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KRESS ith always (TLY 4: w d in bis W#ld Stang urham Bakery, Inciples. that romptiy attended to, JAKE KREgg3, il Discovery uality Chea E\'Ei{ P.' LLCHNIB ths s Hearse. iture ictory. 50 it CUBB now wAs . y « MmCt yÂ¥ n of Sash, lilL. differâ€" eceting. tss and mieke i practioeai$# prepared all orders leines, i# ho orga® we their 1e nerv® siimony of thes® U Indi« erished 1nd im« power# 1J *" Why, Angel, I really think you are a lucky girl! To think that you hold all the trump cards in your hands, and have such a grand gambling game beâ€" fore you! Chance, indeed! Are you not young and pretty, and always with him tâ€"as good as gold and as sweet as hawthorn blossom? Do you think any man could resist you if you set to work to try and win him? Ob, I would not sit and ery if I were you! I would try with all my might and 1 would try with al} my might and main to see if I could get the better of that ‘other woman.‘ Win Geoffrey yourself, defy the spiteful words of a spiteful sisterâ€"inâ€"law, and show her that it was a wicked lie that she told you! Begin this very day, my dear ?" " Do you think I could. Dulcie t" "I am sure of it, Angel. Think what a grand advantage it is to be actnâ€" ally a man‘s wife. Oh, if you try hard enough, you will succeed, I promise you |" Then Ange} hid her face upon bet aister‘s shoulder. " Dulcie," she whispered, ‘‘I have a secret to tell youâ€"do you know that I have made a wonderful discovery ? I always thought, you know, that I loved Horace Lessiterâ€"I did once, you seeâ€"and therefore I thought that I could never love anybody eise. When I was married, I said to myself that I would be a good and dutiful wife, but that T could be nothing moreâ€"but since â€"since I think the very hour that dreadful man said he loved me, and tried to say disparaging things of Geoffreyâ€"something has suddenly come to me. Perhaps it was the horror I felt, the disgust at his insolence, or perhaps it is Geoffrey‘s coldness that has hurt me, and this borrible jealousy which is eating away my beartâ€"I don‘t know how or why it is, but I have disâ€" covered all at once that I am in love with him! Oh, but deeperately, dreadâ€" fully in love !" For some minutes neither sister spoke; they remained silent, fast lockâ€" ed in each other‘s arms Then very seriously Angel raised her face and looked anxiousiy into Dulâ€" cie‘s eyeg. * Dulceie. " *"* My dearest." " Don‘t think me a great fool, but â€"but don‘t you honestly think that Geoffrey is a very handsome man ?" " He is an Adonis, my dear, a very Adonis, with a touch of the Apolio and flavouring of a Cupid !" And then sbhe jumped up from her lowly position and laughed merrily and heartily. But all this time she had said not a word about her own concerns Truth to say, Dulcie was a coward. She knew that she was about to fling an explosive machine down into the " Oh, Angel ! Angel !" and Dujicie covâ€" ered the blushing face with kisses of unfeigned delight. " So you see you have love as well to help you to win your battle !" bosom of her family, and she was a little bit afraid of the storm and conâ€" fusion she was certain to bring upon herself. That Dulcie, the practical, the sensible, should be the one to fling hersel! away in a reckless and improviâ€" dent fashion upon a man so poor, that without her father‘s assistance, he would certainly be unable to keep her in bread and cheese was to say the least of it somewhat galling to her vanity. She felt, too, that really there was no special reason to show to the world‘s eye for her folly. If it had been Geofâ€" frey now, there would have been some excuse. Geoffrey had all the needful charm of look and manner wherewith to storm successfully the citadel of feminine hearts ; there was something interesting and poetical, and intensely fascinating about Geoffreyâ€"but what on earth could there be in honest Miles Faulkner, that a girl like Duicie Halâ€" liday should throw herself away upon and consgider " the world wel} lost " for his sake ? " I do verily believe it is on account of his size!" Dulcie would say. with a rueful disgust to herself. " They say savages are impressed by brute force and gigantic statureâ€"it is their only standard of excellence. . At heart, there is not a doubt of it, I must be an Ojibeâ€" way Indian !" s Nevertheless, Dulcie did not repent of her infatuation, and had unot the amallest intention of drawing back from her bargainâ€"only «she shrank from the confession ol‘yit. After her little talk with Angel, she went out and walked dreamily about the garden, pacing thoughtfully along the newlyâ€"laid out paths. Not a doubt of it that her intentions could no longâ€" er be kept a gecret ; her father must be written to and Angel and Geoffrey must be told. " A hundred and twenty pounds a year," she said aloud, with a certain grim gense of amusement. " It‘s preâ€" posterous, of course ; I almost wish it were nothing at alt ; the measure of roâ€" mantic idiotey would at least be poetâ€" ieally fuller!" The words were scarceâ€" Iy out of her mouth, before she had a practical opportunity of testing her asâ€" pirations to their uttermost. The second post had just arrived, and a servant came out and brought her a letter. It was from Miles, and the very first glimpse showed it to be of a most unprecedented brevity. With a vague wonder at its shortness, she began to read : ‘ C " My dearest Dulcieâ€"A!l must be over between us for everâ€"our engageâ€" ment must be broken off Mr. Dane hasa dismissed me from the business, I do now know why, but think it is Albert Trichet‘s doing. Of course this puts marriage out of the question with me for yearsâ€"I am a pauper. God bleas youâ€"I can‘t write more. I fee}l a bit bowled over. You needn‘t write, P‘d rather you didn‘tâ€"M.F." For some moments Dulcie remained staring down silently at this letter, with no other sign of emotion save a elightly heigntened colour. Then, I much regret to be obliged to state the three words that fel! slowly and delibâ€" erately from her lips. They were neither ladyâ€"like nor reâ€" fined words, and I only record them from a strict sense of duty, and beâ€" cause to render a tale absolutely and unâ€" varnishedly truthful, it is necessary, occasionally, to offend the susceptibilâ€" ities of punctilious persons. In hopes that the apology I tender may in some measgure mitigate the shock that Dulâ€" CHAPTER XXXVII.â€"Continued cle is about to inflict upon my readâ€" ers, what she actually said must now be revealed : "The infernal blackguard!" was what Miss Halliday said aloud, in a calm and remarkably sweetâ€"tempered manner. And it i« quite certain that it was not to poor Miles that she made allusion. Then walking back towards the house slowly putting ber jletter back into the envelope as she went, she came across a groom just coming round from the stables. "Can you take a telegram down to the postâ€"office for me at oncet" she enquired of the man. ‘" Yes, miss." ‘‘Then wait here, and I will bring it to you in a moment." a She went into the drawingâ€"room, and sat down to the writingâ€"table. : * Ah!" sne said. savagely clenching her little fists together, " so that wretch thinks be can force me into givâ€" ing Miles up, does he? He imagines that of course I shall drop him the very moment he has succeeded in ruining him ! You don‘t know much about Dulâ€" cle Halliday, my young friend !" 5 And then she got out a t_elgsraph form and wrote tfiis characteristic mesâ€" sage : _Then, after she bad given her misâ€" sive to the groom, she came back to the writingâ€"table and took out a sheet of paper. " All rubbish. Refuse to be given up. Prefer paupers. Come down here imâ€" mf_dkiat?ly."r C " Strict obedience !" she murmured to herself, with an odd little smile of amusement. " He did mnot say I was not to telegraph !" f _" This settles it !" she m ping her pen into the ink she wrote : " Dear Father.â€"I «uppose you will think me quite mad, altbhough I can‘t help it if you do. I am going to marâ€" ry Miles Faulkner. I hope you will give me something to marry upon, in addition to the four hundred a year which comes to me under my mother‘s marriage settlement, and which, as I am or age, I suppose I shall have a right to. Of course I am aware that this is very little, and so I hope you will kindly make some further proviâ€" sion for me. I have thought it all over for some time, and have quite made up my mind to marry nobody else on earth but Miles, so it is too late to make me change my determination, but not too late, my dear father, to give me your blessing and your help. I fear I may be disappointing some of your amâ€" bitions, but you are too good a faâ€" ther not to gsee that bappiness and afâ€" fection are, after all, the best things to make a marriage successfulâ€"Your affectionate child, Dulcie. f " P.S.â€"By the way, I hear Miles is turned out of the business. This will make not the slightest difference to me, ag it would be a mean thing. as you will agree, to throw a man over because he is in trouble. I suppose it is a trick of that detestable little cad, Trichâ€" et. I always hated the little beast ! He is more like a monkey than a man, I think !" DujJoie felt proud of this composition more particularly of the postscript. " That will prevent the chance of any misgunderstanding on that score!" she said to hersgelf, as she folded and adâ€" dressed the letter. ‘‘It will show papa that I consider Miles‘ dismissal as a matter of minor importance, and also put any little dreamse he may bave had on the subject of my becoming Mrs. Albert Trichet out of his calculations. No woman who describes a suitor for her hand as a monkey, could, by any possibility, be expected to retract the expression and marry him, under any pressure of circumstances whatever | It‘s juet as well papa should see exâ€" actly how matters stand " Afier that, Miss Halliday felt as happy as a birdâ€"a bappiness which was in no way diminished by the sight of Geoffrey and Angel coming toâ€" wards the bhouse together from ; the stables. % Dulcie saw that Geoffrey looked pale and ill, but that he was apparently making an effort to talk to his wife; and presently, as she watched them, she saw Angel haif shyly, and with a quick, nervous glance at her husband‘s face, slip her band tbhrough his arm, of her own accord. Geoffrey was evidently surprised, and a little colour mounted to his brow, but after a minute he laid _ his other hand _ upon _ hbis wife‘s, and looked pleased. laid _ his other hand _ upon â€" DMs: "That‘s right,. T‘ll be off by the 8.10 wife‘s, and looked pleased. in the morning, Angel. I‘ll get that Perhaps coming straight from that Put right for you somehow, Dulcie; sad interview upon the Downs, Geofâ€" the House shall not leave the dear old frey Dan» might reasonably bhave carâ€" boy out in the cold if I can help it." ed for a little interval of solitude and| He was full of a new enthusiasm and thought ere he was called upon to begin energyâ€"already work for others, that to tread the path which his lost love grand panacea for private trouble, lay had pointed out to him. _ But life under his very hand. ‘"There are othâ€" sometim<s bhurries us on in an unatâ€" er things in life to live for," Rose said countable fashion,. and when, as he|when she bade bim turn his back upon turned into the stableâ€"yard and flung love for ever. Was she not always himself off his foamâ€"f{lecked borse, he right? was met by Angel, coming out batless| "Order breakfast for me at seven toâ€" from the house to greet him on his morrow," he said to his wife, as they return, something in ber timid smile went into the house, "and I‘ll have the Perhaps coming straight from that sad interview upon the Downs, Geofâ€" frey Dan» might reasonably bhave carâ€" ed for a little interval of solitude and thought ere he was called upon to begin to tread the path which his lost love A certain surprise came upon him, too, at the manner in which Angel greeted him; there was a shade of emâ€" pressement in her welcome, and a sense of being met halfâ€"way in ber manner, that be had not noticed in bher before. made him remember Rose de Brefour‘s words: "It is always possible for a man to make a young wife love him." Was it? he wondered. _ At any rate, he had made up his mind that he would 'ry â€" P 2. 1 He spoke to bher at once about the horse, and told ber that be would rather she waited a day or two before riding him to hounds. ‘"‘Take bhim out for an hbour along the roads if you like, he is very fresh, and wants exercise, and wait to hunt bim till next week." 3. She agreed, with all ber accustomed gentleness, yet pleaded that she might at least hunt on the following Monâ€" day, ‘"The mare will not be right for a week, Gibson says, and Weldon Gorse is such a good meet, Geoff, and if you will be so good as to look after me a bitâ€"â€"*" "There is Captain Lessiter to do that, is there not?" be said, a little shortly, making not a question but an assertion of the remark. m"'(‘lptain Lessiter has gone away," said Angel quietly, she muttered, dip e‘ im ces And then \ _ "Yes; I heard of it the other day. I couldn‘t make it out," murmured Geofâ€" ‘frey, and a sense of shame and conâ€" trition filled him that the trouble of his friend bad made so little impres+ |sion upon himâ€"how selfish, after all, \be had been in his own grief! It was not thus surely Rose de Brefour woutld bave treated a friend who was sufferâ€" ing under illâ€"fortune. He bad gone |away and absolutely forgotten the bad news he bad bheard about a man who bhad been his greatest friend. _ He had, not made an effort in his behaif, nor even proffered one inquiry concernihg his probable fate. Poor old Miles! ‘"Indeed!" He looked at her inquirâ€" ingly, and a certain dim perception of things he bhad never yet thought about came into his mind, when be saw the hot colour rise like a flame in his wife‘s fair face. ‘"Captain Lessiter will not come back, Geoffrey," she went on with an eifort; "heâ€"he has offâ€"nded me mortalâ€" ly; 1 shall never speak to him again." It cost her a great deal to say this. Geoffrey was looking at her curiously â€"something became suddenly revealed to him; she was not then cold, as he had always believed her to be, only, as with himself, things had gone wrong. His infinite tact and sympathy saved him from the fatal error which nine men out of ten would bave fallen into in the circumstances. BHe refrained from asking her a single question, or from demanding the slightest explanaâ€" tion from her. Only be said very quietly and simply, just as if be knew all about itâ€" And then it was that Angel, touchâ€" ed by his trust and his generosity, slipâ€" ped ber hand, in a shy, caressing fashâ€" ion, under his arm." "And so I will try!" cried Geoffrey, "I will go up to London toâ€"morrow about it. _ Albert Trichet starts for South America this very night, and when he is safe out of the way my uncle is far more likely to listen to anything I say,. Don‘t you worry ourâ€" \self, Dulcie. Write and ask old Miles down here for a day or twoâ€"â€"" ‘"‘Thank you, my dear. 1 am quite sure you bhave done right." Geoffrey had never felt so drawn to ber before. ‘"Perbaps, after all, she will grow to love me a bit," he said to himself, as be laid his hand softly upâ€" on the little timid fingers ‘upon his arm; "and I may at least be able to make ber bappy." And so Dulcie met them on the lawn as she came out of the long French window of the drawing-rou:fl. with all sorts of great purposes in her deterâ€" mined little face, "Loock here, Angel and Geoff," she began, plunging after her babit right into the very middle of her theme, "I have got something very startling to tell you. I don‘t know what you will say about it, although I may as well tell you at once that it doesn‘t matter very much what you say," here she looked quite defiantly at them both, "because I bave quite made up my mindâ€"â€"* * |\ _ Mrs. Stylesâ€"I‘d have you understand that I know a good many worse men than my busband. Mrs. Mylesâ€"My dear, you must be ‘more particular about picking your lacquaintances. "Good gracious, Dulcie!" murmured Angel, turning a little pale at this alarming preamble, whilst Geoffrey only bent his brown eyes very attenâ€" tively upon her. ‘"‘The fact of the matter is, thatâ€"I am going to marryâ€"Miles Faulkner!" zaid Dulcie, a little breathlessly, but flinging the words in a staccato fashâ€" ion at them, as if in very trath they were little burning squibs, and then shut her lips up with a snap, and lookâ€" ed quickly from one to the other, as though to ask, ‘"Now, what have you got to say to that?" ‘"Then you are going to marry one of the very best fellows in the whole world, Dulcie, and I only hope that you are good enough to deserve him." Dulcie‘s eyes literally shone with deâ€" light, and ber face broke out into smiles, No answer in the world could have pleased her better. 1 am looking to you to help us, Do you know that those terrible old menâ€" your uncle and papa, I mean â€" hbave given him his dismissal from _ the house." Geoffrey‘s answer was to reach out both his hands to her, and to shake hers very heartily. "I don‘t deserve him in the very least, of course," she answered, with a little saucy toss of her chin; "but that‘s his affair, Geoff, and meanwhile, ‘"You see it is that hateful little sneak Trichet who has done it," Dulcie was saying; "they wanted me â€" those two silly old idiots!â€"to marry him, and bhe was jealous of Miles, and thought he would get him out of the way. But you are such a favourite with your uncle, Geoff, that I am sure if you try you could get things put right for him." "I have telegraphed to him to come already," said Dulcie, demurely. Two remarakble surgical operations for the purpose of stoppifhg internal hemorrhage have been performed by "Dr. Habart, of Vienna. In the case of a young man who had fired four slugs into himself, the surgeon cut into the thoracic cavity, removing one of the ribs, and stuffed a yard and a half of iodoform gauze between the heart and the lungs. The other case, that of a man stabbed through the armpit, was treated in the same way. Both patients recovered and are now perfectly well. "Order breakfast for me at seven toâ€" morrow," he said to his wife, as they went into the house, "and I‘ll have the dogâ€"cart to take me to the station,." Then, turning to Dulcie, he added with a smile, "Angel will have to wait till Monday to ride The Moor. _ You see, she has nobody now to pilot her but So Ange!l bhad ber reward too. To be Continued. REMARKABLE OPERATIONS. AN AWFUL FLING. What the Legislators of the Country are Doing at Ottawa. In the House of Commons the Prime Minister made a brief personal exâ€" planation with regard to a charge made by the chief Conservative whip, Mr. George Taylor, to the effect that the Messrs. Bate had bought and furâ€" nished a house in Ottawa for him, copâ€" taining a reflection upon the honor of Sir Wilfrid as forming a reason for the award to the Messrs. Bate of a contract for Yukon supplies. _ Sir Wilfred said: "I may say at once that I do not feel called upon to contradict anything that has been said by the honorable gentleman, but in order to show to what levity gentliemen on the other side of the House may descend and how they can utter absolutely foundationless accusations, I will ask the pardon of the House if I ask it to follow me into my private affairs. In the spring of 1897 I bought a house in Ottawa from the Leslie estate for the price, if I rightly remember, of $9,500. I paid $5,000 cash and gave a mortâ€" gage on the balance for $4,500. _ 1 bought the house in the name of my wife, because, being poor, and well knowing that if I died I would have pothing to leave to her, I thought it would be right to give her a home. The balance I raised myself upon a note which has not yet been altogethâ€" er extinguished. â€" That is all there is about it. The house bhas been furnâ€" ished by myself with the exception of a few gifts which were given to my wife by some of her lady friends. That is all there is in this transaction. For the accusation of the honorable gentleman there is not a shadow of foundation. _ The Messrs. Bate have never furnished a bouse for me nor bought it." Mr. Taylorâ€"" 1 accept the bhonorabile gentleman‘s statement, but I am sure be has not lived in Ottawa without having beard what I bave stated, and I think be ought to be under a comâ€" pliment to me for having brought them to his attention publicly, so that be might give it a flat denial, as be has done toâ€"day. You cannot go down street and ask any merchant without hearing the same story I told last night." The Prime Ministerâ€""I beg to say one word more. The rumor that hbas been current in the streets of Ottaâ€" IN THE YUKON. Mr. John Ross Robertson assured the government that it had acted wisely in s>nding the militia force to Yukon. Its presence there bad been of great value. Major Walsh, as an old Mounted Police officer, would naturally desire to give all credit to the police, but to his mind the government would do right to move slowly in the matter of withâ€" drawinz th: foree. â€" M:. Robertson silâ€"o referred to the Associated Press desâ€" patch stating that a force of Mounted Police was to be placed in the Porâ€" cupine district of Alaska and that if this was done the United States would sond out a force to Pyramid Harbor. The Premier made an explanation as to the topog~aphy of the country. It seems there is a Porcupine River and a Porcupine creek, the latter a tribuatâ€" ary of the Lehinney river, which disâ€" charges into the Chilcat about fifteen miles above Pyramid Hirbor. There has been a Mounted Police force of ten men on the Lehinney for a couple of years. â€" Pyramid Creek is im that dirâ€" ection, about five or six miles from the post. _ The government has no intenâ€" tion of fortifying the post. There are mining camps in two forks which form the creek known as Bryan and Mcâ€" ;Kinl ‘y. "For my part," concluded the Premier, "I will strongly object to the United States Government sending a force: of military into that disputed territory as long as the question of the permanent boundary is not settled." _ Mr. Bérgeron was sorry the matter had occurred, and accepted fully the statement of the Prime Minister. oTHER CHARGES. Mr. George Taylor, followed this up by a charge of gross fraud against Messrs. Aitkenbead & Co., of Toronâ€" to, for goods supplied. yeep wa was that the house had been offerâ€" ed to me, but the truth is that I would not accept it." * Mn e ae s n o c adot. To this the Minister of Militia reâ€" plied that if grogs frauds had been perâ€" petrated he would take steps to have the money recovered and he would go to some trouble to find out whether the prices were exorbitant. He did not know the firm. It had been recomâ€" mended to him as decent, bonest, and reputable There was some discussion as to the methods of manufacture employed by Mr. Mark Workman, of Montreal, who bas a _ contract for militia clothing. The minister held that the contractor‘s system of manuafacture was not open to fault and that sweating was uot employed . _ ‘a~ / Dr. Borden explained the arrangeâ€" memt with the Imperial Government for the defence of the Imperial garâ€" rison at â€"Esquimalt. Canada is to pay oneâ€"half.the cost of the garrison of 329 officers and men or about twentyâ€"one thousand pounds, oneâ€"half theâ€"cost of barrack accommodation, for the force, £12,500, the Dominion paying as at present the whole cost of the mainâ€" tenance of the local militia, £9,M45. RAILWAY ESTIMATES. The railway estimates were taken up, when the Opposition discussed the question of the purchase from Messrs. Pugsley, Stockton and Judge McLeod of a property utilized in the improveâ€" ment of the haarbor accommodation at St. Jobhn. The property was offered for $100,000, but the value by competâ€" ent assessors was set down at $118,â€" 000. Tle question at issue was as to whether the addtional $18,00) should be allowed. The full amount has not yet been paid and the Minister of Finâ€" DOMINION PARLIAMENT, PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES THE PREMIER‘S HOUSE. AT ESQUIMALT ance was inclined to think it should not be allowed. In view of this fact the debate seemed almost a waste of time. A proposition was finally agreed to for passage of al! the other railway estimates amountiong to $3,360,000. L&AW OF UsURY. In the Senate, Senator Dandurand moved the adoption of the amendments to his bill respecting usury made by the commitiee to whom the bill was referred. Senator Lougheed asked that the bill be not proceeded with unâ€" til the bill with the amendments was reprinted. Senator Dandurand said the amendmen(s were printed in the minutes. The bill fixed the maximum rate of interest that could be charged at 20 per cent., and interest after maâ€" turity at 6 per cent. It confined the action of the bill to sums under $1,â€" 000. _ This would cover the operaâ€" tions of all usurers whom be wished to reach, those who loaned small sums. He wanted to reinsiate one clause which had been omitted, and which made provision for the charging of a rate of 6 per cent. per annum on fuâ€" ture judgments. Senator Lougheed asked if a mortâ€" gage was amade for 8 per cent.. and foreclos»1 after suit being brought, whether on judgment the rate of inâ€" terest would be reduced to 6 per cent. Were solemn covenants to be set aside by this legislation? Senator Forget said it was only in cases where the inâ€" terest charged was 20 per cent.. that this reduction applied. THE ALASKAN BOUTUNDARY. Lieut.â€"Col. Prior cited an Association Press despatch appearing in the mornâ€" ing papers with regard to the Alaskan boundary question to the effect that negotiations had been declared off owâ€" ing to the failure of the United States Government to accede to the British proposition. _ The Prime Minister did not think that there was any more truth in this statement than in others of the same nature which had preceded it. The matâ€" ter of the permanent boundary was pretty much where it was when the conference adjourned. With regard to the provisional boundary he was sorry to say that neither the United States nor Fritish propositions had proven acâ€" ceptable. He was still in hope, howâ€" ever, that the matter would be brought to a settlement. FRENCH SHORE TROUBLE The Prime Minrister was inclined to think that the maintenance of a permaâ€" nent military force in Yukon was on the whole desirable. BHe thought that as the United States Government has a large force in Alaska and at Skaâ€" guay, and another force in contemplaâ€" tion at Pyramid Harbor, we could not do better than take a leaf out of its book. The Minister of Marine and Fisherâ€" ies, in reply to a question by Mr. Borâ€" den, Halifax, stated that the Canadian Government bas protested to the Govâ€" ernment of Newfoundland against the latter‘s treacment of Canadian fisherâ€" men in the purchase of bait. THIE YUKON CONTINGENT. Sir Charles Tupper quoted from the report of the general officer commandâ€" ing and of Major Walsh to show that the presence of the contingent of the permanent force now in the Yukon could be used to better advantage in the instructional work for which it was created. Bir Charles Tupper thought that the work in question would be much better done by the mounted police. ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE, Sir Charles Tupper devoied some atâ€" tention to the Royal Military College, which he recognized as a proud monuâ€" m nt to a great Canadian premier, the Hon. Alexander Mackenzie. He congraâ€" tulated the government on its policy in reducing the fees, but questuoned the wisdom of reducing the course from four to three years. The institution was one whose high reputation it was important to maintain. The Minister of Militia returned that the information which he bad obâ€" tained from the commandant of the Royal Military College was to the efâ€" fect that the three years‘ course bad proved successful. The minister addâ€" ed that of the 8261 graduates who have passed the Royal Military Colâ€" lege up to June 30, 1898, 88 hold comâ€" missions in the imperial | service, 21 arne in the Canadian permanent force, 20 a@ane in the civil service, 55 are railâ€" way and civil engineers in other Britâ€" ish possessions and 12 in the United States, 85 are in commercial life, and seven are dead. AN INTERESTING PROPOSAL The Minister of Finance made what looks like a very sensible proposition, which should tend toward encouragâ€" ing the Royal Military College. There were so many positions in the civil service calling g)r scientific training that he thought some means might be devised from year to year of sesuring their transfer from the college to the civil service. He thought that the proposal was one which could be workâ€" ed out with advantage to the public service and to the Royal Military Colâ€" lege. INQUIRY FOR THE WEST. Hon. Clifford Sifton, Minister of the Interior hbas decided to recommend the appointment of a commission to investigate the complaints of farmers in the West against the owners of elevators. Whe commission will be composed of independent men who will go into the question thoroughly and report all the facis, so that legislation dealing with the subject, and remedyâ€" ing whatever evils may exist. may be introduced at the next session of Parâ€" liament. The statements made at the committee which had the matter beâ€" fora it this session were of a conflictâ€" ing character. The commission will go to work during recess. Chicago will have to look to its Miâ€" vorce laurels. The London courts are burdened with cases involving matrimonial woes. _ There are 221 of these cases awaiting trial, 152 of them being undefended. _ Seventyâ€"seven of the cases are actions for divorce and are brought by the wife, One hundred and fifteen busbands are seeking reâ€" lease. â€" The others are for separation or the nullification of the marriage. FISH LINES EIGHT MILES LONG Some of the cod lines used in the fishâ€" ing industry measure 7,000 fathoms long, or about eighty ordinary milea, having 4,680 hooks, the whole costing, in some cases, $1,500. ues Daiaikaan s i Tss . es ts ersiiiionts e CX > 259A .. â€"<oagl" ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO HOW TO FEED. The most difficult question to anâ€" swer is, " How much food shall one give?" When we consider that no two fowls have the same appetites or eat the same quantity of food the quesâ€" tion is not one easily answered. Four ounces of solid food has been givem as an estimate for a hben for one day, which is intended not only for the supply of eggs, but for nourishment and repair of waste tissue. A hen not laying requires less. There is quite a difference in the habits and charac teristics of the several breeds, and that which will prove successful with some fails with others. Legborns, when laying, may be fed as much as they will eat, and they will seldom become too fat, but the Brahmas cannot be so treated. As was stated in a former number, a hen seldom beging to sit unâ€" til she becomes very fat, and it is this pecullarity of the nonâ€"situing breeds, inaptitude to fautten, that induces L heu to refrain from sitting. $ On the Farm. a poor condition rather than to allow them to become too fat. The best mode of feeding is to allow plenty of bulky food and to give each hen an ounce of raw, chopped meat in the morning and whole oats at night. In the sumâ€" mer good foraging ground will preâ€" vide all the food necessary. Remmember that if a cow is comâ€" pelled to travel back and forth over u thirtyâ€"aore field from morning tili night in order to hunt a ration for herself she will not give you big pay in the pail. If she has to use the enâ€" ergy to secure a living that she should have expended in elaborating milk, she cannot be profitable. To do her best, the cow sbhould be enabled to fill up well in a few hours and rest the baiâ€" ance of the time, as it is during the rest spells that she is grinding out your profit. There is some profit in summer dairying, but we must give very careful attention to all the deâ€" tails, if we would realize it. STACKING SMALL GRAINS, The sooner small grains are in the stack after cucling the better. There wili then be jess wasie it storms should occur, less waste from bieaching or growing of grain in the cap sheaves and less waste from â€" quails, praime chickens and other fowls. If grain is well stacked it matters little whethâ€" er it is put in round stacks or long ricks. WThe whole secret of successfulâ€" ly stacking small grains is to keep the middle of the stack high and solld. If this is done, and the bundles are of moderate gize, the grain will keep for months without much danger ol spoil= ing. Where is an ©ccasgional season, however, of driving rains, during which no stack that is not under cover of canvas will turn water, and conseâ€" quently the best method is to thresh ws soon as possible after the grain 1 in the stack. 8 t C Unless you bhave rail foundations for your stack, start by standing bundles on end just as you would in shocking. Keep the middle solid, but not very high until the stack is about six feet above the ground. Then by adding adâ€" ditional rows of bundles to the middle and tramping carefully, make the mide dile bigh and solid, keeping it 3 or 4 ft. above the outer row of bundles unâ€" til the top is almost reached. As stat» ed before this is a very imporiant point and must not be negiected under any circumstances. Of course stacking is more difficult with a hbigh muiddle, particularly with grains that have a stiff, harsh straw, as wheat and rye. The outer layers are very apt to sip, but this can be partially overcome by putting on the outer . layer with a fork and not stepping on it at all. In placing these put down the butt of the bundle first so that some of the straws will stick into the lower bunâ€" dle and thus tend to prevent slipping. Keep this up till the top is reached, avoiding any very high stacks, then cover with two layers of bundies well broken and keep in place by using stakes not less than 4 ft long. Treatâ€" ed in this mamner stacking will be found satisfactory and as a rule there will be little cause of complaint. Although wheat is more difficult to stack than oats because of the stiffâ€" ness of the straw, a wheat stack turns water better than an oat stack and as a consequence the topping out of an vat stack must be given more attenâ€" tion. It is much better to top with some kind of hay, particularly prairie hay, if it is too large to weight down. This is mot necessary where threshâ€" ing is to be done ;t once, but if the stack is to stand very long it should B: well topped. DON‘T LET COWS GET TIRED o ues tscs duice M w p . . A t onl S3