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The Seaforth News, 1923-06-07, Page 6he' Sunday School Lesson JUNE 10 Nehemiah, the Bold Builder. Nehemiah, chs. 1 and 2; 4 to 6; 8: 9-12; 12: 31 to 13: 31. Golden Text -Be not ye afraid. of them: remember the Lord. --Nehemiah 4: 14. LessoN rooR2wo2n-Nehemiah se- stationed armed detachments. In these _tired from Artaxerxes the Persian open spaces the buildings would not 4,--ing, the appointment as civil gover- interfere with their- movements. 1 nor of the district of Jerusalem. On set the people after their families. The arrival in Jerusalem, he investigated defence of the city and the operations the walls and found that there had on the walls,was distributed accord - been no attempt to rebuild them since/ ing to families. The defenders wefe their destruction by the Babylonians, stationed in front of the places where .1 -le then convoked an assembly of the the respective families were at work leading' people of the city, and by a rebuilding the walls. Strong family convincing address persuaded them to feeling would thus ensure a strong rebuild the walls and thus ensure the defence. _ city against hostile attacks. The news V. 14. Nehemiah sought to put heart of the,. project spread through the into the workers and defenders by ap- country with. the result that an alli- pealing to their faith in Jehovah and ance of Samaritans, Moabites, Am- to their love of their kinsmen, Fight monites and Arabians was formed "to for your brethren. It would appear foil any effort made to reinstate Jere-, that Nehemiah considered that the ealem in her position of being the most very existence of the Jewish commie - powerful town in Palestine." It was ity in Jerusalem was at stake. If their in the teeth of this opposition that foes secured an entrance into the city, Nehemiah undertook the rebuilding of they would completely exterminate the the defences of Jerusalem, in habitants, This grim warning would serve to stiffen the resistance of the defenders. V, 15. When our enemies heard. The ready been mentioned in 2:10, 19, 20 opposing forces had contemplated a and 4:1-8. Sauballat. In ch, 2:19 he is surprise attack, but when they learned Called the Horonite, that is a native that the Jews were aware of their of Beth-Horon, a town situated about plans and were 'prepared to resist eighteen miles north of Jerusalem, and them, they saw that they were foiled bn one and gave up the notion of an immeda- elonging to the Samaritans. I of the'papyri discovered in Elephan ate assault. 190 returned to the title Egypt, mention is made of "Salt- wall. The news that their adversar- gyp > les had abandoned their project was ballad governor of Samaria' This sure to -travel back to Jerusalem. It was in all likelihood the Sanballat Penni, the Jews to concentrate once mentioned here. The Samaritans wpermitted upon the building operations. a mixture of Hebrew and heathenEven so, they went about their work blood and were despised by the exclu- sive Jews of Jerusalem. Tobiah; is called in ch. 2:10, "the servant, the APPLICATION. Ammonite." Some commentators have Jertmiiah was a prophet who re - conjectured that Tobiah was the pri- fleeted deeply and to purpose, over the vate secretary of Sanballat.. If this tendencies at work in the nation. We were the ease, he had a double animus have in Nehemiah a different type,- against the Jews, -the race hatred be- a bold, aggressive roan of action. Hay - tweet the Jews and the Ammonites, ing heard the story of his fellow - and the feud between` the Jewsand countrymen's distress in distant Jere - the Samaritans. Arabians; the lawless salem, he was not content to .brood Bedouin tribes who roamed over the over it. He was not like Hamlet who Arabian steppes. Ashdodifes; citizens thought precisely on the event, but of one of the principal Phillistine could not put his idea into execution. Cities.They were . . wroth. Their No with Nehemiah action was the indignation was kindled because in important thing. No dreaming and roportion as Jerusalem was strength• sighing for 'Nehemiah. Though his tried, their own independence would own fortune was assured (was he not be weakened or threatened. "Balance cup -bearer to the Persian Emperor?) of power" was as real a problem for he made his resolve to strike a blow them as for us. for his far-off fellow -Jews. With what V. 8. At first their opposition was wisdom and tact he urged his request shown, chiefly intaunt and ridicule, to be appointed governor of Palestine ch; 2:19 and 4:1-3. When they saw (ch. 2), and one can in imagination that their taunts availed nothing, they see him with his squadron crossing to held a council in which it was decided Jerusalem, L THE DANGER,' 6-13, V. 7. The leading adversaries of the Jews are introduced. They have al rto muster an army .and . hinder, by Iforce, the rebuilding of the walls. V. 9. We made our prayer. The task before. Nehemiah seemed almost sup- erhuman. Hostile forces might arrive at any moment. The inhabitants of Jerusalem were poor and dispirited. Hence Nehemiah had recourse to 'prayer. Prayer receives a noteworthy rominence in the books of Ezra and, Nehemiah. Set a watch. Sentinels were posted to observe the approach of the advancing army and to prevent nsurprise attack either by day or by ight. V. 10. Judah said. Not only was there opposition without the city, but there was disaffection within. The feo le -Judah -were spiritless and atigued. They complained that the 'task of clearing away the rubbish and rebuilding the walls was too much for them. V. 11. Our adversaries said. After mentioning the source of weakness within the walls, Nehemiah describes the danger without" (Ryle). The in- tention of their adversaries had been reported, no doubt, by people who came up to Jerusalem from their dis- tricts. When the Jews learned of it, the element of surprise was eliminated from the contemplated attack. V. 12. Ryle says that, "to discontent withinand the schemes of the foe without, is added the panic of the .,Tews' in the outlying districts." The Jews which dwelt by them. Some Jews from the districts where the hostile armies were being mustered, had come up to Jerusalem to assist in the re- building of the walls. From all places, etc. The Hebrew text in this passage Is very obscure. The meaning seems to be as one commentator suggests: "Deprived of the able-bodied men who had been sent to work on the walls of Jerusalem these little (frontier) towns could not hope to, defend them- selves against the, gathering foes. 'Wherefore they address themselves, through their leaders, to their fellow - townsmen sojourning in Jerusalem, "Ye must return unto us." Some features of Nehemiah's pro- gram of reconstruction may appear harsh to us, but he saved religion in his day, What ,enduring service did he render? Alexander the Great trampled down the kingdoms of the world and started the flow of Greek culture among all nations. Only one withstood the onset of Hellenic culture and paganism -the Jewish people. They withstood this invasion because the nation had been made "hard as steel and strong as iron" by Nehemiah and Ezra. II. THE PRECAUTIONs, 13-16. V. 18. Lower places .. higher places. Here again the Hebrew text is (b- enne The revised version suggests a good meaning. The houses and buildings, for the most part, closely. adjoin the walls. Nehemiah chose the open spaceswhere the buildings were. well clear of the wall, and there he FEEDING FOWL WITH GRAIN TREATED FOR SMTJT. Experiments have been carried out by the Animal Pathologist at Ottawa, Mr. A, B. Wickware to ascertain if there is any danger of feeding to fowl wheat oats,, -'or other grains that have been treated with formaldehyde solu- tion for the prevention of smut. The result proves that there is little or no danger in so feeding fowls when the grain has been treated according to the standard method' advocated by the Dominion. Department of Agriculture, The usual method of treating seed grain is to immerse it in a 1 in 400 solution of formaldehyde for a per- iod of five :minutes, after which the grain is allowed to drain for thirty minutes and then spread out in a thin layer to dry. No ill-effects with the dry grain were noted in the experi- ments either with cockerels .three months old or fourteen weeks old, al- though the latter had the scratch feed soaked for two hours in a double strength of 1 in. 200 solution of for- maldehyde before it, was allowed to drain and spread out to dry. In the third experiment, cockerels four months old, although previously starved for 18 hours, showed little taste for the grain fed to them moist, but when a change was made to dried grain they ate a fair amount at each feeding with no bad effects. THE WIREWORM. The wireworm is a'^slender yellow- ish -brown worm about an inch In length when full grown. The insects live entirely below ground, where they feed, thrive and multiply on decaying vegetable matter and on the roots of growing plaints, their smooth, wiry,. cylindrical bodies allowing them to move freely through the soil. Pota- toes, onions, beets, and other garden vegetables are commonly attacked, and the losses caused are sometimes very great. Decaying vegetation, pro- duced by the plowing down of sod land in the spring or . autumn, provides ample food for the young wireworms for a year or more. When fully grown, the wireworm, transforms into a pupa. This is the resting stage of the insect, and takes place in a small earthen cell a few inches below the surface of the ground. Later, and usually in the autumn of the year, the pupa transforms into an adult beetle, which emerges during the fol- lowing 'spring. ,These .beetlee are about half an inch in length, and brown or black in color. They are usually spoken of as "click" beetles or "snapping" beetles, from their peculiar habit of flipping themselves into the air, with an. audible click when placed on their backsThey ` live above ground and feed voraciously on plant growth. These facts are supplied by the Chief of the Division of, Field Crop and Garden Insects of the Dominion Entomological Branch, Mr. R. C. Tre- herne, in his recently published pam- phlet on "Wireworm Control." Meth- ods of control are fully discussed. In the wheat .growing -districts, of the Prairie Provinces, says the writer, re- lief from wireworm will -lie obtained -by intensive summer fallowing, com- mencing in -early June. Plowing be- tween May 15 and July 15 is often effective.Insectivorous_ birds at this season of the year also play an im- portant part in destroying the pest. What are known as False Wire- worms have caused material damage in sections of British Columbia and the Prairie Provinces. The adult is a large clumsy black beetle, which is (capable of running actively over the surface of the soil, and may be recog- I nized by the strange habit it possesses of standing still, on their heads, as it were, when disturbed. 66All the Tie 1 Need" A Mother of Five Children Discloses a Great Secret. BY MARJORIE SIMS. "Do you think a mother with four have been made and my physical effi- babies can have any dine to herself?" ciency has been increased. was asked in a meeting one day by the -LABOR-SAVING DEVICES: father of those four, babies. The answer came immediately from a mother in the audience. "Of course. I have five and I have all the time I used." "How do you do it?" she was asked. "Everybody pitches in and helps everybody else. The middle children button and hook up the younger ones and we all -get out together. We can't Progress of Cow Testing. Year by year the number of farmers who take advantage of the cow -testing system conducted by the Dominion Dairy and Cold Storage Branch in- creases. In 1922 there were eight hundred and twenty-six more cows re- corded in eight months or over than in the previous year, and the average production of milk and fat was great- er, the test being 3.8 in per centage compared with 3.69 in 1921. Quebec stands ahead of all the provinces in number of herds and cows tested, the numbers being 8,469 herds and 88,267 cows. Ontario comes second with 783 herds and 10,347 cows. Nova Scotia is third with 860 herds and 2,521, cows. In the average test percentage, Nova Scotia ranks first with 4.32 and Quebec second with 3.9. New Bruns- wick's test in 1922 was 3.86 and On- tario's 3.49. The totals in 1922 for all the provinces, excluding Saskat- chewan, which conducts its own test- ing, were 5,128 herds and 50,304 cows compared with 5,194 herds and 47,- 895 cows in 1921. In Quebec there were 463 testing centres in 1922 and '92 in Ontario: Alberta has the best average for milk and fat, its 111 herds with 1,165 cows averaging 7,222 lbs. of milk and 290,6 of fat, the test being 3.66. Ontario's average milk produc- tion per cow undertest in 1922 was. 7.089 lbs, and fat 247.6. He knows much who knows when to hold his tongue. Light travels 186,000 miles per sec- ond. There's - time in the package Tirne to do the many things ordinarily put off on wash -day. For Rinso does not keep you standing over the wash -tub, Tubbing until your back aches and your hands are red and sore. Rinso, ars entirely different kind of. soap, soaks clothes' clean. Rubbing_ andboiIing are unnecessary. The big soapy Rinso suds gently loosen the most ground -in dirt without weakening a single thread. auy a package today. On sale at all good grocers and department stores. LEVER BROTI-IERS LIMITED TORONTO R306 in proportion, your ironing may be. Dish towels, sheets, stockings, under- wear and such things do not take near the time they used to when I was first married and thought everything had to be ironed. Clothes are made so they are more easily ironed now. I tle things. For instance, you know was afraid when I was a young house- wife the neighbors .would think me shiftless if they found me folding away unironed,things. Life's too short to let your fear of what folks will thing botheryou too much. A family I found a oozy, comfortably equip- must decide for itself whmmost to it, and then live, upat toeans that.the ped kitchen, in the home of this it . labor-orde- A TIME SQHEDDLE. mother-of-five.cepssA g "Didyou ever try making a time vices possible for afamily of moderate y means had been bought or made. Some schedule for the family?" of them, she told me, had been gifts, "Yes. We save a good bit of time as for instance,' the pressure cooker that way because everybody knows that the whole family clubbed to- just what hes supposed t do. Some gether to buy for Mother_one Christ- mas. "My huabandrsays he can work works fine." Then I was shown a take time for much fancy cooking. We better if he knows L, have lust. eat plain food at our house but I see things to work with as he does," my the whole day's work for each one was that it is wholesome and well cooked. hostess explained. And so there was planned out. k youngsters are better off with the dish drainer to yelieve one pair of Some days we get all upset, of I thin y g course and then nothing goes as we plain food. If company comes at meal hands. There was the sink with hot time we know theyhave come to visit and cold running water,. and the run- Planned it, Everyone has to 'pitch instead of just to eat our food. So as to any other members of the house in. Maybe I have to go out and guide the horses when the hay is going up we 'set an extra plate.' If we're hav- hold. The table was on casters. The in the mow or, I may have to drop ing bread and milk, the company gets dumb waiter to the dellar had three everything and go into town for some - bread and milk too. If'I spent time shelves so it could carry a good load. y g doing fancy, extra things 1 could not And there was electricity -both time thing, but we always come out all be so much with the children. The and energy saving. s That electric Iight right, and start out again with our children get a lot of fun out. of help -,plant represented all." the birthdays time budget the next day. We may have to let something: go that' we have ing me because they know we can get and Christmases for the family for an set our hearts on'but. it hasn't hurt out and play thatmuch more. We'; entire year. What a fine ideal T -I believe it is the only way never talk about not liking to do: lump all individual.: gifts into one giftus yet. we women can ever solve the problem things. Things just have to he dere l for illi I could not help thinking, of having time for the things we need and that's all there is to it. Makes a;what a wonderful training in values bigdifference whether or not yet' like; that was for those children. Every 1 a ) it for. Tlain but uI never will again."sed to try to work without what you're doing." thing in the kitchen had its'particular p good sized slate in the kitchen' where PHiLosCPIIY OE TME ROME. use, yet things were not crowded in "crowds." that for a sane philosophy of the least. System never homemaking? To this mother, time SYSTEM EVERYWHERE.. spentwith her children in growing The sane principle" held true . in and developing with them means more other rooms, The entire house was than ironing miles of ruffles, cooking wired for electricity and the water My visit to this woman's. home was an inspiration not soon to. be for- gotten. Value of Canadian Farms. The average value of the occupied. farm lands of Canada, which includes of . cover crops, the writer says, "If there is one part of the farm where commercial fertilizers can be used to advantage it is in the orchard: Here it is possible to make up for the lack of humus by the use of cover crops, which may be turned under annually. Results from past work at the Do- minion Experimental Farms have clearly demonstrated the `fact that commercial fertilizers, when properly used in conjunction with cover crops, will give as good results as the same. amount of plant food supplied in the form of manure. In fact if manure alone is used, the question of a suffi- cient supply of nitrates at the critical period in spring is not likely to be solved, for the nitrogen in the manure is not in as readily available a form as it is in nitrates. When manure is used, the time of high nitrate libera- tion is generally somewhat after the period when it, is most required, so that, briefly, it is recommended in orchard practice to depend uponthe different forms of nitrogen, potash, and phosphate as found in commercial fertilizers to supply the mineral ele- ments of plant food." The bulletin also goes fully into the question of the form in which to purchase and apply fertilizers. It San safely be said that the variety and explicitness of the in- formation, -along with recommenda- tions to be followed contained in the publication will be found invaluable by all orehardists. fancy foods that would merely be was piped all through. - Bric-a-brac, both improved and unimproved land, "tasted," and keeping a speckles i picture -holders and other dust catch- ,together with dwelling houses, barns, house still more speckless. To have 1808 so often found in parlors and sit- stables and other farm buildings, is time to be the companion har children, ting rooms had all been eliminated be= returned as '$44 per acre, as compared. needs is one of her aims -to be a; cause they added nothing to the beauty with -$40' in 1921, $48 in 1920, $46 in homemaker and mother, not merely al of the room and Mak extra time when 1919, $41 in 1915 $38 in 1917, $36 m housekeeper. ( cleaning day came. It takes courage 1916 and $35 in 1915. • By provinces, She could see far enough bee and the) to discard some of the heirlooms we've the value for 1922 is highest inBritirh rim of her dishpan to realise that the inherited but how much time would beColumbia, vii, $120. In'the other half hour alter supper when the Earn -) saved if we did not have to dustust'so..provin ces the average values .of farm ily can all be together is better spent many articles that tontribute nothing lands per acre are reported as fol - out on the porch or readingaloud be- in either a useful 00 an artistic way 1, lows: Ontario $64, Quebec $58, Prince fore the fireplace, than washing dishes. That is the time for family confi dentes. She did have a little Mick or secret, however, all her own which came out explained this homemaker. Her.. hus- band ards and fruit lands, including. build. 'when I visited her borne. Time for had fitted up an old wardrobe for ings, etc., in the fruit growing dia- 1 family pleasures being the thing most this cleaning closet and it stood at triets. of Nova Scotia, Ontario" and coveted, this particular family, as a one end of the hall. British Columbia are estimated as fol. whole, studied ways and means of "Of course we 'realize equipment. lows: Nova Scotia $98 ($117); On-. l making the most of what time they makes a vast difference; in the amount tario' $127 ($137) ; British Columbia had,. This is how they reasoned: of time housework takes. A vacuum 3820 ($300). Certain work has to be done. It is cleaner sweeps faster than a broom easier to work when you are, not feel- and a washing machine "faster than al Fertilizers in the Orchard. ing tired. You do not get tired so soon tub and board do." I A bulletin entitled "Modern Oreh- if you are doing something you like to "What are the greatest things you , rd Practices," recent) issued by the r ]rim in a lens -1„ a y. youD7 , do to. save time, -T asked. I I sort of"' Dominion Department of suit place, and have the ri: o t I guess the greatest et liven l said Agriculture, I which to m.uorh:, hmeeting. o 'ust live lain) is a veritable. handbook on the cult things with at the g W 1 P y' The On the second floor I was shown' a Edward Island $45, Nova Scotia $34, 'complete outfit for' the daily and week- New, Brunswick and Manitoba 532, ly cleaning. "Saves me running. up Saskatchewan $28 and'AlUerta $24. and down after the broom or mop, The average values in 1922 of orch- v..r•r TIRES t,! OSALE > E RS o+w.Mxo!dc'.,er eeer,.. ,. orruhu. "-. We will sell for ten days only, or while they last, Fabric and Cord Tires, and Tubes, at the following prices. All High Grade Standard Tires, and Guaranteed for 5,000 Miles. No Seconds. FABRIC TIRES Price Our : Reg, Our Price Price CORD TIRES Price- Prioe 80'x 31/2 • .. $15.25 $ 9.00 31 x 4 S.S, . $35.00 $26.25 31 x 4 .... 25.20 18.90 82 x 81/2. ,.. 30.35 22.80 82 x 4 ... 26.95 19.95 32 x 4 . , ... 98.60 28.95 88 x 41/2 39.60 29,70 38 x 4 . 89.75 29,80 84 x 41 40.8-9 30.60 82 x 41 . 49.85 37.40 85 x 41/2.... 4,3.05 32.29 HEAVY GREY TUBES 30 x 31/2 , , , . 2.30 1.40 81 x 4 , 2.90 1.60 82 x 4 . 3.95 2.15 33 x 41 2.90 2.26 84 x 4 , 4.25 2.40 32 x :4// 4 ; 90 �.65 All -Tires and Tubes shipped C.0 . subject to exaninati. TORONTO TIRE CORPORATION, LIMITED Wholesale and Retail 153'h iKirig St. West, Toronto lgetaMOILNaRdgEW (The more you study that, the more :and have a good out ()Lit. `Then,I,vahoo and caro of the orchard.... ,author, Mr. M. B. Davis, Chief Assist - truth you find, Cooking, dishwashing, we don't worry so much about the.lit- sweeping, canning, sewing, are tasks the larger your family is, the smeller, ant to the Dominion Horticulturist, must be done daily, weekly eekl or ... I speaks from wide experience. lie seasonally if a family is to live in any " ' treats of training the young tree year degree of comfort. Butt' heneed not by year, of the maintenance of fertility, y i be merely work unless you make them of various systems of cultivation, .of so. With all the windows and most of cover crops, of spraying, of dusting, ' the doors wide open, bedmalting is one • of. thinning, of the renovation of the physical exercises in the neglected orchard, of scraping, clean- of the finest world and the fifteen nminutes•daily I ' ing and treesurgery and of the .!on - have that have accom s bu,aae Stroot wool' roronto ; trol of insects and diseasos, have spent $ P fished two things for me: My bells, - - Dealing with fertilizers andtheuse r-- �l How to Interest the Boys in Mum The problem which taxes many pub - 1'e school teachers, who also give in- struction in musie, is how to interest the boys in music. In a paper on this subject a Mies Ruth Major, epeaking from the standpoint of a normal school music teacher, says: "The teacher can gain the interest of boys if she has been wise in her choice of material. They like bright, strongly rhythmical songs of the sea, hunting songs, and those with a strong nature appeal. r 'The Sailor Dance,' A Merry Lile,' `A Capitol Ship; "A Nonsense Song/ and 'The Clang of the Forge' are popular. These songs may be arranged so that the' boys sing only the part' of the melody which lies within their range, while the girls take the higher pas- sages: Sometimes transposing a song a step or two -makes it usable when otherwise it might lie too high or too low. "At this age of adolescence the boy fails to takean interest in musie be- cause of his inability to control his changing voice., He is embarrassed in attempting t6 sing for this reason, and also because he has previously not formed the habit of singing in his un- changed voice. He should be shown by the teacher what his best tones are and how -his -new voice may sinned. The class should understand that this is • the proper tone for certain boys in the class to use, as their voices are changed sufficiently to use them eas fly. When the class hea becgpie ac- customed: to this mixed tone quality they will feel freer to sing. "Another plan is that of music ap- preciation. Here almost all lessons are listening lessons. If well handled they are extremely -interesting to the pupils and are thetype which will per- haps prove to be of most lasting value. There is a wealth of piano music suit- able for the purpose, such as minuets, waltzes, marches, nocturnes, and other forms of composition courses for training, in piano. For beginning work, music with suggestive titles is best because the title gives a clue es to the composer's meaning. At first, at- tention should be dhected to the emo- tional or feeling side of music and only'later to some of the most obvious means which the composer has used to produce the feeling. Because the teacher may see so clearly the struc- tural side of the composition, both in. form and in -harmony, she is inclined to tench from that viewpoint. The beginner is not interested so much in how a thing is said as in what ie said. A good way to approach this is to play the composition without telling its title. "A motive for listening should first be supplied by asking somesuchques- tion as, 'What does music suggest to you? As I play, think of good words to describe it. What do you think the composer wanted to express?' At Hist response will 'come only from a few; some will be too embarrassed to respond, others will be unable to ex- press what they feel, and some fail to get any impression. The desirable reaction is a free, sincere expression given orally by the majority of the class. The important tieing in most of these lessons is that the teacher iet the pupils do the talking." Ford` Users! STRANSKY NBKY. 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Fairy on the tree twig Beside the baby bird Laughs a bit and listens, But never says a word! A Bulletin on ! l andy Roses. Many people hesitate to grow rosee. on account of the many enemies that attack them. It is quite true that leaves badly curled, mildewed, spot"ell, or eaten, take awaymuch from the at- tractive appearance of a 0000 garden. By the use of the proper mixtures, it is not a difficult matter to keep rose plants free of these objectionable enemies, Bulletin Nb. 17 of the De- partment -of Agriculture at Ottawa, entitled "Hardy RoSes," gives com- plete instructions for controlling the rose slug, the green aphis, mildew, and other enemies. Paris green,: of )tells bore; is recommended' for insects that eat the foliage. The aphis and thrills, which take their food by sucking the juices, are easily killed by nicotine preparations and different kinds of soaps. Powdery mildew is said to bo overcome by sprinkling the, busher, with flowers of sulphur. The proper amounts to use and methods of apeli- cation are fully covered in this bulletin, which is distributed by the Publica- tions :Branch of the Department of Agriculture at Ottawa,