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1# i ESULTS aecttrec1 during the year 1916 re -affirm the position of the
t�. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada as the leadinglife assurance
organization in the Dominion. Once more it leads te field among
Canadian Companies in each of the following respects :
Largest I1ew Bilsiness. Largest Business in Form. Largest Assets.
Largest Earnings. rnings. Largest Net Surplus. Largest Income..
Largest Distribution of Life Assurance Benefits.
THE YEAR'S RESULTS
The following /ergo and uniform Increases rogiatpred during the year 1916 clearly demonstrate the
strength of the Company's position and the confidence and prestige It enjoys in the public mind:
1916 1915 INCREASE
Meets as at December 31st . .. 882,948,998 $74,325,428 $8,622,573 11.67
Cash Income . r . 0
. 18,499,131 15,072,072 2,526,469 15.8
Surplus paid or allotted to Policyholders, 1,110,900 085,487 125,413 12.77
Net Surplus ns at December 31st... . 8,509,665 7,645,591 984,274 12,8X
Total Payments to Policyholders. , 7,678,016 7,129,479 448,537 8.3%
Assurances Issued and Paid for in Cash . 42,772,296 84,878,851 7,898,445 S22.67
Assurances in Force . 281,434,700 257,404,160 24,030,540 l 9.31
Coincident with the above incroaaesthe Company succeeded during the year in effecting a
substantial and Important reduction In the ratio of expense, a feature whish favourably affects
earnings on policyholders' account
THE COMPANY'S GROWTH
YEAR
INCOME
ASSETS
LIFE ASSURANCES
IN FORCE
1872
8 48,210.73
,08,401.05
1,064,350.00
1886 . . . . . .
873,500.81
1,673,027.10
0,413,858.07
1898
.1,886,258.00
6,868,144.08
88,190,890.92
1008
6,212,015.02
24,292,802.85
102,688,898.10
1916
18,499,131.62
82,948,996.06
, 281,434,699.94
Commor
1871 HEAD OFFICE MONTREAL
T. B. MACAULAY, President.
s,.
1917
ALL COAL MINES IN BRITAIN
TAKEN OVER BY GOVERNMENT
A. New Officer Known As "Controller of Coal Mines" Will be in
Charge of Department.
A despatch from London says: It
has been decided by the Board of
Tracie to takepossession of all coal
mines in the United Kingdom for the
period of the war in addition to those
in South Wales already taken over.
The President of the Board of Trade
has decided to set up a new depart-
HALIFAX IS PORT
OF EXAMINATION
Neutral Vessels Leaving the
U.S. to Call There Instead
of at Falmouth.
A despatch from Ottawa says:-
Confirmation of the report that the
British Admiralty had designated
?Halifax as the port of examination
for neutral ships leaving American
ports, instead of Falmouth, was ob-
tained from the Government on Thurs-
day. "It was stated by Sir George
Foster, Acting -Minister of Marine,
that negotiations in progress had
t'eached a head and that it was defin-
itely decided Halifax would be an ex-
amination port.
Whether it will be for all sailings
in both directions, however, has not
yet been decided.. The latter arrange-
inent might tax accommodation at
the Winter port somewhat severely.
Officials of the Naval Service, Cus-
toms, Justice and Post -Office Depart-
ments will go - down to Halifax to
form an examination staff, which will
be augmented by experts, from Great
Eritain. Arrangements Will be made
to avoid all possible delay to the
vessels examined. The new plan has
been adopted at the request of neu-
>vrel ship interests, who are anxious
to avoid the dangers incident to ex-
amination at English ports in the
blockaded area.
GERMANS ARE BLUFFING
ABOUT SUB NUMBERS
But American Says There is Surpris-
ing Lot of New Troops.
A despatch from London says :--.
An Amsterdam despatch to The Times
otes an American who has just ar-
iv
ed there from Frankfort, where he
ead resided for eighteen months, as
paying that the Germans have a great
hnd surprising number of now troops.
,w.is, It'he despatch says that evety Ger-
au man of military age who is not
ngaged in the munition industry has
en ordered into the army, with ith the
result that the German troo p4 are
glow more numerous than at the be-
ginning of the war.
In reference to the submarine cam-
paign the American said that the
rte current in holland about the When _fo.od nee like lead In the stomach
to p and you have that uncomfortable ills-
nimense number of German sunbmar- reeling, 1t Is because of uncomfortable,
tended
,swim_ tioient blood supply t0 the stoma
(no was a Gelman bluff, as he combined with acrd and food formenta-
¢d to have information that there Wan, xi: euc t oases try the i>lan now .fol -
were not live hundred of filo undersea lowed in many hosv tats and advised by
many stn;0-flit 'physicians of tailing -d
craft available, Referring to the foaepoonful of pure bietn'ated magnesia
Nod situation he said; 10 hall a glace of water, em bot as you
can co)nlortably drill, It. The hot wa.•
"The allies have thole clown pretty ter draws the blood to ilio stomaoh and.
Well, but they are prepared for more 11(0 btsnrated magnesia, ns rut( phyaletan
cn,1, tollyou, lustantly nout,•u1(/ea t.11y
T'he Germans can stand odd and stop0 the food fermentation•
hardships, :rr thisg Minims pian and yon will be •a-
tnytung, I loft frermany because tonishet7 'at the ineerdiato feeling of be-
situation Wag rowing too bats to lief and oomfoi•t'that always follows
floe i :secretion or 000 normal fusses the
1 o f t Ol'' t f-
hi I1 lskfurt was
I
nt, i,i ea
be
leasa f
p
) 9 nib wile fled It In
I o) Pe w
reel p Contof11b11C
i , A7 n er
It Seo e i th o secure het hard the ma Yvetr, at
very1 forI. p Y at 41 s l u and travel
who r0 fro In utt 0111
a. r1 a q0 cA CO1 There was
1 si 3 Lhk
a
population would echo. Irasly meaty poorly nhbha1011, should al'
Very bitter' feeling there against tate ways take two .or thre lido -groin tablets
of 131e1.1rated Ma'gnes(a atter meals 00
, higher authorities and the people who g „ prevent 01fermentation and neutralize 'chi'
' were responsible for the war, acid to their stomtt0lc,
4 •
mcnt to control the coal mines. The
directors of the London and North-
Western Railway have placed the
services of their general niianager,
Guy Calthrop, at the disposal of .the
Board. Mr. Calthrop's official desig-
nation will be "Controller: of Coal
Mines." -
EMPIRE'S WOOL CLIP
NEEDED FOR ARMIES.
Shrinkage of World's Supply Compels
Britain to Safeguard Output..
A despatch from London says: Re-
plying in the House of Commons to
criticism of the Government's method
of requisitioning the wool clip of the
Empire, H. W. Forster, financial sec-
retary to the War Office, explained
that the shrinkage of the world's sup-
ply of wool had compelled the Gov-
ernment to safeguard the enormous
supplies needed for the Entente
armies. Ho declared with emphasis
that this action was solely a war
measure, and without ulterior mo-
tives. Recognizing the importance of
exporting wool in order to maintain
the rates of exchange, Mr. Forster
said that if it proved practicable the
Government would do its utmost to
stimulate exports even at the sacri-
fice of some part of the wool requir-
ed for home consumption.
a
AGAINST PROHIBITION.
Over 1,400 Soldiers Voted Against It
and 221 For It.
A despatch from Vancouver says:--
A
ays:-A cable gives the result of the pro-
hibition vote overseas up to Wednes-
day evening as 1,400 agailist, 221 for
and 41 spoiled ballots,
GERMANY'S WAR COSTS
SIXTY BILLION MARKS.
A despatch from London says: Ger-
many's war costs to date,,havo reach-
ed the total of ditty billion marks,
says a telegram from Berlin, forward-
ed by the correspondent at Amster-
dam of Reuter's Telegram Company,
Limited,
GERMAN TROOPS MOVED
FROM FRONTIER TOWNS
A despatch from Amsterdam says:
-The majority of the German troops
recently concentrated on the eastern
border of Rolland now have disap-
peared from the towns along the
frontier, according to reports received
by The Handelsbladt
IF FOODDISAGREES
GREE
DRINK HOT WATER
DOMINION TO ISSUE
ANOTHER WAR' LOAN
Flotation Early in, March to be
Payable in Canada and
New York.
A despatch from Ottawa says: An;
other
t-
other Canadian war loan, the third
to be issued in the Dominion, will be
floated probably early in March. In
view of the exchange situation be-
tween Canada and the United States,
which is at present adverse .to this
country, it is regarded as likely that
the securities of the new loan will bo
made payable both in Canada and New
York.
No information as to the amount,
terms or price 6f the new issue can,
however, be given at present, as these
details will not be settled until imme-
diately before the loan is floated and
will be determined largely by the con-
ditions which then prevail.
The Finance Minister, it is under-
stood,
nderstood, has been assured that he will
have the co-operation, in the flota-
tion of the new securities, of the bond -
dealers and brokers, whose activity
contributed materially to the success
of the last domestic loan of 21.00,-
000,000.
RUSSIANS AND GERMANS
JOIN IN A WOLF HUNT
Pack of Wolves Forces a Suspension
of Human Hostilities.
A despatch from Petrograd says:
-A wolf hunt in which both Russian
and German soldiers joined is describ-
ed in correspondence from the Polish
front. Parties of Russian and Ger-
man scouts met recently and were hot-
ly engaged in a skirmish when a large
pack of wolves dashed on the scene
and attacked them. Hostilities
were
at once suspended and Germans and
Russians instinctively attacked the
pack, killing about fifty of the wolves.
After the hunt the soldiers separated,
each party returning unmolested to its
own trenches.
Along some sections of this front
hungry wolves have been particularly
bold this winter, constituting a real
danger to outposts of both armies, and
repeatedly the combatants have had to
send out hunting parties against the
common enemy. While at this sort
of work sniping is suspended by a
sort of tacit agreement among op-.
posing forces.
MAXIMUM DAIRY PRICES
ARE FIXED IN FRANCE
All Must Be Conspicuously Displayed
In The Shop Windows.
A despatch :from Paris says: ---Tho
Food Ministry has decided that :from
Feb. 19 maximum prices are to be ex-
ert throughout France for milk, butter
and cheese. In the Department 01
the Seine, including 1?nris, the price
of milk must not exceed telt cents for
a litre (about a pint and three-quar-
ters) if bought in tt shop, of eleven
cents is delivered. The maximum
prices for butter vary from 31.12 to
31,84 per kilo -roughly two pounds---
coerd n and Q l gt0 the quality ya <source-
The
o11 st ce
The only cheese prices fixed se far
are eanembet4,:rrom thirteencents to,
twenty-six cents the . small box, ac-
cording to quality, and pont 1'Eveous1
at slightly higher prises, All prices'
mustbc conspicuously displayed in the
shops concerned.
There will, 1: no celebration of
Mardi Ctas neat Tuesday,
but
theatres will bepermitted
to givebol
h
d „
tri In n and evening o'
0 1 ) hf r
t, E5" 1 0l lances
The tie 'course meal regulation, wliiell
applies to all hotels and restaurants,
goes .into effect to -day,
NURSES WANTED
1'udjit Nurses' wanted tor.the to Arain-
lug School, 1tos1>ilal for the Snsane,
Toronto, Three year's' Oourst3 ; 318
nor month, with board and unitorm,
Apply hiss D. Woot,
804 Queen St. West,
Toronto.
LEADING MARKETS
>sraadatrffs
.roronlo Feb, 20 '1lanitoba wheat—
New No 1 Northern 91,905; No, 2, de.,
91818 •' No, 2 do 9L,828; Ne, 4 wheat,
1.781, track flay porta.
Manitoba cats^•• -•Nei C,y1 710; No, 8
0W, 71e; extra No 1 feed 71c; 'No..1
feed, 700 all rail delivered on lo010(11�
Mnoriceur corn—No. 8 yellow, $
Subject to embargo,
Ontario sols—,els, 2 whits, 08 to 850,
nominal; No, 3 white, 02 to 04e, nominal,.
3c/cording to freights outside..
Ontario Wheat --No 2 Winter, per car
lot, 51.,71, to 91.75; No, 8 do„ 51,00 to
$1;71, according to freight.[Mottl[Mottle,yeas--No. 4, 92.4according' to
reelghte outside,
73arlelf\ n4alltnR, 91,20 to 9.1,22, ac-
000ding to freights outside.
Buckwheat ---81.20, nominal, according
to lrolgh s outside.,92
nye—No, $
0 to 91.42, according
:
to 100131 s outside.
Manito00 flour—Fist patents, In jute
bas, 90.60; seo018 patents, in lute bags,
3xp0.00; strong bailers', In jute bags, 98,00,
',le route.
Ontario flour—Winter, according to
sample, 97,10 to 97,20, 1n bags, track,
Toronto nronlpl shlprnoht; 57.00, bulk
seaboard, export grade.
MWlfeed—Car lots, deli •erect Montreal
freights bags Included: Aran, per ton,
$86; shorts, per ton, 941' good feed
flour', per hag, 92.70 to 92.86.
Hay—Metre. No 2, per long 912 to.
912.00; mixed, per toll, 99 to 911, track
Toronto.
14traw---Car 'lots, per 100, • $9, track
Toronto.
Country Prpdnoo—Wholesale
Butter—Fresh dairy, choice, 30 to 380;
creamery prints, 43 to 45c; solids, 42
ta'42c.
.wggs—.No. 1 storage, 47 to 480; stor-
age. selects, 50 to 51c; now-lald, in car-
tons, 55 t0 00c; ottt of cartons, 52 to 54c.
t'..lye poultry —Fowl, ib., 17 to 190;
chickens, lb., 18 to 2Ur..
Dressed poultry --Chickens, 22 to 25c;
10101, 2U to 22c; dunks, 22 to 25c; squabs,
per doz., 94.00 to 9.1.50; turkeys, 28 to
83c; geese, 18 to 20c.
Cheese ---New, large, 060 to 261': twins,
26 to 2010; triplets, 268 to 261c; old,
largo, 27e; twins, 278 t0 371c.
Honey--WAlte clover, 30-1b. tins, 14 to
1410; 5-1b, tins, 138 to 14c; 10-11,,, 18 to
138a 604b., 128 to 130; buckwheat, (10-1l.
tins, 0 to 93e. Comb honey ---extra One
and heavy weight, per dos., 52.75; select,
92.00 to $2.76; No. 2, 92 to $•2.25.
Potatoes—Ontarlo, per bag, 92.90;
New Brunswick :Delftwares, nor bag,
58,26; Albertus, per ba'g, $2.95.
Beans—Imported,F hand-picked, per
bush., 96.25; Canadian, hand -pinked, per
bush., 57.00; Canadian primes, 80.00 to
$8.00; Limas, per lb., 10 to Idle.
Provisions—Wholesale.
Smoked meats—Hans, medium, 26 to
27c; do., heavy, 23 to 24c; cooked, 37 to
380; rolls, 21 to 22c; breakfast bacon.
27 to 29c; backs, plain, 23 to 30c; bone-
less, 31 to 83o.
Lard—Pure lard, tierces, 218 to 2110;
tubs, 218 to 22c; pails, 23 to 2290; com-
pound, 1.69 to 17c.
Cured meats—Long clear bacon, 18 to
188o per lb; clear -bellies, 18 to 188c,
Montreal Markets
Montreal, Feb. 20—Corm—American
No, 2 yellow, $1,24 to 01.25. Oats --
Canadian Western, No, 2, 7•i to 75c; do..
No. 3, 72 to 73o; extra No. 1 feed, 72
to 73c. Barley—Manitoba feed, 01;
malting, 91.26. Flour—Manitoba Spring
wheat patents, firsts, 10,00; do., seconds,
$9,10; strong bakers', 38.00; Winter
patents, choice, 99,26; straight rollers,
$8,60 to 08.00; do., In bags, $4.10 t0
$4,25. Rolled oats—Barrels, $0,96 to
$7.15; bag of 90 lbs., 93.36 to 92.45.
lllfeed—Bran, $33 to 934; shorts, 830
to $38; middlings, $38 to 540; mou11110,
943 to 848, Hay—No.2, per ton. ear
lots, $18. Cheese—Flnd'st westerns, 20
to 2010; do„ eastet•ns, c266c. Butter—
Choicest creamery, 421 to 43c; seconds,
29 to 41c, iSggs—Frael, 66 to 08c;
selected, 48e; No, 1 stock, 48c. Pota-
toes—Per bag, car lots, $2.75 to $3.
• Winnipeg Grain
Winnipeg,Feb. 20—Wheat—No, 1
Northern, 9,071; No, 2 Northern, $1.646;
No, '8 Northern, 91,6988; No, 4, $1.506;
No. 5, 81.303; No. 6, $1.0.48; feed, 98c.
Oats—No. 2 0.W., 66c; No. 9 Cllr„
633c; extra No, 1 feed, 683qc; No. 1,
531e; No, 2, 521c. Batley No. 3 C.W.,
960; No. 4 C.W., 90c. rejected, 78c;
feed, 78c. Flax --Nu, 1 N,W.C., 92,50;
No, 2 0,1V„ 92,37.
United States Markets
Minneapolis, Feb, 20—Wheat—May,
81.148; July, $1.708; cdsh—No, 1 hard,
$1.88 to $1.608; No. 1 Northern, 91.76 to
—340, 5yellow do..
4hto 093e. Oats Cern
8 white, 680 to 248c, Flour—Un-
changed. Bran -932 to 883.
Duluth, Feb, 20—Witeat—No, 1 hard,
do,771; 91.711 oto 131748. Linseed—On
Northern,
clOn No.
$2,78 to $2.81; 141ay, $2,01 aslcecl; July,
$3,81.4 asked; Lo arrive, 82.78.
Live Stook markets
Toronto, Feb. 20—C11010e heavy steers,
$10.60 to 910.90; do., 3005; 910.10 to
$10.26; butchers' cattle. choice, $10.10
to $10.35; do, good, '$2,60 to $0.75; do„
medium, 98.60 to 98.80; do„ common,
7.50 to 97,76; butchers' bulls, choice,
9 to $do9.60; ,do., good bulls, $8.26 to
8.50; ., medium bulls, 97.15 to 97.00;
do„ rough bulls, 86 to 25.25; butchers'
cows, choice, 98.75 to 59; do., good,
$8,25 to $8.40; do„ medium, $7 to $7.26;
stockers, $0,26 to $8; choice feeders, 88
to $8.60; canners and cutters, gg5 to
05,40; milkers, good to choice, $86 to
1120; do„ coin, and used„ °exit.. 9.40 to
60; springers, $50 to $11.0; light ewes,
10 to $10.60; sheep, heavy, 88.50 to $9;
calves, good to choice, $:18,00 to $15;
lambs, choice, 914 to 915; do., medium,
30.75 to 910.26; (logs, fed and watered,
$14.40 to 914.00,; oto„ weighed off oars,
914,06 to $14,76: do., toe., $15.06.
Montreal, Feb.20-011010e steer's, 910
t0 $10.40: good, 98 to 99,75; butchers'
aows, 90 to $8; butchers' bulls, 00 to
1$10,5005 0,t195 1005 .00;leile•es,iodic loll,
512 to $:14; lambs, $18 to 914; sheep, $8
to $0; hogs, choice, 91.1.50 to 014.76,
MONTREAL ORDERS
COAL FROM THE WEST.
A despatch from Montreal says:—
Provided that shipment' can be made
immediately the City of. Montreal has
ordered seven hundred and fifty tons
of coal from the Red Deer Valley Coal
Company in order to check the coal
shortage there.
One English invention for convales-
cents is a stout cane, .from one end of
which can be unfolded a projection to
rest a user's foot.
To believe Catarrhal
Deafness and Head
Noises
It you have c"atarrhnl Deafness
or Man noises go to your drag'
gist and get 1 remee of PaentIn1
rdoublo strength), and add to it
3 plrlt of hot linker and 4 051110e0
of granulated sugar, 'lake 1
tablespoonful four (hales a day
This will often bring rlulelt ra-
tio[ front ilia (11011 30(03 head
noises. (''logged nostrils 815051)1
000), breathing beconlo easy and
the mums stop dropping into the
thr030. Ti 114 stow to prepn:re,
s I d is )t
Cast. lift o all 1 aaaVvh l take•
Any 000 Who has Cata,rrbat Deaf.
nese of heard noises should give
ns rl'1 rt tlon a
thin 1 r p trim.
p
(0110
A.I( dl i n stonily you., or
t be
11 Y e ,
a beton 112 01 sem on receipt order.
postal tern lO tenoned aA�dlmas tnternaEiOnqq[ x bOratO
rtes, 74 St. M500ine St„ MOntrsoi,
OItnada.
FRENCH CROPS
10 PER' CEN`I'., COWER•
Excessive Autumn Rains Re-
sponsible for the
Decrease,
A, despatch from Paris Mrs; The
Deport of the Agl'iculteral Information
Bureau, published in the official jour-
nal on Thursday, gives the average
condition for the 1917 Winter crops rfs
ten per cent, below those of 1010.
With 100 signifying very good; 80
good and 60 rather good, the averages
for 1917, as compared with those of
1.016, ate;
Winter wheat, 62, as against 70;
rye, 67, against 72; Winter barley 65,
against 788, Winter oats 06, against
72.
The Temps explains the official
figures by the bad state of the soil at
the time of scoding, insufficient sup-
plies 'of fertilizers and the excessive
Autumn rains. Some of the late seed_
ings must bo replaced by Spring seed
ings on accountof the frost, though
most of the wheat crop was well pro-
tected by the snow when the heavy
freeze came and was not injured. The
cold weather is considered to have
pruluced very favorable conditions
for Spring seeding. ,. .
GERMAN NAVY IS WARNED
DECISIVE BATTLE IMPENDS
A despatch from Amsterdam says :
-The following Imperial order, sign-
ed by the German Emperor, 11(1d ad-
dressed "to my navy," is published In
the Marine Verordnungsblatt, accord-
ing to dbBorlin despatch: "In the im-
pending decisive battle the task falls
to my navy of turning the English
war method of starvation, by metros of
which our most hated and most ob-
stinate enemy intends to overthrow
the German people, against him, and
his allies by combatting their sea traf-
fic with all means in our power. In
this work the submar'ir•es will stand
in the first rank. I expect this weapon
to be developed with wise foresight
at our admirable yards, in co-opera-
tion with all our other naval fighting
weapons, and, supported by the spirit
which during the whole course of the
war has enabled us to perform bril-
liant deeds, it will bleak our enemies'
war designs."
TORPEDO HAS A BRAIN.
Ears to Hear and Discretion to De-
viate Course.
A torpedo with ears and a brain,
capable of travelling forty knots and
adjusting itself to meet all changes of
course of an enemy vessel,• was de-
monstrated before the Academy of
Science at Pittsburg, Pn., by Montra-
ville 30. Wood, of Chicago. This tor-
pedo, he declared, Is now in the pos-
session of the United States' Govern-
ment. He claimed the torpedo could
"hear" a vessel approaching a mile
and a half away and would then shed
its anchor and attack.
"The 'ears' work on the sante prin-
ciple as human ears," said Dr. Wood.
"The 'brain,' that's my secret.
"No vessel can get within ten
miles of our coast.without being de-
tected. The instrument is a develop-
ment of the dectaphone. The same
principle is used in the 'ears' of the
torpedo."
Wireless controlled and passenger -
less aeroplanes are a possibility, and
a wireless controlled torpedo, to-
gether with a means to combat it,
were 'to have been given a public
trial by the United been,
Government
this week, he said. Owing to recent
developments, if the tests are made at
all, they will be made secretly.
HOW MUCH BIGGER?
The Super -.Dreadnought May Not Be
the Last 1Vord in Battleships.
For thirty years after the Great
Eastern was built it was a stock say-
ing in shipping circles that no ship as
big would ever be built again; that
she overstepped the mark between
size and manageableness, end that she
represented the great "don't in ship-
building.
Now we pooh-pooh such nonsense,
The Lusitania of immortal memory,
her sister ship the Mauretania, and
the glorious, but, alas! unfortunate
Titanic, and a crowd of other great
liners have long ago beaten the Great
Eastern in length, breadth, and ton-
nage.
To -day the question arises, is the
super -Dreadnought the last word h1
battleships? Would it be possible to
build a ship which would otltrange,
outsteam, and outweigh the biggest
Queen Elizabeth Britain has, and in
actual fighting smash and sink her
whole fleet in detail?
Senator Tillman, chairman of the;
Senate Naval Committee in Washing-
ton, thinks the thing can be done, and
proposes the United States should be
the first to attempt it.
He suggests the building of a bat-
tleship of 60,000 tons with a speed of
thirty -live knots, and carrying fifteen
18 -in. guns, at a cost of thirty mil-
lion dollars.•'
British naval constructors call such
a ship a monstrosity, and they point
to the spot where size 01101e11000 at
the expense of speed, But the same
thing has been said so often that one
has ceased to wonder et any new ad-
vance in the possibilities of invention,
and always to expect someone going
011e better.
Sweet Revenge.
A well-known bridge player who
imagined himself an authority on the
game, and who had proved to be a
perfect bore among his friends by his
verbill colnments, suggestions stied ad.
vice upon the methods of play, decid-
ed to write and publish a book. One
copy was sept to to famous gayer for
Isis opinion about it, In about ten
days the book was returned to the
author with the following note:
n
Dear n -- sus favor of th
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8111 accoutpaniod by your boI
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was duly received, I have read it
very carefully, It seems to be a very
geed -game, but I don't think it as good
a game as bridlte.°
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CUBAN BAY MAY E TSE REFUGE
Ip [,:OM WHICH - B SATS .OPERATE
News of the Revolutionary Outbreak in Cuba Greatly Interests
British Officials. 1
A despatch from London says:
British officiate ore greatly interested
in the news of the revolutionary out-
break in Cuba, where, they assert,
they have reason to suspect German
agents have been at work for a; long
time. Only a fele weelcs ago Captain
Hans Boehm, a German army officer,
was taken from the Dutch steamer
Zeelandia at Falmouth. IIe had in his
possession a chart of Santa Lucia
Bay, Cuba, where, according to other
papers seized at the same time, Ger-
man agents had secured an oil con-
cession. It is the belief here that the
Santa Lucia project wos being de-
veloped by means of money sent from
New York to Havana.
The British naval authorities, while
they have failed to discover any Ger-
man submarine baso in the West In-
dies, declare that they have long had
reason to suspect the intention of the
Germans to establish one there, and as
a consequence they look with suspi-
cion upon the Cuban oil project, as
possibly a blind to hide the establish-
ment of a refuge from which subma-
rines could operate.
•
RITA A TO DRILL
2 NIGHTS EACH WEEK
Active Campaign to be Institu-
ted to Bring Units Up
to Strength.
A despatch from Ottawa says: The
calling out of the militia in largo
towns and cities for two nights of
drill every week will, it is understood,
be the entering wedge of the Govern-
ment's new recruiting piens fore-
shadowed by the statement issued on
' uesday by Sir Edward Komp. To-.
gether with the resumption of militia
drill there will be an active campaign
to bring the militia units up to
strength. This, it is understood, will
at first be conducted along the lines
of voluntary enlistment, with the al-
ternative of applying the Militia Act
in some form if enough recruits are
not secured in this mi.
It is understood that the work of
bringing existing incomplete overseas
units up to strength and sending the
remainder over as drafts is to be
pushed witih even greater vigor, and
that there may be some radical amal-
gamating done if no other way is
found of dealing with this matter. On
account of the fact that many Cana-
dian superior officers in England have
dropped their rank and gone to the
front lis lieutenants, and that the
breaking up .of units into drafts has
left a surplus, even of lieutenants, in
the Mother Country, only two per cent.
of officers will note, it is understood,
be sent overseas with 'their men. No
officers of higher rank will go unless
they are prepared to revert to lieu-
tenancies.
GERMAN STOLE CHARTS
OF ALASKAN HARBORS.
A despatch from New York says:
Stolen Government charts of anchor-
ages along the Alaskan coast were
discovered by the police among the
belongings of Herbert Sauer, a Ger-
man deserter from the coast -guard
service, who was sentenced here on
Thursday to eight years in Sing -Sing
Prison upon his plea of guilty to a
charge of manslaughter for killing
Mrs. Caroline Tiah'ka in her home in
this city last August. When Sauer
was asked what ho intended to do with
the maps, he replied, according to the
police: "I wanted to :hake a name for
myself when I returned to the Father-
land,"
BiG REWARI) FOR'CREW
'I'IIAT DESTROYS A SUB.
-
A despatch fromParis says; A
prize of 600,000 francs for the crew
of any French, allied or neutral vessel
which succeeds in destroying an at-
tacking submarine is provided for in
a resolution introduced in the Cham-
ber of Deputies on Tuesday by Anclre
I,cfevre.
CRUISER BEATS
ENEMY- RAIDERS
Hot Battle in South Atlantic
Won by British
Warship.
A despatch £rAm Rio Janeiro says:
An officer of the British cruiser Glas-
gow has confirmed the reports of a
recent naval battle off Fernando de
Noronha, 125 miles off the east ex-
tremity of Brazil, according to the
newspaper Run. The Glasgow, how-
ever, took no part in the engagement.
Her commander received a report of
the fighting only on the following day
through a wireless message from the
British cruiser Amethyst, which alone
gave battle to the German raiders,
numbering three.
The real fight occurred near Ferran.
do de Noronha at night. One of the
raiders, seriously hit, was observed t;e
be sinking. The others succeeded in
making their escape. Night prevent-
ed the Amethyst from ascertaining
to what extent they had been damag-
ed. That they had been damaged,
however, is considered probable. One
raider is believed to have been beach-
ed in a battered condition, . Tho Ame-
thyst suffered slight damage and had
one man killed and one wounded. •
ANOTHER RECORD SET.
Sum Life of Canada Makes Splendid
Showing.
To hold first place amongst Can-
adian life insurance companies in
amount of insurance in force, assets,
surplus and income is the distinction
of the Sun Life of Canada, New
business to the amount of over 342,-
700,000 was written during the last
year, bringing the assurance in force
up to a total of over 3281,000,000,,
which amount is three times as large
as that in force twelve years ago.
It to bo noted _that assets now
total practically 388,000,000, an in-,
crease of over 38,500,000 for the year..
The net surplus over all liabilities and
capital also show an increase for thoi
year of closo on 31,000,000. 37,578,000
were paid to policy holders during the
twelve months period just closed:
Further details of this company's
business for the past year will be
foetal elsewhere in this issue.
TRY '1'O RAISE INTEREST
ON THE LAST WAR LOAN.
A despatch from London says: The
German Government is now discussing
with the Bundesrat new direct and in-
direct taxes to raise 250,000,000 inter-
est on the last war loan, according to
13001in newspapers, quoted in a Hague
despatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Co. It is probable, add the papers,
that the new taxes will apply to coal
mine exploitation and railway traffic,
with an increased tax on war profits.
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