of Hetherington, who, with only a scrap of handwriting on a fragment of paper, searched for months, day and night, over half a continent for similar letter formations till he landed his man. It was the Mounted Police way. [Illustration: INSPECTOR FITZGERALD. Died on Yukon Patrol. _Photo. Rossie, Regina._] [Illustration: SUPT. CHARLES CONSTANTINE. Pioneer Policeman in the Yukon. _Photo. Steele & Co., Winnipeg._] [Illustration: INSPECTOR LA NAUZE. With prisoners "Sinnisiak" and "Uluksak," at Bernhard Harbour. June, 1916.] In 1912 we find Commissioner Perry still battling to the end that the services of all ranks in his command should receive recognition in the form of higher remuneration for the good reasons that the cost of living was going up; that men in civil life were getting much more for less important and dangerous work, and that the enormously increasing population of the West made ever larger calls upon the efforts and the initiative powers of the officers and men. And the Commissioner, who is always intent on keeping the Force on a high level, said that if the increased pay was granted there would possibly be more applications than vacancies. In such a case he would aim at constantly improving the personnel of the corps by accepting recruits on probation only, by discharging those lacking in energy, intelligence and character, and by making dismissal the most severe punishment that could be handed out to any member of the Force. The Commissioner's far-sighted policy in this and other regards has always told favourably on the high prestige of the Corps.