The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1923-10-04
FITTING

Providence is a good thing to have
along, even on an outing trip. The
Scouts. on their trip to the Hills last
August, were detained as / said on
the first Sunday of 1t at Rapid City.
TO be sure a Scout never deserts a
companion. 'F'riendliness is a part of
the law. And SO Is Loyalty also. The
providence part of the matter is hat
they stayed I'm camp, the tourist camp,
for two days. So Sunday was spent
in a comparatively quiet way. And
that is the way to spend Sunday. The
people who tear around all day Sun
day OF drive long distances just to be
driving are doing themselves an in
jury. Often, of course, they do not
know it, because they are 50 in the
habit of activity and so under the in
fiuence OF restlessness that they cant
bring themselves to rest. These peo-
pie are headed towards collapse or
dementia and utter worthlessness.
Periodic quiet and sanity go together.
Make the amount and frequency fit
the age. The camp was a very order
~ affair. Every body mostly was
resting. And so the coming and going
Of new and old campers was not no
ticeable Not unless one looked over
TO the road leading to Custer and the
resorts in the south of the Hills. 1t
seemed to be filed with a stream OF
autos. generally going. So people
must swing in a circle much In tour
ing the Hills, and in one direction.
OF curse the boys did not stay en-
tirely quiet. Some Of them went on
rather long jaunts among the hills,
a delightful pasttime for the Sabbath
day, SOME were noticed to have their
hair WET towards evening in some
mysterious way and just as was to
be expected, a preachers o came
displaying a fifty-cent piece that he
had acquired caddying on the incom-
parable golf course above the camp
in tfh hills. But of course too much
emphasis must not be placed upon
such matters.
On Monday morning the Scout
master thought he was going to begin
to show the boys the Hills in good
earnest. He was sure they all wanted
to see all the spots that his adult
eye had fallen upon and reveled In
as beautiful. So the proposition was
that they all walk up to Dark Canyon
and on To Hisega and see the things
right. But, what's the old saying?
He was calculating without his host.
That does not seem to be altogether
applicable to the situation, but doubt
less you get the idea or will soon get
1t il the writer's mind does not have
a lapse The conclusion OF the crowd
was that it did not care anything
about walking. So 1t sat around the
park station and absorbed pop and
CORES and cackerjack for an hour or
SO for the train that Is always and
proverbially late on Monday morn.
ings, that train. For that Is a
righteous railroad even IL Il does
charge one for going both ways
whether or not he does go but one
way. Fol- no freight il handled or
the Sabbath and SO it has to be gotten
together IN Monday morning before
the train can start-the accumula-
lions of Saturday and Sunday. But OF
course the passenger part Of the onl,
train on the road. The Black Hills
and Western Is on time and earlier
on Sunday than on other days ant
crowded to the steps too. Another pro
vidential thing happened. A youth
full characteristic asserted itself. I