ADIRONDACK" MURRAY ■ a H I FATHER OF THE I OUTDOOR RECREATIOf V, MOVEMENT , I By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN QUE EAST has but one na tional park and that a ainall one—Lafuyetta, ou the Inland of Mount Des ert off the coast of Maine. Hut It has' the Adlron dacks. Of Its kind then is no better in all the world. Many thousands of clty-wcary Americans have - motored through the "Great North Woods" this summer; other thousands are on their way at thla moment. Many thousands have had a Joyous summer In Its public and private camps and In resorts; other rhousanda are there still. I.ast winter thousands pf the red-blooded—who scorn to follow the summer and believe that It takes Jack Frost to put the fin ishing touch to the mental, moral and physical make-up of the efficient— played In Its snow and on Its Ice; thousands will be there again next winter. Itepuhllcs may or may not be un grateful. They rertalnly are often 1 forgetful. Head now the story of Kev. William Henry Harrison Murray and the Adirondack*. The Adirondack* lie In the northeast corner of New York In the great tri angle formed by the St. Lawrence and the Canadian line, -takes Champlaln and George, the Mohawk river »Qd Lake Ontario. History begau parly ail around the Adirondack*. Oiatn plaln—so far as history record*—was the first white man to get sight of Its mountain*— In 1008, when lie discov ered Lake Champlaln. Yet the Adlrondacks long remained an "Undiscovered Country." On Gov ernor i'arnall'a map of the British col onies of 1770 this tract Is Inscribed; "This vast Tract of Land, which Is the Antlent Couchsachrage, one of the *four Heaver Hunting Countlee of the Six Nations. Is nut yet Surveyed." After the Revolution most of the In dians of Six Nations fled to Canada. Those who remained were made harm leas. The guard over the Adlrondacks was broken. Civilisation grew rapidly all around the "Indian Beaver Hunt ing Country." Yet for generation after generation It lay unexplored. The aportamen were the first to pen etrate the wllderneaa of the "Oreat North Woods." For them It was a "land flowing with milk and honey." Among them was Hev. W. 11. H. Mur ray of Boston, who first went there In 1864. The sportsman Is the gentleman of outdoora. And the Boston minister was all that and more, explorer, na ture-lover, naturalist, woodsman, rifle . man, canoeist, hunter, angler, orator, author. Mr. Murray waa a farmer's boy and Rural Juvenile Courts Thla year. In which the memorial has been planned to "Huckleberry Finn," prince of boy-vagabonds, marks also the twenty-fifth anniversary "of tbe first Juvenile court In America, which served as model for other coun tries. In a paper fead at the recent Chicago ceiebratio* of this event Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the chlldren'a bureau at Washington, predicted that the Mart step la child welfare would was born April 20. 1840, at Guilford, Conn. A sketch shows the • Murray homestead. It still stands. It has hevn occupied by ten generations of the Murrays. He worked Ills way through Yale (1082) and a theological seminary. After filling several New England pulpits, his talents carried him In IH6N to the Park Street Con gregational church In Boston, then one of the moat prominent In the country. Mr. Murray achieved nation-wide fame In his Boston pulpit. His ser mons were printed all over the coun try. His popularity waa equal to that of Henry Ward Beecher. As an orator he ranked with Wendell Phillips and Sumner and Gough. la the spring of 1860 Tlcknor A Fields published his first book, "Ad ventures In the Wilderness; or. Camp Life In the Adlfondacka." It created a situation that attracted nation-wide attention. Editors called the book "a monstrous hoax." Cartoonists handled the young author without gtovea Noted divines declsred that "he had disgraced hla high station by thus practicing upon tbe people, especially the weakly and the alck, a cruel Joke." Thoae who believed and atarted for the Adlrondacka were ridiculed sa "Murray'a Fools." The "Murray Huali" of "Murray's Fools*' for the Adlrondacks began In the esriy summer. Thousanda swamped every poaslble accommodation of the wllilerneaa; thousanda had to turn back. Thoae who got In returned to report the book as telling only half the truth Tbe rush continued season after aeaaon. It was the beginning of the enormous attendance of today. If success like Murray'a can be reckoned In dollara, here are the fig urea; He waa receiving a salary and perquisite* of almost 120,000. He was esrnlng an. additional 910.000 on the lecture platform. His royalties on "Adventures In the Wllderneaa" up to the time of hla death (1904) amounted to $38,000. Socially Mr. Murray waa lion ised. Emerson. Longfellow, Whit tier, Holinea. Hawthorne. Haileck. Agassis. Preacott, Beecher. Phillips and Fields were his personal friends snd Inti- be the extension of the Juvenile-court Idea into the rural regions. More than half of the children of the United States live In the couatry or In small communities; yet. out of 300 courts approved by the federal bursau. only 40 serve their needs. This new devel opment has Just begun. Tm Teach Women (e Farm Establishment of a farming colony of well-to-do English women In south ern Alberta, Canada, may soon be un dertaken. s (-cording to Mtss Patricia mates. Phillips aald of his book: "It haa kindled a thousand camptlrea and taujffit a thouaand pens how to vrrlte of nature." At a public dinner given In his honor Eineraon challenged him to write a truly great book, which should not contain a female character. Murray's answer to the challenge was "Adirondack Tales"—lncluding "The Story the Keg Told Me" and "The Man Who Didn't Know Much." At thirty-four Murray retired from the pulpit (1874) and for seven years traveled all over the world. He then resumed lecturing and reading from his published works. He was tre mendously popular. He read, "How John Norton the Trapper Kept Christ mas" before more than 900 audiences. Murray spent his last twelve years on the Guilford homestead, cultivating his farm lands, privately educating his four daughters, writing and revising his many published works. March 3, 1904, he died In the very room in which he had been born 64 years be fore. Much of the old homestead haa been kept Just as he left It —open fireplace, books, writing table, guns over the open fireplace. Under a giant huttonball tree close by the house rest the remains of "Adirondack" Murray, "Father of the Out-of-Doors Idea In the United States." The "Empire State" awakened ia time.to the Importance of the Adiron dack!. In 189t It established Adiron dack park, which Includes all of Ham ilton county and adjacent parts of Kssex, Franklin. St. Lawrence, War ren and Herkimer coontles. It con tains about 3.315400 acres, of which the state owns about 1,412,000 acres. Then there Is the Adirondack Preserve. Tills Is the general title of lands owned by the state for the purpose of con serving the forests and water supply. The Adlrondscks contain virgin hard wood forests, more than 1,000 lakes, kept well stocked with game Ash. snd a network of streams. The moun tainous section Culminates In Essex county. Mt. Marry's (1V.544 feet) Is the highest elerstloa In the state. In this mountsln region are Lake Placid, the Upper and Lower Raranac lakes snd other popular resorts. To the south snd west Is a plateau of from 1,900 to 1,800 feet, dotted with many lakes. It doee not M«m poMlble that this man could have been forgotten. Tet ao it la. Only the few know of him either aa preacher, lecturer or aporta man. Even hla hooka—though drat edltlona of aereral are aald to b«-worth their weight In gold—are oat of print. Aak for jrouraelf and aee bow many know the character "John Norton, the Trapper" whom he created. Tet there are people who think that In compart aon Cuoper'a "Natty Bumpo" la a clothlngetore dummy. It la apparent ly only In the Adlrondacka that the memory of Rev. W. H. H. Murray Uvea In hla feata of woodcraft and aportamanahlp. Catilale, an Engl lah author who op eratea a ranch near Calgary. Illaa Carllale plana to bring out to her ranch a amall number of Kngllah women of education each year. Among the party that will come are a well known woman aurgeon from London, three Kngllah achool teachera and three bualneae woman. Three women will receive a thorough agricultural education. After they are anßkieatly trained they will take up eatabllah menu of their own near Mlra Car- Itaie'a rue*. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GBAHAM, N. C n BLACK GANQ GINGER MARTIN SYNOPSIS.—To a gathering anarchist* In Barking. L.onJon Huliurb, Zaboleff, foreign agita tor, tells of the operations of a body of men who have become a menace to their activities. He says lliey are masked and wear long black cloaks and are acting without the law. He Is Inter rupted by the men he Is describ *, Ing (the Black Oang), who break up the meeting, sentencing some of the participants to condign punishment and carrying away others. A memorandum found on Zaboleff gives an address In Hoxton. which the leader of the attacking party Considers of Im portance. Sir Bryan Johnstone, director of criminal Investlga . Hon, hears from Inspector Mc- Iver, sent to arrest Zaboleff the night before, of his discomfiture. He had been seized and chloro formed and his raid frustrated. Hugh Drummond, man of leisure, tells Johnstone of seeing the kid napers and their victims. He be comes an unpaid agent of the police, under Mclver. William Atkinson, ostensibly pawnbroker and money lender, really Count Zadowa, director of anarchy In England, does business in an other Lofidon suburb. A mys terious stranger Invades the premises. Drummond attempts to burglarize the premises to get evidence. CHAPTER IV In Which a Bomb Bursts at Unpleasantly Close Quarters It was perhaps because the thought of fa live never entered Hugh Drum mond's head that such a considerable measure of success had been possible up to date —that,- and the absolute, unquestioning obedience which he de manded of his pals, members of the Black «Oang, and which they accorded him willingly. As they knew, he laid no claims to brilliance; but as they also knew, he hid a very shrewd com mon sense beneath his frivolous man ner. And having once accepted the sound military truism that one Indif ferent general Is better than two good ones, they accepted his leadership with unswerving loyallty. What was going to be the end of their self-im posed fight against the pests of so ciety did not worry them greatly; all that mattered was that there should be a certain amount of sport In the collection of the specimens. Granted the promise of that, they willingly sacrificed any engagements and car ried out Hugh's orders to the letter. Up to date, however, the campaign, though 'far from being dull, had not produced any really big results. A number of sprats and a few moderate sized fish had duly been caught In the landing-net, and been sent to the pri vate pool to meditate at leisure. But nothing really large had come their way. ZabolefT was a good haul. But ■the Black Gang, which aimed merelyf at the repression of terrorism by ter rorism, had found it too easy. The nauseating cowardice of the majority of their opponents was becoming mo notonous, their strong aversion to soap and water. Insanitary. They wanted big game—not the rata that emerged from the sewers. Kven Dnimmond had begun to feel that patriotism might be carried too far, until the moment when the ad dress in Hoxton had gallen Into their hands. Then, with the optimism that lives eternal In the hunter's breast, fresh hope had arisen In his mlcd. He had determined on a bigger game. If It failed—lf they drew blank —he had almost decided to chuck tbe thlag up altogether. Phyllis, he knew, would be overjoyed If he did. "Just this one final coup, old girl," be said, as they sat waiting In the Carlton for the awe-Inspiring rela tives. "I've got K cut and dried, and U comes off tonight. If It's a dud, we'll dissolve ourselves—at any rate, for the present. If only—" He sighed.. and his wife looked at him reproachfully. "I know you want another fight with Petersen, you old goat," she remarked. "Rut you'll never see him again, or that horrlbU girl." "Don't you think I shall, PhylT" He stared despondently at his shoes. "J can't help feeling myself that some where or other behind all this that cheery bird la lurking. My dear. It would be too ghastly If I never saw him again." "The next time you see him, Hugh," she answered quietly, "he won't take any choices with you." "But, my angel child." he boomed cheerfully. "1 don't want him to. Not on your life! Nor shall I. Good Lord 1 Here they are. Uncle Timothy looks more like a mangel-wurxel than rrer." And so at nine-thirty that evening, a ,»arty of five men aat waiting in a small sitting-room of a bouse altuated in a remote corner of South Kenatng tou. Some easels stood round the walls covered with half-finished sketches, aa befitted a room belonging to a budding artist such aa Toby Sin clair. Not that he *aa an artist or even a budding one. bat he felt that a man must have some excuse for living In South Kensington. And so he hfcd bought the sketches and pat them round the room, principally to deceive the landlady. The fact that he waa never there except at strange hours merely confirmed that excellent woman's opinion that all artists were dlaaolute rascals. But he paid his rant regularly, and times were hard, aspect*!)* In Sooth Kensington. Had tke worthy soul known that her second By CYRIL McNEILE SAPPER Copyright by QEORQE rt DORAN CO. V. N. U. hnic best sitting-room was the rendezvous of this Black Gang. It Is doubtful If she woyld have been so complacent. But she didn't know, and continued her weekly dusting of the' sketches with characteristic zeal. "Ted should be here soon,", said Drummond, glancing at his watrti. "I hope he's got the bird all right." "You didn't get Into the inner room, did you, Hugh?" said Peter Darrell. "No. But I saw enough to know that It's beyond our form, old lad. We've got to have a skilled cracks man to deal with one of the doors— and almost certainly anything Impor tant will be In a safe Inside." "Just run over the orders again." Toby Sinclair came back from drawing the blinds even more closely together. "Perfectly simple," said Hugh. "Ted and I and Ginger Martin—lf he's got him—will go straight Into the house through the front door. I know the geography of the pface all right, and I've already laid out the caretaker clerk fellow once. Then we must trust to luck. There shouldn't be anyobdy there except the little blighter of a clerk. The rest of you will hang about outside in case of any trouble. Don't hunch together, keep on the move; but keep the doors in sight. When you see us come out again, make your own way home. Can't give you any more detailed Instructions because I don't know what may turn up. I shall rig myself out here, after Ted "Blimey!" Muttered the Man, Shrink ing Back aa He Baw the Huge Fig ure in Black Confronting Him. "What'a the Game, Quv'norT" arrives. Ton had better go to your own rooms and do It, but wait first to make sure that he's roped In Ginger Martin." He glanced up as the door opened and Jerry Seymour—sometime of the R. F. G.—put his head Into the room. "Ted's here, and he's got the bird all right Unpleasant-looking bloke with a flattened face." - "Right." Drummond rose, and crossed to a cupboard, "dear off, you fellows. Zero—twelve midnlghl." From the cupboard he pulled a long black cloak and mask, which he pro ceeded to put on, while the others dis appeared with the exception of Jerry Seymotlr, who came Into the room. He was dressed In livery like a chauffeur, and vhe had. In fact, been driving the car Ife which Ted had brought Ginger Martin. "Any trouble?" asked Drummond. "No. Once he was certain Ted had nothing to do with the police he came like a bird," said Jerry. "The fifty quid did It" Then he grinned. "Ton know Ted's a marvel. 11l defy any body to recognize him." , Drummond nodded, and «at down at the table facing the door. "Tell Ted to bring him up. And I dont want him to see you, Jerry, to keep out of the light." Undoubtedly Jerry Seymour was right with regard to Jwnltaghsm's make-up. Aa be and Martin rame Into the room, it waa only the sudden start and cry on the part of the crook that made Drummond certain aa to which waa which. "Blimey!" mattered the man. shrink ing back aa he aaw the huge figure In black confronting him. "Wot's the game, guv'nor?" "There's no game, Martin," said Drummond reassuringly. "You've been told what you're wanted for. haven't you? A little professional as sistance tonight, for which yon will be paid fifty pounds, la all we ask of yon." But Ginger Martin still seemed far from eaay In his mind. "You're one of this 'ere Black Gang." be said sul lenly. glancing at the door In front of which Jernlngham pas standing Should he chance It and make a dash to get away? Fifty pounds are fifty pounds, bat— He gave a tittle shiver as his eyea came round again to the motionless' figure on the other aide of the table. "Quite correct, Martin," said the same reassuring voice. "And it 1 * only because I dent want you to recognise me that J'ra dressed up like this. don't mean you any harm." The voice paused for a moment, and then went on again. "You understand that, Mar tin. We don't mean you any harm, unless" —and once again there came a pause—"unless you try any"" monkey tricks. You are to do exactly as I tell yoa, without question and at once. If you do you will receive fifty pounds. If you don't —well, Martin, I have ways of dealing with people who don't do what I tell them." There was silence while Ginger Mar tin fidgeted about, Jooking like a trapped animal. "What do yer want me to do, guv'nor?" he said at last. "Open a safe amongst other things," answered Drummond. "Have you brought your tools and things?" "Yus —I've brought the outfit," mut tered the other. "Where is.the safe? 'Ere?" "No, Martin, not here. Some dis tance away in fact. We shall start in about an hour. Until then you wllf stop In this room. You can have a wliisky-and-soda, and my friend here will stay with you. He has a gun, Martin, so remember what I said. No monkey tricks." With fascinated eyes the crook Watched the speaker rise and cross to afl Inner door. Standing he seemed inore huge than ever, and Martin gave a sigh of relief as the door closed be hind him. - • e e e e e e, The entrance to Number 5 Green street proved easier than Drunimond had expected—so easy as to be almost suspicious. No lights shone in the win dows above: the house seemed com pletely deserted. Moreover, the dooi Into the street was unbolted, and with out a moment's hesitation Drummond opened It and stepped inside, followed by Martin and Ted Jernlnghara. The long black cloak had been discarded; only the -black mask concealed his face, as the three men stood inside the door, listening Intently. Not a sound was audible, and after a moment or two Drummond felt his way cautious ly through the downstairs office to ward the flight of stairs that led to the rooms above. In single file they crept up the stairs, Drummond leading. The door at the top was ajar, and for awhile they stood In the carpeted passage above listening again. "Along this passage are the clerks' offices," he explained In a low voice to the other two. "At the far end Is another door which we shall probably find locked. Beyond that is the Inner office, which we want." "Well, let's get on wlv It, guv'nor," muttered Ginger Martin hoarsely. "There's no good In 'anglng abaht." Drummond switched on his electric torch, and flashed It cautlonsly round. Doors leading oft the passage were open In most cases, and all the rooms were empty; it was obvious that none of the staff were about. And yet he felt an Indefinable sense of danger, which he tried In vain to shake off. Somehow or other, he felt certain that they were not alone —that there were other people In the house. But Ginger Martin h?d no such presentiments, and was rapidly becoming impatient. To open the door at the end of the passage, if it should prove to be locked, was such child's play as to be absolutely contemptible. He wanted to get on with the safe, which take time. Instead of fooling round In a passage listening for mice. Without a sound, the cracksman set to work; his coarse features outlined In the circle of the torch, his 111-kept fingers handling his Instruments as deftly as any surgeon. A little oil here and there; a steady pressure with a short pointed steel tool; a faint click. j "There you are, guv nor," he mut tered, straightening up. "Easy as kiss yer and. And if yer waits till I find me glove I'll open it for yer; but Gin ger Martin's finger-prints are too well known to run any 'risks." Still no sound came from anywhere, though the click as the lock shot back had seemed horribly loud In the si lence. And then, just as Martin cau tiously turned the handle and pushed open the door, Drummond stiffened suddenly and switched off his torch. He could have sworn that he heard the sound of voices close by, Only for a second—they were In stantly silenced; but just for that fraction of time as the door opened he knew he had beard men speakinf. It looks very much like a trap. What Is Zadowa planning to do to Drummond f (TO BU CONTINUED.) 1 Key to Tretuare Hoaee Just think of the vagt treasure* of words full of rich and rare meaning that lie locked np In oar language, hidden away from common use and enjoyed only by the learped few I It Is as If. possessing the mineral wealth of the world, ready tor the mint, we scornfully turned aside to remain la poverty. 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