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pected 40 arrive July 31st and leave August 16th. ER Scout Foreign Friendship Tours - Scouts of Kent, England, hold the record for international vi For Pe at , have to camp there as guests. A special Scout dormitory is planned. Earl Bessborough Commends Scouting . to Leading Citizens Addressing the Dominion Executive C (2 successive years at Easter they have visited other countries--in suc- cession Czecho-Slovakia, Spain, Hol land, Italy, nark, France, Switzer: land, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Po- land. . Last summer they visited Scot- land. This Easter a party of 200 will visit Germany. Er Scout Fraternizing in Europe European camps or jamborees in i of the Boy Si A i fand sircere he would ex on Mark 4: 7, 18, 19. ark 4: 8,20. ere te) L . loin the From now on he neve: public except in parables. He gave private explanations to his disciples, v. 84. : : Verse 12 seems to contradict this reason. Matthew's account says "be- ciuse" (Matt. 18: 10-16), instead of Mark's "in order that.' "he passage which evidently came to Jesus' mind, as he reflected upon the hardness of tion His Excellency the Governor-Gen- eral commended the quality of leader: ship reflected by the many Scéut units reviewed by him during his summer tour of the west. He commented par- ticularly upon the smartness of the Scouts in places where the interest of prominent public men was most evi- dent, He commended the Movement to the attention of. leading business which Scouts from other countries par- ticipated were held last summer in Poland, Denmark and the Netherlands. ; Scouting and Education A Hungarian Scouter, Dr. I, de Krai: fiath, has been made Minister of Edu- cation in the Hungarian Covernment {Australian and Canadian Boys <0» An offer to swan kangarco kins and Boomerangs ior indian Canadian bas- ket and bead work 'and carving has heen made to Canadian Boy Scouts by Scouts of Queensland, and professional men everywhere. Peokle's hearts, was tle discouraged ¢ clamation of Isaiak in similar cir- cumstances, Isaiah 6: 9, 10. In He- brew literature, when some event could be confidently predicted, it was spoken of as having been planned or purposed, Isaiah knew so well how is people would react to unpleasant tr-th that he predicied thet they would harden their hearts against all that e was going to say, They them- selves were bringing aboul their de- ét. not God. Matthew, familiar Scouting is available, through the ! Lone Scout Depdrtment, to all boys from 12 to 18 years of age inclusive. If you live in a small town or village, 'or on a Rural Route, etc., and would lite to be a Scout, write for particu lars to The Boy Scouts Association, Lone Scout Department, 330 Bay St., Toronto 2. We shall be glad to hear from you and will send you particulars without any Obligation to yourself.-- "Lone BE." * Arrivalat Dawn If 1 might choose the moment of arrival in a strange city, it should be dawn. I could then take the city unawares, before it had time to put on the preoccupied expression of everyday activities ' in which I had | siranger. I could roll in my carriage at ease down almost empty streets, dust colored under trees of scarlet gold mohr, and with houses in bowery gardens still asleep. 'Too soon the enchantment of dim love-lines would give place to hard outlines of photo- graphic clarity, The Bombay of my arrival was beautiful, a city of domes, lend 1 soaring arch and 10 part, Arriving at dawn, I should begin the day with those who belong there, not as an intruder, The early sunshine would smile its welcome, and my first remark to & stranger, that it was a fine day, would make me feel at ease. W In the hour of dawn, I beheld Bombay -for the first time. During the night, there had been unmis- takable sounds of arrival. The throb of engines was subdued; somewhere in the ship's deep heart, shining steel and ponderous iron became ominously still, Bare feet went thudding overhead, and voices call- ed out in the darkness. The night 'was still when we stopped, crept for- ward, stopped again, and then made s+ mysterious slow advance, Behind ug lay the wide seas we had travers- ed for three weeks, At dawn we had arrived. I went up on deck to see palm fringed hills, dim {islands of {irregular .shape, and ® low-lying city huddled along its harbor. Round our great ship a icore of little craft circled busily in the broadening light, and alien figures came clambering on board to stare at us with curious eyes, if I was to live in Bombay. Where in that opalescent sunrise, was my home? It was strange to reflect that soon many unfamiliar streets would become , known to me, that the per- fume of exdtic flowers, wafted over the. water, would hold, for all time, & poignant memory, . Landing at dawn, the city had still en uncaptured beauty, and its breath was sweet ag an ocean breeze. = It might have been a dream city, evolv- ed from night shadows, nebulous and fair. Later there would be crowds, discordant noises. I, with everyone else, would have a distinct reason for going here or of serious carved balcony, set among lawns of emerald greenness, shadowy palm, and flaming flowers. The Bombay of my arrival was quite different to the Bombay, often wonderfully beauti- ful, of my later experience. Yes, it is good to arrive at dawn. a . ' Mussolini's Caesarian operation in producing a new Italian town in the 'midst of the Pontine Marshes, close to Rome, which makes them habitable and tillable, is a new triumph for I Duce. Nero, the Caesars, the Popes, and Napoleon I. according to the Rome correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, all attempted to drain the tract, which had become a fever- stricken fenland, probably because an earthquake destroyed the natural drainage about 300 B.C. Fifty-five thousand men are now en- gaged in the Fascist land-reclamation scheme, and redeemed land has al- ready given health and food to thous- ands, It is stated that more than 17- 000,000 acres of swamps and mountain places have either been rendered fit for cultivation or are almost ready, 11 Duce himself is quoted as saying: "To find work for our growing popu- lation, it has hitherto been necessary to cross the Alps o: the ocean. But to-day it is here, half-an-hour's journey from Rome that we have succeeded in conquering & new province. \ "This is but a fraction of the Tand we ars going to reclaim, Internal ployment before long and Italians will not emigrate any more." - No evil propensity of the human ense | heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline~--Seneca, Littoria -- Italy's New Town |S, with this characteristic of Hebrew lit- erature, wrote down in plain lan- guage, so that none .eed misunder- stund, what Jesus really meant. "I speak to them in parables because. ." J GOSPEL HARDENED, Mark «: 4, 15. Agai:, taking to the bost to avoid { e nressure of the excited crowds, . 'bly also to guard against a sur- prise bn the police, Jesus told the par- able of the four kinas of soil. seed which fell by the edge of the beaten path (v. 4) refors to people whose Fearts are hardened Ly con tinually - hearing, but not deing the truth, The gospel calls, not merely for admiration, but for action. Ruskin seid, "Every duty we omil cbscures some truth we might have known." What could Jesus say, or any other preacher do, with such hearers? At the moment, notLing. The birds, some twittering interest, some new excite- ment, some trivial item .of gossip im- mediately snatch up the of truth. Until life drives some plough- share of pain or trouble into such lives, truth will make no hold. II. CHARMED BUT NOT CHANGED, Mark 4: 5, 6, 16, 17. The stony ground (v. 5) is a thin le.yer of good earth on a ledge of rock. It promotes a rapid growth which, in dry weather, quickly withers. This re pictures the alert mind and the civsed heart. "Delighted with your sermon this morning!"--but it mere- ly stimulated the mind, changed neither the character nor conduct. This soil pictures the people who start but never finish, enthusiasms which d not last. "I will follow thee with- ersoéver thou goest" (Luke 9: 57, 58), but the Master gave hin no en- couragement. He knew that when "following" him would mean givirg up cherished plans, undertaking some unwelcome service, being misunder* standing up against the cynic's talk that Jesus' ideal is beautiful but impossible to act out in daily life, then the sudden, shallow enthusiasm would settle down, vs, 16, 17. This soil also pictures those who mistake an emotional excitement for a real conversion, A religion that is just feeling, and has not captured both mind and will, can .ever stand up against life's trials and perplexities. III. PRE-OCCUPIED, Mark 4: 7, 18,19, Verse 7 indicates a soil that is rich and promising, but already sown with the seeds of competing plants, People with splendid gifts of personality, in- nee, characte, ome §0 en~ grossed in business, the making of money, social activities, the struggle for a living, that their spiritual prom. ac work will settle the problem of unem- | tain by "action. NE Such tascination: You'll adore it with all its new and ish nts, wold 2 the Cossack front with its buttoned shoulders, so youag in mood. The snugly fitted hip yoke is cut to give the new peplum effect. The sleeves are ravishing and quite "puff- e up" about themselves. And inci- dentally you may omit the snugly fit- ted lower sleeves with no detrimental effect to the scheme, if you prefer them short. See small back view! Black rough crepe silk combined with strawberry-red crepe in today's model. : Style No. 8261 is designed for sizes 14, 16, 18, 20 years, 36, 88 and 49 inches bust. : Size 16 requires 4 yards 89-inch with % yard 89-inch contrasting. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 15¢ in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each nuniber, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. occupy time, energy and thought which is needed for greater purposes. Anything that interferes with the best is the "thorn" that chokes the word, rendering one's life unfruitful, IV. RESPONSIVE, Mark 4: 8, 20. There is alwys some good soil. Therefore Jesus sowed in hope. Some honest souls and good hearts were to be found everywhere, Luke 8: 15. They were not faultless, but they were sincere, very much in earnest, practicing faithfully, pursuing pa- tiently every new truth that is re- vealed to them. : The parable tells, not sé much of four ,ersons or classes, as of four possible conditions of every heart and mind. We, ourselves, are responsible for the kind of reception we give the t.uth. Learning needs to be ollowed A fitting prayer after is, "Eternal God, our ve thought together help ys to go out and every meeti Father, we seriously; now live seriously." U £) He--"On the street to-day a very handsome young lady smiled at "" me. She--"Oh, 1 wouldn't feel badly about it. There are some men who look even funnier than you do." Jeff Can Do a Hundred Yards in Nine Seconds Flat Ing wor '0 the Farm Ontaro farm soils, after be- for some tims, develop] weakness in one or more of the fol- lowing respects: 1. 'n plantfood. The plantfood In a soil is determined very, largely by its type. Successive crop- ping will naturally use up considerable of the original plantfood. 2. In or- ganic matter. After cultivation for some years if insufficient attention is paid to the upkeep of .he soil, a de- "cided weakness in organic matter will develop. 3. In soil Reaction, Con- of § thanure should be applied 'to potatoes and root crops, corn, etc, especially it the soil is of a light character. Where there is lesa rain, say 20 inches ' or less during the period of non- growth, winter application can be made with good results. » Much study has been given to the value of manure stored in manure pits which retain the 4iguid manure. Liquid | manure is a rich carrier of nitrogen and potash and should at no time be allowed to seep away from the manure heap. It should be absorbed in the litter 'and the pile kept sufficiently, compact so that as little ammonia will or will deplete lime from the soil, leaving the soil sour and in an unfit condition for crops to thrive in it." Moreover, as long as it remains sour, good stable manure and fertilizers added to it will not functior at their best, All of the foregoing de- | tects must be corrected as far as pos- sible if largest yields of best quality produce is to be realized. Relative Values of Manure In the early days of Ontario agri- culture, much manure was hauled from the barnyard to the river to rid the farm of this macerial. Farmyard manure is a highly valuable by-product of the livestock farm. When well hand- led, it is a prominent carrier of the important plantfoods, nitrogen, phos- phoric acid and potash. A ton of man- ure supplies 10 to 15 Ibs. nitrogen; 5 to 9 lbs. phosphoric acid and about 10 Ibs. potash. The amount and quality which manure supplies depends upon at least three things: 1: The charac- ter and age of anima; 2. 'The degree of protection which has been given tha manure; 3. The type of feed that has been supplied the animal. Growing beef stock retain most of the body-building elements supplied in fodder, The manure of dairy animals supplies relatively the least amount of plantfood in that 'hese animals are making use of these elements in pro- ducing milk, Hogs and sheep produce manure of great value. In order °f plantfood content, sheep manure car- ries the highest per cent. of nitrogen; poultry manure carries the next high- est per cent, of nitrogen and also the highest supply of phosphoric acid, while sheep manure carries the high- est per cent, of potash. Horse manure is stronger in nitro- gen and potash than .s manure of da cattle. As a rule, manure of young animals is the leas* valuable as a source of plantfood since young 'owing stock retain the elements of nutrition for the building of their bodies. Extra protein fed dairy cattle in order to increase milk flow im- proves the quality of manure. This is why the manure of dairy cattle is usually of distinctly higl value, The manner of storage definitely in- fluences the value of manure, If it is exposed so that rain and snow wash through it, at least 80% of the nitro- gen and 65% of the potash is lost. When one considers that there are kept on Ontario farms over 43 mil lions of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, the enormous amount of this valuable source of plantfood anl soil better- ment is apparent. Only the manure which § collected from the stal'es during the period of housing of the livestock, however, can be estimated as an active source, The quality of this manure will depend directly upon the type of handling which is given it. If it is thrown loosely on an open pile, bacterial action may quickly pro- ceed to a point where the manure be- comes fire-fanged or burnt in the cen- ter of the pile. This fire-fanging lib- erates mitrogen in the form of am- monia and destroys much of the 'r- ganic matter. Losses will occur w: . ary method of handling but when one weighs the cost of increased labour necessary to take the manure out all at once in the spring, against the loss from exposure in continuous applica- tion, it Is considered good business to remove the manure to the field daily or at least weekly. If the soil is well supplied with organic matter, especial ly it it has been fall plowed, top-dress- ing during winter will afford a profit- able means of handling of manure. Investigations in England indicate that where the rainfall exceeds 35 inches during the period of non-growth from the manure pile as pos-| sible. Rothamsted Experimental Sta. tion investigated the question of shel ter for the manure pit. When 10 tons' of manure from a sheltered manure pit was applied to potatoes, a yleld of 9 tons potatoes per acre was harvest. ed, When an equal amount of man- ure from an uncovered pit was ap- plied to the same area, the yield was 7.4 tons per acre. How to Save the Nitrogen As has already been pointed out there is always a tendency to loss of ammonia as decomposition goes on in the stored manure. In hot weather this is easily discernible. This loss of ammonia or nitrogen can to a large extent be prevented by sprinkling superphosphate on the stable floor at the time the stalls are cleaned out daily. An application of 34 to 3% Ib. per head per day will go a long way toward fixing the escaping ammonia or nitrogen in the form of sulphate of ammonia, hence "will increase the value of the manure. Manure carries an insufficient amount of phosphoric acid to make it a first class fertilizer for grain crops, hence the addition of superphosphate will not only accomp- lish the retention of the nitrogen but will build vp the manurc in phos- phoric acid and make it of greater general value. Farm manure gives its most active help to crops supplied with extensive root systems such as corn, cereals and meadow grasses. Fairly well rot- ted manure is also of great value to root crops. Turnips benefit by a slight. ly higher supply .of phosphoric acid thai. is provided by manure. Hence the turnip field whick has been man. ured should receive an additional ap-| plication of superphosphate if best | balance of plantfood for the turnip crop is to be provided. Well rotted manure supplies a valuable ration for potatoes and mangels, On the lighter gravelly loam or sandy loam soils where potatoes thrive, the additien of manure not only supplies plantfood but gives to the soil the power to catch and hold water and plantfood in solution, In the early agriculture of the coun- try the value of manure was not real ized. Too frequently this valuable by- product was removed from the farm. Our modern farmer has learned by practical experience and from scien- tific facts established by long time ex- periments that the manure pile is one of the mest important assets on the farm. It should at all times receive the care which science has shown to be merited by its great value. --r Money in Sweet Potatoes According to a newspaper report, Dr, O. L. Fitzsimmons of Delhi, has dispoged of his entire crop of sweet potatoes at the salisfactory price of $2.50 per bushel. This speaks well for the quality ot Norfolk-grown sweet potatoes and as they become more widely-known they should dis- place imported sweet potatoes to a great extent. Dr, Fitzsimmons has made a start which will doubtless be followed by other farmers of the district this coming season. He did not wax wealthy this year as the| initial investment makes the first year the hardest, but in the seasons ahead he should profit liberally in the branch of agricultural industry which he introduced in Canada. -- (Simcoe Reformer.) LAWS | A multitude of laws in a country Is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and' malady, ae { Boner. \F He's FAT- = RONNI HES SKINNY= WE DON'T «y wl ! laureates is held by the actor-manage Colly Cibber, who died in 1758 at the age of eighty-seven; although goodness knows who called him a poet, A . . * The first coffee-house (forerunner of the club) was opened at Oxford in 1630, by "Jacob, & Jew," and Cam bridge quickly followed suit (says Ag nes Repplier in "To Think of Tea.") The first London coffee-house was opened in 1652; and nine years later we read in a London newspaper that there were a dozen and more of these agreeable resorts throughout the city. "There is at this time a Turkish drink, sold in almost every street, call ed Coffee, and another kind of drink called Tea, and a drink called Choce late, which is a very hearty drink." . a . In the churchyard of Kingstone, it Dorsetshire, is the grave of a smug gler. He was shot In an encounte: with revenue officers in the days when tea smuggling was almost as popular as rum-running is to-day. "His epi taph shows how his family, friends and neighbors felt about his taking oft," chuckles Miss Repplier, Here it is: "To the memory of Robert Trotman, late of Rowd, in the county of Wilts, who was barbarously murdered on the shore near Poole, the 24th of March, 1765. "A little tea; one leaf I did not steal, For guiltless bloodshed I to God ap- peal, Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other, And think what 'tis to slay a human brother." © . © Isaac D'Israeli's "Curiosities of Lit erature," was first issued in six vol- umes containing over half a million words, It took him forty-three years to write." The first volume appeared in 1791, and the sixth and last, in 1834, Following D'Israeli's death in 1849, his famous son Benjamin, the great states. man and novelist, edited a new edition of it which has lasted down to the pre sent, when Edwin Valentine Mitchell has boiled down the six volumes inte one, until now it is all meat, . . . Recalling the honors paid to poets in the early state of poetry, D'Israell relates an anecdote of Margaret of Scotland, wife of the Dauphin of France, and Alain the poet, "The person of Alain was repulsive" he says, "but his poetry attracted her affections. Passing through one of the halis of the palace, she saw him sleep ing on a bench; she approached and kissed him, Some of her attendants could not conceal their astonishment that site should press with her lips those of & man so frightfully ugly. The amiable princess answered smiling, 'I did not kiss the man, but the mouth which has uttered so many fine things'." "Who is not charmed with that fine expression of her poetical sensibility?" asks D'Israeli, . . Violet Hunt's brilliant biography "The Wife of Rossetti" gives a favor ite Rosselti story. While engaged in painting the now famous reredos at Llandaff Cathedral, Rossetti took se long over them that the Dean and Chapter became weary of waiting, es- pecially as replies to letters sent Ros- setti concerning them were not forth- coming. So one day the Bishop Llan- daft being in London, called at Ros- setti's rooms in Blackfriars to ask to see them, and thus discover the reason of their non-arrival and of the paint- er's silence. . - But the maid who opened the door there at once informed him that Ros- sett] was absent, and on hearing what the Bishop had come about, she ex. claimed: "Oh, lor', sir, Mr. Rossetti don't paint now--he's married! iy Someone orce asked Rossetti how he managed to get such lovely models --ithe loveliest of all being the 1 Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall} ess. ed Damozel" who after years of weary waiting became his wife, "Well," sald he, "often on a wet day I stand at the window watching the. passers-by, and if I chance to see a beautiful creature I rush out and say, 'I'm a painter; I want you to sit te me.' Sometimes they scream, then I rush in and slam the door." ¥ » - James Stephens, the Irish poet and author cf. 'The Crock of Gold," tells of: meeting a woman af 8 Isception fn Dublin, who could not remember the title of his book, but its associatiost suggested Money" Drought Hard Cosi toms she had forgotten that Charles Reade was its author, So she remarked, Mr, Stephens, I'm delighted to meet I did so enjoy your book "Thank ' i