a ¢. E. TERHUNE Barrister, Notary Public and Cen- veyancer. Office over store of Koch Shoe Co., Main St. H. B. MORPHY, K. C. Barrister, Notary Public, Con- “weyancer, Solicitor for Bank of Hamilton, Listowel, Milverton, At- wood. Offices Listowel and Milver- ton. Money to loan. J. C. HAMILTON, B. A. ister, Conmveyancer, Solicitor for the Imperia) Bank of Camada. Money to loan. Office on south aide of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- inery Pariors, , Bonds for Sale. JAMES M. RIDDELL Barrister. Solicitor, etc. Stratford. Listowel Office (Tabberner's Office.) Tuesday and Friday. Consultations arranged by corre- spondence. 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 Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Schin- baa Store. R. F. TAYLOR, L.D.8.; D.D.8. Graduate of the Royal college of Dental surseons, and of Toronto uni- versity. : All dental X-Ray work done. of town oleae promptly Phone Oo e on “aa moe Gas — H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Physician and Surgeon. Office/h ever Livingstone'’s Drug Store, corn- er Main and Wallace streets. Phone 8. Night phone 113. W. C. PRATT, M. D. : (Physician and Surgeon) ~ Office and residence on Main street, to blocks west of postoffice Phone 228. - DR, JAMES MOORE (Physician an‘ Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- bein’s stairway. Medical representative of Sohiiers’ . re-establishment, whereby sol- rs get free treatment for one year efter discharge. Phone 17. DR, F. 3. KR. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicfne, University @i Toronto. Late assistant few York Ophthal- mic and Aural Iustitute, Moorefield’s} Eye and Golden Square Hos pitals, London, Eng. - At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel) op Wednesday, May 4th, from 10 a. m. to 4 p.m. , 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 A. G. SHIELL, M. D. Physician and Diseases of Women and Surgery. W. P. FREEMAN, M. D. and Surgeon Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Phone 13. Office over the Banner office, Main Street Listowel DR. R. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Opbthal- mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes tested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone's jeweoiry store. W. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming schook Residence and parlors, Main S&t., 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- See vapery, plate glass and bond insurance. Automobile {nsur- ance, 85 oa, per 100. Your business solicited. E. D. BOLTON. ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE The Strongest and Cheapest com- in Cameda. Fire Storm. $1.50 per Automobile, 85 cts per 100. Town or ru . Hemeworth. J. P., Issuer of Marriage Licenses W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer Get our terms. See our list. Need a We have it.. Require an auc- Phone 246, Listowel, Ont. Farms for sale. Want to buy? house? tioneer? HIDES WANTED Highest market prices paid hides, furs and fowl. S. phone 1536, Listowel. for Izen, eourt gossip. harking back to the brilliant days of the Second Empire, have been revived co-incidentally with the passing of Empress Eugenie, easily the most romantic figure in modern European history. Every “boulevardier” of the French capital is swapping the spicy tales of a bygone generation anent the beautiful ms unfortunate queen. whose death aced half the royal temittes 4g the Old World in morning. Favorite among the stories cen- tring about the late Empress ts the tale of the humble Latin Quarter model, whose fatal resemb to Eugenie forced upon her the strange alternative of a handsome. pension éoupled with exile from her oved Paris or thy — life of a prisoner in.a-gloomy cell at St. Lazare. One. aeeue- tue height of ~ liant reign, when t her beauty, sagacity out ess war on every tongue, the court gossips made a tremendous and disconcerting discovery. At pee exhibition of the works of an ure painter a number of por- traits of the sovereign, depicted in exceedingly owneee attire, were found on di . The story spread through Frazee like wildfire. The Emprees' friends were struck dumb with dismay. Her "politien! enemios were sufftised with irreverential glee. When the tale reached the ears o Eugenie. she lost no time in vain explanations. With she terdterietic energy she called in the po A hnrried inquiry Sclowed ard the mystery was cleared up. The of- fending portraits were likenesses of a humble fags per re whose re- semblance to th War #0 marked that her tion ue had dubbed her “Leonie the Empress.” The police took no half measures. Ther sent for Mlle. Leonie. “What would you say to 3,000 francs income yearly?" they asked n I ever dreamed of.” “What must I do to Em praise er. “More tha ps goords Leonie. get it? “Pack up bag and baggace and clear out of Paris—and don't come back!" “But I love Paris!" “Very well, take your choice. Three th thousand Francs and clear out or the prison of St. Lazare. You look too much like the empress. That is treason!” Faced with the Imperial ultima- sie the little model, crying bitterly, forced to accept the legser of the pis evils. She left Paris forever and settled in a country village. As for the trreverent its, the empress bought them up at a price that made\the artist a gentleman of leisure for the rest of his life, and had them utterly destroyed. But the @host of the spicy tale they started haunted the Imperial tamily closet, for years inti 5 A New Nelson Letter. What is claimed to be a hitherto ubpublished Nelson letter wag rerent- ly reproduced in facsimile in a Vienna art periodical. It is dated Serene 23, 1800, and addressed o “Mr. Hartz, banker,-at~ Vienna” pees correctly, Leopold van Hers, | a Viennese merchant). It instructs him to pay £250 to the Viennese nter, Fuger, on delivery of three pictures, ‘‘viz., one full length of the Queen of Naples, one full length of Lady Hamilton, and one quarter of a length of Lord Nelson of the Nile.” ese portraits were painted by Fuger at Vienna on Nelson's order when, after his great victory over ep ig at Malta, he was return- o England with the beautiful 9 Hamilton and her husband, Sir William Hamilton, British: Minister at Naples. Fuger's portrait of Nelson now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. In the catalogue it is described as unfinished. The address on the letter and the signa- ture are written with Nelson's left hand, as he had lost his right arm in action three years previously. Lewes Castle. The noble castle of Lewes, now acquired for the nation, has # history going back to the fierce or Sexon invasions.- In Athelstan's day it possessed two mints, and the Lewes silver coin was a recognized coin of the realm. The Conqueror gave the town to William of Warren, who found a fortress ready to hand, much like that he had left behind him in Normandy. Lewes has been famous for long years for bonfires end fireworks, and “bonfire boys" keep up the Fifth of November cele- brations with fine spirit. Fireworks in Lewes have been used to persecute Quakers and others; thus in 1658 a party of Quakers were assembled for worship on the Castle Green, when “rude people" fell upon them with swords, guns, and pikes, and assailed them with squibs. So sguibbing is preved to be one of the most ancient institutions of the town, Rheumatism Neuritis, Sciatica, Neuralgia. Templeton’s | atic \ Capsules (Contributed by On of : t Agricult ure, Tome _N experiment consisting of a comparative teat of three dif- ferent pruning treatments was started at Vineland tm 1914. The three treatments were (a) winter or dormant pruning, (b) summer pruning, and (¢c) no prun- ing. The orchard under test consist- ed of about afleen diferent ¥arieties of apples. Although it is too earlr to look for conclusive results espe-. cially on the ultimate yields of the various systems of pruning, yet we have indications of what these results will-be. Also we have data whch positively shows the advantages of light pruning for the young orchard. Beyond this our results do not go° as the orchard is_still young. . The experiment, as originally out- lined, specified the following for each kind of pruning: Winter Pruning.—Trees to be severely cut beck, thinned out in March or April, the object being to form a framework pleasing to the eye ahd which, at the same time would ultimately be capable of earrying a mazimum load of fruit, i.e., to be pruned according to the then commonly accepted method for young trees bearing age. Fruit bearing. was not to be -taken into consideration for at least seven years. Summer Pruning.—The trees un- der this treatment to be well thinned out in August when growth is ceas- ing and the maturing of wood com- mences. gro to be cut back only sufficient to keep the within bounds which ey inyofves only tipping back the nb es. The original objects of nye type of pruning were to el early bear- ing, admit as much sunlight as possible and at the»same oe not sacrifice the natural oom cel he tree any more than necessa No Pruning.—Trees left to make natural growth with the exception of the shanti of broken or other- wise injured be. Following he summary ot results: t as indicated by the diameter of the trunk and spread of branches than the unpruned or summer pruned trees. Moreover, the summer’ pruned and uwunpruned have i bea ‘fruit since 1915) whiely would lessen their ability to make wth. Their real gain ever the heavily pruned trees is, there- fore, grealer than the actual meas- urements would indicate. (2) e dormant pruned trees have been much later in coming into bearing, producing in 1915 only three pounds of erat for the whole Besk. as against 127.7 pounds for ummer pruned block, and 209.4 Feante for the unpruped black. With the season of 1919 and those intervening between 1915 and 1919, the ratio has been practically the same, Heavily dormant pruned trees have barely started to bear as yet, while the summer pruned and unpruned trees have increased in productiveness each season. (3) The summer pruned trees (probably equivalent in effect to tight dormant pruning) have made considerably more growth than the oeavily: prumed trees and have prac- tically held their own with the un- pruned trees except in the case of the Greening variety ‘Where the unpruned trees have out- distanced the summer pruned trees. (4) Unpruned trees have made more growth than either of the other two systemis, though very little more than the summer pruned trees. Th ire also continuing to outyield the other systems of pruning. These inpruned trees, however, as a whole ve becoming very dense, increasing very materially the difficulty and ‘ost of spraying, picking, ete. There tre indications also that the fruit is falling off in color due to the jense growth. From the above, therefore, it is wident that the lighter the pruning the greater the growth, the earlier the tree comes into bearing, and the heavier the yield during the .early perlod of the tree's life at least. But although the unpruned trees have made the greatest gains to date, the lightly summer pruned trées are very little, if any, behind, especially when the increased cost of spraying, picking, growing lack of color, and the general undesirable condition of ihe tree for future crops are con- sidered. .To redeem such an un- sruned orchard would necessarily re- ard its crops for a period and thus the earlier gains from no pruning would be lost. Light annual pruning just sufficient o retain the proper shape of the tree ‘to allow sunlight and air to get hrough and to keep out all crossed ind broken branches seems, there- ‘ore, to be the proper method to pur- tue for the young orchard until it ‘oues into bearing. After bearing ge is reached, pruning will likely uave to be more severe so as to ‘aintain a proper supply of new vood each year. What constitutes Have brought good health to half-a-milicn A healthful, money-saving remedy, ut known for filteen years, pre- octors, sold by drug- gets, $1.00 a box. Ask our agents It Costs No More or write for a free trial package. Templetons, 142 King W., Toronto Local Agent—J. A. Stuart. verity of pruning will, of course, ‘ary with the variety.—E. F. Palmer, director Vineland Horticultural Ex- rerimént Station Pointers for Live Stock. Cattle should have water in abund- nce, easy of access, and always pure nd fresh. Sand, loam or borse manure fhould sever be used for bedding cows. Give Hoe goes ame Wartare: - 4 of flame early timed. The -Eeyption of #moke and fire in_con- mg their battle gz!- equipped with pumps wherebs burning oil could —- projected upon the ehemy. The gone pots gave off smoke which was a screen in attacks, and othar material was put in these pots which gave obnox- on. fumes. n.every war since there has bee a\¢ertain limited use of smoke owe" flame. Even in the American Civili War some use was e these. Is,. especially in the siege of Mond, where incendiary shells and rockets were employed in an at- tempt to set fire to the city. At the nning of the world war, how- ever, ve taken place, an available Arom the published liter- atu - As with the poison . mans were the first’ to employ the smoke and incendiary material, first use of the latter being in the form e projectors, which were used early in the war in their attacks on the Canadian forces. Smoke and incendiary material are really, employed for.opposite pur- poses, the first for defence and the latter for offence. In the employment | of smoke the main use is for smoke | ‘screens, in order to mask an attack, or to simulate an attdck; and thus cause expenditure of ammunition and activity om the part of the enemy when no attack is to be made. is also used to screen ships, tanks §nd airplanes, so that: their movemehts cannot be pg eg by the enemy, and is further to give a visible burst of she)! pa bombs for use in ranging. When it becomes necessary to set up a smoke screen at a greater dis- tance than is possible by means of hand or rifle grenades, use is made of other devices. These consigt of shells for Stokes mortars, Iivins pro- jectors and guns and howitzers. The filling employed for these shells was usually phosphorus, al- though smoke mixtures similar to those in use in candles and grenades were employed as well as the smoke- producing mixtures used in grenades. In use, the shells normally burst just before they reach the ground at the end of the trajectory. If it were burst after impact the shell normally bur- led itself, with the result that the smoke material did not burn pro perly. Phosphorus here had the ad- vantage as before of being spontan- eously inflammable, while if a smoke mixture were employed it, would be necessary that it be lgnited during flight before the burst. Smal! arms pmmmnatitie filled with a. special smoke mirture in the pro- } feetite were employed for tise in air- Planes to give a trail of smoke fol- lowing the projectile in order to see the direction of fire. These were call- ed ‘tracer bullets,’ and it was the normal purpose fer a machine gun on an airplane to have ofe to five or one to ten of the cartridges equip- ped with traced bullets. The advan- tage of this is very apparent. smoke mixtures normally consisted of magnesium and oxidizing agents of such a combination that the fric- Uon of the air melted out fusible blocks which stoppered the chamber and ignited the mixture. Due to the fact that most of the buildings, except the temporary ones within range of the front, were all stone constructions and virtually in- Gammable, incendiary ammunition found a very limited use during the war. Incendiary small arms am- ery ace on the other hand did have ensive use in the destruc- iy oO Girigibles Flame projectors did not find an extensive use. There was consider- able danger to the man carrying the portable type and he was handicapped by a weight of seventy pounds and the duration of operation was very short, 50 that the disadvantages tn many cases outweighed the advan- tages, The nonportable type had the disadvantage of the necessity of so much apparatus in a front-line trench and difculty- of transportation. regards the future of smoke and incendiary material, my own opinion, which opinion, however, is substantiated by at least some of the Military crities, is that Incendiary material, except for small arms and long-range shell and drop bombs, will have at least a very limited and per- haps no use. The flame projectors will probably never be used in a fu- ture wee. Incendiary grenades fer use in destroying abandoned material on retreat will have a small use. Small arms ammunition will be used, as will the larger gun and how'tzer ammunition for use in setting fire to dirigibles Smoke material on the other hand, will have a very extensive and cver- Increasing use. By the use of the smoke screen during an altack the casualties can be reduced by a large percentage. The particular type of smoke producer will vary with the use to which it is to be put. the Ger- Haircuts on Horseback. Hobby horses as barber chairs for the small boy while his hair is being, eut form the latest inducement of dry goods merchants to attract the trade of the boys’ mothers Chil- and clothing shops have been in use fof some time, but the hobby horses are new. The hebby horses, as large as those in a merry-go-round, = raised on a centra! pole. It takes barbers to care for the many apron which protects the clothes dur- ing the hair cutting has Mother Goose pictures upon it and each child in going in is presented with a toy. Another attraction of this children’s barber shop is a playhouse as an adjunct. In it are a children’s slide, a boat-shaped vehicle that rocks, a hem good clean straw, and you wil lave your rew 5e@-s8aW, Many small chairs and a lit- tle desk. dren's barber shops in big dry goods | are , chuaren which go to this shop. The | flour you éé knead 99 for bread Maple Leaf Millitg Co., Limited Toronte, Winnipeg Brenden, Halifax You cap procure Cream of the West Flour in Listowel from McDonald & Riggs and The Co-operative Store. | L. Pfeffer Milling Company Our Leader, Universal Golden City per cwt. aa ae White Plume “ “« Bran Bran, in ton Shorts lots Shorts in ton lots Corn, per cwt. - Oats aa ‘a -* Be sure and ask your grocer for L. Pfeffer - $5.80 - $5.50 - $5.25 - $4.75 - $2.00 - $38.00 - $1.80 - $34.00 - $2.15 - $2.00 Milling Company's flour and feed, for it is the best you can buy We all should patronize home industry if we want to be loyal citizens, and prices are right. Clover Seed We have received a shipment of Canadian Grown No. 1 Red Clover It is climatized and a beautiful sample. this before buying. R. A. Phone 72 See CLIMIE Wallace Street