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with the Boy Scouts of America.
The trouble of the American Boy
Scout and it's founded can have no
bearing upon the Boy Scouts or
America or upon the scout move
ment as advocated by the Times.
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under the impression that they
would not go to heaven unless
they made their cross under it.
One witness testified that he want
ed to vote wet" but wasn't WILL
ing to place in jeopardy his chance
of going to heaven.
In the opinion handed down by
the court, the use of the Bible as
an election emblem is prohibited
by statute.
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1t isn't so bad while you are
strong. But pavements and hills
wear any horse out. We do not
last as long as our brothers on the
farm.
And when you get old you are
sold. A horse has nothing to do
with the kind of home he gets.
Once down and out" there is
nothing left but. i'll treatment and
death.
There are hundreds of horses in
Tacoma delivering Christmas
packages. Please don't forget us.
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PACIFIC COAST WAR STRENGTH
---WHAT M'LACHLAN MEANT

This is a of what p.
o secretary o he
wickedest
a murdered
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Sir John fire shot, the Tenth
the famous regiment don't
active service in South Africa 1S99-1901 c.
Maj Gen. j. D. P. French Sir Crehton
daughter of Col the Hon Charles Creighton Irish Guards Lady
Chesterfield of the beautiful Wilson's daughter Of Lord
Nunbunhome married Lord Chesterfield who
appearance and the traditions of the
Lord Chesterfield.
The above taken English publication,
an idea of the English telling
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-12-21
Real Boy Scouts Not
In the Hearst Fizzle

Nothing to DO with
BrN Nation BODY of Boy America
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[oor@ Hor;se

WHO FUGLS THE WAGON
TttAv cARRiE8 TIE
PACKAGE WHICH TIE
5NoPvER BHoULp HIVE
cARR,ep HOME hEESEq
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have SEEM he was too good not to con-
tend for every prize, and too good for
nothing even to win one.
| Gentlemen said he, as he came TO
| the mark, II don't say that I'll win beef,
but If my piece don't blow I'll eat the
paper, or be mighty apt to do it, If you'll II
b'lieve my racket. My powder are not
good powder, gentlemen; I bought it
thum (from) Zeb Daggett, and gin him
three-q quarters of dollar a pound for 1t;
but 1t are not what l call good powder,
gentlemen; but If old Buck-killer burns
it clear, the boy you call Hiram Bugh
eats paper or comes mighty near It,"
| well, blaze away" said Mealy, land
be id to you, and Zeb Daggett. and
your powder, and Buck-kller and your
powder-horn and .shot-pouch to boot!
How long you gwine stand thar talking
fore you shoot?"
Never mind, said Hiram, 81 can talk
| a little and shoot little too; but that
nothin'. Here goes,"
Hiram assumed the figure of a note of
Interrogation, took a long sight and
fired.
I've eat paper" said he, at the crack
of the gun, withot looking, or seeming
to look. towards the target. "Buck-killer
made a clear racket. Where am I, gen.
tlenen.
You're lust between Mealy and the
diamond" was the reply.
st said I'd eat paper and I've done IT.;
haven't l. gentlemen"
| "And s'pose you have!' said Mealy;
what do that mount to? You'll not win
beef, and never did"
| "Be that as it mout be, I've beat Meal
| Cotton mighty easy, and the boy you
call Hiram Baugh are able to do it,
| and what do that mount to? Who
the devil ant able to beat Meal Cotton.
I don't make no pretence of bein' moth
| in great nohow; but yo always makes
out as II you were gwine to keep EN-
maxim crosses for you constant. and
| then do nothn' but eat paper at last.
and that's a long way from eatin' beef,
'cordin to Meal 'Cottons notions, as you
call him."
| Simon Stow was now called on.
ooh, Lordn' exclaimed two or three:
now we have it. It'll take him as long
| to shoot as it would take Squire Dob
bins to run round track O. land
'.Good-bye," said Bob Martin.
| where are you going, Bob?'
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| nerve and aim that was astonishing to
me and alarming to all the rest A few
seconds and the report of his rifle broke
the deathlike silence which prevailed
! mo great harm done yet" said Spivy
manifestly relieved from anxiety by an
event which seemed to me better calcu-
lated to produce despair. Firmbys ball
had cut out the lower angle of the dia-
mond. directly on a right line with the
| cross.
| Three or four followed him without bet-
tering his shot, all of whim, however,
with one exception, ''eat the paper"
| 1t now came to Splvey's turn. There
was nothing remarkable in his person or
manner. He took his place, lowered his
rife slowly from perpendicular until i'll
came on line with the mark, held III
there like a wise for a moment, and
| fired.
Pretty sevigrous, but nothing killing
yet," said Billy Curlew, as he learned
the place of Spivey's ball.
| Spivey's ball had just broken the upper|
angle of the diamond, beating Firmbyl
about half it's width.
| A few more shots in which there wasl
nothing remarkable brought us to Billy
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! CONTINUED ON PAGE 15.)
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"In the game of life hearts are trumps y
says Dr. Woods Hutchinson in the July
Outing in his article, Athletics and the
Heart"
THE greatest single danger of athletics
TO the heart occurs when, for example:
"A boy has had, 1t may be, COM
paratively mild attack of one of the in
fictitious fevers, typhoid, pneumonia, in
fuenza, or tonsolitis; he is still a little
weak and his heart beats more rapidly
and violently than it should on exertion,
but the team needs him, OF he is anx-
fous for a certain record, and he starts
back into training with heart which
has not fully repaired its damage. Or a
girl cannot resist the temptation of a
long-anticipated dance when she is bare
~ conyalescent.
Suddenly one day the heart can no
longer drive on its overload of blood and
4sdown goes the runner or oarsman or
Cancer in an attack of heart failure
These are the cases that bring discredit
and deserve discredit upon athletics-de-
served because every one of them could
be avoided by intelligent medical exami-
nation and the exercise of a little or
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too ittle-no one knows which-sent
down the ball; measured the contents of
his gun with his first and second fingers
on the protruding part of the ramrod;
shook his>head again, to signify there
was too much or too little powder;
primed carefully; placed an rched piece
of tin over the hind sight to shade it,;
took his place; got friend to hold his
hat over the fore sight to shade It; took
a very long sight, fired, and didn't even
eat the paper,
my piece was badly loadned," said
Simon, when he learned the place Of his
ball.
..Oh. you didn't take time" said Mealy.
mo man can shoot that's in such q
hurry as you is. I'd hardly got to sleep
fore I heard the crack O. the gum"
The next was Moses Firmly. He was
tall, slim man, of rather sallow COM
plexion, and 1t is singular fact that
though probably no part of the world is
more healthy than the mountainous parts
of Georgia, the mountaineers have not
generally robust frames or fine complex
ions; they are, however, almost mex
haustible by toll.
Moses kept us not long in suspense. His
rifle was already charged, and he fixed it
upon the target with a steadiness Of
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binary common sense and judgment in
the exclusion from athletics contest or
training of all boys or men who are re-
Gently convalescent from any attack of
infectious disease.
Every athletic trainer or coach ought
to be compelled by law either to take a
medical degree or at least such physio-
logical and medical training as that pos
sessed by a trained nurse, for instance,
which would enable him to recognize
these dangerous conditions of the heart
and to discover when it is doing badly
under training. Then one of these pitia-
BILE accidents should cost him his posi-
ton at once
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From Success Magazine.
Colonel Dennison had become the hap
ply father of twins, and his unboundet
pride in this twofold blessedness found
expression on every occasion.
He stood with a friend on the bani
steps one day as a young woman passed
wheeling a baby carriage containing g
pretty girl baby.
Doesn't a woman look queer SAID
the Colonel loftily, with only one
child"
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and afterwards remoulded But this
grew out of the exigency of the times
and has, believe, been long since
abandoned everywhere.
| The three master shots and rivals were
Moses Firmly, Larkin Spivey and Billy
| Curlew; to whom was added, upon this
occasion, by common consent and with
awful forebodings, your humble servant
| The target was fixed at an elevation of
about three feet from the ground: and
the judges (Captin Turner and Squire
Porter took their stands by it, Joined
by about half the spectators.
| The first name on the catalcg was
Mealy Whitecotton. Mealy stepped out,
rifle in hand, and toed the mark. His
rifle was about three inches longer than
himself, and near enough his own thick
ness to make the remark of Darby CHS
lom as he stepped out. tolerably appro-
PIRATE: Here comes the corn-stock and
the sucker!' said Darby.
kiss my foot!' said Mealy. 1.-THE
way I'll creep into that bulls-eyes a
| fact"
you'd better creep into your hind
sight said Darby. Mealy raised and
| fired.
"a pretty good shot. Mealy!' said one.
Yes, blamed good shot!" said Sec
ond.
"Well done. Meal!" said third.
| was reioiced when one of the COM
pany inquired, "Whcre is it?' for I could
hardly believe they were founding these
| remarks upon the evidence of their
senses. rs
Just on the right-hand side of the
bull's-eye." was the reply
| ! looked with all the power of my eyes.
but was unable to discover the least
change In the surface of the paper. Their
report. however. was true; so much
keener is the vision Of a practiced than
an Impractical eye.
| The next in order was Hiram Baugh
Hiram was like some race-horses which
The National tribune., 1910-08-18
Fighting Hindman at Van Ruren.

n. J. Myers. 10th Kan, FL Reno,
okla. writes:
Gen. Hindman crossed the Boston
Mountain with $4,000 effective men.
Gen. Blunt lay at Cain Hill with 5000
awaiting reinfOrcements. They attacked
the reinforcements eight miles to the
left of our position, and Gen. Blunt
moved his army back to join Gen. Scho-
field and his 5000, making u 900 Union
men against $1,000 rebels. The last
gun was fired after dark, with Hind
mans army in retreat and 5000 dead
and wounded left on the battle ground.
our side lost in killed and wounded
LOO. After we had cared for the
wounded of both armies Gen. Schofield
ordered ms back to Missouri.
Gen. Blunt remained in northern
Arkansas at cain mill. where the
wounded were taken. / was coIor-bear-
er of the 10th Kan, and belonged near
the town of Van Buren,, Ark. At Drip
ping Spring we struck Hindman'S ad-
vanced guard and captured his outpost,
Texas regiment. our cavalry chased
others back to Van Buren, and to the
Arkansas River, where they tied up two
steamboats,. There the main army of
Cen. Hlndman opened fire on our cav
airy, compelling them to fall back. un-
til our field guns came up and got two
batteries into position.
1 iHIee IouHuS OF SHOt ana smell 81
fenced the rebel guns, and the steam
boats took leave during the engagement
and steamed down the river. Our COM
mand was strung along the river over
two miles, and few hailing shots
caused the steamboats, to stop and come
ashore. Gen. Blunt and his bodyguard
went aboard. The artillery and infantry
moved thru the city to the landing, and
as the boats arrived with Blount on
deck cheers do I,t
were heard by Hindman's retreating
army. We captured a number of pris-
oners, two steamboats,, 40 hogsheads of
sugar and several tons of parched corn
meal, 40 mule teams Gao muIes), with
wagons and harness. The sugar and
parched cornmeal were loaded in cap
tured wagons, and Blunt and his little
army, after sending the steamboats, up
in smoke, fell back to relieve the post
at Springfield. Mo-"
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Some Riding on the Plains.

Serg't T. d. Roth, Troop K. 1st U. S.
Cav, Gettysburg. Pa, writes:
! when he was President, Col. Roose-
welt rode thru Virginia, 9S miles in II
hours. Some of the old boys in blue
beat that in days gone by. On the
morning of June 2. 1871, Lieut.. Cush-
ing. Sd L. 5. Cav, with detachments of
Troop x, 1st L. S. Cav; Troops and
T., Sd e. S. Cav t95 men selected espe-
cially for their horsemaHShip and stay
ing qualities), left Old Camp Grant.
Ariz.. in pursuit of a numbering band
of Indians, following them three sue
ceSsive days at an average of 20 miles
a day (210 miles), until they overlook
them. Taking 60 of the detachment,
we followed the Indians all night, hay
ing left our horses where we first came
in sight of them. We overlook them at
break of day, and as a result of the
fight "A were made good Indians.
Many more were wounded.
This is only one of the many that
occurred in those days when hardshipS
were hardly considered if the object
sought was accomplished. The men
stationed at old Camp Grant were never
idle. Many scouting parties We're con-
tinually in the Apache Mountains look
ing up the Indians. ?,and many dis
patches were carried at great risk of
life. The distance from Grant To Tue
son and Florence was go miles, and all
dispatches and CARRIERS went by night,
our average time being from nine to 10
hours.
During the Modoc war in Oregon, in
1873, and after the treachery of Capt.
Jack in the killing of Gen. Candy.
Serg't r. d. Roth. Troop X, 1st U. S.
Cav, was stationed at Eureka. Cal, in
charge Of messengers carrying mail and
dispatches to headquarters of the army.
Lieut.. Stone handed the Sergeant a dis
patch. to be delivetedJ at headquarters
with as little delay as possible. After
a fruitless effort to secure a carrier the
Sergeant left Eureka at 9 o'clock p. m,
and arrived at headquarters of the
army with the dispatch to Gen. Whea-
ton at II o'clock midnight, having rid
den the 80 miles in 10 hours, including
20 minutes at Balls Ranch to feed his
horse and eat supper. He used the
same horse all the way, and carried rs
pounds of mail. returning the next
day to his station at Eureka, still using
the same horse. which, after being well
groomed, would have stood the closest
inspection and review.-Serg't r. d.
Roth, Troop X, 1st U. S. Cav, Gettys-
burg, Pa, r. 5.
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The I'd y. J.

Editor National Tribune: In your
issue OF June 3. 1910 in your short his
tory of the Sd n. j., you make a
mistake when you say the regiment
went out 1851 strong. and was placed
in the New jersey Bnigade.l command
ed by Gen. Kcarny. The facts are
that the regiment only hedb 10 COM
panies, from A to X. of 100. men each.
The writer was a member of go. G of
the Sd n. J. The regiment.Jeft Tren-
ton with the 1St and 2d regiments as
the First New Jersey Brigade, com
mandeG by Col. Muatgomery.rof the 1st
y. j. Gen. Kearny. did not get com
mand of the brigade until after the
first battle of Bull Run. He came to the
brigade while we Gsfc efrc1mped at
Fairfax Seminary. about the last of
August. 1861. Gen HunYonshad charge
Of the brigade during the first Bull Run
battle. Your list of. killed may be cor
rect up to the time tfie regiment was
mustered out in 1864, but there We're
40 men re-enlisted IN 1868 who were
turned over to the 18th NJ j. When
the Sd \. ]. went home the 10 men
were afterward formed into a battalion
and known as co. a. Sd Battalion. Vet.
Vols. Now, out of that 40 men there
were only 35 who came home at the
final Inuster-out in 1865. They had all
been members of the ed y. J. in differ
ent companies. The writer made out
the final !nuster-Out rolls and knows
what he is saying to be facts.
The Sd Battalion was attached to the
18th y. J. as an Independent company,
under Col. PenrOse. and we certainly
got our share of the hard knocks. as
Col. Penrose told US in bidding IT'S fare
well, when we were leaving for home,
that the reason he always pushed US to
the front in time OF need was that we
were veterans, and ne thought we en-
joyed it,
Now. what wanted to get at in writ
ing this is that the 15th y. J. did not get
credit for the killed. wounded and miss
ing from the Sd Battalion. The bat
TALON did not, that / know Of and so
l think the Sd \. ]. should have the
credit
The writer was one of a party who
captured the first Union soldier desert
ing to the rebels. and who was tried.
convicted and shot at Fairfax Seminary
in December 1S61.-James s. Morrow,
co. &, Sd n. J., Shamoku. Pa.
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At Port Hudson.

I ~
Editor National Tribune: had
Joined my regiment. the 4th wis. April
8. at Bayou Teche. as recruit and
participated in the Camp Bfsland fight,
the movement north, the mounting of
the regiment at and around opelousas
and to and 40 miles beyond Alexan-
dria, then down Red River and across
the Mississippi to Port Hudson, which
we reached May 20! HE
Before it was light we were in line
for the assault and had moved forward
| While standing awaiting the order to
advance in the direction Of the heavy
firing we heard Gen. H. E. Paine ride
up in the rear near us and say: Now,
boys, all depends on you. For Gods
sake, don't give back" i can never
forget those words nor the feeling they
gave and some scenes that followed
Very soon the order came to advance
As we moved forward / saw a man sit
ting on the ground. his feet in an ex-
Cavation a foot deep, his gun held up
right by one arm next to. his body and
the top of his head blown off. The
sight stckened me. l turned my head
from the sight only to look upon a
man being carried to the rear on a
stretcher, one arm hanging down, man.
gled and bleeding.
For a few moments / moved with the
line automatically. ] became cool and
calm. We came to the felled timber,
when it was every man for himself
Passing over a ridge into the hollow, /
found myself alone against a fallen
tree, my way barred in every direction
A man behind me. caring for a wound
ed man, said: "Our men are firing at
you" The balls struck the log near
me, so ] got on the other side as quick
~ as possible Near its top was a
group of men, whom ] found to be a
part of the 18th y. Y. The Colonel was
with them. and the position was shell
tered and favorable for keeping up a
fire upon the enemy.
Some of the LIST or I'd La. were also
there. one of them, close to me be-
hind a log, stood up to fire, and ball
passed thru his head just back of his
eyes. His comrades led him back out
of the sun, and wet handkerchief and
placed it over his forehead ! supposed
he would die. but a year later | saw
i'm on duty with the sight of one eye
gone but we'll otherwise. When ] first
got to the New Yorktrs their flag was
planted on the ridge, but soon after the
staff was split and the flag was re-
moved. Night came and the lines. were
Men got to their proper
places rifle pits were dug. and the siege
was on. For six days we stayed there; !
then we found our horses and fought at
Clinton. ] don't know what. brigade |
The 18th y. y. belonged to. but / am |
certain that it was in the. fight at Port |
Hudson MAY 81. 1861 y. Liscomb, !
Co. E. 9TH. Wis. CAY. Los Angeles, Cal. !
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The Petersburg Mine.

j. Henry Pippitt. I'd Pa. II. A. Brook
Ilyn, n. Y. says that Comrade Osford. of
Romulus. n. Y, is mistaken as to the
the assault on the Crater at Petersburg
The I'd Pa. Provisional H. A. was the
regiment selected for this, as they were
/ in the front works directly opposite the
Crater. The 18th N. Y. IT. A was bri-
gaded with the I'd Pa. II. A. and moved
( in on its right. but never reached the
| Crater. The I'd Pa. II. A. not only
! lreached the Crater. but went over and
beyond II $50 yards. where they have
now markers planted. The whole COM
pany. commanded by Capt. Norris was
taken prisoners. including the Captain.
when the recoil came. No other white
troops got in the Crater that morning
Comrade Pippitt was Johnny on the
spot, and the next morning when a flag
of truce was allowed to bury the dead
it was impossible to tell a negro from
white man except by his hair. If there
was any flag planted on the works, 1t
was the I'd II. A, and no other. There
was more or less jealousy between the
two regiments. Parts of two Confeder-
ate regiments were blown up with the
fort, but flag might have been picked
up. but not by the 18th II. A, as il was
too far to the right of the Crater.
Battery A, 1St Pa. l.. a.
G. c. Rodell, Spokane. Wash, says
that Battery A, 1st Pa l.. A, was or
lsanized at Chambersburg in April. 1861.
for three months, with Charles r Camp
bell as Captain. 1t started out with four
brass Napoleons. and went to York, Pa.
After drilling there for several weeks
the battery marched one night to Har-
risburg, and at Camp Curtin re-enlisted
for three years. Capt. Campbell was
promoted to Colonel, and after having
been badly wounded was mustered out
as Brigadier-General. HeZekiah Easton
took command of the battery, and told
the boys that as long as he was in COM
mand the battery would never surren-
der. AT the battle of Gaines's Mill, June
q. 1862. the battery was surrounded,
the infantry supports having been with
drawn. Easton was called upon to sur
render by a Confederate officer His
reply was: we never surrender" These
were the last words Capt Easton spoke
He was shot dead by the Confederates
that swarmed around the battery A
better soldier and nobler man never
drew a sword
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Capt. Hawthorn Again.

Capt. T. c. Reynolds. Co. II. 105th
Pa. Harrisburg, Pa, writes that he still
adheres to his former statement that
there never was Capt. Hawthorn in
the l05th Pa. In that gallant old Wild
cat" organization the name of Wesley
hawthorn does not appear. Neither
does that OF Edmond or Frank Francis
+. Hawthorn belonged to Co. G, and
died of wounds received in action June
II, 1854 Joseph K. Hawthorn, of Co.
G, enlisted in October. 1881. and died
in hospital at Alexandria, Va. VIM.
Z. Hawthorn was mustered out with his
company July II, 1865.
The National tribune., 1910-08-18
One OF the Two Saved.

Editor National Tribune: In reading
the Wilderness Campaign, in which
took part was very much Interested
l was wounded on June 3, 1864, with a
great many others. and with them Law
on the field until June g. was wound
ed in the right shoulder, and the wound
bled so much ! could not walk. / lay
on the held between two others, who
died before we were removed, so think
am one of the two that your paper of
July IL speaks of that were saved. !
was only II years of age at that time.
] do heartily approve of The National
Tribune pension bill. and hope 1t will
pass this coming Winter.-Wm. b.
Whittemore, 5Sth Mass, Putnam, Conn.
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Slees Emneny Worth Telling of Experiences and Adventures
in the Great National Struggle

Istinging pain in my leg, and my horse
made a jump that nearly unseated me.
As l rode back the firing from the
| thicket commenced in volleys again, but
no foe was in sight all this time. 1t
seemed to be the tactics of the enemy
| tc charge up thru the thicket almost to
the edge of the road and deliver a vol
ley or two, then fall back to repeat the
same tactics over and over again. They
had the bulge on us. and meant to
keep it.
A Duel in the Road.
AT about the fourth charge one of
the Rangers, either having little more
sand than the rest r.being unable to
control his horse, broke from the brush.
coming out into the road almost direct
ly in front of me, firing two shots in
quick succession, the first one going
wild, the second one striking my horse
in the neck just forward of the right
shoulder. Almost simultaneously with
his last shot my pistol went off, and