J. E. TERHUNE Barrister, Notary Public and Con- Wallace St. over’ veyancer. Office on Bank of Montreal. H. B. MORPHY, EK. Barrister, Notary veyancer, Solicitor Hamilton, Listowel, Ww for ton. "Money to loan. Cc. Milverton, At- Offices Listowel and Milver- J. C. HAMILTON, B. Conveyancer, Solicitor) og | for the Imperial Bank of Canada. . Office on south side; of Main street, over Miss Gibbs’ Mill- Barrister, ! : Money to loan inery Parlors. Bonds for Sale. A. W. G. E. SPENCE bein'’s Store. Dentist, Graduate of the Dentist Department of University of Penn- sylvania, Philadelphia; also ate of The Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Schin- gradu- versity. R, F. TAYLOR, L.D.8.; D.D.S. Graduate of the Royal college of Dental surgeons, and of Toronto uni- Physician 69. Night phone 113. H. D. LIVINGSTONE, M. B. and Surgeon. ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn-! er Main and ‘Wallace streets. Office Phone! W. C. PRATT, M. D. : (Physician and Surgeon) Phone 228. Office and residence on Main street, two blocks west of postoffice. DR, JAMES MOORE bein’s stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ ‘{ - elvil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment for one year after discharge. Phone 17. (Physician and. Surgeon.) Office Main St., Listowel, up Schin- DR. F. J. R. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat ot Toronto. Graduate in medicine, University | Late assistant Jew York Ophthal- | pitals, London, Eng. At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel, | on Wednesday, Nov. 2nd. from 1 m. to 4 p.m. mic and Aural Iustitute, Moorefield’s | Bye and Golden Square Throat Hos | 0 a.! Power of Ships and Naval officers point out that there | have been appearing in the press with increasing frequency erroneous statements respecting the cosi of bat- tleships as compared with aircraft. It is also claimed that aerial bombs are more destructive than gun pro- jectiles, because such bombs contain a larger percentage of explosive than armor-piercing shells of the same size. The statements most frequent- ly made with respect to costs are that 1,000 airplanes can be con- structed for the cost of one present- day battleship; that each "plane can rry a bomb of sufficient power to sink a battleship; and that the air- Plane requires a personnel of only two or three men, whereas the battleship requires 800 or more. * Present-day cost of battleships is about $45,000,000; but granting the cost to be that sum, and that snch a battleship could be used for the first line for a period of fifteen years, and the second line for ten years, at an annual upkeep cost of $1,000,- 000, the cost of the battleship for twenty-five years be $70,000,000, or $2,800,000 yearly. Granted that 1,000 planes can be built for $45,- 000,000—which, on account of the diversified types required by com- plete naval air force, seems hardly Possible, inasmuch as planes of the larger type cost considerably more than $45,000 each, including their equipment —it should be borne in mind that the life of a ‘plane in ser- vice is approximately .two years. Hence, the entire qost of the ‘planes must be again spent each succeeding two years, or twelve and a half times during the life of a battleship; and inasmuch as not less than 50 per cent. on the average, of the first cost of a plane is required. to p it in commission for two years,"the total cost. of 1,000 planes for twenty-five years would be $843,750,000, or $33,748,000 per year, a sum sufa cient to keep in commission 12 battleships of the Present-day type. Furthermore, in ‘the matter of Personnel, naval officers do not agree with the printed statements. A bat- tleship such as contemplated would have a crew of 1,500 officers and men instead of 800, while in the case of airflanes, for every man in the air there is required approximately 20 on the ground. On this basis, 12 battleships would require 18,000 officers and men, and 1,000 airplanes, on the basis of one man in the ‘plane and 20 on the ground, would require 21,000 per- sonnel. To be perfectly fair in the matter, it may be considered that the Personnel of the two would about | cancel each other in cost, inasmuch as highly skilled mechanics are re- Quired on battleships and aircraft alike. In the case of landing fields and hangars for 1,000 aircraft, we may also consider that the expense is cancelled by docks and navy yaras required for the repair of battleships. That brings the case down to a com- Parison of material cost, and, as | above stated, 1,000 aircraft stretched 63 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 | | Special atte tion giv the Eye, car, Nose Phone 13 Office over the Mair Street Physician and Surgeon ® Diseases of Women and Surgery. W. P. FREEMAN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon o diseases of ad Throat. . a. & sHIELL, M. D. Banner office, Listow | battleships. RnR | j over a period of 25 years, which is the extreme life of a battleship, would equal the cost of 12 such Ai tae t that air- craft could each carry a bomb suff- ciently large to destroy a battleship, | it is not believed that at the present { | | } el) tite Oe testea. Glasses fitted. o 8 p. m. Jewelry store. DR. R. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal-, mologist. All diseases treated. Hours 9 a. m. Office over Johnstone's! j Eyes: | | school. iD W. F. McLAUGHLIN Embalmer and funeral Director. Graduate of Canadian embalming’ Residence and parlors, Main fg day this can be done. Bombs have not been developed to such an extent that they are armor-piercing, and after landing on the deck of a ship their destructiveness would be local. The experiments on the uU Ss. Ss. Indiana with a large bomb filled with T.N.T. which was exploded on her deck, causing considerable damage to her old-style upper works, has been used as an illustration of what bombs can do, and statements. have been made that if the bombs were destruc tive when laid on the deck, it would be much more so if dropped from an | airplane. This is erroneous. The destructiveness of N.T., uncon- ned, has a_ certain potentiality | which is not increased by the-mere a St., one and a half blocks east of Bap-, tist church. promptly attended. Night and day calls, Phone 227.! Motor or horse drawn equipment as ed. tomobile, bond insurance. ance, 85 cts. per 100. solicited. E. D. BOLTON. FIRE INSURANCE | In best companies; also accident, au: | burglary, plate glass and | Automobile insur- Your business Farms for sate. Want to buy? See our list. tioneer? W. J. DOWD, Auctioneer Get our terms. | Need house? We have it. Reguire an auc- | Phone 246, Listowel, Ont. HIDES WANTED hides, furs and fowl. phone 136, Listowel. Highest market prices paid Ize for n, | Mining for Gum. Mining for gum is a great indus- land. bd is the forests. try in the North Island of New Zea- It is not chewing-gum, how- ever, but a resin varnish gum that residue from _ pre-historic | This fossilized resin is only a few * | feet below the earth’s surface, and | j the “miners” dig it out with pick and shovel. .This is a sort of free | |} lance occupation, and many men é have made small fortunes tn this | digging. The gum has many uses, | the principal of which is in the man- | ‘ 1 e ufacture of varnish. “bone-soup or Orillia Packet. When the family have to ;choose between roast beef and silk stockings | for daughter, it is generally a case of | liver for the family.—! dropping of the T.N.T. from a height. t is necessary for the Projectile to Pierce the armor of the ship and explode inside of her hull. This can- not be done by thin-walled ‘aerial bombs subject only to the impulse of gravity. There must be accelera- tion beyond tbe ferce of gtavity to cause the shell to pierce armor and the shell must he of the armor- piercing varicty. Harnessin,, the Wind. Years ago, wind power was com- mercially popular. It simply ‘ad to b since there were few other sources of ‘power. To-day We get most of our power from coal and a great amount from water. ' Palestine is not -favored with either coal or water power, and Dr. . M. Mayersohn is now studying tiie Problem of wind power to determine whether or not it would be possible to run the industries of Palestine with wind-motors. He has collected interesting data on wind motors in Europe. Examination of four hundred and seventy-seven installations was made. Eighty-seven per cent. i=] ~ | these had worked satisfactorily for periods up to eighteen hundred years. Wind-power installations are now made in Denmark for the gener- ation of electric power in small com- nities. Crystals That Talk. A new development by which par- : tally deaf people may bé made to hear was shown recently at a meet- ing of the Faraday Society. Mr. Kilburn Scott exhibited ery- stals of Rochelle salt, made artifi- cially, which possessed the remark- able power of reproducing sounds. Mr. Kilburn Scott explained that! he is the only one who, in either per- deaf people could wear a’small crys-| sonal ability or personal influence, | tal behind the ear, connected with a'counts for much. little sountl-box worn over the chest. The ‘sounds of conversation would | dence on Tory support, there are, at ‘then be transmitted to the ear-drum ig the form of vibrations, which 'chafe at their party's subjection to would enable them to hear. | in world affairs. 7 . ORD MILNER, who is_ little inclined to fulsomeness in his criticism of others, has writ- ten of Lord Curzon’s “power- ful mind with its immense intellec- tual resources." The late Mr. La- bouchere, an advanced radical and vehemently hostile to Lord Curzon’s Political tenets, considered him, twenty-three years ago, the ablest member of the unionist party in the House of Commons—and this at a time when Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur ,Balfour were both in the Plenitude of their powers and at the zenith of their fame. : Indeed, . to doubt Lord Curzon's transcendent native ability is as foolish as to be uncertain whether a centipede has legs. Great ability he s. And to this he adds deep learning, wide political knowledge, tireless. industry, a finished literary taste combined with genuine literary aptitude, and a mastery of massive public speech which, at his best, per- mits of his being ranked with the masters. Yet with all this in his favor, his @efects of temperament, enhanced by many adventitious cir- cumstances of a brilliant, but not really great, career, are such that they not only negative any claim for him to the essentials of greatness, but also go far to neutralize the ef- fect of those indisputable qualities he possesses which, dtherwise, would seem expressly designed to make for Powerful political leadership. His heart may not be as cold as his manner can be on occasion. But it is certain that he thinks at once too much of himself and too little of others. There is one facial expres- ia cae LORD CURZON. sion which is not tolerable in this dawn of democracy’s day—and that is the expression which a man’s face wears when it looks down on other men. Such is Lord Curzon’s habitual facial expression, such his nabitual mental viewpoint. None the less, the grounds on which the Northcliffe sneets have, from time to time, fallen foul of Curzon have been rather amusing when one* considers the source whence the criticism emanates. At one time, the complaint was that his health was not robust enough for the foreign secretaryship. Yet Lord Northcliffe himself is something of a hypochondriac, has spent fortunes. on his health, and fears at times exceed- ingly for his sight, his digestion and what not. But he has never appear- ed to think that whatever may be wrong with his health should debar him from a very active participation Now, fault is found with Cur- zon's ‘‘businegas incapacity.” Yet the Napoleonic peer himself, for all his phenomenal success in newepaper- dom, is no wizard in business, Any- one conversant with the facts will tell one that he owes practically all the success of his business organiz- ation to ‘his brother Harold, now _Lord Rdhermere. After all, is it uite “as plain as the Old Hill of owth,” that Curzon has been an in- capable Minister? Certainly no. For- eign Secretary in our life-time has been confronted by such gigantic Problems. At any rate, the conten- On that Lloyd-George and Curzon should not be allowed to goto the disarmament conference at Washing- ton will not hold water. If it is pos- sible for them to go, precedent (in the case of Disraeli and Salisbury) and common-sense—in view of the fact that, by virtue of their official Positions, the British attitude will be shaped by them — alike mark them out as the two men who ought to go. At the same time, needless to say, Curzon has been very valuable to Lloyd George. The alliance between the two forms the very keystone of the coalition. Northelffe seeks to bring about Lloyd George's downfall. And he might succeed if Curzon fell. For, of all the Unionist leaders, with the possible exception of Mr. Balfour, If many Liberals scoff at Lloyd George for his depen- least, an equal number of Tories who One of the Picturesque the Ocean. Licyd George as . = i tet : > Will the mystery of ‘lost Atlantis” nF be solved to. general. satisfac- n? A The story has been told for cen- turies, and is still accepted as true by numbers of people on both sides of the Atlantic. . ; was that an island of immense size and beauty existed beyond africa, with many large cities, and nations hay~” Some one so far as to describe the kind of clothing the peo- ple wore and the money they used. Then the story goes that the in- habitants of this great island of Atlantis grew bold and warlike, and that they invaded Europe and Africa. is alwaysfresh and possesses that unique flavour of ‘goodness’ that has justly made it famous. But fate was unkind to them— because of their wickedness, it is said; terrible earthquakes and floods oceu , and in a single day and night Atlantis was swallowed up an Cs sank into the depths of the Atlanti Oc In the attempt to find some ground for the persistent belief, one famous sctientiat fell back upon the time, thousands of years ago, when great tracts of the earth were covered with a sheet of ice of vast thickness. In this ice were imprisoned such eormous quantities of water {Nat the level of the oceans sank quite low, with the result that large areas of land were left uncovered. One of these portions, he sug- gested, was the island or continent of Atlantis, which, on the melting of the ice, was covéred again by water to a great depth. e western mountains of Europe and the eastern mountains of North America are supposed be frag- ments of the high mountain ranges of this’ mysterious ‘lost Atlantis.” Hard Rubber. In-a°series of experiments that Dr. B W. Bridgman has been conduct- ng at the Jefferson Physical Labor- atory at Harvard University some new facts about metals, ice and other substances have been discovered. The Scientic American describes these in detail. From its article the follow- ing facts of general interest are taken. “In these experiments pressures were carried up to\ten times the fir- ing pressure of smokeless powder in large guns. A pressure of 300,000 pounds to the square inch was ob- tained. To vizualize this figure in another way, it represents the pres- Bure that would be exerted by a body of water 120 miles deep. It would take a column of solid rock some fifty miles high to exert such a pres- sure on its base. “Under the influence of such pres- sure as this, substances ordinarily soft and pliable show remarkable stiffness. Paraffin. wax at 300,000 Pounds is more rigid than soft steel. A piece of the steel, bedded in the Paraffin when the latter substance 18 made to flow under this pressure, will go with the stream and bent and distorted with the wax, now harder than itself. Soft India rubber, it was found, at these pres- sures becomes so brittle that it will crack like glass, and so hard that irregularities in its surface can be impressed upon soft steel." A Mountain of Copper. One of the greatest feats ever attempted in metal mining is now being carried out in America. At Bisbee, in the State of Arizona, Expert Chef. New Cafe - Doing Business on Wallace Street Opposite Furniture Store. Most Sanitary Premises. _ Finest Dishes at Reasonable Prices. Meals served from 10 a.m. to | a.m,, Sundays included. Also Ice Cream and Soft Drinks. Special Meat Dishes of all kinds. ' D. LEE, Proprietor. We are featuring a line of HOLBROOK PICKLES SWEET GHERKINS, WALNUTS, ONIONS ‘and MIXED PICKLES, all put up in Malt Vinegar 40c. per bottle there is a hill known as Hill, which is composed of copper ore and contains an immense amount of valuable metal. American mining ex- perts have set themselves the task of digging away the whole of this hill in the next sixteen years and recove-- ing its copper. Forty million cubic yards of ge terial will have to be removed, And it is expected to recover from it twenty-five million tons of copper ore, which will yield a thousand mil- lion pounds of pure metal. Already the miners are at work, and over five million cubie yards have been dug away. Seven huge steam shovels are employed for the purpose, and fifteen locomotives haul the material away as it is dug out. The digging goes on at three dif- ferent ievels—sixty, forty-five, and thirty-five feet in height—and six- teen miles of railroad connect these with the waste dumps where the ma- terial is stored ready for crushing and the extraction of the metal. When the work is finished there will be no hill, but in its place two Pits, one a quarter of a mile deep and the other less. Ants as Gardeners. Amongst insects few show such great intelligence as ants. The work- ers have many important duties allotted to them, one beirg that of looking after the eggs. These they carry to different parts of the nest as the temperature varies, so that they may all hatch out properly. hen the eggs are hatching these industrious insects help the babtes to get out of their cases, and give them their first wash by licking them all over as soon as they are free. Ants are very particular to keep their neste clean, and all dead bodies and refuse are carried out immedi- ately. - In China ants are used to keep the orange groves free from a very de- structive worm which infests the trees. The natives capture the insects by hoiding the mouth of a lard bladder close to their nests. The ants are then put in the branches of the orange trees, bamboo poles being laid from one tree to another so that the little insects may travel easily through. the grove. Want Colorless Glass. It is believed- that ultra-violet light rays are largely responsible for the fading of museum specimens in show-cases, and experiments are now being made with a tiew to ob ing glass which will be at the same time colorless and inexpensive, ALL SEASONABLE AND FRESH FRUITS COMING AND GOING EVERY DAY. Phone 72 R. A. CLIMIE Wallace Street \ Mother’ Littl Man goes for a loaf of Bread every morn- ing. , And he eats slice after slice of {t at meals and between meais. That's why he’s hardy ond healthy. There is no food equal to Bread. Bread is your Best Food——-Eat more of it. Zurbrigg’s Bread is flour and compressed yeast and milk and shortening, just the pure- food products that growing children need. Send sonny for a loaf to-day Now only 10c. a loaf. . Zurbrigg Bros. Listowel Phone 85 aN TailorShop Changes _ Hands In announcing my pur- chase of the long establish- ed tailoring business of Mr. James Rogers, I wish to solicit a continuance. of the splendid patronage he has enjoyed and to notify the public of the opening of a Department for Lg- dies’ Tailoring. All work entrusted to us guaranteed satisfactory. New Stock for Fall Suits and Overcoats now in. _——— J. A. Bailey Merchant Tailor Main Strect, Listowel. a