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Ld "s TRADE REVIEW shols sellim@ MARKETS Fortunately stock» «re salers MA RKET n. V heat i8 Barzley h-.m wor bushel Oats I Lacturera $1 1y at 2 to 410 / a 810 for mixed. toâ€" #13~ #â€"tom ras u:fl vres D toâ€"day V heat that Prinn MARKET \RKETS holds Li nenwt â€" mot a few week, ontiook, "#a it. Export 10. with the percept e pre » not of the ment i# e« â€" seloct ©6.50, I.o.a $b to 85 por Wediesday .l 4 ’; ““v witi prices ambs, with $9 to. $0.â€" » $9.50 Tor L feed + to ’a Neo 18 * few fi*p o t l#l m‘ml w en ty rade here & + rst w !!hl vok _ fo# 110 ‘rzu'tic.lli tion herg : bx»nl';: ough t ulttl:% Co ke ! ape tre _ nof nes 8 x "% easy pe ‘ i s . W ol w» @1 d sOm however, nd \ this s#uf tont % fairl¢ KET canners ; but. Q'l.cl “ BL.30 "L4 oummidh, to w 20 perk are for ‘C; mds steadv. te of J0) cat tile pound, pound, March , May 13 tu» 10 otv 13 00 as t 10 00 10 «00 14 00 1% 90 r4C T= were® 0 18 xA May J in Meantime the results are almost «comic. There are miles of empty wagâ€" ons on the ‘railwagys which the mine owhets refuse to use. The loss on 30, 900 empties at 1s 6d a day is this £2, 250 a day to the companies. On the othâ€" «r hand, m{ of the mines have private wagons which are mixed up nmo::gl the «empties on the companies‘ lines, and the eo-rlleo will charge them 1s 6d a day until they are _cmpf:yed. T\t the coal masters and steel mak «re pliced orders on'%cdneuh{v for 6, 000 private wagons at a cost of £5,000 to be independent of the railway wag oms, but the companies threaten to re fuse to haul these private wagons. All the time the coal and minerals are there to be cartied, and only the wailways can carry them, and it seems that some one has to give way. ‘Three miles from Horley, in Surrey, Che remarkable sight of elephants plowâ€" Ang a fiftyâ€"acre field, and doing it exâ€" *tremoty well, is being daily witmessed. Nor is this the only unusual sight to ‘he seen there. for close by camels#â€"real «amelsâ€"are frequently hard at work wutting chaff. A representative of this fournal visited ‘Burstow Lodge, where the animals, which mre the property of Sanger‘s Cireus, hibernate for four months on the 400â€" mere farm of Mr. Lord John Sanger. _ The companies last Monday imposed a charge of 1s Cd a day on their wagons when detained on colliery sidings, on the wround that there was undue detention which caused an unnecessary shortage in the supply. ‘The minerfl trade had threatened to close down if the charge were enforced, with the {uult of 5,000 minets being involuntarily thrown idle. As a large portion of the Okpoto and Munshi country is administered by North Ni.wh, Colonel Trenchard has in. structions.to meet the resident of these districts on the frontier with a view to consulting=as to the best means to be employed to bring these tribes under (iovernment control. Having dealt with the Okrotoo, the column will move eastâ€" ward along the boundary, deal with the Munshis and Tbos, and finally demobilâ€" ze at Abakaliki, the most northerly South Nigeria station near the Cross River. The heat is intense, and the troops, «specially those operating in the semiâ€" waterloss disttrict, are enduring considâ€" erable hardships. Over five thousand Scottish miners were thrown idle on Wednesday by a strange dispute between the colliery owners and the railway companies, It is a crime with this tribe f¢ woman to have twins. When this eurs the woman is driven away into bush and the twins are killed. tribes the oxxodmon will deal with arimed with flintâ€"lock guns and use soned arrows to a large extent, The first phase of the present operaâ€" tions Will deal with the lbo tribe. This tribe occupies a vast tract of country east of the Niger, and between Ibo and Idah; it reaches castward about halfâ€" w:ly to the Cross River. The tribe inâ€" dulges in human sacrifices, poisoning and extensive slave dealing. A large base camp has been formed at Ikem, a town some fifty miles from the boundary of North Nigeria. ~ All the stores of the column are concentrated here, and when necessary the columns return to the base to refit, The foree at Colonel Trenchard‘s dis posal is composed of portions of comâ€" panies from the lst and 2nd battalions Nouth Nigeria Regiment, drawn from the various garrisons in the Protectorâ€" ate. The work or the Niger and Cross Rivâ€" er expedition is proceeding, and already w large area has heen brought under eontrol. The force is organized in three eolumns, each dealing with a large tract of country. (London Daily Mail.) A correspondent at Old (‘l‘-hr szends, via Lagos, S, Nigeria, the folowing mesâ€" In bright sunshine, though the ground Many Interesting Happenings Reported From Great Britain. NEWS FROM THEF OLD LAND RAILWAY WAGON FEUD ELEPHANTS AT PLOUGH 1% ‘The Board of ‘Wrade inquiry as to the views of the country on Mr. W. W1l | lett‘s idea for saving daylight in eummer | by advancing the clock one hour is now | almost concluded. For months the offiâ€" | cials have been questioning traders on One of the chief difficulties was that the New York and London and Liverâ€" pool Exchanges would not be open suffiâ€" ciently long simitltaneously. By Monâ€" day‘s mail _ Mr, Willett dispatched to each member of Congress a circular letâ€" ter, arguing that an extra hour of dayâ€" licht in summer would bg.jyst as agxeeâ€" able to Americans as to Britons, and asking each member to let him know whether he would introduce a Daylight Saving Bill in the Legislature, or would support one introduced by someone else. "When I first drafted the bill," said Mr. Willett, "I wrote to every member of the House of Lords and the House of Commons. I received only one reply, from Mr. Robert Pearce, who introduced the bill and secured the appointment of the Select Committee, I now possess exâ€" pressions of goodwiu towards the meaâ€" sure signed by twenty peers and 176 members of the House of Commons." ntsr»fn of the bill is to be held at the Guildhall on April 20th, and the Lord After his first visit to England . Mr. Sidney Kidman, the millionaire, "cattle king" of Australia, left London _ this week for his home, Mr. Kidman is said to be the largest _ landowner in the world. He is master of over 31,000,000 their views, and Mr. Churchill will be in possession of the report, it is expected, soon after Parliament reassembles. Altogether the animals at Burstow TLodge consume considerably over two tons of chaff daily, besides hay that has not been cut, and the chaffâ€"cutting is almost entirely done by camels. An elderly "oont" named McGee is the foreman, and his "mate," as a rule, is Sammy, a juvenile dromedary, who takes a very great delight in his work, and fills the humps of all the other camels and Lmedsriu with bitter jealâ€" ousy. On this unique farm there are 150 cirens horses, and a complete menagerie, including lions, tigers, wolves, hyenas and monkeys. Guildhall on April 20th, and the Lord Mayor will take the chair. Each of the four* elephants eats a hundredweight or two of hay daily. If they have a long march or heavy duty in the ficlds before them they are given ten quarter loaves of bread apiece for breakfast, as an exira titâ€"bit. She further showed a disposition to ait on the plow. which would have done her hide no:â€"good and certainly spoiled a useful agricultural implement. So she returned to the farm, and was ordered to clasp the tail of Tiny with her trunk. Then, in dignified procession, the two elephants marched to the field, and Annie was yoked to the plow, Tiny standing by to encourage her. She did very well, considering. Afterwards Tiny took her place, and showed what a really smart and experiâ€" enced elephant could ¢0. The plow slid There are two other elephants in the social cirele at Burstow Lodge. Their names are Rose and Ida. They are eager to learn to plow, but they are rather young as yet, neither of them much over fifty, and there is plenty of time. enced elephant could ¢0. The plow slid through the heavy soil as if it were slicing butter. f j Annie also can turn a good furrow, but she is a beginner, being caly a.i»out. sixty years of age, while ‘Tiny is seventy or eighty at least. Annie was led out a few mornings ago alone to the fields, but resented the "newâ€"fangled notion," as she regarded the plow, and trumpeted furiously. _ was white with frost at midday and all exposed water was covered _ with ice, Tiny, whose chief claim to her name app ats to res. on the fact that she is far the largest of the four elephants at Burstow Lodge, plowed her lonely furâ€" rows metrily, her peculiar friend, Annie, looking on and encouraging her at inâ€" tervals with jovial snorts. A public meeting of business men in FROM OMNIBUS TO RANCH DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL e Y B Raaet us .. C Heâ€"Ask me if I think the barnyard fowl envies the wild duck.â€"Philadelphia Thereupon she condensed herself, he took a seat and conversation flagged.: â€"Philadelphia Ledger. "I do," she replied shortly. ‘"Excuse me,"‘ he went on. "I am but an ignorant male secking light. May I ask if you construe these rights to inâ€" clude the privilege of spreading your reallyP becoming skirts over â€" three seata ?‘ Sheâ€"â€"Do you think the married men really envy the bachelors? f ‘"Madam, do you believe in woman‘s rights?" asked the man standing in the car. The great trouble with our Ontario farms at present is the lack of fertilâ€" ity on many of the older settled homeâ€" steads. _ Continued ercpping, renting and lack of cuitivation a=ye done much to wear out their soils. Now, while sheep are selling low, is the time to stock up with a good flock of mutton or woo!â€"producing ewes. The point is that, if on the highly valâ€" uable lands of the old country zo many sheep can be maintained at a profit, it stands to reason that (Jntario could better afford to approach th=*s example than otherwise. show larger clean profits than do many other forms of stock husbandry. P weres, and has close upon 200,000 cattle and 10,000 horses. s Compared with this, a glance at Onâ€" tario‘s fertile soils bears a poor comâ€" parison. _ In York County there are only 81,733 sheep, while simcoe, which has the largest number, totals only 66,521, Approximately this would mean about 20 sheep to the 1000 acres in Onâ€" tario, and actual figures for the whole of older Ontario would show that less than half that number would be held by our farmers. To build these up we should keep more live stock, and by doing so we would soon make our land suppore more than 100 acres of land, _ No class of animals can be handled ~so easily on most farms as sheep. ‘The returns sages and giving them excellent wages out _ there, He is doing this also for twenty lads, including two pages from his hotel. "Your ommnibus drivers are fine felâ€" lows," he remarked recently, "I‘ve done a powerful lot of omnibus _ riding in London on top of the omnibuses, talkâ€" ing to the men about their horses. 1 have said to some of them, ‘You write to me if you want to go to Australia/ and four of them are going. MONTREAL OTTAWA TORONTO LONDON CHATHAM WINNIPEG QUEBEC ST. JOHN, N.B. HALIFAX $21â€"3 Craig St. W. 423SussexSt, 11ColborneSt. 86 KingSt, 200 West KingSt. 76 LombardSt. 127 Rue duPontSq. 42â€"46PrinceWilliamSt, 16PrinceSt. We want Agents in some sections. Write for details. Mention this paper. No. 127. During his stay in London Mr. Kidâ€" man has made himself the friend of the ommibus man. In fact, he is sending out four drivers, with their families, to Ais stations in Australia, paying their pasâ€" SHEEP IN BRITAIN. In Great Britain it is estimated that at present there are for every 1,000 acres of surface at least 125 head of cattle and 475 head of sheep. And this large percentage of sheop is in a small land full of big cities, hills, lakes and inlets, where the tillable land is small and the cost of operating necessarily "The best horses in the world are in England, and the best treated. _ You feed them well, treat them well, and drive them well. ‘The London omnibus and cab horses are the best in their class anywhere, and you see the finest driving, The English cattle, also, are as fine as can be found anywhere. "But your farmers are, I fancy, beâ€" hind us in Australia; _ the implements they u& are not nearly so upâ€"toâ€"date as o‘n..” The Pedlar People of Oshawa And Pedlar ceilings are not only fine enough, in point of looks, for any buildingâ€"they are good enough in all that makes a ceiling good. They are away, ‘way ahead of plaster, to start with. People _ knowâ€" nowadays, that the For Chu right sort of metal Librar ceilings are fine enough for _ any building that can‘t use marble ceilings. I know a few buildâ€" ings even, that could have marâ€" ble and do have Pedlar Art Steel Ceilings. Like to send you pictures of such buildings. couldn‘t get a real ceiling. And they were not far wrong, then. But that was long years agoâ€" before even I got into the metal ceilâ€" ing business. Metal PE ceilings _ have changed since then â€"and opinions. And of course woodâ€"even A Foolish Question. Woman‘s Rights. For Churches, Residences, Civic Edifices, Schools, Libraries, Hotels, Club Houses, Office Buildings, Factories, Shops, Stores. PEDLAR *See. CEILINGS *For a few winutes there was silence, then a bright little boy put unp his hand. . Please, teacher, she was the daughter of Noah." A o2 Teacher (during Mstory lessno)â€"Who was Joan of Are? â€" A peatly attired, but somewhat wanâ€" faced, middleâ€"aged Italian woman, dress: ed in black, leading a little boy with each hand, called at a lawyer‘s office in the Land Title building recently and arranged with him to apply for a diâ€" vorce. After going over the history of her case the lawyer said: "Well, I supâ€" pose you want to get alimony?"> In slightly accented, though nearly perfcet English, the client replied: "I wou‘ld just like to get part of his money, that‘s all." â€"Philadelphia Recofd: . _ "His ideas were poohâ€"poohed on every hand. The sheep could not live on Ausâ€" tralian grasses, such was the voice of the experts. Failing to get extra capiâ€" tal Macarthur yet persevered. He reâ€" turned to Australia with a few particuâ€" larly valuable rams and ewes presented to George III, by the King of Spain, His flock increased to 4,000." The extraordinary growth of sheep raising is seen from a few figures. In 1792 there were only 105 sheep in the country. In 1800 there were about 6,â€" 000; in 1810 about 33,000; in 1821, about 200,000, and in 1842 over 6,000,000. Toâ€" day they are the true Golden Fleece of Australia. Repeat it:â€"*"Shiloh‘s Cure will always cure my coughs and colds." "Samples taken to London in 1803 were valued at six shillings a pound. He had gone to London with a great scheme, He exglained to the Secretary of State that his flocks would double themselves every two and a half years. In twenty years with proper encourageâ€" ment, he could make England independâ€" ent of Spanish Merino wool, To Capt. Waterhouse, an army officer, belongs lt)he credit of bringing the first Spanish Merinos, the ancestry of our valumable flocks, says the Im}nrinl Reâ€" vue. In 1797 he was sent from Ausâ€" tralia to the Cape for Merinos, a service which he described as almost a disgrace to any officer. Col. Gordon had some K{eau before brought a few Spanish erinos to the Cape and they had inâ€" creased to thirtyâ€"two. _ Waterhouse bought 20 of them and brought them to Sydney. "Macarthur was allowed to take three rams and five ewes. He noticed that as they remained in the colony their fleeces became heavier, the wool softer and of. better quality. By judicious Sheep, One Great Source‘ of Austraâ€" lia‘s Wealth, Not Native There. It is 120 years since the first shipment of people left England for Australis, There was then not a sheep in that country. ‘The pioneer sheepmen were met,. with ridicule and rebuffs on all sideg. The first fleet, in 1787, brought sheep, the genesis of Australian wealth, but only for food on the voyage. Spain, Holland and France had sneered at Ausâ€" tralia and passed it by. and of, better qua breeding he further ity. Never did other sheep reach Australia alive till 1791, when the Gorgon brought sixtyâ€"eight from the Cape. In 1792 twenty were brought from GCalcutta, In 1793 100 more came from Caleutta. The sheep shipped in England were eaten on reaching Cape of Good Hope. Fortyâ€"four sheep were there taken abourd, with some cattle and pigs. The sheep were Cape natives, hairy fantails. Some were landed but died. Gov. Philip blamed the rank grass. Wood ceilings are costly in themselves, even if the cheaper woods be used. And they are dearer in that they make a fireâ€" trap of any house. Of course, plaster is not fireâ€" proof, far, far from it, as it is Of course every plaster ceilâ€" ing cracks and keeps on crackâ€" ing for three years after it‘s new. * of plaster ceilings is short enoughâ€"even if it doesn‘t deâ€" mand repairs every year. Address our Nearest Warehouse: And the life of the good kind Live and Let Live. GOLDEN FLEECE. Joan â€"Located. as allowed to ewes. He n« ned in the cc heavier, the 1 quality. _ By ity. By increased to take three noticed that colony their _wool softer By judicious ed the qualâ€" Managerâ€"Well, you see the memâ€" bers of the reading committee want one of the three acts cut out. Authorâ€"I won‘t kick about that. Manaferâ€"Unfortunably for you each of them want a different act strack out. °dAm.ho:‘â€"Hn my play been acceptâ€" 9 "This is lovers‘ lane, sir," said the natâ€" ive; ‘and it ends down there in the bend of the river they call the devil‘s elâ€" "Friend," asked the masculine half of the party in the runabout, "what road is this ?" it; â€"‘"Shiloh‘s Cure will always cure my â€" coughs and colds." 2 .Q,.A.-g/'Q [ R _4A ‘fi;fl 12 j e ..§') "\ J wl ds Suppose you let Schools, me send you a litâ€" dings, tle book on the subject. I am pretâ€" ty sure you . will find it worth reading. F don‘t mind if you are merely curious nowâ€"I want you to know. Your address, please? Only One Pupil in School District. The instructor is M. R. Honeyman, formerly of Spokane, who took charge of the school early this month, _ ‘There were three pupils at the beginning of the term, soon after which the parents oi two of them moved out of the disâ€" triet, taking their children with them. The district is regularl{ organized and has a schoo! board, with chairman, seeâ€" retary and treasurer, d Johnny Jergensen, 11 years ‘of age, probably occupies the most peculiar posâ€" ition of any pupil under the public sehool system in the United States. He is the only child of senool age in the district near Kettle Falls, Ferry county, Washâ€" ington, and has a teacher @ll to himâ€" self. Pedlar products include every kind of sheet metal building materialsâ€"too many items to even mention here. You can have a catalogueâ€"informationâ€"estimate â€"pricesâ€"adviceâ€"just for the asking. We‘d like specially to interest you in our Art Steel Ceilings and Side Wallsâ€"they are a revelation to many people. More than 2,000 designs. May we mend you a booklet and pictures of some oi them? Possibly you have some vague ideaâ€"a survival of the old days!â€"that metal ccilings are machineâ€"made art, crude, stiff, unlovely? _ I just wish you could see the pictures _ of EEL some of my ceilâ€" ings. _ You would -! c know better then. Unfortunate. Ominous. ESTABLISHED 1861 ONTARIO ARC TORONTO P * ealats is\ 9n abirngit â€" Repeat zre nh:uu-'nt an absolute return to the system, but a combination of Before the Civil Service Commission took entire charge of examinations the candidate for promotion had to pass muster before a board of chief officers, ft was an oral examination, and was« strictly practical. What would he do in this or that emergency‘ What in his judgment was the best means of workâ€" ng out some ‘difficult probiem? Rupâ€" pose a fire under certain conditions, how would he ciapose of his fm-m.mhliug it, and would he send in a or a third alarm*> This was the kind ~of test the man had to meet, and it was more than a matter of good school edvcation. Tt was w.'m expert, and the standard set was proâ€" Chief Croker had said so in all his annual reports and in many other approâ€" priate ways. Hugh Bonner, chief and commissioner, the line of the departâ€" ment, was of the same opinion. This is Chief Croker‘s latest communication on the subject : "I would recommend a â€" conference between the fire commissioner, chief of department and officials of the muniâ€" cipal Civil Service Commission with a view to changing the method of examâ€" ination for appointment in the uniformmâ€" ed force and promotion to higher grades, The present system works too much in favor of the men who are merely handy with pen and inkâ€"that‘s what Croker thinks, and his officers are mostly in accord with him. Just now the high pressure area exâ€" tends only from Chambers street to Iwentyâ€"third street, but it is to be exâ€" tended to all the closely built parts of the city. As it spreads the need of abler bodied men will increase proporâ€" tionately, not only because high presâ€" sure lines are harder to handle, but also because fewer companies will be »lled out on each alarm and there will be more work for each man to do. Firemen regard this recent action of the State «Civil Service Commission as a concession to professional opinion, but it is only a partial concession. Profesâ€" sional opinion has demanded a great deal more, and so far has dewanded in vain. The officers of the department are quite certain that the whole system of examâ€" ining men both for admission to the ranks and for promotion to the higher grades could be improved along practical partment is prevented from promoting members who would make first class officers." ols oo in the department are particularly well fitted by advancement are outclassed by the younger men, with whom th! are unable succesefully to compete *n exâ€" aminations as at present conducted, and as a result of which condition the deâ€" Chief George Farrell, master of the school of instruction and philosopher in general of the department, expressâ€" ed the common judgment of the serâ€" vice when ‘some one asked him if a good little man wasn‘t all right. _ The action of the State Civil Serâ€" vice Commission is a utdz response to complaints which have been growâ€" ing more and more insistent for the last five years. Time and again Chief Croker has protested against the phyâ€" sical unfitness of many of the men who have got by the civil service exâ€" aminers and the surgeons. Lately the pension list has begun to give emphasis to Chief Croker‘s arguments. Look over the roll and you will find an increasing number of comparatively young men retired on about $400 a year for disabilities not incurred in the line of duty. That means usually that a narrow chested man has collapsed under the strain of ordinary fire fighting and has been laid on the shelf with oneâ€"third pay instead of the half pay that is the lawful due of every fireman who reâ€" tires after twenty years or more of service. The wear and tear on a fireman is terrific. Take the single item of lost and broken sleep. _ A continuous night‘s rest is a thing almost unâ€" known. The arrangement of the wire cireuits is such that the gong will ring many times when some of the companies which it awakens do not respond to the alarm. Unless the new reéecruit can learn to take his sleep in instalments he is doomed to failure. The introduction of the high presâ€"| sure water system within the lnst. year is an additional reason for deâ€" | manding more powerful men. When the gauge shows a hundred pounds pressure to the square inch at the nozzle it takes four or five men to keep the hose line steady; and a hose line that gets away is a devil unchained. Chief Farrell ought to know. He has trained more than half of the deâ€" partment @s it exists toâ€"day and has studied them man by man. 1t is the judgment of another chief after twentyâ€"eight years of experience in fire fightir;? that, other things beâ€" ing equal, efficiency increases with :xgsight and weight up to about 5 feet "a+ Then there are long days and nights of battle when bedtime and mealtime never come at all, times when the water freezes over rubber coats and boots and helmets till their wearers are clad in garments of ise, times when for hours together men must breathe smoke and gas till throat and lungs and stomach are inflamed and their heads feel as if they were clampâ€" ed in jackscrews. No wonder then that the man of frail timber weakens. No wonder that Croker keeps calling for stout ribs and strong limbs as well as brave hearts. as under the present system of promoâ€" tion men who by reason of experience ‘"After that," said he, "there is too much of them above the waistline, and they are likely to break amidâ€" ships." _ x . 9h. As soon as it strikes the floor it beâ€" gins to thresh and writhe like a giant snake and the nozzle flies back with a kick that may easily kill a man if it hits him in the head. So far, through good luck, it never has actually struck a fireman dead, but it has broken many a leg and many a shoulder, and there is one skull pieced out with a silver plate in the place where it landed. A 6 OOAAA OAAA RARA NRAAA A RR LA T D I a A A 4 Db 0 0 4 4 0 8 e e e 8 848 8 6 (N. Y. Sun.) ‘lke good features of both old and new. s k | _ They think too that the uniformed ,Th"e _"' 109 .mo,'.“ we "SP°0" | force should have something to _ say sible officers of the Fire Department | abont its own discipline. They want a few days ago when word came from ; trial boards similar to the courtmmartial Albany that hereafter bigger men | of the ll‘flb: and navy ; that is, the men must be found for appointment to the | :'::"":“I ‘:"r"‘;'l‘w:’”‘ ":.“'M‘.“ "'r‘;: uniformed force, The State Civil Serâ€" | iY t':" C (Seloner ‘::_ his d.;““' vice Commission decreed that no man f ‘The Fire Department has kept itself under 5 feet 8 inches or lighter than | fairly free from the blight of politics, 140 pounds would be eligible, thus } r.- ND-:’-:d. fi:r .“‘ltllff'.. wx‘lh the Poâ€" adding an inch to the mquirepi':u- | il:t:) th’o‘tr.i':l- , bu ’:‘I‘w;' o:". :.r:: tug:ni:?dfi(o‘ov;e Fnrrell“,o masier of The | token discipline creeps out." The chicfs school of instruction and philosopher | and captains ‘|!l{ll? that this will be true in general of the department, expressâ€" | as long as politicians sit in judgment. _ ‘"Yes," he answered, " a good little man is all right, but a good big man is just so much better.‘ * sslonally scvere. _ , A . Jt is somcthing like that tho‘ firemen | Bigger Men to Fight Fires WO befudintialiaais in sls in in t ts in in is ts e t ts is tssn in ntn d 40402 06 0 00 Will be Needed on the High Pressure Lines â€"â€"._ _ their rinish, Mrs. Crowâ€"â€"Jame«, have you ever thought what will become ol us when “lmclodg-r-()l I Al wind Mr. 1 ! I suppose we up as quail on foast: at some wable d‘hotie restaurant. 3 one of the college hallsâ€"‘*"one of the finest specimens of _ pure English exâ€" tant." the letter runs as follows : Dear Madam ; I have been shown in the files of the war department a statement of the adâ€" jutant general of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sous who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine vhi:hi”do_-uo:m::: to beguile you from grief of a so ovog!@cz-i-(. But I cannot refrain from upish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. Yours very sincerely and respectfully. Abraham Lincoln. â€"Philadelphia Ledger. From Suspension B via Lehigh Valâ€" ley R. R.. flmmn lith. ‘Pickets good for 10 days. Particulars 64 King strest east, ‘Toronto. Lincoln‘s Matchliess Diction. The letter of President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, of Boston, deserves the comment of the college authorities of Orford, written bemneath a printed copy hung in tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the reâ€" public th;_dud to save. I pray that our Meavenly Father may assuage the angâ€" Repeat it:â€"‘" Shiloh‘s Oure will alâ€" ways cure my coughs and colds." Miss Bellâ€"You say you ears more money by your pen than you did a year ago* Buitorâ€"I do. Miss Bellâ€"How‘s that? Suitorâ€"1 stopped writing stories and begam addressing With the matter of trial boards the Civil Eervice Commission has nothing to do. It is up to the Commissioner, who to do, It is up to the Commissioner, who by law prescribes rules for the governâ€" ment of the department. Bo it becomes simply a question as to when the city shall have a Commissioner who will conâ€" sent to try the experiment, gether and the little arraugment is easily effecied, and the drunkard or the insubordinate gets off with a reprimand or a small fine where he deserves to be dismissed. Why, these are the easiest favors a politician can graut. They conâ€" fer obligations and they cost nothingâ€" except the efficiency of the department. That, briefly, is the argument of Chiet Croker and his associates, who for years have pleaded for trial boards. Let us be judge and jury, they say, and it will be a pretty clever rascal who wil! get away from us, who know all ike tricks of the trade. ‘They contend too that firemen are better judges of the facts at issue than even the most unâ€" prejudiced and unselfish laymen, facts which only men of actual experience can appreciate. The scheme does not contemplate . a trial board composed for long periods of the same officers, Politics might weave its web about such a court too. The members would change so frequently that a culprit would mever know who his judges were to be. If your little ones are subject to colic, indigestion, constipation, worms, eimple {evers, or the other minor ailments of childhoood, give them Baby‘s Own Tabâ€" lets and see how quickly the trouble will disappear. But better still, an oc casional dose of ‘Tablets given to well children will keep theso troubles away. Mrs, Allan A. MecDonald, Island River, The district leader is perfectly willing to intercede with the Commissioner, who very likely is a district leader himâ€" self and likely to be asking consideraâ€" tion of the same kind in some other deâ€" partment. Eo they lay their heads toâ€" BABY‘S OWN TABLETS WILL CURE YOUR BABY N, B., says: "My baby suffered greatiy from constipation and stomach trowble and Baby‘s Own Tablets cured him. 1 always keep the Tablets in the home now." Sokf by medicine deaiers or by mail at 25 cents a box from ‘The Dr. Williams‘ Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. A man is under charges, let us say, of drunkenness or tardiness or disrespect to an officer. His fixst move if he is guilty is to lay the case before his disâ€" trict leader. $10.00, New York and Return.