&NEWS RNP NOTES OF THE.BOY STOJTS& QUERIES BOYS OF HIS TROOP Scoutmaster Wants to Know Who Youths Are Most Interested In No doctor would prescribe for his patient before a carefui examina tion had been given, neither can a scoutmaster give his best services to a scout until he knows that scout and can think and feel as he does. This is the conclusion that the scout master of Troop 4 came to, prompt ing him to send the following list of questions to his candidates: "Qear Scout: — "It has been my practice as scout master of Troop 4 tf> aslc all new scouts the following quesions so as - to be in a position to work with them to the best advantage. Please, there fore, answer these questions prompt ly: Tour full name, address and age is? Tour father's name and occupa tion 18? Is your health good? If not, what is wrong? What exercise do you take? What ia your favorite game? What school do you attend? What is your favorite study? Which are you the poorest in? What do you read outside of school? What is your hobby? Are you: fond of the country? What bad hnbit do you have to j fight hardest? Do you try to keep your thoughts clean? Do you try to be absolutely honest? Do you tr vto ba. absolutely punct ual ? Are you kind to animals? Are you a Christian? What churc* do you attend? Can you save money? What is your aim in life? Are you willing to pay the price' of success in hard work? How can I help you most as your' scoutmaster? "Your friend and scoutmaster, "GARFIELD MCALLISTER." "Do a good turn dally." Seven Former Members of Troop 4 Are Ready to Fight For Nation George Beard won the single j championship in Troop 4's tennis tournament, when he defeated Geo. Pavord at Reservoir Park on Wed-| nesday. The score was 5-7, 6-0, 6-4. The troop will present the winner! with a handsome loving cup at an' early meeting. The following boys, now enlisted' in the service of their country were former members of Troop 4: Robert Font, Eugene Davis, Jo-| seph Ogelsby. David Snavely, Geo. Fitzpatrick, Howard Seidle and Leon Mehaffie. TROOP 20 TO HIKE Troop 20 will take a short hike on Saturday starting at Frogtown I and hiking for about seven miles in; that vicinity. The troop will ride' to Frogtown via trolley and will re-| turn the same way. Scouts of this ; troop have been disappointed sev-! eral times about the all-day hike,; which was to have been taken some j time ago but has been held up on account of weather conditions. It | will prc.bably be taken in about two | weeks. G. PARK WEAVER, Acting Scribe. I I Dr. James Louis Brrra. for 6fteen yr* Adjunct Professor Nrw York Homeopathic Me- Idical Collrfc say —There is nothinr like offing iron—Nuxated Iron—lo put youthful strenfrb and power into the veins of the wrsk. run-down. g Infirm or teed. To be absolutely sure that my patients fe\ real orranlc iron and not some form | of the metallic variety. I alwaya prescribe Nuxatcd I Iron la ha original packares. Nuxated Iron will j Increase the strenrth and endnfjnoe of weak, net- ' rout run-down folks 1009b In two weeks time in many Instances. Dtrftnmf by // drvggiiti. . Room an J Bath s l—PerDay J.KD VPWAMB vX The hotel that made Its repu- W tatlon cm IU cleanltneea end ii?*V Hrrln, ol ESS A held It on Its sz excellent and rajas prloed menu_ SIssSIH A nb * l frl -]S cheerful out side rooms at $1 *OO : *fe. * per da*. Safety jrirt — Service A lirave T,F CV 'j^LrtEl^) JANOVER Twelfth end Arch St*. Philadelphia, Pa. Convenient to both Pennay Cvonta and Reading Railroads CLAUDE M MOHR, Mansfw EDICATIOITAL School of Commerce AND Harrisburg Business College Troop Building. IB So. Market Sfiart Thorough Training In Business and Stenography. Civil Service Course OUR OFFER—Right Training by Spe cialists and High Grade Positions. You Take a Business Course But Once; the BEST la What You Want. Fall Term Day and Night School. Enter any Monday, suu. 486 Dial. UM FRIDAY EVENING, EUZABETHTOWN TROOP 1, JUST 1 j: : 7 ~ The above photograph shows Boy Scouts, Troop I, of Ellzabethtown, just after it had broken camp at Manada Gap. Fifty-three members participated in the outing. Each report* a wonderful time. C. M.Heist and, assistant scoutmaster was In charge of the camp. APPEALS FOR SCOUTMASTERS Roosevelt Points Out That Nation Needs Ten-fold Increase in Boy Scouts * Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Hon orary Scout Commissioner, of Nassau county. New York, and members of the Troop Committee of the Scout Troop connected with Christ Episco pal church in Oyster Bay, pitched his tent at Mineola, Nassau county with the 1,200 Boy Scouts of America en camped there. The Boy Scouts cook ed their own meals for four days and on the last day had a rally with wall-scaling, •"staiking," "Cow-boy race" contest, and' 'other Scouting activities. Colonel Roosevelt addressed the Boy Scouts after their dress parade and lauded them for having "made the team" that is lighting Uncle Sam's battles. He urged everyone to do his duty as he found it before hini. Colonel Roosevelt said: Fellow Boy Scouts: Of course I have a right to say "Fellow Boy Scouts," for I see here as one of your Scoutmasters the dominie under whom 1 sit every Sunday. 1 am not only proud of Nassau county for what you boys have done in organizing this body here in this county, but 1 congratulate with all my heart the American people on the Boy Scout movement; and I want you boys to feel this. Boys of your age ordinarily cannot feel as yet that they have done much for the country as citizens, but you boys—the Boy Scouts —are different. Because of the leadership given by your organ ization you are already doing your part. You are on the team now —Uncle Sam's Team. You are doing you bit! And 1 tell you, it is worth while. I do not know a man or boy worth his salt who has not got the desire to be a part of the team that counts, and to do liis share in making it count. That is, what every red-blooded American haa got to feel, or he Isn't worth being called an American: We have got 258,000 Boy Scouts of America and about 76,000 people like Scoutmaster Talmadge, Council President Earle and myself (Scout Commissioner) who are in the move ment as leaders, and I won't be con tent until instead of 258,000 we have 2,580,000. Has No Use l-"or "Harmless" Boys I have got mighty little u,se for the type of good man or good boy of whom all you can say is that he !s harmless. Boy Scouts I want you to count in the game of life. I want you to count now when you are boys, and I want you to count when you have grown up and become men. I believe in this movement with all my heart, and also In that con : stantly growing belief In this coun j try that all of our young men be | tween the ages of 18 and 21 shall j have to have obligatory universal I military training, to supplement what you boys are doing now. The I democracy of our Government must I be based fundamentally on the kind of spirit you show—the service that | you so willingly give. No man Is entitled to a privilege if he does not I perform a duty. You can't, any of you, enjoy the privileges of a Boy Scout if you stay out and don't do any of the work. Kills Catarrh Germs Hyomoi the Most Wonderful Treat ment for Oatorrh Eve* Discovered Do not try to cure catarrh by tak ing drugs into the stomach; it can not be cured In that manner. The only way in wlilch this too common disease can be cured is through a di rect application that will kill the ca tarrh germs and prevent their growth. Hyomei is the only known method of treatment that aconplishes this. It Is the simplest, most pleasant, and the only natural remed / for catarrh that has ever been discovered. The complete Hyome outfit costs but little, consisting of an inhaler, dropper and sufficient Hyomei to last several weeks. This si ould efTect a cure in ordinary cases, but for chronic and deep-seated cases of catarrh, longer use may be necessary, and then extra bottles of Hyomei can be ob tained for a few rents. It Is not alone the best (it might be called the j only) method of treating catarrh, but It Is also the most economical. Remember, that if Hyomei does not help you. H. C. Kennedy will refund your money.—Advertisement. MM STOPS ALL STOMACH DISTRESS Why suffer with that uncomfort able feeling of fullness, headache, dizziness, sour, gassy, upset stomach, or heartbnrn? Get relief at once— delays are dangerous. Buy to-day— now—a BOe box of Ml-o-nu Tablets. There Is no mor effective stomach remedy. For eal *>y Ji. C. Kennedy. I SETTLE DOWN TO SOLID WORK ~~ > Troop 6 Enjoyed Pleasant Summer; Will Make Good Showing at Rally Troop fi has settled down to solid work after a summer vacation which ended with two happy weeks of camping at Camp Sagamokon. The Scout meeting has been changed from Wednesday to Friday! night. Wednesday night is now taken up by a patrol leaders' school! conducted by Scoutmaster Hunts burger. Last Wednesday night the senior; patrol leader, six patrol leaders and' assistants were put through a drill! by Assistant Scoutmaster Craven., Mr. Huntsberger conducted a staff exercise and gave a blackboard talk j on "Signs and Signals." The following subjects have been; assigned to scouts for a three-min- j ute talk noxt Wednesday night: "Myi Obligation to the Troop, Thomas Leeds, assistant patrol leader of the! Tlgar Patrol; "My Duty to the Pa trol," Bayard Bowers, assistant pa-' trol leader of the Silver Fox Patrol;; "How I Can Advance the Principle j of Scouting," Charles Cox, Tiger Pa- I trol leader. On Tuesday, September 25, the, troop will hold a marshmallow toast' with the Susquehannock Circle of Camp Fire Girls. The Scouts are displaying marked enthusiasm in the matter of the Scout rally and expect to make a good showing. Our hat is in the ring, and our I forty bright-eyed, snappy American' boys are ready to dash through the ropes to defend It. The Honor Roll for the past two weeks is as follows: | Eagle Patrol - Fred Haehnlen: (Bent Arrow), Will Heagy (Black Star); Silver Fox Charles Peters j (Osceola); Gray Beaver William Richards (Tellow Oriole). ROY A. REEL, Scoutmaster. . H4VW*V\U*MUVim",WMIVVVMMVVmVVWWVMmWVUM\V ii Days on the Open Road ji By Red Cloud and Lone Star i| • \ / mwv\v\vww\\wwwwww New strength, new characteristics which we never knew existed are brought out on the faces of the boy when in the heart of the strange wood. Hope and imagination draw for him the wonderful pictures that come and go in the flickering light of the campfire. So it was to us that first night spent under the diamond-sprinkled canopy of Heaven. One by one with serious faces we sought our resting place and with thoughts and fancies jealously guarded fell oft to sleep. • • • Awake with the first gray light! of dawn, we performed Our morn-1 lng toilet In the cool waters of a nearby creek and with the fresh I sweet breath of the new day filling; our lungs, we packed our traps and were on our way. The pale light | mounted higher" In the east and aj rosy blush along the hill tops her alded the coming of the sun. Ra-| diant shafts of golden light shot up to the zenith, and were reflected by the sparkling drops of dew on every leaf and every blade of graft*. The bob-white In the meadows greet | ed us with his morning call The last I star faded in the west, the crescent moon grew pale against the bright ening sky and soon the sun a great,] blood-red ball seemed to fairly leap! Into the eastern sky. Breakfast at seven o'clock In an \ open field was devoured with a rel ish equaled only by that of the even-; ing before. After the meal we enter- | ed a bottom land along a narrow creek and res'ed there until after the, heat of the day had passed and the cool of evening once again invited; us to take the road. Tired, dirty and j hungry we reached the end of ourj Journey with the firm determination that our first experiment was by no means our last. Since that first trip, six years ago, more than nine hundred miles havej been covered on foot by the members of the crowd. Trips have ranged from twenty to one hundred and fifty miles in length and have required from one to three \days' walking. Sometimes our path lay through the drifted snows of winter and some village inn or friendly haymow pro vided shelter for the night More than once we were obliged to break the Ice on the creek for water for our morning wash or water for breakfast. Again when the first green shoots were on the trees, when the violet and dandelion were ap- j pearlng In the fields and tender! blades of rew grass began to car-| pet the earth, the balmy air of sprlns ' found us hiking through the mud of| thawing snows or the mire of! changeful April's showers. The cherry blossoms are on the trees and the days grow longer anil j hotter. The dogwood trees are cov-i HAJRRIBBXJRO TELEGRAPH CARE OF CORN AFTER SELECTION Farm Agent Tells How to Handle Seed to Keep It For Planting Following up his recent article on > the field selection of seed corn, H. G. | Niesley tells how to care for the seed after selection. His statement i follows: "The first requisite in storing seed corn is to sec that the storage is dry and has free circulation. Corn will i dry most rapidly under such condl ! tions. Be sure that your corn is , thoroughly dry, if not when freezing weather comes the viability will be ! sure to be affecteti. "Experiments at the Pennsylvania . State College indicate that it is not I necessary to have specially heated i houses to dry seed corn. On the average farm, any well ventilated j attic above thp kitchen, or a similar- Ily heated rsom may be profitably ' utilized for storage. If such storage is not available, the corn may be j placed under the roof In the hay ! mow, or in any other frame build ing, ha\#ig a good circulation of air. "Ears should not be piled one on : top of the other, but rather placed separately so that air can circulate freely about each ear. Many differ ent schemes can be followed for the proper arrangement of the ears. Among these may be mentioned; "The tying together of the ears with strings. "The arranging of ears on racks so that mice and rat cannot reach them. | "The driving of nails into a post j or side of a building, on which the | Individual ears can be placed. "When the seed ears have been thoroughly d <i<t, they may be stored in sacks, barrels, or boxes and placed in a mouse-proof room until plant ing time the following spring. [ ered with their whit® blossoms, the wheat fields take on a golden color ! and the morning air is the delicate I perfume of new mown hay. The ' bushes along the wayside are white with dust, the cat-o-nine tails are springing up in the swamps and summer reigns supreme. The rich yellow has faded from the breast of the oriole and his song is almost forgotten for he is busy gathering food for his hungry offspring. The robin is teaching his young to fly for there is a gentle soft haze in the atmosphere and the fatherbird knows that it will soon be time to fly south. Now comes the ideal time for hiking. The leaves in the woods and on £ i!i! mo i U ? tain sl< * 6 are changing to j brilliant hues of orange, scarlet and . brown. The summac bushes in the fence comers are crimson and in the | fields the goldenrod waves its yel low head. Brown fields of stacked I corn and frost coated pumpkins tell of the approach of Thanksgiving Day The weather is dry and the touch of coolness in the evening lends an additional cheer to the warmth of the campflre. On the Road to Yesterday The road to Yesterday! You have I read it in poems; you have seen a ! well-known drama under the name you have heard It used as a figure i of speech, but have JMJU ever be- I lieved that such a road Exists in the j prosaic world we know? Well it does | exist and if you can lay aside for | the moment the present and go with us on P. short hike, we. shall take ■ you into the midst of the life and | pleasures of the country folk of half i a century ago. We leave the well-traveled road ] at the next cross road or as we pasß | through some village. Along the I road we now follow, we notice that I grass and weeds grow between the | wagon tracks, indicating little use | Wire gives way to the split rail in I the fences along the wayside and here and there zig-zagglng its way across the field is an old worm fence its timbers rotting and falling to de cay. After an hour's walk, log houses have become a common sight and the door at which we stop to ask for a drink Is made of rough, heavy timbers and to our amazement, there hangs an old leather latch string such as greatgrandfather knew when he was a boy. Take the liber ty to peep itnto the interior of the room and you will see that no car i pet covers the puncheon floor Over | there on the far side of the kitchen .is a great stone fireplace before ; which we can almost sec Abe Lincoln I lying on the floor reading his book I by the light of the pineknot or we! | can picture greatgrandmother at j her wheel spinning flax—and this in i all wlthing twents - miles of the Capl -1 tal City of Pennsylvania. TROOP 12 MAKES RAPID STRIDES •f Less Than Six Months Old but Growing and Learn ing Fast Troop 12, of the Memorial Lu theran Church, Harrisburg Boy Scouts of America, was organized In May, 1917, with about twenty-four The New Store of Wm. StrouseMßM—l Yes, Rushed That's what the New Store has been in every department, and from now on the "rush" will be tripled —by the best: and most knowing buyers of men's and boys' apparel in Harrisburg. They have a confidence that has never been in the slightest way betrayed they know when Wm. Strouse says a thing, it's so Young Men's Clothes t^lele ' S 3 erence * n m - Strouse's cloth ing is putting it too mildly the perfectly fitting V garment the excellent tailoring the finest fab i " CS ve *° our c^°^lcs 311 a^r °f distinction im measurably great. Snappy models! The hand somest to be found classy all round belters with buckle; form-fitting coats and a score of exclusive features make Strouse's clothes supreme. m . sls-$ Too Good to Pass By—New Store Shirts Saturday Is Sweater Day who likes well-fitting, i ,i r 0 , handsome Shirts to in at the New Store spect the New Store , s | we will probably make half the young assortment. A new | men of the city warm and comfortable angle of beautiful I (fl i / / /AA i this season with our all - wool Sweat- , Shirts will be present- ers —We have made a special study e d to him. Our Shirts Cv/ireO of the sweater proposition and feel that are wa y beyond the j we're well able to show the handsomest in ordinary idea of good- Jt I/ j pjjgl the city. Drop in and look them over looking Shirts and whether you're ready to buy or not. they're priced , Priced $3.50 to $8 sltos6 mill ,1/ We Never Thought It Possible To sell as many last Saturday. There's a reason —Men Schoble Hats, $3-$4-$5 Every Day We Hear a New Compliment About Our Boys' Departme Ladies and boys tell us many nice things about our merchandise our store and our service come in we'll prove they're true. M J Boys' Suits, $5 to sls Boys' Hosiery Boys' Blouses and Shirts B°ys' Hats 50c and $1 . 50c-sl-$1.50 The New Store of Wm. Strouse u tm —i ll i hiii boys. Meetings were held every Tuesday evening from 7 to 9 o'clock. The troop gradually grew until at the present time there are thirty boys registered; all past the tenderfoot tests with the exception of one who was Just taken Into the troop. Many of the Scouts of this troop have pass ed their second-clans examinations and are about to be made first-class Scouts. This on a whole, we feel is a fairly good record considering the fact that we have Just pased through the summer months when some of the boys were absent from the city on vacations. The greater part of the Scouts of No. 12 Troop are uni formed, a few of course are not as yet. We have held outdoor meeting* during the summer been on a SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. number of swimming and Ashing: trips, and overnight hikes. The boys are Well advanced in scouting and only recently at an entertainment we surprised the audience by springing upon it some of the many things wo have learned since our organization. We had a large at tendance at this meeting and it was a rousing success. In the future, now that the colder weather is appearing, we will take up the work more energetically in the hope of making a list of ttrst class Scouts. On this coming Sat urday night we have arranged for the whole troop to take an over night hike starting about 8 P. M., and returning the following morning. This hike will give us an opportunity to pa&s some tests for the coming examinations and also give us an op portunity to do a little practicing for the Scout Rally of Harrlsburg: to be held October 12th. The future work of this troop will appear in their column from time to time. G. A. ZIMMERMAN, Scoutmaster WHY SUFFER FROM ISTHMA*J ' COMPANY Kf Moot. 177 11
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