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Lawn Mowers
These machines are made
of the highest grade steel,
well finished, large wheels,
14 and 16 inch cut, roller
and plain bearings, adjust-
able to smooth or rovgh
lawns. Examine the mowers
• and the prices and you will
tt agree they -' are B I G
VALUES.
$10.00, $12.00 & $15.00 each
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For Spring
Step Ladders, 40 & 45c ft.
Carpet Beaters .20
Scrub Brushes ..15c to 30c
Horse Clipppers,$2.6Qto $4.50
Garden' Cultivatol<s $1.50
Window Screens .55c to $1
Garden Rakes..75c to $1.251Screen Doors,1plete
5to $5.50
yes..
Washing Machines...520.00
Mop Sticks .35c
Alabastine, per pkg.....75c
White Wash Brushes
70c to $1.80
Blast Out Your Stumps and Rocks
We have special Stumping Powder in sticks that will
do the work. Safe to handle. Not expensive. Call
and get particulars.
G. A: Sills, Seaforth
THE McKILLOP MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE CO'Y.
HBAD OFFICE-SEAFORTH. ONT.
OFFICERS
J. Connolly, Goderich, President
Jas. Evano,Beechwood, Vice -President eTrea
T. E. Hays, Seaforth
AGENTS
Alex. Leitch, R. R. No. 1, Clinton; Ed.
Binchley, Seaforth; John Murray, Guelph, arrive
Brucefield, phone 6 on 137, Seaforth;
J. W. Yeo, Goderich; R. G. Jar- Waltones
aruti Brndhagen. Blit
Anbnrd
DIRECTORS Goderich
William Bien, No. 2, Seaforth; John
lennewies, Brodhagen; James Evans,,Connections at Gnelph Junction with
Reechwood; M. McEwen, Clinton; Jas.Main Line for Galt, Woodstock, Lon
don, Detroit, and Chicago, and all in
termediate points.
During the latter part of the year
182(1, Qtnada witnessed an unedify-
ingtiitsn�t}1 spectacle. A group of
three Oabiaet Ministers traversed the
oouatry .front ocean to ocean. In the
cd[try sad dominating group, was
the Minister of Finance, urbane and
in the main cheerful in spite of the
burdens of a colossal national debt.
On owe stde Sir Henry was buttressed
by the Minister of Agriculture, and
en the other by the Minister of Labor.
They too were cheerful enough, when
riot somnolent or palpably bored.
But it is not the dauntless three
whom we would describe as diaeunl.
Rather it i% the procession, which, day
after day, week after week, filed be-
fore the commission, with its mono-
tonous confession of incapacity to face
the world, and its reiterated appeal
for state aid. With very few excep-
tions -there were delegates of the
farmers, a few housewives and one
or .twe labor representatives, the
witnesses who offered themselves
were of one mind. They argued that
Canadian business could not survive
foreign competition; that it must have
Government support or perish. Per-
haps the one exception among the
business men was the representative
of the Massey -Harris Company, who
admitted that his firm was able to
compete in world markets and that
it could survive without protection,
but who contended none the less for
,the retention of the tariff in the gen-
eral interest.
I Two kinds of factories were not
represented in the procession of
mendicants. They form a small, but
distinct and significant group. In
1897, a year after the advent of the
Laurier administration, cream separ-
ators were placed on the free list,
land there are now nearly a score of
factories engaged, more or less,
either in the manufacturing, or, what
!sometimes passes in this country for
manufacturing-, in the assembling of
crearn separators. The following year
hinder twine was placed on the free
;list, and there are now three factories
engaged in the manufacture of bind
er twine and rope, two of therm mann-
;taeturing in the one case mostly bind-
er twine, arid in the other case almost
entirely binder twine. The third is
stronger on rope, which is dutiable.
Since no representative of this group
of free trade industries was heard
by the tariff cummisssion,, and since
their experience is quite pertinent to
;the inquiry, one may be pardoned for
!allowing his curiosity to suggest an
examination into how these firms were
managing to walk without ankle sup-
ports.
For the present we shall confine
ourselves to bne firm which receives
no protection and still survives and
thrives. The Brantford Cordage
Company is situated in the city of
- ;Brantford, Ontario. It has been
- manufacturing binder twine for
C. P. R. TIME TABLE
GUELPH & GODERICH BRANCH
TO TORONTO
a.m. p.m.
Goderich, leave 6.20 1.80
Blyth 8.68 2.07
Walton 7.12 2.20
Guelph 9.48 4.68
FROM TORONTO
Toronto, leave 8.10 6.10
9.80 8.30
12.03 9.04
12.16 9.18
12.28 9.30
12.55 9.55
Connolly, Goderich; D. F. McGregor,
R. R. No. 8} Seaforth; J. G. Grieve,
No. 4, Walton; Robert Ferris, Oarlock;
George McCartney, No. 3, Seafortis
G. T. R. TIME TABLE
Trains Leave Seaforth as follows:
11 a. m. - For Clinton, Gederich,
Wingham and Kincardine.
1.68 p. m. - For Clinton. Wingham,
and Kincardine.
11.08 p. m. - For Clinton, Goderich,
6.51 a. m. -For Stratford, Guelph,
Toronto, Orillia, North Bay and
points west, Belleville sad Peter-
boro and points east.
1.12 p. m. -For Stratford, Toronto,
Montreal and points east.
LONDON, HURON AND BRUCE
Going North a.m. p.m.
London 9.06 4.45
Centralia 10.04 6.60
• Exeter 10.18 6.02
Halsall 10.33 6.14
gippen 1038 6.21
Brumfield 10.47 6.29
Clinton 11.03 6.45
Londeaboro 11.34 7.08
Blyth 11.43 7.10
Beagrave 11'.56 7.23
Wingham 12.11 7.40
Going South a.m. p.m.
Wingham 7.30 8.20
Beigrave 7.44 8.36
Blyth 7.56 3.48
Londeaboro 8.04 8.56
Clinton 8.28 4.15
Brucetibld 8.40 4.32
Kippen 8.46 4.40
Hensall 8.68 4.50
Exeter 9.18 6.06
Centralia 927 6.16
London 10.40 8.16
HOW YOU CAN TELL
GENU* ASPIRIN
Only Tablets with "Bayer Cross"
are Aspirin -No others!
twenty years. Organized under for-
eign competition with a very small
plant, it has grown under foreign
competition until to -day. it is said to
be the,,largest binder twine factory
in the.Bi,'itish Empire. It is a Can-
adian
company managed by a na-
tive Canadian and financed by Can-
adian capital. It stands and deser-
ves to be recognized as an example
of what Canadians can do when they
choose to depend on themeselves
rather than on government aid.
It is now twenty-three years
since binder twine was put on the
free list. Sufficient time has elap-
sed to pernsit a just appreciation of
the experiment. Several factories
have failed or ceased to operate. To
some degree failure or discontinu-
ance was the result of pressure from
large and powerful companies, who
were prepared to wage a price war
in order to eliminate opposition, but
There is only one Aspirin. that marked the element of weak management
with the "Bayert'ross"--alt ot,ler tab- was also present. The outstanding
lets are only acid imitations. facts are, first, that the Plymouth
Genuine "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" Cordage Company fifteen years ago,
have been prescribed by physicians for thought it worth while to build a
nineteen years and proved safe by mil- large factory at Welland, Ontario,
lions for Pain. Headache, Neuralgia, which has been maintained and ex -
Colds. Rheumatism, Lumbago. Neuritis. tended, although the company could
Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets -also have shipped its twine into Canada
Luger "Bayer" packages, can be had free of duty from its main factory
at any drug store. Made in Canada. hat Plymouth, Massachusetts; and
Aspirin is the trade mark (registeredsecondly, that the Brantfotd Cord -
in Canada), of Bayer Manufacture of I rge Company in twenty years has
Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. I grown from a little factory with
While it is well known that Aspirin sixty spindles to a great and pros -
means Bayer manufacture, to assist the perous industry with seven hundred
public against imitations, the Tablets of . spindles and an output of over 10, -
Bayer Company, Ltd., will be stamped '000 tons of twine a year. The
with their general trade mark, the -chi
t , exement of the Plymouth coo=
'Bayer Cross.' Many is significant as an answer to
the contention that American capi-
tel would never come to Canada
were it not for the tariff; that of
� the Brantford Cordage Company as
an answer to those whn lack faith
in the capacity of Canadians to face
American competition.
Mrs C. L. Messecar, the Manager
of the Brantford Cordage Company,
was brought up on a Brant County
farm. His education was completed
by two' winter courses at the Ontario
Agricultural College. At the age
of twenty-four he was still a farmer.
His early business training was se-
cured on the farm and with the M,as-
scy-Harris Company. Seventeen
years ago he assumed his present
position. If one were to ask him the
secret of his success, and he could
he induced to give an answer, he
would probably attribute it to three
things, the careful study of markets,
emphasis on quality rather than pro-
fits, and determination to depend on
his ow'n efforts. The result is that
to -day the home market is demand-
ing more of his twine than he can
supply, while he is faced with the
necessity, if he would fill foreign
orders, of again doubling the capa-
city of his factory.
It was an interesting experience to
drop into a Canadian factory run-
ning full force in times of aerie=
unemployment, occupied on that par-
ticular day in making twine to fill
a Dublin order. Last year the for-
cing' trade included shipments to
the United States, to the Argentine,
to almost all the countries of Eur-
ope, to Tunis in North Africa,to
South Africa and to Siberia. ere
rove havb a Canadian factory en-
gaged in the work of 'helping to
reduce our foreign debt and to . im-
prove exchange in the only way in
'blob the balande can be righted,
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He dernands the big Master
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last pipeful it gives him the
best for the feast money.
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Three Yews of Suffering Quickly
Relieved by "FRUIT-A-TIVES"
M. GASPARD DUBORD
159 Avenue Pius IX, Montreal.
"For three years, I was a terrible
sufferer from Dyspepsia and my general
health was very bad. I consulted a
physician and took his medicine and
faithfully carried outfits instructions;
but I did not improve and finally the
doctor told me 1 could not be cured
At thitittme, a friend advised me
to try Tait -a -tines' and I did eo.
After taking two boxes of 'Fnut-a-
tives, I was greatly relieved; and
gradually this marvelous fruit
medicine made me completely well.
My digestion and general health
are spleadid-all of which I owe to
"Fruit -a -tires".
GASPARD DUBORD.
50e.a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25e.
At all dealers or sent postpaid by
Fruit-a-tivee Limited, Ottawa, Ont.
way; Tre = rex joy Rye1Fmsa; titan,
aggeer, 'W { rewatr; Captain, Wm.
Tbomlpaon; Financial Committee, W`
M. Sinclair, D. C. Ross, A. L Seeker;
Ground 'Committee; Robert Downing,
Wes. Armstrong, Noble Gerry. It
vias decided to enter a team in the
North Wellington Baseball League,
and the following umpires were chos-
en to etiolate at the games: Wesley
Armstrong and Robert Downing.
Prospects look exceedingly bright for
the coming season and some good
games may be expected.
JAPANESE HUSBANDS.
, Japanese husbands, strike the vis-
iting foreigner, aa being bossy and
cruel to their wives. It is embarrasa-
ing for instance, for a Japanese hus-
band to introduce his proud wife as
"my stupid wife;" but this is due
solely to the difference in the rules of
etiquette. In Japhn it is considered
rude, or a sign of ill -breeding, to
show too much. affedtion. Unre-
strained expressions of amorous
sentiment in public are taboo in Ja-
mie. Hence, in public places the re-
lation of husband and wife appears
unnaturally cool. But such is not the
case in private life. A Japanese hus-
band .hides a vast reservoir of tender
emotion and love beneath the time-
honored custom of assuming indif-
ference toward his wife. The disposal
of the husband's income is usually
entrusted to the wife, who manages
the financial affairs of the home and
from whom the husband takes his
monthly allowance.'
by shipping goods abroad. When
Canadian factories turn their atten-
tion less to creating a private pre-
serve at home, and more to culti-
ating foreign markets, thus help-
ing the farmer in the immense task
of paying our national obligations
in interest and principal, we shall
have a better economic structure in
Canada, and a better feeling between
farmers and manufacturers.
One striking feature of the manu-
facture of binder twine is that, so
far as materials are concerned, it is
by no means a native industry. All
the raw material used and most of
the machinery used must be import-
ed. The sisal fibre comes from Mex-
ico and Java and West Africa, and
manilla comes from the Philippine
Islands. Both the raw material and
the machinery are free from duty so
long as they are employed in the
production of a commodity which is
duty-free. Consequently an enter-
prising firm is at no appreciable dis-
advantages as compared with Amer-
ican firms and European firma
which are under equal necessity of
importing raw material. The dis-
advantage from greater freight rates
on raw materials is partially offset
by the advantage of greater proxim-
ity to the market for the finished
product, for the greater part of the
twine manufactured is still sold in
Canada.
No peculiar advantages are en-
joyed by the Brantford Cordage
Company. Other industries indeed,
might be mentioned which are dis-
tinctly more, native than the manu-
facture of binder twine. For its la-
bor it must compete with protected
interests. In the home and foreign
market it must compete with older
and financially stronger organiza-
tion. It had to perfect its methods
of manufacture, and its selling sys-
tem while subject -to strong competi-
tion and' for three years to the
destructive effects of a price war.
Under those conditions it has grad-
ually built up its business. finding
sufficient profits to pay modest div-
,idends and extend its ,plant. To -day
it stands on a .firm footing, with
great opportunity for export as well
as for home trade. It affords astim-
ulating example ' of the response
which a sturdy Canadian spirit
makes when freed from the incubus
of a short-sighted paternalism. A
hive of industry iii a desert of unem-
ployment, concretely it condemns the
National Policy.
-A very successful re -organization
of Brussels Baseball Club was held in
W.(;rewax's restaurant Monday
night. James Ballantyne was voted
to the chair and bhe minuites of the
last meeting were read and adopted.
The following officers were elected:
Hon.esiden n. Vice
Pr t, D. C. Ross HD
President, G. H. Sams; President, W.
M. Sinclair; Vice President, Walter
Rose; Second Vice President, A. C.
Baeker; Secretary, Oswald Heming-
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LEONARD
EAR OIL
RELIEVES DEAFNESS and
STOPS HEABNOiSES. Simply
Rub it Rack of the Ears and
Insert in Nostrils. Proof of suc-
eess win be glean by the drueg5t.
MADE IN CANADA
ARTHUR SALES CO., Soles Agents, Taranto
1. 0. Lenard, Ing,, lifts.,10 51h Aro., e. T. City
For Sale by
E. iIMBACH, Seaforth
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WHY DO WE USE THE EXPRES-
SION "TO LAUGH UP ONE'S
SLEEVE?"
There are many expressions in
English as we speak it to -day, which
hark back to other days and other
customs, particularly the customs of
dress. To say that some achieve-
ment is a "feather in one's cap" is a
reference to the days when men's
headgear was not as staid and digni-
fied as it is at present, while "the
shoe on the other foot" recalls the
time when shoes were far more
clumsy and ill-fitting than those of
'modern manufacture.
So, to the phrase to "laugh up
one's sleeve" brings up a picture of
olden days when outer garments
were made in long, flowing ilnes.
Then if a person covered his face
with his hand, there was a suspicion
that he was hiding a smile, for the
generous sleeves were of sufficient
proportion to conceal more mater-
ial things than an expression of
ridicule.
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INCORPORATED 1855
Capital and Reserve $9,000,000
Over 130 Branches
he Molsons Bank
The coat of living is falling, also the price ofrfood
stuff. This necessitates increased production.+'Pro-
duce more pnd deposit your surplus in The Molsons
Bank where it will be ready for any call and yet
be,eerning interest.
BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT:
Brucefield, St. Marys, Kirkton
Exeter, Clinton, Hehaall, Zurich._
views the recent history of the coal
trade and shows that, in the Dur-
ham collieries, the wages cost of a
to of coal in 1914. was 6s 4d. It
has inereased last year to nearly
19s 8d. In the same period the
average output per man had de-
creased from 262 tons to 170 tons.
In the former period the average
wage was £83,2a,8d and in the lat-
ter £167,10s. Moreover, in reckon-
ing miners' wages it is to be re-
membered that as a rude the men
have free houses, or are given in ad-
dition to their wages an allowance
for rent. Their coal costs them
nothing or next to nothing.
In the past, England had the
cheapest coal in the world. Now it
costs from, between two and three
times what American coal costs,
and yet Ariterican wages are higher.
The secret lies in the British under-
production. This "ca' canny" policy
which extends through most of the
British trades threatens the' nation
with ruin, the writer believes. He
mentions the case of a returned
BLAMES THE UNIONS
FOR UNEMPLOYMENT.
In an article contributed to Sperl-
ing's Journal the time before it ap-
peared certain that the English coal
miners would strike, Mr. J. Ellis
Barker makes some pungent remarks
upon the miners and upon trade
unions generally. In fact he heads
his article, "The Tyranny of the Trade
Unions," and he seeks to show how
the original object of the unions has
been changed and how a majority of
trade unionists have become the mere
political catspaws of a scheming and
sinister minority: He says "The Bri-
tish workers are frequently, and with
full justification, praised for their
sturdy common sense, for their spirit
of independence, for their hatred of
oppressing and injustice, and for their
love of fairplay. These excellent
qualities which are very noticeable in
the British workers if taken individ-
ually are curiously absent from their
organization, from the trade minions,
fsr these possess qualities which are
absolutely repugnant to the individual
Englishman."
The writer argues that socialists,
having failed to bring about a revolu-
tion by independent action, have
adopted a method of indirect ap-
proach through the trade unions. It
was the idea of the socialists that
trade union funds should be used
for political purposes, an idea that
was stoutly opposed by many labor
leaders when it was first suggested.
In denunciation of the Labor Party
and the policy it pursues, he quotes
W. V. Osborne, at one time a secre-
tary of the Amalgamated Society of
Railway Servants. He says "The ob-
ject of all this is to send to Parlia-
ment a 'number of members -tied,
paid and controlled by an outside
body -whose very conditions of ser-
vitude are the renouncing of Coun-
try, constituency, conscience and
manhood, and who are to act in ac-
cordance with the dictation of their
paymasters, securing in return salar-
ies which are extracted by coercion
from the pockets of their politieal
opponents."
The writer shows that Socialism
is a foreign importation and that
in the past few decades the char-
acter of the British trade union has
completely changed. The state has
taken over much of the philanthropic
work that was formerly carried on
by unions for the benefit of their
members. The State, in his opinion,
by permitting peaceful picketing, by
,allowing them to virtually compel
independent. workers to join the
unions, and by sanctioning the use
for politicalends of funds subscrib-
ed for social and industrial purposes
successive. Parliaments have placed
the unions above the law. The grav-
est abuse of this power has been per-
haps the restriction of -output. The
unions have been guided by the doc-
trine thus laid down ins -the "Fabian
Essays in Socialism." "The workers
1 have been taught by the practi-
i cal economists of the trade unions,
and have learned for themselves by
bitter experience, that every time any
of them, in a montent of ambition
or goodwill, does one stroke of work
not in .his bond, he is increasing the
future unpaid labor not only of him-
self but of his fellows,'
From this doctrine Mr. Barker
vehemently dissents, and he quotes
authorities upon economics against
it. He says, "widespread unem-
ployment is due to the fact that the
impoverished word finds British
goods too dear. Their dearness is
principally due to the policy of the
trade unions, which have caused a
universal scarcity of all the commo-
dities produced by labor." Ile rd -
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dliil,
soldier working for a motor car
firm at -Birmingham, Who found
that in turning cylinders he could
do a job in forty-three minutes.
He was warned by union officials
that the proper time was seventy
minutes. He ignored the warning:
There followed a strike which lasted
until this worker was removed. A.
good American bricklayer lays 200
bricks an hour on straightfor-
ward work by the ordinary methods,
and up to 350 an hour when using -
the Taylor-Gilbreth system. Fre-
quently, the British bricklayer lays
150 bricks a day. Mr. Ellis shows
a similar principle in many trades
and says that it is this practise that
makes living dear for the workers
themselves. He concludes, "Mil-
lions of workers vaguely feel that
trade unionism is chiefly respon-
sible for present unemployment.
Before long we may see a wide-
spread revolt against trade union-
ism. Its downfall seems inevitable..
Organized labor has over reached
itself."
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The Red Cross
Carries On _Why
i . Because of demands made upon it
in dealing with the terrible after-
math of disease and suffering -which
always follows war.
2. Because of the serious health con-
ditions revealed by the war -more
than half of our Canadian young
manhood unfit for combatant mili-
tary service.
3. Because an international confer-
ence of medical experts, realizing
that voluntary organization was
necessary as an aita to Governments
in solving the- world's health prob-
lems, decided that "no other or-
ganization is so well prepared to
undertake these great responsibili-
ties as the Red Cre.•is," and that
"no movement deserves more the
hearty and: enthusiastic support of
all people than does this."
ONTARIO ENROLLMENT, MAY 22-28
Enroll with your local Red Cross Branch or Enrollment Committee,
or, if there is none in your community, with the Ontario Provincial
Division, 910 SHERBOURNE STREET, TORONTO.
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