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O 1 t" "q. Jr '4 . st tt 34$ m Markets of the World Bro-bull. Toronto, Ap. 2tt.--Wnitotm Wheat ---No. 1 Northern, 82.24%; No. 2 Northern, 32.21%; No. 8 Northern, 82.17%; No. 4 wheat, 82.11%, in store Fort William. - -iiariiGGats--No. 2 c.w., T6%e; No. , C.W., 72%e; No. 1 feed, P..ht' yo. 2 feed, 67%e, in atom Fort Wil- Manitoba barley-No. , C.W., $i.06%e; No. A C.W.. $1.01 lie; "JOC- ted, 94%e; feed, BMiie; in non Fort William. - --- '7 hiGriean earn-No 3 ,ellosr"t.8li; No. 4 yellow, 81.82. nominal, truck Toroetto, prompt _sltirrertt.. ., -- . “Chi?“ ati-L-No.' 2 white, " to The; No. 3 white. " to Tttc, according tofreittltU qutlide.__ _ -.. _ Ontario wheat-No. 1 Winter, per en lot, $2.14 to $2.20; No. 2 do, $2.11 to $2.19; No. 8 do, $2.07 to 82.15 f.o.b. shipping poipts. 259mm! to. freirltt: Ontario wheat-No. 1 Spring, $2.09 to 82.17; No. 2 do, $2.06 to $2.14; No. 3 do, $2.02 to 82.10 f.oh. shipping points, according to frei'ghu. Barur---Maltine, 97c to 81.02, min-l. Buckwheat-tto. e, $1.10, nomiml. 'tre-No. 2, $1.60, nominal. Manitoba Boar-Government stan- dard. $10.h5, to "l, Toronto. . Ontario ftour--Govermnent stand- 'trd, $9.65 to 39.75 in bags Toronto and Montreal, prompt I ipmcnt in Jute but _ .. . .. - PeG--No. 2.3200, min-l, Be- eording to [nights oggside. -- -- Con-try Predi.etirusrate. Butter-Dairy, tubs and rolls. M to We; prints. 40 to 42e. Creamery, fresh made prints, 63 to 64e. Fcr,gs---New laid. 42 to 430. Dreamed pcultrr--Chtekttr, 30 to Mr; routers. 25c; fowl, 30 to ttSet duck.rintrs, 32c; turkeys, 46e; squat», doz.. $6.00. - - - . Live povitry--Rootterre 22e; fowl, '28 to Me; tiuekiirttts, lb.. Me; turkeys, Me; chickens, 27c. Wholesalers are selling to the re- tail trade at the following prices: Cheese-New, Inge. 28 to 28%et twins. 28% to 29e; triplets. 29 to 29%e; Milton, 29% to Mye; old, large. 29% to Me: twin, 30 to 80%e. Butter--- Fesh dairy. choice, 50 to Me; Creamery, solids. " to Me; prints,' 65 to f'mr. -.. Miltfeed--Car lots, delivered Mon- treal heights, has: included. Bran, " to $45 per ton; shorts, $40 to $45 per ton. gwd feed flour, 32,65 to $2.75 per hag, "ruf-"-No. l, 826 to $28 per ton; mixed, $20 to $24 per ton, track To- rttr,to. Margarine -,",4% to Me. Eggszew laid, 47 to 48e; new laid in cartons. 49 to 50e. Dressed poultry-Chickens. 40 to 42e; roosters. 28 to Me; fowl, ST to 2fle; turkcyss, 45 to Me; dueklintts, lb., 35 to 358v; “pubs. dot, $1.00; geese, ranto. I side. 31 Ity, Maple prouaetr--Syrup, ial gallon. $2.45 to $2.50 perial gallons. $2.35 to , 52 to .54c; rolls, M. to 3.'te:Greaktarqt bacon. " to 47e; backs, plain, it} to 4h-. boneless " to 66r. Cured "tiq-tone clear hacon, 29 to 20e; clear berries, 28 to 29c. Lard-- Pure threes. 30% to Met tuba. M to 3I'he; pain. 31% to 31%; prints. 32 to 82%e, Compound tierees, Montreal. April 'i-Quotations:--- Oats, extra No. 1 feed, 841he. Flour, Man. Spring. new standard grade.$ll to HMO. Rolled oats. big 90 lbs. 5.1.75 to " Bran. $44 to $45.50. Shorti. :45 to M.5.50. Hay, no. 2, per tom car In”. 329. Cheese-Pikes) usterns. 21 to 26e. Butter-Choke iii, to 25%c; labs, 25% to 26mg nails. 26 to 26%e; prints, 27% to Flhorts. $4;'", to $45.50. Hay, no. 2, per ton, mr Ink. 829. Cheese-Pirie" asthma. 2t to Me. Butter--Choiee creamery. M to Me. Ettes---F'resh, 48 m 49v. Por,sttoes--Per bam our Iota, .V90 to 3225. Dressed hotts---Abat- toir killed. $30.50 to Mt, Lard-Pure, ,Goipaui, 20 lbs. net, 31%e Toronto. April 29.--throd heavy steers, tlt25 to $15.50; choice but- cher shun-s. $13.50 to $14; butchers' new. choice. 813.25 to 314; do, good, $12.50 to $12.75; do. medium. $11.50 to $12; do, common. 8935 to $10.25: bulls, chain's. $11.25 to 812; do, med- ium. $9.25 to 310; do, common. $7.50 to $8.25; nockers. 38.75 to $11.50; iii/aw-Car lots, .10 to $11 per ton, Potato.-- Ontuios. Lab. track Fo- ntn. cJ' lots. $1.40; on track out- le. Mer, to $1.30. “Dank "anndian. hand-putt.. bus., :5 to 'rr'.: nrimes. $3 to $3.26: mortal ham? rivkcd. Burma or III- Smoked meats-mms, medium. 39v; do, heavy. 33 to Me: eoot Prov isdons.--whoteaV Live Stock Markets Svrun. per imper clover: 5-ib. tin, ins. 24% to 26et Sc. Buckwheat, , Comb: 16-om, .91. $1150 to $4 " i Another very interesting point II 3 the old theory ot tttldwi-ttie1t to ', easily seen to contain a great deal ot I truth. They held that if " Intent van 2 inclined to keep the thumb inside the tittgers tor some days after birth, It I foreshadowed some great physical de. , Heavy. I If sr-ven days after birth. the thumb 1 was still covered. then there was good [roman to suspect that the child was i mentally delicate. food-n, 811.50 to 813.50 cannon Ind cutters, $5.50 to 87; 'iriiG'eT, good to choice. $90 to 8150; do, com. and med., $68 to 875; sprinters, $00 to $150; light ewes, $13 to $15; yurlings, 812 to “4; choice lambs, 818 to 819: spring lambs, 812 to 815; ulvel, good to choice, $15 to $16; hogs, fed and watered, $22.25; do, weighed off cuts, $22.50; do, f.o.b., §2l.50. The More Brain You Have the Longer Will Be Your Thumb. Your thumb is a very interesting subject to all medical students ot nervtrtrouttlea. There are points which could be given by the hundred to prove the importance ot this member; but the most extraordinery is that which is termed in medical work as the "thumb centre" ot the brain. it is a well-known fact Imongst nerve specialists that by an examina- tion of the thumb they can tell it the patient is affected. or likely to be " fected. by paralysis or not, as the thumb will indicate this a long time before there is any trace of the disease in any other par of ti"' crstertn. It there is any trace. or ruck "eetton is indicated. an operation in at once per- formed on the thumb centre of the brain, and it the operation is raccoon- {oi-which is proved by an examine tion of the thumtr--then the patient in saved. These facts are remarkable. taken in conjunction with Sir Charles Bell’s disrovery that in the hand ot the chinr panztse--which is the nearest ap- proach to the human-the thumb. though well formed in W way. if measured. does not reach the base of the Jirst f1ntter. The deduction "is, therefore. that the higher and better- proportioned the thumb, the more the intellectual faculties rule, or vice ver- Ba. When visiting the asylums of the country. you cannot fail to notice that an congenital idiots have very poor. weak thumbs; in tact. some are so weak as not to be properly developed. even in shape. We tind in the war history of the Children of Israel instances of their cutting oft the thumbs ot their are mies. It is a well-known tact that in many Oriental nations. it the prisoner, when brought before his captors, covers his thumb with his tirttrera, he is, in dumb and eloquent fashion. ttiv. ng up his will and independence, and begging for mercy. Gipsies. in their Judgment of character, make the thumb the foundation for all their re- marks. A despatch from Paris "rc-The German Government has offleially ad- vised the allied and associated Gov- ernments that the German plenipo- tentiaries would not leave Berlin be- fore April 28, and that they would reach Versailles May I, at the earliest. May 1 the Earliest Date Germans Can Reach Versailles ChNAitA STEAMSIIH‘S START ATLANTIC SERVICE MAY 24 Seven newspapermen will accom- pan, the plenipotentiaries, the des- nahxh added. A despatch from Montreal "rc-- Canada Steamship Lines, Limited, announce to-day that arrangements have been completed for the inaug- uration of their new Atlantic service and that fre'eht steamer "Bilbater," it.500 cons, will sail from Montreal on May '.rt for Fremh ports. After this first sailing it is intend- ed that a regular ten-day service shall be established. "The real heroes ot this war." said a recently returned officer. "are the nursing sisters. Nothing too much can be said about their courage. their untiring patience, and their ability. What the men had td endure in the front line trenches was child's play to the work of the nurses after an en- gagement. when the badly shattered men were brought in and left to their kindness, which never failed. Their only reward in many cases being the intense wonhiptui love ot the men." THUMB LORE. The Real Heroes. A Four Thousand Mlle Tramp Through the Wild- of Africa. In order to obtain an accurate des. cription of the route taken through an unbroken country, there is required Por example, William Junker, 3 Rus- sian by birth and an explorer, spent five years in endeavoring to trace the course of the River Wells, which lies between the headwaters of the Nile and the Congo, in Africa, with a View to determining the position ot the watershed between the two rivers. G" amount of bird and incessant la. bor, of which few of us have any com caption. When he was actually on the march, Doctor Junker wore a coat designed by himself, having numerous large pockets especially arranged for the handy use of his watch, compass, ane- raid, thermometer and notebooks. From one of the buttons of his coat there hung three peneils--one, red, tor marking his route; another, blue, tor noting the rivers and streams; the third, black, tor recording the time of starting and halting, together with all the more notable incidents of the day's march. In a little notebook, ruled for the purpose, the exact time of starting was put down, and, thereafter, at the end ot every flve minutes, the direction in which he was proceeding was deter- mined by a glance at the compass and carefully noted, while occasionally the readings of the aneroid and the ther. mometer were taken. A brook crosses the path. With the blue pencil it is instantly designated, as well as the direction of its current and its estimated breadth and depth, Every change in the character of the INGENUITY OF AN EXPLORER. BRINGING- UP PATEER I When the night camp was reached, _the that duty ot the explorer, after supper. was to copy all the notes made ' during the day into a large book-one 1 page, generally, though sometimes iii/ being used to rcord a day's march. It the night were clear. the _ traveller's work 'would end with an ob. servation tor determining the posi- tion of the camp. This done, he felt that he had earned his right to rest. In this extraordinary manner Doc- tor Junker travelled on foot four thou- t(«and miles through it wild country, a Slat-go part of which, ot course. had {never before been visited by a white fman. and the information thus de. irived was of great service to geogra- t pliers. country is entered. as from wooded to grass lan.ds, or from desert to ter. tile soil. The prominent objects met on the way, with their apparent height and distance, are all indicated. Bo, also. are the names or the tribes and any local information that may have been obtained. The time and duration ot every halt is carefully kept, as it is necessary to know the actual distance gone. Doc- tor Junker's average rate was a little more than three miles an hour. One of the mysteries that has put. zled bellmakers for years was how the great lull in the bell tower nf felting was ever hung. It was cast in 1415 and weighs fifty-three and a half tons. It measures fifteen feet in height, is nine inches thick and has a circumference of thirty-four feet at the rim. To hang it nowadays would require the most up-to-date mechanical apparatus, and how it was hung hundreds of years ago is a mystery which has never been solved. W When This Questlon Came Up in an English Law Court. It will scarcely be believed that the question ot the shape ot the earth could ever have disturbed the peace- ful atmosphere of the Law Courta, says a London newspaper: Yet in 1879 the question, indirectly, Indeed. did come before three learned judges, and the case excited a good deal of interest and amusement. The clr- cumetances were, as follows: The Plaintiff, one Hampden, enter. tained the opinion that the world was not round, and issued an advertise, ment in a paper called 'Scu'etttifie Opinion," challenging philosophers, dlvines. and geierttiiie professors to prove the contrary from Scripture. reason. or fact. He deposited £500 in a bank, to be forfeited to anyone who could prove to the satisfaction ot any intelligent referee that there was such a thing as a convex railway, "canal, or lake. The challenge was taken up by no less a person than the late Professor Alfred Russell Wallace, who proved to the satisfaction of the referee the curvature to and fro ot the Redford Level Canal between Witney Bridge and Walsh's Dam (six miles) to the extent of tive feet more or less. and the E500 was paid over to him. But he did not keep it. The plain. tiff apparently began to see that he was making a fool of himself, and brought an action, and recovered back his deposit, on the ground that the whole affair was a wager. and the» for illegal'. whole Bttair was I. mixer. and ttsow', "Mike." for illegal! i "Plant?" ---H----- 1 "I was just thinkin'. After we {rat The wheat crop of South Africa at ot the trenches tut' back home is now worth about $20,000,000 liualn how nice an' peaceful that old yen. aboller mun-y will sound to mr." IS THE EARTH ROUND? BIG LUMBER DEAL IN Operation of New B. C. Company To Be Conducted on World- Wide Scale. A dengue}! from Victoria, B.C., traya:r-W at is undoubtedly the most gigantic lumber enterprise ever con- ceived, and I scheme that is fraught with tremendous possibilities in the development of the British Columbiai lumber industry, is about to be; launched by a syndicate headed by, Percy Purber, president of the Mexi- can Oil Field Co. of New York, and’ John Arbutlmot. financier, well known; in thin city. The Indian witFber, known as the Furher Lumber Com.| puny, and the operation: of the slyndil-t l-despatch from London "rttt-- The bod of Edith Cnvell, the English nurse a', was executed by the Ger- mam in 1915 at Brussels, will be brought to Englanc from Belgium on May " and taken to Westminster Abbey. ,hert.etrm?nietr will behlwld. ”up --u- - '"W"-"" --" - - . ate will be condlwed on I coloual and world-wide scale. Orders have already been placed with the syndicate by British inter- ests to deliver 30,000,000 feet of lumber, which, in the event of a sat- ilfsceory “mutt hing reached on fur-chase price with the sawmill: and umber manufacturers, will be sup- plied by British Columbia mills. Great Bolton tl' tte PMI. The body will be brought to Dover on a nrarBhip and will be transported on I gun carrhge with military escort to Victoria Station and thence to Westminster Abbey. Internment will be at Norwich. the home town of the Cnvells. _ A deemtch from Ottawa sa.vsr--A blue book tabled in Parliament gives details of expenditures under the War Appropriations Act during the tUeal year 1918, the Inst full twelve months' period of the war. Total expenditure for the year was 3343.- 836.801. The expenditure in Canada hy the Militia Department was $'201,- 288,628, while oversees expenditures amounted to 8115381243. Naval de- fence cost $9,666dt29 durine the twelve months' period, while the In- valided Soldier-5' Commission requir- ed $11,393,654. The remainder of the total wan spent by the various other Government departments. WONDERFUL WORK OF ROYAL AIR FORCE $843,836,801 51qu Ill' A despatch from London MVS.'--- The Air Ministry has published an astonishing record of the work of the air force during the wnr. it states that before the war the air forces consisted of 272 marhines, 197 ofheers and 1.647 men. while in tte- tober. 1918, there were 22.171 ms- chines, 275906 officers and 263,842 men From .1332 1916. to the armistice the air f re on the western front brought down 7,054 enemy aircraft. dropped 6,043 tons of bombs and fired over ten and a half million rounds at ground targets. - 500.000 CONGO NATrVES HAVE DIED PROM INFLUENZA A dospatch from Brusse‘s ttttrt'."--- Great loss of life among the natives of the Belgian Congo as a result of an influenza epidemic is renorted in despatehes received here. Some trut'r.. matea place the number of deaths at The death of the Rev. William Henry Bliss, the well-known hymn writer, " the use of M, is a reminder of the tact whirh has often been mooted, namely, that hymn writers seem to live to a rlper use than auth. or: engaged in other departments of literature. Fanny Crosby reached the age of 95; Mrs. Alexander. who wrote "There is a green hill." was 77; Charlotte El. liott, the author of “Just " I am." and Mn. Cousins, famous for "The sands of thus are sinking." were both " The writer of "Our blast Redeem. er," Harriet Auber, died In her 90th year. Contrast these with Thackeray. who died when not more than M: Dickens was only 58, Scott 62, and Keats M. Hymn-Writers' Lena of Life Pleasant Contrast. ii, Twr, J'Edith Can" Liiif YEAR or WAR {a F}! l anneal-5 tn the old am m u n be Bltrqr unit. ind the mam who rx:t by bud I.“ " are of whim: my: t', l, In well. With the modern harm»: : (, yer and Muller were In a grog! pawn} Jug-up. And on man. with tho a 4.1 ‘nee ot two Nhockers." hm: Iw'm lknovn to out and bind meaty y,' ("I I ot when In one dar. I Borne wanna-I'll records Mort' put up Ha gunmen notorious during Hm war'. I m November. 1916. a workmen l,e't:.'r', ' mg to Woolwich Arsenal told Cue I. v . Idea Munitions Trihmul um he- lt l Ga, seventy-eight “no”: tlu-int'. it GGi,i; trhitt---tsotnethicx thrt h' .1 1 never been done before. The felts achieved by riveters in the British lhlpnru were startling. In Mar, 1918. Robert Pttrrr.t:t. of Ian-n ley-hy-Bow. set up a retard ot 4 "1', rivet: in . day, to he bentnn p , I later by Dunlel Devlney. who l " 1M. I " a Clyde Ihlpyu'd. drove as man; . s 4129 rlvete in I day. Records in hinting. Two Americans-Charms an‘xt end Tom tgoorxt--aueeearil.v, h- " this tuning achievement; huUn the end the record remained In Britich hunch. for on I” 28rd William Mor. ' ot Btrrrow4n-6massst, drove 5394 riv. eta in the (mine ot I single working day. The" were high tensile 51-1-1 rivets. much more difticuit to 1w: than the undated rivets used m :Ew- previous competition. WHAT B l FULL ms wow COME AMAZING ACHIEVEMENTS IN WAITIME FACTORIEB. The natal-cult Isak of the uri- tiah Coat ComnIulon nos-ms to be to (“cover how much cm! putting is a mir “M." or darts work tor a col. tter. " m thtt In a good "place" It to rather Incoming In nlmm at other form. at work. and to "a 34-: how such other toners do itt% m..- Tako MM. for hm moo. Hm nun who. with I “Mk: hone il' " "a, turn- an 1cm in I day, i.", well 1' mm: nu money; In completing Mn tu .'s. M will has walked an] guided the plough “not fourteen miles. “M "" WONG“ Record in Ship- _ yard 'tl.otteq-Aa"t6tr, Rule Bel. ttad" Wooden-ml March. u all will cut (our tom of one! In I IN“. ret, tor III that, Ute )early out- ml of not] per m VII out. teo mm Inet your. At one ttme the setting of thrrr hundred brick: was considered a day's work tor I bricklayer. But at piece- work. and was I spechvl soft mrirtny. . man bu been known to lay 1.40” brick: during In eight hour-' day, and to continue this average for dam In'l and. Packing In“ in no any task, 0mm. for Instance. These m" on. hundrod and any to tho box and: mttt " to tre lepurvh‘l“ l pod In paper. Sammy lump: '. sldered I very fur day‘s work. t - ttan ttoett known to pzwl‘ n: . dred and twenty bou- m P. 1w day. He ttttd to hindk‘ 'und v . , teen thousand oranges lr, s' '1) thia talk. "The work It n u 1!: France when man-hm; . :‘T 1. (or beyond that of an area. -' L‘v The world's matching n. "t',l, i by n detachment of thr. Iu in: Brigade. m April, P414, the l; duty-two In number P.'.'" 1am! London to Brightun. a dist»: arty-two mun. in 1'ourir'm ', twent.wtttree minute: Th l Wt' an! kit. and carrind mm, 1 weight of forty-ttxo wrath yet I man fell out. The ttyt best cyl mam is that of the h»: Ht Vo Legion. ot which a batman 1m tttty mites m fifteen [wins thirtys minutes. . Newly Organized State wan R: Fifth Among European Nanonc So much l: being written "trorit had these dun some of our :ml will read with Interest thla item 1.". from the new journal Free Pour. i' The new Pound will contain i. ' lutinn of not less than 25.00:.w peoples. I" speaking the I.', tongue, " will rank ttfth mam 'd nations ot Europe, for it: popui' ton! will clued the combined l latiom ot Now”. Denmark 9v Belgium. Holland and SrctrV not I and! union. With new to the Bea, Fulani be I tie1Nsmstaintnq natinu il fourth in the world In the pmdm ot when per hectare; third m pmductloa ot com. The mum oe [MI B the lecond Mum-hm“- Durope. War-aw. the ourital a land, 1- the amend largest r'nl terminal In the World. and 171W um city traverse the rail nut" Elite": Rush, to Siberia th hr lint. “PM, economic alliance; '._ boon “WI-Ind with the new $1.: of Clean-Blanki- lnd Jugo-tilavin. 1' may for friendship with all I than. lull“. "To “It " you rotor?" “mum-d _ "Our .0.”on ot eggs. butter. milk, but. See., “It not I soul on earth w The HM Food Monapolist. “Tu. mm to “he life easy trom m at." untried Noah as tho mix CONCERNING POLAND In fourteen hours toe. They were 3n ried rttles, a totrl 0 pounds. yet not t; , next best achieve- .he French Foreign A butslion covered It hours thirtgMree State Will Rank "t “l4 tt w!) M m IT and the c ei.devent- roysitier- ce her dawn of member! cave. ' twenty-t many n: on u m One‘ future EX-KMSER Ill A The Frr “ll de (1. brought tr ’ma Pt Goth. Tl he [numeral " [Hunt's In} ALTY M tiT e opumm we: I eh ull the smoke note' the “In tl anion Editor an Seek to Sam Anon ma Ct Non (H