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: ^-vV" . Hum* |^ s^*#*v >t&£»m THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER, McHENBT, ILL. wk mm •* • »<««««>»^ THE PERFECT HOUSEKEEPER Br JANE OSBORM (g, Htt, by UcClura N«w«p»p«r Syndicate.) Three times within the two blocks that Doctor Andover had walked down Oollege street from his house had he been greeted with the smiling congratulations of some neighbor or other. If he had not already been sure of his blessing In having secured the services of Mrs. Hildegarde Taylor as housekeeper he could not but haye been after these felicitations. 4 "She is such a perfect housekeeper," Professor Ogden's wife had cooed. "Up to the day he died old Mr. Morgan had her tea biscuits every day of his life. He couldn't get aloug without them--and such pies!" "Yes, lnde^V' agreed Doctor Andover, somewhat embarrassed but duly grateful to providence for having Showered such abundant blessings on Ids shoulders. "And she's so economical, too," Mrs. Ytatridge had said after offering the young bachelor president of the college her felicitations over the advent of Mrs. Taylor in his home. "No cause for your complaining now over the high cost of living." "No, Indeed," smiled- Doctor Andover and, as he neared the corner Wfeere dwelt old Doctor Forbes, dean of his faculty, the fragrance of juicy beefsteak broiling In the Forbes kitchen came to him. He had had supper rtmt night from tea biscuits, tea, sardines in jelly and prune whip. That fa nearly as he could remember was all there had been to it. Helen Forbes, not extraordinarily young or extraordinarily slender, but radiant and magnetic, only daughter and housewife for Doctor Forbes, opened the door for the young pro- < feasor. The rest of the college town had got used to Helen. Of course, she was quite a beauty--but, then, she wjg only Helen FOrbes. Nice girl, too, and a few years before freshmen every year had gone 4oke silly over her; but she was a little too old for students now. But Doctor Andover had not quite got used to the radiance of her, and there were times when he would have more eagerly gone to spend an evening with old Doctor Forbes In discussing college plans and policies had it not been for Helen. She was a little disturbing. She didn't quite seem to belong to the little old college town. On this occasion, however, it was accessary that he consult with Doctor Forbes. The tempting aroma of beefsteak grew even more tempting as Helen Forbes opened the door for him. An apron protected her light summer frock, and she led Doctor Andover rather breezily into the dining room. "We are having dinner late," she said. "Dad's been working on examination books and didn't want to be disturbed until seven. Now, It's planked steak supper. Dad's so fond of it. You don't mind coming right eat, do yoa? And perhaps we can tempt you to have some." Doctor Forbes had appeared and Helen had disappeared, to return presently with the plank on which was laid the smoking steak with the tempting border of mashed potatoes and various vegetables. "We must congratulate yon,^ said Helen, as she laid the plank on the rather Informally set table. "I don't suppose anyone can tempt you to meals, now that you have got the wonderful Mrs. Taylor. You certainly were lucky in these days, to get a perfect housekeeper like that. And you know she was with old Mr. Morgan twenty years--stayed till he died ^-and she was saying today that she ,, expected to do the same for you.". £ "Why, that's very kind, I'm sure." ' IH was then that there loomed before f ©octor Andover an image of Mrs. Hildegarde Taylor, with her thin-lipped i and rather acrid smile, as she sat be- , hind the coffee things at breakfast and " *" tie tea things at supper, for she was /:<• one of those housekeepers who never § fail to take their places at meals with f their employers. r_ _: fi "She really Is wonderful," Heleff ^ forbes was going on. "I only wish I | could manage the way she does. I 11don't suppose you could be tempted to I take a little of this planked steak?" I :§he had put quite a generous piece on i;: v| ifbe warmed plate and was passing It, ; ' ito him. ' |r "But. daughter," suggested Doctor f-'t Forbes, kindly. "If Doctor Andover t> * "lias had dinner. It will only be, doing ' ,| 'f ilm an unkindness in forcing more | I Upon him." ^ I But Doctor Andover mumbled Sbmev | thing about "rather light supper," and ; for the next few minutes Joined the Forbes household in the delectable task of eating a perfectly broiled planked steak. After that, though It was sometimes a little difficult for Doctor Andover to walk right up to the front door Of the Forbes house when he knew n«* would be met there by the disconcerting Helen Forbes, it was even more difficult to stay sway. Sometimes he would definitely decide not to call. His own evening repast was early and this seemed to add to the desirability of a short after-dinner walk down College street. But despite his decision not to stop at the Forbes house, he would stop. Sometimes he was tempted even further by the tantalizing aroma ot dinner, huckleberry pie or roasted lamb or fresh aromatic coffee. Mrs. Taylor's coffee could never be smelted that way when it cooked. Doctor Andover remembered that she had once told him that the way she made it «*he kept all the flavor In the coffee pot. It was the test of good coffee, she said, not having the smell of it escarte from the pot. But Helen Forbes' coffee talways smelted all the way round to the front of the house, and to Doctor Andover It was perfection In the cup. So. it happened that quite often, without exactly intending to do so, the young college president shared some of the good things that Helen had prepared for her father's dinner and always when he did there was the evidence of the greatest pleasure on tlje part of the hospitable old professor, who, though he may have worn his coats until they were shabby, certainly did not curtail himself on the good things of the table. "Of course, though," said Helen once when Doctor Andover had come out with an enthusiastic bit of praise of her cookery, "if I were a perfect housekeeper like your Mrs. Taylor I could set a better table on much less money. She must be quite remarkable. Why, Just today she was telling us at the missionary society that she can make a pound of coffee go two weeks and the meat bills aren't S3 a week. Of course, she said she couldn't manage that way unless she felt a real Interest in you. You really were mighty lucky to get her. Really, it was quite amusing. "Professor Partridge's wife told Mrs. Taylor that If you never married It would be her fault, and then Mrs. Taylor said that at any rate you'd never marry for a good home and a good housekeeper. I thought that was so sweet of her--" "Yes, I am sure It was," weakly rejoined Doctor Andover. He recalled then that he had fried cornmeal for supper, although he had begged the perfect housekeeper to omit cornmeal for a few weeks. He had never liked it anyway, he said, but he didn't say what he felt, that he had been cornmealed, to death since her arrival. Of course it was because of the economy In using cornmeal that she persisted, and Doctor Andover did eat it because he had a healthy young appetite and he had to eat something. "But, then," continued Doctor Andover, "a man doesn't marry for a home or for a good cook. If the woman he loves happens to be a good housekeeper and all that sort of thing It is jdst an added blessing, I suppose." Doctor Andover was preoccupied after that. He tried to discuss the new system of student grading with Dean Forbes, but his thoughts did not seem to collect. At a quarter to nine he rose to leave. Nine was the dean's habitual bedtime. He bade the dean good night rather hurriedly, and then as he turned to Helen he looked very Intently at her, so Intently that the radiant Helen dropped her eyes. "I'm coming back at half past nine. See me alone cm the veranda." It was a rather chilly spring night to be philandering on verandas, but there was a soft, radiant moon and Helen had swathed herself in a soft woolen scarf and was waiting when Doctor Andover returned. "I want to talk to you--down here in the garden," he said, ascending only one step of the veranda, and Helen slowly went down to meet him. "It's about marrying you that I want to talk, Helen," he said when they had reached the dark shelter of an old lilac hedge. "You have always been the kind of woman I'd want--a real woman, magnificent and radiant and beautiful. It's the kind of woman I've always dreamed about. But, hang it all, I don't want you to think I'm asking you because you are such a wonderful cook and housekeeper. I'd feel such a contemptible blackguard to marry a woman for a housekeeper. You know it Is you, Helen, that I want? I've feared there wasn't a chance you'd have me." It's funny how gossip goes in a little college town like that A Week later when Helen and Doctor Andover's engagement was announced* there wasn't a professor's wife in town but had known it for weeks. Tlplen, they said, had always been setting her cap for the new president. For a time they said It seemed as if he might have preferred Mrs. Hjidegarde Taylor, in spite of the slight difference in age. And it was such a pity he didn't, for Mrs. Taylor was such a good cook-j--such a perfect housekeeper. CABINET WOMEN DO THEIR OWN MARKETING m Forced by the ever-increasing cost of living, members of Washington's official family are doing their own marketlng. Photograph shows left to right: Mrs. David Houston, wife of the secretary of the treasury; Mrs. Bobbins, wife of the former United States minister to Chile, and Mrs. Cary N. Grayson, wife of the president's physician. Admiral Grayson, purchasing meat for their tables at a stall ifi the Central market, Washington, D. C. NOTED RUSSIANS SLAIN ON YACHT if Finding of Bodies Reveal^ One of Most Mysterious Tragedies of Black Sea. FLED FROM THE BOLSHEVIKI On Board the Yacht Were Found 14,- 000,000 Rubles In Gold, Paper and Jewels--King of Roumania Is Pushing Investigation. jftttharest--The discovery on the yatht Ostrara, stranded at Sulina In one of the mouths df the Danube, of the bodies of 11 noted Russian men and women, each shot through the head, and not a living person on board, has presented to the Roumanian authorities one of the most mysterious tragedies in the Black sea. The bodies have, been Identified as those of members of the noted Russian families of Falzfein and Skadowski. The Falzfeins were descendants of German Mennonlte colonists who settled in the province of Kherson at the invitation of the Russian government. Water tft the Cabin. The discovery was made by soldiers, who, when they went aboard the help* less yacht, found the cabin half filled with water and the 11 bodies floating around. On board the yacht were 14,- 000,000 rubles in gold and paper, and Jewels. Some money and valuables were found to, be missing when records of the victims were checked up, but the amount was apparently small compared to the funds and valuables left aboard. The elder Felzfein still grasped a pistol In his hand when his body was found, and whether the party committed suicide or were murdered is a question that remains unanswered, and it is believed that the solution of how the families met their death may never be known. An investigation is being made by the Roumanian authorities, aided by Russian friends of the two families. All that is known is that the two families fled their estates to Odessa, and when the bolshevlkl arrived there In February put their belongings on board the yacht, which was then towed by a Russian steamer bound for Constanza. The tow ropes broke several times, owing to severe storms,' and finally the steamer lost the yacht altogether and proceeded to Constanza. Drifts at Mercy of 8torm. It Is believed that later, while the yacht drifted at the mercy of the storm, the refugees, six men and five women, became exhausted from the cold waves breaking over the vessel and from lack of food. Unable to manage the yacht, the party made a despairing effort to put it ashore on the desolate beach near Sullna. There they succeeded In launching small boats, but Roumanian guards, under strict orders to permit no landing through fear of the bolshevlkl, ordered them to return to the vessel. It appears that some coast fishermen offered a rescue when the vessel began settling, owing to the consequent pounding of the heavy seas, but soldiers prevented. That was the last known of the vessel until it stranded. Kin# Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Roumania have taken a great interest in the Investigation, especially because when the royal family was driven into exile and the capital removed to Jassy, the king and queen were offered the magnificent home of the Felzfelns, across the Bessarabtan border. B&ck Casket? Now Reported Out of Style San Francisco.--To be buried hi a black coffin isn't stylish. Pale pink, cerise, old rose, blue, lavender, purple and white --these colors are most -in demand nowadays, says W. H. Vincent, casket manufacturer here for 30 years. Not more than one person in twenty prefers the somber black, according to Vincent- "Sometimes we get an order for a striped coffin, or a green one," Vincent asserted. "The color usually is in accordance with the last wish of the deceased." Almost every variety of coffin now sells for five times the price of a few years ago, Vincent said. The strictly modern hermetically sealed bronze casket brings $2,000 wholesale. Vincent has a caller now and then who choses his own coffin. "Usually it is an ol#man who thinks his relatives won't properly look after his burial," said Vincent BURMESE ram OF ANNULS Ghai-ftctarittl, That MlgM Will •* Copied by Other Nations More Highly Civilised. « • The Burmese people naturally are full of the greatest sympathy toward animals of all kinds, understand their ways, and make them feel they are their friends. v And we know that If a person Is kind to animals he is generally kind to his fellowman. A Burmese boy would never be allowed to go bird-nesting, or ratting with a terrier, or ferreting rabbits. These would be crimes. A Burman hates to kill. Neither for sport, nor for revenge, nor for food, must any animal be deprived of the breath that is in it. All the animals--the ponies, the cattle and the working buffaloes are so tame that it Is an almost unknown thing for anyone to get hurt You can walk through the herds of an evening In perfect safety, for they will not attempt to touch you- Many of our growing'boys think It a grand thing to be indifferent to palti--not only their own but to that of all others. To be sorry for a wounded dog or a hunted hare seems "glrly" to them. But to the Burman kindness to animals is the highest of all virtues. He believes that nothing of great value can exist without compassion and iove and sympathy--that these make up all that is most beautiful In life. I think we can take a lesson from the Burmese in their dealings with dumb animals.--The Young Soldier. COLLECT RELICS OF LOST RACE #- Interesting Material Unearthed Hi Ruins Near Aztec, - New Mexico. LIVED III COMMUNITY HOUSE Customs of Prehistoric People Are Learned From the Various Objects Discovered--Ornaments Practically Untouched toy Time. New York.--Temporarily displayed In the west corridor of the American Museum of Natural History, on the first floor, can be seen some interesting relics of a lost race--the prehistoric people who built and lived in the great community dwelling, now In ruins, near Aztec, N. M., which Mr. Earl H. Morris has for the past three years been exploring and restoring for the American museum. Mr. Morris has gathered, a great deal of material which will In time be placed on permanent exhibition. But the six shelves In the corridor give an idea of the nature of the objects which have been found and of the customs to which they testify. Here, outlasting their wearers by REVOLUTION RAGES IN GOATEMALA UNTOUCHED BY STERN NEED I regarded the handful with deep contemplative contentment, sighed ami- :! Uncle Dan Altogether Too Affluent, to "B^, Beguiled Into Any Unnecessary Movement ' * ---p-- To be satisfied with what one has b a virtue of a sort. If, however, this contentment leads to such a situation as that of Uncle Dan in the following story, it Is altogether commendable. Uncle Dan was sitting on the edge of the banquette, his feet In a dry and blistered gutter. "Wish you'd step over and help move this furniture!" tailed a busy man to the negro. "Give you a quarter for doing It." The New Orleans Times Democrat tells the tale: Uncle Dan raised eyen that were gently glazed by the habit of doing nothing and not thinking about it; he shifted, with a scarcely perceptible notion, his weight from one side of his anatoniy to the other, and leisurely-- a millionaire could not have used n" smooth a manner--ran one hand LrC' ragged trousers pocket and as pss,".,m ... Materialized two matches, a Mt of tobacco and three coins. He ably, shifted his weight by the same imperceptible act removed his stub of a pipe from his mouth and spoke; his tone of voice, like his tone of being, was attuned to leisure, such leisure only Imparted by serene culture and classic laziness. "Ah don* reckon Ah kin do hit. Mist' Mattye, no sir, Ah don' reckon Ah kin. All's got fifteen cents, yas, sir, Ah's got fifteen cents!"--Youth's Companion. , .<•/ { f tamm iMiiUMtooAl *wr» centuries, are sandals woven of yucca leaf, yucca fiber and cotton, and here Jthe very pattern boards over which the sandals were made. Here, practically untouched by time, are ornaments of sheH cut into disks, and, beads of turquoise and of sh&lL There are arrow points of jasper, bone awls and needles and fragments of painted wood--ceremonial boards, doubtless. The basketry is of two types--colled and twilled--some of it in an excellent state of preservation. Then there are cylindrical netted disks padded with corn husks. These are a puzzle to the museum's Investigators. Some one advanced the theory that they might have been used as snow shoes, but the small size and unsuitable shape of some of the specimens seem to refute that supposition. A wooden cradleboard with its curiously placed headpiece accounts for the flattened skulls typical of all the skeletons of this ancient civilization which have been recovered. A pillow of matting stuffed with corn husks, and some human remains wrapped in matting and showing the method of burial complete the miscellaneous portion of the collection. Specimens of Pottery. The rest of the exhibit is given over to pottery. The specimens are of white, red and black, and Include cooking and eating utensils. The designs--not as advanced in conception as some other of our antique southwestern pottery, are, however, frequently skillfully executed. For the most part painted in black, or, less often. In red, they are sometimes clearly taken from textile designs, sometimes made up of free-band curved lines such as would not have been practicable in textiles, or, occasionally consist of crude animal representations. An Interesting broken mug shows a hollow bottom In which little pellets of clay had been placed so as to produce a rattle. The cross-markings on the edges of the bowls and drinking vessels are very characteristic of the pottery taken from this vicinity. Most interesting among these relics is the coiled pottery-- made by rolling long strips of clay and winding them. round and round in the desired shape, as is done In colled basketry. In the pottery of this sort the mark of the shaping thumb can be plainly seen, and was frequently used to produce a wave pattern which often attained to a v*T pleasing development HELPED TO WIN GREAT WAR Many Thousands of Chinese Laborers Took Useful Part in the Recent Conflict * ' -- • • A little known but Interesting sidelight on the World war Is the fact that China was represented in the great conflict by 150,000 laborers, of whom 100,000 worked with the English forces, and 60,000 with the French. They were recruited In China from the low or eoolle-labor classes In unit% of Q00 men. During the early days of the war and up to the middle of 1917 they were sent In transports down through the Indian ocean, up the Red sea and over .the Mediterranean sea past Gibraltar to France. But submarines In the Mediterranean made travel too perilous and the route was chapged. The balance of the 800 units of 500 men each were then sent over the Pacific to Vancouver, B. C., where the Canadian Pacific would transfer across our continent to Halifax, Ndva Scotia, and thence across the Atlantic to France. Bach man's queue had been cut off and an identification disk, or "bracelet," ln army vernacular, placed around his wrist He was given 60 cents a day, two-thirds of which was set aside for his family or dependents in Chlnfe. --more money th&n he ever knew about before In a month--and this proved to be a magnet which drew thousands upon thousands of coolies to the recruiting station at Tientsin. . (Conducted by.National Council of tbe Boy Scouts of America.) OBSERVING BOY SCOUT. WEEK The week of May 23 to May 80 will >f»f be observed throughout the land as Boy Scout week, and everywhere boys who are scouts will participate in the ^ program of activities planned to em- - phaslze the outdoor features of the scout program. . • The great success of the Boy Scout movement has naturally cheated the de- ' * .(;f' Mmand for a much wider and more rapid ^ r '* extension ot the benefits of the movement to the boys not already reached, and the objective of Boy Scout week will be to stimulate this Interest, it Is also intended that the campaign stutli . give every community an opportunity to show Its appreciation of the achieve- ' ments of the Boy Scouts locally aityl ^ nationally and to give definite recogni- " tion to the value of the Boy Scout movement. For Sunday, May 23, the opening day : of *Boy Scout week, special services In which the Scouts will participate are planned for churches of all denominations. Programs of various scouting activities will be held through the week apd Friday, May 28, will be observed as hike and camp day, with every one of the 17,154 local scout troops getting into the woods. Saturday the 29th will be 'field day, with competitions in teftt pitching, fire building, wall scaling, signaling, tower and bridge building and demonstrations of first aid and life saving. During the celebration of Boy Scout week all those who became associate members of the national council, Boy- Scouts of America, during Boy Scout week In June, 1919, will be given an opportunity, through the local chairman or direct by mail, to again express their interest in the boyhood of^. "The nation by renewing their membership. An effort will be made to se- * core many new associate members. Barge, 63 Years Old, Sinks. On old double-deck barge called the Harvest Queen, built In 1857, sank slowly upon the mud alongside the barge office through failure of her pumps to keep out the flood until repairs could be made in her leaking sides. She was towed here from Norfolk by the coast guard cutter Manhattan and was to be used as a temporary houseboat for the men of the coast guard service, who were compelled to give up their quarters in the municipal ferry terminal at South Ferry. Although the barge had a reputation for being an unusually leaky craft In her old days, an investigation will be made to ascertain If she was helped to the bottom by persons who had no wish to be housed aboard of her.--New York Tribune. Largest Known Potato.' i department of agriculto#© My* that the weight of the largest potato recorded In its office is between seven and eight pounds. There may have been larger ones produced, but the department has no record of it True. The, more we see of golf the more we are Impressed with the thought that the game is very much like life Itself. Almost every dub imagines himself competent to give the other fellow advice. * Rev- Mitionlsts In Guatemala have formed a new government with Carlos Herrem a president. The picture shows the American consulate tn Guatemala City, and the U. S. 8. Tacoma which lias gone to Ouatemala to protect American Interests. The latest reports received in Washington are that President Estrada Cabrera and his army have surrendered to the Unionist forces. The provisional government has given pledges to secure the safety of the former president Order is being maintained in the city. Just Like Peacock. Although the American redstart Is a little bird only five and a half inches long, it has one trait In common with the gorgeously plumed peacock, namely, that It seems to be very food of its handsome plumage and Is continually spreading its tall feathers, says the American Forestry association, Washington. The male redstart whose colors are red, orange and white, does not attain the black portion of its plumage on back, tail and wings until it Is two years old, this part of the bird during Its early life being strangely mottled. The female is grayish, yellow and white. PERSHING GIVES SCOUT MEDALS. Honor medals, the highest award which can be conferred upon a Boy Scout of America, were presented to- Hamilton Craig and Beryl Warden, two Des Moines scouts, by Gen. John J. Pershing. These medals are conferred upon the scouts for bravery and life saving by the National Court of Honor, Craig Is a member of Troop No. 15 of Des Moines, and Warden Is a scout in Troop No. 1 of Valley Junction. The two boys saved the lives of four people at "The Ledges," near Boone. 1 where the boy scouts were encamped In the summer. Three people in swimming got beyond their depth, and were being swept -out Into the current. Craig swam out from shore and towed two of them into a boat which met them about 15- feet from shore. In the meantime the brother of the other woman bad Jumped In to save his sister. They were both being: swept down the river when Warden, came to the rescue'while thirty peoplewatched from the river banks. "BUCK* TAYLOR, LASSO EXPERT Lazaretto. The Words, lazaretto and lasarhouse, meaning a hospital or place for the reception of persons suffering from contagious diseases, and especially the leprosy, are derived from the Italian word of like meaning, lazzeretto. All are derived from Lazarus, the name of the poor leper in the parable to be found in the Gospel of St Luke, chapter sixteen. This is the only case In the New Testament where a proper name occurs in a parable. The words derived from that proper name show the Influence this parable has had on the mind of Christendom. Travels 2,705,500 Miles. Jamaica, L. L--After a continuous service of 54 years on the Long Island railroad James D. Rushmore, a conductor, retired. He traveled 2,750,500 miles, never missed a train and reported for duty on 16,970 mornings during his career. WATER FOWL OFF TO NORTH Migration From Susquehanna Flats in Maryland Takes All flight. Pert f*p*s1t, Md.--Th# flprMff migration of water fowl from the Susjuehanna flats began a few nights ago jnd continued for several hours, more than half a million wild geese, swans ind ducks getting away for their rammer quarters and breeding places i n the far North. The exodos for the Arctic regions began at 9 p. m.--night always being chosen for departure--and lasted until almost daylight the next morning, when probably every migratory fowl quit Its winter quarters in the Susquehanna and the Chesapeake. It was interesting to note the orderly precedence of the wild birds. As if on a signal the geese were the first to rise out of the water, nearly all at the same moment, from all sections of the upper bay reaches here--and after wheeling in circles two or three times at a height of 00 or more feet made a spiral-like climb, and on reaching an altitude of 600 feet, broke Into little groups and, spreading out in V shape, followed their Ieaders^and were soon lost to view. .Cash In Pocket Burns. Pomeroy, O.--When fire burned the clothing off Ezra Haning*s back $200 In cash in his pocket was destroyed. Hanlng is in a serious condition. He was burning brash when his dethln| eansht fli% - Money In Raising Alligators. There is much money to be made Ib alligator farming. The demand for alligators is large, constant and rapidly increasing; the supply is limited, and there Is not much competition. The few alligators have to be fed on meat, but they need no food from September 1 to May 1, for this Is their hibernating season, when they do not eat all. The Increased Coot. The Sire--No, you can't have any money to go to the circus. When 1 was a boy I never wasted any money on circuses. The Son--But this Is a winter drcos, dad, in a big building. It's not in tent with flaps to crawl under Ilka they bad when you were a boy. Activity of the Tanka. Altogether, 2,636 tanks were produced during the war and the largest number engaged in battle at one ttaM .was something over 400. Teaching the Youngsters the Art of Roping Pesky Critters of the Plains. SCOUTING OFFSETS SOCIALISM. Characterizing the Boy Scouts of America as the most effective meansof combating the spread of those doctrines that advocate the overthrow of this government. Former Justice Luke D. Stapleton of Brooklyn, N. Y., spoke as follows: "Against this system of propaganda are arrayed every sane organization, every American and, to my mind, the most effective, powerful and resistless organization--the Boy Scouts of America. That is my belief and the reasoo I am so keenly interested In the movement" KNOWLEDGE IS VALUABLE. , There are verlous kinds of accidents of which a boy scout ought to have sufficient knowledge to handle rightly; There are those injuries in which the skin is not pierced or broken, such as bruises, strains, sprains, dislocations _ and fractures. There are those injuries In which the skin is pierced orr broken, such as wounds and hemor* rhages, nosebleed, abdominal wounds, wounds in which foreign bodies remain. Knowledge of Birds and Reptiles. Boy scout woodcraft means to be able to distinguish the different birds-- to know a song sparrow from an ordinary sparrow; to know a thrush from ^ a lark, and to be able to distinguish th% v birds by their plumage and by thelp ^ song. It means to understand the rejpfc ,?-• tile and snake life, which sometimes ijt abundant In our forests, and to act% ally know that \here are only threjR,;' kinds of snakes that are dangerous-*; the rattlesnake, the moccasin and thjl copperhead. ,