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Show THE 3t ! . mm FIRST FOR CHILDREN Requirement Furnish Variety of Topic for Essay and Oral Many Discussion. by the United States Department of Agriculture) The many requirements for safety will furnish a variety of topics for school children's essays und oral discussion. The dimmers of railroad crossings ar grade, the economic' Justification lor abolishing them, the im- part a nee of an unobstructed view up r and down the track as a vehicle approaches, and the disadvantage of sharp turns, etc., are tsuggest've subject. similarly there might also be mentioned the questions raised by street Intersections and turns. In every town there are many crossings where the autcist's view Is unnecessarily limited by fences, shrubbery, or buildings; or where sharp curves witli limited visibility Invite serious accidents. Guldeposts, markers, and other signs for the most efficient guidance of traffic through thickly settled communities also are part of the bigger and more inclusive topics of the economic Importance of safely and guidance the actual money value of human life and of accident prevention. Another question. In solving which the engineer and economist will need the help of enlightened public opinion (and this enlightenment should start In the public schools). Is that of the relution of the public highways to railroads and canals. The advantage of long hauls by rail and short hauls by motor truck ; feeding Into main terminal points by radiating systems of highways ; a division of the transportation burden by parallel systems of water, rail, and road transportation, are some of the subdivisions of this general beading. This listing of topics Is not Intended to be complete or exact, but merely suggestive. Those which refer to construction could best be utilized when construction work Is In progress in the vicinity of a school. Many-o- f the other topics may be studied from maps, of which the students mlglit be required to make tracings or free-hansketches the particular showing features for which emphasis is desired, or regarding which the exercise is being written. State highway departments often feel the need of a better popular understanding of the problems of road construction, and their officials In a hearty would doubtless manner. Looking ahead, it is easy to see an actual shortage of men qualified to carry on the work of highway development, so rapid Is the growth of the movement. Highway In- - (Prepared d SUCCESS Fowls Subsist Largely on Grass Dur. ing Growing Season, and Require Little Attention. by the United States Department of Agriculture.) l'racticully all tho geese In this country are raised in small flocks on general farms, and few, if any, farms (Prepared are devoted entirely to raising geese. Geese can be raised successfully In small numbers and at a profit on farms where there Is plenty of grass or pasture land with a natural supply of water. The birds, both young and old, are very hardy and are rarely affected by any disease or insect pests. Grass makes up the bulk of ihe feed for getse. n.l it Is doubtful whether It limn i raise them unless good m acallable. grass Geese are the clov-- 1 .nd both grazer-- . the ma'.iim eese and trie ptirtlally grown c: i.ii,s will get tt.'-.- r entire vlng from a ginxl pusture so long as 'he glass remains green. A body of wafer where they an swim a considered essential during Uie orei'dlng season, and is desirable durIs If ing the rest of tho year. oo natural po:id, an iiri:r.?'H' one or rank may be supplied to advantage. Tiii market for geese is iim! i gen-was for chickens; this fad should be cousltlered,. poultry in the United States Department of Agriculture say, In undertaking to raise geese. The demand and the price paid for goose are usually good in sections where geese fattening is conducted on u large rcale. Gtese are fed a ration to produce eggs during the latter part of the winter (about February 1, In the northeastern section of this country) or so that the goslings will be batched bill;- time mere Is good grass pasture. They are allowed to make nests on Vim floor of the house, or large boxes. Onri els, or shelters are provided for that purpose. Goslings hatched under hens should be examined for head lice, and a little grease lard or vaseline applied with the lingers on the head and neck. Some breeders who hatch with both geese and liens give all the goslings to the geese, which make the best moth- - WMISPEP.FOOT. Bynopis. 'Wrnecl by his physician that he has not mure than six months to live, Dan Failing Bite despondently on a park bench, wondering where lie should spend those six months. Memorise of his grandfather and a deep love for all thlnfrs ot the wild help htm In reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman, lie makes his home with Silas lenn"x. a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennox's son. "Bill," and daughter. "Snowbird." Their abode is .in the tTmpqua divide, and there Failing- - plans to live out the short span of life which he has been (old Is his. From the first Failing's health shows a marked Improvement, and in the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits into the woods life as If he had been born to It. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of "nerve" he saves Lennox's life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he Is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Failing t, whose fame as a woodsman is a household word. Dan learns that an organised band o outlaws, of which Bert Cranston Is the leader, is setting forest fires. Landry Hilrireth, a former member of thd gang, has been Induced to turn state's evidence. Cranston shoots Hlldreth and leaves him for dead. . s-- s f s 1 I CHAPTER I half-hou- honey-grubbe- ot Continued. Y fast-flyin- cougar will sometimes attack horned cattle, something that no American animal cares to do unless he wants a good fight on his paws and of which the very thought would throw Graycoat Into a spasm ; and there have been even stranger stories. If one could quite believe them. A certain measure of respect must be extended to any animal that will hunt the great bull elk. for to miss the stroke and get caught beneath the churning, lashing, slashing, razor-edgefront hoofs is simply death, painful and without delay. But the difficulty lies in the fact that these things are not done in the ordinary, rational hloo'd of hunting. What an animal does In Its death agony, or to protect its young, what great game It 'follows in the starving times of winter, can be put to neither Its debit nor its credit. A coyote will charge when mad. A raccoon will put up a A hen wicked fight when cornered. will peck at the hand that robs her net. When bunting was fairly good, Whlsperfoot avoided the elk and steer almost as punctiliously as he avoided men, which is saying very much Indeed: and any kind of terrier could usually drive hint straight tip a tree. But be did l!le to pretend to he very great nnd terrible among the smaller forest creatures. And be was Fear Itself to the deer. A human hunter who would kill two deer a weeks would be week for fifty-twcalled a much uglier name than poacher ; but yet this ha, been Whisper-foot'- s record, on and nff, ever since his second year. Many n great buck wore the scar of the full stroke after which. Whlsperfoot had lost his hold. Many' a fawn had crouched panting with rerror In the thickets at just a tnwny light on the gnnrled limb of a pine. Manv a doe would grow and terrified at Just his great-eyestrange, pungent smell on the wind. He yawned again, and bis fangs looked white and abnormally large In the moonlight. His great, green eyes were still clonded and languorous from sleep. Then he beyan to steal tip the ridge toward bis hunting gTonnds. It was a curions thing that he walked straight In the face of the soft wind that came down from the snow fielda, and yet there wasn't a weathercock to be seen anywhere. And either had the chipmunk seen him wet a paw and hold It np, after the approved fashion of holding np a finger. He had a better way of knowing a chill at the end of his whiskers. The. little, breathless night sonnds In the brush around him seemed to msdden him. They made a song to him. a strange, wild melody that even such frontiersmen as Ian and Ien-aocould not experience. A thousand smells brushed down to him on the wind, mote potent than any wine or lost. He. began to tremble all over with rapture and ex.'ltement. But unlike Cranston's trembling, no wilder-ra- t enr was keen enough to bear the aaavaa rvsUtag beneath him. that a Geese Grow Rapidly and Are Rarely Affected With Disease. of Crossing a Stream. M ruction In high schools offers opportunity to state highway departments to develop a body of future citizens eqiilpiied with a better understanding of tlie need for roads, and the problems likely to be met in building them. and. at the same time, to stimulate interest In the profession of highway engineerMethod ing State departments and county engineers can help teachers (1) by assigning member of their staffs to deliver occasional lectures,, simple In text and preferably Illustrated with lantern (2) by furnishing photographs (slides; " of highway and construction work for classroom or reference use; (3) by assisting teacher In the explanation of work In progress which can be Inspected by classes of students. Many states also Issue bulletins or reports which are valuable for reference. Determine Road Cost. Some of the things which 'determine the cost of mad construction are: Cost of right of way; cost of clear Ing and grubbing; amount and kind of material to be excavated and amount of filling to be done; amoi;ni of ditching for surface droinsge and ; numlier and tiling for slr.e of stream crossings necessitating culverts or bridges; cost of securing and placing material. e Indorsed by President. The I.e highway project has been Indorsed by President Harding as an appropriate memorial to the southern leader, born In Virginia 114 years ago. Coat of Maintenance. The annual cost of road maintenance In New Tork slate, which merely the lighter repairs, aggregate about t3.frfW.frno. Paved Too Thin. roods ar paved wltl food Intention and nothing mora. Toi tnanv ers. A few breeders prefer to breed the goslings artificially, keeping them from one to three weeks in the house at night In a covered bushel basket. To keep a record of their nge and breeding the web of the feet of the newly hatched goslings should be liens with goslings may punched. te eontined to the coop and the gosIn mild lings allowed to range. weather the hens are allowed to brood the goslings from seven to ten days, when the latter are nble to take care of themselves. ' it U very necessary to keep the young goslUigs dry, so they are usually kept confined in the morning until the dew Is dried off, und they should not be allowed to get Into water until partly leathered. This occurs when they ire from two to four week old, decndlng on the weather lid their rane. Goslings- caught tun apparently drowned in a cold rain may sometimes be revived by drying In llan-nnear a fire. Good-sizegrowing coops with board Moors should be provided for the which must be protected goslings, from their enemies. When on range, the young bird needs some attention, as they may get lost or caught In post holes and odd corners. Voting goslings. If confined, should be given nnd the coops removed grass yards It Is letfrequently to fresh grass. ter to keep the growing goslings sepn-lat- e from the of1 stock. Khade should be provided lu hot wwalhcr. If very fot'iig goslings are allowed to run with large animals, they are apt to be Injured or killed. el MAKE FOWLS WORK FOR FOOD Grain Scattered In LltUr Compel to Exercise Green Feed Aid Digestion. Hen All scratch Teed or whole grain hould bm scattered In the litter, say specialists of the I'nlted Slates of Agriculture. liens like to work for their living. Trough or hopper should lie used for dry mash. this feed 'alwny They accessible. Noon Is the time to provide fresh green food. It aids dl nt kp et!un. r, . For when all things are said and done, there were few bigger cowards In the whole wilderness world than Whlsperfoot. A good many people think that Graycoat the coyote could take lefisons from him in this respect. But others, knowing how a hunter is brought in occasionally with' althost all human resemblance gone from him because a cougar charged In his death agony, think this la unfair to' the larger animal. And it is true tv SCtoo - fnll-grow- n o x st sea-coa- . r d Small Boy' of a describe, as the far-of- f repo"" rlfie. Just today Blacktail had seen his doe fall bleeding when this same ) sound, onlv louder, sooke from a I covert from which Bert Cranston had poached her and he left the lick la one bound. Terrified though he was by the rifle shot, still Whlsperfoot sprang. But the distance was too fur. Ills outstretched paw hummed down four feet behind Blacktail's flank. Then forgetting everything hut his anger (Conducted by National Council of the Uoy Sfouis of America.) and disappointment, the great cougar opened his mouth and howled. The long night was almost done SCOUT SERVICE when he got sight of further game. Once a flock of grouse exploded with In a report to the national council a roar of wings from a thicket; bnt headquarters, a scoutmaster fills in they had been wakened by the first the blunk asking for comment upon whisper of dawn In the wind, and he his troop's community good turns as really had no chance at them. Soon follows : "DM everything they could, after this, the moon set. anywhere," which seems to be typical The larger creatures of the forest of the spirit of scouts throughout the are almost as helpless In absolute country. The Jobs aren't always the darkness as human beings. It is very pleasantest sort either, or the easiest. CHAPTER II. well to talk of seeing In the dark, bnt but when a scout tackles the thing from the nature of things, even verti- he does It "for all he's worth," wltlv nine after o'clock, Whlsper Shortly foot encountered his first herd of deer. cal pupils may only respond to light. brain and brawn and a right good No owl or bat can see In absolute will. Here are a few little thingsBut they caught his scent and scattered before he could get upto them. darkness. It became Increasingly like- scouts In Birmingham' did. In their He met Woof, grunting through the ly that Whlsperfoot would have to re- "leisure hours." It looks as if these underbrush, and he punctiliously, but tire to his lair without any meal boys were not only going to be goott citizens In the future, but are good, with wretched spirit, left the trail. A whatever. But still he remained, hoping citizens, here and now. fight with Woof the bear was one of One scout repaired a bridge, cleaned, the most unpleasant experiences that against hope. After a futile fifteen He had a pair of minutes of watching a trail, he heard mud out of two curbs and drained could be Imagined. foota on doe feeding a hillside. Its r a ditch ; time. strong arms of which one embrace of fall was not so heavy as the sturdy a cougar's body meant death In one Five scouts removed a large pile long shriek of pain. Of course they tramp of a buck, and besides, the of brush where trees had oeen didn't fight often. They had entirely bucks would be higher on the rldgea trimmed up; 15 minutes each. cauFive scouts repaired a street where opposite interests. The bear was a this time of morning. He began a and tious advance toward It. berry-eate- r and a It had washed out by piling rocks and For the first dfty yards the hunt brush and then dirt on top ; one hour's the cougar cared too much for his own life and beauty to tackle Woof in a was in bis favor. He came up wind, time. and the brush mrale a perfect cover. Two scouts burled a dead hen, that hunting way. But the doe unfortunately was standA fawn leaped from the thicket In the city health department would not an front of him, startled by his sound In ing a full twenty yards farther. In remove; 80 minutes' time. the thicket. The truth was. Whisper-foo- t open glade. Under ordinary circumFour scouts dug a dralnway to let had made a wholly unjustified stances, Whltiperfoot would not have standing water out of the street, and misstep on a dry twig, just at the made an attack. A cougar can run opened up ten sewers and 23 gutters. crucial moment. Perhaps It was the swiftly, but a deer is light Itself. The Two scouts repaired a bridge and fault of Woof, whose presence had big cat would have preferred to linger, opened four sewers and 20 gutters; driven Whlsperfoot from the trail, a motionless thing in the thickets, ten hours. and perhaps because old age and stiffhop'ng some other member of the deer One scout cut a dead tree which ness was coming upon him. But herd to which the doe must have be- stood close by the passageway and come Into ambush. his would neither of these facts appeased his longed was very dangerous to those passing; one hour. anger. He conld scarcely suppress a But the hunt was late, and Whisper-fowas very, very angry. Too many snarl of fury and disappointment. Eleven scouts worked two hours getHe continued along the ridge, still times this night he had missed his ting water out of basement of a church, kill. In desperation, he leaped from then built a fire and dried out the stealing, still alert, but his anger Increasing with every moment. The fact the thicket nnd charged the deer. place. In spite of the preponlerant odds that he had to leave the trail again to Three scouts repaired four sewers, a was almost acainst the to animal still another him, charge pass, also raked up a lot of leaves from permit and a particularly insignificant one success. He went fully half the dis- around a house and burned them, as tance between them before the deer they were dangerous to the commutoo, didu't make him feel any better. This animal had a number of curious perceived him. Then she leaped, nity; one and one-hal- f hours. stripes along his hack, and usually did There seemed to be no Interlude of nothing more desperate than steal time between the Instant tbjt she be CHIEF SEA SCOUT REPORTS. held the dim, tawny tigure in the air eggs and cat bird fledglings. Whlsperfoot could have crushed him with one and that in which her long legs pushed At the last national council meetbite, but this was one thing that the out In a spring But she didu't leap great cat. as long as he lived, would straight ahead. She knew enough of ing the chief sea scout, James A. the cougars to know that the great Wilder, made this reftort: "We have found our sea legs. After cat would certainly aim for her head and neck In the same way that a duck some backing and filling as to the g duck hopbest methods, we have, with the adhunter leads a ing to Intercept her leap. Even as her vice of some 400 executives, and othfeet left the ground she seemed to ers, settled on the course to be steered. whirl In the air, and the deadly talons This decision has steadied the program and the taffrall log bewhipped down In vain. Then, cutting back in frenr, she raced down wind. gins to register more speed. NovemIt Is usually the most unmitigated ber, 1920, was our banner month, folfolly for a cougar to chase a deer lowed by the record breakers, Decemngnlnst which he has missed his ber and January, 1020 and 1921. As stroke; and It is also uite fatal to his we go to press, February, 1921, has alWe And whoever doubts for a ready broken the record again. dignit.v. minute that the larger creatures have have registered more ships In the last no dignity, ard that It Is not very dear five months than In the previous three-- , to them, simply knows nothing about years. This Is at the rate of 110 pt-the ways of animals. They cling to cent increase annually. it to the death. But tonight one dis"We have the assurance that the W t."".!- - J f 'J . lBMVVtV Il wm i i t iy i, e .'iwri, appointment after another had crum- seacoast program Is being pushed as bled, as the rains crumble leaves, the the official older boy program, in 8T last vestige of Whlsperfoot's cities. Ship's papers or preliminary Snarling in fury, he bounded steps have already been taken by 10-t- ' scout centers. In some cities, notably after the doe. She was lost to sight at once In San Francisco, Honolulu and others, the darkness, but for fully thirty yards the program has been under way for he raced In her pursuit. If he bail several years without the registry of slopped to think. It would have been a single ship, because of a vote one of the really great surprises of train leadership before adhis life to hear the sudden, unmis- mitting boys to membership. The sea- - ' takable s'lr and movement of a large, scouts, at Ihe rate we are growing at living creature not fifteen feet distant present, will be 200 "ships" In 1022. If in the thicket. the last four months' increase In ouc He didn't stop to think at all. He number Is maintained we will bf. In six months, the largest seamanship didn't pnr.r.le on the extreme unlikelihood of a doe hnltlng In her flight from training course or 'nautical school' In a cougar. It Is doubtful whether. In the United States. Swift Increase Is A Full Twenty Yard Farther. the thickets, he had sjny perceptions not expected In the face of such slonever try to do. He got out of the of the creatnre other than Its move-men- gans as 'You must know It all the He was running down wind time,' 'Don't start anything yon can't was way politely when Stripe-hacstill a quarter of a mile away; which so It is cvrtain that, he didn't smell It. finish.' 'I'ractlce mokes perfect 'No was quite a compliment to the little If he saw It at all. It was just as a frauds.' The ship Is what you make animal's ability to Introduce himself. shadow, sufficiently large to be that her. 'Don't give up the ship.' Neverof a deer. It was moving, crawling as theless, we're already half the size of Stripe-bncwas familiarly known a Woof the bear sometimes crawled, Annapolis, and as far as plain sailing a sknnk. out of his path. And goes, we are giving the same Shortly after ten. the mountain Hon seemingly to get Wiisporfoot leaped straight at It. had a remarkably flue chance at program. T. was a perfect ?hot. He lnnded navy bouts have been buck. The direction of the wind. th "Fifty bona-fldseascouts, accordtrees, the thickets and the Hst were hift on Its shoulders. Ills head lashed loaned to dow , nnd the white teeth closed. All ing to regulations, and to certain all tn his favor. It was old the l ng life of Ms rau1 he had known 's Five hundred training bases. wallowing In the salt lick ; and that mgent ess that flowed forth. are still available for really deterheart bounded when be del d it, a messnge mined sensuasts of schooner (or sec- nscs tected him. No human hunter could His have laid his plans with greater care. shot ntong his lien es to his brain. Anil end) grade. He bud to rut ep the aide of the ridge, then be opened his mouth In a Mgh, "The slogan Is now, 'run your mindful of thf wind Then there wnc squeal of utter, abject like a ship, and In a seamanlike mana long dense thlcaet In which he terror. ner. Seacoast centers are asked to He sprang a full fifteen feet back avoid foolhardy practices, slack might approfl-- n v.l'hln fifty feet of the lick, still with the wind In Ms Into the thickets; then crouched. The and frauds, and the local at Ms shoulders, his face. Just bee do the lick was another bnlr stos! t committees are required t shipping deep thicket, from which he could claws were bared he was prepared take a pledge that no bout work or to fight tOthe death. He didn't under- small bout make his lenp. sailing shall take place unHis body lowered. The tail lashed stand. He only knew the worst single til the ship's company have qualified) hack and forth, and now It had begun terror of his life. It was not a doe a lifesavers. This waiting game may tn have a slight vertical motion that that he had attacked lit the darkness. not spell numbers, but spells quality,'' frontiersmen have learned to watch It was not ITrson the porcupine, or for. He placed every paw with con- even Woof. It was that Imperial masTO KEEP TR00P8 GOING. ter af all tnlngs, man himself. Unsummate grace, and few sets of tinHllman nerves have sufficient control knowing, he had attacked Landy have a question, too, Mr. Cav over leg muscles to move with snch dreth, lying wounded from Cranwton'a Scotit. This cems about the hardest Word beside the trail. bullet of the astonishing patience. He scarcely arson never reach the set- time In the whole year to keep things ring would seemed to move at all. There Is little going tn our troop. afteall. But when scarcely fen. feet re- tlements, doing besides regular meetings." Can mained to stalk, a sudden sound anybody help out In this caseT "1 be-l lleve I can. Cave Scout We bad the pricked through the darkness. It came from afar, but It was no less terrible. same trouble In our troop until last a ferest are. Settieg It was really two sounds, so close towinter, when we arranged a scout din ner and Invited our dads and mother. gether that they sounded as one. Neither Blacktall nor Whlsperfoot That gave our folks a pretty good Idea tTO Bii iXiNTINCfcJU.) had any delusions about them. They about what we do In scouting. Cava Umbrellas are great bluffers; !t Scout In Boys' Life, recognized them at once. In strange - no wltl Utesa Ways ondar the skis that oe maa Utaj case mt put np "V"CM(C.Ea' M!k Mi ,L OF TOE GEESE RAISING IN S w ROADS good-road- NEPHI, UTAH. S, ! BETTER SAFETY TIMES-NEW- l It -- - l. ' k k e Bte-kta- sen-coa- st il, Wbis-perfoot- p-r- e v. troi ip. 1 ; , . |