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f 'I WITH THE HONtSGOUIS ' "A Happy Christmas" "lAjne K. â-  Joiiu with a'li tlie mem- bers of the staff ot the Lone Scout Department In hoping; thai all Looe S.outs win enjoy a Hapi>y Christmas, â- ft illi real enjoyment, and we hope, too, that you will not forget to do your special Christmas Good Turn. ^ Boy Scouts In all parts of the world â- t this season ot the year are concen- trating tUeir thoughts uiwn the ques- tion ot how to make some oihcr less fortunate person a little huppier and how to bring a little Chriatmas Cheer into the lite ot some person for whom Cliristraas would otherwise bo a dis- appointment. We hope tliat every Lone Scout in this province will do his utmost to play "Santa Claus" to some poor per- son at this time, and thus be able to enjoy his own Christmas the better for knowing that his Good Turn has been well done. What Lonies Can Do to Help Others Durinc the Cold Weather Have you ever thought o£ all the opportunities which the cold weather gives to you to do your daily "Good Turn"? In years gone by we have heard ot many Lone Scouts wlio made it their business to do such things as clearing snow for old folks w-!io would other- wise have to do it themselves. Then we know of more than one Louie who a.isisted elderly ladies by Iteeping them supplied with cut wood fur their fires during the cold weather or by seeing that the wood bos was Icept al- ways filled from the wood pile, or the paiis alway* filled from the well. Other Lone Scouts cleared paths throug-h the snow at street crossings, aad put ashes down ou slippery â- places, or cleared snow away from church doors and other places o£ pub- lic meeting. Yes, Lonies, you have many oppor- tunities to be of real service, and we liope that you will take every advant- age o! them. Ruffles For Jane By HELEN WILIJA.MS. HI iitl rated Dreaamaking Lea.ioii Fur viahtd With Ev)-'J P(ift<i-n Santa Claus' Chain 'of Workshops Sania Claus branch workshop.s (iper ated by Scouts and Girl Guides in all parts ot Canada are again at work re- conditioning broken and discarded toys and dolls, to help fill Old St. Nick's bag at Christmas. Last year a ruast-to-coast chain of 155 shops pro- vided gifts for fully 75,000 needy child- ren, including many on farms in the Wtsr. Baden-Powell has called sucU work "tlappifyin?." Scouts Head Local Relief .\t tjuccan, B.C., the local winter re- liitC worl: was organized under the inlttalive of the local Scout leaders. Plans included a surplus vegetable and fruit survey carried out by Rover Scouts and collection and repair of clothing by Rangers and Girl Guides. Peace Park Opening Features Boys A colourful feature ot the opening this .summer of the Waterton-Glacier Peace Park on the Alberta-Montana border was provided by a group of 24 Canadian and American King and ...agle Scouts, bearing their respective Kagle Scouts, bearing their respective Scout obligations also was included in the ceremonies. The Best Good Turn What better Christmas Present or Good Turn couW you -iffer your chum than to introduce him to the World- Wide Brotherhood ot Boy Scouts? Scouting i." open to all boys between 12 and 18 years ot a^^, inclusively, and the Lone Scont.'^ are specially organ- ized for boys who live in the country and who Ccnuot belong to the ordin- ary Scout Troops. If you know of any boy whom you think would be interested in the Lone Scouts, why not send us his name and address, and we iviU communicate with him. Perhaps you, too. would like to be a Lonie? 1£ so, write for particulars to The Lone Scout u<:partment. The Boy Scouts Association, S.'JO Bay Street, Toronto 2. We shall be glad to hear from yoL', â€" "Lone E." Sunday School Lesson Lack of Foresight World's Trouble H. G. \\ ells Urges Prepara- tion for the Consequences of New Inventions An urgei;: need for "professors of furcsight" to prepare the worki for the ccnsequer.ces of new invent'ons is twn by H. G. Wells, the p.iitor;r.n, M» the A.'scciatcd Press. "All my life I have seen the aboli- tion of distance becsn'ing more and more complete," he said in a recent Speech. "Bat. for all practical pur- poses, -we haven't begiir to think yet what -wo are goin^ to do about it. "We are all of us behaving as though there -were no need -vhatever to adapt our livss and ideas in any way to these iie^w con.iitions. "See how unpre'iared oui- world vas for the motor car. The motor far ought to have l>een anticipated at the beginning of this century. It was bound to come. It was bound to be cheapened and made abundant. It wa* bound to change our roads, take passengers and goods traffic from the railways alter the distribution of our population, congest our towns with traffic. '•Did we c:o anything to v.ork out *ny of theso consequences of the mo- tor car before they came? We did rothing to our roads until they were choked, we did nothing to adjust our railroads to fit in with this new ele- ment in life until they were over- taken and bankrupt, and we have stiU to bring our police up to date with the motor bandit. "It seems an odd thing to me that, though we have thousands and thous- ftndi of professors and hundreds of ti^ousands of students of history forking upon the records of the past, ttere is not a single person anywhere who n»kes a whole-time job of esti- mating the future consequences of miw inventions and new devices. •'We ought to have not simply one W two professors of foresight, but Wnote faculties and departments of Joreadght, doing all they can to an- mripata and prepare for the conse- ^enceB of this gathering together, ^ia bunching up, -which is now going or what were once widely di3- B^ hnman relationships. "We need to organize foresight In those matters very urgently indeel. Because, you see, it is not only that men will be able to get at and see and talk to their friends anywhete. They will also be able to get at those they suppose theh enemies with an equal facility." In his vision of the "unpleasant'' sides of progress Mr. Wells sees the possibility of air torpedoes^ bombs, gas and flame delivered "wherever j-ou like, or don't like, at any time." "There are no professors of fore- sight as yet," he said, "but I am by way of being an amateur. Let me araw a plain conclusi;p. "Either we must make peac-? throughout the world, make one world state, one world-pa.K, with one money, one police, one speech and one broth- erhood, however hard that task may seem, or we must prepare to live w-ith the voice of the stranger in our ears, w!th the eyes of the st'-anger in our home, -with the knife of the stranger always at our throats, in fear and in dangtr of death, enemy neighbors with the rest of our spe- cits. "Distance was protection, wa.-; sni- ety, though it meant also ignorance and indifference and a narrow, un- stimulated life. "For good or evil, distance has been done away with. This problem of communications rushes upon us today â€" it rushes upon us like Jehu, the son of Nimshi. It driveth furiously. And it evokes the same question: Is it peace? "Because if it is not to be peace foreseen and planned and establish- ed, then it will lie disaster and death." Once let me see not thing.'; aloue. but the divine light and life that stream through them: and then shall every day open new revelations, then shall the bird upon the wing and the flower in the field speak to them of God.â€" Dr. Dewev. Begin with a generous heart. Think how you can serve others. Then you shall find resources grow. Your own portion shall not be left desolate. Strength shall be shed through you. Do the utmost with what you have, and it shall go tar enough. -0. B. Frothing- ham. Of course Jane will want a new party dress for Xnias witl\^r-uffles all the little fashionables are wearing. The long-waisted bodice completed by a sash attached at underarm seams and bo^wed at the back, marks its French origin. The straight skirt ruffles are gathered and sewed to a one-piece foundation. It's so easily made and takes but 1% yards of 35-inch material wi^ %i yard of Go-inch contrasting for the 4-year size. Style No. 313!) is designed in sizes 2, 4 and 6 years. Pink crepe de chine with pale blue crepe de chine collar, sleeve frills and sash is cute as can Ixi. It's practical because it will tub and tub. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose I5c in stamps or coin (coin, preferred; WTap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West .Adelaide St., Toronto, Britain Has Huge Weekly Bill for Sweets Britain is spending $5,u<X).y0u week- ly on sweets. Confectionery manufacturers re- port a substantial Increase of trade, and one firm has taken on 900 employ- ees to help to produce the 350,000 tons oi sweet meats yearly consumed in Britain. , The'butput today is nearly double that ot twenty-five years ago. The opinion ot doctors has changed and they now praise the health-giving properties ot sweets, halt ot those which are e.aten today being choco- lates. Disasters Fail to Crush Murray, Ky.â€" Jack Dunaway, a -Mur- ray College freshman, resumed his class work and his duties in the office of the College News last week, a de- termined smile on bis face, and told this story: Within the past week his uncle hanged himself, his sweetheart mar- ried a rival, a bank where his mother had $1,000 on deposit closed, and the home where he had been staying here burned with all his books and clothes. The American â€" ^"When you cama home and found a burglar in your house what did you do?" The Englishman â€" "What did 1 do? Why nothing, ot course. I didn^t know the bally rotter.'^ God is the portion of His people. They And Him in all things, and all things in Him. This is the sum ot all good, the perfection of all blessedness. December 25. i.esson Xlll â€" God's Gift to Mar (Christmas Lesson) â€" Luke 2: 8-20. Golden Textâ€" For G:d so '.oved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso'.ver believeth in him should not rerish, but have everlasting life. -John 3: 16. AN'AI-y.SIS. I. TdE GOOD .MEV.'s, Luke :i: S-1 1. II. SKEKlSf; .\ND FINDING, I 'ike 'i: 15- 20. Introductionâ€" It was during the ,-ear of the Roman census that Jesus was born. It w.. . not the Roman cusUim to have the people return to their original 'iom:^s > fill out their census papers. Such, however, had been the Jewish system. Anxious, doubtless, to avi)id unnecesba'y irri- tation on the part of the turbulent Jews, Augu.itUL- conformiV; to local usage. Not only the hc-ad of the house had U> go, but :»11 the members of his family as- well. So it was that Jo- seph, with Mary, his young wife, traveled the seventy-two miles from N'a/.aieth to Be,..lehem, vs. Z, 6. In jrjer to avoid overcrowding and the difficulty of carrying t,i'. the en- rolment with a small secretarial staff, the census and valuation was spread out over a year. Nevertheless, when the couple arrived at Bethlehem they found the inn crowded. The only available accommodation was the ruje .stable with its courtyard surrounded by the rude, arched shelter: hewn out of the rock-formed hilside. Here t was that, lackint: privacy and com fort.-, Mary gave birth to her "first bom." Unattended it was she herself who laid her child ii. one of the box- like mangers provided for feeding hay and grain to the cattle. The so called Church of the Nativity in Beth- lehem is pointed out to tourists as the site of tlir Tiginal stable. U. •'^E Si»v.3ars, Luke '2: 8-14. ,? One mile from Bethlehem is a litti' plain in which, under a grove of olives, stands the bare and neglected chapel known by the nam?, "the .Angel to the Shepherds." It is built, says Farrar, over the traditional site of the fields where ihe Vision of the Singing Angels came to the shepherds Our Lord's birth was assooiatt-d with scenes of humility, poverty and toil. "He •-•ntered into my lot," the pooi-est one can say. Not to the recognized leaders of organizes! religion on Mount Zion did the Good News come, nor to the busy, thoughtless women of Beth lehem to whom it did not occur to take to their homes this unhoused and ob viously needy country^voman. It came to men engaged in th>- humblest tasks (V. 8) and so unimportant socially that no one remembered their names, flow often do some of God's richest revelations con:i. to the fortuneless and the obscure. Th? reassuring word of the angels to llv s epherds is the word that Je sus always brings to a troubled world, "fear not." No longer were men to think of God as .m austere, far-dis- tar.c king, but as a loving frequenter of the haunts of men, v. 10. The news was for all me.i. The Christian who has really come to know Christ can- not keej the knowledfce to himself. He becomes inevitably a missionary- minded Christian. The "sign" was to be a "swaddled babe, laid in a manger" (Arabic ver- sion). According to general S\Tian custom, says Abraham Mitrie Rib- hany in his "Syrian Christ," in ear- liest infancy a child is not really clothed; it is only swaddled. Upon birth the child is washed then rubbed irently with pulverized salt, then sprinkled with powdered myrtle leaves, then "swaddled." The swaddle is a piece of stout cloth about a yard â- square, to a corner of which is attach- ed a narrow band. The infant, with arms pressed c?ose to its sides, and its feet stretched full length and laid close together, i."; wrapped in the .•iwaddle, and the narrow band woun'I .iround the little body, from the shoul- ilers to the ankle. The story of the unlettered shep- herds, entranced with the heavenly music, tells us how near heaven lies t~ "ur common task, how God spealcs when we are ready to li-:ten, how w-'>rlii peace will come when men live according to God.-; will. "On earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased" (Weymouth's Tra.islatlonl. The broth'rr attitude, which is God's will for us a^l will aiitomatii-iii/ eliminate wi- ll. SEKKINC AM' FlN't'ING. Luke 2: 15- •20. "Lvt us go'' the .'ihephorJs said to each otl.er when the v.sion faded. See- ing the vision, then ventuiing by faith is the .scortt of acnie/j.T.ent. With simple eloquence the story tells how they sought the Sa"i.>ur child, fi^und Mm, told pvtryone abjut him. Seek- ing, finding, witnessing â€" these are the facts of Christian experience. The shepherds did not permit their Jeter- Farm Queries Henry G. Bell, B.S.A., Dept. of Chemistry. O.A.C. Address All Letters to Farm Editor. 73 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. All Answers Will Appear in thio Column. If Persona! Reply is Desired, Enclose Stamped and Addressed Envelope. Questions and Answers S. G.â€" I have a few acres of rather heavy marsh land, would this grow barley successfully'? What variety, when and how much should be sown for the best results'.' Is barley straw as good for teed as oat straw'.' Is mil- let good teed for dairy cows'/ Answer.â€" Probably barley Is the host ot the cereals that you could grow on this land. It Is the shallowest root- ed ot all the cereals and thrives on neutral to slightly acid soil. If pos- sible, you should provide for draiuaje from your marsh. No crop, of course, will grow it the water is standing on Ihu soil for a considerable period. The best variety for Ontorio so far developed is O.A.C. 21. Seed of this variety is obtainable in any standard grain coulre. The amount usually re- commended is IV2 bushels per acre. This gives suttlcieutly thick stand ;ind allows of the crop maturing at its best. Barley straw is slightly poorer in nitrogen than oat straw and Is con- siderably higher in potash. It is therefore not as nutritious a straw as good oat straw. Millet makes a fair quality hay it it is cut about the time the flowers be- gin to appear. It it is allowed to go longer than this, it becomes very woody and is not nutritious. It can be fed to dairy cattle although it is not nearly so nutritious as alfalfa hay, but is a little belter than timothy. L. J. â€" 1. Do you recommend putting lime rock on sandy soil for alfalfa'.' How much to the acre? Do-you put t on before you plow your land or drag It m? ". How much sweet clover seed should be sown to the acre? Will sweet clover grow ou low land'? Can the plant be killed by plowing it up? Answer. â€" Fairly finiely ground lime- stone rock is one ot the best forms of lime to apply to the ordinary field for tiia growing of alfalfa. The amount to use will vary with the test ot the soil. It the soil is slightly acid, one-halt ton to the acre will probably be enough. If it shows distinctly sour, it will be necessary to use upwards ot I',-! tons to the acre. One of the best ways to sow lime is to scatter it on top ot the plower ground and work it in at the time the ground Is disked and harrowed. This brings the effect ot lime into the top three inches of soil where seed is sown. About 20 lbs. ot sweet clover seed is recommended to sow to the acre. Sweet clover will grow on fairly â- well drained low laud but it will not do as well as alfalfa and it is not as valuable a crop w!ien the stand la obtalae*, Sweet clover is a biennial. That is, U takes two years to go through its lltM cycle. At the end of that time it will kill out itself it the hay has been cot each year before the seed is formed. The persi.'-tent nature ot sweet clovar comes about by a certain amount being allowed to go to seed. T'lis can easily be avoided. Pregnant Ewes and Alfalfa Second growth alfalfa la a very rich and tasty feed to all farm animaU. Sheep are very fond of It and â- will eat more than la good, for them. It It is kept before them all the Lime. Pregnant ewes should be fed with some con- sideration ot their condition, and tti« alfalfa feeding limited to one feed per day. The quantity given can be limit- td to what they will clean up in on« hour. Other forage, such as oat straw, pea straw, red clover o.' mixed hay can be given in quantity, to completa their need for roughage. Pregnant ewes that live on an exclusive alfalfa diet may die at lambing time, and ttao post mortem of such alfalfa-fed ewe« reveals a degenerate liver. AUalfa 1« the test of forage, but it should be tod with care to pregnant animals. Once an animal has delivered Its young and is milking heavily, there seems to bi» no danger in liberal alfalfa teedinsf. Many sheep Socks have paid the pen- alty of too liberal alfalfa feeding. Bet- ter stay on the safe side, aad make it a practice of feeding alfalfa but one* a day to pregnant ewes. After they start milking it may be fed liberally,' without risk. Poultry Itch and Scratch Great loss is sustained each year through the ravaging ct poultry Sock* by biting and sucking lice, which feed on skin, scales and feathers. Lic» infesting poultry can cause the birds much discomfort, resulting in a lower egg yield and poor condition ot the birds. Control. â€" Sodium fiouride is one of the most efficient dusting powdera that can be applied to louse infestei birds. Its use is described on page 13 ot Bulletin 363, Ontario Department of Agriculture. Dust baths should bo provided the birds for winter use, ia order that they can by their own ef- forts keep their bodies tree ot lice. Dust baths should contain some to- bacco powder or some sodium flouro- silicate. One little louse may look in- nocent of all evil, but oear In mind that thousands can make their pres- ence felt and ruin the possibility ot profit from the flock Clean poultry are always profitable. mination to find the Child to become weakened by idle speculation. Thsy did not wait to worship until they had solved the mystery of the vision or the unlikely surroundings of the Child's birth. For them the great fact of salvation for a lost world far out- weighed any difficulties surrounding The manner of the Saviour's coming. I know not how that Bethlehem's Babe Could in the Godhead be; I only k.;ow the Manger Child Has brought God's life to me. The Sun Upon the Lake The sun upon the lake is low. Tha wild birds hush their song. The hills ave evening's deepest glow. Yet Leonard tarries long. Now ail whom varied toil and care From home and love divide. In the calm sunset may repair Each to the loved one's side. The noble dame on turret high. Who waits her gallant knight, Looks to the western beam to spy The flash of armour bright. The village maid, with hand on brow The level ray to shade, Upon the footpath watches now For Colin's darkening plaid. Now to their mates the wild swans row By day they swam apart. And to the thicket wanders slow The hind beside the hart The wood lark at his partner's side Twitters is closing songâ€" . . .\11 meet whom day and care divide. But Leonard tarries long! â€"Sir Walter Scott. "Poem."*." Stranded Shark Yields 350 Gallons of Livet Montreal. â€" The brush walls of a sardine weir at Harbor DeLoutro, Campobello, N.B,, are capable of holding sardines, but a "JC-foot shark weighing 3.000 pounds did not re- main a prisoner long. It plunged (through the weir and became strand- ed on the shore. When opened by two fishermen the carcass of the monster, knowt locally as the "liver-shark," yielder! seven 50-gallon drums of liver. Th* enormous liver, occupying most 0I the carcass, exuded great quantitiei of oil. It was sold at an oil refinery The fish had a dorsa! fin nearti five feet long and measured almost six feet through the thickest part <A the body. The first of its kind evei taken in local waters, it was believed to be the same species of shark whict attacked a fisherman's boat in ths Bay of Fundy near Digby som( months ago. HIS HOPE IS SURE Blest is the man whose heart and hands are pure. He bath no sickness that he shall not cure. No sorrow that he may not well en- dure; His feet are steadfast and his hope la sure. â€"John Addington Symonds. Great work are performed not b| strength but by perseverance. â€" Joha By BUD FISHER MUTT AND JEFF- Oh-Yeah? /nwtt, cook ^x re\e] 0c^ poocrt THAT i-J r ^vt FOLLCWCD r *^^