The Exeter Times, 1922-9-14, Page 3'EU sa pop. HENIRY G. BELL
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„lace of. our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
authority on ali 61.1illeCts perr4lirling to solle and crops.
Addrese all CII.ItStiOtt5 to Professor Henry G. Gee, In
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E, .I. --Would like advice in regard
to a piece of swamp. It has always;
raised large amps until the last four'
or five years. About all it will grow
now is sorrel and a small fuzzy grass
,
and smart weed. PlowedIL lab'
isummer after cutting hay and kept it
worked,all.fall. I plowed it again this
spring and planted it to corn about
the first of June, but the corn is net
doing anything. What is the ,trouble?
Answer:—I cannot tell exactly what
is the matter that you do net geta
better growth on rear swamp soil,
but would suggest that it may be for
•one OT a combination of the following
reasons:—
,
(1) Your swamp may not be suf-
ficiently drained, hence the water
standing in the soil will prevent deep
rooting such as is natueal to corn.
(2) Your swampsoil may be very
sur, hence impossible, to corn. J sus-
pect this is partially the cause of
your trouble since sorrel thrives on
your. soil. It usually does well on
sour soils. To test out your soil for
sourness, get a few sheets of blue,
litmaus paper from yotir druggist,
and hery this paper 4 to 6 inches in
the soil at different paints. When
yeti dig it up in about 20 minutes if
tie, paper has turned pink it indicates
seiixness, OT the need of lime If it is
the :ase apply lime at about 1,000 to
2,000 lbs per acre, putting it on any -
tine this fall or early spring.
(3) Your swamp soil is strong in
nitrogen, weak in phosphoric acid,
and very weak in p.otash. Now corn
requires a large amount of potash
and considerable phosphoric acid and
potash. I-lene it will be necessary
for you to apiety 300 to 500 lbs. Pei
acre of a fertilizer carrymg 10 to
12 per cent. phosphoric acid and 6 to
8 per cent. potash befere you can ex-
pect good crape of corn or potatoes.
My Advice to you would be to seed
year swamp land to red top grass
and alsike clover, and use higher
ground for general crops,
R. F.—Please give sorne advice for
destroying cabbage worma. We have
triad ashes and this doubled the
amount of worms. •
Answer.—Spray your cabbage with
Paris green or lead arsenate, 1 lb, of
Paris green to 150 gallons of water
or double the amount of lead arsenate.
There is no danger of human poison-
ing because the cabbage grows from
the centre out, and the outer leaves
are always removed in preparing the
vegetable for cooking.
E. A.—Can you give me the right
dates for sowing wheat in various
Parts of Ontario, to avoid the Hes-
sian fly?
Answer.—It is advisable to wait as'
late as possible in sowing fall wheat,
so as to avoid the late brood of Hes-
sian fly. 'Usually the middle of Sep-
tember will accomplish this. It is
necessary to fertilize the' wheat liber-
ally to get sufficient head -growth t
meet winter. Use at least 200 to 30
lbs. per acre of a 240-2. •
T. H.—I have a 10 -acre field to sow
to fall wheat. It is a heavy clay -soil
and was in oats this season. What is
the best fertilizer to use as I have
only a small amount of manure.
Answer.—On your soil, for fall
wheat I would advise a 2-10-2 or a
2-12-2 at 250 lbs. per acre.
Fertilization of Field Crops.
.A careful study of bulletin -No: 8,
tiff the Dominion Department of
Agriculture, should prove well worth
while to' every fel:mete It treats of
fertilizers for field -crops, describes
their nature, functions and methods of
application, and gives results -obtain-
ed at the various Dominion Experi-
atental Farms and Stations which
.
-elude about all the soils and, climatic
conditions el the country. The first
three chapters deal with the influence
that those three necessary ingredients,
nitrogen, phosphoric- acid and potash
have upon the soil and on particular
crops in different localities. Chapter
four treats of mineral and organic
fertilizer materials; chapter five of
mature with fertilizers and 'lime;
chapter six of farm yard manure and
green manuring, and chapter seven
treats of the nature origin and uses
ta
of fertilizer materials, Chapter eight
explains the value and proper uses of
lime in its various form. Chapter,
nine supplies formulae for fertilizers
and home mixing mixing, and chap-
ter ten describes the fertilizing needs
of grain crops, potatoes, turnips, mon-
gols beets corn timothy, clover, alfa-
lfa, flax, tobacco, vegetables, fruit,
etc. Every chapter is of obvious
value to tillers of the soil, but thei
last three contain information of an
especial nature avhicdi no farmer can,
afford to be without. Of particular1
impartanee is the plain and straight-
forward language of the entire bulle-
tin, which can be had simply by apply-
ing to the Publications Branch, Ot-
tawa.
Protect ZOitOni of Bee Hives.
Bee keepers have learned that the
loss of heat through the -.bottoms of
bee hives during the win:ter time, is
very rapid. This is contrary to the
usual belief. The practice has been
to insulate the top and sides of the
hives but not the bottoms.' Tests were
recently made by government experts
and from these tests it was made clear
that leaving any part of the hive with-
out insulation makes the escape of heat
at that point easy. While dead air
spaces form the usual method of in-
sulation, it is the obinion of the gov-
ernment experts that the bee keeper
had better increase ,the SiLe Of these
Spaees to four or even six inches iri
width and then fill with sante cheap
insulating material like sawdast.
Live Stock in Canada.
Stetietics furnished hy the Domin-
on Department of Agriculture show
that there were over 500,000 more
milk cows in Canada in 1921 than in
1920, 400,000 more other cattle, 45,-
000 fewer sheep, nearly 400,000 nore
vine, and 6,600,000' more poultry.
Average values were much less last
year than in the year before, dairy
cows being placed at $51 'against $80,
other cattle at $28 against $47, sheep
86 against $10, savine $14 against
$23, and poultry, $1.02 against $Le1,
-Upon the permanence of Canadian
Agriculture depends the permanence
of Gamete. Don't wear out the soil
Ttraliktil haa been giatrufsted to yotir
:are.
Healthy Cows Mean Good
Milk.
The news letter of August 10th is-
sued by the Dominion Dairy and Cold
Storage Branch states that, during
the month of June, 2, 898 dairy herds
were tested and that a: total of 28,831
tests were made of individual cows.
This was an increase of 17,018 tests
over the number made in the month
of May.' An interesting part of the
work is the attention given to cows
owned by members of the boys' and
girls' clubs. Farmers are showing
more and more ineerest in herd testing
and increased appreciation of a sys-
tem which not only means healthy
cows but also healthly people insofar
as it guarantees th a large extent a
supply of good milk. There is one
way in which they can pre-emmently
assist in the excellent work which
both the Dairy Branch and the Health
of Animals Branch of the Dominicn
Department of Agriculture are try-
ing to do, and that is by making clean-
liness their watchword.
Raise what you feed 'and.feed what
you raise.
Says -Sam: A fellow too old to
learn is too old to live:
If you have trouble look yourself
over before you lay the blame on
other folks or things.
HEIR
CUT 2 STOIVIAC i TEETEril
H AN
H4D- OWEL TROU LE
• Mrs. James E. Greee, Veerriilion
Alta., writes under date of Aug. 18th,
1921.:—"I should like to advise mother!
and wives about the eally good friend
Dr. Fowler's Extract of *11d Straw
berry' hag been to nie. '
Obo Sunday rity husband camelioine
feeling terribly. sick with: bowel trine
.ble, and asked me to send for a bottle
of "Dr. Fewlei's", and on the follow-
ing Tuesday he was ;out, in the field
"gain as fit aa (wet.
A week ago rny baby boy, just one
year andefotr months old, 'started cut-
ting two sfomach teeth and WaS.S0 sick
he could Pot eat or ,sleep, and had ,the
diarrhoea most, terribly bad; hie rec-
turn was raw and blooding, but after
giving him Dr.' Fowler's Eistract of
Wild Strawberry- regularly' for' three
days'he was as well as any boy could
be. I wouldn't be without your grand
remedy for untold gold.',
' This remedy has
no superior for the
relief of diarrhoea,
dysentery, eramps
and pains in the
stomach, 4ho1e raj
eholera Inorbus,
cholera' infaetum,
sommer complaint,
and all loo'soness of
the bowels,
77 years' reputa-
tion stands behind
'Dr. Fowler's'. Price 50e, e bottle;
put up only by The T. ltilburn Co.,
Limited., Termite. Ont.
The Child's Foo
By Lucy D. Gardiner
Children with life all before them
require food that is selected with a
mind open to their specifie need.
They are not miniature mete "The
child is different from the adult/" says
Terman, "in every Citric, every blood
cell, every bone cell, and in the rela-
tive proportion of all his parte. His
resistance to disease, his powers of
recuperation, his food and sleep re-
quirements are all unlike those of the
adult," The child is incomplete in
bone, nerves and muscles. Many
glands either do not function in in-
fancy or have a very low efficieecy,
His food need is great because growth
is exceedingly 'rapid in the earliest
years. Until he reaohes the age of
twenty-one his body is in process of
build inc.
Good teeth, strong straight limb
bones, well shaped bones protecting
the brain and organs of the trunk, a
strong thitec heart muscle, eteady ner-
ves and efficient brain, are all formed
from foods Which are simple, easily
digested and adequate in values,
The first critical period of a child's
development is that known as the pre-
' school period. During that time he is
I becoming somewhat independent and
bocafuse he can vaalls alone, go from
roam to room on his own initiative,
and even out of doors if he so desires,
parents and guardians are very' apt
to forget that his need for care is
quite as great as when he was 'still
confined to his crib or the perambula-
tor.
Give Child a Good Start.
This child is able to help himself of
food within sight and within reach
and he does so. He takes raw pota-
toes and enjoys them. He notices that
mother drinks coffee so he demands it,
and hie demand is too often granted.
A noted authority in pediatrics has
stated that in spite of the best hered-
ity the adult falls physically short it
management during the pre-school
years is neglected. Authorities agree
that nutrition plays the mostimport-
ant part in the manufacture of men
and women and that both a strong
mind and a strong body depend upon
the elimination of era -ors in feeding.
It is of primary importance that
the child's meals be served regularly.
This trains the appetite and fosters a
habit of complete digestion. The
child that eats between meals, and eats
orals Which are eesential foe fborie end
teats, building and Tor retaliation. They
need such aetivity foods as butter,
cream or bacon. They need a very lit-
tle sugar, not, over one level table-
spocinful per day; and they need rice,
oatmeal and tapioca puddings. They
do not need ,.stimulants, such aa tea or
coffee, which are injurious to many
adults, and, serious in their effect
upon children.
"Waiter, bring rite an order of bread
and butter sandwiches, and a bottle
of milk; also an order of mince pie
and a cup of coffee." This, 'late at
'night in a reseaurant, was the order
of a man seated at a teble with his
five-year-eld son. The waiter brought
the ordeals, and 'unhesitatingly placed
the pie and coffee before the father
and the bread and milk before the
set. "I'd die before morning if I ate
that dope," said the father, and he
pushed the pie and coffee over to his
little sen and took for himself the
easily digested bread and milk. Such
parents do not realize the harm they
are doing nor the criticism sure to
come from the Child later.
Waste in Cooking.
Foods served to children should be
carefully Cooked/ so es to preserve in-
tact all the nutrients, Potatoes are
rich in iron ad it is practically all
extracted by the water during the
first"fifteen minutes of cooking. This
is true also of such vegetables as
spinach, beans, carrots and cauliflower.
Cabbage is a valuable anti -scurvy ve-
getable but this property is lost when
the vegetable is cooked for half an
hour or more. Investigators found
that it cured scurvy in animals if
shredded and cooked in boiling water
only twenty minutes, The selection,
combination and peeparation of foods
are of equal importance, whether the
foods be for adults or for children.
When children first enter school, the
regular gain in both height and weight
slows down somewhat. This is prob-
ably due to the fact that the mouth
is preparing for permanent teeth, that
the children are more closely 'confined
and ,are obliged to accustom themsel-
ves to a definite routine, for we find
the pendulum of growth swings out
again in the seventh and eighth grade
when these conditions have become
settled...It is -a singular fact, however,
that physical defects, hitherto unsus-
everything that takes his fanny, loses pected, become apparent, probably be -
the keen appetite for plain building cause there are a greater number of
foods furnished 'at meal time -' he be- children form
comparison. Many of
comes finicky. , The capacity of' a these defects are due to errors in early
child's stomach is small and if it is feeding, for the habit of eating re-
found to be impossible for him to gula:rly and of eating the correct
take food in sufficient quantity at the
regulae meal hour his "piece" should
be plain bread and butter, or a peanut
butter sandwich, or bread and mills.—
midway between two regular meale
and always at the same time. If this
destroys the edge of his appetite for
the meal, train him to wait and then
to eat more heartily at meal time.
The child's meals should be simple,
He has not yet learned to like all iihe
kinds of foods which he needs and if
those of intense flavor as candy, cake,
bred with sugar him, he yaill .scelect there and anpourice, /ed.
foods for development of mind and
body, must have been fixed before the
child is of school age.
Many children are discovered to be
underweight When they enter school.
While this is not in itself a serious
handicap, it signifies that the power
of disease resistance is below par, and
an underweight child is more subject
to infection from the contact with
numbers of children, in an atmo-
sphere where, too ,often, the tempera-
ture varios greatly and where fatig-ue
gar dr jelly, be ,given is not always recognized, and control-
, that he does not "like" plain oatmeal -
with Milk: He yall not drink milk if
School Lunches.
.e he given coffee or .some other be- It is essential that the food habit
eerag.e 9f 14k nvnn,11vrn. of Children just entering school be
Coffee Has No Food Value. studied carefully and the mother can
Yet coffee contains nothing to really
,feed him. -It 'stimulates and satisfies
his longing for food io that he is pre-
vented from taking foods of the right
.quality and also from ta,king,enough.
When his mother urges him to eat; he
thinks it'a game, and becomes con-
trary in 'order to receive much atten-
tion. Highly Seasoned foods and com-
plex mixtures also prevent him 'from
desiring the essential foods. Thus
begins one of the most serious, per-
plexing, problems the mother has to
The foods which a child needs
should be easily digested as it is from
the digested foods he es built. Milk is
more easily digested by many children
when it is taken with bread. Foods
rich in fat digest slowly and author-
ities are agreed thati ndigestion in
hies are agreed that indigestion in
little children is most often caused by
Ibis reason are introduced gradually
into a child's dietary and not at all
until the twenty-first month—in the
new scientific feeding. Fat meats,
pastries, rich sauces and gravies are
all apt to cause trouble. The hulls
of baked beans render them difficult
of digestion; raw vegetables such as
potatoes and 'carrots pass through the
child exactly as swallowed, so do sweet
corn and other foods that resist thor-
ough Ch ' '
Watch the stools of the child dur-
ing the,period that he is learning to
take new foods and prevent him from
taking those which are seen to, be
e.bsolutely indigeetible. Unripe fruits
cause diarrhea, which is a serious ail-
ment and affects growth immediately'y.,
An attack of indigestion lasting less
than a week is often responsible for a
set back in growth that has lowered- a
child's vitality for years.
The child's food should satisfy the
hungee as well as the appetite. Less
that one-third of the children of large
cities, over one year of age, are ot
portal development, Children need
the growth foods, especially milk
which is more potent than any other.
They need bread ancl other vegetables
as epinacli, helmets, peas, cauliflower,
string beans, potatoes, and euch fruits
as oranges, cooked prunes, apples and
do this most easily, and with the
greatest return for the thne spent.
It is essential that the children have
a good breakfast, one that will supply
all the elements needed for growth
and for play. Many ehildren who have
been considered stupid, who have been
held back in their grades, were chil-
dren wboso stomaChs were enipty
when they reach school or very -soon
after and the consequent contracting
of the stomach made good lessons im-
possible.
Children coming in the bus to a
certain consolidated school did poor
work. Some of the homes were fully
six miles from school, and the chil-
dren had an early breakfast and fre-
quently a hurried ane. The principal
decided, los the benefit tif the district,
to find out whether food antfl a,cholar-
ship went together so a hot cereal was
prepared every morning; the children
brought milk and promptly at eight
forty-five the schoel breakfast was
served. These children have all im-
proved in school work, nearly every
child made the grades and was pro -
Meted, and the school breakfast Is per-
manently fixed in that district.
In a kindergarten of one of our large
cities was a group of five -year-olds
who appeared most stolid. They did
not respond quickly when called, they
• ,
'remember even the simplest one long s
enough to tell it. They -preferred to
sit and watch the games rather 'than! c
did not smile at stories, nor did they
SUFFERED FOR 6 YEAR
ITII HEART TROUBLE
WAS SNOT UF 3REMti
cha the first sign of the heart
eonaing wealsened or the nerves un.
strung, Milburu '8 Hear', and Nerve
Pills 'ar iut the remedy you require.
They regulate mid stimulate the heart,
and Strengaten and restore the whole
n are e sten)
Mr. Walter Winger, Rogersville, Oxit.,
write—'I suffeeed for five years
with heart trouble. X e,ould hardly walk
facm the houtio to the ham without
repting as I used to get so short of
breath. I spout hundreds of dollars on
doctors, but they could ao nothing for
me, Friends told me to try Milburn'e
Heart and Nerve Pills, so 1 got a box.
eelt better after taking the first ono
so got two more, and now I 'ani enjoying
my health as before. I cannot recom-
mend your Pills too' highly."
Milbura's Heart and Nerve Pille are
50e. a box at all dealers, Qr inailed di-
rect on receipt of price by 'Ile T. Mil-
burn Co, Limited, Toronto, Ont.
of the children laughed at the story
and then the director had to give a
party. The children did not gain
weight for over fem. months but there
was all evidence of rebuilding blood
and other tissues and, 'best of all, -the
mothers asked for information regard-
ing the food the ehildren should have
because, as one mother put it, "JesePh
is good, when he eats better."
'The quality of foods is important.
So too is the quantity. Delicate chil-
dren seem to be unable to get enough
food to meet all the demands, A
'study of the gicwth of any child,
maintained for a period of six months,
will itterest the child, aroiase his am-
bition to help, especially if he be given
a definite goal, and will reveal to the
mother, in a manner almost unbeliev-
able, that rearing a -child means inti-
mate association and knowledge if it
is done well.
A Crime Against Children.
A girl writes us that she was al-
lowed to grow to womanhood with-
out an education, because her father,
though he could afford to keep her at
school, thought it a better bargain to
keep her at work. Now she says she
iniast pass through life constattly
humiliated by her ignorance, because
she does not have the education that
other girls about her have. '
There is no greater wrong parents
can do their children than to deprive
them of a good education, of a good
start in life, Every child has a right
to be well born and well started in
life; so started that he wIll -have a
fair chance in the great competitive
game, and not be perpetually handi-
capped by the lack of education, poor
health, an underdeveloped body, or
some other preventible mental or
physical defect which seriously
jeopardizes his success in life.
To rob a child of the advantages his
Creator has designed for him is a
double crime—a crime against God
and against the child. -0 S. Marden.
sts.
Our Dairy Products to
Britain.
The news letter for August issued
by lac Dominion Dairy and Cold. Stor-
age Branch contains much food for
thoug* by Canadian farmers. In the
six ninths ending June 30, 1922,.
Canada exported to Great Britain 2,-
025 hundredweights of butter and
139,634 hundredweights of cheese
whereas Australia and New Zealand
together sent in the same direction
and in the same period 1,394,383 hun-
dredweights of butter and 974,838 hun-
dredweight of cheese: The United
'States exports of both commodities
have declined this year to a greater
extent than ours, and the expert of
butter from the Argentine Republic
to the United Kingdom, although'
showing a falling away, in the six
months of this year, compared with;
the corresponding period of 1921, of
65,000 hundredweight, was yet more
than 117 times greater than this!
country's. New Zealand does a bet-
ter trade with Britain in cheese than
any other country and Australia in!
TEM
he Mesage of Malaci 7-13, Golden
turn unto Lnioer,dan(1 IIII.olltist.et_nivirlalin:nato: y70.12, sait /0
Lesson Foreword—The ministry 02
1Yfa1achi fell in the Persiga period,
0mPa time after the rebeilding of the
ieporriraPilee,; be .1117,4r3re lia4avde hibeehweirnalach°,114'enIln-
order to incite the people to rebuild
the temple, Haggai and Zechariah hell
promisedtbe
eoaltdha.t„, )vheteLner finished bit es. whe_
iri-
filment of these promises lingered and
the people grew cliscouraeed, They
were lasing faith in their religion and
were becoming- slack'in oleenring it;
abuse e were rife among the priest-
hood itself. Ralaehi's task was to re-
form the irregularities which were
countenanced in the temple and to re,
call the people th
I. The Payment of Tithes, 7-12.
V. 7. Even from the days of your
fathers. The sin of the people goes
back to past generations. This was a
favorite doctrine with the prophets.
Jeremiah said that Israel's disobedi-
ence dated from the exodus out of
Egypt. (See tier. 7: 25, 26.) Return
unto me. Jehovah's present attitude
was not one of :favor, but if they would
change their hearts and repent, God
would change his attitude and be-
come gracious, Wherein shall we re.
turn? Believing in their innoeence,
the people challenge the prophet to
state more explicitly wherein tlaey had
done wrong.
V. 8. The prophet replies th.et the
people may show their willingness to
return to God by paying their tithes—
the taxes or dues which were paid for
the upkeep of the temple and its min-
isters, the priests. These hadnot been
kept up.
V. 9. Ye are cursed with a curse.
Owing to their treatment of God and
his ministers, the land was suffering.
It was afflicted -with locusts and
draught.
V. 10. Bring ye all the tithe:. This!
suggests that while the tithes, may
have been paid in na.rt, they INE.,4Te flat
paid in full, or while some were pay-,
ing their tithes, others were with-
holding them. The storehouse; the,
chambers in eonnection with the tem—
ple where the provisions were stored.:
The tinses consisted largely of the
products of the land, --oil, fruits and:
grain. That there may be meat; that
the priests may receive their salary
as provided in the Law. If 1 will not
open you the windows of heaven. Ac-
cording to the Old Hebrew notion there
were store -rooms in the firmament
where the upper waters were kept.,
When the windows of these store-
rooms were opened, the waters would ,
came down in rain. This, then, is a,
promise of rain, and rain was always:
a blessing in Palestine.
V. 11. I will rebuke the devourer; "
, one oftl dreadp of the
;en ef those who fear him, The beole
oh remembrance, known in the Netv
Testament as the boolt of life, appears
f re qu ently in the scriptures. (See
P ; 8; Dat. :10 , , 2,
15)
V. 17. When I make up ray jewele.
In the day of Jehovah, when he ap-
pears for judgmeat, the righteous will
be esteemed as his special treasure
and will be treated as a Man W011Id
treat his preeious jewels. This hope
should make the preent ills of life
more tolerable' for the righteous for
the day of their vindleation is sure to
come, I will spare them, etc. "In the
terrible lodgment of Jehovah's day,
Israel will be pitied and shielded by
Jehovah" ( Sm ith )
V. 18. In the day of judgment it
;will be easy to distinguish between the
;pious and the wicked. For the God-
fearipg will reeelve their reward;
'whereas the godless will be humbled
831c1Application.
of Idlirslill'ulidonY, Nom "11
aanid)erio(1
t
de-
cay." "Severely left to thenaseives
and to the petty hostilities of 'their
neighbors, the Jews appear to have
sunk into a careless and sordid man-
ner of life," "The congregation has
, grown worldly and careless. In parti-
cular the priests are corrupt and
partial in the administration of the,
law. There have been many mar-
riages with the heathen women of the
;land; an the laity have failed to pay
ithe tithes." Thus writes George
Adam Smith, of the time when the
message of Malachi was given. And
this, after a period of chastening in
exile, and following; their sacrifices in
icoen,liang toiJeewruasaslenoi tem -
f the city.
, ,
Our time too has surely had its
yeaxs of chastening and sacrifice, and
these post-war days are to many, a
period of disillusion and disheartening.
Dean Onge, preaching in St. Paul's
Cathedral, London, a few months ago,
inade the following gloomy etate-
merits: "The War had not improved
the noral tone of the people; in some
ways it had made it woese. We were
threatened with a great outbreak of
licentiousness such as that which dis-
graced the country in the reign of
Charles II, and again dui•ing the re-
gency, after the great war with
Napoleon. Authority in morals soca/l-
ed to have lost it force; men and
women did what was right in their
own eyes. There was a widesp,read
want of faith in the Christian revela-
tion, combined with an outbreak of
puerile superstition. How many peo-
ple," he asked, "now take at all seri-
ously what our religion tells is about
' 'on, peayer an, d
her fruit. Mildew and blas.ting ceused,m°ral struggle?" ,
the grapes to fall off the vines before Brighten up this picture as much as
th ir time
•
land. Neither shall r9nt vine cast..1 repentance, converse
you consistently can• but is it Wholly
v. 12. All tations shall call you out of cirawin,g? Looking en
blessed. The The fortunes of Israel at the ture and on that, comparing the time
time were not commensurate with her of Malachi, and OUT own time, we
position as the people of God Israel inust achmt soine disturbing reeem-
has still a fine future, but she must blances. Carelessness, want of faith,
show that she deserves it by a change moral laxity, neglect of worship,—
o$ heart. then and. now., ,
II. The Trirenph of the Righteous, 1 Resultant Duty. If so, then what?
13-18. Dr. j. H. Jewett says, "The great
11". 13. Your words have been stout
against me. Arguing from the, facts
fling to lose faith in God. Among
themselves they were saying many
bitter things aborit God's providence.
What have we spoken? The people,
challengedMalachi to prove that they
:
were criticizing God's treatment of
them.
V. 14. The prophet accepts the chal-
lenge and supplies the' proof The
people were ,questioning the profitable-
ness of religion. What use was bhere
in fulfilling its 'requirements? Whet;
gain was there in godliness? The
law, and especially Deuteronomy, degl
clared that if men were righteous
they would •prosper, if they sinned
they would 'be afflicted.
V. 15. Now we call the proud hap-
py. The skepticism of the people Lad
ltd .em i envy the godless as bemng
better off. As George Adam Smith
says, "They thought that the vn'ciced
men .succeed,"
V. 16. The Lord hearketode God
Was paying attention to whet was be-
ing nisi about hint by his people. A
book of remembrance was written.
Just as Oriental monarchs made a
memorandum of ethose, whe ,were for
them and these who were against
them, •so God keeps a -record in heav-
-----es,
evangelical revival began, not with
the reclamation of the depraved, but
with the enrichment of the redeemed."
"Take heed unto thyzelf, and unto the
doctrine," was Paul's work to Timo-
thy. Malachi liad a message to the
two classes, the "redeemed," and the
"depraved." When Dr. Gore was Bis-
hop of Worcester, he said in an epis-
copal el arge, "What we want in every
parish is not more Christians so much
as better Christians." Recently he 're-
-peated that canviction. "Qiieruleus
adherents. of Jehovah . tempted to
despair in their service cf God," are
recalled to faith and devotion. "Re-
turn unto me, and I will return unto
you, saith the Lord cf Hosts." "Creatn
in me a clean heart, 0 God; and re-
new ta right spirit within tree'—"then
will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto
thee."
Tired Eyes.
Red lamp shades, no matter how
dull, have a tiring effect on the optic'
nerve. Nature's is the best of all.
— 4:4
Feeds can be mixed in lots of sev-
eral hundred pouncle by shoveling back
and forth on a tight floor.
Keep feeding the hens or Dair.oduot Holding, It pays to 'sell yOur'poultry curls,
lets or 'they'll stop growing. „.
THE PLAGUE Of PIMPLES
CAUSED By AD BLOOD
Bad blood is responsible for the pim-
ples, blotches • and other disfiguring
ldn troubles that break eut on the face
and body. • •
There is a natural foe to bad blood,
ailed Burdock Blood Bitters, which al-
ways conquers, never 1:wise and as re-
commeucla by thousands to banish
iverything :from the smallest pimple to,
he worst scrofulous sore,
Mrs. 0. R. Phillips, Shabenacadie,
. WM,
year with my face; it was juet covered
vith pimples and lolacklioads. 1 used
all kinds of creanas and different mod -
041105, but hone. of them seemed to help
010. My home doctor 3110 they Wer0
apaecl by had blood. I lost courage
of getting 'rid cte them until a lady told
me to giVO BUrdOek Blood I3itters
rial. I got a bottle and it helped me,
and by the turie I had trams three bot'
ties 1 hacln't a pimple .or my face. I
rem highly 'recommend Isterclock Blood
Bitters to any one who is troubled with
pinspl os.' '
Put up only by the T. Milburn Co.,
to participate in them. When the
ebil-
dr.en were given a physical.' examine- !
ticm. it was found that these children
were seriously underweight; their , t
bait was rough and without life. Their
eyes were dull and time was not en-
ough color in the cheeks of the entire t
group to satisfy one pretty girl.
The children repoeled having coffee i
and rolls, or coffee and pancakes for
breakfast, 'Plain this ltinclergarten ,
followed the example of the copsoli-1
dated country school. , At ten in the t
morning the children were given Mush
and milk, as much as they wished, and
toast or breed and 'butter, The change
was very voon apparent, 800n the
hair became glossy, the eyes bright-
ened, first one and then another want -
dried apricots fbeeause of their mine ed to get into thetganiee, finally one :Limited., Talent°, Ont.
The Dominion Dairy and Cold Stor-
age Branch reports a slight decrease
in the holdings of both creamer -y and
dairy batter in Canada in the first six
months of the present year compared1
with the returns for the seine period'
last year. but there was an increase in"
cheese and oleomargarine. The hold-
ings of creamery butter amounted to
10178,891 life. this year as compared
with 10,213,220 lbs. last year, and of
426,67Ielbs. of dairy butter compared
with 52,5,647 lbs, The holdings of
cheese this year were 9,371,980 llos,
compared with 4,726,000 lbs. last year
and of 'oleomargarine 237,870 lbs.
compared With 171,943 lbs,
Musical Eggs.
Mistrese (to new servant who einge
in the early niern)---"Jate, I wish you
would net, sing that frivolous song any
•
more."
Jane—"Lor' biose yea 'eclat, mum, 11
,ain't, friVelausr That's 'what I cooks
the liegge by—two verses tor eon, and
four for 'excl.!"
In 'this 'old world rnore feelings are
hurt by ,barl mannets that by lead in.-
ut you lase your reputation . if you
mai-ket yo.dr.frftit cufls
SE1 RE HEADACHES
PAINS IN THE BACK
AND STOMACH
Once the liver fails to filter the poi-
sonous bile from the blood, then is a
clogging up and poisoning of the whole
system whirl causes' nially troebles to
arise. The bowels become constipated,
the stomach upset, bilious a.ttacks occur
e,ausing severe. headaches, peins and
aches eon's, on, and a genotal feeling
,yf depression aotp
Milburn's Laxa•Liver Pille avill help
the liver to resume its propel' functions
by removing the bile that is eiteuleting
in the blood and poisonitg the system.
Mrs. S. R. Hallett, Herring (lore,
14'. S. writes:—"I hate been trolibled
tor a long with severe headaches
and pains in my heels end stomach
avent to a doctor who said I had liver
trouble. I took two bottles of modieine,
but it failed to do me any good. \Pat%
told by a friend to try Milburn's letorae
Liver Pills. 1 tools twee vials, tied iliey
have made me wen."
Price 25e, es vial al dealers, or
mailed direct on receipt of prieo by The
tentionA. T. lldilbusin Co.. Limited, Toronto, Ont.