ir if ` _ nr ‘ 2 ` il rp ; *ii li iii ‘ti = rili ali A Tia F ri; . gp li lr _i ,,-, ,pr i 5 . .ii ‘ _ fi li l` l r i ~ 1 .lu s fi. -f; .1 iw. igl-fi Inj( l¢»."l_‘\ iii? ` li"i, ll.; :,` *?`f’=“”"»': *'15 . .'. -iii, i, . .lm ,li iii* lad I; is iii; i 'li ., U =.¢-=,»_f.§z -4 -_ . fri-i ' -;i_~_¢? iii-i lv ‘ »l .2 itll E1' .,._r _f 1i . ._ ‘f c ill ilu? is is , 1-=f..~..-..__g,-..§~.:.,,_:_ nr .rikzr ;;;.__._ '.:-' ! i.-1 §» __.,.., » ._ -.»se~‘f'&f‘~ , .rli 1' '__:i l U- at 3~"i‘ :_ _Q it ill? ,4;.,fl!_ r if it `1f_~ '. 1 -1 .tif _f r,"r.’ 1' ‘.1 5-! .. ii ii . -i_ The lsland’s Leading Store _ v£l¢*5‘ ' -hn- liiiarlriiitloirn Guardian Custom Tailored Suits Made toMeasure $15.00 is making- a great hit; custom tailoring at popularfi prices.-' 'Remember we guarantee the fit of every suit. In cases-where there is any dissatisfaction we cheer- fully refundyour money. Anyone ICQUIHUE §\lSli1‘;m' made suits might as well leave it with a firm w o ve been doing buslnesshere for twenty years rather than so called custom-tailors who are here today and _away tomorrow. Remember our personal guarantee is be- hind every suit. fri in Advertising Phone ... ... ... ... ... ... guburlptlon Phone ... ... ~-- --~ --- News and salt., my Phone ...---188 News and salt.. Night Pharm ....A82 I 188 Hem Office at Chai-lenetewn, Branch Office at Bum- merelde, Alberton. Sourle and Montague. . _ |i London,0ifice, Marconi Houee. Strandpw. 6. ' . » it _ _`.______. . ` ` Provident n,A.,lartlett 'Managing Editor ... ....J.R. QUPIION ‘ : » -rr-lunsoav. Juris 1r,"1e15. 1* _ ~ Premier Asquith’s address in the Britillll H0086 0! Commoli`s when moving for an HDD1`0Dl‘|RU0l1 Of 0110 “nd 5 ‘?`*'§ _ ,_ _~. -1. i/_`-‘ dian. contains, even in the summary- mllflh 10011 for \ *_ » ` quarter billion dollars for the D\`°5eC“'-1011 Of the WM. ll *Qu \\ ' siimniarv of which appeared in yesterday moruing's Guar- ,_ . ’>~~""ffi<~‘¢` "`~ "ks-W" ‘=’ hougiit 'rhe gravity or the task before the British _ 1 ` ' _ fl.: ' i - ` géilgf' 27.=€3'f*’5¥S-"gTe..9.s.~..»5°--»‘ -~ " -»» Empire is not minimised, neither is it dwelt upon pessi- »-"¥"_i=\ ‘is-ia-.»».__ _, `*"~'\i=>i1t§~_»x p » '~';_\_"‘. nlisticully. The situation, in its gravity and in its hope- ‘>&1 ’ ill' fulness, is clearly and pointedly set forth. The war, he éig »!1f,`.- 3. -3 im sg, ~. ">\ =_§=\,.~ Q-'»-_<'_1 ,» )..~.< "W declares, will cost Great Britain $15,000,000 a day for the \ /~ ` next three months This was no guesswork lt was the as for them' and alsolm a general umm for the whole ”'/ f- - N .. . , . "" ""1-*-~'T studied calculation of men who knew what they were hguring on. The enormity of the amount named is incon- ° ° celvable. We in this province boast that one year’s labour m on the farms amounts on `an average to twelve million ollars. Our whole' crop would not. keep the war ’ d _ , , . . machinery going for a day. Yet this is to be continued. 20 pe co not onl for the three months specified ‘b Premie On going through our_ stock of embrolderies we find‘ that we are over stocked in several widths; for instance,5 and 9 inches wide, at 8c, 10c, 1_2c, 14c, 18c,_ 20c and 22c per yard, in a large variety of designs. We will clear these out today at a discount of 20 p. c. off the regular price. Embroidery Flouncing 20 p. c. Discount This is another line in which we find ourselves consid- erably overstocked. This we bought direct from one of_the largest manufacturers in Swltzerland._ The regular prices are 95c, $1.25, 1.45, 1.65, 1.75, 1.85. 1.95, 2.10 and 2.25. We are discounting these for one week-20 per cent. _ S. A. McDonald Ladies’ W aists 69c These lawn embroidered waists we are selling at 69c are really bargains. The regular values of them are $1.50 to $3.00. We have them in all sizes. Ladies’ House Dresses 98c made from good, strong quality of cotton; a material that will wash well, well made, all sizes 98c each. Corsets We believe our $1.00 cor- sets is the _best corset for the money ln _the City. lt has all the points of style and finish found in the $1.50 and $2.50 corset. ltis made of strong coutril, with n_lce- ly embroidered top, medium bust, long hip. Ladies’ Dress- es 65c ea. The dresses we had last week, clearing out at &_l8c the regular values of which ran from $3 to $7.00 each, are all_ sold now with the exception of some small sizes, 32 and 34. These we will clear out today at 65c each. C C Millinery The mid Summer open- ing of new millinery has proved a great success. Place your orders _as early in the week as possible that we may be able to give prompt delivery at the end of the week. We are plac- ing on sale_ now a large number of mid-summer hats for “ready-to-wear”. Patterns 10c ea. This is the only store in the City selling all kinds of patterns for 10c. These are the identical that you have been paying 15c for at the other stores. They are seam-allowing patterns, and are undoubtedly the best fitting patterns on the mar- ket:-price 10c. ' Girls’ Dresses s " if 1' ‘_ f/~l' _ __ r /".1 A N T; " \ 1* CHILDREN’S WHITE LAWN AND VOILE DRESSES, lace and embroidery ln- sertions, all sizes from 1 to 14 years;- new styles, long waist and short skirt;- prices $1.25, 1.50, 1.65, 1.75, 2.10 to 3.75. * COLORED COTTON AND CHAM BRAY DRESSES, 2 to. 14 years. Some I middy suits; all smart stylish dresses l Priéres si.1o, i.35,1.5o, 1.75, 2.10, 2.25 and 25 - Wool We are on the market this season for the largest quantity of Wool we have ever handled which we are prepared to pay the highest prices in cash or trade. ' 5 "lf _;_a-2. -J l S. A. McDonald » v Y Y Y Asquitli, but probably for many months beyond that time, and it has continued for over ten months at an almost issue." " . Premier Asquith’s speech i_s worth keeping in mlnd:- triumph." " share in the common trlunlph, or that we slleaked tlirou great a price? THANKS T0 WOMEN ClliCHg0`B 110W garbage plant is making a profit o also giving good service, under the charge of the healt departmellt. Before the wolilen of Chicago got the ballo a month for most unsatisfactory service. Then mountain are picked up by big electric cralies aild emptied into th ing ol' about $6,000 a niolith-tllaliks to the women. money and also entails waste of material that might b the opening up of manure sheds and carting manure aloii is allowed to be exposed ill the sim makin a breedlii vicinity. Y weather to make their debut in the sweet summer air. Chicagd, referred to above, hut they are sufllciently apps ` voice raised agaiinst our most flagrant nuieancee would be heeded by the City fathers. _ . The city is now about to be provided with a city lawn mower, a vacuum street sweeper and other devices for beautifylng and cleaning our city. The disposal of refuse of all kinda in an economic way might, in' the meantime be given some attention. It involves not only the question of waste but of cleanliness and healthfulness. Charlotte- town coifid be made one of the cleanest andlioslthlest cities' on the American continent as Nature has already equally heavy cost. This is the cost in dollars and cents sfderable anxiety is being mdnifested as to the course only; the cost in sons. husbands, fathers, in broken homes, of the present war, says 'an exchange. Rumours that in suspense, in sorrow, cannot be measured. but the cost Germany has proved herself unbeatable are _even heard. in both money and human life must go on “ to a victorious The Allies never expected to win this war in a rush. And this victorious issue is to be brought about not by to win in a rush and. if the area of warfare had not the United Kingdom alone, but by the British Empire, extended. she would undoubtedly have accomplished her of which we are a small part. but responsible for our design. She planned for war, and she planned for vic- proportion. Ili this connection the following extract from torious war. When Germany began her march into Bel l "Thcrc is a fitting place and fitting work for every march of victory. To halt was fatal. man and every womali in the land. Be it sooner or later, Germany halted. She has remained comparatively still the day will certainly colne when our cause shall have ever since. That is the best evidence that Germany has been vindicated and there is once more peace on earth. failed, but time is reflulrefl £0 llilmmel' h0m€ lhe l-iCt0l'y. May it be recorded on that day in the annale of thlt nation The Allies will not begin to realise upon their superior that there was no home and no workshop ln the whole of strength until the war settles ,dowll4to`a contest of staying this United Kingdom which did not take its part in the powcr. The Allies, by reason of their command of the common struggle and earn its share in the common seas, have sup9\”l0\’ Slaying D0W€i`- 'The meliwd Of DF0- This is a call to every corner of thc Empire, " to every but it is the just reward for failure to _make adequate man and every woman in the land." Alid be it remembered preparation for war in the past. that “there is a fitting place and fitting work " for each, The war has not yet passed the stage at which Ger~ whether on the firing line, in the fields at home. or in the many is able to make strenuous efforts. She is still home itself. And be it remembered also that "there shall str\_i§§lins hard- Her mighty vffeusives are still being come a day when there is once more peace on earth.” For lhurlgif . that day and that peace thc flower of the Empire is paying We cannot hope f0l° C"“3hi'l8 VlUt0rieB: the bust we with blood and sweat and suffering. What are we paying? can will, with our present preparations, is inlnillnity from HOW Will it be recorded of us on that day? That we crushing defeats. When the first months of the war took our part in the cominoil struggle and earned our passed without ollr suffering crushing reverses, we were ri in the shelter or the clean. that we crawled through the °\1r'strensth comriarativelv unimliaircd. we are setting danger without sharing in it, to the peace imugm at so ready to press the victory home when the stage arrives $2.000 11 iiivlith for the city over and Hb0v<= expenses. It is couraging. And for the Allies to bo holding their own l and tackled tho garbage problem, the city had to pay $4,000 of garbage used to lie in the hot sun, filling the air with -|»§§i|u|»-|ri|-i|--|»r|~-qirprprp-rg. stench for a mile around. Now no garba e is unloade n E d i the open air. lt is brought to the plant in iron boxes, which top of the concrete and still receiving house, and there it goes lnstaiitly to huge dryers. In addition to the enorm. ous saving of health and comfort, there is a nlolley-sav- The above is quoted by The Canadian Municipal Jour- nal froni “Women’s Century," aild is well worth reading and pondering carefully. In this city of Charlottetown we have no “mountains of garbage" to “lie in the hot sun” but we very often have fairly goodslzed hills of debris and YOU’ WU93 are W0"-|119" garbage of different kinds the removal of which costs made valuable. We have also some habits which are un- P"“Yel'f because the L0l`d “Had YOU 6101111118011 bGl0W sanitary and unsightly which a "Council of Women," were such in existence here, would not tolerate, as for instance, the streets in the day time when the flies are busy. There is also the manner in which manure and other barn debris S place for flies and other pests and poisoning the air in the There have also been, as lately as last summer, a nuni- ber of hogs kept in open yards, and a llogpen is not by any means a bed of roses. The same hogs, or their der scendants, may even now be waiting onl for the liot These are only a few of the things that we might im- prove upon. Conditions are not as had as those in take, , » " ‘ - All this I ask for Jesus' sake. I'---I U-' -'*'*""""' ent to make it worth wllile looking into. ,Our women have not yet "got the balIot"; they have not evenaeksd for lt. lf' they had we have no doubt they' would inttiitupon re- moving every possible opportunlty"the'fl eq`~enj0y,of_;ngk. ing their homes with ue ln. the meantime, ending the` - g P securing of the ballot, we have u'o doubtithat their united ` fam” Mnigg, we repeated I Whit I hippy. Dweptroul uid contented _would be if only we'eduld decide once for all to do the other fellow Just about whiitie' imulif' with him _do for ue. Of course the standard is a iiikli one and the measure indefinite. We _are selfish by nature and our ideas of what the other fellow should 'do for us might»be -too conveniently forgotten when figuring out what we should do for him. We may safely conclude, therefore, that we shall not. in the immediate future, quite satisfy ‘the other fellow, nor ligeuii. _ Iffln our regular business and neilhbourly associations, we were to take the exclusively selfish olde of the Golden Rule as our guide it would proiit._ul~-very materially. lg we could fully realise how the Golden Rule would profit ue we would all be devotees of this ancient maxim. _A 'commercial maxim tells ns that “a satisfied customer is .fthe best advertisementi" and it is true, The merchant who gives his _customer lfull value for hiirmoney is assured of that cuetomer's.coirtinuedH'businees.' He might, by _seizing an opportunity,-extort ,an exorbitant price at one 'swoop, but the swoop wou.id xueamthe loss of that cus- _tomer‘s trade. Even the dishonest and the extortloner at heart is thus ob}iged. in self-preservation, to act. honestly. This principle fs' true thrqughoutthe whole category of inter-relationships, in business, in the social, political, religious and national life. ` _ ~ In the social survey, an exhibit of which was given last evening, and the results of which are yet in the future. success or failure will depend entirely upon our Xelatious with the other fellow. If we undertake to have him do all the cleaning up of home surroundings, while our own are -as they were. to have him train up his children in the way they should go, while our own go the way they want to, then the effort will be a failure. Progress and reform are community work. not individual. and by no means the other fellow’s work; it is ours. It is in the spirit of mutual helpfulness only that condi- tions cali be bettered, that progress and happiness can be assured. Doing for others what we would have them do for us will result in as much material good for us commuliity. - ‘ . No cilusr roll otoou In the absence of continual reports of victory, con- Germany was too well prepared. She it was who expected glum it was, in her opinion, the first step in a continuous secuting a war is sloivcrthan thc correct German method; h started on the way to victory. Every day that passes with in which staying power is the test. Historians will recall Germany's unparalleled prepara- tion for war to wonder that she did not win greater victories before this time. If the Allies had not been able to retreat, in the initial stages, they would have suffered crushing reverses from sheer lack oi' military _power. Retreating by the Allies in this war, before a natioli better f equipped in every way, while not inspiring, is not dis- \ is to he winning a victory. t ills igrliirr And with his stocks and shares- Showlng his thousaud’s Furnished W°"“‘“' by w_ s_ Louwm To heaven’s gate repairs. °lI'l°‘l'§\|"l°'l'*i'l'*'I'1\‘l' AT MOTHEFl'8 KNEE I rinltv sstrscrlolls I . + ron ourlilliiiur iislilisils 'DIIIOQHIHEIII rllilvilvirlli* Viewing his loaded back, The porter uttered clear: "My foolish friend, alack, Said John Quincy Adamson" a public occasion: "_'I‘here are h two prayers that I love to say ere' e -the first is the Lord's i l taught us, and the other is what seems to be a child's| For soul or countless prayer. “Now I lay me down °°st°' g to aleep;”` and I love to say The 0l\lY C010 We know- tliat because it suits nie. Your wealth had not been I have been repeating it lost: » , . every night for many years ' - iii.. H past. and I say it yet, and I expect to say it on my last night on earth if l am con- scious.‘ Now I lay ine down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; If I should die before! wake, ` _,... I I ary conditions 1 _ Also Young _ 7 r 0 V Men s Suits ,_ Young Mengoing in long pants are requested to call here and see our $9.75 and $12.00 Suits. The Department is of- fering special induce- ments in small sizes; 35, 36 and 37 'that will please' the young fellows at $6.75 to $10 00. _»e~"¥ \ . Tl, _ 1%.. J _ /_ ..,»/,,f/ \ \ . _M ‘\_ 3; _ -= f;-;¢»» *_*-`_ ‘ ,l'T`-;- AZT' :T.?l-_- - ‘-'___ _ -2 7-//f~ Z' 411; "'/ ig.=-:-§=f-“<‘-f~_;- _eff _ ,_ fé-“ii ,; ‘ ‘ q~»~ A _ _ f~ _ r.f?.r.¥ (dig.-ni. f I 11 144180" `&Hiiiih‘Jaaf1i%aiii.'ifJ.;al~ Wires. ,Q M ' l 5. H done about nine tenths of the work. The remaining tenth' . ;..'..;.:.a...il::. at .- i. _ 1 i-lbw ramillr time words. ° ` . , _ _» , 1 we all tau-ned him in child- ‘ . \ I hood Th y w r “slit us A, . i I; . 0 . t L. . 5| * _ ._ ' We want all'_ the Ladies interested in stylish footwear to see our splendid “|'m', ‘ 'Thgy 10|-niet] our ~0f P from '_ i s2.oo to $4.50 ` r _ » .i. , / M. r J . »` ‘ _ , ¢ - . - d hat t al ' ' mmf* 'mid ‘“(ig?‘¢.“°:?‘5:;‘ weaiingiiliaaadly lggeotgthisgsrtfreiimgr ;i¢1?edv;?oili€:`§i1>()d.y gfnspgnsg rgssriiidllglefmed of git: prayers were answered. _ . . A I Lonl Years ago that.dear _ _ ,_ F F , ,.-B R 0 S mother peered away. _ _ _ ~ _ ‘ Dubai] through the years V ’ .p .» _ -._ . _'; ary of_ the _prayer mother" A ARY BOOTS -With S I ' tédglgihhiow I lay me .nd 1 I V ‘ 'Ill iffy Ind *HUM " A V i ` -- . e-i‘.1ifi_< ,_,,~f. ,f-.,»-., 1 . . - . _ .. »tfrui}.1.>i“.»i.e~¢<¥.r£~».‘..l. . .H .» .. .. . .u.'.....i.=..i&¢li_3i_€ii~.~»_.i».--.<.l,i‘.‘ __.` it 5,