I EREDDAILY In the matter of neighbors ass: | tance lends enchantment. It is not| difficult to love your neighbor as! yourself if you don't know too much! about him. It is not difficult to shed | tears over the woes of the poor hea- | then in far off Africa, for the inter-| vening ocean affords. an element of | romance. At a distance of five thou- | sand miles, you can't smell him, | To love the downtrodden in other lands does us small credit. We do | pot love the individual, but only the | Ideal conception of him our imagi-| nation has formed. If he lived next] door, we would phone the health de- partment. and 'demand that some of the dirt be scraped from his hide and | the matted tangle removed from his | Infested hair. "r Nor should we be censured too se verely if we fail to love the neigh-| bor next door. We know his faults |that speaks. We envy their purchas-|P Willie Willis Little Willie Willis says he would be a better boy, but when he is good | his mother thinks he is sick and giv- es him castor oil. A AA tA A NPA Ni patiently until it was finished. "You spoke of popularity," I prompted, when the pipe was filled {and drawing well. | "So Idid," said he, "I read some- | thin' in this here paper reminded me {of it, One o' them Senators says here | that these United States ain't got no | | friends In Europe, I reckon maybe { he knows what he's talkin' about too. | But I remember back there a few | Years ago when we was makin' the | | boys at the mint work overtime so's | we could git enough money to keep | Europe satisfied, and was sendin' em Ship loads o' victuals an' talkin' about our sacred duty to humanity; {and if I recollect right everybody in | Europe what was big enough 'to stand - Up was a standin' on his hind legs a-cheerin' Uncle Sam, They just lumb Joved us to death. We was and his failings, and we yearn to|!"8 Dower, and resent the fact that the hope 0' humanity. And then we correct them, Our spiritual natures |that they are able té enjoy things {sort o' tightened up on the purse may urge us to love him, but our| carnal natures urge us to bounce a we cannot afford. There is a great deal of dishonest | strings an' put a padlock on the co'n {erib, an' the' blind passion fo' us brick off his head for the good of | thinking and dishonest talking ab-|Das cooled off a right smart. his soul and the general uplifting of | the community. out thrift. Nearly all of the eloquent men who urge 'the people' to, be "It reminds me o' John Small an' | his habit o' signin' notes. John had He has a dog that howls at night, | thrifty spend much of their own mo- | a heap o' money, an' he made a sight or hens that forage the neighborhood | Dey unnecessarily. They keep a flock | sWappin' land. Seemed like ever'- | | | | | i 4 for their provender; he has a daugh-|0f servants and a fleet of automo-|thing he set his hand to had a pro- | ter who can't sing but has yet to] learn of her misfortune or he prac- | tices on a cornet after nightfall; his|to the luxuries he can buy and has | good feller, garbage can smells to heaven, or he |the wit to enjoy; and if he wishes to|an' got in a fight once in a spell, but | biles. ' Any man rich or poor, is entitled | fit in it. He made it fast an' | it fast, an' ever'body said he He drunk some licker fills the alley with goods boxes and (deprive himself of beefsteak in or- {nobody seemed to mind, tin cans; he does many, many things | Ger to buy gasoline, his choice is no | no considerate white man would do, and an unfortunate respect for good concern of the world's. It is folly to chide Americans for "Well, sir, I was right smart puz- zled fo' a spell, an' wondering how come ever"body was a lovin' him manners stille our tongues when we i living up to their incomes. It is true | that-a-way, an' then one day I found | that they spend their money easily, | out. but the significant thing is that they | wanted bail, he sont for John; an' if | would call upon him and tell aim in high-powered language just what kind of man he is. It is doubtless wicked not to love your neighbor; but is is even more wicked to lie about it. And no regu- lar man born of woman can love a neighbor who lives next door aad makes himself a nuisance, i ---------------------- Thrift. Thrift is a virtue, but like the oth- er virtues may degenerate into a vice if permitted the run of the premises. Philosophers are ford of saying tha: few people can stand prosperity. They mean that few people who at- tain prosperity are content to do without the things other prosperous people enjoy. When people come in- to money, and we say money has grow up to their expenditures, Ac- quaintance with luxuries gives them a more abundant life, a broader out- look, a capacity for the appreciation of things that lifts man above the level of the brute. To be thrifty is not to be miserly, but only to get a dollar's worth for each dollar spent, whether it be spent for shoes or books or beans or phonograph records. The man who denies himself and his family the lit- tle pleasures and luxuries his earn- ings will buy is not thrifty. He is but robbing himself and them, and by his parsimony narrowing his life and theirs and making all less fit for citizenship. Every business man knows that it is difficult to make money without first spending money. No man can be wisely thrifty until he learns that money is not an end, but only a means to an end. Deacon Hardtop When Deacon Hardtop has a dull business day, he says the Lord is chastening him; but when business is brisk, he says it is simply a mat- ter of good management. Uncle Gus Uncle Gus pulled a straw from his broom and began to clean the stem of his ancient corn-cob pipe. It was made fools of them, it is our envy These fine articles of Jewelry are for you without a osat of cost. Thelovely locket is ungold goods and you do sell. in tional Products Limited Toronto, Canada JUST RUB THE | PENCIL ON THE | CORN AND AWAY GOES ROOT AND BRANCH. DOES NOT BURN AFEWRUES WiT | ITH Moovir PenciL | AND ALL IS OVER a delicate operation, requiring his DORIS MFETS A QUEER NURSE GIRL. My goodress! how Doris «(did pout and fret when her mama asked her to take carc cf her baby sister while she went: down to the town on an errand. Doris, a!l cut of patierce, put the baby in the carriage and rolled her out into the yard. "That's always the way--every time I plan on going out with the other girls, something comes up so I can't go," she pouted as she push- ed the baby carriage out into the country road. "I never can play like other little girls." "Well, now, that's too bad!" laughed a merry voice, and Squee- Mama Opossum Bowed. dee, the elfin from Joyland, hopped out from behind a tree Hy Doris's side. "I thought everyone would be in good humor a lo day like to- day." "Oh, I suppose I would have been in a good humor if mama hadn't 'made me take care of baby sister," replied Doris. any fun pushing a baby around all the time!™ 7 At this Squeedee laughed merrily and put his hand upon the handle of the carriage. : "I'd just like to know what you'd do if you had fifteen children to look after all the time," he laughed. "Why, I have a friend--" "A kind n teacher!" "But you can't have carriage inter- EN. Doris, * "No, indeed," replied Squeedeee. |anybody was hard up an' needed | cash, he put up a pitiful mouth an' | got John to go on a note with him. | "It was mighty fine while it last- ed, but after while the notes begin | to come due and the folks what John They | John got | had signed with couldn't pay. didn't never mean to pay. all het up about it, an' he jumped on one 'r two fellers an' like to beat 'em to death. The others got scairt | then, an' most of 'em scraped up the | money to save the' skins; but thoy cussed John a heap an' begun to say {licker had ruin't him an' his money had made a fool of "im an' things like that. "Popularity is somethin' you can buy, like co'n meal an' plug tobacco; but it ain't wo'th much. A feller that thinks he is Santa Claus is a great man; but when he begins to demand what's comin' to him, folks calls him Shylock an' cusses him." | Aunt Het, "Like as not the men folks will set around- in heaven and ex- pect the Woman's Missionary Soci- ety 'to do all the hérp playin'." "Nothing of the sort." She's a happy little mother, and a. lovely little nurse, Wait, there she goes now," and he drew his magic whistle from his pocket and blew on it three times so loudly that the hills sent back the echo. Doris saw a queer-looking head pop out of the side of an old oak tree, and Squeedee waved his hand and called. At first Doris was tempted to run, but Squeedee soon assured her that Mama Opossum was just as gentle as a lamb, and wouldn't harm her. She was Rho larger than a good- sized cat. Her nose was sharp and long, and well-provided with whisk- ers like that of Doris's cat. Her dark eyes looked rather sleepy, and her large, leaf-like ears stood erect, as Squeedee whistled again. Then Mama Opossum galloped towards them, and bowed politely to Doris and her elfin, her long tail flapping in the dust behind her. "Well, how's the family today, Mama Opossum?" asked Squeedee, after introducing her to Doris. Mama Opossum sat up on her hind legs and shook hands with Doris, and Doris saw she had five toes on each foot. "Seeing's believing," Mama Opos- sum laughed, and Doris caught her breath as fifteen little. furry creat- ures tumbled out of an almost hid- den pocket in the front of Mama Opossum and scampered around in front of Squeedee. "Well, of all things!" exclaimed Doris. "Where in the world did they come from?" "Out of my pouch, or pocket, as you'd call it," laughed Mama Opos- sum, pointing to the pouch formed by a large fold of skin on the under part of her body. "It's the only proper place : to carry children. They're out of the way, but all the time you know just where they are." She made a queer noise, and her fifteen little furry babies all tumbled back into her pouch again, and Doris gasped. "So that's the little nurse you were talking of," Doris said. to Squeedee, after Mama Opossum had galloped away with her funny little bables, "Well, I guess I ought not to complain. I'd much rather push a baby carriage than carry even one baby around in my pocket," and she laughed as she glanced at her tiny apron pocket. i When she looked up again Squee- dee had disappeared, and Doris hummed to herself as she went on It anybody got locked up an' | spent | was a | | RT -- BRITISH WHEG. The Vital Iss B.1 ' "What we have to decide 1s this -- Are we going to con- tinue the protective system of this country or are we not? That is the question and that is the whole question. And the great, big, necessary thing 1s that every voter in this country from the Yukon to Halifax knows that this is the question he or she is deciding when he or she votes in this great contest." { election --in fact, the only issue --is the "Tariff, and to every clear thinking Canadian it should be readily apparent that a Protective Fiscal . Policy is abso- lutely essential to stability, pro= gress and development. T= vital issue in the coming Every important country in the world upholds Protection as an essential economic principle. Even Great Britain--so long the strong- hold of Free Trade--has now adopt- ed laws that constitute Protection of the most effective kind. In fact, the present policy among most nations is towards raising their tariff walls, not lowering them. In the face of these facts it would be suicidal for Canada to do ex- actly the reverse and discard the fiscal system which has been re- sponsible for its progress during the past forty-three years. Free Trade would mean death to Canadian Industry. It would also result in the immediate closing down of Canadian plants of foreign firms, with consequent additional unemployment. There are today 650. American factories alone in Canada. Similar proposed ventures would be abandoned. New capital . ARTHUR MEIGHEN. would refuse to come to a Country lacking adequate protection and present industrial enterprise would be promptly strangled by foreign competition. The preservation of the home market by a Reasonable Protective Tariff is vital to both city dweller and agrarian alike--now as never before. More capital is urgently needed for the development of Canada's enormous resources, which will result in a lessening of unemployment and an increased population. More work and more workers will produce an enlarged home market for products of both city and farm, and the exodus of Canadian men and women--and the dollars they earn -- will be precluded. The United States has slammed her trade door in the face of Canadian farmers by adopting the Fordney Bill, and the farmer is consequently now even more dependent upon the home market than in the past. Yet Crerar asks you to destroy that home market by voting for Free Trade. King's policy--if he has one--will result in the destruction of the Tariff. Meighen stands four square for Reasonable Protec- tion-Protection for all the people -and asks for an over- whelming mandate to give both industry and agricul. 0 ture that assurance which will spell prosperity r all, Individual prosperity depends upon National pros- perity. Your personal interests and Canada's very existence hang upon your vote. & The National Libera] and Conservative Party blicity Committee, i IS+ "FINEST OUALITY Rich-Ripe-Mellow Virginia Tobacco 'ROYAL NAVY CUT PL BEST VALUE FOR Some western berry growers are| The lining for gas bags of the larg now using cardboard boxes insteaier dirigible airships are of wooden ones, from oxen, 2 3 The Orinoco delta is shortly to] American factories exported 16 Twenty-five million dollars a year] A popular belief that blue-eyed represents the American dye indus-| men are the best shots is erronsons, try in marke's. army records show. in a driving rain. Some f would go out walking Pulling a sound tooth strains the acoustics of the dental chamber be explored by British aviators, 834,000,000 cigarettes last year,