He is said to have addressed twenty-three meetings, and to have scarcely eaten or slept for a fortnight.

He was shrewd and fair in negotiation, as well as eloquent in speech.

The result was an amicable settlement, satisfactory to all parties.

And the farmers of the West owe Mr.Anderson a good deal.

So does the C.P.R.For if the strike had broken out last October, just as the movement of the fall crops eastward was at its height, the farmers and the railway, and Canada in general would have been at its mercy.