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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1914-4-16, Page 6Why Not 7 Per (eat Interest? If your money earns less than 7%, write to us to -clay. We aro offering the ponds of a sueeessi'ul, well-organised 0001 - Deny which yield 7% interest and have a groat shy:ring feature no well, Your 'tnvsstmentmay 'be withdrawn any lime after one year On 60 days' notice. Send for special folder and full particulars. NATIONAL SECURITIES CORPORATION, LIMITED, UQNFED1716ATION L/3"13 B17115DING - TORONTO,. CANADA. ESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY Incorporated A,D. 15151 (FIRE ANi) MARINE INSURANCE) HEAD OFFICE TORONTO RO SYNOPSIS OP ANNUAL STATEMENTfor Year Ending Deo, 31. 1913. Total Fire and Marine- Premiums tinoluding Interest) $3.185,803.10 Total Losses and Expenses tlneluding Taxes and Com- missions 2,947,487.49 PROFIT FOR YEAR 1913 $238.368.61 Total Assets at 31st 'December, 1913 $ 3.507,345.02 Losses paid since organization, over 57,000,000:00 BOBBED OF DIRECTORS. W. R. Brock, President I). B. Hanna Augustus Ayers W. B. Meikle. Vice -Pres. Alex. Laird Frederic Nicholls Robert Bickerdike, M.Y. Z. A. Lash, K.C., L1..11. James Kerr Osborne E. W, Cox Geo. A. Dlorrow E. R, Wood II, C. Cox Col, S11• Henry Pellatt,C.V.O. John Hoskin, K.C., LL.D. W. B, 211F.IKL131 JOHN RIME, C. C. FOSTER, General Manager. Asst General Manager, Secretary. % The following Canadian Munle!pal Debentures constitute an unusually attraethe group to select from. 1—They tire of Municipalities extending from the far East to the far West. 2—They mature at practically all periods from one to arty years. 3—They are offered to yield from 40% to 61 o Interest. Yield. 1 Yield. Ontario Government' (An.) 4.50% Town of Owen Sound, Ont. 4.90% City of Woodstock, Ont.... 5.00% Town of Brookville, Ont.. 5.0011 Town of Eespeler, Ont...... 5,00 0 City of Brandon, Man.,. • , 5.10'i Township of 'Bruce, Ont.... 5.13% City of Sydney, N.8....... 5.20% Town of Burlington, Ont... 5.20% Town of Milton, Ont 5.25% Town of North Bay, Ont5.25% Town of Elmira, Ont. 5.25% Town of Grimsby, Ont... —5.25% Town of Sudbury, Ont.. , .. 5,38% Town of St. Laurent, tine. 5.38% City of Nelson, 13,0 5,40% Township of Richmond, B. O. 5.40% Town of Streeteville, Ont, 5.50% District of North Vancou- ver, B.0 5.50% Town of Sudbury Separate Schools, Ont. 5..7545 Town of Transcona. Man.. , 6.00% Town of Eetevan, Sask.. , , 6.00% Town of Watrous. Sask6.50% Prices still greatly favor the investor, On the average the yields in respect to the above issues are 15% greater than they were between twoand three years ago. Write for Our Complete April pond List. Orders may be telegraphed or telephoned at our expense: Investnkersment A. E. AM ES & CO. Ba Union Bank Building, Toronto. Established 1889 ArN BRUCE'S GIANT FEEDING BEETS—The most valuable Field Roots on the market, combine the rich qualities of the Sugar Beet with the long keeping, large size and heavy croppingqunlitxca of the Mengel. We offer in two colors, White and Rose. ,{ 10.12c, h Ib, 91n, 11b, 35c, 10111s, $3.00. BRUCE'S MAMMOTH INTERMEDIATE SMOOTH WHITE CARROT—The best of ell field Carrots, 14 1b. 40; 3 lb. 70; 11b. $130, 3 lbs, $3.00. BRUCE'S GIANT YELLOW INTERMEDIATE MANGBL—A very close second to our Giant White Feeding Beet, and equally easy to harvest. 'Q 10.124 34 lb. 20;110.35c, 10 lbs. $3.00, BRUCE'S NEW CENTURY SWEDE TURNIP—The best shipping variety, as wallas the best for cooking: handsome shape, uniform growth, purple top, K. ib, 12c, ;d Ib. 20c, 11b. 35c, 51bs. $1.50. BRUCE'S 'GIANT KING SWEDE TURNIP—Au improvement on pilule), or Elephant Swede, tankard shaped, large, good quality, heavy yielder, and good keeper. 3 10.12e, ;4 Ib. 20c, 1 10.32c, 0 lbs, ,1.00, Prices are here—Add for Postage, if to be moiled, 5c for ;f pound, lOc n pound. Bruees Giant White Beet, Bruce's Mammoth Intermediate Carrot and Bruce's Giant. King Swede led all the others in tha experimental tests, Ontario Agricultural College for sgr1. FREE—Our haudsomely illustrated xrz-page catalogue of Vegetable, Perm and Flower Seeds, Plants, Bulbs, Poultry Supplies, Garden Implements, etc., for 1914. Send for it. John . t:I ruce 8L Co., Limited., Hamilton, Ontario. Established Sixty-four yen rs, ABSENT-MINDED SCHOLAR. An Annlsing Incident That Hap- pened a French Scholar. A monument was recently unveil- ed to the memory of Henri Pain - care, the famous mathematician and physicist, who was a cousin of the Presidlenii of France. The occasion recalls a story or two of his remark- able absent-mindedness, says the 'Youth's Companion, Almost every day Poincare left his money lying about somewhere, Finally his mother sewed his purse into the pocket of his coat. But one <lay, when he had dressed in a ho- tel, he put on his overcoat without the coat, and left that lying on a chair, Needless to say, he never saw the purse again. One evening he was looking in a closed bookcase for a manuscript, During the search he set the lamp on a shelf in the case, and in a me - tient, of abstraction closed the door of the cabinet, and sat down in darkness. After be had pondered for a time on the disappearance of the light, he came to the conclusion that he had suddenly become blind, That seemed to him quite possible, since 1riseyes were weak, anyway, and ke groaned atthe thought of his deplorable53018dition, .Suddenly., to. his surprise, a stream of light ap- p•eared, coming from the adjoining room, and he remarked, with notch satisfaction, "My sight seems to have come back again." Nob even then did he think of the lamp in the bookcase! of. New Use for Vacuum Cleaner. America has discovered a new use for the vacuum cleaner. The Park Department of New York City uses it for currying horses, of which eighty are sent out every morning from the stables, Tho vacuum curry -comb not only keeps the horses' coats in better condition, but relieves the stables and thio sta- blemen of the dust and germs which usually accompany- the currying of horses. The groom has no need to blow and hiss as he works. It also saves more than half the time over the job. d, Ile Was Careless.' "People are so careless about the proper use of prepositions," "Yes, I know they are. Fred told me he and his bride were going to live with the old man, when ha real- ly meant on the old man." e:• "All life is set to music," says a poet. And the life of a tramp is ragtime/ A Gin sr;: ill at Bed Time Nil' not only prevent any form of Kidney trouble but will assist the Kidneys ill their work of filtering the impurities from the blood. Kidneys 'working properly mean a good complexion, brigllteyes, a clear 'brain, in facta condition of general good health. uiilra Pills sic sold by all druggists, at roc, per box, G Ido 1;2.50, or direct from Nadolol Dtttg and Chemical Go of Canada Limited, Toroi116r (12 aareasigallassissa Isar money hack if mnrm,no 1 mar. EARLY DAYS IN MANITOBA Experience of Chas. Whitehead—It Cost 1-Iim $4.°50 to Secure a R bate of $662.5o Charles Whitehead, the man who entered into corltr'aet No, 1 with the C.P.IL, land Company, as de- scribed in last week's Star Weekly, was an Englishman by birth. He canto to C7anada at the age of 14 with his father, Joseph Whitehead. The family located at Clinton, in the County of Huron, Ontario, where they resided fora number of years. Joseph Whitlaead was a pio- neer in railroading, just as his son became a pioneer in colonizing. He was fireman on The Rocket, the first lectrmotive built by Sir George Stephenson, and known as "Engine N,. 1" of the Stockton and Darling- ton Railway away back in 1823, It was railway work which in- duced the Whiteheads to remove to Western Canada, to which place they immigrated in 1877, to engage in construction on the C.P.R. main line, then approaching the prairies. They secured contract 15, covering the grading on the road from East Selkirk to St. Boniface, and the track -laying and ballasting from St. Boniface to Rat Portage, now acres of 'wheat and 400 acres of oats, and harvested an average of 99,4{ bushels of wheat pt'r acre and 80 bushels. of oats. I sold the wheat for 80c. per bushel and the oats for 45e. There was a great demand for oars all along the line owing to the railroad construction, and conse- quently lb paid better to grow them Hilton wheat. "All our provisions had to be brought -remit Winnipeg up the As- siniboine River, a difficult journey by boat, and the freight charges were very heavy. The freight on lumber for that distance of 133 miles was $12 pen, thousand, and I re- tailed common lumber for $35 per thousand, Dark Days tor Pioneers. "In 1883 for various reasons I had a very light crop, and concurrently with this prices also went down and down. The construction camps were moving further west, and the mar- ket for produce was lessening in a proportionate ratio. We got only 12 and 13 cents per bushel for oats, known by the more euphonious .and only some of Os were fortailatc The house which air- 'Whitehead btci11 for $4,000. name of Kenora, This was a diffi- cult section of construction, a•nd took the contractor's three years to complete, during which time they removed over 500,000 yards of gra- nite rock. It was very shortly after the com- pletion of this oontraet that Mr, Charles Whitehead decided to em- bark in the lumber business at Brandon, as previously related, a circumstance which led to his pur- chase of sections 3, 10, 19, and di- version of Ids activities to wheat - growing for a time. Costly Improvements. Recalling those early years Mr. Whitehead humorously .relates how it cost 11in1 $4,050 to secure a re- bate of $562.50 on his purchase con- tract from the C.P.R. In his own language it happened this way : "In order to encourage settle- ment the C.P.R. allowed a rebate of $1.25 an acre on the purchase price for every acre broken. That was just fifty per cent. of the actual purchaseprice in contract No. 1. enough to get 50 cents a bushel' for wheat that fall. Later on the price of wheat fell to 37 and 38 cents per bushel for the highest grade of No. 1 Hard. Robert Hastings, buyer for the Ogilvie Milling Company, and who afterwards became promi- nently a.ss'ociated With that corpor- ation, bought 50,000 bushels for 37 cents, and every bushel was No. 1 Hard, Hogs sold for two cents a pound, live weight, and even at that price there were not enough people in the country to buy the pork. Those were the dark and trying days for the West. Canadian Pacific stock fell to $35 a share, but the. company never ,showed the white fea.thel'. It manifested the same spirit that characterized the suc- cessful settlers in the stupendous difficulties it was called upon to face in common with them; and it re- mains to the credit ofthe manage- ment of the company and a demon- stration of their resourcefulness, as well as of the recuperative powers of the young country, that right in An Early Settler and His Speedy Turnout. Prior to the spring of 1882 I had 4.50 norm oroken on my section and ready for crop, and obtained a re- bate of $662.50, but I had to pity $9 per acre to have the breaking clone, so that my rebate of $062.50 cost me $40.50. However, I had to have the breaking done anyway. But evei'.y- thing was dear then. You can buy as much for a dollar now as you oou.id for five in 1881 "I built i1' house on my farm, costing me $4,000, which, I think, demonstrated my confidence in the country .and the railroad '!upon which everything depended and about which thele were so many Misgivings at that tim0. :Many thought it would never, be finished, "In my first crop I put in fifty the teeth of .these adverse condi- tions the railroad'we1t right along and spent $20,000,000 in consttur;- lAon on its transcontinental line," In addition to being a pioneer grain -glower in the West, Mfr. Whitehead is also entitled to be consicleted one of the fathers of the live -stock industry in that country. He bought the nucleus of a herd in 1881 from a consignment, of Ayr. shires shipped to 'Winnipeg by Guy & Sons, of Oshawa, ' Ont., and in the following spring, when he actively engaged in farming, he increased his dairy herd to 25 head. He made money off these, for he gob 45 cents a pound for the nutter, and he de- monatratetl that the, conditions were satisfactory for dairying. •READ THE LAI3EL •'FOR THE PROTECTIONOFTHE CON- SUMER THE INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT 15 THE ONLY WELL- KNOWN MEDIUM- PRICED BAKING POWDER MADE IN CANADA THAT DOES NOT CONTAIN ALUM AND WHICH HAS ALL THE INGREDIENTS PLAINLY STATED ON THE LABEL, MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM 1S SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS SUL- PHATE OF -ALUMINA OR SODIC ALUMINIC SULPHATE, THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT. BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. E. W. GiLLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL Sold Farm For a Song. However, after his experiences in 1883 Mr, Whitehead decided to re- tire from farming, purely as a mat- ter of business, and to return to the more remunerative work of railway construction. His faith in the ulti- mate destiny of the West, however, never wavered throughout those five long years of unusual depres- sion from 1883 to 1887, when the country seemed almost to stand still, if not actually to retrograde; but in the fall of 1883 11e solei Isis 'farm to The North British Invest- ment Company, Limited, of Glas- gow, Scotland, 'which had estab- lished an agency in Brandon under the management of E. Hughes. In the light of present-day real estate values in the West, the trans- fer of Mr. Whitehea<i's land at that time could scarcely be termed a sale, as the loan company merely assumed his covenant, paid the bal- ance alance due. upon it, and relieved the vendor from further liability. -.They secured this now valuable section, including all the improvements, valued at over $8,000, for the pal- try sum of $969.84 in addition to a small loan on the property, or about $1.50 an acre. How times have changed! Mr. Whitehead has lived to sec a por- tion of his original section sold for $300 an acre, as it was only a few months ago, to provide lac0m fur the expansion of the city he founded, and of which he is still an honored resident, enjoying a ripe old age, as active and vigorous as many a plan 20 year's his junior, and, with all the comforts his business. sagacity as- sured for him amidst the ultimate prosperity of the country. He has lived to see °the clays of the strug- gling settler pass forever ; and to 'see .one farmer this year pro.cluce 250,000 bushels of wheat: with a mar- ket value of $200,000; and also to see another 700 miles beyond what was the frontier in 1881 invest $100,- 000 in land, stock, and improve- ments and receive back from the fertile soil 100 per cent, per annum for two years in succession. No I':idorado ever paid SIS the West,has repaid confidence in its ultim-ate destiny.—D. J. Benham, in Toronto Star Weekly, Chinamen. on British Ships. The Barry (Wales) seamen and firemen, who .are protesting against the employment of Chinamen on British ships in the port there, passed a resolution calling for a national strike in order to deal effeotsvely with • .the , question threughoilt:'the United King-dom. EAGER TO WORK Health Regained by Right Fools. The average healthy manor wo- man is usually eager to be busy at some useful task or employment. But let dyspepsia or indigestion get hold of one, and all endeavor becomes a burden. A woman writes "A year ago, after recovering from •an operation, my stomach and nerves- began ato , give . me much trtrouble:.trouble:., "•; •' • "At times my appetite was vora- cious, but when indulged, indiges- tion followed. Other times I had no appetite whatever, The food I took did not nourish me, and I grew weaker than ever. "I lost interest in everything and wanted to be alone. I had always had good nerves, but now the merest trifle would upset me and bring on a violent headache. Walk- ing across the room was an effort, and prescribed exercise w.as out of the question. I had seen Grape -Nuts adver- tises, but did not believe what I read, at the time. At last, when it seemed as if I were literally starv- ing, I began to eat. Grape -Nuts, I had nob been able to work for a year, but now after two months on Grape -Nuts I am eager to be ab work again. My stomach gives Inc. no troUbte now, .lay nerves are. steady as' ever, and interest in life and anlbitl.on have Colne back with the return to health.',, Name given by Canadian Postlt,n Co., Windsor, On±, Read "The Road to Wollvillo," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever recti the above letter? A ISM one appears from time to tln,o. They ere (501(1ine, true, and full of ' human interest. I)'ANNUNZIO FOND OF DOGS.' May Spend Year in England to Train 1:Iounis. Signor D'Annunzio has been spending a few clays in London. He, came to England to sec the Waterloo Cup, the great coursing race at Alger. D'Annunzio has always been a lover of the dog, and has seldom had fewer than a dozen dogs at Settignane. Greyhounds are Isis passion, but he has given some of his affection to the English buIidog; of which he has several He was one of the founders of the Greyhound Club in France, and he has •entered his own hounds in French races, and so far has two second prizes to his record. His plan to stay for a year in England is possibly dictated by hie ambition to race a hound in next year's Waterloo Cup. Under the quarantine regulation it is almost impossible for him to train his hounds in France and race then here. D'Annunzio has expressed to friends in London the great stimu- lus he has received from England. The eager courser's at Altear, the delicate English country scenery, the pale glory of Ldnclon in the dawn as his train steamed into it and lie beheld the river—all this has fascinated 11i1n and made 11in1 be- lieve that England will give Kinn a new stimulus and revive his art. Above all he bases his hopes on the eternal -bath of youth, which is Eng- lish sport. Will Quickly Cure Any Sour Stomach • Relieves Fullness After Meals. "When I was working around the farm last winter I had an attack of in- flammation," writes Mr. D. P. Dawkins, of Port Richmond. T was weak for a long time, but well enough to work until. axing. But something went wrong with my bowels for. I had to use salts or physic all the • time. My stomach kept sour, and always after eating there was pain and fulness and all the symptoms of intestinal 'indi- gestion. Nothing helped me until I used Dr. Hamilton's Pills. Instead of hurting, like other pills, they acted very mildly, and seemed to heal the bowels. I did not require large doses to get results with. Dr. Hamilton's P111s, and feel,. so glad that I have found a mild yet certain remedy. To -day I am well—no pain, no sour stomach, a good aml,etfte, able to digest anything. This is a whole iet of good for one medicine to do, and I can say Dr. Hamilton's Pills are the best pills, and my letter, I am sure, proves it. Refuse a substitute for Dr. Hamil- ton's Ptlis='bf'Mandrake and Butternut, seal in'yellow'boxes,•25c. Air dealers, or The Oatarrhozone Co., Kingston, Ont. Wealth of Germany. The •enornonsincxease inthe pur- chasing power of the people of Ger- m -any that has taken place since the present empelos began his reign in:1888 is strikingly depicted by Dr, Karl H,elfferieh in a monograph just published, Dr. Helfferich sketches in outline" the development in Ger- many, since 1888 of the three chief 'elements. of : productive capacity— population, economic , tecllnicjue, and econovlie organization; the re- sulting expansion in production it- self and the concomitant phenomena of traffic • and consumption. Ho places the present gross income of the nation at $10,000,000,000, as compared with $5,500,000,000 to $0,000,000,000 about 1895. Ger- many's national wealth is , put at $75,000,0003000. • Skeletons of 'i'al'r'iors. . Following upon the finding of four skeletons in 'the Barberry Banks, about two hundred yards norili east of Alnwlek Castle, England, further excavation's 17431'0 made in. the neighborhood. A fifth .skeleton was exhumed, an older man than tho lour found a few days ,before, a man appar'ontly between forty and fifty years of ago. The position of the skeletons indicated that the warriors were thrown into a shal- low trench after having been slain in some early borxler raid or siege, of Alnwick Castle in the year 1093 or 1135. The Duke of Northumber- land gave directions for the bones to be reburied where unearthed, And a stone will be erected to mark the spot. ACiiYI IES OF WO1111 ,-t batatassaaasseas, ease:s'Q sisalasassalass Japan has 152,011 aehool teachers, College girls have the best chant* of ]Matrimony, Berlin, Germany, has nearly 83,- 000 unmarried women. One in every ,eight women in Groat 13ritain is a widow. Berlin, Germany, has a sanator- ium for workingwomen. Finland wO111e11 in Germany ex- pect to sit i11 the Imperial Parlia- ment as deputies. There are more than 1,000 woman suffrage organizations in the United States, There are one-third more girls than boys in the high schools of America, Sister Elizabeth F5odorovna, sis- ter of the Czar of Russia, is a de- voted nun, Fraulein Lise Bulford of Buda- pest is the only woman jockey in the world. Nearly 400 women applied for pa- tents in England during the last year. It is •estimated that 75 per cent. of the laws have to do with the home in some way. In England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales women vote at all elec- tions except for members of parlia- ment. A bill providing for -women judges in the children's court has been in- troduced in the New York legisla- ture, There are two wage-earning wo- men to every five wage-earning men in Great Britain. Mrs. William Waldorf Astor has given $1,000 towards aco-ordinate women's college ab the University, of 'Virginia, Mlle, Helen Caragioni, a Rou- manian girl, declares that she will fly across the Atlantic ocean during the present year. In two New York industries'em- ploying 10,893 women and girls the majority of them receive only $3 per week. Mme. Paquin, the noted French designer of styles, employs over 2,000 persons in her Paris estab- lishment and is said to have an in- come of over $100,000 a year. Miss Maude Kelly of Birmingham, Ala., has been admitted to practice in the United States supreme court, She is 'the 35111 woman to be admit- ted, Mrs. Mollie N. Neuberger of Chi- cago will pay an income tax of $50,- 000. She has an income of over $800,000 a year and carries over $1,000,000 insurance. For the first time in the history of Bellevue Hospital, New York City, two women have successfully passed the examinations, and will be admitted as laborites. The first woman lawyer in Aus- tralia is Miss Anna Brennan, who recently tried ,her first case wearing a white dress over which 'was a black robe of the professional bar- riSter, •N ENGLISH EELS FOR GERMANY. There is a Great Commend/0 Fu. tune for the Business. Stewed eels •and eel pie were once esteemed clainties by English peo- ple; but nowadays, says Country Lite'they tend to disappear from the table, They have become al- most as scarce as rook pie, In Germany this change of taste has not become apparent, The German loves eels, ,and cannot 'have "too many of then, A few years ago, that is to say, in •1909, the experi- ment was tried of transferring spine 20,000 English elvers from the Sev- ern to an East Prussian lake called the Paprotker Sea, These have thriven [amazingly, as was'. proved when some were caught and exam- ined at the Hamburg Fishery Bio- logical Laboratory, Fifty-eight al- together were examined, three, only being males. These were from 17 to 18% inches in length, while the females were from 18 Ili 25% inches, and the average weight was 0 ounces.. the• same age eels from..... the- Lower Elbe measured on ani average only 10%. inches. The 1,283 in which •the English eels were placed was thoroughly well sup- plied with food, and the experiment seems to show that i,here is a great 6ommeroial future for the business of feeding English eels in Prusian lakes to sell as articles of diet. A Way They have. • Mrs. ;Flint Came for a visit to ilex sister's' home, and her little niece, Oh•arlatte, was delighted to see her. "What' became of the black icitten that you had when I was here be- fore, deari" asked MTs, Flint, "Why, don°'t you know 1" asked Charlotte, mach surprised, "I haven't heard a word," re- plied the aunt, "Was he poison- ed I" "No, ma'am," said Charlotte, "Drowned'?" "Ory, no " "Stolen 4" "Hurt in any way 2'' "No, ma'am," Wa11 " said Mrs. Plitt I can't gums, dear, What became of him 2 "He grooved into a oafs." said Marlette,