a ce, aa bag Notary PubMc and Cen- Office over store of Koch Shee Co., “im. B. MORPHY, K. C. Barrister, Notary P VYeyancer, Solicitor Hamilton, Listowel, Off. Listo wood ton, ublic, Con- for Bank of on, At- 4 wel and Milver- Money to loan. 4. C. HAMILTON, B. A. ister, Conveyancer, Soliclior for the Imperial Bank of Canada.) Money to loan. Office on south side of Main street, over Miss "Gibbs" Mill- inery Parlors. Bonds for Sale. Stratford. Listowel Office (Tab er's Office.) Tuesday and Friday. Consultations arranged by corre- 8 dence. Ww. G. E. SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Department of University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dental Sargeons, Toronto. = over Schin- bein’s Store. RF TAYLOR, L.D.8.; D.D.S. Graduate of the Royal college of| hi Dental surzeons, and of Toronto uni- versity. All dental X- Bay “work done. Out of town appointments promptly filled.) 1.) Office Phone 60. hours 8 to 5. H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Physician and Surgeon. Office ever Livingstone's Drug Store, corn- er Main and Wallace streets. Phone $9. 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’ elvil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment for one 5 asc es harge. = Phone 17. DR, F. J. R. FORSTER, ~ Bye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicine, University “1 Toronto. Late assistant Yew York Ophthal- @ic and Aural Iustitute, Moorefield’s Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel,,/Listowel, on ae a May = from 10 a. m. to 4p 63 waleue ‘St. Stratfora. Phone 267. A. G. SHLELL, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Surgery. Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, €ar, Nose and Throat. Phone 13 Office over the SeARer office, Main Street Listowel 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 school. Residence and parlors, Main &., one and a half blocks east of Bap- tist church. Night and day calls promptly attended. Phone 2327. FIRE INSURANCE In best companies; also accident, au- tomobile, tetetaey, Plate glass a bond insurance. Automobile insur- ance, 85 cts. per 100. Your business solicited. E. D. BOLTON. ALL KINDS OF IYSURANCE The Strongest and nent coe panies operat Fire $1.50 per $1,000. Storm. $1. 50 per 1,660. Automobile, 85 cts per 160. Town or Country. H. Hi J. P., Isswer of Marriage Licenses W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer Farms for sale. Get our terms. Want to buy? See our list. Need a house? We have it. Require an auc- tiomeer? Phone 246, Listowel, Ont. RIDES WANTED Highest market prices paid Pe hides, furs and fowl. S. M. phone 136, Listoweh. It Costs No More | a second rate political career. Exact figures recently resigned as the head of th published. His reputation as a man of enormous wealth is clearly -estab- lished, for he owns houses and lands and s' and bonds and cattle and commodities. He is affirmed in the page Westniinster to be lucky ha ail that relates to money, and 4 has had the additional good rt to accumulate these riches inoffen- pe No small portion of his for- : was bequeathed him years aro by the fe saneen business magnate. | Chauchard, an admirer of his prr- ‘sonality, which, from all accounts in the French press, is paienttel. Old Cleme Leygues forward originally, then and since as “that delightful George.” His genius is for friend- ship, among other g8 and no man in French public life has done more for his friends. Leygues is not only a millionaire. but a poet and, if the Debats is right, he is a good one. He is now well past his sixtieth year, and his vers¢s were written before he was forty. His mood was always pensive and his muse was a trifle too scholarly. He abandoned peetry when his hair grew thin and Clemenceau is said to have told him not to dabble In it again. As a lawyer, Me proved a trifle too sonorous in the grand Roman man- ner of Vergniaud, the orator whose genius most impresses him. Leygues can still delight the Deputies, but he is a trifle Indolent. The labor of con- centration on a single interest bores im. Literatutre has been the pas- sion of his life. He is said to be the st read man in France, and he is a high authority on the French lan- guage. He made a sensation years ago as Minister of Public Instruc- tion “he © abolished many survivals in French syntax, which had long baffled the foreigner. He excised hyphens from compound words remorselessly and he did away with double genders and eccentricities in the relation of certain ad There was the authority of rareee as a gram: marian and erudite routed more re than one stickler for the traditions of The mystery of Leygues, as it dis- closes itself in the French y bac his salad a vocation. “ine Ader tates et hte tained o m. the Chamber t hopes were enter- Sat ne got a seat in and there he has re- at alii recog- Sy Fighting For a Sea. j “AL the history of European man —forty conta of wars, emigra- tlons, and racial impact—were due to the desire of possessing the harmon- jously framed Mediterranean- enjoying the transparency of i to ae mosphere and the vivacity of its life,” saya Mr. V. B. Ibanez in his recently ~ volume entitled “‘Mare “The men from the North who needed the burning log and alcoholic drink in order to defend their life from the clutches of the cold were always thinking of these Mediter- ranean shores. All their warlike or pacific movements were with intent to descend from the coasts of the gla- cial seas to the beaches of the warm ‘mare nostrum’ (our sea). They were eager to gain possession of the coun- try where the sacred olive alternates its stiff old age with the joyous vine- yard; where the pine rears its cupola and the eypress erects its minaret. ““They longed to dream under the etapa snow of the interminable ves; to be masters of the shelteréa valleys where the myrtle and the jasmine spice the’salty air, where the aloe and the cactus grow between the stones of extinct volca- noes; where the mofintains of marble extend their white veins down even into the depths of the sea and re- -fract the anen heat emitted by the opposite coas “The South” had replied to the in- vasions from the North with defen- sive wars that had extended pes into the centre of Europe. An is- tory had gone on repeating iteel? with the same flux and reflux of human waves—mankind struggling for thou- sands of years to gain or hold the blue vault of Amphitrite.” Rather Embarrassed. A girl and her sweetheart sa Bi 7 der a in the reom. “Is yo: love true?” she “As _ sd rthe young man answered, in Pas- sionate tones, “‘as the éatente flush on your cheeks.” “Oh—er— ah,” the girl stammered, burriedly: “‘ian't the —er—doesn’t the band play nicely 7” French Ministry have never been >} ing desk lor segerCtande Ocorwek tareahs, Si . atl Thomas Bailey Aldrich—at home in Boston the novelist was a@ honored guest—in her recently-pub lished autobiography entitled “Crowding Memories.” “It was on a blustering evening in November that Mr. Dickens arrived in Boston harbor,” she says. “A few of his friends steamed down in the custom house boat to’ welcome him; It was pitch dark before the Cuba ran alongside. Mr. Dickens’ cheery voice was heard welcoming Mr. Fields before there was time to.dis- tinguish him on the steamer. - He vow like a bundle of animated and was in most exuberant ‘pick: the hows of the extraordinary having been carried to him by the pilot ae miles out.” nm great excitement ‘the sale of tickets for the read- eich share. nebo struggles to secure the best seats, and a queve was form- ea twenty-four hours before the sale ee vist memories unfold selves to my vision of that December 2, 1867; the night of the first appearance of ‘Mr. Dickens in the Tremont Temple! Again I am con- scious of the expectent hush as Mr. Dickens appears, book in hand, white boutonniere in buttonhole. With quick, tic stéps he takes his place. The whole audience spring to their feet, while round after round of}. applause, cheer ashen seca at — after shout of welcome greet h the stage ie a aumola device, decizaed by Mr. Dickens, looking like a read- ith a light so arranged as to illuminate the reader's face; be d it stands a long, dark, purplish sereen. With a magician one desk hapsen en iteelf, supple to the master’s w “Sud denly the officer on the floor of ‘the court called out ‘Silence!’ in tone, ae the ‘them- hi js | 8 commanding great aes of Bardwell and Pickwick be- gan, and holding the listeners still and motionless until the foreman brought in the verdict of ‘Guilty,’ and fined the defendant seven hund wun atts pose ds. Then Sam Weller's father touched him on the shoulder, and, with a mournful expression, Sammy, vy worn't said, ‘O, Sammy, there a alleybi!” “With this the great ence shouted with laughter, -and | the wild applause began again with gathered volume, until even the walle ot Zremont Temple itself seemed to echo and vibrate as a pendulum dis- tarbed from rest and swing {io and To. 17 The author tells us that if the Sul- of Zanzibar; the Czar of all Kus- sia, the Grand Mogul of India, and all the crowned heads of Europe com- bined should have knocked at the door of the Aldrich home, it would not throw the entire household into such a frenzy and flutter as that sim- ple card, ‘Mr. Charles Dickens” :— “I well remember the quick beat- ing ah my heart as I descended the stairs t6 the ‘boudoir,’ where I found r. Dickens seated in the easiest chair in the bay window. A rather short, slight figure, so he seemed to me then, -without the manner ihat ‘Stamps the: caste of ba de Vere.’ He was dressed—I think dressed is the Ment word—in a very light, so light that I don’t know how to de scribe &— I can almost ‘say soiled whit@ color—top coat. It was wide and short, and stobd” out like a skirt, the collar of a much darker shade of velvet. His waistcoat was velvet of another shade of brown, with bril- liant red indentations; his watch chain was buttoned into the centre button of his waistcoat, and then it divided itself. I found myself say- ing, ‘How do you do,’ and wondering, if the watch Was in one pocket, what was at- the other end of the chain in the other pocket, and was tempted p> to-ask- him the: time, in the hope that he might make a mistake and bring out the other thing. I don’t remem- what he wore on his feet, and I don't know the plaid of his trousers, but I rather think jt Was a Mock-and white check—what the English call ‘pepper and salt.’ I don’t remember any one topic of conversation on that laughter and good cheer; the charm- ing way in beg the guest itade these two renee e feel that to him they really Were persons ef ¢on- sequence, and rded by this prince of o tarried within their gates.” Ledrnéa by preey, Pat Rederty, met Mike Donovan ponies. © own thé stéps of the local Guildhall. Ol had a most illigant toime on Saturday,” sai Donovan. “Good ‘twas the tolme av me loife!" “Indeed, and now was that?" “Why, Oi was at the Four-Leaved Shamrock —and not a thing do Oi remember after about seven-thirty.” ‘But if ye can’t remember anything, Mike, aor do ye know that ye had such t toime?"’ “How do Ol know?” repeated Donovan. “Well, Oi’ve just overheard a policeman tell- ing an ould magistrate all about it!" Biee and Yellow? A rude youth entered-a railway carriage in which a girl whose hair was red was seated. He glanced at her once or twice, tittered, and then lotion Sor Skin Disease J. A. Hacking, Druggist, Listowel. edged away to a far corner. “Excuse me, miss,“ he giggled, “but L must not get too close to you or 1 might get burned, you know.” But she was a Lancashire lassie, and equal to the occasion. “‘Doan't thee Tret, lad,"" she cout’ “tha'rt much too green to urn. rey the tickets to his readings, s touch the} q first -visit, but I remember well the’ tla Ela a Sw err er study by the eminent astrophysicist, Dr. J. H. Jeans, has indicated. a way of examining whether such conders- ation is possible. The factors of cos- mic evolution Involved are technical and = but summing them up, Jeff thinks it necessary to cessaee completely those hypotheses whi require the solar system to have been formed by the gradual con- densation a nebula, We are led next to inguire whether planets could come into being by a more rapid or catastrophic process: “Projection f possible origin, this way must the sun is not a ra body started in essarily strike the oe re on return and be re- a u there is no reason why, “all ‘should saviiee in the same direction. The tidal theory appears to give a better account of the pres- ent state of the system. According to this. a star much more mrssive than the sun approached it very closely, and raised on opposite side of it two projections, just as the moon raises tides in the earth, but the scale ofthe disturbance was in this case so enormous that the sun's gravitation was unable to prevent a rupture from occurring. Thus either one or two streams of matter were shot out in a se comparable with a few months, years. Being longi- tudinally cautatie, they broke up in- to a series of detached masses, per- haps before the parts projected later had actually separated from the sun. That such a rupture could occur has “been proved by Jeans. .The attraction of the disturbing body produced the direct revolution (in the same sense as the motion of the star relative to the sun); some of the revolving mat- ter returned into the sun and gave it a direct rotation. The angular mo- mentum thus acquired was, of course, erived from the transverse motion of the disturbing body relative to the sun. “The size of the deformed body has little influence on its chance of being broken up. Thus the detached masses might well have produced systems of satellites and developed direct rota- tions in the majority of cases, though complete uniformity could scarcely be expected on account of the number of complicating factors, The fission would cease when the star had re- ceded a sufficient distance; thus the outer nuclei, being the first ejected, would produce most satellites. All the bodies, having recently formed part of the sun, would naturally be “very “The system, after the passage of fie star, would therefore include a central sun surrounded by a number of heated planets, moving in direct orbits, and attended by satellites; the most remote planets would have most satellites. The rotation of the sun would be direct; the rotation of each planet would be in the same sense as the revolution of most of its satel- lites, and in most cases this also would be direct, though a few excep- tions might well occur, especially in the outermost subsystems. In every point this agrees with the existing solar system. The heated interior of the earth, the building of mountains by compression, ‘and ,the present heated state of the great planets are readily accounted for. Magnesium From Sea. New salt works established at Ber- gen, in Norway, will turn out as by- product about 5 Psy of metallic Magnesium per Sea water (from which the salt ‘hi to be deriv- ed) contains four-tenths of 1 per cent. of magnesium chloride. Increased demapd for magnesium In alrplane constriction, with cheap electric power, makes extraction of the metal a paying proposition. Sea water contains four cents’ worth of gold to the ton, and, in quantity, twice as much silver. Cop- per and other metals likewise con- tribute their salts to the ocean in ap ounts — as, indeed, might be expected, inasmuch as riv- Ts carry down to the sea all the materials of which the rocks of the land are composed, including ‘h* metals contained in them. It is familiarly known that certain ne planis—the kelps and other seaweeds—take up iodine and potash from the sea water, concentrating those minerals in their own structure. Such p aré important commer- celal sou of potash and iodine. In Spain a plant which secretes soda was jong cultivated and har- vested for that chemical, the ash de- rhred from the burning of it being called “‘barilla.”” Thus it would seem that the notion of a mineral farm is not altogether an absurdity. White Negroes. Early Portuguese explorers found on the west coast of Africa a nam- ber of “white Negroes,” wha, by rea- son of the peculiarity, were held in veneration by the blacks. They were, of course, albinos. It was to describe them that the word “albino” was first coined, and since then it has been applied to hu- beings of all races whose lac of pigment deprives their skin, eyes and hair of normal coloration. inism is assuredly one of na- ture’s strangest freaks. In former days persons so afflicted prere regard- ed with horror and systematically shunned. Because of thelr shrinking from bright light the opprobrious name of “cockroaches” was’ bestowed upon them, and it was ignorantly suppos- ed that they were defective mentally. For the latter notion, needless to say, there was never the slightest basis of fact. Albinos of Caucasian race have + guaamid fine hair, glossy and silk- 2. Children love home-made bread made of Cream of the West Flour. “And there is nothing else so good for them that costs so little. Maple Leaf Milling Co. . imite Toronto, Winnipeg Branden, Halifax ' You can procure Cream of the West Flour in Listowel from McDonald & Riggs and The Co-operative Store. L. Pfeffer Milling Company Our Leader, percwt. - $5.90 Universal “ow - $5.65 Golden City “ “ - $5.30 White Plume“ “* - $4.90 Bran “os - $2.00 Shorts eos - $1.90 Shorts in ton lots - $36.00 Corn, per cwt. . - $2.15 Oats “ “ - $2.00 Our Flour is made from the best No. 1 wheat we can buy. We use best machinery, and have skilled labor therefore our flour is guaranteed to make as good and as much bread to the 100 lbs. flour as any other flour made. Clover Seed We have received a shipment of Canadian Grown No. 1° Red Clover It is climatized and a See » beautiful sample. this before buying. R. A. CLIMIE Phone 72 Wallace Street