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CIIAPTER XXXI.
The following evening the Frau Pes-
tot•in was sitting by her eon's bedsi'Je,
Jul her hymn was powerless to gore
Ler comfort.
The old lady could not understand
how it had come about that her "boy.'
who only yesterday was so strong and
upright, now lay hero like u full.:n tree
cut down by the storm.
About eight o'clock this morning they
had taken him out of the carr:age, which
l:ad appeared Lko a spectre at the gats
ten gate, and brought him in here. A
"duel," they had told her. Whet did
she know of dueLs? Alt she had ever
heard of therm Uhl only filled her wilh
horror and contempt. "Blasphemous"
they had seemed to her; and now liero
was her only soul Why had he done
itf God alone knew. Sho had stood
by and Lo ked on uncomprehendingly,
white the two c:octors-the old city phy-
sician and the young doctor of lho re-
giment -had examined the wound and
Lound it up. She had brought water
and old linen with trembling hands,
but she could not speak. Not until the
old doctor turned to her and gave her
.directions about the nursing did she
murmur, "Must he die?"
"No, no, Frau Pastorin. God forbid!"
was the reply. But she knew the old
elector, and she saw him turn red as
he uttered the lie.
"Now i know all about it," she re-
plied, as she seated herself beside the
bed where he lay unconscious and
white as the linen on his pillow.
"Oh, the Toliens, the Tollens!" he
murmured.
"Yes, yes," sho said with a nod, with
her eyes still fixed on hits, "that has
made all the trouble; but you would
not listen to me; you always laughed
at your old mother, my pour boy."
ewe She did everything that was necessary
for the sick man, but very quietly and
mechanically.
Tho pe'ient became restless toward
evening; she called the servant and
(old tier to go for the doctor.
The rosy little maid stood at. fife door,
with her oyes red with crying.
"Ate, Frau Pastorin, do you know
who did this to our young master?"
"ft makes no difference," was the re-
ply.
"It was Lieutenant Wegstedt; but he
got something, too, -and. Frau Pastor -
in, our Fraulein Katie, the Lord bless
her. she has got to die."
"Geo go and fetch the doctor," said
- - the old lady.
-1.Natten the two adversaries had reach-
erl the place of meeting, the second
had, as usual= tried to reconcile them,
and, of course, in vain.
They had oome to This meeting with-
out a suspicion of what the truth really
was; neither of them led the blame on
her who was engaged to them both.
In the long, sleepless night that had
preredod this morning. the .tactor had
rot been able to shako off the gloon►y
feeling That it would be better for Katie
if a merciful bullet should preserve
her from a life-long union with a man,
every fibre of whoso heart belonged to
another, and that it would be better for
him if he wero not condemned to act
a part forever before the woman who
kved Lin' so ardently.
ito was very calm when he reeche'1
the pla•:e of meeting. The preparations
were soon made.
The doctor hail cast only eine glance
at the white face of the little tanker,
whose light eyes looked black to -day;
after that he kept lits eyes on the old
oak tree, which looked so deliciously
fresh and green against the gray morn-
ing sky; and he heard, too, the song
cf nurberleie larks above in the blue
sky, but he wee no longer capnble of
thought. ills secind had given him one
of the pistols, th.' distance was marked
out, and the men were pinccel with
their hacks to each other. Some one
began to cout!, "one -two -three.'
loth turned. and at the same instant
hon shots were heard.
The doctor .ante to the ground at
once. \Vegetedt remained standing. but
his left arm hung helpless by his side.
Itis wont went up to him, while the
ctoc'or hurtle' up to his opponent.
Shonbero v.a1 still consrlous. ife
made a sign fur Wegstedt to Dome
nearer.
"Pa rdan, !fere von Wegstr',It," he
anti. t{:ough the blood streamed from
his 'noullr. "Pardon -I -but you coe
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Katie Totten is engaged to me." He
did not sett the young officer stamp the
ground with his foot like one distract-
ed. Ile was already unconscious.
\Negated!, who had only received a
slight flesh wound, drove back to his
rooms. The doctor was to follow a3
,'i oon as he had dono all ho could for
Schimberg. clans Wegstedt, though his
nr►n was aching and bleeding, wont
straight upstairs to Um 'Pollens. Ilelen
was in too little kitchen, chopping up
ice for the sick girl, who was raving
In delirium. Her eyes wero red with
weeping.
"Tell me how long Katie has been en-
gaged to Doctor Schomberg," he began
abruptly.
The pale, quiet girl looked at him
a Ith Otartted eyes, as he stool there on
the threshold, his pato face pate and
drawn with pain, the sleeve of his coat
cut open, and blood on the bandage
that had been hastily wound round the
injured arm.
"For Heaven's sake!" she gasre 1.
"How long has Katie been engaged
to Doctor Schonberg?" he repeated.
"'Tell me, Fraulein Helen."
"How long-" she stammered, "oh. a
month or two. Did she not tell you?"
Ile turned without a word and went
downstairs. There he locked his door
behind him, threw himself into a chair,
and sobbed like a ch°ld. Ile had just
looked death In the face and had not
flinched, but ho would far rather have
given hos life than have suffered this
disappointment.
When his second came with the doc-
tor, he determined to be driven at once
to Schonberg.
"Ho wilt not know you. he is quite
inloonscous," said the doctor.
"Is it very dangerous?" ho inquired.
"Oh --let us hope for the best -he Is
shot through the lungs."
"It you can travel, clans, the oolonel
says you had better go away,' said itis
oornrade. "It will bo better for you,
too, for the investigation cannot take
place now."
"Yes," ho said, "and I cannot stay
eny longer in this house."
Ile took a card, wrote P. P. C. on !t
below his name, and sent it to Frau
von Tonere
"The Fraulein up there is very bad,"
(Announced his servant as he came
back.
"Doctor, do you think such an illness
can have an influence on a person's
actions days before it breaks out?"
"Certainly," was the reply. -
Ito posse] the do e'or'S hand in gra.
tltudo fov title milder view of the con-
duct of the girl thorn he had loved as
only a faithful. true heart can love.
Ile turned quickly away. "Perk the
small trunk," he ordered his servant.
In the afternoon he left Westerberg.
Ci!APTER XXXII.
When the doctor's Illness was at its
height, Katie von Pollen was bur'ed.
The roses were in fullest !loom. They
almost covered the narrow coffin 'n
which the deed girl lay. She was laid
ors de her father, and wreathe of roses
were heaped upon the low mound. On
the kip of all lay the myrtle wreafn
that Gussle had brought as a last of-
fering of affection.
All her young friends, with rale, sor-
rowful faces, had stood round the nof-
fln in the house of mourning; it Is so
hare) for the young to realize that one
or their number, wlin, only so short
a ttme torero had been arnong them so
rosy and smiling. can be snatchei away
r -o stul.fenly; and Ihern was a mystery
about this death, too! As she !ay on
her death -Md two men had freight Wont
her. Who knew what was behind all
thief it was shrouded in irnrerelroble
dnrkness-perhaps Katie had died of a
broken heart.
Tho Frau MaJ"rin was sitting at home
In her 11111' parlor. She found it hard
(r collect her lhougM4; the strugg!e
that hod taken place in the adjoining
room for the young life that ewubl not
yield itself to death had been too her•
rible.
The past year had broeglit many hard
tbings to bear, but this was the turdest
of all.
Lora was sitting opposite her. She
had mirsed her sister day and nlglit,
faithfutly• untiringly. Now the first
dreadI t hours of rest were w•lghing
upon her l.ke a nightmare.
.0400000
Don't neglect your cough.
Statistics show that in New York -City
a !lone over 200 people die every week from
COn8tunptioll.
And most of these consumptives might
be living now if they had not neglected the
warning cough.
You know how - quickly Sco:lr'.r
E rn e:Wo n enables you to throw o_f f _•a
cough or cold.
At L Dlttirtrint r fee. AIS $1.44.1
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Sho but up and put her arms caress.
!ugly about the worn and broken wo-
men. '[lien the servant brought a be-
etled wreath into tate room. "Tao Frau
I'usurin s compliments,, and she would
have conte hereeit, but the Herr Doctor
ea so bud to -day."
Lora took the wreath of white roses
and myrtle leaves, and went out with
11 She laid it on the empty bed in
Katie's little room, and then went up
to her own Mansard room.
Here everything was as it used to
bo It aught have been only yesterday
that site had stood here, blushing, as
she looked ucuoss at theta gymnasium.
But he no longer went in and out there,
and perhaps he never would. Down-
stairs two wero missing in the family
cucle, and her heart fluttered no longer.
Sho could not even shed a tear for
her dead Muter, and Helen's imperfect
account of the duel had seemed to oome
k. her from a remote distance.
She only undcrsto,:d ono thing: that
he was sufie;ring on Katie's account,
and that slid envied tlx: dead his love
even in the gruvo.
Why had she not died? It would have
teen mu -b better.
In a few minutes she went down-
stairs again. A young officer was sit-
ting in t'ie parlor with her molter; he
was in full uniform and carried his arm
in a sling. "Von Wegstodt," he mur-
mured, introducing himself t.1 Lora.
Ten he turned toward the door, hastily
taking out his handkerchief.
Lora koked after hint. So it was he
who had shot Doctor Schonberg, be-
cause he, loo, loved Katie. Deer Katie,
happy Katie, to die in the month of
news.
Two days later the mnjorin was
standing before Katie's wardrobe; she
book out the simple dresses, and tears
rolled down her cheeks at the sight of
thein.
"itelen, what dress was it- she had
on when we found Iter
The light woollen one, mamma, within
the little dots. What do you want of
it?"
"Oh, nothing. nothing, only to take
it into guy room."
'Here it is, mamma."
The majorin pressed her face to the
dress, as she used to do with the dark,
silky hair of the dead girl.
'There is something in the pocket. -a
letter, mamma.'
"Give it to me."
It was a (hick letter that Ifelen put
into her hand. "1'o be given at once
to Doctor Schonberg," sho read.
"i will keep it from hits. Helen."
"It may give sumo explanation of the
duel," said the latter.
'The letter is not intended ter us,
and -what good will it do us to know,
now she Ls dead?'
"Of course, mamma, 1 only meant-"
Frau von Totten went into her resent
with the dress, the letter, and the vel-
vet bow that Katie had worn in her
hair, and laid them away no r`.:" old
chest on which was ,ea" -'d the Totten
coat of arras, tope:icer with the major's
uniform, with:!► he had worst on the
last day of his life, at bra's wedding.!
Thyro was the box in which she kept
her bridal wraith, her children's cheis-i
tening caps, and the tiny baby shod. I
Well -God alone knew what other
trials woukl conte to hie in this life of
sorrow and misery.
i ora, too, was packing her trunk. i
She was going back to her bray life,
the only cure for a sick heart. No one
sp 'ko of the future; only Lora promised
that she would come back when Ile!cn
lett her mother.
She was to travel by the ten o'clock
train the next morning.
The horning came and the hour for
too to go to the train, but she still lin-
gere:i, arranging her ahowlstraps.
"Child, hard as it is, your rnuat go,"
Feld her mother, whoso handkerchief
was wet w:t{i her tears.
Rut fora paid no heed. She waited,
ready though she was, with her eyes
on her watch. but she seemel unable
to stir from the spot. l'hen some one
cams' up the steps, and the old porter's
wife came. in.
"'I he Frau Pasterin's love, and elle
thanks you very ►nueh. Ile is a little
better to -day for the first time, and has
eaten n little."
"Goethe', martinis," said fora, and
she drew her rrnpo vell over her face
and lett the houseCo.
(Po be nllnu d.l
are not using a separator, place your
oidor at once for one olid got all that
Ls Doming to you from your oowa.
The editorial mentioned is as fol-
lows:
"A pretty accurate account has been
kept by os for years as to the relative
value of fresh skim
"'elk wizen tai to
grade (fernery 11o.fer calves or to pigs.
We speak of grade calves, for that is
what any farmer can have by keeping
a regestered sire. We have fed these
calves and sold them when Nix to sev-
en months old, about the surae ago at
which the pigs are sold. Our calves
have brought us from $20 to ¥'5 apiece.
They would mistime in that time about
3 OOi) pounds of sk:in milk and $3 worth
of oats, blood meal and ellalfa hay.
Allowing $3 for the careuss and $1
fur the hay and grain, We have
if the calf is sold for $25, 319 for 3,00)
potun is of skin milk, or over 63 cent -t
a hundred for the milk.
"With pigs our rule Is that the skim
mill: is Worth 25 cents a hundred if
pork Nulls for $1.50 per hundred on toot.
Of o;urse, tho hig::er !tee price of hogs
the mere do we receite for the skim
milk. ' But thLe return i, always con -
intent upon feeding the milk to young
pigs front 50 up to 175 pounds in weight.
The heavier the pig gets the less does
he roturn for his food. It ousts about
four tune' as much feed to produce a
pound of weight on a hog weighing 300
pounds as it does on enc weighing 50
to 10i) pounds. This difference is eauaed
by the amount of food that is taken out
every day to support the we'ght already
acquired. So the more weight. the store
is taken for support and the less for
Igain in weight. There is a great de-
mand all over the country for well bred
and well developed dairy Metiers. There
Ls no better way to get a high return
few the skim milk than to feed 1t to s
well bred dairy heifer. Of course. if
she Is reglsterai the return Ls many
t'mes larger. But the interesting thing
about it alt is the opening That is thus
pre3entoi for the fanner and tit.9 sons
to beoonto skillful Cevelo;ers of destr-
able cattle.
The dairy farmer who is aloe a well
pater lhreeier of good cows and a
skillful raiser of pitting he4fer3 becomes
mueh more of a man. Ile es the true
dairyman. But every such man must
surround his calves with right condl-
tions. He must keep them clean dry,
end comfortably warns with a oonatant
supply of fresh air."
it OF itig.1140+8.111441,44t44
ITThe Erni
44+144 44. SIX FY -THREE CENT 1'I:It THOUSAND
FOR SKIM MILK.
It nae lean conclusively proven that
the dairy fernier who does rot make
'trope' too of his skim milk Ls actual!}
throwing away one-third to one-half
cf his cow profits. Ily proper use we
n:enn feeling It to animals of the pro-
ver ago and giving it to them in a di-
gcslihlc condition with its nutritive
qualities unimpaired. Ile can only do
this, however, by using a separator at
'vane. Seurat skive milk brought tack
nem the creamery, cr such as frequent-
ly comes from gravity skirrming pane
end cane full of germs and ono knows
not what. in nine cases out of ten may
just as well be dumped In the glitter
for all the profits it will bring if fed to
calves or pigs.
Hoard's Dairyman states that fresh
skim milk 11.-11 fed to calves until six
o- seven month: old haat leen proven
by their ieoeds to have an actual
nteney value of G3 center per tiunJa.d
priinds. considering that the average
(leer's milk will net ['reduce niere than
fltr or six pounds of butter per hun-
dred pounds, swhieh, sold at say ht.,
cente per poui.d an.I In this way bring.
ing $1.50 per huuJred of mlik at the
moat, It 1.3 easily seen that fifth eSei i
milk as it tonne trurn the eepsrater,
with a money value of 61 cents per hue
deed !vr fr.,'Jing purposes, rr.r...beet,
nearly ea•-t.a.! Ste rni'k p:ufits. If over
LIVE. STOCK NOTES.
When you are figuring up what your
sheep are worth to you, don't forget to
count in the manure. For Wsteral pur-
pascs, It is the best you will get from
any stock.
Always give the sone good clean shel-
ter, nourishing. [Cod In which tnusc{o
end hone -forming elements predominate
with unlimited exercise and uniformly
kind treatment. If other matters rce
lating to blood and treading are cor-
rect, the farmer can expect and should
have a profitable roturn.
Tho praet:cal poultryman destre.3 re-
sults. Questions of ornamental charac-
teristic -4 have but a remote interest.
\\'hat he requires Is a fowl that will
give him the largest preflt in the special
lino of poultry -keeping. If he Ls rear-
ing market 1ot1'try, he desires the fowl
which will furnish the best quality of
fksh, produced at tho least cost. 1f
he is producing eggs for site. ho desires
the largest number of eggs at tho srnal-
lesl cert of production. Wisely, he se -
teats those which will bast serve his
purpo,e.
An egg is largely nitrogenous. Tho
white is albumen; the yolk . onta[ns
phosphor•i,e acid and mineral substance;
the shell is oomposed mostly of lime.
Eggs are not a rnlraculous disponsatlon;
they Dome from the food the hen gets
and oonverts into eggs, the same as
any animal converts Its food into pro-
ducts. it Is apparent that corn alone
is not a suitable food fur the produc-
tion of eggs, as It does rot possess
enough nt the constituents to make eggs.
Hens fed on such food will get fat. k
hen. like any other anima{, must have
SKIMS eoarso food to distend iia atonach
and bowels. rye oro gi'o therm fine-cut
clover hay and cabbage, tecta of whheh
contain the material to n.ake egg's.
Skim-m`lk is also Just the thing, as It
Is egg ford. To get eggs, food hens to
produce eggs.
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PASS RECIPE AROUND.
' ELLal IIOW TO MANE TIins SIMIIJI
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Pree•ription liiern \\'hurt' Sufferers of
Dri til Disease flan Make t'p aril Try
at home at Small Cost.
To relieve the wnrst forms of Rheuma•
!Marr, take a teaspoonful of the fosewing
mixture after each meal anal ::t bed-
time:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
ounce; Compound Kargen, ono 'ounce;
Compound Syrup Sorsa;;erilla, three
ounces.
These tinrmlece ingredlents can bo eh -
Wined from any druggist In the smel-
ler towns, and aro easily mixed ty
shaking them well in a bottle. Relief
is generally felt from the first few
doses.
This preiertotton. states a well-known
nethority In a Montreal morning paper,
fc,rees the cteggoi•t:p, inactive kldneys
to filter and strain from the blood the
peLsonous acute matter and uric acid.
which reuses Rheumatism.
AS Rheumatism 11 not only the most
painful and torturous disease, but dan-
gerous to llfe..nis simple recipe will no
doubt be greatly valued by many suf-
ferers here at h erne, who should at once
prepare the mixture to get thta relief.
11 to said that a person who would
take Vile pre*. option regularly, a dose
c r two daily. or even a fee, times a
week. w.•rr1J wirer have',eswus Koine
r Urinary Jtsoretsre sr Rheemutlsm.
(:et the out and preserve 11. oeoJ
IU.eurWtlaui presettpWne which teeny
relieve sus scarce. Inde"1. and wive
1Ou of it yeti v.ant It bash.
The DOMINION BANK FROM BONNIE SCOTLAND
Proceedings of the 'Thirty -Seventh Annual General
Meeting of the Shareholders.
Tho TMrly-seventh Annual General Meeting of Tho Dcnninlon (lank was
held at the Yanking (louse of the Institu.iou, Toronto, on \\"ednesday, Jalttt-
zu•y 2eth, 1908.
Among those present were noticed:
F. 3. l'uilLi s, C. Y. Powell, Capt. Jessapp. \V. J. Elliott, lion. J. J. Foy,
Dr. Andrew Smith, J. Stewart, Wnt. Davit's, W. C. lia.vey, It. I1. Darks,
E. B. Osler, M. I'.; 1{. 1.. Lovering, Archibald Folds, 11. W. A. Foster, 11.
Gordon MacLenzio, David Smith, Wm. Gleamy (Oshawa1, Dr. Grasett, Itev,
1'. \V. Paterson, J. !tell, A. Monro Crier, W. l:. Crowther, lea Standish,
Rict ear. l Itrown, 11. M. Gray, lbu'{ow Cunbe'laud, V. U. Mathews, Jas.
.Carruthers, G. N. Reynold;, Jas. Mutlhews, J. (. Eaton, 11. S. l Larwood,
Dr. C. O'Reilly, W. R. Brock, W. E. !tooth, A. W. Auslin, J. J. Dixon,
Halligan. 1.. 11. Baldwin, Percy Leadlay Wan. Res (Port Perry), Dr. J. F.
Roos, 11. N. Evans, F. 11. G+o lt, A. C. Knight, Andrew Semple, H. G. Goo.ler-
ham, 11. 1'. ('.00ierham, H. ll. Hudgins, S. Samuel, F. D. Benjamin, Jarnes
South F. J. Harris (Hamilton), A. ll. Campbell, Writ. Mulock, Chas. Cock-
slnull, W. (1. Cassels, C. f1. Itilehit) K. C.; C. C. {toss, A. 1t. Roswell, K. C.;
\. C. MurrLs, F. E. Macdonald, Thos. \Vabnstey, Colonel Sir henry M. 1'el-
latt, W. (:rocker, D'Arcy Martin (Hamilton), C. A. Bogert and ethers.
ft was moved by i 1r. f.. I1. Baldwin, secorxled by Mr. A. W. Austin, that
Mr. li. B. Osier do take the ._ toile, and lila' Mr. C. A. Bogert do art as Secretary.
M"ssrs A, it. Doswell and W. G. (-.assets were appointed scrutineers.
The Secretary road the report of the Diroctors to the Shureholiers and
submitted tho Anuria! Statemozit of tho affairs of the Bank, which is as
folluwa:
To the Shareholders:
Tho Directors beg to present the following Statement of the result..1
the business of the Rank for the year end.ng 31st December, 1%7:
Italan'e of Profit and loss Account, 31st December, 1906 ., -, --$ 23,793 33
Premium received on new Capital Stock .... 933,456 37
Profits for the year ending 31.4 Decert.er, 1(107, after deducting
charges of management, etc., and making provision for bad
and doubtful debts .... .... ........ .... .... .... ...... 635,235 51
61,597,490 71
Dividend 3 per cent., pari 2nd April, 1907 .$ 95,149 79
Dividend 3 per cent., paid 2nd July, 19;17 . . 107 978 23
Dividend 3 per cent., paid 1st Oct. 1907 - . 111,351 61
Dividend 3 per cent., payaitle and Jan., 19(:8 . . 114,413 Oil
-$4'28,¢93 23
Transferral to reserve fund 933.4!.G 87
sone.350 10
Balance of Profit and L. -es carried forward .... ....
HFSERVF. FIND.
Ralanco at credit of a'c,,unt, 31st De:eutber, 1906 .... .... .
Trensferrei front Profit and Loss Ace',unt .... .... ....
.. $1..5.140 G1
..33,900,000 m
933.456 87
t,g33,1.5(; 117
In view of the financial stringency which prevailed throughout the world
in 1907, and the unsettled monetary condilons exieling in the United States,
k has been necessary to exercise unusual caution and prudence in adminis-
trating the affairs of the Bank. Our policy has teen to restrict advances
without interfering with the proper re yirernents of the customers of the
Bank and to assist in marketing the pr ucis of the c•euntry--more espec--
ally the crops of the Northwestern districts -at the same time maintaining
strong Cash Reserves.
Having reference to our announcenen: at the last Annual Meeting that one
million dollars of new Capital Stock would be offered to the Stinreholders
in 1907, we have to inform you that en Decetnber 3Ist $953,700 of this
amount was subs:ribed for, and $S4ll,5?7.50 pall up.
During the past year it was oonsidere•t advisable to establish Branches
of the Bank at the renewing points: In the Province of Ontario, at Berlin,
Hamilton, Ottawa, and at the corner of Queen and Victoria Streets, Termite;
in the Province of Quebec, at the corner of Bleary and St. Catherine Streets,
Montreal; in the Province of Alberta at Str'attoona, and at Vancouver, Brit-
ish Columhia.
The opening of our Vancouver OMee not only meets our entrance into
British Coluinbia, but completes a chain of (tranches at nil important centres
from Montreal to the Pacific Const, including the Capitals of the Western
Provinces. Results so tar indicate that these extensions will be of great bene-
fit to the Institution.
We have to reoord with regret the death in January last of Mr. 'Timothy
Eaton, whose varied business knowkrl't and sound judgment made him a
valued member of your Directorate, Mr. John C. Ivalon, his son, was no -
Kinkel to till the vacancy on the Bond.
The Directors, as is customary, have verified the (lead °Mee Balance
Sheet, as on lite 31st of December, 1.907,ineludinq (herein the auditing of our
ferelgn balances and the certillcation of all Cash Iteserves, Securities and
ents.
1'ho usual cerci+l inspection of the vwrinu3 Branches of the Bank has
been made during the past twelve months.
E.
R. O.i fi,
1'residennt.
The Report was adapted.
The thanks of tho Shareholders wero ten tered to tiie President, Vice.
President and Directors for their services during the rear. and to the Gen-
eral Manager anti other Officers of the flank for 111e ellieient performance of
their respective duties.
The fullnwtng gentlemen were elected Directors for the ensuing venr:
Messrs. A. W. Austin, W. IL Brock, Junes Carruthers, R. 1. Christie. 3, t:,
Eaton, J. J. Foy, I:.C., M.L.A.; Wilmot D. Matthews, A. M. Nankin and E. 11.
Osier, M.P.
At a subsequent meeting of the Diroctors Mr. E. 11. Oster, M.P.. was
elected Presid,eut and Mr. W. D. 1llalthews Vice -President, for the ensuing
feral,
O•neral Statement.
[J:1al1.nl119,
!vol.'s In circtitalion .... ........ •i 2,913,393 00
Drip nsils not tearing interest .. . .. .... ..$ 4,4G)197 60
Deposits bearing Iuterest (Including interest a,er•ued
to data) .... .... .... 29,731,R58 1!
--- tt.2t2.155 72
Derails by other Ranks hi Canada ...... .... .... .... .... .. 219,5?'; 70
l alanoe due to London Agents .. ...... .... .... 1,8',t.tiY 7e
Balances due to Banks in the Uuitn1 Stales .... .... ..... 3d,791 68
g):t ^ra.^,, t 82
3.'414,597 50
4.813.150 87
235.110 61
114,413 63
69 15
51.201 31
1424/83 15
Total Ltabtlit!es to the Publ`c .... ...... ....
(apttad Stock pall up .... .... .... .
iteserve Fund .... .... . ....
Balance of profile carried forward
Dividend No. 101, payable 2nd January
Fortner Dividends unclounrd ....
Reserved for Exchange, etc.
R.scrved for rebate on Bills dieaounted
ASSI;T4.
Domini•'n Government Den -lend Notes.... .... ..
Deposit t' tit D. -minion Government for Security
Note Circulation .. .... ..
Notes of ant Cheques en other Ranter.... .... ..
Balan:e3 due from other !tanks in Canada .. ..
Balances due front other (tanks elsewhere than in
Canada and the Unite.! ICing•Iom .... .... .. .. 924 940 77
00 0
$ i 4.497,217 67
..$ 1,116371 77
1.336.579 00
of
150.000 (10
1,4tr3.097 0
$Ml,a67 37
Pmvinciel Government Securities .
Canadian Municipal Securities and British or Foo
elgn or Colonial Public Securities otber than
Raiiwae and other ponds. i et:er,tures and Sleeks .
Leans en ('ail. secured by Stooks and Deben'uroi .
e'Us Dsoounl.al and Advances Current .. .. ..
Overdue Debts ;estimated lass provided lot) ..
Mortgages ....
Bank Premises .... .. . .. ..
Other Assets no! in•:tided under foregoing ti s.ls
Termite. 81st Dr earl •r, W7.
$9.13.1,9514 93
237,53: 11
r+2.079
! ten;!5 1
$,1W,033 *4
N10.080 15
131,117.382 13A
53,1%, Ge)
let,O74 12
950.00') 00
7,953 7J
32 407,117 52
$44.4977,217 87
(. .t. ROGER'S,
tiwn.erel Manager.
NO1Es OF r' rE.r :t --r Flom IIEU
OAN'K1 AND f111AE3.
What Is Goi.lu On In the Illu!tlantla
sod Lowlands of Auld
Scilla.
There is an average attendance of 33e
7:'. at I'to Edinburgh Board schools.
Pauperism in fort Glasgow at present
an:outiLs to 25 per 1,000 of the totlkla-
lie n. 1
students at King's College, Aberdeen,
attend chapel in such numbers that out-
siders are excluded,
The Marquis of '1'weeddale has been
again nominated as governor of the
Ccnmtercial Yank of Sootland.
There is a movement on [rot to con.
r.ect the villages of Willy and Barr with
Girvan by telephone.
The ntoiu,ter blast at Furnace Quarry.
Lectfyne, on the 7th ult., displaced 100, -
Om tons of granite.
Lost year the Glasgow Samaritan So-
ciety hel{xxt t,".►8 poor persons, and as-
sisted 36 olh'•r5 with their rent.
Or chill tenantry have been allowed an
alate►nent of 25 per cent. from their
rents owing to the bad season.
There are 47 applicants for the vacant
pest of librarian to the Dundee free
literary. The salary is £330 a year.
lord Newlands has given 1:10,0(i0 to
Glasgow University to provide additional
income for the Snell Exhibitioners.
The London Itenfrewshiro Association
L• backing the proposal to erect a statue
to Sir Willinrn Wallace at Ellerslie.
Several handsome donations to Kirk-
aldy Cottage Hospital, including bo -
quests of £230 and $100, are notified.
Arrangements have been made for the
nmalgamatien of the North of Scotland
and the Aberdeen 'Town and County
Bank.
to
ten
years-between 1S91 and 1901-
t'ae number of Gaelic speakers on the
'SIP of Skye has decreased front 5,(1(10
to 2,800.
Mrs. Sanditands, Leith Street Ter-
race, Edinburgh. who gave birth to trip.
lets, has been awarded the King's boun-
ty of£3.
Last year the building trnie in Pect-
in -et would have been dull but for £1!5,-
000 worth of work in restoring burned
beildtngo.
At Galashiels a sharp reaction has set
In in the local tweed trade. Most of the
rills have large numbers of looms stand-
ing idle.
At the sewing machine factory at 1(11-
IxwIo 12,000 British workmen regularly
turn out 23,000 complete machines per
week.
erection of the Argyllshire Consumption
Sanatorium have been begun on Ben-
voulln 11i11. Oban.
The daily output of coal at Polmalso
er:lllnry i9 a ttonde tons, whilst at
1'allun the output Lusas already five hundred
tons.
Arbroath town council are to lease as
a recreation park, the ground leading
ak:ng rue west seashore towards the
!Int.
"ksNoat waatoEllio" is now the call to Dundee
v talo ships, and their owners are nd-
vlsed to go on the hunt for the smaller
varlely of whales.
Glasgow imported 800,600,000 bunches
o. bananas Last year. This :mikes Moot
I two bunches to every wean, woman and
child of the population. w
The directors of the Edinburgh 11o0se
.if Refuge have resmncd the supply of
pet free meals daily to children attend-
ing Millon Ilouso School.
The Duke of Ruccleuch has sold to
Sir Robert Buchanan Jardine, dart., of
Cnslkmtlk, the whole of his lands in the
parish of Dry-fexdale. Dumfrieshiro.
Cremation is making slow, hut never-
Mciees, sure, progtose in Scotland. In
1903 there were 26 cremations. in 1904
there were 42, and in the yeitr jus' closed
47. e
Mr. Munro -Ferguson, M.P., is oPc, pin -
tot. that direct water communication -for
tt•e heaviest ships will yet be established
between Rosyth and the ports of (;lee-
gow and Belfast.
The Abr'edeen Town Council is exer-
cised over the fact that there is no mor)
rrom on 1!w walls of the Town (lull for
picture., of the future lord Provosts. In
the past these Lifetimes have been painted
fut. length. In future they will be re.
duced.
rk!
TO WALK A1101 ND TIii•: WORLD.
Englishman Must Go Masked nnd Push-
ing a Perambulator.
In the face of a north-east wind n inns
started the outer morning from '1'rafuh
go" Square, London, England, on a le ur
amend the world. The adventure' un-
dertook the tank for a wager of $11'A,t»),
ttte details of which ho gave In tho
ocurso of an interview.
"This wager," he said, "was Intl by
1 friend of mine, a well-known Arneri^nn
millienalre, as the onteeme of an [roue
rnent that took plea' nt a club in I'all
Mall. Ile declared tt•at no Englishman
Could walk around the world and push
a perambulator. After hearing the con-
d:lions 1 at once made up my mind to
accept the wager n+ys::lf. Ulan tel!intt
him of the decision 1 had costo kr he at
once ►arida arrangements with another
yell -known American gentl•nean In ac.
company me. Ile Is only doing It for
sport." •
When asked how he was going to mib-
eis! he repllad
"1 am starling penniless and 1 shall
sell
photographs and pamphlets while
or, the journey. f am ollow.'d to expend
any sum not exceeding LI ($5) for piole.
graphs and pamphlets Inc sale at the
Mart. That Is how 1 shall suhsist."
A very dltlicult task is before the
tw•rlker. In order to win Iho wager tr
11a+ 10 touch every ceunly in Engi'W
visit Sootland, Ireland ant Wales re
call at twenty counlri•v. 11e is to tut• a
p eelage stamp nt every town peel -ed
threogli •n bis journey. Among the
other condltbna of this meat teninrk-
able wager are that he is to Iln41 a wile
on the tend, to forward an aeonunt of
the miles v.:.,k'tl 51141 the towns visited
and to obtain n sistnee etocement Irons
the u+ayor or sem: other responOhle
person in each town. tlo $ to be allow.
ed to "go es you please."
"Good-bye," the wayfarer f,7ik'.l reit
merrily as he disappeared ; "See you in
ter years."
f -
1• w...+t.y bear< a lot of fruit ant V
preserved in family jars.