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THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1918
tion from the United States of a number
of lines of manufactured articles. Among
the articles which it is reported are to
come under this prohibition are auto-
mobiles and automobile accessories. pat
cnt medicines, silverware, jewellery,
mescal instruments, boots and shoes, and
ready-made clothing..11 such a prohibition
is carried into effect great care will have
THE TROUBLE AT QUEBEC. to be taken to provide against the undue
enhancing of prices by Canadian menu -
Rioting has broken out in the tacturers. It will be necessary also to
devise some means of securing revenue in
place of the custom's duties levied on im
portal ions.
city of Quebec in opposition to
the enforcement of the ' Military
Service Act, arid several persons have
been killed and a greater number injured.
Soldiers were sent from Ontario to quell
the disturbances. and the casualties are
divided among soldiers and civilians. It
is said the r oters are mostly young, irre-
sponsible fellows, and they no doubt have
received their inspiration from Le Devoir.
Henri Bourassa's paper, which while dis-
countenancing violence has kept up in its
columns what has been more than once
described as a campaign of sedition.
While there should be no desire for ttk
embarrassment of the Ottawa Govern-
ment in the difficult position in which it
finds itself. it is only right to say that the
Government has itself to blame for the pres-
en t :tate of affairs in Quebec. Bourassa,
with whom Borden allied himself in 1911
to defeat Laurier. has been allowed to
"spout sedition" and so to supply the
powder to which the Government itself
applied the spark by its methods in intro-
ducing, carrying through Parliament and
enforcing the Military Service Act. Sir
Wilfrid Laurier and other politicaleleaders
of Quebec who naturally knew the trend
of events in that Province bettefthan
outsiders protested in vain against the
Government's course, and indeed were
looked upon almost as traitors by those
who refused to see wisdom in any counsels
but their own. The explosion has come,
and the ancient capital has been the
scene of events which are depleted by all
right-thihking Canadians, but by none
more sincerely deplored than by the leaders
of the solid, sensible, loyal element of the
people of Quebec whose advice was so
contemptuously cast aside last year.
Much worse than the rioting itself is the
temper of which it is but the symptom
The mob can be intimidated and sup-
pressed. but grave danger will still exist
in the sullen spirit of the people which
bayonets and bullets cannot reach. The
rioting must be suppressed, but a still
greater duty rests upon the Government.
namely, to bring Quebec into harmony
with the rest of Canada. It is perhaps not
yet too late to endeavor to find common
ground upon which the leaders of Quebec
may stand with the leaders of sound
opinion in the,o'her Provinces of the
Dominion.
- EDITORIAL NOTES.
Hindenburg's promise to be in Paris by
April 1st was only an April Fool joke.
Did y u ever kick at a football and
miss it ? That is how Hindenburg feels.
As a suitable penalty for allowing food
to spoil i0 cold•storage Plants, why not
compel the cold -storage profiteers to eat
the stuff ?
"LaTittrins N yet Premier of Can•
aids," cies The T to Telegram. The
Tek. apparently is not :quite sure but that
Bourassa is the bore.
The local merchant is helping to pit -
the taxes of the town and county in
which you live. He should have the
preference over the mail order hotl
which pays its taxes in a city many
away.
Though prohibition came into effect
April 1st, it will be some time yet before
Canada will be actually "dry. ' It is said
that within the last few weeks six million
dollars worth of liquor has been shipped
from Montreal into Ontario. The ex-
press companies have been almost
swamped with the traffic in "booze." It
will take some considerable t:me, ee
should imagine. for the thirsty ones to get
away with the wet goods they have laid
in stock.
The Stratford Beacon points out that
Sir Wm. Hearst. Premier of Ontario. will
receive hereafter 113,400, including ses-
sional indemnity. Sir Robert Borden re-
ceives $14.!i00. just a trifle of $1,100
more. Other Provincial Premiers fall a
long way behind Sir William. Exclusive
of sessional indemnities they are: Prince
Edward island. 13,000; Nova Scotia.
111,000; New Brunswick, 12.400: Quebec.
$7.000; Manitoba 10.000; Saskatchewan.'
$6,000; Alberta, 1r;.3 0: British Colombia.
19,900.
Rev. MacDougall Hay, of Elora, whose
sermons have on more than one occasion
kept Knox church congregations wide
awake. wields a pen that matches h s
spoken utterances. Writing to The Globe
on the question of the price of coal, he
concluues with these sentences:
Last winter's coal famine was a pe-
culiar one. Many impossibilities con-
nected with it suddenly became feasible
at the product on of a sufficiency of
money. It was a famine that relieved
the mine operators of an enormous quan-
tity of gravel. slate and unident.fied but
ponderous stones. And it was a famine
whose resultant extortionate prices gave a
profit to no one in the list, from the mine -
owner to the last teamster. Some of them
would even claire that they had lost
money ort the winter's business.
It is reported that the Ottawa Govern-
ment. in order to correct the balance of
trade between Canada and the United
States, intends to_prohibit the imports
Down in Ottawa they are talking of
using the "strong hand" in Quebec. 1f they
had used the strode hand on Bourassa
three years ago there would now be no
rioting in Quebec. —Toronto Globe.
The influence of The Globe belped to
keep in poser the men responsible for the
present state of affairs in Quebec. The
Globe flouted the counsels of the Quebec
leaders who knew the dangers of the situa-
ation created by the sinuous course of the
Borden Government, and it cannot escape
responsibility for its share in the direction
of the course of events which has cul-
minated in acts of violence by a Quebec
mob. If ever there was a time tor saying
"1 told you so." those who opposed The
Globe's violent campaign of last (all may
well address the phrase 'at the present
time to the editors of that journal.
WpA1 OrHERs SAY.
Britons Will Fight On.
New York Tribune.
An observing American. not deeply
prejudiced in the English favor, returned
after fifteen months' residence in London,
has this judgment:
"1f Italy gave up. if France cracked. if
even the United States deserted the cause,
and if all her allies tailed her, England
would only withdraw her army to her own
shores, dispose of her navy to meet the
new situation. develop her own produc-
tion, and. if need be, tight on for forty
years. This is the Engitah spirit and the
daily mood of the English people_"
It is good to hear. Such is the English
tradition, the spirit of the people of whoa)
Napoleon is credited with saying: "They
always lose all the battles but the last. '
Militarism shall not conquer the earth.
As long as England can fight, we can fight
even longer, hod we are not only of the
same stock and fibre, but we are younger,
richer and more numerous.
Where the Responsibility Lies.
London Advertiser.
Trace the trouble in Quebec to its
source and you will come to the editorial
offices of Le Devoir, the Montreal news-
paper edited by Henri Bourassa Only a
week or two ago he launched a tirade
against Britain in which he declared that
the British wished to secure Belgium. and
'that was the only reason the British were
in the war. Bourasea has a large following
in Quebec. His paper efists and has a
large circulation because of its radical
character and the cleverness of the man
who conducts it.
Until I3ouraseaism became a force in
Quebec there was little talk in that
Province of separation or sedition. Hour -
Asa did not gem recognition for many
'Stare, but a sir -t time ago he demon-
strated his ability to command a large
political following and wrested from the
Liberals twenty-six seats. His influence,
fostered by a political party, became in-
stantly the mast v tal in Canadian poli-
tics. His chief lieutenants and friends
were made cabinet ministers, and when
war commenced he adopted a policy of
non -participation, designed to cast sus-
picion upon the motives of the British
and to win Quebec from the whole-
hearted loyalty to which she gave en-
thusiastic exprersenm early in the war.
Without being lance curbed, he has pur-
sued this policy. immune from the pun-
ishment e hich would have been meted
out to an Ontario publisher, and acquiring
a following of intolerant* who were more
inflamed by the attacks than their
counterparts in Ontario. .
Bourassa has been protected at Ottawa
as a gambling house is protected by a
corrupt police force. As the French paper,
L'Evenement, says, the articles of the
fiery Montreal dictator have been of the
most seditious character. His crazy doc-
trines have influenced a great many people
in Q uebec. and the mob outbreak of the
last Jew days may be laid at his door. it
e. not.the misguided victims of his ultra -
intolerance of Britain who should have to
stand t punishment. The fountain.
head of t stream of rebellion is to be
found in 'Wrist offices of Le Dever.
And he Bent he poison forth with the
toleration elft Government.
YOU'LL FiND in*.IN ENEMY
NEIGHBORHOOD.
People Whose Kidney Ills Dodd's Kidney
Pills Have Cured.
Liverpool, Black Point. Queen's Co.,
N. S., April 1 (Specials.—With his pain in
the hack all one and his other symptoms
of kidney diseases no longer troubling
him, Mr. Charles E. Levy, a well-known
resident here, is spreading the good news
that Dodd's Kidney Pills are the right
remedy for kidney trouble.
Yes. I am feeling quite well again. 1
know Dodd's Kidney Pills have done me a
great deal of good. 1 was much troubled
with pain in the back and i knew from
ether symptrxns that the kidneys were
the cause of my trouble. 1 used pills I
got from the doctor, but 1 only got worse.
So i sent for Dodd's Kidney Pills. They
fixed me up. That's why i advise all
sufferers from kidney trouble to use
Dodd's Kidney fills."
If you haven't used Dodd's Kidney
Pills ask your neighbors. In every neigh-
borhood you will find someone Dodd's
Kidney Pills have cured.
Dehabtrah Days.
A series of articles descriptive of travel
in a typical sail -holt nn the Nile begins in
the April Canadian Magasine. The
%-iter. Helen M. Edgar, wife of Profess
s Pelham Edgar, made the trip. sororn-
panied hy her husband and Ile. Currelly.
the well-known Egyptologist, curator of
the Ontario Provincial Muesurn at Tor-
onto. The first article is delightfully en-
tertaining. while at the same time one
gets a splendid idea of what one seen on
arrising at Cairo and getting under
way fur a leisurely cruise on the mod
enchanting of all rivers.
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THE SIGNAL : GOBICH, ONTARIO •
THE RETIRED PARKER TALKS.
Doesn't Like Sawa of the Things He
Hears Absent Hiaralf.
The editor of one of our exchanges tells
of a converaWoo— perhaps imaginary --
that *had with a retired farmer, who re-
sented the talk he heard about the re-
tired farmer being no good to a place.
The editor began to ay that he hadu't
heard that kind of talk in his town, but
the farmer exclaimed:
"Don't, don't. 1 have heard some of
your leading men condemn them as no
good. They forget that I am one of
them. Because I ani around among them
they seem to trunk 1 always lived in a
town."
He further proceeded: "I just tell you
I sometimes get good and mad. If the
talk came from irresponsibles I wouldn't
care,. but it comes from business men and
meet who are supposed to be leaders in
your town. Maybe we are no good on
the farm now, but if it hadn't been for
the hard work and hardships we bore in
the early days in clearing up the forests
and making the fine farms that are
around here, you wouldn't have a town
worth a tinker's damn. 1 suppose those
know-alls think we should be put out of
the way by the chloroform route, as sug-
gested by that wise physician some years
ago who has already passed the pre-
scribed
rescribed age. It might be that we wouldn't
be any good in heaven and it's just pos-
sible that in the estimation of some we'd
be too green for firing purposes in the
other place."
The editor was beginning to get the
retired farmer's viewpoint in earnest and
told him so, asking him to go on and
give his views fully.
"What's the use? You wouldn't put
our side of the case in the paper. It
might hurt 'your customers" feeling to
know just how contemptuous they appear
in our estimation, and we are not a few in
this town if you kook us over. Let me
tell you something. Us old fellows, and
we weren't so old in those days, came in
here, cut trees, built log toruses, barns,
schools and churches, and rode in ox -carts
and on sloneboeta We lived on corn
pone and pork, worked sixteen (otos a
day and saved a little money beside.
Then came the factories and towns, fol-
lowed by the railroad. Before that we
had nothing but a boat shipment for our
grain and produce. Our production
(arced the outside world ,to come into
this section which we piaieered. Now
when our best strength is spent and we
want to quit riding several miles to
church we come to town. We had a
vision of beingable to rest and enjoy the
few remaining days in happiness. We
wanted to see people and enjoy laziness
if you will, but instead of that we hear
that the retired farmer is no good to a
town. True, we are not as free to let go
of our money as some who have not
worked for what they have. We suffered
privation and worked hard for what we've
got and know its real value. We
need it all for our last days. Our useful-
ness in town and country may be over.
but we still have feelings. Because we
are not dealers in stocks and industrials
and not good picking for 'exploiters, we
are no good. Why should we put our
hard-earned money into industrial enter-
prises we know nothing about. These big
profit schemes don't appeal to us. In
fact, they look dishonest when we see how
long it took us to get enough together to
retire. If we are not enterprising there
is one thing we do, that is we pay our
way. It might also be added, we ke:p
out of jail and if the town has any real
fes{ectabitity you will find Abet we an
the ones that gave it such. the:sane as
we gave it a beginning. 1f you want to
publish these views you might add that
it won't hurt some of the smart ones to
bear a ith us, the acme as you would with
a faithful old horse or dog, for the good
we have done. The benefits this town
and others are today reaping are due to
our past efforts. We old people don't
change readily and we will have to go on
and live as we are used to, clean and de-
cent; perhaps a little careful of our means,
if we last long. but always trying to be
c xtrteous and kindly. Remember. we
don't say much but we are just as sensi-
tive to slights and slurs as you town -
bred people."
With a good-natured Laugh, for which
he is noted, this "(armee said: "Well,
I've got it off my chest and i mean it.
So do lots of others, but they won't say
it. I tope you people will- begin to get
our viewpoint. If you would, it would be
better for your town."
"In what way do you mean?" enquired
the editor.
"Well, perhaps. we would feel that we
are really part of the town and when a
friend wants to settle here we would be
enthusiasts and boost. As it is, we
cannot honestly bubble over our share in
the town's bigness, ear we are 'retired'
farmers."
After our farmer (nem! bad gone Ater, the
editor began to call tp trend the .mart.
tunes he had heard the retired farm
referred to in a magggr that was unfaptt
You can rest aaara that it has been
often and just here it may b- stated that
a new view has corns to as. The whole-
sale truths handed out by our Jriend
should bear fruit. one ddy in
conversation said: "It takes all kinds of
people to mike a world, and every d —
one of us are here."
1n eonctluioa, it means, live and let
live, each In his own.amp.
H. G. HURTON )N FLORIDA.
Former Lesbrsisr`Wntes of His Visit
to the Seamy South.
Mr. James Linklater has received the
following letter from Mr. Harry G. Hor-
ton of Toronto (foraterly of Le eburn),
who with his wife and other relatives is
spending the winter months in Florida,
and has kindly passed it on to The Signal
fur publication. knowing that it will in-
terest many Signal -readers. The letter
is dated at Orlando, Florida, March 21st:
Deem FateND,—My intentions have
been to write you ease vane I lame to
Florida, but did not manage it. We have
had a lovely winter and have enjoyed it
very much. In January and February
we had to have a little foe now and then,
but most of the tineas_ has been plenty
warm enough, and the latter end of Feb-
ruary and the whole of March so tar has
been too warm. The temperature here
now is 85 to 85 in the shade and t3 to
100 in the sun If you were here for a
while you certainly would get thawed out
after such a long cold winter.
We have quite a garden t0 our house
and as a consequence we put in quite a
few vegetables and have more radishes,
onions and lettuce than we can use. We
also had a hen -house and yard for them.
so we bought quite a flock of chickens and
have had los of fresh eggs for the last
two months.
The trees are out in leaf all year. They
change their leaves the same as ours at
home, only gradually. consequently some
are felting all the tune while new ones
are taking their piece. So you see the
leaves, or at least some of them, are green
all the time.
Quite a while ago we took quite a trip
down the western coast of Fkeida to
Tampa and Sr.. Petersburg, and a few
weeks ago we west down the eastern
coast by auto. Webired en auto and I
drove it and went Y00 miles before we re-
turned and saw some wonderful places
and magnificent scenery.
We went fust to St. Augustine, the
oldest city in the United States, and saw
a fort built by the Spaniards :over 300
years ego. This city was the centre of
the fighting during the Civil War, and
they have a market where they used to
sell the slaves by auction.
From there we went to D.oytona and
Dayton Beach, one on the ocean and the
other on the river, separated be...wooden
bridges These are celebrated resort places
for the northern people during the winter.
We then went leo Rockledge and through
a dozen or more nice towns and cities and
came to Palm Beach, the famous tourist
resort (.r the millionaire. This is a won-
derful place, with beautiful parks, lovely
bofnes std wexderful hotels. One of
their hotels, ' 7lW f 4e rand. ," is
}the � trxtrrst m 4k Id, and
if the wings weer all straightened out
would measure as much as seven ordinary
biocks in New York City. The rates are
so high that only millionaires can stay
there.
We then went away farther such and
came to Miami, the most southern lIaarrggee
city in Florida. Here also there is lovely
tropical scenery, lots of cocoanuts on the
trees, and magnificent houses. We saw
the Deering estate here which cost
18.000,000. This is the man who makes
reapers sand mowers and other farm im-
plements (like Massey -Harris) in Chicago.
He got his million( from the farmers.
We came home over the same roads
we went down on and had a lovely trip. We
passed in this trip hundreds of acres of
po'atoes. celery, tomatoes and thousands
of acres of pineapples.
We have lots of strawberries here now.
also green peas and all other kinds of
vegetables.
We go to Toronto about the first of
May and may get a chance to run up to
Goderich this summer.
Kindly remember us to all old friends.
Hoping you are all well, i remain.
Your o'd friend,
Roan G. HowmN.
A GERMAN AiRMAN.
A (:mean airman in the hamlet of his ^unitage" machine, holding his
machine-gun in hand. He is expedtirtg et any minute an ettsek on • -- --•-t
of the Ally aircraft
Marina Notes.
A despatch from Por: Arthur states
that shipping men there look for the
opartiag of navigation between April
Capbgn Henry Wrathcls, a noted deep
sea ddiver, well known on all the Great
Lakes, is reported to hay e been drowned
by the overturning of his sailboat at a
South American port. It was Wrathels
who made the descent and discovered the
identity of the "mystery ship" Charles S.
Price, which was overturned in the big
storm un Lake Huron in November,
1913.
An order issued by the United States
authorities prohibits subjects of Germany
and Austria from working or riding on
lake vessels, freight or pamenger, this
summer. Neither will Germans ot
Austrians be permitted within one
hundred feet of a pier or dock where any
vessel of 500 tons capacity is located.
Impure Blood
in the Spring.
The Passing of Winter
Leaves People Weak
and Depressed.
As winter passes away it leaves many
people feeling weak, depressed and easily
tired. The body lacks that vital force
and energy which pure blood alone can
give.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills foe Pale People
are an all -year-round blood -builder and
nerve tonic. but they are especially useful
in the spring. Every dose helps to make
new, rich red blood. Returning strength
comnrtenees with their use and the vigor
and cheerfulness of good health quickly
follows.
There is just one cure for lack of blood
and that is more blood. Food is the ma-
teria/ from which blood is made, but Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills double the value of
the food we eat. Tbey give strength. tone
up the stomach and weak digestion, clear
the complexion of pimples, eruptions and
boils, and drive out rheumatic poisons
If you are pale and sallow. if you fed
cor*inually tired out, breathless after
slight exertion, if you have headaches or
backaches, if you are irritable and nerv-
ous, if your janta ache. if your
appetite fads and food does not nourish
War hep refresh you, Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills will make you well and strong. To
build up the blood is the special purpose
of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and that is
why they are the best spring medicine. 1f
you feel the reed of a tonic at this season
give Dr. Williams' Pink Pins a fair trial
and you will rejoice in new health. new
strength and new energy. Da not let the
trying weatber of summer find you weak
and aibnfi. Build yoursett up. now with
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills—the pills that
sire ngthen.
Ask for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills (or
Pale People and do not be persuaded to
take something else. If your dreier does
not keep these pills they wilt be sent by
mail, post paid, at 50 cents a box or six
boxes for 12.50, by writing the Dr. Wil-
liams Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
II
W. ACHESON & SON
10 BIG BARGAINS
For April Days
Staples
Best quality Cottgpades, in
10 patterns, worth elle. At
per yard 46o
White Flannelettes, old
stao7ls. soft, full and fret from
dressing, 27 to 28 inches
wide, worth tar. At per
yard 1 So
Shirtings
Black and white,Rockfast or
Black Hide boat t4hirtings,
)r for dresses or ,ek i rta, worth
Uiday 45e. At per yard__ 250
Sheetings
72 ineh heavy hleov'hed plain
Sheeting worth 43c. At
per yard .. SOo
Pillow Slips
Well made, of good weight
English t'ottou, soft and
even thread, in 40, 42, 44 -
inch, worth 30e. At per
pair !do
Towels`
!ie1 dr Ken bewvy hal f- bleached
Hnckabark Td wela wi1A brn•-
der, size 18:38. Mpe'rfal a for
ago
Congoleunr Rugs
We are selling great num-
bers of these popular end
handsome Flo e,r-e*everings
We have all sizes cep to 3:4
yards' in „tock, and special
sale prices.
Cotton Poplin
White Repp or Cotton Pop-
lin. 3d inches wide, for suits,
,ekirta, uryldies, etc. An ex•
bra quality, worth 40e. At
1 er yard - - . tree
Dress or Suiting
Serges
Our ' sr noel of all.
wool sews was boesght and
paid for nearly/ two years
ago. The values now are
extraordinary. Wr will give
or send samples to any
u
addre. 411 to 4e-ineh heavy
all pure -wooer navy Ware and
black, old dye Merges, worth
$2 26. At per yard... _51.50
50 -inch all -wool Coating or
Suiting Berges. Heal French
gunds and old dye. Worth
12.73. Al per yard.. - .51.75
Floor Rugs
Reduced
Special reductions in TalSrs
try and Brussels Rugs, y
were b oei ht long ago, but
our stock ie large mrd we will
realise an the stock very
quickly.
Hest Tapest y Brussels Rugs
in newest patterns and
quality, deep heavy" rich
Iusers sus pile. size 3:3 1.2
yards. t ,lx1,for..-_s1e.eO
Nitre 3x4 yards, for ilea: and
•26.0O
Size 2 1.2x:1 yards. f„,.....517
Gossard Corsets
yVe are agent. f.rr this pop-
ular and high ' sse. ('orset,
all 111 .tock
Military Servrce Act'
— liw-or#ant Amousormedt t0 Ail
EXgM:pTED MEN
and to the Piiblie Genies *
N dealing with the very large number of deans for exemption
brought forward for consideration in connection with Class 1
under the Military Service Act, it has occurred, as was inevit-
able, that as a result of false statements and difficulties put in the
way of investigation, some individuals have secured exanption
whose proper place is in the Army.
It is not the intention of the Government to allow these men to evade per-
manently their obligation to bear their part in the military defence of the
Country and of the ideal for which we are fighting. To do so would defeat
the purpose of the Act. and cause grave injustice to men in the second class
necessarily called out to fill their places.
Exemptions Granted on False Grounds
It is, therefore, proposed to scrutinize carefully all exemptions granted to date
in order to separate those which have been granted on false or fnsufilcient
grounds from those that' are well founded.
Witis this object in view the various Registrars under the Military Service
Act have been instructed to issue a series of questionnaires to exempted Men.
These questionnaires must be filled up correctly and returned promptly unclear
penalty of forfeiture of exemption for failure to do so.
Exempted Maw Who Haw Changed Address
It is therefore important in their own interest that all exempted mesh 'who
have changed their address since their exemption was granted and who have
not already notified the Registrar of such change should notify him agonce.
Under the Regulations it is the duty of exempted men to keep the Registrar
advised of any change of address, and failure to receive the questionnaire
by reason of negleet of this duty must be treated as equivalent to failure to
return the questionnaire after receipt.
Citizens Urged to Assist
In many instances information has been furnished by members of the nubile
which has led to the cancellation of exeMaptions obtained by fake or mis-
leading statements. Further co-operation of this character is invited. The
Government regard It as the Duty of all loyal citizens, not Only to the Country,
but to the meal et the front, to assist in this way in secs2r'ing.tt'aisferrasaesaues
on a just and legal basis. Correspondence of this character will be treabd
as strictly confidential and will receive the fullest investigation.
SEs j. Doitals fY,
Missing? of I*soak .1
C.crresd�1 a _1d be esd to W. R. - Wiemer' seq., Deputy
i%Mli� west dna i >1tli�l4i Alt, Lood�al, Ont. 452*
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