Prot. Reithdorfif Returns aud Explains | New Jewelry Store ees ' to World In Monkton -- = ° t When pro-Germanism discovered a way to prevent' the carry- ing out of certain plans in con- nection with my patriotic activities, I lound myself in an embarrassing dilemma, especially owing to the fact that I had voluntarily given up con- genial work in Woodstock college in order to do my bit in Canada's inter- est. My* best friends in Canada then advised me to seek temporary employ- ment: in the U.8.A., I did so, much against my wish, for I consider the land of the Maple Leaf my country. not only because Iam a naturalized British subject, but also by reason of democracy, to her free constitutions, to her people. My wife is a native -|of Canada, of British descent, and my two children were born on Canadian soil. My beloved mother was an American; of other than German des- cent, and my father, a Saxon, fought against Prussia in 1806. I have Anglo- Saxon and French as well as German blood in my veins. Hatred of Prussian militarism and autocracy was born into me. . Conditions were favorable to me across the border a year or so ago. At that time the relatiors between the U.S.A. and Germany were strained and I was encouraged by pro-ally sympathizers of standing to under- take work similar to what Ihad done in Canada. But the settlement of the submarine controversy changed the situation. The approach of the presi- dential election was another factor in making American politicians anxious to avoid anything that might arouse 'pro-German ire and alienate the pro- German yote, Pro-Germanism to-day is more defiant than ever. Because of my pro-British activities I am_ cor- dially hated by the hyphenated ele- ment. My patriotic work has been widely advertised among the Germans in the great republic south of us, Were I a teacher thrown out of employment in Canada as a result of pro-German sympathies my former -countrymea would hail me and receive me with open arms in the U.S.A. This is th» reception, a number of Germans were givey who were engaged in edu- cational work in Canada prior to and during the early stages of the war. Everything is being done to block a man of my views. Because of them former friends have become my en- emies. This is the price I pay for my loyalty to the Btritish cause, and may be allowed to add that I am proud to pay the price. And as to Americans with pro-aily _ leanings, these people are heartily in sympathy with me, but cannot understand why Canada should let me leave in view of my efforts in behalf of the allies, And IT agree with them when they declare "Where you have established your reputation during the last few years MR. W. FRANK has opened with a stock. Strict attention given to repairing of all kinds. COLUMBE GRAFONOLAS ARETHE BEST VALUE Someday You Will Buy a Talking Machine When that time arrives be sure ~ tocome to us and see and hear the Columbia Grafonola before deciding upon your purchase. We'll gladly send a Grafonola up to your house on approval. Tf you already own a dise ma- chine, try Columbia records. They fit any machine, and are the ihe records made. 85c. up Ask to hear 'Now the Day is Over' and 'I Need Thee Every Hour."' (A. 1961) J. E. WEIR Columbia Grafonola and Record Dealer. ~ MILVERTON, ~ -~- ONT, George Lennox Killed ' Brantford Expositor While oiling a shafting at 'the ant of the Goold, Shapley & Muir mpany, where he was employed, George Lennox, 126 William Street, was almost instantly killed on Tues- day afternoon about 4 o'clock. While engaged at his task, Mr. Lennox's smock became accidentally caught in the shafting and he was twisted around clear over the machine, fall- img to the floor, with his body badly mangled, one arm being torn clean off and one leg nearly so. The whole thing happened in the twink- ling of an eye and seemed to be one ef those unfortunate accidents which are fated to occur. The coroner was notified and visited the scene, but decided that an inquest was essary. Se Mr ,Lennox was for many years employed with the G.T.R. here and had only recently taken up his new yduties with the Goold, Shapley 1& Muir Company. He was a quiet, re- ticent man and an admirable citizen. Mr. Lennox was in his 56th year and was a staunch member of Wellington Street Methodist Church. Because of his quiet mature he was perhaps not - widely known in the city, but he had the respect and esteem of all - who had the acquaintance. (Very general sympathy will be extended Ewe the family of the deceased, a sor- _ fowing widow and two sons and one _@aughter. The remains will be in- _ terred in Mt. Hope cemetery to-mor- geese 4 and proven your loyalty there is your place." I therefore have returned to Canada determined "to stick it out"--to use a popular phrase, 5 --F. V. Riethdorf. mesphicrass maaeh, sryretioaacent ates What Britons do for One Briton a The following tribute to Great Bri- tain was delivered by United State; Senator Frye, speaking in his own country on the subject of the Arme- nian oatrages, ' "I do not love Great Britain parti- cularly, and I could not give my con- sent to the marvellous euiogium upon Great Britain, delivered the day be- fora yesterday in this Senate I ad- mit the greatness of Britain. I admit she is the greatest power on earth, and is the greatest power ever seem in the history of the world on the ocean, but I do not admit that she iss a friend of the United States But, Mr. President, I think that one of the grandest things in all the history' of Great Britain is that she does protect her subjects every" where, anywhere and under all cir- cumstances, I do not wonder that a British subject loves his country. This little incident, with which you are all familiar, is a marvellous il- row afternoon, Mr. Robert Lennox, Milverton, is a brother of deceased. ---------p---- THE LIMIT __ A British soldier, who won the Vic- 'toria Cross, was kissed by chorus girls when he arrived back in "Blighty" on Teave. That chap has now gone the Himit of human daring--having faced powder both at home at abroad. lustration of the protection tha: Great Britain gives to her subjects: "The king of Abyssinia took a British subject named Campbell, about 20 years ago, carried him up to the fortress of Magdala on the heights of a rocky mountain and put him into a dungeon without cause assigned. It took six months for Great, Britain to find that out. Then Great Britain demanded his immediate release. Im less than ten days after the refusal was received, 10,000 Bri- tish Soldiers, including 5,000 Sepoys, were on boad ships of war and were sailing down the coast. When they reached ,the coast they disembarked, marched across that terrible country a distance of 700 miles, under a burn- ingt sun, uf the mountain, up to the the very heights in front of the frowning dungeon; then gave battle, battering down the iron gates and the stone walls, reached over into the dungeon and lifted out of it that one British subject. King Theobold kill- ing himself with his own pistol. They carried him down the mountain, across. the land, put him aboard thi: white-winged ship and sped him to his home in safety. That cost Great Britain $2,500,000 and made General Napier, Lord Napier of Magdala. 'That was a great thing for a great country to do--a country that has am eye and can see all across the ocean, all across the land, away up se ie be peat acinar and away : 3 ? m4 to the darksome dungeon to _. _& good second hand box stove, Suit- tt j Dapla "for townsbio: halt toe one subject of hers out of her 380.- ! 000,000 of people, and then has an -- eeve. Tp. of Morn-|arm long enough and strong enough to stretch across the same ocean -- Rostock Cider Mill across the same lands, up to the same mountain heights, down to the same dungeon, and then lift him out and carry him home to his own During October will chop on Mon-; "In God's name, who would not day and Tuesday; make cider and ap--|die for a country that will do that?" ple butter on Wednesday and Thurs- --------4.-------- day, and chop on Friday and Satur- COMMERCIAL ome! FOR SALE Ss Good, up-to-date sideboard. Reas n for selling, have two, B. KRIESEL, Milverton, Ont, f pd. LOST A leather grained pass book on the 3rd of August, between Joshua Stev- er's farm and Linwood, Finder 'wil: be rewarded by leaving at ice bade iy g at Post Office, WANTED __ STONE FOR ORUSHING. _Inter- _ view Reeve or Councillors of Mil- verton. ' ee : country and friends." y. WM. LEASE, Proprietor. Hair Raising Stunt Hanover Post A Hanover young man named "Bill" Berry performed a hair raising stunt at 10 o'clock last Saturday morning that for sheer nerve was without a ebay in the history of the town. erry, who has had some experience in high trestle-work, made a wager with Dave Schwark that he could stand on his head on the top of the stand pipe which is about 175 feet from terra firma, And while a couple of hundred excited Hanoverians look- ed on, some in the vicinity of the stand pipe and some down street, Berry won his wager, pulling off his astounding and foolhardy feat by standing on his head and then some. An American tourist passing in his car at the time stopped and took Berry's name and address, and told him that anyone who had sufficient nerve to perform stunts like that was wasting his time in Hanover. | ESS The bar-room of the Walker House, PhOat, NEW .iscc.-0essceseeeG 1 DO $1 50 rley per bushel... 1 00 ts 6 wk 60 ee 2 25 'Flour, Jewel per cwt....... 4 55 '+ Banner percwt....... 4.75 4 75 '+ 5 Jewel per cwt...... 5 00 5 00 Bran per ton.................,30 00 30 00 orts per ton...........+....32 00 32 00 Hay per t 15 00 li i 40 10 40 15° 6°50 60 1 60 16 16 Sit aies 07 8 & Dressed. oe 28 oA ; 18 18 eee teeees ld be so.--Harriston Review '| Walkerton, has been converted into [a butcher shop. It is meet that it '*Hun" Got Life's Surprise When Tackled a la O.R.F.U. Toronto Star It pays to be a rugby football play- er over on the crater-pitted fields of Flanders--at least that is what Percy Jolliffe, ex-captain of the Argonaut Intermediate Rugby 'Team, oarsman, member of Aura Lee Athletic Club, and the Toronto Lacrosse Club, hoc- key player, and an all round good fel- low says, and he should know, He put it to the test when failure meant slow music and other frills for one, P. Jolliffe. Jolliffe, who left here as a lauce- corporal in the 19th Battalion a year ago, found advancement too slow for' his blood, so he transferred to the 7th Irish Fusciliers, where he received a commission. He was soon where the lead was hot and the lullabyes were sung by choirs of Jack Johnsons and Black Marias. Now he is in a hos- pital "Somewhere in France." From this hospital he has written a letter to James D. Bailey, the well-known sporting time-keeper and golf player. how. his ability to tackle hard and low taught him on Canadian gridirons, saved his life, incidentally he has borne a charmed life. Here is the way he tells it himself; "Tall about narrow escapes, I cer- tainly have had my share. I have beeni in three big battles. In the first show I was one of nine officers in th: battalion to come back. In the sec- ond show I was the only one of my company officers to come out and one of five in the battalion. Some luck ! Eh! ; "Tn one case while 1 was busy dig- ging myself in behind a tree, a shell hit' the tree above my napper and took a chunk out of it--the tree, not my napper. Another one lit so close it spoiled my digging. Another 'time, while taking shelter in a shell hole, I had my breath taken away for a moment when a Hun jumped into the same hole. Just to show the gent that I was still alive. 1 pounced upon him rugby fashion, and took him 4pri- soner. I cut the buckle off his belt and the buttons off his coat and then turned him over to the Tommies, who would look after him one way or, an- other. The next thing when we were relieved, the colonel gave me tempor- ary command of the company, and it looked as if I would get my captain- cy when I was taken sick and had to come to this hospital. Wasn't that tough luck ? 'When I look back, sport chasing the Huns. They ran like a lot of sheep, and I, being a sprinter, overtook some of them and got my own all back, Hunting in Canada does not compare with the last big show, 1 had some Hun brown bread and butter, and coffee that night and also smoked Hun cigars." Lieut. Jolliffee is a brother of Mrs P. G. Powell, of Milverton. The Demosthenes of the Commons sane ca et T. P. O'Connor As I look at Mr Asquith, I often recall the figure of Mr. Gladstone; there could not be two figures more unlike. Mr. Gladstone was not only yoleanic in temperament, but was volcanic in look, in physique, and vol- canic even when he seemed to be in repose. : Of course, a man so exuberant was at once the greatest and the most dis- turbing leader the House of Commons could have. A personality so vivid, domintaing, and so restless,, absol- utely commanded the whole plane. Coming to Mr. Asquith, he has none of tha special gifts of Mr. Gladstone either physically or intellectually. Yet his physique is remarkable. He has a constitution of iron. After ten minutes' read in his bed at night can sleep his regular eight hours, even in most critical times; never seems tired never seems excited, just goes phleg- matically on. He is not a man who seems to; love speaking for speaking's sake; words do not come from his lips in a great torrent as in the case of Mr. Glad- stone; he never seems anxious to take the answering of questions or other work out of the hands of his sub- ordinates. And yet--daring as it may seem-- I regard him in many respects as a more effective leader in the House of Commons than even Gladstone was. This is mainly due to an incomparable power of a certain speech. I have heard that Mr. Balfour says that never since the days of Demosthenes was there a speaker who had such unerring power of using exactly the right word, and, I may add, of saying the right thing. He is no more like Gladstone in speech than was Cicero like Demos- thenes. It may be partly his devotion to the Greek classics, but probably it is more largely because of his own natural tendencies and gifts that the style of Mr. Asquith is in the stern and chaste simplicity of a Greek speak er or of a French classic. You take time to discover the splen- did art that conceals the art so con- summately. He seems to be using the language of everyday life, the short and simple words and the blunt and unadorned phrase. It is only when he sits down that you realize that he has 'put his case with such simplicity and such lucidity, that it appears to be so reasonable and so simple as to be unanswerable; it looks as if therd were nothing more to be said. There is no impressing of dominat- ing physical energy as in the case of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Asquith speaks very often, indeed, as if he were phy- sically tired, and rarely, if ever, does he raise his voice, it was some The Challenge Toronto Courier Quebec in 1667 had 3,918 inhabitants in 1681, 9,677; in 1754, 55,000; in 1790. 161,311; in 1900, 1,648,898; and in 1910, 2,002,712, In that last decade Quebes increased 21.46 per cent. Ontario in the same time increased 15.58 per cent. Quebeo's increase is, moreover, from within, and does not include the numbers spared for settlement in Northern Ontario and in our West. After all, it is population that counts, and if Ontario is to continue domin- ant, the size of her families must in- crease. ames Opposing Church Union ' Toronto News The Daily News has not much sym- pathy with the anti-union Presbyter- ianqd who ara to convene in this city in afew days. The arguments for union seem to be overwhelming. In hundreds of small towns and villages throughout the Dominion three or four or even five rival denominations struggle to maintain separate ex- istences, The strain is severe upon {thousands of feeble congregations and ill-paid pastors. 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(4 occa eee 23-Ib. cans Bakitig Powder: (32. 2..122 45sec eee 500:lbs. bea at per 1b co. 2. eck 2 in es De On 3 packages Jelly Powders, all flavors 1.0... .......200625C 2 botués flavoring Hxtracte a os asdsssses SSO - 13 lbs. Gran. Sugar for $1 .........only $2 to a customer baad evans cake TOG; 200g tees, tao 1 Oe se eeee tes cess Pissing icv ave Va rnsaeke Coe Oe Oe Noahs ES) ]ES]SE bea 5b] | So eEeb| hel bE ber caleapleze Engeland @ Son "The Store with the Stock" - - MILVERTON ocololcolel spo eSSsjelcssqlacolel[cole|colfalcolo col colleeayotsSsse. 0 C22) are | Oo O (SS) Oo OO oOo xc economy in the home mission fields is imperative. : With these highly desirable ends and the advancement of true religion in view, the Methodist and Congrega- tional denominations and a great maj- ority of Presbyterians have agreed to unite. They have decided upon this coursa after long and careful consid- eration and in the most democrati» way by votes taken in the various church courts and individual congre- gations, Only a minority of Presby- terians stand in the way of what most Canadians would regard as a most glorious consummation. The "stand- patters" are apparently bent upon re- peating in this country the spectacle of the Wee Frees in Scotland. It is said that most of the clerical anti-unionists are on the retired list, and so out of touch with modern ten- dencies. Many of them are very wor- thy men, but we fear that their at- titude arises largely from spiritual and intellectual pride. They em- phazise their own peculiar theologic.l tenets and theories of church govern- ment, instead of the fundamental truths upon which all Christianity is based. It may be that over-enthus- iastio Methodists have contributed to the Presbyterian revolt by rather glee fully proclaiming that, as the strong- est body numerically, the church of John Wesley would absorb and sub- merge the two lesser denominations and that thus the united church would be merely a glorified and enlarged Methodism. dist or Congregationalist jaymen agrees with neither extreme. So far e call for such effectiv> aq he can see, the three bodies have too much in common to be kept apart The average Presbyterian, Metho-' by minor difference, whan by amal- gamation they would be newly armed for the enormous tasks which -lie ahead. In a vast and sparsely peopled country, which under normal condi- tions annually attracts hundreds of thousands of potential citizens from the ends of the earth, there is need for an effective, co-ordination of ef- fort if the higher ideals of civilization are to triumph. A strong national church such as the half-achieved union would produce would prove a powerful factor in the assimilation and consolidation of the newly acquir- ed elements in a diverse population. The reconstruction period which will com@ after the war will call for all that the Dominion possesses of broad Christianity and organized humanit- arianism. Is it wise, patriotic or re- ligious in the highest and most catho- lic sense to oppose such a unifying and Canadianizing movement as that for which nine-tenths of the joint membership of the three denomina- tions have already cast their battots? Is not an undue insistence on non- essentials likely to encourage thos> wha sit in the seats of the scornful whenever the Christian church is un- der discussion? In our view the Pres- byterian minority is no more justified in blocking union than are the Bap- tists in magnifying immersion, or the Anglicans in excluding non-conformist ministers and communicants from full participation in their services, and in insisting upon the apostolic succession as almost essential to salvation, De- nominational pride and exclusiveness arg no more defensible than the old doctrine of Divine right, and as the wider! day dawns these also will dis- 'appear in like manner. f ; DOES YOUR LABEL READ RIGHT P Se ee ee ee ee ee es SEE OUR DISPLAY OF ! Rugs! We have Wiltons, Velvets, Brussels and Tap- estry, all sizes, in the newest and most up- to-date designs -- that will attract attention from the most particular people. Ad (s G0, vn Carpet by the yard. We also make up Rugs to order, any size required. Have a look through our store -- no trouble to show goods, ROBERT McMANE Furniture Dealer Mi iverton atk Funeral Director and Embaimer a ee