or dveasued of the. colonial having 'anything to do with Canada, or with Australia, or any of the great | British flag; but now some of the un- * the colonies, ' It is a pity that our "public men are not bold enough to od > : The need of one who is more than a figurehead in office will become evi. dont as time goes on. The work of Mr. Chamberlain remains for the pre: . The influ of the master mind i ---- | EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC SERVICE, The railway mail clerks of Canada have been recently through the annual examination required by the. post of- fice department, and the results gener. ally are said to be satisfactory. The ; post office department is one of the largest departments of the public ser- vice, and the railway branch, which is | really its back bone, is directed as intelligently, as efficiently, and as economically as the business of any individual or syndicate, The Hon: Mr, Mulock created a new -* | position, called controller of Royal mail service, and to this position he called B. M. Armstrong, formerly of the Toronto post office, and gave him authority to make the best of his commission. The men in the mail ser- vice are carefully selected, and their permanent engagement depends upon concrete evidence procured from kystematio examinations. A standatd of fifty per cent. on duties is expected the first year. After that ninety per cent, is required for increases of sal- ary, and an annual examination, tak- ing in every clerk, gives the record. The duties and examinations are sev- ere physical and mental = tests, but 'J the men recogmize the importance of them and put in their spare time in getting up and keeping up the inspir- we | ation which the circumstances suggest. - The postmaster-general expects a great deal from the men, but he does his part, and had parliament adopt a new schedule of salaries, giving a lib- eral increase to 'those who show that they are deserving of it, and for this consideration he was presented with a letter of appreciation : signed by all the clerks in the service, indefinite information required by per- sistent effort is astonishing. For in- stance there are 3,500 post offices in Ontario, A mail elerk will know where every one of them is; in fact he will sort eards, with a name upon each, no two alike, at the rate of thirty in Ww minute, and give definite and pre- cise information in regard to each place, will keep up the exercise for an hour and make less than half a dozen errors. He will also' locate every train carrying mails of any descrip tion at any minute in the day in the province. He can route letters so that they will go miles out of the way and bea dimes by hours the best time by nearest travelled routes. If a certain train be late and misses the usual connection he will promptly get the next best serviee Tor his mails though it may mean a rearrangerment of the work he has already put up. Books of reference, including schedules of information, are furnished, but ime equipped is he mentally that he can work on for weeks without opening well-governing countries flying the The examinations are said to have shown almost incredible results. The al Wade's. f f E ? fil i ! over to the enemy, and his | polivient friends profess vo by satiiied e. * "Easy financing," says a print in " | referring to 'the raising of the new | Grand Trunk Pacific Joan. Easy ? Per haps, and yet the five million deposi with the government 'has not yet been made. + ret The United States will fortify. the is: to Fort Simpson. What for ? HN from the sea be covered by the of Uncle Sam? y.. » French-Canadians. : in the Atlas Loan company's case has gotten. The loan societies will keep out of the stock market, into the conditions of trade in South in the colony. The mother country is looking after her children. pliments be there was a bal- ance in the treasury when the last general election was over. A balance is not an evidence that the money spent went for political fumigation. Cabbages In Pledge. There is one pawn-broking estab. lishment in connection with Convent Garden Market that -is absolutely without a rival. The pawn hrokin license enables the Joker to kn money on garden and other produce by special contracts that only hold good for forty-cight hours 'as the extreme limit. Many a good load of fruit, flowers, or vegetables that may arrive late for one market, or that may not be instantly saleable, is p . Next morning the stuf can either be redeemed or sold Ly the broker, ' Not If It Cost $10." A bottle would I be without Polson's Nerviline," writes J. A. Ruth, a farm- er living near Trenton, Ont. "Nerviline is the best household liniment 1 know. | We use it for stomach troubles, indi- gestion, headache and summer com- plaint. 1 know of nothing better to take in hot water to break up a cold, or to rub on for rheumatism or neu- ralgin." Every farmer should keep a few bottles of Nerviline handy and have smaller doctor bills. Large hot- ties 25¢., at druggists. -------- Want Him Committed. A local firm of lawyers will, on Fri- day, at Osgoode Hall, Toronto, enter a motion to have a local mariner com- mitted to 'ail for contempt of court. The delinquent, it appears,' was served with a subpoena to appear as wit- ness in a local case of importance, He failed to respond, hence the notice to have him committed, Start Early. Yes, by all means, start carly with your Christmas buying. If you don't care to pay for them just now, pay a small part and have them laid aside, The Lockett Shoe Store will do this for you and the stock cannot be more complete or attractive than it now, ------ Sudden Déaths On The Increase. People apparently well and happy to- day, to-morrow are stricken down, and in ninety-nine cases out of every hun- dred the heart is the cause. The king of heart remedies, Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart, is within reach of all. It relieves in thirty minutes, and cures most chronic cases. Sold by H. B. Taylor and H. Wade.--91. Not Much Money. It does wot take much cash to buy a very, very, pretty pair of ladies or children's felt : slippersqat the Lockett Shoe Store, fifty cents to a dollar will do it and you get something which adds very much to the comfort of life, ' ; ---------- Most Penetrating. The quickest soother of pain, and the most penetrating liniment on the mar ket to-day is Smith's White Liniment A Lite cure for sprains, éwellings, inflamination, neuralgia, rheumatism, nd . Dig tiles, 20c., at ---------------- Advices received from South China, tell of the loss of thousands of lives as a result of the destruction of sever al hundred fishing junks in a typhoon off Swatow, es J onevery 3 7 o81 v efficiency i i the public ser OTES. i Ef 3 i Ii §r g °F : : i Why Id any Canadian port of entry guns Mr. Bergeron will run in -Beguharnofs as a liberal. He will not accept Mr, Tarte as a leader of the conservative Ames & Co's offer of a settlement been accepted. The estate will pan out better, but its lesson will not be for- An English commission has looked Africa and recommends changes which 'will give British products a preference -- The conservatives are looking for a remarkable circumstance, but it is usiye widely known. senger train and killed, ror prevails in the country. Russia is regarded as significant. the Himalayas. arrived at Vancouver by C.P.R Fraser. Br A Little Advice. Chicago Examiner. hurts the face. A good soap must be used once a day. of milk. If you have regard for your skin do borax or common oatmeal flour acts as a softener and whitens the skin. Fag Ends Of Thinks. ~Pittsburg Dispatch. News From Home. Denver Post. the evenin' shade is fallin' at the endin' o' the day An' a feller rests from labor smokin' at his pipe o' clay, There's nothin does him so much good, be fortune up or down, As the little country paper from his OM Home Town. ------ Magic Cough Cure for that hacking cough, at Taylor's, CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S Revenge For Western" Treatmen 'of China, for the; South Af- |' any dort of The decision is prompted resentment inst the countries, which have adopted Chinese immigration laws. nese indignation in this matter has been greatly intensified by the tax levied by Canada on Chinese en- tering the Dominion. British Ministers' Pensions. It is not generally known that the ministers who retire from the British cabinet are each' entitled to pensions if they care to make 'the statutory de- comparative poverty. Those of them who received salaries of £5,000 a year can claim pensions of £2,000 per annum, and recipients having salaries over £2,000 and under £5,000 are entitled to £1,200 a year, The act authorizing these pensions carried through by Mr. Glad- latter part of the six- ties. As a rule the pensions are not often claimed. Mr. Childers, who aet- ed at one time as chancellor of the exchequer, was in the enjoyment of a first-class pengion at his death, and amilton, in 1892, took provisions of the OVERCOAT POL Why in the world some mea continue go- ing to a tailor and insist upon paying $20 or $25 for coats not a whit better than the Coats we are selling at $13.50 and $15is beyond us. Some people doget ina rut, don't they ? These are the men we are after. fine coats on their backs, they will have no Japan is nego ating for two. Ar- An ac y ohn J. Price to quash the Hamilton 3 the: Bel) elstthone com- 3 ¢ ive franchise in the city. lands belonging to it on the approach | Canadian postmétcaill ask to hase vw | their sick pay restored, and also minimum wage afteg six years' ser = be made $2.25 a. day, instead of James Henry 1 ad, formerly of Montreal, aod ly of Toronto, is dead, fifty-six. He was a travel- ler in i business and was advantage of the act for three years. Lord Balfour of Burleigh is not We are willing to wait for you, Rip Van 'Winkle, but it is only fair to tell you that smart- er men are sharing advantages you do not. THE SEASON'S COAT The Chamberlain, The Westminster, The Grosvenor, The Gloster Newest materials, $7.50, $8, $10, $12, $12.50, $13.50, $15 and $16. THE H. D. BIBBY C0, Cash and One Price Clothing House, Oak Hall. would receive only a third-class pen- sion, as his salary was on the £1,200 mark. The other ministers are wealthy men. The pensions are grant- recommendation . of the minister, and have been claimed by statesmen retiring from office over a disagreement with At Swift Current, N.W.T., Harry s twenty-three, son of Edmund ad, = Woodstock, Ont., was thrown under the wheels of a pas- The Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexi- ico, have broken out and are on the war path. On Wednesday night they made an attack on a company of the 5th Regiment of Mexican Rurals and massacred sixty men. A reign of ter- Recollections By An Old Maid. When a man does any work around the house it is more trouble to clean then to do the work It is stated in diplomatic circles that Great Britain and France are jointly trying' at St. Petersburg and Tokio to bring about a peaceful settlement of the Russo-Japanese dif- fioulty. Their co-operation against I've seen young women spend three months' time and hundreds of dollars of their "father's money in getting a trousseau for the purpose of marry- ing a thirty-cent young man. Some young fellows that are trying to raise moustaches to a beauty doctor out how to remove from the upper lip. I'd just as lief promise to obey a man as to promise to love and honor A very rich copper mine has been discovered in the Garhwal district of the Himalayas. A company with a capital of 1,500,000 rupees (about 8750,000) is" being formed in Calcut- superfluous hairs him. It's as easy ICY If we can once get our ta, to develop the mine. Seventeen to do one as the mining engineers are prospecting in | Other, and sometimes a There is nothing a man hates to do Harry Jones, a Cariboo veteran, a worse than to pay his wife's dental lately elected to the B.C. legislature, . ex- press. It was the first time he had seen a train. He crossed the continent from New York to San Francisco hv prairic schooner, going north in 1872 with the rush of gold seekers up the FUR AND OVERCOAT WEATHER ovata arvise » beso or DON T W AIT Marrying in. haste is no worse than any other kind of marrying. Brigham Young was merely a man who had the opportunity. not delude yourself that soap Pug and Daughter, The strange forgetfulness of a fath- er who could not tell the name of his grown-up daughter is related by a Birmingham solicitor, who conducted a case at one of the Black Country. Desiring t girl in the box as a witness, he quired her name from the father. The latter was a rough-cut boiler-maker, scratched his head with a puzzled air, and confessed that for the life of him A good mouth' wash to sweeten the breath is made by mixing a = table- spoonful of lime water with a glass not wash in hard water. A little A man's brain is very like a mule. There are times when it will travel at a nice even pace, but, for the most part, it is either balking or galloping. name with which. his daughter been christened. "It were one o' them new-fangled uns "and we've always called her 'Tom,' because her's so lad-like." The moth- er was consulted, and it turned out that the child had been entered the church register as "Gwendoline," The dictum of the Atchison, Kan. Globe is that when a lon, man kisses a long-nosed womén, neither get anywhere near a real good time. Even when she has looked for a man under the bed and found there, it makes a think how awkward it would be her if there was one. Tt is just like a mother to do her gon's problems in algebra and then to be proud of him for it. A kodak as a Christmas gift ? Taylor's drug store. The dog is man's best friend. When a man has a cold the dog never tells hin what to do for it. . Money is no cure the comforts of li get these thin a (2 of 70 Ne " ' A goal is what most perfectly. Jos, Abramson, - Between Redden's and Crawford's, Grocers.) . N.B.-We are the sole agents for Headlight Union-made Overalls LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 30. --Cattle--Receipts, 27,000; market steady to prime steers, $5.15 medium, $3.50 to £1.90; stockers feeders, $1.75 to $4; $4.75; $1.50 to $2.30; bulls, £1.75 tc $6. to $5.75; poor to Hogs--Reeeipts to-day, 28,000; mark et ten to twenty cemts higher; mixed and butchers, £1.45 10 £4.70; good to choice 'heavy, £1.45 to £1.65: heavy, $4.25 to 84.45; light, $4.50; bulk of sales, $4.35 to $4.50. pis, 12,000; sheep steady 3 choice wothers, $3.75 to $1.9 choice mixed, $2.75 to lambs, $4 to 85.75. East Buffalo, Nov. 30. ceipts, 6,150 head: good « y; prime steers, $5.15 to pping, £4.40 to £5; butchers, cows, $2.50 to $3.75; 84; stockers and feeders, $9. stockers and heifers, £2 to cows and springers, good demand and $45 to $55; mediam 43; common, $20 to : The aftermath of to good, $30 to & $28, For while success gets A failure Until you geta bad cold and spend the price of an Overcoat on doc: tors' bills and medicine - before you decide to buy a FUR - LINED ora FUR COAT or some other comfortable OVERCOAT. The proper time to do it is now, in order to pre- vent all these troubles and that | you nay enjoy the ~ consforts of life ~ and at the same time be .properly ood to any one except to pro- » particularly when you can s from this store so reasonably. We can fit you or your boys in a Suit or Overcoat We can please you to your own satisfaction, and we will positively "save you money. To verify our statement come in and see for yourself. The People's Clothier and Gents' Furnisher, 180 Princess Street. strong; $6 to $8.25; few at $5.50. Hogs--Receipts, 25,500 head; active: ten to fifteen cents higher; heavy, $4.75 to $4.85; mixed, $4.70 to $1.75; York ers, $4.60 to $4.70; pigs, $4.85 to $4.00; roughs, $1 to $4.20; stags, $3 to $3.75. Sheep and lambs--Receipts, 29,200 head; steady; lambs, $4.50 to $5.75 : Teatlings and wethers, $4 to $4.25; ewes, 35 to $3.50; sheep mixed, £1.50 to $3.75. Sniffeling And Sneezing Colds. Can be stopped in a few minutes and permanently cured in one hour Ly in- haling fragrant healing Catarrhozone. No remedy compares with Catarrho- zone for cold in the head and nasal ca: tarrh. It soothes and heals the in flamed mucous membranes, prevents sneezing and coughing, clears away the stuffed up" feeling in the forkhead. If you haven't used Catarrhozone gct it to-day and try it on your next cold. You'll be surprised at the efficiency of this delightful inhaler treatment which pleases everyone because it eures 0 quickly. Complete outfit #1; trial size 23c. ------------ H Cunningham, = piano tuner, from Chickering'. Orders received at needs Veals---=Recalits, 53 head ; steady tof McAuley's book store, Princess street. OPERA 00 ALL THIS WEEK 13 SUMMERS STOCK. 00 Presenting the following high pertol re: TN GHT, "RIP VAN WIN, wednesday night, ** My Cla |} -- Howe. " True Irish Hearts hursday, R ton day, Mat. ** Pawn Ticke Jotun Popular Prices: 10 nd 80c, Box seats, 50c. . Mati And 20c. Seats on sale at Han -- RELIABHETY Ths pyramids have st for ages. Our business has stocd over a quarter of a centr We're proud of it-- we've a right to be 11ouest methods, hor coal and wood, honest pri That's the bulwark of buse s ; Give ns a trial order. R. CRAWFORD, DEALER IN FUEL, KINCSTC Wy ovsnmmnamomsenne: Mitopoltan Stock Ex Incorporated Under the Laws of Massa CAPITAL $100. RULLY PAID. " KINGSTON 'BRAN Clarence Chambers, Clare: Opposite British American Hote "Pron #8. . J. McKENN JJ Mar Ronde, Stocks, Graiuand Provisions margin or fur cash, Established 1854 JAMES RE] The Leading Undertaker Open day and night, See Qur Window Displa Parlor Sets and Cou i] od "=Trese Are Only Sample: Special lines of heav: our Couches, fringed around, only $6.50, and Velour five-piece Parlor only $25 Also odd ( Screens and Easels, Mail orders promptly attend: JAMES RE For Ambulance 'Phone 17. HA Cosy Bright Fire Is an attraction for eve: The cheery glow and i beat of our coal will mak felt with pleasure during tl weather. It's just the k cook with, too. Let us fil bin with -BOOTH'S CO 'Phone 133, foot of Wes TYPEWRITE FOR SALE TO RE All Kinds REPAI OFFICE SUPPLIES Telephone 480 J. R. C. DOBBS & 171 Waliington Strec LET ME HAVE YOUR And I will guarantee yor factory results. We don' hut perform the work, J sacrificed, but your best | studied. ' W. J. MURRAY, The Auct The Brightest Thing in Stove X=RAY Gres twice ss far as paste or liquid pe dryleg ap--Lasts longer--At = STRACHAN'S HARDW Don't forget weather strip to keep on