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ed ¢ if breakfast is feady in to the six-thirty car older children's report within her. "It's a simple enough tardy marks. Nor can relaxing of vigilance if lunch is spread on the Kite table 'when they rush in pre- "cisely three minutes after the noon whistle. With such 'additional duties as washing, ironing, mending and the soothing of childish ills and heart- breaks, how could one's mind find much scope for excursions beyond the tyran- _ nical 'dictation of the kitchen time- piece? ' "Pwo o'clock," sighed Ma, resignedly _ laying aside her dish-towel at the ve- hement behest of her youngest, "and the 'wash not on the line yet. I won- der why my babies always do their teething in the hottest part of the summer?" : With a practiced hand she picked up wailing Baby Benny from his cradle and cuddled him capably against her deep and motherly breast. "There, there, honey, Ma wasn't scolding you. I did hope you'd hold off with that tooth till the weather cooled a bit, but my children are always just that forward and capable!" Having gained his desire after per- sistent effort, Benny clung resolutely to his comforting refuge. Through the open window a perfect "drying" day mocked at her tubs of half-washed clothes. And the relentless hands of the clock moved forward. "My grief, Mis Mahoney, aren't you ready to come with me to that Moth- er's Meeting?' The sharp voice of Sarah Bordon calling from the little front entry startled the mother from her efforts gt pacifying her clinging infant. "With my clothes still in the tubs?" she answered with her ready smile. "Not but what I'd like to go, Sarah," she added, with a longing note in her voice. "It's always the same story," dis- approvingly complained Sarah with the freedom of a friend. "It would do you good, Mary Mahoney. You just stay home and slave year in and year out." "But I can't leave a crying baby alone--nor my wash in the tubs. School will be out in another week. Maybe then I can get away," she pro- phesied hopefully. "Anyway, you come over tonight and tell me every- thing that's said and done." Ma's resolute smile lasted until the door had closed 'behind her 'neighbor. On her way back to the kitchen she paused to lay the baby, who had drop- ped asleep in her arms, on the sitting- room lounge away from the heat and light. "Pll never tell why I can't go to those meetings!" she resolved grim- ly, as she picked up her dish-towel once more, then forgot everything else in her attempt to finish her work] full of growing children." before supper time, In the sultry, dusk of evening Mrs. Mahoney sought the comfort of her back porch when she heard Sarah Bordon's screen door slam. Pa Ma- honey had sauntered down street, the older children had disappeared, their mother had not had time to inquire as to 'their destination. The two young- est had been put to bed. Evidently indignation had not de- parted from the heart of Sarah Bor- don. "It's a burning shame you couldn't ve been there," she began as Soon they were seated. "That talk was Just intended for you, Mary Mahoney. I had as much as I could do not to come back here and take you--wash- ing, 'baby and all--to that meeting! She. said we musn't tie ourselves down + to our kitchen tables, although she be- ~ lieves in good housekeeping all right. She wants us to hold meetings in our own houses, but we were all afraid to invite her. She says we must get tp- _ gether and get acquainted with each other and with our own front rooms! "You needn't drift whichever way the d blows,' she said. 'You can con- our. own life if you really want to and go about it right.'" "How does she say we can do it?" Mrs. Mahoney's mind looked back _ wearily over the day just spent and ver a countless procession of similar t was clear that she had had say about her own life. do it with your mind," ex- an awed tone. "You what you'd like to do have things. And!' acting as if itl ga first thing you know decent! 411 the ye Instead mechanic-| : ke thy 5 be on the night with disturbing thoughts either "I'll get you the rest | } Ma was too weary to lie awake that tiful cu of regret or anticipation. But next I ean," morning a strange excitement short of g n to try," she decided at last. "All I've for your M Irink got to do now, is to plan out just how And handling it as if it I'd like to have things. And I. 8 ve, Molly ea 4 I'll not have time to be much ap Hirougs th y Saggy oo pointed if it don't work out the way morning Molly and her mother worked ¢riinated a Coll 1 Want!" happily. The house did look festive fortiisation ety io By mid-afternoon her trial venture indeed with its unwonted order and The 0.A.C. No. 104 variety 3 diet in plans had been completed and the its jars of pretty flowers. Only from SFOS ~between - the awsows" Coltien pec experience had proved exhiliarating. the safe precincts of the kitchen door- hat and the Bulgarian. 1t heard | see Sarah Bordon, called to the dividing way were the children allowed to view t with a white chaff a > fence, had promised to carry a.mes- its splendors. j less head and sage, the importaties rie almest he beautiful mew china eups and In compa staggered her. "Mary Mahoney, of all plates were arranged-on a 'spotless' : . Bee in this world," she muttered, as she cloth on the little side tale The less Susceptible jto smut, and sim ont J went back to her own kitchen, "And bread was delicately sliced for the a3 9d nH Heseion fiy 'to a-less 3 after what she said last night!" | sandwiches. Molly had even laid out Ju od by ris hess} n ~ to pn oa) h Mrs. Mahoney looked upon her as- on hér mother's bed upstairs the fresh hi ho pit? rege 3 forty eh sembled family that 'evening and, when the noise at the supper table had somewhat subsided, deliberately and accurately dropped a bomb. Clearly and with a beguiling smile she an. nounced, "I've invited the * Mother's Meeting here for Saturday afternoon, Pa" The two "middle" boys paused in| their struggle for food to gaze, pop- eyed at their unfamiliar and serenely, smiling mother. Pretty Molly Ma-/| expressed her astonishment: "Mercy, Ma, how could you, the way the house looks!" Pa Mahoney, slower of perception] than his offspring, dropped his knife, while a stern frown darkened his cofintenance. He was emphatic in de-| nouncing the gadding ways of women, ! was Jim Mahoney, Could it be that Ma, most sensible and docile of crea- tures, would dare to defy his author- ity? 2 . Like a born diplomat Ma hastened! to present her evidence. "The speaker, wanted a place to hold her meeting in our neighborhood. It is a fine attefi- | tion to pay our community, but the women seemed to shy to invite her. Said I to myself: 'If some of the estab- lished families in our street don't take up such things folks are naturally go-| ing to think us a poor locality. They, won't want to be moving their families in here. We own our place, which not, many folks do in the street, and it's to our own advantage to be ' public spirited." " The threatening frown on Jim Ma- honey's face gradually relaxed during this astonishing recital. "That's so, I guess," he admitted, feeling as if some one had unexpectedly patted him on! the back. "But the house, Ma," protested | aged to say awkwardly as she lifted "wrapper" and the white apron. Ma, flushed face and hair in curl- papers, was marshaling the young ones round the dinner-table when her husband entered. Again beneath 'his arm was to be seen a large and sug- gestive package. He placed the box in his wife's hands, . Beneath the cover was a layer of snowy paper through which something blue and white shimmered softly. "You used to wear one like that," Pa man- years, : This new hybrid wheat will be sent to Ontario farmers, free of 'cost, in pound lots to those who wish to con. Guelph, Ont., for seed for this purpose. me me lee S Weeds. The crop producing capacity of out such a dress as she certainly had many an acre in Ontario has during not possessed in the memory of her the past season been reduced by astonished and admiring children. twenty-five per cent. This is "It's true," she exclaimed in an awed heavy a charge against the land and whisper, "as true as fate itself!" | only the mich fellows can stand the "What's true?" questioned Pa, who losses occasioned by weeds. was looking for more of a demonstra-! Keep weeds off the farm by plow- tion. ing all the land that you intend to! "Why," said Ma, coming to herself,! plow immediately after harvest, Culti-| "that I have the kindest husband and vate as frequently as possible with the best children in all the world!" the springtooth up to the end of Oc- At the appointed hour for the meet-' tober. In early November rib up the ing the women poured in. speaker for the afternoon had lacked posed to the weather. Ribbing attach- inspiration, she certainly could have ments can be placed on the spring- found it in the radiant face of Mary, tooth cultivator which makes it pos- Mahoney. sible to cover a large area in a day. Pretty Molly, demurely serving the Insist on careful cleaning of the tea and sandwiches, filled her mother's threshing machine before it comes to heart with pride. The children hover-| your farm. See that all farm ma- ing in the background were orderly chineéry is free from the roots of peren- and clean to an unheard of degree. nial 'weeds before going to another Benny Boy was conspicuous by his field. silence. rere "It has done me good to be here," i : declared the pretty speaker; as she! Rough-Handling Decreases, held Ma's hand in parting. "It is the 0g Values. 3% mothets like you who work with their: .A four-page leaflet has been issued heads and hearts and hands who are bY the Dominion Dept. of Agriculture! doingsthe real things, Mrs. Mahoney."; (Live Stock Braiich) guided by which "But I couldn't have done it if they the farmer and breeder may. save hadn't_all helped," remonstrated Ma, many dollats. - It points out that the thinking only of her initial flight into hog is easily.subject to bruises, which of course mean depreciation in value.! ties under test during the last four 5 g duct tests with three varicties of win-| ter wheat this'automn and who apply} A to the Field Husbandry Dept., 0.A.C., 1 If the land that the 'weed roots may be ex- God inward] 5 by the faith, answers that of. Jesus at Antipas' com ticular courtier is'led to A ter's aid by serious illness in his boy is at the point of death in; Capernaum. i +48, Before acceding to his re- uest, Jesus reminds the officer that the Galilean public is' always demand.- | ing "signs and wonders" as the condi-| tion of faith. They will not accept a' Messiah who does not perform miracu- lous deeds. They will not believe in. God except when ary manifestations. is is in accord- ance with the whole Jewish belief that is outward, and that he is out-; wardly revealed. It would appear, therefore, that our Lord saw in the healing of the sick, a possible hind- rance to his spiritual work, and that he only healed as necessity arose, * He wished to lead men to-see that God is, and spiritually revealed. In| the wilderness, he had renounced the desire to make his own consciousness of divine sonship dependent on out- ward or miraculous chances, and hence he seeks to create in the hearts of men everywhere the same spiritual con- ceptions of God. .V. 49..In the present case, however, Jettus is faced not a demand for signs," but by a father's agony, and i he consents to the request, There is iD ho! f 1 home, | tion and skill see extraordid: of 'age specializes in. ry ave done their utmosi in-wain, and hastens over hill 'and dale; to distant Cana, to fall at the feet of the Galilean teacher. J has been kind to others, the neighbors speak highly of him, and have great faith in him. He was nobleman's last and only hope. 2. This is the first higher faith. . It operates in the intellect. "Except ye see 'toward a the realm a What are the f: What is the 'tru What ---- le is involved? What law explains the phenomenon? These are the | ns our scientific The heart of this lesson is not the healing of the boy, but the Inspiring of the boy's father with a true fa - 8. From believing the stories about Jesus, the nobleman passes to a higher stage of belief, that of trusting in the word of Jesus, Jesus would I not for. his- benefits, but. for himself, "And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken." 4. The that which action, . "Hel d final faith 'is moves the w in such a case no shadow of doubt that ship his Fathér wills the result, and Jesus says to the officer, "Ge, your son lives." It is not even necessary for Jesus to go in person to the house. Molly, who prided herself that she the realms of social eminence. "Molly could see farther into most things 00k careof Benny Boy and made the than either of her parents. tea, spread the sandwiches and dusted! "We'll have everything spic and And all the children have been so Rough handling is one of the causes, and one that leads to thousands of hogs being placed on the market inflicted with bruises. Since, says the span and it will look well enough," good. I really haven't had anythin, gto do 'except enjoy myself!" >" leaflet, 2,600,000 hogs. are slaughtered! { II, THE POWER OF FAITH, 51-54, | Vs. 51-563. The event proves as Jesus had said. The nobleman is met on his way by servants who report the joyous tidings that the boy has passed the assured her mother cheerfully, "No ane expesis fing fupnituresin_u Hodse| The speaker smiled on Molly who in the packing plants annually, of crisis, and is recovering. On en came and gave the lady her hand with Which often '15 per eent., or "875,000 ing when the change set-in, he piel ¢ "That's so," agreed Pa with increas-' Pretty timidity and stood in the little 87 found to 'have been bruised or that it occurred at one o'clock (the an : | front porch with Ma, while th ts scarred, a loss is entailed of over eniality, " ' po a, e guests : ; 0 Ee can trust Ma's passed down the street. 1 $900,000. - In a four-month period, i ] pq duri hich 34,000 hogs we - "What shall you wear?" Molly in-| Pa came in from the, back yutd, [URE WIS Ee i i ' as much as five dollars in value, and this pretty daughter, and the present! tionsly listening to, the talk through : f horns is often the cause of like the others. I have a light calico many times, and with my nice white }is nousehold, = "Molly will get sup- Storing Apples. "middle" boys in chorus. "Sure, I will," agreed Moly. "You: Maco un, says that if the fruit is not ciable. Sarah Bordon will be proud| 1:*}er room upstairs Mary Mahoney the temperiorre ui he ontiolled wad Pa Mahoney opened his lips, but grate times before had she remained but for most varieties a well ventilated "The others were all afraid to invite jbly without her supervising guidance. pe kept low, is the best. Apples such "And I know it is hard for some of of humanity pressed to her heart. This autumn the temperature should be dishes, but she hasn't a grown-up, hecomingly, the blue dress shining be- low 82 to 35 degrees Fahrenheit. The This time pretty Molly experienced, I house, care should be taken that while of being patted upon 'her straight "that I've brought all this about just frost. Also there ped in tissu is, weap: A ; sue or n Ad the house for Saturday morning and ed, with a deep content, "what all my » - } ] \ o7 where he had sr nt the afternoon ined, it was ascertained that in some aired i opr a 4. Saving with Benny Boy and seep ches he carasn were deprcaid r ) 6 open Windows. "You'k that the average loss amounted to exception was unique. i | re open.y oh hy aap on your $2.50 per head. In cattle, the posses- The hostess isn't supposed to dress park to-night and listen to the band ®!o0. © el et hee play," he suggested rather shyly for, Much injury and consequent loss. wrapper that hasnt been Washed, 3 man given to the arbitrary ruling of, ee apron I will be all right." Y 7 CL, Nhe" Cat quod. he P10 ol lr he yong ons of, Deine vith th stain of app "Just a cup of tea and a bit of ) : the bread and butter to make it seem s0-] a ap ad get Pas other igi Sichoned of 2 on ould, 5s foun mime, he cups and plates fo Rer | Jistened to the labored preparations: the fruit kept cool... A cellar often : for supper going on below. Eight sep-' answers the purpose .of a store room, closed them again without words hav- 4, this room listenin f y g to the household rpom above ground with comparative ing come to his assistance. machinery which always creaked aud-' dry air, th omperatae of which yay her." Once launched, Ma seemed to But this time she was not helpless anid as Russets that shrivel easily, kee delight in dilating upon the subject.| weary with a warm new little bundle ae Buses moist atn ; Yn the them, too;" she added generously. | time she was standing before her mir- kept as cool as possible, but in the win- "Sarah has a fine parior and her new, for, well, radiant, her hair waved back er it should 4% pi to go be- re Ba ERE er out ain she and Ba cooter apples ate ket mithout Sress y . ¢ " - 4 T] r 1 | "Only to think," murmured Ma Ma- £ 1 x in company with her sire, a sensation honey with a sort of reverent wonder, the room is cool there is no danger of young back and the 'sensation was, with my mind! And it's been that of rot spreading deeply gratifying. "You leave fixing easy! There'll be no telling," she add-' I'll help, Ma," she volunteered with a{ family may accomplish now I'm put- new respectful «willingness. in her ing'my mind to it!" Hi a pi " 'ed over: rer, "J outs, Huta fate, it's working. Whi have believed it? And justo th ary T've lost!" 5 will 'be less danger, vi fruit r seventh hour, reckoned from 6 a.m. of the previous day, the time when Jesus had said, "Your son lives," and he and his family become convinced believers in Jesus: What appears as another tradition of the same incident is given in Matt. 8:5-18 and Luke 7:1-10. But in Mat- ,hew and Luke, the man is said to be a military officer; and he does not be- long to the Jewish people. All the more remarkable is his faith which evokes from Jesus the surpassing tri- bute, "Solemnly I say to you, I have not found even in Israel so ta faith as this." may | ly add the present incident i from to our: 'show us (the lessons wh o : these other ing They what a great value Jesus placed on' faith. Jesus wished men to see acd aright, and to believe in his perfectly holy and loving will. He wished them to believe that all things are possible for God, and that no'limits can be set to the power of believing prayer when men are as not for "signs," but for grace p, in time of need. | '. Equally necessary is. it to remember that Jesus was conscious of being him- geifithe Bhatia] agent wh God's redeem- ng power in Israel and among man-! kind, He is conscious of his divine call as the Son of God, ai Srongth of that an e 8 abr il wed Ea ather i | 1 1 his. based on al trust, and ment in right de- nfluence and noble EL FRIEND DANDELION TELLS THE TIME. : I was in the meadow yesterddy, Where the birds and the bees were all » at play; Ca 1 lay on the grass to look at the sky cloud-ships floating And I counted the A 7 ways and all © © b pay no attention sho call, : > ¢ & 4 Still, I thought, I'd better be sure-- Tick! Tock! fa And there close'by was the Children's Clock-- ' Pa Dear old Friend Dandelion gone to seed; : 3 Who dares to call it a troublesome And icked the beautiful, 'livery fluff: 'tell me, old dear, when it's time has | the d | pla signs sage land wonders, ye wil "not Selina' the: Dominion | worth $2,738,039. her.) the: ' uld. anyone | ites percentage 'of total Dostehas been tending to decrease, b t has remained continuously at the head of the list of exporters. Now nt of the Canadian mill- ing industry and aggressiveness in the past in developing foreign markets, taken in combination 0 'with various Signi feans developments under way at 'seem to pre- nting of the Republic by , and a supremacy for 'Canada in this regard in the not far (distant future. : 2 A POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT. ~ Canada's development as a country of wheat exports belongs strictly to the post-war era, belonging, in fact, to the most recent years of this era. + Exports of flour from Canada in 1914 amounted .to only 4,832,183 barrels valued at $20,681,079, of which the United Kingdom took 2,794,657 barrels worth $11,984,842, the Dinited States 19,436 barrels worth $85,745, and the , British West Indies 585,655 barrels In the last fiscal of flour from Canada ~| totalled 11,714,029 barrels worth $62,- 788,118, having ir ed to this vol- ume from.7,414,282 'worth $58,- 478,150 in 1922, 4 Canadian 'flour at the 'present time is going to practically every country of the world. The United Kingdom is i the most voluminous purchaser, hav- ing accounted in the past year for 4, 234,084 barrels of the total exports | whilst 221,641 barrels went to the Un. '|'ited States, or only about. one-third a: "| muchr as in the previous year. The outstanding features of 'the year's trade, which continue to have signifi: cance, were the trade with Germany = "| and 'with the countries of the Orient 'Germany's imports of Canadian flour last year amounted to 10,318,280 bar. rels, whereas in the previous year they . were only 3,086,409 barrels, and in 1922, 319,282 barrels. China, which this year has jumped to the sccond on the list of buyers of Carudian flour, last. yoar imported 2,491,066 barrels 382,094 ; THE IMPORTANCE "OF THE: INDUSTRY. "There are about 1,250: mills in Can. ada at the present timeengnired in the manufacture of flour, with an estimat- ed capacity of 40,000,000 barrels of flour per annum. The domestic con. less: than 10,000,000 0. ba : fluff: nin