Daily British Whig (1850), 13 Nov 1903, p. 7

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LOAN swall sums, on city and farm property. manager of Frontenac Loan vestment Society. the 1'ost Office. ee ---------------- LIVERPOOL, LONDON AND GLOBE. Fire Insurance Cowpeny. Available assets, dul, 187,216. Secu ty the umiiwited limbi ity e stockhoiders RELIABLE Incorporated 18:8. Cupital Fully Paid, $1,000,000. British américan Assurance Co. MPORIUM IN LARGE OR at low rates of interest Loans gran on city d county deben- tures. Apply to Br & ONE and la- Office opposite In' addition to which the policy helders have or staff. and relates stories of the A. Farm and city {THE WAR OFFICE THIS FAMOUS ENGLISH IN- | . SETUTION DESCRIBED. M Subdued Hostility Between Differ- ent Departments--Always. Fric- tion Between the Civil and the Military Staffs--No Pride in Work Dome. A London correspondent, who was formerly in the War Office, writes: The. report. of the i, Commission -------------- | op, the conduct of hey recent war has 'undoubtedly caused an immenss sen- sati ide the War Office: inside the air is as undisturbed as ever. The ys: are as nonchalant and as uncivil as ever and as indifferent to affairs, interior or exterior, as ev- fact, there is no apparent © . War Office officials always 'did act as if they conferred an honor upon country in drawing - their salaries. They act in exactly the same old way still. The same old jealousies exist between the depart- ments. If, indeed, the house is any index to the individual, then, of a urety, our War Office is not organic disconnected parts. . It' has grown with the national needs, no doubt, but it has not kept pace with them, and it retains many marks of fits various origins upon it. It is full of useless . survivals and absurd anachronisms. I fear that the nore it ch the more it remains the same thing, and that what it was 25 years ago it is now, in spite of Lord 'Roberts and his newer methods. As a matter of fact, I have entered its sacred precincts a hundred times since I left the civil service, and lit- tle that IT have seen in the depart- ments where my work lay makes me imagine any very radical changes for the better have takem place. Hole aid Cerner Intrigues. One may imagine any form. of hole- and-corner intrigue flourishing in its dens and caverns, in peculiar and sombre obscurity, any reforms might struggle to the light as uselessly as a, neglected potato in a cellar. It docks homogeneity; there is an old conflict within its walls. The civic staff still sneers at the military G. or the A. A. G.,, or theD.A.A.G. property insured at suwest possible 5 ae " i Ta ore renewing md or giving having spe 1t i" accommodation' with business Kel rates irom | & single "m," or of some soldier ANGE & STIGANG i. Agents. stylist suggesting the use of two ARCHITECTS. = a HENRY B. SMITH. ARCHITECT, etc., Anchor Building. Market Square, 'Phone 245. POWIIR & SON, * pank Building, corner Brock 'Phone 3132. chap and Wellington streets. ce site of New Drill ner of Queem and Montreal Streets. ARTHY R BELLIS, WM. NEWLANDS, AROBITECT, OF- fice, ahood's drug 'second floor over store, cormer Printess' and Bagot . Streets. Entraice on Bagot street Talsphane AOR : Clams and other sea food, OUR FISH STAND ARCHITECT, MER- ARCHITECT, OF: Hall, near cor Fresh From the Water. : If you have wu liking for Fish, Oysters, teams of oxen "to surmount a ford." And the military stafl still regrets that it cannot on passing occasions give the civil head of a department "gells,""" and decorate the Permanent Under Secretary with that C. B. which remains "confined to bar- racks." As long as the W. O. exists in its present form, such friction is likely to continue. The best one can say for it is that it represents a reasonable equality between the two el which may prevent either getting absolutely on top as the military element bas done in France. But it is sad business after all, Over and Usder-Manned Departments. In my times (and even mow I dis- cern no great difference), some de- partments were overmanned and some were undermanned. The entire stafl of some rooins idled and played for days, whi another room was overwhelmned with work, half of which peed never have been done at all. Evolution in its course might be studied to advantage by eminent paturalists in Pall Mall, for the W. 0. is full of rudimentary appendages which die very slowly of disuse. The members employed were supposed to compose a stafl sufficient for emerg- encies, but when wars and rumors of wars arose, some gentlemen still con- tinued. doing nothing with dignity, while others slaved at the unneces- sary from 11 till 5, or perhaps lat- Even when the office was in the ny of delivering half a brigade (with half its transport), a staff offi- cer could still be found to write "No remarks" om papers with which his branch had ceased to have anythimyg Is the place to get them, We receive fresh supplies every day, of all Kinds actual to do for half a century. The which are in season. "writers,'"" or copyists, who alone Look over our list: Fresh Halibut, i i Bluefish, Silver Side Sel Haddock, | Were paid for their overtime, con- Cos Trout, Whitefish, Pike, Pickeret, | tinued with a trained intelligence in Lake Herring, Finnan Haddie, DBloaters. ed Ciscoes, Bulk and Shell iKippers, Smok Oysters. Poultry always on hand. DOMINION FISH GO. 63 Brock St. 'Phone 520. Trouble Are responsible for more deaths than any other single cause and yet at the outset they are not treated seriously. Nature has furnished two arti- cles which, properly combined, as they are in MATHIEU'S SYRUP Of Tap and Cod Liver Oil . Effect marvellous «ures, = 1f you have any threat or lung trouble en your anx by getting, a bottle of Fi A Syrup, 35¢c. It will cure you and it will build vou up. me J. L. MATHIEU CO. Proprietors, Sherfirooke, Que. 3 . derly Y's. A room upstairs, which Pleasant to the Taste. has something to do with the sur- eo hw A @ | vevirs depsrtmwent, was a smoking PRCLBES2000600000008D er -------------------------- ET BETTER EERE EYE appearing. busy, to put oft working till overtime began. When they had really done there remained no official to check them, amd another hour's overtime at tempence am hour was made, as they sat round the fire smoking and discussing their su- periors or the music halls. In one room I was credibly informed boxing gloves were kept, in another . foils. In one department, the juniors (sec- ond division clerks and writers) had invented a particularly entrancing game, which consisted in putting three or more candles in a. row and extinguishing them by a cannon s ot from a well-trained army rifle. The resulting destruction of candles was tremendous, bit it never led to any complaint, owing, possibly, to the fact that some one below stairs made a little on the transaction. Where Friction Exista If there was always friction be- tween the civil and military stafis, thre was forever some subdued hos- tility between the different depart- ments. A. G. 1, for instance, might be jealous of A. G, 2, and its mem bers would explain to all and sundry that half the work done there was the erg ooo Ws account and mark- ing tiwe ness which should have been Worked tics. We went round the world to 'got from Pall Mall to Pimlico Roos next door were aliens; a man sometimes sat a quarter of a mile from those who were doing likp werk. Papers were missing and were then descrited as "on transit," which Spent Over $2,000 Doctoring. Joseph Pominville, of with the best doctors for stomach of Chamberls ablets. 'I'he ordnance people were at loggerheads with every one. Busi- together was done through third par- meant that Messenger A was having a quiet smoke with Messenger B, or that Orderly X said the job was Or- } Stillwater, Minn., after having spent over $2,000 trouble, without relief, was advised to in's Stomach -- roo for a score of us who ®anted. to light our pipes before 1 o'clock. Ne Pride in Their Work. Pride in work or pride im smart ness there was little. No real en- couragement was afforded to a work- er. The gencral scheme of the un- warlike opetacons Was that of a badly managed school; men ended in trying to do as little as possible The smartest stafl officer was the most disliked--it was thought a good joke to hoodwink or puzzle him. Not a room in the whole office but was distinguished by some especial dunce, who probably drew £500 a year for doing nothing, and doing it badly. It was notorious that one 'man could not write out an original tele- gram with reference to the paltriest detail of the movement of troops without taking half an hour and half a dozen forms to do it on. Anoth- er's chief claim to consideration in his branch was that he could take longer to prepare any givea return than any other clerk there, and yet keep up a sweetly dignified appear- ance of bein enwrapped in ne- cessary national business. When I was a new-comer in my own room, the absence through illness of one man threw the preparation for a certain return on my shoulders, and not having been posted in tmadition, I did it in three hours and took it to the chief next door. So little did this gentleman know of the work of his own rooms that he positively declined to receive it on the ground that it could not be done under four days. This let me into the secret, and not wishing to be disloyal to the sick man, I withdrew thc return and kept it for a week. 'Ah!' said my sapient chief, 'I told you that it took. time to do it properly.' Terrible Stationery 'vaste. The wastes of His Majesty's sta- tionery is an old story, but in the War Office it probably reached its maximum. Few men in the place ever dreamed of writing private let- 'ters on anything but the best War Office paper. Some men used it who did journalistic work during office hours, in the intervals of arduous toil; one man who wrote books used it. Nobody esteemed it wrong to screw up a sheet of extra superfine foolscap to throw across the room at a friend. Any firm that wasted a square yard of expensive paper over every paltry memorandum would probably go inte the hankruptey court, but such waste is only a symp~ tom of the generzl disease which al- fects all Government offices. A real business man guing into the War Office (am it was) would have tora his hair. 1 can imagine the clearance 'which would have been made by a real organizer it he had to do what the War Office did on what it gets, provided he was to re= ceive the surplus as wages of super- intendence. Lost & Regiment for a Week. Though the military stafl was in many ways superior to the civil staff, there were some officers hold- ing responsible positions who were laughin ks to the humblest clerks. One stafl officer, who Wus pleasant, amiable and incapable, touched nothing that he did agt dis- arrange. He was not {it to ' super- intend the needle and pin department at a provincial drapery establish- ment. To him belonged the signal honor of having lost a British regi- ment in England so thoroughly that it took a week to find it. The story would read like fiction, but by or- dering this and countermanding that, by doing some things of his own and some through the W, O. and the Admiralty he hid the battalion so thoroughly that its late district said it was in Ireland, while Ireland said it was (let us say) at Colchester, and we in Pall Mall said it was at sea. But the Admiralty knew better, for H.M.S. Assistance (known to some in the navy as the Imperial pig boat), had gone to and fro and found nothing. A Red Tapes Minetaur. The building in which the nation's war business is dons typifies the way it is done. Tao go anywhere one goes up and down and round and round. The labyrinth holds a red-9) tape minotaur; the virgins of reform are strangled in high places. Like another Homer the Secretary of State gives back in flood what his subordinates send up to him in va- por. The military staff comes in fresh and goes out asphyxiated. With the keenest sense of the evil lengths to which pure militarism can go it is impossible not to pity a service re- former face to face with Wag Office inertia and tradition - Some will imagine this view. ex- aggerated. Tt is at least certain that no War Office official will admit that the present office is like what I knew it to have been 25 years ago. It few retired men will believe it very different. The younger men there now are at least sure that the other departments are all wrong, and J very much doubt if any one of them would not admit that even now at least half his time is wasted by idiotic and antiquated methods. Can't Reform Itself. To expect reform to come cut of the office itself is mere foolishness. It can' no more reform itself than an old man can make himself young: than a confirmed alcoholic can break his habit. We call ourselves a lusincss nation, and our War Office is proof of it! If it be business to do things that are not needed, to do things a dozen 'times over, and to shirk every present difliculty, then that office does business, indeed. But what may suit the nation, which does not know the truth, would rmiin any or- dinary firm, and if the War Office were to compete with mon of business it would be bankrupt before the year is out. A Bright Seoteh Laddle. A Scotch minister in one of his parochial visits met a cowboy and asked him what o'clock it was, "About 12, sir,"" was the reply. "'Well,"" remarked the minister, "3 thought it was more." 'It's mever any more here," said the boy; "it just begins at 1 again." All This Week. @.0cial sale of men's high class lace boots at Abernethy's. Read our advt. THE DAILY WHIG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18 pp -------------------- SS J ENGLISHMEN \NITIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PEOPLE. Britain a Roman Province For Three Centuries--People Recall Temper and -the Empire of Rome. ' Britain was first made known to the civilized world by the famous Roman general, Julius Caesar, in the year 55 before the birth of Christ. Caesar had conquered Gaul, a coun- which imcluded our present France Belgium, and brought it under rule of Rome; but in the course uest he learned that to west of Gaul lay an island nam- Britain, whose peoples were main- the same race with the Gauls gave them help in their nat the Roman armies. He therefore, to invade Bri- two successive descents its shores, defeated the penetrated at last be . No. event im his- more memorable than this of Caesar. In it the great-. est man of the Roman race known te the world a land whose people in the after-time were to re- call, both in their temper and im the breath of their rule, the temper and FE{RECLEERRS Liidtifty gs g : § » I Gaul; and for a hundred years more the island remained unconquered. It was not till the time of the Emper- or Claudius that its conquest was again underteken, and a war. which only ended under the Emperor Domi~ tian at last brought all the south- ern part of the island under the ruie of Rome. Britain remained a pro vince of the Roman :mpire for mora than three hundred years, During this time its tribes were reduced to order, the land was civilized, towns were built, roads mads from one end of the island to the other, mines wera opened, and London grew into one of the great ports of the world. But much oppression was mingled with this work of progress, and throughout these centuries the pro- vince was wasted from time to time by inroads of the unconquered Bri- tons of the North, whose attacks grew more formidable as Rome grew weaker in her struggle against the barbarians who beset her on every border. At last the Empire was for- ced to withdraw its troops from Bri- tain, and to leave the province to defend itself against its foes. To aid in doing this, the Britons called in bands of roldiers from Northern Ger- many, who gradually grew intg a host of invaders, and became in turn a danger to the island. These were the first Englishmen who set foot in Britain. The characteristics of these remarkable men are thus described by John Richard Green in his fam- ous "Short History of the English people."' For the Fatherland of the English race we must look far away from England itself. In the fifth cemtury country which we know to have borne the name of Angelin or Eng- land lay within the district which is now called Sleswick, a district in the heart of the peninsula that parts the Baltic from the northern seas. Its pleasant pastures, its black-tim- bered homesteads, its prim little townships looking down on inlets of purple water, were then but a wild wastes of heather and sand, girt along the coast with a sunless wood- land, broken here and thers by mea- dows that crept down to the marsh- es and the sea, The dwellers in this after the birth of Christ the one | face art which gave color and poetry te the life of Puglishmen. Fach sword had its name like a living thing. And next to their love of war came their love af the sea. Everywhere throughout Beowull's song, as everywhere throughout the life that ft pictures, we catch the salt whiff of the sea. - The Englishinan was. us proud of his sea-craft as of his war- craft; sword in teeth; he plunged into the sea to meet walrus and sea 3 he told of his whalechase amidst ¢ icy waters of the North, Hardly lesa than his love for the sea was the love he bore to the ship that traver- sed it. In the fond playfuluess of | English verse the ship was "the wavo-floater," the "foam-necked," "like a bird" as it skimmed the wave-crest, "like a swan, 'Rs its curved prow breasted the "swan- road" of the sea. : Their passion for the sea marked out for them their part in the gen- eral movement of the German na- While Goth and Lombard were slowly advancing over moun- tain and plain tite boats of the Eng lishmen pushed faster over the Sea. Bands of English rovers, outdriven Ly stress of fight, had long found a home there, and lived as they could by sack of vessel or coast. Chance has preserved for us in Sleswick peat bog one of the war keels of these early pirates. The boat is flat-bottomed, seventy feet long, and eight or feet wide, its sides of oak fastened with bark ropes and bolts, Fifty oars drove it © waves with a freight of whose arms, axes, swords, knives wers found its hold. Like the galleys of Middle Ages, such boats could creep harber to weather, but in their swif fitted ad- mirably fof piracy by the men -of these tribes wers already making themselves dreaded. Ita flat : il g : i i i i boatmen inte the first the daring English broke out in the secrecy and sudden- ® ness of the pirates' swoop, in the fiorconess of their onset, in the care- less glee with which they seized either sword or oar. they," sang a Roman poet of the time, "fierce beyond their foes, and sunning as they are fierce; the sea is their school of war and the storm their friend; they are sea-wolves that "Rebs as » Private. When Lord Roberts was in India, a complaint once reached him of the quality of the beer served out from a particular regimental canteen, and prey on the pillage of the world." he resolved to look personally faute |S the matter, He singled out a sold- jer of small stature, and asked him for his uniform. This astonishing order naturally paralyzed the small "Tommy,"' but he obediently made a Later in the day the private soldier's uniform issued from the quarters with the Com- ander-in-Chief himself inside, his a little disguised; and as & humble item in his army, the chief entered the canteen, taking a seat on a form, "How's the beer now?' he asked. 'Beer!' remarked = dis- gusted comrade. "Call this beer? Why, it's mor'n arf water!'" The Chief called for a pot, and he found it was more than half water. The next day the same neat, wir figure crossed the square, this time the full uniform of his position, an- other order for a mug of ale was given to the sergeant who was make ing money out of "Tommy." sir--certainly, sir!" said the ser- the chief's room. merely an outlying fragment of what was called the Engle or Eng- lish folk, the bulk of whom lay probably in what is mow Lower Han- over and Oldenburg. On one side of them the Saxons of Westphalia held the land from the Weser to the Rhine; on the other the Bastphalian | Saxons stretched away to the Elbe. North again of the fragment of the English folk in Sleswick lay anoth- er kindred tribe, the Jutes, Whose name is still preserved in their dis- trict of Jutland. Engle, Saxon, and Jute all belonged to the same Lbw- German branch of the Teutonic fam- ily, and at the moment when history discoveres them they were being drawn together by the ties of a com- mon blood, common speech, common social and political institutions. There is little ground, indeed, for believing that the three tribes look- ed on themsclves as one people, er that we can as yet apply to them, save by anticipation, the common name of Englishmen. But each of them was destined to share in the conquest 'of the land in which 'we live; and it is from the union of all of them when its conquest was com- plete that the English people has sprung. vent in a restlessness which drove them to take part in the general at- tack of the German race on the Em- pire of Rome. For busy tillers and busy fishers as Englishmen were, they were at heart fighters, and their world was world of war, Tribe war- lage; even within the township it- self feuds parted household - from household, and passions of hatred and er to son. all, a mood of fighting men, ven- dash of hardness but ennobled and eruelty in it, age and loyalty to plighted word, by and the worth of man. A grim joy in hard ucioristic of the race. Knglishman's "'shield-play" shield-line. Their pons, helmet and mailshirt, cach warrior's I. G. BOGART, M.D, C.M. FORMER RESIDENT of the King Ordered and . ready-made . corsets of leacr New York © = le ned district, however, seem to bave been | The cnergy of these peoples found | red with tribe, and village with vil- vengeance were handed on from fath- Their mood was, above | ' turesome, self-reliant, proud, with a | of a musical feat by a canary-bird, by the virtues which | wonderful spring from war, by personal cour- a high and stern sense of manhood fighting was already char- War was the and "sword-game" ; the gleeman's verse, took fresh fire as he sang of the rush of the host -and the crash of its arms and Wea- tall spear and pavelin, sword and. seax, the short broad dagger that hung at girdle, gathered to then much of the legend and the HOUSE ew geant, and he drew a pint of very | good beer from his own special tap. "Excellent!" said the Chief, fixing his keen eye on the sergeant. "There's no fault-to be found with this. But this is not the same bear vou sold me yesterday, when, as & soldier, 1 sat on that seat and paid my momey!" 'The Chief pushed his enquiry home, and the canteen keeper was promptly court-martial- led. ---------- a. Temperance in Australis, Temperance and prohibition bulk largely in the latest Now Zealand papers. Mahuta, the third and the last of the Maori Kings, Who re- cently renounced his sovereignity and accepted a seal in the upper house, has publicly taken the pledge by way of encouraging native chiefs to do likewise. In the districts around Dunedin, the Caledonian centre - the commercial capital of the colony, some scores of public heuses ha cegsed to exist as such through the operation of the local general elec tion. As this was the big-option poll that accompanied the recent gost compulspry closure of public houses in New Zealand history some of the leading dailies sent down some special cerrespondents to report and describe anticipated 'scenes.' Dut editorial foresight was at fault in this instance. 'There were no Scencs worthy of the attention of a pictur- esque reporter, probably because there was no liquor available as a motive power. The hotels had timed their supplies to last just up to com- pulsory closing day. Many private houses in these districis are now pri- vate hotels, well supplied with liquid refreshments. Wouderful Bird Musicians. | 'Mr. George Henschel tells in Nature ays, Seems to him sO at he should consider it incredible if he had not, with his own cars, heard it, not once, but dozens of times, A pullfinch had been taught to pipe the tune of "God Save the King,' and a young canary learned dt from him. Finally the canary became so perfect in" its mastery of the tune that when the pullfinch, as sometimes hap) s stopped after the first half a little longer than the proper rhythm war- ranted, the canary would take up the tune where the bullfinch had stopped, and finish it. the respective cages birds were in separate rooms. . All This Week. which, he tainin boots at Abernethy' parcel of his uniform and loft it in || Tt This happened when g the Special sale of men's high class lace ae. Read our advt. - One of the things that has made "Queen Qui ty" Shoes very. popular is that you have. such a wide | choice, In our great assortment, there are 'shoes for every need or occasion. : a And every design is origi- nal, exclusive, the private pro. perty of Quality." + Nearly all.the you ad- mire originate with "Queen'/] Quality." From the daintiest dress shoe to the sturdiest street boot we have special shapes to fit all ® types of feet. Fast color eyelets. Do not wear brassy Boots, $3.75 and $4. Oxfords, $8 ©P0090 080 °w @3 It's Safe to Buy Your Rubbers Here Possibly you think there's no differe 1 bers. There's the difference between the re- liable, which we sell, and many -infesior nds sold hereabouts. Then again bers too long in stock lose their s! worn go to pieces quickly. only reliable rubbers and always. these are the reasons you should, J bere. PRICES NO HIGHER. --THE--= "Happy Thought" § Is always popular with the ladies, who. know to appreciate a perfect stove. Se (T'S A THING OF BEAUTY AND A JOY FOREVER, (45 Sold in Kingston This Year Ales Pretty good recommend; éh?. nn --_-- AL or » 3 McKELVEY & "69 and 71 Street. Kingston. FOR LABAIT'S | The Purest on HW and Most Agreeabie Beverage x REMEMBER Ui WHEN REQU ---------- See our special filled . cor a el ip corge'

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