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What the Hurons Are Doing.
THE 161st REMAINS A UNIT. moving across the Channel.
Among the O*)tors at the Battalion
--- lines today were Walt. (Buckle) Babb,
• \Vest Saudliug' of the O. A M. O., and Wm. Ken -
January al, Bill. nedy, a (;oderieh man who came over
Deer Mr. Robottaon.--I believe the with a New Brunswick battalion and
Let titre l ti -Since tote hen theou
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Chriatwas Day.
Battalion ham had several moves, but
it still retains its identity. On Janu-
ary Ind the Battalion left Upper Dib -
gate and marched here and was at-
tached to the Rbtb It Battalion
for rations. The sten went under can-
vas for a week and suffered consider-
able discomfort. as the tents let in the
rain quite freely and very frequently.
The sten thought the mud at -Gamete
bad, but it was a paradise compared
with IlM dliog as far as the mud wee
cones d. Atter being under canvas
for a *eek the hien Moved into buts
in the lines of the 310th Keserve.
Things are very cuwfortahle for us
now. We have Iota to eat and of goad
quality.
This week the Battalion received
quite • shakeup and its now formed
ivtto.tbree companies. \No. I is the
training company and co sista of the
Alen who are physically ft and prop-
erly traine.l for active sere Major
Campbell is in command of is corn-
nyand Captain Sturdy Jos ood in
'V nown
Cowman(. .'o. 2 Company is
as headquarters company and cdpsista
of inetrueuxs, dere', orderly menand
the headquarters staff. , Major
nein has charge of this company.
3 Company is known as theemergenc_
\ company and consists of the men who
did not peas the nnrdicsl examiner as
\
In the A clam,.. These t,.'.n do the du- c
\tt'eel of the camp and relieve the train- co
g company of all fatigue wank. on
Capt. Town bee command of the last- int of
n amed company. vents
The method of training the Olen drill ho
now is somewhat different. The days other ole
are usually divided into seven or eirat Our hou
periods. with the training somewhat a. 111. to ll.
as follows : First period. physical i'CIeck, Ret
training ; second, 0. C.5 inepection ann reveille et
with full marching order ; third, squad
drill ; fourth, bombing ; fifth, bayonet
fighting ; sixth, musketry ; seventh,
rifle. exercises. This routine is varied
by route niarehea, classes in engiueer-
log and trench -digging. -
We are expecting a visit here on
Tuesday, January Lind. from the offi-
cer commanding the Canadian forcer
Jo England. lwentyaflve men of the
61st have been selected to act, with
others, as a guard of honor.
-Wis
are Tooked 110011-wltlrenvy here
by some of the other battalions be-
d oiler we have been reiained as a unit
while they have been broken up and
ahsot bed by other battalions. 1 am
not sure of the reason why we have
been left as we are. Some say it isi
tweauee we are a particularly well-
trained battalion, while others say it
is because Colonel Conde is senior to
all the colonels in this brigade. We
pre now in the lth Canadian Brigade.
a
bad been severely wounded. He
expecte to return to Canada shortly.
Quite a number of Ooderich glen who
cause over with earlier battalions are
in hospital in this locality. E. A. W.
"MERRIE ENGLAND" STILL.
The following letter from Mr. War-
ner was written at rtborncliffe in
December :
i can't remember just when l wrote
you last, but I am under the impres-
sion that it was shortly after our ar-
rival in camp here. Since then prac-
tically all the men of the Battalion
hate had six days' leave and are back
again with the Hattallon, We stayed
only a week under canvas and then
moved into a late but al Upper Dib -
gate. Two d s, comprising in all
about two hundred med, are already
on the Continent; a good percentage
of tbem are [nen from Oodericb. The
remainder of the Battalion. with the
exception of some of tbe details, such
as stretcher-bearer's and machine-gun
men, ere billeted in one but. At pres-
ent we are under quarantine. which
means C B as it is said that a num-
relatives' through a Zepp raid. She
tw,rly mentioned her luso, but spoke
in high glee of the fact that the Zepp
web brought dawn and the wuoie
crew burned to destb. One father was
telling one of hie family and ►perking
of s wounded soon who it in htwpital
and shunt totally disabled. He seili :
"Phe boy is all iueesrd tip and won't
he much good for work."
On viral ing some of the historic
sant, in London, such as St. Paul's,
\1'estminster Abbey. for Tower and
Buckingham Palace, we found many
of the wo.t valuable things there pro-
tected from sir raids by being sou-
ounded and roofed in with sandbags
And heavy *tee( nett1ng. Buckingham
P..lare is practically roofed in wilt* a
roof of wire netting c srried on a steel
framework Many fret above the roof
proper. One of the things thet iuter-
tat the Canadians a good deal is to see
the women taking the place of men in
many alt the public Offices. each as
street car conductors, mail -carriers,
toiti-drivers, hotel porter*, etc In
many of theme cases the uniform worn
is very doodler to that worn by a man
holding a like position, except that a
Avert skirt, coming a 1i111e below the
knees, is worn, and very lung boots.
Most of the w°uuenconducrors are very
obliging, but preesiuc'ally our menet'
shiest-.
There is a ladies foot hall team draw-
ing considerable comment near here.
The members appeer upon the field in
the coI'uv.e worn by men players,
just running •hoots, sweaters and boots
and sock.. They mare good gates, halt
it is • matter for discuabion whet her-
the
erthe fans go to see the football or the
bar of cases of measles have been re- bare knees. l don't think England has
ported. No ose seems to know who improved much in morals during the
is sick, so it is gtoetally su0posed past fifteen yea's, for there are things
among the men that the quarantine is to iv seen and beard here that are
erely a precautionary measure in likely to shock the person with the
e any 'ot the men contracted Canadian code of morals.
municable diseases while away Some Signals arrived while I woe -e*-
The quarantine affects pees, but 1 did not get a glimpses of
after parade hours and pre- them, and 1 am being pestered every
from going to town. During
rs we mix quite treely with
of drill here are from S
and front 1 p. m. to 4
at sounds at 4.315 p• m.
a.m. A number of the
men are taking musketry course on
the ranges and it few sergeants are at-
tending a school of instruction for in-
structors. We eat our meals in a large
dining ball capable of seating a full
battalion. 'liable., with seats ate pro-
vided and Path man has a large bowl
and plate of earthenware. The sycteun
of service is not jurat what one
would with at lirnes and the food is
apt to get a bit mixed. For instao.:e,
for diener recently i had the follow-
ing banded` `nye- nerd-- to the - order .
minted : Bread and margarine, tea,
soup, potatoes (here the Pilpply seemed
temporarily cut o$1, rice pudding,
[neat. and just as 1 was getting up to
leave a dish of cabbage. As we usually
eat up everything as it is handed out,
so as to base the plate empty for for
next course, you can see that we get
quite a mixture occasionally. On the
whole we are ted pretty web and there
is good variety in the victuele.
You will see by the foregoing that. a While away on. pass I spent the
statement in The Star's correspond-) greater part of my holiday in the
ent'e letter in the ['Nue of December vicinity of London and three days
Utah, that the 101st Battalion bad mere .pent eight -seeing in that great
.eased to exist, was not correct. city. One imps elision that is fixed upon
We'get rain practically every day my mind is that the title of "Merrir
here-that i*, outs.* it snow*. England" is 'net as true today it. ever it
i
\Vith all itbe discomfort. our men
have to put up with 1 am doubtful if
you could tied a jollier or a more con-
tented bunch of men anywhere on the
face of the globe. There is practically
0o sickness aside fr• m colds.
Yours sincerely.
E9tae44,A. WARNER.
January 21et.
The t airing company was all Mel
out with Webb equipment today end
it is pe"liable that it will loon be
was. Practically every playhouse t•
open and running full swing. and al-
though sowd'of the caste perhans are
not on Such an expensive scale as te-
fote the war yet there are nonny good
performances and barge audiences at-
tend. To i he casual observer it would
not appear that London was the cap-
itel of a country at war and that air
reside occurred at fregpent intervals.
The pew'ple do not spew ti, look M the
war in it serious vein. I was speaking
to a woman wbo hod Inwt a number of
taw moments to know if I have The
Sigin s1.
The weather here has been damp
end fog,(. for the past week, and rib,
though we have no frost the copd
wind. ,.re very penetrating.
'hunting you are keeping well, 1 am,
Yours as ever.
E. 'A WARriea.
FROM HARRY BELLAMY IN FRANCE
The following is a letter received hA
Mr. F. Ross, Dungannon., from H.
Bellamy, formerly editor of The Dun-
gannon News:
Somewhere in France.
Dec. h. 191:,
DEAR Finical), -Little did I think
when 1 shook hands with you Inst
October teat 1 would be writing a
letter to you in the trenches
the day after Christmas. However,
this war hits furnished many surprises
in the past, so it devolves upon each
one of us to prepare for anything.
1 feel very much like the boy who
has spent his flist few days at school
sand has so much to tell concerning
his new duties and his cruel Graeber
that f could tell much of what I have
seen and heard of Fritz and relate a
few experiences of my three or four
days' trench lite ; but 1 don't suppose
an old soldier in this genie would con-
sider it worth while telling about any
thing that ha. occurred on this pert of
the front, as it has been compara-
tively quiet he.e for some time. Al-
though Fritz is only about a hundred
yards Alio ant he has kept to his own
neck yard pretty web since our ar-
rival, and unsociable- chaps that we
are, we have nc t yet celled upon bim,
not even to excbanete Yuletide greet-
ing* on Christmas Day.
The first night I was on a working
patty for few hours diligently at
work with a shovel opening up a
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I ,
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1916 1915
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Cash Income . s 18,499,131 15,'172,672
Surplus paid or allotted to Policyholder. 1,110,900 985,487
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$8,622,573 111.6%)
2,526,459 (15.8
125,413 (12.7'/.
964,274 (12.875)
448.537 ( 6.3 %,
7,898,445 (22.6 %
24,030,540 ( 9.3%
Coincident with the above increases, the Company succeeded during the year in effecting •
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INCOME ASSLTS I LIFE ASSURANCES
IN FORCE
1872
1886
1896
1906
1914
YEAR
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373,5,00.31
1,988,2580)
8,212,815.02
18,499,131.42
16, 461.96 1,064 ,350.00
1,573,x.10 9,413,358.07
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T. B. MACAUL Y. President.
JOHN A. 't()R5'. Supervisor for
Weeder' Ontario and Michigan
Run Life Building, Toronto, Ont.
1917
H. R. LONG, District Manager
Godericll, Ontario
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prescriptions wittiest kavioa permanent
suet. ay ease being chronic. I decided
to try ata !ills although I bad bat Little
faith m them. The loot doee gave se
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Chess pills nal I lad myself ooaplotal7
pIf pee Says lame Dock. emotion teams.
e.astaat headac►M urinary troubles, nose,
gravel, rkenmausm. remssabw her- llsrMri's
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MAPLH LEAF'S
ANNUAL MEETING.
A Record of Good Work Accomplished
Daring the Put Year.
The annual meeting of the Maple
Leaf ('haptet, 1. 0, L. E., was held on
elouday, 5th inst., when officers wens
elected as follows for the ensuing yea':
Regent, bliss Gifford ; vice-regent,
Mira Julia Lewis ; secretary, Mise
1',oudfoot ; treasurer, Misr Gladys
Eliot ; eundard•bdarer, alias Aiwa
"sturdy.
The following tepotts were pre -
relented :
8w'RETAItT'e RKPURT.
The year tbrough which we have
pat passed has been a etreouous and
uuuctentous one for our country and
our Kiupiie, and 1 am glad foray that,
though the part played in it by our
Chapter is necessarily a very *stall
one, a sun prising amount of work has
been accomplished by it, in which we
have been greatly helped by our new
members, the Lout( membership list of
the Chapter now being eigbteeo.
In the beginning of the year $10
wan given to the F iIneb Relief Fund,
fourteen pairs of socks sent to the
:Meows National, also • bale conaigt-
ing of twelve bray kits and seeuud-
hand clothingpacked and bent. $:9)
as "tent to e Maple Leaf Club in
Lond.m, England, for Canadian sol-
diers, and $10 to the Victoria League
in London. •23 was given by the So-
ciety towards the purchasing of ser-
vice mirror• for the wen of the Oode-
ricb company of the 181st Battalion
before they left for Camp Borden.
The money for this purpose was made
at two afternoon card parties, and
after the amount required was given
the remainder of the money was spent
on a box of soldier,' comforts which
was sent to Miss Dancey for the pa-
tients od the hospital she was in in
France.
Till July the regular Red Crow work
of snaking surgical dressing* was
retried on by the members of the
Chapter, wbo met every Monday after-
noon in the R.oLCross rooms. ; Then
as no more dressings were required by
head office the work was gi`eo up for
the rummer.
A garden fete given by the Chapter,
on the 14th of July in the grounds of
Major Lewis brought the sum of $155,
$80 of which w to bent to tbe 8ecoure
National. $17 was also given to le
ccnvalescent home for Canadians.
Lytophe Castle, Kent, England. 1a
September twelve dozen personal
property bags were made and 611ed
with hospital comforts and sent to
No. 7 Canadian Stationary Hospital,
France. It was alar decided at the
September meeting that in future
each member 'bouts contribute a
scrap book a month, to be sent to boo-
pitals or to soldiers at the front.
$10:A) was sent to Mr. Wane Sewell's
Prisoners of War Bread Fund, and •
box was sent to a lor.ely Australian
patient at Beachborough Hospital,
Kent, England.
Red Crow work at the rooms on
Monday afternoon was again resumed,
pneumoote jackets tieing made instead
df dressings. Six dozen of these have
been packed and went to Lyndon head-
quarters, while at present there are
nearly twelte dozen more ready for
packing.
Another Canadian prisoner of war
has been adopted, so we are now sup-
porting two. As their names and ad-
o dresses were not given to us in time,
co Christmas parcel* could be sent
them.N
to ovember $15 was sent to the
British Sailor: Relief Fund, and
twelve Chrietinaa boxes were pecked
and 'tent to he given to lonely soldiers;
the sum of $22 was voted for them.
A rummage nide and war exhibit
held in an empty store, lent to us by
Mr.. Horton, on the 24 h and 25th ' of
November hrought in the sum of $150.
A dozen more paire of 'tock'. were
bent to Secours National and $5 wet
sent to the Oversees Tobacco found.
At. the last meeri g el the Chapter
in January it was decided to send $20
again to the simple leaf Club in I.00.
trench that !Peitz so unkindly shelled
in. No )batter how deep the mud and
water is, whether it is up to one's
knees or waist, one soon gets the
habit of ducking when a sniper's or
machine-gun bullet goes whizzing
overhead or when a 'tsauaage," "bizz-
hwng." "coal box," or dome other
Krupp works product is flying
' through the air, and of standing mo-
tionless whey a star shell goes up and
bursts in the air, thereby lightipg up
' No Man's Land. When a machine -gun-
ner starts pepperiva the parapet in
front of ytiu one begins to realize the
deadliness of these awful weapons.
The nest night 1 was on duty in a
crates out In No Mon's Land and dur-
ing the night easy a German wiring
party at work, but es they were out
of reach for a bomb we left them
alone. i was also out in a sap. Once
our position was discovered and a
Fritz sniper fired a few rounds at us.
i Imagined 1 was in the rifle butts at
Dungannon scoring "mimes" for our
friend Tom Allen the bat. We came
out of the front line fee Christmas and
am spending this week in the support
trenches, doing duty on ration and
working parties. One afternoon stew
shells came quite close to us and
closed up the entrance to one of our
dugouts. We sleep and rest in tbe
dugouts, which are from twenty to
twenty-five feet underground. Afte
splashing, crawling and wading
through trench mud tor hours at •
time. we find it quite a relief to get
down in these underground quarters.
The food is far hotter than I thought
it would be in the trenches ; in fact, it
is superior in quality and quantity to
what we were receiving in our train-
ing camp. Mail is also delivered and
collected daily in the line.
Last night while un a ration party -
we witnessed a fierce hotnbirdment on
our left. It was a magnificent sight to
see the green and rod flame' and the
shells wish their tails of flre flying
through the air. The noise and din
of the various kinds of explosives in
use was deafening.
Fritz dreads our artillery. He calls
it horribly inhuman The Allies can
easily send over eizehelle to their one.
I must say we had a splendid three
weeks' training at the base, a training
which in charge of the best in. tructors
in the world should make us thorough
ly efficient in facia g she enemy
The weather during the last day or
en hits not been bad. 0 •cnelonilly we
get a slight snow Marry and some
night'. a Tight frost. 1 think L prefer
the t:enediau winter with all the snow
and cold. to the damp, foggy wet
weather in France, Behind our lines
not many roma distant from here is a
village all in reline. There 1e only the
wall of one building standing. This
town was shelled, of course, before the
Allies made&sligh. advance.
I was impressed while on nay wet,
up to the front. from he hasr with the
way the French l at tiler., mostly wo.
men and old men, po oceans( with their T• Lydia E. Pinkhamss Veg-
work to close up to the fli ing Ione, lost
as thpugh the war with th-'ugands of ( stable Compound.
miles away from hem. The night
w. re alt in tel- I
drib, Bogien& d $10 , the Prisoners
of War Bread Fundi while t1 e sum of
$20 was voted t" buy rowfnrt. for bol.
diers, tobacco, gn.u, cb,.rol•tes, etc.
Forty separate p re. 1■ o1 these were
done up end -en to N 1 Canadian
Genera al Wept al, Fi a"ce. $M was
also voted tot e Belix o Relief Fund.
RITA JORDAN, Secy.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
'total re rapt- 1 , the )ear ...$4Ft�i.flB
Total ex pen. ituree 373.62
Balance on h o,d ...$ 82 07
J U1.1A Lawtr. -
IOWE
before corning In WP p
lets in awmail Allege flee tyles beck.
My billet wan in eh old French man-
or_ up sin a straw loft. .fit threehitil
Was in prngresn the new' n nrmrrg and
Some sf us jumped into the mow Pnd
pitched *helmet' foren
i� alarm
was rat, the feeding q
little meparator. This farmer was up•
to -date enough to hove his mill oper-
ated with a gas"hoe engine. while
others aroifld hits still 'eeort to the
old treedniill end h, empower, which
we •Iso saw in °pet *ilium 1 went
over to a nearby held and Invest.[
gated 0nP of N•°e•• large windmills
which dot. the land -rape of this pars of
France and 13. Iguana
While en route from the base we
.topped off at nae of she large French
cities for • few bows and went slgbt-
seeing Outweigh es me of he large 111.-
1 toric edifice,.
I Often think of you all back in the
old village. 1 hsvi bad ho mall since
leaving Camp Borden. Po have not
heen able to keep In touch with doings
there. We *spirt to emotive our mail
In • few da.., en will ill feel better
' then. Going without mail for over
two :month* la not so my liking, inti
IWs never -merry over here. WP ono•
I.sboureeleeri with singing, "Park all
your tr.ushier, in tont old kit hat( and
1 prole. smile,
TnHting that nom will And you all In
ear Y
• horlth and ws.Mng you re Happy
*ar, Y tar,,,
H Aa6T Rat.t.A1mT.
Optimism oewabts in asking Inc
*ream at a bestow$ boar.*.
Washington Park, Ill- "1 am the
mother of four children and have .of-
ferer with female
trouble, backache,
nervous spells and
the blues. My chil-
dren's loud talking
and romping would
make meso nervous
I could just tear
everything to pieces
and I would ache all
over and feel so sick
that 1 would n o t
want anyone to talk
to me at times. Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Leer Pills re-
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yon for the good they have done ws. I
have had quite a bit of trouble and
worry but it does not affect my youth-
ful looks. My friends say ' Why do you
look so young agd well i' I owe It an
to the Lydia E flnkham remedies.'•
-Mrs RCM?. ATorrmti Moore Avsttue.
Wruhingtln Park, Illinois.
We wish every woman who .0*ale
frau female trembles, swry uenees.
backarbe or the bines could see thee let-
ters written by women made well by Ly-
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If you have any symptom abnetwhirb
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Masa., for bslptul adviee given free of
figs.
The inducements offered with common
soaps cannot make up for the purity of
Sunlight Soap 11 costs US more to make
pure soap. But it oosts YOU less to use
at, for Sunlight pays for itself in the clothes
it saves. It does not wear and rub the
fabrics as vommon soaps do.
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I orad Homestead Brine Black Fer-
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more wheat where I fertilized than
*here i did not."
Equals Barnyard Manure.
F. N. Low, Park Hill. Ontario, ss
"I used Homestead Bone Black AR. -
tinter
Q• -tinter on my fall wheat and 1 find
that 1 can grow as good a crop with
as 1 can with harnyard manure. as r\
tried them side by side."
Forty Thousand Investors
Hold Canadian Pacgf is Stock
Canadian Holders Now Tot 6,531, a Gain of 16er Cent.
in Fite Years-rnited Stsdos Acquired ors $Apres
Last Year -Statement Furnished
Baron Shaughnessy.
('anadies Peelle Railway. J y, j11.11
.A. 1s
Total number of common stock- 1911. 111fs OIL
holders -
In all countries 24,000 24.000 40,48$ .:97"
in Canada 2.500 3,400 11.131
Percentage of common stockholders
In -
Great Britain 65% 60% 112.88%
Canada 10.41% 12.58% 13.841%
United States 9.59% 10.42% 10.39%
Germany 107. 10% 6.338'
Francs 5% 1% 5.63%
Other countries 2% 2.13%
How the common stock of the Cana-
dian Pacific Railway Is held has al-
ways been an Interesting study. Our -
in the past few years there has been
ronslderable change in the grouping
of the holdings. Baron Shaughnessy,
president of the railroad Company,
has on various occasions furnished
7'he Monetary Trine -a- with flgulle
showing In what countries the stock
'1 held and to what extent.,and also
en analysla of the shareholder. list
as It stood on (A-tober 1st, 1916. This
Is compared with previous analyses
in the above table.
it meet be borne in mind. In as
al7ting the figures that the capital
stock of the Canadian Pectic Rail-
way has been Increased several times
during the period under review as
follows: fn November. 1906, when
(30,000,000 of additional stork was
allotted at 125, the amount of stack
outstAndin* was 81/0,010.000. That
would be the amount et stock held by
'ke 14,010 shareholders is January,
1911. A further block of $11,000.009
was allotted In January. 1912, at 150;
51.080406 was sold during 1911 at a
premium of 92.660,831.10; aid 884.-
000.000 was allotted at 175 in Jann
pry, 1913. in June, 1913. August,
1118. and at the present time, tberd
fore, the teal 1260,109,00 of stock has
boon leaned.
Is a 11111. more ttigi four years eke
number et sibarehel&ms had Increas-
ed 14,40. 0r °vet 81 per cent. 1.aat
year there was a small der -rearm is
raw nafnbef is the pant few years
s remarkable rhea'. has oerurrod In
the number of holders. Whereas
three years 540 *q reit* 17,000
19.269E
15.11°'
22.13%
5.349
5.911''
2.337E
holders of the common stock, there
were 1n 1915 40,466, an Increase of
13,468. or 49 per cent. Last year, the
number dropped to 40,287, but still a
rood record. These figures seem to
Indicate that the so-called small in•
venter ham been In the market during
the past three years getting Canadian
Pacific Railway Week, the large hold-
ings having been sold to some extent .
and picked up by small Investor►. --
The increase In the number of ias14
era was probably made to a tares d�-'
greet during the latter part of 1115, by'
those who had faith is the etrrsgtb
of the company and the maintenance'
of the 10 per cent. dividend. Than
faith was rewarded. The ■umber of
Canadian holden has Increased over
161 per rent. In the last roue years,
end new stands at 6,581. Tkls le as
excellent showing for a country which
has done more borrowing than la -
vesting.
The number of holders is Great
Britain is 1915 was larger than two
years previously, but smaller time Is
1911. Croat Britain probably sold to
the tinned %tate. last year Tie
9'resch asd Gorman holdings hays
dropped considerably. The volume w
aflame held by United Mates laver
tens Is not vet, largs. *sly 103! pse
eat. 1a 1116, • ranord wbirb was
Mates by Meade which thea heat
13.84 per cast of the taw. The
Paned Stares total has been Memos
c4 most likely by purchases tut year
from Creat Britain.
The Rgniw la regard is Germany
are or nansntal Ieterest. fa January
tell, and Jona, 1113, Gormas 8.54 -
Ing, were 10 per coat This Ginn
has Mao friss$ %ow 1. 11.94