| i | apt ae Sk bd J. E. TERHUNE Barrister, Notary Public and Con- veyancer. Office over stere of xo Shoe Co., Main St. H. B. MORPHY, x. 0. Barrister, Notary Public, Con- veyancer, Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton, Listowel, Milverton; At- wood. Offices Listowel and Milver- ton. Money to loan. J. C. HAMILTON, B. A.’ Conveyancer, of Canada. Money to loan, *Office on south sid of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- inery Parlors. Stratford. Listowel Office (Tabberner’s Office.) Tuesday and Friday Consultations arranged by corre- spondence. W. G. kb. 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 of postoffice Phone 228. DR, JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- bein’s stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ civil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment for one year after discharge. \ ne 17. id DR. F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Graduate in medicine, of Toronto. Late assistant Yew York Ophthal- mic and Aural Iustitute, Moorefield’s Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos: pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel, on Wednesday, Jan. 5th., from 10 a. Throat University m. to 4 p.m. 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 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 bona insurance. Automobile insur- 85 cts. per ed Your business solicited. E. *D. LTON. 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, 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 ao needs. HIDES WANTED Highest market petons paid for hides, furs and fow S. M. Izen, phone 136, Listowel Chas. F. Tilton, Feirville. NB. yosteegs ou thet we er your RD'S LIN. ; a very spaierarthiened / wees eh @ sure ; icf for sore thro: t and chest. 1 would cet bé without it if the price was one a bottle.” Solicitor) ‘front from Woodstock come face to | have been no question as to whether Woodstock Minister Attacks Local Press, Whose Duty It Should Be, He Says, To Uphold Law and In The Right Direction. ~ (Woodstock Sentinel-Review.) Before a large congregation at Knox Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening, Rev. L. B. Gibson dealt in a very forcible manner with some questions which had been put regard- ing several curent topics of interest. His sermon was the third of a series on the Ten Comandments applied to modern life, and his subject was “Profanity,” but before touching up- on it, he said that during the past week he had ‘been asked several ques- tions which he thought ought to be answered from the pulpit. The first question asked was ‘What are the functions of a newspaper?” He would answer that question by ing that the functions of a news- paper were to disseminate news, ‘to assist in upholding law and order, and to mould public opinion in the right direction. But he asserted forcibly, that it was not the function of a newspaper to take advantage of its monopoly to outrage the senti- ments of the majority of the Christian people of the community. The second question he would answer was, ‘Is it right that a min- ister of the Gospel should assist in enforcing the laws of the country? This can be answered yes or no. I all depends. He cited the case of a po- liceman being beaten by a criminal he was trying to arrest, and a minis- ter being the only spectator. In a ease like this he would answer the question in the affirmative, and would say that it was the duty of a minister to assist the officer of the law. It was his duty ‘to assist in enforcing the law whenever his own conscience told him it was necessary. The next question was, “Is it right for a man to defend ‘himself when in danger.”” Dr. Gibson, in asserting} that it was a part of man’s nature to act in self-defence, said that even a rat would fight to the last when cornered, and that all the animals had instincts which prompted them to defend themselves when in danger. The firs law of nature was self- preservation, and this instinct’ had been placed in man by God, so that in time of danger it was only natural that he should defend himself. Checks Up the Press. Dr. Gibson then turned his guns directly on the Sentinel-Review, and read a quotation from Saturday's issue which he said he was going to answer. ..The question was -Our Saviour laid down His life for others. Even when Judas betrayed Him, and when the Jews crucified and scourged Him, what did He do? Is there any example in the life of Christ on which Mr. Spracklin can justify himself for his act? Christianity, we thought, is a religion of self-sacrifice, not one of self-righteousness and_ self-de fence.”’ “If the ideas of the writer were correct,’’ Dr. Gibson said, ‘“‘then the on. his time shall come to meet his Order, And Mold Public Opinio) b's,‘ faee to face. Trumble broke Sentinel-Review, which read, “We would infinitely rather take his victim's chance before the judgment loving God than rofa Prnag se stand in M racklin’s shoes’ when a man-made law, while the Rey. Mr. Spracklin broke a God-made law"’— ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”’ A Sharp Reply. Dr. Gibson said in reply, “The writer of this.artiele wishes to infer that because the Ontario Temperance Act is a mansmade law it can be broken with impunity. I wonder how many people have taken the trouble to analyze the statement I[ have just read. I have analyzed it,,and this is how I interpret it. The writer would rather take her, chance in the shoes of a man who had violated the Ontario Temperance Act, who en- couraged drinking and gambling, who conducted One of the vilest houses in Ontario, which was frequented by de- graded women, and which, I am led to ‘believe, has beén suspected of being the headquarters of the white slave traffic, than in the shoes of a man of God, a minister of the Gospel, who was outraged in soul at the sight of this wickedness, entered the service of his duty, killed a man. ‘“‘What do you think of a person's moral sense who would thrust such an abominable theory upon the de- fenceless readers of the Sentinel-Re- view? Judge ye!" Dr. Gibson, still quoting from the Sentinel-Review, read a reprint of an editorial which had appeared in the Simcoe Reformer. -The article wag as follows: . “As every sensible person must have falt certain they would, the activities of the Rev. J. O. L. Sprack- lin have resulted in a kiHing. The victim is a hotelman named Trumble, of his country, and in the discharge! the holder of the gun the ex-follower of the meek and lowly Nazarene. A coroner's jury has exonerated Sprack- lin, and in yesterday’s press be blat- antly boasts that he is going back, presumably to do it over again. If Premier Drury is concerned for the best interests of his governmént, he will give Spracklin a red ticket. Let the merits or demerits of the dirty mess in Essex be what they may, the sight of a swashbuckling parson, flourishing a gun, will soon pall on the people of Ontario.” Attack on Simeoe Editor. Referring to this; Dr. Gibson said: “When such articles as these appear in the only paper in our city, it is necessary for the public to -be dis- criminating. t of nonsense is being foisted upon the public by those who are opposed to the enforcement articles as these never appear in newspapers which are friendly to the cause of temperance, and those who are opposed f& temperance are not referring to the enforcement of the act but are turning their guns upon those who are enforcing it. I am creditably informed that the non who, either by proprietorship or as editor, is responsible fer this article and is violently opposed to the On- proper thing for the* British Empire to do when Germany threatened her existence was to do nothing and let Germany walk over her. That was exactly what this statement meant. It meant that when the forces of evil rise up, Christian people must lie acquiescent and not defend the prin- ciples of right when these principles involved drasticpaction. O consist- ency, thou art a Sewal,; and there was no consistency in the attitude of any4 newspaper which upheld,the country’s action in defending itself in time of war and then condemned a man who shot to defend himself when he was fighting to stamp out a vile traffic which threatened the moral life of the country. Did not Christ, when He observed the wickedness in the temple in Jer- usalem, take a scourge and drive out the evil doers?” ‘Should Spracklin Resign, The next question which Dr. Gib- son said he would .answer was, “Should Spracklin be allowed to con- tinue his work as a minister of the Gospel?"’ He read another quotation from the same article in the Sentinel- Review, as follows: ‘We do not know what the law of the church may ibe in the matter, but we do not see how any Christian could partake of Holy Communion administered by a man who Had killed his brother man, even in self-defence.” In reply to this, Dr. Gibson said this wa matter which must be left to the conseience of the individual. It is a matter of record, however, that every student in our theological eolleges who was physirally fit, went to the front as a combatant. These men fought the Germans, and when brought to close quarters with the enemy had no compunction about us- ing their steel in self-defence. Their hands were stained with the blood of the enemy, but there was no qu tion as to their eligibility for being ministers of the Gospel and adminis- tering Holy Communion. In fact, had any chaplains who went to the face with the enemy in a trench and had been successful in killing:twenty| of the Huns, they would have hailed as heroes, and there would they should adminster Holy Commun-| ion. It is not the function of ministers; .of the Gospel to act as detectives and to enforce the law as government, officers, their function being rather to seek the salvation. of the offend- ers. I would say t- when a minister takes up another calling officer of, the. Jaw, | " ministry.” | there is a grave suspicion that behind tario Temperance Act. Furthermore, the pens which are attacking the en- forcement of the temperance laws are men who are themselves most anxious that they should not be en- forced. “These questions have been asked of me by various persons during the past week, and I have tried to answer them according tc my judgment and conscience.” The Sermon on Profanity. Dr. Gibson then proceeded with his sermon, which was based -upon the third commandment. attacked the use of profane langu- age, the practice of perjury in the courts of our country and other forms of profanity. Referring to the sing- ing of sacred songs on Sunday even- ings for entertainment, he said that those who did this were guilty of profanity. “I would far rather,” he said, “have such entertainers sing secular songs, or even ragtime, than desecrate the songs of God by sing- ing them at a concert held solely for the purpose of amusing and entertain- ing those who atténd, and J sincerely hope that Sunday evening concerts for purposes of entertainment, will never be started in Woodstock.” The congregation, which was a large one, listened intently while Dr. Gibson delivered his sermon, and was profoundly sfirred by his striking statementg on the Spracklin case. Advertising Auction Sales— Hanover Post—A farmer friend of The Post, who dropped into the office the other day, remarked that the auction sales which were advertised in the newspapers were much better attended than those where no such publicity was given. ‘The object of having an auction sale,’’ he said, ‘‘is to sell as many articles at as high prices as possible and it stands to reason that the larger the crowd the greater the competition, and the more the articles bring under the hammer, and probably 100 persons will read the list of articles in The Post for one who reads the bills. Certainly you- can insert the sale in the paper. It does not need any argument and the money is well <u if it only attracta one extra buye “Say Jim,” seid the friend of the the vehicle, ” “there's a _ purse gad ee on the fioor of your car.” The driver looked: caceteey around pa mes; of the Ontario Temperance Act. Such) geryed is a confirmed drunkard and wastrel,; €@2 He vigorously} taxicab, driver, standing in front of|a ea leave the. dow Sian It's peopel but ae no idea | n for a short te when "hey Seema the Bret n “Sometim put it there aes it_insulatio (Contributed by Ontario De Agriculture, Toron HE results of the relative non-conductivity of some bee- hive insulating materials are given below as the result of tests, 100 being the standard: Very fine black regranulated cork (dust form), 100. Chopped straw, 86. Coarse black regranulated cork, 85. Forest leaves (well dried), 84. Granulated cork, light or natural color. This is the grade usually used as packing about imported Malaga grapes for instance, 84. 8-20 grade granulated cork (nat- ural color). It looks similar to pre- ceding one but it is a little coarser in grain and lighter in weight, 80. Sawdust, very dry and from wWell = and clean lumber, 68. — ysed in packing boxes Pacer shavings, 60. The lesson of this table is that the fine black cork dust is the poorest conductor of heat or the best insu- lator so far as the resistance of the Passage of heat is concerned, planer shavings is the best conductor of heat, and therefore the poorest in- sulator of the nine substances tested. The fact should be emphasized that these results do not tell us anything about the substances except their power to conduct heat. It may be that if they were tried out as insula- tion for bee-hives we would arrange them differently than as given above. There are other properties besides conductivity of heat that figure in practice, and a consideration of these is my second purpose as announced at the beginning. A good insulating material neces- sarily is a poor conductor of heat, bat all non-conductors are ndt neecssarily good insulators in practice, or, at any rate, not always desirable or satis- factory. Next to non-conductivity is low mosture absorption or the ability to keep comparatively dry in moist weather conditions. Experts in bee- keeping say that high moisture con- tent in the hive is fatal to the bees since it causes dysentery among them. Let us assume that the air in a hive is very moist, say. at a sor- mal temperature, and the tempera- ture goes down several degrees ow- ing to inadequate protection or in- sulation about them, and see what happens. The result is exactly the fame condition we all have often ob- outside of a water jug filled with cold water and set in warm air. Moisture congeals on the outside of the jug, and it becomes cold and clammy and the water drips from it and makes everything else it touches wet. Likewise the dew is formed. The physical reason for these phe- nomena is the fact that ¢old air can- not hold in the invisible or vapor form as much moisture as warm air Some of the moisture held at high temperature must appear as drops of water at the lower temperature, or in other words there is a rain, and a rain in a bee-hive is a serious mat- ter, but it can be prevented by con- trolling the temperature inside the hive. Herein exists one of the most important uses of the imsulation about the hive. Other reasons why an insulation should not absorb mois- ture are that moisture increases the conductivity of the insulation for heat and also makes it more Hable to deterioration and decay. A good old maxim regarding success says, “Keep your powder dry.” With equal emphasis it may be said: “Keep your insulation dry if you would protect your bees well and give them a fair chance to succeed.” Of the substances listed in the foregoing list granulated cork, forest leaves (if dried for one year ahead) and planer shavings are the poorest ‘absorbers of moisture. Sawdust us- ually is too green and dirty to be very dry at the very best, and decay sets in rapidly, and chopped straw unless very well ripened and cured may be objectionable in the same way as sawdust. en, too, rats and mice are apt to bother it seriously. (The insulation must be odorless, else the bees may leave the hives. It mus: be readily available and reasonably cheap, and in these particulars for- t leaves, chopped straw and planer avings are foremost. it also should be easy and agreeablé to handle and pack in position, and not subject to spontaneous combustio Thirdly, the main reason for insu- lating the hives, especially in the winter season under outside condi- tions, is to conserve the bees own warmth so that they can live chai fortably and not have to eat an extra- ordinary amount of food in order to maintain a normal temperature. The bees get their warmth and energy from the food eaten, and it is the function of the hive and the + ine insulation to keep this heat from ing wasted in cold weather in so surrounding atmosphere. A second reason is to maintain an even tem- perature in the hive, and this per- tains both to summer and winter, or to any season in fact. The insulation assists in preventing extremes of temperature in the hive as a large body of water does to the adjacent land areas. Another reason, and not the least because mentioned last,’ is that a good insulating around the hives provides a drier, and therefore healthier end in all From Other Minds B Fred C. Kelly, journalist.—Before hiring a man on the strength of his! letters of recommendation, it is well! to remember that there is many a man to whom one might give a strong testimonial in order to get rid of him. Edward N. Hurley.—It is only the little. man who ever graduates; the big fellow stays at school every day of the year. It is not easy to keep your mind open, to know that—no matter what people may tell you, or how friends may praise you—really you never arrive. Theodore Roosevelt—aAfter a cer- tain. not very high level of material well-being has been reached, then the things that really count in life are the things of the spirit. Factories} and railways are good up to a certain point; but courage and endurance, love of wife and child, love of home and country, love of lover for sweet- heart, love of beauty in man's work and in nature, love and emulation of daring ang of lof- ty endeavor, the homely ‘workaday virtues and the heroic virtues—these are better still, and if they gre lack- ing, no piled-up riches, no roaring. clanging industrialism, no feverish and many-sided activity shall avail either the individual or the nation. I do not undervalue these things of a nation’s body; I only desire that they shall not make us forget that be- sides the nation’s body there is also the nation’s soul. Dr. Frank Crane.—It is well to keep in mind that it was not the fan- atics, moralists and meddlers who took away our darling tipple. It was the cold-blooded scientists. It was the tousle-headed professors . with their test tubes and formulae in their laboratories, it was the life insurance actuaries with their deadly array of figures and their mysterious but -unescapable law of averages, it was the efficiency experts in mil! and fac- tory—these are they who snatched the bottle from the banquet table and interfered with the glorious personal liberty of the son who chose as a free-born American citizen to break his mother’s heart, or the husband whose mode of free self-expression was to break his wife’s head. Rev. Mr. Benjamin H. Spence, sec- retary, Datiaien Alliance.—One for- mer provincial official is now in the penitentiary for using his position in conjunction with the big interests for bootleggers and others. The law which he brought into contempt has never recovered from the damage done nor shaken off the odium. Some people learn by bitter experience. Evi- dentiy quite a number of such peo- ple live in British Columbia. South Carolina and“Saskatchewan tried an almost perfect system of government control and it was a failure. Both replaced their laws with prohibition. Camille Flammarion, French as- tronomer and scientist.—As a scien- tist I cannot affirm that the soyl is immortal. I do affirm that the soul lives long after the body is dead, and that in time man will be able to con- trol the fluids which make communi- cation between the realm of death and life possible. having received genero’ Bagh but the cage League Our Quebec Letter 9-7 (By Arthur Penny) (Union Press Bureau Special) uebec, Nov. 16.—The system of education in the Province of Quebec has more than once been attacked in other parts of the Dominion, so the inspection it has just received from an authoritative body is interesting. Following the Ottawa conference of Deputy Ministers of Education and Superintendents of Public Instruct- ion, a number of those attending it accepted an invitation to come to, Quebec and see for themselves wheth-; er the provincial system of educa-' tion was really as deficient as it has/| sometimes been represented in other | provinces. Naturally it is impossible to gain any deep insight into so large| a question in two or three days, but all the visitors frankly admitted that they were strongly impressed by what they had been able to see. At a luncheon given in their hon- or an address was delivered by the; ~ Premier, Hon. L. A. Taschereau, who had many sly digs to make at the de- pretiations of education in Quebec. He insisted upon the necessity of complete provincial. autonomy ar gave statistics to show the amount of| money that was heing spent on schools and colleges, and also the number of such institutions that are being operated. With a polished and quiet irony that is characteristic of him, the Premier observed:.‘‘As back- ward as our primary schools may have appeared twenty-five years ago, I must say this much for them: they taught the children their religious duties and their obligations to help their parents on the farm. They avoided this modern calamity of warping farmers’ sons out of their own orbit and did not attempt to lead them towards a commercial or industrial life which has no right to claim them, or to take them away from their agricultural calling.”’ The Grain Trade Quebec City is continuing its up- hill fight to capture its rightful share of the Western grain traffic that is at present diverted by American chan- nels to American ports for European eqport, instead of being carried over the National Transcontinental Rail- way to Canadian ports. The Harbor Commisssion has got assurance of both grain and bottoms, provided that the freight rates which are at present discriminating against Que- bec can be adjusted. Through the ef- forts of Captain Power, M.P. for Que- bec South, the Board of Railway Commissioners is soon to hold a sit- ting here to go into the whole mat- | th voted towards-a new Seamen’s Insti- tute that is badly needed, and it was is rs pes Pinas s e thought that in this way a special _ appeal would be made to local in- terest. This has indeed been the case, but prominent Quebeckers feel that they are entitled to special sup- port from the great shipping compa- nies represented here, who will bene- It from the scheme. 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