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Ja ") a Soa y hr and chapped ano cures al Himples, in en skin fine and soft. 25c. drugeists, Bend 2c for free beok 'The Care of the Skin.» JAS. B. McLEOD. 140 E4E4E TEESE EEEEE SSO ES AN EASY VICTIM ~~] To CONSUMPTION The ma dow Stern Is an. inviting fleld for the germ 0 losis. You cannot' avold breat Hr ohié getms-- they ang Es ut & robust sys- tem is imimune from their attacks: To rebuild ,a weakened system there is noth; ght co contains. fo much virtue as Col but the virtue is hE ome Lhe - + Erde the iminated, ol nine ible bined ot in the form of the Com- of ,; the Fact of t aod ihe Birnch | spect RECEIVING, AND TRANSMITTING WIRES AT WHITEHALLION J THE SUMMIT OFTHE "ADM IRALTVADOME, London, Dee. 4.--0Onee or twice late- the impression has been conveyed writing in' the press that in re of certain minor details of equipment the royal navy of = Great ly by | Britain has lagged unaccotintably bé- mgign fleets. wm said over and over again,'is far ahead of Great Britain in the development of #ub- marine sopnd signaling. The Am- erican development of 7! wireless tele phony is also: held up &4® an example to be' followed by 'thé British admir- alty. The naval corr ondgit of Glasgow "Herald! horwites knowledge and insight, takes critics to task in ap article ip this morning's igsug of His paper. in which he sayS that ey Have beén deceived by the quiet way in which the peo- ple at the adiiralty work. "For instance,. thousands who up and dotvn 'Whitehall daily and look up a little wonderingly at the poles and meshes of wires on the roof CL hind some of the Americad it has the with these pass NEWSPAPER REPORTERS. 'Canada Has The Very Finest to Be Got. Fixchange. Canada has 'as fine a'élass of reporters as any country under the sun, and sone S000 and a Yo ald roy. ONT AGIO: i BRICKS BLESS " will build up the e Bronchit y the arated o thal will care: oHions, apd system, ake your you heed have, no fa disease: rors a and of germs or Read "Bricks guarantee with each bottle. " BRICK'S TASTELESS" retail pice. Bt Sah I ta co cents, al n tw Fi) oleh' bottles, retail price one (1) dollar > bp " ' ¢ wo AND WOMEN, ve Big © for unoatursl ras inflammations, irritations or ulcerations | rg mucous membranes. . sinless, and not astrine gent or ig inn Sold or sant "| plain wrapper, by express, prepsid, for 1,00, or 3 bottles $2.75. ar gent on request. or to 16 Rrietre. Overgaiters in | Ladies' Overgaiters, black, 36¢ to iil. Ladies' Ovyergaiters, other shades, 7c to $1. Misses' Corduroy Cloth Leggings, 75¢ 85¢. in Men's Spats In black and other shades, 85¢, $1 and 1.25. H. JENNINGS, King y -- pr ge and | 1 of the Dbest.and, most useful members of the profession in the leading United States cities hail from the land of the beaver and. the maple leaf. Here re porters are generally young men under thirty years of age. Picking up any of the leading" papers of the dominion it will. he seen that the major portion. of the reading is the work of those who detail 'the gay and festivé, the; sad and solemn with equal vividness. This mul- tifarious work .a_correspondent writing | recently aptly describes -- | They pietiire "Wilh glowing pen the | beauties, of a ball, they paint with sombre brush the dirges of a fuheral; they seek incoming steamers, for earliest intelli- gence; thay give al sketch 6f the ghastly morgue; thay pttend the opening of a bridge or rush with: the policemen to | extricafe' the wonded from a collision; | they make, one of. the damp and dismal | party én the dtitsKirts of a humble vil | lage, waiting tq display in characteristic [ terms the efforts of.a Sullivan and a | Slade. Front the dS overy of a found- [ling in a basket 'on Mr. Somebody Ss' doorsteps, thropgh" every walk of life | until the closing of the grave upon:the dead, the repotter' paints, pictures, pen- sketches, © Wéscribes everything A Bad Stomach may come from one of three causes -- faulty digestion, constipation "or weak kidneys. Whether it's oneor all three of these troubles, ABBEY'S SALT will sweeten the stomach, make the digestion sound, and regulate and strengthen the kidneys. Sv "STOVES" We carry in stock one of the "largest as- gortments of CooKing Stoves, es and "Heaters in the city, and invite - toiex- examine before puret 1asing. 'Bee the "Art Garland" and ° 'Art Treasure" Heaters. OOOO foobooe DO0000000000000000000Q The "HAPPY HOME" Range bas a large ventilated oven, handsomein design, econ- 'omfeal in fuel and a perfect baker, ELLIOTT BROS., " "ne Q000000Q00000000000000 ADMIRALTY BUILDINGS ok the admiralty buildings, take for uranted that this gear some} thing to do 'With wireless telegraphy. | Phe newspapers have told them 'on | several oteasions vecently that my | lords were mble to communicate with: hips in the channel by means of wire A -------- ar Known to human existence. Reporters | differ in many ways. Some are purely descriptive, in"some a bump 'of humor 8° magnificently developed; some per- mieate 'a story, short or'long, with in- dices of personality. ' Others are cast won {if Fecital, {nd make stories piquant as an algebraic problem. A good re- porter] gifted with normal spirits and | health, 1s a thing of beauty and a" joy | forever in any well regulated newspaper | office. Every door is open. to him, the field of Tife is spread before him with | its sunshine and its shadow. In the course gf an evening he telks with preside ats and walks with princes, he sits with the sorrowful and mourns | with the humble. In church to-day, in gaol to-morrow, merrily dancing with Ation this evening, deep down in coal pits with striking miners some other evening. Now he interviews a magnate f the land, and now takes the dying deposition of abutchered thief. Part »f an evening is spent in the cathedral fair, past in a political meeting, part in the debris: of a railroad collisiori. No plage 'is too sacred, none too lowly, no man is too high, too rich, too great for him to, approac h, none too poor, too huwhble for him to serve. He as much at _hgme in the palace of a gil- lionaire as in an hospital ward of a prison, He writes with equal readiness the glib utterances of a beirilled-bishop and the harrowing confession of a poor devil in the cells. A good reporter must be discreet. How 'much he hears he cannot tell how much he knows 'it would net be. fair for him to reveal! He the best. and worst types of society, and has his hand more -con- stantly upon the pulse of affairs than any minister, lawyer, doctor or merchant. In foray and forage, at fun'ral or wed- ding, 2 'Mid Boreal suns tan ; Where dancers. are smiling or mu tears shedding, You'll surely run foul of a man. In the camp, with his country s 'preservers, halls where. Dane votaries decks concerts; in front--the obsérvers-- More than facile princeps rex. 1s sees snows, or where Topic derous newspaper host |) at his In Fashion her observed of At he's facile Should Satan himsell rune across a reporuer, An interview'd no doubt The: seribe would soon show him for' once #0 that he'd caught a Young man whose mamma oi he was oul. ¢ When the final crash there to record it, With note book and pencil as of yore, "Gabriel's afford it-- morning you'll columns or four. follow--of that there's was aw are "peli the comes, be same of Trumpet"--if you can Next read it--three Faithful Service. London Tit-Bits, They did not very often give dinner- parties, and never gave large ones; but at the little reunions"to. which they did invite their friends they liked everything of the best. So, on the afternoon of onc; of their choice little feasts, the host summoned his boy in buttons afid said : "Now, John, you must be very careful how you hand round the wine." axes, sir." "These battles with the black seals are the Dest, and these with red seal the inférior sherry. 'The best shérry is, for after dinner; the inferior sherry you will hand rourid with the hock after soup. You unders tand--hock and the | inferior sherry after soup? "Yes, sir, perfectly," said the boy in buttons. : The evening came, the guests came | and everything was progressing admir- ably till the boy went round the table asking of every guest: ""Hock' or, in- ine T OW IT WATH ALL VESSELS "WITHIN, 6OQNILES and | ¢ bits FRAP! ORTCRTION Jess telegraphy. That was probably [the extent of the _achievenfent some time neo. = Now, however; wireless telephony has succeeded wireless tele- waohy and: the staff at Whitehall is able to speak with ghipa in the chan- nel if they desire to do so." HOME FOR INVENTIONS: American' = Patent Office Structure. Steps are being taken for the erection of a utting monument to the genius of Amicrican invention. It Will be in the form of the finest building in 'the world, Wants devoted exclusively to the protection of inventors. The United States Patent i about the only Wwireau 6f the ) The fees it collects for cting inventors have sérved to ren- er iy a money-making stitution. Tt i colleeted nearly $7,000,000 hore 1 the cost of operating the bureat. : commissioner. of patents regards a little unfair to inventors that the government should make money out of its business with them, especially if it refuses to house that businéss ap- propriately. He thinks this $7,000,000 of mventors' money now inthe United States treasury ought té Be taken 'to build the patent office a fitting home of its ow. Tt now resides in a building shared by the department of the ifiterior, where both are unduly crowded. Fuithe rmore, the commissioner points | Sut; end of the direct profit' which the government. gets out. of the business of protecting inventors is nowhere in sig Last vear 58,527 patents, were ap- plied for, and 36,000 were granted, The | number < of © applications "has. | jdpproxi- | mately doubled in eighteen years. In | there have been 902,000 patents is~ | sued hy the government, - If the records of the patent office could speak, what tales of success and. failure they would tell! the Colds Of Evéry Degree. For the mildest cold or the severcsi, including those marked by. headache, backache, feverish eonditions or chills, Wade's (old Cure Tablets will be found a prompt and déerfain remedy. In boxes, at Wade's drug store. Money back if not satisfactory: 28e., Hot Water At Deepwater: Cass County - (Mo.) DPemoerati . A young man at Deepwater had his face accidently 4calded last week while as Xing his mother with her: work. in the kitchen; and as a result" all 6f the youths in' that town are now running irom household work 'like it i8 poison. Dr. Hamilton Talks Ty kl Young Girls and to Wo- men, Both Old and Young The reputation of this noted physi- cian needs no comment. For years he wis one of the 'most noted and: dis- tinguished practitioners' in En rand, In speaking of the ills frém which wo- men. suffer, Pr; Hamilton points out that nine out of every ten women are by nature inclined to. habituil con- stipation. Harsh purgatives are re- sorted to which only intensify the trouble. Although not generally known, it is a constipatod condition of the bowels that causes half the sickness and tired * wearipess | with | which all womankind is so familiar. It was after long years of! stidy that tr. Hamilton perfecied the pills. which have been of such. marvellous benefit to women the world over, In his pills of Mandrake and Butternut every suf- ferer will find an absolute speeifig. for constipation, sick headache and bil- iousness, It safe to say that Pr, Hamilton's Pills bring better health, and keep the system in a more vigor- ous condition than any other medi. ferior sherry?" And éveryone took Lock. cing ever discovered. Sm | Which Expretes a rita That i | Worthy of Consideration 'in| | asked why she did not marry in» | nay become a wationdl Katie. = peed to muh sérvice, the drudge the the American man's wife, More than | companion | makes them self-centered, even to the $ extent Rk | in¢ident, rather than as the central fig» {be an affair of women, who plage their A clever. widow's reply * 10 one! who | was that a. hushand. is an and that she préférs eine Arnon or Ra | leisure. The reason is amusing; but adide from its rh Sw | presses a. truth 'tat as an oécupdtion the bread winner it js the prose and not the poetry of life that the human race lives, it is cers tainly Wise to také facts into account and 'order Yife accordingly. © © Although the majority of married wo- men, including those who live on farms, as well as urban dwellers; 'dre com- of.sérvant wife surély cannot be sai the man of any other race; he is prone: ito regard-the woman of his choice as a inn the comrade sense, and to. expect of her more than the conven- tional requirements of the marriage state. He may vot put Ms views into words ofr seek to enforce them, but -he holds them nevertheless, and he is right ini the position he takes, thar in the ab- sense of any agréement fo, the contrary) he and his affairs shall be her supreme inferest, increasing indepéndence of American girls is dpt to develop in them a sense of self-sufficiency that of regarding a husband, as an ure of their lives, and to this tendency may "bh attribiited much ; matrimonial | discord and wreckage. » The American ! woman is much given fo regarding with. | scorn German and English wives, whose. subserviency she deems as beneath con tempt, but while she complacently ac- cepts the higher estéem in which she is held; and vaunts herself accordingly, the idea of reciprocity does hot always o¢- cur to her. Marriage is coming more and:more to lives on. the individual basis, and ap- significance, ex : . | doubtless vot '$6 romafitic' a figare as .{he is pictured' in song and story, but as parently object to modifying the scheme enough to give theirshusbapds the status | they should hold. Now of marriage, | one cannqf serve two masters-- | using the word not in the sense of | stiperior and slave, but rather in that of | a leading life motive--and in the one case as in the other an attempt to com-: bine self"indulgence with duty ends in duty going by the board. The idea of return service of any kind to be rendered as a just equivalent for material advan- tages, which their hushands supply, does not appeal to many leisure class wives, nor do they seem to realize that they have assumed obligations in Tartjage which they: are acting in bad faith hy répudiating.--From an article in Vogue. The Carpenter, Alice Ranlett. That evening, when he Carpenter wut shop floor, And Plated the tools /in order, and shut Aud barred: for the last humble dour, going on His world, Turned from the Hborer's lot more I wonder--was he glad ? time, "the Aud, way to. save the forever That morning, when the Carpenter walk- ed forth From Joseph's doorway, + mering light, nd bade Ais loving mother long fares well And. through the rose-shot skies with dawning bright, looming the dark Cross, Yet, seeing, set His Calvary's height, I w oNer--was he sad? . in the glim- Saw shadow of the feet: "toward Ah! when the Carpenter went on His way, Hé thought not for himself, of gpod or ill, One was His 'path thronging men, Craving His help crowned hill, In toiling, teaching, all Ilis joy, His life, to do the good y | God's will : |. * | through shop or ! e'en to the eross- healing, sufferihg--- So earth and heaven are glad! No Longer Young. London Argonaut. Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds, at a luncheon in New: York, narrated her impressions of the great city that she had not seen for twenty years." "New York has now taken her place among the world's capitals," she said. "New York is no longer young and unsophis- ticated. She has now all the weariness of voice of Patis, London, and Rome. They who still speak of New York as young, childish, innocent, spe very foolishly, They remind me of Lord Exe of the-Carlton. Lord Exerat seventy ; tried to tead 'the life 'of a youth of | twenty-five. "He dyed his hair, wore a corset, go frequented the music halls, Piccadilly Circus and "the Burlington * Arcade. One afternoon as he drove from thé Carlton 'in his brougham, a member said, smiling: "There goes Fie. He told me over a whiskey and soda just now that he felt as fresh as a two- year-old.' Another "member sneered : "He probably meant a two-yeat-old egg,' he murmured." Forenoon In Scotland, Washington Star. A young boy got a job with a Secot- tish farmer once, "Ye'll sleep in the barn" said, "and I'll expect ye oot ilka morn at foor o'clock." "Very well, sir," said the But the first morning he little.and it was 4.30 when the field. The farmer, leaning on his hoe, gave him a black look. "Where have ye been all the noon?" he growled. the farmer' in the field boy. overslept a he reached foros Got In Ahead. | Family Herald, The Abbe Pradt, a rushlight of Na- poledh's time, was a most conceited man. The Duke of Wellington met him in Paris, at a dinner given in honor of himself. The abbe made a long oration; chiefly on the state of political affairs, and concluded with the words: "We owe the salvation of Europe to one man alone." "Before he gave me time to blush," said the duke" he put his v hand. on his heart and continued: "To as 'of Christianity, it can truly be said | | [that swept The fragrant shavings from the work. mel' " he Ant 1 eS matied ses away if thas ul ht bo ou're plenty 8 Rd the Fel NaD cn the woman; easy on og. Easy on the woman: easy on' the clothes! That, in a nutshell, is 'the I'els-Naptha way of washing. ! - 'Pels-Naptha soap does away * ith all the hard and disagreeable part of w clothes. Little rubbing, no steam to bend over, no keeping up fire foboil the clothes, no nauseous odor from feacking soiled garments. Then, clothes last longer with no boil- ing to weaken their fiber and no hard rub- bing ta-wear them thin. Look for the red and green wrapper. "a & . " ks Sd 2 Economy of fuel is the chicf point of - merit in the rit wilt astonth Fourie viong you gan run a fire ili a seutle of coal in this Rabge. Where your old Stove took drmfuls of wood, a handful will do the same work on the Universal Favotite. and bake perfectly MANUFACTURED sy: FINDLAY BROS. GO, Limited, Carleton Place, Ontario. No Approbation The Retail Shoe Merchants of Kingston-Having an to the sitisfadtion of the most critical that The Cash System is the only modern method of doing business, desire to announce that at a re- cent meeting of the Rétail Shoe Association, it was unanimously de- cided to continue the present Cash system. It wad further pointed out that Kingston Shoe Merchants, because of the Cash System, were selling shoes at. much lower prices than Merchants doing busi- ness in Credit Cities are able to do, Kingstonians therefore deriv- ing the benefit of close Cash prices, because of the dealer being in a pdsition to Buy his merchandise f or Cash-and to save his discounts. It 'was resolved that a "eopy of the 'The Merchants determina- tion te continue the Cash System " be properly advertised so that they would not be put to thé unpleasant necessity of declining to send goods on approbation or to charge same. Abernethy Shoe Store A. E. Herod Jas. Johnston Shoe Store H. Jennings The Lockett Shoe Store Reid & Charles W. A. Sawyer x B. Sutherland & Bra. Se Authors. & COX yooh Toronto. Est 1860 Since 1860, we Jive rciuglu gh pa Surgial Aids Paralysis, ete., are the result of half a centufy's experience in testing and fitting such assist-] Lants. = We know just what 'apparstus will relieve, or help. to cure, each case. Our expe fence elso t+!ls ne just how to fit the gopliance so that it will be easy comfortable and helpful. co