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tie DOW odder. sbould be riven. Remittance.
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. order. or reeristered otter.
Suleoriptteas may confluence at any time.
esteem* advert aernect. be eve. on appli-
cation. Logsland other similar advartieuenta.
ten cents per lin• for diet lepertion and four
-seta per tins for each subsequent inaertion.
Measured by a scale of solid sionpareil -twelve
lines to no inch. Bust -nes, omd• of six lines
and under, Ft% Itollars per year Advertise-
otsi of Lost, Found. cltrayed. Situation..
Vacant . nations IA...med. Houses tor !Sale er
to Rent. F•rins for Sale or to Rent, Articles
tamer ..rt 'esteems in proportion. An -
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Cmte per line. No notice Icse then Twenty•
eve Cents. Any .pecal beim the object of
whIchla the peciumary benefit of any todivid-
ual or amociat ion, to be ooniddered an ad veer-
tle.ernent and charged aceordireiy.
To CORIULAYON DAN T1L -The co Operation of
our subeeribers and readers la eortilally invit-
ed toward. mating Tex weekly reoord
of all local. county and district dollies. No own
munioation will be ictended unleiew it con-
tains the name and address of the writer. not
necessarily for publication. but as an evideoce
of good faith. New. lima. .hould reach Tint
of eaCti week.
THURSDAY. MAY 2.1, 1016
allowing the liverymen to form an-
other. The petition of the would-be
esonopolista has heen sent to A com-
mittee of the council, where we trust
it will he deceotly interred.
The Montreal Daily Mail. • j ()amid
friendly to the Borden Government,
says of the tevelations before the
Meredith -Duff commission :
'There is no use mincing words
over the piwition of Allison. Ile was
a middlemen fortified liy is close con-
nection with the Minniter of Militia
that apparently gave hint the entree
everywhere and the means of swami -
Mg contracts on his own terms. Evi-
dence •ppear• tbe remount of All -
son's Voiced States connections to
explain why the people across the
border got se much of this munition
business which ehould have been
placed in Canada. Allison lead the
connections in the Uoited States. He
did not hey. thetu in Canada. Fish-
ing was so good that such • mighty
angler as B. F. Yoakum threw in hid
hook. Apparently. the important
considers' ion was that older. had to
be placed where J. Wesley
had the connections.
It has been shown already that Alli-
soo's commission ran into hundreds
of thousands. in short order, apt the
Meredith -Duff Corearnissitm has hard-
ly cosunienced to uncover his opera-
ations. many' of which are not within
EDITORIAL NOTES.
When the Bear and the Lion get to-
gether. there are perilous times ahead
fur the Turkey.
The fernier Isits had to be consider_
able of • hustler this season to get his
seeding done between rains.
Newspapers which accept tne pret-
ense of Quebec Nationalists in the
Borden Cabinet have colossal nerve to
accuse Sir Wilfrid Laurier of consort-
ing with the Nationelists.
Why could Goderich not have the
161st Battalion here for • few days ?
The county town ought to have the
privilege of seeicg the county battalion
before it goes to conimer the Hints.
As The Toronto Star remelt -A, Cana-
dians who wished to put in tenders
for fuse cootracts seemed to firid the
Shell Committee resolved to "have
no truck or trade with Canadiens."
Mr. Atquith has gone to Ireland
to deal with the Irish troubles
on the soot. It's strange no English
etetesman ever before thought of kiss-
ing the Blarney stone before attempt -
Jog to reconcile Ore Irish factions.
The Provincial general elections in
Quebec have pretty neatly wiped ova
Liberal Premier, has reventy•four sup-
porters in a Houre of eighty-one mem-
bers
The Germans am e wtiti to he leerning
by thorough marti,•ation of food to
d, feat 13, item a "war of starvation."
It reminds one of the economic/el man
who tried to teach his horse to get
Along without any feed. 'c'hie experi-
ment seemed be quite successful
un•il one day the animist died.
The ratepayers Berlin have voted
by a smell majot ity change the
name of their town. We cannot tic_
cept the implication that all tinier who
oted "nay" are pio-Germatis. If this
weir so, a mere change in the name of
the town nould he a very slight int-
pruvecuent. The new name has not yet
been decided upcn.
The old 21th of &Ley still holds its
sway as a popular holiday. Youngsters
of the preeent day may not be able to
realize with what glee the boys and
git Is used to rhyme :
"The 24th of May
Is the Queen is Birthday ;
If you don't give WI A holiday
We'll all tun away.''
WHAT OTHERS SAY.
There's a Subtle C
about the delicious flik
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The Ubiquitous Allison.
Toronto Star.
The impression one. gets front the
evidence being given at Ottawa is that
in so far sus the letting of munitions
contract• was concerned Hon. Col. J.
Wesley Allison surrounded the Minister
of Militia and . the Shell Committee
like a picket fence and nobody could
get in and nobody could get out with-
out climbing over him.
Doberty's "Bull."
ritior• (Aileen,
Saturday night, in the House of
Commons. criticism of Sir Cherles
Devidtion caused the Minister of Jus-
tice. Hon. Mr. Doherty, to cry shame
on Mr. Ft ank Yell end he expressed
it with true Irish indignation by charg-
ing the -Opposition membeis with
making statements "in the face of an
ad•ertary who isn't here /-
Why Did Carson Go Clear
Itoche•ter He mid.
The Cloter rebels, led by the emin-
ent Sir EtlWard Cordon, wet e not even
ermined of disloyalty. They were
treated a. harmless mischief -makers,
and permitted to go their noisy ways
unembarrassed by even arr. 4! and
imprisonment.. Why should the
British Government be infinitely
harsher and e cruel in it. punish.-
ment of the half-tned creatures of
Dublin who took counsel and encour-
sari:tent, no doubt, f Sir Edward
should fish he made of one class of
le ishmen and flesh of Another ?
Where the Minister Is Needed.
The Chu -thin Ontrdian
We read the other day of *preacher
who had received • number of calla
to which one he ought to accept.
Finally he called hiP Aft iron ser-
vant and asked him what lie thought.
The oH ed 111411 never hesitated,
but at once spoke up : "Massavjni
where is the most devil.- We would
not like to say thet this would always
he good adviee, and it might be a %et y
difficult matter to settle whirr wail
"the moist devil," but the ides :hat a
good servant of Jef.usehrist %ill choose
heild Held has much to e 00000 mend it.
The meacher who is looking for "a
map or "lin easy job is apt to lie tits- all woni,n
contented on any Methodist field
This flavour is unique and never found
in cheap, ordinary teas. Let us mail
you a sa.mple. Black, Mixed or Green.
their Memories are recorded only in •••••114111444411••••••114414440414010
on the land red by the land and
will liv• 00, when the tttttttt eecial na-
tions of today, if they rentiiiii corn- ME WAR. 1
t he pages of history. Hut the inume-
morial East war li•ing then and will
mercial, have passed awAy. England,
he adds, forgeto that from the land
has come •Il thet has made her great
and will keep her great.
The war, he thinks, will promote A
return to the lend by bringing people
free to face with the realities of life.
Conventions will be :welted. Social
distinctions, false standards ot
ostentation. luxury and dissipation
will disapprier.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier and tbe &lingua
Brantford Expositor.
There are many Liberals who do not
emcee with his views on this subject.
but !Isere ale few, if any, who do not
recognize that be has throughout his
lifetime devoted his entire energies to
the great task of unillying French and
English -specking peoples of this coun-
try. and that Isis bitterest enemies'
[nave been those of his own country-
men who condemn hint for his Imper-
ialism atid his devotion to British in-
stitution.. He is not the man against
whorm charize ten fairly be made of
lending encouragement to the ea called
Nationaliste. He has rather been their
most determined foe. And they have
reciprocated by doing all they can to
undermine and deetroy his influence.
If today he advocates the adoption of
a policy of conciliation in order to pio-
mote a 'settlement of the school issue it
is not because of any desire to placate
his avowed enetnies. beciviee he
believes that an issue which is calcul-
ated to embitter the good relations
which have of bete years been existing
between English and French in Cato'
ed. shoula he forever settled Nor is
he making any sacrifice of the prin.
HE CAN NOW WORK AS WELL
AS EVER
Mrs. L. Coroner Cured by Dodd:s K dney
Burnsville, Gloneester 1.'0., N. 13..
May L. Cormier,
• well-known and highly respected
re-ident here, wbo ',offered for twelve
year. from a complication of diseases.
is orce 0101 e • well woman and she is
telling her numerous friends that she
owes her recovery entirely to Dodd'.
Kidney Pill..
••I would get t.0 weak.' Mrs. Cor-;
tinier atateP. ••that could not do my
work and 'stink, have to go to hed. I
had ninny different troililet I tried
thiee different rioctore hut none of
them did me any lasting good. A
friend advised me to take Drxid's Kid-
ney Pella atid !took several boxes of
them with splendid results. I can now
'yolk without feeling the least tired
I ree Diehl* Kidney Pills to
mend
erho
Edncatiosial Efficiency the Aim
The weed butk of the people of On-
tario have no desire to ,leptive their
French-C*nadian fellow-eit men. of any
of their rights, or of any to ivilege in
I he nee of their langtiege which is cop-
sietent with educistional efficiency.
They have no feelings against Feench-
plainly with providing the means for
&I thotough educaticin as possible
for all the children of the Provinee,
without regard tc race Or creed. The
educational efficiency for which they
are striving is as much in the interests
of the French-Catiadien as of the Bt it -
of any iejuefice or animosity in this
matter, and it may 1*. they would
prefer not to have it suggested, even
in the most a iendly and kindly vi•r.
Ow there hinny need make a pier.
to their sense of fairnes• and justice.
The Toronto city council, in spite of
Mayor Chili ch's opposition, IIAS de-
cided to collect. the Provincial "war
tax- of one mill on the dollar. It has
not done any harm to have public at-
tention drawn t the levying of this
tax bv the PI °vino.. The Government
will have to setisfy the people that
the money no collected is really ex-
pended for war purpooes.
Lord Beresford, when called before •
Parliamen tar y committee appointed
to inquire into chargem made hy him -
itself and others against the efficiency
of the British •ir 7trvice, retracted his
statements and •i welly admitted that
he did not know what be had been talk•
ing about. If the wind were taken out
of the petty campaign persistently car-
ried on ageinst the Asquith Govern-
ment, there would likely be not much
of it. left.
Sir Sam Hughes.
Nt. one has charged and no one be-
lieves that Sir Sam Ili:ghee. Minister
of Militis. has person illy pintiteci by
the war older. let by the Dominion
Government or "his %to '• the defunct
Shell Corrirnitt•te, flOW known es the
Imperial Munitions Board.
At the same time Sir Sam, by his
ardent defence U,ol. J. Wesley Alli-
son and the Wall stieet operators.
has placid himself "in bed" with the
country ae large., which has a great
deel of respect for him as a military
Friend. of Air Mani- and he has lots
cif them left -would do well to ad•ise
him to 'PO.* as Minister of Militia
and tna• command of one of the
Canadian divisions, baying the honor.
as he predicted long ago, of heing in
the field when the Allies world(' begin
their mareh on Berlin
Air MAIll'a days are about done as
Minister of Militia. He has • chanee,
however, to rehabilitate himself and
become • popular idol again by lead-
The liverymen are trying a. put one
lover on tbe town. They are willing to
invest 1126 each for the monopoly a
wag horse -rigs or automobile". No
&Sabi, the monopoly secured, they
wonld see that the investment paid
them well. Comparatively speaking.
poratiosse are not popular. Those we
already have are toe many. without
waseseetteeselessesewereseneWiebeereieetellw
A Little Job
or a Big One
From the repairing
of a faucet to the
installation of a
complete plumbing
system, we are
equipped to do the
job. A small pro-
fit with a customer's
favor is more to us
than a large one
without it.
W. R. PINDER
Phone 155 Hamilton Street
easereessewswassetessissoesenewesetesee
TIIK BLOCKADE OF GERMANY.
There would appear to he no doubt
that even under present conditions as
established -even without fresh efforts
of advance oo any front -Germany is
doamed This is not to say that no
such efforts should be made ; for we
need not only to end the war, but to
hasten that ending by all means in our
power. It is ber internal need, and
not the intelligence of strat.egical con-
cept' , which is driving Germany to
litter the slopes of the hills before
Verdun with innumerable cos peer,
and which will ptoliably in the next
few months force her to seek a more
impoissitile, decision. All evidence
which is not official or smothered with
official,museepresient•tion shows a na-
tion, after twenty months of war (in-
stead of the t wo Wont ha expected) tor-
mented by bad or in,ufficient food,
and filled with • great longing for
Then follow many extracts from
let ers Found on prieunei etc.
To such • cmdition hes been re-
duced this, home -loving and often
Baked Dainties—
The Nations Which Itaidere.
Tomato Weekly ea&
Rider Haggard, the angled% novel-
ist, who has given long attmoion
runtl problems in Ragland, announces
an interesting theory or ratbse Leer -
*nee from history. Re says time, if
nations and empires aro to endure.
they must root themselves in the Wad.
tions have parsed Into sumps, but
those which lived by the lead 11
survive. Tyre and Oarthecwored
trade. negybeetang Mother
rows erseWee from their bditaii
OUR baked dainties
are dainties indeed—
dainty to look upon and
dainty and delicious to
eat. What's the use of
expending your strength
and time over the cake
board when you can get
the very nicest and
choicest of fresh -made
Cookies, etc.,
at our store.
war It had offered shoed and ilanns•-
lag opposition le the Liberal policies.
eo Used its testimony is not that of •
frelletwer but of a critic of Mr. Asquith.
It la evident that we in Canada are
n ot too well nerved by the cable des-
patches sod special correspondence,
which apparently reflect too complete-
ly the opinion of • minority of the
British people. •nd quote too mclu-
• from • small section of the
British press.]
Tb. remastable maul the most
clearly established fact in regard to
OM Prime Minister is Bust he has,
without losing the confidence of the
majority of his old Liberal coileagues,
gamed a very ftrus bold upon the Un
wants who CADDO f0 the assistance of
the Goverunsent bet May and fot med
the coalition. It is an open reecret that
many of them went into the Govern-
ment with moat speriousi doubts and
hesitations as to whether it would be
possible for them, however good their
intentions, to work with the Prime
Minister. It is equally an open secret
Gut there same wen, without in the
least haying become converted to Mr.
ANuith's piinciples. have come to be-
lieve very firmly in his capacity to
carry on the work of government.
We will go further and expels our fi
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!Special Spring!
• Sale •
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III In Face of Rising Costs VS' e Present 0
. Special Values
4,,., Goods bought months agO and before the general :
• advance. Our stock was never before so large. •
0
Wash Goods •
Dress Ginghams, Crepei and Crinkles, 28 to
30 inches wide, in all new colorings and neat pat-
terns, stripes and floral. Colors warranted fast. Reg- „,k
• ular value 15c to 18c, at per yard 12 I -2c ;
• Dress Goods
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•
belief that there is not one 0 the Uh-
ionists in question who would not as- •
Wet that, taking all the circumstances
into consideration, Mr. Asquith is the
man at the preeent moment most fitted •
to preside over the Government, aod qi
that it would be a capiud error to re -
Forty -four -inch Dress Suitings and all -wool
Serges : Navys, Blacks, Cream, Browns. Beautiful
finish and perfectshades, worth$1.25, at per yard, 85c
Penman's Hosiery
move him. Working with bin] and • Ladies' seamles tilack Cashmere Hose, sup -
under him Ms not ditninisbed but in.
creased tbeir confidence in bin powers. erior quality. Fifty dozen at special price—sizes gi
Though by far the greater rt of '
•
•
Glom who demand compulsion truiand
it because, like ourielvee, they genu-
inely believe in ita merits% (as the fair-
est, the most democratic and the most
efficient way of getting the men who
are required for the fighting line),
there :ire others; and eepecially those
who clamor for it loudest in the prews,
who notoriously care much leve for
compulaion than they do for breaking
up the coalition. In a word, they
value compulsion chiefly as a bludgeon
with a Inch to destroy the coalition. or
rather Mr. API101111. And here we
'bitch • very curious and very difficult
aspect of the situation. A good many
cf the opponents of compulsion.
especially among the Labor party,
could and would be persuaded to agree
to it if it were not for this fart. They
kindly people in twenty months after sre rendered stubborn by the feeling
their whole enthusiasm bad gone out that the moat vocal and obvious pol-
lee the Kaiser. as he buckled on his; tion of the compulsionist• hate the
shining armor and went out to the ; Printe Minister much more than they
rimy conquest of all the vrotld, to love National Service. They are de-,
bring Is nue'wealth •yond the dreams tertnined, as they put it, that they
of avarice and the triumph of the: w ill not he ruled byes Newspaper King.
Fitherland over 0.11 the nations of No doubt thia is an exceedingly illog-
Europe. There is no sign of icurnove-. iced position, hut it is • vety human
ment ; rather. wii.11 the tightening of one. •nd at any rMe one which can -
the blockade. an increasing privation , not be ignored. " ' • • We
and d.s7ontent. lire convinced Gust the first and great -
Why record such dismal events ? est need of the hour is to keep the
Firet, because of the lies spread abroad coalition Government in existence.
and in thi. onuntry that Germ my is The hest advice we can give the Goy -
still ltiumphant, unaffected by the eminent is: Ha•e confidence in the
war,. accuttiuloting vast stores for British people and do not fear the
"dumping- purpoeea when the war is newspapets, or at any rate • mere
over, with all her civil populetion election of the newspapers, for we must
tianquil and satisfied. ' Second. it. is; never forget that the great majority
well that tholes who are so iuipatient of the press, London and provincinl,
with the at rategy'ref the Allies should ' are heartily with the Government.
not weaken their respective Govern -j
menu, by girding at all their design',
as failures. The blockade 124 blockading 1
Germany. It is said thet we attain 00
victories. Evely twenty-four hours
the blockade is maintained is a vic.!
tory. The Central Powers are girdled I
with steel end the; and the knowledge
of that girdle is the key to all recent
German strategy. % erdun was a tac-
tical blunder; it was a blunder forced I
on the Gernian General Staff less by I
tuilitai y than by political considers -
Grins. It was eneential to do some-
thing big, in older to cheer up the
half-starved end half -doubtful ppula-!
t ion . behind the ring of steel with the
knowledge bat Ore many was act itelly
fighting. end that today. or tomorrow'
at least, she would break through the
ting that is throti ling her.
Th. same applies to the submarine
warfare. In all the Getman papets
the ineatlem butteries*. eadiees pop-
ulation are cheered up by the state-
ment that the English are imffering
even worse torments, owing to the
fact that all the ships are being sunk
which bring food to these bort ible
ialanderte. 'I he same impulse will prob-
ably produce in epring and early sum-
mer repetitIons of these Verdun sor-
ties. And with a certain loss of over
three ntillion•, added to daily all along
the line, such "Verdun." will become
more and more an actusl draining
•way of the life -blood of Germany.
This internal cancer may even came
before tbe end se outbteak of the fleet
in attacking the blockade in the Chan-
nel or the North hies -a consumma-
tion devoutly desired by every officer
Without undue presumption, when
and man in the British nav3.
sill the s'.ory is told, it will be recorded
that it was the blockade of the British
navy which finally beat Germany to
het knees and made her accept terms
which otherwiee would have been im-
possible. The blockade iP. indeed, not
so effective as that which left Lee's
srmy in 1665 with &handful of parched
corn for nne day's redone. or that
with which the Germane killed thous-
ands of the children of Paris in 1R70.
Bin its increasing effectualness every
letter *bows. It may not actually
weaken the army subetantially by
shortness of rations trl the combatants.
power behind tbs. army -tbe nation -
without weakening the army itself.
Hiodenterg ham forbidden letters to
be sent from home to his troops. Many
other generals are likely to do the
same. The morale iof the army, the
-grill to resiet- oif the people behind.
still settle this war. -Ilse Nation (Lon-
• Twenty-five dozen pure, all -wool, seamless IP
• Sox, heavy and medium weight in blacks and greys. ::
• They were bought and will be sold as "seconds,- LF
• that is, a slight imperfection, but hardly noticeable 1r
• and will not affect service. Sizes to, to 1-2, 1 1
• Bargain, in odd sizes, three only. Size 4x4 •
• yards, Wilton Rug in beautiful colorings and neat •
a and medallion patterns, British make. Regular $45, •
• 4x4 yards, English Brussels Rug, small pat- 0
, tern, shades of brown with soft green, $25, for $I.8 a
• Wilton and Tapestry Rugs, 2 1-2 X 3, 3x3, 0
•
-41 Japanese Rugs, cotton warp, special, size 2x3 yards •
•
• 2S -inch White Flannelette, 1 2 1-2C, for 10c. •
O 36-in,:h Flannelette Sheeting, special 15c. •
7o -inch Bleached Sheeting, heavy even thread, •
411
• ton, circular, at per yard, 25c. •
Hamilton St , Godeoch
DAVID BURNS
Kingston Atreet
7000 Rods of
STANDARD FENCE
WHY MR.1:7171TH DORS NOT
FALL
the British Oahiset le "still going
strong," though Its oollapes has hoes
to often and so sonlidestly heralded is
elm cable despatehas during time past
sie months, the following eirtreete
hoes recent edltage&le In The London
Spectator may furnish an eiplanntion.
The lemmata". is ems of the remt in-
fluential journals In linglaad. and is
tion of Usienist emission. Defers the
must be add by July 1st,
MI6. We have two car loads of
the best fence that money can
Inty and we have bought ao
we can melt right. 1%411 in and
see our stock and get our
price before you lett,. your
fence. We nee -.1 the nsoney
and you need the fence.
Farm Macliiaery
We carry a full line of Farm
Machinery always on band.
Buggies Carriages
We hii•e them, all similes and
sizes. A large assortment al-
ways on our floor.
If you need • few tons of that
have a carload just in.
Hard or Soft Wood delivered
to any part of town.
Phone No. 165
Logs Wanted
We will pay the highest ceit
prices for all kinds of logs dolly
at the mill In Goderich..
Custom sawing:done promptly at
any time.
Grais aid Chopping
We will a/so buy grain sit our
elevator and will pay the best mar-
ket prices
Orders for chopping or rolling
grain promptly and °medially mit-
_tended to at our chopping mill.
•
Yarn •
• Natural, undyed, two-plv, best Super Wool •
• Mill Yarn, scoured and pure, at per lb., 90c. ' •
• Two-ply Fingering Yarn, in light and mid- •
• grey. Pure Canadian Fleece, at per lb , S1.25. •
147. ACHESON & SON!
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rrintingf tbe %tonal
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MIAMI NI CANADA"
IN strength is motor car safety—dura-
bility --economy. And proved in actual
service. the Ford is the strongest of
motor pars. Many of the first Fords are
still in irse. One hundred -thousand miles is
not at all a remarkable Ford performance. In
practically every country Fords have es-
tablished unusual records for endurance
and satisfying service. under the most
trying conditions. Climate or roads hold
for it no terrors. It is the 1,i,r,tiridof cross-
country cars. The Ford's
cord for economy and efriciesey is in no
*mall part due to its unequalled strength.
-wide re -
J. E. Baechler
NW and elevator north of Nati-
Bwan'a wed yards. Oodeuieb.
w.
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