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,-^ J3NE^C0UTS "i:,-^7\,;^ Aiul SO ou(- again. Louies, we enter upon a New Year with our hopes high and our rirsolutions made and every letermination that thia shall be a real luccf'Hsful year of progress. The result will, o( course, depend en- tirely OB ourselves and on our actions inriug the next twelve months, and when next December comes around if we .^tick by our ideals and ' plans tlirough ihiolc and thin, good progress will a.ssuredly be shown. And so "Lone K.", together with [he staff of the I^no Sout Department, senii.s Best Wishes for a Happy and Successful New Year to every Lone Scout and we hope that each one of you will at this time renew your Scout Promise and resolve to follow â- lie Scout Law more closely than ever >efore. What Have We Done in 19327 Kach one ot you can well spend a law minutes to look back over the old yea I' and review your experiences dur- ing that lime. What have you done? Did you make iU the progress at school that you in- ieuded? It' you are working, did you get that better job, or save all the mouthy that you had hoped to? How about your Scouting? Are you still a Tenderfoot or Second Class Scout as you T;re a year ago, or have you advirj*r^ a step? Did you earn ai>> rwficieivy Badges? Did you en- t-i any competitions or write any let- Ur.-i to your Scoutmaster? Did you do iiiytbing in the Toy Shop Scheme last Xmas? lu other words, are yon just a Lone Scout by nari» and nothing else, or are you u really live and keen Scout who Is uii asset and of some use to his Trooi>? Ask yourself â€" Just what good are you to yourself, to the community that you live in, and to your Lone Scout Troop? We hope that the review of the past year will show that you have really been of use and that you have been living up to your Scout obligations. Has the Lone Scout Department Progressed? On looking iiack over 19^2 we find that we havo passed through a ver.v iifhcuit time. Lone Scouting is pri- -'^^. marlly lor the country boy and there- fore, with money so scarce iu the rural districts, recruiting has fallen off somewhat. For the same reason quite a number of boys have been unable to renew their registration when It came duo, but as far as wa have been able, when they have confided the difficulty to us, we have permitted them to retain their membership In the Lone Scout Department. Our actual numbers are just a little greater now than at the same time In 1932, but we have actually trans- ferred 68 Louies to Regular Scout Troops during 1932, so that we have shown good progress nunierically. In July, 1932, we again successfully held a Lone Scout Camp at Ebor Park, near Brantford, when Lonies from all over the province attended and had a good time. This camp was not held in 1931, so we made a step forward in being able to renew it. "On Lone Scout Trails" has been overhauled and brought up to date with several new and popular features which have provoked much greater in- terest, and this paper is now a very successful feature of our work, eager- ly looked forward to by Lone C:o'-::i all over Ontario. We art' fortunate in having a large number of keen and hard working Pa- trol Leaders in the lead of the many Lone Patrols throughout the province, and we certainly appreciate the good work they are doing in their communi- ties. It is Scouts such as these that make our efforts worth while. Thus we find that, on the whole, Lone Scouting in Ontario has pro- gressed during the past .vear. and we are glad that it is so. And What of 1933? Well, there Is always room for im- provement, and it will not harm any of us to make a New Year Resolution to show keener interest in our Scout- ing, irrespective of what anyoue else may do. So once again, Brother Scouts â€" A Happy and Progressive New Year to you and we hope you will co-operate with us as we want and will co-oper- ate with you. â€" "Lone E." Hard Work is a Sweet Bride, Says Sir James Barrie One can always depend upon Sir James Barrie (or the fresh and re- freshing point of view. He has a happy genius for taking old subjects and dressing them up in attractive :-'li.)thes. Advice coming from most people is an unwanted commodity, but the author of "Thrums" can wake his readers cry for it, "The Ladies and Literature" was the sub- ject oi an address which he recent- ly delivered at the Authors' Club in London. In his opening sentences he de- clared that he was not going to talk «ibout ladies or literature, or love. as his audience had no doubt ex- pected. Instead of that, he was go- ing to make a will, and those pres- ent were to be his sole beneficiary legatees. He left to the Author's Club the most precious possession khat was evet his â€" his joy in hard noik. He continued: "[ was an idler at Jchool, and read all the wrong books at college, but-' 1 fell in love with bard work one fine May morning, find 1 continued to woo her through » big chunk of a half a century. She Is not at all heavy-jowled and weary. She is young and gay and lively I found her waiting for me at a Lon- don station. She marched with me all the way to Bloomsbury. and on the way we bought a penny bottle of iuU to sling at the metropolis, and a silk hat with which to impress editors. Hard work, more than any woTiiau in the world, Is the one who •lauds up best for her man. I have lost her now, but younger people who want to look for her will" find '?hat she is willing to be theirs. She is the prettiest thing in literature, »nci when you and she think that you have been working pretty well, and fou spend an evening having a blow out, you will think how splendid she looks iu h^r crepe de> chine. But >lie looked even prettier in her rags." la conclusion the speaker be- queathed to the company "every- thing connected with science and ma- I chinery." Referring to the United States be said: "May our two coun- tries, as so often lu the past, go on giving to each other, they to us and we to them, the three best things either of us has â€" our love, and our ladies, and our literature." â€" Toronto Mail and Empire. Scientist Describes New Vital Life Rays Tlantic City, _N.J.â€" Claim that he has discovered vital "lite" rays in radiations beyond the shortest visi- ble rays of light was made by Di mini- try Borodin, of New York, before the American Association for the ."Vdvance- ment of Science. These invisiblt rays, he says, are! responsible for the "mutations" of heredity, the changes which cause every person to be different in some details of appearance and character from every other person on earth. These "mutations" are caused by alternations in "genes" the deter- miners of hereditary characters for all men, animals, and plants. The rays be said are generated by all living bodies and hence reach and change the genes. The rays rang* from 2800 Angstrom units down to 1800, which means that they are very short wave forms of ultra violet •light." The existence of such rays has been studied by scientists for some time. What Dr. Borodin claims to have discovered is how they affect life at Its beginnings. He detected these activities by use of spectros- cope. French Journalist Wins Coveted Library Award Paris-â€" Guy Mazeline, a French journalist, has been awarded the prize Gonoourt, one of the highest French, literary prizes, for his novel, "The W'olves." The stipend was 5,000 francs. January IS. Leeson III â€" Jesua ai Workâ€" Mark 1. 21-35. Golden Text My Father worketh hitherto, and I work. â€" lohn 5: 17. ANALYSIS I. THE MASTER OF MIND, Mark 1:21-28. II. THE MASTER OF BODY, Mark 1 : 29- •ii. HI. THE SECRET OF POWER, Mark 1:35. I.NTRODUCTION- â€" Today's passa^'e does two thing^s: (a) It gives a pic- ture of a typical day in Jesus' life at this time. A Sabbath day is cho.sen The rapid succession of incidents em- phasizes the ceaseless activity and the strain under which the Master was laboring all the time, (b) It stresses that consciousness of power and the authority which characterized Jesus ever since his baptism at Jor- dan and his conflict in the wilderness. In every case he is the masterful per- sonality who is more than equal for every situation. I. THE MASTER OF Ml.N'D. Mark 1:21-28. On the Sabbath Jesus, as His cus- tom was, went to church. The ser- vice, as usual, was in charge of the local elder. Seeing Jesus iri the con- gregation, and eviden;!y knowing him as one likely to have something worth- while to say, , he asked Him ♦o speak. Rather short notice I The ef- fe-t of Jesus* address was electric. The people had never heara anything like it. It was so different from the preaching of the scribes, the profes- sional interpreters of the Law of Moses. When a scribe made a state- ment he supported it by referring to some great, teacher of the past. Jesus deliberately cast aside all this refer- ence to tradition. "Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old timo . . . but / say unto you." Jesus' authority was "I." No wonder the people were astonished! One man there that day was par- ticularly affected, v. 24. He was de- mon-possessed. A modern diagnosis would probably ascribe the symptoms to hysteria, epilepsy, or some form of mental derangement. Evidently this man was usually normal, or he wouid not have been allowed in to the ser- vice. The excitement, however, arous- ed him to an outburst. With uncanny insight he recognized a greatness in the preacher which the others failed to see, v. 24. Jesus addressed Himself to the supposed evil spirit â€" the na- tural procedure, whether one agraed with the man's obsession or not. With one final convulsion the man â- was him- self again. It was the Master Mind, itself the free channel for the outlaw of the divine Spirit bringing peace and^ order out of trouble and chaos. Verse 27 expresses the astonish- ment of the people because Jesus did not invoke the name of some other spirit which the man's denxm would obey. This was the usual method. Jtsus looked, for no other name. He had within Himself the power to heal and to roothe. II. THE MASTER OF BODY, Mar." 1: 29- 34. After the synagogue service, Jesus, with some of His disciples, went to the home of Simon and Andrew. He was not yet recognized as p healer of bodily disease, but since the senior woman was the real head of the house, her illness was mentioned by way of sxplaining her absence. Mark vividly records Jesus' response, "He came, took her by the hand, raised her up." At once the fever left her, and she busied herself with those du- ties which her illness had made for the time impossible. Convalescence from fever is usually very slow. But so great was thj .strength that Jesus vas able to arouse that this woman went immediately to her work. Once more the God-filled spirit of Jesus proved to be the master. The i.ews about the healed demon- and Simon's mother-in-law spread like wildfire throughout the city. To this new healer the sick were hur- ried in crowds â€" at sunset, when the Sabbath was past. It was considered a sin to carry a dead body through the streets ou the Sabbath, but per- missible to carry a living person on a litter. Nevertheless it -s probable that the people assumed that Jesus would be reluctant to heal on the Sabbath, or they themselves would consider it wrong. Therefore after sunset (v. 32) they brought their .sxk folk. 'With them came Iso the "demon-possessed." Mark's theory is that the demons, being supernatural, knew who and what Jesus really was. Jesus ahvays insisted on silence re- garding the cures, v. 34. 'We can well believe that He shrank from the pub- licity wliich His healing ministry brought Him. He must have been al- ways torn between the claims of His pity on the one hand, and His desire Smart School Model By HELEN WILLIAMS. Ulustruted Dressmaking Lesson Fur- nished With Kveiy Palteni sua 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 thia Column. If Personal Reply is Desired, Enclose Stamped and Addressed Envelope. Here's souieLtiing e.^tremely smart ir a browT. plaided woolen for the litiile school girl of 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. It's the new coat type exactly like the grownups with a big boy collar of white pique. The little artist's tie is vi\nd red crepe de chine to match the leather belt. It's easily made I It's a one-piece a.-air with an inset inverted plait at the front to give ample hem fulness. Style No. 3180 requires 2 yards of 39-inch material with % yard of 35- inch contrasting and 2 yards of bind- ing for the 8-year size. HOW TO ORDER PATTERN'S, Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 15c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West .-Vdelaide St., Toronto. to avoid the reputation of a wizard on the other. III. THE SECRET OK POWER, Mark 1:35. It does not help us any, either in our u .clerstanding of Jesus, or in our own efforts to live like Him, to be told that He was able to do all that He did simply because of His divinity. If he cuulf. tap resources which" are closed to us, then His oft-repeated ap- peal to follow Him becomes meaning- less and mocking words. Conventional Christianity is always tei>ipted to place Jesus where it is easy to adore Him, but impossible to emtjlute Him, Verse 35 indicates the secret oi" Jesus' power. It was prayer, a secret discoverable by us, too. When Jesus was alone. He was always praying. Worn out by the exhausting events of the day. He was conscious of the need of spiritual re:o-...y. Hence, when His tired disciples were asleep. He stole a-v:,y to some solitary place to be alone with His Father. For exam- ple, see Luke 6: 12. Intimate and freqi;ent commui.ion with His Father Jesus regarded as the s--cret of spirit- ual effectiveness. "Why could nc. we cast Him out?" asked 'the ptple.xted and unsuccessfuNdisciples, Matt. 17: 19. They had "followed the directions," but nothing had happened. This was Jesus' explanation: "This kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting." Jesus, with no organizafon or ma- terial equipment such as we possess today, brought healing to mind and body, and gave men a new spirit. To His disciples he said, "Greater works than these shall he do . . . John 14: 12. He would i ever have Laid so if He had not mernt it. When we, with His spirit, begin really to draw on oijr spiritual resources, onr results will be "amazing," too. -.^i Dr. Eckener to Visit Dutch East Indies Freidrichshafen, Germany. â€" Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, and his daughter, Lotte, have left for Marseilles where they will take ship for the Dutch East Indies. It was understood here that Dr. Eckener wiU investigate the possibili- ties for establishment of airship ser- vice between Europe and the East Indies, P. R. â€" I am interested In growing a crop of flue lobaco on land that is re- garded to be good tobacco land. It has been used for general mixed farming with alfalfa and sweet clover in the rotation. How long will it take to get the nitrogen out of the soil that has been accumulated by these crops so as not to give too heavy a growth to the tobacco plants? What analysis of fer- tilizers would you recommend and at what rate per acre? Would it be of much benefit to have my soil anal- ysed? Answer. â€" It would be Impossible to give a definite answer regarding the period required for n+trogen exhaus- ,lion in the soil that you mention. This might be judged by the growth of the legumes and other crops that followed in rotation i£ you an get any record Of this. It wouid be of distinct advantage for you to send samples of thia surface 8 in. soil and the nest 12 in. to our laboratory. We will find the amount Of nitrogen in the soil, the organic matter, the easily soluble phosphorus and the soil reaction. This will en- able us to render you much more de- finite advice. Take about one pound sample of the soil at a depth of about 3 to 6 inches, and another sample at a depth of about S to 10 inches. It your field is fairly uniform gee a number of top soil samples and mix them, send- ing us a quart of the mixture. Do like- wise with the subsoils. The standing committee of tobacco fertilizers last spring recommended 600 to TOO lbs. per acre of 4-12-8. or 900 to 1000 lbs. per acre of 3-8-6. This fertilizer is best applied with a drill on either side of the row. G. W. â€" Just how does sulphate of potash act on the tobacco plant and what is the relationship between sul- phate and muriate? ' How much sul- phate of potash would there be in a 3-10-5 fertilizer for flue tobacco? Answer. â€" Actual experiments and measurements show that sulphate of potash as a source of potash in a flue tobacco fertilizer produes a leaf which will burn with a clear whitish ash. When muriate of potash is used the ash is a darker colour and the burn of the tobacco is not nearly so good. In other words the tobaco will continue to go out when ignited. Muriate of potash will produce a fairly hefcvj growth. The reports of the tobaccc committee are that if there is moti than 2% chlorine in a fertilizer 4e riving much of its potash from murlatf there will be Injury to the quality o! crop. This would mean that ther« could be about 40 lbs. of muriate o< potash In a ton of 3-10-5. Look Over the Cows The lice and mange mites attacklui farm animals are most troublesomi during the winter period. These pesti should have been removed during tht uutunin, when the application of a car bolic wash was in order. Where ueg iect has permitted lice to multiply, in to the season of cold weather, the use of a dry dusting powder is preferable to dipping or washing. Various com- mercial dustingfl powders are offered for the destruction of lice or such can be made up by using as an active agem one of the common parasite killers, as derris powder, pyrethrum powder oi powdered sabadlUa seed. Mange mil* can be held in chock by the use oJ crude oil, until dipping or washing with lime-sulphur solution is practical in the spring. The vigorous use of a common curry comb and a stiff brush on the hair and hide of an animal wUi do a great deal to rid the animal pea tered with lice of much torment. Save the Lambs This disease Is caused by a germ en- tering the circulation of the lamb at the time of birth or soon after, by way of the raw navel cord. The Iamb born In an unclean pen lies down, bringing the raw stump of the cord into con- tact with the germ-laden floor. The navel cord enlarges and it squeezed exudes a purulent fluid, it does not dry as quickly as normal, but remains large, soft and raw. The lamb liaa around, does not suck, becomes_<laii ' gets stiff and the joints swell. Pre- vent this joint ill disease by giving the ewe a clean, well disinfected, freshly bedded pen in which to lamb. Wask her teats and udder and remove any wool tags likely to be in the way. When the lamb Is bora saturate ti* stump of the navel cord with a ten per cent, carbolic solution or other equally strong disinfectant. Repeat this dally until the cord dries up. Pregnant ewea should be getting iodine In salt. A Winter Sunset There seems no wind in ail the land, Austere against the foding light I see a lonely cypress stand, .\s carved from steel and mala- . chite. Beyond, a .-iingle sea-bird flies To gain its far and craggy home Below the lemon-colored skies â€" An ocean-islet ringed with foam. In all the land there sems no stir Save that of pinions westward flown. Glad weather, fellow-travelerl Tonight 1 also fare alone. â€" George Sterling, in "The Breakers and Other Poems." <» Buenos Ayres Omits Lights Buenos Ayres, Argentina. â€" The tra- ditional New Year's carnival lights here, which usually shine along the two miles of the Avenida de Mayo on New Year's Eve, were omitted this year so the city could save 120,000. The police also frowned upon the customary fireworks, but Buenos Ayres welcomed the New Y'ear with crowds iu the streets. The night was sweltering, the temperature 99 de- grees. Silver. Eyelashes a Paris Fad Silver eyelashes and "marble' finger nails are the prevailing fad in Paris. Velvet ii> the material of Uie moment for party gowns. Turquoise velvet is the new boice for blondes; ruby, with an ermine wrap, tor brunettes. White crepe dresses have colored sleeves or sashe>3. « The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor Its great scholars great men. â€" Ollvar Wendell Holmes. Victoria Put Ban on Skyscrapers Whiie it has always been under- stood among building experts that the London's bed clay â- \vould not stand the building of skyscrapers in Am- erican fashion, Maurice E. Webb, th» architect, addressing the Royal So- ciety of .\rts recently, i>ointed out another and little known reason. It was that Queen Victoria herself was responsible for the fact that no Lon- don building can at prese:.t be built higher than eighty feet to the top o? the parapet, with two storeys in the roof in addition. One day the Queen was looking out of her window at Buckingham Palace when she saw that, white-glazed brick structure, Queen Anne's Mansions. Thi„ build- ing, still one of London's highest, towered above Westminster's smaller dwellings. The Queen there and then insisted on a height limit being in- cluded in the building act. Stream Flow in the West Ottawa, Canada. â€" In southern Al- berta, following average to above average run-off in May and June, stream flow has been continuously be- low normal, averaging only from Gii to 70 per cent, of the average month- ly flows from July to October, inclu- sive, according to records of the Do- minion Water Power and HydrometrU Bureau of the Department of the In- terior. In southern Saskatchevan the run-off has been even less and th« summer flow, from May to October, inclusive, has had a monthly averagi only 35 to 55 per cent, of normal. O True taste la forever growiug learning, reading, worshipping, laj ing its hand upon its moutln becauf it is astonished, casting it* ahv from off its feet because it flnda ; ground holy. â€" .John Ruskiu. •'H