coe s i ie aay ews e to Meet Their ea OR AL rent Qbligations, inipeg, says : dof western the burden Li "es rates, the Win- d®of Trade declares the of Parliament affirming the Dominion statute ci hat the rates reater in the prairie n in Ontario and Que- unless it is proved that the of operation are greater in 'he board expressed its at the costs of operation in -are "no greater, if as g investigation is de- with counsel "free from ailway corporation control,' / engaged by the Dominion nment to ect. with the board ther western interests, This action was taken at a re- tative meeting of the board and is t rst gun of a determin- 1d campaign, for which Winnipeg ang anes: wera. teen quietly pre- has been formally requested to cognizance of and to take such may be necessary in con- n with the car shortage in he western Provinces, which dur- ing the past two months has reach- ed proportions resulting in a prac- ical paralysis of business in some districts, and has meant a severe loss to farmers and business men. 'This action has been taken by the. Board of Trade after the receipt} of an exhaustive report from the special committee appointed some weeks ago to make inquiries and submit a report to the board. A letter has been forwarded to Chair- "man Mabee, in which the Board of Trade makes the flat charge that the railways have failed to fulfll their duties as common carriers, and the farmers of the west have been unable to market their grain, with the result that they are face to face with obligations they are unable-to meet through no fault of their own. The congestion of grain, it is also charged, has resulted in the deterioration of the grade in transport. The board also sub- mits that the railways have not made and are nob preparing to make improvements sufficient to cope with the steadily increasing volume of traffic in the west. Reports from many points in Sas- katchewan still indicate an acute condition of affairs. The Ontlook 'of Saskatchewan reports that the situation is unbearable, as the ele- vators are overflowing and the farmers' waggons are lined up in the streets and dozens of farmers with grain to market and bills to meectarein despair. Several points 'contiguous to Saskatoon report 'similar conditions. MERRY OLD E Ss a : NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN mercial World. A stone coffin in good state of preservation has just been discover- ed in Sharnbrook Churchyard, Bedfordshire. It has been officially announced t the Admiralty will station a ating dock in the naval harbor at Dover in January. The council schools at Fontllan- _ fraith, Monmouthshire, which cost several thousand pounds to build, have been destroyed by fire. Henry McCann? who with four other dynamitards was sentenced to penal servitude for outrages in Glasgow in 1883, has died in Glas- gow. ; Twelve thousand acres of Sir Frederic Johnstone's Westerhall estate, Dumfrieshire, have been sold for $310,000. The mansion wilized $80,000, A parliamentary report just. is- sued shows that at the en' of last year there were 4,750 boys and girls in reformatory schools and 356 boys and girls in industrial hools in the United Kingdom. Coin testers have been fitted to London County Council tramears --two inside the car and two on top. rge amount of bad money has assed off on the conductors, . Sheffield firm has bought the nehor liner Furnessia, 5557 to-s fin 1880, for breaking up es, at about $65,000. The jan steamer Siberian has been chased by a Bristol concern $35,000. me interesting trials have just carried out an a submarine, tt by Messrs. Vickers, in the 1 sea, off the port of Barrow. quick-firing gun is mounted in bmarine hatchway. The. h-cover opens, and the gun into view, and after firing everal rounds sinks out of sight ain. : ae death is announced of General aker Creed Russell, one of the cavalry leaders in the British e Parks Committee of the : County Council propose to the botanical garden in ea Park into an old English elieved to be the orig- pipe presented by the Indiviis' t> Sir Walter Raleigh sold at Stevens' Auction Room, | n, for 75gs., being bought by vy. Alfred Dunhill. Although hounds were in het pur- a fox at Hogthorre stershire), was daring el ugh to stop and charge at fowls in » paddock, killing three. or the murder of Mary Tliza- Speller at Dover in July last rge Willam Parker, 26, has n sentenced to death' at the cent Assizes. Benjamin Mayhew, a 3 Wenhaston farmer, after firing a un to scare starlings, was taking an undischarged cartridge when went off and shot his moth- young OLD ENGLAND |: Hills | en- | ef, Elizabeth Mayhew, inflicting injuries which caused lockjaw and eath, - At Parkhurst Prison Asylum a convict climbed the roof of a low building and resisted capture for a time;.. He pulled slates from the roof; broke them up, and threw them at all warders who came near him but he was eventually seized and safely lowered to the ground. -- INDIAN AS MOOSE WUNTER. He Has the White Man Beaten in This Sport. While the Indian is not consider- ed the equal of the expert white man asa rifle shot, he is the best moose shot in the woods. This sinewy, fleet-footed woodsman is fond of picking up a moose trail just after a light snow has fallen. Then, in light marching order, he will follow the animal across the country until he tires him out or kills him. The process frequently takes from three to four days, and it is possible only to the hardiest of pursuers. When first started a moose will make off through the woods with the speed of an express train. If it is early in the season and there has been but a light fall of snow, the travelling is good and it is a simple matter to~ follow the trail. At length the animal, confident of having thrown off its pursuers, will gradually slacken its pace and stop. But it is off again immediately up- on hearing the first sound or upon the presence of those who are fol- lowing. It is a fact that a vigorous man ean tire out a moose in the long run, and the Indian will at length ap- proach near enough to get a shot. fle can burden himself with but little in the way of camp equipage, however, and a scanty supply of food and a blanket are all that he earries besides his rifle. This me- thod of killing moose is regarded by many as being far the most Sportsmanlike. No white man, no matter how ex- pert, can ever quite equal an In- dian in following a trail or in a canoe. The Indians seem to pos- sess an aptitude in the handling of these frail craft which has come down to them through a long lne of forebears. IS See "WRONG" DAY. "Ys not a bit of good my at- tempting it to-day. Everything 'goes wrong.' So exclaims a des- pondent business man, and thereby misses his chance. From early morn till dewy eve things go wrong. 'Tt has happened before. It wiil 'happen again. You wake late, and kas eae clothes won't fit. You snatch a hurried breakfast. Arriving late at business, you start the day with a creeping presenti- ment of evil happenings, and sure enough they come thick and _ fast. By this time you are sullen and mo- rose, 'and feebly exclaim at. every failure, "Oh, I can't help it! Every- thing goes wrong to-day !" Instead of knuckling under to the pestilent plague, why not grip. it ,by the throat and choke it? And, even should it catch you fairly and squarely at the beginning of the 'day's work, show some fight. Do 'not sit down and groan out the easy HVE Pl BLIGH 4 excuse for a little slackness. Government Will Divide Ontario OQ on Districts. ba and put in complete charge of all anitation and public health mat- in their respective districts. 1 will be paid good sal- municipalities will contribute HAPPENINGS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBEINA NUTSHELL. < $ Canada, the Empire and the World in General Before Your_ . Eyes, CANADA. ~ A publicity board has been form- ed for Norfolk county. J. Graham fell down a mine shaft at Cobalt, five hundred feet, and was killed. The Canadian Bank of Commerce has taken over the Eastern Town- ships Bank. Plans are under way to place the Ontario Government farms under one head. The absorption of the Quebec Steamship Company by the R. & O. Company is being discussed. Niagara fruit-growers ask for the appointment of a Provincial inspect- or to help fight the peach rests. Berlin's municipally-owned street railway and lighting plants yielded increased profits on the year's op- erations. The O.P.R. proposes to have its agricultural demonstration trains tour Ontario, Quebec and New runswick, Kenneth Kingston, an Ottawa civil engineer, was found dead on a trail in Saskatchewan. Foul play is suspected. Jules Ploudre was sentenced to be hanged at Riviere du. Loup, Quebec, on March 8th for the mur- der of Louis Dion. The Canadian Northern extension to be built into the Peace River country is now within a few miles of Athabasca Landing. It is reported at Brockville that Mr. F. H. Gutelius of the C. P. R. is to be appointed head of Govern- ment railways at a salary of $20,- 000. J. D. Chilman and Joseph Acheson were committed for trial at Hamilton on the charge of rob- bing the Canadian Express Com- pany of $8,578. The plans of the C.N.R. at Mont- real are said to include a tunnel under the mountain and a garden city between Outremont and Back River. GREAT BRITAIN, Twenty thousand workers are affected by the strike in Dundee. John Bigelow, author and diplo- mat, died in his 95th year. The United States Senate ratified President Taft's notice of the abro- gation of the treaty of 1832 with Russia. GENERAL. The Chinese Premier insists on a Monarchical form of government. The Imperial delegate at the peace conference at Shanghai con- fesses it is too late to save the Manchu dynasty. The great rowers are lending their moral support towards an ear- termination of the war of revolu- tion in China. = HAS STRONG GRIP YET. Governor of Halifax Prison at 82 Refuses to Retire. A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says: The governor of the city prison in Halifax is 82 years of age. He has held the rosition for 32 years, but still refuses to retire, and the City Council is wrestling with the question of his removal. A committee has been holding an investigation into alleged ill-treat- ment of a prisoner, but they have reached no conclusion reflecting on him. They recommend that a change be made in the governorship of the institution on account of his age. It is considered unlikely that this report will be adopted, and the probability is that the octogenarian governor will hold on for some time yet. ts SHOT BANK MESSENGER. Daylight Paris Street. Sensational Murder in A despatch from Paris, France, says: The latest sensational mur- der here occurred on Thursday morning in broad daylight in the heart of one of the crowded thor- oughfares of the city. A bank mes- senger, who carried a satchel con- taining $60,000, was stopped by four bandits. They invited the messenger to turn the satchel over to them, and when he refused and offered resistance they shot him dead. The thieves then seized the satchel and jumped into awaiting automobiles. The murder and rob- bery were witnessed by thousands of amazed and frightened citizeas. Oa MINERS MAY STRIKE. British Federation to Take Vote on Stonpage of Work. A despatch from London says: The Miners' Federation has decided te take a vote on the question of national stoppage of the work in the mines, based on the question of & minimum wage scale. If a two- thirds majority of the members of the federation vote to stop work the strike will be ordered for the end of February. -- ; wis SIX LIVES FOR ONE. for' Murdering Woman. A despatch from White Plai Y., says: Yo tae: comy men in the death ho ing prison awaiting -of Mrs. Mary Hall, at month a sixth - This man-is' Saty who was found 2 on Tuesday ed in 'the ki THE NEWS WA PARAGRPE Men Will. be. Executed in J anuary HOW ROYAL RESIDENCES ARE KEPT IN ORDER. The Inspector's Duty is to See That They Are Cleaned at End of the Season. | A littie-heard-of personage is King George's Inspector of Royal Palaces, yet he is a most import- ant official, although he is not act- ually on the Royal staff, says Lon- don Answers. : : _ The inspector's duty lies in see- ing that, say, Buckingham Palace is put into perfect order after Roy- alty has left London at the end of the season. This official has to go over every single department papering and painting are carried out, if required. : He must inspect all windows and blinds to see if new cords are want- ed or any repairs needed. All the water-taps have to be care-ully ex- amined, and, if flaws are disoover- ed, they must be set to rights forth- with. And, as to cleaning, it is the inspector's duty to make sure that every room of the Palace is cleaned out.in the most thorough manner possible; no slip-shod work will pass the inspector's eagle eye. Of course, the inspector does not simply order this and that to be done. After making' up his mind what repairs, paperings, painting, etc., have to be done he makes out a full list, and forwards it to the Private Secretary of the King, who places it before his Majesty, and he "approves" of the recom- mendations of the inspector, and thereafter the actual work can be tackled, but not before the Royal approval is secured. oe Take any apartment used regul- arly by the King and Queen. Now, it stands to reason that in sucha room many very valuable articles will be found. All things of value must be packed away in boxes ; the boxes must be officially sealed 'and locked by the inspector, who re- tains the keys. After that is done, the boxes are removed to one of the strong-rooms in Buckingham Palace until such time as the particular room is ready. for them again. All carpets are carefully cleaned. First of all, they undergo the vacu- um process; then they are lift- ed, and all floorings are well wash- ed and dried ere the carpets are again laid down. All mats and rugs are treated in a similar man- ner, and every sort of oddment at- tended to. Method is most im- portant; a certain number of rooms are set aside for each day, and these rooms must be finished with when the day comes to an end. Of course, some rooms are not carpet- ed; State apartments, ball-rooms, ete., are polished. At cleaning-time each of these rooms must be repolished, and this takes a very long time--in fact, it is skilled labor. So the work goes on from day to day until every apartment has been overhauled. The inspector is always onduty; he must personal- ly attend to the cleaning, so he takes up residence in the Palace whilst the work is going on. At this period no higher servants are about the place, only servants cf lower grade; they are the work2r proper, and all are under the direc- tion of the inspector, whose word is law unto them. Naturally, the inspector is only on duty for a certain period, each year; he is never on duty when the Court is in residence, but no soon- er has the Court removed to Bal- moral or other palace than the in- spector makes his appearance, and he remains on the premises till the palace is like a new pin. The work has to be very specially done, in view of the rank of those who oc- cupy rooms, etc., and that is just why the inspector is there--to see that every apartment is made as rerfect as possible ere the King and Queen take up residence. fs COLLISION ON C. P. R. Freight Crashed Inte Standing Train West of Pembroke. A despatch from North Bay says: A serious freight wreck occurred on Thursday night at 7 o'clock on the Canadian Pacific Railway thirty miles west of Pembroke. Two freight trains, which left North Bay about noon on 'Thursday, east- bound, came together in a rear-end collision near Bass Lake. The lead- jing train had stopped for some pur- pose at the foot of the grade, and in the early evening darkness and by some evident mistake in back- flagging, the second train thunder- ed down grade and crashed into the standing train, wrecking the caboose: and demolishing ten cars and the locomotive. Engineer Wil- liam Packer, of North Bay, was badly injured, and Fireman Mc- Kay, of Chalk River, is reported to be so seriously injured that he may aie. vfs SPECIE SAVED FROM WRECK. Rocket Apparatus Used ia Landiag Treasure From the Delhi. A despatch from Tangier, Moroc- co, says: All the specie and bullion comprised in the cargo of the Pe- -ninsular and Oriental steamer Del- hi, which was wrecked off Cape | Spartel last week when the Prin- cess Royal, the Duke of Fife, and their daughters were rescued with difficulty, were landed on Thurs- day by means of the rocket appara- tus. The troops which were sent to guard the ship. while the bullion cie were still on board have HE OF PL in the Palace, and he must see that «| REPORTS FROM THE LEADING TRADE CENTRES OF AMERICA. | Prices of Cattle. Grain, Cheese and Other Produce at Home ~ = (2 Sand "Abroade s+. _ BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, Dec. 26.--Flour--Winter wheat, 90. per cent. patents, $3.45 to $3.50, sea- board. Manitoba flours: First patents, $65.50; second patents, $5, and strong bak- ers', $4.40, on track, Toronto. Manitoba Wheat--No. 1. quoted at $1.09, Bay ports; No. 2 North- ern, $1.06, and No. 3 at $1.02, Bay ports. Ontario Wheat--No. 2 white, red and mixed, 88 to 8c, outside. } Peas--Good shipping peas, $1.10, out- side. Oats--Car lots of No. 2 Ontario, outside, at 431-2c to 440, and of No. 3 at 42 to 421-2c; on track, Toronto, 46 to 461-2c; No. 2 Western Canada Oats, 47c, and feed, 450, Bay ports. Corn--No, 3 American yellow, 68 1-2c, To- ronto freight. _Rye--% to 94c, outside, for No, 2. Buckwheat--61 to 62c, outside. © Bran--Manitoba bran, $23.50, in baga, Toronto freights. Shorts, $25.00. t i COUNTRY PRODUCE. 4pples--Winter stock, $3 to $4.50 per barrel. . Beans--Small lots of hand-picked, §$2.- 30 to $2.35 per bushel. Honey--Extracted, in tins, 11 to 12¢ per lb. Combs, $2.50 to $2.75. Baled Hay--No. 1 at $16 to $17, on track, and No. 2 at $14 to $14.50. Baled Straw--$7.50 to $8, on track, To- ronto. Potatoes--Car lots, Delawares at $1.35. $1.50. Poultry--Wholesale prices poultry :--Chickens, 12 to 121-20 per lb: fowl, 8 to 10c; ducks, 12 to 130; geese, 12 to 121-2c; turkeys, 19 to 20c. Live poul- try, about 2c lower than the above. in bags, $1.30, and Out of store, $1.45 to BUTTER AND EGGS. Bu'ter--Dairy, choice, in wrappers, 27 to 29c; store lots, 23 to 25c; and inferior, tubs, 17 to 18c. Creamery quoted at 31 to 32c for rolls, and 29 to 30c for solids, per lb. Eggs--Strictly new-laid, 45¢, delivered here, and fresh at 27 to 28¢ per dozen, in case lots. Cheese--Large, 153-4c per Ib. 151-2, and twins at HOG PRODUCTS. Bacon--Long clear, 111-2 to 1134e per Ib. in case lots. Pork, short cut, $22.50; do., mess, $19.50 to $20. Hams--Medium to light, 16 to 161-2c; heavy, 14 to 141-2c; rolls, 103-4 to lis; breakfast bacon, 16 to i7c; backs, 19 to 20c. Lard--Tierces, 113-4c; 12 1-4e. tubs, 12c; pails, BUSINESS AT MONTREAL. Toronto, Dec. 26.--Oats--Canadian West- ern No. 2, 471-2c; do., No. 3, 46c; do., extra No. 1 feed, 461-2c; do., No. 2 local white, 46c; No. 3 do., 451-2c; No. 4 do., 441-2c. Barley--Man. feed, 64c; malting, 96c to $100. Buckwheat, No. 2, 65 to 66c. Flour --Manitoba Spring patents, firsts, $5.60; do., seconds, $5.10; do., strong bakers', $4.90; Winter patents, choice, $4.75 to $5; straight, rollers, $4.25 to $4.40; do., in bags, $1.95 to '$2.05. Rolled oats--Barrels, $5; do., bags, 90 lbs., $2.37 1-2. Bran, $23. Shorts, $25. Middlings, $27 to $28. Mou- illie, $29 to $34. Hay--No. 2, per ton, car lots, $15 to $15.50. Cheese--Finest west- erns, 141-4 to 145-8c; do., finest easterns, 14 to 141-2c; Butter--Choicest creamery, 301-2 to 311-2c. do., seconds, 29 to 2c. Eggs--Fresh, 60 to 65c; do., selected, 30 to 3ic; do., No. 1 stock, 26 to 27c. Potatoes --Per bag, car lots, $1.25 to $1.27 1-2. UNITED STATES MARKETS. Minneapolis, Dec. 26--Wheat--December, $1.02 7-8; May, $1.067-8; July, $1.073-4; No. 1 hard, $1.057-8; No. 1 Northern, $1.05 to $1.05 3-8; No. 2 Northern, $1.03 to $1.03 3-8; No. 3 wheat, $1.01 to $1.013-8. Corn--No. 3 yellow, 57 to 58c. Oats--No. 3 white, 45 to 451-2c. Rye--No. 2, 871-2 to 881-2c. Bran --$23 to $23.50. Flour--First patents, $5 to $5.30; second patents, $4.60 to $4.90; first clears, $3.50 to $3.85; second clears, $2.40 to $2.80. Buffalo, Dec. 26.--Spring wheat--No. 1 Northern, carloads, store $1.121-4; Winter, No. 2 red, $1.00; No.-3 red, 97%7c; No. 2 white, 99c. Corn--No. 3 yellow, 661-2c; No. 4 yellow, 641-2c, all on track, through billed. . Oats--No. 2 white, 52¢; No. 3 white, 511-2c; No. 4 white, 501-2c. Barley --Malting, $1.18 to $1.25. = LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Montreal, Dec. 26--Butchers' cattle, choice, $6.25 to $6.35; do., medium, $4 to $5.50; do., common, $3.50 to $3.75; canners, $1.50 to $3.25; butchers' cattle, choice cows, $5.25 to $5.50; do., medium, $4.50 to $5; -do., bulls, $4.50 to $5.50; milkers, choice, each, $75; do., common and medi- um, each, $50 to $60; springers, $30 to $40. Sheep--Ewes, $4 to $4.25; bucks and culls, $3.50 to $3.75; lambs, $575 to $6.25. Hogs-- F.o.b., $7 to $7.25. _Calves--$3 to -312. we EPIDEMIC IN LUMBER CAMP. Spinal Believed to be Meningitis. A-despatch from St. John, N.B., Says: A special despatch from Chatham says there is an epidemic of spinal meningitis feared in that section. In one of the lumber camps in the vicinity there were Disease have been reported. 'The nature of the disease has not yet been de- finitely determined, but_ spinal meningitis is suspected. The Pro- vincial Board of Health are taking action. ; fie: RT ae ee ATTACKED BY COW. -- Daughter was Probably : 'Fatally Injured. A despatch from Kingston, says: Farmer's her father's farm, aged 14, daughter of Geo. Sills, as brought to the General Hos- PRICES OF FARM PRODUCTS | Northern is of dressed: fences 'with three deaths. and two other cases, Attacked by acow, in a stable onj y Sills,' McLean Post-office, Hinchinbrooke, Gold-Seekers Will Attempt To Cross Terri- tory Untrodden By Whites. News was réceived in Ottawa, from Frank W. Porter, one of the mem- bers of the Ungava gold expedition which left Dane, in the Ni mining district, on the overland trail about a month ago. The letter was posted at the last Hud- son Bay frost from which mail could be sent on the route of the gold-seekers. The party have with them provisions eufficient to last a them provisions sufficient to last a firearms, and expect to' augment their supplies with what wild game they may be able to kill on the trail. The party is made up of eight experienced prospectors and explorers, several of whom have had experience and who went into that country over the old Edmonton and White Pass trails. The party is headed by. Will Donaldson of Cobalt, also a Klondike miner, and former man- ager of the City of Cobalt and Wyando mines at Cobalt. Among old bushmen the trip is looked: upon as an extremely haz- ardous one. The party will go over and into territory unexplored and supposedly untrodden by white A despatch from Ottawa, says: ipissing , in the Klondike, | men. This particular territory is almost totally Taanebias ennioe "4 by a few roving tribes of Eskimos who give the white man a wide _ berth, ai yeas The letter was brought to the | nearest postoflice by a party of Indian fur traders, and was writ- ten on December 2. continue its way into the wilder- ness. With the Indians at the post the coming of the party was abig event. The members of the expedi- + tion are each ote ed with fur- lined suits, wit apuchin coats, sealskin boots and leggin 'and are fully prepared for the ships they will have to enduro, It transpires that the party, which is headed for the northeast- ern shores of Hudson Bay, is mak- ing the desperate trip to hoad off two American boats, which it is re- ported are out-fitting at Boston and | New York to proceed to tho placer grounds said to have been looa by the Roy brothers, French-Can- adian trappers, three 'years ago. One of the Roys is a member of the Donaldson 'party. i STORIES OF TWO FAMOUS MEN Justice Sir William Grantham and "Lord" George Sanger. Justice Sir William Grantham of the King's Bench Divison, who has gust led in London, was a g deal of acharacter. He was noted for what was regarded as too great freedom of speech in his judicial opinions--his "blazing indiscre- tions' these comments have been called, and he was inclined to be truculent and had frequent differ- L gi but withal he was a genial kindly man with his friends and neighbors and did not hesitate to tell a joke at his own expense. One of his stories was that his appointment to the bench was due to a misunderstood remark. A distinguished jurist with whom Sir William. was on close terms of friendship inthe latter's younger days said once that whatever Sir William knew of the law he wasa good judge of horse-flesh. This re- mark came to the ears of the Lord Chancellor, who understood it. to mean that Sir William would make a good judge, not of horseflesh, but of the law. That misunder- standing, according to the story at- tributed to the late Justice, brought him a high regard in the caused his bench. Another story about Sir. liam was that after protesting vain- ly to a man who was smoking in a non-smoking railway carriage, he sought to impress the offender by. handing him his card with a threat to have the man arrested at the next station. But the man left the compartment quickly when _ the train stopped and took a seat in another compartment. Justice Grantham sent the guard to get the man's name and address so that he could be prosecuted. When the guard returned he said :-- "T wouldn't have him arrested, sir. I asked his name and he gave me this card. You see, he is Mr. Justice Grantham, sir."' George Sanger, the old circus man, once associated with Barnum, who was murdered at his country rlace near London, regarded as his most valuable possession a silver cigar box containing the inscrir- tion: "Mr. George Sanger, from V. R., Windsor Castle, July 17th, 1899."" "Tord"? George as he was called, was fond of telling how he came to receive this mark of Queen Vic- toria's appreciation. "I was seven and a half minutes in her Maj- esty's beloved presence," he used to say. Sir Arthur Bigge presented him to the Queen one day in July, 1899, in the grounds of Windsor Castle while she was in her car- riage. Here is the story as told by Mr. Sanger to a friend a few years ago :-- « 'So' said the Queen, in her deep, kind tones--'So you are Mr. Sanger! Dear me, you seem very young,' she went on quizzically, as T stood, hat in hand, at the wheel of her shining carriage. ' 'Yes, your Majesty,' says I 'but is may surprise you to know Lord Chancellor's estimat *n and} appointment to the! Wil- | that it was on the day of your racious Majesty's Coronation that first put on my performing dress --at the great three days' fair and festival in Hyde Park!' '« 'Dear me, dear me, how inter- ting,' said the Queen. : talked, and ee | les "Then we talked and 'at the end of it all, when the seven -and a half minutes had expired, her Majesty called across to Bir | Arthur Bigge: 'Arthur, remember that Mr. Sanger must have a lit- tle present before he goes,' "So [followed Sir. Arthur into a wonderful room. He pulled out a drawer and produced a cheque book and started to write. iy. heart throbbed. I stayed hand. : '« <T would rather eat a crust and smile--' said I, with a shake of the head. Sir Arthur laughed and closed the book with a snap. "I beg your: pardon, Lord George,' he said.'"? _ : A few days later "Lord" George received the cigar box. en SINGLE TAX IN ALBERTA. Premier Introduces Bill to Provido Municipal Constitution. A despatch from Edmonton, says: Premier Sifton has introduc- ed a bill in the Alberta Legislatu which stipulates that within sevelr years the single tax principle shall ibe observed by all established municipalities, and that it shall be | observed from the outset by muni- i cinalities hereafter established in | Alberta. The bill, in its entirety, | will provide a model constitution for municipalities now in existence and that will be created in the |future in this Province. It con- | tains 377 sections, and it is the aim 'of the Government to include in these every consideration that en- ters into the administration of ao _ municipality. ae | TRAGEDY AT RIVERS. Innocent Bystander Shot by Tor- onto Strike-breaker. A despatch from Winnipeg, says: | Alfred Thomas, a Toronto strixe- (breaker. in the G.T.R. shops at 'Rivers, Man., on Wednesday shot /and fatally wounded Arthur Els- \ford and seriously injured John | Gibbons, strikers, in a melee in a 'hotel. Some of the strikers got i intd? an argument, and Thomas was | struék on the back of the head with 'aclub. He pulled his revolver and | | fired until it was empty. Thomas 'had been working at Rivers for about two months, having gone there from Toronto to help break the strike. Police Magistrate Bates took an ante-mortem state- | ment from Elsford; who was porter lin the hotel and an innocent by- stander. mC) wi pene meen | ee If riches didn't have wings thero would be but few high flyers. "Why, I always supposed old Tyte-Phist had more than his share of the good things of this world," "The good things? Mister, he hain't' got a blamed thing but a | barrel of money and an appetite 'for another barrel of it." POPU [ATION OF COUNTIBS -- 1 In, Ontario Show Increases And 27 Have smaller Population A degpatch from Ottawa, says; An analysis of the census figures ishows that 21 counties have in- /creesed their population to the fol- lowing extent :-- Algoma, 30,234; Carlton, 4,005; Elgin, 780; Fssex, 8,802; Haldi- mand, 333; Halton, 2,670; Lincoln, 4,918; Muskoka, 262; Nipissing, 45,882; Ontario, 598; Parry Sound, 1,604; Peel. 622; Peterborough, 4,- 659; Russell, 4,252; Simcoe, 2,747, Thunder Bay and Rainy River, 32,- 244; Waterloo, 10,011; Welland, 10,757; Wentworth, +7,816; York, including parts of the city of Tor- onto, 51,857. There are 27 counties which s decreases, as follows :-- | how in, 3,296; Dundas, 1,591; Durham, 852; Grenville, 3,476; Grey, 3,745; 'Hastings, 3,463; Huron, 8,808; Kent, 1,176; Lambton, 5,308; Lan- ark, 2.850; Leeds, 1,050; Lennox jand Addington, 2,965; Middlesex, Brant, 988; Bruce, 8,895; Duffer- 1,155; Frontenac, 2,862; Glengarry, 3,961; Norfolk, 2,037; Northumber- land, 652; Oxford, 1,042; Perth, 708; Prescott, 67; Prince Edward, 694; Renfrew, 863; Stormont, 2,- 263; Victoria, 2,003; 1,154, GROWTH OF PROVINCES. The following shows the percent- age increase of the yarilous pro- figureat So) S Danadaee. sas te ete eae Alborharts ssn S009 bb sey British Columbia .. ..' 55+" Manitoba ..-.. New Brunswick .. .. Nova Scotia ..... +. %: vies os 4033. > -|Ontario .. Quebee <2 cs Ae Saskatchewan .- -. 41 +s 4+) "The following divisions percentage decreases: _ Prince Edward Island - North-west Territory .. Yukon Territory .. «. 'All were well, the letter stated, and the party was to leave the post that afternoon to C6; oe hard- Pe Wellington, ~~ ae vinces, as revealed in the census