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| The Hunter Hunted | Dick Annesley and I were camped at the foot of Moyle Lake in the Selkirk Mountains, beside the trail which leads from Fort Steele, British Columbia, to Bonners Farry, Idaho. We called ourselves, and legally were, licensed miners; but Dick spent most of his time on the broad of his back, and I devoted most of the time to the hunting of blue grouse and black-tailed deer. One morning I buckled on a cartridge bolt, took my Winchester and sitruck off through the woods to the foot-hills. They rose very steep for about six hundred feet to a level plateau, where, after a weary climb. I Seated myself for a moment's breathing space. The snow-capped mountain looked j next two hours the ascent was ------ gradual and the walking better. Still marching upward toward the sm I entered a dismal belt of dark-gr spruce. Hera, beneath a great o^ hanging root, I found the resting place of a grizzly bear---a big one, judging by the size of the footprints. As I contemplated them and took into consideration the light calibre of my rifle, I longed for Dick and the camp fire. The day, which in the early morning had been clear, was now clouded, and a raw, northeasterly wind, carrying a sleety rain, stirred mournfully the branches of the spruce tops. I was glad to emerge on the open mountainside again, and begin the final ascent. At last, after crossing a canon, I reached the mountain-top, which was covered several feet deep with snoi commanded a magnificent v the surrounding country. Two thousand feet below i Moyle Lake. To the northeast lay the rugged piles of the Rockies beyond the parkliko valley of the Kootenay; to the south and west the wild and broken country of the Goat River; to the north, peaks in never-ending ridges of the Selkirks. snout in the air, gave whistling scream, turned and walked deliberately away. I watched without moving till the driving si hid it from my sight. Then v intense relief, I uncocked my rifle and rose to my feet. Once more I started for camp, and continued at a brisk pace for twenty minutes or so, until I reached a flat bolow the snow line covered with stunted, dead spruce. On reaching tho further side of this flat I found tho ground to be rising pre- upit. my c This >uld •v was hard enough to i crossing it I found the ■■n tracks of two caribou. Their ail kd from o:„, point of rock to .other, where the p.dcs had blown snow a hi. i and almost exoosed a tempting lichen. At these plac-they had ..lopped to feed, and had >m< the lock bare with their arp hoofs. [ surndsed that they were >re than a few hundred yards at, and at once determined nt them. By way of preparation _„ I had been ilking in a wrong direction and was lost! Up to that moment my proceedings had been rash, but now I determined to act wisely for onco, and accordingly made up my mind to camp where I was rather than run i risk of going still furthor ray. Near at hand I discovered lump of green spruce scrub at the it of a big rock. In front was a ridge of ground which affectually screened me from the wind. Here I resolved to stay. The thought of a night alone in the mountains alarmed me little. I had come safely through such before. But I expected to bo both sleepless and uncomfortable, membering the grizzly I determined to collect a good supply of wood and in this work I spent tho maining two hours of daylight, ally I gathered some armful spruce *>oughs for my bed, lighted my fire, and in a short time had a blue grouse that I had killed earlier * 1 the day roasting before it. By the time my supper was finished the snow had ceased to fall. Di-tly overhead was a patch of blue th ffne star twinkling frostily. Gradually the blue widened, and by ten o'clock as nearly as I could guess the sky was clear. As I was" seated with my back propped against the root of a fallen tree in front of the fire, its glow, together with the fatigi my walk, began to tell on me. head nodded forward on my chest and I fell into a sound and dreamless sleep. How long I slept I do not know, but I awoke with a feeling of nervousness. Tho night was calm and exquisitely beautiful. The snow-capped ■.......~" I had crossed during the day t gentle kick and told od him w him my s "Then it was the first sho really did the business?" he "Yes," I replied. "It wen through its heart."--Youth's panion. TEA AND INSURANCE. • Complications Over the Offer Wives and Widows. situation has arisen * the advertising schei adopted by a tea store. The plan s this 1 any ( woman who bought ntity, however small, regularly every week from the fi for fifty- itled, if her husband died after that time, to a life-long pen-pension, of course, was small. Tho idea took, and the.busies of the company leaped up to an itonishing figure. • For the first two or three years the outlay for pensions was almost nothing compared with tho income. Of course, the number of widows increased gradually, but for some time in no n< ticeabio disproportion to the ne volume of busines. The scheme did not very clearl come under the supervision^ of th the company had merely to repor the status of its business end th amount of pensions paid. The annvi al insurance blue book of Great Bn tain contains this year for the firs time the printed Statement of thi plat i tho .light. Then I turned and glar tho ridge. There the bank ot dow A heavy drifting bscuring black cloud^wa: from the northeast, peak after peak. The sleet idly changing to snow. The wii increased and struck through n damp clothes. I had gone hardly a quarter of when the storm burst < in blinding s wind. In five was following t erated, and I t yards before mi vished and a half gale of inutes the tracks I re completely oblit-uld see but a that dnight o camp art.ed at as quickly as possible, a brisk walk toward w ined it to be. If my correct, half an hour should bring me to the slope winch I ascended in the morning. On my way I crossed some broken ground which I did not remember to have seen while coming; but supposing I had not noticed it in the keen interest of the hunt, I proceeded without misgiving unti, 'I reached a slope which I believed to be the one I had climbed early in the day. Down I went rapidly, half sliding, half walking. On tho heights my clothing had been an insufficient protection against. a northeast snowstorm, but my quick course down hill was putting me into a gh Suddenly I was brought to alarming halt by a dark object sc : thirty yaids distant. I stopped i '.. cocked my rifle. With a queer, rasping snarl, the thing reared'like great, evil-looking phantom. In the swirl of snow it stood revealed-big and ugly grizzly. And I was the bare mountainside, armed wish u light calibre rifle. For the space of ten seconds we stood facing each other, the grizzly moving its head slowly from side to side, and frequently uttering that queer, blood-curdling snarl which ended in a sort of querulous whine. Then it dropped to its forelegs and slowly advanced. I had only three cartridges in my rifle and I knew that six would not kill the animal unless by extraordinary luck. Drawing several more from my belt, I hastily attempted to push them into tho magazine. The first one jammed and then the full horror of my position came upon me. They were too big for my rifle; they were Dick's! I had care-- * • taken his belt in mistake for hito silhouetted a sky, stood the upon me. I shouted in hope 0f scaring it, but it remained motionless. I picked up a lighted stick, whirled' it round in tho air, and threw it toward the bear. The effect was so alarming that I hastily caught up my rifle and prepared for the worst, for the great brute began slowly to descend the ridge at a loose shambling walk. When within twenty yards or so of my fire it turned, as it had done he preceding afternoon, and cir-round it. Then climbing once more to the summit of the ridge, it deliberately lay down. Fortunately I had enough wood to keep up a good fire, and as th was on the wuno, I would hi benefit of it unti! the sun ros er can I forget that night--how that grim sentinel kept watch on th* ndgotop, how at every movement oi Id raise its head the bet- , 1902, the $2,150,000, §350,000. There an 5,000 widows I to draw a weekly I bounty from tho company until the i day of their death, and the average | payment is about §2 a week to each than $100,000. In Jui annual sales and the pens 3 entitled MAIQJIS OFJLMDSDIME FOREIGN MINISTER OF GREAT Object of Popular Hatred During the Boer War, Idol of the Public Now. "How ficklo is popular favor," said a well-known English politician in a London club recently. "Look at Lansdowne. Not long ago, v our troops were encountering di ter upon disaster in South Africa was the most unpopular mai England. As Minister of War was blamed for everything o looked or unforeseen by the army. If he had gone among a London mob after Stromberg, say, he would ha good chance of being torn 1 pieces. Bdt now he is a populi He has warned Russia on* the l Gulf, and immediately he laimed as another Palmerst. ! wriggling of time has brought l up to the top again wi" ishing rapidity. No man ever seemed more hope-^osly ruined politically than Lansdowne when public indignation at the South African blunders forced him to give up the office of Secretary of State for War. His appointments as Foreign Minister immediately afterward was the most unpopular act of Lord Salisbury's career--and it was also the pluckiest. But it lias turned out well. "Lansdowne, starting as the best-hated man in British politics, has most popular British er since Rosebury-Palmerston. Ho he ■ before htm. and vould not be surprising if he sui ceded Mr. Balfour in the Premiei hip when the latter grows tired c gn Minis perhaps since jungle, and go right into the dark cave where it crouched at bay. thing could be seen of the beast cept its two glaring eyes shining out of the darkness. The Sahib-Bahadur put a bullet between them as the tiger sprung upon him, killing it instantly." Before they went to India, in 1888, Lord and Lady Lansdowne pleased the Canadian people by their friend- UNASSUMING MANNERS, which were in marked those of former Gover At a garri The credit for the Marquis o iowne's success at the Britis :ign Office is largely due to HIS CLEVER WIFE. Colonel of the regi-was giving the dance Lady Lansdowne and Lady Lansdowne, won't you give a dance, please? I'm tired of dancing with these silly little colonial girls. They have no style. I believe I'm engaged to one of them dance,^ but you might owno replied, in tones 'or everybody to hear, that the Colonel was unfit to asso-te with any decent people, coloni-or otherwise, and concluded: 'If this is the way you treat your guests I will relievo you of the pres-of them at once." Then she ordered her carriage and left the ball. While on a tour in Manitoba one immor Lord and Lady Lansdowne ero driven by a heavy thunderstorm . seek' shelter in. a -armhouse. They are together in a small open trap, id none of the viceregal party was ith them. Lord Lansdowne gave s name as Fitzmaurice, tho family .me of the Lansdownes being Petty- BUEIAH LEW ASTLUK MAGNIFICENT WORK BEING* DONE FOR THE VI03TMS. Institution is One of the Finest ot Its Kind in the World. Hero in Burmah one grows callous, 1 the several and ghastly sights, aS[ le sees leprosy in all its worst . | forms stalking rampant through the a _°.\ streets and thoroughfares, says a ball writer in "Thy Graphic." Ascending a I the steps of a pagoda you rub shoulders with the victims, in the irkets, on the streets you jostle ainst them, and yet you do not ;m to feel the repugnance a Strang", not used to such sights would, feel. Even we, with long experience of Burmah, find much that is now and interesting in the Golden City, once the Citadel of the Lord of the White Elephant and the Golden Throne. But e is one sight, one institution, enduring memorial, for which wa not indebted to the past. Th« inaw Yaman," the Royal Garden, where St. John's Leper Asylum isj ituated, is tho home of many miser* able creatures to whom even parent* al doors are closed; it is the home oj the afflicted and the. despised, the home of hideous sights and repluslva objects. Almost all the countries of Europe are allied in tho work of mercy carried on at this institution; priests and nursing sisters, who have given up home and friends to minister to these most miserable of creao ) joined i person. j Like many English ' The figures given by the Govern- families, she makes r ; show that tho amount of the I by. Bismarck used 1 diplomatis I'.ens o ilowly the company, despite the fact that the r no attention has ap-paid in tho workings of the scheme to the fact that a i ain amount of money should be ested and held in reserve to ] the f ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. The British critics of the plan mainly rival merchants, argue thai tho 5,000 widows are really pen-oners on the books, the firm has a liability to them in the future ol not less than $10,000,000. Lately, to extend the business still further, it has been announced that any woman already a. widow may-earn a lifelong pension by purchasing a half pound of tea weekly for ten years. This pension 10 shillings a week. Tl . that follows this new depa *i expected to hold up the ' for i ilitics her ho ) call her t id say that s >st of his Ai Too fast my fuel seemed •ease, and when but a dozen sticks remained the moon began to pale a long, narrow shaft of light ined the eastern sky, gradually deepening and widening. I piled the remaining sticks upon the fire, stirred it up for- the last time, seated myself, with my rifle resting across my knees, and waited for what might as the Inst stick burned away, the glorious sun rose in a filmy vapor. On a fallen log a red squirrel leaped, and catching s pany's end for some time on the old plan, but the mathematicians of the industrial insurance companies which been deprived of their weekly premiums by the insurance "with a little tea in it" plan and the tea -chants who have been deprived of their trade, both say that the time of failure of the scheme is not far j off for the tea company. The one safeguard that the latter has is that only 75 per profits of the company can be used to pay pension claims. In this case the company could never become insolvent in theory, but the pensions would melt down as the profits declined. The Government in 1900 required e regular insurance deposit of $100,000 from the promoters of the it the law under which this e does not very clearly cover lirements of the case.' Mea-e now being taken by the Board of Trade and the in-have the Govern- | That er days. Since then her husband has been Viceroy of India and Can-and and there, too, has won golden opinions from everybody. Lord Lansdowne was one of the best Viceroys India ever had, but tho English officials used to say that Lady Lansdowne really governed the country. If one of them wanted a bridge, or an irrigation tank, or a famine relief appropriation for district, ho would Lady Lansdowne in than the Viceroy. if she thing was chores, while gravely to tl what the Gover ought to do and o The}' declared after the most 1 enjoyi spent while they w That old far Lansdowne, in a lc hich ho gavo at md his wife welcomed Manitoba hospitality, pen their staying for the storm did not Lansdowne helped to and do the evening her husband listened of ( lid that it le evening thoy ) in Canada lover, England, f ho head for politics than mo tatesmen and diplomatis st*" of i twelfth of the conduct trusted dur- > intere: needed, she would "v., " 'r Iy4C!£ttf ' into tho streets her' carric-be surrounded by ni ed grievances rcdressea or privll granted tc- them by the Governs eat trouble tieir cases At nights tho righ lake inquiry into would go disguised into the poorest quarters of Cafe on missions of charity or justice a feminine Haroun-al-Raschid. retired Indian judge tells a curi-story about Lady Lansdowne was dining at the viceregal lodgt night, and the ------ Lord Lansdowne is he statesmen to wl of foreign affairs wa 'ng the reign of the late Queen toria, and he bids fair to achie-big- a reputation as any of his decessors. He has a high seni public duty and UNTIRING INDUSTRY. He works harder than any of clerks, often sitting at his desk the time. After dinner Lady Lansdowne drew tlie judge aside and said: "I do not want to interfere with your judicial duties, but I know as an absolute fact that tho man who is charged with that murder is innocent. If you will send a detective )-morrow morning I will di-to the house where the real murderer is now hiding. I only iscovered the fact this afternoon hen I was down there in disguise His courage, moral as well a physical, is another important quali fication for his high office. He i not afraid to make up his miud o: a big question--or have it made u] for him by his clever wife--and tc stand by it, whatever the risk. Th wind of popular clamor does no move him an inch. That was s'howi plainly enough by his contempt foj the storm of abuse heaped upon hin in the earlier stages of the Soutl African war. Tho British Foreign Office has beer noted for generations for its houpi-' y. The Foreign Office parties leading features of London's so-life. They have been presided j space was immediately filled' up - of the most accom-j hundreds of other unfortunates' had THEIR LABOR OF LOVE. ;| visit to the asylum conveys a lesson of self-denial that strikes ona speechless. How dreadfully, meanly selfish one feels! It excites emotions that cannot be imagined--they must be felt. To us, to whom it has not been given to understand such love, the devotion that immolates a life oa the altar of self-imposed duty, seems madness. What buoys us up in our most difficult tasks and our hardest struggles, the hope of success, is denied to the worker in-the cause of the unclean leper. What hope is there of a cure following the patient labors of the devoted attendant'. What gain, what profit does ho acquire? Some such thought must assuredly pass through the minds of the unfortunate patients, for naught else can account for the smile of doglike love and affection thai-breaks over and transfigures for a :ir otherwise disfigured and hideous countenances as thoy look upon the calm features of their self-appointed attendants. Inch by inch the asylum has grown, until now it has attained the position of being ranked as one of the most noble institutions not only in Burmah, but in the whole world. It had a very humble beginning, as most things in this world have. It was shortly after the annexation of Upper Burmah--or, to be more ac« curate, in 1888--that the late Bishop Simon addressed tho authorities on "ie subject of lepers, but it was not 11 1891 that the Rev. Father Weh-inger, following the examplo of the immortal Father Damien, of Molp- able to found tho St. * John a Leper Asylum on tho grant of land of six JUST OUTSIDE MANDALAY. The beginning was necessarily on a very small scale, and when it is taken into consideration that the number of lepers in Burmah at that timo was 'variously estimated at anything between eighteen thousand and thirty thousand, it is not at all - -prising to learn that all available . pla< ght of Then silently t the ridge arose (retched i my c To run was hopelessi-- there not a tree in sight. 1 dropped one knee and resting my elbow c for additional steadiness waited There was a little hummock snow within thirty feet of to that I deternvry--' -o allow stopped, plated nr led by m appearance, Keeping at i it. made a determi.y-' "° al'oi before I fired i few yards of it the There was a log sun in front of me, I pushed it aside with the toe of my moccasin, lest it might interfere, with my sight. At the foot of the slope the grizzly paused and turned a little to avoid a root, thus exposing its left side. It was my opportunity. With my elbows resting on my knees I took a careful aim, a little behind the shoulder, and fired. With a muffled growl the bear rose, beafing the air with its fore feet. Then it fell across the root upon its back and rolled completely ovei ing, it toro up the moss with its fore paws, screamed, bit the empty air, and came at me again. When it had advanced ten feet or so, reared up on its hind legs. I fired second time, and over it rolled ain, only, howev ly and charge mor Now I had but . and I determined •esponsibility on ti.__ .. for the liability it has taken upon itself to boom trade. It is stated that the company itself is beginning to feel the strain and will welcome a chance of relief even if the operation of the plan has to be discontinued with those persons already on tho books. s upon me. So I rose to my feet and waited for tho end. My bps and mouth grew dry as aust; but fortunately in that supreme moment my hand was steady nd my eye clear. J ju^nTwas^' ^ °f ^ -d hf tst ZZX^-^y topped, waverco a moment, sank own upon its side with a deep, sob-ing moan, and, straightening its Teat timhs, lay still. Then a queer, .weak feeling came rcgo i.JTer me, I sniffed the morning air WORTH WHILE. The advertisement which has apjiearance of being a message values to the seeker of good things will prove itself well worth using. The merchant who Rushes his wares so that the people will want them will find the effort well worth while. The goods which are bought because ellence and whioh are sold because they fill the wants of the people will redound to the credit of the seller. If all merchants would be sure that the goods offered were jluet what the advertising said of them, there would be a great deal more' pleasure in the buying and far more satisfaction in the selling. The. ,. thing that makes business worth whlch while is the doing of business in a then." way which seems an exchange of hord Lansd. good things. An effort for business of money desire to give goodjin& tho se goods in return for good cash, and -ve good will in tke minds ... who make the purchases. The good of right treatment, is e^pn-M- Suro enough, the" murderer caught, as Lady Lansdowne said*, and the innocent man Wi leased. This incident, beci known, made her very popular the people of Calcutta, who «r used to English mem-sahi THEIR HUMBLE LIVES. Lady Lansdowne would not ow she found out the murder lid that sho made it a rul > talk about her excursions ve costume, lest she should get ^r native guides and friends heir own people. i takii .She d by the ones who are^ ,J3 t,J^r".f.-.,l„.. is apparent , i-i.c one who studies to see it The worth of the effort is gauged by t!ie attitude of the merchant. If tlie good of the customer is considered the right of that nuerchent to the good will of the customer Will force the conclusion that the action was understood and that. ±he..*«i«"* -o{ Waterloo, r« landj aT»a, de- eAam^ 102 yeartfls able to eke Her husband was fame lings during his stay in Ind] dread of the Russians and ^iis tiger shOoting. He sai hand of tho Russians everywh* Afghanistan, in Persia, in Kai the Pamirs, even in native Calcutta. His subordinates used laugh at his Russophobia. I really believe," said one them, "that Lansdowne thinks heart of hearts that the Russ famines and the floods 3 spent large sums i India in develop-ice department. He rcumvent the male- B.ussia. hile Lady Lansdowne took c-reat - cn..- work, and i f the principal spies when they came into Calcutta or Simla th reports of their observations in iisia, Kaflristan, Baluchista and other countries where Russian agents supposed to be busy, rtsmen in India still talk of Lord Lansdowne's skill as a shikarri inter of big game, and the na-speak with__admi plished women of the Victoi among Lady Lansdowne's predeces-having been Lady Palmerst on, Lady Granville, Lady John Russell Lady Salisbury. After the of Lady Salisbury these parties languished, but now they have been revived with more than theii old splendor by Lady Lansdowne. Lord Lansdowne holds no fowei than fourteen titles. He is a Marquis, thrice a Viscount, thrice an Earl, four times a Baron, and four times a Knight as K.G., G. C, S. I., G. C. I. E. and G. C. M. O.--honors bestowed by Queen Victoria for his successes in the difficblt art of colonial government. As Baron of Kerry he holds a title dating back to 1181. It was conferred on one of his ancestors folding in Strongbow's conquest of Ireland. Since then a long line of rices have gained title after for their services as CHILDREN IN SOMALILAND. Children are regarded as a chief as-st in the belongings of a Somali ative, and accordingly there is no such thing as "race suicide" in the eastern horn of Africa, A man may ive as many as four wives, and ost of the patriarchs boast of tre-endous families. One old chief oi tribe near Berbera was the head of family consisting of twenty-three ns, twenty-nine daughters, and 390 grand-children. A father his daughters tor camels, and often builds up for himself a fortune in way. The children are named porforco to be turned u..^ the appalling figures quoted above of those affected, it is very evident that asylums such as the St. John's were not only very useful, but absolutely necessary, as bein« the only means of regenerating a nation almost entirely imbued with tho leprosy virus, and so slowly but certainly stamping out the terrible disease. But, under the circumstances, nothing could bo done, new wards had to be built, and to do this money was needed. Sufficient not being available locally, the idea struck Father Wehinger to try fresh fields and pastures new, so, in 1895 with the permission of his ecclesias-superior, he undertook a voy-Europe on a begging tour. Tho reception he met with in the soveral countries he visited was to say^the least, enthusiastic personages was assistance given him. senco of three years. Father W inger returned to Burmah, and once se* in hand the erection of new wards, with Blin, architect and engineer. VACCINATION FOR BALDNESS. Many London doctoa-s ore making In Eng-tinguished formed, and overy I of Mr, baldiness. the great n thei lirth, c i the "him follow f r.uVdcU UNIQUE CHURCH, . Luke's, Cobholm. a dis tudy of tho causes ~dr-~ "Ve are confident." said ran recently, "that in : jority of cases bald--j the presence of microorganisms which destroy the roots flcth°=h^ir' °rLiinfry DaWness, in tho result c_____ is carried to the scalp bv the brush and comb. Never use strange brashes and combs, and keep voUr own scruu.ulousl.y clean." A Parisian j byslclan states that a cure for premature baldness is inoculation. If this theory be found correct the public may have to be vaccinated against baldness just as they ore against smallpox. WORLD'S BIGGEST BA t alone »