4 i i. FIGE FOUR fflofiday (lifts , Among holiday gifts for your family at this season of the year, none is lnore suitable-l than a policy in the great-West Life As- lHE llllllllltllwl llllllll $4.30 pe-r your (in tulvasu-ei President. \\'. CIOIIQI‘ N. _ Secretory, Lleslt. Cal. D. Editor nnd alas-aer- -_l~ ll.- Burnett N cw York lteprrsentn tiv Dltlalfil Chicago Represents" 1 . View-President. J. A. Mnelilllblo D- 8- U Associate Edison ll. llurlettl DD. K. Currie. Ilentn-al tlepnuentuelvw-J. C. Merrie. e—llrunk u. nodal-up B. J. Power The GFAItDIAS nay he obtains (‘hnrlotae-lovsnl _ Maritime Stationers, Grafted it. Curler it ($0., Queen St. A. llresvrn. fitalep Vendor llasllwny lloolsstull Stephen Dairy. Richmond St. surance Co. It xvill; stand as an evidence} of your love and fore-l sight for those dear to' you when other more transient gifts shall have been forgotten. MUTUAL BURDEN BEARING. when tiling-l go wrong ln LUBE Jmes do, if doe-l not mend mat-l l-r-l tn dwell loo much upon the-m Consult any agent, O1 call or ulrite HYNDMAN & CO. Limited Provincial lllanagers 61 Queen Street Charlottetown “Li; z - l No! It is Not too late for us t0 finish your Photo ‘ for Xmas. EBAYER STUDIO b-oo- QQQQAAOOQOOQO-Ob-QQ-OOQ-O I all the world y0u’ll never find g a better bread. Yovyfp U‘ Ll L; Discount Cash Sale .At Cook & Son’s M urray River We hear a lot of talk those days about the high prices of goods, and have decided to give our Customers an oppor- tunlty t6 purchase goods at law prices. On Monday, December 17th we are placing our large stock on sale at discounts ranging from 15 to 25 per cent. Sale for cash only. Come and benefit by this Slaughter Sale, as we cannot continue it long, but will do so till fur- ther notice. No oredilt will be given while the sale it oh- COOK~ & SON M1 l-i'nlvvi‘.i_ 00-04090403 . Education i la the etepping atone to pro- gress and prosperity. You, aa parents. know zms and solid your children to school that they may not be handicapped in future years. But do you know that about seven out of every ten school- children In this oountry have defective eysei Do you know that defective eyes are frequently the clues of poor school work. even though the ehila ls naturally bright? Have your ehlldfs eyse ea.- amlned now and know what .thelr condition. io-de not gusse- lr m eternally discuss them to the At ‘least a vrcll-earned and much- ifieedod rest may be had at an)‘ fimc by dwelling upon the things. hat are not wrong. {This usualli leads to the discovery at least that sverythlngls not wrong and in fact that there is infinitely more right than wrong in the world. ,l-xt-luslun of everything else. Nor when things are not us wc would like w have them, does it help matters any l0 have some Jheerfui idiot inform us thatevery- hing is lovely and that things are .ust as they ought to be. This only emphasizes the trouble. in this province at present, bless- ed as it is above all its sister mo, slut-es. knowing, as if. (foes, nothillr! ll’ famine or drought, or devastating‘ .torlll or destructive earthquake.‘ :\‘t'il \\'P have our difficulties and llt neatly minimized by a more ttllTli-L st (‘O-(lllflfllllflll than we now prac- .llte hardship of, these could .i(~l-.. We have difficulties that-are: \lliil‘t‘(| ill common by all our pet them.‘ Lei; vies and the ovvrt-nlllinf-‘J l)! should he mutualhr shared. ls illustrate. We have one priul-i-i ‘val business and only one. Oil this‘, 0i’ us live; larilllcss all th crust ilt"l'(’ilil11LS, doctors, clergymen. awycrs, frudcsnlen; all our sChOfllS ud churches and charities derlvi: This JiltiiiltlriS. needless to say. is farm- ng. it is slightly supplemented by iur fisheries, but should farming all "for one season all those others yhom we have named would be thrown out of business within the I heir sustenance from it. next year. When farming prospers all Uh!‘ WVhen Lhsrc is an abundant crop and good prices, ev- HTOIIQ else ‘gets his share, and all are prosperous. The merchant sells his goods, the professional mlzru new his fees, the schools and ‘the ihurchcs others prosper. are maintained healthy condition. lllli During the pasi. few years the farmers have carried the heavy end if the stick. While. generally, heir crops were large the prices hey received were not in propor- tion to the prices they were obliged 0 Dfly for their necessary purch- uses. ll. is true that our merchants have cut their profltla. true that hey also have their dlfflcultles to mett- l" higher wages. extra over- head expenses. etc. The farmer. it s admitted ihas worked for the Fast two years for a hare living, :nauy of them went. behind and only the few could, by rigid econ- om)’ and by "going without" show oven n. small margin of profit. As we have said, the merchants and produce buyers have cut their pro- lltlfi, in many cases have sacrificed. ilave in some cases gone behind. Tn restore our prosperity {h0g3 who deal in farm products and those who depend for their living trading with the furmersvm-ust, ‘lke ulo latter. be content with atlli smaller profits. it would pay in the long run and would hasten the re- turn of our old-time prosperity. to even buy from and soil to tho farm- er st s loss in order to give the latter an opportunity to get on his feet and get s start. This €X0llI-_ on d from lie Inllosvlal agents In l‘. T. Murphy. Prince lit" Grocery J. l’. Dull“). llllttl Ht. W‘. C. Wright, first! litsret “not ll. Tin-nu \\'llfl'¢ 12$ I'll. Ave- \V-. Dnilfel. Spring Park Road l MONDAY DEC. 17, 1923 bare living. if be docs not make money the rest of tho community cannot got if. 08 We MW“ n” “the!- Jld w-orld uf ours. it! WP)‘ liomtflsource of sup!!!)'- oooo ROADS vs WHISKEY Statistics are published filfwwlnli that 700,000 tourists passed through the province of Quebec during the present year. SUPWHCIM 0W" vers attribute this to the Quebec liquor law and the easy Bu!!!“ ‘modation afforded t.o tourists in the presumably universal thirst for ln~ toxlcants. The idea is flbfiilrd- Tourists. as a class. are not of thi- the kind who go tourfnl lust for m, “its of getting something to drink. They go forhealth and pleasure and although it may n0! that be assumed for u moment ,t.hey are strictly prohl-bltlonists ll. ‘may safely be presumed that but a them very small proportion of would he diverted from otherivise ;ilealthj' or pleasant. channels by the prospect of obtaining liquor. who so w the province of Quebec 4319f‘. .31, would b6 a defeat in a- ..- . n l). V o; enjg 4m; 11w pogpig-iFrench-speaking county followilrcidilivard island has the slow winter , _ v m m q e y service now for six mouths ill the ma‘ w‘ i‘ "33’ m’ 4' “Ollillfl-‘O! K111i" ‘year. whereas ten yl-zlrs ago the)‘, yo" "W, '0 “m m’ mo” ;tl0lli. disobey, llnr ullnw u kindly ‘allty of the Quebec liquor law arr- lcolnpzlraflvely few and, gellcrlilly‘ spéflklng, are not the class that governments are holding out in- < utwments to. There is anntllcl" factor lu lllt’§l!t5l\\'CL'U Conservative and Llbi-r-il iatlrutrtlolls held out by the prov- |llli'e of Quebec; that factor is good ent. 000 on its roads. to destination and distance. B» l Quebec other attractions. beauty mountains, picturesque rlv ors, waterfalls and rapids. which are an attraction to tour ista. sides, many mers are generally for motoring. pol-lance for Prince Edward scenic ‘beauty, the former superior, expenditure we have lavished upon them are still liar from being an attraction to tourists. This must be overcome. We cannot afford to sheet-asphalt all our country roads but we can afford to make the best use of the material we have and look after the roads fwhen made. There is ample room for improve- ment, for economic improvement Wlllilil; our means‘ and we have good reason to expect that this shnll be attended to during the coming summer. LOOKING BETTER. Tlle slight froston Friday night, practically the ‘first of the season. was a. grail. boob‘ to our farmers, especially to those who lied dress- ed poultry to dispose of. May it continue! ltls all very well to save the coal, bu-t there are other things to nave also. Pork, poultry and beef will now begin to move and some much needed pep will be sively agricultural provlnos can injected into business generally. if Ir y“; ere is mti, Those . roads, ‘for the province of Quebec has the best roads on the contin- During the past. twenty years Quebec spent upwards of $GOJi00.- She has hundreds of milesof country road equal to our boasted Charlottetown streets These nre real‘ roads, without a jolt or u rut, all plainly marked as undoubimlly has scenic all of She has her drawbacks; her sum- excessively hot, he: winter usually severe. yet these are overlooked in the general attraction and the excellent roads There is a lesson in Quebec's ox- ls- land. We have the climate and the the latter at least equal to that of Quebec. Our roads, with all the __THE__C_1HARLQ'I_‘_TETOWN GUARDIAN Notes By the Way ' The bye-election contest has :grown hot in Kent. N. 8.. where l ‘I ‘Morning Dally (founded lN-‘H $5.00 per your (In aslvunrr) delivered-mm 1101"“! Ullifls plflCB 01! TllllTi-lflu)‘. ‘nuns l|| (tannin and United Slates- of this week. An incident of the campaign the other day was the arrest of Mr. iDOUCEIIB, the Cou- servuflve candidate, just us he was ‘leaving home to attend a political bleeling. made t/he pretext for this legal ac- tion, bui. the motive behind it is believed to be political and has aroused‘ I. bitter feeling ln the breasts of Mr. ‘Doucetteb friends and supporters. The resort to such LHCiilS is causing much comment .in the county and may beresented. causing a reaction in favor of the man it was intended to injure. Hitherto the rule has been in the Dominion that when more than one seat was vacant at the time a bye- electlon was called on all such vacancies should ‘be dlllcd simul- taneously. The ‘King Government violated this rule in regard ‘to the liullfax and Kent. elections. Th1‘ Kent sent was the first to become vacant. but the Halifax election was called on the 5th of December. and that for Kent was fixed ififteen days later. At that time it was bo- llevecl in government circles that Halifax was sure to elect a Liberal and that the victory would ‘have u fnvomble effect upon the more doubtful electorate in Kent. This proved to be a mlscalculailon. in their anger and disappoint- ment over the Halifax defeat lies the explanation of the desperate know, but. the ministerial party bil- terly feel ‘the importance of elecl- lng s. supporter in Kent. at all haz- ards. ‘Hitherto all the French- speaklng constituencies have been safe ground for the government whether they were in Quebec or the Maritime ‘Provinces. To lo»:- ,l\'ent u-fter losing Halifax would hi‘ zsolnet-lling more than a double dis- lt-losely on an emphatic reverse in all blnglish-speakillg oue. A defeat in Kent would also sbroken, of the government su-pporl ill Frencbepeukiug lC-anatlu.‘ l: .wollltl.‘ulso break the even division mem-bem from New Brunswick which is now live to each lllifl)’, and would leave the Province with six Conservative nlsmllers and only four Liberal supportelis of the gov- umlncllt. in such case tllerc would be only three Provinces out of the nine in which tile King government could claim'a majority. Lavish promises and prospects ure being held out ‘by federal and provincial ministers to win the votes of the electors. In the way‘ of federal sops are the old, unfulfilled promises of rall- way extension within the county, repeated. and that. New llrunsxvick will bu mndeaseparufc fishery ills- trict under ‘an official to be :lpptiint- ell from Ottawa. instead of being undel- Halifax headquarters. as al Present. This will create another office at a good round salary ‘that can be dangled lbeforo a don-n load- ing men of the county with the pro- mise that o man from Kent will be chosen if they Liberal candidate is elected. but should he be defeated the appointment. is likely to -go else- where. The iMoncton Times, (Yun- servatlve, and The Transcript, Lib- eral, give different accounts of the meetings. as to the numbers pre- sent. the enthusiasm and the up. piauso accorded the several speak- ors. “The one point of agreement is that there ls great interest in the con-fest. with n. general expectation of a reasonably close vote. The Opposition are hopeful ‘of victory and confident that if they do not win the seat the Liberal majority of 1,500 secured in 1921, will ‘be greatly reduced. The county is re- presented in the Provincial Logis- lature by three Liberal members. one of whom, Mr. Dysurt, is Speck- er. A provincial election is due in New Brunswick next year. and a Liberal defeat in ‘Kent lust now -ywould be a black eye for the Veniot government. v The prestige of the federal and .local governments of the day are thus bound up in the election of s Liberal member at the present juncture. Premier Vsniot realises that he will be illard pressed. if not defeated in tllio election or next Your. because of ‘the extravagant expenditure and high taxation his government has imposed and the failure of revenue from his hydro- electric plant- at Musquaah on which millions have been expend- ed. So it is s ‘matter of life and dehfrh both to the King and Veniot governments to carry the Ken election. Andi! it is carried so A disputed account was- taetles resorted to ln Kent. What. the chances there may he we do ncll l l ' ' d The Publlc Forulr l, This column is open for tile : I discussion by correspondents of questions of interest. The Cha-iottetown Guardian lees not nooeaearliy endorse tno opinion expressed by its eon respondents ‘O :0 10 0 1' , e THE CAR-FERRY SERVICE. l Sir.—l have read Captain Readh-ll long hurnngue in your issue of the 10th. CnptalnReud seems to evade {the question at issue, vlz.. better passenger and mail accommodation to Prince Edward island from the end of October until May. l have made the statement that‘ Prince Edward island is going back- _\vard, and I ask Captain Read not Ito beat about the flush, but. to ans- lwer frankly as to whether malls hlllil passengers from Montreal and ‘Boston can reach lanywhere from (Yhurlottetmvu lo Tignlsb as quickly now as they could ton years ago, viu Sllmnlersltle, wlhen they could leave either Boston or Montreal ollc night. and be anywhere from Chur- lottetown to Tlgnl-sh the next night. Whether Captain Read answers this question or not, we all know that the Steam Navigation Company run to Suurmurslde and made connec- tions up until Christmas and New 3H l‘\l repeat, the service is going backg l wllrils, i As far as navigation is concern- ed. my previous letter did not have any reference to navigation beyond the fact that l did not agree that it was dangerous for the Car l-‘erry to he out after dsrk during the month of‘ November and December. but. l said "Assuming Captain Read is right, and it is dangerous, then . why can't the Car Ferry on her re- lturn morning trip bring malls und pESojODBGPS. etc.. etc..'.'" What “Traveller? myself and one or two other correspondents have been {trying to bring before the public. is t-but the passenger and mall sur- .vlce during the nlcntlls of Nov-sm- ber. December and January, is not equal now to what it was fen years ago. in other words, Prince, tll lo ililil ii for about three nlnlltlls. ‘Tmmst Assomluonfi and movi.u.iul'break the solidarity, hitherto url-jmails and iursscngt-rs on her rculrll‘; ory Wlltll the foreman stops sudd- only. llcllr." out about w‘here_the trouble and lmlurdlnllely he shuts off tllu powcl‘. machinery. . necessary repairs are done. grouse has got on u belt, perhaps some purt is in need of grease or , _ _ . Oil. 382:2’. 013$, bzhihzeilggi] a,:“y..‘h(;2 Slmllnrly ivlih that body of Charlottetown or Georgetown. Hllfllyoufs’ "ommhlng Kim“ “Tong - e delays weft‘. wry infrequent. befnré dgéggilpzryfa: 1,151.3; ,,,'If’”°",',f,? ' s ;',‘<*- ".11! °',,*;i*"“;;:g,,i~"“ ‘$5.313. filtering the blood nroflelly- ‘ Charlottetown Guardian ens via the latter route then got to “I011 will" 55°"! "'3- I Clwrlollslvwn H! R110"! 0i"? 0'0"" l‘ “Y Y“ “mm” “BB ‘he “i” covsns PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND LIKE THE each day. us against halfa day later 59089 fir! Y0“ .W0l1ll1 Willi mach"! DEW at the present time. Therefore. I Pr)’ 8nd W"! P" "N? D-"WF- ' from only one source and that. is from the food you eat. wrong your first thought should be lo cut off food nt once. tlm.e is just the sumo as running are in need or repair. gested your first plan ti; to get l'll| 0f the wastes in the system. the skin. with all help to rid ill-r system the blood of this i waste. DECS. 17,1923 i“ * ' '_",__“‘___\\ | l It Would Cost $272.46 To Send, A Letter- $~18L64 To Send‘-A'P‘gst Card-J To 9,082 Peoplel/ ' In Postage Alonel! . of firings Barium 2i By la W, TURN OFF THE POWER You are passing through a laci- N You Can Reach That Many FAMILIES - ~. With The ' Charlottetown Guardian For a Few Cents ! he l On asking llim the reason ys "'l‘ll:lt's ‘If! unusual noise . After listening car zfully he find; is \'i'lly? Became with tllc power off‘ no rthcr almnago cun be done to the Circulation 9,082 Readers 45,410! Then. with the power off. the Sonlctinlcs with machinery, some What do l meanl. ’l‘ll-at your power supply comes C°""°" Prmc“ and Grimm mac" Therefore if anything goes "IF vou WANT TO as: ‘m: coLon or THEIR MONEY-USE "m: GUARDIAN" More food. more energy at this e machinery when some pnris Further. with your organs con- I so blue and kind. The way you walked aml laugh ed. ths words you suld Have lost their poignant clcllrncss in my mind. The henrt that cried. the wounds that bled Such scarlet drops of anguish long ago Lie quiet as your dust the snow . . . Tints a purge, and injection into lver intestine. ll good sweat by Daily Selections FOR Guardian Readers (EXLK Ollflil OQOOOvQ-o-QO. And so if‘ your physician suggests | oQoo-oo-osax. as. a I SURVIVAL wll:ttr=.v---‘| ‘DPPD in some Sllflfltlli/Pll byway 0i‘ bcnraiil I "wnliongd in my prvvinns !,.,_‘ disposed friend in snluggle you . nry brain in“, some “gm (“m mmmm. par: u-r flbuut the Car Ferry hrillgllll: ~*°""~‘ ‘l-llllli- loll llllgl-r still‘ My life's small _ of you- . , “Wlde-"ltl Has found my prlsolled sclf fly-in ‘vim-p Si“. map”,- Gui-y nlofn.‘ Phat body of‘ yvlllrs will carry [You touch with sudden fingertips flung wide the doors; h mg to Iinrden zirollilll 11 lrt-lilclc. g “Wis lllvi-ly without luldcd it»! 01' llflill crying; "vi/p loved 1m- 503 To me tptain Read ignores this, 0st important ‘point altogether. \\'llt‘l‘f' ‘l1l> steamer is cimct-rncd. but‘ wick, etc. train at rerlalll staltions is (‘Ollijefilm t ed, this in‘ a mere iletall, and cllll' no ivorkell out. by the railway peo- ple. but here is the (Jar Ferry C0111- ing over to Borden 0\'€l'_\' morning. until proballLv away on when the ,. ice is heavy ill the spring, bring-l?‘ lug no nlulls and no passengers, and only the connecting lillk between! i ns.@ Sackvllle and Tormentille. and Bor- rleu and Emerald is missing. tilt-re is a train at pro-sent going? into Churlotteioiv-ll albund eleven l‘ o'clock. ‘Let. Cilptaln Read confine», his remarks to his Car Ferry, chilly/q not to the railroad, as there areal’- plcnty of railway officials to work‘ out the railway time-tables. l can only repeat that until some-y thing is done about. this mattcr. lilllll tllc mall and passe-tiger service \ to Print-c Edward island. from Nov- f ember 1st to the end of January. ' has gone backward and not. for- ward. I am. Sir, etc... C. FAIRALL FISHER. A PRINCE liNll HIS lllB LONDON. Dec. 15—A romantic story of a Russian prince who once enjoyed an income of $50,000 u year. nnd now earns $25 a week as u clerk in London, has just been told in the Bankruptcy Court. The first meeting of creditors was then held under the failure of . Prince Eugene Kotchoubey, of Sus- sex-Square. The Official Receiver said that. according to statements, debtor. was prince of the Russian Empire, who came to England in 1914. " Later he ivenf to Canada to learn farming. lie was lhen ill receipt of an income of frolu $40,000 to __ 850.000 a yenr from a trust estate under tho will of his maternal grandfather. This ceased in 1018 owing to the Bolshcvlsf Revolution in Russia. He. livr-d in Canada on ills suv- ings unill early in 1920, when he returned f0 England with his fat- her-ln-lnw with ll~ view to enforc- lng his claim to his estate in Rus- sia. He then dill a little commis- sion business, mostly in shipping. His solicitors hsd been advanc- ing hlln silnis at intervals to en- able him tn live, and, he had given them n charge on hid estate us se- curify. Apart from that osinto. the prince stated that he also had shout S42 csacn of effects nt Potro grad, of which up to the moment he had heenunable to obtain pos- session. The cases mostly con- tained plctures of great value. . He had no property in England. but might become entitled to some on the death of his father. Prince goon Kotcboubey, of whom he wns elr. i il-fe oetlmsirrl his liabilities at. 820.000 and attributed his failure to-the Bolsbevik Revolution in l. \ . I I Li fi nllkatfptgth will bogsined. it Russia and to inability to obtain n ~ jQQIOflIIQIII. ~»- the‘ m‘ power. got-s on to harp about the rallrnutlH lllllvfi it to l-Tfilfillfflly rid itself‘ and all the people of New lirun-s» poismls and it can ' A5 fur us sfopilillg the! fresh 0 brim: you up to your , strength. 0r lift to height,- _ significance. working without fucl ('11- Because of you the world is fash- tli iflllflfl m-w g ‘ then takl- on that 10m; ago l thought had "mlrl-‘ihlilll food with which with you. llsilfll oi‘ strange he true Oh. llcarl of lllille! The glad things are yours yml shall take them. them, splendidly. Finding ill nil you love some purl of me!" WINIFRED LOCKIIART WILLIS m. Emil‘- .-\ lld llvo died ‘Your face llns dinllncd: your eyes Ilifilllféf $111.6 , . ll NOW 0N TIIE WAY" ll ~l FRDM NEW YORK ' Min lliiE soon- illlil LARGE GONSIGNMENT of MA JONG THE POPULAR CHINESE GAME Realizing that there exists a great and growing Interest In the old chlnese game m“ l’ 59ml! div-W"!!! ind played so generally. we have arranged for a lange quantity 3'14 Propose to distribute them to our readers and to the public at large practically at i iiili’ii iii? cast. ... n“... . El/"YOM Willi! f0 Plly this fascinating game but the high price has horefofort Jlrevented thousands from the enjoyment of If. Many have eagerly call“! “PM dealers only to be informed that the sets average $25.00 while the cheapest war around $5. o"? "l" BUM WI". We know. fill a well-recognized need for a popula priced u! and llnetoad of $5.00, $15.00, $25.00, $100.00, or $500.00, our eete. when they arrive. Wm 50c With Three cupid ‘The game will be played exactly the same as the most elpendtirdlfltelasiiicwlll consist M 144 playing pieces, o4 counters. 4 reeks. 2 dice and a book of dlrootlons, which will explain ths game so simply that anyone will be able to play In (ll-filing. . flame or; u" i The only requirement we sek is ' st our, office and pereeht with the 50o l, _ The Ma , Jong Coupon which appears In the' Quardlan. that when the games arrive, yo? a»