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Show Ttt? cum, SUN. SAUNA UTAH i S THE OLD, OLD TRAIL By CLARISSA by McClure ly-- 2, MACKIZ (Conducted by National Council of the Bof Scouts of Ametiea.) Newspaper Syndicate. From the highway, a trail wound through the wooded slopes to a clear 'VYALE MEN FORM SCOUT CLUB ing where a small house shone silver-gra- y in the sunshine. Inside the house A group of'Yale men, who are forit was cool and pleasant, with long mer on Hours and scouts, have recently organized shadows the painted the B scout dub. G. Ilarrett Ilieh, III. a cleanliness well of kept fragrant of Ituffalo, is chairman of the execuhome. You will leave all tills and go tive committee, whose other members questioned the man in an are W. Leming Jelliffe of New Y'ork, away? II. Wilder Bentley of Sun Francisco voice. empty The woman nodded, spreading out and James It. Iiixon, Jr., of Cleveland. Tlte main purpose of this and the letter witli graceful, Simla-owneJust think of it, Van) A other such clubs Is to provide a means school teacher for years and now of continuing Interest in scouting the chance of a lifetime; all of Uncle among young men iu colleges and so that upon graduation tney Feters money travel clothes music the world Oh, Van dont you may be still actively affiliated with' Tlte heating of wings the movement and ready to make furunderstand? against the liars the cry for pleasure ther contribution of time and effort to it in whatever communities they ami freedom. He picked hat and faced her, find themselves. Such clubs will also a young giant in stature, taking in serve a valuable purpose in conservher tender beauty with dazed blue ing scout training already received ees. lie was only a forester, and she and emphasizing those elements of had taught sclio for the mountain character building and good citizenrhiklri n they wgre to have been marship, which are no lesgs essential for ried in June now the temptation of young men than for boys. tile letter the sudden inheritance had Lome V. Barclay, director of the made her realize how impossible the national education department, and a life with him would be. Yule man of OS, was present nt the You are going? he asked sloworganization of tlio dub which is similar to associations already formed ly. If I do not I will reShe nodded. in English universities, under the leadceive only a paltry ten thousand dolers!. 'p of Oxford and Cambridge. up-hi- 1 lars! lie wnnfed to smile a paltry ten thousand collars ami up to now, ten dollars me'iiit much to lier! lie did not smile lie pitied her and turned Good-band good luck, lie away. said, os lie stepped outside, and without any other farewell he was gone and she was so absorbed hi iter calculation that she did not know lie had gone. She was listening for the sound of tiie stage driver's horn. At last she heard it winding down tiie slopes a call to freedom! SCOUTS GOVERN THEIR CITY j y The big touring car left tiie highway emed to plunge into tiie green and tunnel of a wood road. tills a ro.d?" shrieked Halite Russel from tiie tonneau. Her husband bent above tiie steering wheel, turned ids head a little, "Yesterday it was a mountain trail-to- day It is passable tomorrow, it will be a section of the transcontinental highway ! Absurd ! My dear, you have said that before! Latimer, when you and Eleanor are mill Tied, beware of acting absurdly. Good Latimer laughed flatly. enough, lie said in his meaningless Hear that, Eleanor? lie turned way. to Mrs. Itussei's companion, a fair dreamy-eyegirl, who watched tne jail with wistful eyes. Site shrugged indifferently. Yes, I turned I was thinking. Finny, what a mistake it is for people to leave their own pleasant woomarid trails and venture into tlte highways tiie quiet, green places are best after all. "My dmir girl, lie gasped, do you mean you would go hack to your house in the woods lose yourself in the tall timber "I would indeed ! she cried passionately. I hate tiie fashionable world I have taken by storm I have tried it out for live years and my heart is not in it " her voice faltered. Your heart I believed I flattered myself that I had your heart, grunted Latimer. She siting out a jew eled hand. "My I left it in these woods heart is here site suddenly smiled. James, please stop the car I am going back home forgive me, Finny liallle ave all been so good to me you but I must go!" The car stopped, she gripped their hands warmly and vanished up the narrow trail. Unbelieving, they followed her, unable to guess her prank at the moment. The old trail threaded the largest trees, plunged tinder an arbor of cat-briand woodbine and ended in a plantation of young firs. Beyond tiie firs was a clearing and a cottage shining in the sun. There were clean curtains at the windows and a kitten played on the doorstep.- Tiie woman Hung her hands to her face. Tiie tender, tremulous call of a wood thrush then t he sweet silence of high places fell ui on iter. On tiie other side of Hie clearing a forester watched her in fierce surprise tinged witli fear. Had she returned to flaunt her riches in ills face? Suddenly she saw him, saw Hie graying hair about his temples, the brooding shadows in ids eyes. Rebind her lounged iier now friends of the world in various stages of surprise and curiosity. Wlmts the matte;? demanded Hallie's thin, impatient voice. 1 came Eleanor turned. back here because my heart jva.s here, she explained, and then she ran swiftly to 'Is Buys of that tremendous trek : Hero we went, oxen, cows, mules, horses, coaches, carriages, blue Jeans, corduroys; rags, tatters, silks, satins, caps, tall hats, poverty, riches; criminals escaping from justice; couples lleeing from the law; bearing southwest to the Overland gold-seeke- looking for places In which to win fame and fortune; adventurers on their way to everywhere," Abolitionisls.going to tile Border War; innocent-lookinouthts carrying fugitive slaves; and, most numerous of all, liomeseekers "hunting country a nation on wheels, an empire In the commotion and pangs of birth. g There were tunny, very ninny, Interesting incidents that, went to make up the history of these pioneer days in Iowa that are covered by Air. Quick in Vundemnrks Folly, hut one of the most interesting is that dealing with the treatment of The local newspaper. In an effort to secure an advantage for its political clique had in those early days referred to claim-juniper- Cow Vandemark ns a man with a criminal record, and in later days in refuting the statement he tells the story of the " as follows, in part: claim-jumpers- The story grew out of my joining the Settlers' club in 18oG. The rage for land speculation was sweeping over Iowa like a prairie tire, netting things ready for the great panic of 1S.17 that I have read of since, but of which I never heard until long after it was over. All knew was that there was a great fever for buying and sell 1 Ing land and laying out and booming town-sire- s the sites, not the towns and that afterward times were very hard. The speculators had bought up a good part of Monterey county by the end of and had run t he price up as high as three dollars and a half an acre. Tliis niude it hard for men wlio came In expecting to get it for a dollar and a quarter, and a number of settlers in the township, as they did all over the state, went on their land relying on the right to buy It when they could got the money wliut was called the right. I could see the houses of William Trickey, Ehenezer Jun-kin- s and Absalom Frost from my house; and I knew that Peter and Arnos Iiemisdarl'er and Flavius Holm, Dunkards from Iennsylvania, laid located farther south. All these settlers were located south of Hell Slew, which was coming to he known now, and was afterward put down' on, the map, as Vundemarks Folly 'Marsh." And now there came into tiie county and state s B eluss of men called who pushed In on the claims of t lie first comers, and stood ready to buy their new homes right out from under them. It was pretty hard on us wlm had pushed on ahead of the railways, and soaked in the rain and frozen in the blizzards, and lived on moldy bacon and hulled corn, to lose our chance to get title to the lunds we hat broken up and n Open up, and find out! said a man in the Alonterey Center crowd, who seemed to take command ns a matter of course. "Kick the door open, Dutch-- ! As lie said this he stepped aside, and pushed me up to the door. I gave it a push wi'h my knee, and t lie leader jerked me aside, just in time to let a charge of shot pass my head. It's only a single-barregun, said lie. "Grub him! was scared by the report of the gun, scared ami mad. too, as I clinched with the fellow, and threw him; then I pitched him out of the door, when the rest of them threw hitil down and began swapping him. At the same time, some one kindled a tire under a kettle filled with tar, and in n few minutes, they were smearing him with it. Tills looked like going too far, to me, and I stepped hack I couldnt stand it to see the tar smeared over ids face, even if it did look like a map of the devils wild land, as lie kicked and scratched and tried to bite, swearing all the time like a pirate. It seemed a degrading kind of thing to detile a human being in that way. The leader came up to me and said, That was good work, Dutcliy. Lucky I was right about its beain't it? Help get Ids team ing a single-barrehitched up. We want to see him well started." All rigid, Mr. .McGill. I said; for that was his name, now first told in nil the history of the l 1 l, count. Shut up! lunkhead !" he said. My names Smith, you claim-jumper- built on. My land was paid for. such ns it was; hut when the people who, like me, laid trailed out across the prairies with the last year's rush, came uml asked me to join the Settlers' club to run these Intruders off, it appeared to me that it was only n man's part In me to stand to it and take hold and do. . . I did not look The next and the hist stop, was away down on Section Thirty-fiv- e two miles fan tier. 1 was because of the memory ing rather wamlde-croppeof that poor fellow with t he tar in ids eyes but I went all the same. .McGill pounded on Hie door. Come out, lie shouted. Youve got company ! There was a sci molding and hustling around in the shanty, and low talking, and some one asked who was there; to which McGill replied for them to come out and see. Pretty soon, a little doddering figure of a man came to the door, pulling on his breeches with trembling hands as he stepped, barefooted, on the hare ground which came rigid up to the door-sil"Wlmt's wanted, gentlemen?" lie quavered. I caint ask you to come in jist yit. Wlmts wanted?" He had not said two words when I knew him for Old Man Fewkes, whom I Imd last seen back on the road vest of Dyersville.' on his way to Where was Ma Fewkes, ami where Xegosha. were Celebrate Fourth and .Surajali Dowlali? Ami where, most emphatically, where was loweim? I stepped forward at .McGill's side. Surely. I thought, they were not going to tar and feather these harmless, waifs of the frontier; and even us I thought it, I saw the glimmerwere kindling under the ing of the l. forward to a!! the doings of the Settlors club, tint 1 joined It, and I have never been ashamed of it, even when I tick McGill was slangwhunging me about what we did. I never knew, and 1 don't know now, just what the law was, but I thought then, uml I think now, that the SettlersVOub laid t he right of it, I thought so the r off night wtMvcnt over to run the Absalom Frost's laud, within a week of. my joinclaim-jumpe- ing. It was over on Section Twenty-seven- , that the had built a hut about where the sehoolhotise now is, with a stable in one end of it, and a den in which to live in the other. He was a young man. with no dependents, und we felt no compunctions of conscience, that dark of us. one of which night, when two wagon-loadcame from the direction of Monterey Center, drove quietly up and knocked at F.e door. Who's there? he said, with $ quiver in his voice. claim-jumpe- r s fire-the- y . "We want you, you Infernal said We11 show you that you can't steal Hie land from us settlers, ymi set or sneaks! Take off your clothes, and we ll give u 8 coal that will make you look more like buzzards than you do now. claim-jumper!- McGill. hard-workin- g " There's some of em runnin away! yelled one of the crowd. "Catch em! There was a Might through the grass from the hack of the shanty, a rush of pursuit, some feeble yells jerked into hits by rough handling, and presently. Celebrate and Surajali were dragged into the circle of light, just ns poor Ma Fewkes, with her shoulder-blade- s drawn almost together came forward und tried to tear from her poor old husbands arm the hand of an old neighbor of mine whose name I won't mention even at this tate (lay. . . Say. stiid a man who imd nil the time sat in one of the wagons, holding the horses. Youd better leave nut the stripping, hoys! They began dragging the boys and the old man toward the and McGill, with Ills tmt drawn down over tiis eyes, went to the slimy mass and dipped into it a wooden paddle with which they Imd been stirring it. Taking us much on It us it would curry, he made ns if to smear It over tin old mans head and beard. I could not stand this the poor harmless old coot! and I ran up and st nick McGill's arm. What in hell. lie yelled, for some of the tar went on him, do you mean! Dont tar and feather em." I begged. "I know these folks. They are a poor wandering family, without motley enough to buy land away from any one. We jist thought we'd kind o settle down, said Old Man Fewkes whimperingly; and Ive got the money promised me to buy this land. So it's uli right and straight ! The silty old lealherhend didn't know tie wns doing anything against public sentiment; and told the very thing that made a case against him. 1 nave found out since who the man was that promised him the money and was going to tuk the land, but that was Just one circumstance I, the land craze, and the niyn himself was wounde; at Fort Donelsim, and died in hospital so I won! tell ills name. The point is. that t he old man hut turned the jury against me just as I imd finished my idea. Y'nu have got the money promised you, have Grub him, hoys!" you? repeated McGill. tar-kettl- 1 clinched with our man, und getting n rolling liiplock on him. I whirled him over my iiead. us I hud done with so ninny wrestling opponents, imd lie went head over letting him go in mid-aiImels, and struck ten foot away on the ground. Then I turned on McGill, and with the fiat of my hand. I shipped him over against the shanty, with his ears ringing. They were coming at me In an undecided way; for my onset had been hot h sud den and unexpected; when I saw Rebecca run ning from the rear with a shotgun In tier hand which she had picked up as It leaned against r wagon wheel where one of our crowd imd left it Stand back, or Stand hack!" she screamed. I'll Idow somebodys iiead off! 1 heard a chuckling laugh from a tnan sittuij the wagons, and a word or two fron in one-ohim that sounded like, "Good girl!" Our little tiioh fell back, the man I Imd thrown limping, and Dick McGill rubbing the side of ids Iiead. Tlte dawn was no.v broadening in the east, and it wms getting almost light enough so that faces might be recognized; and one or two of the 'crowd began to retreat toward the wagons. I'll see to It," said I, "that these people wl'.l leave this land, und give up their settlement on . it." r. Ec accuts of Twin Fails. Idaho, recently assumed municipal duties for an entire day as a part of the Boy Scout Week celebration. Scout Mayor Joe Deies is shown with the key of authority which was presented to him by Mayor McRoberts. d INTERESTED At its recent meeting in Chicago, the National Council of tiie Boy Scouts of America expressed by resolution its appreciation of the fine spirit of tiie American Legion in supporting scouting. Almost at tiie saute time appeared an editorial in tiie American Legion Councillor, published in Toledo, under An Opportunity tiie caption for Service, urging local legionnaires to interest themselves in scout work and especially to serve us scoutmasters, Trained by his army days to caring for himself in the great outdoors, schooled iu discipline and with proven pytriotism lie is eminently fitted to handle growing boys, comments the writen "lie comes to them clothed with t He heros mantle with which youthful males still invest Hie warrior. They know lie is a real who lias gone lit rough experiences which thrill their juvenile souls to contemplate and lie starts with great advantage over his less fortunate contemporary who lias missed the great experience. With these qualifications and these advantages tlte legionnaire who passes up the (bailee to enter this fascinating work is doing his city an injustice and himself an injury. . ! he-ma- n. ar him. Van, oh. Van, I want 1 IN SCOUTING LARGEST BOYS CAMP IN WORLD The hoy scout camp in the Interstate park of New York and New Jersey is tiie largest boy camp in tiie world, both numerically and geoLast summer a total of graphically. 9.0H3 scouts enjoyed tiie. benefits of tiie camp, some for one or two weeks, others for tiie entire season of nine weeks. Tiie daily attendance averaged over a thousand. The camp provides skilled supervision, healthful and inspirational environment, sanitary facilities, adequate safeguards, arrangements for observing religious requirements according to the faith of cadi boy, scout instruction and outdoor activities, ail merged in a positive program of character building, citizenship training und tit come lnune I have wanted you all tiie years I am tired of the world of little people! His hungry arms dosed around her CIVIC C.TRVICE IN GARY and her Iiead rested on his patient heart. Above her sunny iiead the Among tlte vurious good turns of man's brave eyes met tiie cool incred- the ptist year done by scouts of Gary, I think you had Ind.. are tiie following: ulity of the world. better go, lie said gently. "She is Distributed testers for the Salvatired her feet are used to tiie old tion Ann-Some day she will write to Served ns messengers for Near puths. Now we have much to say to East Relief. you. each other. City Clean-uCampaign, Scout Parade, Yucuut Lots, etc. She will lose most of tiie money, Memorial day Collected muttered Ilullie as they went back to llowert for graves, placed American flag oa The car. ltut that look in his eyes in hers it wns worth something, she each grave. Participated In services at the graves. ended wistfully. j . j p |