. The Tea That Never Disappoints — 4 ; Biack, Green o Mixed - Sealed Packets Oniv + ~ FROM OTHER PAPERS (All - articles: -credited: The Banner. doesn’t necessarily agree : “with views expressed.) . _ e & o YOU'RE “IN WE " LADIES , (Stratford con) “The woman who carried off the/ prize for the handsomest foot’ at the| beauty contest in London, Englend, | wore a number six shoe. And yet the! prevalent tendency among the female! sex is to crowd into as small a shoe as possible: A CAUSE OF FIRES? (Toronto Giobe.), One of the speakers at the Fire Chiefs’ Convention said that some merchants were overstocked at in- flated values and could not stand a : drop in prices; that they were in- 3 sured at inflated values, and. that theref i diary fires may be ex- E pected. The warning may be exag- , gerated, but it will bear investigation. wy * ¥ A HINT TO THE BOYS F (Orillia Packet.) : In the public life of Canada and| also of the United States, the farm or the printing office often, if not gen- erally, has the call. Prime Minister -Meighen was born on the farm and " gpent his youth and early manhood ploughing, hoeing and peddling milk, and on the other side of the line, whether Republicans or Democrats win, the next president will be a man who began Hfe as a printer’s devil, and worked his way up to the editor- ial chair. Moral for the boys: If you can’t be a farmer, make your start in a printing office. » =:: NO ROOM FOR IDLERS ( Farmers’ Sun. )@ Speaking on labor matters I notice that a speaker at a meeting of the United Veterans held in Toronto last} week stated that it is estimated there; are nearly 10,000 veterans out of ' work in Toronto. There is no reas- on why this number, or any number, | should be out‘of work either in To- ronto.or.apy.other city. A call is al-; ready out for thirty or forty_thous-| and men to assist in gathering the: harvest in the Western Provinces. . In the Niagara district, fruit is in| danger of rotting on the. trees tor| lack of help to gather it. In other| parts of Ontario there is hardly a, farm that is not short handed and! where $40 to $60 per month with, board, or the equivalent in the way of; free house plus wages for a married) man would not be freely paid. This! country was made by men who, when} they could not get the sort of work to} which they had been accustomed, | P threw off their coats and took on any} gort of work they could get. It has) room today only for men of like kind. | Men, physically able, whether veter-| ans or non-veterans, who voluntarily! stand idle while fields are untilled| and food wastes for lack of willing liands to save it, are deserving neither of sympathy or assistance. We are badly in need in this coun- try of a méw conception of duty and, fatriotism, a conception that wil place proper emphasis on the import- ance and dignity attached to the everyday services of life. THE ROD ON THE CHILD (London Advertiser.) Corporal] punishment in our schools may still be a recessity. The opin- ion of competent educational author- ities is divided+on the point, but all agree that the necessity, if such there be, is one to be deplored. If fear of physical pain is the only corrective deterrent or ‘‘aid in the development of character,’ by which the highest appeal can be mae in certain cases, then it would seem that this fear} must be invoked. But we have come} a@ long way in our present education- | al system, it is to he hoped, from the, days in which Dickens wrote the, schoo] scenes of Nicholas Nickjéby} as a criticism of prevailing conditions| 4 in his day. It will be remembered | ; that Mr. Squeers took a loving pride ' in’ a finished artistry with the rod. The comparison is not a happy one, it is true, for there-are neother points | of contact between Mr. Squeers’ views of education and those quoted in a *-aré there any similarities in character bétween the two instructors.. The - qualities of integrity, sincerity, loy- *, alty and public spirit, are the well- Koown .attributes of the teacher whose views on education have been - ‘the subject of the articles. It is, ~ therefore; all the more deplorable ¢ that such an impression should be “wiven to the public by a veteran edu- ~~ eator. ° His many-inspiring views and _ excellent suggestions as to education- “al subjects are completely put. into the shade by constantly recurring Statements. re corporal punishment. When affectionate references to.““ige little old blue beech’”’ dot. the columns of an educational article adnauseam the inevitable Impression is that of a — -eertain personal satisfaction to be ’ found in the handling of that instru- At. That. the administration of corporal punishment may afford more *than.a purely aesthetic pleasure, ent, as we read lat- to the handling | that “My muscles swelled up with-the recent article of a contemporary, nor] how-jeturate with the service rendered; and — of conditions in a certain’city school exercise. " A gage has been thrown Gown, eduéationally speaking, in the following,. which might well be pick- ed up of someone's sword point, but we will léave others to take issue with the pedagogical principles involved: “I brought the whip down on the desk fgotten at the fundamental thing a- and persuaded the school I was really the teacher. My predecessor had too much of the milk of human kindness. If any of the pupils did not know their spelling they were given a taste of the blue beech and keptin. After a second test, if they failed,-they were given the same punishment again. It was not long before they learned their spelling and other work +o perfect- ion.” The Puritans, we are told, abolish- ec bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but becduse it gave pleasure to the spectators. This per- énnial joke has more in it than meets the naked eye. And can it be, pro- ceeding similarly,- that one argument to be used against wholesale corporal punishment in our schools, would be that it might have a brutalizing ef- fect on the teacher? This is reversing things with a vengeance and may be eonsidered as funny as the joke on the Puritans. But the possibility and its results may well appear no joke when thought ovér. A POOR PREACHER (Guelph Mercury.) The church committee were wond- ering what Hed come over the spirit of the minister. A few years ago he had come to the.town enthused with a message for humanity, and with youthful ardor he spoke it with all the enthusiasm he possessed. He Was! inexperienced in the ways of _ ,the! world. He knew nothing of Its de- ceits, its subterfuges, its excuses. He had faith in all manner of people and he thought they all accepted his mess- age-and -his-.service.in the spirit-in which it was offered. He cared not for money, because he lived in the clouds. But there came a day when he felt himself slipping. There was a plain- tive note uppermost in his messages, because there were things that trou- bled his spirit;,and the vigor and en- thusiasm had vanished and gone. Earthly cares had gripped him, and he felt poor and mean and alone. He had taken too literally the injunction to “‘take now scrip or money in his urse,”” and that “the laborer was worthy of his hire.” His message weakened and he knew he was mak- ing a sorry spectacle in his effort to enlighten the heathen at home. The spirit was being slowly starved out of him by a thoughtless and gelfish peo- ple. The minister of the Gospel today, in the country and small town dis- tricts, is the poorest paid of all the people of the earth. The laborer on the street who cannot write his name, is better off and better dressed. The mechanic, toiling his eight hours a day, lives in ease and luxury compar- ed with some of the spiritual shep- herds of the flock, who toil twelve and eighteen hours daily carrying comfort and consolation in all weath- ers to sin burdened souls. He has spent seven or more years in seminary and college, university or cloister, to prepare himself for the superhuman tasks he is required to peform in his holy caNingy yet\he is allowed to starve in g@he midst of plenty by a people who parade their #extravag- ances to arouse the envy of their neighbors. In the smaller churches of Canada the minister receives, even in this era of high living costs, the disgraceful pittance of $600 to\$800 per year, out of which he keeps, or tries-to keep, a companion in his sorrows, whom he had hoped would have been a con- stant and uplifting inspiration with. her songs of gladness to drive away the gloom that threatened to engulf him in his daily tasks. A despatch from London, England, last week stat- ed that within a year twenty-five Pro- testant ministers in England had died of starvation or malnutrition. There are many in Canada, even in Ontario,’ who don’t get a square, satisfying! meal three times a week except it be on a visit to some well-to-do par- ishioner. These are facts that have been verified, to the sname of the Christian church and people. There is a campaign on to give the minister a living wage, for the laborer is worthy of his hire, The church is backing a movement to guarantee a minimum stipend of $1,500 for the country, $1,800 in small towns, and $2,000 in cities, in most of, the cities there are few that get less than that amount many of them get more, but. in the country they are next to im- poverished, according to official in- formation sent out by the denomina- tions concerned. .The people -of the \.all faith, by the Master of men. they can” to maké théirs the best: preacher in the Province by reward- ing him with a decent salary. ’ Seb bbe bbb bth tt: * - " + + UAN A BOY BE RELIGIOUS? + . 4 + - deleebeeeeeb ebb ene bt " A Swell-known educator has said, that when God made.man, He made the world significant, but when. He made a boyy He made it interesting. The old idea that children must cease to be children before they are old enough to know about religion, is fast passing away. When a little girl knows enough to love God, she has, bout religion. One day such a girl was asked by her mother what she meant by being a Christian.. She re- plied, “It means that I must do the same as Jesus would. If He were a little girl nine years old, living in our house.” You will have to travel a long way before you will get @ bet- ter definition of what Christianity is, than that. One night a Httle boy sat under a tree in his father’s pasture. He looked up and saw the stars and wondered what they were. He-had religious parents, and he made up his mind that those bright gars were the hearth-fires of the angels. Then he built a little fire on the ground, as a signal to the angels, so that they might know that down on the earth there was a little boy who was think- ing about them. In other words, children are religious. The sense of the spiritual is there, and is ready for development. tude toward life is one of simple faith, and he was made the ideal of “Ex- immeédiate néed, they will do what 5 A -child’s whole atti-|~ ' Im an display wherever and save money. cept ye become as little children, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven.” ~A little kirl was accustomed to fix the chairs in rows in the dining room, a play they were heathen, and she waS8 a missionary. She became Mrs. Mary Porter Gamewell, and her husband was the missionary who managed and organized the defence of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Children understand that there is a contest between good and evil in their own hearts. They know what temptation is. One night two boys went, into a house that was fy bout half built, and took some nails. They put the nails in a safe place and went to bed.™But they could not sleep. They had been known to “coon” apples and plumg occasional- ly, but some way this taking of nails seemed different. That wasn't coon- ing. That was stealing. Then those two boys got up, went to the barn, got the nails and took them back, and went to bed with clear . con- sciences. If some business men who are drawing big dividends on watered stock, and cutting a “melon” now and then, had as clear an idea of right anid wrong as these boys had—well, many things would be different. One day a tiny lad tip-toed into the room where his sick mother lay, and took two oranges. He thought she was asleep, but she saw what he did. He had never done anything like that be- what he would do with his booty. By and by she saw him tip-toe back into the room and place twe- oranges on the table. As he went*out, she heard him mutter to himself, “That's where you vot left, old devil."’ Children respond to religious teach- ing. When tHe foundation of faith has been laid in childhood the build- ing reared on it is likely to stand. Some authorities go so far as to say that there are no adult conversions where there has been no training in early life. Polycarp, one of the early martyrs became a Christian at nine. Jonathan Edwards united with the church at seven. Isaac Watts, the hymn writer, was converted at seven, Bishop McCabe at eight, while thous- ands cannot remember the time when they did not love God. drinking men got the appetite before they were nineteen, while crime is more and more a matter of youth. Therefore, it is well to heed the words of the wise man of old, ‘‘Remember now the Creator in the days of thy youth.”’ A father once undértook to educate his son, almost from the cradle. He used pducative games with the child when he was a year old. He began taking him to uni- versity fectures at the age of four, and when ten the Jad was-prepared to enter the university. At fourteen this youthful scholar had graduated and was on the road to usefulness as a scientist. A few years ago he died, at the age of eighty-six, and was known over the world as Lord Kelvin. What is possible in education is also pos- sible in religion. We are told in the Good Book of Josiah that, “while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father."’ Han- nah trained Samuel in things from infancy, said he became the guide and leader of his people. And of Christ he read that he ‘‘ad- vanced in -wisdom and i -statupe, and in favor with God and. en.” ¢ \ Going Too Fan— ; Two dollars has been fixed by he churches are being asked to seriously | consider the question of paying their preachers a wage-or salary commen-; to deal with the matter ina spirit, vo that they may hold up their United States courts as @ fair. price’ ‘fora stolen kiss. This price-fixing! can be carried too far. Some kisses fore, and she said nothing, wondering! 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A lovely Kentish maiden who has en- raptured some sturdy Kentish youth during the course of a brilliant Sat- urday evening ball appears before him on Sunday in a home-made cos- tume, with a vulgarizing figure, her hair bunched undef a hideous cap, like a wet Seotch terrior, and, bang! goes romance. “No woman, however lovely she may be, can stand the test of stand- ing before a man she has previously inspired in the damp, bédraggled con- dition inseparable from the bath, either public or private. “I appeal to the council to set an example for the world and to show that it is not prudery but patriotism that should prevent our daughters from making themselves damp frights.”’ The council, however, fearing that the women, when they go to-the polls, would take vengeance on the soelons” os lovely under all conditions, passed the ardinance. &@ Discussing Brighton, Ostend’ and other resorts where mixed bathing is the custom, Mr. Clark asserted that they were responsible for the ‘declin- ing birth rate, the Anglo-French na- tions, through their bathing customs, affording men-grounds for hesitating before marrying, ~ for determining that women were nory I which fave Stopping a bi itis accomnt te sance, but such twi 'S NOTH ING a man downright mad as to twine run uneven. once on y & nui- means oe HOBBS GOLD Gc Zilliax " VAY: eS ahs Sanaa hb &. Son If you are built right you can look an honest man and a pure woman square in the eye. Can you? A humorous definition of a cigar- ette is given as:—‘A little rol of leaves, in a little bit of paper, with a little fire at one end .and a little fool at the other.” President Hyde, of Bowdon College, says of ft: “The tobacco habit is injurious to health, .to scholarship and to character. It weakens. the will, diminishés the pow- would be dirt cheap. at that—andai ‘ “t be worth two dollars} smo ér of appli mand lowers the tone of thought And feeling. Excess: ‘saek 5 kers are uniformly poor schol- ~* eompleted the clock: after * _~ ° as *. “Time To Go Home," * Says Clock at Eleven m ; * * * ° = * . * © s . Philadelphia, July 27.—A clock that. speaks instead of striking is the invention of Vincent Pinto. He has it running in his home at 1624 South Sth street. Pinto studied clockmaking in Italy, and with his 20-year-old son, Joseph, eighteen a= months’ hard work: At present the clock at 11 o’cléck at night says: “Eleven o'clock; time ,to go home: This is because Rosa, the 18~year- old daughter, entertains many friends. The clock is about the size of a grandfather's clock. It can bé made to call the hour, half or quarter hours, or all of them, with its phono- graph mechanism, and has chimes in addition. . It would be invaluable, says. Pinto.. where’there was a blind person in the h