Pais Te BROUGHT HEALTH Years of Constipation Ended By “Fruit-a-tives” The Wonderful Fruit Medicine ° ’ Pace! deme lyn who a tinge t tery aches; ‘and ge ig ole is unable to get any pleasure o life ; coe ue interested. in. this letter oF de Wolfe of East Ship Martha Harbor, N.S. % Mrs. de Wolfe Rha) “For years I } aba dr dreadful sufferer from Comstipa- es tion and Fhaedastied and I was miser- 4 - ablein every way Nothing in the way H of medicine help -me. Then I tried Prt Fruit-a-ti val and the effect was s ences and ing only one was completely relieved and pe feel like a new Pe a BOX, ying 50, trial size 250. At dealers from Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. The: Banner’ = necessarily” agree with views expressed.) r : SETTING AN EXAMPLE Lo Free Press) One should go to church for the} family's sake. ‘oO one wishes . his napa to grow up Godless. A fath- o right to drive his children to en while he spends the day in sleep or sport.A father ought to lead the way to the “House of God." If he doesn’t, he is not dealing fairly with the family or the community. Church-going may be a habit, but it is a good habit, and people are better for its recognition of God and wor- ship. We ne revealed to us the deep things of the soul, which are so generously revealed by the church. Other things we have tried and found to fail. Lay aside your prejudices and go to church. . COMMUNITY INTEREST (Gananoque Reporter) Figure as you will, you can't get away from the idea of community interest. We who constitute the local community are intensely dependent 'on one another. en we buy our The tations se are the best proof of its effectiveness: “We consider your Minard’s Linf- ment a very superior article, and use it as a sure renee for sore . Tilton, recommend Minard’s high- “Have inard's Liniment, for Croup: ‘found eotuing equal to it.— Chas. E. Sharp, Hawkshaw, N.B," bP /™erchandise from out-of-town con- |cerns, we take that much business away from our tog pgesins firms. iit enough busin is ithdrawn | from them, they'll engltanity have {to quit. Then Gananoque would ; shrivel up. Clerks and ropes Bar | tradesmen would have to mo oie That would directly attect the value of our homes and a Then, |who would pay the taxes that sup- port our public institutions, build and maintain our streets and roads and pay the interest on public in- debtedness already incurred? Our self-interest, the safety of our pro- perty investments demand that we trade at home and support our loc- ai business men. If anyone thinks he can refute this argument, we will give a year’s subscription to The Re- porter for u logical argument in fav- or of trading with the mail order house. MAKING THE HIGHWAYS SAFE FOR ALL (Acton Free Press) Everything that can possibly ne done to make the roads safer for travel and cially for night travel for all vehicles shonld be done Even if most peoRle are willing to take chances of beiny spilled into the ditch by ‘a passing car has come suddenly upon the dark or on a foggy they should not be permitted to add to the risks of travel, to-save the small expense of providing lights for their UR con- duct is de corous and po- lite. Our services ‘are efficient and satisfactory. Our business is well known. ITTON| L DIRECTOR -RMYN NT 3 L 225 horse-drawn vehicles. The Wardens of the counties of Ontario vere in conference recently with the Pro- vinelal Legislature and it has been agreed to advocate legislation pro- viding that all vehicles using the highways at might shall carry lights, This should not require to be ad- vocated. co evidently fair and indeed necessary, that the Legislat- ure shuld tak uyreven if the Gov- ernment doe#not introduce a bill. It has been far too lone delayed. There is no argument that can be ad- vanced for requiring motor veiicles to carry lights that does not equally apply to all vehicles Indeed, it would be well at the same time to impose a heavy penaliy upon anyone allowing cattic or sheep to run at large at night. They have always been a nuisance and semething of a |menace to night drivers. even be- ‘fore the days of automobiles, but mucin more gince. is MUST BE A FARMER MOVEMENT (London Advertiser) Prof, Archie Leitch of the farm Management department of the O. A C. told the united boards of trade of Western Ontario that rural depopu- lation up to a certain extent was to be expected. With the increased use of farm machinery fewer men were required to do the work. That would | work out all wright if the r earthly use to the collectors, w whole afternoon or. ev ually pitch most if not all “of thé collection into the home. can. But it is something for epee and that tgp to make it wort bol gpeow ueues 0: rpaae damatne Lysobianchar fe awaiting, * heh turn to be p d with a tiny bot- tle of beant: That 1 fe may have taken a half hour to-get from the bottom of the line to the top mattered not, just so long as eventually they got something for nothing: Of course am order to get into the proper fra of mind to become an active collects. at an exhibition one must figure his or her time as worth nothing. If ii 8 worth anything then the practica) course would be to go and buy the — time but eliminating weari- 3% Taare are a lot of people who take this mania into the world of business Something for nothing has a strong 4 and business. They are the ones who bite at the promises of hundreds of per cent. profit per annum. They are the ones to hark to the piffle put:cut by Texas oil swindlers, or listen to the high pressure salesmen who care not what they sell so long-as they get their twenty-five per cent. commis- sion. It is upon those who are in a something for nothing frame of mind that these hawks prey. Of course in time most people who star, in with the illusion that some- thing really worth while can be ob- tained for nothing learn better. But the lesson is a hard one and the read to caution is often drenched with tears and pave When people learn that what they are to possess they ren be prepared to work for, and hat something for nothing is a de- lusion, the stock selling swindler will be obliged to go to work, the Ponzies will be no more, and the jail keep- hin will have less t ENVIRONMENT (Youth's Companion) Some one has observed that the tiny blossoms of the sweet alyssum are most lavish of their odors when frowing against a hot, white stone in the afternoon sunshine—‘“if you take them home into your room, they are quite flat." Another writer speaks of certain garden flowers that yieid their sweetness most freely in the, faint sea salt borne upon the southwest wind. Other flowers, he Says, seem made to exhale their frag- rance in cool rooms close to old ina- hogany furniture. Some are the more delicious for a battle with the rain. The Mayflower, Which opens its eyes upon the dreary aspect of a world still sodden in its winter sleep, will never live to know the loveliness of June. How like in courage, though unlike otherwise, are the blossoms of the tall, later cosmos, which He crowded in their dark calyxes all summer long awaiting the perilous challenge of the first sharp frosts to show themselves. Almost as sensi- tive to the cold as any flower that blows. knowing that they can sur- vive their venture only by a miracle, they nevertheless choose a favoring hour wher the sky is overcast to make a sally from their snug quart- ers into the shivery dawn and dur- ng the few brief days before the ad- ance guards of winter cut them down flaunt their colors with a gal- lantry that their prudent, earlier- blooming cousins can in no way here is something quite human in those characteristics of our gar- den flowers. Many of us have a no- tion that, placed in just If we were only necessity would spur us on to at of the province showed no increase Custom Tailoring I have opened a taifor's shop over George's Restaur- ant where I'am prepared to do Custom Tailoring, Press- ing and Key ~airing. Full line of Sergés and Fanc)' Suitings. Your Patronage Is or if the markets available gave no in oO xepanaion Prof. Leitch takes care not to make his assertion walk on all fours. He qualifies it by stating that rural depopulation can with safety proceed to a certain ng after which it be- comes danger It is quite vevideat, after looking over all the figures presented at the London meeting, that ° co-operative Marketing is gaining in favor, and it is a work that must of necessity be done by the farmers themselves. They may get some measure of gov- ernment assistance, and it is right that they should, but back of this must be the weight of rural opinion and action. a may be opposi- tion from engaged in present methods of distribution, but that cannot be seriously regarded. Western Ontario can produce quality in butter, bacon, beef, eggs, poultry, fruit, vegetables, etc. | markets of the world will to uniform quickly; Solicited Y 20 Years alates: ‘S. J. POAG : < 3 _ (Late of Semans, Sask,) © ways done so. A co-operative move- ment that is going .to lift Ontario farming out of its present depression must be based on that point, and the farmers of this .western section are keen é¢nough businessmen to work on that basis The movement must be a farmer movement. We have not much faith in the ‘highly-paid orators who come in from other lands to tell how it — 4 tome, It is simply the ap- ness. principles, Steadlity. followed with the avowed in- t on o in & certain worth- while uerkate through the _ better quality of the goods end the consie- tent uniformity with which this can Pe. cet ter sitting * eau he examiner like?” ‘ques hearse pee ay ete returned home to bing her ow she had me very Noni ner mine ty be sustained. ern Ontario can do SOMETHING FOR NOTHING . The farmers of West- it. €\ cess, finding ourselves st we were only eg we should always have serene tempers and should eaioies to light- en the burdens of the unfortunate. But the proof of a strong character is that it makes the most of itself in any situation. It neither becomes sickly in a sterile soil nor’ goes “all * ary in rich earth. No one knows t Lincoln owned to the hardships that, afflicted his youth, Gladstone, born in the same year, always used to luxury and all that luxury . im. plies, found in a setting of ‘“‘cool, spacious rooms and dark mahogany” the Jeisure to pursue a great career, In such surroundings Lincoln might have made ducks and drakes of his life; Gladstone was hardly the man to overcome the handicaps of a pioneer’s lot. The truth seems.to be that it ‘‘is not in our stars but in ourselves, that we are underlings."’ If we have the right stuff in us, we shall bend cir- cumstances to contribute to our suc- ngthened by the very obstinacy wit which they try to thwart us, finding our- selves “all a sweeter for a battle with the rain.’ LATEST PLEBISOITE RE- + TURNS 4 With but four ridings still ret i) BS the 36,682 majeeits is bas- ed on the newspaper figures given ~ heen ae ridings. The mt~ vote totalled 1,134,016, or 219,305 — Targ- t than (Toronto Saturday Night) Dia you ever sotice how long and}: | earnestly people wor ) PELTUGER FTIT0 Ce ee bie = he 111 ridings,’ ¢ tavar ot of prohibition “anal ‘appealingly e fuardians pf. the law, but iy could not, beca there" was. no pro- Winona for such’ Cages. T. aftroo . in alarge adian City, a the problem wh! a was puzzling the judge was ons which is a Satin’ old bugbeaz in al condition shattered by his addic- tion to the use. of drugs?’’ e more. derelict had been: tos. | emaciated and shaking with weak- ness, clinging to “the edge dock. It seems that he had been sentenced some months before to two years in a penitentiary for having been caught with narcoctic druga in t his possession. But when found te be tubercular he was given his lih- erty. Apparently ‘there was no pro- vision for such cases Yow, once more in court, he was pleading that he be sent somewhere. anywhere, might be alldwed to live out his re- maining days. But he was reluctant- ly thrown. back Into the world from which he sought to escape. ~The of- ficers of justice were powerless to do otherwise-——because ‘there was no provision for such cases.’ According to a report recently is- sued by the Federal Department of Health, a very conservative estimate of the number of drug addicts in Canada is 10,000 Estimating the cost of the average daily dosage of the consumer, the economic wastage due to the losa in earning power of drug addicts, the cost of 2,500 annual arrests made by police in Canada for offences against the narcotic laws, and the court ex- penses, fees and salaries spent in bringing them to justice, the enor- mous sum of $20,575.000 is arrived at a8 the price paid annually for nar- cotics in. Cana “Tf only a small fraction,” port goes on to say, “‘of the money thus wasted were spent in the es- tablishment of hospitals or other {n- stitutions, colonies or farms for the cure and segregation of drug addicts, it would go a long way towards soly- ing the problem of narcotiem in this country, and would to very great degree, ; suffering and crime, present day society, a yet unborn.’ The problem of the narcotie drug habit in Canada has been traced back at least to the year 1880 when first statistics relating to it ba Made available. There are na in Canada, at least 10,000 hennd in, object ‘und horrible slavery——-a smal) eity! and yet we have ~ provision for such cases. One mpted te exclaim with Saint Joan “How long. the re- not only to ow but to the gen- Oh Lord, how 1 RURAL CEMETERIBFS* The neglect of ‘rural cemeteries in Many parts of Ontario is shameful. So marked has this become that the weekly press has frequently taken it up, usually with the result that improvement has followed. There are evidently yet some of these sac- red spots in a sad state and as the Simcoe Reformer says, with stones down and broken, fences decayed and weeds and shrubs running wild . community disgrace and a sad com- mentary On our regard for our fore- fathers and our gratitude for the brave hard work that made possible our present prosperity. Further, in urging attention to this important Matter, the Reformer adds. and all will agree with its words: cemeteries Iie buried the men who hewed down the forests. who cleared the first oe and built the first houses, who organized the first churches, who established the first courts of law, started the first in- dustries, and generally laid the foun- dations of our present civil and re- ligious life. The pioneer work was carried on, often In circumstances of — Privation and loneliness and nt and heart-breaking. It produc- od hard, stern and sometimes harsh men and women, but they were great men’and women. And if ever graves these fathers and mothers the country do. Many of were prominent in the affairs of the coun- try in their time, and many of them are ancestors of men and women Preminent to-day. of QUOTE PRICES IN ADS Following is a letter that appeared in a western newspaper written by one of its readers. There is iprovine- tion in it a storekeepers our paper is always " boosting that home buying is the right thing, for if everybody bought away we wouldn't have a town byl long. In your editorial a week or two @go you said there would be less buying from d phd PaBhny our kl értainly don t ike the idea ot of role, up on staples particularly and &- word about it till you facies ‘m not an adv: co LS es OakA ai rs, ‘A. and 30 eae aie Se ceneenicessn deserve to be honored, the graves of | mum we undoubtedly the greatest famil tee Family. erald is giving to each sub- along Fak ‘soriber # There may be still a few fami- lies in the district that do not re- ceive this paper each week. For their benefit we will send LISTOWEL BANNER DECEMBER 3lst, 1925 THE and the ATWOOD BEE Until $2.00 ASSET A NATIONAL As the grea.est§ ¢ company in the worid, the Canadian Pacific Railway has maintained a} national service in the Trans- Canada! Limited which is second to none andj on the conclusion of the summer schedule of this crack train transferred the “equipment Vancouver Express which Toronto ¢vyery night at 10.10 p.m. on its trip across the continent, via Winnipeg, Calgary, Banff, Ta: and parts of the Canadian Pacific Rockies famous throughout the world, on its way to Vancouver, where the travellers are unanimous in their praise of the service of the Vancouver 1. The Canadian Pacific also operates a steamship to Victoria, the Mecca for winter tour-. ists. Not only does the Vancouver Ex- press carry tourists and standard partment-observation car in itself, while a parlor car is added from Revelstoke to Vancouver. Added to this national service 1s a. feature service from Toronto to Montreal via the Lake Shore Line, which has been entirely reballasted with crushed rock and relaid with 100 pound rails, insuring a axi- of comfort for travellere at night as well as an absence of duet in daytime. Trains leave Toronto Union Station at 9.00 a.m. daily, dafly except Saturday, daily. Arriving at the traveller has the benefit of immediate facilities in the women’s rest room, room and barber shop, which cannot be duplicated in any other station in Montreal from North Toronto, in the . 4 -m. train, daily axe Satur- days, from Yonge Street Station. Canadian Pacific spent will glad- ly make your reservations and sup- ply you with any information you re- quire. They are fully qualified to offer a “second to none” service to the public. 11-27 Have The Best Always When buying a newspaper the same rule should apply as when ds. You want the best for your money. There in nai lo should also have the Family Herald and Weekly Star of Montreal. It is ly and fi Koen’ paper on ne continent and at ae price of Tw gas is a year the # chance to win as minch as pi Bebra = Dollars , ortatien | has! Lake! 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