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ing to equipm to the girls ing ber e the 'had a'tea and cake sale with a shower Hor needy families in the town, some 'the women cutting out and making donated : of the Fort William and Port Arthur Institutes went to a great deal of trouble to make the Convention hos- as could Jeave home met some the school-board at the school and Quzdrift is steadily raising money r community hall. They find hox-socials very effective in this con- nection... They have contributed cloth- the northern prizes to the school fair. * Burriss is equipping a domestic +. geience room in their new consolidated school. They are planning next year | also much interested in the school fair, to give the school some: playground ent. They give prizes annually of the community for cook- and sewing of girls rt was given f neighborhood who had been gl "Old-Timers' doubled the wa 'now about inetoon usdred They have also assisted the) their. books. ion. Tastitute for the Blind. Hymers Institute, which is only one| along with other clothing. was given to clothing. The women mothers. Their meetings a rental of $6 per meeting. work this year. On|bste with two gentlemen, " y as many of the meém- i to the fire Box Alder and fire sufferers. . ul Big Fork, organized only last year, assisted with the school fair, form a reading club and pro the com. munity with a travelling library. Crozier Institute' had a domestic science course last year. They are fire relief and Fort Frances Institute is particu. larly interested in child welfare work. They have given prizes to the school fair; provided the school with swings and sand hills and equipped a park for them. They sent out generous t| Christmas 'cheer 'parcels to the sick ate| and in people in Ge commubity | course this year, and a showing of the "Gift of Life" film by Miss Moore of the Department of Health. They have furnished an Institute room in the library, assisted fire sufferers both at home and in Temiskaming, and have $600 in the bank towards providing a local hospital. Much of their money is raised by sales of home cooking and a sale of plants in the spring. - LaVallee Institute has been gerer- ous in relief work and Rraght a do- t| mestic science. course to the commune m| ity pn summer, BRR -| MecIryine Institute, with a member-| 'and had a la attend num- to a family ing for a pi ce is being fair prizes, relief . On Domin- Institute held a field day, 0 in prizes. One prize the school child writing the best essay on "Dominion Day and What It Means." This Institute car- ries out the rather unique feature of] taking a "stork shower" to prospective -are regular held in the school, the Institute paying Devlin Institute, among its enter- taining features this year, had a de- 'Resolved that a man spends more time and money on his own pleasure than a wo- man does." This Institute has helped suf- and the Institute for Institute has painted the church and supplied it with an organ. They have also assisted the school fair ' Iboard. A ship of eleven, has this year raised| The. ld | 300, Part of his gota to Pndh 'page| Bas been © '==Cleveland Plain Dealer. tute was instrumental i the fire sufferers. for a community hall their winter's work. » 'up the grounds and|their baseball club, the Haileybury| community hall which they have built boxes. In the after-|fire sufferers; Russian relief and the entirely on: their own responsibility. fair. . . ». | Just now. the church services are be: ng| ing held in this hall. Por! Arthur is assisting the Red Cross Hospital, and the Navy League. "8| They aim to make their r work each! of practical benefit 'to the members. "hey have educational meetings and remember those in trouble or illness: O"Conno? Institute has the distine- tion' cf being the one place in Ontario, or in Canada so far as we inow, where the women carry on an Agri- cultural Fair entirely on their own responsibility. This year the women included three of their " husbands 1/on the fair committees, as they could | not erect tables; ete., themselves, They 'hope this year to finish paying for their community hall. They are al- ways ready to assist their members in time of poverty or trouble. this 'year, the main outlay from this 'sum going towards fire relief. One through its standing committees. 'The school committee met the teach- érs upon their arrival for-the fall term and found temporary bourding places for them. They arranged a re: ception for the teachers and parents. At the opening of She new school this committee arranged refreshments and the snlaita (ment, taking care of a crowd of about séven hundred peo- ple. Perhaps in this feature as much as in any other the Institute won the swarm _ 'appreciation: of the school, piano was provided for the school, the money being raised partly through teas given by the Institute and partly through a dance given by the teachérs ith : troducing sewing in the public school. The prim-. ary teachers volunteered to give an hour a week to teach sewing to the n having al car load of food and clothing sent to Pinewood Institute has been yery active in local and outside relief work. Rainy River Institute has adopted]: the name of the "Beaver" Branch, "because this little animal works all] the time." One outstanding feature of their work has been to fit up the} armories as a play house and a gym- nasium for the children. They have had a number of demonstrations from the Public Health Nurse, Miss Carr- Harris. They have assisted the town band' and are steadily raising money Shenstone Institute, recently re- organized, is making active plans for Melntyre Institute is paying for 'a Dryden Institute has raised $1,986 | and If and | The outstanding feature of the programs; where there will be the least running of this Instiute is the work done|back and forth with the lime sower. The bags are pulled off the load direct- ly. onto the open lime sower and then slit from end to end with a knife. It only takes a few minutes to unload a -half-ton into the spreader. I generally sow from 3,600 pounds to two tons to the acre. to spread the afternoon of the day that unloading is started, I can spread a, carload by the time the lime is | home; that, is, I-can spread twenty tons in a day and a half.--A. H. de Graff. 8,000 senior girls and the Institute provided ry supplies, verve done. mmittee on Public Health as-' required is a receiving set oF nurse at her Like water it is free, but one needs > dishes to provide a cup to quench his thirst. | Between dodging "} and gett of ev sist in time of sickness, and introduce the public health nurse to them. Dur-| ing the ¢ families and found that their advances were welcomed by the new comers. Handling Lime Cheaply. One of the heaviest jobs on. the farm is hauling and spreading lime. Lime is often hauled in the winter, stored, and then hauled to 'the field wasteful of labor. spread it on fall.plowed land at once, unless the snow is too deep. snow is too deep the lime should not ly afterwards sending out the twelve care of by the first Women's Mission- be ordered until later. Lime is heavy disciples on a mission. A single pair of sparrows and a nest tof young ones will consume about bi rr ee - | Cull out the culls or the culls will cull out your profits. + The best source of feed for the cow is the ¢ Market information is in, the air. It, gave can be found in and. around All home : they called on two dozen ---- ener ' spread in the spring. This is lime is hauled in the winter, {news of the coming of the was Hie scenic of this ing in synagogues. I was the custom that some yn e gathering in Synagogue was called upon to speak. This gave Jesus DT Tae i I e. Pa e a; also us; the 5 y e us the centre of his ; a8 long as he was perm ted so ny Ty Preaching the ospel of the' kingdom; preac the with its blessings, Healing . « . disease. The Synagogue contain the ministry of Christ. It overflowed that centre, and touched the whole community of need. There was instruction for the mind, good news for the heart, and healing for the body. . He was moved with com Pp "Was gripped in his heart concerning them." Because th. ed; were distracted by the burdens they carried and by the difficulties in their way. Were scattered; "were de- ected." As sheep having no shep- erd. They were without leadership, without defence, without food, Jesus came to bring them--all-these things: The missionary motive is that it sees a vast need. The missionary confi- dence is that it can supply that need by the gospel. Vs. 37, 88. The harvest . . is plen- teous. Jesus sees not only the need of the people, but also the readiness of the people to respond. Laborers . « few. Jesus sees that he cannot If the will not wash away with thaws nor with spring rains, and I have re- peatedly spread it in the fall and winter with the best results. mention, however, that this was the ground rock: I never used quicklime but once, as it is far less convenient to handle than the ground rock and it' gave 'me mo better results. Most of my lime has been spread in -the spring. just before I started fitting the land for oats. paper bags, as the saving in time re-| panions, helpers and learners. And| quired to hiandlé it is as much or more certain women. This is the important elect alone, but for all mankind. We than the extra cost. I haul it in dump | part of this passage, Last boxes, and in unloading remove one | i p side of the box and pull out the bags multitude. This one shows the com-' shadow of 'sidewise, instead of lifting every bag ' assion of Jesus for womankind. over. I borrow one extra wagon, or | two if necessary, and handle the bags -direct from the wagon to the lime sower. 1 used to pile-the -bags along | evils, and now show their the sides of the fields, but I' got a lame by helping him in his missionary back one year spreading two carloads work. Their time, love and substance and handling most of it three times, and now I cut out one handling. I usually haul 7,000 pounds at a load, I must I buy it in| making six loads to a carload. wagons are left along the field By starting I Devouring Sparrows. insects a week. darm upon which she is kept. -- rrr ry an farmer. A i get it. the Hessian fly, oi ce the vith RET Matt. of Jesus, Matt. 9: A in| "His itinerary took in the vi world. In this verse the supreme mo- serted with supreme motive is love. declared the motive, we have of 'that motive declared. vine love that embraces the world, The Foi universal - human need as the river y flows downward to the sea. He. Ome. hig « begotten Son.' Next we have that Is the. method of that divine. Jove. It ia the method of sacrifice. "God's love manifests itself through sacrifice. Should: have - everlasting life. we, have the object of that love. It is Hat ;mankin should share in the life '| eternal y iniag its duration. pres for, gession of those who believe. Not fo ; condemn .. . be saved. God's ! not the condemnation of evil, overtake this ministry of the gospel alone. Hence we find him immediate- Lord of the harvest. This harvest of human hearts belongs to God. God alone can inspire the heart with the desire to reap this harvest for God. II. CHRIST'S BLESSING FOR WOMAN- KIND, LUKE 8: 1-3. Luke 8: 1.8. He went throughout) every -city. Once again we see that Jesus came not only to save, but to seek and to save. This preaching tour of Jesus probably precedes the one recorded in the first part of the lesson. | th him; 4s com-| The twelve were passage shows the c for the P herever Christian missions have gone, they have elevated the status of womankind. Healed of evil spirits. The women had been saved from at ratitude are at his command. Later we find this band following him to his cross. (See Matt, 27: 56, 56.) Mary . .. seven devils. She belonged to the town of Magdala and had been de- livered from an extreme case of de- moniacal possession as indicated by the phrase "seven devils." It was this Mary who stood near him at the foot of the cross (Mark 15: 40, 41,) who watched to see where the body of Jesus was laid (Luke 23: 55); who found the sepulchre empty (Mark 16: 2-5); to whom Jesus first appeared, John 20: 14, 16. Joanna; the wife of Herod's steward who was with Mary at the sepulchre, Luke 24: 10. Su- ganna. . Nothing more is known of her. Womankind, like the multitude was the harvest ready for love's reaping. III. CHRIST'S LOVE FOR THE WORLD, JOHN 3: 16, 17. John 8: 16, 17. For God so loved the tive of God's dealing with men is as- great finality. That Then having the sa0] It is a, di- is God's good news for the love flows down to the ave Next Christ makes us re 'of that life in God which i! described. as eternal, The word describes its quality as well It is a present - Belief in gory is tthe tion of good. is a redeemer APPLICATION. © © | note the Home Mission enter 9: 85-88, + land. we! | vt ripe. This full-orbed process was the all- peal i his abundan Ite ere cities and vil- | roun 2 a tianity of Jesus is not eon- to | Lord went about among men he walk- Kingdon naaoot | 4 faint- | spouts. ter farmer than you are, give him the chance to take up club work. ! i ~ His special activities,--preaching and healing, the cure of the body, himself "in- and stature, and in favor with God and 'with man." The Chi cerned alone with that aspec of man's nature which lies open toward Jeru- cerned alone with that aspect of man's need. For that reason we have medi- cal missions established in non- Christian countries, in order to heal as the great Physician healed, and to create a hospitality in favor of the gospel message, ie missionary motive. As our ed by insight as well as by sight. Deep own below outward trappings of that festal multitude, he saw that all was not right, Beneath the illusive surface, their lives flowed on in dark disorder and oura nt. To-day i the nations, yes éven the Christian na- tions, are too much like sheep without a shepherd. He has compassion to- day upon the unshepherded multitudes o Do we share in that com- passion ' issionary head-office. Th mise 0, 7 e disciples are enjoined to pray to the Lord of the harvest that he send forth "more laborers. In another place he teaye, "As me; | even so send I you." The true mis- sionary is always sent of God, not merely of man. Are we listening to God's call? Who will go for us? | Let us note also his home mission- ary support, Luke 8: 1-3. As he tra- , vels through village and city, the dis- ciples and himself cannot live on air. He had no private means of which we have any knowledge. In these cir- | cumstances his daily needs were taken 'ary Society of which we have certain information,--Mary and Joanna and Susanna. Now let us consider the Foreign Missionary ideal which lay behind all his. operations of whatsoever kind, John 8: 16, 17. God loves the world,--not the Jew alone, but also every last Gentile. There is no favored nation clause in the new covenant. The child of the Hottentot playing on the sands of : South Africa is just as dear to God as any Canadian child. - He is no re- specter of persons. Christ died for all--not for the do not believe in a limited atonement. A and times fall within the his cross. 'Whosoever will may believe. The grace of God is free to all. We are not helplessly fated nor is the favor of God limited to a class possessing a marked religious genius. Hauling Loose Straw. Baled straw {s easy to handle, hut many times we have a load or more of straw to take some distance and ft must be loaded on the wagon a forkful at a time. I've foynd that the use of two five foot hay(slings helps a good deal in this case, "I tie the end ropes to the standards of the rack and slip the ends of the wooden strips of the slings inside the side boards of the rack. That makes side boards five feet high in reality. A lot of straw can be piled in and it doesn't have to be loaded so carefully. It will stand a good deal of jolting too. Some few farmers have stock racks for their wagon racks, These are good to use, but the motortruck is used so often that there are few such racks any more. ' The slings are on a great many farms,--Earl Rogers. Ar------r ee r---- Disinfectant Whitewash. Use the following ingredients: Hy: drated lime, one and one-half pecks; salt, two pounds; commercial lime sulphur, four gallons; water, forty gallons. Make a paste of the lime by adding hot water. Dissolve the salt in water and add it. Add the lime sulphur, and enough more water to make a total of forty gallons of, water, The Rain on the Roof. We like to hear rain on a metal roof, Not that we like rain so much, nor iron roofs either, but because of the sense of dryness, protection, safe- ty, of triumph over the force of na- ture, if you understand what we mean. Our prehistoric ancestors, when they first moved from the limbs of trees: into caves, must have had the same | triumphant feeling, but they missed | the satisfying thunder of the down. pour on the roof, and the exhilarating swirl and gush of the water in the Just as when firs! tests show that frequent applications of small amounts of lime are more economical and effective than the heavier applications applied at longer intervals. These tests, like many oth- ers, simply verify the practices which keen farmers have, through observa- tion and inclination, found to be best suited to their needs. We anticipate, therefore, that it will not be long before farmers who have acid sofl to contend with will have a regular time during the rotation when a sufficient application of lime will be made to correct acidity only until the rotation cycle is completed. The Goose Trait. oe One renowned theorist has said that the human being is a conglomeration x of all the other animals and birds. It is true that man is the most versatile of all living' beings, and perhaps his versatility may be due to having all these traits. Otherwise, he would not at times try to sing like a bird, be as obstinate as a jack-ass, and act like a goose, Now, one of the common traits of the goose is to follow the leader in whatever he might do, whether it be foolish, dangerous or sane. This leader is usually a gander, but just how this gander gains his leadership is not within our limited knowledge. It may be because of. A fuse quacking ability, or he may have to show other more worthy qualities to attain his. position, SH With us trousered and skirted bi- peds this goose-like quality of follow- ing the leader is outstanding. A great many of us flock to the leader because of his loud quacking ability, others are flopping around because they can not find a suitable leader to flock to, and still others follow the ones who lead to sane and constructive purposes. This goose quality is a good one, for leaders must be followed to bring unity of purpose in big undertakings. But the selection of the leader is the vital thing. There is at the present po time a lot of loud quacking, political \ and otherwise, As noise is always at- tractive to our emotions, let us use judgment to ascertain whether the loudest quacking has good purpose be- hind it, or is quack all the way through. We can feel reasonably safe if we will use good human sense instead of emotion in following our goose trails, Sar -------- Air and Incidental Discoveries The first thing we have use for when we come into the world is air; we breathe {t every day that we live, and it is the last thing we have use for before leaving the world. We ought to understand. it if we under- stand anything in the universe and yet the human family breathed it for centuries before they knew what ft was or had any just conception of it. In 1650 A, D. Otto Vom Guericke invented the air pump, Boyle, the next investigator, endeavored to as- certain the chemical constituents of the atmoSphere. He concluded that there were different kinds of air, Hales pursued the investigation still further, but Black was the first tq use the plural of the word air and to use a balance for weighing airs. In 1771 Rutherford discovered nitro- gen and in 1774 Priestly discovered oxygen. Lavosier, a Frenchman, gen: eralized th. « bservations of the others and Invented the callometer. He clas. sified the elements of air as oxygen, nitrogen and carbon. Liebig discover ed that air possesses a small vortion of ammonia. oh Fresh observations are still being made which tend to show how little {s yet known about the air. Blec- triciang fill it with ozone, radios fill it with sound, and when treating of those departments of physics scientl- fic speculations fill it with light, heat, odor, gravity and ether, and still we breathe it and it sus lite » agpantin If you wish to make your boy a bet- ble encouragement d in the path of a farm- th his neighbor and" king out their mu- Every i fins HH