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Show I- BRING BACK THE BOY'S FRIEND. At .1 meeting' of spoul leaders in Ogdcn yesterday, Dr. Plummet of Salt Lake was a most entertaining and inspiring speaker. The Doctor is 61 but he is as young in the love of outdoors as , a boy of li. lie believes in hikes and lie lives closo to nature. The i Boy Seouts of Ogdcn should invite him- to be their guest, not in Og-j Og-j . den, but out in the wildwood of Ogdcn canyon, or up on the mountain moun-tain top, for the doctor is at home any place whore night overtakbs him. He is a wholesome man in whose company boys may find a greatest outlook on the thrcshhold of their careers. lie knows rocks and trees, birds and serpents, and has a delightful fund of information informa-tion gathered by extensive study where wild life is to be found. The day before he addressed the scout masters, he had been on a climb to where the hawks nest at. an altitude of 11,000 feet, up in the crags of the "Wasatch. He had aimed to get a photograph of the powerful birds, but was unsuccessful owing to the fact that he had no means of letting himself down from an overhanging cliff. So on a day this week, the doctor is to go equipped with a strong rope and, anchoring the line on a jutting rock, he will suspend himself at a dizzy height and snap his kodak. As we have said, he is 61, but ho is as young as a boy, and that is the kind of a man for boys. This scout, -at nearly three score and ten, goes on a three days' hike with his commissary in his pocket. For a day's tramp, a handful hand-ful of raisins and a uup of peanuts maintaiu his strength at maxi-I maxi-I ji i ; p ii j i. r ii. i j . i? Ii iiium, ana nc lives lor me greater part ox me weeic on a porridge oi catmeal. He would not burden himself with beefsteak which is 70 per cent water. For milk, he carries the dehydrated and powdered article and supplies the water from mountain or desert spring. Half a cup of beans will take him over a mountain range. Dr. Plummer, when questioned about trees, gave an interesting account of a visit to the trees near the timber line. On a wind swept peak in Colorado, he found a tree 1500 years old that was not more than two feet high, having had an endless struggle over that period for existence against the blasts of winter and the high winds at all time of year. The history of the storms of fifteen centuries was written in that gnarled wood. Out of this story of environment, he drew a lesson for the boy which disclosed a mind most pleasingly resourceful and active. Dr. Plummer told how to make a camp fire, directing attention atten-tion to the fact that the big blaze does not heat as do the coals ; he related why a dog's nose is cold and moist, and how he discovered by moistening his own nose he could scent the lair of wild animals. lie said he did not pick wild flowers or pin butterflies to cardboard, i that he found more enjoyment in seeing nature in its habitat. He J believe5 hi eliminating fear and hate from the human heart, and ho 1 employs the power of the subjective mind to get in rapport with the world. , "We know of no one in Utah who could give our Boy Scouts more entertainment, more information, more inspiration than Dr. Plummer.' B6ys, invite him to be your companion as long as he will staj'! |