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>iWITHTHE--A LONESCOUTS :r^T^ ^^ "Lone E." has had a long vacation, but i3 now back ou the job and this column will continue regularly, we^lc by weeU, as before. If any Lone Scouts have Interesting stories, news or other matter that they would lilce to have puljlished In this column, please send it to "Lone E," c/o Lone Scout Headquarters, and space wl!; be found tor it. "On Lone Scout Trails" We all look forward eagerly to this little monthly paper which ia sent out from Lone Scout H.Q., and no doubt most of you were delighted to notice the changes that were made in the last issue. We think tliat the paper is much more attractive and intere-sting now than It was previously, and well worth reading. Incidentally, don't forget that your "Counsellor and Friend," and any other friends as well, can receive this I»aper regularly ou payment of an an- nual subscription of only 25 cents. We are sure that your "Counsellor and Friend," who should be most in- terested in your Scout Programme, would like to have this paper sent to him. Don't forget to ask him. Scouts at Economic Conference Boy Scouts played a useful part at the recent Imperial Economic Confer- ence at Ottawa. They acted as special guides and ushers at the Parliament Buildings, and Rideau Hall, as guards of honour for the Governor-General, and In other capacities at the various official functions. A number were re- quisitioned as confidential messengers by different delegations. Find Indian Firs-IVIaking Set Parts ot an ancient friction fire mak- ing set were recently found by an American Scout In a cave on the Col- umbia River, Washington. The cedar spindle showed marks of a crude flint knife. Canadian Scouts have revived the old Indian fire making method of "rubbing sticks," and evening camp flres frequently are lit in this fashion. Fall Fairs and Good Turris Fall Fairs present a wonderful op- portunity for Lone Patrols and individ- ual Lone Scouts to perform useful "Good Turns' 'to their communities. Offer your services to the Committee as messengers, ushers, gate attend- auts, etc., and of course, remember that Scouts do not accept renumeration for their "Good Turns." Perhaps you can arrange a similar "stunt" as that or- ganized by the members of the 1st Beamsvilie Troop (ex-Lonies). They organized a "Model Scout Camp Ex- hibition" for the Beamsvilie Fair. Your Counsellor and Friend Lone Scout Headquarters has been somewhat concerned of late by the fact that certain boys have enrolled as Lone Scouts, and that : about as far as they have gone. What Is wrong with them? Why don't they pass the Tenderfoot Test? Maybe It is because their Counsellor and Friend does not take sufficient Interest in their Scout- ing. Wher you joined the Lone Scouts, your C. and P. signed your ap- plication form and promised to i"o his best to help you in your Scou'ing. You should keep him up to that promise, and seek his help whenever you can. If you find that after all, you made a mistake, and your C. and F. is not the right man to help you (perhaps he is too busy, or not sufficiently interest- ed), do not be discouraged, but go and find yourself a new Counsellor and Friend, but this time make quite sure that you are picking the right man. Remember you have the privilege of choosing the very best man in your community, and If he is a real good man, he will help you all he caa. You should visit him frequently, tell him all about the Lone Scouts and their activities. Consult him about your tests. Get him to subscribe to "On Lone Scout Trails," and keep Ws in- terest in you and your Scout Progra' i really alive. If you do change your Counsellor and Friend, don't forget to tell your Scoutmaster. We feel sure that if each new re- cruit to Lone Scouting was in touch with a real live Counsellor and Friend we should have a great deal mnie ac- tion in the Lone Scout Deparftnent. Perhaps the same remark also applies to some of the older Lonies. Scouts Camps Are Safe Another summer has added a record of safe camping for Boy Scouts. With some 15,000 under canvas for varying periods, not a single serious accident was reported. In carrying out their daily good turn while in jcamp Scouts have discovered some novel forms of service. One troop provided an all night guard for a girls' camp near which a suspicious character had been seen. Another troop "shaved an old gentleman." Numerous cars have been pulled from sand and mud holes, and one car was dragged from a lake. Many farmers have been assisted in various ways. Lone Scouting is open to all boys between 12 and IS years ot age, in- clusive, who are not able to join a regularly organized Troop of Scouts. It Is specially intended for boys liv- ing on farms and in small villages. For full particulars write to "The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout De- partment, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2. â€" â€"LONE E." Europe's Star Performer Europe's youngest actor makes 100th appearance. Gerard Cony ot Paris, France, is only six months old, but has already toddled up the ladder of fame. »»»t»>«a»«««»«>«»»>>>>«>. Old Waverley Quilts and Cupboards May a quilt be properly listed -^ under the head of furniture? It takes up room; It fills a space; It is made by human hands, a personal, lasting product. Seven counties â€" to use a time-ragged expression â€" were scoured to produce material for a Waverly quilt. It became a sort of brag to possess a liberal numbei- of them. Neither Solomon in his giory aor the Contrary Mary or ^lother Goose, with her "cowslips all in a row-," could ever have surpassed the average York Road quilt in the va- riety and the brightness of its colors. It was ubiquitous, for It appeared that one was always just completed, and anothi.r just begun. A quilt was a village chronicle. It was heavy with gossip. Griefs and laughters swept over It. A hundred memories, small and great, came up at the sight of it. Down in one cor- ner was a bit of chintz, full ot frail, tinted flowers, out of a frock once worn to church; in another a scrap of dark calico which was perhaps associated with a lover, and a road, a road with the glow ot falling leaves above and around It. "Wlien the patches were all sewed, and the cotton batting provided, the quilt was ready for the frame; this, as often as not an heirloom, and miss- ing in many a family, ris generally borrowed. . There was something TMDT domestio and also very unlver- •al In th9 making ot a quilt: It brought about a good deal of social intercourse to an extent unknown amongst our modern bridge players. It was handiwork, both a pastime and a necessity. . . And cupboards? Enchanting cup- boards were there in Old Waverly, dim places, built into corners, some- times with curtained glass doors, sometimes with painted wooden ones. From Pandora down to Ann Elizabeth the kitchenmaid, a closed box or a cupboard has always been and forever will be the most de- lightful and the most tantalizing object. . . . What porap and circum- stance may it not disclose, what traffics In wares, fit only for visions and dreams! -â- V decaying, tree-en- circled house on the Y'ork Road held such a one. When opened, there. back on the shelves, lifted a row of the finest and most exquisite china, as thin as eggshells, of a dull white. . A hidden, lingering odor, perhaps ot lost spices, or other pungencies, hung around this cupboard. Y^ou turned the knobs and closed the green-gray door and felt that you had shut away some mist ot a thing, some phantom secrecy which had been yours for an Instant, and then was yours no more.^ â€" Lizette Wood- worth Reese. In "The York Road." ^1 MERIT The sufficiency ot my merit U to know that my merit is not sufficient. â€"St. Augustine. It very seldom happens to a man that his busneisa is his pleasure.â€" Dr. Johnson. Sunda]^ School Lesson October 23. Lesson IV â€" Problems of the Mordern Home â€" loshua 24: 14, 15; Ephesians 6: 1-9. Golden Text â€" As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. â€" Joshua 24: 15. ANALYSIS. I. A FORCED DECISION, Josh. 24: 14, !•">. II. PARENT AND CHILD, Ephcoians 6: 1-4. III. MASTKR AND SERVANT, Ephesians 6: 5-9. I. A FORCED DECISION, Josh. 24: 14, 1-5. Joshua, about to die, reminds his people of Jehovah's beneficent guid- anc. and calls on them to renew their covenant with him. If they refuse, tLen let them decide between the gods their fathers had renounced in Baby- lonia and the gi/ds they had worship- ped in the land of the .\morites. Th^y must worship some god. Joshua states z ti'Uth, that we are all the servants of some master. We are free to se- lect any master, but decide on some One we myst. J.>shua is resolved that he will serve Jehovah fcnd bring up his family in a religious atmosphere, V. 15. II. pare:."t and CHILD, Ephesians 6: 1-4. Paul, in common with the great leaders of the past, recognized that a Christian society has its roots in a well-disciplined homo. There the les- SJns are learned which make good citi- zens. By deferring to the wisdom of the past, children become familiar with the danger sign.-!s and the guid- ing posts of life's road. Paul insists that mother as well as father be obey- ed, he says, "parents." "In the Lord," ans in his spirit of willing helpfui- i.ess, not grudgingly. Modern lite makes the command of \ 2 even more difficult to observe. In- creasing cultural advantages, educa- tion, money â€" place children in a world I . ideas and ideals far removs i from that in which their parents move. Some of them consiuer their parents "01 t-of-date," are even ashamed . of th'Mu. The love and sacrifice lavished on children, tho knov iedge of life as yet unlearned by youth demand for "parents the most considerats affection ai d utmost deference. Verso 3 is the Bible way of saying that children who defer to the maturer judgment of their elders avoid the life- shortening follies of youth. "It is a common-sen-se stater.'.ont which is borne out by the experience of the race in every gcnerat.on." Says Paul in effect, do not alienate your children by ui.reasonablo harsh- ness unjust or unexplained punish- ment. How many children carry away the impression that they have I -n whipped simply because the par- ent was stronger .1 n the little vic- tim? Much childish "perversity" is due to the uninformed and unwise â-  ethods of the pare.its, nagging, giv- i:ig orucrs without mcf.riing them, per- mitting today what brought punish- ment yesterday, bribing for good be- havior, giving comm.inds which it is against nature to ojey, putting in the child's way temptations too hard to resist at his ag«. "Oh, pious mother," e.xclaimed Car- lyle, "kind, good, br.-ve and truthful soul as i have ever found i:i this world, yu'ir poor Tom has f len very lonely, ' jry lame and broken in this pilgrim- age of his; and you cannot help by a kin! word any .nore. But from your i;rave in Ecclefechai' Kirkyard yon- der, you bid him trust in God ; and that also he will try to do." Robe.-t ^ juis Stevenson writes to his father, "I wish that I might become a man woi >- talking of, if it were only that you should not have thrown ..way jour pains." Many of us :2r. thank Cod for such wise and go-jd parents. "The nurture and admonition of the Lord," means education in all that is good, correction in all that is hTrmful. III. master and servant, Ephesians 6: 5-9. Slavery in Paul'o timj waj still a rei-vgnized part of the social or dor. -A. slave was not considered to be a man, but a thing to be bought, sold, treated according to the whims and wishes of his masters. Paul fi und in •'â- re reli- gion of Jesus the idea of man's equal- ity 'oefore God. His belief with re- g.vrd to the institution of slavery evi- dently was "change the spirit of man, and the new spirit will change the in- stitution, or abolish it." But neither slave nor master war- ready yet for the new freedom. Hence Paul advises the slaves not to think so much of thoir rights as of their privilege â€" that of rendering a useful service to a fel- low-man. In doing that, they are serving Christ himself. His rewards disregard social disiincti^.ns, v. S. That reward wjjld be, in part, the finer and nobler char^.cter which such ar attitude creates. On the other hand, a surly and re- sentful service degrades tho workman, makes more difficult the accomplish- ment the new order for which he longs. If the slave is to think of his privi- lege, the master is to thiak of the slave's right. Paul singles .ut the most common vice of master, abusive harshness. He says in effect, "These men arc your brothers. You are both under one Master who think: as high- ly of one as of the other." This is .ar. unwelcome truth to the man wlvo looks upon his employees merely as instru- ments of profit. If acceptej by Labor and Capital a new and more Christian social order would soon emerge. Mrs. Y.â€" 'Why did Mrs. Swift eave her husband?" Mr. Y. â€" He lost all his money." Mrs. Y.â€" "How?" Mr. Y".â€" She spent it." The best man is he who tries most resolutely to perfect himself, ard the happiest man is he who feels moot assured that he is perfecting himself â€"Socrates. sc>=^ The Bzdditiari Mountains I observe in some diiimay, look- ing bacic over these pages, that I have given an entirely wrong impres- sion of the Bakhtlari mountains. I hare, unintentionally, represented them as over-built and populous; I have mentioned villages; I have mentioned a merchant on his horse, a man ploughing, the son of U-Khanl, the keepers of a chal-khaner. All this, in the aggregate, must I fear have given the impression of a walk- ing-tour through some part of Eur- ope, with never more than a few niggardly miles intervening between one reminder of civilization and the rest. . . I have probably evoked a picture of something much larger, more orderly, and more definite than is Justified by the few poor hovels of Naghan or Do-Pulan. For the rest, our path lay along miles of country where not so much as a mud hut was visible. The merchant, the man ploughing, were figures so Isolated and so exceptional that I have re- corded them as it were greedily, for the sake of Itaving something hu- man to record. They were â€" let me emphasize it â€" isolated instances; and as such they made an impression on us which In the swarming countries to which we Europeans are accus- tomed would not have been made. No, the dominant impression was one of Isolation. True, we were on the road; we met an occasional traveller; we met the migrating tribes; but we knew that to the left or to the right lay utter solitude; the solitude ot nature which draws us and holds us with a primitive. S an indefensible attractiea, all ol however sophisticated we may .\nd It was a double Impresstoa. M isolation and anachronism. No^ only had we gone far away In iiBa. tance; we had also gone far back )â-  time. We had returned, in fact, til antiquity. We were traveling as oiaj ancestors bad travelled; not tbos^ Immediate ancestors who rolled 14 their coaches between Londoi; ana Bath, or between Genoa and Rom»|' but as Marco Polo had travelled, oft Ovid going into '>xlle, or the Tea| Thousand hoping for the sea. Wa learnt what the past had been lilu and what the world had been Ilka when it was still empty. Time waa held up and values altered; a luxury which may be indulged today by any. one who travels Into the reqaisit* parts ot .\s!a. More, we knew that had we not elected to travel the Bakhtlari Road at that particular time of the year we should not have met even ih« tribes, but should haie had ths mountains all to ourselves, eccuntrlo Invaders of majestic desolation. No m ?rchant would have overtaken us beueath the oaks, no peasant groan- ed behind the plough. We should have topped the pass above Deh Dis and seen not only the lonely rang» of the Kuh-l-Mangasht, but known that In the whole of the valley no hu- man being drew breath. Those whom we did meet were as transient as ourselves; the only permanance was Ln the hills and in the rivers that coiled about their base. â€" V. Sack- viUe-W'^st. in "Twelve Days." Hallowe'en Games ' !n Humorous Vein TtlUE-LOVE'.i TEST. Two haze! nuts are thrown into hot coals by maiden, who secretly gives a lover's name to each. If one nut bursts, then that lover is unfaithf'il: but if it burns with steady glow until it becomes ashes, she knows that her lover is true. Sometimes it happens, but not often, that both nuts burn steadily, and then the maiden's heart iz sore perplexed. LOVER'S TEST. A maid and youth each places a chestnut to roast on fire, side by side. If one hisses and steam.s, it indicates a fretful temper in owner of chestnut; if both chestnuts equally misbehave it augurs strife. If one or both pop away, it means separation; but if both burn to ashes tranquilly side oy side, a long life of undisturbed happi- ness will be the lot of owners. CANDLE AND --VPPLE. iVt one end of stick IS inches long fasten an apple; at the other end a short piece of lighted candic. Suspend stick from ceiling by stout cord fas- tened in its middle so that stick will balance horizontally; while stick re- volves players try to catch apple with their teeth. -A. prize may bo in centre cf apple. HALLOWE'EN' SOUVENIR GAME. Suspend apples by means of strings in doorway or from ceiling at proper height to be caught between t'ne teeth. First successful player receives prize. These prizes should ba Hallowe'en souvenirs, such as emery cushions of silk lepresentiiig tomatoes, radishes, apples, pears, pickles; or pen- wipers representing brooms, bats, cats, witches, etc. PUMPKIN' ALPHABET. Carve all the letters of the alphabet on a medium sized pumpkin. Put it on a dish and set on a stand or table. Each guest in turn is blindfolded and given a hatpin, then led to pumpkin, \. hero he (she) is expected to stick pin into one of tho letter's on the pumpkin, thus indicating the initial of futuro life-partr.er. THE LO.A.F CAKE. -â- V loaf cake is often made, and in it are placed a ring md a key. The former signifies marriage, and the Matter a journey, and the person who o.'ts the slice coiatai ng ei'hcr must accept the inovito.ble. Newspaper "Mats" Protect Trees Discarded newspaper "mats" from which printing plates are cast are being used by filbert growers of Oregon to provide protection to the trees from jack rabbit raids. .> DISAPPOINTMENTS Those who never philosophized un. tU they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers.â€" Sir Orthur Helps. Mr. Richards was persuaded to buy a parrot that could jabber In seT, eral languages. He ordered it sent home. The same day his wife ordered a chicken for dinner. On leaving she said to the cook, "Mary, there's a bird coming for dinner. Have it cook- ed for Mr. Richards vihea he gets home." The parrot arrived first, and Mary followed instructions. Dinner was served. "What's this?" exclaimed Mr. Richards. 5Iary told him. "But, for goodness* sake. Mary," he said, "this is awful! That bird could speak In three languages." "Then why the dickens didn't h« say something?" asked Mary. He had been dining too well, and, hailing a taxi, he crawled gingerly inside, after falteringly giving tho driver his destination. It happened that the opposite door had been left unlatched by the previous fare, and, stumbling against it, the Inebriated one fell outside again. He picked himself up with great difflcult.v, and accosted the highly a;i:used driver. "That's pretty quick work," he said, "how much do I owe you ?" "What happens to people who au:^ so foolish as to allow themselves to become run down?" asks a doctor. They wind up in hospital. The wife had been up on the bud- get plan. .\t the end ot each month she and her husband would go oyer thi, accounts together. Every once In a while he would find an Item. "H. O. K., $1.50." and a little farther on, â- 'H. 0. K., $3." Finally he asked. "My dear, what is thisâ€" 'H. 0. K.'?" "Heaven only knows," she replied. Mike: "So you're a salesman, are you? Wliat do you sell?" Ike: "Salt." Mike: "I'm a salt seller, too." Ike: "Shake:" .4.n English bishop received the fol- lowing note from the vicar ot a Til- lage in his diocese: "My Lord: I regret to Inform yon of the death of my wife. Can yo« possibly send me a substitute for ths week-end ?" Neighbor: "Why Is your car paint- blue on one side and red on th^ other?" Speedy: "Oh, It's a fine lie*. Ton should just hear the witnesses con- tradicting one another!'' DECISION Never make a decision when you are downhearted. Never let the weak side of your nature take control.