+7 Se OT ES SE Po “Thursday, March 13th, IMPOSSIBLE 10 GET RELIEF Until She Started To Take “Frult-a-tives” The Medicing- Made From Fruit R.R. No. 1, Everett, Ont. “T had been troubled for y ners with Dyspepsia, Liverand Kidney Trouble, = cow not ld: relief unti I started “¥Fruit-a-tives’’. Thanks to their beneficial noon, Iam in normal ealth again’’. Mrs. THOMAS EVANS “ Fruit-a-tives”’ alone can gife such ha py and successful results because rai -a-tives’”’ is the famous medi- cine made from fruit juices and tonics. Pr ruit-a-tives’’ is pleasant to take and will always restore the health when taken regularly as directed. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At dealers or from Fruit-a-tivee Limited, Ottawa, Ont. sasipailliina with views FROM OTHER PAPERS. (All articles credited. The Banner doesn’t necessarily ‘agree expressed.) SHOOTING AT SCHOOL (London Advertiser) Hamilton. ceived cnly a scalp wound, and his condition is not serious. Shooting galleries in public schools are a questionable innovation. Just why a boy going to a public school should be taught to shoot is a har matter to explain. There is the ment of risk also, unless there is the strictest kind of discipline. WHO ASKED FOR THE VOTE? (London Advertiser) Fremier Ferguson says the vote on the O. - A. will bein the form of a plebisc It would ‘be enligntening to know who is asking for a’ vote. Has there been a giant petition one way or the other, or ¥ it some of the avowed T. A. smashers) from Toronto who ‘are goreing the) issue? The Original! and Only Genuine BEWARE of {MITATIONS sold on the Merits of MUINARD'S a There is not a day passing now mee does not see a resolution —— gainst interfering with the O. T. The people passing these ey tee have just as much right to be heard as those who are nudging the prem-' jier’s elbow to rush on another vote. GETTING TOGETHER ondon Advertiser) Kincardine ‘had a banquet with 200 participating. Nothing unusual about that! The out of the ordinary feature was that it was tendered by the busi- nessmen of the town to the members of the councils of Kincardine, Huron and Bruce townships and the villages, of Tiverton, Underwood and Ripley, | and the officers of four agricultural! societies. J. J. Hunter, of the Kincardine Reporter. acted as chairman. The af- fair was unique enough and had sufficient community ane to be a real Hunter innovatio | J. J. Hunter has don his full share at bringing the cole of his | section of Bruce together. He has' now his hand to the work of! battering down any remaining bar- | riers between town and country, and! he will have the satisfaction of| knowing that he is engaged in a real! worth-while effort that should be! generally adopted. | duct is de corous and po- lite. Our services are efficient and satisfactory. Our business is well known. r seers preoerrterrrarrss2 = 'W.A. BRITTON FUNERAL DIRECTOR | PHONE 99 5 a + JERMYN. ONT SO THE HOME SUFFERS t (London Advertiser) “Just wait a minute till I see if I have anything on for that night.” A common enough saying, but one that is getting so frequent that it is almost alarming. Something going on all the time. That seems to be the general com- plaint, and yet the people who muke the complaint are busy all the time seeing that there,is something going A boy of 13 was injured in a shoot- ing gallery of one of the schools at Fortunately the lad re- ‘stock of this road for $5,000,000, and last year the net earnings were $1,786,924. This was not lished bY redueing wages, for wages are higher than the unfon rates. The managers of other Yall- ways insist that. Mr. Ford's success is nothing unusual considering that he is both owner and chief shipper, but the general public, faced with the demand of these other roads for higher freight rates and higher 6x- ress rates, under penalty of bank- ruptey if these demands are not met, can hardly be expected to forget the Ford railway experiment. The other ronds point to their high wage bills s the chief reason for their deficits, Ss siderably higher pest of them. The pwhlic, | often culled, may be forgiven if they wonder mildly whether. efficiency isn’t after all the chief reason for “Tienry’s” rather remarkable results. = THE O. T. A. DEBATE {London Advertiser) The debate in the Ontario Legis- lature on the proposed measure to ' enable the Ontario cabinet ministers j to bring on a vote on the O. T. A. when they like, and how they like, was a good discussion because it brought out vers forcibly the facts that the people of the province have j2 right to know It is now clearly established that the people of the province—through their representatives in the legislat- ure—will have nothing to say as to the date of the vote, or the nature of the questions to be placed on the ballot paper. These essentials are to be handled entirely by the lieuten- ant-governor-in-council, dn other words by the Ferguson cabinet. This “enabling” legislation now sought. and whi will be passed be- cause the government has a major- ity big enough to pass any measure it brings in, allows the cabinet to set the date and give the wording o the questions that shall be placed before the people, and past exper- ience has proved beyond doubt that the wording of a ballot of this nat- ure has a great deal to do with the result. It is of little use that speakers from the Conservative side of House should go back years and trace the growth of temperance leg- islation; that may be very pleasant to hear, but it has no bearing on the situation that faces Ontario right now. The people passed the legisla- tion known as the A., passed it in no uncertain manner, and now, at the first opportunity, the Fergu- -_ government seeks enabling leg- islation to provide an opportunity for its undoin The temperance forces of the pro- vince should do only one thing, viz., prepare for the contest that will be One London woman admitted that she had attended eleven meetings} during the week, and she was not claiming that as a recerd. And it’s a poor, old-fashioned man who can't boast of something going Tatention of the government to bring on a vote, there would be no need of them asking for this enabling leg- islation; the two things go hand i hand. on three or four evenings during the We're losing that fine old habit of sitting down in our own homes and, spending a quiet, delightful evening | with the members of the family. It! has created an atmosphere where it seems to be taken for granted that the family circle is not sufficient to, satisfy the craving for excitement, or for something to do first brought out as an advertising | slogan for baseball games and places of amusement, and it might very | well be nailed across the ti door’ of a good many of our hom Don’t Be Careless About Your Clothes If they are worth buying they are worth taking care of... . ' Wh they need a little attention let me know, and I will slick them up and make them look like new a- gain. New Spring j es: have arrived. Drop in and look them over. Now ie the time to order your Spring Suit. Satisfac- tion guaranteed. off in every way if we had the good! sense to go home at night and stay there MR. FORD'S RAILWAY (Christian Guardian) There are few men who. either from accident or design secure such an amount of free advertising ~ es “the people's Henry."’ A short time ago Mr. Ford took over the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railway which, if we remember aright,. was ee inclined to bankruptcy, and he ed to run that raibway aeeneding to his own ideas. He made it pay, and the report for 1923 shows that it is still paying. In 1920 he pur- chased ninety-seven per cent. of the et’'s go" is a phrase that was | A whole lot of us wonea be better | . THEN AND NOW (Stratford Beaeén-Herald) When some patriarch of pioneer times reminds us of how he travelled i} to Canada in the days when he was a boy, it is then only that one real- izes how rapid has been the progress of improvement in the simple matter of public travel. When Mr. W. R. Clayton of Listowel, left his native London, presumably by stage coach, for Bristol to sail for Canada, he and his parents embarked on a rand i new® schooner. No doubt she was the pride of her master at the time, but it took seven weeks to cross the At-| § lantic, and during a stormy period of three days the passengers were ; battened down below in total dark- ness, amid unsanitary conditions. Today, the ocean liners cross in as many days as the-:schooner took weeks, and’ when there is a storm on they-teake to their beds or the ball room, according to their physical feeling and sleep or dance the time away. More will probably be found ‘in the ball room than in their beds. Readers of Dickens’ “American Notes” will remember with amuse- ment the great writer’s surprise when, he looked into his berth and in- to the saloon and discovered-for him- ro-j self how utterly different they were from the pretty pictures of hand- some, spaciots accommodation in the steamship agents handbook. Nowadays, the realization is great- er than the ha eng for the act- bknown as pyorr 1° A young Toronto dentist, who has 4 made a special study of: the ea, and ered the nature of ‘the a method Sy which it can be success- ‘ widespread is the the . "ascavee? ranks clos b insulin, in the re- Het at millions of -sufferefs the | world hie’ Like ee Banting, Dr. Box o: his @ : ly to voip dental world, ing a gift of it to humanity. Official en- : has given hig work by the’ government of Ontario. oy Stl, A i EE IS Al 1 gaa SMO tala Pome war ation. for sleeping, eat- ing and amusement on Ddoard shi is beyond the powers of a mere hand- book to do justice to. Crossing tent even third class-in 1924 is superior to the saloon of 20 years ago. HE LENTEN SEASON (Mall and Empire) Christians in many lands. begin to-day thelr observance of Lent. Th sons of the ecc cal. year have end wi Shrove Tuesday, 0o Mardi Gras, which is celebrated in some ces Ww gay carnivals and social gatherings. Ash Wednesday, named from the symbolic ashes of j-repentance, now ushers in the peni- ‘tential period of forty days in com- memoration of Christ’s fasting and temptation in the wilderness and in preparation for the emg festival of Easter. Lent, which is ae institu- tion of great ‘antiquity said. to ve consisted ip of only n ty weeks preceding: 5: sease apn we Sundays eo all the Sat- one. Latér still, the pres- ‘ant ent was adopted. Lent se ts ee Py oo ES MONUMENT TO PARLIAMENTARIAN A very fine figure bronze, a statute portrait of Lieut.-Col. George Harold Baker, M.P., has just beeff-unveiled at the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa. Col. Baker. was the first Parliamentarian to lose his life in the Great War. His death occurred in act on at Sanctuary Wood, June 2, 1916 when he was serving under Lord Byng. It was Lord Byng who unveiled the monument at Ottawa. The picture shows’ the bronze figure, and also the position it occupies in a bay of the east alsie of the main entrance to the House of Commons. worldly pleasures. it is true that the vast majority of Christians, even in those churches, do -not follow the the. forced on them. If it were not the| from below_ the spot sere vthe patient has pens rian Scat now begins on the Wednesday = the bs strict Lenten rules of earlier times. They are not called upon, for ex- ample, to refrain from food to the same extent as then. ‘Nevertheless, they and many members of other Christian communities do heed the! lessons which the Lenten season is} intended to teach. They observe | Lent “as a profitable exercise,” as! someone has said, and recognize it) as a suitable occasion for cessation of self-indulgence, which might be~) come habitual, and of the more friv~ olous activities of life. THE WORK OF A SURGEON (London Advertiser} A young doctor, 40 miles — from the nearest hospital, alone, with no much equipment, finds the man hi has been called to attend in a state of strangulation He kas no time to do anything bir act. He has no assistant to help yet he knows that there is an emer- gency = facing him, fhat of tracheotomy, making an incisior in the pe, rl and placing a tube in it so that the patient can orene the strangulation is>t g And so he goes to work and makes his Incision, but he has no tube, so he uses a small bottle with the bottom filed out, held in placc with adhesive tape. Artificial res- piration restores consciousness anc the patient is on the way to recov- y. Surgery is much the same as any- thing else—the race belengs to the man who can do*the right thing at the right time even without all the equipment that should be at hand.} London is the surgical centre of Western Ontario, and there are prac- titioners here who are known as the best in their line. These men could relate parallel experiences of thi¢é oung doctor’s experience, but they talk little about such matters to out- The surgeon's business is not all in the hospital, where he has en expert at anesthetics, trained nursea, and every last bit of equipment he needs. The telephone rings at 11.45 at night; there is a serious case 47 attending says his patient.cannot last until morning without an operation he surgeon has had seven or more operations that day, and will have as many more tomorrow, in- quires the exact location of the house on a country road, gets a driver for bis car, and. by midnight he ie off. By 2 o'clock in the morning he is at the house and finds that his Spationt has been d on a tem- porary operating “table in the kitchen. There is only a coal oil lamp in me house, e matter is just urgent 4s was described, so he shite ato nce. In/the excitement of those in the hous hustling around to hel as h as they can the chimney is the kitchen floor. e p produces a good flashlight from his | Hardening of the Liver | By Jas. W. Barton, M.D. You have heard of hardening of the arteries, hardening of the kid- neys, and also of the liver.’You have perhaps wondered just what caused such organs to become hard, and just what the effect was on the organs themselves and upon the en- tire body. About the slmuptest way to think of the structure of the liver for in- stance, would be to think of a crate of eggs packed in those cardboard divisions. The eggs would be the live cells, and the cardboard would be the connective tissue that holds them together. Coming into each cell and ont of it would be vessels. Now if you were to make those cardboard subdivisions a bit thick- er. there would be less room for the| eggs. In other words you'd have to put In smaller eggs. If you made it still t er youd need even smaller eges. If7you made it still thicker you'd need even smaller eggs and so Similarly when you eat or drink certain kinds of food it has the ef- fect of inflaming the connective. tis- sue holding the liver cells together. This tissue at first ewells and squeezes the liver cells until they be- come smaller, and then when the In- flamation dies down, the tissue ac- tually contracts like a sear from a wound or a burn, and the whole liv- er is smaller than it was before. It is also a good deal harder, because this connective tissue is hard and fib- rous like scar tissue. Thus you have a hardening of the liver Now it is pretty well agreed that too much tea, coffee, alcohol, and spiced foods cause a large percent- age of the trouble, although simple ailments like scarlet fever can like- wise be the cause. When the trouble is just. begin- ning it is usually accompanied by a feeling of nausea and even vomiting, and the tongue is badly coated. Lat- er the blood vessels.become. obstruct- ed, and the- persons become stout just about the abdomen whiist the rest of the body is extremely thin. Thére is often some rowsiness and slight jaundice of the skin. So as in the case of a fur coat on the tongue, nausea and Vomiting, your first thought should be the liver, and the possibility of some inflam- mation tifere Do without food for a day or two. Do without pepper, spices, alcohol, tea and coffee for some weeks. Avoid meat and eggs also. Eat vegetabies, and drink butter milk for a while. 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Most of us live indoor lives and. must live simply if we're to live at all. car and goes on without any inter- ica a oinle in a New York hospital ie described in a six-page article in a medical Teutaat the following week. The Operation is successful, and n this city several times: sinc It is just tavaing light when the car comes out of the farmyard gate aaa heads for London, where tbe day’s work is yet to be done. Yes, there are scores of real stor- fes in such cases, but they are seld- om told because the real surgeon has a fe pubitetey.: pride that does not see ‘ eran a and : Windsor, Ont., March 7.—It learn of the Fisher Body Company in payroll totalling’more than $1,500,- 900 annually, . to want down” with- in a f was ed_ here to-night that the plant}. Walkerville, bic ohm ps nagior of the new Ford : ~| joer. The report will naturally be | by Canadian SENATOR DANDURAND Leader of the government group 481 in the Senate, who confirms the re- rt oat the balanced budget an - @ railway @ it; This tf thifty miilio: inst taxpayers ¢v- | a Hot Heating “Plumbing Electric Wiring Satisfactory work keeps me busy. CARL ROSS Phone 81. Listowel.