ut 'te 4 ide if, yi - States into Canada at present has as- who , "American invasion." 'The rush north ~ elaborate plans made by the roads with branches into British fled that five gpectal trains. loaded with Amorican, homeseelkers and their house this gateway du 'tal, f ci i Detroit Jury Acquitted Him of Change eee ane 0 Manion' ca) * A despatch from Detroit says: Petty Bowing was acquitted at noon on Thursday of the murder of "Mother' Cornelia Welch, The jury was out not quile three hours. The verdict came as a tremendous surprise to the entire cily, although those who had been watching the {rial closely during its closing days saw evidences among the jury whitch led them to believe that a conviction might not be reached, "Is this verdict unanimous, gentle- men?" inquired the Judge when the foreman had given the decision. The jury was polled by the clerk, and each member separately declared that the verdict was his. The Judge was plainly indignant, and before ordering the release of the prisoner he bitterly scored the jury for ita action. ; "This is the grossest miscarriage of Justice that has stained the records of this court for many years," he declar- ed "You men have deliberately set free a bad criminal, set him free alter he had been fairly proven guilty of this crime. You are putting a premium up- on murder, for you are publishing to the world that in Detroit a moral de- generate may with impunity take hu- man life. The cilizens of this commu- nity should be thankful that none of these gentlemen can serve on another jury in three years," added Judge Phelan. Bowins was released from custody at once, and will proceed to Toronto with his mother, and then to the home n Woodville. On being set free he went at once to the jail to oblain his effects. He had hardly stepped into the cell block to procure his belongings from his cell when the word of acquittal flashed through the cells. There was a roar of applause from the prisoners, and it continued during the time Percy was in the cell, . Leone COMIC EASTER GIFTS, A curious case of deterioration is to be noted in thea changes bree tak- ing place in the matter of Easter gilts. flowers for grown people and eggs for the children were the two original symbols of the sacred festival. 'These were the natural expression of the great Resurrection truth--life bursting through temporary felters and pe tng into new beauty. The first Easter cards drew their decorations from these simple motives, certainly the most beautiful and pti Savas which could ever be devised, Presently the old Ger- man legend of the hares and the Easter eggs came into prominence. Brought into portions of our country by tho German settlers, it has spread to other regions, like our own New England, where it is absolutely meaningless. The egg in the meantime having been sup- plemented by the chick--présumably to make the lesson clearer--the child's Faster giffs began to take on the char- acter of a menagerie, The tmmense popularity of the chick and the hare next stimulated the in- genuity of the Wradesman to invent new variations of the theme. . This .season thé shop. windows are filled with roos- ters, chicks, hares, and ducks, not only in their natural feathers and fur, but niasquerading eas policemen and serving- maids, riding in automobiles, wearing huge hats (the label ou one is "Where did you get that hat?"), carrying um- brellas, and engaged in all sorts of lu- diorous pursuits. A rabbit playing on a violin, with three chicks on a bench holding music books, are mounted on a card labelled, "Easter Rehearsal." A rabb't seated in a walnut-shell chariot, driving a team of chicks is another tiasterpiece. ' The comic element in all these things ig simple and innocent enough in it- self, but what relation do they bear to Easter? We should be properly shock- el if they were introduced into the Sun- day-schools, Should we not expect the influence of the home to harmon- -ize with the saored character of the day? Is it not irreverent, if not sac- rilegious, to connect these animal tra- vasties with the Lord's rising? Fun is good and necessary, but as an anci- ent writer observed, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." For sheer nonsense we have April Fool's Day; let us keep our Easter sacred, ------ THE CHILDREN'S EASTER. With the return of Easter, just as 'the first spring flowers are unfokling and the earliest bird songs delight our ears, the mother finds in nature mani- fold illustrations whereby she may im- ' press upon her children the truth of the resurrection. The brown balls, so devoid of life and beauty, which they Planted last autumn have already push- ed their delicately-hued blossoms up to greet the warm sunshine, and death has changed to life. The chrysalis which they discovered on an apple tree last Thanksgiving Day, and which has seem- é) as dead as the bit of wood to which {ff was allached, has now emerged from the darkness and is fluttering about a brilliant butterfly, Then, too, the un- developed buds of tree and plant have been brought in doors, and as warmth and stnshine 'have hastened thelr un- folding the various changes have been watched antl commented upon, The planting, sprouting and growth of a bean. a pea, a kernel of corn or a morn- ingsPory sex! are all object lessons fn which children delight, and which are eloquent of the return of life after apparent death, With so many appro- priate symbols always at hand, it seems Sirange that the Kaster egg continues year after year to be looked upon as almost the only available form for s0ster favors or {istration 'for Faster talks, > Japan and Russia are seeking lo en- french themselves in Manchuria at the expense of China. EASTER EGGS AND GAMES, The simplest eggs for [aster ors. figures etched on leaves the tracing white. over the opening. fil. the eggs with maple cream, or mo- lasses taffy, and after this hardens clip eff the shells and coat the sweet egg with chocolate, or tinted fondant. These are very pretty when sprinkled with granulated sugar while they are still moist. Egg shells may be cut into any de- sign, if soaked In milk-warm water un- iil pliable. Cul a large egg in half, lengthwise, gild the outside, or trace pattern or greeting in gilt. Line with satin or velvet of a dainty hue, Then with just a touch of glue, fasten il on n tiny lacquered tray, or a bit of card- board, and use as a jewel or match halder. Sketch little faces with India ink on an egg shell, and finish off with. tissue paper fool's cap. Make arms of stiff paper and glue the* shell to a pen- wiper of cloth and you will be surprised al the result, Pretly games can be played with the common, hard-boiled, colored eggs. First fill a large bread or bal- ing-pan with bran, sand, or sawdust, and set it on a small table, Around this table the children stand. Each player chooses a color and all her eggs must be alike. For instance, have the eggs dyed red, blue, green, and so on. Tho object is to place the eggs upright ia the pan so as to bring five in a row, touching each other. The players take turns about putting down one at a time, trying to fill the row, and also to cul eft the line of the opponent. . The one who succeeds first in obtaining the five in a row, sings out: and crow! in the Row!" "Robin, raven, hawk Mine's the first Five For another game place six eggs, ona each of green, red, black, blue, white and gold, in a row in the pan et bran. One player is blindfolded and with a light wand or stick, touches one of the eggs reciting at the same time: "Peggy, Patrick, Mike and Meg, See me touch my Easter egg! Green and red and black and blue, Count for six, five, four and two; If I touch an egg otf white A forfeit then will be your right. If I touch an egg of gold It is mine to have or hold." Green counts for six, red for five, black for four, blue for two, and the gold egg is worth more than all put together, for then the player wins the game, and the forfeit of an egg from each player. The white egg is a "hoodoo." It not only has no value, Lut when touched, the player has to pay o forfeit. Each player takes his turn to be blindfolded, and an account ia kept of each one's luck, When a tolal of twenty has been reached, the game is won, even without the golden egg. Of course the position of the-egg is changed for each player. -- ---- AN EASTER FLOWER GIFT. O dearest bloom the seasons know, Flowers of the Resurrection blow, Our hope and faith restore; And through the bitterness of death, And loss of sorrow, breathe a breath Of life for evermore! The thought of Love Immortal. blends With fond wemembrance of friends; In you, O sacred. flower. By human love made doubly sweet, The heavenly and the earthly meet, The heart of Christ and ours! --John Greenleaf Whittier. (ORD RUSH FROM STATES om Across the Border Surprises the Railways. A despatch from St. Paul, Minn,, says: The volume of traffic from the United tunished even those railway. offiicials had expected a revival of the ward is out of all proportion .to the reeyiek! : lerrilory to handle the Spring rushe <2. ft 'The "Soo" Hine alone has been noti- hold goods, and oven stock, will reach f Monday for trans- , mom into Canada, {fic will be moved via rough ey innipeg and ee Ce Ne ani, i ne er ay or na eres eet a steam plowing oulllls are comin aay er) vse: The Chicago Great Western is bring- ing o tenecar {rain in from lowa. The Burlington, two from Nebraska and one from lowa, and the Rock. Island one from Kansas and Oklahoma. The destinations of these families are said to be Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta. The Battleford and Prince Al- bert districts tm Saskatchewan are largely favored, but "anything north of the ling" seems to be the ery. A dospatch from North Portal says: } Al! trains arriving from the South are heavily loaded with seltlers and land- Seokers; they are bound 'forall parts of Saskatchewan and Alberta, and are . good class of settlers, A number of in ae org ot are hard-boiled and tinted in pretty ool- A litle more'elaborate ones have the shell, or some simple greeting in verse, done with ni- tric acid. When the egg is colored, this Empty egg shella may be filled with small candles, or tiny presents, and gilt paper pasted Another plan is to BREADSTUFFS. Toronto, April 14.--Manitoba Wheat-- For immediate delivery, No. 1 Northern, $1.18%; No. 2 northern, $1.14; feed wheat 69c, No. 2 feed, 64c, on track Georgian Bay ports. For May delivery, No. 1 northern, $1.12; No. 2 northern, $1.07; No. 3 northern, $1.04%. ; Ontario Wheat--No. 2 white, 90c a point of shipment; No. 2 red, 89c, No. 2 mixed, 88c; goose, 87c. Corn--Firm; No. 3 yellow American, 7234c; kiln-dried, 75¢ Toronto freights; No. 3 mixed, ic less. Barley--Very dull; No. 2, 60c. Peas--No, 2, 88c¢ outside. Rye--Sitrong; No. 2, 8534¢ to 86%4¢. _ Buckwheat--No. 2, 67c. Oats--No. 2 white, 46(¢ outside, 48c¢ en track Toronto; No. 2 mixed, 44c. Bran--Full cars, $24.50, Toronto f:cights. Shorts--Scarce, $24 { 0. b. mills. Flour -- Manitoba patents, special brands, $6; seconds, $5.40 to $5.50; strong bakers', $5.30; winter wheat pat- ents, $3.40. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Eggs--New-laid, 7c. Honey--Quiet; strained steady at iic {o 12c per pound for 60-pound palls and 12c to Wc for 5 to 10-pound pails. Combs at $1.75 to $2.50 per dozen. Potatoes---Ontario, 85c to 90c; Dela- ware, 98c to 99c in car lots on track here. Butter:-- Creaméry, prints ...+ do solids .... eeee Dairy printS ...0 esee eee do large rolls .... ss. do solids Inferior .... . 20c to 21¢ Beans--Firm .75 for primes and $1.80 to $1.85 for hand-picked. Cheeso--Firm; 14c for large and 14}¢¢ for twins in jol lots here. Baled Hay--Very -dull; timothy is quoted at $15 to $15.50 in car lots on tracks here. Baled Straw--Dull, $8 to $9 per ton. Maple Syrup--$1.10 to $1.15 per gal lon. 'ERY BOWINS NOT GUULTY!=¢ mune i odlota sre .. 29¢ to We . 2c to 2e . 24c to 25c 23¢ to 24¢ PROVISIONS Pork--Short cut, $21 to $21.50 per bar- rel; mess, $17.50 to $18. Lard--Tierces, 11}; tubs, 11340; pails, 11%c. Smoked and Dry Salted Meats--Long clear bacon, 10¢ to 10%c tons and cas- ec: hams, medium and light, 12¢ to 13c; hams, large, 11}4c to 12c; backs, 16c to 1€4c; shoulders, 9%¢ to 10¢; rolls, 9%c to 10c; breakfast bacon, 1de to. 16c; green meats out of pickle, 1c less than smoked, MONTREAL MARKETS. Montreal, April 14.--There are 0 new developments in the local flour trade. Choice spring wheat patents, $3.10; seconds, $5.50; winter wheat pat- ents, $6.10; seconds, $5.50; winter wheat patents, $5.50; straight rollers $5. to $5.25; do., in bags, $2.35 to $2.50; -ex- tras, $1.80 to 1.90. Feeds--Maniltoba bran, $22 to $23; shorts, $23 to $24. Ontario grain -- Shorts, $22 to $22.50; middlings, $24 to $25; shorts, $25 to $27 per ton, includ- ing bags and pure grain mouille at $32 to $34. Cereals--Rolled oats, $3.1234 per bag; cornmeal, $1.67%% to $1.75 per bag. Oats--Eastern Canada, No. 2. white oats, 0c; No. 3, 47¢ to 473¢c; No. 4, hoc to 464c; rejected, 44c to 44%gc per bushel, ex-store, and Manitoba reject- ed 470 to 47%c per bushel, ex-track North Bay. Cheese--September westerns are sel- ling at 18c for white and 13 for col- ored; September easterns, 13\%c¢ for white and 13%c for colored, Bitter--Fresh stock is now selling at 92 to 34c, and storage at 32c per pound. Eggs--Canadian newly-laid are selling at i8c to 19¢ per dozen in large lots, and at 19¢ to 20c for small jobbing lots. Provisions--Barrels short cul mess, $21: half barrels do., $10.75; :clear fat backs, $22 to $23; long cul heavy mess, $20; half barrels do., $10.50; dry salt long clear backs, 10%4c; barrels plate beef, $13.50 to $15; half barrels do., $7.25 to $7.75; barrels heavy mess beef, $i5 to $11; half barrels do., $5.50 to &6; compound lard, 8c to 9c; pure lard, 11Ke to 11%c; keltle rendered, 11% to 42c: hams, 12c to 13%c, according to size; breakfast bacon, 14¢ to 15c; Wind- sor bacon. 14%c to 15%%c; fresh-kNled abaltoir-dressed hogs, $10 to $10.25; live, $7 BUFFALO MARKET. Buffalo, April 14.--Wheat -- Spring, higher; No. 1 Northern, $1.0434 car- loads; Winter strong; No, 2 red, 96c. Corn--Higher; No. 2 yellow, Tic. Oats --Weak; No. 2. white, 553¢c; 'No. 2 mixed, 5ic. Barley--85 to 9c, Rye-- No 1, On track, 8834c. NEW YORK WHEAT MARKET. New York, April 14.--Wheat -- Spot firm; No. 2 red, 98\c elevator; No. 2 red, 98%c f.0.b. afloat; No. 1 northern Duluth, $1.07% f.0.b. afloat; No. 2 hard winter, $1.08% f.0.b. afloat. LIVE STOCK MARKET, 'rovonto, April 14.--Quotations for se- leet exporters' cattle ranged from $5.49 to $6 per cwt. Straight loads of choice animals were worth $5 to $5.40 per ewl. Select butchers' cattle sold on a par- ity with choice export cattle at $5.40 to 86 per cwt. SAraight loads of choice cattle were sold at $5 to $5.40 per ewt. Medium butehers' cattle brought $4 to $3; common to medium, $3.50 to $4,505 choice cows, $4.25 to $4.60; medium cows, $3.50 to $4; common coyys, $2 to $3.50; bulls, $2.50 to $4.60 per ewt. A good demand was reported for slockers and medium weight feeders, ALout 200 were sold at $3.25 to $3.75 per cwl. ? A steady demand obtained for veal calves at former prices. Yearling lambs, grain-fed, were somewhat higher, sel- lings at $7.50 to $8.25 per cwl.; Spring lambs weve worth $3.50 to $6 each. Ewes were quoted at $4.75 to $5.50 per cwt., and bucks and culls sold for $4 to $4.75 per cwt. Choice hogs were quoted at $6.50, and lights and fats at $6.25 per cwt. -- A HIGH TAX RATE. Belleville Council Fixes it at 27 Mills on the Dollar. A despatch from Belleville says: ~At & special meeting of the Council on Thursday evening the tax rate for the year was struck at 27 mills on the dol. lar. The increase of taxation is owing fo . considerable expenditure, which amounts to several (housands of dol- plars. eT ti hetingy owes sien oar 49 \House of Representatives, TIES ON THE TRACK. Attempt to Wreck a C. P. R. Trai i ; Near Edmonton. ; A despatch from Edmonton, Alberta, says: An atlempt to wreck the late a little south of Strathcona, on Wed-! nesday. Some miscreant placed two ties on the track, and it was only by good luck that a calamily was avoided. The ties when struck by the engine were thrown aside, and the locomotive did not leave the rails No clue to the perpetrator of the outrage could be found. C. P, R. officials are inclined tu believe that it was the work of chil- dren, but the opinion of the police 's that the ties were placed on the track by a tramp, who had been thrown off an earlfer train when stealing a ride, and who was anxious to get even in this way. ee an AN EMBARGO ON LIQUOR. Mail Carriers Will No Longer Be Al- lowed to Transport It. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Postmaster-General has taken a new de- parture in regard to all future contracts entered into with mail carriers, which will have the approval and support of the temperance people of the Dominion. A provision will be included in all future contracts which will prevent mail car- riers from carrying intoxicating lquor. I is Said that at present mail carriers bring liquor into country districts along with His Majesty's mails, and Mr. Le- rifeux has made up his mind fo have this stopped. If anyone violates tis part of the contract it will be cancelled ferthwith by the department. vcamaeeinets mere neem HE SHOT HIS MOTHER. Brooklyn Man Complained That She Was Keeping Him in Prison. A despatch from New York says: Be- cause his mother, Susan Carlin, had sent him to various reformatories, 'n which he had boen a prisoner for many years, Bernard Carlin on Wednesday, shot and killed her at her home in Quincy street, Brooklyn. Young Carlin had just been released from the refor- matory at Napanoch, where he had been sentenced for stealing a horse and wagon. He was arrested after the shooting. To the police he said he killed his mother "because she was mak- ing me do bits all my life." ---- MEN ASPHYXIATED. Accidents in the Waterworks Well at Winnipeg. A despatch from Winnipeg says: A Jchnson, engineer of the waterworks department, and Thomas Claverley were asphyxiated by gas in well No. 4A of the city water system on Wednesday morning. Claverley was in charge at night, and evidently went down the air shaft without testing it for gas, accord- ing to instructions, and Johnson lost his life in an heroic attempt to rescue him. Claverly was a young English- man and had no relatives here, at Johnson has a wife and family. TWO ----- FREE CANADIAN WHEAT. S. Millers Will Ask Congress Remove Duty. U. to A despatch from Chicago says: A re- sclution was adopted by members of the Millers' National Federation, in conven- {ion here on Thursday, to peti- tion Congress to amend the tariff laws sy as to admit Canadian wheat billed for foreign countries free of duty. The two hundred members of the organiza- tion in atlendance discussed ule question, and then referred it to a special com- mittee, which later in the session report- ed favorably for the petition. The me- morial was drawn and forwarded to Washington. a BIG TIMBER DEAL. Seven Hundred Thousand Dollars Paid for Limit Near Vancouver. A despatch from Vancouver says: A timber deal involving two hundred and fifty million feet of lumber within twen- ty-four miles of Vancouver was closed on Wednesday by D. VanWagner, min- ing engineer, London and new York, and J. G. Fitch, a Californian capital- ist. The tract is situated on Manquin Creek, Squamish Valley. The sum of $700,000 will be paid for the timber, and a $400,000 mill will be erected in June. SSA SEEDING HAS COMMENCED. Manitoba and Saskatchewan Farmers Putting in Their Grain. A despatch from Lyleton, Man., says: Seeding has commenced Mr Venton sowed a field to oals on Tuesday, and work on the land is quite general in this district. A despatch from Estevan, Sask., says: Several farmers have started seeding and the ground is in good condition, Farm work will become general prac- tically at once. ------t AN IMPERSONATOR FINED, Gearge Potts Pays Five Hundred Dol- lars for Election Crookedness. A despatch from Montreal says: Sen- tence was passed on Wednesday morn- ing upon George Polls, who pleaded guilly to having attempted to vote un- der a false name in St. Jean Baptisle Ward at the last municipal election. He was sentenced fo one hour's impris- onment and a fine of $500 or an addi- tional six months. The fine was paid. err a -_ WIFE BEATEN TO DEATII, Montreal Woman Died of Injuries Re- ceived at Hands of Husband. A despatch from Montreal says: An inquest is to be held in regard to the injuries received. Her husband was in court on Tuesday, charged with drunk- euness, but was remanded to await the result of the woman's injuries. It is likely that he will now be tried for mur- der or manslaughter, ; erga cacao! OLD-AGE PENSIONS, Premier Deakin Devising Plan to Start Them July of Next Year. A despatch from Melbourne, Austra- lia, says: Premier Deakin is devising a scheme whereby old-age pensions of ten shillings weekly, shall begin' in July, 1909, The Labdrites propose that the money should be secured by an appropriation under the Customs Sur- plus Revenue Bill, now before the t ees, northbound C, P. R. train was made] CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS - GLOBE. ; ---- Telegraph Briefs From Our Own and Other Countries of Recent Events. CANADA, St. Thomas' tax rate is 21 mills. Earl Grey has subscribed $1,000 to the Quebec battlefields fund. The steel plant at Sault Ste. Marie has clesed down again for lack of pig-iron. A shipment of living lobsters is being sent from Halifax to the Pacific coast. At Winnipeg 330 cases of canned-ap- ples from Oshawa were seized as unfit for food. The 13th Band of Hamilton offer to give band concerts in the parks for $£2.50 per night. Hamilton's police raided Springstead's bakery and seized over 200 loaves al- leged to be underweight. Port Arthur has adopted eastern time, which gives an additional hour of day- light after work for recreation, Fort William people have appealed {o the Provincial Government to assist them in dealing with the Doukhobors. Engineer George Love of Kenora was killed under his engine, which ran into a large boulder on the track near Me- Millan, on Friday, Herbert Wright, son of Mayor Wright of Emerson, is" under 'arrest charged with smuggling immoral women into the United States. Mrs, Pritchard, of Montreal, in whose rooms Smith resisted arrest by Chief Carpenter and his men, has put in a bil: for $1,200. Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, director of ihe Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, will be given an honorary degree by McGill. Sir Mortimer Clark's term as Lieufen- ant-Governor of Ontario will expire this menth. is Honor will probably be con- tinued in office for some time. Creegan, the ex-collector, of Thorold, p'eaded guilly to embezzling funds, made restitution, and was let off on suspended sentence by Magistrate Cruikshank. The British Government will consult the Canadian Government before per- mitting the passage of armed U, S, ves- sels through Canadian canals. Thomas Noah was sentenced to twelve years in the penitentiary at the Lon- don Assizes, on Friday, for killing Ab- solem Fox at an Indian dance on the Munice reserve. GREAT BRITAIN, Lord Curzon has declared in favor of fiscal reform. Mr. John Morley, Secretary of State for India, will, it is reported, be creat- ed a Peer. Mrs. Hamilton, one of the principal witnesses in the famous Druce case, has been found guilty of perjury. The Daily Graphic demands that Bri- tain force Venzuela to respect the rights of British companies with concessions in that country. Owing {o the little progress made in the negotiations between Britain and the United States over the Atlantic fisher- ies it is feared a renewal of the modus vivendi may become necessary. Britain has asked the great marilime powers {o send delegates to a confer- ence in London fo decide on the prin- ciples of international maritime law that are to apply in the international prize courts. UNITED STATES. Oakland County, Michigan, has adop- fed local option. William Jennings Bryan has made about $50,000 out of lectures in 1907. The United, States naval appropria- tion bill calls for a total appropriation of $103,967,518. Herman Ridder, of the New York Zeitung, thinks Congress will remove the duty on pulpwood. -Negrocs in Oklahama have threatened io murder the Governor of the State and to burn the city of Guthrie. President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress asking for legislation w'th a view to suppressing anarchy. Over three hundred students were dis- missed from Clemson College, Colum- hia, S. C., because of some April fool pranks. Speaker Cannon's resolutions calling for an investigation of the paper trust were passed in the House of Represen- tatives at Washington. - John R, Sandburg, aged 73, a ma- chinist of Galesburg, Ill., while going down a flight of steps, fell and was strangled to death by his false teeth. About 8,000 acres of coal lands in Monterey County, California, about 200 miles from San Francisco, are about to be developed in an extensive manner. Representative Perkins of New York declared at Washington that it would be betler to encourage the importation of lumber by bounties than to discourage it by tariff. After a shutdown of three weeks' duration, the plant of the National India Rubber Works, at Bristol, R. 1., employing about 1,400 hands, resumed operations, Italian parents in New York, fright- ened by rumors of proposed Black Hand outrages, caused a panic in a school by demanding that their? children be sent from the building, Urias Adams,- of . Warwick, Pa:, is an expert at making patchwork quills, He has just completed one containing 11,046 patches. -It required about three years to complete the quilt. Much American macaroni wheat js now exported to the Russian Black Sea ports, but the bakers prefer the native product, for which they pay up {fo 11 cents a bushel more, claiming that it gives better results. ' GENERAL. Quiet has again been restored in Jis- bon, but the city is virtually under mar- tial law. The high railroad. freight rate chargos in Campos. Brazil, incensed the inhabhi- tants, and the mob bufned stations, cars and warehouses, way" G. T. PACIFIC CONSTRUCTION, Tenders for Another Section Near Prince Rupert Opened, _ A despatch from Montreal says:--The Grand Trunk Pacific Executive is again busy with tenders for new work it will: shortly have in progress in the west, Tenders were opened for an additional 206 miles east of Prince' Rupert, which "Were called for afler the agreement was reached between Mr. Wainwright and the British Columbia Government with regard fo the Indian lands at the ter. mins, but no official information has {been given out regarding the tenders, £ = 3 = HAPPENINGS FROM ALL 0Vi3 THB. f BIg WESTERN Great Demand for Town Lots 'Alon Line of the 7. PR sales being daily made of lots & ous points. ee Sales of farm lands haye also, large, many settlers from eastern | ada, the United States and Europe pieting negotiations for purchases. building of new towns on what is open prairie will constitute a pictu esque feature of western life during the coming summer, Railway stati grain elevators, banks, hotels, busi houses and places of private residen ss will be required and will be construch ed as rapidly as the conditions of country permit. Large quantities © building material of all kinds will be | required, as, in addition to homes for s 'new farmers, fifty n@v town sites wilh 'be placed on the market by the C, Ps has continued, CRUD eee en A despatch from Winnipeg says: F. T. Griffin, land commissioner of the Canadian Pacific, has returned from Montreal. Mr, Griffin referred to the strong and increasing demand for busi- ness and residence sites along the new lines of railway, where towns are now being built. The sale of these lots has been in progress during the winter, and many thousands of dollars have been eaid to the company in exchange for them. Business was reported brisk in February, but in March there was a remarkable increase, the sale of town lets for that month having been three | times that of the previous month. Dur- ing April the demand ENLARGING THE SCOPE. Seed Grain Will Be Given New Farm: ers as Weil as Old, A despatch from Ottawa says: An order in Council has been passed amend- ing the regulations governing "the dis+ tribution of seed grain in the 'vest by permitting advanecs to be made to sel- tiers who had sown no grain in: the sea- son of 1907, Under the regulations passed in February last these settlers were shut out from receiving seed grain from the Government. But, according {¢ reports from the officers in charge of the work of distribution in the west, it Son of Mr. jam by Train at Lindsay. A despatch from Linds says' accident occurred here about | ov Friday afternoon, when, the a-half-year-old. son of Mr, B pleyed by the Sylvester Compa run over and killed by a G.T.R. header, The little fellow had w trom home, and was playin. tracks, Tho engineer stopped the bu! not before the boy had been kn down and his body completely sev appears that the number of applicants for seed is much less than was @x- pected, and in Consequence the appro- priation made by Parliament is consid- erably in excess of th requirements, Numerous applications have been re- ecived from farmers in Alberta and Sas- katchewan, who, although they had sown no grain jast year, are now ur- gently in need of seed for the coming season, and as secd grain is not ayail- able by individual effort to those who require it the Government has amended th: regulations as above. Se ase Aa ALBERTA'S NEW LICENSE LAW. Price. of Drinks Almost Doubled at Cal- gary--Early Closing. A despatch from Calgary says: Hotel- keepers have decided to almost double the price of drinks as a result of the new license law, that goes into effect May 1, which compels them to close the bars at 10 p.m. Wholesale prices have also been advanced. Under the new bar tariff all mixed drinks will oest 25 cents instead of 15 cents, and liquor, if mixed with mineral water, will cost a thirsty man 40 cents. It is estimated by the Secretary of. the Al- berta Temperance League that the re- duction of hours will curtail the receipts of the hotels by a million and a ha'f dollars. Seo Suieece' "bites: Tene NEW WINNIPEG DEPOT. Tenders Called for Million-dollar Union Structure, A despatch from Montreal says: Ten- ders have been called for the construc- tion of the new Union Depot which the Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canadian Northern are to erect in the City of Winnipeg. The structure is to cost $1,- 006,000, and will be one of the finest of its kind on the continent. Tenders have to be in by the 15th of this month, and the work of construction will be begun this year, -------F " ARRIVED ON THREE LINERS. 3,816 Passengers Landed at Halifax Within a Few Hours, A despatch from Halifax, N.S., says-- Belween daybreak and noon on Friday 3,816 passengers from Liverpool arrived cn. three big ocean liners belonging ta the Dominion, Canadian Pacific and Allan lines. The Empress of Britain brought 1435 passengers. Scarcely had she pulled out into the stream when the Canada came up the harbor with 1,277 passengers, most of them English, des- fined for the West. Next came {he Tunisian, which left Liverpool the same day as the Canada, with 1,104 pas- sengers. ite RST aka EASTER VIOLETS. Awake! the hallowed day is here. The joyful strains of music clear Scund softly on the morning air, And Waster comes with holy prayer, The timid dove that skyward flies. The flowers whose -- perfumes faintly rise, : All whisper love, in their sweet way Por Him, who rose to heaven this day. Within your leaves, Oh, violets. fair 1 find new life, and. inéense rare : Like as the morn that breaks facahiy Resplendent o'er the eastern. way 3 My heart rejoices in the light: °" Rejoices in your blossoms bright Both tell of Him, and His dear love Who rose from earth to heaven above. Tyrol, and Russia. aS an on Easter morning "Christ . at St. Paul. A despatch from St. Paul, says: Knute Olmstead died here-- Wednesday from starvation, afte attempt to fast for 40 days in order demonstarte his theory that controls the body, mightier than matter. the mit and that mind i Olmstead's lasted 31 days, according to those the house. ik$--_----_- WORLD'S EASTER CUSTO The custom of egg giving on originated in the early days of and is pretty generally observed inv east, Germany, Switzerland ar In Russia the peasants give red to one another and the nobilily ¢ golden eggs about with them. In ma parts of France the first food eaten 4 Easter Sunday is an egg. and other countries Easter eggs are In from one year to the other in th lief that it prevents mischief fro tering into a home, ; In the possession of some families England a festoon of eggs is hi down from one generation to the oshet heirloom; they may be sé about the chimney place. "They" added to from year to year, with ligious scrupulosity. : A Russian likes to have his eggs bear the words "Christos 0 (Christ is risen). and whenever h sents an egg to any one he never lo repeat these words, in all reve In Hungary the boys sprinkle" girls with rosewater and they in are given colored eggs. Every one knows that the hot @ bun is widely eaten not only in land, but in our-own country on Iriday--especially in the eastern The vogue of the bun sprang- Fugland and was the time hon dulgence on Good Friday evenin the. rigorous fast days. The belief is widespread in E among many intelligent person: hot cross buns will keep fresh' Good Friday to Good Friday. : persons go further and assert that sort of bread baked on Good Ti Will retain its freshness indefinits Through the eccentric generosil ar unknown person who died som i during the time of the Plantagen curious charity in connection with lriday took place in 81 Bart churchyard, Smithfield, London, ~ Twenty-one of the oldest wide: this parish assembled on the mor ef Good Friday, about the unk flat tombstone, and each picked | it a hot cross bun and a new Six} supposed to mark the tomb of the de of the charity. A qaint Easter Sunday supersti that on that day the sun in Gives leaps for joy. -The peas n the country station themselves on hills before' dawn on Easter mor in the hope they will behold the dance in order to have good luc low them through the> year, The first person to salute th ern with V Is risen," must be "gr turn by a reyal kiss; no mat lowly the person. _Englana is particularly rich | Easter customs, ey This is due in 1 part to the circumstance 'cent : é stance that ce ago it was a-decided fad for th lv establish so-called Eastor leg ie of them. still exist to. 1e ! purposes of their founder: Ge Have Been Voted Out of Existence THOUSAND SALOONS GO} ------___, in State of Illinois. Sewn sues ee ee A despatch from Chicago says: great liquor contest in Mince nag on sulted in the saloon party winning ae: cisively in most of the larger cities, but losing in scores of Smaller 'ones 4 ah ef) 2 saloons. being voted ad outroft exis The returns as reese Phe collected) ; fue are even more itnpressiva te pees prohibition Viewpoint, 923° tas. AN Ss or more than three-fourths of the feet eet being closed to the Veet nee Winning ine the larger cities dia the liquor interests save Sita from a complete Tuk. =: eteretaets Returns from the many saloons wil] thirty days hence as day's balloting, The figur Place the number al over for the most part in towns) from five to twenly-five sak pra cesbalch from Denver, hitty-five towns in Color oe were held "on 'fT ve pone Of local o1 of 5 hy * Dp aad giee SNS resultec close thi a rési the 1,200 townships of [possible Slate are incomplete, d it is tara: : te, and it is not ib e Stale w ith ¢ ee : not: