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BoE tosh, 4 bay ports on on . rts. : Am. co i gn BPI Toronto, 84%¢; No. $32. points. Barley, malting--62 to 64c. www iv. Burns--Defective Chimney ) Cause of Total Loss. BAA espa "from Palmerston says:--Pearl, aged 5, and Ross, aged | -- =» ~~ entered. When informed. of the state. or on much later used against him, ters There were two lamps in the house, -one of which leaked and had a rag TT e------------ ; gaye! George Wiggins said he was awak-| "that recently he ened by flames and rang an alarm on] e ch Dotter terms with est than fo past two years. ogt Khan for the 'and was grant- "ed protection of the court in giving is ovidence, which was presented on condition that it should not be Ho eaid that he met his late wife near Brussels, where he was billeted with the Canadian Army. Although their religions were different there 'had been no quarrel, but only some differences of opinion cn petty mat- the church bell. He found Dr. West ing the house found no fire on the stairs or in the hall. Afterhis arrival the flames broke through the ceiling of the dining-room. REE . Joseph Dixon, a neighbor, saw fire coming out of an upstairs window, and at the same time, he said, saw a man whom he believed to be Dr. West, coming quickly down the road toward the West house. Dr. West began to and witness recognized his voice, Dr.| West had blood on his shirt sleeves: 'and hands, TWO CHILDREN PERISH ~~ HOME DESTROYED rete . Mother in Critical State from "= 2, two of the five children of Mr. and) Mrs. Charles Windslade of Arthur, Township, were 'burned to death Thursday morning when-fire, believed ; to have been caused by a "defective n lly destroyed the Wind-' slade home. Mrd. Windslade is lying * at the home of a neighbor in a critical; [ suffer.' ed while attempting to save her chil-! - condition from burns which she dren. . The fire broke out after two of the older chiidren had left for school, Mr. - and Mrs. Windslade were in the barn when they "discovered smoke from an upper room of heir home. ! 4 k Mr. Windslade was able tossave his of 8t. Paul's Anglican Church, Toronto, 4,year-od son. The house was a mass "10 has received the high honor of of flames when Mrs. Winds'ade un- successfully endeavored to reach Ross and Pearl, ------pie Found A despatch from Ottawa says: Louis Napoleon Pelletier, 24, farm laborer, 'was found guilty of man. slaughter by the jury at the Carleton County Assizes Thursday evening, after being tried on a chargé of mur- dering Miss Mary Kilfoyle, aged 80, in a lonely farmhouse near Manotick,' Ont., on January 6 last. Miss Kilfoy'e Was found with her head crushed, ap- parently by blows from am sxe. A . Plea of self defence and insanity was | ver-. dict, Pelletier said: "It is all the same to 'me; [would just as_soon 'be. the service 'We may bé rendering to hanged." lying on the verandah, and on enter- shout when he got to his verandah' and. , was taken on the general hows in Hadley Wood, on the outskirts of London. GEN, BOOTH CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY This photograph of Bramwell Booth, with his two grandchildren, Stuart 's seventieth birthday recently at his Buckwheat--No. 2, 2c. - " Rye--No. 2, 8c. Man. flour--Fivst Bat, $9, Toronto do, second pat., $8.50. Ly per- barre 5.75; seaboard, in bulk, $5.75. o.b. bay ports, per ton, $22.50. Cheese--New, Jarge 22¢; twins, £23%c; triplets, 23c; tiltons, 24c. Old , 28 to 80c; twins, ets, 30 to 82¢c. utter--Finest 49¢; N 46 to 47c. ar, tip creamery prints, Dairy prints, 41 to 42. Enter Easter with its symbols of hope, the emblem of all things made new, Enter Easter with its new bonnets, brides, birds, bunnies and butterflies; with its fragrant violets, yellow blos- soms and the pure lilies. New life is in thé air, and there is! much entertaining for young and old Guilty of Manslaughter! Rew: Canon H. J. Cody being called to preach the first Eng- lish sermon at the coming assembly of the League of Nations. What Is He Worth? | Talking with a group of friends on | the subject of children, a mothe mada "the proud boast that she would not ~part with her boy for a million dol- Jars. A bachelor who was standing nearby, knowing something of the hoy's mischievous nature, remarked in an undertone, "And I wouldn't give ten cents {for him." Moth- ers msualy incline to the higher valuation, and they are right: The po- tential value of a boy is beyond com- putation. He Some an illus- trious leader and benefactor and make the whole world his. debtor, In help- ing'a child we can never tell how great the nation. Charlottetown, P.B.I- Value. 2 as. pared $1,20 totals i ; 'duct as marketed, whether in eauned, cured. or othe bir rr to be the ; aluminum city--known as "built v in during the season. table and the home sweet and pretty; and if one wishes to entertain guests at: this season she has a wealth to choose from. DECORATIONS FOR THE CHILDREN'S TABLE. | -Eggshells, prosaic as they may sound, can be depended upon to furn- ish pretty decorations. So, when you are doing your cake baking before Easter, empty your eggshells care- fully. Make a very small opening at one end and a izrge enough one at the other to let the yolks out. Blow or [tap gently on the small end if the contents do not come out freely. Wash out the shells and dry. ; They. may be decorated on the out- side with bees, butterflies 'and flowers, or with 'chicks and bunnies. Little trinkets may be inclosed and gilt or silver stars or disks pasted over the end to conceal the openings. Litte them; or they may be used as molds -tfor desserts and candies; NEST OR EGGS FOR CENTREPIECE. At this season one should make the cups or receptacles may be made with | ENTERTAINING FOR EASTER BY MARY MASON WRIGHT. out an envelope to each person pres- ent, and have him followed by a boy 'or girl carrying a basket of Thes tle gifts, or they ma. ages of egg shape. In each envelope are a number and a verse; each package in the basket has a corresponding number. verse ig supposed to describe in hidden ! language the gift within the egg bear- ing the same number, Each person-in turn reads out loud the verse found in his or her be given if circles. in diameter. each wrapped lengthwise and across long eno to egg-shaped cards. basket of raffia or reed, filled with straw, in which are many-colored = | | A great bow of yellow and blue rib- bon is tied to the handle and little fluffy chicks stand guard on the edge | of the basket. At each plate may be gilt eggshell vases each holding a few jonquils pansies or violets. Very small bas: | kets may bo filled with egg-shaped candies, a small fluffy chick perched! on the edge of each. ! EGG GAME FOR EASTER. of envelope. desired: y disturbing or breaking an egg. When an egg is broken or knocked Among the evergreen place a few , more than twelve inche, fluffy chicks. At the close of the meal tion, the dancers r 'the eggs can be pulled out of the nests. to the next couple. Instead of a nest may be used a pretty | ~ Set the eggs in order before each jsucceeding dance. When each couple has had one turn and none have ac- complished the feat they can try it over again with a change of partners. REFRESHMENTS. Entrees are nice for Easter affairs. These may be made of eggs, or in form », Chicken, fish, oysters, eggs, vegetables and rice and such like may be made into these croquettes. They should be, chicks, served in nests made of cooked aspar- agus, cress, parsley or other gieens. egg-shaped e ;eentral -egg, h.to havg them reach out and -all this must be done without to each plate, where they are attached greatl s from its posi- etire and give place o may be eggshel's filled ith lit. | y be paper pack-! Then each makes a guess as to what | it may be. The packages are then opened and the records are gone over | : to seo who has the nearest correct list. | tuce, endive or cress. A prize of a box eof chocolate eggs may! THE EGG DANCE. This is an old game, so old thatthe hard-cooked egg yoiks. Thess are many of this generation are not ac-|formed in egg shapes and one of each quainted with it at all. To prepare! color is placed in little nests of cress, for it, blow the contents from the lettuce or other greens. shells, color eight red, gild four and, leave one white. The object in remov- | gelatin and molded in eggshells are ing the contents from the eggs is to!nice served in nests of greens and save the carpet. Place the shells on the floor in two The outer circle, formed of the red eggs placed at equal distances apart, should measure about eight feet The white egg must be exactly in the centre of the circle. The company is divided into couples, each in turn to try the dance. first couple takes position within the Arrange a nest of excelsior or green , outer circie--that is, between the red paper in' the centre of the table and eggs and gilded ones--and to waltz conceal with evergreen or vines, Piace | music they dance around the circle the colored Easter eggs in the nest, three times. Entering the inner circle they waltz with baby ribbon. | Let the ribbons be three times around th The croquet tes. to 40c; fresh extras, loose, 88 to 89¢ fresh firsts, 35c. Dressed poultry--Chickens, spring ib,, 85. to 87c; hens, over, 4 to § lbs. 80c; do, 8 to 4 lbs., 25¢; roosters, ducklings, 5 lbs. and up turkeys, 40c. bushels; primes, $2.40 per bushel. Maple produce--Syrup, per imp gal, syrup, new, per gal., $2.50. Honey---50-1b. tins, 11% to 12¢ Ib.; 10-Ib. tins, 11% to 12¢; 5-lb. t ns, 1 North, $1.50%; Honelefs; 3% No. idl Cu Ibe. 0 No. 2 'CW. nominal; 3 No. 1 feed, 47%¢; ¥c; western grain quo- = eal Jrelgh : Thigh ton, 0.95 | horts, . $82.25 to 32 1340.23; | Ont. good milling wheat---$1.28 to $1.80, f.0.b. shipping points, according to freights, - Ont. flour--Toronto, D0 per cent. € 1; in eariots;- Toronto, Straw--Carlots, per ton, $9 to $9.50. --Sereenings--Standard, reecicaned, f, 29 to 381c; 0. 1 creamery, 47 to 48¢c; No. 2 Eggs--Fresh extras, in cartons, 89 26¢c; 30 to 82¢; | Beans--Can. hand-picked, $2.60 per $6.15, 2.40; per b-gal., $2.30 per gal; t maple sugar, Ib, 25 to 26c¢; maple er [fresh extras, 40 to 41c; do, fresh 3 ortening, tierces, 16% to 16%c; bom blocks, 17% to 18¢, Heavy steers, choice, $7.26 to pri; hole 395 to. $100 ngers, choice 0; goo hi cows, $70 to $80; medium cows, P1846 to $60; feeders, good, $6.25 to $6.75; do, fair, $5 to $6; stockers,; , $5 to $6.60; do, fair, $4.50 to. 0; calves, choice, $12.50 to $18.50; | do, good, $11 to $12; do, grassers,| - to $6.60; - good. light sheep, $7. to ; heavies and bucks, $5.50 to $6.50; | ood lambs, $18 to $14; do, med., £150 to $12; do, bucks, $9 to $11; do, culls, $10 to $11; hogs, thick smooths, fed and watered, $13.36; do, f.o.b, $12.75; do, country points, $12.60; do, off cars, $13.75; select remium, $2.60; thick fats, f.o.b, 12.25, 4 Prince John Ruler of Liechtensteim, the smallest Independent state in the world. It lies has an area of 65 square miles with a population of 11.000, who idolize theie ruler, ns vel r-- FINE MEMORIALS MARK BATTLEFIELDS Vimy Ridge Monument Will Be One of the Finest in Existence, A despatch from Ottawa SAYS i= Colonel H. C, Osborne of the War Graves Commission arrived home re- cently from Europe, where he had been on business for two months in connection with the battlefields 'me- morials. He said of the eight battle- field sites allotted to Canada as places where Canadians took an important. or decisive part in France and Belgium, seven will be completed this summer. 3 MONTREAL. Oats, Can. west, No. 2, 63¢; do, ,{ No. 8, 68c; extra No. 1 feed, b56ec. , (Flour, Man, spring wheat pats., firsts, | $8.60 to $8.80; do, seconds, $8.10 to $8.80; do, strong bakers', $7.90 to $8.10. Winter pats., choice, $6.10 to Rolled cats, bag 90 Ibs., $3.20! to $3.30. Bran, $30.25; shorts, $30.25; .!middlings, $89.25. Hay, No. 2, per on, car lots, $18.50. Cheese, finest Wests, 26c. No. 1 pasteurized, 45 to 456%e. Butter, Eggs, firsts, 36c. Potatoes, Quebec, per bag, car between Austria and Switzerland and The 11 to 12%e; 2%-lb. tins, 11 to 14%e¢. | lots, $3.00. "The treatment of the sites has ex- {81c; cooked hams, 43 to 45c¢; ' yolls, 22¢; cottage, fast bacon, 32 to smoked 25 to 27c¢; break- R6¢: special brand Smoked meats--Hams, med., 29 to Com. dairy cows, $8:50 to $3.75; calves, ordinary quality, $7; do, bet- ter. lots, $7.50 to $7.76; hogs, $14 to | $14.25; sows, $12.26 to $12.50. cited very favorable comment," said Col. Osborne. The eighth site is that at Vimy Ridge, where the main monus | be cut or molded in egg shapes, dress- |ed with French or mayonnaise dress- ings and served in little nests of let- Cottage cheese may be divided into several portions, oné colored with paprika or pimento, one with minced parsley or cress and still another with Vegatables and fruits jellied with dressed with a whipped cream dress- ing tinted green. If you do not care to.bother with the egg-shaped molds, carry out the Easter colors of yellow, green and == ment is being erected." "It is a very large one, and excellent progress is being made, but it will take two or three years before it is entirely com- pleted." It will undoubtedly be, when A despatch from Ottawa says: -- | finished, one of the finest war memor- The year 1925 was the most profitable ials in existence, he continued. Canadian steam railways have had Accompanied by Brig.-General H. from an operating point of view, says! T. Hughes and Capt. Simpson, Col. the Bureau of Statistics. Net operat-| Osborne went to St. Nazaire, where ing revenues aggregating $83,567,427 | Canadian troops first landed during were $19,872,980 greater than for | the Great War. The municipal author- 1924, and $18,224,060 greater than in| ities were Informed by the party 'of 1928. {ihe Canadian Government's desire tb On the Canadian National, net op-|erect a bronze tablet in commemora- erating revenues were more than tion of that landing. , The representa double those of either 1924 or 1925, {tives were received very cordially iw The C.P.R. earned the~largest net! deed by the "municipal authorities, operating revenues in the past eight! said Col. Osborne, and a permanent | place was allotted for the tablet in the years. Hotel de Ville. The tablet will be of Railways Have Experienced white in the salads. This is quite easy to do with yellow and green fruits and | vegetables, or with-the-yellow note in| the dressing. Little Surprise Cakes made a tempt- | ing Easter dessert. Bake any nice cake batter in muffin pans and cool. Cut a slice from the top of each and scoop out as much of the centres as possible. Fill the cakes with a thick orange custard or whipped cream, Put on the removed slices, and ice the cakes on tops and sides. Sprinkle with chopped nut meats. There are many other homemade desserts that may be molded in the shape of eggs, such as jellied fruits, cornstarch blanc mange and rice. These may be served with whipped cream or a sauce, For children's parties mashed pota- toes may be formed into the shape of chickens and bunnies. : Marshmallows if softened a few minutes in the oven, may also be molded in form of chicks and bunnies, using cloves for eyes and There are all sorts of possibilities egg shape and dipped in melted fon. dants of various colors or coated with Have the mailman come in and hand when it comes to salads. Potatoes may Chocolate. blanched almonds for tails and wings, Cookies may be cut in the shape of bunnies and eggs; sandwiches may also. Fondant may be molded in ing of five pirates at Old Bailey. Home Bank Inquiry the Deity.---Napoleon. We, oa Ahad . Sh < | peculiar interest because the landing Woman Living in London of Canadian troops constituted . the Once Saw. Pirates Hanged | first landing in Europe of embodied 4 | troops from North America to take A despatch from London says: --| part in a European war, The oldest inhabitant of the City of| Col. Osborne said United States is London is Mrs. Emma Oliver, aged going to erect a large monument 101. This, however, does not mean! there; but, he said, he and his party that she is the oldest woman in the | did not fail to point out that the Cai vast metropolis of London, but that/adian troops were the first to land she is the oldest in the "City," which! at_St. Nazaire. is the business section and jhe orig-, inal nucleus of London. Among the, historic incidents she has seen are the] wedding of Queen Victoria in 1840, | and the Duke of Wellington's funeral.] Upwards of 64,000:persons find em- She also witnessed in 1864 the hang-| ployment in Canada's mining industry. To these employees salaries and wages | totalling $83,000,000 are paid annus - ly, This money is circulated in Can j ada to pay taxes, purchase food, cloth- Cost Over $75,000 ine and the many Canadian-made luxuries that our standards of living A despatch from Ottawa says:-- demand." But the mining 'companies ------ Natural Resources Bulletin. men preeminence Expenses of investigations in connec. | Spend much in addition for the pur- tion with the Home Bank failure, in-| chase of machinery and supplies from cluding Royal Commission of Inquiry Canadian merchants and manufactur- and prosecutions, Sums Pe to counsel were: E. Lafleur, | each year for fuel and) jelaetrjaity K.C., $4,875.68; H. J. Symington, K.C., | #love. $5,693.80; H. J. Scott, K.C., $28,500 | ; Batic total $75,056.62. | rs; the sum. of 20 milliong ds wfitnt d wf cgsbnoM bat Incidentally the profits of the sygy | cessful companies go to. ing ase Uh iquid capital assets of Canadian "A A faithful friend is a fine image of | liquid capital asse ; an citi- i zens who have invested in" the indus- Red Lake to the Manitoba houn: re mies of terri @ mining field are keep:| 's "office busy, Prog: -- is promising and already many| © sq ¢ tory west of Red| Lake has been staked. j 'place' here on the Canadian Co.oper- Winnipeg, Man.--One 'of the larg-| st business transactions recorded in nt try. Unfortunately many 'of "thvse | profits go outside the country, 'sind | British, American and other investors "have been shrewd. enough .to: buy ine SSS tmany valuable properties, and the re- wards of development are naturally | theirs insofar as actual gash dividends are concerned. Many of the stronger {interests operating Canadian mines. {are far-sighted enough to re-invest part of their profits in the acquisition and development of additional pro- perties so that part of surpiuses never leave the country. Fortunately, also, for Canada, wages and other operat- i ing expenditures have to be made in the ores are shipped to plants in the United States or Europe for treat- ment, and other countries receive even greater benefits in employfent and investment than does the country which has furnished the raw material. It behooves us, therefore, as ] Canadian citizens, to see that C Ta adian ores are treated, so far as practicable, in Canadian mills and re- finerles, using Canadian power, em- ploying Canadian workmen and buy- ing Canadian machinery and s # + Canada, aithofigh in some- instances --