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ORVAL BYER who and Optician Come in and hear the Columbia Gramaphone played with a Jewel Needle--the king you don't have to change. "a ~ PRICES AUN FROM $26.00 TO $650. 00 STAR OFFICE. 79 BARGAINS We have 79 pairs of Children' Ss Rubbers with Stockings _attached, worth: $1.50 a a Port Perry 1g as they last 'we are going 0 This pe for $1 te Boing bo Skea: he eter there's.lots of him, and present I'm going to blame the farmer some myself. folks as they don't live in these here parts. The blame the farmer for is this--he's too fond of his bank book, It's been such a long hard grind to get a few hundreds "ahead that he's afraid to risk them any more'n he has to; so he sticks them in the bank where he can get at them easy. There they draws * three per cent for the farmer, and maybe: eight per cent for the bank,and like as not fifteen pet cent. for the fellow as borrows the money from the bank, and does business with jt in the city. : « That's where the farmer's money goes--to the city--and the hired man he ups and follows the money. He wipes the mud off his number nine plow boots, slicks himself up with 4 store suit and shiny shoes, and "then makes for the: city. where the farmer's money is gone. When he gets there he helps build labor saving machinery for the farm, and the manufacturer having had to pay big wages to get the hired man from the farm, and big interest to get the money the farmer put into the bank, tacks the whole thing on to the price of the Machinery he sells to the farmer. And what about the farmer? His hired 'man has gone what used to keep things slicked up round the fence corners, and he's as busy as a "dog with three soup bones to gnaw at une and the same time. He takes a gnaw at this field and a bite at that; but things gets ahead of him that far that he can't never catch up... He can raise the dandiest crops of mustard and thistles and such like things What there ain't no sale for but he's shy on wheat and oats and potatoes. It keeps him hustling a going over the ground and keeping the fences up and tending auction sales and doing the chores. He ain't got no time to work his land as he'd oughter if he wants good crops. He ain't working the land, but ""the'land's working him. 1t's dead certain sure that we ain't raising all that 'could be raised on the firms round these 'parts. And if's just as sure we. never will until we keeps our money and labor and young folks to home. Every dollar as goes from the farm to the city takes labor with it, and cuts down the chances of getting a good crop. Every acre of land that's only half or quarter worked makes it harder to work the rest, and makes the rest dirtier." There's a whole lot of farmers could raise big- ger crops and better crops if they had less land to work. They'd have less worry and walking, There ain't no sense in biting off more'n you chew. That dog with three soup bones generally loses one on them in the end--some pup comes along and sneaks away with it when the dog ain't looking. Just so with the half worked farm--it's often stolen right from under the farmer's nose by weeds and bugs and mildew and blight, and the farmer can't help hisself neither as long gs he's short handed. There ain't no call to be scared that prices 'll drop such a terrible lot if we raises more to the acre, r.ot so long as folks keeps a coming to the country and needing to be fed... 1 was a reading of a mighty good scheme what they has in France 50's the farmer can get money easy to fix up his farm. They" has clubs all through the country just pretty 'much like the Farmer's Institutes we has hereabouts. © When a farmer wants to drain his field, he goes to the fellows as knows him, and that's where he borrows his mcn.y. They knows what kind of farmer he is, and if they thinks he's all right, they sends word to the bank in the town to let. him have the money and they backs him. 'They has lent ninety-six million dollars that there way, and increased the value of the ciops about five huudred million dollars a year. That's pretty good interest on the money, now ain't it? And you can bank on it, when farmers clubs together that there way, every- body is going to look after things right smart to see" that weeds don't grow so fast that there ain't no crops to pay. the debt. That there scheme of letting. farmers as ean use it right have money 'on easy 'terms is just what we needs in this country. Money seems to Le -80 scarce in these parts that we's afraid to use it for fear of wearing it out, so we puts it into the bank instead of spending it in drains and la- bor and good stock and p e seed. We has fo eter ak mommy's ut me 1 ichion is, and it pgiven that a Dividend it the rate of THIRTEEN Per Cent. Per Annum upon the Capital Stock of this Bank has this 'day been declared for the quarter ending 31st January, 1914, and : that the same will be payable at the H Office in this city and at : its Branches on and after Monday, the 2nd Day of February, 1914, to shareholders of record of Wrd January, 1914, > The Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the > Head Office of the Bank in Toronto on Wednesday, the 18th of 'February next, at 13 o'clock noon. By order of the Board. Toreato, 16th Deceinber, 1918, GEO. P. SCHOLFIELD, will he Nation-wide, and contemplates writing into the National Constitution a 8 prohibition. of the manufacture and of all aicoholic beverages. To accomplish this result will require tte ratification of thirty-six out of the forty-eight States i in the Union. Of thes: ri:e ae already in line through © State prohibition --Maine, Kansas, No.th Duikota, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, West Virginia. The last five have been added within a period of six years. In addition to these there are eigh- teen States in which a major part of the people live in territory made dry by local option, in which we may be assured prohibition sentiment predom- inates, If the people in these States ,who are opposed to the liquor traffic de- mand it, their Legislatures will un- doubtedly ratify a National amend- ment, The most influential argument against prohibition is that it is not effective; that Prohibition don't pro- hibit This is not basic or moral; the fact of failure to enforce is no argument against even the expediency, much less against the moral issue involved. Ultimately all questions must be settled by moral standards; only in this way can mankind be saved from self-effacement. ~The liquor traffic cannot save itself by declaring that government is' incapable of coping with the problem it presents; when the people decide that it must go, it will be banished. : We are not discussing the benefit or'justice of prohibition, but its pos- sibilty and its probability in present circumstances. To us there is the 'handwriting on the wall' and its interpretation spells dooni. For this the liquor 'business is to blame; it seems incapable of learning any lesson of advancement or any motive but profit. To perpetuate itself it has formed alliance with the slums thal repel all conscientious and patriotic citizens. It deliberately aids the most corrupt political powers, and backs with all of its resoures tte most unworthy men, the most corrupt and recreant officials. It does not aid the purification of municipal, State, or National admin- istration. Why? > Because it has to ask immunity for, its own lawlessness. That this condition is inherently and inevitably necessary we do not believe but it has come to be a fact, and the public, which 1s to pass on the matter | in its final analysis, believes anythin bad that anybody can tell it of the liquor business. Why? Let the leaders of the trade, answer. Other lines of business may be as In this country we have recently swept aside one of the fundamental =~ : theories of the formers of our Consti- tution in going from representative to direct government; we are on the verge of universal instead of male. suffrage, and there is a spirit abroad which :ecks little of tradition, of precedent, or of vested rights; and on hi us- ed licentiously and destructively it will work short shrift. Prepare the defence, friends; make. your case ready for court the trial can~ not be postponed. War vs. Commerce The Scientific American contains a long' editorial on "The Decline of the United States Navy." The tone of the editoral expresses regret and a bit of shame. How can a navy do anything else but decline so long as public opmion is convinced that navies are less necessary than ships of commerce. If the Scientific American is anxious to promote the prestige of the United States it will better accomplish that by advocating and urging an increased expenditure for the building of commerce carrying ships. Profitable Farming Red Clover Over on Scugog there are two farm ers who have reason to be pleased with their red clover seed crop. R. Prentice & Sons had eighteen acres which grew a crop that sold for $737. 40. "Mr. H. Collins had four and three xuarter acres, and his returns from this field amounted to $227.00. Red and Alsike clover crops often produce surprisingly good yields; but it must be admitted that the yields are at times suprisingly disappointing. Holstein Cows Any cow that can give cash returns of $243.96 in less than a year, in fact in less than six months, should be a profitable possession. Mr. Wilmot Walker has such a cow at Manchester, and here is the way the cash was secured. They started milking the cow on the 14th of Oct- ober, 1913 and from then until Jan- luary 5th 1914, the milk yield amount- 'ed to 59984 lbs, having a cash value of $113.96. The calf was sold when four weeks old for $75.00. This cow took prize money at the National Live Stock and Horticultur- al Show, amounting to. $55.00. The total returns from that one cow {rom October 14, 1913 to Jan. 5, 1914, {amounted to $243.96. Mr. Walker has another cow that bad or even worse but itis not so did very well; wonderfully well if you plainly in evidence. | compare it with ordinary cows. They The case of the liquor traffic is | started milking these cows on Oct. called for adjudication by the Amen- 28th, 1913, and from then until Jan. can people; and must be ready for 5th; 1914, the cow gave 4817 lbs of trial. milk having a cash value of $¢1.52. SOF a Other cases may be called later, |The calf was sold for $40 oo, and the £3 but thé one before the court cannot | Cow took $10 in prize money; making! be postponed. But, as in the past, cash returns of $141.52. These cons. 1. the men most concerned are 'playing have entered in the Record of Perfogs i for postponement, not for acquittal, mance. J vaten {Is it because they fear the weakness| In view of the poable pos of their defence that they fear to go to ties of cows proper! | will be the price of b { ty invol- | removal of the duty from catth y oe great emp) ploy=} ing ihe United States | on lity; but when has caused agreat inc oe rg hg port of cattle. So "the alcoholic liquor {causing alarm'among tH 1e money value will not count, { men of this country. nscierice aroused puts the value| Itis time farmers: Liofher ne © [matters with a vi