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Into the a winthern | rt of Palestine, known as the ob, a shedine and * almost ow. bares fir fo ns wag oud Bord had Bown, bre even before journeyin where his' Soalth Tad il mpare not in Ton son for February 16, Abram slow: 15h retraces his stéps northward un- unto the place where ts Ee and' of not able to bear them--Not Mm) wis or productive enough to sustain the -whole 'company of the com- "| bined families, with their Amores flocks and herds. This was doubt- LY) the Home Rule de-| 'remarked upon the jes at Westminate yeration of the aletime he . ""There is no time for hesi- tation when a member knows that has pu) jive o minutes in which % present = it Jia ing there were ; 81, 000,000 - comy tead, and George D. lidener, have not made any claim n the steamship company Foc the ow either of their relatives or the property they happened to have with them. Harris Death Claim $1,000,000. The largest claim is made by Mrs. Henry B. Harris, widow of the theatrical man, She is seeking pensation for the Browns of her husband, $27,000 of her. own nal posers and $4,625 for the loss of band's baggage. The value she places on her own belongi it caused by the number of Fr which she had with her. Aniong them was a string of pearls of the {value of $10,000, and a diamond Mr. Donald McMaster, M.P. two minutes before the lotine fell, which Mr: Donald McMaster utilized to gpeak on the Sons the iy in Treland | spaeh by the King, e Lord Lieutenant and his local advisers. To a Cana- dian his contribution to the debate, which presented a Canadian point of view, wag interesting, but more Interesting still was the fact that he tumbled out about 400 words in two "minutes, presenting in this brief pas e & complete analysis of the principle he advanced. It re- quires a steady mind to do that the | when: you know that the clock. is ticking "against you." ; tocar PARIS LIVING DEAR. v| Even Oabbles are | Becoming Daily The that people are "More Extravagant. ' On all hands one hears complaints that life in Paris (Erdnice) is grow- ing daily dearer. Perhaps it i is a only that prices are going up; bud' more ex- travagant. For instance, the state has decided to abolish the half- penny black-and gnarled and 1] strong, which the cabmen used to puft 'with obvious Satistantion to + | themselves necklace worth $4,200: Then there was a diamond and onyx: bar pin, : with five-carab stones in the centre, whioh cost $1,000, and a bracelet with circles of di diamonds, for which she asks $750, Her wardrobe was contained. in. five trunks, the con- 'tents of which is valued at $10,000 ne other large death olaims are put in--for Howard B. Case, man- aging director of the Vacuum Oil Company, by his widow, Mre. Eliz- Case, and for Jacques lle 'by his, widow," Mrs. May Futrelle. Each of them ask $300,- 000, Claims for the loss of the per- sonal effects of Major Archibald Butt are put in by Lewis Ford Butt of Augusta, Ga., who values his se- ven trunks at $1,000, and Mrs. Marian L. M. Thayer asks $14,910.- 50 for the baggage of John B. Thayer, but no money is asked as oom ion for the loss of either oF epcanation Unusual Clajm for Effects. Mr. Portaluppi was one of those who lost personal property of an unusual description, his ef- fects, which he valued at $17,524, was a picture of Garibaldi, signed by him when: he presented it to Mr. Portaluppi's grandfather. This he asks) $3,000 for, and most of the reet of the property he lost was made up of original designs for monuments, tombs and mausoleums. William E. Carter, of Philadel- phia, lost among other things an automobile of "the value of $5,000 and. two dogs, one of which was worth $100 and the other twice as much, and Eugene Daley, who hails from lyn, put in a claim for a set of bagpipes which could not be bought for less than $50, In the great mass of claims it is curious how extremes meet, H. Bjornstron Steffanson of the Ho tel Gotham wants $100,000 to com- of an! answer fhe sssmbly gompany to pay "Irish crochet collars hod Ireland by he: Gilchrist, in which made for $16.60 for certain 3 and periodicals which had been coke in the mails carried by the Titanic. seme Meteors BETTER ROADS FOR ONTARIO. A Convention Will Meet in Toronto to Discuss the Plan, A great deal of interest is being aroused throughout the Province in the probable outeome bf the con- ference on Good Roads to be held in Toronto at the end of this month. The agitation for road improve- ment in Ontario and particularly for a oonnected system of' inter. urban and market town highways has been steadily growing until conformity with this feeling the announcement has now been made that such a scheme of roadways will shortly be marked out and constructed by the government. This announcement gives a great deal of importance to the coming convention, for it is expected that the lines. of procedure discussed there will have no little bearing on the development of the provincial system of roadways which the next few years will see established. Not only will the proposal of a road system throughout the Prov- ince be discussed, but the 'officers of the Ontario Good Roads Associa- tion, under whose auspices the con: vention is being held, announce thai eakers will be present from the United States and various Provine- es in the Dominion who will tell of what is being done elsewhere. Premier Gouin of Quebec will be in Toronto for: the occasion; and Highway Commissioner Taylor from British Columbia, and = from the United ' States the Hon. L. Di Page, Director of the U. 8. Depart- ment of Highways, and. Col, Baw- yer, of the Massachusetts Highway Board. From the Ontario Govern- ment the Hon. Dr. Reaume, Min- ister of Public Works, will be pre- sent, and others who will give ad- dresses on the roadway problem 'are Bir Edmund Walker, President of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and Mr. W, A. McLean, Provincial Highways Engineer. On all sides there are indications that Ontario is on the verge. of a new era of road construction. The people of the province have decided to build roads, and it will be one of the big problems of the coming con- vention to voice the feeling of the people. as to how 'the work should poe carried out. Counties, townships, cities, towns and villages will all be represented The problem of bringing producer and. consumer together is of equal interest to all. "With bread, meat, vegetables and dairy produce dear. er by far in Oanadian cities than in the mbst expensive parts-of such old country cities as London, the | question presents itself as to what makes the difference, and the logi- cal answer is the absence of good roads. Bo, too, the migration of the younger generation from the farms prompts the quesfion as to what is wrong there, and again the is the absence of good roads, which would increase the social, educational and other urban | advantages within the reach of those living in the country. 1 What 'the © coming convention, sessions will