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Now that the election is won and there is no further need for
extreme and unjustifiable criticism of the Liberal leaders, the Con-
servative press is paying in some instances generous tributes to the
defeated. The Ottawa Journal (Conservative), which led a very bitter
campaign against the Government, now makes amends to Sir Wilfrid
Laurier by saying editorially:

“No political leader ever went down to defeat more gallantly
than Sir Wilfird Laurier did this month. At the age of seventy he
made a campaign which for vigor, eloquence and courage was a marvel.
That sometimes his good temper failed him, as it had never before
done, was no wonder, in view of the peculiarly harassing nature of the
contest to him. Subjected on the one hand to attack because of being
insufficiently British in sympathy, he was assailed on the other by
the charge that he was aiming to butcher French-Canadian youth
in British wars; and both extremes joined to denounce him as aiming
to risk Canadian autonomy by the reciprocity proposition. Human
nature would need to be angelic to be free from restiveness under
such mixed prodding as all that.

“Mistaken in his indifference to the British sentiment of Canada,
incompetent in big business questions such as the Grand Trunk Pacific
and the Quebec bridge, and deaf to criticisms of the management
of Government departments, Sir Wilfrid Laurier nevertheless rdnked
and still ranks as a great Canadian and a great mar. His grasp of
constitutional principles, his breadth of mind, his eloquence, courage
and kindliness, his personal honor and integrity, his political shrewdness
and picturesqueness have justly made him a notable figure on the
world's stage.”’

In regard to the defeated Ministers The Journal says: ‘‘A good
thing for Canada it would be if the eight Liberal Cabinet Ministers
who fell in Thursday’s battle could be in this Parliament in place
of lesser men of their party.
Parliamentary experience of Mr. Fielding, Mr. Graham and Mr.
Fisher were very valuable assets to Canadian public life.

interest in military affairs. Messrs.

Executive regime on the hill.

“The absence of Mr. Fielding and Mr. Graham must be particularly
deplored. Both were ef the finest type of Canadian public men. We
doubt if Mr. Graham was much in sympathy with the reciprocity
idea. He said comparatively little about it. That his heart is in
the right place was illustrated by his splendid saying at the banquet
of the Ottawa Board of Trade this year: ‘The Empire is my country;
Canada is my home.’ Mr. Graham in office showed himself unspoiled
by power; he retained the confidence of the country in his honesty,
fairness and ability, and he increased its liking for himself personally
by his good temper and kindly humor.

“Mr. Fielding, similarly, leaves office with the absolute confidence
in his integrity and personal clean ideals of the people of Canada.
His political acumen was great; his first real mistake in fifteen years
was the reciprocity proposition. To that we fancy he was predisposed
by his long training in free trade ideas. We do not believe that prior
to the opening of the debate in Parliament he ever dreamed that
the reciprocity proposition could be supposed likely to seriously affect
this country’s political destiny. Mr. Fielding is a loyal Canadian.”

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Sir Frederick
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not get votes because they were not able to fight, adds ore more ene Al
difficulty to the lot of the modern newspaper slave. By Clive Phillips Woliey FULT eae:
ag ae aoe rei (AUTHOR OF GOLD, GOLD IN CARIBOO, BTC.) ial : :
Oddly enough, a Canadian bishop some time ago preached a sommes ~ Orne ollsabh abt seaside s ines bie Sin Fresh Fish,
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. shin ie ay aire “Now get back, and don't pull up The women knew, though they ask- wodciics  C OUnEy,
to vote becs use they could not be called upon to go to wer. _ | the barricade til I come.” ed no questions, Their eyes counted Vegetables, Butter and
For a bishop to put legalised murder as the test of citizenship] As the others obeyed Jim went on |the men as they gathered for their Eggs ;
ras . is reverence also ; sared to forget that] his knees and laid a fire with more morning meal; ~ but if they guessed
Aa be odd enough. But his reverence also Sppeared | torget rapidity than he had ever laid one in | they said nothing.
he himself was nurabered among those who could not be called upon! pis lite. | Indeed, scarcely a word passed be- PHON}
pa ‘ , i ‘lass w : ‘+ 3 ye ruck re » il the men gathered
J ar, and that the soldier clas: sc ss s to go to Another man might have struck |tween them unt gath
to go to war, and 1 cl ss whose busine pheah dis > match after match and trusted to|in the long room after the meal, and | ———__}
war, are among those who are deprived of the franchise. chance, but even then Jim was meth-/even then for a while no one spoke. |
This recalls Sir William Clarke’s remark “an ignorant person, odical, breaking the little twigs and! | Though for the moment the besieged
: . : ve ; ° laying them in closed packed bundles, | were unmolested, everyone knew that | ey
such as a bishop or a member of parliament,” ete. so that when the smal! star of light | lthe ring which surrounded them was| ‘ 006
- ——-~— appeared it grew steadily, and still | intact, and their destruction but a yeoee ks ee
the watchers could see Jim feeding | question of hours. + W.
After beitig without a Gladstone in the British House for about] nig tire and making sure that the| “The men had better sleep in Z J. McCUTCHEON }
a year, the histori¢ name is once more added to its membership roll, | flames had made good their hold. | watches during che day, Jim. We # ,
ena . . , . Then a shot was fired from the fog, | shall want all hands on guard to-night, B ““y)0" 6°"
William Glynn Charles Gladstone, son of the late W. H. Gladstone, | tne faggots rattled and flew in all|if Toma does not bring help before + ’ aid
M. P., and grandson of the great W. E. Gladstone having just beer | directions, and Combe came running, |then . Horsely and his posse could | Theatre Block: Second
} almost on his hands and knees, to the | hardly get through by daylight if they Toe 7
elected for Kilmarnock. _,, | barricade. But the fire had caught ' came.” PETES ttt teeeeenegs
Genius is not always hereditary, but in addition to inheriting} hold, and as soon as the men in the| Jim made no reply.
feav3 ; ba > ; excrescence replaced the furniture “Don't you think that they will get oe,
his illustrious grandsire’s estate at Hawarden, the young man —he and made good the gaps, great | here to-day?”
is just twenty-six—is said to have inherited a number of his rare gifts| tongues of flame roared as they climb-| In spite of his courage there was 4 | "HONF® cull

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Tennis Association. It had been
planned that the team shouJd sail
October 4, but with the with-
drawal of Larned, Mr. Dwight
has advised McLoughlin, that the
original date of the contest, De-
cember 30, would not be changed.
Larned had objected to that date
as he did not desire to remain in
training beyond the early part
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other day from heart failure.

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Jimmie ‘“Buzz"’ Baillie,
quaerterback of the Montreal
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to
admits

according to

she defines as ‘‘a living thing made

ed upwards.

“We can’t help that. They can see
to shoot now as well as we can, but
they won't come close whilst we have
that light. Tell the women to keep
away from the windows; and let each
man watch from behind something
solid. Don’t spare the cartridges,
Al?”

“I'm here.”

“Get round to the back and watch
out there. I guess you can see in
the dark better than most. Where's
the doctor?”

No one answered.

“Doc! Ho! Doc!” Jim cried,
there was no reply.

“Did any of you see him outside?
We haven't left him out, have we?”

“He wasn't outside. Perhaps he!
knew enough to keep in out of the
rain,” sneered Fairclough, who detest-
ed the doctor, whose butt he had al-
ways been.

“He knows a good deal now, 'mongst
other things, what a blanked fool you
are! Poor old chap!”

There was a curious choking sound
in Jim’s savage voice, as he groped
about in the dark and turned some-
thing over on the floor.

but

“Thank you, Anstruther. Will you
take his feet? Here, Rolt, strike a
light. We've got to. chance their
shocting.”

Rolt struck one, and in the short
gleam of it the others saw Jim and
Anstruther lift the body from the

floor and put it upon the table where

the red fire had been.

“That’s the first to go,” muttered
Jim. “Always wanted the lead and
would have it. Shot through the head

from behind. Some of the devils must
have been behind when he lit his
fire.”

“I heard no shot.”

“Not likely to with the nolse we
were making. What’s wrong with
your neck, Anstruther? Cut it?”

“Just touched, I fancy. I got it

when they hit him. Shall we take him
into the house?”

“Better not, and better say nothing
about it to them upstairs. We can’t
do any more for him now, Boss,” and
Jim drew a large worked table-cover
over the dead man’s face and turned
to see that the barricades were as
strong as they could be made.

When he was at his post again he
drew from his pocket that which the
doctor had given him. It:was a com-
mon playing-card and on it was writ-
ten in pencil a London address. Be-
neath this the doctor had written in
big letters which wandered uncer-
tainly over the blank space: “So long,
Jim. See you again some day.”

“So he knew it was coming, did he?”
mused Jim, “and he took it all back at
the last, all his tall talk about science
and annihilation of matter. Well, I
guess the Handicapper knew the Doc's
handicap, and will be the best judge
of his running.”

And then, as he

looked out in the

reddened gloom, whilst his eyes tried
to plerce through the fog, his mind
tried to peer into that Next Room

where the doctor now was, and if he
failed to place the doctor, he at least
managed to place himself. He saw
the triviality of the things which had
s0 embittered him for the last few
days, and even «nfessed to himself
that when it came to fighting, his rival
was not much of a muff after all. If

 

ment for the Brooklyn mar, the Here is the triumph of the
referee stopped the bout. As woman, Why, the intuitions of
McCoy was leaving the ring Bob the very young man are unerring
Fitzsimmons, once heavyweight |!" this matter. The youth of
champion of the world, scaled the seventeen, says the Otero, begins
ropes, seized the gloves from Elle’s with a grande passion for the
seconds, and invited McCoy back | Woman of forty. Instinct tells
into the ring. McCoy eccepted him that she is the loveliest. Girls
the invitation, and the two noted of twenty-five are still getting

young
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that which had made the scratch on
Anstruther’s neck had been an inch
or two to the left Jim Combe felt that
his memory of the last few days
would have been a joad for him to
carry all the rest of his life. But the

| first grey light of the morning brought

Jim back from the Unknown to the
present with a shock. As the mists
rolled away the’ temporary absence
of the Indians was explained. They
had withdrawn to gather force for
their real attack. Whatever answers

the sand out of their eyes, accord-| to the fiery cross amongst the red

men had been flying around the coun-
try in the last two days, and Jim
Combe had never known until that
moment how many Indians there were
scattered through the timber of Bri-
tish Columbia.

The hog's back was dotted with
their camp fires and tents; a line of
them stretched across the big mea-
dow; another body of them held the
road to Soda Creek. The ranch was
as regularly invested as if its foes had
been European troops instead of mere
redskins. With infinitely more cun-
ning than even Combe had given
them credit for, the Chilcotens had
allowed the white men to return un-
molested to their lair, only to find
themselves ina trap from which there
appeared to be no escape unless Toma
or Fairclough had won through and
could bring help.

Until this last morning Jim had felt
certain that one or other would suc-
ceed in getting through; but now,
seeing the methodical way in which
the Indians had conducted the cam-
paign, he not only doubted, he dis-
believed it, and when he met Kitty a
little later, her pretty face pale and
troubled, a great wave of pity and re
morse almost unmanned him,

In his anguish of mind he tried to
speak to his little friend in the old
way that had been so dear to both of
them, but his tongue failed him, and
she, not realizing that it was the old
Jim, treated him with the coldness he
had been at such trouble to teach her

 

 

CHAPTER XXV.

You cannot hide death any more
| than you Can escape it, There is a
subtle influence which spreads from
| a dead man so that even the
beasts feel and acknowledge it,
| this atmosphere of horror had spread |
through the ranch house in spite of

the men's reticence,

dumb | were
and| whose young beauty was

{shake in Rolt’s voice which he could
not hide. For himself he cared little,
but the thought of the sweet woman
who was all the world to him broke
the strong man's nerve.

“It's no good fooling ourselves, *
Rolt, any longer. No, I don’t think
any of our messengers are alive to-
| day.”

The younger Fairclough turned very
white, but he yulled himself together,
and laughed bravely.

“You don't know my brother,
Combe. There's no fear that any pack
of niggers will wipe him out.”

“IT hope not. He ts a good man and
j daresay that you are right, in which
case we shall have help before night-
fall, but we must not calculate upon
that. We've calculated too much on
such things already. We've got to do
somethings for ourselves now, right
away.”

“That's talking,” assented Al, “and
there’s only one thing as we can do.”

“What is that?”

“Shoot the women, and die fighting,
or save them.”

It was brutally said, but it had the
advantage of bringing the issue plain-
ly before every one.

“How can we save

“There's only one way.

them?”
The Indians

are all here now. If a man could get
through that ring he'd Lave a clear
course to Sody, There's five horses

in the kitchen.”

“But we cain’t leave the place un-
guarded.”
“No, of course not. It’s got to be

one at a time till we do get thruogh,
and if no one gets through—well, then,

Boss, we'd most as well take a turn
at praying.”
For a moment there was silence,

and then someone asked:

“Is it to be by day-light,
night?”

“IT guess it don't
replied Al. “We should have bad a
good show last night, but the fog has
all gone. They won't do much attack-

or at

make no odds,”

ing in broad daylight, our people
shoot too straight, and the Injuns
know it, but they'll do mighty little

sleeping at night. I'd leave that to
the man as goes. Kin I have that roan
as Jim rode for a first shot, Boss?”
It was said so quietly, that no one
ignorant of the circumstances, would
have guessed that the rough and
grizzled old rider was offering his life,
but the color came to the Boss's eyes
as he answered:
“The stakes are
play them.”
“Pardon, sir, I

mine, Al, and I
think you forget,”
said Anstruther, courteously, “the
stakes are not all yours. Volunteers
for a forlorn hope should be unmar-

ried men. The captain's duty is to
stay by his ship to the last. Al and
Combe have had their turn, You will
let me go.”

“Nonsense, boy, you couldn't sit a
horse now.”

“Nor couldn't find his way if he did
get through. See here, Rolt, It’s Al
or me for this job, and Al's wounded,
so it’s me,” and Combe turned to leave
the room.

But Anstruther caught him by the
arm,
“No, by heaven, you don’t, Combe!

Rolt to decide, You are
What do you say,
sir? Will*you shame me? Is it not
my right? Combe went for me, The
whole trouble is my fault. I can ne-
ver hold up my head again if you
don't let me go.”

There was such a genuine ring of
entreaty in the young fellow’s voice
that Rolt, looking at him, wavered.

He understood that, to a man like
Anstruther, there might be worse
things than death.

“Couldn't we settle it by drawing
lots? That's what they always do in
books.”

It was Fairclough
in the impasse to
come the suggestion
favor.

“If I agree to Mr. Fairclough’s sug-
gestion,” said Rolt, seeing that the
feeling of the meeting was with the
last speaker, “it will only be on the
understanding that all draw, | will
waive my right to go first if you will
all agree to that. Otherwise I go.”

For a few minutes Combe and An-
struther tried to argue with him, but
though the easiest-going man in Bri-
tish Columbia as a rule, Rolt could
be sufficiently resolute upon occasion.

“Jt ain't no use argufying,” said Al,
irritably. “Seems to me we had ought
to know the Boss by now. He's that
blanked contrary that if every one
eise was keeping Christmas, he'd put
in the day hauling gravel, May as
well cut for the deal if he says so.”

This settled it, and Rolt, turning to
Anstruther, asked him to get a pack of
cards from Mrs, Rolt.

When Anstruther had gone to get
the cards, Rolt turned to Combe:

“Is it any good keeping this from
the ladies? They might prevent his
going if the lot should fall to him.
Nothing else will, and I don’t believe
that he could sit a horse for a mile.
His ribs can't be knit yet.”

“Don't you worry about that colt,
Boss. He ain't used to our range yet,
but he’s a bit of good stuff and hard-
er nor you think. Let him be and
give him a fair show. It's five to one
against his getting the deal anyway.

It is for Mr,
not master here.

and
had
some

who spoke,
which they
met with

But you kin tell the ladies, They
aren't the sort to holler.”
“Thank you, Al, oid triend, I knew

|we might come in.”

It was Mary Rolt herself who spoke,
having come in quietly while the men
talking, with Kitty by her side,
woefully
marred by the strain of the last few
days.

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