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1 Corner if TAF B Jovth y $U4 m W d IM & ade The sourness,â€"that is if it has been imâ€" possible to grow clover on it,â€"apply about a ton of ground limestone per acre aftér plowing and work it in when harrowing down the seedbed. If you use limestone, about two or three weeks later, prepare to sow the rye, and grass seed mixture. At this time also, apply from 200 to 300 lbs. fertilizer per acre, analyzing 2 to 3% ammonia and 8 to 10% phos: phoric acid. _ This soluble plantfood will â€"give the crop a strong vigorous start. _ Next spring cut the rye for hay before it has begun to turn color. This will give the clover and timothy a good chance to come along and make midsummer pasture. _ Be careâ€" ful not to allow too many head to na«‘ure on the first year‘s growth. If bdikmust. have pasture early in the spring, you should get good results by turning the stock in on the young growing rye, instead of allowing it to grow for hay. The grass and clovâ€" er should come along and fill up as the stock eat down the rye. _ Be sure not to let any of the rye form seed heads. In case of pasturing have the scattering stalks cut down with a scythe or mower. R. B.;:â€"Would you advise me to ‘put a cement floor in a cement stave silo on clay soil, or use ground floor? Should ! put in some straw before filling in either case? ce i | Jesus announced the iti w e l condi Lesson [QHIL What It SMeans To Be Aling ‘behiere the doge nows Repent Christianâ€"â€"1 Cor. 13. _ Golden _ | "Re ;:?._%‘ #60d news!" Text, 1 John 3. 18. en should brook away from thaw oi Afte? spending six months in the!h“'- their old P‘"'P“ey tll.;:'?' thlflr qh'i rudy of the Life and Teaching of| position. _ This means eS IOd ie esus and three months in theu'»thmof-“"i“‘ over the past. _ It does studies= of the Christian life, we may indeed involve sorrow for sin and Te: 11 ('onc_ludo_‘w{: series by asking :f,’;g:‘;;‘:ngf’i d‘"°'?Â¥ done, but ::; &ic:zmi‘n?g,n, at is it to be ';Plf}i.;‘,lbout f.::."u. rather, a comâ€" At once may be answered: "A Chrisâ€" jeve the good news (M tian is a follower of the Christ." In %‘5.)&-:;1'}\ i.y must believe in'.G‘:;ik als. the term« of the teaching of Jesus this the true ri::'“{';{b""."'"’ in love as involves ce{xul;: very dettlhnite charactâ€" Christ. of life, in Jesus as the ristics. Mark‘s great thesi: is "Th issi &ood News of the Kingdom’ of God." dou%:::? ;uotfi:‘dmxsswn to the Kingâ€" Jesus anznounced this kingdom and when he said t ‘h!no" P us made it open to every one. It is for ciples, "Except j t:x. ambitious disâ€" all nations. â€" It is freely offered to al\ little children yiesh h and pecome as men. _ It is n:‘royal rule of God on ter into the kin d',lL!“ no wise enâ€" éarth; a kingd progressively realizâ€" er time, as he vus &k' At anoth ed on earth, perfectly fulfilled in heavâ€" I '.lm;lto his arms, he uhl:f ‘t‘l{:’lf:siok::: en. L not‘r y This is mrolfi a glorious piece of as A little :lfi.iidy,osa.llg no : i onber news! Among all thy dreams of social therein." Bo, he reminded th::n.?ht:: W. A. B.:â€"I have forty acres of coarse gravelly land which 1 am very anxious to get seeded. 1t is quite rolling and a leng way fror. the maâ€" nure . pite. Have just tahen off a crop of oats. 1 want to use it exâ€" clusively for pasture. Will you please tell me best way to handle it? the excess water from the ensilage ean Jrain of by this route, ~Of course, the outlet of the drain should provide good escape for the excess water. The foundation should come about a foot or 18 inches above the surface of the ground and should reach down so that the floor is below the frost line. Great care should be taken to use pure silica sand in making the cement and not to use a" mixture of limestone. _ The acids de-’ veloped in the ensilage attack nqd. break down limestone. _ This may, cause a crack in the floor and result in the destruction of the ensilage. . | M. <.â€"Would be glad of your , opinion in regard to a point about . fertilizing for potatoes. .1 cannot get aufficient stable manure but can get: a certain quantity of straw of dil-‘ ferent kinds, oats, barley and wheat.! If this is spread to a depth of about | six inches in fall and winter, then cut ; ing it into the soil bylvlg'l;t“r;i(ln"; up with disk harrow in spring and hoeing before you drop the seed plowed in after the soil is sufficiently potato pieces. Ariswer:â€"On your gravelly soil I would advise you to sow rye this fall, at the rate of â€" about a bushel to a bushe! and a peck per acre. When sowing it,'?ed it with timothy and clover at the rate of 6 to 8 lbs. of timothy and 8 to 10 lbs. of clover per acre. _ You hadâ€"better have the land worked as early as possible, not plowâ€" ing it to deeply, but giving it very carefol and thorough surface preparaâ€" tion. _ If the soil has shown signs of sourness,â€"that is if it has been imâ€" Answer:â€"It; is a popular practice to put a cement floor and foundation under a stave silo. _ Do not leave a space filled with straw below a cemâ€" ent floor. _ There is danger of it fillâ€" ing with water and the freezing waâ€" ter bursting the concrete floor. _ In setting the floor arrange it to drain to the centre and then have a tile drain lead off about a foot below the botâ€" tom of the sito. _ Provide it with a trap whon the drain reaches about two feet outside the silo, so air canâ€" not enter the silo by this means, but the excess water from the ensilage ean Jrain of by this route, ~Of INTERNATIONAL LESSON SEPTEMBER 29. Answer:â€"The soil on your lot should be in fairly good mechanical condition with the addition of street | aweepings and other materials. For garden truck you would do well to add some fertilizer to this mixture, posâ€" | sibly 300 lbs. of a fertilizer analyzâ€" ‘ing about 1 to 2% ammonia and 10 _to 12% phosphotic acid. The nitroâ€" ‘gen would give your crops a vigorâ€" ous start, while the phosphoric #cid ‘would help them form root and lead to early ripening. _A patch 10 x 35 should grow plenty of turnips for your rabbits. _I would advise you to put in mangels and field cabbage in a similat sized patch, so as to have green feed throughout the succeeding winter for your chickens. _ If you ars in a territory where you can mature , corn, half of the remainder planted to corn would give excellent fee@ for }your hens. A good variety of Flint |corn, or Wisconsin No. 7 Dent corn , would probably mature. The reâ€" mainder of the patch you could plant | to potatoes. _ Apply half of the fer’d-‘ lizer when you have had the lot dug . or plowed and work this fertilizer into the soil by harrowing or raking. Apâ€" | ply the remainder of the fertilizer as ‘you are planting the crops, by sclH | tering a good sprinkling down tbe\ ;drm rows or into the holes and workâ€" ;iLng'it ir:zo the soil by light raking orl Answer:â€"1f your soil is a comparaâ€" tive‘ly. open sandy doam, 1 would not advise the turning under of six inches of the straw in preparing for next year‘s potato field. Two or three inches of straw might be worked thorâ€" oughly into the soil this fall by plowâ€" ing it in and disking and plowing. If you plow under too large an amount of bulky organic matter of straw there is a danger of breaking up the water comnection and actually starvâ€" ing the succeeding potato crop. If it is possible for you to have the straw worked over by sheep, hogs, or cattle, it would be in much better shape to apply to the ground. You should pay great attention to the plantfood side of potato growing next spring and provide to apply from 400 to 500 lbs. of suitable plantfood in order to give your potatoes a strong vigorous start and to maintain them throughout the growing season. 1 would _ recommend _ a plantfood analysing from 2 to 3% ammonia, 10 to 12% phosphoriec acid and â€" i1 or dry, what would be the good or bad effects of such 2 course on a field partâ€" ly friable clay, loam, but mostly sandy loam. perfectness â€"which the fertile mind of man has flung forth not one equals this of the kinrdom of God. It is no mere dream, it is a fact in process of growing fulfiliment. Broad"lxol&eakin-g, then, a Christian is one a member of this kingâ€" dom, is a gon of the King and is living in accord with the rules of the Kingâ€" _ _"Believe the good news (Mark 1. 10).â€"They mu:f believe in God as Father, in man as brother, in love as the true law of life, in Jesus as the Christ. 2% potash. _ This should be workâ€" ed into the soil thoroughly at the time you are planting the potatocs. After you have struck out the drill rows or dug the holes, drop a good sprinkling of fertilizer and work it in the soil with the rake or hoe before you drop the seed potato pieces. Cover the dropped potato and proceed as usual. Such treatment should give you good results. The terms of admission to the Kingâ€" dom Jesus put in a more striking way when he said to his ambitious disâ€" ciples, "Except ye turn and become as little children ye shall in no wise enâ€" ter into the kingdont" _ At anoth er time, as he was takix? the children up into his arms, he said, "Whosoever up into s arms, he said, " W hosoever .fi.n not:receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall in no wise anter therein." Bo, he reminded them that dom very poor. _ It is 70 by 80 feet. Last fall I had six or seven loads of street sweepings and three loads from a stable put on. _ This spring I got nine loads of sweepings. _ This left it very thick,. It grows beets and carrots and beans very well, though I had a hard time at first. I had no hose, can water it now. _ I could have 10 or 20 by 70 feet for turnips, etc. I don‘t know what to put in, am waitâ€" ing to profit by your knowledge. How would rape do on a part? 1 have three rabbits and thirty chickens. R. E.:â€"1 have the use of a vacant lotâ€" 20 feet from the house. _ The ground is a mix up of sand and clay, oT | _ There is no place where lambs will thrive better, do more good and so little damage, than in standing corn just after the roasting ear stage. Many sheep breeders have found that ‘enoug'h corn blades go to waste and | enough weeds to seed in â€" their {cornflelds. to grow many pounds | of mutton. _ By turning their lambs into the corn in September, they turn ‘ this waste into meat and mutton. | _ The advantages of pasturing lambs ‘in the cornfield are many. Only a | small part of the feeding value of fodâ€" | der is recovered when the stalks are | pastured after the corn is gathered. ’Besides. weeds are eaten or stripped of seed, and weed seed pickled by | sheep never grow. _ This early fall | cleaning of weeds and lower blades from the cornâ€"stalks makes the final | harvest easier, no matter how the ‘ crop is harvested. Pigs fatten quickly and cheaply on pasture supplemented by a grain raâ€" tion. â€" An acre of pasture makes the grain produce from 300 to 600 pounds more pork than grain fed in a dry lot. â€" Alfalfa, clover and rape make good pastures on which pigs should run until fat, usually six weeks at least. â€" An acre of alfalfa furnishes pasture for fourteen or fifteen 150â€" pound hogs during this short fattenâ€" BW & Fais hP ult PC CC 0 s 07 POuk El ing season, wWhile clover will . carry from three to four hogs less per acre. Rape affords pasture for a period of from four to six weeks for ten of twelve 150â€"pound hogs per acre. If pigs are handâ€"fed it pays to go slow the first week and gradually get them on full feed. _ After they are accustomed to the method of feeding they may be pushed along as rapidly as possible without much danger from loss of appetite. Some protein supâ€" plement such as tankage should be fed with the grain in the proportion of one part of tankage to ten or fifteen parts of grain. The selfâ€"feeding method is a very efficient system of feeding during this period, and produces results equal to or better than those obtainâ€" ed by handâ€"feeding. â€" Grain is used more economically and pigs attain a marketable weight in a shorter time and with a smaller amount of grain when selfâ€"feeders are used. er. Of the utmost importance is Jesus‘| teaching concerning our relation to| the other members of the Kingdom.} We form one brothei iood, for we} have one Father and one Teacher, beâ€"| Ing ‘brethren of Christ the King. He assures us that each one possesses m | peculiar sanctity. and ‘that dréadful | consequences certainly © follow him who causes "one of tgou little ones" | to stumble. We are also taught that: while each soul has great worth he| must be ready _to sacrifi¢e himself comphtal& for the kingdom, â€" He anâ€" nodunces the great law of sacrifice as| the central principle, "Whosoever| would save his life shall lose it" and "Whosoever would lose his life shall‘ save it." He does not want us to\ efface â€" ourselves. _ Selfâ€"effacement God faith, fear, obedience, and suâ€" preme and complete love (Mark 12. 30). â€" He also teaches us that our muâ€" tual relations to God find expression in prayer, which is to be in secret, trustful, believing; that is, expectant and in the manner of the Lord‘s Prayâ€" springs out of weak or amiable comâ€" pliance with the whims. or wishes of others, but selfâ€"sacrifice is a ‘noble selfâ€"forgetting for theâ€"sake of others. We learn Jso in this connection of the law of brotherhood, which: Jesus makes so prominent. This law touches not merely the outer act but, far more, the inner spirit. . He excoriates the scribes and Pharisees for their ex orâ€" nal rizhbeousneu. and draws a broad line of distinction between the righteâ€" ousness of the Kingdom and the righteousness of these religious teachâ€" ers. â€" They bred a legal spirit. Jesus teaches a loyal spirit. They taught men to seek life in law. Jesus teaches us to find law in life, ho t o tb 4 t io APramnes . Auidcetih io w o. As his followers and subjects of the Kingdom Jesus tells us that we susâ€" tain certain relations to God. _ We l"‘m dgod'? chl.l‘{l{ren; he is our heml'e;\ly ather, forgiving our sins, supplying us with foogl and clothing, gulcrlng us, bestowing good gifu upon us and fiiving us his bes flft which is the oly Spirit (Luke 11. 1i8). . He also tells us that we are to cherigsh toward The meatless days in the United States have saved 140,000,000 lbs. of beef in four months. .o $ Lambs wili not bother the ears on standing corn so long as corn blades and weeds are abundant. . They will strip the stalks= clean of the lower blades that ripen first. the divine Fatherhood and human brotherhood is a gift, a boon. _ It canâ€" not be earned by food conduect. _ It is not even withheld from evildoers. It is freely bestowed as a gift of grace, It absol’qtely shuts out selfâ€"righteousâ€" ocE 000 Tt i chictiahaiitcdedifiativticive Antabiintiis / . Ti To believe the good news is vastly more than a mere intellectual assent to certain teachings.â€" Faith in Jesus as the Christ means not only an opinâ€" ion about him, but a surrender of the entire self to him. _ So, we may say that our Christian faith is composed of two clements, first the assent of the truth, and second, the consent of the will, which is the giving over of tho entire life to Jesus. . We then become followers of Jesus and subâ€" jects of the kingdom ?f QOfi. k a _ o_ Mess es en c ness. _ Ttdemands the attitude of the child, a spirit of receptive humilitys CAfpce¢iloies‘>? "Let‘s play this rain is going to turn into a regular flood," said the biggest girl, "and play that weâ€"are the only ones who know it. Then we must go hunting for everything that lives t,o rescue it from drownâ€" ing." P o m 2 m o o C es en oaid am it en e t M asked the eldest boy of the children.! Patriotâ€"Why not a Christmas "It is as easy as anything," ansâ€" stocking to cheer a boy overseas? wered the girl, "because I have been Canada is asked to supply 35,000 of thinking it up. _ We‘ll go o mother these Christmas Stockings. Two dolâ€" and ask for pieces of brown paper. !ats flls one, the Red Cross supplying Each of us must have a big piece of the stockings with‘ their brilliant commen brown wrapping paper and_ touch of red. play that it is a boat and give it a As it is absolutely necessary that name. â€" Then we will cut pictures of NOotification should be made of all animals and birds and folks from the dutiable articles, it is supggested that old papers and magazines and paste each stocking might contain one each them on our boats as fast as we find Of the following: # them. We must each chobse a name: (1) Pocket mirror (cheap style), for our boats and write the names POcket pencil, pocket knife. across the top of the piece of paper.! : (2) Cigarettes, tobacco, pipe or Then when we have our papers past. match box. ed ful we can tell each other stories‘ (3) Writing pad, envelopes, fancy about our families and the animals, Post cards. where they were rescued and all about‘ (4) Candles, chewing gum, maple it; because as soon as they are pasted SURAr. on the paper that means that they are‘ (5) Handkerchiefs, necktie, socks safely on board the boat, bound for the and pin cushicn. land of Pleasant Weather. ' (6) Came, nook, puzzle or mouthâ€" "How shall we play that game?" asked the eldest boy of the children. "We can give names to the men and women and children that we cut out, and write their names beside them; and we can save menagerie animals for the menagerie folks, and horses and cows for the farmers, and chickâ€" ens, too, and catch wild animals andâ€"*" "Let‘s begin now," interrupted the middleâ€"sized girl. "My boat is the Canada, and her captain isâ€"â€"O my! Hear it rain‘ Maybe my captain is on land somewhere, trying now to get back to his ship! His name @s Captain Neversink." At that two little ones clapped their hands and ran to find wrapping paper. Such fun as there was in the cottage after that! â€" The grown people, too, helped to rescue the drowning, and helped to name the families that were saved. By the time the seven big pieces of wrapping paper had seven different stories to tell, the rain had ceased and the sun had come out. After that the children carried their ships to little Rosemary Allen, who was recovering from measles in the cottage on the bluff, and left them there to amuse her for a long time. § BM "Let‘s play this game ourselves toâ€" morrow, even if it doesn‘t rain," said Rosemary to her mother, at last. So they did, and had a merry time. "Babies can play the game, too," said the biggest girl, "and we will all help them fill their ships." is Surrender wheat or nation‘s cause J ST. JOHN MONTREAL TORONTO The Plain Truth about _ Shoe Prices EATHER is scarce and is growing scarcer. â€"A large part of the available supply must be used for soldiers‘ boots. Importations have pracâ€" tically ceased and we are forced to depend upon the limited quantity of materials produced in Canada. The cost of evcri't.hing which goes into a pair of shoes is high, and is going higher. Workmen by the thousands have joined the colors, ancf labor is increasingly hard to get. It is not merely a matterof high prices, but of producing enough good quality shoes to go around. When you buy Shoes look forâ€" we L â€"â€"~RDL \ 60 2 Co 0| Gb s ‘These conditions are beyond the control df any man, or any group of men. They fall on all alike, No one is exemptâ€" neither the manufacturer, the dealer, nor the consumer. You must pay more today for shoes of the same cglality than you did a year ago. Next Spring, prices will be higher still. These are hard facts. They will not yield to argument. They cannot be glossed over. We cannot change them, much as we would wish to do so. But you, as a wearer of shoes, canâ€"help to relieve them if you will exercise prudence and good judgment in purchasing. See that you get real value for your money. Spcns enough to get it, but spend nothing for “{rills." See that the manufscturer‘s tradeâ€"mark is stamped upon the shoes you buy. High prices are a temptation to reduce the qualit in order to make the price seem low, But no manufacturer wifl stanzg his tradeâ€"mark upon a product which he is ashamed to acknowledge. Remember this, and look for the tradeâ€"mark. It is your best assurance of real value for your money. TORONTO AMES HOLDEN McCREADY \ _ Because of the many difficulties of | transportation, these tokens of reâ€" membrance and appreciation from the ! people at home to the lads who are \ making those homes safe amid the | horrors of the battlefields must be at \ the port of shipment not later than |\ October "10th. Mothers ana~daughters of all ages are cordlally invited to write to this Ccpartment . initials only will be published with each question and its answ*" 88 a means of identification, but full name and address must be given in each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mallas direct it stamped and addressed envelope is enciosed. x As it is absolutely necessary that notification should be made of all dutiable articles, it is supggested that each stocking might contain one each of the following: « Address all correspondence for this department to Mra. Helen Law. Weeupine Ave., Toronto. (1) Pocket mirror (cheap style), pocket pencil, pocket knife. (6) Came, nook, puzzle or mouthâ€" organ. (7) toilet (8) or nuts. Make them up prettily, and put in the name and address. ‘Khat adds a personal touch, much appreciated by the lonely lad in the hospital. . The name of the recipient is put on "over there." A cheerful note tucked in will further add to the delightful surâ€" prise of a gift "from home." Most of the boys in the trenches will be well remembered at the Yuleâ€" tide, but those who are wounded beâ€" fore the lovingly packed boxes of good things reach them would be loneâ€" ly indeed were it not for the gaily decked stockit}gs put into their hands on Christmas morning. Jack:â€"â€"â€"1. The bridegroom‘s exâ€" penses at his wedding are the ring, the clergyman‘s fee, the conâ€" veyances for the ushers, the conveyâ€" ance in which he drives his bride away from her home after the wedding, the bride‘s and bridemaid‘s bouquets and gifts for his best man and ushers. Beâ€" fore the wedding the clergyman‘s fea is slipped in an envelope by the groom "Shoemakers to the Nation" Toilet requisites, such as soap, powder, tooth paste. Packets of raisins, dates, figs WINNIPEG EDMONTON YANCOUVER â€"â€"this Tradeâ€"mark on every sole s and given to the best man. He preâ€"| 1 sents it after the ceremony. . 2. Some| f good books for boys are the following:| Iâ€" RobinsoK Crusoe (Defoe), The Swiss g Family Robinson (Wyss), Kipnapped : it (Stevenson), Treasure Island (Stevenâ€" son), Black Rock (Connor), The Sky! it Pilot (Connor), Tom Sawyer (Twain), l1 Huckleberty Finn (Twain), Innocents at Abroad (T\v:h?, The Man Without a h Country (Hale), The Blazed Trail‘ # (White), Tom Brown‘s School Days ),| (Hughes), Freckles (Porter), The Léather Stocking Tales (Cooper), David Copperfield (Dickens), Great Expectations (Dickens), Magic Forest (White), Jungle Book (Kipling), Capâ€" taings Courageous (Kipling), Two Litâ€" tle Savages (Seton), Story of a Grizzly (Seton), Outdoor Handy Book (Beard). Doris.â€"The Ontario Government Employment Bureau has arranged for a special class in dairying to be held at the Ontario Agricultural Colâ€" lege, Guelph, from October 1 to Deâ€" cember 15. _ All wouldâ€"be dairymaids should write to Miss Hazel L. Martin, 43 King Street West, Toronto. There is no doubt that there will be a great demand on the farms next year for girls who can milk cows. â€" The ownâ€" er of one of the biggest dairy farms in the country told the writer the othâ€" er day that he would employ 40 girls for milking cows next year if he could get them. Indeed, he wants some for this winter but the demand far exceeds the present supply. This is the raison d‘etre for the special class at Guelph. Loyalist:â€"The food service most urgent at the present moment is sugar saving and the Food Board appeals to every loyal Canadian to do everyâ€" thing possible to reduce his or her personal consumption of sugar and to encourafge similar conservation by othâ€" ers. _ This is absolutely necessary in order that our available supply of sugar be stretched until the new crop becomes available and that it be equitably distributed, with due conâ€" sideration to the most important uses. 180 A ALPIE MA PouiLTrRY, T EGQ8 and FEATHER® % Highost Prices Pald Prompt Returneâ€"No Commission P. POULIN & CO. & It‘sâ€"certainly forehanded to be thinking of Christmas this stifling day, for u:-rly four months distant, and ~in a very different world. There will be no threshing whistles then to shiver the morning sky, for the grain will be in the bins, and the straw _ stacks considerably diminishâ€" ed before that time. The new clover, springing up now through the darkâ€" ening stubble will be hidden by snow, and the whole landscapeâ€"will whiten under that ghostly magic. \ I know a shelf whereon are variâ€" | ous containers of maple syrupâ€"who is | there that would scorn such a luscious |‘licious treat? _ Even to the man of 'mlth who has surrounded himself with everything that heart could deâ€" | sire, I think it would come laden with memories of the smo.ll of fires under ; the great sap kettles, of the deathless : dreams of youth! _ Some of the slow amber fluid is sealed in tins, to be sent, when the time comes, as far as postage stamps and an amiable Govâ€" ernment will carry it. It is warm toâ€"dayâ€"smothering, with a promise of rain and a threat of heat. . What suggests Ohristmas? Not the force of contrast, although that would be quite sufficient, but simply the fact that we are to gather the harvest apples toâ€"day for jelly, says Nina Moore Jamieson in the Mail and Empire. And a good deal of that jelly is to be sealed and wrapped, and set away upon the *"Christmas shelf." _ Did you ever try a shelf like that? If you do, you will never again complain or the trouâ€" ble and expense of Christmas giving, and the burden of doubt as to the acâ€" ceptability of your offerings. | Upon this same shelf are two . wooden boxes, with coarse dairy salt scattered upon the bottoms, and about the middle of September the children of that household will pack the clean, fresh eggs carefully, layer by layer, in the salt as they gather them daily. \ A whiteâ€"haired grandmother, in a |crowded city, not too far away, will | not be at the mercy of the grocer and | the "strange" eggs, after Santa Claus . delivers one of those boxes to her! the owner of a "Shelf" is the prica ’of the postage necessary to carry his gifts to their destination. For, even ‘the sausage meat, which in most farm homes is ground and spiced and packed away at pigâ€"killing time, in |\ November, calls forth a joyful smils l“ judiciously apportioned to townâ€" ‘dwelling friends at the holiday seaâ€" There is something about the arâ€" ranging and assembling of such things that helps to keep Christmas with us the whole year round." It dJoes not get away from us as it might if we left everything to the crowded eleventhâ€"hour rush _ We take it léisurely, month by month, for we have no endless stores to search, and no train to catch at the end of our shopping. We do these things comâ€" panionably, old and young together. In a few weeks there will be a snow apple carnivel, when those of us who are not in the tree picking the {ruit, will be under it, polishing and wrapâ€" ping carefully in soft paper the most perfect of the rosy beauties. would return the tin. For a gift after all is something | that the other fellow would ilke to \have; when your boy in France reads | "Merry Xmas!" uspon the wrappor, and finds within a generous quantity : of clover honey, he will find nothing in the gift out of keeping with the sentiment that accompanies it! Genâ€" erosity, mx; :mmy. must not be strained. â€" It bleases at gives and him that takes, .:Tf the‘l'm'., ;tho giver has rather the larger pmp | tlon. The wave of prosperity which promises to lift farming from the < sandbar whore it has been hanging | this long time, might have caused us | to forget the claims of others in aur â€" own good fortbune. . But this is not so, ‘Farmers wore nover more ready to The busy owner of the "Christmas Shelf"â€"the one by which I am patâ€" terning mineâ€"tells me that every Fall she and her husband and all the little folks stroll back to the bush, for a very beautiful and kindly ceremony â€"the choosing of the trees, Big, lit. tle and modestly medium, the cedars are picked out to suit the homes for which man destined. _ The spirit of ben nce surely emanates from such a gift, moving upon the glossy dark verdure and breathing forth in the clean invigorating fragrance. Who shall say what sundered hearts may not be drawn to‘!flnr rgain by the spell of the Tree* It has years beâ€" hind itâ€"years of habits and mesiorâ€" tes, years of legend, song and story. It means more to give a Tree to a friend than it would to offer any other rft, for it is the very symho of stmas itself. One of the keenest stings of povâ€" erty lies in having nothing to give to our dear ones, but it is impossible to feel poor when there are so many pleasant things lying right at hand and begging to be shared with others. Almost the only expense falling upon son, â€" Confess nowâ€"â€"evern on this warm Autunin day your mouth watâ€" ors at the suggestion! I wou!ld not hecitate to send a token of this sort to the Governorâ€"General #f his name ::”ud to be on my Christroas Hgt, I felt reasonably sure that he share their good things than they are toâ€"day, The Arst Christmas in the world wes celebrated in a stabls, and rély the spirit of it oll about ::o_-l‘ &* avnd t«h:‘.flr: wallt C895 15 1 w q * 8y