ie S aes J. E. TERHUNE ‘ile , Barrister, Notary Public and Con- ‘Yeyancer. Office over store of Koeh Shoe Co., Main St. H. B. MORPHY, K. C. Barrister, Notary Public, veyancer, Solicitor for Bank Hamilton, Listowel, Milverton, At- wood. Offices Listowel and Milver- ton. Money to loan. Con- ° 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. inery Parlors d. Listowel Office (Tabberner’s Office.) Tuesday and Friday Consultations arranged or corre- spondence, W. G. k. SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist partment 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 Surgeen) Office and residence on Main street, two blocks west of postoffice. Phone 228. # DR, JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office eon = Listowel, up Schin- bein’s stairw. Medical representative of Soldiers’ civil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment for one year after discharge. Phone 17. DR, F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate, in medicine, University ef Toronto. Late assistant Yew York Ophthal- mic and Aural lustitute, Moorefield’s .Bye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, on wecnseoay, Jan. 5th., m. to 4 p.m 63 Waterloo ‘st. Stratford. Phone 267 Listowel, from 10 a. DR. R, F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- mologist. All diseases_treated. Eyes tested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone's jewelry store. W. 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 church. Night and day calls promptly attended. Phone 227. FIRE INSURANCE In best companies; also accident, au- tomobile, burglary, plate glass and bond insurance. Automobile insur- ance, 85 cts. per 100. Your business solicited. 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 1,060. Automobile, 85 cts per 100. Town or Country. H. Hemsworth, J. P., Issuer of Marriage Licenses. W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer Conducts selling by auction in all its branches. Satisfaction guaran- teed. 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. §S phone 136, Listowel. Izen, | for; | now refer to the roadway in the birenies On eg aici 3 j (G nis | ‘ay officer a ped willing to en- force the Ontario Temperance Act,” says Attorney-General Raney, ‘‘his resignation will be promptly accept- ed.”’ This warning. might be extend- ‘ed to Magistrates who express disap- proval of the Act. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Gl Fa -) A reader of The ‘Globe directs at- tention in the correspondence column to a suggestion said to have been made at a meeting of milk producers; in Wentworth county, that dairymen refusing to join the producers’ asso- ciation should be boycotted. Does not that savor of the coecive methods! in business and politics from which the farmers promised to deliver the people of Canada? A CHECK ON STOLEN CARS (Toronto Globe.) A stolen car figures in connection| with the bank robbery at Woodbridge. | On the night of the robbery the car mas apen in Woodbridge by a number, of p ke. Its occupants did not even know where they were and asked the road to Woodbridge while they were actually in the village. The car was stolen early in the evening in front of the Union Station in Toronto. Sup- posing the bank robbers were the men who atole it, they had ample time to reach Woodbridge, loot the bank and get away long before daylight. The stolen car was found upside down in a ditch near the town., It would have been dangerous to use it on the return trip and run the risk of ar- rest for theft of the car. Stolen cars are coming into general use as an aid to the rapid movement of criminals. So serious has the sit- uation become that some effective means of establishing the bona fides of persons travelling in cars must be found. The obvious thing is to re- quire all motorists to carry with them their car license for purposes of iden- tification. Licenses might be forged on occasion, but the man who cas- ually steals a car as an aid to crime could hardly keep a selection of forg- ed licenses sufficiently large to meet all his needs. All officers of the law should be authorized to require the production of car licenses on demand by motorists acting suspiciously. The stolen car is becoming so ser- ious a menace to the public safety that effective methods of checkmat-} ing the thieves who are merely joy- warning comes in goo riding and the robbers who have a more must be dis- covered speedily. ~ NO WAGE REDUCTION (Mail and Empire) » The President of the Trades and ‘Labor Congress says that Labor must not be made to suffer the brunt of price reductions. If by, that is meant, that when a manufacturer's prices are .reduced, his labor costs are reduced correspondingly by cuts in. wages, without interference with other items of cost or profit, the place. But while Labor should not bear the main part of reduced costs unless it gets a preponderant part of the expense of production, a general readjustment coul@ hardly fail to affect ~wages. Production costs have to be lowered in most lines to meet competition, and with many a manufacturer and business man, it is a question of low- ering costs in order to get business, or of shutting up doors altogether. If markets will not take commodities except at reduced prices then there must be a corresponding shading of costs. As a matter of fact, business| in Canada is generally sound, even if quiet in some lines, pending the re- vision of prices, and there has been a marked preference for short-time, rather than rate reductions. Pro- duction policies- are being left for future conditions to decide. If, as seems likely, there is a distinct re- vival of business next Spring on the new, normal basis of competition, the present standard of wages and expen- COUN SAYS ONE CITIZEN WAS 700 POUNDS SHORT ON ‘TON. OF COAL. (Hanover Post). “ Hanover is, at last, to have public weigh scales, This matter has been discussed and advocated for many years without any results, until last Monday night, when Councillor Ed. Winkler brought it up after’ many people had complained to him of the present system, and the other coun- ciors also strongly supported the scheme. The mayor was instructed to interview the owners of the present scales and find out ff they would be willing to sell to the town. Judging by the expressed opinions of the councillors, and of the ratepayers 5 FRE O Hanover weigh scales will in future be operated by the town. Councillor Winkler, without “beat- ing around the bush,” said several parties had come’to him! with com- plaints about the present system of weighing coal, hay, etc., and he was of the opinion that the time was ripe for the council to take definite steps. The council were perfectly frank in their discussion and con- demnation of the present system. One councillor said that a certain party in town had been 770 pounds short on one load of coal, and with the “‘black diamonds” at their pres- ent price, everyone was entitled to, and should receive, full weight.* An- other councillor thought that some loads of coal were not weighed at all. Mr. Beamish congratulated Mr. Wink- ler for his action in bringing the matter up. “It’s the best thing you did this year,’’ he said, and added that the present system was ridicu- lous—the dealers weigh their own coal and the purchaser gets a Dill for so many pounds and has no way of knowing whether he really’ re- ceived that quantity or not. All the councillors spoke in favor of the project, and now that a start has been made, it appears certain that Hanover will shortly have a weigh scales owned and controlled by the town. In their desire for a.central location, the council favored the lot on the south side of the town hali, although some seemed to think it was a trifle small for the purpose. The Mayor will interview the owners of weigh scales at his earliest conveni- ence and report to the council. ditures will remain substantially as t is. The crops of Canada are good, pie if the marketing of them-is suc- cessful, the purchasing power of the Canadian people will be great. This means that the main current of busi- ness will go on as usual, but extrava- gance, boom prices, and general in- flation will be things of the past. Pro- fits will have to be closer, manage-| ment more vigorous, and labor more efficient. The real secret of wages main- tenance {is more efficiency. Not a cent need be cut off the weekly earn- ings of an employe, if all the workers bring production up to a point where costs are reduced to the new levels required. Labor slacking during the boom period was notorious in some trades. More production per unit be- gets more production, more business as a whole, and sogd times for every- one. National Highway For Canadian Unity (Written exclusively for the Union Press Bureau by the Hon. Frank Carrel, M.L.A., L.L.D., author of ‘‘Impressions of War,” “A Round the World Cruise,” etc. Mr. Carrel is a leader of the Good Roads Movement in Quebec Province.) With the good roads policy taking root in the Province of Quebec and spreading to the othér provinces, the next important point to be advocated and supported by all those interested in Canada’s future, is a united effort to complete, in the least possible time, a cross-contiggnt highway, the nearest object to Thy heart in con- nection with the good roads move- ment, as I believe that it is as great a necessity to our future prosperity as a railway. Eight years ago I was almost ashamed to think that in motoring from Toronto to Quebec 1 had to cross the American border) and travel for many miles through the United States. Since then I have been a strong advocate of a direct Canadian roadway between these two~ big centres. | Ottawa Isolated I was also surprised some years’: ago to find that Ottawa was almost isolated as far as any national con- nections with the rest of the Domin-| ion were concerned. But what is still} more surprising, when we consider! all the excellent highways that are running from the north to the south, including in the Brovince of Quebec) the Beauce-Jackman and King Ed-| ward -highways, is the fact that there| is no direct national connection be- tween Quebec and the Maritime Pro- vinces. There is a road, but it is so bad in spots that it is almost im- | passable for automobiles or vehicles. | vicinity of Causapscal, which, if com- | pleted by the Federal Government— 'as it is a Federal necessity—would aid greatly in joining the Maritime Provinces to the rest of Canada. At the present time it is easier to motor from Quebec to St. John or Halifax by the Jackman-Beauce highway and around through Maine into New Brunswick. Road to the Sea I think it is a crying shame thai our legislators have not been able to improve this highway condition. The Provincial Government of Quebec has time and again offered to sub- scribe a portion of the cost to im- prove this road but could obtain no response from the Federal Govern- ment. The matter was probably too small for their consideration, and yet I consider it one of the most import- ant problems that our legislators) have to reflect upon in building up this great nation of ours: I do not intend to rest until Canada has an International Highway across the continent from Halifax or St. John to Vancouver, with a road the equal of that now connecting Quebec and Montréal in the Province of Quebec. Until this work is accomplished I do not think that any advocate of im- proved Canadian roads, and this should include every patriotic Can- ards this adian, should give up working to-({ th Ww end. Doc Soe ace Di ie Nc SAL MC a ee ie i 2 te a + + WHY AND BECAUSE + + + Oe ane ae ams a Oe Se a Oe Di ke a Da Se Die Oe Mate Se ane Why do we use the expression “apple pie order’’ when we mean that things are exactly in their right place? Because every\Saturday a certain Puritan dame, Hepzibéh Merton, made a practice of baking two or three dozen apple pies which were to last her family through the week. She placed them on the shelves in hery pantry, labeling each according to the day of the week on which it was to used, and the pantry, thus ar- ranged, was said to be in apple pie order. Why is an unmarried woman call- ed a spinster? Because women were prohibited from marrying in olden days until they had spun a full set of bed fur- nishings and thus, until their mar- riage, they spent much time at the spinning wheel and were, therefore, “‘spinsters.” Why do clergymen habitually wear black? Because when Martin Luther, in 1524, laid aside the habit of a monk and adopted the style of dress pre- | vailing at the time, the Elector of | Saxony used to send to him from time to time pieces of black cloth, that color then being fashionable at the court. Luther's disciples thought be- cause he wore black, it became them to do so. and thus it came about that the clergy generally grew to regard it as the only proper color for them to wear. Why is a woman’s allowance called a“ money? Because at the beginning of the fifteenth century pins were consider- ed a very acceptable present by wo- men, who up to that time had used wooden skewers. Sometimes money was given with or instead of pins, and was called ‘‘pin money.” Why do we say: “Mind your p’s and q's?” Because in ancient times, behind the door of each alehouse there hung a slate, on which was written, P., which stood for pint, and Q., which stood for quart. A number was plac- ed opposite each customer's name, ac- cording te the amount he imbibed. He was not expected to pay until Satur- day night, when he had to “‘mind his p's and q's.’ g Asst. City Editor of Globe— Walkerton Times—Mr.. Hugh Fer- guson, an old Walkerton boy and an erstwhile graduate of the Bruce Her- ald office, has been appointed city editor of the Toronto Globe. Although the new position is somewhat of a departure from. ‘the political train- ing he received while ‘‘devilling” around the Herald office, yet the fact that the Globe has been changing its polftical complexion like a chameleon of late, and doesn’t know half the time which side of the fence it’s hol- lering on, Hugh didn’t need to do any “right-about-turn” to be fooint- ing the same direction as this ‘‘Fac- ing-both-ways” journal. That he will make good and bring some rea) abil- ity to the Globe = to be expected from © superiority 0 ink pails that he graduated from } Our Ottawa Letter {Union Press Bureau Special) Ottawa, Nov. 10.—Thofigh the cur- tain is down on the play at Parlia- ment Hill, and the actors are scat- tered abroad, there Me indications, nevertheless, that the managers are busy behind the scenes preparing for the political struggle which lies be- fore in the coming general elections, be they soon or late. The question, of course, is what ef- feet are the farmers going to have: on the old parties. There have been some confident predictions that the next government of Canada would be a farmer one. Many, however, now declare that new factors, since entering the situation, make this an improbable contingency, and time, it is said, is with the old parties. A Coup d’Etat In this connection, I have reason to believe that the government con- templates a considerable coup against the Farmers’ movement through the next.Redistribution Bill, which I un- derstand will have provisions de- creasing the representation of rural districts, and increasing the number, —. of members to be sent fiom the cit- ies. Such a provision, it is claimed,} is simply justice, for at present the cities, population considered, do not send nearly their share to Parlia- ment. Estimating the population of Toronto conservatively at half a mil- lion, and the population of the Prov- ince of Ontario at two and a half million, Toronto might claim, on this score, one-fifth of Ontario’s repre- sentation in the House of Commons, or about seventeen of the eighty-four members. It can easily be seen how this process would atrophy the Farm- er movement. Opposition Union? Indeeed there is a good deal of talk, unofficially of course, of the Farmers responding to the appeal of Hon. Mackenzie King to join with the Liberals in fighting the government, the claim being that otherwise the Conservatives will again gain the day, especially now that they have the brilliant leadership of the keen and talented |Mr. Meighen, who will not be slow to seize all his opportunities. But—-well, the whole thing is now on the knees of the gods! Musn’t Practice Her Occult Power Following the decision of the ourt at Toronto which confirmed the ,udg- ment of Judge’ Dickson convicting | Miss Maggie Pollock, gf near Blyth,) on the charge of practising an occult | science, Miss Pollock appeared before} the Judge recently for sentence. His! Honor admonished her that the prac- tise must cease and bound her over! in bonds of $200 from herself and| from her brother to refrain from: retensions of occult power and from} practising the occult science. She may go as far as stating that it is cher opinion that an article may be: found in a certain place but this must} be the limit, She must not pretend that she has any super-natural power: which gives her knowledge of the location of such articles. Should she be found guilty of practising again she may be sentenced both for the new offence and for the old, but in the meantime sentence is suspended. The case one that has attracted wide attenti Miss Pollock, whose home is in the ‘neighborhood of Blyth believes that she is possessed of sup- ernatural powers, and that her ‘God- given” gifts should be exercised for the good of humanity. Some wonder- ful instances have been quoted of her uncanny facult} of locating miss- ing articles without her having any fore-knowledge of the circumstances. It was her effort to locate some ar- ticles believed to have been stolen which led to her being brought be- fore the county Judge. Miss Pollock says she has had since childhood the power of seeing ‘‘spirits’” and for some time she did not know that the power was at all peculiar to her- self, thinking it was a perfectly ne tural thing, common to all people. Later she discovered that she was different from other people in this respect, and for years she quietly employed her strange faculty, at the request of neighbors or others who came.to her to solve difficulties. Miss Pollock believes she should exercise her power for the good of humanity, and’she set forth her views on the matter in a beautifully word- ed and written letter to His Honor Judge Dickson some time ago. Spruce is used in the manufacture’ of airplanes because of its® great strength in comparison with its weight, its uniform texture and its freedom from defects. ‘Charlotte, North Carolina, requires} a ‘$500 bond to be put up by every taxicab driver In the city. Tliis bond will be fdrfgited automatically for a violation of the prohibi:lon or vice laws.. Lonforforfonlonfortoriorfocfociorlonsocfoleslonlocloclondonfodosdonsororte + THOSE FILM COMEDIANS + eS tee PRE EE eth bebe ty * ¢~ ae THE BEST KIND OF CREDIT * eewae The time may come, my young friend, when you may want to build a home of your own or start into business for yourself, and you will want all the credit you can get. You will find that a good name, clean re- cord, the reputation of being straight and honest, a dead-in-earnest hard worker, possessing a level head, sound judgment, will draw a very large sum of money out of the banks, and will give you credit with jobbers and wholesalers. Character is cnedit, the best kind of credit. Marshal Field's aracter was s0 established that wien he died his goodwill was worth millions of dol- lars, while many other merchants who had no standing whatever that was worth anything. People were afraid to trust them because they had the reputation of being slippery, of crawling out of a bad bargain, of not standing up to their contract, if they could possibly avoid it. What has become of the old-fash- ioned revival in which they sang: “I whipped the devil around the stump; I hit him a lick at every jump? RAILWAY GRAND TRUNK 24'svem Double: Track Route between MONTREAL TORONTO DETROIT CHICAGO Unexcelled Dining Car Service. 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, Toronto, A. M. SMITH, Station Agent. J. A. HACKING, Town Agent. 4. C. Wood in Toronto Satur- day Night.) It grieves me sore,” as Shakespeare makes the oreate Hamlet say, When I reflect on how the stage has fallen in our day— Those pesky movie picture shows have knocked its props all down (h By bringing melodrama canned to, every country town. | | The small-town elocutionist seems! | gone forevermore— Time once was when our old town’ hall was crowded to the door While Mary Smith—Our Mary— > would recite for us aright, That soulful, ancient story, ‘ ‘Curtew shall not ring to-night.” And-vefien she'd give us ‘“‘Lasca, or! down by the Rio Grande,” There was no hint in Mary’s work of melodrama canned— Your Mary Pickford, Theda Baras are dead stuff, forsooth, When I recall “‘Our Mary” and the drama of my youth. ‘Tis true that Douglas Fairbanks is a farish acrobat And may, have mone than ivory be- neath his Stetson hat; But I'd rather hear Bill Jones in some old-time dialogues Along with some real girls and boys in their home-made acting togs. Charlie Chaplin may be funny—lI'd quickly turn him down To see again the antics of a bygone, circus clown— The greatest film comedian is wood-| en to my eye, “When I recall some ae I heard given by Bill Nye Some day, maybe, when all the films have passed across tire stage, Will come again the glories of the histrionic age, When actors will have words to say, —not have their pictures ‘‘took,’ ‘| And entertain us with their brains— | and not by how they look. ! j An explorer and wealthy clubman| of London with 40 followers is em- barking on a cruise in search of an island in the South Seas where taxa- tion is unknown. A Canadian picture ¢ard company, ordering Hthograph work in this country, found the Stars and Stripes instead of the Union Jack fiying over all the buildings of Winnipeg, Mani- toba, when ‘the cards were returned. The cards were-ordered destroyed, but by error the Canadian er sold them as unclaimed goods, plac New Term From Nov. Ist. CENTRAL STRATFORD, ONT. 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