yy Te Sail CERES D ayes ty z rae i Ve I PEER Te aaa cae ated 4 es = 3 Sap : ton. - tested. Glasses fitted. _ promptly attended. 2E TERBUNE. ae ~~ ‘Barrister, Notary Public and “Gon- veyancer. « Office over store of: Koch Shoe Co., Main St. H. B. MORPHY, K. C. i Norats Public, Con- Bank eyancer, r Hamilton, Listowel, Milverton, At- ood. Listowel and Milver- Mibney ti to loan. & #. CO, HAMILTON, B, A. Barrister, Conveyancer,, Solicitor for the Imperial] Bank of Canada. Money to loan ~-Office on south side of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- inery Parlors. . - = - —er JAMES M. RIDDELL Barrister, Solicitor, etc. Stratford. - Listowel Office (Tabberner’s Office. ) Tuesday and Friday. Consultations arranged by corre- spondence. ‘ It is all righ t-to kmaeleniecen put such pressure’ will be driven to reduce the dard.of living to the level o who have not yet won eco: freedom. ‘There should be no serd element in the kind of thrift which advised for Americans, There shou be no forcing.down of the substan- stan- can ideal of what constitutes a de- movement which tends toward’ such ; seu should the regarded with, sus- p Thrift is all right. a sign of. refinement? “ Nothing is so certain a sign of inmaturify as the spendthrift habit. The sturdy gen- erations which Jaid the foundations of this nation were thrifty, but they were not stunted. houses, their. generous social’ life, their appreciation of the substantial and wholesome good things of life is proof of this. And whether they pros- pered or whether they just went a- W. G. Kk. SPENCE ‘ Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Department of University of ine: sylvania, Philadelphia; also ate of The Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Torofto. Office over Schin- bein’s Store. long an even way, they lived after the same fashion. They did not flaunt their wealth, and even when retrench- ment was necessary they retrenched y-| Stacefully without injury to. the. es- sentials of .their Hfe. It is not money.that makes peo- -Ple thriftless, for among the most thriftless are those who have no H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Physician and Surgeon. Office ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- er Main and Wallace streets. Phone 59. Night phone 113. W. C. PRATT, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon) Office and residence on Main street, | two blocks west of postoffice. Phone 228. DR. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- bein's stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ ctvil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment for one year after discharge. Phone 17. DR. F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat ponies i in medicine, University ef Toron Late S likeal New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield‘s Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos. pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, on Friday, August 20th., 5 p. m. Listowel, from 2 to 63, Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 DR. R,. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes Hours 9 a, m. to 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone's jewelry store. W. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming echool.: Residence and parlors, Main St., one and a half blocks east of Bap- tist church. Night and day calls Phone 227 eed. FIRE INSURANCE panies; also accident, au- : Sanders. plate glass and on insurance, Automobile insur- 85 cts. per 100. a business solleited. bas D. BOLTON ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE The Strongest and Cheapest com- panies operating in Carada. Fire $1.60 per $1,000. Storm, $1.25 per 1,000. Automobile, 85 cts per 100. Town or Country. H. Hemsworth, P., Issuer - Marriage Licenses. Phone ‘B15. R. \ W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer ~~ Conducts selling by auction in afl its branches. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Farms for sale. Call at the office of Listowel Drilling Machine Co. and Jet us discuss with you your needs. HIDES WANTED ~ Highest. market prices paid “hides, furs and fowl. M for Izen, . phone 136, Listoweb. s. Summer Term Commences July 5th. CENTRAL STRATFORD, ONT, This is the school which has experienced instruttors, gives thorough courses .and assists graduates to high grade positions. The demand upon us for trained help ex- ceeds the nuniber graduat- ing. Commence your course with us at opening of sum-, mer term on July 5th. Get / our free catalogue. D, A: McLachlan, - .| Then there was-a bri thriftlessness is a state of And it is a state of mind which is induced in people by outside stimulation, for the most part. Be- Cause certain strips of cloth, called neckties, which cost as much as a suit of working clothes formerly cost, are beiag worn, certain types of men feel that they must wear them too, in order to be in the fashion. The ‘intrinsic value of the strip of cloth and the labor put upon it do not just- ify the price asked, but apparently the willingness of young men to be in the fashion is made to justify anything. The ease with which money is al- lowed to go for gew-gaws indicates an infantile conception of the value of money. After all, the only value we can purchase with money is a certain feeling of satisfaction, and there are people who get more sat- isfaction out of the strip of cloth a- round the neck—which is worth nothing in exchange—than a substan- tial sum in the bank which helps te make them independent of the emer- gencies of fortune. And so we have whole industries which are constantly dependent on the stimulation of the people of ex-. travagance and a false sense of val- ues. } The non-essential industries, which are the industries that serve the vices of the people—the respect- able vices as well as the other kind— are the curse of the world. They use up material, they use up labor, they- use up the earnings of the worker, but most harmful of all they fix with- in the mind a condition of hekpless- ness in which it is impossible to.dfs- tinguish between the necessaries of life and its worse than useless adorn- and shelter the basic necessities, but: needless and wasteful delicacies, that does not clothe, houses that themselves are show-places more than homes. If these things added anything to the refinement and beauty of life, nothing could be urged against them; but they make life hard and meaning- less, they sap sentiment of its vital- ity, they are hideous in themselves and ruthless in their demands upon the energies of life. ~ Waste and os- tentation are vices of the first degree. Everybody for a little while seemed earried before the storm of incite- ment to extravagance. The leeches of society reaped a rich harvest. An organized campaign was made by in- terests, which it would not be hard to identify, to drive the people to the very limit of slavery to those ex- orbitant demands which are based on false and feverish desires. Human nature is faulty enough, but it is no longer charged by discerning minds with being guilty of the réign of reck- lessness from which we are now hap-|. pil emerging. The incitement of -reckessness came as the result of a earefully planned campaign. Un- fortunately there are interests whose fortunes depend on the recklessness of the people, just as once there were interests whosé fortunes depended. on careful cultivation of the taste for drugs and drink among the people. A sudden reaction occurred, aud soon the country was filled with peaple preaching the opposite extreme. All sorts of odd movements arose. A few people said they would buy no more clothes; théy would wedr overalls; and a few of them did buy overalls, whereupon the price went up. There was a ‘‘cheaper cut’? movement a- mong housewives. This in its way was educationally good; there is no reason why the “cheaper cuts” shculd not be used up along with the less desirable ones; but eqally~ there is no reason why one class’should have one cut and another a another. f “Don’t eat potatoes” campai “The danger comes in this, that the people by these méans might be beat- en down to a lower standard of living, and having Seen once-put there could with the stuff thus.saved could cajole and cultivate other fields and in time beat them down too, nd so reduce the world to a sort 6f° lower class peasantry. Perhaps we Americans) eat too much, perhaps we burn too much coal, but curtailment to the proper degree should not be the re- sult of our exploitation by ‘tertain classes that also eat and burn too values. people,.-but it is wrong to} si on them that they} tiaHty and refinement of the Ameri- |) -cent livelihood, Any condition or,~ | ‘Thrift itself is}. Their _ spacious} ments. No longer are food, clothing} dresses that do not dress and clothing} be Kept there; while the exploiters} much, but through education in true: ' It ig a aoe pidiection “on our social system Jorder bring bewildering down in the regions @here the ple live their daily lives, it is perfect- ly clear in those circles—higher or lower—where control is exercised. This’ control does not come from a better knowledge of the laws of ec- onomics—what thosé laws .are, and how much our artificial system of economies is worth, is always a ques- tion. No, the control comes from in-| human cunning joined with the brute power of money, speculatively gain- ed and speculatively used. If the people were really. saving anything when they saved, the case would again be different. But how- ever careful they become in order to escape the pressure, that pressure} somehow: follows them into the hid- den recesses of their thrift and takes from them what they had thought, by denial of extravagance, by stoppage of waste, and “by painstaking plan- ning, to reserve for thémselves. However, the new thrift which has actuated the peoplé the jast few weeks is making itself-felt in profit- eering circles, and it may add to the sum Of, popular knowledge if the peo- ple. would simply register where prices have made phenomenal falls without any indicated change in the situation which a. little while ago was advanced as the cause of high prices., They may mark then where the ‘abuse was most fostered, and they may learn how human foibles and not ec- onomic law explain many things. When, however, thrift is pressed lower and lower yet, until it ap- proaches a peasant standard, it is time for the goVernment to exercise its power, not in threats and’ prom- ises, but in real acts of protection for- the people from the Dower of specu- lative brigands. One fact comes into clear and tlear-| er light, namely, that no matter how!’ the situation may be ¢ Tastee deca betes ocular Tee eS TS Te * * * * . * * * ca Ld If there is any intehtion of driving the American peo- ple back toward peasantry and encouraging them by ‘“‘thrift’’ to live on bread and water, it will fail. Thrift does not mean lowering the standard.of living, taking the decency and refinement out of life. Thrift means abolishing waste. and silly extravagance. It would doubtless suit certain interests if the American people could somehow be driven back to one-room shacks and company rations. That is the spirit of industrial exploitation. - In- dustry .can and muS&t be made to yield not only the necessa- ries, but the comforts and se- eurities of life, toethe hand- worker as to the manager. The extravagance of the people is encouraged and stimulated by the very interests that would enslave them. Those who wheedle you out of your mon- “ey for gaudy nothings are part of the same gang that tries to beat you dewn in wages. oe eve veaeeeeeeneeaeneeenne ee @ i « , e*aeneetee#s#ee#ee#ee#er#e#ee# * * > a * * s * s The Decay Of The Home + {London Advertiser.) Of the insidious evils’ that beset). sociéty and endanger Re country's |, future, None are more be feared than tie decay of tavhity life. In creating the home, humanity achieved its greatest social triumph for the reason that it insures its perpetua- tion upon a true and enduring basis. With no comparable substitute in, Sight, it would be folly to disregard | this crowning résult of age-long ex-| perience established- upon Christian principles. *For its. permanent pre- servation publicist and pulpit.can un-| ite upon the common ground of a paramount need. To the present and to posterity it asserts an equal obli- gation. : Modern tendencies conspire against the home. The exactions of business life, and opening.of so many pursuits to women, multipiying organizations and the swirl of town diversions dis- tract and divert from the household. The American type of Hfe in flats, while adapted to the elderly, leisured class, is far removed from the desir- able family-rearing -habitat. Small wonder that someone has put into the mouth of modern childhood the caus- tic reproach: ‘‘When my father and mother forsake me, then the com- omer will take me up!”’ Luxury and ease May be attained and the yen sibilities of parenthood evaded, »b often at too great a cost. Children have an inherent-right not only to be well born but to a proper home startin life. Press reports from Chic- ago recently cheerily announced that Judge Frank Johnston had “made a record” by the issue of 453 decrees of divorce in a.couple of weeks’ sitting, in order to “clean up’’ arrears that were choking the docket. Doubts may | arise as to the ‘thoroughness of the! cleaning, but-at all events 906 persons were loosed for future matrimonial | adventures. Could the true inward-' ness of those cases be lad bare it) would doubtless show the court re-| cord to be a symptom of deep-seat-; ed disorder ine which ill-considered | fancy, cupidity and still lower motives; were in control. From such sowing. little but a harvest of misfortune| could be expected. “ Evidently, for. the individual and common good, ef-| forts should be concerted upon whole- some, constructive measures in the education of the youth. | As an institution, the family comes! to us with the indorsation of — Sacred Scriptures confirmed by the) best of human intelligence. Without} citing traditional injunctions, it is, sufficient to say that students are’ familar with the many allusions all! through the Old and New Testaments to the family relations. Perhaps as significant and impressive a, refer- ence as could ‘be cited are the open- ing words of the-Lord's Prayer,.“Our Father,“ together with the sublime in th j Cotter’s Saturday Night,” T | exalted the family ideal, Because he! Giscerried in the home security he “ghé national futare of Traly: Pep the Ttalian conscience he pressed u ingly the tremendous responsibility | of the Christian reating of children! as an educational mission. Were he} alive today he could be no less Stren-} uous. Later on, that rare and genial soul, Pastor Chas, Wagner, who pro- claimed to frivolous Parisians the supremacy of The Simple Life, de- clared that no words of his ¢ould do justice to the subject of home. ‘‘Poor moderns,” he exclaims, ‘always mov- | ing or re-modeling! We, who from transforming our houses, our customs and our creeds, have no longer where to lay our heads. Let us not add to the pathos and emptiness’ of our changeful existence by abandoning the life of the home.” John Howard Payne, an American living in France and England, made his name imper- ishable by writing Home.” In “The Robbie Burns, with his unerring instinct for what is true and noble, depicts in language that will survive a thousand “best sellers,” and religious home life of the humble Scot: From scenés like these old Scotia's grandeur springs That make her loved at home, reygra. ed’ abroad.” Fresh Fruit Phone 72 We are receiving shipments ‘of Fresh Fruits every day and accepting orders. ~ Plenty Granulated Sugar to supply all requirements All orders for groceries quickly supplied. R. A. CLIMIE 2) Wallace Street RAILWAY > GRAND TRUNK System Harvest Help Excursions $15.00;To Winnipeg Plus % cent per mile -beyond. AUGUST 9TH, 11TH, 16TH and, 18TH, stations Toronto to Scotia Jct. : inclusive; also all. stations on Depot Harbor, Midland, Penetang and Mea-; ford branches. AUGUST, 9TH and 16TH, from all stations in the province of Ontario and Quebec; Pembroke, Golden Lake Uptergrove, Toronto and east. AUGUST 11TH and 18TH, from all stations in Ontario, Toronto and west. For further? particulars apply to any Grand: Trunk Ticket “Agent or C. B. Horning, District Passenger Agent, Toronto, Ont. A. M. SMITH, Phone 46. J. A. HACKING, Phone 58. Fake Cowboys Make Big Haul Of Booze Winnipeg, Aug. 8.—In an effort to stop illegal liquor traffic from Sask- atchewanminto Montana, which has Teached tremendous proportions, in- spector Stewart of the Mounted Police detachment at Swift Current, Sask., with three men drove over to a town not far from the border line in Mon-} tana, where they dressed up like cow- | boys, secured Montana license number | plates for their autos, a few hundred | dollars in American money, and went, to. Govanlock, Sask., where a large’ liquor warehouse was being operated by Jews under the name of the aided! Spirit Company. “Can we land a flock gf tpoze?” the| disguised inspector asked” the man-j ager of the place. “Sure you can;! just oo back into the alley and! load u | The areusaction completed, the in-/ spector placed the manager under ar-; rest and seized fifty thousand dollars | worth of liquor. The police then drove; to Hatton, Sask., another border! tawn, where the same operation was | repeated, and fourteen thousand dol-| lars worth of liquor was seized in ‘one place, and twenty thousand dol- lars worth in another and all man-j_ agers placed under arrest. He was an honest man! Perhaps the only honest man the income-tax and other banes of civilization have T left us. His honesty at times -disconcerted the barrister who was. créss-examin- ing him. So the judge took a hand, and. put this question to him: 2 “You willswear that the prisoner bid your umbrella?” And the TASTE IS GREAT! 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