a FG ee 2 Se) al hs st re a image of people « owe- the endid t Medicine—‘‘Fruit-a- ves”’—a Tasting debt ae eratitede, which the ben gladly pay by testifying Mrs. “rie Alford of 98 Florence Sst, oe eiivates yom, I was a martyr ‘ons on an spep- sia. y have tried catharties, salts and nage vegetable laxatives ?- all gvere unpleasant and ga’ 2. manent relief, Finally Me vaeelde t to try ‘“Fruit-a-tives 1 ha been using “Vruit-a-tives” now “i seven ; never have Constipation or Reomachi Trouble; and have been in the best of health ever sinee. M children use husband and “Fruit- a-tives” larly “Pruit-a-tives” contain intensified fruit gee ee with tonics. a box—at dealers or Pea Limited, Ottawa. Minard’s is an enemy to pain. It aca -nngpete to the root of the trouble, soothes and disinfects. Splendid for neuralgia, backache and stiffness of the muscles and joints. MINARD'S LINIMENT. For sale by J. A. Hacking. 42 UR repwta- tion for busi- and professionat wisdom is the public's aocrea tion. Our. equip- ment is aie and our conduct {rr eproachable, We are fair at all times. tae B FUNERAL DIRECTOK RITTON | Sates ext Expert Cleaning and Pressing Makes Clothes So Much Like New — So fresh in looks that you'll hardly know the difference. The best dressed people in ae an Ssneiee credited. ‘The Banner with rtm osm secnrly, are yr. THE EIGHTEEN TBAR-OLD WIFE being a flighty sort of person that it is worth while to consider the wife Ferguson of: Ferguson is 21, and was employet by a real estate firm-in Detroit, from which he stole $65,000. He was ar- rested on suspicion, but for twelve hours indignantly and emphatically denied gall knowledgé of the theft. Then came his wife, just 18. Breaking into tears, she pleaded with him to come clean and tell the truth, and for pure “a tr pride she embraced him when If that type of nirh bee half a chance she'll: make a man out of Ferguson despite flie bad start he has, made. PUT ‘HIM IN THE An ot CELL London Advertise One of one most saifine things in the day’s news is the action of the father of twins in Clarksburg, West Virginia, naming them Coolidge and Hell-and-Maria, the former after the U. §. president and the latter a nickname applied to Dawes, his run- ning-mate on the Republican ticket. apparently of the fool type that seeks notoriety even at the expense of his helpless child. It is this father’s business ta lock up people who do not know enough to take care of themselve He should draw up papers for a place in. the padded cell, and there would be no trouble in securing the required number of signatures to in- sure the granting of his application. LIGHTNING’S PRANKS (Grand Valley Star) uring a‘sharp electric storm over East Luther last week. . Green- wood and her daughter Reby had a rather exciting experience, Follow- ing a blinding flash the entrance of house and a conch were set on fire, the electric fluid undoubtedly coming in on the telephone wires. Miss Reby was just passing outside at the time when she seemed to be enveloped in | a blaze of fire, that scorched her coat, but did nothing more. Her mother who was only a few feet away did not suffer any inconvenience, other than a rather ba Entering the house they saw the fires and were successful in extinguishing them be- fore very much damage was done. Lightning struck the old brick school house on the farm of John Watt, 7th. line, East Luther, on Tues- day afternoon, and started a fire, The building is used as implement shed and in addition contained a lot of lumber. The women noticed the blaze and by wonderful efforts suc- ceeded in getting the lumber out, and extinguishing the blaze.—Grand Val- THE GENTLE ART off roisrs -NESS.... i (Boston Evening Transcript) Althoughgit is doubted whether ‘| the act will make a precedent, it is gratifying to read that a young man, at one time a hotel clerk, has been left $300,000 by an elderly lady to whom he had been courteous and o- bliging. It reflects credit on testa- trix and legatee, as well as casting a kindly light upon hotel clerks in general. This is a good deal of money to be given a young man at a time, but indications are that he will use it wisely, and we congratulate him. It is evident that he did not require an inducement of such magnitude to be courteous, and we rather think that it was Quite natural with him. But there are other young men of whom unfortunately this cannot be Pere Probably a number of them ul consent to be decently civil for $200, - 000, but some others would prefer to retain their pristine state and go without the money. These regard ur- * as weakness, as a sophistica- neath the service of youth. There are even some of riper years who would appear to hold the same opinion. Nevertheless, here is perhaps the dawning of a new and brighter era. Perhaps the State or Federal Govern- ment shall erect funds out of which to reward polite young men, though it is to be feared that these must be something under the $300,000 stand- ard. Smaller rewards might be in- stituted at least as an experiment. good manners and after a period of years come to the conclusion that ur- panity was its own reward. THE SMALL TOWN (Gananoque Reporter) If there is any more wholesome and beautiful place to live in this ‘Listowel—folk ‘who pride ‘themselves on good taste— . send their clothes to world, than in any one*of hundreds of so-called small towns, the Editor does not know where It is difficult for the New Yorker or the resident of any of our large cities to understand the attraction of the smaller places. But the; they withdraw his mind from his charm is there in abundance, the k. these days? most skeptical has only to visit one}. On the other hand, persons who| Too many diamonds and not of these communities of home loving| 8¢ek to fill with pleasure a vold in enough alarm clocks. people to. be convince their lives) of w See they ‘are aware oO many si ae and not The writer has had the great priv-; #44 which exists because ‘they have ekivegh? blue. flannel sf ies of visiting many of these towns| 20 @cCupation that seems. FE ma Beit “toed shoes and). from one to fifteen thousand in| Worth concentrating “‘upon;’ or that} not enoiigh square-toed anes. om popllation: and hes often compared mires congenial employment to |. Too -many suits “and “not e greater happiness of these people ¥ a = ated eta enough Ore: with that’of the people in our crowd- t and weariness of| - inuch ; ‘ecolette and not: e- ed cities. Always there are handsome pe r ‘a "Nothing ing pale like pleasure un- nough ‘aprons, » churches and schools, the mises are ittingly purs The biase, the o many in m ueholateige iimou- shaded by beautiful trees, the houses disillusioned, the ‘pessimistic, the a and te ws. are comfortable. and homelike, the} Cynical aré all unhappy; there, has yn aie and hot en- yards ors are large and well kept, and a too much pleasure and too lit-j| ough t protacets cae a¥e up-to-date and attract- me work in their lives. Too mist h oll “stock and not enough Beak’ rt all’ ane people. living in neighbors. successful busine, More and more the: w larger, do the nee ‘ple of the a uiasa towns have on to be happy and satisfied with h the attractiveness ‘and comfort of their own mode of life. MISSING ope OPPORTUNITIES The apy stag . The opportunity that quite’'a num- ber of le are most likély to miss is the opportunity of enjoying life as they go along. It is very strange indeed how dull our dope may be- come for the goo ings that are spread so temptingly dlong the path- way of our lives. We do not have to go out of our way very far to get them; they are not too expensive; nor are they beyond our reach in any regard; more often than not we are-elther too occupied or just too dull and stupid to see and to take ithem. We might. have a good holi- day—not an tucadive one, perhaps eterna ea bic od Pe *. Lig! ick molished the cMarnaye the gre open, ver down in- 8 . bs i Os ee = 7... ee ee ee % + * Da + + > 1 oo the reo soeaiierabty dam- + aged the furnace. Fortunate: + ly no one was injured, .al- + though Mrs. Boer suffered + severely from + he damage of $500 is cov- + ered by insurance. + Ba but one nevertheless that would put joy and freshness into our living ‘for many days to come—but we do not plan for it when we should, or we haven't initiative enough to get it going, or perhaps we are desperate- ly busy about some thing that in reality are not so all-pressing. We he man. is a police constable, and hmight find our work full of joy and inspiration, but somehow we have not got into the habit of looking at things with a happy and contented enthusiasm. We might os i. looking into the face sunset last night had Sot the wright. headed book upon our knee go en- gaged us, or we might have - = thrill of a really great book hadn't trifled and dawdled so a i time ‘away. To miss over and over a~ gain opportunities for real. happiness is to make a very serious miss in- deed. ‘ _WHAT USE ARE FINES? (Toronto Globe) It is said that a powerful. rum- ring with headquarters in Toronto is responsible for the flooding of the country between this city and the Niagara frontier: with UHquor. A seizure of whiskey valued at $12,000 “On an untenanted farm on the Lake Shore, near Bronte, indicates that some at least of the vessels supposed to be en ed in smuggling lNquor into the United States under pre- tense of exporting it to Cuba or Mex- ico are in fact engaged in ro the Ontario Temperance Act by pro- viding wholsale supplies for the boot- leggers of this Province he motor boat which landed this carge of 185 cases of Nquor bearing the brands of two Ontario distillers can be readily identified through cus- toms and bonded warehouse papers. The persons who own it or charter- ed it for the purpose of bree the laws of the arrested and sent to jail. What is use of fining entirely respectable whiskey-runners who have at com- mand all the capital needed for wholesale operations in-defiance of the law? Mr. Nickle, the Attorney- General, and Mr. Hales of the Lic- ense Board re been declaring that eve’ ‘hing “Se is as —_ to end iteit ae Here is or- tunity to prove .nat this sapavtions is founded on fact. The identity of the owner of the speedy motor craft that landed a big cargo of whiskey on the Lake ‘Shore, near Bronte, on Satur- day morning can be discovered read- ily. If we hear nothing more ‘about the affair the conclusion will be in- evitable thatthe criminal is too big to be brought to justice. 3 PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS Youth’s Companion) The most fallacious of all fallacies is believing that the pursuit of pleasure leads to happiness. Most of the unhappiness that existe world is owing to the fact that mul- titudes_ of persons.think-they —are seeking rag ip — all they age seeking is p) The man whd finds his keenest and highest enjoyment in his recreations is unlikely to be really happy. man’s happiness depends on the de- gree of satisfaction and enjoyment that he gets out of his work. If he has plenty of work to do, of a sort that is congenial to him and con- structive, that requires the exercise of his higher faculties, that provides him with a reasonable return and constantly helping to develop his powers, he has the first essential to happiness. Joyful events, individ- ual triumphs or successes, may ir- radiate his happiness from time to time, sorrows may shadow it. What- ever vicissitudes affect his life, so long as he has an occupation to which he is true and which is suited to his tastes, he is getting as full & measure of happiness as he can hope to have. It will not te a materially in- creased by the pleasant Ng to which he sometimes turns, and may even be diminished if he finds those diversions so fascinating that HEADING FOR ANOTHER WAR outlay on — was less than.a mil- lion a rter dollars. 8 pie expenditures varied from $6 to less than $1,000,000 a yea in “Bs. 5, as a‘result of the ge op: Riel, Rebellion, they jumped t owe 707,000, but from 1885. on until 18- 9 they never cae touched the $2,- 000,000 mark, an in only. three years did they go over a million and a half..From 1899 1905 our mill- tery expenditure varied- from less than two to something under two and a half million dollars per year. ere was an al- most steady advance, year by year, until the fiscal year ending with March 31,924, during which we spent over $11,000,000 on militia and defence besides nearly another million on the mounted police, which had meantime become in fact a part of the military forces of the country. And now, after having fought a war to end war in which 65,000 young Canadians gave up their lives, after having incurred an annual expendi- ure on pensions and war debt of some $150,000,000, Parliament voted this year around $17,000,000 for military and naval defence, plus the cost of the mounted police force, or about $6,000,000 more than was spent on the same services in the year the world war ended. . What do these figures mean? Is the country heading for another war that can end only in national ba ruptcy? AN IMPORTANT VERDICT (Durham Chronicle) ly in very rare cases do we aim at giving publicity to disputes that are entered for action and settled before being brought into public court. A case of this sort happened on the 12th. of July when ai car We told the hore that as the case had been settle court no menti would be ane we but on ieee the particulars we find the case was out of the ordinary and of such a nature as to be a warning to cthers. Moreover, the magistrate, Mr. Laid- law, told the parties that he would have the case published in the fmter- est of the public good, and we have decided to refer to it in a general! ay. The Orangemen’'s parade here was very orderly and was the subject of favorable comment by many. They had been invited here by the town lodge, sanctioned by the town, wel- comed by Marat Paige on behalf of the town and a W. Hz. Smith on bebalt of "the * ditrerent churches. Under the circumstances it was our duty to protect and.re- spect them while here. We do not fancy for a moment that any insult was intended, but the driver of the car being engaged in collecting the mail from the letter boxes had the idea thaf as.a Government official and engaged in a Majesty's service he had a, right o break through the procession. He aid so, it seems, and action was en- tered. The alleged offender, who is not a resident here, but accompan- fed by the courier and using his car to expedite matters, was summoned before the Police Maxiatrate, but ap- peared before court and made _set- tlement by paying $25.00 and costs. amounting in all to something over thirty dollars The case “daveloped the idea that a mail courier has no right on the public highway that is not’ accorded to any other driver. He must give way to other drivers the same as { he were not conveying the mail and {s governed by the rules of the rtad just the same as other people. Mail couriers-for years have claimed cer- tain road privileges es which it ap pears now they have no gh Whether they had ony special fats and privileges in the past we are unable to say, THE “MATTER WITH” AMERICA What's the matter with America ving Selene” sane much ‘envy ‘ot the resul ‘ork anf two mele tratford 4. esté exces Toronto (Canadian Magenay) Aug. 23 e Oo Sept. 6}- -~| you all of a sudden to sit up and broke through the Orangemen’s pro-} 2 ©) cession while on parade, Tocal| k é oP-tey's ‘igue, heart I ° sipleeieaye tense aie jept. Kincardine ,../....... Sept. tei8 Mildmay <2 020203277) Sept. 15-16 ‘Milverton ......+... Teeswater ........ eee Cah 1 Wellesley ... Sept. 9-10 Wingham ....... ee a S:e's " Sept, 29-30 ie % % + + THE RIGHT WAY TO GROW OLD # ete op “Ann,” said Mrs..Lamkin to her hostess after the pleasant bustle greeting her return to the Wednes- day Circle had died down, “I can't say you’re looking any younger.” “Did you expect me to, Amanda,” itjuired” Miss Tenney” tranquilly. “It’s only six weeks, bat every day and in every way I've been growing ties that's a I’m likely to lose any sleep ove “That's fast it, Ann Tenney,” said Mrs. Lamkin. itn “What's exactly what??? demand- ed Lydia Peters briskly. ‘Ann's looking about as usual as far as I can see and, about like the rest of us as far as age goes. We're not ashamed of our years, I- hope; but I'd like to know what’s come over take notice of them? I hardly give a thought to growing old from one birthday to the next, and I'd Kite snqpowed you didn't either, Aman- a “So I don't, Lydia—not usually. But this morning I stared in my looking-glass real close to, and said I to myself, ‘Mercy, Amanda Lamkin, what a lined, puckery, colorless, fun- to be! the girl Alonzo married,*do y “Nonesense!"" exciafined Ann Ten- ney. “Your looks dre well enough, Amanda, and as fur Alonzo—well, he carries his years as well as most folks, but he F steed t look much like the Lonny Lamkin I remember beau- ing you about in old times, not to mention that he’s stout enough to make two of him “Except for that last little mark,” said Mrs. Lamkin, chuckling, oe just what Alonzo said him- se “But what I'd Hke to know,” puzzle-headed little Miss Dibley, the dressmaker, put in plaintively, “is folnge: re ae a this ng and where t's leading to? I’m sure a ‘woman oie middle Tife wht’. reasonably well-preserved need never look un- attractive if she dresses properly. here's a good deal in clothes.’” “There’s more in complexions and contours; I got that last word from my niece Alinda; she’s artistic, you now,” explaine Mrs. Lamkin “And what I was leading up. to ip “That's just éxactly | On The Move IKE the “standing army” that “‘just stood,” goods that remain on the shelf are expensive luxuries to any merch- ant. ADVERTISING is the force that moves slow sellers from counter to customer. Every advertisement is a salesman of prov- en ability, reaching every class, creed and sex in the community. The’set-up of an Advertisement is as important as the dress of a salésman. In “The Banner” special attention is given to Advertising set-up, In our columus “An Advertisement Is An Invitation” Issred by Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association. how good you all look to me—eve face in this circle!—since I’ve seen i so ny of those poor won't-grow old-if-I-dye-for-it women in the city. Crinkled and curled and colored and creamed and sown ne and toned down they w e preened and plumped and ieuigd ‘anti their faces were all soft and smooth and pink like éldterty. babies. They weren’t bad looking in a way, but t did’nt seem to mean anything. You couldn't look at them and tell what kind of women had been living “pphing those faces all those years, T y’d turned them into masks. You blessed people all look real “On behalf of our exe hairs and d honest wrinkles, Amanda,” | sai Lydia Peters dryly, “thanks!” “And Alinda says,”’ Mrs. in’s . en they he heauty—and they ought to have it—it is the beanty of Poy: ‘ae + “Dear iss Dibley murmur- ed duxtounty, “ig ' hard enough suit- ing figures and page he or hg Z don't see how a be expected to por what is becom- ing to souls. TOMORROW'S ike og There will by pews a tpmorrony; ‘ News Mayhy hard wen Manes. and cut- CHERRIES ’ 2" Pe Cherry crop will be short this season. owing to the backward Spring. Crop is mat- uring almost at once. Fresh shipments arriving daily. R. A: CLIMIE Sabina: Phone 72. Listowel Ott a breath of _ sweetness— ~ Life’s completenéss rH A : Spggedind tartnere er— rd on.one another. ~ ‘ Hope Mag Waith? Ba But God will choose | Brood Diseases Among Becs— Black, Baes For Chesley— news. . Apiary keepers ‘in Perth’ County If I to tonig ere m to write, an BY my oni aa: eee the words to shape . ‘Tomorrow's ser tage = bound. God nea, ould es-| brood diseases have no Amer he