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16 "Whea you die," I remarked, "you will like to have some good deed to reâ€" mem‘s>~. You will like to think that you Fave lessened the Lburden of one , Afiter the rector‘s wife bhad departâ€" ed, I turned to Lady Yorke. = "If you would see poverty in all its desolatisn, Lady Yorke," she said earâ€" nesily, "you should go to a place that is called Samly Fields." "Wili you distribute this among your “»7"!! / t _ _ The eyes of the rector‘s wife filled with tears. She saw in the gift relief for many from utter misery. _ _ said "Heaven bless me!" cried the recâ€" tor‘s wife, startled out of all proprieâ€" ty. "Why, Lady Yorke, it is only monâ€" ey thet we want! Money will purchase foexl, coal, clothes, â€"shoes, and everyâ€" thing else." I heard the rustle of banknotes, and Lady Yorke said gently: is one of heavren‘s own hercines." Laiy Yorke was silent and thoughtâ€" ful ouring the rest of the day, but in the evening she relapsed into the old lacka aisical mood. A feow cays afterward I asked her if she would go to Wodheaton again, if she would go to Woodheaton again, and bhaving no other engagement she consenterd. Just wabht 1 longed for happener!. When we reached the shop can desire. What can be more herâ€" vic than the endurance of bunger and voli without complaint? I have read pf what the world calls heroinesâ€"Joan of Arc, who won a throne for her king; Charlotte Corcay who slew the enemy pf France; but to my way of thinking, the real heroine is the wife and moâ€" ther whose life is one continual strugâ€" Elv. who cenies herself that her husâ€" and and children may have enough, who works without ceasing, never comâ€" plains, comforts her husband, brings up ber chiliren well, and practices herâ€" oic virtues unseen by any one, unâ€" known even to herself. That woman is one of heaven‘s own hercines." plaining poor." "Heroes aad heroines!" she repeatâ€" ®d. "Why, Miss Chester, what can there be heroic in poverty?" "Poverty bravely borse is true heroâ€" ism," 1 said,. "It is easy to be happy and contented when everything goes well, when one has plenty of money, plenty cfi food, and everything one this world I had! seen atmong the poor at Graceâ€" dieuâ€"their patience, their industry, the pathos and beauty of their lives. "‘The true heroes and heroines of this world," I said, "are the uncomâ€" $ % - life. We send| ‘"Would you like very much to keep EBCOE :erbi’u. ms m:h“mes but 1 Aumnie with you?" she asked, and _ I money 10 YarIOt n * hardly knew her voice. It bhad lost bave never personally given any @WAY>| its langour, and was clear and sweet. § bave seen so few poor people." ’ ‘"Would I? Ab, my lady, Annic is I saw that ber mind was awakened.| :;h-s Vl‘?_l'yhnhcfl_!’t u'l'a\t'Ibcatsh in â€" my We talked on the same subject during a.{leaiz‘ guze "I“:’L"“ nJ‘; “tr'; °tc:3 fifgi the whole of our drive. I told her what | J spat Jia down ani dis by her side." I ha!\ seen atmong the poor at Grace-g‘ "I.*I.:,gw_ 'Ioopr,r_ l:% it since you tasted sry Cay." "Andi I," said Lady Yorke, "bhave nover, so far as I remember, relieved ‘"Yes, very often, when I was _ at bhome with my mother. She, out of bher limited means, made a point of relieving some poor person or other evâ€" "That must te true," she allowed, more gravely than I bhad expected. The next morning I bad to drive with Lady Yorks to Woodheaton; she wanted to make some purchases. The morning was lovely, but her mind was evidently still distprbed by the conâ€" versation of the previous Cay. "Miss Chester," she said, suddenly, "have you ever seen people who were really ill from want of food?" "I did," replied Mr. Devine. "I did not know," said Lady Yorke, with a slitht shudder, "that people died of hungzer. I do not suppose that I quite unJerstood the meaning of the word ‘famine.‘" ‘"Your life has been a happy one, Louise," said Lord Yorke. ‘"You have seen only the roseâ€"colored side of exâ€" Istence." "I have seen something like it," said Mr. Devino. "I was in Ireland during the ‘potato famine," and I saw there scenes that will haunt me to my gying dayâ€"gaunt hungry men in whose eyes was a wolfish gleam, pale, patient women dying without comâ€" plaint, children like spectres with famâ€" ine written in their faces. I have seen mother and children lying dead toâ€" getherâ€"and it takes a long time for bunzer to kill." "Did you really witness all asked Lady Yorke. "I did," replied Mr. Devine "! did not know," said Lady pavernt women plaint, children ine written in were ail seated at luncheon. Some of the gentlemen remarked what a charâ€" itable country ours wasâ€"what large sums of money were forthcoming when any great disaster occurred. Lord Yorke agreed. "Bus," he said, "I do not think we realize what the word ‘famine‘ means. In our bappy land we have seen woâ€" men and children dying by the roadâ€" side, plucking the dry roots and the grass in the pangs of hunger," CHAPTER VI One morning when several visitors were at Westwosd the conversation turnes upon the Indian famine. We M Would money be of any use?" she UNDER THE LILAC TREE. Ao this?t" "Ah, such a world, Stanley!" she said. "There is sickness, sorrow, povâ€" erty, hunger. Hunger seems the bardâ€" est to bear," skhe continued, thinking no doubt of those tragical words, "He died hungry;" "and I have heard such words, but I never knew what they meant. I knew only the sound not the sonse, until yesterday." +s Here ske paused. 128 Sb ‘"And then?" said Lord Yorke. "What happened then?" / Ske told him all that bhad occurred. "I am glad, Louise," he said. "I have always thought that, if you underâ€" stood more of what was going on in the world around you. you would try to kelp others. And now about this peor womanâ€"Mrs. Clinton, did you say? What do you want to do for her?t" relieving the poor. But "Everything," was the comprehenâ€" sive reply. She must have a nice clean cottage in the fresh air, plenty of food and clothesâ€"all that is wanted to make ber daughter weli." % smiling. "Yo time or your "Do not laugh at me, Stanley," she said. "I am very much in earnest this morning. I want to talk to you." _ "A revolution!"* he cried. "The most luxurious woman in England downat the early hour of wnine! I cannot unâ€" derstand it." "I waunt to talk to you, Stanley," sha continued. "Do you know what ths world is like outside our park gates? Hore we have safety and shelter, warmth and luxuryâ€"the roses of life without the thorns. Do you know what it is outside?" "I know something of it," he replied half sadly. f The next morning Lady Yorke was downstairs, alert anl energetic, before nine. Her hbusband looked up in surâ€" prise as he entered the breaki{ast rooum. This happened to be on» of the rare days when we were alone. And again I saw tears in the blue eyes which until now had never lookâ€" ed out on others‘ woes. When she had sought him before it had generally teen to ask either for new jewels, or a check for some heavy billâ€"always somsthing for herself, never anything for any one else; and I am sure that be expected the sams thing now. "I shall do all 1 can for you," said Lady Yorke, as sth came away. "If we can save little Annie, she shall be saved." The poor creature never thought of herself. I shall mnever forget the cry with which she seized an orange and gave it to the child; it was one of deâ€" lirious delight. "Tell me what to buy, Miss Chester," she said, and a basket of food, includâ€" ing some fins ripe oranges, was orâ€" dered to te taken to the woman‘s ‘"You frighten me," she said. "Yes, !I will go." | Hail an hour afterward fashionable seliâ€"indulgent Lady Yorke stood in the | poorest cottage in Sandy Fields, lookâ€" ing round her in borror and dismay. \ Only a starving woman and a staryâ€" "How tong is it since you tasted food?" I asked hber. "Two wholse days." she replied. Her white, quivering face and tremâ€" bliag handis bore testimony to the truth of her words. Lady Yorkelookâ€" ed at me. ‘"We must belp them," she said and as she uttered the words it seemed to me that a new soul shom> in her eyes. We left the house and went to the alearest shops. * Soven years ago when we were married he was tall and straight and handsome. He took me to a pretty home, and hbe worked hard for me; but trouble came and he died hungry. My poor lad! My poor, poor lad!* I krnew that in bher heart Lady Yorke was thinking of the dainties, that, sent away im capricious discontent, would have saved this poor man‘s life. "Aninie is dying this woman went on, in the same hopeless, helpless voice with a wild gleam in her eyes. "A few weeks ago food might have saved ber; now it is too late. Last night I went everywhere to get one peruuy to buy her an orange with. She had been craving all day for an orange, and evâ€" ery time she fell asleep she dreamed that she held the orange in her bands, armdi that it fell to the ground. I would have done anything for one penny, but I could not get it." For the first timis I saw tears in Lady Yorke‘s eyes. complain, but when death came on him in the morning hbe said to me, ‘Ab, lassie, ts rich have it in this world ; we shall have it in the noext! I went out and sold the last thing that beâ€" longed to meâ€"my wedding ringâ€"that morning and I bought tea and bread. I have gone past it," he said. ‘It is all over, lassie. It has come too late.‘ is dying. Heaven itself cannot help me." She looked at Lady Yorke, "You mean well," she said, "but the monsy that bought thatsilk gown would have kept my husband alive. He died hunâ€" yry. Do you think I shall ever forâ€" get that? H» moawned all night before le died from hungerâ€"not pain, but hunger. I loved him with all my heart and I had to sit and listen until I could have rushed out of the house to slay aml rob thw first person I met. Hoe died hungry, while in your house geod food is wasted. Ab, my lady, your dogs and horses are better off than we are!" I saw Lady Yorke‘s face grow w'qrg pale, and hber eyes sought mine wit a frightened look. "He moaned all night," continued the woman, "and Ihad nothing to give him but water. He was not one to _ _"No, you can do nothing for me. My husband died six weeks ago,; and â€" this is all I have in ths world. Now she â€" At first the woman was sullenand would not speakâ€"her misery was too great. Then she cried out: 4 "A contrast to Westwood," I whisâ€" pered to her. ing child were there; there was nofire no food, no table, no chair, no bed. It was a most bhopeless case. _ _ "She shall have it," Lord Yorke said to be taken to the woman‘s CHAPTER VII cee q M Te 2e replied. ‘"Now can you fancy any sensible woman with a name like that?" "Her nume is her misfortune, not her fault," I said. "I like it, Lady Yorke. ‘"What is it?" I asked. I had never heard Lady Yorke say so much about any living creature. "Lurline," she It is {anciful and uncommeon." "We met the Severnes in Florence," Lady Yorke went on ‘"and both my husband any my~!f liked Lord Sevâ€" erne, but ‘we were not so agree ably impressed by his wife. We were very inlimate with them, and went with them every day. Lady Severne is quite unlike her busband. He is earnest, grave with a strange veil of melancholy always over him; she is the most animated, the gayest and most brilliant woman J hase ever met. She tired me in an hour, and I am sure she tired ber husband, too. He liked to talk quietly with m>. He is the only map," she continued, "who has ever really roused my curiosity." ‘"Why?" I asked. *"Because he appears too good a man to have donis any great wrong, and yet he looks like a man with some beavy trouble on his mind. I am sure fon will like him, Miss Chester, but am anot sure whether you will like his wife. She has such a strange name ernor?" "No," I replisd. The name was quite strange to me. It was a very old title, Lady Yorke told me, but the present possessor had come quite umerpectedly into it. "i must say," continued her ladyship, "that I have been a most indifferent member of society. No one bas ever secmedl to interest me, but 1 certainly did like Lord Severne. He is very handsomé&, but terribly melancholy. He never smiles like any one else." Finding that it pleased Lady Yorke to speak of her friends, I listened with interest. I banisted the lilacs and Mark from my mind; they were of time When we were seated. there, and she had made thoss inquiries about the sick child which she mever omitted, she showed me a bundle of letters. ‘"We shall have a large party here soon," she said. "This morning I had a letter from Lord Severne. We met bhim armd his wife last year in Italy, and I made hirm promiss that ours should be the first house in England that that they would visit. Lord Severne is a great favorite of mine. You have heard of the Severnes of Mount Sevâ€" "Will you come to this library, Miss| Chester?" she said, "I have some letâ€"} ters I must answer and some for you to write." As I walked homes and saw the yelâ€" low primroses shining like stars in the grass and the buds bursting into leaf, I sobbed aloud. I felt so tired of waitâ€" ing. If some angel hand would but draw me up to heaven and place me by Mark‘s side. Oh, my love, how I loved you! All the beauty of earth, the fairness of spring, the brightness of life, were as naught to me, because you were no longer with me! _ As Tentered the house I met Lady Yorke in the hall. If{ I had seen one risen from the dead I could noi have grown more sick at under the lilacs beart. I went home sad and weary. Here was tke workd waking up again to the beauty and glory of spring, and my beart was sinking, my hope was dead. My lover, to whom my love, my troth, my faith was plighted, was dead. _ What could spring, sunshine or bloom of flowers say to me?t The keeper of the west lodge having found a better sitvation, Mrs. Clinâ€" ton, with her little daughter, through Lord Yorke‘s kindness, went to live there. By Lady Yorke‘s wish Ivisitâ€" ed them almost every day, the lilacs grew all round this west lodgeâ€"tall fime trees, with a wealth of fragrant blossoms. _ Mrs. Clinton, who could never do enough for me, had gatherâ€" ered _ some of the finest sprays and one morning when I went to see her, she held the bunches of lilac bloom close to my face. ‘"See, miss," she said, "how fresh they are!" If I had seen one risen from the dead Again the lilacs were in bloom. They were not so plentiful or so beautiful as at Gracedieu, but the sight and fragrance of them brought back forâ€" cibly the remembranvce of my lover to me. No words can tell the sharp pain that pierced my keart when I saw the nodding plumes. Lady Yorke wasfond of lilacs. While they lasted she would have them in the rooms. 1 never told ber what the sight of them cost me. Then they discussed what was best to be done. Lord Yorke suggested that one of the pretty cottages built on modern principles which stood just outside Woodheatom should be given to thr poor woman rent free until she was better. Lady Yorke was to allow her so much each week unitil she could earn money enough herself. § Then I knew that he was well pleasâ€" ed I had tried to draw his beautiful youngy wife from her selfâ€"worship and, intorest ber in others. So life passed om at Westwood, and ao great change came until the spring. To me every berhday, every Christâ€" mas day, were as milestones on the way to heaven. As I passed each, I was nearer to Mark. "From your own sorrows," he said, "you have learned to feel for others. Heaven bless you!" ‘"My dear Louiss, there comes a time when everyone wakes to the realities of life. Your tims had inot come." "I shall never be so careless again. [ feel as though through all these years I had truly been asleep," said Lady Yorke. "It is never too late to mend," hbe said. "I have often wished that you could give a little of your time and altention to cbharity." ‘"Why did you not tell me sof" she asked, eagerly. _ ‘"You must remember, one thing, Louise," said his lordship, "that you will meet with many cases quite as pitiful as this, and that it will not do to give all to one." The next time he met me he took my hand and held it for a moment in lis. He looked at my black dress. _ must be governed by discretion. While the woman and child are ill, keep them; but afterward, although you can go on helping her, let her work for herself. It will be greater charity to place the means of gaining her livelihood in her hands than to give her money enough to live upon.‘" "I see that," she replied, gravely. "Oh, Stanley! If I had only thought before aow how many people I might have saved! It must be a terrible thing to die of huinger!" He laid his hand lightly on her beauâ€" tiful bead. f o+# TORONTO For hundreds of miles north of Omâ€" ineca, is a vast expanss absolutely unâ€" knovn to the white man. It lies beâ€" tween Peace River and the Yukon. A party under Lord Avonmore is spending the winter in the Liard country, in order to be on hand for thorough exâ€" ploration of that section of thi terra incognitz when the season opens. Beâ€" tween the Peace and Linrd rivers the climate is not so rigorous and forbidâ€" buiiding purposes. UGame, large and small, is plentiful. For faturalist, sportsman and prospector, no part of the unexplored world offers more atâ€" ding as in the Yukion, The country is densely wooded. ‘There is a superabâ€" undance of timber for fual and for building purposes. Game, large and tractive prizes. \in ragged clothes have come down to \the coast with bags containing large 'u.nd small quantities of the precious !metal. As the industrious celestial has \ been washing gold in old placer beds for years, carning a pittance which the white man would not consider worth :‘h.’s labor, the appearance of these unâ€" | communicative, mysterious fellows at | Pacific ports excited little interest until ' Klondike discoveries aroused every one. | Then prospectors began to suspect the ‘exietence of new gold fields south of ;:t.he Yukon and last isummer miners %\'untured along the margin of the unâ€" known region. D‘mcovery of gold in Omineca caused _ a great ‘tush â€"northward from _ Cariboo and the _ coast in 1870; but without modern bydraulic appliances the gravel was difficult to work. When rich diggings were found in Cassiar the crowds staropeded to the newer field. During the eight years that followed at least $1,000,000 in gold was taken from Omineca by miners satâ€" isfied with moderate returns. The genâ€" eral impression that the diggings on the southern outskirts were shallow disâ€" conraged exploration until last fall, and then, when the discoveâ€"ies were nounced, the season bad advanced far for prospecting. } ent sections, as the Omineca, the Peace River, the Liard country. _ Roughly speaking. it is bounded on the east by the Rocky Mountains, on the west by the Yukon and the Pacific slope, and on the south by Cariboo. The nearest point on the Canadian Paci{ic Railroad is ALMOST 600 MILES. from its southern limits, but the Omâ€" ineca can be reached by way of the coast go.mg up the Skeena River and followâ€" ing a fairly clear trail for 150 miles. Two men who had been washing gold | along streams of the out!lying district brought out $48,000 worth of the yelâ€" low dust. During the summer one proâ€" spector found a nugget worth $70, and ; in October a large nugget worth $300 | was sent from the southiern part of the | territory. Within the past few weeks the discovery of extensive ‘bodies of | fine milling gold quartz was reported to the British Columbia Minister of | Mines, by prospectors who left last sumâ€" | mer to explore the southern outskirts. | Winter had prevented more thorough | exploration, but the veins were said to | be of extraordinary width and were exposed for miles across the country.| Samples of quartz, rich in gold, accomâ€" | panied the report; but so wild and inâ€"| accessible is the region these deposits . cannot be worked until the Teslin Lakeâ€" Telegraph Creek Railway or the Casâ€"| siar Central has been built. I The uwnopened territory is variously desigmated by the names of its differâ€" The Vast Region That Is About to be Openâ€" i oed in Northern Brtrish Columbta, _ Lying between the Yukon Basin and Cariboo is a vast, untrodden region, which offers tempting reward for thorâ€" ough exploration. The territory is a continuation of that great goldâ€"bearing belt of which California, Colorado, Nevâ€" awda, Kootenay, Cariboo and the Yukâ€" on are sections. The riches of Cariboo were long ago unlocked to the world, and soon prospectors will have overâ€" run every part of the famous Yukon; but the wild mountain fastnesses of this unexplored territory have so far resisted the white man‘s entrance, and the great area stretching between latâ€" itudes 54 degrees and 58 CGegrees and extending from the Rocky Mountains on the east to 128 degrees W. long., remains a Rkerra fncogpita. That streams tributary to the Yukon, Peace River, and the Liard, known to be rich in placer gold, and rivers flowing through Cariboo and Cassiar, noted for their gold beds many years ago. all take their rise on the outskirts of this vast territory, would indicate the presâ€" ence of mimeral wealth in the unknown field. This supposition is supported by more than mere probability. Since 1885 Inâ€" dians and hal{â€"breeds have â€" vaguely talked of gold "up in the interior‘" and mt o s Oe e ie ie c OeC s 0 enR EsE When we were in Florence, she said nothing would induce her to live in this climate. We will ask Lady Mary Avon and her brother, Sir Charles, to meet them. Lady Severne is more than a match in conversation for any six gentlemen at once." "Is she a flirt?" I asked. "To tell you the truth, Miss Chester, I could never make out exactly what ahe was. I only know that we liked her husband, and for his sake we enâ€" dured ‘her, as we shall endure her again. They will be here next Tuesday, so we must hasten to send out invitâ€" ations." Anod as I wrote them I wondered much what Lady Severne could be like. ‘‘Yes, but she is a power in herself. She is one of those women who sweep all before them. Lord, Yorke could only compare her to a whirlwind. Yet I canâ€" not imagine how she has persuaded &evr husband to _return to England. ship. "Well, Miss Chester, we must have a party to meet them. Lord Severne himself does not care about society, but Lady Severne lives for it only. We must have plenty of visitors, and plenty of gayety to amuse her." *"‘She is a trouwblesome visitor," I said, with a laugh. "It is like herself," declared her ladyâ€" CANADA‘S NEW GOLD FIELDS. TACITURN CHINAMEN (To be Continued.) ~es were anâ€" I should like to mention here my a preciation of the great attention + the InJia Office in England, under i able direction of Lord George Ham ton, is taking to tackle the remov ton, is taking to tackle the renew outburst of the nlague in Panna .~. WITH THE BUBOXNIC PracuUrR ! which seems now to be ravaging Poona, | and about to fall with redoubled force on the capital of western In4ia. u LE Chelns apy, madl t DGam : ous and perhaps eclectic East. Fi‘vo days will bring us to Bombay, which is more than ever. < more than ever saturated In leaving Aden in the splendid P. an1 0. steamer Shannon, so well comâ€" manded by Captain Cole, turning eastâ€" ward across the Indian ocean, one beâ€" gins to think, as the ship rises and falls gracefully to the swell, that Engâ€" lan?t bas really hbeen left behind, and that we shall soon approach the gorgeâ€" TTAE CY SRE VCOR OOA in ces‘ FZ F FL Two garrison companies of the Royal | Artillery are stationed here to man the beavy guns, and it may be incidentally | mentioned that there is a torpedo field ‘ and signalling apparatusâ€"electric and visual. in fact, it may be said to be a complete compendium of the defensive power of Great Britain. | THE COMMAND OF OUR TRA DE route to India, Sumatra, China, Japâ€" an, Australia, and New Zealand, as is Gibraltar to protect the interests of our mercantile fleet in the Mediterrancean, and in conjunction with Malta to seâ€" cure the route to Port Said,. The betâ€" ter Aden is fortified the more secure is our position in the far Fast, as, with the adjunct of the island of Perim, we really have the entrance to the Red Sea in our hands. While ashore I could not help noticâ€" ing the favorableâ€"contrast the men of the Mancbester Regiment ma‘le as comâ€" pared with the School Board infants that compose other latialions at home â€"they were all stalwart men, with an average of seven years‘ service, anid of whom amy nation might le proud. In addition there is in garrison here the 10th Bombay In{antry, a regiment of Abyssinian fame, with Mack facings, composedl principally of sturdy little Mahrattas, and there is a troop of cavalry from the Poona Horse. The fortifications, I may say, have just been rehbabilitated by the India Office, under the supervision of Lord LansdJowne, with many of the latest and finest modern guns. I think it wise not to give details of the armaâ€" ment, because Iam not at this moment writing for the benefit of Her Majesty‘s enemies, who have not yet met my figure in the way of bribes ; suffice it to say that a remarkably gooi choice has hkeen made in the selection of Col. Willoughby, who has just arrived to take charge of the artillery. He is the right man in the right place, because the gallant officer, who has served in three Indian campaigns, has also the experience of having had charge of the manufacture of naval guns at home, and also of field guns of large calibre, which are being gradually, too gradâ€" ually, supplied for the defensive works on the northâ€"east coast of England. This frowning fortress, though it coes not command the Straiis of Babâ€"elâ€" Manieb, is as much necessary for I should have liked to bave visited the fortifications, but for fear of the smallpox, five companies of the 2nd Battalion of that gallant regiment, the Manchester regimentâ€"just arrivâ€" ed from Dinaporeâ€"have been sent into camp at the Crater, six miles out of Acen. After receiving between mi<night and 10 a.m., the gorgeous hospitality of the Royal Artillery we returned to the ship. Bombay, Dec. 17. Aden by moonlight seems to be & terrestrial paradise. 1 have, however, heard people who have seen it by dayâ€" light say that it is only a cinder, and that there is only a thin sheet of brown paper between it and the regions which will be the fitting reward for those poor political people who go astray in this world. Aden by Moonlight â€" Hs Fortifications â€" Bombay and the Bubonic Plagzueâ€"New south Wales‘ Cxample. The following letter written by the late General Sir. HM. Havelock to the London Daily Mail is especially interâ€" esting because of its colonial refepâ€" ences ;â€" & Lumber, Shingles and Lath always Xn Stock. HANDS ACROSS THE $BA. soOMETHING ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. Having Completed our New Factory we are now prepared _ to FILL ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY, We keep in Stock a large quantity of Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Flooring and the differâ€" Sash and Door Factory. ent Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. Our Stock of DRY LUMRE is very Large so that all orders can be filled,. X_ G. &J. McKECHNIB FIT ty Nt‘ ll consider it likely that the next conâ€" tribution to the efences of the Emâ€" [ pire will not e on the scale of the |contingent sent to Suakim in 1885â€" 500 in{antry and one field batteryâ€" ltho‘ugh let me testify to the splendid ‘ men sent and the excellent. | EXAMPLE SHOWN BY N.s.w. in ber initiative action, but if required, | 10,000 to 15,000 men may be supplied ‘ by each of these great colonies. 1, myâ€" ‘self, have in my own recollection the | Maori war of 1863â€"5, wlhen we iaised | with ease five battalions in the Ausâ€" | tralian gold diggings, eash consisiing of 1,000 menâ€"finer, more stalwart solâ€" | diers I never saw, !_ It gives a good augury for the futrre whenever Great Britain receives the | hug of the Russian Bear, which ; to be alternated by the discharge 0| popâ€" guns by the President of the Fronch Republic, and the friendly, but on |y _dyspeptic glances of the Emperor o# Germany, prol ably with him a pleas ant relief from the genial task of sen |â€" ing telegrams to Presient Kruger. !n all sa i seriousmess, if the proznosti cations o{ those who Fave stucied the phase of politics in Eastern Europe best Le not erroneous, an outbreak of bostilities would compel Great Pritain to use both her sea ani land forces to such effect that, although her enemies would not survive, yet it would lbe the greatest strain to which our strength has been put since the Criâ€" mean War or the Indian mniin. The tollowing maxims have recently been published in & paper for young folks, and one cannot resist the shrewd Suspicion that 11.___ ___â€"_‘t LHC | 1 _ . â€"_e,,, nas been put since the Criâ€" mean War or the Indian mutiny. Be this as it may, it is happy to think that the British NATION IS AT Lagst AROUSED to the sense of their military responsiâ€" bilities, and have awakened to a conâ€" sciousness that their commerce cannot be protected alone b her fleets unless they have at Gihuftlr. Malta, Aden, and Bingapore, and, let me say, someâ€" where outside the entrance to the Parâ€" danelles, military stations sufficientl protected to be ‘a shelter for men-oI- ;gttr,u"vhou tllu'; can dock, coal, and reâ€" it me amailars ul0 I I Cl y Vew To fit, thus enabling them naval rivalsâ€"France, Ri many thrown inâ€"with : fusior of face. 20 P CECTC SHJ SCw UG Euspicion that they are intended not so much for dolls, as for dolls‘ owners, As such, it is recommended that they be‘mld _and pondered. We must not omit to refer to the enthusiastic sendâ€"off and farewell given by them to our Australasian cousins at Aden, who were ret.urninrf bhome, filled with admiration for al they saw at the Jubilee, ani baving & warm recollection of the honors beâ€" stovel so gracefully and tactfully on her soldier sons by her Most Gracious Majesty. A Jay may come, and that not far distant, when we will require in earnest Australian and New Zealand goming.ent.%x f-lil“ from what 1 gather IN THEIR CONSEQUENCES politically in Indis for their having at last, unjer pressure of necessity, been withdrawn and repudiated by him, though not acequaiely apologized for, as there are some verbal injuries which no apology, hLhowever mbject, can do away with and this infamous and abominable attempt to inflict a stigma upon the character of the splendid solâ€" diers that constitute the 2nd Batâ€" talion, Durham Light In{fentry, forâ€" merly the 106th Bombay Light in{anâ€" try, will it is to be hoped, be recolâ€" le ie l in the session of 1898, as similar un‘joun@ed shrieks, found out too late to le absolutely untrue, may be proâ€" pagated now in another direction in furtherance of the Radical cry against thg_ forward policy. There is no doubt that all that can be done to meet it with the full strength of England‘s aid is being done, and there is no wiser step than that of sending out so large a number of nurses, educated ladies of thorough scientific knowledge, and with the ardour of youth devoting themselves to so dangerous and painful, and one might say nauseous, a duty. At any rate, it will prevent for the future any possibility of the recurrence of the vile {abulous assertions, made by a native and seconded by Sir William Wedderâ€" burn, M.P., none the less painful and in jurious the elaborate tnoeasures they have awjopted to meet its threatemed extenâ€" sion to Bombay. Evidence of the thor» ough manner in which the dreaded disâ€" ecase is to be combated was, in one inâ€" stance, brought strongly hefore me on the Shannon, which will land a bevy of twentyâ€"six lady nurses from England at Bombay, together with doctors. Immediately on arrival they are destinâ€" ed to report themselves to the Directorâ€" General of the Medical Department, and e forthwith distributed locally, as may be necessary, for the suppression of this terrible scourge. RULES FoRr g them to cover their ance, Russia, with Gerâ€" â€"with shame and copâ€" 2Â¥ & €Cro Q*""ll VE in â€" â€" anc« 2 n .. bfa h con | J 0_ ©se whi vike: â€" e }m A 1 . that the Grand 4tself in Premie: for building a !it 1:!k‘ gup«ri"r Hensceforth the _ Frights under the i administered by t Kories Departmen| .figinn. instead of _ gary and Ottawa., An outbreak ol peported at one © Crow‘s Nest Pass . n from Nova S« a box car with or comfort _ The Supreme Cou bas quashed : mine owner in the mines, the Act or t of Chines alty for its i . Charles S d dPn' of the y, will prolhat th as Secret: 0[ Tr}ldu' has hbeen a to San Fran her fire it formod to i , The Montr« “lmlmd to fire. F,. W. Bochlofsky gecurmed $2,000 dan "lh Columbia _ El« the loss of his righ of a tramway aocids The Vancouver B a :tlhlilhd an â€" agen ‘ash., to alford info couver‘s advaniages . Btates cities in supp the londike. * Mr. Cbarles M. Hasy rd to MceKen:> tickeenâ€"Teslin 1 miles of the ros Jocomotives Pressure is heling br upon the Government | port duty oh nicke! or t'l'll be left until Parlic ard from on the sw The customs â€" returas ton for January, 1898, s leoted amounting to $4! rnd with â€" #43,042.08 897, an increase of #1, The Customs Depart m“’.&li from th« City, making ® received from the Yul opening Of navigation It is report Alberta Rails Governorâ€"Goneral‘s appointed A. 1 General. The Citizens‘ Ligl pany‘s nremises at C« real have been dest: loss is $100.000. clul. voronto, . ® known as an Xâ€" a miserable house +1 alone on Jackson «s ing frozen stiff Graham Wadd: market, Ont., is pital, Toronto, domen, whic} The Canadian Pacifi nounce that their dir« tion between Hali{ax now open for business Sir Adoiphe and La« taken up their reside and his Honmor announ of resuming his practi ol age, on Tuesday The annual rep ment of Marine ; expenditure for (| #792.970, about $3 The financis tin shows th $853.098, and ent year lying seriously il! in Hospt~!. and will no tend to is parlian some time. The duty collected a+ 1 toms house for January #14, compared with #26.3 nyonth last year, an inc Miss Cole of Hamilton. THE VERY LaATEST FRoM WORLD OVER. There is tal to cost $50.000 Chief Twiss pointed High â€" County. Mr. Mulock House of the I annuation evs K pulp mill is seph d‘Alma n pany with a m man y unproven section <i the sy RENKS 0 T Hamilto abolish st Toronto I8 marria Th&# value of . during January ral{ million do Customs col JTanuary she »ver â€" January the Equity Fir B ft b&h An a* ,000, subscribe and paldâ€"up ca; ir ta men ta 3y Another cas med at Mani Dr. Roche, M. P. £ report comes from = ‘ouble in the Yukon es dian police, and the Ame :rfllflon. and police at Lell i orders to hold Assorted for Easy Re.m-. Presting Items About Our < Great Britain, the United All Parts of the Globe, C Ti id 61 compiadn ts NX ty R A N A DA 1¢ H ns rhigon t Ni () i) @1 W a PM n1 02 N [