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m Opening of the First Session of the Sixth Parliaient. :^ I \ a V \ m SPEECH FROM THE THIWNE. Prospective Legislation od Importaflt Public Que^tioDS. The Speech from the Throne. I have great pleasure in welcoming you for the first time to your legislative duties •8 memberB of a new Parliament. The year on which we have entered is one of special interest throughout the British empire as being the jubilee year of the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty, who for half a century has bo fulfilled the duties of her exalted station as to secure the devoted loyalty and affection of her people. I regret that I am unable to announce to yon any progress towards the final settle- ment of the boundaries of the Province. The legislation advised by their lordships of the Imperial Privy Council for the con- firmation of their decision has not yet received the concurrence of the Dominion Government ; and my despatches of 1884 on the subject, and on the subject of our nortihem boundajry, are still unanswered. Soon after the last session of the Pro- vincial Legislature the Court of Appeal unanimously afiBrmed the judgment of the Chancellor of Ontario negativing the claim of the Dominion GoTcrnment to the lauds and timber in the territory within our boundaries as determined by Her Majesty in Council ; but litigation has, notwith- atanding, proceeded against the Province, •t the public expense ; and an appeal to the Supreme Court has been brought, which has been argued and now stands for judg- ment. There has been some recent corres- pondence between the two Governments which will be laid before yon. The Dominion Government having declined to agree to any method of putting beyond question the proper jurisdiction to d^ with the subjects embodied in the Provincial Factory Act of 1884, I thought it right to assume the jurisdiction without farther delay and to issue a proclamation calling the Act into effect. Borne further leffislation is found to be needed for the effectual and reasonably safe working of the Act, and will be brought to your attention. I am pleased to notice the prominent place taken by this Province at the Indian and Colonial Exposition last year by the magnificent display there made of the manufactures and natural products of the Province, as also by the attractive and much commended exhibit of the Education Department , evidencing the advanced position which the Province holds in educa- tional science and a|)pliances. Amongst our agricultural products, the exhibit of cheese and butter forwarded by the Ontario Department of Agricultore attracted much attention, and rannot fail to bo of great value to this growing and already important department of agricul taral industty. For the uuccess of this exhibit much credit is due to the zealous aasistanco of the ofTicers of the Provincial Dairy Associations. The splendid exhibit of Ontario fruit, collected mainly by the officers of the Fruit Growers' Association, will do much to remove erroneous impres- Btons in the mother land in regard to the severity of onr Canadian climate. The Provincial Bee-Keepers' Association also was enabled, through the liberal assistance â-¼oted last session,to make the honeyexhibit which reflects credit upon the Province. I am glad to learn that the mineral resources of the Province are being steadily developed ; that new and valuable dis- coveries have been made during the past year, especially in our northern and north- western districts ; and that mining opera- tions have made hopeful progress. The Commission for consolidating and revising the public statutes of the last ten years have nearly completed their work, embodying the same in two volumes, the first of wliich will bo laid before you at once, and the second on an early day. These volumes embrace amendments which the judicial or professional experience of the respective Comtnissioncrs has enabled the Commision to suggest, and I trust that you will find it practicable to adopt at this ses- aion the legislation necessary te give to the public the benefit of the work during the present year. For several years there has been much discussion as to the best means of pro moting the higher cducatiou of the people, particularly in the department occupied by the Universities of the Province ; and it is gratifying to observe that, notwithstanding some differences of opinion as to the methods of attaining this end, there is no â- uoh difference as to the duty . of placing within the reach of every citizen, who may wish to avail himself of its facilities, a course of University education o(]ual to that furnished by the best Universities of Europe or the United States. A Bill having this oi/ject in view will be laid before you. Amongst the measures to be submitted to yon is a Bill for the gradual extension of tha Land Titles Act to the whole Province as the public exigencies may render expe dient and the local authorities desire. The report of the Master of Titles on the opera- tions of the Act in the county of York and city of Toronto will be laid before you. Measures will also be submitted for your oOQsideration respecting the appointment and jurisdiction of Police Magistrates, and to provide amongst other things for scien- tific instniction in the Public and High Schools of the Province as to the nature of alcoliol and its effects upon the human â- ystem. Your attention is invited to the import ant subject of prison labor, and therein to the question whether the present system of Jetting out the labor of prisoners confined in the Central Prison to companies or pri- vate persons by contract, may not, with advantage to the discipline and reforma- tory influences of the prison, and without disadvantage to the public, be abolished by law, to take effect upon the expiration of existing contracts. Since the last session of the Provincial Legislatare, tenders were advertised for and received for the erection of the now Departmental and Parliament Buildings, and it was found that the needed accom- modation will require a somewhat greater expenditure than was expected. Te avoid injurious delay, a contract has been entered into for certain parts of the work, subject to a condition requiring your approval of the contract. Papers relating to the sub- ject will be laid before you. With the view of giving effect to the patriotic sentiment of our people, and following in this respect the example of the neighboring State of New York, the pro- ceedings authorized by the statute of a former session for ascertaining the cost of expropriating the laud in the neighborhood of the Falls of Niagara have been taken and are neorly completed, and a measure will be sebmitted for your consideration dedicating to the public in permanenoe the land on the Ontario side of the great world- wonder, ind containing provisions for securing that object without material cost to the Provincial treasury. A report from the Commissioners will contain all useful information bearing on what is proposed. The public accounts for the past year will be promptly laid before you, and you will be pleased to learn from them that the ex- penditure has been less than was provided for by the estimates, and that the receipts h(.ve exceeded the amount anticipated. The estimates for the current year will, at an early date, bo submitted for your ap- proval. They will be found to have been prepared with all the economy consistent with the demands of the public service. I trust that the legislative labors of this first session of the new Parliament may be characterized by the same patriotic care and intelligence as in the case of previous Parliaments. Election of a Speaker. Prior to the reading of the Speech, His Honor announced that as soon as the House had elected a Speaker he would address them. His Honor then retired to the Speaker's apartment, and Premier Mowat moved, seconded i)y Mr. Pardee, That Dr. Baxter, the representative of Haldimand, be the Speaker of the sixth Parliament of the Province of Ontario. The motion was carried unanimously, and the veteran legislator was duly in- ducted into office. The Lieutenant-Governor was then ap- praised of the election of Speaker, and returning to the dais delivered the speech. The address in reply to the Speech from the Throne will be moved aud seconded this afternoon. Premier Mowat, who appeared to be in excellent health and spirits was the recipient of many warm congratulations. The new members are nearly all on hand and the old ones are fraternally looking after their comforts. C Company School of Infantry formed the guard of honor,and Col. Gray's battery furnished the saluting party. Some of the MenAureii to be Urought For- ward. The following are the titles of some of the more important Bills to come before the House : To incorporate the town plot of Thorn- bury, County Grey. To amend the Act re the Gore District Mutual Fire Insurance Co. liospecting the property aud control of Woodstock College. To incorporate the town of Sault Ste Marie. To incorporate the village of Tilbury Centre and the township of Tilbury West, in Kent and Essex Counties. To vest the government of the Ottawa City Police in the Dominion Government. To unite the Toronto Baptist College and Woodstock College under the name of Mc- Master University. To incorporate the town of Parry Sound. To incorporate the town of Gravenhurst. To incorporate the Niagara Tunnel and Water-Power Company. Ljiteit from the Northwest. The Masonic Grand Lodge met here to- night, when the annual reports were presented. The Dominion and Provincial Govern- ments are to be appealed to to secure information relative to the early settlement of the country from old settlers ere they pass away. James Corrigan, a farmer at St. Andrew's, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a knife. His recovery is improbable. WiNNiPEo, Feb. 10. â€" The two rebels. Chief Big Bear and Big Belly, recently released from Stoncy Mountain, were sent on from Regina by Tuesday night's train to Swift Current, en route to Battleford. A supply of necessary provisions was given to them. Rev. Sam .Jones, who intends to visit Minneapolis next April, has consented to come on to Winnipeg and deliver at least one lecture hero. Coal is supposed to exist in Wapella Dis- trict, Assiniboia, and tests will shortly be made to ascertain its quality and extent. If the tests prove successful, a strong com- pany will be formed to develop the deposit. ♦ .Something for the Haln. Wilkesbarre, Pa., despatch: Ilonry Ed- wards, aged 20, joined the Salvation Army of this place last Christmas. He forsook his old companions in sin, and said hs was going to lead a new life. For a while he was one of the most earnest workers in the Army, and secured many recruits from the society he formerly moved in. He went so far as to visit the mines and implore the young men to join the Army of the Lord. He continued his good work until last Friday, when he fell from grace and returned to his sinful ways. Sunday evening last ho visited the Salvation Army barracks and scoffed and laughed at the exercises. All of a sudden he put his hands over his eyes and cried out, " My God, what is the matter ; I cannot see." Edwards was taken to his home by two friends. He was totally blind. • At the meeting of the Kingston School Board on Thursday night it was decided to admit all Roman Catholic children to the Public Schools free whose parents are on the assessment rolls as supporters of the said schools. Heretofore 50c. per month was charged for each pupil. Sir Charles Dilke has been left by a wealthy cousin the sum of £140,000. The cousin believed Sir Charles to be an inno- cent man, and changed his will in his favor after the trial. â€" Cream puffs â€" Milk advertisements. •â-  â- â- '>â- ' -u:.- THK PLAN OF CAMPAIGN. Vigorous Speeches by Mr. Redmond and Lord Uartlngton on Parnell's Amend- ment. Mr. Redmond, Nationalist, resumed the debate on Mr. Pamell's ameudment this evening in the House of Commons. He said he spoke as one soon to undergo, in com- pany with John Dillon and others, a trial which would probably end in imprisonment for assisting in the operatiocs of the plan of campaign. So far as the plan had been appiied, Mr. Redmond said, not more than twenty estates had up to date been brought under its operations, and in no case was it proposed to deprive the landlord of his rent, but the aim was simply to enable the tenants to bank their money for protection in cases where the landlords refused to make fair reductions. In every instance in vhich the plan of campaign had been tried the landlords were finding it advisable to make concessions. It was mainly due to the plan that this winter there had been fewer evictions than for several years previous, and an almost total absence of outrages. The Marquis of Hartiugton said the Plan of Campaign was not the main question before the House. To vote for Mr. Par- nell's amendment was to vote virtually want of confidence in the Government. The other questions raised, therefore, could not be discussed on their merits, but only with reference to the effect of the amend- ment on the fate of the Government. Ad- mitting that the relations between the land- lords and tenants in Ireland were far from satisfactory, it was no remedy to suspend or reduce or abolish the payment of rent. Such a plan would be found no boon to the poor tenant. Continuing, Lord Harting- ton said the real remedies for the agrarian crisis were to be found in providing larger productive employment for the people, or in voluntary emigration conducted and supported by the local authorities. (Cheers.) Still, where landlords existed the land laws must be enforced. It would never be possi- blo to get rid of the ultimate re- sort of eviction. The course of the Government in prosecuting the authors of the plan of campaign was right and straightforward. It was the duty of the Government to attack men employed in an illegal conspiracy, and prevent their lead- ing astray tenants who were their dupes. Mr. Gladstone had declared that the plan of campaign resulted from the policy of the Government in refusing to adopt the sus- pension of the" Evictions Bill. Could Par- liament hold that, as a legitimate conse- quence, the rejection of any measure left the people morally entitled to take the law into their own hands and do what Parlia- ment had refused to do ? (Cheers.) If the plan of campaign was not illegal, if its enforcement was not stopped, there would bo an end to all relations between landlord and tenant. It would cause an internecine war and result in the total destruotion of the power of the landlord to obtain any rent excepting what the tenant chose to pay. The suppression of the " plan " was a necessity, if order was to be preserved. Mr. Parne^l had referred to the probable recurrence of dynamite outrages. He admitted thi.t Tamell was not in a position to control dynamite crimes, but he was in a position to disown theoi. (Cheers.) They were »ot disowned. Mr. Paâ€" ell contented himself with warning Parliament that if a certain course were pursued the dynamiters might resume operations. As to Home Rule, there remained a stedfast, solid barrier of a hundred votes against Mr. Gladstone's scheme. (Cheers.) It was idle and useless for the Home Rulers to present a vague resolution to the House on the ground that they had the confidence of the Irish people, knowing that they must secure the approval of the British nation. Viscount Kilcoursio (Liberal), Samuel Storey (Radical), and Hy. H. Fowler (Liberal), spoke in favorof the amendment. Mr. Sexton adjourned the debate. ParneU's Amendment Defeated â€" The De- bate. London, Fob. â€" Thomas Sexton, Parnellite, reraming the d<ibate on Pamell's amendment, taunted the Govern- ment on their inability to rule Ireland without the assistance of an army as large as the one needed in India. Pamell's amendment. Sexton contended, raised ques- tions of vital and practical importance. The whole policy of the Government in Irelandâ€" whether it was called reform of the criminal procedure law, or coercion â€" hinged upon the relations between the Irish landlords and their tenants. All offers on the part of the tenants to arbitrate the c|uestion of rents bad been spurned, and the tenants now stood with their backs against the wall defying oppression, even the oppression of the law, because their position was morally impregnable. The tenants everywhere in Ireland were willing to pay fair rents, but the speaker believed if all the deposits banked under the Plan of Campaign by the small farmers (and which represented the utmost they were able to pay) were put into a common fund, the sum would not suffioe to pay three months' rent on the basis demanded by the landlords. Mr. Matthewsstoutlydcfended the policy of the Government. Sir William Vernon Harcourt made a vehement attack upon the policy that had been pursued by the present Goverment in the management of Ireland, and supported Home Rule. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach replied. He said it was the duty of the Government to enforce the law, and this they would do. It was intended to extend the provisions of the Iisnd Purchase Act, and measures were in contemplation for the develop- ment of the industrial resources of Ireland. The division was then taken, and Mr. Pamell's amendment was defeated by a vote of .S.52 to 24C. â€" Mr. Wilson Barrett, the actor, is not a woman, yet he is feminine enough to object to telling his age. A delicious weakness 1 The successor of Cardinal Jacobini will probably be Monsignor Rampolla, the Papai Nuncio at Madrid. R. F. Simpson, of St. Elmo, Ind., while playing with his .S-year-old boy, was bitten on the thumb by the child. 'The wound bled very freely. Soon the hand and arm began to swell, and in a few days death re- sulted from blood poisoning. Mme. Modjeska says she will not return to Poland to live because she can do noth- ing there, Russian tyranny is so groat. She wants to live where she can talte an active interest in whatever is going on about her. A UVma TABOET. A New York Boy Shoots Another Boy's Hat Wltb His Head In It. A New York despatch says : Frank Rivers, 15 years old, was in the street prac- tising with a long-barrelled target pistol on Monday, when William Jackson, a colored boy, c â-  me along. Young Rivers wanted to fire a Taokson's dog for fun, but Jackson suggestfcu .hat he try his skill on some of his neighbors' chickens instead. Rivers proposed a compromise. " You stand over there," he said to the colored boy, pointing to a tree, " and I'll shoot through your hat. I kin do it, and I won't hurt you." Jack- son is only 13 years old, and agreed to stand as a target, but Rivers failed in his part of the performance. He hit Jackson scjuarely in the forehead. The ball was a small one and had little force. It circled arouna under the scalp without penetrating the skull, but it disturbed Jackson to think how nearly he hail been killed, and, with blood streaming down his face, he set up a most energetic yell. Rivers ran away and hid in the cellar of his house until Detective Madigan found him and took him to the Harlem police court. Hisexcuse there was plausible enough. He said Jackson's head ran up further into the hat than he had supposed, or he would not have hit him. Mrs. Rivers gave the required S700 bail for her son's release. A FOUL CBIME. A Husband Shoots His Young Wifeâ€" Her liabe Cries Itself to Death. A Boulder (Col.) despatch says : Mr. and Mrs. Wendelin Mott, a young couple living eight miles from here, to all appear ancos had been very happy until three weeks ago, when their first child was born Since then Mott has been very abusive and quarrelsome. On Monday morning Mott gat up early, built a fire, made some coffee, drank it and sat down to smoke. His wife was still in bed with her child, and had fallen into a doze, when she was awakened by the report of a gun. She jumped up and fell to the floor unconscious, a ball having entered her shoulder and passed into her neck. In the meantime Mott dis- appeared. When Mrs. Mott regained con- scTousness she got into bed with groat diffi- culty and sank into a stupor. When she came to herself again her child was crying, but she, having become paralyzed, was unable to reach it. The fire went out and the babe cried until midnight, when it died. Mrs. Mott's plight was not known until Tuesday night, when a relative called at the house. She cannot recover. Officers and a po»»e of citizens are in pursuit of the murderer. Spring Anlxes, 1887. ABMOCR, J. Toronto (Civil) Monday, Utli .March Toronto ICriininal) Monday, SHtli March OranguviUe Tuesday, .'itli A|<ril Milton Friday, Htli April llramptoD Monday, 11th A|iril Bt Catharines Wednesday, 13th April BOSE, J. Whitby Monday, 14th .March Belleville Monday, '2lKt March Napaueo Monday, 4th April I'lcton „ Thunday, 7th April Kingston Monday, 1 Ith AJiril nrockville Monday, IHth Ai>ril CornwoU Monday, ii'ith April Coboum _ Monday, 2ud Stay OAl/t, J. 8t. Thomas ». Monday, lith March Sandwich Monday, 28th March Harnia Monday, 4th April Godurich Monday, 11th April Woodstock , Monday, IHth April Chatham „„.„.„ Monday, 25th April liOiidon Monday, 2nd May Walki'rtoD „ Monday, 9th May CAICERON, c. J. CayuRa „ Monday, 14lh March Horlin „ Monday, '2lRt March Wolland Monday, 2Hth March nrantford Monday, 4th April Hiincoe â„¢ „ Monday, Uth April Hamilton Monday, IHth April (iuolph Monday, 2nd May Stratford „....Monday,9thtlay O'COffflOB, J. Barrio Monday. 14th March Owen Koiind Monday, 2Hth March I'enihroke^ „ Monday, 4th April I'orth Monday. Ilth April l/Oriiinal Thursday, Uth April Ottawa _ Monaay, IHth April Lindsay „ Monday, 2nd May Petorboro'._ ; Mondny, 9th May CHANCERY SPRING SITTINGS. Toronto Proudfoot, J...TueBday,26th April WESTERN CIRCUIT. BOYD, C. Oodcrich Tuesday, Bth March Walkerton Monday, )4th March London Friday, IHth March Woodstock Wednesday, :iOth March Stratford Thursday, 28th April Ht. Thomas Tuesday. ;ird May Sarnla Monday, 9th May Sandwich Friday, l.Jth May Chatham Wednesday, IHth May MIDLAND CIRCUIT. PBOUDVOOT, J. Barrio Monday, 7th March Owen Sonnd Monday, 14th March Brantford Friday, Ihth March Hlniooe Wednesday, 2:trd March Hamilton Monday, 2Hth March Guelph Thursday, 7tli April Whitby Wednesday, 1.1th April St. Catharines Monday, 18th April EASTERN CIRCUIT. FEBODSON, J Cobourt Monday, 4th April Lindsay Friday, Hth April I'utnrboro' Wednosday, l;ith April IlolloviUfl "^-jcsday, 19th April Kingston 'taursday, 10th May Brockville Wednesday, 25th May Cornwall Monday, lioth May Ottawa Thursday, 2iid .Inne ♦ In a New Line of Bnalness. Robinson (just returned from a year's absence) â€" Hello, Brown, where's >Iones ? Brownâ€" Gone into rool estate. Robinson â€" Given up the law ? Brownâ€" Oh, yes. Robinsonâ€" -Got a partner? Brown, No, by himself. Robinson â€" Where ? Brown â€" In the graveyard.â€" W'a(iftinj;<(wi Critic. ^ The Wise Child. Life gives this fresh illustration of the wisdom of the child that knows its own father : Girl â€" Ain't that your f adder coming? Boy â€" No, it's yer own 1 Girl â€" How can yon tell? Boy â€" 'Cos your fadder takes up both sides of ther street, and mine lies down in thcr middle. «> A resident of Chester, III., has a pet crow that talks quite as well as any parrot. Hugh Darnett,of Edwardsport, Int., wns so amused at a pun made by n neighbor that he laughed immoderately and fell dead. SOMEBODY BLUNDEUKD. How the Italians Were Cut up In SectlOBS by the Abysslnlans. A P:ome cable says : Gen. Geire, the Italian Commander at Massowah, reports as follows : Boretti, commanding at Saati, on January 25th, at 11 a. m., saw the heights occupied by thousands of Abyssin- ians, who disappeared on the firing of some shells. Boretti sent out a party under Lieut. Corno, who surprised and engaged the enemy. The latter advanced intrepidly on all sides to within 300 yards of the Italian position. There was desperate fighting until 5 o'clock, when the enemy retreated. Boretti, applied for reinforcf- ments, and Geire sent a column under Col. Decristoforis. The column was delayed by difficulty in-transportation. Decristo- foris asked for more men and guns. While the latter reinforcements were on the way, it was learned that the Decristoforis party were massacred after forming a square, defending themselves to the last man and cartridge. The relief party foimd the bodies lying in the order in which the men fought, and the enemy retiring. Many corpses were mutilated • Tales of Cold Weather. A large cake of ice cut from the Illinois River, near Otti.wa, last week, contained the body of Joseph Johnson, of Peru, lU., who had disappeared from home several months ago. Miss Clara Gray, who is teaching school four miles from Sac City, la., boards in town and walks to and from her school every morning and night, no matter how deep the snow may be or how intense the cold. One cold morning last week an intensely practical joker of Ashtabula, O., offered a little school girl a quarter if she would kiss an iron gate-post which was covered with frost. She did so, and her tongue was badly lacerated in her attempts to re- lease it. Mrs. John Lute, a widow of Sargent County, D.T., drove five miles alone one of the coldest mornings of last week to haul a load of straw for her stock. On her way hack the load was upset, but she reloaded it, with the thermometer at 25 degrees below zero. During the prevalence of a blizzard in Illinois three weeks ago a straw stack on the farm of John Strawm, near Orleans, was blown down. At the same time a valuable steer disappeared from the farm, and could not be found. Last week, after having lain in concealment during the cold snap, the steer reappeared through the side of the stack, looking plump and hearty. While trains were blockaded by the snow in Montana last month and small towns found their supplies cut off, a certaia saloon-keeper drove into Bozerran and carried half a barrel of whiskey in his sleigh. As he was unloading it the barrel slipped, the head was crushed in and the precious fluid gushed forth into a snow- bank. A crowd gathered in an instant and the sweetened snow disappeared with alarming rapidity. But the owner quietly passed the hat, collected half a dollar from every man present and made the best of the misfortune. OlB4stoii« on Homo Rale. Mr. Gladstone, writing in supix)rt of Mr. Slagg, candidate for the parliamentary scat for Burnley, made vacant by the death of Peter Rylands, says: "For the last twelve months I have been telling the Eng- lish, and the Scotch, and the Welsh, that their Parliament will continnc paralyzed and its business be neglected until it settles the Irish question. The Scotch and Welsh believed that, but the southern Engl'-h (Vi not believe it and they stopped the way. They will pay heavily for the delay. Be- fore we reach a certain conclusion we will have to pay with them, and after the thing has been done the Tories will begin to say and believe they have always been Home Rulers. Costly playing with national in- terests seems to bo the main purpose for which the Tories exist. They have played for a certain time with all great iiuestibns for the last fifty or sixty years. When they leave off playing with one, they Roon find another with which to play again. I hope that Burnley wiil give them a lesson." Transmigration of Mary's Lamb. A young lad in Kingston is the ixjssessor of a tame pigeon which follows him wherever ho goes. On Tuesday it followed him on his way to school. As soon as he saw it he carried it back to , the house. After he had been in schotil some time the teacher saw the pigeon making its way into the school-room, and the boy had to carry the bird home a second time. â€" Kini;.it(m Freeman. The Terrible Bliuard. The blizzard in Dakota las*^ week was the severest known for many years, and reports are coming in every day of lives lost on the prairie. The total of those lost in Dakota this winter can hardly he below the death figures of the Vermont railroad accident, while a largo number will suffer permanently from freezing of parts of the body. Business Difficulties. The following assignments are reported: Ontario â€" Bowmanville, J. R. Bradley, harness-maker ; Brampton, Thaubum Bros., bakers ; GravenhurHt, Jos. Tuer, saw mill ; Ottawa, Hugh Allan A Co., dry goods ; Toronto, F. C. Norris, crockery, etc. ; Thomas Houston it Co., woollens, etc. (failed). Cardinals Gibbons aud Tascheroau ar- rived in Rome on Saturday afternoon. Father O'Connell, rector of the American College, met them at Genoa and they were received at the depot at Rome by an influ- ential clerical deputation. â€"Bob Burdette has the following to say anent the long-md-Hhort-haul subject : " Why, anybody ought to know that it'8 the short haul that costs the most. Yon sec, I am sitting in n railway parlor car down in Maine writing a postal-card to a friend in Oregon. Now, if I can get that card to the mail car, only seven car lengths alioad of me, the Government will carry it .S,000 milos for ono cent. That is the long haul. But it costs me a quarter to get the porter to corry it to the postal oar. That's tho short haul. Then the porter loses it on his way or forgets all about it. That's the shrinkage. And there you have the whole transportation problem in a nutBhcll. X' u/ .'â- â- "^ K â- ''-!*• '^. .JT'