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| FABRICS "OF 'FASHION When handled trif_ingly, are-often ruined sin the attempt ta clean them. Delicate materials like Isce; for instance, need .ex- ferienced hundlng to get the desired effect without injury to the fabric, We make & specialty of cleaning' and pressing lacs, embroideries, curteins, éte, and guarantee the work to be thoroughly done, in.a rea- "ronable time, without the. slightest injury naturé of # confession. I am in favor of union government,. Six months ago 1 was opposed to the ides and wrote sgainst have wrought_.a ions," I share the conviction others thst for the next fiva years to come ---and. perhaps. fonger--only @ union -gov- ernment can deal with the grave problems arising out-of the war. ' The war loans, great change in my opin- our soldiers in: the field, demobilization, the effective. reubyorption of frve hundred thousand. men, our best and bravest. into the routinary activities of peace, pensions, vocational training--these are matters which 'will occupy our, foremost statesmen |for a long time to come, To solve these vital questions and keep Canada on an even keel there must be a union of all the brains, courage and moral force on both sides of politics. In fact there should be no two sides to politics these days--there should be only one side and that side the good of ?Can- ada, There i¢ no room for party spirit while the Hun is thundering at the gate nor will there "be room for it until the Canada Needs Union Government Ottawa, Noy. 8--This "article is in the) Willrid would he the first. to laugh at eym- it in various publications -but time 'and the pressure of events at the seat of war' ith thousands of taxation, the readjustment ~ of domestic Policies to meet the strain, the support of URSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, pathizers who should pity frends. in his old age. Sir many friends as. ever, as-many admirers, too, gwho think of him as the Grand Old Mah of Canadian politics. But he 'is stripped of a certain number of purty fol- lowers who do not, see eye to eye with him 'on a question_pf tremendous importunce to Canada, the Brith Empire and the world at large. Such. defections on mat- ters®of principle a. smiling Philosoph'r_ like. Sir Wilfrid will admit 'are part of the game. Liberals like W. 8, Fielding have parted from Sir Wilfrid Lauriér on account of involves Sir Wilfrid Laurier whose obses- sion as a life-long harmonizer and unifier, is thut his. native province. will be thrown into the hands' of the reactionary Bourassa. This obsession Sir Wilfrid allowed to carry | him too. far beyond the line in opposing conscription, 'It kept him out of a union government, into which he was invited' and now it keeps him out of a union govern- ment into which. he was not: invited -at all. It wus not conceivable that it would keep out of a' union government other Liberals j who believed that Quebec's indifference 10 |the war should not be permitted to in- 'fluence che forttines of the purty, that » solid Quebec which aimed 'to exercise the the Quebec "attitude. The Quebec attitude} ¥ common 'danger is overpassed, ihe indepen-, balance of powet for its own purposes was dence of Canada under the British crown' tot for the general good of « British Can usiured, thy problems of Canadian finance | ada, and that an even break in Quebec was to any article ebtrusted to 'our care the safety of the British Empire-confirmed. | If.Quebec wanted to be solid for itself in- Make Your Money Fight G - our 'returned soldiers provided with mug, stead of being solid for this war for free. Buy Victor y Bonds harbors and our maimed: heroes' made ensy'| dom and humanity' then it couldbe wolid and industrial development happily settled, better than a French hump to either party. {4 for life. This is large order and" it will | hy iteelf. If Quebec decides that way then Maxwell & Co. Opp:. take a long-time to fill, By the time it! it will be Quebec's own fault, urrie H¢tel.. Phone 229 IT HAS BEEN SAID That 'Wives' sometimes object to Life Insurance---but widows never do." Life, Tnsurance is' the surest of investmentsno possibility of loss. Kither deperident ones or the insured himself 'benefits. 'The Great-West Life Policies are issued at low-rates--on lib eral and" clesirly-worded _conditione-- "returning profits that add the uitrac tions of & good investment to the ben- efite of protection 'for dependent: ones, Ask for information, i THE GREAT WEST LIFE Assurance Company Head Office: Winnipeg OR SEE A. H. BROTHER _ Barrie, Ontario, Do You Want a Snap ln TOWN PROPERTY? Comerss- cabot, wir peng IF.SO, LOOK THIS LIST OVER New: brick fouse and lot, Bayfield Street, with all conveniences, nice lot and gar. den, price $8100. Small payment down 'New brick house. and lot, John St., witl heating, lighting and plumbing, finis! in hard of the Grand Trunk ter House and-tot; Cumberland St., town water and' electric 'light; 'price $950, .$100.00 | down, balance monthly: payments, House easy terms. "i T-room brick house, Worsley St., with fir. | class barn, price' $2300, one-half cush, Brick house and lot, Park St; with: large | lot; price $1300. small -payffient .down. ° | For Sale-or to Rent--Double residence cor- | 'ner. Owen. & Gollier Streets--two flats | with sll conveniences' Possession -- at once: Will exthange same for small | house, =f Brick house 'and lot, Owen St. 7 rooms | with "all conveniences. Price $2300. Possession at once. ft house, Elizabeth St. with | : eating and all conveniences; double lot, price $2800--a snap. Brick house and lot, Innisfil St., nicely uated, price $1800, $100. cash. 6-room brick house and lot, John St., price +-$1200--$100 cash. Now is the time to bay if you want: snap in town property. Call and. fook it | over, s W. C. THOMPSON & SON, Office; 15 Owen St.. Barrie, i Phone 288. CHICKENS WANTED Crate-fed chickens, ~dteseed preferred also large live hens. Top. prices paid. Write for price list «=, 718°Spadina Ave: Wallers TORONTO i FURS! Bieaned, Altered and Repdires | | \ M188 M. MoKERNAN CASTORIA The Kid You Hare Aways Beat Bears-the 'Signature of Cea ect | vis hardwood. . This is a. new house and! departments is being overcome and. iow behutifully 'located and: in calling district | that a-man's party pull hag; no longer to| Will sell on eaty | be scrutinized, quick 'uction is the.ofder of | 5 is, filled 'the party spirit-may have disup. peared' completely and union government ruling with love and sweet reasonableness, may haye; become s habit, © Meanwhile union government deseryes the support of every good citizen athe only form of gov. erninent thst' will do 'the business. The experience of-the new union govern. |} ment is that the decisions of the cabinet council are much more prompt and: katis- factory with party politics out than in the old-days when thé party equation was the first thing to be considered. Indeed, they find that this is the only way to arrive at as the practice continues. When the gen- eral welfare of Canada is the sole concern and a fifty-fifty cabinet sits down to. dis: cuss affairs solely on their" merits, with party expediency clean forgotten, the quar rels fade away. - |:. 'There is not 2 member of the new csb \inet who es not express a hope that this absence 'of party' spirit should inform the whole people and that the best citizens in Jeach cony iruency -hould get together, and J [| brushing the old party organizations aside, choose the best men to uphold the hands of union government quite regardless of the fact that he was previously labelled [Liberal or Conservative. Union govern ment was very much in earnest ubeut the matter, Its paramount desire is thut the | party 'spirit shall" nowhere mar the high aims and objecte which union government has at heart. As a guarantee of goo faith | the: party 'spirit hag been abolished in all 'departments under the government' control pThe party patronage list is a thing cif the | past and he who has wares to sell t6 or }agob to seek from this Dominion of Can. jada now must do so on, his merits. ~ Only 'the other day I witnessed this mir |acle, 2 Liberal worker of long standing, bearing in his hand a letter signed by u | a proposition for the good' of Canada which | dever' attention, This letter was the | last 'straw which convinced Mr..Blank that union government. -was putting. the good | fof the country above party and from now on 'he 'is a: staunch: disciple. ouarters comes the: information thut the intertise "of the various government the' day. °. Conscription "is perhaps "the sniallest question unioh'-government has' to deal With. Tis a shudow-und presently it will id lot, John St., South, price. $800 be. goné but. the other problems which 1 t° ™ake profiteers: disgorg> hive fuintly indigated. sire of longer dlura- tion, To work them, out, is no brief task. Speaking in. the "large 'the problem 'union xovernment.undertukes is to clean up the| litter which this war andthe fallibility of human judgment "beelouded by party strife, has let this country of Cansda' in| for. No purty ernment 'would dare -to | do the things and 'tread on, the toes which | union government must dare, -Tititid souls will he inclined vo. count the cost-but. the indisputiblé fect is thut if Germany won, | if the Union Jack diseppeared from the seven seus, if the democracies of England, the United States snd France: 'were' per. | manently injured, if Canada became vatsal | Collingwood sit [tthe Hun, there would be no counting! Town of St lof the cost hecause there would be no cost C'wood Shipbiiilding Co. to-count. We would have lost everything that makes life worth living. Responsible government; un untrammelled franchise, | the right of the individual to all the lib- | erty/he can enjoy without trenching on the liberty of others--these' are our treasures, to have and to hold, -and"from time to time we must pay in blood and. gold -to make them secure. And-the mén 'who have paid ip blood must not-be left in the | Tureh by: those who stay. at homie and pay in money. Conscription isthe' Teast question, I re-! peat, but it is-at the babk of union gov-| ernment. It. was' conscription that first | made union government necedsary. For | three years I pleaded a brief for the Lib- eral party and I did with real pleusure long as the party was' united on Liberal measures." Moreover,"I um a Liberal yet and F.cherish great hopes that unisn gov- ernment will. take what there is best -of Liberal ideas and Conservative sentiments and 'mold them over, into - a concinnate whole which will muke for the progress and' 'prosperity of Canada, If it doesn't' I am am. willing to go batk'to the 'party system thresh the truth out in the old: way. real: issues. develop. . Meanwhile' so as the issues 'are' the good faith of Canada in.this war and her good health 1 pin to union: government, hardest wrench men "like nd followed for. imired oP ri 'of course, decisions and they expect to grow in grace | From other | The recrudescence of purty,-as I said béfore, is some distance in the future, if \Jindeed it recrudesees ut all but should such | an event befall it is desirable that the Lib jeral party should be in a sound position j toward the returned soldier-ywho 'will be as great x factor in Canadigh politics for | the next two.generations as the G.A-R. has | been in the United States. Morever, » whole hearted partnership in union government washes the Liberal' purty' of the: imputa |tion, always absurd, that it was the disloyal party. Union government knows no more | of rivalry in Joyalty--all ure equal in set and purpose"between . Liheraly and Con | Servatives/than do the 'battlefields of Eur. jope where Canadians fight for King and |Country bs Canadians, and not ax Grits | and Tories. |" The -day approuches--heaven send it soon--that the glorious remainder of our! 'gallant .five hundred thousand will return t6 Canady. Union government js the only: kind of government that may deal with this throbbing question of the returned sol dier without wrangling or bitt-rnése, Un. ion government, indéed, puts the whole jduestion'on va unanimous Tooting No-government can 'afford to be illiberal oF even to take color of being illiberal 10 the men who fought for Canada and the Empire in' the: day of-calamity, «For us they suffered. hardship, . toil, danger, loss of limb, wound§; , agonizing pain, lusting disease, life-long misery. Thousands of them ied' for us. i HE GADSBY Qn Monday Sir Wilfrid Laisrier issited his 'election munifesto, In it. he-anakes tthe following promises :-- Not. to proceed farther under provisions of Military Service Act until people have ad opportunity t6 pronounce on it by a referendum; but to submit Act' to' people and make, further effort at voluntary. re cruiting 'To remove the 5 per cent. tariff. increase made since war began on goods coring from Great Britain and the 71 per ernt increase on goods from outside tain. i A 3 and "'other essentials."" b tuke drastic steps to bring food-pro- | icing factories under Government con- | rol; to fix food prices; if necessary fo! ermmanceer | To stop profiteering on war supplies .and excess profits f necessary he would not hesitate to con trol factories 'Attention to immigration Report und "'adjuiication'® vipon the ae: | quisition of the C.N.R, To take up the task of refitting the re turned soldier for civilian life and 'to look after soldiers' "deperidents. ' To form Cabinet, including business men, labor representatives, and agricultur ists, Collingwood Red..Cross Givings Tn the recent, campaign 'to raise "funds for the British and Canadian 'Red. Cross, "x givings were us follows: 100.00 + 1000:00 7467 40 lingwood Men's Teams Ladies' "Teams Schéols et Employees Shipyard. (est.) : Employees Wm. Kennedy & Sons Employees. Imp. Steel & Wire Co. 450.00 Additional contributions ., 41.50. , + $18,646.05 | Total .. Can Try But One Tribunal . . -| One thousand dollars is the finé which | Prospective. draftees must pay if, after ap-| pearing before one military tribunal and | adjudged not entitled to exemption, they attempt to. gein a more favorable verdict | st some other tribunal. This will also | pply in 'the case of. men who, knowing their émployers or relatives may have aps plied: to. one. tribunal, attempt to get ex: | emption through another. * a Cold' storage and the whole question of the cost of living are now under conisider- ation,' it is understood, by a-stib-committee of the Cabinet. Important recommenda: | tions will probably be made short ee BE Minard's 'Liniment Co., Limited. | Gebtlemen:--I, have used " MINARD'S ! LINIMENT on my vessel and in my fam-| ily for years, and-for the every-day' ills! 'and accidents of life I 'consider it has no ve net 'equal, » : T would not, start on a voyage without it! if it 'cost. a.dollar a bottle, 4 Sir Wilfrid's Manifesto' Great Bri: Grammar emove duties on: agricultural imple- | 'Snappy, Seasonable Specials 'Moore & Armstrong's We have been able.to procure for ovr customers a few items much below regular value and offer-them 'to you. 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Special '59 ane ; HEAVY SOFT CREAM FLANNEL, able for children's -wear, 25. inches wide, setegacaeceths ne liwua't galath de SDOONMRARE We specialize in 'Children's ix of Browi MEN'S BLACK WORSTED SOCKS, all pure wool, sizes 10, 1014, and 11 Special Tip. abexee deen +42 886 MEN'S DRILL WORK SHIRTS, in all MMR Sitesi Siege. acts 59 and 89¢' MEN'S HEAVY SWEATER COAT $1.69 Help Win the War { Buy-a Victory Loan; Bond Hats and offer you these in, White, Rose, of Blue, while they "last" at the very 'special: price of $1.89 Ready-to-wear 6 ONLY PLUSH COATS jin Black and Green,' sizes, i6, 18, 20,, regular $18.50 and $20.00... © Special. $15.00 WHITE HABUTAI BLOUSES, nicely made, in {all sizes--a blouse. that wash well 3 Special $1.98 BLACK SATEEN "AND TAFFETINE: UNDERSKIRTS, with foney' colored frill {MOORE & ARMSTRONG ™ Death of Dr. Carman, Leader Albert Carnin, ges emeritus-'of in Methodism Rev. Dr. as a eral superintende {the Methoilist' Chureb of Can Jada, is ddeal. He pasted' awny Tat his lite residence, 42 Murray 'street, Toronto, We AFL Tw serious illness, 0 veek, in -his 85th yearDr. Ci 1 hud been officially connected jwith the Methodist. Churet in 'Canada for nearly sixty. yer 'and during that- long period "it vad inay be said that he had tive for Canadian Methodism, He y * born in 1833 at Lroquoi: ited Empire "Loyalist -stock, and was educated at Dundas Coun Grammar School -and We! ! University, Cobourg. He -- was i yheud master 'of the Dundas Co. School for time after which he was elected pro festor of mathem m Belle. 4 ville Seminary hy institution afterwards begat Ibert Uni versity misinly! through bis in fluence. He pecame principal of Z Albert College in 1858, bu: in the "following year was ordained deacon of the Methodist Epis pal Church, -In- 1874 he w: | eleted bishop of the Methodist ; Episcopal CBtirch and held that', 'pesifion for nine "years In 1883 the union of the Methodist churelies of - €; wat consummated and: Dr: Cdr man was' made general superin : tend:nt of the united -ehure and held' that- pokition until -the " last general conference in 1014 : when he was 'appointed gener: superintendent emeritus. an lowing: this conference 'at Otta Sar) va; when stepping out of a < street: car, Dr, Carman was thrown, hack and sustained in- 4. juries" siffiviently | serions -- to make hime'an invalid for the zest Dr. Carman was a. Methodist Gf the old school and was en tirely out. of sympathy with 'the ¢ changes made in the "Methodict . Rena : EEE i 5 ae Church, ax in most other churches :wh re.' Xr. when' the-watk 'ine' rrachicd: aicly exelent a there. is an educated ministry,-due ti the | C y public' fruition, --* ' im researches of - modern . theological ~'sciene», He was an etieetive platform | The last time Pr. Carman. yyreyich/! He has often been described a the "M@&h- speaker, racy and' huniroyts. when he, pout wine" yew odist Archbishop" by many who eitber did. chose to be 0; and fearless inthe defence | conducted anuiversury: si rvices not know or had forgotten that he was bf principles hy shell to be yital-and sac. -anbeth. St. Methodict Churel actually a bishop-in the Methodist Church: red." His "strenuous. advpegey of the. tem for a period of ni pera: ould, not The Late Mrs... a Death of Thomas. McKinnon i : Perfectly Right 2 On Saturday, October 27, Mrs. Lucy M.! Thomas 'McKinnon of Brentwood died ; "A\ novel suggestion' was' gutituin Hoggard, formerly of Bhrrie, died in "the in the Royal Victoria Hospital on. Friday 'nesolutio passed hy a getheritig oi w evening lust after long ilbiews. Victoria Hospital, Winnipeg,.in h-r 60th She had been jn failing 'health for Deceased at Waterford the" oiher cay year, was 62: years of age and was-born in Glon- | "*Mor:dver, .if financial resourtes the last three monthé, bt vher -condition garry County, On'ario, and had: lived "in |to be w deeisling ictor <-in the ' was not considered séridus until within a Sunnidalé over fifty :years, [would respectfully urge thut the. nivocstes week of her denth: -| He was twice married dnd" Jeaves. to of wives and mothers conserving in the. <>. Me - ; She is survived by one-daughter, Mrs.' wiourn his loss, bis wife and one daughter, homie should: add to thoir pregrui, of-cor 3 James Faithful of Port Arthur, and 'three Henrietta: also four brothers, 'servation: that onr wen be requested -t a sons, Percy, of Winnipeg; A. E., of Nel- The funeral' was held on Monday, Nov. -observp two .smokehiss duys 4 week itil son, B.0.; and |Ernest. with the Seaforth 5, to. Brentwood R. C: Church and Cente. thas ves y is) won." This is 9, -nenural deduction following .the urgent' uppes! of "2 Highlanders,' France, Also two brothers; fe i the amen for the sdopition. of meatless: and." John Metealfe of Stroud, and Wm. Met- calfe of Thornbury. Interment took' place on Thiirsday. lest~ from. Craigvale Station on the arrival of the G:T.R. train, to Stroud Methodist Cemetery, Rev. Rev; Father O'Brien of Stayner, offi- ng. 3. : 'Win, Plements 'officiating.