extra 2769 let two cars get away on the siding at Mescal,” replied Wakefield, his brow corrugating into a frown, behind which the dispatcher was doing thinking at a rate to make electricity seem slug- gish. “Bill, beat it over to the yard engine, and start the crew up the parallel to Vail, open that switch, flag No. 102, ditch them cars—for God’s sake—hurry—they’re botli full of giant powder!” (Continued in February Boys’ Lire) How to Build a Snow House By Scour Davm Kiernscumipt, Sleepy Eye, Minn. I think that a great many boys will be interested in knowing how several of us Sleepy Eye boys built a snow house last winter. First we shoveled together a great heap of snow and when the pile was about two feet high we stamped it down with our skis. On the outside we put blocks of snow because it was impossible to make a straight wall with snow that was not packed hard, unless boards were put up to keep it from sliding down. 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Neckercuier Rios. Along the line of Dan Beard’s idea for scout napkin rings, as published in a recent issue of Boys’ Lire, Scoutmaster Robert E. Brumby makes the suggestion that each scout make a ring for his scout neckerchief. Mr. Brumby tells of a scout who had such a ring made of bamboo, but his suggestion is that each scout make his own ring from some wood indigenous to the section in which he lives.

Have You a Camera? Write, for, samples of can Photography and Popular Photography, which will teli you how to make better pictures and earn money ®. R. FRAPRIE, 887 Pope Buliding, Boston, Mass. “We have many beautifully colored woods in the United States, especially wal- nut, locust, cedar, holly, orange, etc., and the various oaks, most of which are strong

Mention Boys’ Lirr in answering advertisements and tough,” writes Mr. Brumby. “A ring Scouts’ Discoveries and Re-Discoveries can be made from these woods and the two ends of the neckerchief slipped through it, a knot being tied at the end to prevent the ring slipping off, then the neckerchief can be tightened or loosened at will by the use of the ring.” Mr. Brumby sends Boys’ Lire a sample ring carved from a piece of drift cedar. This ring is one-half inch in diameter in the inside edges.

To Repam a Dentep Bucte Many of you have dents in the mouth of your bugle. This can be remedied by

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Start the Year Right Don’t Trust to Memory Keep an accurate record of daily happenings which may some day prove a valuable possession. 1916 SCOUT DIARY The average diary which is sold in the stores contains much material which does not interest you. The 30y Scout Diary is filled from cover to cover with just the things a Scout wants to know. The ‘‘Miniature Handbook’’ A Scout’s Most Prized Possession. Revised and Up-to-date Filled with Scout Lore Some of the Features . “How to Tell Time with Your Hands,” jphore Code,” illus trated; “How to Build ja Sun Dial,” |‘‘Bandag- jing,’’ “Knots i for Scouts to } Tie.” | Scouts’ Mem- i bership card and passport. Oath, Law and Re- quirements explained. Record of promotions in the Scout movement. How to tell time by the stars. Patrol signs. Whistles and hand signals. Boxing the compass. Woodcraft and First Aid Hints. Last Year Two Editions Exhausted—Don’t Wait and Be Disappointed. Three Styles of Binding Regular Paper Edition, 10c.; 100 or more, each 8c. Scoutmaster’s Edition Souvenir Edition Flexible Cloth 25c. Limp Leather 50c. ORDER DIRECT OF DEPARTMENT OF EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 200 Fifth Avenue, New York City

It leaves the kettle, away in a corner. pail, or frypan bright and clean, without the use of soap or sand. Scoutmaster Walter H. Fletcher, Mass.

A Tourniquet Kwnor. Here is a sug- gestion for tying a tourniquet bandage. I have found that it saves using a twist to tighten a oe it. When tying the bandage, in- stead of putting the end of the cloth once over, as in tying the square not, put the end twice around and it will stay wherever it is tightened. No second knot is needed to hold and it is not necessary to hold the DOUBLE TFwrseTr

first knot firm until the second knot is tied. This knot can be drawn as tight as one wishes and it will seldom slip. I have tied this knot hundreds of times and have never seen one slip when the arm or leg is kept still as would be necessary in case of a real accident. Scoutmaster W. L. Lovejoy, Mich.

Boys’ Lire will be glad to receive sugges- tions for the “Discoveries” department. If you have discovered ways of doing things that you think might save other people time and trouble, let us hear from you. The Mascot of Troop 16 (Continued from page 15) camp. As they started the deer looked up and slowly followed in their trail. Even when he reached the camp site he had no fear of the fire, and he quietly browsed through the woods just a few yards from the tents. During the whole of the outing the deer stayed with the scouts, except for one or two hours each day. He became such a pet with the boys that he was almost a nuisance, but he always showed a decided preference for Frank Steel and Albert Bosworth. He seemed to know that they were his best friends. And this is the story of how Tom, the deer, became the “mascot of Troop 16.” Fight Tussock Moth A quarter of a million eggs of the Tus- sock moth were collected by the scouts of Indianapolis in a recent campaign in the form of a contest, carried on under the direction of City Forester Smith. In this egg collecting contest, each troop was assigned to a definite section of the city, each section being subdivided into districts for individual scouts. For nearly three weeks the boys put in all, their spare time on the Tussock moth. Then the as- signment of the territory was changed, so that each troop went over ground covered by some other troop. Triple credit was given for egg masses found in this check- ing up period. The troop having the highest average for the number of boys entering the contest was awarded a silver | ——————--—— loving cup.

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Why Mr. Seton Is Not Chief Scout HE Executive Board of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica, composed of twenty representative American citizens who govern the policy of the Boy Scout Movement, issued a statement on December 9, explaining to scout officials and the general public that Ernest Thompson Seton did not resign from the position of Chief Scout, as he alleged in a statement which he gave to the newspapers on December 4, but was dropped by the National Council at its annual meeting last February. Mr. Seton was dropped because he was not a citizen of the United States and refused to say that he would become one, and because he was not in sympathy with American customs and ideals. In order that Mr. Seton might be spared the embarrassment of a public announce- ment of the failure of the National Council to re-elect him, it was decided to do the scout-like thing and say nothing about it. Mr. Seton on his part voluntarily prom- ised that he would make no statement about the matter, but on Dec. 4 he made it necessary that the Executive Board is- sue a statement of the facts. The Scout Movement is in no wise af- fected by the dropping of Mr. Seton. The program, followed since 1910, is not de- pendent upon any individual. Mr. Seton was not a member of the Editorial Board which compiled the original handbook, and contributed nothing to the preparation of the ..rst chapter which completely covers the scout program and the scheme of or- ganzation. The comparatively small num- ber of pages of material written by Mr. Seton are interesting, but nothing essen- tial to the program of scouting. They can be easily replaced in future editions by eminent American citizens, Boys’ Life Picture Contest $5.00 for the best picture received each month. $1.00 for every other picture published on the Double Page display. First prize-winning pictures illustrating “Good Turns” will appear in February. “Scout Contests” is the subject for the next month. Send in your pictures TODAY! Special subjects for coming issues dre: April —Pioneering Work — Bridges, Signal Towers, Derricks, etc. May —Community Service June —‘‘Eats” July —Woodcraft August —Illustrations of Scout Law September—Handicraft October —‘Funny Fotos” November—lIllustrations of Scout Tests December —Wild Life January —wWinter Activities Address your pictures to Picture Contest De- partment, Boys’ Lirs, the Boy Scouts’ Magazine, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. Mark each picture with your name and ad- dress and the subject under which you wish to have it entered. Enclose stamps if you want picture returned. Contest for March number closes on January 20. The details of the contest were published in the December Boys’ LIFE. Send in now your “Scout Contests” pictures

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January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine Don Strong (Continued from page 9) Don wanted details, not compliments. “What inning is it?” he asked. “Last of the sixth.” “Who’s ahead?” “They are.” “What’s the score?” “Four to three.” Don brightened. “That isn’t so bad. We'll get another run off this pitcher.” But by the time the first half of the seventh was over he had his doubts. The Irontown pitcher had speed, and control, and a snappy curve ball. “How did we get our three runs off him?” he asked Ted. “We didn’t get them off him,” said Ted; “we knocked the first fellow out.” “Oh!” said Don. He slid over to Mr. Wall and glanced down at the score book. Chester had made her three runs in the first inning. Irontown had been picking up hers one at a time. If they continued to get to Andy But Andy blanked them in the seventh. Chester came in for her eighth inning. Don slid back and forth along the bench. He begged and implored .a hit. He held his breath whenever the ball was hit, and did not breathe again until the runner was safe or out. When the half ended, and Chester had not scored, he found that he was sweating. “Make them hit, Andy,” he advised. Andy put the ball over. Three flies sailed away to the outfielders. Then Chester came in for its ninth inning. This time, if the nine! didn’t score, the game was over. Andy Ford was first up. He hadn’t made anything all day that looked like even the forty-second cousin of a hit. Perhaps, for that reason, the Irontown pitcher held him cheaply. Anyway, he pitched with an easy. air of confidence— and Andy slashed the ball into left field 75 | T wt. og Wine we 1b. * 29 Rene we SE Ib. a4 og — pee’ ese npou mas Present) 6 volt 6 ame we. wera, 10 "ep’d a $3-70 at al eye 9 a we — 6 volt 69 amp imp $} - AS |Storage Battery 65 .00 | Electric teat 8) [Beg ike a 2lbs. When —T any of the above, ee postage, or goods must be sent only a fraction of our wonderful aaniieana, illustrated and described in our 275 page Cyclopedia Catalog, containing 658 illustrations. . Wireless Call Letters, Code Wireless Course. Cyclonedia pm - for 4 postage only. THE ELECTRO IMPORTING COMPANY 273 FULTON STREET, by express collect. he goods shown here are Treatise on habe oe Telegraphy, List of all U. art and 20 Coupons for Free cents cover Send for a copy “Everything for the Experimenter”’ NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. If You’re a LIVE BOY or a LIVE WORKER Among Boys You'll Want DAN BEARD’S New Book, Just Published for two bases. The Chester bench gave a jump and a shout. Don’s cap fell to the ground and lay there unheeded. “Another little hit like that, Lane,” he begged. ‘*‘SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES” With more than 300 illustrations by the Author In answer to many requests from Boy Scouts themselves and others interested in the movement, Mr. Beard, the greatest au- thority on boys’ interests, has prepared his new book. Boys will find it an invaluable guide in constructing tem ee or perma- contains easily But Lane, obedient to a signal from the coachers, bunted. The third baseman fumbled. Lane was safe on first and Andy was safe on third. (Continued in February Boys’ Lire) One Thing That Happens in a Story Next Month “The Gang Gets Sanctuaried,” is the title of she next story in Mr. William Merriam Rouse’s series in the February Boys’ LIFE. Following that will come “The Pirate Pie,’’»a tale about nent shelters on their hikes or encampments. workable directions accompanied by very full ‘nateathans for * over fifty shelters, shacks and shanties, ran primitive shelter to the fully equipped log cabin. HERE’S YOUR OPPORTUNITY “SHELTERS, SHACKS AND SHANTIES” BOYS’ LIFE for one year - - Boy Scouts of America, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York ing from the most $1.25 Both for $1.25 1,00 she organization of “The Black Rovers.” Subscribe Now and Get This Flashlight Vest-pocket Flashlight for One Subscription to Boys’ Life at One Dollar. Almost everyone is carrying one of these—they’re so con- venient. Take up no room in your pocket, yet throw a bright light at night or in a dark room. Heavily nickel-plated over brass. Tungsten battery, guaranteed to give 400 per cent. longer service than any other similar flashlight battery made. 2% volts Mazda lamp, 3 x 1% x inches. Slide contact button. Send to-day and get this flashlight and Boys’ Life one year. Both for $1.00. —_ is limited. Send order ow 200 5th Ave., New or rang THIS ORDER BLANK BOYS’ LIFB, The nn —— worn Fifth py "New You may send BOYS’ TIPE one year, beginning..............-seeeeee oe which I enclose ONE DOLL eT ee, eee a ee (Send me-the Flashlight) Mention Boys’ Lire in answering advertisements

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Taking orders for card on etc. Send 2 stamp for particulars and F outfit. Easy work. WwoLr PRINTING CO., Dept. A., 137 Fenelon Place, Dubuque, lowa. The Boy Scout Crusoes (Continued from page 6) for here, so near the equator, there was practically no twilight. Scarcely had a fire been built in front of the cabin and a good pile of fuel collected for the night when darkness fell. The boys gathered around the fire. At the Sooutanatter’s ad- vice they had brought large stones from the shore to sit on to avoid poisonous in- sects that might lurk in the grass. At first all were very silent. They were tired from the hard day’s work in the tropical sun, and the feeling of excite- ment and sense of novelty that had kept them going had subsided with the approach of night. An almost overpowering sense of loneliness had come over them. All around was the dark tropic night, lit up by the stars only, for the moon had not yet risen. Their little fire merely seemed to make the darkness beyond more vast and black. In front of them was the great ocean, behind them the tropical forest, strange, utterly unknown, hiding in its depths they knew not what. No wonder the strange- ness and loneliness of it all almost over- whelmed them. Dr. Cameron felt the danger of a violent case of homesickness attacking the whole party. So he roused himself and spoke cheerfully. “Well,” he said, “we’ve done a good ¥|day’s work and are pretty comfortably fixed for the night. We are all too tired to make many plans for tomorrow, but I want to say a word about the future. We can’t tell just how long it will be before Captain Morton comes back for us. The fact that we have not heard anything from him today makes me think that he had to put out to sea, and it may be several days before he can get back. I think we had better just go ahead as if we intended to camp here for some time, and make our- selves as comfortable as possible. Then if he doesn’t come for several days we shall be all right, or, if he puts in an appear- ance tomorrow, there’s no harm done, ex- cept a little unnecessary work, perhaps.” “IT have been thinking,” said Roderick slowly, “that I ought to resign my position as patrol leader. Wait a minute and let me explain,” he added, as the others began to protest. “It isn’t because I want to shirk either work or rp rong eo I’m willing to shoulder my share of both in any case. But I think Fred is better fitted to lead than I am. He has lived in the tropics and knows about a lot of things I don’t know anything about. Be- sides, he’s used to army and camp life, and has had much more experience in ways of that kind than any of the rest of us. So I want to resign in his favor. Don’t you think I’m right, father?” “Yes,” answered his father thoughtfully. “I think you are. Fred is more experi- enced and more used to life in the tropics. Under the circumstances he ought to be the best one in the patrol for leader. I’m glad you’ve looked at the matter so sensi- bly. Unless there is some serious objec- tion we will accept your resi _— and I will appoint Fred in your p Rod was a favorite with the otheie and had been a very successful leader, but all saw the wisdom of the change and no | objections were made. “Well,” said Fred, ‘if I am to be leader Boat Building and By Dan Beard Boy Scout Edition Fully Illustrated by Mr. Beard. Cloth Bound with Boy Scout Seal. All that Dan Beard knows and has written about the build- ing of every simple kind of a boat, from a raft to a cheap motor boat, is brought to- gether in this book. SPECIAL: This fine book by Dan Beard given with one yearly subscription to BOYS’ LIFE at $1.00. ORDER NOW. Address Boy Scouts of America, 200 Fifth Avenue, New York DAN C. BEARD ( CAUGHT 51 RATS ONE WEEK Trap resets itself; 22 inches high. Will a for years. Can’t get out of order, W pounds. 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canara eR lit eT: January, 1916 BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine A Special Offer to Readers of Boys’ Life This 14-K Diamond Point Fountain Pen is ‘made of good quality Para Rubber, with black chased cap and barrel, well polished. The construction is simple and cannot get out of order, overflow or fail to write, the feeds being the same as used on all standard fountain pens. Each pen is fully guaranteed, and if unsatisfactory in any detail can be ex- changed for a new one. The Clutch Pencil f is very popular and | extensively used. f The lead is “clutched” or gtipped by the thumb screw at the top of pencil. To unfasten the lead simply turn the screw until the lead is at the desired length. By turning the screw back in opposite direction the lead is fastened. Heavily nickel plated and pro- “clip” which holds the pencil in the pocket. BOTH this DIA- MOND POINT FOUNTAIN PEN and the CLUTCH PENCIL sent to you for ONE yearly sub- scription to BOYS’ LIFE at $1.00. FARA LSS SSS SSS OREO S EASED OH ORDER BLANK BOYS’ LIFE, the Boy Scouts’ Magazine, 200 Fifth Y Avenue, New York. Please send, all charges prepaid, the DIAMOND POINT FOUNTAIN PEN and the CLUTCH PEN- CIL advertised by you, for which I send you $1.00 for a year’s subscription to Boys’ Life. Note: Pen and Pencil and the M e be sent to separate addresses if réquested. guard duty. Don’t you think I should, Doctor?” Fred took out his pocket note-book and began to write by the fire light. After a time he announced the guard schedule. “6 E’LL begin guard duty at nine,” he said, “and take turns in the following order: From nine to ten, Rob- ert Cameron; ten to eleven, Dick Lynch; eleven to twelve, Fred Morris; twelve to one, Dr. Cameron; one to two, Roderick Cameron; two to three, Fred Morris again; three to four, Karl Seidl; four to five, Harold Whitney. Everyone -up at five, for it’s better to get the hardest part of our work done before it gets hot. Break- fast at five-thirty, dinner at eleven-thirty, after dinner rest or do light work until three, supper at six. We'll take turns at meal getting, Harold and Rod breakfast, Bobby and I dinner, and Karl and Dick supper. The cooks must furnish wood.” “We'll all help you do that,” said Dick. Then they fell to discussing plans for the next day. The brilliant tropical moon had risen now, making a shining path across the little bay, which was heaving gently, the reef beyond breaking the force of the long ocean swells. Against the light the palms on the reef stood out in ——— black silhouette, while between their trunks the white spray, sparkling in the seseng, #8 was plainly visible, as the waves broke against the outer edge of the reef. They had been quiet for some time watching the scene, when Dick stretched himself with a yawn. “If I’m going on guard at ten,” he said, ae | think Pll turn in and get some sleep now. S he started to go into the shelter, Dick gave a cry of surprise and won- der. The others turned at once. At some little distance behind the cabin stretched the dark mass of the forest. Against its deep blackness gleamed and danced and circled myriads of little flashing points of light. Never still for a moment, they danced and wavered in and out, up and down, around and about against the black- ness. “Fire-flies,’ exclaimed Fred. “Millions and millions of them,” said Karl in tones alnfost of awe. “I never expected to see anything like that in all my life.” The Doctor and the two older boys re- mained by the fire talking quietly until nine, when they, too, turned in, after the Doctor had waked Bobby to take first watch. The little fellow was terribly sleepy, but he roused himself bravely, went down to the beach and bathed his sleepy face, put more wood on the fire and began walking up and down beside it to keep himself awake. : ‘a night passed quietly. During Roderick’s watch he thought the saw something moving in the outer edge of the group of cocoanut palnfs, but he was not sure. He gazed in that direction for some time but could make out no further movement. Harold was roused to go on duty at four. It was terribly still and dark beyond the little circle of light and he half ex- pected every moment to see some strange beast or savage man come out of that belt of blackness into the firelight. It seemed to him that he had sat re for hours when he felt himself doznig. He looked at his watch in the firelight. Mention Boys’ Lirg in answering advertisements THE VERY LATEST IN EQUIPMENT FOR SCOUTS Vacuum Food Canteen No. 1219. Will keep your lunch as hot as you can eat it for twelve hours or more. Will keep things cold much longer. On win- ter hikes or for your J lunch at school, you will find contents piping hot and palatable. ith its jacket off the food canteen ecomes useful at home in a score of ways. 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BOYS’ LIFE—The Boy Scouts’ Magazine January, 1916 No Wonder They’re Jealous of Their Pal The Boy with the sled is thinking that winter will soon be over and the sled will be rusting in the cellar. The boy with the rifle has jealous thoughts, too—and the boy with the jacknife— well, boys know what he’s thinking about. But the boy with the Bike! a long time—dreaming about it—talking he’s got one with He’s been living for this for ing about it, and now The Brake that scene ¢ the Bike iat That's the real joy— because he can ride with safety. He can stop instantly — and always control the speed in the crowded city or on the country road. His wheel is safe and he knows it. So when you buy a new Bike, don’t forget to Departure have it equi rake. a New It is built of the strongest steel, heavil ’ plated. Itcan t get out of order or rust. nickel t halves the work and doubles the biking joys of nearly five million riders. 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Shudder- ing, he resumed his seat on the stone in front of the shelter. He must have dozed off for a moment for suddenly he was wide awake with a start. The fire was burning low again. There came to his ears from the direc- tion of the forest a sound that sent the chills up his spine—a long drawnout wail, with something strange and unearthly about it. For a moment he could not move, then the sound came again, first far away and then nearer at hand, a strange wailing call. He crept into the hut and seized Dr. Cameron by the arm. (Continued in February Boys’ Lire) Answers to ““VVhat Animal?” If you didn’t know or find the answers to the questions asked in the December Boys’ Lirz under the heading: “What Animal?’ here they are: A frog will suffocate if you hold its mouth open, because it fills its lungs by first filling its mouth with air and then pressing the air down into its lungs. If you hold its mouth open, it cannot fill its mouth. A fish will suffocate if its mouth is held closed, because air, dissolv in water, enters the mouth in order to flow over the gills, The grasshopper has two large nerdrame on the side of its body. All land insects breathe through holes in the abdomen, called spiracles, of which there is one pair for each segment. A frog has its tongue fastened at the front end. It has to flop it over when it catches insects. This is why it can reach its tongue out so far. Rodents, or knawing animals, (rats, rabbits, guinea-pigs, etc.) have four front teeth which never cease growing. These are the gnawing teeth. If they were not continually worn away by gnawing, they would soon be so long that the animal could not chew its food, and would starve to death. This has been known to happen. Certain wasps leave nice juicy tidbits for their future babies beside the eggs. These “tidbits” are caterpillars, generally. Lobsters and crayfish have eyes on stalks. 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They are absolutely dependent for their food on the plants—a kind of fungus— which they thus raise. Cud-chewing animals—cows, sheep and goats —have four stomachs. The first stomach is a mere storage-place for the grass they crop off. Afterward they bring it up into their mouths again for chewing, and then send it along through the other stomachs. The starfish feeds by turning inside out over its fo The flea can leap 200 times its own height. If man could do this, he could leap over the Eiffel Tower in Paris. —F. Movutton MoLane. its stomach Train Deer to Drive Troop 1, Southington, Conn., has been busy building a log cabin on the property of Mr. James D. Fish. One of the scouts has trained a pair of young deer and Mr. Fish uses them to draw logs needed for the cabin. This experience has fired the other scouts with an ambition to try their hand at training wild animals. gg at 12D RAPT ee ee: ee PIERS o. LO a BES a3 Sone, ced

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