The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

y ' vs - Morphy &-Carthew, BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS ac. *-- Solici for the Bank of Hamilton. Sutarios Public and Commissioners. Money HM. B. Monray, a, M. OaxTaaw Blewett & Bray, BARRISTERS AND SOLICITORS, Wotaries Publicand atte anoers, Seunltors Soott' Banking yo and Ont, = Perm. Bldg é Loan Asseciation. tenliae 50. LOAN AT 4 t-@ PEER CENT. > R. Riewerr. Quo. Bray. B. A. J. Cecil Hamilton, B. A. Barrist r, Conveyancer. MONEY TO LOAN ar 4} PER CENT Mice, Main St., next to Dr. Foater, Dentist. -- Branoh office in Atwood out Wodnesday afternoon,} ae G. Roberts, - - HIPLEY, GNT. AoES* cae Poneon and Lancashire Fire naurance Com Loan any suma from $200 and Spr wards at a low rate of nterost. Gonreyanciog of all descriptions done 2m easy term FRED. VANDRICK, 4 eet' LIOENSED AUOTIONEER For the Counties of -- Huron and the Township of Maryborou; Bs or prepare' ® = cae at 'kinds of sales rst-class ini "Oedre left at re I. Vandrick's store, Lis- towel, will be given prompt attention} DAVID N. WATSON, LISTOWEL. LICENSED AUCTIONEER FOR PERTH COUNTY. Sali condocted ins in any part of the County. Terms yd pals Satisfac- tion guaranteed. Sales-cai arrang- ed and dates fixed at Standard office. LOUIS GABEL, cea LICENSED AUCTIONEER, LISTOWEL P. O. ; -- 5c Sales conducted in any part of Perth or Wellington Countics at moderate charges, on guarantee may be arranged for at Standard 36--o. eliica, GT. R, TIME CARD 'Trains leave Listowel station daily as follows! : WIARTON, OWEN SOUND AND PORT paasonger 12.59 p, m. ; passenger 30 p.m, Going aonb isp 8.19 a.m. ; passenger 11.31 &. m. aut ENTIRELY NEW STACK UF Pure Drugs and Chemicals. R. A. HUNTER having acquired the sole interest, will in future attend to the wan ot his Customers personally Family recipes a specialty. 2, A. Hunter. c = Learning : to shoot well and , ec qualities of SELF-CONTROL," DECISION, "AND MANLINESS seq * n Ask your Dealer lor Stevens Rifles~ Shotguns-- a stole Snsiey on our time- honored make, If you cannot obtain, } 8) a be prepaid, upon -- of Catalog Price, tt want to know about DeeTEy i: NS ae Page lilaarated Catalog. or four centa in stamps lon for your orelal ib rowm--tmniled for 6 cents in stata. J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL.CO. P. 0. Box 4097 w ¥ Chicopee Falls, Mass., U.S.A nyone sending a sketch an: may E ascertall oor CEN whether an prope cerunion Soe eae nom jentitie Fimerican, of say scientific journal. Terms Tor a. '¢ solicit the business of Manufacturers, Engineers and others who realize the advisatit- monies 8 sent uw: west. Marion & Marion, Reg'd., New York Life Bidg. 'Montreal: and Washington, D.C, Use Mr. George L. Grime, el Engineer of Stratford, bas resi mae te P.. * -- sae or tab ad new Company of pry toe to "a delivered ty Septem- ber 15, Five hundred men and a large number of teams are at work on the repairs to -- Frm hag "lean the work done within s A DOLEFUL DILEMMA The Tearful Tale of the Per- plexed Princess. HER UNSOLVABLE PROBLEM. A Most Puzzling and Lamentable Sit- uation That Fortunately For the Peace of Mind of Womankind is Not at All Liable to Recur. Now, when it was the thousand and third night, sald Dunyazad to her sis- ter,.Shahrazad, "Allab upon me, O my sister, recite to us some new story, de- lightsome and delectable, wherewitb to while away the waking hours of our latter night." "With joy and goodly will," answer- ed Shabrazad, "if this pious and ausp!- Gious king permit." "Tell on," quoth the king, who bad freely partaken of the dish termed by the Franks "the rabbit of Wales". and was sleepless and restless. So Shabra- zad, rejoiced with the prospect of talk- ing. thus began on the thousand abd third night "The Tale of the Perplexed Princess:" Afar In the realm of Guricund, which lies within the land of Hindustan, once relgned a mighty king who had one daughter of such exceeding beauty | that all who beheld her became poets and warriors, which was well for bi national fame, but {ll for the royal treasu Now, the loveliness of the princess being such, it may seem strange that she had attained her elghteenth year unmarried, yet so it befell, for in his hesitancy because of the great multl- tude of eligible suitors am king, = thongh otherwise respectable, was vilely devout henthen, made a vo that be would give his daughter te marriage only to that man who should receive the indorsement of his idol, an image of excceding ugliness housed in n golden temple adjacent to the palace, So it was that many princes from many Inands came to bow before the idol, offering splendid sacrifices ond rich gifts of trensure for the desired sign of favor, yet ever the Idol re tnained silent. At length there came from the Is- lnnd-of Lanka a prince of great power, am so deeply smitten was he with love for the princess thnt he bowed before the idol, saying, "Great lord, -- but that the princess may become WONDERS OF WATER. Extent to Whi Fluid Mingles With Bodies Mivereni; Solid. The extent to which water mingles with bodies apperently solid is won- Gerful, The glittering opal which beauty wears as ap ornament is only fiint and water. through ovr streets for sale there is ope pound of water to every four pounds of chalk. The air we breathe contains five grains of water to each potatoes which are boiled for our dinner have fo their raw stnte the one 75 per cent and the other 90 per cent of water. If a man weighing ten stone were squeezed fint in a hydrailic press seven: and one-half stone of water would ron out and only two and one half, of dry residue remain. -A man is, chemically speaking. a -five pounds of carbon and nitrogen diffused throngh five and a -half ante of water. In plants we find water thus mingling in no less wonderful a man- Der. A sunflower evaporates one and a quarter pints of water a day and a cabbage about the same quantity. A wheat plant exbales in 172 days about 1 grains of water. An acre growing wheat, on this calculation, draws and passes out about ten tons of water per day.- The sap of plants is the medium through which this mass of fiuid is ~conveyed,-it forms" a delicate" pump by which the watery particles run with the rapidity of a swift stream. By the action of the sap various prop erties may be communicated to the growing plant' Timber in France is, for instance, dyed by various colors being mixed with water and poured over the root of the are also colored by a similar process.--Lon- don Tit-Bits, Making It Clear. A very young child was saying his prayers at the bedside in his grand- father's house. The grandfether, fons to hear the boy, stood at the room bride, and, then shall I without delay ao return to thee and 'cut of my own hend_as a thank offering!" And the next day when the neat. "half text, was 2 ' all his court came to worship In the golden temple the evil pak that was' within the idol caused the band of the image to stretch ae ind polut to the: Bes prince and caused the stone Hps to oper and say to the king, peed thy So son-in-law!" Forthwith was. the wedding of the : prince and princess ted with 5 3 great pomp In the palace, and stralght- | way thereafter, in fulfillment of his vow, the prince hastened to the tem- ne cox heron the idol 'and cut off. wo. head. erhen gprs the priest of the tem- ae and in his grief. horror and feat for what had ebanced and for might well come to him fn ae quence likewise cut off his head. Then entered the princess, seeking her busband, and, seeing but the two hendless bodies, ralsed the prince's Sword and was about to sever her own Jovely head when the idol spoke again, faying: "Hold! Take the heads and fet them upon the inen's shoulders!" And the princess did even so. And the heads grew. fast to the bodies, and the bodies rose upon their feet But now it appeared that in ber baste and tumult of mind the princess bad set the priest's bead upon the shoulders of the rince and the prince's head upon the shboniders of the priest. so that ina way each was the other, yet neither was cither, and each claimed her as his bride, and each bead, being a wise head, spake many shrewd arguments one way and the other, yet could neither prevall And so was the princess sore perplex- ed, and, in truth, never bave 1 learned how logically to conclude the tale. "In sooth," sald the king, "might she not have obtahied a divorce "Nay, sire." replied Shahrazad, "for from whom? And which must she then have married in accordance witb the word of the idol?" - "Then," proposed the king, "why might they not have matched dinars to decide which should have her?" "Ah, my lord," said Shahrazad, sbak- ing ber bead, "that would bare been in accord with the easy, unscientific method of the far west, which would still bave left the problem unsolved." "Surely, then," urged the king, "they might have fought for her." _ "And would that have determined the truth?" responded Shahrazad, "and would not the victor have been elther or both a murderer and a suicide! Alas, my lord, the Insoluble perplexity of this fair princess hath caused me tmuch sorrow, and glad am I only that such sad dilemmas do not often occur." His Crime. ~ A popular actress recently visited Chicago's Ghetto seeking a samovar. In that strange section of cosmopolitan- ism she beard a "new one." "As | turped a corner," said the lady, "the boy's mother bad him by the ear, and in ber uplifted raised hand there was a menacing barrel stave. 'lll learn ye to tie the kettle to the cat's tail!' she yell- ed In wrath. 'It wasn't our.cat!' cried the frightened boy. 'No, it wasn't a eat,' almost sbrieked the ecrnget mot er, 'but it was our kettle!" BUGGIES, FOR SALE Top Buggies, Open Buggies, Road Carts and Wa o.. you want anything in the ve! is the time capek 40 band and TA mall at.my pt ne ons bu ' ha' ame time to as ve es will eal a oo prise, convince, J F viable Maia Street: girl Belle 'the typew: sebooraly don't know whether she has shaken. him or prom- 3 : Vs ie dates Belle--He has stopped buying ber costly presents.--Town and Country. sald ked. She afer not pretty--far from that; Her shape was not divine; She did not siti a stylish hat Or silk of ne But sass ane came the necks would alee | the center The reason wan ipdaea a melee -- She wore such squeaky' shoe: The Color Did the Trick. First Conductor--Do you ever have to put any of your passengers off? Second Conductor--I put a man off the other day, but It didn't delay him very much. He -as so mad that his face got id oe to fing the next train.--Jud a The Real Fiber. Here at home we-have some papers Cutting up quite silly capers. Now and then they print some pretty risky stuff. But no doubt the most terrific Of our sheets are transpacific, For Manila papers must be rather tough. Two of a Kind. "A man," she said, "never knows when he ts well off." "True," he replied, "and It's a mighty fortunate thing for women who do n care to be old maids that they don't." The Worm Turns. Tee hun While hub, the worm, Can only squirm And turn his cuffs and collars. Acute Americanitis. Wife--Why, George, dear, what Is the trouble? Husband--Ohb, there was something I was going to worry about and for the life of me I can't think what 11 was.--Puck, . Too Frank There was a young lady named Kent Who always sald just what she meant © speaks wi But 'they prince ~ by common con: ent, The Malice of Woman. Harry--Are those curls Kate weart natural? Mame--Natural? I should say so I'd defy anybody to tell them fro.a bei own hatr, For Over Sixty Years. ing stupid over school books and all } writin; the poets i Tealistic novels, the small people will twinkle out of sight. "The spriggans, lurking about the caifns and cromlechs, where they keep guard over buried treasure, could -bet- ter be spared. They are such thievish b ex- tra of bodies, it is more likely they are the diminished ghosts of the old giants. The pliskies are nearly as bad, as any bewildered traveler who haa been. pis- ky led into-a bog could testify. The only .sure prtotection against thelr tricks is to wear your garments inside out. "Many 4 Cornish farmer has found a fine young horse all sweated and spent in the morning, his mane knotted into fairy stirrups, ihewine plainly how some score of the piskies had been has felt his hair rise on his head as he heard the 'tap, tap, tap' of the knock- _ers, souls of long imprisoned Jews sent bere by Roman emperors to work the tin mines of Cornwall." HIS WEAK SPOT. The Ursa That Made the Nervy an Lose His Composure. ecatieg of nerve," said a M: chusetts congressman, "there general fe a weak spot in the most colossal riety, if it only can be found. In this Serta Tt eenpoadd my grandfather used to PaGoet ei or fifty years ago a long- shoreman's eating place in Boston was the resort also of. truckmen and other teamsters whose business brought them out early in the morniig. ne gray November morning about 6 o'clock a stranger entered this place and took his seat among the habitnes. He ordered a substantial breakfast and ate it slowly and with evident enjoy- ment...Then he took his bat down from the peg on the wall and started to go 'As he got abreast of the cashier's desk, behind which stood the proprie- tor, he slowed up. "Much 'bliged,' 'So long! "The proprietor bad he said genlally. -& good many tough customers to den! with, and bis pistol was handy. In a second it was out and the man covered. Then he de manded the sitet the breakfast, he man, apparently unmoved, look- ed at the shooting iron witb curiosity. -It- was @-queer, clumsy affair of ancient 'date, and it was aetaat that be bad never seen its like before. Suddenly bis expression of curiosity changed to one of apprehension, even terror, and he drew back a step. "Ts--that--a stomach pump? he fal- tered. "This story has a happy ending." the congressman concluded. "The man kept bis breakfast!" : Chinese Torture. The ingenuity of the Chinése fn de- vising punishment for offenders sur Jmisses that'of the most cruel people of the middle ages. Some time ago a bor was kidnaped, from a village about thirty miles from .Chinkiang = and brought to that city to be sold. The kidnapers were arrested aud returned to the village. where the people dug a hole in the eround. Ike n grave, about three feet deep, covered the bottom and sides with unslnked Hine, placed the offender, with bis hands and feet tled, upon the lime und covered hix body with the same materinii Then they filled the hole full of water, and ns the Hme sincked be was roasted alive and his body consumed. . The Good Old Days The richest man in King Charles It's England could not™get so jood a dinner as tens of thousands will si down to today. Cattle were of yout poorer breed, vegetables were few and bad and the commonest conrenlences of the table were unknown. 'knives, for instance, are bardly con sidered au extravagant luxury, but Mr Gladstone could remember when they were not to be found on any table.-- London Telegraph. ST Meals and Brains. We give too ouch thought to our meals, for justance. They need con- triving. and it is pleasant to bave them set temptingly upon a table on which fresh flowers are arranged and to eat them In a room wherein there is not a speck of dust, but it Is not right that our bodies should be fed at the expense of our souls or that the dust should be taken from every ledge in our house and left to gather thickly in our brains. ~Reader Magazine. Frank About It. Shoe Store Salesman ~ What size would you like, madam? Miss Larjup --I'd Uke a No. 2, but there's no use talking about that' You may as well show me your No, 5's--London Tele graph. Lost'tlis Voice Entirely. Verenwencag ' Yooss, of Point Rock, J. -- ida Go. 'N. k a hard "A bed attack of Be pig : net tled i in my forehead and the pain over tense ht WHEN SHE GIVES UP. erates Into a Dowdy. a etsdged bave a oeat phrase for the woman growing old, throws off, with thet follies of middle age, all pretensions to to loo! - But when the Parisian queen abdl- cates she does it in no half hearted manner, Her dowdiness Is a thing to make elegant elderly American women stand aghast. The British matron of mature years ts a dangerous siren com- pared with ber French prototype. From being a plump, silver voiced enchantress she changes to an uon- wieldy mass of Sesh, with a baritone voice, a small bonnet twinkling or jet placed far back on ber parted a scraped hair and with biack clothes of pameless fashion and depressing ding!- ness, ¥ This elderly Frencbwoman may be a dowager duchess from the Fanbourg or the cherished spouse of your grocer. The type is the saine. The fact is that the French ore an eminently' practical, not to say mate rlal, race, and the Frenchwomaén Is the very embodiment of fbese national idiosyncrasies. "What ts the use," they would argue, "of running up bills for dresses and what not when there is no chance of any jonger pleasing? Why not enjoy the pleasures of the table, even if your waist assumes alarming proportions, When they are the only pleasures left? Why try to speak In dulcet tones when, as everybody knows, it is the grand- mother who has always the final word in the French family and, whatever the timbre of ber voice, ber family will sure to listen to it? This frank acceptation of old age and all 'that It {mplies is not without its advantages, and, at any rate, you ore spared In Parisian society the spec- tacle that is too familiar in other lands of grandmothers still dancing in gled tulle.--London Sketch. THE CAPTAIN'S PLAN. Rule For Fightir Fighting seein Didn't Work Both A young woman who veumatty made a trip to Europe decided to consuk the captain of the ship as to the best Preventive for seasickness, Having ed herself with a letter of intro- duction to the officer, she waited until the ship bad cleared Sandy Hook, says 8 writer in the Bohemian, and then approached him. She Dr ig her fears and begged for a A "My dear lady," vapid ike captain, with an amused smile, "you will not be troubled with any illness if you will do what I tell you. Most ladies con- fine themselves to their staterooms and thereby incur the very thing they fear. Now, if you will stay on deck. get all the fresh alr you can, walk up and down, take good pbssical care of your- self and try not to think of trouble you will never be seasick." The lady thanked him. She followed the directions faithfully, and when the ship ran into the tall end of ao heavy northwest gale she never felt a qualm She appeared regularly at meals and enjoyed herself thoroughly. As the gale was abating she be ll her that it was dune the cap- "tain that she should thank bim for bis good pe and, approaching the deck steward, intrusted him with a message asking for an interview, In due time the steward returned, saying that the captain was unable to grant her an interview. "Why not?" she questioned. "Why won't he see me?' "Captain's compliments, miss," said the steward, "but he's suffering with a bit of seasickness which' 'as lasted two pag oo an' he ain't in shape to talk to y His ,_ Saluting the Quarter Deck. One of the oldest custome in the Davy and one that Is often puzzling to the landsman is that of "saluting the quarter deck." Many have the hazy idea that the national colors are its object and that !t is merely a naval fad. While to a certain extent It is a fad, It is one of hoary antiquity, be- ing a survival of the days when a crn- clfix was placed on the stern of a ship and was Always saluted ns a matter of course. When the crucifix was taken away the old feeling still remained. and men continued to salute the place where it bad been. The yonnger gen- eration imitated their elders, and the salute became a bablt and continues until this day. A Cold Night In China One of the [nets that Inefaceahly eut into my memory during my frst winter In Newehbwang was the Godtag on one morning about New Yerr's time thirty-five masses of ice, each ninss having been a living man at 10 o'clock the preceding night The thermetetrs Was a good bit below zere The sien had just left the opium dens where they bad been enjeving themsctoos The keen air seut them to steep und they never wakened - North Chios Herald. Why He Mourned. O'Flannagan ecxme home one nigt ees a Mail bam) of binek erage arent his "why, Mikes" ecctalinent ties owt "what are ve werk Chet aecen thing for?" " fot over fer ot band." reptieal Mike te "Lanse he's dead "- Evers tants ve Listowel Sash and Door Factory. BAMFORD BROS: Builders and Contractors are pre to contract for ths erection "al all ciasscs of Salldings. Plans an eatioas drawn, and estimates furnished on application. SASH, DUOR FRAMES, BLINDS, etc,, ger vg on short notice. d ae order, Kverythi: in the bui: n rhed will be oo prompt attention and iret class Workmanship guaranteed Charges Moderate. Bamfcrd Bros, The Frenchwoman of Years Degen-.\;| @° | Cosmpeny" s steamer leaves Sarnia Imperial | CAPITAL PAID UP * REST - a 'a OF CANADA. D R. Wilkie Pres. Hon, R. Jaffray Vice-Pres, CAPITAL AUTHORIZED - $10,000,000.00 Savings Bank. Money may hy " notice. a. forwarded to depositors by mail on es m year. og Jae without with of responsible Discounted. Cheese Cheques posit ithon nave Farmers' Business a Specialty, ! Sale notes cllctad sd _-- es made thereon. i or taken on de- without bmg H. OC. SECORD, - | LISTOWEL BRANCH, A SPECIAL DISCOUNT ON ALL Lace Gurtain al Window Furnishing of Description. We show the most complete range in Summer Dress Goods, Dress Muslins. See ou in white goods, only 15c. a Head Linen Finish Linen Lawns, Persian r Indian yd. Lawns, Swiss Musiins, together with all other leading lines in summer weights. Bargains in Boots and Shoes. amily Groceries Complete. JIS. GHEE. --a dirty, heart-breaking job. FLUE-CLEANIN THE FLUE DOORS Situated " singly " --on some furnaces. Situated "doubly," door--on "Sunshine " FLUE-CLEANING --a clean, record-breaking job. over feed door same distance from ach other, same distance from feed Furnace. "SUNSHINE" ADVANTAGE: G bit of soot out of radiator. THE OPERATION Fire put out, smoke-pipe pulled do wn--on some furnaces. nshine " Furnace. Operator can easily clean every Fire stays in, smoke- -pipe stays up -- on "Su "SUNSHINE" ADVANTAGE : Furnace can be cleaned out any ume in seago LONDON WINNIPEG dirt, or " fear of chilling the house." n without troubhs, 7 ADOLPH & BONNETT, Local Agents. South Waterloo Liberals nominated Dr. Sylvester Moyer for the Commons. Two children were burned to death at Ardoch village, lightning setting fire to the residence Of the Bauder family, AND- TRUNK S¢'stem TOURISTS' TICKETS | Muskoka, Temagami, Lake of Bays, etc., on sale on and after May 1. HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS at various Low Rates to the Northwest via North Bay, May 12th and 26. via Sarnia and N. Navigation 3.30 p. m. May 13th and 27th. Full information from Grand Trunk Ticket Agent. J. D. McDONALD, D. P. A., Toronto, Ont. J. A. HACKING, Town Agent. A. M. SMITH, Depot Agent. any "If you see three Frenchmen standing together in the street talking," says one of the European papers, "you may be sure they are talking of women. If you see three Germans talking, you may be sure it is of the army they are speaking, Three Englishmen--their subject will be sport. Three Americans--their sub- ject will be money-making." Here again Canadians seem to be about half way between the English and the people next door, FRESH MEAT OF ALL KINDS, S. L. KIDD & SON, having purchased the dion Business of S. J. Stevenson, are continuing the business in the Shop on Wallace St., where they handle only the} Choicest Meats of all Kinds, Home-made Sausages, Bologna, Summer Sau- sage, Cured Meats, Etc. Our stock is always the ve best, and prices eho to te. i Give us a trial and you will come again. S- L. KIDD & SON Garbutt Kidd, Manager .