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THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 191
OUR NAVAL DEPARTMENT.
Hansard reports an amusing iucident
in Parliament when the estimates of
the Naval Service Department were
up for discussion. Mr. Sinclair, the
member for Guy.borougb, N. S., took
advantage of the opportunity to poke
fun at the present management of
Canadian naval affairs, in this wise :
Many persons were rather surprised
when the Fisheries Depertmeot was
transferred to the Naval Service
Department. 1.1 August last when
we wee declared eve,ybody was look-
ing with a good deal of interest to see
what our,Neval Department was do-
ing to keep the flag Hying and to
protect the coasts of Canada. and to
my astonishment on the 4th of August
1 reorivcd a very pretty little book,
entitled 'Foal and How to Cook 11.'
issued by the Dep. rtment of Naval
Sericite. i have no criticam at all to
make oaf this book : it is is beautiful
little book with pictures of very nice
fish and coutaihtl.g little stories that
are no doubt uselul t, the housewives
of the country. For example. it tells
us :
In buying fresh Heti. see that the
eyes are bright and prominent, and that
toe fish is firm 'and nut flabby.
That ie very good advice. On page
:ii it refers to the way to cook a
herring, and it say.:
Have a -clean trying -pan quite hot
and place, herring in .t with the akin
next the pan .and fry them for five
minute. and they turn thein and fry
the other site.
1 have no doubt that ie all right ; at
all events it looks to me to be all right
sud 1 think it would w"rk our all right
In practice, Then at page ba of this
nice I.ttie book 1 find a dtssertauou on
.merits. It says :
Tbe only way to 'cook smelts is to
fry them.
1t most never be said again that the
Navel Department Inas out Wad. up
it. mind on some questions, for hen•
is a queatioe on which it maitre the
10Cet positive statement that the only
way to cook titins ie to fry torn.,
although it does add tht.t they are
sometimes baked. Then it says, also
dealing with 510011.:
Open them at 14.' cilia and draw
each etude separately between your
finger and thumb.
That a'e.us to be veru good advice
also. 'forte are quite a number of
interest, log and useful details in this
book, but what struck me was that at
a time when the country was at war
with one tet the greatest naval powers
in the world, the circulation uyJj this
book war the only thing I could find
that was being done by our Naval
Depar:ment. i wondered bow the
Naval Department had anything to do
with cooking fish, a process whish it
would seem to me should appertain
to t hr Fisheries Depart went. Can
the Minister explain why he trans-
ferred three Watters from the h tsh-
Pries to the Naval Department?
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Won't the wiping :out of Turkey be
a sad blow to the cartoonist. ?
After complete abstention during
the month of February, the [noon was
full again an hour or so after midnight
March 1.L
Again we ark, why should Canada
place a tax on goods imported Irian
the Mother Country? Is Canada not a
part of the Empire!
Le Droit declares that The Toronto
News does not tel) the truth. Le
Droit is mistaken -we have known
The News to tell the truth on several
occasions.
The annual Bisley •hoot has been
called or for this year, the first time
In over hall • century. Anybody who
wants to .boot this year will)ilnd
good assort oyer on the Continent.
Over a million dollars is being
squandered on a palaces for the Lieu-
tunaet-Governor at Toronto. This
goes a Inca way to explain why a
"war tax" of now mill in the dollar is
required to replenish the Provincial
Treasury.
Tete Stratford H.soon has a arb.me
ter to, r'aldog of 10,0tu) bushels of
potatoes on vacant Weds In the Clair
tit o sty. editor O'Beirne. with a line
alliterative sense, would make the .lo-
gan road : Patriotism, Productioo
and Potatoes.
The Packet says that in Orillia h
o'clock ire the boor announced for the
opening of a meeting) "means fifteen
or twenty minutes pest, if not later."
The Orillians must nave come over in
the saute boat as the people who set-
tled hi this part of the country.
The average profit from an acro of
wheat in Alberta Is IMOD: In Saskat-
chewan, $I.7'S ; in Manitoba, $1tl6,
..ceonling to Government statistics.
Tbe figures help to explain why for •
number of recent years more atten-
tion was paid in the West to city sub -
di visions than to the hro•d expanses of
wheat -growing land.
A naval gun of the latest type
mounted at Seafortb could smash the
court house in Goderich, that is if
the gunners were as good shots as
the forward lire of the Seaforth hoc-
key team. The Queer. Elisabeth,
which it taking part in the forc-
ing of the Dardanelles, can throw a
projectile weighing a ton • distance of
betweetLtwenty sod thirty miles.
What is to be the tate of Constan-
tinople? Turkey would have been
bundled out of Europe long ago if the
Christian nation had been able to
agree upon her successor as the guard-
ian of the Bosphorus. It would be
interesting to know what agreement
was reacbrd among the Allies before
the British rind French war-ve.eels
began to pound their way through the
Dardanel lea.
In his address at Leehurn on Mon-
day night, Rev.. 1. 13. Folheringhatn
had the courage to declare that he
was glad to know that wheat bad
fallen fifteen cents in • single day
owing to the operations of the allied
fleets in the Dardanelles. As an
01d Countryman, Mr. Fotberingbam'
kocws something of what dear wheat
mean§ to the laboring people of the
British Mrs.
The Toronto Telegram can't forget 1
Sam Hughes,. Every few days it takes
a .lam at him like this:
"Is the command of the second con-
tibgent of the Canadian expeditionary
rote'.' a scrape heap on which Sir Rob-
ert Borden can dump the bdrden that
has become too heavy to be borne ? If
Hon. Stam Hughes has proved himself
unfit to eomntanJ the Department of
Militia and Defence. Gen. Hughes has
proved hinnnelf still more unfitted to
command the officers and men of the
Canadian expeditionary force."
The Guelph Herald of Friday last
had this edito.i+1 note : -
"The 0ppo*tion will grumble about
the expenditure, but Obey won't
answer the challenge of the Provincial
Tr•raeurer to show one item of im-
proper expenditure. They cannot
•newer such a challenge."
And immediately following was
this :
"The Liberals are Iurck at the old
job. of kicking *teen the money
expended on Government House."
Munroe Reformer : That the "party
truce" is to be shot. to pieces and an
election brought on in June is the lat-
est "tip" from Ottawa. We do not
gusrentee the reliability of this in-
formal ion; but it has come to this
great family journal from sources ueu
ally rut 111 consideration. One thing
may ba taken a, certain, if Messrs.
Borden, Rogers A Company decide to
brave the risk of an appeal to the
people, it will be because they have
desided that the longer they wait the
worse their chances will be.
The „Toronto Star argue. Strongly
for the income tax, which in Britain
is the mainstay of the national treas-
ury. Referring to the situation in
Ontario, The Star says :
"The property tax imposed by Mr.
McGarry does not discriminate in
favor of the emelt owner, who is feel-
ing the pinch of hard times, and in
many entre finds it difficult to retain
the house into which he has put hie
savings. Many of these owners are out
of employment, many ars at the fent,
offering their lives for t he service of
their country. They shoal be relieved,
not subjected to additional burdens. An
incurs tax would take the load off
their shoulders, and place It on the
shoulders of those who ere fax better
able M pay, and who in m•nx cases
would pay without grumbling.'
Another mistake Germany made
was in going to war when little old
rock-ribbed Asquith was at the head
of affairs in Britain. All the world
knows that Mr. Asquith meant ex-
actly what he said when in addressing
the House of Common. on Monday
last he used these word.:
" We. shall not relax our efforts until
we have achieved all our aims. To
achieve them we must draw on our re-
source., both material and spiritual.
The appeal on the materiel side in
fore tic. House. The appeal oft tic
spiritual side is to the ancient and in(
bred qualities of our race which hard
never failed tee in times of stress -
namely, self-masteryyself-sacrifce,
patience, tenacity, willingnees to hear
one another's burdens, t he unity which
springs from • dominating settee of a
common duty, n(•ver-failing faith and
en Inflexible resolve."
A Felicities.* Deficit.
faller -How moth for • marriage
license P
Town Obeli -One dollar.
Gauer'--1've oat got fifty rants.
Town Clerk- You're luck y. -Phil&-
ddphia Ransil..
THE SIGNAL : vODRRICH ONTARIO
The Promise of Spring.
Slot Wan. like tae bre•.t of the rusty e.•,
('rmulua cloud. where the suit roes down,
st.rmful .badows sealing the sold,
Under the •robes of even blown.
Nowhere • white bled beating the sinew.
Nowhere • .uuray gilding the see ;
Had our leaf on the uroaard bough.
Butterfly, uu, hiodeoui, nor bee.
]'et toolgh:, when the Woe waves beat,
Under tin, shadow.. the dam wind. bring
Omen my.t.riou• out of Obsess/.
out of the darkusre the prselrs of sprues.
-Mesa M. Mere&
WHAT OTHEH8,8AY.
Where the Farmer Comer la,
Loudon Ade enact.
While German sows mines to
wreck the wheat .hip., it's up to the
Uaoadiau farmer to sow more wheat
Wealth Flaunts Itself.
(loelph Mercury.
Reports elate that for elaborate cos-
tumes and richness of dress worn by
the ladies, the opening of the Ontario
Legislature this year surpassed any-
thing on record. This will he espec-
ially good iters to the thousands of
luso and woven in the Province who
hardly know wbere the next meal hs
coming front.
Better Marketing Methods.
Journal of Commerce.
In Ue*moo k, wbere marketing bas
been vedu..•d Gra .cience, the farmer
receives ll_' rent* out of every dollar the
ultimate consumer pay. for the com-
modities. In this country the fanner
receives from its toes cents. The stretch
between producer and consumer is too
long. We need new and better sys-
tem. of marketing and until we do
secure these terming will never fill the
place iu this country that it should
occupy
What Western Farmers Believe.
e:rsln tirower, 0,4,.
Having studied the quectlbn, they
know that a tax on land values will
produce more revenue with ler hard-
ship upon producer% than any other
form of taxation. They know that
tariff taxes un food, clothing and
warhinery crake tbne things dear
and increase the cost of production,
and they know that a tax on land
veluee would intake land cheaper and
thus reduce the cost of producing
bothfood and manufactured goods.
Why ,Not an Income Tax in Canada.
Toronto Star.,
Contretthe action of the Govern-
ment with that of Lloyd George and
his colleagues, who are eurces•fully
flnanc.ng s great war by taxes which
bear lightly or not at all on the poo-,
and compel the rich to pay by far the
greater part of the expenditure, as
they ought to do, for it is the cone
muuity that has made theta rich.
More than a quarter of the British re-
venue i, derived from the inenne tax,
which the Treasurer of Ontario neg-
lect, as a source of revenue.
Limbs. Extravagance.
('ollingwood Hu11etIn.
Economy is supposed to be this
watchword at the capital, but evi-
dently a deficit of millions has no
effect on the distribution of patronage
At the public expense to the faithful
A care in point is the advertising of
the Department of Public Works at
Ottawa for "a supply of the hest steam
coal for departmental dredge.. Ontario
and Qnehec," in inland towns, mild
away from the mines and the lakes.
TUN hes appeared at no small expense
its towns situated in agricultural dis-
tricts where• the toot of a sterwer's
whistle, or the grunt and groan of a
dredge. is wholly unknown. But per-
haps chi• itt governmental economy.
It looks much like extray.gaoce.
John Bull Just Keeps at It.
Itorhe.ter l'o. t- F:xpre...
The Ii• i i•h rn.y he properly credited
rich a very improper feeling of'self-
sufficiency which is likely enough to
manifest as more or less ill-natured
contempt for others, but he dot's not
L� .wake nights to bate an enemy. He
is not willing to discommode himself
to that extent. and crines born of
hatred, j"•lousy- and envy are les. com-
mon there than in Latin lands. Never-
theless the Briton ir quite as persist-
ent in what he undertakes e% though
he were at -tuned by a hatred which
keep. no holiday+, and will still he
building ships three years from now,
if the war is not then ended. The
Union Jack may be tattered and the
ships that 110111 it may he few, hot it
will still be Hying over war -battered
craft of etnne kind when enemy belli-
gerents have nothing left afloat.
California Expositions.
The Grand Trunk System will put in
effect on March let reduced tares to
California that will includes San Fran-
cisco -in which city the Panama Pee-
ifle Exposition is being held. from
February 20th to December lth-[.os
Angeles and San Diego, at which latter
point the Panama -California [Exposi-
tion i. teeing celebrated during the en-
tire year.
The same fates in most crews (and
an additional charge on low excursion
tares to cover the coat of meals and
tares on Pacific Coast steamships)
apply on the magnificent new scenic
route opened up by the Grand Trunk
Pacific-, As on the more direct routes
from Chicago and other points.
The new Transcontinental is as
groatin magnitude and interest as
the Panama Canal. Yo1n�4ee the l'an-
adian Rockies at their lbeet, with
Mount Robson (13,71.1 t:. he highest
peak in the Canadian Rockies, as the
show place of America: the wonder-
ful Fraser and Skeen* Rivwre of Brit-
ish Colum bl t besides wnj Dying • two
days' trip (between Prince Rupert,
Vancouver, Victoria nr Seattle.
through whet. has become known as
the "Norway of Ansi/rite," on the
Grand Trunk P•eiAc coast steamships,
the finest, surest and tartest in the
service. /
A short side trip ran be made from
Prints Rupert to Alaska, which time
and expense might not permit from •
southern port. No other .porta-
t.foo company can offer the c l.,, cf
routes that the Grand Trunk Pyyeetceeoo
h•a arranger[ for 1914 to Oalllorttla
and the Pacific coast. 1 t
A man is sot necessarily a harsh
taskmaster bee•nee be pays Hetet at.
tendon to budases.
THE GREAT STRUGGLE
Mainly Extracts from Leading British
and American Papers Relating to the
War. : ---: : : • --: : _• •
'THERE 14 NOTHING FURTHER
TO REPOLIT."
The brave story that lies behind
many a bt Def official phrase is illus-
trated by the following atxuunt of an
episode during Uhri.twas weak in the
A rrar la Baaeee diet' i c e
A night attack made by French eo-
reseere a few days ago -during which
they menaced to successfully lay and
explode a erica. of mines -has been
even woe eu,-eeful than war ant
pated. The pe focipal obj'rt of this at-
tack was lo destroy or crpture a
couple of machine-gun p•..iions,
which, up ; t hen, heal den -d • all
effort• to take Chem or even tender
them untenable. Three guns hell the
only r..a t tum farwbouse which, its its
turn. Ii+rerered a .regular nest of
sniper.. Seerr,l futile a• tenons had
breis a -.de t o di.ludgr Chas pent. from
the tandems-, but tun machine guns
each time ware tun many fur the at-
tacking lore.-.
The culture' du command then de-
cided to nr.r of all' 'R{�'se of the two
guar and, then aural to the farm-
house atter. As luck would have it •
greet .turn .t mud and rain broke
over the country, one of the worst
►torn. within the wewory of the old -
art wen p,e,rnt ; and under cover of
this, sappers wens, to work to give the
coup de goise to those t so guns or
die in toe attempt Tory menet-zed
succe.efuby to get through their own
flue of dr( mer retanglemente without
attracting 0 •tic,, and then by dint of
crawling inch by inch, nearly smotb-
rred With wont and .lush, they got
across the int even ng tierce which
asp toned t4.- enemy's barbed wire
from their uwu.
Herr the real work was started. As
might be imagined, the German wire
was at its thickest and deepest around
the gun p salons, and au it was quite
'emirate to attempt te cut a way
through. 1n the first place. it would
take Lea long ; and in the second, even
it they did get throu.th, the chances
were that they would le spotted be-
fore they could fix their miner. These
indomitable "melee tet the army" did.,
the only thing left : they coul.in t go'
over the wire, and they couldn't. go�
through it, so they went under it. Do'
not imagine that thee' men .imply
drove a tunnel through to the positrou
they wanted under the guns. No;
this job had to be dune between the
hour. of dark and dawn, otherwise it
would have been at. once detected.
Th, y ti ugly scraped and dug their
passage under the bo, tom strands of
the wire, cutting where necessary.
All the time during the advance an
electric cable was bring peed out. and
carried forward with the, workers.
This cable, a4 well as .uppl.iug the
current acres try to explode the mines,
acted a.• a sort of guide rope thread
it he .Jvi.able to retire in a hurry.
The slightest mistake Wight wean
death poured forth from $ hundred
muzzle. over the trench parapet. B.,t
luck was, with them that night. and
especially .with one hold spirit who
managed to craw 1 up almost to the
parapet oar!! shielded by the roar of
the gale and the splash of the rain, to
return safely with the news that ap-
parently the Germane had retired into
their dug -outs. But it was impossible
to detect whether a g;r•rd had been
left beside the guns or not.
Slowly and carefully the engineers.
lying al t flat to the earth, started
to scrape girt the hole for the mune,
wheel, woe eventually placed in posi-
tion and conn. -card up. Tien the re-
diteulent h. -gen, a man ata title, guid-
ii,g him -elf slowly back to safety by
means of hie touch on the cahle-hack
t(o the place whet., in a hole in the
ground, the cable drum and batteries
rested. A few minutes' careful work
by the two men who stayed behind to
fire the charge. The others -their
part of the work done -had returned
Go tbeir Own trenches and then the
c'nnection was made and e. dull
rumbling roar followed with a hurt of
blame. a nee that even the fury of the
storm could not smoother, and that was
the end of the guns. Almost before
the rumble of the explosion had died
away, a company of Turco. •were at
death grips with the enemy in the
farmhonrw, and soon made very short
work of them.
Just before dawn the Turcos were
reinforced and a strong assault carried
the trench where the guns had been.
it was then found that the previous
night's work had made sad havoc
a.noeg the nxupanta of the dugouts.
Those who were not killed or maimed
had been buried alive when the walls
blew in. in the afternoon both trench
and farmhouse were retaken by the
enemy, only to fall once more Into the
hand• of the French in the evening
after • very sanguinary struggle.
The whole of this story is slimmed
up in the curt French official report :
"We have advanced in certain dis-
tricts and have captured one of the
enemy's trenches and some farm -
buildings which have been hotly con-
tested for some tire.. Two msccbine-
Funs wee. destroyed. There is noth-
moa further to report" -The -Daily
Chronicle (London).
• • •
A (ODE OF SAVAGERY.
Pmf.o,or Morgan hes done the
cause of the Allier and the caul. of eiv-
illaat ion • great servtee by translating
Into English the German handbook
on "Usages of War on Land" lesuwd
by the Oeoera) Staff of the Dermas
Army. The importance of this hook
1s that it gives the highest °Okla/
sanction to principles and to prattles@
whish are In Sat eon, radiation to those
of all civilian. peoples. 1t leeeloat a
apes� German o/Bre eethe duty of ,
Yrfgbafeleesa" it la slaws, nakedly
and enalteebd, the amines that the
and jostles the wares It teaebes
the (feral army to throw the meet
elementary precepts of humanity and
of common morals to the wind. They
aro weak ueereee the officer Is iu.tructed.
which he ower it whir country and u,
his warlord to over:owe. When they
seem to restrict bis prospect of raceme
be it bound to resist the natural hos
wiles to obey them. There is indeed
one limit to the horrors he may inflict,
and ought to inflict, upon other., but
in practice there is only on.. The
'•fear uf;repriral.," it iv explicitly laid
down, alone decider what obeet stance
he it to pay to the liwitataows upon
the extreme exercise of brut.' force,
which "curtail and cooveotioor,
human ftiendhness mud calculating
egotismhave established. To that
fear, and to that fear only, the
German officer and gentleman may
properly deter. He is bidden to dee-
pine the '•seotiwentaliry and flabby
emotion" and the considerations of
humanity which prevailed during the
last century, tcgetber with the "sort of
moral recognition" that certain provis-
ions of the Geneva Convention and
Brussels and Hague Conferences gave
them. So schooled ty the intellectual
chief of the army he is sent forth not
only to make war against the armed
forces of the enemy, but to '•destroy the
whole of the spiti, teal and material re-
source." of the hostile state.
That tine doctrine, in all its .nor -
runty, has been traditional in Prussia
ohne the days of Frederick the Great
nae always been known to students of
German military writings. But what
moat of us have not knuwu is that it
is the official code of, the German
Army, issued on the highest authority
to enlighten their conecienceg and to
direct their action in the conduct of
over. The "War Book," it i.:true, sanc-
tions nothing much worse than the
German armies, with the approbation
and the applause of the German press
ante the German public, have been do-
ing, week after week and month after
month, in Belgium acid France. But
until now foreign peoules, whether
belligerents or neutrals, have not
known on (official evidence that the,
wont atrocities, which she Belgian'
and French official reports record
beve been perpetrated it accordance
with the fundamental theories of the
German General Staff. \Ve have in-
fer: ed from the rrpetitionr of these
barbarities, and flow the impunity
cf the authors of them, that they were
approved in the 010.1 exalted ttuartere.,
We have infer ed from the *ruse ctr-I
cumctencrs, coupled with the iridisc e-
Liuns of German writer., that they were'
part of ■ delihrtate system of terror -I
ism. But *o far these inferencee
have been inferences only. Nuw they
are demonstrated to be true and by
the German Government theuyselve•
Gospels as terrihle and se degrading
have perhap, been preached before by]
wen in the ftry of revolution. Thi.,
we believe, is the Hrst time in the hi.-
' tory of Christendom, or even in the
biseory of mankind, that a cited so
revolting ha. been deliberately form•
ul•t,d by the rhiefs of a great civilised
*tate. -The Times (London I.
r • .
SHOULD A CHRISTIAN NATION
NEVER GO TO VAR?
The neutrality of Great Britain was
impossible. Force was the only
method of resistance left. "if you
W. ACHESON & SON
BARGAIN SALE OF
ODD LINES
AND REMNANTS
Great clearing sale of hundreds of pie'c'e, of Dress
Goods 1 i. to 5 yards r, all styles and qualities meas-
ured and piled on tables for clearing at half -t' -ice
and less. linens, Towelling, Flannels and Silk
enis at cicariLg price:. Every end neatly marked
and measured for swift selling. -
Sateen. and Batting for Comforters
One hundred pieces of new English fest color at sateens in pleas-
ing designs and : ulori"gs, entirely new. :rs to Hti inches 25c
wide. at per yard.. ... Ido, 20e, !!o and
BATTING -The new large lit -ounce weight American 22c
Eider Batting for Qahit. at each
Saxony Flannelette
Thirty-six inches, wide. hetet-, ,oft, fine white Flannelette. Regu-
lar price lee to :tic, will ..'II during this next week (only at 1221C
per yard
Sheeting.
Seventy -two-inch heavy white twilled or plain Sheeting, r]5C
free from dressing. Regular :etc and :Qs. at per yard L
White Cottons
Thirty-six inches wile, heavy, soft English Cotton, file, at per yard
10o
White Drill, White Vestings
White Reppa, White Piques
Attractive price reductions .'n ail above line.
W. -ACHESON & SON
ser • roan trampling on a woman you
;nay walk away or you rater knock
him down. But it ns vain to argue the
point with him while he tramples.
Those who are for peace et any price
are like the man who walks away.'
--Dr. Jt.bn l'litfetd, the euunen( Lon-
don preacher and a trailer of Lib,eul
Nonconformist opinion.
1 was once walking with a friend
and disciple of Tol,rm'e in a country
lane, and a little girl was running in
front of us. I put to him the ques-
tion : ''Suppose you saw a duan.,
Bricked or drunk or Diad, tun nut and
attack that child. You are a big men
end carry a big stick ; would you not
slop hire; *mi. if ne:es.ary, knock hien
down :•" "So.- he said, "why should 1
commit a tint I would try to per-
suade him. 1 would viand in, him way,
1 would let hire kill me. but 1 would
not iodine him." Some few people
will always lie found to take this
view : pw..iwr resistance, they wt,
is right : Inert }',d•ow it right: but to
resist violence by vi'.lrnr.- is sin.
They will ety: ••i.•t the little girl be
killed or carried off : let the a irked
man commit another wicketbies.: 1,
at any rate, will not add to the mass
f violence that 1 see all round me."
With such persons cannot reason,
though one ran often tespeet them.
Nearly every normal man will feel
that the real gin, the real dishonor,
lies in allowing an ah>ninable art to
Ito (-outwitted under veur ryes while
you have the strength to prevent it.
The lest thing -suppose un. -e the
robber. are there and intent on crime
-the beet thing is to overawe theta at
once: the next beet, to defeat them
after m hard struggle: the third Leat,
to r..i,t vainly and be martyred: the
wrest of all, the one evil that need
never be endured, is to Irt theta have
their writ' without protest.-i'rof. Gil-
bert Munsy, of Oxford, a lifelong ad-
.voeste of peace and erhitretiou end
Internet onal frlendehip.
A parable to be c. omnleted. -A rer-
rein man went down from Jerusalem
to Jericho, and fell among thieves
And an they wore stripping hien of hi.
ranee( and wounding him, is certain
Samaritan, a, he journeyed, came
where they were : and when he saw
them, be.... - The Outlook (New
York).
The London Life Ins. Co.
HEAD OFFICE - LONDON, CANADA
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1914 SHOWS
UNINTERRUPTED PROGRESS
New Business Written, $to,63o,o69 an Increase of $1,801,8i9, Largest in
Company's History.
Rate of Interest Earned, 7.0: an Increase of 20 Points,
Mortality Only 41.5 of Expected.
Profits to Policyholders One-Tiiird Greater Than Estimates.
The Annual Report Embraces the Following Particulars
The splendid gain in New nosiness for the first seen months of the year was
held unimpaired to the close and resulted in the largest increase in the Company's
history, a. noted above, January, 1915, lousiness also shows a cpleudid increa e
over that of 1914.
The brines t in force. lerrinsurances, amounted to 830,849,326 74, en in -
creme of 83,730,961.72 The lapsrate has naturally been heasier than hereto-
fore, owing to the special conditions existing. Nevertheless the gain in business in
force is practically the name ae in the hest previous year.
NEW
BUSINESS
INSURANCE
iN FORCE
INCOME
PROFITS
ASSETS AND
INTEREST
LIAIIILITIES
SURPLUS
IThe total Receipts amounted to 81,484,81 9.1 3, a gain of 5l68,978.48 over
the previous year.
The present scaly of profits- exceeding estimates by one-third- is bring con -
tinned. The conditions warrant an increase, which for the time being is deferred
untij the effect of the expected unustul .train this year has ixen determined.
the Assets now amount to 86.294,262,70, an increase of 1648.667.61. Ronde
and Stocks have been taken et a 6gttre much below the�pretailing market value, The
Rate of Interest earned. without allowance for Head Office rental, was 7.011
Seventy-seven per cent. of all the Company's lotion/eta ie now valued on a 3%
Mists. The total !'oliey Reserve rot the Company's standard now amounts to
84,807.888.
on Government standard Policyhol,tm• Sorrppltn amounts to 8676,148.64,
showing the meat ettiefactory gain vet made After setting aside funds to increase
Reserves to Company's standard, provide for profits serving, Ant net doe, and for
investment Reserve and other special fonds, the net Surplus on Policyholders' Ac-
count u 8266,686.64.
JAS. McCLACHERTY, AGENT, GODERICH