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DNESCOUTS Our American Friend*. The Scouts ot the United States have iust celebrated their twenty- second birthday, and we join with other members of the World Wide Brotherhood In congratulating them on the splendid work which they have accomplished during that time. The Boy Scout* of America were organized In 1910 by the late Wil- liam D. Boyce and the story Is told that ho was la London, England, one foggy winter day and managed to get lost in the thick fog for which I/ondon is HO famed. He met a boy and asked tc be directed to his hole'., but the boy volunteered to take him there, hav- ing been brought u;i -11 the metropolis and knowing every landmark and street. On arrival at in- '.'.<>'.*] Mr. Boyce proceeded to <haa<i a "tip" to his guide, who refused it stating that he was a Scout and could not a o-i>! rewards for hi Good Turn. Mr. Boyce was so surprised to find a boy who would not accept a tip that he started to enquire who these BOY SCOUTS could be . When he learned all about our movement, he was so impressed that he brought the idea back to the United States and organized t'ie Boy Scouts of Amu-lea in that country. A few years later the same gentle- man w(as rospoiiMiii'; for the orgaiiU- mtion of the Lone Scouts of America, whose activities arc similar to those of the Lone Scouts of Canada. Lone Scouts of Saskatchewan We are very glad indeed to notice that arrangements iiave been made for a Lone Scout Column to appear In the "Saskatoon Ptar-Plioenli" In a similar way that this column is published week by week, to stimul- ate the Interest of t'.ie Lone Scouts who live In the country districts of Saskatchewan ami who are even mm.' scattered than the Ontario Lonles. Greetings tD t ,e Louies "Ixine K" recently was invited to attend the Parents Night of the 99th Toronto Troop. On of the it. < > the programme wan an Imitation "Camp Fire S-.-iie". The Scout- must< T a.ski'd "J,,i'<f K" to say a few words, and li told the boys and their parents a'.; a'lout the Louies and their actiu'i-i and the np!en- did work that th*y are doing. The Canadian Team in the Thick of the Fight I 99th Troop were very interested and asked "Ine E" to give their very best wishes and Scouty regards to all the Lone Scouts of Ontario. So here they are, Lonles! Birthday Greelingi The lyone Scouts of Ontario Join with all ocouts the World over in wishing "Many Happy Returns" to our Chief Scout, Lord Baden Powell, who celebrates hU 75th birthday on t-Ue 22nd February. How Scouting Helps "Goodwill to All Men- Most of you know the difficulty wliica is now being experienced iu India, and you have also no doubt road of the difficult caste system which forbids a member of one Hindu Caste to be in auy way inti- mate with one of another casce. You may aUo have heard that there is no love lost between the Hindus and the Mohammedans in that country. Therefore the new* that Boy Scouts from the Government High j Sohool at Kaliror-Pacca, Punjab, In- , dia went to the assistance I colony of "outcasts" whose I caught fire Is of great interest though they had to carry water, in the ir London house. The ev ? nt was! relatives "in the' Fh-c Towns. distance away fire under con a small girl wan daringly of the flaming huts. The Scouts Included Hindus of a!! castes, Mahommedaus and Sikiij. and the most remarkable jntimat" baok thing of a-ll Is that thVi In India are the lowest class in the social scale, form the most degrading m< down Latest Notes of Science New Supply Sources How Infinitesimal is Measured The tremor that shook Santiago de I Cuba recently draws attention to a J region of the earth nearly a B&ltkblft as Japan. A seismological word sur- vey has shown that quakes are a^so- j ciated with the deeper parts of the oceans or with land regions that ware once the bottoms of deep seas. What is known as the West Indian Deep has been an especially prolific producer of forecasting, but also that rain is sura to follow if a dog or a cat eats grass, li a snake dies on its hack, or if a toad or a spider is killed. Heavy fur on i.nirr.als, thick husks on com, ex- ceptionally heavy walls on muskrat houses these, too, are supposed to in- dicate a hard winter. Dr. C. C. Ab- bott of the Smithsonian institution tested the musk rat-house theory over earthquike and volcanic disturbances, a series of winteis and found it sadly For this reason the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey mainta : ns a seismological station at San Juan, Porto Rico, one of a string of stations] extending most of the way fron] Maine southward. Earthquakes are evidence thac> mountains are still being formed. Just what the rocess is, science is still un- , able to explain with certainty. It was <<* >' th vitamin. And the codhvc-r wanting. CORTEZ EXTRACT FOR FA- TIGUE. Ever since codfish swam in the sea mothers have been feeding their '.a- ties with codliver oil. Why? Mod- ern science answers in terms of rick- ets ami vitamin D. Rickets is warded 'I liis cud of tiie rink was the liveliest, wheu Canada conquered the German puck-chasers 4 to 1. The German lads were clever with their sticks, but the Canucks proved too much for them. .1 . ' 1 '." Ill 1" .\ I '1*1 i I I mikllVCllCtlllVt- * t M * I'll I formerly supposed that as the earth oil contains the vitamin. How dul .he it that way. It has to be done, hard ct)O i e j an d shrank eons ago it pucker-! mothers know it. as it is!' He stuck to it." | eil and produc ed 8UC h ranges as the! There has been a similar supersti- Reminiscences Some years ago Arnold Bem>ett and hi* wife a charming Frenchwoman months- to write. from a well some they soon got the trol, and The book to.>k him exactly eight' Andes> Rockies and Himalayas. That, > n ab ut the flesh cut from varl .'' us ! theory is now regarded as inadequate. 1 Prts of an animal. Ancient warrior* The earth is coo-I, but mountain buiUI- were convinced that they maintained and increased their fighting powers by a time eating kidneys and the meat that li expe- near tnenl - Why? They knew nu- n r _ | . 1 ne ronn is cw, UUL mountain j nad their portraits painted separ- Not long after he was married, in' j nR Koes on Wtt ately, by a "modern painter." The day. I'aris, Arnold Bcnne.i took his French The Sar.tiago quake comes at w.t, 'T , e " l , he ? tete were on view) bride over to England to visit his when ttn international scientific ler, , n their London house. The ev?ni was, relatives in the Five Towns. There A ; t : nn fin(i itself in the West ' celebrated by Bennett coming hamej they were much entertained. "At on i for tea tea for two. Quite an event, i !>ig dinner party at Stoke-on-Trent i r i i . . i dition finds itself in the West Indies thing a<>"t hormones. Yet their be for the express purpose of studying the creation of mountains and hence - is now justified in the light of re- studies which have been made of We still speak and with rea- rarely had lunch or tea at home | Town Hall, Bennett was called on for! o f earthquakes. At the head of the c.\- the adrenal glands. J a speech. The more he declined, the I pe dition is Professor Richard H. Fi*id of a man of "kidney" ^remember having a good tea for I n.ore insistent became the demand. > f p r in earn. Associated with him' ron - , him, recalls Mrs. Bennett (in her) Mrs. Bennett was on pins and needles,| are distinguished physicists and geolo- : The adienals are about as big as a other, might have ,ef, them r o oope with their own trouble*, the noy a|fainst the Scouts forgot all about , reed, and \ Vhil< . havi castes and went to their assistance In a manner of Which we are proud. Are You a Scout? placed on tho II on his left Arnold was side. Speaking of stammering recalls a convenience of these specialists. When Vening Meinesz of Holland, an expert on the measurement of gravity. what these Properties are has been The Santiago disturbance seems to disclosed by Dr s . Hartmann. Swmorla have been arranpeu a.most to suit the and others m cunn ^ Addison's dis- ' very] story told by Ford Madox Ford (in alternately at the two portraits. He remained looking in silence while It you live in a small town where drinking his tea. At thc end of the and his eyes were looking ' his reminiscences "Return to Yester- they return they will probably g've us one of the most valuable critical studies of what happens when the tliere U no Scout Troop. <>r on a half-hour he had for his tea, he lool;-j which a South African soldier and a ! day"). During the World War, Ford, returning home from the front on leave, got into a railway carriage in! an d assumes a slightly different DOS-' shown that 1_ * t /<.!*<. " I _1_ .'.I*.. ease, usually regarded as fatal. New light is throw- on this cortex extract by Drs. S. W. Briton and K. L. Corey of the University of Vir- earth shrugs her shoulders, as it weie. K' nia ' s Mescal School. They have makes i Rural Route too far away from th- fd once more at both portraits; then ' civilian were seated. Suddenly the nearest Troop, perhaps you would nxmg his eyes on his, he said, 'I don't ! South African turned on the civili.'n ' THE GROUNDHOG ARD HIS still like to be a Scout? \Vl.y not care what they say, I am a nice man!'! and exclaimed: SHADOW = I am suri- that i !e did not like hi:i | "You ought to join up too: a lu.sty When Feb. '1 came the old ground- doses young rats become mature in irtrait," adds Mrs. Bennett, naively. ' young man like you. Why aren't you 1 ll K superstition received its annual one-third the usual time. If the re- ' >url1 ' in khaki?" ! meed of attention. That the creature, ' suits obtained apply to human bein-/*. be a Lone Scout? If you are j tweeu the ages of l:! and ' elusive, and would like further chemical fuel available through !he blood stream. Cortex exti-acts speed up the bodily functions. After havi \g received smalt cnlars write to the Lou- Scout Da- 1 Arnold Bennett like Kiplingvhatl ~lm<*nt. Hoy Scouts Association, a passion for punctuality. A year In Bay Street. Toronto 1' | fore he met his wife Marie Ifarguc apply to human being*, * j otherwise known as the wood chuck, 1 children of 5 would be able to beco-ne The young man rolled agonized : should* look for its shadow on Candle- fathers and mothers. dark eyes and exclaimed: W .hall be glad to heir from you. rita Hebrard, a I'arisienne, he sur- 1 "I'm a P-P-P-P," puping at "LON'E i priced his friends by tellinir thi-m il,,,i Lhront in th if,,u ,.t . mas (Feb. 2) and, if it sees it, return to its hole, convinced that there will by telling them thnt , throat in the struggle of a hopek-ss ! be six more weeks of Winter, is a The Legislature In Brief With the usual pomy ,i:ri I'l- the Ontario Legislature K'A under way last week, and tin muiu item of busi- ness was tho spc-'ch from tin* Throne whuh was dc-livtTcil liy Sir William Muluck, Chief Justice of Ontario. A modified moratorium on mininai^M wan one of the main lim brought out In the speech, mi'liT which all pro- posed foreclosures will be lizard be- fore a County Judge who will have all power to decide whether additional time U to be allowed on either prin- cipal or Interest payments. Legislation will also be Introduced for the amending of th- Old Age Pen- sion Act under which the Federal (Jor- nrnment has lo pay seventy per cent, of the total, which It Is claimed will ni'-au an annual saving of onn million four hundred tlioiHaml dollars to the province and nine hundr< > <I thousand dollars to the municipalities. Another nifanurn to li' inimiluri'd Is ih piopoBCd amalgamation of tho On- tario Railway and Municipal Hoard with the Bureau of Municipal He- HI-.-IM-II, under whlrli powers will )> granted the Board d> gofcrn finance* nf iho>-(' inunir-lpallties which are in- solvent or in a i .HIOUH financial condition. H !..!- nlso polnti-il out ill (he speech from in,. Throne that while agricul- tural production iis maintained at a high level the fiiuinclal return wns miiili below iidini.il. Tlie new Ontario M;iiktlng Board bus organized th Krult and Vegetable Growers' Market! Hoiird nml U giving special ntlnntloa to grading and iiiarki-iiii!? .ii-veral im- portant farm produi ts. With regard to Hydro, it wan polnt- ctd out that in tho rural parti of the province the demand for power culli-d for the coiiHtriictlon of over twelve hundred miles of uuwr transmission line* to Hiipply nearly nine llioiiHand H'lilltlona! i on iMn-L . and that by ulllir.lng HID (Irtw of Hie Olt.iwa Itlver at i'|i:iiH I'.ill.. uu Important addition, hi'c-ond only in extent to tho great Niagara development, ling be,>n made In generating facllilli-. Two hundred inll.es have (I.-LII added to the Ouliirlo Highway nysttMii, while payments have I maile by the Pro- vince to the Municipalities for nmi pnriKises of DOarl) \'"i million ilol- litm. : Th" only i-li.ii -n t.i ],, in, MI INX- di'HM % ntta -li-.l w> tlmir \\:it'ih i-tinln he was engaged to an American gi,|. stutterer. He (i;<l not niiury her. "She was never on time. "I don't care what you are," ihe but. your king and country I could, South African shouted. "You may < "I," ho later expound to be a Pacifist, or a Papa, or a Potato- nra, Bennett "H pmphasixed to me that it was a good thing for her he hud given her M>, says Mrs. Bennett, "for she mai- ned another man far better .suited :,, her than he himself was." lieoil you." The civilian repeati: "I'm a P-P-P-P." lief hoary with age. Students of folklore trace Cortex extract is a restorative. Pry Britton and Corey found that dogs ''c- that tire after an hour's exercise c-n a treadmill will run two and three lh> times as long after a dose of thc ex- They continued like that until a beliefs. groundhog proverb back to Germany, ' tract. where any hibernating animal, pre-! There is every reason to believe that ferably the badger or the bear looks' the extract will ultimately be prj- for his shadow .n Candlemas. Since' scribed by physicians in cases of ex- Candlemas was feast day with the cessive muscular fatigue, depres.-i,.n Romans long before -.ho Christian era. 1 und possibly overwork. we see how hard it is to uproot J!u ' Befure man can be thus converted I it.to a superman the organic chemist 1 1,,.\ ily. o|i| man: ll.m' \ - , \.T-,| from your accident ?" No. not fully." "Why. you look :n wi'll i "Yes, but I owe lli dnetur rt dollars yet." Harn owls, long-eared owU, red- shouldred owls, hawki, red-headed hawks, sparrow hawks and screech jowll destroy rats and mien mid sliouhl Im encouraged and protected. j stop at which the South African got' Some two years ago J. 0. Frank of must devise a cheap, effective way .f l. ike the wife of Joseph Conrad who out. ; the Wisconsin State Teachers' College 1 extracting hormones from the adrenal wued many of her husband's orig- ' nal mi'iiuscripts from the waste bis where he had thrown them as valueless they were afterwards s , M for a goodly nett .sum a -similar recen- 'tho manuscripts of ::rticle* even of a book just published," writ- ton by her husband. She admired his handwriting ami was interested in h<s hobby of classic caliKniphy. Discov- ering this. Bennett i:rrane K d a snr- pn.-v for her. Just before he !::, hi s best known story, "The Old Wives' Tale," he t,,'d her he had decided to write it ' made a study of ve.tther superstitions cortex or of producing them syn- "The other turned to me," chuckle? amon schx>l children in the Fox' ihetically. At present it takes a fort- Ford, "and. with all the signs of, River Valley, Wis. Although ..his is night and the adrenals of about 300 agony and an explosion of P's like the I the tw.-ntieth century and there is an cows to make a teaspoonfUl of extract. Vet. Arnold Ben- unsileneed exhaust of a motor bicycle, | act 've Weather Bur.-au, Mr. Frank [ A dose is therefore worth some thou- ;,<,;)... I nt i.. i u. .... ' found that country people still nelicve sands of dollars. Waldemar Kaempf- not only in the grourdhog's powers of Vert in X.V. Times. next Mary 1'lckfonl announces bar mfn-jg^ 1 *"*^ M "'" l ! to have as leading man In herj .,, [,,,, ._ , behove it i last brought out: " 'I'm a Peruvian!' "It appeared that, being a neutral.. ho had come to F.ngland to take a; done but know what I did. I went D . T> n course m modern Fnulish Literature half an hour later by train up to I*>n- Britain 1 O DUV at I-mdon University. j don"-Ford was living at Winchels-a.! p J' Hr" L I some sixty miles from Ixmdon. "I <ot Canadian I lIYlDSr Most of us have opened a letter, some envelopes to match the one [ thai did not belong to us and have, had opened. Then, at one of my clubs ered more or le*s embarrassment I imitated the address of that U-tt- - a consequence, but hark to this 'on those envelopes. I ,,j London. According to The Ship- '' ping World, a situation has developed last a fair likeness. ThenT^! | J^ ProfiU ' ble ^ With Canad> Mr , , 1.1. i>eniieu savs. exp.M-im.ced but Milkman. It Is h(>r ha would do he'did. "But what might ] confession by Ford Madox Ford: ! "I was going through my morning' "the" letter" to" my"own house 'in'Tati I ^^ ^'.^ Bri , tai n uld ' wible," l letters half asleep in bed," he says envelope I ha 1 thu th I , I cha "K c) British coal for Cwadiai? .. I. i I '*'! I'UIHlUn \v^knjl hope that th one can go on, tiy virtue of thU opportunity, to star- dom. There'* no doubt that her own star will twinkle a little brighter for this happy and generous thought. The I'lirl-iiian Scienc.i M.nillor. He had the tic- rnendOM patience, energy and capa- city to carry it through the !,.,!,. book, which is very long, nearly seven hundred pages. "He would say, at times, 'I wish to the dunce I had never started doing 'Vhon , became awareha TheI i . . 1 \.VMII i^v tu ill" reading something of singular deli- chelsea, ami. as soon as the letter cacy and was- when I came to look' arrived. I t the envelope- addressed by a ladyi dressee." I knew well to a man who had just been stopping with me. ' ''"" l Wn * ' ' have Thc trade publication says: "A tim- , i "*r merchants' group in London which to thP ad-| hasbeenbuyingsoftw(>odfromRi ^ i 3ia has decided in the interests of Imperial preference to abandon this ^nc- vear ' s contract for ISO.OOO standards. Miss Charlotte Payne Townsend in t j ate Indian Troops Join "Scrap" in China ; his biography of C. B. S. which he says was given to him by Shaw him- self. The marriage took tity he purchase c timber from some other source. West Strand (London) Registrar's office on June 1, 1898. Shaw was on crutches recovering from an the onler in Canada. "It is hoped an agreement may !* made to the advantage of the British aeci- coa i j| U ) us t r y as wc n as o j tne s [,j () . in the armpits. Graham Wallas and Henry Salt acted as witnesses." , p rec j gt j on o f tne i . ^ _ uow successfully compete with United Jerusalem Census Segregates States in price, there is no reason why Different Race of Population tnis cxchaiiRe of commodities should Jerusalem. The provisio list Ilot I* effected to the advantage of .;. ' ftl i! i: : Shanglinl semp are picturesque- uK.mlic.ri ,,f Sikli nHve lorces 1... a India. A il..|.i,:i. ll( ., lt n; is hurried from Hong Kon K when things not ho: In t li'.ua and her. :> .I'lding to thu internal ioniilism of the Internationa! siHtlemont. totals of the urban population of Pal- k tn countries. estirte, published by thc Superintend-' "^-' ^ ar as tn ' s year's trade is coij- out of Census, shows the Jews to be t> erned," says the publication, "con- | in the majority in Jerusalem, whole tracts cannot wait for the Imperiai i they number M.IUi out of a total of Co*fwH! to be held at Ottawa in 00,407. The Chvistrns have yielded July- Prompt action is necessary." second place, which they held in the 1 t !)_'-' census, to the Moslems of Jeru- ' salem, who n.iw number 19,735 compared with 19,180 Christians. Six ; --;-rvth - BrtW r hn Shafa Amr Beiti .lain, lei Aviv ami lUia- " "I, \ '.r 7i ( '" nSti T thn I 1 lenw. With thcs, exeoptiona, all .uns , th, country show a clear Moslem majonty, in most cases more than the combined numbers of the two ' " * other faiths. , K ,.rry cattle have existed in Ireland * fl> "n remote times. The Kerrles are (.od sleeps In the slono, divams In a distinct breed, all that are loft of the the animal, and wakes In the man.- oarly native cattle. The others have A Ormnn Thinker. | oeeu eradicated b> imported cattle. r .., , c .. as kn "lesnakes Strike Their Full Lenffth 7 Nlim ,,, olls tests lml|l , ate J^J snake ever Htriko* a greater distance " lan a " 0llt ""- f -"-'^ of H, en h Nll sn,!,,- can leap compi.-telv off the .r.n.iul from i,s , oil ,,osi ion . _ J : ' * *