FROM 01 (All articles’ credited: The Banner doesn't. necessarily EDITOR'S “deleted Ss sdcemibid Lyuers growth, thres Tsasters if he «Gvuean't tamp, nourishing hg von aay not have tried. Every the family gh felish it. Ose of nearly . You wouldn’t slam the door in their faces! ~ Every business has eee. the street door and he telephone door. Those’ people who are pre- vented from visiting your store — are you ing it easy for them to buy from you by telephone? Many of them would like to. Would a polite, intelligent, cheerful voice answer their ring? Would the exper ience be such a pleasant one that they would wish to repeat sea. Cy poem hese aribents for suc row t would be a pleasure to help you. Bach N. oro Subscriber Aide ‘Aide to the jon incomes the lew fr Once I Came very Bear. ‘being a it. They told me narrowness, strife. up worlaly ‘thing. to a political party. ious. party and gind peave, peace." So my youthful were turned in a new direction, Then I began reading “t'ninn’’ and “‘An- ti-Union” literature. After reading several tons of it ave concluded hat,-in — party politics is ‘ “Quaker meeting TEACHERS’ INCOME TAX hesley Euterprise) the January n' mber ofthe Mun- icipal World this questicu is asked. “In , 1924 the teachers in this municipality were assessed ae income tax, At midyummer. some them resigned and refused to pay the tax, stating that thelr income was not large enough in 192 to as No The answer in the’ Municipal World “ bitterness. perfect is that the proper incume to assess was for 1923. That legal thing to do bt iz not only the the common ealaries for 1924 would be ruary of that year becense pg fhe teachers were re engage in their salaries might be-diner ann. in some cases decrcsaced, though ¢ : latter {s very rare as {ft is a —— intimation from the ‘rustees th the services of the ‘teacher who ‘ salary was reduced ure no longer re- quire exemption ‘s plat as a pikestaff. To non-kouseholders the exemption is up Above that amount they pay the usual rate on the dollar. The town of Chesley made a test cast’on !meome tax*an won out e collector received | full amount sued for ars costs the Court on Mondey | do COST OF EDUCA bm MUST BE RED! (Collingwood Baltetin’ Dr. William Karr, of the Provine- Department of Education, befare public school association in Middlesex 3 advocatec = the board as a mov for eron ial speaking teachers’ nd in support of this —_— ottictal heaven showing that in Ontario 17 rural schools with five or (eur pa- pils, the cost per annum per pup was $248.32 na in 1 ural schools, with fewer than ten pupils year} he in each, the 4? 4 ier tT papth each was $155. Thesr = figures, t Says, are eXc@Msive and weste money. To 7 y}t wnhghyp ‘boards, which are now praying satisfactory in different tes and in ores Columbia would have the nervssary power to concentrate pupils le schools where they could be most ¢cconomically ed- ucated. The wabtette in sone that is engaging attention in many quarters an o b* worthy vf care- ful consideration. There is no ques- tion that education costs are about the peak and will have to be cut. The of tow. aekip boards might et chest. I would not be without it if the price was one dollar a bottle. Wess. sal iri et | Yarmouth, N.S. 7-2 for eale by J. g- Hacking. ra fT — You'll Be Happy If You Let Us-- (Dry Clean It! “When you open that box coming from us and take out for Dry Cleaning. madam— you're jast going to smile your Sweetest and gasp “My, How Wonderful!” : And so will every woman be ienged who has us give “Cleansing Attention” to her best items of at Fiag apperel. tifat dress or sult you sent us. / } “| afford w reonsumer is robboi right and left some relief, therefore might) well be studied a the ratepayers. | THE PREMiiR'S.1 ROMISE ' {Stratford Bua Jon-tHerald) Mr Sincials. Liberal ieader in of his pledged word to the e supporters of-the 0.’ T.! A. and he has made 2 srotion askiits | the Legislature be, express fts disap- provai of me Minister's con- duet in this orange! The fact tha welther in his speech nor fn his mo- tion did Mr. Stnclalr ci-cuss.the pro- posal of 4.4 per cent. beer on er merits or de merits, has rot esca a) notice, The Glote says the nt hi what that the Cotati ol the proposed umendment had not been given to the House. The Mall and. aspire offers} the explanation, as members of the Leisia! motion represented t to Trews J yporunt ositiop an’ his line ! vhar ot promise tr. A. at the peop: : contnuag-e sas | th prict, and = not merely with verbiag> This claim may require some furtner elucida- tion; but we have the assurance ot Mr. Nickle, a man Who has won aA high. reputation, tha’ ss not confin- ed his own politica: party, for econrage and integrity, that when the legislation fs introduced “in its en it will embcdy the well-con- | gidered concusions of those Tesponsi- ble for its see ‘on.’ So, fairness, It may be well to suspend final pot tatllanee till the | legislation in its entirety” is intruduced. - POTATOES AND PiLUMS (Grimsby Indepeadent) What do you thirk of this? A man Peg for sale, on Hami'ton mark- a bag of potatoes whic only yeighed 89 pounds, iustead of 90— he was pulled up in court, potatoes confiscated and he was fined. But, ene thousand fruit growers in the Niagara fruit belt cffered plums for sale last year that were unfit for human food. How many were fined? Ni ruit law is so crooked that nd by da are tied the and no attempt is bo mude to pun- ish the guilty par ape 4 to this: x grower, can take baskets of green fruit bat to tothe watinay platfcria ard sell them en 0 is to Pe Bs Bae ight under anyon oR its party politician. Only the kigd ad- vice of friends and elders prevented party poiltics led to . yourself not io a relig- thoughts {| through the larger body to wth (ot Whom came from ) dir Manel, engrave, write or carve his pretty Mttle name on his seven-cent basket containing the .No. 1 ripe goiden peaches. And, in the meartime, while this tomfoolery is. goings on « thousand more baskets of green plumse, and a few more carloads of green grapes have been shippol oct under the noses of the enero thspectors at the various raifway statfons. The inspectors are not to blame, the law backs them up in thelr ignering of the green frult. AN ACT. OF BAD FAITH iClinton News-Record) Before the refsrendum last o~* ber Premier Ferguson ceclared o More than one occasion. t would be guided hy the will of the people and if they by the'r votes in-’ dicated that they wished the Ontario Temperance Act te remain he would strengthen the act «nd enforce it strictly. When the vote was taken d the people so declurecd thensel- ves he said the * uothing for the Government to do bu’ abide by the will of the people and by his firm- _ in this he wonu-the approval of who had not had sn¥ too muct faith fin his‘goodwill towards the Act. Because of th te announc?- ment on Tuesday iu ibs speech trom the throne, which everyone ows. ay outline cf the program to be introduced throug gt the session. ta measure would be introduce} allowing “the sale of beer ¢wice th> strength now legal. came us a sur- prise. That Premier Fergnson has gone back.on his »lodge can hardly e denied, although he dops- deny it. Plain however cannot but conclude that he bas cap'tulated to that —_ to the "wets" in his party who have no doubt brought much pressure te bear ipen him. But it did not seem necessary for him 6 it, even to hole his position as leader of his party. If ne consider; that such . small concess'on Will sat- isty the ets’ he 8 cannot have stuiion them to any advantage. Knowing as he ought to have known that the.country would nee stand for any measure which wybld reed them.his only hope igy’ jn sticking to his pledg# tu inforce x! .T. A., thereby keeping the support of the temperapte’ element in his own e -ountry. His action sa — one, it 1s wigzaty pyctr policy as Il as un eee cf bad faith URESBYTEP.IAN WITNESS ittle Chath ts estimating gies and losses in he Church Un contest there has dis, usition on e speakers an writers to belittle the sinall church, It has been said of the lundreds of returus coming in from the Prairie Provinces, New Ortario und some other sections of Fastern Canada: “These ere only spiall-congroegations, mission augmented chars yes. quite in- significant bodies in copiparison to the great churches of the cities.” And their oii and value are discounted beca the smallnese of their misiahersit ip. , Not only do these speakers do a great Injustice to the +moll church tbey show a lamentable Inck of ap- preciation of the vral ciements of {strength in such a body ac we hope Dr. aan: Philsbophy which true success may be attained, said: “It is just this?-Do your best eee. “day, whatever you “have in n It sounds very emmiple, doesn't it? Yet, if every bhumygh being serie now to do dust thaut—his best ay—there woule bée no more fatiures an llfe! great mene peuple make it im possible to do », because they bave forme the habit of lookirg back—of living in yesterday. They are like a Samp middle-}. aaa runner who some years ago— Coding “Wil on. Willie had ev erything in- iis fay- or to win the world’s cyuamplonship) but. he stopped a yuri = of times to _ back over h oulder—and ost the race! He was ~— two sec- onas behind the world’s best mark That a wohdertul thing it would We for the human race if everyone should start thé morning with all of his faculties one hundred per cent efficient, fit to do ais work superbly, with no regrets abcus the past, and oO worri about che future. And didn’t Christ meac just that when He said: “Sufficlen: unto the day is the evil thereof?” ra ag want to ge- the most ont of . you must net drag the shadow of yerterday acroae the threshold. f the favorite mrxims of Cy- the publisher, ip “Yesterday ended last ht! What a capital msxim it would be for all of es to atop! throrghcout the year— Yesterday ented last night!" It would be espec'aily good for the poor whod seem to think _ yes- rday never ends - ~ tho we 6UW are , summing p the’ means by! yvour ‘mind throws oft. < at all of éndoa inst night; that from how on they don "them! ever sesh they may hare wad Tor you is yours fu yrofit by. You “ave getten your é@éxpor'euce, ever it was; good or bad, it should ve made a help instead of a hind- rance to your work» todiny. ave noticed thit the men who do big things in the world ere wrapp- ed up in today, ths day they areciv- j ing in,-not the yesterdnuys, or the to- morrow . aeons Sitsaonanempelaggaoioes rs ago, -in-the- midst of}! his inventive labore. Edison saw his | Plant and the work.of many/} 2.08 So gret. d | r but while the sy building was still, i burning began na ew one This snitcmhin uccaplance of the; inevitable is characteristic of-a great mind. It doesn't aliow itself to droop under discouraging ‘conditions, or mope over misfortunes, past or —pres- ent. It goes right on and gets full ie: from every day, evéty moment It is only the little unpoised souls who fret and wore, end in one way What-:'# ~~ Stocks of Red, Alsike, and A Coles now on hand at early pri We advise early buying. — RED CLOVER NO. 1 $24.00. ALSIKE CLOVER NO. 1$13.00 ALFALFA CLOVER NO. 1 Varlégated and Pte) County $14.00 ; ra Grocery Orders Given every and prompt attention 4 DELIVERIES DAILY, 9, 11, 3, and 5 o'clock R. A. Climie 'Phéne 72 Quality Listowel. Grocer; r another rob thenire!ves of power, thelr lives of half the! r ns ef- wherca strong tue burdensome. worrying, fretting thought, forgets ote — interests itvclf in something "Saaahake says: and be done with ! what you could. Blunders and mis- takes have no dowtb crept in, but get the best you ean cut of it’ “Finisn the day You have done pe J dragging it into tedast spol ing their lives by it une in their yes-| as or yey: of their todays. of mine who lus hed some frightful setbacks in business told me) n regretied the time e had lost and the "ode d wattertex be had inflicted or. Limse!. by look- ing back, Hving in the pas st ‘aud dwel- ling on his misfortune “When these eetecnvale Lene happened to me some rears ago,” said, ‘I was so diccoureged, so des- pondent and sownereee that life seemed hardly rth ving. For days, sometimes iar veeks at a I was not able to do any good work gy > diffienlt for me tor my mind kept going back over the past. This went on for a year or more, when 1 realized that if I cidn't biace up and e@ a vigorous efrort retrieve my losses, | was im cunger of going to pieces altogeth: en. for the tires {'me since mr reverses. TI looked the situation squarely in the faci. und tried to es timate how much time I had* font during the year by indulgence in fits of the blues and Jise parece ant “T was shocvked. tv [1 hat I had squandered’ pret.y three months in that way. That is, 1 had lost three months’ cffective work, as during all that time ¥ nad done very little that amounted to onything. “Wh considered what I might have accomplished? in those three months if I had dove a man's job ev- ery day. I was ashamed of myself. it was pene United Churs’ te wecome. How to meastire the etrength and; efficiency ‘of anf church, large §mall but by the contribution which! > makes to the ta Abe ance-! nt of the uf * Christ, | if long And the most s:luable part hat coutributicn caniot always be me red tn dollurs ard cents i The snabiodd of-a nation is a more valuable asset then its material re- sources. One such a man as George Leslie MacKyy or John Ge adie, both re Tall va nteibation to than any fin- =~ church. {thé Kingdom! of Chris tits | a nelal offering of a we: aietiy church We have in mind pgregation tu Ontario with sem borabig of less than a hundred which has giv- jen to the Church four misters, all jof whom have oecupi ed important, ie i pon utd ’ of —— | has ree celve a sf eclat oi] the same : Pn came one of tthe best known and liguly respected { | judges of Ontariv, and o number of | commercial men, who lave to.1de their mark in the business world. A amall congregation in similar cir cumstances has to jis credit one lar yer, two a doete rs. Be min isters, one man wis ed public life in the _nelghD or: ex “create and became a mber J ougress. and a number nee successful commercial men. We might give even tovre striking examples of the ceniribution to the ministry by mrt conzregations, From the little country churches in the Maritime Provinces have com? the larger number of recruits for the ministry, and also taany ¢f the givst efficient teachers ard successful pro- fessional and business wen. would we be in Cuuada but for the little pioneer churches by which the deacon fires of learning and religion were kept burning in the lonely hin- terlands pt our newly ovcupied coun- try? of thes: Little churches have tashare strong and wealthy con- gregations not.only ministering g big nee comm a large re-fin the w celizing ae now-Christian peoples of the world. instead 0 of belittiiog ‘or enoring he that was tbe ‘coking back an worrying. I could not prevent firet misfortune; § could prevent a econd and much heavier one-—t om of life force pud cre: live energy that would help me :strieve the first) one. IT would stop worrying or even being anxious wou'd be master ¢f my mind and not suffer it to dwell on any- j thing that would ¢scouruce or keep me back, I resolved thai ever after 1} ' would forge ahesd, ieyardiess of “ hat might. bappe: tn m ‘OY course the te mpiadon to wal- ow In the past, to pet brave and dis- curaged, often w4sailet! me. But 1 have stuck to my gesoive, and now Tt have no trouble in keonping myself face forward instead cf bac rd.” a ‘friend looked happy and con-; “nt as he talked to me here is} The present mement is ta you what the flower is to tue bee; there's pas ney there for you, hut if you are indifferent to it, ii you don’t ex- tract it now, if oer eyes are focused upon same far-away flowers from which you expect to gu! boney later, or if you are thirking of me that| have long since bloomed and died. | you won't get any bFunsy out of the} present, moment. Imagive every merning when you awake that you hear your higher self the plus man or woman, calling to you in the words ef the philosopher's servant, ‘‘Arise, Lg have important work to do to-da Hold those worus in your mina throughout the ay for no matter what your work is--whether serW@bb- ing floors or diggiuz ditcies, writing »0ems or building bridges—it is im- eortant to y It is your work, the werk God has siven vou for today. He expects you | ‘o do it in the sp'rit of an artist, not! n the spirit of an unwilling drudge What you put jntc your work you are putting into Your life. Put yo dest into it every day and the best will come back to ycu. Taat way, and that iid only, lies growta—success —happiness “ Household Hints Dark Layer Coke (Egs) 4 cup molasses ' 'z cup bot waver i tablespoon butter Fresh Bread : How would you like to put your teeth into a slice of such delicious-looking Bread as that picture above? Sure you would. That's ~— ZURBRIG Fresh from our ovens daily— wholesome and well. baked— fit to grace the table of a king. Give it a trial. ZURBRIGG BROS, Bakers Phone 85 Q teaspI01 cuss + — cloves ant a ‘ eo ee Little miut-| 2 cups of flour Bake in two | 1 ir filling is good, any yer: Nut frlling or Pas sin will ee . Raw ‘Salad a layer of lettuce on a plat tt a circte with a tabisanoon | inaeae heets. well washed | Ta then of raw raw spinach, ae sliced or ¢ eh | carrots, fine shredded abba sliced celery, “a Uttle curcin, vithe bg wed or chopped. Serve with elthe t! French dressing er Mcjonnalse j «© « | Chocolate Cream Pie 1 tablespoons | no ; het ubt that he will make good. { . One 9 ‘s on the rig There is noicocoa Q chocolate | other way, € either to reieem. aur. mis) grated, 2 teaspoons corn-starch, a | takes and losses. or to make Hfe a}a teaspoon salt. yolks cf 2 egg } masterpiece. than to live the dayj/eup of milk. Mix dy ingredients. sad | within the day—t . . make each day & ik gradually, csok until smooth! red-le'ter day avy cur mistakesl/and thick, add 1 lump of butter a-| ind failures bene “. @. ond put all bout the size of a wairvt. or a tea: | of onr enersy and sanac ty into the — of vanilia flavoring. and pour! only day that wi'l ever be gurs-——TO- DAY! ‘ A great philosoj'h so keenly real- {zed the precfousnes< o° the oppor- tunity each day brought bim that he used to have his secvan. awaken him early in the morn'ng wilb a remind- er of the importance of making the most of it. Knocking on his door the of ince to jeo spoiled by allowing the mistakes and faiures of last year fo fill-your mind ere! day after day and roh you of the vit- ality and cathmines that are essen- tial to Liat od best y. hand sa e hear people la- menting ‘thelr wasted lives, their lost, opportunities, bemoaning nearly ev- and Meanwhile, they are allowing oppor- tunities to pass them by—richer than those they are regrettin Now, my friend, if you have wast- ed some Pm iife in the past why waste f it in wso.e*s regrets? If your Smunuitign has been thw&rt- y mstances you could not control, why cont'rue to thwart it t| to-day? Why not jamp right in an redeem e past by making th into seer yl begs Beat egss unt!! atiff, swecten w ed sugnr, werene over top af brown in oven. . ple an ° Plain Cup Cukgs Melt one tablespoon pac in a Measuring enup; sift cu ugar, 2 teaspoons baking ficur ina mixing bhowl. Add eget. powder, poon salt, 1% enps unbeaten, to the melted butter in the cup, fill the cup with | milk, _ stir at a end pour into la- y f yor wit h any desired flavoring and ‘bake in aia ig ting Notted Seesie Tedding Twenty-four medivm-sized prunes, 2 cups cold water,.% cup sugar, % {teaspoon cinnaneon. % teaspoon cloves, juice of 1 oneee. a cup hitk- orynut meats, 2 eggs bites), 4 ‘ta- biespoons cornstarch. tow Grains salt. Fagh nrunes well through several same water until tender, gbut not broken or mushy. eye stones from prunes and measure juice. Add enough boiling eater io make 2 ‘cups. P runes, sugar, spices and juice im saucepan ‘and. simmer ten minutes. 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