there are' days when as we know, is stolen, , we'll say; a big din: quests, orning. there are; our transient guests . all] the &owvenir craze. 85 we! at it by taking averaves my lone experience : is is the list he made gut af-| (three a da 3 fee Sups (six n day, ot Lach) 7 denitasse cups a day 'nt $12 a 2,190.00 4,880.00 547.50 5.00 400.00 Total value of thefts for a yéar $8,345.50 This ju one hotel. aw L "The stuff is going all the time, said the hotel man, sadly, "A you'd he surprised at the class of | reople who take them. None of your | common kind. Why, the women who | [are worth millions are the worst = we have to deal with. The arrogance 1 is something ' etal. Rauglly they get the things bv stealth, bu often they do i openly, - though they. didn't tare who knew it, LS 1 The travelling public is 'peculiar --qgnd the hotel man again heaved a devp sigh. "You 3 fh white 'kid, gloves. The 'majority of them think--or protond to-that they are being robbed by the hotel people and that they may retaliate by. taking things that don't belong To them. Yes, T believe there is a clase of persons who take things, not for Souvenirs, but simply for their got le cranks aren't all bad: Very often they ask for some article { a Souvenir--openly admitting that they want to prove to their friends when return home that they have " Leaten hr high-class hotel. We always accede to such (six a day, yi i . (100 & year, at 75 ®, forks, must handle them | for a year Archer it) Loses 00 Ash Thiys 75 he a 7 taken, One woman actuglly walked in- to our parlgr in broad. daylight--a wealthy gne she wus, too--and took a loek; from the shelf and walked dt. We never got trace of Fher aghin Art China Stolen. "Another time some ane. pried opén the door of a china closet: in the par lor and «tole a sot of aft cups am! saucers valued at $128." "Have you 'tver had any one arrest ad for stealing things from yBur thls 2" + "No, nor even reprimanded any one, except once. On this occasion there Was a party of four at a table--three 'women and a man. After the meal the man amused himself by handling smal! articles of china and silverware around fo his friends, and wound up hy stuf: his own pockets. He was putting er cigar, match and ash tray in his" coat pocket when I arrived, and, under threat of arrest, compelled the party to disgorge." e manager of a still larger hotel estimated the thefts from his hotel tables in a year ns follows" Coflee spoons (3,000 w year, at 2 cf $8,750.00 1,000.00 5 forks (1,000 a year, at 1 each) lee cream forks (2,000 a year ch) § 2,000.00 and other silver articles = 80.00 ash trys (200 a year, 21 each) . 200.06 {eups. soucers," hutter sl , ete. 1,000.00 Napkins (400 n year, at $1.25 each) i wins Total for the year *¢ * Of five other hotels consulted in onc city the estimates were, respectively, £5,000, $2,000, $3,000, 82.000 and 81. B00. 'And it is estimated that all the other hotels and restaurants in the city 'combined lost at least $19 000° in" the samo manner, This makes a | total for the eity of $50,005.50. . It appeared from thé estimates of "the different hotels that each has ita wn special designs of articles which especially attractive, and .. this lifforence in' the figures. Yor if stance; one. hotel has a very pretty dembitasse oup and spoon, made ex clusively for :it, and' bearing = the 'monogram of the house. These articles {seem to: be the lodestone there. Wo- Ef men are unahle to resist them. HOW'S THIS ? gon ersiymett have known F. x. for the last 15 Years! At another hotel the dainty little napkin was the: magnet for the sou- venir hunters; again, at another place, oyster forks and ice cream forks, novel in design = and shape, go by wholesale, ° : Two New York firms of silversmiths have a contract for continually sup- plying silverware to a string of ho- tels which are constantly losing through theft, One hotel manager explained that he kept $90,000 worth of silverware on hand, and was obliged to renew it at the rate of $10,000 worth a year. Some 'of it goes into the garbage can through aceident, much more is stolen by waiters and kitchen * help, but a very considerable portion, probably the major part, is stolen by guests, One hotel proprietor in the v nity of a large college has noticed that college boys are as bad as women in the matter of filching tableware. Chey are usually young "'chappioes who have sweethearts at home, send the articles to them to show vhere they are usual' way is to secrete the thefts in a. handbag which they lay on the table while eating. : Another way is to make usé of that most popular. of hiding places for a woman, the stocking, So! deftly do they learn to slide a spoon, Knife or fork down inside their garter that no one but the watchful waiter who is trained to such things would detect it. In winter the muff furnishes a valu- able means of scoreting thefts. When a woman is seer to lay her muff near hor af the table while she eats, she is. quite apt to be placed under sur- Feilance whether she deserves it of not. Usually, however, she will not under- take to flch anything until she gets up to leave the room, and then it ix done so quickly and gracefully that it almost baflles detcetion. Onee in a while a Woman is seen to place a &poon up her sleeve, but this i8 not so popular as gome of the oth it methods, because the spoon is apt to fall out, as was the case not long ago, to the chagrin of te culprit. here have been a fow isolated cases in which - women have sought to be revenged upon others by having them placed © under suspicion as hotel din- ing-room thieves, Not long ago twé women entered a fashionable hotel and sat side by sido. During the meal a Waiter, observed one of them placing a spoon in the back of the other's dfess. leaving in- ough sticking out of the fold to insure detection. While the act was noticed, the wo- men were permitted. to. depart une \ He ww Loads Jus Three Cucsts Up of the larges cities from hotel table thefts are : w York, $150,000; Wash- ington, $125,000; Chicago, $160,000; Philadelphia, $50,000; Boston, 740,000; Baltimore, $30,000. Silver: EACH MEAL AN AGONY. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Cure Obstinate Indigestion After Other Medicines Fail, "When I was first troubled with in- digestion 1 did not bother with-it, I thought it: would pass away natural- ly. But instead of doing so it develop: ¢d into a painful chronic affection, which in spite of all 1 did grow worse and worse until 1 had abandoned all hopes of ever getting relief. * These words of Mrs. Charles McKay, of Norwood, N: S., should ve as a warming to all who sufier distress after meals, with palpitation, dro ss and loss of appetite--early warning of more seri- ous trouble to follow. used to rise in the morning," said Mrs. McKay, 'feeling nc better for a night's rest. I rapidly lost flesh and after even the most frugal meal I always ~ suffered severe pains in my stomach. 1 'cut my meals down to a few mouthfuls but even then every morsel of food caused agony. My digestion" was so weak. Some days I could scarcely drag myself about the house, and 1 was never free from sharp piercing pains in the back and est. I grew so bad that { had to Li my diet to milk and soda water, and even this caused severe suffering. In vain I sought relief--all medicines | took seemed useless. But in the dark- est hour of my uffering help came. While reading a newspaper I came across a cure that was quite similar to my own case, wrought by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. 1 thought iismnother person had been cured by ese pills of such suffering as 1 was experiencing, surely there was hope for me, and 1 at once sent to the druggist for a supply of these pills. The first. indication that these pills were helping me was the disappear- ance ofthe feeling of oppression. Then 1 began to take solid food with but hitle feeling of distress. 1 still continued taking the 'pills with an improvement every day, wdtil1 oould digest all kinds of food | 'with- out the 'least trouble' or® distress. =~ 1 am 'in splendid health to-day and all the credit is due to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." . Dr, Williams' Pink Pills go = ¥ight to the root of indigestion and other troubles by making vich, red blood which tones and strengthens évery organ of the body. That is why they cure anaemia, with all its headaches and backaches and side aches, rheumatism. and neuralgia: and the special ailments of growing girls and women of All ages, Sold by all medicine dealers or By mail at 80. a box 'or six boxes for $2.50 bv writing the Pr. Williams Medicine Co, Brockville, Ont. : IE TRA Figures may not lie, but they are uot always what they appear 10 be-- thanks to the cunning of tailors and] well-known ' erimi 4 dressminkets. been | , is not' knpwn. "The 'motive ted the hotel man who told of the incident. "Jeal: at cotirse; what would you sup- pose ¥ : Estimates of 'annual losses in sore A 1 A bis bottle 7r CN A YANKEE BATTLESHIP p---- To Rival the Dreadnaught Wil: Be Bui.t Detroit Nows. Plans have been submitted to the secretary of the navy for the néw bat- tleship recently authorized by con- gress, which is to be about equal in power and size to the great English séa-fighter Dreadnaught, the biggest battleship afloat. Since the Jaunching of Great Bri- mammoth boat, much int t has been manifested as to the strength of her guns. The Dreadnaught carrie which, for combined force, r been approached in modern nd recent tests have shown ard of things concerning its The guns of the United States bat- tleship that will be modelled some- thing on the lines of the Dreadnaught, will be even m powerful, which means they will represent the most tremendous force ever conceived and carried: out by human beings. For in- stance, a shell fired from one of the new guys, if it should maintain its muzzle velocity for three days and one-half, would reach the moon and go through it, As to the combined strength of all the guns when fired in broadside the figures are almost incomprehensible, Tests and calculations have shown, that such a broadside would strike a blow comparéd to which the falling of half a dozen skyscrapers on a ged strian along Broadway would be a Therefo the announcement that Uncle Sam is going to go Great Bri tain one better in the construction of such a ship is of great int t to all Americans. In to-morrow Sunday World the story of what these dreadful guns of the radnaught can do will give every Yankee a thrill when he realizes that in a little while we shall be able to look on. their work with g smile of satisfaction" "that our boat cag do still better, ---- Two Sources Of Supply. For more than two years dozens of Japanese have. been "entering Ching, and scattering through many. of "the Prosinces as educational advisers teachers. The detnand ~ such ad has rapidly increased until the swell- Mg numbers going to Ching cannot keep pave with the demand. China naturally desires to supply her newly- founded schools with teachers from her "own peonls, But havine had no Mmoderi education in the past, except the * effective bat limited mission schools, she finds herself without mg- terial to hand for mative teachers, She hgs adopted an orivinal but direct and effective method for raising up "such teachers, ------------ Anything To Win. New York Tribune. "The average man." remarked one discizle of Plackstone, "seems only too ready to assume we are all ligrs-- a vary unjust position, it Seems to me. Uo we not sometimes truth ?" he asked of his eh Whe nal lawyer. rromptly responded the 1 will do anything some- times to win a case." z "Certain ett The worst hours of London fog are 9 10 10:30 in the morn dopbt this of 'thousands of. office fires. winter mg. No | Svdney is caused by the lighting fof thosé who: have had | Evoawn's GREAT BANKER, Postmaster-General of Great ® Britain Owes $750,000,000 Buxton, the general, opened a new post Hanle and at a luncheo A lowed said that the post office the greatest instance in this of collectivism in the pub The pastmaster-general v away the greatest bani country, and at present less than £150,000,000. He there would not be a run on | durine the next few months. | also the greatest employer giving work to about 200,000 sons. The post office Il the telephone 10 donbt in future ¢ tele hv. Thev had cheapened certain branches, but manded that the post of wavs rroduce a balanc post REV. 6, W. PECK, * mew Secrétary of the Internat rm Burcau, who campaigu against ra rack gal Australian Antique Relic What appears an jonteresting into the remote ag been gainod by the discovery tralia of some pieces of ti feet below the surface, whit every appearance of having and shaped by the hand They were found in the san basaltic gravel of the ancient river that is being gold, and which is now f the surface by the Loddon tary of the great Mur the marks on the pie pear that they are Wood or rivér oak, called "'she oak." % either more © Japan Furnishing The Guides With the progress of edt n, perstition, prejudice, bigot clusiveness must give way milliois of China will sweep out in the irresistible current of a new lif Ups the little empire of Japan has devol™ ed the herculéan rask of supplying ad visers \ directors and inst ors for these thousands of institutions have not arisen through y « velopment, but have sprung up in 3 day by Sat of emperor. and vioerors: Reformed football has the approval kicks coming "Ways 8 4 Overcoa Are being sold now. Pri advancing. Hurry up a one * of ~~the best and money, Our. Overcoat $15, 18 anc are tailored to astonis} most critical E. P. Jenkins Cloth Queen's Football Ex TORON Special Train G. T. R. 12 DAY, NOV. #obd to return. by ¢ , up to Mond: Nov. 19th : Fare, $3.70 Re Liberal W. Meeting Liberal Ward Meetings election. of sub-division will be held in the Refory Golden Lion Block, as f TUESDAY EVENING inst. at 8 o'clock. Nos. 1 and 2 Sydenham No. 4 Ontario Ward Nos. 5 and '6 St. Lawren Nos. 7, 8,9 and 10 Ward Nos. 282, Ward WEDNESDAY EVE Nov. 14th inst at 8 o No. 3 Ontarié Ward Nos. 11, 12 13, 14 and enac Ward Nos. 16, 17, 18, 19, Rideau Ward Kingston, Nov. 5th, 19( J. McDONALD M President Ki: on Reform 23, 24 and 25 Auction Sq OF CATTLE, EAY ANE The Property cof William D sold, on Tuesday, Nov. 13th, at 100 Tons of Hay will be o'¢lee Termé--Under $10 cash, amount 12 months credit, at by furnishing approved notes WILLIAM MU) Auction S$ aeb-- Sale of the Effects of t J. Dunlop, Pittsburg, t on WEDNESDAY, 'Nc everything goes. WM. MURH : Au TAKE NOTI For a Hall Stove; Pa Kitchen Range, or any « come and see me as I have stock 1 have ever had ; wl Furaiture and Carpets. TURK'S SECOND-BA 898 Princes we endeavor to make Footwear that can Try gq ie for this fall' WEAR ALLI MILITARY BOOT 84 Brock Street Sign of JOS. F. SWIFT, FINANCIAL A