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Show W HEN I WAS TWENTY-ONE, BY JOSEPH IvAVE , j At Twenty-One: Dan Beard, Famous Scout, Was Earning $4 a Week. HAT THIS time, afler doing some apprentice work ns a civil engineer. en-gineer. I was hired at the munificent salary of $4 a week. And how do you suppose I spent the $4 I earned? I was the youngest son and I had always to wear the cast-off neckties of my brothers, and now that I had money of my own, I determined to spend -il according to my own sweet fancy. I therefore spent the entire en-tire week's salary on neckties. Dan Beard." TODAY: Pan Heard goes down In history as the fuiiuder of the first Boy Scout society from which the great English 'organism! ion of hoy scouts sprang, lie is one r the most biOoved men in Amcrle;i; the Idol of boys, who see in the celebrated woodsman woods-man the ideal type of manhood. Nominally. Dan Beard is listed In the books as an Illustrator. It was as an artisl Unit he first won his. fame. A drawing of a fish, shown Jokingly to the art editor of the Century Magazine, Maga-zine, was Ihe key I hat opened the door of Ihe new career to him; formerly for-merly he had been a map maker. The editor took ihe drawing nway with him and later seni Beard a check of $r.O for It. The siglil of this easily earned money da..lcd Heard. He Immediately Im-mediately took n vacation from hla Job and never returned. ( by Mi'Clure New-simper 8yn1lc&l. O |