FEBRUARY 15, 1915 



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this friend asked nie lo c-onsider not only 

 wliat such a thini»' would mean to my 

 friends, but to those who were beginning to 

 have faith in God and his promises to his 

 children, for all knew I was praying daily 

 for (lod's guidance. 



I thanked " Robert " for his kind plain 

 letter, and then added, " To show you how 

 in earnest I am in my thanks, just watch 

 and see how I am now going to pile up 

 something against a ' rainy day.' " 



Now let me explain that my good pastor, 

 Rev. C. J. Ryder, had been talking with 

 Robert about this very matter before Robert 

 wrote me that letter; and some time later 1 

 got a letter from Dr. Ryder, with congrat- 

 ulations, saying Robert had written him 1 

 had .$10,000 in the bank, and all outstanding 

 bills paid in full. 



I give the above incident to show the 

 great need — yes, almost the necessiti/ — that 

 one who employs must have some ready cash 

 ahead. From that time forward I found 

 out the great advantage of having some 

 money ahead for emergencies. 



Now a word in closing, to the unemployed. 

 First, " get busy " at something. If no one 

 needs j^ou, get busy at home. Cut down 

 expenses in every direction. Run errands; 

 do ever\' thing yourself. Make the tilings 

 you need; improve your place; your home; 

 stop the outgoes. 



Second, cut down the expense of your 

 " daily bread." I have made little refer- 

 ence to our text; but we are coming to it 

 now. Mrs. Root wanted some gva!. am flour. 

 We usually grind it, as I have explained, 

 from the wheat we brought from Ohio; but 

 that is so near gone I bought some. They 

 had it only in fancy pasteboard packages at 

 2o cts.. and the packages contained only 44 

 oz. of flour. 



May the Lord be praised for the recent 

 law compelling a plain printed statement of 

 the amount of food jilaoed in either tin can 

 or pasteboard package. Well, 25 cts. for 

 44 oz. will be at the rate of about 9 cts. per 

 lb., and this package was put up when 

 farmers were getting probably about DO cts. 

 for their wheat. Cost of wheat, 11/2 cts. per 

 lb.; and graham flour, which should contain 

 every particle of the wheat, is 9 cts. per lb. 

 How is that for "profit"? Since then I 

 have found some " whole-wheat flour " at 5 

 lbs. for 2.5 cts. Now, this is not all. This 

 fancy package of graham flour, with read- 

 ing in fancy letters all over it. tilling of its 

 wonderful "superiority." does not cottipcre 



* Yes. iho fancy package difi contBin also a lou- 

 pon : and when vou got a lot of coupons you could 

 "draw" a woiiflfrful "prize," etc. Qamhliuy, in 

 the iniitter of "daily bread"! Is that the waj lo 

 Tfdure the "high cost of living"? 



with the flour from our little mill from the 

 wheat we grew ourselves in Ohio. The gra- 

 ham flour is only one among hundreds of 

 illustrations. If you are out of work, and 

 the matter of " daily bread " b<^gins to trou- 

 ble you, sloer clear of " fancy packages " of 

 food. Get a little mill, or use your own 

 coiTeo-mill. (You will be far better off with 

 the wheat coffee.) Hunt up some good 

 wheat and corn. Get it of the one who grew 

 it if possible. Make shortest possil le cuts 

 from " producer to consumer " in all the 

 food you use. As soon as spring opens, 

 make garden and thus take your " daily 

 bread " straight from the loving hand oi 

 " Our Father who art in heaven." The 

 same with eliiekens. If you can scrape up 

 enough to buy a laying hen you can com- 

 mence this day. If you live as we do in the 

 South, you can plant seeds every day in the 

 year. Save the leaks ; make short cuts ; and 

 when you come to ask God's blessing at the 

 breakfast-table you can, with a clear con- 

 science, say, " Give us this day our daily 

 bread." 



THE FLORIDA REDBUG. 



I have several times mentioned the Flor- 

 ida Grower as a periodical that every one 

 interested in that State should subscribe 

 for, because it really does tell " the truth 

 about Florida." Now read the following: 



Can you tell us tlirough your columns what to do 

 for the " chigger," or " red-bug," that pesters us all 

 during our stay, the one drawback to our visit in 

 Florida ? I'm not afraid of any thing else that I 

 can't see; but this redbug works at night and keeps 

 us awake. Mrs. G. W. B. 



Answer. — The redbug, or chigre, is certainly a 

 pest wherever it is found, and I discovered it in 

 Illinois and Ohio long before I came to Florida 

 to live. There are people who haven't the slightest 

 acquaintance with this little villain, even though 

 they walk beside those who are in an itching agony, 

 and the reason for this I am not able to suggest. 

 They have always bothered me more or less, but 1 

 find that I am not poisoned by them as T was in 

 my early introduction to them. No doubt one becomes 

 vaccinated, as it were, with their poison, and in 

 the course of time enters the ranks of the immune. 

 I know of no infallible specific against their attacks, 

 but I can give various remedies that have served me 

 and my friends in the past, and each is more or 

 less efficacious. As a means of protection before 

 going out in the grass, rub the feet and ankles and 

 well up toward the knees with a hishly saturated 

 solution of spirits of cami)hor. This is bitter, and 

 they must sample this before they can puncture the 

 skin, and often they back out rather than investigate 

 further. Lisferine will sometimes (ircve a protec- 

 tion, and so will kerosene and bacon grease. The 

 latter two are not plon^anl lemedips to carry about 

 on one's person, but ncithei' is assafotida. and you 

 remember how we once stood for that obnoxious odor 

 to protect ourselves from smallpo.x. Bacon grease 

 and kerosene arc godly things (-omjiarod with that, 

 ff you find yourself in possession of the little savages 

 the bacon grease or kerosene will give them a death 

 l)low about as summarily as anything I know. Let 



