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(Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) THE MEANING OF SCOUTING A Veteran Scout, going a lone highway, Will come in the evening, cold and gray. . ' To a chasm vast and deep and wide. The old scout will cross in the twilight dim. The sullen stream holds no fears for him: But he'll turn when safe on the other side And build a br.dge to span the tide. "Veteran Scout." says a pilgrim near, "You are wasting your strength with building here; Tour Journey will end with the ending day. You never aga!n will pass this way. Why build you this bridge with time so dear?" .The builder will lift his old gray head. He will point o'er the trail where his journey led "Good friend, in the path I have come," he will say, "There followeth after me today A tenderfoot scout who must pass this way. This gulf that has been as naught to me :To a fair-haired youth may a pitfall ba; He. too. must cross in the twilight dim. The Boy Scout movement has built for me. And I am building this bridge for him." -W. G. Quaiff. The Boy Scout movement means honorable citizenship, character and efficiency. It means men, physically strong, mentally awake and morally I Straight This Is the fundamental need of our country today. The whole move ment is much broader than the concep tion some have of lt It is nature's way of bringing about the things that the church, home and school are striv ing for. The Boy Scout movement Is not dom inated by a class spirit, and It Is not a mere boys' club. It has no barriers | of cast, wealth and sect, and because j of Its democratic spirit It Is here to- | stay. It ls not a fad and It is not an accident. Owing to the intrinsic merits of the movement, it is bound to live. First, the boy likes lt. It appeals to his manhood and to his sense of ro mance and adventure; it gives him self j respect and respect of others; it Is a challenge to the sturdy elements of his character which he cannot reject Second, it Is a school of training and development he cannot receive other wise. There Is an undeniable discip line in lt which the boy needs. It trains his sense of honor and con sciousness for service. In being a Boy Scout he will be a better boy and a better man. The movement Is the keynote to true American preparedness, and is worth the emulation of every man and woman in the United States; for every boy's home training is strengthened by tlie scout organization. The bird leaves Its nest before it can fly; the cub must leave Its den In order to become the king of the jun gles, so must the boy mingle with his fellows, under proper leadership, be fore he can develop the strongest character. It is a Boy Scout's business to help to save; but It may be added that if the need should arise, th?- train ing a Boy Scout receives will help him when he is a man to be a good defender of the country and one who will be 100 per cent physically strong and mentally awake. FRENCH SCOUT THANKS U. S. An amazing letter from one nf Les Eclaireurs de France, or French Boy Scouts, firhtlnc in the trenches, has been received by a New York Scout. Sidney Polaosek, of 501 East One Hun dred and Fortieth street. As trans lated lt is as follows: "Dear Friends of France: "I am a cousin to M. Oubringer Mar cel. As he reoeives a great many let ters from America and cannot answer them all, he has given me your ad dress. "I am a young (poilu) soldier of France of the class of 1917, conse quently I ara hardly twenty years old. I am In the trenches about 40 meters from the (Boches) Germans. Because 1 am so young I ara often lonely and even more so because I have only an aunt left In France. My parents are civil prisoners In Germany, nnd per haps they are dead, for I have heard no news of them since September, 1914. I am here to avenge them a- ' will avenge them. "It is with pleasure that we have learned In France that America has joined the side of the allies to fight the savage Teutons, so I assure you that victory ls certain for the allies, who are struggling for human civiliza tion. Long live America! and long live France! ' "From one who would like a com panion to dispel his sorrow, I am your humble servant, "MAXIME COUQUERET." AMONG THE SCOUTS. Charity begins at home ; also patriot ism. The Troop 3 Boy Scouts of Lyn brook, N. Y., have recognized the fact that there is work right at hand, and they have offered to care for Civic park, cutting the grass and raking the walks. There is a limit to a boy's endurance, even though he Is a trained Scout. He must have time to eat, 'to sleep, to play. Ninety-nine times out of a hun dred, though, the Scout will run the scoutmaster off his legs. FALSE SCHOOL OF HUMOR. The women who ure running from one place of registration to another, rather than reveal their ages to the gossiping neighborhood in which they live, have been driven to it by the guf faws of those fun lovers who regard gray hairs and all other signs of wis dom and worldly experience as fit sub jects for ridicule. The great heehaw school of humor loves a shining mark, and indulges in uproarious mirth over everything that should not be laughed at, says New York Herald. In the midst of the disciples of this witless cult it is funny to be married, and still funnier to remain single. It is funny to be fat and equally funny to be lean. A long-haired man is quite as funny as one who is bald. The mother-in-law, who in nine cases out of ten is the real self-sacrificing moth er of her brood of grandchildren, is quite as ludicrous in the eyes of those jueose ones as the "old maid," who more than earns her keep by doing the marketing and relieving her married sister of nursery cares. Our national sense of humor is in woeful need of a reformer who will teach us the differ ence between sacred things and the various forms of vulgarity and pre tense that should be laughed out of existence. The amazing activity of Italian war riors in the Alps seems to continue the tradition Caesar set when in winter campaigns he defied the snow-clad mountains In order to hold or to extend the frontiers of the empire. The Caesar who bridged the Rhine was a brother in-arms to brave Cadorna, says Phila delphia Public Ledger. The Ro man legionaries who live for us in the pages of the Commentaries seem to have their reincarnation in the men who station their guns in the eagle's aerie and convey their wound ed over wire ropes across yawning abysses. Who said Italians were de generate scions of the.ancient heroic stock? The war has shown the world no sturdier warriors than these. With the forces of nature herself arrayed against them, they have removed moun tains, and In their prowess it is as though Caesar himself were on earth again to defy and finally subjugate the German war lord who has assumed and disgraced the name the great Ital- j ian wore who ruled the world. The United States ls short of beef and long on fish. The people of this country eat less sea food than those of any other nation which has avail able supplies so great as ours. The problem is to save the beef for ship ment across the ocean and to consume here the fish which cannot be econom ically shipped. The country must con serve wheat, too, and eat instead such grains as cannot be sent to the trenches. Like a good many business men, Uncle Sam is protecting his borrowings -the bonds issued and sold to his own people-by lending at the same rate of interest to his allies. And, to com plete the endless chain, the money loaned to the allies is being largely ex ponded in this country, so our own people will get the benefit from it Now we are advised that we mustn't ase any more starch on our shirts, utilizing it rather for blanc mange and other so-called food products, and we have written our washerwoman.asking if this oughtn't to apply also to our union suits, feeling that possibly an ap peal on broad patriotic grounds may have some weight with her. Not the least of our contribution to the allies to excite vo^noptfnl atten tion abroad was the consignment of the great American army mule. On all sides was heard the French equiva lent of the wish that he would have more power to his kick on the field. Now someone has invented a ma chine gun unit, the same being a de vice whereby one man can control a whole battery of machine guns. More and more does war take on the form of a machine-made thing. We have not worried about the mini mum price theory so far, being confi dent that old Max will always get oui number and the Mini will remain dis tant while Max Is around. When the daughter has to spend an .evening at home alone-just with the family-she decides to go to bed real early and catch up on sleep. Dispntches from Washington Indi cate that the crop reports are im proving pretty nearly as much as the crops are. Americans are asked to raise more sheep, and the ambitious flat dweller I? looking about for a noiseless folding sheep. If the male clothing model wishes ito make a hit he should appear ir Ikhaki-with a license to wear lt. . Wholesale prices axe steadily going ?down. You might mention the fact tc iyour grocer. SHRINE OF THE "HOLY COAT Cathedral at Tr?ves Contains One of Most Jealously Guarded Relics of the Roman Church. At intervals of many years the old Prince Bishopric of Tr?ves, wakens out of its half-slumbering condition and becomes the center of a great pilgrim age. Besides tts numerous Roman re mains, this quiet old town, claiming to be 1,300 years older than Rome, is the shrine of the "Holy Coat," one of the most jealously guarded relics in the possession of the Roman church. The citizens of Tr?ves are very proud of this seamless garment, and they have given it a prominent place on their coat-of-arms, says the Dundee Advertiser. It was not until H?JG that the "Holy Coat" was placed over the high altar, but it was not exposed to the public gaze for some throe hundred years afterward. It was kept in a se cret place of the cathedral known only to a few, and there were many who doubted Its existence. A guide book of 1814 says: "The existence of the relic at pres ent ls rather doubtful-at least, it ls not visible. The attendants of the church say it is walled up." All doubts were removed In 1S44, when Archbish op Arnoldi announced a centenary jubilee, at which it was exhibited to a million and a half of pilgrims from all parts of the world. The coat is a loose garment with wide sleeves, very sim ple in form, of coarse material, dark brown In color, probably as the result of age, and entirely without seam or decoration. i,. . . MESSAGES FLOAT FOR YEARS United States Hydrographie Office Tells of Finding of Bottle Set Adrift in 1914. Several instances of messages in bottles having floated about the Pa cific for years before being recovered have been announced by the United States hydrographie office. A bottle was set adrift by Capt. S. Nagahue of the Tamba Maru, Japan ese, August 17, 1915, 900 miles east of Kamchatka, was recovered May 15 last near Moellps, Wash. Another bottle, set adrift in December, 1914, off Cape Corrientes, Mex., was found February 22 last 240 miles north of Christmas Island, In the latitude of the Hawaiian islands. A third bottle, tossed from the schooner W. H. Marsten by Capt. W. Wann February 14, 1915, 2,040 miles east of Chile and 6G0 miles south of Easter Island, was picked up January 21 last four miles south of Wanganui island, New Zealand. Clock Dials for Summer. Instead of moving the hands of the clock forward and back at the time of changing from standard to summer time, and vice versa, a plan recently proposed In England is to have clocks provided with an adjustable dial. The circular disk of the dial would be put In place by screws in curved slots, and the dial would be rotated through one hour space at the time of making the change, leaving the hands untouched. It is claimed that this plan is especial ly desirable in the case of striking clocks, the hands of which cannot be moved back. The position of the dial would also indicate whether the clock was keeping summer or normal time. The objection to chis procedure, of course, ls that practically everybody tells time from position of the hands, without any attention to the figures cn the dial. Solves Problem of Stray Whale. Monterey, Cal., has solved the ques tion of what to do with a stray whale that Is washed up on shore. After dis posing of the flesh and oil to a refinery, the bones may be mounted on shore and kept as a permanent natural his tory exhibit. That is what the cky officials did with a whale which was washed ashore there, according to the Popular Science Monthly, it wa? welcomed with open arms and the bones were saved as an educational feature for the benefit of the school children of the city and for interested adults. Since there was no building avail able large enough to accommodate it, lt was set up in an open lot and fenced in. Steel Shortage in Australia. Stocks of steel plates, tin plate and galvanized iron are low throughout Australia, and the demand is acute, ac cording to consular advices from Mel bourne. There is at present very little prospect of outside relief, and an effort ls being made to manufacture these goods in Australia. Recently representatives of a company in New castle and one in Melbourne were sent to the United States to purchase machinery for making steel. The high freights and shortage of supply offer a great Incentive to the manufacture of lines that would have been consid ered Impossible to produce before the war. Never Without lt. "Tour threat to slap Reggie on the wrist was merely a bit of sarcasm, I suppose?" "Perhaps." "You couldn't have done much dam age that way." "Oh, I don't know. I might have smashed his wrist watch." The Conceited One. "I can't bear that young leading man ; he's so conceited. How do you manage to get along with him?" 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