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Bed Sheets

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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 line quality of Bed Spreads a good large size, the regular value is $1.85, 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 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 fit your boy out in a comfortable, economic suit for summer.

Bathing Suits

for ladies, for boys, for men; .9 Ladies’ Bathing Suits a full line at _ f_.,,‘,, popular prices. Boys’ Bathing 3 i,i2pq§,i.__,_ Suits 10c, 15c and 25c. Men’s =="""" Bathing Suits at 45c and 55c.

Boys’ Jerseys A cool, comfortable jersey in

both long and short sleeves in colors navy and cardinal, and ¢ .Q .___,_-__-_ , navy trimmed witlrcaidinal at _l 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 for 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

i $15.00

Since advertising these special made-to-order

suits at 15.00 we have had a large demand from both town and country. We made deliveries of a large number of these suits last week, and in each instance the customers were loudin 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 A

We are clearing out this week 125 pairs of cor-

sets. This is a line that we are discontinuing to handle. The regular values are L65 to 2.25 each.

Yong choice of these-now at 1.00. All sizes from 18 to 3 .

Ladies’ Hose 60c values

35c

This is a line carried

over from last season. They run in tan, white and black. They are

line lisle ogen-worked and fancy one--rewn larvalue60ceach. _ e have them in sizes from 8 to 1_0 clearing them out this week for 35cgerpair. Seetliem ont e counter in the hose department.

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FRIDQY, JULY 9TH. 1915.

GRIT INCONSISTENCY r

In one of those cynical speeches for which he was

famous. Robert Lowe once declared that Mr. Gladstone, in the course of his political career, had "exhausted the. capacity of change." One can only wonder how Lowe. were he an active factor in Canadian politics today, would regard the opportunlsm and inconsistency which have ever been, and are now the outstanding characteristics of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal party. The accusa- tion made against Mr. Gladstone measured by Canadian standards was hardly justified by the records. Indeed no British statesman could hope to long retain the confidence of the United Kingdom were he to display the wavering inconsistency and indecislon which seem to be inseparable from the leaders of Canadian Liberalism.

"inconsistency," says Emerson, “is the foible of small

minds.” If only a half truth can be found in this asser- tion, it is yet a striking sidelight upon the intellectual sta- ture of the men who have shaped the destinies of the so- cslled Reform party since pre-Confederation days. For it is not too much to say that in no country has any party at any time been so often wedded and so quickly divorced from so many policies of a divergent character than that party which has masqueraded in Canada for upwards of half ii century under the guise and in the name of reform.

To preserve, it is sometimes necessary to change. That

is a tenet of Conservatism, which its greatest exponents have never tired of propoundlng. But when a party or a political leader espouses causes and policies, which, like quack nostrums are put forward from time to time as cure-ails for political ills, when they trim their sails to every gust of popular passion. sectional prejudice and class discontent, they forfeit their claim to the national trust, display those qualities which in politics have ever been the bugbear of the British people. Upon all these counts, Sir Wilfrid Laurier can be indicted and condemned. ln public life for nearly half a century, Sir Wilfrid has the unenviable record of remaining steadfast to not a solitary one of his early political ideals, and no man who has read current political history will dare assert the Liberal leader to he solidly entrenched in the ideas and creeds he pro- icsses to believe in to-day.

Intent only upon the things of to-day, the Canadian

people are apt to forget or overlook the records of the past. But it behoovcs the young mcn of Canada upcn whose shoulders will rest the national responsibilities dur- ing the ensuing generation to bestir themselves, to throw party shiboleths and political catchwords to the winds, and get down to the study of the claims of the two political parties to-day in the light of their records of yesterday. lf they will do so they will find llttlc difficulty in arriving at a just and intelligent conclusion, for no one who has studied Canadian parliamentary history can doubt that traditionally and temperamentally the Liberal party is lacking in those attributes that are essential to sound government in a democratic land.

i.l__ THE HOLIDAY SEASON

This is Prince Edward Island’s outing season and it

has opened auspiciously. The weather has been ideal and daily picnics, tea parties and private outings are in order. The outing season at best is short, three months at the longest, for out~of-door living being the most we can hope for. Our people owe it to themselves and their business to ,make the most of the season, to use it as far as possible 'for storing up energy for the other nine months in which summer outings will be a thing unknown.

We have for many years been boosting Prince Edward

Island as an ideal summer resort and the visitors who come among us while we are en inte unite with us in pro- nouncing our climate and our facilities for wholesome en- joyment as good ss. if not better than, can be found any- where on the continent.

The boosting of the province as a summer resting place

remains largely with ourselves. Our outings are our best advertisements and it remains for us to make them plea- sent and to spread their fame abroad. During the present week a number of picnics were held at Carleton Point. and it ls safe to say that they laid a foundation for sum- mer outings at that place, which will make it one of the most popular resorts in the province. From our City of .Charlottetown excursions up the East and West Rivers, to Orwell, to Holland’s Cove and other convenient stopping pla s are of daily occurrence. These should be gener- ouskatronlzed by all who can take advantage of them, iorreasohs of patriotism as well as of health. Every sn- joyable excursion is n new advertisement, and every out- ing should be mad ns enjoyable as possible. Every op- portunity shouldi extended to visitors and strangers to share in these outings and to become acquainted with the beauties of the province. '

Next week the Summer School of Science will meet in

Charlottetown and the occasion should be made use of to extend the Island's best hospitality to the visitors from

yur own province as well as to those who will be present rom other parts. While the meeting is for educational work mainly the proverb about “all work and no play" will apply to the learned teachers and professors as well as to "Jack." We trust, therefore, that from the onerous duties of the course suiiloient time will be taken to make an excursion or two into the country and that the sojourn among us of these visitors will be as pleasant as the capacity of our climate and other resources will permit.

_ DEORADATl0ll 0F GERMANY

A striking picture of the mental degradation of the

masses of people in Gerinanyis given in s recent issue of Saturday Night by Mr. Owen Wistsr. He admits the material advancement of Germany, its general sillclsncy in education, ln industries, in home comfort and. ln short, in all that goes to make' s nation great. But over this srestaess hes fallen the curse of Prussian mllitsrlsm and under this curse Germany is now drifting to its ruin. He traces the bedevilment from Frederick the Great to Bis- marck; from the Iron Chancellor to William ll. He an- alyzes the policy of the latter and shows how bureaucracy and the non-representative character of the so-caled repre-

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cite the blood lust of the people and have served to arouse

cotlecteil e mess of utterances by German pro-m`tl|tsry_

sentstlve bodies have operated, in conjunction with s cun- '_ l `ningly calculated and contrived plsif of education, to on" °0hv""°'7 h“"' Mm ll'

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leaders and teachers, which need only bg read in the light 'of present events to emphasise the necessity that nothing lbs left undone to crush for good and all the spirit which lrevels in war and approves of carrying ilrs and sword wherever the monster who rules the German Empire ml? d|¢t;te_ We quote from Mr. Wist.er’s article as follows: A Hers is an embodiment, a composite statement, of Prus- sianism, compiled sentence by sentence from the utter- ‘snces of Prussians, the Kaiser and his generals, professors. teditors, and Nietzsche, part. of it said in cold blood, years before this war. and all of it s declaration of faith now being ratified by action. _

', “We Hohensollerns take our crown from God alone.

On me the Spirit of God has descended. I regard my whole

. . . . tssl\as appointed by heaven. Who opposes me-ji shall crushito pieces, Nothing must be settled in this world without the intervention . . . . . of . . . . the Ger- man Emperor. When one occupies certain positions lll the world one ought to make dupes rather than friends. Chris- tim morality cannot be political. Treaties are only a disguise to concealqother ,political aims. Remember that the German people are the chosen of God. Might is right and-. . . _ .is decided by war. Every youth who enters a beer-drinking and dueling club will receive the true direc- tion of his life. War in itself is a good thing. God will see to it that war always recurs. The efforts directed toward the abolition of war must not only be termed fool- .ish, but absolutely immoral. The peace of Europe is only e secondary matter for ns. The sight of, suffering does one good; the infllction of suffering does one more good. This war must be conducted as ruthlessly as possible. _

The Belgians should not be shot dead. They should be

_,. . . so left as to make impossible all. hope of recovery.

The troops are to treat the Belgian civil population with unrelenting severity and frightfulness. Weak nations have not the same right to live as powerful . . . nations. The world has no longer need of little nationalities. We Ger- ,mans have little esteem and less reap ect . _ . for Holland. We need to enlarge our colonial possessions; such terri- torial acquisitions we can only realize at the cost of other states.

France must be so completely crushed that she will

never again cross our path. You must remember that we have not come to make war on the French people, but to bring them the higher Civilization. The French have shown themselves decadent and without respect for the Divine law. Against England we iight for booty. Our real enemy is England. We have to . . . cruch absolutely per- rldious Albion . . . subdue her to such an extent that her influence all over the world is broken forever.

“The civilization of mankin d suffers every

time a German becomes an American. Let us drop our miserable attempts to excuse Germany's ac- tion. We willed it. Our might shall create a new law in Europe. It is Germany that strikes. We are morally and intellectually superior beyond all comparison . . _ .We must . . . . . iight with Russian beasts, English mercenaries and Belgian fanatics The ugliest stone placed to mark the burial of a German grenadier is a more glorious monu- ment than all the cathedrals of Europe put together. No respect for the tombs of Shakespeare, Newton and Fars- day.

“They call us barbarians. What of it? The German

'claim must be: . . . Education to hate. . . . . Organization of hatred. . . . Education to the deslro for hatred. Let us abolish unrlpe and false shame. . . . '

“To us is given Faith, Hope and Hatred, but Hatred is

the greatest of them."

It is against the dominance of that cult that Great

Britain and her allies are shedding their blood, and if more is any “Righteousness over all,” they shall win out. _

STRAGETY OF RllSSlAN RETREAT

It is hardly to be supposed that Germany intends

to conquer Russia or even a large part thereof. It seems most probable that Germany has hoped lo smash the Russian army by a sudden terrliic blow with enormous forces. Her aim, probably, is to put the_Rus- sian army completely out of the ileld and then turn to the other Allies. On the other hand, the Russian aim, 'in this long retreat, has been to hold its line intact and inflict the severest possible loss, keeping just far enough away to avoid dangerous losses and yet not too far to lure the enemy on. lf the Russians can com- pel the loss of one German soldier for every Russian soldier lost, that alone will be an advantage gained. By re-

ports, they seem to have done considerablybetter. jot, the biggest 'point gained is that of stretching out the'lines of the enemy forces and getting them continually far- ther from their base of supplies. Another great advantage lies in the fact that the Russians will be able to choose their own battle ground from which to launch their re- turn advance againat the Germans, just as the Allies did before Paris. When they do give battle, it will be with full supplies in every branch-ammunition, rapid fire guns, and heavy reinforcements. The German forces, on ‘the other hand, will be badly weakened by the long advanc, far from base, away from reinforcements, and far less well supplied, due to being far from base. We may confidently expect news, very soon, of a reversal of this retreat, with the Russian steam roller again crushing back the German forces. The Italian forces continue to make rapid progress and it is evident that neither Austria nor Germany can spare troops from GGalicia or the west to defend against italy. That fact alone, is evidence that Germany is putting forth her utmost energy against Russia in this powerful effort in Galicia. So, when Russia turns on Germany at the end of the retreat. Germany will either have to fall hack to an even greater distance than she has come. or else she will have to seriously weaken the forces she has opposed to the Allies in the west. In that case of course, _there would be a great forward movement on the Western front at once But, it has been the fixed policy of German

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Parlor Suites from $20.00 to $65.00 r Suite. _

Dining Room Suites from $26.00 to £§00.00 per _Suite. Bed Room Suites from $20.00 to $150.00 per Suite. , Den_Furniture in Mission, Cane, Sea Grass, Willow, Cut Oak

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