Mexico Missouri message., 1916-08-17
MINNEOLA SPRINGS.
What the Had Indian Did--Boy
Scouts Teach the Doing of Good
Dceds-A Visit at the Springs.
(By l.. Roy Ferris)

wal anu hNoA paHb '"N'a
war song, which sounds like a little
boy crying because he can't go to town
with Uncle John, only it sounds
great deal louder? And watch them
shake their awful looking war hatch
cts. tell you it makes a fellow feel
creepy up and down his back, and
he is glad he has hold of dads finger,
for dad is a big man and can do any
thing, and you are going to be just
like your dad when you grow up.
Well, one time in the year of 1913,
about 35 miles from Mexico, lived a
man, his wife and little boy about IL
years old. One day when little Tom
went. down in the pasture after old
Bossy, the COW, down where the vi
olets and columbines grow, old Bos-
sy was not there, for she had taken
notion to go visiting up at the won
derful Salt Gum Springs, which is
now called Minneola. You see the
water was a salty taste and the ami
mails liked it. But someone had
sawed down old Brother Bears
home (the hollow sycamore tree) =,
and cut off length, like you do when
you make a whistle out of elder, and
had put it down in the spring to keep
the mud from filling the spring. Old
Bossy, the COW. had caused the little
boys father 80 many trips to the
spring to bring her home that the
boys father decided to move close to
the spring, so old Bossy could drink
all the salt water she wanted.
So he built log house. which
still stands, and cut down some tim
ber and planted d field of corn.
One day when the boy and his ia
ther were plowing they thought they
heard old Mr.. Owl call across the
creek, and in minute another owl
answered and the boys father told
him to continue plowing while he
went to investigate but to be sure
and carry his gun on the plow for il
is something unusual for DR.. Owl to
; call in the morning when every res.
pectable owl is supposed to be al
; home in bed.
Now here is the sad part of the
story. You see the Indians initiate
the different animals in their calls
; and soon two painted Indians had
) swan the creek and had found the
gun the boy had put against the tree
instead of carrying 1t with him az
his father told him to, and now re
greet to tell you the rest, but the In
dians killed the little boy and 81
most killer his father, so you see il
always pays to mind father, for th'
: Indians only had their bows and ar
rows, and the boy was a good shot
don't know what would hav
finally happened if man, dear to ev
: every boys heart, Daniel Boone, Lat
: not come to that part of the-countr.
to visit his uncle, and succeeded il
= driving the Indians away.
: Daniel Boone built q platform in
: great tree close to the spring from
: which he shot deer when they came t
+ lick the salt, and it is only of lat
= that the tree has blown down.
: band of good women have placed sew
eral granite shafts. one of then
: right near the spring, to mark tn
Il path Daniel God,
: Now, the other day, bunch o
Boy Scouts visited this very spot
80 but they were not the kind that low
J. war. What they love is to do a goo
: deed every day, and the corners G
> their mouths tIrn up instead c
x down, which means they love to b
i' pleasant,
n You could look in every knapsacl
thru every pocket and In every no
D. low log near the camp and you woul
. not find cigarette, for they want
- be strong, healthy men when the
grow up.
The patrol leader is a red heade
ie boy named Archie, for you know
g. takes a red headed boy to do thing
Is II you will have your dad hitch y
the automobile before they leave an
visit the camp. which is located 9
Mr.. e. B. scanland's farm. nel
81 Minneola Springs. they viii show yc
the wonderful secret of what
means to think about other people
/. pleasure as well as your own.