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The Island’s Leading Store
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.
@7\f.,
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. * » » `
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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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sf
"’T.
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.
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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
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the near east bathed in blood for centuries.-London
Standard.
§'iOOO0'l§'l»01l|'I°4»l»'l» ‘mill |\0W “fm-
~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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iEE|lliNl lil I]Hi|]l§E
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.
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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
Sunnyside
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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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