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33w lonerscouts tone e hopes that alt the lone scouts ot ontario will have a very happy and prosperous new year what will be your new year reso lution for 1932 if you are already a scout he hopes that you will re solve to make your scout programme full of activity and advancement ami if you are not a member of the boy scouts association he hopes that you will resolve to join the great worldwide brotherhood of scouts without delay in any case good scoalios to wu all liibitiou of scout iariat work at the ottawa fair first aid for oogs whilst a lomes first aid training is not primarily intended for use in animals it works just as well when a winnipeg scouts collie was run over by a truck and had a teg broken his youug owner improvised splints used a handkerchief and necktie for baudsgos and carried the dog to a veterinary where the leg was placed in a cast we believe that lmstie is well on the road to recovery patrol news we are slad to hear frvat loues scout lila vdsrd of csmstas- tort to the ese tcat tte lceaies in that p ave tw5xjv aeassehes irti t fwv imis u tstey use the iv isiea vv-a- anmitevi to ttss ervv v- x ioiv that te owv w tu x- success wo v s tc s o4 tv v sxi lae the i s u eo- tivao to vc v avv iv on he ri- aiwasla sh art tbdr we -oic- trait cy sunset cut in full force- to a reavcsnorsece day parade recently the patrol at lueaa will soon be a fuuuedgci tree- we think they have already recruited themselves an assistant scoutmaster who has start- ed in to acquaint him elf with the tenderfoot and second cass tests good work lucan louies j scouts become doctors records at dominion headquarters ottawa show that 50sso canadian- boy scouts have taken first aid j training and 15631 have qualified for the advanced first aid ambulance 1 man bade j for quite a number of scouts this training ins proven the first step to a university degree in medicine the diversified training which the boy scout programme gives to a boy frequently enables him to decide on the career for which he is most fitted another world jamboree arrangements are being made for some 25000 boy scouts from 15 coun tries to attend the nest world scout jamboree in hungary in 1933 the jamboree will be held at godollo the former estate of the late kniporer francis joseph i which has been placed at the disposal of the scouts by admiral llorthy the resent of hungary we wonder if any ontario lotto scouts will be there toe caavp equipment of a certain alberta scout troop this summer included a cow she went along to solve the safe milk problem we wonder how much competition there was to be the first up in the morning to milk iter scout statues two roy scout statues appear over a cere kindow of the new govern ment confederation block at ot tawa they commemorate public serv ice rendered by scouts including the location of decoration of the graves of the fathers ot confederation for the diamond jubilee ot 1927 boy scout cowboy when unable to capture a horse that had been on range all summer an ontario farmer applied to the ot tawa district boy scout headquart ers for a scout roping oxpert the boy was taken out to the farm and promptly succeeded in lassoing the horse this farmer had seen an ex- chicagos leading girl and boy mary rico of keowatin minn and charles brown of battia ground ind with sir thomas lipton trophy cup3 awarded at 4h club congress in chicago a3 outstanding girl and boy returns which are coming in to lone scout headquarters at toronto show that these columns are being read with interest by rphy boys throughout this province application for membership in the lone scouts average one per day if you are not already a scout and would like to be one why not write at once to the lone scout depart- ment boy scouts association 330 bay street toronto they will be j giad to send you particulars lone j scouting is intended for boys in small towns and villages and on rural routes wltero there is no regular scout troop lone e jokes of the past a celebrated utuly was one evening in company with a young lady and ob serving hoy lis her favorite poodle he advanesii and begged the like favor remarking that sheought to have as much charity for him as she had shown to the dog sir said the belle i never kissed my dog when he was a puppy the fellow took the hint and went off instauter june 1sss john hull has a rooted objection to everything new tangled when the act was passed requiring owners of common stagecarts to place their names upon thoir vehicles in letters of a given size by a curious oversight no clause was inserted to secure that i these names should be legible and i every advantage was taken of the ctr- 1 etimstance to circumvent the now law a wag of a baker at guildford in stir- j rey scattered his name all over the cart placing a letter in each panel the most ingenious device however i was that adopted by an acton man i what he was required to put on his cart was amos todd acton a stage- can lie regrouped the letters in such wise that they read a most odd act on a stagecart jan 1ss1 a young lady said to her lover j william how far is it around the world about twenty inches my darling replied he as his arm on- circled her waist dec 1ss4 m a fashionable lady witness fainted dead away while giving her testimony and the doctor who was summoned said it resulted from her corset being too tight the incident was very pro perly entered upon the minutes of the case as a stay in the proceedings 1ss3 a man will carry twenty sovereigns ml his waistcoat pocket but a woman j needs a morocco purse as largo as ones fist and too heavy to be carried i in the pocket to escort fivo shillings a couple of postago stamps a recipe for making currypowder and two pat- ems of dress goods feb 1ss2 eggs are cheap in the shetland is lands a young man went there and after a days walking thought lie would like somo dinner they had nothing j but eggs at the house lie said bring 12 ills worth they brought two j dozen and told him the others would come presently aug 1ss2 someone has suggested that if the inventor of the phonograph would bring out a little machine to be at tached to the door which would say i when tho landlord called for the rent come again next month it would havo a good sale so it would and if he wanted a name for it he might call it the postphonograph sept 1ss2 two brave young ladies whilst alone one evening recently were re- hearsing how they would dispatch a burglar if one suddenly appeared in the room one of the heroines was armed with her brother sword and the other flourished a hatchet in the midst of a rehearsal a frightful mon ster in the shape of a mouse ran across the floor when ono ot the girls incontinently fainted and the other smashed a 50 mirror in attempting to climb upon the bureau gentleman who has stepped upon her dress a thousand pardons madam lady pleasantly its of no consequence sir what she said ot him awkward stupid fellow my gathers are all torn out and ive got to go home vhat he said to him self confoundedly ridiculous fashion those trains in the street make a man look like a fool cutting up such capers with them january 1ssg a bicycle dealer has utilized the happy thought of presenting a pair ot crutches and a box ot court plaster to each purchaser of a bicycle ho is monopolizing the trade dec 1s86 a fashionable young lady accidental ly dropped ono of her false eyebrows in her opera box the other evening and greatly frightened her beau who on seeing it thought it was his mous tache dec 1ss1 at a recent duel near vicksburg the parties discharged their pistols with out effect whereupon one of the sec onds interposed and proposed that tho combatants should shake hands to this the other second objected as unnecessary their hands he said havo been shaking half an hour feb 1ss2 t t jawson how did your automobile journey turn out dawson beautifully although i i ran over two pedestrians and three bicycles and knocked two wagons into a ditch my motor was not at all in jured and i arrived jus on time april 1901 j at a certain theatre not long ago a gentleman asked a lady friend in front of him if she had any objection to removing her gainsborough she had int at i gladly obliged him the play proved t a miserable hodgc- lodge and after tho first act the gen- tleman said thank you greatly but wont you please replace your gains borough i prefer the hat there havo been a good many times in a long theatrical experience when a disclaim ing critic would much prefer the hat may 1ss2 at a recent dinner party in paris the host provided a novelty which may possibly become a feature of dinner parties in the electric age besido each plate was a telephone which was connected with a distant salon where a superb orchestra was playing the guests were thus able between the courses to pass the time pleasantly in listening to good music instead ot making obvious remarks about the weather aug 1s83 although the electric bell is now in vogue in many hotels its use is not yet allowed to disturb the leisurely habits of the waiters if we may judg by the following directions posted over one of the bells in a houss of en tertainment at a seaside resort push the knob if you do not get an ans wer in fifteen of twenty minutes push it again sept 1ss3 brass brain may predict weather by recording changes in strength of sun rays washington the goal ot success ful longdistance weather forecasting may be brought nearer through the in vention of a brass brain designed to figure changes in the suns heat the bralu was exhibited for the first time at the annual meeting of the regents of the smithsonian institu tion it was invented by dr charles g abbot secretary ot the smithsonian and calculates and evaluates changes in the amounts of radiation or heat coining to the earth from the sun on which all life depends the radiation apparently rises and falls over regular cycles dr abbot says these cycles seem to be the cause of chauges in the weathr j bessie what do you think of higher education bert its all right except in tho colleges whero they let it take up too much time from football prac tice v i -c- tough job los angeles police were faced with ono ot tho toughest jobs theyve had for a long time but it wasnt any tougher than that of the thieves they were sent out to capture tho crooks bad stolon seven pet skunks belonging to it n bawman and the cops were sent out to locate and bring back the animals gas masks wero part of the equipment taken along tasty bait the city visitor was supercilious and inquisitive he was wandering about the little country town noisily and of fensively amused at its rustic sim plicity in the course ot his meander- ings he came upon a nativo fishing in a stream the old fellow was gazing intently at an apple which dangled from tho end ot his line the city man approached i say old fellow what are you do ing there he asked obviously amused fishin said the native without looking up well whats the apple for bait bait arent you using a worm yes well where is it in the apple half moose half elk the firs known specimen of a cross between a moose and an elk was re cently killed in the deerlodgo national forest in bear gulch tho animal had a body and horns that wero half elk and half moose and was known by united states forest rangers as tho elk with the funny horns millions signing for disarmament mammoth petition circulat- ing throughout world j gains headway london a gigantic disarmament declaration launched in all five con tinents by the womens international league is gathering momentum as tho day for tho world conference on this great question approaches loudon is supplying 4000 signatures daily to tho document which is de signed to provide sufficient head of steam to drive the statesmen ot the world forward on the path of peace every adult iu a village in montgom eryshire wales has signed so ha3 the entire population of several fron tier villages in france tho league sectlou in tunis has ren dered the document into arabic and is hard at work collecting signatures among the natives india japan indo- chiua among he eastern countries are participating in canada the goal of 500000 signa tures appears iu sight a transcon tinental caravan tour which traversed the united states has visited 125 cities in 25 states and collected 125000 sig natures holland where the press has circu lated a slightly different petition has quickly amassed 2500000 signatures the whole population only numbers 8000000 with less than two mouths before the disarmament conference is due to begin the league is redoubling its energies throughout the 45 countries in which the petition has been circu lated the declaration on disarma ment which the friends of peace are asked to sign came into being at a i meeting of the womens international league at prague in august 1929 it runs a3 follows the undersigned men and women irrespective ot party stand for world disarmament they are convinced that competi tion in armaments is leading all coun tries to ruin without bringing thent security that this policy renders fur ther wars inevitable that wars in the future will be wars of indiscriminate destruction o human life that the governments assurances of peaceful policy will bo valueless so long as those measures of disarmament are delayed that should be the first result i of the pact for the renunciation of i war 1200 species of bird life habitants of n america there are more than 1200 known birds on the north american contin ent scientists have now found and recorded the eggs of all of these spe cies tho last to be found were those of the harris sparrow that bird is so clever at concealing its nest and eggs that ornithologists were uuable to find either despite more than 100 years of searching dr george sutton pitts burgh ornithologist however wouldnt give up the search he led an expedi tion into the icy wastes on the western shore of hudson bay there some 40 miles north churchill manitoba ho discovered several nests and eggs of the elusive harris sparrow each nest he reported contained five tiny eggs smaller than those of tho robin they are pale green in color with mot tled brown marbling most of them were found iu small bushes near the ice animal life that virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel legal mccullough button barristers solicitors convey ancers o buttona block stouffviile money to loan norman borinsky barrister solicitor notary associated with the legal firm of oorley keen and howard counsel j w beymour corley kc trusts and guarantee building room 605 302 bay street toronto oat telephone elgin 3153 and 3154 res tr g343 george coltham ontario ijand surveyor surveys levels municipal engineering aurora ontario box 2g4 phone 884 j thomas birkett insurance agency everything in insurance phone 18202 stouffviile a c burkholder insurance canada life assurance co also automobilo and fire anne lehman a t c m teacher of pianoforte playing and theory phone 4301 studio lehmans block massey harris agency in the old stand just south ot post office stouffviile get your repairs and new implements now j p cassidy phone 902 george baker realtor and valuator farm and city property a specialty exchanges and small acreages stouffville ont e a grubin r o eyesight specialist honor graduate ot the college ot optometry ot canada gold medal ist and first hermant prize winner in 192s at stouffviile every thursday friday and saturday ofiice in tho grubln block eyes examined glasses fitted and re paired phono stouffviile s405 say it with flowers no expression of sentiment more beautiful flowbrs for every occasion muston sons fhone 7001 stouffvillb ont medical dr s s ball pbpsiclan and surgeon office cor obrien and main phone 19s coroner for york county drsira herbert freel dr ira frecl consultation hours 9 to x2 am mon wed frl 6 to 9 pm tues sat tues thurs sat atternooni by appointments only dr llerbort krccl 9 to 12 am tues thurs sat 6 to 9 pm tues and sat mon wed frl afternoon by appointment only a c kennedy chiropractor church st stouffvllu monday wednesday and fridays 9 to 12 am dental e s barker lds dds honor graduate of royal college of dental surgeons and of the university ot toronto office in grublns block phono 8201 markham every tuesday office in wear block i dr d c smith honor graduate ot royal college ot dental surgeon and of the university of toronto dr neil c smith honor graduate ot royal college of dental surgeons and toronto university also post graduate ot rochester childrens hospital office commerce bank up 3talr phone office 1011 resldenoe loltj veterinary s t bodendistel vs- bvsc veterinarian graduate ot ontario veterinary college offtoe at the mansion house phone 161 successor to dr j t storey gordon phillips licensed auctioneer experienced in farm stock implement and furniture sales phone stouffviile 8405 for terms electrical contrracto house wiring farm work motors everything in electric estimates given chas nendick i phone 257 m r g clendennig funeral director and embalmer private ambulance phone 9000 markham ontari gator mascot millionaire class shows big shrinkage in states new york a decrease of 2349g in the millionaire list is shown accord ing to a report issued by the us treasury department in 1928 statis tics showed 431s1 while after the stock market collapse the number had shrivelled to 38050 and last year so heavy wero the inroads mado by the depression only a mere 19088 wero left the treasury department defines a millionaire as a person with an incomo of 50000 a year representing at 5 per cent a capitalization ot 1000000 throwing further light on tho tre mendous losses suffered by the rich the statistics show that while 511 per sons had incomes ot 1000000 or more in 1928 there were only 119 in this category in 1930 one florida football team has a young alligator as mascot he we see billy la the company of a coed and cheor leader dogged the housewife answered the door bells ring at hot heels were two poodles a policeman stood on tho step i see you have a couplo ot dogs he remarked have you licenses for them oh no slio replied theyro too young the poodles frisked round tho po liceman and he patted them nice friendly littlo things arent they he said yes youd never think they were toother and dan the summons arrive in due time two wrongs how do you like it now that mummy lias gono away for a little whilo and left you behind asked governess of lier charge iso got daddy said the child me hugged and kissed daddy last night willie you know thats wrong you should say i hugged and kissed daddy last night j thatd be wrong too said willie that was friday ulgat i new invention may eliminate explosion device perfected by o a c professor may end threshing blaze hamilton after many years of ex perimental work the professor ot phy sics at the ontario agricultural col lege guelph has perfected a contri vance for testiug threshing machines which will practically eliminate the danger of fire providing certain pre cautionary measures are carried out fire marshal heatou announced dur ing thespecial wentworth fire inquiry at rockton the mechanical device has boon in the possession of officials ot the uni versity of toronto for some consider able time and has been found to be satisfactory after thorough inspection mr heatou said that efforts wero mado to have tho product available for the present threshing season ho promised that the apparatus would be available early next year tho attach ment records operations of the separ ator and detects defects which might result seriously static electricity within the blower was the cau3o ot many ontario farm fires last year fire marshal ileaton added just what caused this peculiar condition he could not say but the feeling has been expressed that ma chines should he grounded the offi cial thought the speed of tho median ism within the separator might pro duco tho current and said that in many places officials had demanded that ground connections be mado re gardless of whether threshing was done inside the barn or in the fields the firo marshal suggested that it might bo advisable for farmers to throsh in the hold rather than run the risk ot losing their barns and said that while operations wero carried on indoors as a convenience ho doubted it tho time and labor saved compen sated the farmer for the risk involved he thought it a mistake to drive trac tors into the barns and expressed tho opinion that 3ome other means should be found to haul separators historic expeditions two scientific expeditions are now searching for the fossil bones ot strange animals that once lived in montana aud idaho the montana ex pedition is hunting for the bones of distant ancestors of the camel and rhinoceros that lived there millions ot years ago under the direction of dr charles w gilmore ot tho national museum this party also has an eye open for the bones of animals that no longer exist the other expedition under the direction of n h bos3 also of tho national museum is centering its operations in the snake river val ley of idaho thero it is soeking the fossil remains of an extinct species ot horso believed to be the missing link botweon modern horses and the threetoed steed of ancient times lite dole in australia sydney bulletin the dolo will not last long in effect it means that thoso who are in work havo to main tain thoso who are out of work and tho time will inevitably come when those who are carrying the burden will tell those who aro unemployed to get work and support themselves nothing doing sniiflltis was one of those men who like to got something tor nothing and when ho called upon a frlond and found that a nico fat chicken had just been placed on the table ho smiled then he sniffed appreciatively i say old man he said that smells good aro you going to eat it alone- tho other knew smiffins oh no lie said quietly with spinach and potatoes and things lit that iff j i i l h