“No. : 29.5 ee. J. B. TERHUNE - Barrister, Notary Poblic and cow: “veyancer. Office in Barrister, Bray’ 8 old stand, Wallace street. “Sees HH. B. MORPHY, K. C, be Barrister, Notary. Public, Con- ony yancer, Solicitor for Bank of milton, Listowel, Milverton, . At- -~ wood. Offices Listowel. and Milver- ‘ton. Money to loan. J. C. HAMILTON, B! A.” Barrister, «Conveyancer, Solicitor pas for the Imperial Bank of Canada. yf Money to loan. Office on south side € f Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- nery Parlors. W. G, E, SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist sylvania, Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dental a _. Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Schin- a ~ bein’s. Store. - HH. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Bes Physician and Surgeon. Office Beat -ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- : er Main and Wallace streets, Phone 69. Night phone 113. ® W. C. PRATT, M. D. : ' ‘Office entrance-one door east of J. M. —$chinbein &- Son's store * % Night calls attended to at residence, corner of Inkerman and Davidson* streets, near hospital. Phones: Residence 227. Office 228 DR. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- : _ # bein’s stairway. f Medical representative of Soldiers’ civil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment for one year after discharge. Phone 17. DR. F. 3. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat “Graduate in medicine, University of Toronto. Late assistant New York, Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield’s Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos . pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, pone on Wednesday, May Sth., from 10 a m. to 4 p.m. 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 DR. R. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- _Mologist. All diseases treated. _ 'fested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a to 8 p. m. Office over Tomastons’e jewelry store. —_ ca FIRE INSURANCE In best companies; also accident, au- eet tomobile, burglary, plate glass and a insurance. Automobile insur- , 85 cts. per 100. Your business solicited. E. D. BOLTON. ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE The Strongest and Cheapest com- , panies operat in Camada. Fire "$1.50 per $1,00 Storm, $1.25 per 1,060. Automobile, 85 cts per 100. Town or Country. H. Hemsworth, J. P., Issuer of Marriage Licenses. Phone 615. R. 4. HIDES WANTED Highest market prices paid for 2 hides, furs and fowl. S. M. Izen, phone 136, Listowel. (From Lo “Number 29,” he said, “black mare, sound.” The cold rain and the biting north- east’ wind did not add to the appear- ance of Number 29, as she stood, de- jected, listless, with head drooping, in.the center of the farmers and horse-dealers who were attending the sale of cast army horses. She, looked as though she realized that her day had waned, and that the bright steel work, the soft well-greased leather, the snowy head-rope and the shining eurb were to se put aside for less noble trapping: She had a sanefoigats shaped white blaze, and I think it was that, added to the description of her blindness, which stirred my memory within me. I closed my eyes for a second and it all came back to me, the gun stuck in the mud, the men straining at the wheels, the shells bursting, the reek of high explosive, the two leaders ly- ing dead on the road, and, above all, two gallant horses doing the work of four and pulling till you’d pinkag hearts would burst. I stepped forward and, looking closer-at the mare’s neck, found what I had expected, a great scar. That settled it. I approached the auction- eer and. asked permission to speak to the crowd for a few moments. do the talking here, you know “It won’t do you any harm,” 1 pleaded, “and it will give me a chance to Day off a big debt.’ “Right, " he said, amiling; “carry .| on.’ “Gentlemen,” I said “about this time a year ago I was commanding a battery in France. It was during the bad days, and we were falling back with the Hun pressing hard upon ws. My guns had been firing all the morn- ing from a sunken road, when we got orders to imber up and get back to a rear position. We hadn’t had a bad time till then, a few odd shells, but nothing that was meant especially for our benefit. And then, just as we were getting away, they spotted us, and a battery opened on us good and strong. By a mixture of good Tuck and great effort we'd got all the guns away but one, when a shell landed just in front of the leaders and knock- ed them both out with their driver; at the same time the gun was jerked off the road into a muddy, ditch. Al- most simultaneously another shell : ndon Punch) , cape teen oneer uncer at Ri boo aged, blind in near eyé, otiierwiss : “Well,” said he, “I’m. Supposed | to} “It looked ‘hopeless, xed it Was ov , the tip of my tongue to give orders| to abandon the gun, when suddenly ne of the blue there appeared on the bank above us a horse, looking unconcernedly down at. us. “In thosé days loose horses were straying all over the country, and I took this to be one from another bat- tery which had come to.us for com- pany. ““T turned to one of the men. “Cue that mare quick.’ “In a few minutes we had the har- ness off the dead wheeler and on the new-comerg Pull? Géntlemen, if you}. could have seen those two horses pull! “We'd just got a move on the gun when another shell came and seemed to burst right on top of the strange mare. I heard a terrified squeal, and through the smoke I saw her stagger and with a mighty effort recover her- self. I ran round and saw she’d been badly hit over thé eye and had a great tearing gash in the neck. We never thought she could go on, but she pulled away just the same, with the Wlood pouring off hér, till finally we got the gun out and down the road to safety. “T got knocked out a few minutes later, and from that day to this I’ve often wondered what had happened to the mare that had served us so gall- antly. I Know now. . There she > eeendl before you. I'd know her out:of a ra age by the white blaze; and if nee was a doubt there’s her blind and the sear on her nec *aThat" s all, gentlemen; but I’m go- ing to ask the man who buys her to remember her story and. to see that her last days are not too hard.” She fell at a good price to a splen- did type of West Country farmer, and the auctioneer whispered to me, “I'm glad old Carey’s got her. There’s not a man in the county keeps his horses better.” “Old Carey” came up to me as we were moving off. “I had a son in France,” he said, “in the gunners, too, but he hadn’t the luck of the old mare”—he hesitated a moment and his old eyes looked steadily into mine —‘“for e’ll never come back. The mare’ll be all right, sir,"" he went on as he walked off, “easy work and full rations. I reckon she’s earned’*them.” Local Items of Interest. GRAND TRUNK System Double Track Route between MONTREAL TORONTO DETROIT CHICAGO Unexcelled Dining Car Service. a Sleeping cars on night trains and parlor cars on principal day trains. Full information from any Grand Trunk Ticket agent or C. E. Horning District Passenger Agent, Toronte. A. M. SMITH, Station .Agent. J. A. HACKING, Town Agent. With Casket U alkerton Times—The demoraliz-| ed state of the roads in this vicinity ; at present and especially that part of Sg the highway leading from Pett’s fac- “tory to the cemetery was instanced “by the difficulty experienced in gett- ing through by those who attended the funeral of Mr. Aif. R. Weber's fis young son on Tuesday morning when 2 the horses began crowding and the ve- ».*.. hicle containing the little casket of the departed, upset, near the former Cooper property, . necessitating the earrying of the coffin on the should- ers of men for the balance of the journey. At a funeral of a little child '_» the previous Friday this road was in | > © such a state that the casket had to be Bee borne on a hand-sleigh to the burial fe ~ ground. As this highway forms part -to the County Good Roads’ System, *\ those responsible for keeping it open “ate apparently asleep on the job, as $30 A Week For Nurses— London Advertiser—A spécial meet- ing of the Victoria Hospital Alumnae was recently called to discuss the question of raising their rates for nursing service in the city. The re- sult is the raising of the straight $25 fee to $30 a week for general nursing. and $35 a week for contagious and obstetrical cases. Grey Tp. Farmer Drowned— A sad drowning accident occurred near Brussels about 10 o’clock Friday night. James Sinclair of Grey town- ship was returning home by the 12th concession and his team plunged in- to a washout caused by the overflow- ing of the river. Sinclair and his team were both drowned, despite every ef- fort to rescue them by nearby resi- dents who heard his cries for help. Fell Down Well— Woodstock Review—While E. Ne- vill, a farmer residing just east of this city, was driving home a herd of five fine Holstein cows, purchased by him at the big sale held here yes- terday afternoon, one of the animals, the cow Bessie of Belleview, purchas- ed for two hundred and eighty-five dollars from E. D. Hilliker.of Bur- gessville, took fright, and. dashing into a vacant lot in the East End, fell down an old well and was killed. Tree Cutting Stopped— resolutions were passed at last meeting of the city council to instruct the Parks and Committee to stop all cutting aud trimming of city trees until a report is made on the condition of the trees. The motion was fathered by Ald. Carter, who is also secretary of the Horticultural Society, and the mat- ter of tree trimming has been a Live one with this organization for some time. At the recent short course in home beautification at the O.A.C., one of the experts present was Mr. R. Davey, of Akron, Ohio, who, after making a tour of the city with mem- bers of the local Horticultural So- ciety, stated that 90 per cent. of the trees here were defective because of being improperly trimmed, and he said that many of them had been real- ly butchered throagh careless and ignorant trimming. oy local applications, as they cannot reach rth of the ear... There ‘ only one’ way to cure Geafneas, and that A constitutional remesian. Deatueis ip condition of gg Eg h ~ cous liming of the Eustachian £6 this tabe is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or perfect hearing. and when it i‘ entirely closed, ness ig the unless the mation can taken ow ’ this tube restored to ite normal cond! pn hy be destroyed f er; nin ten Bid caused Catarrh “ich ‘te nothi m1 ‘nothing bu arya ved conditiol t Reis B54 in ive One randres Dollars (caused by Seiarray the Fiening ey cored hy Halls Catanr. Guelph Mercury—Two important G. Lawyers or Farmers—Which? Mr. Crerar is évidently quite “able to take care of himself in debate, says the Renfrew Mercury. T questioner who interrupted him while speaking in the ‘House to ask if he did not think a government com- posed of eight farmers and one law- yer would be apt to lean towards class legislation was effectually si- lenced by the member from Marruette when he said, “Not any more s0 than ome composed of eight lawyers and one farmer.” He Apologized—* Hon. Manning Doherty made an apelogy for his statement in the House to the effect that probably Hon. Dr. Cody, in resigning -his seat, had had in mind the receipt by the churech- es of $14,000,000 and “wanted to keep where the sledding is good.’’ He said: “In my remarks referring to}. Dr. Cody, it was furthest from my mind to cast any aspersion upon the gentleman’s character or his inten- tions. It brings home to me the real- ization that as a humorist I am a fail- ure.” Use Of Telephone On G. T.— A telephone dispatching system reaching from Hamilton to Sarnia, a distance of 150 miles and costing in the neighborhood of $200,000, is to be installed by the Grand Trunk dur- ing the summer. This is announced by Superintendent C. Forrester of the i From Hamilton to Toronto, the territory which has recently been included in the London division, the telephone dispatching system is being used,.and when the present plans are completed it will be possible to con- trol the entire division by the new, service. Telephone dispatching is al- so carried out in many other sections | of the G. T. R., but in the Londofi dis- trict the dispatching is being done by telegraph at present. That Restless Feeling— Dad tells a story.about an old buck sheep they used to have on the farm, ck home. There was a-fine pasture out on the hills, but every now and again this old sheep would break out and travel the countryside—usually ending up with getting into some other pasture where he couldn’t get out. When he found himself lock- ed in, he would roam around with an air which plainly told that he wanted to be back in his old pasture. I can sympathize with that sheep and I feel quite sure that. many of you will do the same. Every. now and again I get the feeling that I want to get a-}) ‘way Into some other business. Some- Telephone 14 secured a limited quantity of | guaranteed Ontario grown Red Clover Seed. ~The price is $52.50 per bushel SWEET CLOVER SEED (WHITE OR YELLOW) ‘No. 1, $30.00 per bushel No. 2, $25.00 per bushel Cash orders filled in rotation until the supply is exhausted. aEBEE J. W. SANGSTER LISTOWEL . > one comes along and dangles a posi-} tién in front of me and tells me’ what wonderfil possibilities there.are and just about gs I decide that I will make the change, a sentence comes to me There are in towns and ¥ Over 75,000 Satisfied Users—that’s a big point ~ in favor of DELCO-LIGHT—ths ameane: Siectric light and power plant. ‘Delco-Light users are enthusiastic is the plant that gives eam maximum service, with little attention and minim A ga.on of kerosene wil st times as Paige alah > electric light), .? fuel ht i as e >i with the in- nani coal oil lam Dele Light plants were de- 8. Government for war work. thousands of nlentA t installations Write for catalog, Peecaotine and unc. DELCO- LIGHT CHT deals, ett ah and chain?” - ar wease Senin poreles "aay ™ he said - “Yolee, “is: there anyone — “wants: she buy a mies. bei asey