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i . i DNE^SCOUTS New Troops our experience we hare found that This week we have to record the where a person Is honorable it usually formation of two new Regular Scout follows that they are courteous. .Troops at King City and at Canning- Courteousness i3 cheap! It costs ton. These Troops commenced opera- "othing to be polite and it is probably tiona ax Lone Scout Patrols, and for easier to be polite than it is to be 8orr.a time have been doing very sue- boorish and rude. Cessful work in that capacity. The But the result of being courteous is number of boys in ihoae districts, how- very much more far reaching than if ever, who are interested In Sf -utlng, one is the reverse. The average per- haa grown so large, that steps were son has not much time to waste on taken to locate a local Scoutmaster people who cannot even be civil in and form Regular Troops. their speech or civilized in their ac- Thus, whilst we are sorry to lose lions, whereas one who is polite and them from the ranks, of the Lone courteous at all times is held in the Scouts, we congratulate the members very highest e; ' -em by all who know of the new np and 1st Cannington him. Troops on their inauguration, and wish Therefore a Scout is courteous, and them every success and lots of Good in being so he not only lifts himself in Scouting. ; the estimation of his fellows, but also A Good Turn in Ham and Eggs he adds to tu * Prestige of the organi- Cloae to 900 d.zen eggs were col- zation to which he belou S 8 ' lected as their Special Easter Relief Lone Scout C am P good turn by the Scouts of St. Johns Preparations for the Lone Scout district, Que., aid distributed on a Camp have been tentatively corn- basis of 6 eggs per person to needy menced, and all Louies -who intend to families. Eight hams also were dls- be present should notify Lone Scout tributed, and other foodstuffs. Scouts Headquarters as soon as possible. The in other places put on similar Easter Camp will be held at Ebor Park near Relief campaigns. Boy Scout Apple Oay On April 1st the Boy Scouts of To- Brantford, from July the 4th to 16th inclusive, and the cost of the full period will be $10.00, not more. Scouts ronto sold Ontario apples in the ^JT^J^_ OWm _ B ? r ^? 1 * streets of that city for the purpose of raising funds to help the Scout Finan- cial Campaign which was at that time to obtaia excellent Scout Training under experienced in operation. Scouts on that day sold some 200,000 apples and realized e sum of roughly $5,400, which is , leaders, so make up your mind to be there, aud start saving your nickels now. Preparing For Court Season In the merry mouth of Way the King and Queen hold court so diligent deba rehearse the curtsey they will make under the expert guidance of Miss Vacant, wbo operates a school for the purpose. considered to be a highly creditable j Choosing a Vocation effort. We- hear that Oshawa and Lone Scouts throughout thd Pro- Owen Sound are also intending to try vince will be interested to know that the experiment for their own fund.". ' a series of radio talks, lasting 15 mln- and we wish the Scout Authorities In utes each, is now being given each those centres every success. ' week day, except Saturday, from 6.15 Steps are being taken to reserve a to 6.30 p.m.. Eastern Standard Time, I special date each year for the sale of over CFCA. CJGC, CKCO, CFCH, and i Ontario apples by Scouts, on the CKPR. These talks are arranged by Streets throughout th> Province, to be tQe Vocational Dept. of the Western Sunday School Lesson An Early Spring Garden Every gardener, I suppose, has his her favorite moment of th-j spring. I think mine is that warm day, as near the first of April as pos- sible, wheii I take off my coat, roll up my sleeves to feel the sun on my arms, and plant the first row of early peas. Generally the sweet peas have already ben planted, but that is done in a trench dug the autumn before, and lacks, for me. the thrill of forking 'he stili, sticky soil, getting out the retl of gnrden twine, and sowing the "eat- as we know them here- ing peas, abouts. . . . Another moment, sometimes my fa- vorite, is when the wall fountain is turn3il on, and the water gushes from the lips of my marble mask, splashes into a shallow basin and fills it, and then goes twinkling down its tiny run- way between beds of iris and forget- r enots and narcissus, and begins to fill the pool. . . . Spring never seems quit* to have come to the garden until the fountain is gushing, until the run- way twinkle? and flashes between the rising iris spears, and in the night silence the steady tinkle of falling water sings us once more to sleep. . . The wildflower nooks in the garden are of course the most charming spots in spring. Crocuses, daffodils, hya- cinths, tulips are all right. I've not been able to afford t/oo many, nor even enough, of them. But they haven't the shy charm, the voodland and ver- nal lure, of the wildflowers, the little native clossonis brought into the gar- den from the world about and made to dwell at peace with their showy and more urban sisters. From the first bloodroot and hepaticas, to the laven- der-pink spikes of the showy orchids and the stately cardinal flowers, and finally the asters, I fear I watch with greater pride and more delight the blossoming of my wild-flowers scatter- e through the garden than I do the display of cultivated perennials. Thers . -2 even little clumps of Quaker la- dies in the lawn which we carefully mow around, leaving them undisturb- ed till their season is over. Waltar Prichan Eaton, in "A Bucolic Atti- What New York Is Wearing BY ANNEBELLE WORTH I.VGTOX Hlvttrated Dressmaking Lessor F nished With ><>>)/ Patttm known as "Boy Scout Apple Day." Toronto's Mayor on Scouting "We would have fewer misfits iu the world to-day if all boys had the advant- age of Scout life." declared Mayor W. J. Stewart of Toronto recently. "The boy who has been a Scout becomes a man with definite, developed capabili- ties, who does not walk the streets looking for pick and shovel or routine office work." The mayor's sou Billy is a Scout. This Week's Scout Law 5. A Scout Is Courteous. The. first Scout Law states that a Scout's honour is to he trusted, and in High School of Commerce, Toronto, and will last until June Sth next. Prac- tically every career possible is covered by these short talks, and some of the ; . ! m 8t I >lomluel " busines3 P">fes- sional meu in Canada are amongst the speakers. We can recommend Louies to listen to these talks. There is lots of room iu Loue Scout- ing for boys, who are unable to be members of Regular Scout Troops, be- cause of the location of their homes. If you are interested in Lone Scouting, write to The Lone Scout Dept., Boy Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street, Toronto, Out., an dthey will be glad to seiid" you all particulars. "Lone E." Five Methods of Irrigation Used On Western Farms Five methods are generally followed in applying irrigation water in farms and ranches of the West, according to a booklet recently issued by the Bureau of Reclamation. The scheme Spring Wind () full-voiced herald of immaculate s'riking spring, With clarion every tree To answering rapture, us a reso- nant sea in calling him great, because he was a man of much wealch. Wealth w viewed as contributing to fulness oi life. Its use was to serve Isaac in doing the will of God; it was for this that God gave it. Not the denial oJ life, but its manifold satisfaction, and j fulness was the ideal of ancie-it Israel. May 1. Lesson V Isaac and His II. ENVY \M> MKKKNKSS. . 13-i'J. Wells Genesis 26: 12-25. Golden At Gerar, in the valley of Gerr. Text A soft answer tuneth away and at Sitnah. the Philistine hodmen wrath: but grievous words stir up disputed the possession^ th anger. Proverbs 15: 1, ANALYSIS. I. COD AND PROSPERITY, vs. 12-14. II. ENVY AND MEEKNESS. VS. 15-'.>: III. GOD'S PROMISE, vs. 23-25. INTRODUCTION If one may with Isaac's herdmen. To the nomad, wells are all-important. They create value for his real estate: .hey insure an ample water supply for his flocks and herds. In abandoning these wells each time the Philistines claimed them, Isaac was therefore, turning his back upon real values. Yet in doing po he displayed his greatness. Three fea- froin the meagre records of his '.ife,' tures of his greatness stand out. First Isaac was the least conspicuous of the ; ne sa t easy toward woridy possessions three patriarchs. Fo" the most partj He could acquire them: but he could he appears either with his father. ' a ) so give them up. He was their maa- Abraham. or with his son, Jacob. Th-? t er. and not their servant. Secondly, story before us is the only narrative ),- was .1 lover of peace. When strife where the interest centres solely upo.i appeared. Isaac disappeared. As t" him. -On account of famine he hail the cas of Abraham with Lot. Isaa.' gone to live in Gerar. situated some- W on peace with the Philistines by sep- where in the border country between aration. Thirdly, in giving in to his the land of Canaan and the land ot', foes he showed his meekness. "\>- the Philistines, v. 1. His life thjrej thing can be saner or sweeter than was ailed with the difficulties .-m! this ancient tale with its apparent strife commonly experienced by people , moral for thos* who think that the living in a border country. Under strongest thing is to retaliate, to as these trying circumstances he showed S ert every claim. M cole no the spirit of forbearance which he had advantage." learned from the example of his fa- j[j t;oo - s PROMISE. ther. Abraham. Strachan writes " h In retiring from the Philistines ; [ saac t.wlr -. nrn-thtfi-lv c.illrstp which of the great man's son who !, ov.r- ^^,1^ uaiy to & d "^> h '* *Srt!*2?"S This g is the most southerly town in upon the topography, the character >;" close to the desert * ders echoing the surface soil and subsoil, the kin.t ' o ,Uou. each beat" of -i, OS e tern- Of crop to be irrigated and the quan- pestuou, wing tity of water to be used. In the flooding method, field luteraU are run out from the farm-head ditch at intervals of seventy-live to 100 feet, usually on a small grade. By means J T| |P Of canvas dams placed at frequent in-' tervals, the water is turned out of the laterals and spread over the field. The border method consists of the division of the field into narrow strips by means of low levees about six inches high and five or six ftet wide, gp'icvu from twenty to 100 feet apart It i- adapted to lands having a gentle slope, sprins^'faiv itself: h.,s, tf.ou I he corrugation method consists oi' running small furrows, four to i\ inches deep and sixteen to forty-eight inches apart, down the line of st- . . e;t slope, and turning into each fur- row a small quantity of water and let- ting it thoroughly wet the sni!. Tin furrow method comprises a number , pf small furrows starting at the head: d tch and running down the stupe fo.' i from 300 to l.'.'OO h?i. Kach fun...-. is a small irrigation ditch. The basin and dike method is lie . adapted to very Hal lands where it is possible to inclose a tit-Id with a Uuv was found for him. His parents plan- pattern i.< a ver .*atile one. It does for frocks in print- ed crepe silk and sheer woolens. Also Summer Glory From the mouth of Exe to th mouth of Eeign the coast is uninter- esting. Such beauty as it once posses- si d has been destroyed by the railway. But inland these discontents are soon forgotten; there amid tilth and pasture, gentle hills and leafy hol- lows 'f rural Devon, the eye rests and . ... is soothed. By lanes innumer- able, dtep between banks of fern and flower; by paths along the bramble- edge of scented meadows; by the sec- ret windirgs of copse and brake and stream-worn valley a way "ies up- ward to the long ridge of Haldou, where breezes sing among the pines, or sweep rustling through gorse and bracken. Mile after mile of rustic loveliness, ever and anon the sea-iim- its blue beyond grassy slopes. Whit* farms dozing beneath their thatch in harvest .sunshine: hamiets forsaken save by women and children, by dops and cats and poultry, the laborers afield. Hre grow the tall foxgloves, bending a purple head in the heat of noon; here the great bells of the con- volvulus hang thick from lofty hedges, massing their pink and white against dark >rrwn leafage; here amid sha- doweu underground trail the ionj fronds of lustrous harts-tongue; wherever the eye falls, profusion of summer'* glory. Here, in many a nook, carpeted with softest turf, can- opied with tangle of leaf and bloom, solitude -s safe from all intrusion? unit s> it, be that of flitting bird, or of some timid wild thing that rustles for a moment and is gone. From dawn to midnight, as from midnight to dawn, me who would be alone with nature might count upon the security of thes-.' !>K- ami dells. George Giinsf. in "In the Year of Jubilee." Canadian Geologist Is Awarded Medd London Tli? Council of tue Royal Geographical Society has awarded Shakes the long winter-sleep frt hill aud lea. And rouses with loud reckless j ' n the '.ualities of a strong manhood." None the less to the Israelites ho rank ed u a national type and ideal. to sing I. GOI> AM> PRUSFKRm , Vs. TJ-l-4. Verse 1- gives two reasons for inspired the first bow trim and beit were The promise made to Abraham was j p^ ^ thil|k ,,,,, |ullfe<i >livvt ., renewed to Isaac. Abraham is called "my servant." Thus the promise is linked to obedience and the fruits nf. obedience are reaped by future gener.i tions. Isaac ma<l<? his home in Beer- k* 1VC> -"U IWWUMS .. , wind ilia, coiiiosi wiiu prophetic 'Isaac's prosperity -r.Ls own industry ! sheba. His lift- there is describe.! ' and God's blessing. His work in agri- 1 briefly in v. 25. It included religion. eries, and God's blessing. His work in agri-l llj-i flu,., iml.^,1 hehei.i ,|, e face ! culture was all ; the- more praiseworthy : family life, and industry tl, a i j^ when the traditions of his family are and wells. T l,,, .,,. ,, ". considered. His father, Abraham. u> jo* 01 KK-IS and (lit 1 tlorv oi ,/>,> t 117 f i 'f bjrds Ijud^i Irom his numerous migrations A Way Of Life almr. ten*. for th* lovely summer cottoms mi its Victoria m^dal to Dr. Arthur figured or plain linens. I Pliiloiiicn ColPinuti. professor emeri- marine blue crepe silk prin'- tus of seo!oj;y a; ;li,- L'uiversity of Toronto, for his extensive contribu- tions ti> til'- n',ierj[>iiy and :ieolog>" nl' Caiiaiia At tli -a;n^ ti'.ii" ;i was .1:111. ed the KIIIK had appruvc,) ihe award . ''nya rivals of tile society t,( .1 >oiiii- Union and an Italian duke H. G. Watkins. leader of 3 British crepe. attractive'.' And it's si!ii|>ii>-ity itself U> fasl it. Should columns i ci'i!sidci-a:i"ii for the moment, a wide-wale pique in :ue ..... :uiii exploration pari with his fl<vks and herds, was obviou ! | v a Bedouin. Now apart from vais- To love, to feel, to think, to care bluer skies I ;' niK .k. ;in ,i herds .he Bedouin does | To other people's burdens bear, .Met the warm lips thji r, the 'not ordinarily follow agriculture. In j To take the way the Master trod gates of bliss. fact today the Bedouin despi*?s the ^ ( fulfill the mind of ilml. And heard June's teaf-lik.> niitr- hard-working peasant who tills ;h- mm- of sweet words? * M - ^ '" "owing the land Isaac was, To wa , k ujth .. llraK , and Ul ,boed. William Sharp "Poems". Rf ?^ ^T'?' r '* i'''-''' When IMS ami sorrows yellow is fetching with brown pi<|'ie into (.Ir.'enlaiiil !a.s; your .\ n Mrs u trim. | ed th- Koinuiers' :m<lal and t)U Style N". !"s ^ dcs gjuei foi - - liuke of S|xili-ia was awarded the 1(1, VI, 14 and Hi year*. i Patrons' medal foi- his wt.rk us ead Siw I- requires .' yard> "" ! "'.< <-r (,;' an assault on Karakuraiu. < 'inch material, wilh % yard ",."' inch in'a'.t in tin- Himalayas, in liijn. Tlie I'liu'ii'il also awarded the !ia''k ii-uni in Hush Cliiifrliiiek. Iwul-r or ear's Oxford I'nicers'.iv Hud ' r '* i'''- traditions. Rich harvests followed hi< sowing. In interpreting prosperity ilie (ebrew mind refined to find in To cast out lea- ami hate. t,. cease. The Average Citizen ! mere human efforts a sufficient ex-i From useless strivings, this is peace. \\ M-.'in 1,1 regard uoveniineiit as olmiation. So after stating in v. 12; a tlilns upait fnun us" -Samuel fu-' that Isaa'- s-nw d in that laiul. th,- 7,, knew a loving eai'e has |ila-ine<l oiuras: ing. HOW TO OlU'KR 1'ATTKKNS. Write yvur name ami a.idivss plain . . . -ot, Straits expedition. One of t hit 1 v, KiviiiK nuinOer and si/.e <>t si en ,. , .... : tei-iniek s men. Christopher .!. iA>'tli patterns as you want. Enclose -!<>c in round 'is _, t;lnl p s (II - i-oin (coin preferred: wraji' 1 ' lit eaivfuiiy I !' r ea'!i iuiinl>er. 'i:;.', i addre>s yo r order '." Wilson Putter:- Serviee. !'' Wes; A>: : .i e >'., Toron:.'-. Hay. Ijiiehe,- ' i-nnvr s' 'ti'iut.t is iniMiediately added, "an i j ne things so hard to the Lord b'essed him." God. f .iml w That wh;lt has happi- understand. other, is the real hero in all thes stories. Verses 1" stresses the grad- dike just high enough to retain th, W "."' m ***. Jl !'" k "" th " u,l way in which Isaac :,ccu,m.lateJ happi-nod i, the I'. , To trust, to hope, to pray, to rest. "Conii'tly and |M llOS i-.n H" 1 ' ilivoreH.i Ma vie I'r> --!: lie 4^'P'h of of water required. are always talking; about. Xo hesitation S? shown Prof A P. Col. 'ilia:!. lio is year- niil. lias done ext.-nsixv ss -i gi ologli .1! <M-k in ;!i Koekies. in !.,i n'.i la <:MI in Onlai'.o H'or many years lie Ua* . .i|iie.l :i ;>.is!! : on as one ,.i i Beatrice M^-.io^ail in "Lifl Up] "' Your Hearts'' diacontent. sciences h- inadt 1 hi : ? lit> work. MUTT AND JEFF By BUD FISHER Casey Jones at the Throttle. m\ m*r$fy*