BIG STOCK OF HOLIDAY C0008 At Lowest prices at AT J, LIVINGSTONE'S: FANCY BOXES, TOYS OF ALL KINDS. HOLIDAY ANNUALS. Bible, Hymn And Prayer Books. Now for a rush. BANK OF _ HAMILTON. $1,250, 000 $675,000 CAPITAL - °* RESERVEFUND - DIRECTORS : JOHN STUART, PRESIDENT: A. G. RAMSAY, VICE PRESIDENT. JOHN PROCTOR, GEORGE ROACH. A. T. WOOD, WM. GIBSON, M. P, A.B. LEE (ToRosTo.) =, a SAV INGS BANK.--$1 and upwards receiv als on depos SPECIAL 'DEPOSITS also received at current rates of interes IR: "TS on Great Britain and the United States bonght om sold. Collections made on favorable term "5, H. STUART, Agent, Listowel. J, W. SCOTT, BANKER, Listowel, Palmerston and Clifford, Generar Banana Business. Drafts payable in "all parts of the Do- minion, United States and Great Britain bought and sold. Notes Discounted. Deposits Reeelved and CURRENT RATE O¥ INTERFST ALLOWED. ALSO Issuer of Marriage Licenses. E: large amount of private fands to lend ood farm security at FIVE PER CENT with. privilege of repaying annually. 46 J. W. SCOTT. Wills for Probate. A LISTOFP THOSE ENTERED IN THE PAST : TWO MONTHS--SOME VALUABLE ESTATE, The following wills have been entered for probate in the county of Perth Surrogate Court since Nov. 15, 1895: David Thomas Morris, Listowel, $1,- 000 personal, no real. Annie Jane Monteith, Gore of Downie, $45 personal, no real. John Stewart, Hibbert, $13,423 per- sonal, $7,500 real. Johu Neagle, jr., Hibbert, $577.50 personal, $785 real. Samuel Loney, Mornington, personal, $4,995 real, Elizabeth Cash, Stratford, $300 per- sonal, no real. Charles Siebert, Ellice, $220 person- al, no real. Mary McOlatcherty, Fullarton, $499 personal, $4,250 real. Samuel Smith, Ellice, $1912 person- al $8,000 real. Janet MeDeugald, personal, no rah James A. Nimock, Holly, Mich., $700 personal, no real. Thomas Dinsmore, Blanshard, $187.- 88 personal, $6,500 real. James Wood, Mitchell, $797 person- al, $195 real. James Burke, Elma, $2,630.57 per- sonal, $900 real. Renjgmin Hopfe, North Easthope, $1768 personal, $450 real. AlexanderGeikie Camphell, Wallace, $784.70 personal, $4,300 real. Alfred Edward Gould, St: Marys, $104 personal, $900 real. James Burke, Elma, $1000 personal, no real. Jamee Ogglesby, personal, $3,500 real. Richard Francis, . Fullarton, personal, $8,500 real. Robert Dowkes, Fullarton, $122.25 personal, $750 real. Archibald McDougald, Fullarton, $864 personal, no real. James Freeborn, Mornington, $263 personal, $4000 real. : Harriet Fleta U'Loane, Stratiord, $5,500 personal, no real. $499 Fullarton, $700 Downie, $263.70 $114 personal, no real. William Gallop, Mornington, $845 personal, $5000 real. Thomas Harron, Mornington, - $1,- 158.80 personal, $2500 real. Edward Taylor, a $632.82 per- sonal, no real. Catherine Sale, St. Marys, $713.77 personal, no real. GeorgeStock, Fullarton, $350 per- sonal, $2900 real. personal, $4900 real. Joseph Robb, Logan, $227 personal, $2000 real. Wilham Waugh, Logan $1036.40 pers sonal, $6250 real. Christina McDonald, North Eas hope, $464.50 personal, no real. Thomas Salter, Wallace, $1074 per- sonal, $5500 real. Ludwig Freier, Ellice, $2200 person- vl, $500 real. ---- Fatal Accident in a Michigan Iron Mine. Four Men meet a Terrible Death led Many More scriounly Injured ---- © -« oa Irepublic, Mich., Feb. 17.--Not since the collapse of No. 1 shaft of the Re- public mine six years | ago has the mining of Marquette coun- ty received such a shock as by the dis- aster which oceurred in the same ill- fated shaft at 6o'clock Saturday morning, and by W hich four lives were crusbed out -- four more are just brink of eternity. The night shift of miners and tram- to the surface in the large oc or skips Which also do duty In ont gi ore. Eight men started up wit thought of the fate w hich a natireia: them and daylight. At 1,200 feet be- low me = rlace the railed, turned, Seeing the men ina trap. Jt was impossible to reach the signal wire, and the car dragged slowlly up- ward, crushing yo grinding its human freight as in 4 The engineer * rinalty became con- scious that ara | was wrong, and put on the bre When the car was righted, it was "honed that four men were mangled to death, and the re- maining four horribly injur The Peay are the names of the dead: William McGraw, James Adolph Boitel, Mathias Tedelter. The injured are: Erik Marti, James MeGraw, sen., Charles Anderson, An- drew Peterson All are men "of family except Wil- liam McGraw. The Injured are re- panes the best possible attention at the mining company's hospital. Doc- tors report that their chances for life ody slight. Opinions are about equal- divided as to the reeponslDity for the disaster, many contending that the Republic Iron Company should re) held culpable in not maintajning = ono of carriage for its ine a is the practice in almost all age Ag this district to hoist and lower men in the ore, and by care on the "part of the engineer this method has been regarded reasonably safe, The Highwayman Caught. Artest of the Murderous Thieves whe Robbed tne Tuckett Company's Cashier. Hamiiton, Feb. 16.--The police have in custody tne two men who beyond elubbed robbed John Cauley, Friday afternoon. the detectives were told that Mike Horn and Mark Tompkins were the men seen running away, and they im- capture them, Blenkly 8 the corner of York and Locke streets. Tompkins had only a smallsum of money on him, and there was nothing about him that would indicate that 1e Was the man wanted. The detec- tives and policemen {in plain clothes, continued their search for their pal, Mike Horn, who could not be seen about hit customary haunts on Fri- dya night or Saturda o'clock Saturday afternoon Detective Bleakley had a warrant sworn outed to search the house of Mre. Lyong on Locke street, near Barton, for the money stolen, and was accompanied by Detectives Reid and Campbell and r. to the house. The significance of thie = that Mrs. Lyon is Tompkin's Detective Reid took Horn wer, and the other officers found a drawer. OF this was *©5 Bank of British North America bills, and the balance in $2 and 18 billa. The authorities are st'li searching for the a of the mon- ey. rn has n the police court several times, and ae mpkins has served a term in Central Prison for assault. They have both been re- ceiving =e attention from the po- nee for yea nley, the "vietim of the ae hs Perini hat better to-night. Her ed well last night, and if ebeeae tieng Aentt et In, and Philp have hopes of recovery. Havin« had erown for meten or of John Coulter, sr.) Milverton, $220 Alexander Mitchell, Listowel, $85 + 4 ite as they existed before the: great LESS THAN ONE ANIMALS IN THE UI WT __. Th» Fears of the Sele Stady of Natural jag Flesh. The achenitiot of W much a ed at the ten =, the butte. head of the S y as the United States, the National Park, Washington d th Gardens at paiadiiphis bin, the New York milllionsit, several, and it may be that!t! frobably half-breed: buffaloes outside t!-' above" of the Yellowstone Park, whigh: two years ago numbered about head, and which are now reduced ° It is Mr. Langley's idea: tit they should be brought to Washington and put in the Natlonal Zoologi there, The main purpose-of pugenasing this park was for the protketion of such things as the buffalo aga other American animals Hable to beg tinct. . Cne of the largest buffaldes ever ow preserved i the Suton! Museum, It now fiv feet inches wt the shoulders, and is ten feet two inches long from nose to tall, Many buffaloes welgh over 1600 pounds. T natural life of the animal is abou five years. e cows usually bre once a year and begin breeding at the age of two years. The buffalo calf at birth is covered with red hair. This hair changes after a time to brown and then black. The hair on the head of a buffalo is very long. Many a woman, in fact, would be glad to have as long halr as one of the stuffed buf- falces in the Natlonal Museum, which measures, am. told, twenty-two inches The buffalo cows weigh legs than the bulls, a good, sg udders, but their 'milk ig very "The value of buffaloes has been In- creasing more rapidly than anything in this country. Town lots in Chicago are nothing to them. About ten years. Thousands of them were killed for thelr tongues. but a good buffalo is now worth at least $500 when dead. Its skin is worth from $100'and up- ward, according to quality, and the head is worth from $300 to $500 for mounting and preservation as a relic of this great animal of the past. Such is the value of a dead buffalo. -Like buffaldes for breeding are' worth much more, and I am told that the Govern- ment buffaloes are 'worth trom $1000 to $2000 apiece. No animal has ever existed in such five years ago, Colonel R. I: rede for fifty miles through a herd of buffaloes, which he estimated 'as being twenty-five miles wide. This was icng the Arkansas River. At one point he was able to ge: upon a hill, and he says he coula sec this vast herd of buffaloes stretching out from six to ten miles in every cirection. The herd Was moving, and it took it five days to pass a given Professor Hornaday says that al the lowest estimate there were 4,- 000,000 buffaloes in this one herd, and this, as I have said, was only -twenty- five years ago. 1868 a traveler aleng the Kansas Pacific Railroad states that the train at one time pass- eu through 120 miles of solid buffalo. 'he plains were blackened by them, and more than once the cars were stopped by them. The best authority of the National Museum as to the etrly buffalo is George Catlin, who spent the greater part of his Ife in the wast studying the Indian, and who made many pictures of the buf- destruction began. He tells of herds of millions, and says that thelr roar- hundreds of thousands for their skins, for which they received only a pint of whisky aplece. You would not think that such im- mengee herds could be wiped out, The buffalo, however, are very dull beasts nm many ways. They e a mixture of stupidity and intelligence 'which it 3 hard to understand. These mighty herds were made or clumps, of buffaloes of from twenty to one hundred each, each clump be- | ing led and taken care of by one strong bull. In golng for water one of the old cows of the clump would start 'head ard rose along the track of a dry stream for miles until it found aA whterway, 'gest it. Few. wonderul exent oP Maal | to women former wonderful extent alo, iz up of companions, | - ' P fil lerd would then drink and would ile down to rest This But euch eveldence is not 'n thelr attempting to escape A hunter might: lle with ahaven Pooer = J aot "ting ir »* one after the other with- ' thy frivhtening or scaring if they ran it wag peearcan wind, white finteorn forseed, I am hiv «it selectetso ' ot only the fully «7 - nel corn will! | for sale. Fir il he here >! » 19th of March. To. Don "4 Prec eLe.--First th n the ' '> the perfect frre Zs) are! 'ea of some of at imnor eS comonsing 'bas lease nt 'ore--Patnay tleag Corn Extran* The juicesof ple: ureat ly eoneentrsted and purified, ci ond balsamsin harmonious union, all combined give the grand results. Putnam's Extractor makes no sore spot, does not lay a min up for a week, but goes on quietly doing its ' ~ they not hen Desa OS Bay, } oe Tip. . t does this mean H n's eres "At home Tues- riche (ssverely) Seal y she'll; get ack fiom the country, : ae f * That Depended, ats She--Have you enough » He--Yes, work untila perfect cure results. Beware of acid substitutes. ' el She--Which one? in the same state Jim very*far apart dalia livés 'the misspelled Mr. Colo, ower. A man named Castine, an Australian legislator, is coming half way round '| the world to the celebration in Castine, Me, H e will be the only man there so named.--New York Recorder. When to Water Horser. Always water your horses the first thing in the morning, and do not let the water be too cold. If it is too cold you will probably have a case of colic. Water is -- when it is about 10 de- warmer than the outside air in wirter, and ae much cooler in summer. Give the hay before the grain, so that the stomach may be partially filled before the concentrated food gets into it. Better still, feed chopped feed. Mix the ground grain with dampened ha FARM WANTED HOUSE OF REFUGE. convenient to stratford, Listowe' Stratford, Feb. 51806. Co. Clerk, TANIBLYN TERBERS WANTED. Sealed Tendera will be received by the under- ro up to 12 o'clock noon on MONDAY, FEB. or Building A Brick Parsonage a pe Moukton Methodist Circnit. Plan an cations may be seen at the residense ne the 'nearigued, Monkton, orat the office Binning, Architee' Listowel. Tenders be addressed to the esac pe, Mo: Bkton Y o., Ontario. By order " the rd. waiter IELD Monkton, Feb. 10, ites. secy. of Trustee Board. -- or fodder, and give the largest feed at night, when the horse has time to dl- Fat and food for the muscles are made when the horse is at rest, SMearcity of Fur, The growing scarcity of fur-bearing animals suggests to a writer in the London Spectator the feasibility of breeding such animals on farms in Si- beria. Last spring, he says, a single silver fox skin sold In London for $850, and he belleves that silver foxes, as i was shot by Mr. Horn@day. It | well as many other desirable fur-bear- ing animals, could be bred in great numbers in the proper climate. Qnill Pens. Quill pens are prepared for use by sorting them, drying them in het sand, scraping them, so as to remove the outer skin, then hardening them in diluted nitric acid. Spiendid Advice. Parson Tenthly--I find a great many of my congregation asleep while I am preaching. What would you advise me to do on such occasions? Dr, Little---Preach a rousing sermon, pennink and "sik Worms. Forty-eight Esglish pennies weigh, A good, healthy wholesomeness will make even a homely face attractive. There are many' reasons why women should take care to be healthy ie) 'very strong reason is that beauty and illness are very seldom found ly the kind on the eyes di , the manner and sunken listless end ie intellect' dull. No woman in this condition can be at- tractive to her friends. Personal ap- rance counts for much, but comfort amounts to even more. What? s the of living if one cannot enjoy anytiton? mr headaches and backaches and drag- Agar dene and pain accompany even "FT t peeet system is constantly om to a 'debit itating drain, where is posite? to come from to make' chien scot comfort i = consideration te. "tbe feelings"of o' are two 0} the incentives to an Gort to secure ealth, If the illness is in any way connected with the purely feminine organism (and the chances are ten to one that it is) Pierce's Fav Prescription will r; by him entitled ears and Her Dis- eases"? will be sent (securely sealed, in plain envelope) to those who will send this notice and ten cents to y postage, to WORLD'S Lge gy MEDI- CAL AssocIaTION, No. 663 M ain Street, Buffalo, N. Y. LISTOWEL MARKETS. Feb. 20 1806 ee per bashes 75 Barl 32 Sats 2 0 22 4 do Hay 'Per ton Bran, do eetses SSSSsnasrs torsed ga, per doz, Potatoes per bag. Hides 100° ts, 3 4 Sheepskins, Wool per th 'ol, long, 2 2 Wood short 1235 1 sed Hogs, 450°4 Live Hogs, 300 3 ibe, 250 3 300 4 TORONTO. Boies per baskel.. Peas," * Butter vai rolls | E, fre Ly perdox .. ba, Flour pe per barrel, Dressed Hogs «STRATFORD. | Wheat, bushel . : % Barley, do ioe Osta, do 23 2 ¢ 50 bu Potatoes per bag % 30 a 300 455 Eggs per do: iS is Turkeys, per Ib 7 8 Duck 8 cks, Chickee . 8 40 wat Hay. ton te * es 3 00 2 90 per cord, long, no' ee 00 'Wood per cord, ' : 9 8 3% 4 idee 44 100 Ace farm To Rent In COLBORNE ne ee a HURON CO being Lot 5, Concession 1 crescleared and the remainder good hartweud bush; a large pro- portion ' thas all been abet gntleely, for for pasture and a pp! plu , Good dwelling house of if rooms, With cellar and wood-shec aod stabling, driving shed 24xs2 ft, This farm f situated 6 miles trom Gode % Post Office and 3 miles from the lake, 1 iles from the cheesefatory, For full Lparhcalars apply o FRAN iK SALLOWS, of the firm of ALLO OWS & AL EXANDEK- EXECUTORS NOTICE 10 CREDITORS Of JAMES BURKE late of the Township of Hie in the County of igo merehant, deceased, e statues 'Listowel. their ac counts any, held by then « and ais ny take notice that late ee may proceed to distribute aME-~ BUNKE, deceased only to ie claims of shich wemay ARY kK WILLI.M BU J¢HN SPROUL By MORERE & CAKTHEW, Listowel, their Solicitors. r + We Make Friends of Our Customers and Custom- ers of Our Friends. o------ There is friendship in_ business, pa have proved it 'to be sv, and to make intimate with us hae we tally you that ae have added to our OF CHEBUYGAN, MICH., who has had a large experience in carving Meats for the best people in that city. Your patronage with us will The Kind That Pays. Our Meats are luscious and cheap. Call tip Telephone 77. STEVENSON BROS. BURDOCK PILLS do not gripe or sicken they core Consumption and Sick Headache. Farm E promptly. MR. GEO. J. STEVENSON, | & GLIMIE, WALLACE ST. 20 Ibs Granulated Sugar........ ....81 00 24 Ibs Bright. Yellow Sugar:..... --1 00 3 Ev. ted Pea 25 4 Ibs Dried Apples........---.--esee 61 WE Tesvnnccseprecneaepaees 4 lbs Choice Currants............+. 25 3 Ibs Choice Prunes fa invela cess 12bars Electric De isccveceraes - 10 Ibs Rolled Oats..... aveves iensnane 25 10 Ibs Corn Meal..........e-reeeee : eos o~-- 10c per bottle G lhe Riogs. 22. .cecersvecvacsvecs 6 lbs Tapioca seeccnce Serre ee 25 GTO HGR sos ses ccecasepvacaces B W Flour and Maple Syrup | 3 tine of Tomatoes ..........+. eens 25 Stine of Curm...-0. -- cccscs sevsie 25 Choice Family - Flour 4 lbs ny aaa ee TOR is eeiss ccwews ; 00 Me Ibs Japan Tea...... 0... 2... eeu 1 00 also the cele sueatied Monsoon Tea at 40 & 50c, vil Cake Meal, Fine Flax Seed &c. Oranges and Lemons. Produce wanted. Goods delivered TAMBLYN & GLIMIE. HELLO NO. 12. Ask for Boulter's Fancy Brand of Canned Tomatoes, Corn and Peas. Lynn Valley Canned Peaches, Pears, Strawberries and Pineapples Slbs. dried Peaches for 25 cents. BURTON' 5 yee 'Main Street HO! FOR | CHRISTMAS CANDIES NUTS AND FRUIT. T1.- Aitchison a big stock of Christmas goods in the Con- Pict line, which she intends selling AT LOWEST PRICES. If you want to fill stockings or ly » Christ- mas 3 tertainment, you cannot ao > batter than E will do for you. Fresh Fruits of all Kinds, APPLES by the Barrel or Peck . FRESH OYSTERS a the Gallon, Quart, Pint ' or Half pint. - Hand! uring pate! America. ST erg by ues brought betore tice given free of charge in Scientitic Smevican woday Bpieaialy of any ertentifio Peper fn the wo! Splendid: Sig hag et sly 83-008 "grs tee months. 'Addrens, i peewee 1 Broadway, New coke chye" 4 MERRY, CHRISTMAS TO. ALL! MARY AITCHISON Consumption. mencing LADIES OF LISTOWEL AND VIGINITY. rr We have something new. A FREE COOKING SCHOOL, under the instructions of MRS. C. V. MCLEAN, Graduate of both English and American Cookin WEEK, ' wilf be held in the room over our store for ON E. BER come. MONDAY, FEB. THE 17TH. 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