{All eee credite%.. The Sinnak ieee _ Mecessarily dares : with views = eeeeed) Cw hingho P ost) The hideous remindérs of varying pertinent and altogether unnecessar. custom, seized the manu- Meri and merchents of the coun- try. EN mdon Advertiser) Magistrate Jelfs of Hamilton, in rmadering conviction against a doctor in that ofty for the manner in which he dealt with a check, made the ob- servation that doctors, no matter how clever they wére as professional men, were. | not considered good ess ea There {s more truth than fiction in ARE SERMONS TQO LONG? (New York World) The most eloquent sermon. ever preached contains less than 2,500 words and can be read aloud in fif- teen minutes. It was. preached by a carpenter, from a mountain, a n eems an excellent modeL Indeed it}about it. A medical man or a eurgeon . nire- for sale by J. A. Hacking. petitions, ae the heathen do; tor they | Sick, and the whole trend.of his min think they shall *be heard for their| 18 taken dp with a continuous etudy 5 much speaking.’’ Possibly our preach. | Of his clientele, If a patient does not | —— ave fallen into the same error| improve under one form of treatment/| °° Bs as the. heathen. If they would save/it becomes the duty of the verona to a their beeath, more people might go a further diagnosis; his i to chu tion dépends on his ability to’ tind ve eae auetre —a e out what it. wrong with th A Good Cleaning Every so often prolongs the life of a sult. And espectal- ly now, men, when you subject that suit to harder wear. than & at perhaps any ather time of year. Indeed, a dollar or two spent no» for Cleaning may save yOu the cost of a new one. Bring your suit here and we'll have itybaek to you looking as clean and new ae it did the day you bought it Joe Lockhart The Tailor We call and deliver. MOTHER'S DAY “Awful sorry I can’t stop you, old man, cana Harold Massey | He was locking the office door on a Sake? dav afternoon. Tom Grigus, _ earls AVe A and! perhaps a leisurely clu to ser closing.” little chat lunch m going to take mother to the matinee,” said Harold, as they walk- ed along together. “So I've a to put in appearance at lunch. “oO telephone her. and say not coming sald Tom. her ticket, hasn't she?" J Mother? No. It's . if T haven't lost it.’ 1, you're a duffer, Why aid’ see ane had the _— and let her t yo xing with me she meets me in enough of th ter yext time here in’ ¥ siste bat glad it bet mabe Tom for 3 at the club. ar with a man he knew, s home. mother met $ a re Thoon, v. and Ww ork “pe ted, 20n ht com for- r’s chat Harold to ge His She -owhs <« hair and a happy ing a big box of viole ' eB & eS i 73 him i little old lady n the hall with w hite| sr Pea was open- I said a girl's. “Who * She Veins the name, “ ‘Mr. Then she laughed and‘ she, a . of the country, i for}; at the y ou're seek his services and then to apply the treatment to correct the ailment. why so many doctors. who a BETTER TIMES COMING (Northern Miner) Without doubt the steady rise of the stocks of the senior exchanges, and the strengthening of the mining market augur better times in Canad- jan business, although perhaps the average man has little sign of them in -his-own-activities” Prices are not |rising for the pleasure in it j national prosperity, more money for | new mining development, are around or secretaries to look after the busi- ness end of their work. Oo re- flection to say that a doctor is not a good businessman; in rane. ways. it ds~somewhat of a compliment j WALKING FOR HEALTH (Guelph Mercury) Walking: is an’ unknown, art for a considerable number of persons “ these days.of automobiles, and large percentage of these are bettas ning to discover they, are missing many of the pleasures contingent up- n good health because of the lack of exercise, One noted physician of Great Brit- ain believes in walking for and particularly as a preventative of tthe terrific burdens of taxation must ibe reduced. | | TOWN AND COUNTRY AS WELL AS IN THE ee Acton Free Pres ' Some criticism Is fbi “4 the traf-| { fie e officers and police laying com- | that great scourge, cancer. Sir W.|serve the public, and in nearly every | Pl wints against those who do not ob--Arbuthnot-Lane speaks his views! case they are doing so faithfully. In srve the Highway Traffic Act. "Such | confidently and makes no hesitation|the larger centres, where two or | eriti icism is not justified. eople | in declaring that a. great number of; more papers -still exist, -and’ owner- ;should not be allowed ge ake Sedentary workers become easy vict-|ship is not under one control, the | speedways of. the streets or high-| tne of this scourge because of their|party press flourishes, though, it | Ways or otherwise violate’the High-|#!most total abstinence way Traffic Act In such a way as to| cise. They ta }endanger traffic or menace public; Rather than walk around the block i sty to visit a friend they jump in the car. dather than walk to church on Sun- day mornin they ride in ease and comfort » the distance short or long is expect-| and weather ey so beautiful and villages be brig Welln nae seems to: be Just an exhi- lematne stunt with many. and the e fects of this lack of existence-is be- coming mere noticeable in the car- {riage of the pevacee so neglectful of f@{/ their health. The best fitted to resist ouncil pros Sisenee j @€ man whose body ts in sontinieds | 00% goed realth is not majority off Simpatibie with soft and flabby mus- 753 ‘realize that the same thing led of them in the towns too, /PAY FOR P Y fans aa COUNCIL atord —_ | The oak lishing differe ant ie free of charge pein ripal i Itke t | the. ie ‘ lis > to the However, the ler- ={/¢lee, — puffy breath and stooping ring the matter and] shoulde no doubt a bill will be introduced at! Perhaps if t of exer- next sesaic making it compuleor y| cine could | d there might or all minor munictpalities to pub- he > 2 indulging in the same, and ish the minutes of their council pro-| athletic bodies would he the rule cee dings in the nearest newspaper.! Te ther than the exception. Already in the State of Michigan #@ Inw is now } ¢ : PARTY ( ORGANS PASSING utes to be put s "Tare. Journal) of meeting yn al election the many newspapers to publis h ‘such re-. Tore onto Globe Genaned +: acting eng sorts free, for the simple reagon that’ tor because his belief in the two- the council did not de ul decently ty form of government included the with the newspapers printing generally, change. regarc ng their Eroneh t about ‘the opinion that a newspaper should eup- ,port unflinchingly one or other of the parties _ that apt 8 Menge ng |LAW MUST 2 gr ED- Nia re_ dreaming their drea: BILL Prete LANDSCAPE thei: but they are 1oking. torward ‘ ' for the time when these’ babies pref +4 grown et iy ee large Pikces iz pre rade of hotels, uderwear, patent|in life. us, ft that summer siade of DRSIB NAsr Wane, Vetent| OL calling tothe winter: 10 ay Gal at Papldte, eatsling noted te Bere whith etrew the American landscape, | end of the sree, atid for the end all nty, 2 to M,C. McPhail, give foreign re Just. esas for things ‘are m district Te tative of the Ontario essuming that oe ka ac r ig in- m Department of Agriculture, And its déed almighty. It is an offenses im-| DOCTORS NOT GOOD BUSINESS- onesie are more numerous than this, and there is nothing surprising| - are In a position to do so have clerks! ® health! old sd willing. to ad- tt is =e opinion, F shave at: ph Ke their fields, reported i despite ‘the fact that. Mr. or dom office es n del tele- phone Stratford citipene whq Hess found the borer cobs, when preparing the corn for Sommiapion: j During the’ past two weeks ma . thi first time that graih shipments in one day have topped the two million bushel mark. ny Stratford citizens have ineuired” at the Agricultural office vee infor- 4 spite the presence of the borer in the This official wants every farmer n Perth County. who has discovered the borer in his fields to infé6rm him 1 While the borer can practically ruin a field of corn in its first year, th econd year's yield will be attacked more viciously, and. for this reason it is felt that farmers should take ey possible means of coping with the Information regarding the ‘best McPhail. If Perth County is to con @ a8 acorn growing . centre, rowers should carry on the fighy ceaselessly, he said. of Grit, Tory and independent thought, and naturally they feel that their duty is to their readers, not to t advocacy of any particular party and its policies. To such papers the idea, “my party, right or wrong,” no longer apples. Their duty is to must be admitted, not so rapidly as in Se days of. old. Independence of tho coming more noticeable. athens’ as the Globe says. ship dies‘hard. The broke away from partyism in the war election and supported the Unionist cause, and-kKnown never for Mackenzie King the affection it showed to his predecessor, Sir Wil- frid Laurier, was even more favor able to the Progressives than to the Liberals at the last election. The Globe, apparently; is veering #round to an independent course tude at present can only be deserfb- ed as anti-Tory. In giving up organship, it is notic- ed that many papers have not dis- carded their right to express views on subjects of national importance, and this ia as it should be. It was a southern edjtor, who, advocacy feep asked! ’ declared that his paper would be in- dependent. but ‘never. neutral. This is the correct attitude—independence, Standing ‘for what, is considered right, and denounting that which . PWrong. contrary notwith istunding, the inde pendent papers of Ontario, on the} whole, are, we believe, pursuing such | a policy and doluig much to give desire- is ‘the chief Mp i s done! hard. in Canada, the pr ess d ies | but its ultimate ex-} ° H n. | those r ee the inac-) ia certai ‘ngaged in are ary ot So Jong as there were two papers} LEVITY = Tak Toner y for the com- in every community .of any size, and! ng da ‘here can be no doubt a-; while political-thought was divided | bout it, ‘the roses should be more at-' into pd ane it was, in many res- tive than the grows, but the ac-! pect Ntage for the newspa- it vity’ of humanity warps the mind sare ta back thetparty of their choi jf, | rom the bloom of the gardens to! anc eopie, in turn to bs ‘the chill of the winter snows. In her) the paper that « supported their party to Cosas ure made anxiety men provident, nat-. But economic all the ed daily pa conditions pers in centres under 50,- - ' | i “ , em too eager. O a: Fi Harold laughed. It was an old periods in human ues. child-, 000 or so, to amaigamuts and have| 4 bre cell thas i! joee Like ‘em,)| is the happlest, but the child- driven numerous weekly papers to do} " al rt at ace farol {re anxious to grow up. “The hap-| likewise a cease publication alto _ guess I ¢ 2 she 7 ne her | plest period in family life is when| gether. - Taday, these papers find| 4 eyes sparkling. “I shall wear ‘em.” | the babies are young, and the parents! Puaenaeie es catering alike to readers: : —— nak Seeeenanenenh | ya , 4 people what they most | Newspaper, not an organ As He Eats, So Does He Grow Healthy | ADVICE THAT PARENTS SHOULD HEED IN LOOKING AFTER GROWLING YOUNGSTERS. Fat three ntedls a day at regular ilmes. Eat slowly and thoroughly chew all foods. Drink #ix. glasses of water daily, between rather than with meals. Kat sweets and candy only at the; Do not drink “coffee or tea, Drink a -quart milk a day, if possible. + Eat fruit once a day. Eat a green or.coarse yogetable once a day: Eat very little, if any, fried foods. Of ull these rules, than.the others. Every fourteen years should have a qu a day, and. grown-ups should see "@ {t that they cg drink at least two cupfuls. da Milk makes ‘ehod bones and hard teeth, firm. muscles, furnishes heat and energy, contains énbstances which -promote healthful . growth, and helps the heart to do its. wor For a child who thinks he does it with a him whileia sufficient: quantity is consumed without protest. can be served cool or heated— even eteaniing if that makes it more yer sarree el the power of. the which pleases the chitin ed t ahonld not re- ga én {t takes nersuasion to get the Baily milk taken. “So you want’a divorcee trom your Said the solicitor. “Aren't then ¥ coe) - by = ” . The man in the moon must be BAB sey Ebro aed ba a Scotch- Its atti-| so end of @ mea bane the one concern-}), or t | say: ir man, “but hers are perfectly hor-|p rid.” i from Canada for 1923-1924 increased by 400 per cent.” Over fifteen thousand men left the east on the first harvesters excursion from the east to the wheat fieldsin ronto later in August and Septem- ber, when it is that the majority of the remainder of the 50,- 600 men required for the harvest will travel west, Sebebeebeteeleteteebedeletebeleledetededebebel bet v4 THE WIDOW GIBSONS’ TEXT + Tere SS ae se ae a ae a “What's put you inte such a fury of work, Kellup?” demanded Deacon Hyne as he came round the corner of the shed and a Caleb Peas- lee busily hammerin “Tt sounded over at my place sift” —_ had a gang of vel gir thy at work heré. What's got into “T ha i the lumber,” replied Mr. Peaslee succinctly, “‘and time, and I had the work r he done— and so I'm doin’ it. Mo thet, I had nogephgeniaal to give me the start me workin’. "a new shed for needed shove tc do a job: y rensons for puttin he can’! scare up one that'll! make him ao it. Doubtless in your home as in many others, there’ some room(or some corner that might bs made more’ con- venient or cosy with an extra Electric Light socket or base plug. Have it wired! now and assign the task to uss. You'll’ ‘get high efficient results at a minimum cost. CARL ROSS *Phone 81 Listowel COCHRANE MACHINE WORKS Listowel, Ont. RE PAIRS OF ALL KINDS WELDING That’s the way it was with me; a ruther c’mplain and fret ove at | havin' a place for things than : to do rn little work. “I shouldn't s’pose,” he went on, “that. if vou was to put the question to her plump, the widow ‘Gibson would say she had any Influence on folks one way or another, she’s suc atick-at-home body; but for she's e that’s answer . 80 much busier’n | mornin’. j * deacon! n common this “Answerable how? jasked. “Answerable this way. the * Caleb res-| |ponded. “There she is, an old lady and all oe with nobody to doa; hand’ s turn for her: and {if any per-} right to c’mplain.} I'd say; and yit I doa r’mem her ever hearin’ a peep out of her in the way with findin’| fanlt; more’n oper she'd be tellin’! how much rea e had to bal thankful, if nn ‘ent anything at all.; } y. that was the looked .at things yest’day nupermed down past her place and) r draggin’ a box home she had hy samhaw honda omebodr’d thrown it away: and she fetched It home foi her own use. I had curiosity enough to ask her what she was tuggin’ that thing along for, and she told me. ‘I've been wantin’ a few h — for | T a’ Rnb how long,’ she told me, ‘and; but b'fore fairly got to r’pinin’ over it I had wisdom come to show me it coultn’t have happened better for|me—all I'< got to do when I fixed the shed was to part off # little place for a dozen oO and I'd be fixed as good as anvbody. “*So I've cast round, and hy sit- tin’ a board he UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO I N this complex age theambitious youth deems a university education essential to his career. For inforsaation write to>— It opens the door ta epportunity and Dr-K.P: R. NEVILLE; helps a man to make the most of himself. "eat Leaders are needed everywhere; in “Bi the professions, in comente’ an dustry, in agriculture, in Laer f in community and socia The cost of a university courseis smal! considering the beneSta received. most profita orrvest- ment possi ble efora young man is Have you considered these facts? McDonald ‘Phone Block 263. Hugh McGillivray BROKER BONDS - GRAIN - MORTGAGES INSURANCE LISTED and UNLISTED STOCKS Securities Bought) and Sold. Connection with Toronto, New York, Chicago, Winnipeg ard Mentreal Exchanges. ~ ~ Intormation supplied on cny Sccurities without charge haye stuff they hadn't any for ‘Bial: Runnels let me pull all the ani I'll need out o e@ wreckin’ lum ber he had,.so I won't have to lay out a cent for anythin The don't ee what it is,” she and any- think ‘tke a tittle buildin’: ;_all you've got to a La Printing! “_ Job OB gee: “qui Prin done. g. Desactaeetin 1 io handle ont ie re © better ale dra ‘Pibas G1 aad a represen: will call on The Listowel Banner what you want, ready to your hand; it’s the doaleat thing in the world for you but with an old woman it’s difftrent; she to figger and plan and Ing the stutt together, and i er a long time to git what aot cn ace with a hand’ s turn, you m stood there and hetehed to that old lady tell. her plans, Hyne,” Mr. Peastee erly, “and TI don't know when sermon reached so plain to me as reaced one th hadn’t Tet, out of a he. 4 “I come home trom there,” See went on, Be jest two strong she asked, as the deacon turned a find courage and strength to gather together stuff enough to build some- thin’ she needs, I’ve got self-respect enough to go ahead and build some- ae that I've known the need of for Where you goin’ Peeey he the second one was to have, before eevee cabeceseyg BODO SE & 22 this week comes. to an 80 Ayto eae tereeees. OOF 2& 8 as| Place fittin’ to house my. farmin’ Chesley ttseeve sae Sept BH @ 25 tools that ‘ought to be sheltered from} Drayton .........¢. Sept. 29 0 the weather. If an old woman c’n} Durham +++ +++ Bept, 24 & 25 » E 8 a year. Kincardine ........ Sept, “Goln’ to fix my well Sach. ” the WEL . deacon replied shortly. ‘It's needin’ it for six months; and you ain't the only one that c’n apply a text!" re ai rer 00 ( Western Fair) Luekno a es