——— : | . J. E. SERHUNE Barrister, Notary Public and Con- voyaneer. Office aver store of Koch - Shoe Co., Main St. H. B. MORPHY, KE. C. Public, Con- » Solicitor for Bank of Hemilton, Listowel, Milverton, At- Offices Listowel and Milver- Money to lean. J. C, HAMILTON, B. A. Barrister, Conveyancer, Solicitor for the Imperial Bank of Canada. Money to loan: Office on south side of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- finery Parlors. JAMES M. RIDDELL Barrister, Solicitor, etc. Stratford. Listowel Office (Tabberner’s Office.) Tuesday and Friday. Consultations arranged by spondence. corre- W. G. ls. 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 Schin- bein’s Store. H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Physician and Surgeon. Office ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- er Main and Wallace streets. Phone 69. Night phone 113. W. C. PRATT, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon) . Office and residence on Main street, two blocks west.ef postoffice. Phone 228. DE. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Lastowel, up Schin- bein'’s stairway. ; Medical representative of Soldiers civil re-establishment. whereby sol- ra get free treatment for one year r discharge. Phone 17. DR, F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicine, University et Toronto. Late assistant New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield’s Bye and Solin Square Throat Hos pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, oh Wednesday, Nov. 3rd.. m. to 4 p.m. 63. Waterloo St. Stratford, Phone 267 Listowel, from 10 a. oo : DR. R. F. PARKER “Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes tested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. fo 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone’ ‘ a store. a Ww. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming school. Residence and parlors, Main St., one and a half blocks east of Bap- tist cburch. Night and day calls promptly attended. Phone 227. FIRE INSURANCE in best companies; also accident, au- tomobile, burglary, plate an bond insurance. Autemobile insur- amce, 86 cts. per 100. Your business adlicited. E. D. BOLTON. ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE The Strongest and Cheapest com- panies operating in Canada. Fire $1.50 per $1,000. Storm, $1.50 per 1,000. Automobile, 45 cts per 100. own or Coun H. Hemsworth, . P., Issuer of Marriage Licenses W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer Conducts selling by auction in al! its branches. Satisfaction guaran- . Farms for sale. Call at the office of Listowel Drilling Machine Co. and let us discuss with you your needs. HIDES WANTED Highest market prices paid hides, furs and fowl. § . ' phone 136, Listowel. for lzen, consider your as — IMENT oueierandeent we use it as a sure would gee ci i ‘pnd chest. I not be without it i the ‘price was one dollar e bottle.” frinago’s S rss Yarmouth, N.S. _| 000 pounds of ac Nay yards of cloth,” | . are in just such a hot and steaming| eonditien as that above described. They are unfinished worlds, incapable of supporting inhabitants until they have had time to cool and solidify. ent, Satarn) is on the further verge of the enormous gap of space that psep- arafes the immer group of planets (Mercury, io. Earth and Mars) the outer group. the other seven planets put er would not make a mass its rapid: whirl causes it to bulge at the middle, giving it a Purnpkin As viewed through the telescope, Jupiter looks as if belted with rosy and goiden clouds. It is, indeed, hid- den from sight by masses of vapor thousands of miles thick. The giant Dianet, or rather its clouds, can actu- ally be seen to whirl, revolving~as it does once in ten hours. Jupiter, relatively to size, is much ter than the The terres- c= sphere is five and a half times heavy as water, bulk for bulk, Jupiter is only one and a half times as heavy. Saturn fs actual- ly lighter than a globe of water of equal sise would be. Saturn, likewise, is enveloped by a thick cloud of vapors. Her rings are still, to some extent, a mystery. but there seems to be no doubt that they are composed of fiying meteoric par- ticles. Heart Clock In Wrist. Is your sense of time good enough for you to boil an egg without the use of a wateh? Probably not. The average man's idea of a minute may be anywhere een fifteen seconds and two humdred. But we all have a reliable clock in our es, Pearson's Weekly. The secret fs simply to count your pulse beats. Most people know how often their pulses beat in a minute, and it is, of course, easy to find out, The A person rn aged rate of sitty and eighty-four a minute. yyour own rate may easily be much faster or slower than the aw It is the heart dock (the pulse beats) merely the that enables to wake up in the That part of your brain that is called the subconscious mind, watches this clock all night and wakens the working part of your mind at the time required. The subconscious mind is at work day and night on jobs you never sus- pect. If, for instanee, you have been wees to remember how a certain ube goes, and given it op in despair, tt is the subconscious mind that takes up the task, and works on it for days or weeks till suddenly you find your- pg bumming or whistling the correct air. The secret that the sense of time was due to heart throbs was only guessed when a psychologint studying the problem discovered that people with unsound hearts are, as a rule, abnormally weak in estimating the passage of time. | Broke the Flivver's Heart. When they bought their fine new big car the little flivver seemed to be al] broken up over it. The first time ff was taken out ofter it had been relegated to second place in the automotive affections of the family It broke its nose against a lamppost. Thereafter it was lefi in the garage and there was even talk of selling it. A few days later they were all start- | Ing out on a ride in the big car. Little | Dor came running up excitedly. ic ‘Oh, papa.” she cried, all ont of | breath. “The little car is erying as if its heart would break because we won't take ji out." Papa investigated and found that Doris bad not exag- gerated. The flivver’s radiator was leaking water all over the garage floor. Will Want to Rest. The conversation around the long dinner table ended, as do most con- versations nowadays, with the subject of spiritualism. The guests and the members of the family gave their dpinions as to whether or not the dead could communicate with the liv- ing, but it remained for “Sweet Stx- teen” to present the only original “It's hard correspo die Il want a rest.” Cotton In China. The first cotton-manufacturing mill ears old, yet: the nation has to-day . i “250, 000 spindles and 5,000 power loom «&, producing annually $250,000,- osthy agriculture and cattie-raising, for the climate is very mild and healthf and the soil is so fertile that two and sometimes three eg are produced annually. goes about the tiful indeed. It is rather unusual to find such red abundance of oranges, po- tatoes, and cotton grow. Yet the manufacture of matches is one of the of| most important_indugiries of the islan — There are two grottoes in ag each of which is supposed to haunt of Calypso, the Me ete of Atlas. As early as the sixteenth cen- tury B.C., Malta was inhabitated by the Phoenicians, and one —_ there numerous archaeological tra The island was named Melita. a after 736 B.C,, when the Greeks dispossessed the Phoenicians, and they in turn were displaced by the Carthaginians between 500 and 480 B.C. Centuries later, the apostle Paul was ship- wrecked on the north coast of Malta. Malta owes grandeur and wealth to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, for the knights took pos- session of the island, Ogtober 26, 1630, after it had beem. ceded to the Order of St. John by. Charles V_ of rmany and the King of Spain. In the summer of 1665, the knights of St. John assisted the natives of the island, in withstanding a desperate onslaught of the Moslems. The siege and defence of Malta are considered to be the most remarkable in history. ‘ In 1798 the French, under Bona- parte, seized the island, and the government under the Order of St. John of Jerusalem came to an end. From that time there was much trouble’ because the French were op- pressive in their rule. The result was that the inhabitants had an uprising, in which they gained assistance from the British and Portuguese troops. Inasmuch as Lord Nelson did so much to win back the island from the French, the representatives of the people ceded their island to Great Britain in 1800. Harnessing the Tides. A practical attempt tO harness the tides at the mouthe of several British rivers is about to be made, and the power thus obtained is to be used for generating electricity. The engineers who are making the plans estimate that the electricity will be obtained Baye | at only two-thirds the cost of electric power generated by coal. he basic principle underlying Most of the inventions for harnessing the tides is the yorking of a turbine by tidal ebb and flow. The tide makes fet; the power at poth jis infow and its outflow, only ceasing for a compara- tively short time during the period of half tide. In ome Cheshire and Lancashire district the great varia- tion in the hour of the tide at neigh- boring estuaries makes possible, through an ingenious discovery, the production of maximum energy dur- ing an almost continuous period. The plan for harnessing the tides devised by Lewls Woodhead of Mur- cot Mill House, Broadway, Worcester- shire, calls for the building of a cheap and efficient wall out in the sea or tidal river, in which turbines are placed. Mr. Woodhead claims that 10-foot turbines would be most economical where suitable, each of which would generate over 300 horsepower with a fve-foot head. Thus a mile of sea wall would be capable of generating 120,000 horse- Th power. e position of such a wall would be four to aiz miles from shore. Ancient Inns. What is the oldest English inn? Phe Crown, at Chiddingford, which is announced for sale, is stated to date from the fourteenth century, but there are some still more ancient. There is the Fighting Cocks of St. Albans, claiming to date from 795, and to be the oldest inhabited house im England. At the Angel at Blyth, Nottingham, Richard Bishop of Dur- ham stayed In 1274, and his bill is still preserved. The Saracen’s Head at Newark and the Old Green Man at Erdington have a respectable anp tiquity—fourteenth century or there- We have, of course, a small ' of Stuart inns, Jed by the Cheshire Cheese, still remaining. A Drop of the “Auld Kirk." Mr, James Coats, who died recent- ly, was a man of considerable benevo- lence and humor. Before the days af the old age pensions he arranged to give various elderly inhabitants of his native town, Paisley, ten shillings a week each. One day an officious busybody reported to Mr. Coats that he had seen one of his pensioners Having a drop of the ‘auld kirk," as they whimaically cal) it in Scotland, in a public-house. “What!*’ said the redoubtable James, ‘‘on ten shillings a week? It can’t be done. John," he said to his almoner. “See that the auld man has fifteen in future." nds Britain's Ship. The commander of Great Britain's latest and largest fighting ship, the Hood, is Capt. W. Tomkinson, -C,B}, M.V.O. He is a junior officer of that rank, having been. posted ag recently as Ju Although primarily w t which fought in Heligoland Bight and help- ed to destroy three German cruisers. Incentive. yer—“You say tion ea I “boos ‘hushand : she r’ hue Piste ee na ge ig bate elosed with $13,000,000 crowns, with a deGcit of cr Sion Gul poor: 64 tha py Read aan rpamat Pm sure he could do. ta,” As island, he finds the the flora very. beau-" to work, it would no doubt The Law te atk “ar eve Hundred a year Tr. Great Faetor in Its Gee. (Contributed by Ontaris: Department of Agriculture, - é Toronto.) rT ail to. soli st - Cheapo | 4 authentic in the Provinee, Messrs. P. ©. Connon and ‘J. A: Steele of the On- tatio Agrienitural College, under the | direction of the Physics Department of the College, grepared a queation- naire‘which was replied to by over one hundred tractor owners. in Ontario. Ag far as -possible, all phases of. the tractor situation were covered. in this questionnaire in order to determine with the greatest possible accuracy information re the future place of the tractor Felative to other means of. securing wer for the farm. ‘The following i t- ing tractors will possibly be of inter- est. both to those owners and to others who are contemplating the suppléementing. borse:power with tractor power. The chief advantages of the tractor as a power machine ware appear to be listed’ in order follows: Speed, bel at the proper (especially ploughing), labor saving, hot weath- er worker, economy, improved work. The quickness with which work can be accomplished with the ald of a tractor has possibly been given the premnter place of importance on the above. list, due -to the necessity of speeding up production during the past five years. This eager is likely to obtain for some yea come.until the returning sanity of the nations of the world results in a re- turning to the principle of seeking: happiness from producing and living rather than gaining and existing. The saving of hauling costs and the “convenience” of the tractor as a source of power for grinding and silo ‘| filling seems to have appealed strong- ly to a large number. Had the significance of the third mentioned item on the list been bet- ter understood, especially on farms where the land is heavy and difficult have headed the list. Too much stress can- not be lald on this feature of se- fulness of the tractor. Condition of the soil with respect to tilth is the first,and foremost problem to be looked after when greater production the aim and object of the agri- culturiat. al the number of men on the do the ‘task, there | tracts been equal is Itttle doubt but that fi or Would: still be considered mainly as a luxury to be possessed only by those' who had made good on the farm, and-mot by those who are us- ing it asia means of making good. The fact of his always being ‘‘behind withthe work" has driven many a man to buy a tractor in order to feel for once in the last five years that he )\@aught up with the work, and fan have an hour to discuss with his neighbor the latest information rela- tive to. farm or city conditions. men’ have procured trac enclgatvaly for the belt catk of which they are able to do with it; combining: their own work with some custom work, have made the tractor & paying proposition. The, fact of having work done at the proper time, including early fall ploughing, and getting the crop in during the short available time in the spring is perhaps the most important feature in tractor efficiency. It takes . the peak load off the horses and per- mits the farmer to get rid of the which are kept for this purpose, In the majority of cases where tractors are used, it results in a de- crease of man labor. There is a wide | difference,. however, in the estimate made .by various individuals as to = Séying in man power; and ranges n extent from ‘making it easier” to : “man's yearly wages." As a hot weather worker the tractor has no rival.- Thousands of horses wer ruin- ed last year due to the effect of heat. ao ee works on regardiess of the temperature, and it is, on this ‘even more in favor during ithe het spring and early fall seasons. ras economy 'n tractor oper- ation is concerned, there are few farmers who keep accurate records in connection with oprrating costs, wed it is therefore very difficult to | aaPigg definite information in this re- t. In only six cases out of one nupdred is there any definite state- ment made that the tractor is not a profitable: investment. ipaee where the tractor is han- died by experts it-is an accepted fact that. the land where the tractor has been used is in a better state of tilth than where horse power is used. This -mainly or entirely due to the fact that the ground is covered oftener in tillage operations since the extra ai the tractor makes this / Thesmerxt few-years may see elfher t marked increase or decrease in the aumber of tractors sold in Ontario; There awill.no doubt be a tendency to se the make of machines, whigh gre.to hold their place on’ the Ontario farm. Better design of parts S | teger ‘Guelph, on as : ‘the tractor - situation | These, . aaa: teir. pailroad train any more than you do, that into its English equivalent. € ago a little yolume entitled ‘170 Chi- red, of which Mr. English ‘verse. Of course this is not the frat time Chimese has been turn Waley did not try to make good poems out of the CHinese verse, but attempted to =. their — -_ their spfrit, in a ; as pre as as poseibe to the original, 1 It ap- dent iiermtare | that these i al were interesting. Some of them were .al- most startling in their modernity. The pets who lived in China were writing delicate satires at a time when our ancestors could 3 nothing more humorous than crack ing somebody over the head with a stone. A Chinese poet who lived about A.D. 250 wrote a satire en- titted “On the Birth of His Son,” which sounds not unlike the ironical verpes oa are are — of ing Siegfried a poet of marked aia. Ge Here 1 it is: Families, when a child is born Want it to be intelligent. I, through intelligence, Having wreeked my whole life, Only hope the baby will prove t and stupid. Then he will crown a tranquil life -» becoming a Cabinet Minister. That little poem is not the only amesing bit of satire in the volume. Po Chu-i, who was rn somewhere about A.D. 750, had a talent for tak- ing digs im the form of epigrams at other writers. In some ways, his thrusts to right and left make you think of Edgar Lee Masters, except that the renee seems to have had a healthier t. There is a came by Pe Chu-i entitled ‘The Philosoptrer”’— “Those who speak know nothing; Those who know are silent.” If we are to believe that Lanoyton How comes it that he wrote a book Of five thousand words?" Offhand one cannot recall any more pungent and weil directed bits of sa- tire by our modern English-speaking poets than the two examples given above from the works of the ‘Heath- en Chines,"" who lived almost before the dewn of our modern civilization. Cards. The invention of playing cards bas been variously Bircc aot to India, China, Arabia and~ but there seems to be wile pad that they originated in, Asig, and were intro- duced into Europe about the close of the thirteenth century. There is a historical mention of the game of ecards In Germany In 1275, in Italy in 1299, but not in France until 1393. In the sixteenth century the manu- facture of cards was a fiourishing business in England, and under Ed- ward IV. their importation was for- bidden to protect the home industry. The marks upon the suits of cards are, believed to. have been chosen to représent symbolically the different classes of society. Thus, the hearts stood for the clergy, clubs for the soldiery, spade for the serfs, and diamonds for the merchants. In the early French cards the kings were pictures of David, Alexander, Caesar and (Charlemagne, representing the monarchies ofthe Jews, Greeks, Ro- mans and French. The queens were Esther, Judith, Argine and Pallas. suits of the earliest German eards were designated by bearts, bells, leaves and acorns.. Italian cards had swords, batons, cups and money, The court cards at first were the king, chevalier und knave, the queen. be- ing first substituted for the chevalier by the Italians. The English cards in the seventeenth century were embel- lished with heraldic designs, the king of clubs bearing the coat-of-arms of Shalt aot eekene ce, gt Ber gown ern cards derived its form from the trefoil, a French design. Beals. The protective measure adopted by | the Government for the benefit of the | seals in our waters has been entirely successful, as indicated by the great | number of animals seen to be mi- gTating to the Aretic seas. The mi- gration wag three weeks-earlier than | usual, and an unusually large num- ber of animals were noted on their way to the north. A “Strong” Room. To prevent thieves from getting at the mouey vaults by the tunneling methed, the foundation of the st rong- room of the Bank of England extends for sixty-dix feet below she level of Mutual Feeling. a co Mec a 4 casted driver?” asked “Yes, ma‘am,” replied the chauf- “I don't want to get hit by a peat ‘DueoRD sisson Peleg Meroe “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 faithfally earried out hisi but I did not improve and finelly the the doctor told me I could not be cured. At this time, a friend advised me to try ‘Fruitatices’ and I did so. After taking two boxes of ‘Fruit tives’, I was greatly relieved; and gradually this marvelous fruit medicine made me completely well. My and géneral health are splendid—all of which I owe to “Fruit-+tives’’. Li GASPARD DUBORD. 50c.2 box,6 for $2.50, trial size, 25¢. At all dealers or sent Fruit-e-tives Limited, Ottawa, Ont, Junk at Panama. In the thriving town of Balboa, on the Pacific side of Panama, junk and scrap that has accumulated during the building of the canal is gathered, classified, and sold. There is w scrap dock eighty-two feet wide and five hundred feet long that has a capac- ity of fifteen thousand tons of scrap. In the wasteful days before 1914 valuable left-over pieces of tron, steel, copper, brass, and finished rail were dumped into the jungle, But since thal time scrap gangs have gathered approximately three hup- dred thousand tons of junk. A large percentage of this scrap is made up of obsolete construction equipment jeft by the French Canal Company years ago. A Persian Wedding. tes ys Alta Persian wedding the gentle- en take off their shoes at the door. e badies squat on their side ef the room to await the bride’s coming. She invariably appears with redden-~ ed features and swollen eyes, for she ts expected to ery for a.week before the ceremony, Her wedding gifts from the company consist of such practical trifles as papers of pins, cakes of soap, etc. It is fifty years since Holland dis- continued capital punishment. GRAND TRUNK S92 Double Track Route between MONTREAL oe TORONTO DETROIT CHICAGO Unexcelled Dining Car Service, Sleeping cars on nighttrains and A. M. 8MITH, Station Ageat. d. A. HACKING, Town Agent. e of School. Supplies 4 —A Livingstone The. Druggist Telephones9. BS