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BOY SCOUTS ' > i By Charles W. Eliot, LI. D., Prcs- 1 ident Emeritus of Harvard 1 U nivcrsity. J There are three classes of scouts. 1 The first is called the tenderfoot. 1 The requirements for admission to ' tliis lowest class are, first, to know ' the scout law, the sign, the salute. ' and the significance of the badge ; ' then to know the composition and ! history of the national flag, and ■ the customary forms, of respect 1 due to it. I hardly think that there is a person in this room except myself that knows the history of the American flag; and I did | not know it until I listened about a fortnight ago to a very interest- • ing lecture by Hon. Curtis Guild ( at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, j Thirdly, the tenderfoot must know how to tie four out of the follow- j ing knots ; square or reef, fpieet- 1 bend, bowline, fisherman's sheepshank, halter, clove hitch, timber j hitch, and two lialf hitches. How many persons in this audience can tie those knots? I can only tie three out of the nine ; yet they are very useful knots and to acquire skill in tying those knots is firstrate discipline for eye and hand, and for memory too. I used to know how to tie three other of: these knots; but I have forgotten them. The boy who gives the scout j promise is enrolled as a tenderfoot j and is entitled to wear the tender- , foot badge. What must this tenderfoot do. in order to become a second-class scout? He must pass the following tests, — first, he must serve at least one mouth as a tenderfoot ; secondly, he must learn elementary first aid to the injured and bandaging. He must also learn the treatment for fainting, shock, "fractures, bruises, sprains, injuries in which the skin is broken, i burns, and scalds. He must know how to carry injured persons, and : the use of the triangular and roll- j er bandages and tourniquet. Very j few people in this room could pass that examination; "and yet it is expected of a scout who, very likely, is not more than thirteen or fourteen years old. The seout also learns elementary signalling, knows the semaphore, or American Morse, or Myer alphal>et. and signalling across stretches of coun- 1 try or sea. He must "track" half . a mile in twenty-five minutes, much of the time on hands and knees: or. if in town, he nrilst de- , !- ; I s

6cribe satisfactorily the contents of one store window out of four observed for one minute each. Then- is serious training required 1 for meeting these tests. Let any of us go along Washington Street and look into four shop windows ^ one minute each, and then go away and . immediately attempt to describe satisfactorily the contents of any one of the four. I assure | you, ladies and' gentlemen, that! there are very, very few of us in !! this room who could accomplish' 0 that feat; for it requires careful 1 observation of four different !' groups of objects, -then the ability j to remember just what was seen in one of those groups, the impression Ivlng necessarily confused j somewhat by the qui<-k sight of the i other three. An interesting exneriment was tried at the Union Club in this city on twenty members of that club, an experiment contrived | and executed by Hon. George G. Crocker, for many years the Chairman of the Rapid Transit Commission. He had heard about HAVE YOU BEEN SICK? Then you realize the utter weakn.ss that robs ambition, destroys appetite, and makes work a burden. Torestorethat strength andstamina that is so essentia!, nothing has ever equaled or compared with Scott's Emulsion, because its strength - sustaining nourishment invigorates the blood to distribute energy throughout the body while its tonic value sharpens the appetite and restores health in a natural, permanent way. II you are run down, tired, nervous, Overworked or lack strength, get Scott's Bmulsion to-day. It is free from alcohol, -fc Scott & Bowoe. SloomfieU, N. J.

numerous accidents among the ad- i mirable Italian workmen who ( built the subway, and some of these cases having come into court, t Mr. Crocker noticed that there was 1 the greatest diversity of testimony l as to what happened in these ac- 1 cidents, and that tin? various wit- < . were seldom able to give concordant accounts of what happen- 1 ! ed. So Mr. Crocker got twenty ' [ members of the Unions Club, law- i I vers, judges, and Tiusiness men — t . all educated, successful, and high- < . lv esteemed persons — to witness a I little act or play which took a min- i , ute and a half in the acting, and to ; I listen at the same time to what the t 'actors said. There were two im- i . portant points in that little play a t I 'minute and a half long;~one was a ; I remark maae by one of the actors, : . -and the other concerned the where- i Jaboilts of a certain pocketbook ; (which as a matter of fact, lay on i J the table in plain sight of all the f 'twenty witnesses at the end of the .j little play. Each one of the wit- ■ j Inesses was to write out immediate- , ily an account of what he had seen : '} and heard. The play lasted "6nly ; a minute and a half, and there were only four actors, all of whom were good actors who could easily 5 be seen, heard, and understood. P Out of the twenty, three men imjj mediately said, "We cannot do t this thing." They gave it up. They J vould not even try to describe in (writing what they had seen and heard. The other seventeen wrote out a description, each for himself, ^ of what they had seen and heard. No two of these descriptions were j the same, or much resembled each other; and not a single one of the ' seventeen got the two important j points in that little play only a j minute and a half long. Some got one of the two points; others got the other; and some of them did jnot apprehend either point. Tlie«e J twenty gentlemen were all highly I educated, experienced persons: I ->nd yet they could not tell correctly what they had seen and heard in la minute and a half. The test pre- ; scribed for entering the second j r scouts is therefore a ser- ! ions one. Tt takes youth to meet! ^ ; it. after training. I said at the I start that I was interested in the j j scout law and organization as a : j means of education. This piece of j training just described is better! j. practice for eye. majpory, and; ( I English style that most of our) j (schools afford any of their pupils] ^ I between the ages of twelve and! ■eighteen.

r ' "Go a mile in twelve minutes at s , scout's pace — aliout fifty steps v running and fifty walking altera- o lately." This is a speed of five g ; miles an hour. This again is an t excellent task or testing, a good a itbing to lie able to do. Is i The sixth item in the require- t ] ments of a second-class scout is f F ! 'Use properly knife or hatchet." c jFew of the pupils in our public a schools up to eighteen years of age is jleara either of these tilings at A school. Some are fortunate,! enough to learn them out of school, jt , I passed five years in the Boston 1 1 I Public Latin School, the years 1 1 I from ten to fifteen; but was never j' I {taught in that school to do any- 1 (thing with my hands except to 1 write and cipher. I had no man- , jual training, no laboratory work, pi no use of any instrument of preI cision. My father, who was much (in advance of his time in matters , of education, took pains to have t me taught carpentering and woodt turning, but that training 1 ob- _ tained out of school hours. Some 1 I improvements in this respect have , j recently been made in our public ] s schools; but much remains to be , done before our schools are t brought up to the standard of the ] 1 scout rules and practices. The seventh requirement is, ; "Prove ability to build a fire in ] ■ the open, using not more than two matches." This is education by » doing them right. When the scouts go camping, they want a fire very 1

much no matter whether the we»a-l be wet or dry, windy or calm. The eighth item is "Cook a quarter of a pound of meat and 1 potatoes, in the open, without I the ordinary kitchen utensils." Is ( there anybody in this room who ( could do that ? I could not. , Ninth— "Earn and deposit at ' one dollar in a public bank." These are directions to chulrei. of ' • twelve /ears old and upwards, and , ■ scent may easily obta:u the rank i ■ cf w ood class scout by the time I l is thirteen years of age but he ■ must have earned and deposited in i a public bank at least one dollar. : "Know the sixteen principal - points of the compass." That is i a rare attainment among the puilpils of our public schools, very , I happen to know them, be- - cause I have piloted a boat many ; years along the New England i coast. It is, however, a useful at- : tainment which tends to accuracy ! in observation an <f description in - city or country, at sea or in the - woods. The training of the boy l scout who lias entered the seeondt class has been a training not of i the eye and band or body alone, l but a training in skill in doing r things which man in his natural . state had to do for his living, in a - literal sense. They are tilings > which the hunter, the forester, and >' the fishermen need to know. They i bring the boy scout into contaet 1 with nature, and with the primis tive needs of mankind. — Address. • DON'T VISIT THE CALIFORNIA EX- • POSITIONS Without a supply of Allen's , Foot-Ease. It gives instant relief to e tired, aching feet and prevents swollen. hot feet. One lady writes: "I enjoyed every minute of my stay at the Exposi1 tions. thanks to Allen's Foot-Ease in my t shoes. Sold Everywhere, 25c. Don't f accept any substitute. 1 e Alfred Hurrell, of New York. >' for four years attorney for the As- : sociation of Life Insuanee 1'resi- - dents, has been appointed assoeii ate general solicitor for the Pru--idential Insurance Company of I j America. In this capacity Mr. '- Hurrell will be associated with I {Fourth Vice President and Generp .Solicitor Edward D. Duffield. ej.Mr. Hurrell has had extensive acb j quaint anec with insurance law. f.and previous to his connection r j with the Association of Life InsurIjance Presidents, he was assistant r {counsel for the Merritt Investigate tion Committee of the New York I I Legislature which, investigated Fire Insurance Companies and Inr 1

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LOTS (EACH 30x100 FT.) IN WEST CAPE MAY, N. J., TO BE SOLD Wednesday, May 26, 1915 at 12 M. At the Real Estate Salesrooms 1519-2: Chestnut St, Philadelpha, Pa. ' 8th Ave. \Y. side. 120 X. of Mt. Vernon l Ave.. " lots each. 30x100 feet. Art, F.. side. 180 feet S. of Mt. Vernon ave.. 2 lots each, 30x100 feet. particulars in handbills. ■lOHSAA. SCAN LAX. Esq, Atty, 050 Drexel Bldg, Philadelphia. Pa. Samuel T. Freeman and Co, 1510-21 Chestnut at, Philadelphia, Pa. 275-3t- 5-8 PRIZES FOR Best Crops Prizes will be awardi-d to any farmer in Cape May County shewing the best crop from one-half bushel of oats, corn or wheat grown in this county, as foli low: s 1 1ST PRIZE. OATS $10.00 I 2XP PRIZE. OATS 5.00 3RD PRIZE. OATS ,. . . . 2J50 - 1ST PRIZE. WHEAT 5.00 2ND PRIZE. WHEAT 2.50 j 1 1ST PRIZE. CORN 5.00 ». i 2ND -PRIZE. CORN . . 2.50 J | Products to be exhibited at Court s House at the meeting of the County L Board of Agriculture, first Friday and "'.Saturday in November, r JOSEPH CAMP, II Pierces P. O. r. President County Board of Agriculture

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