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j the leaves- march 16 lesson xi parables et the kingdom matthew 13 3133 4452 golden text the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy r the holy ghost romans 14 17 analysis 1 the mustard a2s3 the leaves 3133 ji the treasure and the pear seeker 444g j15 the net 4750 jv the new scribe 51 52 introduction these parables o matthew chap 13 deal with the- king dom it is as it jesus could not rest satisfied with one or two illustrations but he gives one alter another of these exquisite similitudes all setting forth the growth of the kingdom i the mustard and 3133 these are two parables and repre sent two different aspects of the growth of tho kingdom they do not deal with the future kingdom coming in glory but with the slow progress of the kingdom on earth v 31 the mustard seed is ot a perennial shrub but an annual sown among and comparable with other herbs travelers say that the black mustard has dkn known to grow ten feet high v 32 we are not to understand that literally this was the very small est of seeds it was probably a pro- vebial saying more or less familiar and jesus uses it to show how wonder ful would be the growth of his cause the point is tho contrast between the small seed and the great shrub he assures them that his message must be carried everywhere it sionary parable on ths growth of the kingdom preached to all nations v 33 the figure of leaven is used two different ways in the gospel jesus says that tbey must cot be too much distressed because they are un able to draw the line cleavage the parable of the sower has shown why tie word has a varied fate there will always be the evil with the gcod just as in a drag net which the fisher men draw in and find all kinds of fishes the time is coming when the distinction will be drawn god will see to it and they must work on be lieving that their heavenly father will purify and purge his own king dom these parables have often been applied to the disciplinary function of the church but it is doubtful if this is correct the purpose of jesus is to prepare bis disciples for all possible difficulties in their mission work iv the new scribe 51 52 v 52 since the kingdom is a new force in the world there arises the need of a new kind of scribe more furnished with insight and ability than the old scribe he must know all about the old truths but he must also know what is the glory of truth in christ canadas international successes in wheat mussolinis battle for grain in tkm1 silk lrtpe wool crtpe or jeney a mis extensive it must he sometimes it is found in a bad sense as a corrupt influence spreading every where as when he warns them i of th pharisees against the leaven j that is their corrupt and corrupting teaching but here the figure is used in a good sense to show how the truth of the kingdom is to penetrate and permeate every part of life this rep resents the intensive action of cmists words slowly but certainly the moral principles of jesus will mould every department of social and individual life when all the world and all de partments of human life are thor oughly christian then will these par- w he fulfilled now the kingdom then it shanghai grows 25554 buildings erected in 29 as trade increases shanghai shanghai commercial capital of asia continues to trade prosper and expand despite the de luge of revolutions and famines which have inflicted china for four years tho city carries on with the same whatofit attitude that character ized the place decades ago when it was little better than a mud flat even the bogie of abolition of extra territoriality has failed to scare away foreign capital money continues to pour into the city new bu erected and new enterprises a launched the annual report of the combined city governments the french muni cipality the international settlement and the chinese city show that 25- 554 new buildings were constructed in 19 most of these were modern chinese houses but in the internation al settlement there were eight new apartment buildings four new banks and thirtythree new business blocks the settlement list also includes alyeight factories of varying sizes and types three large cotton and 3s0 new foreign residences the successes of western canadian farmers in international vheat com petitions within a period of nineteen years since the institution of the award in 1911 constitute one of the most impressive features in the records of caradan agriculture on fifteen occasions the dominions representatives won against all north america with exhibits of hard red spring wheat and in addition in two other years they carried off the prize for the best hard red spring wheat although in two years just referred to they lost the grand championship to hard red winter wheat by a narrow margin the work of i ster farmers has brought them high personal distinction for the of such competitions is these master farmers has brought winning of such competitions is first and foremost a tribute to the talent of the exhibitor but their work has done more than that it has brought renown to the west and to tho dominion and it is a matter of gratifica tion that this notable series of successes has not been monopolized within any restricted area as the accompanying map indicates the locations of the canadian winners of the highest honors in north american wheat com petitions are remarkably well and widely distributed throughout the vast area territory in the canadian west the prairie provinces habitat for wheat of premier quality of wheatgrowing furnish a farflum 31 mills farm notes id the nhles be fulfilled is in the process of growth will be realized the treasure and the pearl seeker 4446 v 44 again we hrve two parables meant to illustrate the different ways by which men may enter into the king dom in the first parable we are told that converts are often made sudden ly without preparation as it were without any desire on their part it 3s liko a man walking in a field where he suddenly turns over a stone and feces a pot with gold coins which some person has concealed he hastens away to buy the field till he may become the possessor of its treasure in this we joto 1 that the kingdom is repre sented as a valuable treasure some thing which cannot lose its value like tho riches of earth and 2 that a person must be prepared to make sacrifices in order to gain thj treasure the man is ready to sell all that he had jesus was constantly teaching his disciples that they must not have divided hearts they must seek firs tho kingdom of god and he prepare to forget everything else vs 45 46 another type of convert is here represented this is the eager cooker who has gone out in search of the truth and who finds it only after much earnest pursuit like a mer chant who deals in pearls and who travels through all the pearl markets looking for the most beautiful gem when at last hv sees the pearl of great price he readily surrenders all others for it again we see the kingdom set forth as something of exquisite beauty which involves the sacrifice of things ihat are less lovely the difference of the parables lies in the manner of dis covery i the net 1730 v 47 this parable should be read ong with tho parable of tho tares in watt 13 2430 these two deal with the same general situation and de- pond upon the problem of the preach ing of tho kingdom thcfo disciples have already noticed that there were eome coming to their master whom they did not regard as very desirable and they would find this even more acutely in after years of church work the us farmer am tariff w g stuart in the atlantic month ly boston the farmer has seen the tariff used to enrich the merchant and the manufacturer until millionaires in this country are as plentiful as tabby- cats he has seen the lobbyist he has seen corruption and bribery and every form of governmental favorit ism flourish like the green bay tree in the soil of the tariff he has seen the hours of work decrease and the rate of pay increase year after year until now many forms of union labor are re ceiving from 400 to 000 per cent more per hour than they did twenty- five years ago he remembers how president harrison while extolling republican prosperity and the re publican tariff made the wonderful discovery that a cheap coat makes a cheap man he has listened to false prophets extolling high tariff and high wages with such wearisonme iteration that now as he looks over his unpaid bills his overdue taxes and his dupli cate copy of mortgage deeds he comes to the conclusion that with all due re spect to henry ford and arthur bris bane and president hoover and the grand old republican party he would like to try a change to low tariff and low wages hi v tolong first popdo you tl education pays second pop whose lege well i think it lege pretty well college son is at col- pays the col- five mexicans were sialn in a fight over the division of eome land now they all have some american lum berman brooding early chicks raising pulletst o start laying early in the winter is one ideal the poultry- man has always with him the most effective way of doing this is through the early hatched chicks and not the least important angle of the problem is the provision of comfortable quar ters and artificial heating at the kapuskasing experimental station of the canadian department of agriculture it is found that it takes on an average of 135 pounds of coal per day to operate a brooder stove suitable for use in a house ten by twelve feet in size which would ade- qnateiy care for 600 chicks until they are three or four week of age while the actual number that can be housed is around 500 chicks best results are obtained when not more than 300 are accommodated in this space on this basis the cost of brooding during the early part of the season runs about 5135 per hundred chicks cost of raising horses the report of the department of ag ricultures experimental station at cap rouge quebec provides some in teresting information as to the cost of rearing horses the cost of feeding fifteen french canadian colts and fillies during the growing period until they were ready to go to work at a weight of 1240 pounds was found to be 25494 per horse an accurate record of all feed given was kept each animal received 9992 pounds of hay 4632 pounds of oats 4178 pounds of bran and spent an average of 216 days at pasture tho horses had reached an average age of thirtytwo months and twentysix days when the feeding period was com pleted superintendent langelier observes in his report published by the depart ment of agriculture at ottawa that by stinting feed and raising undersize colts the cost could have been much lower he cites these figures to em phasize the importance of using only the very best stock to breed from since it entails no extra work and only slight extra cost to give the best re sults germinating asparagus seeds asparagus is a garden crop rapidly gaining in popular favor its culti vation however has peculiar prob lems ono of which is tho length of time it takes for seedlings to sprout it may take anywhere from two to six weeks from tho tirao asparagus seed is planted until the plants ap pear above tho ground station of the canadian department of agriculture good results were ob tained where the seedbed was worked early in the spring to germinate as many weed seeds as possible these being killed in the final preparation of the plot for seeding the length of time the seed takes to germinate depends very largely on the temperature of the soil best re sults being obtained when the tem perature is between 75 and s5 degrees f before planting the asparagus seed should be soaked in water for i or 4 days at a temperature around s6 to 95 degrees f they should then be taken from the water spread thinly on a canvas until the surface is dry and then planted immediately in moist soil in planting asparagus seed a special effort should be made to drop the seeds one in a place the reason for this being that otherwise the fleshy roots become interwoven and it is dif ficult to separate the plants at sort ing time it is also suggested that the planting of radish seed at the same time assists in marking the rows and in controlling weeds shipping bees with spring just around the corner the beekeepers busy season is soon to start in a pamphlet just issued by the department of agriculture c g gooderham bsa the dominion apiarist discusses the important prob lem of bee shipment both how to package bees and how to handle them apiaries aro being built up rapidly all over canada and the demand for live bees is increasing mr gooderham finds that the package and shipment of bees presents no substantial diffi culty successful shipments having been made across canada and from alabama to ottawa the bee package including a queen weighs about two pounds and contains some 10000 bees some reasonable safeguards aro necessary to insure good results and mr gooderham deals with these in his pamphlet issued by tho director of publicity dom de partment of agriculture ottawa e v wilcox italy is determined to produce more wheat in order to keep pace with its expanding population tho state takes precedence over the individual alberto cl stefan head of the italian association for reclamation and irri gation told me the proprietor who for any reason falls to carry out the government program mutt give way to those who are in a position to in crease land productivity landown ers must realize that henceforth pri vate ownership depends on capacity and good conduct from the point of view ot agriculture the governor ot each province has been given full authority to decide whether a farmer is up to standard it not his farm is taken from him and given to another man who has 30 years to pay for it the farmer is or dered to stay on the land and raise mor wheat and more children the government program involves making every acre rroduce more under pen alty ot expropriation and increasing the number ot italians by 20000000 within six years the present popula tion of italy is 40000000 a 50 per cent increase is therefore contem plated the governments slogan is in numbers there is force to stimulate the birth rate bonuses and medals are bestowed on fathers of families of 7 to 12 or more children italian newspapers carry long lists of men who have received prizes for their contribution to the population there are nearly 000000 such families in italy and there is a graduated tax on bachelors italys population is growing at the rate of 400000 a year and the farmer has been peremptorily ordered to raise all the wheat required by the present and future expanding popula tion ot italy there is little new wheat land in sight yet to meet the situation the wheat area must be in creased 70000 acres every year and the average yield must be increased from the present 10 bushels per acre to 25 the government program is to bring under cultivation every acre ot arable land forcibly and immediate ly farmers are forbidden to move to town except under permission of the perfect of the province even if a farmer isgiven permission he is ad mitted only on probation for 120 days if he does not make good during that period he is sent back to the country if a farmer sneaks into town without permission city employers are forbid den to hire him nothing is left to the discretion of the farmer every landowner is or dered immediately to submit plans for operating his farm but he is told in advance what the plans must be and he must carry them out promptly or forfeit his farm will the farmer voluntarily grow wheat when grapes olives citrus fruits or a dozen other products pay better while i was in italy canadian wheat was un derselling italian wheat on the italian markets 25 to 40 lire per quintal and italian farmers were feeding much of their wheat to livestock italians like other races have a few ideas of their own about marriage size of family place of abode and method of farming can all these natural tendencies be changed by edicts time will tell the country gentleman by annette the model illustrated is decidedly chic to wearer with tuckin blouse and becoming jabot collar the jacket and skirt with tight hip band ubttoned at side are of feather weight tweed in orangeyred tones the tuckin blouse of eggshell silk crepe printed in red polkadots uses plain red crepe for bow tie and for piping of vionne neckline horizontal tucks across centre front of the bodice are decorative this jaunty outfit style no 389 is designed in sizes 6 18 20 years 36 38 40 and 42 inches bust youll find it extremely easy to make the straight jacket is merely closed at sids and shoulders the fronts are underfaced and the collar is stitched at neckline only two major parts to blouse the skirt is seamed and stitched jo hip yoke for active sports wool jersey is smart in soft brown shade with blouse in chartreuse green lacy weave jersey printed crepe silk with plain crepe and plain flat crepe with contrasting shade blouse are practical and smart for general wear how to order patterns write your name and address plain ly giving number and size of such patterns as you want encloso 20c in stamps or coin coin preferred wrap it carefully for each number and address your order to wilson pattern service 73 west adelaide st toronto subdivide new area for settlement in order to meet the demands for new homesteads in the peace river district two survey parties under in structions from tho surveyor general topographical survey department of tho interior this year subdivided a large area of new land in those locali ties where settlement is proceeding most rapidly v the government now has free bul letins explaining how to do almost everything except at the summerland experimental y tc save public money hortense call up mrs de billion and ask for fido yes melady carlo wishes to baik to him over the telephone the happy hour they were talking ot old times and do you remember the moon light night six years ago when i pro posed to yon dear be said romanti cally darling will i ever forget sho replied those were heavenly days wo sat thero for over an hour ho went on and during that hour you novcr once opened your lips yes that is so dear she sighed and that was the happiest hour of my whole life he finished home is the only place whore thero is any liberty any individuality any creativo power any possibilities of human personalities counting as such g k chesterton collect waterpower data the dominion water power and re clamation service department ot tho interior in cooperation with tho vari ous responsible provincial bodies has effected a coordinated system of waterpower analysis for the purpose ot presenting tho waterpower re sources of the dominion upon a re- llablo and uniform basis mutt riots for less freedom mutt and jeff by bud fishfj fmutty6urwlf has itw fr6i tslint know sgaraen useful information toe gardener will find much useful and interesting information in one or two of the best seed catalogues cud the government bulletins the de partment of agriculture at ottawa has four of these which the writer has found indispensable these are an nual flowers hardy roses her baceous rerennials and ornamental trees shrubs aud woody climbers vegetable problems will be answered iu bulletins put out by the provincial departments ot agriculture the vil lager or farmer with a fairsized piece of land at his disposal will find the information iu these special vegetable bulletins a great help as they go into the whole business iu much detail littio known vegetables which should bo more popular are described with planting directions while special chap ters aro devoted to hotbeds cold frames fertilizers insects diseases irrigation soils and location the first vegetables radishes spinach lettuce early peas and onions aro staple crops ot the early gardener and are tho first fruits of his labor the radish sup ply can be sown at one time now in stead of the usual repetitions with an extra early midseason and late va riety all going in together but ma turing in succession tho same varie ties can bo put in two weeks later and the work is done for the season head lettuce should be sprouting in boxes or hotbeds by this time to be ready to transplant into permanent quarters as soon as it is safe to do so many gar deners refuse to bother with headless head lettuce any longer and have taken to the cos variety this grows upright with long leaves which en close the heart and it is self blanch ing a little tying up will hasten the process the new spinaches which will grow- and grow without going to seed are a big advance over the old- types they give a bigger and better supply of leaves and some can be cut down to within an inch of the ground and will grow up again these new varieties are called king of denmark and new- zealand white portugal and any of tho globe varieties are now popular onions aud can be easily grown from seed these may be used green or for pickling there are halt a dozen en riy peas and anyone of them will give satisfaction ah vegetables must be grown quickly it they are to be crisp when brought to the table a check in the growth makes them tough to prevent such- an occurrence especially when the weather is inclined to be cool it is well to apply some quickly available commercial fertilizer this may be raked in between the rows at tho rate of a scant handful to the square yard or it may be dissolved in water a tablespoonful to the gallon and applied with the ordinary watering can care must be used when applying dry that none of tho fertilizer is allowed to rest on the leaves of tho plants as it is liable to burn if the hose is turn ed on immediately after or if tho job is carried out just before a rain or during ono thero will be no chance of any injury asparagus asparagus is easy to grow and once established furnishes a supply of de licious vegetable which is worth real money when ono goes out to buy it for a small bed it is best to buy two- yearold roots but in the averagesized garden tho most economical way is to start the plantation from seed the washington variety is generally con ceded the best a bed may be estab lished in three years from seed and in two from roots tho seed should be soaked in warm water for twentyfour hours before planting and sown in drills outsido as soon as tho ground can be worked as it is rather slow to germinate tho plants should be al lowed to grow in tho seed row for a season and tho following season the strongest and straightest shoots should be selected to form the bed tho plants should bo spaced two feet apart iu rows four feet apart or three feet each way roses roses must have good drainage and it is best to give some protection in tho form of fences shrubbery or build ings on tho north side thoy should however be planted two or three feet in front of these windbreaks so that they will get full sun plant hybrid perpetuals three feet apart and hybrid teas two the roots should be spread out when planting and tho earth firm ed well about tho stocks tho point at which the roses are budded union of stock and scion should bo buried two inches below tho surface of ths soil they should bo in their per manent position as soon as possible which will mean digging tho coil eighteen inches deep working in humus and wellrotted manure pre- j ferably cow manure just as soon as one can get on the land without their shoes getting muddy wo aro born without knowing it wo die in confusion and wo forget to live thornton wilder virtue may seem as sleepy as a cat but sho is dangerous when sho springs robert ynd the only way to end war is to teach tho fellows who profit by it that they can profit more some other way henry ford its h