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THE EMMETT INDEX
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Boy Scouts are to be the knights of
Such as the desire and pur
of the men who back up this
todr.y.
pose
movement, which is now almost uni
versal. Just as in the old days mem
bers of the order of chivalry took the
part of the weak when they were
oppressed by those who said that
might made right, so now it is the
spirit of scoutcraft that each boy shall
be ready at every opportunity to do a
good turn and, consider himself the
heir of ancient chivalry, combat dis
honesty and vice with every renew
ed effort.
In the "Official Handbook" of the
Boy Scouts of America, the purpose of
the ordor is expressed in these words - j
The Boy Scout movement is a
call to American boys today to be
come in spirit members of the or
der of chivalry, and a challenge
to them to make their lives count
in the communities in which they
live—for clean lives, clean speech,
clean sport, clean habits and clean
relationship with others,
also a challenge to them to stand
for the right against the wrong,
for truth against falsehood, to
help the weak and oppressed, and
to love and seek the best things
It is
The boys miy develop this spirit
knighthood, they are urged to keep
before themselves at all times and
make a part of their lives the
in life.
lowing scout virtues:
Unselfishness— The art of
thinking of others first and one's
self afterwards.
Self Sacrifice—The giving up
of one's comfort, desires and
pleasures for the benefit of some
one else.
Kindness—The habit of think
ing well of others and doing good
to them.
Friendliness—The disposition
to make everyone you meet feel
at ease and to be of service to him
if possible.
Honesty—The desire to give
everyone a square deal and the
same fair chance that you your
self wish to enjoy. It means also
respect for the property and
rights of others, the ability to
face the truth and to call your
own faults by their right name.
Fair Play—Scorning to take
unfair advantage of a rival and
readiness even to give up an ad
vantage to him.
Iioyalt)—The quality of re
maining true and faithful not on
ly to your principles but also to
your parents and friends.
with
Obedience—Compliance
the wishes of your parents and
those in nlaces of authority.
Discipline—That self restraint
and self control that keeps a boy
steady and help him in team
work.
Endurance—A manly modéra
tion which keeps a boy fit and
strong and in good condition.
Self Improvement—The ambi
tion to get on in life by all fair
means.
Humanity—That fine quality
which keeps a scout from boast- j
ing, and which generally reveals
a boy of courage and achieve
ment.
Honor—That great thing which
is more sacred than anything else
to scouts and gentlemen; the dis
dain of telling or implying an un
truth; absolute trustworthiness
and faithfulness.
Duty to God—That highest of
all things, which keeps a boy
faithful to his principles aid true
to his friends and comrades; that
gives him a belief in things that
are high and noble, and which
makes him prove his belief by do
ing his good turn to someone ev
ery day.
When Caesar took ar. eastward ride
and grubbed the Gauls for Rome, what
was the first thing he did to make
them feel at home? Did he increase
the people's loads and liberty forbid 7
No, he dug in and built good roads—
Did Caesar put the iron heel upon
t.he foerr.an's breast, or did be try to
make them feel the Roman rule was
best? What did he do to make them
glad he'd come their midst amid? He
built good roads in place of bad—j
that's what old Caesar did |
He built good roads from hill to hill,
good roads from vale to vale; he ran I
WHAT OLD CAESAR DID.
that's what old Caesar did.
a good roads movement till old Rome
got all the kale. He told the folks to
buy a home, built roads their hills
amid, until all roads led up to Rome—
that's what old Caesar did.
If any town would make the town
the center of the map, where folkB will
come and settle down and live in plen
ty's lap ( if nny town, its own abode of
poverty would rid, let it get out and
build good roads—just like old Caesar
did.
—, - - .
| g]gg Ql tllG 1 OWD
A certain hired girl is said to be so
awkward she gets her shoes on back
wards.
# * *
Wisdom consists of knowing more
than you did yesterday, and less thun
you will know tomorrow.
♦ A
Slashed skirts may be shocking,
but the women «eem to be aware that
most tmn would rather be shocked
than not.
* * *
A singular unininity prevails in the
United States senate.
appear to agree that Colonel Mulhall
All the solons
is a liar.
* ♦ *
The drough is so bad in Kansas that
the farmers have had to put washers
on their hogs to keep them from
crnwling through the woven wire
fences.
# * *
"John did you give Bessie the best
part of the apple, as you were told?"
"Yes, sma. 1 gave her the seed
•She can plant them and have a whole
orchard."
* * *
When we look over our accumula
tion of bills the first of every month
we are tempted to go out and make a
few Chautauqua bookings on our own
recount.
A A A
no person
of I thought to invent a refrigerator .with
j a gong atachment that would, ring
] loudly about ten minutes before the
pan runs over and spoils the furniture.
Rohert. a small boy, is crazy for an
automobile, and someone said to him:
"1 will give you my automobile for
the twin babies at your house." Rob
ert looked grave, and finallly said,
thoughtfully: "I'll give you my ans
wer tomorrow." The next day Rob
ert, who is scarcely more than a baby
himself, called on his friend, and said -
"1 cannot give up this pair of twins,
but if you will keep the automobile for
' me I will give you our next pair."
* * *
! Mahle and Johuy are nice children,
but they love to argue. The other
day they got into a heated discussion
as to which one had read the more
books. Finally Johny said: . "Well,
I've read Robinson Crusoe and you
haven't." "Oh, yes I have," returned
Mable not to be outdone bv a mere
boy. "Now what does it say at the
very last?" he asked. The little girl
studied for a moment, then her face
brightened. "Whv, it says 'The End,'
was the unexpected answer.
* A *
Old, old, old story: When a couple
was married they were presented
with a bottle of magic water and told
that as long as thev behaved them
selves that the water would remain
clear. However, they were cautioned
that as soon as either one" of them
rtrayed from the narrow path that
the water would muddy up The wife
went away on a long visit nnd while
she was away her husband entertain
ed many of his men friends One of
his friends knew of the magic water
and as a joke put several drops of ink
into it to make it murky. The wife
returned home the next morning whilM
her husband was down town at hfl
work and the first thing she did W(fl
to pour out the discolored water anH
pour a fresh supply that was cleiH
and clean.
« A « ■
"Speaking of heat and cold," rfl
marked Old Bill Misgivens, "I ha\fl
seen considerable of both. The heat
is a powerful thing to expand and the
cold is a powerful thing to contract,
When I was down in Arizona on the
range it got powerful hot at times
and everything in the metal line ex
panded a heap.
"I had an ordinary pocket knife
that I bought in the East ami took out
there with me One day I was whit
tlin' some muskeet bush with it and
laid it down in the sun and forgot it.
It was a middlin' hot day, the mcr
«try standin* at 140 in the shade and
160 in the sun. Well, a couple of
hours after that I missed my knife
and went to look for it. The big blade
which was about 3 inches long when
Moses Wins Beautiful Zipporah
HE young man, Moses, had not
been long in the hill country
around Mount Sinai. He hun
gered yet for the Egyptian
plains, and, as the twilight time came
silent footed over the tall hills he
yearned for the land where his people
were, though in captivity.
Not many more days for him the
rich and pleasant land of Egypt,
though the tall young man, leaning
upon his elbow, gazing, now up to roll
ing hills above him, now down to the
deep, walled pool, with its fringe of
bright trees, where the shepherd
T
sundown, carrying the water up in
jars to the stone troughs and pouring
it out there for the thirsty sheep.
Curious, the turn of things There
was the woman who had brought him
up, the daughter of the Egyptian Pha
raoh—she who had loved to tell him as
a boy how she had found him, such a
wee, black-eyed baby boy, floating in a
tarred basket among the rushes at the
river's edge, and how she had taken
A kindly mother she had been, the
sloe-eyed girl, even after she hail wed
ded a lord of the Egyptian court and
black-eyed babies of her own had come
to share her kindly heart.
And so he had grown up, richelothed
and fed in the palace of the Pharaoh,
and taught in all the wisdom of the
Nile—and yet never content. Less so
and less as he grew older, till he must
needs go out among his people, the
race of the oppressed, the people who
made the bricks to build the Egyptian
temples. Ah, of a surety, these were
the people of the seeing eyes, the
chosen of God—and had not an old,
old man, too ancient to make brick,
told him how some day there would
come a leader, sent of God, to lead
them from the valley of the Nile into
him home and reared him as her own.
promise land they should possess.
would have seen that great day of de
liverance—but there had been a day
when he walked out, and had seen an
| Egyptian, a bullet headed man with a
thick neck, who was beating a frail old
Jew because he was not able to work
faster. Then his young blood had
rushed into his eyes, and, seeing dimly
through a film of rage, he had struck
the black bullet head with a club, once,
J twice, and found himself, blinking and
of a sudden very thirsty, standing
above the bull-necked man, who did
not move, and whose whip, with its
I dark stained thongs, lay very still now
I in the thick, hot dust,
j Then, 'hearing how the king's offi
cers sought him for the life of the
bull-necked man, he fled to thee east,
crossed the flat strip of sand at the
head of the Red Sea, and traveling by
day and by night, come to the hills of
Median, over against Mount Sinai,
where an alein race pastured sheep.
Safe here, but lonely, very, very lone
iy
And Moses mused, then sat upright
and watched where seven slim bronzed
I laid it down there had expanded till
it was about 18 inches long and looked
like the blade of an old fashioned corn
cutter.
"An there was Jim Buster, a cattle
man who fenced in 10 miles square
with barb wire in the winter time.
That hot summer his wire fence be
gun to expand till it reached round a
pasture 20 miles square and took in
about 500 or 600 head of cattle, and
Jim swore it was nothin' in the world
but the expansion of the wire fence
caused by the infernal heat. He made
'em believe it nough anyway so they
didn't hang him.
"There was a railroad track built
out there that summer when the
weather was hottest The track was
200 miles long according to the pros
pectus sent out to stockholders, but
the trouble was that them rails was
stretched out to their fullest stretch
in' capacity when the road was built.
The next winter some of the stock
holders come out when the weather
was mighty cold to see what kind of a
road they owned. Well, the cold
weather had just naturally contracted
that railroad till it wan't more than
f8
mondous côl
i^cold
etui power o
and the expandin' power of the heat.
'Of course gentlemen,' he said, 'I am
powerful sorry that it has happened
this way. You see I was sort of in
experienced in buil iin' railroads in
this climate and didn't think when the
track was laid about how iron will ex
pand when the mercury is a hoverin'
round 200 in the sun.
men, we hed the most beautiful line ■
of road here you ever saw durin' that
warmest weather, biit along in De- I
comber there come a blizzerd and it
turned cold and that read just natur
ally begun to shrink up. It kep' a j
shrinkin' an
Why, gentle
' a 3hrinkin', pullin' the |
ties with it as it shrunk till it has con- *
maids were bringing their sheep up to
the troughs—and now with theii
laughter, they were going down the
stone steps, and splashing in the water
with their arms, then handing up the
great jars of water, and poured into
the thick stone troughs. Graceful the
girls and cool as the well itself their
soft young laughter. Then suddenly
one of them cried out and they drew
back, and three rough shepherds, with
a flock of their own, were thrusting
them aside; one of them seized the
nearest girl, and:
"Get you gone."
sticks and stones they began to drive
away the sheep that hte girls had
brought and water their flock at the
troughs that had Deen filled.
Quickly he came leaping down from
his place on the hill side, and with his
staff cracked one of the three men
across the pate, then thrust him stag
gering against a comrade, and cried:
"Away, swine and sons of swine!
Nay, stand back, all."
And the three stood eyeing him
with shifting eyes, muttering togeth
er, came forward a step, caught the
gleam of light in his glance and went
away, driving their sheep before them,
will trouble you no more.
Then Moses turned to the maids and
said:
"Bring up your flocks; these men
And he took jars from them, and
brought up water and filled the
troughs, and their sheep drank. Then
she who was the leader of them all
said:
"Oh, my lord, thy courtesy is great
and we—we shepherdesses thank thee
much."
So smiled and went away, her sis
ters with her, and Moses sat apart an'
pondered on how graciously the eyes
may render thanks. And he forgot
for awhile his musings of Egypt and
with its tall hills and peaceful grazing
grounds. Then said a low voice, close
beside him:
"O, my lord!"
And Mosees saw the girl before him
once more, and she said:
"My lord, we whom you helped are
daughters of the priest of Midian; and
when we did return, he questioned us
why we came earlier than was our
wont. Then my sisters told, him of
your aid to us and how you drove the
three away, and my father sent me—
it was his request—to see if perchance
you yet were here and ask that you
bzreak bread with us this night."
Then Moses smiled gravely and he
[said:
asks it."
T will comi
■since your father
So together they went through the
dusk, Moses and the maid Zipporah
to her father's house; nor did he see
the sars were coming out.
Now, if you will look in the third
chapter of the Book of Exodus yon
will find that the father-in-law of
Moses was the priest of Midian.
tracted to what you see now.'
"Wesley had the look of a George
Washington and he seemed to have
most of them eastern tenderfeet corn
in' his way, but one old Yankee with
billie goat whiskers was skeptical
•Assumin', Mr Forbishcr,' he said
'that this here remarkable story of the
shrinkin' up of the rails is true, how
does it come that there is no mark of
the place where the track was laid
before it begun to shrink?' Wesley
never batted an eye on account of that
question. 'Well, the fact is, Mr
Sprague,' he said, 'when this shrinkin'
commenced at the place that hec! been
graded for the track, it begun to
shrink and shrink till the grass and
muskeet brush just naturally closed
over where that track hed been till
not even an Injun could foller the line
"That was a reasonable explana
tion but it didn't go with that old Ver
monter. He said that in his opinion
Wesley was the most audacious and
smoothest liar he had ever met up
with in his long and varied career,
durin' which he had met with several
specimens of different kinds of liars.
"Some men, you know, are just
naturally of skeptical and doubtin'
minds and won't believe nuthin' till
they see it with their own eyes."
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