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A STORY OF SLAVERY DAYS.
By MARY J. tiOLMES.
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thanes, and thus reassured, she drew
a long breath of relief; taen, as
thoughts of all. her husband and broth-
er had. been sa,ved from by this heroic
girl came over her she sprang toward.
Mende, and winding lier arms around
her neck, sobbed hysterically, but
never spoke one word.
What is it ? What are you crying
or ?" Maude asked, petting her as ie
she lead been a little child.
•" 01'4 I don't know. The sight of you
who have done so mnele for the war,
and been so brave, makes nie seem so
little, so small, so mean beside you,
Maude De Vern" Rose replied brok-
enly, and. then Maude's eyes filled with
tears, and she hugged the sobbing lit-
tle creature, whom, from that moment
she loved so fondly.
Sae, too, had. dreaded this naeeting,
for she knew that Rose Mather and
her mother were both women ot the
higlaest culture, and she felt that they
...might criticise, and perhaps conaeran
one who had lived so _hang among the
pines of North Carolina and the moun-
tains of Teneessee. But Rose's manuer
CHAPTER eeeeXVI.-Continned.
He fainted then, Than
e ode of com-
ing bank to "God's land" had been
too great, send for a week or more he
paid but little heed to what was pas-
sing around aim.
"Don't you. know me, Jamraiel It e
I,—it's Annie," Mrs. Graham would
say to here, as his restless eyes turn-
ed upon her, and he would repeat at -
ter her,
"Don't you -know -me, jimraie ? It's
I, Annie."
This was a peculiarity of his, and it
continued, tintil Bill Baker, who had, be-
come strong enough to be moved,
came to Annapolia, and asked to see
the Cop!ral."
At firat the physician refused, but
'Annie approved the plan, hoping for
a good result, and she waited. anxious-
ly while Bill said. cheerily,
"Hallo, old Caporal. Rather nicer
quartera here than that sand -bank
down by that infernal nasty stream."
Bill Baker's voice was the last wheel'
in the far-off prison had ananned kind-
ly in Jemtaie s ears; and now as e
heard it againens face lighted, up, and divested her of all fear and in a mo-
nth eyes kindled with something like meat she resumed that unconscious air
,tneir olden fire, of superiority to all else around her,
exact know me, Cop'ral. Ien Watob. was a part of herself. Queenly
,paane exchange& Wen, ape, no was the word which best suited her
Annapolis, and Miss Gram 1. i1iSSifl looks and ter manners, and Rose paid
you," Bill continued, and tent Jimmie homage to her as to a queen, and told
eehevir a long breath, and'burst into a her that she loved. her, and. how much
pasaionate fit of tears. "They'll do him she tad thought of her, and how aux-
good. They anus did to Andersonville. inus her mother was to see her, and
ele'd hold in till. he wan fit to burst, how happy they would all be when
and then he'd let 'em slide, and feel Jimmie and Annie came home.
better He'll know you, Miss Graam, There had. been daily visits to the
after this,"" Montoursince then, and Mrs. Carle -
Annie was called just then, to at- i ton had met the beautiful Maude, and.
tend another patient, and Bill was left mentally approved of Tom's choice.
alone with Jimmie. There were a few Charlie too had been petted and oar -
broken sentences from the natter, and essed, and his blue eyes opened with at Dace.
then Bill Baker was heard talking wonder as he ea* whatMat night when the two brothers
Northern wo-
, T
rapidly, but very gently and cautious- men were like were alone in their roomom said to
and. remembered hia
1y, and Jimmie lifted his head once and.
• looked acrose the room where Annie
was. al to the Southern cause, and listened,
"Better lgiven you every chance a reasonable
be
him alone a spell, till with flashing eyes and crimson cheeks,
a.
be thinks it can and. gets it arranged," I to all he continually heard of the sure mn could askHave you made a pro -
Bill said to Annan 1 made him under- defeat and disgrace of tb.e Confeder- leer use of your privileges? Would it
stand. where he was, and that you was acne do me any good to try and win Annie
bore, and all right on the main goes- I Matter were in this wise when the now?
tion; and though he'd. like to have bust day came on which Annie was expecte You can try if you like," JiMmie
his biter far a rainute, he'll come all ed home with Jimmie. Great prepare-
said, with a sraile.
straight, I reckon." tions had been made for that arrival. And then Tom told hive of his hopes
a
It was more than an hour before An- In Rockland there was more than one nd Jim-
ooncerning Maude De Vere, '
nie wene to Tinaraie again, but when prisoner who had been nursed by An-
mie said to himsaucily:
she did the eager, joyful look in his eyes nie Graham and. her name was spok- "Don't you remember I told. you once
told ter that she was recograzede len with reverence and. love .by the ver- You had. had your day? But some
Don't speak to me, ---don't talk," ' 'lest vagabond. that walked the streets. lucky dogs have two, and you, it seems
are one of them."
she said, laying one hand. lightly upon ;They had not made ea demonstration. in
the lips, which began to move, while a long, long time, but they were going
With the other she smoothed. the short to make one now and the honors which CHAP,TER XXVIII
curls of hair.
He kissed the hand upon his lips,
and whispered, through the fingers:
"Tell me first, was it tens, he told.
me? Do you a --He did not finish:
the sentence, fax Annie understood
Lira. and Vending so near to him that
no one ;nee could hear, she said:
"Yes, Jimitie,-I. do."
He seemed satisfied, and sometaing
of his old, manner came back to him
when, later in the day, Annie tried to
strighten the clothes about him, and
wet and. brushedeels hair.
"Look like a hippopotamus, don't
I V" he asked, touching his thick-
skinned face.
't
name, and, had tacked on to it A.dol-
ribus„ with the hope that the future
would minuet the name into Adolph, or
,something more fanciful than the good,
plain Bible IsaacAnd while the
widow kissed. and wept over her grand-
son, and Mt bersele growing young,
and soft and gexitle again, the orowd
around the depot had eispersea, a part
going to their oetru homes, and a pant
following the soldiers and band witioa
esoorted Annie Graham and • Jimmie
Carleton to the Mather mansion, where
everything had been made so beautiful
for them.
It was a pleasant coming acme, and
a most ample compensation far all thee
'weariness and privation which Annie,
as hospital nurse, had. endured, and.
she felt that far more was awarded
to her than she deserved.
"Mr. Carleton was the one to be hon-
ored," she said, and her soft, bine Bees
rested upon the pale, tired man, wh,o,
exhausted with lath neurneY • and the
exoitement, lay amen at once upon the
sofa, wane his mother and Rose knelt
beside him and kissed, and pitied, and
oried over bis poor white face, and
long, bony hands, which were almost
transparent in their waiteness.
Maude was not one of the party at
the Mather maasion that night.
"Yon relight to be • elone the first
nighte! ehe said, when Rose insisted
that she should join them. "To -mor-
row I will come round and call on
Mrs. Graham and yotte brother."
She had been greatly interested in
all the arrangements, and was cadets
to see the woman who had almost been
her rival, while Annie was quite as
curious to see her, the heroine of the
mountains. In her • letters to Annie,
Rose had • purposely refrained from
mentioning Tom's name with Maude's,
so that Annie was ignorant of the real
state of things. But she did. not re-
main so long.
"Is she so very beautiful?" she said.
to Rose, when, after supper, they were
all assexo.bled in tne parlor, and Maude
was the subject of conversation.
Love and War
•"Ask Tem; he earl tell you," Rose re-
plied, and by the conscious look on
Tom's face, Annie guessed the truth
prejudice against them. He liked the
Northerners, he said, but he was toy -
Jimmie
"Well, my boy, I've kept my word,
-I've waited a year and. more. I've
"Not half as much as you did," An-
nie replied; and the first smile her
face had worn for weeks glimmered
around, her lips, for she knew now the
danger was past, and Jimmie Carle-
ton would live.
CHAPTER eeeeeeVIL
The warm, bright November day
was wearing to its close. The purple
haze of the Indian summer lay around
the hilltops, and the soft, golden sun-
light fell softly upon the grass, and
the few autumnal flowers winch had
escaped the recent storm. The grounds
around the Mather mansion were look-
ing almost as beautiful as in the early
summer, fax the grass, invigorated by
the rain, was fresh and. green again,
and the brilliant foliage of the trees
which dotted the lawn made up the
loss of the flowers. Even these last
were not lacking indoors, for the hot-
house had been robbed of its costliest
flowers, which filled the whole house
with perfarne, and made Maude De
Vere start with surprise when she first
entered the parlors.
"It takes me back to my Southern
home," she said to Rose, who, stand-
ing on tiptoe, fastened a, half -open lilsr
in her hair, going into ecstasies over
the effect, and thinking to herstelf
that Maude De Vere was 'the most re-
gal creature she had ever seen.
Maude had been in Rockland three
weeks, and. Rose was already as much
in love with her as if she had known
her all her life. At first, she had
dreaded a little to meet the fearless
heroine of the mountains. A girl who
bad held a revolver at the heads of
both Federal and Confederate; who in
the night, had ridden twenty milers on
horseback to conduct a party of refu-
gees to a placs of safety, and had
guarded the entrance of the cave in
the face of a furious mob, muse be
something very formidable, or, at least,
something unlike all Rose's ideas of
What a, lady gently born should he;
and. bale Rose and her mother had
waited nervously for the arrival of one
who, they felt sure, was to be the wife
of Tom- Nothing definite had been
'said upon the subjeot sietora Arthur
died, bat it was tecitiy understood by
all parties that Mande De Vera, was,
sometime, to be Maude Carleton • and
Tone was allowed to pey her attentions
whiole could only be paid to his fian-
eee
In a greet flutter of spirits, Rose had
heard of Mende's arrival at the Mot -
tear House, and immediately after din-
ner had driven down to tee her, ac-
compenied by Will, who, if possible,
was more undone than hereelf to Pal
his respeets to letitude.
She was 'Kneeling by Cherlien comb
When the party entered, but she roes
at Maces and cute forward, with the
most beautiful carnation ataining her
oltheka, end e look of modeetY in her
brilliant eyes. She wore a long, train
eng dress De heavy silk, and stood se
tenet, and held her heed so high, the t
she seemed taller than she really wee -
taller than Tom, Rose feared; but ;Pi
bio enapped na to her, she sew he bee
the itdventage of her by at Wet. AX, 1
poor George saw in fancy awarded to
himself were to be given to his wife.
Jimmie, too, whose terrible sufferings
had excited so much commiseration,
was to have his share of consideration.
Bill Baker, who had, been home fax a
week and was as usual the most ac-
tive spirit of all, suggested that when
they flung out the banner on which
was inscribed, "Honor and welcome to
Annie Graham," they should give three
cheers for Mr. Carleton, too. "Bela',"
as he said, "that they are about as
good as one."
Prompt to the moment when it was
due, the train swept round the Rock-
land curve and stopped at the depot
where a large concourse of people was
gathered. They had not expected the
Widow Sirams, and when her green
veil and. straw bonnet appeared on the
platform, the foremost of the group
looked a little disappointed, while the
widow's face darkened as she saw the
waiting multitude, and guessed why
they were there.
Annie had appeared by this time, and
at sight of her the tongues were loos-
ened, and deafening shouts of vrelcoxne
greeted her on every side. The flag
bearing her name was held aloft, the
cannon in the adjoining field sent
forth its bellowiag roar, and the band
struck up the sweet refrain of "Annie
Laurie ;" vebile the voices of the And-
ersonville prisoners, wbo had been
Annie's charge, sang the last line:
"And for bonnie Annie Graham
would lay me down and die."
Surely this was 'a coming home
which Annie had never looked for, and
with her face flushed with excitement,
and her eyes shining with tears, she
stood in the midst of ;he shouting
throng, gazing wonderingly from one
to the other, and realizing nothing
clearly, except the firm clasp upon her
e ran.
It was Sinanaie's hand, and Jimmie
himself leaned upoa her, as the crowd
coupled his name with hers, and hur-
rahed for "James Carleton and Annie
Graham."
"And the Widder SiIIIMS-T swan if
it's fair to leave har out. She did
some nussin' down to Annapolis,"
Bill Bilker said; and then the widow
was cheered, and she acknowledged the
compliane.nt with a grim smile, and
wondered. when "folks would quit
making fools of themselves, and if
Susan wasn't up there, somewhere, in
the jam. Of course she was; 'twas like
there Ruggleses to go where the doin's
was."
And while she shook the hand of her
aeighbors, she kept her eyes on the
watch for Susan, and felt a little
chegriind that she did not find her.
Susan was at home in the neat little
house which John had bought with
his captain's wept', SC) careCully saved.
The same house it was at which Annie
Graham had looked with Imaging eyes,
in the crandiencement of the war; and
la the pleasant chamber which over-
looked the town there was a little hoy
who had been in Rockland only a
week, and whose existence was as yet
unknown to the widow. They had
purposely, kept it from her, ,gao she had
no euspicum that he was expeoted ; and
the first genuine feeling cif happiness
she had known ShICS Tape died, she
experienoed when she was fisherea it•
Lo Susan's room and the little red-fac-
ed thing was laid in her lap. She had
looked askance et the new house, atd
heat furniture, and the pretty cur -
thins, as so Many proofs of 'than Rug -
eases" eat:ravager:Lee but she was not
proof against the wente faxen ivhioh
from the pillows, moiled so kindly tip -
on ha, and celled her another. AO
she was guilty ef kisstnee her (buena-
ernn-linv, even before she saw the
b by, her f ire gx'iadehild, whom Suean
balled Isaac, althoogh she haled Lee
The next day brought Maude De
Vere, looking so handsome in her black
dress, with her coquettish drab hat and
bong drab feather tipped with scarlet,
that she remeaded Annie of some
bright tropical flower as she came in-
to the rooxn with the sparkle in her
brilliant eyes, and the deep, rich bloom,
upon her cheek. She had regained her
health and spirits rapidly within the
last few weeks, and even Jimmie, who
seldom saw beyond Annie's fair face
and soft blue eyes, drew a breath of
wonder at the queenly girl who com-
pletely overshadowed those around
her so far as size and form and physi-
cal developmern were concerned, But
nothing could detract from the calm,
quiet dignity of Annie's manner, or
from the pure, angelic beauty of her
face, as the two stood holding eaoh
other's hands and looking into each
• other's eyes, they made a most strik-
ing tableau, and Mrs. Carleton thought
• with a thrill of pride, how well her
sons had chosen. •
That night, as Maude was walking
back to the hotel, accompanied by
Tone, he asked her again the question
put in the cave of the Cumberland.
"I understand about Arthur," he
said; "but he is dead; there is no
promise now in the way. I claim. you
for my own. Am I wrong in doing
so V'
That Mande's reply was wholly satis-
factory was proved by the expression
of Tom Carleton's face when at last
he stopped at the door of the hotel,
and by the kiss which burned on
Maude's bps long after he had disap-
peared down the street.
The next afternoon, wbile Tom was
with Maude, and both Mrs. Carleton
and Rose were out on a shopping ex-
pedition, Annie sat alone with Jim-
mie in the pleasant little room which
had been given to him as a place
where he would be more quiet than
in the parlor. Annie had been play-
ing; with Rose's boy -the little Jimmie,
a handsome, sturdy feilow of nearly
a year old, whoni the entire household
spoiled. He was already beginning to
talk, and having taken a fancy to
Annie, he tried to call her name, and
made out of it a tolerably distinct
"Auntee," which brought a blush to
Aanie's face, and a teasing smile to
3 i mode's.
"Corae, sit by me a moment, Annie,"
Simone said, when the child had been
taken out by his nurse. "Sit on this
stool, so, -a little nearer to me, -there
that's right," he continued, in the
tone. of authority he had uncenseions-
ly acquired since his oorivalesc-
•ulicee. •
was Iyiag upon the couoh, rind
Annie wes sitting at his side and so
near to him that his long fingers could
sattootb arid caress her shining hair,
while his sauoy eyes feasted themsel-
ves upon her face, as he asked "when
she would really be the auntie of the
•Utile boy who caned her now by that
"Not till you are able to stand
elone," was Annie's reply, and then,
for the five. time since his return
from Anclersonville, Jimmie spoke of
•thi t episode in bis life at New Lon-
don, when little Lulu Howard had
stirred his boyish blood, and fined hie
boyish fenay-
Perhaps he wanted to tease Annie
for he soid to her:
"I did like. that little blue-eyed Lu,-
thet's a feat, T used to think about
bor all day, tine dream alemt her ail
night. "I' wonder where she is now,"
gro be Continued.)
• WHAT 81113'D CALL IT,
He -If I stole fifty kieses trete. you
what kind of larceny would it be e
• Shemi should Oen it grand
• 1)0111INIO1 PARLAMENT.
What the Legislators of the Country
are Doing at OttaWit,
---
TBE ma' OF OTTAWA,
A bell of which Mr. Fielding has giv-
en• notice, in regard( to the city ef Ot-
tawa, is for the purl/ost of grantien
$60,000 annually to the l 4ty in, lieu of
whatever cleans tJae eity may have
against the Government for municipal
Purpnees. What tlie ei,ty ,asked final-
• ly was' $65,000.• •
The-imoiniy veal be expanded under
the euperathion of ra ommission ap-
poisited by the Govern/am:it .from* lead-
ing citizens wee wile act with the
City Couuoil, and, the first expendi-
ture will likely be mede on 'Welling-
ton street, opposite the Parliament
buildings.
INSURANCel BILL,
• The Committee oa Banking and
Commeroe, dealt wita the bill of the
Ministers of Railways, to amon,d the
Insurance Lot. The cense feature of
the nial is a poovision ohanging the
rate of interest which it shall be cal -
rate of interest which it shall be cal-
culatea ensuranee companies' reserves
shall earn. At present the rate is
e1-2 per cent. Tla,e bill has under-
gone some eleanges since it was in-
troduced, and It now provides that
after January 1, the rate connected
with al/ new ebusiness shall be 31-2
per cent, while on old business the
rate shall remain' on a 4 1-2 per cent.
basis, until 1907, when it will be re-
duced. to 4 per cent. After 1912 the
rate on, all business will be 31-2 per
cent.
A strong effort will be xp.a.cle dur-
ing the present session of Parliament
to endeme the Administration to ask
Parliament to guarantee the bonds of
the Si. Clair & Lake Erie Ship Canal,
winch it is proposed to construct
through Essex County, thus saving 79
miles of navigation and enabling yes-
sels to esea.pe the tortuous and some-
what dangerous .Detroit River.
Ne ORICYIAN CLOTHING CONTRACT.
• In reply to a queetion by nir Hibbert
Tupper, the Minister of Militia stated.
that Mr. Mark Workraan, of Montreal,
bus a contraet for supplying a certain
line of militia clothing, and, gained, the
contract through his being the lowest
tenderer, The government is not aware
whether Mr. Workman is a British
subject, and whether he operated his
factory for seven daye la the week in
the execution of this contract.
TORONTO'S AMBITIOUS SCHEME.
of tne late DeAlton McCarthy; 05000
for expeuse of committees. Under
head. ef quarantine there is a further
vote of §5000 for selaries and. expenses
in oonueotion 'erne tuberculosis, end
$13,000 more in eonneotion with hog
oeoiera, and, saeep scab to pay for
slaughtered animals.
For militia and. defence n100,250 ie
onkea on capital amount for anual
ammunition and $274,290 on =want
consolidated fund, for the following;
A.0;tiales,dris1351,,•0$0102;5,000; salaries and
wages of oivil employes, 49000; military
pi:
stores, 839,700;
clothing, 420,000; transportation, §15a
COO ; inthcellaneous and unforeseen, 010,-
000; Royal Military College (ineluding Macdonald's brigade. When 'Mr. Bur -
an increase of pay to Prof, Worrell), leig•h, who looked down upon the affair
from the slopes of the Surgham hills
where the scene lay spread before him
like a picture, saw the Ielialtfa's 20,000
warriors charging down upon Macclone
ald and his Soudanese brigade from one
derectiott, and the Sheikhs Ed, Din and
lehanill advancing to attaok him in
rear, he feared that he was about to
witness a catastrophe; "an order was
sent to Macdonald, whioh, had he been
obeyed, would have ensured inevitable
disaster to the brigade, if not a ()etas-
trophe to the army." He was bade
to retire by, possibly, his division corn-
naander. Macdonald knew better than
to attempt a retrograde movement in
the face of so fleet and daring able.
it would have spelled annihilation. The
sturdy Highlandman said, no do
it. see them d ---d, first. We
mean just fight." Mr. Burleigh thus
desoribes the affair:
TRE _BATTLE.
e3y far the finest, feature • of that
REAL HERO OF 01011RITAN
Nome*
COL. MACDONALD'S REPULSE OF
20,000 DERVISH WARRIORS.
A ItcoentlY Published Work Otres a lravid
Description, or si Man Who Wrought
Wonders.
Mr. Bennett Burleigh, the famous
newspaper correspondent, in his re-
cently published work on the Khar-
toum campaign, gives a vivid descrip-
tion of the repulse of the attack on
fe200; and tie Prof pharleand, $200; $10,-
400; purchase of Hamiltonrifle range,
2000; to ooraplete payment far Lon-
don property e1090; for Defence Scheme
Committee, 86100,
For railways, 05,400„' for Inter -
colonial, for rolling stook, $20,000.
For canals 242,000, of vithich $212,-
000 isefor deepening the north chan-
nel and 48500 for deepening the nt.
Pierre River.
These items are ohargeable td
Under railway subsidies 65300 is
asked to pay axe old claim of the New
Brunswick Central Railway.
• Sixty thousand dollax•s more is asked
on capital for River, $t. Lawrence ship
canal.
Woe public works chargeable to in.-
conae, 4123,908 is asked, amongst the
vote being Montreal public buildings,
work one; 42051; Quebeo Citadel,
work done, $e236; plink buildings,
Ottawa, repairing, etc., e39,982; pub-
lio buildings, Ottawa, photographio es-
tablishment for Department of Agri-
culture, 47000. ,
General repairs -Harbor, Quebec,
$5040; leneacerdine harbor, balance due moaning of battles was the action
contractor, 43384.; new dredging plant, fought by Colonel Macdonald with his
415,000; addditional amount far sur- brigade. The dervish ecnees that
veys, 110,000; under ocean and river sought to crush him numbered fully
service, 410,000 is asked. for repairs to 20,000 men. To oppose them he had
Stanley and Lansdowne,' and $20,000 but four battalions, or in. all less than
further amount for maintenance Do- 3000 Soudanese and Egyptian soldiers.
minion steamers, etc. With a tact, coolness and hardihood I
;nor lighthouse to replace lightship hanvaeindmanoeuvred
nseoeenerctduallaenda foughtoloneColonel Mao -
at Upper Traverse, St. • Lawrenee do
er and. equipment for buoy service in
River, en0,000; fox•purcliase of a steam-
anf
omonidenIcIleeY, arnerisP°ranldaecdrittyo libisegeoatitien'itdhf
•
THEY NEVER TASTE WATER,
t -moi
nave tams Ranee the Thlrat or tlat
Dories ot the thimillitit Islands.
The proverbial' liorse wineet ean
led to water, but whith cannot in
made to drink, exists in great numbere
in the Hawaiian Islands,
Among the oattle he has thousand(
of cousins of the same proolivities.
It is a surprising statement to make'
and yet one that is literally true anti
so commonplace that xio one there
thinks anything about it, and theri
are hundreds of horses and thousand;
of oattle which never take a drink 01
water throughout the whole course of
their lives,
NO NATURAL WATER SUPPLY.
On all the islands the upper altitude; ,
of the mountains are given up to oat
tle ranges. The oattle run wild Erma s
the time they are born until they art
rounded up to be sent to the slaughtex
house. Except during two or three
house. Except during possibly two or
three months of the rainy season, there
are no streams or pools of water in any
part where the cattle range.
But everywhere there grows a re-
ourobent, jointed -grass, known by the
native name of maninia. Thia is both
food and drink. Horses and cattle,
grazing on it neither require water
nor will they drink it when ofeered.
Our first experience with this fact
was on a trip to Haleakala. A party
were mou.ated on horses which had •
just been brought in from the range.
The journey they made was 14 miles,
in which distance they ascended about
9,000 feet.
The party started. in the afternoon,
and about sunset halted for supper.
They thought it strange that the hor-
ses should leave a feed of grain to nib-
ble the scanty grass which grew near
by ,but were willing to trust their in-
stinct in the matter.
• A PRACTICAL TEST.
However, before starting, they insist-
ed that they be given water. The na-
St. Lawrence, between Quebec and long acquaintance and implicit faith in
tive guide deanurred in this, saying
they didn't need it,- but, with the
Montreal, , $21,500; for rebuilding
dwelling in the Observatory groundsbattalions through a score of fierce good-natured complaisance of his race,
,
Toronto, 42000. •
fights and skirmisb.es, always eraerg- yielded to requests, and led a detour
Under fisheries $15 941 is asked
1119' and covering hinegelf and his men
with glory, honor and victory. All of of about a mini, which brought the
party to a ranoh house, where there,
amongst the votes being $1,802 balance was a well. But, to the utter amaze -
expenses, Behring Sea arbitration at th.m knew him they were proud of ment and stupefaotion of the travel -
Paris, and $1,000 each to Frank Peters him, and reposed implicit confidence in ers, the horses would not drink.
and E. V. Bodwell, for disteibuting the their general. UnTri is takably the They took it as another case of in -
Fax'
Sea award., 1 Khalifs. and his son, the Sheikh Ed .
For Mounted Police $50,000 more is Din, thought that thstint, and assuan,ed that the water, for
samefortunate hour same reason, was not good, and so re -
asked "to complete the service of last had came -that in detail, they would frained from drinking it themselves.
year." • I ' destroy first Macdonald, then one b It was not until the return, the see -
Under the b.ead of Yukon Provisional one the other Khediviel brigades. Walt ond day, to Kawaapa.e, that the travel,.
District $1,130,054 is asked, some of the might have been, had father and, son ers learned the secret of the wonderful
larger items being: Administration of arrived at the same time and, distance maninia grass,
justice, $15,750 ; lVfounted Police, eee on both sidee of Macdonald, as thier
complete service for year," $385,000; , evidently in.tended, I will not venture
to pay troops, erect barracks, etc, I to discuss. Happily the onslaughts
*250,000; improvements Yukon andlof the wild, angry dervishes did not
Lewis Rivers, 25,000 ;_ postoffioe, ;quite synchronise, and Colonel Mac -
amount for servide 0ioa no Sum, re- donald was able to devote virtually his
Mr. Clarke Wallace raoved for papers quired to recoup the consolidated re- whole firing strength to the overthrow
in conuection with the Toronto &Geor- of the Khalifaes division ere rapidly Most of the gigantic animals of geo-
venue fund for the amount of customs
&ea Bay Ship Canal Company, which revenue, $106,976.37, and of Dominion 1 turning about first one then another logicil eras belonged to speoies which; e
proposes building either e canal or a of his battalions to deal with the She- have completely vanished, and of those
lands revenue, e93,427.48, used without
ikh Ed Din's unbroken columns. The
ship railway from Toronto up to Col-
lingwood. The latter would coat 1 enemy on both sides got very close in, which have living representatives it is
legal authorit3r by the officials charg-
ed with the administration of the Gov -
three million dollars, and would cut hundreds of them being killed almost difficult to say whether they have un -
ed witla the administration of the Gov- I
OLD TIME .ANIMALS.
•
They Have Stea.dlly Decreased in Size Mace
Prehistoric Times.
four hundxed melee off the. distance be- dise , at the feet of the men of the Khedivial dergoae a true change of size or..
ernmene of t.he Yukon provisional,
tween Montreal and Chicago. Mr. trict, in carrying on the different ser- I brigade. Dervish spears were thrown whether the modern examples are
Wallace was•of the opinion that the , into and over the staunch and unyield-
Ott " h* • 1 ldi k 1 ing Soudanese and Fellaheen soldiery. merely survivals of smaller contera-
vices under their control, viz.: North-
west Mounted Police, e144,077.10; pub- Peake''
lis works, $15,836.90; customs, el5,565s, Lawries and de Rougemont's
,- • batteries stood their ground, side by
32; Governmenan+ of th.e Yukon peoyine side, infantry, never waver-
th th
wie
ional district, $e4,924.44. "Authority is
hereby given ffirin.g point blank upon the der-
vismasses
Ir the passing of such ing'
h
entrees as may be required to bring 1
—
these amounts into the accounts STEADYAS A GLADIATOR.
of the Emanuel year ending nth , with what to some of us looked like remainsof huge sloths are found in
June, 1899, and the members of the nnevitable disaster staring him in the Cuba and North America. Sharks et -
Queen's Privy Council fox' Canada, i faze, Colonel Macdonald fought his taining a length of more than 100 feet
and the officers and persons who 1 brigade for all it was worth. He are found in comparatively recent fos-
a.uthorized or made the exp.enditure as 'quackly moved upon the best available sil depositsanother fish which re -
aforesaid, are hereby indemnified: and ground, formai up, wheeled about, and presents a larger prehistoric species is
exonerated from all liability by reason stood to die or win. He won practical- the. Amerioan bony pike, which is one
of havin,g used or authorized the use Ily unaided, for the pinch; was all but of the few survivals of the enormous
tg
to build. that by the tune it was ready
the steady increase of western traffic
would pxovid•a abundant freight for all
transportation routes. Mr. Wallace
asked. government encouragement to
the Toronto enterprise. The motion
for papers was adopted, but no state-
ment was made by the, government.
BEET ROOT SUGAR.
Dr, Sproule moved "that having tee-
gard to the large importations of sugar
into Canada for home consumption,
araountiag to 239,670,038 pounds in the
year 1898, at a cost of 44,868,956, and
that it has been demonstrated beyond
a doubt that the cultivation of the
sugar beet in the Doneinion is not only
feasible, but is being successfully
grown in many parts of the country at
present; therefore, in the opinion of
this House, in order to stimulate the
farmers of Canada to engagein the
growth of this valuable product, and
also to encourage the establishment
of beet root sugar factories, a bounty
should be offered for all beet root
sugar manufactured in the Dominion
during .the next ten years, and that
the machinery necessary for such
plant, not made in Canada be admitted
free of duty." ,
The letitister of Agriculture stated
that, twenty years ago two million dol-
lars had been thrown away in an in-
vestment of this kind. There was not a
country in tae world where the beet-
root sugar industry can to -day stand
upon its own feet.
• RAILWAY BILLS PASSED.
The Drummond County Railway Bill
passed the 'louse of Commons by 91
to 40. The third al the Grand Trunk
lease bill was also carried on the same
division. It was in 1897 that the
Drummond County bill first came up
in Parliament. The measure passed the
Commons, but the Senate theme' it
out. Last year Parliaraeot consented
Lo the Govertiraent's leasing the road
for nine months for $140,000. The pre-
sent measure provides for the purehase
of tae improved ahd lengthened line
fox' $1,600,000.
SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES.
The supplementary estimates, fax the
current fiscal yea, ending June 30,
1899 were lend on the table by Mr.
Tieey amount to 02,047,628, of
wbiell §453,919 is eapital, consolidated
Lund $1,903,515, railway subsidies, $5,-
300 and unpeovided items, 1807.98, $194,-
800.
A greater pert of these votes is for
money already. spent or obligations in -
carred. Amongst the most nottheable
votes ate iF10,090 additional for print-
ing Dominion notes, $21,342 civil gov-
ernment, most of which is for contin-
gencies (intim few inereases of salaries;
for penitentiaries,
1111,000 more is le-
quired, amonget the items being $2000
gratuity to Mrs. j. IL Metcalfe on ac-
count of her husband's retirement
from the wardenshiP of Kingston Pen-
itentiary, 8844.50 balance to Mr. Ell -
beck, secretary of Sr. Vincent ,de Paul
Penitentiary Commissioners.
Vor legislation $23,900 more/ is need-
ed, among the itenis being WOO for
reporting and printing debates of the
Simian land . $5000 for publishing de-
batem Commons 00/5 far tbe eviclOW
porary varieties. The larger animals
have a tendency to disappear first in,
a partial failure of food supply. Gig-
antic axraadilloes closely resembling
those of the present day were former-
ly abundant in South America.. The
of the above-mentioned revenues, with-
out due legal authority, and all ex-
penditure as aforesaid shall be held, to
have been lawfully made."
Fax relief of distress by hurricane in
West Indies, $(25,000 is added, and 1114,-
600, more is needed fon the Internee
donee Conference at Washington,
Land and cable telegraph linee off
over when the Camel Corp; hurrying Ganoids of the secondary strata. The
up, formed upon his right.after he had tiny nautilus of the present day had
faced about to receive the Sheikh Ed, kindred 10 or 12 feet long in early
Din's onslaught. The Lincolns, who times. ' Another small shellfish, the
arrived later on, helped to hasten the pteropod, whose delicately complex
flight of the enemy, whose repulse was structure is packer' in an inch of shell,
assured ere they or any of Wauchope's ie found in fossil remains to have
brigade were within 1200 yards of Mac- reached the respectable length of a
donald, Lewis' brigade were not even couple of feet.
able to assist so na ach, and such out-
tha sea coasts and islands, of the /wen
s
rivers and Gulf of St. Lawrence and;ide help as came in time to be of use
Maritime Provincwas in the first instance from the
working
including cost oft
guns of Major Williams' and another
working steamer Newfield and other,
battery, and the Maxims upon the left
vessels wh" en required for cable sere
vice work done, $10,400. • near Surghara hurried forward by the
Unprovided items, 1887-'98, as shown
in Auditor -General's report 11194 -4
894. ;
• WHOSIe UMBRELLA?
Sometimes an umbrella seems to
arouse suspicion, even when it is in
honest hands. Maus a London paper
tells a painful story of a young man
in a street car, who carried an um -
beetle whiclx lied been his birthday
gift.
On the seat facing him was a lady
with a peeoocious boy, evidently
about five years old. The youngster
regarded the young man with at-
tention for a few moments and then
his eyes wandered to the umbrella.
He gazed at it in silestoe for a sec-
ondthen be wriggled in his seat,
clapped his hands and shouted;
umbrella? •
0 mamma, don't, that look like papa's
Huse, hush, my child" -said the
mo then
Pape, was looking ear his timbrelle,
this evening, mamma, ootithaten the
boy.
Yes, yes, but he found it, said the
mother, hurriedly, as the conversation
was becoming of interest to the °thee
passengers.
Way, mamma., continued the young-
ster, you know he didn't. Yoa told
him that las didn't know enough, to
leeep• an umbrella. Why mama -
Ab trais stage the young man left
th.
• A CORRECT ANSWER,
Teddy, .tylati has just begun to go
to school. Papa, do yOu knoW what
six boys and five girls make?
Yes, answered his father, a racket.
A DELICATE' COMPLIMENT.
Mrs. Watchmaker -Mr, Wise, I take
it f.rom yotax interest in my da tighter
Pear' that you're a gem, 5000015-
M
Mr, Wise --It's clue, madame, to ray
great admiration far mother of Pearl,
• "CHINESE- ALMANAC.
Infallible Journal Enjoys the Largest
Clrealation Jma the World.
The Chinese Almariac is the most
Birder himself, as I saw. General
Hunter came over to the headquarters- largely circulatedpublication in the
staff galloping toget assistanceriand world,the number of copies printed,
rode back with Wauchope's bgade_
which doubled fax a considerable dis-
and sold yearly reaching several
mfl-
tminoe so serious was the situation and lions. IL is printed. at Peking, and is
nervoas the tension of that thrilling a monopoly of the Etnperer, no oth-
ten minutes. Had the brilliant, the er •almanac being permitted to be sold
splendid. deed of arras wrought by in that country. Although containing
Macdonald been done under the eyes of reliable astronomical information, its
a sovereign or in some other arnnes,
chief mission is to give full and accur-
he had surely been created a genera'
ate infomation for selecting lucky
on the spot If the public are in search
of the real hero of the battle of Oxidu-
plaa
oes fax performing all the acts gre t
Mail, there he is, ready made -one wlo
and small, oL evexyday life. And aa
every act of life in Clhina, however tri-
oammitted no blunder to be redeemed
vial, depends for its success on • the
Ir-
by courageous conduct aftervvards. He
Lime in which, and the direction, point
boldly exereised his right of personal
judgment in a moment of extreme of compass, toward whieh, it is done,
peril and the result amply justified
it is of tae utmost importance that ev-
the soundhess of his decision.
S2001) HIS GROUND.
Can you hollowgrind this razor ? ask-
ery one saould have correct inform),
time at all timee available to enable
ban so to order his life as to . avoid'
bad luck and oalamity, and eecure
good beck and prosperity, So great
ect a oust inter wh.o hrtd stepped into ie, the native faith, iri ite weenie
razor-erinding establishment, pre- batty that not long since the Chita
sided over lay it hard-headed raan with ese Minister to Gerenouy refused to sail
bristling heir and an aggressive look on a day evbeeh had been appointed be -
ore his face.
You want me to hollowground it,
suppase he said.
No, sir, rejoined the other. I want
you to hollowgried it.
if ties ground hollow, ain't it bellow.
ground, sh.
Ii you grind It hollow don't you hole
lowgrind it, sir
Do you think you can come it here
and teaab me anything about ma busi-
nees ? I've been b.ollravgrotinding
on ior twenty-five years -
ND, YOU haven't. 'relieve been hol-
lowgx.buling them.
Dor you reekon 1 don't know what I
do for a livingl
I don't care whether you do or not.
Will yoa hollowgrind this razor?
No, sir, I won't I Pll hollowground
it or I won't touch it.
The enstoM.er refleotel a mometit.
See here, my friend, he said, Can I
have it ground hollow here 1
Coy. blab%
And they eompromised on that boss,
Gaon feeling that he was a. little ahead,
cause it was declared in the aleaanae
to he unitieky.
HOW SULLIVAN- wrams HIS
IVITYSIC,
Sir &Abut Sullivan writes most of
his music al his country house dur-
ing the summer ; he does eomparative-
little of it in Londonlie works at
night. Many of his friends, while ad -
mitring that comic pays best, are sor-
ry that he devotes se much of his ltil4
eat to it; he could do much •better
work, •
THE PRINCE'S PARROT. ,
The Prime of Waleis very fond.
of animals, and has a Zolhultion of pets
at Sandringham. Ile bought a Intle
green patrol, ohe day aa he was cross-
ing Trehigar square. with an (quer-
ry ; it used to bang in the halt al
Sandringham and talk splendidly, eel-
uting visitors with a request for three
sheers for the Queen,