’ ay ‘Physician Con: : f others. They praise the. Irishman’s t-|- and the Seotehman's caution and fru-| Tuesd Consultations arranged, a ndence. W. G. Kk. SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Schin- _ bein’s Store, — H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. and Surgeon. Office ‘ ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- er Main and Wallace streets. Phone 69. Night phone 113. 7 - P- W. C. PRATT, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon) Office and-residence on Main street, two blocks west of postoffice. Phone 228. s . DR. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., ridewie an Schin- bein's stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ vil re-establishment, whereby sol- yaiers get free treatment for one year after discharge. Phone 17. DR. F. J. 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 Hoe pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, on Wednesday. Nov. ird., m. to 4 p.m. 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 ‘ am le, a a Listowel, {rem 10 a. corre- gality. In war, they cheer the Scot- | tish tenacity, and the Irish dash. Now apd again somebody remembers “to speak of their own d and cheerfulness, but more often. the references are to their slowness and denseness to new ideas. But, as Rud- yard Kipling said, thére is one_time -in the year when they can eréep out’ of their hiding wiaées and tell each other what they think about them- selves? That is St. George's Day. This year, Mr, Kipling was the chief speaker at the St. George's banquet in Londen, and, as is always the case, he an mirable speech, in- which humor,”patriotism and senti- ment were deftly compounded. In speaking of the various points of con- tact the English Sage ~~ with hu- hoe- neclans taught the mansiektsen the elements of shop-keeping; the Roman taught him love of mpsrt, by hiring him to fight beasts in the na. Under the Heptarchy he studied | social reform, which in those days consisted of making a levy on capital to buy off the heathen of the north rom taking direct action against English industries, Next he took a three-hundred-year course of collo- quial and law French under -eminent Norman teachers, but never learned profound respect based on experience | -and a cogviction, which time. had “deepened, that they were the only other people in the world who really mattered. For five hundred years his domestic and foreign policy was the language, but “it left him with a| ft at the heavens, for hig neighbors across the Charmel | | i ff u popu * A stranger entéred a a taaenr r tittle village in a remote apn of Switzer- and some years ago, seated himsel in the inn ‘and produced a chess board. e inn cronies gathered round him wonderingly. They had never seen a chess board before, and showed such keenness in learning the game that before long the visitor had ineuleated the whole village with chess mania. hess men and boards were ordered in large quantities and the game played with such zest that both men and women seglected their. duties in — of it. The village becam wn in the country as “the village that i chess-mad."’ Pig heres Halley's comet last appeared astronomer bet himself to a little village in South America, set- ting up there an ispresiant rva- tory for the purpose of viewing the great flery streak, It was in a wild district, and the natives, who knew nothing of telescopes, were intensely interested in his great ‘magnifying tube," Ultimately the chief men were granted permission to peer through and were 80 delighted with the experiment that they induced the astronomer to ;secure.for them a number of small telescopes. This was tone, and fdr a, lo time afterwards the villagers the. greater part of their nj 4 “star gazing. largely controlled by Italians, French politico-ecclesiastical authorities. Lat- ; er he was exposed to the rigors of | the Puritan conscience, which wags then largely directed from. Geneva, Leyden, Amsterdam and the Low | Countries. While thus employed, he and fatally subjugated by the Scots." Any unmixed race would have been driven to the edge of lunacy by such a built-up gun-barrel, is all one tem- | per though weldéd of different ma- | terials. Roman, Norman, Papist, | Cromwellian, Stuart, Hollander, Han-! overian aristocracy, middle class and democracy, each ineturn experiment- | ed on the English, and each was met with a large, silent tolerance that was | mistaken for stupidity. Each was given a fair trial and then dismissed. It was thus, and not in a. fit of | DR. RK. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and — mologist. All.diseases treated Sar Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. m. m. Office over Johnstone's pievey store. ‘ : ~W. F. McLAUGHLIN Imer agd funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming ‘school. Residence and parlors, Main St., one and a half bléeks east of Bap- tist church. Night and day calls promptly attended. Phone 227. FIRE INSURANCE fn best companies; also accident, au- tomobile, burglary, plate ¢ and ‘bond - yp bags Automobile ineur- per 100. Your bueiness ance, 85 ¢ solicited. . D. BOLTON. ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE The Strongest and Cheapest com- Panies operating in Canada Fire! si 60 per $1,000. Storm, $1.50 per 1,060. Automobile, 85 cts per 100. & Town or Country. H. Hemeworth. J. P., Issuer of Marriage Licenses PJ W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer ‘Conducts selling by auction in all, its: branches. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Farms for-sale. Cal! at the office of Listowel Drilling Machine! @bsent-mi was torn oe outcome of the relaxations of per- secuted specialists, men who for one pcause or another were unfit for the rough and tumble ee chiged life. They did it in search o t and change, and taking thats habits with them, by some mysterious rule of thumb magic they did establish and main- tain a reasonable peace and security among simple folks in many parts of the world, and that without over-~ much murder, oppression or torture, It was due to the large tolerance that the English had developed in their many centuries of intercourse with various masters and would-be mas- ters that made them sympathetic to learned also this great les- “That men should not try to do ‘bettas than good for fear that worse than bad might follow,” Referring to the war the speaker said that after ninety-nine years of peace the lish were given lesa than ninety-six hours to choose whé ther they would buy_a little longer peace with the heathen of the North, as their fathers had bought it, or make peace with them as King Alfred had made it. As a race they hed forgotten to say “No” to any- | one who said “Yes" in a sufficiently loud voice; they had quite forgotten that they had broken a church, killed one king, closed a protectorate and exiled another king sooner than be driven where they did not desire to | go. But when their hour came again, | they decided once again, and once again by instinct, to go their own Co, and let us discuss with you your! way, for once again they had- prepar- needs. a HIDES WANTED Highest market’ prices paid for | hides, furs and fowl. M. Izen phone 186, Listowel. | ing. ed nothing, they had foreseen noth- “They had been assured that ‘Bot only was there no need for pre- | Paration agdinst war, but that the mere thought of it was abeurd, where it wes not criminal. Therefore, "| through the Bret two years of the’ ry to throw up a barricade of the dead bodies of the hation's youth betlind which the moet Sarg any preparation could be. begun Referring to Defoe'’s summing . of a true-born Engl as “ man akin to all the Universe,’ Ripe ling said! “What will this man do in ‘the future? We are too close to the dust of the main battle to see clear We know that England is erlppled by the loss of wastage of a whole gen-" eration. Her position from ‘a civil point of view is that of our stain war. That and Spanish with occasional Austrian | toy some years ago a village in the was under pretext of union, finally | ~authority that the world's wealth is experiences, but the Englishman, like | ‘exception of his cousin Jonathan, e- Empire | Le It was, said Mr. Kipling, [eee because a wide plain in ill-defined and jfrequentliy chan seers, with many tributary branches and cross _ Penie voeagiy the lan ay a one During the vogue of the “diable” north of England 4vent diabolo mad: It -was computed that there were two diabolo autfits in the possession of every fatilily. Wealth of, the World. It Is reassuring to learn on high still expressed in twelve figures— that, if it were possible to realize it, \it would represent over a hundred | thousand millions in good gold; amd ; that of this- colossg} sum John Bull ,can lay claim to nearly a sixth, says Answers. He gtill- remains the rich: |; @st man on earth, with the solitary igures that run to thousands of | willions convey nothing to the un- aided mind; and if we would gain | any conception of the world's riches hg must juggle a little with them. capvert them into | sold: we shal? then find co repre- sented by a ‘cube, rising nearly as high as Nelson's monument in Tra- falgar Square, a cube more than 40 yards in each dimension, and con- taining as much gold as all the mines of the world could yield in.a thou- sand years. would our cube be that it would outweigh three times the population of Australia? all the peo- “ple in England to-day could not raise it a fraction of an inch from the ground; and its transport by rail, would tax the powers of twenty-five thousand locomotives. Of the world's wealth it is inter- esting to know that towards every pound of it farms contribute, ap- proximately, 6s., houses -4s., railways he 8d., and merchandise 1s. 7d., leav- ng 6s. $d. in the pound for wealth cry all other descriptions. Long-Lived Tortoise. Sparrows have been known to live for forty years, so no wonder some of our Sparrows are Knowing Jittie ihe are quite grown up.” A horse dees not live much more than twenty-seven years, and if hard worked would probably not live as | long as ‘ The tortoise is supposed to live to be anything between 300 and 400 years old. Some people say toads can live for ever, but, of course, that has not been proved, though” cer- tainlysthey live to a great age. th an eagle and a crow have been. known to live to be 100, but the poor little wren only lives about three years. An elephant's lifetime lasts about 100 years, and he isn't considered grown-up until he is about twenty- five yeare old. Cotton In “Mesopotamia. . The possibilities of Mesopotamia for cotton growing are said to be very considerable, but its potentiali- ties have yet to-be investigated and put to the test to e whether cotton growing can be established there on a commercial basis. The rainfall is so small that the P sncimagie aad ekta of e country must de- entirely u tion. Meao- ja, Wis sald msinote from ae - the tio; pe Egypt tion system is. depénden single river-with a well defined a permanent course, like ihe Nile, Qa vers—tih and connections, Water We Carry, The body of an average weighting 154 pounds, contains tere six. quarts of water, The bones are néany one-lourth Prigoate Gris po a tittle the nervy are tonette el apet water, ig more than pea 7 Fie: enfin of war with any, “was not. “such as to en- those who believed that one t chiefly needed. was women members. But another American wonran is do- ing much to remové the unfortunate impression created by Miss Rankin. That is Lady Astor, who wus for- merly Miss Naney Langhorne, of Vir- ginia. She is tle frat woman to"be elected to the British House of Com- mons, and she is making good. Lady hie nae ia & eopdiaate for Parlla- ment en her husband, then a mem- ber, inBerited his. father’stitle and was automatically moved; to the tae of Lords, much against his wh inclination. _ His wife decided that an Astor ought to be in the Lower House, and since her eldest son, an officer in the British army, was held to be rather too juvenile for the post, she took up the running herself and won handily. She now alts for Plymouth. Lady Astor.is not exacily a novice, She had much experience in helping her husband in his elections. She had conquered inherent timidity, and as the London Times says, “She speaks fluently and with the e«treme naturalness that comes to those wha have bravely Stifled natural nervous- ness.” Of course, like every other new member, it will take her. some -to mastér all the traditions and canenito u8, unwritten for the most part,that govern the House of Com- mons,ind the secon@ day she w there she afforded some amusenrént tly committing-some minor opente. Nor ‘has Astor ac- dy cept the advice which usually is heHP'epod for young members. She has not. been content to sit silently | t forbebior three years before offering | any. remarks. On the contrary, has spoken frequently, knowing that the electors of Plymouth Go not} expect the first woman menber to irt-herself like the ordinary few ma bér. It is to be adnritted that she speaks to the point and if her speeches have not excelled in logic and moderation of statement, they have. been” marked by a qnality of feeling and sympathy that has earn- ed the respect of the House. Lady Astor has made hergelf in one. sense a spokeswonihn. for the temperance forces of England. Sev- eral of ‘her-speeches, questions and ingeowtions have been inapired by + Ques Astor-4s a ‘probibitioniat An the sense that she hopes that England will go dry. She not q prohibitionist in the sense that she now advocates prohibition. “IT am far too intelligent for that,” the sald in the House, and was given her meed of laughter and applause. She admits that England is noi ripe. for prohibition; that the Briitsh elec- torate would sinother any proposal to carry or enforce an effort to im- pose in Britain the conditions ‘that prevail In the United States. Her immediate object is to maintain in foree some of the restriction# that were established an war-time expedi- ente by the Liquor Control Bourd. Some of. these restrictions have been she i well | relaxed, and there appears to be -a stropg desire on the part of the British workingman that there shonid be an immediate return to pre-war conditions, Workingthen find their. inferior. They want their beer cheap and good and accessible At all hours. The trade, -mourse, is equally anxious that it shall be able to sell all that ean be Brewed. In a recent speech Lady Astor pointed out some of the benefits that oe resulted from war-time restric- tions. She did not quote statistics concerning mén since most of the men were overseas, but she said that convictions for drunkenness among women had been reduced four-fifths, This was a tremendous , when_it is borne in mind that the ma jority of English women thrajigh th war had far-more money than ever, ore, and probably had far greater. moral temptation to.drink to excess. | Dea ths from delirium tremens were ‘also greatly reduced, and the deathe | of children from being overlaid by intoxicated mothers was halved. These.are solid benefits that it would be foolish to minimize. Since the resirictions hdve been slightly wodi- fied it is found that the convictions ameng women have doubled: Among men they have quadrupled. To Lady Astor the drink question becomes one of nationg] efficiency. The drunken map is inefficient; the gober man is eMcient. It is almost as necessary after the war as it was during the war that the nation should be eff- cient. Restrictions will promote effi- ciency... To her mind that is all there is to be said. a woman, {t ie natural that her thoughia should turn to the rights of the children. In discussing the contention. that the restrictions were vexatious, she -sald motorists whe want to 7 fifty or sixty miles vexatious an hour. find to slow down to. ten riba when. passing cot ge <a Village, y “is agreed ‘that the lives of the community are probablly lengthened as a result of such a vézatious restriction. Her mind does net dwell. sco much upon of the drinker as upon the right of the children to freedom. M get. th freedom, anyway; if-men.are sodden or crazed:by jdripk, they are likely todeprive their laidorare of freedom, ; She inéists that the intercsis of the trade"eannot be-+| led to .the«intereygs af the that, M some re- attention Dalpatraim ban and ppevricrebay dject. of, thé things that legislative halle} the , and from ea took active and gent interest in public affairs. per et ag of his abilities and his Joy- telli- date re- ty he receiv the decoration of Com m of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1910. Two years later he ea member of tee naiceemtiss Council, of the Governor_of Bombay, ‘serving in that years, when membership in the General: Council of the Empire; While on duty. in Bombay in 1915 the decoration of Enight Commander~ of the Indian Empire.was bestowed upon him. - r Pra ankar was born -in 1862. In 1891 he married Rama Vis- vanath Hithaljii They have two ne. a — An Eccentric Marquis. An interesting description of the: late Marquis of Clanricarde, the no- torious and wealthy Irish absentee Betory, “ig given by the late Lady” me "Nevill int her “Life and Let- tra edited by her son, Mr. Ralph etLord Clanricarde’s youth had not been a happy one,’ says Lady Dor- othy Nevill, ‘and as g young man he was completely overshadowed by his popular and handsome’ brother, In 1852, with a small allowance, he be- came attache to Sir John Hudson at Turin. Here, it-was said, in order to save expense, he ar ed with the custodian of an arch to Yet him sleep in the small chamber where the lat- ter kept his pails and brooms; an- other rumor was that he was more or less his own“aflor. In his old age his coat, or even his hat, was held together with rough stitching. He never, no matter how Kad the weath- er, took a ca he never Jost and | never forgot.an umbrella. “A great student of prices, no one tter than he knew how to get the t for his money. It is said that, having at one of his clubs discovered an obsolete rule by which slices of ham were iftcluded in the table money, he set to work with such @ termination that the tog Hberal or- dinance had to be hastily abrogated. votary of tobacco, he was probably the most oem smoker that ever lived—a' ¢igar, hi ; Was ‘néVer Ai ite best tin the third time of smoking . "It was lying among a drawerful of Cigar mumps that he showed me in the Albany the famoué: Cinque Cento jewel, said to be worth seme £13,000, which Canning had bought from the Mogul's treseury” at Delhi.” When Does Old Age Begin? “When shall old age be said to begin? At 66, in many, especially in those who have hardening arteries, 76 in the more fortunate, should be the answer, I think,” writes Dr. T. Bodley Scott in the Practitioner, “but the beginning of old age should be only the setling forth on a slo downward path. The Curation of life should far exeeed David ree score yeare and ten (the moder girl's erlticiam of David's estimate was, ‘but look at the Iffe he had led,’) “There is a rough rule, J think, for the mammalia, that the years of by should bear a ratio to the years their development, A dog or cat cakes two to two and a Malf years to mature, multiply by five and you. get the dnration of" life; a horse takes five years and lives to 25; an ele- phant takes 30 to 40 years and lives to 150 to 200; men who mature anon 18 ta 20 should are to $0 or We, however, fight a0 habitually against natural*law that but few of us fulfil our years, but-it is a com- forting thought that more and more are doing this as they learn, by wis- dom or force of ete to lead a simple life." . Cost of Education. Where everything has so largely advanced in price sinée pre-war days, it is not surprising to hear the com- Plaints of parents and guardians of the growing cost of education, and the maintenance of children. In this connection it is interesting: to note that Diodorus Siculus, a f who traveled in Egypt something like 2,000 years ago, noted that to bring up a child from infancy to manhood t country at that time, did _— eost more than twenty drachms, sum equal to about thirteen shillings of English money. This low cost, combined with a fruitful soil and a congenial feniperature, naturally aby creased the population, which was far larger than in any other part of Africa! But a shilling a year would not go very far in bringing up a youth nowadays in Egypt or any- where else. First Harvest Festival. Who was the originator of the Har- vest Festival? It is commonly sup- posed to daie from the Genera! Thankegiving ordered “by Queen Vic- torla in 1854, but Archdeacon Den}- ‘son held a harvest festival in bic church at East Brent, Somersetshirc, “id 1843, and the- famous peet-preach- Hawker of Horwenstow, held a states service in his Cornish ysis that same: year. . most “space to armor. In offensive and de- fensive power the Negato is superior sists-of ten long 16-inch guns as against: the — 15-inch guns:of. the Hood. Speed and length have been sacrificed to give the’ Negato superior armor protection to the Hood, or any other Vessel afloat or proposed. No exact details are available on the subject of the Negato but the Japanese have, for sev years past, been studying both sub- marine and a¢rial protection in add tion to protection against Lear shell fire, Huge sums have spent in the course of their Mb se ments, which have been conducted with characteristic Japanese thor- oughness and efficiency. The Negato embodies the result of these experi- ments. The Japanese Navy Department. very reticent about giving wut information concerning the Ne- gato, and for is’ reason she was built insa navy dockyard where pry- ing eyes have had bit few opportunf- ties of revieWing her construction. Only recently have naval authorities been aware of the existence of this class of ships. The Mutsu, a sister ship of the Ne gato, is to be completed in 1921. Two other’ships, the Kaga and the Tosa, are under construction. There is some doubt as to the particulars of these latter ships. There-is sald to be a controversy over thelr armament. ft Is: proposed to arm them with either twelve 16-inch or eight 17-inch guns, and there appears (o be some oppost- tion to arming them with the short- Hved, stow-firing 18-inth guns with their great tange and punishing power. The Japanese ordnance ex- | perts recGived their training in Eng- land and the Introduction of an 18- inch gun into the British service is known. to have had a marked influ- ence upon the Japanese. RH addition to these ships the Jap- are building four battle ee that, it is said, will be super- ior to the Hood and the American ships under eonstrnetion. America is indifferent the vale’ of sSedut cru uisers, Japanese are building them ~ ‘fm umbers. Their program calls for twenty-five of these ships In 1924, Five vessels are complete, eight are on the stocks and more will be laid down presently. All Japanese warships are charac- terized by their large cruising radius. In future wars-Japan means to take the offensive as the best ‘means of de- fence. This carriés the scene of baitle ity than any other form of i The plan .of_operation “is io ‘conduct a dashing offensive with all the evel power "she can muster and to the problems of home : ee io’ ships of the setond li tee advance at present p Bearers 4 ont nt thts plan. The battle fleet, conaisting of four twelve 14- carry inch lutely free of the problems of home defence. Five seout cruisers and all of the destroyers in-the navy of over 1,000 tons are with this fleet.. Oom+ re-this force with the United States, Pacific fieet, consisting of five d noughts armed with twelve 12-4, guns and two old, worn out, lame duck scout cruisers that can ates “ied about twenty-four knots r. Hoe defence is maintained by submarines, destroyers ane alreraft, For Japan this is an idea ment. The submarine is in ‘ea ohio in the warm waters of the Japanese islands and when the submarine ‘is aided and protected by the destroyer i n 600 tons and 1,000 tons are building for this purpose. Information con- cerning the Japanese submarines is noticeab use of its absenree, but I have it ém very good authority that nearly two hundred boats are to be built by Japan and that the larger classes are te, be superior to the British “K"' boats. The very large boats will be experiments with the submarine battleship; mounting 10- inch and 12-inch guns. - Japan been somewhat back- — in the air. This is not a result remote At The I t has, made to the Hood, ‘The main battery com ‘8. armor, — act io. long and: canbe shapte Sag 7 Nice ia i 8 a soa ah Sie at bil Be ais eh eit tional disregard of this potent - mili a factor but rather from her position and her pom of operations in tlre war. present both the army and navy are experimenting with and Pig oy air- craft.