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ALFRED FRASER n2 FlFTl-l AVENUE

NEW YORK ‘G99

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I. M. LAMPSON & CO.

64 Queen Street E. C. 4 London, England

Public Auction Sales 0f Raw Furs

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. A Wlse Old Trapper N the State of uhlo there lived n hunch of boys who had this trapping business science.

They each sent for separate price lists 6V1"? year and tllen sent all their furs to the house giving lnt- best quotations. After five years the decided they weren't so dread- fuiy wise because they didn't have enough profits to make their efforts worth Willie.

(m.- duy they met Tom .\lcl\iillnn driving a new car to town. Tom said he made the price of his swell outfit shipping pelts. lie told how he got wise to those funny print‘:- alld found it was better to deal vvitil Files. Porter. tit-caust- ho ul\vu_\'.~4 know in advance Just what hr- was sure of getting. llcsuid tllnt I'm-tor never offered l5 for a S3 iN-lt. liul. he always paid the $3 which hr-

down

promised and sometimes just a lilllolalilfillllt 0f

ln-ltcr. Vhus. l'ui'll\f‘ now has wise (rapper's lll-that stead of one.

Don't Take a

Chance with your

So-Illl lls your Your furs nunle and ad- rcul dollars to you. dress. Get our \\'lly sell them to Price I-lullet- eonle fellow who ins. Shipping offers you $1.25 Tags and full wilon you know pggrfiftllflfl Do blame well you are ‘t right now. lucky to get lift)’ This means cents, Ask the wise real dollars to t r a p p e r w h o you, no don't knows. put it off. Chas. “Wild today. per

I .. b no. You cHAnl-Es s‘ b.3138 llle “advance PORTER, inc. that we give B 126 we“ 27th glllhlfb dnkall and ev;

-ry s pmcn 81., New York brings sure money. iflllf-ll-S-sttiwks.

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section in-

Once a Porter Dhlll- and you will

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Phone 3694. WOO-OQ-OGO-O-O-OJ

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If you consult with daugh- ter you will discover how happy the will he ta give photographs this Xmas to friends and playmitel-

M,“ m, ipptllnlmdflf i0- day with

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Greeting Bards

It is None too Soon to Send Greet- ing Cards Abroad

We have a very nice line of En- grayed X m a s Greeting Cards at p ri c e s ranging from 5c up. ‘l Make your sei- ections N O W * while our stock is complete. CARTER ,& ,Co., - Limited

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‘goods with special regard for illosl» lIUIIlOPIt-i

mean-

Daughtefs

THE cnkntorrlarows canon.

THE [IIIIHIIITTEIIIWN Blllllllllli

tin mlunu-QI

lusllu-al lu

Mural-l Dally Wounded H687! l-‘bllll per your (In advance] delivered. $4.

per your

(‘unads and hulls-cl flutes.

Prrnllonl. \\. (‘healer M. secretary, Llrll. (‘al- l). lidllor and flotsam-r. J. If. llurm-tl

Din-Lure:

\ll'f-l'l'l'llllflla J. A. Dllwklllol. U. 5. 0. Ab! fate Elliot. l). h‘. Currie.

ll. llururfll

Montreal lfeglrrao-MIIHQQI. L‘. llorrls .\-v\ \ork |lr|onaeutltlve~—llrunk If. Northrup

l ‘l lclxo llrprenrnl

native-dd. J. Falter

Dlurlllir ritsllulr s. Grafton fit. (‘urn-I & 0a., Queen 9t.

A. llrown. stamp \emlur Hallway flunk-full

sic-plum Ilully. Illa-Ishmael ‘t.

The HFANDIAN Iny he obtained from

the following agents In

l‘. '1‘. Murphy. Prince Sh. Grocery J l‘. Dally, Queen SI.

“Wight, Kent Sin-ct lVrsl bonus White. I25 Idln Ave. Dnlslol, Spill‘ I'll-k Iloull

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BRITISH ELECTIONS TODAY ‘

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ll “Shall llrlulin change lu-r lllS~ llorlr- rmiit-y of Frcc Trudi- for Pro- lu-r-liorl or n lnodifivd form of Soc- Einlisrn" Silt-ll is in substance Ihe isslio prvscntl-d by tho Connor-vu- livo, Liberal nnd Labour rvlrllns to tho millions oi’ British electors, wbo no to tho polls today to decide lupon tho future (‘COIIOHIIC policy of‘ ’l‘iloll- decision is hound l0 have n tremendous 1-f- rvcl not only upon their own pro-

tho trade and

lhl-ir country.

tilt-ms, but upon conlnu-rco of our Emplro, and nt‘ Europe and llllitcrl Stator. in nor much lei-ls degree. The lend that may be given in such matters as "the capital levy," lmperialprefer- i-ncc, joint control lll industry, llle subsidizing oi agriculture nnd tax reduction, in bound to have mally followers in all countries for tile problems nf lnxes, of industry and of agriculture are much alikr- and well nigh universal.

For the benefit 0f'ollr renders who may he interested. we state in brief the thrs-e policies-now before British The CODSGFVHIlVI-Jtl, who are now

tho electors. in p0 wt-r. propose :

To put a tax on manufacturer]

that cause the greatest llllttlllplflyllliflll

lllle British people. I

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l To give a substantial preference '|iu ihr- Dominions.

l Toput no tux on wheat or pleat. To have investigated most carc- fully the best way they can help agriculture and mnlntain the till- age of the nation.

To examine and co-ordlnate and existing schemes of in- HIlFZHlCB against those evils that alffcct the lilo and health of the pooplc, such as old age, ill health

improve

ulid unemployment. “To develop our own cslntcs~ our Plmpirc." Tho Liberals propose: Restoration of "real peach" and lhc economic selticnlcnt of Eur- ope." Substantial in taxes ihnt fail on people with small ln-

(‘OIHIFSL

reduction

Joint control in industry.

Stimulation of production by rc- lloving enterprise of the excessive burden of local taxes.

The Labour party propose:

“Protection versus Labour Pol- icy

A Capital lcvy substantial portion of the nation's nun." ‘

Settlement of culties.

n

"to wipe on‘ a.

European diffi-

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TH E POULTRY SITUATION

THURSDAY DEC. 6, 1923

im- nil lines scored declines of 2c to 44: per “L, which was attributed to the lihcrall supplies that came IOPWEINI, the wculller for the season oi’ the ycnl- for keeping stock. At the lower lovci oi‘ the nlzlrkct, however, the-re

and un favorable

hon ‘been a good l-ltcildy demand nwlrlg._to the increased consump- tion on account of the very rea- sonable prices prevailing. ° ° ' ‘ A number of car lots oi‘ turkeys likcly find their way to this market from Wcetcr-n (‘anadn points Ibctvrcen now the 20th of the month."

ln another oxchurlge the other day it was stat/ed that fllteen Gill‘! of turkeys to be shipped east from Manitoba. Saskatchewan

will more than

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western provinces in mixed pro- ducts, including poultry.

Now, the point in all this is that we must hold the Maritime mar- kets against all competition from the west. Our poultry is admitt- edly superior to the prairie poul- try; we hold the market XUW and competition, bllt we must. be pre- pared to supply it at fie earliest possible moment. Unfortunatel: er prices than we received last during the big years following the war, but the, important thing is to bold the Mar- ket. ern sniff that came lnto the Nlari» time market was inferior in quai- iiy to ours, and was not as attrac- tively put up. Besides we had the market before the western stuff came in. Nodoubi the western farmers have learned their"

year" arid prlvflfl

supplied

lesson and will make a stronger bid this year. guard against this and even if our poultry shippers find they must reduce prices in order to get. into the market in time we must even

-lt ls up to ue to

be prepared to zlccept the lower prices in order to hold the mar- ket. 'We trust there ebnil he no serious redllctlon and we may rely on our poultry eldppem to do the best. they can me they arc ns much interested in holding the market us 0lll' farmers are.

Quality and preparedness will bc a iblg factor" ln holding ollr own against competition. and we trust our people will give attention to both.

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SHIFTING RESPONSIBILITY

"Realizing more than ever that "my country is my home, l pledge l"myeelf under the sure "guidance of God, lo place what- "cver energies capsblljtltes "are mine on the altar of my coun- “try?

anew,

and

Owing largely to weather condi- tions and the impossibility of stor- ing poultry except In cold stor- age. the poultry situation does not look promising at present. No doubt the Christmas season will make lte own demands and the us- nsl volume of poultry will be mar- keted, but. we must not forget that to the

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others are now catering Maritime Markets which once almost. If not wholly. our ' The western provinces, it will be remembered, invaded our Maritime market last year. but. fortunately. too late to affect the early Christmas sale.

The following clipping from the market report of the‘ Montreal Iinzetle of ‘December 3rd lo signi- lcant. r “The feature of the trade bore in dressed poultry during tile pelt. week no the weaker leellll that

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Premier W. L. MacKenzie King is reported to have thus expressed himself in one of hie speeches on his return from the imperial Con- ference. in view of the fact that. at the time and previously. he was openly charged wlill being the cause of the prevailing industrial depression and the calsmltons ex- odus from the country, thle refer- ence to “guidance” may well be regarded as an unjustifiable shift- ing of responsibility.

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THE RETURN OF THE PREMIER

The message of the Premier to the people of Canada. on his re- turn from attendance at the imper- lsl Conference ls very readable rhetoric signifying nothing, s suc- cession sf plelslll: plstlludel that neither lndlootoilubcy noruoodvqt.

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Notes By the Way

Runny Meadows-id, the British Labor loader. bad only recently re- turned from a tour through ltaly. Greece sad Turkey when the elec- tion came on. On his return England ‘he gave an Interview to the Manchester Guardian in course of which he said: “Everywllerel was struck with the submergeuct- of democracy." He was impressed by the paradox that the war, which was said to have been fought to unllte the world safe for democracy. has in fact delivered the most abat- tering blow democracy has stiffer- ed in recent times. lie found there is a general disposition to trust in force, an impatience with the old forms of parliamentary government, a willingness to suppress free speech and discussion. The fact is that democracy, which has some- times made progress on a powder-

of government.

Henry Ford, the mum-millionaire car manufacturer, ls warmly eulo- qlzed by a correspondent in the Lon-

llls possibility of nomination as u presidential candidate. points are noted. At a critical‘ time he caught the American virol-k- t

piled it at n low monopoly .price,l

the record of such achievements, and defiei-l competition. this he has made no alums, his l

city slime, nor are their fathers

veritable disease. Some praise is‘ due to a man who has employed so , many thousands ing for their physical, social and ~“ moral welfare. (

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At thiio writing, while the voting i

hy the King Government to save the Halifax seat and keep the “solid sixteen" block intact. Fully twe-nry H speakers, mostly llonorables, were

We shall be obliged to accept lnw- imported from various D3115 of five shaken up a hit.

provinces; from Nova Scotia. NewH::giliaphl__lg"] llll‘l.‘tlillt'.

Brunswick, lPrlnce Edward Island. Quebec and Ontario. Tlley camein obedience to an 8.0.8. call. The v Right Honorable Premier his sagaclous counsel before the- close and the Finance Minister was there throngh- u out the campaign. orable Jolln E. Sinclair

left the

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join in the trey in order that the two solid blocks iby the sea form- ing the sea-wall of Liberalism might not be broken.

We can imagine that the Dom- inion msy have tipped downward a little on its Atlantic coast ibe- neath the concentrated load of so

ship, lilrlnnce and oratory upon lt.-l r-nslcrn side. The daily l't‘('i)i‘il of the tltli-e will show whether or not n new high water mark has been made upon the shore. Fortunately the great Captain of the Ship of Slate was saved from being en- gulfed in the quicksands Wlltifl be stranded lll the ‘fog on ‘his rlrrlvnl from oversea. By a tremendous effort bis life was saver], bllt the “solid block" was etlll in peril. To save it the heroic band tolled iby night and day until the inst vote was polled.

All this effort wan put forth to cave a single seat In support of the Kllng Government. Quite nat- urally the question arises, How much effort have theee Right Hon-

orable and Honorable Gentleman put forth in two years pastto stop

the exodus, to prevent the Marl- tlmes from being depoptllaterl, to keep the promises the Fathers of Confederation made, to deal our even-handed justice to these pro- vinces by the see? Tens of mil- lions were eacrlllced in National

Railway freight rates to purchase Western Progressive support, but

w-here is the quid pro quo for the East? Wby have the provinces which defeated the ‘King Govern- ment candldatee ln 182i fared so much better than the provinces which cent to Ottawa eolid blocks of supporters? '

These are questions which have not yet been showered by the Gov- omment or by any of ltiadvocetes during the bye-elections. They are questions which admit of no enlis- fnctory answer. T-bey etlil remain as subjects for thought and reflec- tion by the people of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward island, and of New Brunswick as well. Bye-elec- tions do not usually settle very much, which ever way they turn. Even tbs-Bell Government could win byeelectlone, as we once before remarked. Government influence concentrated in a single constitu- ency may overcome popular hostil-

to'

blood circulating iiTI-‘lllml 0M1. i5 Yet orl lte trial an a SyL-llvlll the amount dcpondlnil 0i’ "0"?"- upon the slzo oi‘ your body.

od in lt.

certain quantity W“, u certain quantity in tho lungs , and in all the blood vl-ssr-ls cuff)" don Spectator, lll connection with int: tin.- llloorl about. the body.

qmpw of lhc entire

‘"0" lwedlm‘ ‘Flick lmmmmli-ln. 5"?‘ its llluch blood ill it as tile ill-art.

standardized bis invention with a Brill"-

. _ ., l _ has to do. masterly thoroughness which beats smwhefi__ mm h,

lroilrl,-—-unil sugars, and tllrn thorn l" 1101": lnto u special kind of sugar for use

- hm lures this sugar, but it stores il- workers o l rm do not smk m up, so that ii‘ at anytime you hop-

, pen to eat lees lhmwn °n U"? "TED-heal! 56ft"? your system requires, this stolud

l, the gram," producer o‘ u" the their time, vlcil-ms of alcoholism, up sugar is passed

over-work. premature age and pr... blood and carried to nil the nvcdy lat-ts.

and paid them [p1 juice, well, while at the same [lme car. it breaks up the fate so that the

"'"" it actually renders it harmless.

nto the intestine actually nlakes is going on, we are still impressed the In[gg[]f|(}

we can hold it even against ilcavy‘ with the tremendoug effort mfldc along bctler.

salts as purgatives.

Eve" [he "on, such good results in health.

island the lighter ‘by the light of very wry his weight to cross the Strait and got results.

mnny heavyweights of staicsmun- -

At two o’clock in thc. mornillit. if

You will hear tho fcr-t of the Wind

And tile trees in the silullmv rus-

Anrl though it is deep, dark night.

Gentle but waking the world, as he

By “m” w_ Baton. M.D.

LIFE AND THE Lil/ER

why l talk so much about the liver.

.. be old saying Life depends n90" I liver" is so terrlblY "he that you have never realized it. As I've told you so ottcn, the refill lit.» of your body depends "I10" l i‘ life stream. U16 “i004- Now thorn are so many quarts oi‘ Ill Yo".

Ever-y part 0f Y0"? llfllly Iii hum‘

At any glvcu-linlo tin-re is fl lll ihc hl-art il-

ll is r-stllllnlml that on" IIIIIIPIM‘ supply is lll honrt. units. and the vessels.

Am] yo! nt that very lllllll also. m. Hyqq" lllut one organ, has just

ungs, rind vceilols huvl- all pllt io- You know what lilo livv-r lt has to tnko nil the vegetables

n the body. it not only manufac-

vegetablee than

out lnto tho

And lllI-ifl rho liver rnarnlfnctilrrw‘ he bile which lo a most worldw- You will remember that

ystem can absorb it. it also takes are of most of the harmful mat- rial that gets into the stomach.

And finally the bile as it passes

move its contents

Sonic lllanulaciures sell bile

lily readers must often Wflnlli’?

The truth of the nlntter is that the '

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/ / r

More sold ‘than all other brand; combined

Beautifully 6°00] and Sweet Smoking,

So you see why i talk about tllc ver e0 lllllCll. _ _ i How inlportrult ji is that it gels That's whv the zlctlullly slrikc it tilrough vvcry ‘time: yolli

That's why also that you arc ad- isorl so otlcll to bend that hodyl

can... of yours from side lo side so ns lo and on tile last (lily nl' this month

_ , 1 ' h! '. ' , . Last year much oi the west- across the Atlantic Ocean to she Sllgeéizifzullaillogwgrnrlnd m“ “M” the Dliifill

So now you see that it’ one quar-

Rlghl- PIOIIDYHBIB tcr of all your blood is in tile liver.

nd is working properly, you get

You can llkclvlse soc that ii’ that flllli) large quantity is working slowly in tllcrrl. you nil-lo But how different.

with worth thinking nbout, isln‘t

Daily Selections POI Guardian Readers

THE DAWN WIND

(The Fifteenth Century}

you open your wludnw and

llstr-n,

that. is going to call lllc sun. tic and the trues lll tho moonlight glistcn, you feel that lilo night lH done. . .

Back comes tile Wind full strength

with a blow like an angel's wind.

The

shouts: Sun!

n,“ And the light floods over tile fields and the birds begin to sing, And the Wind djcs down ln the

grass, , lt ir-l day and his work le done.

“The

So when the world is uelcep. and there seems no hope of her waking 011i of some long. bad dream thin lnakes her lnntter end moan. Suddenly, all men urlee to the noise of letters breaking, And every one smiles at his neigh- bor and tells hlnl hie eoul is his own -Rudylrd Kipling

hi

always ominous of defeat the the following general election.

Mr. Lloyd Gdllrfle his predicted g million majority for Free Trade in lheelectlons which take place to- day. As there are eighteen millions of voters-—ten millions of men and eight millions of women—and as a very large proportion of them seem likely to record their votes, a mll- lion majority one way or the other would not be so very remarkable. Much would seem to depald upon the Labor vote. Common sense might teach organised labor that protection would assure higher wales and more employment, but lf tile workers follow their recog- nised loader, Ramsay slacgonnld.

lty.‘ Bat when o bye-election felon. _ '4 “Si; at’, or shovels-

Hollanders Celebrate Wilhelnlinais Reign

ago \\'llllcl- of Holland.

'l‘\\'t>lll_\'-l'l\’t* ycrlrs lllllla bccnnle (Queen

‘people will celebrate the silver jubilee with great on» tllusiaslll. They have reason to lll‘ proud or‘ their queen and thunk-

ful that they escaped being drawn into tile Lireat Will", as nligllt llZlVP happened bad a sovcrlgn of differ- chi ambition occupied the till-one. ll; is true that the Prince Consort. Prince Henry of Mecklinborg-Sclf- werin, is a (lernlan, and n-t firs!

t-aougllt to interfere lll nlfzlirs of State. But be was snubbed by Dutch Ministers and checked by tho Queen, so that by lilo tinn- Illi‘ Will’ broke out. he was cxcrcisillg no illflucrlt-e. The (ivrmzlrl infill

onco nt The llaguc n-l-oivt-rl no on- cilurzlgcnlerlt from hiru, and ills ni- litndo of m-uirnlity was nlwnls no correct us tllc zlttiiluli- oi‘ "(lllllllll list-ll‘. (lcrnluny nought to have liollurld bccnmo llcr ally, then for il time it seemed no lllflllgll phc ill‘- drt-d llollnnd to go 0V0!‘ i0 the Al‘ lics lll order that it might ‘be swirli- ly overrun and pillnuctl, as who Belgium. We know also thnt Will- stoll Chart-hill cntPriaillt-rl/ r-lolm- llnro-brnlnt-d sl-llvnlo liint ivoulrl have forced Ilollzuld into tllc Will‘. Tho Dutch lulvo good grounds 1'01" thanksgiving at this time.

The Only Daughter

Wilhelmina wile the only (laugh- ter and third child of Wllliunl lll the King of the Netllerlundsnvhose reputation was rloi. much better than itllut of the late King Leopold. of Congo fame. I-ils intrigues were notorious and his wild onie were sown after he ascended the throne and inherited from his fatilor u Ill‘- tune of 100,000,000 fiorins. ills dict wife. Sophia. daughter of tho King of Wurtcmllurg, kept lllnl In hounds for a willie and presented him with two sons. one of whom died as a result of (lleeiplttion zuul the other from spinal disease. At the age of sixty-two be fell violent- ly in love with Princess Helen oi' Wsldeck-Pyrmont. Sire laughed at him, llnd tllle wounded llls prldc. Oné day he heard Princess Enunzl. her ulster, say, "ilelen, l should never refuse to be a Queen." and he then transferred his offer, if not his affections, and wedded Emma, who was then only nineteen years old. ‘Wilhelmina was lhe_ fruit of this llnloll. sud on ller father's death, became heiress to the throne .he Salic lsw having been suspel- rlerl by the Dutch Parliament.