oe neem eee » | PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY J, E. THRHUNE = ter, Notary PubMc and Con- |e cer. Office on Waliace St. over Bank ‘of Montreal. H. B, MORPHY, K. C. Barrister, Notary Public, sae? veyancer, ‘Solicitor .for Bank Hamilton, Listowel, Milverton, Pek good. . Offices Listowel and Milv et-| New Guin ton. Money to loan. J. C, HAMILTON, B, A. Conveyancer, 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. 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) erected Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Schin- bein's Store. R. F. TAYLOR, L.D.8.; D.D. 8. Graduate of the Royal college of Dental surgeons, and of ‘Toronto uni-| ward H. D, LIVINGSTONE, M. B. Physician and Surgeon. Office ever Livingstone’s Drug Store, corn- Main an W. C. PRATT, M. D. (Physician and Surgeon) Office and residence on Main street, two blocks west of posto Phone 228. DR. JAMES MOORE (Physician and Surgeon.) Office Main St., Lustowel, up Schin- bein'’s stairway. Medical representative of Soldiers’ civil re-establishment, whereby sol- diers get free treatment ae one year after discharge. Phone 17. DR. F. J. BR. FORSTER, Eye, Ear, Nose and Graduate in medicine, University ea ot Toronto. Late assistant dew York Ophthal- mic and Aural Iustitute, Moorefield’s Throat Hos At the Arlington Hotel, Listowel, on Wednesday, July 6th, from 10 a. m. to 4 p.m. 58 Waterloo St. Stratford. Phone 267 hh eee oe ? f { \ PA — A. G. SHIELL, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Surgery. Special attention given to diseases of the Eye, Bar, Nose and Throat. Phone 13 Office over the manner office, Main Street ~ Listowel DR. R. F. PARKER Osteopathic Physician and Ophthal- mologist. All diseases treated. Eyes er Glasses fitted. Hours 9 a. m. o 8 p. m. Office over Johnstone's | sensing 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. promptly attended. Phone 227. Motor or horse drawn equipment as esired. ' FIRE INSURANCE In best companies; also accident, an- tomobile, burglary, plate and bond insurance. Autemobile insur- ance, 85 cts. ber 100. Your business solicited. E. Db, BOLTON. 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- tioneer? Phone 246, Listowel, Ont. HIDES WANTED \ Highest. market prices — for hides, furs and fowl. 8. Izen, phone 136, Listowel. ( TAAL THUAMK RAILWAYE AY GRAND TRUNK S\'stem Double Track Route between Unexcelled Car Service. Sleeping cars on night trains and lor cars on principal day trains. Full information from any Grand Trunk Ticket agent or C. E. Horning District Passenger Agent, Toronto. Station . or d Wallace streets. Phone 69. Night gered 118. | —|th Night and day calls| pe We do not commonly think of the the most beautiful of being. ociated In any way with common pisquint re And yet, in India, in China ,and in some parts of New Zea- land, to crawl under a brier grown down in the shape of an arch is con- sidered a sure sign for rheumatism, boils, whooping cough, or whatever ails you. A sick. child is passed un- der such an arch in Borneo, and in ea passing un is lege aenal protess also e arch is the original sign for. breaking a spell, or the charm of a iwitch or evil spirit, In the old: cus- tom of transferring any sort of Dlague to a scapegoat and carrying it out of the city, an arch was set up at the city’s entrance to forbid its coming back. Ancient Italians caused their enemy to pass under the yoke before, being released. This ceremony was one of purifieation, supposedly, and released them from the anger of their ‘slain enemies’ ghosts. The Romans triumphal arch is thought by some to have been for the victors to pass neath in the same purification pro- |-P cess as the defeated underwent. The special gate to Rome, the Port Tri- umphalis, was used for no other pur- pose than for the entrance of vic- a 4d significance in our soldiers marching homeward fro the world war through Triumphal arches erected in menor of the occasion superstition that it is bad luek ta eee the salt at table is some- times said to have originated from ‘Leonardo da Vinci's picture of the Last Supper, in which Judas Iscariot is represented as upsetting the salt- cellar. aut the superstition is much older In ancient times salt was a com- parati searce commodity; fre- coeey it was placed on the table e dish for all hands, and vay the: salt as an of redemptive ‘was not unnatural that they power, it } thould have looked upon the spilling bed as aD evil enough in its ways but it is so cum- brously mechanical. What one would really like is to flit about like a bird. paten will provide the user with | a pair of real wings. The body of it is a slender ves frame in which the flier lies flat\o his stomac ig arms are Oke: ‘stretched through elements of the framework which support the —— while with his feet he controls fan-shaped tai His fingers govern movements of the pinions, which correspond to the ailerons of an airplane. The “feath- era" composing the wings are nar- row planes which, at the will of the filer, can be turned with edges up in ascending or flattened Gavtacntelty to pd the air in soaring or coming wn. : The tall can be turned sidewise for teering or elevated or depressed for ascending or descending. This is ac- complished by foot-pedals. ; A motor mounted beneath the frame of the machine rotates a pro- ier in’ front, furnishing the requi- site driving power. Bottle Forms Three-Story House. Strangers wandering about the shores of Pine Isiand Lake, in New Hampshire, are likely to receive ‘something of a shock upon encoun- tering suddenly ing@the woods the apparition of a huge bottle, compet- ing with the trees themselves in height, says Popular Mechanics. The ant flask, thirty-five feet in height and ten feet in diameter, is made of wood and forms the main part of a Bummer home, Inside it is three stor- ies high, containing a circular dining- room on the firet floor and sleeping chambers of similar form on the se- cond and third, with a stair-like or der connecting them. windows have been cut in the dineat sides and an addition of bungalow shape has been built on at one side to afford a conventional kitchen and living-room, Despite its odd shape, the queer summer camp is well furnished and provided with such conveniences as | electric light and telephone service. The bottle was formerly an amuse- ment park advertising sign. “Snobs of the Pacific.” The people of Tonga, perhaps the most beautiful of the Pacific Islands are known as the “snobs of the Paci- fic.” Lady Jersey, who Knows. them well, relates that when Queeti- Vic- toria’s second son went to Australia the Tongans were very much hurt because he did not visit their island, but they found two which satisfied them. One was that Tonga was so important @hat if the Queen had sent any one it would have been her eldest son, the second was that the ladies nga were 80 beautiful that the ay Re was afraid ane wo get-a Tongan daughter-in-law, etait papspe mats f ep We Fini omen. throwing a pinch of | the spilled salt over he left ‘shoul- de times to “hoo- as Women CHINAMAN has for twenty- five years posed successfully ; as a woman. His real sex was only recently discovered, while he was undergoing a short term of imprisonment. This man, Liang Yau, has had an amazing career. When only | four years.old he was sold by his parents to a nunnery in Canton, and- was brought up there by an old nun. Until he was thirteen years of age he had a pigthil, and was then ordered by the old nun to dress himself as a maid in the convent. When Liang was sixteen he fell in love with a nun named Chan Suisum. They made their escape to Hong Kong, but his sweetheart deserted him on account of his poverty. At the time of his arrest he was em- ployed as a domestic servant, and n0 one suspected his real . Bince his escape from the nunnery he had dressed and posed as a woman. uch cases are not so rare as might be imagined. There ete been & number of men who have “been brought up as girls from childtrood. A few years ago a case came to light in Carnarvon. While looking for an army absentee, supposed to be masquerading in female attire, a ser- geant noticed a young woman, who was detained on suspicion. A doctor was a male, and inquiries proved that the young man had been brought up tory worker during the period of ten years, without his true sex being , was told some time ago. The was one of the Broadway Beauties” Sgriea onl and figured on the theatre programs as ‘‘Miss Leo- nora Pols. o> although ne was a mar- ried man most of the time. Early in Saas he obtained a situa- tion as a maid @ wealthy family. The ‘discovery of r bis sex came when his employer's wife cried out sud- that she had hurt her foot. Lena, as the maid was called, so far I herself i matter there?" » & wedding took ace lin nurse and a young man who had been living the life of a pene ns accomplished woman assistant in leading shop for several years. When “she” had to go to the hospital on account of an accident the doctors were amazed to discover that their patient was a man. He fell violently in love with his nurse, and a marriage was Paugeds An astonishing letter appeared in distant relation, a widow. I was informed that I was to be a girl. My hair was allowed to grow and I was educated &t home. I was brought up in everything feminine, and now, at twenty-three, my hair reaches be- low my waist." , After the publication of this letter another ‘co mdent—a man— wrote to say that “she” was now thirty years of age and had never Worn a masculine garment in his life. “I would view with alarm having to cut my r and don the hideous garments by the male sex,"’ he At races in 1911, a mill operative Evans was sent to jail for theft. He had been going about in woman's attire, obtaining lodgings and leaving without paying for them. He was fully rigged out, painted and powdered, with his hair dyed golden. A remarkable story of a man's fondness for impersonating a woman magistrates. The defendant dressed in a green straw hat, white blouse, blue skirt, white apron, a brown wig, and patent — When stopped he admitted he was a man. He had registered him- self at a Labor Exchange as a cook out of employment, and gave his name as “MM: Johnson.” His wife said that masquerading as a woman was her husband's “hobby”: he had done it for years. Pierre Charron. It is recorded of Pierre Charron (1541-1603), one of the earliest and mest distinguished of French writers and philosophers, that he was one of twenty-five children of his father, a Paris bookseller. The times Charron lived in were evil; the country was constantly in the throes of the worst of civil wars —religious ones. Toleration was only practiced in Holland, and In England for a few years, until the Pope hurl- ed his thunderbolt at Queen Eliza- bath, when persecution recommenc- = In 1601 Charron, hitherto known a champion of Roman Catholic sechodony without resigning that position, suddenly stood forth as the representative of intellectual scepti- cism in his “De la Sagesse. This celebrated work brought upon its author several violent at- tacks. A second edition was soon ¢all- ed for. Before it was completed the author died suddenly in the street. He is said to have-been a man of the most amiable disposition, and of the purest character. China's Favorite Gem, Light green jade is the fayorite gem of China, and it fs difficult to get the stone in uncut forms even in Chi etimes, says Consul General Wilder, at Hong Kong, a rich Chinaman'’s estate will“ consist, in part, of a lump of jade. etimes t'can be obtained in masses, is =" ing one pouné or two pounds. But even the 1} ng jewellers of Hong Bong usually obtain it in cut cut form, PRECIOUS METALS. | ovuabty wets Gold tid Yes Way to Palestine? Fd All thro the ages precious stones and the \precious metals have been used in religious and national I, and for personal adorn- established the fact that this person | **! ‘agement of a theatre for making his was told before the Peterborough | w ment peasant and princess‘alike have had a passion for ets. In @ recent volume on the subject || of antique jewellery, and trinkets, Mr. 'F. W. Burgess makes the inter- esting speculation that ancient Brit- ish gold found its wey into Palestine, and is mentioned in the Old Testa- ment, and also refers to the Pheni- cian traders who came to our islands for co and tin. In this regard mention should also be made of the wonderful island race, the holders of 0, € ho probability taught the Paanitians their seamanship. Crete, that romantic island which strikes the historical imagination, the meeting point of three continente, de- veloped a high civilization long be- fore Homer’s Troy. Exquisite paint- ing, statuary, pottery, architecture which includes even the pointed arch, representations of musical instru- ments which disprove the theory of the Greek Terpander’s lyre — these have been unearthed by Sir Arthur Evans and the other excavators, Eng- lish, and American, and Italian. At Knossos there was a system of drain- age, with inspecting chamber, etc., in the English fashion, as the Italian professor Halbherr said, like nothing between those days and these. of*the ancient, engraved seal stones. v many have been found, earlier with purely ornamental signs, the latter with pictograms of natural life. And rings, and beads, and diadems, and wonderful work in gold are among the treasures retriev- ed from pfehistoric Crete. There are thousands of written re- cords, but the language has not yet been deciphered, though it seems un- doubted that the Hellenes, through the Phoenicians, derived part of their alphabet from the Cretans. Is it too tMuch to hope that the searchers will at last be rewarded by the discovery that these forerunners of Greece, who id so much, have also left us a literature? youll Comments. There an occasion when James Whistler, the famous artist, accused J. Comyns Carr, the brilliant wit, dramatist, and art critic, of mak- ing a — at the expense of a cer- tain fri ' well,’ ie "replied Carr, “I can make od m Painting Time Is Here * | 2 We can supply /ou with Paint, in any color mixed with Pure . ‘White Lead and Linseed Oil, at ‘ . $4.90 a Gal. That sounds better than $6 and $7. N. L. BEAN 4 The Paint and Wallpaper Store. New Cafe - Doing Business on Wallace Street Opposite Furniture Store. Most Sanitary Premises. Expert Chef. 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. a frien ost days, but I can Bo ote. a pect joke now and the pets. laughed Whistler. if | Fin el asa” ‘thet myself!" ‘Never mind, Jimmy; you will,” ota Carr. illustration of Carr's wit ‘eight | be followed by other stories his wife tells in “Stray Memories.” The mother of a pretty young girl whom Carr was openly @attering ask- ed him, laughingly, whether his in- tentio ns were serious, to which he re- plied, “Serious, but not honorable, madam." ‘ Once he was reproved by the man: laugh immoderately in the farcical party stage-box at ea sorely dull comedy. “Pray presen the manager,”’ said Carr, suevely, to the attendant who bad brought the message, “and assure him that we were not , aushing at anything on the stage. There was also an occasion when, while casovtug a picnic with some friends, a combative young curate, hispered, ‘‘Never gree We' Il cut him according to his cloth African Forest Timber. A reinforcement for the world de- mand for lumber is preparing in Brit- ish East Africa, where there are be- tween 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 acres of woodland to draw upon and a new industry, very infantile at present, is expected to grow so rapidly that the authorities are now considering plans to improve the’ harbor facili- ties for exporting the forests. The beet wood is -suitable for wheel- makers and wagon-builders and the making of wood block paving, rail- road ties, bridges, ox yokes and axe, pick, and tool handles. It also makes good flooring and lining boards. Meantime there are new sounds in some of the African forests, the rhythm of the woodman’s axe, the busgz of the sawmill, and the puffing of under-sised Jocomotives on the narrow-guage tracks that are pene- trating from the main line of rail- ways into the woodlands. And many a workman, no doubt, will some day use tools whose handles grew in an African forest. The Lion's Share. A men noted for his propensity for taling more than his fair share of anything that was going, arrived home to dinner the other day. His wife was busy in the kitchen finishing the preparation of the meal, so the head of the household proceed- ed to pour himself out some beer from from a jug ‘Then came his wife's voice: ““Now, then, don't drink all that; t my.compliments to 5 Choicest Meats Always in stock. | Phone 138 The Modem Meat Market J. H. McDONALD, Proprietor I want the lion’s share for once in a When she entered she was aston- | ished to find the man finishing off, the Jast of the beer. “That's your share,” he repljed, be paige of Bsa 5 BE peed to.an es, glass. «The first stagecoach in America Cyan trem Doren 9 1661, We are featuring a line of HOLBROOK PICKLES SWEET GHERKINS, WALNUTS, ONIONS and MIXED PICKLES, all put ‘up in Malt Vinegar 40c. per bottle ALL SEASONABLE AND FRESH FRUITS COMING AND GOING EVERY DAY. R. A. CLIMIE Phone 72 Wallace Street