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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27
q OmPuzZle Corner &
CHARADE.

My first is the nickname of a boy:
My second appears in the word annoy;
And part of chain you'll find my third;
And my whole Is the name Of pretty
bird.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

fire of Goals, and greater pride in his
ability to go forth and forage for a
meal, capture his game and make his
own bread.
There is another part Of the play
that adds the necessary thrill to keep
all this serious work adequately sugar
coated It Is the actual scouting. The
enemy is somewhere in the neighbor-
hood and must be discovered. Parties
of three or four are sent forth to in
vestigate. They can creep through
the underbrush without making a
sound, can climb trees and swim riv-
ers in the quest. They learn to find
their way by means Of maps and COM
pass and to steer their course by the
sun and stars. Instruction in the sig
nal code with smoking torch and bon
fire is part of the camp course,
and they are taught the system of
flag signals in use in the British army
There is target practice and the man
ual Of arms, setting up exercise and
dress parade drill in the days work.
All this appeals to the boy while it
is developing his body and ,molding
his character. He becomes alert and
strong, cultivates the habit of close
observation and attention to details,
and better than all these, he is i'm
bued with the sentiment that it is
worthy and kind to be gentle toward
the weak and helpless, that fellow
who would lie or cheat or In any way
take an unfair advantage is person
beneath contempt, and that the fell
low who "cherishes e crouch" is de-
cidedly in the way and ought not to
be tolerated. He is saturated with the
thought that selfshness and coward
ice are despicable. He is charged to
do each day some worthy and I'M
selfish act, to help some one in dis
tress or add to some ones comfort
and happiness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

of skill and information. He must
learn about wild animals and how to
track, trap and dress them. He must
achieve skill in woodcraft and the art
of building boats and bridges, must
know how to set up tent or, in the
absence of tents, he must be able to
construct a shelter of such materials as
he finds in the woods. All the appli-
ances for saving life must be mas
tered. The scout knows what to do
when he sees a comrade overmastered
in the water, and how to resuscitate
the victim, who is all but dead when
he is rescued. He can swim and dive,
can paddle any kind Of boat that is
seaworthy and repair, with any tools
at hand, the one that leaks to the dan
ger point He is taught the simple
rudiments of gun-shot surgery, so that
in case of accident he can give intelli-
gent aid to the injured while awaiting
the surgeon. Many a life is lost be
cause those on the ground do not know
what to do, and either do nothing at
all or do the wrong thing.
The boy makes friends with the
horse, studies his habits and learns
how to handle him. The true scout
never jerks or leases or beats the ami
NAL he has in charge, and he acquires
the art of stopping the runaway steed
in the street, and. takes 1t upon him
self to reprimand the non-scout who Is
caught abusing his horse. He learns
what to do in case Of fire, how to
enter a burning building for the pur-
pose of saving life or property, and
how to escape from one IN the safest
manner possible. Many other prac-
cluded in the scouts course of in
struction, and through all of it runs
the note of self-reliance and resource
fitness. He is made to use his brains
to face problems and think out the
solution, to conquer difficulties and
surmount obstacles. And all this is
given to him in the guise of play!
In the woods the boy acquires a
great deal of real information con-
corning plants and animals. He studies
the tracks Of certain animals that are
good for food and fur, especially those
that are constant menace to the
chicken roost, and learns to trap or
shoot them and then cook them so
that they will be palatable to woods
man with ravenous appetite and no
finicky notions about what Is proper
to eat The boy with the puniest ap-
petite and the most foolishly indul-
gent mother comes home, after an
encampment with the scouts, ready to
eat anything that Is set before him.
He has been impressed with the idea
that it is effeminate and weak to be
critical about his food The real,
hardy scout can eat anything that is
not poisonous, and relish It. And he
gets over the notion that cooking is
work only for women or for the hired
chef. He takes pride in his ability to
make coffee and broil bacon over Il
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

few hundred millions more can be used
to great advantage. Thus, 1t seems
that the chair devoted to the interests
of study of Baudelaire and the Mont
martre school of poets Of decadence 10.
not backed by foundation. Any gen
tleman knowing the formative value
of these writer's upon youthful charac-
ter is at liberty to give $4,000 for the
purpose of founding a professorsh1p.
The study Of the left hind knee Of the
common house fly has not been given.
sufficient laboratory attention. and a.
million might we'll be devoted to that
purpose.
The real truth Of the matter is that
our universities are becoming too diff
fuse in their offerings to young men
who have not developed either charac-
ter or mental tendencies. Harvard has
turned out some of the great men Of
the country in the past, especially
when it was poor and when students
lived In bare rooms and dined at COM
mons We do not sec the young men
emerging now from Harvard or other
colleges who are able to tackle the
problems of the age.-Phtladelphia
INQUIRER
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
Mournera In Red.

There can be no doubt that in the
dark and part of the middle ages red
and not black was the favorite mourn
ing color throughout Europe. Even
down to the end of the fifteenth cen
fury the change from blood red to-
black was not complete, though black
cloaks were worn over red clothing
In Abyssinia the mourning color is a.
reddish brown. In Turkey it Is violet,
a. color closely allied to red. 1t is a.
curious fact that among the Maoris of
New Zealand red is the hue Of sorrow.
In earlier times mourners daubed their
bodies with red juices when they fol-
lowed a chief to his grave, and even
the resting places Of the bodies were,
also colored red.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
school More Attractive.

A boy of IL years of age, with an
air of melancholy resignation, went to
his teacher and handed in the follow
ing note from his mother before TAX
ing his seat: Dear Sir-Please ex-
cuse James for not being present yes
terday He played truant, but you
needn't whip him for it, as the boy he
played truant with and him fell out.
and he licked James; and a man they
threw stones at caught him and licked
him; and the driver of cart they
hung on to licked him; and the owner
of cat they chased licked him. Then
l licked him when he came home, af-
ter which his father licked him;
and l had to give another for being
impudent to me for telling his father.
So you need not lick him until next
time. He thinks he will attend regu-
larly in future
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

The eternal spirit of boyhood is
crippled, but not suppressed by the
cramping conditions of industrial CIV
ilization. The natural culture for this
lively human germ Is the breezy farm
and. the healthy rural village. Farm
life is sounder but its isolation, under
the conditions Of American agricul-
ture, prevents that combination
through which the boy spirit, like in
dustrial energy, reaches full develop
ment. The home of Tom Sawyer was
an ideal place for boy to grow up
and the boy stories of William Allen
White indicate that such villages still
thrive in the State of Kansas. Crowd
ed streets and the tainted air of in
dustrial cities blight the spirit Of boy
hood, even when IL is not crushed by
early toll. The few boys, m1scalled
fortunate, who are lifted by wealth
and luxury out of crowded streets and
tainted atmosphere, escape only to en-
counter new letters upon the soaring
spirit Of boyhood Condemned from
the age of rompers to a round OF con-
ventional duties BETTING their station,
and of pleasures only less deadly, the
feebler of them repeat in miniature
of fashion the boredom and sometimes
the vices of their elders. The rare
spirits who break out Of these and re-
vert to the vital habits of primitive
boyhood in the country may be the
hope of a living future instead Of the
memory of dead past. The grand
son Of Jay Gould, who ran away from
Pomfret, Conn, exactly as Huck Finn
ran away from his fathers cabin, re-
wives the spirit of boyhood in many
an elderly bosom. He was 16 years
old and had two dollars and a half.
He had seen a bit of Broadway and
Pomfret bored him. He never had left
home before and was a bit homesick.
He climbed the fence at a ball game
and started to walk to New York. He
had no other aim except adventure.
He preferred barn sleeping to cheap
lodging houses and made his money
last from Friday until Monday morn
ing, when his blistered feet led him to
a police station and confession. BY
the time he was rested and filled up
a secretary came and took him home.
This reads like sissy performance
beside those of Huck Finn, but 1t is
something for the grandson of the man
of Erie and black Friday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

legislatures has been consumed in the
consideration of plans for changing
the machinery by which nominations
are made and officers chosen. The
only merit which they can see in the
change of system is that It's discussion
attracts attention to the need of vigil
lance in government. They insist that
the convention system has produced
good results and is responsive to any
emphatically expressed demand of the
party. AS a device for carrying on
the details of party management, when
the mass of voters is indifferent, they
maintain that 1t is unsurpassed, and
that the admitted abuses under 1t are
no worse than those which will arise
under any other system But discon-
tent with the nominating conventions
is widespread, and the discontinued
say, Let us try the new plan. 1t can
not be any worse than the Old And
SO the aspiration for better things Is
behind the movement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
WEALTHY UNIVERSITY.
Harvard Might Use It's $23 100000
to Teach Useful Subjects

Harvard Might Use ltS $&S, OOO,O6O
to Teach Useful Subjects
Harvard University presents the an
nual report of the president and treas
urer in large volume filed with in
teresting data. The institution starts
off with nearly $23 100000 of invested
funds which produce almost a million
dollars annual revenue The plant"
is worth some more millions, while
the current receipts are large. AS a
going concern Harvard seems to be a
very prosperous corporation.
This must be very gratifying to Pres
ident Lowell, who is just completing
his first year, but under the present
system 1t is fraught with come danger
He must look upon this as a starting
point. II he manages to keep up with
the record of President Eliot, he will
rival the Standard Oil Company a few
years hence, The balance sheet shows
a nice sum carried to credit and profit
and loss, but there are so many ave-
nues CT energy in the situation that
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
Winning His Way.

A man past middle age, gray and
neatly dressed in black, on New York
car remarked rather loudly that it was
a fine day, and that he was glad he
had come to the United States He
seemed to know all the policemen as
the car went along and the street
cleaners and street repairers as we'll
exchanged salutations with him. He
was Familiarity known as John" to all
of them. The passengers were amazed
at the alacrity with which they all
espied him, far and near, and respond
ed whenever the old man waved his
hand He was in exuberant spirits,
and a policeman who seemed to take
an interest in him asked: well,
John, where are you going now?" The
old mans face frightened as he re-
piled: Il am going to put in the
newspapers how we'll I've done since
I came to America" What have you
done? Tell u.s." asked a passenger
sympathetically. We'll, l have been
working a few years as street sweep
err, and have just been promoted to a
Job at repairing the roads,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

The raising of cork is one Of the
latest experiments of the Agricultural
Department. Two thousand one-year
seedlings of cork-oak have been plant
ed, fifteen hundred of them in the
Santa Barbara National Forest, and
five hundred in the Monterey National
Forest in southern California. The
climatic conditions in both places are
similar to those in Spain, the natural
location of the cork-oak, and in fact,
trees of considerable size have already
been grown in California. The expert
ment, if it succeeds, will add a new
and valuable source of revenue to the
country. ...t
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

A defender Of the kind of football
which is rapidly passing out Of exist
ence has been ridiculing the revised
regulations, and sarcastically proposes
this additional rule: ANY player
caught scowling at the opposing eleven
shall be promptly disqualified" Should
this also be adopted, no doubt the
game would be more pleasant for both
participants and spectators. A scowl
is not always sign OF good temper.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

The ancient democracies practiced
not only direct nomination of candi-
dates for office, but direct legislation
as well. The proposed laws were sub
1nitted to the qualified voters, and
were accepted or rejected, according
to the will of the majority. AS popu-
lation increased and democracies ex-
tended over great areas, the represent
alive system of lawmaking grew up.
In some form the people of more than
twenty-five States have adopted the
direct nomination system in place of
the party nominating convention. Its
popularity is due largely to the belief
that it makes 1t easier for the voters
to control the action of their party.
It is urged in its favor that 1t destroys
the power of the machine, and
makes it impossible for the bosses
to consummate corrupt agreements
among themselves. The friends Of the
system say further that it makes the
party Immediately responsive to the
will of the majority through the elm
tnation of the unnecessary nominating
convention. In spite of its growing
popularity, many thoughtful men re-
gret that so much Of the time of the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

An expert says oysters may be
kept in cold storage for ten years
and still be good. We have encoun-
tered oysters that seemed to have been
kept in some kind Of storage for ten
years, but they did not bear out the
EXPERTS theory
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
A C,nreIess Tailor.

The young woman sat plying the
needle. A coat of her husbands was
in her lap. AS the husband appeared,
she said, fretfully:
1T is too bad, the careless way the
tailor put his button on. This is the
fifth time I've had to put it on for
you"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
RrclkinT OF.

EYES," said the ingenious girl hero
ically, II have decided to break with
Horace for good and ALL
why, then, are you sending him
your picture?"
well, am sure that is the least r
can do. He refused to take back his
gifts, and l wanted to make some re-
turn, so l am sending him my photo
graph"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

The cost of living problem has now
struck France. The government, which
maintains a monopoly of the tobacco
and match trade, is caught with the
goods. Not only has it raised the
price Of these commodities, but it has
reduced the number of matches in the
box and is selling tobacco in short
weight packages. It's excuse for the
latter proceeding is that the moisture
which was in the tobacco when it was
packed has evaporated. The increase
in the cost of cigarets has excited
the boulevardiers to sucn a frenzy
that, should absinthe become dearer,
there will surely be a revolution.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

George ", in my opinion" says
Sir Conan Doyle, lis the biggest and
strongest man mentally who ever as
cended the throne of England" Per-
haps Sir Conan would like to be a
baron instead Of a baronet.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

The natural-gas we'll which in it's
day developed the strongest pressure
of any in the United States has had
to be abandoned, along with several
others in its vicinity. Another re-
minder that Americas inexhaustible
resources" are somehow or other grad
ualIy becoming exhausted.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
The uIfiunRfnm.

Mamma-No. you can't have any
more pennies to-day.
The Spoilt Child-If you don't give
me one III wake the baby.-Brook-
Ign Life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

She had been married a year. "T
wonder" she unused when the front
door slammed after Him, and she,
hung UP the dishrag, IF Carnegie.
offers any medal for putting up with
brute like that"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

London wants New York's gold,
the financial report says. And Lon
don Is likely to get it, if the annual
migration does not undergo an un-
usual shrinkage.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Large quantities Of bogus art are
being shipped into this country from
Europe This should be stopped.
America can easily produce all the bo-
gus art that Is needed here.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Every little while some rich Amer
lean coming home from Europe gets
through the custom-house at New York
without a squabble or scandal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

demented Russian threw a can of
uncooked beans at the German crown
prince. Boston will regard this as
a needless waste of precious material.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

People often say of an unusually
bright boy: He's too smart; he won't
live" Yet nearly all boys of that
kind not only live but outgrow it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

At Harvard a senior Is living on 81
a week One must hope the brain
food he gets is worth more than that.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

In heaven you will live forever, and
have nothing to do; there's the place
to settle the tariff question.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

A Frenchman has been killed in a.
duel. Accidents will happen, even in
q French duel
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

There is war in the hog market, but
the hog gets the worst of it no mat
ter who wins.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Nobody has as yet tried to prove
that Mark Twain was not the author
or his own works.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01
O, E, BOWEN. Publisher. |

Kissing does not spread germs.
let's not spread any.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

After a man is married he can tell
a piece of bait farther away than any
single man that ever lived.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Rich men seldom fear panic in
time to do a poor man any good.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-07-01

Some men who hope for the best are.
too lazy to go after it.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-20
- envy a4~ttlA

One Of the great obstacles to a
happy life 10 envy. We have all got
more or less of it. We wish We had
that mans house, or his diamonds.
or his money, or his automobile, or
his leisure life, and the very wish
makes us disconnected. We probably
should not Stsb them II we knew
nov much they cost, how mach an
Niety, trouble. misfortune they cost
II was Addison. we think. who told
how all mortals brought their impef'
fections and grievances and put them
into one pile. each TO select from It
such burden as he could best bear.
ard how each one, after all, was sat
lsfled with the one he laid down. IL
men were averaged uD so far as the
joys OF life are concerned. they would
all be as joyfully disposed, except
possibly, the fellow who has clear
conscience and Just enough TO eat
and wear--he woulf be higher up,
But such treatment Of tho matter Is
not rightly considered. Envy is a self
fish trait and selfishness Is always de-
grading There is something that no
thing will cure. A gold mine will
not do 1t. A million-doIlar legacy
viii not do t. There IS something
that Is hard to get rid of-envy; and
one will say, why denounce it, since
&c hurts 10 one but the envier?
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-07-20
JustIfloation bx Preeedent.

Mr., TraceweR comptroller OF the
treasury, oyerruled the decision or
Mr.. Layton, auditor of departments.
in refusing 60 allow bin of sf,44S.-
"a for expenses of Justice Peckham
at Albany. n. Y. The contention OF
the auditor was that the law gave
him no authority to pas such ex-
penses
Now, what did Mr., Traeewell in
terpose TO this2 Not the law itself,
but the same old, the ever reour-
ring justification OF precedent, that
Il was done before; not whether
there was authority for the allow
ance. but there was precedent FOR 1t.
The people OF this country have one
tyrant over them, and That Is pre-
cedent. Authority win get into the
wrong way OF doing things and then
plead the custom TO justify 1t.
What reason under heavens, has
the supreme court to spend s1,4fS
for burying a member Of the court
personal expenses IN attending a
funefaig tie law gives no such
right It was simply appropriated in
the first place. and ever since then
It has been kept up as If it was a
divine institution. It is exactly the
case with all unlawful fees which
are defended on the ground that my
predec sssors did t."
The road to liberty, Justice and
public duty is in extricating or.
selves from the wilderness OF rrec.
edent, and out upon the highway OF
new square deal. where one man
Is just as good as another whether
III Is supreme Justice or farm
hund. All this precedent business
has It's roots back in the monarchy
where public authority was privileged
and the people were servants. Our
theory Of government Is exactly the
opposite. and the people should re-
gard with jealousy every purpose to
ignore II. There are millions OF dol
lars OF the public money drnbled
out along these ruts. =