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-L S CHOOL days are anxious days parents as well as for children. At the most critical time in their lives girls, and hoys, too, are subjected to the enormous nervous strain which examinations examinations and excited ambition entail. To many children this means nervous breakdown, with' weakness of the digestive digestive system, headaches, fainting spells, tsd a run-down condition, whiclx makes them fit subjects for coughs, colds and contagious contagious diseases. The blood has become thin and watery^'" and the nerves are being starred, as Sr evidenced by weakness of the optic nerve] and the necessity of wealing glasses The rational treatment for this condition is Dr. Chase's Nerve Food. While gentle and natural in action, this food cure is wonderfully wonderfully potent in restoring strength and vlg'or to the exhausted nervous system. Experience with many thousands of cases has proven that this restorative treatment Is just what pale, weak, nervous children need to build up their systems and to help them back to health and vigor. H. Houston, Highland Grove, Ont., wriièis While attending school my daughter daughter became weak and very much run down, àhe wa§ frequently troubled with bad fainting fainting spells, and nothing we tried seemed to do her any good. We were advised to try Dr. : ÇhaieV Nerve Food, and did so with most satisfactory results. I am pleased to tell you .that after using five boxes of the Nerve Food i she was completely cured, and has had no return return of the fainting spells." This statement is certified to by Mr. Hamilton Hamilton Houston, J.P. 50 cents a box, 6 for $2.50, all dealers, or Edmans-on, Bates & Co., Ltd., Toronto. Do not be talked into accepting a substitute. Imitations disappoint. A LANCASHIRE LASS z Tells of the Wonderful Success of the War Loan. This let ter coming from the famous sea-side resort of Blackpool conveys to us Canadians the wonderful spirit of loyalty, enthusiasm and generosity, aye, and seif sacrifice that characterize characterize the people of the Old Lands in these strenuous war times. While this is a priva Le letter sent to the editor editor from a i elative in England, we are giving our readers the privilege of reading a part of it, feeling pliure they will be interested as we are in hearing about thi magnificent work that is being carried on among all classes in the laud of our birth: 44 Clevedon Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. Feb. 17, 1917. Dear Mr. James--I am addressing a local new spaper to you thinking that i you might be interested in reading of j Blackpool's share in the raising of the ! Victory War Loan. You know that j Blackpool is really not a wealthy town l as it depends almost entirely on suça- ! mer visitors for its existence. How- | ever, enthusiasm works wonders and j we are making great efforts to vais * a sum of money worthy of our town. Our Mayor suggested a quarter of a million pounds at the first. Th it was soon raised and ambition then soared to the dizzy heights of half a million. A novelty in the form of a huge barometer barometer was erected on the front of the Town Hall. This barometer, instead instead of measuring atmospheric pressure pressure as most self-respecting barometers barometers do, indicated each day the sum of money which up to that time had been raised, the indicator being moved upwards upwards as the amount grew. Well, the barometer has burst as it could only register half a million and we have long since gone beyond that figure and are now aiming for the full million! million! Nowhere, I think, is enthusiasm and interest keener than amongst the children. War saving banks have been started in all the schools and in the one with which I am closely identified--somewhat identified--somewhat too closely at times --there are about 900 children, bringing bringing subscriptions ranging from a penny to two or three shillings a week. It is the spirit which anima tes these kiddies though, which is so fine. The desire which seems to fill their big little hearts is not so much to save money for themselves, ap to help to win the war and thus in many cases to bring "daddy" home again. Some of them are so poor that the possession of a halfpenny is a treat which they do not often enjoy. Yet. I have,many of these precious halfpennies brought to me to be saved until another one is ob tained and the proud little owner-of a whole penny can join the school bank. Great is the pride of those who save 16/Qd and thus obtain a War Certificate Certificate which in five years will be worth a sovereign. Of course, one occasionally comes across a little one who cannot grasp the fact that her money is lent to England, but who seems to have the idea that "teacher" takes it and buys bullets herself which she sends straight off to the Front. Father is very busy speaking at meetings which are held with a view to inducing the general public to buy war loan or war certificates. Blackpool still has a decidedly military military air, as there is a lai-ge number of soldiers billeted here. ^ The Convalescent Convalescent Camp is full, too,Tn any of the men there now being Canadians. I have met quite a number of these at the soldiers' tea-rooms where I am on duty one day a week. Two Canadians whom I met last week knew Bowinan- ville very well, and once having started started about Canada, they were quite willing willing to continue talking for the rest of the evening. I was an interested listener listener until a Lancashire Tommy with rather an aggrieved air, reminded me that he, too, wanted his tea. You will realize that we are kept fairly busy when I tell you that today in addition to the ordinary plain teas which we have served, we have also toasted nearly six hundred teacakes and ,rm xiàk-s-' - r / r- snsüourüj ^ - -* -1 JIv , Low Fares and through Tickets TO ALL POINTS IN Western Canada and the Pacific Coast Electric Lighted and comfortably equipped Trains. To obtain the lowest fare and the most convenient routing apply to M. A. James, Town Agent or W. Gf Giffler, Station Agent, or write th R. L. Fairbairn, General Passenger Agent, 66 King St. East., Toronto. via CANADIAN NORTHERN poached over five hundred eggs. I f couldn't say how many sweet cakes . have been demolished by men who will tell vou with a mischievous twinkle twinkle in their eyes that they are on "milk diet". We have had a very severe, winter; in fact,^t is supposed to be the most - ! severe in 22 years. The nights are bitterly cold, and worse still, so--very . dark, owing to the lighting restriction, j I, for one, have become quite accustomed accustomed to tumbling over curbstones, or ? to imagining I've reached the curb- ! stone when 1 am only in the middle of the road. Yours sincerely, j Alice M. Fletcher. REV. D. ROGERS WRITES Gives Some Interesting Church and Temperance History The references herein made include many outside of the writer, and who may still be remembered by your older readers. After an examination before the Quarterly Board in Hampton Church by the late Rev. Thomas A. Ferguson in May 1874, I was duly constituted a local preacher, having previously served served 3 months as an exhorter. It is surely a chastening thought that not one who was present at that meeting survives, save the. writer. I have a vivid recollection of helpfulness from many whom I cannot here mention, but I may be permitted to recall the five Johns--John Sfcainton, John Clémence, Clémence, John Mallory, John Garfatt and John Farley. The latter seemed to take a special interest in my youthful endeavors, and he, being above the average.in piety and intelligence, was a great help to me. Mrs. Farley was a tidy housekeeper and a queen in the home, and the junior pastors who boarded there were well- cared for-- Wm. Galbraith 18»1, W. J. Jolliffe 1888, A. C. Chambers 1889. The in- ( spiration I received from thess preachers preachers and revivalists: Geo. Cochran, S. J.' Hunter, R. Whiting, Geo. Leech and Alfred McCann is indeed a pleasant and an abiding memory. Those preachers preachers were,converted sinners who knew how to preach to sinners. They believed believed in sin and depravity, and in full deliverance and salvation, and were the product of their time by the grace of God. We shall not look upon their like again. Men as great ana as good may appear when they are wanted, but they will likely be men cf a different different type. I heard those preachers and others like them, read the Christian Guardian and such miscellaneous Methodist Methodist reading as was available in my father's house, and from then until now I have never been beyond the reach of the wide-reaching arms of the Church to which, under God, I owe so much. But the call came to mi and I must go. It was somewhat a lonely day for me, that fi sb Tues lay in Ja iuary over 43 years ago, when I drove away from the old home to reach my fir <fc circuit --Arthur--a distance of over 100 miles. But I' found jdiere, as everywhere since, a host of friends. Two years ago I was invited back to that little town to celebrate the occasion of my entering on the itinerant work. It was on Sabbath, and the same day of the month as that on which I preached my first sermon there, and I was constrained constrained to. employ the same hymns and text as those used by me on that cold Sunday morning 40 years previously. previously. Only four persons were present present who worshipped with us on January January 10th, 1875. In the congregation I was glad to meet my old Darlington friend known to many of your readers. Mr. John P. Beer, who has resided there for the past 25 years or more. Passing from this, may I record a few facts relating to the temperance reform ? In 1868 1 belonged to the Band of Hope, and later to the Sons of Temperance. In 1874 I signed the monster petition to Dominion Parliament Parliament for Prohibition. The heart of the people seemed right on that subject, subject, but not so the legislators. In 1878 we were given the Scott Act which was adopted by overwhelming majorities majorities in many counties, but owing to the lack of government sympathy and vigorous enforcement it was repealed in the greater number of them. In 1890 re-enactment of Local Option Law. In 1892 appointment of Dominion Dominion Royal Commission, - and its report 3 years later. In 1894 our Ontario K> M w Two . Splendid Things One is plenty of open- air exercise. If you can't get all of mid, it's all I ii I % that you sho the more important that you should have the P other tried-and-true rem- Ü edy fçr a torpid liver and bowels that don't act freely and naturally. Take one pi more only win necessary. ill every night; en you're sure it's £tnutns bears 'Signature Colorless faces often show the absence=of Iron in* the blood. Carter's Iron Pills 'will help this condition. For the coughs that run into consumption, consumption, a remedy is needed- that will work on the blood, make it pure, rich and wholesome, build up the wasting tissues and put the body into condition for a fight against this dread disease. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Discovery fights in the right way. Rs first action is to put the stomach, bowels, liver and kidneys in good working order; that makes digestion good and assimilation assimilation quick and thoro ; it makes sound, healthy flesh. That's half the battle. TAKE THIS CASE FOR INSTANCE. St. Catharines, Ont. -- "I owe forever a great debt of gratitude to an army officer and a particulai friend of mine for recommending -Dr. Pierce's medicine, as well as to Dr. Pierce for discovering discovering and preparing such wonderful medicines. I had been a great sufferer sufferer for twelve years with bronchitis, which I contracted while doing service in India. I have been engaged in nearly every country in the world and from having having to sleep , out in all kinds of weather the bronchitis became chronic and I was afraid of consumption at times. The doctors gave me no hope but that it would eventually mean consumption., I was so bad. I had tried every known remedy and physicians in foreign countries but got no relief. After returning home.a friend, advised advised me strongly to try ' Golden Medical Discovery.' I did so ana took eight bottles in all and to-day am entirely free from bronchitis. I honestly believe I wquld not be in the land of the living to-day were it not for this wonderful medicine."--Capt. A. W. Strachan, R. E. Plebiscite gave a majority for Prohi-, bition of 81,769, and the Dominion Plebescite of 1898 gave a majority in Ontario of 39,214. One would have thought our legislators were now pretty well advised as to the wish of the people, yet we had put upon us again the toil and expense of another device, the Referendum of 1902 with its majority for Prohibition of 98, 201. All this failed to bring relief, so we turned to our Local Option law, and just as we were beginning to reap results, results, the three-fifths clause was inserted inserted cheating us out of scores of victories victories during its operation of 9 years. With a long and close relation to temperance temperance work, I feel that it was a most cruel injustice and a disgrace to the Statutes of Ontario--this liquor-favoring liquor-favoring clause. The tide has now turned, however. The hard, and at times discouraging, work of years is already bearing fruit, and the results which have always been claimed by prohibition advocates, are already in evidence as to the benefits benefits of temperance legislation. The various excuses and «subterfuges used to perpetuate the iniquitous traffic, have been largely set aside,.and many who were not formerly favorable to the movement, now seem to be desirous desirous of claiming credit for its success. We used to prophecy that when temperance temperance prevailed and its benefits were enjoyed, we would look back and wonder wonder that we fostered for so long the monster in our-midst. Smote by truth, fall ancient error. Reared by power and propped by . wrong; And earth wonders, when they perish, That they stood the test so long. D. Rogers. London, March 8th, 1917. A Pleasant Purgative.--Parmelee's Vegetable Pills are so compounded as to operate on both the stomach and the bowels, so that they act along the whole alimentary and excretory passage. They are not drastic in their work, but mildly purgative, and the pleasure of taking them is only equalled by the gratifying effect they produce. Compounded only of vegetable vegetable substances the curative qualities of which were fully tested, they afford relief without chance of injury. USES OF CONVERSATION. "When Two Come Together One Apprehends Apprehends Before the Other." In discourse with ' a friend, our thought, hitherto wrapped in our consciousness, detaches itself, and allows allows itself to be seen as a thought, in a manner as new and entertaining to us as to our companions. For provocation of thought, we use ourselves ourselves and use each other. Some perceptions--I think the best--are granted to the single soul; they come from the depth, and go to the depth, and are the permanent and controlling controlling ones. Others it takes two to find. We must be warmed by ' the fire of sympathy to be brought into the right conditions and angles of vision. .- . . Homer said, "When two come together, one apprehends before before the other" ; but it is because one thought well that the other thinks better; and two men of good mind will excite each other's activity, each attempting still to cap the other's thought. ... By sympathy,. each opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless ; and now a principle appears to all; we see new relations, many truths; every mind seizes them as they pass; each catches by the mane . one of these strong coursers like horses of the prairie, and rides up and down in the world of the intellect.--Ralph Waldo Emerson. Bobby's Reason. "Why did you spell 'bank' with a capital, Bobby?" "Cause pa says a bank ought always always to have a good big capital." As a vermicide there is no preparation that equals Mother Graves' Worm Exterminator. Exterminator. It has saved the lives of countless countless children. { A Place ! -for You Recruits Wanted for Production Just as surely as lack of food is strangling Germany day by day, so plenty of food is winning the victory for the allies. The French armies, for instance, were never better fed than now, for France cannot forget the awful lesson of 1875--the failure of her food supply. To this she attributed the loss of that war. To feed the French soldiers around Verdun, more than 25,- 500,000 pounds of food a week were required. This gives a faint idea of the colossal task of feeding an army. Canada and Britain have a huge army of fighting heroes on the line ; every man must have plenty of food, in spite of a world shortage. Upon Canada's food production all principally rely. The Farmers of Ontario Urgently Need Help The Department of Agriculture appeals to men and boys to enlist in the farm help campaign. The Department appeals to menunfitfor military service, or whofinditimpossible to enlist in the army. Do your "bit" by helping to increase' production of foodstuffs. This is your hour of opportunity. The farmers of Ontario need the help of retired farmers, of men following no occupation (retired), of business men who can spare a portion of their time. We appeal to all who can so arrange their ordinary affairs to plan to help some farmer friend, particularly in seed time and harvest. \ Confer with your county District Representative of the Department of Agriculture, or write, "Farm Help Campaign," Campaign," care Department of Agriculture, Toronto. Ontario Department of Agriculture W. H. Henret, Minister of Agriculture Parliament Building» ' Toronto 30 THE PERFECT GUM Let us make you acquainted with the new, luscious flavour-- It's all that the name suggests! Wrigley quality-- made where chew ing gum making is a science. 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