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Ar "/ item at a time until it is complete. however, helped to a great degree in the ro- mance of Scouting. The Scout Uni- form is known and respected in all! parts of the world and is a symbol of the ideals and activities for which our movement stands. aay The general public has come to look upon a Scout as a boy who possesses better qualities of character and train. Ing than the average boy, and further, that he is a boy who is ready to help others and perform his duty readily and well at all time. X In the boy with the Scout hat, shorts and neckerchief they see the leaders of the future, and this uniform is something of which any Lonie can be justly proud, for it symbolizes the en- tire Boy 'Scout Organization, the "World Wide Brotherhood of Scouts," who will be the citizens of the future. . Every Lone Scout should, therefore, make it his ambition to possess a Scout Uniform, and ac chou'd obtain it if possible by his own efforts, and if necessary should purchase it one The Christmas season is coming along, and it may be that some of you will receive gifts at that time. Let it be known that you would appreciate 'an article from the-Scout catalogue, and so commence the foundation of your uniform in which you can take as much pride as any soldier of the Guards does in his dress clothes A real Scout will take great care of his uniform and look upon it as a trust ep before 1 , Scout uni-| Now Tibetan Boy Scouts "form, and to show you how it has] 'personal word trom 'you would al- 'help a great deal. Troops of Tibetan Boy Scouts were discovered during a tour"of the Hima- layan mountain passes this summer 'by the Secretary of the Punjab Boy Scouts Association. Like Scouts else- where the Tibetan lads were perform- ing many kinds of public service, in- cluding the building of protected springs where wayfarers can secure clean drinking water, Promptness Averts Bridge Tragedy The famous story of the Dutch boy who prevented a disastrous flood by plugging a hold in a dyke with his fin: ger is recalled by the action of a Boy Scout, John Kirschel, of Southern Rho- desia. While fishing from a bridge over the Gwebi River the lad discover ed a widening crack in a concrete pier. He immediately ran and reported, and the bridge was closed, averting prob- able tragedy. The Scout was highly commended by the government road department, . Deaf and Dumb Boys Become Scouts Mackay Institute for the Deaf and Dumb now has its Scout Troop. The troop is sponsored by the Scouts of Trinity Memorial Church Troop '. Are you a Lone Scout? This branch of Scouting 1s open to all boys be- tween the ages of 12 and 18 years who live in small villages or rural districts and who 'are unable to attend the meetings of regularly organized Scout Troops. x 3 For full information write to The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout Department, 330 Bay Street, Toronto 2--""Lone E." The Novelist's Faculty of Invention Fiction is 'digested experience, and a great novel is the reflection of a great man's sense of the world and of the people in it. It might seem from this to be a matter of indiffer- ence whether he conveys this dis. cursively by trumpeting it through mouthpiece-charactérs and interpolat- ed comment, or by presenting his sense of life pictorially and dramat- lcally, making the characters. and story 'the vehicle for expressing his profoundest reactions to experience. And in a sense it is indifferent, Only, it it is natural to a writer to express himself discursively, he had better think twenty times before using the novel as his vehicle. If discursive writing is his bent, then, whatever kind of writer he is, he is certainly not a novelist; and however beaut! tul, elegant, acute or timely his com- mentary, epigrams and discussions may be, the people in his 'book will go the way of all waxwork. i Carlyle could draw a portrait in few sentences, even if it were only that of & man who had sat opposite him in a railway carriage or of someone he had read about, so that we now not only see that man (how tamely inexpressive seem engravings and photographs beside the text!) but 'are brought into touch with the very core of his being--at least as {t was conceived by Carlyle himself. In addition to this unrivalled gift for vivid static: presentment, he had also the power of revealing the dramatic clash of temperaments and aims, the incongruity between a man and his 'casual surroundings, and above all, _° everywhere and at all times, the ~ novelist's sense of the inexhaustible - plicturesqueness and significance of detail, « C could make the wut bolic. He could orchestrate the passions magnificently. Yet fiction was not his medium and he knew it. Ruskin required a work of art, .a castle, a cloud, a mountain, a tree, to release his imagination, ..., And in Ldiscoursing he would show so vivid an apprehension of the honorable merchant, of the artist's Intense ex- -periences, of the noble gentleman, of the dignified mechanic, of the con- tented coltager, and also of the op- posites of all these types, that it would seem he must have been able, had he chosen, to project them as living figures in a novel, expressing his vision of the world, But, like Carlyle, he could not invent. Invention: that is the master qual. ity of the novelist. A great novel, as I have said, is the reflection of a great man's experience of life; but it cannot be conveyed in the form of a novel unless the writer has this specific faculty of invention. He must be able to devise a constant flow of incidents which will exhibit his characters. This may seem a | commonplace, but it is one usually overlogked by reviewers and entirely forgotten by many . intelligent au- thors who take to novel-writing. . . . Reviewers and critics are seldom people with a talent for invention; on the other hand, they are usually appreciative of literary ability and cleverness. Consequently they over value those qualities to the preju- dice of the story-teller's specific fac- ulty, and they do not even discuss stories which exhibit that faculty, it those stories. do mot contain fine phrases or arresting comments.-- Desmond MacCarthy, In "Criticism." fp "This is the last time I shall bring "Thanks,". replied the inpecunious debtor "You are so much more con- ite than r fellow; this bill" said the enraged collector. ba 2 He husked thirty-six and ninety minutes. Takes his job by the ears--and wins a championship! Seiler of Galva, Ill, is "right there" when it comes to husking corn. Carl one-hundredth bushels in eighty Sunday School Lesson December 4. Lesson X.--Living with People of Other Races--John 4: 5-10; Acts 10: 30-35. Golden Text --Of a truth | perceive that God Is no respecter of persons.--Acts 10¢ 34. ANALYSIS. I. RACE PREJUDICE AND HUMAN NEED, John 4: 5-10. II, "A SNOBBISH CHRISTIAN'S DREAM, Acts 10: 9-19, III, TE DIVINE INTENTION, Acts 10: 00 INTRODUCTION--Countee Cullen, the young Negro poet, tells about a visit he once made to Baltimore: Once riding in old Baltimore, Head filled, heart filled with glee-- 1 saw a Baltimorian--keep looking straight at me. Now, I was eight--and very small; And he--was no whit bigger . And so I smiled, but he--stuck out his tongue : : And called me "nigger," Although I lived in Baltimore From May until December-- Of all the things that happened there, That's all that I remember. The Spirit of Jesus has always had to face snobbery -- racial, - social, ecclesiastical, : I. RACE PREJUDICE AND HUMAN NEED, John 4: 5-10. Notwithstanding the inhospitality of the Samaritans (Luke 9: 51-563) meet Jewish pilgrims going north went through the province of Samaria, v. 4. Only the strictest of them, such as the Pharisees, went round by Perea. At noon (the sixth hour, Roman reckoning) Jesus and his party came to Jacob's well, It was an unusual hour for a woman to come for water, v. 7. Was it shame, or the severity of her more respectable sisters that sent her there when no one was likely to be about? 3 The tired stranger as her for a urink. Her surprise (v.9) at being 'thus addressed reflected the relation- ships that exis between Jew and Samaritan. The Jew had a profound contempt for the Samaritan with his mixed blood and impure religion. Northern Israel hac intermarried with the foreign conquerors, and had adopted pagan religious customs, See 2 Kings, aga. 17. Because of this the Samaritan offer to help in build- ing the Temple was contemptuously spurned, Ezra, chap. 4. Resentment brought reprisals, Mutual hatred was the consequence. The appeal of human need over- came the woman's dislike and suspi- cion. In helping a hated Jew, she received from him the sympathy and inspiration fora better life which she so sorely needed. It was the spirit of J breaking down the separating of race prejudice, . Peter's dream chan the course of history for the early church, The "scattering abroad" of believers dur- ing the persecutions resulted in the growth, E many foreign centres, of the new faith. Peter, on a superin- tendent's tour, found himself con- fronted with the question, "How is a Christian to act toward a Gentile?" Jews had always looked upon Gen- tiles as "common," aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers from the covenant of promise," out- side the pale. They ate 'unclean food. Hence eating together, and con- sequently all social intercourse, was mnossible. The Gentiles retorted by ridiculing Jews for their abstinence from pork. II. A SNOBBISH CHRISTIAN'S DREAM, Acts 10: 9-19. Peter's problem about food, his hun- ger (v. 10), wove themselves into the fabric of his dream. In the sheet (v. 12), he began to notice all kinds of creatures, clean und unclean. He was amazed to hear the voice, which he so well remembered, commanding him to kill and eat. He had broken many a Pharisaic regulation in his day-- icking corn on the Sabbath, for ex- ample--but with food he was still a strict Hebrew. His abrupt refusal (v. 14) brought its emphati: and repeat- ed rerroof, vs. 15, 16. The Christian Jew wa3s now to give up his old dis- tinctions Between meats clean and un- clean. Any custom, no matter how useful in the past, wnich becomes a separating wall between people, must be removed. "This wall has no busi- ress here!" says the Nazarene Car- penter as he sees the wall which sep- arates the members of his father's family in their own house. "Down it comes!" and with well-directed blows he swings his axe, See the vivid pic- ture in Ephesians 2: 14. When Peter was told that some Gentiles were at the door to see him, he said to himself, "There is the mean- ing of my dream." He made them welcome, III. THE DIVINE INTENTION, Acts 10: + 28-85. Obedient to his heavenly vision, Peter set out for Cemsarea with the messengers of Cornelius, Realizing that his unheard-of action in going into a Gentile's home would certainly bring on a crisis in the church, he took with him several brethren from e church in Joppa. In Cornelius' house he made it clear to the assem- bled Gentiles that in coming to them he was breaking with a strict Jewish regulation. Nevertheless, he had done it deliberately (v. 29), "withoct gain- saying" means "without disputing or hesitation." God had shown him that they were all God's children, "bro- thers all." "How did the accident happen?" to the statements neither side was "I can't make it out. in any way to blame." mse fe es The brave and wise perform great actions not so much on account of the rewards attending them, as on account of their own intrinsic excellence.-- Cicero. According ~~ | most and best quality salk? If you're | dairyman you can sosely . What breed of dairy cow gives the 'answer this question with about a hundred rea-| sons. What {8 the best all round breed of poultry for the average On- tarfo farm? You no doubt have de- 'finite opinions on this subject--opin- But when you come to discussing the things that make up the feed of the cow or the hen, or the elements that are found in their products--or bodies or feed, the familiarity ceases. That is the reason for this practical, homely talk about things. Elements Have you ever heard a person talk- ing about the elements in feed or in a fertilizer, and you have wondered just what an element is? Chemists have studied what things are made of, and they have found a total of 87 elements, An element is a substance that cannot be reduced to, or divided into two or more component substances, For in- stance, iron, or gold, or silver, cannot be broken up into other components than iron and gold and silver. They may be melted or changed into iron or gold or silver utensils, but they are still the same pure elements. Compounds There are other materials in nature, It red or yellow mercuric oxide is heat- ed, oxygen goes off as a colorless gas, and metallic mercury remains. The mercuric oxide is known as a com- pound, Nearly all things we come in contact with in nature are compounds. Very few elements remain unattached and pure in nature. Elements exist in three different forms, viz.: solids, gases, liquids. Here are some of the common elements belonging to each class: Solids--Iron (Fe), Gold (Au), Silver (Ag), Phosphorus (P) (from which we get phosphoric acid), Potassium (K) (from which we get potash), Sul- phur (8), Lead (Pb), Copper (Cu). Gases--Oxygen (0), Hydrogen (H), Nitrogen (N), Chlorine (Cl). Liquids--Mercury (Hg). Chemical Symbols So that it will not be necessary to write long names of substances each time they occur in a reaction, chem- ists have agreed upon certain symbols which are usually the first letters of the names of the elements. For in- stance, H always stands for Hydrogen, O always stands for Oxygen, N always stands for Nitrogen, P always stands for Phosphorus. If P were used to stand for Potash it would lead to con- fusion, therefore the first letter of the latin name Kalium (K) is used to de- note potassium. Acids and Alkalis There are certain compounds which dissolve in water and which have the power of turning blue litmus paper to a red color. These are called acids. Some of the commonest in farm opera- tions are: Sulphuric acid (H2S04), Hydrochloric acid (HC1), Nitric acid (HN03) and Acetic acid (CH3COOH). Other compounds have the power of deadening the effects of acids. These are known as bases. Some of the commonest encountered in farm opera- tions are: Limewater Ca (OH)2, Am- monia water (NH4)OH, Caustic soda (NaOH), Caustic potash (KOH). These substances turn red litmus paper to blue. Their action is said to be alkaline. Chemical Reaction A common illustration of chemical reaction on the farm is seen where acid soil is corrected by the addition of limestone. Calcium carbonate (CaCO03) or limestone is readily dis- solyed.. This forms Calcium hydrate CA(OH)2, which corrects the acidity of the soil. When acid phosphate is made phosphate rock is treated with sulphuric acid. This produces soluble or available phosphate, and calcium suluphate or land plaster. Superphos- phate or acid phosphate as it used to be called, carries 16% to 20% avail- able phosphoric acid (P205). Some folks are of the opinion that super- phosphate is acid in its action, and that it makes the land sour. This is not the case. Superphosphate or acid phosphate is neutral in reaction. The calcium sulphate that it carries tends to liberate the potash of the soil. Elements Are Combined to Form Compounds The queston is sometimes asked, if nitrate of soda contains only 16% nitrogen, or 15 Ibs. pure nitrogen to the hundred, why can't I buy pure nitrogen for my crops? One reason fons backed by many good reasons.| Cooking On a Short Wave Length; own composition pure carbon or oxy- gen or hydrogen or sulphur or nitrogen or phosphorus or calcium or iron. Plantfoods must be carried in com: pounds in the soil, in manure and in fertilizers. Animal feeds must carry the elements in compounds known as carbohydrates proteins, fats and al-lied substances. More of the common chemical com- pounds that farmers meet in their daily operations are. Water--(H20), which composes 90 to 95% of farm crops (green), Water frequently contains dissolved calciu. : or magnesium carbonate which makes it hard. Hard water kills the power of soap to produce lather. Water may also contain compounds of iron potas- sium and sodium. Some of these may render the water unfit for domestic use. Other impurities of a bacterial nature more often render water unfit for farm use. Sugar (C6H1206 or C13H22011), is found in the juice of sugar beets, in fruits and in the sap of the sugar maple tree and elsewhere, Starch (C6H1005), is found in the kernels or seeds of all cereals, also in potato : and artichokes, Fat--Various forms, all built from C H and O. Fats are found in the oily part of seeds near the germ, in cream from which butter is made and in the flech of most animals. Proteins--Flesh and muscle builders containing C, H, O, and Nitrogen. The glutten of wheat, or the rubbery gum- my part of dough is composed of pro- teins. Lean meat, hair, hoofs, horns, also contain protein. Amino-acids--<~many of which con- tain C. H. ©. N, and Sulphur. These amino acids are closely connected with proteins, Bone -- contains Calcium, and phosphorus. These fragmentary outlines of chem- istry, basic to common farm products and phenomena, will be followed by discussions of specific problems, from time to time. penis Rare Plant Species One of the oddest plant species inf the world has been rediscovered in! Madera Creek, in the Davis Mountains | of western Texas, according to Science | News Letter, a Science Service publi- cation (Washington). Dr. R. A. Studhalter of Texas Tech- Oxygen nological College at Lubbock has re- ported this find to The Scientific Monthly. We read: "The plant is known as Riella, and has been given the English name 'ruf- fle plant,' because of its peculiar structure. It consists of a slender stem an inch or so # length, with a thin transparent green wing growing out at one side and curling over its end. The graceful undulations in this green wing caused one American botanist to describe it as 'a ruffle standing on end.' "The plant has thus far been found in only two States, Texas "nd North Dakota, It grows only in sheltered canyons either submerge in shallow water or just above water-level, Since water in this Western country is not always a certainty in any one place, the plant has been very elusive, dis- appearing from a known habitat and reappearing suddenly elsewhere. Close relatives are known from the old world, growing in the same type of habitat: sheltered shallow waters in semiarid regions, Here also it is an extremely elusive plant." rere to pro- "Isn't Jack ever pose?" "1 guess not, he's like an hour- glags." "How's that?" "The more time he gets the less going sand he has." ™e old THAN GUGRS How =. -- ---- IF _\T HADN'T BEEN FOR JEFF I'D 'PROBABLY B& JUST AN AVERAGE HITTER TODAY= GETTING AN OCCASIONAL TWO-BAGEER oR~, Enfolded in serenity. ~--A. B. Cooper, in Tit-Bits (London). will be corrected and overcome in tru Bolshevik fashion, so that "with the help of the public opinion of the whole Soviet Union," this railroad of para mount importance will be completed within the time limit set by the plan, The great need for the railroad ft plainly shown in Izvestia, official on gan of the Soviet Government: "Our industries require more coal every year. Developing at an unpre cedented pace, they make ever-grow- ing demands upon our coal-fields fa general, and upon 'he Donietz Coal Basin in particular. "In 1913, 25.2 million tons oi coal were mined in the Donietz Basin, In 1931, this abundant storehouse of the Soviet Union gave us 50 per cent, more than in 1913, This is coincident with the increased exportation of coal from the Basin to the coal-consuming regions in general. The railroads no./ crossing the Basin, which lead to the cities of Voranezh and Kursk, are working under great pressure. Yet they can not cope with the task of transmitting thé needed stream of coal from the Basin to the nor!'n "This lack has made it imperative to get a new outlét for the Donietsz Basin's coal, and thus end the con- fusion and the congestion ot freights on the two existing lines." So the Soviet Government decided in April 1932, we are told, to begiu construction immediately of a power ful double-track railroad, the Moscow: Donbass. The new line is to include a small railway, Valuiki-Ozherelye, built long ago, but to be completely re built, The terminal of the Moscow- Donbass line will be the Nesvyetayev- sky mines. According to plaa, the Moscow-Don- bass railroad should be in working order by August 1, 1933, yet, Izvestia advises us: "It must be confessed, however, that its construction proceeds unsatistac torily, In July and August, for in stance, on'y 28 per cent, of track build- ing planned for these months wae done. In the same period only 6.1 per cent, of the buildings planned had been completed. "The situation is especially unsatis- factory in the Venevsky regio, where only 17 per cent. of the constructon work planned for these two months is finished. This is all the more repre- hensible because the Venevsky portion of the road was to be ready for opera tion about October 1 1032." Investia expresses considerable in. dignation that the Soviet railway builders are so "disappointingly unm able to live up to the plan." But, it candidly admits, there is 8 lack of technical equipment, the work is not sufficiently well organized, and there are certain labor difficulties. Is this official organ's own words: "Our heavy industries and the Chief Administration of Railroad Building have not supplied the builders of the road with even half the equipment which they undertook to provide." Semin Flea Market Boom The price of a competent flea has risen to three dollars because of the falling 'off in transatlantic travel, Al the Hecker fleas are of European orig in, purchased from cabin stewards. He has traveled as far as Norfolk bargain- ing with ship employees for insects capable of making the grade, Belglam fleas learn quickest, according to Pro fessor Hecker; French and Italiaz fleas are quite bright; English fleas slow of comprehension. "America ia the land of my adoption," added Pro- fessor Hecker. "I have received hom- or and material reward in America. I would not allow any expression to escape me which might offend this dear land. I must, therefore, beg te be absolutely excused from discussing American fleas." In prosperous times, Professor Hecker has had as many aa seventy fleas warming up in the bull pen; to-day his reserve stock consista of seven aged ones.--The New Yorker, -- in BE SILENT Be silent in the woodland ways When tall trees sigh and dream, And in the deep embowerd bays The still white flowers gleam, And let your listening ears impart Their solace to your waiting heart, Be silent when the starry night Makes wordly things seem small And hearken with supreme delight When mystic voices cail, And know 'that you, who stand me still, Aa Are subject to the etermal will, Be silent when the children sleep In calm and deep coni.ent, And in their quiet breathing keep Your love-born sacrament, < That so your own reposs may be ee Ar Never keep silent ita beet can spare Clp Cb pLRISY SET,