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ss lesson november 28 gideon and the thres hundred judges 7 125 golden text be strong in the lord and in the power of his mlgmvepheslans 6 10 analysis i choosing thk three hundred 18 ii spying os tub m1d1an1tk camp 914 iii cfdeons strategy 1523 the fanner and the popu lation problem by charles w peterson that tho western farmer has a real interest in a largely augmented popu lation in canada seems reasonably clear mass production is tha essen tial element in successful modern in dustry it is the goal towards vh canadian policy under both political parties has been consistently directed ever since confederation and it looks jto the casualserver as if this sys tem were here to stay in some form introduction the period o the or other following tne war every judges following that of the rule of country under the sun including even joshua and preceding the establish- great britain with certain limita- ment of the monarchy under saul and tims has ado a protective system trtoil s d with the sole aim of promote within ic ength of the period is uncertain kj j it was probably not less than one boundaries mass production in hundred and fifty years joshua him- ordor ensure efficient manufactur- self may very properly be regarded as in the economic principle of pro- one of the judges differing from those j tection is that competition at home will regulate prices and ultimately reduce them to the level of competing countries but such obviously cannot come to pass until the consuming population at home is sufficiently great to permit of quantity production who followed hiin only in the fact that he exercised authority over all the tribes of israel while they ruled ony over individual tribes or groups of tribes the people were governed locally by the heads of families or of family groups and by tho chosen princes of the tribes each tribe was independent and the tribesmen guard ed jealously their independence they were united only by a common religious faith and the tradition of a commoi wfc h v them population law and the beginning of a constitu tion as a nation but disunited as they and scattered widely through were palestine there was danger of that jnw being forgotten or disregarded the influence too of the canaanite customs and religious worship was strong and affected seriously the minds of many of the people loosening their attachment to their own ancient faith when common danger threatened or when oppressed by a foreign enemy the people united under a vigorous and capable leader who after the victory was won held during his life n place of recognized authority over those whose armies he had led but no such leader or judge after joshna held sway over more than a limited part of the country l choosing the three hundred 18 jerubbaal who is gideon was a native of the small community of oph- rah of the clan abinezer in the tribe of manasseh the central and north ern tribes west of jordan were op pressed by hordes of midianite arab3 with all its economics canadian agriculture will clearly suffer by reason of inflated commod ity prices leading to a higher pro duction cost until our general con- reaches a point where our industries can function more effectively and will voluntarily or if need be by compulsion re duce commodity prices resulting in a lower cost of farm operation and liv ingall around until we can bring about a spectacular increase of popu lation the present handicap of high commodity and operating costs cannot be removed this handicap is the chief grievance of canadian agricul ture buying as it does in a protected market and selling its own produce against the competition of white yel low and black labor but aside from all this there would be an enormous direct advantage to canadian agriculture in a largely augmented population the home market now absorbs 837 million dol lars worth of agricultural products as against our export market of 600 millions the annual per capita con sumption of farm products in canada is thus 8750 tho western farmer a very important factor in his sales at present he is at the mercy of over seas countries which are now striving with every nerve and with more or less success to promote decreased agricultural imports at any moment he may be virtually closed out by tariff walls as happened to his animal products in the united states market his wheat will always be wanted but his other products enter these coun tries on sufferance only the develop ment of a homo market for animal products is a safety measure he can not afford to neglect a bitter lesson has already been administered to him by our neighbors across tho line who had come in through gilead with producing almost entirely for export tents and cattle and helped themselves receives little benefit from our pres- uiis ha pa3tu la of ent home consumption of farm pro- shmby ptss 3 hinf 5 ft threshing a scanty harvest of wheat domestlc market would loom up as not at the usual threshingfloor but by the winepress to hide it when an angel of the lord appeared to him and called him to be the saviour of israel from the midianites when convinced that he was really called of god to this great task he first gathered a band of his own servants broke down the altar of baal set up an altar to jehovah and offered sacrifice upon it it was because of the shrewd answer of his father to the men of the town when they would have put him to death for this act of defiance to baal that he received the name jerubbaal let baal plead for himself ch 6 81 the next act of gideon was to assemble the northern tribes against midian and a great host of more than thirty thousand men gathered to aim on the southern side of the valley cf jezreel where the midianites were encamped the people that are withthco are too many trusting to that inward divine voice which constantly guided him and which harmonized with his own better judgment he decided to re duce tho number of his army and to try to obtain by strategy the victory which he could not hope to win over tho vast host of tho enemy with his undisciplined and poorly equipped force yet too many even the ten thou sand men of courage who are left ore too many for his immediate purpose by a simple test ho chooses the men who drink from the cupshaped hollow of one hand with which they lift the water to tho mouth without relaxing their soldierlike vigilance or laying aside their weapons and rejects thoso who sprawl upon all fours and put their mouths down to tho water by the three hundredmen that lapped ho had now faith to believe tho lord would give him victory the rest of the army he held in reserve 710 the electors of the province of ontario the issue with regard to temperance in the pending provin- cial election is between two temperance policies in this connection i would like to make clear two points first i was a member of the hearst government which put in force the ontario temperance act in 1918 during the ten years it has been in operation i have been a member of the govern ment of ontario for nearly six years my position therefore has given me opportunity to study conditions under the ontario tem perance act at close range the act has undoubtedly in some respects done much good unfortunately however it is quite apparent that it no longer commands the support of a sufficiently strong public opinion to secure satisfactory enforcement and observance second under the ontario temperance act the govern ment has been operating twelve liquor stores our policy is to abolish the farce of medical prescriptions and substitute an official permit to purchase with proper restrictions and safeguards the whole question is between these two methods of handling liquor shall we continue to allow it to be uncontrolled or shall we insist upon controlling it i urge upon you to put aside the details and consider only the real issue we are all desirous of doing the best thing for ontario we must have public opinion behind the law to insure its existence and observance only in this way can advance along true temper ance lines be achieved g howard ferguson ii spying on the midianite camp 914 gideon went down by night with his servant anil spied upon the poorly guarded camp he heard the recital of n dream by one and the interpreta tion put upon it by another which greatly encouraged him by this h the dwelling house modern i was saying that nothing had been so slow in its progress in the world as domestic architecture temples palaces bridges aqueducts cathedrals towers of marvellous delicacy and strength grew to perfection whllehe common people lived in hovels and the richest lodged in the most gloomy and contracted quarters the dwell ing house is a modern institution it is a curious fact that it has only im proved with the social elevation of women men were nover more bril liant in arms and letters than in the age of elizabeth and yet they had no homes they made themselves thlck- walled castles with slits in the mason ry tor windows for defence and mag nificent banquet halls for pleasure the stone rooms into which they crawl ed for the night were often little bet ter than dogkennels the pompelans had no comfortable nightquarters the most singular thing to me how- over is that especially interested as woman is in the house she lias novor done anything for architcture and yet woman isreputed to bo an ingeni ous creaturecharles dudley warner in booklog studies why hens have combs i a box stali out of contact with the rest of the herd for at least ten days kach part of an animals body before she calves the afterbirth and seems to be for a purpose so why not a the soiled beddirg should be care- ask the use of a hens comb lately f carried out and burned she there have been experiments made to should remain entirely away froni the determino the answer it has been herd and should not be bred until all thought that the hens comb is a device discharges have ceased whether this to expose the blood to the utraviolet i a few weeks or several months it rays and other sun rays in order that j the discharge that is dangerous if enough cacium may be taken up to the afterbirth does not come within a make eggshells legweakness of f hours or if the discharge continue chicks is limestarvation due to lack long as ten days a veterinarian of power to pick up lime in the tissues should be called learned also that the wero alroadv tklnu ii fl fears abroad among the midianites 1 nink 11 jver connected with his name which prom- when you feel unkindly toward iho iscd well for tho success of the trick man vou work for when your heart is which he proposed to pay upon them f t rest resentment and your head full wsfotos vfdf osiisi nd take a personal ihreo companies gideon s plan was to distribute his men in three l or companies silently in the darkness hcr0 aro alwa two sides to a round ttout the midianite camp each situation vou are not all wrong and man bearing a pitcher with a lighted ihls be true is it not reasonable to cnniuo inside and a trumpet al the assume lhat the man you work for is appointed signal each man was to j not all wrong ureak his pitch- and brow his trum- 1 ns person on earth can do jnod pet the ruse wh completely success- k l siuglchead full of malice hearing the sartljcmvare when housed beneath ordinary win dowglass on account of tho feath ers there is no other place but the legs bill and wattles which can pick up the rays and the featherlegged smallcombed birds are shy on eggs this theory is as plnusiblo as any some of tho peacomb fowls are good layers although it is true that tho heavylaying breeds all have good- sized combs it is also true that tho comb is at its largest sizo during heavy laying and goes down with the egg yield there are cases where leghorns havo been decombed that is the combs have been cut off while in buying new cows see if there is a good crop of calves and young stock on tho farm from where your new cows came if not beware give all your herd the abortion test once a year and treat all reactors the same as aborters if these methods aro fol lowed contagious abortion will now havo no terrors for you f by jane hemmingway i feed my sows oats i get better than market prices for my oats by feeding them to brood sows before and after farrowing ordinarily it is necessary to buy bran the birds wero young the object of j s other commercial feed to help this was to make the birds frost- 1 make good pigs and to provide enough iroof these birds seemed to lay as j miik after they are born oats i find well as the birds with full combs the i will do the job thus saving my spend- operation of removing the combs isiing money for highpriced mill feeds known as dubbing some folks oboats aro not quite so cxpensivo as ject to it saying it is cruel but it is corn and they do not fatten the sow probably no more painful than a fro- i zon comb and a dubbed comb is not a bit more unsightly controlling abortion fill the midianites crash of the breaking arid seeing the sudden blazing forth of lights on f very deaceompanied y the terrifying blast of three hundred j trumpets were seized with pan- the ixrd st every mans sword against his fellow even throughoit alli the host the ten thousand menl j whom gideon had left in thtr tents i scollaud men ami horse like and two hands that aro closed fists xuv zealand traveler bees stop harvest harvesting operations wero stopped by a swarm of bacs in a lit on the muilhall dyke near torres were severa- rov joined in tho pursuit driving tho 1 slnn the an reared and midianile hordo eastward to tho fords nlungeuv and great difficulty was ox of the jordan which were hed by tho men of ephraim there two midian- jt- prince were taken and slain oreb the raven and zrb the wolf land of proms in london a street in london which bears the nnme land of iromlse has a hos pital at on end and s poor house at the other parienced in releasing them from tha shafts the condition of the horses became so eerious that a veterinary surgeon had to be summoned v- 600000 cooks study by radio half a million housewives in the united stales and canada aro receiv ing cooking lessons by radio not all abortion is contagious but to bo on the safe side one had bettor proceed as if it were the most dan gerous time for spreading contagious abortion is when tho cow calves as many calves conic in the fall caro is i needed now there is no known cure for abortion a i serum vaccines and drugs fail soonor or later notwithstanding this and tho additional fact that it is ono of the meat disastrous diseases known to tho dairyman the loss can bo re duced to a minimum if proper control methods are used some dairymen sell their aborters to tho butcher if tho cow is a good producer this is tho most cxpensivo method fortunately only a few maybe 5 per cent abort moro than once of these unfortunately quite a few aro sterile thereafter this with tho loss of tho calf and the less ened milk flow causes a big loss abortion usually appears suddenly and without warning for this reason every cow that calves should be put in of course i feed an car or two along with tho oats a little tankage helps too e j first lesson in finance big boy what aro you crying about little i traded by dog for somo peanuts big boy cant you trade back little i ato the peanuts of courso what caused the delay at your friend the plumbers wedding he had to go back and fotch his lieat man influenza in scotland a considerable epidemic of influenza in scotland during tho three months ending juno 30 had an influence on the death rate as it indicated in tho quarterly report of tho births deaths and marriages in scotland deaths from influenza in all numbered 797 people are just as likely to get into a rut with their party refreshments as with their everyday menus and when as is so often the case you serve that same old thing over and over your refreshments lose thoir zest no matter how nice they may be but it is different when something new is offered wasnt that the best stuff one girl remarked to another as they rode home from sue ekins bridge party what was it i happened to have been the ono sue asked to help her pass tho things that afternoon and i know just what it was she used her tall parfait glass es and in- tho bottom of each was spoonful of orange ice then on top was finely cut fruit salad tho assort ed fruit that comes in cans with this sho served very saty wafers cream cheese and coffee tho combination was delicious hot nut gingerbread with whipped cream would be very popular served instead of ice cream and cake at an afternoon or an evening party mix a bowl of your favorite gingerbread and put it in a cool place until you aro ready to servorefreshnionts then spread it in a largo shallow baking pan sprinklo a cup of coarsely chop ped nut meats over it and bake cut in squares heap with whipped cream with a dash of ground cinnamon on it and serve with coffee mary lukins who really loves to invent now dishes served an ice cream sandwich to her club ono after noon last winter which brought down the house she called it an oriental melange and served it on her red japanese plates the cake part was light fluffy spice cake of that golden yellow variety and between two thin slices of this was a slice of vanilla ice cream on top was a spoonful of whipped cream a whole preserved fig and a spoonful of tho syrup in which the figs were preserved iced tea sweetened with raspberry jam while hot and flavored with whole cloves made just tho right accompaniment a nut bread sandwich made of cream cheso and pineapplo served liko a club sandwich is another excellent party dish servo with hot tea a fruit salad is a very popular salad for a party to make ono that is different use a ripe or canned pear for each guest peel core and marin- 1 ate in french dressing then lay them in a shallow plato in a little raspberry or strawberry syrup until ono side is colorod red this can be dono with vegetablo coloring if the syrup is not available roll in cocoa- nut stand each pear on a lettuce leaf put a large clove in for a stem and insert two ivy or rosegeranium leaves in the top a delicious sandwich to servo with it is fillod with equal parts of tart currant jcly and peanut butter men ike something hearty for their party refreshments for example po tato and ham salad a dish that can be mode beforehand is individual chicken pics muko a creamed chicken and fill little rame kins with it just before the guests arrivo mix up a pan of bakingpowder biscuits cutting them just big enough to cover tho top of the ramekins leave them on the board in a cool place about ten minutes before you are ready for them put one on top of crch ramekin nud bako in a hot oven cloth from grasses the secret of turning iropical grass es nnil oihcr fibrous substances into clothes to wear is bolloveil to hwvo good in addition father i made 100 in two sub- jects thats mighty fine son what wra thoy sixty in geography and 40 in arith metic salt production in 1923 the production of salt in can ada exceeded all previous records ac cording to final figures issued by tho dominion bureau of statistics ship- meats during tho year totalled ss3ttft yovv y dr iinsim tons as compared with 207979 tons birmingham university iiigland produced in 1924 tho production in j chemical processes nro said to havo ontario amounted to 226315 tons or been perfected for separating thn 97 for cent of tho total xova seoliu fibers from io raw materials and pre- and alberta contributed tho remain- j paring them for spinning the fabrics der tho yoars shipment of s33 tons if commercially successful may taka from alberta came from fori mcmur- tho plzco of cotton in the region ray district where development work whore large supplies of rasaes are in tho salt industry has been carried available it is thought that new and on for a considerable time nova interesting materials may be develop- scotias production- consisted of saltcd for waarin apparel and for other mined at malagash 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