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*v w k t al Â¥e .".’J " o d Ai. + to $s #« Lardâ€"Pure, tierces, 27 to 27%¢; tubs, 27% to 28¢; pails, 27% to 28%4; prints, 28% to 29c. Comgound. tierces, 25% to 25%e¢; tubs, 25% to 26%4¢; pails, 26 to 26!4¢; prints 274 to 27%¢. Smoked _ meatsâ€"Hams, medium, 36 to 38¢c; do, heavy, 30 to 32¢; cookâ€" ed, 49 to 51c; rolls, 31 to 32¢; breakâ€" fast bacon, 41 to 45¢; backs, plain, 44 to 45¢c; boneless, 50 to 52%c. Cured meatsâ€"Long clear bacon, 28 to 29¢; clear bellies, 27 to 28c. 25 to 26¢ ib.; 10 Ib. ting, 24% to 25¢; 60 b. tins, 24 to 25¢; buckwheat, 60 Ib. tins, 19 to 20¢c. Comb: 16 oz., $4.50 to $5, doz.; 12 oz., $3.50 to $4, doz. Maple productsâ€"Syrup, per gal. $2.25 to $2.35; sugar, Ib., 27 to 28e to Countzy _ Produtceâ€"Wholesale. Butterâ€"Dairy, tubs and rolls, 36 to 38¢; prints, 40 to 41c. Creemeary, fresh made solids, 56 to 51¢; prints, per bag. Hayâ€"No mixed, $18 Toronto. Strawâ€"C Millfeedâ€"Car lots, delivered Monâ€" treal freights, bags included. Bran, $40.25 per ton; shorts, $42.25 per ton;kgood feed flour, $3.25 to $3.50 Manitoba flourâ€"Government stanâ€" dard, $10.75 to $11.00, Toronto. Ontario _ flourâ€"Government stanâ€" dard, $9.55 to $9.75 in bags, Toronto and Montreal, prompt shipment in jute bags. al Ontario wheatâ€"No. 1 spring, $2.09 to $2.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 t $2.14; No. 3 do, $2.02 to $2.10 f.o.b., shipâ€" ping points, according to freights. Peasâ€"No. 2, $1.80, according to freights outside. _Barleyâ€"Maltinz, 90 to 95¢c. nominâ€" Toronto, prompt shipme Ontario oatsâ€"No. 2 66¢; No. 3 white, 62 to ing to freights outside. Ontario wheatâ€"No. 1 ear lot, $2.14 to $2.22; $2.11 to $2.19; No. 3 ,32.15 f.g.b.., shipping po ing to freights 96 %¢; No. 4â€"-(2-."-V'., éi)"",'fic;vrej:c'te‘d: f;’::/:c; feed, 84%¢, in store Fort Wil. American cornâ€"No. 3° yellow, §.TlU4: No 4& Yalnu CF T0 swact Breadstuffs, Toronto, March 25.â€"No. 1 Northâ€" ern, $2.24%;, No. 2 Northern, $2.21%; No. 3 Northern, $2.17%; No. :{ Y/heat, $2.11%, in store Fort Wilâ€" Liam Markets of the World ed by three representatives of the employers not directly concerned in to report on the question of nationâ€" rent_year, £43,000,000. alization by May 20, and to issue It was proposed that the profits of interim reports from time to time on the coal masters should be limited to the p.roblem of improvements in the fourteen pence per ton. Taking all coal industry. things into consideration; the estiâ€" Porposals of this nature would be| mated cost to the taxpayers would put into immediate operation deâ€"| be nearly £30,000,000. elared Mr. Bonar Law. This involved[' Mr. Bonar Law also announced the continuance of coal control for‘t‘hat the employers had made what two years, he himself and the Labor Minister With reference $o the Sankey reâ€" port, which, he explained, was signâ€" A despatch from London says:â€" Andrew Bonar Law, the Government spokesman, in a statement in the House of Commons, said that the Government accepted the report of the special coal issio of which '.)leucnice Sir Joh: Sanl::y is chairman, including its undertaking Buckwheat Ryeâ€"No. | 10 BRITISH INDUSTRIAL DISTURBANCES â€" NOW IN PROCESS OF SETTLEMENT Report of Coal Commission GraTlting Miners Twoâ€"Thirds of Their Demands Accepted by Government. Provisions â€" Wholesale Car lots, $10 cornâ€"No. 3 . 4 yellow, $1.70 ompt shipment. 1, $20 to $21 to $19 per t No. 2, 85¢, nominal. $1.39 to $1.42, nomin eed . 1 spring, $2.09 $2.06 to $2.14; 12.1_0 {._o.tf.._uhip- & _1 winter, ggr 22; No. 2, O., 3 do, $2.07 to clear bacon, 27 to 28c. 21 to 27%e; 27% to 28%4; Compound, tubs, 25% to points, accordâ€" white, 64 to 64c, accordâ€" to per ton; 1, track, ton , 10l%e; 1 feed, 2 feed, nomin track | "Field Marshal Haig," says the , article, "probably fought more batâ€" |tles than any British general who | has ever lived, and their magnitude !dwarfs everything in our military | history. _ Waterloo would have been |\ a mere combat if it had figured in | the catalogue of his engagements, | and his battles were, on the whole, | singularly successful. "Haig must share theâ€"glory with others, but when all deductions have been made enough will remain to put him among the first half dozen genâ€" erals this country has ever produced. Mistakes he may have made, for batâ€" tles like Loos were premature, as we now see in view of the amazing strength of the German positions, and Passchendaele must always be acâ€" counted a sone of the most tragic passages in our history." "In the last few months of the war he was &s infallible as the Duke of Wellington himself, and when their history comes to be properly written we shall hail this period as incomâ€" parably the most glorious of our military history. "His best things were done at the beginning and at the end of the war. The conduct of the retreat from Mons was above praise, and it should never be forgotten that his was the distinction of that greatest and narâ€" rowest of British victories, the first battle of Ypres. In connection with Field Marshal Haig‘s transfer from command of the British army on the continent to corimand the home forces, the Lonâ€" don Times prints an appreciative article recognizing both his failures and successes. Gen. Haig Was Infallible Leader in Most Glorious Campaign of History. Montreal, Mar. 25.â€"Choice steers, $13 to $14; fiod, $12 to $13; medium, $10.50 to $11.50; common, down to $7.50; choice butcher cattle, $10.50 to $11.50; good, $9 to $10; medium, $8.50 to $9; canners, $5 to $6.50; milk calves, $10 to $15; sheep, $9 to $10.50; lambs, $12 to $15. ‘ ONE OF 6 GREATEST GENERALS do, good, $10 to $10.75; do, medium, $0 to $9.25; do, common, $7.50 to $8; stockers, $8 to $10.50; feeders, $10.50 to $12; canners and cutters, $5.50 to $7; milkers, good to choice, $90 to $150; do, com..and med., $65 to $75; springers, $90 to $150; light ewes, $11.50 to $13; yearlings, $12 to $14; spring lambs, $16.75 to $18.75; calves, good to choice, $16 to $17.50; hogs, fed and watered, $20; do, off cars, $20.25; do, f.o.b., $19.25; do, f.0.b., country points, $19. _ _ | I Montreal â€" Markets. | __Montreal, March 25.â€"Oats, extra | No. 1 feed, 81¢c; flour, new standard | grade, $11.10 to $11.20; rolled oats, | bag, 90 lbs., $3.90 to $4; bran, $40.25; shorts, $42.25; Mouillie, $64; hay No. 2, per ton, car lots, $23. _ Cheese, finest Easterns, 24 to 25¢; butter, Toronto, March 25.â€"Choice heavy export steers, $16 to $17.50; do, good, $14.50 to $15.50; choice butcher steers, $13.50 to $13.75; butcher‘s cattle, choice, $13.25 to $13.75; do, good, $12.25 to $12.75; do, common, $10.25 to $10.75; bulls, choice, $10.75 to $11.75; do, medium bulls, $9 to $9.25; do, rough bulls, $7.75 to $8.25; butchers‘ cows, choice, $11 to $12.25; 2, per ton, car lots, $23. _ Cheese, finest Easterns, 24 to 25¢; butter, choicest creamery, 58 to 59c; eggs, selected, 36¢; No. 1 stock, 35¢; poâ€" tatoes, per bag, car lots, $1.50: dresâ€" sed hogs, abattoir killed, $25.50 to $26; lard, pure, wood pails, 20 lbs. net, 28% to 30c. Mr. Bonar Law also announced that the employers had made what he himself and the Labor Minister considered reasonable proposals to the transport workers, and he had reason to believe that these would prove acceptable to the men. i the coal industry and ganted the miners twoâ€"thirds of their â€" demands in wages. Mr. Bonar Law said that the signers of the report recommended a further reduction in hours in 1921, because by then the oviput of 1918, namely 287,000,000 tons, will be reâ€" sumed. The estimated cost of what was recommended was for the curâ€" rent_ year, £43,000,000, Live Stock Markets. "(Going to the blacksmith shop to get my tin hat reblocked." * An interesting photographic bit of evidence for the Peace Conferâ€" ence in the above photo which shows German soldiers destroying the machinery of a silk mill owned by N. Cattelmain, at Boussieres, near Cambrai. Harry G. Hawker won the British Michelin prize for 1912 by a flight of eight hours and 23 minutes. He has made many longâ€"distance flights along the British coast. He estabâ€" lished a world‘s altitude record of 28,500 feet in 1916. Pilot Hawker said he believed that the flight would occupy about 19% hours.. The machine, he added, had flown 900 miles in nine hours and five minutes on oneâ€"third of its petrol capacity, and is capable of maintainâ€" ing a speed of 100 miles an hour for 25 hours. The machine is a Sopwith twoâ€" seater biplane, with a 375 horseâ€" power engine. The fusilage is boatâ€" shaped, and will support the machine in the water. A despatch from London says:â€" British avaitors are to try for a flight across the Atlantic. A secretâ€" ly built airplane, accompanied by Harry Hawker as pilot, and Comâ€" mander â€" Mackenzie Grieve, Royal Navy, as navigator, has been shipped from England for St. John‘s, Newâ€" foundland, where it will start at the earliest possible moment in an at-j tempt to win the Daily Mail prize of £10,000 for the first machine to flyl across the Atlantic. BRITISH AVIATORS TO CROSS ATLANTIC All London went wild upon the return of the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards from the war front. Of the original unit which left England in 1914, only 12 fortunate men survive to take part in this memora:b_!g home-qorfling. None of the gallant officers are alive, their burial places being chiefly Mons, The Marne, Aisne, and Ypres. ERINGING UP PATHEE A Tellâ€"Tale Document for the Peace Conference "And when you told him I was marâ€" ried," said the girl who had jilted him, "did he seem to be sorry?" "Yes," replied the other, "he said he was very sorryâ€"although he didn‘t know the man personally." _ _A despatch from Geneva says:â€" The Swiss Government has received a formal demand from former Emâ€" peror Charles of Austria requesting permission for him to live in Switzâ€" erland. As the allies, through Arthur J. Balfour, the British Forâ€" eign Secretary, when sounded on the subject recently, made no objection to such residence, the request of Charles probably will be granted. The matter is now in the hands of the Political Department. Swiss Will Grant Asylum To Late Austrian Emperor _A despatch from Ottawa says:â€" The famous Princess Patricia‘s Canâ€" adian Light Infantry, Canadian Exâ€" peditionary Force, is no more. Deâ€" mobilization has been completed, the last man being discharged and the unit disbanded. There was a touchâ€" ing scene as Lieut.â€"Col. A. H. Galt, the organizer of the unit, bade the men farewell. Many of the men have left for their homes, those living at a distance being provided with first| class sleeper accommodation and tickets, in addition to generous alâ€" lowances for meals en route. l FAMOUS PRINCESS PATS HAVE BEEN DISBANDED ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO Sorry She Was Married. The Guards Come Home A despatch from Paris says:â€"Canâ€" ada has completed her war cost estiâ€" mates for submission to the Reparaâ€" tions Commission. It is understood, according to the Reuter corresponâ€" dent, that the amount will exceed $1,500,000,000. Canada‘s A despatch from Paris cays:â€" Gen. E. H. H. Allenby, commander of the British forces in Palestine, has arrived here from Egypt to advise the Supreme Council on Near Eastâ€" ern questions. UUmMmANDER FROM PALESLINE HAS ARKKIVEp IN FAWLS cating .great news, whether of naâ€" tional danger or national victory. There is talk of a boys‘ bonfire in every town and city in Canada, a pecâ€" uliarly appropriate form of celebraâ€" tion, since this was in former cenâ€" turies the chosen means of communiâ€" The boys want to make the celeâ€" bration Empireâ€"wide. The British Overseas Club and the Patriotic Leaâ€" gue have communicated with overâ€" seas branches asking all willing to coâ€"operate to get in touch with them at Aldwych, London, England. v. orldâ€"Chain of Bonfires to Celebrat® the Declaration of Peace, The British Boy Scouts‘ Associaâ€" tion, under the direction of Chief Scout Sir Robert Badenâ€"Powel, has inaugurated the idea of a "worldâ€" chain of bonfires" to celebrate the‘ declaration of peace. Every unit in the United Kingdom will light a bonâ€" fire to blaze forth the glad tidings.] it would be continued to Bucharest and to Constantinople There is under + consideration the question of a suspension bridge across the Bosâ€" phorus at Constantinople, over which connection would be made with the Germanâ€"built line to Bagdad. a Suspension Bridge to be Built Over the Bosphorus at Constantinople. A despatch from Paris says:â€"A fast train service from Paris to Southeastern Europe to replace the famous Orient express, it became known, was discussed at a meeting this week of diplomatic representaâ€" tives of Great Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, _ Rouâ€" man‘a, Greece and France, under the chairmanship of Albert Claveille, French Minister of Public Works. The new route would run through the Simplon Tunnel and Milan, Venice, Triest, Agram and Belgrade. Later TRAIN SERVICE PARIS TO BAGDAD BOY SCOUTS‘ CELEBRATION War Cost Claims Will Exceed $1,500,000,000 M O § C , n on f Z2 ) 2l %%\ ay" 6 A EDMC S e 6x« p i y n (aylar®) | oren neme | & .,{;‘,{;! o '.;,' FF rge f R @:}\ 2y | on ty Jns o 4 ~,,,‘*,,‘. 4 | x -“ > [ss d’%m C "ir\'r. 3 F y cp A in x edlieeat To it J CGunecsig) _ }» 4. W k |Exham<. W 7â€"2 l hops in Brit 1916 it was about 15,000 And thus my house of life shall be More blest than tongue can tell "Tis builded for eternity And Christ in it shall dwell. So love shall make my house secure For shelter and for rest; Love bringeth pleasures that endure And many a cheerful guest. Brief dweller in a world of strife, Unfriended and alone, I fain would build my house of life With love for cornerâ€"«tone. CANADA‘s POPULATION 8,835,000 A despatch from Ottawa, Ont., says:â€"Canada‘s estimated populaâ€" tion, as given in the Commons, is 8,835,000. The census of 1911 showâ€" ed 7,206,643. A despatch from London says:â€" The establishment of wircless teleâ€" phony btween Ireland and Canada has been announced by the Marconi Company. Australian officers, 1,289; men, 26,502. wonnnnnn n o8 _!_ is WIRELESS TELEPHONF TALKS British officers, 10,795; men, 207,â€" 838. Canadian officers, 496; men, 11,â€" 917. Losses in 1917 in Salient Given in British Commons. In the House of Commons recently, replying to a question by Mr. Entâ€" whistle, Right Hon. Winston Churchâ€" ill, British Secretary of War, stated that the total casualties of the Britâ€" ish, Canadian and Australian troops in the Ypres salient from July 31 to November 18, 1917, were as follows: The only national cnemy now is Bolshevism, of which, beyond doubt, the German people as a whole are terribly afraid. It is in the areas occupied by Allied troops alone that any sense of security exists. quarters, or about 450,000, of the 1918â€"19 classes are in depots and are, immobile for lack of equipment.‘ Their discipline is of the worst. ’ There is little respect for the offiâ€" cers, who dare not attempt to enfomc" their authority, and apparently numâ€" bers of the men make no pretense of, submitting to military routine, but live as civilians, wearing only enough uniform to enable them to present themselves at barracks and draw raâ€", tions. The remaining 150,000 are reâ€" presented by Hindenburg‘s two m-m-‘I ies in the East, and these also seem, illâ€"equipped and of questionable morâ€", mle. The volunteer battalions . reâ€", cently organized were to be sent to| join these armies, but were found to be unable to proceed from lack of| greatcoats, and the whole system of / ordnance, commissariat and | transâ€" â€" port seems disorganized. J Not Genuinely Reformed. | Undoubtedly a large part of the, military caste still dreams of a fuâ€" ture war which will reverse the verâ€" dict of this one, and it would be rash | to believe any considerable part of . the German people are really in their hearts repentant anmd honestly reâ€" | formed. But I do not believe anyâ€" ! where any fllusion exists as to the t immediate future or any hope of beâ€" ! ing able to renew the war against the ‘ Entente. | N ‘POWER OF GERMANY | DEFINITELY BROKEN Fifty It is safe to say no one in the Britâ€" ish army believes Germany, in a miliâ€" tary sense, is any longer capable of taking the ficld against the Allies, says a war correspondent. Premier Clemenceau‘s famous eomputation of the potential strength of the German army as 600,000 men was technically accurate, but those 600,000 no longer constitute an effective military maâ€" chine. Of the total number, threeâ€" ARMY OF 600,000 IMMOBILE AND LACKING IN MORALE Though Defeated, Great Part Prussians Remain Unrepentant and Still Dream of War. ABOUT TIME some one SHOWEp Qm nERE â€"i‘ve BEEN HERE mFTEEN TiME ~~ (“gb*\‘f « FROM IRELANp To CANADA SAÂ¥ TS years ago the acreage under Britain was 70,000 acres, in was 31,000 acres, last year The House of Life RILLED AT YPRES ‘| to navigation than any waterâ€"logged _| lumber schooner or @ther derelict of 4 the sea. The allied navies followed _ strictly the rubes of the Hague Conâ€" , vention and when allied mines broke p adrift, or torpedoes went astray, . | became, or were designed to become ‘|innocuous. The ruthless mehods of _‘ sea warfare followed by the enemy _‘ included a total neglect of this preâ€" _| caution, with the result that heaven ‘ alone knows how many mines are ‘, floating on the surfec of the sea that | require only a touch from a passinz ship to detonate them. k Keep a Sharp Outlook. : For these reasons we think that for *) some time to come shipping should °. continue to use the prolective meaâ€" ; sures which proved so effective durâ€" ‘/ ing the war, particularly when they are passng through waters such as | those lying off our own corst and | those of Europe where the cnomy ‘ mineâ€"layers were most active during " the war. Many merchant skippers |are alive to the danger and are actâ€" / ing accordingly. The captain of a | freight ship informs us that, once ;clenr of the harbor entrance of an ;_Americnn port, he throws overboard ’his paravanes and does not take | them in until he is well ont to sea: ‘and that, on approaching his Euroâ€" | pean port, or destination, he makes \ a point of dropping them overboard | again. How long the peril will con | tinue cannot be conjectured; but it | will be remembered that over a year | after the close of the Russoâ€"Japsnese | war a merchant ship was sunk in the | eastern waters of the Parific by n mine which had broken adrift during ]or subsequently to the naval opomâ€" tions of the war. For a long time | to come it will be the duty of the watch to keen a sharp outlook for , this deadly peril of, the sea Start the pendulum. No use to wind the clock and leave the penduâ€" lum hanging straight down. _ Give every morn‘ng a right start by havâ€" ing things planned out right before you begin. Average lifetime has beon increasod three years by sanitation and science ; and the longevity of a suit of clothos has been increased three years by the war. * An old fellow on his deathbcd, i making his will, murmured to bi lawyer: "And to each of my emplo: es who have been with me twent years or more I bequeath $10,000." \ _ But even if the German Admi{ralty ‘has accurate charts of its own mine ‘ fhields, the complete removal of these Qwould not mean, that the scas have | been rid of this deadly peril. | Swift currents and heavy seas freâ€" quently cause the mines to break adrift from their moorings, and when ‘this happens each mine becomes a floating menace which is more deadly | _ Charts Probably Not Accurate. 1 One of the stipulations of the | armistice called for the full disclosâ€" ure by Germany of all the plans, charts, etc., showing the location and l extert of the arcas which she had \ mined during the war; and in the iiutaervenh':gr months since the armisâ€" ‘tice allied mineâ€"sweepers have been jengnged in removing these obstrucâ€" tions. In view of the disorganization of their navy during the latter part of the war, it is doubtfual if the Ger. man Admiralty accurately charted the mined areas, and this must be particularly true of the work done by the German submarine mineâ€" planters, which probably had a xove ing commission to drop their egps wherever the individus< commander had opportunity for undisturbed op» eration. face, the firing mechanism will cease to operate. These obligations form part of a series of rules and reculs. tions which are designed to proioct nonâ€"combatant ships, both during wartime and in the peace that folâ€" lows a war. There is abundant eviâ€" dence that the enemy failed to live up to these humane stipulationsâ€"a fact which is continually being brought to public.attention by the loss"of merchant ships through conâ€" tact with mines, in almost every quarter of the navigable seas. Everybody‘s Living Longer Now Quarters of the Globe, in Defiance of Hague Convention Rules. One of the regulations of the Hague Convention directs that all mines and torpedoes shall be so adâ€" justed that they can never become a permanent menace to navigation. Torpedoes must carry an automatic device of such a character that, if the torpedo misses the mark, the firâ€" ing mechanism will become inoperaâ€" tive; and mines must be so construcâ€" ted that if they break loose from their moorings and float to the surâ€" face, the firing mechanism will cease DEADLY PERIL OF THE HIGH SEAS FLOATING MINE WILL MENACE sHIPS FOR A LONG TIME A Camouflaged Wiil ARntwvipecm s sunk in the Parific by n rdrift during naval opemâ€" a long time duty of the outlack for Mines in All man tr Hhem =« at ARDUVOUS Th OF K8 H A