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A -# any querries concerning Scouting sub- | Canadian National Exhibition . surdly on her head, or a short, fat afternoon, | where a Scouting Display will n, to' the Exhibition grounds, be given at the Grand Stand. y| Don't miss it, Lonies. You will see Bridge Building, Sea Scouting, Tent art- | Pitehing, Signalling, Firemanship, etc, | e |'and' lots of fun as well. Just imagine take, | 2000 Scouts taking part in a gigan at some sort of a "Get-to-gether" be arranged for these older fellows later in the fall or even during the win- ter months. The possibility of arrang- ing this has now been greatly facili- tated by the fact that a suitable loca- tion has been found for such a "Get- to-gether" if anfficient Lonies are in- terested. At Ebor Park, near Brantford, Ont., where the Ontario Gilwell Training Course is held annually, suitable _buildingse have been erected especial: ly designed for functions of this sort, and they have been placed at the dis<| posal. of the Lone Scout Department for a winter camp, and we should be very cosy and comfortable there. What do you think of the idea, Lonies? Would you care to hang up your stockings-in the Kikidowigomig) or the Caravanserai this Christmas? 'Write to "Lone E" and let him have your opinion. Lone Scout Question Box Don't forget the Lone Scout Ques- tion Box, which is operated in con- nection with this paper. If you have jects write to "Lone BE," ¢/o The Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. Your questions will be an- swered in these columns. This year will be Boy Scout Year! On Saturday, September 12th, there will be a big parade of some 2000 Tor- onto Scouts who will march, in the London Women Favor New Style Chapeau The Second Empir. style in hats reign supreme, : The verdict is tke result of an analysis following the introduction of the new tricornes, bowlers and pill-box styles of headgear. By actual count over half the wo- men at Lord's attending the Eton and Harrow cricket matches wore them. During one day nine articles and two editorials about the hats appeared in the seven morning newspapers of Lon- don and three articles and one editor- 'ial in the three afternoon newspapers of the same day. Since their introduction, 75 per cent. of the hat advertisements have featured these new models. Men dis. cuss them and women buy them, Walk along Bond Street and eight out of ten women have them. . Anywhere in London one may see a tall woman with a long skinny neck balancing a small straw pill-box ab- $ 'show! ' 'For those of you who wish to visit the Exhibition and require accommoda- tion, the Toronto Association has | arranged - to have a camp at the | Exhibition Grounds for 'the whole | period of the Ex., to aécommodate you. There will be no charge, and you will just have to find your own food, and bring your own Blankets, Ground Sheet and eating utensils. The Camp wilt be located just inside the Exhibition Grounds, near the Duf- ferin Street Entrance: This year it is particularly required that Scouts attending the Exhibition shall be properly dressed in Full Scout Uniform, including Shorts, To obtain free admission to the grounds, each Scout must also show his Registration Card. So hurry up and pass that Ten- derfoot Test. There will be a special Scout Dis- play in the Ontario Government Build- ing, which will include Lone Scouting, and members of the Lone Scout De- partment will be on duty there to wel- come all Lonies who visit the Ex, So don't forget to pay us a visit, This Week's Summer Activity Proficiency Badge How many of you keep bees? Here are the requirements of The Beekeep- er's Badge: : Have a knowledge, gained in prac- tice, of swarming, hiving, hives and general apliculture, including a know- ledge of the use of artificial combs, ete. Are You a Scout? If not, why not? If you are between 12 and 18 years of age, and are unable to join a regularly organized Troop of Boy Scouts, write to "The Lone Scout Department, Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2, Ont." They will be pleased to tell you how you can become a Lone Scout.--Lone E. wrestler wearing a Robin Hod felt trimmed with flowing plumes that would make a turkey cock or a pea- cock jealous. : eden een A Typewriter for a Penny A penny-in-the-slot typewriter has now been installed in Berlin's large department stores. Every hour of the day crowds of business men line up in the queue waiting their turn on the automatic typewriter, It's all very simple. At- tached to the machine is a small meter with a slot which takes the coins. You drop in the equivalent of a penny and start fo type. You calculate your letter as you go along, for every tap is registered on the little dial of the meter. A thous- and taps--not words--is the limit, and at the thousandth tap the machine locks, refusing te do another word un- til you insert an additional coin. A clever invention! But how long will the machine hold out against the thousands of different hands that ham- woman, with a neck like a heavyweigh" mer its fragile keys daily ?--London "Answers." Professor Piccard Describes Beauties of the Stratosphere Brussels.--Professor Auguste Pic- card, in very simple words, recently described what it was like to float in the stratosphere. He recommended the airmen present to follow in his steps but not to use balloons, but air- planes with triple motors, which are being built for the purpose of explor- ing the stratosphere. "Kipfer and I did not even know we had started," said Picard. "Sealed up in our cabin, with a slice of at- mosphere, we were wondering what had happened outside when Kipfer, looking through the glass window at the bottom o the cabin, said, 'There's a chimney down there,' and we knew we were off. We were very comfort- able, seated among our instruments, and before we knew it we had shot 1p into the stratosphere." In order to prevent loss of air when discharging ballast a tube was fitted to the cabin. It had a tap at either *Their airtight cabin was unbearably hot, the top too hot for the touch. Crops of water, from the condensation process, they carefully licked from the walls of the cabin, to save their re- maining supply. Little by little their store of oxygen was running out. Looking from the horizontal window they could gauge the rate of the drift of their apparatus by noting the posi- 'tion-of objects on the earth below. Presently they came into the region of high mountains, with peaks stand. ing above the clouds. This was a scene of indescribable splendor. They began to regret less the series of accidents that had led to their mishap. Little by little, as the heat of the mid- day sun decreased, they came nearer earth, but were still in the strato- sphere. The scene was flooded with sunlight and moonlight simultaneous- ly, the peaks of mountains, covered with eternal snow, catching and re- SiR ~ Skillful flying on the part of Africa's First Ocean To Ocean Railway Dream of Cecil Rhodes, Em- pire Builder Now 'Realized The first train to cross Africa irom ocean to ocean left Lobito, on the west coast, early in July, and ran to Beira, on the east coast, a distance of 2,949 miles. It was the first time in the history of railway development in Africa that a through train was run from ocean to ocean. This train, it is noted, traversed in turn Portu- guese, Belgian, British, and again Portuguese territory. But the whole enterprise is predom- inantly British, claims the London Times, and will always be associated with the names of two men, Cecil Rhodes and Sir Robert Williams. A correspondent of this newspaper ad- vises us further: "It was by the decision of Cecil Rhodes that Beira became the port for Rhodesia; it was Williams who, having convincel himself of the min- cral wealth of Katanga, determined that it should have a direct outlet to the sea by the shortest route--namely, to the west coast through Angola. "That project has now been real- highly mineralized belt of country has been found. to extend south from Ka- tanga into Northern Rhodesia, and the Lobito 3ay route will thus serve the very rich mines now being developed in British territory." Editorially The Times calls our at- tention te the fact that a remarkable change has come over this land in a single generation, and it goes on: "As diamonds drew the railway from the Cape to Kimberley, and as gold drew the railway on to the Rand, so copper has drawn the railway to the heart of South Central Africa. "Katanga, but yesterday a thousand miles from anywhere, almost unknown to the white man, is now the most highly developed province of the Bel- gian Congo. "It has a considerable white popula- tion;.its mines have already exported copper to the value of $260,000,000; and in Elisabethville it has an at- tractive capital which at the moment is indulging in its first International Exhibition, "It was Livingstone who first kept open the road to the north, and it was the reading of entries in Living- stone's journal that guided Williams, as he has himself said, to his discov- ery of the immense mineral wealth along the Congo-Zambezi divide. "Williams was an early associate of Cecil Rhodes, and an ardent oeliever in the Cape-to-Cairo railway scheme, "But neither he nor Rhodes was foolish enough to suppose that a rail- way from the Cape to Cairo was an economic. proposition in itself, "The Cupe-to-Cairo line was meant as a backbone from which ribs would extend on either side. "Two years before his death, Rhodes wrote: 'The junctions to the east and west coasts, which will occur in the future, will be outlets for the traffic obtained along the rouse of the line as it passes through the centre of Africa.' "That was written in 1900, the year in which Williams go his firs mineral concession in Kaanga. To-day two great 'junction' lines are complete and as Rhodes foresaw, they are taking to the markets of the world 'the traffic obtained along the route of the (main Cape-to-Cairo) line' - They are also opening up lands rich in agricultural and mineral possibilities." ~ end. The ballast. was dropped in%o "flecting the light, although the earth the tube, below was in inky blackness. They for- the upper tap turned off, the got the difficulty of breathing rationed oxygen, their thirst and their danger, of » sight, seen - the "strate- ki "Rather. That girl in the red bathing sult 1s worth a million, rm: Ignorance never settles a question. .--Benjamin Disrael, | had stalled. saved the lives of four passengers at Inglewood, Calif. From 500 feet up Talbot made a forced landing. finally rested in a rallway right-of-way. ized ; moreover, since its inception the! | of British Columbia was reported to "his claims with several companions his find lay, beyond saying he had eome ee yd ay: to Finlay| Forks. Heo Lawrence Talbot, after the motor The aeroplane Outfitting For School Winter had come! Work in the fur- row had ended, The plow was brought in, cleaned and greased to prevent its rusting, and while the horses munched Their hay in well-earned holiday, father and I helped farmer Button husk the last of his corn, One night as we were all seated around the kerosene lamp my father said: "Well, Belle, I suppose we'll have to take these young ones down to town and fit 'em out for school." These word "wo calmly uttered, filled our ming~ Vvigions of new boots, and, ay fd) 4 went obediently to bed, we =, slept, so efcited were we, and even bakfast next morning not one of *<CitNiq think of food. All our desires 'coviverged upon the wondrous expedition--our first visit to town. Our only carriage was still the lum- ber wagon, but it had now two spring seats, one for father, mother and Jes. sie, and one for Harriet, Frank and myself. No one else had anything bet- ter, hence we had no sense of being poorly outfitted. We drove away across the frosty prairie toward Osage --moderately comfortable and per- fectly happy. Osage was only a little town, a vil: lage of perhaps twelve hundred {in- habitants, hut to me as we drove down its Main Street, it was almost as Iim- pressive as LaCrosse had been. Each of us soon carried a candy marble in his or her cheek (as a chip- munk carries a nut), and Frank and I stood like sturdy hitching posts whilst the storekeeper with heavy hands screwed cotton-plush caps upon our heads--but the most exciting moment, the crowning joy of the day, came with the buying of our new boots. If only | father had not-insisted on our taking! those which were a size too large for | us! | They were real boots. No one but a congressman wore '"gaiters" in those | days. War fashions still dominated the shoe-shops, and high-topped cav- alry boots were all but universal. They were kept in boxes under the counter | or ranged in rows on a shelf, and were! of all weights and degrees of fineness. | The ones I selected had red tops wit | a golden moon in the center, but my brother's taste ran to blue tops dec- orated with a golden flag. Oh! that deliciously oily new smell! My heart glowed every time I looked at mine. I was especially pleased because theydid not have copper toes. Copper tees be- longed to little boys. A youth who had plowed seventy acres of land could not reasonably be expected to dress like a child. How smooth and delightfully stiff they felt on my feet. Then came our new books, a McGuf- books had a delightful new smell also, 'and there was singular charm in the smooth surface of the unmarked slates. I was eager to carve my name in the frame. At last with our trea- sures under the seat (so near that we could feel them), and with our slates and books in our laps we jolted home, dreaming of school and snow. To wade in the drifts with odr fine high- topped boots was now our desire.-- Hamlin Garland, in "An Autobiog- raphy of America," Edited by Mark Van Doren. : ' via Aberin Rich Placer Find ; Reported in B.C. Victoria.--Discovery of a rich gold field at an obscure point tributary to the Finlay River, in the northern part the Government Saturday by J. B. Mauss, Deputy Minister. of Agricul- ure, : At a village in the Peace River country last week, Mr. Munro met M. C. Brown, veteran prospector, who had just staked claims from which, in three days, took 27 ounces of coarse gold with the use of a crude rocker made with three poles and a .about $400. © Sr - Brown is now on his way back to who will also stake claims and spend 'ho winter working with him. Brown declined tod that his, claims land and extremely difficult to reach, All supplies must be back-packed. ' Dogs are used to spot and trail the on animals and the pursuers ride horse indicate where! back, in relays, J them into rail corrals built before- hand at creek of trail crossings. : The ated that ! hunts 'are long, frequently requiring | were a long way. from the tiver over-' as many as twelve hard hours in the The chases are begun as near tha) NL ---- ¢ ; Antarctic. Still Has Unexplored Areas, But Its Secrets Are Disclosed From Air = . When the Graf Zeppelin recently made her trip to the North it was with the intention of surveying more accurately than hal been possible from ships caught in the ice the un- | known area east of Franz Josef Land, writes Russell Owen in The N.Y. Times, For although the probability of there being large unknown land masses in the unexplored region north of Siberia and Canada is minimized by those who have studied the problem of drift, there is always the possibility that new islands may be discovered on the continental shelf. Several small islands were found on the Graf's flight, and Northern Land was fourd to be, as suspected, much larger than its hitherto known boundaries. Despite the many expeditions to the Arctic, the proportion of undiscovered area is still so large that even near the known islands explorers frequent- ly find land which has escaped the eyes of other men. It is ofen difficult to distinguish ice-covered land in the polar regions, and no explorer can regulate the drift of his ship. Only in the air is freedom of movement pos- sible, and even there vision is hindered by fog. So some land will always escape notice until a lucky man finds it by accident. NORTHERMOST LANDS The lands which approach most closely to the North Pole, which ex. tend furthest into the Arctic Sea, are off the Siberian, Russian and Norwe- gian coasts, Greenland and Canada. Greenland is the only large land wass extending far north, but nedrly on a line with the top of it are some of the Canadian islands and, to the east, Spitsbergen, now known as Svalbad, Franz Josef Land and Northern Land. Between Northern Land and Wrangel Island, although the continental shelf extends far toward the eightieth par- allel, there is no similar large island or group of islands, except the New Siberian Islands, which are much fur- ther south than the others. This brings the greatest unknown areas on either side of a line from Alaska to the Pole, a line followed a few years ago by the dirigible Norge. The east- ern haly of this area was bisected by Wilkins in his flight from Alaska to Spitsbergen. On neither of these flights wag there any sign of new land and it scems doubtful that there are even small islands in this inaccessible portion of the Arctic Sea. So it can be seen that the route taken by Dr. Eckner from Franz Jo- sef Land to the east, over a partly explored region, held the greatest promise of results. It was also within easy cruising distance for the Graf. Explorers have penetrated this area for hundreds of years, but are always finding something new. It was only in 1913 that Northern Land, which now seems to be larger than Novaya Zembly, was discovered. Only the eastern coast line was mapped, and it was believed that a greater terri- tory remained to be found to the north and west than had already been dis- covered before the Zeppelin's cruise. How much was seen of this little known country on the flght has not been definitely reported. CHANGES IN THE MAP Although Franz Josef Land has! been known since 1873 and successive expeditions have outlined most of its islands, it appears that the observefs on the airship have made a few changes in the map, finding two or threg new islands and altering the outlines of others. It was on Franz fey reader, a Mitchell geography, a ® | Ray's arithmetic and a slate. The! A Wild-Horse Hunt : ' toward the corrals at ths outer mar- In Arkansas Wild horses are being hunted in the remote bottoms of Southwestern Arkansas, where 100 square miles of open range country in the meandering valley of the Little Missouri River provide a permanent retreat for an untamed herd. Thre animals are thought to be the descendants of do- mesticated beasts that were left be- hind by pioneer farmers and timber- men driven out of the area by floods. They have been pursued by occasional parties for a quarter of a century, but are being sought now with increased energy in line with a State-wide cam- paign against carriers and spreaders of the deadly fever tick. The leader of the present hunt is W. A. McDonald, a district agent for the United States Bureau of Animal Industries. Aiding him are twenty range riders of the bureau and a num- ber of sportsmen. Captured wild|. horses, usually powerful and fleet, can be trained for saddle use or for farm work. All those not claimed immedi- ately by their captors are sold by the bureau to farmers for a 'redemption' fee of $10 to $26. Wild-horse hunting is a breath- taking sport. Its strategy is based on the habitual tendency of horses to evade pursuit by running in circles. ® T in an attempt to driv Josef Land that Nansen wintered after his miraculous trip across the ice from the Fram. Novaya Zembla, further south, is not so difficult to reach, although Barents, who first wintered there, escaped with great difficulty and died on the jour- ney home. It is inhabited by hunters, nearly 200 people living there. Spits- bergen, of course, supports the largest population of the northern islands, its coal mines being profitable, and at one time during the height of . .re- tic whaling it had a large settlement far north of its present northernmost village. But perhaps the most interesting of the northern islands are the New Si- berian group. When they were first reached some of them were found to be literally built on the bones of mam- moths and other large prehistoric ani- mals. This was in 1773, and the ivory industry has been carried on there ever since. Some fossilized trees bear- ing leaves and fruit have been found also, giving evidence of a much diff- erent climate at one time; studied in connection with some significant dis- coveries in the Antarctic they have made scientific men wonder if there had not been in past ages a shift in the Poles. Scattered along the edge of the con- tinental shelf between the New Si- berian Islands and Wrangel Island are a number of small islands of ao particular importance. There are undoubtedly ohers there also which have not been found, for the shelf is wide at this point and large parts of it have never been reached. All of these islands have their in- terest, but the possibility of a large land in or near the centre of the Are- tic Sea has held more importance for the explorer. There was a time when it was thought that Greenland con- tinued across ag a continent to Si- beria or Alaska. Some peculiarities of drift led to that theory.. But when De Long drifted on his fatal expedi- tion across the area where the sup- posed continent was imagined to lie this idea was abandoned. Peary's journey to the Pole cut through an- other part of the unknown region. However, the hope of some large is- lands persisted until the Norge flew from the Pole to Alaska and no land was seen, Then Wilkins made his | flight far north from Alaska and on | landing on the ice found an ocean depth of nearly three miles. "His next flight from Alaska to Spitsbergen eliminated the possibility of land in a section east of the Norge's route. | But despite all these journeys, by sea (and air, some explorers still cling to | the hope that land may be found out- side the continental shelf in the large pian which is still unknown. The airplane and a'rship have done rauch to reduce the unknown in 'he Arctic and with their perfection un-| doubtedly the blank region now ou the map will diminish rapidly. Gec- graphical exploration was a slow pro- cess in the days when men were en- tirely dependent upon ice drift and the strength of their ships. "For al. though the old-time explorers could stay for long periods in the Arctic Sea, after they learned how to pre- vent scurvy, and did detailed scien- tific work which is not possible during the short flights of an airship, there is no doubt that for quick surveys the the latter is incomparably better. Fog is the greatest obstacle to discovery from the air, but repeated trips north are hound eventually to uncover all Arctic secrets. centre of the open range area as pos- sible in an effort to head the prey gins, wher: the animals can usually be | roped or run down hy relays of fresh r ounts, sini in Training Ship Shows Successful Sailings Worcester, 8. Af.--The annual re- port of the hoard of control of the only South African training ship, the General Botha, just Issued, shows that during the nine years' work of this ship, nearly 300 cadets have found employment at sea as appren- tices and otherwise, a fleld of occu- pation which was previously closed to South Africa. "We have not had the slightest trouble or complaint in regard to any of them," runs one of the many let- "ters received from ehipping com- panies, phrases "burnsides," "sideboards" and "mutton chops." We accept, with grateful interest, his account of the genealogy of the phrase, but we deny its illegitimacy. The family tree which he gives establishe, p of its pedigree; and ev impressive family pa that a word is a werd if it a word, . in is Used a . . "Mutton chops" dates back to the early Gladstonian era, according to the compedious but somewhat outdated New English Dictionary. "Sideboard" is venerable enough to have attained notice in Webster's American Diction- ary; but neither '"burnsides" wuor "sideburns" appears in either of these repositories of etymological wisdom. It may be, as our correspondent sug 'gests, that General Burnside's tom- sorial vagaries led to the substitution of his name, during the Civil War, for the. earlier phrase "sideboard," and that "sideburns" is merely a confused rendering of the old general's name, But the phrase stuck; it is the current usage to-day; and we stalwartly main- tain that it is usage and not ancestry which gives meaning to a word. "Mut- ton chops" are seldom seen to-day, but the phrase is well understood; "gideboards" has gone out; "burn- sides" is almost forgotten; the man im the street says and understands "side- burns." "Sideburns" they are. * . . While on this subject we should like to crush another current outcropping of verbal snobbery" Now and again some over-precise person rises to im- sist that' whiskers refer only to hair on the sides of the face, to "side- burns." Now whiskers, obviously, are something which whisk, and long heards, long moustaches or long side- burns may be whiskers. In Shake- speare's day the word referred to long moustachios. It still did when Robin- son Cruso referred to trimming "what grew on my upper lip . . . into a large pair of Mahometan whiskers," In our day, for some curious reason, the word has tended to limit itself to hir- sute cheeks. If, in time, this usage is confirmed, it will establish its stand- ing; but until usage settles more de- finitely into the rut we shall continue to think that any hair conspicuously in need of tonsorial attention may justly be called a whisker. mere = French Town Erects Statue to d'Artagnan Auch, France.--A local boy who made good was recently honored here when the town erected a statue of d'Artagnan, famous in history, but more famous in fiction. In history the famous musketeer made himself, while Alexander Dumas made him ona of the most famous and dashing fie- tion figures. The statue by the sculptor Michelet represents the noted hero, cloak thrown back and his hand on his ra- pier, just as he appeared when he roamed the streets of Paris in search of new adventure with his three fa- mous companions, Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Charles de Batz, the original J'Ar- tagnan, was born at Lupiac about 1625. His father was not a noble himself, but had married Francoise de Montesquiou, daughter of the seig- neur of Artagnan. The de Ba'zes were merchants in Gascony and Bis gorre, but Charles went.to Paris to enter the king's service. In so doing he insured himself immortality, foe his career was carefully reported by an obscure author of the 17th century, Gatien Courtils de Sandraz, It was the writings of this man that inspir- ed Alexander Dumas to write "The Three Musketeers," but the famous author did not bind himself so ~losely to historical fact as his predecessor had done. D"Artagnan spent the whole of his life in the service of the king of France. He was made a count by Louis XIV in reward for his services und his campaigns in behalf of France. sme set am Collects 1,000 Lapp Melodies More than 1,000 melodies of the Swedish Lapps have been collected and written down by Karl Tiren, whose real occupation is that of a sta- tion agent of the Swedish State Rail ways, but who is a painter, violinist and Lapp specialist by avocation. ' Recently Mr. Tiren was given a schol arship so that he can give more time to ethnographic work among the Lapps, The American - Scandinavian Review says. mene The Modern Novel Regina Leader-Post. -- A publisher says that the average good selling novel brings its writer lesa than a "Hustle up, Old Man! Remem- "ber the world owes you a living." "I know! but I don't feel like be- ing hard on it until after this heat iy wave." to bring not less than 30 days. thousand dollars, A contemporary comments that some of them ought muvee Sb orf. Design 'does not take place by cident, nor is it effected simply its own sake; but it is the fruit an' intelligent purpose to produce certain effect.--I Taylor. ---- The average woman wears | than fhe rage man, but not s much.