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The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
SCOUTS LOOKING UP SOLDIERS.

Again the boy scouts. have, been called into service by Uncle Sam. The treasury department is having difficult ty in locating many of the, returned service men, whose wa4 risk insurance is apt to become void unless payments are kept up.
 Secretary Garter Glass says: Tt is impossible for the Urea sury department to reach a large proportion of the demobilized men by mail, for the req son that many of them are not return ing to their former homes, or have changed their addresses, or for the time being are transient. If they per init their insurance to lapse and die before they reinstate it, their depend ents cannot receive any insurance from the government, and consequently there will be widespread dependency. Restitution and suffering throughout the country during the years to come.
 The services of the boy scouts have been called upon to aid in preventing the threatened condition. Every troop will be supplied with number of gov ernment posters to be placed in favor able places. --
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
 CHAPTER NA-Continued.


 And If space itself can be haunted as memory is) haunted, then some time when, the space that was Isabefs room came to be made into the small bed rooms and "kitchenettes" already de signed as its. destiny, that space might we'll be haunted and the. new occupants come to feel that some seemingly causeless depression hung about it--a wraithh of thR, passion that filled il throughout the last night that George Minafer spent there.
 Whatever remnants of the old high handed arrogance were still within him, he did penance for his deepest sin that night-and it may be that to this day some fmpressionable, over worked woman in "kitchenette, after turning out the light. will seem to see a young man kneeling in the darkness, shaking convulsively, and with arms outstretched through the wall, clutching at the covers of a shadoWy bed. It may seem to her that she hears the faint cry, over and over
 Mother, forgive me! God, forgive me!" -t
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
PERsHING's COUSIN A SCOUT

A cousin of General Pershing is the boy scout chief in Oklahoma City. Writing of the trustworthiness of these 'kids in khaki" Scout Executive J. B. Pershing says:
 Not long since the manager of one Gf Oklahoma City's biggest concerns phoned the headquarters and asked for scout to work in his office.
 CT want scout, because I can de- pend on him, he is trustworthy
 "He got his scout and still has him.
 "A leader of one of our leading clubs wanted 20 scouts for a particu- lar service during the war. The chief expressed doubt about his ability to get them, and suggested he ask an- other source. The answer came quickly:
 elf can't get scouts, don't want any. I can trust a scout" I might multiply these instances hundredfold. The fact is the pub lie has come to trust a scout because he is trustworthy.
 But after all, the real test of scout is his home life. If dad or mother can say; "Our boy is a good scout, he is worthy of our trust" then h. is a good scout indeed.
 A scout is trustworthy. This law of scouting is heard around the"world- It is the foundation, the flower of the scout movement.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
SOLDIER JOINS SCOUT RANKS.

Widely known among boy scouts and prominent as a teacher in south Georgia, Prof W. L. Sprouse, returned soldier from France, begins his work as scout commissioner of Waycross and Ware county with the reorganiza- tion of the movement in that section.
 Scouting is fortunate in lining up such capable men who have an abound ing interest in boys and great love for the outdoors. -@3
 MT. Sprouse was reared in the foot hills of the Cumberland mountains educated at Peabody college and the. University of Tennessee has taught in public and private schools for eight years, served with the A. E. F. over seas for nearly year, has travelled ex- tensively, featuring the boy scouts on the Mammoth cave,>Rhere he has made explorations, and for five years has been a hustIing scoutmaster in this section.
 'I shall hope to see the day when scouting will become a tremendous factor in training our Southern boys for citizenship" said Professor Sprouse. "Organized boyhood has won a prominent and lasting place in our national life because of what boy scouts did for the country. and the world during the war.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
SCOUTS A FAITH RESTORATIVE.

So common is the sight of the scout uniform, so far-reaching is the scout service, and so deep is its impression on the American imagination, that it is hard to think that scouts have not al- ways been.
 There are times when all of us des- pair of the future of the race, so ram- pant seems evil, so triumphant and ar rogant seems vice and selfshness. We know nothing that can so swiftly re- store faith for humanity as the sight of a troop of uniformed scouts.
 Give the scout movement it's right ful chance and when Americas pres ent boyhood becomes America's man. hood, a bond of comradeship, a bond of brotherhood, shall have been forged which it will be impossible to break
 Then we shall have the brotherhood of man. then we shall have true Amer lcaniSm.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

"Dfd you ever hear the Indian nInit' for that little grove of beech trees on the other side of the house?" she asked him.
 "No-and you never did either :" he laughed
 Don't be so sure! I read a great deal more than I used forgetting ready for my bookish days when I'll have to do something solid in the eve nings and won't be asked to dance any more, even by the very youngest boys who think it's a sporting event to dance with the oldest of the older girls The name of the grove was 'Loma-Nashah' and it means They Couldn't-Help-It.'
 Doesn't sound like it.''
 Indian names don't. There was a bad Indian chief lived in the grove be- fore the white settlers can He. was the worst Indian that ever lived, and his name Was-it was 'VendOnah.' That means Everything "
 II see," said Eugene thoughtful1y. He gave her a quick look and then fixed his eyes upon the end of the garden path. "Go on."
 "Vendonah was an unspeakable case" Lucy continued. "He was so proud that he wore iron shoes, and he walked over peoples faces with them. He was always killing people that way. and so at last the tribe decided
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
WHAT KEEPS SCOUTS BUSY.

The juvenile probationers in Mont clair, N. J., are handled at the boy scout office.
 A wheel chair was bought for an invalid boy by the scout troop in Poughquag N. Y.
 Scouts in Wyano, Penn, raised enough money to buy a bell for church and also pledged $50.
 As a novel "good turn" the scouts in Troop No 4 of Dormont, Penn, have planted 25 cherry trees 'just for the birds"
 The campaign to place war and navy department citations for employ CTS of rt turned service men has been carried on so energetically by thou sands of scout troops that Washington is hearty in it's praise of the work
 Troop scribes, representing twenty active troops of Boy Scouts of Amer lea in the North Hudson council in New Jersey, have formed a press club. The purpose of the organization is to form a system of keeping the troops of the council in touch with one another's activities through the medium of scout columns in the daily papers.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

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Wait just minute, my boy. I've prepared little speech of welcome, and even though you're five hours ahead of time, l mean to deliver 1t. First of all, your grandfather was my old war cOmrade and my best client i; for years l prOspered through my con- nection with his business, and his grandson is welcome in my office and to my best efforts in his behalf. But want to confess, Georgie, that during your earlier youth I may have had some slight feeling of-well, prejudice, not altogether in your favor; but what ever slight feeling 1t was, 1t began to vanish on that afternoon good while ago, when you stood up to your Aunt Amelia Anderson as you did in the Majors library, and talked to her as man and a gentleman should. I saw then what good stuff was in you-and l always wanted to mention 1t. I think you'll find an honest pleasure now in industry and frugality that wouldn't have come to you in a more frivolous career. The law is a jealous mistress and stern mistress, but a."
 George had stood before him in great and increasing embarrassment; |;
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
CHAPTER XXI.

At least it may be claimed for George that his last night in the house where he had been born was not oc' cupied with his own disheartening flu ture, but with sorrow for what sac rifces his pride and youth had de manded of others. And early in the morning he came downstairs and tried to help Fanny make coffee on the kitchen range.
 There was something I wanted to say to you last night, Aunt Fanny" he said.
 'tWhy-why-" she stammered; but she knew what he was going to say, and that was why she had been more and more nervous. "Hadn't-perhaps perhaps we'd better get the-the things moved to the little new home first, George. Let's"
 He interrupted quietly, though at her phrase, "the little new home" his pungent impulse was 10 utter one loud shout and run. 'It was about this new place that I wanted to speak. I've been thinking it over and I've decided. I want you to take all the things from mothers room and use them and keep them for me, and I'm sure the little apartment will be just what you like; and with the extra bedroom prob ably you could find some woman friend to come and live there and share the expense with you. But I've decided on another arrangement for myself. and so I'm not going with you. don't suppose you'll mind much, and I don't see why you should mind-par- ticularly, that is. can't imagine you, , or anyone else, being much attached to me, SO"
 He stopped in amazement: no chair had been left in the kitchen, but Fanny gave a despairing glance around her in search of one. then sank ab- ruptly and sat fiat upon the floor.
 What on earth" George sprang to her. "Get up, Aunt Fanny!"
 1T can't. I'm too weak. Let me alone, George" And as he released the wrist he had seized to help her she uttered the dismal prophecy which for days she had been matching against her hopes: You're going to leave me-in the lurch !''
 why no, Aunt Fanny V ne protest ed. At first I'd have been something of a burden on you. I'm to get eight dollars a week; about thirty-two a month. The rents thirty-six dollars a month, and the table d'hote dinner runs. up to over twenty-two dollars apiece, so with my half of the rent eighteen dOllars-Td have less than nothing left out of my salary to pay my share of the groceries for all the breakfasts and luncheons. You see you'd not only be doing all the house work and cooking, but you'd be paying more of the expenses than I would. ''
 She stared at him with such a for 1orn blankness as he had never seen.
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

that 1t wasn't a good enough excuse for him that he was young and inex- perieneed-he'd have to go. They took him down to the river, and put him In canoe, and pushed him out from shore; and then they ran along the bank and wouldn't let him land, unttl at last the current carried the canoe out into the middle, and then on down to the ocean, and he never got back. They didn't want him back, of course, and If he'd been able to manage it, they'd have put him in another canoe and showed him out into the river again. But still, they didn't elect an- other chief in his place. Other tribes thought that was curious, and won dered about it lot, but finally the- came to the conclusion that the beech grove people were afraid a new chief | might turn out to be a bad Indian, toe and wear iron shoes like VendOnah But they were wrong, because the real reason was that the tribe had led such an exciting life under Vendonah that they couldn't settle down to anything tanner. He was awful, but he always kept things happening-terr things, of course. They hated him, but they weren't able to discover any other warrior that they wanted to make chief In his place. They couldn't help feeling that way"
 II see," said Eugene. "So that's why they named the place 'TheyCouldn't Help-Itr"
 Ut must have been.'
 And so you're going to stay here in your garden" he said musingly. You think it's better to keep on walking these sunshiny gravel paths between your flower beds, and growing to look like a pensive garden lady in a Vic torian engraving"
 "I suppose I'm like the tribe that lived here. papa. I had too much un- pleasant excitement. It was unpleas- ant-but it was excitement. I don't want any more; in fact, I don't want anything but you"
 You don't?" He looked at her keen ly, and she laughed and shook her head but he seemed perplexed, rather doubtful. What was the name of the grove?" he asked. "The Indian name, I mean"
 ''Mola- -Haha."
 'No, it wasn't; that wasn't the name you said"
 i've forgotten"
 q see you have" he said, his look of perplexity remaining. Perhaps you remember the chiefs name better"
 She shook her head again. q don't"
 (TO BE CONTINUED1
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

couldn't get something of the kind to do as soon as possible. I wanted to get started today if I could"
 Old Frank gave him a long stare. At first this scrutiny was sharply incred- ulous; then it was grave; finally it de- velOped into a threat of overwhelming laughter; a forked vein in his fore head became more visible and his eyes seemed about to protrude.
 But he controlled his impulse; and, rising, took up his hat and overcoat. "All right" he said. If you'll prom 1se not to get blown up, I'll go with you to see if we can find the job" Then, meaning what he said, but amazed that he did mean it, he added : You certainly are the most practical young man I ever met p
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

and he was unable to allow the ad- dress to proceed to its conclusion.
 T can't do it!" he burst out. "I can't take her for my mistress"
 "What?"
 i've come to tell you, I've got to find something that's quicker. I can't"
 Old Frank got little red. Let's sit down." he said. What's the trouble p
 George told him.
 The old gentleman listened sympa- thetically, only murmuring: Well, we'll 7" from time to time, and holding acQuiescence.
 You see she's set her mind on this apartment" George explained. She's got some old cronies there, and guess she's been looking forward to the games of bridge and the kind of harm less gossip that goes on in such places. Really, it's a life she'd like better than anything else-better than that she's lived at home, really believe. It struck me she's just about got to have 1t. and after all she could hardly have anything less"
 '"This comes pretty heavily upon me, you know" said old Frank. II got her into that headlight company, and she fooled me about her resources as much as she did your Uncle George. I was never your fathers adviser, if you re- member, and when the insurance was turned over to her some other lawyer arranged it-probably your fathers. But it comes pretty heavily on me, and 1 feel a certain responsibility"
 Not at all. I'm taking the responsi- bility." And George smiled with one corner of his mouth. "I'll tell you how it is, sir" He flushed, and, looking out of the streaked and smoky window be- side which he was sitting, spoke with difficulty. II feel as if-as if perhaps I had one or two pretty important things in my life to make up for. Well, can't I can't make them up toto whom I would. It's struck me that, as I couldn't, might be little decent to somebody else, perhaps~-if I could manage it! 1 never have been particu- larly decent to poor old Aunt Fanny" ."Oh, I don't know: I shouldn't say that. A little youthful teasing-I OOuDL Il Slle lu11luGu SO uucu. II seems to me she's had a fairly com fortable life-up to now-tf she was disposed to take it that way"
 But up to now is the important thing" George said. "Now is now and you see I can't wait two years to be admitted to the bar and begin to practice. I've got to start in at some thing else that pays from the start and that's what I've come to you about. I have an idea, you sec"
 "Well. I'm glad of that!" said old Frank, smiling. "I can't think of any thing just at this minute that pays from the start"
 II only know of one thing, myself"
 What is it?'
 George flushed again, but managed to laugh at his own embarrassment: II suppose I'm about as ignorant of busi- ness as anybody in the world" he said But I've heard they pay very high wages to people in dangerous trades :; I've always heard they did, and I'm sure it must be true. l mean people that handle tOuchy chemicals or high eXplOsives-men in dynamite factories, or who take things of that sort about the country in wagons, and shoot oil wells. 1 thought I'd see if you couldn't tell me something more about it, or else introduce me to some one who could, and then l thought I'd see if
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

"Td be paying" she said feebly. "Td be paying"
 Certainly you would. You'd be using more of your money than"
 My money! Fanny's chin dropped upon her thin chest and she laughed miserably. i've got twenty-eight dol lars. That's all"
 You mean until the interest is due again?"
 q mean that's all," Fanny said. T mean that's all there is. There won't be any more interest because there Isn't any principal"
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13

tory of the City were arranged in all phabetical order, and ran his finger down the column of As: Abbett, Ab- bolt, Abrams Adams, Adams, Adler, Akers, Albertsmeyer, Alexander Allen, Ambrose. Ambuhl, Anderson, Andrews, Appenbasch, Archer, Arszman, Ash craft, Austin, Alvey.
 Georges eyes remained for some time fixed on the thin space between
The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-13
Her Shoes Hurt Her Feet

As 8 general thing, when you see a woman hobbling along the street with an agonized expression it is sign that she's got more foot than head.-Dallas NaWA
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-14
PLANS UNDER WAY FOR ROD
AND GUN CLUB ORGANIZATION

A meeting was held in the Star
hotel, last night, of men interested in
fishing and hunting. The occasion
was an opportunity to listen to State
Game Warden Grover tell of needs of
the sport in Nevada. He. with Deputy
Warden Kirwin, explained methods
whereby fish and game could be
stocked in the streams and hills OF
this territory; how necessary legisla-
ton could be secured, and conditions
generally improved as regards more
plentiful fish and game.
Petitions are being circulated today
to ascertain those persons who are in
terested in the matter and notify them
of a meeting to be held next week to
organize a rod and gun club in Hum
boldt county. 1t is said that besides
the benefits to be derived from an
abundance of fish and game, many
other good things can be accom-
plished, notable among them being the
securing of fish hatchery to be To-
Gated near Winnemucca.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-14
STATE ORE SAMPLER
READY FOR ACTION

State Ore Sampler F. G. Lincoln
has this week completed the task of
mailing copies of the state ore SAM
pling law to all mining men in the
state.
Commenting on the law Mr.. Lin
coin calls attention to the fact that
the law is broader in its scope than
the old one, since it provides for the
supervision of sampling of Nevada
ores wherever they are purchased,
and authorizes the state ore sampler
to obtain rates for shippers; call for
umpire assays and fix reasonable
charges.
"As an ore shipper" says Mr.. Lin
coin in an accompanying letter, you
naturally wish to receive the greatest
possible returns from your output.
The state ore sampler department
will be glad to assist you to do this
by every means legally possible. 1t
will advise you concerning shipments
free of charge; and will take charge
of your shipment at a reasonable
rate, checking the weight, supervising
the sampling, determining the mois-
ture, assaying the pulp, calling for
umpire when necessary, and mailing
you full report.
ITO secure this service it is only
necessary for you to notify the State
Ore Sampler at the State Mining La
boratory, Reno, and to mark your
bill-of-lading Care Nevada State Ore
Sampler At Hazen there is a mini
mum charge of $5 on small lots and
25 cents per ton is charged on lots
in excess of 20 tons. At the Selby
Smelter and at the Nichols Plant OF
the General Chemical Company. IN
California, there is minimum rate
of $3.50 on small lots and charge
of 25 cents per ton on lots in excess
of 80 tons.
"At the Mammoth Smelter in Cali
fornia and the Garfield and Murray
smelters in Utah, the minimum rate
is s6.25 on lots of less than twenty
five tons. Minimum rates at othel
points will be fixed as rapidly as pos
sible, but at present, rates at pur
chasing points not mentioned ar'
actual costs of supervision for lots
of less than so tons, and rs cents
per ton on ton lots of so tons OF
more. Special low rates may be made
upon large lots to suit ioca
conditions.-[Carson City News.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-14

Miss Beth Warren, Miss Genevieve
Lying and Mrs. Edna Bowling expect
to leave soon on a vacation trip to
Alaska.
Isaac Choate, mining man and pio-
neer resident of the Kings River val
ley section. is spending a few days
in town.
Mrs. Tilden Martin ana children
who have been visiting in town. re-
turned yesterday morning to their
Bottle Creek ranch, Jackson range
section.
The Winnemucca Mercantile Com
many yesterday received carload
of Nekto near beer from the East.
Victor Pinson and Miss Ella Pinson
motored In from the Pinson Bros.
ranch. near Golconda, this morning.
They will return tonight.
Mrs. B. A. Goidsworthy and chill
dren arrived from Lovelock yesterday
to join Mr.. Goldsworthy. The family
will make their home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emiol Snyder re-
turned Thursday from HALEY, Idaho,
where they we're summoned by the
death of Mr.. Snyder's father.
E. l.. Chenoweth. employed by the
Western Union Company here, re-
turned this morning from San Fran
cisco. recovered from long illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Corkin and son
formerly of Sacramento, have taken
up their residence in Winnemucca
Mr.. Corkin is land attorney for the
Southern Pacific Company.
Warner Bliss, son of George ID.
Bliss. one of the owners of the Bliss
brothers ranches and stock interests
in this county and California. arrived
Thursday from San Francisco.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-06-14
ODD FELLOWS AND REBEKAHS
CENTENNIAL CONVENTION

Next Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-
day will be big days for Odd Fellow
and Rebekah lodges in Nevada. On
those days will be held the grand en-
campment and grand lodge sessions
at Reno. To celebrate the centennial
anniversary of the order, big parade.
banquets. theatre parties and other
events are on the program. M. Rein
hart, E. H. Gilman. H. M. Cousin and
j. A. Lipman will represent Humboldt
lodge No. 16, IO.OF, while Mrs. H.
Erskine, Mrs. L. d. Hubbard and Mrs.
J. A. Lipman are Winnemucca dele
gates for the Rebekahs.