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A farm house should have a base ment under the whole house. The basement should be divided into three rooms, using hollow tile for partitions. The furnace room should have a furnace with avtomatic regulator to regulate the heat. A hot water tank shou‘ld be attached to the furnace, also a small heater or stove attached to hot water tank for summer use. The iruit and produce rown should be under the kitchen and have a cupâ€" hcard, an ice box and a potato vin, a‘so a dumb waiter to go un into the kitâ€"hen. The laundry room should have two stationary tubs, a power washer and wringer, an ironing board attached to the wal so as to fold up out of the way when not in use. There s sould be either gasoline or electric power in this yoom to run the washer and do the ironing, also lights, and hot and cold water and plenty of windows to light it. The outside basement door should open into the furnace room and doors from laundry close to outside door, also fruit and vegetable room should onen into the furnace room. The kitchen should be large enough for the family, have a sink with sewer pipe connected, a range, oil stove, a Fitchen cabinet, a builtâ€"in cupboard, between diningâ€"room and kitcher. This qupboard should go clear up to the neiling, with three tiers of doors. The lower tier should have three bins that wing out. The dumb waiter should also be in this cupboard and connect with the vegetable room in the baseâ€" ment. There should ais> be a small door ten by twelve inches that will swing into the wall and chuteâ€"run from this door to the basement furâ€" nace room. To sweep dirt into this door does away with the dust pan and thousands of steps during year. The dining room should be large enough for the family, with builtâ€"in buffet and china closet beside the cupâ€" board from the kitchen. It should have three windows, grouped on the no@r have sout conditic Live S Live Stock Branch makes the followâ€" ing timel' comments: "The dried up. condition ‘of pasture in Ontario and, Quebec was more or less responsible, for the large consignments of thin stock. Grase conditions in the West, were fairly good in practically all dis-* tricts and not such as to induce exâ€" cessive liquidation. _ Prospects for: course grains and roughage are very‘ rromising, and cattle holdings are not noarly as heavy as during the autumn of 1922. It would appear to be good business to keep the movement to slaughter during September and Ocâ€" tober, as free of light unfinished cattle as possible. The cattle that have been coming forward in increasing numâ€" bers lack in weight and finish, possibly more than in type. There is no outlet for such stock for the export trade, since they have neither the fleshing more than in type. There is no Outiet for such stock for the export trade, since they have neither the fleshing nor weights profitable to ship. The domestic trade, being very largely packer and butcher, does not want to load up with stock of poor dressing quality and can only do so at cut The market must be cleared, and as a result, the packers‘ storage becomes‘ filled with a lot of carcasses and carâ€" cass cuts which go into distribution when the colder weather and shorter runs occur. As a result, there is a very heavy amount of poor quality beef going into consumption at a time when demand is a strong point and might be better served with beef that had been carried longer on foot and marketed in more suitable condition and, therefore, sold by the producer at prices that return a suitable profit." Beachburg has given financial asâ€" sistance to Pembroke hospital, to the school fair, and extended a helping hand to the local fall fair. A successâ€" ful play was given under their superâ€" vision, Grandmothers‘ Day had again been celebrated on May 24th and many other laudable undertakings carried out generous contribution of meney to assist the Pembroke hospital. as well as helping the Children‘s Aid Society.! A valuable bale of bedding and clothâ€"| Ing had been sent to the Northern fire sufferers. A concert had been given | and a largely attended sewing class: conducted. Bulbs had been planted in| the Memorial Hall grounds, and the Institute had beon largely instrumenâ€"| tal in having their cemetery cleaned | up and cared for A very successful year‘s work was indicated by the reâ€" port of this thriving branch. I Queen‘s Line reported much comâ€" mendable work undertaken and car-! 1 T l NB K L. wl 004 10 14 cudie tsmm Povnetemito is served by the Institutae â€" They coâ€" operated with the Farmers‘ Club, and are working for the erection of a hall, towards which worthy object they have alrcady accumulated over four TeOREEEEENARET â€"â€" MERECTES P000 enc N2 00 ts E00 I ried out during the year. Clothing the ard bedding had been sent to the fireI to â€" suferers of Northern Ontario; the ow School Fair had been helped and lunch| wo! 8 S i0 * * Wikiwas â€" mae T Sm rse grains an mising, and c rly as heavy : 1922. It wou iness to kee ughter during er. as free of Lakeview For Home and Country livingâ€"room wants to be roomy, review of live stock marketing i1 in August the Dominion attle Trade Needs. (Cobden) has also gi Efficiently Functioning Institutes. A Conveni ent House By Charles T. Sherman. baseâ€": have a builtâ€"in bookcease, a fireplace| The and a group of three windows. 'Thero! three should be at least one bedroom on the, tions. first floor, with two windows, a goodâ€" ve a sized clothes room between the bath-‘ or to room and bedroom, with a high winâ€" tank dow. There should be a door from the‘ , also bedroom to bathroom through this el to closet, also a door from the bathroom into the livingâ€"room. Besides the reguâ€" hou!4d lar bathroom fixtures, there should be i cupâ€" a builtin medicine closet, a builtâ€"in » vin, clothes chute that would connect with to the the laundry, so that when changing clothes they can be put into this chute e two and land in the laundry in the baseâ€" lie mwe y IREBE I would have no parlor. However, I would have a den or office room large enough for a rollâ€"top desk, a library table, safe, builtâ€"in bookcase, a waste paper chute to the furnace room, and an outside door and a goodâ€" sized wingdow. 1 ‘ > L.% enc uo you e Upstairs I would have it studded in so as to have a hall and three bedâ€" rooms of good size to receive a bedâ€" room suite, and each one open into the hall. By studding in, it would leave lots of closet and store room. In the hall I would have good light and a dirtyâ€"clothes chute to the launâ€" dry in the basement, also a dirt chute to the furnace room like the one in the kitchen. This house should have a verandah across the front side of the house at least ten feet wide, with one post at each end to make the arch effect, and a porch on the back side of the house to suit the taste of the builder. 1 would figure this from the woodhouse along the end of kitchen. Could use the room above the wood house for a screenedâ€"in sleepingâ€"room. I hear some say, "Do you know what such a house costs?" Yes, I do. J have built three of my own and finâ€" ished them in genuine oak, and will say that they cost a farmer less than they cost city people, and a farmer needs the above kind of a house more than the city people. 1 would have running water least two bedrooms, the kitchen, dry and céllar. Rabbit Rearing. \ There would seem to be a bright! future for rabbit breeding in Canada, declares Bulletin No. 28 of the Do-; minion Department of Agriculture, entitled "Rabbits," which has just been published. In France, Belgium, and other European countries rabbit! breeding is an important industry. The climate of this country, owing to its general dryness, lends itself well; to rabbit rearing, which, it is suggestâ€"| ed, might be made an appreciable, source of income as a side line. In the United States, especially on the Pacific Coast, the industry is growing, and Canada might follow suit in an enterprise which means provision in both food and clothing. Britain imâ€" ports twentyâ€"five million pounds of rabbit meat annually, and the pelts are used extensively in the manufacâ€" ture of imitation fur, the skins being made to undergo remarkable transâ€" formation by tanning, dyeing and clipping. In Canada a firm of furâ€" riers in one year imported six hundred thousand skins. As to the quality of the meat as food, the organizing dietiâ€" |cian of the Soldiers‘ Reâ€"establishment |\ Department testifies that some milkâ€" fed rabbits sent her had all the savory | and delicious qualities of chicken or | capon. The bulletin is well illustrated ‘and contains much valuable informaâ€" | tion as regards housing, rearing, feedâ€" |ing, marketing, dressing and tanning ; skins, treatment of discases, and on | the different breeds of rabbits. Fill the old wagon and the rattle will cease. | _ Foresters‘ Falls is still holding an| | honorable place in the District and in the community for which it is doing | such good work. Their chief objective ‘ is the Community Hall for which they | are working wholeâ€"heartedly. During | the year they have given generous help to many worthy causes outside their ‘own immediate community. They are working towards the securing of a school nurse, and also are coâ€"operating with the Farmers‘ Club, and in numâ€" erous wa@ys giving themselves and ‘their time to the bettering and imâ€" proving of their community and all |that relates to it Take care of the tractor and the tractor will take care of the work. MEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE JOIN IN THESE COMMUNITY GATHERINGS. Zion Line, though one of the newest branches, has an interesting report. They have given a cashâ€"donation to the local hospital, and the the Chilâ€" dren‘s Aid and Infants‘ Ward. Clothâ€" ing was sent to the fire sufferers and a needy family at home assisted. Their meetings are community gatherings to which the men and young people are invited. They are held in the homes in the evenings and after the ladies have disposed of their Institute busiâ€" ness a social evening is enjoyed by all. The benefits to the community of such wholesome monthly gatherings cannot be estimated, and even if this Institute had nothing else to justify its existâ€" ance it is doing a wonderful thing in creating this fine community spirit. in at launâ€" |\ _ That is a strange thing for a little \ girl to wish, but it is what this funny little Ermintrude wished. Her family | and her attendants got tired of hearâ€" ‘ing about it. |\ _ Beyond the castle stretched a black forest where bears were said to roam. The little princess used to sit up in her own special tower and gaze at ghe ‘forest through a telescope. But she \ did not see a bear. | "No wonder, ‘way up here almost in the sky," said Ermintrude, and she | threw away her telescope. " I will | meet a bear. Bring me my rubbers!" \ _ Her little Royal Highness had never been outside the castle grounds. Chilhs. ... "elitte wuseumeaes seeceae en 000000000 CV 1 on F 2 too. It was a baby bear, the fattest, The Search for a Bear. brownest little bear that ever waddled. BY GERTRUDE I. FOLTS. His chubby nose sniffed the air, for he Once upon a time there was a little] smelled peanuts in â€" Ermintrude‘s princess named Ermintrude wheo pocket. greatly wanted to meet a bear.~ She‘ An hour later the queen saw a lived in a mountain castle that had strange procession approaching. Old towers so tall they seemed to reach| Alan led the way, with Ermintrude the moon and she had many beautiful perched on his shoulder. Behind him possessions, but still she was not con-" walked the other serving men. _ Two tent, because she wanted to meet a| of them were carrying a fat little aniâ€" bear. ( mal that seemed quite willing to come. TWO B.C. HEROES AND THEIR PARENTS When the earthquake struck Japan the wireless operators of the Emâ€" press of Australia, two youthful British Columbians, upheld the traditions of their kind, and stuck to their posts, sending out the first messages telling of the disaster. They are shown in the picture, J. $. McLure, at left, and R. W. Willoughby at right, welcomed by their parents at Vancouver. _ "And she shalii not go now," said the king. : So Ermintrude put on her royal blue wraps and then, followed by ten servâ€" ing men with spears, she tripped down the winding stairway of the castle tower, through the gate and straight into the thick black forest. But the queen‘s advice was: "Let her have her way this time." _ But by the time twilight fell the forest seemed, or, so deep and black! The tired little princess sat down and began to weep; she no longer wished to meet a bear; she wanted to go back to her tower under the moon. "Courage!" said old Alan, one of the serving men, as he stepped forward. "Your Royal Highness has only to say the word and we will go home." The princess looked up and saw the other serving men standing near. They seemed very strong; she decided to keep on. I was talking to one of the service men of a big tractor factory concern1 the other day. His business is to see| that the tractors work right, and keep'. on working after the users buy them. "It‘s coming along toward winter,! now," he said. "I have just been send-l ing out circulars to the purchasers of our machines, warning them to drain] the radiators. But lots of ‘em won‘t do it; we sent out 200 circulars in my territory last year, and when the flrst! ]sharp frost came we got hurry calls for fourteen repair parts!" | Now, a tractor isn‘t like an autoâ€" ‘ mobile; you run your car almost the ‘year round, but generally lay up the â€"tractor for the winter. So when field | work is over put your tractor snugly away in some tight building where it will be safe from storms until spring comes. When all the gasoline or keroâ€" sene is drawn off, you may store the machine in the barn without affecting your fire insurance; an open shed is _no place of a $1,000 piece of maâ€" chinery. _ All at once the bushes began to crackle. Ermintrude gave a little scream. "Courage, princess!" said old Alan. Drain the radiator; be sure it is‘ and the p completely drained. A good scheme is‘ dry out ar to let the engine run slowly until the| tions may last drop of water has run out; then| But these screw the cap on tight, but leave the in half a « petâ€"cock open, and the waterâ€"system| _ If there will stay dry. If you have time, you, that it is : may pour a pound of sal soda, disâ€"| nect it an solved in a bucket of water, into your, Or some C _radiator; leave this overnight and, must see flush it out next morning. This cleans kept full off the deposit left by hard water. It| SPring, tal will be easier to get this deposit off Station an now than it will be next spring. llf there is _ Clean out the oilâ€"cup and drain the| a reasona fuel tanks, but leave plenty of oil and ; Put the b Igrease in the transmission and other once ever) moving parts. Oil the magneto, and ter and 1 so on. Be sure that all surfaces that speed for might rust are covered with vaseline| keep thing or something of the sort. And it is a| So mar mighty good thing during the early| being fitte winter, to take of the cylinderâ€"head ers, that and clean out the carbon, grinding the to be the valves if necessary. Before you put to learn ‘t %%%‘Z’w/f//'flz% dIOIYES . Laying Up the Tractor By William Walton. ' An hour later the queen saW & jike ¢ ‘strange procession approaching. Old jlooks |\ Alan led the way, with Ermintrude Moab | perched on his shoulder. Behind him caray | walked the other serving men. Two tudes | of them were carrying a fat little aniâ€" other | mal that seemed quite willing to come. ‘I‘:x;ag And from that time on, Ermintrude never repined or complained again; she was too busy playing with her litâ€" tle brown bear.â€"Youth‘s Companion. Sensitive. Speaking of touchy persons, the superintendent of a department in a city factory was asked the meaning of "sensitive" by a foreign workman who broke his English as ho spoke it. "Well," sald the superintendent, "a sensitive man is one whose feelings are hurt easily. Why do you want to know ?" "The boss," said the workman, "he ask me not to call John a baldhcaded boob because he‘s sensitive." the head on again cover everything with a thin coating of oil. Some of the valves, you know, will be standing open all winter. They will therefore get rusty, unless oiled; and a rusty valve isn‘t tight. i A tractor that is put in firstâ€"class shape when stored away for the winâ€" ter will be in firstâ€"class shape when you need it in the spring, provided, of course, you have a weathertight place to keep it. Possibly some of the wire | connections may get a little corroded,! ‘ and the pump packing will probably ‘dry out and leak; the rubbser connecâ€" | tions may perhaps crack and spiit, too. |\ But these minor matters can be fixed ‘in half a day‘s time next March. | | If there is a storage battery, see that it is fully charged. Then discon-l | nect it and put it away in your cellar | or some other protected place. You must see that the storage battery is ‘kept full of distilled water. Next | spring, take it to the nearest charging ‘station and have it properly charged. l 1If there is no charging station within a reasonable distance, you had better ‘put the battery back on the tractor ‘ once every few weeks during the winâ€" ‘ter and run the engine at charging If there is any part that hasn‘t been! * *> **" " MA LCO " lle antimist TLike| giving perfect service during the sum.| _ Zephaniah is no easy optimist, Like| merâ€"the magneto, for instanceâ€"now all the other prophets he sees the sm! is the time to take that part off and of his people and pronounces his doom | .giv.e it a careful examination. See that ;p\?i?/i‘dt ;?cttl?:ex:)i'mtf\eoitg&d;)ffl ;efl::; it is adjusted exactly as the instrucâ€" jem,. The princes of Jerusalem are tionâ€"book shows ; then if it still refuses fierce lions. Her judges are ravening to work 100 per cent. send it back to wolves. Her prophets are arrogant the factory for overhauling. There braggarts. Her priests are unscrupuâ€"| will be scant time in the spring to get lous perverters of the law, Her wickâ€" a balky part going; besides, the facâ€" ed are without shame. Will I turn to tory w[lt be far busier then and will 2 9M0Pr uhi ho se the destroction :‘::til:)en able to give you the same 't’"of the impenitent does not despair. 4 ® & ‘‘There is, too, a remnant,â€"a folk poor A tractor that is put in first-class‘and humble through whom the purâ€" shape.when _stored away for the winâ€" poses of God will flow. They are the ter will be in firstâ€"class shape when folk of a pure language, or a pure lip. you need it in the spring, provided, of To serve him with one consent. Their course, you have a weathertight place thinking and speaking is to issue in to keep it. Possibly some of the wire united action. They are to serve the connections may get a little corroded,! Lord with one consent, or more vividly and the pump packing will probabl with one shoulder or yoke. In the folâ€" ary out and leak; th b! Y lowing verses the prophet goes on to y out and leak; the rubber connecâ€" give a beautiful picture of the fidelity speed for an hour or two; this keep things in pretty good shape. So many of the new tractors are being fitted with lights and selfâ€"startâ€" ers, that a storage battery is getting to be the usual thing; and you want to learn ‘how to care for it, of course. //,/;/’ ]dO ’/‘/T& | it, â€" 7 | cit : %/ \\~ <3 |6 f mm t BANG! ) |Jo Sisse. ky * t x Pz Ee | The Sunday Schoo j ORKED f y Scthool Lesson| . ocoa® “ * TaRmpr _ w RC I EC CCE aoves es Cc‘ # winâ€"| Prgghecy was oral in its beginnings ring and then flowered out into literature. wil Prophecy in its first spread was a proâ€" | test from the lips of Samuel against |Philistine oppression. In its final deâ€" 2‘ velopment it gecame a picture of world artâ€"! dominion for God. In other words, ting what took its rise as a patriotic yearnâ€" vant ing, humanly speaking, came to its irse. completion as a dream of world conâ€" Some Missionary Teachings of the Prophets. Isaish 60: 1â€"3; Jonah 4: 10, 11; Micah 4: 1â€"3; Zephaniah 3: 9. Goldâ€" en Textâ€"Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.â€"Isaiah 60 : 3. Moab and sees the treasure laden l"’x "“;' prophet who v i :aravans of the East coming in multiâ€" nother prophet who was missionâ€" udes, praising God as they come. In ary in his teaching was the author of ; other words tie world is to share in tCh" bl‘l’lo‘l‘ °,;,h'L°"",‘h‘ J So much so that [srael‘s joy and greatness. This is }:’"‘ thin "’g heta of Israel says one of the great missionary visions of that this is one of the grandest and the Old Testament. deepest books ever written in spite of iL. con‘s wing cirous, sonan, 4: Ats aflmrent triviality. Jonah is chaâ€" * 10 111 » » 4: ‘grined because Nineveh had not been| dean destroyed according to his prophetic Jonah 4: 10. Thou hast had pity on word.. He notes not that Nineveh has Lk o hicks fadt recacs qainer 9f mid spared, â€" In Fonsh 42 20. 12. ts 1eh? and spared. In Jonah 4: 10, 11, the $I}“I$ “;)hol‘: of the le&soawof thti‘f; ‘:og.(t nagrow aechfrlanGi: rebuked and the e book represen conflic â€" wideness . 0 od‘s _ mercy,â€"wide tween the true missionary spirit and enough to take in Gentiles a%d their the narrgev:l, e;c:luswe t:pi%t‘. Jo}r:ah is (é;ttoli-â€"â€"ls vind‘gcaw%. He is God, of comman go ineveh an entile, as well as Jew. preach. Jonah is afraid, not of the, â€"In Micah 4: 1â€"3 we have a glorions dungé}:“s involye}t‘lt, b‘l’lt afraid tfh?t his vision (;)f thgr ‘l‘atter dayali. "i!‘ho lwfst is reaching mig e successful and yot to be. se may b ys tuâ€" %ine\lfch might be saved :iy ;epontanc«:]. ?nult and discotx‘;nzem};nti,‘ bl:?u gvy is Jonsh gocs woest instead of east and coming when : gets into trouble, God sends him a| J. Spiritual things shall be on top cor e mos o onvecdiogy depienogs Pase. .. is fancaln of the Lov‘s eaches s eas ase, mountain of the Lord‘s {:ccuuse Ninoveh actually receives his house shall be established. This chimes message and repents, and escapes _the with the command of the Lord Jesus. goom Jonah had pronounced against "Seek ie first the kingdom of God, and ‘t’t ch. 8: 4. Jz‘sodJonah wultched thg h}i‘s lxilieteo(;xdsx:ss: and all these things city in anger, God prepared a gourd sha >â€"added unto you." to sha'de hip1 from the heat. Then: 2. The evangelization of the world * o w l lulasd the manurd ‘shall on Enrurend in ereat mass moveâ€" 5"‘ adPindhedechentiait, Anr tlant " , of such a remnant. Once again we see the world is to share in the picture. Israel is to be a name and a praise among all peoples. Prophecy is often popularly conceivâ€" ed of as mere foretelling. It is rather forthtelling,â€"a solemn preachi:j of righteousness and religion. liore linls L Lidudsdedomntoniivatich Shovkcs â€"Hermerer y IF is sometimes an important feature of that forthtelling, but prophecy for the most part is an interpretation of the mind of God,â€"a discovery from man‘s angle, but a revelation from the standâ€" point of the AlmighEy.. es‘ APPLICATION the _ 8. The fact of the bright prospects >z of the kingdom of God. "The Gentiles ght shall come to thy light, and kings to het th*e brightness of thy rising." What a iled torch of optimism, and how bravely it the Y* waved in that time of thickening and gloom. It was no doubt such a hope i he 28 this that inla{red Carey‘s motto, , pfp "Attempt great things for God. Exâ€" ,9° pect great things from God." es quest for Jehovah. Prophecy became missionary in its outlook. Ta» sxnmnla: toke Tes â€" 80 1.3, In _For example, take Isa. 60: 1â€"3. this brief passage three things struck out into bold relief. _ _ . 1. The fact of privilege. Judah, in spite of the fact that her capital city, Jerusalem, is a heap of ruins, is yet a little lit circle surrounded by tremenâ€" dous night. The nations about may be stronger materially, but they are sunk below the rays of day in a darkness of ignorance, superstition a'm.l‘ sin. _ s out of sfiechl privileges. "Arise, shine, for thy light is come." Judah standing up like a tall mountain to take the sunrise, is expected to reflect that comâ€" ing and growing light for the benefit of those who are 0.: the valley. This was the attitude of St. Paul the misâ€" sionary. "I am a debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise." So must we, if sunâ€"lit, reflect his light and his truth to the uttermost parts of the earth . . _ his rl%l:teousnesu and all tnese Lnigs rea=y shall be â€"added unto you." |I have done every 2. The evangelization of the world| myselfâ€"and cont« shall go forward in great mass moveâ€"| busy" to do other ments. Like the tide of the Nile or the| â€" There comes to Euphrates,â€"too full for sound or years of more ra foam, the peoples shall flow into the practices, how on house of the Lord. That day may he; opgq days I puffed approaching now. The educated P°9~| wopy o. Some Ht via af Tanan and China are breaking 1""°jm,,?‘2 :,:;,n Ehi BUPUITUCY 2. International peace shall lie like a shaft of light across the land. Isaiah and Micah would be on the side of Sir Robert Cecil and any oth»er pood man who is laboring for the federation of the world and the establishment of the spirit of bectherhood. In Zeph. 8: 9 we have the assuringx word that one day the worship and service of all the world shall be given to Jehovah. Jesus shall reign. A good deal of attention is being given to the regulation and improveâ€" ment of the dairy industry in Ireland. Grading of butter is in full swing, having for its main object the protecâ€" tion of the National Brand. The Deâ€" partment of Agriculture is actively enâ€" ‘couragiug cow testing and directly, supervises the recording of pureâ€"bred dairy cows, and a register of dairy cattle being kept. Over a thousand pedigreed cows that had reached the set standard of production had been: ‘registered up to the end of 1922, the ‘highest yield recorded being 14,227 |\pounds of milk in fortyâ€"five weeks. \The majority of the pureâ€"bred cows |registered are Dairy Shorthorns, with Kerries the next most numerous. Since |1909, a total of 942 selected pureâ€"bred | dairy bulls have been bred from regisâ€" | tered cows and distributed in districts \where cowâ€"testing is carried on for ‘ mating with recorded cows. In a lecture at Yale, Henry Ward Beecher told the students to rememâ€" ber that "the first thing to be rememâ€" bered is leisure." He cautioned them to take all the time they needed for sleep and for recreation, because "the condition of absolute integrity of mind and body is the first condition that makes for success. _ Browse, read, wander through the woods on one day and through the streets of the city the next." A High Flier bcarâ€""Hey there! Look where you‘re going!" Recreation. ARIO ARC TORONTO (who have all the harness marks ol 'indultry and farm tcil is to slip the halter now and then, nose open the , gate that leads to the outside world, break down the fence, if need beâ€"and try the forage along tha great high« ‘ way! The collar will be cooler when you get back! - Mn oo ies Eun "nl'kfl‘ m you gey Dacn. I write as a man who has worked hard, as a man who has flagrantly overworked, as a man who labored so exclusively that he hardly took time to admire God‘s big sun. I writa as a man who was in very bondage to toil, who lived for work, worrled for work, swore by work, and put no end to the day. T‘d be working yet, and working to beat the bandâ€"but it junked me, And as I sat on the junk pile, a veritâ€" able part and parcel of it, body and soul, I sized up the thingâ€"sized up the whirl I had been whirling in. What did I do* I walked away from a great big barn and from a farm that had been in the family a hundred vears. from a farm that the What did I do" I waiked away from a great big barn and from aA farm that had been in the family a hundred years, from a farm that the old grandsire had hewed out of the woods. What else did I do? 1 sized up myself, my ideals, the real direction my life was speeding, the possibilities of a more rational and sensible way of living. In short, 1 did what the giddy , boys in the old days did when the | speeding vehicle behind which they | were running came to a corner and | slowed downâ€"sprang free to save my neck! One doesn‘t have to quit IarmIink * get relief, Some men have the knack and sense to operate a large farm without making a spook of the work. I learned my lesson late. A «maller farm is often the proper solution. 1t takes moral courage to see the dollars rolling the wrong way once in a while when the physical, moral, and mental selves need relief from grind and drudgery. But the farmer‘s health, his good disposition, his morale, are capital without which his farming business must prove a losing investâ€" ment. EITOTTDY I have known farmers who got so hopelessly geared up with work that they didn‘t take time to have a reâ€" freshing bath, or to shave when flagâ€" rantly necessary, or to clean their teeth, or to put new laces in their shoes, or to sew buttons on, or even to dress respectably when going to town on some errand. I confess that " haus dane avery one of these things My advice to the mon myselfâ€"and contended that I was "too busy" to do otherwise. There comes to my mind now, pfter years of more rational and moderate practices, how once in a while in the old days I puffed myself away from work on some urgent pretext or unâ€" expected call from abroadâ€"how wonâ€" derfully my courage and morale were restored by a day of absolute diverâ€" sion from the busy and rather monoâ€" tonous routine of the farm. They were really golden days that remained with me for a long time thereafter, and stand out now in my memory AS meagre instances of what I should have done much oftener as a duty to myself and as a soul clarifier that would have been a great bencfit to my family and to the friends who had to come in daily contact with me, \we will serve. Will we become the abject slaves of burdensome work, or (will we order our lives in a rational way? |\ _ ‘"The temple of God is holy, which | temple ye are," is a fit text for everyâ€" lbody. whether Christian, agnostic, or ‘Anfidel. |_ _ The proverbial patriarch who pulled ‘down his barns to build greater did the wrong thing; some of us need to : profit by his tragic example, and walk | away from our big barns and find ‘smailler ones. If body and soul and ‘family life are hopelessly chained to a big barn, duty may demand that we cut that chainâ€"perhaps not this year, but even this year may be the time to begin thinking it over. Whether a man (or woman) be a Christian, a moralist, a fatalist, or a what not, everyone should respect his body and not mistreat it; everyone should learn before he is very old that a clear and cheerful mind only accomâ€" panies a wellâ€"conditioned body; everyâ€" one should know that the sun in the sky, the trees and the grass on the earth, the birds in the air, the water at the shore, and all such things have been made to enjoy, and that a little time spent in enjoving them is a good deal more profitable and efficient than everlastingly working from daylight till dark. | _A friend struck a responsive chord | the other day when he said that our | philosophy of work is ridiculous. We ihnve become so involved in the indusâ€" \trial interpretation of life that we really don‘t live at all in a broad sense of the word, but just work, eat, sleop, and take a bit of recreation only when we can squeeze it in. At this season of the year both work and the possibilities of recreation come around together. _ In the words of Moses, we must choose this day whom a ui cerve â€"Will we become the I am again reminded of how ‘we boys used to take hold behind a buggy and trot along. As the rig went faster and faster, our feet would fairly spin, and we had either to keep running. take a disastrous header, or lose our feet and drag on our toes, That‘s murh the way many of us have become with work; we are in a bad way and travelâ€" Ing too fast, but can‘t seem to be able to hit upon a satisfa«tory getâ€"away. BY AN OLD FARMER. e to quit farming to men have the knack crate a large farm , spook of the work. an late. &A aemaner marks of i