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sugar samples, and when they had got it followed it up 
with another query, “ Why don’t we get this beautiful 
clean stuff here?” Then came the Commissioners’ 
opportunity, and in such instances local readers in par- 
ticular may rely that the nail was driven right home. Who 
can, or dare, say that a word in season under those circum- 
stances, was not more powerful than a dozen “ treaty 
arrangements?” Louisiana, of course, had a special 
display of sugar, part of her State pavilion being made 
up of sugar-canes and sugar in horizontally-laid barrels 
with the ends glazed. But to my unpraéctical eye, the 
produét looked dirty—something in hue between our 
dark and straw crystals. Anyhow, right or wrong, the 
general impression | got was that considering the magni- 
tude of the industry and its subsidy from the United 
States revenue, the appearance of the produét as ex- 
hibited was not in any sense comparable with that shown 
by the British West Indies. 
Our display of timber was very fine, and our Commis- 
sioner deserves praise for his handling of the exhibits 
in this conne€tion. Mr. QUELCH’S mode of utilizing the 
big squared logs of hardwoods served a double purpose. 
It secured, on the one hand, a novel and effe€tive frame- 
work for the Court and saved the expense of a pavilion, 
while on the other it brought our commercially valuable 
timbers into a prominence they would scarcely have 
obtained had they been relegated to the recesses of the 
Forestry Building. Trinidad had a small Court there, but 
it was swamped amidst the multitude of exhibits from the 
great lumber-producing States and elsewhere. In the con- 
struction of the main divisional buildings of the Fair, the 
material called “‘staff’’ entered very largely. But in 
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