` A I l’.i ¢i/1" ,iii iai- J = 1' .v.=:~ "I i , I » if ,, "I I 2 ,ill ‘ &l,;§": tg'| li i 2 I . i i I i i.~ I I I sez!-ci » _ I i.,.' l _-..,.,_,_.i_A _ i .i i I Mgr’ iz’ I if , J I I *<2 s "__=k _ ` _ I _ ` ference to the consumer." I ` PiF¢ili'i'm:-iiil'¢`]Er Aff emma \ J. I. Burnett, D. K. :aim me Publisher. Anon Currie, atc Editor. , `-'”'__`sATUBDAY,`Aii'(;_Us"i"i`o,-i's`i`i'si.__"`__~ I - .\'o'ri<‘i~: E Iiighnebs the Prince df Wales, there _ th_ _ , BE.-\l"l`Il"\' 'l`lII‘l (‘l'|`\'. The Floral Association has again come forward with tangible inducements for the beautifying gardens. For this and similar induccin ‘ _ ' '_ c valuable advice and suggestion in the past the City is indebted to this organization which is doing the love of it and for the benefit of the City. It is possible that some good souls will get the idea that these prizes are available only to those who are for- tunate enough to own roomy lawns, spacious back yards, and rich enough to purchase expensive shrubbery. This is not so. Lawns and b just like men and women. This is said Without any dis- , respect either to the lawns and back yards and women. A woman, for example, may the most expensive “purple and 'fine.linen” with the most expensive Parisian creation be most unbecomingly dressed, may be what the ladies might legitimately class as a' “fright." similarly clothed and siniilarly a “fright," them are. i It is good taste that tells in dress, whether of man or woman, and it is good taste in the fixin and back yards the Floral Association is looking for and hoping to give prizes for. There is not -a lawn or a back yard in Charlottetown that could not with application of good taste and a modest ou seeds, suitable plants and other fixings, be Winner.` In any case the exercise of aiming at prize- worthiness brings its own reward. There are two main purposes in promoting this com- oftfered, which are sanitation petition, apart altogether from the prizes is the smallest consideration These two and beauty. Cleanliness and tidiness growing plants arethe prime factors in are waiting foi a bieath of wind oi othei disturbance to scatter sickness and death throughout the neighborhood. ow the benefit It is to r_eduee the number of these, to sh of cleanliness that the Floral Association ` this campaign. The other purpose is the cultivation beauty, for beautiful surroundings, for a Love of the beautiful is a virtue and one astray in morals, in religion, in patriotism There are back yards in the city in which is the beautiful in nature, in art and in in;an or woman. Ile- hind the movement for the beautifving of the City lies to redeeni the world from the last vestige of spiritual, moral and mat- the great missionary spirit whose aim is erial ugliness. 1 ._-_.__;;0¢-1_i. (‘l"|"l`I.\`(I '|`lll'l l’lII(‘IC.S'. There is at present in the United States a great scampering among the wholesalers and retailers, con- sequent upon the recent enquiry into the high cost of liv- ing and the threat to punish the profiteers. Each group is anxious to have it thoroughly uiiderstoo<_l that the fault for the high prices is someone's else blame but the other fellow. All the same the prices have come down very materially. Recent quot cut of ten, fifteen, twenty and even highe the prices of different commodities-chie The followingextracts from recent reports will be of in- terest: “Potatoes have been cut from 50 per barrel since July 28.” “Slashes in the price of dressed meats range up to five cents a pound for _pork loins. “Big drops are “The cutting has been extended to beef.” noticeable in quotations for Boston, New delphia and Chicago.” “The figures indicate the down- ward trend is general,” etc. It is significant and somewhat curious to find that the reductions so far quoted are confined to_farni products; significant also that the reductions are in the w retailers’ and wholesalers’ quotations. It more interesting to know what the margin is between th_e price received by the farmer and that wholesaler and the retailer. There is no larger proportion of the exorbitant price after the produce has left the farmer’s hands. Nor is there any doubt that any reductions made salerfanid retailer will be made by them in to the farmer. There is no indication of a drop in boots and clothing although, according to our recent despatc quantities of wool from Australia and Argentine have been purchased by the British Government and the ex- cuse of scarcity of wool can no longer be used as the cause of the exorbitant price of clothing. In Canada there is an embargo on-'the export of hides a reasonable time there should be a perceptible reduction in the available supply of leather The proportion of the cost of leather in a pair of boots to the cost very small, however, and adjustments must be made else- _where, for the larger part of the cost is in that, like the leather, is controlled by a u The only parties concerned in the cost of living who are not so united as to control prices are the farmers. They are obliged to take what they can get for their pro- duce. They are at present receiving exo Tuesday, August 19th, having been declared _ a..public, holiday in honor of the visit of His Royal _ blication of the Guardian on Wednesday, Aug. the shape of prizes for the best kept lawns and back A '-health fulness. beautiful cityql doubt that the will be no , of the City in nts as well as its work for fiowers and ack yards are or to the men I be clothed in and decorated in hats-and man may be and some of g up of lawns the niecessaijv tlay in flower made a prize- _ with healthy. disease germs undertaking of a taste for cannot go far who looks for _ No one is to ations show a r per cent' in fly foodstuffs., cents to $1.40 York, Phila - ould be much quoted by the is tacked on by the whole- the price paid hes, enormous so that within of the boots is the labor and nion sam pu- yur (melon) in nayme. in cmiaa; me uso mi- u. s. A.» There is much yet to be adjus_ted_before there is any mornin, o-uy (founded 1aa1).a4cop¢‘i- yur iueiivmio ii. -avm.. perceptible reduction in the cost ot living. In the mean _ time such items as the following are not uncommon. poison. Neighbors told recently repeated that owing to high prices, she could ‘hardly keep the children alive’-” the police Mrs. Wohlford Qsnfmssnsituuvl tiff* The Motorist BY ALBERT L. CLOUGH sy. ~i:'..\=.¢-.~,-'.:,~.\<.;z>~..ir..y.;, LOW GASOLINE ECONOMY OF SMALLCAR Fi' ,. `\ r Q boiiizlil, to uso in iiiy professionzil v.'oi'k. ii sniiill four cylinder ear. thinking that it would operate inuch inoro' i-coiioiiii<';ill_\‘ ns to gnsoliiic iliiiii the l;ii'i.l|~i' six, which I have iiovii ai'ly,1,00l) poiinils less than the lairgor prie niiii li»s ii inui-li sniailli-r iiiiiziiic, it eonsunies just :is iniicli gzisoliiie. This is quite ii dis- iippuiiiiiiieiit to ine. (‘nn you ti-Ii ine why the .aniiill car shoulii n.it do boiler than this? Answer: Perliaps your sinull car is not worn in or iuneil up io give its liost ecoiioniy niiil ihat _von niiy expect better results Inter, but iniiny vars of this cliiss- are \\';isli-I`iil oi' incl for the I`ol!o\\'_`ii,L: ri>iisoii: ln order to ninke ii sinnll oiigiiio give its utmost niiixiinuin output it inns: be capable oi' exti-eiiicly high speed .iiiil to si-.:iii'i_~ thi- riiiiuiiweii spceil, its exhaust valves niusi. be opened long before the end or the power stroke or tho cylinders will not lill properl-,‘. This vxtroiiiiily early ox- haust opening releases the expand- ing gases before they have by iiiiy ineuiis ironipleteil the useful work. upon the pistoii, which tl\1-y .ire rap- :ible of perl'oriiiIng` and' ii Ini'i.;<- p'ii'i= . the iiiel eiiiergy is llii‘_o\vii .i\\':i_v. ln otliei' \\'oi~ils, fuel ei-oiioniy is siic~ _-Iiiei-1|, In iiizixiniiiin spoi-il pei‘foi'ni» .inee-sonic people think inistnkiiigly. NOISE IN STEERING GEAR P. B. writes. When ilrivlng Inst over stony roziils, Iliore is :i 'noise is if sliiirp blows \\'ori~. striick upon the lo\vi'i- enil of ilie sto:-ring roliiiiiii. 'l`hi~ car sI1_~ei‘s :ill riglil, but I ilou`t likotliis noise. What i-iiiisos it? Answer: We czinnol bo .-'iii‘u, but inost likely it is iluo to tho pi‘i=si~ii<-e oi' end play in tho. s.Iei~i‘liig coiiiiiiu ;o iliat, when one ol' lho wlioois .zlrikvs nn obsti'ui‘tioii, it gives llie sti-i-riiiiz i-oiiiieiflioiis ii jerk that li-iiils to give tho colniliii nn eiiilwiao nio- Iioii. Soiiiiwvlii-i'i\ in thi- sioi-.riiig ile-I visa (at the li»\\'i-r ond of lin. coi- .|ni|i.) Iliore is ii llirust lioiiriiig, de- :igiii-_ii io pri-voiiit any up iiiiil iloivn inoiion ol' ilii- i-oliiinii :inil wi; lneliovi-, lliaii _you will linii ihni this iivs-.is light.- |-ning, ns ii probably Ilia liissi\iii\~:s nt this point whicli, when siiilili-iily Ink- nn up, that :icriiiiiits for the blow like noisi~_ Your iiisli‘uc‘tloii book slioiilil give iii-tuileil ilii‘ci:tioii_~i us lo lio\v to |ip;lili>ii this In-iiriiig_ _ \ it //;s.i unix s pi 'an -I. iii liiizi in.i~:»-liit I othoi' ri\I'oi‘nis.” oijui wiiiii The coming visit of the Priiicn of \’l/airs is the one absorbing topic of iiituiwfst just now. The l‘rincii will travel iioairly nine tliousaiiii inilrs in his tour ol (fzin;iiI:l, :ind I-I is s:it`o to will be he iiioro heartily fivclvoiiie than in Piiiii-.i\. l<]il\vui'd lsl;iiiil_ Tho l'i'iiii~o, though only ii slip of ii boy in 1ippeni‘niiee, -has proved liiinsell ai real inzin. As heir to th'» llritish ilirone, this proviiicie is highly hon-, :;ri'd by his pi‘<‘s<-iice, and ilii-r|»t`orr- iill sliriulil contribiite tilicii' sli:i|'e to lliii grrii popiiliii' i‘ei:i_-ptioii Ihiil ziwxiils him. .\laj:>r lli‘iii~i‘nl Sir llenry lliirstiill, who coines on the staff ol’ Ilia i’i'iii~-ii of \\'ilis, wlion he was ;\_'i-;‘ii'iiii.; Iii' his iiiiiiriciiliitimi at the lzuyail Mili- i:ii'y l`olli-gi. i'-if-eivoil Boiiii: of his tuition lroin (‘iinon Sinipmii. oi this city, who wus' ihon u inast"r in 'l`i'.in- ity College School, l‘oi't llops. 1- in t_ \\'illi llis .\I:ij<‘sl_\"s iipprnvul Iwo ver.0==llUi|~ oriu AN Acoouiu Niixi nv our iN THE ROYAL BANK (IF _CANADA /.-,"1 3' $10,084,300 H4., $16,367,150. &>4(i3,15l,302.76 Capital Paid-up 'Reserves Aggregate Assets CHAllLOTTE'1`OWN BRANCH, A. W. 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