i LS re | —- Pe fT ee THE SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1918 OF PRAYER OUR NEGLECT News of Provincial Women’s Institutes | In referring to the fact that Decoration ' Day in the United States has been made a} day of intercession with the Almighty for victory, The Literary Digest makes the Various (tems of Interest Concerning the! following interesting comment: Doings of Provincial Branches England is exhorted to a stricter ‘‘spirit- ual discipline’? by Mr. John Oxenham, the Inovelist, who sees that “something more| than even mental, moral and bodily disci- Pline is needed if we are to win what we ht. ° set out to win in this war.’’ While the which the following items are Government calls upon all its people to put | ; ; :tnemselves and all they possess at the hie | Colwocd members listened to an inter- posal of the state “for its salvation in this! esting talk on “Education and Schools,” time of need,’ Mr. Oxenham, in The Lone; by Mr. Tait. 'don Dafly Chronicle, reminds the British | Tillicum Institute illustrates the ten- public that ‘‘there are Higher Powers still, dencies of the times, that a mother’s duty only waiting to be called upon for the help to hes children is not all embodied in that is so sorely needed to assure the keeping them clothed and fed; the address speedy and final triumph of right over | siven br the able and experienced Presi- wrong.’’ He concedes for the generality dent upon the responsibilities of mothers that at heart all this is well known, but he to their dsughters showed plainly that the points out what may probably have a wider future mothers and fathers of our nation application tthan to the immediate public mmust be educated upon broader lines. ;he is addressing when he says that ‘‘we are Hatzie debated the question, ‘‘Is it desir- 4 careless, free-and-easy, self-willed lot, able or profitable to keep a pig?” Matsqui,4and we havev wandered our own primrosy Institute were the guests and took the, avs so long that we find it not easy to negative in the discussion, winning the set back to the solid bed-rock path, though contest. i~A rocosnize that {t is a safer road to Ccwichan April meeting Hstened to Mr.:tTavel.” Still more, so he shows, do the Honkins; subiect, ‘‘Emsects, Our Friends great leaders on land and sea know and and Foes."’ Resolutions re alien interned ; fee! it : : Tt is on record that when the triumph- men heinz nut to work was endorsed by’ : the men:bers. as was also the idea of all 2"! German hosts were sweeping on Paris institutes in the Dominion joining hands. ‘7 1914, and suddenly swerved and gave it un, Lord Roberts was sitting with Lord West Sasnich has decided to form a st : . Kitchener whe gz ing eammittea which, working in co-operation jyoip m the telecram announce with the Victorian Order of District Nurses, anlookod tor retreat was nanded ii: . ve -"' Roberts, a firm believer in prayer, ex- will be kKnewn as the ‘‘Prevention of Dis- A ‘ : ease Committee.” This committ i ne clain.ed. ‘Onlv God Almighty could have ase Committee. his mmittee is o done this. “Somebody of six which will be in the District of : : Sannich, and was organized in response to: Pras ing, paid Lord Kitchener. . a request from the board of management Neither of them mawking or canting ae . “* men. if you please. t ai i of the Victorian Order to the six institutes “And © dav ur twa neo I cut from a in Saanich. daily newspaper—not given to dilating on Cranhrook seems to lead the Province in such matters and inserted simnly as inter- i membership (114), with Cowichan in hot esting items of news on two different pages pe pursuit (108). Cranbrook came forward —the following: ‘Victory Denends ‘on with resolutions on the divorce laws, prayer—-General Sir W. Robertson. in a ‘Dower Act.” and homestead. When this jetter regarding the Intercession Service at institute found that the Provincial laws Quyeen’s Taal a Mav 7 eave “Tt is only had nothine to do with this, the resolutions when the whole Empire unites in praver were sont forthwith o Ottawa. ; that we can look forward with confidence Nerth Saznich, the baby institute of the to 9 successful conclusion to this tracic war Province, is starting out with splendid and to a just and { The Agricultural Journal for June con- tains mutch information relating to the different Women’s Institutes of the Prov- ince, from reproduced: rizghteows peace. enerev. Mr. To. Stevenson. of the Experi- Weirhty words from such a man! mental Farm, sn ke on gardening. : ‘The second paragraph runs: ‘General Sonth Saanich Institute contemplates Foch and Prayer ——- A Frenchman who crvantcing a canning club. Mr. Car- knows Ceneral Foch tells me that he is an! michool, af Vietcria. was asked to attend ardent betiever in the novver of praver. the pontine ond explain the method of ‘‘We shall be saved bv it,’’ he says. “and vsine the steam-rressure outfits. Mrs. Uiv-'it will not he the first time in this deadly inestone Vie'or, v7-ho was to have given a gtrugzle.’’ “Parlinmentary Drill.” gave instead a talk “YT helieve T amonicht in saying that: f on ‘laws Affecting Women.” ‘Lord Tellicot—Sir Dang tt. and Sir Metchosin meeting was held after a sale Deuglas Haig hold firmly by that belief . of work entertainment, and dance, report also. ef which showed a net result of $145.50.) ‘‘\ll these are men Pod Crees received $45.50: Prisoners of carry weicht with us War Fund of the institute, $49.50. Scoke discussed vegetables for winter use after a paper on the same subject. Shawnigan V.ake and Cobble Hill re- ang cea ported that, althouch the attendance is not of pamembor an old story of a particular- Jarve, fhe members coming are entering y. disrenutatte snilarman who. when his more freely inta discussions, and several shin was in the last extremity and all the 1) have sefd the disevssions have been pre- post wera Inboring hard to save her, sud- mabie ae well aa) DleaeAMt, denly fell on his knees and heran pravinz. aes -And the captain, finding him at ft, kicked q The Old Newspaper hint heck to, duty with a scornful, ‘Keep In other devs of newsprner work, in your pravers for fine weather'’ we towns of the older sections of the country, “Woul-weather pravers, evoked only by parer resders ton a more personal inter- an acnte sense of denrer, can not count for est in the home town sheet tran ng ie i And formal inercesston services pear to here in the West. At least their’ dy not seam to me likely to be of muc interest, if it evis's, does not manifest it-' greater avail. y self in the same wav. In the old itme,' “Unless the nation’s prayers for deliver- Jehn Smith was sure to have a letter tO'ance from peril ee apontaneously from the editor on current toptes every once m hearts earnes'iv desirous of alining thom. a while. Mrs. John Smith never forzot:yelves with God--of clesnsing themslives to have the vistt of a friend from another:ar the old concretions that have clogged community duty chronicled. Rn sores ‘them like the barnacles on a shtp’s bottom was proud to have mention made of the; -«f gubstitutine new euidine lamps tor nanatnting of his bis red barn. Then the old Baines will-o’-the-wisps——of there was that old crack about Tra Brown‘ cgstine aside the,falso gods we have fol- bovine a bugey ond the yaual addition of jowed and turning steadfastly to the Truo “Wateh out, girls.” or ‘Tra must mean)_ they are not iHkely to serve. business” or something else of that sort.! te ts no good asking God to feht on our 1) tg a pifv that the nefehborhood rest-'sido unless wo first make our side fit for dents nowadave do not mike a point Of him to tiht on. vetting into closer symathp with their! «Aga nation, we have a terrible amount paper. A warmin-hearted ively town| of teaway to make up. Are we as a na- means a papor radiating cheer and nsigh-ition making any real effort thereto? Until horly enconargement- rt lee the. yon we genuinely do so our tribulation may the resolve, “Now must le he editor) nave to go on.’ ~know about that item,’’ the wockly jour- nal would be ten times as interesting and “The message - bring from the British P helpful. The randers should remember Army to the puople at home ts ‘Bo of good 4 that, speaking broadly, the paper is theirs, cheer Woe. are all right.’ ''- -Lloyd for their making, or their nnimaking. ‘ . = - * = wee oO see - oe -- -- At Kelowna, Okanagan, 500 acres are planted tn onfons and 1,000 in tomatoes. - oO - - The Great Auk'’s shost) rose on ome log, Sigbed Ghries and three timos winked, And turned and poached a phantoin eB, And watered, “Ci extinet.” whoase very names all. It is woarth our iwhile to cive heed to them. The knowl- ledare thet tha whale nation would quadcrulpe their confidence and that of overv man in the fighting lines on land Oo POPPA ce ee ee SRT i wee et | fs. TT 4 GANDS : a haven . ° 7 Funeral Furvishine Co., Ltd. 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Ace” AOL SD cn Ot DSRS ES OOO OS, A TCC ae wee LO TLS ANT SE ALL KINDS OF FREIGHT DELIVERED by Motor Truck at REASONABLE PRICES ° SPECIAL PRICE FOR DRY WOOD ‘ $2.75 PER LOAD DELIVERED -- - And Special Rates on All Orders of Ten Loads or More — : 3 : SEND IN THE BILL Increase in Agricultural Exports ; Or, ‘’Phose Oats Will Turn Poor Thomas Balad” (Contributed ) Once again Tom's blood hath boiled When Hstening to the sad news The increase in staple products exported from Canada last year over the average an- nual shipments of the three years previous to the war are very striking. Here is the table as given out by Chairman H. B. + om ~ Brought to him by his better half Thomson, of the Canada Food Board: That a strayed horse was in the oats. Pork, wo. cece eee ees 122,000,000 7 Thomas made haste to his beloved ranch Lbs. Increase. ‘ Behind Wasser’s. Cl 74,000,000 ars But the antmal had strayed further down Pugter fo. ke ee eee 12.000.000 \ the road: (Cheese .. 6... eee eee 30,000,000 Thomas, with hasty steps, made after him,.Cheese .......---+++8: 80,000,000 Stick in hand and dog at foot. Eggs oo. et ees 15,000,000 IIe at last reached the horse Wheat and flour...... 85,000,000 Which proved to be old Don, _ lg The butcher's horse, which ; Sergt. R. Douglas Pinkerton, author of . Ilan helped to bear part of Thomas’ bur- “Ladies From Hell,” recounting the war den’s In the past " experiences of the famous London Scottish . By delivering bis goods ‘‘free eratis. regiment, so-called by tho rmans, tells ———— of a friend of his, a lady, who was asked — The school teacher, taking the arithmetic;to go Into a certain New York store to get class, axked Willfe, ‘How many ait aja copy of ane NON aon tion the title, ore '' answerod {llie,|store she found she ha , ; Athen grin. Nok Manyy eDE yen NN and all ane” could~remem ber—was~that--tt—-—--—-e--rsg ce ow. oe. |had “hell” and ‘ladies’ in ft. So she i Call for a sample of our flavoring ex-/asked for ''To Hell With the Ladies.’”’ And ¢ tract, Lesage. she got the right book! “> v og one ‘I