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Show I Few boys ever have been or ever will be more notably honored,' than was James Thomas Smith, a thirteen year old scout of Orient Heights near E-Ojston, when General Pershing li; Faneuil Hall on the one hundred ana fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Concord and Lexington pinned on his breast a medal of honor awarded toi-heroism toi-heroism on two occasions. One was saving a chum from drowning at the risk of his own life, the other was stopping a runaway horse. At the en of the ceremony the lad brought his hand to his hat in a precise salute ; and at the request of some one in j the audience led them in the pledge j to the flag. |