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-%---or s... CHAPTER arxxm.-dhtatiauted. l Grottiey, wet to the skin. picked himself up again, s sorry - to be-1 hold, but none the worse in any other way. His horse struggled to his feet with greater difficulty. and developed st the very first mosement s very de- cided limp of his off hind leg-a limp which put all idea of following the hounds, any longer utterly out of the question. Br this time, too, the last of the red coats- had vanished over the brow of the hill, anl a scarcely distant Mound of the fatc-tralloprntr steeds could be distinguished. Also. it was getting dark. This Geoffrey realized for the first time. end when it day in February once he- gun in diikrn. it is perfectly astono letting how quickly it sets about it. An he lulu-d about him somewhat helplessly, it seemed to him that even the fence he had just tackled with such disastrous consequences looked faint and grey, whilst on turning round attain to survey the ploughed tun, into which be had landed, its fur- ther boundaries seemed all to be en- Velopml in a mist of vague indistinct- £953, Ho realized. too, that the loa- tuvee of the country were unknown to him, and that he must he a good eigh- teen milu from home. in a strange country, urging on a limping animal that atumblea and Perks; every other yard-tttia is the 633104“ aspect of the noble sport. __ The Lune now debauched upon a "null, wild-looking common. covered, as far as ho could make out, with low, ocruhby bushes. Here all at once he caught night of a light from some house standing a little wav back from the road. For several miles Geoffrey toiled on in pntient resignatlnn. ignorant as to him whereabouts, and in doubt even " to whether he was advancing in the riuh, direciinn. It was now quite dark, and he began to look out eagerly for some human habitation, some vil- latte inn where he might perhaps get a drink for his horse, or at least some cottage where he might glean iniorm- ntiun cancer-hing his road. But not a glimmer at light, far and wide, right or hit, wan to be discerned. Thin discovery caused him to bestir himself. Leading his tired animal round the. rum he came " last to a fate beyond wlbh a narrow winding am seemed to bo'the only course left him to purauv. and along this he pro- carded at a slow pace. Who does not remember much rides humo through the gathering darknem. tire" out, wet through, tar from home To this he made me meat or his war u quirirty as possible, feeling oonlid- orably entered by the evidence that he was once more within hail of some of his fellow-creatures. When be got Muse up to the house. It named a dismal abode enough; It was not, as he had supposed, a labor- or'o cottage. but a small and most mel-Incholy-looking Villa of the stereo- typed pattern. A small front garden enclosed with- in iron railings, a door In the middle, I window on either side of it, out of one of which proceeded the light that had attracted him. and above them, three darkened apertures. represent- log no doubt bed-room windows over- head. It went through his mind to Wonder who on earth could have built Inch 1: house in such n lonely place, Ind also how, being built, there could possibly have been found anybody willing to inhabit it. oGounumr, ha tustvned his animal to the railing, raised the latch of the ttatt and walked into the wrap of gar- den. He then noticed that the window from which the light streamed forth who. uncurtained, and it occurred to him that, before ringing the hell, it would perhaps be a prudent thing to look into the room and to ace for him- self what mnnm-r of inhabitants this IGoruiuoobos, house contained. He crept softly up and peepod over the low laurel bushes into the room. - It was small and somewhat meagrely Inrniahed. A fire burnt dully in the grate. a lamp stood upon a book-case on one aide of it; there were neither pictures nor china upon the walls; only a great many rows of hooks, not neatly arranged, but piled up in heaps one over the other on the floor, as though Waiting to he set In order. And there Was a round table in the middle of the room, and across it, Itrett‘hed face downwards upon her folded arms was a woman-the only oc- cupant of the room. She was dressed in the deepest mourning, black of the most sombre intensity; not a scrap of collar or out! was to be Been, nor was there even a gleam of hand or neck to re. lien the gloom, only the wealth of a max of ruddy gold hair fallen loosely about her hidden face and shoulders. Something in the sight of her get his heart beating oddly and painfully-- eomething in the lines of the bowed figure, in the color of the drooping head. What was it that it recalled to hunt Who was it that it reminded him off Oh, if she would but move, tit: up her face, raise her head even; had it been ever so slight a glimpse of either he would have been certain! Bin she did not lift a finger, and the fallen head and leaning form, in it. long sable draperies. brought no as- surance to his mind, only a vague. dis- ?u’teting suggestion of a mad possibil- ty. . ' ' . ' For a lung time, as it seemed to han, in reality it was, perhaps, only a few minutes, he stood motionless without, watching for some change, in the wo- man's attitude. But there came no change. only now and then a long quivering cob-like sigh seemed to choke her from head to foot, like a ".hrill of agony through the utter still- seam of her sorrow. It was the very abandonmvnt of wow A grist so deep and so unspeakable that at last it some homo to the mind of the watcher without. that it WAS almost a eacriiege to epy upon it. that it would be a cruel notion to break in upon it. "God help you, poor .0111.” he mur- aured at last. and softly and rever- mly he crept away and went back att, the darn“- out of which he had Jaaue, But long after, hours after he had trot home and been warmed, and fed, and dried by his own fireside, that ieture of that woman in her woo kept Kll'dlii that before his eyes. and again and again he found himself mur- muring ngll».louq: - - -- -... T -cdLiifit hare been Rose, or am going mad in very truth, and was all a delusion of my brain I" CHAPTER XXXI. The worid--Duleie Halliday'e world It ieaat-in which her friend Venetia figured conspicuously. pitied her very much when her sister had married aryl Cone away. They were profuse m their invitations and their offers of companionship, it must be so dull for her they arid, now that Angel had left her, as her father was away all day. And no doubt Dulcie did miss the sie- ter to whom she had for so many years devoted herself. Yet believing her to be married to a good man who would take care of her, she was quite happy about her. But with regard to her loneliness, she hut a source of consola- tion of which her friends were in ignorance. L gumuuw. , was astonishing how often in there yvmuy days Miles Faulkner pleaded tndispoaition, and left the City at an early afternoon hour. Remarkable. for a yuung man of sober and abstemwus habits, how frequently he cumpluined of headaches and pains in his chest and sides, and other symptoms of a strange and, tetynoretrsusrious nature." b, an“ ,m an". """a'"""""'"" --'" "I feel awfully queer to-day," he would announce in the morning, as he took his place opposite to Trichet at the table. There was no third clerk appointed yet to Geoffrey's vacant gnarl. "1 think I must be going to "So you said on Tuesday, Miles," Trichet would answer in a friendly manner. "When you were oblized to WI jgway early. r?uAqow..",, l h 'iiii,"anTi I'm afraid I shall have to knock off after lunch again P-dat. I've got a sort of swimming feeling all over me, don't you know." "Oh, it was only in your head I re- mantrisr, on Tnegday." . .. . " "You should take advice, my dear fellow. You really should are a doc- tor," recommended his teHow-clerk, with a look of profound scorn and sympathy- -GTi,"w%YGGiGad a hit since." remarked Miles, with unabashed eftrpntery. -- _ - _ “I have done 30, Albert. But theats doctors can’t do much; they only re- cummend what a man, who has tua work to do, can't very well manage-- pertect rest."_ _ A __ _ Miles lowered his face for a minute over his writing, then he lifted it again and, with a slightly heightened color, looked his adversary full in the eyes "That's it, Trichet. You’ve. hit it “Milly. What a clever chap you are " - "Ahl and short tripe Into the coun- try, twice a week!" Albert Trichet only whistled a pop- ular an, and made no answer. But he thought the more. After lunch, when Miles, murmur- ln" a lame apology, had taken himself off, as he. had hinted that he intended to do, Albert rose leisurely from his place, and went up and knocked at the door of Matthew Dana's private room. d; "rhere was sdmething like a threat in the young man’s eye. The old man shuffled uneasily under it. " You know that I have a claim up- on you," said Trichet, in a cold, hard voice; " and you know also that you dare not make an enemy of me. You remember about; that ship load of goods from South America last spring. don't you} Do you remember how the Smihern Pearl went to the bottom and all hands perished, and the cargo was lost, and every house in the City sent its condolences! 'We hadn't in- sured,' you know l--but you and I know why that ship t'oundered, don't we? We lost her eargo--it was alosev of course. but it wasn't of such value as was thought. and we ruined the South American house that was un- derhuying us-for the man whose brain was outwitting yours, clever as you are, had taken a passage home in the Southern Pearl, and went to the bottom in her too l-and there are no tales told from the deep bed of the Southern Seal You and I know all about that, don't we? And we cling together, you and I, because of my mother, you know, and the kind friend you were to her and because-of me. Oh, no, Matthew Dane. you can't af- ford to quarrel, with me, can you l A singular change passed over the old man's face while Trichet was speak- ing. He turned livid-wf a yellow hue like those waxen images off whose faces the colouring pigments have fad- ed; his eyes lost their keen, eagle g'nm-e; his whole form shrunk and mwered. He was no longer the haugh- ty autocrat, the master mind domi- neering over his puppets; he was only a guilty wretch, who shivers as his sins are brought home to trim, _ - "What is it you want?" he said. without lookingg up, in an odd, house voice, whilst his hands wandered un- certainly amongst the papers on his table. Albert Trichet eat cross-ways upon a cane chair. his arms folded across its back, his chin resting on his clasped fingers. He looked at the old man do- fiantly, almost insolently. l, or am it "Pee got him on tout." he paid t.o himself; "he knows I've the whip hand of him. and he innatrgid‘ oJ Incl" " ii;; GriVTirrwTsiGiut I want, let's have no more fuss about it," be said with tsasrftTpuAentsee “A , Bulu "awn Vina; "_--" And then old Matthew ftaashed a glance up at him, and his eyes flash- ed and glowed with a sudden and in- ward flare. " It is your day now-but mine will ('an " laid the old lion to himself, " It is your day now-but mine wm come," said the old lion to himself. for though he was in a trap he was not to be worried to death by awea- zel ', he was a king amongst his fellows still, and those who defied him gen- erally had the worst of it in the long run. If Albert Triohet, msolent and se- rene, had but divined the perfect pas- sion of hatred that blazed and burnt in the elder man's soul, as he looked at him, he would hardly have sat there as he did, comfortable and secure, with that small cynical smile upon his mean little countenance. " Send for Halliday," said Trlchet, shortly, {is one who gives an order tt BllUJll’. AN out: V'uu u-.. -- 7,7 - an inferior, and thugs three words doomed him. After that his fate was sealed. Matthew Dane arose from his chair, struck a hand ball on his table as he passed it, unlocked a. cupboard in the wall and filling awims glass from a bottle upon the shelf drained it off at a gulp. L ""iiririn, tonic. my boy," he re- marked apologetically as he turned the key in the cupboard _door again; tbsp M, ... my Wyn...” m“ - _ to the messenger who answered his summons, in his usual voice, " Ask Mr. Halliday if he will kindly come and speak to me for aminute." It might have been the veritable Elixir of Life from the effect it had um on him. Erect and calm. with his back to the hearth and his figure drawn up to its full height, he stood with all, and more than all, his habitual self- postsesiron, and awaited his partner: Mr. Halliduy arrived. He looked with a slight surprise at Trichet. Interviews between the two heads of the house were not wont to be held in the pres- ence of a clerk. Mr. Hulliday's glance said as much. Mr. Dane smiled and motioned him to a chair. - _ - . "This interview, my dear friend, is scarcely connected with business-it is of a personal and I may say an agree- able nature. Our young friend here, my dear Hulliday, has asked for my intercession with you, with regard to ynur‘daughter." "My daughter I" Mr. Halliday re- peated, looking from one to the oth- er. " Our' young friend, dear Halliday. tells me he is deeply attached to Miss Dulvie, an dbeing an honourable and conscientious man. he wishes to ad- dress himself in the first instance to her father" -r, f‘feierlv, -dt-iroursa' deéply honour- ed," he began, hestatiniriret.-',' H "I think I ought to put Trichet's case to you before you anqwer him--he has, of course, no means of his own, but with a view to his marrying your; daughter, and also because he has prov- ed himself of very great value in the business, I am going to propose to you that he shall be made our 'Manager,' and enjoy an increased salary suitable to his services; to be drawn quarter- ly; and at your death that he suc- ceeds you as portener. In this way, should your daughter marry him, an ample provision will be made for her, and the business be kept amongst our- selves. This has long been my pro- ject;" he added, with so perfect an appearance of candour and openness, that even Triehet, who glanced at him suspiciously, could detect nothing in his proposition but the, most absolute good faith. It was not perhaps quite what he had wanted, but provided the Halary were high enough, there wax “hardly a sufficient ground for objee- ion. Mr. Halliday looked troubled. Per- suually he did not like Albert Trichet. He bowed his head slightly. _ " I had hoped, sir," he said deteren- tially, '. that should I be so fortunate as to win Miss Hullidny's affections, you would have taken me at once into partnership." " The business would not stand it at present. You mum be content with Four high salary is manager. There cannot be more than three partners m it. Your annual income will be quite as large. probably, as any small share you would take out of it no a fourth partner---" 'And might I ask---" IF Certainly. I propose to make it twelve hundred a year. At my death, it would rise to fifteen hundred. At Mr. Unllidny's, you would become a partner, with a third share." The terms were imple, far more so than he had dared to hope. Yet Albert Triehet remained thoughtful---he could see no trap or plot about it-all seem- ed fair and square. and yet why had there been so sudden a bupitulation? .. He has knocked under with a ven- geanoel" he said to himself. Then Mr. Halliday spoke: ' Ms my daughter will not go to any man absolutely penniless, I can see nothing to prevent the marriage with regard to means; it only remains for me to say, therefore. that should you gain her consent. I will not withhold mine. At the some timo, I feel bound to tell you that Dulcie is not a girl who, will be easily won." "I trust you will stand my friend, Mr. Hallway?" " Certainly. But I shall never force my daughter's inelinyiravh" " The inTerview was virtually over, and Trichet felt no more good could come of_pryongiryr it. __ He had, after all, been victorious, all along the line-he had subdued his chief into offering his terms so advan- tngeous that he did not know how to cavil at them, and he was an accept- ed suitor to Dulcie Hallidny's hand. It was not in nature not to be elated " After all," he. said to himself, ex- ultingly, " the luck isn't all to be on Geoffrey Dane's side, and I'll he even with Miles Faulkner, ret-curse him_l” at his success. He went forth from Mr. Dana's little room like one towhom life has suddenly become a Paradise of goldep hopes and gratified ,mtitions. And all the time he never saw the one tiny flaw, the one small rift in the programme of his future! So much had been said about Mr. Halliday’a death-something too, about Mr. Dane's but never one word or one syllable about that one most improbable, and surely rerrtoieoptWtrener-this own! That, as a rule, is the very last thing any man contemplates when he is sketching out the details of his rise in life to competence aanNWealthz And yet. arid rtst-whilat golden . 'I‘InI\IU TORONTO dreams were yet before tsim-whilst he was telling himself how much he would make out of his manager-hip, how he would encourage Geoffrey in absence and idleness, so as to make himself in- dieyeneable in the.City, how well, yet how prudently, he would live, how cleverly he would work the lever, as as to twist his chief about at his will and pleasure-he would not perehanee have been so confident and so exalt- ant had he followed that chief along the gas-lit streets as he walked West- wards that afternoon. and had been able to read the thoughts that en- trrttssetthim on his homeward way 1' . 7'i56FiEio' a%irarejinhrr might be condensed thus: " Albert Trichet thinks he has done) me. As a matter of fact, he has done for himself. He threatens and bullies me-two things I have never yet stood. and don't mean to endure now. I have borne a good deal from him, because of who he is, and because he has been of service to me. As he says, he has done my dirty work. As a tool, he had his uses. but if he turns upon me as he did just now, he becomes intoler- able. Is it likely I am going toleave him behind me, to be a thorn for ever in Geoffrey's path? And he thinks he has outwitted me-mel Ah, it would take a cleverer than you; the Devil himself, my friend, to do that!" And then a scowl, dark and hideous to be- hold swept over his face; perhaps it was that Devil he had invoked, who 'iht forth his hand and stamped it t ere. ludlrroln ll Well an Inna-roan huddle-uh on the Nauru. I‘M-In Lttte. The moat amusing and painful ex- periences that attend "railroading" in China fall, not upon the promoters or the passengers, but upon the foreign employes. An engineer's life in north China, for instance, is generally an exciting one. (Besides natural and routine difficulties, he has to cope, says the London News, with mandarin intrigues, village opposition, mutinous railway coolies and turbulent sol- diary. " I have had enough of him," he mut- tered. "He has crossed my path. I must get rid of him!" -- A somewhat typical incident was that of 1890, when, during floods, a, mob, led by soldier, cut the railway embankment and destroyed seven miles of line near Tien-Tsin. The cause alleged was that the embank- ment prevented the flood water from running oft-which, as there were fre- quent outlets, was utter nonsense. Previous to that attempts had been made to wreck trains, and the foreign employes were constantly threaten- ed. The life, too, of a foreign guard on a train is not always a happy one. Mandarins' servants without tickets frequently take possession of first- clase carriages, and in the most com- prehensive sense make themselves at home. Perhaps, if the weather is cold, they undertake to get warm by lighting pans of charcoal. Charcoal has certain asphyxiating effects; the other passengers complain, and the servants have to be ejected. Too much violence might lead to a general attack on foreigners and an- other Tien-Tsin massacre, while too little would not be effective. The un- happy guard has to follow the "happy" menu between a hard push and a knockdown blow. Them haw been many ludicrous as well as dangerous incidents on the North China line. When it was first opened, Chinese would come to the booking office and try to bargain tor yickets. ‘lWhen told the fare, they would offer half, and gradually raise their bid, much disgusted! that they should not, in a business spirit, be met half-way. . One day a country gentleman, on his first ride in a train. seeing his house midway between two stations duo; and stepped out into space. At the pace the train was going a Euro.. pean would certainly have been killed, flying pust, deliberately opened the but the supple Celestial, after a pro- longed period of somersaults, was seen to pick himself up, dust his clothes, and set off home across the field-. mueh pleased with his short cut and the convenience of the "tire-wheel carriage}: . An unfortunate railway coolie, equally ignorant of the laws of mech- anics, did not get off so well. Seeing two trucks coming at " snail's pace down a siding, he placed his foot on the rail to stop them. To his aston- ishment it was cut off, and he learn- ed, like Stevenson's cow,thnt momen- tum is made up of mass as welt was of velocity. _ - _ . . But in spite of everything, railways are bound to prosper m a country where travelling is otherwise so slow and so difficult. COMFORT FOR " RED HEADS." Statistics which have recently been compiled show that persons with red hair are far less likely to become bald than those who have hair of another color. The average number of red hairs on the human skull is 29,200. Hair of a dark color is generally much fin- er than red hair, and three dark hairs cover as much space as a single red hair. As a rule, a dark haired person has about 150,000 hairs on the skull. Fair haired persons, on the other hand, men as well as women, have trom 140,- 000 to 160,000. Ina strongest hairs, however, are those of a red color, and hence _thfrpsryit1rts the lopgest. It may be added that red haired {muons aris generally of a sympathetc and pan- sionate nature, and are as a rule far more apt to be optimists than pessi- mists. The wise man turns up his sleeves and goes to work while the fool sits around and waits for work to Mme RAILWAY RISKS IN CHINA. (To be Continued.) What the mull-ton of the Country are Doing " Ottawa. YUKON LIQUOR PERMITS. Lieuta Col. Prior, Victoria. drew the trovernment'a attention to the mtter‘ of the issue of Yukon liquor permits, by Mr. Ogilvie. Since he has been in charge several permits have been io- sued, some being disallowed by the government here. The result bad been great hardship to those who had already purchased the liquor. In one case, H. C. MecCeuloy, who won in Dawson and obtained a permit from Mr. Ogilvie,‘ came down to the east and purchased two carloade of beer and two hundred cases of beer, which Were paid for. Be was naturally anx- ious to know whether this permit would be disallowed. Col. Prior also asked whether the government was aware of the existence of a brewery in Yukon. The Minister or luluuu Ae.b'""" stated that he knew of no brewery In Yukon. A brewery outfit which is being taken into Atlin will be seized at once. . MAILS TO YUKON. Mr. Hector, McDowell, Cape Breton, called attention to a package of pa- pers addressed by him to Dawson which had been returned through the dead letter office. The Postmaster-General replied that during the winter only letters had been carried, owing to the diffi- culty of the service. During the Bea- son of navigation. however, the ser- vice will be weekly and all classes of mail matter will be taken in. PETROLEUM INSPECTION. Sir Henri Joly de Lotbiniere intro- duced a bill to amend the not respect- tag the inspection of pertoleum. The main feature of the new bill is to pro- vide for the inspection ot petroleum at the refineries, and so to do away with the necessity for barrelling, which is found moat inconvenient, more especially in the North-West. Petroleum can now be stored in tanks as long as it is needed. Naphtha will also have to be kept in red barrels. PACKING OF APPLES. l, through undue friendship for Mr Alex. Mr. John McMillan, South Huron, McDonald, the Bonanza King. secured drew attention to certain statements “he tTee/gi', 82,o00, which it w” attributed to the Minister ot Agricul- 'l _ege P""' ue McDonald on , cer- ture and Prof. Robertson, to the effect am claim, and that he did BO "'T.ro- that Canadian farmers were ruining p31)" The transaction in connection the reputation of Canadian apples in tlf, tit case occurred after f.utrurt Britain by improper packing. Mr. M . T .wr.ottdointr, aeoortlimz .to McMillan felt that the charge was an .r. Ogllwe, has been made manifest In unjust one so far as the farmers are this case. I concernetl. tor the reason that that STEEL AND IRON BOUNTIES- packing is not done by them at tni.l, The Government proposes to gradu- 03:. Clancy took at Butler view of the ally reduce the bounties on steel in- B. ots, odd i , a . . ‘0 The Minister of Agriculture felt that l guide pin icti,ato.'I £230 Jodun1ii5sir,"/,l the matter was one which should be day are practically " per ton. From grown to the public attention. The evil April 23, 1902, to June 80th 1903 the is one which should not be glossed over bountiee are to be 90 per cent of 93. as grave injury has been done to the for the following year 75 per (-wa I country thereby. So far as the state- 1 from July lst 1904 to Aa, 30m 1er ment that either he or Prof. Robertson 55 per cent; ‘for the year 'fi,'iici':/r' had reflected upon the farmers of Cen- the bounties are to be 85, and fr an ada, the charge was wholly without July let, 1906. to June 30th, 1907. it! foundation. , iper cent. On the latter date thcsia To AMEND THE BANKING ACT. ibnunties will cease altogether. If ' ny The Minister otFinunce obtained for 9109' ingots are made from pttrGlid bis bill to enable Canadian banks to ', tron bars mvnutaetured in Canada UO issue notes in the currency of other Pountr h to be mid on the introts, British colonies, the sanction of the| ------_---- House in committee. t inllrnn Inn-“nu A nun-n null. II e ffiiiiiiiiii gamma BOUNDARY OF ALASKA. Lieut.-Col. Prior. Victoria, quoted the Washington despatch appearing in papers which alleged that Canada has preferred a demand that in the tetms of arbitration on the Alaskan boundiry, whatever the result, Can- ada shall be entitled to Pyramid Har- bor and a strip of territory along the Lynn c;n_il, and that, further, the re- ceipt of this demand on our part has practically broken off an agreement which was already under way. The Prime Minister was at a loss to l MM" "wow i" ”w "mu" ”V’Aw'v" account for the series of articles ap- cattle, and AlH,509,000 sheep. . t . . the Am riean re hos ', .The elephant hay. 40,000 muscles In petting m e p PM, w . st, his trunk alone while a. man has only purpose seems to be to create the 1111- 577 i hi . ' bod pression that Canada has assumed an ' ' n ts enttre r. attitude of unreasonableness in the Tre. dragon fly can fly Ihackward negotiations. It had been suggested and Isidtlomr, and. can alter 1.ts courts" that the Washington authorities must on the instant without turning. be interested in their publication, but l When a olrumeleoo is blindfolded it it was his duty to say that they are ‘loses all powtu' of changing its color, free from blame, and cannot possibly and its entire body remains of a uni- sanction the expression of such opin- form tint. ions since they know otherwise. The i There are three varieties of the dog position of the negotiations to-day is that never bark-the Australian dog, exactly what it was when they were the Egyptian shepherd dog, and the adjourned last .winter. The govern- “‘lion-headed’ dog of Thibet. ment's proposmon was the samcto-day The lantern fly of Surinam, South as it was then, and so tar as this gov- America, has two sets of eyes a.” as u, ernment was concerned there would he T Catch the 158111 from ati 2'iiii'ciiiU2 lt no tshango. is much more brilliant than nur fire- I Commissioner Wm Ogilvie's . . . . re ton his enquuV into affair] mpg: Mr. N. F. Davin, proposed a resolu- tion directing attention to the unsat- isfactory state of the grain standards, and the evils resulting from; the mix- ing of wheat at Fort William, and other terminal elevators, which tend- ed to seriously injure the name of our grain in the foreign markets. The matter was one calling for immediate action, and Mr. Davin was pleased to observe the measure introduced by the government, which would, he under- stood, remedy the evil complained of. The Minister of Inland Revenue aug- gested that if Mr. Davin would ex- amine the government bill he would find that an earnest effort is being made to remedy the evils complained of. The bill provides that in future no certificate shall be given for mixed wheat. The Minister of Railways gives notice of a resolution to confirm a ninety- nine years' lease from March last of that portion of the Grand Trunk line trom Ste. Rosalie to Montreal for the use of the Intercolonial' Railway on payment of an annual ren‘al of 8140- 000. This piece of line will form the connecting link between the Drum- mend County road and the new I. C. It. terminus in Montreal. OGILVLE'S REPORT. Minister of Inland Revenue GRAIN STANDARDS AND I. c. R. CONNECTIONS.) Yum m mbmitted to the Home at Common. The invutizalion in not Inf euwnohstsd, u the oorynuvsiontr gates that he hes yet to beer on- dence on the charges preferred s sinst two officials. less”. Nerwoocl end Weds. The first meeting wss hold on Feb- ruary 6th, end it we. decided to issue notices to all end sundry to for-Ilsa, in writing, by larch 16th.suoh chug“ es they might hsve to prefer. The miners committee submitted s series of chsrges. E. C. Alien, of the Klondike Nugget, also preferred oer» tsin charges, and these were investi- gated. The parties making the churn. were given access to the records in the Gold Commissioner's office. Mr. Ogilvie did not sustain the charge preferred by Dr. Bourke egsinst Gold -cornrnissioner Fawcett respecting the title of a company to certain claim. on Bonanzs Creek. A countable named ‘Villeneuve was found guilty of having accepted bribes in admitting people to "he Gold Commissioner's office. 1 Some of the evidence also showed :thst the clerks in the office had re- ceived par from outsiders for attend- ing to work done before and after or. (tice hours. In reference to the charge legainst Mr. Fewcett of having im- iproperly closed Dominion Creek, the evidence, Mr. Ogilvie says, shows that Mr. Fawcett was not responsible for the closing of the creek in the manner charged against him. Mr. Fawcett .closed the creek in November, 1897, Sowing to the numerous complications l that arose through different appli- cants having staked over esch other, there having heen several points of be- busy in the office. and u there were numerous cases to be invoatittated, Mr. Fawrett determined to clone the erect until such time as he could take tho matter up. MMor Walsh approved of this course. Ill Mr. Ogilvie any: the 'creek stands still closed from Upper Discovery L0 120 miles below Lower, icomprising about 150 miles. Lucio Hui-“B --v_ V, - - ginning for the “thing of shims on the creek. Before work could pro- ceed on the creek, Mr. Fawcett deter- mined it was necessary that in all these cases an investigation should b. held, and the title to the cluims ascer- tained in thater. " he wan wry Mr. Ogilvie any; there was not any evidence to show that Mr. Fawoett had benefited by the closing of the creek. Mr. Fawcett, the oommiaeioner state did an act improperly in granting t prospect permit to Mrs. Emma Koala but the evidence showed that a. she di not speak good English, the Gold Cum- missioner had misunderstood her. There was nothing to show that Mr. Fawcett or any of his friends in any way benefited by the permit. Mrs. Koch being un_utter__stranger _to him. The editor of the Klondike Nugget, in his charge. alleged that Mr. Fawceit. through undue friendship for Mr. Alex. McDonald, the Bonanza Ring, secured the payment of 82.000. which it was alleged was due McDonald on 3 cer- tain claim, and that he did so impro- perly. The transaction in connection with this case occurred after August 25th. No wrong-doing, according: to Mr. Ogilvie, has been made manifest in this case. I STEEL AND IRON BOUNTIES. QUEER THINGS ABOUT ANIMALS. The Califiornia woodpecker will carry an acorn thirty miles to store it. It takes a snail exact]; fourteen days and five hours to trnve a mile. The land crabs of Cuba run with great speed, even outstripping a home. That, sleeping or waking, snake: never close their eyes is a curious fact. It is estimated that there are bu',- 050,000 horses in the world, 195,150NW cattle, and AlH,509,000 sheep. The elephant has 40,000 muscles in his trunk alone, while a man has only 577 in his entire body. When a chameleon is blindfolded it loses_all powur of changing its color, and us entire body remains of a um- form tint. Ihe. lantern fly at Surinam, South Amenca, has two sets of eyes. so as to patch the light from ail directions. it I' much more brilliant than our tire- r The oldest living creature m {be world belongs to Walter It.ot.h.scuild. It is a giant tortoise, Weighing a quarter of a ton, and it has a kmmn “to ot 150 rears. There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep-sea dwellers. and crawl luout the rocks, using their tails and tins as legs. Some animals can live many years Wtht water. A paroquet liu-d tily-two years in the London Zoo without taking a drop of water. A number ot reptiles live and prosper m places where there is no water. The heron seldom flaps his wings M a .rate of less than no to 150 nuns a minute. This its counting only .1lu', byuboo tubes fastened to the bums “flags really m tire from 2m to 300 mm. tincl movements a minute. One ot the longest-lived birds on record died recently in London. lt was 3 parrot named Ducky, the PH" perty of the prince of Wales, and. Him a century and a quarter old. 1 1~ tO 80 years ot age elephants are unit-1 members of society. The antipathy at animals for inf- tain things is unexplainable. but in" fact remains, for example, that ij" tleenakee have a decided dislike iv!" the leave ot the white ash. LN; i" I- manta hare shown that they w. u,d rather run over live coals than twill white uh leevee. ' CANADA. Peterbom fair in to ht" A Chinese jou house od in MontreU. Bellwillo has decided u trol of the waterworku. Hamilton aidermen ha bum (a! ing there. red (we ta in ml th Chan pure] than Ha Grand Mull” . null trial an inc 1 t neck. eeive in person the of LL. D. Tho Uueen-ttegeat opening of the Cow the Spanish Govern Th, Tl Channel. Palm. an to Germany. A spread of lepro Victoria, BE., from tabla purthaued Javanese (mm In Mr. “ (ables Japancm land, La Begin! an: the, 1nof real puny 1Ar0 lor injuru'o bush“ to band a car has he; amp-In laying “1100‘ The Brantford "Jan iieyi II h 5M syndicate t'. mun ll Atult In mum Th h III at will con-true! inc Brilain and a mm th. 11 to It Hull wine of t om R Mich TU " n M ble H Tt ll water rs “all n Mot m ll Tb " ml m r niv mung c t"itG' and inn " the tue' Ill! it lo w " card of H9." prevalence of I " tl mg U . 'l‘urne van CHI " rt " n is talk of I railroad. has di UNrll ty ll irl G ll cguan ld tt h tht' M uu " " " mun unu din] n It.l o DUI n " tt " u n Id