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A number of Lone Scouts were the
guests at Camp this sunnier of other
Regular 'Proops, and we understand
that some wonderful experiences were
enjoyed by these lucky Locales, Need-
less to say the Lone Scout Depart-
ment is profoundly grateful to those
troops who took, or offered to take,
Monies to Damp with thein. Unfor-
tunately the demand was greater than
the supply, and many troops who of-
fered hospitality were disappointed,
but we are grateful just the same.
And talking of camp, there are a
number of Lone Scouts who find it ab-
solutely impossible to get away from
their work in the summer time to at-
tend a camp, and it has been suggest-
ed that some sort of a "Get-to-gether"
be arranged for these older fellows
later in the fall or even during the win-
ter months. 'The possibility of among-
ing this has now been greatly facili-
tatedby the fact that a suitable loca-
tion has been found for such a "Get-
to-gether" if sufficient Lorries are in-
terested.
At Ebor Park, near Brantford, Ont.,
where the Ontario Giiwell Training
Course is held annually, suitable
buildiugse have been erected especial-
ly designed for functions of this 'sort,
and they have been placed at the dis-
posal of the Lone Scout Department
for a winter camp, and we should be
very cosy and comfortable there.
What do you think of the idea,
Lonies? Would you care to hang up
your stockings in the Kikidowigomig
or the Caravanserai this Christmas?
Write to "Lone E" and let him have
your opinion.
Lone Scout Question Box
Don't forget the Lone Scout Ques-
tion Box, which is operated in con-
nection with this paper. If you have
any querries concerning Scouting sub-
jects write to "Lone E," c/o. The Boy
Scouts Association, 330 Bay Street,
Toronto 2. Your questions will be an-
swered in these columns. •
Canadian National Exhibition
This year will be Boy Scout Year!
On Saturday, September 12th, there
will be a big parade of some 2000 Tor-
onto Scouts who will march, in. the
afternoon, to the Exhibition grounds,
where a Scouting Display will be given
at the Grand Stand.
Don't miss it, Louies. You will see
Bridge Building, Sea Scouting, Tent
Pitching, Signalling, Firemanship, etc.,
and lots of fun as well. Just imagine
2000 Scouts taking part in a gigantic
show!
For those of you who wish to visit
the Exhibition and require accommoda-
tion, the Toronto Association has
arranged to have a camp at the
Exhibition Grounds for the whole
period of the Ex., to accommodate you.
There will be no charge, and you will
just have to find your own food, and
bring your own Blankets, Ground
Sheet and eating utensils.
The Camp will be located just inside
the Exhibition Grounds, near the Duf-
ferin Street Entrance.
This year it is particularly required
that Scouts attending the Exhibition
shall be properly dressed in Full Scout
Uniform, including Shorts. To obtain
free admission to the grounds, each
Scout must also show his Registration.
Card. So hurry up and pass that Ten-
derfoot Test.
There will be a special Scout Dis-
play in the Ontario Government Build-
ing, which will include Lone Scouting,
and members of the Lone Scout De-
partment will be on duty there to wel-
come all Lonies who visit the Ex. So
don't forget to pay us a visit.
This Week's Summer Activity
Proficiency Badge
How many of you keep bees? Here
are the requirements of The Beekeep-
er's Badge:
Have a knowledge, gained in prac-
tice, of 'swarming, hiving, hives and
general apiculture, including a know-
ledge of the use of artificial combs,
etc.
Are You a Scout?
If not, why not? If you aro between
12 and 18 years of age, and are unable
to join a regularly organized Troop of
Boy Scouts, write to "The Lone Scout
Department, Boy Scouts Association,
330 Bay Street, Toronto 2, Ont." They
will be pleased to tell you how you
ban become a Lone Scout.—Lone E.
London Women Favor
New Style Chapeau
The Second Enipir_l style in hats
reign supreme.
The' verdict is the result of an
analysis following the introduction of
the new tricorns, bowlers and pill -box
styles of headgear.
By actual count over half the wo-
men at Lord's attending the Eton and.
Harrow cricket matches wore them.
During one day nine articles and two
editorials about the hats appeared in
the seven morning newspapers of Lon-
don and three articles and one editor-
ial in the three afternoon newspapers
of the same day.
Since their introduction, 75 per
.cent. of the hat advertisements have
featured these new models. Men dis-
cuss them and women buy them.
Walk along Bond Street and eight
out of ten women have them.
Anywhere in London one may ,ee
a tall woman.with a long skinny neck
balancing a small straw pill -box ab-
surdly on her head, or a short, fat
woman, with a neck like a heavyweigh"
wrestler wearing a Robin. Hoed felt
trimmed with flowing plumes that
would make a turkey cock or a pea-
cock jealous.
A Typewriter for" a Penny
A penny -in -the -slot typewriter has
now been installed in. Berlin's large
department stores.
Every hour of the day crowds of
business men line up in the queue
waiting their turn on the automatic
typewriter. It's all very simple. At-
tached to the machine is a small meter
with a slot which takes the coins. You
drop in the equivalent of a penny and
start to type.
Youcalculate your letter as you go
along, for every tap is registered on
the little dial of the meter. A thous-
and taps—not words—is the limit, and
at the thousandth tap the machine
locks, refusing to do another word un-
til yon insert an. additional coin.
A clever invention! But how long
Forc I L,c ,arra
roves Successful
Skillful flying on the part of Lawrence Talbot,
had stalled, saved the lives of four passengers at
From 500 feet up Talbot made a forced landing.
finally rested in a railway right-of-way,
after the motor
Inglewood, Calif.
The aeroplane
Africa's First Ocean` Outfitting For
To Ocean Railway. School
I
Dream of Cecil Rhodes,' Ern -1 Winter had come! Work in the fur-
pire Builder Now
Realized ; t
The first train to cross Africa irons
ocean to ocean left Lobito, on she west
coast, early in July, and ran to Beira,'
on the east coast, .a distance of 2,949
miles. It was the first time in the.
history of railway development in
Africa that a through train was run
from ocean to ocean. This train, it
is noted, traversed in turn Portu-
guese, Belgian, British, and again
Portuguese territory.
But the whole enterprise is predom-
inantly British, claims the London
Times, and will always be associated
with the names of two men, Cecil.
Rhodes and Sir Robert Williams. A expedition—our first visit to town.
correspondent of this newspaper ad- Our only carriage was still the him -
vises us further:
row had ended. The plow was brought
in, cleaned and greased to prevent its
rusting, and while the horses munched
tlieir hay in well-earned holiday, father
and. I helped farmer Button husk the
lest of his corn. •
One night as we were all seated
around the kerosene lamp my father
said: "Well, Belle, I suppose we'll
have to take these young ones down
to town and fit 'em out for school."
These words, so calmly uttered, filled
Our minds with visions of new boots,
and, though we went obediently to
bed, we hardly slept, so excited were
we, and at breakfast next morning not
one etas could think of food. All our
desires converged upon the wondrous
"It was by the decision of CeiYil
Rhodes that Beira became the port
for Rhodesia; it was Williams who,
having convinces himself of the min-
eral wealth of Katanga, determined
that it should have a direct outlet to
the sea by the shortest route—namely,
to the west coast through Angola...,
"That project has now been rel 1-
ized; moreover, since its inception till?. lige ''of perhaps twelve hundred in -
highly mineralized belt of country hats habitants, but to ine as we drove down
been found to extend south from Kit- its Main Street, it was almost as im-
tanga into Northern Rhodesia, and the pressive as: LaCrosse had been.
Lobito Say route will thus serve the " L+at',h of us 'soon carried a candy
very rich mines now being developed marble iii; his or her cheek (as a chip -
in British territory." munit` carries anut), and Frank and I
Editorially The Times calls our at- stood like eh rd'y hntching,potts whilst
tention to the fact that a remarkable the . storekeeper witll'heavy hands
change has collie over this land in a sseewed cotton-plusk cep y. , upon our
single generation, and it goes an: ; heads—but the meriteexcitingmonient,
"As diamonds drew the railway tine crowuiizg joys of the day, came with
from the Cape to Kimberley;' inn' as
gold drew the railway on to the Ranthe buying of our new boots. If only
(father 'had not insisted on our taking
so copper has drawn the railway to those' which were a size too large for
the heart of South Central Africa. us!'"Katanga, but yesterday a thousand They sere real boots. No one but
miles from anywhere, almost unknown a congressman wore "gaiters" in those
to the white man, is now the most :days. War fashions still dominated
highly developed province of theaBet- the shoersheps, and high-topped cav-
ber wagon, but it had now two spring
seats, -one for father, mother and Jes-
sie, and one for Harriet, Frank and
myself. No one else had anything bet-
ter, hence we had no .sense of being
pgorly outfitted. We drove away
across the frosty prairie toward Osage
e --moderately comfortable and per:
fectly happy; -
Osage was only a little town, a vil-
I Man Slowly Dominating ,
Cola Wastes in. Nott
gian Conga
airy boots were all but 'universal. They
"It has a conside~able white poput;i- m
were
tion; its mines have already exported kept iu boxes uncles the counter
copper to the value of X260,000,000; or ranged in rows on a shelf, and were
and in Elisabethville it has an at -
The
all weights and degrees of fineness.
tractive capital which at the moment The Dues I -selected had red tops with
is indulging in its first •International a' golden ;noon in the u but my
brother's taste ran to bluee t tops dec-
Exhrbitien, orated with a golden flag. Ohl that
"It was Livingstone who first kepi deliciously oily new smell! My heart
glowed every time I looked at mine. I
was especially, pleased because they did
not have copper toes. Copper toes be-
longed' to little boys. A youth who
lead plowed seventy acres of land could
not reasonably be expected to _dress
like a child. . . . How smooth and
delightfully stiff they felt on my feet.
Theca came our new books, a McGuf-
fey reader, a Mitchell geography, a
stay's arithmetic and a slate. The
economic proposition in itself. books s had a delightful new smell also,
"The Cape -to -Cairo line was meant and there was singular charm in the
as a backbone from which ribs would later. ` surface of the unmarked
extend on either side, ,slates. I was. eager to carve my name
"Two years before his death, in the frame. At last with our tree-
"Two
wrote: `The junctions to the sutes under the seat (so near that we
east and west coasts, which. will occur could feel them), and with our slates
in the future, will be outlets for the and books in our laps we jolted Home,
dreaming of school and'snow. To
traffic obtained along' the ^rouse of the ,� • ,�
as itpasses through the centre' wade in the drifts with our fine high -
line g topped boots was now our . desire.-
of Africa.' t Hamelin Garland, in "An Autobiog-
"That was written in 1900, the yeat sappy of America," Edited by Mark
open the road to the north, and it
will the machine. hold. out against the was the reading of entries in Living-
thousands of different hands that ham- stone's journal that guided Williams,
mer its fragile keys daily?—London as he has himself said, to his discov-
ery of the immense mineral wealth
along the Congo -Zambezi divide.
"Williams was an early associate of
Cecil Rhodes, and an ardent "believer
in the Cape -to -Cairo railway scheme,
"But neither he nor Rhodes was
foolish enough to suppose that a rail -
"Answers."
Professor Piccard Describes
Beauties of the Stratosphere
Brussels.—Professor Auguste Pic -
card, in very simple words, recently
described what it was like to float
in the stratosphere. He recommended'
the airmen present to follow in his
steps but not to use balloons, but air-
planes with triple motors, which are
being built for the purpose of explor-
ingthe stratosphere.
"Kipfer and I did not even know we
had started," said Picard. "Sealed
up in our cabin, with a slice of at-
mosphere, we were wondering what
had happened outside when Kipfer,
looking through the glass window at
the bottom o the cabin, said, `There's
a chimney down there,' and we knew
we were off. We were very eomfort-
able, seated among our instruments,
and before we knew it we had shot
fp into the stratosphere'
In order to prevent loss ofair when
diseharging ballast a tube was fitted
to the cabin. It had a tap at either
end. The ballast was dropped into
the tube, the upper tap turned off, the
lower tap opened and the ballast re-
leased. This insured very little loss
of air.
When their instruments showed
that they were in the stratosphere,
they took their observaions and their
photographs. Then they began to
think about descending. It was only
when they discovered an accident to
the valve, of which they had been in
happy ignorance, that they realized
they must float in the stratosphere,
helpless, until the balloon greduai'v
deflated though the escape of gas.
They immediately rationed their
water and oxygen supplies, observing
that the extra heat of the suns rays
at that altitude was causing the gas to
expand and Making' the balloon more
•b°:oyant instead of less to.
Their airtight cabin was unbearably
hot, the top too hot for the touch.
Drops of water, from the condensation
proeess, they carefully licked from the
walls of the cabin, to save their re-
maining supply. Little by little their
store of oxygen was running out.
Looking from the horizontal window
they could gauge the rate of the drift
of their apparatus by noting the posi-
tion of objects on the earth below.
Presently they came into the region
of high mountains, with peal- stand
way from the Cape to Cairo was an
's in which Williams go his firs mineral
ing above the clouds. This was ar Van Doren.
concession in Kaanga, To -day two
scene of indescribable splendor, T ey
ol! great `junction' lines are complete and
began to regret less the series of as Rhodes foresaw, they are taking to
accidents that had led to their mishap. the markets of the world `the traffic
Little by little, as the heat of the B.C.mid-
day sun decreased, they came nearer
earth, but were still in the strato-
sphere. The scene was flooded with
sunlight and moonlight simultaneous-
ly, the peaks of mountains, covered
with eternal snow, catching and re-
flecting the light, although the earth
be,,,,low was in inky blackness. They for-
got the difficulty of breathing rationed
oxygen, their thirst and their danger,
in admiration of the sight, seen for i
the first time with human eyes.
Presently they saw that they had
reached an altitude where they might
safely open the window. They took
long, deep breaths of ail', Those
breaths and the ice cream made later
by rubbing orange peel on the glacier
ice, were the most wonderful treats
they had ever tasted.
"1 can't describe the splendors 01
the mountains, seen from the strato-
sphere," said Piccal:d. "1 can only.
say, go for yourselves and see."
Airplanes to explore the strato-
sphere were ready at Zurich, he Maidi
they only lacked pilots and passengers.
Rich Placer Find
Reported ,
eporte in
Antarctic Still Has Unexplored Areas, But Its Secrets Are
From Air
When the Graf Zeppelin recently Josef Land that Nansen wintered,
made her trip to the North it was after his !miraculous trip across the,
with the intention of surveying more ice from the Frani:
accurately than lhalbeen possible Novaya Zembla, further south, is not
from ships caught in the ice the un- so difficult to reach, although Barents,
known area east of Franz Josef Land, who first wintered there, escaped with
writes Russell Owen in The N.Y. great difficulty and died on the jour -
Times. For although the probability ney home. It is inhabited by hunters,
of there being large unknown. land nearly 200 people living there. Spits -
masses in the unexplored region north bergen, of` course, supports the largest
of Siberia and Canada is minimized population of the northern islands,
by those who have studied the problem its coal mines being profitable, and
of drift, there is always the possibility at one time during the height of .'.rc-
that new islands may be discovered on tic whaling it had a large settlement
the continental shelf. Several sinal! far north of its present northernmost
islands were found on the Graf's village.
flight, and Northern Land was found
to be, as suspected, much larger than
its hitherto known boundaries.
Despite the many expeditions to the
Arctic, the proportion of undiscovered
area is still so large that even near
the known islands explorers frequent-
ly find land which has escaped the
eyes of other men. It is ofen difficult
to distinguish ice -covered land in the
polar regions, and no explorer can
regulate the drift of his ship. Only in
the air is freedom of movement pos-
sible, and even'there vision is hindered
by fog. So some land will always
escape notice until a lucky man finds
it by accident.
NORTHERMOST LANDS
The lands which approach most
closely to the North Pole, which ex-
tend
x
tend furthest into the Arctic Sea, are
off the Siberian, Russian and Norwe-
gian coasts, Greenland and Canada.
Greenland is the only large land mass
extending far north, but nearly on a
line with the top of it are some of the
Canadian islands and, to the east,
Spitsbergen, now known as Svalbaci,
Franz Josef Land and Northern Land.
Between Northern Land and Wrangel
Island,. although the continental shelf
extends far toward the eightieth par-
allel, there is no similar large island
or group of islands, except the New
Siberian Islands, which are much fur-
ther south than the others. This
brings the greatest unknown areas on
either side of a line from Alaska to
the Pole, a line followed a few years journey to the Pole' cut through an -
ago by the dirigible Norge. The east -
other part of the unknown region.
ern'' half of this area was bisected by However, the hope of some large is -
Wilkins in his flight from Alaska to. lands persisted until the Norge flew
Spitsbergen. On neither of these from the Pole to Alaska and no laid.
flights was there any sign of new land was seen. Then Wilkins made his'
and it seems' doubtful that there areflight far north from Alaska and on.
But perhaps the most interesting of
the northern islands are the New Si-
berian group. When they were first
reached some of them were found to
be literally built on the bones of mam-
moths and other large prehistoric ani-
mals. This was in 1773, and the ivory
industry has been carried on there
ever since. Some fossilized trees bear-
ing leaves and fruit have been found
also, giving evidence of a much diff-
erent climate at one time; studied in
connection with some significant dis-
coveries in the Antarctic they have
made scientific men wonder if there
had not been in past ages a shift in
the Poles.
Scattered along the edge of the con-
tinental shelf between the New Si-
berian Islands and Wrangel Island
are a number of small islands of no
particular importance. There are
undoubtedly ohers there also which
have not been found, for the shelf is
wide at this point and large parts of it
have never been reached.
All of these islands have their in-
terest, but the possibility of a large
land in or near the centre of the Arc-
tic Sea has held more importance for
the explorer. There was ,a time when
it was thought that Greenland con-
tinued across as a continent to Si-
beria or Alaska. Some , peculiarities
of drift led to that theory. But when
De Long drifted on his fatal expedi-
tion across the area where the sup-
posed continent was imagined to lie
this idea was abandoned. Peary's
even small islands in this inaccessible
portion of the Arctic Sea.
So it can - be seen that the route
taken by Dr. 'Ecla-ner'from Franz Jo-
sef Land to the east, over a partly
explored region, - held the greatest
promise.of results. It was also within
easy cruising distance for the Graf.
Explorers have penetrated this area
for hundreds of years, but are always
finding something new. It was only
in 1913 that Northern Land, which
now seems to be larger than Novaya
Zernbly, was discovered. Only the
eastern cpast line was snapped, and
it was believed that a greater terri-
tory remained tete found to the north
and west than had already been dis-
covered before the Zeppelin's cruise.
How much was seen of this little
known country on the fight has not
been definitely reported.
CHANGES IN THE MAP
Although Franz Josef Land has
been known since 1873 and successive
expeditions 1'ave outlined most of its
islands, it appears that the observers
on e
th airship have. made a few
landing on the ice found an ocean
depth of nearly three miles. His next
flight from Alaska= to Spitsbergen.
eliminated the possibility of land in
a section east of the Norse's route.
But despite all these journeys, by sea
and air, some explorers still cling to .
the hope that land may be found out-
side the continental shelf in the large
expanse which is still unknown.
The airplane and airship have done
much to reduce the unknown in the
Arctic and with their perfection un-
doubtedly the blank region now on
the map will diminish rapidly. Geo-
graphical exploration was a slow pro-
cess in the days when men were en-
tirely dependent upon ice drift and
the strength -of their ships. For al-
though the old-time explorers could
stay for long periods in the Arctic
Sea, after they learned how to pre-
vent scurvy, and did detailed scien-
tific work which is not possible during
the short flights of an airship, there
is no doubt that for quick surveys the
the latter is incomparably better. Fog
y is the greatest obstacle to discovery
changes in the map, finding two or from the air, but repeated trips north
three new islands and altering the are - bound eventually to uncover all.
outlines of others. It was on Franz Arctic secrets.
I centre of the open range area as pos-
e Wild -Horse Hunt I Bible in an effort to head the prey
•4_
�ansae'toward the corrals at the outer mar -
la gins, when the animals can usually be
roped or run down by relays of fresh
Wild horses are being hunted in the r ounts.
remote bottoms of Southwestern
Arkansas, where 100 square miles of
open range country in the meandering
valley of the Little Missouri River
provide a permanent retreat for an
untamed herd. The animals are
thought to be the descendants of do-
mesticated beasts that were left be-
hind by pioneer farmers and timber -
men driven out of the area by floods.
They have been pursued by occasional
parties for a quartet of a century, but
are being sought now with increased
obtained along the route of the (main ienergy in line with a State-wide cam -
Cape -to -Cairo) line.' They are also Victoria. -Discovery of a rich gold paign against carriers and spreaders
opening up lands rich in agricultural field at an obscure point tributary to of the deadly fever tick.
and mineral possibilities!' -
III'
"Anything worth catc.i;: .. :.
lake?"
"Rather. That girl in ,,
bathing suit Is worth a niii!ion,'i'ni
Ignorance never settles a tit:est:,,.r
—Benjamin Disraeli.i, `
;der of the present hunt is
Training Ship Shows
Successful Sailings
Worcester, S. Af.—The annual re-
port of the board of control of the
only South African training ship, the
General Botha, just issued, shows
that during the nine years' work of
this ship, nearly 300 cadets have
found employment at sea as appren..
tires and otherwise, a Held of occu-
pation which. was previously closed
..to South Africa.
"We have not had the slightest
trouble or complaint Ili regard to any
the Finlay River, in the northern part The le< f diem," runs one of the many let-
. of British Columbia o
was reported to W. A. McDonald, a district agent for
the Government Saturday' b;q'" J. B. the United States Bureau of Animal ert received from shipping coin.
tines.
Plinio, Deputy Minister of Agricul Industries. Aiding him are twenty p
ture. range riders of the bureau and a num
At a village in the Peace River' ber of sportsmen. Captured wild
cbountry last week, Mr. Munro met horses, usually powerful and fleet, can
M, C. Brown, veteran prospector, who be trained for saddle use or for farm
had just staked claims from which,of claimed imrnedi-
work. All those n
igi three days,, he took 27 ounces of ately by their captors, are sold by the
ioarse gold with the use of a etude bureau to farmers for" a "redemption"
Acker made with three poles and a fee of $10 to $25.
'klankct. This gold would be worth Wild -horse hunting is a breath -
`hoot 4100, taking sport. Its strategy is based on
Brown is now on his way back to the habitual tendency of horses 0
sus ' Claims with several companions evade pursuit by running in circles.
ho will also stake claims and spend Dogs are used to spot and trail the
winter working with him. j :animals and the pursuers ride horse -
Brown declinedto indicate where back, in relays, in art attempt to drive
hh d them into rail corrals built before -
field y, e la bynd
o saying e
he Fiala to Finlay hand at creek or trail crossings. The
rale down , the Y n frequently requiring
sere a long way from 'the river over as many as twelve hard
The chases are begun as near the
Forks, Ile indicated , that his clanns hunts are log, q y
Y hours in the
�. difficult to reaeh saddle
',Ind rinci extremely
k!l s.ipi ::os mint be bd& packed.
"thistle up, Old Man! Remeni-
b.:r the world owes.you a living."
"t know! but I don't feel liko be-
ing Bard on it until after this heat
wave."