rrr (ap eeieneewe ewere oman ch pak 9 we Rd RNR T= Sema em 4 argent : i } a { Th CULTURED CRIMINALS. * & —+ ; at | PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY | Frenchmen Was Both a Poet and s Villain. ~ J. E, TERHUNE Barrister, Notary Publc and Con- veyancer. Office on Wallace St. over Bank of Montreal. H.:B. MORPHY, K. C. Barrister, Notary Public, Con- veyancer, Solicitor for Bank ~of) tion, young Lacenaire was sent to Hamilton, Listowel, Milverton, At- Paris to study for the law. The wood. Offices Listowel and Milver- ton. Money to loan. J. C. HAMILTON, B. A. Barrister, Conveyancer, Solicitor fot the Imperial Bank of Canada. Money to loan. Office on south side of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- inery Parlors. Bonds for Sale. W. G, E. SPENCE Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Department of University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia; also gradu- ate of The Royal College of Dental Surgéons, Toronto. Office over Schin- bein’s Store. RB, F. TAYLOR, L.D.8.; D.D.S8. Graduate of the Royal college of Dental surgeons,and of Toronto uni- versity. All dental X-Ray work done: Out of town appointments promptly filled. Phone 60. Office hours 9 to 5. H. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Physici dad. Surgeon. Office ever Livingstone’’~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. 7 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. Phone 17. DR. F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Graduate in medicine, University ot Toronto. Late assistant Yew York Ophthal- mic and Aural Iustitute, Moorefield’s Bye and Golden Square Throat Hos- pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel, on We sday, Sept. 7th, from 10 a. m. to p.m. 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 A. G. SHIELL, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Surgery. W. P. FREEMAN, M. D. Physician 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 Ophthal- mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes tested. Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. m. As something of the sort had been to 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone's seen before, there is a feeling that Jewelry store. HANNAH R. SMITH, D. C., Ph. C. Chiropractor. Disease treated scientificay by re- moving the cause. Office corner of Elma and Nichol streets, near high school. Hours 2 to 5.30 and 7 to 8 p. m. W. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming| Saturn, Residence and parlors, Main! four of Uranus. St., one and a half blocks east of Bap-; school. tist church. Night and day calls promptly attended. Phone 227. Motor or horse drawn equipment as desired. FIRE ENSURANCE In best companies; also accident, au- tomobile, burglary, plate glass and bond insurance. Automobile insur- , 85 cts. per 100. Your business solicited. E. D. BOLTON. . J. DOWD, Auctioneer Farms for sale. Get our terms. Want to buy? See our list. Need a house? We have it. Require an auc- tioneer? Phone 246, Listowel, Ont. HIDES WANTED Highest market prices paid tor| turned—to walk home. The girl re- hides, furs and -fowl. Izen, phone 136, Listowel. When the family have to choose between roz st beef and silk stockings for daughter, it is generally a case 0 bone-soup Or liver for the family.—i bothered to-night. Orillia Packet. Por Better iat’ 61 It Pri No More ited | Si et PO i : ple ide tl eras Sa oes oo hts < ov era ae Mme. Weissmann, a well-known French authoress and ess, re cently confessed to the murder of her husband. The records of crime contain the names of several literary criminals. Perhaps the most notorious was “Lacenaire, a poet and philosopher. When he had completed his educa- failure of his father in business, however, compelled him to give up his legal studies e life of a struggling author did not zaaat to him, in spite of his literary talents. He became a soldier or a time, and eventually made him- self unpopular by killing the nephew of a prominent politician in a duel. Lacenaire had for some years been writingythe songs, lyrics, and satiri- cal verses which afterwards added s0 greatly to his singular notoriety as a criminal, but they remained un- published at. the time, and, having exhausted all his resources, he em- barked upon a career of crime He found full vent for his crim- inal instificts in a murder scheme which he hatched with the help of a scoundrel named Avril. The victims were a man named Chardon and his bedridden mother, who were reputed to have money secreted in their house. Lacenaire and his accomplice entered their home and murdered them. Another attempt at murder led to the betrayal of Lacenaire by his ac- rm and he was sentenced to death « Sea Notions. ~™ The sea is gradually@getting | more mt more salty. a vapor is not salty, the salt be- ing left behind in the process of evaporation. The salt in the sea comes from the land, being brought down by the rivers which gather the salts from the earth. If all the sea dried up, it has been estimated that the salt deposit left would form a covering one mile thick over a million square miles. The sea has a great effect on tem- perature; in hot climates it reduces the heat, and in cold climates miti- gates the cold. An analysis of sea-water from the English Channel revealed that in 1,000 grains of water there were 27 grains of salt and eight of other saline matter. The cause of waves is the wind, which presses unequally on the sur- face of the sea and depresses one Part more than another. Each de- pression causes a corresponding ele- vation; and the undulations are the waves. A tide is a wave of the whole ocean, which is elecaier to a certain height by the attraction of the moon, and then sinks. There are two tides in a lunar day of 24 hours 49 minutes. The only effective way of remov- ing the effects of salt water from clothes is by washing the salt out with fresh water. There is some truth in the state- ment that sea-water does not give people cold; the salt acts as a stimu- lant, keeps the blood circulating, and retards evaporation. Are There Two Moons? There is a suspicion that we have | another moon, quite a tiny affair and not one for poets to rave about. What gave rise to the suspicion was a large da-k object which was seen crossing in front of moon No. 1. As this objec: must sgave been far outside the earth's atmosphere, the natural conclusion was that it was spinning round the earth just as our familiar moon does. jafter all there may be a second moon, but one which does not reflect enough of the sun's light to enable us to detect it until it reveals itself against the bright face of the full moon. A search is being made for this mysterious body, as it is felt that there is no reason why we should not have two moons as we!l as Mars. Indeed, we are very badly placed in the matter of moons. Our solitary |,one (so far as we know at present) jis trifling compared with the ten of the nine of Jupiter,.and the A Snail. A snail that is, placed on an In- clined plane always crawls toward the highest part. Georges Dombreval, the French aviator, once placed on the upper plane of his airplane eighty-eight pounds of snails, two- thirds of which were the large snow snails of Bourgoyne. After rising to height of perhaps 1.500 feet he was able Yo take his hands off the controls for the rest of the two hours of flight. Whenever the machine dip- Ped, either laterially or longitudin- lally, the snails moved in a mass to- ward the upper part of the plane and re-es‘ablished the equilibrium.— Youth’s Companion. No Hurry. MeMiser had met the girl by arrangement. Together they walked mile after mile and then at length lated her experience to her mother and complained that he had spent | Sixpence on her. Her mother hasten- jed to McMiser's house. “Here is the sixpence you spent on my daughter,"’ she said, scornfully. “Oh, but you should not have To-morrow would | have done,” he expostulated. ’ Identified. Two ancient coins were found | { ctaaped in the hand’ of a skeleton | unearthed during excavations in | London. It is thought to be the re- ains of the first Scotsman to visit \ — 5 Reorporle: —The Passing Show, BELGIUM IS RECOVERING PEOPLE ARE WORKING OUT THEIR OWN SALVATION. War-Stricken Country Shows Signs of Quick Return to Conditions Previous to 1914— y Crowding Into a Few Points. ELGIUM is certainly at this moment at a critical period in her develop- ment. She has many ob- stacles to o¥ercome, but one feels in- deed that where some countries have received their death-blow in this war, Belgium has already shown herself not only strong enough to survive, but is proving strong and skilful enough to work out her own salva- tion, and to regain all and more than her former prosperity.” So writes Mr. J. E. H. Findlay, C.B.E., giving an interesting sketch in Time and Tide. He describes th situation in these terms: In Belgium before the war many necessary reforms had been begun; commercial enterprise was at its height, but instead of peace to con- solidate their prosperity, the Bel- gians were plunged into all the hor- rors of a long European war thet meant for them the paralysis of their industrial development. destruction throughout Bel- gium has been singularly unequal. The industrial region has suffered out of all proportion to the agricul- tural area. While every effort was made by the Germans to ruin Bel- gium industrially, to ensure their own food supply they had to foster Belgian agriculture, and so we find in Belgium, as in other lands, that the workers on the land, the farmers, inevitably grew rich in war time. The question of housing, a diffi- culty arising in all countries since the war, is especially acute in Bel- gium, where the shortage is aggra- vated by the destruction of so many towns and villages, and by the enor- mously increased cost of construc- tion. -Belgium is passing through a financial crisis, her colonial develop- ment is at a standstill, and al) her schemes of reconstruction are ham- pered by lack of capital. Germany was in the past the natural hinter- land of Belgium, and trading be- tween Belgium and Alsace was on the most favorable terms, terms which it is hoped France will not alter. The people are facing thé work of reconstruction with a courage and determination truly praiseworthy. Great strides have been made to- wards the re-establishment of norma) conditions. Much-needed education reforms are being introduced, and, if the Belgians are able to carry out the housing schemes which they have in view, their garden cities and mod- ern workmen's dwellings should bear comparison with the best in any other country. The co-operative s0- cieties are com@ng to the rescue of the- Belgian war sufferérs, and are advancing to the individual a propor- tion of his war indemnity, which allows of his beginning to rebuiid his house and restart his commerce without waiting for the often deplor- able délay of FOVSRRIDER depart- ments. °° “sr =e Bae) Se Home labor has long on a fea- ture of Belgian industry. The mosi important of these home indtistries was lace-making, which was prac- ticed by a considerable proportion of the working-class women in Belgium. The payment of these home work- ers, payment naturally by _ piece- work, is very low. Ten or fifteen years ago the day’s earnings of a lace-maker, for ten or twelve hours’ work, was anytfing from one to two francs. Undoubtedly, had such work formed the sole means of subsist- ence, it would have meant. starva- tion, but these occupations were al- most always carried on in the spare time available from attending the little farm. There are several rea- sons why, in spite of the miserable payment, home labor has for long had so firm a hold among the Bel- gian working classes. The home worker has, for one thing, more liberty than he would have in the factory; he can talk, and smoke and time his work to suit himeelf. Undoubtedly nowadays young lace-makers in the viliages could earn bigger wages by working in the factories and in the towns. but the parents often prefer to keep their children at home, contributing by their lace-making or other em- ployment to the upkeep of the house- hold. There is the great difficulty of enforcing better payment In the individualized nature of the work, and the consequent lack of organiz- ation on the part of the workers, unable to prevent exploiting on the part of the middie man One factor that has greatly Infiu- enced the economic and soctlal life of Belgium is the marvelous facility of transport accorded to the working classes. Belgium has, for its size, not only the longest railway sys- tem in Europe, but also a wonderfu network of light railways. The ex- cellence of the system and the cheap- ness of the fares have made it pos- sible for the industrial population to be spread out aver a wide area, in- stead of = “crowded into a few big cities &é Close Writing. Marcel Mauvais sent to La Nature (Paris) an ordinary post card on which he had written 23,152 words, with a total of 125,000 letters. It is legible even to the naked eye. The average book has about 300 words to the page, so this posteard represents about seventy-seven pages Do not 9 a seats or skylark about in midstr pasetebeete Sh 90 a WHEN THE SEA. BUUGES. San and Moon.Both Have Effect on the Ocean. The rise-and pat of large bodies of water—a phenomenon to which we have apPlied the t name of tides— is the result of the influence exerted upon the earth by the moon and sun. Both pull or attract the eaghii in varying degrees, the power of* the moon being about two and a quarter times as great as that of the san. This attraction is most evident in the, fluid portion of the earth’s surface— the oceans and larger lakes, which are so affected that they bulge out- ward, forming a rising of the water on the side of the earth nearest the moon, and also on the opposite side, with corresponding low water be- tween. reason for extreme high tides at the times of the new and full moon is because the moon is then in a line with the sun, and the water reacts to the combined pulls of both bodies. -—At the time of the first and third quarters of the moon this in- fluence is divided — the single-unit pull of the sun acting at right angles to the two and a quarter unit pull of the moon, thus diminishing mat- erlaliy the attraction exert upon the earth and producing tides that do not rise nearly as ‘high as the ones occurring during the times of the full or new m As the moon ‘appears to revolve about the earth once every twenty- four hours and forty-eight minutes, two tidal ‘waves continually sweep around beneath her, causing two high tides and two low tides in cach approximate day. An Innocent Thief. The celebration of the centenary of.the birth of Flaubert, the great French writer, author of ‘““Madame Bovary” and “Salammbo,” will take | Place on December 12th next. Anatole France, the greatest living French writer, tells an amusing story of Flaubert. A beautiful young actress set her heart upon winning the poetry prize from the Academie Francaise, and, year after year, she succeeded, But On one occasion she forgot to com- pose her poem until the day upon which it was due to be sent. In despair she appealed to Flau- bert to write two hundred lines on “Immortality” before midnight, and she locked him in her library to com- plete the tas At 11.30 he had not written a line; then, bestirring himself, he took down Lamartine’s “Harmonies” from a shelf and ome out the ne- cessary number of ve . Unaware of their rain authorship, the lines were submitted by the actress to the Academie, which awarded her the prize and printed Lamartine’s verses over the signa- ture of Louise Collet. It was a capital joke against the “Immortals,” but Flaubert never confessed his part in it until long afterwards. Paying With Fish-Hooks. In odd corners of the world many queer things are used as money. In China you may find fm circula- tion lumps of gold or silver bearing marks which show that they were first issued hundreds of years ago. In shape they are square, oval, or oblong, and they weigh anything up to one and a half pounds. The Chi- nese also use small strips of brass or copper, some of which are worth ess an a hundredth of a penny. ae ome of the Mongol tribes pay their bills with little cubes of compressed tea. ' In Burma one finds the cowrie shell used as money, while little pro- celain coins take’ the place of our cent. The inhabitants of some of the districts bordering the Persian Gulf do their buying and selling with fish-hooks of various sizes. Africa provides a weird assort- ment. Beads, elephant tusks, and spear heads are all used as coins. In Oceania flint axes are the most common means of exchange, but we find considerable use made of par- rots’ feathers woven into ropes. The real wild Red Indian hardly exists now, but in a few remote countries, such as Alaska, he is still to be found using his shell money. Ever-Silent Wives. Wives who never talk have been discovered in the Philippine Islands, where it is the custom for a foreign- er, no matter who or what he is, to sleep with a Duich wife. She is perfection itself. She never does the things wives ought not to do. She is neither a strain upon the purse not upon the patience. “Her only fault is," writes “A Merry Banker in thé Far East,” “that her figure is that of an unsympathetic drain-pipe. “The poor dear is as inert as a bolster; and that is exactly what she is. Our dear Old Dutch is a very long, hard bolster. “She hae the curious quality of keeping the sleeper cool. Strange to say, after a night or two in her so- ciety, she becomes quite indispens- able. For a long time after leaving the Philippines, I could not sleep without improvising an imitation.” Not Obliged to Attend. A famous author was present one Sunday mofning at the service on a battle-cruiser. He noticed that it was ‘well attended. “Are you obliged to attend?” he asked one of the sailors. “Not exactly obliged,” was the an- swer, “but our grog would be stopped if we didn’t.” Wettest Spot In World. The summit of Mount Waialeale in the Island of Kauai (Hawaiian Islands) is said to be the wettest spot, having had a rainfall of 590 inches in thirteen months. The mountain is. §,080.feet high and is exposed to the prevailing trade winds. HA ao obs > Pe pevsns ane Sts ‘Everybody Enjoys [iF YoU DRINK JAPANS TRY “SALADA” GREEN TEA the best of Tapeon, a" TEA ™ is truly delicious at all times. 30 years’ re- putation for fine teas. New Cafe Opposite Furniture Store. Most Sanitary Premises. Expert Chef. Finest Dishes at Reasonable Prices. Special Meat Dishes of all kinds. D. LEE, Proprietor. Doing Business on Wallace Street Meals served from 10 a.m. to | a. m,, Sundays included. Also Ice Cream and Soft Drinks. Choicest Meats Always in ‘stock. Phone 138 J. H. McDONALD, Proprietor The Modem Meat Market We are featuring a line of HOLBROOK PICKLES up in Malt Vinegar 40c. per bottle ‘SWEET GHERKINS, WALNUTS, ONIONS: and MIXED PICKLES, all put ALL SEASONABLE AND FRESH FRUITS COMING AND GOING EVERY DAY. Phone 72 R. A. CLIMIE Wallace Street On the Roadside— Walkerton Times—We were a lit- tle surprised the other day to fifty dollars on the road beside a fence at the corner of a prominent farmer's house; and more so to find that it had lain for several weeks un- molested and was beginning to look' find much worse for exposure. The mon- 4 was in the shape of a corn planter. h will have to be replaced by a nae one before another season, un- less cared for better. If ‘we ‘had the money that is lost every year by neg- i ¥ of farm machinery, we would not running a mewspaper. °