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Acere â€" .Q 1s m ie Fiowâ€" RL OF ‘*Mother !" cries little Rollo again, breaking into ber reverie. " My child." "Is Mr. Dare anything like what my father was ?" "Noâ€"no a thousand times no!" "How is he different ?" he continues enur‘susly. . That wWomAn sra not slwavs aliles ha This is what she tells herself, but she is hardly deceived by what she says. It is easier to deceive others than to ? eire one‘s self. Besides she has sen ‘in oftener of late, and the conviction has grown upon her that be bhais not always been what he is now. Some tims in his life it has beem his to command and not to obey. If so, how his presâ€" ent life must gall him. In some houseâ€" hoids he would not feel it so muchâ€" happy households whom misery had not made bitter, and who would have treatâ€" ed him as one of themselves. But she â€"hating all men as she does, and deâ€" apising them so thoroughlyâ€"how can she be more than merely civil, coldly kind ? " It all comes from having been shut uyp here so long that the most trivial incident assumes gigantic proportions. it is not interest in the man, but a woman‘s natural curiosity which has been too much repressed." officer or common soldier be fought. He looks old enough to have been there, and yet his voice is so young, Altogethâ€" er,. it is a mystery, ard one that abâ€" sorbs her more than is at all satisfacâ€" tory. Her pride rebels agsinst the inâ€" terest she takes, but strong as that pride is it cannot banish the everâ€"reâ€" curring thoughts. Sstill conjecture cannot but be rife, and often she finds herself wonderâ€" ing whether he was in the Crimea, perâ€" haps even at Balaklava itsel?t at her father‘s side, and whether it was as At first she resolves to question bim herself upon the subject, and then naâ€" tural delicacy makes ber bhesitate. Perâ€" haps he does not wish his antecedents to be known, and surely she should be tha last to wish to peer into the past of any one when her own has been so dark and gloomy ! days later, "don‘t you think Mr. Dare talks like a soldier t" Lady Leigh starts. "How can you tell, child ? You have never even seen a soldier." "No, but you have told me about grandpa, and read to me about them in books. And mother, he is so brave, And has such wonderful stories of the warâ€"that dreadfu!l mutiny in India, you know." * Was he there, then ?" ‘I don‘t knowâ€"perhaps he wasâ€"he has been everywhere, Ishould think," replies Rollo proudly. Ho bas very exalted ideas about tha powers of his tutor and would not be aurprised at any proof of his prowess. Then Lady Leigh remembers the deep scar on his cheek, aad wonders if it could possibly be a saber cut. A solâ€" dier‘s daughter berselfâ€"her (ather died a hero‘s death at Balaklavaâ€"she still has a deep veneration for all sons of rars. even the meanest of them, sand )‘ this man she feels sure that whatâ€" ever he has done in the world has been done thoroughly. ' At first she resoives to question bim . herself upon the subject, and then naâ€" | the 3t ri at the th«e un keep t] not be of at PA She ified v not lo 1 Nce fails amd be 3 of her lt l)nly M I ~â€"a love at fi: events have â€" to her that al beginning of loves her no 1 scathed by su is that tried 1# (ha onl y t the t Â¥io 1f i1" pushes back the long hair from his neck with a balf laugh, in which as at once she recognizes the absurdity of ber suspicions, she joins merrily. "I am very glad it is not go. The fhonor of being educated by a royal highness would be too much even for my little Lord Leigh. "And you do not regret laking me without tastimmmintla mesk exiar ul t 0 @83 7 "" was amused by them but seem strange thatâ€" should be taken for a guise," He pushes back the 1e his neck with a balf lai as at once she recognizes of her susnicinms ~ aha ne cannot help feeling a little gratâ€" ad vanity at the thought that she has t lost all power to charm. Of course is only an elderly tutor, unwort hy her in every way ; but stillâ€"but II, if it were not for those hideous isses, he would not be so very illâ€" king, and even with them his appearâ€" ce is distinguished and much above Bhe lopoks at him searchingly, but only meets the blank glare of the darkâ€" blue spectacle and a quaint, quizzical amile on the thin lips. At the idea that he is daring to Joke, her delicate eyebrows come togethâ€" @r in a darkling frown, and secing she is angry, he hastens to apologize. " Forgive me if 1 read your thoughts Kitd WAS BMDSCOA Wo thaen" Te acetlarccl women are not always alike he __rour ladysbip‘s humble Lord Leigh‘s tutor." with a scarc she tries to question . Moth N a l w osition. there really be a Cupid, god of surely he must laugh in his sleeve e turn things are taking. If only ingainly form of the tutor is to these two from love, his task will e too difficult a one. Women do lways insist upon beauty in their s+â€"witness Titania‘s passion for eaverâ€"and propinquity is a man‘s rest point m€ *Who are old _A long time he remains motionâ€" thinking of their meeting and of onfidence she has placed in him. nly he might tell ber of his love ve at first sight that subsequent s have strengthenedâ€"and prove c that all is not over because the ning of her life was so sad! He ber no less because she has been d by suffering ; the purest gold t tried by fire, and sorrow has helped to make her what she is: ) see the « mused th it testimoniais and ‘Jni?."i.‘q’p; experience ?" ; Ishall never regret that," sl CHAPTER 1v CHAPTER V & HOW SHE won. . says little Rollo, a few don‘t you think Mr. Dare are you?" she asks quickly, arcely;dol_in_od suspicion which the conquest she has made, «d that her admirer should ugly. . help feeling a little gratâ€" it the thought that sha has used by them. It could not trange thatâ€"I of all menâ€" taken for a prince in disâ€" hall wondering at the the responseâ€"a â€" gravity half wondering dispel by . him searchingly, but blank glare of the darkâ€" and a quaint, quizzical than is necessary for rises slowly from her i little nod of fareâ€" there. â€"Continued a pointâ€"blank servant â€"| She is seated in the centre of the -lrmm. her back to the door, and ber | head half turned, with an arch smile ; |a mirror is in her hand, and she does | not know the tutor is there until she |sees his features reflected in it. He has w ,boen propelled along so rapidly by his overâ€"excited pupil that his spectacles | have fallen forward, and for the first: \time Lady Leigh gazes straight into | his eyes without a mask of glass before | them. As Rollo had said earlier in the ,evoning, they were undoubtedly beauâ€" |tiful eyes, but it is not that she noâ€" ' tices now ; it is their expression, so full ,ot passionate admirationâ€"or is it love ? _ She starts to ber feet and confronts him, but even as he met her glance he iNow she is getting tired ; she has been playing a very oneâ€"sided pussâ€"inâ€" theâ€"corner, bunt the slipper and blind {man‘s buff, and bas bad some difficulty \in keepiog up with the agility of ber [son. As a rest, she had proposed a quieter game. |__The tutor starts. He would most cerâ€" tainly have refused had a moment been |allowed him for thought, but Rollo, in |his eagerness, has hurried him away again, and before he\ hardly knows where he isâ€"in such a whismt is his ‘mindâ€"the boy has pushed him into | Lady Leigh‘s presence. |_ _ The room is turned upside down. Rolâ€" |lo has lately received a book from Lonâ€" don full of all sorts of games and, as be has no other plavyfellow, his mather often joins in the games with him, and toâ€"night has almost been cartried into| enthusiasm berself by her boy‘s eviâ€"} dent delight. | pre | _ _"I think PH put an antiâ€"macassar , over my head, and then she won‘t know | who it is." | _ "If she can‘t see your face she cerâ€" 'tainlp won‘t have you." j " Ah! but," says the hoy, with a selfâ€" ‘confi'lent. smile, " the next time I shall lgo in as my very own seif, and then T know she‘ll have me t" & Hs has dragged the tutor with him into another room, and is looking evâ€" erywhere for means of disguise when sudden!y an idea strikes him. "* Mr. Dare, you go in this time, and MH go in afterward." Nnow 1@ _ vever mind mother," says the boy, magnanimous!lyâ€""never mind ; I didâ€" n‘t cry, you know, and now let‘s have & game together." And so mother and son are soon enâ€" gaged in a romp which has the effect of totally banishing the serious conâ€" versation they have had from the boy‘s head, and from his mother‘s, too, for a time. f Colonel Dare is on his way to the libâ€" rary when the sound of soft laughter and Roilo‘s shrIlY arv Af AulloWk nurtescqs |_ Sslowly, as if much against her will, and yet obliged to comply with his reâ€" anest, Lady Leigh leaves the room, and after ten minutes‘ absence, returns with & case in her hand. The boy almost snatches it away from her, so eager is he to gaze upon his faâ€" ther‘s portrait, but when he has openâ€" ed the case and looked for a moment be returns it with a gesture of disâ€" ‘appointment, offering no remark, ||,"* Well, Rollo, what do you think of \him?" asks his mother, timidly. "I think he looks cross. I think I would rather have Mr. Dare." ; |_"Hush!" says Lady Leigh. ! |_S8o stern is the rebuke conveyed in that single monosyllable that the boy stops abashed, and his eyes fill with tears. Before they have time to fall, . his mother catches him in her arms and kisses him passionately, half sobâ€" bing the while. | " Rollo, Rollo, my darling, I did not . mean to be unkind." A stranger might have smiled at her selfâ€"abasement, and at the gracious pardon accorded by the young autoâ€" crat, who is already beginning to know his power, but she herself sees nothing ridiculous in it. Is he not ber allâ€"â€" her king in whom all her hopes are centered, the only interest and love of her lonely life ? " Was he good?" is the boy‘s next question, with irrepressible curiosity. The subject is so seidom broached, and he has had so few opportunities of learning anything of his father, or his tastes and favorite pursuits. "Hush, my darling! He is dead," she answers gravely, and her face grows paler as she speaks. â€" *Tiut, mokkeL latft mo un n‘s »mial ture." a]1, 7. _ _"" "tte that it can be naturâ€" ally supposed he might fancy they would be all cast in the same mold. The mother is silent for a moment. How can she tell her son the fault of her busbandâ€"his father ¢ " Your father was a very handsome man," she says, then, and with almost an accent of disgust. | "And so is Mr. Dare. Hs looks ever | so handsome, sometimes, when his | ‘.3.'“!“05 Sinlfl OPF amik sirent. Iabs on ehoie Wt n m o " Mr. Dare is not o Lady Leigh laughs tor been there he woi at the boy‘s clear sig Children often see wiser elders, and o only one to discover t the long, ironâ€"gray sition to the s@ll you be has seen him with altd on thiai® Loxlcs .1 Fuise ; knows, for between Tabitha i t and his :zllpt:er. for instance, there is not the ba'g test resemblance ; but of men he oi seen so little that it can be naturâ€" y ylsu'mmsad he might fancy they ould be all cast in the sams mold The mothar in us1 . _ sâ€" _ OAE TRORG lo.n She ay | 06. _ ACRT4Y halr in juxtsapoâ€" on to the sigll young face. But then has seen him without his spectacles ! on thein Colonel Dare has dependâ€" chiefly for the success of his disâ€" accent of disgust. And so is Mr. Dare. He looks ever handsome, sometimes, when â€" his ses fall off and you can see his eyes. has beautiiu! eyes mother." he smiles at his enthusiasm, Your father was a young man, Rolâ€" one to discover the incor long, ironâ€"gray hair in is not old, only his bair." ) laughs, but had the tuâ€" e he would have trembled clear sightedness. r, let me see his picâ€" see more than their Rollo has been the you going in incongruity of ’ â€" 1 mean that it was neither a very brilliant nor a very creditable thing to make a lady the subject of a bet, [nor to enter her house under such false pretenses." * Nonsense, man : you are looking at it too gloomily by far. She‘ll be the first ta forgive you when it comes outâ€"woâ€" men always forgive faults committed for their sake," he answers, shrewdly. ** She will hardly forgive me for makâ€" ing her a jestâ€"a byâ€"word in the county; and that is what it will be when this story becomes known." *"*Why should it be kmown t‘ _ " Because it‘s such a capital joke. Ha, ha, ha ! How does the man hater take to the ‘elderly gentleman with quiet habits * "Hush, Graver! I tell you Iam asâ€" hamed of the part L have played. Let the subject drop." *‘ Ashamed! Why it‘s the best joke I ever heard in my life !" "Then you must have been singularâ€" ly unfortunate in your experience," curtly. ** What do you mean ?" ‘ ment. _ And in good truth he has forgotten ilt of himselfâ€"forgotten the part he has to | Play, and the respect due to the lady some |from whom be receives his income of most | £120 a year. It is with almost abject penitence that be turns and makes his ever way from her presence. his} Lady Leigh is more vexed with herâ€" eyes. self thin with him because she canâ€" | not feel really angry at what she would | like to term his "impertinent preâ€" Rol. sumption." She, of course, has not heen deceived by the indignation she air." Shas assumed to hide a novel sense of _ tuâ€" . confusion. __""The boy bhas a holiday toâ€"day," exâ€" | plains Colonel Dare, stiffly. | *" And all other days as well, Isupâ€" , pose. What lessons do you give when | you do teach him, Dareâ€"extracts from | the Army and Navy or the Army List | itself undiluted?" goes on Mr. Meade, | banteringly, having the general and , not altogether unfounded idea that solâ€" , diers can only talk on the one subject. | * What is the good of all this fooling, | Graver? It can‘t be much amusement ; to you, and it only imperils my situâ€" ation here. Why did you come ?" ‘ "I only wanted to see how Colonel Dare acted schoolmaster. By Jove!l it seems to suit you weil, and apparently you are not much troubled with your meesuld a+® pupil He starts from his seat and walks up and down the room in uncontrollable agitation, when suddenly, at the low French window, he sees something that arrests his steps and makes him involâ€" untarily look around to see if any one else is near. It is the Heathen Chinee, his face pressed agnainst the glass the better to peer in and with such a grin of amusement on his face that Colone! Dare shudders and wonders to what all this will lead. Far better + at he should have confessed all himself thin be discovered like a common imposter. l "Come in ; what do you want ?" he | says, gruffly, throwing the window opâ€"| en and almost dragging the young danâ€" I dy in out of sight. ‘ But the Heathen Chinee only grins | the more, and lifting his glass, ad justs | it to his eye. f Does he intend to remain here so long as his services are required in the false character he has assumed, or shall ha avow himself and trust to her generâ€" osity to forgive?!‘ Nay, shall he avow moreâ€"shall he tell her of the love that has grown ap in his heart extinguishâ€" ing all else, and would he have a chance of success ? All day long he keeps running backâ€" ward and forward between the kitchen and the summerâ€"house, " on hospitable thoughts intent." Lessons are suspendâ€" ed, and the tutor spends an idle mornâ€" ing in the library, reading the papers and speculating upon the changes that will have taken place before he goes out agaim into the world. punctuality "Come at five o‘clock exactly," says Rollo peremptorily, having no idea of being kept too long on the tipâ€"toe of expectation, besides not liking to run the risk of the tea getting cold and the cake spoiling by a too close adherence to the rules of society. Boylike, he has no sympathy with fashionable unâ€" the guests. and Tabitha shall help him to plan the feast. Theyâ€"the guestsâ€" are to know nothing about it until they come and fisd the dainties prepared. noon: his Lady Leigh explains and her son takes up the idea in huge delight. He will have a tea party that very afterâ€" " You will have _ to warming," laughs Lad: " What‘s that ?" _ Soon, by mutual and tacit consent, the subject is forgotten or at least _ignored, and they become very good friendsâ€"better than Lady Leigh could have believed she would ever be with any man again. For some weeks past workmen have been busy constructing a small Swiss summerâ€"house in the grounds, the young lord‘s latest freak, and now at last it is completed, and all three have gone out to see the finishing touches put to it. Rollo is in ecstacies. "It is all my very own, you know, and no one can coms in unless I ask them," he observes, with quiet satisâ€" faction, the first taste of proprietorship proving very sweet. 1 Lady Leigh has wisely decided to igâ€" nore the tutor‘s offenseâ€"in fact, she scarcely knows bow to allude to it without loss of dignity, seeing that he was more guilty in expression, than actual deed. She cannot bring her pride to confess what it was she saw for a moment glowing in his eyesâ€"he & mere schoolmaster, she the widow of & peer, herself of noble blood, and so averse to all his sexâ€"even those memâ€" bers of it who would be fit to mate with her, were she inclined to marry. When next they meet, he averts his eyes, half expecting a reproof, or at least, some token of displeasure, but she only says a few commonplace words and passes on leaving him still confusâ€" ed and silent. Women ar» always so n‘x‘uch more selfâ€"possessed in such cases brepmnintratii/astirt than mén & moment had pushed the spectacles | back to their place. ,. iLittle Lord Leigh claps his hands in childish delight. ' ‘‘She has chosen you, Mr. Dare !â€"she has chosen you !" he exclaims. But Colonel Dare only bows low beâ€" fore the woman who is tooking as inâ€" d‘?,'%“ft as an outraged queen. \ I knew how 1 "AOiipiniiutcetiih tade dnnt. 2A it becintntss "I beg your pardon," he says humbâ€" Iy. ‘"I had no right to intrude. Iâ€"I forgot myself." mother and tutor are to be with him because she canâ€" eally angry at what she would term his "impertinent preâ€" " _ She, of course, has not ived by the indignation she red to hide a novel sense of CHAPTER VI careless he had been, and in to give a house Lady Leigh. They are telling a story in London about the death of a gentleman of the "ould dart" from too copious use of its creature comforts. It was left for his bereaved wife to discover the true philosophy of the event. Sure, sor, said whe, it wasn‘t the whiskey that killed Moike, but the alcahol they do be patâ€" tim in it nowadays. . A _ Twentyâ€"five years ago it was the 'hshion to have your photograph takeg ;with the young man you were engaged gto, and that was placed on your dress |ing table. Now there is a new fad. You |must not. of course be photographed "with your fianceâ€"that is not considered tgood form. Nor must you even bhave !your picture in the same frame with l'hin. The new fad is to have a frame hoiding four cabinetâ€"sized photoâ€" graphs, and in this you must put four 1 pictures of your fiance in four different positionsâ€"une full face, one side face, one three quarters face and one proâ€" file. It is rather an interesting idea, as it is astonishing how changed a perâ€" son‘s expression is with the face in different positiopns. This is one of the I latest fads f9* Engaged men as well ' as girls, | _ But, alas! he didn‘t get it. His ‘hea‘th seemed fairly robust, and there were one or two poor, degensrats wretches on the jury who held that one pound of steak was quite enough for | one meal, and that the man who could |get so much was fortunate in these bard times. _ Hence the plaintiff was | nonâ€"suited . His head on collision with the brick, bowever, had so affected his appetite that he was now able to sat, enjoy and digest only one pound at a time. HUence his desire for consolatory luâ€" cre. in support of his claim the man statâ€" ed that he was able before the acciâ€" dent to eat two paunds of beefstealg for breakfast. It was a bricklayer who brought the action in the Clerkenwell County Court. A brick had fallen upon his head, and be sued for damages to the tune of $1,560. There is evidence, however, in the deâ€" cision in e recent London damage suit that Britons are in this respect degenâ€" erating. What an Eoglish Jury Thinks Is Enough for One Meal. "The Roast Beef of Ol4 England" is as famous as the appetite for it, which Old England‘s sons exhitit. "The last time I was on duty, sir, I was told to challenge in a more musâ€" ical voics, and that‘s the only tuna 1 know sir," replied the sentry. An orderly officer, on going his rounds, was astonished to find the senâ€" try singing at him in this fashion j ‘‘Hi tiddle de hi ti! Who goes there t "‘ What do you mean, sir, by chalâ€" lenging in that fashion ?" asked the ofâ€" ficer. _ On another occasion the countersign was " Nordenfeldt," the name of a cerâ€" tain kind of gun. A soldier, on apâ€" proaching the picket, had a bazy reâ€" collection that some sort of a gun had been mentioned as the countersign, and in answer to the challenge, gave * Maxâ€" lm." " That‘s not it," replied the sentry. "Oh, well, the other kind of gun," bazarded the man. * Well, that‘s near enough ; pass in!" said the sentry. "Can‘t be helped. You know the orâ€" ders, and unless you give the counterâ€" sign there you are, and there you, will remain!" retorted the sentry, And bhe did remain there until the visiting ofâ€" ficer admitted him in the small hours of the morning. "Hang it all! You know me well enâ€" ough! What‘s the use of playing the fool at this time of night {t" pleaded the soldier. A trooper had gone down to a waâ€" terâ€"holis after the sentries were postâ€" ed. On returning he was challenged but not knowing the countersign, the senLry refused to let him pass. The countersign for the night was always read out at dress parada each afternoon. If a man was absent from parade, and neglected to inquire, he might find himself in an awkward preâ€" dicament. The author of " With Plumâ€" er in Matabeleland" mentions several cases in point. " Why, sir, don‘t you hait and chalâ€" lenge ?" t _ It was the duty of a sentry, when any one approached to cry out, "Halt! Who goes there ?" and on receiving the reply, " A friend," to say, " Advance, friend, and give the countersign|" But the sentinels, not being disciplined solâ€" diers, frequently mistook the orderly officer, who visited each post during the night, for the other sentry from the next post, and instead of using the prescribed formuia would greet him familiarly with : "Huilo, Smith! Is that you ?" Then, in place of the friendly reply, " Yes, how‘s things ?" would come the rejoinder : neme UCurious Incidents of the War in South Africa. During th]Matabeleland War of 1896 the relief force marching in search of the natives, halted when the place seâ€" lected for the night‘s camp was reachâ€" ed. The wagons were drawn up in laagâ€" er formationâ€"diamond shape or ob longâ€"rations were served, supper cookâ€" ‘ ed and guards posted. Grav}sâ€"r_-ll.;;:iewla;";u band on the gol?_nelfs shoulder and looks steadâ€" "It is already known, I suppose you would not be here." fastly in E;s ayes WHAT HURT MKE ANOTHER NEW FAD HOW MUCH BEEF. THE COUNTERSIGN. (To be Continued.) _ There was something touching and ’ fine about it, and it was moving to reâ€" flect that he was one of a myriad, seatâ€" tered over every part of the globe, who by turn was doing as be was doâ€" ing every bhour of the twentyâ€"four,â€" those awake doing it while the others slept,â€"those impressive bars forever floating up out o} _fkg;,',?_-,hiouc chimes, never silent and /y _ * iacking revepâ€" ent listeners. | Mark Twain‘s Experience Abourd a Rritish , f,(“’“,'““,r Sulp; â€" ; 4 hootenay, East ...... ; ; o _ West Kootenayâ€" ‘ While steaming in the Arundel Casâ€" | Aingworth ... ... ...... | tle through the Mozambique Channe1, I §‘«‘.~.un | which separates Madagascar â€" from Tr’:vfn(rwk C daagt" wile JS«)uth Africa, Mark Twain saw an unâ€" Nther PATLS ... ... ... ‘conscious exhibition of English reverâ€" | 5 e old eÂ¥8â€" ‘ence for the national anthem. He desâ€" | ""‘f"_ West l\"‘"â€"‘; cribes the scene in "Following the S in + ninspog Equator," as follows: | _ i Iillooet ... . ... .48 Last night the burly chief engineer, Ya‘eâ€" middleâ€"aged, was standing telling a Osoru0% ..; .. ... ... spirited seaâ€"faring tale, and had reachâ€"‘ ‘;‘"}"k‘““"“" ed the most exciting place, where a~ ***~ > ie man overboard was washing swiftly Total Yale ... ...§ astern on the great seas and upliftâ€"| Other districts ... ... ing despairing cries, everybody racing | C x aft in a frenzy of excitement and fadâ€"> 9l-§::‘d("al_$i::r‘.ai;.8 ing boPe. when the band, which bhad 000 in 1896, from 0‘, been silent a moment, began impresâ€" ; reported . sively its closing piece, and English While the results : national anthem. t al, th‘f"‘""m"&m‘ As simply as if unconscious of what "'fl)".“ l;,‘i,’" C wid he was doing, he stoppei his story, | in t".' a't)l wl uncovered, laid his laced cap against â€" p:'r %n A m,”‘ ': {;fi his breast, and slightly bent his grizzâ€" , ‘t.a"tl' (Im.' hy se 1y head. The few bars finished, bhe put | is aHOUNE â€"or min an on his cap and took up his tale agsin . d';t '“"":md.‘; .‘“t" n as naturally as if that interjection of . Th T The am fant cof music bad been a part of ift. ; Lhat the amount o Will you always love me t Will you always be lovable f & aJ aan o ooo o l L e D NOCE & trivial, throws the shaft ing out of line with the engine and prevents smoot h running of the journa‘s. She was overâ€" hauled upon ber arrival at Hongâ€"Kong and made a brief trial, developing twentyâ€"one knots, but it is nevertheâ€" less asserted that the ship must return to England to have defects made good. 2 n tetey REURTC® ty tons. Lord Beresford has a direct and practical way about him which eviâ€" dently troubies the admiraity . In parliament on March 11 Lord Beresford asked the first lord of the admiralty whether he would settle all doubts as to the performance of Bellev®!» boilâ€" ers by ordering the cruiser Diadem to steam @cross the Atlantic under full power, to which proposition Mr. Goshâ€" en deciined to order the experiment on the piea that it was inadvisable to. rud & ship at full speed for such an . extended voyage before the engine ; shaft had become fu‘ly acoustomed Lo" the machinery. Four torpedo hoat dest royers are buih!ing for Japan ast the yard of Thorneycroft, the first to be de‘livâ€" ered next June and the others at inâ€" tervals later on. The bouts ire to have a speed of thirtyâ€"ona knots, with 6,000 horse power and a displacement of 360 toms. _ The conning towers will be armored and the con! cupacity nineâ€" ki v gaals The Japanese navy in commission numbers six armored ships, fourteen cruisers and coast defence ships, eight gun vessels and torpedo cruisers and fourteen torpedo boats. This fleet of fortyâ€"two vessels constitutes fourfifths of the available navai force, and inâ€" cludes nearly all ships built and acâ€" quired since 1882, A signa‘man on the Brit Taurango, on the Australia has been courtâ€"martialed f0 an officer and sentenced years‘ penal servitude and from the service. men There are two cruisors and 1 torpedo gunboat under construction at Yokâ€" osuka, and a battlie ship and a firstâ€" Class cruiser are soon to be laid down at the same yard. The German squadron on the China station will next summer be ('umpns-} ed of the Kaisor and Deutschland, and three second, two third and one l‘our!h‘ class cruiser, cartying a total of 8.184 ns a on Lumber, Shingles and Lath always In Stock. DP 0 grres» 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€" ent Kinds of Dressed Lumber for outside sheeting. Our Btook of DRY LUMRE is very Large so that all orders can be filled. bash and Door Factory. A REVERENT LISTENER TWO QUEsSTIONS. NEWS OF THE NAvIES. TORONTO the British cruiser Australian station led for striking nced to three dismissed N. G. &J. McKECHNIE ‘ A MINXD NMSFREASED, |_ _ My wife gave me a terrible shock iast | night. | What was it ? 1 1 offered ber money for an Faster bonnet and she said she lelissed she twou‘d spend it on a new saddle i r her { wheel. While the results are not phenomenâ€" ‘al, the increase of the output of lods ! mines from $100,000 in 1892 10 $7.050,â€" | 000 in 1897, and with an increase of 65 per cent. in the past year, commuands attention. That 1898 will see a subâ€" ! stantial increase is now assured from the amount of ore now in sight in the | different districts, and from the fact , that the amount of castoms returns | for shipments of ore for January, 12%8, ; were $1,1098,458, as compared with $675,â€" 506 in 1001 (.coe anipment" 40m Wosk Kootenay on‘y). The report notes a‘so the increased increase of cavita‘ in the Province .. Grand Tota! .........84,816,955 $7,567,551 *For Cassiar the production of %25,â€" 000 in 1896, from Omineca was jately reported . Iiilooet ... Ya‘eâ€" Osoyuos ... . Similkameen T se ... .0. ... Total for Cariboo. 8 384,050 "C M UNLAE .1s 5+s obue c +ss 21 000 Kootenay, East ... â€" 154,427 Barkerville ... ... Quesnelle Mouth Lightning (Creek Keithlesy _ Creek Go‘ld, placer ... ... .. CGold, lode ..; .. ..... COBBEK 352 is 237 Serree SHNICL .:. ; 144 véssers IJ"&'.... m nenn aash C068 w Coal, tons 2,210 Jhs NCOE ESE: Whiie® reieve labs 6 Otbher materials .. 1SY 7: ... ss1iâ€". ssxeee. fsssts .0 50/ M6H,/208 Compared with 1896â€" 1 ®90O 1891 1892 1893. 1894, 1895, 1890, liferous mines, the coat output not imâ€" creasing :â€" The rapid increase during the pmst seven years is in itself a succinet hisâ€" tory of the growth of Provincia! mines. In 1892 the influence of lode mines first began to be felt, since which the inâ€" crease has been wholly due to metaiâ€" Ca ribo« ie o‘d, piacer.., Gold, lode ... SHNIEK :s3 2i03â€"mees BRG:;â€" sc basis COUPEE}:) : si5++s +. Coal and coke Building stone Other meta‘s.., Production by districts quence is that the tables he gives are very nearly exact and the report is the best and most complete ever got out by the Province. The first table shows that up to 1898 British Columâ€" bia has produced in minerais no less than $112,413,485; golid and coal being than $112,413,485; zold and « the two principal features table shows :â€" W. A. Carly1 adian Gold J a Tew weeks gist. He was FROM BRITISHK COLUMB! STATEMENT OF THE OUTPUT OF HER MINES FOR 1897. #&T, n( ...8$ _ 82,900 is 51,100 is 53.000 â€"» / > 1997 0630 .8 _ 33,665 8 â€"206,078 15,000 £14,.002.735 Py 315,0626 525,029 1,854,011 1,213,360 14 209 131, 220 Amount,. Inc. p.c. $ 2,608,803 _ 8,521,108 806 2,078,530 _ 8,588,418 21 4,225,717 18 5,648,042 .88 1,507.956 B4 6o,10® 1896 14,026 244,180 190 926 100,689 721,884 6=R.606 3075 1 "96 15,000 $ â€"39,810 $6,765,708 % 226.1762 #112,113,485 3,280,086 2. 007. 280 1,390,517 2,0648,002 89. 155 112 hey 440,545 789.215 825,000 37. u60 25, 100 in ‘t] 29,317,17% 1,300 689 7,301,080 2971,610 521,000 ,026,580 1,850,000 25,000 1897 €5,000 35,000 25,000 151,dim 513.520 w Yearly 122 66 285 M the |4 B |