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IMPORTANT VISIT

The visit tojieyrovlnce this week of Sir Henry Thornton, Gen- eral Manager of the Canadian Na~ tional Railways, will be or ought to be a. most important one. it

Elev“- is perhaps to be regretted that

l i thrown by a hired villain. Whatl is it that holds the attention or the audience? W‘hat is it that brings the same audience to see Not one in a thousand of them believeal such a thing was einacted in real

the succeeding chapters

'" rim cuaanrau,s"i' lReminiscences And

The Public Forum

This column ls open for the’ discussion by correspond- (znt-s of questions of inter. eat. The.. Charlottetowr l Guardian does not nocossar. ily endorse the opinions ex- pressed by its cirrespond ents.

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Referred to legislature i

Sir,——Mr.R0gers has at length remembered and admitted what 1 stated was said in our telieptione

Remarks

BY W. L. COTTON.

, fPho report oi a_ meeting of the "ciiariimeiowii Debatinfl Club" held about this time fifty-five years ago, is of sc-me'personal and general interest. it ls signed by the Secretary W. P. S. Mc- Gowan——tlien a talented young citizen of (‘huriottetown——and it refers iiu a debate on the English Reform Bill. opposed by Louis II. Davies, Esq, then ah ambitious young barrister and politician late- ly returned from his studies in

Our Men’s Department Has Some Extra Values, to Offer the Christmas Shopper. Just a Few of Which We Will Try to Tell You About»

Knitted Neckwoar speciali boxed 75o. A dandy range of patterns. -

_ 1319; m); “m, in a thousand has interview. This was the only London. ' ' —Smell Dg.._g-.|_|p§” his visit i5 u, be made in me I" w, i I f reason that induced me to take any The report sets fort: segue‘?! 3m‘ Tl" 7°’ 5°" - _ a n any nerence rom the "mic .1’ hi o d ' th tho Ollllllllilzi expresse . y ‘. r _ "int" 55 111°"? "I" be 1958 00' haipmisfng drama ma, would be papers? s c weapon ence m e Davies, who submitted the follow- Silk Ties for mon 75c, 81.00. $1.50 and ................................../ .... ........... $1.75

portunity to see things as they really are, However the visit ls

they happen ms! me sama Insuriseem to be the part of prudence

amce is the only safe-guard.

to bring these or some of the out- We write liberal policies in strong standing Ones dlrecuy ‘w the m“

companies at reasonable rates

tention of the general superinten-l ldent. This is or should be the‘ business of the provincial govern-I

merit. the Boards of Trade andl

& the federal representatives. ' That Sir Henry Thornton hasl

undertaken a great task. a task‘:

Security and Service.

Agency in

Tho Oldest insurance P

. lb; which not only ne but iill Can-tile first reading. W-‘\L'1'PJR M- LBA- and Deputy Governor Geiicrail, ' l (fliarlotit-toivti, Nov 9, 19-22. sitter long survive in the Parlia- lflda l5 lmeresled and m‘ the we‘ The charm 3"“ the Permmqm" ment and Government of the Do-

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DOES DOUBLE DUTY '

YOUR ADVERTISING THIS MONTH BOTH A CLI- MAX AND A BEGIN- NING

“ess of which he and all Canada: are most anxious. is well under-l <tood. His success will depend, upon the hearty co-operatlon of the various and widely separated‘ our great national rallwzrv siti-l tcni. There are the PPSDBCVlVt-

. . - , l with goods and “ma” that with their rrspici ve freight rates|

he docs this month. double‘ duty for him.

It do“ freight on grain from For! Will-f

.am to l-iuiiaix St. John is; fifty cents per 100 pounds; the‘ freight on potatoer trout WHIP-l lottctown to Swill Hill ii lllllifierl of the distance. is All; routs IPBYI 100 pounds or 21 cents per hush- cl. The western farmer bus sonic- tliing left of his buslicl of wheat _after paying the freight; ‘Whfll "3 l-left of a bushel of potatoes at 25 gar 30 cents after wc pity ‘.21 cents iii. bushel for carrying it? is out‘ bushel of potatoes DflYiflI; H19 freight on the bushel of western fwllelll? Coal is brought from Syd- lney to Charlottetown at 115 cents Zn hundred. Why should it cost 36 cents to carry potatoes the same ‘distance in the opposite direction? lNeither the country nor the rail- ‘way can prosper under prohibitive railway freight rates-

Sir Henry will be interested in noting the fact that the whole business of the province outward and inward is carried by U10 single steamer plying beiwetill Borden and Tormcntine and the "questiion will naturally occur to him, what would happen if the

You can afford to PM extra single lln-k were cut off by ace.- effort into your December ad- dam? This m" suggest the 1m‘ vertising. Vou can hardly sf- lmediate necessity of a second car ford not to. ferry.

There are other conditions con- --——-"—-*—"_"' uecterl with the Borden and Tur- mentlne link which have in the

- 9*4 pitst milltaied against the inter-

His holiday advertising reaps the harvest of all the friendships that his business experience, has cultivated.

The longer and better he has served the people of this vicinity the surer he may. be that every dollar he invests in advertising will stimulate these friendships into actlv-. lty.

That's one profit. The sec- ond is:

His holiday advertising has the chance also to create new friendships that will endure.

People are in the buying mood in December.

In this mood they welcome and remember the store ser- vice that satisfies them.

The advertising which will

' draw them to the store with

which they are not already

familiar therefore stands a

chance of building up a

greatly increased clientele of patrons.

ls ail ready for the big rush

. TOYS TOYS

....More, better and cheaper Toys, Dolls, Games, BoYs and Girls Sleds. Snow Shovels, Dolls, Cabs, Carts, Kiddie

The fact that a novel is a "‘blg seller,” while an evidence of po- pularity, is by no means a proof oi real merit. The present day novel ‘bears a very close resemb- lance to its younger sister, the moving picture and the charac-

of any use in a love affair of their own. We are, perhaps

Similarly the author who creates impossible characters and impossible situations to make‘ a connected ‘but distorted story, may attract the crowd of novel renders but his creation is cplicme rol and is of interest only wliilc the impossible situations ill't.‘ bu- iug assembled. His work dics with

of Dickens’ stories lies in ilic fhct that his characters were runl

men and women. The situations

be irrcated were possible; effect

fnlloiveil cause as naturally‘ as iticcseful ac I MW- bevn‘ when ‘nanada, , .

interests which are interwoven lIl Idoes ill real life. This is true oWwm the Dunne he refused to post’ doubt {hm the mam“) Succesg O v ipom- ‘.1 cits-lo in court in order tltahbolll We“ _ill’° l" a ‘L! u"? "°"‘~‘l~“ 11W have Sllfvivflil-i llll:.'.llt b.- able l0 attend l-lle big to the iutuuute ucuuu

the generation wlio first rend:

posc mcrc entertainment, u quits-

l" . absent. its characters -

mzij _ls> groti-silllc

oi possibility. 'I‘he_v are the car-lstntements are correct and true fact that

"Mons. other matters and questions con-

He now asks wliy I have so care- fully avoided any reference to the

correspondent. When the House intcts .\lr. Rogers. and any others who may \v‘lsli to do so, will have the privilege of having all their (iucstioiis put on the crtlvl‘ paper and 1lll‘~‘\\'8l‘0(l. They will also have the right of insistituiing the Public Accounts Committee in~ vestighlion into the workings of tiny l)i3])Zll'illl€lii, if tlioy so desire

As far us I uiu concerned with this letter this correspondence will cease.

I hm. Sir, etc.

What Kind of a Man‘?

Sir,—\\‘licn I started out two vrccks ago tn find out just what kind "f a lililll lion. Walter M. Lea is. I illil not expect to be as suc-,

fox show lll Toronto. he denied

doing so. or that l had ever sug-

lVOlllil b0 provcnltiil from attend

any respectable citizen in the pub» llc press llllllllflleSS a minister oi

flilil Blflliégflfilvftlic (frown. but this correspond Dosition illltl faiiuc by their ability,

. .. . ,. l .. '- Im “m, d“ “e “mum the “mitmonu. has reached a. stage when]

must again say that my original‘

ing resolution: “Resolved that in the cvplhicn oi‘ this Society a large measure of Reform iu the Elector-

imore offeitive and satisfactory by a reduction of the number of rop- resen-tatives iu Parliament?

The chit-i‘ lesson for the young men of today to be druyvn from this reminiscence is contained in the fact that the two men who were thou most prominent int the Charlottetown Debating Club were the two men who subsequently rose to tbu highest positions in the glftoitliisCnnada oiOurs; Sir Loulis Davies is ntw Chief Justice of t-he Supreme Court of (‘aniida

minion; and the H011 David Laird became Lieutenant Governor of the great Ninrthwcst Territories, after service in the Legislature and gov- ernment oi this Island and in the Parliament and Government of Nor can tlicrc bv any

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pu-blic mirstimis illlil the facility of speech they (ilituincd by practice in

etc, Wilb, ii’ I mistake not. a mem- ber of the some ilcbitting club; the.

there u-orv lllillly other Charlotte- trnians \\'lli) lll inter years won

other iliri-ciioiis.‘ It is a proved gi-iiuiue talent can b0

L _ I n ., V . Mr. Lou's admission CDllflfllllil“.lLISUCCGBSllIIllJ culilvutcil iu o debat- nom 0 ‘em "re ‘ummmg’ DmmlNow I have tried at least toe beilng club such us tliut which long

oilifying and corrective but even pour-icons to Mr. Len, some of my ago held

in their exaggeration and‘ their; rldicmousnoss those of them tliziti

sible.

ciilously impossible characters!

and situations aitracis the multi- I

tude- only means that we are cul-i The.

tivating a taste for them.

instincts when, uncontaminated

call for the true. thc beautiful and the good. "Man was made up- right but he has sought out many

t

inventions.’ In our reading. anrl particularly in directing the read» ing of the young we should as far as possible avoid the senntiional- ism which is absurd and imllos~

sibie.

lNotes By The Way

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‘Montreal has grown greatly in size, in wealth and population since the union of the provinces and in no small degree because of that event. From being the prln

,. Tho fact that the novel of rldi-"l

friends say too much so but how about hit‘. Lea. l ‘In his reply to my first letter

“urvivh. are the m,” m,“ are pns_;he took occasion to be personal ward to high r: ‘and referred to my nemg ilfiffiilifiil and Law,

n an election, being sued etc, in his reply to my second letter he makes an unkind retort about my offcr to make an affidavit regard-p lug the truth oi my charges against him. Now in his third and lnsti reply which he declares to be lllii swan song, he refuses to arts-liver

taste is not inherent; our natural|the very plain questions put 1013.1“, a; a time when mp Show, Uri

him regarding his treatment of, Rogers, Payton and Silver Foxes and F-urs shareholders claiming. that he would be committing a grave breach of legal etlquettein! (iiscussing the merits nf a. case while a decision is pending. Does Mr. Lea think lilo not know this very well? Hus he not noticed thaill I have kept away from discussing the third case but have put my} questions clearly as referring to’ the cases of Silver Foxes and

Furs and Rogers Iayton companl

lea, and in these two cases tbcl Government ivas non-suited with! costs and they are consequently out of court and I havo yet to learn that it is an offense to dis- cuss theni. Now Mr. lieu announ- ccs his retirement from this dis cuss-ion. stating he will only aus- wcr questions when put in ,

order book liVllell the Houseineels or through a Public accounts com-l mlttee. Now Mr. Lea knows very] well I cannot put questions in thel order book and he cannot escmpe having a numlber of other ques-| lions asked him through the press;

cipal city of a province it has Ibo- come the metropolis of a vast Do mlnion and already its yearly revenues have grown to over $22.-

Brunswick has played a fair sec- ond to British Columbia in get- ting revenue out 0f the liquor trnde although our neighbor pro- vince unlike that on the Pacific coast ls under a prohibitory law. From the liquor commission and

profits of over $500,000 have been

tenistlcs which attract are com- mon to both. The crowded house watches with breathless interest the hero driving madly in his auto up bill and down dale and- finally tumhiing over a cliff several bund red feed high; he escapes from the

Cars and strong. userul Toys in this store than all other i stores in the City combined.

This has been our business

\slde line with us. com and ,

._ ‘ ‘ wreckage and darts up another clisi, conveniently dear and rejoins

derived during the fiscal year just ended. Only $250,000 had been es- timated at the beginning of the year as likely to be realized from this source. but the spigote and bungboles flowed more freely than, was expected. Evidently there is- no alcoholic drought across the Straits.

Secretory Morrison of the U.F.0

,herver yet knew_one of them to

the liquor exporters tax togetlier| ¥

is not pleased with the dosertion d"? "1 ‘"19"’ limflfl- Tuko stock

notwithstanding this high and uiit'.iity' attitude. This nciiou ofhis reminds me oi an interview I had with him about seven months ago

"C men. who had said that and I successfully get away with it, is (Continued on Page Six) mo}? -¢»+e+e-s+o+eoo-o+s++e+»

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forth ill Scutts I-Iull on Kent Stroct; and tlie wonder is that t.iie ililllilllilll“ vwung men in Charlottetown ti b0 look i'oi‘-. lions in Political do not silt about the; foundation of a ilrbaitlug ("luli_in' wliiuli their abilities in spoocli and; argument may be brought out flllili dcmmisfrated. A point to be. IlOlNl. too, is that Ibo question ole reducing the size of our Legisla-l titre was a subject nil‘ iliscussi ii-——; eve-u beilore our union with (‘kill-l

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local legislation and administra- hlou was much wider and much more important than it is now.

Another paragraph that wont the rounds at t-bis time fifty-five yours ago. set forth that “the numerous n-iz-iiils and connections of Dr. Warburton will be gratified to learn that upon his arrival in India ho was iput on the medical stuff of the Military Department of the East India forces, in the District of Lahore with a salary of £340 sing. and Fhe is now——liuving scarce- ly served a year—bccn pron ted to the rank of Civil Surgeon ut . Ju-llondere in the district of llic Punjab with a salary of £600 stir. annually. The Dr Warburlon ro- ferrcd t0 was the eldest son of‘ the late Hon James Warburlon oi‘ this Islund and a brother of Judge Wur- burlon and Dr Julnies Wurburimi of‘ Charlottetown. in lllillil he rose to the highest position in his profession. His ability was ro- cognized by the Queen and Eui~ press Victoria, and he ivus known in liils latter days, whit-ii llf’ spout. lu England as iSlr William lllurbur- ton.

It is recorded also that tlii- mem- bers of Victoria ilrotige m‘ Frcn Milfiflllii with their friends and

Rev Thomas Duiu George Ailey. -S L James T Purdie. J D. Frank Douse. I G. u Alfred Ailey; Architect, P M N Rankin, Marshal.

R Galbraith. Organist. F Bracken and J It

Stewards. James Council, Tyler. All were well known citizens.

Cooper,

ter all. the happier of the two. In the length and breadth oi this life God sees that the good things. really worth having. are evened no. and every one will get a share according to his faith. Perhaps we are not hspllv. because we de-

li worrow, trial and heresve ment have made you poor in hariniuuus- you may still he rich in the love of those who lioid you

serve not to be; perhaps we have been selfish. with little thought of others and covetous of gifts and bleiilnss that have turned to ashes in our hands. God grant to

Silk Mufflers from $1.50 to

lllttilwe with '-

suveral o1 tliciii prominent in those the “m,

ctl zit liis time:

lug. the 20th November by tlii- Iicv Engqmup m l \\‘ Furi-rvtii. M A. rut-tor. llliiviii

cultivated iii debate its lye-ll as in L

All in Fancy Christmas Boxes.

Garters, Arm Bands, Braces, etc., all in Xmas Boxes at regular prices.

Brushed Wool Mufflers, all the» best light shades. with fancy trim .... .. $1.35

$3.75

Our range oi “Moriey's" Cashmere Hose ln coloured and blacks Is very

complete. Sizes up to 11V; and ail at popular prices.

PATONS? LTD}

J R Gurillucr.

children and many

both oi those of ‘Mary, relict of the into

. . ‘— . . . tl‘ --lew '~ i' 3 i" - The merchant who is pre- forests of east and u x, tiiereltnem. gem“ such a thing m him Later p11,; cliail'l(,ll’tgrft)'.l\fl. ‘Debuting (bib. ilitsoilg us‘ vtr) i ‘ 1cm tin C CTéie lliflijle was a Mr Benjamin Rex. in the 67th are“ to court b‘. f iiI‘0 long hauls and :=-liUi‘l, "hauisl A novel may have g0,- its p“... on in his lcttcr of Dec. 5th he 1'1")’ l0 bl-‘ill ifullb dgil- Ilhfl l"? H“. ,,,,,,.,.,,,gu,, U, fh-“u venvrqlllk‘and 1-31‘. fur‘ no?’ a year “l h" i189. lcavlus i-‘Wellio p p“ ‘c aver mildly admits my ‘mung mm “Hon Dmmm lwrkuson’ Deuuwr’ live years ago. there were ret-ovll- resillont of this cltllau) respebmd cmmrexl’ and fortyltuur grand

relatives to

“Al Lot 16, on Saturday the 16th mourn their irreparable loss". and

Flora.

mother. aged

dauglitei‘ of AIIIOII! ilie death notices were veura

‘it risvmos Store

Our Whole Store Devoted to

Christmas Gifts

A Christmas in Charlottetown and surrounding country without Carter's would be about the same as Christmas without Santa as there is no other store, perhaps, which enters Into the spirit of Ch-letmss

just the same. The whole store is now devoted to “C-fi-latrnaW-frqm the moment you enter our door you breath it. l

Passing around the main floor the problem of “What to Give" ls immediately banished. so many. are the suggestions presented In sp- propriate gifts.

Tilt‘ latest books by the best authors, Books for Boys and Girls, Toy rind Picture Books for children as shown in complete assortment.

There ls an exceptional‘, pics range of “Tife Poets," Bibles, Catholic and English Church Prayer Books, Methodist and Presbyterian Hymn Books.

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In Christmas and New Year Greeting Cards, Carotr's always excel and this year our stock is even nicer than other years.

We have a particularly fine stock of Waterman's Fountain Hens In

We have now on sale the Xmas numbers of sll the English illustrat- ed Pape-rs. l i

A splendid line of Office and Pocket Dlarlse for‘1'928 is also display- od. all prices and styles of Binding. ' ' ~ .

On the second floor of our store is Toyland. Here, probably, the great- est exposition of Toys in the province. is shown and the values are quite as big as the display.

for a ilerry Christmaslluit

make friends can look ppm. illlll 1.lI('il' res-l or apparent tlls- 1,4,. I A. ‘. _. f i, . ~ lug the show if the case was not .. l: \.1, 3 - , , _ __ , _ _ Plauml)’ °" H"! advilrtislflg crimiiiolioiis lilor lmtlilice- the Lin ‘n. lcllfsfzrtitrr slst firtrldhon- ‘clued’ H islnot n] plleqsam filing [its Mr lmhen lwrlls, c ll? G‘ R Slllllkillui‘: c niliis glilvtlllilliflxosbliiilllgltl “all glilrflfflltlalllgl lrlmlzabem Powell‘ bélovedv wife o‘ - - - -- . . ti t1: 1 z . o. an mom“, be dung," m l" a; y Conn-am“ , aw.- :4 promiiicii iiieni or; nut ' ' ~ ' * » , u , 9cm,- MQDQuKaIlL leaving a hug.

youngest hand and eight children to mourn J .- r i- . 1111108 (lilllklliil of John McKlnnon, Elthlbhg to“ qr a kind M"; jqyjng Wm,

E- . M. 1)., i ' . “ii to of Asliilcltl, Lot 16. am] ‘mflymgh,