wet is not mé¢re or less troubled with In- digestion, Rheumatism, Headac’ Neural eariness and Loss 0 * Alors dh cain tosh the Back and Con- ce indéed. is is pty the Fruit Treatment, ‘in the form of “Fruit- ve See ro read ei un- strung and wo UP rait-a itatives" a reaby the inten- sified juiées of apples, oranges, figs and prunes and contains a the, pes peg tubo of these fruit juices -andin form. “Fruit-ajtives’”’ will always relieve Nervo = er, bowe! and b invigoicatioe and re-vitalizing the whole arg Try the treatment for your nerves. Get abox of ‘Fraits-tites eet . Your a has theme, an a box., or t paid Fruit-a-tives Limite: fest por Ont. t-a-tives” is a . on ‘consider your —. LIN. very vacticlesatel we use it ag a.sure relief for sore thro<t and chest. I would not be Without it if o price was one a bottle.” =e! aera * _j this spring, which shows how HE superb quality of our appointments fulfills the quests of most exacting. Our experience enables us to serve in a polite. tactful manner. RAL Sam #5 NONE 90 ES Living In Listowel < .Is cheap when it comes to getting. your clothes. pres- 4 sed. ~ : In Toronto, Stratford, and Pn other centres, $1.60 and 38 $2.00 is the common price ais presaing a suit of Pee - elothes. : ) 5 ges Ton Cin ed. Tt Done for 75¢ It costs little to sé snails dressed and it always pays. #® our rp. AGE IN- UNIQUE PHONOGRAPH (Dp 2 and without any trouble, the outside of the deep inches wi ie afd 6% inches long. The ine is in/a. her case and gembles*a small: lunch basket. A large sound box is used, but only a small collapsable The “Peter Pan” {s manufactured in, England. : PRRR OAL ere esley Enterpri & Eeuever Malcolm, of re igtowin: gave a wrist watch as a prize to each of the two pupils in the senior second class of the town public school who were the winners in an eight weeks’ contest forpersonal cleanliness. <A -boy and a girl won the prizes. That little. boy will surely, never pollute his fingers with the foul marks of nicotine from the use of cigarettes as 80 Many boys are ‘doing these days. The boys and girls.too, in some cases, who keep their hands perfectly clean are well worthy of commendation. It's enough to turn a clean person’s stomach to look at the filthy yellow fingers of many a boy and-young man these, days, Let’s start a campaign for clean hands in Chesley. SENDING IT OUT (Meaford Mirror) “There’s a man who makés all his money in town, and does most of his shopping by mail.’’ Thus spoke one business man to another as the third Man received three parcels from the | express office. This is a vexed question. Just-how far should outside competition be al- lowed to dominate local business? We will not at the moment venture to express an opinion. e are, however, of the opinion that it should stop a bit short of the point where mail-order-fearing business foik will purchase printed matter from travelling salesmen when they can be secured from loc- al printers at reasonable prices— especially when these same business men charge prices in excess of what the same goods can be purchased for in the cities. FROM BABIES TO CARS (Bruce Herald and Times) There are seven garages and ope house being erected in Walkerton our citizens are turning from the care of ‘babies to the card cars. baer ing their charges gasoline is what is going to make our town’ fathers round-shouldered, instead of buying Baby's Own ‘and Castoria which the children ery for. As human labor supplanted by how (they making that will do almost everything that a-man can do excent et drunk), our worst worry is that he time will come when we will be short of material for the Town Council. With the stork gone out of busir«ss, and ‘thing but car ag- ents 1 oating a .d, it may be dis- covered that t. old Tin Lizzies are falling down and can't save the situation. This, of course, is a pes- simistic view, but it fs always well to prepare for the worst, as closing the barn door after the horse is stolen is poor policy, as the thief may repent and bring the nag ‘back. WHAT ABOUT THE FAMILY? (Chesley Enterprise) Timms, an Owen Sound musical director, a man who came of a_ good family and was married and is the father of a couple of small children, is now in Kingston penitentiary to expiate a crime against the state. An expert pronounced him sane though it is quite evident his lustful passion dethroned reason at least tempor- arily. There is a certain degree of in- sanity in any man who becomes s0 depraved that he forgets about the consequences of his crime on those protect and defend. While the public will deplore the fact that a man in a trusted position has com- mited a serious offence against so- ciety, the sympathy of all respectable citizens will go out to the innocent, wife and little children who have to bear the shame of having the hus- band and father in prison for a viola- tion of the laws of man and God. The aged parents at Stoney Creek wh trained their.son for good citizenship} are alsc made to suffer for his lapse intoy moral depravity. If men and women who commit crimes and have no regard for themselygs would only stop to consider others there would ae no “¥ for so many prisons. They ould used only for the crtmin- aily- inclined mental-defectives. THE TOWN BAND (Meaford . Mirror) At. a meeting”on Friday . of last week the Town Council appointed: a committee of the Mayor, | ve an Councillor W. N. Young to go into the matter of reorganizing a band in Meaford. ; Another effort will be made to se- a cure a more or less unanimous o- ee sree the people interested, gree on - pag” ee action. twit pectape teatord 8 mie ‘s is similar a that y other where tsar pens fallen away, and are ot Th t rayton Advocate) ; Mr. A. E. eo, aig Listowel. fist y ers =who eoey were geo ‘Yo more- ‘th a Fistor. It's a. nice line to sift out ieriageat: esate it: wonder that go many iy eeaiceats seek, Last Sunda ing about usual,» the road and w 2 rate ot sport gi drivers, elight in seeing how clese they a Stee another car without hi ee a growded city’ ‘streets th me excuse for this haircling a driving, but ape ‘is none in the towns and c also pas-; sed a’ big ¢ crane | car in which the: driver was taking the curves at from} 2 miles an hour, smoking a cigar, holding a baby on his -khee and chatting to a friend sitting in. the front seat wit im. A good rar people fail to realize the power be- hind a motor car and the posesbilities: for disaster, both to themselves and others, when it is not driven compet- driver that is to blame for some per- fectly sober people can’t drive a c and, in the interest of public safety, it eems about time that every auto driver should be licensed. BONUS SYSTEM NO GOOD (Brussels Post) ; The old bonusing system of lend! : ing a hand to manufacturers never |: was any good and has been the loss | of thousands of dollars and no end}, of squabble and crookedness. Where |! a ‘business depends entirely on the’ ee aid supplied, often inade- uate to much more tfian half supply the real need, im most cases “white elephant” can be written on the roof from ‘the early struggles’ to get a- — ‘The tub that cannot stand on its own hedinis had better be allow- ently. It is not always the intoxicated | « “touch of gaiety. \ charm to the suit is of white io pinen . aay od phy handkerchief Ln coat and pee! at the ont to offer ‘its coma ‘ed to go to staves, for the usual bol- stering up, doubtful book-keeping and legal entanglements are almost certain to be the exit. Assisting a good going concern, with the output of a product that is a necessity, by a loan, exemption of taxes or a free site, is another class‘altogether and possibly a wise privedure would be to give help, particularly where pros- pects were re-assuring. It's laugh- able though how many a town will permit a/focal industry to wane an mayb e where a few dollars might save ft but will be caught and ready to picord all kinds of help to some J -and-the-bean-stalk moonshine iat is a rope of sand in its after the chaff and retain the wheat. A citizen may run the change of being the target for brick throwing by some of the enthusiasts but often the folly fs avoided by enough of such tract and carry away to the distant bank account the money of the un- thinking. The ve peal is its own the average newspaper reader to ap- preciate the value newspaper advertising. Not only “this way is the housewife enabled to learh what the market has_to offer. but in the frank open advertisement lies an absolute security from ex- ploitation. the housewife's The day has passed when the adver- tiser dare be dishonest. ments in shouted from the housetops. are too easily checked up. They be- come of honest dealing. The direct-by-mail appeal is ilke passed from ea secrecy of the ap- ndemiation. It is amazing to note how slow is of frank open in Newspaper advertising is weekly* insurance Thad state- are The: an advertisement the guarantee of service and the secret whisper r to ear but without little experience will soon a you how it works. ‘ “Don’t judge by one or two Se. Seat! a Work Hot Air Heating Plumbing Electric Wiring ~ 1 Satisfactory work "keeps me’ busy. re CARL ROSS Ph6ne 81. Listowel. back stitute One , raw is not a good sub- for good firewood or coal. SPELLING CHANGES Toronto Globe) of the results of the -war is any general publicity that ensures complete honesty of statement. As @ rule, its underlying, principle is sin- ster. To supplement and become a part of any well-organized campaign it has its value, but standing alone it would arouse suspicion rather than an increased prospect of English be- coming the world language not only for commerce but for official inter- national communication. It is the opinion of many scholars—the late confidence. WHO OWNS THE ROADSIDE? not] the gr versali of the recentl and in Wells, Healy, elghty ‘the Ed The would shotld end of -+the-lang: Lotd Bryce held it ling involve a deplorable waste time and mental energy , tion and asking that a “Commission be appointed to consider the whole question, carried twelve signatures of prominent philologists, educationists and them are Sir Harry Johnston, H. G. don, Harol even moderate the revolution which wife, the minister, the doctor, sehool principal, the policemen, a ee eatest hindrance the ni ty of English 4 the difficulty spelling. A petition addressed y to the British Prime Minis- ter, declaring that the irregularities | consistencies of English spel- of ~in educa- pages of authors. Among Eden Phillpotts, Timothy William Archer, Bishop Well- Cox, and more, than professors of ten British un- iversities. Dr. RyerZon, during his term of office as Chief Education in Ontario, took a step In ,the direction of spelling reform, but Superintendent of ucation partment retraced it in 1905. Pupils have been told to spell such words as honor, labor an neighbor with a‘‘u’’ when writing ee Departmental examination, but after passing to do as they like about 7 “a” had ped ‘before the Department picked it! | be accomplished by the pressure up, and {t has not been restored to! public opinion. The advertisers them- r=" been generally ©; popular usage. The spelling réform- ers should not,attempt to too on a few simple rules as a peein- | taste does not pay, and alrea ning. To try to introduce a complete- Iy phonetic system at o stroke strengthen the resistance to changes. The eye be accustomed gradually to would be th any process of phoneticizing ® BUILDING A COMMUNITY the civie ‘societies, m een fact, bea ‘everyone with.a_ in-|. But terest. must ; part. . local} structures by the roadside that the |. mewspaper ds the » ge A of contact| owners onght to remove for the com- h which these various ele- posi ere ackl barns, ~ ‘ments must function end. ho dare es shant et broken-down th Ives. The home | fences a ni with ‘tinplate signs, ‘ion is a mrror of the lite. of ie hg lunch stands, unkempt stores, » . inspiring ay aes public dumps, untidy yardsand ‘ji peace and iy tered porches. Suth eyésores give an : t deal to the general work of use unfavorable impression of a town or building. It is the gee Larne re- ¢. Spring fs a good time to clean flection. of the lah le no up, Out of doors as well as indoors. as opposed midst,) Automobiles too have certain ‘obli- Ywhose.solé aim is te home gations. Among them are the duties drop-: of e roadside scenery by for- celialaina avout building camp fires (Youth's Companion) The increasing use of the automo- bile has given new importance to the scenery along the public highways. The enjoyment of a motor trip de- pends on the character of the land- scape that unfolds itself as well as on ing and improving the scenery be- comes a matter of general interest. Less than half a.generation ago few people traveled except by train or trolley more than a few miles from their homes. Now a family that owns an automobile has what the navy calls a “cruising bus’’ of hundreds of miles. The motor car has given wings to the average person. At the New England summer resorts and along the coasts of Florida and Southern mobiles from nearly every state in the union The worst disfigurement of the roadside scenery-has been billboard advertising. Resentment against it has become widespread, but, since it is usually on private property, ft has resisted attempts:to remove it by leg- islation. But what lawmakers have not been able to do is now likely a te) Pe seeking public favor, have be- | glin to realize that publicity in a form teen large firms, all so-called nation- al advertisers, have announced that as soon as present contracts expire they will voluntarily desist from de- facing the raral landscape. In. time others. will probably. find it to their advantage to follow the same cou England, where one big concern after another amnounced that it had given p billboard advertising as being a- Bains , EA sentiment. Their gain in l was immediate. Restric- _— ra che size and position of Ber side billboards have been adopted r cently in Massachusetts and in otter states : Hs there are other unsightly dah, lea she aay and. extroring ee that of the roadbed, so that preserv-|' California in winter there are auto-/ |y The movement began last year in f destroying flowers} roadway. THE BUYING PUBLIC have got into the way of looking in the papers for information concerning the goods they need. The mer- chant who faifs, to furnish the information needn't ex- pect to get a full share of the trade, and has no one but himself to blame. The Banner fs the paper most people read Your Orders . Solicited For Garden and House Plants, Cut Flowers and ‘Floral Designs. = * E. E. SCHLIMME. PAINTING NT Paper Hanging First-class Work es JI _ Gabel’s Old Stand YOUR PRINTED MATTER PRINTED Stationery, Paper and Envelop- ‘ses, create an impression on those who re- : ceive it—an impression of your business ability and vf your standing. 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