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Bed Sheets 98c

Made from a fine quality heavy white cotton nicely hemmed, size 90x72, regular values $1.40 your choice now for 98c.

Bed Spreads 98c

This is a very fine quality of Bed Spreadsa good large size, the regular value is $1.35, our price now is 98C each.

Street 'Dresses

The nicest lot we have shown this season, and they contain the very latest ideas as shown in the large stores. The prices are $3.25 and $5.50 We show them in copenhagen linen, trimmed with white but- tons and braid on collar and cuffs. Khaki dresses with white and black trimmings-Belgium blue coat effect with white braid trimmings. Other styles in crepe, pale blue and mauve at $3.25 and $5.50.

Boys’ Wash Suits

Now is the time to lay aside the heavy cloth suit

and get for the boy something cool, comfortable and serviceable. Our line of boys’ wash suits at 75c, $1.00, 1.25, 2.25 will tit your boy out in a comfortable, economic suit for summer.

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Bathing Suits ,_, :_ ; _

for ladies, for boys, for _men; .15 Ladies’ Bathing Suits a full line at popular prices. Boys’ Bathing pp n -q-i_ii,,;_>_y~;;ifg.~_.;._;_ Suits 10c,-15c and 25c. Men’s 5; Bathing Suits at 45c and 55c. '“;f;;.-l»;;f._-,.- -»

. Boys Jerseys ~ ~

Al cool, comfortable jersey _in

both long and short sleeves in

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colors navy and cardinal, and navy trimmed with cardinal at

25c each. * » » `

Kimonas

We have in stock at the present moment some

long crepe Kimonas in pale blue, copenhagen, old rose and pink for 2.25 and 3.90 each. Colored crepes in mauve, pink and sky blue tor 2.75 and 2.95 each. Short kimonas in fancy crepes for 1.35 each. Flow- ered muslin at 75c, 85c and 1.10 each.

Men’s Suits ,Made-to-

Measure

15.00

Since advertising these special made-to-order

suits at 15.00 we have had a large demand from botii town and country. We made deliveries of a large number of these suits last week, and in each instance the customers were loud in their praise of the good fits, and the superior qualities of the suits. Rememb- er these are made to your measure-price 15.00.

Corsets Worth up to $2.25 for $1.00

We are clearing out this week 125 pairs of cor-

sets. This is a line that we are discontinuing to handle. 'l`he regular values are 1.65 to 2.25 each. Your choice of these now at 1.00. All sizes from 18 to 30.

Ladies? Hose 60c values

A 35c

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np.

'|0This is a line carried over from last season. They run in tan, white \ and black. They are fine lisle open-worked and fancy hose-regu- larvalue 60ceach. We have them in sizes from 8 to 10 clearing them out this week for

35c gerpair. Seethem ont e counter in the

hose department.

Girls’ s Dresses

White Lawn and

Voile Dresses Lace and

Embroidery Insertion, a_ll sizes from 1 to 14 years, new styles long waist and short skirt. Prices 1.25, 1.50, 1.65 to 3.75.

Colored Cotton and Chambray dresses 2 to 14 years.

gféddy Suits all smart stylish dresses, price 1.10, 1.35, 50 to

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WEDNESDAY. JULY 14TH, 1915-

COME T0 THE P0lNT

.\'o'\v that provincial politics is being discussed through-

out the province and a number of our Liberal friends are making considerable noise, it will be just as well to stop beating the air and come down to actual facts. Our Lib- eral friends are making all sorts of charges against the Mathieson administration. charges of extravagance, usual- ly taking the lead, closely followed by charges of mls- nianageuient of the schools, an overloaded curriculum, “fads and frills" introduced into the course of study and other easily spoken charges. On the strength Of H1958 they are soliciting the votw of the electorate. " ' '

lt is an easy matter to make charges; it is quite an-

other matter to prove them. We find in the report of the proceedings of the legislature (page 122) April 21, 1915, it discussion originating in a charge previously made by the Lender ol’ the Opposition that there had been “a car- nival of extraviigaiice and waste" on the part of the Gov- crnment, whereupon the following illuminating debate en- sucfl:

“The Premier: Well, here we have the estimates for

all our expenditures in the coming year. Tell me a parti- cular case that you think extravagant and wasteful and where economy may be exercised."

“.\ir. Ricliards: 1 had no particular case in view-I was

reviewing the whole accounts."

“The Premier: Yes, so you say, but now we have here

the estimates for the current year based in every iniiance on the accounts of last year which you say were wasteful ami extravaizaiit. Surely it must be possible for you to give one instance in substantiation of your charges.

“Z\Ir. Ricliards: Take the vote for the Agricultural De-

pariiiiciit."

“Tho Premier: We have already passed that and the

lion. incinlicr has not taken exception to one item in lt."

".\ir. liicliardsz I must have been out nt the time.” “’l`he Premier: Vcry well, we will rc-commit the items

io give the lion. nicinhcr an opportunity of pointing out iiiiytliiiig that hc considers wri.‘-itcfiil and extravagant.

“'l`hc itenis, ten in number, were then taken seriatlm

but i\lr, llii-liards could not point to one he could recom- nicml should he rediiceii. ~

“The Premier: There we have given the Leader of the

Opposition the opportunity to prove his statement that we have been extravagant and wasteful ami have taken him for the sccoml time over the ground with which hc is more particularly faniiliar, the cstiniates for the Department of .\gi~iciiltiirc, and he has failed to take exception to one single item or to suggest economy ln one vote. Will the lion. the Lender of the Opposition have the courage and iminliiicss to stand up iii his place and withdraw the un- just criticisiii which hc levelled nt the Government,?

“l\ir. lticlinriis said though hc could not take exception

to thc itcins onthe estimate, yet there was a feeling among the people of the country that they were not getting value for the Increased subsidy received."

The l‘airiot and a t'ew other Liberal nsplrants for poli-

tical lioiiors uri- now blowing hard in iiii clidcavour to fan this imaginary “feeling among the people" into flame. Mr. llicliiirds, the leader of the party, could not find any cause for tho “fceliiu_:", could not, when directly challenged ami with the items of expenditure read over to him, find a single dollar wliich could be cllniintiteil from the expendi- ture, ami still the Liberal ollicc-seekers are going about

the country crying "extravagance and waste."

At the meetings about to be held the Liberal candi-

dates will iigain he asked, as their leader was, to 'point out the items of cxtravagance and the electors will do well

to hold them to the point.

Similar vague charges have been made against our

school system. The Patriot has intimated that the curri- culum lias been loaded with “fads ami red tape." The candidates will be asked, and the electors will hold them to it. to name the "fads and red tape" that they would eliminate. _Will they cut out Nature Study? Will they discard agricultural education? Will they do iiway with the school supply depots ami the cheaper school books? Will they reduce the teachers' salaries ,to where they were under the Liberal rule? What changes will they make in the Agriciiltiiral Department, in the Public Works Depart- ment. ami the thousand other things that they are now so blatantly finding fault. with? They will have many ques- tions to answer before they secure the confidence which they have forfeited, ami the electors, wiio are now thor-

oughly awake, will hold them to it.

LAURIER AND SENATE REFORM

The Liberal platform of 1893 contained tho following

plank:

"The present constitution of the Senate is lnconsls e

ami is in other respects defective, as it makes the Senate independent of the people and uncontrolled by the puhlip opinion of_tlie country, and should be so amended as to bring it into harmony with the principles of popular gov. ernment." -

This constituted a pledge for the reformation of the

Ulmer Chamber. lt was a pledge which the Canadian peo- ple mlnhl have expected ri party making claims to Liberal. ism to have carried ont, for the principles of genuine Lib-, eralism and the constitution of the Canadian Senate can- not be reconciled. Yet in the fifteen years that he held office Sir Wilfrid Laurier found nothing in the Red Cham. ber that was inconsistent with his political ideals, and he placed in that body men whose only claim to reward or recognition could be found in their contributions to the Liberal party fund. And in 1912 this self-styled disciple of the great English school of Liberal thought used this ir.

Sipomlble. un_i-epresentative chamber to stifle the aiipira.

5 0' me (-anadlml Deople in respect to ‘Empire de.

fence. Canadian parliamentary history holds few greater political crimes than this.

clared that:

never will be paralleled in the history of responsible gov- ernment. Sgandals like the trip of the "Arctic," the Yukon outrage, the "Sawdust wharf," the Marine and Fisheries and Printing Bureau steals, and the “d0S NB- cults" furnished tho Canadians who went to South Africa, disclosed such disgusting sores on the body politic that honest Canadians. irrespective of party, were made to blush for their country‘s name. The resources of the West were exploited for the benefit of a .few political ad- venturers and contractor brlgands; constituencies were bribed whenever and wherever possible by a. reckless squanderlng of the people's money; the lntercolonlal Rail- way was converted into a. party machine; class legislation became the order of the day; millions of dollars were slulced liito tho pockets of Grit railway magnates; and nearly every attempt on the part of the people’s repre- sentatives in Parliament to get at the truth was strangled by the servile vote of a straight party majority. For this reign of robbery Sir Wilfrid Laurier must take direct and absolute blame. For although his own hands are not tainted with plunder it cannot be said that he was un- aware of the corruption that was being practised by the men who were his confidential advisers. He lacked the moral tihre necessary to carry on a strong and honest government.

wAii AND iiiirniinri:

Many well meaning people are deeply concerned about

the probable effect of the war upon the birthrate and al- ready the statisticians are busily computing the popula- tion of the belligerent countries a year or two hence. While this is anticipating trouble that may be very much less serious than it looks at present, and while there are more important matters in hand at present than worry- ing over the birthrate, it may be interesting to note that the French pressreports a sharp decline in the blrtlirate since the war began. Early in 1914 there were 1,000 births a. day throughout the entire country, but the number has dropped below 400, according to the statistlclaus.

On the heels of the statlsticlan comes the man with a

remedy. A tax on bachelors and the prolonging of their military service, with a reduction of the taxes payable by the heads of families are among the remedial measures proposed; whilst in Paris a. society of some influence re- commends the payment of cash bounties to encourage early marriage. The subject has been discussed in France off ami on for years, and is assuming importance in Eng- land where, even in times of peace, the birthrate is stead- ily falling off. ln Canada, the United States and some of the Australian states it has been declining among the iiative-born population, the Province of Queec standing out as an exception.

ln France the birtlirate has been declining for a iiuniber

of years. Thirty years ago the French Chamber voted a. million francs to enable the Government to educate ilie seventh child, boy or girl, in every needy household, ami it will be remembered that not many years ago the Quebec Legislature granted free hoinesteads to the parents of a numerous oilspring. ln old days large faniilies were al- most the rule the world over, but the mortality was much greater than now. The all but universal decay of tho birth rzitc is accounted for on many theories, the principal _one being that when people grow well-to-do they do not care to bc troubled with children-a. policy of selfishness which our forefathers would have repudiated as a crime against God and man. The birth rate in England attained, in 1876, thc highest point it had evcr before reached, name- ly, 36.3 of every 1,000 persons living. but has been going down since in an alarming manner and nt latest accounts was 23. In Ireland the rate is exceptionally low. in France it exceeds hut slightly the average death rate; in fact in six of the twenty years immediately preceding tiio present. war, thc deaths exceeded the births.

And if the birtlirato has been declining because of a

policy of selfishness which our fortfathers would have rc- pmiiated as a crime against God and man. who can sav that this crime is noi. one ofthe evils that the present wiiir is destined to remedy? It would appear, from tho past iiisiory of the world, that wiirs arc an economic neccssily or a necessary corrective. \Vo are guilty of many things

that the scourge of war may heal ns of.

. NOTES

Turning back our pages four years and looking at the

things thcn pronilsed. I cannot recall a single promise mario which we have not either fully redeemed or which wc are not now in progress of redeeniing.-Premier Matliieson, llouse of Assembly, March 23, 1015. And no one challenged the statement.

_mi

Gallipoli is the door through which, in 1358, the Turks

first entered into their European possessions. Ami thc entrance came about in ii surprising manner. ln that year an earthquake shattered all the cities of Thrace and over- threw the walls of Gallipoli. The inhabitants fled, whilc the Turks, for whom earthquakes had no terror, crossed the Hellcspont and marched upon the deserted city. (lantacuzenus protested, but Sultan Orkhau calmly replied that " Providence had opened a way to his troops, and he could not disregard so clear an indication of divine inter- positlon.” Thus was taken the first plunge that ket

the near east bathed in blood for centuries.-London Standard.

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~l» Confidence, not suspicion,

2 is and must over be the pre-

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with the Federal principle in our system of government Valllllil 10110 Of U10 b\|Sill0SS

world. The nommon belief that

1- the vast majority of men are

Furnished honest is more proiioiinced

by w_,s_ |_°u.°”_ _today than it ever was bc-

ore. ‘ ’

#4»OOO§'|\O¢lHl»*§+'O lt bears silent convincing

testimony to the fact that

HONESTY EVERYWHERE humanity is going forward

An honest man creates no

sensation as he passes song the street attending quietly to his business. But the thief in custody attracts s crowd.

This is simply because

honesty is common and dis- hgnegly uncommon.

The whole business struc-

ggcioty, whether political or industrial. is toward the Ken- ersl welfare and the com- mon good. ‘

The whole business sttuc-

ture rests and has always rested on the conviction that

tions and deal fairly. '

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PAGE Form 'rua cnniuorrrfrown GUARDIAN -li”-Y 14-1915-

llowers descended upon the treasury like the locusts upon V '

I Egypt, and for fifteen years there was carried on a studied _

` ___ / systematic robbery of the people that has never been and f

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33, 34 and 35 for ages 15,

$5.50

Come quick if you want

‘in Canada” Bags, Suit Cases

PAT

Twenty Five Only

25 Boys Yoke -Norfolk Suits with bloomer pants, 'sizes

16, .and 17 years. These are

hard sizes :to find in many Stores,_ we had :them made to order. They come in Tweeds, in fashionable _Browns, Greens and Blues, worth up to $8 O0. Any of this lot for

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a genuine bargain. .

Note, we sell the best travelling leather goods “Made

and Trunks.

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Last Saturday night the dredge

“Prince Edward," went to assllit the dredge Edmond llall, now submerged at Southport, where she has been em- ployed digging for the Marine Slip. She went to get her bucket and crane in order to get this dredge afloat and while in thc act of taking the bucket

off the chain by which the bucket of the Edmond Hall was being attached to the crane of No. 10, slipped, and the sudden jar caused by the slip or the chain pulled the crane of the Prince Edward overboard, throwing three or four men into the water and injuring two or three more, among which was the captain of No. 10. The crane of No. 10 is now in 20 feet of water and it will take, some time to have it replaced and the dredge put in working order.

Henderson

Wellner Bldg.

-“The Haberdashery” Special Suit Sale

choice of any suit in the

lot at $12.00 These suits

way $13 50, $14.00, $15.50

up to $16.50. While.they

last $12.00. We have all

sizes from 36 to 42 inches.

& Cudmore

Men’s Suits

16.50 for 12.00

One hundred‘and fifty

Men’s Tweed Suits. Tail-

ored in very best style by

high class clothers. Your

are worth in the regular

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The simplest and easiest

"pesky, ’ germ carrying house

remove them.

once get in no amount of swatting, poison or sticky paper wiii

Extra Good Window Screens and Screen Doors---See Them

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way to rid your home_of the ily is to keep them out, if the

Proeect your home against the

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Misses’, Boys and Children’s Shoes

G O F F B R O S . '

house fly nuisance and at the 881110 time enjoy the cool refreshing breeze by getting a supply of our up-to-date window screens and screen doors.

Our window screens are shown in

the standard lengths and the ad- justable kinda, made from good qual- ity wood and wire. We have a very large and complete line of screen doors all slzs and styles-the strong well made kinds that last long and give satisfaction always.

Today, right now is the time 10

call and get your screens. Our win- dow scrireiis and screen doors are the best possible to procure and thi# are priced most. modprstplp., 7

Fenneil & Chandler

No reason in the world why the Children’s Shoes should not look well. Our Child-

ren's Shoes are made to our special order. They’re made to fit well and look well-

lnfarit's priced from 25c to 60c. Child’s 79c to $2.00 per pair, and Misses and Boys ranzitl8 in price rom $1.40 to $4.50

The num punk in the otinwa platform or is9:i tie. men will fiiltlll their obllsafl I Bring the Children here for g°°d f°°tW°ar at feawnable prices'

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"The (3 |_| This conviction is the foun-

m_magemeE:"'§2d0H flevlidres the gross corruption in the “mm of c,.ed|¢_ , which is calm' _ d"";°°'_; ""3 °f P\:"C lfl0\1¢Ys . . . ..._ Ninety-five per cent. of the , .

' 9 9 0 FSM e Cana a in th tl ‘ totsl business trsnssctions - .g _ , , _

Of the World. and deserves the severe condemigssbnllbftxiz H157 Wi' °¢““*'7 "9 °°""°d ‘ Th i l people," on not in cash. but on credit 0 02 MQ”

. _ 3 , uma on inn conviction. Now is your time to.get _a trunk we are selling our stock of trunks lst

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