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‘e could not see ressed on me. HOUSE never know, ve to show which can‘t be has endured perhaps US TO nAnnm NG CREATUR.& Ith would throng 10 BREED s Carrier Â¥ gaze, scene had be ir fate fell, incessant \ Cause of aking of Stab!s neubatore. inniag to warms rtray ng the tc., but 18 C heir ody » b’ ling 1 of every. of Dig igle h 10 16 st One d n op tal On : wirn ine nogs nto Tthei _ ‘"Well, Jast winter I used to churn t them ‘hog down‘ the corn.' about twice a week, but now I must in good shape when they' churn at least three times and someâ€" : field and will be ready / times four times a week," she told me. n fat rapidiy, and shmld! "I can‘t see why it acts so," she conâ€" r the market by Scptember; tinued, "but it seems that every time er 1. | that I get a certain amount of cream this is a good way to feed collected it sours before I am ready. perience of last season.”l So I have to churn before it gets too «e farmer. "In April, 1918, sour or rancid. Even then it does noti whty head of October pigs.! have that clean sour taste it used to1 : halfâ€"feed of corn and run | have." lfa until August 20, w.‘:en; I did some hard thinking, because em into a sixâ€"acre field of "as far as I knew she was very par-: orn. They weighed one) ticular in her buttermaking. I wonâ€" nincty pounds each when dered if it could be something wrong | into the corn, and when l' with the separator. We went to the September 20 they averagâ€" machine and took it apart. ‘ red and fifty pounds. De-f Well, it was coated with thick ecurds market they brought $19) of rancid cream and sour milk thltr | pounds. Thus, each acre had been left there by careless ele.n-i ch would make about forty; ing. It was a wonder to me that the, acre, made me eight h"{;i cream did not come out of the spout‘ 3 of pork, which at $19) sour. f | ('.'::\sp worth $152." ’ "Now this looks as though it ha‘dJ -'zlu.-tical farmer was asked' not 1t;eel:l wz::ehed” .I"td k;!;aned“l:)i 1':! t i ctical or profitable | shou ave been, old her. n‘t! 0 f(.f?;am $18 h:gl," and | you wash it at least once a day?" = he thought so. "I think I| "Now I can see what the trouble p ;nnh a day on my hogs is," she exclaimed. "Mary, come here," >--:.\‘fo market, and tnis she called, and the hired girl came in.! mean a zo:>d profit to,g "Mary," she asked. "don‘t van wach | Pays For Itself. seems foolish to think he milk and cream b!‘ ed method of llllfld'-‘ ‘y this I mean putting ins about four inches * stand until cold, then cream that collects on _n‘ce butter can someâ€" ‘rom the creare obtainâ€" thods, considering the butterfat, the modern . I found a man with two 1 of pigs he had picked will be fed through the rder to have them ready November market. "I inâ€" ~d these pigs from the inish. I shall try to keep x during the summer by n with their pasture. I en acres of early corn 1 ‘hog down‘ as soon as ‘ent. From the time the the corn field until theyi ‘ the market they will be ind I believe the younger hog to market the morol' make me, if I can make xo hundred and twenty-’ r more. It takes feed to hog that isn‘t growing;‘ about so much to put on; h in addition to growing ; in good shape when they field and will be ready fat rapidiy, and should the market by September icâ€"half as much corn as . To finish them I will *s of ninetyâ€"day corn on As soon as this starts 1 turn the hogs into the hem ‘hog down‘ the corn. on pays for xtsetf; + value of a cream . vises that he made y letting his shoats ‘new corn, in addiâ€" m access to a selfâ€" c. The next cheapâ€" made were madé in to a selfâ€"feeder e and corn, and at 1 all the good pasâ€" If pasture is not" : feed should be alfalfa. ' e grown profitably he continued. "ll' ailable, or if the t who cannot uw' t who cannot sow y to sow rape. J learn the value of h alfalfa for hogs, little difference in l1 shoats growing and even if you have to h‘gh price in qrder to advice of several sucâ€" eders. This is essenâ€" arms where cows are ‘c it is possible to to the dict. s rt the top." n who aims to have ne hundred fall pigs t, how he planned his . "I intend to carry c scummer on alfalfa in the successful r, are good blood, "horcringe~ down" e put on the market d in addition to their " is the advice of one essful breeders. "Fall ng turned on pasture : feed of corn to keep flesh to fit them for Too many hogs are summer on pasture »d out for winter marâ€" ice is at the bottom. he fall pigs to market sooner I can get | P3 Q ad . er weight the| hi oy ” 4) e I will have| a L 4# 4 L ceder on shelled this way early d blood strains from two hunâ€" three hundred for a farmer : by starting ng a good the early fall ly | The nights are hot, and therefore | the fowls should be given as nearly . outdoor conditions as it is possible. ] Here is where the openâ€"front scratchâ€" | ing shed proves its worth. Cut down | all heatâ€"producing food, feed plenty | of green stuff, see that there is a‘ | plentiful supply of fresh water within | reach, provide shade, and there will . be fewer slacker hens and consequent»â€" | ly more eggs. x over Make a sprinkler for your fAower garden by taking a lard pail and with a «mall nail punch a number of holes in the bottom. Fill the punctured pai by setting it in a larger pail of water, lift it out and swing it back and forth Cull the flocks,. Dispose of all the old stock that is not intended to be carried over. It is a wise move to do so before the fowls go into molt. Separate the cockerels from the pulâ€" lets, and give the cockerels some extra feeding. They need it. Market all“ surplus cockerels as spon as they are ' fit. * Rats, weasels, minks and opossums are full of life, too. This is their busy month. Be equal to the occasion. Deny them quarters. _ There are slackers even in poultryâ€" dom. As a rule hens do not show great activity during hot weather, but there are some which become so lazy that they are not worth their feed. Those are the hens that cut down their egg yield. Hot weather is worse for hens than cold weather, for during the winter month a hen with any life in her will busy herself to keep warm. Some hens that are bordering on the molting period, having laid heavily, the previous months, are now sort of resting up. They deserve it. l No one can lay a similar charge against the lice. Hot weather and filth, are their delight. They « are widei awake, and no good poultryman will permit them to take control of his, henneries. Get busy. I have known of others that seem to be careless in a way similar to that of Mary, though perhaps not quite so bad. But such methods, while savâ€" ing work and time in one way, cause a heavy loss in others. Mary was a new girl and never had worked where butter was made, so she did not realize the importance of a clean separator, but we had found the cause, and after that there was no more trouble. "Well, it‘s like this," and Mary hung hfir head. "I‘ve been so busy lately that I could not wash it every day, so I thought that if I ran some warm water through it that it would go all right until I got a chance, but, honest, I never let it go over a week." "Mary," she asked, "don‘t you wash this separator every day as I told you to?" "Now this looks as though it had not been washed and cleaned as it should have been," I told her. "Don‘t you wash it at least once a day?" COs omenty I Well, it was coated with thick eurds of rancid cream and sour milk that, had been left there by careless clean-; ing. It was a wonder to me that the: cream did not come out of the spout; sour. 1 C CCCOCBY UERRUST as far as I knew she was very parâ€" ticular in her buttermaking. I wonâ€" dered if it could be something wrong with the separator. We went to the machine and took it apart. atharakre s1 _33 _ El â€"mHKIng, the separator should be taken apart and thoroughly washed and cleaned, acâ€" cording to the directions which are furnished with the machine, It is surprising how many persons merely pour some warm water through the separator and "taks a ahamnas 1 remember a conversation 1 lady about the keeping and of cream. "Why, before I get a chance start to ripen my cream," she : "I find that it has ‘turned‘ many times lately." "How often do you plan to ¢ I asked her. Cieesecioth combined, to of the lurpking dirt that m into the milk. After se of the milk from that : separator should be take thoroughly washed and cording to the directinn Eon Em TBE separator will have earne And such figuring does n the saving in butterfat. S seen that if one plans to ; butter a separator is a ne After the milk is brougt barn while still warm, it strained through a wire st cheesecloth combhined 4. 2 ~Darator at just its worth in saving time, which is surely five cents a day, that would amount in a year to $18.25. At that rate, in two or three vears the ring does not -consider butterfat. So it can be 1e plans to make much 0000 ECmEe UEA have earned its cost ‘s nNow many persons e warm water through nd "take a chance." conversation with one keeping and ripening get a chance to even _cream," she told me, has ‘turned‘ a good rm, it should be wire strainer and $ a necessity, brought from the to remove all may have got separating all to churn? years the } The camper is judged by the sort of fire he is able to make. The amaâ€" teur cannot make a practical fire, the veteran camper works wonders with his fires. Anione can pile up branckes and make a blaze, also a great smoke. Besides the little smudge fire to drive away gnats and mosquitoes, there is the cooking fire and the night or‘ camp fire. The night or camp fire should be, built twenty feet from the opening ‘\ Never toss the refuse from your 1| camp cooking into the water near you | unless it is a swiftly running river, |and never toss it near you on the s ground. Refuse tossed into still water / will attract water snakes; thrown on | the ground it will decay and be unâ€" 'healthy and attract flies and mosquiâ€" | toes. Mosquitoes may be malarial,l‘ ‘ flies always carry poison germs. Keep | | them away. Cover the flap of your i’tent with mosquito netting to keep' ’them out at night and burn a fire of rotten wood, green leaves and grass 'over hot coals or anything that will | make a heavy smoke or smudge. Such | | a fire near where you are eating will | drive away the bothersome insects. | It is no more work to be comfortable ,when camplinmg. 2« 13 :: ~csn The best method of handling reâ€" fuse is to dig a hole a hundred yards from camp and throw it in there, covering with boards or _s!abs of bark. 93» If you cannot find a little knoll, the next best thing is to dig a trerch around your tent and a little ditch at the lowest point of ground so the rain will run off the tent into the ditch and be drained away and any water flowing down from higher ground will go into the ditch instead 6f into your tent. h \ For a campâ€"site always select a slight knoll if possible, even if you have to go back a hundred yards from the water. A slight knoll or bit of rising ground is easy to find no matter how slight the slope all around, if it will shed water. Pitch your tent on top of this and in rain storms the water will never gather under your tent. To keep dry is the first health! rule of camping. Cold air will never hurt you, but dampness is danzerous., | that you can handle the wall tent with, Within two or three feet of the | its double rows of tent pins and stay, water dig a hole below the waterâ€"line. ropes. 'T-he water fills the hole to a height |\ _ The Aâ€"tent ordinarily is held in poâ€" of a foot. Then you place rocks in | sition by three poles, two uprights,| the water until they come just abovel one at each end, with a pin in the top,‘ the surface. You may place your | this pin passing through poles in the, crock of butter, your can of milk; your top pole. Such poles are heavy and package of pork and such other f°°d!‘ take up considerable room in a boat as spoil quickly, in this "refrigerator." |or are heavy to carry if you pack Have a cover to put over the top and | your outfit. They are also too cumberâ€"| roll a heavy stone on this. Everything| some for canoe traveling. A long and will keep here as it would in the | strong rope may be threaded through average refrigerator except in the the.poleâ€"pin eyelets at the top of such; case of thunderstorm, when the milkl an Aâ€"tent, the rope passing down from| will spoil, but in that case it would‘ the outside, running beneath the width| spoil anywhere about the camp. l of the tent and out the other hole.| Make a little shelter under some | If the rope is on top it will make tree near the camp and put in several| the tent leak in a rain. Fasten the bushels of dry pine needles, pine cones,’ rope to two trees, tightening it a litâ€" birch bark and tiny dry twigs. Be tle every day if the weather is dry,| sure that this is covered over so that! or loosening it a trifle if it is rainy, it cannot get wet. Never use this for, for in wet weather it will shrink and kindling your fire in dry weather. may break apart in the night, during| Save it for" rainy days and for such! a rain and drop the tent on you, a emergencies as when you come home . most uncomfortable predicament. = |after dark and it is difficult to find . I If you intend to camp in one spot by lake or river, a large 9x9 wall tent ‘is best as it is more roomy; but if [ you are planning to journey about from one place to another on lake or river, seeking new fishing grounds and change of scene, or seeking berry ‘fields, a small Aâ€"tent is best necause it may be put up and "struck" or | taken down, in oneâ€"quarter of the time | that you can handle the wall tent with its double rows of tent pins and stay : ropes. | i Thatch with hemlock boughs. Over;| | the boughs scatter pine needles thickâ€"‘ ly and then more boughs on the top;| this covering being placed with tips | towards the ground, like shingles,l | your shelter will be waterproof. | _ To make it windproof you close the Ib:ck end with upright poles a foot apart between which you weave more , boughs. T M V e tm Comd‘y NP CC TV | wish to ‘be bothered with carrying | one, a short, sharp, sheathed campâ€" axe will provide your shelter. Select a boulder or ledge with an abrupt | side, cut long poles and lean them ‘against this at a height for you to lpaas beneath when standing erect at < the place where they rest against the \ledge. Hold stakes in place at the | base with stakes, place them two feet | apart, laying five of these in position. Such shelter is not advisable for more than a week at the most, as it is not sufficiently dry or "ventilated. _ 41 your camping vacation is to be of more than a few days, by all means take a tent. If you do not expect to stay more than three or four days, and you Rave no tent handy, or do not se 2 ts C W F The modern girl can outft herself in accordance with the â€"directions in this article. The help of father or brother is, of course, not to be despisâ€" ed. .00 06 CC CHJ PIIct Oul in the country where a stop is made from one night to one summer, but the camp that gives the most fun and most helps the health is that made in a tent. + If you are camping in a bungalow OF s cottruom ! seel Nes cls ul t ns 2 o e °_ #V"/ are camping in a »bunplowf or & cottage you have "civilized fixâ€" ings," as my old guide used to say. He meant that it was no test to one‘s woodcraft to live under a good roof | with dry floors and real furniture. ‘ The tent makes an admirable home: for the summer camper. You may | remain a day, a week, or month by the shore of »river, pond, or:lake; or. may pick up at a couple. of hours'E notice and make camp at some other locality. | If camp may be any place out in\ of your tert. Drive t+wo large and is made from! very green stakes into the ground, er, but the, slanting back from the tent. The slant fun and most| must be enough to hold a backing of . made in a logs. Very green and tough wood like }basswood or something that does not a bungalow| burn easily, is best. Pile up the green ‘civilized fixâ€" logs and build the fire in front of this. used to say. The back wall throws the heat and the test to one‘s light toward your tent and makes a a good roof cheerful place to sit about. iIf you furniture. ‘~have several days of rain, rig up a nirable home shelter twenty feet above and over . You may this by means of hemlock boughs r month by fastened to long poles. By NORMAN KING. | with dry pine needles at least two feet in depth, and over these spread 'nlamofjucttbofip.ofbombek | branches about a foot in depth. This ‘makes, for the active camper, what Stretch a long rope out in the sun and every morning hang your bedding upon it. The best bfi‘r made by covering the ground inside your tent them in soap boxes if you go to your camping place by boat; pack the bedâ€" ding in one bundle and roll it up with the tent. You will then have plenty of room in your boat. i These supplies, with the butter, eggs, and milk you may purchase now and then from the farmers, together wiith the fish you should catch, should prove sufficient for four hungry boys or five (?) hungry girls for a threeâ€" week trip. You will be surprised to find how little space they trjce. Fackl _ For supplies take five pounds cornâ€" meal, four double loaves of bread, two pounds coffee, half pound tea, four cans roast beef, peck potatoes, half peck onions, five pounds sugar, five pounds salt pork, four eans evaporated milk (which is much better than the condensed milk), four cans clams, four cans baked beans, three pounds crackâ€" ers, salt and pepper. A girls‘ camp will doubtless include other dainties, as they are called. For a party of four you will need: forur quilts, two blankets, two rubber blankets, two shortâ€"handled axes (beâ€" 'cause you are likely to lose one), a | shortâ€"handled hoe for digging trenchâ€" !es, plenty of rope, extra suit of old clothes and underclothes, plenty of fishing tackle, frying pan, two kettles, coffee pot, eight tin plates, four steel knives and forks, plenty of nails and spikes, six cheap spoons, two large: spoons, one clasp knife, two ‘butcher knives, eight S pot hooks, five pint tin‘ dippers, one toaster, two cakes sand soap, two bars soap that will float,‘ four dish towels, four Turkish towels, rags for dish cloths and a small kit containing gauze for bandages, cots for injured fingers, needles, thread, safetyâ€"pins, courtâ€"plaster, carbolated] vaseline, Jamaica ginger, and Epsom salts. | Make a little shelter under some tree near the camp and put in several bushels of dry pine needles, pine cones, birch bark and tiny dry twigs. Be sure that this is covered over so that it cannot get wet. Never use this for‘ kindling your fire in dry weather. Save it for" rainy days and for such emergencies as when you come home ‘ after dark and it is difficult to find kindlings. | A good supply of butter helps the food supply but this and canned evapâ€" orated milk spoil quickly in hot weaâ€" ther unless you learn the trick of keeping them. |_ _A cooking fireplace may be built ; of flat stones or of two flattened and the wider ones further back. For a | crane the old, green crotched stitches _ may be used, but the greenest wood | burns in time and may dump â€"your | good stew or chowder into the fire. | An iron rod to rest on the crotches | is best. Make potâ€"holders lige the letâ€" ter S, have plenty of them to hook together to hang a kettle as cloze to, |or__far lro_m the fire as you wish. For a stay of two weeks or more it is worth while to make a shelter outside the sleeping tent, and make a rough table and bench for your dining room. ;arred paper. _ Below that, protect rom squirrels with either tin or barbâ€" ed wire. A dozen shects of sticky fly paper is better than anything else to put around the trees above and below as neither animals nor insects will get across it. For a long stay, nail boxes to a tree to hold your staple groceries, and drive in nails ‘or your kitchen sutfit. A strip of tarred paper above and below will keep out ants and cther insect_s, as they will not cross the The cooking fire should be made of hard wood, to avoid flames. The best cooking is done over glowing coats. Pine and other soft woods will not make a good bed of coals. Start with kindlings, pine needles, dried leaves, little dead twigs and over these lay your hard wood. When you have ‘a good bed of coals there will be little or no flame and a small amount of sn,oke but an intense heat, really more heat than softwood in a mass of flames will give. ‘ CMve s Con C Wea is 3 â€" + sifund The cellar Wbdo:n should be just as carefully fitted with seroens as are the other windows in <th> housé. i tors. In still other instances an indiâ€"/ vidual owns a small thresher, costing $300 or so, and threshes at his own convenience, using his tractor or gasâ€" oline engine for power. This plan is to be encouraged in many neighâ€" T ap s y Ti ol sys aaage +. °" If Epaphroditus is a fair sample of; !e' ay. the Philippian Christians, then they it en s mm mm mmms were good fellows indeed. Paul speaks r s particularly of their "fellowship in Y-' Save Grain by Clean Threshing. the furtherance of the gospel from| 'h; There is no doubt that a great deal ) the first day until now" (1: 5), and of, e; of grain goes into the strawstacks | their fellowship in his affliction. (4: d| every threshing season. Not so much 15). It was that sense of comradeâ€" ! as some people believe, and not enough |' ship, much more than their gifts, :/ in many cases to make it pay to thresh which pleased and comforted him. I{e' r| the strawstacks for the grain in them,! could have done without the gifts, for â€" but enough to make clean threshing he had learned selfâ€"denial in ‘a hard l‘f necessary. | school (vs. 11â€"13), but their love for: â€"|_ Before the threshing season ended him and care of him and thought for 1| last year, twentyâ€"two states of the him were unspeakably precious. | f) Republic to the south, where efl'orts! It is, he said, "not because I desire ,| toward cleaner threshing were carried a gift," but "fruit that may abound! 1| on, reported an aggregate saving of to your accourt." He did desire that| 1| 16,000,000 bushels of wheat. Other| they should be the kind of people who : ‘) states, although they did not give would be thoughtful and generous, « ) figures, reported greatly reduced harâ€"| and would do kindly deeds that would | / vest losses, In addition to wheat, at| be to their credit. He desired that ; !/ which the clean threshing campaign} their credit account should be large,| | .! was especially aimed, there were cor-I that they might have a rich reward. responding savings of other grains from God. For, he said to them, "My ) « which are harvested and threshed in: God shall supply all your need acâ€", C l: much the same manner as wheat and| cording to his riches in glory by Christ « ; usually with the same inachinery. AnI Jesus." | & \’gverage of several thousand tests' The relation of Christian love and i | showed that raking shock rows saved fellowship existing between Paul and‘ 1 ,a-bout one bushel of grain an acre.<In the Christian folk of Philippi is exâ€" c ,the past this operation has been an? ceedingly beautiful. It is just such a.’ | infrequent practice. _ Figuring this relationship as should be everywhere | v | year‘s wheat crop at about 71,000,000 between . fellowâ€"members of the y "ncres, a saving of one bushel an acre| Church and between the members and | would mean $160,460,000, at $2.26 a the pastor of the Church,. When: ‘bmhol. A corresponding saving might selfishness and strife enter the lifeJ | be effected in Canada. . | of the Church it decays and dies. Betâ€"| 1s NNR ies mer e "~ ", 24 0040 a In some sma‘i] neighborhoods severâ€" al farmers go together and buy a thresher, running it with their tracâ€" _ The time of threshing depends on weather conditions. In regions subject to heavy rainfall only a small part of small grains is threshed from the shocks. Threshing from the stack reâ€" quires extra help to do the hauling and stacking, but less help at threshing time. Besides, -tackeg grain can be threshed later when help is not so hard to get. Grain threshed out of the shock must be very dry if it is to keep well in storage. _ _ .s~T.â€" * There‘s another route to the Land of Nod, Up a mountain steep and high, And warmâ€"clad climbers, hand in hand, Go softly up to the starry land, And there on biue cloudlets they lie, lie, lie, And cruise by blue islands of the sky. And so they come to the Land of Nod, By the shimmering, starâ€"lit way, ' And niddyâ€"noddies come in bands' And take the whiteâ€"robed travelâ€" ler‘s hands, And with them in Dreamland they play, play, play, Till they melt into mist at peep o‘ day. | Would you know the way to the Land of Nod, Where the sunset fairies dwell, Where dear little darlings, mistyâ€" eyed, * On snowâ€"white ponies sleepily ride To the sound of a drowsy bell, bell, bell, > And the hum of a seaside shell? There is a way to the Land of Nod, By a slowly ebbing tide, On which the boats go dropping down With sails of snow, like my baby‘s gown, ‘ Till the sleepâ€"river grows so wide, wide, wide, \ One scarce can see to the farther side. ! If two farm girls' cant;iak;- camp with two farm mothers, no more ideal vacation can be imagined: Boy Scouts, Girl Efiiâ€"d_e'l and Counâ€" try Folk‘s Clubs, under wise leaderâ€" ship,_can have no better fun than camping. ing days you have plenty of leisure between meals for little fishing trips and games and the busy days but brighten the pleasure of the free days. The very best method for carrying on the camp duties for a party of four is to split up in teams of two. One team will do all the work one day,‘ while the other two will do nothing | except loaf, fish and rush to the table| when meals art ready. On the next’ day the other two will do all the work. By alternating in this way you‘ get the most fun out of camping for| you have one whole day of absolutelyE nothing to do and even on your workâ€"| is probably the healthiest, softest and most comfortable bed ever invented by man. Ezfll‘mxi % »\d/IOIIE8S J\| PA Loan Company.. foronto Office. 20 King St. Westk 4% allowed on Savings, Interest computed quarterly. Withdrawable by Chogque. 6!%% on Debontures, Interest payable helf yearly, Pald up Capital $2412,578, The G:eat West Permanent The Land of Nod. 50000g10 00 (hw, ing in grain, time and labor. ‘a Rub soap on, under and around the| ou fingernails before going to work in, so the garden. Then when you have so« finished your work, the grime can! the easily be removed. The same rula‘ al The use of passenger cars and comâ€" zercul trucks in cities and country has displaced many millions of horses. . This is an enormous savâ€" ing in grain, time and labor. ‘ Rub soap on, under and around the fingernails before going to work in _ Edward W. Croft, a newspaperman, who was a passenger in a biplane from Champaign, I!1., to Chicago, wrote a number of pages of copy while travelâ€" ling from 7,009 to 8,000 feet in the air, sometimes fi%the fil‘qqd.l_ and fiying at 90 miles an sing a typewri ie t . tm tht hy ie strapped to his knees and himselt strapped in the biplane. * ,| could have done without the gifts, for "You might, though, think someâ€" r| he had learned selfâ€"denial in *a hard thing like this, mightn‘t you? ‘Noâ€" | school (vs. 11â€"13), but their love for body could be intentionally disagreeâ€" l;‘him and care of him and thought for able about a real charity like this. s‘ him were unspeakably precious. 'Of course she‘ll help if she possibly | _ It is, he said, "not because I desire can. It‘s a privilege! " ‘!a gift," but "fruit that may abound| "Humph!" said Mary, doubtfully. | to your accourt." He did desire th.t! Uncle Jim laughed. "What do you !they should be the kind of people who really think as you go round to get | would be thoughtful and generous,fcontrih:tions?” he asked. | and would do kindly deeds that would| "Really and truly," said Mary» "I ;be to their credit. He desired that guess I think, ‘I hate to ask you, and | their credit account should be lnrge,! I‘m sure you‘ll hate to help, but I !that they might have a rich reward, think it‘s your duty, and I‘ll be furiâ€" from God. For, he said to them, "My ous if you don‘t; and I think myself ;God shall supply all your need acâ€" | quite superior to you!‘ Well, no wonâ€" cording to his riches in glory by Christ: der I get the results I do. My envelope lJems." i uavs. "Ruturn n Ainnonanuiihe immine _ The relation of Christian love and fellowship existing between Paul and the Christian folk of Philippi is exâ€" ceedingly beautiful. It is just such a relationship as should be everywhere between . fellowâ€"members of the Church and between the members and the pastor of the Church When selfishness and strife enter the life of the Church it decays and dies, Betâ€" ter to bear all things, and endure offences with all patience, than to destroy such a fellowship! | | Epaphroditus had journeyed nven: hundred miles to bring these kindly‘ gifts. While in Rome he had been busy ministering to Paul and helping‘ in the worg::tthe Church. Paul calls; him "my her and fe!low-wox»'ker| and fellowâ€"soldier, and your rncnenx-I er and minister in my need" (2: 25.)! {But he had been taken seriously ill and was near to death, "For the work| 'of Christ," Paul says, "he came nigh‘ unto death" (2: 30), probably having‘ encountered severe hardships on his long journey, but even in his iliness| his character shines forth brintly,[ for he was "sore troubled," not be-I cause he was sick, but because his . friends in Philippi had heard and‘| would be anxious (2: 26). !‘ Phil. 4: 10â€"207 Your Care of Me. Paul was writing from a Roman prison, into which he had been cast upon his arrival in Rome in the year 60 or 61 A.D. About eleven years before, on his second missionary jourâ€" ney, Paul had come over from Asia into Macedonia and had preached the Gospel to the Philippians, founding there the first Christian Church in Europe. He had been driven from Philippi by persecution, but returned. thither some five or six years later. He speaks of the Philippians in terms of warm appreciation of their conâ€" stant and unfailing kindness to him, and of the care which they had of him.| See 2 Cor. 11: 9, and compare verse 15. When he first left them and went to Thessalonica they had sent him| gifts (v. 16), and again when he was in Corinth. But during his long imâ€"‘ arimnment in Palestine they had lacked _ opportunity" to help him.( Now, hearing that he was in Rome: and in prison, they sent Epaphroditus with gifts for him. Paul says, "Ye! have revived your thought for me"l (v. 10 in Revised Version), and speaks of that which they sent as "an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God." | In Acts 2: 42, 46, 47, there is a picture of the fellowship of the first Christian community in Jerusalem. There were daily meetings, in which they ate together in simple fellowâ€" ship, distinctions of rank and class having been laid aside. The apostles mingled freely with their disciples and instructed them. There were prayers and songs of praise and words of goodwill for all, Because there were many poor among them, those who had possessions sold them and all shared alike, and new adherents were being welcomed daily to all the priviâ€" leges and happy comradeship of this new life. This was the beginning of a movement which was to spread rapidly to all nations, and which is | yet to conquer the world. 6 | Christian \Fellowehipâ€"Acts 2: 42, 46, 47; Phil. 4: 10â€"20. Golden Text, 1 John 1: 7. Writing Under Difflculties INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY 27. C 4* WUN I AMAMIVV â€"AM the manure TORONTO A subscriber who runs a dairy {arm thinks he is not getting such good results from manure as he has a right to expect, and wants to know how to get the most possible value from it. At present the manure is piled in the barn lot till time to haul it out, and a good deal of juice runs out of it fiix.:t.o a gulley. He says he is so sifuated that he can_ very well haul manure and lp?u%o ‘x’t as made, U-ndogbfedly this friend is losing "At least," said Uncle Jim, "that‘s what the flattering little envelope that you send me always calls for." contributions?" he asked. "Really and truly," said Mary; "I guess I think, ‘I hate to ask you, and I‘m sure you‘ll hate to help, but I think it‘s your duty, and I‘ll be furiâ€" ous if you don‘t; and I think myself quite superior to you!‘ Well, no wonâ€" der I get the results I do. My envelope says, ‘Return a disagreeable answer inâ€" two minutes to Mary Mason!" You‘ve given me a great deal to think over, Uncle Jim." "Yes, I see. But to take a concrete case, Uncle Jim, what sort of envelope as you call it, could I have sent to Mrs. Barnes? I couldn‘t think, ‘She‘ll be sweet and gencrous‘ I know her too well." head to foot when I begin to talk. 'There's nothing in the world, as far as I know, that dries up the springs 'of one‘s inspiration like that critical stare. I am just as stupid as that ‘ person expects me to be! And I send | back her envelope." _ *"Exactly," agreed Uncle Jim with a smile. "You‘ve got the idea, Mary Ann. Moreover, you‘re already touchâ€" ed on the other side, which is the really important one: not the kind of envelopes we receive, but those we send out to other people. Suppose we tried to get ours there first? Eventuâ€" ally, we‘d raise the level of the whole transaction." |_ "Why, that must be why everybody | loves mother so!" cried Mary, eagerly. \"She brings out the best in people. il’vo heard people say so again and again. That‘s because she looks for 1it, isn‘t it? And probably that‘s why | she gets on so well with Delia. Lots of other people have tried Delia for a :cook but couldn‘t stand her because Iof her temper. _ You know mother never loses hersâ€"so there‘s no temper envelope to come back." "And ther‘s one of my clients who always comes to me as if he thought I knew everything about the subject in hand. _ I‘d do almost anything rather than disappoint that man and shake his confidence. That‘s what he draws in his envelope. "And there‘s another personâ€"did you ever experience that kind, Mary ? â€"whoA logkl me over critically from "And there‘s one of my clients who I soon began to send him back a special greeting, too, though it wasn‘t until recently that I realized it was in his own selfâ€"addressed envelope. "I don‘t believe in swallowing things whole, you now, and so I‘ve been watching myself and my own reactionsâ€"and I‘m getting a good deal of amusement out of them. There‘s one newsboy, for example, just outside my office building who, for some reason, has seemed to take a particular fancy to me. Whether I buy or not, he always gives me a "As you expected her to be," finishâ€" ed Uncle Jim, briskly. "Yes, I underâ€" stand. I merely connected it with something I heard the other day, Every day we send out mental messagâ€" es all round us; and we always inclose a stamped and selfâ€"addressed envelope which brings us in return something of the same nature as the. one we disâ€" patchâ€"what we sent for, really! "Congratulations?" said Mary, "I guess you didn‘t understand. 1J said that Mrs. Barnes had turned out just as horrid and disobligingâ€"" "Why, yes," said Uncle Jim, slowly, over the top of his newspaper. . "If I remember correctly, you did say something like that. Well, then, conâ€" gratulations, my dear. That‘s anâ€" other stamped and selfâ€"addressed enâ€" velope come back." To Get Most Out of Manure. _Ano mhat was what she said!" deâ€" clared Mary, triumphantly. "Didn‘t I tell you last night, Uncle Jim, that Mrs. Barnes was a horrid, disobliging woman, and that I knew it wouldn‘t do the least bit of good to ask her to help ?" "And Ahat was what she "Stamped and Selfâ€"Addressed" d