“ ‘veyancer, - for weet of Hamilton, - t- _. Wwood.- versa Listowel and Milver- ton. Money to “Foan.. J. C. HAMILTON, B, A. rister, Convéyancer, perial Bank of Canada. Office on south side of Main street, over Mise Gibbs’ Mill- inery Parlors. ‘JAMES M. RIDDELL Barrister, Solicitor, etc. Listowel Office (Tabberner’s Office.) Tuesday and Friday. Consultations arranged by spondence. corre- W. G. Bb. SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Department of University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over r Bebin bein's Store. BH. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. em. Physician and Surgeon. Office ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- er Main and Wallace streets. Phone 69. Night phone 113. WwW. C. PRATT, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon) Office and residence gm Main street, two blocks west of postoffice Phone 228. DR. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, oa Schin- bein's stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ civil re-establishment, whereby sel- diers get free treatment for one year ‘Barter discharge. Phone 17, DR. F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicine, University ef 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. on Wednesday, Nov. 3rd., m. to 4 p.m. Listowel, from 10 a. 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 | | c. DR. R. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal-| mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes tested. Glasses fitted. Hours § a. m. to 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone's jewelry store. W. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming schdol. Residence and parlors, Main St.. one and a half blocks east of Bap- tist church. Night and day calls promptly attended. Phone 227. FIRE INSURANCE In best companies; also accident, au- tomobile, burglary, plate glass and bond | A bile insur- apce, 85 cts. per pas mene business solicited. E. D. BOLTON. ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE The Strongest and Cheapest com- panies operating in Cameda. Fire Sit 60 per $1.000. Storm, $1.50 per 1,000. Automobile, 85 cte per 100. Town or Country. H. emsworth, ws. P., Issuer of Marriage Licenses. W. J. DOWD, Aiictioneer Conducts selling by auction in all its branches. Satisfaction guaran- teed. Farms for sale. Call at the office of Listowe] Drilling Machine Ce. and let us discuss with you your needs. HIDES WANTED Highest market prices paid for hides, furs and fowl. 8S. M. Izen, phene 136, Listowel. SORE , THROAT Pa COLD IN ae CHEST tg ete. Chas. F. Tilton, Fairville, N.B. writes: "I wish te : that we ' censider your MI 'S LIN- I a very and chest. I would not be without it if the price was one dollar a bottle.” MINARD'S Solicitor] |factions are made without fuss. 1 If the arof, G.C.B., G.B.E.7 Nei- New York Herald says that he is one of the most remarkable and in- teresting men in the world, and he makes out a pretty good case for it, ‘too, unless he is drawing upon a highly hectic imagination. Accord- ing to him Sir Basil is the “Million- aire of Mystery,” one of the weailth- fest men in the world, whose: various art collections ean compare with those Of any American millionaire, and- whose philanthropies are as vast as they are gapricious. He. is about to visit this continent on a special mission for the British Government. His visit has to deal with finance, of course, for it is in the realm of finance that Sir Basil shines” with Purest ray serene. The fact that he was born about 65 years ago of ob- scure parents and in the intervening years has made himself an amazing fortune, and able at more than ohe critica] moment in the war to throw his tremendous resources on the side of the Allies would séem to qualify him particularly for a finap- | celal mission. Sir Hasil was born of a Greek mother and a Russian father in +~ Athens and reared amid squalor. At the age of sixteen he went to Paris with five francs in his pocket. We now .skip over the next fifty odd Years and find him dwelling in a pal- ace, one at a time, but having half a the correspondent: fellowship of the elect, the homage of beauty, the and the esteem of scholars,” and if thére is anything else to enjoy he ; Probably enjéys that too. He is de ecribed as short, wiry but distin- guished looking, with kindly blue grey eyes, white hair, moustache and | imperial. He has never been known to appear without a red carnation In his buttonhole, from which one would infer that he ts always well dressed: In addition, he has an In- teMectual face. Despite this, his character has some quaint kinks. For netance, though a bachelor, he hates the opposite sex, and “his narrow escapes from matrimony have been thrilling, his fame and wealth hav- teresting lure to the ladies. had otheg escapes, too. the Ge Price of $100,000 on his head, for they recognized in him a determined and influential enemy. The Sun correspondent, Mr. Edgar Middleton, telle of an interview Sir Basil had with a former Chancel- lor of the Exchequer in qne of the dark days of the war, and though we disbelieve the anecdote, we repeat it. In the war were direly needed, but the neceg- Bary credits to purchase them were not forthcoming. Matters were al- most desperate when one day the Chancellor happened to unburden himself to a friend. “K-mitiion pounds,” remarked the friend, naming the huge sum re- quired. “That's nothing. JI know a man who could guarantee you that amount within twelve hours. He's in London now. I'll ask him to drop round.” And he did, with the result that within the stipulated time the British Government was guaranteed the required sum. If- you believe that a Greek, who, up to this time, was unknown to the British Govern- ment, could raise money for muni- tions that the British Government could not ralse when the very exist- ence of the Empire was at stake, you May accept this story. Here is another one that does not FO feverely tax creoulity’ In the opening stages of the wur. Germany was keenly anxious to secure the co-operation of Sir Basil, and at this time Greece, through its king, was Germany's unofficial ally. Strong represenlations were made through importan! Greek personages that Sir Basil should have a conference with rman financial experts. To the astonishment of hie friends, knew that Zaharoff was strongly French by adoption, he consented and the meeting took place. The Germans thought that their credit wae about to be atded by the untold millions of the Greek financier. Sums of hundreds of millions of dollars were mentioned, respectfully but con- fidently. Zaharoff was told certain things. He went aQway, and lie did not come back, but it is said that as a result of bis information he all but doubled bis fortune in two days. It was after this unfortunate incident that the German Government put a Price on his head. or -were they. mistaken, for throughout the war he gave or lent colossal @ums to various allies, in nearly every case his withheld at his request. Thus it is that Sir Basil Zabaroff is practically unknown, while men with a tithe of his money and a decimal point of his wealth are famous internationally, He ts a philanthropist, with his own ideas of giving money. He has established a Chair of Aeronautics in Paris, and another at the London University, Mr. Middleton says that he has afso established a Chair ‘of French at Oxford, a statement that makes a further pull on our credul-: ity. He established a radio tele- grapb station at Athens. His bene- He asks how much is wanted, when it is required and how it is to be spent. answers satisfy him he pre -duces his fountain pen and signe on rthe dotted line with a single gesture. He refunes to use @ He 4 1 : i) ‘ a LINIMENTE - Ys rl ee gf “ee oes ID you ever hear of Sir Basil | dozen other palaces to dwell in when | he gets tired of one. We quote from | “He enjoys the | ‘ng made him an extraordinarily in- | He has | ans are said to have put a | At the time, munitions of every kind | sands a: * women whe | \ never hed worked before went out into the Indus- trial world, ft soon beeaine very ap- parent. that women, as a rule, hate to work for wémen and, in fact, Many of them “just won't, so there!” Actording to one. stenographer whe tried it and “won't,” feminine bosses have alot to leara about how pro- perly to treat employes of their'own sex. Here are her views on “woman's inhumanity to woman,” which affords an interesting study in temperament, as well as psychology: When I came forth from the stenography school I was firm in my belief that women in business were “just as good"’ as men—and better. I could not understand why there was such a reluctance on the part of the more experienced girls to apply for positions where there was 2 wo- man secretary or woman supervisor. But it took me just three weeks to find out—the most werve-racking, worrying three weeks I ever lived through. Since then, I have steered | Clear of womcn executives. Not alone, | either. Many a time, on the back benches of employment agencies, the | story has been told confidentially: “I | | ;eould have landed that job, but! | there’s a woman manager, and I just | | Won't work for a woman.’ | | To the unsympathetic onlooker it just shows our. “catty” dispositions, | our lack of co-operation with one an- | other. That is not so. Girls on an |} equal plane in an office get along reasonably well. They show the mu- | tual helpfulness, the ‘‘team-work” | quality that men consider masculine | by divine right. But the woman with | girls working under her, in the ma- | jority of cases, has no vestige of the | qualities that make it ¢omfortable and preferable to work for men. 1 | In the first place, she has the cor-} ner-peering habit, perhaps a relic of | | Sood housekeeping days. She is al-; ways looking for the tiniest, most in-‘ | significant details, and pestering | underlings about them for dear life. | The misplaced comma, the too light or too dark strokes, the skipped space concern her more°than the general sense of the letters her stenographer turns out. e is a master of the art of “‘picking’' on people, Her friends may term It conscientiousneas, but to her suberdinates this unwavering consideration of the veriest trifles is likely to prove nerve-racking. A man some confidence -in the, people who work under him. E cially he trusts his stenographer. After she has been with him for six months geperally he.merely glances over her letters ore affixing his | signature. If her hieroglyphic notes prove too much for her occaslonally and she changes’ a word or a sen- tence he is not too curious. If the | lettere is reasonably clean and well appearing he doesn’t stop to me&sure the margins or count the commas. The way Miss Blank runs her type- writer, imousine or flivver, doesn’t worry him. That's her business; she knows it best and he is content (6 leave it to her. Perhaps it is man’s natural vanity. Miss Blank must be all right. Else why would a judge of character and efficiency like himself keep her on the payroll? % A woman sag aisha has a passion for personally supervising. She will not trust any genordinane with the slightest detail unexplained. She will not leave the slightest thing to an employe's initiative. A man will go to the telephone girl, yea, a fluffy- haired, French-heeled, tight-skirted telephone girl—seemingly the latest thing in mefMficiency — and say: ‘Tell Brown I ean’t see him to-day.”’ There | may be a million Browns whom he ; could have possible reasons for not . He leaves it to the fiuffy- baired one to communicate the mes- sage in the gentlest way. And by ‘some mniracle of mental telepathy she does. Now a weman executive would page) nothing to so unbusiness-like a thing as na! intiative. She would walk out slowly and fix the frivolous She would say: Wiliam J. Brown, B-r-o-w-n of Yonge street. His telephone number, I lieve is Main 1492, but kindly look it up to make certain. When. you get hie office please ask for the secretary. Tell her you are talking for me. posi will. connect you with Mr. Brow ay * Mr. Bere "ete. By this time gi has on to call. up. .Fu ore, women executives have usually what call “certain ways of doing things” which they in- sist on, forcing their assistants to follow. I never met a man ‘who actu- ally cared whether a dash or a colon came after the “Dear Sirs” or who light or heavy touch, a lay vested in the effort to have the will broken, and now a-last effort has been made, under the chief direction of Elihu Root. “America’s greatest lawyer does not base his contention on a point of law. He takes the‘ broader ground that such a will as that of Marshall Field ids contrary to public policy; that it is a menace to government, and that if the principle embodied in the will were permitted to continue: unchecked It might result in the. wealth of the country passing into the hands of two or three men or even of one man. It is quite concefrable that when the Field fortune is eventually distribut- ed it will amount to a billion dol- lars, and it is equally conceivable that it- will fall into the hands of one person. Is it against public policy that any man should have~a billion dollars? Marshall Field, who began as an rrand boy, built up the largest re- tall business in the world and died fifteen years ago, left a fortune which was in excess of $100,000,000. That he was able to do this partly by debauching civic politics Sgr Chi- cago has been said, and is not exact- -to the point. No reference to the matier appears in the will. When in order t ¥100,000,000 of cha residuary estute, Z EXPANDING CREATION. Our Knowledge of the of the Untverse Con- tinmes to Grow. The high geen of Babylonia and to a ancients was a three-storey , or rather two stories and a cel- lar, ‘the latter being the abode of the dead, while on the second floor, orna- mentally bespangled with stars, dwelt the gods. Earth, of course, was flat. The sun passed across the heavens once in every twenty-four hours, and, go- Fadl under, appeared again in the east morning. There was also the pa Age which had a similar habit; and that-was about all there was of the cosmos. Since then our ideas on the subject have vastly expanded, and now, in view of recent discoveries, they seem destined to expand enormously be- yond anything hitherto imagined. We are beginning to grasp the notion of other universes outside of our own— at distances from our own universe well night inconceivable. e Rev. Jasper declared that ‘the sun do move,” He was right. “Not HENRY MARSH. he died he had two grandsons. He left the whole of his forcone to Mar- shall] Field the Third and Henry Field. The estate was bequeathdd to them in trust, and it was specified that as each reached the age of fifty the fortune should be _ divided, fifths the. whole going to. Marshall and two-fifths going to Heary. It was provided that should either io Hh _ grandsons die without isgue before becoming entitled to his oe it git go to the survivor. Now Field died some time ago, avis a widow and also a nat- ural son, the result of a union with Peggy Marsh, an English actress. No question has been raised that Henry Anthony Marsh, the child, is the son of Henry Field. The question Js, should ‘the son inherit a part of his father’s estate, or all of it? is the ° Marsh and. Heary Field “issue” in the sense the word was Marshall Field, used by or did he mean “legal issue’? It has been held already that be meant “legal issue,” but the quéstion is Popes once more. A lawsuit is now 5 progress. in the United States to aan Henry Antahony recog- mised as one of the legal heirs to the Marshall Fields millions. In England there have been many detisions to the effect that “issue” means only “legal share in it. His. ft ts-should share in it: His female descendants who were rovided for handso ly, and the nmrillionaire's sole interest appeared to be in his ' (as may be plainly seen by Liss Pioneer tsherm Srop err’ wortn bt only does it revolve on its own axis the spots" which travel across its disk), but it is moving in a straight line through space, like a gigantic projec- tile, at a speed of at least ten miles ja second. As it thus moves, the earth | and its sister planets, of course, go, |} with it. Astronomers, luries, have acutaWy been able to ub- | ?| serve this movement, by the closer | pathering of stars In the sun's wake }eud the wideping out of constella- ahead of us—just as might be noe ced of trees and houses passed or approached in a railroad train. All the stars are suns, most of them much bigger than our own solar luminary, and every one of them is traveling at a terrific speed. The so- called Runaway Star (known to as- tronomers as 1830 Groombridge) is | going at a rate of 200 miles a sécond. What imaginable power could have set all these suns in motion? And why are they all pedir eps in a directions, appare = beeming destination in ‘he eantielio. | tion Lyra. It is now thought probable that our | universe, which we call the Milky Way (we séem to be not far from the centre of it) is in reality a vast spiral in form, and that this spiral is revolving, so to speak, in its own plane. Assuming this to be true, the straight line in which our sun appears to travel is actually a curve. What has led to this belief is ob | servation of other spirals which are now thought to be distant universes, Many of them so far away that light from them, traveling 186,000 miles a second, takes something like 10,000,- 000 years to reach us. Their form plainly shows that they are revolving. Everything in the cosmos seems to £0 round and round. The moon travels around the earth, the earth around the sun; and presumably the sun is following an orbit about some centre, whether a giant sun or merely a point in space. Our universe (if the theory above outlined by accept- ed) is whirling. Probably, as it whirls, it is making a journey of its own about some centre, perhaps in concert with other universes. Space being infinite in extent, it is, when one comes to think of it, absurd for us to imagine that ours is the only universe We shall never : Kaow: But at least we may claim that our ideas-on the subject of creation are expanding. , Sualphur Mime In Crater. In the crater of a snow-capped volcanic mountain on Unalaska Is- land, one of the Aleutian group, is a large deposit of sulphur, believed to contain from 10,000 to 15,000 tons, says Popular Mechanics. A claim has been filed for the location, and min- ing operations probably will start. in the near future. Subterranean héat and a hot vaper, the latter issuing in the rocks, keep the déposits free from ice and snow, though these cover permanen nearly all the remainder of the peak, which is about 6,000°feet. in height. Another sulpbur deposit has been dis- covered on Akun , in the same group, and “8 third near Stepovak Bay, on the southern shore of the Aluskan Peninsala. Ohurches. Vandale and robbers in Viemtia have turned from plundering gtave- yards to robbing churches. ‘Several famous Vienna edifices have been en- tered recently, among,them thé his- -| toric Mariahilf and Rochus churches, ~ Since oa gee river walgienk canning ind Started by en in 13876, a total of -of saimon has Relax taevhory on ar ee She xtver -, i in the course of cen- | 452 St. Catherine St. E., Montreal, “For three years, I was a terrible sufferer from Indigestion, constant Head- aches and Constipation. 1 took various medicines for the trouble but nothing seemed to do me any good. Then, a friend advised me to try *Fruit-a-tives. Now I am free of Indigestion and Headaches, the Constipation is cured, and I have gaincd considerable weight ; and my general health is fine. ‘Fruit-a-tives’ is a grand medicine and 1 I cannot say enough in its favor.” ALFRED DUBOISSEAD. ‘Fruit-a-tives’ are made from fruit juices and valuable tonics—and are pleasant to take, their action being gentle and mild, yet always most effective, 0c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont. | THE “KANGAROO” PLANE. ' British Craft Will Have Skis Instead | of Wheels. The British expedition to the South Pole, which plans to start in July | next, will use a “kangaroo” airplane, ‘formerly a fighting machine, for the final stage of the journey. This plane ‘will be fitted with skis Instead of i Dow The aircraft will make its actual ear from the Great Barrier, and will | proceed tg, the South Pole over the great glacier and then across known ; bu t It is proposed to take a crew of not (ices than four, in addition to which |'a sledge containing a tent, shovels, . | cooking stove and camp equipment 4 | and provisions for at Jeast ten weeks | must be carried. These provisions and the sledge necessary in the event of an accident, which might compel the party to return to the base o sed will weigh approximately 780 ds, This weight, together with the necessary fuel for a 1,500 mile flight, necessitates a big, powerful machine, as the mountains to be flown over | are over 12,000 feet above sea level. e “kangaroo” was one of the latest fighting “bombers designed for | the British Air Ministry, and at the tfme of the armistice was largely ~ used on the anti-submarine patrol service. The machine is a biplane, measuring 76 feet from wing tip te ne Up, and is fitted with twin en- gines developing 650 horsepower. One great trouble to be over¢ome ia the question of cooling or rather the heating of the engine, as temperature which will be experienc- ed ise only twelve degrees above sero in summer, and experiments are now being carried out with a view to overcoming this difficulty. Flotsam and Jetsam. Flotsam and jetsam are the names given in English law to goods lost’at sea, as distinguished from wreck or goods which come to land. Flotsam ia defined as “‘where the goods con- tinue swimming on the surface of the waves.” Jetsam is the namé given to the goods which are cast into the sea, and which dink or.remain under water. | wheels, to enable it to land in the School Opening Lm] All Kinds of School Supplies Livingstone _> The Druggist i Teh epiio ne 69 = ean? = ve