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TREY FARM KITCHEN.
So much of the time of the farm-
er's wife and daughters is of neces-
sity spent in the kitchen that it real-
ly ought to be the pleasantest room
in the house. The outdoor life and
work of the farmer and his hired
men create appetites that require
strenuous exertion on the part of the
"wimmen folks" to satisfy, and all
too often the work is made extra
strenuous by lack of conveniences to
work with, writes „a correspondent.
A conventcntly arranged kitchen,
well stocked with modern utensils, is
a source of pride and joy to every
housewife so fortunate as to own
one; and her sister who does not has
always fn her ''mind's eye" a mental
picture of the ideal kitchen she means
to have some day when the mortgage
is paid, or the new house built, or
John has all the new fences and
binders and corn harvesters he wants.
It fs with ,a desire to help Malce that
mental picture a reality that this is,
written.
Personally, I've no use for a carpet
on a kitchen floor. A grease spot on
a carpet stares one out of counton-
awe, and it's wonderful how fast
they will appear. Oiled floors are
nice, but it's no light task to keep
them oiled. Painted floors aro an
abomin-tion, for the paint soon wears
off, making the floor unsightly. Even
the beautiful white ash floors our
grandmothers loved aro not exactly a
joy forever, for they require so numb
scrubbing and mopping. Of course,
it's lovely to have a floor always
beautifully white and clean enough to
eat off from, but, ,after all,
WHAT'S THE USE?
You'll never wont to eat off it, any-
wayl And surely there aro higher
ambitions in life than that of hav-
ing the most beautiful kitchen fioor
in the neighborhood. Altogether, no-
thing I've over used, or seen in use,
has proven so satisfactory as linole-
um. Tt can be put down over any
old door, and it comes in pretty pat-
terns that are stamped all the way
through, so it never wears off, but it
looks well as long as it lasts. It
wears well. We have some that has
been fn use for ten years and does
not look at all won-, It should be
laid by an experienced workman, for
it must be very carefully matched and
cut to Ct into all the corners of the
room and about all the curves of
the door freesias. When down it is
down to stay till worn out, and
the Boor always looks clean.
The woodwork may be painted any
preferred color, if one doesn't object
to repeating the process every three
of four years. If ono wishes to do
it but once "and be done with it,"
and wants something really nice, it
is best to have it grained and given
a hard oil finish, It will need re-
vaa'nishieg once in several years, hut
the thrifty housawife can do that
herself, if so inclined, and will find
it much easier than painting. Such
woodworks cleans easily; finger marks
de not show upon it, and dust and
Wee, slide it in the most delightful
Way.
A WALL PAPER,
especially for kitchens is now made
that can be cleaned by wiping with
a damp cloth, and is said to be very
satisfactory. Never having used any,
T cannot vouch for it, but 1 can say
a good word for the painted walls.
Ti.ey are pretty and pleasing and
sanitary and with such walls, wood-
work and floor a kitchen is very
easily kept clean.
The young housewife, or one famili-
ar only with a cook stove, hardly
knows what to expect of her first
range. Geod ranges are never cheap
and poor ones aro dear at any price.
All modern ones have asbestos lin-
ings, which insure a warm oven and
a cool kitchen. The heat should bo
uniforin in every part of the oven,
and it should be unnecessary to turn
anything around while it Is baking.
The warming oven permits the cook
to easily servo "warm meals at all
hours." Many ranges have no dam-
per for tho reservoir and the water
is always warm with no concern save
keeping the reservoir filled. The
majority are !inert to burn both wood
and coal, and with a system of
dampers that, properly manipulated,
will keep a fire all night. Some -
tunes, with a good chimney, the
draft is so strong this cannot be
done, yet Is no fault of the range. A
daintier in the pipe is the remedy.
When burning coal it is usually more
satisfactory to use a little wood with
it when baking, No wood range is
really right that is not fitted with
a drop door to the fireplace that
permits no ashes to i
fall n n the floor.
A GASOLINE STOVE.
is now a necessity in every farm
kitchen. Tn harvest end thrashing
time, when tho range is hardly equal
to the demands upon it, the gasoline
stove eau joinforces and elope tho
hard Work mudh lighter, And when
the thormometer le up in tho DOM it
San 'boil a tea-lcettle in less time
than a. lire can 110 built in the big
mope, and with far more comfort
and economy.
The kitchen cabinet is a compare,
tit'oly now thing, but a more 0011-
voniont and useful ,aI'tiole was never
invented; it deserves all the popular-
ity it is welding. Such cabinets aro
made lo many styles and at prices
to suit all purses, The larger ones
aro really pantry, storeroom and
kitchen table, all in one, They have
a place for everything ''tioodod when
blueing of propar'iltg a meal, and tbey
save many steles. Tho better Ones
aro .Warranted dust and moues proof,
Merry nlvdern kitchons have a broad
zine.Cofei'od Iliolf be the place of a
labia tvhl0lx isrticuY rl h
pa a an 11
y d5
it sail be )rill t a �eut antler,
b a r rend
May he tie benati end ale long as' the
e1zo of the Waite and She taiga of
the housewife permits. A narrow
strip of Wood is placed about the
edge of such a shelf, under tiie zinc,
to raise it above a level and prcveet
any drip falling to the Aoor, Under-
neath it cupboards are arranged' for
the various articles that every house-
wife wants out of sight when not in
pee,
THE KITCHEN SINK
is often a troublesome piere of 'ftuni
true, It's really the bendiest thing
in the room, if properly ' placed,
drained and cared for, but on level
ground tho problem of drainage is a
serious ono. If any reader of this
has satisfactorily solved the problem,
I shall bo very grateful if she'll toll
me how it was done. Fortunate, in-
deed, is the housewife whose home,
like the famous city, is sot on a hill,
for sho can install any system of
plumbing sho likes and need have no
fear of the dreaded typhoid fever
germ,
As nearly all farms have now either
a windmill or a gasoline engine for
pumping water, it is a simple matter
to have the water pumped into a
tank in the kitchen—so simple one
wonders why it is ' not more often
Done. Many a hard cold and attack
of la grippe can be traced to the lack
of this convenience.
Few new houses are built without
a separate dining -room, -but in many
oId ones the kitchen must do double
duty. Some very pretty pen pic-
tures have been drawn of the big,
sunny, old-fashioned kitchen, with the,
kettle bubbling on the hearth, the
cat basking before the fire, and the
family gathered about the table load-
ed with viands "that mother used
to cook," but the prosaic fact re-
mains that such a kitchen is apt to
be too redolent of the odors of
SALT FRIED P011311,
boiled cabbage and scorched pan-
caees to be really agreeable. Too
much care cannot be taken with tho
ventilation of such a room. There
should, if possible, be a ventilator in
the ceiling above the range, and the
windows should be so fitted that they
may be lowered from the top as web
as raised from the bottom. The col-
lapsible screens, so handy in other
parts of the house, have no place in
a kitchen. The screens there should
be largo enough for the whole win-
dow. Mosquito netting tacked on'
the outside of the window frames an-
swers the purpose very well.
The warm, moist air of a kttchen•fs
us"ally very favorable to plant,
oath, end a few geraniums bloom-
ing in the windows add the artistic
touch that all women love. Finally,
let no young housekeeper grow dis
coure-id because the conveniences she
desires are long in corning. "home
was not built in a day," and it • is.
worth while to work and wait and
plan for even so prosaic a thing as
the furnishing of a kcetchen,
(HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A correspondent of an exchange
tolls how to make a paste that evi11
always be conveniently ready for use. •
Take a handful of hour, mix it
smooth with cold water, and pour
on boiling nater sufficient to cook it.
Add a teaspoonful of powdered alum, ;
and n few drops or carbolic acid and
o'1 of cloves. Strain through a thin
cloth and put into a wide-mouthed
bottle.
Did you ever try baking potatoes
on the top of a stove? Turn an
iron pan or basin over them and they
will bake nicely. If the fire is very
hot place them on an asbestos mat.
They should be turned occasionally.
It is convenient to know this, in
ease one wants baited potatoes, but
does not wish to keep up the kitchen
fire. Of onerse rather more aims is
required than when baked in the ov-
en,
The "cellar smell" is extremely des-
egreeat'lo. It is apt to permeate the
whole house. Place a dish of unslak-
eil Dine In the vegetable cellar and
it will absorb the moisture in the air
and also the unpleasant odor.
If the brass fixtures of a hanging
lamp have become tarnished past re-
demption paint them with white en-
amel, Then you can gild them.
Somebody has discovered that if
hotline water is poured over potatoes
and they are left in it fifteen min-
utes they will bake 1n about half
the usual time, But wouldn't they
rook as fast 111 the oven as in the
hot water? What es gained?
e
BLIND FIND VOCATION.
Among the Japanese massage as a
vocation is restricted almost entirely
to persons afflicted with blindness.
Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium are
other countries in which this prates -
den is gradually being canfleed to
blind people. Massaee is work for
t 4 of sight is not ilea -
which. the faculty s ht
y b
campy. A writer 1n a Trench medi-
cal journal urges the adoption ofd
this method of earning a livelihood
for the blind, :end no doubt the P medi-
cal rofrssiou be this cortntr i
y
lend a willing hand to farther the 1
movement of this Worthy cause to
render assistance to a class of pee -
joie to whom work involving physical;
exercise should coma as. a .weicome
avenue„ opening a new and remunor-
ative vocation.
73oresome (hot on inventions) ''An
"I see the agent bas sold ycz al
carpet-aWeoper, Mee, 14faginmis, Is it
as good as the oteld-fashioned,
broom 7" "It is, an' better, IlIrs,
M.ulduelcie. I can knock Maginnle
tenet as fer.wid it."'
Harden i "I'm very sorry, but I
can't pay yon to -118y, You ;see, the
grocer has Net been hors, "and--"
Butcher (iuterrtcpting) : "Yea, I just
met than, and he said you put hint
off Weemso yeti had to fray me. ,ala
heres the bill,"
:Angry Wife 1 --"It seems to rem
we've been notified a century. I
can't Oven remember when or 1511e1'11
we first Pot, nasbaId COm nh
at -
catty) f "I cart, It was at chimer..
pert1 Whore there wore thirteen at
table;'.
TIBER Rffl IN INDIA
WILD ANIMALS GET LOOSE IN
THAT COUNTRY,
Escaped Puma Sowed a Village
Elephant Loose ' in
London,
Some little time batik the village of
West Horsley, In Surrey, evils thrown
into et violent state of agitation by
oho news that a "lion" had escaped
from the grounds of a gentleman's
house near by, and was 000011ng.
about seeking whom it mired, devour.
No one could be got to say that lie
personally had actually seen the ani-
mal, but everybody knew lots of
other people who had. 'Phe damage
it was alleged to pa'c'e occasioned,
too, was simply incalculable,
As a matter of fact, it was not et
lion that had got loose at all, but a
puma, a much less clangorous animal;
and even he only remained at large
during a portion of ono night. Thou
ha was recaptured by his owner, a
gentleman named Orde, and hauled
back to captivity and a breakfast of
dead roosters. Not all home-made
wild anuria} hunts, however, end in
this tame fashion.
So long ago as the beginning of the
last century a tiger escaped from a
caravan into the New Forest, killed
a child, clangorously wounded its mo-
ther, and slaughtered, apparently out
of pure wantonness, more than twen-
ty deer. It was eventually shot dead
by a lad of nineteen, who bravely
tracked it to its lair, armed only
with an
OLD FLINT -LOCK MUSKET.
Tn tho year.1816, again, on a
Sunday evening, an escaped lioness
attacked the Exeter Royal Mail
oogch, killing one of the horses. 1t
was dusk at the time, and the coach
had just pulled up at a place called
Winterslow klut, seven miles on the
London side of Salisbury, The lion-
ess sprang straight at the throat of
the orf -leader, fastened the talons of.
her fore feet on each side of his neck
close to the head, while the talons of
her hind feet were forced into his
"host, In this situation the ferocious
brute hung, growling horribly, while
the unfortunate horse, hampered by
the harness, could do nothing to de-
fend itself. There were only two
passeneers in the mail at the time,
and these quickly jumped out, ran
into the house, nud locked themselves
in an upstairs room. The coachman,
however, was made of sterner stun',
for he wanted to alight and attack
her with his knife. But just as he
was getting down from bis seat on
the box, a huge mastiff bounded up,
and seized the lioness by the throat.
She thereupon released her hold of
the by this time moribund horse, and
engaged in battle with her new ad-
versary, whom she promptly killed.
At this moment the guard came up
with a loaded blunderbuss, and was
about to shoot her, when the owner
and some keepers appeared on the
scene, the former crying out in
alarm: "For Heaven's sake don't kill
her; she cost me. $2,500."
This appeal stayed the guard's
h'nd, and meanwhile the brute had
been enticed into air outhouse and
secured. The affair was
THE TALI{ Ole ENGLAND
at, the time, creating an amount of
excitement which, to put it mildly,
seems out of all proportion to the
importance of the event, •
Elephants that escape are apt to
do a terrible lot of damage, because
of their immense weight and strength.
One that went on the rampage in the
North of London, some few years
back, broke down walls, smashed
gates and doors by the dozen, and
wound up by charging a shop and
feeling through into the collar, whence
it had to be hauled up ignominously
by a steam: crane. It cost the owner
$10,000 to make good the havoc.
Another big "tusker" got loose at
Acerin_ton on October. 14th, 1889,
and "burgled" . a big co-operative
warehouse, gorging itself with several'
hundredweights of biscuits and jam.
Visitors at the "Zoo" will notice
that the top of the Polar bear cage is
wee barred. This precaution was
shown to be necessary by an animal
escaping soma yews ago over a high,
spiked, and inward -curved fence, over
white it was considered an impossi-
bility for any beast to climb, This
incident ted to an exciting bear hunt
in P•egent's Park. But the truant
was luckily secured before ho had a
chance of doing harm.
A jaguar, however, that got away
after a similar fashion from his den
in a travelling ,menagerie in York
shire., managed to retain its liberty
for en entire week, During that per-
iod
eriod 1t attacked and badly mauled a
little girl, slaughtered about twenty
old lad
sheep, anti so frightened an y
that she dropped dead. In the end
it was killed by a laborer, armed with
nothing more formidable than
A PITCHFORK,
One of the most exciting of British
haute took place, how-
<vlld-animal :
ever, not hi'the country, but in Lon-
don. A fall -grown and exceedingly
ba, ago tigrces, belonging to Mr. Jit-
mrach, the well-known. East-ond doe,
lor, got louse, and escaped into Bata
cline i1'ighway. It was broad day-,
light, ,and the street was crowded
with people, amongstwhom a terrible
panic at once prevailed. Ono little
boy,about nine years old, was play-
ing he the road, and rues enapped up
by the brute.
At that moment Mr. Jaun'ach rush-
ed up and caught the (fgrese by the
loose skin of tho nock, but was un
able to hold the powerful boast,
which ran clown the street at a gal-
lop carrying the boy in her month,
011 -a cat wtnld a Mouse, reantritch
holding on tight ail the time to the
thereon' nock, and keeping up with
long stridee by her side, IIID a groom
by rho side of a runaway horse,
Eventually. ItIr, Ja,tnrach reabaged
to throw the tigress down, ane it man
ran np e with e, erdeebat' and struck
bar eevoral blows an. the erase. This
merle froth her drop the child orn . her
r
v
1'mouth. Ng, being then unimpeded,
she wrenalted herself free, and, riva-
lling on her traoks, tan qulokly ut,
TJie
A Study in Natural I 0
History.
The Widower. --This interesting bird,
concorniug. wttoso habits Ilttlo tent
as authoritative has boon written, IS
believed by ornithologists to belong
to the Phoenix family Omnibus onsy
consolibus) because it has tho power'
to rise from its ashes h, resplendent
plumage and renewed youth,
The Widower is a migratory bird,
and at intervals mutes its appear-
ance In every community, but so
greatly is it esteemed ns a household
pot, and so keen is the pursuit after
it, that it rarely escapes the net of
the fowler for long, and few of the
species are to be seen itt large.
In appearance the Widower is what
any bo called interesting rather than
beautiful, though it varies greatly at
different ages. When it is young it
has a sad and melancholy air, and
utters plaintive notes that make ev-
ery female who hears it long to 100 -
sole it. But this sorrowful swan
song lasts only during the first few
months. After that it grows chirpy
and chipper, and blithely carols a
merry roundelay thtit greatly resemb-
les • A toot Time iii the Old Town
To -night."
leu plumage. of the Widower is al-
so worthy of note, for it has the pe-
culiar, chameleon -like quality 01
chaneiug uncles- different conditions.
Duane; captivity it almost invariab-
ly wears a garb Of sumbro huo un-
fashionable in cut, and frequently
consificuously unweaned and un-
kempt.
the moment,bowover, it becomes
free this strango bird blossoms forth
in a beautiful gorgeous coat of live-
ly hugs that is calculated to catch
the eye from a distance; but as soon
as it is again caught and caged it
molts its lino feathers and resumes its
unattractil0 appearance.
ao one has ever boon able to ac-
count for this idiosyncrasy, but the
phenomenon of the Widower doing his
lightning change act.into a butterfly,
or back into a grub, may bo witness-
ed daily. This peculiarity, unfortu-
nately, often anuses great disappoint-
ment to the owners, as not infra-
quently a female goes to groat trou-
ble to capture a Widower, thinking
it a Bird of Paradise, only to dis-
oover when she has got it home that
it is nothing but a scarecrow. Thus,
from this simple circumstance, does
nature teach us not to buy a bird by
its looks.
Concerning the anatomy of the
Widower ornithologists diner greatly,
though all agree that it is All Heart.
Soma- authorities contend, however,
that this organ, in size and shape, is
like an omnibus, while others hold
that it is of the elasticity and dura-
bility of a football. It is interest-
ing to observe that some of the
most earnest and painstaking inves-
tigators along this line of scientific'
research are woman, and we may
confidently look for valuable light to
be thrown on the subject in the near
future,
The .chief characteristic of the. Wid-
ower is, as has boon stated, its abil-
ity to arise from the ashes of the
funeral pyre—as long as it is its
wife's funeral --with renewed youth.
Reputable eye -witnesses declare that
they have seen ono of these birds,
droopy, with draggled tail feathers,
and one leg swathed in red flannel
bandages for rheumatism, suddenly
Metamorphosed into a giddy young
thing that could dance the two -stop
and stay up all night, and that look-
ed like a two-year-old. It has also
been observed that the oftener the
Widower arises from the ashes the
younger it becomes, until after about
the third rejuvenation nothing but
a debutante is young enough 'to at.
tract its attention...
In its habits tho Widower is a
curious combination of the fly bird
and the barn -yard fowl, for while its
giddy flights are interesting it is ad-
mirable because it knows how to
scratch for a living. It has, too,
generally a well -lined nest, instead of
having to build one.
In oway tho• Widower .has some-
thing of the predatory characterise
tics of the hawk, and knows that the
only way to get a thing is to tape
it, and this causes it to often pounce
upon tea most oherming• young nine
let in the bunch and bear her away,
under tho very oyes of her chaperon.
On the whole, though, it conducts its
love -making after themanner of the
nightingale, and sings a song of such
surpassing sweetness that 310 heart
can resist it.
Thorn are many reasons why wo-
men should have a great fondness for
Widowers, and a desire to possess
ono. It is always much more cone-
fortahlo to have a thoroughly trained
pet about the house then one that
one has to domesticate themselves. :•
A Widower's first owner has al-
ways taken tbo edge off of it and
taught it little tricks, and it Icnows.
when to pipe up, and when to sit
on his perch and keep mum, all of
which render it a most desirable or-
nament for the parlor or boudior,
Tnasnwch as tho Widower has once
been caught in the matrimonial trap,
it has been arguod that it showed
lack of ,intelligence in allowing itself
to bo snared a second tuna. Tho
truth seems to be, however, that af-
ter having once had its wings clip-.
Iced, it does not know what to do
With freedom, and so 10111105 to the
edge through force of habit,
the street, swearing and emitting
spitofuil,y,
19venetily she Was thriven back in-
to the tinge whence elle had Originally
escaped. The boy, although, as may
well be supposed, terribly frightened,
:was lien -melt hurt, Nevertheless,
the lawstait that foltotvnd Cost Mr,
Jann'a:Cle , $1.,500. . ;3o that tiger
-
bunting London preyed For Max
io I
a srnnowlrat Oxlransivo form of
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ominion ank
PROCEEDINGS OF
The Thirty - Third Annual Generai Meeting
OF r HL KOCKHULDIt.'tRS,
Tho Tnirty-third Annual General Meeting of the Dominion Bank Was
hold at the Banking lfouso of the Institution, Toronto, on Wednesday,
January 27th, 1904,
Among those present wore noticed:' Messrs, William Ince, Win, Spry, le.
B. Osler, Di.P„ W. D. Matthews, Thos, Wahusley, P1. • G. Cassels, David
Smith, G, W. Lewis, A. It, Boswell, P. Laadley, G. N. :Reynolds, A.
Foulds, J. 3. leoy, Nee., John T. Small, Anson Jones, H. Gordon Mac-
Kenzie,
awKenzie, 3, Gordon Jones, W. °molter, 3, F, Kavanagh, Ira Standish, E.
W. Langley, Lieut. -Coe PelLatt•, 11'm, Rendre, J. 0, Ramsay, W. C. Leo,
1V, C. Crowther, F. J. Phillips, Richard Brown, 0, B. Swootinaee, J, A.
Proctor, II. 33, 1•Iodgins, H, Johnson, le 0, Brough, Miss 11, D2. Rubinson
and others,
It was moved by Mr, Wm, Tnce,_secondod by Mr. Anson Jones, that
Mr. E. B. Osler do take the chair, and that Mr, T. G. Brough do act as
Secretary.
Messrs. A. R. Boswell and IV, G. Cassels wore appointed Scrutineers.
The Soorotary road the report of the Directors to the Shareholders,
and 'submitted the Annual Statement of the affairs of .the Monk, n'lxich is
as follows;
To the Shareholders: •
The Directorsbog to present the following Statement of the result of
the business of the Bank for the EIGHT MONTHS oudieg 3181 December,
1903:
Balance of Profit and Loss Account, 80111 April, 3.003 .. $353,855 48
Premium received on new Capital Stock • 16,130 00
Profit for the EIGHT MONTHS ending 31st December, 1903,
after deducting charges of management, etc, and making
provision for bad and doubtful debts . 321,073 86
Dividend 2** per cont„ paid 1st Aug-
ust 1003 $?9:,710 50
Dividend 2* per cont., paid ..2nd No
vember, 1903 ,., ,.74,858 05
Dividend 1 2-3 per cont., payable 2nd
January, 1904 (2 months) 49,963 16
$199,526
Transferred to Reserve fund 16,135
8590,564 34
71
00
$215,661 71
Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward ,.,.,, $474,902 63
RESERVE FUND.
Balance at credit of account 80th April, 1903 .,.,8 -$2,988,805 00
Transferred from Profit and Loss Account 16,135 00
88,000,000 00
Branches of -the hank leave been opened during thepast eight months
in fort William and St. Thomas, Ont,
All Branches of the Bank have been inspected during the past year.
Toronto, 27th January, 1904. E. B. ()SLIM, President.
The Report was adopted and the thanks of the Shareholders were ten-
dered to the President, Vice-Prosideut and Directors for their services and
to the General Manager and other ofticors of tho Bank for the efficient per-
formance of their respective duties.
The following gentlemen were elected Directors for the ensuing year:
Messrs. A. W. Austin, W. R, Brock, DM.P., T. Eaton, J. J. Foy, Ie. C,,
Wen. Ince, Wilmot D. Matthews orad E. 13. Osler, Nei,.
At a subsequent meeting of the Directors, .Mr. le. B. Osier, M.P„ was
elected President and Mr, W. D. Matthews, Vice -President, for the ensuing
term.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
Liabilities.
Notes in'Cireulation $ 2,721,874 00
Deposits note bearing interest $ 3,088,422 68
Deposits bearing interest (including inter-
est accrued to date) 23,208,718 57 26,377,141 25
Total Liabilities to the Public
Capital Stock Paid up
Deserve Fund
Balance of Profits carried forward
Dividend No, 85, payable 2nd Jau.(2 mths)
Former Dividends unclaimed
Reserved for Exchange, etc.
Rebate on Bills Discounted ..
$29,099,015 25
3,000,000 '00
$ 3,000,000 00
474 902 63
49,968 16
28 75
21,664 61
99,523 95 3,646,133 10
$35,745,198 33
Assets.
Specie .., ,. •,,,,,,,,,,,,, $ 1D59,462
Dominion. Government Demand Notes 1,806,218 00
Deposit with Dominion Government for.Se-
curity of Note Circulation 140,000 00
Notes of and Cheques on other Banks .,:: 1,209,662 80
Valances due from other Banks in Canada 598,570 29
Valance duo by London Agents 182,387 54
Balances due front. other Banks elsewhere
than ill flan. and the petted Kingdom. 678,909 02
P. roiincial Government Securities 94,296 87
Canadian M•nnicipal Securities and British
or Foreign or Colonial Public Securities
other than 0anadiau 671,028 79
Railway and other 33onds, Debentures and
•tocks 3,382,217 51
Loans on Call secured by Stocks and De-
• bentures :,, 4,121,069 18
$13,843,706 64
pills Dia ceinted apd Advances Oua'rent •, 821,409,271 20
Overdue Debts (estimated loss provided for) . 9,995 26
Real Estate, other than 'Bank Promises ,,, 48,106 56
Mortgaeos on Re91 llstato sold by Panic . 6,000 00
P,enlc Premises . ,,. 425,000 00
Other Assets not included under foregoing
beads 8,028 70 21,901,401 71
Toronto, 31st December, 1903,
TYPOGRAPHICAL T'Ii,,IGEDY,
"We are thorry to they," explained
the editor of a weekly paper iu
Texas, "that our oompotlting-room.
wath entered late± night by thomo
unknown tltcoundrol, who thtole
every oth in the otlttabliehment and
thecceeded in making 11ieli etheape
undetected,
"It hath been • 'impotliible, of
cur nowtllu
eomth, to procure a pply iv
time for thith inline, aid we aero
theta compelled to go to proth in u
thituation motet emarrathing and
dithtrettiing; but we thee no other
k
Lo rurthuo.than tomake the
m•thO
co 2
botho t'htaggor we cen to get along
without the mulling letter, and; we,.
ehe'efon•e, print the 'Newth' on time
regn.rdleth of the loth thutlitalned:
"The motive of the mitherable
to the:l eant ith unknown' ito 'uth, but
doubtleth, wat11 revenge for theme
thuppotli, in111011.
"It tha11' never bo thaid that the.
petty thpito of the thnrall-th,ouled
vfliian
hath fiithelled the 'lvewth.'
If thith meet the eye of the detcth-
table ratlical, we beg to athero hive
that he underethti neteth the re-
theurcetlf of a ih•tbt-cloth newt e
paper when he thinkth rue can cripple
it Ttopelotbly by breaking into the
alphabet.
"bee tote oceathion to they to
him, furthermore that . bofore next
Tliur11klay we will have.thre timoth
cols many othoth ate he tittule,"
"Doou think heti that men t1e-
800011ed from chlinpaanzeoe 1" asked
Willie Washingtoh. "Same Old," ate
severed Miss Coyote, and 13010
Merely remained stationary,
Old La t: tramp)—
"Ala
d n
y( p
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"i O r fellow lift is foil Of
Ah, fey. Peer
trials," Tramp -"It etre mulct, Wot
tiab yon tried fareee
$35,745,198 3t1
T, G. BT±OUGI3,
General Manager.
MESSAGE- F1ZOM THE DEEP.
Six years ago the British schooner
Ethel mysteriously disappeared en
route' from Bombay to Port Said.
Her owners, T3arlsfoot & Oo., of the
latter port, gave her up for lost, and
since that time until last month her
fate roin,aiuod a mysteryto the world.'
It was an empty and tightly ooi'ked
wine bottle that brought tho story of
her fate and that of Captain Lee
and his crow to land. Tho bottle
was discovered by Captor] Lombard
on tho beach of the Island of Fu-
cv
1 O situated � t 1
a s L cl n the Soul Sea t
South s and
the note, it contained roads
a
a
fol-
lows: "Will the finder of this in-
form Messrs Barkfoot & .0o, of Port
Said that their schooner Ttho1 foun-
dered aboutel,000 miles from Ilofii-
bay? , This note .is written by the
solo surveyors, Captain Loe and Sea-
man Thomas, who aro in their - Last
Hopes, Signed,' 3, T. Lee, Jan, 25
or 27, 1897."
A. gentleman once bought aalla
b-
bylooking horse aid asked his groom
to try it. After the atritn,al had been,
trotted round tho yard owe or twice,
the master riled . Pat ' what ho
thought about ie. "It would make
a fine war-horse, .your worship," ho
said. "Why, how's that?" Veld the
master. "Ilecauso," said Pat, move
ing off, "it' Would 96ci0r die than
runt",
"Is every hair in your hoed num-
bored, geandeire?" "Yes, my child,"
"Well, :grandpa," said the littl0 'fol-
low, its he contehiplatod the groat
bald spat, "you liaeon't got much
of a head for figures, have yeti?"
41xle fs rho mal, wlio uses hes
sbuhibling blocks as stopping atonal,,
AFTER' SHORT TRAINING
YOUTHFUL 331eTTISH CABINET
11iINISTEBS.
Britain Etas Some Very Yonne;
Mon hound Oer Cabinet
•
Board,
Two ±11111gs strike elm forcibly in
looking into the colli ositicn of the
present British Cabinet—Else youth-
fulness of the gloat majority of its
members and the surprisingly short
time in which a Iegislator may blos-
som from tho position of a private
and unknown member of Parliament
into full Cabinet honors.
In the present 'British Cabinet just
half its members are still in or un-
der tho forties, and five have yet
to see their forty-fifth birthday. There
are coven Ministers in the fifties, and
only two who have lived more than
sixty years, while the average ago of
its eighteen members is but a few
months over fifty years. If youth is
any guarantee of political efficiency,
then the 0abinet of to -day ought to
establish a record of achievement.
Some of its members have had
careers as remarkable as their youth-
fulness, In past generations a man
who reached Cabinet rank any time
with a quarter' of a century was con-
sidered fortunate as well as clover. It
is true that William Pitt, that poli- '
tical prodigy, was Chancellor of the
Exchequer at the ae'e of twenty-three,
niter tiro years' apprenticeship in the
House; but his father, the groat Earl
of Clietham, had to wait twenty-one
years before he became Secretary of
State, Mr, Gladstone was Colonial
Socrotary eleven years after he first
entered the TIouse of Commons; and
it. took Canning thirteen years, Fox
fourteen, Sir Robert Peel thirteen,
Lord Beaconsfield fifteen, and Lord
Randolph Churchill eleven years to
qualify for Cabinet rank,
ONLY EIGHT YEARS.
It is only eight years since Mr.
Lyttelton entered Parliament, as mem-
ber for Leamington, and to -day he
Ills the exalted position vacated by
Mr. Chamberlain—a promotion as as-
tounding as if a junior at the bar
were with One leap to take his seat
on the woolsack, or at least among
the law lords. But be had a rival hi
tho veteran Lord I1'alsbury,. who was
In the Cabinet within eight years of
finding a seat in the Commons for
Lawmcoston. In both cases these
honors came to men who were no
longer quite young, for Mr. Lyttleton
became a member of the Cabinet at
47 and Lord Efalsbury at 60.
To some of their colleagues fate has
been much kinder. Mr Austen Cham-
berlain had only been -three years in
the House when ho became a Lord of
the Admiralty, and seven years lat-
er he found his way into the-Oabinet
while still in the thirties, a wonder-
ful record of advancement; . but still
inferior to that of Lord Randolph
Cht rcbili, who • was ' Secretary, for
India at tho early ago of 86.
L1:SS THAN FORTY.
Lord Stanley, too, in a rensc beats
111x. Austin- Chamberlain's aehieve-
mont, for after three years in tlio
lfouso' he was made a Lord of the
Treasury, and Postmaster -General
with a scat in the Cabinet after elev-
en years, and while still two years
on the sunny side of 40. Mr. Ar-
nold -Foster must be bracketed with
Lord Stanley, for it is only 11
years since he first Found a soot in
the Commons, and to-dhy he fills the
high position of Secretary of State
for War,
The Prime Minister has also a very
gratifyiug record of advancement, for
he was only a dozen years in reach-
ing tho Cabinet. It Is interesting to
note that, although Mr. Balfour was
in the nursory When Lord llalsbury
was a fully-fledged barrister, ho is tho
Fattier of his Cabloat, with a record
of 20 years' service in the Commons,
Mr. A. G, 'Murray makes a dead -heat
with his chief by whining a Cabinet
prize within 12 years.
MAI{'G A RE00131).
Thus we see no fewer than seven of
the prosent British Ministers hew>
won their positiotle after an appren-
ticeship of a dozen years or less, the
time that it takes the average curate
to graduate into tho dignity of a
vicar, or a very successful lawyer to
become a jualor K. 0.
Although Dir. Wyndlmue finds aim -
self a Cabinet Minister at the early
ago of 40, ho has been loss success-
ful than some of his colleagues in
having to waft 14 years, for his re-
ward; bit he is still ahead of Mr.
Akers -Douglas, Mr, Gerald Balfour.
and Mr, Long.
Lords Onslow, Sclborno and Mlle'
bourne were legislators for 18 years
bolero reaching their present mei-,
nonce; and lofr. Broderick, who is
commonly considered It very Merry
pian, actually wins the "wooden
spoon' of the Cabinet, for 20 yoars
separated .the day one which he first
sat as M. ,T., for West Surro,yfrom
the day; in 1000, When . 'he Weenie
Secretary 10r' War,
�.
In an Irish court- an old' man was
called into the witnoes-boot, and, be -
bag near-sighted, instead of going up
the stairs that led :to the box
motunted those that led to the bench,
Tho judge took the mistake gond
ituinarcdly. "Is it a judge you want
to be, my good man?": he asked,
"Ali, sure, yer honor," Wag the re-'
ply, "I'm an otdd man now, .and
mei)be it's all I'm fit for."
"A drop of ink may matte a roil-•
lfoti think," quoted 14l'$witlig,,,t,
So I have heard," aided Sgtiilidig,
"It 1nay prdvoko langrra.ge, ton. A
few 'drops of Jolt that 1 ina. ivertunL-
ly 'dropped on my wife s neW carpet'
brought forth about a million wards,
and all energetic walets, too,"
"That Mega num" h
iel
s htnlsoif a
pretty important personage 10 this
place, Howse t he ?' reseed the stran-
a' 1 n
r ort 'tit
to ? 'xelni
p 4 Y
g nod1115
,
t
rtatevd, 1((117, if you toll f,lnt -'s'e'e
having fine weather he;: e, lee nw 9Is
up as if 113 111,151 j)11 Ile niadia it."
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