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Q'f „Atefeet44teret4t4esetreeeefeaeteenettreeneetiseseeeesineetweetenenZ,ZA,14;,Rt 'kw CHAPTER XXX. --Continued. "I will deal frankly with you, &Anne, as I always have. You are uot disagreeable to me. I like you very much as a friend, I miss you whim you are away, and am glad when pa come back; atilt, you are not just, what I have et:seined my future hus- band to be. I like you. for the good kuow there is in you, and. I may learn to love you, I stall lead you. a horrid nee if 1 du not, for in is not in my na- ture to ffeet who I do ,not feel. If zennot love you 1 shall learn to hate you, and that will be terrible." She was looking, at him 110W, and though he winced a little beneath the blazing eyes, she looked so grand, so beautiful that, foolish youth as he was, he fancied her hate would be prefer- able to losing her, and so he said: "Go on, Maude. I am not afrai1 of hatred if you always look as you do now." Soinething like contempt leaped to her eyes then, but she put it aside, and continued: I will promise only on conditions. You shall see' this Mr. Carleton safely to my Uncle Paul's. You shall be- friend and help every runaway you chance to find, You shall relieve every suffering- Union soldier when an oppor- tunity moues. You shall use your in- fluence for the prisoners, and seek to ameliorate their wretched condition. If , you do this, Arthur, and do it faithful -1 Ly, when the war is over I will try to answer yes. Are you satisfied?" 1 It was a very one-sided affair, and: Arthur kaew it; but love for Maude De Vere was the strongest passion of which he was capable, and he answer - "1 am satisfied," and kissed the cold hand which he had won, and thought, too, how implicitly he would keep the contract even • if it involved a giving up of Jefferson Davis himself into the enemy's hands. • we_ CHAPTER XXXI. It was then that Maude left him i and went back to the house, were, standing in the door, she scanned the fthe and person of the man for whose ; safety in part she had pledged her ; heart and hand. Tom's tout ensemble was good, and there was about him a certain air of , grace and culture which showed itself in every movement. A stranger would have trusted him in a moment, and re- cognized the true manhood in his ex- pressive face, And Maude recognized it, as she never had before, and the contrast between him and Arthur ; stuck her painfully. "If Arthur were more like him, I , could love him better," she thought, just as the Judge asked the abrupt question: "You have a wife, hey?" "Of course he has," Maude thought, and still she listened for the answer. t "My wife died some years ago, be- fore the war broke out. She was a Mary Williams, a near relative of the' Williamses of Charleston. Perhaps you know them?" "Know' eml I'll bet 1 do! — the finest family in the State. And you married one of them?" the old Judge said, his manner indicating an increase ' ed respect for the man who had mar - lied a Williams of Charleston. would not have had. her a 'whit Smaller taan she was, neither did be contrast her with any one he had ever known. She was so wholly unlike 'Mary- and Rose and A.nuie, that comparison be- tween them was impossible. She was Mies De Vere,—Mande he called her to himself, and the ileum was be- ginning to, sound sweetly to hen, as he daily grew more and more intimate with the queenly creature who bore it. Ra had buried his pale, proud -faced, but loving Mary; he hat given up the gentle Annie, and surely he might Lhink of Maude De Vere if he ehose; and the sigh; of her sitting there be- fore him with the rich cam' in her cheek, and the Southera fire in her eyes, stirred strange feelings in his heart, and made him so forgetfulof what the judge was saying to him, that the old. man at last rose and. walk- ed away leaving the two young peo- ple alone together. Tom had never talked much to Mande except upon sick-roora topics, and he felt anxious to know if her mind corresponded with her face and form, Here was a good opportunity for testing her mental powers, and in the long, earnesb con- versation stench ensiled concerning men, and books, and politics, Tom sift- ed her thoroughly, experiencing that pleasure which men of cultivation al- ways experience when thrown in con- tact with a woman 'Whose intelligence and endowxuents are equal to their own. Maude's education had. not been a superficial one, nor had it ceased with her leaving school. In her room at home there was a smell library of choice books, which she read and studied each day together with her brother Charlie, whose education she superintended. Few persons Northi or South were better acquainted with the incidents and protress of the war, than she was. She had watched it from its beginning, and wita her fatber, :from whom she had inherited her superior naind, she had Lehi many earnest argumentative Maude knew the family, too, orrath- er knew of them, and remembered how, some years before, when she was at St. Mary's, she had heard a Charles- ton young lady speaking of a Mrs. Carleton from Boston, who'had recent- ' ly died, and whose husband had been so kind and patient and tenciew and was "the most perfectly splendid look- ing man she ever saw." Maude remmabered this last distinct- ly, because it had called forth a re- proof from the teacher who had over- heard it, and who asked what kind of I a man "the most perfectly splendid - looking" one could be. Maude had not thought of that incident in years, I but it came back to her- now as she stood close to the man who had been so kind and tender to his sick, dying wife. He would be all that, she knew,t for his manner was so quiet and gravel and gentle, and then a great throb of pain swept over Maude De Vere as she thought of Arthur and the pledge she hid given him. Maude could no an- elyze her feelings, or understand why the knowing who Tom. Carleton was, and that he was also free, should make the world so desolate all on a sudden, and blot out the ariebeness of the sum-; mer day which had seemed so pleasant at its beginning, • "I did it in part for him," she said, feeling that in spite of her pain there I was something sweet even in such a sacrifice. She was still standing in the door, • when Tom, turning a little more to- ward hie host, saw her, his face lighting up at onoe, and the smile, which made • him so handsome, breaking out about his mouth and showing his fine teeth.' "Ale Miss De Vere, take this seat," , and with that wellbred politeness so much a part of bis family, he erose and offered her his ohair. But Maude declined it, and took a seat instead upon a little (tamp stool near to the vine -wreathed columns of ' the piazza. It was very pleasant there that morn- ing-, and Maude, sitting against that back-geound of green leaves, made a ' very pretty picture in her pink cam- bric wrapper, lajmmed, with white, white pendants in her ears, and a bunch of the steeet heliotrope in her hair, and at her •throet where the PinoOth linen eol I at came together. And Tom enjoyed the taieture very much, ' from the erown of satin hair, to the high -heeled slipper, with ite bright rib- bon rosette. It was not e little gip- c per, like those which deed to be in Tom's dreseing-room in Boston, wleen Miley was alive, nor yet like the fairy things whieb Rose Mather wore. No- thing about Maude De Vero Was email, but everything was admirably propor- tioned. She Wore a seen glove and she wore a four boot. She measured just• ttvetty-five inches around the waist, and five feet six from her head to her feet, ane weighed ores handred and foefy, A perfect Antaeme, she called herself; but Tom Carlene/1 did net !Ali.* IIe keew she WaS large type Of womanhood, but she Wes erfeet in torm and falafel, atd he' discussions, concerning the right and wrong, of secession Mande had oppos- ed it froni the first, but her father had thought differently, and carrying out his principles, had lost his life in the first battle of Bull Run. Maude spoke of him to Torn, and her fine eyes were full of tears, as she told of the dark, terrible days which pre- ceded and followed the news of his de a tle. "The ball which struck him down wenfurther than that; it killed mother, too, and made us orphans:" laude said, and something in the tone of her voice, and the expression -of her face, puzzled Tom just as it had many times before, and carried him back to Bull Run, where it seemed to hirn he had seen a face like Maude De Vere's. • Was your father killed in battle?" Tom asked, and Maude replied, No, sir; that is, he did not die on the battle -field. tee was wounded and crawled away into the woods, where they found him dead, sitting against a tree, with a little ITnion drummer - boy I • beside him, an fath- er's handkernaief bound round the poor bleeding stumps, for the little hands were both shot away. I've thought of Lhat b ,so • e , Maude said, cried for him so much. I know father was kind to him, for the little fellow was nestled close to hem, Arthur said. He was there, and found my father, theugh he did not at first recognize him, as it 11r0,8 a number of years since he had seen him." Tom was growing interested and ex- oited. He was beginning to find the key to that familiar look in Maude De Veren face, and, coming close to her he said: " Were any prisoners taken near your father, Miss De Vere? Union prison- ers. I mean?" " Yes," Maude replied. Arthur was a private; then. and, with another sol- dier, was prowling through the woods when they came upon father, and two Union soldiers near him,—one a boy, Arthur said, and one an officer, whose ankle had been sprained. In their eag- erness to capture somebody they for- got my father, and carried off theman and boy. They then went back, and Arthur found by some papers in the dead soldier's pocket, that it was fath- er, and he had him decently buried. at Manassas, with the little boy, I lik- ed Arthur for that. I would never h'ave forgiven him. if he left that child in the woods. When the war is over, I am going to find the graves." She was not weeping now, but her eyes had in theta a strange glitter as they looked far off in the distance, as if in quest of those two graves. " Maude ,De Vere," Tom Carleton said, and at the sound Maude started and blue.h.d scarlet, "woe must forgive me if 1 call tem einude this once. TVs for the sake of your noble father, by wh; ee'side I stood wben the spirit left his body, end went after that of the little drummer -boy, whose bleeding stumps were bound in your father's handkerchief. I remember it well, lead sprained my ankle, and with a lad of my company was trying to eseape, eaten. I heard the sound of some oee singing that glorious chant of. our church, 'Peace on earth, good will to- ward men.' It sounded strangely there amid the dead and dying, who had kill- ed each other; but there Ives Peace between Jae Confederate captain and tbe Federal boy, as they sang the fern - Hier words. As well as we conld, we eared for him. I wiped the blood from your fallter's wound, and the boy brreight him water frone the brook, while he United of his home in North Carolina; of his ehildren who would never see hini again, and of aTellie, his wife, It comes beak to ne with per - feat distinetness arid it is your fath- er's look in your eyes and face which has puzzled me So =eh Two soldiers wearing the Southern grey came up one captured ue, and we were taken to 'Richmond. Surely, Mess De Vere, it 18 a Speenil providenee whiten has brought me at last to you, the daugh- ter of that man, and xnade you the gnerdian angel, whe hes stood between me and receptor°. There is 8 teem- ing in it, if we could only find it," Torbee fine eyes were beet upot Mende ciect in hies nixeltetrient he heel gretAilad her hand, evhich did nee lie se ofile end ptilselatie hi his as an hour before ' it heel 1altu in Antlintase It th•robbed and raliYered now, but clung to Tomea with a Arne hold, station, vvae net; relaxed, even when Arther cattle up leas face growing dark and tareee- ening as he sew the positton of the two. Maude did not care for Arthar then, or taleeatalimategblemtleoari, sIonly look inTemnnetiliet g . membered that the man whose hand beta hers so firmly, bad ministered to ter dyiug father, and held the eup Qf water to his parohed lip, had wiped jeaett,yel.ewele bleed fm ro.his face, and spoken to him kindly words of syme Here was the answer to her prayer that God would send ber somebody whe could tell her of bee father's last minutes. The somebody. had coinetand is her gratitude to him, she Oould al- most Lave knelt and worshiped him. " Che Arthur!" she cried, "Ctrataill Carlton is the very man you and J'oe Newell captured at Ball Run. Ile was with . father wben he died; Ite took ocaatoawoand tkivinIt of h.ne io,oauclnei so kind until you And Maude's eyes flasleed with any- thing but affection upon her lover, witsestorrpraiame,oinent could not speak for h f u or sr(iano uestl hy olege ol ono ksevdh ao on, a f, asseteelton ng a doubt, for he did not wish Maude to have a oause for gratitade to tile Northern officer. But the longer he gazed the less he doubted. The faee of tee lame officer in the Virginia woods came up distinctly before him, attl, was too much, like the face con- fronting Lim, to admit: of a raistake, especially after Maude repeated the substance of what she had heard from Captain Carleton. Arthur was Con- vinced, and as Mande dropped, Tom's hand, he took it in his, and said: "It is very strange that my first prize, over whose capture I felt so proud, should fall again into my pow- er. But: this time you are safe, I reck- on. I am older than I was three years ago, and not quite so thirsty for a Yankee's blood. You did Maude's fa- ther good service, it seems, and to prove that we rebels can be grate- ful and generous even to our foes, will take you under my protection as one of nay party, when 1 escort Maude laonaeeloy Tdeatynsee,see, as I intend doing inafe alaude's face was white with passion as she listened to this patronizing speech, which had he it so much of as- sumed superiority over the man who smiled a very peculiar kind of smile, as he bowed his acknowledgment of Arthur's kind attettions. Not' a hint was there that Maude was head and front of the arrangements—that for Tom's sake she had pledged herself to one whose inferiority never struck her se painfully as now, when she saw him side by side with Captain Carleton. Arthur did not care to have Captain Carleton know how much he was in- debted to Maude for his present plea- sant quarters, to s,and his prospects of a safe tan the hills of Tennessee -But Tom, though never suspecting the whole truth, did know that his grati- tude for past and present kindness re- ceived from that Southern family was mainly due to Maude, whom he admir- ed more and more, as the days wore on, and he learned to know her intim- ately. The shy reserve which since his convalescence she had manifested to- ward him, passed with the knowledge • Ova he had stood with her dying fa- ther, and she treated him as a friend with whom she had been acquainted all her hfe long. Occasionally, as some- ;• thing in Tone's manner made her tbink that but for Arthur she might perhaps lin time bear that relation toward him, which Mary Williams had borne, she fell a fierce throb of pain and a sense of such utter desolation, that she in- voluntarily rebelled against the life before her. Bul: Maude was a brave, sensible girl, she had chosen her loL, she reasoned, and she would abide by it, and make Arthur as happy as she could. He wasfulfilling his part of the contract well, as was proven by the terror-stricken creature, whom he had found hiding on the plantation, and had brought to Hefty's cabin, where he now lay so weak, that it was impossible to take him along on that journey to Tennessee. " His time will come by and by," Arthur said, when Maude expressed anxiety for haw "Pll land him safe- ly at your Uncle Paul's some night when you least expect it. My busi- enaepsetaninnte, is with you and your Y • ankee Maude had asked that for the pre- sent nothing should be said with re- gard to their engagement. And so, though the Judge suspected that some definite arrangement had been made between his son and Maude, he did not know for certain, even when she stood before him attired for the jour- ney, The Judge was sorry to part with Maude, and he was sorry to part with Tone. He liked him because he vvas a gentleman, if he was a Yankee, and becanse his father had sent Seth back, poor Seth, with bis free papers in his coffin, and because he had been kind Lo Maude's father, and married Mary 'Williams, of the Charleston William - Sea and could smoke a cob -pipe, and enjoy it. These wete the things which recommended Tom to the old man, who shook his hand warmly at parting, sayiag to him; t "I hate Northern dogs raostly, but hanged if I don't like you. May you got safely home, and if you do, my advice 18 to stay there, and tell the rest, of 'ettt to do the same. They can't whip us,—no, by George, they can't, even if they have got • some advan- tage. The papers say it was all a strategical trap, and we'd rather yoetcl hive the places than not. You can't take Bleb:mond—no sir 1 We will die in the last ditch, every mother's son of ; and whet is left will sei the town on fire, and let it go to thun- der 1" Tim old Judge was waxing very elo- quent for a man who had °tie Union soldier recruiting in Neely's cabin, and was bidding good-bye to anothere hut eonsisterioy was no part of war politics, and he rambled on, mail Ar- tbar cat him short by sayitig they could, wait no longer. With Arthur ae safeguard in. case of attack from Con- federates, arid Tom Crwleton in case of an aseaent from the Unionists, Maude felt perfectly eecure, cited in quiet ancl safety she aecornpliehedlher eourney, and was welcomed wine opet writs by Paul Haverill and Charlie. Ar - that ooulet only etotwfor a day am- ong the bins. Ile might, be ordered beelt to his regiment at any time, and if he got that ether eliats through be must bestir himetelf, 'he Mid ; and en he bade good-bye to Mettle, ie enema ke hadinpfleit faille and wlsose sob- er, quiet denieetne he tried to attrie eute to her sorruw at parting with 4i"M' She does like me seMe, and tlY and by she will like ine, better," he said, as he weat his way, leaving her standing in the doorway of her tutee's house, her face vezy pale, and • her hands pressed oloeely together, as if forcing back Senn() bitter dement or eilent pain. • Turning once ere the winding road hid her from view Arthur kissed his hand to her gayly, while with a wave of ear handkerchief she re-entered the house, atid neobe ed. regounetsinseudnor dream- al.h ed how or wheey would meet again. T FISHES THINK. Ines is the Coneitahloo Come to by a $eleultst. Zoologists have long been in doubt as to whether fishes are gifted with the faculty of remembering persons and places or not, Some claim teat: they eannot remember, while others insist that they are endowed with memory, though possibly only it a limited de- gree. The following story seems to how that the latter are right. A stu- dent of the Polytechnic enhool. in Pates recently noticed that whenever be, walked with some friends in the Lux- emburg Gardens the fishes in the large basins there regularly followed eim as he strolled around the little, ponds. As the stucleets never feed the fish- es and hardly pay any attention to them, such conduct was Lnexplicable until it was solved by the gardener, wilDS0 duty it is to feed the fish. The uniform worn by the students of the Polytechnic School is black, with red stripes, and that worn by the gardener and other attetdants is very similar. • Now, evidently the fish thought that the students were gardeners, who had wine to supply them with food, as in no other way can we account for their habit of followiag tee students when- ever they walked rou_nd the basins. We must conclude, therefore, that, what- ever may be the case with other fish, those at least in the Luxembourg Gar- dens have an exoellent menaory. OUR PET PAIN. Each one of us has her special weak- ness or cause of complaint, almost every one has a pet pain. Not that she loves her pain but she uncon- sciously makes of it a cosseted, indulg- ed pet. In making plans it is taken into consideration; especially is it use- ful as an excuse when one does not want to go to certain places to which expediency—perhaps duty -- points. Then the pet becomes the darling, and in the secret of one's soul one is not sorry of its existence. In this indul- gence of our pet pains we deceive our- selves and sometimes those who love us. One woman had pneumonia ten years ago, and ever since then a so - cane(' weak lung has been her favor- ite and much -indulged complaint. It is a very convenient ailment, and one that does not interfere with walking driving, or riding as "out-cloOr air is advisable in pulmonary affections." Neither does it prevene the enjoyment of the opera, the theatre, or other amusements, as "recreation keeps up the spirits, and, through them, im- proves the general physical condition." Still there are times when disclination to attend a dull social function or a dry business meeting causes "a warn- ing stricture deep down in that weak lung." And the owner of this pet pain adds, in all sincerity, "I cannot afford to take liberties with that lung, you know." And' her equally sincere husbands always rejoins, feel- ingly, "No, indeed, you cannot, and must not!" So easily may one deceive herself and those to whom one is dear! - It is right and proper that we should guard our weak points and take care to strengthen them. But it is Surely a mistake to being them into prom- inence, and to call attention -to the flaws in our physical make-up. Com- plaint becomes a matter of habit, and a habit that, once formed, clings to one with a tenacity worthy of a bet- ter object. After all, to be diseased in any way is a matter to be deplored, not to be made much of. Health is beauty; disease is decay. One Sweet, brave woman recognized this fact when she found that she had an ailment, never • suspected by others, and which was absolutely incurable. "I know it must kill me sometime," she said to one who loved her. "Noth- ing can change it; talking of it can do no good. I shall try to forgets it as much as possible and to keep others from guessing that it exists, I will make the best of the life that God has left to me to enjoy. Let us not speak of the matter again." . She never mentioned it afterwards, but 'took life joyously, and met death smilingly. Her pain was a secret 'be- tween God and herself. „ SetEAM130AT ON THE JORDAN. The progress of civilization has at last reached the Jordan, and a steam- boat ehurns the water in which John baptized. The Abbot Pachonaine, of the monastery of St. john, at Jericho, made the West attempt at steam navi- gation with, a diminutive launch about theee years ago. The experiment was So successful that a small steamer was purclineed a year later and taken to the Jordan." This boat, the Prodromus, now .maintains a regular pessenger service between the bridge, near Jeri- cho and the southern end of the Dead Sea, and is well patronized by the tourists and pilgrims. • Tim PritcE OP Praire Clerk, to applieant, at the Leviathan Assurance Compante-You wish 'to be aesured against acoidents, sir? May 1 ask your profeesion, - A•pplicate-1 am a teotball referee, Clerk, politely First door-- to the right for he death department, DOITNION PARLIAIVIENT, What the LegeSlaterS Of tile Country are Doing at Ottawa. Mr. Fortin, MP, withdrew his Insol- vency bill. Less than five minutes be- fore Mr. Bertram had presented one of the most influentialey-signed. peti- tions ever Sabnetted to the Perliament of Canada. The petitioners, ask for the adoption of a general insolvenoy law for the WilQ10 Dominion as essential to the safety of merehents doing 'business with Canada. It is steggested thet such law, if .passed, ehould provide as follows :, 1. Tbe abolition of All preferential creditors other than Governmental taxes, rent end wages. 2. For the registration of all liens on goods, book debts, or other securities, and that secured creditors should rank only for their debt, less a proper valua- tion of their security. 3. Liens and preferences given witain a period. of three or four months prior to an assignment or bankruptoy to be deemed invalid. 4, Provision against all fraudulent and, preferential settlements. 5. Provision for the means of en- forcing to a trustee duly appointed by creditors an assignment on their be - hall of ftlee‘ estate of a debtor who is iv 6. Provision .ef a public or othee pro- per examination of a debtor before a judge or other authorized official. 7: That in any appointment of offi- cial receivers the rights of creditors to a proper supervtsion and control of assets to be safeguarded, 8. Traders to be competes(' to keep proper books of account. 9. Provision to meet the notorious evil of traders insolvent, or on tee brink of insolstency, ordering or receiy- ing delivery of goods on credit from. Persons ignorant of their financial po- sition. 10. Provision that where e debtor has obtained goods while insolvent within 60 days of his executing any deed of assignment or presenting any petition for the administration of his affairs in any insolvency Court, that creditors furnishing such goods should be en- titled to the retuen of all such gliods as are available when the insolvency is declared. 11. Provision against the frequent case of sales en bloc of stock by trad- ers insolvent, or on the brink of in- solvency, before calling their creditors together, and generally that any leg-. 'station dealing with insolvency should as far as practicable be assimilated to the law relating to the insolvency in England' and Wales, with such modifie cations or improvements as may be deemed necessary or advisable. ' • THE WELLA.ND CANAL. Apropes of bis canal resolution Mr. McCleary contended that Part Col- borne, which stood ;at the head of our canal system, was the only port which opened up the trade bf the west at a through water route. Nobodycontend- ed that an all -water route was not su- perior to any 'other route. Port Col- borne is, he said, nearer to Montreal than any port on the Georgian Bay. Frain Port Colborne to Montreal there were 70 miles of canals and. 300 melee of open lake and river navigation. The return cargoes that vessels could, have going by Port Colborne would greatly enhance the earning power 61 the shtps. The difference in mileage be- tween the Toronto air lin' route and the 'Welland route, from Fort William to Montreal, was 270 miles, not 400. The Minister of Railways then an- nounced that there was a liberal sum in two eistimates for improving the entrance be the Welland -Canal and Port Colborne harbor. 11 the canal ,was properly equipped and improved, elevator facilities Might be left to private ehterpiesesi However, the d.aeperang of the Welland Canal could not be °onside -red a practical question at the present time. To' secure a greater depth meant practically 'build- ing a new canal at a cost of e20,000,- 000 or $30,000,000. As to the construc- tion of a breakwater at Port Colborne the matter was wetter Mr. Tarte's con- sideration, and he hoped a decision could be announced before long. THE GEOR,GIAN BAY ROUTE. Mr. Bennett insisted that the best route was via one of the Georgian Bay ports; that vessels of the size that now go to Buffalo could -not go through the Welland Canal, but they could be ac- commodated in the Georgian Bay ports, and the trade could be handled by the Toronto air line and the Booth tine. The advantages o f the Canadian route were great, as a vessel Ma make three trips from Chicago to Midland as against two from the same port to Buffalo. The distance from Buffalo to New York for rail carriage is also greater than from Parry Sound and Midland to Montreal. TO STOP CIVIL SERVICE GRAFTS. The next mattee wasMr. MeNfullen's eiVil service bill, the object of which is to prevent 'civil service servants re- ceiving paymerit for services in addi- Um, to their regular salaries. At present, argued Mr. McMullen, every ciyll servant now was standing; at his desk trying tO think of a hook on which he could hang a Claim for extra. pay. ;He gave an antaysi8 or the pay- ments in this way since 1886, when the number ot 01.1711 servants, so drawing pay was 182. Year before last there were 753 who drewpay for extra Ser- vices, and last year 7e9 altogether who drew pay for extra setviees. He gave sonte of the More glaring instances. The Clerk of the Supreme Court. got 82,800 a year, as a Salary. In addition to that he drew $600 for pre- paring the record for the Supreme Court for the printitg. "In addition to that he drew $197 cerateission xti stamps that he eold in discharge of bis duty as Clerk of the Septette Cottle:, bridging his salary tip to something between $3,e00 and $3,400, The Clerk of the Fleece/eerier Court with a salary of $e,t,'00, received a special vote of et.76 for preparing the records of that covet, Mr, McMullen said that no corn/Sane paid its employes better than eel the GhTecltilsshould rnrkt'Iiwhasagaglseharne tliat toyer aua extra tour. He was so muoli in earn- est about his bill that he would °all ia Opposition assietance if tee Gov- ortment didn't aMend.enetters. Mr. Rogow Dr, Sproule, Mr. Iiohnee, all approved his bill, and eir Rieltard Cartwright intimated that someteing on Mr. MoKullen's line was already 'ander consideration by Mr. Fielding. • MEDALS FORt The Government has reoeived a cable from the Royal Mint, explaining the delay with the general service ntedale. One consignment will be shipped on Saturday, and will be available for presentation on Dominion Day to trviheaorm,steitiliteciotni:,tiliLiendoinpd;n: vthieonstorlitnt, iveoLo:ot:, elontreal, Ottawa, St, John, eltinfax, It will take about threo motiths under the present ar- rangement to seoure the entire oupply. UNION LABEL BIL. Mr. 13ertram's bill to amend the Trade Mark and Design Act, providing for the recoguition of the union label, passed the Committee on Banking and Commeroe with an amendment insert- ed by Mr. Bertram/ himself to the ef- feet that no mark should, be put upon goods without the consent of the pro- prietors. This ie the, Act W11000 pass- age been repeatedly' urged by the labour organizations. Mr. Bertram thinks that the amendment which he has made will obviate the objections which caused tee Senate to threw out tha bill last year. ; THE ALASKA BOUNDARY. Mr. Clarke Wallace called, attention to a deepatch in the daily papers with reference to the proceedings of itte In- ternational Commission. He wanted to know if the statements in those de- spatwees were correct, and especially if it were true teat: che„Alaska boun- dary was to be settled by arbitration. Sit 'Wilfrid Laurier replied that the negotiations were in exactly the same condition as when -the commissioners left Washington. At that time sub- stantial progress had been made on all questions submittei with the sin- gle exception of the Alaskan boun- dary-. That matter had been re- ferred to the Governments itrerested, and the correspondence was still go- ing on. • FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. Mr. elonta,gue asked what the Gov- ernment intended to do with reference to the Friendly Societies Insurance bill. He underetood that representations on the subject had been made :by the Can- adian Fraternal Association and by the Ontario Government. Mr. Fielding answered that he had been waited upon by a large deputa- tion from the frate,rnal organizations, who desired that the societies concern- ed should have an opportunity to meet and discuss the bill, but also desired to avoid the ,expense of calling speeial meetings of their bodies for that pur- pose. In deference to their wishes, he had decided not to proceed with the bill during the present session. Re- presentations had also been made by the Ontario Government as to the con- stitutionality of the measure, due, he thought, to misapprehension of the scope of the bill, but no purpose would be served by discussing that phase of the subject, in view of the fact that the measure was going over until next year. • QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Hibbert Tupper was informed by Mr. Mulock that Canadian mails for Dawson are forwarded on Pacific coast waters by the steamers of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company: To Ska.- guay there are five or six trips a month and to Atlin three. The de- partment has no control over the ar- rangements for forwarding mails from Skaguay, which is in possession of the United States, but correspondence is being carried on with Washington witb a view to changing the arrange- ments tow in.foree. Mr. McDougall was told by Mr. Elan: that the total number of tons of freight carried by the Intercolonial • railway from March 1st, 1897, to March 1st, 1898, was 1,35,548, and the receipts on such freight were $1,734,385. Dur- ing the year ending March 1st, 1899, the freight carried was 1,053,381 tons, ancb the receipts e2,198,010. • Mr. Clarke was informed by Sir Richard Cartwrig,ht that on the ob- verse of the Canada general service medal would appear an effigy of the Queen similar to that on tbe Indian 1895, medal. The reverse will consist of a wreath of Canadian maple, and a ribbon or scroll bearing on it the word "Canada." The design of the medal was approved on the 27th of Novembe.r, 1e98, and the order for the medals given by the Imperial aritbor- illea to the royal. mint on February 22nd. last. The Government had not sen:. any funds for the medal, nor had any been asked. Sir Wilfrid Laurier told Mr. Fraser, Guysboroe that the Government had not received any intern:we:ion of the in- tention of the Imperial authorities to modify their offer regarding the Pa- cific cable, nor did he believe that Lord Strathcone " had su,ggested any modifi- catton of the plan accepted fhiee years ago by the Impede' Committee. The Government did not intend to depart from that plan. SCOTTISH IMPARTIALITY. In the, British army, as elsewhere, inten are likely to have a "eoft side for those who came from their•owe coun- try. Punch pictures the dolor serge - of e Highland company, in which are one or two anfortunate English- men, ceiling the roll. ' , Angus Mackay! No reply, Louder: Augur lettickey1 Stilt no reply. Sotto yoke; I ken ye're there; aye at yer jooty, decent mon, but ye're ower mod- est to speak before sae mohy folks. I see. ye fine. Marks him down in the roll, John jones1 . Squeaky weice replies, 'Ere. Sergeants: Cu, Uy, ye're here, or, say yetre here, but tre'te sic a /tackle • leettr 1 canna believe a word that comes oot 0' er mooth, sat I'll jest meek ye doon as abstinel CHINESE ilfEACHEIt'S PAY. • A Chinese teather in a private SehOtil reeeivee 5 bout one cerit a day tor every pupil in his class. AIN OLD MAID'S AGE. ft is very odd to look !lane on the alters alien which has taken plthe in thoughts and ophitone during the last fete aeries of tee world. In the time when juliei and other heroines attain, M the height of their eame at faint teeu or fifteen, a womanw personal charms seemed to have waned far lier than they do in our *Lys. Queen Henrietta Maria bewailed at tweeand- twenty that she was losing her at,- , tractions and growing old; and a girl wbo passed nineteen without becomine a wife was considered to ae getting past all tope of marriage. Of .course this was partly due to the times. In those iough and Warliee days teere was no protection for woe men outside their husband's homes or the convent. Parents were too glad ' to secure a safe asylum for their girls under a husbaud's, roof, and hurried 1, them into marria,ge at the earliest , Another reason was to act foaled. inteee policy, Fathers tried to securele mass for their sons and girls with a e good dower were married in the nurse e ery, sometimes even in their cradles. Ea.rly marriage,s were an absolute ne- cessity. • Even in the days of our grand- enotters, twenty-five was known as " the old maid' first corner," and if she reachea thirty, a still unappropra ated blessing her case was looked up - en as hopeless. , Nowadays, we have wonderfully changed all that. Early maeriage.s are looked upon with disfavor, anti year by year the marriage years grow Ade er. This is partly due, no cloubt,o the fact that 111011 are less able to support wives till they apprba,ch mid- dle age; but whereas in the countries abroad, where the same ueeeseity pre- vails, men of thirty-feve and forty choose girls of eighteen or twenty for their wives, with us it only extends the marrying age among women. Bat another wonderful thing is that the typical old maid has now died out as completely as the mail °oath or buil baiting. Tee withered, cantakerons scandalmonger, soured and, bitter and spiteful, liapplly no longer exists. Un- married women of uncertain age now- adays are sometimes the most delight- ful members society boasts. They are bright, good-tempered, amusing and full of interest, and are very often the most popular companions of young en Not only that, but more extraordin- ary still, women no longer look old. at the age they used. At thirty a beautiful woman is often but just aP- proaching the zenith of her beatity. At forty, and even forty-five, if she has good health, good temper, and wid- ened interests, she should still be in her prime. The dreaded. eperiod fair, fat and forty," is no langer a bug- bear to the woman of to -day. still called a girl in society; t tennis, dances, flirts—if she be so it clined--and has her little courts o love. In fact, the debutante of sev- enteen hasn't a chance beside her. wite most men, who will turn. away frt the shy and gentle little person wit nothing to say -for herself- to the in- telligent, sympathetic woman of the world, who knows just how to amuse and please them. Women dress young nowadays, too, and, that helps to keep them young. Nobody laughs at a wPinan of fifty who wears a bit; but if she takes to caps she is likely to be considerably jeered at. Nobody --except a few old- fashioned people living out of the world—think that a woman should give up wearing white after girlhood has ' passed. Nobody slinks into poke -bon- nets and meek skirts and depressed styles of wearing their hair the nue ment they have passed thirty. No;• all this is changed., and the ' phrase "old maid" seems pretty well dying out of the language. Only other day an anxious inquirer, who verote to a le.dies' paper asking at what re age, ehe could beconsidered an old maid, was consolingly tole she need not call herself. one till she was a ye " When shall I be an old maid ?"asked a girl of an old gentleman. " When men cease to lake an inters est in your society, my dear,' he eat swered ; "and W13011 that happens de- pends altogether on ecourself." So it is pleasing for any, girl who thinks an urewarried state a terrible thing to reflect that there is appaw catty now no age at which a woman may not be sought in -marriage. 'We' have had some famous examples of lato. t of women who have married when their contenaporaxies • were grandmotheesi and every year such instances beceine _more frequent and less remarked. possible age. I LOVJe YOU, 3.)EAR. I love you, dear! Why, so to EgYides • queen Hsc ooeu phtoaakt.tte —ahsibs no 10.1 favAienngitv. hoanulnityd , t ooh eeerOnmi:ihint dainful mien gain rniI again. I love you deael So ardent.' Romeo oried While'Juliet from her windete leeriee And, sighing, lured 4the "tassel' dtx' To live atd love, till lite' atid lee Were gotie. • love you dear( So to that charmit tlelen of Troy, the Word from Part§ And all the 'World. in literheee .• How, for that loaid llg, half it Worl'dt, I love you, deari Ah,, Yes,. the etru To many a woman hag the tele been And yet, the world grows YoUtn your ear 't may but whisper thit--4 loVe