Zurich Herald, 1922-01-12, Page 2(COPYrig1t bY Mt1Shbil Company)
CHAPTER X,—(Cond.)
"Tell me just what he said to you,
Blatch," said Kendrick, refasing a
eigar and filling his pipe.
"no said he 'gave you the envelope
to mail end that yea hid it for him
in a hollow stump near the water -
tank at Thorlakson Siding when Wade
mine alter it. He said that Wade and
Cranston gave 'both of•you the third
degree and that you lit into Wade and
gave him one awful ea ing down o
not accepting your word that you
hadn't seen any envelope and knew
nothing about it. He said it made
Wade so mad that he net only fired
Podmore but told you also that you
couldnt work for the C.L.S. another
minute, so it was no use you rejoining
this survey party you, were with. It's
a swell kettle of fisla you've got into,
Phil. What's your untie going to say
to all this?"
"Nothing. 'Unless you tell him he
won't know I've bumped into this
mix. He's got enough worries of his
own without bothering about me."
"But il
Phs---"
"Listen, Match. I know what was
in that envelepe and where it came
from. I want to know where Uncle
Milt stands in connection with this
eampaign-fund money, an,d I want to
know what Podmore is trying to des
What did he want?"
"Podnaore isn't -as clever as he
thinks he is," Ferguson laughed. "He
actually came here to see if he could
work out a little -graft proposition by
threatening to expose a deal which he
imagines has taken place between the
Alderson C,onstruction Company- and
y -our" uncle. His mind works that way. t
He thinks everybody is a,s crooked ea
himself and that all governments are'
like the late Rives administration.'
Well, he knows different now."
"Then no such deal is in-volvecl?
"Good heavens, Phill Surely you '
didn't think that? Neither your uncle
nor the Party cares a hang about this
money of Nieldeby's or Aldersonts, or
whoever owns it. Were not interest-
ed in what becomesof it. There's
been no deal of any kind." •
"That's all I want to knoW, Match,"
said Kendrick, rising. "It's just one
of these things a fellow bumps into
now and then, and if Uncle Milt need-
ed my help at all I wanted to know it,
that's all. I know he's absolutely on
the square, of course."
"Absolutely," assured Ferguson
earnestly. ."Your uncle is one of the
hardest working, most conscientious
and high principled public men of.the
day. Phil, and perhaps. I have had
greater opportunity of knowing that
than rnest. No man can hold high
public office, seemingly, without pay-
ing the penalty of prominence—petty
jealousy, envy, deliberate misrepre-
• sentation, even underhand attacks
upon his character. A certain class
of political aspirant seems to look on
that sort of things as part of the
game, andt you don't ''ant to believe
all you see in some newspapers aruond
election time. That's the way it's
been. But false accusation never yet
downed an honest man, Phil. Remem-
ber that."
As Kendrick noted the expression on
the lawyer's face he thought to him-
self that in spite of the marks of dis-
sipation which marred it, there was a
finer side to Blatch Ferguson's char-
acter which few would suspect.
"Please say nothing .about my con-
nection with Pochnore, Match. It was
an un•avoiclable unpleasantness which
is now ,over. Some day soon when I
have more time I'll drop in and give
you all the details,"
Miss Margaret Williams was no-
where about, he noted, as he took his
departure.
Kendrick caught the next Terry
across the bay to the Island and walk-
ed in on his uncle's housekeeper. He
found that once more he had the big
summer residence to himself, that his
uncle had taken a flying trip to New
York. Met meant that his aunt
would be alone in the summer cottage
at Sparrow Lake except for the ser-
vants, and he deCided suddenly to run
up and see her that very evening.
Mter glancing through a. slight ac-
cumulation of mail he 'changed to out-
• ing flannels end hied to the boathouse
for an hour's run in the lauruoh—out
through the Eastern Gap into the open
• lake, where he could cut away across
miles of blue water that danced in-
vitingly in the golden sunshine on. and
on to the horizon's 'clear rine All
alone out there with the wash of the
water, the steady. undertone of the
engine throbbing. an his ears and the
cool breeze iblowmg through his hair,
he could so•rt out his thoughts.
They were incliped to tangle. He
had yet to elan, how he Would proceed
to obtain the information which I3en
Wade wanted in regard to 3. C.
Nickleby. The railroad exeeutive had
traced Certain, consignments of cheap
whisky which had teen run through
• y.
_901102,:vxtigrgraps i .the northern
fart of the provinee"ana had &MI
isuspieions as to the source from which
the bootleggers wee obtaining funds.
If the heck which had attended Phil's
,Sest effort, to !earn what Podmore
was planning held good, it ought not
to be difficult; but there vvouldl be no
Match Perguson to help him out in
ti task which would call for the utmost
circumspection.
Podinore ceuld be dismissed as of
the brood of Esau, willing to sell to
the highest bidder anybody's birth-
right upon whith be could lay heeds.
Perguson's confident assuranee- that
the stolen campaign fund contribution
—iithat was what it had been intend-
ed to be—implicated the Government
in no way, could be aocepted, without
question, Had it been otherwise, Fer-
guson weld have been galvanized to
aetioo of sortie sort, At any rate, the
„midden diSappertralice a the money
before it reeehed its, destination
• eliminated it so far as the Govern -
in on t, was oencerried.
This much was elter t endrielt.
Beyond sesseiseeing gteatly how sect a
As rf meelted, , the briel eeased
ebruptly 4114 fiellf ANSIIY; A deedetlek
snapped sit the edge of the. elearinge
It seended like the Import et a sneall
pistol Arid as ICendrlek einiled at the
start the sound gave hiai ,he eve.s sub-
consciously aware that the belle -Wings
ef the frogs had stopeed, Ris• glen,ce
in the direction of the eesand ,wae
purely auteneette, but his attention
was nvetted intently by 4 ineveinent
rnbn the tre
substantial warn as fifty thousand dole thinaed eat against a
• ack
-
lare could drop from sight mysterisiiverinh ous- ground of the leke,
ly without creating general excite- • There was no mistake but it. The
silent, he dismissed the matter as oat- slinking figure of a man wee visible
side his immediate coneern. If the against the water.
actual money had been in Wad'e's pea- (To he continues.)
session, as Podneore had been led to ---,ea.
believe, Phil would have been more TeachEurope to Eat Corn.
perplexed about it; even Wade's evi-1
dent inseee knowledge of the transac- Europe Is hungry Its people neva-
tion was sufficiently raystifyieg. That days are glad to get any kind of food
probably was part of the "puzzle" that will fill theeempty stomachs
Which would be divulged in due Hence the time seems tamable ter
course. Kendrick knew that in the teaching them to eat Amerioan corn.
modern business world with its con-
i Efforts in this direction in .the pest
stant clashes between powerful fin- have not met with much $1.10CeSS, Noth-
ancial interests there were many
undercurrents which • a young man Ing is more difficult than to persuade
fresh from college could net hope to poopie to eat a thlug tb'at is new
t�
to them. Wheo, during the famine of
gauge, He was eontent, therefore,
accept Wades s.9aperior judgement 1848, the T_Tnited tats shipped cern to
without question, to follow instruc-; Ireland, reports were circulated that
tions faithfully, secure in the knowls, consumpteon of that kind ot grain by
edge that 13enjamin. Wade was a man human beings "turned them into nig-
of the highest integrity. • gers." TMs, It was said, was the, rea-
The railroad presid'ent had gone on, son why there were so manyeg N roe
to Montreal and beyond delivery of in the United States. •ere—
a letter to Nathaniel Lawson and the,
Corn is extensively grown in Italy
obtaining of en answer to it his final •
instructions to his new secretary had
been simple.
"If you can get Nat Lawson to tell
you his story, Phil, you'll spend one
interesting evening," he had suggest-
ed. "Good business for youto know
all about the Interprovincial. Use stale quickly.
your own judgment and good luck to
you."
There was no hurry about °ailing
on Lawson; it could wait till he got
back from this rush visit to Sparrow
Lake. But what about this girl in
Ferguson's office? What a pippin.!
Phil was unable to decide whether she
had been listening at the keyhole be-
cause she had gone there for that very
purpose or whether he had surprised
and Rumania, but in those countrieS' it
is prepared as a sort of porridge,' and
cornbread is practically unknown,
European hoesearivea ere net much
given to hot breads, and cold corn-
bread is not palatable. Besides,„ it gaias
In 1900 the United States Department
of Agriculture ergantzed an exteneive
corn "drive" in Europe. Small stovee
were set up in grocery shops in many
towns in England, and bread, griddle-
cakes and other preparatiena of maize
were served free to all comers. But
the crusade was a failure.
New, however, the TT. S. Department
•
her merely taking advantage of acci-
dental opportunity to satisfy her
curiosity. She interested him greatly
—probably because she was So pretty
and had rebuffed him so unmistakably.
He amused himself by absurd specu-
lations about her. If she did have a
definite object in spying on Fergusoa,
the solitaire •diamond on her engage-
ment finger might be a bluff; her
cheap manner, se out of keeping with
tefinernent of feature and dress,—
that might be faked likewise. If she
were one of these female detectives
you read about, who had hired her?
Was she in the pay of Nickleby? If
she were, it was Kendrick's duty to
keep an eye on her, wasn't it? And
she was a tonic for any eye!
Phil laughed at himself as he put
the wheel over and swung back to-
wards home. He was becoming an
utter fool! Darn girls, anyway! This
was the second one on whem he had
'wasted thought—one probably a thief
and the other a gum -chewing steno-
grapher who Was going to marry
• somebody in Buffalo! And that, too
after each ,ha # told him quite plainly
that ir he would just remove himself
entirely from their ken they coelel
go on living happily! Just because
he had happened to meat these two
girls under exceptional circurhstantes
was no justifieation for placing them
on pedestals. King Solomon had the
right idea. Poof! the seven seas were.
full of fish!
With which swaggering philosophy
did this strong-minded young man
sweep all wernenkind from • his
thoughts—all but Aunt Dolly, who
had no equal anywhere in the world,
He had left himself just enough time
to get to the station without undue
haste. Sparrow Lake was a popular
summer resort for those who wished
to forget the noise of the city and
enjoy the quiet surroundings of forest
and lake, where good fishing was to
be •had m oombination with fresh
mem daily and, vegetables in season.
The cottage the Wrings had rented
for the season was on one of the
islands, and two hours later Phil was
rowing eagerly over from the station
landing. He let out a whoop like a
wild Indian to announce his arrival
and his aunt came running down to
meet him, her gentle face alight with
pleasure and surprise. He swept her
up off her feet and kised her till her
'cheeks were wild -rase pink, very be-
coming with her fluffy aureole of
snow -'white hair.
Arm in arm they went towards the
cottage, talking and laughing. The
two were very near to each other and
he had a lot of interesting things to
tell her. • He knew she would be de-
lighted) to learn, of his new positiot as
Ben Wades private secretary, and
she was; but he was careful to keep
from her any details of recent happen-
ngs a wou e a e to eause her
th t Id b 4)1
anxiety. The eonversation arranged,
its own itinerary over such a wide intestines. The process of digestion cannot chew Properly.
range of topics that it was late that continues in both, so that foods that Foods differ in what they supply.
evening before they had "talked them- the saliva or jukes in the oesophagus Some, when digested, furnish power,
selvlesi to a standstill," as he put it. did not act upon are taken care of others repair the waste of body tissue,
Phil did not feel sleepy. Instead of by the juices of the stomach, o; if othets ide both.
retiring at once he lingered on the net by them, by those in the small' Eggs, the lean part Of meat mills'
screened balcony just effi his room and it
n es nes. Finally, the body gete ria the gluten) of wheat, and beans', peas
afinal pipe o• c)(3'
f tobac B k
' f the waste and of whatever food it and oats are among the foods that
the the 'two-aileetermus young wo- -Ft •
mar•ale•-a-a-••••e-
, • T • • •
of Oosiemerce la going to try te Intro -
dee core grits ever there: Europeans;
eet a great ' deal et bilekwheat, ride'
ax Peer' barley; awl surely corn
grite, prepared in the selae way, ought
to be ecCeptable.
One reason urby the people of Eur -
pe rejected corn flour was that it (4ii
est keep well; but corn grits, will keel)
as well an any other cereal product.
During the last year relief orgeniatis
eerie over there have used large quen-
titles of earn grite, which,. Prepared
by boillee, proved highly aeceptasee,
Coen grits can be delivered in Eur-
ope at half the °est of any other cereal
seed, Ite cheapesee reeommends it at
present. " • •
A reat Machine.
„ .
Septum% N,Vagge met his Chum the
!`I say, Bill, 1 watched a wonderful
machine at oue shop this morning,"
"And how does, it work?" asked Bill.
"Well," was the reply, "by means Of
a Pedal attachment, a fulcrurnea lever
converts a Vertical reciprocating mo-
tion Into a circular movement. The
principal part of the machine is a huge
'disc that revolves in a vertical plane.
Power is, applied through the axis, of
the disc, and Work is done on the peri-
phery, and the harfist substance, by
mere inipaet, may be reduced to any
shape."
"What is this wonderful machine?"
asked Bill. •
"A grindstone," was the reply.
Endless Chain.' •
"Hello, old chap--laought Pd. just
drop in and see about that unbrelia
you borrowed from me last week."
"Very sorry, old man, but I've lent
It to a friend. Were you wanting it
very badly?"
"Well, no, I w,asn't; but the chap I
borrowed • it from says the owner
wants it."
Minard's Liniment for Colds, etc.
1
About
the House
A Wholesome Diet As An Aid to
Beauty.
The girl who understands the nec-
essity of hygienic habits of eating
will not injure her health or :her looks
by eating improperly.
The body, through the energy that
it uses to live, s constantly tearing
down the tissues of which it is Made.
Therefore, if it is to go on living
it must constantly rebuild those tis-
sues. Food is the material by means
of which that rebuilding takes plaSe.
It is also the source -of the heat of
the body, without whieh no one co. d
saoi
keep alive: The componentsta
itain foode, combined with the-Axygen
in the blood, produce heat.
To insure perfect health the blood
must be 111, vigorous circulation. One
reason for that is that the blood is
the agent that carries nourishment
from the food that you eat to all parts
of the body. But, since the blood ean-
not take up and use food in the form
'in which it enters the body, it is the
body'a business so to change the food
that it ean enter the blood stream, and
to discharge it into the blood stream.
That process is known as digestion.
Briefly, it takes place as follows:
When you pet food into your mouth
the teeth, the tongue and the saliva.
break up and soften the solid por-
tions. The saliva also absorbs certain
properties in the food -that are sus-
ceptible to its aetion. The chewed
food then enters the oesophagus—a
muscular, elastic tube that connects
the -Mouth with the stomach. There
various digestive jekee, poured out
by thousands of small .glande embed-
ded in the walls of the tube, act onT
the food and draw from it nourishingl
properties that were not soluble in
the saliva; and the muscles in the tube/
squeeze the food so that the jukes,
ean 'more readily act upon it. The
kind of muscles that line the walls,
of the tubet-and that are also present
M the stoniach and in the intestines,
are called "inv.:dun:Lary" muscles; that
is, they move when it is necessary,
without any conseious action on your
part, just as, your heart beats without
war doing anything to make it beat,
When the food leaves the oesophagus
digstive juices, and consequently poor
digestion.
Don't overeat at meals. It distends
the stomach and 'produces an excess
of fat. If you are doing brain work,
do not eat three large meal‘s El, day.
Persons who do heavy muscular work
require a greater quantity of food.
Do not eat much fried food. Frying
glazes the surface of food, and so
makes it difficult for the digestive
juices to penetrate it. But roasting
end broiling soften' the food to an
easily digested condition.
An excess of perspiration interferes
c
ith the eecretien of digestive juices,.
therefore do •not eat- imrnediately
after you have exercised and :perspir-
ed freely.
Since food geeeratea heat eat less
in hot weather than in cold.
The condition of the nerves affects
digestion. When you are tired they
cannot do their Share of work. Rest
half an hone or so after hard work
and before a hearty meal, otherwise
You are likely to, feel dull after it.
Don't exercise within an hour after
eating. In that time the digestive
organs need the blood, which exercise
would draw to other parts of the body.
• Drink plenty of water, foe it will
keep the body clean and the blood
active. • It is all ,right to drink moder-
ately with your meals if you do not
let your food slip down without prop-
erly chewing it, or if you do not eat
too fast. Water taken between meals,
and especially soon after getting tip
in the morning, is very beneficial.
A Certain amount of coarse feed,
which stimulates the muscular action
of the intestines, is essential to health.
Green vegetables else wholesome be -
Cause they contain doarse material in
the form of cellulose. Other foods in
which coarse matter is present are
' Oatmeal, fruit, Indian corn, Graham
, flour, bran and whole wheat.
t, Get plenty of exercise. Without
• that your blood will be sluggish and
!unfit to carry the nourishment Dud
the body needs. Exercise ef the alb-
dominal muscles is especially good,
fa they are the mus,cles largely eon-
' cerned in digestion.
Take care of your teeth. If they
are diseased, digestion reeeives a
it enters fixet the stomach, then thecheck at the very start, Bad teeth
'Oes not requite. provide ehenseterial for pp.t #ssues,
It is easily semi that you owe it to IStarer .glig4; !resifts:a-like -apl
year body to give it the kind of food Pies, pears and peaches—that Oontain
that it tan readily digest—and the much sugar, potatoes and sugar beets
kind that, when digested, will yield are some of the foods that give en,ere
the largest return in energy—and to' gye Other desirable foods are butter,
eat in :sueli a way that the digestive nets,olive all end the fat of meat.
hush which but gathered, accentuation epparatus can do its work properly. Certain salts and water are essent,ial.
from the raucous. bass of the bullfrogs First. keep your general health The salts rfurilish mueh of the mineral
and eteitsional weird night soon& of good. All parte of the body are closely Part of g•rowing bones; therefOre
birds and anitnels in the depths of the coaelated. If your nerves are out of ae,erig people especially should eat the
Weeds, The deep, quiet was eppeeesive erder, if your blood is sluggish% the feeds that eontain. them—chiefly fresh
after the -city's multitude of noisca.
Earlier in the evening while he talked, „,,„1.
(egos of digestion Will fail of their friiits and vegetables, and the coarse
Tlaseefeses take sufficient exeri-IPants of grains,
with his aunt he had remarked upon' ""—
,cise, put aWay ;Worry; get plenty of Finally, eesnembet that goad looks:
1th, depend much
the great di.stinetriess with which the
putt -putt of. a motor -boat somewhete alteP and l'athe 12`°13erfil I as well as good hea
on the lake had eareied. Now when a at wellscoeked food, Good cooking upon intelligent eating. Thotigh yon
flew to a hearby tree destroy$ 'disease germs and, by esalt exercise ..tiard and ,hatbe sortipuIeuelYe
ite repidsfire fleng,wide insistent- itig feed appetizing, stimulates. the yet if yesi eat between meals, nibble
ly: Whil?rWeel, whiPrweet. whir- digestive juices and ee makes foe at SOM6t9 41ild 'P'81"0.1fe of all kinds of
weer!, whiPtvveel, whiptweel, whip'se thorough digattiora » • •
"messes, your skin be blotchy
"Go to it, old boy." nritirmueed D
h./ Don't eat beeween meals. If yoti and "VildaVy" volir aSres 41011 and ,S1r4r
with soree asseosansont, .ahoughts you will dull your amsetite, and that • whole PhasiCal PSISOnalYty kgg
Ilea 45 t t his rrouniti weans a slu,ggish kettetion of the and heavy!'
men to trouble his thoughts and he
did not dismise them. The night was
in harmony with mystery; also -there
Was a rising moon, hung low, golden
like a lamp, its dull glow lighting only
the outer water spates.
In that lake and forest eouetry
Nature seemed to brood in a deep
reca OS 0 S SU rise.
r111.
e Royal Bank of Canada,,
GENERAL STATEMENT
. nth NOVEMPER, 1923•
LiASILITIES
TO TFIE.PUBLIC:
Deposits not bearing interest , :, $ 95,168,911.04
Deppaite beai•ing Intereat, ioeluding interest accrued
to date of statement. '280,447,431.90 -
9375,616,343.64'
Notes of the Bank in Circe/Mien - 31,,Aa0,337.1.4.
'Valance due to 1)orainion Government 26460,740.32,
Balances due to other Banks in Canada 9 2,426.04
Balancee due to Banks and Baracing Correepondents
in the United Kingdom and foreign countries 10,572,10640
. .
Bills Payable . , . — . . • ,. ,..,. .. ..... 7 ..... .
' ..keeeptances under LeCters of Credit
10,574,531,14•
4,723,607.58
12,635,480.27
$457,211,049.60
TO PRE SEAREHOLDERs
20,400,000.00” -
Capital Stuck Paid up • •"'• • • . • ' ...... ...... ^ • • • • on AAA AAA.Ari
vl
Reserve Fund • • . 905,044.98
Balance of Profits carried forward
5 21,306,044.0$
Dividends Unclaimed . .... .. . .... . 14,630.77
Dividend Nc1 137 (at 12 per cent. .... anntun), Pay.-
• able December 1st, 1921 .... . .. . . . 610,623.00
Bonus of 2%, payable December let, I:921 ......... 407„082.00
•22,337,380.76
ASSETS
Current Coin
Dominion Notes .. . .. . • . .. ..
United States Currency ancl oth.er 'Foreign . .
Cur-
rencies
Deposit in the Central Gold Reserve"
Notes of other Ba.nks
Cheques on other Banits . . ... ... • .... .
Balances due by Banks and lanking Correspon.cle‘ tits
else -where than in Canada
Dominion and Provincial Government Securities, not
exceeding market value h
Canadian IVIunicipal Securitics and Br tis , ore gn
and Colonial Public Securities other than Can-
adian, not exceeding market value ,...
Railway e,nd other Bonds, Debenturee and—Stocks,
•• not exceeding market value
Call loans- in Canada, on' Bonds, Debentures and
Stocks.... ......... . .. . . . .
Call and Short (riot . exce4ding thirty day's) T:oans
elsewhere than in Caned.:
Other Current Loans and Discounts ir. Canada (less
rebate of interest) .. ..... . ... •_., -
Other Current Loans ant,' .11scotin.t. elsewhere than
• in Canada (less rebate 'of interest) . . .1 .
Overdue Debts (estimated loss'provided.fOr)
9500,648,429.75
$ 16,012,219.67
28,640,559.25
29,912,018.81
$ 74,464,797.63
12,000,000.00
2,323,510.11
21,594,382.76
24,080,818.88
24,060,584,08
9,832,512.43
16,128,520.60
13,080,429.50 .
24,543,074.57
9163,017,459.32
89,182,820,47
411,366.20
$222,603,630.58,,
9252,501.644.99
Real Estate other than Baak Premises 985,573.59
..
Bank Premises, at not more than cost, lass amounts written off,. 10,627,758.88
Liabilities of Customers under Lettere, of Credit, as per contra, . 12,535,480.27
Deposit with the Minister for the purposes of the Circulation Fund 985,000.00
Other Assets not included in the foregoing 349,341.481
5500,648,429.75
1
H. S. HOLT, EDSON L. PEASE, C. D. NEILL,
'President. Managing Director General Manager
AUDITORS' cEstalinCATE
We Report to the Shareholders cf The Royal Bank of Canada:.
That in our opinion the tra.nsactions of the Bank which have come under our
notice have been within the powers of the Bank. •
That we have checked the cash and verified the securities of the Bank at
the Chief Office on 30th November, 1521, as well as at another time, as required
by section 56 of the Bank Act and that we found they agreed with the entries in
the books in regard thereto. We also during the year checked the casa and
verified the securities at the principal branches.
That the above Bala.nce Sheet has been compared by us with the books at
the Chief Office and with tile certified returns from the Branches, and in our
opinion is properly drawn up Sp as to exhibit a true and correct vie*. of the
state of the Bank's affairs aceording to the best of our information and the
explanations given to us and as showe by the books of the Bank. _
That we have obtained all the 'information and explanations required by us.
S. ROGER MITCHELL, C.A., .
W. GARTH THOMsON, C.A., Auditors
of Marwick, IViitchell and Co.
JAMES G. ROSS. C.A., of P. S. Ross & Sons
Montreal, Canada., 19th December. 1921.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT
Balance of Profit and Loss Account. 30 November,
1920 .. . 9 646,928.20
Profits fpr the year, after deducting charges of
rnanagembnt and all other expenses, accrued .
interest an deposits, fnli provision for all bad
and doubtful debts and -rebate of interest on
unmatured bills , ., 4,027,836.49
. $ 4,584,764.69
APPROPRIATED AS, FOLLOWS: ,
Dividends Non 184', 185,-126 and 137 at 12% per
,annum , , , ., .... _ . , $ 2,436,488.07
Bonus of 2 per cent. to . Shoreholders 407,082.00
Transferred to Officers' Pension Fund 100,000.00
Written off Bank Premises. Account ..... 400,000.00
War Tax on Bank Note Circulation ... . ... . . 203,154.04
Transferred to Reserve Puna ... 132,996.00
Balance of Profit and Loss carried forward 905,044,98
. ----$ 4,584,764.09
RESERVE FUND
$ 20,134,010.00
132,905.00
182,995.00
_
Balance at Credit, 30th November, 1920 ,
Prenduni on New-1911AV brass Account
Transferred from r an
Balance at Credit, 30th November, 1921
EL S. HOLT, EDSON L. PEASE,
$ 20,400,000.00
C. E. NEILL,
President Managing Director General Manager
Montreal, leth December, 1921.
Walking on Water.
The ambition to walk on the sur-
face of water is probably as cad as the
desire of mankind to fly in the atr. We
have solved the latter problem,and
recent invention at least approaches a
solutien_ot the former.
"Water skates" as somebody has
called them, in order to be satisfac-
tory, must not be too cumbersome.
A new invention, fairly acceptable in
this respect, takes the form of a pair
of lightweight aluminum cylinders,
long, narrow, pointed at both ends,
and covered with rubberized canvas.
They are secured to the feet of the
wearer by straps, but in SUC11. VSISe
that in case of an upset he can readily
detach himself.
Beneath the cylinders are paddles,
which are so hinged as to flatten when
the leg Moves forward, opening on
the backward movement to give the
requisite propulsion. The wearer has
only to go through the_srdinary mo-
tions of walking, and -his "water
skates" carry him ahead.
A xriodification of this invention em-
ploye, instead of the paddles above
described, a small paddle wheel at the
rear, whieh •is operated not by leg
movements, but by the feet.
The Better Way,
Gertie Guess, aged five, was en,
amoured of the baby next door.
'Yesterday she interviewed her moth-
er uptin the.practicability of having it
baby sister. other own. '
The mother was, sympathetic, but
pointed out that babies are expensive.
.
"How much would a baby east?"
,
asked Miss Five -Year -Old. .
"Oh, I don't knew just how much,
but a great deal!" her mother Answer-
ed,
"As much as it player -plane?" the
• y'ou4ge,moreesterpuramsuteh_d.
a player -piano,"
was-;rhtielenia"travicaltMiee Gertie Guese cbe
eisively, "we'd better get a player -
piano.
• 'Kat* off tho Track,
It is elated that a faihrtl.Ytwthi tra.
veiling at the rate ,otf 'one hundred
miles ao hear could net be pillied•up lit
it distance lees than two mllee.
M tierces I. 11'100sta Used by Veteriparlei
Found At Last.
An Irishman went to Australia, look-
ing for two of his brothers who had
been out there for some years. Their
names were Pat and Ted.
Whilst walking out of the rail -way
station he saw an engine, with the in-.
scrlption:
"Patented in 1900."
"Begorrahl" he said, "01 have found.
thim bhoys, afther all! 'They W.OZ
boiler manufacturers, and they came
out in 1900, too!"
Women's hats are luxuries, and,
therefore liable to the luxury tax, ac-
cording to the Gerenan Minister of
Finance.
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or stutter att-oVcittohie'lloSitzve y. tur
natural methods permanently restore
naturakspeecli. Graduate pupils every -
here. Free advice and literature.
THE ARNOTT INSTITUTE
KITCHENER, CANADA
CORNS
Lift Off with Fingers
Doesn't hurt a bit! 1)rop it little
."Freezone" on an aching tote, instant-
ly that cern Stops hurting, then shore,
Iy you lift it tight. off with fingers.'
Truly!
Tett driiggist sells a tiny ,bottle of
"FteergalleY' for a few eents, stiffitient
to renieve eVery hard cOrli, soft, corn, •
or corn between the toes, aral the-oal.
Imes, Virithout soren.ese, or iriritteqon,
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